From TV Guide, North Carolina Edition:
WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS)
6 AM Good Morning Show
7:55 Devotions
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Old Rebel Show
9:30 Merv Griffin (guests: Freddy Martin, the bandleader
with whom Merv once worked; Bobby Vinton; Joe Flynn;
pianist Mark Westcott)
10:30 Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Where The Heart Is
12:25 News (local)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Today's Woman (local, hostess is Judy Walker)
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 Family Affair (at the time the lowest-rated network
show on daytime television)
4:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
5 PM Big Valley
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Andy Griffith
7:30 Buck Owens (separate show from "Hee Haw")
8 PM Gunsmoke
9 PM Here's Lucy (guest: Totie Fields)
9:30 Doris Day
10 PM Bill Cosby (guests: Don Knotts and Bill Withers--watch
for Knotts as detective Joe Pannix)
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Cutter's Trail"
E (WUND/2 Columbia/Edenton, NC; WUNC/4 Chapel Hill; WUNK/25
Greenville, NC; WUNJ/39 Wilmington; WUNG/58 Concord, NC)
8:40 Cover To Cover
9 AM Cultures
9:30 Physical Science
10 AM Sesame Street
11 AM Earth Science
11:30 Math
12 N Ripples
12:15 Math
12:30 Electric Company
1 PM In-school programs
4 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM News
6:30 Communication In Local Government
7 PM Backyard Gardener
8 PM Profile In Music: Shirley Verrett (opera singer whose
first national appearance was as a gospel singer on
"Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts")
9:30 Book Beat ("Mary Todd Lincoln: Her Life And Letters"--
in her own words and not a pretty picture, devoting
a great deal of space to the breakdowns she suffered
from the deaths of her husband and three of her four sons.)
sign off 10 PM
WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)
6:45 Almanac
6:55 News
7 AM CBS News (John Hart)
7:30 Morning Scene
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Merv Griffin (same as Ch. 2)
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Noon Report
12:25 Pat Lee (women's show)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Betty Feezor
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 Truth Or Consequences
4:30 Ponderosa ("Bonanza" reruns)
5:30 I Dream Of Jeannie (Milton Berle as a con man
trying to bilk Jeannie out of a priceless scarab pen)
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News
7:30 All In The Family (delay from Sat 8 PM--Ch. 3 ran
"Gunsmoke" Sat 7:30-8:30)
8 PM Movie: "The Tiger And The Pussycat"
10 PM Bill Cosby
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Cutter's Trail"
WWAY Ch. 3 Wilmington, NC (ABC)
6:50 News
7 AM Town And Country
7:30 Cartoons
8 AM Eight A.M.
8:30 Movie: "Lydia"
10:25 News
10:30 The Saint (Roger Moore)
11:30 Bewitched
12 N Password (guests: Abby Dalton and Peter Lawford)
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
4:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
5 PM Merv Griffin (guests: Eddie Fisher, Pamela Mason--a
favorite Merv guest because of her outspokenness,
Jacqueline Bisset)
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News (Howard K. Smith/Harry Reasoner)
7 PM To Tell The Truth (panel: Kitty Carlisle, Peggy Cass,
Bill Cullen, Larry Blyden)
7:30 Dragnet (with Harry Morgan)
8 PM The Rookies
9 PM NFL Football: Vikings-Bears
12 M News (time approximate)
WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (ABC)
6 AM Daybreak
6:55 Commentary
7 AM News
7:30 H.R. Pufnstuf (delay from Sat 8 AM--Ch. 5 ran movies
at that time)
8 AM Time For Uncle Paul
8:30 Bette Elliott (women's show)
9:30 Mike Douglas (co-hostess Zsa Zsa Gabor; Minnie Pearl,
race-car drivers Parnelli Jones and Joe Leonard; Clifton
Davis; Ronnie Schell; a professional entertainment director--
sounds like one of Merv's guest lists
)
11 AM Password (one-week delay, guests: Sally Struthers and
Gene Rayburn)
11:30 Bewitched
12 N News
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 To Tell The Truth (panel: Orson Bean, Kitty Carlisle,
Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen)
