NOTE: I have not done a retro for some time. Maybe I will have the time in the next little while to do more. Please, however, no special requests for full listings on a particular date. If you would like to know if a certain program aired on a certain station on a certain date, however, I will be more than pleased to oblige.
TV Guide, Northern Alabama edition, July 14, 1975
Channels in parentheses were originally designated by black bullets; those in brackets by white. Listings are for in-market stations only.
Birmingham, Alabama:
(6) WBRC (ABC)--now FOX affiliate on digital 50; PSIP 6
(10) WBIQ (PBS)*--now digital 10; PSIP same
(13) WAPI (NBC)--now WVTM, on digital 13; PSIP same
(42) WBMG (CBS)--now WIAT, on digital 30; PSIP 42
Huntsville, Alabama:
(19) WHNT (CBS)--now digital 19; PSIP same
(25) WHIQ (PBS)*--now digital 24; PSIP 25
(31) WAAY (NBC)--now ABC affiliate on digital 32; PSIP 31
(48) WYUR (ABC)--now WAFF, an NBC affiliate on digital 49; PSIP 48
Anniston, Alabama:
(40) WHMA (CBS)--now WJSU, an ABC affiliate on digital 9; PSIP 40
Cheaha State Park, Alabama:
(7) WCIQ (PBS)*--now digital 7; PSIP same
Florence, Alabama:
(15) WOWL (NBC; CBS secondary)--now WHDF, a CW affiliate on digital 14; PSIP 15
(36) WFIQ (PBS)*--now digital 22; PSIP 36
Tuscaloosa, Alabama:
(33) WCFT (CBS)--now ABC affiliate on digital 33; PSIP same
Nashville, Tennessee:
[2] WNGE (ABC)--now WKRN, on digital 27; PSIP 2
[4] WSM (NBC)--now WSMV, on digital 10; PSIP 4
[5] WLAC (CBS)--now WTVF, on digital 5; PSIP same
Columbus, Mississippi:
(4) WCBI (CBS, ABC secondary)--now a sole CBS affiliate on digital 35; PSIP 4
Tupelo, Mississippi:
(9) WTWV (NBC, ABC secondary)--now WTVA, a sole NBC affiliate on digital 8; PSIP 9
*--translator relay of Alabama Public Television
MORNING
5:00
(6) American Religious Town Hall
5:15
[5] Country Journal--local
(13) Awake!--had black-and-white designation; probably public service film
5:30
[5] Carl Tipton--local country music show
(6) WBRC News
5:35
(6) Country Boy Eddie--hosted by Gordon "Country Boy Eddie" Burns, this long-running country/Southern Gospel music staple of Central Alabama television ran for no fewer than 37 years until 1995
5:45
[4] WSM Weather
(13) Top of the Morning--listed as "music;" probably country
5:50
[4] Morning Devotion--local
5:55
[4] Job Market--local
(19) Minister's Study--local
6:00
[4] Morning Show--country DJ Ralph Emery presided over this morning slot for nearly 30 years, with occasional Music Row artists dropping by
[5] (19) CBS Morning News--Hughes Rudd
(31) Cartooons--unspecified
(48) Arthur Smith--syndicated country music show, based in North Carolina
6:30
[2] Flying Nun--episode description: "Sr. Bertrille (Sally Field) sparks a frenzy by retunring a lottery ticket."
(31) New Zoo Revue
(33) Laughtime--local cartoons; no indication of a host
(48) Sonny in the Morning--Edward "Sonny" Sims, a former member of Ernest Tubb's band, hosted this half-hour local country music get-together (a la Country Boy Eddie)
6:45
(4) WCBI News
(42) Focus--local public affairs
7:00
[2] Bozo--unknown who the local Nashville Bozo was (so don't ask me)
(4) (33) (40) (42) CBS Morning News (WHMA interrupted at 7:30 for five minutes)
[4] (9) (13) (15) (31) Today Show--Jim Hartz, Barbara Walters (guest today: Jimmy the Greek)
[5] Mornings with Siegel--an experiment that, to put it mildly, didn't work: a New Yorker holding court on a TV talk show down South in the 1970s; today, he probably wouldn't raise an eyebrow, given Nashville's more cosmopolitan tone in comparison to then
(19) Morning Folks--Grady Reeves hosted this "friends and neighbors" local morning show; Reeves' son Robert still works for WHNT
(48) A.M. America--ABC's quite fledgling attempt to knock Today off the throne was getting nowhere, thanks in part to affils such as WBRC and WNGE passing on it; Bill Beutel was helming at this point
7:05
(6) Morning Show--And WBRC passed it up for some years afterward for a good reason: like Country Boy Eddie, this show was also a WBRC institution, hosted by the well-mannered Tom York; York's son Byron is known these days as a conservative political commentator
7:30
(40) Paul Harvey--his syndicated five-minute commentary
7:35
(40) CBS Morning News (resumed in progress)
7:55
[5] Coffee With Dorinda--probably local women's show; perhaps cooking (e.g., a brief recipe)
8:00
[2] New Zoo Revue
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) Captain Kangaroo--the good Captain featured a "back-yard country fair" today
8:05
(6) Merv Griffin (90-minute version)
8:30
[2] Green Acres--rerun, of course
9:00
[2] Movie--"Magoo in the King's Service," 1964
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) Spin-Off--Jim Lange attempted a comeback after Dating Game with this Yahtzee-like game show (thus more like "RIP-Off"--!)
