Retro: Milwaukee - Fri.-Mon., Mar 25-28, 1977 (affiliation swap)

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Sources: Milwaukee Journal and Sentinal via geneologybank.com

NOTE: I will be listing the weekend schedules followed by the Friday and Monday schedules.

Part I
Saturday 26, 1977

4 WTMJ (NBC)
6:00 Agriculture USA
6:30 Library Playhouse
6:45 Library Story
7:00 Woody Woodpecker
7:30 Pink Panther
9:00 Speed Buggy
9:30 Monster Squad
10:00 Space Ghost and Frankenstein Jr.
11:00 Land of the Lost
11:30 Muggsy
NOON Kidsworld
12:30 Gazette
1:00 NCAA Basketball Semifinals Doubleheader - 1) Marquette (Milwaukee) vs. UNC Charlotte; 2) North Carolina vs. UNLV (both games played at The Omni in Atlanta)
5:00 Ara Pareghian's Sports World
5:30 NBC Nightly News - John Hart
6:00 News 4
6:30 Hollywood Squares
7:00 Emergency!: "Limelight"
8:00 NBC Saturday Night at the Movies: "The Stone Killer" (1973) - Charles Bronson, Martin Balsam, Jack Colvin, Ralph Waite, John Ritter, Norman Fell (four years before the latter two co-starred in Three's Company)
10:00 News 4
10:30 Saturday Night Live - Host: Jack Burns; Musical guest: Santana
12:20 Midnight Special (aired Saturday Nights on this station) - Host: Aretha Franklin: Guests: The Babys, Brian Cadd, Glenn Campbell, Thin Lizzy, Queen (probably in a music video); Special features: Salute to Neil Sedaka with him singing a medley of his songs, along with clips of previous appearances, and talking about his career; film clip of "A Star is Born" with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson
1:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert

6 WITI (last day with ABC)
6:25 TV Chapel
6:30 Hot Fudge Show
7:00 Tom & Jerry/Mumbly
7:30 Jabberjaw
8:00 Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt
9:30 Krofft Supershow
10:30 Super Friends
11:00 ABC Short Story Special: "The Haunted Trailer" (Second of four broadcasts which paved the way for the ABC Weekend Special the following season.)
11:30 American Bandstand - Guests: Sons of Champlin
12:30 Children's Film Classic: "Paul Revere"
1:30 Encyclopedia Britannica Special
2:00 Splits, Spares & Strikes
2:30 Championship Billiards
3:00 Golf - Heritage Classic, Third Round (Hilton Head Island, SC)
4:00 ABC's Wide World of Sports - 1) Horse Racing - Flamingo Stakes (Hialeah, FL); 2) NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships (Cleveland); 3) World Trophy Freestyle Skiiing Championships (Stratton, VT)
5:30 The McGuire Years - A look back at Al McGuire's 13 years as Marquette University basketball coach, which ended that year with their championship victory over North Carolina the following Monday (see ch. 4 at 1:00 PM)
6:00 Wild, Wild World of Animals
6:30 Andy (Williams) - Guest: Lesley Ann Warren
7:00 Blanksy's Beauties: "Anthony Falls in Love"
7:30 Fish: "The Neighbors"
8:00 Starsky & Hutch: "Murder at Sea" (Oct 2, 1976; 2 hours)
10:00 TV6 News
10:30 Late Show: "Prescription: Murder" (first of two Columbo pilots; aired Feb 20, 1968)
12:25 ABC Weekend News
12:40 Nightmare Theater: "Doctor Blood's Coffin" (1961) - Kieron Moore, Hazel Hunter, Ian Hunter
2:25 Speak Freely
2:30 TV Chapel

