Here's a look at Christmas past, 35 years ago. This is part of my Christmas present to all of you, my friends on this forum. Peace to all of you.
**********
TV Guide, Nashville edition--cover, illustration of Santa Claus and Rudolph the Reindeer by Ray Ameijide
Nashville, Tennessee:
(2) WNGE (ABC)--now WKRN, on digital 27; PSIP 2
(4) WSM (NBC)--now WSMV, on digital 10; PSIP 4
(5) WLAC (CBS)--now WTVF, on digital 5; PSIP same
(8) WDCN (PBS)--now WNPT, on digital 8; PSIP same
Bowling Green, Kentucky:
(13) WBKO (ABC)--now digital 13; PSIP same
(E) Kentucky Educational Television--see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Educational_Television for past and current transmitter locations and channels
Daytime programming listings, Tuesday, December 24, 1974 and Wednesday, December 25, 1974
MORNING
5:45
(4) WSM Weather
5:50
(4) Morning Devotion--local
5:55
(4) Job Market--local
6:00
(4) Ralph Emery Show
(5) Country Journal
6:15
(5) Carl Tipton
6:30
(2) Flying Nun--1960s sitcom rerun
6:45
(5) WLAC News
7:00
(2) Bozo Show--local
(4) Today Show--Jim Hartz, Barbara Walters
(5) Mornings with Siegel--local; hosted by a New Yorker, Stanley Siegel, who was very controversial for his day
7:55
(5) Coffee with Dorinda--local; probably women's show
8:00
(2) New Zoo Revue
(5) Captain Kangaroo
(8) Mister Rogers' Neighborhood--no in-school programming on WDCN
8:20
(13) Job Opportunities--local
8:30
(2) Green Acres--rerun
(8) Beauty and the Beast (Tu)/Carrascolendas (W)
(13) Lassie's Rescue Rangers--probably tape-delayed from ABC's Sunday morning schedule (Tu)/Film--title not given (W)
9:00
(2) Movie--"The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima," 1952 (Tu)/"The Snow Queen," Russian; 1958 (W)
(4) Name That Tune--Dennis James version (NBC) (Tu)/Christmas Day Service--NBC special telecast from the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. (W)
(5) Joker's Wild
(8) Sesame Street
(13) Galloping Gourmet
9:30
(4) Winning Streak (Tu)
(5) Gambit
(13) Jack LaLanne
10:00
(4) High Rollers
(5) Now You See It
(8) Electric Company
(13) Not for Women Only (Tu)/Navidad Encantada: Enchanted Christmas--bi-linguial Catholic Mass from Albuquerque, New Mexico (unsure if ABC or syndicated; W)
10:30
(4) Hollywood Squares
(5) Love of Life
(8) Villa Alegre
(13) All My Children--tape-delayed from previous day or week (Tu)
10:55
(5) CBS News--Douglas Edwards
11:00
(2) (13) Password All-Stars
(4) Jackpot!
