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The network schedules for that day list live news coverage of the Apollo 16 splashdown when it actually occurred the day before. Was this an error in scheduling or was the splashdown originally scheduled for Friday the 28th?
2 WCBS (CBS)
AM
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 CBS Morning News - John Hart. Nelson Benton
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Farmer's Daughter
9:30 Woman! - Sherrye Henry (local WCBS program)
10:00 Lucy Show
10:30 My Three Sons
11:00 Family Affair
11:30 Love of Life
PM
12:00 Where the Heart Is
12:25 CBS Midday News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Paul Bernard, Psychiatrist (CBC-imported soap opera)
2:00 As the World Turns
2:30 Love is a Many Splendored Thing
3:00 Secret Storm
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Amateur's Guide to Love - Gene Rayburn
4:30 Mike Douglas - Co-host: Peter Lawford; Guests: Mary Lawford (Peter's wife), Stu Gilliam, Morgana King, Raymond Shafer (former Pennsylvania governor), Dr. Henry Brill
6:00 Channel 2 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Circus! - Ringmaster: Bert Parks
8:00 O'Hara, U.S. Treasury
9:00 CBS Friday Night Movies: "A Tattered Web" - (1971, Police Drama) - Lloyd Bridges, Frank Converse, Broderick Crawford, Murray Hamilton
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:30 CBS Late Movie: "The Lost Continent" (1968, Adventure/Sci-Fi) - Eric Porter, Hildegarde Knef, Suzanna Leigh
AM
1:30 Late Show: "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935, Adventure/Biography/Drama) - Charles Laughton, Clark Gable
4:10 Late, Late Show: "Seven Men From Now" (1956, Western) - Randolph Scott, Gail Russell
4 WNBC (NBC)
AM
6:30 Our Planet of Water
7:00 Today
9:00 Not For Women Only
9:30 It's Your Bet - Tom Kennedy
10:00 Dinah's Place
10:30 Concentration - Bob Clayton
11:00 Sale of the Century - Joe Garagiola
11:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Paul Lynde, Wally Cox, Cliff Arquette (as Charley Weaver), Rose Marie, Jack Carter, Kent McCord, Totie Fields, Jo Ann Pflug, Demond Wilson
PM
12:00 Jeopardy
12:30 Who, What or Where Game
12:55 NBC Midday News - Floyd Kalber
1:00 Watch Your Child - The Me Too Show
1:30 Three On a Match
2:00 Days of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
3:30 Return to Peyton Place
4:00 Somerset
4:30 Movie: "A Man Could Get Killed" (1966, Comedy/Thriller) - James Garner, Melina Mercouri, Sandra Dee, Tony Franciosa
6:00 Sixth Hour News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Lassie
8:00 Sanford & Son
8:30 Chronolog
10:30 Primus
11:00 11th Hour News
11:30 Tonight Show: Guest host: Joey Bishop; Guests: Phil Silvers, Allan Drake, Julie Budd; Performer: Bobby Goldsboro (final Carson-era Tonight Show episode from its regular New York City base before moving to Burbank on May 1, with occasional special weeks in NYC; the show would return to its NYC base as Jimmy Fallon became the new host on Feb. 17, 2014)
AM
1:15 Movie: "Thank Your Lucky Stars" (1943, Comedy/Musical) - Eddie Cantor, Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan, Dinah Shore
