Retro: Kentucky Saturday, February 17, 1973

[bpatrick]

From TV Guide, Kentucky Edition:

WAVE Ch. 3 Louisville (NBC)

6:30 Farm Report
7 AM Houndcats (delay from 8 AM)
7:30 Kentucky Afield
8 AM Watch Your Child
9 AM Jetsons
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Underdog
10:30 The Barkleys
11 AM Sealab 2020
11:30 Runaround
12 N NBC Children's Theatre: "Street Of The
Flower Boxes," about four boys on New
York's Lower East Side who try to make
money and beautify the neighborhood by
making and selling window boxes.
1 PM College Basketball: Louisville-Bradley
3 PM SEC Basketball: Kentucky-Florida (time approximate)
(This has grown into a big rivalry, especially
since Florida coach Billy Donovan came to Gainesville
from Kentucky.)
5 PM Billy Walker's Country Carnival (guest: Peggy Little, time
approximate)
5:30 Wilburn Brothers
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (Garrick Utley)
7 PM Porter Wagoner
7:30 The Adventurer (Gene Barry)
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Alamo" (Part 1)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Sanctuary"

WLWT Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)

7:30 Farm Front
8 AM Houndcats
8:30 Roman Holidays
9 AM Jetsons
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Underdog
10:30 The Barkleys
11 AM Sealab 2020
11:30 Runaround
12 N NBC Children's Theatre
1 PM College Basketball: St. Joseph vs. Xavier
(Cincinnati)
3 PM SEC Basketball: Kentucky-Florida (time
approximate)
5 PM Rollin' (Edgar Winter joins Kenny Rogers and
the First Edition, time approximate)
5:30 It's Academic (schools: Taylor, Cincinnati Country
Day, Clermont Northeastern)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM UFO
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Alamo" (Part 1)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "To Kill A Mockingbird"
2 AM Movie: "The Devil At 4 O'Clock"
4 AM Movie: "Desert Detour"

WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)

5:50 Farm News
6 AM Sunrise Semester: "Personality Theory
And Creativity"
6:30 Call The Doctor
7:30 Bugs Bunny (delay from 8 AM)
8 AM Play It Safe
8:30 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
9 AM Amazing Chan And The Chan Clan
9:30 New Scooby Doo Movies: "Scooby Doo Meets
Laurel And Hardy"
10:30 Josie And The Pussycats In Outer Space
11 AM Flintstones Comedy Hour
12 N Archie's TV Funnies
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids (how to cure
a habitual moocher)
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival: "The Johnstown
Monster" (sort of like the Loch Ness monster,
'71 from England)
2 PM Vision On
2:30 Movie: "Abbott And Costello Meet The Killer,
Boris Karloff" (actually, if you've seen this movie,
you may notice that Karloff has relatively little
to do)
4 PM CBS Golf Classic: Bert Yancey and Tommy Aaron
vs. Jim Jamieson and DeWitt Weaver in a first-
round match
5 PM Women's Golf: Gloria Ehret and Sandra Haynie vs.
Gerda Boykin and Kathy Cornelius in a first-round
match
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Roger Mudd)
7 PM National Geographic (profile of Jane Goodall)
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Bridget Loves Bernie
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore (Joe Campanella plays an old
boyfriend of Mary's who's trying to come back
into her life.)
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM Carol Burnett (Tim Conway and Valerie Harper--
Tim did not become a regular until 1975)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Music Man" (Robert Preston, Shirley
Jones)

WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)

7 AM Sunrise Semester
7:30 Cartoon Circus
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
9 AM Amazing Chan And The Chan Clan
9:30 New Scooby Doo Movies
10:30 Cartoon Circus
11 AM Flintstones Comedy Hour
12 N Archie's TV Funnies
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM College Basketball: Tennessee at Eastern
Kentucky or Western Kentucky at Morehead
3 PM Movie: "Tarzan And His Mate" (time approximate)
5 PM UFO
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw (guests: Jody Miller, Joe Stampley, Tony
Booth)
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Bridget Loves Bernie
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Sergeant Rutledge"

WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)

