Retro: Hagerstown, MD Regional Saturday June 24, 1972 ( Hurricane Agnes )

[mleach]

Hagerstown, Maryland Regional TV Listings
Saturday, June 24, 1972
From The Hagerstown Herald-Mail

**Hurricane Agnes had just slammed the region. Possible reason
for some of the gaps in these listings.

WMAR/Baltimore channel 2 ( CBS )
7:30 Archies TV Funnies
8:00 Bugs Bunny
8:30 Scooby Doo
9:00 It's The Hair Bear Bunch
9:30 Professor Kool
10:00 Pebbles & Bamm Bamm
10:30 Professor Kool
11:00 Sabrina
Noon The Monkees
12:30 You Are There
1:00 NIT Basketball
2:00 Mini College
4:00 Film
5:00 Jerry Reed
6:00 Movie
8:00 All In The Family
8:30 Mary Tyler Moore
9:00 Dick Van Dyke
9:30 Arnie
10:00 Mission: Impossible
11:00 Newswatch
11:30 Movie


WRC/Washington channel 4 ( NBC )
7:30 Across The Fence
8:00 Dr. Doolittle
8:30 Deputy Dawg
9:00 Woody Woodpecker
9:30 Pink Panther
10:00 Jetsons
10:30 Barrier Reef
11:00 Take A Giant Step
Noon Mr. Wizard
12:30 Bugaloos
1:00 360
1:30 Off campus
2:00 Baseball
3:00 Game Of The Week
5:00 David Eaton
6:00 News 4 Washington
6:30 NBC News
7:00 Drama Special
8:00 Emergency
9:00 Saturday Night at the Movies
11:30 News 4 Washington
Mid Movie


WTTG/Washington channel 5 ( Ind. )
7:25 Today In Your Life
7:30 Cisco Kid
8:00 Top Cat
8:30 Batman-Superman
9:00 Banana Splits
10:00 Porky Pig
10:30 Daktari
11:30 Soul Train
12:30 Playhouse 5
2:00 Big Afternoon Movie
3:30 Juvenille Jury
4:00 Untamed World
4:30 Petticoat Junction
5:00 Golf
6:00 I Love Lucy
6:30 Truth or Consquences
7:00 Dick Van Dyke
7:30 I Dream Of jeannie
8:00 Movie
10:00 Ten O'Clock News
11:00 WTTG News Special ( Agnes? )
11:30 Name Of The Game
1:00 Movie


WMAL/Washington channel 7 ( ABC )
7:00 Treehouse Club
7:30 Christophers
8:00 Faith For Today
8:30 New Life In The New Testiment
9:30 Jackson Five
10:00 Bewitched
10:30 Lidsville
11:00 Curiosity Shop
Noon Johnny Quest
12:30 Lancelot Link
1:00 American Bandstand
2:00 Death Valley Days
2:30 Federal City College Forum
3:00 Saturday Matinee
4:30 Arthur Smith
5:00 Wide World Of Sports
7:00 NYPD
7:30 Black On White
8:00 Bewitched
8:30 All America Football Game
11:30 Total Information News
Mid Movie


WGAL/Lancaster, PA channel 8 ( NBC )
6:55 Weather
7:00 Cisco Kid
7:30 Percy Platypus
8:00 8:00 Dr. Doolittle
8:30 Deputy Dawg
9:00 Woody Woodpecker
9:30 Pink Panther
10:00 Jetsons
10:30 Barrier Reef
11:00 Take A Giant Step
Noon Mr. Wizard
12:30 Bugaloos
1:00 Roller Derby
2:00 High & Wild
2:30 Death Valley Days
3:00 Game Of The Week
5:00 Survival
5:30 Porter Wagoner
6:00 News
6:30 NBC News
7:00 National Geographic
8:00 Emergency
9:00 Saturday Night at the Movies
11:30 News Special ( Agnes )
Mid Movie

WTOP/Washington channel 9 ( CBS )
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 Arthur & Company
7:30 So Little Time
8:00 Bugs Bunny
8:30 Scobby Doo
9:00 It's The Hair Bear Bunch
10:00 Pebbles & Bamm Bamm
10:30 Earth Lab
11:00 Sabrina
11:30 Doing-Being
12:00 The Monkees
12:30 You Are There
1:00 NIT Basketball
2:00 Silent Please
2:30 The Saint
4:00 Julie London
5:00 My Three Sons
5:30 Survival
6:00 Eyewitness News ( 60 minutes due to Agnes ? )
7:00 Agronsky & Company
7:30 Rollin On The River
8:00 All In The Family
8:30 Mary Tyler Moore
9:00 Dick Van Dyke
9:30 Arnie
10:00 Mission: Impossible
11:00 Eyewitness News
11;30 Movie
12:45 Flash Gordon
1:00 Movie


WBAL/Baltimore channel 11 ( NBC )
7:30 Christophers
8:00 Learning To Read
8:30 At Home in Maryland
9:00 Garden Living
9:30 Opportunity Live
10:00 Jetsons
10:30 Barrier Reef
11:00 Take A Giant Step
Noon Mr. Wizard
12:30 Bugaloos
1:00 Dr. Doolittle
1:30 A Child is Waiting
2:00 Baseball
3:00 Game of the Week
5:00 Hazel
5:30 Story Theatre
6:00 Pinbusters
7:00 TV11 News
7:30 Stand Up and Cheer
8:00 Emergency
9:00 Saturday Night at the Movies
11:30 TV11 News
Mid Johnny Carson


