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Retro: This Week in TV Guide, January 6, 1973 - MSP Edition

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Mitchell H

As the new year starts, we see the introduction of one of the most influential television programs of the 1970, and perhaps the first "reality" show - PBS' "An American Family." Read more about this strange, controversial and ground-breaking series. Also, Jack Paar returns to television, TV Guide takes a look back at the past year, and more.

http://www.itsabouttv.com/2013/01/this-week-in-tv-guide-january-6-1973.html

As always your comments, positive as well as negative, are welcome.

And now the listings from Thursday, January 11. All stations are Minneapolis-St. Paul.

KTCA, Channel 2 (PBS)
Morning
10:00a The Electric Company
Afternoon
12:05p Sesame Street
02:35p Vocational Guidance (B&W)
03:00p Effective Writing (B&W)
03:30p Film (B&W)
04:00p Mister Rogers
04:30p Sesame Street (replay)
05:30p Electric Company (replay)
Evening
06:00p Teaching Role (B&W)
06:30p Your Schools Today
07:00p The Advocates – “Are Drug Commercials Hazardous to Your Health?”
08:00p An American Family (Debut)
09:00p World Press
09:30p Town and Country

WCCO, Channel 4 (CBS)
Morning
06:30a Sunrise Semester – “Law and Morality”
07:00a Clancy and Carmen (children)
07:30a Clancy and Willie (children)
08:00a Captain Kangaroo
09:00a The Joker’s Wild
09:30a Price is Right
10:00a Gambit
10:30a Love of Life
11:00a Where the Heart Is
11:25a Live Today (religion)
11:30a Search for Tomorrow
Afternoon
12:00p Midday (local news)
12:30p As the World Turns
01:00p Guiding Light
01:30p The Edge of Night
02:00p Love is a Many Splendored Thing
02:30p The Secret Storm
03:00p Family Affair
03:30p Movie – “The Bedford Incident”
05:30p CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
Evening
06:00p News (local)
06:30p Years to Youth
07:00p The Waltons
08:00p Movie – “The Gypsy Moths”
10:00p News (local)
10:50p Movie – “A Kind of Loving” (B&W)
12:50p Movie – “Darby’s Rangers” (B&W)

KSTP, Channel 5 (NBC)
Morning
06:00a Minnesota Today
06:30a Not for Women Only (guests Dr. Irwin Stillman, Dr. Robert Atkins, Paul Deutschman)
07:00a Today
09:00a Dinah Shore (guests Lee Salk, Jim Pritchett)
09:30a Concentration
10:00a Sale of the Century
10:30a Hollywood Squares
11:00a Jeopardy!
11:30a Who, What or Where
11:55a NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
Afternoon
12:00p News (local)
12:15p Dial 5
01:00p Days of Our Lives
01:30p The Doctors
02:00p Another World
02:30p Return to Peyton Place
03:00p Somerset
03:30p Mike Douglas (guests Diana Ross, Billy Eckstine, Totie Fields, Ruth Gordon)
04:30p Dick Van Dyke (B&W)
05:00p Hogan’s Heroes
05:30p NBC News (John Chancellor)
Evening
06:00p News (local)
06:30p Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
07:00p Flip Wilson
08:00p Ironside
09:00p Dean Martin (guests Bob Newhart, Steve Landesberg)
10:00p News (local)
10:30p Johnny Carson (guests Connie Stevens, Larry Kert)
12:00a Ski Scene
12:35a Suspense Theatre

KMSP, Channel 9 (ABC)
Morning
07:00a CBS Morning News (John Hart) (not carried by WCCO)
08:00a News and Views (local)
08:30a Grandpa Ken (children)
09:00a Romper Room (Miss Jody)
09:30a Nanny and the Professor
10:00a What’s My Line? (panelists Bert Convey, Arlene Francis, Jaye P. Morgan, Gene Rayburn)
10:30a Bewitched
11:00a Password (panelists Jack Klugman and Tony Randall)
11:30a Split Second
Afternoon
12:00p All My Children
12:30p Let’s Make a Deal
01:00p Newlywed Game
01:30p Dating Game
02:00p General Hospital
02:30p One Life to Live
03:00p Love, American Style
03:30p Beat the Clock
04:00p Wild, Wild West
05:00p News (local)
05:30p ABC News (Smith/Reasoner)
Evening
06:00p To Tell the Truth
06:30p Truth or Consequences
07:00p Jacques Cousteau (special)
08:00p China (documentary)
10:00p News (local)
10:30p Jack Paar Tonite (guest David Halberstam)
12:00a Laredo
01:00a News

