Retro: Dallas/Ft. Worth Mon., June 14, 1976

[bpatrick]

From TV Guide, Dallas-Fort Worth Edition:

KDFW Ch. 4 (CBS)

6 AM Summer Semester ("Great Transition," about changes in society since 15,000 B.C.)
6:30 Not For Women Only (Barbara Walters moderates the first of five discussions on adultery.)
7 AM CBS News (Bruce Morton/Hughes Rudd)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Price Is Right
10 AM Gambit
10:30 Love Of Life
10:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
11 AM Young And The Restless
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
12 N News
12:30 As The World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2 PM All In The Family
2:30 Match Game '76 (Richard Dawson, Dick Gautier, Mary Ann Mobley, Brett Somers, Betty White, Charles Nelson Reilly)
3 PM Tattletales (Calvin Chrane and Susan Howard, Christopher and Carole Stone, Donald H. Ross and Patti Deutsch)
3:30 Merv Griffin (Jimmy Stewart, Rosalind Russell, director Joshua Logan)
5 PM News
5:30 Match Game PM (Bonnie Franklin, Scoey Mitchlll, Patti Deutsch, Richard Dawson, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly)
6 PM CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
6:30 News
7 PM Rhoda
7:30 Phyllis
8 PM All In The Family (rerun of the episode where Gloria and Meathead's baby is born)
8:30 Maude
9 PM Medical Center
10 PM News
10:30 Honeymooners
11 PM CBS Movie: "Mayerling" (Ch. 4 delayed the CBS late movie a week.)
1:40 News

KXAS Ch. 5 (NBC)

6:30 Good Morning (Ed Pewitt)
7 AM Today (Jim Hartz; in "New York Report" at the front of the program section there's a mention of Tom Brokaw's taking over as host)
9 AM Sanford And Son (begins daytime reruns today)
9:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes (Barbara Eden, Dick Gautier, Shecky Greene, George Hamilton, Michele Lee, Carol Wayne)
10 AM Wheel Of Fortune
10:30 Hollywood Squares (Sandy Duncan, Donna Fargo, Mike Farrell, Wayland and Madame, Bernadette Peters, Elke Sommer, McLean Stevenson, Paul Williams, Paul Lynde)
11 AM The Fun Factory (debut of a part-game, part-variety show with host Bobby Van)
11:30 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
12 N News
12:30 Days Of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2 PM Another World
3 PM Somerset
3:30 Dinah! (Marty Allen, Mary Kay Place, Mel Tillis, weight doctor Neil Solomon, the Lockers dancers)
5 PM Weekday (Bobbie Wygant/Chip Moody)
5:30 NBC News (John Chancellor)
6 PM News
6:30 Wild Kingdom
7 PM John Davidson (Tony Orlando, Charo, Norm Crosby, last show of the series)
8 PM Joe Forrester
9 PM Jigsaw John
10 PM News
10:30 Tonight Show (McLean Stevenson subs for Johnny; Roger Miller, the Jackson 5)
12 M Tomorrow (topic: vaudeville)

WFAA Ch. 8 (ABC)

6:15 Murray Cox, R.F.D.
6:30 A.M. Show
8 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Mike Douglas (co-host Hal Linden; a salute to Broadway includes "Chicago" cast members Chita Rivera, Jerry Orbach, and Gwen Verdon; "My Fair Lady" costars Christine Andreas and Ian Richardson)
10 AM Peppermint Place
10:30 Happy Days
11 AM Let's Make A Deal
11:30 All My Children
12 N Ryan's Hope (these two soaps are airing in-pattern)
12:30 Rhyme And Reason (Rick Hurst, Shari Lewis, Marion Ross, Ronnie Schell, Jimmie Walker, Jesse White)
1 PM $20,000 Pyramid (Gary Burghoff, Phyllis George)
1:30 Break The Bank (Joan Collins, Jack Carter, Robert Hegyes, Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, Marilyn Michaels, Cathy Rigby, Avery Schreiber, Liz Torres, Alice Ghostley)
2 PM General Hospital
2:30 One Life To Live
3 PM Edge Of Night
3:30 Movie: "To Paris With Love"
5 PM News
5:30 ABC News (Harry Reasoner)
6 PM News
6:30 Bowling For Dollars (Verne Lundquist, then Ch. 8's sports director, hosts)
7 PM Viva Valdez
7:30 Baseball: Royals-Tigers or Cubs-Reds (the Metroplex probably saw Royals-Tigers)
10 PM News (time approximate)
10:30 Movie: "The Trackers"
12:30 News
1 AM At Issue
1:30 Getting Married (Cloris Leachman looks at unique weddings around the country, including singer Doug Kershaw's wedding in the Astrodome, delay from 10:30 PM)

