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Rocky
Tuesday, December 21, 1976
Although Rocky premiered in New York City exactly a month before, and much of the rest of the US on December 3, it didn't premiere in Rocky's hometown of Philadelphia until that date, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News (via newspapers.com). Incidentally, it premiered in Boston just the following day.
3 KYW (NBC)
6:00 Farm Market Report; News
6:15 Calling All Students
6:45 Farm, Home and Garden; Eyewitness News
7:00 Today
9:00 Somerset
9:30 Today in Delaware Valley
10:00 Sanford and Son
10:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Wayland Flowers & Madame (and Friends), Mackenzie Phillips, Robert Fuller, Pat Boone, Karen Valentine, George Gobel, Florence Hednerson, Will Geer, Paul Lynde
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Stumpers! (All-Star Week) - Allen Ludden; Guests: Betty White, Joanna Barnes, Dick Gautier, Peter Bonerz
NOON Eyewitness News
12:30 Marcus Welby
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 Mike Douglas (produced at KYW) - Co-host: Neil Sedaka; Guests: Gabriel Kaplan, David Soul, Ben Vereen, Margeaux Hemingway, Monty Python troupe: John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones
5:30 Eyewitness News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Break the Bank - Jack Barry
7:30 Simpson Family Christmas (Philadelphia-based gospel singing family)
8:00 Impact (KYW public affairs series, locally pre-empting Baa Baa Black Sheep to WPHL the following Saturday at 7 PM) - Topic: Holiday blues
9:00 Police Woman
10:00 Police Story
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Tonight Show - Guest host: John Davidson; Guests: Will Geer, Dr. Wayne Dyer; Performer: Nanette Fabray
1:00 Tomorrow - Guest: Marian Weinstein, a self-proclaimed witch, discussing modern-day witchcraft and today's occult.
2:00 Eyewitness News (R)
6 WPVI (ABC)
6:00 Operation Alphabet
6:30 Perspective
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Donahue
10:00 Dialing for Dollars
11:00 Don Ho
11:30 Happy Days
NOON Action News
12:30 All My Children
1:00 Ryan's Hope
1:30 Family Feud
2:00 $20,000 Pyramid - Guests: June Lockhart, Jerry Stiller
2:30 One Life to Live
3:15 General Hospital
4:00 Merv Griffin - Guests: Ginger Rogers, Jack Albertson, Steve Allen, Jackie Vernon
5:30 Action News
6:30 ABC Evening News
7:00 To Tell the Truth
7:30 Hollywood Squares
8:00 Happy Days
8:30 Laverne & Shirley
9:00 ABC Miniseries: "Rich Man, Poor Man: Book II"
10:00 Family
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 ABC Late Night Movie: "The Daughters of Joshue Cabe Return" (1975) - Dan Dailey, Dub Taylor, Ronne Troup, Christina Hart, Brooke Adams, Kathleen Freeman, Carl Betz
10 WCAU (CBS)
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Joel A. Spivak (local talk show)
10:00 The Price is Right
11:00 Double Dare - Alex Trebek
11:30 Love of Life
11:55 CBS Midday News
NOON Young and Restless
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Concentration
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:00 All in the Family
3:30 Match Game '76 - Panel: Gary Burghoff, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Susan Sullivan, Richard Dawson, Joyce Bulifant
4:00 Tattletales - Couples: John Astin & Patty Duke Astin, Bill Macy & Samantha Harper, Robert Shields & Lorene Yarnell
4:30 Dinah! - Guests: Tony Curtis, Doug Henning, Jon Lucien, Billy Crystal
6:00 TV 10 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 TV 10 News
7:30 What's the Word? (from WCBS New York)
8:00 CBS Special Movie: "Tom Sawyer" (Part 2 of 2 from the previous Tuesday) (1973) - Johnny Whitaker, Jodie Foster, Jeff East, Celeste Holm, Warren Oates
9:00 M*A*S*H
9:30 One Day at a Time
10:00 Switch
11:00 TV 10 News
11:30 Kojak
12:30 CBS Late Movie: "Two Weeks in Another Town" (1962) - Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, Cyd Charisse, Geoerge Hamilton
12 WHYY (PBS)
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Instructional Programming
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Today in Delaware
