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Retro: Hawaii Prime Time May 1975

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briancraig

I've always been fascinated by tv schedules from Hawaii. The only one I've ever seen posted here was from 1972, so here is the prime time lineup for the last week of May 1975. I always thought Mobile's CBS station WKRG had a strange way of shuffling prime time programs around but in Hawaii all 3 network affiliates do not follow the network.

Source: TV Guide

KHON (2) NBC

Saturday

6:00--Bob Crane
6:30--Emergency
7:30--Sanford & Son
8:00--Movie: "Heat of Anger" not the NBC Saturday Night Movie being shown on the Mainland which was Great Escape Part 1
9:30--Movie: "Nevada Smith" not the NBC Saturday Night Movie being shown on the Mainland which was Great Escape Part 1

Sunday

6:30--World of Disney
7:30--Let's Make A Deal
8:00--McCloud
10:00--Petrocelli

Monday

7:00--Movie: "One Of Our Own" Mainland NBC was showing Great Escape Part 2
9:00--The Rockford Files

Tuesday

6:30--NBC World Premiere Movie "Death Among Friends"
8:00--The World At War
9:00--Police Story

Wednesday

7:00--Sunshine
7:30--Chico & The Man
8:00--Movie: "The Seven Minutes" not being shown by NBC on the mainland

Thursday

6:30--Bighorn (pre-empts The Mac Davis Show)
7:30--Let's Make A Deal
8:00--Smothers Brothers
9:00--Police Woman

Friday

7:00--Little House On The Prairie
8:00--Mod Squad
9:00--Lucas Tanner

KITV (4) ABC

Saturday

6:30--Pilot Film: "Where's The Fire" (pre-empts Kung Fu which is an hour show, so that might be a mistake)
7:00--Caribe
8:00--ABC Saturday Night Movie "Duel In the Sun"

Sunday

6:30--Six Million Dollar Man
7:30--Star Trek
8:30--ABC Sunday Night Movie "Friendly Persuasion"

Monday

6:30--S.W.A.T.
7:30--That's My Mama
8:00--Movie: "Return To Peyton Place" not an ABC Movie

Tuesday

6:30--ABC Tuesday Night Movie "A Cry In The Wilderness"
8:00--The Rookies
9:00--Marcus Welby M.D.

Wednesday

6:30--Vaudeville
7:30--ABC Wednesday Night Movie "Death Cruise"
9:00--Get Christie Love

Thursday

6:30--Happy Days
7:00--Documentary "Primal Man" (pre-empts Barney Miller and Karen)
8:00--Streets Of San Francisco
9:00--Harry O

Friday

6:30--Night Stalker
7:30--Ghost & Mrs. Muir
8:00--Hot L Baltimore
8:30--Odd Couple
9:00--Baretta

KGMB (9) CBS

Saturday

6:30--Mannix
7:30--Barnaby Jones
8:30--Movie: "The Manipulator"

Sunday

5:00--Documentary "Magnificent Monsters Of The Deep" (pre-empts Tony Orlando & Dawn)
6:00--The Waltons
7:00--Bold Ones
8:00--G.E. Theater "Larry"
9:30--Pilot Film "Stat"

Monday

7:00--Bewitched
7:30--Good Times
8:00--Partridge Family
8:30--Bob Newhart
9:00--All In The Family
9:30--The Jeffersons

Tuesday

6:00--NBA on CBS Basketball Playoff (it doesn't say but my guess is Hawaii Five-O usually ran at 7)
8:00--I Dream Of Jeannie
8:30--Special Bacharach In The Park (pre-empts Carol Burnett)
9:30--Cher

Wednesday

6:30--M*A*S*H
7:00--Mission: Impossible
8:00--Cannon
9:00--Kojak

Thursday

6:30--Emmy Awards (pre-empts regular programming)
8:30--Movie "The Vikings" not the CBS Thursday Night Movie

Friday

6:00--NBA on CBS Basketball Playoff
8:00--Mary Tyler Moore
8:30--The FBI
9:30--Ironside
 
I remember reading that prime time was a couple of weeks behind the mainland nets, even Carson was behind by a week or two, and the network vening news ran the next morning in the pre-sattelite days.
 
gr8oldies said:
I remember reading that prime time was a couple of weeks behind the mainland nets, even Carson was behind by a week or two, and the network vening news ran the next morning in the pre-sattelite days.
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IIRC, the network shows were on tapes flown into Hawaii from LA and aired one week later. The satellite was only used for live sports (NFL football started at 7 AM) and breaking news.
 