KTVT Ch. 11 (Ind.)

6:40 News
7 AM Slam Bang Theatre
8 AM Comedy Capers
8:30 Dusty's Treehouse
9 AM My Favorite Martian
9:30 Night Gallery
10 AM Untouchables
11 AM Perry Mason
12 N News
12:30 Cartoon Carnival
1 PM Movie: "Attack Of The 50-Foot Woman"
3 PM Popeye
3:30 Banana Splits
4 PM Batman
4:30 Leave It To Beaver
5 PM I Love Lucy
5:30 Dick Van Dyke
6 PM Bewitched
6:30 Adam-12
7 PM Mission: Impossible
8 PM Family Affair
8:30 Beverly Hillbillies
9 PM Movie: "Quentin Durward" (news interrupts the movie at 10 PM)
11:15 Movie: "Muscle Beach Party"
1 AM News

KERA Ch. 13 (PBS)

7:30 Black Perspective On The News
8 AM Lilias, Yoga And You
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Villa Alegre
11 AM nothing given; I assume in-school programs
4 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Newsroom
7 PM U.S.A.: People And Politics
7:30 Movie: "The Younger Generation" (from 1929)
9 PM Evening At Symphony (the Boston Symphony performs Paul Hindemith's "Mathis der Mahler" and Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3)
10 PM Inner Tennis (topic: "Body Awareness")
10:30 Robert MacNeil Report

KXTX Ch. 39 (Ind.)

6:30 News
7 AM Tennessee Tuxedo
7:25 Spirit Of Independence
7:30 Mighty Mouse
8 AM Lassie
8:30 Lone Ranger
9 AM Father Knows Best
9:30 The Lucy Show
10 AM Hazel
10:30 Life In The Spirit
11 AM This Is The Life
11:25 Paul Harvey
11:30 700 Club
1 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
1:30 The Bold Ones (The Law Enforcers)
2:30 Bugs Bunny And Friends
3 PM Mickey Mouse Club
3:30 Rin Tin Tin
4 PM Father Knows Best
4:30 Brady Bunch
5 PM Big Valley
6 PM Star Trek
7 PM Room 222
7:30 Andy Griffith
8 PM 700 Club
9:30 Life In The Spirit
10 PM Warren Roberts Presents
11 PM Major Adams, Trailmaster

 

[Ultimajock]

KXAS Ch. 5 (NBC)

11 AM The Fun Factory (debut of a part-game, part-variety show with host Bobby Van)
11:30 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman

...at 11:30 Central, NBC debuted another part-game, part-variety show, The Gong Show. KXAS turned that one down ;-) ...

 

[gwise96557]

I was in Wichita falls for around 4 years and got the north Texas TV Guide. I was surprised to see that KXAS would not show Disneys program on Sunday night either.

 

[Ccook55]

...at 11:30 Central, NBC debuted another part-game, part-variety show, The Gong Show. KXAS turned that one down ;-) ...

Same here in Atlanta. WSB (then NBC, now ABC) cleared Fun Factory on a delay to 9:30 AM but passed up on Gong Show.

 

[bpatrick]

KXAS was airing daytime "Gong" at 11:30 AM by the fall, when "MH2" shifted to a late-night slot on Ch. 4. WFAA carried syndicated "Gong" on Saturdays at 5:30 during the 1976-77 season (when Gary Owens hosted), but KXAS picked it up in the fall of '77 and aired it on Fridays at 6:30.

