Retro: St. Louis Wed, Sept 22, 1976

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide-St. Louis edition

KTVI 2-ABC
6:30 Fury (bw)
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Phil Donahue (guest Ed McMahon)
10:00 Ryan's Hope
10:30 Happy Days
11:00 Hot Seat
11:30 All My Children
noon News
12:30 Family Feud
1:00 $20,000 Pyramid
1:30 One Life to Live
2:15 General Hospital
3:00 Edge of Night
3:30 Partridge Family
4:00 Marcus Welby, MD
5:00 News
5:30 ABC Evening News
6:00 $25,000 Pyramid
6:30 To Tell the Truth
7:00 Bionic Woman (season premiere #2, conclusion of a crossover with Six Million Dollar Man)
8:00 Baretta (season premiere #3)
9:00 Charlie's Angels (premiere)
10:00 News
10:30 Rookies (guest star Jim Nabors)
11:40 Mystery of the Week "The Next Voice You See"
1:10 Peter Gunn (bw)

KMOX 4-CBS
5:35 News
5:45 People Speak "How Many People are Homosexuals?" (part of a 6-parter on homosexuality)
6:00 PS 4
6:30 Sunrise Semester "Communication, the Invisible Environment"
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (guest star Alan Arkin)
9:00 Price is Right
10:00 Gambit
10:30 Love of Life
10:55 CBS News
11:00 Young & the Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
noon Tattletales
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2:00 All in the Family
2:30 Match Game
3:00 Mike Douglas (co-host Henry Gibson/guests Lou Rawls, George Kirby, and John Naber)
4:00 Dinah! (guests Redd Foxx, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Jessica Walter, and LaWanda Page)
5:00 News
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 News
6:30 Bobby Vinton (guest Ruth Buzzy)
7:00 Good Times (season premiere #4, pt 1)
7:30 Ball Four (premiere)
8:00 All in the Family (1 hr season premiere #7, pt 1-second part airs next week at 8:30 CT, with Alice debuting before Archie)
9:00 Blue Knight (season premiere #2)
10:00 News
10:30 Columbo
mid. People Speak "Is There a Difference Between Homosexuality and Heterosexuality?"
12:15 Movie "The Search" (bw)
2:15 News
2:45 Movie "Man Bait"

KSD 5-NBC
6:30 Focus Your World
7:00 Today (guest Anne Baxter)
9:00 Sanford & Son
9:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 Fun Factory
11:30 Gong Show
11:55 News
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 Doctors
2:00 Another World
3:00 Merv Griffin (guests Robert Klein, Rita Moreno, Debralee Scott, the Movies, and Gary Muledeer)
4:00 Lorenzo & Loretta Music (guest Dave Garroway)
5:00 News
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 News
6:30 Newsbeat
7:00 Movie "The Million Dollar Ripoff"
8:30 Quest (90 min premiere)
10:00 News
10:30 Tonight Show (guests Michael Landon and Bruce Jenner)
mid. Tomorrow (guests Macdonald Carey and Ruth Warrick)

KETC 9-PBS
Instructional Programs during daytime
3pm Sesame Street
4:00 Modern Supervisory Techniques
4:30 Electric Company
5:00 Letter People
5:15 Magic Teapot
5:30 Ourstory
6:00 School Phone Forum
6:30 Kaleidoscope Tonight!
7:00 Nova "The Race for the Double Helix"
8:00 Theater in America "Forget-Me-Not Love"
10:00 What Now, America? "America: the Land That I Love"
10:30 Woodcarver's Workshop
11:00 Captioned ABC News
11:30 St. Louis Sings

