RETRO: New York City TV - Monday, Sept. 28, 1970 (Network O&O's)

[wbhist]

[SOURCE: TV Guide, New York-Metropolitan edition, Sept. 26-Oct. 2, 1970;
additional movie show title info extrapolated from The New York Times]

WCBS-TV 2 (CBS)
6:30 Sunrise Semester (return; today's lesson: the urban laborer)
7:00 CBS Morning News with John Hart
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Leave It to Beaver - "Part Time Genius" [original airdate 1/10/58]
9:30 The Donna Reed Show - "The Gossip" [original airdate 5/26/60]
10:00 The Lucy Show - "Lucy Goes to a Hollywood Premiere" [original airdate 2/7/66]
10:30 The Beverly Hillbillies - (Is a big business merger brewing?)
11:00 Family Affair - "The Award" [original airdate 5/1/67]
11:30 Love of Life

12:00 Where the Heart Is
12:25 CBS Midday News with Douglas Edwards
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 The Galloping Gourmet with Graham Kerr
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
2:30 The Guiding Light
3:00 The Secret Storm
3:30 The Edge of Night
4:00 Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - "Gomer and the Little Men from Outer Space" [original airdate 10/26/66]
4:30 The Mike Douglas Show - with co-host Milton Berle; guests include Alice Playten, Marty Allen and members of a balancing act

6:00 Six O'Clock Report with Jim Jensen
7:00 CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
7:30 Gunsmoke - "Stark" (guests include Richard Kiley and Suzanne Pleshette)
8:30 Here's Lucy - "Lucy and Sammy Davis, Jr."
9:00 Mayberry R.F.D. - "Goober's New Gas Station"
9:30 The Doris Day Show - "How Can I Ignore the Man Next Door?"
10:00 The Carol Burnett Show (guests: Nanette Fabray and Steve Lawrence; sketches include a salute to Columbia Pictures)
11:00 Eleven O'Clock Report with Bob Young (who was anchor of ABC's evening newscast for about 15 minutes in 1968)
11:30 The Merv Griffin Show (guest: Miyoshi Umeki)
1:00 News
1:10 The Late Show: "Odongo" (1956) - Rhonda Fleming, Macdonald Carey
2:50 The Late Late Show I: "The Silver Whip" (1953) - Dale Robertson, Rory Calhoun
4:15 The Late Late Show II: "China Venture" (1953) - Edmond O'Brien, Barry Sullivan
5:55 Give Us This Day - followed by sign-offr

WNBC-TV 4 (NBC)
6:30 Education Exchange - "Powers of Children" (first of 10 parts)
7:00 Today Show (scheduled: Mrs. Mark Hatfield, author of "More ReMARKable Recipes"; Robert Ardrey, author of "The Social Contract"; and Adam-12 stars Martin Milner and Kent McCord)
9:00 For Women Only - "Who Decides American Fashions?" (guests: James Brady, publisher of Women's Wear Daily; designer Jacques Tiffeau; and New York Times reporter Marilyn Bender)
9:30 Kup's Show (guests: John Fairchild, editor of Women's Wear Daily; Tony Randall; Red Buttons; burlesque star Ann Corio; and fashion designer Ron Amey)
10:00 Dinah's Place (guest: Stanley Myron Handlelman)
10:30 Concentration
11:00 Sale of the Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares (scheduled: James Brolin, Joyce Haber, Arte Johnson, Jan Murray, Suzanne Pleshette . . . and Paul Lynde)

12:00 Jeopardy! (the original Art Fleming version)
12:30 The Who, What or Where Game
12:55 NBC News
1:00 It's Your Bet (guests: Dorothy Lamour and husband Bill Howard; and Jo Anne Worley and date Roger Perry; hosted by Dick Gautier)
1:30 Words and Music (debut; hosted by Wink Martindale)
2:00 Days of our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World / Bay City
3:30 Bright Promise
4:00 Another World / Somerset
4:30 Movie Four: "Back Street" (1961) - Susan Hayward, John Gavin

6:00 Sixth Hour News with John Palmer
7:00 NBC Nightly News (this was during the period when John Chancellor, Frank McGee and David Brinkley rotated as anchors on a different night)
7:30 The Red Skelton Show (guests: Robert Wagner, Emmaline Henry; with cameo by Jack Benny)
8:00 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (guest: Goldie Hawn)
9:00 NBC Monday Night at the Movies: "The Lost Man" (1969) - Sidney Poitier, Joanna Shimkus, Al Freeman Jr.
11:15 Eleventh Hour News with Jim Hartz
11:45 The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (guest host: Joan Rivers; scheduled guests include Robert Goulet and Martin Milner)
1:15 News - Bob Teague
1:30 The Great Great Show: "House of Women" (1962) - Shirley Knight, Andrew Duggan
3:00 Sermonette / sign-off

WABC-TV 7 (ABC)
7:00 Listen and Learn
7:30 Eyewitness News with Tom Dunn
8:00 A.M. New York (guests include Dr. Carlton Fredericks; host: John Bartholomew Tucker; this show was a forerunner of Good Morning America, and also one of several ancestors to Live with Regis and Kelly)
9:30 Prize Movie: "Jupiter's Darling" (1955) - Esther Williams, Howard Keel
11:30 That Girl - "Pass the Potatoes, Ethel Merman" [original airdate 9/7/67]

12:00 Bewitched - "The Trial and Error of Aunt Clara" [original airdate 2/2/67]
12:30 A World Apart
1:00 All My Children
1:30 Let's Make a Deal
2:00 The Newlywed Game
2:30 The Dating Game
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 One Life to Live
4:00 Dark Shadows
4:30 The 4:30 Movie: "Act One" (1963) - George Hamilton, Jason Robards Jr.

