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Sources: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Daily News
2 WBBM (CBS)
AM
5:45 Thought for the Day
5:50 TV2 News
6:00 Sunrise Semester
6:30 It's Worth Learning
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Joker's Wild
9:30 $10,000 Pyramid - Guests: Joan Rivers, George Hamilton
10:00 Gambit
10:30 Love of Life
10:55 CBS Midday News
11:00 Young and the Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
PM
12:00 Lee Philip (local female talk show host)
12:30 As the World Turns
1:00 Guiding Light
1:30 Edge of Night
2:00 Price is Right
2:30 Match Game '74 - Panel: Larry Hovis, Brett Somers, Rip Taylor, Jo Ann Pflug, Richard Dawson, Peggy Cass
3:00 Secret Storm
3:30 Movie: "Move Over, Darling" (1963, Comedy/Romance) - Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 TV2 News
7:00 Dirty Sally
7:30 Good Times (Debut of this "Dyn-O-Mite!" Chicago-based sitcom)
8:00 CBS Friday Night Movies: "Dracula" (Premiere, Horror) - Jack Palance (as Dracula), Pamela Brown, Nigel Davanport
10:00 TV2 News
10:30 CBS Late Movie: "Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde" (1971, Horror) - Ralph Bates, Martine Beswick
AM
12:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
5 WMAQ (NBC)
AM
5:55 Meditation
6:00 Knowledge
6:30 Town and Farm
7:00 Today
9:00 Dinah's Place - Guest: Rod McKuen
9:30 Jeopardy
10:00 Wizard of Odds
10:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Paul Lynde, Charley Weaver, Rich Little, Karen Valentine, Doc Severinsen, George Foreman, Nanette Fabray, Juliet Prowse, Roddy McDowall
11:00 Jackpot
11:30 All-Star Baffle - Players: Tina Sinatra, Jack Cassidy, Jo Anne Worley, one additional unknown
11:55 NBC Midday News
PM
12:00 News 5 Chicago
12:30 Three on a Match
1:00 Days of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2:00 Another World
2:30 How to Survive a Marriage
3:00 Somerset
3:30 Mike Douglas - Co-host: Connie Stevens; Guests: Larry Csonka, Don Shula, Frankie Avalon, Virginia Graham, Ron Carey
5:00 News 5 Chicago
6:00 NBC Nightly News
6:30 Hollywood Squares
7:00 Sanford and Son (last episode of the season with Redd Foxx before his personal strike against NBC, returning in the following season's premiere)
7:30 Lotsa Luck
8:00 Girl With Something Extra
8:30 Dean Martin Show (including a celebrity roast to Don Rickles; series ended eight weeks later and spun-off the Celebrity Roast specials for the next ten years)
10:00 News 5 Chicago
10:30 Tonight Show - Guests: Suzanne Pleshette, Jerry Van Dyke, Marcel Marceau, Tracy Newman
AM
12:00 Midnight Special - Guests: Flash Cadillac and the Continentals, Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), Jose Feliciano, Mandrill, Todd Rundgren, David Essex
1:30 News
1:35 Meditation
7 WLS (ABC)
AM
6:25 Reflections
6:30 Perspectives
6:55 Earl Nightingale
7:00 Kennedy & Co. (namesake host Bob Kennedy died nine months later of cancer)
8:30 Movie: "Night Slaves" (1970, Horror/SciFi) - James Franciscus, Lee Grant, Andrew Prine, Leslie Nielsen
10:30 Brady Bunch
11:00 Password - Guests: Anne Meara, Tennessee Ernie Ford
11:30 Split Second
PM
12:00 All My Children
12:30 Let's Make a Deal
1:00 Newlywed Game
1:30 Girl in My Life
2:00 General Hospital
2:30 One Life to Live
3:00 Love, American Style
3:30 Movie: "Pocketful of Miracles" (1961, Comedy, Part 2 of 2) - Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Hope Lange, Arthur O'Connell (who in the 1970s played pharmacist Mr. Goodwin in commercials for Crest toothpaste)
5:00 Eyewitness News
5:30 ABC Evening News
6:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 Brady Bunch (episode in which Peter meets his double at school and guest starring Denise Nickerson of Willy Wonka and Electric Company fame)
7:30 Six Million Dollar Man
8:30 Odd Couple
9:00 Toma
10:00 Eyewitness News
10:30 ABC Late Night: Wide World of Entertainment/Mystery - "The Night Strangler"
AM
12:00 (Bob) Kennedy at Night
12:30 Passage to Adventure
1:00 Movie: "Face of a Fugitive" (1959, Western) - Fred MacMurray, Lin McCarthy, Dorothy Green
