[SOURCES: TV Guide, New York Metropolitan Edition, Oct. 21-27, 1972; also, day's listings in The New York Times, Daily News, New York Post, Connecticut Sunday Herald (Oct. 22, 1972 issue) and Red Bank (NJ) Daily Register (Oct. 27, 1972 issue); show episode info, where applicable, courtesy IMDb and TV.com]
(NOTE: WEDW listings from Sunday Herald; this station did not appear in TV Guide until 1973)
(R) - rerun (if episode specifics are unknown or were in Part 1)
WLIW-TV 21 Garden City, NY (PBS affiliate; owned by the Long Island Educational Television Council)
1:00p Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (BW)
1:30p The Electric Company - #115 (lessons on S and T) [original airdate 3/31/72]
2:00p Spanish (instruction) (BW)
2:30p Hathayoga (yoga positions: half and full shoulder triangle, plough, choke)
3:00p Nine to Get Ready
3:30p Folk Guitar (a demonstration of the drum roll) (BW)
4:00p Ducks or Docks (ecologists vs. economists at Washington state's Puget Sound area)
5:00p The Electric Company (repeat of 1:30p)
5:30p Sesame Street - #375 (Tom explains the need to clean up the air) [original airdate 3/24/72]
6:30p Spanish (instruction) (BW)
7:00p Folk Guitar (repeat of 3:30p)
7:30p Executive's Roundtable (BW)
8:00p Jazz Set (rock blends with jazz in series finale; with pianist Barry Miles) (BW)
8:30p Evening at Pops (featured: The New York Rock and Roll Ensemble)
9:30p News/Sports/Weather (BW)
9:45p Hathayoga (repeat of 2:30p)
followed by sign-off
WNYE-TV 25 New York (Educational, secondary PBS affiliate; owned by Board of Education of City of New York)
9:00a The Electric Company
9:30a School Television Service (social studies, history, language arts, ecology, consumer education and geography) (BW)
12:00p Community Schools (BW)
12:30p School Television Service (Spanish, social studies, communication arts, math and law enforcement) (BW)
3:00p Just Generation (BW)
3:30p Family Game (BW)
4:00p Community Schools (BW)
6:00p Sesame Street (counting in Spanish) (BW)
7:00p The Electric Company (Bill Cosby gives a lesson in "tion") (BW)
7:30p Book Beat (a look at "The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing" by Marilyn Durham) (BW)
8:00p The First Edition: Tell It All (a backstage look at Kenny Rogers & The First Edition; filmed in September 1971) (60 min.)
followed by sign-off
WNYC-TV 31 New York ("Independent"/secondary PBS affiliate; owned by Municipal Broadcasting System)
(translator: Ch. 79)
12:00p Around the Clock
12:30p Police Commissioner
1:00p Sesame Street (same as 6:00p, Ch. 25)
2:00p Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (how to play the kettledrum)
3:00p Soul!
4:00p Firing Line with William F. Buckley, Jr. - "Sex Education" (featured: Dr. Mary Calderone, Dr. Joel Fort) (taped 10/3/72)
5:00p World Press
5:30p News
5:40p OTB Report with Jeff Erdel
5:45p New Horizons
6:00p The Electric Company (same as 7:00p, Ch. 25)
6:30p Around the Clock
7:00p On the Job (Fire Dept.)
7:30p Brooklyn College Presents (a look at the future of Lincoln Center with chairman of the board Amyas Ames and director
John Mazzola)
8:00p University Broadcast Lab (a musical documentary on the life of Billie Holiday)
8:30p Black Journal (Vince Matthews discusses his and Wayne Collett's being barred from future Olympic competition
after ignoring "The Star-Spangled Banner")
9:00p Masterpiece Theatre with Alistair Cooke - "Vanity Fair" (Chapter 3)
10:00p Urban Challenge (topic: civil liberties)
10:30p Your Right to Say It
11:00p U.N. General Assembly
followed by sign-off
WXTV 41 Paterson, NJ (Independent; owned by Trans-Tel Corp.)
