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Retro: Northern Alabama Saturday, December 8, 1973

NOTE: The ABC affiliate in Nashville is identified here as WSIX Ch. 8;
the change to WNGE Ch. 2 did not take place until Tuesday, Dec. 11.

From TV Guide, Northern Alabama Edition:

WCBI Ch. 4 Columbus, MS (CBS/ABC)

7 AM Flintstones Show
7:30 Bailey's Comets
8 AM New Scooby Doo Movies: an animated Don Knotts as a
detective in "Guess Who's Knott Coming To Dinner"
9 AM My Favorite Martians (animated)
9:30 Jeannie (animated)
10 AM Speed Buggy
10:30 Josie And The Pussycats
11 AM What's The Energy Crisis All About? (update of a program
that first aired in October, adding segments about conservation
and future sources of fuel)
11:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12 N TBA
12:30 College Football: ABC plans to televise one of these (Pioneer Bowl
from Wichita Falls, TX; Grantland Rice Bowl from Baton Rouge; Amos
Alonzo Stagg Bowl from Phenix City, AL)
3:30 TBA
4 PM Wide World Of Sports (U.S. Moto-Cross Motorcycle Championship,
International figure skating from Calgary, World Barrel Jumping Championship)
5:30 CBS News (Dan Rather)
6 PM News
6:30 Parent Game
7 PM All In The Family
7:30 M*A*S*H
8 PM Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Bob Newhart
9 PM Carol Burnett (a show from the Sydney Opera House with guests Tim Conway
and Edward Villella and partner Lucette Aldous)
10 PM Soul Train (Smokey Robinson, First Choice, Al Wilson)
11 PM Roller Games

WSM (WSMV) Ch. 4 Nashville (NBC)

6:25 Agriculture, U.S.A.
6:55 Farm Digest
7 AM Lidsville
7:30 Inch High Private Eye
8 AM Addams Family (animated)
8:30 Emergency +4
9 AM Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kids
9:30 Star Trek (animated)
10 AM Sigmund And The Sea Monsters
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Jetsons
11:30 Go! (Robert Klein follows the National Theatre Company
as they perform "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's
Court" in a New Jersey high school.)
12 N Bugs Bunny And Friends
12:30 Bill Anderson (Faron Young, Barbara Mandrell)
1 PM Wilburn Brothers (Peggy Sue and Jimmy Martin)
1:30 Porter Wagoner
2 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music (David Houston, Jean Shepard,
Shoji Tabuchi, Freddie Weller)
2:30 NFL '73
3 PM NFL Football: Chiefs-Raiders
6 PM News (time approximate)
6:30 Bobby Goldsboro (guest: Roger Miller)
7 PM Emergency!
8 PM NBC Movie: "How To Commit Marriage" (Bob Hope and Jackie
Gleason, from '69)
10 PM News
10:30 Burt And The Girls (Burt Reynolds is joined by Carol Burnett,
Nancy Dussault, Nanette Fabray, Jaye P. Morgan, Bernadette
Peters, Jo Ann Pflug, Della Reese, and Joyce Van Patten.)
12 M Movie: "Between Heaven And Hell"

WLAC (WTVF) Ch. 5 Nashville (CBS)

6 AM Sunrise Semester
6:30 Gentle Ben
7 AM Flintstones Show
7:30 Bailey's Comets
8 AM New Scooby Doo Movies
9 AM My Favorite Martians
9:30 Jeannie
10 AM Speed Buggy
10:30 Josie And The Pussycats
11 AM What's The Energy Crisis All About?
11:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12 N The NFL Today
12:15 NFL Football: Vikings-Packers
3 PM Tennessee State University Basketball Preview
(time approximate)
3:30 The Explorers
4 PM This Week In Pro Football
5 PM Other People, Other Places
5:30 News
6 PM Hee Haw (Jeanne Pruett, Joe Stampley)
7 PM All In The Family
7:30 M*A*S*H
8 PM Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Bob Newhart
9 PM Carol Burnett
10 PM News
10:30 Perry Mason
11:30 Saturday Night With Siegel (Stanley Siegel)
12:30 Movie: "Sunset Boulevard"

WBRC Ch. 6 Birmingham (ABC)

