From TV Guide, North Carolina Edition:
NOTE: Regular progamming may be pre-empted by
coverage of President Nixon's trip to China. ABC
has scheduled reports 7:30-8 AM and 12:30-1 AM;
CBS has a scheduled report 9:30-10 PM.
WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS)
7 AM Sunrise Semester: "Latin-American Literature"
7:30 Tom & Jerry (delay from Sun 9 AM)
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
9 AM Harlem Globetrotters (animated)
9:30 Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch!
10 AM Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
10:30 Archie's TV Funnies
11 AM Sabrina The Teenage Witch
11:30 Josie And The Pussycats
12 N Monkees
12:30 You Are There (Geraldine Brooks plays the title role
in "The Mystery Of Amelia Earhart," chronicling Lady
Lindy's disappearance during a 1937 round-the-world
flight.)
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival: "For Boys Only Is For Girls,
Too" (from Czechoslovakia, about a girl with the ability
to play soccer and intends to make the team by posing
as a boy)
2 PM ACC Basketball: Maryland-Duke
4 PM Roller Derby (time approximate)
5 PM Golf: the inaugural Jackie Gleason Inverrary Classic (third
round)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 CBS News (Roger Mudd)
7 PM Hee Haw (Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter)
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Mary Tyler Moore
9 PM ACC Basketball: Virginia-North Carolina
11 PM News, Sports, Weather (time approximate)
11:30 Movie: "A Matter Of Innocence"
WUND/2 Columbia/Edenton, NC; WUNC/4 Chapel Hill; WUNJ/39 Wilmington, NC;
WUNG/58 Concord, NC (PBS)
off air on Saturday, as is WTVI/42 Charlotte, not part of the state PBS system
WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)
7 AM Kirby 'N Friends (Fred Kirby)
7:30 4-H TV Science Club
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
9 AM Harlem Globetrotters (animated)
9:30 Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch!
10 AM Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
10:30 Archie's TV Funnies
11 AM Sabrina The Teenage Witch
11:30 Josie And The Pussycats
12 N Monkees
12:30 You Are There
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM ACC Basketball: Maryland-Duke
4 PM Porter Wagoner (guest is singer Dickie Lee, time
approximate)
4:30 Championship Wrestling (from Charlotte)
5:30 Here's Lucy (Vivian Vance visits and becomes Harry's
girl Friday, delay from Mon 9 PM)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Gunsmoke (Anne Jackson, Victor French, and George
Lindsey appear in this episode; Jackson's character
sets a trap for a man, who turns out to be a wounded
mountaineer played by French, delay from Mon 8 PM)
7:30 Tommy Faile (Joan Leslie (I'm sure not the 1940s actress),
Jerry Whitley, Wayne Haas)
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Mary Tyler Moore
9 PM The New Dick Van Dyke Show (Tina Louise plays a customer
in a butcher shop.)
9:30 President Nixon's Trip To China (pre-empts "Arnie")
10 PM Mission: Impossible
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "Die! Die! My Darling!"
WWAY Ch. 3 Wilmington, NC (ABC/NBC)
7 AM Cartoons
7:30 President Nixon's Trip To China (Frank Reynolds and Howard
K. Smith anchor ABC's coverage; CBS's anchor was not given,
but most likely Walter Cronkite.)
