Retro: San Francisco-area VHFs, Saturday, Oct. 2, 1971

[DM601]

(Source: Oakland Tribune)

KTVU 2
AM
8:30 Existence
9 Wonders of the World
9:30 Stanford Highlights
10 Pet Set
10:30 Movie: “Fort Dobbs” (1958)
PM
12 Roller Derby
12:45 Major League Baseball, NLCS Game 1: Giants 5, Pirates 4 at Candlestick Park (also shown on Ch. 4, as stated both in Tribune listings and TV highlights story). Pirates won series 3-1.
* Interesting note from the Tribune: The Sept. 30 Giants-Padres regular-season game was broadcast without commercials by KTVU. The station’s 19-game contract had ended, but both KTVU and the Giants wanted it shown. KTVU called KSFO radio, which said they’d allow the game to be televised if they picked up their advertisers instead of KTVU’s. The TV advertisers were competitors of the radio advertisers, so KTVU general manager Roger Rice chose to run the game with no ads.
4 This Week in Pro Football
5 49er Huddle
5:30 McHale’s Navy
6 Lawrence Welk
7 Movie: “Bus Riley’s Back In Town” (1965)
9 Movie: “Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man” (1943)
11 Movie: “Mummy’s Curse” (1945)

KRON 4 (NBC)
AM
6 Across the Fence
6:30 Univ. of Michigan
7 Dr. Doolittle
7:30 Woody Woodpecker
8 Deputy Dawg
8:30 Pink Panther
9 Barrier Reef
9:30 A Look at Bay Area Pennant Races – with Ed Hart
10 Major League Baseball: Orioles at Baltimore (According to baseball-reference.com, Game 1 of the ALCS wasn’t played until Sunday, Oct. 3, a 5-3 Orioles win. Orioles won series 3-0.)
12:45 Giants Pre-Game Show
1 Major League Baseball: Giants 5, Pirates 4 at Candlestick Park
4 Speak Out
4:30 Forum
5 Stand Up and Cheer: Musical Tribute to America presented by Chevrolet
5:30 Raider Highlights
6 News
6:30 NBC News
7 National Geographic Special: “Journey to the High Arctic”
8 Partners
9 NBC Movie: “Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here” (1969)
11 News
11:30 Tonight Show

KPIX 5
AM
6:30 Agriculture
7 Josie and the Pussycats
7:30 Monkees
8 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
8:30 Scooby Doo
9 Harlem Globetrotters
9:30 Help, It’s The Hair Bear Bunch
10 Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm
10:30 Archie’s TV Funnies
11 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
11:30 Earth Lab
PM
12:30 You Are There: Record Ride for the Pony Express
1 CBS Children’s Film Festival: “Flash, The Sheep Dog”
2 Government Story
2:30 Movie: “Triumph of Hercules” (1964)
4:30 Perry Mason
5:30 Game of the Week
6 News
6:30 CBS News
7 Ron Magers’ Electric Impressions: guests David Frost and Chuck Berry (termed in the listings as “the father of rock and roll”) – Magers, now in Chicago, was a KPIX news anchor
7:30 Street People
8 All In The Family
8:30 Funny Face
9 Dick Van Dyke
9:30 Mary Tyler Moore
10 Mission: Impossible
11 News
11:30 Movie: “4-D Man” (1959)
1 Movie: “Las Vegas Night” (1941)

KGO-TV 7 (ABC)
AM
7 Will The Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down
7:30 Road Runner
8 Funky Phantom
8:30 Jackson Five
9 Lidsville
9:30 Curiosity Shop
10:30 College Football: Notre Dame 14, Michigan State 2
PM
2 Bewitched
2:30 Jonny Quest
3 Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
3:30 American Bandstand
4 Sports World
4:30 Wide World of Sports: Trenton 300 (Indy cars; Bobby Unser, winner)
6 News
6:30 Call Out: guests Ross Coghn, Assemblyman Willie Brown
7 On the Spot
7:30 Let’s Make a Deal
8 Getting Together
8:30 ABC Saturday Night Movie: “Sweet, Sweet Rachel” (1971, made for TV)
10 The Persuaders
11 News
11:30 Movie: “Journey to the Center of the Earth” (1959)

KNTV 11 (ABC) San Jose
Schedule same as Channel 7 except:
AM
9 Stanford Highlights (football)
PM
2 San Jose State Highlights (football)
4 Sports Special
4:30 49er Huddle (joined Wide World Of Sports in progress at 5)
6:30 The Virginian
11 Boxing From The Forum
12M Movie: “Lion” (1962)

KQED-TV 9 (NET)
AM
8 Sesame Street (five hours)
No further listings until…
PM
6 Un Canto De Mexico
6:30 Washington Week In Review
7 Fanfare: Roberta Peters
8 International Zone
8:30 Black Journal
9:30 Book Beat: “Journey to Heartbreak”
10 NET Playhouse: “Cathy Come Home”
<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by DM601 on 01/06/06 12:08 AM.</FONT></P>

 

[rugrats1]

> KRON 4 (NBC)
> 5 Stand Up and Cheer: Musical Tribute to America presented
> by Chevrolet

Very clean variety program hosted by Johnny Mann and his singers. Mann is notorious for being a dedicated American, which, of copurse, shows in this series.

> KQED-TV 9 (NET)

Already PBS by this point, though it still showed NET-branded programming.

 

[Braves2005]

> (Source: Oakland Tribune)
>
>
> KPIX 5(CBS)

> 9 Dick Van Dyke
Title should be The New Dick Van Dyke Show where he starred with Hope Lange as a talk show host in Freedom,Arizona. Some TV Guides and newspapers showed the show as Dick Van Dyke deleting the New in the title when the original Dick Van Dyke Show was now in syndication in reruns.

