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Retro: New York Metro Wed., March 7, 1973

From TV Guide, New York Metropolitan Edition:

WCBS Ch. 2 New York (CBS)

6:20 News
6:30 Sunrise Semester: "The Heavenly Twins--Astronomy And Astrology"
7 AM CBS News (John Hart)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM John Bartholomew Tucker (actress Raina (not Rona) Barrett; stunt man Everett Creech)
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Where The Heart Is
12:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM What's My Line? (Soupy Sales, Gene Shalit, Arlene Francis, New York newscaster Melba Tolliver)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
3:30 Secret Storm
4 PM Vin Scully (Barbara Feldon, fashions by Elizabeth Stewart)
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-hostess Melba Moore; Hines, Hines And Dad, Georgie Kaye)
6 PM News (Jim Jensen)
7 PM CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7:30 Golddiggers (guest: Milton Berle)
8 PM Sonny And Cher Comedy Hour (guest: John Byner)
9 PM Medical Center
10 PM Cannon
11 PM News (Jim Jensen)
11:30 CBS Movie: "Night Chase"
1:20 Movie: "Take Care Of My Little Girl"
3:20 Movie: "Johnny Dark"

WTIC (WFSB) Ch. 3 Hartford, CT (CBS)

6 AM Sunrise Semester
6:30 International Zone
6:50 Que Hay de Nuevo: What's New
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Hap Richards
9:15 Yogi Bear
9:30 Vin Scully (singer Gloria Loring, designer Adolfo, day-behind from 4 PM)
10 AM Movie: "The Last Voyage"
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N News
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Living Easy With Dr. Joyce Brothers
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Love Is A Many Splendored Thing (delay from 3 PM)
3 PM Price Is Right (delay from 10:30 AM; ironically CBS would move it to this timeslot March 26)
3:30 The Ranger Station
4 PM Andy Griffith
4:30 Merv Griffin (from Las Vegas: Trini Lopez)
6 PM News (Bruce Kern)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM What In The World (topic: Spain)
7:30 Price Is Right (Dennis James)
8 PM Sonny And Cher Comedy Hour
9 PM Medical Center
10 PM Cannon
11 PM News (Bill Hanson)
11:30 Movie: "The Borgia Stick"

WNBC Ch. 4 New York (NBC)

6:30 Working Women (topic: federal contract compliance)
7 AM Today (guest: cartoonist-illustrator David Pascal)
9 AM Not For Women Only (part 3 on consumer protection with Special Assistant to the President for Consumer Affairs Virginia Knauer and FDA commissioner Charles Edwards)
9:30 Truth Or Consequences
10 AM Dinah's Place (Dinah and Harriet Nelson give Ozzie a massage by walking on his back; Harriet makes tortilla pie)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Ernest Borgnine, John Davidson, Sandra Dee, Jan Murray, Denise Nicholas, Vincent Price, Juliet Prowse, Charley Weaver, Paul Lynde)
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
1 PM It's Your Bet (James MacArthur, Melody Patterson, Ben Murphy, Siv Aberg)
1:30 Three On A Match
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Movie: "The Ipcress File"
6 PM News (Stokes/Udell)
7 PM NBC News (John Chancellor)
7:30 Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
8 PM Adam-12
8:30 Bob Hope (taped at the Mardi Gras where Bob was monarch of the Bacchus Parade; guests: Phil Harris, Al Hirt, Pete Fountain)
9:30 Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (Kirk Douglas in a musical adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic)
11 PM News (Jim Hartz)
11:30 Tonight Show (guest: Bobby Goldsboro)
1 AM News (John Masterman)
1:15 Movie: "Wildcat" (not the 1961 Lucille Ball Broadway show but a 1942 entry about rivalry among oil prospectors)

WNEW (WNYW) Ch. 5 New York (Ind.)

6:30 Read Your Way Up
7 AM Super Heroes
7:30 Flintstones
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Flying Nun
9 AM Green Acres
9:30 Mothers-In-Law
10 AM I Love Lucy
10:30 Hazel
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Midday Live
1 PM Movie: "Malaya"
3 PM Casper
3:30 Huckleberry Hound
4 PM Bugs Bunny
4:30 Lost In Space
5:30 Flintstones
6:30 I Love Lucy
7 PM Andy Griffith
7:30 That Girl
8 PM Hogan's Heroes
8:30 Merv Griffin (from Las Vegas: Trini Lopez)
10 PM News (Bill Jorgensen)
11 PM Alfred Hitchcock Presents
11:30 Movie: "Twist Of Fate"
1:20 Movie: "Birth Of The Blues"
3 AM Movie: "The Remarkable Andrew"
4:45 Sea Hunt
5:15 Movie: "Lucky Losers" (the Bowery Boys, from '50)