8 AM Will The Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down?
8:30 Road Runner
9 AM Funky Phantom
9:30 Jackson Five
10 AM Bewitched
10:30 Lidsville
11 AM Curiosity Shop (topic: the five senses)
12 N Jonny Quest
12:30 Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
1 PM American Bandstand (the Brady Bunch and singer Donnie
Elbert; WWAY and WRAL carry only the first half-hour)
1:30 College Basketball: Marquette-Detroit
3:30 College Basketball: South Carolina-Davidson (time approximate)
5:30 Wide World Of Sports (Daytona 500, Professional Skiing Championships,
time approximate, joined in progress)
6:30 That Good Ole Nashville Music (Del Reeves, Jean Shepherd (a female
country singer, not the guy behind "A Christmas Story"), Stu Phillips)
7 PM Hee Haw (Brenda Lee, Hank Thompson, George Lindsey)
8 PM Bewitched (Will Geer and Jane Connell as George and Martha Washington,
zapped into the Stephens' living room, second of two parts)
8:30 ABC Movie: "Two For The Money" (no relation to the game show, but two
cops who quit the force to start their own detective agency)
10 PM The Sixth Sense (William Shatner as a man with visions of a murder that
took place in the Victorian era)
11 PM ABC News (Sam Donaldson)
11:15 Movie: "Jigsaw" (from '68, I don't think this is the pilot for the ABC series
that debuted in the fall of '72)
12:30 President Nixon's Trip To China
WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (ABC)
6:30 Cartoons
7 AM Movie: "The War Of The Worlds" (the 1953 version with Gene Barry)
7:30 President Nixon's Trip To China
8 AM Movie continues
8:30 Road Runner
9 AM Funky Phantom
9:30 Jackson Five
10 AM Bewitched
10:30 Lidsville
11 AM Curiosity Shop
12 N George Blair (basketball highlights, I haven't found where he coached)
12:15 Harvey Hartley (St. Augustine college basketball highlights)
12:30 Teenage Frolics
1 PM American Bandstand
1:30 College Basketball: Marquette-Detroit
3:30 College Basketball: South Carolina-Davidson (time approximate)
5:30 Championship Wrestling (from Raleigh, time approximate)
6 PM Arthur Smith (race-car drivers Donnie and Bobby Allison are the guests)
6:30 Porter Wagoner (guest: Billy Walker)
7 PM Wilburn Brothers (Sammi Smith, Mac Wiseman)
7:30 Persuaders! (Roger Moore, Tony Curtis, delay from Wed 9:30 PM)
8:30 ABC Movie: "Two For The Money"
10 PM The Sixth Sense
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:20 ABC News
11:35 Movie: "Ride Beyond Vengeance" (continues after the report on
President Nixon's trip)
12:30 President Nixon's Trip To China
WECT Ch. 6 Wilmington, NC (NBC/CBS)
7 AM Roy Rogers
8 AM Dr. Dolittle
8:30 Deputy Dawg
9 AM Woody Woodpecker
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Jetsons
10:30 Barrier Reef
11 AM Take A Giant Step ("Language" is the topic: a UN interpreter
is shown at work; a society that promotes Esperanto; music
by a Brazilian folk singer)
12 N Mr. Wizard (principles of flight are explained from a model and
a ride in a twin-engine prop plane)
12:30 Bugaloos
1 PM Film
1:30 American Adventure
2 PM ACC Basketball: Maryland-Duke
4 PM Movie: "Niagara" (time approximate)
5:30 Bill Anderson
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 NBC News (Garrick Utley)
7 PM Lancer
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM ACC Basketball: Virginia-North Carolina
11 PM Roller Derby (time approximate)
12 M Movie: "A Private's Affair" (a TV host, not sure if
he's modeled on Ed Sullivan or Ted Mack, invites
a trio of singing soldiers onto his show)
WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC)
7 AM Across The Fence
7:30 4-H TV Science Club
8 AM Dr. Dolittle
8:30 Deputy Dawg
9 AM Woody Woodpecker
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Jetsons
10:30 Barrier Reef
11 AM Take A Giant Step
12 N Mr. Wizard
12:30 Bugaloos
1 PM Bill Anderson
1:30 College Basketball: Marquette-Detroit
3:30 College Basketball: South Carolina-Davidson (time approximate)
5:30 Pet Set (Betty White hosts)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Rollin' On The River (Jose Feliciano joins Kenny Rogers and the
First Edition--that fall the show's title would be shortened to
"Rollin'.")
7:30 Adam-12 (delay from Wed 8 PM)
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "McLintock!" (John Wayne)
11:30 News, Sports, Weather
12 M Movie: "The Seven Little Foys" (Bob Hope, James Cagney)
1:30 Film
WGHP Ch. 8 High Point (ABC)
7 AM Captain Noah And His Ark
7:30 President Nixon's Trip To China
8 AM Will The Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down?
8:30 Road Runner
9 AM Funky Phantom
9:30 Jackson Five
10 AM Bewitched
10:30 Lidsville
11 AM Curiosity Shop
12 N Jonny Quest
12:30 Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
1 PM Reaction ("American Bandstand" is pre-empted)
1:30 College Basketball: Marquette-Detroit
3:30 College Basketball: South Carolina-Davidson (time
approximate)
5:30 Wide World Of Sports (time approximate, joined in
progress)
6:30 Championship Wrestling (from High Point)
7:30 Lawrence Welk
8:30 ABC Movie: "Two For The Money"
10 PM The Sixth Sense
11 PM ABC News
11:15 News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "Master Of The World" (Vincent Price, Charles
Bronson--Ch. 8 does not carry ABC's report on President
Nixon's trip)
WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS)
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
9 AM Harlem Globetrotters (animated)
9:30 Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch!