5 WNEW (Ind.)
AM
8:00 Yogi Bear
8:30 Bugs Bunny
9:00 Mothers-in-Law
9:30 Hazel
10:00 Movie: "Across the Wide Missouri" (1951, Western) - Clark Gable, Ricardo Montalban, James Whitmore, Howard Keel (narrator)
11:30 Midday
PM
1:00 Movie: "Lady in the Dark" (1944, Musical) - Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland
3:00 Casper
3:30 New Zoo Revue
4:00 Bugs Bunny
4:30 McHale's Navy
5:00 McHale's Navy
5:30 Flintstones
6:00 Flintstones
6:30 Petticoat Junction
7:00 I Love Lucy
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8:00 Truth or Consequences
8:30 Merv Griffin - Guests: Pearl Bailey, Cloris Leachman, Vic Damone
10:00 Ten O'Clock News
11:00 One Step Beyond
11:30 David Frost - Guests: Brock Peters, Reginald Owens, Julie DeJohn
AM
1:00 Movie: "Rashomon" (1950, Crime Drama/Mystery, Japanese) - Toshiro Mifune, Machito Kyo, Masayuki Mori
7 WABC (ABC)
AM
7:00 Listen With Force
7:30 AM New York - Guest: Shirley MacLaine
9:00 Movie: "The Lebanese Mission"; Alternate title: "Desert Detour" (1956, Action/Thriller, French) - Jean-Claude Pascal, Omar Sharif (one of his earliest films)
11:00 What Every Woman Wants to Know - Bess Myersen
11:30 Bewitched
PM
12:00 Password - Guests: Amanda Blake, James MacArthur
12:30 Split Second
1:00 All My Children
1:30 Let's Make a Deal
2:00 Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 One Life to Live
4:00 Love, American Style
4:30 Movie: "Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation" (1962, Comedy) - James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara
6:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 ABC Evening News - Howard K. Smith, Harry Reasoner
7:30 Let's Make a Deal (syndicated)
8:00 Brady Bunch
8:30 Partridge Family
9:00 Room 222
9:30 Odd Couple
10:00 Love, American Style
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Dick Cavett - Guests: Ethel Waters, Gore Vidal, Willie Mosconi, Robert Klein
AM
1:00 Movie: "The Mountain Road" (1960, War Drama) - James Stewart, Lisa Lu
9 WGN (Ind.)
AM
7:30 News
8:00 Straight Talk
9:00 Virginia Graham
10:00 Romper Room
11:00 Journey to Adventure
11:30 Mantrap
PM
12:00 Nino
1:00 Joe Franklin
2:00 Candid Camera
2:30 Wagon Train
4:00 Gigantor
4:30 Movie: "Dracula" (1931, Horror) - Bela Lugosi in his most iconic role
6:00 Get Smart
6:30 Dick Van Dyke
7:00 Wild, Wild West
8:00 Movie: "Operation Mad Ball" (1957, Comedy) - Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Kathryn Grant Crosby (married Bing that year), Arthur O'Connell, Mickey Rooney
10:00 News at Ten
10:30 Celebrity Bowling
11:00 What's My Line? - Wally Brunner
11:30 Movie: "Coogan's Bluff" (1968, Crime Thriller) - Clint Eastwood, Susan Clark, Don Stroud, Lee J. Cobb
AM
1:30 Joe Franklin
2:00 News
11 WPIX (Ind.)
AM
7:05 News
7:20 Fashions in Sewing
7:30 Popeye
9:00 Bachelor Father
9:30 Fashions in Sewing
9:40 Jack LaLanne
10:00 Rosey Grier Show
10:30 Council of Churches
11:00 Black Pride
11:30 Courageous Cat
PM
12:00 Time for Joya
12:30 Fashions in Sewing
12:40 Tell Me, Dr. (Joyce) Brothers
1:00 Galloping Gourmet
1:30 Crafts with Katy
2:00 Movie: "Border Flight" (1936, Drama) - Robert Cummings, Frances Farmer, John Howard
3:00 Popeye
3:30 Magilla Gorilla
4:00 Little Rascals
4:30 Superman
5:00 Munsters
5:30 Batman
6:00 Gilligan's Island
6:30 Beat the Clock - Jack Narz
7:00 Nanny and the Professor
7:30 Yankees Baseball: vs. Minnesota Twins at Yankee Stadium
10:00 TV-11 News
11:00 Movie: "The Goldwyn Follies" (1938, Musical) - Zorina, Bobby Clark, Kenny Baker, Ritz Brothers
AM
1:00 News
13 WNET (PBS)
AM
7:30 Forsythe Saga
8:30 Black Studies
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 School TV (Instructional Programs)
PM
1:30 Electric Company
2:00 Attica Hearings (live coverage probing the September 9-13, 1971 Attica Prison riots)
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers - Opera: "The Snow People and the Warm Pussycat", featuring baritone John Reardon and soprano Yoshi Ito
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Hodgepodge Lodge
6:30 World Press
7:15 David Littlejohn: Critic at Large
7:30 The Advocates: "Should Ireland Be Unified?"
9:00 Soul! - Guests: Jerry Butler, Peaches (of Peaches & Herb fame), Dr. Stanley Nelson (dentist), Anna Horsford (poet)
10:00 51st State
10:30 Wall $treet Week
11:00 Attica Hearings Highlights
The network schedules for that day list live news coverage of the Apollo 16 splashdown when it actually occurred the day before. Was this an error in scheduling or was the splashdown originally scheduled for Friday the 28th?