6:30 Consumer Survival Kit
7:00 World of Work
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 The Nutcracker - performed by Salt Lake City-based Ballet West and the Utah Symphony Orchestra
9:30 Movie: "The Red Shoes" (1948) - Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring
17 WPHL
8:55 News
9:00 Tennessee Tuxedo
9:30 Rin Tin Tin
10:00 Life in the Spirit
10:30 700 Club
NOON New Jersey Forum
12:30 Romper Room
1:00 Movie: "Jet Attack" (1958) - John Agar, Audrey Totter, Gregory Wolcott, Joe Hamilton, Nick Blair
2:30 Mickey Mouse Club
3:00 Popeye and Friends
4:00 Marine Boy
4:30 Spider-Man
5:00 Ultra Man
5:30 Lone Ranger
6:00 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
7:00 Odd Couple
7:30 Liar's Club
8:00 The Onedin Line
9:00 Movie: "Soldier of Fortune" (1955) - Clark Gable, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie, Gene Barry
11:00 Movie: "I'll Never Forget What's 'is Name" (1968) - Orson Welles, Oliver Reed, Carol White, Harry Andrews, Wendy Craig
1:00 Delaware Valley Forum
29 WTAF
7:00 Bugs Bunny and Friends
9:00 Quick Draw McGraw
9:30 Peyton Place
10:00 Good Day
10:30 Newsprobe
11:00 Not for Women Only
11:30 Hanna-Barbera
NOON Bullwinkle
12:30 Lone Ranger
1:00 Mothers-in-Law
1:30 My Favorite Martian
2:00 Addams Family
2:30 Superheroes
3:00 Bugs Bunny/Three Stooges
4:00 Batman
4:30 New Howdy Doody
5:00 Partridge Family
5:30 Gilligan's Island
6:00 Bewitched
6:30 That Girl
7:00 I Dream of Jeannie
7:30 Rev. Ike
8:00 Christmas Crusade
9:00 Time Tunnel
10:00 Super Bowl Replay
11:00 Movie: "Sword of the Conquerer" (1961) - Jack Palance, Eleanora Rossi-Drago, Guy Madison
48 WKBS
7:00 Flintstones
7:30 Little Rascals
8:00 Casper and Friends
9:00 Dennis the Menace
9:30 McHale's Navy
10:00 Delaware Valley '76
11:00 Edge of Night (pre-empted by WPVI)
11:30 Banana Splits
NOON Munsters
12:30 Yogi Bear
1:00 Lucy Show
1:30 Dick Van Dyke
2:00 Beverly Hillbillies
2:30 Casper
3:00 Mighty Mouse
3:30 Little Rascals
4:00 Flintstones
4:30 Monkees
5:00 Brady Bunch (x2)
6:00 Emergency One!
7:00 Adam-12 (x2)
8:00 Movie: "Mirage" (1965) - Gregory Peck, Dianne Baker, Walter Matthau
10:00 A Christmas Dream
11:00 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
11:30 Dark Shadows
MIDNIGHT Night Gallery
Tuesday, December 21, 1976
Although Rocky premiered in New York City exactly a month before, and much of the rest of the US on December 3, it didn't premiere in Rocky's hometown of Philadelphia until that date, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News (via newspapers.com). Incidentally, it premiered in Boston just the following day.
3 KYW (NBC)
6:00 Farm Market Report; News
6:15 Calling All Students
6:45 Farm, Home and Garden; Eyewitness News
7:00 Today
9:00 Somerset
9:30 Today in Delaware Valley
10:00 Sanford and Son
10:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Wayland Flowers & Madame (and Friends), Mackenzie Phillips, Robert Fuller, Pat Boone, Karen Valentine, George Gobel, Florence Hednerson, Will Geer, Paul Lynde
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Stumpers! (All-Star Week) - Allen Ludden; Guests: Betty White, Joanna Barnes, Dick Gautier, Peter Bonerz
NOON Eyewitness News
12:30 Marcus Welby
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 Mike Douglas (produced at KYW) - Co-host: Neil Sedaka; Guests: Gabriel Kaplan, David Soul, Ben Vereen, Margeaux Hemingway, Monty Python troupe: John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones
5:30 Eyewitness News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Break the Bank - Jack Barry
7:30 Simpson Family Christmas (Philadelphia-based gospel singing family)
8:00 Impact (KYW public affairs series, locally pre-empting Baa Baa Black Sheep to WPHL the following Saturday at 7 PM) - Topic: Holiday blues
9:00 Police Woman
10:00 Police Story
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Tonight Show - Guest host: John Davidson; Guests: Will Geer, Dr. Wayne Dyer; Performer: Nanette Fabray
1:00 Tomorrow - Guest: Marian Weinstein, a self-proclaimed witch, discussing modern-day witchcraft and today's occult.
