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Retro: North Carolina Saturday, June 5, 1971

From TV Guide, North Carolina Edition.

NOTE: Although this is a Saturday listing, a point needs to be cleared up about WRAL's handling of Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner's commentaries. The station did not cut off the last ten minutes of the broadcast for Jesse Helms'
"Viewpoint" editiorials, but rather had a special dispensation from ABC to run the newscast 6:20-6:50 PM (WRAL was one of
ABC's few strong affiliates at the time), followed by Helms' usual "rebuttals." When Helms entered politics, the Smith/Reasoner broadcast was moved to 6:30 and aired in its entirety.

WFMY Cb. 2 Greensboro (CBS)

7 AM Summer Semester: "New Science: Stars"
7:30 Three Stooges
8 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
9 AM Sabrina And The Groovie Goolies
10 AM Josie And The Pussycats
10:30 Harlem Globetrotters
11 AM Archie's Funhouse
12 N Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
12:30 Monkees
1 PM Dastardly And Muttley In Their Flying
Machines
1:30 Jetsons
2 PM Larry Kane
3 PM Something Else (John Hartford)
3:30 Untamed World
4 PM Roller Derby
5 PM Belmont Stakes (Pass Catcher denies Canonero II
the Triple Crown)
6 PM Newsmaker
6:30 CBS News (Roger Mudd)
7 PM News, Sports, Weather
7:30 Mission: Impossible
8:30 My Three Sons
9 PM Arnie
9:30 Mary Tyler Moore
10 PM Mannix
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "The Story Of Esther Costello"

WUND Ch. 2 Columbia/Edenton, NC (PBS)
Part of the state PBS system; off air on Saturday, along
with (in this edition) WUNC/4 Chapel Hill and WUNG/58 Concord, NC.

WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)

7 AM Casper
8 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
9 AM Sabrina And The Groovie Goolies
10 AM Josie And The Pussycats
10:30 Harlem Globetrotters
11 AM Archie's Funhouse
12 N Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
12:30 Monkees
1 PM Dastardly And Muttley In Their Flying
Machines
1:30 Pastors Face Your Questions
2 PM Little Rascals With Fred Kirby (a Charlotte
legend)
3 PM Wilburn Brothers
3:30 Porter Wagoner
4 PM Wrestling (from the studio)
5 PM Belmont Stakes
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 Death Valley Days
7 PM Family Affair (delay from Thu 7:30)
7:30 Mission: Impossible
8:30 My Three Sons
9 PM Arnie
9:30 Mary Tyler Moore
10 PM Mannix
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "Diabolique"

WWAY Ch. 3 Wilmington, NC (ABC/NBC)

7:30 Paul Harvey's Bible Stories
8 AM Cartoons
8:30 Cartoon Carnival
9 AM Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
10 AM Will The Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit
Down?
10:30 Here Come The Doubledeckers
11 AM Hot Wheels
11:30 Sky Hawks
12 N Motor Mouse
12:30 Hardy Boys (animated)
1 PM American Bandstand (Paul Humphrey and the
Cool-Aid Chemists do "Cool-Aid." I wonder if
he's the same Paul Humphrey who was Lawrence
Welk's drummer from 1976-82 and was the second
black face on the show?)
2 PM Movie: "Pancho Villa"
4 PM Movie Game
4:30 Sports Challenge (these two shows had similar formats:
two teams of three answering questions about movies and
sports, respectively. Larry Blyden was hosting "Movie Game"
at the time; Dick Enberg, "Sports Challenge." Johnny Gilbert
announced both.)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (Grand Prix of Monaco and a "Wide World"
perennial: the World Wristwrestling Championships from Petaluma, CA)
6:30 That Good Ole Nashville Music
7 PM Untamed World
7:30 Lawrence Welk (winding down his ABC run, which ends Sept. 4)
8:30 Val Doonican (premiere of a short-lived variety hour starring one of
England's biggest singers--never caught on in the U.S.)
9:30 That Girl (delay from Fri 9 PM)
10 PM Four In One: "The Psychiatrist" (NBC, pre-empted on WECT
Wed. 10 PM)
11 PM Movie: "The Snake Pit"

WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (ABC)

6:30 Aspect (farm news)
7 AM Cartoon Festival
7:30 Movie: "Year 2889"
9 AM Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
10 AM Will The Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down?
10:30 Here Come The Doubledeckers
11 AM Hot Wheels
11:30 Sky Hawks
12 N Motor Mouse
12:30 Teenage Frolics
1 PM American Bandstand
2 PM Movie: "White Feather"
3:30 Film
4 PM Star Trek
5 PM Wrestling (from the studio)
6 PM Arthur Smith
6:30 Wilburn Brothers
7 PM Porter Wagoner
7:30 Lawrence Welk
8:30 Val Doonican
9:30 Del Reeves' Country Carnival
10 PM Country Place (Jim Ed Brown)
10:30 Buck Owens (separate show from "Hee Haw")
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:20 ABC News (Marlene Sanders)
11:35 Movie: "Adorable Julia"

WECT Ch. 6 Wilmington, NC (NBC/CBS)

7 AM Roy Rogers
8 AM Tomfoolery
8:30 Heckle And Jeckle
9 AM Woody Woodpecker
9:30 Bugaloos
10 AM Dr. Dolittle
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM H.R. Pufnstuf
11:30 Here Comes The Grump
12 N Hot Dog
12:30 Jambo
1 PM Williamson Brothers (local country or
gospel, don't remember which)
1:30 Blue Valley Boys
2 PM Baseball Pre-Game Show
2:15 Baseball: Cardinals-Reds
5 PM Bill Anderson (time approximate--guest Clyde
Moody had a long career in country music,
co-hosted WTVD's "Morning Jamboree" in the
'60s, and lived not too far from me in the Raleigh
area, although I never met him)
5:30 Pet Set (Betty White welcomes Paul Lynde and his
Dandie Dinmont terrier)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 NBC News (anchor not given)
7 PM Adam-12 (delay from Thu 9:30)
7:30 Andy Williams
8:30 NBC Movie: "Sergeants 3"
11 PM Roller Derby
12 M Movie: "Vengeance Valley"

WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC)

7 AM Big Picture
7:30 Across The Fence
8 AM Tomfoolery
8:30 Heckle And Jeckle
9 AM Woody Woodpecker
9:30 Bugaloos
10 AM Dr. Dolittle
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM H.R. Pufnstuf
11:30 Here Comes The Grump
12 N Hot Dog
12:30 Jambo
1 PM Hospitality House (lifestyle program)
2 PM Baseball Pre-Game Show
2:15 Baseball: Cardinals-Reds
5 PM Wackiest Ship In The Army (time approximate)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 NBC News
7 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music
7:30 Andy Williams
8:30 NBC Movie: "Sergeants 3"
11 PM Movie: "Devil Doll"

WGHP Ch. 8 High Point (ABC)

7 AM University Of Michigan
7:30 Triad In Perspective
8 AM Romper Room
8:30 Captain Noah And His Ark
9 AM Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
10 AM Will The Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit
Down?
10:30 Here Come The Doubledeckers
11 AM Hot Wheels
11:30 Sky Hawks
12 N Motor Mouse
12:30 Hardy Boys
1 PM American Bandstand
2 PM Reaction
2:30 Movies: "Abbott And Costello In The
Foreign Legion" and "Ma And Pa Kettle"
4:30 Sports Challenge
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Wrestling (from the studio)
7:30 Lawrence Welk
8:30 Movie: "The Glenn Miller Story"
10:30 Eyewitness Weekend Journal
11 PM ABC News
11:15 News, Weather, Sports
11:25 Movies: "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" and
"The Black Castle"

WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS)

8 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
9 AM Sabrina And The Groovie Goolies
10 AM Josie And The Pussycats
10:30 Harlem Globetrotters
11 AM Archie's Funhouse
12 N Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
12:30 Monkees
1 PM Dastardly And Muttley In Their
Flying Machines
1:30 Jetsons
2 PM Larry Kane
3 PM My Favorite Martian
3:30 Felony Squad
4 PM Time Tunnel
(from 3 to 5 I feel like I'm back in the days when
I lived in WNCT's coverage area; only two of these
shows--"Time Tunnel" and "Felony Squad"--were on
ABC affiliate WNBE (now WCTI))
5 PM Belmont Stakes
6 PM Arthur Smith
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Porter Wagoner
7:30 Mission: Impossible
8:30 My Three Sons
9 PM Arnie
9:30 Mary Tyler Moore
10 PM Mannix
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:15 Roller Derby
12:15 Movie: "Only Angels Have Wings"

WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC)

7 AM Popeye
8 AM Tomfoolery
8:30 Heckle And Jeckle
9 AM Woody Woodpecker
9:30 Bugaloos
10 AM Dr. Dolittle
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM H.R. Pufnstuf
11:30 Here Comes The Grump
12 N Hot Dog
12:30 Jambo
1 PM Larry Kane
2 PM Baseball Pre-Game Show
2:15 Baseball: Cardinals-Reds
5 PM Don Knotts (delay from Tue 8 PM)
6 PM News, Sports, Weather
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Bill Cosby (delay from Tue 7:30)
7:30 Andy Williams
8:30 Movie: "Billy Budd"
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "Orders To Kill"

WIS Ch. 10 Columbia, SC (NBC)

7 AM Agricultural Panorama
7:15 Davey And Goliath
7:30 Tomfoolery
8 AM Movie: "In Old Caliente"
9 AM Woody Woodpecker
9:30 Bugaloos
10 AM Dr. Dolittle
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM H.R. Pufnstuf
11:30 Here Comes The Grump
12 N Hot Dog
12:30 Cartoon Capers
1 PM Heckle And Jeckle
1:30 Arthur Smith
2 PM Baseball Pre-Game Show
2:15 Baseball: Cardinals-Reds
5 PM Judd For The Defense (time approximate)
6 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music
6:30 NBC News
7 PM News, Weather, Sports
7:30 Andy Williams
8:30 NBC Movie: "Sergeants 3"
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movies: "Born To Be Loved" and "The Girl
In The Kremlin"

WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (CBS/NBC)
would become a fulltime CBS affiliate on Sept. 13, IIRC

6:30 Summer Semester (same as WFMY)
7 AM Bugaloos
7:30 Dr. Dolittle
8 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
9 AM Sabrina And The Groovie Goolies
10 AM Josie And The Pussycats
10:30 Harlem Globetrotters
11 AM Archie's Funhouse
12 N Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
12:30 Monkees
1 PM Dastardly And Muttley In Their Flying
Machines
1:30 Putt Putt Golf
2 PM Baseball Pre-Game Show
2:15 Baseball: Cardinals-Reds
5 PM Belmont Stakes (time approximate)
6 PM Men At Law (CBS, delay from Wed 7:30)
7 PM Lancer (CBS, delay from Thu 8 PM)
8 PM My Three Sons (appears to be a one-week delay)
8:30 NBC Movie: "Sergeants 3"
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 The Bold Ones: "The Lawyers" (NBC, delay from Sun 10 PM)

WCTI Ch. 12 New Bern (ABC)

7 AM Cisco Kid
7:30 Cartoons
7:45 Telestory
8 AM Huck And Yogi
8:30 Flintstones
9 AM Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
10 AM Will The Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down?
10:30 Here Come The Doubledeckers
11 AM Hot Wheels
11:30 Sky Hawks
12 N Motor Mouse
12:30 Hardy Boys
1 PM American Bandstand
2 PM Movie: "Lawless Frontier"
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Jim & Jesse And The Virginia Boys (bluegrass)
7 PM This Is Your Life
7:30 Lawrence Welk
8:30 Val Doonican
9:30 Movie: "Wake Of The Red Witch"
11:30 Wrestling (I've always heard this was Nick Gulas' show
from Nashville but I'm not sure.)
12:30 Movie: "The Projected Man"

WXII Ch. 12 Winston-Salem (NBC)

