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 (Steve Allen, Louis Nye,
Joe Flynn, Richard Dawson)
10:30 $10,000 Pyramid (inflation really hit this
show over the years--guests are Pat Carroll
and Tony Randall)
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 News (local)
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Today's Woman (Judy Walker)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '73 (Betty White, Nipsey Russell,
Charles Nelson Reilly, Beverly Garland, Brett
Somers, Richard Dawson)
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
5 PM Andy Griffith
5:30 Dragnet
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Beat The Clock (guest: Robert Morse)
7:30 Treasure Hunt (Geoff Edwards)
8 PM Maude
8:30 Hawaii Five-O
9:30 GE Theater: "I Heard The Owl Call My Name"
(Tom Courtenay as a priest trying to communicate
with Native Americans in British Columbia)
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Santiago" (Alan Ladd, from '56)
E (WUND/2 Columbia/Edenton; WUNC/4 Chapel Hill; WUNK/25
Greenville; WUNL/26 Winston-Salem; WUNJ/39 Wilmington;
WUNG/58 Concord)
Don't know if there are in-school programs before 10 AM.
10 AM Sesame Street
11 AM In-school programs
12:30 Electric Company
1 PM In-school programs
4 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Observing Eye (science)
6:30 What's New
7 PM Your Future Is Now
7:30 School Food Service
8 PM North Carolina News Conference
8:30 North Carolina: The Arts ("Madonna In Music
And Art"--this, of course, refers to the Virgin
Mary and not a certain rock star)
9 PM Dialogue Of The Western World (Aristotle's
views on politics)
sign off 10 PM
WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)
6:35 Almanac
6:45 Morning Scene
7 AM CBS News (Hughes Rudd/Sally Quinn, one of
the great mismatches in television history)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Price Is Right
9:30 Match Game '73 (day-behind)
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 $10,000 Pyramid
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12 N Scene At Noon
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 Secret Storm (delay from 4 PM)
3:30 The Lucy Show
4 PM Green Acres
4:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News
7:30 Price Is Right
8 PM Maude
8:30 Hawaii Five-O
9:30 GE Theater: "I Heard The Owl Call
My Name"
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Santiago"
WWAY Ch. 3 Wilmington (ABC)
7:10 Wake-Up Weather
7:25 Moments For Meditation
7:30 Arthur Smith
8 AM New Zoo Revue
8:30 Movie: "The Woman In White"
10:20 News
10:30 Coffee Talk
11 AM Divorce Court
11:30 Brady Bunch
12 N Password (Sandy Duncan, Bill Bixby)
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 The Girl In My Life
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Love, American Style
4:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
5 PM Wild Wild West
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News (Howard K. Smith/Harry Reasoner)
7 PM To Tell The Truth (Kitty Carlisle, Peggy Cass,
Tom Poston, Gene Rayburn)
7:30 The Lucy Show (guest: Wally Cox as an extremely
nervous orchestra conductor)
8 PM Temperatures Rising (the second version, with
Paul Lynde)
8:30 ABC Movie: "What Are Best Friends For?"
10 PM Marcus Welby, M.D.
11 PM News
11:30 Dick Cavett (a panel of doctors discusses hospital
care and treatment)
WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (ABC)
6 AM Arthur Smith
6:30 Farm News
6:55 Viewpoint (commentary)
7 AM News
7:30 Kid Power (delay from Sun 10 AM)
8 AM Time For Uncle Paul
8:30 Mike Douglas (co-host Roger Miller; Sen. Henry
"Scoop" Jackson; two former POWs and author
Stephen Rowan, whose book "They Wouldn't Let
Us Die" details the POW experience; Gary Owens)
10 AM Bette Elliott/Jack LaLanne
11 AM Password (Florence Henderson, Dick Gautier--
week delay)
11:30 Brady Bunch
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 The Girl In My Life
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM To Tell The Truth (Larry Blyden, Kitty Carlisle,
Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen)
4:30 Truth Or Consequences
5 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
5:30 Andy Griffith
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Bonanza
8 PM Temperatures Rising
8:30 ABC Movie: "What Are Best Friends For?"
