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RETRO: WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1971

Source: TV Guide, Wisconsin Edition

Stations:
2 – WBAY-TV Green Bay (CBS)
3 – WISC-TV Madison (CBS)
4 – WTMJ-TV Milwaukee (NBC)
5 – WFRV Green Bay/WJMN (Channel 3) Escanaba MI (NBC)
6 – WITI Milwaukee (ABC)
6M – WLUC Marquette MI (CBS/ABC)
7 – WSAU-TV (now WSAW) Wausau (CBS)
9 – WAOW Wausau (ABC)
10 – WMVS Milwaukee (PBS)
11 – WLUK Green Bay (ABC)
12 – WISN-TV Milwaukee (CBS)
12R – WAEO-TV (now WJFW) Rhinelander (NBC)
13 – WEAU-TV Eau Claire (NBC)
15 – WMTV Madison (NBC)
18 – WVTV Milwaukee (independent, ABC and CBS secondary)
21 – WHA-TV Madison (PBS)
27 – WKOW-TV Madison/WXOW (Channel 19) La Crosse (ABC)
34 – KFIZ-TV Fond du Lac (independent, CBS secondary)

This day was KFIZ-TV’s third anniversary on the air. The station wouldn’t survive to its fourth anniversary. :'(

Although WLUC Marquette is in the Eastern Time zone, its listings here are in Central Time.

[c] denotes a color program.

*As there were no PBS affiliates north of Milwaukee yet, several commercial stations carried “Sesame Street,” “The Electric Company” and “Classroom” during this period. “Classroom” was a compilation of in-school educational programs coordinated through WHA-TV/21 in Madison; some elements were in black&white and others in color.

**The WISN and WFRV versions of “Dialing for Dollars” were both seen in the Fond du Lac and Sheboygan areas, where the two stations’ signal coverage overlapped. While the WISN version used the jackpot amount, a number and the words “up” or “down” as its code answer, the WFRV version used the title of an NBC prime time program that would be seen that night in place of the number and “up” or “down.” Consequently, the WISN version would occasionally call someone in Fond du Lac, Calumet or Sheboygan Counties whose answer would wind up plugging a show that would be broadcast in Milwaukee on WTMJ rather than WISN. IIRC, the two stations eventually agreed that WISN would stop calling Calumet County residents and WFRV would stop calling Sheboygan and Fond du Lac County residents.

MORNING
6:15
2 Sunrise Semester [c]

6:20
12 Badger Farm Report [c]

6:30
3/12 Sunrise Semester [c]
6M Lidsville (delayed from ABC Saturday 9:30 AM)
13 Film [c]

6:40
5 Farm Digest [c]

6:45
2 Cheer-Up Time [c]
6 RFD (agricultural market report)

6:50
6 News/Editorial [c]

7:00
2/3/6M/7/12 CBS Morning News with John Hart [c]
4/5/12R/13/15 Today [c] (Frank McGee hosts; Joe Garagiola interviews former umpire Al Salerno about his damage suit against the American League)
6 Funny Farm [c] (cartoons, mainly the AAP package of Warner Bros. and Paramount product)
11 Sesame Street* [c]
18 Funhouse 18 [c]

7:30
2 The Flintstones [c]
12 The Morning Show [c]

8:00
2/3/6M/7/12 Captain Kangaroo [c] (Pianist Marshall Izen performs selections from Beethoven’s sonatas to celebrate the composer’s birthday)
6 Bullwinkle [c] (delayed from Sunday 10:00 AM)
11 Underdog/Rocky & His Friends [c]

8:30
6/11 Tennessee Tuxedo [c]
10 Supervisory Techniques [c]

8:40
21 Places in the News

8:50
9 Sesame Street* [c]

9:00
2/6M The Lucy Show [c] (Ann Sothern guests)
3 Cartoon Theatre [c]
4/5/12R/13/15 Dinah Shore [c] (guests are Rock Hudson and, singing carols, The Mitchell Boys Choir)
6 Timmy & Lassie (the Jon Provost version of “Lassie”)
7/18 Romper Room [c]
10 Film [c]
11/21/34 Classroom*
12 Leave It To Beaver

9:15
10 Classroom

9:30
2/3/6M/12 The Beverly Hillbillies [c]
4/5/12R/15 Concentration [c]
6 Mike Douglas [c] (co-host is Orson Bean, guests are Rod Steiger and Jake LaMotta)
7 Classroom*
13 Sesame Street* [c] (apparently, WEAU carried its own 30-minute edit of this show)
18 The Cisco Kid [c] (x2)

9:50
9/27 Faith for Today [c] (sermonette)

10:00
2/3/12 Family Affair [c]
4/5/12R/13/15 Sale of the Century [c]
6M To You At Home [c] (local chat show)
10 College of the Air
21 Ready? Set…Go!