10 WMVS (PBS)
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Mister Rogers
9:30 Electric Company
10:00 Wall $treet Week
10:30 Woman
11:00 Black Perpective on the News
11:30 An Ounce of Prevention
NOON Car Care
12:30 Para Usted (For You)
12:55 Noticias
1:00 Latino Consortium
1:30 My Dwelling Place
2:30 Sports in Japan
3:00 Soundstage - Featured: Charlie Daniels Band, Leo Kottke
4:00 Nova: "The Woman Rebel" - Piper Laurie as Margaret Sanger
5:00 Kup's Show - Guests: Valerie Harper, Dick Schaal, Andy Williams, Elliott Gould, Fred Williamson, Tony Randall, Judy Carne
6:00 Rebop
6:30 Once Upon a Classic: "The Battle of Billy's Pond" (1 hour)
7:30 The Way It Was - 1968 Harvard vs. Yale Football Classic
8:00 An Evening of Championship Skating
9:00 Firing Line
10:00 Woman
10:30 David Susskind

12 WISN (last day with CBS)
6:40 Opportunity
7:00 Sylvester & Tweety
7:30 Clue Club
8:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
9:00 Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle
9:30 New Adventures of Batman
10:00 Shazam!/Isis Hour
11:00 Fat Albert
11:30 Ark II
NOON Way Out Games
12:30 CBS News Special: "What Are Monsters All About?" (e.g., Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, Abominable Snowman); Host: Christopher Glenn
1:00 Big Valley
2:00 Mission: Impossible
3:00 Wild, Wild West
4:00 Star Trek
5:00 Channel 12 Action News
5:30 CBS Evening News - Bob Schieffer
6:00 Break the Bank - Jack Barry
6:30 Last of the Wild
7:00 Mary Tyler Moore: "Mary the Writer" (Oct 2, 1976)
7:30 Bob Newhart: "Some of My Best Friends Are..." (Oct 9, 1976) - Guest starring: Howard Hesseman
8:00 All in the Family: "The Unemployment Story: Part 2" (Oct 13, 1976)
8:30 Alice: "Mel's Happy Burger" (Season Finale)
9:00 Carol Burnett - Guest: Ken Berry
10:00 Channel 12 Action News
10:30 United Cerebral Palsy Telethon (continuing through Sunday at 6:00 PM)

18 WVTV (Ind.)
11:30 America's Problems and Challenges
NOON Big Blue Marble
12:30 Fishing With Roland Martin
1:00 The Racers
1:30 Saturday Afternoon Movie: "The Invisible Woman" (1940) - Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, John Howard, Margaret Hamilton, Shemp Howard (before his stint with The Three Stooges)
3:00 The Untouchables
4:00 Perry Mason
5:00 All-Star Wrestling
6:00 Hee Haw - Guests: Connie Smith, Merle Travis, Tennessee Ernie Ford (Season Finale)
7:00 Music Hall America - Guests: Jimmy Dean, George Jones, Ronnie Prophet, Jeannie C. Riley, Billy Swan
8:00 WVTV Saturday Night at the Movies I: "The Giant Gila Monster" (1959) - Don Sullivan, Fred Graham, Lisa Simone, Shug Fisher
9:30 WVTV Saturday Night at the Movies II: "Face of Terror" (1962) - Lisa Gaye, Fernando Rey, Virgilio Teixeira
11:00 700 Club

36 WMVT (PBS secondary)
1:00 (PM) Grand Prix Tennis - La Costa International Championship (Carlsbad, CA)
6:00 Target: The State
6:30 NCAA Hockey Championship - Wisconsin vs. Michigan (Badgers won the title)
9:00 Book Beat - Guest: Erma Bombeck
9:30 Cinema 36: "The Queen of Spades" (1949) - Edith Evans, Anton Walbrook, Yvonne Mitchell

 

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Part II
Sunday, March 27, 1977