10 PM Marcus Welby, M.D.
11 PM News
11:30 Dick Cavett
WECT Ch. 6 Wilmington (NBC)
6:30 Carolina In The Morning
7 AM Today (Hugh Hefner; an exhibit of early American
quilts--Frank McGee and Barbara Walters host)
9 AM Mike Douglas (co-host Charley Pride; Jack Anderson,
Johnny ("Cry") Ray; Karl Ehrhardt with signs he made
for New York Mets games)
10 AM Dinah's Place (guest: Hugh O'Brian)
10:30 Baffle (Ann B. Davis, Arte Johnson, Lee Meriwether,
Robert Reed--Dick Enberg is host)
11 AM Wizard Of Odds (Alex Trebek's first U.S. game show)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Richard Crenna, Nancy Sinatra,
Ted Knight, Pearl Bailey, Charo, McLean Stevenson,
Rose Marie, Charley Weaver, Paul Lynde)
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1 PM Jim Burns
1:30 As The World Turns
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 Chase
9 PM The Magician (Bill Bixby, who became
something of an expert on magic as
a result of this show.)
10 PM Police Story
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (Clint Eastwood, James
Whitmore, mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne)
WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC)
6 AM I Love Lucy
6:25 Your Future Is Now
6:55 News
7 AM Today
9 AM Mike Douglas (same as Ch. 5 without the POW
segments)
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Baffle
11 AM Wizard Of Odds
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 Return To Peyton Place
4 PM Somerset
4:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Dragnet
7:30 Hollywood Squares (Mel Brooks, Redd Foxx,
Lynda Day George, Lee Grant, Michael Landon,
Vincent Price, Rose Marie, Wally Cox, Paul Lynde)
8 PM Chase
9 PM The Magician
10 PM Police Story
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow
WGHP Ch. 8 High Point (ABC)
6:40 Farm, Home And Garden
6:55 Tobacco Farming
7 AM Romper Room
7:30 Pixanne
8 AM Southern Exposure (Harry Ashmore, who
writes about Southern politics, discusses
the President, the media, and the First
Amendment)
9 AM Movie: "Carrie" (adaptation of "Sister Carrie,"
from '52)
11 AM Password (same as Ch. 5)
11:30 Brady Bunch
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 The Girl In My Life
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Love, American Style
4:30 The Lucy Show
5 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Anything You Can Do
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (guest
voice: Phyllis Diller)
8 PM Temperatures Rising
8:30 ABC Movie: "What Are Best Friends For?"
10 PM Marcus Welby, M.D.
11 PM News
11:30 Dick Cavett
WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS)
6 AM Arthur Smith
6:30 Morning Meditations
6:35 Carolina Today
8 AM CBS News
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 $10,000 Pyramid
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 Timely Tips
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '73
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 The Lucy Show
5 PM Mod Squad
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM Maude
8:30 Hawaii Five-O
9:30 GE Theater: "I Heard The Owl Call
My Name"
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Santiago"
WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC)
6:15 Garner Ted Armstrong
6:45 On The House
7 AM Today
9 AM Mike Douglas (co-host Mason Reese; Carl
Reiner; Bobby Riggs; Johnny Mann; the
Sweet Adelines; ventriloquist Jimmy Nelson
(remember his Nestle's commercials with
Farfel?); sound effects expert Greg Shidler)
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Baffle
11 AM Wizard Of Odds
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News
12:30 Arthur Smith
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 Batman (Carolyn Jones plays Marsha,
the Queen of Diamonds)
4:30 Beverly Hillbillies
5 PM Andy Griffith
5:30 Truth Or Consequences
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM To Tell The Truth
7:30 Dusty's Trail (Bob Denver and Forrest Tucker
in a sitcom that made no one forget "F Troop")
8 PM Chase
9 PM The Magician
10 PM Police Story
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow
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 Baffle
11 AM Wizard Of Odds
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 News (local)
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 Gomer Pyle, USMC
4:30 The Virginian
6 PM Dragnet
6:30 NBC News
7 PM News
7:30 Price Is Right
8 PM Chase
9 PM The Magician
10 PM Police Story
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow
WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (CBS)
6 AM Sunrise Semester: "The World Of Islam"
6:30 Homer Briarhopper (local country-music show)
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Peggy Mann
9:30 Secret Storm
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 $10,000 Pyramid
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 News (local)
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Divorce Court
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '73
4 PM Bewitched
4:30 Merv Griffin (same as Ch. 2)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Mod Squad
8 PM Ozzie's Girls (short-lived comeback attempt
for Ozzie and Harriet, renting David and Ricky's
old rooms to two female college students--one
white and one black)
8:30 Hawaii Five-O
9:30 GE Theater: "I Heard The Owl Call My Name"
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Santiago"
WCTI Ch. 12 New Bern (ABC)
6:30 Batman (Joan Collins plays the Siren; this one
also has Batgirl)
7 AM Bullwinkle
7:30 Underdog
8 AM New Zoo Revue
8:30 Montage (Ray Horn, local)
9:30 Movie: "Mildred Pierce"
11:30 Brady Bunch
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 The Girl In My Life
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Gilligan's Island
4:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
5 PM Beverly Hillbillies
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Beat The Clock
7 PM Andy Griffith
7:30 Dusty's Trail
8 PM Temperatures Rising
8:30 ABC Movie: "What Are Best Friends For?"
