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Retro: Chicago VHF, Thursday, May 17, 1973

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Source: The Daily Herald (Chicago suburbs)
* A note with this schedule indicated Watergate hearings started on network affiliates “about 9 a.m.,” which pre-empted much of this published daytime programming.

WBBM-TV 2 (CBS)
AM
5:45 Thought For The Day
5:50 News
6 Sunrise Semester
6:30 It’s Worth Knowing…About Us
7 CBS News
8 Captain Kangaroo
9 Joker’s Wild
9:30 The $10,000 Pyramid
10 Gambit
10:30 Love Of Life
10:55 CBS News
11 The Young and the Restless
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
PM
12 Lee Phillip Show
12:30 As The World Turns
1 Guiding Light
1:30 Edge Of Night
2 New Price Is Right
2:30 Hollywood’s Talking
3 Secret Storm
3:30 Movie: “To Catch A Thief”
5:30 CBS News
6 News
7 The Waltons
8 CBS Thursday Movie: “Countdown”
10 News
10:30 CBS Late Movie: “Tea And Symphony”
12:30 News
12:45 Movie: “Billy Budd”
3:20 Movie: “The Seventh Calvary”

WMAQ-TV 5 (NBC)
AM
5:55 Today’s Meditation
6 Station Exchange
6:30 Town and Farm
6:35 Today in Chicago
7 Today
9 Dinah’s Place
9:30 Baffle
10 Sale of the Century
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 Jeopardy
11:30 Who, What or Where
11:55 NBC News
PM
12 News
12:30 Three on a Match
1 Days of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2 Another World
2:30 Return to Peyton Place
3 Somerset
3:30 Mike Douglas
5 News
6 NBC News
6:30 New Price Is Right
7 Flip Wilson
8 Ironside
9 Dean Martin
10 News
10:30 Tonight
12 News
12:05 Not For Women Only
12:35 Phil Donahue
1:05 Page Three
1:35 News
1:40 Meditation

WLS-TV 7 (ABC)
AM
6:25 Reflections
6:30 Perspectives
6:55 Earl Nightingale
7 Kennedy & Company
8:30 Movie: “A Gathering of Eagles”
10:30 Bewitched
11 Password
11:30 Split Second
PM
12 All My Children
12:30 Let’s Make A Deal
1 Newlywed Game
1:30 Dating Game
2 General Hospital
2:30 One Life To Life
3 Love, American Style
3:30 Movie: “Youngblood Hawke”
5 News
5:30 ABC News
6 News
7 Mod Squad
8 Kung Fu
9 Streets of San Francisco
10 News
10:30 ABC Wide World of Entertainment: Dick Cavett Show
PM
12 Kennedy At Night
12:30 Passage to Adventure: The Virgin Islands
1 Reflections

WGN-TV 9
AM
5:45 News
6 Five Minutes To Live By
6:05 Top ‘O The Morning
6:30 New Zoo Revue
7 Ray Rayner and His Friends
8 Garfield Goose
8:30 Romper Room
9 I Love Lucy
9:30 Living Easy with Dr. Joyce Brothers
10 Movie: “The Petrified Forest”
11:50 Fashions In Sewing
PM
12 Bozo’s Circus
1 News
1:15 Lead Off Man
1:35 Baseball: St. Louis Cardinals at Chicago Cubs (Cubs lost 6-4; source: baseball-reference.com)
3:45 Tenth Inning
4 Patty Duke
4:30 Flintstones
5 News
5:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
6 Andy Griffith
6:30 Dick Van Dyke
7 Movie: “An Affair To Remember”
9 Perry Mason
10 News
10:30 Movie: “Circus World”
1:15 News
1:45 Wagon Train
3:15 News
3:20 Five Minutes To Live By

WTTW 11 (PBS)
AM
7 Sesame Street
8 Electric Company
8:30 Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
9 Sesame Street
10 Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
10:30 Children of the World
11 Ripples
11:15 TV College – Social Science 102
PM
12 TV College – English 101
12:45 TV College – Sociology 202
1:35 Language Lane
2 Electric Company
2:30 Lilias, Yoga and You
3 Designing Women
3:30 Sesame Street
4:30 Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
5 Sesame Street
6 Electric Company
6:30 Zoom
7 William F. Buckley’s Firing Line
8 An American Family
9 Movie: “Oliver Twist”
11:30 Lilias, Yoga and You
 
> WBBM-TV 2 (CBS)
> 12:45 Movie: “Billy Budd”
> 3:20 Movie: “The Seventh Calvary”
Did WBBM run a test pattern between the last movie and sign-on like WCBS did?

