Retro: Kentucky Thursday, September 23, 1971

[bpatrick]

From TV Guide, Kentucky Edition:

WAVE Ch. 3 Louisville (NBC)

6:45 Today In Louisville
7 AM Today (author and "Realist" magazine editor
Paul Krassner discusses his book "How A
Satirical Editor Became A Yippie Conspirator
In Ten Easy Years"; Hugh Downs, Barbara
Walters, Joe Garagiola are regulars)
9 AM Morning Show (guest Phyllis Schlafly)
9:55 News
10 AM Dinah's Place (guest: heart surgeon Michael
DeBakey)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
1 PM Mike Douglas (co-host David Steinberg; actress
Judy Graubart, Wilson Pickett)
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Bright Promise
4 PM Movie: "Wild And Wonderful"
5:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
6 PM News, Weather And Sports
6:30 NBC News (John Chancellor)
7 PM Death Valley Days
7:30 Primus (undersea adventures with Robert Brown,
who competes against himself in Louisville--"Here
Come The Brides" airs 7-8 on WHAS)
8 PM Flip Wilson (guests: George Gobel, Mahalia Jackson,
Joan Rivers)
9 PM Nichols (James Garner as a cowardly sheriff; an overhaul
at midseason to make him more conventional failed to save
the show.)
10 PM Dean Martin (guests: Carroll O'Connor, Ruth Buzzi, Vikki Carr)
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Untouchables

WLWT Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)

6:15 Moment Of Meditation
6:20 Good Morning
6:30 University Of Michigan
7 AM Today
9 AM Paul Dixon
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Bob Braun's 50-50 Club
1:30 Three On A Match
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Bright Promise
4 PM Phil Donahue (guest: psychic Jeane Dixon)
5 PM Mike Douglas (co-hostess Ruth Gordon; Dinah
Shore, Victor Buono, the Ace Trucking Company)
6 PM News, Weather And Sports
6:30 NBC News
7 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
7:30 Primus
8 PM Flip Wilson
9 PM Nichols
10 PM Dean Martin
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:30 Tonight Show

WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)

6:20 Farm News
6:30 Young World
7 AM CBS News (John Hart)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Uncle Al
10:30 Search For Tomorrow (delay from 12:30)
11 AM Family Affair
11:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC (delay from 4 PM)
12 N News, Weather And Sports
12:30 Nick Clooney
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Movie: "Wings Of The Hawk"
6 PM News, Weather And Sports
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Let's Make A Deal (Monty Hall)
8 PM Bearcats! (Rod Taylor and Dennis Cole in an
unusual Western--they travel around in a 1914
Stutz Bearcat; believe it or not, this show was
replaced in January 1972 by "Me And The Chimp".)
9 PM Movie: "Man In The Middle"
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:30 Merv Griffin
1 AM Bible Answers
1:30 Local News

WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)

7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Edge Of Night
9:30 Omelet (local talk-variety show)
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Family Affair
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Where The Heart Is
12:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM News, Weather, Sports
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Lost In Space
4:30 Dick Van Dyke
5 PM Truth Or Consequences
5:30 News, Weather And Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Here Come The Brides
8 PM Bearcats!
9 PM CBS Movie: "The Ambushers"
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:30 Perry Mason (a few years later WLKY would
have this show at this time)

WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)

7:30 TBA
8 AM Across The Fence
8:30 Skipper Ryle And Bozo
9:45 Black History
9:50 Lucille Rivers (sewing)
10 AM Dinah's Place (pre-empted on Ch. 5)
10:30 Make A Wish (delay from Sun 11:30 AM)
11 AM Newlywed Game (delay from 2 PM)
11:30 That Girl
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Password (guests: Carol Burnett and Henry
Fonda, whose "The Smith Family" aired Wednesdays
on ABC)
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM News, Weather, Sports (no joke--and I wonder, with
stations expanding their local news into the 4 PM slot,
if this might come to pass on a larger scale someday)
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Love, American Style
4:30 The Virginian
6 PM ABC News (Howard K. Smith/Harry Reasoner)
6:30 News, Weather, Sports
7 PM To Tell The Truth (panel: Orson Bean, Pat Carroll,
Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen)
7:30 What's My Line? (panel: Bert Convy, Arlene Francis,
Soupy Sales, WABC newscaster Melba Tolliver)
8 PM Alias Smith And Jones
9 PM Longstreet
10 PM Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:30 Dick Cavett
1 AM Local News

WKPC Ch. 15 Louisville (PBS)

7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 In-school programming
2:30 In-school programming ends, nothing listed until
4 PM
4 PM Sesame Street (guest: Burt Lancaster)
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 What's New (a visit to the Confederate monument
carved into the side of Stone Mountain, GA)
6 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6:30 What's New
7 PM Boboquivari (guest: blues guitarist Sam "Lightnin'"
Hawkins)
7:30 Thirty Minutes With...
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 NET Playhouse: "The Blood Knot," about racial
prejudice in South Africa
sign off 10 PM

