Retro: Dallas/Fort Worth – Thursday/Friday February 20/21, 1975

[Tim-In-Houston]

Source: The Mid-Cities Daily News (Hurst, TX)

WFAA-8 (ABC)
PM
5:00 – ABC Evening News
5:30 – Partridge Family
6:00 – News 8 the Scene Tonight
7:00 – Barney Miller
7:30 – Karen
8:00 – Streets of San Francisco
9:00 – Harry O
10:00 – News 8 Scene Tonight
10:30 – Mod Squad
11:30 – The Scene Tonight
AM
12:00 – Wide World of Entertainment
7:00 – The A.M. Show
9:00 – Mike Douglas Show
10:30 – Brady Bunch
11:00 – Password
11:30 – Split Second
PM
12:00 – All My Children
12:30 – Let’s Make a Deal
1:00 - $10,000 Pyramid
1:30 – Showdown
2:00 – General Hospital
2:30 – One Life to Live
3:00 – Movie: “The Rack”

KDFW-4 (CBS, now Fox)
PM
5:00 – Eyewitness News
5:30 – CBS Evening News
6:00 – Eyewitness News
6:30 – Young 4 Country (?)
7:00 – The Waltons
8:00 – Movie: Attack on Terror (Part 1)
10:00 – Eyewitness News
10:30 – Alfred Hitchcock
11:00 – Movie: “Beg, Borrow or Steal”
AM
7:00 – CBS Morning News
8:00 – Captain Kangaroo
9:00 – The Joker’s Wild
9:30 – Gambit
10:00 – Now You See It
10:30 – Love of Life
11:00 – The Young and the Restless
11:30 – Search for Tomorrow
PM
12:00 – Eyewitness News
12:30 – As the World Turns
1:00 – Guiding Light
1:30 – Edge of Night
2:00 – The Price is Right
2:30 – Match Game ‘75
3:00 – Tattletales
3:30 – Merv Griffin Show

KXAS-5 (NBC)
PM
5:00 – Inside Area 5
5:30 – NBC Nightly News
6:00 – Area 5 Texas News
6:30 – Let’s Make a Deal
7:00 – Mac Davis Show
8:00 – Archer
9:00 – Movin’ On
10:00 – Area 5 Texas News
10:30 – Tonight Show
AM
12:00 – Tomorrow
7:00 – Today Show
9:00 – Celebrity Sweepstakes
9:30 – Wheel of Fortune
10:00 – High Rollers
10:30 – Hollywood Squares
11:00 – Jackpot
11:30 – Blank Check
PM
12:00 – News
12:30 – How to Survive a Marriage
1:00 – Days of Our Lives
1:30 – The Doctor’s
2:00 – Another World
3:00 – Somerset
3:30 – Dinah Shore Show


KTVT-11 (Ind., now CBS)
PM
5:00 – I Love Lucy
5:30 – Dick Van Dyke Show
6:00 – That Girl
6:30 – FBI
7:30 – Rifleman
8:00 – Family Affair
8:30 – Beverly Hillbillies
9:00 – Movie: The Yellow Rolls Royce
10:00 – News
10:15 – Movie (Title unreadable)
11:30 – Movie “Sullivan’s Empire”
AM
7:00 – Slam Bang Theatre
8:00 – New Zoo Revue
8:30 – The Munsters
9:00 – Dealer’s Choice
9:30 – TV Bingo
10:00 – It Takes a Thief
11:00 – Perry Mason
PM
12:00 – News
12:30 – Cartoon Carnival
1:00 – Movie: “Papa’s Delicate Condition”
3:00 – Popeye
3:30 – Speed Racer
4:00 – Mickey Mouse Club
4:30 – Gilligan’s Island