2:00 Eyewitness News (R)
6 WPVI (ABC)
6:00 Operation Alphabet
6:30 Perspective
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Donahue
10:00 Dialing for Dollars
11:00 Don Ho
11:30 Happy Days
NOON Action News
12:30 All My Children
1:00 Ryan's Hope
1:30 Family Feud
2:00 $20,000 Pyramid - Guests: June Lockhart, Jerry Stiller
2:30 One Life to Live
3:15 General Hospital
4:00 Merv Griffin - Guests: Ginger Rogers, Jack Albertson, Steve Allen, Jackie Vernon
5:30 Action News
6:30 ABC Evening News
7:00 To Tell the Truth
7:30 Hollywood Squares
8:00 Happy Days
8:30 Laverne & Shirley
9:00 ABC Miniseries: "Rich Man, Poor Man: Book II"
10:00 Family
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 ABC Late Night Movie: "The Daughters of Joshue Cabe Return" (1975) - Dan Dailey, Dub Taylor, Ronne Troup, Christina Hart, Brooke Adams, Kathleen Freeman, Carl Betz
10 WCAU (CBS)
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Joel A. Spivak (local talk show)
10:00 The Price is Right
11:00 Double Dare - Alex Trebek
11:30 Love of Life
11:55 CBS Midday News
NOON Young and Restless
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Concentration
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:00 All in the Family
3:30 Match Game '76 - Panel: Gary Burghoff, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Susan Sullivan, Richard Dawson, Joyce Bulifant
4:00 Tattletales - Couples: John Astin & Patty Duke Astin, Bill Macy & Samantha Harper, Robert Shields & Lorene Yarnell
4:30 Dinah! - Guests: Tony Curtis, Doug Henning, Jon Lucien, Billy Crystal
6:00 TV 10 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 TV 10 News
7:30 What's the Word? (from WCBS New York)
8:00 CBS Special Movie: "Tom Sawyer" (Part 2 of 2 from the previous Tuesday) (1973) - Johnny Whitaker, Jodie Foster, Jeff East, Celeste Holm, Warren Oates
9:00 M*A*S*H
9:30 One Day at a Time
10:00 Switch
11:00 TV 10 News
11:30 Kojak
12:30 CBS Late Movie: "Two Weeks in Another Town" (1962) - Kirk Douglas, Edward G. Robinson, Cyd Charisse, Geoerge Hamilton
12 WHYY (PBS)
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Instructional Programming
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Today in Delaware
6:30 Consumer Survival Kit
7:00 World of Work
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 The Nutcracker - performed by Salt Lake City-based Ballet West and the Utah Symphony Orchestra
9:30 Movie: "The Red Shoes" (1948) - Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring
17 WPHL
8:55 News
9:00 Tennessee Tuxedo
9:30 Rin Tin Tin
10:00 Life in the Spirit
10:30 700 Club
NOON New Jersey Forum
12:30 Romper Room
1:00 Movie: "Jet Attack" (1958) - John Agar, Audrey Totter, Gregory Wolcott, Joe Hamilton, Nick Blair
2:30 Mickey Mouse Club
3:00 Popeye and Friends
4:00 Marine Boy
4:30 Spider-Man
5:00 Ultra Man
5:30 Lone Ranger
6:00 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
7:00 Odd Couple
7:30 Liar's Club
8:00 The Onedin Line
9:00 Movie: "Soldier of Fortune" (1955) - Clark Gable, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie, Gene Barry
11:00 Movie: "I'll Never Forget What's 'is Name" (1968) - Orson Welles, Oliver Reed, Carol White, Harry Andrews, Wendy Craig
1:00 Delaware Valley Forum
29 WTAF
7:00 Bugs Bunny and Friends
9:00 Quick Draw McGraw
9:30 Peyton Place
10:00 Good Day
10:30 Newsprobe
11:00 Not for Women Only
11:30 Hanna-Barbera
NOON Bullwinkle
12:30 Lone Ranger
1:00 Mothers-in-Law
1:30 My Favorite Martian
2:00 Addams Family
2:30 Superheroes
3:00 Bugs Bunny/Three Stooges
4:00 Batman
4:30 New Howdy Doody
5:00 Partridge Family
5:30 Gilligan's Island
6:00 Bewitched
6:30 That Girl
7:00 I Dream of Jeannie
7:30 Rev. Ike
8:00 Christmas Crusade
9:00 Time Tunnel
10:00 Super Bowl Replay
11:00 Movie: "Sword of the Conquerer" (1961) - Jack Palance, Eleanora Rossi-Drago, Guy Madison
48 WKBS
7:00 Flintstones
7:30 Little Rascals
8:00 Casper and Friends
9:00 Dennis the Menace
9:30 McHale's Navy
10:00 Delaware Valley '76
11:00 Edge of Night (pre-empted by WPVI)
11:30 Banana Splits
NOON Munsters
12:30 Yogi Bear
1:00 Lucy Show
1:30 Dick Van Dyke
2:00 Beverly Hillbillies
2:30 Casper
3:00 Mighty Mouse
3:30 Little Rascals
4:00 Flintstones
4:30 Monkees
5:00 Brady Bunch (x2)
6:00 Emergency One!
7:00 Adam-12 (x2)
8:00 Movie: "Mirage" (1965) - Gregory Peck, Dianne Baker, Walter Matthau
10:00 A Christmas Dream
11:00 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
11:30 Dark Shadows
MIDNIGHT Night Gallery