WLEX Ch. 18 Lexington (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Steve Allen (guests: Gloria DeHaven, Dick Shawn,
Freda Payne)
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News, Weather And Sports
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Jeopardy!
1:30 Three On A Match
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Bright Promise
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Jeff's Collie
5:30 News, Weather And Sports
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Green Acres
7:30 Buck Owens (guest: Freddie Hart)
8 PM Flip Wilson
9 PM Nichols
10 PM Dean Martin
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Take Five

WXIX Ch. 19 Cincinnati (Ind.)

11:55 News
12 N Larry Smith/Romper Room
1 PM Movie: "Battle Of The Coral Sea"
2:55 News
3 PM Larry Smith Kartoon Klub
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Speed Racer
4:30 Patty Duke
5 PM Lost In Space
6 PM Twilight Zone
6:30 Daniel Boone
7:30 Dragnet (Friday and Gannon)
8 PM High Chaparral
9 PM Movie: "Sunday In New York"
11 PM Felony Squad
11:30 Movie: "Ride, Vaquero!" ("vaquero" is
Spanish for "cowboy")

WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (CBS)

6:55 Law Of The Land
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Town Talk
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Family Affair
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N News, Weather And Sports
12:15 Phil Donahue
1:15 Lucille Rivers
1:25 Bulletin Board
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Galloping Gourmet
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Fury
4:30 High Chaparral
5:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC (delay from 4 PM)
6 PM News, Weather And Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Movie: "The King And I"
9 PM CBS Movie: "The Ambushers"
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:30 Movie: "A Man Alone" (news follows at
approximately 1 AM)

WLKY Ch. 32 Louisville (ABC)

7 AM Rocky And His Friends
7:25 Bob Terry & His Pirates
7:55 Romper Room
8:25 Galloping Gourmet
8:55 Dr. Joyce Brothers
9 AM Movie: "Town Without Pity" (news interrupts
the movie at 9:55)
10:55 News
11 AM Love, American Style
11:30 That Girl
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Password
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Merv Griffin (still on CBS, pre-empted on Ch. 11,
so I have to believe this is a day-behind)
5 PM Gilligan's Island
5:30 News, Weather And Sports
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Movie: "Slaughter Trail"
8 PM Alias Smith And Jones
9 PM Longstreet
10 PM Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law
11 PM News, Weather And Sports
11:30 Dick Cavett

WDRB Ch. 41 Louisville (Ind.)

2:30 Movie Game
3 PM Huck And Yogi
4 PM Rocket Robin Hood
4:30 Speed Racer
5 PM Spider-Man
5:30 Munsters
6 PM Patty Duke
6:30 Flipper
7 PM Virginian
8:30 David Frost (guests: Arthur Hill, Jim McKay,
David Brenner, Jean Holm--the Air Force's
first female general, English pianist Rosemary
Brown--who claims she has communicated with
Mozart and other composers)
10 PM The Saint
11 PM Movie: "The Last Command"

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

8:30 Little Rascals
9 AM Romper Room
10 AM Perry Mason
11 AM Dale Wright (local)
11:30 That Girl
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Password
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Love, American Style
4:30 I Love Lucy
5 PM Daniel Boone
6 PM News, Weather And Sports
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Hazel
7:30 Doctor In The House
8 PM Alias Smith And Jones
9 PM Longstreet
10 PM Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Dick Van Dyke (Jerry Van Dyke as Rob
Petrie's brother Stacey)
sign off 12 M

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)

8:30 In-school programming
4 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Hodgepodge Lodge
5 PM Sesame Street
6 PM Window To The Classroom
6:30 Community High School
7 PM Making Things Grow
7:30 In Days Of Awe (the significance of the Jewish High
Holy Days)
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 NET Playhouse
10 PM Evening At Pops
sign off 11 PM

 

[Braves2005]

You would have thought that Nichols would have been a hit since it was sandwiched in between Flip Wilson (the #2 show at the time) and Dean Martin (still very popular) and the competition on both ABC and CBS wasn't too much with Longstreet and CBS Thursday Night Movie being on at the same time.

Much later on, I read something about James Garner's Nichols in that it was like Maverick only that he was on a motorcycle and that Stuart Margolin (later Angel on James' The Rockford Files) was on it. That's one show that I would like to see on DVD.