Like most people, I've only spent time in Hawaii as a tourist - first time in 1973. I remember seeing shows that I'd already seen at home on the mainland a couple of weeks before. It seemed like the schedules were scrambled too - so it wasn't just that everything was delayed a week or two on the same schedule. Programs often ran on different days, if I remember correctly.

There was also a bit of counter-programming. Prime-time was early (7:00 - 10:00 like central-mountain) on two affiliates. But the third affiliate (don't remember which one) ended network programming a half hour earlier and ran late news at 9:30.

I also recall that all the news anchors wore suits and ties on the early news, but went casual with bright Hawaiian short-sleeve shirts on the late news.
 
gr8oldies said:
... the network vening news ran the next morning in the pre-sattelite days.
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I read here awhile back, in one of the old schedules, that some stations ran the national newscasts in late-night, after the talk shows or late movie, instead or (or in addition to) the morning.

I also read somewhere that there was a "Hawaii edition" of the CBS Evening News in the 1970s -- if so, how was that done? I'm already aware of the West Coast edition with Terry Drinkwater providing the latest news since the eastern edition, but what about Hawaii?
 
Note the absence, on CBS affiliate KGMB, of a famous show connected with the Islands. Any reason "Five-O" was preempted that week?
 
azumanga said:
I also read somewhere that there was a "Hawaii edition" of the CBS Evening News in the 1970s -- if so, how was that done? I'm already aware of the West Coast edition with Terry Drinkwater providing the latest news since the eastern edition, but what about Hawaii?
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I doubt the networks ever created a special edition just for the islands, but I do recall reading that at one time, the local affiliates out there would do inserts/cut-ins during the broadcast when they had updated information on the several hours old news being reported.
 
Somewhere in my collection I have a 1978 Hawaii edition of TV Guide. I need to dig it out one of these days.

Despite being behind in the the time zone game, remembering that 1978 TV Guide, Hawaii was actually way out in front when it comes to certain televsion related things like cable TV and VCRs. Not only did I noticed a lot of ads for VCRs but even stores who rented the flicks too, and this was in 1978 !!!! I believe even the local cable system at the time even had their own movie channel...and HBO.
 
I hope you can post a lineup for the Hawaii stations from this edition when you get a chance. I would like to see what they did with their schedules during the week, especially KHET and the original KIKU (now KHNL).
 
mleach said:
Somewhere in my collection I have a 1978 Hawaii edition of TV Guide. I need to dig it out one of these days.

Despite being behind in the the time zone game, remembering that 1978 TV Guide, Hawaii was actually way out in front when it comes to certain televsion related things like cable TV and VCRs. Not only did I noticed a lot of ads for VCRs but even stores who rented the flicks too, and this was in 1978 !!!! I believe even the local cable system at the time even had their own movie channel...and HBO.
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1978 wasn't that early for movie channels. I paid extra for Showtime on cable as early as 1976 - in Marin County (SF Bay Area). It was Viacom Cable in those days, and they offered only 12 channels - just what they could put on your rotary dial. But for Showtime, Viacom provided a set-top box with 2 buttons (on/off). Pushing the button switched you to Showtime, which ran only theatrical films from a year or more previous.

Showtime was the only choice, not HBO. Viacom owned Showtime (still does, actually) so they were only providing their own in-house service.

This was pre-VCR, so no movie-rentals were available yet, and the only other choice was to wait until the Big 3 networks would run them - with commercials and heavily censored. So it was really great to see movies that I had missed in the theatre - uncut and commercial free.

On the downside, I remember that they rarely had any big hits, and ran a lot of "B" movie clunkers. At least initially it wasn't a 24 hour service - just afternoon and evening.
 
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