Retro: Los Angeles Wed, Apr 27, 1977

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide-Los Angeles edition

2 KNXT-CBS Los Angeles
3 KEYT-ABC Santa Barbara (also on 8 Santa Barbara)
4 KNBC-NBC Los Angeles
5 KTLA-Ind Los Angeles
7 KABC-ABC Los Angeles
9 KHJ-Ind Los Angeles
11 KTTV-Ind Los Angeles
12 KCOY-CBS Santa Maria
13 KCOP-Ind Los Angeles
22 KWHY-Ind/Ethnic Los Angeles
24 KVCR-PBS San Bernardino (also on 62 Riverside)
28 KCET-PBS Los Angeles
30 KHOF-Rel Glendale
34 KMEX-Sp Los Angeles
36 KMIR-NBC Palm Springs
40 KLXA-Rel Los Angeles
42 KPLM-ABC Palm Springs (also on 82 Palm Springs)
50 KOCE-PBS Huntington Beach
52 KBSC-Ind Los Angeles
58 KLCS-PBS Los Angeles

Morning
5:00
5 News
9 Movie "The Secret Ways" cont'd (bw)
11 Movie "Serpent of the Nile" cont'd

5:05
5 News

5:30
11 My Favorite Martian

5:55
4 Knowledge "Urban Dilemmas" (pt 3)

6:00
2 Sunrise Semester "Teaching the Learning-Disabled"
3 PTL Club
7 Search
9 Meet the Mayors
11 University of the Air

6:15
13 Daybreak (Scott Ellsworth)

6:25
4 Not for Women Only "Diet Right!" (pt 3)
5 News

6:30
2 Law for the 70s
5 Villa Alegre
7 Michael Jackson
9 Super Talk
11 Bullwinkle
13 Superman/Aquaman/Batman
40 The Word

6:40
40 Day by Day (Dick Mills)

6:45
40 Behind the Scenes

6:55
4 News

7:00
2-12 CBS Morning News
3-7-42 Good Morning America
4-36 Today
5 700 Club
9 Frankly Female (Meredith MacRae and Greg Mullavey talk about their careers and their marriage)
11 Bugs & His Buddies
13 Bugs Bunny/Popeye
22 Stock Market Opening
28 Yoga for Health
40 Joy in the Morning (Paul Davis)

7:30
9 Lassie "Tempest" (pt 1)
11 Bugs & His Buddies
22 Market Update
28 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

8:00
2-12 Captain Kangaroo
9 Davey & Goliath
11 Flintstones
13 Heckle & Jeckle
28 Zoom

8:15
9 Davey & Goliath

8:30
5 The Rock
9 Body Buddies
11 Porky Pig
13 Cartoonville
22 Commodity Line
28 Villa Alegre
40 Jimmy Swaggart

9:00
2-12 Double Dare
3 PTL Club
4-36 Sanford & Son
5 Gallery (Johnny Grant)
7 AM Los Angeles
9 9 in the Morning
11 I Love Lucy (bw)
13 I Dream of Jeannie
22 New York Stock Exchange
24-28 Sesame Street
40 Inside Israel
42 Wonders of the World (Jamaica)
50 MacNeil-Lehrer Report

9:15
22 Bond Income Report

9:30
2-12 Price is Right
4-36 Hollywood Squares
5 Movie "Edge of Doom" (bw)
11 Green Acres
13 Romper Room
22 Market Update
40 Teach Us to Pray
42 Morning Report
50 Instructional Programs

9:45
42 Panorama del Valle

10:00
3-7-42 Happy Days
4-36 Wheel of Fortune
11 Hogan's Heroes
13 Collage
22 Market Coverage
24 Tribal Eye
28 Instructional Programs
40 Destined for the Throne

10:15
22 Jeanne Palmer

10:30
2-12 Love of Life
3-7-42 $20,000 Pyramid
4-36 Shoot for the Stars
11 Andy Griffith (bw)
13 Wildlife Adventure
22 Commodity Highlights
40 Praise the Lord!

10:45
22 Market Update

10:55
2-12 CBS News

11:00
2-12 Young and the Restless
3-7-42 Second Chance
4-36 Name That Tune
9 Movie "Thunder Bay"
11 Metronews, Metronews
13 Gomer Pyle, USMC
24 Instructional Programs
28 Electric Company
50 Vegetable Soup

11:30
2-12 Search for Tomorrow
3-7-42 Family Feud
4-36 Lovers & Friends
5 Mayberry RFD
11 Let's Rap
13 Nanny & the Professor
22 Market Coverage
28 Sesame Street
50 Electric Company
58 Anyone for Tennyson?

