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Retro: Ohio - Thursday, March 1, 1973 (170th Statehood Anniversary)

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Cincinnati

Soap operas marked with an asterisk (*) produced by Cincinnati-based Proctor & Gamble Productions.

5 WLWT (NBC)
6:15 Moment of Meditation
6:20 Good Morning
6:30 TV Education - University of Michigan
7:00 Today
9:00 Paul Dixon
10:30 Phil Donahue - Guests: Three girls from the Toledo Troupers Pro Girls Football Team demonstrate their skills.
11:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Wally Cox (final week; died Feb. 15), Rose Marie, Joey Bishop, George Foreman, Paul Lynde, Lynda Day George, Charley Weaver, Jo Anne Worley, Vincent Price
NOON Bob Braun's 50-50 Club
1:30 Three on a Match
2:00 Days of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World*
3:30 Peyton Place
4:00 I Dream of Jeannie
4:30 Dick Van Dyke
5:00 Bonanza
6:00 Action News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Beat the Clock - Gene Wood
7:30 Mouse Factory
8:00 Flip Wilson - Guests: Tim Conway, Joe Namath, Papa John Creach
9:00 Ironside: "Another Shell Game"
10:00 Dean Martin - Guests: Ginger Rogers, Norm Crosby, Leonard Barr (Dean's uncle)
11:00 Action News
11:30 Tonight Show - Guests: Diana Ross, Charles Grodin; Performer: Pat Boone

9 WCPO (CBS)
5:50 Farm News
6:00 Sunrise Semester
6:30 TV Education - Focus on Environment
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Uncle Al
10:00 Joker's Wild
10:30 Price is Right
11:00 Gambit
11:30 Vin Scully - Guests: Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam
NOON Noon Report
1:00 Search for Tomorrow
1:30 As the World Turns*
2:00 Guiding Light*
2:30 Edge of Night* (Cincinnati skyline was used for the intro.)
3:00 Secret Storm
3:30 Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
4:00 Early Nine Movie: "A Ticklish Affair" (1963) - Shirley Jones, Gig Young, Red Buttons, Carolyn Jones (no relation to Shirley), Edgar Buchanan
6:00 Al Shottekote News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Truth or Consequences
7:30 Let's Make a Deal
8:00 Waltons: "The Bicycle"
9:00 CBS Thursday Night Movies: "Honor Thy Father" (Premiere) - Joseph Bologna, Brenda Vaccaro
11:00 Al Shottekote News
11:30 CBS Late Movie: "The Night of the Iguana" (1964) - Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon

12 WKRC (ABC)
6:30 Across the Fence
7:00 Make a Wish (locally moved from ABC Sunday mornings)
7:30 Bob Jones' Kaleidoscope
8:00 Concentration
9:00 Sale of the Century
9:30 Jeopardy!
10:00 Somerset*
(The preceding four NBC shows were pre-empted by WLWT.)
10:30 One Life to Live
11:00 Password - Guests: Sally Struthers, Paul Lynde
11:30 Nick Clooney (George's father; Rosemary's brother) - Guest host: sister Betty Clooney (died Aug. 5, 1976), Jackie Paris, Ann Marie Moss
12:30 Split Second
1:00 All My Children
1:30 Let's Make a Deal
2:00 Mike Douglas - Co-host: Melba Moore; Guests: Norm Crosby, Betty Walker, Jack Gilford, Joe Harnell, Jerzy Kosinki
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 Money Movie: "The Honeymoon Machine" (1961) - Steve McQueen, Brigid Bazlen, Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Jack Mullaney, Dean Jagger
5:30 Glenn Hanson News
6:00 ABC Evening News
6:30 Hogan's Heroes
7:00 Wild Kingdom
7:30 Safari to Adventure
8:00 Mod Squad: "And Once for My Baby" (Series Finale)
9:00 Kung Fu: "King of the Mountain" (10/14/72; Series Premiere)
10:00 Streets of San Francisco: "The House on Hyde Street"
11:00 Glenn Hanson News
11:30 ABC's Wide World of Entertainment: "Haunts of the Very Rich" (9/20/72) - Lloyd Bridges, Cloris Leachman, Ed Asner, Anne Francis

