Retro: New York City Thurs, March 5, 1970

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from TV Guide-New York Metro edition

2 WCBS-CBS New York
3 WTIC-CBS Hartford
4 WNBC-NBC New York
5 WNEW-Ind New York
7 WABC-ABC Los Angeles
8 WNHC-ABC New Haven
9 WOR-Ind New York
11 WPIX-Ind New York
13 WNDT-NET New York
20 WATR-NBC Waterbury **TVG only listed 20's NBC shows**
25 WNYE-Edu New York
31 WNYC-Ind New York
41 WXTV-Ind Paterson
47 WNJU-Ind Newark

Morning
6:00
3 Sunrise Semester "African Social Anthropology" (c)

6:10
8 News

6:15
8 Davey & Goliath (c)

6:30
2 Sunrise Semester (as 6am, 3/c)
3 Perception (c)
4 Education Exchange "Alcoholism and Treatment" (c)
7 Project Know "Herman Melville" (c)
8 Way Out (c)

7:00
2-3 CBS Morning News (c)
4-20 Today (c/from Miami)
7 News (c)
8 Mr. Goober (c)

7:05
7 His & Her of It (c)

7:15
11 News (c)

7:30
11 Popeye (c)

7:45
5 Exercise (c)

7:55
9 News/Weather

8:00
2-3 Captain Kangaroo (c)
5 Marine Boy (c)
9 Bozo's Big Top (c)

8:25
13 Classroom

8:30
5 Alvin (c)
7 Girl Talk (c)
9 Cartoons (c)
25 Sesame Street (c)

9:00
2 Leave It to Beaver
3 Hap Richards (c)
4 For Women Only (c)
5 Movie "Trouble Makers"
7 Movie "Holiday for Lovers" (c)
8 Movie Game (c)
9 Romper Room (c)
11 Sesame Street (c/ep 69 with Pat Paulsen counting to 4)

9:15
3 Yogi Bear (c)

9:30
2 Donna Reed
3 Lucille Ball (c)
4 PDQ (c)
8 Conn-Tention (c)
25 Classroom
31 Around the Clock (c)

10:00
2 Lucille Ball (c)
3 Movie "Jackpot"
4-20 It Takes Two (c)
5 Pixanne (c)
8 David Frost (c/guests Sen. Barry Goldwater, Oscar Peterson, and Diane Kennedy Pike (widow of Bishop James Pike))
11 Jack LaLanne (c)
31 Sesame Street (c/ep 68, Jackie Robinson recites the alphabet)

10:20
9 Fashions in Sewing (c)

10:25
4-20 NBC News (c)

10:30
2 Beverly Hillbillies (c)
4-20 Concentration (c)
9 Joe Franklin (c)
11 Black Pride (c)

10:55
11 News (c)

11:00
2 Andy Griffith (c)
4-20 Sale of the Century (c)
5 Movie "Men in White"
11 David Wade (c)
31 All About TV (c)

11:30
2-3 Love of Life (c)
4-20 Hollywood Squares (c)
7 Anniversary Game (c)
8 Beat the Clock (c)
9 What's My Line? (c)
11 Gumby (c)
13 Sesame Street (c/ep 84, with Lou Rawls singing the alphabet and Burt Lancaster counting to 10)

Afternoon
noon
2 Where the Heart is (c)
3-8 News (c)
4-20 Jeopardy (c)
7 Bewitched (c)
9 Journey to Adventure (c)
11 Underdog (c)
25 Classroom
31 Shakespeare "Richard III" (pt 3)

12:25
2-3 CBS News (c)

12:30
2-3 Search for Tomorrow (c)
4-20 Who, What or Where Game (c)
5 Naked Truth (c)
7-8 That Girl (c)
9 Stock Market (c)
11 Rocky & His Friends (c/Bullwinkle)
13 Classroom
31 Continental Comment

12:55
4-20 NBC News

1:00
2 Galloping Gourmet (c)
3 Girl Talk (c)
4 It's Your Bet (c)
5 Movie "Saratoga"
7 All My Children (c)
8 I Love Lucy
11 Here's Barbara (c)
13 Game City (pt 2 of a series where high school students plan a hypothetical city government)
31 Your Right to Say It (c/Nixon's agenda for the 70s)

1:30
2-3 As the World Turns (c)
4-20 Life with Linkletter (c)
7-8 Let's Make a Deal (c)
11 Steve Allen (c/guests George "Goober" Lindsey, Pat Henry, Bob Francis, and Sue Gossick)
13 Classroom
31 Around the Clock (c)

