from TV Guide-St. Louis edition
Programs subject to change due to stations adding extra newscasts- there was a newspaper strike in the Gateway City at the time
KTVI 2-ABC
6:30 Romper Room
7:00 Good Morning America (guests include David Prowse, the guy inside Darth Vader)
9:00 Phil Donahue (guest William F. Buckley Jr.)
10:00 Happy Days (Christmas episode from 1974)
10:30 Family Feud
11:00 All My Children
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
noon News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Movie "Christmas in Connecticut" (bw)
5:00 News
5:30 ABC Evening News
6:00 News
6:30 Bowling for Dollars
7:00 Fast Lane Blues (pilot, sounds like a Cannonball Run knockoff)
8:00 Movie "Green Eyes"
10:00 News
10:30 Mary Tyler Moore
11:00 Movie "Drums in the Deep South"
12:30 News
1:00 Expression
KMOX 4-CBS
5:50 News
6:00 PS 4 (Marian E. Cotler)
6:30 TBA
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 All in the Family
9:30 Price is Right
10:30 Love of Life
10:55 CBS News
11:00 Young & the Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
noon Peach Bowl: Purdue-Georgia Tech (at Atlanta)
3:00 Mike Douglas (co-hosts Rita Walter and Dennis Cooney/guests Red Buttons, Eva Marie Saint, and Livingston Taylor)
4:00 Dinah! (Christmas show with the California Boys Choir, ice sculptor Earl Macomber, butcher Merle Ellis, Dick & Pat Van Patten, Hal & Frances Linden, and George & Brenda Carlin)
5:00 News
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 News
6:30 D.B.'s Christmas Delight (D.B. Doorbell and Bobby Day)
7:00 White Shadow
8:00 M*A*S*H
8:30 One Day at a Time
9:00 Lou Grant
10:00 News
11:00 New Avengers
12:15 Movie "Attack on the Iron Coast"
2:00 People Speak "The Depths of My Soul?" (Dr. George Benson, St. Louis University School of Medicine)
2:20 Movie "Bundle of Joy"
3:45 News
KSD 5-NBC
6:30 Focus Your World "Worlds of Women: Career and Child Rearing"
7:00 Today
9:00 Christmas at Washington Cathedral
10:00 High Rollers
10:30 Wheel of Fortune
11:00 America Alive!
11:30 Mid-Day AM (Clif St. James)
noon News
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 Doctors
2:00 Hee Haw Honeys
2:30 Fiesta Bowl: Arkansas-UCLA (at Tempe)
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 News
6:30 Newsbeat (Ford/Auble)
7:00 Little House on the Prairie (1974 Christmas episode)
8:00 Movie "Sunshine Christmas"
10:00 News
10:45 Tonight Show (guests Bert Convy and Marilyn Horne)
12:15 Tomorrow (JIP/guest: lyricist Alan Jay Lerner)
1:00 Newsbeat
KETC 9-PBS
6:45 Weather
7:00 Lilias, Yoga & You
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:00 Electric Company
9:30 Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
10:30 Christmas with Mister Rogers
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Evening at Symphony (the Boston Symphony and Tangelwood Festival Chorus team up to perform Handel's Messiah)
3:00 Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
4:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Electric Company
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Zoom
6:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
7:00 Dick Cavett (looks at the etymologies of unusual words)
7:30 Julia Child & Company
8:00 Great Performances "Mourning Becomes Electra" (pt 3)
9:00 Great Performances (the NYC Ballet performs two works choreographed by George Balanchine)
10:00 Growing Together "Preserving the Health of Infants"
10:30 Dick Cavett (guest P.D.Q. Bach)
11:00 Turnabout
11:30 Captioned ABC News
KPLR 11-Ind
5:00 Weather
6:00 Newswatch: Dateline
6:30 Popeye
7:00 Bugs Bunny
7:30 Heckle & Jeckle
8:00 Fred Flintstone & Friends
8:30 Archies
9:00 Bewitched
9:30 Love, American Style
10:00 Hollywood Squares
10:30 Dick Van Dyke (bw)
11:00 I Love Lucy (bw)
11:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
noon F Troop
12:30 Movie "Zotz!" (bw)
2:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
3:00 Flintstones
3:30 Woody Woodpecker/Tom & Jerry
4:00 Emergency One!
