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Again, I'll be highlighting the highlight of that date and market in bold, this one being the premiere of the Chicago-based Bob Newhart Show, which is why I chose that date for that market, as I've just did for Minneapolis-St. Paul the day the Mary Tyler Moore Show premiered.
(P) - Series Premiere
(SP) - Season Premiere
2 WBBM (CBS)
5:50 Thought for the Day
5:55 News
6:00 Summer Semester
6:30 It's Worth Knowing
7:00 Bugs Bunny
7:30 Sabrina the Teenage Witch
8:00 Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan
8:26 In the News
8:30 New Scooby-Doo Movies - Guests: Batman & Robin, plus the Joker and the Penguin
9:26 In the News
9:30 Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space
9:56 In the News
10:00 Flintstone Comedy Hour (featuring the teenaged Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm)
10:56 In the News
11:00 Archie's TV Funnies
11:30 Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
NOON Children's Film Festival
1:00 Different Drummers
1:30 Opportunity Line
2:00 We Are Chicago
2:30 Soul Train
3:30 Superflick: "Sing Boy Sing" (1958, Musical/Drama) - Tommy Sands, Lili Gentle, Edmond O'Brien, Nick Adams
5:30 CBS Evenng News - Roger Mudd
6:00 TV-2 News
6:30 What's My Line? (possibly the last show hosted by Wally Bruner before being replaced by Larry Blyden)
7:00 All in the Family (SP)
7:30 Bridget Loves Bernie (P)
8:00 Mary Tyler Moore (SP)
8:30 Bob Newhart (P)
9:00 Mission: Impossible (SP)
10:00 TV-2 News
10:30 Best of CBS: "The Savage" (1952, Western) - Charlton Heston, Susan Morrow
12:30 Common Ground
3:00 Late Show: "Above and Beyond" (1952, War Drama) - Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitemore
5 WMAQ (NBC)
7:00 Underdog (Wally Cox, who provided his voice, died five months later)
7:30 Jetsons
8:00 New Pink Panther Show
8:30 Houndcats
9:00 The Roman Holidays (unsuccessful Ancient Roman "modern family" counterpart to The Flintstones and The Jetsons)
9:30 The Barkleys
10:00 Sealab 2020
10:30 Runaround - children's game show, hosted by Paul Winchell, with his dummies Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff
11:00 Around the World in Eighty Days
11:30 Talking With a Giant
NOON News 5 Chicago
12:30 City Desk
1:00 MLB Baseball: Orioles vs. Yankees
4:00 Zoorama
4:30 It's Academic
5:00 News 5 Chicago
5:30 NBC Nightly News - Garrick Utley
6:00 World of Survival
6:30 Adventurer
7:00 Emergency! (SP)
8:00 NBC Saturday Night at the Movies: "In the Heat of the Night" (1967 Best Picture Winner) - Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger
10:15 News 5 Chicago
10:45 Kup's Show
7 WLS (ABC)
6:55 Reflections
7:00 H.R. Pufnstuf
7:30 Jackson 5ive (as the title was styled as)
8:00 Osmonds
8:30 ABC Satuday Superstar Movie
9:30 Brady Kids
10:00 Bewitched (sitcom reruns, having ended its 8-year run on ABC the previous spring)
10:30 Kid Power (animated version of the Wee Pals comic strip)
11:00 Funky Phantom
11:30 Lidsville
NOON Monkees (1966-68 sitcom reruns)
12:30 American Bandstand (30 mins.) - Guest: Rick Springfield
1:00 ABC's Wide World of Sports
2:30 NCAA Football: Arizona State vs. Houston
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 Let's Make a Deal
7:00 Alias Smith and Jones (SP)
8:00 Streets of San Francisco (P; 2 hrs.)