4:25 Story Of Jesus
4:30 Bible Answers
5 AM The Story
5:30 Dixie Digest
6 AM Headliners
6:30 Make A Wish (a visit to Yosemite National Park,
delay from Sun 10:30 AM)
7 AM Bugs Bunny
7:30 Yogi's Gang
8 AM Super Friends
9 AM Lassie's Rescue Rangers
9:30 Goober And The Ghost Chasers
10 AM Brady Kids
10:30 Mission: Magic!
11 AM National Geographic: "Wild River," a look at a group
of kids and their adult leaders on a trip down Idaho's
Salmon River
12 N American Bandstand (a salute to David Gates of Bread)
12:30 College Football (see WCBI)
3:30 Christmas Music (time approximate)
4 PM Wide World Of Sports
5:30 Reasoner Report
6 PM Sale Of The Century (Joe Garagiola version)
6:30 Dusty's Trail
7 PM Partridge Family
7:30 ABC Movie: "Maneater"
9 PM Griff
10 PM Perry Mason
11 PM ABC News (anchor not given)
11:15 Laramie
12:15 America Sings
12:45 Better World
1:15 Across The Fence
1:45 Living Word
2 AM Story Of Jesus

WCIQ Ch. 7 Cheaha State Park/WBIQ Ch. 10 Birmingham/
WHIQ Ch. 25 Huntsville/WFIQ Ch. 36 Florence (PBS)

8 AM Sesame Street (x5)
1 PM Electric Company (x5)
3:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (x5)
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Washington Week In Review
7 PM Movie: "None But The Lonely Heart"
9 PM 'S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, 'S Gershwin (Jack Lemmon
hosts a salute to George and Ira Gershwin, with Fred
Astaire, Ethel Merman, Leslie Uggams, and Peter Nero.)
10 PM West Meets East (a meeting of musicians: Ravi Shankar
and Yehudi Menuhin)
10:30 Tribute To Jim Croce
sign off 11 PM

WSIX Ch. 8 Nashville (ABC)

6:30 Lassie
7 AM Bugs Bunny
7:30 Yogi's Gang
8 AM Super Friends
9 AM Lassie's Rescue Rangers
9:30 Goober And The Ghost Chasers
10 AM Brady Kids
10:30 Mission: Magic!
11 AM Soul Train
12 N American Bandstand
12:30 College Football: Grantland Rice Bowl
3:30 TBA
4 PM Wide World Of Sports
5:30 Reasoner Report
6 PM Elephant Boy
6:30 Festival Of Family Classics ("Around The World
In 80 Days," second of two parts, animated)
7 PM Partridge Family
7:30 ABC Movie: "Maneater"
9 PM Griff
10 PM Toma (delay from Thu 7 PM)
11 PM Judd For The Defense
12 M ABC News
sign off 12:15 AM

WTWV (WTVA) Ch. 9 Tupelo, MS (NBC)

7 AM Lidsville
7:30 Inch High Private Eye
8 AM Addams Family (animated)
8:30 Emergency +4
9 AM Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kids
9:30 Star Trek (animated)
10 AM Sigmund And The Sea Monsters
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Jetsons
11:30 Go!
12 N Wrestling
1 PM Wilburn Brothers (Jack Greene, Jeannie Seely)
1:30 Porter Wagoner (guest: Stonewall Jackson--at least
that's his nickname)
2 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music
2:30 NFL '73
3 PM NFL Football: Chiefs-Raiders
6 PM Hee Haw (time approximate)
7 PM Emergency!
8 PM NBC Movie: "How To Commit Marriage"
10 PM Adam-12 (delay from Wed 7 PM)
10:30 Movie: "All Quiet On The Western Front"
sign off 12 M

WAPI (WVTM) Ch. 13 Birmingham (NBC)

6 AM Living Word
6:15 Farm Round-Up
6:30 Dixie Digest
7 AM Lidsville
7:30 Inch High Private Eye
8 AM Addams Family (animated)
8:30 Emergency +4
9 AM Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kids
9:30 Star Trek (animated)
10 AM Sigmund And The Sea Monsters
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Jetsons
11:30 Go!
12 N This Week In Pro Football
1 PM Movie: "The Marriage Broker"
2 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music
2:30 NFL '73
3 PM NFL Football: Chiefs-Raiders
6 PM Hee Haw (time approximate)
7 PM Emergency!
8 PM NBC Movie: "How To Commit Marriage"
10 PM Movie: "Dead Ringer"
12 M Midnight Special (the Four Tops (hosts); Dr.
Hook and the Medicine Show, Mott the Hoople,
blues artist John Mayall, Todd Rundgren, rock
singer Shawn Phillips, delay from Fri 12 M)