(5) Young and the Restless
(8) Zee Cooking School--actually a children's show, not a "how-to" (Tu)/Sounds of Christmas (W)
11:30
(2) I Dream of Jeannie--rerun
(4) Celebrity Sweepstakes
(5) Search for Tomorrow
(8) Zoom
(13) Split Second
11:55
(4) NBC News--Edwin Newman
AFTERNOON
12:00
(2) All My Children
(4) Noon Show--local talk/variety; Teddy Bart, Elaine Ganick, hosts
(5) Singing Convention--Southern Gospel music (local; Tu)/First American Choir--local special featuring employees of First American Bank (W)
(8) Sesame Street
(13) Noonday--local (Tu)/Death Valley Days--giving daytime staff day off (W)
12:25
(5) WLAC News (Tu)
12:30
(2) (13) Let's Make a Deal
(5) As the World Turns
1:00
(2) (13) $10,000 Pyramid
(4) Days of Our Lives
(5) Guiding Light
(8) In Performance at Wolf Trap--PBS special (Tu)/A Touch of Renaissance at Christmas (W)
1:30
(2) (13) Big Showdown
(4) Doctors
(5) Edge of Night
(8) A New England Christmas--drama special (W)
2:00
(2) (13) General Hospital
(4) Another World
(5) Price is Right
(8) Nova (W)
2:30
(2) (13) One Life to Live
(4) How to Survive a Marriage
(5) Match Game (Tu)/A Child's Christmas in Wales--CBS children's drama featuring Sir Michael Redgrave (W)
(8) Camera South--probably local (Tu)/Christmas at Pops (W)
(E) Business of Writing--adult instruction (Tu)/to be announced (W)
3:00
(2) Andy Griffith
(4) Somerset
(5) Tattletales (Tu)
(13) Money Maze
(E) Sesame Street
3:30
(2) Mike Douglas (60-minute version)
(4) Flintstones
(5) Gomer Pyle, USMC
(8) Plants, Gardens, Etc.--"how-to" (Tu)/French Chef (W)
(13) Brady Bunch--tape-delayed from ABC earlier in the day (Tu)/All My Children (W only)
4:00
(4) Leave it to Beaver--rerun
(5) Movie--"The Wacky World of Mother Goose," 1967 (Tu)/"Santa Claus Conquers the Martians," 1964
(8) (E) Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
(13) Flintstones
4:30
(2) WNGE News--short-lived attempt at what ad in the issue described as "the earliest 6:00 news in town;" Jack Hawkins, anchor
(4) Lucy Show--rerun
(8) Villa Alegre
(13) Lost in Space--rerun
(E) Christmas Pageant--possibly special featuring kids throughout Kentucky (Tu)/Freud--adult instruction (W)
5:00
(2) ABC Evening News--Howard K. Smith, Harry Reasoner
(4) Family Affair--rerun
(8) (E) Electric Company
5:25
(5) WLAC Weather
5:30
(2) WNGE News
(4) NBC Nightly News--John Chancellor
(5) CBS Evening News--Roger Mudd (both days)
(8) Sesame Street
(13) ABC Evening News
(E) Zoom
Evening programming listings, Tuesday, December 24, 1974
6:00
(2) Concentration--syndicated version; Jack Narz, host
(4) WSM News (55 minutes)
(5) WLAC News
(13) WBKO News
(E) Staunch Tin Soldier--children's special
6:30
(2) New Treasure Hunt
(5) To Tell the Truth
(8) Sounds of Christmas--probably local
(13) McHale's Navy--rerun
(E) A Christmas Story--special
6:55
(4) Happy Birthday USA!--probably syndicated feature
7:00
(2) (13) Happy Days
(4) Christmas--A Time for Joy--local special featuring singing group the Third Dimensions and the Third National Bank Choir
(5) Good Times
(8) (13) A New England Christmas--PBS drama special
7:30
(2) (13) Movie--"Letters from Three Lovers," TV movie; 1973
(4) Movie--"The Rangers," TV movie; 1974 (pilot for the recently-cancelled "Sierra")
(5) M*A*S*H
(8) (E) Christmas at Pops--featuring conductor Arthur Fiedler and Boston's Tanglewood Festival Chrous
8:00
(5) Hawaii Five-O
8:30
(8) (E) Berlioz's Requiem--"Grande Messe des Morts," performed by the Music for Youth Symphony Orchestra and Concert Wind Ensemble and choirs from the University of Wisconsin and the now-defunct Milton College, a Wisconsin school
9:00
(2) (13) Marcus Welby, M.D.
(4) Police Story--Edward Asner, guest star
(5) Barnaby Jones
10:00
(2) Movie--"Miracle of Father Malachias," 1967 (WNGE did not air a local late newscast)
(4) WSM News
(5) WLAC News
(8) Nova
(13) WBKO News
10:30
(4) Holy Year 1975--tape-delayed broadcast of Midnight Mass from the Vatican; Pope Paul VI, presiding (1 hour, 45 minutes)
(5) Raymond Burr (name of "Ironside" reruns; would revert to original name when NBC cancelled the show in primetime a few weeks later)
(13) ABC Wide World of Entertainment Special--"Christmas in New York," featuring Mayor John Lindsay and Diahann Carroll
11:30
(5) Movie--"Pocketful of Miracles," 1961
Evening programming listings, Wednesday, December 25, 1974
6:00
(2) Concentration
(4) WSM News
(5) WLAC News
(13) WBKO News
(E) Beauty and the Beast
6:30
(2) Name That Tune--syndicated; Tom Kennedy, host
(5) To Tell the Truth
(8) Zoom
(13) McHale's Navy
(E) Book Beat
6:55
(4) Happy Birthday USA!
