(SOURCES: TV Guide, New York Metropolitan Edition, Aug. 26-Sept. 1, 1972; also, TV listings from The New York Times,
Aug. 26, 1972; Connecticut Sunday Herald, Aug. 20, 1972; and Daily Register [Red Bank, NJ], Aug. 25, 1972; some original
airdates from IMDb)
NOTE: This was from the first day listed in the first issue of TV Guide whereby all editions carried this notice:
"All programs are in color except those designated by (BW)." This replaced the prior "(C) indicates color program" notice that
was in place up to the prior issue, and in that form had been in TVG issues from the May 31-June 6, 1969 edition.
WCBS-TV 2 New York (CBS; owned and operated)
Morning
6:25 Give Us This Day
6:30 Summer Semester (The Cold War and Beyond: Civil War in China; with Prof. Abe Yeselson)
7:00 Dusty's Treehouse
7:30 Backyard Safari (discussion of dreams, by psychologist Rosalind Cartwright)
8:00 The Bugs Bunny Show
8:30 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
9:00 The Harlem Globetrotters (cartoon series)
9:30 Help, It's the Hair Bear Bunch!
10:00 Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm
10:30 Archie's TV Funnies
11:00 Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
11:30 Josie and the Pussycats
Afternoon
12:00 The Monkees - "Mijacogeo" (a.k.a. "The Frodis Caper") [original airdate 3/25/68; was the last original show of the series]
12:26 In the News
12:30 The CBS Children's Film Festival: "Hand in Hand" (1960) - Loretta Parry, Philip Needs
2:00 The Patchwork Family - "Home Life and the Family"
3:00 Black Arts (guest: photographer William Mackey, Jr.) [repeat]
3:30 The American Adventure
4:00 AAU International Champions
5:00 Golf Tournaments (U.S. Professional Match Play Championship and Liggett & Myers Open, both played at Country Club in
North Carolina)
Evening
6:00 Documentary Special - "My Sister Elizabeth Had Her Heart Fixed" (about a 3-year-old girl's heart operation)
6:30 CBS Evening News with Roger Mudd
7:00 Seven O'Clock Report with Vic Miles
7:30 Jerry Visits (Jerry Dunphy interviews Sue Ane Langdon)
8:00 All in the Family - "Cousin Maude's Visit" [original airdate 12/11/71]
8:30 Mary Tyler Moore - "Feeb" [original airdate 1/8/72]
9:00 The New Dick Van Dyke Show - "The Tennis Pro" [original airdate 10/16/71]
9:30 Arnie (Vito Scotti as an Italian winemaker in a dispute with boss Majors) [repeat]
10:00 Mission: Impossible - "Nerves" [original airdate 12/4/71]
11:00 Weekend Report with Vic Miles
11:30 The Late Show I: "Bunny Lake Is Missing" (1965) - Lawrence Olivier, Carol Lynley
1:35 News
1:45 The Late Show II: "Young Fury" (1965) Rory Calhoun, Virginia Mayo
3:25 The Late Late Show I: "The Sea Tiger" (1952) - Marguerite Chapman, John Archer
4:55 The Late Late Show II: "Magnificent Roughnecks" (1956) - Jack Carson, Mickey Rooney
6:30 Give Us This Day
followed by sign-off
WNBC-TV 4 New York (NBC; owned and operated)
Morning
4:53 Sermonette
5:00 Modern Farmer
6:00 Agriculture U.S.A.