10:20
9/27 Lucille Rivers [c] (sewing instruction)
21 Land & Sea

10:30
2/3/6M/7/12 Love of Life [c]
4/5/12R/13/15 Hollywood Squares [c] (Joey Bishop, Judy Carne, Nanette Fabray, Kent McCord, Martin Milner, Suzanne Pleshette, Charley Weaver, Wally Cox and Paul Lynde)
9/18/27 That Girl [c]
11/34 The Electric Company* [c]

10:40
21 Ready? Set…Go!

10:45
10 Classroom

11:00
2/3/6M/7/12 Where the Heart Is [c]
4/5/12R/13/15 Jeopardy! [c]
6/9/11/27 Bewitched [c]
18 Make Room for Daddy
21 TV Singing School
34 Classroom*

11:25
2 News (David O’Brien) [c]
3/6M/7/12 The CBS Midday News with Douglas Edwards [c]

11:30
2/3/6M/7 Search for Tomorrow [c]
4/5/12R/13/15 The Who, What or Where Game [c]
6/9/11/27 Password [c] (Bill Bixby and Anita Gillette are the celebrity players)
10/21/34 Sesame Street* [c]
12 Dialing for Dollars with Howard & Rosemary Gernette** [c]
18 Father Knows Best

11:55
4/5/12R/15 NBC News (Floyd Kalber) [c]
13 Farm & Home [c]

AFTERNOON
12:00
2/7/12R The Noon Show [c] (each station originated their own local program with this title)
3 The Farm Hour [c]
4 Hotline with Jim Peck [c] (local talk program hosted by the later game show host and “Divorce Court” utility announcer)
5/6 News [c]
6M/9/11/18/27 All My Children [c]
15 The Movie Game [c] (guests are Carol Burnett, Sharon Farrell, Jack Lemmon, John Marley, Dick Martin, Mel Torme)

12:15
5 Dialing for Dollars with Bill Cole** [c]

12:30
4/5/12R/13 Three on a Match [c]
6/9/11/27 Let’s Make a Deal [c]
6M/7/12 As the World Turns [c]
10/21 Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood [c]
15 Timmy & Lassie
18 Mantrap [c] (Robert Altman discusses the film industry with Selma Diamond and Ann Miller)
34 Classroom*

1:00
2 Lucille Rivers [c] (sewing instruction)
3 What’s My Line? [c]
4/5/12R/13/15 Days of Our Lives [c]
6/9/11/27 The Newlywed Game [c]
6M/7/12 Love is a Many-Splendored Thing [c]
10 TV High School
18 Movie (The Rocking Horse Winner, 1950, with Valerie Hobson and John Howard Davies)
21 The Electric Company [c]

1:15
2 Barbara Hill [c]

1:30
2/3/6M/7/12 The Guiding Light [c]
4/5/12R/13/15 The Doctors [c]
6/9/11/27 The Dating Game [c]
10 Classroom
21 Land & Sea

1:50
21 This is Our Country

2:00
2/3/6M/7/12 The Secret Storm [c]
4/5/12R/13/15 Another World [c]
6/9/11/27 General Hospital [c]

2:10
21 Playground

2:15
10 The Electric Company [c]

2:20
18 Lucille Rivers [c] (sewing instruction)

2:30
2/3/6M/7/12 The Edge of Night [c]
4 Movie (Union Station, 1950, with William Holden and Nancy Olson; one of the numerous films pairing the two actors in the wake of Sunset Blvd.)
5/12R/13/15 Bright Promise [c]
6/9/11/27 One Life to Live [c]
18 The Galloping Gourmet [c] (Graham Kerr prepares an artichoke dish)
21 Many Sounds of Music
34 The Electric Company* [c]

2:45
10 Slimnastics

3:00
2/3/6M/7 Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. [c]
5/12R/13/15 Somerset [c]
6/9/11/27 Love, American Style [c] (guest stars are Adam West, Nanette Fabray and Pat Carroll)
10 The French Chef [c] (Julia Child prepares a yule log and a jelly roll)
12 Search for Tomorrow [c] (delayed from 11:30 AM)
1 Popeye [c]
21 Hathayoga [c]
34 Tempo with Steve Peterson & Wylma [c]

