From The Lansing State Journal via Newspapers.com
Note: The paper gave no details on scheduled movies
WJBK 2 Detroit (CBS)
7:00 Cathedral of Tomorrow
8:00 This Is the Life
8:30 Temple Baptist Church
9:00 Mass for Shut-Ins
9:30 With This Ring
9:45 Highlights
10:00 Let’s See
10:30 Faith for Today
11:00 International Zone
11:30 Face the Nation
12:00 Changing Times
12:15 Moments in Music
12:30 Mister Ed
1:00 Movie
2:30 Hockey (Toronto at Minnesota)
5:00 Movie
6:00 News
6:30 Job Opportunity
7:00 Lassie
7:30 Truth or Consequences
8:00 Ed Sullivan
9:00 Smothers Brothers
10:00 Mission: Impossible
11:00 News/Weather/Sports
11:30 Movie
WKZO 3 Kalamazoo (CBS)
7:45 The Christophers
8:00 This Is the Life
8:30 Sacred Heart
8:45 Sunday Service
9:00 Tom and Jerry
9:30 Adventures of Aquaman
10:00 We Will Speak: Who Will Answer? “Models for Action”
11:00 U of M TV Hour
12:00 With This Ring
12:15 Industry on Parade
12:30 Face the Nation
1:00 TBA
1:30 Children’s Film Festival “Doggie and Three”
2:30 Hockey (see ch2)
5:00 Killy Style Ski Show
5:30 Amateur Hour
6:00 Twenty-First Century “The First Ten Months, Part II”
6:30 Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
7:00 Lassie
7:30 Gentle Ben
8:00 Ed Sullivan
9:00 Smothers Brothers
10:00 Mission: Impossible
11:00 News/Weather/Sports
11:15 Joe Pyne
1:00 Movie
WWJ 4 Detroit (NBC)
7:25 News
7:30 Country Living
8:00 Frontiers of Faith
8:30 Church at the Crossroads
8:55 Newsworthy
9:00 Oopsy the Clown
9:45 Davey and Goliath
10:00 House Detective
12:00 U of M Presents
12:30 International ZONE
1:00 Meet the Press (guest Paul W. McCracken, chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers)
1:30 Wild Kingdom
2:00 Beat the Champ
3:00 Car and Track
3:30 Target
4:00 TBA
4:30 Outdoors
5:00 Astrojet Golf
6:00 College Bowl
6:30 News/Weather/Sports
7:00 George Pierrot
7:30 Walt Disney “The Secret of Boyne Castle” (pt. 3 of 3)
8:30 Mothers-in-Law
9:00 Bonanza
10:00 My Friend Tony
11:00 News/Weather/Sports
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 Movie
WNEM 5 Bay City (NBC)
7:00 Big Picture
7:30 NBC Religious
8:00 Day of Discovery
8:30 God Is the Answer
9:00 Frontiers of Faith
9:30 Travel Time
10:00 Sunday Cartoons
11:00 Science Quiz
11:30 Open Camera
12:00 Championship Bowling
12:30 Wrestling
1:30 Night Train
2:00 Theater One
3:30 Wild Kingdom
4:00 World of Golf
5:00 Movie
7:00 Huck Finn
7:30 Walt Disney (see ch4)
8:30 Mothers-in-Law
9:00 Bonanza
10:00 My Friend Tony
11:00 News/Weather/Sports
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 Movie
WJIM 6 Lansing (CBS)
8:00 Cathedral of Tomorrow
9:00 Tom and Jerry
9:30 Adventures of Aquaman
10:00 Day of Discovery
10:30 This Is the Life
11:00 Camera Three “Aspects of the New Consciousness”
11:30 Face the Nation
12:00 Community Calendar
12:30 U of M TV
1:30 Children’s Film Festival “Doggie and Three”
2:30 Hockey (see ch2)
5:00 Killy Style Ski Show
5:30 Amateur Hour
6:00 Twenty-First Century (see ch3)
6:30 Formula
7:00 Lassie
7:30 Gentle Ben
8:00 Ed Sullivan
