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Retro: Northern Indiana Sat, Sept 8, 1973

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Bluenoser

from TV Guide-Northern Indiana edition

WBBM 2-CBS Chicago
5:50 News
6:00 Summer Semester "Practical English for Hispanic Americans"
6:30 It's Worth Knowing
7:00 Flintstones
7:30 Bailey's Comets (premiere)
8:00 New Scooby-Doo Movies (season premiere, season #2) "The Mystery of Haunted Island"
9:00 My Favorite Martians (premiere)
9:30 Jeannie (premiere)
10:00 Speed Buggy (premiere)
10:30 Josie & the Pussycats in Outer Space
11:00 Everything's Archie
11:30 Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids (season premiere, season #2)
noon CBS Children's Film Festival "Jumping Over Puddles" (season premiere)
1:00 Different Drummers
1:30 Opportunity Line
2:00 Soul Train
3:00 US Open Tennis: women's finals/men's semis
5:00 Circus! (from Acapulco with Alberto Atayde and his horses, an African balancing act, and the Souza trapeze act)
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 News (Bill Kurtis)
6:30 Animal World (how animals in the desert beat the heat)
7:00 All in the Family
7:30 Bridget Loves Bernie (finale, M*A*S*H moves here next week)
8:00 Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Bob Newhart
9:00 Mission: Impossible
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "55 Days at Peking"
12:30 News
12:45 Common Ground
3:15 Movie "Appointment with a Shadow" (bw)

WMAQ 5-NBC Chicago
7:00 Lidsville
7:30 Inch High Private Eye (premiere)
8:00 Addams Family (premiere/animated)
8:30 Emergency Plus 4 (premiere)
9:00 Butch Cassidy (premiere)
9:30 Star Trek (premiere/animated)
10:00 Sigmund & the Sea Monsters (premiere)
10:30 Pink Panther
11:00 Jetsons
11:30 Go! (the series premieres with a look at the NYPD)
noon News
12:30 Celebrity Bowling: Christopher & Lynda Day George vs Rob Reiner/Penny Roberts
1:00 Baseball Pre-Game
1:15 Baseball: Detroit-Boston (Bill Enis/Maury Wills)
4:00 World Series of Golf
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Mouse Factory (looks at cars)
6:30 Interview with Hank Aaron (Irv Kupcinet interviews the baseball legend, who would break Babe Ruth's home run record in April 1974)
7:00 Emergency!
8:00 A Couple of Dons (Rickles and Adams, that is)
9:00 Miss America Pageant (the 53rd annual from Atlantic City, hosted by Bert Parks (his 19th time) and Miss America 1965 Vonda Van Dyke)
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show (guests Peter Falk, Vikki Carr, and Albert Brooks; Fort Wayne and Lima cleared the weekend Carson on Sundays at 10:30, no sign of it in South Bend as 16 opted to air late movies)
1:00 Movie "Carry On Regardless" (bw)

WLS 7-ABC Chicago
7:00 Bugs Bunny (premiere)
7:30 Yogi's Gang (premiere)
8:00 Super Friends (premiere)
9:00 Lassie's Rescue Rangers (premiere)
9:30 Goober & the Ghost Chasers (premiere)
10:00 Brady Kids (season premiere)
10:30 Mission: Magic! (premiere, hosted by Rick Springfield)
11:00 ABC Saturday Superstar Movie "Lost in Space" (season premiere)
noon American Bandstand (guest Curtis Mayfield)
1:00 Feminine Franchise (guests Larry & Susan Glick, owners of Chicago's Apartment Dweller store, show how to furnish a home or apartment on the cheap)
1:30 Vision On "Eggs"
2:00 ABC Wide World of Sports: TBA at press time, TVG's best guess was George Foreman defending his belt in Tokyo against Joe "King" Roman
3:30 College Football Pre-Game
3:45 College Football: UCLA-Nebraska
7:00 Partridge Family
7:30 Paul Lynde (finale)
8:00 ABC News Special "Woman's Place" (Bess Myerson hosts a special on how women are stereotyped and conditioned to accept traditional roles)
9:00 Burglary: The Easiest Crime ("Popeye" Eddie Egan, the inspiration for The French Connection, teams up with Fred Green to show the ways homeowners open themselves up for B&Es)
10:00 News
10:15 ABC News
10:30 Movie "Come September"
12:50 Movie "Portrait of a Mobster" (bw)

