As in "Eye-Uh-Way, where the tall corn grows." All right, enough of the foolishness, here, we're talking about the Hawkeye State, Iowa. This is a partial tribute in a manner of speaking to the upcoming political caucuses in that state two days after New Year's. But also it's a look at what had to be the epitome of Middle American tastes at the time. (Contrast some of the shows here with the L.A. retro I did yesterday and you'll see what I mean.)
As per usual, parentheses stand for black bullets, and brackets for white.
Des Moines, Iowa:
[8] KRNT (CBS; now KCCI on digital 8; PSIP same)
[11] KDIN (PBS; Iowa Public Television station; now digital 11; PSIP same)
[13] WHO (NBC; now digital 13; PSIP same)
Ames, Iowa:
[5] WOI (ABC; now digital 5; PSIP same)
Fort Dodge, Iowa:
[21] KVFD (NBC; station closed in 1977; now defunct)
Quad Cities, Illinois/Iowa:
(4) WHBF (CBS; now digital 4; PSIP same)
(6) WOC (NBC; now KWQC on digital 36; PSIP 6)
(8) WQAD (ABC; now digital 38; PSIP 8)
Dubuque, Iowa:
(40) KDUB (ABC; now KFXB, a religious Independent on digital 43; PSIP 40)
Iowa City, Iowa:
(12) KIIN (PBS; Iowa Public Television station; now digital 12; PSIP same)
Cedar Rapids, Iowa:
(2) WMT (CBS; now KGAN on digital 51; PSIP 2)
(9) KCRG (ABC; now digital 9; PSIP same)
Waterloo, Iowa:
(7) KWWL (NBC; now digital 7; PSIP same)
Kirksville, Missouri/Ottumwa, Iowa:
(3) KTVO (ABC primary, NBC, CBS secondary; now sole ABC affiliate [with CBS subchannel] on digital 33; PSIP 3)
MORNING
6:30 a.m.
(2) [8] Sunrise Semester--"Personality Theory and Creativity"
6:55
(4) Great Bible Stories
(6) Market Report--probably local farm show
7:00
(2) (4) [8] CBS Morning News--John Hart, anchor
(6) (7) [13] [21] Today Show--Frank McGee, Barbara Walters
7:30
(3) Music for All America--program origin unknown
[5] Astroboy--perhaps local children's show?
(8) Davey and Goliath
7:40
(4) WHBF News
7:45
(8) Georgia on Q--"Q" standing for WQAD; probably local women's show
8:00
(2) (4) [8] Captain Kangaroo--Today, the Captain visits Washington, D.C. and Williamsburg, Virginia
(3) Sesame Street
[5] Underdog--"No need to fear ..."
8:25
(9) Market Report--probably local farm show (certainly not the same as WOC above)
8:30
[5] Magic Window--probably local children's show
(8) Consultation--probably local public affairs
(9) New Zoo Revue
[11] (12) Canterbury Tales
9:00
(2) (4) Joker's Wild
(3) Curiosity Shop--tape-delayed from ABC Sunday morning lineup
(6) (7) [13] [21] Dinah's Place--Brian Keith and wife, guests
[8] Mary Brubaker--local women's show
(9) Morning Show--local
[11] (12) Sesame Street
9:30
(2) (4) [8] Price is Right--gaining strength in its original timeslot
[5] Mike Douglas (60-minute version)
(6) (7) [13] [21] Concentration--about a month more to go before the end of the 15-year road for this game, thanks mainly to "Price" above
(9) Tennessee Tuxedo
10:00
(2) (4) [8] Gambit
(3) Mantrap--feminist-themed syndie women's talkfest
(6) (7) [13] [21] Sale of the Century--Joe Garagiola hosted; still with the three-contestant configuration before changing a few weeks later to two married couples instead
(8) Romper Room (in Davenport, it was "Miss Jean")
(9) All My Children--tape-delay from ABC (pretty common time slot to put "AMC" in when a Central Time Zone wanted to run news at Noon)
10:30
(2) (4) [8] Love of Life
(3) [5] (8) (9) (40) Bewitched--ABC rerun
(6) (7) [13] [21] Hollywood Squares--can't you just hear Peter Marshall speed-read the game's rules at the beginning of each show? (one of the most indelible memories from my younger days, for some strange reason)
11:00
(2) (4) [8] Where the Heart Is--not where the ratings were, though; next month, CBS would sic "Young and the Restless" on an unawares public
(3) [5] (8) (9) (40) Password--still with the original rules
(6) (7) [13] [21] Jeopardy!--original version
[11] (12) instructional programming until 3 p.m.