2:00
2-3 Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (c)
4-20 Days of Our Lives (c)
7-8 Newlywed Game (c)
31 Interlude

2:30
2-3 Guiding Light (c)
4-20 Doctors (c)
7-8 Dating Game (c)
11 Patty Duke

3:00
2 Secret Storm (c)
3 He Said! She Said! (c)
4-20 Another World (c)
5 Casper (c)
7-8 General Hospital (c)
9 Della Reese (c/guests Theodore Bikel, Shari Lewis, and Johnnie Whitaker)
11 Popeye (c)
31 Lee Graham (c)

3:30
2 Edge of Night (c)
3 Gomer Pyle, USMC (c)
4-20 Bright Promise (c)
5 Flintstones (c)
7-8 One Life to Live (c)
11 Superman (c)
31 Return to Nursing

4:00
2 Gomer Pyle, USMC (c)
3 Ranger Station (c)
4-20 Name Droppers (c)
5 Wonderama (c)
7 Dark Shadows (c)
8 Mike Douglas (c/guests Red Buttons, Florence Henderson, Bobby Vinton, and Stiller & Meara)
9 Movie Game (c)
11 Addams Family
31 Around the Clock (c)

4:30
2 Mike Douglas (c/guests Fernando Lamas, Bob Crane, Pat Suzuki, and the Clara Ward Gospel Singers)
3 Hazel (c)
4 Movie "McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force" (c/except McHale, that is )
7 Movie "Baby, the Rain Must Fall"
9 Movie "Dishonored Lady"
11 Three Stooges (c)
13 Sesame Street (c/ep 84)
31 Big Picture (c)

5:00
3 Perry Mason
5 Cartoons
11 Timmy & Lassie
31 Film

5:30
5 My Favorite Martian (c)
8 Stump the Stars (c)
11 Munsters
13 Misterogers' Neighborhood (c)
31 Consultation
47 El Pecado de Sofia

5:55
3 Ski Report (c)

Evening
6:00
2-4-7-8 News (c)
3 Weather (c)
5 Lost in Space (c)
9 Gilligan's Island (c)
11 Batman (c)
13 What's New
31 It's Fun to Read (c)
41 Comicos y Canciones
47 1970 (c)

6:05
3 Sports (c)

6:15
3 News (c)
8 Weather (c)

6:20
8 Sports (c)

6:30
3 CBS Evening News (c)
8 ABC Evening News (c)
9 Flipper (c)
11 Star Trek (c)
13 German
31 News (c)
41 Noticias (c)

6:45
31 Film
47 Noticias (c)

7:00
2 CBS Evening News (c)
3 Cesar's World (c)
4-20 Huntley-Brinkley Report (c/this would become NBC Nightly News in August after Chet Huntley's retirement)
5 I Love Lucy
7 ABC Evening News (c)
8 Truth or Consequences (c)
9 Dick Van Dyke
13 Why You Smoke (c/pt 4)
31 Around the Clock (c)
41 Mas Fuente Que Tu Amor
47 Simplemente Maria

7:30
2-3 Family Affair (c)
4-20 Daniel Boone (c)
5 Truth or Consequences (c)
7-8 Pat Paulsen (c/guest Tommy Smothers)
9 Avengers
11 Beat the Clock (c)
13 New Jersey Speaks
31 On the Job: Fire Department (c)
41 Chuco el Roto

8:00
2-3 Jim Nabors (c/guests Bob Newhart and Kaye Stevens)
5 To Tell the Truth (c)
7-8 That Girl (c)
11 Can You Top This? (c)
13 Washington Review (c)
31 American History "William Jennings Bryan"
41 Chucho Avellanet (c)
47 Fernando Soler

8:30
4-20 Ironside (c)
5 David Frost (c/as 10am, WNHC)
7-8 Bewitched (c)
9 Candid Camera
11 He Said! She Said!
13 Kukla, Fran & Ollie (c/the gang make the hippie scene in the finale)
41 Lucecita Benitez (c)

9:00
2-3 Movie "The African Queen" (c)
7-8 Tom Jones (c/guests Bob Hope, Billy Eckstine, and Bobbie Gentry)
9 Movie "The Seven Hills of Rome" (c/Mario Lanza's last film)
11 Felony Squad (c)
13 Soul! (c/guests Muhammad Ali, Vivian Reed, Billy Butler & the Infinity, Archie Bell & the Drells, and Patti LaBelle and the Bluebells)
31 One to One (c)
41 Rosario
47 Rendezvous en New York (c)

