Retro: Memphis, TN - August 16, 1977

[RandTV]

3 WREG (CBS)
AM
6:00 CBS Morning News
7:00 Good Morning From Memphis
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Here's Lucy
9:30 The Price is Right
10:30 Love of Life
11:00 The Young and the Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
PM
12:00 Newswatch 3
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2:00 All in the Family
2:30 Match Game '77 (Panel: Nipsey Russell, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Suzanne Somers [no relation to Brett], Richard Dawson, Patti Deutsch)
3:00 Movie: Story of a Woman (1970)
5:00 The Beverly Hillbillies
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 Newswatch 3
6:30 The $25,000 Pyramid (Bill Cullen)
7:00 CBS Reports: War and Peace - The West Bank
8:00 M*A*S*H
8:30 One Day at a Time
9:00 Kojak
10:00 Newswatch 3
10:30 CBS Late Night Movie: A Night to Remember (1970)
AM
1:00 Movie: The Brass Bottle (1964)

5 WMC (NBC)
AM
6:25 Chapel
6:30 Dusty's Treehouse (from KNXT Los Angeles)
7:00 Today
9:00 Sanford & Son
9:30 Donahue
10:30 It's Anybody's Guess (Monty Hall)
11:00 Shoot for the Stars (Geoff Edwards)
11:30 Chico & the Man
PM
12:00 Action News 5
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2:00 Another World
3:00 The Gong Show
3:30 Bewitched
4:00 The Brady Bunch
4:30 Adam-12
5:00 Action News 5
6:00 NBC Nightly News (John Chancellor & David Brinkley)
6:30 The Cross-Wits (Jack Clark)
7:00 Baa Baa Black Sheep
8:00 Police Woman
9:00 Police Story
10:00 Action News 5
10:30 The Tonight Show (Guest Host: John Davidson; Guests: Eva Gabor, John Shuck)
AM
12:00 Tomorrow (Topic: "Privacy in the Computer Age")

10 WKNO (PBS)
AM
9:55 Community Bulletin Board
10:00 Paint Along Antiques
11:00 Evening at (Boston) Pops
PM
12:00 Sesame Street
1:00 The Electric Company
1:30 Paint Along Antiques
2:00 Winter Olympics '76
2:30 Lilias, Yoga and You
3:00 Sesame Street
4:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 The Electric Company
5:00 AG (Agricultural) Science in Action
5:30 Studio See
6:00 Winter Olympics '76
6:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:00 Music in Jerusalem
8:00 Opera Theatre: The Mikado
10:00 Cookin' Cajun
10:30 ABC Captioned News (for the hearing-impaired)

13 WHBQ (ABC)
AM
6:00 Gomer Pyle, USMC
6:30 Gilligan's Island
7:00 Good Moring America*
9:00 Happy Days
9:30 Family Feud
10:00 Dialing for Dollars Movie: Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)
PM
12:00 Eyewitness News
12:30 All My Children
1:30 One Life to Live
2:15 General Hospital
3:00 The Edge of Night
3:30 My Three Sons
4:00 Emergency One!
5:00 ABC Evening News (Harry Reasoner & Barbara Walters)
5:30 The Andy Griffith Show
6:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 Happy Days
7:30 Laverne & Shirley
8:00 ABC Tuesday Night Movie: For Pete's Sake (1974)
10:00 Eyewitness News
10:30 Gunsmoke
11:30 ABC Late Night - Movie: WUSA (1970)

Source: Memphis Commercial Appeal; *WHBQ (ABC) lists "Eyewitness News" at 8:00 am and its local talk show "Straight Talk" at 8:05. Accuracy is uncertain since "Good Morning America" has always been a two-hour program.

 

[anotherguyTN]

OF course this was the day that Elvis Presley died, so how much programming was pre-empted that day?

 

[RandTV]

OF course this was the day that Elvis Presley died, so how much programming was pre-empted that day

That's why I made this schedule. I've also listed the New York City schedule from the day John Lennon died there. I wouldn't know for sure about the pre-emptions though.

 

[SteveRichards]

Source: Memphis Commercial Appeal; *WHBQ (ABC) lists "Eyewitness News" at 8:00 am and its local talk show "Straight Talk" at 8:05. Accuracy is uncertain since "Good Morning America" has always been a two-hour program.

A number of ABC affiliates only cleared the first hour of GMA for a few years. Looks like WHBQ was airing the ABC reruns of Happy Days and Family Feud either a day or week behind at 9:00 to make room for the Dialing for Dollars movie.

10:30 CBS Late Night Movie: A Night to Remember (1970)

It has always been my impression (based on what I've read over the years) that WREG never cleared The CBS Late Movie. WREG apparently cleared it here. However, the movie listed, A Night to Remember, is likely from 1958, not 1970. I can't find any reference to a movie with that title that was made in 1970. I have confirmed that this is was a network showing and not a mislabeled syndicated movie.

 

[RandTV]

A number of ABC affiliates only cleared the first hour of GMA for a few years. Looks like WHBQ was airing the ABC reruns of Happy Days and Family Feud either a day or week behind at 9:00 to make room for the Dialing for Dollars movie.

It has always been my impression (based on what I've read over the years) that WREG never cleared The CBS Late Movie. WREG apparently cleared it here. However, the movie listed, A Night to Remember, is likely from 1958, not 1970. I can't find any reference to a movie with that title that was made in 1970. I have confirmed that this is was a network showing and not a mislabeled syndicated movie.

That was my mistake. It WAS 1958. I can see WHBQ didn't clear the ABC Goodson-Todman game show The Better Sex, hosted by Bill Anderson and Sarah Purcell.

 

[anotherguyTN]

It has always been my impression (based on what I've read over the years) that WREG never cleared The CBS Late Movie. WREG apparently cleared it here. However, the movie listed, A Night to Remember, is likely from 1958, not 1970. I can't find any reference to a movie with that title that was made in 1970. I have confirmed that this is was a network showing and not a mislabeled syndicated movie.

WREG had carried local late movies for years and may have carried the CBS Late Movie for a time in the late 70's. But in the 80's they switched to syndicated reruns of MASH and later Cheers and didn't carry any of CBS's late night programming until David Letterman moved there in 1993.

 

[Ccook55]

I can see WHBQ didn't clear the ABC Goodson-Todman game show The Better Sex, hosted by Bill Anderson and Sarah Purcell.

Likewise, they didn't clear $20,000 Pyramid, WMC didn't clear Wheel of Fortune and Hollywood Squares, and WREG didn't clear Tattletales.

 

[anotherguyTN]

WMC was the worst about pre-emptions in from the late 70's to the early 90's especially in the daytime. WHBQ was bad at times but usually anything I wanted to see that wasn't there would be on WBBJ 7 in Jackson. WREG usually only pre-empted the 3 PM CT slot for movies until CBS dropped that slot anyway. The only time I didn't like that was when Match Game and later Press Your Luck ran at that time.

 

[only1moore]

That was my mistake. It WAS 1958. I can see WHBQ didn't clear the ABC Goodson-Todman game show The Better Sex, hosted by Bill Anderson and Sarah Purcell.

As for “Happy Days” and “Family Feud”, WHBQ aired the two shows on a one week delay. “Ryan’s Hope” was pre-empted during this period, and “Good Morning America“ was only one hour until 1978, when WHBQ cleared most of the ABC daytime schedule.