Retro: Kansas Wed, July 27, 1977

[Bluenoser]

from Family Happiness-Kansas edition
(Network news wasn't indicated)
* The Lucy shows were just listed as "Lucy", so I'm taking a good guess at best as to what Lucy show aired in what market...anyone who has a TVG or supplement from the period, feel free to fill in the blanks

KCKT 2-Great Bend/KARD 3-Wichita (NBC)
5:45 Kansas Today
6:00 PTL Club
7:00 Today
9:00 Dinah Shore
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 It's Everybody's Guess
11:00 Shoot for the Stars
11:30 Chico & the Man
noon News
12:15 Elmer Childress
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 Doctors
2:00 Another World
3:00 Gong Show
3:30 Flintstones
4:00 Brady Bunch
4:30 Emergency One!
5:30 Network & Local News
6:30 Hollywood Squares
7:00 Tut: The Boy King
8:00 CPO Sharkey
8:30 Look Out World
9:00 NBC Reports "Africa's Defiant White Tribe"
10:00 News
10:30 Tonight Show
mid. Tomorrow
1:00 News

WDAF 4-NBC Kansas City
6:00 PTL Club
7:00 Today
9:00 Sanford & Son
9:30 Hollywood Squares
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 It's Anybody's Guess
11:00 Shoot for the Stars
11:30 News
noon Bewitched
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 Doctors
2:00 Another World
3:00 Dinah Shore
4:00 Mike Douglas
5:00 Local/Network News
6:00 Crosswits
6:30 Animal World
7:00 Tut: The Boy King
8:00 CPO Sharkey
8:30 Look Out World
9:00 NBC Reports "Africa's Defiant White Tribe"
10:00 News
10:30 Tonight Show
mid. Tomorrow
1:00 News

KSNB 4-ABC Superior
6:00 PTL Club
8:00 Good Morning America (typo?)
9:00 All My Children
10:00 Happy Days
10:30 Family Feud
11:00 The Better Sex
11:30 Ryan's Hope
noon Noon Show
12:30 Crosswits
1:00 $20,000 Pyramid
1:30 One Life to Live
2:15 General Hospital
3:00 Edge of Night
3:30 Lucy Show
4:00 Tarzan
5:00 News
5:30 I Dream of Jeannie
6:00 News (ABC?)
6:30 To Tell the Truth
7:00 Best of Donny & Marie
8:00 Baretta
9:00 Charlie's Angels
10:00 News
10:30 Rookies
11:35 Wide World

KCMO 5-CBS Kansas City
5:50 Art Linkletter
5:55 TBA
6:25 Sunrise Semester
6:55 Farm Facts
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Phil Donahue
9:30 Price is Right
10:30 Love of Life
11:00 Young & the Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2:00 All in the Family
2:30 Match Game '77
3:00 Joker's Wild
3:30 Brady Bunch
4:00 Movie: TBA
5:30 Local/Network News
6:30 Price is Right
7:00 Good Times
7:30 Busting Loose
8:00 CBS Wednesday Movie "Where the Legends Die"
10:00 News
10:30 Mod Squad
11:30 Wild Wild West
12:30 Movie "In This Our Life"
2:30 News
3:00 Art Linkletter

KHAS 5-NBC Hastings
6:00 700 Club
7:00 Today
9:00 Sanford & Son
9:30 Hollywood Squares
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 It's Anybody's Guess
11:00 Shoot for the Stars
11:30 Chico & the Man
noon News
12:15 Farm Action
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 Doctors
2:00 Another World
3:00 Gong Show
3:30 Liar's Club
4:00 Archies
4:30 Bonanza
5:30 Local/Network News
6:30 Concentration
7:00 Tut: The Boy King
8:00 CPO Sharkey
9:00 NBC Reports "Africa's Defiant White Tribe"
10:00 News
10:30 Tonight Show
mid. Tomorrow