7:00 Zoorama
7:30 Dodo
8:00 Dr. Dolittle (1970-72 cartoon version produced by DePatie/Freleng)
8:30 Deputy Dawg
9:00 The Woody Woodpecker Show
9:30 The Pink Panther / The Ant and The Aardvark
10:00 The Jetsons
10:30 Barrier Reef - "The Fence" [original Australian airdate 4/2/72]
11:00 Take a Giant Step - "Coverings" (guest: Betsey Johnson) [series finale]
Afternoon
12:00 Mr. Wizard - "Micro Skin Diving" [repeat]
12:30 The Bugaloos
1:00 What's New at The New School - "Jefferson and Us" (guest, Dr. Saul Padover, professor of political science at
The New School)
1:30 Sports Challenge (Joe DiMaggio, Lefty Gomez and Tommy Henrich of New York Yankees vs. Al Kaline, Mickey Lolich and
Norm Cash of Detroit Tigers)
2:00 Baseball Pre-Game Show
2:15 Major League Baseball - Detroit Tigers at Minnesota Twins (Detroit beat Minnesota, 5-3)
5:00 High and Wild - "Mount Batchelor Ski Adventure"
5:30 Speaking Freely (guest: Saul Alinsky) [repeat]
Evening
6:30 NBC Saturday News with Garrick Utley
7:00 National Geographic Special - "Holland Against the Sea" [original airdate 4/14/1970]
8:00 NBC Comedy Theatre - "Simon Says Get Married" (with Bob Newhart, Dorothy Provine, Martin Milner, Joanna Barnes and
Kathleen Freeman)
9:00 Pre-Season Football - New York Jets at Dallas Cowboys (Dallas beat New York, 35-27)
12:00 News - Tony Guida
12:30 Saturday Film Festival: "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" (1966) - Robert Wagner, Peter Lawford
2:30 The Great Great Show: "The White Sheik" (1955) - Alberto Sordi, Brunella Bovo
4:00 Sermonette
followed by sign-off
WNEW-TV 5 New York (Independent; owned by Metromedia Television)
Morning
7:20 Call to Prayer
7:30 Wonder Window
8:00 Top Cat
8:30 Action Theatre: "Drango" (1957) - Jeff Chandler, Joanne Dru
10:00 Daktari - "Judy and the Gun Runners" [original airdate 5/17/66]
11:00 Soul Train (guests: Ike & Tina Turner, Jerry Butler and Brenda Lee Eager) [original slated airdate 4/22/72]
Afternoon
12:00 Creature Features: "Fiend Without a Face" (1958) - Marshall Thompson, Terence Kilburn
1:30 Eastside Comedy: "Jinx Money" (1948) - Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Billy Benedict
2:30 The Rifleman - "The Spiked Rifle" [original airdate 11/24/59]
3:00 Combat! - "Nightmare on the Red Ball Run" [original airdate 2/28/67]
4:00 The Champions - "Shadow of the Panther" [original UK airdate 1/15/69]
5:00 Secret Agent - "The Hunting Party" [original UK airdate 1/27/66, US 3/26/66]
Evening
6:00 The Big Valley - "Down Shadow Street" [original airdate 1/23/67]
7:00 I Love Lucy - "Ricky Needs an Agent" [original airdate 5/16/55]
7:30 It's a Dog's World (special about the canine world, narrated by Lorne Greene)
8:30 The Merv Griffin Show (scheduled: Tina Sinatra, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Melba Moore, Frik of Frik & Frak)
10:00 The 10 O'Clock Weekend News with Steve Bauman
10:30 Black News with Bill McCreary
11:00 The Amazing World of Kreskin (Kreskin accurately guesses which purchases a group of shoppers made)
11:30 Soul Train (repeat of 11 A.M. broadcast)
12:30 The Fugitive - "Not With a Whimper" [original airdate 1/4/1966)[/i]
1:30 Head Shop (featured: The Beach Boys, mentalist Lea Galucci)
2:30 News Headlines; Call to Prayer
followed by sign-off
WABC-TV 7 New York (ABC; owned and operated)
Morning
7:30 Davey and Goliath
8:00 Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down?