11:25
(2) Exercise with Marlyce--apparently local
(4) [8] CBS News--Douglas Edwards, anchor
11:30
(2) (3) (4) [8] Search for Tomorrow
[5] (8) (9) (40) Split Second
(6) (7) [13] [21] Who, What or Where Game--a/k/a "3 W's"
11:55
(6) WOC News (25 minutes)
(7) Today with Beth--local women's show
[13] [21] NBC News--Floyd Kalber, anchor
AFTERNOON
12:00 p.m.
(2) WMT News
(3) KTVO News
(4) It's Your Bet--syndie game that went through a succession of hosts during its four-year run
[5] Noon Report--local
(8) (40) All My Children--have gone off and left home since the show's cancellation last Fall (!!)
[8] KRNT News
(9) KRCG News
[13] WHO News
[21] KVFD News
12:15
(2) Farm News--local
(3) Town and Country--probably local women's show
[13] Cartoons--unspecified
12:20
(6) Fashions in Sewing--origination uncertain
12:30
(2) (3) (4) [8] As the World Turns--the globe finally came to a stop in 2010
[5] Crafts with Katy--WHAT?? Turning down "Let's Make a Deal" for THAT??? The station must have had a pre-emption quota ...
(6) (7) Three on a Match
(8) (9) (40) Let's Make a Deal--so they won't do it in Ames and Des Moines, so what? (!)
[13] Movie--"Jeopardy," 1953 (nope, not a documentary about the game show, but a Barbara Stanwyck/Barry Sullivan flick about a hostage situation--WHO continued for years to program a movie in this slot, probably a holdover from the early days when NBC didn't program this time of day; station was one of the last in the country to clear "Days of Our Lives," and may have never cleared "The Doctors," FWIK)
[21] Dr. Joyce Brothers (five-minute syndie offering; for the next 90 minutes, KVFD had to fill its sked because it got its NBC feed from WHO, which didn't resume on the network until 2)
12:35
[21] Trading Post--local "swap-shop" show (kinda hard to describe them, but they were popular on small-town radio in the Midwest and the South, where people would call in and advertise items they had for sale or garage sales or things like that)
1:00
(2) (4) [8] Guiding Light
(3) [5] (8) (9) (40) Newlywed Game--"From Hollywood, in color, it's ..."
(6) (7) Days of Our Lives--only permitted in eastern Iowa at the time
[21] Joanne Carson's VIPs--she had already divorced Johnny by this point, in one of the first big celebrity splits of the era
1:30
(2) (4) [8] Edge of Night--one of the biggest boo-boos CBS ever made in daytime programming was shoving this soap ahead an hour from 3:30 Eastern, when a large number of men were home to watch the crime-driven serial
(3) [5] (8) (9) (40) Dating Game--by this point, the "good-bye" kiss (as well as a different closing theme) had been instituted as a gimmick to keep viewers (it didn't work--by July it was gone)
(6) (7) Doctors--"The drama dedicated to the brotherhood of healing," as announced by Mel Brandt at the start of each broadcast
[21] Mantrap
2:00
(2) (4) [8] Love is a Many Splendored Thing--in-house CBS sudser that never performed to high expectations
(3) [5] (8) (9) (40) General Hospital--this coming January 13, it will become ABC's only remaining soap, with the cancellation of "One Life to Live"
(6) (7) [13] [21] Another World--"And, now, the continuing story of ..."
