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Retro - This Week in TV Guide, June 28, 1975 - MSP Edition

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Mitchell H

This week I take a look at how TV had changed between the 50s and 60s and the mid 70s. For example, many of our favorite classic series were just everyday syndicated shows in 1975, and the feature film was a staple of local broadcasts. Also, it's the eve of the year-long Bicentennial celebration, and Tom Snyder's Tomorrow show takes to the airwaves for a live 6-hour broadcast; and whatever happened to that anti-violence campaign?

http://www.itsabouttv.com/2013/06/this-week-in-tv-guide-june-28-1975.html

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

And now today's feature listing:

Monday, June 30, 1975
KTCA, Channel 2 (PBS)
Afternoon
02:00p Quality of Urban Life
03:30p Seminar for the 70s
04:00p Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
04:30p Sesame Street
05:30p The Electric Company
Evening
06:00p German I
06:30p The French Chef
07:00p Rachel, La Cubana
08:30p One of a Kind (Oscar Brown Jr., Jean Pace)
09:00p Bicycling
09:30p Speaking Freely (Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky)

WCCO, Channel 4 (CBS)
Morning
05:30a Summer Semester (Science and Society – A Humanistic View)
06:00a CBS News (Hughes Rudd)
06:30a Not For Women Only
07:00a Carmen
07:30a Clancy and Willie
08:00a Captain Kangaroo
09:00a Spin-Off
09:30a Gambit
10:00a Tattletales
10:30a Love of Life
10:55a Live Today
11:00a The Young and the Restless
11:30a Search for Tomorrow
Afternoon
12:00p Midday
12:30p As the World Turns
01:00p Guiding Light
01:30p The Edge of Night
02:00p The Price is Right
02:30p Match Game ‘75
03:00p Musical Chares
03:30p Movie – “The Apaches’ Last Battle”
05:30p CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
Evening
06:00p News (local)
06:30p Let’s Make a Deal
07:00p Gunsmoke
08:00p Maude
08:30p Rhoda
09:00p Medical Center
10:00p News (local)
10:50p Movie – “The Last Rebel”

KSTP, Channel 5 (NBC)
Morning
06:00a Minnesota Today
07:00a Today
09:00a Celebrity Sweepstakes (Gladys Knight, David Groh, George Hamilton, Adrienne Barbeau)
09:30a Wheel of Fortune
10:00a High Rollers
10:30a Hollywood Squares (Mel Brooks, Ed Asner, Joan Rivers, David Brenner, Karen Valentine, Florence Henderson, George Gobel, Paul Lynde)
11:00a Jackpot!
11:30a Blank Check
11:55a NBC News (Edwin Newman)
Afternoon
12:00p News
12:10p Take Five
12:25p Take Kerr
12:30p Days of Our Lives
01:30p The Doctors
02:00p Another World
03:00p Somerset
03:30p Dick Van Dyke (B&W)
04:00p The Mod Squad
05:00p Hogan’s Heroes
05:30p NBC News ( John Chancellor)
Evening
06:00p News (local)
06:30p Hollywood Squares (Desmond Wilson, Anthony Newley, Phyllis Diller, Wayne Rogers, Suzanne Pleshette, George Gobel, Rose Marie)
07:00p Joe Garagolia
07:15p Monday Night Baseball (Cardinals vs. Phillies)
10:00p News (local)
10:30p Johnny Carson (guest host McLean Stevenson, Steve Allen, Linda Redfearn)
12:00a Tomorrow (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne)

KMSP, Channel 9 (ABC)
Morning
07:00a A.M. America
09:00a Dinah! (Peggy Lee, Loretta Swit, George Carlin, Adela Rogers St. Johns, Steven Cobb)
10:00a Money Maze
10:30a Brady Bunch
11:00a Showoffs
11:30a All My Children
Afternoon
12:30p Let’s Make a Deal
01:00p $10,000 Pyramid
01:30p Big Showdown
02:00p General Hospital
02:30p One Life to Live
03:00p To Tell The Truth (Tom Poston, Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen, Kitty Carlisle)
03:30p Mike Douglas (Robert Goulet, the Golddiggers, Annabella Battistella, The Flying Farias)
05:00p News (local)
05:30p ABC News (Smith/Reasoner)
Evening
06:00p Truth or Consequences
06:30p The New Candid Camera
07:00p The Rookies
08:00p S.W.A.T.
09:00p Caribe
10:00p News (local)
10:30p Wide World Mystery – “The House of Evil”
12:00a Movie – “The Relentless Four” (part 1)
01:00a News (local)