8:30 The Road Runner Show
9:00 The Funky Phantom
9:30 The Jackson 5
10:00 1972 Summer Olympic Games (opening day; highlights include Parade of Athletes, lighting of Olympic flame, Olympic oath
and speeches)
Afternoon
12:00 Jonny Quest
12:30 Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
1:00 American Bandstand (guests: Sailcat, The Brady Bunch)
2:00 Like It Is (scheduled: Melba Tolliver, James Baldwin, Hank Lopez, Mongo Santamaria)
3:00 The Movie Matinee: "The Burning of Rome" (1963) - Brett Halsey, Claudia Mori
4:30 The Olympians '72 (how U.S. and Japanese athletes train for the Olympics)
5:00 Wide World of Sports (Little League World Series from Williamsport, PA)
Evening
6:30 Eyewitness News with Bob Lape and Doug Johnson
7:00 Story Theatre
7:30 Eyewitness Exclusive
8:00 1972 Summer Olympic Games (Olympics preview)
9:00 ABC Saturday Summer Movie: "The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw" (1958) - Kenneth More, Jayne Mansfield
11:00 ABC Weekend News with Sam Donaldson
11:15 Eyewitness News with Gil Noble
11:30 Saturday Night Movie I: "Circle of Love" (1964) - Jane Fonda, Catherine Spaak
1:30 Saturday Night Movie II: "Inside Straight" (1951) - David Brian, Arlene Dahl
3:15 sign-off
WOR-TV 9 New York (Independent; owned by RKO General)
Morning
7:27 Morning Prayer
7:30 News and Weather
8:00 Viewpoint on Nutrition (proper nutrition for the expectant mother is discussed by Dennis Day and obstetrician
Boyd Cooper)
8:30 Black on White (guest: Floyd McKissick)
9:00 The Kathryn Kuhlman Show
9:30 Connecticut Report
10:00 New Jersey Report
10:30 Right Now
11:00 Skippy - "Tiger" [original Australian airdate 9/1/69]
11:30 Science Fiction Theatre: "Cyclotrode 'X'" (1966) - Charles Quigley, Linda Sterling
Afternoon
1:30 Lee Trevino's Golf for Swingers (guests: Jack Albertson, Joe Kapp)
2:00 Million Dollar Movie: "El Alamein" (1954) - Scott Brady, Rita Moreno
3:30 Million Dollar Movie: "Comanche Territory" (1950) - Maureen O'Hara, Macdonald Carey
5:00 Get Smart - "Island of the Darned" [original airdate 11/26/66]
5:30 Million Dollar Movie: "Man in the Dark" (1953) - Edmond O'Brien, Audrey Totter
Evening
7:00 Baseball - New York Mets at Atlanta Braves (Atlanta beat New York, 7-6)
9:30 Candid Camera (guest: Philippe Halsman; from c.1961-66)
10:00 Wagon Train - "The Jed Whitmore Story" [original airdate 1/13/64]
11:30 Kup's Show (guests: Pearl Bailey, Richard Benjamin, Paula Prentiss, Ruta Lee, Pamela Mason, Dorothy Sarnoff,
Marc Duke)
1:00 News and Weather
1:15 Evening Prayer
followed by sign-off
WPIX 11 New York (Independent; licensor WPIX, Inc., owned by New York Daily News)
Morning
7:30 Medical Consultation (topic: nurse midwifery)
8:00 This Is the Life - "Cry Help" (with Veronica Cartwright, Don Dubbins)
8:30 Aprenda Ingles
9:00 Insight - "Charlie, You Made the Night Too Long" (with Malachi Throne, Nancy Kovack, Linden Chiles)
[original airdate 4/30/69]
9:30 It Is Written with Dr. George Vandeman
10:00 Oral Roberts Presents (sermon: "God Is Your Dwelling Place"; hymn: "Love Lifted Me")
10:30 Ask Congress (Reps. Olin Teague, D-Texas, and Charles Wiggins, R-Calif., discuss drug problems among returning GI's
and future of manned space programs)
11:00 Wally's Workshop (how to beam ceilings; hosted by Wally Bruner)
11:30 Untamed World - "Herbivores"
Afternoon
12:00 Saturday's Movie at Noon: "King of the Jungle" (1933) - Buster Crabbe, Frances Dee
1:30 Lloyd Bridges' Water World - "History and Treasure, Fog and Fire"
2:00 Baseball - Kansas City Royals at New York Yankees (Kansas City beat New York, 6-3)
4:30 The Abbott & Costello Show - "Fall Guy" [originally aired 1953]