10:00 Eyewitness News
10:30 Movie: "The Counterfeit Traitor" (1962, Drama/History/Thriller) - William Holden, Hugh Griffith, Lilli Palmer
12:40 Movie: "Five Golden Dragons" (1967, Comedy/Action/Adventure) - Bob Cummings, Margaret Lee, Rupert Davies
2:35 Reflections
9 WGN
6:40 5 Minutes to Live By
6:45 News
7:00 Ray Rayner and Friends
8:00 Treetop House
8:30 Untamed World
9:00 Morning Feature: "Ghost Chasers" (1951, Comedy) - The Bowery Boys, Huntz Hall
10:15 Feature II: "Buck Privates" (1941, Comedy) - Abbott & Costello
NOON Charlando
12:30 Broken Arrow
1:00 Lead-Off Man
1:10 Cubs Baseball: hosting the Mets
3:45 Tenth Inning
4:00 Hogan's Heroes
4:30 Flipper
5:00 Lassie
5:30 I Dream of Jeannie
6:00 Andy Griffith
6:30 Dick Van Dyke
7:00 Movie: "Mary, Mary" (1963, Comedy/Romance) - Debbie Reynolds, Barry Nelson
9:30 This is Your Life - Guest: Alexis Smith
10:00 10th Hour News
10:30 Creature Feature: "The Return of the Vampire" (1943) - Bela Lugosi (as vampire Armand Tesla, NOT Dracula), Frieda Inescort
11:50 Creature Feature: "The Raven" (1935) - Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi
1:05 Night Beat
1:20 Movie: "Cole Younger, Gunfighter" (1958, Western) - Frank Lovejoy, James Best, Abby Dalton
11 WTTW (PBS)
8:00 Mister Rogers
8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 Mister Rogers
10:00 Sesame Street
11:00 Electric Company
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Electric Company
1:00 This Land
1:30 Afternoon Flicks
5:30 Book Beat
6:00 Towers of Frustration
6:30 Electric Company
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Electric Company
8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 Jean Shepherd's America
10:00 Dixie
11:00 Scott Smith Trio
26 WCIU
1:00 Right On
1:30 Ben Brown
2:00 Red Hot Blues
4:30 Impact
5:00 Wrestling
6:00 Polish Variety
7:00 Polka Party
7:30 Rock of Ages
9:00 Gallo Franco Sports
10:00 La Pelicula de los Sabados (Saturday Movie)
MIDNIGHT Psychic World
32 WFLD
8:00 Thunderbirds
9:00 Morning Movie: "Drum Beat" (1954, Western) - Alan Ladd, Audrey Dalton, Charles Bronson
11:00 Wally's Workshop - Wally Bruner
11:30 Crafts with Katy
NOON Roller Derby
1:00 Science Fiction Cinema: "Beginning of the End" (1957) - Peter Graves, Peggie Castle, Morris Ankrum
2:30 Addams Family
3:00 Felony Squad
3:30 Science Fiction Cinema: "First Man into Space" (1959) - Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi, Bill Edwards, Robert Ayres
5:00 Rifleman
5:30 Highlights
6:00 It Takes a Thief
7:00 Safari: "Colorful Guatemala"
7:55 News
8:00 Evening Movie: "The Incredible Petrified World" (1959, Science Fiction) - John Carradine, Robert Clarke, Phylliss Coates
10:00 Candid Camera
10:30 Compassion's Children
11:00 Movie: "Gold for the Caesars" (1963, Historical Drama/Adventure/Action) - Jeffrey Hunter, Mylene Demongeot
12:45 Consultation
1:15 News
44 WSNS
11:00 Fiesta Sabatina (Saturday Party): "El Show Goya"
4:30 Autosports '72
5:00 Western Star Theater
5:30 Chet Gulinski
6:00 Soul Street
7:00 Week's End Movie: "The Green Man" (1956, Comedy) - Alastair Slim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas, Jill Adams
8:30 Week's End Movie: "Junior Miss" (1945, Comedy) - Peggy Ann Garner
10:00 Underground
10:30 Week's End Movie: "The Green Man" (repeat)
(P) - Series Premiere
(SP) - Season Premiere
2 WBBM (CBS)
5:50 Thought for the Day
5:55 News
6:00 Summer Semester
6:30 It's Worth Knowing
7:00 Bugs Bunny
7:30 Sabrina the Teenage Witch
8:00 Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan
8:26 In the News
8:30 New Scooby-Doo Movies - Guests: Batman & Robin, plus the Joker and the Penguin
9:26 In the News
9:30 Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space
9:56 In the News
10:00 Flintstone Comedy Hour (featuring the teenaged Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm)
10:56 In the News
11:00 Archie's TV Funnies
11:30 Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
NOON Children's Film Festival
1:00 Different Drummers
1:30 Opportunity Line
2:00 We Are Chicago
2:30 Soul Train
3:30 Superflick: "Sing Boy Sing" (1958, Musical/Drama) - Tommy Sands, Lili Gentle, Edmond O'Brien, Nick Adams
5:30 CBS Evenng News - Roger Mudd
6:00 TV-2 News
6:30 What's My Line? (possibly the last show hosted by Wally Bruner before being replaced by Larry Blyden)
7:00 All in the Family (SP)
7:30 Bridget Loves Bernie (P)
8:00 Mary Tyler Moore (SP)
8:30 Bob Newhart (P)
9:00 Mission: Impossible (SP)
10:00 TV-2 News
10:30 Best of CBS: "The Savage" (1952, Western) - Charlton Heston, Susan Morrow
12:30 Common Ground
3:00 Late Show: "Above and Beyond" (1952, War Drama) - Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitemore
5 WMAQ (NBC)
7:00 Underdog (Wally Cox, who provided his voice, died five months later)
7:30 Jetsons
8:00 New Pink Panther Show
8:30 Houndcats
9:00 The Roman Holidays (unsuccessful Ancient Roman "modern family" counterpart to The Flintstones and The Jetsons)
9:30 The Barkleys
10:00 Sealab 2020
10:30 Runaround - children's game show, hosted by Paul Winchell, with his dummies Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff
11:00 Around the World in Eighty Days
11:30 Talking With a Giant
NOON News 5 Chicago
12:30 City Desk
1:00 MLB Baseball: Orioles vs. Yankees
4:00 Zoorama
4:30 It's Academic
5:00 News 5 Chicago
5:30 NBC Nightly News - Garrick Utley
6:00 World of Survival
6:30 Adventurer
7:00 Emergency! (SP)
8:00 NBC Saturday Night at the Movies: "In the Heat of the Night" (1967 Best Picture Winner) - Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger
10:15 News 5 Chicago
10:45 Kup's Show
7 WLS (ABC)
6:55 Reflections
7:00 H.R. Pufnstuf
7:30 Jackson 5ive (as the title was styled as)
8:00 Osmonds
8:30 ABC Satuday Superstar Movie
9:30 Brady Kids
10:00 Bewitched (sitcom reruns, having ended its 8-year run on ABC the previous spring)
10:30 Kid Power (animated version of the Wee Pals comic strip)
11:00 Funky Phantom
11:30 Lidsville
NOON Monkees (1966-68 sitcom reruns)
12:30 American Bandstand (30 mins.) - Guest: Rick Springfield
1:00 ABC's Wide World of Sports
2:30 NCAA Football: Arizona State vs. Houston
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 Let's Make a Deal
7:00 Alias Smith and Jones (SP)
8:00 Streets of San Francisco (P; 2 hrs.)
