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Retro: Central Virginia Saturday, January 16, 1971

From TV Guide, Central Virginia Edition:

WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro, NC (CBS)

7 AM Sunrise Semester: "Renaissance Art"
7:30 Three Stooges (listed as being in color--is
this the animated "New 3 Stooges," which
I remember WFMY carrying around 1966 or '67,
or did the Stooges actually make some color shorts?)
8 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9 AM Sabrina The Teenage Witch
10 AM Josie And The Pussycats
10:30 Harlem Globetrotters (animated)
11 AM Archie's Funhouse
12 N Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
12:30 Monkees
1 PM Dastardly And Muttley In Their Flying Machines
1:30 Cartoons
1:45 Bucky Waters (Duke basketball highlights)
2 PM ACC Basketball: North Carolina-Wake Forest
4 PM Untamed World (time approximate)
4:30 Roller Derby
5:30 Death Valley Days
6 PM Newsmakers
6:30 CBS News (Roger Mudd)
7 PM News, Weather, Sports
7:30 Mission: Impossible
8:30 My Three Sons
9 PM Arnie (guest Bob Cummings plays the executive
Arnie replaced--who now wants his old job back)
9:30 Mary Tyler Moore (guest Monte Markham as a foreign
correspondent romantically attracted to Mary--only
he's already married)
10 PM Mannix (Robert Lansing as a police officer suspected
of robbery and murder--he's an ex-con whom Mannix
recommended for the force)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "The Mark Of The Hawk"

WSVA (WHSV) Ch. 3 Harrisonburg (NBC/ABC)

8 AM Tomfoolery
8:30 Heckle And Jeckle
9 AM Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
10 AM Will The Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down?
10:30 Here Come The Doubledeckers
11 AM Hot Wheels
11:30 Sky Hawks
12 N Motor Mouse
12:30 Hardy Boys (animated)
1 PM American Bandstand (guests: King Floyd,
the Bugaloos; on-film: Ike and Tina Turner)
2 PM ACC Basketball: North Carolina-Wake Forest
4 PM Pro Bowlers Tour (Denver Open, time approximate,
joined in progress)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports: International Grand Prix
Motocross Motorcycle Championship, International
Ski Jumping Championship
6:30 Golf: Bing Crosby Pro-Am (joined in progress)
7 PM Project Three
7:30 Arthur Godfrey's America: The Everglades (Godfrey
had become an active environmentalist by this time,
and had given up doing commercials for Axion detergent
because he learned it had polluting chemicals.)
8:30 Lawrence Welk (will move to 7:30 the following week, with
Pearl Bailey's show debuting here)
9:30 The Most Deadly Game (last show, the time goes back to the
affiliates the following week)
10:30 Movie: "Right Cross" (Dick Powell and June Allyson worked together
in this 1950 boxing-oriented film)


WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh, NC (ABC)

7 AM Twilight Zone
7:30 Movie: "Dr. Orloff's Monster"
9 AM Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
10 AM Will The Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down?
10:30 Here Come The Doubledeckers
11 AM Hot Wheels
11:30 Sky Hawks
12 N Motor Mouse
12:30 Teenage Frolics (local dance party that resembled
"Soul Train"--in its later years, the late '70s, the
set even looked the same)
1 PM American Bandstand (only the first 30 minutes)
1:30 College Basketball: Citadel-VMI (the battle of the South's
remaining major military academies)
3:30 Pro Bowlers Tour (time approximate)
5 PM Wrestling (from the studio--Nick Pond does play-by-play
for Raleigh; Bob Caudle, for other stations carrying the show)
6 PM Arthur Smith
6:30 Wilburn Brothers
7 PM Porter Wagoner (personal note: substitute Flatt and Scruggs
at 6 and you have the 90 minutes I dreaded most each week
when I was a kid--my mom insisted on watching these things)
7:30 Arthur Godfrey's America
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 The Most Deadly Game
10:30 Courtship Of Eddie's Father (last time it would air on delay,
starting Jan. 20 it airs in-pattern Wed 7:30)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:20 ABC News (anchor not given)
11:35 Movie: "The L-Shaped Room"

WHIS (WVVA) Ch. 6 Bluefield, WV (NBC)

7:30 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo
8 AM Tomfoolery
8:30 Heckle And Jeckle
9 AM Woody Woodpecker
9:30 Bugaloos
10 AM Dr. Dolittle
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM H.R. Pufnstuf
11:30 Here Comes The Grump
12 N Hot Dog (how chocolate is made; also, how
pennies are minted; the making of playing cards,
ball-point pens, keys, locks, and pocket combs)
12:30 Jambo (A kangaroo in Africa? Happens on today's show.)
1 PM Roller Derby
2 PM ACC Basketball: North Carolina-Wake Forest
4 PM Film (time approximate)
5 PM Bill Anderson (guest: Leroy Van Dyke)
5:30 Golden Years (report on aging)
6 PM Golf: Bing Crosby Pro-Am (third round and the last for
celebrities such as Dean Martin, Glen Campbell, Andy
Williams, Ray Bolger, and Pat Boone)
7 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music (Roy Drusky, the Glaser
Brothers, Del Reeves, time approximate)
7:30 Andy Williams (Ray Charles, Lorne Greene, Cass Elliot,
Elton John (doing "Your Song"))
8:30 Adam-12 (will move to 9:30 Thursdays beginning Jan. 21;
NBC's movie will expand to take over this slot next week)
9 PM NBC Movie: "Duel At Diablo" (James Garner, Sidney Poitier)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 12 O'Clock High (Paul Burke has replaced Robert Lansing)