 

[gregg75]

Flip Wilson was great, and funny. Dean Martin was bland and tasteless, but I still watched it. Flip did his show in the round and you could actually see the audience laughing............unlike other shows where only 10 people laughed and they'd dub in 50 others. Flip actually brought the races together which was a big accomplishment for the time. Geraldine was my favorite character.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)
8 PM Bearcats!...believe it or not, this show was replaced in January 1972 by "Me And The Chimp"

What did CBS follow the Chimpster with at 8:30/7:30 in the '71-'72 "second season"?
(I'm drawing a blank.)

 

[Braves2005]

WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)
8 PM Bearcats!...believe it or not, this show was replaced in January 1972 by "Me And The Chimp"

What did CBS follow the Chimpster with at 8:30/7:30 in the '71-'72 "second season"?
(I'm drawing a blank.)

My Three Sons moved to Thursdays in January 1972 at 8:30/7:30 from Mondays at 10:00/9:00. The Monday comedies at 10:00/9:00 to 11:00/10:00 on CBS with MTS and Arnie didn't work all that well and Arnie moved back to Saturday night that January. And we all know what replaced both Me And The Chimp and My Three Sons that fall.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

My Three Sons moved to Thursdays in January 1972 at 8:30/7:30 from Mondays at 10:00/9:00. The Monday comedies at
10:00/9:00 on CBS with MTS and Arnie didn't work all that well and Arnie moved back to Saturday night that January.

Thanks, I've now put most of the other midseason pieces together: Arnie to Sat 9:30/8:30
which shifted MTM back an hour to 8:30/7:30 as Miss Wheat Thins #1 was cancelled. But
what did CBS then put on Mondays at 10/9?

And we all know what replaced both Me And The Chimp and My Three Sons that fall.

Good night, John Boy.

 

[mleach]

You would have thought that Nichols would have been a hit since it was sandwiched in between Flip Wilson (the #2 show at the time) and Dean Martin (still very popular) and the competition on both ABC and CBS wasn't too much with Longstreet and CBS Thursday Night Movie being on at the same time.

Much later on, I read something about James Garner's Nichols in that it was like Maverick only that he was on a motorcycle and that Stuart Margolin (later Angel on James' The Rockford Files) was on it. That's one show that I would like to see on DVD.

Several years ago this show was mentioned on one of those retail sites, I am thinking it was deadmalls.com but we are talking a good 5 years. Anyway back in 1971 "Nichols" was a very popular retail chain in the midwest and along the east coast ( "Nichols...a saven haven !!" ) and they weren't happy that NBC had titled a show using the exact same name as the chain as they would sue NBC over it. Don't remember the settlement but while I am sure it ratings of lack thereof as to why the TV "Nichols" didn't last...but I would also bet money that the retail "Nichols" had a hand in it as well.

This would be like today naming a sitcom "Target", and while the sitcom may not have anything to do with the stores that bear its name...chances are you would still hear from the lawyers from the retail chain Target.

 

[bpatrick]

My Three Sons moved to Thursdays in January 1972 at 8:30/7:30 from Mondays at 10:00/9:00. The Monday comedies at
10:00/9:00 on CBS with MTS and Arnie didn't work all that well and Arnie moved back to Saturday night that January.

Thanks, I've now put most of the other midseason pieces together: Arnie to Sat 9:30/8:30
which shifted MTM back an hour to 8:30/7:30 as Miss Wheat Thins #1 was cancelled. But
what did CBS then put on Mondays at 10/9?

And we all know what replaced both Me And The Chimp and My Three Sons that fall.

Good night, John Boy.

Sonny and Cher got the 10/9 slot on Mondays. BTW, CBS's midseason Saturday-night lineup
was:

8:00/7:00 All In The Family
8:30/7:30 Mary Tyler Moore
9:00/8:00 The New Dick Van Dyke Show
9:30/8:30 Arnie
10:00/9:00 Mission: Impossible

 

[Stanislav]

Flip Wilson was great, and funny. Dean Martin was bland and tasteless, but I still watched it. Flip did his show in the round and you could actually see the audience laughing............unlike other shows where only 10 people laughed and they'd dub in 50 others. Flip actually brought the races together which was a big accomplishment for the time. Geraldine was my favorite character.

I think Geraldine was just about everybody's favorite. Few comics can pull off drag without being grotesque (think Milton Berle here), but Wilson created a believable, funny, fully fleshed-out character.

And you're right about the racial aspect. Just a few short years after the Civil Rights battles of the 60's, you saw a thoroughly integrated audience sharing the joy of Wilson's humor. Yes, most of those people probably retreated to their separate spheres after the show, but coming together on common ground was a step in the right direction, even for something as seemingly trivial as a TV show.

 

[RALfan]

1. What were the regular prime-access schedules for the Cincinnati stations (if you have them)?

2.

WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)

10:30 Make A Wish (delay from Sun 11:30 AM)

It seems WKRC, like WRAL, ran a checkerboard of ABC's weekend kids show. What were the others?