[4] (9) (13) (15) Celebrity Sweepstakes--and speaking of game show ripoffs ...
(31) Coffee Break--local women's show, hosted by Johnny Evans and Mary Beaton
(48) Room 222--rerun of 1969-74 high school drama
9:30
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) Gambit--blackjack, done Heatter-Quigley style
[4] (9) (13) (15) (31) Wheel of Fortune--this show, just six months old, was climbing up the charts
(6) Rhyme and Reason--tape-delayed from ABC the previous week
(48) Dinah! (90-minute version)
10:00
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) Tattletales--celebrity gabfest game that didn't quite cut it in the mornings; soon would return to afternoons
[4] (9) (13) (15) (31) High Rollers--"Shut the Box" came to the boob tube with this game
(6) Ryan's Hope--tape-delayed from ABC the previous week
10:30
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) Love of Life--soap that ran from 1951 to 1980
[4] (9) (13) (15) (31) Hollywood Squares--"I'll take George Gobel for the block, please ..."
(6) Brady Bunch--ABC rerun
10:55
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) CBS News--Douglas Edwards
11:00
[2] (6) (48) Showoffs--Goodson-Todman game cursed from the outset; originally scheduled host Larry Blyden was killed in a car wreck in Morocco in the spring and Bobby Van was brought in as a replacement
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) Young and the Restless--now a top-ten favorite
[4] (9) (13) (15) (31) Magnificent Marble Machine--"PINBALL on TV? You're out of your $*%&#($% MIND!!!" (and that's what a lot of viewers thought, too)
11:30
[2] (6) (48) All My Children--swapped out from the Noon slot a week earlier in order to give Ryan's Hope (see below) a fighting chance in the Nielsens
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) Search for Tomorrow--"Well, why don't you look in your tote bag?"--!!!
[4] Noon Show--local; hosted by Teddy Bart (a longtime Nashville broadcaster) and Elaine Ganick, his "girl Friday"
(9) (13) (15) (31) Jackpot!--a week earlier, NBC and packager Bob Stewart dropped the riddles in favor of straight Q&A; that pretty much sealed the deal for this once-fashionable half-hour, which would limp along until September
11:55
(9) (13) (15) (31) NBC News--Edwin Newman
AFTERNOON
12:00
[2] (48) Ryan's Hope
(4) WCBI News
[5] Singing Convention--Southern Gospel music, primarily aimed at a rural audience
(6) WBRC News
(9) Noon--local
(13) WAPI News
(15) WOWL News
(19) WHNT News
(31) Celebrity Sweepstakes--tape-delayed from NBC earlier in the day
(33) Galloping Gourmet--ah, who can forget?