7 AM Farm Report
7:30 Cartoons
8 AM Tomfoolery
8:30 Heckle And Jeckle
9 AM Woody Woodpecker
9:30 Bugaloos
10 AM Dr. Dolittle
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM H.R. Pufnstuf
11:30 Here Comes The Grump
12 N Hot Dog
12:30 Jambo
1 PM One Step Beyond
2 PM Baseball Pre-Game Show
2:15 Baseball: Cardinals-Reds
5 PM Conversation (time approximate)
5:15 Parsons To Persons
5:30 Judd For The Defense
6:30 News, Sports, Weather
7 PM NBC News
7:30 Andy Williams
8:30 NBC Movie: "Sergeants 3"
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:15 Movie: "The Showdown"

WBTW Ch. 13 Florence, SC (CBS/ABC)

8 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
9 AM Sabrina And The Groovie Goolies
10 AM Josie And The Pussycats
10:30 Harlem Globetrotters
11 AM Archie's Funhouse
12 N Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
12:30 Monkees
1 PM Dastardly And Muttley In Their Flying
Machines
1:30 Jetsons
2 PM Laredo
3 PM Roller Derby
4 PM Wrestling (from Charlotte)
5 PM Belmont Stakes (Wide World Of Sports
usually airs at this time)
6 PM Future
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Southeast Almanac
7:30 Mission: Impossible
8:30 My Three Sons
9 PM Arnie
9:30 Mary Tyler Moore
10 PM Mannix
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Movie: "The Bounty Killer"

WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (ABC)

8:30 Agriculture
9 AM Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
10 AM Will The Real Jerry Lewis Please
Sit Down?
10:30 Here Come The Doubledeckers
11 AM Hot Wheels
11:30 Sky Hawks
12 N Motor Mouse
12:30 Hardy Boys
1 PM American Bandstand
2 PM Like Young
3 PM Movie: "Hold Back The Dawn"
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Car And Track
7 PM Quest For Adventure
7:30 Lawrence Welk
8:30 Val Doonican
9:30 Ian Tyson (Tyson was the husband half of Ian
and Sylvia, a Canadian folk duo who used to
appear regularly on ABC's "Hootenanny" in the
'60s)
10 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music
10:30 Movie: "Incendiary Blonde"
12:45 ABC News

WRDU (WRDC) Ch. 28 Durham (NBC/CBS)
would become exclusively NBC on Sept. 13, IIRC

8 AM Tomfoolery
8:30 Heckle And Jeckle
9 AM Woody Woodpecker
9:30 77 Sunset Strip
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Popeye
11:30 Here Comes The Grump
12 N Hot Dog
12:30 Jambo
1 PM F Troop
1:30 Jetsons
2 PM Movie: "They Drive By Night"
4 PM Wrestling (from Tampa)
5 PM Movie: TBA
6:30 Fishin' Hole
7 PM NBC News
7:30 Andy Williams
8:30 To Rome With Love (CBS, delay from Wed 8:30)
9 PM Mission: Impossible (at least a week's delay)
10 PM Adventure: "Penguin City" (I don't know the delay
on this one; I'm thinking CBS Sun 10 PM but can't
vouch for it.)
11 PM Movie: "Hands Of A Stranger"

WRET (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (Ind.)

9 AM Movies: ""The Amazing Transparent Man" and
"Monster From The Surf"
12 N Cartoon Carnival
1:30 Jetsons
2 PM Popeye
2:30 Movie: "The Angry Red Planet"
4 PM Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
5 PM Outer Limits
6 PM Roller Game Of The Week
7:30 Wrestling (from Tampa)
8:30 NBC Movie: "Sergeants 3" (pre-empted on WSOC
and by no means the last NBC show to appear
on Ch. 36)
11 PM Fishin' Hole
11:30 Untouchables

WTVI Ch. 42 Charlotte (PBS)
off air on Saturday
 
bpatrick said:
NOTE: ...a point needs to be cleared up about WRAL's handling of Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner's commentaries. The station did not cut off the last ten minutes of the broadcast for Jesse Helms' "Viewpoint" editiorials, but rather had a special dispensation from ABC to run the newscast 6:20-6:50 PM...followed by Helms' usual "rebuttals."

This would have been the 6 PM ET "practice feed" that WRAL-TV delayed 20 minutes?