9 WGN (Ind.)
AM
5:45 5 Minutes to Live By
5:50 News
6:02 WGN Editorial
6:05 Romper Room
6:35 Top O' the Morning
6:57 Farm and Weather Report
7:00 Ray Rayner and His Friends
8:00 Garfield Goose and Friends
8:30 Hazel
9:00 Bewitched
9:30 Farmer's Daughter
10:00 Patty Duke
10:30 Living Easy with Dr. Joyce Brothers
11:00 Our Town Today
11:45 News
11:57 WGN Editorial
PM
12:00 Bozo's Circus
1:00 Nanny and the Professor
1:30 Father Knows Best
2:00 I Love Lucy
2:30 What's My Line?
3:00 B.J. and Dirty Dragon
3:30 Gilligan's Island
4:00 Flintstones
4:45 News (nothing listed for 4:30)
5:00 I Dream of Jeannie
5:30 Bewitched
6:00 Andy Griffith
6:30 Dick Van Dyke
7:00 Black Hawks Hockey: vs. Atlanta (now Calgary) Flames (pre-empting Dealer's Choice, Mod Squad, Dragnet, Perry Mason)
9:30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
10:00 10th Hour News
10:30 Movie: "Chubasco" (1968, Drama/Adventure) - Richard Egan, Christopher Jones, Susan Strasberg
AM
12:30 Nightbeat (news)
12:58 WGN Editorial
1:00 Movie: "Randy Rides Alone" (1934, Western) - John Wayne, Gabby Hayes, Alberta Vaughan
11 WTTW (PBS)
AM
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Electric Company
8:30 Mister Rogers
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Mister Rogers
10:30 Educational Programs
11:30 TV College: History 111
PM
12:15 TV College: Environmental Studies 101
12:45 Your Senators Report
1:00 Electric Company
1:30 Music of Many Lands
1:45 Why!
2:00 Carrascolendas
2:30 Lilias, Yoga and You
3:00 Antiques VIII
3:30 Sesame Street
4:30 Mister Rogers
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Electric Company
6:30 Zoom
7:00 Washington Week in Review
7:30 Consumer Game
8:00 Prisons: Bucks County Prison, Doylestown, PA
9:00 B.B. King Revisits Cook County Jail (also featuring Gladys Knight & the Pips)
10:00 Four Gray Walls
10:30 Behind the Lines
11:30 Lilias, Yoga and You
20 WXXW (secondary station to WTTW; left air Aug. 1974; entirely in B&W)
AM
9:02 Educational Programs
PM
1:05 All About You
1:22 Community of Living Things
1:47 Memorandum: Interdependency: Metropolitan
26 WCIU (Ind./SIN; entirely in B&W until Dec. 31, 1974)
AM
9:00 Morning Commodity Call
9:10 Stock Market Preview
9:30 Newsmakers
10:00 Business News
10:30 Ask an Expert
11:00 New Zoo Revue
11:30 News
11:45 American Stock Exchange
PM
12:00 Business News
12:20 Ask an Expert
12:50 Rich Peterson
1:00 Market Basket
1:30 Ask an Expert
2:00 Business News
2:30 News
2:50 Commodity Final
3:00 Harambee
4:30 Soul Train (had its roots at WCIU; ran cocurrently with the nationally syndicated weekly version based in Los Angeles)
<SIN Spanish-lanugage programming begins>
5:45 Muneca* (Wrist) *tilded 'n'
6:45 Informacion
7:00 Viernes Espetacular (Spectacular Friday)
7:30 Estrellas Musicales (Musical Stars)
8:00 El Edificio de Enfrente (The Opposite Building)
9:00 La Criada Bien Criada (The Well-Bred Maid)
9:30 Live with Estaben
10:00 Informacion
10:30 La Hiena (The Hyena)
