Retro: Rochester/Syracuse/Utica/Watertown Fri, Feb 11, 1977

[Bluenoser]

Posted by request
from TV Guide-Central NY edition

2 WKTV-NBC Utica
2* WGR-NBC Buffalo
(2) WCBS-CBS New York late-night programs listed only
3 WSYR-NBC Syracuse (and WSYE 18-Elmira)
4 WBEN-CBS Buffalo
5 WTVH-CBS Syracuse
5* WNEW-Ind New York
7 WWNY-CBS/NBC/ABC Watertown
7* WKBW-ABC Buffalo
8 WROC-NBC Rochester
9 WNYS-ABC Syracuse
9* WOR-Ind New York
10 WHEC-CBS Rochester
11 CKWS-CBC Kingston
11* WPIX-Ind New York
12 WBNG-CBS Binghamton
13 WOKR-ABC Rochester
13* CJOH-CTV Ottawa (and 6 Deseronto)
16 WNPE-PBS Watertown
20 WUTR-ABC Utica
21 WXXI-PBS Rochester
24 WCNY-PBS Syracuse

Morning
6:00
5 Dialogue
10 Sunrise Semester "Teaching the Learning Disabled"
13* University of the Air "English in Action"

6:15
3 University of Michigan

6:25
7* Window on the World
8 Uncle Waldo
12 What's Happening?

6:30
2-2* Not for Women Only
4-5-12 Sunrise Semester "Teaching the Learning Disabled"
5* Withit
9-13 Romper Room
10 Eddie Meath
11* Little Rascals (bw)
13* Pots & Pans

6:45
3 Spirit of '76
8 News for Little People

6:50
3 Professor Kitzel
8 Uncle Waldo

6:55
2* Mission Employment
3-8 News
7* Employment File

7:00
2-2*-3-7-8 Today
4-5-12 CBS Morning News
5* Howdy Doody
7*-13-20 Good Morning America
9 Bugs Bunny & Friends
11* Popeye
13* Canada AM

7:15
11* Little Rascals

7:30
5*-9 Flintstones
9* News (bw)
11* Heckle & Jeckle
21-24 Maggie & the Beautiful Machine

8:00
4-5-10-12 Captain Kangaroo (guest Ruth Buzzi)
5* Bugs Bunny
7* Rocketship 7
9 Good Morning America
9* Jimmy Swaggart
11* Mighty Mouse
16-21-24 Lilias, Yoga & You

8:30
5* Monkees
9* Lassie
11* Magilla Gorilla
16-21-24 Instructional Programs

8:45
11 Friendly Giant

9:00
2 Romper Room
2*-5 Dinah! (on 2: guests Charlton Heston, Cloris Leachman, Deborah Kerr, Isabel Sanford, Damon Evans, and Lisa Gerritsen...on 5: guests Carroll & Nancy O'Connor, Bill & Brenda Benet Bixby, and Billy Davis Jr. & Marilyn McCoo)
3 Ladies Day
4 Howdy Doody
5* Brady Bunch
7 Captain Kangaroo
7* Dialing for Dollars
8 Mod Squad
9-10 Merv Griffin (on 9: on location in Israel with guests Moshe Dayan and Lt-Gen Mordechi Gur; on 10: guests Rita Moreno, Abbe Lane, Larry Storch, Joe Williams, and 4 Vegas showgirls)
9* Phil Donahue (media coverage of executions)
11 Mon Ami
11* Munsters (bw)
12 Morning Show
13 AM Rochester
13* First Impressions
16-20-21 Sesame Street

9:15
11 Ontario Schools

9:30
2 Good Day! (guest co-host Virginia Graham)
3 Gong Show
4 Tattletales
5* Partridge Family
11* I Dream of Jeannie
12 Phil Donahue (guest Florynce Kennedy)
13* Morning Show

10:00
2-3-8 Sanford & Son
4-5-7-10-12 Price is Right
5* Andy Griffith (bw)
7* Phil Donahue (guests Evil Knievel)
9* Romper Room
11 Canadian Schools
11* Get Smart
13-20 Dinah! (see 9am, 5 for guests)
16-21 Instructional Programs