10 AM Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
10:30 Archie's TV Funnies
11 AM Sabrina The Teenage Witch
11:30 Josie And The Pussycats
12 N High-School Basketball (I'm thinking this might be
a tournament game of some sort, possibly taped.)
1:30 Tom Quinn: ECU Basketball
1:45 Bucky Waters: Duke Basketball
2 PM ACC Basketball: Maryland-Duke
4 PM CBS Golf Classic: Bruce Crampton and Gibby Gilbert
vs. Bob Lunn and Lou Graham (time approximate)
5 PM Golf: Jackie Gleason Inverrary Classic (third round)
6 PM Porter Wagoner (guest: Nat Stuckey)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw (same as Ch. 2)
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Film: the Burroughs chemical plant
9 PM ACC Basketball: Virginia-North Carolina
11 PM News, Sports, Weather (time approximate)
11:30 Roller Derby
12:30 Movie: "The Doolins Of Oklahoma"
WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC)
7 AM Popeye
7:30 Abbott And Costello
8 AM Dr. Dolittle
8:30 Deputy Dawg
9 AM Woody Woodpecker
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Jetsons
10:30 Barrier Reef
11 AM Take A Giant Step
12 N Mr. Wizard
12:30 Bugaloos
1 PM Rollin' On The River (guests: Ike and Tina
Turner)
1:30 College Basketball: Marquette-Detroit
3:30 College Basketball: South Carolina-Davidson
(time approximate)
5:30 Dr. Simon Locke (would become "Police Surgeon"
that fall, time approximate)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Lawrence Welk (didn't move to WBTV until fall 1974)
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "McLintock!"
11:30 News, Sports, Weather
12 M Saturday Tonight Show (James Coco, David Steinberg,
Bette Midler)
WIS Ch. 10 Columbia, SC (NBC)
6:45 With This Ring
7 AM Agricultural Panorama
7:15 Davey And Goliath
7:30 Mr. Knozit
8:30 Deputy Dawg
9 AM Woody Woodpecker
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Jetsons
10:30 Barrier Reef
11 AM Take A Giant Step
12 N Mr. Wizard
12:30 Bugaloos
1 PM Dr. Dolittle
1:30 College Basketball: Marquette-Detroit
3:30 College Basketball: South Carolina-Davidson
(time approximate)
5:30 Outdoors (time approximate)
6 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music
6:30 NBC News
7 PM News, Sports, Weather
7:30 Virginian
9 PM NBC Movie: "McLintock!"
11:30 News, Sports, Weather
12 M Movie: "The Sun Also Rises"
1:30 News
1:35 With This Ring
WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (CBS)
7 AM Across The Fence
7:30 4-H TV Science Club
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
9 AM Harlem Globetrotters (animated)
9:30 Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch!
10 AM Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
10:30 Archie's TV Funnies
11 AM Sabrina The Teenage Witch
11:30 Josie And The Pussycats
12 N Monkees
12:30 You Are There
1 PM Animal World (delay from Sun 5:30 PM)
1:30 Bucky Waters
1:45 Norm Sloan: N.C. State basketball
2 PM ACC Basketball: Maryland-Duke
4 PM CBS Golf Classic (time approximate)
5 PM Golf: Jackie Gleason Inverrary Classic (third
round)
6 PM Black Unlimited
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw (same as WWAY)
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Mary Tyler Moore
9 PM The New Dick Van Dyke Show
9:30 President Nixon's Trip To China
10 PM Mission: Impossible
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "Secret Ceremony" (Elizabeth Taylor,
Mia Farrow)
WCTI Ch. 12 New Bern (ABC)
