Source: TV Guide, Wisconsin Edition
Stations listed:
2 WBAY-TV Green Bay (CBS)
3 WISC-TV Madison (CBS)
4 WTMJ-TV Milwaukee (NBC)
5 WFRV Green Bay/WJMN 3 Escanaba (NBC)
6 WITI Milwaukee (ABC)
6M WLUC Marquette (CBS/ABC)
7 WSAU-TV Wausau (CBS)
9 WAOW Wausau (ABC)
10 WMVS Milwaukee (PBS)
11 WLUK Green Bay (ABC)
12 WISN-TV Milwaukee (CBS)
12R WAEO-TV Rhinelander (NBC)
13 WEAU-TV Eau Claire (NBC)
15 WMTV Madison (NBC)
18 WVTV Milwaukee (Independent)
21 WHA-TV Madison (PBS)
27 WKOW-TV Madison (ABC)
34 KFIZ-TV Fond du Lac (Independent)
[C] denotes a color telecast. Listings for WLUC-TV are shown in Central Time.
MORNING
6:05
6 Farm Scene [C]
6:30
4 Consumer Report [C]
12 Sunrise Semester [C] (New Science: starlight; Dr. Robert Jastrow)
6:50
6 News (Larry Ebert) [C]
7:00
2/3/6M/7/12 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner [C]
4/5/12R/13/15 Tomfoolery [C]
6 Rocket Robin Hood [C]
11 Leave It To Beaver
7:30
4/5/12R/13/15 Heckle & Jeckle [C]
6/11 Cartoons [C]
8:00
2/3/6M/7/12 Sabrina [C]
4/5/12R/13/15 Woody Woodpecker [C]
6/9/11/27 Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp [C]
8:30
4/5/12R/13/15 The Bugaloos [C]
9:00
2/3/6M/7/12 Josie & The Pussycats [C]
4/5/12R/13/15 Dr. Do-little [C]
6/9/11/13 Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down? [C]
18 The Big Picture
9:30
2/3/6M/7/12 The Harlem Globetrotters [C]
4/5/12R/13/15 The Pink Panther [C]
6/9/11/27 Here Come the Doubledeckers [C]
18 Consumer Report
10:00
2/3/6M/7/12 Archie [C]
4/5/12R/13/15 H.R. Pufnstuf [C]
6/9/11/27 Hot Wheels [C]
18 Movie (Maid of Salem, 1937 Drama with Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray)
10:30
4/5/12R/13/15 Here Comes The Grump [C]
6/9/11/27 Skyhawks [C]
11:00
2/3/6M/12 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? [C]
4/5/12R/13/15 Hot Dog [C] (The designing and printing of paper money, the making of baseball bats, tye-dyeing and egg farming; Jo Anne Worley, Jonathan Winter and Woody Allen host)
6/9/11/27 Motor Mouse [C]
7 Bookshelf [C]
11:30
2/3/6M/7/12 The Monkees [C] (Peter Tork falls prey to mad scientist Vito Scotti)
4/5/12R/13/15 Jambo [C] (A girl tries to rescue a tiger from its brutal trainer)
6/9/11/27 The Hardy Boys [C]
18 Grapevine (Vic Pitts) [C]
AFTERNOON
12:00
2/3/7 Dick Dastardly & Muttley [C]
4 Open Question [C]
5 Mister Ed
6/6M American Bandstand [C] (Dick Clark’s guests are Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds and country singer Susan Raye)
9/27 Agriculture Today [C]
11 Untamed World [C]
12 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea [C]
12R Sports Close-Up [C]
13 The Hugh X. Lewis Country Club [C] (music from Nashville)
15 The Bill Anderson Show [C]
18 Gospel Upbeat [C]
12:30
2/7 The Jetsons [C]
3 Interfaith Conversations [C]
4/9/11/27/34 Baseball [C] (Brewers at Cleveland; Brewers won, 4-2. Merle Harmon, Tom Collins and Jim Irwin report the play-by-play.)