7 AM Curiosity Shop (the evolution of clothing, delay
from Sun 10 AM)
8 AM H.R. Pufnstuf
8:30 Jackson Five
9 AM The Osmonds
9:30 ABC Saturday Superstar Movie: "Thunder Mountain"
(with an animated Lassie)
10:30 Brady Kids
11 AM Variety Street
11:30 Kid Power
12 N Movie: "Pork Chop Hill"
2 PM Wrestling
3 PM Pro Bowlers Tour: Fair Lanes Open from Baltimore
4:30 Wide World Of Sports: Daytona 125, which determines
the field for the Daytona 500; tentative: Joe Bugner
(European heavyweight champ) vs. Muhammad Ali
6 PM Golf: Andy Williams San Diego Open (from Torrey Pines,
third round)
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Here We Go Again (a flop for Larry Hagman)
8:30 A Touch Of Grace (ditto for Shirley Booth)
9 PM Julie Andrews Hour (Sandy Duncan, Sergio Franchi,
Muppets Thog and Rowlf, salute to Jerome Kern)
10 PM Jigsaw
11 PM News
11:30 NBC Movie: "Poor Devil" (pre-empted on Ch. 5 the
preceding Wednesday)
1 AM In Concert: The Hollies, Loggins and Messina, Billy
Preston (delay from Fri 11:30)

WKPC Ch. 15 Louisville (PBS)

7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11 AM Sesame Street
12 N Electric Company
12:30 Sesame Street
1:30 Electric Company
2 PM Zoom
2:30 Electric Company
3 PM off the air until
7 PM Firing Line (guest: Huey Newton, founder of
the Black Panthers)
8 PM Movie: "Ivan The Terrible, Part 1" (Sergei Eisenstein
directed this one from '43, the first of what was to
be a three-parter, but never got past part two.)
10 PM Cambridge Debate On Women's Lib (Germaine Greer
debates William F. Buckley Jr.)
11 PM NET Opera Theatre: "The Trial Of Mary Lincoln" (Robert
Todd Lincoln seeks to have his mother declared insane
in 1875--flashbacks show the tragedies in her life that
fueled this proceeding.)

WLEX Ch. 18 Lexington (NBC)

7 AM Agriculture U.S.A.
7:30 Leisure
8 AM Houndcats
8:30 Roman Holidays
9 AM Jetsons
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Underdog
10:30 The Barkleys
11 AM Sealab 2020
11:30 Runaround
12 N NBC Children's Theatre
1 PM Homemakers Today
1:30 Focus On Minorities
2 PM University Of Kentucky
2:30 Kentucky Afield
3 PM Wilburn Brothers
3:30 College Basketball: North Carolina-
Florida State (Florida State was not yet
in the ACC.)
5:30 Lee Rose (Transylvania University basketball
highlights, time approximate)
6 PM Porter Wagoner (guests: Ed and Lorraine)
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Lawrence Welk (down on the farm)
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Alamo" (Part 1)
11 PM News
11:30 Early Start (religion)
11:40 Movie: "Goodbye, Charlie"

WXIX Ch. 19 Cincinnati (Ind.)

7:30 Bugs Bunny (separate from the CBS show airing
on Ch. 9 at the same time)
8 AM Popeye
8:30 Porky Pig
9 AM Rocky And His Friends
9:30 Jonny Quest
10 AM Daniel Boone
11 AM Rifleman
11:30 Movie: "Charlie Chan In Reno"
12:30 Wrestling
1:30 College Basketball: Purdue-Michigan State
3:30 Rifleman (time approximate)
4 PM Roller Derby
5 PM Petticoat Junction
5:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
6 PM Courtship Of Eddie's Father
6:30 Andy Griffith
7 PM I Love Lucy (the William Holden episode)
7:30 That Girl (guest: Cloris Leachman as Don's sister)
8 PM Boris Karloff Presents Thriller
9 PM Movie: "The Mummy" (more Karloff)
11 PM Twilight Zone (Larry Blyden as a thief who goes to
"The Great Beyond" and finds his every whim granted)
11:30 Roller Derby
12:30 NHL Action
1 AM Sea Hunt

WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (CBS)

7 AM Consumer Report
7:30 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Mr. Magoo
9 AM Amazing Chan And The Chan Clan
9:30 New Scooby Doo Movies
10:30 Josie And The Pussycats In Outer Space
11 AM Flintstones Comedy Hour
12 N Archie's TV Funnies
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM College Basketball: Tennessee at Eastern Kentucky
or Western Kentucky at Morehead
3 PM SEC Basketball: Kentucky-Florida (time approximate)
5 PM National Geographic: "The Violent Earth" (delay from
Thu 8 PM, time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Bridget Loves Bernie
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Man Who Reclaimed His Head" (Claude
Rains)
1:30 Wrestling