9:00 Smothers Brothers
10:00 Mission: Impossible
11:00 News/Weather/Sports
11:15 Wackiest Ship
WXYZ 7 Detroit (ABC)
7:30 TV College
8:30 Directions
9:00 Dialogue
9:30 The Beatles (cartoon)
10:00 Linus the Lionhearted
10:30 King Kong
11:00 Bullwinkle
11:30 Discovery ‘69 “Operation Weather”
12:00 Championship Bowling
12:30 Rifleman
1:00 Spotlight
1:30 Issues and Answers (guest: John W. McCormack (D-MA), Speaker of the House)
1:55 Basketball (Baltimore at Cincinnati)
4:00 American Sportsman
5:00 Movie
7:00 Land of the Giants
8:00 The FBI
9:00 Movie
11:00 News/Weather/Sports
11:15 News
11:30 Haney’s People
WOOD 8 Grand Rapids (NBC)
8:30 Faith for Today
9:00 WOODland Chapel
9:30 Travel Time
10:00 Word of Life
10:30 This Is the Life
11:00 Catholic Mass
12:00 Championship Bowling
12:30 Sno-Motion
1:00 Meet the Press (see ch4)
1:30 Fifteen with Father
1:45 Changing Times
2:00 Movie
4:00 Country Carnival
4:30 Experiment in Television “The Cube” (a non-Muppet Jim Henson film)
5:30 Frank McGee
6:00 College Bowl
6:30 Wild Kingdom
7:00 Huck Finn
7:30 Walt Disney (see ch4)
8:00 Mothers-in-Law
9:00 Bonanza
10:00 My Friend Tony
11:00 News/Weather/Sports
11:30 Movie
WWTV 9 Cadillac/Traverse City (CBS)
8:00 Cathedral of Tomorrow
9:00 Revival Fires
10:00 Day of Discovery
10:30 Film
11:00 Catholic Mass
12:00 This Is the Life
12:30 Face the Nation
1:00 Professionals
1:30 Children’s Film Festival “Doggie and Three”
2:30 Hockey (see ch2)
5:00 Killy Style Ski Show
6:00 Twenty-First Century (see ch3)
6:30 Death Valley Days
7:00 Lassie
7:30 Gentle Ben
8:00 Ed Sullivan
9:00 Smothers Brothers
10:00 Mission: Impossible
11:00 News/Weather/Sports
11:15 Run for Your Life
WILX/WMSB 10 Onondaga/East Lansing (NBC/NET) (shared time; WKAR 23 signed on in 1972 and became the full-time PBS affiliate leaving WILX with ch10 all to itself)
7:45 Rural Route 10
8:00 Achievement
8:30 Storybook Squares
9:00 Banana Splits
10:00 Flintstones
10:30 Help Wanted
11:00 Your Right to Say It “Income Tax and the Average American”
11:30 Lincoln Day Concert
1:30 NET Festival
2:00 Spin Back the Years “Two Great Songs”
3:00 The City Makers: Ghetto Tensions
3:30 U.S.A. - Theater
5:00 Recital Hall – Rambaldi
5:30 Movie
7:00 Walt Disney (see ch4)
8:30 Mothers-in-Law
9:00 Bonanza
10:00 Public Broadcast Laboratory
11:30 NET Playhouse “Talking to a Stranger: No Skill or Special Knowledge Required”
WJRT 12 Flint (ABC) (the default ABC affiliate for Lansing at the time; the market didn’t get its own ABC station, WLAJ 53, until 1990)
7:00 Word of Life
7:30 This Is the Life
8:00 The Story
8:30 Light Unto My Path
9:00 Insight
9:30 The Beatles (cartoon)
10:00 Linus the Lionhearted
10:30 Herald of Truth
11:00 Showcase of Homes
11:30 Discovery ‘69 “Operation Weather”
12:00 Social Security Today
12:30 Tell It Like It Is
1:00 Directions
1:30 Issues and Answers (see ch7)
1:55 Basketball (see ch7)
4:00 American Sportsman
5:00 Movie
6:30 Death Valley Days
7:00 Land of the Giants
8:00 The FBI
9:00 Movie