6:00 Eyewitness News with Roger Grimsby and Bill Beutel (the debut of this legendary New York TV news anchor team)
7:00 ABC Evening News with Frank Reynolds and Howard K. Smith
7:30 The Young Lawyers - "A Simple Thing Called Justice"
8:30 The Silent Force - "The Hero"
9:00 NFL Monday Night Football - Kansas City Chiefs at Baltimore Colts (Kansas City beat Baltimore, 44-24)
11:45 Eyewitness News with Roger Grimsby and Bill Beutel
12:15 The Dick Cavett Show (guest: Norman Mailer)
1:00 Best of Broadway: "Port Sinister" (1953) - James Warren, Lynne Roberts
2:20 News / meditation / sign-off

 

[Stanislav]

WCBS-TV 2 (CBS)
6:30(am) Sunrise Semester (return; today's lesson: the urban laborer)
(...then 23 1/2 hours later
5:55(am) Give Us This Day - followed by sign-off

...and then presumably signing back on 1/2 hour later...not really a "sign-off;" more like an "interlude." <s>

I've never understood why WCBS even bothered with their s/off and s/on routines in that era when the break in programming was so brief. Surely they could have found something to fill half an hour other than a test pattern: an army film, My Little Margie, anything. I doubt there was a critical engineering need to run a TP every night, and any legalese about copyright, no retransmission, some shows pre-recorded, etc., could have been fitted into a break between programs. It just seems so silly to me.

 

[wbhist]

WCBS-TV 2 (CBS)
6:30(am) Sunrise Semester (return; today's lesson: the urban laborer)
(...then 23 1/2 hours later
5:55(am) Give Us This Day - followed by sign-off

...and then presumably signing back on 1/2 hour later...not really a "sign-off;" more like an "interlude." <s>

I've never understood why WCBS even bothered with their s/off and s/on routines in that era when the break in programming was so brief. Surely they could have found something to fill half an hour other than a test pattern: an army film, My Little Margie, anything. I doubt there was a critical engineering need to run a TP every night, and any legalese about copyright, no retransmission, some shows pre-recorded, etc., could have been fitted into a break between programs. It just seems so silly to me.

Actually, it was less than that; apparently, WCBS in those days signed-on weekdays at 6:15 A.M. (the opening "Give Us This Day" and the sign-on newscast were not counted in TV Guide's listings). So the down time was between 15 and 20 minutes on this occasion. But it did seem the case that they were following protocol.

 

[hubcity]

But it did seem the case that they were following protocol.

My guess: Engineering demanded, and got, a window for whatever tweaks needed to occur, whether or not they used it. It was always scheduled, and they could take advantage of it on any given day.

Can that be corroborated?

 

[wbhist]

But it did seem the case that they were following protocol.

My guess: Engineering demanded, and got, a window for whatever tweaks needed to occur, whether or not they used it. It was always scheduled, and they could take advantage of it on any given day.

Can that be corroborated?

Your guess is as good as mine, but it sure sounds like it . . .

 

[Stanislav]

But it did seem the case that they were following protocol.

My guess: Engineering demanded, and got, a window for whatever tweaks needed to occur, whether or not they used it.  It was always scheduled, and they could take advantage of it on any given day.

Can that be corroborated?

Your guess is as good as mine, but it sure sounds like it . . .

Makes sense...I'm guessing a 60s-70s era transmitter required more periodic "tweaking" than more modern units -- even when many stations started going 24/7 later on, quite a few still signed off for at least a couple of hours once a week (usually early Sunday or Monday a.m.) for routine maintenance. I'm just not sure how much "tweaking" could actually be accomplished in that brief 15-30 minute daily window of opportunity on WCBS, though.

 

[mleach]

WCBS-TV 2 (CBS)

1:00 The Galloping Gourmet with Graham Kerr

I can remember when the Food Network was airing repeats of Kerr's show several years ago, around 2004 I believe. As I can recall those repeats actually drew a large number of viewers enough so that I believe Food Network had offered him a job to do some new cooking shows for them however Graham Kerr said "NO".

I also seem to remember back in the 80's about where Graham Kerr was considering oopening up some restaurants and a line of frozen foods all bearing his name much like what Wolfgang Puck did..again Kerr said "NO".

Even though the Kerr Wikipedia page mentions that for the last 10 years, Graham Kerr has been seen doing radio & TV features for the National Cancer Institute's "5 A Day" program..I have never seen those features.

 

[azumanga]

Even though the Kerr Wikipedia page mentions that for the last 10 years, Graham Kerr has been seen doing radio & TV features for the National Cancer Institute's "5 A Day" program..I have never seen those features.

Those features may be seen on your local stations at a time or day that you normally don't watch TV -- at least a few years back, WTVT in Tampa Bay ran Kerr's 5-a-day features during their Saturday morning newscasts.