WDBJ Ch. 7 Roanoke (CBS)

6 AM Sunrise Semester: "Urban Man" (the three lectures that
aired during the week air here on delay)
7:30 Cartoon Theatre
8 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9 AM Sabrina The Teenage Witch
10 AM Josie And The Pussycats
10:30 Harlem Globetrotters
11 AM Archie's Funhouse
12 N Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
12:30 Monkees
1 PM Saturday Session (guests: students from Rockbridge
High School)
2 PM ACC Basketball: North Carolina-Wake Forest
4 PM CBS Golf Classic: Bruce Devlin and Bobby Nichols take on
Tommy Aaron and Charles Coody, time approximate
5 PM Storefront Lawyers (delay from Wed 7:30)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music (Del Reeves, Norma Jean,
Archie Campbell, Hugh X. Lewis--note: Norma Jean was
Porter Wagoner's female singer before Dolly Parton--I told
you I was forced to watch this stuff!)
7:30 Mission: Impossible
8:30 My Three Sons
9 PM Arnie
9:30 Mary Tyler Moore
10 PM Mannix
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "Pepe"

WGHP Ch. 8 High Point, NC (ABC)

6:30 Aspect (farm show)
7 AM University Of Michigan
7:30 Triad In Perspective
8 AM Romper Room
8:30 Captain Noah And His Ark
9 AM Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
10 AM Will The Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down?
10:30 Here Come The Doubledeckers
11 AM Hot Wheels
11:30 Sky Hawks
12 N Motor Mouse
12:30 Hardy Boys
1 PM Reaction (religious program, pre-empts "American
Bandstand"--see the next entry for the reason)
1:30 College Basketball: Citadel-VMI
3:30 Pro Bowlers Tour (time approximate)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Wrestling (from the studio, Charlie Harville does
play-by-play)
7:30 Arthur Godfrey's America
8:30 Lawrence Welk (starting next week Ch. 8 is going
to do something strange: Welk is moving to 7:30
on ABC, Ch. 8 is running movies at 7:30 and delaying
Welk to 9:30 and Pearl Bailey to Sundays at 7, IIRC--
it won't last, since Welk will be on at 7:30 by the summer,
and at 7 after the first few months of syndication)
9:30 The Most Deadly Game
10:30 Eyewitness Weekend Journal
11 PM ABC News
11:15 News, Weather, Sports
11:25 Movies: "Murders In The Rue Morgue" (Bela Lugosi)
and "The Mystery Of Edwin Drood" (Claude Rains)

WSLS Ch. 10 Roanoke (NBC)

6:30 Aspect (Ch. 10 is the only station outside North Carolina
that I recall airing this.)
7 AM Insight
7:30 Modern Almanac
8 AM Cactus Joe (local kids' show)
8:30 Heckle And Jeckle
9 AM Woody Woodpecker
9:30 Bugaloos
10 AM Dr. Dolittle
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM H.R. Pufnstuf
11:30 Here Comes The Grump
12 N Hot Dog
12:30 Wrestling (I think this is from Raleigh; it's what
I remember seeing on Ch. 10 about ten years later.)
1:30 College Basketball: Citadel-VMI
3:30 Roller Derby (time approximate)
4:30 Cross Exam
5 PM Bill Anderson (guest: Mac Wiseman)
5:30 Wilburn Brothers
6 PM Golf: Bing Crosby Pro-Am (third round)
7 PM Klub Kwiz (the Cosmopolitan Associates of Roanoke
compete)
7:30 Andy Williams
8:30 Adam-12
9 PM NBC Movie: "Duel At Diablo"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "Chicken Every Sunday" (watch for Alan Young
in this comedy from '49)
1:30 News, Weather, Sports

WTVD Ch. 11 Durham, NC (CBS/NBC)

