Retro: Hagerstown, Maryland Tuesday January 6, 1970 ( early days of WHAG-TV )

[mleach]

Hagerstown, Maryland TV listings
Tuesday, January 6, 1970
From...WHAG-TV NBC 25 in Hagerstown, Maryland ( their ad in the 1/6/70
Hagerstown Daily Mail newspaper )

WHAG had just signed on a few days earlier..of course they didn't feature the listings in the ad from Washington's WRC-TV and Baltimore's WBAL-TV and oddly the ad didn't feature the listings for Washington's WTOP or WDCA, Baltimore's WJZ and Public Television either. Scared of the competition? Better yet..why include WMAL, WTTG and WMAR in the first place?


WHAG-TV 25 ( NBC )...
7:00 Today
9:00 Romper Room ( from Hagerstown !!! )
10:00 It Takes Two
10:30 Concentration
11:00 Sale of the Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
Noon Jeopardy
12:30 Who, What or Where
1:00 Divorce Court
1:30 Life With Linkletter
2:00 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
3:30 Bright Promises
4:00 Name Droppers
4:30 TV 25 Nichols Discount City* Movie ( "Interlude" )
6:00 The Valley News with Glenn Presgraves
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley
7:00 Popeye & Yogi Bear
7:30 I Dream of Jeannie
8:00 Debbie Reynolds
8:30 Julia
9:00 First Tuesday
10:00 First Tuesday
11:00 The Valley News with Glenn Presgraves
11:30 Johnny Carson


WTTG channel 5 Washington ( Ind. )
6:00 Religious Program
6:45 Education
7:00 Your Morning Exercise
7:30 Dennis The Menace
8:00 Wonderama with Bob McAllister
9:00 Truth Or Consquences
9:30 Pay Cards ( Art James )
10:00 Here's Barbara
10:45 Movie 5 ( "Flaming Gold" )
Noon Maury Povich
2:00 Galloping Gourmet
2:30 Outer Limits
3:30 My Favorite Martian
4:00 Mr. Ed
4:30 The Flintstones
5:00 Star Trek
6:00 My Favorite Martian
6:30 I Love Lucy
7:00 Dick Van Dyke
7:30 Truth Or Consquences
8:00 To Tell The Trith
8:30 David Frost
10:00 10:00 News with Alan Smith, John Wills & Maury Povich
11:00 Metromedia Movie ( "Breakout" )
1:00 Divorce Court


WMAL channel 7 Washington ( ABC )
7:00 Bozo The Clown
8:00 The Magic Door
8:30 Shelia Thomas
9:00 Mike Douglas
10:30 The Now Women
10:55 Paul Harvey
11:00 Girl Talk
11:30 Bewitched
Noon Total News 7
12:30 That Girl
1:00 Dream House
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2:00 Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3:00 General Hosptial
3:30 One Life To Live
4:00 Dark Shadows
4:30 Dennis Whorley
5:30 Total News 7 Final
6:00 ABC News
6:30 The Game Game
7:00 What's My Line
7:30 The Mod Squad
8:30 Movie Of The Week ( "Honeymoon with a Stranger" )
10:00 Marcus Welby
11:00 Total News 7
11:30 Joey Bishop
sign off with Paul Harvey


WMAR channel 2 Baltimore ( CBS )
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 CBS News and Newswatch 2
8:00 Captain Kanagroo
9:00 Romper Room
9:30 Newswatch 2
9:35 Dialing for Dollars/Stu Kerr
10:00 To Tell The Truth
10:30 Beverly Hillbilles
11:00 Peyton Place
11:30 Love Of Life
Noon Where The Heart Is
12:25 Newswatch 2
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1:00 The Woman's Angle with Sylvia Scott
1:30 As The World Turns
2:00 Love Is Many Of Splendord Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3:00 Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4:00 The Flintstones
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5:00 Twlight Movie ( "Personal Touch" )
6:30 CBS News
7:00 Newswatch 2
7:30 The Nutcracker Suite
8:00 Perry Andrews
9:00 Red Skelton
9:30 Governor and J.J.
10:00 To Be Announced
10:30 CBS Reports
11:00 Newswatch 2
11:30 Merv Griffin

*Nichols Discount City was a regional discount department store from the mid 60's until 1988 when they were bought out by the now defunct drug store chain Phar-Mor.

 

[Tim L]

I remember Nichols Discount City in rural Dover/New Philadelphia, Ohio-20 miles south of Canton in the 1970's..

 

[DToTheJ]

WMAL channel 7 Washington ( ABC )
4:30 Dennis Whorley

I could be wrong here, but I believe the gentleman's name is Dennis Wholey.

 

[bpatrick]

It is Dennis Wholey. Before he went to PBS, he
had a talk show syndicated (I believe) by Taft
Broadcasting; I remember the show around 1969
on WBRC Birmingham, then owned by Taft. I
prefer to avoid religious issues but I remember
one Saturday night (Wholey aired in Birmingham
after "The Hollywood Palace," when ABC didn't
program the 10:30/9:30 period) he verbally destroyed
Madalyn Murray O'Hair. Next day at church everyone
was talking about it and making a hero out of Wholey.

Somehow it reminds me of the time Timothy Leary,
on "The Dick Cavett Show," said that the Bible (I'm not
sure these are his exact words but they're close enough)
"was written by a bunch of guys on an LSD trip." Cavett
responded, "Dr. Leary, you're full of c***."

 

[azumanga]

It is Dennis Wholey. Before he went to PBS, he
had a talk show syndicated (I believe) by Taft
Broadcasting...

Actually, between his stint on WKRC and his 1980s PBS talk show, he hosted a weekday talk show for WXYZ-TV in Detroit, "AM Detroit", throughout most of the 1970s, before moving to WTVS as 10PM news anchor (and later, "PBS Latenight" from WTVS).

 

[bpatrick]

Since I'm not from Detroit I didn't know about
his stint on Channel 7; the next I heard about
him after his Taft show was "PBS Latenight."

One thing he did where he was definitely out
of his element was the short-lived ABC primetime
game show "The Generation Gap" in 1969. Jack
Barry was asked to host the last five shows (ABC
was hoping the ratings would go up enough to
earn the show a daytime slot--didn't happen),
but it was the beginning of Barry's comeback,
since he hadn't been seen on network television
since the scandals. We know what happened:
"The Joker's Wild" put him back on the map in '72,
and he and Dan Enright proceeded to rebuild their
company and make more money than they did in
the '50s.