 

[bpatrick]

1. 7:00 WLWT I Dream Of Jeannie
WCPO Truth Or Consequences
WKRC To Tell The Truth

SAT WLWT Midwestern Hayride (to 8)
WCPO Hee Haw (to 8)
I don't have WKRC's; ABC had a college football
game the week of this issue. I do know that
Lawrence Welk aired at 6 PM on WXIX; he would
later air at 7 on WLWT.

SUN WLWT This Is Your Life
WCPO Impact (local)
WKRC again, I don't know; on Sunday 9/19 ABC
had a special, "Goin' Back To Indiana," with
the Jackson 5

7:30 MON WLWT Juvenile Jury (revival of Jack Barry's first hit)
WCPO Doctor In The House
WKRC What's My Line? (airs nightly except Tuesday)

TUE The networks had 7:30 that season: ABC had Mod Squad,
CBS had The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, NBC had Ironside.
CBS and NBC gave back 10:30; WLWT had Peyton Place, while
WCPO had Monty Nash. ABC made it up by giving back Mon 8:30,
where WKRC had Sports Challenge.

WED WLWT Adam-12 (week delay, like WSB)
WCPO All About Faces (game show)

THU WLWT Primus
WCPO Let's Make A Deal

FRI WLWT Quarterback Club
WCPO What Would You Say? (game show, sounds local,
since I never heard of it)

SUN ABC did not program 7:30; CBS and NBC did, but I don't
know what was on WKRC.

NBC also gave back Friday 10:30; WLWT carried Tom Smothers' Organic
Space Ride; CBS gave back Sunday 10:30, where WCPO had The David
Frost Revue.

2. WKRC's kids' shows at 10:30 AM

MON Reluctant Dragon And Mr. Toad (delay from Sun 10 AM)
TUE Here Come The Doubledeckers (delay from Sun 10:30 AM)
WED Bullwinkle (delay from Sun 11 AM)
THU Make A Wish (delay from Sun 11:30 AM)
FRI Cartoons (probably from a library purchased by the station)

 

[bpatrick]

I may have to redo this, since the first year of the
access rule was complicated; it went like this:

MON CBS and NBC programmed 8-11; ABC, 8-8:30, 9-
conclusion of football

TUE ABC programmed 7:30-11; CBS and NBC, 7:30-10:30

WED, THU, SAT all networks programmed 8-11

FRI ABC and CBS programmed 8-11; NBC, 8-10:30

SUN NBC programmed 7:30-11; CBS, 7:30-10:30; ABC, 8-11

NBC had asked for a waiver because Disney aired at 7:30; ABC
wanted one because Tuesday was its strongest night. These
expired in September 1972; NBC programmed 8-11 Mon-Sat and
7:30-10:30 Sun, while ABC programmed 8-11 every night. Also,
top-50 market affiliates (and Cincinnati was one) were prohibited
from showing off-network reruns beginning in the fall of '72; WLWT
replaced "I Dream Of Jeannie" with "Beat The Clock".

 

[RALfan]

WED WLWT Adam-12 (week delay, like WSB)

If this was the case, what aired at 8:00?

 

[bpatrick]

Movies. The NBC "Wednesday Mystery Movie" at 8:30
was picked up by WKRC (ABC) and aired late night Saturdays.
"Mystery Movie," BTW, was one of the NBC shows that Ted
Turner included on his infamous "The NBC Network Moves To
Channel 17" billboards in Atlanta.

 

[bpatrick]

You would have thought that Nichols would have been a hit since it was sandwiched in between Flip Wilson (the #2 show at the time) and Dean Martin (still very popular) and the competition on both ABC and CBS wasn't too much with Longstreet and CBS Thursday Night Movie being on at the same time.

Much later on, I read something about James Garner's Nichols in that it was like Maverick only that he was on a motorcycle and that Stuart Margolin (later Angel on James' The Rockford Files) was on it. That's one show that I would like to see on DVD.

"Longstreet" and "Owen Marshall" got a boost on the night of October 21 when CBS aired three news specials in a row; the "Owen Marshall" episode was the conclusion of a two-parter that had started on "Marcus Welby, M.D." two nights earlier: Marshall is defending Steven Kiley (James Brolin) on a malpractice charge after a patient dies. That week, "Marshall" finished third in the ratings; "Longstreet," fifth. Those were unusually high ratings for both shows, but not long after that, NBC put "Ironside" back on Thursday, where it made short work of "Longstreet," while "Nichols" was placed against "Welby" and CBS's "Cannon" on Tuesday ("Marshall" hung on for three seasons, the last on Wednesday, then Saturday). It would appear that NBC had little faith in "Nichols" to move him to a slot opposite even stronger competition than he'd had.