KTVC 6-Ensign/KAYS 7-Hays/KTVH 12-Wichita (CBS)
6:00 (12) Pastor's Study
6:15 (12) Community
6:35 (12) Agriculture
6:45 (6/12) News
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Joyce Livingston
9:30 Price is Right
10:30 Love of Life
11:00 Young & the Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
noon News
12:15 (12) Woman's World
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2:00 All in My Family
2:30 Match Game '77
3:00 Tattletales
3:30 Lucy Show
4:00 Mike Douglas
5:30 Network/Local News
6:30 Mary Tyler Moore
7:00 Good Times
7:30 Busting Loose
8:00 CBS Wednesday Movie "When the Legends Die"
10:00 News
10:30 CBS Late Movie "The Prisoner of Zenda"

KPTS 8-PBS Wichita
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Instructional Programs
3:30 Villa Alegre
4:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Electric Company
5:00 Zoom
5:30 Sesame Street
6:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
7:00 Nova
8:00 Zalmen or the Madness of God
10:00 Variedades Latinas
10:30 Captioned ABC News

KMBC 9-ABC Kansas City
6:30 Good Morning Kansas City
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Kaleidoscope
9:30 I Dream of Jeannie
10:00 Happy Days
10:30 Family Feud
11:00 The Better Sex
11:30 Ryan's Hope
noon News
12:30 All My Children
1:30 One Life to Live
2:15 General Hospital
3:00 Edge of Night
3:30 $20,000 Pyramid
4:00 Partridge Family
4:30 My Three Sons
5:00 Odd Couple
5:30 Local/Network News
6:30 Truth or Consequences
7:00 Best of Donny & Marie
8:00 Baretta
9:00 Charlie's Angels
10:00 News
10:30 Fernwood 2Night
11:00 Rookies
mid. Merv Griffin

KAKE 10-ABC Wichita
6:45 Kansas Scene
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Romper Room
9:30 Lassie
10:00 Happy Days
10:30 Family Feud
11:00 The Better Sex
11:30 Ryan's Hope
noon News
12:30 Green Acres
1:00 $20,000 Pyramid
1:30 One Life to Live
2:15 General Hospital
3:00 Edge of Night
3:30 Andy Griffith
4:00 Gilligan's Island
4:30 My Three Sons
5:00 Local/Network News
6:00 To Tell the Truth
6:30 Partridge Family
7:00 Best of Donny & Marie
8:00 Baretta
9:00 Charlie's Angels
10:00 News
10:30 Rookies
11:35 Wide World

KTWU 11-PBS Topeka
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Electric Company
10:30 Instructional Programs
3:00 Sesame Street
4:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Electric Company
5:00 Zoom
5:30 Sesame Street
6:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
7:00 Nova
8:00 Zalmen or the Madness of God
10:00 Anyone for Tennyson?
10:30 Captioned ABC News

WIBW 13-CBS Topeka
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 I Love Lucy
9:30 Price is Right
10:30 Love of Life
11:00 Young & the Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
noon News
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2:00 All in the Family
2:30 Match Game '77
3:00 Edge of Night
3:30 Emergency One!
4:30 Adam-12
5:00 Local/Network News
6:30 Truth or Consequences
7:00 Good Times
7:30 Busting Loose
8:00 CBS Wednesday Movie "Where the Legends Die"
10:00 News
10:30 CBS Late Movie "The Prisoner of Zenda"
12:30 News

KTSB 27-NBC Topeka
6:00 PTL Club
7:00 Today
9:00 Sanford & Son
9:30 Hollywood Squares
10:00 PTL Club
11:00 Shoot for the Stars
11:30 Chico & the Man
noon News
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 Doctors
2:00 Another World
3:00 Gong Show
3:30 Mike Douglas
4:30 Partridge Family
5:00 Local/Network News
6:30 Hogan's Heroes
7:00 Tut: The Boy King
8:00 CPO Sharkey
9:00 NBC Reports "Africa's Defiant White Tribe"
10:00 News
10:30 Tonight Show
mid. Tomorrow