WTCN, Channel 11 (Ind.)
Morning
07:00a New Zoo Revue
07:30a Popeye and Porky (cartoons)
08:30a Mister Ed (B&W)
09:00a Flintstones
09:30a I Dream of Jeannie
10:00a Father Knows Best (B&W)
10:30a Andy Griffith (B&W)
11:00a Gomer Pyle, USMC
11:30a What’s New? (local variety)
Afternoon
01:00p Movie – “Adventures in Indochina”
02:50p Lucille Rivers (sewing)
03:00p Andy Griffith (B&W)
03:30p Petticoat Junction
04:00p Flintstones
04:30p Gilligan’s Island (B&W)
05:00p That Girl
05:30p Star Trek
Evening
06:30p Hockey (North Stars 1, Bruins 1)
08:50p Hockey Scoreboard
09:00p I Dream of Jeannie
09:30p News (local)
10:00p Perry Mason (B&W)
11:00p Movie – “Marco Polo”
 
I didn't know that the WHA had games on CBS! I grew up west of Boston as a New England Whalers fan in the later 70s and would have loved to have seen games. (I followed both the Whale and the Cincinnati Stingers on radio, and of course could watch the Bruins on WSBK). Did the Fighting Saints have any local radio or TV coverage?
 
MCarney said:
I didn't know that the WHA had games on CBS! I grew up west of Boston as a New England Whalers fan in the later 70s and would have loved to have seen games. (I followed both the Whale and the Cincinnati Stingers on radio, and of course could watch the Bruins on WSBK). Did the Fighting Saints have any local radio or TV coverage?
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As I recall, WHA coverage on TV was sketchy at best. The game on CBS was a one-off, I think, so it wasn't a regular package.

The only Fighting Saints game I ever saw televised was, of all things, a game on Channel 2, the PBS station. Frank Buetel, the longtime North Stars announcer, did the play-by-play. It was a home game, presented without commercial interruption. Quite possible there were more, but I don't think there was anything like regular TV coverage. Wikipedia tells me that a few games were on WTCN-11, and that radio coverage was on WLOL. I lived outside the Twin Cities area for most of the time the WHA was in existence, so I'll have to rely on the memories of others. Really enjoyed that league, though!
 
Never saw the WHA turn up on CBS here in Pittsburgh. Only WHA game I ever recall seeing was their
All-Star Game about a year before the merger. That was carried on our local PBS station, WQED.

I'm assuming that Dean Martin show on NBC at 9PM was one of the Dean Martin Roasts?
His regular series was long gone by '73, near as I can recall.
 
More than likely it's his regular show; jump ahead a week
and his guests are Steve Lawrence and Dick Martin; the week
after that his guests are Joey Bishop and Petula Clark. There
is no roast on either episode. You may be referring to "The Dean
Martin Comedy Hour," which began in the fall of '73 and which featured
a roast segment each week.
 
WHA On U.S. TV (Was: Re: This Week in TV Guide, January 6, 1973 - MSP Edition)

There were four WHA games on CBS in the 1972-73 season, all on weekend afternoons: two in the regular-season, and two playoff games (the latter being Game 5 of the finals, when the then-New England Whalers, based then in Boston, won the first Avco Cup in front of a home crowd).

But at the end of the 1973-74 regular season, the team left Boston for Hartford (but played home games during the 1974 playoffs and the first part of the 1974-75 season in Springfield, Massachusetts until a new arena in Hartford was finished), where they became the Hartford Whalers.

It's my understanding that had the Avco Cup Finals gone to a seventh game, it would have been an afternoon game the following weekend for CBS broadcast.

During the two years the Whalers were in Boston, the then-WKBG-56 carried their games. In year one, they did 25 regular-season games (20 home and 5 away), plus playoff road games. The second year, they carried 20 regular-season games (5 home and 15 away), but no playoff games since the team's home playoff games were being played in Springfield. I think WHCT-18 in Hartford simulcast the last few Whalers' games aired by WKBG in February and March of 1974 after the team announced that they would be moving down I-84. It's possible that some playoff games in 1974 (likely away contests) may have been broadcast by either WHCT or another Hartford TV station.
 
I have a DVD from the collectors market of a Whalers at Quebec Nordiques game from February, 1978. It was on WVIT, with very minimal graphics and Bob Neumier (voice of the Whalers during the Hartford WHA years on WTIC 1080) doing play-by-play, John Hewitt on color, and Tony Edwards and former Whaler Tom Webster in studio. I was into radio DXing in those days, since we only had one TV and 5 kids in the house so I wasn't able to see it live.
 
Mitchell H said:
WTCN, Channel 11 (Ind.)

Evening
06:30p Hockey (North Stars 1, Bruins 1)
08:50p Hockey Scoreboard
09:00p I Dream of Jeannie
09:30p News (local)
10:00p Perry Mason (B&W)
11:00p Movie – “Marco Polo”
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What was the normal evening schedule for the week?
 
RALfan said:
Mitchell H said:
WTCN, Channel 11 (Ind.)

Evening
06:30p Hockey (North Stars 1, Bruins 1)
08:50p Hockey Scoreboard
09:00p I Dream of Jeannie
09:30p News (local)
10:00p Perry Mason (B&W)
11:00p Movie – “Marco Polo”
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What was the normal evening schedule for the week?
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06:30p I Dream of Jeannie
07:00p High Chaparral
08:00p The Merv Griffin Show
09:30p News (local)
10:00p Perry Mason (B&W)
11:00p Movie
 
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