WGN 9-Ind Chicago
6:45 News
7:00 Funny Men
8:00 Untamed World
8:30 Movie "Prince Valiant"
11:45 Your Senators Report
noon Charlando
12:30 Wyatt Earp (bw)
1:00 Lead-Off Man
1:15 Baseball: the Cubs host St. Louis
4:00 Flipper
4:30 Broken Arrow (bw)
5:00 Lassie
5:30 Hogan's Heroes
6:00 Back Home with the King Family (the family pays tribute to their home state of Utah)
7:00 Star Trek
8:00 Movie "Terror in the Haunted House" (bw)
9:30 Alfred Hitchcock (bw)
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "The Hucksters" (bw)
12:45 News (McNeeley)
1:00 Movie "Beyond the 12-Mile Reef"
3:05 Alfred Hitchcock (bw)

WTTW 11-PBS Chicago
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Electric Company
8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10:00 Sesame Street
11:00 Electric Company
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Electric Company
1:00 Lilias, Yoga & You
1:30 Black Perspective on the News (black reporters grill Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense Lt-Gen Daniel James on race relations in the military and the effectiveness of the volunteer army)
2:00 Your Senators Report
2:30 Firing Line (British MP Michael Foot with the British take on Watergate)
3:30 Sesame Street
4:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Electric Company
6:30 TBA
7:00 TV College Preview
7:30 World Symphony Orchestra (from October 1971: Arthur Fiedler conducts this orchestra, which features 142 musicians from 58 countries at the grand opening of Walt Disney World)
9:00 Evening at Pops (guest: organist Virgil Fox)
10:00 The Violin
10:30 David Susskind "I was a Killer for the Mafia-Confessions of a 'Hit Man'"

WANE 15-CBS Fort Wayne
6:30 Mr. Magoo
7:00 Flintstones
7:30 Bailey's Comets (premiere)
8:00 New Scooby-Doo Movies (season premiere, season #2) "The Mystery of Haunted Island" 9:00 My Favorite Martians (premiere)
9:30 Jeannie (premiere)
10:00 Speed Buggy (premiere)
10:30 Josie & the Pussycats in Outer Space
11:00 Everything's Archie
11:30 Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids (season premiere, season #2)
noon CBS Children's Film Festival "Jumping Over Puddles" (season premiere)
1:00 Purdue Presents
1:30 Untamed World
2:00 Police Surgeon
2:30 Homer Formby
3:00 US Open Tennis: women's finals/men's semis
5:00 News
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 Hee Haw (guests Tammy Wynette, George Jones, and Patsy Seidd)
7:00 All in the Family
7:30 Bridget Loves Bernie (finale)
8:00 Miss Teenage Fort Wayne Pageant
9:00 Mission: Impossible
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "The Last Sunset"
12:30 Movie "Monsieur Beaucaire" (bw)

WNDU 16-NBC South Bend
8:00 Addams Family (premiere/animated)
8:30 Emergency Plus 4 (premiere)
9:00 Butch Cassidy (premiere)
9:30 Star Trek (premiere/animated)
10:00 Sigmund & the Sea Monsters (premiere)
10:30 Pink Panther
11:00 Jetsons
11:30 Go! (premiere)
noon Gentle Ben
12:30 Wally's Workshop
1:00 Baseball Pre-Game
1:15 Baseball: St. Louis-Cubs (Curt Gowdy/Tony Kubek; Tigers-BoSox was the alt game)
4:00 World Series of Golf
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Land of the Small (GE Monogram Month special, Gregory Peck takes viewers inside the insect world)
7:00 Emergency!
8:00 A Couple of Dons
9:00 Miss America Pageant
11:00 Movie "The Counterfeit Traitor" (bw)