5:00 Six Million Dollar Man
6:00 Gong Show (judges Allen Ludden, Arte Johnson, and Jaye P. Morgan)
6:30 Hogan's Heroes
7:00 Lawrence Welk (Christmas special)
8:00 Tic Tac Dough
8:30 You Don't Say!
9:00 Joker's Wild
9:30 News
10:00 Cross-Wits
10:30 Movie "The Christmas Tree"
12:50 News
1:20 Movie "If I Had a Million" (bw)
3:00 Not for Women Only (women in sports, pt 1-guests include Althea Gibson and Patty Berg)
3:30 Weather
KDNL 30-Ind
7:00 Popeye
7:30 Little Rascals (bw)
8:00 Spiderman & Friends
8:30 PTL Club (guests: cookbook editors Charles & Frances Hunter, and chaplain Austin Miles)
9:30 Rev. Hubert Surratt
9:45 TBA
10:30 700 Club (guest Johnny Zell)
noon Movie "Love and Kisses"
2:00 Room 222 "The Hand That Feeds"
2:30 Beverly Hillbillies (bw)
3:00 Mighty Mouse
3:30 World of Super-Adventure
4:00 Leave It to Beaver (bw)
4:30 Brady Bunch (x2)
5:30 My Three Sons
6:00 Odd Couple
6:30 New Newlywed Game
7:00 Jack Van Impe (Christmas special, taped in Israel)
8:00 Movie "World Safari"
10:00 Sanford & Son
10:30 Love Experts
11:00 Honeymooners (bw)
11:30 700 Club (r)
Programs subject to change due to stations adding extra newscasts- there was a newspaper strike in the Gateway City at the time
KTVI 2-ABC
6:30 Romper Room
7:00 Good Morning America (guests include David Prowse, the guy inside Darth Vader)
9:00 Phil Donahue (guest William F. Buckley Jr.)
10:00 Happy Days (Christmas episode from 1974)
10:30 Family Feud
11:00 All My Children
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
noon News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Movie "Christmas in Connecticut" (bw)
5:00 News
5:30 ABC Evening News
6:00 News
6:30 Bowling for Dollars
7:00 Fast Lane Blues (pilot, sounds like a Cannonball Run knockoff)
8:00 Movie "Green Eyes"
10:00 News
10:30 Mary Tyler Moore
11:00 Movie "Drums in the Deep South"
12:30 News
1:00 Expression
KMOX 4-CBS
5:50 News
6:00 PS 4 (Marian E. Cotler)
6:30 TBA
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 All in the Family
9:30 Price is Right
10:30 Love of Life
10:55 CBS News
11:00 Young & the Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
noon Peach Bowl: Purdue-Georgia Tech (at Atlanta)
3:00 Mike Douglas (co-hosts Rita Walter and Dennis Cooney/guests Red Buttons, Eva Marie Saint, and Livingston Taylor)
4:00 Dinah! (Christmas show with the California Boys Choir, ice sculptor Earl Macomber, butcher Merle Ellis, Dick & Pat Van Patten, Hal & Frances Linden, and George & Brenda Carlin)
5:00 News
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 News
6:30 D.B.'s Christmas Delight (D.B. Doorbell and Bobby Day)
7:00 White Shadow
8:00 M*A*S*H
8:30 One Day at a Time
9:00 Lou Grant
10:00 News
11:00 New Avengers
12:15 Movie "Attack on the Iron Coast"
2:00 People Speak "The Depths of My Soul?" (Dr. George Benson, St. Louis University School of Medicine)
2:20 Movie "Bundle of Joy"
3:45 News
KSD 5-NBC
6:30 Focus Your World "Worlds of Women: Career and Child Rearing"
7:00 Today
9:00 Christmas at Washington Cathedral
10:00 High Rollers
10:30 Wheel of Fortune
11:00 America Alive!
