Retro: New York City Wed, Mar 4, 1970

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from TV Guide-New York Metro edition

WCBS 2-CBS New York
6:30 Sunrise Semester "Iranian Culture" (c)
7:00 CBS Morning News (c)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (c)
9:00 Leave It to Beaver
9:30 Donna Reed
10:00 Lucille Ball (c)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies (c)
11:00 Andy Griffith (c)
11:30 Love of Life (c)
noon Where the Heart is (c)
12:25 CBS News (c)
12:30 Search for Tomorrow (c)
1:00 Galloping Gourmet (c)
1:30 As the World Turns (c)
2:00 Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (c)
2:30 Guiding Light (c)
3:00 Secret Storm (c)
3:30 Edge of Night (c)
4:00 Gomer Pyle, USMC (c)
4:30 Mike Douglas (c/guests Margaret Mead, Fernando Lamas, Jackie Kahane, and Little Richard)
6:00 News (c)
7:00 CBS Evening News (c)
7:30 Hee Haw (c/guests Wandy Jackson & Sonny James)
8:30 Beverly Hillbillies (c)
9:00 Medical Center (c)
10:00 Hawaii Five-O (c)
11:00 News (c)
11:30 Merv Griffin (c/from Las Vegas with guests John Forsythe, Pat Boone, the Establishment, and Albert Brooks)
1:00 News (c)
1:10 Movie "Touch of Evil"
3:05 Music "The Merry Widow" (c)

WTIC 3-CBS Hartford
6:00 Sunrise Semester "Iranian Culture" (c)
6:30 University of Michigan (c)
7:00 CBS Morning News (c)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (c)
9:00 Hap Richards (c)
9:15 Yogi Bear (c)
9:30 Lucille Ball (c)
10:00 Movie "The Hour of 13"
11:30 Love of Life (c)
noon News (c)
12:25 CBS News (c)
12:30 Search for Tomorrow (c)
1:00 Girl Talk (c)
1:30 As the World Turns (c)
2:00 Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (c)
2:30 Guiding Light (c)
3:00 He Said! She Said! (c)
3:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC (c)
4:00 Ranger Station (c)
4:30 Hazel (c)
5:00 Perry Mason
6:00 Weather (c)
6:05 Sports (c)
6:15 News (c)
6:30 CBS Evening News (c)
7:00 What in the World (c)
7:30 Hee Haw (c)
8:30 Beverly Hillbillies (c)
9:00 Medical Center (c)
10:00 Hawaii Five-O (c)
11:00 News (c)
11:15 Weather (c)
11:20 Sports (c)
11:25 Movie "Beach Party" (c)
1:05 News/Weather (c)

WNBC 4-NBC New York
Italicized programs also carried by WATR 20-Waterbury, for which TVG only carried network listings
7:00 Today (from Miami)
9:00 For Women Only (c)
9:30 PDQ (c)
10:00 It Takes Two (c)
10:25 NBC News (c)
10:30 Concentration (c)
11:00 Sale of the Century (c)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (c)
noon Jeopardy (c)
12:30 Who, What or Where (c)
12:55 NBC News (c)
1:00 It's Your Bet (c)
1:30 Life with Linkletter (c)
2:00 Days of Our Lives (c)
2:30 Doctors (c)
3:00 Another World (c)
3:30 Bright Promise (c)
4:00 Name Droppers (c)
4:30 Movie "I'd Rather Be Rich" (c)
6:00 News (c)
7:00 Huntley-Brinkley Report (c)
7:30 Virginian (c)
9:00 Music Hall (c) "Alan King's Wonderful World of Aggravation" (guests Paul Lynde, Michele Lee, and Anne Meara)
10:00 Then Came Bronson (c)
11:00 News (c)
11:10 Weather (c)
11:15 News (c)
11:25 Sports (c)
11:30 Tonight Show (c) (guest Don Rickles)
1:00 News (c)
1:15 Movie "Green Fire" (c)

WNEW 5-Ind New York
7:45 Exercise (c)
8:00 Marine Boy (c)
8:30 Alvin (c)
9:00 Movie "Jinx Money"
10:00 Pixanne (c)
11:00 Movie "Act of Violence"
12:30 Naked Truth (c)
1:00 Movie "So This is Love" (c)
3:00 Casper (c)
3:30 Flintstones (c)
4:00 Wonderama (c)
5:00 Cartoons
5:30 My Favorite Martian (c)
6:00 Lost in Space (c)
7:00 I Love Lucy
7:30 Truth or Consequences (c)
8:00 To Tell the Truth (c)
8:30 David Frost (c/guests Joe Frazier, Garry Moore, Mrs. Moshe Dayan, and Little Richard)
10:00 News (c)
11:00 Peyton Place
11:30 Movie "The Enforcer"
1:15 Reel Camp