7 AM Yogi And Huck
7:15 Telestory
7:30 President Nixon's Trip To China
8 AM Will The Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down?
8:30 Road Runner
9 AM Funky Phantom
9:30 Jackson Five
10 AM Bewitched
10:30 Lidsville
11 AM Curiosity Shop
12 N Jonny Quest
12:30 Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
1 PM American Bandstand
2 PM Movie: "The Trail Beyond" (early John Wayne, from '34)
3 PM This Week In The NBA
3:30 Pro Bowlers Tour: Fair Lanes Open from Springfield, VA
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Rod, Reel And Gun
7 PM Jim & Jesse (bluegrass music)
7:30 Batman (yes, Adam West and Burt Ward)
8 PM Bewitched
8:30 ABC Movie: "Two For The Money"
10 PM The Sixth Sense
11 PM ABC News
11:15 News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Wrestling (not sure from where, but I've always heard
Tennessee)
12:30 President Nixon's Trip To China
1 AM Movie: "Cyborg 2087"
WSJS (WXII) Ch. 12 Winston-Salem (NBC)
7 AM Farm Report
7:30 Cartoon Carnival
8 AM Dr. Dolittle
8:30 Deputy Dawg
9 AM Woody Woodpecker
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Jetsons
10:30 Barrier Reef
11 AM Take A Giant Step
12 N Mr. Wizard
12:30 Bugaloos
1 PM Reflections
1:30 Joe Caldwell: Carolina Cougars (ABA) basketball
1:45 Bob Gordon Theater ("Secret Agent," "I Spy,"
"Time Tunnel," "One Step Beyond")
6:15 Parsons To Persons
6:30 NBC News
7 PM News, Sports, Weather
7:30 Rollin' On The River (same as Ch. 7)
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "McLintock!"
11:30 News, Sports, Weather
11:45 Movie: "Pimpernel Smith"
WBTW Ch. 13 Florence, SC (CBS/ABC)
7 AM Call Of The West (selected "Death Valley Days" reruns)
7:30 4-H TV Science Club
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
9 AM Harlem Globetrotters (animated)
9:30 Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch!
10 AM Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
10:30 Archie's TV Funnies
11 AM Sabrina The Teenage Witch
11:30 Josie And The Pussycats
12 N Monkees
12:30 You Are There
1 PM Call Of The West
1:30 College Basketball: Marquette-Detroit
3:30 College Basketball: South Carolina-Davidson
(time approximate)
5:30 Wrestling (from Charlotte, time approximate)
6:30 Southeast Almanac
7 PM Lawrence Welk (movie melodies)
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Mary Tyler Moore
9 PM ACC Basketball: Virginia-North Carolina
11 PM ABC News (time approximate)
11:15 News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "The Bounty Killer"
WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (ABC)
7:30 President Nixon's Trip To China
8 AM Will The Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down?
8:30 Road Runner
9 AM Funky Phantom
9:30 Jackson Five
10 AM Bewitched
10:30 Lidsville
11 AM Curiosity Shop
12 N Jonny Quest
12:30 Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
1 PM American Bandstand
2 PM Film
3 PM Sports Action Pro-File
3:30 Pro Bowlers Tour
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Outdoors
7 PM CBS News (pre-empted on WBTV)
7:30 Silent Service
8 PM Bewitched
8:30 ABC Movie: "Two For The Money"
10 PM The Sixth Sense
11 PM ABC News
11:15 Mantrap
11:45 Movie: "So Proudly We Hail!" (George Reeves appeared
on his way to stardom in this '43 WWII-based drama;
he got drafted and producer Mark Sandrich, who was
touting him, died. He ended up, as he told Jack Larson
one day, "wearing [that] monkey suit." Interrupted at
12:30 AM]
12:30 President Nixon's Trip To China
1 AM Movie continues
WRDU (WRDC) Ch. 28 Durham (NBC)
7:55 Conservationist
8 AM Dr. Dolittle
8:30 Deputy Dawg
9 AM Woody Woodpecker
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Jetsons
10:30 Barrier Reef
11 AM Take A Giant Step
12 N Mr. Wizard
12:30 Bugaloos
1 PM Western Theatre
2 PM Movies: "High Sierra" (the last time Humphrey Bogart
got second billing) and "Gunga Din" (Cary Grant)
6 PM Wrestling (from Tampa)
7 PM NBC News
7:30 World Of Sports Illustrated
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "McLintock!"
11:30 Movie: "The Leech Woman"
WRET (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (Ind.)
8:30 4-H TV Science Club
9 AM Movie: "Spooks Run Wild" (the East Side Kids)
10:30 Movie: "Black Doll"
12 N Speed Racer
12:30 Spiderman
1 PM Rocket Robin Hood
1:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
2 PM Popeye And Pals
2:30 Movie: "Warning From Space"
4 PM One Step Beyond
4:30 Twilight Zone
5 PM Outer Limits (Robert Duvall as a master of disguises
assigned to infiltrate a party of creatures from another
world)
6 PM Lee Trevino's Golf For Swingers (guests: Pat Boone,
Phil Harris)
6:30 Roller Game Of The Week
8 PM Wrestling (from Tampa)
9 PM Movie: "The Purple Plain" (Gregory Peck)
11 PM Alfred Hitchcock Presents
11:30 Movie: "Castle Of The Living Dead"
NOTE: Regular progamming may be pre-empted by
coverage of President Nixon's trip to China. ABC
has scheduled reports 7:30-8 AM and 12:30-1 AM;
CBS has a scheduled report 9:30-10 PM.
WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS)
7 AM Sunrise Semester: "Latin-American Literature"
7:30 Tom & Jerry (delay from Sun 9 AM)
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
9 AM Harlem Globetrotters (animated)
9:30 Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch!
10 AM Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
10:30 Archie's TV Funnies
11 AM Sabrina The Teenage Witch
11:30 Josie And The Pussycats
12 N Monkees
12:30 You Are There (Geraldine Brooks plays the title role
in "The Mystery Of Amelia Earhart," chronicling Lady
Lindy's disappearance during a 1937 round-the-world
flight.)
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival: "For Boys Only Is For Girls,
Too" (from Czechoslovakia, about a girl with the ability
to play soccer and intends to make the team by posing
as a boy)
2 PM ACC Basketball: Maryland-Duke
4 PM Roller Derby (time approximate)
5 PM Golf: the inaugural Jackie Gleason Inverrary Classic (third
round)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 CBS News (Roger Mudd)
7 PM Hee Haw (Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter)
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Mary Tyler Moore
9 PM ACC Basketball: Virginia-North Carolina
11 PM News, Sports, Weather (time approximate)
11:30 Movie: "A Matter Of Innocence"
WUND/2 Columbia/Edenton, NC; WUNC/4 Chapel Hill; WUNJ/39 Wilmington, NC;
WUNG/58 Concord, NC (PBS)
off air on Saturday, as is WTVI/42 Charlotte, not part of the state PBS system
WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)
7 AM Kirby 'N Friends (Fred Kirby)
7:30 4-H TV Science Club
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
9 AM Harlem Globetrotters (animated)
9:30 Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch!
10 AM Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
10:30 Archie's TV Funnies
11 AM Sabrina The Teenage Witch
11:30 Josie And The Pussycats
12 N Monkees
12:30 You Are There
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM ACC Basketball: Maryland-Duke
4 PM Porter Wagoner (guest is singer Dickie Lee, time
approximate)
4:30 Championship Wrestling (from Charlotte)
5:30 Here's Lucy (Vivian Vance visits and becomes Harry's
girl Friday, delay from Mon 9 PM)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Gunsmoke (Anne Jackson, Victor French, and George
Lindsey appear in this episode; Jackson's character
sets a trap for a man, who turns out to be a wounded
mountaineer played by French, delay from Mon 8 PM)
7:30 Tommy Faile (Joan Leslie (I'm sure not the 1940s actress),
Jerry Whitley, Wayne Haas)
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Mary Tyler Moore
9 PM The New Dick Van Dyke Show (Tina Louise plays a customer
in a butcher shop.)
9:30 President Nixon's Trip To China (pre-empts "Arnie")
10 PM Mission: Impossible
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "Die! Die! My Darling!"
WWAY Ch. 3 Wilmington, NC (ABC/NBC)
7 AM Cartoons
7:30 President Nixon's Trip To China (Frank Reynolds and Howard
K. Smith anchor ABC's coverage; CBS's anchor was not given,
but most likely Walter Cronkite.)
