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Retro: KTLA, April 22, 1978

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Hollykinkade

Saturday, April 22, 1978
6:00 a.m.-News
6:30 a.m.-Big Valley
7:30 a.m.-Pacesetters
8:00 a.m.-Movie-“Tobacco Road”
9:30 a.m.-Movie (90 minutes)
11:00 a.m.-Baseball-Angels vs. Twins
2:00 p.m.-Big Valley
3:00 p.m.-Bonanza
4:00 p.m.-Voyage To The Bottom Of Sea
5:00 p.m.-Star Trek
6:00 p.m.-Movie-“Thief Of Baghdad”
8:00 p.m.-Movie-“Mr. Skeffington”
10:00 p.m.-Billy Graham Crusade
11:00 p.m.-Love, American Style
11:30 p.m.-Love, American Style
12:00 a.m.-Twilight Zone
12:30 a.m.-Roller Games
1:30 a.m.-Movie-“The Silent Enemy”
3:30 a.m.-Movie-“The Frozen Ghost”
4:25 a.m.-News
4:30 a.m.-Movie-“The Early Bird”
 
Ah, 1978 ... before KTLA had a Saturday edition of "News At Ten". Lucky for Rev. Graham. huh?
 
Two things I remember about KTLA and *both* are confirmed here:

1) The station never carried any shows aimed at children; and
2) It had a contract to air Los Angeles baseball games. (I wonder how unusual that was nationally.)
 
K.M. Richards said:
The late Tom Hatten and the late Frank Herman would disagree with you, Ted.
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Since I have never heard of the two gentlemen you reference, I can only reply that in 1970, 1971, and the early part of 1972 when I was living in the Los Angeles area (I was 6-9 years old then), I could always find on weekdays children's shows on Channels 9, 11, 13, 28 (public), and 52. On Saturdays, most of the kid's shows could be found on Channels 2, 4, and 7 during the mornings (and up until the early afternoons on Channel 2 if sports didn't intervene). And on Sunday mornings, Channel 2 carried cartoons between 7 and 8am, and then I used to watch a dance music show that I think was aimed at teenagers on Channel 11 between 8 and 9am.
 
ted chittenden said:
Since I have never heard of the two gentlemen you reference, I can only reply that in 1970, 1971, and the early part of 1972 when I was living in the Los Angeles area (I was 6-9 years old then), I could always find on weekdays children's shows on Channels 9, 11, 13, 28 (public), and 52. On Saturdays, most of the kid's shows could be found on Channels 2, 4, and 7 during the mornings (and up until the early afternoons on Channel 2 if sports didn't intervene). And on Sunday mornings, Channel 2 carried cartoons between 7 and 8am, and then I used to watch a dance music show that I think was aimed at teenagers on Channel 11 between 8 and 9am.
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I believe the Tom Hatten-hosted Popeye cartoons were still airing in the early 1970s. Perhaps you just didn't find them in your searches at the time. Tom's predecessor for that show was "Skipper Frank" Herman.

In any event, your claim that KTLA "never" carried children's shows is -- at best -- a poor choice of words, because even you admit your post was based on your own limited exposure over a short period of years, when you were young enough to miss things ... and memories can be skewed by the passage of five decades.
 


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