10:30
2-2*-3-8 Hollywood Squares
5* I Love Lucy (bw)
9 Open Line
11 Mr. Dressup
11* Abbott & Costello (bw)
13* Definition

11:00
2-2*-3-8 Wheel of Fortune
4-5-7-10-12 Double Dare
5* Movie "The Face of Fu Manchu"
7*-9 Edge of Night
9* Straight Talk
11 Sesame Street
11* Good Day! (same show as 2, 9:30)
13* Kareen's Yoga & Nutrition

11:30
2-2*-3-8 Shoot for the Stars
4 Young & the Restless
5-7-10-12 Love of Life
7*-9-13-20 Happy Days
11* 700 Club
13* Romper Room

11:55
5-7-10-12 CBS News

Afternoon
noon
2-2* Name That Tune
3-4-5-7*-9* News
7-12 Young & the Restless
8 Midday
9-13-20 Don Ho (guest Anson Williams)
10 Noon
11 Party Game
13* Flintstones

12:30
2-3-8 Lovers & Friends
2* Magazine
4-5-7-10-12 Search for Tomorrow
7*-9-13-20 Ryan's Hope
9* Joe Franklin
11 Gillian
11* News
13* Movie "Back to God's Country"

1:00
2-2* Gong Show
3 Movie "White Witch Doctor"
4 Cross-Wits
5 To Tell the Truth
5* Midday
7 Doctors
7*-9-13-20 All My Children
8 Name That Tune
10 Young & the Restless
11 Mike Douglas (co-host David Brenner/guests Max von Sydow, Pat Henry, and Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band)
11* Black Pride
12 News

1:30
2-2*-8 Days of Our Lives
4-5-7-10-12 As the World Turns
7*-9-13-20 Family Feud
9* Celebrity Review (guest host Soupy Sales/guests Van Johnson, Martha Reeves, and Bob McGrath)
11* Pulpit & People

2:00
7*-9-13-20 $20,000 Pyramid
11* Joya's Fun School
13* Alan Hamel (guests Tom Kneebone and Sylvia Tyson)

2:25
5* News

2:30
2-2*-3-8 Doctors
4-5-7-10-12 Guiding Light
5* Casper
7*-9-13-20 One Life to Live
9* Take Kerr
11 Edge of Night
11* Popeye

2:35
9* Movie "First Yank Into Tokyo" (bw)

3:00
2-2*-3-8-13* Another World
4-5-7-10-12 All in the Family
5* Porky, Huck & Yogi
11 Take 30
11* Magilla Gorilla

3:15
7* Commander Tom
9-13-20 General Hospital

3:30
4-5-7-10-12 Match Game
5* Bugs Bunny
11 Celebrity Cooks
11* Banana Splits
16-21-24 Lilias, Yoga & You

4:00
2 Gilligan's Island (guest star Don Rickles)
2* Movie "That Touch of Mink"
3 Movie "Magnificent Thief"
4 Merv Griffin (guest host Steve Allen/guests Jayne Meadows, Charles Nelson Reilly, the Pointer Sisters, and Bill Daily
5 I Dream of Jeannie
5* Mickey Mouse Club
7 Tattletales
8 Gong Show
9 Mike Douglas (in Hollywood with guests Charlton Heston, Cindy Williams, Ron Howard, and the Sylvers)
9* Movie "Blood on the Arrow"
10 Gilligan's Island
11 It's Your Choice
11* Dastardly & Muttley
12 Dinah! (from Las Vegas with guests Danny Thomas, Jackie Gleason, Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, and Rita Moreno)
13 Little Rascals (bw)
13* Brady Bunch
16-21-24 Sesame Street
20 Edge of Night

4:30
2 Bewitched
5 Adam-12
5* Archies
7 Sanford & Son
7*-13-20 Mike Douglas (7/13: see 4pm, 9 for guests; over on 13: co-host James Carroll Jordan/guests Ron Nessen, Billy Davis Jr. & Marilyn McCoo, plus Robert Hegyes in Hollywood)
8 Mickey Mouse Club
10 Partridge Family
11 Black Box Theatre
11* Heckle & Jeckle
13* My Three Sons