8 AM Will The Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down?
8:30 Road Runner
9 AM Funky Phantom
9:30 Jackson Five
10 AM Bewitched
10:30 Lidsville
11 AM Curiosity Shop (topic: the five senses)
12 N Jonny Quest
12:30 Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
1 PM American Bandstand (the Brady Bunch and singer Donnie
Elbert; WWAY and WRAL carry only the first half-hour)
1:30 College Basketball: Marquette-Detroit
3:30 College Basketball: South Carolina-Davidson (time approximate)
5:30 Wide World Of Sports (Daytona 500, Professional Skiing Championships,
time approximate, joined in progress)
6:30 That Good Ole Nashville Music (Del Reeves, Jean Shepherd (a female
country singer, not the guy behind "A Christmas Story"), Stu Phillips)
7 PM Hee Haw (Brenda Lee, Hank Thompson, George Lindsey)
8 PM Bewitched (Will Geer and Jane Connell as George and Martha Washington,
zapped into the Stephens' living room, second of two parts)
8:30 ABC Movie: "Two For The Money" (no relation to the game show, but two
cops who quit the force to start their own detective agency)
10 PM The Sixth Sense (William Shatner as a man with visions of a murder that
took place in the Victorian era)
11 PM ABC News (Sam Donaldson)
11:15 Movie: "Jigsaw" (from '68, I don't think this is the pilot for the ABC series
that debuted in the fall of '72)
12:30 President Nixon's Trip To China
WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (ABC)
6:30 Cartoons
7 AM Movie: "The War Of The Worlds" (the 1953 version with Gene Barry)
7:30 President Nixon's Trip To China
8 AM Movie continues
8:30 Road Runner
9 AM Funky Phantom
9:30 Jackson Five
10 AM Bewitched
10:30 Lidsville
11 AM Curiosity Shop
12 N George Blair (basketball highlights, I haven't found where he coached)
12:15 Harvey Hartley (St. Augustine college basketball highlights)
12:30 Teenage Frolics
1 PM American Bandstand
1:30 College Basketball: Marquette-Detroit
3:30 College Basketball: South Carolina-Davidson (time approximate)
5:30 Championship Wrestling (from Raleigh, time approximate)
6 PM Arthur Smith (race-car drivers Donnie and Bobby Allison are the guests)
6:30 Porter Wagoner (guest: Billy Walker)
7 PM Wilburn Brothers (Sammi Smith, Mac Wiseman)
7:30 Persuaders! (Roger Moore, Tony Curtis, delay from Wed 9:30 PM)
8:30 ABC Movie: "Two For The Money"
10 PM The Sixth Sense
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:20 ABC News
11:35 Movie: "Ride Beyond Vengeance" (continues after the report on
President Nixon's trip)
12:30 President Nixon's Trip To China
WECT Ch. 6 Wilmington, NC (NBC/CBS)
7 AM Roy Rogers
8 AM Dr. Dolittle
8:30 Deputy Dawg
9 AM Woody Woodpecker
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Jetsons
10:30 Barrier Reef
11 AM Take A Giant Step ("Language" is the topic: a UN interpreter
is shown at work; a society that promotes Esperanto; music
by a Brazilian folk singer)
12 N Mr. Wizard (principles of flight are explained from a model and
a ride in a twin-engine prop plane)
12:30 Bugaloos
1 PM Film
1:30 American Adventure
2 PM ACC Basketball: Maryland-Duke
4 PM Movie: "Niagara" (time approximate)
5:30 Bill Anderson
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 NBC News (Garrick Utley)
7 PM Lancer
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM ACC Basketball: Virginia-North Carolina
11 PM Roller Derby (time approximate)
12 M Movie: "A Private's Affair" (a TV host, not sure if
he's modeled on Ed Sullivan or Ted Mack, invites
a trio of singing soldiers onto his show)
WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC)
7 AM Across The Fence
7:30 4-H TV Science Club
8 AM Dr. Dolittle
8:30 Deputy Dawg
9 AM Woody Woodpecker
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Jetsons
10:30 Barrier Reef
11 AM Take A Giant Step
12 N Mr. Wizard
12:30 Bugaloos
1 PM Bill Anderson
1:30 College Basketball: Marquette-Detroit
3:30 College Basketball: South Carolina-Davidson (time approximate)
5:30 Pet Set (Betty White hosts)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Rollin' On The River (Jose Feliciano joins Kenny Rogers and the
First Edition--that fall the show's title would be shortened to
"Rollin'.")
7:30 Adam-12 (delay from Wed 8 PM)
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "McLintock!" (John Wayne)
11:30 News, Sports, Weather
12 M Movie: "The Seven Little Foys" (Bob Hope, James Cagney)
1:30 Film
WGHP Ch. 8 High Point (ABC)
7 AM Captain Noah And His Ark
7:30 President Nixon's Trip To China
8 AM Will The Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down?
8:30 Road Runner
9 AM Funky Phantom
9:30 Jackson Five
10 AM Bewitched
10:30 Lidsville
11 AM Curiosity Shop
12 N Jonny Quest
12:30 Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
1 PM Reaction ("American Bandstand" is pre-empted)
1:30 College Basketball: Marquette-Detroit
3:30 College Basketball: South Carolina-Davidson (time
approximate)
5:30 Wide World Of Sports (time approximate, joined in
progress)
6:30 Championship Wrestling (from High Point)
7:30 Lawrence Welk
8:30 ABC Movie: "Two For The Money"
10 PM The Sixth Sense
11 PM ABC News
11:15 News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "Master Of The World" (Vincent Price, Charles
Bronson--Ch. 8 does not carry ABC's report on President
Nixon's trip)
WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS)
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
9 AM Harlem Globetrotters (animated)
9:30 Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch!
