Retro: Philadelphia/South Jersey Wed, Aug 11, 1976

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from TV Guide, New Jersey-Pennsylvania edition

WCBS 2-CBS New York
6:30 Summer Semester "Great Transition"
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 To Tell the Truth
9:30 Pat Collins (topic: dyslexia)
10:00 Price is Right
11:00 Gambit
11:30 Love of Life
11:55 CBS News
noon Young & the Restless
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Tattletales
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:00 All in the Family
3:30 Match Game
4:00 Dinah! (guests Werner Erhard, Cloris Leachman, Valerie Harper, and Dr. Bob Fuller)
5:00 Mike Douglas (co-host Danny Thomas/guests Alan King and Della Reese)
6:00 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Candid Camera
8:00 Hazard's People (pilot)
9:00 Movie "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman"
11:10 News
11:40 Movie "When Eight Bells Toll"
1:35 Movie "Fancy Pants"
3:25 Pat Collins
3:55 Movie "The Candy Man"

KYW 3-NBC Philadelphia
6:00 Farm Market Report
6:15 Success Without Stress
6:45 Farm, Home & Garden
6:55 News
7:00 Today
9:00 Somerset
9:30 Today in the Delaware Valley
10:00 Sanford & Son
10:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Hollywood Squares
noon News
12:30 Gong Show
12:55 News
1:00 Fun Factory
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 Mike Douglas (Thomas/King/Reese/Jamie Farr/John Mack Carter)
5:30 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Wild Kingdom
7:30 What Do You Do?
8:00 Little House on the Prairie
9:00 Over & Out (pilot)
9:30 Chico & the Man (last show in that slot, moves to Friday nights on 27th)
10:00 Hawk
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show (guest host Joey Bishop welcomes guests Itzhak Perlman and Stan Kann)
1:00 Tomorrow
2:00 News

WNBC 4-NBC New York
6:30 Knowledge (examing the 1st, 4th, 6th, and 14th Amendments)
7:00 Today
9:00 Not for Women Only (guests Robert Atkins (aka Dr. Atkins) and Neil Solomon)
9:30 Concentration
10:00 Sanford & Son
10:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Hollywood Squares
noon Fun Factory
12:30 Gong Show
12:55 NBC News
1:00 Somerset
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 Robert Young, Family Doctor (Marcus Welby, MD)
5:00 News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Name That Tune
8:00 Little House on the Prairie
9:00 Over & Out (pilot)
9:30 Chico & the Man
10:00 Hawk
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 Tomorrow
2:00 Movie "Fate is the Hunter" (bw)

WNEW 5-Ind New York
6:30 Out of Work
7:00 Underdog
7:30 Bugs Bunny
8:00 Flintstones
8:30 Rin Tin Tin
9:00 Dennis the Menace (bw)
9:30 Green Acres
10:00 That Girl
10:30 Andy Griffith
11:00 Bewitched (bw)
11:30 Midday Live
12:55 News
1:00 Movie "The Lady Wants Mink"
2:55 News
3:00 Casper & Friends
3:30 Mickey Mouse Club (bw)
4:00 Porky, Huck & Yogi
4:30 Monkees
5:00 Brady Bunch
5:30 Flintstones
6:00 Bewitched
6:30 Partridge Family "Danny Converts"
7:00 Andy Griffith (bw)
7:30 Adam-12
8:00 Cross-Wits
8:30 Merv Griffin (guests Burt Reynolds, Alice Ghostley, David Groh, and Clay Blair Jr.)
10:00 News
11:00 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
11:30 Movie "Z"
2:15 Jack Benny (bw)
2:50 Alfred Hitchcock (bw)

WPVI 6-ABC Philadelphia
6:00 Operation Alphabet
6:30 Perspective
6:55 News
7:00 Good Morning America
8:00 Captain Noah
9:00 Phil Donahue (guest Werner Erhard)
10:00 Dialing for Dollars (guests include Lou Shea)
11:00 Hot Seat
11:30 Happy Days
noon News
12:30 All My Children
1:00 Ryan's Hope
1:30 Family Feud
2:00 $20,000 Pyramid
2:30 One Life to Live
3:15 General Hospital
4:00 Merv Griffin (from Vegas with guests Shecky Greene, Phyllis Newman, Michel Legrand, and Ben Vereen)
5:30 News
6:30 ABC Evening News
7:00 To Tell the Truth
7:30 Price is Right
8:00 Bionic Woman
9:00 Baretta
10:00 Starsky & Hutch
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Burglars"
1:40 Perspective