> WGN-TV 9

> PM
> 12 Bozo’s Circus
> 1 News
> 1:15 Lead Off Man
> 1:35 Baseball: St. Louis Cardinals at Chicago Cubs (Cubs
> lost 6-4; source: baseball-reference.com)
> 3:45 Tenth Inning
Tradition in Chicago in the 70's-Bozo followed by Baseball
> 3:20 Five Minutes To Live By
WGN was still running this in 1988 according to another post, even when they went around the clock.
 
>
> > WGN-TV 9
>
> > PM
> > 12 Bozo’s Circus
> > 1 News
> > 1:15 Lead Off Man
> > 1:35 Baseball: St. Louis Cardinals at Chicago Cubs (Cubs
> > lost 6-4; source: baseball-reference.com)
> > 3:45 Tenth Inning

What usually ran between 1 PM and 4 PM if baseball wasn't on? When did Bozo's Circus move to mornings?

5:00 News

When did WGN stop airing news at that hour?
 
>
> WBBM-TV 2 (CBS)

> PM
> 12 Lee Phillip Show

Is this the same person who was married to William Bell who created The Young And The Restless and The Bold And The Beautiful?
 
> >
> > > WGN-TV 9
> >
> > > PM
> > > 12 Bozo’s Circus
> > > 1 News
> > > 1:15 Lead Off Man
> > > 1:35 Baseball: St. Louis Cardinals at Chicago Cubs (Cubs
>
> > > lost 6-4; source: baseball-reference.com)
> > > 3:45 Tenth Inning
>
> What usually ran between 1 PM and 4 PM if baseball
> wasn't on? When did Bozo's Circus move to mornings?

Bozo moved to mornings in '76 or thereabouts (essentially being merged with Garfield Goose, though the latter show's characters were mostly phased out) when the Chicago Public Schools stopped allowing students to go home for lunch.
 
> >
> > WBBM-TV 2 (CBS)
>
> > PM
> > 12 Lee Phillip Show
>
> Is this the same person who was married to William Bell
> who created The Young And The Restless and The Bold And The
> Beautiful?
>
The same.
 
> > >
> > > > WGN-TV 9
> > >
> > > > PM
> > > > 12 Bozo’s Circus
> > > > 1 News
> > > > 1:15 Lead Off Man
> > > > 1:35 Baseball: St. Louis Cardinals at Chicago Cubs
> (Cubs
> >
> > > > lost 6-4; source: baseball-reference.com)
> > > > 3:45 Tenth Inning
> >
> > What usually ran between 1 PM and 4 PM if baseball
> > wasn't on? When did Bozo's Circus move to mornings?
>
> Bozo moved to mornings in '76 or thereabouts (essentially
> being merged with Garfield Goose, though the latter show's
> characters were mostly phased out) when the Chicago Public
> Schools stopped allowing students to go home for lunch.

Funny you should mention that because there's another posting
on this thread that asks if Lee Phillip of Channel 2 was married
to soap creator Bill Bell. Bell, who grew up in Chicago, once
said he got interested in soaps because as a kid he would go home
for lunch and listen to Helen Trent and Our Gal Sunday, which aired
on radio at 11:30 and 11:45 AM (CT), respectively.

I never knew but two other stations that ran kids' shows at midday,
both in the late '70s: KTVT/11 Dallas/Ft. Worth ran The Archies at
12:30, and WGRZ/2 Buffalo ran The Flintstones at noon.
>
 
> 1 News
> > > > > 1:15 Lead Off Man
> > > > > 1:35 Baseball: St. Louis Cardinals at Chicago Cubs
> > (Cubs
> > >
> > > > > lost 6-4; source: baseball-reference.com)
> > > > > 3:45 Tenth Inning
> > >
> > > What usually ran between 1 PM and 4 PM if baseball
> > > wasn't on?When did Bozo's Circus move to mornings?.

I beleive WGN had Gilligan's Island on at that time. Also on The Bozo question it moved to AM's in 1981 after Ray Rayner retired from WGN-TV.

Could someone please list what else WGN had from 1-4pm in 1973 in addition to Gilligan?
> >
>
 
> > 1 News
> > > > > > 1:15 Lead Off Man
> > > > > > 1:35 Baseball: St. Louis Cardinals at Chicago Cubs
>
> > > (Cubs
> > > >
> > > > > > lost 6-4; source: baseball-reference.com)
> > > > > > 3:45 Tenth Inning
> > > >
> > > > What usually ran between 1 PM and 4 PM if baseball
>
> > > > wasn't on?When did Bozo's Circus move to mornings?.
>
> I beleive WGN had Gilligan's Island on at that time. Also on
> The Bozo question it moved to AM's in 1981 after Ray Rayner
> retired from WGN-TV.
>
> Could someone please list what else WGN had from 1-4pm in
> 1973 in addition to Gilligan?
> > >
> >

Gilligan was on in the later afternoons. For some reason I want to say "Dinah" ran.
>
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