2:30
(2) (4) [8] Secret Storm--anybody remember much about this sudser? (I don't)
(3) [5] (8) (9) (40) One Life to Live
(6) (7) [13] [21] Return to Peyton Place
3:00
(2) [8] Vin Scully Show--famed Los Angeles Dodgers/later NBC broadcaster's second attempt at daytime; the first was the 1969-70 NBC game "It Takes Two;" he never did it again after this two-month flop
(3) (9) Love, American Style--half-hour edited ABC rerun
(4) Mike Douglas (60-minute version)
[5] Flintstones
(6) (7) [13] [21] Somerset
(8) Georgia on Q--apparently back for an afternoon engagement (see 7:45 a.m. above)
[11] (12) Canterbury Tales
(40) Movie--"Duffy's Tavern," 1945
3:30
(2) Dr. Max--probably local children's show (a few were still around, but they were sure dying out after the FCC ruling prohibiting hosts from pitching products)
(3) All My Children--tape-delayed from ABC
[5] (9) Gilligan's Island (different episodes)
(6) Cap'n Ernie--almost certainly local children's show
(7) Virginian
(8) Green Acres
[8] Munsters
[11] (12) Lilias, Yoga and You
[13] Floppy--local children's show
[21] New Zoo Revue
4:00
(3) Split Second--tape-delayed from ABC (strangely, this was listed as black-and-white, while "AMC" wasn't)
(4) Big Valley
[5] Daniel Boone
(8) Munsters
[8] I Love Lucy
(9) Star Trek--"Kirk jeopardizes the lives of his men when he intervenes in a society where life is valued below combat and personal integrity"
[11] (12) Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
[13] Merv Griffin (90-minute version)
[21] Eve's Kitchen--probably local cooking show
4:30
(2) I Dream of Jeannie
(3) Let's Make a Deal--tape-delayed from ABC (in color)
(6) To Tell the Truth
(8) Petticoat Junction
[8] Perry Mason
[11] (12) Sesame Street
[21] Stump the Stars--a/k/a "Pantomime Quiz," this was a syndie revival of a 1950s network game, produced during the 1969-70 season
(network news info courtesy of Vanderbilt TV News Archive: http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/)
5:00
(2) (6) Truth or Consequences (probably different episodes)
(3) KTVO News
(4) Gilligan's Island
[5] I Dream of Jeannie
(7) Green Acres
(8) (9) (40) ABC Evening News--Howard K. Smith, Harry Reasoner
[21] People in Today's News--probably local
5:25
[5] WOI News
5:30
(2) (4) [8] CBS Evening News--Walter Cronkite
(3) [5] ABC Evening News
(6) (7) [13] [21] NBC Nightly News--John Chancellor
(8) Perry Mason
(9) KRCG News
[11] (12) What's New
(40) KDUB News
EVENING
6:00
(2) WMT News
(3) KTVO News
(4) WHBF News
[5] Truth or Consequences
(6) WOC News
(7) KWWL News
[8] KRNT News
(9) National Geographic Special--documentary about the Salmon River in Idaho
[11] (12) Carrascolendas--similar to "Villa Alegre;" aimed at Spanish-speaking children
[13] WHO News
[21] KVFD News
(40) Love, American Style--tape-delayed from ABC (daytime rerun)
6:25
(6) Comment--local editorial
6:30
(2) [8] To Tell the Truth--apparently same episode on both stations
(3) [21] Bill Anderson--country-singer's half-hour showcase (different episodes)
(4) Wait Till Your Father Gets Home--one of the few cartoons Hanna-Barbera did for adults after "The Flintstones"
[5] Parent Game--one of the also-rans in the Chuck Barris stable
(6) I Dream of Jeannie
(7) (8) Dragnet (different episodes)
[11] (12) Victory at Sea--"D-Day"
[13] This Is Your Life