7:00
(2) (13) That's My Mama--sitcom starring Clifton Davis
(4) Little House on the Prairie--special Christmas episode
(5) Tony Orlando and Dawn--Esther Rolle ("Good Times"), guest
(8) (E) Feeling Good--health education, featuring skits by Bill Cosby, Helen Reddy and Pearl Bailey
7:30
(2) (13) Movie--"My Darling Daughters' Anniversary," TV movie; 1973
8:00
(4) Lucas Tanner--drama starring David Hartman (who would not begin on "Good Morning America" until November 1975)
(5) Cannon
(8) (E) Great Performances--a tribute to conductor Serge Koussevitsky by the Boston Symphony Orchestra (not the "Pops") and famed conductor Leonard Bernstein
9:00
(2) (13) Get Christie Love!--Teresa Graves starred as an African-American lady detective for the NYPD in this short-lived cop show
(4) Petrocelli--crime drama starring Barry Newman and Susan Howard
(5) Manhunter--short-lived Quinn Martin period crime drama starring Ken Howard
(8) (E) Van Cliburn International Piano Competition--performance by 1973 winner Vladimir Viardo, a Soviet national, of Bach's "Prelude" and "Fugue in C Major"
9:30
(8) Christmas Music--probably local special
10:00
(2) Movie--"The Silver Chalice," 1954
(4) WSM News
(5) WLAC News
(8) Nova
(13) WBKO News
10:30
(4) Tonight Show--Burt Reynolds guest hosting
(5) Raymond Burr
(8) Evening of Championship Skating--PBS special
(13) Wide World of Entertainment Special--all-star tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr., including his widow Coretta Scott King
11:30
(5) Movie--"South Pacific," 1958
12:00 a.m.
(4) Tomorrow--Tom Snyder
**********
TV Guide, Nashville edition--cover, illustration of Santa Claus and Rudolph the Reindeer by Ray Ameijide
Nashville, Tennessee:
(2) WNGE (ABC)--now WKRN, on digital 27; PSIP 2
(4) WSM (NBC)--now WSMV, on digital 10; PSIP 4
(5) WLAC (CBS)--now WTVF, on digital 5; PSIP same
(8) WDCN (PBS)--now WNPT, on digital 8; PSIP same
Bowling Green, Kentucky:
(13) WBKO (ABC)--now digital 13; PSIP same
(E) Kentucky Educational Television--see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_Educational_Television for past and current transmitter locations and channels
Daytime programming listings, Tuesday, December 24, 1974 and Wednesday, December 25, 1974
MORNING
5:45
(4) WSM Weather
5:50
(4) Morning Devotion--local
5:55
(4) Job Market--local
6:00
(4) Ralph Emery Show
(5) Country Journal
6:15
(5) Carl Tipton
6:30
(2) Flying Nun--1960s sitcom rerun
6:45
(5) WLAC News
7:00
(2) Bozo Show--local
(4) Today Show--Jim Hartz, Barbara Walters
(5) Mornings with Siegel--local; hosted by a New Yorker, Stanley Siegel, who was very controversial for his day
7:55
(5) Coffee with Dorinda--local; probably women's show
8:00
(2) New Zoo Revue
(5) Captain Kangaroo
(8) Mister Rogers' Neighborhood--no in-school programming on WDCN
8:20
(13) Job Opportunities--local
8:30
(2) Green Acres--rerun
(8) Beauty and the Beast (Tu)/Carrascolendas (W)
(13) Lassie's Rescue Rangers--probably tape-delayed from ABC's Sunday morning schedule (Tu)/Film--title not given (W)
9:00
(2) Movie--"The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima," 1952 (Tu)/"The Snow Queen," Russian; 1958 (W)
(4) Name That Tune--Dennis James version (NBC) (Tu)/Christmas Day Service--NBC special telecast from the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. (W)
(5) Joker's Wild
(8) Sesame Street
(13) Galloping Gourmet
9:30
(4) Winning Streak (Tu)
(5) Gambit
(13) Jack LaLanne
10:00
(4) High Rollers
(5) Now You See It
(8) Electric Company
(13) Not for Women Only (Tu)/Navidad Encantada: Enchanted Christmas--bi-linguial Catholic Mass from Albuquerque, New Mexico (unsure if ABC or syndicated; W)
10:30
(4) Hollywood Squares
(5) Love of Life
(8) Villa Alegre
(13) All My Children--tape-delayed from previous day or week (Tu)
10:55
(5) CBS News--Douglas Edwards
11:00
(2) (13) Password All-Stars
(4) Jackpot!