WWAY Ch. 3 Wilmington, NC (ABC/NBC)
1 PM American Bandstand (Paul Humphrey and the Cool-Aid Chemists do "Cool-Aid."
I wonder if he's the same Paul Humphrey who was Lawrence Welk's drummer
from 1976-82 and was the second black face on the show?)

According a Wiki article (disclaimer...accuracy alert!) on Paul Humphrey,
he is one and the same:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Humphrey
 
Some questions:

bpatrick said:
...A point needs to be cleared up about WRAL's handling of Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner's commentaries. The station did not cut off the last ten minutes of the broadcast for Jesse Helms'
"Viewpoint" editiorials, but rather had a special dispensation from ABC to run the newscast 6:20-6:50 PM (WRAL was one of
ABC's few strong affiliates at the time), followed by Helms' usual "rebuttals." When Helms entered politics, the Smith/Reasoner broadcast was moved to 6:30 and aired in its entirety.
Did WRAL ever carry Huntley-Brinkley, and if they did was it aired ten minutes earlier for Helms as well?

bpatrick said:
WFMY Ch. 2 / WBTV Ch. 3 / WNCT Ch. 9 / WBTW Ch. 13
12:30 Monkees
Was this the sitcom or a cartoon?

bpatrick said:
WFMY Ch. 2 / WNCT Ch. 9
2 PM Larry Kane
Was this the Larry Kane from Philadelphia?

bpatrick said:
WBTV Ch. 3
1:30 Pastors Face Your Questions
Preaching or teaching?

bpatrick said:
WWAY Ch. 3
7:30 Paul Harvey's Bible Stories
The voice of God reading the word of God? Was this aimed at children or adults?

bpatrick said:
WGHP Ch. 8
8:30 Captain Noah And His Ark
Another Philly import?

Also, did ABC call it a night after 10:00 on Saturdays? Or did their North Carolina affiliates just bail for local programs at 10?
 
1. WRAL had carried Huntley-Brinkley when it was an NBC affiliate
(1956-62) and for a time after it went to ABC, before picking up first
Ron Cochran, then Peter Jennings (the first time). After Frank Reynolds
began anchoring ABC's newscast in 1968, WRAL, like many other ABC
affiliates, found his commentaries too liberal, dropped him (even after
the more conservative Howard K. Smith was paired with him), and went
back to Huntley-Brinkley until Reasoner's arrival at ABC in late 1970; I
think WRAL went back to carrying ABC's newscast early in 1971. At any
rate, NBC--unlike ABC--did not have a 6 PM feed, so Helms' editorials
ran at either 6:20 or 6:25.

2. "The Monkees" is the sitcom. It was repeated seemingly endlessly
on Saturday mornings on either CBS or ABC during the '70s.

3. AFAIK, this is Philadelphia's Larry Kane; likewise, "Captain Noah And
His Ark" originated at WPVI (sister station WTVD also carried it, on Sundays).

4. Charlotte is one North Carolina city where I've never lived, but I've been
told that "Pastors Face Your Questions" was a roundtable of local pastors
answering viewers' questions about the Bible; it was not a church service.

5. ABC at the time was preparing for the loss of network time due to the
access rule, which went into effect that fall. It was already giving back
10:30-11 on Saturday nights (from 1968); in January 1971 it began giving
back 9:30-10:30 Saturdays, 7-8 Sundays, and 10:30-11 Thursdays. Not
only did this cut spending (which ABC desperately needed to do), but it
allowed ABC to actually win one week, in January 1971, the first time it had
done so since the 1964-65 season (ABC's glory days were still about five years
away).
I might add that a couple of ABC affiliates (one, WLOS, in Asheville, North Carolina;
the other, WFTV Orlando) carried NBC's Saturday-night movie while the NBC
affiliates in both markets carried their own movies.

6. Paul Harvey's Bible-story program was aimed at kids. I remember a similar program,
originating in Mobile, that used to air in Birmingham on Saturday mornings: "Aunt Beka's
Bible Stories."
 
bpatrick said:
2. "The Monkees" is the sitcom. It was repeated seemingly endlessly
on Saturday mornings on either CBS or ABC during the '70s.

