Retro: Evansville-Paducah Sat, Apr 29, 1972

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide-Evansville/Paducah edition
The edition's 2 PBS channels, WSIU 8-Carbondale and the KET network, didn't air Saturday programming at the time

WSIL 3-ABC Harrisburg
7:00 Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down!
7:30 Road Runner
8:00 Funky Phantom
8:30 Jackson 5ive
9:00 Bewitched
9:30 Lidsville
10:00 Curiosity Shop (music and dance, with host Shirley Jones and the UCLA Marching Band)
11:00 Jonny Quest
11:30 Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
noon American Bandstand (guests Dennis Coffey & the Detroit Guitar Band; and Al Green)
1:00 Movie: TBA
2:00 Byron Nelson Classic golf
4:00 National Sprint Car Championship (plus presentation of the Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year Award)
5:30 Roller Derby
6:30 Lawrence Welk (musical tour of the world)
7:30 Movie "The Death of Me Yet"
9:00 Sixth Sense "With This Ring I Thee Kill"
10:00 ABC News
10:15 Movie "From the Terrace"

WPSD 6-NBC Paducah
7:00 RFD-TV (bw)
7:30 Atop the Fence Post
7:55 News (Tom Butler)
8:00 Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Pink Panther
9:00 Jetsons
9:30 Barrier Reef
10:00 Take a Giant Step "People" (hosted by Barbara Walters, who was then Today's co-host)
11:00 Mr. Wizard "That Invisble Center of Gravity"
11:30 Bugaloos
noon Insight
12:30 Campus Close-Up
1:00 Baseball Pre-Game
1:15 Baseball: Chicago White Sox-Detroit (alt game: Minnesota-NY Yankees)
4:00 Little Man (profile of 6' 1" LA Laker Gail Goodrich)
4:30 File 6
4:45 Commercial Film
5:00 Wilburn Brothers (guests LaWanda Jackson and Billy Crash Craddock)
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 News/Weather/Sports
6:30 Accent
7:00 Emergency!
8:00 Movie "Journey to the Far Side of the Sun"
10:00 News/Weather/Sports
10:30 Movie "The Ipcress File"

WTVW 7-ABC Evansville
7:00 Agriscope
7:30 4H in Action
8:00 Funky Phantom
8:30 Jackson 5ive
9:00 Bewitched
9:30 Lidsville
10:00 Curiosity Shop
11:00 Jonny Quest
11:30 Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
noon American Bandstand
1:00 Point of View
1:30 Championship Wrestling
2:30 Byron Nelson Classic golf
4:00 National Sprint Car Championship
5:30 Porter Wagoner (guests Wendy Bagwell and the Sunliters)
6:00 News/Weather/Sports
6:30 Lawrence Welk (as ch 3)
7:30 Movie "The Death of Me Yet"
9:00 Sixth Sense "With This Ring I Thee Kill"
10:00 ABC News
10:15 News/Weather/Sports
10:30 Movie "Chief Crazy Horse"
12:10 Commitment
12:15 Movie "At Sword's Point"

KFVS 12-CBS Cape Girdardeau
6:00 Sunrise Semester "Latin-American Literature"
6:30 News/Weather
7:00 Bugs Bunny
7:30 Scooby-Doo, Where are You?
8:00 Harlem Globetrotters
8:30 Help, It's the Hair Bear Bunch!
9:00 Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm
9:30 Archie's TV Funnies
10:00 Sabrina the Teenage Witch
10:30 Josie & the Pussycats
11:00 Monkees
11:30 You are There "The Record Ride for the Pony Express" (May 12, 1880: recalling "Pony Bob" Haslam's 36 hr, 380 mile ride through Indian territory)
noon CBS Children's Film Festival "Lost in Pajamas" (a 1966 Czech import about a 10-yr-old Russian girl who gets lost in rural Czechoslovakia)
1:00 ABA Playoff: New York-Virginia, Game 5; or championship round action
3:00 Movie: TBA
5:00 News/Weather/Sports
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 Hee Haw (guests Tammy Wynette and George Jones)
7:00 All in the Family
7:30 Mary Tyler Moore "He's Not Heavy, He's My Brother"
8:00 Dick Van Dyke
8:30 Arnie
9:00 Mission: Impossible "The Connection"
10:00 News/Weather/Sports
10:30 Virginian

WFIE 14-NBC Evansville
6:30 Farm Report (bw)
7:00 Dr. Dolittle
7:30 Deputy Dawg
8:00 Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Pink Panther
9:00 Jetsons
9:30 Barrier Reef
10:00 Take a Giant Step "People"
11:00 Mr. Wizard "That Invisible Center of Gravity"
11:30 Movie "Charlie Chan at the Race Track" (bw)
1:00 Baseball Pre-Game
1:30 Baseball (same coverage as ch 6)
4:00 Wally's Workshop
4:30 Music Place
5:00 Bill Anderson
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Item
6:30 Project 14
7:00 Emergency!
8:00 Movie "Journey to the Far Side of the Sun"
10:00 News/Weather/Sports
10:30 Movie "The Perils of Pauline"

