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Retro: Philadelphia Fri, May 4, 1973

By request, from TV Guide-Philadelphia Metro edition

KYW 3-NBC
6:05 Farm Market Report
6:10 News
6:15 Golden Years
6:45 Farm, Home & Garden
7:00 Today
9:00 Somerset
9:30 Jeopardy!
10:00 Dinah Shore (guest Carol Lynley)
10:30 Baffle
11:00 Sale of the Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
noon News
12:30 Marciarose
1:30 Three on a Match
2:00 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3:00 Another World
3:30 Return to Peyton Place
4:00 Mike Douglas (guests Charlton Heston, Martin Milner, and Kent McCord)
5:30 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 What's My Line?
7:30 Mouse Factory (Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop discuss cats)
8:00 Sanford & Son
8:30 Weird Harold (based on Bill Cosby's character; the Cos voices Fat Albert, Mushmouth, Little Bill and his dad)
9:00 Circle of Fear
10:00 Bold Ones (return)
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show (guests Sandy Duncan and McLean Stevenson)
1:00 Midnight Special (host Johnny Nash welcomes Gladys Knight & the Pips, Kenny Rankin, Raspberries, Chi Coltrane, and Jack Andrews)
2:30 News

WPVI 6-ABC
6:30 Operation Alphabet (bw)
7:00 Target
7:25 News
7:30 Captain Noah
9:00 Fashions in Sewing
9:10 Connie Roussin
9:25 News
9:30 Love, American Style
10:00 Phil Donahue (with the Maharishi in Atlanta)
11:00 Password
11:30 Bewitched
noon News
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 I Love Lucy (bw)
4:30 Big Valley
5:30 Truth or Consequences
6:00 News
6:30 ABC Evening News
7:00 To Tell the Truth
7:30 You Asked for It
8:00 Brady Bunch (there may be a NBA Playoff game that night, which would spike 6's primetime sked)
8:30 Partridge Family
9:00 Room 222
9:30 Odd Couple
10:00 Love, American Style
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Adventures of a Young Man"
2:00 Movie "The Pirates of Blood River"

WCAU 10-CBS
6:00 Sunrise Semester "The Heavenly Twins: Astronomy and Astrology"
6:30 Wake Up!
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (guest Dr. Joyce Brothers)
9:00 Betty Hughes (guests Kelly Garrett and Julie deJohn)
9:30 It's Your Bet
10:00 Joker's Wild
10:30 $10,000 Pyramid
11:00 Gambit
11:30 Love of Life
11:55 CBS News
noon Young & the Restless
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 What's Happening
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Guiding Light
2:30 Edge of Night
3:00 Price is Right
3:30 Hollywood's Talking
4:00 Secret Storm
4:30 4:30 Film Festival "The Hangman" (bw/concluding a week of Robert Taylor flicks)
6:00 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Thrillseekers
8:00 Mission: Impossible
9:00 Movie "Chubasco"
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Speedway"
1:30 After Midnight
2:30 Movie "The Outsider" (bw)
4:40 Give Us This Day
4:45 Sea Hunt

WHYY 12-PBS (Wilmington/Philadelphia)
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Instructional Programs
1:30 Electric Company
2:00 Instructional Programs
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Hodgepodge Lodge
6:30 Delaware News (bw)
7:00 Maggie & the Beautiful Machine
7:30 Wall Street Week
8:00 Washington Week in Review
8:30 World Press
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre "The Golden Bowl" (conclusion)
10:00 People, Places, Things, Now
10:30 Book Beat

WPHL 17-Ind
11:40 News
11:45 Bulletin Board
noon Rocket Robin Hood
12:30 Galloping Gourmet
1:00 Movie "The Happy Thieves" (bw)
3:00 Wee Willie Webber
3:30 Astro Boy (bw)
4:00 Marine Boy
4:30 Spiderman
5:00 Ultra Man
5:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
6:00 Untouchables (bw)
7:00 High Chaparral
8:00 Of Lands & Seas (Mexico/Guatemala)
9:00 Movie "How to Stuff a Wild Bikini"
11:00 One Step Beyond (bw)
11:30 Movie "The Bride of Frankenstein" (bw)
1:30 Bulletin Board

WNJS 23-NJN/PBS (Camden)
Instructional Programs during daytime
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Sesame Street
7:00 Mi Casa/Su Casa
7:30 New Jersey News Report
8:00 Washington Week in Review
8:30 Express Yourself
9:00 Big 8 Men's Gymnastics Championship