4 PM Perry Mason
5 PM Truth Or Consequences
5:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
6 PM News
6:25 Commentary
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Ponderosa
8 PM The Rookies
9 PM NFL Football: Vikings-Bears
12 M The Saint (time approximate)
WECT Ch. 6 Wilmington, NC (NBC)
6:30 Carolina In The Morning
7 AM Today (guest: Eunice Shriver--husband Sargent
was George McGovern's running mate that year)
9 AM Mike Douglas (co-hostess Shelley Winters; Billy
DeWolfe; Helen Hayes and Anita Loos, authors of
"Twice Over Lightly")
10 AM Dinah's Place (a Halloween-themed show with guest
Ray Bolger)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares (guests: Lucie Arnaz, Mel Brooks,
Victor Buono, Charo, Nanette Fabray, Michael Landon,
Roger Miller)
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Lucille Rivers (sewing)
12:40 Jim Burns (local)
12:55 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
1 PM Jim Burns continues
1:30 As The World Turns (a CBS show too popular at the time
for Ch. 6 to pass up)
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 Timmy And Lassie
5 PM Daniel Boone
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (John Chancellor)
7 PM Andy Griffith
7:30 Beverly Hillbillies
8 PM Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In (guest:
Jean Stapleton; cameos: Bill Bixby, Jack
Carter, Henny Youngman)
9 PM NBC Movie: "They Might Be Giants"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (Joey Bishop subs for Johnny;
guests: George Kirby, Helen Gurley Brown,
Liz Torres)
WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC)
6 AM Agriculture
6:30 Get Smart
7 AM Today
9 AM Flying Nun
9:30 Not For Women Only (topic: prostitution;
Barbara Walters hosts)
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 I Love Lucy (Tennessee Ernie Ford appears as
our Hollywood-bound foursome end up in jail
in Bent Fork.)
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 I Dream Of Jeannie
5 PM Ponderosa
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Parent Game
7:30 Let's Make A Deal
8 PM Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In
9 PM NBC Movie: "They Might Be Giants"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
WGHP Ch. 8 High Point (ABC)
6:45 Farm, Home & Garden
7 AM University Of Michigan
7:30 Romper Room
8 AM Southern Exposure (1973 Miss America Terry
Meeuwsen and Lowell Streicker, author of
"Religion And The New Majority," discuss the
growth of fundamentalism and its effect on
politics.)
9 AM Movie: "The Geisha Boy" (Jerry Lewis)
10:50 Lucille Rivers
11 AM Password (same as Ch. 5)
11:30 Bewitched
12 N News
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
4:30 That Girl (William Windom is an evasive
novelist being badgered by Ann.)
5 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Anything You Can Do (Ch. 8 was showing the
first season with Gene Wood, while Don Harron
was hosting the shows being taped in Canada.)
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Let's Make A Deal
8 PM The Rookies
9 PM NFL Football: Vikings-Bears
12 M News (time approximate)
WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS)
6:30 Carolina Today
8:25 Morning Meditations
8:30 CBS News
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Where The Heart Is
1:25 Timely Tips
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 Merv Griffin (same as WWAY, with the
addition of Steve Landesberg and singers
Clark and Marilyn)
5:30 To Tell The Truth
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Anna And The King (delay from Sun 7:30--
Ch. 9 ran "Name Of The Game" Sun 7:30-9)
8 PM Gunsmoke
9 PM Here's Lucy
9:30 Doris Day
10 PM Bill Cosby
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Cutter's Trail"
WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC)
6:15 Garner Ted Armstrong
6:45 On The House
7 AM Today
9 AM Mike Douglas
10:20 Lucille Rivers
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Jeopardy!
1:30 Three On A Match
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Gilligan's Island
4:30 Beverly Hillbillies (Granny's love potion sends
Miss Jane after Caspar Biddle, played by Wally
Cox.)