32 WFLD (Ind.)
AM
9:30 Jack LaLanne
10:00 Garner Ted Armstrong
10:30 Newstalk
11:30 Pixanne
PM
12:00 Petticoat Junction
12:30 Green Acres
1:00 Movie: "A Cry in the Night" (1956, Crime Drama) - Edmond O'Brien, Brian Donlevy, Natalie Wood, Raymond Burr
2:30 That Girl
3:00 Magilla Gorilla
3:30 Banana Splits
4:00 Speed Racer
4:30 Little Rascals
5:00 Batman
5:30 Batman
6:00 Wild, Wild West
7:00 Beverly Hillbillies
7:30 Lucy Show
8:00 Merv Griffin - Guests: Ernest Borgnine, Marty Allen, Orson Bean, Richard Dawson, Aliza Kashi
9:30 Bill Burrud's Travel World
10:00 Mission: Impossible
11:00 Night Gallery
44 WSNS (Ind.)
AM
10:30 Manna
11:00 Warren Roberts
PM
12:00 Esmeralda
1:00 Galloping Gourmet
1:30 Can You Top This?
2:00 Mantrap
2:30 Movie: "Fallen Angel" (1945, Crime Drama) - Alice Raye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell
4:30 Prince Planet
5:00 Whilybirds
5:30 Leave It to Beaver
6:00 F Troop
6:30 Bull Roar (Chicago Bulls pre-game; pre-empting Sgt. Bilko/Phil Silvers Show)
7:00 Bulls Baksetball: vs. Buffalo Braves (now Los Angeles Clippers)
9:00 Chicago Wrestling: "Battle Royal"
10:00 Sports Page
10:30 Not for Women Only
11:00 700 Club
2 WBBM (CBS)
AM
5:45 Thought for the Day
5:50 TV2 News
6:00 Sunrise Semester
6:30 It's Worth Learning
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Joker's Wild
9:30 $10,000 Pyramid - Guests: Joan Rivers, George Hamilton
10:00 Gambit
10:30 Love of Life
10:55 CBS Midday News
11:00 Young and the Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
PM
12:00 Lee Philip (local female talk show host)
12:30 As the World Turns
1:00 Guiding Light
1:30 Edge of Night
2:00 Price is Right
2:30 Match Game '74 - Panel: Larry Hovis, Brett Somers, Rip Taylor, Jo Ann Pflug, Richard Dawson, Peggy Cass
3:00 Secret Storm
3:30 Movie: "Move Over, Darling" (1963, Comedy/Romance) - Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 TV2 News
7:00 Dirty Sally
7:30 Good Times (Debut of this "Dyn-O-Mite!" Chicago-based sitcom)
8:00 CBS Friday Night Movies: "Dracula" (Premiere, Horror) - Jack Palance (as Dracula), Pamela Brown, Nigel Davanport
10:00 TV2 News
10:30 CBS Late Movie: "Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde" (1971, Horror) - Ralph Bates, Martine Beswick
AM
12:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
5 WMAQ (NBC)
AM
5:55 Meditation
6:00 Knowledge
6:30 Town and Farm
7:00 Today
9:00 Dinah's Place - Guest: Rod McKuen
9:30 Jeopardy
10:00 Wizard of Odds
10:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Paul Lynde, Charley Weaver, Rich Little, Karen Valentine, Doc Severinsen, George Foreman, Nanette Fabray, Juliet Prowse, Roddy McDowall
11:00 Jackpot
11:30 All-Star Baffle - Players: Tina Sinatra, Jack Cassidy, Jo Anne Worley, one additional unknown
11:55 NBC Midday News
PM
12:00 News 5 Chicago
12:30 Three on a Match
1:00 Days of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2:00 Another World
2:30 How to Survive a Marriage
3:00 Somerset
3:30 Mike Douglas - Co-host: Connie Stevens; Guests: Larry Csonka, Don Shula, Frankie Avalon, Virginia Graham, Ron Carey
5:00 News 5 Chicago
6:00 NBC Nightly News
6:30 Hollywood Squares
7:00 Sanford and Son (last episode of the season with Redd Foxx before his personal strike against NBC, returning in the following season's premiere)