5 My Friend Flicka
6M To Be Announced
12R Jack Gilbert (music) [C]
13 Harborlights (religion) [C]
15 Outdoors Calling [C]
1:00
2 Movie (Curly Top, 1935 drama, with Shirley Temple)
3 Movie (Wild Seed, 1965 drama, with Celia Kaye and Michael Parks)
5/12R/13/15 Baseball Pre-Game Show [C]
6 Auto Race [C] (The Milwaukee 150, taped on June 6th. Sid Collins and Jim Wilson are the commentators; Al Unser won)
6M Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp [C]
7 Zane Grey Theater
12 The Larry Kane Show [C] (Pop music from Philadelphia; Rick Ely, The Four Tops and Jim Ed Brown were the guests)
18 Like Young [C]
1:15
5/12R/13/15 Baseball [C] (San Francisco Giants at New York Mets; Giants won, 5-1. Curt Gowdy and Tony Kubek reported. The alternate game would have been Cincinnati at the Chicago Cubs, which the Cubs won, 5-2.)
1:30
7 The Bill Anderson Show [C]
2:00
6M Here Come The Doubledeckers [C]
7 The Hugh X. Lewis Country Club [C] (music)
12 Movie (The Time of Their Lives, 1946 comedy, wth Bud Abbott, Lou Costello and Marjorie Reynolds)
18 Wild Bill Hickok
2:30
2 Movie (Snow White & The Three Stooges, 1961 comedy, with Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe De Rita and Carol Heiss)
3 The Banana Splits [C]
6M Treehouse Club [C]
7 The Jerry Goetsch Show [C] (Wausau-based polka show syndicated around the Upper Midwest)
18 Movie (Supernatural, 1933 melodrama, with Carole Lombard, Randolph Scott and H.B. Warner)
3:00
3/6 Roller Derby [C]
4/9/27/34 To Be Announced
6M/11 Death Valley Days [C] (time approximate on WLUK after the Brewers-Cleveland baseball game)
3:30
4 Black Scene [C]
6M Camera Six [C]
7 Commercial [C] (insurance)
9/27 Backyard Bar-B-Que [C]
11/12 Sports Challenge [C] (Dick Enberg’s game show; Baltimore Colts Earl Morrall, Mike Curtis and Bubba Smith took on the previous week’s winners on WLUK)
3:45
7 Backyard Bar-B-Que [C] (recipe: Paul Bunyan burgers)
9/27 Film [C] (conservation)
4:00
2/4/7/15 Golf [C] (The Kemper Open at Charlotte, NC; Tom Weiskopf won that year. Ray Scott led the commentary team. Time approximate on WMTV after the NBC baseball game.)
3 The Doodletown Pipers [C] (syndicated special starring the pop vocal group, which featured future film and TV producers Bernie Brillstein and Jerry Weintraub)
5 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
6/6M/9/11/27 Wide World of Sports [C] (a National Championship Sprint Car Race from Rossburg OH and a preview of the 1971 U.S. Open golf tournament that opened at Ardmore PA the following Wednesday)
12 Surfside 6
12R Backyard Bar-B-Que [C] (recipe: Meatballs en Brochette)
13 Call of The West [C]
18 Daktari [C]
34 Gene Autry Theater (one of Gene’s theatrical movies)
4:15
12R To Be Announced
4:30
5 From a Bird’s Eye View [C] (postponed from the previous Monday, when WFRV/WJMN ran their public affairs show Inquiry instead of the NBC 6:30 offering in pattern)
12R Film [C]
13 Backyard Bar-B-Que [C]
4:45
13 Campus Comments [C]
5:00
2/3/4/5/7/12/12R/15 White House Wedding Highlights [C] (Tricia Nixon married Edward Finch Cox earlier that afternoon, and all three networks reported on the ceremony in news specials that evening. The CBS reporters on WBAY-TV, WISC-TV, WSAU-TV and WISN-TV were Dan Rather and Marya McLaughlin; WTMJ-TV, WFRV/WJMN, WAEO-TV and WMTV carried NBC’s special hosted by Edwin Newman and Barbara Walters.)