WABC 7-ABC New York
6:30 Project Know "Henry David Thoreau" (c)
7:00 News (c)
7:05 His & Her of It (c/guests Erich Segal)
8:30 Girl Talk (c)
9:00 Movie "The Glass Menagerie"
11:30 Anniversary Game (c)
noon Bewitched (c)
12:30 That Girl (c)
1:00 All My Children (c)
1:30 Let's Make a Deal (c)
2:00 Newlywed Game (c)
2:30 Dating Game (c)
3:00 General Hospital (c)
3:30 One Life to Live (c)
4:00 Dark Shadows (c)
4:30 Movie "The Art of Love" (for those wondering, 7 was using the 4:30 Movie title then)
6:00 News (c)
7:00 ABC Evening News (c)
7:30 Nanny (c)
8:00 Courtship of Eddie's Father (c)
8:30 Room 222 (c)
9:00 Johnny Cash (c/guests Peter Seeger, Roger Miller, and Brenda Lee)
10:00 Englebert Humperdinck (c/from London with guests Jerry Lewis, Lulu, Ray Charles, and Marilyn Michaels)
11:00 News (c)
11:25 Weather (c)
11:30 Dick Cavett (c/guests Robert Blake and Marques Hanes)
1:00 Movie "Voyage to Danger" (c)

WNHC 8-ABC New Haven
6:10 News
6:15 Infinite Horizons
6:45 Morning Reflection
7:00 Mr. Goober (c)
9:00 Movie Game (c)
9:30 Conn-Tention (c)
10:00 David Frost (c/see 5, 8:30pm for guests)
11:30 Beat the Clock (c)
noon News/Weather (c)
12:30 That Girl (c)
1:00 I Love Lucy
1:30 Let's Make a Deal (c)
2:00 Newlywed Game (c)
2:30 Dating Game (c)
3:00 General Hospital (c)
3:30 One Life to Live (c)
4:00 Mike Douglas (c/guests Red Buttons, Joe South, Craig Claiborne, Jane Withers, and the Three Degrees)
5:30 Stump the Stars (c)
6:00 News (c)
6:15 Weather (c)
6:20 Sports (c)
6:30 ABC Evening News (c)
7:00 Truth or Consequences (c)
7:30 Nanny (c)
8:00 Courtship of Eddie's Father (c)
8:30 Room 222 (c)
9:00 Johnny Cash (c)
10:00 Englebert Humperdinck (c)
11:00 News (c)
11:15 Weather (c)
11:20 Sports (c)
11:30 Dick Cavett (c)
1:00 News

WOR 9-Ind New York
7:55 News/Weather
8:00 Bozo's Big Top (c)
8:30 Cartoons (c)
9:00 Romper Room (c)
10:20 Fashions in Sewing (c)
10:30 Joe Franklin (c)
11:30 What's My Line? (c)
noon Journey to Adventure (c)
12:30 Stock Market (c)
3:00 Della Reese (c/guests Joe South, Belland & Sommerville, and Gypsy Boots)
4:00 Movie Game (c)
4:30 Movie "Guilty of Treason"
6:00 Gilligan's Island (c)
6:30 Flipper (c)
7:00 Dick Van Dyke
7:30 Avengers
8:30 Candid Camera
9:00 Movie "The Story of Three Loves" (c/Million Dollar Movie)
11:00 Divorce Court (c)
11:30 Movie "The Ride to Hangman's Tree" (c)
1:30 Joe Franklin (c)
2:30 News/Weather

WPIX 11-Ind New York
7:15 News (c)
7:30 Popeye (c)
9:00 Sesame Street (c/ep 68, with Jackie Robinson reciting the alphabet)
10:00 Jack LaLanne (c)
10:30 Jewish Dimension (c)
10:55 News (c)
11:00 David Wade (c)
11:30 Gumby (c)
noon Underdog (c)
12:30 Rocky (c, Bullwinkle?)
1:00 Here's Barbara (c/her guest is the great-great-grandson of William Wordsworth)
1:30 Steve Allen (c/guests Donn Eisele, Victor Buono, Clair & McMahon, Jayne Meadows, and Walter Skees)
2:30 Patty Duke
3:00 Popeye (c)
3:30 Superman
4:00 Addams Family
4:30 Three Stooges (c)
5:00 Timmy & Lassie
5:30 Munsters
6:00 Batman (c)
6:30 Star Trek (c)
7:30 Beat the Clock (c)
8:00 Can You Top This? (c)
8:30 He Said! She Said! (c)
9:00 Felony Squad (c)
9:30 NYPD (c)
10:00 News (c)
11:00 Perry Mason
mid. Phil Donahue (c/guest Pappa Leone)
12:30 News (c)