7:30 Lotsa Luck
8:00 Girl With Something Extra
8:30 Dean Martin Show (including a celebrity roast to Don Rickles; series ended eight weeks later and spun-off the Celebrity Roast specials for the next ten years)
10:00 News 5 Chicago
10:30 Tonight Show - Guests: Suzanne Pleshette, Jerry Van Dyke, Marcel Marceau, Tracy Newman
AM
12:00 Midnight Special - Guests: Flash Cadillac and the Continentals, Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), Jose Feliciano, Mandrill, Todd Rundgren, David Essex
1:30 News
1:35 Meditation
7 WLS (ABC)
AM
6:25 Reflections
6:30 Perspectives
6:55 Earl Nightingale
7:00 Kennedy & Co. (namesake host Bob Kennedy died nine months later of cancer)
8:30 Movie: "Night Slaves" (1970, Horror/SciFi) - James Franciscus, Lee Grant, Andrew Prine, Leslie Nielsen
10:30 Brady Bunch
11:00 Password - Guests: Anne Meara, Tennessee Ernie Ford
11:30 Split Second
PM
12:00 All My Children
12:30 Let's Make a Deal
1:00 Newlywed Game
1:30 Girl in My Life
2:00 General Hospital
2:30 One Life to Live
3:00 Love, American Style
3:30 Movie: "Pocketful of Miracles" (1961, Comedy, Part 2 of 2) - Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Hope Lange, Arthur O'Connell (who in the 1970s played pharmacist Mr. Goodwin in commercials for Crest toothpaste)
5:00 Eyewitness News
5:30 ABC Evening News
6:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 Brady Bunch (episode in which Peter meets his double at school and guest starring Denise Nickerson of Willy Wonka and Electric Company fame)
7:30 Six Million Dollar Man
8:30 Odd Couple
9:00 Toma
10:00 Eyewitness News
10:30 ABC Late Night: Wide World of Entertainment/Mystery - "The Night Strangler"
AM
12:00 (Bob) Kennedy at Night
12:30 Passage to Adventure
1:00 Movie: "Face of a Fugitive" (1959, Western) - Fred MacMurray, Lin McCarthy, Dorothy Green
9 WGN (Ind.)
AM
5:45 5 Minutes to Live By
5:50 News
6:02 WGN Editorial
6:05 Romper Room
6:35 Top O' the Morning
6:57 Farm and Weather Report
7:00 Ray Rayner and His Friends
8:00 Garfield Goose and Friends
8:30 Hazel
9:00 Bewitched
9:30 Farmer's Daughter
10:00 Patty Duke
10:30 Living Easy with Dr. Joyce Brothers
11:00 Our Town Today
11:45 News
11:57 WGN Editorial
PM
12:00 Bozo's Circus
1:00 Nanny and the Professor
1:30 Father Knows Best
2:00 I Love Lucy
2:30 What's My Line?
3:00 B.J. and Dirty Dragon
3:30 Gilligan's Island
4:00 Flintstones
4:45 News (nothing listed for 4:30)
5:00 I Dream of Jeannie
5:30 Bewitched
6:00 Andy Griffith
6:30 Dick Van Dyke
7:00 Black Hawks Hockey: vs. Atlanta (now Calgary) Flames (pre-empting Dealer's Choice, Mod Squad, Dragnet, Perry Mason)
9:30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
10:00 10th Hour News
10:30 Movie: "Chubasco" (1968, Drama/Adventure) - Richard Egan, Christopher Jones, Susan Strasberg
AM
12:30 Nightbeat (news)
12:58 WGN Editorial
1:00 Movie: "Randy Rides Alone" (1934, Western) - John Wayne, Gabby Hayes, Alberta Vaughan
11 WTTW (PBS)
AM
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Electric Company
8:30 Mister Rogers
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Mister Rogers
10:30 Educational Programs
11:30 TV College: History 111
PM
12:15 TV College: Environmental Studies 101
12:45 Your Senators Report
1:00 Electric Company
1:30 Music of Many Lands
1:45 Why!