WTCN, Channel 11 (Ind.)
Morning
06:30a What’s New?
07:00a New Zoo Revue
07:30a Popeye and Porky
09:00a The Flintstones
09:30a I Dream of Jeannie
10:00a Father Knows Best (B&W)
10:30a Andy Griffith (B&W)
11:00a Lucy Show (B&W)
11:30a What’s New?
Afternoon
12:30p That Girl
01:00p Movie – “Along the Great Divide” (B&W)
03:00p Petticoat Junction
03:30p Bewitched (B&W)
04:00p The Flintstones
04:30p Gentle Ben
05:00p Mickey Mouse Club (B&W)
05:30p Star Trek
Evening
06:30p Andy Griffith (B&W)
07:00p Oral Roberts
08:00p Merv Griffin (nutrition and medicine with Dr. Wilbur Currier, Dr. Juan Wilson, nutritionist Carlton Fredericks)
09:30p News (local)
10:00p The F.B.I.
11:00p Perry Mason (B&W)
12:00a Alfred Hitchcock Presents (B&W)
12:30a Alfred Hitchcock Presents (B&W)

KTCI, Channel 17 (PBS Alternate)
Evening
07:30p Overseas Mission
08:00p David Susskind (Theodore H. White and Jimmy Breslin)
09:45p Film
10:00p ABC News (captioned replay for the hearing-impaired)
 
Oral Roberts on 11, a Metromedia Station on a weeknight????? UNUSUAL!!!!! Metromedia was big with first run Metromedia produced syndicated shows or local productions in prime time.. MY GUESS???? A ONE TIME SPECIAL!!! Oral Roberts did have occasional prime time specials when he would buy time on stations across the country.

As for my local Metormedia station WNYW FOX 5, then WNEW TV - they were big with cartoons 6:30 to 9 a.m., classic sitcoms 9 a.m. to Noon, local shows like Midday from 12 noon or so till about 1:30, a couple more older sitcoms till 2:30, cartoons 2:30 to 5 or 5:30 p.m., sitcoms till 8 p.m., Merv Griffin and a game show in prime time and eventually PM Magazine at 8 p.m., local news at 10 p.m., a couple sictoms till midnight, and drama shows overnights, and maybe a very old movie - pre 1960. Saturdays till 1976 were westerns, drama shows, and very old movies from the 30's, 40's, and 50's. In the late 70's, WNEW TV ran cartoons from 6:30 a.m. to 11 a.m., then Soul Train, then an old movie, then some sitcoms from 2 to 5 p.m., and then a mix of drama shows and old movies. Sundays Channel 5 ran a local kids show called Wonderama which ran a couple Bugs Bunny/Porky Pig/Daffy Duck cartoons an hour from 8-11, a double run of Flintstones at 11, and then old movies the rest of the day. After 1976, Wonderama was scaled back to 7-9 a.m. and cartoons and sictosm ran till noon with old movies occupying the rest of the day and some drama shows in the evening. Sometimes a drama show would land on weekdays in the late morning or early fringe but these occupied weekend slots mostly.

Channel 5 ran NO religion except for a black church sevrice till 1977 at like 6:30 a.m., after which that was gone. Then in 1980 when Wonderama was canceled and another show with that title which was more of a documentary hour long show moved to Sunday at 9 a.m., Channel 5 began running religion Sundays 5 to 9 a.m. I remember they ran Robert Schuller at 5, Kenneth Copeland at 6, Jerry Falwell at 7, and Jimmy Swaggart at 8. By the early 80's Saturday cartoons were gone some times of the year. Sunday Cartoons tended to run 9-11 a.m. in the fall. The rest of the year by 1983, WNEW TV was into drama shows till 1 p.m. and then movies from before 1960. Weekdays some older sitcoms fell off for newer ones plus more first run syndicated shows ran afternoon before 2 p.m.

Then Fox buys the company and evolves Channel 5 to more first run shows and more local news,
 
Marckd said:
Oral Roberts on 11, a Metromedia Station on a weeknight????? UNUSUAL!!!!! Metromedia was big with first run Metromedia produced syndicated shows or local productions in prime time.. MY GUESS???? A ONE TIME SPECIAL!!! Oral Roberts did have occasional prime time specials when he would buy time on stations across the country.
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Great stuff, Marckd! And yes, as you might have suspected, the Oral Roberts program on 11 was a special. As the lone independent in the region they were prone to be the outlet for Oral Roberts and Billy Graham specials, although I think each of the four commercial stations had them at one time or another. I'd have to look and see if Roberts' weekly series was carried on 11 or on one of the other stations.
 
That Friday (July 4th), CBS-TV began airing "Bicentennial Minutes", short tidbits on America, American History, and the Bicentennial that would air each evening (usually) at 8:58 P.M. ET/PT for the year leading up to July 4th, 1976.
 
Joseph_Gallant said:
That Friday (July 4th), CBS-TV began airing "Bicentennial Minutes", short tidbits on America, American History, and the Bicentennial that would air each evening (usually) at 8:58 P.M. ET/PT for the year leading up to July 4th, 1976.
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"Bicentennial Minutes" ran up to December 31, 1976, with outgoing President Ford hosting the last one.
 
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