WABC 7-ABC New York
6:15 News
6:30 Listen & Learn (bw/development of drugs)
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 AM New York
10:00 Movie "Summer Holiday" (conclusion)
11:30 Happy Days
noon Hot Seat
12:30 All My Children
1:00 Ryan's Hope
1:30 Family Feud
2:00 $20,000 Pyramid
2:30 One Life to Live
3:15 General Hospital
4:00 Edge of Night
4:30 Movie "Khartoum" (pt 1)
6:00 News
7:00 ABC Evening News
7:30 Let's Make a Deal
8:00 Bionic Woman
9:00 Baretta
10:00 Starsky & Hutch
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Burglars"
1:40 Movie "The Frogmen" (bw)
3:35 News

WOR 9-Ind New York
7:30 News
8:00 New York Report
8:30 Joe Franklin
9:30 Beverly Hillbillies
10:00 Romper Room
11:00 Straight Talk
noon News
12:30 Journey to Adventure
1:00 Movie "The Lady Takes a Flyer"
2:55 Take Kerr
3:00 Lucy Show (guest star Sid Caesar)
3:30 Lassie
4:00 Movie "Track of the Cat"
6:00 Avengers (bw)
7:00 It Takes a Thief
8:00 Baseball: San Diego-Mets (Ralph Kiner, Lindsey Nelson, and Bob Murphy with the call; normal line-up: Movie at 8, various programs at 10)
11:00 Celebrity Tennis (Macdonald Carey/Jim McKrell vs Michael Callan/Dick Martin)
11:30 Movie "Machine Gun Kelly" (bw)
1:30 Joe Franklin
2:30 News

WCAU 10-CBS Philadelphia
6:30 Summer Semester "Practical English for Hispanic-Americans"
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Joel A. Spivak (political sex scandals are discussed by guests including Barbara Howar)
10:00 Price is Right
11:00 Gambit
noon Young & the 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
4:00 Tattletales
4:30 Dinah! (Erhard/Leachman/Harper)
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 News
7:30 Bobby Vinton (guests Arte Johnson and Tanya Tucker, Don Rickles makes a cameo)
8:00 Hazard's People (pilot)
9:00 Movie "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman"
11:10 News
11:40 Movie "When Eight Bells Toll"
1:35 Editorial
1:40 Movie "Sunset Boulevard" (bw)
3:20 News
3:50 Joel A. Spivak (r)

WPIX 11-Ind New York
7:00 Popeye
7:30 Felix the Cat
8:00 Magilla Gorilla
8:30 Little Rascals (bw)
9:00 Munsters (bw)
9:30 Addams Family (bw)
10:00 Gilligan's Island (bw)
10:30 Family Affair
11:00 Courtship of Eddie's Father
11:30 Jewish Dimension
noon 700 Club (guest Tom Netherton)
1:00 Focus: New Jersey
1:30 News
2:00 Hazel
2:30 Magic Garden
3:00 Felix the Cat
3:30 Magilla Gorilla
4:00 Little Rascals (bw)
4:30 Lone Ranger (bw)
5:00 Munsters (bw)
5:30 F Troop
6:00 Star Trek
7:00 Dick Van Dyke (bw)
7:30 Family Affair
8:00 Get Smart
8:30 Baseball: Yankees-Royals (normal line-up: FBI at 8, various shows at 9, News at 10, Honeymooners (bw) at 11, Burns & Allen (bw) at 11:30)
11:00 News
mid. Honeymooners (bw)
12:30 Burns & Allen (bw)
1:00 Movie "They Shall Have Music" (bw)

WHYY 12-PBS Wilmington/Philadelphia
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Electric Company
10:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11:00 Maggie & the Beautiful Machine
11:30 Antiques
noon World Press
12:30 Wine with Gillette
1:00 Play Chess
1:30 Lilias, Yoga & You
2:00 Evening at Pops (guest Tony Randall)
3:00 Hodgepodge Lodge
3:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Today in Delaware
6:30 Take 12
7:00 What's Cooking?
7:30 Tourists are Coming
8:00 Nova "The Planets"
9:00 Great Performances "Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill" (pt 5, followed by Julian Mitchell and Lady Churchill's daughter Peregrine discussing Jennie's influence on Sir Winston's political career)
10:00 Life of Leonardo da Vinci (conclusion)
11:00 Captioned ABC News