 

[rugrats1]

> > KPIX 5(CBS)
>
> > 9 Dick Van Dyke
> Title should be The New Dick Van Dyke Show where he
> starred with Hope Lange as a talk show host in
> Freedom,Arizona.

Don't you mean "Carefree, Arizona", where this series was actually shot for the first couple of seasons before moving to Hollywood?

 

[Braves2005]

>
> Don't you mean "Carefree, Arizona", where this series was
> actually shot for the first couple of seasons before moving
> to Hollywood?

Yes,that was Carefree,Arizona. Had a senior moment going even though I'm 34. Anyways,I do have a question about The New Dick Van Dyke Show and its first season. In the 1st half of the 1st season it aired before The Mary Tyler Moore Show but by January The Mary Tyler Moore Show moved to 7:30 Central Time after All In The Family while TNDVDS stayed at 8:00 Central until it moved to Sunday nights in its 2nd season where it is paired with M*A*S*H. My question is this,why didn't they leave this great part of the lineup alone during that season where Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke were together again but only in different shows?

 

[bpatrick]

> >
> > Don't you mean "Carefree, Arizona", where this series was
> > actually shot for the first couple of seasons before
> moving
> > to Hollywood?
>
> Yes,that was Carefree,Arizona. Had a senior moment going
> even though I'm 34. Anyways,I do have a question about
> The New Dick Van Dyke Show and its first season. In the 1st
> half of the 1st season it aired before The Mary Tyler Moore
> Show but by January The Mary Tyler Moore Show moved to 7:30
> Central Time after All In The Family while TNDVDS stayed at
> 8:00 Central until it moved to Sunday nights in its 2nd
> season where it is paired with M*A*S*H. My question is
> this,why didn't they leave this great part of the lineup
> alone during that season where Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van
> Dyke were together again but only in different shows?
>
First, the reshuffling on Saturday nights. The CBS
sitcom block in fall 1971 (Eastern time):

8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Funny Face (Sandy Duncan)
9 PM The New Dick Van Dyke Show
9:30 Mary Tyler Moore

In December, Sandy Duncan had to give up her show
in order to have eye surgery. It would be back
on Sundays in the fall of 1972 (see below).

For the "second season" (January 1972) we have:

8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Mary Tyler Moore
9 PM Dick Van Dyke
9:30 Arnie

What happened here was that Moore's show, being
stronger than Van Dyke's (to just about everyone's
surprise her show ranked tied for tenth with Here's
Lucy for the 1971-72 season; Van Dyke's show ranked
eighteenth, when preseason experts thought her show
would need a ratings lift from his lead-in), got the
lead-in slot; Arnie, a moderate success on Saturdays
the year before, had been dying at 10:30 Mondays in
the fall of '71, and this was a last chance to save it.

Now to the fall of '72:

Saturdays, CBS had:

8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Bridget Loves Bernie
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart

Newhart's show, like Moore's, was produced by
MTM, and CBS felt the two shows were similar
enough to run back-to-back. Bridget Loves Bernie,
with its Jewish-male-marries-Catholic-female premise,
was thought by the network to be topical (Abie's Irish
Rose did the same thing on Broadway and radio in the
'40s).

So on Sundays:

7:30 Anna And The King (failed reworking of
The King And I)
8 PM M*A*S*H
8:30 Sandy Duncan
9 PM Dick Van Dyke

Problem: The FBI and the ABC Sunday Night Movie
on one network; Disney and the NBC Sunday Mystery
Movie on the other. Good idea to counterprogram,
only it didn't work. Anna And The King and Sandy
Duncan were canceled in January 1973; Van Dyke
was moved to 7:30 to lead into M*A*S*H. The next
year M*A*S*H exploded on Saturdays at 8:30, while
Van Dyke followed Lucy on Mondays at 9:30.

So I think the reason CBS split Van Dyke and Moore:
the network hoped he could revitalize Sunday night,
which had been a problem at least since the demise
of The Ed Sullivan Show, if not longer. Strong
competition and weak shows (other than M*A*S*H)
preceding it didn't help. And M*A*S*H was not
a runaway hit on Sundays.

Also, CBS felt the Saturday block in the fall of
'72 was good programming flow; three of the four
were renewed, and All In The Family held the 8 PM
slot until the Family Hour Rule forced CBS to move
it in 1975.

Schedule information from Castleman and Podrazik;
ratings information from Brooks and Marsh.<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by bpatrick on 01/06/06 10:36 PM.</FONT></P>

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

DM601 takes us back to the Bay Area on October 2nd, 1971:

> KTVU 2
> PM
> 12:45 Major League Baseball, NLCS Game 1: Giants 5, Pirates
> 4 at Candlestick Park (also shown on Ch. 4, as stated both
> in Tribune listings and TV highlights story). Pirates won
> series 3-1.

It's actually possible that this was not a simulcast of NBC's coverage of the game. From 1969 (when the League Championship Series began) through 1983 or so, Major League Baseball allowed local TV rightsholders of teams that had qualified for the LCS to produce their own broadcasts. Thus, this may have been a KTVU-produced telecast, complete with local announcers.

For instance, when the Boston Red Sox made it to the 1975 American League Championship Series, WSBK-38 (which then had rights to the Red Sox) produced their own telecasts of the ALCS with then-Red Sox announcers Dick Stockton and Ken "Hawk" Harreleson.