Retro: Memphis Thursday Sept. 14, 1972

[briancraig]

WREC--3

6:15 Sunrise Semester
6:45 Above The Clouds
7 Good Morning From Memphis
7:50 CBS News
8:15 Captain Kangaroo
9 Joker's Wild
9:30 Price Is Right
10 Gambit
10:30 Love Of Life
11 Where The Heart Is
11:25 CBS News
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
12 N News
12:30 As The World Turns
1 Guiding Light
1:30 Edge Of Night
2 Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Secret Storm
3 Leave It To Beaver
3:30 Early Movie--The Walking Dead (1936)
5 I Love Lucy
5:30 CBS News
6 News
6:30 To Tell The Truth
7 The Waltons--debut
8 CBS Movie--Around The World In 80 Days (1956) Part 1
10 News
10:30 Late Movie--The Prize (1963)
12 M Sign Off News

WMC--5
7 Today
9 Dinah Shore
9:30 Concentration
10 Sale Of The Century
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 Jeopardy
11:30 Who, What Or Where
11:55 NBC News
12 News
12:30 Three On A Match
1 Days Of Our Lives
1:30 Doctors
2 Another World
2:30 Return To Peyton Place
3 Somerset
3:30 Mayberry R.F.D.
4 Hazel
4:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
5 News
6 NBC News
6:30 Truth Or Consequences
7 Flip Wilson
8 Ironside
9 Dean Martin
10 News
10:30 Johnny Carson
12 M Sign Off News

WHBQ--13
6:40 News
6:45 Eddie Bond
7 Cartoons
8 Jack LaLanne
8:30 Galloping Gourmet
9 Dialing For Dollars Movie--South Sea Sinner (1950)
11 Password
11:30 Split Second
12 News
12:30 Let's Make A Deal
1 Newlywed Game
1:30 Dating Game
2 General Hospital
2:30 One Life To Live
3 Love, American Style
3:30 Green Acres
4 Daniel Boone
5 News
5:30 ABC News
6 What's My Line
6:30 The Protectors
7 Mod Squad (2 hour special)
9 Owen Marshall
10 News
10:30 Movie--The Rounders (1965)
12:30 Dick Cavett
2 Sign Off News

 

[RobertMoore]

> WREC--3

> 7:50 CBS News
> 8:15 Captain Kangaroo

Actually "Captain Kangaroo" aired at 8AM, so they might have chopped off the first 15 minutes.

> 3 Leave It To Beaver
Pre-empted "Family Affair" reruns on CBS

> 10:30 Late Movie--The Prize (1963)
This would be Channel 3's late movie; They would pre-empt CBS' late movies.


> WHBQ--13

> 7 Cartoons
Actually a live show sponsored by Hart's Bread(When it was owned by Interstate Brands); Cartoons at the time it aired were 60s Popeye and Hanna-Barbera's "Abbott & Costello".

> 9 Dialing For Dollars Movie--South Sea Sinner (1950)
Pre-empted 10:30AM "Bewitched" reruns on ABC

> 12 News
Pre-empted "All My Children"

> 12:30 Dick Cavett(Delayed)


I have two questions:

Where's WKNO's listings?

Where did you get the listings from?

BTW thanks for posting this(It does bring up memories of my childhood in Tipton County, Tennessee)!

 

[briancraig]

Source was TV Guide.

Here's WKNO--10 for the day:

8:15 In-School Programming
10 Electric Company
10:30 In-School Programming
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 In-School Programming
2:45 World Outdoors
3 What's New
3:30 Workshop For Teachers: Making Music
4 Mister Rogers
4:30 Electric Company
5 Sesame Street
6 Navy Film
6:30 Channel 10 Travels
7 Jean Shepherd's America
7:30 Jazz Set
8 Hollywood Television Theatre
9 World Press
9:30 Thirty Minutes With

 

[ccmfan]

A few thoughts...

> WMC--5
> 9:30 Concentration
> 10 Sale Of The Century
> 10:30 Hollywood Squares
> 11 Jeopardy
> 11:30 Who, What Or Where


This definitely came from before WMC began dropping almost all daytime programming from NBC except for soaps and the daytime Wheel of Fortune, and replacing it with syndicated talk shows like Donahue, Oprah, etc. which they started doing later in the 70's. I know that they weren't the only ones, but I think that NBC stations doing this played a major factor in NBC eventually cutting their daytime programming back to just 2 hours of soaps.


> WHBQ--13
> 7 Cartoons - If I recall correctly it was mainly Popeye and the Three Stooges.

Seeing this lineup reminded me how much better daytime TV was at that time with lots of cartoons, game shows, and classic sitcom reruns, instead of nothing but soaps, trash talk, and courtroom shows. I actually looked forward to days when I was out of school so I could watch TV most of the day. I think stations like WMC that started dropping a big part of network daytime programming are the cause of the terrible state of daytime TV today.

 

[bpatrick]

> A few thoughts...
>
> > WMC--5
> > 9:30 Concentration
> > 10 Sale Of The Century
> > 10:30 Hollywood Squares
> > 11 Jeopardy
> > 11:30 Who, What Or Where
>
>
> This definitely came from before WMC began dropping almost
> all daytime programming from NBC except for soaps and the
> daytime Wheel of Fortune, and replacing it with syndicated
> talk shows like Donahue, Oprah, etc. which they started
> doing later in the 70's. I know that they weren't the only
> ones, but I think that NBC stations doing this played a
> major factor in NBC eventually cutting their daytime
> programming back to just 2 hours of soaps.
>
>
> > WHBQ--13
> > 7 Cartoons - If I recall correctly it was mainly
> Popeye and the Three Stooges.
>
> Seeing this lineup reminded me how much better daytime TV
> was at that time with lots of cartoons, game shows, and
> classic sitcom reruns, instead of nothing but soaps, trash
> talk, and courtroom shows. I actually looked forward to days
> when I was out of school so I could watch TV most of the
> day. I think stations like WMC that started dropping a big
> part of network daytime programming are the cause of the
> terrible state of daytime TV today.
>
I agree with your sentiments about daytime. That year (1972)
I liked to watch Joker's Wild, Price Is Right, Gambit, Jeopardy!,
The Who, What Or Where Game, and Three On A Match when I was home
from school. I wish there were more game shows even now. I
even think the talk shows were better; I was a captive audience
at dinnertime because my dad liked Merv Griffin, who was on
4:30-6 when we lived in Tampa in the mid-'70s. But looking back,
Merv's show wasn't so bad; at least he and his guests acted civilly
toward one another.

 

[rwells2265]

> > WREC--3
> > 8:15 Captain Kangaroo
>
> Actually "Captain Kangaroo" aired at 8AM, so they might have
> chopped off the first 15 minutes.

They did. I remember it well - over a CK logo slide, the announcer would quickly say "And now to Captain Kangaroo, in progress."

> > WHBQ--13
> > 7 Cartoons
> Actually a live show sponsored by Hart's Bread(When it was
> owned by Interstate Brands); Cartoons at the time it aired
> were 60s Popeye and Hanna-Barbera's "Abbott & Costello".

The show was called "Cartoon Time", and I remember it being a mixed bag of toons, mainly Popeye ... but I recall it being where I was introduced to Krazy Kat. ; only the last 15 minutes was the live kiddie show with "Captain (name escapes me at the moment)" -- THAT show (745-800 AM) was sponsored by Hart's Bread, and featured the "King Features Trilogy" cartoon package: SNUFFY SMITH, BEETLE BAILEY ... and the animated Abbott & Costello shorts.