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Retro: Wisconsin/Upper Michigan, Sunday, June 13, 1971

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 (CBS)
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 broadcast. Although WJMN and WLUC are located in the Eastern Time Zone, their listings here are in Central Time.

MORNING
6:35
6 Sacred Heart [C]

6:50
6 News [C] (Larry Ebert)

7:00
3 Summer Semester [C] (New Science: starlight)
5 Film (Protecting mothers and their unborn children from the effects of rubella)
6 Oral Roberts [C]
11 This Is The Life [C]

7:15
9/27 Bible Answers (for whatever reason, this showing isn’t indicated as being in color)
12 Faith for Today [C]

7:30
3 Rex Humbard [C]
4 Library Story [C] (Constance Crooks tells Inger and Lasse Sandberg’s Nicholas’ Favorite Pet and Robert Kraus’ Whose Mouse Are You?)
5 Know the Truth
6 Church Service [C] (Catholic)
7 Day of Discovery [C]
11 Hour of Hope [C]
13 Bible Answers [C]

7:45
4 Library Playhouse [C] (E.W. Hildick’s Birdy Jones is performed by The Library Players and Caroljean Wagner)
5 Film
9/27 Temple Times [C]
12 Davey & Goliath [C] (Davey becomes a star reporter)

8:00
2/7/12 Tom & Jerry [C]
4 Church Service [C]
5/13 Faith for Today [C]
6/11 Rex Humbard [C]
6M Finland Calling [C]
9/27 Oral Roberts [C]

8:30
2/3/12 The Perils of Penelope Pitstop [C]
4 Film [C]
5 This Is The Life
7/15 Hour of Hope [C]
9/27 Revival Fires [C]

9:00
2 Church Service [C] (Catholic)
3 Tom & Jerry [C]
4 Consultation [C]
5 In Praise [C] (Eternal Light, a special of religious music based on the 150th Psalm, featuring E.G. Marshall, Robert Merrill and the David Amram Jazz Quartet)
6/11 Day of Discovery [C]
6M Hour of Hope [C]
7/12 Lamp Unto My Feet [C]
9/27 Jonny Quest [C]
13 Rex Humbard [C]
15 Insight [C] (guest stars are Joseph Campanella and Louise Sorel)
18 Cool McCool [C]

9:30
2 Sacred Heart [C]
3/7/12 Look Up and Live [C] (Alexander Kendrick interviews Archbishop Phillip Hannan of New Orleans)
4 This Is The Life [C]
6 Alcoholism [C]
6M/11 Herald of Truth [C]
9/27 Cattanooga Cats [C]
15 Movie (Mexican Manhunt, 1953 mystery, with George Brent)
18 Popeye [C]

9:45
2 Stage Two [C] (variety)

10:00
2 Oral Roberts [C]
3/6M/7 Camera Three [C] (the guest is Japanese mime artist Yass Hakoshima)
4 Showplace [C] (homes)
5 Laurel & Hardy (the Hal Roach live action shorts)
6 Bugs Bunny [C] (the A.A.P. syndicated package)
9/11/27 Bullwinkle [C]
12 Answers for Today [C]
12R Day of Discovery [C]
13 This Is The Life [C]
18 Mister Ed (Zsa Zsa Gabor guests)

10:30
2/6M/7/12 Face the Nation [C]
3 Church Service [C] (Catholic)
4 Showtime [C] (variety)
6/9/27 Discovery [C]
11 To Be Announced
12R Faith for Today [C]
13 Insight [C] (In 1986, corporate president William Windom relives his role as a contributor to industrial pollution. Jane Wyatt, Christopher Connelly and Heather Young also appear.)
18 Batman [C] (Part 1: The Joker wins Baby Jane Towser’s pop art competition. Cesar Romero and Diana Ivarson guest.)

