Retro: Tampa Bay Commercial Stations - October 18, 1975 - Saturday

[Markd]

October 19, 1975 - From Sarasota Herald Tribune

8 WFLA TV (NBC) Media General

6 AM LAUREL & HARDY LAUGH TOONS (silent shorts from 20's)
6:30 BANANA SPLITS-Children
8 AM EMERGENCY-Cartoon
8:30 JOSIE & THE PUSSYCATS-Cartoons
9 AM WALDO KITTY-Cartoons
9:30 PINK PANTHER-Cartoons
10 AM LAND OF THE LOST-Adventure
10:30 RUN JOE RUN-Adventure
11 AM PLANET OF THE APES-Adventure
11:30 WESTWIND-Adventure
12 NOON JETSONS-Cartoons
12:30 GO-Children
1 PM INFORMATION 8
1:30 BASEBALL – World Series – Cincinnati Reds & Boston Red Sox
4:30 NBC SPORTS
6 PM NEWS
6:30 NBC NEWS
7 PM NEWS CONFERENCE
7:30 HERE & THERE
8 PM EMERGENCY-Drama
9 PM NBC MOVIE – New Centurions (1974)
11 PM NEWS
11:30 SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE-Comedy
1 AM MOVIE – Force Of Arms (1951)
3 AM SIGN OFF

10 WLCY (ABC) Rahall Communications

6:30 IT IS WRITTEN
7 AM TREEHOUSE CLUB
7:30 DAVEY & GOLIATH-Children
8 AM HONG KUNG PHOOEY-Cartoons
8:25 SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK
8:30 TOM & JERRY/GRAPE APE-Cartoons
9:25 SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK
9:30 LOST SAUCER-Adventure
9:55 SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK
10 PM NEW ADVENTURES OF GILLIGAN-Cartoons
10:25 SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK
10:30 UNCLE CROCK’S BLOCK-Children
11:25 SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK
11:30 ODD BALL COUPLE-Cartoons
11:55 SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK
12 NOON SPEED BUGGY-Cartoons
12:25 SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK
12:30 AMERICAN BANDSTAND-Music
1:30 NCAA FOOTBALL
5 PM ABC WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS
6 PM NEWS
6:30 ABC NEWS
7 PM LAWRENCE WELK-Music
8 PM SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE WITH HOWARD COSELL (NOT THE WELL KNOWN SHOW NBC HAD)
9 PM SWAT-Drama
10 PM MATT HELM-Drama
11 PM NEWS
11:30 LATE MOVIE – Prince & The Showgirl (1957)
1:30 SIGN OFF


13 WTVT (CBS) Gaylord
6 AM 13 FORUM
6:30 VIEWPOINT
7 AM BOZO-Children
8 AM PEBBLES & BAMM BAMM-Cartoons
8:26 IN THE NEWS
8:30 BUGS BUNNY/ROAD RUNNER-Cartoons
9:26 IN THE NEWS
9:30 SCOOBY DOO-Cartoon
9:56 IN THE NEWS
10 AM SHAZAM/ISIS-Adventure
10:56 IN THE NEWS
11 AM FAR OUT SPACE NUTS-Adventure
11:26 IN THE NEWS
11:30 GHOSTBUSTERS-Comedy
11:56 IN THE NEWS
12 NOON FAT ALBERT-Cartoon
12:26 IN THE NEWS
12:30 VALLEY OF THE DINOSAURS-Cartoons
12:56 IN THE NEWS
1 PM CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL
1:56 IN THE NEWS
2 PM MOVIE – Fireball Forward (1973)
4 PM CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR
6 PM NEWS
6:30 CBS NEWS
7 PM PROJECT 13
7:30 CANDID CAMERA
8 PM JEFFERSONS-Comedy
8:30 DOC-Comedy
9 PM MARY TYLER MOORE-Comedy
9:30 BOB NEWHART-Comedy
10 PM CAROL BURNETT-Comedy
11 PM NEWS
11:30 MOVIE – Angel In My Pocket (1969)
1:30 MOVIE – Birds (1963)
4 AM SIGN OFF

44 WTOG (Ind.) Hubbard

6 AM VEGETABLE SOUP-Children
6:30 FURY
7 AM FURY
7:30 HERALD OF TRUTH
8 AM REX HUMBARD
9 AM CARPENTER’S HOME CHURCH
10 AM EARNEST ANGELY
11 AM JIM THOMAS
11:30 FRIENDS OF MAN
12 NOON SOUL TRAIN-Music
1 PM CREATURE DOUBLE FEATURE – Giant Claw (1957)
Creature With An Atom Brain (1955)
5 PM WRESTLING
6 PM UNTOUCHABLES-Drama
7 PM STAR TREK-Science Fiction
8 PM MUSIC CITY USA
8:30 THAT GOOD OLD NASHVILLE MUSIC
9 PM MOVIE – Beyond The Forest (1949)
11 PM AVANGERS-Drama
12 MID MOVIE – Finger Of Guilt (1956)
2 AM MOVIE – Run Of Arrow (1956)
4 AM SIGN OFF