WOWL (WHDF) Ch. 15 Florence (NBC)

6:45 Earline In Storyland
7 AM Lidsville
7:30 Inch High Private Eye
8 AM Addams Family (animated)
8:30 Emergency +4
9 AM Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kids
9:30 Star Trek (animated)
10 AM Sigmund And The Sea Monsters
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Jetsons
11:30 Go!
12 N Wrestling
1 PM Movie: "Laura" (the 1944 version with Gene Tierney,
not the disastrous 1968 version with Lee Radziwill)
2:30 Lee Trevino's Golf For Swingers (David Hartman, George
Kirby)
3 PM NFL Football: Chiefs-Raiders
6 PM Hee Haw (time approximate)
7 PM Emergency!
8 PM NBC Movie: "How To Commit Marriage"
10 PM Wacky World Of Jonathan Winters (Zsa Zsa Gabor, McLean
Stevenson, singer John Stewart, Tony Orlando and Dawn)
10:30 Burt And The Girls
sign off 12 M

WHNT Ch. 19 Huntsville (CBS)

6 AM Dixie Digest
6:30 Tennessee Valley Farm Time
7 AM Flintstones Show
7:30 Bailey's Comets
8 AM New Scooby Doo Movies
9 AM My Favorite Martians
9:30 Jeannie
10 AM Speed Buggy
10:30 Josie And The Pussycats
11 AM What's The Energy Crisis All About?
11:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12 N The NFL Today
12:15 NFL Football: Vikings-Packers
3 PM Famous Classic Tales: "A Christmas Carol" (animated,
time approximate)
4 PM Wrestling
5 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music
5:30 CBS News
6 PM America (conclusion of the series, looking at modern--
for 1973--life in America)
7 PM All In The Family
7:30 M*A*S*H
8 PM Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Bob Newhart
9 PM Carol Burnett
10 PM Movie: "Sagebrush Trail" (John Wayne, from '33)
11:30 Movie: "Riders Of Destiny" (also John Wayne, from '33)

WAAY Ch. 31 Huntsville (NBC)

6 AM Cartoons
7 AM Lidsville
7:30 Inch High Private Eye
8 AM Addams Family (animated)
8:30 Emergency +4
9 AM Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kids
9:30 Star Trek (animated)
10 AM Sigmund And The Sea Monsters
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Jetsons
11:30 Go!
12 N Cartoon Theater
12:30 Animal World
1 PM Bobby Goldsboro
1:30 This Week In Pro Football
2:30 NFL '73
3 PM NFL Football: Chiefs-Raiders
6 PM Hee Haw (time approximate)
7 PM Emergency!
8 PM NBC Movie: "How To Commit Marriage"
10 PM Primus
10:30 Burt And The Girls
12 M Movie: "Flight Of The Lost Balloon" (watch for
Marshall Thompson of "Daktari" in this one from '61)

WCFT Ch. 33 Tuscaloosa (CBS)

7 AM Flintstones Show
7:30 Bailey's Comets
8 AM New Scooby Doo Movies
9 AM My Favorite Martians
9:30 Jeannie
10 AM Speed Buggy
10:30 Josie And The Pussycats
11 AM What's The Energy Crisis All About?
11:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12 N The NFL Today
12:15 NFL Football: Vikings-Packers
3 PM Famous Classic Tales (time approximate)
4 PM Lake Brothers (local country-music duo)
4:30 Wrestling
5:30 CBS News
6 PM NFL Game Of The Week
6:30 Hollywood Squares
7 PM All In The Family
7:30 M*A*S*H
8 PM Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Bob Newhart
9 PM Carol Burnett
10 PM Movie: "The Vampire's Ghost"
sign off 11:30 PM

WHMA (WJSU) Ch. 40 Anniston (CBS)

7 AM Flintstones Show
7:30 Bailey's Comets
8 AM New Scooby Doo Movies
9 AM My Favorite Martians
9:30 Jeannie
10 AM Speed Buggy
10:30 Josie And The Pussycats
11 AM What's The Energy Crisis All About?
11:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12 N The NFL Today
12:15 NFL Football: Vikings-Packers
3 PM Famous Classic Tales (time approximate)
4 PM Story Princess
4:30 Town And Country
5 PM Crossroads Hour
5:30 CBS News
6 PM Hee Haw
7 PM All In The Family
7:30 M*A*S*H
8 PM Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Bob Newhart
9 PM Carol Burnett
10 PM Chaplain Of Bourbon Street
10:30 Good News
11 PM Roller Derby