10 The Session [C] (this week’s guests were The Jazz Progressions, whose performance included a Beatles medley. Dick Hildreth hosted.)
13 The Porter Wagoner Show [C] (guests: The Young Country singers)
18 All-Star Wrestling [C] (Verne Gagne’s AWA syndicated package from WTCN-TV/11 Minneapolis. 11 days after this, AWA Tag Team Champions Red Bastien and Hercules Cortez were in a one-car crash in Minnesota, returning from a match in Winnipeg; Cortez was killed, and Bastien hospitalised for a couple of weeks. They had been booked for a card at the Fond du Lac County Fair on the afternoon of June 27th.)
34 R.F.D. (hosted by Fond du Lac Commonwealth Reporter agricultural editor Harley Buchholz; KFIZ-TV was owned by the Commonwealth Reporter)
5:30
4/5/12R/13/15 NBC Saturday News [C]
6 News [C]
6M White House Wedding Highlights [C] (the CBS special, joined in progress)
9/27 Untamed World (Thailand’s ancient culture)
10 Book Beat [C] (Robert Cromie interviews Midnight Cowboy and The Season of The Witch author James Leo Herlihy)
11 The Ian Tyson Show [C] (Country music show from CFTO/9 Toronto)
34 All-Star Wrestling (the same show as on WVTV at 5:00, but with Green Bay market promos inserted rather than Milwaukee. Although it was produced in color, and would be aired in color over WLUK later that night, KFIZ-TV didn’t have color videotape capabilities at the time, only live and film, so this and “R.F.D.” were shown in black&white.)
EVENING
6:00
2/4/5/6M/7/9/12R/13/15/27 News [C]
3 All In The Family [C] (Edith’s jury duty; postponed from the previous Tuesday, when WISC-TV ran its public affairs program Focus instead of the CBS offering in pattern)
6/11 White House Wedding Highlights [C] (ABC’s version of events, hosted by Frank Reynolds, Virginia Sherwood and Tom Jarriel)
10 Science Cavalcade [C]
12 CBS Saturday News [C] (Roger Mudd)
13 The Great Outdoors [C]
18 The Porter Wagoner Show [C] (Warren Mack is the guest)
6:15
13 News [C]
6:30
2/3/6M/7/12 Mission: Impossible [C] (guest cast includes Pernell Roberts, Cicely Tyson, Leon Askin and John Schuck)
4/5/12R/13/15 White House Wedding Highlights [C] (for whatever reason, NBC had Edwin Newman and Barbara Walters give an hour-long second report on that afternoon’s ceremony, as if the half-hour back at 5:00 wasn’t enough)
6/9/11/27 The Lawrence Welk Show [C] (this week’s thematic topic was Roses)
10 Shape Up & Ship Out [C] (last broadcast of a boating series)
18 The Wilburn Brothers Show [C] (guest: Carl Phillips)
34 Wagon Train
7:00
10 Film [C] (native African dances with groups from Mali and Ghana)
18 The Country Place [C] (guest: Jeannie Shepherd)
7:30
2/3/6M/7/12 My Three Sons [C]
4/5/12R/13/15 NBC Saturday Night at the Movies [C] (The Ipcress File, 1965 espionage drama, with Michael Caine and Sue Lloyd)
6/11 The Val Doonican Show [C] (guests: Michele Lee and Jack Wild)
9/27 Dairyland Jubilee [C] (polkas and chat with Big John Schermerhorn)
18 The Ian Tyson Show [C] (guests include Jim Ed Brown, Anne Murray and Doug Kershaw)
8:00
2/3/6M/7/12 Arnie [C]
10 To Be Announced
18/34 Kup’s Show [C] (among Irv Kupcinet’s guests are then-Presidential assistant Donald Rumsfeld, former Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, Pearl Bailey, MPAA President Jack Valenti, authors James Baldwin and Larry King, Nancy Wilson and Playboy fashion editor Robert L. Green. Although videotaped in Chicago, KFIZ-TV ran this in color by relaying WVTV’s OTA signal.)