10 PM Marcus Welby, M.D.
11 PM News
11:30 Dick Cavett
WXII Ch. 12 Winston-Salem (NBC)
6 AM News
6:10 Carolina Farm Report
6:25 Today's Meditation
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today
9 AM Today At Home
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Baffle
11 AM Wizard Of Odds
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Concentration (Jack Narz)
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 Bonanza
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM What's My Line? (Alejandro Rey, Soupy Sales,
Arlene Francis, New York TV talk-show host
Sherrye Henry)
7:30 To Tell The Truth (Kitty Carlisle, Peggy Cass,
Bill Cullen, Gene Shalit)
8 PM An English Christmas (the Winston-Salem Symphony
Chorale and films of North Carolina Christmases)
8:30 Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol (cut to 30 minutes)
9 PM The Magician
10 PM Police Story
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow
WBTW Ch. 13 Florence, SC (ABC/CBS)
6:20 Arthur Smith
6:50 Carolina Almanac
7 AM Jim Nesbitt
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Price Is Right
9:30 Match Game '73 (day-behind)
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 $10,000 Pyramid
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Young And The Restless
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 General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Let's Make A Deal
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM ABC News
6:30 News
7 PM CBS News
7:30 To Tell The Truth (Kitty Carlisle, Peggy
Cass, Bill Cullen, Tom Kennedy)
8 PM Maude
8:30 Hawaii Five-O
9:30 GE Theater: "I Heard The Owl Call My Name"
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Santiago"
WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (ABC)
8 AM Romper Room
8:30 New Zoo Revue
9 AM Fran Carlton
9:30 Who, What Or Where (pre-empted on WSOC)
there should be something at 9:55 but isn't
10 AM Living Easy With Dr. Joyce Brothers
10:30 Not For Women Only (discussion of London theater
with Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Joan Plowright,
and Sir John Gielgud)
11 AM News
11:30 Brady Bunch
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 The Girl In My Life
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Joey's Place (local kids' show)
5 PM Love, American Style (one-hour delay)
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Munsters
7 PM Concentration
7:30 Wacky World Of Jonathan Winters
8 PM Blue-Gray Game (from Montgomery, AL)
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 Dick Cavett
WRDU (WRDC) Ch. 28 Durham (NBC)
7 AM Today
9 AM New Zoo Revue
9:30 Romper Room
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Baffle
11 AM Wizard Of Odds
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Living Easy With Dr. Joyce Brothers
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 Appointment With Dr. Brothers
4:35 Movie: "The Horse's Mouth"
6:30 News
7 PM NBC News
7:30 Ebony Affairs
8 PM Blue-Gray Game
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 Tonight Show
WRET (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (Ind.)
11 AM Praise The Lord (this seems to be the early
name for "The PTL Club")
1 PM Movie: "Catherine Of Russia"
3 PM Popeye And Pals
3:30 Leave It To Beaver
4 PM Movie: "Railroaded" (Hugh Beaumont stars
in this tale of a detective who tries to clear
his girlfriend's brother from robbery and murder
charges, from '47)
5:30 Rifleman
6 PM Star Trek
7 PM Hogan's Heroes
7:30 Dragnet
8 PM NBA Basketball: Hawks-Bullets
10 PM Big Valley (time approximate)
11 PM Alfred Hitchcock Presents
11:30 Movie: "Lydia" (watch for George Reeves in
this chronicle of 40 years in the life of a
genteel Boston beauty, played by Merle
Oberon, from '41)
WTVI Ch. 42 Charlotte (PBS)
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
7:30 Erica
7:45 Theonie
8 PM Of Lands And Seas (timely, for today, topic:
Afghanistan)
9 PM Bill Moyers' Journal (historian Daniel Boorstin
discusses his book "The Americans: The Democratic
Experience")
10 PM Christmas 1783 (a Christmas party as it might have
been held that year)
10:30 Christmas Portrait (art masterpieces and Christmas
music from the Mississippi State University Madrigal
Singers)
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 (Steve Allen, Louis Nye,
Joe Flynn, Richard Dawson)
10:30 $10,000 Pyramid (inflation really hit this
show over the years--guests are Pat Carroll
and Tony Randall)
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 News (local)
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Today's Woman (Judy Walker)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '73 (Betty White, Nipsey Russell,
Charles Nelson Reilly, Beverly Garland, Brett
Somers, Richard Dawson)
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
5 PM Andy Griffith
5:30 Dragnet
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Beat The Clock (guest: Robert Morse)
7:30 Treasure Hunt (Geoff Edwards)
8 PM Maude
8:30 Hawaii Five-O
9:30 GE Theater: "I Heard The Owl Call My Name"
(Tom Courtenay as a priest trying to communicate
with Native Americans in British Columbia)
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Santiago" (Alan Ladd, from '56)
E (WUND/2 Columbia/Edenton; WUNC/4 Chapel Hill; WUNK/25
Greenville; WUNL/26 Winston-Salem; WUNJ/39 Wilmington;
WUNG/58 Concord)
Don't know if there are in-school programs before 10 AM.
