Source: Wisconsin Edition, TV Guide
CHANNELS:
2 WBAY-TV Green Bay (CBS)
3 WISC-TV Madison (CBS)
4 WTMJ-TV Milwaukee (NBC)
5 WFRV Green Bay/WJMN-TV 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)
(WPNE-TV 38, the PBS affiliate in Green Bay, signed on the air on September 12th but was not yet listed in TV Guide. At the time, it was a semi-satellite of WHA-TV Madison.)
All programs in color, except those designated by [BW]. All listings are in Central Time, even though WJMN and WLUC are in the Eastern Time Zone.
MORNING
6:00
4 Across the Fence
6:05
6 Farm Scene
6:30
2 Cheer-Up Time
4 Library Story
12 Summer Semester
6:45
4 Library Playhouse
6:50
6 News
7:00
2/3/6m/7/12 Bugs Bunny
4/5/12r/13/15 Underdog
6 Popeye
9/11/27 H.R. Pufnstuf
7:30
2/3/6m/7/12 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
4/5/12r/13/15 The Jetsons
6/9/11/27 The Jackson 5ive
10/21 Mister Rogers
8:00
2/3/6m/7/12 The Amazing Chan & The Chan Clan
4/5/12r/13/15 The Pink Panther
6/9/11/27 The Osmonds
10/21 Sesame Street
8:30
2/3/6m/7/12 Scooby-Doo
4/5/12r/15 The Houndcats
6/9/11/27 The Saturday Superstar Movie (“Mad, Mad Monster”)
13 Sheriff Bob
9:00
4/5/12r/13/15 The Roman Holidays
10/21 The Electric Company
9:30
2/3/6m/7/12 Josie & The Pussycats
4/5/12r/13/15 The Barkleys
6/9/11/27 The Brady Kids
10/21 Mister Rogers
10:00
2/3/6m/7/12 The Flintstones Comedy Hour
4/5/12r/13/15 Sealab 2020
6/9/11/27 Bewitched
10/21 Sesame Street
10:30
4/5/12r/13/15 Runaround (Paul Winchell’s kiddie game show)
6/9/11/27 Kid Power
11:00
2/3/6m/12 Archie’s TV Funnies
4/5/12r/13/15 Around The World In 80 Days
6/9/11/27 The Funky Phantom
7 Children’s Bookshelf
10/21 The Electric Company
11:30
2/3/6m/7/12 Fat Albert & The Cosby Kids
4/5/12r/13/15 Talking With A Giant (Rev. Theodore Hesburgh of Notre Dame University talks with teenagers about education)
6/9/11/27 Lidsville
10/21 Sesame Street
AFTERNOON
12:00
2/3/7/12 The CBS Children’s Film Festival (Scramble!, a 1971 British drama)
4 Mayberry R.F.D.
5 Lassie
6 Who Knows? (high school quiz; Boy’s Tech vs. Palmyra)
6m Packerama
9/27 Agriculture Today
11 John Jardine (Wisconsin Badgers football)
12r Wisconsin Outdoors
13 Dick Rodgers (polka music)
15 This Week In Pro Football
12:30
4 Black Scene (Afro-American public affairs)
5 Mister Ed [BW]
6/6m/9/11/27 College Football Pre-Game Show
10/21 The Electric Company
12r Sports Close-Up
13 Gene Williams (Country music)
12:45
6/6m/9/11/27 College Football (Nebraska vs. Army at West Point)
1:00
2 Roller Derby
3 Interfaith
4/5/12r/13/15 Baseball Pre-Game Show
7 Archie’s TV Funnies
10/21 Oscar Brand’s Gettysburg (Civil War folk songs performed by Oscar Brand and Theodore Bikel at the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
12 Movie (The Sands of Iwo Jima [BW], 1949 WW2 adventure starring John Wayne and John Agar)
18/34 Wally’s Workshop
1:15
4/5/12r/13/15 Baseball (Detroit at Boston; rain games would be Yankees at Cleveland on WTMJ-TV and Baltimore at Milwaukee on WFRV/WJMN, WAEO-TV, WEAU-TV and WMTV)
1:30
3 Movie (Operation Amsterdam [BW], 1959 British WW2 drama starring Peter Finch)
7 Sports Challenge
10/21 The Electric Company (WMVS will sign off from 2:00 to 5:00)