(40) WHMA News
(42) Beat the Clock--rerun; show had actually gone out of production the previous season up in Canada, due to a dispute with Goodson-Todman and the TV network there
12:05
(40) By the Way--unknown if local women's or public affairs show (probably the former)
12:15
(15) Bible Televisit--local
(19) Woman's Page/WHNT Weather
12:20
[5] WLAC Weather
12:25
[5] WLAC News
12:30
[2] (6) (48) Let's Make a Deal
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) As the World Turns--about to become the latest daytime TV casualty on September 17, 2010; nobody could have imagined that possibility, though, in 1975 when it was on the top of the sudser heap
[4] (9) (13) (15) (31) Days of Our Lives--recently expanded to 60 minutes and doing well
1:00
[2] (6) (48) $10,000 Pyramid--six months later, the top award would double
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) Guiding Light--in 2009, this venerable warhorse bit the dust, another remnant from the "golden age" of the 1950s
1:30
[2] (48) Rhyme and Reason--cheap but cute rip-off of Match Game, using poetry instead of double entendres
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) Edge of Night--about at the end of its road on CBS by this point; ABC picked it up before Christmas
[4] (9) (13) (15) (31) Doctors
(6) I Dream of Jeannie--WBRC had long pre-empted the 1:30 ABC show, for some reason
2:00
[2] (6) (48) General Hospital
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) Price is Right--still on half-hour format (most people today can't remember when the show wasn't a full 60 minutes)
[4] (9) (13) (15) (31) Another World--first-ever hour-long soap; expansion occurred six months earlier
2:30
[2] (6) (48) One Life to Live
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) Match Game--the jokers this week included Jack Cassidy, Betty White, and, of course, the terrible trio of Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers and Richard Dawson
2:45
(7) (10) (25) (36) Workshop--adult instruction on woodworking
3:00
[2] Andy Griffith
(4) (19) (33) (40) (42) Musical Chairs--show holds distinction as first game to be hosted by an African-American, Adam Wade, a 1960s soul singer; basically a variation on Name That Tune with celebrity guest performers
[4] (13) (15) (31) NBC News Special--pre-coverage of the joint US-USSR Apollo Soyuz rocket mission to launch the next day; the six-day mission would be the last for the US until the Space Shuttle program began in 1981; Jim Hartz and astronaut Eugene Cernan, hosts (pre-empted Somerset)
[5] Gentle Ben--rerun of late 1960s family drama about a boy and his pet (?) bear
(6) (48) You Don't Say--ill-fated revival of 1960s classic game; celebrities configured in the manner of--guess what?--Match Game
(7) (10) (25) (36) Lilias, Yoga and You
(9) Movie--"The White Squaw," 1956
3:30
[2] Mike Douglas (60-minute version)
(4) Split Second (this cannot be correct, since ABC cancelled that show two weeks earlier; station certainly gave incorrect info to TVG; probably tape-delay of All My Children instead, the successor to the 11:30 slot on ABC)
[4] Mickey Mouse Club--the syndicated reruns (ran until 1977)
[5] (19) Gilligan's Island (no, don't bother singing that god-awful theme ... BTW, different episodes)
(6) Bewitched--Jack Cassidy shows up in this episode
(7) (10) (25) (36) Electric Company
(13) Hogan's Heroes--rerun
(15) As the World Turns--see earlier North Alabama skeds for explanation why WOWL aired this
(31) I Dream of Jeannie
(33) Merv Griffin (90-minute version)
(40) Not for Women Only
(42) Sergeant Jack--one of the last bona fide daily local kiddie shows still around by 1975; hosted by Neal Miller, a converted disc jockey who actually was sworn in by the Jefferson County (Birmingham) Sheriff's Department so he could wear the badge
(48) Brady Bunch--tape-delayed earlier in the day from ABC
4:00
(4) Brady Bunch--this was actually tape-delayed the previous week, as it is not the same episode as WBRC and WYUR
[4] Leave it to Beaver--"Aw, mom, do I have to?" "Yes, son, you sure do." Where did all the June Cleavers go?
[5] Movie--"The Counterfeit Killer," 1968 (Jack Lord in one of his pre-Hawaii Five-O flicks)
(6) Bonanza
(7) (10) (25) (36) Sesame Street
(13) (19) Mickey Mouse Club (different episodes)
(15) Children's Hour--no word on whether this had a host or whether it was just cartoons off a film chain
(31) Gomer Pyle, USMC
(40) Maverick--pretty unusual syndie offering for the 1970s; interest probably piqued by James Garner's then-hot Rockford Files
(42) Rifleman--"BANG! BANG!"