KERA-13 (PBS)
PM
5:00 – Sesame Street (cont. from 4:30)
5:30 – Zoom
6:00 – Psychology 48
6:30 – Newsroom
7:00 – Consumer Survival Kit
7:30 – MD
8:00 – Nova
9:00 – Bill Moyer’s Foreign Report
10:00 – Black Journal
11:00 – Newsroom
11:30 – ABC Captioned News
AM
7:00 – Psychology 48
7:30 – Government 48
8:00 – English 48
8:30 – Misterogers Neighborhood
9:00 – Sesame Street
10:00 – Electric Company
10:30 – Villa Allegre
11:00 – Science III
11:15 – All Sing
11:30 – Math Factory
11:45 – Inside Out
PM
12:00 – Guten Tag
12:15 – Songs & Dancers
12:30 – Lands & People
12:45 – Our Country
1:00 – Inside Out
1:15 – Science IV
1:30 – Electric Company
2:00 – Math Factory
2:15 – Butterflies
2:30 – Inside Education
3:00 – America
3:30 – Forum II
4:00 – Misterogers Neighborhood
4:30 – Sesame Street

KXTX-39 (Ind., now Telemundo)
PM
5:00 – Star Trek
6:00 – Hogan’s Heroes
6:30 – Gomer Pyle
7:00 – 700 Club Part 1
8:00 – 700 Club Part 2
8:30 – Good News
9:00 – Teach-in
10:00 – The Big Valley
11:00 – Bonanza
AM
7:00 – Bugs Bunny
7:30 – Mighty Mouse
8:00 – Bozo
8:30 – Dennis the Menace
9:00 – Hazel
9:30 – Father Knows Best
10:00 – Courtship of Eddie’s Father
10:30 – The Lucy Show
11:00 – Andy Griffith
11:30 – Gourmet
PM
12:00 – 700 Club Part 1
1:00 – 700 Club Part 2
1:30 – Manna
2:00 – A New Day
2:30 – Bugs Bunny
3:00 – Little Rascals
3:30 – Hazel
4:00 – Father Knows Best
4:30 – Room 222

 

[newsmark]

KTVT-11 (Ind., now CBS)
9:00 – Movie: The Yellow Rolls Royce
10:00 – News
10:15 – Movie (Title unreadable)
11:30 – Movie “Sullivan’s Empire”

The 10:15 movie would have been a continuation of the 9:00 movie. 11 interrupted the movie for 15 minutes of news.
(During the summer, however, 11 ran movies at 8:00 for 2 hours.)

 

[bpatrick]

Is "Gourmet" on Channel 39 David Wade? He was based
in Dallas (was on Channel 4 for several years, IIRC), and
I remember a syndicated show he did that I usually found
on Sunday afternoons. Or is this Graham Kerr? Personal
note: I always thought two things about Wade: (1) he
looked a bit like Louis Nye, and (2) he wasn't as funny as Kerr.

The schedules, for the most part, resemble what we were getting
when we moved out there in the fall of '76, at least in the daytime;
I notice only one daytime pre-emption, and it's on Channel 8: "The
Money Maze," which ABC had problems clearing in a lot of places
(including Atlanta). When I lived there, Channel 8 carried the entire
ABC daytime lineup; the only deviation was on Channel 5, which carried
"Sanford And Son" at 3:30 PM instead of 9 AM, and didn't carry Jim Perry's
version of "Card Sharks."

Channel 8 did do a wholesale rescheduling of its 5-7 PM block before we
moved there. By the fall of 1976, it was "News 8 At 5" with Bob Gooding,
followed by ABC News (Reasoner/Walters) at 5:30, "News 8 At 6" (Tracy/
Iola/Troy/Verne), and "Bowling For Dollars" at 6:30. Also, the afternoon
movie was cut to 90 minutes (3:30-5) in order to accommodate "Edge Of
Night" at 3, although after I was long gone, Channel 8 went back to a 3 PM
movie (I think at one point they were starting their news at 4:30).

And I'll never forget, that fall of '76, ABC had "The Don Ho Show" at 11 AM.
My mom loved variety shows, so she'd watch every morning. The funny part
(to me, at least) is that our Chihuahua liked it even better than she did! (But
then again, he couldn't wait for me to turn on "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
Show" on Saturday mornings; all I had to say were the magic words, "Hey, Mike,
you wanna watch Bugs?"). And if you think I'm crazy, I read the other day that
a dog has a vocabulary of about 160 words, while a cat's is only about 40. But
I digress....