8:30
2/3/6M/7/12 The Mary Tyler Moore Show [C]
6 The Immortal [C] (Lynda Day, wife of series star Christopher George, guested on this episode)
9/27 The Val Doonican Show [C] (the premiere broadcast, postponed one week after ABC aired it; Petula Clark and Jerry Reed are the guests)
10 Thirty Minutes [C] (guest: U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy, D-Massachusetts)
11 Marcus Welby, M.D. [C] (Dana Wynter and Robert Lansing guest; postponed from the previous Tuesday, when WLUK ran an off-network rerun of It Takes a Thief)
9:00
2/3/6M/7/12 Mannix [C] (guest stars: Leslie Parrish and Rich Little)
10 Travelogue [C]
9:30
6 This Is Your Life [C]
9/27 White House Wedding Highlights [C] (the ABC special that WITI and WLUK ran back at 6:00)
10 Film [C]
11 Baseball Tournament [C] (two hours of highlights of the 1971 WIAA State High School Tournament; Bob Schultze of WLUK provided the PBP)
10:00
2/3/4/5/6/7/12/12R/13/15 News [C]
6M ABC Saturday Night News [C]
9/27 Movie (Ridin’ High, 1950 Frank Capra comedy, with Bing Crosby)
10 NET Playhouse (Leo McKern plays Socrates in two one-act plays, directed by Jonathan Miller for BBC-TV)
10:15
6M News [C]
7 Fabiano [C] (variety)
10:25
12 Movie (My Darling Clementine, the classic 1946 Western with Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp, Victor Mature as Doc Holliday and Walter Brennan as Old Man Clanton)
10:30
2 Movie [C] (The Devil at 4 O’Clock, 1961 drama, with Spencer Tracy, Frank Sinatra and Alexander Scourby)
3 Movie (I Confess, the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock suspense feature with Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter and Karl Malden)
4 Movie (Fear Strikes Out, the 1957 biography of Jim Piersall, starring Anthony Perkins and Karl Malden)
5 Movie (Adam’s Rib, the classic 1949 comedy starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn and Judy Holliday)
6 Movie [C] (Desire in the Dust, 1960 Western, with Raymond Burr, Martha Hyer and Rex Ingram)
6M Movie [C] (Wild Women, a 1970 ABC Movie of the Week Western postponed from the previous week, starring Hugh O’Brian, Anne Francis and Sherry Jackson)
7 Man in a Suitcase [C]
12R Movie (to be announced)
13 It Takes a Thief [C] (Susan Saint James guests as Alexander Mundy’s nutty fellow thief Chuck Brown)
15 Celebrity Bowling [C]
11:00
15 Playboy After Dark [C] (Hugh M. Hefner hosts James Brown, Marva Whitney, Soupy Sales, Three Dog Night and Jack Carter)
11:30
7 Movie [C] (The Man Who Could Cheat Death, the 1959 Terence Fisher horror thriller, starring Christopher Lee)
11 All-Star Wrestling [C] (the same AWA package that ran on KFIZ-TV at 5:30, this time in color)
13 Movie [C] (Captain from Castille, the 1947 adventure, starring Tyrone Power, Cesar Romero and Lee J. Cobb)
12:00
3 Movie (Compulsion, the 1959 fictionalisation of the Leopold-Loeb Murder Case, starring Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, E.G. Marshall and Orson Welles)
4 News [C]
6M Movie [C] (The Champagne Murders, a 1967 French mystery starring Anthony Perkins)
9/27 ABC Saturday Night News [C]
15 Movie (The Plunderers, 1948 Western, with Rod Cameron)
12:15
9/27 Movie (Pancho Villa, 1950 Mexican-made biography of the revolutionary, starring Leo Carrillo)
12:30
6/12 News [C]
11 Major Adams
12:35
12 Movie (Larceny, 1948 melodrama, with John Payne, Shelley Winters and Dan Duryea)
12:50
2 Movie (Homicidal, 1961 mystery, with Patricia Breslin and Glenn Corbett)
6 Movie (The Black Castle, the Boris Karloff melodrama from 1952)
2:25
6 Suspense Theatre [C]
Stations listed:
2 WBAY-TV Green Bay (CBS)
3 WISC-TV Madison (CBS)
4 WTMJ-TV Milwaukee (NBC)
5 WFRV Green Bay/WJMN 3 Escanaba (NBC)
6 WITI Milwaukee (ABC)
6M WLUC Marquette (CBS/ABC)
7 WSAU-TV Wausau (CBS)
9 WAOW Wausau (ABC)
10 WMVS Milwaukee (PBS)
11 WLUK Green Bay (ABC)
12 WISN-TV Milwaukee (CBS)
12R WAEO-TV Rhinelander (NBC)
13 WEAU-TV Eau Claire (NBC)
15 WMTV Madison (NBC)
18 WVTV Milwaukee (Independent)
21 WHA-TV Madison (PBS)
27 WKOW-TV Madison (ABC)
34 KFIZ-TV Fond du Lac (Independent)
[C] denotes a color telecast. Listings for WLUC-TV are shown in Central Time.