5:00 Saturday's Movie at Five: "The Hurricane" (1937) - Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall
Evening
7:00 Father Knows Best - "Frank's Family Tree" [original airdate 10/13/58]
7:30 Chiller Theatre I: "What!" (1963) - Christopher Lee, Dahlia Lavi
9:00 either (per TV Guide and Daily Register) The Edgar Wallace Mystery Hour - "The Man Who Was Nobody"
[original UK airdate 9/15/60]
or (per Connecticut Sunday Herald) Perry Mason - "The Case of the Fugitive Nurse" [original airdate 2/15/58]
10:00 News - Bloom/Ellison
10:30 Equal Time
11:00 Naked City - "Golden Lads and Gals" [original airdate 5/22/63]
12:00 Chiller Theatre II: "How to Make a Monster" (1958) - Robert H. Harris, Gary Conway
1:30 sign-off
WNET 13 Newark, NJ/New York (PBS affiliate; owned by Educational Broadcasting Corp.)
Morning
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (taking care of a baby; how construction paper is made)
9:00 Sesame Street - No. 348 (an ecology lesson by Oscar; a film on giraffes; songs by the Muppets)
[original airdate 2/16/72]
10:00 The Electric Company - No. 62 (a ghostly lesson on "oo"; songs by Rita Moreno and Short Circus)
[original airdate 1/18/72]
10:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (how to make gadgets out of ice cream sticks; a sketch showing what the doctor does)
11:00 Sesame Street - No. 350 (Nina Simone sings "To Be Young, Gifted and Black"; films on monkeys and pigs)
[original airdate 2/18/72]
Afternoon
12:00 The Electric Company - No. 64 (the letter C is explained in a poetic lesson by Rita Moreno) [original airdate 1/20/72]
12:30 Hodgepodge Lodge
1:00 (per TV Guide)
Tennis Tournament (Amateur players of the American Tennis Association compete in their national
championship; from MIT in Cambridge, Mass.; to 6 P.M.)
(this and the next programs to 6:30 P.M. per Daily Register and Connecticut Sunday Herald)
Sesame Street [descriptions not offered for this or the next shows]
2:00 The Electric Company
2:30 Sesame Street
3:30 The Electric Company
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 The Toy That Grew Up: "My Boy" (1922) - Jackie Coogan
Evening
6:00 (per TV Guide) The Electric Company - No. 61 (Lee Chamberlain explains "oy" and "oi" sounds") [original airdate 1/17/72]
6:30 The Fine Art of Goofing Off (an animated piece about time; last of three parts)
7:00 Jean Shepherd's America - "It Won't Always Be This Way" [repeat]
7:30 Evening at Pops (Boston Ballet dances the Cha-Cha, Rock 'n' Roll and Charleston)
8:30 (per TV Guide and Daily Register)
NET Festival: "Olympiad" (Part 1 of Leni Riefenstahl's film of 1936 Berlin Olympics; to 12 midnight)
(this and the next programs to 12:30 A.M. per Connecticut Sunday Herald)
Special of the Week - "Jazz a la Montreux" (with Melanie, Chico Hamilton, Gary Burton and King Curtis at 5th annual
Montreux Jazz Festival which took place on June 12-10, 1971) [repeat]
10:00 The Great American Dream Machine (featured: Linda Lavin, Agnes de Mille, Spirit in Flesh; topics include adultery and
Christmas feasts) [repeat]
11:00 Film Odyssey - "Classic Shorts II" (including Roman Polanski's "The Fat and the Lean")
followed by sign-off
Aug. 26, 1972; Connecticut Sunday Herald, Aug. 20, 1972; and Daily Register [Red Bank, NJ], Aug. 25, 1972; some original
airdates from IMDb)
NOTE: This was from the first day listed in the first issue of TV Guide whereby all editions carried this notice:
"All programs are in color except those designated by (BW)." This replaced the prior "(C) indicates color program" notice that
was in place up to the prior issue, and in that form had been in TVG issues from the May 31-June 6, 1969 edition.
