Retro: Chicago Sat, Mar 8, 1975

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide-Chicago Metro edition

WBBM 2-CBS
5:50 News
6:00 Sunrise Semester "The Near East in Modern Times"
6:30 It's Worth Knowing
7:00 My Favorite Martians
7:30 Speed Buggy
8:00 Jeannie
8:30 Partridge Family (animated)
9:00 Scooby-Doo, Where are You?
9:30 Shazam!
10:00 Valley of the Dinosaurs
10:30 Hudson Brothers
11:00 Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine (guest Sandy Duncan)
11:30 Fat Albert
noon Children's Film Festival "Orange Watering Cart"
1:00 Opportunity Line
1:30 Soul Train (guests Lou Rawls, the Main Ingredient, and Gloria Scott)
2:30 National Women's Indoor Tennis Championships: singles final
4:00 Golf: Florida Citrus Open
5:00 Channel 2: The People
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 News
6:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
7:00 All in the Family
7:30 Jeffersons
8:00 Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Bob Newhart
9:00 Carol Burnett (guests Buddy Ebsen and Wayne Rogers)
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "Female Instinct" (pilot film for Snoop Sisters)
12:35 News
12:50 Common Ground
3:20 Movie "Dream Wife" (bw)

WMAQ 5-NBC
7:00 Addams Family (animated)
7:30 Wheelie & the Chopper Bunch
8:00 Emergency Plus 4
8:30 Run, Joe, Run
9:00 Land of the Lost
9:30 Sigmund
10:00 Pink Panther
10:30 Star Trek (animated)
11:00 Jetsons
11:30 Go
noon Suspense Theatre
1:00 Chicago Town Meeting "Economy and Inflation"
2:00 High School Basketball: teams not listed
3:30 Animal World
4:00 Ecos Latinos
4:30 City Desk
5:00 News
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 News
6:30 New Candid Camera
7:00 Nature's Strangest Creatures
7:20 Movie "Pollyanna"
10:00 News
10:30 Tonight Show (guests Freddie Prinze, Buck Henry, Lola Falana, and Craig Pease)
mid. Tilmon Tempo
1:00 Movie "The Magnificent Doll" (bw)

WLS 7-ABC
7:00 Yogi's Friend
7:30 Bugs Bunny
8:00 Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Adventures of Gilligan
9:00 Devlin
9:30 Lassie's Rescue Rangers
10:00 Super Friends
11:00 These are the Days
11:30 American Bandstand (guests Smokey Robinson, and the Rhodes Kids)
12:30 Oiga Amigo!
1:00 Feminine Franchise
1:30 Black on Black
2:00 Water World
2:30 Pro Bowlers Tour: Ebonite Don Carter Classic
4:00 ABC Wide World of Sports: World Figure Skating Championships pairs competition, North American Toboggan Championships, and the Mr. Universe Contest
5:30 Reasoner Report
6:00 Eyewitness Chicago
6:30 Let's Make a Deal
7:00 Kung Fu
8:00 Movie "Skulldugger"
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "A Man Called Sledge"
12:25 Movie "His Kind of Woman" (bw)

WGN 9-Ind
6:45 News
7:00 Funny Men
7:30 National Farm Digest
8:00 Friends of Man
8:30 Lost in Space
9:30 Movie "Abbott and Costello in the Navy" (bw)
11:15 Your Income Tax
11:30 NYPD
noon Charlando
12:30 Championship Fishing
1:00 Other People, Other Places
1:30 Outdoors with Julius Boros
2:00 Big Ten Basketball: Minnesota-Purdue
4:00 Movie "The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy" (bw)
6:00 Bonanza
7:00 Love, American Style (x2, the 7:30 episode is the Happy Days pilot)
8:00 Saint
9:00 Mod Squad
10:00 NHL: Black Hawks-Los Angeles
1:00 Movie "Arizona" (bw)
3:25 Biography: John Barrymore (bw)

WTTW 11-PBS
7:00 Villa Alegre
7:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Electric Company
9:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10:00 Sesame Street
11:00 Electric Company
11:30 Zoom
noon Basically Baseball
12:30 Sesame Street
1:30 International Gymnastics: US v West Germany (from Penn State)
3:30 Movie "On Any Sunday" (this tribute to motorcycling employed 10 photogs and covered over 10,000 miles)
5:30 Firing Line
6:30 Walsh's Animals
7:00 Black Perspective on the News
7:30 Wall Street Week
8:00 Big Band Cavalcade (performers include Margaret Whiting and Bob Crosby, plus the bands of Freddie Martin and Frankie Carle)
9:00 Evening at Pops (from 1973: guests Robert Merrill and Richard Tucker)
10:00 Weather Machine
mid. Pledge Night
12:10 Solo

