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Retro: Western Il-Northeast MO Mon-Fri April 3-7, 1972

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This is about as far back as I can remember what was on when with any clarity.

From The Quincy Herald-Whig:

3 KTVO Kirksville-Ottumwa (ABC)

7:00 Bill Anderson (Mon)
America Sings (Tue)
Blackwood Family (Wed)
Homestead USA (Thu)
Lester Family (Fri)
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Underdog
9:00 Reluctant Dragon & Mr. Toad (Mon)
Here Come the Double Deckers (Tue)
Bullwinkle (Wed)
Make a Wish (Thu)
Samson (Fri)
9:30 Jack LaLanne
10:00 Mantrap (Landmarks in Iowa History Thu)
10:30 Bewitched
11:00 Password
11:30 Search for Tommorow
12:00 Noon Report
12:15 Town & Country
12:30 As the World Turns
1:00 Newlywed Game
1:30 Dating Game
2:00 General Hospital
2:30 One Life to Live
3:00 Love American Style
3:30 All My Children
4:00 Split Second
4:30 Let's Make a Deal
5:00 Local News
5:30 ABC News

7 KHQA Hannibal-Quincy (CBS)

6:20 Sunrise Semester
6:50 Kupp's Farm Comments
7:00 CBS News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 The Lucy Show
9:30 My Three Sons
10:00 Family Affair
10:30 Love of Life
11:00 Where the Heart Is
11:25 CBS News
11:30 Search for Tommorow
12:00 Noon Report
12:15 Hal Barton
12:30 As the World Turns
1:00 Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
1:30 Guiding Light
2:00 Secret Storm
2:30 Edge of Night
3:00 Gomer Pyle
3:30 Tri-State Time
3:55 Mike Douglas
5:25 Weather
5:30 CBS News

10 WGEM Quincy (NBC)

6:30 Jack LaLanne
7:00 Today
9:00 Jack LaLanne (For those who refuse to drag out before 6:30 ;D)
9:30 Concentration
10:00 Sale of the Century
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 Jeopardy
11:30 Who What Where Game
11:55 NBC News
12:00 Fashions in Sewing
12:10 Paul Harvey
12:15 The Galloping Gourmet
12:45 Noon Show
1:00 Days of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2:00 Another World
2:30 Return to Peyton Place
3:00 Somerset
3:30 Dinah's Place
4:00 Three on a Match
4:30 Jeff's Collie
5:00 Cartoon Carnival
5:25 Stock Markets
5:30 NBC News
 
Thanks for posting! Good stuff!

I wonder if "Sunrise Semester" (at 6:20) was on a one-day delay or if KHQA was able to tape it from the East Coast feed at 5:30 AM?

I knew that KTVO hung on to "As the World Turns" for a few years after going primary ABC; didn't know they also hung on to "Search for Tomorrow."

What did "Tri-State Time" on KHQA at 3:30 consist of? Was that maybe a pre-cursor to "Studio 7"?

I didn't know that KHQA ever carried "The Mike Douglas Show"...interesting. Wonder why they dropped it?

I think it's interesting that WGEM ran "The Jack LaLanne Show" twice, delaying "Dinah's Place" to 3:30. I remember WGEM running Dinah's syndicated show in the mid to late '70s. I see WGEM also took a whole hour of local time at noon, pushing "Three on a Match" back to 4PM.
 
This schedule pretty much consists of my very earliest, most vague tv memories. Glad someone besides me finds this stuff interesting!

I have no real recollection of "Sunrise Semester", apparently KHQA dropped it well before many other CBS affiliates did.

I can only speculate that "Tri-State Time" was the forerunner of "Studio 7". I remember "The Mike Douglas Show" being on, but no details whatsoever. I also vaguely remember Merv Griffin being on in the 10:30-11:30 PM slot. To my knowledge, neither of the two were shown in this market after the early '70s.

Was "Dinah's Place" an NBC product? I think WGEM had a thing for her, as they kept her syndie show (60 or 90 min?) on for a lonnnng time. I remember when they finally cancelled Jack LaLanne (along with "New Zoo Revue") to put on "Country Day" or something like that. WGEM's great staff announcer Fred Colgan (who recently passed away) did a spot thanking viewers of the two programs for their loyalty.

I wish there were websites dedicated to the old days of these stations, as there are for some bigger market stations. I've pretty much scoured the web, and found very little...
 
The late-night "Merv Griffin Show" was from CBS...not sure if it went to 11:30 or midnight. Johnny Carson was beating Merv pretty bad, so CBS replaced the show with "The CBS Late Movie," I believe on Valentine's Day of 1972. Merv returned to syndication after that.

"Dinah's Place" was on NBC from 1970-74. I assume her syndicated show started shortly or right after that.

I remember WGEM running "Country Day" weekdays at 6:25AM, followed by a local news update right before "Today" at 6:55 (did they do a double-run at 9AM, too?). I think they continued airing the show until NBC introduced "Early Today" in 1982 or so. KTVO also ran "Country Day," I believe at 6:30AM. Like WGEM, I think KTVO scrapped the show when "ABC World News This Morning" came along in the early '80s.
 
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