MORNING
6:05
6 Farm Scene [C]
6:30
4 Consumer Report [C]
12 Sunrise Semester [C] (New Science: starlight; Dr. Robert Jastrow)
6:50
6 News (Larry Ebert) [C]
7:00
2/3/6M/7/12 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner [C]
4/5/12R/13/15 Tomfoolery [C]
6 Rocket Robin Hood [C]
11 Leave It To Beaver
7:30
4/5/12R/13/15 Heckle & Jeckle [C]
6/11 Cartoons [C]
8:00
2/3/6M/7/12 Sabrina [C]
4/5/12R/13/15 Woody Woodpecker [C]
6/9/11/27 Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp [C]
8:30
4/5/12R/13/15 The Bugaloos [C]
9:00
2/3/6M/7/12 Josie & The Pussycats [C]
4/5/12R/13/15 Dr. Do-little [C]
6/9/11/13 Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down? [C]
18 The Big Picture
9:30
2/3/6M/7/12 The Harlem Globetrotters [C]
4/5/12R/13/15 The Pink Panther [C]
6/9/11/27 Here Come the Doubledeckers [C]
18 Consumer Report
10:00
2/3/6M/7/12 Archie [C]
4/5/12R/13/15 H.R. Pufnstuf [C]
6/9/11/27 Hot Wheels [C]
18 Movie (Maid of Salem, 1937 Drama with Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray)
10:30
4/5/12R/13/15 Here Comes The Grump [C]
6/9/11/27 Skyhawks [C]
11:00
2/3/6M/12 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? [C]
4/5/12R/13/15 Hot Dog [C] (The designing and printing of paper money, the making of baseball bats, tye-dyeing and egg farming; Jo Anne Worley, Jonathan Winter and Woody Allen host)
6/9/11/27 Motor Mouse [C]
7 Bookshelf [C]
11:30
2/3/6M/7/12 The Monkees [C] (Peter Tork falls prey to mad scientist Vito Scotti)
4/5/12R/13/15 Jambo [C] (A girl tries to rescue a tiger from its brutal trainer)
6/9/11/27 The Hardy Boys [C]
18 Grapevine (Vic Pitts) [C]
AFTERNOON
12:00
2/3/7 Dick Dastardly & Muttley [C]
4 Open Question [C]
5 Mister Ed
6/6M American Bandstand [C] (Dick Clark’s guests are Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds and country singer Susan Raye)
9/27 Agriculture Today [C]
11 Untamed World [C]
12 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea [C]
12R Sports Close-Up [C]
13 The Hugh X. Lewis Country Club [C] (music from Nashville)
15 The Bill Anderson Show [C]
18 Gospel Upbeat [C]
12:30
2/7 The Jetsons [C]
3 Interfaith Conversations [C]
4/9/11/27/34 Baseball [C] (Brewers at Cleveland; Brewers won, 4-2. Merle Harmon, Tom Collins and Jim Irwin report the play-by-play.)