11:00
2 Community Reports [C] (Green Bay Water Commissioner Phil Utic)
5 McHale’s Navy (Binghamton thinks McHale and his crew are plotting to murder him)
6 For Better Or Worse [C]
6M Rex Humbard [C]
7/12R This Is The Life [C]
9/27 Wisconsin Outdoors [C]
11 Riverside Presents [C] (polkas from the Green Bay ballroom)
12 Washington Report [C] (U.S. Representatives from Wisconsin Clement Zablocki, Glen Davis and Henry Reuss)
13 Gospel Jubilee [C] (guests are The Florida Boys and Steve Sanders)
15 Major Adams
18 All-Star Wrestling [C] (Verne Gagne’s AWA package, from WTCN-TV Minneapolis)

11:15
2 Agri-Chats [C] (WBAY-TV Farm Director and news anchorman Les Sturmer)
3/6 The Christophers (for whatever reason, this isn’t airing in color on WITI but it is in color on WISC-TV)
12 Manager’s Desk [C]

11:30
2 Cartoons [C]
3 Face the Nation [C]
4 Bowling with the Champs [C]
5/7 Mister Ed
6 Milwaukee County Close-Up [C]
9/27 Riverside Presents [C] (joined in progress from WLUK’s broadcast)
12 Huckleberry Hound [C]
12R The Christophers [C]

AFTERNOON
2 Roller Derby [C]
3 This Is The Life [C]
5/12R/15 Meet the Press [C] (a special one-hour broadcast from the Mayors’ Conference in Philadelphia. Guests are Mayors James Tate of Philadelphia, Kenneth Gibson of Newark, Richard Lugar of Indianapolis, Moon Landrieu of New Orleans, Wes Uhlman of Seattle and Louis Welch of Houston.)
6 Public Conference (phosphates are discussed)
6M/9/11/13/18/27 The Dick Rodgers Polka Show (Regionally-syndicated polka hour, produced at Rodgers’ own ballroom in Pulaski, Wisconsin, through the remote facilities of WLUK)
7 Dick Powell Theatre
12 Movie (The Adventures of Captain Fabian, 1951 drama, with Errol Flynn, Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead)

12:30
3 Movie [C] (The Story of Will Rogers, 1952 biography of the comedian and columnist, with Will Rogers Jr. playing his father and a special appearance by Rogers’ Ziegfeld Follies co-star Eddie Cantor)
4/34 Baseball [C] (Milwaukee Brewers at Cleveland, which the Indians won, 11-0. Merle Harmon, Tom Collins and Jim Irwin of WTMJ-TV report the play-by-play.)
6/6M Issues and Answers [C] (scheduled guest is Senator Hubert Humphrey, Democrat from Minnesota)

1:00
2 Spotlight [C] (variety hour, with Paul Anka, Lana Cantrell and Benny Hill)
5 Film
6 Auto Racing [C] (The seventh annual Springnationals, telecast live from Dallas International Speedway. Don Gartlis was the winner.)
6M Camera Six [C]
7 Zane Grey Theater
9/27 Government Report [C]
11 Baseball [C] (the Brewers-Indians game, joined in progress)
12 Insight [C]
13 Hour of Hope [C]
15 Inside-Outdoors [C]
18 Hugh X. Lewis [C]

1:15
5/15 Baseball [C] (The Chicago Cubs host the Cincinnati Reds at Wrigley Field; The Reds won it 4-3 in 11 innings. Lloyd Pettit and Jim West do PBP.)

1:30
6M Discovery [C]
7 Commercial [C] (insurance)
9/13/27 Baseball [C] (The Detroit Tigers host the Minnesota Twins; The Tigers won, 9-5. Frank Buetel, Halsey Hall and Bob Allison report the PBP.)
12 Sports Close-Up [C]
18 The Cisco Kid [C]

1:45
7 The Hunter [C] (a local program about hunting, not the cartoon)

2:00
2/3/6M/7/12 Pinpoint [C] (Dick Weber and Earl Anthony square off to see which plays against John Petraglia; prize money is $1000 for each winning game and a $25,000 bonus for a 300 game. Johnny Johnston and Pat Summerall report.)
12R The Big Valley [C]
18 Charlie Chan Theater (Charlie Chan in Panama, 1940 spy mystery with Sidney Toler and Lionel Atwill)

2:30
2 Indianapolis 500 Highlights [C]
3/6M/12 AAU International Champions [C] (The City of Roses Invitational, taped the previous day in Portland, Oregon. Jack Whitaker anchored the coverage.)
7 Sports Challenge [C]

3:00
2/4/7 The Kemper Open [C] (the final five holes of the golf tournament, from Charlotte. Tom Weiskopf won that year; Lee Trevino, Dale Douglass and Gary Player tied for second. Ray Scott reported.)
6 Can You Top This? [C]
10 Soul! [C] (Richie Havens headlines the last show of the series)
11 All-Star Wrestling [C] (the AWA package)
12R Suspense Theatre [C]
34 To Be Announced (most likely, KFIZ-TV would have run some Mr. Magoo cartoons)

