Listing found somewhere I cannot remember, perhaps my grandmother's trash-can:
Bombingham, Alabama:
(3) WSHT (NBC)
(7) WFCK (ABC)
(11) WDMN (CBS)
(37) WNRD (PBS)
Spaced-Out, Alabama:
(24) WPSY (CBS)
(37) WBCH (NBC)
(72) WHOP (ABC)
(82) WEGH (PBS)
Hen House, Mississippi:
(5) WHIP (CBS)
Frog Pad, Mississippi:
(2) WIZZ (NBC)
Stool Pigeon, Tennessee:
(1) WSCK (Ind.)
(8; sometimes 9) WUSS (NBC)
(16) WIMP (CBS; ABC tertiary)
MORNING
6:00
(5) Rooster's Crow
Get up and get out in the field and go to work. Besides, your cows cannot wait for the "Today Show" to come on.
(7) Bozo Show
Featuring Bull Connor as everyone's favorite clown, with special appearance by Gov. George Wallace as Cooky today.
(37) Rocket Tests
Live from Marshall Space Flight Center; sponsored by Charlie's Fireworks Stand.
6:30
(1) Felix the Cat
The popular feline gets housebroken on this episode--and takes it out on a turntable.
(2) Cowboy George and His Nose-Pickers
Country music, like we like it. Go to hell, Nashville.
(24) Breakfast-Makin' with Mama
Recipes: Gun-powder biscuits, arsenic-crusted bacon, and, the piece d'resistance, grits spiced with Papa's cigar ash.
7:00
(2) (3) (8) (37) Today Show
Lou Ups interviews Martha Mitchell about techniques to irritate people; Ba-Ba Wa-Wa examines the relationship between women's hair length and their affinity for feminism; Jim Granola goes out on the town with Joe Namath to a drug dealer's pad, in a filmed segment. (Maybe live, can't tell for certain; 2 hours, give or take.)
(11) (16) (24) CBS Morning News
Since you viewers go ga-ga over Cronkite at night, why don't you tune in in the daytime? We don't bite.
9:00
(7) (72) ABC's Free For All
A bold new experiment in daytime: Howard Cosell, Howard K. Smith, and Howard Hughes host this hour of hijinks, hilarity, hubris, hog-snorting, and hell-raising.
(every other channel) Just a Bunch of Silly Games, Moronic Talk Shows, and Tacky Soaps
You don't have time to watch this *#&$#@ anyway, so turn the blasted set off, for crying out loud.
EVENING
6:00
(1) Manhattan Billhillies
Jed tries to make Granny into a society matron, but she refuses to free her hair from that old bun or get plastic surgery.
(2) (3) (5) (7) (9) (11) (16) (24) (37) (72) News
(chs. 2 & 72 do not colorcast)
(37) (82) Sesame Street
Oscar the Grouch finally gets out of the can and goes on a rampage; Bert and Ernie throw the rubber ducky away; Kermit admits, "Oh yes, it is easy being green--especially when someone else is pulling your strings." Sponsors: Z, Z, and Z.
6:30
(1) Some Damn Movie
(the station couldn't be bothered to send TV Guide the title and description; so we don't recommend you watching.)
(2) (9) (24) (72) Mission Improbable
The IMZ races against time to free a foreign princess from her 18-hour girdle.
(3) (11) We'll See About That
New situation comedy featuring Mickey Rooney trying to get some order into his fractious household, with a scatterbrained wife, a naive daughter, and a headstrong son-in-law complicating his life. An original concept by Norma Steer.
(5) (7) (16) (37) My Thirty-Three Sons
Steve fosters a new relationship, this time with Old Mother Hubbard.
7:00
(2) (3) (16) (24) Can You Take It?
Panel game featuring Henry Morgan, Ed Sullivan, Jackie Gleason, and Rocky Marciano (or a facsimile thereof), who try to endure KGB torture. Taped in Leningrad, Soviet Union.
(5) (9) (11) (37) If the Shoe Fits, Wear It
Eve Arden and Audrey Meadows play two haggard housewives who spend the half hour complaining about their husband's gas problems, their children's rude manners and sloppy rooms, and their own bad breath and gray hair. Sponsored by Ex-Lax.
(37) (82) Mister Rogers' Flophouse
Our sweater-clad hero goes on location to the inner city, where he tries to talk sense and wholesome values to recent parolees, prostitutes, and potheads.
7:30
Now, come on, haven't you seen enough already? Get a life, man. Cut the dern boob tube off and go out to the club and get wasted, like a good American should. You'll have all the days when you're laid up in the nursing home to catch up on your Tee-Vee.