 

[newsmark]

These listings apprently didn't account for any shows before 7 AM. I'm pretty sure many of the stations were on before 7.

I don't recall whether 8 was still running Murray Cox RFD or if it had become Country Daybreak by then.

They also aired Operation: Lift in the earning morning hours, a local education program.

I think 4 ran Sunrise Semester and I think 5 may have already had a short newscast at 6:45 AM by this time.

 

[azumanga]

Is "Gourmet" on Channel 39 David Wade? Or is this Graham Kerr?

Might have been the former -- I don't know if repeats of "The Galloping Gourmet" were still in circulation at the time, as the series went out of production in 1971 following Graham's accident, and around this time (1975), Graham was (or was about to) hosting his daily 5-minute series, "Take Kerr".

 

[TexasTom]

KTVT-11 (Ind., now CBS)
9:00 – Movie: The Yellow Rolls Royce
10:00 – News
10:15 – Movie (Title unreadable)
11:30 – Movie “Sullivan’s Empire”

The 10:15 movie would have been a continuation of the 9:00 movie. 11 interrupted the movie for 15 minutes of news.
(During the summer, however, 11 ran movies at 8:00 for 2 hours.)

Splitting a prime time movie like this must have been standard practice for Gaylord Broadcasting owned stations back in the seventies, because they did the same thing with the 9 PM prime time movie on KSTW channel 11 in Tacoma, WA.

 

[Mike Stroud]

Is "Gourmet" on Channel 39 David Wade? He was based
in Dallas (was on Channel 4 for several years, IIRC), and
I remember a syndicated show he did that I usually found
on Sunday afternoons. Or is this Graham Kerr? Personal
note: I always thought two things about Wade: (1) he
looked a bit like Louis Nye, and (2) he wasn't as funny as Kerr.

The schedules, for the most part, resemble what we were getting
when we moved out there in the fall of '76, at least in the daytime;
I notice only one daytime pre-emption, and it's on Channel 8: "The
Money Maze," which ABC had problems clearing in a lot of places
(including Atlanta). When I lived there, Channel 8 carried the entire
ABC daytime lineup; the only deviation was on Channel 5, which carried
"Sanford And Son" at 3:30 PM instead of 9 AM, and didn't carry Jim Perry's
version of "Card Sharks."

Channel 8 did do a wholesale rescheduling of its 5-7 PM block before we
moved there. By the fall of 1976, it was "News 8 At 5" with Bob Gooding,
followed by ABC News (Reasoner/Walters) at 5:30, "News 8 At 6" (Tracy/
Iola/Troy/Verne), and "Bowling For Dollars" at 6:30. Also, the afternoon
movie was cut to 90 minutes (3:30-5) in order to accommodate "Edge Of
Night" at 3, although after I was long gone, Channel 8 went back to a 3 PM
movie (I think at one point they were starting their news at 4:30).

And I'll never forget, that fall of '76, ABC had "The Don Ho Show" at 11 AM.
My mom loved variety shows, so she'd watch every morning. The funny part
(to me, at least) is that our Chihuahua liked it even better than she did! (But
then again, he couldn't wait for me to turn on "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
Show" on Saturday mornings; all I had to say were the magic words, "Hey, Mike,
you wanna watch Bugs?"). And if you think I'm crazy, I read the other day that
a dog has a vocabulary of about 160 words, while a cat's is only about 40. But
I digress....

Aw, bp, you named your Chihuahua "Mike"? How touching .... (HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!)

 

[Stanislav]

Is "Gourmet" on Channel 39 David Wade? He was based
in Dallas (was on Channel 4 for several years, IIRC), and
I remember a syndicated show he did that I usually found
on Sunday afternoons. Or is this Graham Kerr? Personal
note: I always thought two things about Wade: (1) he
looked a bit like Louis Nye, and (2) he wasn't as funny as Kerr.