WCBS-TV 2 New York (CBS; owned and operated)
Morning
6:25 Give Us This Day
6:30 Summer Semester (The Cold War and Beyond: Civil War in China; with Prof. Abe Yeselson)
7:00 Dusty's Treehouse
7:30 Backyard Safari (discussion of dreams, by psychologist Rosalind Cartwright)
8:00 The Bugs Bunny Show
8:30 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
9:00 The Harlem Globetrotters (cartoon series)
9:30 Help, It's the Hair Bear Bunch!
10:00 Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm
10:30 Archie's TV Funnies
11:00 Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
11:30 Josie and the Pussycats
Afternoon
12:00 The Monkees - "Mijacogeo" (a.k.a. "The Frodis Caper") [original airdate 3/25/68; was the last original show of the series]
12:26 In the News
12:30 The CBS Children's Film Festival: "Hand in Hand" (1960) - Loretta Parry, Philip Needs
2:00 The Patchwork Family - "Home Life and the Family"
3:00 Black Arts (guest: photographer William Mackey, Jr.) [repeat]
3:30 The American Adventure
4:00 AAU International Champions
5:00 Golf Tournaments (U.S. Professional Match Play Championship and Liggett & Myers Open, both played at Country Club in
North Carolina)
Evening
6:00 Documentary Special - "My Sister Elizabeth Had Her Heart Fixed" (about a 3-year-old girl's heart operation)
6:30 CBS Evening News with Roger Mudd
7:00 Seven O'Clock Report with Vic Miles
7:30 Jerry Visits (Jerry Dunphy interviews Sue Ane Langdon)
8:00 All in the Family - "Cousin Maude's Visit" [original airdate 12/11/71]
8:30 Mary Tyler Moore - "Feeb" [original airdate 1/8/72]
9:00 The New Dick Van Dyke Show - "The Tennis Pro" [original airdate 10/16/71]
9:30 Arnie (Vito Scotti as an Italian winemaker in a dispute with boss Majors) [repeat]
10:00 Mission: Impossible - "Nerves" [original airdate 12/4/71]
11:00 Weekend Report with Vic Miles
11:30 The Late Show I: "Bunny Lake Is Missing" (1965) - Lawrence Olivier, Carol Lynley
1:35 News
1:45 The Late Show II: "Young Fury" (1965) Rory Calhoun, Virginia Mayo
3:25 The Late Late Show I: "The Sea Tiger" (1952) - Marguerite Chapman, John Archer
4:55 The Late Late Show II: "Magnificent Roughnecks" (1956) - Jack Carson, Mickey Rooney
6:30 Give Us This Day
followed by sign-off
WNBC-TV 4 New York (NBC; owned and operated)
Morning
4:53 Sermonette
5:00 Modern Farmer
6:00 Agriculture U.S.A.