18/34 Roller Game Of The Week (Reilly’s Renegades at Los Angeles Thunderbirds)
2:00
2/7 This Week In Pro Football
21 Carrascolendas
2:30
12 Movie (Sagebrush Trail [BW], 1933 Western starring John Wayne)
18 Movie (The Spider Woman Strikes Back [BW], 1946 melodrama starring Brenda Joice)
21 Hodgepodge Lodge
34 Roller Derby
3:00
2 NFL Game Of The Week
3 Porter Wagoner
7 Gene Williams (Country music)
21 Therapeutic Community
3:30
2 Stage Two (local variety)
3 That Good Ole Nashville Music
7 NFL Game Of The Week
21 Quest For Adventure
34 Death Valley Days [BW]
3:45
2 The Hunter (outdoors sports, not the TTV cartoon)
4:00
2 Championship Bowling (Jim Jaster vs. last week’s winner)
3 Movie (And Now Miguel, 1966 drama starring Pat Cardi and Dean Stockwell)
4 Human Rights
5 The Name Of The Game
6/6m/9/11/27 Wide World Of Sports (The Muhammad Ali-Floyd Patterson heavyweight boxing match at Madison Square Garden, taped Wednesday night)
7 Jerry Goetsch (polka music)
12 Anna & The King (Premiere of the Yul Brynner-Samantha Eggar comedy-drama series, delayed from September 17th)
12r Film
13 Bill Anderson
15 The Explorers
18 Daktari
21 Jacob Bronowski (part three of a mini-series profile of the physicist, philosopher and playwright; included is a scene from Bronowski’s 1950 play The Face of Violence)
34 Dennis The Menace [BW]
4:30
4 Juvenile Jury
12 Star Trek
13 Chimielewski Funtime (polka music)
15 Outdoors Calling
21 Thirty Minutes With (interview)
34 RFD (local agricultural report with Fond du Lac Commonwealth Reporter Farm Director Harley Bucholz)
5:00
2/4/7 The Explorers
10 Making Things Grow
12r Nicolet College Forum
13 Campus Comments
15 Sports Challenge
18 All-Star Wrestling (Verne Gagne’s AWA package from WTCN-TV/11 Minneapolis, with interviews specific to Milwaukee house show matches)
21 Evening At Pops
34 Roller Game Of The Week [BW] (Texas Outlaws at Los Angeles Thunderbirds)
5:15
13 The Great Outdoors
5:30
2/6m/7/12 CBS Saturday News (Roger Mudd)
4/5/12r/13/15 NBC Saturday News (Garrick Utley)
6 Survival
9/27 To Be Announced
10 Consultation
11 Buck Owens
5:55
3 News (Larry Wilson)
EVENING
6:00
2/4/5/6/6m/7/15 News
3/11/12r/13/18 Hee Haw (Patti Page and Charlie McCoy are this week’s guests)
9/27 The Mod Squad (delayed from Thursday)
10 Speaking Freely (Edwin Newman interviews Environmental Protection Agency Director William J. Ruckelshaus)
12 UFO
21 Audubon Wildlife Theatre
6:30
2/7 Lawrence Welk
4 One Step Beyond [BW]
5 The Mouse Factory
6 The Hollywood Squares
6m The Odd Couple (delayed from last night)
15 Sanford & Son (delayed from last night)
21 World Press
34 Call Of The West
7:00
3/6m/12 All In The Family (Archie tries to weasel out of paying taxes on his moonlighting cabbie job)
4/5/12r/13/15 Emergency! (Richard Jaeckel guests as the attorney for abusive parents)
6/9/11/27 Alias Smith & Jones
10 Second Glance (guest is retired Milwaukee Journal associate editor Paul Ringler)
18 Porter Wagoner
21 Book Beat
34 Judy Lynn [BW] (Country music)
7:30
2/3/6m/7/12 Bridget Loves Bernie
10 Showcase
18 The Wilburn Brothers
21 A Public Affair/Election ‘72
34 Land Of The Giants
8:00
2/3/6m/7/12 Mary Tyler Moore