WNDT 13-NET New York
8:25 Classroom
11:30 Sesame Street (c/ep 83, with Burt Lancaster reciting the alphabet and James Earl Jones counting to 10)
12:30 Classroom
3:20 Sex Education
3:30 African Anthology
4:00 German
4:30 Sesame Street (c/ep 83)
5:30 Misterogers' Neighborhood (c)
6:00 What's New
6:30 Astronomy "Uranus, Neptune and Pluto"
7:00 Why You Smoke (c/pt 3-Why do you smoke?)
7:30 New Jersey Speaks
8:00 NET Festival "Ballet Gala" (ballet dancers from the Bolshoi, Royal Ballet, the Paris Opera Ballet, and the Royal Danish Ballet)
9:00 News in Perspective (c/how Nixon is getting along with the Dem-controlled Congress)
10:00 Newsfront
11:00 Interface (c)

WNYE 25-Edu New York
8:30 Sesame Street (c, no ep info)
9:30 Classroom
noon Classroom

WNYC 31-Ind New York
9:30 Around the Clock (c)
10:00 Sesame Street (c/ep 67, Pat Paulsen recites the alphabet; this aired the previous day on WPIX)
11:00 Film
noon It's Fun to Read
12:30 NASA Presents (c)
1:00 Focus on Books (c)
1:30 Around the Clock (c)
2:00 Interlude
3:00 Return to Nursing
3:30 Film (c)
4:00 Around the Clock (c)
4:30 Wings to the World (c)
5:00 Navy Film (c)
5:30 Film
6:00 Lee Graham (c)
6:30 News (c)
6:45 Film
7:00 Community Report
7:30 On the Job: Fire Department (c)
8:00 Communications & Society
8:30 All About TV (c)
9:30 News (c)
9:45 Film (c)
10:00 University Roundtable
10:30 Astronomy (same topic as 13)

WXTV 41-Ind Paterson
6pm Comicos y Canciones
6:30 Noticias (c)
7:00 Mas Fuerte Que Tu Amor
7:30 Chuco el Roto
8:00 Olga Guillot
8:30 Risas, Sonrisas
9:00 Rosario
10:00 Tres Rostros de Mujer
10:30 Festival en Madrid
11:00 Noticias (c)
11:30 Cuerdas y Guitarras

WNJU 47-Ind Newark
5:30pm El Pecado de Sofia
6:00 1970 (c)
6:45 Noticias (c)
7:00 Simplemente Maria
8:00 Tito Rodriguez
8:30 Secuestro en el Cielo
9:00 Popa en Nueva York
9:30 Conciencia Culpable
10:00 Secuestro en el Cielo
10:30 El Canillita
11:00 Washington Wrestling (47 also aired wrestling Saturdays at 11, but the listings give no indication as to from where)
12:30 Noticias

 

[wbhist]

WCBS 2-CBS New York
1:10 Movie "Touch of Evil"
3:05 Music "The Merry Widow" (c)

The former shown under The Late Show banner, the latter on The Late Late Show.

WNBC 4-NBC New York
4:30 Movie "I'd Rather Be Rich" (c)
1:15 Movie "Green Fire" (c)

The former of course, was run on Movie Four; the latter, on The Great Great Show.

WNEW 5-Ind New York
9:00 Movie "Jinx Money"
11:30 Movie "The Enforcer"

The morning movie shown at 9 A.M. was evidently Eastside Comedy, while the movie at 11:30 P.M. was - surprise, surprise - The 11:30 Movie.

WABC 7-ABC New York
9:00 Movie "The Glass Menagerie"
1:00 Movie "Voyage to Danger" (c)

The morning movie showing was Prize Movie with Gloria DeHaven (hosted by a former star of Hollywood musicals); the film shown after Cavett was under The Best of Broadway.

WOR 9-Ind New York
12:30 Stock Market (c)
4:30 Movie "Guilty of Treason"
11:30 Movie "The Ride to Hangman's Tree" (c)

"Stock Market" was Stock Market Observer, which ran for some three decades on WCIU Channel 26 in Chicago - but only over a year on WOR. I'm not sure what movie umbrella was aired at 4:30 as of this date (at one point earlier in the year, Mad Mad Movie was run in that time slot), but at 11:30 their showcase was The Late Movie.

WPIX 11-Ind New York
12:30 Rocky (c, Bullwinkle?)

Actually, these were Rocky and Bullwinkle - but to my knowledge, WPIX aired the cartoons under the Rocky and His Friends banner.

 

[KYLEBOOK]

WPIX 11-Ind New York
12:30 Rocky (c, Bullwinkle?)

Actually, these were Rocky and Bullwinkle - but to my knowledge, WPIX aired the cartoons under the Rocky and His Friends banner.

That was the 1st season Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons that aired on ABC in 1959, which had a circus parade opening.

When the show moved to NBC, the show was renamed to "Bullwinkle", with the mnarquee lights open.

 

[wbhist]

WPIX 11-Ind New York
12:30 Rocky (c, Bullwinkle?)

