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Retro: This Week in TV Guide, May 25, 1974 - MSP Edition

This week the Watergate hearings claim the summer stage, the Indy 500 tries to reclaim past glories, Judith Crist claims these TV movies are rubbish, the Emmys claim that two broadcasts are better than one, and more!

http://www.itsabouttv.com/2014/05/this-week-in-tv-guide-may-25-1974.html

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

This week's listing comes from Wednesday, May 29 - a day like most other days. Have at it.

KTCA, Channel 2 (Educ.)
Afternoon

03:00p Teaching Role
03:30p Film
04:00p Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
04:30p Sesame Street
05:30p The Electric Company
Evening
06:00p Efficient Reading
06:30p Inquiry
07:00p Washington Connection
07:30p Hollywood Television Theatre
09:00p Bicycling
09:30p The French Chef

WCCO, Channel 4 (CBS)
Morning

06:30a Summer Semester (Practical Health for the Layman)
07:00a Carmen
07:30a Clancy and Willie
08:00a Captain Kangaroo
09:00a The Joker’s Wild
09:30a Gambit
10:00a Now You See It
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 ’74 (Abby Dalton, Orson Bean, Fannie Flagg, Charles Nelson Riley)
03:00p Tattletales (Glenn Ford and Cynthia Hayward, Janet Lennon and Lee Bernhardt)
03:30p Movie – “Because You’re Mine”
05:30p CBS Evening News (Walter Cronkite)
Evening
06:00p News (local)
06:30p Baseball (Twins vs. Red Sox)
09:00p Laurel and Hardy (B&W)
09:30p One Man’s China
10:00p News (local)
10:50p Movie – “A Man Called Peter”
01:10a Movie – “The Left Handed Gun” (B&W)

KSTP, Channel 5 (NBC)
Morning

06:00a Minnesota Today
06:30a Not For Women Only
07:00a Today
09:00a Dinah Shore (guests Bill Bixby, Brenda Benet)
09:30a Jeopardy!
10:00a The Wizard of Odds
10:30a The Hollywood Squares (George Foreman, Tony Randall, Connie Stevens, Adrienne Barbeau)
11:00a Jackpot!
11:30a Celebrity Sweepstakes (Robert Culp, Cass Elliot, Don Adams, Loretta Swit, Pat Harrington)
11:55a NBC News (Edwin Newman)
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 How to Survive a Marriage
03:00p Somerset
03:30p Dick Van Dyke (B&W)
04:00p The Mod Squad
05:00p Hogan’s Heroes
05:30p NBC Nightly News (John Chancellor)
Evening
06:00p News (local)
06:30p The Hollywood Squares (Tony Randall, Elke Somemr, Martin Milner, Suzanne Pleshette, Sally Field, Demond Wilson, Rich Little)
07:00p Chase
08:00p Movie – “The Naked Runner”
10:00p News (local)
10:30p Johnny Carson (guest George Gobel)
12:00a Tomorrow (Amarillo Slim, Benny Binion)

KMSP, Channel 9 (ABC)
Morning

07:00a CBS Morning News (Hughes Rudd)
08:00a News and Views
08:30a Romper Room
09:00a Hazel
09:30a Green Acres
10:00a Beat the Clock (guest Bert Convy)
10:30a The Brady Bunch
11:00a Password (Peter Lawford, Greg Morris)
11:30a Split Second
Afternoon
12:00p All My CHildren
12:30p Let’s Make a Deal
01:00p The Newlywed Game
01:30p The Girl in My Life
02:00p General Hospital
02:30p One Life to Live
03:00p $10,000 Pyramid (Bernadette Peters, Tony Roberts)
03:30p Mike Douglas (guests Totie Fields, 5th Dimension, Dr. David Reuben)
05:00p News (local)
05:30p ABC Evening News (Smith/Reasoner)
Evening
06:00p To Tell the Truth (Alan Alda, Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen, Kitty Carlisle)
06:30p Truth or Consequences
07:00p The Cowboys
07:30p Movie – “The Morning After”
09:00p Doc Elliot
10:00p News (local)
10:30p That’s Entertainment: 50 Years of MGM
12:00a The Big Valley
01:00a News (local)

WTCN, Channel 11 (Ind.)
Morning

06:30a Figure Fitness
07:00a New Zoo Revue
07:30a Popeye and Porky
08:30a Batman
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 That Girl
11:30a What’s New?
Afternoon
01:00p Movie – “Joe Butterfly”
03:00p Gomer Pyle, USMC
03:30p Petticoat Junction
04:00p The Flintstones
04:30p Gilligan’s Island (B&W)
05:00p Bewitched
05:30p Mission: Impossible
Evening
06:30p The Lucy Show
07:00p Dealer’s Choice
07:30p Father Knows Best (B&W)
08:00p Merv Griffin
09:30p News (local)
10:00p Perry Mason (B&W)
11:00p Movie – Calamity Jane”
 
Sorry to bump an old topic but this was during the brief period of time when WCCO had the TV rights to the Minnesota Twins instead of the station that had them for most of there early time in Minnesota WTCN
 
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