3:30
2/3 As the World Turns [c] (delayed from 12:30 PM)
5 Movie (You Can’t Get Away With Murder, 1939, with Humphrey Bogart)
6 The Phil Donahue Show [c]
6M Bewitched [c] (delayed from ABC 11:00 AM)
7/11 Jeff’s Collie (the Tommy Rettig version of “Lassie”)
9/27 Movie (Buy Me That Town, 1941, with Lloyd Nolan and Sheldon Leonard)
10/34 Sesame Street* [c] (#299: Bob and Luis reminisce about the 1965 Eastern Blackout)
12 Star Trek [c]
12 The Pioneers
13 Concentration [c] (delayed from 9:30 AM)
15 Batman [c] (Victor Buono as King Tut)
18 The Three Stooges (the Columbia live-action theatrical shorts, not the Larry Harmon cartoons)
21 A Few Days [c]

4:00
2/7/15 Star Trek [c]
3 Circus Three [c]
4 Petticoat Junction [c]
6M Password [c] (Martin Milner and Abby Dalton are the celebrity players; delayed one week from ABC 12:30 PM)
11 Daktari [c]
12R Sesame Street* [c] (#289: animal babies)
13 The Virginian [c] (Joseph Cotten guests)
18 The Flintstones [c]
21 Sesame Street [c]

4:30
3/12 The Big Valley [c]
4 Mayberry, R.F.D. [c]
6 The David Frost Show [c] (guests are F. Lee Bailey, Michael Nesmith & The First National Band, Rolf Harris, Dick Shawn, a Brooklyn grocer who had been the victim of several attempted robberies, and an actor who impersonates President Richard Nixon)
6M Packerama [c] (NFL football interviews and highlights)
10 Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood [c]
18 Flipper [c]
34 Uncle Doug’s Cartoon Club [c]

5:00
2 Flipper [c]
4 News [c] (Hal Douglas was the anchor)
5 Truth or Consequences [c]
6M News, Sports, Weather [c]
7 Petticoat Junction [c]
9/11/27 The ABC Evening News with Howard K. Smith & Harry Reasoner [c]
10 Hodgepodge Lodge [c]
12 Mantrap [c]
15 Hogan’s Heroes [c]
18 I Love Lucy
21 Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood [c]

5:30
2/3/6M/7/12 The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite [c]
4/5/12R/13/15 NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor [c]
6 The ABC Evening News with Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner [c]
9/18/27 The Dick Van Dyke Show
10 Travelogue [c]
11 News [c]
21 The Electric Company [c]
34 Land of the Giants [c]

EVENING
6:00
2/3/4/5/6/7/9/12/12R/13/15/27 News [c]
6M The Mod Squad [c] (Martin Sheen and Harold Gould guest; delayed nine days from ABC Tuesday at 7:30)
10 TV High School
11 Green Acres [c]
18 I Dream of Jeannie [c]
21 Letters to Santa [c]

6:15
21 Travelogue [c]

6:30
2 The Golddiggers [c] (Ernest Borgnine, Alice Ghostley and comic Jeanine Burnier are the guests)
4 This Is Your Life [c] (surprise guest is Andy Griffith; Jim Nabors, Ken Berry, Elia Kazan and Ronny Howard also appear; Ralph Edwards)
5 Petticoat Junction [c]
6 Truth or Consequences [c]
7 The New Dick Van Dyke Show [c] (Dick agrees to accommodate a starlet who’s out to break her own on-camera kissing record on local TV, much to Jenny’s discomfort; delayed from Saturday 8:00 PM)
9/27 Green Acres [c]
10 The Electric Company [c] (#39: a spoof game show called “Wild Guess”)
11 The Brady Bunch [c] (Marcia claims she can get Davy Jones to perform at the Senior Prom; delayed six days from Friday 7:00 PM)
12 Dragnet [c]
12R That Good Ole Nashville Music [c]
13 Mayberry R.F.D. [c]
15 Sports Challenge [c] (Los Angeles Lakers Jerry West, Happy Hairston and Gail Goodrich vs. the previous week’s winners)
18 Bowling for Dollars [c] (Lee Rothman hosts)
21 Hathayoga [c]
34 Hogan’s Heroes [c]

7:00
2/3/6M/7/12 The Great Santa Claus Switch [c] (Christmas special narrated by Ed Sullivan, with Art Carney and The Muppets; pre-empts “Bearcats!”)
4/5/12R/13/15 The Flip Wilson Show [c] (guests are Petula Clark, Roy Clark, Redd Foxx and The Modern Jazz Quartet)
6/11 Alias Smith and Jones [c] (Ann Sothern, Patrick O’Neal and Jessica Walter guest; series star Pete Duel committed suicide 15 days after this broadcast)
9/27 Dairyland Jubilee [c] (polka dancing show hosted by Big John Schermerhorn; The Travelers Band guests)
10 New World Coming [c]
18 Beat The Clock [c]
21 Thirty Minutes [c]
34 Hazel