WTAF 29-Ind
10:00 Jack LaLanne
10:30 Fashions & (in?) Sewing
10:40 Small Talk
10:55 Dr. Joyce Brothers
11:00 Romper Room
11:30 Dennis the Menace (bw)
noon Mothers-in-Law
12:30 Who, What or Where Game (NBC)
12:55 NBC News (NBC)
1:00 Joanne Carson's VIPs (guest is jewelry sculptor Lisa Sotilis)
1:30 Not for Women Only (last of 5 shows on women's take at DC)
2:00 Living Easy with Dr. Joyce Brothers
2:30 Green Acres
3:00 Petticoat Junction
3:30 Three Stooges/Cartoons
4:00 Marine Boy
4:30 Superman
5:00 Addams Family (bw)
5:30 Father Knows Best (bw)
6:00 I Dream of Jeannie (bw)
6:30 Courtship of Eddie's Father
7:00 That Girl
7:30 Winners Circle (premiere of 35-wk series, L&M Continental 5000 highlights)
8:00 Safari
9:00 Barbara McNair
10:00 Newsprobe
11:00 Thriller (bw)
mid. Boxing from the Olympic: 10-round lightweight action between Rueben Navarro and Bernardo Magno

WKBS 48-Ind
10:45 News
11:00 Paul Dixon
11:30 Delaware Valley Today
noon New Zoo Revue
12:30 Banana Splits
1:00 Movie "It's Love I'm After" (bw)
3:00 Underdog
3:30 Yogi Bear
4:00 Speed Racer
4:30 Munsters (bw)
5:00 and 5:30 Flintstones
6:00 Gilligan's Island
6:30 Star Trek
7:30 and 8:00 Dick Van Dyke (8pm is bw)
8:30 Merv Griffin
10:00 Perry Mason (bw)
11:00 Movie "Public Enemy" (bw)

Here's how the 7:30 weeknight PTAR programs went on the Big 3 stations (the 7pm shows on 3 and 6 were stripped all week):

KYW:
Mon-Half the George Kirby Comedy Hour
Tues-Police Surgeon
Wed-Amazing World of Kreskin
Thurs-Young Dr. Kildare

WPVI:
Mon: Let's Make a Deal
Tues-Wild Kingdom
Wed-New Price is Right
Thurs-Hollywood Squares

WCAU:
Mon: unknown (during this week, a 10Line special on the City Charter was aired)
Tues: Johnny Mann's Stand Up & Cheer
Wed: Wacky World of Jonathan Winters
Thurs-Lassie
 
Wow! Interesting stuff. Thanks

On Mike Douglas: Reed and Malloy with Moses ("There is no freedom without the law."). I wonder if they talked about guns.

Dr. Joyce Brothers on Captain? Giving advice to kids? I suppose it's better than Dr. Laura on Captain.

The CBS Morning News with Hughes Rudd during this period was terrific. A real, serious news broadcast. Like Cronkite's Evening News but more opportunity for depth and quirky features. Not like the morning show crap today.

For those not familiar with PTAR it's "prime time access rule." The FCC forced the networks to cut prime time programming by half an hour (from three and a half to three hours) and the networks gave 7:30 back to stations. The idea was stations would local programming but instead it opened up a market for first-run syndication. PTAR is still with us in the form of Jeopardy/Wheel of Fortune and the various tabloid news shows. The one interesting attempt was Group W's Evening/PM Magazine, which had stations exchanging local features for a show produced with local hosts in each market. Apparently, Magazine hadn't started yet in Philly at this point.

Sandy Duncan and McLean Stevenson on The Tonight Show! How soon we forget. Stevenson was a regular guest host and when he quit MASH he was touted as Johnny's heir apparent. Nobody figured Johnny would stay another 20 years. At this point, he'd already had the job more than twice as long as either Steve Allen or Jack Parr.
 
Marine Boy on WTAF was not accurate. That was only on Channel 17. I believe 29 had The Three Stooges for an hour with some Bugs Bunny cartoons mixed in. Other than that - sounds close to my memories. Thanks
 
FredLeonard said:
The one interesting [PTAR] attempt was Group W's Evening/PM Magazine, which had stations exchanging local features for a show produced with local hosts in each market. Apparently, Magazine hadn't started yet in Philly at this point.

It didn't start on the Group W stations until 1977, which would go national to other stations the following year.
 
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