40 WXLT (ABC/NBC/CBS) Calkins Media

7 AM INFINITY FACTORY
7:30 WONDER WINDOW
8 AM HONG KUNG PHOOEY-Cartoons
8:25 SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK
8:30 TOM & JERRY/GRAPE APE-Cartoons
9:25 SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK
9:30 LOST SAUCER-Adventure
9:55 SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK
10 PM NEW ADVENTURES OF GILLIGAN-Cartoons
10:25 SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK
10:30 UNCLE CROCK’S BLOCK-Children
11:25 SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK
11:30 ODD BALL COUPLE-Cartoons
11:55 SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK
12 NOON SPEED BUGGY-Cartoons
12:25 SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK
12:30 AMERICAN BANDSTAND-Music
1:30 NCAA FOOTBALL
5 PM ABC WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS
6 PM NEWS
6:30 ABC NEWS
7 PM HEE HAW-Music
8 PM SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE WITH HOWARD COSELL (NOT THE WELL KNOWN SHOW NBC HAD)
9 PM SWAT-Drama
10 PM MATT HELM-Drama
11 PM NEWS
11:30 WRESTLING
12:30 SIGN OFF

 

[bpatrick]

Again, I have some issues with these schedules:

"Wide World Of Sports" aired from 5 to 6:30; around
this time ABC replaced "The Reasoner Report" with a
straight newscast at 6:30, which Channel 10 probably
carried; I don't remember an early local newscast on
10 on Saturdays.

Since when did Channel 40 carry "Hee Haw" at 7 on
Saturdays? I remember only Channel 6 in Orlando
and Channel 26 in Fort Myers/Naples carrying "pickin'
and grinnin'" at that time, with Lawrence Welk on Channels
10 and 40 as well as Channel 9 in Orlando and Channel 11
in Fort Myers.

I also don't recall Channel 13 carrying CBS's Saturday newscast,
even though it may have by that time and it slipped my mind.

And something else had to be on Channel 8 from 7-8 Saturday
mornings; I can't imagine 90 minutes of "The Banana Splits."
And had 8 canceled "Florida Gardenland" by that time?

 

[Markd]

8 WFLA
6 AM LAUREL & HARDY LAUGH TOONS
7 AM BANANA SPLITS (okay make that an hour - typo on my part)
8-4 PM The Same
Nothing is indicated in the 4 to 6 PM Time Slot for Channel 8 - NBC SPORTS of some form is MY GUESS
6 PM NEWS
6:30 NBC NEWS
7 PM-on - THE SAME

So they ran the Banana Splits an hour.

10 WLCY
Same before 5 PM
5 PM ABC WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (YES IT ran till 6:30 PM)
6:30 ABC NEWS
7 PM LAWRENCE WELK
8-11 SAME
11 PM MOVIE - same as 11:30

No Local News Saturdays - right about that - They DID have ABC News though - Am surprised no local news on Saturdays on a station that has a reputation for lots of news.

13 WTVT was correct - did have Pulse 13 news at 6 & 11. Did double check this.

Channel 40
1:30 NCAA FOOTBALL
5 PM WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS
6:30 ABC NEWS
7 PM LAWRENCE WELK
8 PM THE SAME
11 PM ABC NEWS - Same after this

So NO they did not carry Hee Haw - Possibly cut and pasted a Saturday schedule and corrected each hour to Sunday - so it was Channel 10 Sundays that had Hee Haw.

Okay Sorry - took a better look and will take a better look weekends - I took for granted that 6 PM News everyday has been around forever - But yes there was a time that many stations did not do weekend news. Hard to imagine that this day in age.

Thanks for correcting this. Will use more dilligence when posting

 

[Cincinnati Kid]

That World Series game - Game Six - which was scheduled for October 18th was postponed by continuing rain in the Boston area for three days and was not played until Tuesday, October 21.