WABC Ch. 7 New York (ABC)

6:30 Listen And Learn (what you need to know about getting a loan)
7 AM A.M. New York
9 AM Movie: "Gidget Goes Hawaiian"
11 AM Gomer Pyle, USMC
11:30 Bewitched (guest: Edward Andrews as an old beau of Sam's who gets turned into a dog)
12 N Password (Jack Cassidy, Nancy Kulp)
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Love, American Style (Agnes Moorehead, Stefanie Powers, Gary Collins, Mary Ann Mobley)
4:30 ABC Afterschool Special: "Last Of The Curlews"
5:30 Vision On
6 PM News (Roger Grimsby/Bill Beutel)
7 PM ABC News (Howard K. Smith/Harry Reasoner)
7:30 Parent Game
8 PM Paul Lynde Show
8:30 ABC Movie: "The Six Million Dollar Man" (pilot)
10 PM Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law
11 PM News (Roger Grimsby/Bill Beutel)
11:30 Jack Paar Tonite (Liza Minnelli, David Niven, Genevieve--a favorite guest of Paar's in the "Tonight Show" days)
1 AM Movie: "Melody Of Hate"

WTNH Ch. 8 New Haven, CT (ABC)

6:10 Davey And Goliath
6:25 Black Is (rerun from Sun 12:30 PM)
6:55 News
7 AM Cartoon Carnival
7:30 Lost In Space
8:30 I Love Lucy
9 AM Phil Donahue
10 AM Dialing For Dollars
11 AM News
11:30 Bewitched
12 N Password
12:30 Split Second
1 PM What's My Line? (Gene Rayburn, Melba Tolliver, Mark Goodson, Arlene Francis)
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Movie: "Gypsy" (conclusion)
5 PM ABC Afterschool Special: "Last Of The Curlews"
6 PM News (Ralph Wenge)
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Parent Game
8 PM Paul Lynde Show
8:30 ABC Movie: "The Six Million Dollar Man"
10 PM Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law
11 PM News (Ralph Wenge)
11:30 Jack Paar Tonite

WOR (WWOR) Ch. 9 New York (Ind.)

7:30 News
8 AM Garner Ted Armstrong
8:30 Joanne Carson's VIPs (Jo Anne Worley on her trip to Italy; a recipe for fish with cheese sauce)
9 AM Joe Franklin
10 AM Romper Room
11 AM Straight Talk
12 N Hermanos Coraje
12:55 Noticias
1 PM Movie: "Go West, Young Lady"
2:30 Journey To Adventure (attractions in Japan)
3 PM Millionaire (the check goes to a secretary who poses as a society girl to snare her supervisor's boyfriend)
3:30 Movie: "Ten Tall Men"
5:30 News (Tom Dunn)
6 PM Beverly Hillbillies
6:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
7 PM It Takes A Thief
8 PM NBA Basketball: Knicks-76ers
10:30 The Ex-Con Outside (the problems ex-cons face adjusting to life outside prison, time approximate)
11 PM Boris Karloff Presents Thriller
12 M Movie: "Creature From The Black Lagoon"
1:40 Joe Franklin
2:40 News

WPIX Ch. 11 New York (Ind.)

7 AM Little Rascals
7:30 Popeye
8 AM Felix The Cat
8:30 New Zoo Revue
9 AM Living Easy With Dr. Joyce Brothers
9:30 Fashions In Sewing
9:40 Jack LaLanne
10:10 News
10:30 Jewish Dimension
11 AM Equal Time
11:30 Rocky And His Friends
12 N Courageous Cat
12:30 Galloping Gourmet
1 PM Movie: "Bernadette Of Lourdes"
2:30 Fashions In Sewing
2:40 Abbott And Costello
3 PM Popeye And Friends
3:30 Magilla Gorilla
4 PM Superman
4:30 Munsters
5 PM Batman (guest villains: Ida Lupino and Howard Duff)
5:30 Batman (Joan Collins as the Siren)
6 PM Gilligan's Island
6:30 Beat The Clock (guest: Stanley Myron Handelman)
7 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
7:30 Courtship Of Eddie's Father
8 PM Twilight Zone
8:30 Get Smart
9 PM Dragnet
9:30 Dragnet
10 PM News (Joe Harper)
10:30 News (Bill Aylward)
11 PM Perry Mason
12 M Twilight Zone
12:30 News (Roy Whitfield)

WNET Ch. 13 New York (PBS)