11:45
22 Market Update
34 Noticias

Afternoon
noon
2 Noontime (Wina/Llewelyn)
3-7-42 All My Children
4 That Girl
5 Rifleman (bw)
11 Movie "Girl Crazy" (bw)
12 Galloping Gourmet
13 I Dream of Jeannie
22 Concepts in Commodities
24-50 Sesame Street
34 Ahora Los Angeles
36 Good Day!
58 Instructional Programs

12:15
22 Market Update

12:30
2-12 As the World Turns
4-36 Days of Our Lives
5 Twilight Zone (bw)
13 Courtship of Eddie's Father
22 New York Stock Exchange
28 Yoga for Health
34 Un Canto de Mexico
40 Gospel Tones (Jerry Jones)

12:45
22 Commodity Report

1:00
3-7-42 Ryan's Hope
5 Movie "Danger-Love at Work" (bw)
9 News
13 Major Adams, Trailmaster (bw)
22 Market Closing Activities
24-28-50 Instructional Programs
34 Super Show
40 Teach Us to Pray
58 Medix

1:15
22 Dow 30
30 News

1:30
2-12 Guiding Light
3-7-42 One Life to Live
4-36 Doctors
9 Divorce Court
22 Charting the Market
30 Sonrise: Festival of Faith
40 Inside Israel
58 Man Builds, Man Destroys

2:00
2-12 All in the Family
4-36 Another World
9 Movie "The Christmas Kid"
13 News
22 Focus on Britain '77 (businessmen Clifford Champman and William Cormany Jr. discuss business in Northern England)
34 El Derecho de los Hijos
58 Big Blue Marble

2:15
3-7-42 General Hospital

2:20
11 Ben Hunter

2:30
2-12 Match Game
5 Ozzie & Harriet
11 Bozo's Big Top
13 Cartoons
24 Lilias, Yoga & You
40 Spirit Song
50 Instructional Programs

3:00
2-12 Tattletales
3-7-42 Edge of Night
4-36 Gong Show
5 Dick Van Dyke (bw)
11 Valley of the Dinosaurs
13 Popeye
24 Once Upon a Classic
28 Search, a Quest for Personal Meaning
34 Pichimhuida
40 Praise the Lord!
50 Sesame Street
52 Kimba the White Lion
58 Management

3:30
2-36 Mike Douglas (co-host Tamara Dobson/guests Darilyn Dobson (Tamara's sister), author Sterling Hayden, Victoria Fyodorova, Kenny Nolan, and Ricky Jay)
3 Marcus Welby, MD "In My Father's House"
4 Medical Center
5 Big Valley
7 Movie "The Tunnel of Love" (bw)
11 Bugs & His Buddies
12 Not for Women Only
13 Cartoonville
24 Villa Alegre
28 Chant to Dance
30 PTL Club
42 Lassie
52 Banana Splits & Friends
58 Teaching Children with Special Needs

4:00
9 I Spy
11 Bugs & His Buddies
12 Bonanza
13 Heckle & Jeckle
24 Sesame Street
28 Villa Alegre
34 El Mundo de Jugete
42 Movie "Prince of Foxes" (bw)
50 Zoom
52 Ultra Man
58 Metrify or Petrify

4:30
3 Ironside
4 To Tell the Truth
5 Dragnet
11 Archies
13 Bugs Bunny
28 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
34 El Mariachi
50 Electric Company
52 Spiderman
58 Dynamics of Classroom Behavior

5:00
2-4-7 News
5 Bonanza
9 Wild Wild West
11 New Mickey Mouse Club
12 Star Trek
13 Kartoon Kompany
22 Pelicula: TBA
24-50 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
28 Sesame Street
36 Dinah! (guests David Frost, Bobby Goldsboro, Thelma Houston, Martin Mull, and Dan Haggerty)
40 One Way Game
52 Johnny Sokko
58 Infinity Factory

5:30
3 Adam-12
11 Bewitched
13 Superman
24 Lilias, Yoga & You
30 Living Word
34 Noticiero
40 Behind the Scenes
50 Villa Alegre
52 Leave It to Beaver (bw)
58 Wordsmith

5:45
40 The Word
58 Cover to Cover

5:55
40 Day by Day (Dick Mills)

Evening
6:00
2-12 CBS Evening News
3 ABC Evening News
4-7-36-42 News
5 Star Trek
9 Gunsmoke (Jan-Michael Vincent plays a young man on the way to becoming an outlaw like his brothers)
11 Partridge Family
13 Adam-12 (filmed at LA's Traveltown Museum)
24 Foods for the Modern Family
28 Electric Company
30 Film
34 La Usurapadora
40 Destined for the Throne
50 Chant to Dance
52 Little Rascals (bw)
58 Faces of Change