6:00p Noticias
7:00p El Amore Tiene Cara de Mujer
8:00p La Cosquilla (BW)
9:00p Ernesto Alonso (BW)
10:00p Lucia Sombra (BW)
11:00p Pelicula: "La Mujer de Todos" (in Spanish) - Maria Felix (BW) (90 min.)
followed by sign-off
WNJU-TV 47 Linden/Newark, NJ (Independent; owned by Screen Gems Broadcasting Corp.)
4:15p Rodeo (BW)
5:15p Extrano Paraiso
5:45p Noticias - Iglesias/Torres (BW)
6:00p Maria de Mar
6:30p Mujer Prohibida
7:30p Escenario con Velda
8:30p Las Caribelles
9:00p Esmeralda (BW)
10:00p Mike Hammer
10:30p Noticias
11:00p Pelicula: "Marido Ambulante" (dubbed in Spanish) - Lucille Ball (90 min.)
followed by sign-off
WTIC-TV 3 Hartford, CT (CBS affiliate; owned by Travelers Broadcasting Corp.)
5:50a Prayer
5:55a Town Crier
6:00a Sunrise Semester (Law and Morality: approaches to curbing drug abuse)
6:30a On the Agenda
7:00a CBS Morning News with John Hart
(this and other CBS network programs same as on WCBS-TV unless otherwise noted)
8:00a Captain Kangaroo
9:00a Hap Richards
9:15a Yogi Bear
9:30a The Joker's Wild
10:00a Mid-Morning Movie: "So This Is Paris" (1954) - Tony Curtis, Gloria De Haven
11:30a Love of Life
12:00p Twelve O'Clock Report with Dick Bertel
12:25p CBS Midday News with Douglas Edwards
12:30p Perry Mason - "The Case of 'The Purple Woman' " (BW) [original airdate 12/6/58]
1:30p As the World Turns
2:00p The Guiding Light
2:30p Search for Tomorrow (delayed from 12:30p)
3:00p Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
3:30p Ranger Station
4:00p The Andy Griffith Show - "Mind Over Matter" [original airdate 10/31/66]
4:30p The Merv Griffin Show (same as 8:30p, WNEW-TV)
6:00p News/Sports/Weather
6:30p CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
7:00p Young Dr. Kildare - "The Thing With Features"
7:30p What's Happening
8:00p The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
9:00p The CBS Friday Night Movies: "The McKenzie Break"
11:00p News/Sports/Weather
11:15p Weather (C)
11:20p Sports - Doug Webster (C)
11:30p Starlight Movie: "The Oscar" (1966) - Stephen Boyd, Elke Sommer, Tony Bennett
1:45a The CBS Late Movie (same as on WCBS-TV at 11:30p)
3:45a News and Weather
followed by sign-off
WTNH-TV 8 New Haven, CT (ABC affiliate; owned by Capital Cities Communications, Inc.)
6:10a Davey and Goliath
6:25a Dialogue (a look at culture, needs and problems of Polish-Americans) (R)
6:40a A New Day
6:55a News
7:00a Make a Wish (a visit to Druid ruins of Stonehenge and a look at polar bears in San Diego Zoo)
(delayed from Sunday mornings)
(all other ABC network programs same as on WABC-TV unless otherwise noted)
7:30a Cartoon Carnival
8:00a New Zoo Revue
8:30a I Love Lucy - "Lucy Gets Ricky on the Radio" (BW) [original airdate 5/19/52]
9:00a The Phil Donahue Show (scheduled: changing trends in men's fashions)
10:00a Dialing for Dollars
11:00a Mid-Day News
11:30a Bewitched (R)
12:00p Password
12:30p Split Second
1:00p What's My Line?
1:30p Let's Make a Deal
2:00p The Newlywed Game
2:30p The Dating Game
3:00p General Hospital
3:30p One Life to Live
4:00p Million Dollar Movie - "What a Way to Go" (1964) - Shirley MacLaine, Dean Martin
6:00p Action News
6:30p ABC Evening News with Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner
7:00p Truth or Consequences
7:30p Lassie - "The Deadly Surf"
8:00p The Brady Bunch
8:30p The Partridge Family
9:00p Room 222
9:30p The Odd Couple
10:00p Love, American Style
11:00p Action News
12:30p The Dick Cavett Show
1:00a News
followed by sign-off
WATR-TV 20 Waterbury, CT (NBC affiliate; owned by WATR-TV, Inc.)