9:30
4-20 Dragnet (c)
11 NYPD (c)
31 News (c)
47 Conciencia Culpable

9:45
31 Italian Panorama

10:00
4-20 Dean Martin (c/guests Sid Caesar, Babara Anderson, Marty Robbins, Gale Gordon, and Alice Ghostley)
5-11 News (c)
7-8 Paris 7000 (c)
13 Newsfront (c)
31 German
41 Tres Rostros de Mujer
47 Los Olvidados

10:30
41 TV Musical
47 Si No Fueras Tu

11:00
4-7-8 News (c)
5 Peyton Place
9 Divorce Court (c)
11 Perry Mason
41 Noticias (c)
47 Pelicula "Casa de Juego"

11:05
2-3 News (c)

11:10
4 Weather (c)

11:15
4 News (c)
8 Weather (c)

11:20
3 Weather (c)
8 Sports (c)

11:25
3-4 Sports (c)
7 Weather (c)

11:30
2 Merv Griffin (c/from Vegas with guests Redd Foxx, Kay Starr, and Stanley Myron Handelman"
3 Double Feature Movies "Casanova '70" (c)/"Paranoiac"
4-20 Tonight Show (c)
5 Movie "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye"
7-8 Dick Cavett (c/guests Jimmy Stewart and Irwin Corey)
9 Movie "The Seventh Veil"
41 Cuerdas y Guitarras

Late Night
midnight
11 Phil Donahue (c/teen alcoholism)

12:30
11 News (c)
47 Noticias

1:00
2-4-8 News (c on 2-4)
7 Movie "Shanghai Story"

1:10
2 Movie "My Man Godfrey" (c)

1:15
4 Movie "Station Six-Sahara"

1:30
5 Strange Paradise (c)
9 Joe Franklin (c)

2:00
5 Reel Camp

2:30
9 News/Weather

3:00
2 Movie "The Iron Mistress" (c)

 

[wbhist]

A few notes:
- The Shanghai Story (seen at 1 A.M. on WABC's late-night movie showcase, then still known as The Best of Broadway) was one of a package of post-1948 Republic films originally premiered in 1958 on then-WRCA-TV, and relocated by 1963 to Channel 7. Other films in that package included The Quiet Man (which I don't think went to WABC, if it did let me know), Rio Grande, Sands of Iwo Jima (three of John Wayne's most famous films for the studio) and the Joan Crawford proto-feminist western Johnny Guitar. The last three titles aired on The 4:30 Movie within that show's first two years on the air.
- At 4:30, who would have won the time slot? I know The Mike Douglas Show was pullin' 'em in . . . but how did WNBC's Movie Four fare in the ratings vis-a-vis WABC's 4:30 Movie at this point, on average?
- Re Sesame Street on WPIX: This was in the period when the station was airing reruns of the series (and yes, this was no typo). It was also during a very contentious license challenge filed by Forum Communications with the FCC, and WPIX trying to prove that, yes, they were committed to educational programming. (This would also lead, in time, to the remaining shows of "Officer" Joe Bolton and "Captain" Jack McCarthy to leave the air and two new shows - Time for Joya which later morphed into Joya's Fun School [both shows hosted by Joya Sherrill], and The Magic Garden - to come on.)
- Washington Review (as TV Guide listed it) would doubtless be Washington Week in Review.
- As for Mario Lanza's last film - wouldn't that have been For the First Time, which WOR also had title to? (WOR and WNBC, starting in 1968, split a huge package of off-network MGM films that were originally released between 1949 and 1964. The NBC O&O got Lanza's The Great Caruso while the indie RKO station got the rest of what was offered of his output. Meanwhile, WOR received Elvis' Viva Las Vegas while WNBC got two other films from "The King," It Happened at the World's Fair and Kissin' Cousins.)
- WPIX was the first (but not the last) New York station to run Phil Donahue; I counted at least three (WOR and, of course, WNBC). Did I miss any? In any event, Donahue replaced a late night movie series on Channel 11 called Tonight at the Movies - and by the fall, Donahue himself was replaced by The Channel 11 Film Festival which ran at varying time slots into the 1980's.