6:30
2 Dinah! (guests Vincent Price, Rich Little, Ben Johnson, Jean Simmons, and Rick Dees)
3-12 News
11 Family Affair
13 Adam-12
24 Law for the 70s
28 Zoom
30 Jimmy Swaggart
36 Town Talk (John Conte)
40 Inside Israel
42 Not for Women Only "Women and Money" (pt 3)
50 Search, a Quest for Personal Meaning
52 Little Rascals (bw)
58 Positive Approaches to Classroom Discipline

6:50
22 Los Astros Te Guian

7:00
3 Emergency One!
4-36 NBC Nightly News
5 Liar's Club
7-42 ABC Evening News
9 Concentration
11 I Love Lucy (bw)
12 Phil Donahue
13 FBI
22 Korean Drama
24 Music in Western Culture
28 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
30 Festival of Faith Telethon
34 24 Horas
40 Teach Us to Pray
50 Applied Techniques of Sketching
52 McHale's Navy (bw)
58 American History

7:30
4-26 $100,000 Name That Tune
5 Love, American Style
7 Match Game PM
9 Joker's Wild
11 Brady Bunch
24 News
28 28 Tonight
40 Enjoying Marriage
42 Mr. Lucky
50 Starboard
52 Little Rascals (bw)
58 Student News

7:45
58 Noticiero Estudiantil

8:00
2-12 Good Times
3-7-42 Bionic Woman
4-36 Grizzly Adams
5 Movie "Petulia"
9 Movie "Silent Night, Lonely Night"
11 Wild, Wild World of Animals (raccoons)
13 All That Glitters
22 Korean Variety Hour
24-28 Nova "The Renewable Tree" (efforts to meet the growing need for wood)
34 Lucha Libre
40 Dwight Thompson
50 Soundstage (guests the Spinners)
58 Romantic Rebellion (J.M.W. Turner, pt 1)

8:30
2-12 Loves Me, Loves Me Not (finale)
11 Cross-Wits
13 Perry Mason (bw)
22 Korean News
40 Jimmy Swaggart
58 Consumer Survival Kit

9:00
2-12 Movie "El Condor"
3-7-42 Baretta
4-36 Movie "The Savage Bees"
11 Merv Griffin (guests Zsa Zsa Gabor, Teresa Brewer, Hans Conried, Stan Kann, and Kenny Nolan)
22 Korean Home Drama
24-28 Theater in America "The Prince of Homburg"
40 Praise the Lord!
50 Woman Alive!

9:30
13 Mod Squad
34 La Criada Bien Criada

10:00
3-7-42 Charlie's Angels
5-9 News
22 Israel Today
30 Festival of Faith Telethon
34 El Bien Amado
50 Microbes & Men

10:30
11-13 News
34 Noticiero

11:00
2-3-4-7-12-36-42 News
5 Love, American Style
9 Ironside
11 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
13 Honeymooners (bw)
24 Dialogues
28 Classic Theatre Preview (Chekov's The Three Sisters is discussed by scholar Victor Erlich and actresses Janet Suzman and Eileen Atkins)
34 El Dios del Barrio
50 MacNeil-Lehrer Report

11:25
2 KNXT Editorial

11:30
2-12 Movie "The Keegans"
3-7 Rookies
4-36 Tonight Show (guests Helen Reddy, author Dr. Paul Ehrlich, and David Sayh)
5 Love, American Style
11 Metronews, Metronews
13 Sergeant Bilko (bw)
24 Captioned ABC News
34 Pelicula "Placeres conyugales"
40 Behind the Scenes
42 PTL Club

11:45
40 Day by Day (Dick Mills)

11:50
40 The Word

Late Night
midnight
5 Best of Groucho (bw)
9 Movie "Bigger Than Life"
11 Movie "Angel and the Badman" (bw)
13 Movie "Les Miserables" (bw)

12:30
5 Movie "A Kiss on the Dark" (bw)

12:40
3-7 Mystery of the Week "The Two Deaths of Sean Dolittle"

1:00
4-36 Tomorrow (in Chicago with guest Paul Harvey)

1:05
2 News

1:35
2 KNXT Editorial

1:40
2 Movie "The Old Dark House"

2:00
4-13 News
9 Movie "The Tarnished Angels" (bw)
11 Movie "Three Stripes in the Sun" (bw)

2:10
3-7 News

2:30
5 News

3:00
5 Movie "Roseanna McCoy" (bw)

4:00
9 Movie "One Desire"
11 Movie "Folly to Be Wise" (bw)

4:05
2 Noontime (Wina/Llewelyn)

 

[blackgold]

Well, it looks like KBSC-TV channel 52 went to subscription TV after 8 p.m.