10 AM Sesame Street
11 AM In-school programs
12:30 Electric Company
1 PM In-school programs
4 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Observing Eye (science)
6:30 What's New
7 PM Your Future Is Now
7:30 School Food Service
8 PM North Carolina News Conference
8:30 North Carolina: The Arts ("Madonna In Music
And Art"--this, of course, refers to the Virgin
Mary and not a certain rock star)
9 PM Dialogue Of The Western World (Aristotle's
views on politics)
sign off 10 PM
WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)
6:35 Almanac
6:45 Morning Scene
7 AM CBS News (Hughes Rudd/Sally Quinn, one of
the great mismatches in television history)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Price Is Right
9:30 Match Game '73 (day-behind)
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 $10,000 Pyramid
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12 N Scene At Noon
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 Secret Storm (delay from 4 PM)
3:30 The Lucy Show
4 PM Green Acres
4:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News
7:30 Price Is Right
8 PM Maude
8:30 Hawaii Five-O
9:30 GE Theater: "I Heard The Owl Call
My Name"
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Santiago"
WWAY Ch. 3 Wilmington (ABC)
7:10 Wake-Up Weather
7:25 Moments For Meditation
7:30 Arthur Smith
8 AM New Zoo Revue
8:30 Movie: "The Woman In White"
10:20 News
10:30 Coffee Talk
11 AM Divorce Court
11:30 Brady Bunch
12 N Password (Sandy Duncan, Bill Bixby)
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 The Girl In My Life
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Love, American Style
4:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
5 PM Wild Wild West
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News (Howard K. Smith/Harry Reasoner)
7 PM To Tell The Truth (Kitty Carlisle, Peggy Cass,
Tom Poston, Gene Rayburn)
7:30 The Lucy Show (guest: Wally Cox as an extremely
nervous orchestra conductor)
8 PM Temperatures Rising (the second version, with
Paul Lynde)
8:30 ABC Movie: "What Are Best Friends For?"
10 PM Marcus Welby, M.D.
11 PM News
11:30 Dick Cavett (a panel of doctors discusses hospital
care and treatment)
WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (ABC)
6 AM Arthur Smith
6:30 Farm News
6:55 Viewpoint (commentary)
7 AM News
7:30 Kid Power (delay from Sun 10 AM)
8 AM Time For Uncle Paul
8:30 Mike Douglas (co-host Roger Miller; Sen. Henry
"Scoop" Jackson; two former POWs and author
Stephen Rowan, whose book "They Wouldn't Let
Us Die" details the POW experience; Gary Owens)
10 AM Bette Elliott/Jack LaLanne
11 AM Password (Florence Henderson, Dick Gautier--
week delay)
11:30 Brady Bunch
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 The Girl In My Life
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM To Tell The Truth (Larry Blyden, Kitty Carlisle,
Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen)
4:30 Truth Or Consequences
5 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
5:30 Andy Griffith
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Bonanza
8 PM Temperatures Rising
8:30 ABC Movie: "What Are Best Friends For?"