WLKY Ch. 32 Louisville (ABC)

7 AM Curiosity Shop (same as Ch. 12)
8 AM H.R. Pufnstuf
8:30 Jackson Five
9 AM The Osmonds
9:30 ABC Saturday Superstar Movie
10:30 Brady Kids
11 AM Bewitched
11:30 Kid Power
12 N Funky Phantom
12:30 Lidsville
1 PM Wrestling
2 PM Fishin' Hole
3 PM Pro Bowlers Tour
4:30 Wide World Of Sports
6 PM Golf: Andy Williams San Diego Open
(third round)
7 PM Thrillseekers
7:30 This Is Your Life (Anne Baxter is the surprisee)
8 PM Here We Go Again
8:30 A Touch Of Grace
9 PM Julie Andrews Hour
10 PM Jigsaw
11 PM Twilight Zone
11:30 Movie: "The Vulture"
1:15 ABC News (Sam Donaldson)
1:30 Movie: "Homicidal"

WDRB Ch. 41 Louisville (Ind.)

9:30 New Shapes: Education
10 AM Rap (discussion, not music)
10:30 Crafts With Katy (Katy Dacus)
11 AM Hobby Talk
11:30 Wally's Workshop (Wally and Natalie
Bruner)
12 N NHL Action
12:30 Movie: "The Brass Legend"
2 PM Wrestling
3 PM Roller Derby
4 PM Soul Train
5 PM Boris Karloff Presents Thriller
6 PM Munsters
6:30 Patty Duke
7 PM Movie: "House Of Wax" (somebody tell me
what was significant about this movie)
8:30 Movie: "The Raven" (a treat for horror-film
lovers: Boris Karloff and Vincent Price together)
10 PM Boris Karloff Presents Thriller
11 PM Movie: "The Big Shot" (the star is Humphrey Bogart,
but watch for Susan Peters, a rising young star in
the '40s whose career was limited considerably after
she was left paralyzed from the waist down in a 1945
hunting accident--she did play a wheelchair-bound lawyer
on the 1951 NBC soap "Miss Susan," but the daily grind wore
down her health; she died in 1952--this movie is from before
her accident, 1942)
1 AM Wrestling

WBLG Ch. 62 (WTVQ Ch. 36) Lexington (ABC)

8 AM H.R. Pufnstuf
8:30 Jackson Five
9 AM The Osmonds
9:30 ABC Saturday Superstar Movie
10:30 Brady Kids
11 AM Bewitched
11:30 Kid Power
12 N Funky Phantom
12:30 Lidsville
1 PM Monkees
1:30 American Bandstand (guests: Gallery, who don't
sing "It's So Nice To Be With You")
2 PM Recreation Today
2:30 Wrestling
3:30 Pro Bowlers Tour (joined in progress)
4:30 Wide World Of Sports
6 PM Golf: Andy Williams San Diego Open (third round)
7 PM UFO
8 PM Here We Go Again
8:30 A Touch Of Grace
9 PM Julie Andrews Hour
10 PM Jigsaw
11 PM ABC News
11:15 News
11:30 Movie: "Gentleman Jim" (the life of boxer Gentleman
Jim Corbett, from '42, with Errol Flynn--years later
a well-known country/MOR singer would be known as
Gentleman Jim Reeves)

E Kentucky Educational Television (WKZT/23 Elizabethtown,
WKSO/29 Somerset, WKMR/38 Morehead, WKLE/46 Lexington,
WKON/52 Owenton, WCVN/54 Covington, WKMJ/68 Louisville)

off air on Saturday

 

[KyDXIn]

I see a show called "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" but the only shows I can think of called this are the Melissa Joan Hart live action and cartoon versions. Who was involved in this version? Was it live action or animated?

 

[Ultimajock]

I see a show called "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" but the only shows I can think of called this are the Melissa Joan Hart live action and cartoon versions. Who was involved in this version? Was it live action or animated?

...animated; it was a Filmation companion to CBS' Archie cartoons...

 

[The King Bee]

FYI: WDRB-TV Louisville celebrates its 40th air anniversary this Monday (Feb. 28, 1971). Any memories?

I remember watching the first sign-on ID and first afternoon's programming..."The Patty Duke Show" reruns, now on thisTV, were featured in those early days on what was then RF Channel 41, now DTV Channel 41.1 (RF channel 49) with Antenna TV on subchannel 41.2.