7:00a Today (this and other NBC network programs same as on WNBC-TV unless otherwise noted)
9:00a Romper Room
10:00a Dinah's Place
10:30a Concentration
11:00a Sale of the Century
11:30a The Hollywood Squares
12:00p Jeopardy!
12:30p The Who, What or Where Game
12:55p NBC News - Floyd Kalber
1:00p Watch Your Child (same as on WNBC-TV at 9:30a)
1:30p Three on a Match
2:00p Days of our Lives
2:30p The Doctors
3:00p Another World
3:30p Return to Peyton Place
4:00p Somerset
4:30p My Little Margie - "Hillbilly Margie" (BW) [original airdate 2/12/53]
5:00p Sports - Al Vestro (BW)
5:15p News (BW)
5:30p Societies in Transitions (BW)
6:00p Sounding Board (BW)
7:00p NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor
7:30p Make Room for Daddy - "Cupid's Little Helper" (BW) [original airdate 10/26/59]
8:00p Sanford and Son
8:30p The Little People
9:00p Ghost Story
10:00p Banyon
11:00p Have Gun, Will Travel - "The Hanging of Roy Carter" (BW) [original airdate 10/4/58]
(TRIVIA NOTE: Written by Gene Roddenberry)
11:30p The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (C)
followed by sign-off
WEDW 49 Bridgeport (PBS affiliate; owned by Connecticut Public Television)
8:30a People
8:50a Yes, No, Maybe
9:10a Guten Tag
9:35a Celebrate a Book
10:00a Sesame Street
11:00a Family Game
11:20a If You Live in the City
11:45a En Francais
12:00p Womankind - "Adam's Rib"
12:30p Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
1:00p Why
1:15p Consumer Education
1:30p The Electric Company (this and other PBS programs same as on WNET unless otherwise noted)
2:00p Stories Without Words
2:20p This Is Connecticut
2:40p Community of Living Things
4:00p Sesame Street
6:30p World Press
7:00p Make-Up of a Clown
7:30p Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser
8:00p Washington Week in Review
8:30p The Last Sweet Days of Isaac
10:00p The State of Connecticut
10:35p Evening Edition with Marvin Agronsky
followed by sign-off
(NOTE: WEDW listings from Sunday Herald; this station did not appear in TV Guide until 1973)
(R) - rerun (if episode specifics are unknown or were in Part 1)
WLIW-TV 21 Garden City, NY (PBS affiliate; owned by the Long Island Educational Television Council)
1:00p Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (BW)
1:30p The Electric Company - #115 (lessons on S and T) [original airdate 3/31/72]
2:00p Spanish (instruction) (BW)
2:30p Hathayoga (yoga positions: half and full shoulder triangle, plough, choke)
3:00p Nine to Get Ready
3:30p Folk Guitar (a demonstration of the drum roll) (BW)
4:00p Ducks or Docks (ecologists vs. economists at Washington state's Puget Sound area)
5:00p The Electric Company (repeat of 1:30p)
5:30p Sesame Street - #375 (Tom explains the need to clean up the air) [original airdate 3/24/72]
6:30p Spanish (instruction) (BW)
7:00p Folk Guitar (repeat of 3:30p)
7:30p Executive's Roundtable (BW)
8:00p Jazz Set (rock blends with jazz in series finale; with pianist Barry Miles) (BW)
8:30p Evening at Pops (featured: The New York Rock and Roll Ensemble)
9:30p News/Sports/Weather (BW)
9:45p Hathayoga (repeat of 2:30p)
followed by sign-off
WNYE-TV 25 New York (Educational, secondary PBS affiliate; owned by Board of Education of City of New York)
9:00a The Electric Company
9:30a School Television Service (social studies, history, language arts, ecology, consumer education and geography) (BW)
12:00p Community Schools (BW)
12:30p School Television Service (Spanish, social studies, communication arts, math and law enforcement) (BW)
3:00p Just Generation (BW)
3:30p Family Game (BW)
4:00p Community Schools (BW)
6:00p Sesame Street (counting in Spanish) (BW)
7:00p The Electric Company (Bill Cosby gives a lesson in "tion") (BW)
7:30p Book Beat (a look at "The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing" by Marilyn Durham) (BW)
8:00p The First Edition: Tell It All (a backstage look at Kenny Rogers & The First Edition; filmed in September 1971) (60 min.)
followed by sign-off
WNYC-TV 31 New York ("Independent"/secondary PBS affiliate; owned by Municipal Broadcasting System)
(translator: Ch. 79)
12:00p Around the Clock
12:30p Police Commissioner
1:00p Sesame Street (same as 6:00p, Ch. 25)
2:00p Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (how to play the kettledrum)
3:00p Soul!