WPTA 21-ABC Fort Wayne
6:30 Agriscope
7:00 Bugs Bunny (premiere)
7:30 Yogi's Gang (premiere)
8:00 Super Friends (premiere)
9:00 Lassie's Rescue Rangers (premiere)
9:30 Goober & the Ghost Chasers (premiere)
10:00 Brady Kids (season premiere)
10:30 Zoo's Who
11:00 ABC Saturday Superstar Movie "Lost in Space" (season premiere)
noon Showplace Homes
12:30 Soul Train (guests James Brown, Aretha Franklin, the Four Tops, the Jackson 5, the Supremes, Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, Chuck Berry, the Temptations, and the O'Jays)
1:30 Big 10 Highlights
2:00 ABC Wide World of Sports
3:30 College Football Pre-Game
3:45 College Football: UCLA-Nebraska
7:00 Partridge Family
7:30 Paul Lynde (finale)
8:00 Billy Graham Crusade "The Love of God" (from Seoul)
9:00 Lawrence Welk
10:00 World of Survival
10:30 Towards the Year 2000
11:00 News
11:30 Roller Derby
12:30 Wrestling
1:30 ABC News

WSBT 22-CBS South Bend
6:30 Summer Semester "Practical English for Hispanic Americans"
7:00 Flintstones
7:30 Bailey's Comets (premiere)
8:00 New Scooby-Doo Movies (season premiere, season #2) "The Mystery of Haunted Island"
9:00 My Favorite Martians (premiere)
9:30 Jeannie (premiere)
10:00 Speed Buggy (premiere)
10:30 Josie & the Pussycats in Outer Space
11:00 Everything's Archie
11:30 Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids (season premiere, season #2)
noon CBS Children's Film Festival "Jumping Over Puddles" (season premiere)
1:00 Soul Train (same guest line-up as ch 21)
2:00 Garner Ted Armstrong
2:30 This is Your Life
3:00 US Open Tennis: women's finals/men's semis
5:00 News
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 Lawrence Welk
7:00 All in the Family
7:30 Bridget Loves Bernie (finale)
8:00 Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Bob Newhart
9:00 Mission: Impossible
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "Lover Come Back"

WSJV 28-ABC South Bend
7:30 Yogi's Gang (premiere)
8:00 Super Friends (premiere)
9:00 Lassie's Rescue Rangers (premiere)
9:30 Goober & the Ghost Chasers (premiere)
10:00 Brady Kids (season premiere)
10:30 Mission: Magic! (premiere)
11:00 ABC Saturday Superstar Movie "Lost in Space" (season premiere)
noon American Bandstand (guest Curtis Mayfield)
1:00 Wrestling
2:00 ABC Wide World of Sports
3:30 College Football Pre-Game
3:45 College Football: UCLA-Nebraska
7:00 Partridge Family
7:30 Paul Lynde (finale)
8:00 ABC News Special "Woman's Place"
9:00 Movie "Flying Deuces" (bw)
10:15 Movie "Man-Made Monster" (bw)
11:30 Movie "The Secret of the Blue Room" (bw)
12:45 ABC News

WFLD 32-Ind Chicago
8:00 Movie "Molemen Against the Son of Hercules"
10:00 Movie "Formula C-12/Beirut"
noon Movie "Saps at Sea" (bw)
1:30 Movie "The Last Woman on Earth"
3:00 Movie "The Man Called Gringo"
4:30 Lassie "Deadly Surf"
5:00 NFL Action '73 "Some Gotta Lose" (a look at NFL losers)
5:30 Beverly Hillbillies
6:00 Wild Wild West
7:00 Little Rascals
7:30 Laurel & Hardy "Brats" (bw)
8:00 Movie "Gone are the Days!" (bw)
10:00 Rifleman (bw)
10:30 Lou Gordon
mid. Reaching Up
12:30 Consultation (discussing zero population growth)