KPLR 11-Ind
6:30 Bozo's Big Top
7:00 Lone Ranger (bw)
7:30 Popeye/Bugs Bunny
8:00 Three Stooges "Beer Barrel Polecats" (bw)
8:30 Flintstones
9:00 Courtship of Eddie's Father
9:30 I Love Lucy (bw)
10:00 Lucy Show (guest star Ken Barry)
10:30 Somerset (NBC)
11:00 Good Day! (guests Graham & Treena Kerr, also an interview with Tony Bennett; produced by WCVB Boston)
11:30 Felix the Cat
noon Dusty's Treehouse
12:30 Lassie
1:00 Movie "The Big Sleep" (bw)
3:00 Flintstones
3:30 George & Friends
4:00 Gilligan's Island (bw)
4:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
5:00 Bewitched
5:30 Andy Griffith
6:00 Hogan's Heroes
6:30 Dick Van Dyke
7:00 Movie "The Grapes of Wrath" (bw)
9:30 News
10:00 Cross-Wits
10:30 Gunsmoke
11:30 Wagon Train (bw)
12:30 News
1:00 Not for Women Only

KDNL 30-Ind
7:00 Little Rascals (bw)
7:30 Popeye
8:00 Ultra Man
8:30 Rin Tin Tin
9:00 I Dream of Jeannie
9:30 Financial Reports (stocks/business news)
10:30 700 Club
noon Financial Reports
3:00 Little Rascals (bw)
3:30 Popeye
4:00 Aquaman/Batman/Superman
4:30 Superman (bw)
5:00 Monkees
5:30 My Three Sons
6:00 Brady Bunch
6:30 Adam-12
7:00 Maverick "The Naked Gallows" (bw)
8:00 Movie "See How They Run"
10:00 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
10:30 Honeymooners (bw)
11:00 700 Club (repeat from the morning)

 

[bpatrick]

It's "Lorenzo and Henrietta Music". Lorenzo Music was
the voice of Carlton the Doorman on "Rhoda" and did the
voice-overs of Garfield's thoughts on that animated series
and specials. Their talk show, however, was an immediate
flop, lasting just five weeks.

I do, however, have to put in one personal memory of that
show: we moved to Dallas about that time; the show aired
there on KTVT at 9 AM. Well, we had had a Chihuahua
puppy take up at our house in Florida just before the move,
we had nowhere to keep him except in my parents' hotel room, and
while we were waiting for the furniture to arrive from Florida
we had to stay at the hotel. My parents' room had a king-size
bed and Mikey (the dog) would stretch out on it and watch
Lorenzo and Henrietta. You could hardly see him, he was that
small.

 

[Mike Stroud]

KETC 9-PBS
11:30 St. Louis Sings

Anybody from the St. Louis area recall what this show was about? It sounds like a local talent competition, but it aired five nights a week (from skeds I have from 1974 and 1975), so I suspect it wasn't that. Perhaps local choirs might have been profiled, or even other musical acts?

 

[gregg75]

I think the two independent channels provided that missing piece of the puzzle. Both were programmed well and made for a better overall viewing experience. Why can't that happen today?

Oh yeah, I forgot, most independents are now CW, MY NETWORK TV or UPN.......offering a viable choice or alternative program has become secondary to promoting lousy C- programs from third rate networks.

 

[SteveRichards]

KPLR 11-Ind
10:30 Somerset (NBC)

Obviously, KPLR aired "Somerset," which was pre-empted by KSD. I believe "Somerset"'s network time was 3PM. It's interesting that NBC allowed KPLR to air "Somerset" at 10:30, opposite another NBC show on KSD ("Hollywood Squares"). Generally, networks would not allow a secondary affiliate to air a network show opposite a show from the same network on the primary affiliate. I'm not saying it never happened (it obviously did here), but it is rare.

 

[Rollo-Smokes]

KMOX 4-CBS
6:00 PS 4

Some time ago I posted a St. Louis schedule from 1975, and I noticed this program there. Does anyone know what it was about? Was it some local, Sunrise Semester-type show?

 

[DToTheJ]

I would imagine the "PS" in "PS 4" stood for "public school." Certainly, it wasn't about a video game system that wouldn't be released for about forty years.