(40) Sports Show--apparently local
7:00
(2) (4) [8] Gunsmoke--18th season
(3) [5] (8) (9) (40) Rookies--one of the first big Aaron Spelling hits
(6) (7) [13] [21] Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In--last season
[11] (12) Firing Line--despite the noble topic, "Should local TV stations be responsible for network news content?," this was basically a rant by Nixon operative Clay Whitehead, bitching about "liberal bias" against the administration (this was probably taped months earlier before Watergate broke wide open, which was about this time--Whitehead couldn't have gotten away with it after that)
8:00
(2) (4) [8] Here's Lucy
(3) [5] (8) (9) (40) Movie--"Riot," 1969
(6) (7) [13] [21] Movie--"The Alamo," 1960 (part two; first part was shown two days before)
[11] (12) Evening at Pops--Roberta Flack, guest
8:30
(2) (4) [8] Doris Day Show--last season (and, boy, was she glad--she didn't want to do it in the first place)
9:00
(2) (4) [8] Bill Cosby--his variety hour
[11] (12) Of Lands and Seas
10:00
(2) WMT News
(3) KTVO News
(4) WHBF News
[5] WOI News
(6) WOC News
(7) KWWL News
(8) WQAD News
[8] KRNT News
(9) KRCG News
[11] (12) Consultation--the only non-news alternative at this hour
[13] WHO News
[21] KVFD News
(40) KDUB News
10:30
(2) (4) [8] Movie--"The Glass Bottom Boat," 1966
(3) (9) (40) Dick Cavett--Harlem Globetrotters, guests
[5] Dimension 5--local public affairs
(6) (7) [13] [21] Tonight Show--Glen Campbell, Robert Klein, guests
(8) Dragnet
[11] (12) Norman Corwin Presents--A Wikipedia article describing him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Corwin
11:00
(8) Movie--"To Paris with Love," English; 1955
[11] (12) Fanfare--documentary about John Philip Sousa
12:00 a.m.
(7) Combat!
12:50
(8) Opportunity Line--probably local employment bulletin board
1:00
(2) Last Word--probably local public affairs (or possibly sign-off devotional)
1:20
(8) WQAD News
As per usual, parentheses stand for black bullets, and brackets for white.
Des Moines, Iowa:
[8] KRNT (CBS; now KCCI on digital 8; PSIP same)
[11] KDIN (PBS; Iowa Public Television station; now digital 11; PSIP same)
[13] WHO (NBC; now digital 13; PSIP same)
Ames, Iowa:
[5] WOI (ABC; now digital 5; PSIP same)
Fort Dodge, Iowa:
[21] KVFD (NBC; station closed in 1977; now defunct)
Quad Cities, Illinois/Iowa:
(4) WHBF (CBS; now digital 4; PSIP same)
(6) WOC (NBC; now KWQC on digital 36; PSIP 6)
(8) WQAD (ABC; now digital 38; PSIP 8)
Dubuque, Iowa:
(40) KDUB (ABC; now KFXB, a religious Independent on digital 43; PSIP 40)
Iowa City, Iowa:
(12) KIIN (PBS; Iowa Public Television station; now digital 12; PSIP same)
Cedar Rapids, Iowa:
(2) WMT (CBS; now KGAN on digital 51; PSIP 2)
(9) KCRG (ABC; now digital 9; PSIP same)
Waterloo, Iowa:
(7) KWWL (NBC; now digital 7; PSIP same)
Kirksville, Missouri/Ottumwa, Iowa:
(3) KTVO (ABC primary, NBC, CBS secondary; now sole ABC affiliate [with CBS subchannel] on digital 33; PSIP 3)
MORNING
6:30 a.m.
(2) [8] Sunrise Semester--"Personality Theory and Creativity"
6:55
(4) Great Bible Stories
(6) Market Report--probably local farm show
7:00
(2) (4) [8] CBS Morning News--John Hart, anchor
(6) (7) [13] [21] Today Show--Frank McGee, Barbara Walters
7:30
(3) Music for All America--program origin unknown
[5] Astroboy--perhaps local children's show?