 

[azumanga]

From this day's St, Petersburg Times, here's what actually was on the Tampa Bay / Sarasota channels. Schedule only goes to 1AM. Corrections in red:

8 WFLA TV (NBC) Media General

6:30 AM LAUREL & HARDY (silent shorts from 20's)
7AM BANANA SPLITS-Children
7:30AM: Go (delayed from 12:30PM)
8 AM EMERGENCY Plus 4-Cartoon
8:30 Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
9 AM WALDO KITTY-Cartoons
9:30 PINK PANTHER-Cartoons
10 AM LAND OF THE LOST-Adventure
10:30 RUN JOE RUN-Adventure
11 AM BEYOND THE PLANET OF THE APES-Animated
11:30 WESTWIND-Adventure
12 NOON Categorically Speaking
12:30 BASEBALL – World Series – Cincinnati Reds & Boston Red Sox
3:30PM INFORMATION 8
5PM Hazel
5:30PM Last of the Wild
6 PM NEWS
6:30 NBC NEWS
7 PM NEWS CONFERENCE
7:30 HERE & THERE
8 PM EMERGENCY-Drama (Quoting the Times: "An old Jack Webb plot, 27A, the cocky rookie bit you've seen on Adam-12, Dragnet, et al, turns up here. The one twist is that the trainee is a girl, who goofs up while working with the paramedics in a critical situation.")
9 PM NBC MOVIE – New Centurions (1974)
11 PM NEWS
11:30 NBC's Saturday Night -Comedy (The second episode, with host Paul Simon and musical guests Randy Newman, Phoebe Snow and Art Garfunkel; actually listed in Times as "Saturday Night Live")
Could not verify:
1 AM MOVIE – Force Of Arms (1951)
3 AM SIGN OFF

10 WLCY (ABC) Rahall Communications

7AM: Meet the Realtors
7:15: Social Security Roundtable
7:30: St. Petersburg Junior College
7:45: Growing Things
8 AM HONG KUNG PHOOEY-Cartoons
8:30 TOM & JERRY/GRAPE APE-Cartoons
9:30 LOST SAUCER-Adventure
10 PM NEW ADVENTURES OF GILLIGAN-Cartoons
10:30 UNCLE CROCK’S BLOCK-Children
11:30 ODD BALL COUPLE-Cartoons
12 NOON SPEED BUGGY-Cartoons
12:30 AMERICAN BANDSTAND-Music
1:30 Jerry Visits (listed as "Jerry Dunphy Visits")
2 PM ABC WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS
3:30 NCAA FOOTBALL
(No news scheduled)
7 PM LAWRENCE WELK-Music (The music of Fritz Kriesler, Monti and Rubenstein)
8 PM SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE WITH HOWARD COSELL (NOT THE WELL KNOWN SHOW NBC HAD)
9 PM SWAT-Drama
10 PM MATT HELM-Drama
11 PM LATE MOVIE – Prince & The Showgirl (1957) (Channel 10 did not have weekend news until the fall of 1979)
Could not verify:
1:30 SIGN OFF
(Usually, Channel 10 would air a sermonette, "The Pastor's Study", before closedown)

13 WTVT (CBS) Gaylord
6:45AM News
7AM: Tarzan Theatre
8 AM PEBBLES & BAMM BAMM-Cartoons
8:30 BUGS BUNNY/ROAD RUNNER-Cartoons
9:30 SCOOBY DOO-Cartoon
10 AM SHAZAM/ISIS-Adventure
11 AM FAR OUT SPACE NUTS-Adventure
11:30 GHOSTBUSTERS-Comedy
12 NOON VALLEY OF THE DINOSAURS-Cartoons
12:30 FAT ALBERT-Cartoon
1 PM CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL
1:30 What's Communism?
2PM Black Contact
2:30 College Kaleidoscope
3PM Insight (the local public affairs program, not the religious drama)
3:30PM High-Q
4 PM CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR
6 PM NEWS
6:30 CBS NEWS
7 PM PROJECT 13 (This week: a look at firefighting)
7:30 CANDID CAMERA
8 PM JEFFERSONS-Comedy
8:30 DOC-Comedy
9 PM MARY TYLER MOORE-Comedy
9:30 BOB NEWHART-Comedy
10 PM CAROL BURNETT-Comedy
11 PM NEWS
11:30 MOVIE – Angel In My Pocket (1969)
Could not verify:
1:30 MOVIE – Birds (1963)
4 AM SIGN OFF

40 WXLT (ABC) (locally-owned at the time; don't know who)

(Signs on at 7:30AM)
7:30 Make a Wish (delay from Sunday)
8 AM HONG KUNG PHOOEY-Cartoons
8:30 TOM & JERRY/GRAPE APE-Cartoons
9:30 LOST SAUCER-Adventure
10 PM NEW ADVENTURES OF GILLIGAN-Cartoons
10:30 UNCLE CROCK’S BLOCK-Children
11:30 ODD BALL COUPLE-Cartoons
12 NOON SPEED BUGGY-Cartoons
12:30 AMERICAN BANDSTAND-Music
1:30 NCAA FOOTBALL
5 PM ABC WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (90 minutes; 40, like 10, also had no local weekend news at the time)
6:30 ABC NEWS
7 PM Lawrence Welk (same show as 10)
8 PM SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE WITH HOWARD COSELL
9 PM SWAT-Drama
10 PM MATT HELM-Drama
11 PM ABC NEWS
11:15 Movie (no film listed)