 

[Tim L]

I see a show called "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" but the only shows I can think of called this are the Melissa Joan Hart live action and cartoon versions. Who was involved in this version? Was it live action or animated?

...animated; it was a Filmation companion to CBS' Archie cartoons...

The "Sabrina" character actually originated in the Archie comic books in 1962..

 

[KyDXIn]

FYI: WDRB-TV Louisville celebrates its 40th air anniversary this Monday (Feb. 28, 1971). Any memories?

I remember watching the first sign-on ID and first afternoon's programming..."The Patty Duke Show" reruns, now on thisTV, were featured in those early days on what was then RF Channel 41, now DTV Channel 41.1 (RF channel 49) with Antenna TV on subchannel 41.2.

Wasn't one of their early tv ids something mentioning "Independence television" with fireworks ala "Love American Style"?

 

[radiorob2.0]

FYI: WDRB-TV Louisville celebrates its 40th air anniversary this Monday (Feb. 28, 1971). Any memories?

I remember watching the first sign-on ID and first afternoon's programming..."The Patty Duke Show" reruns, now on thisTV, were featured in those early days on what was then RF Channel 41, now DTV Channel 41.1 (RF channel 49) with Antenna TV on subchannel 41.2.

Wasn't one of their early tv ids something mentioning "Independence television" with fireworks ala "Love American Style"?

That's the one. "Where Independence is Fun!"

WDRB did do a 25th anniversary special. I wonder if they plan a 40th?

 

[KyDXIn]

FYI: WDRB-TV Louisville celebrates its 40th air anniversary this Monday (Feb. 28, 1971). Any memories?

I remember watching the first sign-on ID and first afternoon's programming..."The Patty Duke Show" reruns, now on thisTV, were featured in those early days on what was then RF Channel 41, now DTV Channel 41.1 (RF channel 49) with Antenna TV on subchannel 41.2.

Wasn't one of their early tv ids something mentioning "Independence television" with fireworks ala "Love American Style"?

That's the one. "Where Independence is Fun!"

WDRB did do a 25th anniversary special. I wonder if they plan a 40th?

I've sent an email to WDRB asking this question and will pass along the answer. It would be nice if they did something like WAVE did on their 40th with the day long session of reruns.

 

[radiorob2.0]

The 25th Anniversary program was hosted and possibly produced by long time employee Ray Foushee. The original owners were part of the program and shared why they settled in Louisville. They had opportunities to begin an independent station in other cities but Louisville had greater UHF penetration thanks to WLKY. Channel 32 was very aggressive attracting viewers from Channel 3 and 11. Since UHF had viewers in Louisville it was believed the best chance of success and they were correct.

 

[KyDXIn]

FYI: WDRB-TV Louisville celebrates its 40th air anniversary this Monday (Feb. 28, 1971). Any memories?

I remember watching the first sign-on ID and first afternoon's programming..."The Patty Duke Show" reruns, now on thisTV, were featured in those early days on what was then RF Channel 41, now DTV Channel 41.1 (RF channel 49) with Antenna TV on subchannel 41.2.

Wasn't one of their early tv ids something mentioning "Independence television" with fireworks ala "Love American Style"?

That's the one. "Where Independence is Fun!"

WDRB did do a 25th anniversary special. I wonder if they plan a 40th?

I've sent an email to WDRB asking this question and will pass along the answer. It would be nice if they did something like WAVE did on their 40th with the day long session of reruns.

WDRB will have a special Berson's Corner feature during their news programs throughout the day on Monday.

 

[bpatrick]

A couple of things about Susan Peters: she was only
31 at the time of her death, partly from kidney failure
and partly from depression. The owner of her soap
"Miss Susan", Colgate-Palmolive, had canceled the show
in late 1951. While her health may have been a factor,
Colgate-Palmolive felt that game shows were a better bet
for daytime than soaps (never mind that soaps still dominated
daytime radio, or that CBS had already struck gold on television
with "Search For Tomorrow" and "Love Of Life" when Colgate
made its move). The show's replacement, however, was one
of the most memorable daytime shows of the '50s: "The Big
Payoff," with Bess Myerson modeling the show's top prize, a
mink coat, every day.

Colgate evidently changed its mind about soaps; it owned "The
Doctors," which ran on NBC from 1963 to 1982 and is one of only
three NBC soaps to have lasted more than ten years ("Days Of
Our Lives" and "Another World" are the others; I don't include
"Search For Tomorrow" since 31 of its 35 years were on CBS).