5 PM Dick Van Dyke
5:30 Andy Griffith
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM To Tell The Truth
7:30 I've Got A Secret (short-lived revival with Steve
Allen and frequent panelists Henry Morgan, Richard
Dawson, Pat Carroll, and Anita Gillette)
8 PM Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In
9 PM NBC Movie: "They Might Be Giants"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
WIS Ch. 10 Columbia, SC (NBC)
6:45 Farm Report
7 AM Today
9 AM Today In Carolina
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 News
1:30 Mr. Knozit
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4 PM Daniel Boone
5 PM Virginian
6:30 NBC News
7 PM News
7:30 South Carolina Football Highlights:
South Carolina-Miami (South Carolina was
an independent school at the time, having left
the ACC but not yet in the SEC)
8 PM Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In
9 PM NBC Movie: "They Might Be Giants"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (CBS)
6:30 Sunrise Semester: "Law And Morality"
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Merv Griffin (same as Ch. 2)
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 News (local)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Peggy Mann
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 Daniel Boone
5 PM Wild Wild West
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM That Girl
7:30 Dragnet
8 PM Gunsmoke
9 PM Here's Lucy
9:30 Doris Day
10 PM Bill Cosby
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Cutter's Trail"
WCTI Ch. 12 New Bern (ABC)
7:30 Uncle Waldo
8 AM New Zoo Revue
8:30 Movie Game (guests: Bob Crane, Andy Devine,
Stu Gilliam, Shirley Jones, Dack Rambo, Nancy Walker)
9 AM Joanne Carson's VIPs (author Dick Kleiner discusses his
book "ESP And The Stars")
9:30 Montage (local)
10:30 Mantrap
11 AM Love, American Style (day-behind)
11:30 Bewitched
12 N Password
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 Gilligan's Island
4:30 Lost In Space
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 It Takes A Thief
7:30 Sonny Randle (the coach of East Carolina
University with highlights of ECU-N.C. State)
8 PM The Rookies
9 PM NFL Football: Vikings-Bears
12 M News (time approximate)
WXII Ch. 12 Winston-Salem (NBC)
7 AM Today
9 AM Today At Home
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 Somerset
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 Munsters
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Ponderosa
6 PM What's My Line? (panel: Joanna Barnes,
Arlene Francis, Gene Rayburn, Soupy Sales--
Ch. 12 was showing the Wally Bruner episodes,
even though Larry Blyden had already taken
over as host)
6:30 News
7 PM NBC News
7:30 To Tell The Truth (panel: Kitty Carlisle, Peggy
Cass, Bill Cullen, Gene Rayburn)
8 PM Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In
9 PM NBC Movie: "They Might Be Giants"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
WBTW Ch. 13 Florence, SC (ABC/CBS)
6:30 Bob Henley (don't know anything about him)
7 AM Jim Nesbitt
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Let's Make A Deal
9:30 Newlywed Game
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 All My Children
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 Family Affair
4:30 Death Valley Days
5 PM Ponderosa
6 PM ABC News
6:30 News
7 PM CBS News
7:30 Green Acres
8 PM Gunsmoke
9 PM NFL Football: Vikings-Bears
12 M News (time approximate)
12:30 Judd For The Defense
WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (ABC)
7:55 Let's Think It Over
8 AM Cartoons
9 AM Romper Room
9:30 Fran Carlton (exercises)
10 AM Dinah's Place (pre-empted on WSOC)
10:30 Not For Women Only
11 AM Metrolina Morning News
11:30 Bewitched
12 N Password
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 Virginian
5:30 Love, American Style (same-day delay)
6 PM ABC News
6:30 News
7 PM Sports Action Pro-File
7:30 Mike McGee (the Duke coach narrates highlights
of Duke-Maryland)
8 PM The Rookies
9 PM NFL Football: Vikings-Bears
12 M News (time approximate)
12:30 Let's Think It Over
WRDU (WRDC) Ch. 28 Durham (NBC)
7 AM Today
9 AM New Zoo Revue
9:30 Not For Women Only
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 Watch Your Child (John Chancellor reads
"The Bear Party".)
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: "Blackwell's Island"
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Here's Looking (local)
7:30 Rollin' (Tommy Roe joins Kenny Rogers and
the First Edition)
8 PM Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In
9 PM NBC Movie: "They Might Be Giants"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
WRET (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (Ind.)
11:30 Charisma
12 N 700 Club
2 PM Jim And Tammy
3 PM Popeye And Pals
3:30 Rifleman
4 PM Movie: "Affectionately Yours"
6 PM Dragnet
6:30 Big Valley (Lou Rawls as cowboy Joshua Watson,
who risks his life riding in a rodeo for the Barkleys.)
7:30 Movie: "Adventures Of Robin Hood" (the classic, with
Errol Flynn--remember this piece of dialogue:
FLYNN: Welcome to Sherwood!
BUGS BUNNY (rubbing his eyes): Naaah...couldn't be HIM!)
9:30 Movie: "Canon City" (true story of the escape of 12 prisoners
from the Colorado State Penitentiary in 1947)
11 PM Twilight Zone
11:30 Movie: "Campbell's Kingdom"
WTVI Ch. 42 Charlotte (PBS)
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
7:30 Exploring The Crafts
8 PM You're On!
8:30 International Performance (a concert of Tchaikovsky
and Wagner from France's ORTF)
9:30 The Just Generation (topic: should marijuana be legalized?)
