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Retro: KTLA 5 Los Angeles - Anniversary Special schedules

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Here's are some schedules from the days KTLA aired their annviersary specials every ten years since it signed on January 22, 1947 as the first commercially licences TV station west of the Mississippi River.

10th Annivesrsary - Tuesday, January 22, 1957
1:55 (PM) Police Calls
2:00 Movie: "My Outlaw Brother" (1951) - Mickey Rooney, Wanda Hendrix, Robert Preston, Robert Stack
3:30 Milady - Dorothy Gardiner
4:00 Cartoon Carousel - Skipper Frank
5:30 Western Theater - Doye O'Dell
6:30 News - Gil Martyn
6:45 Balter's Sports Book
7:00 Popeye Cartoons - Tom Hatten
7:30 Strictly Informal - Larry Finley
8:00 George Raft Series
8:30 Spade Cooley Show
9:30 City at Night - Ken Graue tours the KTLA lot to celebrate the station's 10th annviersary and interviews stars associated with them.
11:30 Movie: "Tony Draws a Horse" (1950) - Cecil Parker, Anne Crawford, Derek Bond, Barbara Murray
1:00 Final Edition (news)

20th Anniversary - Sunday, May 28, 1967
8:00 Mormon Tabernacle Choir
8:30 God Is the Answer
9:30 Movie: "Gunfire at Indian Gap" (1957) - Vera Ralston, Anthony George, George Macready
11:00 Homebuyers Guide - Paul Langford
NOON Kingdom of the Sea: "Sea Sports"
12:30 Movie: "The Savage Horde" - Wild Bill Elliott, Adrian Booth, Grant Withers, Noah Beery Jr., Jim Davis
2:00 Annual Indiandapolis 500 Parade - Grand Marshals - "Bonanza" stars Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker
3:00 NFL Game of the Week
4:30 McKeever and the Colonel
5:00 Dobie Gillis
5:30 It's a Small World
6:00 Polka Parade - Dick Sinclair
7:00 "The First Twenty Years" - also hosted by Dick Sinclair
8:00 Seaway
9:00 Gideon
10:00 Big 5 News
10:30 Special: "Gene Autry Heart Research Laboratory"
11:00 Documentary: "A Hurricane Called Betsy" (August 27 - September 13, 1965)

30th Anniversary - January 22, 1977
6:00 Big Valley
7:00 Pacesetters
10:00 Movie: "The Oklahoma Woman" (1956) - Peggie Castle, Richard Denning, Cathy Downs, Mike Connors
11:30 Movie: "Harry Black the Tiger" (1958) - Stewart Granger, Barbara Rush, Anthony Steel
1:30 Formby's Antique Workshop
2:00 Swiss Family Robinson
2:30 Movie: "Battle of the Worlds" (1961) - Claude Rains, Bill Carter
4:00 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
5:00 Star Trek
6:00 Movie for a Saturday Evening: "Wait Until Dark" (1967) - Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, Jack Weston, Afrem Zimbalist Jr.
8:00 "Happy 30th Birthday, Los Angeles Television" - Art Linkletter
10:00 Lohman & Barkley
11:00 Love, American Style
MIDNIGHT Movie: "North West Mounted Police" (1940) - Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Paulette Goddard, Preston Foster, Robert Preston

40th Anniversary - Wednesday, March 25, 1987
5:00 Faith 20
5:30 Jimmy Swaggart
6:00 700 Club
7:00 Zoobilee Zoo
7:30 Popeye Club
8:00 Leave It to Beaver
8:30 Happy Days
9:00 Laverne & Shirley
9:30 Odd Couple
10:00 Love Boat
11:00 Bonanza
NOON Tarzan
1:00 Twilight Zone (x2)
2:00 Emergency!
3:00 Charlie's Angels
4:00 Little House on the Prairie
5:00 Love Boat
6:00 Magnum, P.I.
7:00 Silver Spoons
7:30 What a County!
8:00 "KTLA at 40: Celebration of Los Angeles Television" - Hosts: Steve Allen, Stan Freberg, Dinah Shore, Dick Engerg (Angels commentator), Hal Fishman (KTLA news anchor); Special guest: Bob Hope, who made his first TV appearance on KTLA's first day; Narrator: Stan Chambers (KTLA news correspondent)
10:00 Channel 5 News at Ten
11:00 Taxi
11:30 Honeymooners
MIDNIGHT Twilight Zone (x2)
1:00 USA Tonight (newly renamed from "INN: The Independent News" January 12)
1:30 Hee Haw
2:30 Movie: "Maracaibo" (1958) - Cornel Wilde (also the director), Jean Wallace, Abbe Lane, Michael Landon, Joe E. Ross
4:00 Lost in Space

50th Anniversary - Thursday, May 15, 1997 (by then a WB affiliate)
5:00 CNN Headline News
5:30 KTLA Early Morning News
7:00 KTLA Morning News - Featured: A preview of that night's 50th anniversary special.
9:00 Sally Jessy Raphael - Topic: Shocking secrets.
10:00 Little House on the Prairie
11:00 KTLA News 11 AM Edition
NOON Brady Bunch (x2)
1:00 Sally Jessy Raphael - Topic: Paternity tests.
2:00 Blossom
2:30 Dinosaurs
3:00 Bugs 'n' Daffy
3:30 Animaniacs
4:00 Beverly Hills, 90210
5:00 Saved by the Bell
5:30 Family Matters
6:00 Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (x2)
7:00 Bzzz! - Annie Wood (Where The Dating Game meets The Gong Show.)
7:30 Seinfeld
8:00 "KTLA's 50 Golden Years" - Hosts: Stan Chambers, Hal Fishman, Barbara Beck
10:00 Special: "Whatever Happened To..."
11:00 KTLA News Special Edition
11:30 Murphy Brown
MIDNIGHT KTLA News Special Edition (R)
12:30 Honeymooners
1:00 Hunter

Normal weeknight schedule pre-empted that night:
8:00 Channel 5 Movie Theatre
10:00 KTLA News at Ten
11:00 Cheers
11:30 Murphy Brown
MIDNIGHT KTLA News at Ten (R)
 
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