(5) Young and the Restless
(8) Zee Cooking School--actually a children's show, not a "how-to" (Tu)/Sounds of Christmas (W)
11:30
(2) I Dream of Jeannie--rerun
(4) Celebrity Sweepstakes
(5) Search for Tomorrow
(8) Zoom
(13) Split Second
11:55
(4) NBC News--Edwin Newman
AFTERNOON
12:00
(2) All My Children
(4) Noon Show--local talk/variety; Teddy Bart, Elaine Ganick, hosts
(5) Singing Convention--Southern Gospel music (local; Tu)/First American Choir--local special featuring employees of First American Bank (W)
(8) Sesame Street
(13) Noonday--local (Tu)/Death Valley Days--giving daytime staff day off (W)
12:25
(5) WLAC News (Tu)
12:30
(2) (13) Let's Make a Deal
(5) As the World Turns
1:00
(2) (13) $10,000 Pyramid
(4) Days of Our Lives
(5) Guiding Light
(8) In Performance at Wolf Trap--PBS special (Tu)/A Touch of Renaissance at Christmas (W)
1:30
(2) (13) Big Showdown
(4) Doctors
(5) Edge of Night
(8) A New England Christmas--drama special (W)
2:00
(2) (13) General Hospital
(4) Another World
(5) Price is Right
(8) Nova (W)
2:30
(2) (13) One Life to Live
(4) How to Survive a Marriage
(5) Match Game (Tu)/A Child's Christmas in Wales--CBS children's drama featuring Sir Michael Redgrave (W)
(8) Camera South--probably local (Tu)/Christmas at Pops (W)
(E) Business of Writing--adult instruction (Tu)/to be announced (W)
3:00
(2) Andy Griffith
(4) Somerset
(5) Tattletales (Tu)
(13) Money Maze
(E) Sesame Street
3:30
(2) Mike Douglas (60-minute version)
(4) Flintstones
(5) Gomer Pyle, USMC
(8) Plants, Gardens, Etc.--"how-to" (Tu)/French Chef (W)
(13) Brady Bunch--tape-delayed from ABC earlier in the day (Tu)/All My Children (W only)
4:00
(4) Leave it to Beaver--rerun
(5) Movie--"The Wacky World of Mother Goose," 1967 (Tu)/"Santa Claus Conquers the Martians," 1964
(8) (E) Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
(13) Flintstones
4:30
(2) WNGE News--short-lived attempt at what ad in the issue described as "the earliest 6:00 news in town;" Jack Hawkins, anchor
(4) Lucy Show--rerun
(8) Villa Alegre
(13) Lost in Space--rerun
(E) Christmas Pageant--possibly special featuring kids throughout Kentucky (Tu)/Freud--adult instruction (W)
5:00
(2) ABC Evening News--Howard K. Smith, Harry Reasoner
(4) Family Affair--rerun
(8) (E) Electric Company
5:25
(5) WLAC Weather
5:30
(2) WNGE News
(4) NBC Nightly News--John Chancellor
(5) CBS Evening News--Roger Mudd (both days)
(8) Sesame Street
(13) ABC Evening News
(E) Zoom
Evening programming listings, Tuesday, December 24, 1974
6:00
(2) Concentration--syndicated version; Jack Narz, host
(4) WSM News (55 minutes)
(5) WLAC News
(13) WBKO News
(E) Staunch Tin Soldier--children's special
6:30
(2) New Treasure Hunt
(5) To Tell the Truth
(8) Sounds of Christmas--probably local
(13) McHale's Navy--rerun
(E) A Christmas Story--special
6:55
(4) Happy Birthday USA!--probably syndicated feature
7:00
(2) (13) Happy Days
(4) Christmas--A Time for Joy--local special featuring singing group the Third Dimensions and the Third National Bank Choir
(5) Good Times
(8) (13) A New England Christmas--PBS drama special
7:30
(2) (13) Movie--"Letters from Three Lovers," TV movie; 1973
(4) Movie--"The Rangers," TV movie; 1974 (pilot for the recently-cancelled "Sierra")
(5) M*A*S*H
(8) (E) Christmas at Pops--featuring conductor Arthur Fiedler and Boston's Tanglewood Festival Chrous
8:00
(5) Hawaii Five-O
8:30
(8) (E) Berlioz's Requiem--"Grande Messe des Morts," performed by the Music for Youth Symphony Orchestra and Concert Wind Ensemble and choirs from the University of Wisconsin and the now-defunct Milton College, a Wisconsin school
9:00
(2) (13) Marcus Welby, M.D.