19 WXIX (Ind.)
10:30 In Town Today
11:00 New Zoo Revue
11:30 Bugs Bunny
NOON Gomer Pyle
12:30 Andy Griffith
1:00 One O'Clock Movie: "Target for Killing" (1966; German) - Stewart Granger, Karin Dor, Rupert Davies
3:00 Larry Smith's Cartoon Club
3:30 Popeye
4:00 Flintstones
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5:00 Petticoat Junction
5:30 Gomer Pyle
6:00 Courtship of Eddie's Father
6:30 Andy Griffith
7:00 I Love Lucy
7:30 That Girl
8:00 Wild, Wild West
9:00 9 O'Clock Movie: "The New Lion of Sonora" (Special 2-hour epsiode of The High Chaparral, aired 2/19/71 on NBC.)
11:00 Alfred Hitchcock
11:30 Merv Griffin - Guests: Jaye P. Morgan, Mel Torme, Bobby Short, Paul Butterfield

48 WCET (PBS)
8:00 Instructional Programming
11:10 Sesame Street
12:10 The Future Is Now
12:40 Instructional Programming
1:00 Electric Company
1:30 Special: "Ohio's 170th Birthday"
3:00 Making Things Grow
3:30 Antiques
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Ohio - This Week
6:30 Making Things Grow
7:00 Lilias, Yoga and You (produced at WCET)
7:30 Symphony Sound
8:00 The Advocates
9:00 An American Family
10:00 World Press
10:30 30 Minutes With...

Sources: Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati Post, Dayton Daily News, Hamilton Journal News @ newspapers.com
 
Dayton

2 WLWD (NBC; corporate sibling of WLWT 5 Cincinnati, with much of the same programming)

6:45 Inspiration
6:50 Farming Today
7:00 Today
9:00 Paul Dixon
10:30 Phil Donahue (see under WLWT)
11:30 Hollywood Squares
NOON Bob Braun's 50-50 Club
1:30 Three On a Match
2:00 Days of the Porgramming
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
3:30 Return to Peyton Place (I incorrectly listed as just "Peyton Place" in the Cincinnati schedule.)
4:00 I Dream of Jeannie (Here's where the two stations' schedules differ.)
4:30 Early Show: "A Star Is Born", Part 1 of 2 (1954) - Judy Garland, James Mason, Charles Bickford, Jack Carson
6:00 TV2 Nightly News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Beat the Clock
7:30 Young Dr. Kildare
8:00 Flip Wilson
9:00 Ironside
10:00 Dean Martin
11:00 TV2 Nightly News
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 News
1:05 TV Education - University of Michigan
1:35 Inspiration

7 WHIO (CBS)
6:00 Sunrise Semester
6:30 Garner Ted Armstrong
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 New Price is Right (Forgot to add "New" in the Cincinnati schedule.)
9:30 Medical Hotline
10:00 Perry Mason
11:00 Gambit
11:30 Love of Life
11:55 CBS Midday News
NOON Total News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Where the Heart Is
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Guiding Light
2:30 Edge of Night
3:00 Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
3:30 Merv Griffin (see under 19 WXIX Cincinnati at 11:30 PM)
5:00 Andy Griffith
5:30 I Dream of Jeannie
6:00 Total News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Total News
7:30 Truth or Consequences
8:00 Waltons
9:00 CBS Thursday Night Movies: "Honor Thy Father"
11:00 Total News
11:30 CBS Late Movie: "The Night of the Iguana"


16 WOET (PBS) - concurrent with ch. 14 WMUB from Miami Univeristy in Oxford
8:00 Instructional Programming
3:00 Mister Rogers
3:30 Electric Company
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Bridge With Jean Cox
6:30 Chalk Talk
7:00 America '73
8:00 The Advocates
9:00 An American Family
10:00 World Press
10:30 30 Minutes With...