4 Movie (The Yellow Rolls-Royce, 1964 British comedy starring Rex Harrison, Jeanne Moreau, Shirley MacLaine, George C. Scott, Ingrid Bergman and Omar Sharif)
5/12r/13/15/18 Movie (The Thomas Crown Affair, 1968 mystery starring Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway and Jack Weston)
6/9/11/27 The Streets Of San Francisco
10 Washington Debates For The ‘70s
21 Soul! (Ronnie Dyson and Cissy Houston guest)
8:30
2/3/6m/7/12 Bob Newhart
34 It Takes A Thief
9:00
2/3/6m/7/12 Mission: Impossible
6/9/11/27 The Sixth Sense
10/21 The Restless Earth (environmental special)
9:30
34 All-Star Wrestling [BW] (delayed relay of the WVTV telecast at 5:00)
10:00
2/3/4/5/6/7/12/12r/13/15 News
6m/11 ABC Saturday News (Sam Donaldson)
9/27 It Takes A Thief
18 Movie (Donovan’s Brain, 1954 mystery starring Lew Ayres and Gene Evans)
10:15
6m/11 News
10:30
2 Movie (The Snorkel [BW], 1958 drama starring Peter Van Eyck)
3 Movie (Desk Set [BW], 1957 comedy starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn and Gig Young)
4 Movie (The Outriders, 1950 Western starring Joel McCrea and James Whitmore)
5 Movie (Spencer’s Mountain, 1963 comedy starring Henry Fonda, Maureen O’Hara and Wally Cox)
6 Movie (The Road to Hong Kong [BW], the 1961 finale to the Bob Hope-Bing Crosby-Dorothy Lamour “Road” comedies; cameos by Peter Sellers, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, David Niven and Jerry Colonna)
6m The Super
7 Champions
11 All-Star Wrestling (same AWA matches as seen earlier tonight on WVTV and KFIZ-TV, but with interviews specific to upcoming Green Bay-area house shows)
12 Movie (The Family Jewels, 1965 comedy with Jerry Lewis playing seven different characters)
12r The Ski Scene (Johnny Morris)
13 Movie (The War Lord, 1965 adventure starring Charlton Heston)
15 Police Surgeon
34 High School Football (Fond du Lac Goodrich at Green Bay East, videotaped that afternoon)
11:00
6m Movie (The Desert Hawk, 1950 adventure starring Jackie Gleason and Rock Hudson)
9/27 It’s Your Life
12r The Big Valley
15 Notre Dame Highlights (a recap of that afternoon’s football season opener at Northwestern; Lindsey Nelson and Paul Hornung report)
11:05
9/27 Movie (Chain Lightning [BW], 1950 drama starring Humphrey Bogart and Eleanor Parker)
11:30
7 Movie (Here Come The Nelsons [BW], 1951 comedy starring Ozzie, Harriet, David and Ricky Nelson and Rock Hudson)
11 Major Adams [BW]
11:35
18 News
12:00
15 Suspense Theatre
12:15
2 Movie (The Marrying Kind [BW], 1952 comedy starring Judy Holliday)
6 News
12:25
6 Movie (Jason & The Argonauts, 1963 British fantasy starring Todd Armstrong)
12:30
4 Movie (About Mrs. Leslie [BW], 1954 drama starring Shirley Booth and Robert Ryan)
12:35
12 Notre Dame Highlights (same as WMTV at 11:00)
12:40
13 It Takes A Thief
1:05
9/27 ABC Saturday News (Sam Donaldson)
1:35
12 News
1:40
12 I Spy
2:25
6 Editorial
2:30
6 The Twilight Zone [BW]
CHANNELS:
2 WBAY-TV Green Bay (CBS)
3 WISC-TV Madison (CBS)
4 WTMJ-TV Milwaukee (NBC)
5 WFRV Green Bay/WJMN-TV 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)
(WPNE-TV 38, the PBS affiliate in Green Bay, signed on the air on September 12th but was not yet listed in TV Guide. At the time, it was a semi-satellite of WHA-TV Madison.)