3:30
6 The Farmer’s Daughter [C]
18 Western Star Theatre

3:45
5 To Be Announced
15 The Kemper Open [C] (joined in progress)

4:00
3 Film [C]
6 Movie [C] (The Spanish Main, 1945 adventure, with Paul Henreid and Maureen O’Hara)
6M Untamed World [C]
9/27 To Be Announced
10 Nuremburg and Vietnam: Who is Guilty? [C] (PBS news special hosted by Robert MacNeil)
11 Movie [C] (Caribbean, 1952 adventure, with John Payne and Arlene Dahl)
12 Celebrity Bowling [C]
12R Death Valley Days [C]
13 Film [C] (Navy)
18 Rawhide
34 Roy Rogers

4:15
3 Cartoons [C]

4:30
3/6M/12 Animal World [C]
5 Fishing [C] (Virgil Ward)
9/27 Issues and Answers [C]
12R Film [C]
13 Farm Report [C]
21 Yesterday’s Headlines (included are highlights of the first Franklin Roosevelt Administration, and the Battle of Iwo Jima)

5:00
2 Call of the West [C]
3/7/12 CBS News [C] (Roger Mudd)
4 Safari [C] (travel)
5 This Is Your Life [C]
6M Durkee’s Backyard Bar-B-Que [C] (Chef Joe Hulbert and Spice King Jim Ford prepare meatballs en brochette)
9/27 American Bandstand [C] (Susan Raye and Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds are Dick Clark’s guests; delayed from Noon the previous day)
12R/13/15 Comment! [C] (Edwin Newman)
18 Daktari [C]
21 Thirty Minutes [C] (Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat from Massachusetts, is interviewed by columnist Elizabeth Drew)
34 Shock Theater [C] (The Eye Creatures, 1965 horror, with John Ashley and Cynthia Hull)

5:15
6M To Be Announced

5:30
2/6M CBS News [C] (Roger Mudd)
3 Fishing [C] (Virgil Ward)
4/5/12R/13/15 [C] NBC Sunday News
7/12 News [C]
21 The French Chef [C] (Julia Child prepares American Rye bread, and a film crew documents French bread being made in a Paris bakery in the traditional manner)

5:45
11 Durkee’s Backyard Bar-B-Que [C] (the same edition that WLUC ran 45 minutes earlier)

EVENING
6:00
2/3/6M/7/12 Lassie [C]
4 Untamed World [C]
5 Polka Festival [C]
6 It Takes a Thief [C]
9/11/27 The Immortal [C] (delayed from ABC 8:30 the previous night)
10 Firing Line [C] (William F. Buckley debates Madalyn Murray O’Hare on the separation of church and state)
12R Call of the West [C]
13 To Be Announced
15 Sports Challenge [C]
18 The Golddiggers [C] (Lou Rawls, Stanley Myron Handelman and Stu Gilliam are the guests)
21 Speaking Freely [C] (Edwin Newman hosts community developer William J. Levitt)

6:30
2/3/6M/7/12 Hogan’s Heroes [C]
4/5/12R/13/15 Wildfire! [C] (a documentary special about the United States Forest Service; The Wonderful World of Disney is pre-empted)
34 All-Star Wrestling (black&white replay of the Green Bay market AWA version run earlier the same day on WLUK)

7:00
2/3/6M/7/12 The CBS Sunday Night Movie [C] (Cutter’s Trail, 1970 TV Western, with John Gavin and Joseph Cotten)
6/9/11/27 The FBI [C]
10/21 Jean Shepherd’s America [C]
18 Boxing from The Forum [C] (Bantamweights Cesar Deciga vs. Bernabe Villa Campo, in a 10-rounder taped in Inglewood, California, on January 20th; Deciga won the decision. Tom Harmon and Mickey Davies commented.)