5:00
2-9 Brady Bunch
5-10 Emergency One!
5* Flintstones
7 Star Trek
8 Adam-12
11 Hee Haw (guests Lorne Greene, Loretta Lynn, and Conway Twitty)
11* Mighty Mouse
12 Gunsmoke
13* I Dream of Jeannie
16-21-24 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

5:30
2-4 Adam-12
5* Partridge Family
8 Hogan's Heroes
9 Odd Couple
11* Munsters (bw)
13* Bewitched
16-21-24 Electric Company

Evening
6:00
2-2*-3-4-5-7-7*-8-9-10-12-13-13*-20 News
5* Brady Bunch
9* Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
11 Match Game
11* Emergency One!
16-24 Zoom
21 Que Pasa?

6:30
2-2*-3-8 NBC Nightly News
4-5-7-10-12 CBS Evening News
5* I Love Lucy (bw)
7*-9-13-20 ABC Evening News
11 News
11* Dick Van Dyke (bw)
16 Vegetable Soup
21 Villa Alegre

7:00
2-4 Concentration
2*-3-9*13 Bowling for Dollars
5 Liars Club
5* My Three Sons
7 Hee Haw (see 5pm, 11 for guests)
7* To Tell the Truth
8-9 Cross-Wits
10 Brady Bunch
11 Fantastic Journey
11* Odd Couple
12 FBI
13* Fish
16 Mon atelier
20 Gomer Pyle, USMC (bw)
21 News
24 Extension 24

7:30
2 Candid Camera
2* Match Game PM
3 Concentration
4 Strikes, Spares & Misses
5 Wild Kingdom
5* Adam-12
7* Break the Bank
8 Burns & Allen (bw)
9 $25,000 Pyramid
9* Joker's Wild
10 Bewitched
11* Lucy Show
13 Muppet Show (guest Connie Stevens)
13* Donny & Marie (guests Roy Clark and Ruth Buzzi)
16-21-24 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
20 Family Affair

8:00
2-2*3-8 Sanford & Son
4 Ten Who Dared (profiles fur trader/explorer Jedediah Smith)
5-7-10-12 Code R
5* Cross-Wits
7*-9-13-20 Donny & Marie (see 8:30, 13* for guests)
9* NBA: New York-Boston (30 min delay)
11 Mary Tyler Moore
11* Movie "The Deep Six"
16-21-24 Washington Week in Review

8:30
2-2*-3-8-13* Rockford Files
5* Merv Griffin (see 4pm, 4 for guests)
11 Chico & the Man
16-21-24 Wall Street Week

9:00
4-5-7-10-12 Sonny & Cher (guests Debbie Reynolds and Jim Nabors)
7*-9-13-20 Movie "The Last Dinosaur"
11 Tommy Hunter (guests Gloria Kaye, Patrician Anne McKinnon, and the Allan Sisters)
16-21-24 Documentary Showcase "Two Stones" (profiles 4 handicapped persons)

9:30
2-2*-3-8-13* Quincy (90 min, which is why Rockford Files aired at 8:30)

10:00
4-5-7-10-12 Executive Suite (finale, Hunter airs here next week)
5*-11* News
11 TBA
16 Masterpiece Theatre "Upstairs, Downstairs" (pt 4)
21 Movie "Little Giant" (bw)
24 Pallisers (pt 2)

10:15
9* Ara's Sports World

10:45
9* Celebrity Bowling: Dick Gautier/Scatman Crothers v Alex Trebek/Jim McKrell

11:00
2-2*-3-4-5-7-7*-8-9-10-12-13-20 News
5* Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
9* Liars Club
11 The National
11* Odd Couple
13* CTV National News
16-24 Captioned ABC News

11:20
11-13* News

11:30
2-2*-3-8 Tonight Show (guests Shana Alexander and Bert Convy)
4 Movie "Theatre of Blood"
5-7-10-12 Movie "Jailhouse Rock" (bw)
5* Love, American Style
7* Movie "The Wolf Man" (bw)
9-13 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
9* Ironside
11* Honeymooners (bw/the Golfer episode, "Hello, ball!" )
16 Mark of Jazz
20 SWAT
21 Captioned ABC News