In fact, these were the reruns of the NBC sitcom that entered Saturday morning on CBS in 1969, though with some music replaced with more-recent Monkees songs (NBC did likewise when Monkees repeats aired on that network); the Monkees were still recording at the time, in hopes that the reruns would generate new interest in their recordings (it didn't). The remainder of The Monkees, now down to Davy Jones and Micky Dolenz, broke up in 1970. ABC picked up the series -- by them just flat-out reruns, in 1973, and carried them until 1975.

bpatrick said:
6. Paul Harvey's Bible-story program was aimed at kids.

Was this the same Paul Harvey as the guy who wished us "Good Day"?
 
From what I could tell, this Larry Kane Show was a teen-oriented music dance show based in Houston, TX, had run since 1959 (but was just syndicated nationally), and its host (a veteran Houston DJ) worked for years at KTRK-TV in Houston (another ABC affiliate, where the show actually originated), later moved to KPRC. This was not by any means the same Larry Kane whose career began in Miami at the time at the Bay of Pigs, and went on to a long career in Philadelphia television (with about a year in New York). This Larry Kane, who died in the late 1990's, didn't look or sound all that much like the longtime WPVI/WABC/WCAU/KYW anchor.

It should be noted that it was because of this Larry Kane and his dance show that, for years, KTRK did not run American Bandstand (it wasn't until 1984 that Clark's show ran on KTRK again).

Because of the Philly Larry Kane's association with The Beatles, one could understand this confusion between him and the Houston Larry Kane. A picture of the Houston Larry Kane (in the center, holding a record album) can be seen when one scrolls down on this link. A clip from this Larry Kane's show (a performance by the band Southwest F.O.B., from 1968) can also be seen here.
 
Thanks for the correction, although it's somewhat ironic that there
were Larry Kanes on sister stations (KTRK and WPVI were owned by
CapCities before becoming ABC o&os when CapCities bought the network
in the mid-'80s).

And yes, that is the Paul Harvey who wished us, "Good DAY!"
 
Another thing: The Houston teen music show host Larry Kane died Jan. 26, 1998 at age 62 after suffering a stroke. After his show ended, he moved behind the scenes as an entertainment lawyer, with the band ZZ Top among his clients.
 
bpatrick said:
From TV Guide, North Carolina Edition.

WRDU (WRDC) Ch. 28 Durham (NBC/CBS)
would become exclusively NBC on Sept. 13, IIRC

8 AM Tomfoolery
8:30 Heckle And Jeckle
9 AM Woody Woodpecker
9:30 77 Sunset Strip
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Popeye
11:30 Here Comes The Grump
12 N Hot Dog
12:30 Jambo
1 PM F Troop
1:30 Jetsons

That's funny...pre-empting "The Bugaloos" and "Dr. Doolittle" for a violent adult detective series!! :D
 
Markieo said:
bpatrick said:
From TV Guide, North Carolina Edition.

WRDU (WRDC) Ch. 28 Durham (NBC/CBS)
would become exclusively NBC on Sept. 13, IIRC

9 AM Woody Woodpecker
9:30 77 Sunset Strip
10:30 Pink Panther

That's funny...pre-empting "The Bugaloos" and "Dr. Doolittle" for a violent adult detective series!! :D

...as well as putting it in the middle of the children's block.
 
azumanga said:
Markieo said:
bpatrick said:
From TV Guide, North Carolina Edition.

WRDU (WRDC) Ch. 28 Durham (NBC/CBS)
would become exclusively NBC on Sept. 13, IIRC

9 AM Woody Woodpecker
9:30 77 Sunset Strip
10:30 Pink Panther

That's funny...pre-empting "The Bugaloos" and "Dr. Doolittle" for a violent adult detective series!! :D

...as well as putting it in the middle of the children's block.

I noticed that, too, and I have no explanation for it. I was living in Birmingham, where we'd
had the same situation of a VHF cherry-picking CBS and NBC and leaving the crumbs to the
UHF until 1970, but even there nothing like "77 Sunset Strip" had aired on Saturday mornings.
At any rate, such rarities wouldn't happen much longer; WTVD became exclusively CBS in the
fall of 1971, while WRDU got NBC, and the Triangle finally began to get most everything in pattern.
 
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