KBMA 41-Ind Kansas City
5:00 Thriller
6:00 Audubon Wildlife Theater
6:30 Romper Room (local or syndied?)
7:00 Rocky & His Friends
7:30 Popeye
8:30 Lassie
9:00 Bozo
9:30 TBA
11:30 Not for Women Only
noon Gong Show
12:30 Love, American Style
1:00 I Love Lucy
1:30 Beverly Hillbillies
2:00 Gomer Pyle
2:30 Leave It to Beaver
3:00 Little Rascals
3:30 Archies
4:00 Mickey Mouse Club
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5:00 Andy Griffith
5:30 Dick Van Dyke
6:00 Emergency One!
7:00 I Love Lucy (x2)
8:00 Movie "High Noon"
10:00 All That Glitters
10:30 Avengers
11:30 Night Galley
mid. Movie (replay of 8pm movie)
2:00 Best of Groucho
2:30 Dick Van Dyke
3:00 Love, American Style (x2)
4:00 Gomer Pyle
4:30 Andy Griffith

 

[Braves2005]

I think that the WIBW "Lucy" show at 9:00 AM would have been reruns of Here's Lucy which were airing on CBS daytime at that time.

 

[Bluenoser]

I think that the WIBW "Lucy" show at 9:00 AM would have been reruns of Here's Lucy which were airing on CBS daytime at that time.

Forgot about that Lucy series ...as mentioned in the original post, FH just called any Lucy show "Lucy", so I had to take my best shot at it and hope I had it right ;D They abbreviated quite a few titles; for example, Beverly Hillbillies got abbreviated as "Hillbillies".

 

[DToTheJ]

KAKE 10-ABC Wichita
noon News
12:30 Green Acres
1:00 $20,000 Pyramid
1:30 One Life to Live
2:15 General Hospital
3:00 Edge of Night
3:30 Andy Griffith

Wow, who knew the Ziffels were more popular in Wichita than the Chandlers? ???

 

[KS-IL-IA]

RE: KSNB-4, Superior. IIRC, the 5 p.m. news was an early ABC feed and the 6 p.m. was local. And yes, they ran two hours of "PTL Club" in the morning and shorted "GMA," although I'm not sure if that was still the case in '77.

(Thirty-two years ago today -- Yikes! )

 

[mleach]

Since we are talking "Family Happiness", somewhat surprised that the listings from the Denver & Colorado Springs stations didn't appear here since Family Happiness was known to feature a bunch of stations in their listings moreso than TV Guide, even though their choices can be questionable ( Example: Buffalo's WIVB and WKBW being featured in the West Virginia Family Happiness edition back in the 80's ).

Perhaps it was a "time zone" thing with Denver & Colorado Springs being on Mountain Time while much of Kansas was in Central.

 

[only1moore]

KAKE 10-ABC Wichita
noon News
12:30 Green Acres
1:00 $20,000 Pyramid
1:30 One Life to Live
2:15 General Hospital
3:00 Edge of Night
3:30 Andy Griffith

Wow, who knew the Ziffels were more popular in Wichita than the Chandlers? ???

I was going to say the same thing. BTW when did KAKE started clearing the hour-long "All My Children?"

 

[bpatrick]

I've picked up those "Family Happiness" magazines
and agree they're better on listings than TV Guide.
For instance, after the Carolina/Tennessee edition
was split and the Greenville/Spartanburg/Asheville
edition stopped carrying Bristol/Kingsport/Johnson
City listings, I could still get Tri-Cities schedules
from "Happiness"; likewise, I could get Roanoke/
Lynchburg listings in the same "Happiness" that
had Raleigh/Durham and Greensboro/Winston-
Salem/High Point listings. I rather miss that magazine.

 

[DToTheJ]

As a TV Guide collector, I am not intrigued by the somewhat brief existence of the "Family Happiness" magazine. When did it stop publishing?

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

As a TV Guide collector, I am not intrigued by the somewhat brief existence of the "Family Happiness" magazine. When did it stop publishing?