WBMG (WIAT) Ch. 42 Birmingham (CBS)

6:45 Focus
7 AM Flintstones Show
7:30 Bailey's Comets
8 AM New Scooby Doo Movies
9 AM My Favorite Martians
9:30 Jeannie
10 AM Speed Buggy
10:30 Josie And The Pussycats
11 AM What's The Energy Crisis All About?
11:30 NFL Game Of The Week
12 N The NFL Today
12:15 NFL Football: Vikings-Packers
3 PM Bill Daily's Hocus Pocus Gang (guests: Bob Newhart,
David Janssen, Carl Ballantine, Harry Blackstone Jr.,
magician (not cartoonist) Chuck Jones, Willie Tyler
and Lester, Maureen McGovern, time approximate)
4 PM America (same as Ch. 19)
5 PM Alabama Hunting And Fishing
5:30 CBS News
6 PM Untamed World
6:30 Animal World
7 PM All In The Family
7:30 M*A*S*H
8 PM Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Bob Newhart
9 PM Carol Burnett
10 PM Wrestling
11:30 Movie: "Eve"

WMSL (WAFF) Ch. 48 Huntsville (ABC)

7 AM Bugs Bunny
7:30 Yogi's Gang
8 AM Super Friends
9 AM Lassie's Rescue Rangers
9:30 Goober And The Ghost Chasers
10 AM Brady Kids
10:30 Mission: Magic!
11 AM ABC Saturday Superstar Movie: "Nanny
And The Professor" (animated)
12 N Alabama Sportsman
12:30 College Football (see WCBI)
3:30 Nat Tate (don't know who he is, time approximate)
4 PM Wide World Of Sports
5:30 Reasoner Report
6 PM Lawrence Welk (salute to Irving Berlin)
7 PM Partridge Family
7:30 ABC Movie: "Maneater"
9 PM Griff
10 PM ABC News
10:15 Streets Of San Francisco (one-time-only delay from
Thu 9 PM)
11:15 Wrestling
12 M Soul Train (the Temptations, G.C. Cameron)
 
bpatrick said:
WMSL (WAFF) Ch. 48 Huntsville (ABC)

3:30 Nat Tate (don't know who he is, time approximate)

bp, a quickie for ya. Tate hosted the de facto local version of Soul Train on Saturdays on WMSL. The show consisted of black high-school students dancing to the latest soul/R&B hits. As far as can be determined, this was the first instance of a local TV show in North Alabama being hosted by an African-American.

The show ran until about 1974, after which Tate, a disc jockey (probably on the pioneering WEUP radio, Alabama's first-ever black-owned radio station) went into business ventures and, in later years, the Baptist ministry. Tate died in 2007, a resident of nearby Decatur, Alabama. 1974 was also the year WMSL-TV changed hands from local ownership to a Vermont-based company, so I suspect that was the reason for the show's cancellation. The Vermont group would also later dump the station's most famous local program, Benny Carle's children's show on weekday mornings (Carle hung on for a couple of years as station GM before going into business for himself as a radio station owner in Florence, Alabama).

In general, channel 48 never had much luck in the 1970s against NBC affil WAAY and CBS station WHNT, in part because it was a transplant from Decatur, from where it broadcast on channel 23 from 1954 until 1969. It was not until AFLAC bought the station in the late 1970s, the station lost its mountaintop building in a 1982 fire, and NBC's (which it joined in 1977) ratings resurgence in the 1980s that channel 48 became a force in the Huntsville-Decatur-Florence market. Also helping was the decision of the owners of Florence's WOWL in the late 1990s to get out of the business and ceded NBC entirely to WAFF for the entire region, including northwestern Alabama.
 
I believe that when that Vermont company bought Ch. 48 it changed
the call letters to WYUR.

Nat Tate's show sounds like "Teenage Frolics," which aired for probably
two decades on WRAL and was hosted by an African-American, J.D. Lewis.
In fact, the last time I saw the show, in 1978, it had a set that was almost
identical to that of "Soul Train." Strangely enough, in the Raleigh-Durham
market "Soul Train" aired on WTVD, while "Teenage Frolics" usually ran just
before or just after "American Bandstand."
 