(8) Davey and Goliath
7:40
(4) WHBF News
7:45
(8) Georgia on Q--"Q" standing for WQAD; probably local women's show
8:00
(2) (4) [8] Captain Kangaroo--Today, the Captain visits Washington, D.C. and Williamsburg, Virginia
(3) Sesame Street
[5] Underdog--"No need to fear ..."
8:25
(9) Market Report--probably local farm show (certainly not the same as WOC above)
8:30
[5] Magic Window--probably local children's show
(8) Consultation--probably local public affairs
(9) New Zoo Revue
[11] (12) Canterbury Tales
9:00
(2) (4) Joker's Wild
(3) Curiosity Shop--tape-delayed from ABC Sunday morning lineup
(6) (7) [13] [21] Dinah's Place--Brian Keith and wife, guests
[8] Mary Brubaker--local women's show
(9) Morning Show--local
[11] (12) Sesame Street
9:30
(2) (4) [8] Price is Right--gaining strength in its original timeslot
[5] Mike Douglas (60-minute version)
(6) (7) [13] [21] Concentration--about a month more to go before the end of the 15-year road for this game, thanks mainly to "Price" above
(9) Tennessee Tuxedo
10:00
(2) (4) [8] Gambit
(3) Mantrap--feminist-themed syndie women's talkfest
(6) (7) [13] [21] Sale of the Century--Joe Garagiola hosted; still with the three-contestant configuration before changing a few weeks later to two married couples instead
(8) Romper Room (in Davenport, it was "Miss Jean")
(9) All My Children--tape-delay from ABC (pretty common time slot to put "AMC" in when a Central Time Zone wanted to run news at Noon)
10:30
(2) (4) [8] Love of Life
(3) [5] (8) (9) (40) Bewitched--ABC rerun
(6) (7) [13] [21] Hollywood Squares--can't you just hear Peter Marshall speed-read the game's rules at the beginning of each show? (one of the most indelible memories from my younger days, for some strange reason)
11:00
(2) (4) [8] Where the Heart Is--not where the ratings were, though; next month, CBS would sic "Young and the Restless" on an unawares public
(3) [5] (8) (9) (40) Password--still with the original rules
(6) (7) [13] [21] Jeopardy!--original version
[11] (12) instructional programming until 3 p.m.
11:25
(2) Exercise with Marlyce--apparently local
(4) [8] CBS News--Douglas Edwards, anchor
11:30
(2) (3) (4) [8] Search for Tomorrow
[5] (8) (9) (40) Split Second
(6) (7) [13] [21] Who, What or Where Game--a/k/a "3 W's"
11:55
(6) WOC News (25 minutes)
(7) Today with Beth--local women's show
[13] [21] NBC News--Floyd Kalber, anchor
AFTERNOON
12:00 p.m.
(2) WMT News
(3) KTVO News
(4) It's Your Bet--syndie game that went through a succession of hosts during its four-year run
[5] Noon Report--local
(8) (40) All My Children--have gone off and left home since the show's cancellation last Fall (!!)
[8] KRNT News
(9) KRCG News
[13] WHO News
[21] KVFD News
12:15
(2) Farm News--local
(3) Town and Country--probably local women's show
[13] Cartoons--unspecified
12:20
(6) Fashions in Sewing--origination uncertain
12:30
(2) (3) (4) [8] As the World Turns--the globe finally came to a stop in 2010
[5] Crafts with Katy--WHAT?? Turning down "Let's Make a Deal" for THAT??? The station must have had a pre-emption quota ...
(6) (7) Three on a Match
(8) (9) (40) Let's Make a Deal--so they won't do it in Ames and Des Moines, so what? (!)