44 WTOG (Ind.) Hubbard

(Signs on at 7:30AM)
7:30AM Herald of Truth
8AM Wally's Workshop
8:30 Encounter
9AM Gerald Derstein (Isn't this "Gerald Derstine Shares"?)
10 AM EARNEST ANGELY
11 AM JIM THOMAS
11:30 FRIENDS OF MAN
12 NOON SOUL TRAIN-Music
1PM Combat
2 PM CREATURE FEATURE – Giant Claw (1957)
Creature With An Atom Brain (1955) (The movie show's title never had a "Double")
5 PM Star Trek
6 PM UNTOUCHABLES-Drama
7 PM Championship Wrestling from Florida (As far as I know, they were always seen on 44 Saturdays at 7PM)
8 PM MUSIC CITY USA
8:30 THAT GOOD OLD NASHVILLE MUSIC (listed in Times as "That Good Old Nashville Sound")
9 PM MOVIE – Beyond The Forest (1949)
11 PM Star Trek
12 MID The Untouchables
(Don't know if they showed movies after this.)

And for completeness, here's what was on the pubcasters:

WEDU channel 3:

8AM: Sesame Street
9AM: The Electric Company
9:30AM: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10AM: Sesame Street
11AM: The Electric Company
11:30AM: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
12 Noon: Villa Alegre
12:30 Our Story
1PM: Sesame Street
2PM: Man and Environment
3PM: Romagnoli's Table
3:30: The Flower Show
4PM: Lilias, Yoga and You
4:30 Consumer Survival Kit
5PM: The Florida Report
5:30 Quick on the Draw
6PM: Villa Alegre
6:30 Florida Business Week (A look at the energy crisis' effect on utility bills)
7PM: Firing Line
8PM: A Family at War
9PM: The Special of the Week
10PM: Soundstage (Barry Manilow)
11PM: Sign Off

WUSF channel 16

2:30PM War and Peace
3:30PM Classic Theatre ("Paradise Restored")
5PM Bukowski Reads
5:30 Language and Meaning
6:30PM Anthropological Perspectives
7PM The Ascent of Man
8PM (Ingmar) Bergman Festival - "The Magician" (1958)
10PM Say Brother
10:30 Black Perspective on the News
11PM: Sign Off

 

[Markd]

8 WFLA
"8:30 AM Sigmun & The Sea Monsters"
WAS CANCELED by October 1975 - Last aired mid September nationally on NBC. May have been a typo

"11 AM BEYOND THE PLANET OF THE APES-Animated"
I always thought this was one of the Live Action Filmation shows - But I never watched it so I was probably wrong - So I did not sat "Beyond The" and left that out - Oh well - I believe you that this was likely animated.

Go was moved up to 7:30 AM that week - due to early sports shows I guess.

10 WLCY
Before 8 AM - Yes took a better look and shows changed before 8 over the year before
I swear they indeed did start college football by 1:30 - though you could well be right about the local show there.

13 WTVT
7 AM - TARZAN - kind of early for a live action Tarzan synidcated show
Fat Albert and Dinosaurs - Yes I flipped those by mistake - still not far off
I thought for sure Gaylord ran movies Saturday on all their stations but they were also big on the type of shows you mentioned - The gaylord independents tended to run this stuff earlier Saturday - Wonder where I saw that movie - maybe another station - the paper on line has rather small print and I have read channel numbers wrong here and there.

44 WTOG
So I spelled Gerald D wrong
Creature Feature - There ARE 2 movies - that LOOKS LIKE a double feature to me....

Yes sometimes I see some of these listings and they look a bit off. Some practices back then are unheard of today. Its wierd seeing a movie squeezed into 90 minutes for example - or sports followed by religion back to sports. Some stations did not use block programming concepts as much back then - Now today these cable networks run 6 episodes of one show back to back. But less Some of these accurate listings just look too wierd today. No evening news on weekends ons ome stations I cannot get over.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

That World Series game - Game Six - which was scheduled for October 18th was postponed by continuing rain in the Boston area for three days and was not played until Tuesday, October 21.

And it would be the Carlton Fisk game (i.e., 12th inning game-winning home run for the BoSox).

 

[azumanga]

Some additional information in this response from the 10/17/1975 Ocala Star Banner, whose TV magazine was published on Fridays (they had no Saturday edition back then). The OSB had listings for the Tampa Bay area channels, except WUSF and WXLT.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=hXZnTIgIr50C&dat=19751017&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

8 WFLA
"8:30 AM Sigmun & The Sea Monsters"
WAS CANCELED by October 1975 - Last aired mid September nationally on NBC. May have been a typo

Go was moved up to 7:30 AM that week - due to early sports shows I guess.