WJZ/Baltimore channel 13 ( ABC )
6:00 Faith For Today
7:00 Active Ones
7:30 Cartoons
8:00 Jerry Lewis
8:30 Road Runner
9:00 Funky Phantom
9:30 Agnes Coverage?
12:30 Saturday At The Zoo
1:00 Riflelman
1:30 Agnes Coverage
4:30 Death Valley Days
5:00 Wide World of Sports
7:00 Eyewitness News
7:30 Survival
8:00 Bewitched
8:30 All America Football Game
11:30 Eyewitness News
Mid Movie
2:15 Movie


WHAG/Hagerstown channel 25 ( NBC )
****May be off the air due to Hurricane Agnes

8:00 Dr. Doolittle
8:30 Deputy Dawg
9:00 Woody Woodpecker
9:30 Pink Panther
10:00 Jetsons
10:30 Barrier Reef
11:00 Take A Giant Step
Noon Mr. Wizard
12:30 Bugaloos
1:00 Jim & Tammy
2:00 Baseball
3:00 Game Of The Week
5:00 Injured Children
6:00 Nashville Music
7:00 Hee Haw
8:00 Emergency
9:00 Saturday Night at the Movies
11:30 Roller Games


Baltimore channel 67 "Highlites" ( PBS )
Noon French Chef
2:00 Hodgepodge Lodge
2:30 Sesame Street
4:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Masterpiece Theatre

*Despite being "regional" listings the following channels for some unknown reason weren't listed even though all of them at the time
( and in some cases still are ) were available to many viewers in the
Hagerstown "Tri-State" area.

*WSVA channel 3 Harrisonburg,VA
*WJAC channel 6 Johnstown, PA
*WTAJ channel 10 Altoona,PA
*WLYH channel 15 Lebanon,PA
*WDCA channel 20 Washington
*WHP channel 21 Harrisburg,PA
*WETA channel 26 Washington
*WTPA channel 27 Harrisburg,PA
*WSBA channel 43 York, PA

 

[wbhist]

WRC/Washington channel 4 ( NBC )
Mid Movie

From my understanding, WRC's late Saturday night movies went by the banner Saturday Film Festival - only the second station (after New York's WNBC-TV) to use this type of title (though in WNBC's case, it was the Sunday Film Festival). By contrast, KNBC Los Angeles' Saturday night movies had, at one time (c.late 1960's) used the Movie 4 title, and Chicago's WMAQ-TV called their late weekend showcase Movie 5. Would anyone (Tim L, perhaps?) know if Cleveland's WKYC-TV had a late weekend movie at this point, and if so, what was its umbrella title?

 

[ixnay]

WSBA (TV) York is now WPMT Fox 43 per www.fox43.com .

Re Hurricane Agnes, it really did a number in the Schuylkill and Susquehanna Valleys (Nixon flew over Harrisburg in Marine One and compared PA's capital to Venice). Agnes even wiped out the Gwynn Oak amusement park in Baltimore County, MD.

I thank God our household was not affected physically by Agnes and that we didn't have to evacuate (my mom and I lived on relatively high ground away from any valleys).

How did Agnes treat the Potomac Valley? Hagerstown appears to be on high ground (I stayed there one night coming home from a vacation last spring) but on the Potomac itself you have in that area Williamsport, MD, and elsewhere on the upper Potomac you have Brunswick, Harpers Ferry, Hancock, Cumberland, etc. Who remembers Agnes's wrath?

ixnay

 

[mleach]

Re Hurricane Agnes, it really did a number in the Schuylkill and Susquehanna Valleys (Nixon flew over Harrisburg in Marine One and compared PA's capital to Venice). Agnes even wiped out the Gwynn Oak amusement park in Baltimore County, MD.

I thank God our household was not affected physically by Agnes and that we didn't have to evacuate (my mom and I lived on relatively high ground away from any valleys).

How did Agnes treat the Potomac Valley? Hagerstown appears to be on high ground (I stayed there one night coming home from a vacation last spring) but on the Potomac itself you have in that area Williamsport, MD, and elsewhere on the upper Potomac you have Brunswick, Harpers Ferry, Hancock, Cumberland, etc. Who remembers Agnes's wrath?

ixnay

Anges did a number on just about every amusement park in Pennsylvania too except for Kennywood, West View and Waldameer only because those parks was in Pittsburgh and Erie. Hersheypark was just about completely underwater.

The towns along the Potomac were pretty much totally flooded ( in Williamsport the waters actually reached the tops of the street lamps ) and the places where the river wasn't a factor, the very high winds were. Winchester, VA lost a drive-in theatre and part of a Zayre department store because of Agnes while Martinsburg,WV would lose a steak house and a Hardees and many windows & doors at the Hagerstown Valley Mall were blown out with merchandise thrown throughout the parking lot thanks to Agnes.