(48) Merv Griffin (90-minute version)
4:30
[2] WNGE News--see the Nashville Christmas 1974 post for explanation
(4) Flintstones
[4] Lucy Show--color episode
(9) Let's Make a Deal--tape-delayed from ABC earlier in the day or previous week
(13) Andy Griffith
(19) Family Affair
(31) Beverly Hillbillies
(42) Wanted: Dead or Alive--rerun of the old Steve McQueen western from 1958 to 1961
(All network evening news info courtesy of the Vanderbilt TV News Archive)
5:00
[2] (6) ABC Evening News--Howard K. Smith, Harry Reasoner (Reasoner on location at Cape Canaveral, Florida to cover the Apollo Soyuz launch)
(4) Daniel Boone
[4] (40) Family Affair (probably different episodes)
(7) (10) (25) (36) Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
(9) I Dream of Jeannie
(13) WAPI News
(15) WOWL News
(19) Hogan's Heroes
(31) Andy Griffith
(33) Around Town--local events show, hosted by Tina Hartman
(42) Great Mysteries--syndicated anthology series hosted by Orson Welles; unusual offering for afternoons
5:25
[5] WLAC Weather
(31) WAAY News
5:30
[2] WNGE News
[4] (9) (13) (15) (31) NBC Nightly News--John Chancellor reporting from Cape Canaveral; Tom Brokaw at the desk at 30 Rock
[5] (19) (33) (42) CBS Evening News--Walter Cronkite reporting from Cape Canaveral; Roger Mudd minding the store on West 57th
(6) WBRC News--beat the network evening newscasts in Birmingham quite handily, surprisingly
(7) (10) (25) (36) Hodgepodge Lodge--PBS children's show
(40) WHMA News
(48) ABC Evening News
EVENING
6:00
[2] Concentration--syndie Goodson-Todman version, hosted by Jack Narz
(4) (40) CBS Evening News
[4] WSM News
[5] WLAC News
(6) To Tell the Truth--Garry Moore still host at this point
(7) (10) (25) (36) Yo Hablo--apparently Spanish-language program
(9) WTWV News
(13) WAPI News
(15) WOWL News
(19) WHNT News
(31) WAAY News
(33) WCFT News
(42) Truth or Consequences--last season of first-run episodes
(48) WYUR News
6:30
[2] (6) Hollywood Squares (different episodes)
(4) WCBI News
[5] (9) To Tell the Truth (different episodes)
(7) (10) (25) (36) Electronics and the Radio Amateur (Whew!--!!)
(13) Let's Make a Deal
(15) Gilligan's Island
(19) Truth or Consequences
(31) Bewitched
(33) Mayberry R.F.D.
(40) $25,000 Pyramid--Bill Cullen version
(42) What's My Line--station probably ran disclaimers about Larry Blyden's death earlier
(48) Concentration
7:00
[2] (6) (48) Rookies--one of the first Aaron Spelling hits; this was basically a more violent Adam-12
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) Gunsmoke--about to end a storied 20-year run
[4] (9) (13) (15) (31) Movie--"The Rangers," 1974 TV-movie
(7) (10) (25) (36) Consumer Survival Kit--show about consumer advocacy
7:30
(7) (10) (25) (36) Life Around Us--unknown
8:00
[2] (6) (48) S.W.A.T.--Rookies spin-off, turning up the action several notches
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) Maude--our heroine becomes a real estate office manager in this episode
(7) (10) (25) (36) Advances in Health
8:30
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) Rhoda--Valerie Harper inadvertently set off a fashion trend in the mid-70s: head scarves
[4] (9) (13) (15) (31) Movie--"A Matter of Wife ... and Death," 1975 TV-movie
(7) (10) (25) (36) Consultation--another health/medicine half-hour
9:00
[2] (6) (48) Caribe--short-flight Quinn Martin crime drama starring Stacy Keach; one could call it a precursor of Miami Vice a decade later
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) Medical Center--James Daly and Chad Everett starred in this seven-year-long drama, one of the more intense of its day
(7) (10) (25) (36) Evening at Symphony--Boston Symphony Orchestra performs Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony
10:00
[2] Movie--"The Crimson Pirate," 1952
(4) WCBI News
[4] WSM News
[5] WLAC News
(6) WBRC News
(7) (10) (25) (36) ABC Evening News for the Hearing-Impaired
(9) WTWV News
(13) Mission: Impossible--IMF's task this time: stop a defector to the West from being killed
(15) WOWL News
(19) WHNT News
(31) WAAY News
(33) WCFT News
(40) WHMA News
(42) WBMG News
(48) WYUR News
10:30
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) CBS News Special--coverage of the Apollo Soyuz
[4] (9) (15) (31) NBC News Special--same as above
(6) Perry Mason
(48) Movie--"Get Christie Love," 1974 TV-movie (pilot for series)
11:00
[4] (9) (15) (31) Tonight Show--George Segal, guest host (delayed)
(5) WLAC-TV Reports
(13) WAPI News
(19) (33) (40) (42) Movie--"Lizzie," 1957
11:30
[5] Other People, Other Places--syndie travelogue/exploration show hosted by Leonard Nimoy (I think)
(6) Movie--see WYUR, 10:30 p.m.
(13) NBC News Special--see listing at 10:30 p.m.
12:00 a.m.
[5] Movie--see CBS listing at 11 p.m.
(13) Tonight Show--see NBC listing at 11 p.m.