4:00p Firing Line with William F. Buckley, Jr. - "Sex Education" (featured: Dr. Mary Calderone, Dr. Joel Fort) (taped 10/3/72)
5:00p World Press
5:30p News
5:40p OTB Report with Jeff Erdel
5:45p New Horizons
6:00p The Electric Company (same as 7:00p, Ch. 25)
6:30p Around the Clock
7:00p On the Job (Fire Dept.)
7:30p Brooklyn College Presents (a look at the future of Lincoln Center with chairman of the board Amyas Ames and director
John Mazzola)
8:00p University Broadcast Lab (a musical documentary on the life of Billie Holiday)
8:30p Black Journal (Vince Matthews discusses his and Wayne Collett's being barred from future Olympic competition
after ignoring "The Star-Spangled Banner")
9:00p Masterpiece Theatre with Alistair Cooke - "Vanity Fair" (Chapter 3)
10:00p Urban Challenge (topic: civil liberties)
10:30p Your Right to Say It
11:00p U.N. General Assembly
followed by sign-off
WXTV 41 Paterson, NJ (Independent; owned by Trans-Tel Corp.)
6:00p Noticias
7:00p El Amore Tiene Cara de Mujer
8:00p La Cosquilla (BW)
9:00p Ernesto Alonso (BW)
10:00p Lucia Sombra (BW)
11:00p Pelicula: "La Mujer de Todos" (in Spanish) - Maria Felix (BW) (90 min.)
followed by sign-off
WNJU-TV 47 Linden/Newark, NJ (Independent; owned by Screen Gems Broadcasting Corp.)
4:15p Rodeo (BW)
5:15p Extrano Paraiso
5:45p Noticias - Iglesias/Torres (BW)
6:00p Maria de Mar
6:30p Mujer Prohibida
7:30p Escenario con Velda
8:30p Las Caribelles
9:00p Esmeralda (BW)
10:00p Mike Hammer
10:30p Noticias
11:00p Pelicula: "Marido Ambulante" (dubbed in Spanish) - Lucille Ball (90 min.)
followed by sign-off
WTIC-TV 3 Hartford, CT (CBS affiliate; owned by Travelers Broadcasting Corp.)
5:50a Prayer
5:55a Town Crier
6:00a Sunrise Semester (Law and Morality: approaches to curbing drug abuse)
6:30a On the Agenda
7:00a CBS Morning News with John Hart
(this and other CBS network programs same as on WCBS-TV unless otherwise noted)
8:00a Captain Kangaroo
9:00a Hap Richards
9:15a Yogi Bear
9:30a The Joker's Wild
10:00a Mid-Morning Movie: "So This Is Paris" (1954) - Tony Curtis, Gloria De Haven
11:30a Love of Life
12:00p Twelve O'Clock Report with Dick Bertel
12:25p CBS Midday News with Douglas Edwards
12:30p Perry Mason - "The Case of 'The Purple Woman' " (BW) [original airdate 12/6/58]
1:30p As the World Turns
2:00p The Guiding Light
2:30p Search for Tomorrow (delayed from 12:30p)
3:00p Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
3:30p Ranger Station
4:00p The Andy Griffith Show - "Mind Over Matter" [original airdate 10/31/66]
4:30p The Merv Griffin Show (same as 8:30p, WNEW-TV)
6:00p News/Sports/Weather
6:30p CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
7:00p Young Dr. Kildare - "The Thing With Features"
7:30p What's Happening
8:00p The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
9:00p The CBS Friday Night Movies: "The McKenzie Break"
11:00p News/Sports/Weather
11:15p Weather (C)
11:20p Sports - Doug Webster (C)
11:30p Starlight Movie: "The Oscar" (1966) - Stephen Boyd, Elke Sommer, Tony Bennett
1:45a The CBS Late Movie (same as on WCBS-TV at 11:30p)
3:45a News and Weather
followed by sign-off
WTNH-TV 8 New Haven, CT (ABC affiliate; owned by Capital Cities Communications, Inc.)