10:00 Eyewitness News
10:30 Movie: "The Counterfeit Traitor" (1962, Drama/History/Thriller) - William Holden, Hugh Griffith, Lilli Palmer
12:40 Movie: "Five Golden Dragons" (1967, Comedy/Action/Adventure) - Bob Cummings, Margaret Lee, Rupert Davies
2:35 Reflections
9 WGN
6:40 5 Minutes to Live By
6:45 News
7:00 Ray Rayner and Friends
8:00 Treetop House
8:30 Untamed World
9:00 Morning Feature: "Ghost Chasers" (1951, Comedy) - The Bowery Boys, Huntz Hall
10:15 Feature II: "Buck Privates" (1941, Comedy) - Abbott & Costello
NOON Charlando
12:30 Broken Arrow
1:00 Lead-Off Man
1:10 Cubs Baseball: hosting the Mets
3:45 Tenth Inning
4:00 Hogan's Heroes
4:30 Flipper
5:00 Lassie
5:30 I Dream of Jeannie
6:00 Andy Griffith
6:30 Dick Van Dyke
7:00 Movie: "Mary, Mary" (1963, Comedy/Romance) - Debbie Reynolds, Barry Nelson
9:30 This is Your Life - Guest: Alexis Smith
10:00 10th Hour News
10:30 Creature Feature: "The Return of the Vampire" (1943) - Bela Lugosi (as vampire Armand Tesla, NOT Dracula), Frieda Inescort
11:50 Creature Feature: "The Raven" (1935) - Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi
1:05 Night Beat
1:20 Movie: "Cole Younger, Gunfighter" (1958, Western) - Frank Lovejoy, James Best, Abby Dalton
11 WTTW (PBS)
8:00 Mister Rogers
8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 Mister Rogers
10:00 Sesame Street
11:00 Electric Company
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Electric Company
1:00 This Land
1:30 Afternoon Flicks
5:30 Book Beat
6:00 Towers of Frustration
6:30 Electric Company
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Electric Company
8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 Jean Shepherd's America
10:00 Dixie
11:00 Scott Smith Trio
26 WCIU
1:00 Right On
1:30 Ben Brown
2:00 Red Hot Blues
4:30 Impact
5:00 Wrestling
6:00 Polish Variety
7:00 Polka Party
7:30 Rock of Ages
9:00 Gallo Franco Sports
10:00 La Pelicula de los Sabados (Saturday Movie)
MIDNIGHT Psychic World
32 WFLD
8:00 Thunderbirds
9:00 Morning Movie: "Drum Beat" (1954, Western) - Alan Ladd, Audrey Dalton, Charles Bronson
11:00 Wally's Workshop - Wally Bruner
11:30 Crafts with Katy
NOON Roller Derby
1:00 Science Fiction Cinema: "Beginning of the End" (1957) - Peter Graves, Peggie Castle, Morris Ankrum
2:30 Addams Family
3:00 Felony Squad
3:30 Science Fiction Cinema: "First Man into Space" (1959) - Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi, Bill Edwards, Robert Ayres
5:00 Rifleman
5:30 Highlights
6:00 It Takes a Thief
7:00 Safari: "Colorful Guatemala"
7:55 News
8:00 Evening Movie: "The Incredible Petrified World" (1959, Science Fiction) - John Carradine, Robert Clarke, Phylliss Coates
10:00 Candid Camera
10:30 Compassion's Children
11:00 Movie: "Gold for the Caesars" (1963, Historical Drama/Adventure/Action) - Jeffrey Hunter, Mylene Demongeot
12:45 Consultation
1:15 News
44 WSNS
11:00 Fiesta Sabatina (Saturday Party): "El Show Goya"
4:30 Autosports '72
5:00 Western Star Theater
5:30 Chet Gulinski
6:00 Soul Street
7:00 Week's End Movie: "The Green Man" (1956, Comedy) - Alastair Slim, George Cole, Terry-Thomas, Jill Adams
8:30 Week's End Movie: "Junior Miss" (1945, Comedy) - Peggy Ann Garner
10:00 Underground
10:30 Week's End Movie: "The Green Man" (repeat)