All programs in color, except those designated by [BW]. All listings are in Central Time, even though WJMN and WLUC are in the Eastern Time Zone.
MORNING
6:00
4 Across the Fence
6:05
6 Farm Scene
6:30
2 Cheer-Up Time
4 Library Story
12 Summer Semester
6:45
4 Library Playhouse
6:50
6 News
7:00
2/3/6m/7/12 Bugs Bunny
4/5/12r/13/15 Underdog
6 Popeye
9/11/27 H.R. Pufnstuf
7:30
2/3/6m/7/12 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
4/5/12r/13/15 The Jetsons
6/9/11/27 The Jackson 5ive
10/21 Mister Rogers
8:00
2/3/6m/7/12 The Amazing Chan & The Chan Clan
4/5/12r/13/15 The Pink Panther
6/9/11/27 The Osmonds
10/21 Sesame Street
8:30
2/3/6m/7/12 Scooby-Doo
4/5/12r/15 The Houndcats
6/9/11/27 The Saturday Superstar Movie (“Mad, Mad Monster”)
13 Sheriff Bob
9:00
4/5/12r/13/15 The Roman Holidays
10/21 The Electric Company
9:30
2/3/6m/7/12 Josie & The Pussycats
4/5/12r/13/15 The Barkleys
6/9/11/27 The Brady Kids
10/21 Mister Rogers
10:00
2/3/6m/7/12 The Flintstones Comedy Hour
4/5/12r/13/15 Sealab 2020
6/9/11/27 Bewitched
10/21 Sesame Street
10:30
4/5/12r/13/15 Runaround (Paul Winchell’s kiddie game show)
6/9/11/27 Kid Power
11:00
2/3/6m/12 Archie’s TV Funnies
4/5/12r/13/15 Around The World In 80 Days
6/9/11/27 The Funky Phantom
7 Children’s Bookshelf
10/21 The Electric Company
11:30
2/3/6m/7/12 Fat Albert & The Cosby Kids
4/5/12r/13/15 Talking With A Giant (Rev. Theodore Hesburgh of Notre Dame University talks with teenagers about education)
6/9/11/27 Lidsville
10/21 Sesame Street
AFTERNOON
12:00
2/3/7/12 The CBS Children’s Film Festival (Scramble!, a 1971 British drama)
4 Mayberry R.F.D.
5 Lassie
6 Who Knows? (high school quiz; Boy’s Tech vs. Palmyra)
6m Packerama
9/27 Agriculture Today
11 John Jardine (Wisconsin Badgers football)
12r Wisconsin Outdoors
13 Dick Rodgers (polka music)
15 This Week In Pro Football
12:30
4 Black Scene (Afro-American public affairs)
5 Mister Ed [BW]
6/6m/9/11/27 College Football Pre-Game Show
10/21 The Electric Company
12r Sports Close-Up
13 Gene Williams (Country music)
12:45
6/6m/9/11/27 College Football (Nebraska vs. Army at West Point)
1:00
2 Roller Derby
3 Interfaith
4/5/12r/13/15 Baseball Pre-Game Show
7 Archie’s TV Funnies
10/21 Oscar Brand’s Gettysburg (Civil War folk songs performed by Oscar Brand and Theodore Bikel at the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
12 Movie (The Sands of Iwo Jima [BW], 1949 WW2 adventure starring John Wayne and John Agar)
18/34 Wally’s Workshop
1:15
4/5/12r/13/15 Baseball (Detroit at Boston; rain games would be Yankees at Cleveland on WTMJ-TV and Baltimore at Milwaukee on WFRV/WJMN, WAEO-TV, WEAU-TV and WMTV)
1:30
3 Movie (Operation Amsterdam [BW], 1959 British WW2 drama starring Peter Finch)
7 Sports Challenge
10/21 The Electric Company (WMVS will sign off from 2:00 to 5:00)
18/34 Roller Game Of The Week (Reilly’s Renegades at Los Angeles Thunderbirds)
2:00
2/7 This Week In Pro Football
21 Carrascolendas
2:30