5 My Friend Flicka
6M To Be Announced
12R Jack Gilbert (music) [C]
13 Harborlights (religion) [C]
15 Outdoors Calling [C]
1:00
2 Movie (Curly Top, 1935 drama, with Shirley Temple)
3 Movie (Wild Seed, 1965 drama, with Celia Kaye and Michael Parks)
5/12R/13/15 Baseball Pre-Game Show [C]
6 Auto Race [C] (The Milwaukee 150, taped on June 6th. Sid Collins and Jim Wilson are the commentators; Al Unser won)
6M Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp [C]
7 Zane Grey Theater
12 The Larry Kane Show [C] (Pop music from Philadelphia; Rick Ely, The Four Tops and Jim Ed Brown were the guests)
18 Like Young [C]
1:15
5/12R/13/15 Baseball [C] (San Francisco Giants at New York Mets; Giants won, 5-1. Curt Gowdy and Tony Kubek reported. The alternate game would have been Cincinnati at the Chicago Cubs, which the Cubs won, 5-2.)
1:30
7 The Bill Anderson Show [C]
2:00
6M Here Come The Doubledeckers [C]
7 The Hugh X. Lewis Country Club [C] (music)
12 Movie (The Time of Their Lives, 1946 comedy, wth Bud Abbott, Lou Costello and Marjorie Reynolds)
18 Wild Bill Hickok
2:30
2 Movie (Snow White & The Three Stooges, 1961 comedy, with Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe De Rita and Carol Heiss)
3 The Banana Splits [C]
6M Treehouse Club [C]
7 The Jerry Goetsch Show [C] (Wausau-based polka show syndicated around the Upper Midwest)
18 Movie (Supernatural, 1933 melodrama, with Carole Lombard, Randolph Scott and H.B. Warner)
3:00
3/6 Roller Derby [C]
4/9/27/34 To Be Announced
6M/11 Death Valley Days [C] (time approximate on WLUK after the Brewers-Cleveland baseball game)
3:30
4 Black Scene [C]
6M Camera Six [C]
7 Commercial [C] (insurance)
9/27 Backyard Bar-B-Que [C]
11/12 Sports Challenge [C] (Dick Enberg’s game show; Baltimore Colts Earl Morrall, Mike Curtis and Bubba Smith took on the previous week’s winners on WLUK)
3:45
7 Backyard Bar-B-Que [C] (recipe: Paul Bunyan burgers)
9/27 Film [C] (conservation)
4:00
2/4/7/15 Golf [C] (The Kemper Open at Charlotte, NC; Tom Weiskopf won that year. Ray Scott led the commentary team. Time approximate on WMTV after the NBC baseball game.)
3 The Doodletown Pipers [C] (syndicated special starring the pop vocal group, which featured future film and TV producers Bernie Brillstein and Jerry Weintraub)
5 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
6/6M/9/11/27 Wide World of Sports [C] (a National Championship Sprint Car Race from Rossburg OH and a preview of the 1971 U.S. Open golf tournament that opened at Ardmore PA the following Wednesday)
12 Surfside 6
12R Backyard Bar-B-Que [C] (recipe: Meatballs en Brochette)
13 Call of The West [C]
18 Daktari [C]
34 Gene Autry Theater (one of Gene’s theatrical movies)
4:15
12R To Be Announced
4:30
5 From a Bird’s Eye View [C] (postponed from the previous Monday, when WFRV/WJMN ran their public affairs show Inquiry instead of the NBC 6:30 offering in pattern)
12R Film [C]
13 Backyard Bar-B-Que [C]
4:45
13 Campus Comments [C]
5:00
2/3/4/5/7/12/12R/15 White House Wedding Highlights [C] (Tricia Nixon married Edward Finch Cox earlier that afternoon, and all three networks reported on the ceremony in news specials that evening. The CBS reporters on WBAY-TV, WISC-TV, WSAU-TV and WISN-TV were Dan Rather and Marya McLaughlin; WTMJ-TV, WFRV/WJMN, WAEO-TV and WMTV carried NBC’s special hosted by Edwin Newman and Barbara Walters.)