7:00 Zoorama
7:30 Dodo
8:00 Dr. Dolittle (1970-72 cartoon version produced by DePatie/Freleng)
8:30 Deputy Dawg
9:00 The Woody Woodpecker Show
9:30 The Pink Panther / The Ant and The Aardvark
10:00 The Jetsons
10:30 Barrier Reef - "The Fence" [original Australian airdate 4/2/72]
11:00 Take a Giant Step - "Coverings" (guest: Betsey Johnson) [series finale]
Afternoon
12:00 Mr. Wizard - "Micro Skin Diving" [repeat]
12:30 The Bugaloos
1:00 What's New at The New School - "Jefferson and Us" (guest, Dr. Saul Padover, professor of political science at
The New School)
1:30 Sports Challenge (Joe DiMaggio, Lefty Gomez and Tommy Henrich of New York Yankees vs. Al Kaline, Mickey Lolich and
Norm Cash of Detroit Tigers)
2:00 Baseball Pre-Game Show
2:15 Major League Baseball - Detroit Tigers at Minnesota Twins (Detroit beat Minnesota, 5-3)
5:00 High and Wild - "Mount Batchelor Ski Adventure"
5:30 Speaking Freely (guest: Saul Alinsky) [repeat]
Evening
6:30 NBC Saturday News with Garrick Utley
7:00 National Geographic Special - "Holland Against the Sea" [original airdate 4/14/1970]
8:00 NBC Comedy Theatre - "Simon Says Get Married" (with Bob Newhart, Dorothy Provine, Martin Milner, Joanna Barnes and
Kathleen Freeman)
9:00 Pre-Season Football - New York Jets at Dallas Cowboys (Dallas beat New York, 35-27)
12:00 News - Tony Guida
12:30 Saturday Film Festival: "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" (1966) - Robert Wagner, Peter Lawford
2:30 The Great Great Show: "The White Sheik" (1955) - Alberto Sordi, Brunella Bovo
4:00 Sermonette
followed by sign-off
WNEW-TV 5 New York (Independent; owned by Metromedia Television)
Morning
7:20 Call to Prayer
7:30 Wonder Window
8:00 Top Cat
8:30 Action Theatre: "Drango" (1957) - Jeff Chandler, Joanne Dru
10:00 Daktari - "Judy and the Gun Runners" [original airdate 5/17/66]
11:00 Soul Train (guests: Ike & Tina Turner, Jerry Butler and Brenda Lee Eager) [original slated airdate 4/22/72]
Afternoon
12:00 Creature Features: "Fiend Without a Face" (1958) - Marshall Thompson, Terence Kilburn
1:30 Eastside Comedy: "Jinx Money" (1948) - Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Billy Benedict
2:30 The Rifleman - "The Spiked Rifle" [original airdate 11/24/59]
3:00 Combat! - "Nightmare on the Red Ball Run" [original airdate 2/28/67]
4:00 The Champions - "Shadow of the Panther" [original UK airdate 1/15/69]
5:00 Secret Agent - "The Hunting Party" [original UK airdate 1/27/66, US 3/26/66]
Evening
6:00 The Big Valley - "Down Shadow Street" [original airdate 1/23/67]
7:00 I Love Lucy - "Ricky Needs an Agent" [original airdate 5/16/55]
7:30 It's a Dog's World (special about the canine world, narrated by Lorne Greene)
8:30 The Merv Griffin Show (scheduled: Tina Sinatra, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Melba Moore, Frik of Frik & Frak)
10:00 The 10 O'Clock Weekend News with Steve Bauman
10:30 Black News with Bill McCreary
11:00 The Amazing World of Kreskin (Kreskin accurately guesses which purchases a group of shoppers made)
11:30 Soul Train (repeat of 11 A.M. broadcast)
12:30 The Fugitive - "Not With a Whimper" [original airdate 1/4/1966)[/i]
1:30 Head Shop (featured: The Beach Boys, mentalist Lea Galucci)
2:30 News Headlines; Call to Prayer
followed by sign-off
WABC-TV 7 New York (ABC; owned and operated)
Morning
7:30 Davey and Goliath
8:00 Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down?