According to Wikipedia, October 18, 1975 (this day, in fact), was the last day Sigmund was on NBC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_and_the_Sea_Monsters

The following Saturday, 10/25/1975, also had Sigmund scheduled at 8:30AM. And as for "Go" -- as the schedule indicates, WFLA always had it at 7:30AM, delayed from 12:30PM.

You can see the 10/25 schedule here:

http://news.google.com/newspapers/p...K8J0scC&dat=19751025&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

"11 AM BEYOND THE PLANET OF THE APES-Animated"
I always thought this was one of the Live Action Filmation shows - But I never watched it so I was probably wrong - So I did not sat "Beyond The" and left that out - Oh well - I believe you that this was likely animated.

It was a Depatie-Freleng production.

10 WLCY
Before 8 AM - Yes took a better look and shows changed before 8 over the year before

The OSB had the similar schedule as the Times, though they had Kathryn Kuhlman at 7:30AM.

13 WTVT
7 AM - TARZAN - kind of early for a live action Tarzan synidcated show

According to the OSB, "Tarzan Theater" was a collection of theatrical Tarzan films. On this day: "Tarzan and the Mermaids" (1948), with Johnny Weismuller as Tarzan.

I thought for sure Gaylord ran movies Saturday on all their stations but they were also big on the type of shows you mentioned - The gaylord independents tended to run this stuff earlier Saturday -

According to the OSB, WTVT signed off after its 11:30PM "The Best of Hollywood" film that night, "Angel in My Pocket".

44 WTOG
Creature Feature - There ARE 2 movies - that LOOKS LIKE a double feature to me....

But to my knowledge, it's ALWAYS been "Creature Feature". The only "Creature Double Feature" that I knew of was WLVI in Boston.

 

[azumanga]

Here is the second revised version of today's schedule, using verified information from this day's St, Petersburg Times and Ocala Star Banner:

WEDU channel 3:

8AM: Sesame Street
9AM: The Electric Company
9:30AM: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10AM: Sesame Street
11AM: The Electric Company
11:30AM: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
12 Noon: Villa Alegre
12:30 Our Story
1PM: Sesame Street
2PM: Man and Environment
3PM: Romagnoli's Table
3:30: The Flower Show
4PM: Lilias, Yoga and You
4:30 Consumer Survival Kit
5PM: The Florida Report
5:30 Quick on the Draw
6PM: Villa Alegre
6:30 Florida Business Week (A look at the energy crisis' effect on utility bills)
7PM: Firing Line
8PM: A Family at War
9PM: The Special of the Week
10PM: Soundstage (Barry Manilow)
11PM: Sign Off


8 WFLA TV (NBC) Media General

6:30 AM LAUREL & HARDY (silent shorts
7AM BANANA SPLITS-Children
7:30AM: Go (delayed from 12:30PM)
8 AM EMERGENCY Plus 4-Cartoon
8:30 Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
9 AM WALDO KITTY-Cartoons
9:30 PINK PANTHER-Cartoons
10 AM LAND OF THE LOST-Adventure
10:30 RUN JOE RUN-Adventure
11 AM BEYOND THE PLANET OF THE APES-Animated
11:30 WESTWIND-Adventure
12 NOON Categorically Speaking
12:30 BASEBALL – World Series – Cincinnati Reds & Boston Red Sox: Game 6
3:30PM INFORMATION 8
5PM Hazel
5:30PM Last of the Wild
6 PM NEWS
6:30 NBC NEWS
7 PM NEWS CONFERENCE
7:30 HERE & THERE
8 PM EMERGENCY-Drama (Quoting the Times: "An old Jack Webb plot, 27A, the cocky rookie bit you've seen on Adam-12, Dragnet, et al, turns up here. The one twist is that the trainee is a girl, who goofs up while working with the paramedics in a critical situation.")
9 PM NBC MOVIE – New Centurions (1974)
11 PM NEWS
11:30 NBC's Saturday Night -Comedy (The second episode, with host Paul Simon and musical guests Randy Newman, Phoebe Snow and Art Garfunkel; actually listed in both the Times and OSB as "Saturday Night Live")
1 AM SIGN OFF