I recall seeing a "Family Happiness" or just "Happiness" TV magazine in a motel along I-70 in east central Missouri as recently as 1990. Apparently the motel only relied on a MATV system, and could reliably receive St. Louis and Columbia/Jefferson City stations regularly (with occasionally KHQA and WGEM from Quincy/Hannibal making appearances). In addition to those from the three aforementioned markets, IIRC listings for stations from as far south as Jonesboro, AR and Springfield, MO to as far north as Kirksville, MO/Ottumwa, IA, Springfield/Decatur/Champaign, IL and Peoria/Bloomington appeared in that edition of "Happiness."

 

[mleach]

As a TV Guide collector, I am not intrigued by the somewhat brief existence of the "Family Happiness" magazine. When did it stop publishing?

Actually Family Happiness in itself was around for at least a good 15 years. These listings came from 1977 and I can remember seeing them at stores as late as 1986 and somebody had mentioned seeing on as recently as 1990. Of course chances are there were some markets dropped and/or picked up during that time so perhpas in some places Family Happiness stay was brief. Looking back I think the only reason they were around as long as they were was that it was free. The ones I can remember had some ad for some local mom/pop store on the front. Of course chances are many of those stores are now defunct.

I also can remember Family Happiness being a bit on the conservative side but then again they were NOT as conservative as another free source for TV listings at the time ( mid 80s )..TV Tempo. Some local married couple had the rights to TV Tempo in our area at the time ( Shenandoah Valley, VA ) but their listings were quite poor, such as no listings for channels like HBO or Showtime and when it came to shows they didn't approve of it said either "network programming" in its place or something shortened like NBC's Friday Night Videos for example...in TV Tempo the show was called simply "video". TV Tempo even provided radio listings even the times when the djs were on but only for religious and country music radio stations...no rock not even the local oldies station. At least Family Happiness didn't do that. For TV Tempo..they lasted in my hometown for just over a year.

Not sure when Family Happiness went defunct, but then again I guess they could still be around kinda like "Tidbits". I haven't seen a copy of that for years and I thought for sure they were defunct however last year I noticed Denver still has their own "tidbits" and my sister was telling me that she had seen some issues for Palm Springs as well. So perhaps Family Happiness could still be around in a few places but I would still bet money they are defunct now.

 

[Tim L]

A few weeks ago someone gave me 9 issues of something called "TV Scope"-An 8 page foldout Guide distributed free at Fisher Foods Supermarkets in Cleveland (And I am sure at other Markets)..The ones I have are from 1958-60 and carry Cleveland, Erie and Akron Stations..My latest retroschedule is from one of these..

 

[Bluenoser]

Another freebie TV magazine was TV Facts..is that still around in many areas?

 

[DToTheJ]

I can confirm that there is an edition of "TV Facts" still in existence, available for free on your way out of King Kullen locations in Suffolk County, Long Island. Its listings are based on the Cablevision L.I. lineup, but a large portion of channels are conspicuously missing. It also comes complete with a "Q&A" section, where some columnist answers readers' questions on people in TV. How can such a column still be in existence, when you can get any information you want from the Internet (or at least Wikipedia)...

btw MAJOR boo-boo - in my previous post, I wrote "As a TV Guide collector, I am not intrigued by the somewhat brief existence of the "Family Happiness" magazine..." That should have read "I am NOW intrigued"... and I still am!

 

[azumanga]

I can confirm that there is an edition of "TV Facts" still in existence, available for free on your way out of King Kullen locations in Suffolk County, Long Island.

There's also a TV Facts in the Twin Cities that is still publishing:
http://tvfactsmn.com/

Here is an entry for the franchiser, from MANTA:
http://www.manta.com/coms2/dnbcompany_j9pd4g

Up until a few years back, TV Facts and other freebie TV magazines were available practically everywhere in the US and Canada -- now, they are very hard to find.

 

[Bluenoser]

There's also a TV Facts in the Twin Cities that is still publishing:
http://tvfactsmn.com/

And note the slap at the Star Tribune on that page ;D