12:30
[4] (9) (31) Tomorrow--Tom Snyder looks at the production of The New York Times
12:40
(19) WHNT News
(42) WBMG News
TV Guide, Northern Alabama edition, July 14, 1975
Channels in parentheses were originally designated by black bullets; those in brackets by white. Listings are for in-market stations only.
Birmingham, Alabama:
(6) WBRC (ABC)--now FOX affiliate on digital 50; PSIP 6
(10) WBIQ (PBS)*--now digital 10; PSIP same
(13) WAPI (NBC)--now WVTM, on digital 13; PSIP same
(42) WBMG (CBS)--now WIAT, on digital 30; PSIP 42
Huntsville, Alabama:
(19) WHNT (CBS)--now digital 19; PSIP same
(25) WHIQ (PBS)*--now digital 24; PSIP 25
(31) WAAY (NBC)--now ABC affiliate on digital 32; PSIP 31
(48) WYUR (ABC)--now WAFF, an NBC affiliate on digital 49; PSIP 48
Anniston, Alabama:
(40) WHMA (CBS)--now WJSU, an ABC affiliate on digital 9; PSIP 40
Cheaha State Park, Alabama:
(7) WCIQ (PBS)*--now digital 7; PSIP same
Florence, Alabama:
(15) WOWL (NBC; CBS secondary)--now WHDF, a CW affiliate on digital 14; PSIP 15
(36) WFIQ (PBS)*--now digital 22; PSIP 36
Tuscaloosa, Alabama:
(33) WCFT (CBS)--now ABC affiliate on digital 33; PSIP same
Nashville, Tennessee:
[2] WNGE (ABC)--now WKRN, on digital 27; PSIP 2
[4] WSM (NBC)--now WSMV, on digital 10; PSIP 4
[5] WLAC (CBS)--now WTVF, on digital 5; PSIP same
Columbus, Mississippi:
(4) WCBI (CBS, ABC secondary)--now a sole CBS affiliate on digital 35; PSIP 4
Tupelo, Mississippi:
(9) WTWV (NBC, ABC secondary)--now WTVA, a sole NBC affiliate on digital 8; PSIP 9
*--translator relay of Alabama Public Television
MORNING
5:00
(6) American Religious Town Hall
5:15
[5] Country Journal--local
(13) Awake!--had black-and-white designation; probably public service film
5:30
[5] Carl Tipton--local country music show
(6) WBRC News
5:35
(6) Country Boy Eddie--hosted by Gordon "Country Boy Eddie" Burns, this long-running country/Southern Gospel music staple of Central Alabama television ran for no fewer than 37 years until 1995
5:45
[4] WSM Weather
(13) Top of the Morning--listed as "music;" probably country
5:50
[4] Morning Devotion--local
5:55
[4] Job Market--local
(19) Minister's Study--local
6:00
[4] Morning Show--country DJ Ralph Emery presided over this morning slot for nearly 30 years, with occasional Music Row artists dropping by
[5] (19) CBS Morning News--Hughes Rudd
(31) Cartooons--unspecified
(48) Arthur Smith--syndicated country music show, based in North Carolina
6:30
[2] Flying Nun--episode description: "Sr. Bertrille (Sally Field) sparks a frenzy by retunring a lottery ticket."
(31) New Zoo Revue
(33) Laughtime--local cartoons; no indication of a host
(48) Sonny in the Morning--Edward "Sonny" Sims, a former member of Ernest Tubb's band, hosted this half-hour local country music get-together (a la Country Boy Eddie)
6:45
(4) WCBI News
(42) Focus--local public affairs
7:00
[2] Bozo--unknown who the local Nashville Bozo was (so don't ask me)
(4) (33) (40) (42) CBS Morning News (WHMA interrupted at 7:30 for five minutes)
[4] (9) (13) (15) (31) Today Show--Jim Hartz, Barbara Walters (guest today: Jimmy the Greek)
[5] Mornings with Siegel--an experiment that, to put it mildly, didn't work: a New Yorker holding court on a TV talk show down South in the 1970s; today, he probably wouldn't raise an eyebrow, given Nashville's more cosmopolitan tone in comparison to then
(19) Morning Folks--Grady Reeves hosted this "friends and neighbors" local morning show; Reeves' son Robert still works for WHNT
(48) A.M. America--ABC's quite fledgling attempt to knock Today off the throne was getting nowhere, thanks in part to affils such as WBRC and WNGE passing on it; Bill Beutel was helming at this point
7:05
(6) Morning Show--And WBRC passed it up for some years afterward for a good reason: like Country Boy Eddie, this show was also a WBRC institution, hosted by the well-mannered Tom York; York's son Byron is known these days as a conservative political commentator
7:30
(40) Paul Harvey--his syndicated five-minute commentary
7:35
(40) CBS Morning News (resumed in progress)
7:55
[5] Coffee With Dorinda--probably local women's show; perhaps cooking (e.g., a brief recipe)
8:00
[2] New Zoo Revue
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) Captain Kangaroo--the good Captain featured a "back-yard country fair" today
8:05
(6) Merv Griffin (90-minute version)
8:30
[2] Green Acres--rerun, of course
9:00
[2] Movie--"Magoo in the King's Service," 1964
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) Spin-Off--Jim Lange attempted a comeback after Dating Game with this Yahtzee-like game show (thus more like "RIP-Off"--!)