22 WKEF (ABC)
8:30 New Zoo Revue
9:00 Morning Movie: "Darling", Part 1 of 2 (1965) - Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey, Julie Christie
10:30 Concentration
11:00 Sale of the Century (These two NBC game shows pre-empted by WLWD.)
11:30 Bewitched
NOON Password
12:30 Split Second
1:00 All My Chidlren
1:30 Let's Make a Deal
2:00 Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3:00 Clubhouse 22
4:00 Porky Pig
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5:00 Flipper
5:30 McHale's Navy
6:00 ABC Evening News
6:30 Hogan's Heroes
7:00 To Tell the Truth
7:30 Circus
8:00 Mod Squad
9:00 Kung Fu
10:00 Streets of San Francisco
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 ABC's Wide World of Entertainment: "Haunts of the Very Rich"

Sources: Dayton Daily News, Hamilton Journal News @ newspapers.com
 
Columbus

4 WLWC (NBC; Again, much of the same programming and pre-emptions to the ABC station as WLWT and WLWD.)

6:00 Sunrise Seminar (Not to be confused with CBS's Sunrise Semester.)
6:30 Columbus Today
7:00 Today
9:00 Paul Dixon
10:30 Phil Donahue
11:30 Hollywood Squares
NOON Bob Braun's 50-50 Club
1:30 Three on a Match
2:00 Days of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
3:30 Return to Peyton Place
4:00 Merv Griffin
5:00 Ponderosa (Syndicated title for Bonanza, which had ended its 14-year run on NBC Jan. 16.)
6:00 (Hugh) DeMoss Report
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Beat the Clock
7:30 I'll See You in Court
8:00 Flip Wilson
9:00 Ironside
10:00 Dean Martin
11:00 DeMoss Report
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 Roller Derby
2:00 News
2:10 I Believe

6 WTVN (ABC)
6:55 The Good Word
7:00 Morning Report
7:30 Romper Room
8:00 Jeff's Collie
8:30 New Zoo Revue
9:00 Concentration
9:30 Jeopardy!
10:00 Columbus 6 Calling
11:00 Love, American Style
11:30 Bewitched
NOON Password
12:30 Split Second
1:00 All My Children
1:30 Let's Make a Deal
2:00 Mike Douglas
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 One Life to Live
4:00 Flintstones
4:30 I Love Lucy
5:00 Daniel Boone
6:00 Truth or Consequences
6:30 ABC Evening News
7:00 News 6 Report
7:30 To Tell the Truth
8:00 Mod Squad
9:00 Kung Fu
10:00 Streets of San Francisco
11:00 News 6 Report
11:30 ABC's Wide Word of Entertainment: "Haunts of the Very Rich"

10 WBNS (CBS)
6:00 Sacred Heart
6:15 Farmtime
6:30 America's Problems and Challenges
7:00 CBS Morning News (first half only)
7:30 Popeye
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Friendly Junction
9:55 Chuck White Reports
10:00 Joker's Wild
10:30 New Price is Right
11:00 Gambit
11:30 Love of Life
11:55 Dan Imel's World
NOON Eyewitness Noon News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Green Acres
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Guiding Light
2:30 Edge of Night
3:00 Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
3:30 Secret Storm
4:00 Early Show: "The High Cost of Living" (1958) - Jose Ferrer, Gena Rowlands (film debut), Jim Backus, Joanne Gilbert, Bobby Troup, Edward Platt, Nancy Kulp
6:00 Eyewitness 90 News (So named for its 90 minutes, including The CBS Evening News in between.)
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Eyewitness 90 News
7:30 Wild Kingdom: "World of the Pinnipeds"
8:00 Waltons
9:00 CBS Thursday Night Movies: "Honor Thy Father"
11:00 Eyewitness Final
11:30 Armchair Theatre: "Youngblood Hawke" (1964) - James Franciscus, Suzanne Pleshette, Genevieve Page (Friday broadcasts were titled as the Friday Chiller Theatre.)
2:10 I Believe

34 WOSU (PBS)
8:00 Hathayoga
8:30 Getting It Together
8:50 Quest for th Best
9:10 Science Room
9:30 Art 3 (number represents grade level)
9:45 Inside/Out Preview (series premiered that year)
10:00 Science 7
10:15 Art 5
10:30 Search for Science
10:45 Listen and Say Consonants
11:00 Electric Company
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Newsdepth
12:45 Inside/Out Preview
1:00 Science 7
1:15 Primary Art
1:30 Listen and Say Consonants
1:45 Art 4
2:00 Search for Science
2:15 Science 7
2:30 Primary Art
2:45 Physical Education
3:00 Silent Heritage
3:30 To Aid, to Learn
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 The Golden Voyage: "Four Wheels Through Mexico"
6:30 Skiing
7:00 Hathayoga
7:30 Kaleidoscope
8:00 The Advocates
9:00 An American Family
10:00 World Press
10:30 30 Minutes With...