2 WCBS (CBS)
AM
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 CBS Morning News - John Hart. Nelson Benton
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Farmer's Daughter
9:30 Woman! - Sherrye Henry (local WCBS program)
10:00 Lucy Show
10:30 My Three Sons
11:00 Family Affair
11:30 Love of Life
PM
12:00 Where the Heart Is
12:25 CBS Midday News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Paul Bernard, Psychiatrist (CBC-imported soap opera)
2:00 As the World Turns
2:30 Love is a Many Splendored Thing
3:00 Secret Storm
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Amateur's Guide to Love - Gene Rayburn
4:30 Mike Douglas - Co-host: Peter Lawford; Guests: Mary Lawford (Peter's wife), Stu Gilliam, Morgana King, Raymond Shafer (former Pennsylvania governor), Dr. Henry Brill
6:00 Channel 2 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Circus! - Ringmaster: Bert Parks
8:00 O'Hara, U.S. Treasury
9:00 CBS Friday Night Movies: "A Tattered Web" - (1971, Police Drama) - Lloyd Bridges, Frank Converse, Broderick Crawford, Murray Hamilton
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:30 CBS Late Movie: "The Lost Continent" (1968, Adventure/Sci-Fi) - Eric Porter, Hildegarde Knef, Suzanna Leigh
AM
1:30 Late Show: "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1935, Adventure/Biography/Drama) - Charles Laughton, Clark Gable
4:10 Late, Late Show: "Seven Men From Now" (1956, Western) - Randolph Scott, Gail Russell
4 WNBC (NBC)
AM
6:30 Our Planet of Water
7:00 Today
9:00 Not For Women Only
9:30 It's Your Bet - Tom Kennedy
10:00 Dinah's Place
10:30 Concentration - Bob Clayton
11:00 Sale of the Century - Joe Garagiola
11:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Paul Lynde, Wally Cox, Cliff Arquette (as Charley Weaver), Rose Marie, Jack Carter, Kent McCord, Totie Fields, Jo Ann Pflug, Demond Wilson
PM
12:00 Jeopardy
12:30 Who, What or Where Game
12:55 NBC Midday News - Floyd Kalber
1:00 Watch Your Child - The Me Too Show
1:30 Three On a Match
2:00 Days of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
3:30 Return to Peyton Place
4:00 Somerset
4:30 Movie: "A Man Could Get Killed" (1966, Comedy/Thriller) - James Garner, Melina Mercouri, Sandra Dee, Tony Franciosa
6:00 Sixth Hour News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Lassie
8:00 Sanford & Son
8:30 Chronolog
10:30 Primus
11:00 11th Hour News
11:30 Tonight Show: Guest host: Joey Bishop; Guests: Phil Silvers, Allan Drake, Julie Budd; Performer: Bobby Goldsboro (final Carson-era Tonight Show episode from its regular New York City base before moving to Burbank on May 1, with occasional special weeks in NYC; the show would return to its NYC base as Jimmy Fallon became the new host on Feb. 17, 2014)
AM
1:15 Movie: "Thank Your Lucky Stars" (1943, Comedy/Musical) - Eddie Cantor, Joan Leslie, Dennis Morgan, Dinah Shore