7:30
4/5/12R/13/15 The Red Skelton Show [C] (guest: James Drury)
10/21 Vanishing Wilderness [C]
34 Movie (Lorna Doone, 1951 drama, with Barbara Hale)

8”00
4/5/12R/13/15 Bonanza [C]
6/9/11/27 Movie [C] (Suddenly, Last Summer, 1959 film version of the Tennessee Williams play, with Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn and Montgomery Clift)
10/21 Masterpiece Theatre [C] (Honore de Balzac’s Pere Goirot, part one)
18 Confrontation [C]

8:30
18 Candid Camera

9:00
2/3/6M/7/12 CBS News Special [C] (Smithsonian Adventure: Search for the Goddess of Love, about archaeologist Iris Love’s search for the Praxiteles sculpture of Aphrodite that vanished from the Temple of Aphrodite in Knidos, Turkey, circa 1150 A.D. Narrated by former astronaut Wally Schirra. The Ice Palace was pre-empted.)
4/5/12R/13/15 The Bold Ones [C] (No Harm to the Patient, a “Doctors” instalment with E.G. Marshall, David Hartman, John Saxon, Richard Dreyfuss and James Broderick)
10/21 1971 Pablo Casals Festival [C] (a live broadcast of classical music from the University of San Juan in Puerto Rico; Fanfare was pre-empted)
18 Burke’s Law
34 Hole-in-One (a local golf program taped at a Fond du Lac area course)

10:00
2/3/4/5/6M/12R/13/15 News [C]
7/12 CBS News [C] (Dan Rather)
18 Grapevine [C] (Vic Pitts)
34 Movie (Slattery’s Hurricane, 1949 drama, with Richard Widmark and Gary Merrill)

10:15
6/7/9/12/27 News [C]
6M Movie (Blast-off, 1967 British farce based on Jules Verne stories, with Burl Ives, Troy Donahue, Gert Frobe, Terry-Thomas, Lionel Jeffries and Klaus Kinski)
11 The Buck Owens Show [C]

10:30
2 Movie (The Interns, 1962 drama, with Cliff Robertson , Nick Adams, Suzy Parker, Buddy Ebsen and Telly Savalas)
3 CBS News [C] (Dan Rather)
4/15 The Weekend Tonight Show [C]
5 Movie (Pickup on South Street, the Samuel Fuller 1953 spy drama, with Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Richard Kiley and Milburn Stone)
7 Movie [C] (The Running Man, 1963 suspense, with Laurence Harvey and Lee Remick)
10 Camera Three [C] (tape-delayed broadcast of the CBS cultural program from that morning, which WISN-TV rejected)
12 Movie (Imitation of Life, 1934 drama, with Claudette Colbert and Louise Beavers)
12R Nicolet Forum [C]
13 Fishing Contest [C]
18 ABC Sunday Night News [C] (Bill Beutel)
21 Nuremburg and Vietnam: Who is Guilty? [C] (WHA-TV run of the Robert MacNeil special WMVS ran back at 4:00)

10:40
6 Eyewitness [C]

10:45
3 The Merv Griffin Show [C] (probably a tape delay of the program CBS fed the previous Friday night; WISC-TV ran its Theatre 3 local movie against Johnny Carson on Friday nights)
6 Movie [C] (Desert Legion, 1953 adventure, with Alan Ladd and Arlene Dahl)
9/27 The Dick Cavett Show [C] (probably a tape delay of the program ABC fed the previous Friday night; WAOW and WKOW-TV ran a local movie against Johnny Carson on Friday nights)
11 Major Adams
18 Insight [C]

11:00
10 Just Jazz [C] (guest: James Moody)
12R Suspense Theatre [C]

11:15
13 Suspense Theatre [C]
18/34 News

11:45
11 ABC Sunday Night News [C] (Bill Beutel)

12:00
4 News [C]
11 Movie (Counterplot, 1960 crime drama, with Forrest Tucker)
15 Movie (My Favorite Spy, 1951 comedy, with Bob Hope)

12:15
13 Movie [C] (Nightmare in Chicago, 1967 TV crime drama, with Ted Knight)

12:25
6 News [C]

12:45
2 I Spy [C]
6 For Better or Worse [C]

1:00
6 Alcoholism [C]

1:30
6 Directions [C] (Frank Reynolds interviews Dr. Louis Finkelstein, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York City)
 
That was the first Sunday after the last telecast of "The Ed Sullivan Show,"
and "Cutter's Trail" was the first movie CBS aired in that slot (in the fall,
CBS had movies from 7:30-9:30 (ET) followed by Glenn Ford's "Cade's County"
from 9:30-10:30).
 
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