11:45 News (no listings given between 11-11:45)
12:15 Joe Pyne
Note: The paper gave no details on scheduled movies
WJBK 2 Detroit (CBS)
7:00 Cathedral of Tomorrow
8:00 This Is the Life
8:30 Temple Baptist Church
9:00 Mass for Shut-Ins
9:30 With This Ring
9:45 Highlights
10:00 Let’s See
10:30 Faith for Today
11:00 International Zone
11:30 Face the Nation
12:00 Changing Times
12:15 Moments in Music
12:30 Mister Ed
1:00 Movie
2:30 Hockey (Toronto at Minnesota)
5:00 Movie
6:00 News
6:30 Job Opportunity
7:00 Lassie
7:30 Truth or Consequences
8:00 Ed Sullivan
9:00 Smothers Brothers
10:00 Mission: Impossible
11:00 News/Weather/Sports
11:30 Movie
WKZO 3 Kalamazoo (CBS)
7:45 The Christophers
8:00 This Is the Life
8:30 Sacred Heart
8:45 Sunday Service
9:00 Tom and Jerry
9:30 Adventures of Aquaman
10:00 We Will Speak: Who Will Answer? “Models for Action”
11:00 U of M TV Hour
12:00 With This Ring
12:15 Industry on Parade
12:30 Face the Nation
1:00 TBA
1:30 Children’s Film Festival “Doggie and Three”
2:30 Hockey (see ch2)
5:00 Killy Style Ski Show
5:30 Amateur Hour
6:00 Twenty-First Century “The First Ten Months, Part II”
6:30 Skippy the Bush Kangaroo
7:00 Lassie
7:30 Gentle Ben
8:00 Ed Sullivan
9:00 Smothers Brothers
10:00 Mission: Impossible
11:00 News/Weather/Sports
11:15 Joe Pyne
1:00 Movie
WWJ 4 Detroit (NBC)
7:25 News
7:30 Country Living
8:00 Frontiers of Faith
8:30 Church at the Crossroads
8:55 Newsworthy
9:00 Oopsy the Clown
9:45 Davey and Goliath
10:00 House Detective
12:00 U of M Presents
12:30 International ZONE
1:00 Meet the Press (guest Paul W. McCracken, chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers)
1:30 Wild Kingdom
2:00 Beat the Champ
3:00 Car and Track
3:30 Target
4:00 TBA
4:30 Outdoors
5:00 Astrojet Golf
6:00 College Bowl
6:30 News/Weather/Sports
7:00 George Pierrot
7:30 Walt Disney “The Secret of Boyne Castle” (pt. 3 of 3)
8:30 Mothers-in-Law
9:00 Bonanza
10:00 My Friend Tony
11:00 News/Weather/Sports
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 Movie
WNEM 5 Bay City (NBC)
7:00 Big Picture
7:30 NBC Religious
8:00 Day of Discovery
8:30 God Is the Answer
9:00 Frontiers of Faith
9:30 Travel Time
10:00 Sunday Cartoons
11:00 Science Quiz
11:30 Open Camera
12:00 Championship Bowling
12:30 Wrestling
1:30 Night Train
2:00 Theater One
3:30 Wild Kingdom
4:00 World of Golf
5:00 Movie
7:00 Huck Finn
7:30 Walt Disney (see ch4)
8:30 Mothers-in-Law
9:00 Bonanza
10:00 My Friend Tony
11:00 News/Weather/Sports
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 Movie
WJIM 6 Lansing (CBS)
8:00 Cathedral of Tomorrow
9:00 Tom and Jerry
9:30 Adventures of Aquaman
10:00 Day of Discovery
10:30 This Is the Life
11:00 Camera Three “Aspects of the New Consciousness”
11:30 Face the Nation
12:00 Community Calendar
12:30 U of M TV
1:30 Children’s Film Festival “Doggie and Three”
2:30 Hockey (see ch2)
5:00 Killy Style Ski Show
5:30 Amateur Hour
6:00 Twenty-First Century (see ch3)
6:30 Formula
7:00 Lassie
7:30 Gentle Ben
8:00 Ed Sullivan
9:00 Smothers Brothers
10:00 Mission: Impossible