5 WNEW (Ind.)
AM
8:00 Yogi Bear
8:30 Bugs Bunny
9:00 Mothers-in-Law
9:30 Hazel
10:00 Movie: "Across the Wide Missouri" (1951, Western) - Clark Gable, Ricardo Montalban, James Whitmore, Howard Keel (narrator)
11:30 Midday
PM
1:00 Movie: "Lady in the Dark" (1944, Musical) - Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland
3:00 Casper
3:30 New Zoo Revue
4:00 Bugs Bunny
4:30 McHale's Navy
5:00 McHale's Navy
5:30 Flintstones
6:00 Flintstones
6:30 Petticoat Junction
7:00 I Love Lucy
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8:00 Truth or Consequences
8:30 Merv Griffin - Guests: Pearl Bailey, Cloris Leachman, Vic Damone
10:00 Ten O'Clock News
11:00 One Step Beyond
11:30 David Frost - Guests: Brock Peters, Reginald Owens, Julie DeJohn
AM
1:00 Movie: "Rashomon" (1950, Crime Drama/Mystery, Japanese) - Toshiro Mifune, Machito Kyo, Masayuki Mori
7 WABC (ABC)
AM
7:00 Listen With Force
7:30 AM New York - Guest: Shirley MacLaine
9:00 Movie: "The Lebanese Mission"; Alternate title: "Desert Detour" (1956, Action/Thriller, French) - Jean-Claude Pascal, Omar Sharif (one of his earliest films)
11:00 What Every Woman Wants to Know - Bess Myersen
11:30 Bewitched
PM
12:00 Password - Guests: Amanda Blake, James MacArthur
12:30 Split Second
1:00 All My Children
1:30 Let's Make a Deal
2:00 Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 One Life to Live
4:00 Love, American Style
4:30 Movie: "Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation" (1962, Comedy) - James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara
6:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 ABC Evening News - Howard K. Smith, Harry Reasoner
7:30 Let's Make a Deal (syndicated)
8:00 Brady Bunch
8:30 Partridge Family
9:00 Room 222
9:30 Odd Couple
10:00 Love, American Style
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Dick Cavett - Guests: Ethel Waters, Gore Vidal, Willie Mosconi, Robert Klein
AM
1:00 Movie: "The Mountain Road" (1960, War Drama) - James Stewart, Lisa Lu
9 WGN (Ind.)
AM
7:30 News
8:00 Straight Talk
9:00 Virginia Graham
10:00 Romper Room
11:00 Journey to Adventure
11:30 Mantrap
PM
12:00 Nino
1:00 Joe Franklin
2:00 Candid Camera
2:30 Wagon Train
4:00 Gigantor
4:30 Movie: "Dracula" (1931, Horror) - Bela Lugosi in his most iconic role
6:00 Get Smart
6:30 Dick Van Dyke
7:00 Wild, Wild West
8:00 Movie: "Operation Mad Ball" (1957, Comedy) - Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Kathryn Grant Crosby (married Bing that year), Arthur O'Connell, Mickey Rooney
10:00 News at Ten
10:30 Celebrity Bowling
11:00 What's My Line? - Wally Brunner
11:30 Movie: "Coogan's Bluff" (1968, Crime Thriller) - Clint Eastwood, Susan Clark, Don Stroud, Lee J. Cobb
AM
1:30 Joe Franklin
2:00 News
11 WPIX (Ind.)
AM
7:05 News
7:20 Fashions in Sewing
7:30 Popeye
9:00 Bachelor Father
9:30 Fashions in Sewing
9:40 Jack LaLanne
10:00 Rosey Grier Show
10:30 Council of Churches
11:00 Black Pride
11:30 Courageous Cat
PM
12:00 Time for Joya
12:30 Fashions in Sewing
12:40 Tell Me, Dr. (Joyce) Brothers
1:00 Galloping Gourmet
1:30 Crafts with Katy
2:00 Movie: "Border Flight" (1936, Drama) - Robert Cummings, Frances Farmer, John Howard
3:00 Popeye
3:30 Magilla Gorilla
4:00 Little Rascals
4:30 Superman
5:00 Munsters
5:30 Batman
6:00 Gilligan's Island
6:30 Beat the Clock - Jack Narz
7:00 Nanny and the Professor
7:30 Yankees Baseball: vs. Minnesota Twins at Yankee Stadium
10:00 TV-11 News
11:00 Movie: "The Goldwyn Follies" (1938, Musical) - Zorina, Bobby Clark, Kenny Baker, Ritz Brothers
AM
1:00 News
13 WNET (PBS)
AM
7:30 Forsythe Saga
8:30 Black Studies
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 School TV (Instructional Programs)
PM
1:30 Electric Company
2:00 Attica Hearings (live coverage probing the September 9-13, 1971 Attica Prison riots)
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers - Opera: "The Snow People and the Warm Pussycat", featuring baritone John Reardon and soprano Yoshi Ito
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Hodgepodge Lodge
6:30 World Press
7:15 David Littlejohn: Critic at Large
7:30 The Advocates: "Should Ireland Be Unified?"
9:00 Soul! - Guests: Jerry Butler, Peaches (of Peaches & Herb fame), Dr. Stanley Nelson (dentist), Anna Horsford (poet)
10:00 51st State
10:30 Wall $treet Week
11:00 Attica Hearings Highlights