[13] Movie--"Jeopardy," 1953 (nope, not a documentary about the game show, but a Barbara Stanwyck/Barry Sullivan flick about a hostage situation--WHO continued for years to program a movie in this slot, probably a holdover from the early days when NBC didn't program this time of day; station was one of the last in the country to clear "Days of Our Lives," and may have never cleared "The Doctors," FWIK)
[21] Dr. Joyce Brothers (five-minute syndie offering; for the next 90 minutes, KVFD had to fill its sked because it got its NBC feed from WHO, which didn't resume on the network until 2)
12:35
[21] Trading Post--local "swap-shop" show (kinda hard to describe them, but they were popular on small-town radio in the Midwest and the South, where people would call in and advertise items they had for sale or garage sales or things like that)
1:00
(2) (4) [8] Guiding Light
(3) [5] (8) (9) (40) Newlywed Game--"From Hollywood, in color, it's ..."
(6) (7) Days of Our Lives--only permitted in eastern Iowa at the time
[21] Joanne Carson's VIPs--she had already divorced Johnny by this point, in one of the first big celebrity splits of the era
1:30
(2) (4) [8] Edge of Night--one of the biggest boo-boos CBS ever made in daytime programming was shoving this soap ahead an hour from 3:30 Eastern, when a large number of men were home to watch the crime-driven serial
(3) [5] (8) (9) (40) Dating Game--by this point, the "good-bye" kiss (as well as a different closing theme) had been instituted as a gimmick to keep viewers (it didn't work--by July it was gone)
(6) (7) Doctors--"The drama dedicated to the brotherhood of healing," as announced by Mel Brandt at the start of each broadcast
[21] Mantrap
2:00
(2) (4) [8] Love is a Many Splendored Thing--in-house CBS sudser that never performed to high expectations
(3) [5] (8) (9) (40) General Hospital--this coming January 13, it will become ABC's only remaining soap, with the cancellation of "One Life to Live"
(6) (7) [13] [21] Another World--"And, now, the continuing story of ..."
2:30
(2) (4) [8] Secret Storm--anybody remember much about this sudser? (I don't)
(3) [5] (8) (9) (40) One Life to Live
(6) (7) [13] [21] Return to Peyton Place
3:00
(2) [8] Vin Scully Show--famed Los Angeles Dodgers/later NBC broadcaster's second attempt at daytime; the first was the 1969-70 NBC game "It Takes Two;" he never did it again after this two-month flop
(3) (9) Love, American Style--half-hour edited ABC rerun
(4) Mike Douglas (60-minute version)
[5] Flintstones
(6) (7) [13] [21] Somerset
(8) Georgia on Q--apparently back for an afternoon engagement (see 7:45 a.m. above)
[11] (12) Canterbury Tales
(40) Movie--"Duffy's Tavern," 1945
3:30
(2) Dr. Max--probably local children's show (a few were still around, but they were sure dying out after the FCC ruling prohibiting hosts from pitching products)
(3) All My Children--tape-delayed from ABC
[5] (9) Gilligan's Island (different episodes)
(6) Cap'n Ernie--almost certainly local children's show
(7) Virginian
(8) Green Acres
[8] Munsters
[11] (12) Lilias, Yoga and You
[13] Floppy--local children's show
[21] New Zoo Revue
4:00
(3) Split Second--tape-delayed from ABC (strangely, this was listed as black-and-white, while "AMC" wasn't)
(4) Big Valley
[5] Daniel Boone
(8) Munsters
[8] I Love Lucy
(9) Star Trek--"Kirk jeopardizes the lives of his men when he intervenes in a society where life is valued below combat and personal integrity"
[11] (12) Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
[13] Merv Griffin (90-minute version)
[21] Eve's Kitchen--probably local cooking show
4:30
(2) I Dream of Jeannie
