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Retro: Washington, D.C. - Saturday, June 17, 1972

R

RandTV

Guest
We all know what happened that day in a certain building complex in the Capital City whose name became synonymous with the ensuing scandal and downfall of the President in office that time.

4 WRC (NBC)
7:30 Across the Fence
8:00 Further Adventures of Doctor Doolittle
8:30 Deputy Dawg
9:00 Woody Woodpecker
9:30 Pink Panther
10:00 Jetsons
10:30 Barrier Reef (from Australia)
11:00 Take a Giant Step - Topic: The Senses
NOON Mr. Wizard (from Canada)
12:30 Bugaloos
1:00 360 - Gwenn Thompson
1:30 On Campus Training Program
2:00 MLB Baseball: Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Chicago Cubs
5:00 David Eaton
6:00 It's Academic - Mac McGarry
6:30 NBC Nightly News - Garrick Utley
7:00 National Geographic
8:00 Emergency!
9:00 NBC Saturday Night at the Movies: "Show Boat" (1951) - Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Joe E. Brown, Agnes Moorehead
11:15 News 4 Washington
11:45 WRC Saturday Film Festival: "Under the Yum-Yum Tree" (1963) - Jack Lemmon, Carol Lynley, Dean Jones, Paul Lynde, Edie Adams, Imogene Coca
1:35 Faith and Life

5 WTTG (Ind.)
7:25 Today in Your Life
7:30 Cisco Kid
8:00 Top Cat
8:30 Batman/Superman/Aquaman
9:00 Banana Splits and Popeye
10:00 Porky Pig & Friends
10:30 Daktari
11:30 Soul Train - Guests: The Chi-Lites, Edwin Starr, James Gadsen
12:30 Movie: "Immortal Sergeant" (1943) - Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara, Thomas Mitchell
2:00 Movie: "Conquered City" (1965) - David Niven, Ben Gazzara, Martin Balsam
3:30 Juvenile Jury - Guest: Danny Bonaduce
4:00 Untamed World
4:30 Petticoat Junction
5:00 Star Trek
6:00 I Love Lucy
6:30 Truth or Consequences
7:00 Dick Van Dyke
7:30 I Dream of Jeannie
8:00 Movie: "The Barkleys of Broadway" (1949) - Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Oscar Levant, Billie Burke
10:00 10 O'Clock News
10:30 Black News
11:00 The Name of the Game
12:30 Movie: "The Last Man on Earth" (1964) - Vincent Price, Franca Bettoia

7 WMAL (ABC)
7:00 Treehouse Club
7:30 Christophers
7:45 Living Word
8:00 Faith for Today
8:30 New Life in the New Testament
9:30 Jackson 5ive
10:00 Bewitched
10:30 Lidsville
11:00 Curiosity Shop
NOON Jonny Quest
12:30 Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp
1:00 American Bandstand - Guests: Billy Preston, Wayne Newton
2:00 Death Valley Days
2:30 Washington Agenda
3:00 Judd for the Defense
4:00 ABC's Wide World of Sports: World Middleweight Championship: Carlos Monzon vs. Jean-Claude Bouttier, from Paris
5:30 U.S. Open Third Round, from Pebble Beach, CA
7:30 Total News 7
8:00 Black on White (local discussion)
8:30 ABC Saturday Summer Movie: "A Boy Ten Feet Tall" (1963, originally released as "Sammy Going South") - Edward G. Robinson, Fergus McClelland
11:00 Total 7 News
11:30 Movie: "War Hunt" (1962) - John Saxon, Robert Redford
1:30 Total 7 News (replay)

9 WTOP (CBS)
7:00 Rural America
7:30 Summer Semester
8:00 Arthur & Company (local kids show)
9:00 Harlem Globetrotters
9:26 In the News
9:30 Help!...It's the Hair Bear Bunch!
10:00 Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show
10:26 In the News
10:30 Earth Lab
11:30 Doing/Being
12:30 You Are There: "Susan B. Anthony"
1:00 CBS Children's Film Festival: "The Goalkeeper Lives on Our Street"
2:00 Movie: "Give a Girl a Break" (1954) - Debbie Reynolds, Marge & Gower Champion, Bob Fosse
3:30 Movie: "Half a Hero" (1953) - Red Skelton, Jean Hagen, Polly Bergen (as herself)
5:00 My Three Sons
5:30 Survival
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 CBS Evening News - Roger Mudd
7:00 Agronsky & Company
7:30 Rollin' on the River
8:00 All in the Family ("Sammy's Visit")
8:30 Mary Tyler Moore
9:00 New Dick Van Dyke
9:30 Arnie
10:00 Mission:Impossible
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Movie: "Pleasure Cruise" (1933) - Genevieve Tobin, Roland Young
1:00 Movie: "Too Young to Kiss" (1951) - June Allyson, Van Johnson

20 WDCA (Ind.)
8:00 For Your Information (I wonder if this is what inspired the name for the newsmagazine on the DC-based Murphy Brown?)
8:30 Good News
9:00 Riverdale Baptist Hour (actually a half-hour)
9:30 Pro Wrestling
10:30 Archie's TV Funnies (pre-empted by WTOP, as were the following three shows)
11:00 Sabrina the Teenage Witch
11:30 Josie and the Pussycats
NOON Monkees
12:30 Movie: "Attack of the Puppet People" (1958) - John Agar, John Hoyt, June Kenney
2:00 Movie: "The Time Travelers" (1964) - Preston Foster, John Hoyt, Merry Anders, Philip Carey
3:30 The Champions
4:30 Movie: "The Solid Gold Cadillac" (1956) - Judy Holliday, Paul Douglas, George Burns (narrator)
6:30 Movie: "Yellowstone Kelly" (1959) - Clint Walker, Edd Byrnes, John Russell
8:30 Movie: "The Strange Case of Dr. Rx" (1942) - Patric Knowles, Lionel Atwill, Anne Gwynne
9:30 Movie: "The Secret of the Blue Room" (1933) - Lionel Atwill, Gloria Stuart, Paul Lukas
11:00 Movie: "Sherlock Holmes in Washington" (1943) - Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce

26 WETA (PBS)
3:30 Hodgepodge Lodge
4:00 Bridge With Jean Cox
4:30 Consultation
5:00 The Advocates
6:00 World Press
6:30 Critic-at-Large
7:00 Guitar, Guitar
7:30 Playhouse New York: The 30's: "Star Wagon" - Dustin Hoffman, Orson Bean
9:30 District Digest
10:00 Maserpiece Theatre: "The Posessed" (Episode 4 of 6 - "The Meeting")
 
Bugs Bunny and Scooby Doo didn't clear channel 9?? I reckon the DC kids had to rely on CBS in Baltimore for those.
 
I had seen from an earlier listing that Bugs and Scooby didn't air in San Diego either.
 
I had seen from an earlier listing that Bugs and Scooby dodn:t air in San Diego either.
At least they still had the Baltimore and Los Angeles CBS stations respectively, to watch them on.
 
I suspect that the very last thing on local and national newscasts that night was:

"Finally, several burglars were arrested at the Democratic Party headquarters in the new Watergate office building in Washington today. That's the news for tonight, I'm (name). Good night!" (Followed by closing credits and closing their music)
 
I suspect that the very last thing on local and national newscasts that night was:

"Finally, several burglars were arrested at the Democratic Party headquarters in the new Watergate office building in Washington today. That's the news for tonight, I'm (name). Good night!" (Followed by closing credits and closing their music)
That was why I chose that date and place.
 
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