The schedules, for the most part, resemble what we were getting
when we moved out there in the fall of '76, at least in the daytime;
I notice only one daytime pre-emption, and it's on Channel 8: "The
Money Maze," which ABC had problems clearing in a lot of places
(including Atlanta). When I lived there, Channel 8 carried the entire
ABC daytime lineup; the only deviation was on Channel 5, which carried
"Sanford And Son" at 3:30 PM instead of 9 AM, and didn't carry Jim Perry's
version of "Card Sharks."

Channel 8 did do a wholesale rescheduling of its 5-7 PM block before we
moved there. By the fall of 1976, it was "News 8 At 5" with Bob Gooding,
followed by ABC News (Reasoner/Walters) at 5:30, "News 8 At 6" (Tracy/
Iola/Troy/Verne), and "Bowling For Dollars" at 6:30. Also, the afternoon
movie was cut to 90 minutes (3:30-5) in order to accommodate "Edge Of
Night" at 3, although after I was long gone, Channel 8 went back to a 3 PM
movie (I think at one point they were starting their news at 4:30).

And I'll never forget, that fall of '76, ABC had "The Don Ho Show" at 11 AM.
My mom loved variety shows, so she'd watch every morning. The funny part
(to me, at least) is that our Chihuahua liked it even better than she did! (But
then again, he couldn't wait for me to turn on "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
Show" on Saturday mornings; all I had to say were the magic words, "Hey, Mike,
you wanna watch Bugs?"). And if you think I'm crazy, I read the other day that
a dog has a vocabulary of about 160 words, while a cat's is only about 40. But
I digress....

Aw, bp, you named your Chihuahua "Mike"? How touching .... (HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!)

If it's a chihuahua, shouldn't it be "Miguel?"

 

[bpatrick]

"Miguelito" (little Michael). Actually, his name was
Mikey; we named him after the kid in the cereal
commercial. (My present cat, Bart, is named after
Bart Simpson.) Mikey was a big TV fan; he would
watch almost hypnotized when a horse race was on,
and he was fascinated with Ben Vereen as Chicken
George in "Roots."

 

[easttxtv]

Source: The Mid-Cities Daily News (Hurst, TX)

KDFW-4 (CBS, now Fox)
PM
6:30 – Young 4 Country (?)

I assume by the "?" that the OP isn't sure what this show is (or is about). IIRR, this show was a spinoff/outgrowth of 4 Country Reporter, a local show about average folks and their stories that ran for many years on Ch.4 but would later move to WFAA/8 as 8 Country Reporter (and syndicated to other markets as Texas Country Reporter). Over the years, the people/stories would grow to encompass all of Texas; for a season or 2, the show jumped the state line for a few profiles in neighboring states (a move the show truly could have done without...Texas is plenty big enough for hundreds of stories and profiles). As for Young 4 Country, I don't remember watching it, but I think it was aimed at kids and young adults. I'm pretty sure it didn't last very long.

 

[bpatrick]

I remember in the time period I lived in Dallas (1976-79),
"4 Country Reporter" was on Saturdays at 6:30, and I
don't remember "Young 4 Country." Usually at that time
I watched "Inside Television With Mike Shapiro" on Channel
8 (and no wisecracks about my dog, he was probably eating).

 

[easttxtv]

I remember in the time period I lived in Dallas (1976-79),
"4 Country Reporter" was on Saturdays at 6:30, and I
don't remember "Young 4 Country." Usually at that time
I watched "Inside Television With Mike Shapiro" on Channel
8 (and no wisecracks about my dog, he was probably eating).

I remember Inside Television, or Let Me Speak to the Manager as it was originally known. I actually met Mr. Shapiro once in a hallway in his post-retirement days in the building where he kept an office. I don't remember the exact exchange, but he was quite cordial. 4 Country Reporter was a favorite show of my mother's so I got to see it many times.

Sounds like your dog has discriminating taste in TV shows....

 

[bpatrick]

I also met Mike Shapiro once. I was talking to g.m. Dave Lane
about the job market, and Mr. Shapiro came into the office while
I was there. I agree; he was very cordial, and Lane was a class
act all the way. I still think the two of them, and news director
Marty Haag, built a first-class operation at Channel 8; it's a shame
all of them have passed on.

Actually, my dog's favorite shows were Bugs Bunny and horse racing.