(3) Let's Make a Deal--tape-delayed from ABC (in color)
(6) To Tell the Truth
(8) Petticoat Junction
[8] Perry Mason
[11] (12) Sesame Street
[21] Stump the Stars--a/k/a "Pantomime Quiz," this was a syndie revival of a 1950s network game, produced during the 1969-70 season
(network news info courtesy of Vanderbilt TV News Archive: http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/)
5:00
(2) (6) Truth or Consequences (probably different episodes)
(3) KTVO News
(4) Gilligan's Island
[5] I Dream of Jeannie
(7) Green Acres
(8) (9) (40) ABC Evening News--Howard K. Smith, Harry Reasoner
[21] People in Today's News--probably local
5:25
[5] WOI News
5:30
(2) (4) [8] CBS Evening News--Walter Cronkite
(3) [5] ABC Evening News
(6) (7) [13] [21] NBC Nightly News--John Chancellor
(8) Perry Mason
(9) KRCG News
[11] (12) What's New
(40) KDUB News
EVENING
6:00
(2) WMT News
(3) KTVO News
(4) WHBF News
[5] Truth or Consequences
(6) WOC News
(7) KWWL News
[8] KRNT News
(9) National Geographic Special--documentary about the Salmon River in Idaho
[11] (12) Carrascolendas--similar to "Villa Alegre;" aimed at Spanish-speaking children
[13] WHO News
[21] KVFD News
(40) Love, American Style--tape-delayed from ABC (daytime rerun)
6:25
(6) Comment--local editorial
6:30
(2) [8] To Tell the Truth--apparently same episode on both stations
(3) [21] Bill Anderson--country-singer's half-hour showcase (different episodes)
(4) Wait Till Your Father Gets Home--one of the few cartoons Hanna-Barbera did for adults after "The Flintstones"
[5] Parent Game--one of the also-rans in the Chuck Barris stable
(6) I Dream of Jeannie
(7) (8) Dragnet (different episodes)
[11] (12) Victory at Sea--"D-Day"
[13] This Is Your Life
(40) Sports Show--apparently local
7:00
(2) (4) [8] Gunsmoke--18th season
(3) [5] (8) (9) (40) Rookies--one of the first big Aaron Spelling hits
(6) (7) [13] [21] Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In--last season
[11] (12) Firing Line--despite the noble topic, "Should local TV stations be responsible for network news content?," this was basically a rant by Nixon operative Clay Whitehead, bitching about "liberal bias" against the administration (this was probably taped months earlier before Watergate broke wide open, which was about this time--Whitehead couldn't have gotten away with it after that)
8:00
(2) (4) [8] Here's Lucy
(3) [5] (8) (9) (40) Movie--"Riot," 1969
(6) (7) [13] [21] Movie--"The Alamo," 1960 (part two; first part was shown two days before)
[11] (12) Evening at Pops--Roberta Flack, guest
8:30
(2) (4) [8] Doris Day Show--last season (and, boy, was she glad--she didn't want to do it in the first place)
9:00
(2) (4) [8] Bill Cosby--his variety hour
[11] (12) Of Lands and Seas
10:00
(2) WMT News
(3) KTVO News
(4) WHBF News
[5] WOI News
(6) WOC News
(7) KWWL News
(8) WQAD News
[8] KRNT News
(9) KRCG News
[11] (12) Consultation--the only non-news alternative at this hour
[13] WHO News
[21] KVFD News
(40) KDUB News
10:30
(2) (4) [8] Movie--"The Glass Bottom Boat," 1966
(3) (9) (40) Dick Cavett--Harlem Globetrotters, guests
[5] Dimension 5--local public affairs
(6) (7) [13] [21] Tonight Show--Glen Campbell, Robert Klein, guests
(8) Dragnet
[11] (12) Norman Corwin Presents--A Wikipedia article describing him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Corwin
11:00
(8) Movie--"To Paris with Love," English; 1955
[11] (12) Fanfare--documentary about John Philip Sousa
12:00 a.m.
(7) Combat!
12:50
(8) Opportunity Line--probably local employment bulletin board
1:00
(2) Last Word--probably local public affairs (or possibly sign-off devotional)
1:20
(8) WQAD News