7 AM Maggie And The Beautiful Machine
7:30 51st State
8 AM In-school programs
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM In-school programs
1:30 Electric Company
2 PM In-school programs
3 PM German
3:30 Maggie And The Beautiful Machine
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Hodgepodge Lodge
6:30 Book Beat (Norman Schur discusses "British Self-Taught")
7 PM Capitol Report
7:30 51st State
8 PM TBA
8:30 How Do Your Children Grow? (examining traditional female roles)
9 PM Soul! (last show, featuring viewer mail)
10 PM America '73 (challenges facing the military: the residents of the island of Culebra (off Puerto Rico) want the Navy to back off target practice, a commanding officer at an Idaho air force base may face court-martial for suppressing the base newspaper, the implications of an all-volunteer Army)
11 PM Behind The Lines
11:30 51st State

WATR (WTXX) Ch. 20 Waterbury, CT (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Romper Room
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News
1 PM My Little Margie
1:30 Three On A Match
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4 PM Somerset
4:30 My Little Margie
5 PM Alex The Angel
5:15 News
5:30 Make Room For Daddy
6 PM Sounding Board
7 PM NBC News
7:30 Film
8 PM Adam-12
8:30 Bob Hope
9:30 Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde
11 PM Have Gun, Will Travel
11:30 Tonight Show

WLIW Ch. 21 Garden City (PBS)

12:30 Electric Company
1 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
1:30 Film Odyssey: "The Rules Of The Game"
3:30 Hathayoga
4 PM Book Beat
4:30 German
5 PM Sesame Street
6 PM Electric Company
6:30 Your Future Is Now
7 PM Course Of Our Times (the events leading up to the 1940 Nazi invasion of France)
7:30 Skiing
8 PM Executive's Round Table
8:30 An American Family (Pat Loud files for divorce)
9:30 News
9:45 Right To Be Human
10 PM Hathayoga
10:30 College Wrestling

WNYE Ch. 25 New York (PBS)

9 AM Electric Company
9:30 In-school programs
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Electric Company
7:30 Zoom
8 PM Evening At Pops (composer Leroy Anderson joins Arthur Fiedler for American favorites)
9 PM Feature Story (young filmmakers)
sign off 9:30 PM

WNYC (WPXN) Ch. 31 New York (PBS)

12 N Around The Clock
12:30 Police Commissioner
1 PM Sesame Street
2 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
2:30 Around The Clock
3 PM Masterpiece Theatre ("Point Counter Point," by Aldous Huxley (not Jack Kilpatrick and Shana Alexander), part 1)
4 PM Stravinsky Remembered (Igor Stravinsky's 1914 work "The Nightingale," based on a Hans Christian Andersen tale)
5:30 News (Jerry Miller)
5:40 OTB Report (Jeff Erdel)
6 PM Electric Company
6:30 Around The Clock
7 PM On The Job
7:30 All About TV (the making of "An American Family")
8:30 Lee Graham (folkloric art in Yugoslavia)
9 PM An American Family (same as Ch. 21)
10 PM The Advocates (a national press council: Aryeh Neier of the ACLU says it would make newspeople responsible to outside pressure groups; Harvard law professor Roger Fisher, who created "The Advocates," says it would boost public confidence in the press by investigating alleged news bias)
sign off 11 PM

WXTV Ch. 41 Paterson, NJ (Ind.)

5:30 Las Gemelas
6 PM Noticias
7 PM El Amor Tiene Cara de Mujer
7:30 Lucha Libre
8:30 Muneca
9:30 Polivoces
10 PM Muchacha Italiana Viene a Casarse
11 PM Noticias
11:15 Noches Tapatias

WNJU Ch. 47 Newark, NJ (Ind.)

4:15 Movie: "Asi Se Pierde Un Marido"
5:30 La Inolvidable
6:30 Mujer Prohibida
7:30 Chuco y Lissette
8 PM Ja-Ja Ji-Ji Jo-Jo
9 PM Esmeralda
10 PM Noticias (Iglesias/Torres)
10:30 Movie: "Casa De Juego"
sign off 12 M

WEDW Ch. 49 Bridgeport, CT (PBS)

10 AM Sesame Street
11 AM nothing listed
12 N French Chef
12:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
1 PM nothing listed
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Hodgepodge Lodge
6:30 Maggie And The Beautiful Machine
7 PM Portland Junior Symphony
8 PM America '73
9 PM Connecticut Issue
10 PM State Of Connecticut
10:35 Martin Agronsky: Evening Edition
11:05 Janaki
sign off 11:35 PM
 
WPIX must have been one of the first stations to air TWO episodes back to back (Batman 5-6PM, Dragnet 9-10PM), as I'd guess that didn't become popular till the late 80's????
 
WPIX must have been one of the first stations to air TWO episodes back to back (Batman 5-6PM, Dragnet 9-10PM), as I'd guess that didn't become popular till the late 80's????

"Batman" was aired in back-to-back episodes for part of its original run on ABC.
 