11:00 News/Weather/Sports
11:15 Wackiest Ship
WXYZ 7 Detroit (ABC)
7:30 TV College
8:30 Directions
9:00 Dialogue
9:30 The Beatles (cartoon)
10:00 Linus the Lionhearted
10:30 King Kong
11:00 Bullwinkle
11:30 Discovery ‘69 “Operation Weather”
12:00 Championship Bowling
12:30 Rifleman
1:00 Spotlight
1:30 Issues and Answers (guest: John W. McCormack (D-MA), Speaker of the House)
1:55 Basketball (Baltimore at Cincinnati)
4:00 American Sportsman
5:00 Movie
7:00 Land of the Giants
8:00 The FBI
9:00 Movie
11:00 News/Weather/Sports
11:15 News
11:30 Haney’s People
WOOD 8 Grand Rapids (NBC)
8:30 Faith for Today
9:00 WOODland Chapel
9:30 Travel Time
10:00 Word of Life
10:30 This Is the Life
11:00 Catholic Mass
12:00 Championship Bowling
12:30 Sno-Motion
1:00 Meet the Press (see ch4)
1:30 Fifteen with Father
1:45 Changing Times
2:00 Movie
4:00 Country Carnival
4:30 Experiment in Television “The Cube” (a non-Muppet Jim Henson film)
5:30 Frank McGee
6:00 College Bowl
6:30 Wild Kingdom
7:00 Huck Finn
7:30 Walt Disney (see ch4)
8:00 Mothers-in-Law
9:00 Bonanza
10:00 My Friend Tony
11:00 News/Weather/Sports
11:30 Movie
WWTV 9 Cadillac/Traverse City (CBS)
8:00 Cathedral of Tomorrow
9:00 Revival Fires
10:00 Day of Discovery
10:30 Film
11:00 Catholic Mass
12:00 This Is the Life
12:30 Face the Nation
1:00 Professionals
1:30 Children’s Film Festival “Doggie and Three”
2:30 Hockey (see ch2)
5:00 Killy Style Ski Show
6:00 Twenty-First Century (see ch3)
6:30 Death Valley Days
7:00 Lassie
7:30 Gentle Ben
8:00 Ed Sullivan
9:00 Smothers Brothers
10:00 Mission: Impossible
11:00 News/Weather/Sports
11:15 Run for Your Life
WILX/WMSB 10 Onondaga/East Lansing (NBC/NET) (shared time; WKAR 23 signed on in 1972 and became the full-time PBS affiliate leaving WILX with ch10 all to itself)
7:45 Rural Route 10
8:00 Achievement
8:30 Storybook Squares
9:00 Banana Splits
10:00 Flintstones
10:30 Help Wanted
11:00 Your Right to Say It “Income Tax and the Average American”
11:30 Lincoln Day Concert
1:30 NET Festival
2:00 Spin Back the Years “Two Great Songs”
3:00 The City Makers: Ghetto Tensions
3:30 U.S.A. - Theater
5:00 Recital Hall – Rambaldi
5:30 Movie
7:00 Walt Disney (see ch4)
8:30 Mothers-in-Law
9:00 Bonanza
10:00 Public Broadcast Laboratory
11:30 NET Playhouse “Talking to a Stranger: No Skill or Special Knowledge Required”
WJRT 12 Flint (ABC) (the default ABC affiliate for Lansing at the time; the market didn’t get its own ABC station, WLAJ 53, until 1990)
7:00 Word of Life
7:30 This Is the Life
8:00 The Story
8:30 Light Unto My Path
9:00 Insight
9:30 The Beatles (cartoon)
10:00 Linus the Lionhearted
10:30 Herald of Truth
11:00 Showcase of Homes
11:30 Discovery ‘69 “Operation Weather”
12:00 Social Security Today
12:30 Tell It Like It Is
1:00 Directions
1:30 Issues and Answers (see ch7)
1:55 Basketball (see ch7)
4:00 American Sportsman
5:00 Movie
6:30 Death Valley Days
7:00 Land of the Giants
8:00 The FBI
9:00 Movie
11:45 News (no listings given between 11-11:45)
12:15 Joe Pyne