WTMJ (NBC)
6:00 Consultatio6:30 Songs of Faith
7:00 Sunday Morning Worship
7:30 This Is the Life
8:00 East Side Kids: "Mr. Muggs Steps Out" (1943)
9:30 Hopalong Cassidy
10:00 Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
10:30 Lone Ranger
11:00 Bowling With the Champs
NOON Voters' Guide - Candidates for Milwaukee Publics School Board positions.
1:00 Inner View
1:30 NCAA Special - Highlights of the 1976-77 NCAA Basketball season and the NCAA Indoor Track & Field meet in Detroit.
2:30 Changing Face of Baseball - Host: Joe Garagiola
3:30 Grandstand
4:00 Meet the Press - Guest: Sen. Alan Cranston (D-CA), Senate Majority Whip
4:30 Petula Clark Special
5:30 NBC Nightly News - Cassie Mackin
6:00 Wonderful World of Disney: "The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit", Part 2 of 2 (1968) - Dean Jones, Diane Baker, Kurt Russell, Morey Amsterdam
7:00 Humphrey Bogart Special: "Play It Again Bogie" - Host: Peter Lawford; Guests: Ida Lupino, Ingrid Bergman, George Raft, Joseph Mancklewitz, Stanley Kramer, Joan Blondell (locally pre-empting the NBC movie "Flight to Holocaust", as with the following program)
8:00 Your Choice for the Oscars - Hosts: George Peppard, Valerie Perrine
10:00 4 News
10:30 Sunday Night Theatre: "The Wheeler Dealers" (1963) - James Garner, Lee Remick
MIDNIGHT The Loyal Opposition
1:00 Gazette

6 WITI (first day with CBS)
6:40 TV Chapel
6:45 Sacred Heart
7:00 Robert Schuller
8:00 Mass for Shut-Ins
8:30 Father Gene's The Answer is Love
8:45 Judaism in the World
9:00 Day of Discovery
9:30 Oral Roberts
10:00 Reach Out
10:30 Face the Nation - Guest: Jody Powell, President Carter's press Secretary
11:00 Public Conference
11:30 Porky Pig & Friends
NOON Challenge of the Sexes
12:45 NBA Basketball - Kansas City Kings vs. San Antonio Spurs
3:00 Golf - Sea Pines Heritage Classic, Final Round (Turns out ch. 6 aired it the day before while still ABC, despite it being a CBS Sports program.)
5:00 Wisconsin Sports World
5:30 Weekend Milwaukee
6:00 60 Minutes
7:00 Rhoda: "Meet the Levys" (Nov 15, 1976)
7:30 Phyllis: "The New Job" (Sep 20, 1976)
8:00 Switch: "Two on the Run"
9:00 Delvecchio: "The Silent Prey" (Oct 31, 1976)
10:00 TV6 News
10:30 Late Show: "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935) - Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Donald Crisp
1:00 Father Gene's The Answer Is Love
1:15 With This Ring
1:30 TV Chapel

10 WMVS (PBS)
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Miste Rogers
9:30 Once Upon a Classic: "The Battle of Billy's Pond"
10:30 Washington Week in Review
11:00 Wall $treet Week
11:30 Rebop
NOON Sesame Street
1:00 Cousteau: Oasis in Space: "Population Time Bomb" - Guests: Isaac Asimov, Buckminster Fuller, Margaret Mead
1:30 Bascially Baseball: "Specialties"
2:00 Car Care (special 1-hour edition)
3:00 Lowell Thomas Remembers: "1974"
3:30 Victory Garden
4:00 Anyone for Tennyson?: "Poetry in Translation: Classical and Mediterranean"
4:30 Para Usted
5:00 The Way It Was
5:30 World Press
6:00 Black Perpective on the News
6:30 Critique
7:00 Previn and the Pittsburgh - Guest: Oscar Peterson
8:00 Masterpiece Theatre: Upstairs, Downstairs - Season 5, Episode 11: "Alberto"
9:00 Great Performances: Dance in America - Dance Theater of Harlem
10:00 Fragile: Handle With Care
10:30 Kup's Show - Guests: Lily Tomlin, Rev. Bruce Edwards, Frances Liddy (G. Gordon Liddy's wife), Dave Kopay

12 WISN (first day with ABC)
Cerebral Palsy Telethon continues until 6:00 PM
6:00 Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries: "The Flickering Torch Mystery"
7:00 Six Million Dollar Man/Bionic Woman: "The Return of Bigfoot: Parts 1 and 2" (Sep 19 & 22, 1976) - Guest starring: Ted Cassidy (as Bigfoot/Sasquatch), Sandy Duncan, John Saxon
9:00 The Feather & Father Gang: "The Big Frame" (Normally aired Saturdays, this was the only Sunday broadcast.)
10:00 Channel 12 Eyewitness News
10:30 Late Movie: "Cannon for Cordoba" (1970) - George Peppard, Pete Duel, Giovanna Ralli, Raf Vallone
12:30 Look In
1:00 Channel 12 Eyewitness News (R)

