Retro: Tucson, Arizona - December 12-13, 1977

[dhett]

Source: Tucson Citizen, Mon. Dec. 12, 1977

Listings were for Monday 12/12/77 12 PM - Tuesday 12/13/77 6 PM

Stations:
KVOA 4 (NBC)
KUAT 6 (PBS)
KGUN 9 (ABC)
KZAZ 11 (Ind.)
KOLD 13 (CBS)

Monday Afternoon

12 Noon

4 11 News
6 Forsyte Saga
9 $20,000 Pyramid

12:30 P.M.

4 For Richer, For Poorer
9 One Life To Live
11 What's Happening
13 News

1:00 P.M.

4 Another World
6 All About You
11 Merv Griffin
13 To Tell The Truth

1:15 P.M.

6 I Can Read
9 General Hospital

1:30 P.M.

6 Bread And Butterflies
13 All In The Family

2:00 P.M.

4 The Doctors
6 Latin American Week
9 Movie - "Bend of the River" (1952)
13 Tattletales

2:30 P.M.

4 Days Of Our Lives
6 Yoga
11 Fred Flintstone
13 Price Is Right

3:00 P.M.

6 Mr. Rogers
11 The Archies

3:30 P.M.

4 Medical Center
6 Villa Alegre
11 New Mickey Mouse Club
13 Match Game

4:00 P.M.

6 Sesame Street
9 I Dream Of Jeannie
11 Lone Ranger
13 Rookies

4:30 P.M.

4 Odd Couple
9 ABC News
11 Flintstones, Cartoon

5:00 P.M.

4 9 13 News
6 Mr. Rogers
11 Leave It To Beaver

5:30 P.M.

4 13 News
6 Electric Company
9 My Three Sons
11 Emergency One

Monday Evening

6:00 P.M.

4 NBC News
6 Zoom
9 San Pedro Beach Bums
13 CBS News

6:30 P.M.

4 Mary Tyler Moore
6 Over Easy
11 Partridge Family
13 Price Is Right

7:00 P.M.

4 Little House On The Prairie
6 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
9 Monday Night Football - Dallas Cowboys vs. San Francisco 49'ers
11 Gunsmoke
13 A Charlie Brown Christmas

7:30 P.M.

6 Tucson City Council
13 'Twas The Night Before Christmas

8:00 P.M.

4 Movie - "Sunshine Christmas"
11 Celebrity Concerts - Charles Aznavour
13 Maude

8:30 P.M.

13 Betty White

9:00 P.M.

11 Special Edition
13 Switch

9:30 P.M.

11 News

10:00 P.M.

4 9 13 News
11 Forever Fernwood

10:30 P.M.

4 Tonight Show - Bill Cosby is the host.
9 Movie - "The Three Musketeers" (1946)
11 The Avengers
13 Movie - "Joy in the Morning" (1965)

11:30 P.M.

11 Mission: Impossible

12 Midnight

4 Tomorrow (repeat)

12:30 A.M.

11 Wanted - Dead Or Alive

Tuesday Morning

4:30 A.M.

13 Sunrise Semester - "Man's Place in Nature"

5:00 A.M.

13 Phil Donohue

5:50 A.M.

4 Reportaje De Noticias

6:00 A.M.

4 Not For Women Only
13 CBS Morning News

6:30 A.M.

4 Family Affair
9 I Dream Of Jeannie
11 PTL Club

7:00 A.M.

4 Today
9 Good Morning America
13 Captain Kangaroo

8:00 A.M.

13 Guiding Light

8:30 A.M.

11 Room 222

9:00 A.M.

4 Wheel Of Fortune
6 Electric Company
9 Happy Days
11 Love American Style
13 Marcus Welby, M.D.

9:30 A.M.

4 Knockout - Game show hosted by Arte Johnson
6 Robin Hood
9 Family Feud
11 Pima Community College - "The Consumer Experience"

10:00 A.M.

4 To Say The Least - Game show hosted by George Kennedy
6 Sesame Street
9 The Better Sex
11 700 Club
13 Young And The Restless

10:30 A.M.

4 Gong Show
9 Ryan's Hope
13 Search For Tomorrow

11:00 A.M.

4 Sanford & Son
6 Infinity Factory
9 All My Children
13 Love Of Life

11:30 A.M.

4 Hollywood Squares
6 Yoga
11 Practical Christian Living
13 As The World Turns

Tuesday Afternoon

12 Noon

4 11 News
6 Nova
9 $20,000 Pyramid

12:30 P.M.

4 For Richer, For Poorer
9 One Life To Live
11 Happenings In Education
13 News

1:00 P.M.

4 Another World
6 Chiquitines
11 Merv Griffin
13 To Tell The Truth

1:15 P.M.

9 General Hospital

1:30 P.M.

6 Bread And Butterflies
13 All In The Family

1:45 P.M.

6 Let's All Sing

2:00 P.M.

4 The Doctors
6 Matters Of Judgment
9 Movie - "Captain Lightfoot" (1955)
13 Tattletales

2:30 P.M.

4 Days Of Our Lives
6 Yoga
11 Fred Flintstone
13 Price Is Right

3:00 P.M.

6 Mr. Rogers
11 The Archies

3:30 P.M.

4 Medical Center
6 Villa Alegre
11 New Mickey Mouse Club
13 Match Game

4:00 P.M.

6 Sesame Street
9 I Dream Of Jeannie
11 Lone Ranger
13 Rookies

4:30 P.M.

4 Odd Couple
9 ABC News
11 Flintstones, Cartoon

5:00 P.M.