10 The Session [C] (this week’s guests were The Jazz Progressions, whose performance included a Beatles medley. Dick Hildreth hosted.)
13 The Porter Wagoner Show [C] (guests: The Young Country singers)
18 All-Star Wrestling [C] (Verne Gagne’s AWA syndicated package from WTCN-TV/11 Minneapolis. 11 days after this, AWA Tag Team Champions Red Bastien and Hercules Cortez were in a one-car crash in Minnesota, returning from a match in Winnipeg; Cortez was killed, and Bastien hospitalised for a couple of weeks. They had been booked for a card at the Fond du Lac County Fair on the afternoon of June 27th.)
34 R.F.D. (hosted by Fond du Lac Commonwealth Reporter agricultural editor Harley Buchholz; KFIZ-TV was owned by the Commonwealth Reporter)
5:30
4/5/12R/13/15 NBC Saturday News [C]
6 News [C]
6M White House Wedding Highlights [C] (the CBS special, joined in progress)
9/27 Untamed World (Thailand’s ancient culture)
10 Book Beat [C] (Robert Cromie interviews Midnight Cowboy and The Season of The Witch author James Leo Herlihy)
11 The Ian Tyson Show [C] (Country music show from CFTO/9 Toronto)
34 All-Star Wrestling (the same show as on WVTV at 5:00, but with Green Bay market promos inserted rather than Milwaukee. Although it was produced in color, and would be aired in color over WLUK later that night, KFIZ-TV didn’t have color videotape capabilities at the time, only live and film, so this and “R.F.D.” were shown in black&white.)
EVENING
6:00
2/4/5/6M/7/9/12R/13/15/27 News [C]
3 All In The Family [C] (Edith’s jury duty; postponed from the previous Tuesday, when WISC-TV ran its public affairs program Focus instead of the CBS offering in pattern)
6/11 White House Wedding Highlights [C] (ABC’s version of events, hosted by Frank Reynolds, Virginia Sherwood and Tom Jarriel)
10 Science Cavalcade [C]
12 CBS Saturday News [C] (Roger Mudd)
13 The Great Outdoors [C]
18 The Porter Wagoner Show [C] (Warren Mack is the guest)
6:15
13 News [C]
6:30
2/3/6M/7/12 Mission: Impossible [C] (guest cast includes Pernell Roberts, Cicely Tyson, Leon Askin and John Schuck)
4/5/12R/13/15 White House Wedding Highlights [C] (for whatever reason, NBC had Edwin Newman and Barbara Walters give an hour-long second report on that afternoon’s ceremony, as if the half-hour back at 5:00 wasn’t enough)
6/9/11/27 The Lawrence Welk Show [C] (this week’s thematic topic was Roses)
10 Shape Up & Ship Out [C] (last broadcast of a boating series)
18 The Wilburn Brothers Show [C] (guest: Carl Phillips)
34 Wagon Train
7:00
10 Film [C] (native African dances with groups from Mali and Ghana)
18 The Country Place [C] (guest: Jeannie Shepherd)
7:30
2/3/6M/7/12 My Three Sons [C]
4/5/12R/13/15 NBC Saturday Night at the Movies [C] (The Ipcress File, 1965 espionage drama, with Michael Caine and Sue Lloyd)
6/11 The Val Doonican Show [C] (guests: Michele Lee and Jack Wild)
9/27 Dairyland Jubilee [C] (polkas and chat with Big John Schermerhorn)
18 The Ian Tyson Show [C] (guests include Jim Ed Brown, Anne Murray and Doug Kershaw)
8:00
2/3/6M/7/12 Arnie [C]
10 To Be Announced
18/34 Kup’s Show [C] (among Irv Kupcinet’s guests are then-Presidential assistant Donald Rumsfeld, former Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, Pearl Bailey, MPAA President Jack Valenti, authors James Baldwin and Larry King, Nancy Wilson and Playboy fashion editor Robert L. Green. Although videotaped in Chicago, KFIZ-TV ran this in color by relaying WVTV’s OTA signal.)