18 WVTV (Ind.)
8:00 Rex Humbard
9:00 Munsters
9:30 Comedy Clips
10:00 Tarzan
11:00 All-Star Wrestling
12:30 Family Theater: "Huckleberry Finn" (1931) - Junior Durkin, Jackie Coogan (as Tom Sawyer), Mitzi Green (as Becky Thatcher)
2:00 Adventure Theater: "Mr. Wong, Detective" (1938) - Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Maxine Jennings, Evelyn Brent
4:00 Outer Limits
5:00 Space: 1999
6:00 Untouchables
7:00 Jerry Falwell
8:00 Jimmy Swaggart
8:30 Overseas Mission
9:00 My View
9:30 Medix
10:00 Good News
10:30 Public Policy Forum
11:30 UWM News Focus

36 WMVT (PBS secondary)
1:00 (PM) Grand Prix Tennis - La Costa International Championship Finals
6:00 Farm Digest
6:30 In the Shadow of the General
7:00 The Onedin Line
8:00 What's the Big Idea?: "A Joke Is a Dangerous Weapon"
9:00 West to the Mountains
9:30 Broadcast Journalism: How's and Why's

 

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Part III
Friday, March 25, 1977
Last weekday schedule before the swap.

4 WTMJ (NBC)
5:55 Lone Ranger
6:25 Marlyce
6:30 MorningScene
7:00 Today
9:00 Sanford and Son
9:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Harvey Korman, Joan Rivers, Tony Randall, Robert Hegyes, Paul Lynde, Joanna Pettet, George Gobel, Donna Fargo, LeVar Burton
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Shoot for the Stars - Guests: Penny Peyser, John Schuck
11:00 Liar's Club
11:30 Lover's and Friends
NOON News 4 NoonScene
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2:00 Another World
3:00 Bowling - Scotch 300 Doubles
3:30 Merv Griffin - Guests: Rodney Dangerfield, Shecky Greene, Al Hirt, Barkley Shaw
5:00 News 4
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 News 4
6:30 $25,000 Pyramid
7:00 Sanford and Son: "School Daze" (Series Finale) - Fred earns his GED!
7:30 Bob Hope Special: "Bob Hope's All-Star Comedy Tribute to Vaudeville" - Guests: Lucille Ball, Jack Albertson, Bernadette Peters, Ben Vereen, Vivian Reed, the Captain & Tenille; Cameos: Jimmie Walker, Chaz Chase, Sid Gould
9:00 Rockford Files: "Crack Back"
10:00 News 4
10:30 Tonight Show - Guests: Mitzi Gaynor, Orson Bean, Carl Sagan
MIDNIGHT Friday Night Movie: "They Got Me Covered" (1943) - Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Otto Preminger (locally pre-empting Midnight Special)
1:30 Loving Free
1:35 Not for Women Only
2:05 Good Day