'Batman' aired on back to back NIGHTS on ABC, but never with back to back episodes on the SAME night. (BTW, why can't we use italics on here, so I can emphasize words without shouting? Holy LACK OF OPTIONS!
 
'Batman' aired on back to back NIGHTS on ABC, but never with back to back episodes on the SAME night. (BTW, why can't we use italics on here, so I can emphasize words without shouting? Holy LACK OF OPTIONS!

Ultimajock just did ... and so did I! And sorry about my faulty memory about "Batman."
 
Bpatrick-great job with the New York listings from 1973. Thanks!

WCBS Ch. 2 New York (CBS)
9 AM John Bartholomew Tucker (actress Raina (not Rona) Barrett; stunt man Everett Creech)

This was a local show. John Bartholomew Tucker would co-host "Candid Camera" with Allen Funt for the 1974-75 season.


WTIC (WFSB) Ch. 3 Hartford, CT (CBS)


Would change calls to WFSB in about a year


WOR (WWOR) Ch. 9 New York (Ind.)
12 N Hermanos Coraje
12:55 Noticias


Ch. 9 still has that Spanish-language novela and news, very strange for an English-language station, but WNJU would not sign on until 4:15 pm (and go off at midnight or so) and WXTV until 5:30 (going off at 11:15).


WABC Ch. 7 New York (ABC)

7 AM A.M. New York

11:30 Jack Paar Tonite (Liza Minnelli, David Niven, Genevieve--a favorite guest of Paar's in the "Tonight Show" days)


The earlier entry one of several morning shows on Ch. 7 that ultimately evolved into "Regis and Kathie Lee/Kelly, now Kelly and Michael

As for the later entry, wasn't aware Jack Paar had a late night show on ABC.
 
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A truly historic month for game shows - before the end of March was out, one game show would end a long run on daytime television (Concentration on NBC), and another one would start what, off and on, would be almost 40 years ($10,000 Pyramid on CBS, amount inflated over time).
 
WABC Ch. 7 New York (ABC)

7 AM A.M. New York

11:30 Jack Paar Tonite (Liza Minnelli, David Niven, Genevieve--a favorite guest of Paar's in the "Tonight Show" days)


The earlier entry one of several morning shows on Ch. 7 that ultimately evolved into "Regis and Kathie Lee/Kelly, now Kelly and Michael

As for the later entry, wasn't aware Jack Paar had a late night show on ABC.

He and Dick Cavett shared the late night slot for a couple of years. Each one was on one week out of each month, for 5 nights in a row. It was too 'regular' to call them 'specials', but too sporadic to consider it a 'series'. As for what ABC put on the rest of the month...
After cancelling Dick Cavett's late-night show at the end of 1972, ABC tried something called 'Wide World of Entertainment', a hodgepodge of variety and music specials, imported programming (including some of the earliest American broadcasts of 'Monty Python'), reruns of the 'Movie of the Week', and the two half-hearted talk shows. I guess ABC still wanted to compete with 'The Tonight Show', but only some of the time. Looks like Carson had a new episode that night,anyway. I wonder if ABC had saved Cavett and Paar as counterprogramming when Carson was off the show, how that might have worked out?
Finally, at the end of 1975, ABC gave up on the concept, kept the movie repeats, and added reruns of their prime-time programming, changing the title to 'ABC Late Night'.
 
Bpatrick-great job with the New York listings from 1973. Thanks!



This was a local show. John Bartholomew Tucker would co-host "Candid Camera" with Allen Funt for the 1974-75 season.


WTIC (WFSB) Ch. 3 Hartford, CT (CBS)


Would change calls to WFSB in about a year


WOR (WWOR) Ch. 9 New York (Ind.)
12 N Hermanos Coraje
12:55 Noticias


Ch. 9 still has that Spanish-language novela and news, very strange for an English-language station, but WNJU would not sign on until 4:15 pm (and go off at midnight or so) and WXTV until 5:30 (going off at 11:15).


WABC Ch. 7 New York (ABC)

7 AM A.M. New York

11:30 Jack Paar Tonite (Liza Minnelli, David Niven, Genevieve--a favorite guest of Paar's in the "Tonight Show" days)


The earlier entry one of several morning shows on Ch. 7 that ultimately evolved into "Regis and Kathie Lee/Kelly, now Kelly and Michael

As for the later entry, wasn't aware Jack Paar had a late night show on ABC.

John Bartholomew Tucker was also host of what was supposedly television's first outdoor game show, "Treasure Isle," which aired on ABC in 1968 and was taped at the Colonnades Beach Hotel in Palm Beach Shores, FL. His voice is most recognizable from Dirt Devil and Owens-Corning insulation (with the Pink Panther) commercials.
 
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