(4) Police Story--Edward Asner, guest star
(5) Barnaby Jones
10:00
(2) Movie--"Miracle of Father Malachias," 1967 (WNGE did not air a local late newscast)
(4) WSM News
(5) WLAC News
(8) Nova
(13) WBKO News
10:30
(4) Holy Year 1975--tape-delayed broadcast of Midnight Mass from the Vatican; Pope Paul VI, presiding (1 hour, 45 minutes)
(5) Raymond Burr (name of "Ironside" reruns; would revert to original name when NBC cancelled the show in primetime a few weeks later)
(13) ABC Wide World of Entertainment Special--"Christmas in New York," featuring Mayor John Lindsay and Diahann Carroll
11:30
(5) Movie--"Pocketful of Miracles," 1961
Evening programming listings, Wednesday, December 25, 1974
6:00
(2) Concentration
(4) WSM News
(5) WLAC News
(13) WBKO News
(E) Beauty and the Beast
6:30
(2) Name That Tune--syndicated; Tom Kennedy, host
(5) To Tell the Truth
(8) Zoom
(13) McHale's Navy
(E) Book Beat
6:55
(4) Happy Birthday USA!
7:00
(2) (13) That's My Mama--sitcom starring Clifton Davis
(4) Little House on the Prairie--special Christmas episode
(5) Tony Orlando and Dawn--Esther Rolle ("Good Times"), guest
(8) (E) Feeling Good--health education, featuring skits by Bill Cosby, Helen Reddy and Pearl Bailey
7:30
(2) (13) Movie--"My Darling Daughters' Anniversary," TV movie; 1973
8:00
(4) Lucas Tanner--drama starring David Hartman (who would not begin on "Good Morning America" until November 1975)
(5) Cannon
(8) (E) Great Performances--a tribute to conductor Serge Koussevitsky by the Boston Symphony Orchestra (not the "Pops") and famed conductor Leonard Bernstein
9:00
(2) (13) Get Christie Love!--Teresa Graves starred as an African-American lady detective for the NYPD in this short-lived cop show
(4) Petrocelli--crime drama starring Barry Newman and Susan Howard
(5) Manhunter--short-lived Quinn Martin period crime drama starring Ken Howard
(8) (E) Van Cliburn International Piano Competition--performance by 1973 winner Vladimir Viardo, a Soviet national, of Bach's "Prelude" and "Fugue in C Major"
9:30
(8) Christmas Music--probably local special
10:00
(2) Movie--"The Silver Chalice," 1954
(4) WSM News
(5) WLAC News
(8) Nova
(13) WBKO News
10:30
(4) Tonight Show--Burt Reynolds guest hosting
(5) Raymond Burr
(8) Evening of Championship Skating--PBS special
(13) Wide World of Entertainment Special--all-star tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr., including his widow Coretta Scott King
11:30
(5) Movie--"South Pacific," 1958
12:00 a.m.
(4) Tomorrow--Tom Snyder