Late Night
midnight
9-13 SWAT
11 Movie "M*A*S*H"
11* Movie "Fanfare for a Death Scene" (bw)
13* Movie "A Gunfight"

12:30
5* Movie "Beau Geste" (bw)
9* Movie "Don't Look in the Basement"

1:00
2-2*-3-8 Midnight Special (host Richard Pryor/guests Olivia Newton-John, Boz Scaggs, Melvin Van Peebles, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Bobby "Blue" Bland, and Marvin Hamlisch)

1:10
9 Music Hall America
13 Rookies

1:30
(2) Movie "Friendly Persuasion" (JIP)
4 Movie "Touch of Evil" (bw)
5 Dialogue
10 Movie "A Guide for the Married Man"
11* Good News

2:00
9* Joe Franklin
11* News

2:15
9* News

2:20
13 News

3:00
5* Saint (bw)

4:15
(2) A Woman is...

 

[bpatrick]

The Donahue show airing on WOR was timely, because it
was at about that time that Gary Gilmore chose to be executed
by a firing squad.

I wonder if the Donahue show airing on WBNG was the one in
which Florynce Kennedy, a civil-rights activist, angered quite
a few viewers with her rendition of "My country 'tis of thee,
sweet land of bigotry."

 

[John Murphy]

I don't have any memory of Donahue until he went to WNBC. In fact, I don't recall a single promo for The Phil Donahue Show on Channel 9 (unlike WNBC, where promos for the show were ubiquitous).

 

[wbhist]

I don't have any memory of Donahue until he went to WNBC. In fact, I don't recall a single promo for The Phil Donahue Show on Channel 9 (unlike WNBC, where promos for the show were ubiquitous).

And when he came to WNBC in 1977, it was actually his second go-round; his show previously ran on the New York NBC O&O in 1971.

The first New York station to run Donahue, starting on or around Nov. 3, 1969, was WPIX (Channel 11). It and another talk show (probably Barbara Coleman's Here's Barbara) replaced a late-night movie show that had run since 1966, Tonight at the Movies; in turn, on April 6, 1970, Donahue was replaced in the late-night slot by another movie series that would come to be called The Channel 11 Film Festival.

 

[FreddyE1977]

I don't know which would have gotten me more excited....The Don Ho Show featuring Anson Williams, or the Celebrity Bowling team of Dick Gauthier and Scatman Crothers! :

In general I remember 70's TV fondly, but I see a whole lotta cheese in this lineup!

 

[John Murphy]

I don't have any memory of Donahue until he went to WNBC. In fact, I don't recall a single promo for The Phil Donahue Show on Channel 9 (unlike WNBC, where promos for the show were ubiquitous).

And when he came to WNBC in 1977, it was actually his second go-round; his show previously ran on the New York NBC O&O in 1971.

The first New York station to run Donahue, starting on or around Nov. 3, 1969, was WPIX (Channel 11). It and another talk show (probably Barbara Coleman's Here's Barbara) replaced a late-night movie show that had run since 1966, Tonight at the Movies; in turn, on April 6, 1970, Donahue was replaced in the late-night slot by another movie series that would come to be called The Channel 11 Film Festival.

I'm not shocked that I don't recall his program during the early '70s since I was just starting school, but I was old enough to have seen Donahue on WOR by 1977. It's not as if I didn't watch talk shows as a kid, either - I was a moderate fan of Bill Bogg's "Midday" during the '70s (I was more of a fan during the next decade). Of course, looking at this schedule, "The Brady Bunch" or "The Munsters" would have definitely been on in my house at 9 AM.

 

[John Murphy]

5* Withit

Anybody know what program this was?

 

[John Murphy]

I don't have any memory of Donahue until he went to WNBC. In fact, I don't recall a single promo for The Phil Donahue Show on Channel 9 (unlike WNBC, where promos for the show were ubiquitous).

in turn, on April 6, 1970, Donahue was replaced in the late-night slot by another movie series that would come to be called The Channel 11 Film Festival.

Do you know how long "The Channell 11 Film Festival" was on late nights starting Apr 1970, wbhist? Until the '80s, my memories of this movie showcase was early weekday afternoons, FWIW.