10 AM Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
10:30 Archie's TV Funnies
11 AM Sabrina The Teenage Witch
11:30 Josie And The Pussycats
12 N High-School Basketball (I'm thinking this might be
a tournament game of some sort, possibly taped.)
1:30 Tom Quinn: ECU Basketball
1:45 Bucky Waters: Duke Basketball
2 PM ACC Basketball: Maryland-Duke
4 PM CBS Golf Classic: Bruce Crampton and Gibby Gilbert
vs. Bob Lunn and Lou Graham (time approximate)
5 PM Golf: Jackie Gleason Inverrary Classic (third round)
6 PM Porter Wagoner (guest: Nat Stuckey)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw (same as Ch. 2)
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Film: the Burroughs chemical plant
9 PM ACC Basketball: Virginia-North Carolina
11 PM News, Sports, Weather (time approximate)
11:30 Roller Derby
12:30 Movie: "The Doolins Of Oklahoma"
WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC)
7 AM Popeye
7:30 Abbott And Costello
8 AM Dr. Dolittle
8:30 Deputy Dawg
9 AM Woody Woodpecker
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Jetsons
10:30 Barrier Reef
11 AM Take A Giant Step
12 N Mr. Wizard
12:30 Bugaloos
1 PM Rollin' On The River (guests: Ike and Tina
Turner)
1:30 College Basketball: Marquette-Detroit
3:30 College Basketball: South Carolina-Davidson
(time approximate)
5:30 Dr. Simon Locke (would become "Police Surgeon"
that fall, time approximate)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Lawrence Welk (didn't move to WBTV until fall 1974)
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "McLintock!"
11:30 News, Sports, Weather
12 M Saturday Tonight Show (James Coco, David Steinberg,
Bette Midler)
WIS Ch. 10 Columbia, SC (NBC)
6:45 With This Ring
7 AM Agricultural Panorama
7:15 Davey And Goliath
7:30 Mr. Knozit
8:30 Deputy Dawg
9 AM Woody Woodpecker
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Jetsons
10:30 Barrier Reef
11 AM Take A Giant Step
12 N Mr. Wizard
12:30 Bugaloos
1 PM Dr. Dolittle
1:30 College Basketball: Marquette-Detroit
3:30 College Basketball: South Carolina-Davidson
(time approximate)
5:30 Outdoors (time approximate)
6 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music
6:30 NBC News
7 PM News, Sports, Weather
7:30 Virginian
9 PM NBC Movie: "McLintock!"
11:30 News, Sports, Weather
12 M Movie: "The Sun Also Rises"
1:30 News
1:35 With This Ring
WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (CBS)
7 AM Across The Fence
7:30 4-H TV Science Club
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
9 AM Harlem Globetrotters (animated)
9:30 Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch!
10 AM Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
10:30 Archie's TV Funnies
11 AM Sabrina The Teenage Witch
11:30 Josie And The Pussycats
12 N Monkees
12:30 You Are There
1 PM Animal World (delay from Sun 5:30 PM)
1:30 Bucky Waters
1:45 Norm Sloan: N.C. State basketball
2 PM ACC Basketball: Maryland-Duke
4 PM CBS Golf Classic (time approximate)
5 PM Golf: Jackie Gleason Inverrary Classic (third
round)
6 PM Black Unlimited
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw (same as WWAY)
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Mary Tyler Moore
9 PM The New Dick Van Dyke Show
9:30 President Nixon's Trip To China
10 PM Mission: Impossible
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "Secret Ceremony" (Elizabeth Taylor,
Mia Farrow)
WCTI Ch. 12 New Bern (ABC)