WCIU 26-Ind
9:00 El Show Jibaro
10:00 Competencia en Patina
11:00 Yesenia
noon Variedades en Espanol
1:00 Asi es Mi Tierra
3:00 Soul Train
4:00 Talent Show
5:00 Wrestling
6:00 Polka Party
6:30 Polish Variety Hour
7:30 Rock of Ages
9:00 Copa Mundial de Futbol (World Cup Soccer): Uruguay v Bulgaria

WFLD 32-Ind
10:00 Roller Game of the Week
11:00 NHL Highlights
11:30 Outdoor Sportsman
noon Movie "Target Earth" (bw)
1:30 Movie "Attack of the Puppet People" (bw)
3:00 Movie "The Golden Idol" (bw)
4:30 Petticoat Junction (bw)
5:00 Beverly Hillbillies
5:30 Lucy Show (Mel Torme appears as Tinker)
6:00 Loggins & Messina (along with Linda Ronstadt)
7:00 Laurel & Hardy
7:30 Untouchables (bw)
8:30 Movie "Attack of the Mushroom People"
10:00 Night Gallery
10:30 Dave Baum

WSNS 44-Ind (TVG ads referred to the station as "Chicago's Television SportsCenter")
9:30 Teach-In
10:30 Lesson
11:00 Spiderman
11:30 Linus the Lionhearted
noon Bob Luce Wrestling (44 also showed Luce Sundays at noon, was the same show repeated twice or were they separate shows?)
1:00 Movie "Blood Arrow" (bw)
2:30 Movie "The Plunderers"
4:30 Sportsman's Friend
5:00 Yancy Derringer (bw)
5:30 Mr. Lucky (bw)
6:00 Secret Agent (bw)
7:00 Peter Gunn (bw)
7:30 Big Ten Basketball: Michigan State-Indiana
9:30 Sports Spotlight
10:00 NBA: Bulls-Portland (the TVG ad mentions Olympic Broadcasting Service, was that 44's owner or the company that produced the Bulls TV coverage?)

 

[azumanga]

WBBM 2-CBS
8:30 Partridge Family (animated)

Should be "Partridge Family: 2200 AD", in which the Partridges find themselves about 230 years into the future, though without Shirley Jones or David Cassidy.

1:30 Soul Train (guests Lou Rawls, the Main Ingredient, and Gloria Scott)

When did Don Cornelius's "Soul Train" move to WGN?

WLS 7-ABC
7:00 Yogi's Friend

Should this be "Yogi's Gang"?

WCIU 26-Ind
3:00 Soul Train

This, I think, is the original Chicago version, which continued after the Don Cornelius version moved to Hollywood.

WSNS 44-Ind (TVG ads referred to the station as "Chicago's Television SportsCenter")
10:00 NBA: Bulls-Portland (the TVG ad mentions Olympic Broadcasting Service, was that 44's owner or the company that produced the Bulls TV coverage?)

I would think they're the producers of the game -- WSNS was co-owned by Harriscope Broadcasting and Essaness Theaters at the time.

 

[KeithE4]

10:00 NBA: Bulls-Portland (the TVG ad mentions Olympic Broadcasting Service, was that 44's owner or the company that produced the Bulls TV coverage?)

Olympic must have been the production company, although I always thought that the Bulls and Sox games on 44 were produced in-house.

WSNS was owned by Harriscope and Essaness Television Corporation (50% each) at that time.

Interesting that TVG didn't list WCAE Ch. 50 (PBS) St. Johns, IN at the time. They had been on the air since 1967, were Indiana's first PBS station, and were listed from 1976 until their 1984 signoff. That license is now WYIN Ch. 56 Gary.

 

[wbhist]

Interesting that TVG didn't list WCAE Ch. 50 (PBS) St. Johns, IN at the time. They had been on the air since 1967, were Indiana's first PBS station, and were listed from 1976 until their 1984 signoff. That license is now WYIN Ch. 56 Gary.

Didn't TVG list WCAE in their Northern Illinois Edition?

 

[Markxxx]

I recall WCAE was listed in the Chicago edition but I'm not sure when they started to list it. I know definately it was in there by 1976.

 

[KeithE4]

I recall WCAE was listed in the Chicago edition but I'm not sure when they started to list it. I know definately it was in there by 1976.

Now that I think about it, I believe TVG started listing WCAE in May '76, when WCFC Channel 38 came on the air. I think TVG started listing both at the same time.