8:30 The Road Runner Show
9:00 The Funky Phantom
9:30 The Jackson 5
10:00 1972 Summer Olympic Games (opening day; highlights include Parade of Athletes, lighting of Olympic flame, Olympic oath
and speeches)
Afternoon
12:00 Jonny Quest
12:30 Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
1:00 American Bandstand (guests: Sailcat, The Brady Bunch)
2:00 Like It Is (scheduled: Melba Tolliver, James Baldwin, Hank Lopez, Mongo Santamaria)
3:00 The Movie Matinee: "The Burning of Rome" (1963) - Brett Halsey, Claudia Mori
4:30 The Olympians '72 (how U.S. and Japanese athletes train for the Olympics)
5:00 Wide World of Sports (Little League World Series from Williamsport, PA)
Evening
6:30 Eyewitness News with Bob Lape and Doug Johnson
7:00 Story Theatre
7:30 Eyewitness Exclusive
8:00 1972 Summer Olympic Games (Olympics preview)
9:00 ABC Saturday Summer Movie: "The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw" (1958) - Kenneth More, Jayne Mansfield
11:00 ABC Weekend News with Sam Donaldson
11:15 Eyewitness News with Gil Noble
11:30 Saturday Night Movie I: "Circle of Love" (1964) - Jane Fonda, Catherine Spaak
1:30 Saturday Night Movie II: "Inside Straight" (1951) - David Brian, Arlene Dahl
3:15 sign-off
WOR-TV 9 New York (Independent; owned by RKO General)
Morning
7:27 Morning Prayer
7:30 News and Weather
8:00 Viewpoint on Nutrition (proper nutrition for the expectant mother is discussed by Dennis Day and obstetrician
Boyd Cooper)
8:30 Black on White (guest: Floyd McKissick)
9:00 The Kathryn Kuhlman Show
9:30 Connecticut Report
10:00 New Jersey Report
10:30 Right Now
11:00 Skippy - "Tiger" [original Australian airdate 9/1/69]
11:30 Science Fiction Theatre: "Cyclotrode 'X'" (1966) - Charles Quigley, Linda Sterling
Afternoon
1:30 Lee Trevino's Golf for Swingers (guests: Jack Albertson, Joe Kapp)
2:00 Million Dollar Movie: "El Alamein" (1954) - Scott Brady, Rita Moreno
3:30 Million Dollar Movie: "Comanche Territory" (1950) - Maureen O'Hara, Macdonald Carey
5:00 Get Smart - "Island of the Darned" [original airdate 11/26/66]
5:30 Million Dollar Movie: "Man in the Dark" (1953) - Edmond O'Brien, Audrey Totter
Evening
7:00 Baseball - New York Mets at Atlanta Braves (Atlanta beat New York, 7-6)
9:30 Candid Camera (guest: Philippe Halsman; from c.1961-66)
10:00 Wagon Train - "The Jed Whitmore Story" [original airdate 1/13/64]
11:30 Kup's Show (guests: Pearl Bailey, Richard Benjamin, Paula Prentiss, Ruta Lee, Pamela Mason, Dorothy Sarnoff,
Marc Duke)
1:00 News and Weather
1:15 Evening Prayer
followed by sign-off
WPIX 11 New York (Independent; licensor WPIX, Inc., owned by New York Daily News)
Morning
7:30 Medical Consultation (topic: nurse midwifery)
8:00 This Is the Life - "Cry Help" (with Veronica Cartwright, Don Dubbins)
8:30 Aprenda Ingles
9:00 Insight - "Charlie, You Made the Night Too Long" (with Malachi Throne, Nancy Kovack, Linden Chiles)
[original airdate 4/30/69]
9:30 It Is Written with Dr. George Vandeman
10:00 Oral Roberts Presents (sermon: "God Is Your Dwelling Place"; hymn: "Love Lifted Me")
10:30 Ask Congress (Reps. Olin Teague, D-Texas, and Charles Wiggins, R-Calif., discuss drug problems among returning GI's
and future of manned space programs)
11:00 Wally's Workshop (how to beam ceilings; hosted by Wally Bruner)
11:30 Untamed World - "Herbivores"
Afternoon
12:00 Saturday's Movie at Noon: "King of the Jungle" (1933) - Buster Crabbe, Frances Dee