10 PM Marcus Welby, M.D.
11 PM News
11:30 Dick Cavett
WECT Ch. 6 Wilmington (NBC)
6:30 Carolina In The Morning
7 AM Today (Hugh Hefner; an exhibit of early American
quilts--Frank McGee and Barbara Walters host)
9 AM Mike Douglas (co-host Charley Pride; Jack Anderson,
Johnny ("Cry") Ray; Karl Ehrhardt with signs he made
for New York Mets games)
10 AM Dinah's Place (guest: Hugh O'Brian)
10:30 Baffle (Ann B. Davis, Arte Johnson, Lee Meriwether,
Robert Reed--Dick Enberg is host)
11 AM Wizard Of Odds (Alex Trebek's first U.S. game show)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Richard Crenna, Nancy Sinatra,
Ted Knight, Pearl Bailey, Charo, McLean Stevenson,
Rose Marie, Charley Weaver, Paul Lynde)
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1 PM Jim Burns
1:30 As The World Turns
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 Chase
9 PM The Magician (Bill Bixby, who became
something of an expert on magic as
a result of this show.)
10 PM Police Story
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (Clint Eastwood, James
Whitmore, mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne)
WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC)
6 AM I Love Lucy
6:25 Your Future Is Now
6:55 News
7 AM Today
9 AM Mike Douglas (same as Ch. 5 without the POW
segments)
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Baffle
11 AM Wizard Of Odds
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 Return To Peyton Place
4 PM Somerset
4:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Dragnet
7:30 Hollywood Squares (Mel Brooks, Redd Foxx,
Lynda Day George, Lee Grant, Michael Landon,
Vincent Price, Rose Marie, Wally Cox, Paul Lynde)
8 PM Chase
9 PM The Magician
10 PM Police Story
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow
WGHP Ch. 8 High Point (ABC)
6:40 Farm, Home And Garden
6:55 Tobacco Farming
7 AM Romper Room
7:30 Pixanne
8 AM Southern Exposure (Harry Ashmore, who
writes about Southern politics, discusses
the President, the media, and the First
Amendment)
9 AM Movie: "Carrie" (adaptation of "Sister Carrie,"
from '52)
11 AM Password (same as Ch. 5)
11:30 Brady Bunch
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 The Girl In My Life
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Love, American Style
4:30 The Lucy Show
5 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Anything You Can Do
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (guest
voice: Phyllis Diller)
8 PM Temperatures Rising
8:30 ABC Movie: "What Are Best Friends For?"
10 PM Marcus Welby, M.D.
11 PM News
11:30 Dick Cavett
WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS)
6 AM Arthur Smith
6:30 Morning Meditations
6:35 Carolina Today
8 AM CBS News
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 $10,000 Pyramid
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 Timely Tips
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '73
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 The Lucy Show
5 PM Mod Squad
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM Maude
8:30 Hawaii Five-O
9:30 GE Theater: "I Heard The Owl Call
My Name"
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Santiago"
WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC)
6:15 Garner Ted Armstrong
6:45 On The House
7 AM Today
9 AM Mike Douglas (co-host Mason Reese; Carl
Reiner; Bobby Riggs; Johnny Mann; the
Sweet Adelines; ventriloquist Jimmy Nelson
(remember his Nestle's commercials with
Farfel?); sound effects expert Greg Shidler)
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Baffle
11 AM Wizard Of Odds
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News
12:30 Arthur Smith
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 Batman (Carolyn Jones plays Marsha,
the Queen of Diamonds)
4:30 Beverly Hillbillies
5 PM Andy Griffith
5:30 Truth Or Consequences
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM To Tell The Truth
7:30 Dusty's Trail (Bob Denver and Forrest Tucker
in a sitcom that made no one forget "F Troop")
8 PM Chase
9 PM The Magician
10 PM Police Story
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow
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 Baffle
11 AM Wizard Of Odds
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 News (local)
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 Gomer Pyle, USMC
4:30 The Virginian
6 PM Dragnet
6:30 NBC News
7 PM News
7:30 Price Is Right
8 PM Chase
9 PM The Magician
10 PM Police Story
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow
WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (CBS)
6 AM Sunrise Semester: "The World Of Islam"
6:30 Homer Briarhopper (local country-music show)
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Peggy Mann
9:30 Secret Storm
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 $10,000 Pyramid
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 News (local)
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Divorce Court
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '73
4 PM Bewitched
4:30 Merv Griffin (same as Ch. 2)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Mod Squad
8 PM Ozzie's Girls (short-lived comeback attempt
for Ozzie and Harriet, renting David and Ricky's
old rooms to two female college students--one
white and one black)
8:30 Hawaii Five-O
9:30 GE Theater: "I Heard The Owl Call My Name"
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Santiago"
WCTI Ch. 12 New Bern (ABC)
6:30 Batman (Joan Collins plays the Siren; this one
also has Batgirl)
7 AM Bullwinkle
7:30 Underdog
8 AM New Zoo Revue
8:30 Montage (Ray Horn, local)
9:30 Movie: "Mildred Pierce"
11:30 Brady Bunch
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 The Girl In My Life
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Gilligan's Island
4:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
5 PM Beverly Hillbillies
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Beat The Clock
7 PM Andy Griffith
7:30 Dusty's Trail
8 PM Temperatures Rising
8:30 ABC Movie: "What Are Best Friends For?"