(This notice issued by order of the Federal Communications Commission and the National Liquor Association.)
Bombingham, Alabama:
(3) WSHT (NBC)
(7) WFCK (ABC)
(11) WDMN (CBS)
(37) WNRD (PBS)
Spaced-Out, Alabama:
(24) WPSY (CBS)
(37) WBCH (NBC)
(72) WHOP (ABC)
(82) WEGH (PBS)
Hen House, Mississippi:
(5) WHIP (CBS)
Frog Pad, Mississippi:
(2) WIZZ (NBC)
Stool Pigeon, Tennessee:
(1) WSCK (Ind.)
(8; sometimes 9) WUSS (NBC)
(16) WIMP (CBS; ABC tertiary)
MORNING
6:00
(5) Rooster's Crow
Get up and get out in the field and go to work. Besides, your cows cannot wait for the "Today Show" to come on.
(7) Bozo Show
Featuring Bull Connor as everyone's favorite clown, with special appearance by Gov. George Wallace as Cooky today.
(37) Rocket Tests
Live from Marshall Space Flight Center; sponsored by Charlie's Fireworks Stand.
6:30
(1) Felix the Cat
The popular feline gets housebroken on this episode--and takes it out on a turntable.
(2) Cowboy George and His Nose-Pickers
Country music, like we like it. Go to hell, Nashville.
(24) Breakfast-Makin' with Mama
Recipes: Gun-powder biscuits, arsenic-crusted bacon, and, the piece d'resistance, grits spiced with Papa's cigar ash.
7:00
(2) (3) (8) (37) Today Show
Lou Ups interviews Martha Mitchell about techniques to irritate people; Ba-Ba Wa-Wa examines the relationship between women's hair length and their affinity for feminism; Jim Granola goes out on the town with Joe Namath to a drug dealer's pad, in a filmed segment. (Maybe live, can't tell for certain; 2 hours, give or take.)
(11) (16) (24) CBS Morning News
Since you viewers go ga-ga over Cronkite at night, why don't you tune in in the daytime? We don't bite.
9:00
(7) (72) ABC's Free For All
A bold new experiment in daytime: Howard Cosell, Howard K. Smith, and Howard Hughes host this hour of hijinks, hilarity, hubris, hog-snorting, and hell-raising.
(every other channel) Just a Bunch of Silly Games, Moronic Talk Shows, and Tacky Soaps
You don't have time to watch this *#&$#@ anyway, so turn the blasted set off, for crying out loud.
EVENING
6:00
(1) Manhattan Billhillies
Jed tries to make Granny into a society matron, but she refuses to free her hair from that old bun or get plastic surgery.
(2) (3) (5) (7) (9) (11) (16) (24) (37) (72) News
(chs. 2 & 72 do not colorcast)
(37) (82) Sesame Street
Oscar the Grouch finally gets out of the can and goes on a rampage; Bert and Ernie throw the rubber ducky away; Kermit admits, "Oh yes, it is easy being green--especially when someone else is pulling your strings." Sponsors: Z, Z, and Z.
6:30
(1) Some Damn Movie
(the station couldn't be bothered to send TV Guide the title and description; so we don't recommend you watching.)
(2) (9) (24) (72) Mission Improbable
The IMZ races against time to free a foreign princess from her 18-hour girdle.
(3) (11) We'll See About That
New situation comedy featuring Mickey Rooney trying to get some order into his fractious household, with a scatterbrained wife, a naive daughter, and a headstrong son-in-law complicating his life. An original concept by Norma Steer.
(5) (7) (16) (37) My Thirty-Three Sons
Steve fosters a new relationship, this time with Old Mother Hubbard.
7:00
(2) (3) (16) (24) Can You Take It?
Panel game featuring Henry Morgan, Ed Sullivan, Jackie Gleason, and Rocky Marciano (or a facsimile thereof), who try to endure KGB torture. Taped in Leningrad, Soviet Union.
(5) (9) (11) (37) If the Shoe Fits, Wear It
Eve Arden and Audrey Meadows play two haggard housewives who spend the half hour complaining about their husband's gas problems, their children's rude manners and sloppy rooms, and their own bad breath and gray hair. Sponsored by Ex-Lax.
(37) (82) Mister Rogers' Flophouse
Our sweater-clad hero goes on location to the inner city, where he tries to talk sense and wholesome values to recent parolees, prostitutes, and potheads.
7:30
Now, come on, haven't you seen enough already? Get a life, man. Cut the dern boob tube off and go out to the club and get wasted, like a good American should. You'll have all the days when you're laid up in the nursing home to catch up on your Tee-Vee.
(This notice issued by order of the Federal Communications Commission and the National Liquor Association.)