2:00 Carrascolendas
2:30 Lilias, Yoga and You
3:00 Antiques VIII
3:30 Sesame Street
4:30 Mister Rogers
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Electric Company
6:30 Zoom
7:00 Washington Week in Review
7:30 Consumer Game
8:00 Prisons: Bucks County Prison, Doylestown, PA
9:00 B.B. King Revisits Cook County Jail (also featuring Gladys Knight & the Pips)
10:00 Four Gray Walls
10:30 Behind the Lines
11:30 Lilias, Yoga and You
20 WXXW (secondary station to WTTW; left air Aug. 1974; entirely in B&W)
AM
9:02 Educational Programs
PM
1:05 All About You
1:22 Community of Living Things
1:47 Memorandum: Interdependency: Metropolitan
26 WCIU (Ind./SIN; entirely in B&W until Dec. 31, 1974)
AM
9:00 Morning Commodity Call
9:10 Stock Market Preview
9:30 Newsmakers
10:00 Business News
10:30 Ask an Expert
11:00 New Zoo Revue
11:30 News
11:45 American Stock Exchange
PM
12:00 Business News
12:20 Ask an Expert
12:50 Rich Peterson
1:00 Market Basket
1:30 Ask an Expert
2:00 Business News
2:30 News
2:50 Commodity Final
3:00 Harambee
4:30 Soul Train (had its roots at WCIU; ran cocurrently with the nationally syndicated weekly version based in Los Angeles)
<SIN Spanish-lanugage programming begins>
5:45 Muneca* (Wrist) *tilded 'n'
6:45 Informacion
7:00 Viernes Espetacular (Spectacular Friday)
7:30 Estrellas Musicales (Musical Stars)
8:00 El Edificio de Enfrente (The Opposite Building)
9:00 La Criada Bien Criada (The Well-Bred Maid)
9:30 Live with Estaben
10:00 Informacion
10:30 La Hiena (The Hyena)
32 WFLD (Ind.)
AM
9:30 Jack LaLanne
10:00 Garner Ted Armstrong
10:30 Newstalk
11:30 Pixanne
PM
12:00 Petticoat Junction
12:30 Green Acres
1:00 Movie: "A Cry in the Night" (1956, Crime Drama) - Edmond O'Brien, Brian Donlevy, Natalie Wood, Raymond Burr
2:30 That Girl
3:00 Magilla Gorilla
3:30 Banana Splits
4:00 Speed Racer
4:30 Little Rascals
5:00 Batman
5:30 Batman
6:00 Wild, Wild West
7:00 Beverly Hillbillies
7:30 Lucy Show
8:00 Merv Griffin - Guests: Ernest Borgnine, Marty Allen, Orson Bean, Richard Dawson, Aliza Kashi
9:30 Bill Burrud's Travel World
10:00 Mission: Impossible
11:00 Night Gallery
44 WSNS (Ind.)
AM
10:30 Manna
11:00 Warren Roberts
PM
12:00 Esmeralda
1:00 Galloping Gourmet
1:30 Can You Top This?
2:00 Mantrap
2:30 Movie: "Fallen Angel" (1945, Crime Drama) - Alice Raye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell
4:30 Prince Planet
5:00 Whilybirds
5:30 Leave It to Beaver
6:00 F Troop
6:30 Bull Roar (Chicago Bulls pre-game; pre-empting Sgt. Bilko/Phil Silvers Show)
7:00 Bulls Baksetball: vs. Buffalo Braves (now Los Angeles Clippers)
9:00 Chicago Wrestling: "Battle Royal"
10:00 Sports Page
10:30 Not for Women Only
11:00 700 Club
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