8:30
2/3/6M/7/12 The Mary Tyler Moore Show [C]
6 The Immortal [C] (Lynda Day, wife of series star Christopher George, guested on this episode)
9/27 The Val Doonican Show [C] (the premiere broadcast, postponed one week after ABC aired it; Petula Clark and Jerry Reed are the guests)
10 Thirty Minutes [C] (guest: U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy, D-Massachusetts)
11 Marcus Welby, M.D. [C] (Dana Wynter and Robert Lansing guest; postponed from the previous Tuesday, when WLUK ran an off-network rerun of It Takes a Thief)
9:00
2/3/6M/7/12 Mannix [C] (guest stars: Leslie Parrish and Rich Little)
10 Travelogue [C]
9:30
6 This Is Your Life [C]
9/27 White House Wedding Highlights [C] (the ABC special that WITI and WLUK ran back at 6:00)
10 Film [C]
11 Baseball Tournament [C] (two hours of highlights of the 1971 WIAA State High School Tournament; Bob Schultze of WLUK provided the PBP)
10:00
2/3/4/5/6/7/12/12R/13/15 News [C]
6M ABC Saturday Night News [C]
9/27 Movie (Ridin’ High, 1950 Frank Capra comedy, with Bing Crosby)
10 NET Playhouse (Leo McKern plays Socrates in two one-act plays, directed by Jonathan Miller for BBC-TV)
10:15
6M News [C]
7 Fabiano [C] (variety)
10:25
12 Movie (My Darling Clementine, the classic 1946 Western with Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp, Victor Mature as Doc Holliday and Walter Brennan as Old Man Clanton)
10:30
2 Movie [C] (The Devil at 4 O’Clock, 1961 drama, with Spencer Tracy, Frank Sinatra and Alexander Scourby)
3 Movie (I Confess, the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock suspense feature with Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter and Karl Malden)
4 Movie (Fear Strikes Out, the 1957 biography of Jim Piersall, starring Anthony Perkins and Karl Malden)
5 Movie (Adam’s Rib, the classic 1949 comedy starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn and Judy Holliday)
6 Movie [C] (Desire in the Dust, 1960 Western, with Raymond Burr, Martha Hyer and Rex Ingram)
6M Movie [C] (Wild Women, a 1970 ABC Movie of the Week Western postponed from the previous week, starring Hugh O’Brian, Anne Francis and Sherry Jackson)
7 Man in a Suitcase [C]
12R Movie (to be announced)
13 It Takes a Thief [C] (Susan Saint James guests as Alexander Mundy’s nutty fellow thief Chuck Brown)
15 Celebrity Bowling [C]
11:00
15 Playboy After Dark [C] (Hugh M. Hefner hosts James Brown, Marva Whitney, Soupy Sales, Three Dog Night and Jack Carter)
11:30
7 Movie [C] (The Man Who Could Cheat Death, the 1959 Terence Fisher horror thriller, starring Christopher Lee)
11 All-Star Wrestling [C] (the same AWA package that ran on KFIZ-TV at 5:30, this time in color)
13 Movie [C] (Captain from Castille, the 1947 adventure, starring Tyrone Power, Cesar Romero and Lee J. Cobb)
12:00
3 Movie (Compulsion, the 1959 fictionalisation of the Leopold-Loeb Murder Case, starring Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, E.G. Marshall and Orson Welles)
4 News [C]
6M Movie [C] (The Champagne Murders, a 1967 French mystery starring Anthony Perkins)
9/27 ABC Saturday Night News [C]
15 Movie (The Plunderers, 1948 Western, with Rod Cameron)
12:15
9/27 Movie (Pancho Villa, 1950 Mexican-made biography of the revolutionary, starring Leo Carrillo)
12:30
6/12 News [C]
11 Major Adams
12:35
12 Movie (Larceny, 1948 melodrama, with John Payne, Shelley Winters and Dan Duryea)
12:50
2 Movie (Homicidal, 1961 mystery, with Patricia Breslin and Glenn Corbett)
6 Movie (The Black Castle, the Boris Karloff melodrama from 1952)
2:25
6 Suspense Theatre [C]