[4] (9) (13) (15) Celebrity Sweepstakes--and speaking of game show ripoffs ...
(31) Coffee Break--local women's show, hosted by Johnny Evans and Mary Beaton
(48) Room 222--rerun of 1969-74 high school drama
9:30
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) Gambit--blackjack, done Heatter-Quigley style
[4] (9) (13) (15) (31) Wheel of Fortune--this show, just six months old, was climbing up the charts
(6) Rhyme and Reason--tape-delayed from ABC the previous week
(48) Dinah! (90-minute version)
10:00
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) Tattletales--celebrity gabfest game that didn't quite cut it in the mornings; soon would return to afternoons
[4] (9) (13) (15) (31) High Rollers--"Shut the Box" came to the boob tube with this game
(6) Ryan's Hope--tape-delayed from ABC the previous week
10:30
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) Love of Life--soap that ran from 1951 to 1980
[4] (9) (13) (15) (31) Hollywood Squares--"I'll take George Gobel for the block, please ..."
(6) Brady Bunch--ABC rerun
10:55
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) CBS News--Douglas Edwards
11:00
[2] (6) (48) Showoffs--Goodson-Todman game cursed from the outset; originally scheduled host Larry Blyden was killed in a car wreck in Morocco in the spring and Bobby Van was brought in as a replacement
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) Young and the Restless--now a top-ten favorite
[4] (9) (13) (15) (31) Magnificent Marble Machine--"PINBALL on TV? You're out of your $*%&#($% MIND!!!" (and that's what a lot of viewers thought, too)
11:30
[2] (6) (48) All My Children--swapped out from the Noon slot a week earlier in order to give Ryan's Hope (see below) a fighting chance in the Nielsens
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) Search for Tomorrow--"Well, why don't you look in your tote bag?"--!!!
[4] Noon Show--local; hosted by Teddy Bart (a longtime Nashville broadcaster) and Elaine Ganick, his "girl Friday"
(9) (13) (15) (31) Jackpot!--a week earlier, NBC and packager Bob Stewart dropped the riddles in favor of straight Q&A; that pretty much sealed the deal for this once-fashionable half-hour, which would limp along until September
11:55
(9) (13) (15) (31) NBC News--Edwin Newman
AFTERNOON
12:00
[2] (48) Ryan's Hope
(4) WCBI News
[5] Singing Convention--Southern Gospel music, primarily aimed at a rural audience
(6) WBRC News
(9) Noon--local
(13) WAPI News
(15) WOWL News
(19) WHNT News
(31) Celebrity Sweepstakes--tape-delayed from NBC earlier in the day
(33) Galloping Gourmet--ah, who can forget?