WEHT 25-CBS Evansville
7:00 Bugs Bunny
7:30 Scooby-Doo, Where are You?
8:00 Harlem Globetrotters
8:30 Help, It's the Hair Bear Bunch!
9:00 Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm
9:30 Archie's TV Funnies
10:00 Sabrina the Teenage Witch
10:30 Josie & the Pussycats
11:00 Monkees
11:30 You are There "The Record Ride for the Pony Express"
noon CBS Children's Film Festival "Lost in Pajamas"
1:00 ABA Playoff (as ch 12)
3:00 Current Comment
3:30 Insight
4:00 F Troop
4:30 Lassie
5:00 Death Valley Days
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 Fishin' Hole
6:30 This is Your Life
7:00 Let's Make a Deal
7:30 Mary Tyler Moore "He's Not Heavy, He's My Brother"
8:00 Dick Van Dyke
8:30 Arnie
9:00 Mission: Impossible "The Connection"
10:00 News/Weather/Sports
10:15 Movie "The Strange Case of Doctor Rx" (bw)
11:30 Hugh Hefner
12:30 With This Ring (interesting lead-in there ; was this produced at WJBK Detroit then?)

WDXR 29-Ind Paducah
10:00 Bible Story Time
10:30 Movie "Hurricane Smith"
noon Baptist Church Service
1:00 Movie "Copper Canyon"
2:30 Monroes
3:30 I Led Three Lives (bw)
4:00 Science Fiction Theatre "The Voice" (bw)
4:30 All-Star Wrestling
5:30 Sea Hunt
6:00 Roller Games
8:00 Avengers
9:00 Hugh Hefner (guests Frankie Laine, the Cowsills, Marty Allen, and Sue Raney; listings don't indicate if this was the guest line-up in Evansville)
10:00 News/Weather/Sports
10:30 Championship Wrestling
11:30 Twilight Zone "Kick-the-Can" (bw)

 

[firepoint525]

Tom Butler was at WPSD channel 6 seemingly forever!

 

[bpatrick]

Was WNIN/9, the PBS station in Evansville, not listed then?

 

[Bluenoser]

Was WNIN/9, the PBS station in Evansville, not listed then?

Not at that time...the only Evansville channels listed were ch 7, 14 and 25.

 

[RyanHoward]

Please post listings for Sunday 4/30/1972 and Wednesday 5/3/1972.

 

[radiorob2.0]

Was WNIN/9, the PBS station in Evansville, not listed then?

WNIN wasn't on the air as of this date.

 

[Tim-In-Houston]

KFVS 12-CBS Cape Girdardeau
6:00 Sunrise Semester "Latin-American Literature"
6:30 News/Weather

Unless this is a repeat of the night before, it amazes me that even 41 years ago KFVS had a Saturday morning newscast. There weren't many large markets (if any) that had weekend newscasts much less weekend mornings. And even if a repeat, that feat alone is worth noting considering the expensive of video tape during the time period.

 

[azumanga]

Was WNIN/9, the PBS station in Evansville, not listed then?

WNIN wasn't on the air as of this date.

According to Wikipedia (take with grain of salt), WNIN signed on in March 1970:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNIN_(TV)

 

[radiorob2.0]

Was WNIN/9, the PBS station in Evansville, not listed then?

WNIN wasn't on the air as of this date.

According to Wikipedia (take with grain of salt), WNIN signed on in March 1970:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNIN_(TV)

If you read the rest of the entry...

WNIN signed on for the first time on March 5, 1970 owned by the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation. After a few months as a member of National Educational Television, it joined PBS in October.

Despite having the advantage of being on one of two VHF frequencies in the Tri-State, EVSC soon found itself in over its head running a full-service public television station. Within a year, WNIN was $59,000 in the red. Unable to raise enough money to close the gap, it took WNIN off the air in 1972.

 

[Bluenoser]

Was WNIN/9, the PBS station in Evansville, not listed then?

WNIN wasn't on the air as of this date.

According to Wikipedia (take with grain of salt), WNIN signed on in March 1970:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNIN_(TV)

If you read the rest of the entry...

WNIN signed on for the first time on March 5, 1970 owned by the Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation. After a few months as a member of National Educational Television, it joined PBS in October.

Despite having the advantage of being on one of two VHF frequencies in the Tri-State, EVSC soon found itself in over its head running a full-service public television station. Within a year, WNIN was $59,000 in the red. Unable to raise enough money to close the gap, it took WNIN off the air in 1972.

Both Wikipedia and WNIN's website (from which most of Wiki's article matches to the letter) implies that it went back on the air in 1973...