10 WLCY (ABC) Rahall Communications

6:15AM News
6:30 The World Today
7AM: Meet the Realtors
7:15: Social Security Roundtable
7:30 (OSB): Kathryn Kuhlman
7:30 (Times): St. Petersburg Junior College
7:45 (Times): Growing Things
8 AM HONG KUNG PHOOEY-Cartoons
8:30 TOM & JERRY/GRAPE APE-Cartoons
9:30 LOST SAUCER-Adventure
10 PM NEW ADVENTURES OF GILLIGAN-Cartoons
10:30 UNCLE CROCK’S BLOCK-Children
11:30 ODD BALL COUPLE-Cartoons
12 NOON SPEED BUGGY-Cartoons
12:30 AMERICAN BANDSTAND-Music
1:30 (Times) Jerry Visits (listed as "Jerry Dunphy Visits")
1:30 (OSB) NCAA FOOTBALL
2 PM (Times) ABC WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS
3:30 (Times) NCAA FOOTBALL
5 PM (OSB) ABC WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS
(No news scheduled)
7 PM LAWRENCE WELK-Music (The music of Fritz Kriesler, Monti and Rubenstein)
8 PM SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE WITH HOWARD COSELL (NOT THE WELL KNOWN SHOW NBC HAD)
9 PM SWAT-Drama
10 PM MATT HELM-Drama
11 PM LATE MOVIE – Marilyn Monroe in "The Prince & The Showgirl" (1957) (Channel 10 did not have weekend news until the fall of 1979)
1:15AM Newsmakers
1:30 Involvement 10
2AM SIGN OFF

13 WTVT (CBS) Gaylord
6:45AM News
7AM: Tarzan Theatre: "Tarzaan and the Mermaids" (1948), with Johnny Weisemuller as Tarzan
8 AM PEBBLES & BAMM BAMM-Cartoons
8:30 BUGS BUNNY/ROAD RUNNER-Cartoons
9:30 SCOOBY DOO-Cartoon
10 AM SHAZAM/ISIS-Adventure
11 AM FAR OUT SPACE NUTS-Adventure
11:30 GHOSTBUSTERS-Comedy
12 NOON VALLEY OF THE DINOSAURS-Cartoons
12:30 FAT ALBERT-Cartoon
1 PM CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL: "Me and You, Kangaroo" (Seen a half-hour this week only due to the following special)
1:30 CBS News Special: "What's Communism?"
2PM Black Contact
2:30 College Kaleidoscope
3PM Insight (the local public affairs program, not the religious drama)
3:30PM High-Q
4 PM CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR: Events this week covered include the Pan-American Games, The Champahne, and a race for two year olds.
6 PM NEWS
6:30 CBS NEWS
7 PM PROJECT 13 (This week: a look at firefighting)
7:30 CANDID CAMERA
8 PM JEFFERSONS-Comedy
8:30 DOC-Comedy
9 PM MARY TYLER MOORE-Comedy
9:30 BOB NEWHART-Comedy
10 PM CAROL BURNETT-Comedy
11 PM NEWS
11:30 MOVIE – Angel In My Pocket (1969)
1:30 SIGN OFF

WUSF channel 16

2:30PM War and Peace
3:30PM Classic Theatre ("Paradise Restored")
5PM Bukowski Reads
5:30 Language and Meaning
6:30PM Anthropological Perspectives
7PM The Ascent of Man
8PM (Ingmar) Bergman Festival - "The Magician" (1958)
10PM Say Brother
10:30 Black Perspective on the News
11PM: Sign Off

40 WXLT (ABC)

(Signs on at 7:30AM)
7:30 Make a Wish (delay from Sunday)
8 AM HONG KUNG PHOOEY-Cartoons
8:30 TOM & JERRY/GRAPE APE-Cartoons
9:30 LOST SAUCER-Adventure
10 PM NEW ADVENTURES OF GILLIGAN-Cartoons
10:30 UNCLE CROCK’S BLOCK-Children
11:30 ODD BALL COUPLE-Cartoons
12 NOON SPEED BUGGY-Cartoons
12:30 AMERICAN BANDSTAND-Music
1:30 NCAA FOOTBALL
5 PM ABC WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (90 minutes; 40, like 10, also had no local weekend news at the time)
6:30 ABC NEWS
7 PM Lawrence Welk (same show as 10)
8 PM SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE WITH HOWARD COSELL
9 PM SWAT-Drama
10 PM MATT HELM-Drama
11 PM ABC NEWS
11:15 Movie (no film listed)

44 WTOG (Ind.) Hubbard

7:15AM: News
7:30AM Herald of Truth
8AM Wally's Workshop
8:30 (Times) Encounter
8:30 (OSB) Where Ideas Grow
9AM (Times) Gerald Derstein (Isn't this "Gerald Derstine Shares"?)
9AM (OSB) EARNEST ANGELY (For two hours?)
10 AM (Times) EARNEST ANGELY
11 AM JIM THOMAS OUTDOORS
11:30 FRIENDS OF MAN
12 NOON SOUL TRAIN-Music
1PM Combat
2 PM CREATURE FEATURE – Giant Claw (1957)
Creature With An Atom Brain (1955) (The movie show's title never had a "Double")
5 PM Star Trek
6 PM UNTOUCHABLES-Drama
7 PM Championship Wrestling from Florida (As far as I know, they were always seen on 44 Saturdays at 7PM)
8 PM MUSIC CITY USA
8:30 THAT GOOD OLD NASHVILLE MUSIC (listed in Times as "That Good Old Nashville Sound")
9 PM MOVIE – Bette Davis and Joseph Cotten in "Beyond The Forest" (1949)
11 PM Star Trek
12 MID The Untouchables
1AM: Time Tunnel
2AM: Party
(Signs off, presumably, after this)

 

[azumanga]

One more time, as the edit time for my previous post had lapsed.