10 PM Soul! (jazz great Rashaan Roland Kirk)
sign off 11 PM
WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS)
6 AM Good Morning Show
7:55 Devotions
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Old Rebel Show
9:30 Merv Griffin (guests: Freddy Martin, the bandleader
with whom Merv once worked; Bobby Vinton; Joe Flynn;
pianist Mark Westcott)
10:30 Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Where The Heart Is
12:25 News (local)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Today's Woman (local, hostess is Judy Walker)
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 Family Affair (at the time the lowest-rated network
show on daytime television)
4:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
5 PM Big Valley
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Andy Griffith
7:30 Buck Owens (separate show from "Hee Haw")
8 PM Gunsmoke
9 PM Here's Lucy (guest: Totie Fields)
9:30 Doris Day
10 PM Bill Cosby (guests: Don Knotts and Bill Withers--watch
for Knotts as detective Joe Pannix)
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Cutter's Trail"
E (WUND/2 Columbia/Edenton, NC; WUNC/4 Chapel Hill; WUNK/25
Greenville, NC; WUNJ/39 Wilmington; WUNG/58 Concord, NC)
8:40 Cover To Cover
9 AM Cultures
9:30 Physical Science
10 AM Sesame Street
11 AM Earth Science
11:30 Math
12 N Ripples
12:15 Math
12:30 Electric Company
1 PM In-school programs
4 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM News
6:30 Communication In Local Government
7 PM Backyard Gardener
8 PM Profile In Music: Shirley Verrett (opera singer whose
first national appearance was as a gospel singer on
"Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts")
9:30 Book Beat ("Mary Todd Lincoln: Her Life And Letters"--
in her own words and not a pretty picture, devoting
a great deal of space to the breakdowns she suffered
from the deaths of her husband and three of her four sons.)
sign off 10 PM
WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)
6:45 Almanac
6:55 News
7 AM CBS News (John Hart)
7:30 Morning Scene
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Merv Griffin (same as Ch. 2)
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Noon Report
12:25 Pat Lee (women's show)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Betty Feezor
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 Truth Or Consequences
4:30 Ponderosa ("Bonanza" reruns)
5:30 I Dream Of Jeannie (Milton Berle as a con man
trying to bilk Jeannie out of a priceless scarab pen)
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News
7:30 All In The Family (delay from Sat 8 PM--Ch. 3 ran
"Gunsmoke" Sat 7:30-8:30)
8 PM Movie: "The Tiger And The Pussycat"
10 PM Bill Cosby
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Cutter's Trail"
WWAY Ch. 3 Wilmington, NC (ABC)
6:50 News
7 AM Town And Country
7:30 Cartoons
8 AM Eight A.M.
8:30 Movie: "Lydia"
10:25 News
10:30 The Saint (Roger Moore)
11:30 Bewitched
12 N Password (guests: Abby Dalton and Peter Lawford)
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
4:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
5 PM Merv Griffin (guests: Eddie Fisher, Pamela Mason--a
favorite Merv guest because of her outspokenness,
Jacqueline Bisset)
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News (Howard K. Smith/Harry Reasoner)
7 PM To Tell The Truth (panel: Kitty Carlisle, Peggy Cass,
Bill Cullen, Larry Blyden)
7:30 Dragnet (with Harry Morgan)
8 PM The Rookies
9 PM NFL Football: Vikings-Bears
12 M News (time approximate)
WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (ABC)
6 AM Daybreak
6:55 Commentary
7 AM News
7:30 H.R. Pufnstuf (delay from Sat 8 AM--Ch. 5 ran movies
at that time)
8 AM Time For Uncle Paul
8:30 Bette Elliott (women's show)
9:30 Mike Douglas (co-hostess Zsa Zsa Gabor; Minnie Pearl,
race-car drivers Parnelli Jones and Joe Leonard; Clifton
Davis; Ronnie Schell; a professional entertainment director--
sounds like one of Merv's guest lists
)11 AM Password (one-week delay, guests: Sally Struthers and
Gene Rayburn)
11:30 Bewitched
12 N News
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 To Tell The Truth (panel: Orson Bean, Kitty Carlisle,
Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen)
4 PM Perry Mason
5 PM Truth Or Consequences
5:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
6 PM News
6:25 Commentary
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Ponderosa
8 PM The Rookies
9 PM NFL Football: Vikings-Bears
12 M The Saint (time approximate)
WECT Ch. 6 Wilmington, NC (NBC)
6:30 Carolina In The Morning
7 AM Today (guest: Eunice Shriver--husband Sargent
was George McGovern's running mate that year)
9 AM Mike Douglas (co-hostess Shelley Winters; Billy
DeWolfe; Helen Hayes and Anita Loos, authors of
"Twice Over Lightly")
10 AM Dinah's Place (a Halloween-themed show with guest
Ray Bolger)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares (guests: Lucie Arnaz, Mel Brooks,
Victor Buono, Charo, Nanette Fabray, Michael Landon,
Roger Miller)
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Lucille Rivers (sewing)
12:40 Jim Burns (local)
12:55 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
1 PM Jim Burns continues
1:30 As The World Turns (a CBS show too popular at the time
for Ch. 6 to pass up)
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 Timmy And Lassie
5 PM Daniel Boone
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (John Chancellor)
7 PM Andy Griffith
7:30 Beverly Hillbillies
8 PM Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In (guest:
Jean Stapleton; cameos: Bill Bixby, Jack
Carter, Henny Youngman)
9 PM NBC Movie: "They Might Be Giants"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (Joey Bishop subs for Johnny;
guests: George Kirby, Helen Gurley Brown,
Liz Torres)
WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC)
6 AM Agriculture
6:30 Get Smart
7 AM Today
9 AM Flying Nun
9:30 Not For Women Only (topic: prostitution;
Barbara Walters hosts)
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 I Love Lucy (Tennessee Ernie Ford appears as
our Hollywood-bound foursome end up in jail
in Bent Fork.)
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 I Dream Of Jeannie
5 PM Ponderosa
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Parent Game
7:30 Let's Make A Deal
8 PM Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In
9 PM NBC Movie: "They Might Be Giants"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
WGHP Ch. 8 High Point (ABC)
6:45 Farm, Home & Garden
7 AM University Of Michigan
7:30 Romper Room
8 AM Southern Exposure (1973 Miss America Terry
Meeuwsen and Lowell Streicker, author of
"Religion And The New Majority," discuss the
growth of fundamentalism and its effect on
politics.)
9 AM Movie: "The Geisha Boy" (Jerry Lewis)
10:50 Lucille Rivers
11 AM Password (same as Ch. 5)
11:30 Bewitched
12 N News
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
4:30 That Girl (William Windom is an evasive
novelist being badgered by Ann.)
5 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Anything You Can Do (Ch. 8 was showing the
first season with Gene Wood, while Don Harron
was hosting the shows being taped in Canada.)
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Let's Make A Deal
8 PM The Rookies
9 PM NFL Football: Vikings-Bears
12 M News (time approximate)
WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS)
6:30 Carolina Today
8:25 Morning Meditations
8:30 CBS News
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Where The Heart Is
1:25 Timely Tips
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 Merv Griffin (same as WWAY, with the
addition of Steve Landesberg and singers
Clark and Marilyn)
5:30 To Tell The Truth
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Anna And The King (delay from Sun 7:30--
Ch. 9 ran "Name Of The Game" Sun 7:30-9)
8 PM Gunsmoke
9 PM Here's Lucy
9:30 Doris Day
10 PM Bill Cosby
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Cutter's Trail"
WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC)
6:15 Garner Ted Armstrong
6:45 On The House
7 AM Today
9 AM Mike Douglas
10:20 Lucille Rivers
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Jeopardy!
1:30 Three On A Match
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Gilligan's Island
4:30 Beverly Hillbillies (Granny's love potion sends
Miss Jane after Caspar Biddle, played by Wally
Cox.)