In Atlanta, WATL/36 picked up daytime "Gong" (I don't remember the exact date) but, ironically, WSB carried nighttime "Gong" Fridays at 7:30 in the 1977-78 season.

 

[bpatrick]

I was in Wichita falls for around 4 years and got the north Texas TV Guide. I was surprised to see that KXAS would not show Disneys program on Sunday night either.

When did you live in Wichita Falls, because this issue of TV Guide shows Disney on KXAS Sunday at 6 (CT), and the show was on the whole time I lived in Plano (1976-79). Ch. 8 pre-empted ABC's 6 PM show until "The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries" debuted in 1977. "60 Minutes" on Ch. 4 was the top-rated program in the market (except in the fall, when nothing beat the Cowboys), even before it became number one nationally.

 

[bpatrick]

I was in Wichita falls for around 4 years and got the north Texas TV Guide. I was surprised to see that KXAS would not show Disneys program on Sunday night either.

When did you live in Wichita Falls, because this issue of TV Guide shows Disney on KXAS Sunday at 6 (CT), and the show was on the whole time I lived in Plano (1976-79). Ch. 8 pre-empted ABC's 6 PM show until "The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries" debuted in 1977. "60 Minutes" on Ch. 4 was the top-rated program in the market (except in the fall, when nothing beat the Cowboys), even before it became number one nationally.

 

[gregg75]

Nice variety on the independent stations......back when independent really stood for something!!!

 

[Ccook55]

In Atlanta, WATL/36 picked up daytime "Gong" (I don't remember the exact date) but, ironically, WSB carried nighttime "Gong" Fridays at 7:30 in the 1977-78 season.

As I recall, it was that summer. After NBC canceled it (7/21/78), WATL picked up Match Game '78 (which WAGA bumped two years earlier) from CBS.

 

[easttxtv]

Nice variety on the independent stations......back when independent really stood for something!!!

DFW was very fortunate that they had 11 and 39 as long as they did (prior to KTVT flipping to CBS and KXTX getting bought out by and flipping to Telemundo). And they did have lots of choices, comedy, kids stuff, old movies, westerns, wrestling, just about anything off-network could be found between the 2 of them. The stations were also good to have for those in neighboring markets that had no indies themselves then--they had a choice too, granted their local cable system carried one or both of them or the viewer had a really good antenna to pick up DFW with from their area.

 

[gwise96557]

I was in the Air Force and stationed at Sheppard AFB from March 1975-Aug 1975, 1 Month training school in April 1976, and again in Jul 1979- Dec 1982. I would get the TV Guide from the BX. It was the north Tx edition which included multiple smaller markets besides Dallas. KFDX carried it and a broadcast ID bug from WOAI San Antonio would occasionaly pop up (This was before the sattlite system tha the stations now use). TV guide (That verson) to my memory listed the Muppets in its place. until the program left NBC and went to CBS. I did'nt know if it was an error on the TV Guide or not it was so unusual to me that it just stuck in mid for years.

 

[gwise96557]

When did you live in Wichita Falls, because this issue of TV Guide shows Disney on KXAS Sunday at 6 (CT), and the show was on the whole time I lived in Plano (1976-79). Ch. 8 pre-empted ABC's 6 PM show until "The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries" debuted in 1977. "60 Minutes" on Ch. 4 was the top-rated program in the market (except in the fall, when nothing beat the Cowboys), even before it became number one nationally.

I was in the Air Force and stationed at Sheppard AFB from March 1975-Aug 1975, 1 Month training school in April 1976, and again in Jul 1979- Dec 1982. I would get the TV Guide from the BX. It was the north Tx edition which included multiple smaller markets besides Dallas. KFDX carried it and a broadcast ID bug from WOAI San Antonio would occasionally pop up (This was before the satellite system that the stations now use). TV guide (That version) to my memory listed the Muppets in its place. until the program left NBC and went to CBS. I didn't know if it was an error on the TV Guide or not it was so unusual to me that it just stuck in mid for years.

 

[rnigma1]

Were Icky Twerp and the gang still on KTVT's "Slam Bang Theater"? I recall visiting Texas in late 1976 and they ran cartoons and Three Stooges, but no Icky.