6:10a Davey and Goliath
6:25a Dialogue (a look at culture, needs and problems of Polish-Americans) (R)
6:40a A New Day
6:55a News
7:00a Make a Wish (a visit to Druid ruins of Stonehenge and a look at polar bears in San Diego Zoo)
(delayed from Sunday mornings)
(all other ABC network programs same as on WABC-TV unless otherwise noted)
7:30a Cartoon Carnival
8:00a New Zoo Revue
8:30a I Love Lucy - "Lucy Gets Ricky on the Radio" (BW) [original airdate 5/19/52]
9:00a The Phil Donahue Show (scheduled: changing trends in men's fashions)
10:00a Dialing for Dollars
11:00a Mid-Day News
11:30a Bewitched (R)
12:00p Password
12:30p Split Second
1:00p What's My Line?
1:30p Let's Make a Deal
2:00p The Newlywed Game
2:30p The Dating Game
3:00p General Hospital
3:30p One Life to Live
4:00p Million Dollar Movie - "What a Way to Go" (1964) - Shirley MacLaine, Dean Martin
6:00p Action News
6:30p ABC Evening News with Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner
7:00p Truth or Consequences
7:30p Lassie - "The Deadly Surf"
8:00p The Brady Bunch
8:30p The Partridge Family
9:00p Room 222
9:30p The Odd Couple
10:00p Love, American Style
11:00p Action News
12:30p The Dick Cavett Show
1:00a News
followed by sign-off
WATR-TV 20 Waterbury, CT (NBC affiliate; owned by WATR-TV, Inc.)
7:00a Today (this and other NBC network programs same as on WNBC-TV unless otherwise noted)
9:00a Romper Room
10:00a Dinah's Place
10:30a Concentration
11:00a Sale of the Century
11:30a The Hollywood Squares
12:00p Jeopardy!
12:30p The Who, What or Where Game
12:55p NBC News - Floyd Kalber
1:00p Watch Your Child (same as on WNBC-TV at 9:30a)
1:30p Three on a Match
2:00p Days of our Lives
2:30p The Doctors
3:00p Another World
3:30p Return to Peyton Place
4:00p Somerset
4:30p My Little Margie - "Hillbilly Margie" (BW) [original airdate 2/12/53]
5:00p Sports - Al Vestro (BW)
5:15p News (BW)
5:30p Societies in Transitions (BW)
6:00p Sounding Board (BW)
7:00p NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor
7:30p Make Room for Daddy - "Cupid's Little Helper" (BW) [original airdate 10/26/59]
8:00p Sanford and Son
8:30p The Little People
9:00p Ghost Story
10:00p Banyon
11:00p Have Gun, Will Travel - "The Hanging of Roy Carter" (BW) [original airdate 10/4/58]
(TRIVIA NOTE: Written by Gene Roddenberry)
11:30p The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (C)
followed by sign-off
WEDW 49 Bridgeport (PBS affiliate; owned by Connecticut Public Television)
8:30a People
8:50a Yes, No, Maybe
9:10a Guten Tag
9:35a Celebrate a Book
10:00a Sesame Street
11:00a Family Game
11:20a If You Live in the City
11:45a En Francais
12:00p Womankind - "Adam's Rib"
12:30p Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
1:00p Why
1:15p Consumer Education
1:30p The Electric Company (this and other PBS programs same as on WNET unless otherwise noted)
2:00p Stories Without Words
2:20p This Is Connecticut
2:40p Community of Living Things
4:00p Sesame Street
6:30p World Press
7:00p Make-Up of a Clown
7:30p Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser
8:00p Washington Week in Review
8:30p The Last Sweet Days of Isaac
10:00p The State of Connecticut
10:35p Evening Edition with Marvin Agronsky
followed by sign-off