(40) WHMA News
(42) Beat the Clock--rerun; show had actually gone out of production the previous season up in Canada, due to a dispute with Goodson-Todman and the TV network there
12:05
(40) By the Way--unknown if local women's or public affairs show (probably the former)
12:15
(15) Bible Televisit--local
(19) Woman's Page/WHNT Weather
12:20
[5] WLAC Weather
12:25
[5] WLAC News
12:30
[2] (6) (48) Let's Make a Deal
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) As the World Turns--about to become the latest daytime TV casualty on September 17, 2010; nobody could have imagined that possibility, though, in 1975 when it was on the top of the sudser heap
[4] (9) (13) (15) (31) Days of Our Lives--recently expanded to 60 minutes and doing well
1:00
[2] (6) (48) $10,000 Pyramid--six months later, the top award would double
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) Guiding Light--in 2009, this venerable warhorse bit the dust, another remnant from the "golden age" of the 1950s
1:30
[2] (48) Rhyme and Reason--cheap but cute rip-off of Match Game, using poetry instead of double entendres
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) Edge of Night--about at the end of its road on CBS by this point; ABC picked it up before Christmas
[4] (9) (13) (15) (31) Doctors
(6) I Dream of Jeannie--WBRC had long pre-empted the 1:30 ABC show, for some reason
2:00
[2] (6) (48) General Hospital
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) Price is Right--still on half-hour format (most people today can't remember when the show wasn't a full 60 minutes)
[4] (9) (13) (15) (31) Another World--first-ever hour-long soap; expansion occurred six months earlier
2:30
[2] (6) (48) One Life to Live
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) Match Game--the jokers this week included Jack Cassidy, Betty White, and, of course, the terrible trio of Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers and Richard Dawson
2:45
(7) (10) (25) (36) Workshop--adult instruction on woodworking
3:00
[2] Andy Griffith
(4) (19) (33) (40) (42) Musical Chairs--show holds distinction as first game to be hosted by an African-American, Adam Wade, a 1960s soul singer; basically a variation on Name That Tune with celebrity guest performers
[4] (13) (15) (31) NBC News Special--pre-coverage of the joint US-USSR Apollo Soyuz rocket mission to launch the next day; the six-day mission would be the last for the US until the Space Shuttle program began in 1981; Jim Hartz and astronaut Eugene Cernan, hosts (pre-empted Somerset)
[5] Gentle Ben--rerun of late 1960s family drama about a boy and his pet (?) bear
(6) (48) You Don't Say--ill-fated revival of 1960s classic game; celebrities configured in the manner of--guess what?--Match Game
(7) (10) (25) (36) Lilias, Yoga and You
(9) Movie--"The White Squaw," 1956
3:30
[2] Mike Douglas (60-minute version)
(4) Split Second (this cannot be correct, since ABC cancelled that show two weeks earlier; station certainly gave incorrect info to TVG; probably tape-delay of All My Children instead, the successor to the 11:30 slot on ABC)
[4] Mickey Mouse Club--the syndicated reruns (ran until 1977)
[5] (19) Gilligan's Island (no, don't bother singing that god-awful theme ... BTW, different episodes)
(6) Bewitched--Jack Cassidy shows up in this episode
(7) (10) (25) (36) Electric Company
(13) Hogan's Heroes--rerun
(15) As the World Turns--see earlier North Alabama skeds for explanation why WOWL aired this
(31) I Dream of Jeannie
(33) Merv Griffin (90-minute version)
(40) Not for Women Only
(42) Sergeant Jack--one of the last bona fide daily local kiddie shows still around by 1975; hosted by Neal Miller, a converted disc jockey who actually was sworn in by the Jefferson County (Birmingham) Sheriff's Department so he could wear the badge
(48) Brady Bunch--tape-delayed earlier in the day from ABC
4:00
(4) Brady Bunch--this was actually tape-delayed the previous week, as it is not the same episode as WBRC and WYUR
[4] Leave it to Beaver--"Aw, mom, do I have to?" "Yes, son, you sure do." Where did all the June Cleavers go?
[5] Movie--"The Counterfeit Killer," 1968 (Jack Lord in one of his pre-Hawaii Five-O flicks)
(6) Bonanza
(7) (10) (25) (36) Sesame Street
(13) (19) Mickey Mouse Club (different episodes)
(15) Children's Hour--no word on whether this had a host or whether it was just cartoons off a film chain
(31) Gomer Pyle, USMC
(40) Maverick--pretty unusual syndie offering for the 1970s; interest probably piqued by James Garner's then-hot Rockford Files
(42) Rifleman--"BANG! BANG!"