Source: Columbus Dispatch @ geneologybank.com
 
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Toledo/Bowling Green

11 WTOL (CBS)

6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 CBS Morning News (first half only)
7:30 Patches & Pockets
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Not for Women Only
9:30 Vin Scully
10:00 Joker's Wild
10:30 New Price is Right
11:00 Gambit
11:30 Love of Life
11:55 CBS Midday News
NOON Eyewitness News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Where the Heart Is
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Guiding Light
2:30 Edge of Night
3:00 Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
3:30 Secret Storm
4:00 The Big Show: "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" (1966) - Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Jack Gilford, Buster Keaton (final film)
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 To Tell the Truth
7:30 Parent Game
8:00 Waltons
9:00 CBS Thurday Night Movies: "Honor Thy Father"
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 CBS Late Movie: "The Night of the Iguana"
1:30 News (R?)

13 WSPD (NBC)
6:30 Garner Ted Armstrong
7:00 Today
9:00 Three on a Match
9:30 Vin Scully
10:00 Dinah's Place - Guests: The Kienast quintuplets
10:30 Concentration
11:00 Sale of the Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
NOON Noon Report
12:30 Who, What or Where Game
12:55 NBC News Update
1:00 Phil Donahue
2:00 Days of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
3:30 Return to Peyton Place
4:00 Gilligan's Island
4:30 Merv Griffin
6:00 Venner-Ward Report
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 What's My Line?
7:30 Truth or Consequences
8:00 Flip Wilson
9:00 Ironside
10:00 Dean Martin
11:00 Venner-Ward Report
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 News (R?)

24 WDHO (ABC)
7:45 Farm Report
8:00 Jonny Quest
8:30 Timmy and Lassie
9:00 Romper Room
9:30 New Zoo Revue
10:00 Virginia Graham
10:55 Carol Duvall
11:00 Love, American Style
11:30 Bewitched
NOON Password
12:30 Split Second
1:00 All My Children
1:30 Let's Make a Deal
2:00 Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 One Life to Live
4:00 Munsters
4:30 Flintstones
5:00 Daniel Boone
6:00 ABC Evening News
6:30 Dick Van Dyke
7:00 Bowling for Dollars
7:30 The Adventurer
8:00 Mod Squad
9:00 Kung Fu
10:00 Streets of San Francisco
11:00 Edison News Final

30 WGTE (PBS)
XX:00 Instrucial Programming?
11:00 Electric Company
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Instructional Programming?
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Time for Timothy
6:30 French Chef
7:00 Symphony Sound
7:30 Voter's Voice
8:00 The Advocates
9:00 An American Family
10:00 World Press
10:30 30 Minutes With...

70 WBGU (PBS) Bowling Green (switched to Channel 57 March 24)
XX:00 Instructional Programing?
3:30 Great Decisions '73
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Update
6:00 Sesame Street
7:00 Electric Company
7:30 Ohio This Week
8:00 The Advocates
9:00 An American Family
10:00 World Press
10:30 30 Minutes With...

Sources: Toledo Blade @ Google Newspapers; Bowling Green Daily Sentinel-Tribune @ newspapers.com
(Neither paper indicated instructional programming in the PBS stations.)
 