WKJG 33-NBC Fort Wayne
6:00 Captain Noah
6:30 Rocky & His Friends (Bullwinkle)
7:00 Lidsville
7:30 Inch High Private Eye (premiere)
8:00 Addams Family (premiere/animated)
8:30 Emergency Plus 4 (premiere)
9:00 Butch Cassidy (premiere)
9:30 Star Trek (premiere/animated)
10:00 Sigmund & the Sea Monsters (premiere)
10:30 Pink Panther
11:00 Jetsons
11:30 Go! (premiere)
noon Black Omnibus
1:00 Baseball Pre-Game
1:15 Baseball: St. Louis-Cubs (alt game: Detroit-Boston)
4:00 World Series of Golf
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 This is Your Life (Air Force Cross winner T/Sgt Michael Fish gets surprised by 6 of the 18 men he rescued in combat)
6:30 Bobby Goldsboro (guest Rod McKuen)
7:00 Emergency!
8:00 A Couple of Dons
9:00 Miss America Pageant
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Desperate Hours" (bw)

WLIO 35-NBC/ABC Lima
7:00 Lidsville
7:30 Inch High Private Eye (premiere)
8:00 Addams Family (premiere/animated)
8:30 Emergency Plus 4 (premiere)
9:00 Butch Cassidy (premiere)
9:30 Star Trek (premiere/animated)
10:00 Sigmund & the Sea Monsters (premiere)
10:30 Pink Panther
11:00 Jetsons
11:30 Go! (premiere)
noon Wrestling
1:00 Baseball Pre-Game
1:15 Baseball: St. Louis-Cubs (alt: Detroit-Boston)
4:00 College Football: UCLA-Nebraska (JIP)
7:00 Emergency!
8:00 A Couple of Dons
9:00 Miss America Pageant
11:00 News
11:15 Movie "Wild Seed" (bw)
 
Bluenoser said:
from TV Guide-Northern Indiana edition

WBBM 2-CBS Chicago
8:00 New Scooby-Doo Movies (season premiere, season #2) "The Mystery of Haunted Island"
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Starring the animated Harlem Globetrotters.

Bluenoser said:
7:00 All in the Family
7:30 Bridget Loves Bernie (finale, M*A*S*H moves here next week)
8:00 Mary Tyler Moore
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I recall a Mad Magazine parody on "M*A*S*H" around this time, entitled "M*A*S*H*U*G*A", in which at the end, Hawkeye and the gang found themselves surrounded, not by the enemy, but by Archie Bunker and Mary Tyler Moore, in order to prop up M*A*S*H's ratings. And in real life, it worked, and Saturday nights on CBS became appointment viewing.
 
Corky Marlowe said:
2:00 Police Surgeon
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The followup and/or spinoff to "Dr. Simon Locke", the Canadian TV show mentioned in a thread waaaayy back on this site as one of the worst TV shows of all time.
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...in fact, it was so bad that I don't think it's been widely rerun in Canada, even to satisfy Canadian Content regulations...
 
I recall a Mad Magazine parody on "M*A*S*H" around this time, entitled "M*A*S*H*U*G*A", in which at the end, Hawkeye and the gang found themselves surrounded, not by the enemy, but by Archie Bunker and Mary Tyler Moore, in order to prop up M*A*S*H's ratings. And in real life, it worked, and Saturday nights on CBS became appointment viewing.
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Still the best single night prime time schedule ever, and it only lasted 1 season...those 3 shows followed by Bob Newhart and Carol Burnett.
 
"M*A*S*H" soon became Fred Silverman's not-so-secret weapon;
he used it to knock down the ratings on other networks; for example,
in 1974 he put it against ABC's "Tuesday Movie Of The Week," which
didn't return in 1975; in 1975 he put it against "Chico And The Man,"
and that show never recovered its first-season strength. After Silverman
went to ABC, "M*A*S*H" ran against "Three's Company" for a time, perhaps
keeping that show from becoming number one.

I noticed a program on WBBM called "It's Worth Knowing." IIRC, that was
the original title of "Camera Three" when it was a local program on WCBS
(1953-56). Either shortly before, or at the time, it went network, somebody
asked host James Macandrew how many cameras he was using. "Three," he
said. The other person said something to the effect that he ought to rename
it "Camera Three."
 
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