Here is the THIRD revised version of today's schedule, using verified information from this day's St, Petersburg Times, Ocala Star Banner and Lakeland Ledger:

WEDU channel 3:

8AM: Sesame Street
9AM: The Electric Company
9:30AM: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10AM: Sesame Street
11AM: The Electric Company
11:30AM: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
12 Noon: Villa Alegre
12:30 Our Story
1PM: Sesame Street
2PM: Man and Environment
3PM: Romagnoli's Table
3:30: The Flower Show
4PM: Lilias, Yoga and You
4:30 Consumer Survival Kit
5PM: The Florida Report
5:30 Quick on the Draw
6PM: Villa Alegre
6:30 Florida Business Week (A look at the energy crisis' effect on utility bills)
7PM: Firing Line
8PM: A Family at War
9PM: The Special of the Week
10PM: Soundstage (Times: Barry Manilow; Ledger: Three Dog Night)
11PM: Sign Off


8 WFLA TV (NBC) Media General

6:30 AM LAUREL & HARDY (silent shorts
7AM BANANA SPLITS-Children
7:30AM: Go (delayed from 12:30PM)
8 AM EMERGENCY Plus 4-Cartoon
8:30 Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
9 AM WALDO KITTY-Cartoons
9:30 PINK PANTHER-Cartoons
10 AM LAND OF THE LOST-Adventure
10:30 RUN JOE RUN-Adventure
11 AM BEYOND THE PLANET OF THE APES-Animated
11:30 WESTWIND-Adventure
12 NOON Categorically Speaking
12:30 BASEBALL – World Series – Cincinnati Reds & Boston Red Sox: Game 6
3:30PM INFORMATION 8
5PM Hazel
5:30PM Last of the Wild
6 PM NEWS
6:30 NBC NEWS
7 PM NEWS CONFERENCE
7:30 HERE & THERE (The Ledger had a news special in this slot: "Mass Transit: Where Is It Going?")
8 PM EMERGENCY-Drama (Quoting the Times: "An old Jack Webb plot, 27A, the cocky rookie bit you've seen on Adam-12, Dragnet, et al, turns up here. The one twist is that the trainee is a girl, who goofs up while working with the paramedics in a critical situation.")
9 PM NBC MOVIE – New Centurions (1974)
11 PM NEWS
11:30 NBC's Saturday Night -Comedy (The second episode, with host Paul Simon and musical guests Randy Newman, Phoebe Snow and Art Garfunkel; actually listed in both the Times and OSB as "Saturday Night Live")
1 AM SIGN OFF

10 WLCY (ABC) Rahall Communications

6:15AM News
6:30 The World Today
7AM: Meet the Realtors
7:15: Social Security Roundtable
7:30 (OSB): Kathryn Kuhlman
7:30 (Times): St. Petersburg Junior College
7:45 (Times): Growing Things
8 AM HONG KUNG PHOOEY-Cartoons
8:30 TOM & JERRY/GRAPE APE-Cartoons
9:30 LOST SAUCER-Adventure
10 PM NEW ADVENTURES OF GILLIGAN-Cartoons
10:30 UNCLE CROCK’S BLOCK-Children
11:30 ODD BALL COUPLE-Cartoons
12 NOON SPEED BUGGY-Cartoons
12:30 AMERICAN BANDSTAND-Music
1:30 (Times) Jerry Visits (listed as "Jerry Dunphy Visits")
1:30 (OSB) NCAA FOOTBALL
2 PM (Times) ABC WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS
3:30 (Times) NCAA FOOTBALL
5 PM (OSB) ABC WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS
(No news scheduled)
7 PM LAWRENCE WELK-Music (The music of Fritz Kriesler, Monti and Rubenstein)
8 PM SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE WITH HOWARD COSELL (NOT THE WELL KNOWN SHOW NBC HAD)
9 PM SWAT-Drama
10 PM MATT HELM-Drama
11 PM LATE MOVIE – Marilyn Monroe in "The Prince & The Showgirl" (1957) (Channel 10 did not have weekend news until the fall of 1979)
1:15AM Newsmakers
1:30 Involvement 10
2:30AM The Pastor's Study; SIGN OFF