Cleveland

3 WKYC (NBC)

5:55 Station Exchange
7:00 Today
9:00 Mike Douglas
10:30 Concentration
11:00 Sale of the Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
NOON Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What or Where Game
12:55 NBC News Update
1:00 Dinah's Place
1:30 Three on a Match
2:00 Days of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
3:30 Return to Peyton Place
4:00 Somerset
4:30 Super Cinema: "G.I. Blues" (1960) - Elvis Presley, Juliet Prowse
6:00 Newsday 90
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Newsday 90
7:30 Hollywood Squares
8:00 Flip Wilson
9:00 Ironside
10:00 Dean Martin
11:00 TV3 Newsday
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 TV3 Newsday (R)

5 WEWS (ABC)
7:15 Sign-on News
7:30 Casper
8:00 Morning Exchange
10:00 Split Second
10:30 Andy Griffith
11:00 Love, American Style
11:30 Bewitched
NOON Password
12:30 Eyewitness News
1:00 All My Children
1:30 Let's Make a Deal
2:00 Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 One Life to Live
4:00 Big Valley
5:00 That Girl
5:30 I Dream of Jeannie
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 ABC Evening News
7:00 To Tell the Truth
7:30 Untamed World
8:00 Mod Squad
9:00 Kung Fu
10:00 Streets of San Francisco
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 ABC's Wide World of Entertainment: "Haunts of the Very Rich" (I forgot to list this in the Toledo schedule.)

8 WJW (CBS)
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Cartoon Carnival
9:30 Joker's Wild
10:00 Edge of Night
10:30 Phil Donahue
11:30 New Price is Right
NOON City Camera (news)
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Love of Life
1:25 CBS Midday News
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Guiding Light
2:30 Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
3:00 Adventure Road
4:00 Vin Scully
4:30 Merv Griffin
6:00 City Camera
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Truth or Consequences
7:30 Speakout
8:00 Waltons
9:00 CBS Thursday Night Movies: "Honor Thy Father"
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:40 Night Movie: "The Swimmer" (1968) - Burt Lancaster
1:40 Late Night Movie: "The Big Carnival" (aka "Ace in the Hole") (1951) - Kirk Douglas


25 WVIZ (PBS)
7:30 Your Future Is Now (high school courses)
8:30 Community
9:00 Americans All
9:15 Math 3
9:45 Science
10:00 Picture Book
10:15 Primary Art
10:45 Newsdepth '73
11:00 Match 3
11:15 Electric Company
11:45 Sesame Street
12:45 Community
1:00 Announcements
1:15 Cover to Cover
1:30 Stepping Into Melody
1:45 Explorers
2:00 Listen & Say
2:15 Newsdepth '73
2:30 Man World
3:00 Images & Things
3:15 Toute la Bande
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Maggie's Machine
6:00 Theater
6:30 Your Future Is Now
7:00 Electric Company
7:30 Roots of a Nation
8:00 The Advocates
9:00 An American Family
10:00 World Press
10:30 30 Minutes With...
11:00 Your Future Is Now

43 WUAB (Ind.)
11:00 Small World
11:30 Romper Room
NOON Flipper
12:30 Barnaby (local children's show)
1:00 Prize Movie: "Pete Kelly's Blues" (1955) - Jack Webb (also directed), Janet Leigh, Edmond O'Brien, Peggy Lee
2:30 Fashions
3:00 Marine Boy
3:30 Speed Racer
4:00 Spider-Man
4:30 Batman
5:00 Gilligan's Island
5:30 Gomer Pyle
6:00 Petticoat Junction
6:30 Green Acres
7:00 Hogan's Heroes
7:30 Dragnet
8:00 Boris Karloff's Thriller
9:00 Star Movie: "Seven Days in May" (1964) - Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Frederic March, Ava Gardner
11:00 One Step Beyond
11:30 Naked City

61 WKBF (Ind.)
10:30 Jack LaLanne
11:00 Newsroom
11:30 Kimba
NOON Banana Splits
1:00 Paul Dixon
1:30 Candid Camera
2:00 Danny Thomas
2:30 New Zoo Revue
3:00 Yogi Bear
3:30 Magilla Gorilla
4:00 Three Stooges
4:30 Munsters
5:00 Flintstones (x2)
6:00 Get Smart
6:30 Star Trek
7:30 I Love Lucy
8:00 All-Star Movie: "Halls of Montezuma" (1951) - Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Robert Wanger, Karl Malden
10:00 It Takes a Thief
11:00 Perry Mason
 
Search For Tomorrow was also a P&G soap.

It’s funny a about three weeks after this both Where the Heart Is and Love is a Many Splendored Thing were canceled. Where the Heart Is was replaced by Young and the Restless of course, which just turned 50 back on March 26th.
 
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