10 PM Marcus Welby, M.D.
11 PM News
11:30 Dick Cavett
WXII Ch. 12 Winston-Salem (NBC)
6 AM News
6:10 Carolina Farm Report
6:25 Today's Meditation
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today
9 AM Today At Home
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Baffle
11 AM Wizard Of Odds
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Concentration (Jack Narz)
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 Bonanza
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM What's My Line? (Alejandro Rey, Soupy Sales,
Arlene Francis, New York TV talk-show host
Sherrye Henry)
7:30 To Tell The Truth (Kitty Carlisle, Peggy Cass,
Bill Cullen, Gene Shalit)
8 PM An English Christmas (the Winston-Salem Symphony
Chorale and films of North Carolina Christmases)
8:30 Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol (cut to 30 minutes)
9 PM The Magician
10 PM Police Story
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow
WBTW Ch. 13 Florence, SC (ABC/CBS)
6:20 Arthur Smith
6:50 Carolina Almanac
7 AM Jim Nesbitt
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Price Is Right
9:30 Match Game '73 (day-behind)
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 $10,000 Pyramid
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Young And The Restless
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 General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Let's Make A Deal
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM ABC News
6:30 News
7 PM CBS News
7:30 To Tell The Truth (Kitty Carlisle, Peggy
Cass, Bill Cullen, Tom Kennedy)
8 PM Maude
8:30 Hawaii Five-O
9:30 GE Theater: "I Heard The Owl Call My Name"
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Santiago"
WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (ABC)
8 AM Romper Room
8:30 New Zoo Revue
9 AM Fran Carlton
9:30 Who, What Or Where (pre-empted on WSOC)
there should be something at 9:55 but isn't
10 AM Living Easy With Dr. Joyce Brothers
10:30 Not For Women Only (discussion of London theater
with Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Joan Plowright,
and Sir John Gielgud)
11 AM News
11:30 Brady Bunch
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 The Girl In My Life
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Joey's Place (local kids' show)
5 PM Love, American Style (one-hour delay)
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Munsters
7 PM Concentration
7:30 Wacky World Of Jonathan Winters
8 PM Blue-Gray Game (from Montgomery, AL)
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 Dick Cavett
WRDU (WRDC) Ch. 28 Durham (NBC)
7 AM Today
9 AM New Zoo Revue
9:30 Romper Room
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Baffle
11 AM Wizard Of Odds
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Living Easy With Dr. Joyce Brothers
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 Appointment With Dr. Brothers
4:35 Movie: "The Horse's Mouth"
6:30 News
7 PM NBC News
7:30 Ebony Affairs
8 PM Blue-Gray Game
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 Tonight Show
WRET (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (Ind.)
11 AM Praise The Lord (this seems to be the early
name for "The PTL Club")
1 PM Movie: "Catherine Of Russia"
3 PM Popeye And Pals
3:30 Leave It To Beaver
4 PM Movie: "Railroaded" (Hugh Beaumont stars
in this tale of a detective who tries to clear
his girlfriend's brother from robbery and murder
charges, from '47)
5:30 Rifleman
6 PM Star Trek
7 PM Hogan's Heroes
7:30 Dragnet
8 PM NBA Basketball: Hawks-Bullets
10 PM Big Valley (time approximate)
11 PM Alfred Hitchcock Presents
11:30 Movie: "Lydia" (watch for George Reeves in
this chronicle of 40 years in the life of a
genteel Boston beauty, played by Merle
Oberon, from '41)
WTVI Ch. 42 Charlotte (PBS)
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
7:30 Erica
7:45 Theonie
8 PM Of Lands And Seas (timely, for today, topic:
Afghanistan)
9 PM Bill Moyers' Journal (historian Daniel Boorstin
discusses his book "The Americans: The Democratic
Experience")
10 PM Christmas 1783 (a Christmas party as it might have
been held that year)
10:30 Christmas Portrait (art masterpieces and Christmas
music from the Mississippi State University Madrigal
Singers)