4 9 13 News
6 Mr. Rogers
11 Leave It To Beaver

5:30 P.M.

6 Electric Company
9 My Three Sons
11 Emergency One

 

[classictvfan]

Why this strange method for listings?

 

[oldiesfan6479]

Do you mean why it's noon one day through late afternoon the next?
Probably because this was an afternoon newspaper. BTW, it still is,
with a rather miniscule circulation in 2008.

This may have been one of the earliest instances of Guiding Light
airing on a one-day delay the next morning. (Don't forget to clip the
dated audio-over-credits and cover the dated CTN! )

 

[Braves2005]

10:00 AM

4 - To Say The Least - game show hosted by George Kennedy


It was Tom Kennedy who hosted To Say The Least and not the actor George Kennedy.

 

[bpatrick]

This almost certainly had to be an afternoon paper.
The Birmingham News did the same thing when
it was an afternoon paper (it's a morning one now).

I'm glad I never moved from another part of the country
to Tucson; I'd have had a time figuring out when everything
came on, with so many delays. BTW, I know that "Monday
Night Football" aired at 7 PM (MT), but how did most Mountain
ABC affiliates handle "The San Pedro Beach Bums"? I'm not
sure, but I keep thinking Denver delayed it to the following Sunday.
(In the Pacific time zone, it followed "MNF.")

I've mentioned this before, but back around 1980 WFMY/2
Greensboro, NC, put "Guiding Light" on a one-day delay at 9 AM.
The station got so many complaints that "GL" soon went back to
in-pattern at 3 PM and has stayed there ever since. Not likely
any Southern stations (other than Orlando and Miami) will move
the show to the morning.

 

[Stanislav]

BTW, I know that "Monday Night Football" aired at 7 PM (MT), but how did most Mountain
ABC affiliates handle "The San Pedro Beach Bums"?

Frankly, I doubt many viewers cared... ;D

 

[Ultimajock]

BTW, I know that "Monday
Night Football" aired at 7 PM (MT), but how did most Mountain
ABC affiliates handle "The San Pedro Beach Bums"? I'm not
sure, but I keep thinking Denver delayed it to the following Sunday.
(In the Pacific time zone, it followed "MNF.")

...ABC's Monday fare leading into MNF was often delayed by affiliates in every time zone in order to carry NFL-related local or syndicated fare. I remember WLUK/11 Green Bay bumping The Rookies to Sunday afternoons in order to show a locally-produced program originating from Packer great Fuzzy Thurston's nightclub The Left Guard...

 

[bpatrick]

Especially in NFL cities. WXIA Atlanta carried
"Falcons Replay" in 1975 on Mondays at 8:30;
ABC let them carry "Barbary Coast" at 7:30--
and it was not a week-behind delay! Same
thing in New Orleans, where WVUE's "From The
Pressbox" aired at 7:30 (CT); it, too, got the
early feed of "Barbary Coast" at 6:30.

As for "The San Pedro Beach Bums," no, I'm
sure few people cared; I knew people in 1978
who thought ABC still had "The Captain And
Tennille" on Mondays at 8...and it had been
canceled and replaced by "Beach Bums"! But
I still wonder how Mountain time zone ABC affiliates
generally handled the Monday-night show that otherwise
would have aired at 7 PM local time (OK, use "That's
Incredible!" or "MacGyver." Their ratings were decent.).

 

[oldiesfan6479]

WXIA Atlanta...ABC let them carry "Barbary Coast" at 7:30--and it was not a week-behind delay!
Same thing in New Orleans...WVUE...got the early feed of "Barbary Coast" at 6:30.

Pre-feed of the show at 3 or 4am Monday morning, or late afternoon Monday
between the DEF feed and ABC News? Anyone recall the time of the DEF--
4:30 ET? 5:00? And was there still a 6:00 ET feed of the news then?

I still wonder how Mountain time zone ABC affiliates generally handled the
Monday-night show that otherwise would have aired at 7 PM local time.

--Live feed at 6:00 as noted in the Tucson listings.
--10:30 or later Monday night.
--Weekend fringe time (afternoon or late night) as speculated for Denver.

I recall that, before the time change in the fall, Phoenix and Tucson ABC
stations ran the 8:00 EDT show after MNF (a la the left coast) as football
began at 6 MST.

 

[dhett]

10:00 AM

4 - To Say The Least - game show hosted by George Kennedy


It was Tom Kennedy who hosted To Say The Least and not the actor George Kennedy.

My mistake - I wrote it down wrong. It was Tom Kennedy. :-[

 

[dhett]

BTW, I know that "Monday Night Football" aired at 7 PM (MT), but how did most Mountain
ABC affiliates handle "The San Pedro Beach Bums"?

Frankly, I doubt many viewers cared... ;D

Paul Henniger provided commentary on the listing which read as follows:

In this, the second to last episode of a cornball series, Stuf puts out $2,000 to a conniving couple who promise him a movie career. The guys band together to get the money back and expose the crooked pair. "Beaching" the bums became a certainty after the first show aired.

Kinda says it all.

 

[TexasTom]

Interesting to see this -- I've long been curious to see what the KZAZ schedule looked like during this time period.

The owners of KZAZ, Roadrunner Broadcasting, made a bid to buy KCPQ in Tacoma, WA almost exactly one year after the date of this schedule. At the time, KCPQ was a public TV (but with a commercial license) station owned by the school district where I was attending high school at the time, so I've always wondered what Roadrunner's existing station of that era looked like, since it probably provides a pretty good clue as to what they would have done with KCPQ had they succeeded in buying it.