13 WTVT (CBS) Gaylord
6:45AM News
7AM: Tarzan Theatre: "Tarzaan and the Mermaids" (1948), with Johnny Weisemuller as Tarzan
8 AM PEBBLES & BAMM BAMM-Cartoons
8:30 BUGS BUNNY/ROAD RUNNER-Cartoons
9:30 SCOOBY DOO-Cartoon
10 AM SHAZAM/ISIS-Adventure
11 AM FAR OUT SPACE NUTS-Adventure
11:30 GHOSTBUSTERS-Comedy
12 NOON VALLEY OF THE DINOSAURS-Cartoons
12:30 FAT ALBERT-Cartoon
1 PM CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL: "Me and You, Kangaroo" (Seen a half-hour this week only due to the following special)
1:30 CBS News Special: "What's Communism?"
2PM Black Contact
2:30 College Kaleidoscope
3PM Insight (the local public affairs program, not the religious drama)
3:30PM High-Q
4 PM CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR: Events this week covered include the Pan-American Games, The Champahne, and a race for two year olds.
6 PM NEWS
6:30 CBS NEWS
7 PM PROJECT 13 (This week: a look at firefighting)
7:30 CANDID CAMERA
8 PM JEFFERSONS-Comedy
8:30 DOC-Comedy
9 PM MARY TYLER MOORE-Comedy
9:30 BOB NEWHART-Comedy
10 PM CAROL BURNETT-Comedy
11 PM NEWS
11:30 MOVIE – Angel In My Pocket (1969)
1:30 SIGN OFF

WUSF channel 16

2:30PM War and Peace
3:30PM Classic Theatre ("Paradise Restored")
5PM Bukowski Reads
5:30 Language and Meaning
6:30PM Anthropological Perspectives
7PM The Ascent of Man
8PM (Ingmar) Bergman Festival - "The Magician" (1958)
10PM Say Brother
10:30 Black Perspective on the News
11PM: Sign Off

40 WXLT (ABC)

(Signs on at 7:30AM)
7:30 Make a Wish (delay from Sunday)
8 AM HONG KUNG PHOOEY-Cartoons
8:30 TOM & JERRY/GRAPE APE-Cartoons
9:30 LOST SAUCER-Adventure
10 PM NEW ADVENTURES OF GILLIGAN-Cartoons
10:30 UNCLE CROCK’S BLOCK-Children
11:30 ODD BALL COUPLE-Cartoons
12 NOON SPEED BUGGY-Cartoons
12:30 AMERICAN BANDSTAND-Music
1:30 NCAA FOOTBALL
5 PM ABC WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (90 minutes; 40, like 10, also had no local weekend news at the time)
6:30 ABC NEWS
7 PM Lawrence Welk (same show as 10)
8 PM SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE WITH HOWARD COSELL
9 PM SWAT-Drama
10 PM MATT HELM-Drama
11 PM ABC NEWS
11:15 Movie (no film listed)

44 WTOG (Ind.) Hubbard

7:15AM: News
7:30AM Herald of Truth
8AM Wally's Workshop
8:30 (Times) Encounter
8:30 (OSB) Where Ideas Grow
9AM (Times) Gerald Derstein (Isn't this "Gerald Derstine Shares"?)
9AM (OSB) EARNEST ANGELY (For two hours?)
10 AM (Times) EARNEST ANGELY
11 AM JIM THOMAS OUTDOORS
11:30 FRIENDS OF MAN
12 NOON SOUL TRAIN-Music
1PM Combat
2 PM CREATURE FEATURE – Giant Claw (1957)
Creature With An Atom Brain (1955) (The movie show's title never had a "Double")
5 PM Star Trek
6 PM UNTOUCHABLES-Drama ("The Jazz Man")
7 PM Championship Wrestling from Florida (As far as I know, they were always seen on 44 Saturdays at 7PM)
8 PM MUSIC CITY USA
8:30 THAT GOOD OLD NASHVILLE MUSIC (listed in Times as "That Good Old Nashville Sound")
9 PM MOVIE – Bette Davis and Joseph Cotten in "Beyond The Forest" (1949)
11 PM Star Trek ("The Alternative Factor")
12 MID The Untouchables ("The Torpedo")
1AM: Time Tunnel
2AM: Party
(Signs off, presumably, after this)

 

[azumanga]

"11 AM BEYOND THE PLANET OF THE APES-Animated"
I always thought this was one of the Live Action Filmation shows - But I never watched it so I was probably wrong - So I did not sat "Beyond The" and left that out - Oh well - I believe you that this was likely animated.

It was a Depatie-Freleng production.

One thing I forgot to mention -- there was a prime-time live-action series based on the film franchise that was produced by 20th Century Fox that was seen on CBS in the fall of 1974. It flopped miserably:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Apes_(TV_series)

 

[cowboybud]

What did NBC air in place of the rained-out World Series game?

 

[azumanga]

By the way, I've just found the actual Herald-Tribune listings for this day, and they don't even resemble the original listings that the poster first posted -- they relatively matched up the corrected versions I've submitted later on:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qj41AAAAIBAJ&sjid=IGcEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7203,1108927