11:30 Mid-Day AM (Clif St. James)
noon News
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 Doctors
2:00 Hee Haw Honeys
2:30 Fiesta Bowl: Arkansas-UCLA (at Tempe)
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 News
6:30 Newsbeat (Ford/Auble)
7:00 Little House on the Prairie (1974 Christmas episode)
8:00 Movie "Sunshine Christmas"
10:00 News
10:45 Tonight Show (guests Bert Convy and Marilyn Horne)
12:15 Tomorrow (JIP/guest: lyricist Alan Jay Lerner)
1:00 Newsbeat
KETC 9-PBS
6:45 Weather
7:00 Lilias, Yoga & You
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:00 Electric Company
9:30 Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
10:30 Christmas with Mister Rogers
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Evening at Symphony (the Boston Symphony and Tangelwood Festival Chorus team up to perform Handel's Messiah)
3:00 Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
4:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Electric Company
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Zoom
6:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
7:00 Dick Cavett (looks at the etymologies of unusual words)
7:30 Julia Child & Company
8:00 Great Performances "Mourning Becomes Electra" (pt 3)
9:00 Great Performances (the NYC Ballet performs two works choreographed by George Balanchine)
10:00 Growing Together "Preserving the Health of Infants"
10:30 Dick Cavett (guest P.D.Q. Bach)
11:00 Turnabout
11:30 Captioned ABC News
KPLR 11-Ind
5:00 Weather
6:00 Newswatch: Dateline
6:30 Popeye
7:00 Bugs Bunny
7:30 Heckle & Jeckle
8:00 Fred Flintstone & Friends
8:30 Archies
9:00 Bewitched
9:30 Love, American Style
10:00 Hollywood Squares
10:30 Dick Van Dyke (bw)
11:00 I Love Lucy (bw)
11:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
noon F Troop
12:30 Movie "Zotz!" (bw)
2:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
3:00 Flintstones
3:30 Woody Woodpecker/Tom & Jerry
4:00 Emergency One!
5:00 Six Million Dollar Man
6:00 Gong Show (judges Allen Ludden, Arte Johnson, and Jaye P. Morgan)
6:30 Hogan's Heroes
7:00 Lawrence Welk (Christmas special)
8:00 Tic Tac Dough
8:30 You Don't Say!
9:00 Joker's Wild
9:30 News
10:00 Cross-Wits
10:30 Movie "The Christmas Tree"
12:50 News
1:20 Movie "If I Had a Million" (bw)
3:00 Not for Women Only (women in sports, pt 1-guests include Althea Gibson and Patty Berg)
3:30 Weather
KDNL 30-Ind
7:00 Popeye
7:30 Little Rascals (bw)
8:00 Spiderman & Friends
8:30 PTL Club (guests: cookbook editors Charles & Frances Hunter, and chaplain Austin Miles)
9:30 Rev. Hubert Surratt
9:45 TBA
10:30 700 Club (guest Johnny Zell)
noon Movie "Love and Kisses"
2:00 Room 222 "The Hand That Feeds"
2:30 Beverly Hillbillies (bw)
3:00 Mighty Mouse
3:30 World of Super-Adventure
4:00 Leave It to Beaver (bw)
4:30 Brady Bunch (x2)
5:30 My Three Sons
6:00 Odd Couple
6:30 New Newlywed Game
7:00 Jack Van Impe (Christmas special, taped in Israel)
8:00 Movie "World Safari"
10:00 Sanford & Son
10:30 Love Experts
11:00 Honeymooners (bw)
11:30 700 Club (r)