 

[azumanga]

- Re Sesame Street on WPIX: This was in the period when the station was airing reruns of the series (and yes, this was no typo). It was also during a very contentious license challenge filed by Forum Communications with the FCC, and WPIX trying to prove that, yes, they were committed to educational programming.

While WPIX's Sesame Street episodes in these listings were not in sync with NET's airings, I have read that WPIX carried the show since it debuted in November 1969 -- in the book "Street Gang" (an interesting look at Sesame Street and the Muppets), it said that WPIX carried the show, so that it would be more accessible to morning viewers, as CTW was unwilling to schedule the program against Captain Kangaroo at 8AM, and WNDT was unwilling to schedule it at 9AM, due to in-school programming.

 

[Stanislav]

It was also during a very contentious license challenge filed by Forum Communications with the FCC, and WPIX trying to prove that, yes, they were committed to educational programming. (This would also lead, in time, to the remaining shows of "Officer" Joe Bolton and "Captain" Jack McCarthy to leave the air and two new shows - Time for Joya which later morphed into Joya's Fun School [both shows hosted by Joya Sherrill], and The Magic Garden - to come on.)

Time for Joya and The Magic Garden? Bah -- commie mind-control kiddie pap!! Joe and Jack's shows were very educational! Everything I know about life, I learned from their presentations of The Three Stooges, The Little Rascals, and Popeye. And I turned out just fine. So there! <LOL>

 

[John Murphy]

- Re Sesame Street on WPIX: This was in the period when the station was airing reruns of the series (and yes, this was no typo). It was also during a very contentious license challenge filed by Forum Communications with the FCC, and WPIX trying to prove that, yes, they were committed to educational programming.

While WPIX's Sesame Street episodes in these listings were not in sync with NET's airings, I have read that WPIX carried the show since it debuted in November 1969 -- in the book "Street Gang" (an interesting look at Sesame Street and the Muppets), it said that WPIX carried the show, so that it would be more accessible to morning viewers, as CTW was unwilling to schedule the program against Captain Kangaroo at 8AM, and WNDT was unwilling to schedule it at 9AM, due to in-school programming.

I personally recall watching the show on WPIX in the morning and then watching it later on WNDT during the afternoon myself.

 

[John Murphy]

Time for Joya and The Magic Garden? Bah -- commie mind-control kiddie pap!! Joe and Jack's shows were very educational! Everything I know about life, I learned from their presentations of The Three Stooges, The Little Rascals, and Popeye. And I turned out just fine. So there! <LOL>

I loved all of the shows mentioned in your post, so I don't know what that makes me then.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

7 WABC-ABC Los Angeles

I'm sure you meant WABC New York, right?

 

[wbhist]

7 WABC-ABC Los Angeles

I'm sure you meant WABC New York, right?

To quote an old advertising slogan from Barnes & Noble: "Of course, of course."

B.T.W., as to WOR's "Stock Market" listing - that was Stock Market Observer, which ran for decades on WCIU Channel 26 in Chicago, but only lasted over a year on WOR (it debuted in February 1969, and left the air within a few weeks or months of this date).

 

[John Murphy]

Does anybody know what type of program WNEW's The Naked Truth was?

 

[John Murphy]

11 Here's Barbara (c)

I know this was a syndicated program hosted by Barbara Coleman, but does anybody have any other info about this show?

 

[wbhist]

11 Here's Barbara (c)

I know this was a syndicated program hosted by Barbara Coleman, but does anybody have any other info about this show?

From what I could tell, it was a talk show that lasted only one or part of one season. After it left the air, she started another series, Capital B, which I've never heard of. Her syndicator was one Jack Rhodes - who later brought Second City TV (a.k.a. SCTV) to the U.S.

 

[Tim L]

11 Here's Barbara (c)

I know this was a syndicated program hosted by Barbara Coleman, but does anybody have any other info about this show?

From what I can gather, Ms. Coleman was a Washington Journalist who worked in Robert Kennedy's 1968 Campaign as a press aide..This show was also aired on WJAN-TV 17 in Canton, Ohio (probably because they could afford it..) Was likely a basic "talking head" political show..

 

[John Murphy]

Thanks wbhist and Tim!

 

[Kurt Toy]

I remember seeing "Here's Barbara" on WPGH-53 in Pittsburgh around '69-70. Just out of curiosity, I wonder if any episodes were saved or any clips are on YouTube.

 

[therealjm12]

Where I grew up, we got the NYC channels on cable, so I remember most of the listings here. At that time we only had 12 channels. Cable was much better in those days.