WNET 13-PBS New York
7:05 Yoga for Health
7:30 Robert MacNeil Report
8:00 Vegetable Soup
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Electric Company
10:30 Zoom
11:00 A Family at War
noon At the Top
1:00 Movie "The Queen of Spades" (bw)
2:30 Lilias, Yoga & You
3:00 Lowell Thomas Remembers
3:30 Hodgepodge Lodge
4:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6:00 Villa Alegre
6:30 Electric Company
7:00 Zoom
7:30 Robert MacNeil Report
8:00 Nova "The Planets"
9:00 Great Performances "Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill" (pt 5)
10:00 New England Visions: Past & Future
10:30 Toughing It Out
11:00 A Family at War
mid. Robert MacNeil Report
12:30 Captioned ABC News

WPHL 17-Ind Philadelphia
9:55 News
10:00 The Rock
10:30 700 Club (guest Tom Netherton)
noon Delaware Valley Forum
12:30 Romper Room
1:00 Movie "The Blue Gardenia" (bw)
3:00 Rin Tin Tin
3:30 Mickey Mouse Club (bw)
4:00 Popeye
4:30 Johnny Sokko
5:00 Lone Ranger (bw)
5:30 Get Smart
6:00 Untouchables (bw)
7:00 Andy Griffith
7:30 Love, American Style
8:00 Of Lands & Seas "Kentucky Heritage"
9:00 High Chaparral (2 hrs)
11:00 Alfred Hitchcock (bw)
11:30 One Step Beyond (bw)
mid. 700 Club (r)
1:30 Delaware Valley Forum

NJN: WNJS 23-Camden/WNJT 52-Trenton (PBS)
4pm Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Zoom
6:30 Book Beat
7:00 Robert MacNeil Report
7:30 New Jersey News
8:00 Nova "The Planets"
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre "Shoulder to Shoulder" (pt 3)
10:00 New Jersey News
10:30 American Indian Artists
11:00 Captioned ABC News

WTAF 29-Ind Philadelphia
10:00 Hazel
10:30 Newsprobe
11:00 Not for Women Only (guests Warren Casey and Jim Jacobs)
11:30 Cartoon Festival
noon Fun World
12:30 Lone Ranger
1:00 Mothers-in-Law
2:00 Addams Family (bw)
2:30 Quick Draw McGraw
3:00 Superheroes
3:30 Bugs Bunny, Three Stooges & Friends
4:30 Superman
5:00 Partridge Family
5:30 Room 222
6:00 Courtship of Eddie's Father
6:30 That Girl
7:00 Rifleman (bw)
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8:00 FBI
9:00 Movie "Always on Sunday" (bw)
11:00 Movie "The Cracksman"

WCMC 40-NBC Wildwood
12:30pm Gong Show
12:55 News (bw)
1:00 Fun Factory
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 News (bw)
4:05 Film (bw)
4:30 Town & Country (bw)
5:00 Film (bw)
5:30 News (bw)
5:35 Film (bw)
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Summer of '76 (bw)
8:00 Little House on the Prairie
9:00 Over & Out (pilot)
9:30 Chico & the Man
10:00 Hawk
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 News (bw)

WKBS 48-Ind Philadelphia
10:05 Delaware Valley Today
10:55 Take Kerr
11:00 Edge of Night
11:30 Dick Van Dyke (bw)
noon Lucy Show
12:30 Beverly Hillbillies (bw)
1:00 Movie "Between Two Worlds" (bw)
3:00 Felix the Cat
3:30 Underdog
4:00 Hercules
4:30 Dennis the Menace (bw)
5:00 Flintstones
5:30 McHale's Navy (bw)
6:00 Brady Bunch (guest star Davy Jones)
6:30 Adam-12
7:00 Star Trek
8:00 Movie "Windom's Way"
10:00 Donna Reed (bw)
10:30 December Bride (bw)
11:00 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
11:30 Dark Shadows
mid. Night Gallery

 

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WCBS 2-CBS New York
4:00 Dinah! (guests Werner Erhard, Cloris Leachman, Valerie Harper, and Dr. Bob Fuller)

WPVI 6-ABC Philadelphia
9:00 Phil Donahue (guest Werner Erhard)

Who was Werner Erhard? Apparently, he was in high demand at the time.