1:30 Lloyd Bridges' Water World - "History and Treasure, Fog and Fire"
2:00 Baseball - Kansas City Royals at New York Yankees (Kansas City beat New York, 6-3)
4:30 The Abbott & Costello Show - "Fall Guy" [originally aired 1953]
5:00 Saturday's Movie at Five: "The Hurricane" (1937) - Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall
Evening
7:00 Father Knows Best - "Frank's Family Tree" [original airdate 10/13/58]
7:30 Chiller Theatre I: "What!" (1963) - Christopher Lee, Dahlia Lavi
9:00 either (per TV Guide and Daily Register) The Edgar Wallace Mystery Hour - "The Man Who Was Nobody"
[original UK airdate 9/15/60]
or (per Connecticut Sunday Herald) Perry Mason - "The Case of the Fugitive Nurse" [original airdate 2/15/58]
10:00 News - Bloom/Ellison
10:30 Equal Time
11:00 Naked City - "Golden Lads and Gals" [original airdate 5/22/63]
12:00 Chiller Theatre II: "How to Make a Monster" (1958) - Robert H. Harris, Gary Conway
1:30 sign-off
WNET 13 Newark, NJ/New York (PBS affiliate; owned by Educational Broadcasting Corp.)
Morning
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (taking care of a baby; how construction paper is made)
9:00 Sesame Street - No. 348 (an ecology lesson by Oscar; a film on giraffes; songs by the Muppets)
[original airdate 2/16/72]
10:00 The Electric Company - No. 62 (a ghostly lesson on "oo"; songs by Rita Moreno and Short Circus)
[original airdate 1/18/72]
10:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (how to make gadgets out of ice cream sticks; a sketch showing what the doctor does)
11:00 Sesame Street - No. 350 (Nina Simone sings "To Be Young, Gifted and Black"; films on monkeys and pigs)
[original airdate 2/18/72]
Afternoon
12:00 The Electric Company - No. 64 (the letter C is explained in a poetic lesson by Rita Moreno) [original airdate 1/20/72]
12:30 Hodgepodge Lodge
1:00 (per TV Guide)
Tennis Tournament (Amateur players of the American Tennis Association compete in their national
championship; from MIT in Cambridge, Mass.; to 6 P.M.)
(this and the next programs to 6:30 P.M. per Daily Register and Connecticut Sunday Herald)
Sesame Street [descriptions not offered for this or the next shows]
2:00 The Electric Company
2:30 Sesame Street
3:30 The Electric Company
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 The Toy That Grew Up: "My Boy" (1922) - Jackie Coogan
Evening
6:00 (per TV Guide) The Electric Company - No. 61 (Lee Chamberlain explains "oy" and "oi" sounds") [original airdate 1/17/72]
6:30 The Fine Art of Goofing Off (an animated piece about time; last of three parts)
7:00 Jean Shepherd's America - "It Won't Always Be This Way" [repeat]
7:30 Evening at Pops (Boston Ballet dances the Cha-Cha, Rock 'n' Roll and Charleston)
8:30 (per TV Guide and Daily Register)
NET Festival: "Olympiad" (Part 1 of Leni Riefenstahl's film of 1936 Berlin Olympics; to 12 midnight)
(this and the next programs to 12:30 A.M. per Connecticut Sunday Herald)
Special of the Week - "Jazz a la Montreux" (with Melanie, Chico Hamilton, Gary Burton and King Curtis at 5th annual
Montreux Jazz Festival which took place on June 12-10, 1971) [repeat]
10:00 The Great American Dream Machine (featured: Linda Lavin, Agnes de Mille, Spirit in Flesh; topics include adultery and
Christmas feasts) [repeat]
11:00 Film Odyssey - "Classic Shorts II" (including Roman Polanski's "The Fat and the Lean")
followed by sign-off