On the "Emergency!" tv show was that one from the episode called "Body Language?"
 
What I found most amusing about "Emergency" was that co-star Julie London was at the time married to Bobby Troup (who also starred on the show) and that the show's producer was none other than London's ex-husband, Jack Webb!
 
Doctor2012 said:
On the "Emergency!" tv show was that one from the episode called "Body Language?"

It was the "Body Language" episode.

In response to Joseph Gallant, amazingly or not, Bobby Troup, Julie London, and
Jack Webb seemed to get along just fine, considering Julie had been married to
both men (or more accurately, was married to Bobby Troup and was Jack Webb's
ex-wife).
 
Joseph_Gallant said:
What I found most amusing about "Emergency" was that co-star Julie London was at the time married to Bobby Troup (who also starred on the show) and that the show's producer was none other than London's ex-husband, Jack Webb!
...Troup had been cast by Webb in episodes of both Dragnet 1967 and Adam-12 before cranking up production on Emergency! London never appeared on either version of Dragnet and the only episode of Adam-12 she was seen on was a joint storyline with the same week's Emergency! in October 1973...
 
bpatrick said:
WOWL (WHDF) Ch. 15 Florence (NBC)

6:45 Earline In Storyland

Perhaps the strangest local production in the region. On the surface, not much to it: Earline [last name: ???] was a local piano teacher who hosted this weekly 15-minute program, where she dressed up in little girl doll clothes and told childrens' stories.

It was a longtime fixture on Ch. 15, going back to its earliest days. HOWEVER, it's mentioned in Tim Hollis' early 2000s book on childrens' TV hosts that Earline's act was anything but. "Doll clothes" and little-girl voice mannerisms made up this middle-aged woman's personality in her everyday life.

--Russell
 
Her last name was Burns, according to a Wikipedia site which
talks about her receiving an award on Ch. 15's local news (I
didn't look to see what year it was but it must have been the
early to mid-'70s since it was the 15th anniversary of "Earline
In Storyland"). She had worked in local radio prior to this show.
Another Wikipedia site mentions her dancing with bears (humans in
costume, no doubt) on her show.
 
^^Why did you capitalize the entire word "however", Russell W.? It may distract readers and give them the idea you wanted shout "however".
 
bpatrick said:
WCIQ Ch. 7 Cheaha State Park/WBIQ Ch. 10 Birmingham/
WHIQ Ch. 25 Huntsville/WFIQ Ch. 36 Florence (PBS)

10:30 Tribute To Jim Croce
...I know that Jim Croce and Maury Muehleisen had taped an installment of Made in Chicago at WTTW/11 Chicago before their fatal plane crash that September. By the following September, Made in Chicago had been renamed Soundstage and was much more widely distributed to PBS stations. I'm wondering if this program was in fact taken from that Made in Chicago taping and WTTW used this as a sort of pilot for Soundstage on a national basis?...
 
TV Guide didn't say, only that Croce taped this show about
a month before his death, so it could have been the WTTW
program you're talking about.
 
Mario-500 said:
^^Why did you capitalize the entire word "however", Russell W.? It may distract readers and give them the idea you wanted shout "however".

Maybe because I was trying to sound conversational instead of robotic, Mario.

I fully understand the hows and ways of these things. I do not need a lesson in doing so. I'm totally cognizant of the fact that typing all caps on multiple words implies the person is shouting. Sometimes, though, capitalizing a single word conveys emphasis. Imagine me talking.

Yes, I also know that italics, boldface, underscore or bookending a word with stars (okay, sorry, asterisks) serve the same effect.

You're one to talk about "distractions", Mario.

--Russell
 
bpatrick said:
Her last name was Burns, according to a Wikipedia site which
talks about her receiving an award on Ch. 15's local news (I
didn't look to see what year it was but it must have been the
early to mid-'70s since it was the 15th anniversary of "Earline
In Storyland").  She had worked in local radio prior to this show.
Another Wikipedia site mentions her dancing with bears (humans in
costume, no doubt) on her show.

I don't doubt anything that might have happened on that program.    ;D

Just think: had Channel 15's studios been located out in the boonies, and contained animal stalls in the back (as WTVY Ch. 4 in Dothan, Ala. had at their original studio site ... used for a weekend farm show), the opportunity could have existed for Earline to dance with real bears.  ;-D

--Russell
 
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