6 WITI (ABC)
5:55 TV Chapel
6:00 CBS Morning News (From what I've researched, it appears that this station started broadcasting this at the beginning of 1977 while still an ABC affiliate. Same as the case with Good Morning America on WISN ch. 12 while still a CBS affiliate.)
7:00 AM Milwaukee
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (Recently dropped by WISN, and returned on this channel February 14.)
9:00 Dinah! (no guest info)
10:00 All My Children
10:30 Happy Days
11:00 Donahue
NOON TV6 News at Noon
12:30 Family Feud
1:00 $20,000 Pyramid - Guets: Carol Lawrence, Mike Farrell
1:30 One Life to Live
2:15 General Hospital
3:00 Edge of Night
3:30 3:30 Movie: "Hand in Hand" (1961) - Phillip Needs, Loretta Parry, John Gregson, Sybill Thorndike
5:00 ABC Evening News
5:30 Adam-12
6:00 TV6 News
6:30 Special: "The 1977 Oscar Hopefuls"
7:00 Donny & Marie - "Salute to TV"; Guest: Paul Lynde; Cameos: Desi Arnaz, Milton Berle, George Fenneman, Peggy Fleming, George Gobel, Arthur Godfrey, Lorne Greene, Robert Hegyes, Art Linkletter, Groucho Marx (possibly his final TV appearance) Harriet Nelson, Gale Storm, Howdy Doody & Buffalo Bob Smith, Lassie, Huckleberry Hound, the Osmond Brothers (Season Premiere; Sep 24, 1976)
8:00 Future Cop: "The Mad Mad Bomber" (2 hours)
10:00 TV6 News
10:30 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
11:00 Late Show: "The Misfits" (1961) - Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable (both in their final roles; the latter posthumously), Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter, Eli Wallach; Director: John Huston
1:20 S.W.A.T.
2:25 TV6 Late News
2:40 Late, Late Show: "Rocketship X-M" (1950) - Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen, John Emery, Noah Beery Jr., Hugh O'Brien
4:10 TV6 Editorial
4:15 TV Chapel

10 WMVS (PBS)
8:10 ECB in Service
8:40 Odyssey
9:00 Lands and People of Our World
9:30 Celebrate a Book
9:45 Wordsmith
10:00 Electric Company
10:30 History and Philosophy of Law Enforcement
11:00 America
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Mister Rogers
1:00 Art for the Day
1:05 Measure Up
1:35 Science Trails
1:50 Spanish
2:05 Search for Science
2:20 Science
2:40 Self Incorporated
3:00 An Ounce of Prevention
3:30 Villa Alegre
4:00 Mister Rogers
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 History and Philosophy of Law Enforcement
6:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:00 Washington Week in Review
7:30 Wall $treet Week
8:00 Agronsky at Large
8:30 Americana
9:00 Documentary Showcase: "Full Moon Lunch"
10:00 Hatha Yoga
10:30 Nova: "The Woman Rebel" (see Saturday at 4:00 PM)

12 WISN (CBS)
5:55 Badger Farm Report
6:10 Opportunity
6:30 Bozo's Big Top
7:00 Good Morning America (see my note under ch. 6 at 6:00 AM)
9:00 Double Dare - Alex Trebek
9:30 The Price is Right
10:30 Love of Life
10:55 CBS Mid-Day News
11:00 Young and Restless
11:30 Dialing for Dollars
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2:00 All in the Family
2:30 Match Game '77 - Panel: Scoey Mitchell, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Susan Sullivan, Richard Dawson, Betty White
3:00 Partridge Family
3:30 My Three Sons
4:00 Emergency One!
5:00 Channel 12 Eyewitness News
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 Bowling for Dollars
6:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
7:00 CBS Friday Night Movies: "The Way West" (1967) - Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark, Sally Field, Lola Albright, Jack Elam, Stubby Kaye
9:30 Pilot: "Bravo Two"
10:00 Channel 12 Eyewitness News
10:30 Late Movie Double Feature: 1) "Road to Bali" (1952); 2) "Road to Rio" (1947) - Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour
2:30 Channel 12 Eyewitness News (R?)

18 WVTV (Ind.)
11:00 The Bible With Pat Robertson
11:30 700 Club
1:00 UWN News Focus
1:30 Formby's Workshop
2:00 Gomer Pyle
2:30 New Howdy Doody Show
3:00 Archies
3:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
4:00 Little Rascals
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5:00 Leave It to Beaver
5:30 Bewitched
6:00 Brady Bunch
6:30 Andy Griffith
7:00 Bowling (Milwaukee has been known as "The Bowling Capital of the World")
8:00 Movie: "Tarzan and the Trappers" (1958) - Gordon Scott, Eve Brent, Rickie Sorensen
10:00 Love, American Style
10:30 Late Movie 18: "Lady Godiva of Coventry" (1956) - Maureen O'Hara, George Nader, Victor McLaglen, Rex Reason
12:30 News Final
12:35 700 Club