12 Movie (Sagebrush Trail [BW], 1933 Western starring John Wayne)
18 Movie (The Spider Woman Strikes Back [BW], 1946 melodrama starring Brenda Joice)
21 Hodgepodge Lodge
34 Roller Derby
3:00
2 NFL Game Of The Week
3 Porter Wagoner
7 Gene Williams (Country music)
21 Therapeutic Community
3:30
2 Stage Two (local variety)
3 That Good Ole Nashville Music
7 NFL Game Of The Week
21 Quest For Adventure
34 Death Valley Days [BW]
3:45
2 The Hunter (outdoors sports, not the TTV cartoon)
4:00
2 Championship Bowling (Jim Jaster vs. last week’s winner)
3 Movie (And Now Miguel, 1966 drama starring Pat Cardi and Dean Stockwell)
4 Human Rights
5 The Name Of The Game
6/6m/9/11/27 Wide World Of Sports (The Muhammad Ali-Floyd Patterson heavyweight boxing match at Madison Square Garden, taped Wednesday night)
7 Jerry Goetsch (polka music)
12 Anna & The King (Premiere of the Yul Brynner-Samantha Eggar comedy-drama series, delayed from September 17th)
12r Film
13 Bill Anderson
15 The Explorers
18 Daktari
21 Jacob Bronowski (part three of a mini-series profile of the physicist, philosopher and playwright; included is a scene from Bronowski’s 1950 play The Face of Violence)
34 Dennis The Menace [BW]
4:30
4 Juvenile Jury
12 Star Trek
13 Chimielewski Funtime (polka music)
15 Outdoors Calling
21 Thirty Minutes With (interview)
34 RFD (local agricultural report with Fond du Lac Commonwealth Reporter Farm Director Harley Bucholz)
5:00
2/4/7 The Explorers
10 Making Things Grow
12r Nicolet College Forum
13 Campus Comments
15 Sports Challenge
18 All-Star Wrestling (Verne Gagne’s AWA package from WTCN-TV/11 Minneapolis, with interviews specific to Milwaukee house show matches)
21 Evening At Pops
34 Roller Game Of The Week [BW] (Texas Outlaws at Los Angeles Thunderbirds)
5:15
13 The Great Outdoors
5:30
2/6m/7/12 CBS Saturday News (Roger Mudd)
4/5/12r/13/15 NBC Saturday News (Garrick Utley)
6 Survival
9/27 To Be Announced
10 Consultation
11 Buck Owens
5:55
3 News (Larry Wilson)
EVENING
6:00
2/4/5/6/6m/7/15 News
3/11/12r/13/18 Hee Haw (Patti Page and Charlie McCoy are this week’s guests)
9/27 The Mod Squad (delayed from Thursday)
10 Speaking Freely (Edwin Newman interviews Environmental Protection Agency Director William J. Ruckelshaus)
12 UFO
21 Audubon Wildlife Theatre
6:30
2/7 Lawrence Welk
4 One Step Beyond [BW]
5 The Mouse Factory
6 The Hollywood Squares
6m The Odd Couple (delayed from last night)
15 Sanford & Son (delayed from last night)
21 World Press
34 Call Of The West
7:00
3/6m/12 All In The Family (Archie tries to weasel out of paying taxes on his moonlighting cabbie job)
4/5/12r/13/15 Emergency! (Richard Jaeckel guests as the attorney for abusive parents)
6/9/11/27 Alias Smith & Jones
10 Second Glance (guest is retired Milwaukee Journal associate editor Paul Ringler)
18 Porter Wagoner
21 Book Beat
34 Judy Lynn [BW] (Country music)
7:30
2/3/6m/7/12 Bridget Loves Bernie
10 Showcase
18 The Wilburn Brothers
21 A Public Affair/Election ‘72