5 PM Dick Van Dyke
5:30 Andy Griffith
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM To Tell The Truth
7:30 I've Got A Secret (short-lived revival with Steve
Allen and frequent panelists Henry Morgan, Richard
Dawson, Pat Carroll, and Anita Gillette)
8 PM Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In
9 PM NBC Movie: "They Might Be Giants"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
WIS Ch. 10 Columbia, SC (NBC)
6:45 Farm Report
7 AM Today
9 AM Today In Carolina
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 News
1:30 Mr. Knozit
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4 PM Daniel Boone
5 PM Virginian
6:30 NBC News
7 PM News
7:30 South Carolina Football Highlights:
South Carolina-Miami (South Carolina was
an independent school at the time, having left
the ACC but not yet in the SEC)
8 PM Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In
9 PM NBC Movie: "They Might Be Giants"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (CBS)
6:30 Sunrise Semester: "Law And Morality"
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Merv Griffin (same as Ch. 2)
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 News (local)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Peggy Mann
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 Daniel Boone
5 PM Wild Wild West
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM That Girl
7:30 Dragnet
8 PM Gunsmoke
9 PM Here's Lucy
9:30 Doris Day
10 PM Bill Cosby
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Cutter's Trail"
WCTI Ch. 12 New Bern (ABC)
7:30 Uncle Waldo
8 AM New Zoo Revue
8:30 Movie Game (guests: Bob Crane, Andy Devine,
Stu Gilliam, Shirley Jones, Dack Rambo, Nancy Walker)
9 AM Joanne Carson's VIPs (author Dick Kleiner discusses his
book "ESP And The Stars")
9:30 Montage (local)
10:30 Mantrap
11 AM Love, American Style (day-behind)
11:30 Bewitched
12 N Password
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 Gilligan's Island
4:30 Lost In Space
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 It Takes A Thief
7:30 Sonny Randle (the coach of East Carolina
University with highlights of ECU-N.C. State)
8 PM The Rookies
9 PM NFL Football: Vikings-Bears
12 M News (time approximate)
WXII Ch. 12 Winston-Salem (NBC)
7 AM Today
9 AM Today At Home
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 Somerset
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 Munsters
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Ponderosa
6 PM What's My Line? (panel: Joanna Barnes,
Arlene Francis, Gene Rayburn, Soupy Sales--
Ch. 12 was showing the Wally Bruner episodes,
even though Larry Blyden had already taken
over as host)
6:30 News
7 PM NBC News
7:30 To Tell The Truth (panel: Kitty Carlisle, Peggy
Cass, Bill Cullen, Gene Rayburn)
8 PM Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In
9 PM NBC Movie: "They Might Be Giants"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
WBTW Ch. 13 Florence, SC (ABC/CBS)
6:30 Bob Henley (don't know anything about him)
7 AM Jim Nesbitt
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Let's Make A Deal
9:30 Newlywed Game
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 All My Children
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 Family Affair
4:30 Death Valley Days
5 PM Ponderosa
6 PM ABC News
6:30 News
7 PM CBS News
7:30 Green Acres
8 PM Gunsmoke
9 PM NFL Football: Vikings-Bears
12 M News (time approximate)
12:30 Judd For The Defense
WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (ABC)
7:55 Let's Think It Over
8 AM Cartoons
9 AM Romper Room
9:30 Fran Carlton (exercises)
10 AM Dinah's Place (pre-empted on WSOC)
10:30 Not For Women Only
11 AM Metrolina Morning News
11:30 Bewitched
12 N Password
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 Virginian
5:30 Love, American Style (same-day delay)
6 PM ABC News
6:30 News
7 PM Sports Action Pro-File
7:30 Mike McGee (the Duke coach narrates highlights
of Duke-Maryland)
8 PM The Rookies
9 PM NFL Football: Vikings-Bears
12 M News (time approximate)
12:30 Let's Think It Over
WRDU (WRDC) Ch. 28 Durham (NBC)
7 AM Today
9 AM New Zoo Revue
9:30 Not For Women Only
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 Watch Your Child (John Chancellor reads
"The Bear Party".)
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: "Blackwell's Island"
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Here's Looking (local)
7:30 Rollin' (Tommy Roe joins Kenny Rogers and
the First Edition)
8 PM Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In
9 PM NBC Movie: "They Might Be Giants"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
WRET (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (Ind.)
11:30 Charisma
12 N 700 Club
2 PM Jim And Tammy
3 PM Popeye And Pals
3:30 Rifleman
4 PM Movie: "Affectionately Yours"
6 PM Dragnet
6:30 Big Valley (Lou Rawls as cowboy Joshua Watson,
who risks his life riding in a rodeo for the Barkleys.)
7:30 Movie: "Adventures Of Robin Hood" (the classic, with
Errol Flynn--remember this piece of dialogue:
FLYNN: Welcome to Sherwood!
BUGS BUNNY (rubbing his eyes): Naaah...couldn't be HIM!)
9:30 Movie: "Canon City" (true story of the escape of 12 prisoners
from the Colorado State Penitentiary in 1947)
11 PM Twilight Zone
11:30 Movie: "Campbell's Kingdom"
WTVI Ch. 42 Charlotte (PBS)
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
7:30 Exploring The Crafts
8 PM You're On!
8:30 International Performance (a concert of Tchaikovsky
and Wagner from France's ORTF)
9:30 The Just Generation (topic: should marijuana be legalized?)
10 PM Soul! (jazz great Rashaan Roland Kirk)
sign off 11 PM