 

[azumanga]

6:00
11 University of the Air

Was this the same program that aired in Canada on CTV?

7:00
11 Bugs & His Buddies
13 Bugs Bunny/Popeye

Which station had the pre-48 AAPs and which had the post-48 cartoons?

10:30
11-13 News

11:00
11 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman

11:30
11 Metronews, Metronews

I believe "Metronews, Metronews" was a satirical news program that followed Mary Hartman (hence the way it was named).

 

[LKellerIII]

10:30
11-13 News

11:00
11 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman

11:30
11 Metronews, Metronews

I believe "Metronews, Metronews" was a satirical news program that followed Mary Hartman (hence the way it was named).

That is correct. The straight 10:30 news on KTTV was Metronews (named after the station's wwner - Metromedia). But after Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman was the satirical Metronews, Metrwonews.

 

[gregg75]

Amazing how much air time was devoted to cartoons back then on several channels.

But they went the way of the game shows and variety shows......those were the days.

 

[bpatrick]

Michael Jackson at 6:30 AM on Ch. 7 is the same one
who had a talk show on KABC radio; I remember he sounded
as if he was from England. He is in no way to be confused with
"the king of pop,"; he's been known to joke that he doesn't mind
playing second fiddle to the better-known Michael Jackson.

 

[LKellerIII]

Michael Jackson at 6:30 AM on Ch. 7 is the same one
who had a talk show on KABC radio; I remember he sounded
as if he was from England. He is in no way to be confused with
"the king of pop,"; he's been known to joke that he doesn't mind
playing second fiddle to the better-known Michael Jackson.

Yes - Michael Jackson (the talk host) is from London. He has a great set of pipes. Interesting history, too - he started out as a Top 40 DJ in the mid 60s, when every station wanted a British sounding DJ - it was the "British Invasion" era - Beatles, Stones, etc. In San Francisco, he was billed as Michael Scotland - just to make sure everybody got the point.

He moved to LA to do Talk Radio on KABC - I remember my mother listening to him when I was 13 or 14...I just turned 60. He stayed at KABC for decades, until the station lost out to competitors, and they decided he was too old, I guess. He's now on NPR station KPCC apparently.

I remember Jackson telling a story about Senator Ted Kennedy, who he had no respect for despite the fact that their political views were similar. Kennedy was apparently on Michael's show, and was a bit inebriated. At the end of the interview, Kennedy told Jackson how much he liked his music. Jackson believes he was serious.

http://www.michaeljacksontalkradio.com/

 

[Ultimajock]

Well, it looks like KBSC-TV channel 52 went to subscription TV after 8 p.m.

...in fact, it was earlier this same month that ON-TV started over KBSC/52...

 

[LKellerIII]

I grew up in LA in the 60s, when both KCOP 13 and KHJ-TV 9 were pitiful. I left in 73, so it's interesting to note how bad those 2 channels still were...Channel 9 may be worse, if anything. In the 60s, they at least had the connection with KHJ radio with the afternoon and Saturday night dance party shows ( Boss City,The Real Don Steele, Groovy!, ).This doesn't look like a great period for KTLA, either. I recall that when I left in 73, KTLA was running Highway Patrol about 5 times a day.

I don't have any idea what their respective ratings were, but if programming is any indication, Metromedia run KTTV must have done better than the other 3 in the late 70s.

 

[pqgeorge]

Well, it looks like KBSC-TV channel 52 went to subscription TV after 8 p.m.

...in fact, it was earlier this same month that ON-TV started over KBSC/52...

Was this under Kaiser ownership or was Channel 52 already sold by then? I know that Kaiser sold all of their remaining stations to Field Communications when they got out of the TV and radio business in late 1977. From what I see, KBSC/Channel 52 was a very small fish in a very busy VHF indie pond (5, 9, 11 and 13). Most of the remaining "conventional" hours of Channel 52 (non-scrambled) seemed to be standard Kaiser indie fare (see on other Kaiser stations like, WLVI, KBHK, WKBS and so on).

 

[wbhist]

Well, it looks like KBSC-TV channel 52 went to subscription TV after 8 p.m.

...in fact, it was earlier this same month that ON-TV started over KBSC/52...

