Retro: Seattle/Tacoma Mon, May 17, 1971

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide-Seattle/Tacoma edition
TVG didn't list area educational stations KPEC 56 or KTPS 62

KOMO 4-ABC
6:15 Farm Report
6:20 Thought for the Day
6:25 News
6:30 Ecology "Foreign Case Studies" (looks at anti-pollution efforts in Japan and SE Asia)
7:00 Telecourse: Economics
7:30 Timmy & Lassie (bw)
8:00 Flying Nun
8:30 Good Morning (guest Arte Johnson)
9:00 Movie "Decision Against Time" (bw)
10:30 News
11:00 Galloping Gourmet
11:30 That Girl
noon Bewitched
12:30 World Apart
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 Password
4:30 What's My Line?
5:00 Petticoat Junction
5:30 News
6:00 ABC Evening News
6:30 News
7:00 Exploration Northwest "People of the Whale" (pt 2, follows the discovery of an ancient Ozette Indian village on Washington's NW coast)
7:30 Let's Make a Deal
8:00 Newlywed Game
8:30 It was a Very Good Year (look back at 1964)
9:00 Movie "The City" (series pilot)
11:00 News
11:30 Dick Cavett (Dick's last day in London with 6 youngsters aged 7-11 commenting on British society and current events)
1:00 sign-off

KING 5-NBC
6:05 Intersect
6:20 Farm News
6:30 Telecourse: Folk Ballad (bw)
7:00 Today (feature on the LBJ Library at University of Texas-Austin, and guest Ivan Illich; news at 7:25/8:25)
9:00 Telescope
10:00 Sale of the Century
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 Jeopardy
11:30 Who, What or Where Game
11:55 Children's Doctor
noon Distaff
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:00 Doctors
1:30 Another World
2:00 Famous Jury Trials
2:30 Somerset
3:00 Dinah Shore (guests John Raitt and Adele Davis)
3:30 Virginia Graham (guest Soupy Sales)
4:00 Mike Douglas (guests James Brown, William Shatner, Lillian Roth, David Schoenbrun, and Fay McKay)
5:30 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Truth or Consequences
7:30 From a Bird's Eye View
8:00 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in (guest Goldie Hawn)
9:00 Movie "Do You Take This Stranger?"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show (from Hollywood with guests Carl Reiner, Ruth Gordon, and George Gobel)
1:00 sign-off

KIRO 7-CBS
relays: 2 Shelton, 72 Everett, 78 Edmonds, 78 Vashon Island/Des Moines, 79 Renton/Mercer Island, 79 Olympia, 79 Puyallup, 80 Bremerton, and 80 Bellevue/Mercer Island
6:10 Farm News
6:25 Let's Talk About...
6:30 Summer Semester "Problems and Perspectives of the Human Environment" (series return)
7:00 CBS Morning News
7:30 J.P. Patches
8:30 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 News
10:00 Family Affair
10:30 Love of Life
11:00 Where the Heart is
11:25 CBS News
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
noon News
12:30 As the World Turns
1:00 Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
1:30 Guiding Light
2:00 Secret Storm
2:30 Edge of Night
3:00 Gomer Pyle, USMC
3:30 J.P. Patches
4:00 Big Money Movie "No Man is an Island" (A quiz airs during the movie)
6:00 CBS Evening News
6:30 News
7:00 Dick Van Dyke (bw)
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 Here's Lucy
9:00 Mayberry RFD
9:30 Doris Day
10:00 Carol Burnett (guests Dyan Cannon and Paul Lynde)
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Hunters"
1:30 sign-off

KCTS 9-PBS
9:15 Classroom (bw)
10:00 recess
10:30 Classroom (bw)
11:30 Sesame Street (ep 266, with Bill Cosby giving a lesson in counting)
12:30 Classroom (bw)
12:45 recess
1:15 Classroom (bw)
3:00 Educational Film Preview (bw)
4:00 Telecourse: Russian Literature (bw)
4:30 Sesame Street (ep 266)
5:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (bw)
6:00 Telecourse: Economics
6:30 Face to Face "New Anti-War Protestors on the Scene" (bw/series finale)
7:00 Infant Death (bw)
7:30 Seattle in Action (bw)
8:00 World Press Review
9:00 Realities "The Mind of Man"
11:00 sign-off

KTNT 11-Ind
relay: 2 Seattle
9:30 Concentration (NBC)
10:00 I Love Lucy (bw)
10:30 Jack LaLanne
11:00 Romper Room
noon Joe Garagiola's Memory Game (NBC)
12:30 To Tell the Truth
1:00 Don St. Thomas
1:30 New Beat the Clock
2:00 Bright Promise (NBC)
2:30 Movie Game
3:00 Rocky & His Friends (Bullwinkle)
3:30 Speed Racer
4:00 Flintstones
4:30 Addams Family (bw)
5:00 Gilligan's Island
5:30 Get Smart
6:00 Wild Wild West
7:00 Dragnet
7:30 Perry Mason "The Shapely Shadow" (bw)
8:30 David Frost (guests Jose Feliciano, Melville Shavelson, and George Kirby)
10:00 News
10:30 Mantrap
11:30 Merv Griffin (from Vegas with guest Jill St. John)
1:00 sign-off

KTVW 13-Ind
4:30pm Movie "Tomorrow We Live" (bw)
6:00 Project 13 (bw)
7:00 Behind the Wheel (bw)
8:00 Holiday (bw)
8:30 Scope (bw)
9:00 Bob Corcoran (bw)
11:00 Movie "Shadow Man" (bw)
12:30 True Story (bw)
1:00 Movie "A Yank in Libya" (bw)
2:15 sign-off

 

[TexasTom]

Not shown in that schedule for KTVW, channel 13, is that they ran a daytime schedule of financial news with an onscreen ticker tape that presumably ended with the start of that 4:30 PM movie. Similar programming was tried several years later on several major market UHF stations, but I'm not aware that it lasted very long in any market.

The financial programming was removed from KTVW when the station was sold to new owners in late 1972.

Also of note in this schedule is the fact that every program listed on KTVW is in black and white. That's because they didn't have the capability to run color programming in 1971. That new owner in 1972 also bought the equipment that finally allowed the station to convert to color operation.

Hard to believe that a top 20 market commercial VHF station was still in black and white in 1971...but it's true.

 

[visaman]

I would have been 5 and a half back then and my family had just moved from Saskatoon a year earlier where we just had 1 channel so with cable we picked up all the Seattle stations except for 11 and 13. I remember KCTS broadcasting in B&W, but I thought it was just my imagination or our TV. Thanks for posting this so my memories are true!