34 Land Of The Giants
8:00
2/3/6m/7/12 Mary Tyler Moore
4 Movie (The Yellow Rolls-Royce, 1964 British comedy starring Rex Harrison, Jeanne Moreau, Shirley MacLaine, George C. Scott, Ingrid Bergman and Omar Sharif)
5/12r/13/15/18 Movie (The Thomas Crown Affair, 1968 mystery starring Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway and Jack Weston)
6/9/11/27 The Streets Of San Francisco
10 Washington Debates For The ‘70s
21 Soul! (Ronnie Dyson and Cissy Houston guest)
8:30
2/3/6m/7/12 Bob Newhart
34 It Takes A Thief
9:00
2/3/6m/7/12 Mission: Impossible
6/9/11/27 The Sixth Sense
10/21 The Restless Earth (environmental special)
9:30
34 All-Star Wrestling [BW] (delayed relay of the WVTV telecast at 5:00)
10:00
2/3/4/5/6/7/12/12r/13/15 News
6m/11 ABC Saturday News (Sam Donaldson)
9/27 It Takes A Thief
18 Movie (Donovan’s Brain, 1954 mystery starring Lew Ayres and Gene Evans)
10:15
6m/11 News
10:30
2 Movie (The Snorkel [BW], 1958 drama starring Peter Van Eyck)
3 Movie (Desk Set [BW], 1957 comedy starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn and Gig Young)
4 Movie (The Outriders, 1950 Western starring Joel McCrea and James Whitmore)
5 Movie (Spencer’s Mountain, 1963 comedy starring Henry Fonda, Maureen O’Hara and Wally Cox)
6 Movie (The Road to Hong Kong [BW], the 1961 finale to the Bob Hope-Bing Crosby-Dorothy Lamour “Road” comedies; cameos by Peter Sellers, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, David Niven and Jerry Colonna)
6m The Super
7 Champions
11 All-Star Wrestling (same AWA matches as seen earlier tonight on WVTV and KFIZ-TV, but with interviews specific to upcoming Green Bay-area house shows)
12 Movie (The Family Jewels, 1965 comedy with Jerry Lewis playing seven different characters)
12r The Ski Scene (Johnny Morris)
13 Movie (The War Lord, 1965 adventure starring Charlton Heston)
15 Police Surgeon
34 High School Football (Fond du Lac Goodrich at Green Bay East, videotaped that afternoon)
11:00
6m Movie (The Desert Hawk, 1950 adventure starring Jackie Gleason and Rock Hudson)
9/27 It’s Your Life
12r The Big Valley
15 Notre Dame Highlights (a recap of that afternoon’s football season opener at Northwestern; Lindsey Nelson and Paul Hornung report)
11:05
9/27 Movie (Chain Lightning [BW], 1950 drama starring Humphrey Bogart and Eleanor Parker)
11:30
7 Movie (Here Come The Nelsons [BW], 1951 comedy starring Ozzie, Harriet, David and Ricky Nelson and Rock Hudson)
11 Major Adams [BW]
11:35
18 News
12:00
15 Suspense Theatre
12:15
2 Movie (The Marrying Kind [BW], 1952 comedy starring Judy Holliday)
6 News
12:25
6 Movie (Jason & The Argonauts, 1963 British fantasy starring Todd Armstrong)
12:30
4 Movie (About Mrs. Leslie [BW], 1954 drama starring Shirley Booth and Robert Ryan)
12:35
12 Notre Dame Highlights (same as WMTV at 11:00)
12:40
13 It Takes A Thief
1:05
9/27 ABC Saturday News (Sam Donaldson)
1:35
12 News
1:40
12 I Spy
2:25
6 Editorial
2:30
6 The Twilight Zone [BW]