36 WMVT (PBS sec.)
2:00 (PM) Sewing Skills: "Tailoring"
2:30 Original
3:00 Desiging Women (obviously not the sitcom)
3:30 Hatha Yoga
4:00 Consultation: "Surgery Without Sleep"
4:30 Murl Deusing Safari (local; originally aired on ch. 4)
5:30 A Bit With Knit
6:00 Wonders of the Wild
6:30 NCAA Hockey Semifinals - Wisconsin vs. New Hampshire (see Saturday at 6:30 PM; tournament played in Detroit)
9:00 All-Star Soccer - Leicestr City vs. Ipswich Town
10:00 What's the Big Idea?: "There Are Better Ways of Facing Death"

 

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Part IV
March 28, 1977
First weekday schedule after the swap

4 WTMJ (NBC)
5:55 Lone Ranger
6:25 Marlyce
6:30 MorningScene
7:00 Today
9:00 Sanford and Son
9:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Hal Linden, Karen Grassle, McLean Stevenson, Sandy Duncan, Paul Lynde, William Smith, George Gobel, Charo, Marty Allen
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Shoot for the Stars - Guests: Anita Gillette, LeVar Burton
11:00 Liar's Club
11:30 Lovers and Friends
NOON News 4 NoonScene
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2:00 Another World
3:00 Scotch 300 Doubleds
3:30 Merv Griffin - Guests: Rita Moreno, Robert Merrill, Marty Brill, Irwin Corey
5:00 News 4
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 News 4
6:30 The Price is Right - Dennis James
7:00 NCAA Basketball Championship - North Carolina vs. Marquette (The Omni, Atlanta; Marquette won 67-59)
9:00 NBC Special Movie: "Ali, the Fighter" (1975 documentary) - Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Joe Frazier; Narrator: Burt Lancaster
10:00 News 4
10:30 Tonight Show - Guest host: David Brenner; Guests: Suzanne Somers, Stan Kann; Musical guests: Neil Sedaka, Mary MacGregor
MIDNIGHT Tomorrow - Guests: John Frankenheimer, Robert Duvall, David Mamet

6 WITI (CBS)
5:55 TV Chapel
6:00 CBS Morning News
7:00 You and I
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Dinah! - Guests: William Holden, Stefanie Powers (the two had a relationship until his death in 1981), Lou Gossett Jr., Madge Sinclair, Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass
10:00 Young and Restless
10:30 Love of Life
10:55 CBS Mid-day News
11:00 Donahue
NOON TV6 News at Noon
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2:00 All in the Family
2:30 Match Game '77 (same panel as Friday)
3:00 Tattletales - Couples: Alex & Elaine Trebek, John & Patty Duke Astin, Gary Collins & Mary Ann Mobley
3:30 Double Dare
4:00 Ironside
5:00 Adam-12
5:30 CBS Evenng News
6:00 TV6 News
6:30 A Fine Point
7:00 Jeffersons: "George the Philantrhopist"
7:30 Busting Loose: "House of Noodles"
8:00 Maude: "The Household Feud"
8:30 All's Fair: "The Dick and Vanessa Show"
9:00 CBS News Special: "Who's Got a Right to Rhodesia?"
10:00 TV6 News
10:30 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
11:00 Late Show: "Gaslight" (1944) - Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Angela Lansbury
1:05 TV6 Late News
1:15 Late, Late Show: "The Seventh Cross" (1944) - Spencer Tracy, Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn, Agnes Moorehead, Signe Hasso (Cronyn and Tandy's first film together since marrying two years earlier. Cronyn also received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination.)
3:20 TV6 Editorial
3:25 TV Chapel