6:30 Sunrise Semester: "Renaissance Art"
7 AM Bugaloos
7:30 Dr. Dolittle
8 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9 AM Sabrina The Teenage Witch
10 AM Josie And The Pussycats
10:30 Harlem Globetrotters
11 AM Archie's Funhouse
12 N Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
12:30 Monkees
1 PM Dastardly And Muttley In Their Flying Machines
1:30 Bucky Waters
1:45 Norm Sloan (N.C. State basketball highlights)
2 PM ACC Basketball: North Carolina-Wake Forest
4 PM CBS Golf Classic (time approximate)
5 PM All American College Show
5:30 TBA
6 PM Golf: Bing Crosby Pro-Am (third round)
7 PM Jim Nabors (guest: Robert Goulet, delay from
Thu 8 PM, time approximate)
8 PM Mayberry R.F.D. (delay from Mon 9 PM)
8:30 My Three Sons
9 PM NBC Movie: "Duel At Diablo" (this is what made the
FCC force WTVD to choose between CBS and NBC:
too many viewers who wanted to watch the CBS
block were doing so on WFMY or WNCT; WRDU/28
complained, and the FCC told WTVD it could have just
one network--it became fulltime CBS in September 1971)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 The Bold Ones (The Lawyers, with Burl Ives and James
Farentino, delay from Sun 10 PM)

WSJS (WXII) Ch. 12 Winston-Salem, NC (NBC)

7 AM Farm Report
7:30 Cartoon Carnival
8 AM Tomfoolery
8:30 Heckle And Jeckle
9 AM Woody Woodpecker
9:30 Bugaloos
10 AM Dr. Dolittle
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM H.R. Pufnstuf
11:30 Here Comes The Grump
12 N Hot Dog
12:30 Jambo
1 PM Youth Spectrum
1:30 Bob Gordon Theatre (two episodes of "Secret
Agent," one each of "Time Tunnel," "One Step
Beyond," and "Rat Patrol")
5:45 Parsons To Persons
6 PM Golf: Bing Crosby Pro-Am (third round)
7 PM News, Weather, Sports
7:30 Andy Williams
8:30 Adam-12
9 PM NBC Movie: "Duel At Diablo"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Movie: "Hell's Island"
1 AM Horse Racing (one of those get-your-cards-at
your-grocer's things, usually aired at 7, IIRC)

WLVA (WSET) Ch. 13 Lynchburg (ABC)

8:30 Sunday School
9 AM Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
10 AM Will The Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down?
10:30 Here Come The Doubledeckers
11 AM Hot Wheels
11:30 Sky Hawks
12 N Motor Mouse
12:30 Hardy Boys
1 PM American Bandstand
2 PM Movie: "Macao"
3:30 Pro Bowlers Tour
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Sports Showcase
7 PM Something Else (John Hartford)
7:30 Arthur Godfrey's America
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 The Most Deadly Game
10:30 Buck Owens
11 PM ABC News
11:15 Movie: "A Lotus For Miss Quon"

WBRA Ch. 15 Roanoke (PBS)
off air on Saturday

WRFT (WFXR) Ch. 27 Roanoke (ABC)

9 AM Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
10 AM Will The Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down?
10:30 Here Come The Doubledeckers
11 AM Hot Wheels
11:30 Sky Hawks
12 N Motor Mouse
12:30 Hardy Boys
1 PM Opportunity Line
1:15 Holiday
1:30 Movies: "The Enemy Agent" and "Chinatown
Squad"
3:30 Pro Bowlers Tour
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Upbeat
7:30 Arthur Godfrey's America
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 The Most Deadly Game
10:30 America Sings
11 PM ABC News
11:15 Movies: "Pillow Of Death" and "Son Of Dracula"
(both with Lon Chaney Jr.)
 
bpatrick said:
WSVA (WHSV) Ch. 3 Harrisonburg (NBC/ABC)

7:30 Arthur Godfrey's America: The Everglades (Godfrey
had become an active environmentalist by this time,
and had given up doing commercials for Axion detergent
because he learned it had polluting chemicals.)
...interesting to note that, although Godfrey would continue to be on CBS Radio for another year after this program, he would air this on ABC. I also recall that it was around this period that he appeared on The Dick Cavett Show and, among other things, incur the wrath of the Nixon Administration with his claim that the U.S.A. needed the supersonic transport "about as much as we need another bag of those clunkers from the moon." Perhaps Godfrey was initially scheduled for Cavett's show to promote the broadcast listed above?...
 
bpatrick said:
WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro, NC (CBS)

7:30 Three Stooges (listed as being in color--is
this the animated "New 3 Stooges," which
I remember WFMY carrying around 1966 or '67,
or did the Stooges actually make some color shorts?)

Regarding the idea of the Stooges making color shorts, the trio did make two such shorts at the MGM studios in 1933, back when their straightman was movie comedian Ted Healy. Only one of them is currently available, the other has yet to surface. This was a year before the Stooges severed ties with Healy and wound up at Columbia, where they made the two-reel shorts that would make them famous.

I myself don't know if WFMY aired either the Columbia shorts or the 1965 cartoon episodes around that time. I'd be willing to bet, though, that it was most likely the two-reelers. I do know that, in my home market, then-independent KPLR-TV in St. Louis aired the Stooges two-reel comedies on weekday mornings sometime between the late-1960s and the mid-1970s. As for the cartoon episodes themselves, I don't have a clue which station aired them.

BTW, I didn't get introduced to the Stooges until I saw them on late-night Saturdays on Channel 11 in the late 1980s.
 
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