Actually, these were Rocky and Bullwinkle - but to my knowledge, WPIX aired the cartoons under the Rocky and His Friends banner.

That was the 1st season Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons that aired on ABC in 1959, which had a circus parade opening.

When the show moved to NBC, the show was renamed to "Bullwinkle", with the mnarquee lights open.

And at this point in TV history, the post-1961 Bullwinkle Show was still being shown on ABC (meaning, in New York, on WABC) on Sunday mornings.

 

[wbhist]

And the rest of the story . . .

From The New York Times

WLIW 21-Educ Garden City
10:30 School Service Programming
5:30 Sesame Street (shown in B&W)
6:30 Registered Nurse
7:00 Spanish
7:30 University of the Air
8:30 University of the Air
9:00 Long Island News Update

And also, from the Times, the full WNYE listings . . .

9:30 Enjoying Science
9:50 La Bonnie Aventure
10:10 Come Read to Me a Poem
10:30 Pocketful of Fun
11:00 The Moving Image
11:20 Exploring Science
11:40 African Anthology
12:00 Family Living, Sex Education
12:30 Geographic and Economic Studies
1:00 Pocketful of Fun
1:30 Children of Other Lands
1:50 Distributive Education
2:10 African Anthology
2:30 The Magic of Words
2:45 Stepping Into Melody
3:00 Pocketful of Fun
3:30 Intergroup Education in the Social Studies
4:00 Media and the Teacher

 

[azumanga]

WNYE 25-Edu New York
8:30 Sesame Street (c, no ep info)

I thought all WNYE programming was still black and white at the time? I recall seeing in a 1972 NYC TVG that WNYE's telecast of "The Electric Company" was B&W.

 

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WNYE 25-Edu New York
8:30 Sesame Street (c, no ep info)

I thought all WNYE programming was still black and white at the time? I recall seeing in a 1972 NYC TVG that WNYE's telecast of "The Electric Company" was B&W.

I have another TV Guide from three weeks after this date - and they had Sesame Street running in color on Channel 25 there too. But it could be another of TV Guide's errors that they committed over the years, for all I know (i.e. claiming that Channel 9's sign-on news as of 1977 was B&W when in fact it was color). Notice I mentioned that WLIW (which wasn't in TV Guide's listings until a few months after this) showed the series in B&W.

 

[Ultimajock]

WCBS 2-CBS New York
4:30 Mike Douglas (c/guests Margaret Mead, Fernando Lamas, Jackie Kahane, and Little Richard)

WNEW 5-Ind New York
8:30 David Frost (c/guests Joe Frazier, Garry Moore, Mrs. Moshe Dayan, and Little Richard)

WNHC 8-ABC New Haven
10:00 David Frost (c/see 5, 8:30pm for guests)
4:00 Mike Douglas (c/guests Red Buttons, Joe South, Craig Claiborne, Jane Withers, and the Three Degrees)

WOR 9-Ind New York
3:00 Della Reese (c/guests Joe South, Belland & Sommerville, and Gypsy Boots)

...hmmm, looks like both Little Richard and (whatever became of?) Joe South were DAMNED busy that day ;-) ...

 

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WCBS 2-CBS New York
4:30 Mike Douglas (c/guests Margaret Mead, Fernando Lamas, Jackie Kahane, and Little Richard)

WNEW 5-Ind New York
8:30 David Frost (c/guests Joe Frazier, Garry Moore, Mrs. Moshe Dayan, and Little Richard)

WNHC 8-ABC New Haven
10:00 David Frost (c/see 5, 8:30pm for guests)
4:00 Mike Douglas (c/guests Red Buttons, Joe South, Craig Claiborne, Jane Withers, and the Three Degrees)

WOR 9-Ind New York
3:00 Della Reese (c/guests Joe South, Belland & Sommerville, and Gypsy Boots)

...hmmm, looks like both Little Richard and (whatever became of?) Joe South were DAMNED busy that day ;-) ...

The answer: The miracle of videotape . . .

I don't know if this was mentioned in TV Guide (certainly was in The Times), but in the middle of Della, Channel 9 aired a program around 3:20 called Stock Market Final.

 

[ssetta]

Just so you guys know, the Sesame Street episode (#83) that aired that day was actually shown as part of Noggin's "Sesame Street Unpaved" series that aired on the channel when it first came on back in 1999.

 

[bpatrick]

The female guest on "Hee Haw" was named Wanda Jackson.
She was fairly popular in country-music circles in the '60s;
don't know what became of her.

 

[azumanga]

Just so you guys know, the Sesame Street episode (#83) that aired that day was actually shown as part of Noggin's "Sesame Street Unpaved" series that aired on the channel when it first came on back in 1999.

Apparently for good reason -- it guested Burt Lancaster and James Earl Jones.