(48) Merv Griffin (90-minute version)
4:30
[2] WNGE News--see the Nashville Christmas 1974 post for explanation
(4) Flintstones
[4] Lucy Show--color episode
(9) Let's Make a Deal--tape-delayed from ABC earlier in the day or previous week
(13) Andy Griffith
(19) Family Affair
(31) Beverly Hillbillies
(42) Wanted: Dead or Alive--rerun of the old Steve McQueen western from 1958 to 1961
(All network evening news info courtesy of the Vanderbilt TV News Archive)
5:00
[2] (6) ABC Evening News--Howard K. Smith, Harry Reasoner (Reasoner on location at Cape Canaveral, Florida to cover the Apollo Soyuz launch)
(4) Daniel Boone
[4] (40) Family Affair (probably different episodes)
(7) (10) (25) (36) Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
(9) I Dream of Jeannie
(13) WAPI News
(15) WOWL News
(19) Hogan's Heroes
(31) Andy Griffith
(33) Around Town--local events show, hosted by Tina Hartman
(42) Great Mysteries--syndicated anthology series hosted by Orson Welles; unusual offering for afternoons
5:25
[5] WLAC Weather
(31) WAAY News
5:30
[2] WNGE News
[4] (9) (13) (15) (31) NBC Nightly News--John Chancellor reporting from Cape Canaveral; Tom Brokaw at the desk at 30 Rock
[5] (19) (33) (42) CBS Evening News--Walter Cronkite reporting from Cape Canaveral; Roger Mudd minding the store on West 57th
(6) WBRC News--beat the network evening newscasts in Birmingham quite handily, surprisingly
(7) (10) (25) (36) Hodgepodge Lodge--PBS children's show
(40) WHMA News
(48) ABC Evening News
EVENING
6:00
[2] Concentration--syndie Goodson-Todman version, hosted by Jack Narz
(4) (40) CBS Evening News
[4] WSM News
[5] WLAC News
(6) To Tell the Truth--Garry Moore still host at this point
(7) (10) (25) (36) Yo Hablo--apparently Spanish-language program
(9) WTWV News
(13) WAPI News
(15) WOWL News
(19) WHNT News
(31) WAAY News
(33) WCFT News
(42) Truth or Consequences--last season of first-run episodes
(48) WYUR News
6:30
[2] (6) Hollywood Squares (different episodes)
(4) WCBI News
[5] (9) To Tell the Truth (different episodes)
(7) (10) (25) (36) Electronics and the Radio Amateur (Whew!--!!)
(13) Let's Make a Deal
(15) Gilligan's Island
(19) Truth or Consequences
(31) Bewitched
(33) Mayberry R.F.D.
(40) $25,000 Pyramid--Bill Cullen version
(42) What's My Line--station probably ran disclaimers about Larry Blyden's death earlier
(48) Concentration
7:00
[2] (6) (48) Rookies--one of the first Aaron Spelling hits; this was basically a more violent Adam-12
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) Gunsmoke--about to end a storied 20-year run
[4] (9) (13) (15) (31) Movie--"The Rangers," 1974 TV-movie
(7) (10) (25) (36) Consumer Survival Kit--show about consumer advocacy
7:30
(7) (10) (25) (36) Life Around Us--unknown
8:00
[2] (6) (48) S.W.A.T.--Rookies spin-off, turning up the action several notches
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) Maude--our heroine becomes a real estate office manager in this episode
(7) (10) (25) (36) Advances in Health
8:30
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) Rhoda--Valerie Harper inadvertently set off a fashion trend in the mid-70s: head scarves
[4] (9) (13) (15) (31) Movie--"A Matter of Wife ... and Death," 1975 TV-movie
(7) (10) (25) (36) Consultation--another health/medicine half-hour
9:00
[2] (6) (48) Caribe--short-flight Quinn Martin crime drama starring Stacy Keach; one could call it a precursor of Miami Vice a decade later
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) Medical Center--James Daly and Chad Everett starred in this seven-year-long drama, one of the more intense of its day
(7) (10) (25) (36) Evening at Symphony--Boston Symphony Orchestra performs Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony
10:00
[2] Movie--"The Crimson Pirate," 1952
(4) WCBI News
[4] WSM News
[5] WLAC News
(6) WBRC News
(7) (10) (25) (36) ABC Evening News for the Hearing-Impaired
(9) WTWV News
(13) Mission: Impossible--IMF's task this time: stop a defector to the West from being killed
(15) WOWL News
(19) WHNT News
(31) WAAY News
(33) WCFT News
(40) WHMA News
(42) WBMG News
(48) WYUR News
10:30
(4) [5] (19) (33) (40) (42) CBS News Special--coverage of the Apollo Soyuz
[4] (9) (15) (31) NBC News Special--same as above
(6) Perry Mason
(48) Movie--"Get Christie Love," 1974 TV-movie (pilot for series)
11:00
[4] (9) (15) (31) Tonight Show--George Segal, guest host (delayed)
(5) WLAC-TV Reports
(13) WAPI News
(19) (33) (40) (42) Movie--"Lizzie," 1957
11:30
[5] Other People, Other Places--syndie travelogue/exploration show hosted by Leonard Nimoy (I think)
(6) Movie--see WYUR, 10:30 p.m.
(13) NBC News Special--see listing at 10:30 p.m.
12:00 a.m.
[5] Movie--see CBS listing at 11 p.m.
(13) Tonight Show--see NBC listing at 11 p.m.
12:30
[4] (9) (31) Tomorrow--Tom Snyder looks at the production of The New York Times
12:40
(19) WHNT News
(42) WBMG News