WCMC 40-NBC Wildwood
12:55 News (bw)
4:00 News (bw)
4:05 Film (bw)
4:30 Town & Country (bw)
5:00 Film (bw)
5:30 News (bw)
5:35 Film (bw)
7:00 Summer of '76 (bw)
11:00 News
1:00 News (bw)

Funny that, even in 1976, everything on ch.40 that was not network was in Black-and-white. Oddly, with the odd exception of the 11PM news -- was that B/W too, or did they simulcast KYW?

 

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WCBS 2-CBS New York
4:00 Dinah! (guests Werner Erhard, Cloris Leachman, Valerie Harper, and Dr. Bob Fuller)

WPVI 6-ABC Philadelphia
9:00 Phil Donahue (guest Werner Erhard)

Who was Werner Erhard? Apparently, he was in high demand at the time.

Erhard was the founder of 'est' (Erhard Seminar Training) which was one of the more popular 'self-help' fads of the '70's.

 

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WCMC 40-NBC Wildwood
12:55 News (bw)
4:00 News (bw)
4:05 Film (bw)
4:30 Town & Country (bw)
5:00 Film (bw)
5:30 News (bw)
5:35 Film (bw)
7:00 Summer of '76 (bw)
11:00 News
1:00 News (bw)

Funny that, even in 1976, everything on ch.40 that was not network was in Black-and-white. Oddly, with the odd exception of the 11PM news -- was that B/W too, or did they simulcast KYW?
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I think that was B&W as well...

 

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Okay, I'll ask: What's with the UHF stations signing on so late? Were they regulated by the FCC to sign on no earlier than a certain time?

 

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One time I told my parents about Ch. 5's primetime lineup of
"Cross-Wits," Merv, and news at 10. They said they wished
they could have that block; my mom was a crossword-puzzle
buff and thus a fan of "Cross-Wits," my dad never missed Merv
in the late afternoon in Tampa if he was home in time, and he
watches the 10 PM news on our local Fox station now and probably
would have watched a 10 PM newscast then (it was only a couple
months later that we moved to Texas, where the late local news
does come on at 10). If they'd had Ch. 5's primetime they might
never have watched the networks from 8 to 11.

To prove it, Ch. 5's sister station in LA, KTTV/11, had the same
lineup; about a year after this, we spent the night in San Luis
Obispo, where 11 was available on cable. Guess what they wanted
to watch?

 

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Okay, I'll ask: What's with the UHF stations signing on so late? Were they regulated by the FCC to sign on no earlier than a certain time?

Actually, it was a measure of a station's health (or lack thereof) as to when they signed on. This was true of some VHF's in the '50's, as well. It wasn't until later in the 1970's, as UHF stations' profitability approached those of VHF's, that earlier sign-ons became commonplace past Channel 14.

 

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Independent stations back in the 60's generally signed on between 9 a.m. and noon but by the early 70's the VHF indies in most markets were beginning to sign on at 6 or 7 a.m. UHF indies though began gradually signing on earlier. Back in 1970 most UHF indies signed on at 11 a.m. or noon but by 1980 most of these were signing on at 6 a.m. as well. In Philadelphia WKBS TV began signing on at 7 a.m. in the fall of 1973 along with WTAF 29. But in the winter of 74 the stations both began signing on at 9 or 10 a.m. In teh fall of 74, again both channels 48 and 29 began signing on at 7 a.m. but by Janaury of 75 the stations were back to late morning sign ons again.

In September of 1975, Channels 29 and 48 began 7 a.m. sign ons but in January of 76, Channel 29 was back to a 10 a.m. sign on while Channel 48 was back to an 8 a.m. sign on. By the way until the end of August of 1976, WKBS TV 48 signed on at 8 a.m. and ran PTL Club till 10 a.m. They ran PTL from September of 75 to September of 76 8-10 a.m. weekdays. In the fall of 1976 both Channels 48 and 17 reinstated morning at 7 sign ons for a cartoon block. Then that Winter, Channel 48 again began 9 a.m. sign ons as did Channel 29.

Finally on September 12, 1977, Channel 29 began signing on at 7 a.m. and continued this permenantly and eventually signed on at 6 a.m. and then later went 24/7. Channel 48 also followed suit and began signing on at 6:30 a.m. and actually beat 29 to the punch and began in the middle of the week on September 1 of 1977 with that. But Channel 48 stopped the 6:30 Sign on on the 19th of December and reverted to a 8 a.m. sign on until September 4 of 1978. Finally they began a 6 a.m. sign on and continued this the rest of their years on the air. Channel 17 was the last to begin 7 a.m. sign on and they did this in September of 1978 I believe.