7 AM Yogi And Huck
7:15 Telestory
7:30 President Nixon's Trip To China
8 AM Will The Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down?
8:30 Road Runner
9 AM Funky Phantom
9:30 Jackson Five
10 AM Bewitched
10:30 Lidsville
11 AM Curiosity Shop
12 N Jonny Quest
12:30 Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
1 PM American Bandstand
2 PM Movie: "The Trail Beyond" (early John Wayne, from '34)
3 PM This Week In The NBA
3:30 Pro Bowlers Tour: Fair Lanes Open from Springfield, VA
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Rod, Reel And Gun
7 PM Jim & Jesse (bluegrass music)
7:30 Batman (yes, Adam West and Burt Ward)
8 PM Bewitched
8:30 ABC Movie: "Two For The Money"
10 PM The Sixth Sense
11 PM ABC News
11:15 News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Wrestling (not sure from where, but I've always heard
Tennessee)
12:30 President Nixon's Trip To China
1 AM Movie: "Cyborg 2087"
WSJS (WXII) Ch. 12 Winston-Salem (NBC)
7 AM Farm Report
7:30 Cartoon Carnival
8 AM Dr. Dolittle
8:30 Deputy Dawg
9 AM Woody Woodpecker
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Jetsons
10:30 Barrier Reef
11 AM Take A Giant Step
12 N Mr. Wizard
12:30 Bugaloos
1 PM Reflections
1:30 Joe Caldwell: Carolina Cougars (ABA) basketball
1:45 Bob Gordon Theater ("Secret Agent," "I Spy,"
"Time Tunnel," "One Step Beyond")
6:15 Parsons To Persons
6:30 NBC News
7 PM News, Sports, Weather
7:30 Rollin' On The River (same as Ch. 7)
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "McLintock!"
11:30 News, Sports, Weather
11:45 Movie: "Pimpernel Smith"
WBTW Ch. 13 Florence, SC (CBS/ABC)
7 AM Call Of The West (selected "Death Valley Days" reruns)
7:30 4-H TV Science Club
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
9 AM Harlem Globetrotters (animated)
9:30 Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch!
10 AM Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
10:30 Archie's TV Funnies
11 AM Sabrina The Teenage Witch
11:30 Josie And The Pussycats
12 N Monkees
12:30 You Are There
1 PM Call Of The West
1:30 College Basketball: Marquette-Detroit
3:30 College Basketball: South Carolina-Davidson
(time approximate)
5:30 Wrestling (from Charlotte, time approximate)
6:30 Southeast Almanac
7 PM Lawrence Welk (movie melodies)
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Mary Tyler Moore
9 PM ACC Basketball: Virginia-North Carolina
11 PM ABC News (time approximate)
11:15 News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "The Bounty Killer"
WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (ABC)
7:30 President Nixon's Trip To China
8 AM Will The Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down?
8:30 Road Runner
9 AM Funky Phantom
9:30 Jackson Five
10 AM Bewitched
10:30 Lidsville
11 AM Curiosity Shop
12 N Jonny Quest
12:30 Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
1 PM American Bandstand
2 PM Film
3 PM Sports Action Pro-File
3:30 Pro Bowlers Tour
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Outdoors
7 PM CBS News (pre-empted on WBTV)
7:30 Silent Service
8 PM Bewitched
8:30 ABC Movie: "Two For The Money"
10 PM The Sixth Sense
11 PM ABC News
11:15 Mantrap
11:45 Movie: "So Proudly We Hail!" (George Reeves appeared
on his way to stardom in this '43 WWII-based drama;
he got drafted and producer Mark Sandrich, who was
touting him, died. He ended up, as he told Jack Larson
one day, "wearing [that] monkey suit." Interrupted at
12:30 AM]
12:30 President Nixon's Trip To China
1 AM Movie continues
WRDU (WRDC) Ch. 28 Durham (NBC)
7:55 Conservationist
8 AM Dr. Dolittle
8:30 Deputy Dawg
9 AM Woody Woodpecker
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Jetsons
10:30 Barrier Reef
11 AM Take A Giant Step
12 N Mr. Wizard
12:30 Bugaloos
1 PM Western Theatre
2 PM Movies: "High Sierra" (the last time Humphrey Bogart
got second billing) and "Gunga Din" (Cary Grant)
6 PM Wrestling (from Tampa)
7 PM NBC News
7:30 World Of Sports Illustrated
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "McLintock!"
11:30 Movie: "The Leech Woman"
WRET (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (Ind.)
8:30 4-H TV Science Club
9 AM Movie: "Spooks Run Wild" (the East Side Kids)
10:30 Movie: "Black Doll"
12 N Speed Racer
12:30 Spiderman
1 PM Rocket Robin Hood
1:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
2 PM Popeye And Pals
2:30 Movie: "Warning From Space"
4 PM One Step Beyond
4:30 Twilight Zone
5 PM Outer Limits (Robert Duvall as a master of disguises
assigned to infiltrate a party of creatures from another
world)
6 PM Lee Trevino's Golf For Swingers (guests: Pat Boone,
Phil Harris)
6:30 Roller Game Of The Week
8 PM Wrestling (from Tampa)
9 PM Movie: "The Purple Plain" (Gregory Peck)
11 PM Alfred Hitchcock Presents
11:30 Movie: "Castle Of The Living Dead"