Was this under Kaiser ownership or was Channel 52 already sold by then? I know that Kaiser sold all of their remaining stations to Field Communications when they got out of the TV and radio business in late 1977. From what I see, KBSC/Channel 52 was a very small fish in a very busy VHF indie pond (5, 9, 11 and 13). Most of the remaining "conventional" hours of Channel 52 (non-scrambled) seemed to be standard Kaiser indie fare (see on other Kaiser stations like, WLVI, KBHK, WKBS and so on).

From my understanding, Kaiser / Field had sold off KBSC to an entity called Oak Broadcasting. (They also sold their share of WUAB Channel 43 in Cleveland {which they'd accrued in 1975 as a partnership with United Artists after the demise of Kaiser-owned WKBF Channel 61} to Gaylord Broadcasting that same year, leaving only WLVI, KBHK, WKBS, Chicago's WFLD and Detroit's WKBD by the time Kaiser gave way to Field on Aug. 2, 1977.)

 

[Mike Stroud]

3:30

4 Medical Center

I have recently discovered, via YouTube clips, how great this early-to-mid-70s hospital drama was. Most Americans remember it for having launched Chad Everett as a matinee idol, but this show was about as realistic as "doc shows" got in those days, with plenty of understated (read: no shouting or sarcasm) drama to boot. Most episodes revolved around the built-in tension between a veteran surgeon (James Daly, father of Tim and Tyne) and an ambitious but conscientious up-and-comer (Everett). You can count Medical Center, in my book, as one of the most overlooked gems in TV history. It certainly deserves more attention from TV historians than its contemporary, Marcus Welby, M.D. (apologies beforehand to Robert Young fans).

KNBC was running syndie episodes here in the first year after the show's cancellation on CBS. Does anybody recall if Medical Center did well in syndication? I think it fizzled out within the first year, since it never was a big smash hit on the network.

 

[azumanga]

KNBC was running syndie episodes here in the first year after the show's cancellation on CBS. Does anybody recall if Medical Center did well in syndication? I think it fizzled out within the first year, since it never was a big smash hit on the network.

It must have not done well in syndication -- in the Flint / Saginaw market, no one carried it; in Tampa Bay, it was on WLCY / WTSP, but it was off the air by the time we moved to Florida.

 

[searadiofreak]

No local news at 4pm. I know KABC was the first with this, what year? I gotta believe soon after this, or perhaps early 80's?

 

[wbhist]

No local news at 4pm. I know KABC was the first with this, what year? I gotta believe soon after this, or perhaps early 80's?

September 1980. KABC still ran The 3:30 Movie as of this point.

 

[searadiofreak]

No local news at 4pm. I know KABC was the first with this, what year? I gotta believe soon after this, or perhaps early 80's?

September 1980. KABC still ran The 3:30 Movie as of this point.

Thanks, I thought it was around that time. KABC really ruled throughout the 80's. Will never forget the late Jerry Dunphy, the last of the great L.A. anchormen, with "From the Desert To The Sea, To All Of Southern California"...just classic stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGSjfvCB65M

 

[LKellerIII]

No local news at 4pm. I know KABC was the first with this, what year? I gotta believe soon after this, or perhaps early 80's?

September 1980. KABC still ran The 3:30 Movie as of this point.

Thanks, I thought it was around that time. KABC really ruled throughout the 80's. Will never forget the late Jerry Dunphy, the last of the great L.A. anchormen, with "From the Desert To The Sea, To All Of Southern California"...just classic stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGSjfvCB65M

If you're as old as me, you remember Jerry Dunphy on The Big News on KNXT 2 as early as 1960 or 61...IIRC

And check this one out - Dunphy doing a little acting...very funny!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xRFta16_Nk

 

[searadiofreak]

No local news at 4pm. I know KABC was the first with this, what year? I gotta believe soon after this, or perhaps early 80's?

September 1980. KABC still ran The 3:30 Movie as of this point.

Thanks, I thought it was around that time. KABC really ruled throughout the 80's. Will never forget the late Jerry Dunphy, the last of the great L.A. anchormen, with "From the Desert To The Sea, To All Of Southern California"...just classic stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGSjfvCB65M

If you're as old as me, you remember Jerry Dunphy on The Big News on KNXT 2 as early as 1960 or 61...IIRC

And check this one out - Dunphy doing a little acting...very funny!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xRFta16_Nk

Yes, that is great. From "Rosanne"?

I was born in 1959, so I don't remember Jerry on The Big News on 2. However, I recall seeing short clips of this. Not much on YouTube from this era. The title, "The Big News" was used in several markets back in the 60's, but this name has not moved into the modern era. I kinda like it! Also, the term "Breaking News" was not used back then, it was "This just In", but I digress. Bottom line, Jerry was one of the great L.A. anchormen, and he and Chick Hearn define L.A. broadcasting for me.