10 WMVS (PBS)
8:10 ECB Update
8:20 Guten Tag, Wie Geht's? (Hello, How Are You?)
8:40 Wisconsin: A Proud Heritage
9:00 Think Fine, Feel Fine
9:15 Bread & Butterflies
9:30 Exploring the World of Science
9:45 Search for Science
10:00 Electric Company
10:30 American Institutions
11:00 Sing Along With Me
11:15 Word Shop
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Mister Rogers
1:00 Art for a Day
1:05 This, Our Country
1:20 Number Power
1:35 Celebrate a Book
1:50 It's All Up to You
2:05 Word Shop
2:20 Science
2:40 Odyssey
3:00 Victory Garden
3:30 Villa Alegre
4:00 Mister Rogers
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Communication Skills
6:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:00 Microbes and Men
8:00 The Pallisers
9:00 Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra - Host: Walter Cronkite
10:43 (that's the time listed) Masterpiece Theatre: Upstairs, Downstairs - Season 5, Episode 11: "Alberto"

12 WISN (ABC)
5:55 Badger Farm Report
6:10 Opportunity
6:30 Bozo's Big Top
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 New Treasure Hunt
9:30 Big Valley
10:30 Happy Days
11:00 Second Chance (Premiere) - Jim Peck (Milwaukee native, Marquette graduate)
11:30 Dialing for Dollars
12:30 Family Feud
1:00 $20,000 Pyramid - Guests: Carol Ita White, Ron Glass
1:30 One Life to Live
2:15 General Hospital
3:00 Partridge Family
3:30 My Three Sons
4:00 Emergency One!
5:00 ABC Evening News
5:30 Channel 12 Eyewitness News
6:00 Bowling for Dollars
6:30 $128,000 Question - Mike Darrow
7:00 Brady Bunch Hour - Guests: Rich Little, Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, Melanie ("Brand New Key" singer), Van Snowden
8:00 ABC Special: "Perry Como's Music from Hollywood" - Guests: Shirley Jones, Hal Linden, Henry Mancini, Nancy Walker
9:00 49th Annual Academy Awards - Hosts: Richard Pryor, Ellen Burstyn, Jane Fonda, Warren Beatty
Best Picture - "Rocky"
Best Actor - Peter Finch ("Network"; awarded posthumously as he died January 14)
Best Actress - Faye Dunaway ("Network")
Best Supporting Actor - Jason Robards ("All the President's Men")
Best Supporting Actress - Beatrice Straight ("Network")
Best Director - John G. Alildsen ("Rocky")
11:30 Channel 12 Eyewitness News
MIDNIGHT NHL Hockey - Montreal Canadiens vs. Detroit Red Wings (Tape Delayed)
2:00 The FBI
2:30 Point of View

18 WVTV (Ind.)
11:00 Life in the Spirit
11:30 700 Club
1:00 UWN News Focus
1:30 Beverly Hillbillies
2:00 Gomer Pyle
2:30 New Howdy Doody Show
3:00 Archies
3:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
4:00 Little Rascals
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5:00 Leave It to Beaver
5:30 Bewitched
6:00 Brady Bunch
6:30 Andy Griffith
7:00 Bowling
8:00 Movie 18: "Good Morning, Miss Dove" (1955) - Jennifer Jones, Robert Stack, Chuck Connors, Mary Wickes, Jerry Paris, Richard Deacon (the latter two later co-starred in The Dick Van Dyke Show)
10:00 Love, American Style
10:30 Late Movie 18: "Passport to China" (1961) - Richard Basehart, Athene Seyler, Lisa Gastoni
12:30 News Final

36 WMVT (PBS sec.)
2:00 (PM) Biological Concepts: "Biochemical Genetics"
2:45 Child Psychology: "Development of Language, Creativity and Competencies of the School Age Child"
3:30 Hatha Yoga
4:00 America's Institutions: "Bureaucracy"
4:30 Murl Deusing Safari: "Bulgaria"
5:30 Scandinavia on a Summer Day
6:00 Consumer Experience
6:30 Wonders of the Wild: "Gandy the Goose"
7:00 Food for Youth: "Innovations and Challenges"
7:30 Biological Concepts (see 2:00 PM)
8:15 Child Psychology (see 2:45 PM)
9:00 Farm Digest
9:30 In the Shadow of the General
10:00 Busy Knitter
10:30 ABC Captioned News

 

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CORRECTION

On Ch. 36's Friday schedule at 2:30 PM, it should be 'Origami', not 'Original'.