7:30
10/21 Washington Week in Review [c]
18 The Flying Nun [c]
34 Movie (The Little Princess, 1939, with Shirley Temple, Cesar Romero and Arthur Treacher)

8:00
2/3/6M/7/12 The CBS Thursday Night Movie [c] (Arrivederci, Baby!, 1966, with Tony Curtis, Rosanna Schiaffino and Zsa Zsa Gabor)
4/5/12R/13/15 Ironside [c] (“Class of ’57,” Gary Crosby guests)
6/9/11/27 Longstreet [c] (“The Old Team Spirit,” with Leif Erickson as Longstreet’s former mentor, who’s bungling a robbery investigation)
10/21 Hollywood Television Theatre [c] (Ionesco’s The Picture)
18 Movie (Heavens Above!, 1963, Malcolm Muggeridge co-wrote and appears in this satire directed by John & Roy Boulting and starring Peter Sellers as a prison chaplain mistakenly reassigned to a post in a stuffy English community; Sellers’ next two movies would be The Pink Panther and Dr. Strangelove)

9:00
4/5/12R/13/15 The Dean Martin Show [c] (Ginger Rogers, Arte Johnson, Don Meredith and Norm Crosby guest)
6/9/11/27 Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law [c] (Will Geer and William Schallert guest as an auto accident suit Marshall handles is tied in with a separate criminal assault case)
10 Film [c]
21 Full Circle [c]
34 Movie (Hell Raiders, 1968, with John Agar and Joan Huntington)

9:30
10 Black Journal [c] (“Black Paper on White Racism,” first of two reports on racism in education and Christianity)
21 How Do Your Children Grow? [c] (discussion about families)

10:00
2/3/4/5/6/6M/7/9/11/12/12R/13/15/18/27 News [c]
10 Bird of the Iron Feather [c]
21 Wisconsin Outdoors [c]

10:15
18/34 The Merv Griffin Show [c] (KFIZ joins the feed from WVTV in progress after the end of the 9:00 movie; delayed from CBS the previous night at 10:30)

10:30
2 Movie (The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, 1946, with Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin and Kirk Douglas)
3/6M/7 The Merv Griffin Show [c]
4/5/12R/13/15 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson [c] (guests are Ruth Gordon, Vikki Carr and The Ace Trucking Company)
9/27 The Dick Cavett Show [c] (Debbie Reynolds and Dan Rowan are scheduled guests in Hollywood)
10 Masterpiece Theatre [c] (Alistair Cooke introduces Chapter 3 of Tolstoy’s Resurrection)
11 The Wild Wild West [c]
12 Movie [c] (Give My Regards to Broadway, 1948, with Dan Dailey)
21 Bird of the Iron Feather [c]

10:40
6 Movie [c] (Mystery Island, 1968, with Steve Forrest and Sue Lloyd)

11:30
11 The Dick Cavett Show [c] (George Burns, The Smothers Brothers and nutrition author Adele Davis are the guests in Hollywood, and Cavett shows rushes from his appearance on a future episode of “Alias Smith and Jones,” filmed earlier in the week; delayed from the previous night at 10:30)

12:00
3 The Rifleman
4/5/15 News [c]
9/27 The Galloping Gourmet [c] (Graham Kerr shows guest Alejandro Rey how to prepare English style pork loin chops)
13 Movie [c] (Strategy of Terror, 1967, with Barbara Rush and Hugh O’Brian)

12:05
15 Movie (Assignment Paris, 1952, with Dana Andrews and George Sanders)

12:15
4 Movie (Love and Larceny, 1959, with Vittorio Gassman, Anna Maria Ferrero and Dorian Gray)

12:25
6/12 News [c]

12:35
12 Movie (The Whole Truth, 1958, with Stewart Granger, Donna Reed and George Sanders)

12:40
2 Run For Your Life [c]

12:50
6 Movie (The Story of Molly X, 1949, with June Havoc)

2:30
6 The Twilight Zone
 
First WVTV carried Dick Cavett in place of WITI (then ABC), then it carries Merv Griffin in place of WISN (then CBS now ABC). I know they later carried Johnny Carson in place of WTMJ in the mid-late 1980s.
 
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