 

[dustintv]

I find it hard to believe that WSYR pre-empted Days of our Lives for a B-movie between 1PM and 2:30 yet aired all the other NBC soaps!

 

[wbhist]

Do you know how long "The Channell 11 Film Festival" was on late nights starting Apr 1970, wbhist? Until the '80s, my memories of this movie showcase was early weekday afternoons, FWIW.

From what I could tell, The Channel 11 Film Festival, in terms of its original late-night run, stayed there until fall 1972, which was around the same time that WPIX began airing repeats of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show and The Twilight Zone, both of which were aired late at night - and at that point 'PIX signed off around 1 A.M., after the late news with Roy Whitfield. It was from that point that The Channel 11 Film Festival was shuttled back and forth between afternoons and late nights.

 

[therealjm12]

I find it hard to believe that WSYR pre-empted Days of our Lives for a B-movie between 1PM and 2:30 yet aired all the other NBC soaps!


Ah, Ed Murphy's Hollywood Matinee. It was on for many, many, years. Ed did mornings on WSYR radio and then went out for his "liquid" lunch. He came back and they propped him up to do the intro's and outro to the movie. I'll never forget his intro to Easy Rider..... Today's movie is the story of two boys on an ill fated motorcycle ride.

 

[John Murphy]

Do you know how long "The Channell 11 Film Festival" was on late nights starting Apr 1970, wbhist? Until the '80s, my memories of this movie showcase was early weekday afternoons, FWIW.

From what I could tell, The Channel 11 Film Festival, in terms of its original late-night run, stayed there until fall 1972, which was around the same time that WPIX began airing repeats of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show and The Twilight Zone, both of which were aired late at night - and at that point 'PIX signed off around 1 A.M., after the late news with Roy Whitfield. It was from that point that The Channel 11 Film Festival was shuttled back and forth between afternoons and late nights.

Hmm... that would mean that "The Channel 11 Film Festival" didn't show up during the afternoons until the fall of '72. Could have sworn it was earlier.

The other thing now that is confusing me is that I have a memory of seeing "The Twilight Zone" circa 1970 on a weekend (the Cliff Robertson ventriloquist episode) - does that mean I saw it on WOR then?

 

[wbhist]

The other thing now that is confusing me is that I have a memory of seeing "The Twilight Zone" circa 1970 on a weekend (the Cliff Robertson ventriloquist episode) - does that mean I saw it on WOR then?

Channel 9 ran The Twilight Zone from the year it was first syndicated (1965) up until the 1971-72 season. (In that final season, it ran weeknights before The Late Movie.) WPIX picked it up thereafter. Someone had noted that WOR ran 16mm prints of the series, whereas 'PIX ran the show via 35mm prints.

 

[azumanga]

Someone had noted that WOR ran 16mm prints of [The Twilight Zone], whereas 'PIX ran the show via 35mm prints.

I wonder how that was possible? I generally thought that, in the US, only the networks had 35mm film chains, while TV stations (and syndicators) use 16mm.

 

[wbhist]

I wonder how that was possible? I generally thought that, in the US, only the networks had 35mm film chains, while TV stations (and syndicators) use 16mm.

From what I understand, WPIX was a very rare exception to this rule. Remember, the original master 35mm film of the burning yule log that was restored some years back, had been in a can that had a label for The Honeymooners episode "A Dog's Life." (Hence the title of a TV special about the history of that institution, The Yule Log: A Log's Life.)

But of course, the rule was indeed 16mm film at local stations, even the network O&O's. Part of it was for tax purposes (New York, from my understanding, had a tax on any 35mm film shown on TV, which was why the networks' movie shows originated from some outposts in New Jersey). The other was simple economics and storage space.

 

[John Murphy]

Someone had noted that WOR ran 16mm prints of [The Twilight Zone], whereas 'PIX ran the show via 35mm prints.

I wonder how that was possible? I generally thought that, in the US, only the networks had 35mm film chains, while TV stations (and syndicators) use 16mm.

From what I have read from wbhist's source (I forget his name at the moment), WPIX was able to get 35mm prints for other television shows and also movies, too.