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RetroSchedule: Toledo, OH-Friday, Feb. 19, 1971

S

Stitch

From the Detroit Edition of TV Guide:

[11] WTOL (CBS)
[13] WTVG (NBC)
[24] WDHO (ABC)
[30] WGTE (PBS)

(C)-Denotes color program.

[11] WTOL

6:30am SUNRISE SEMESTER (C)
7:00 CBS NEWS-John Hart (C)
7:30 MR. T's SHOW-Children (C)
8:00 CAPTAIN KANGAROO (C)
9:00 DAVID FROST (C)
10:00 LUCILLE BALL (C)*
10:30 THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES (C)
11:00 FAMILY AFFAIR (C)
11:30 LOVE OF LIFE (C)
12:00 EYEWITNESS NEWS-Bird/Ashlon (C)**
12:30 SEARCH FOR TOMORROW (C)
1:00 WHERE THE HEART IS (C)
1:30 AS THE WORLD TURNS (C)
2:00 LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING (C)
2:30 THE GUIDING LIGHT (C)
3:00 SECRET STORM (C)
3:30 EDGE OF NIGHT (C)
4:00 GOMER PYLE, USMC (C)
4:30 MOVIE-"The Desert Fox" (1951)
6:00 EYEWITNESS NEWS (C)
6:30 CBS NEWS-Walter Cronkite (C)
7:00 EYEWITNESS NEWS (C)
7:30 THE INTERNS (C)
8:30 THE NEW ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW (C)
9:00 MOVIE-"The Battle of the Bulge" (C)
11:00 EYEWITNESS NEWS (C)
11:30 MOVIE-"Detective Story" (1951)
1:00 NEWS UPDATE (C)

*Here's Lucy or The Lucy Show? "Lucille Ball" is what was listed.
**A WTOL-TV print ad talks about the premiere of "Eyewitness News". However, a
long-time WTOL employee didn't recall the station ever using that branding.

[13] WTVG

6:55am FARM REPORT (C)
7:00 TODAY (C)
9:00 MOVIE GAME (C)
9:30 JEOPARDY (C)
10:00 DINAH SHORE (C)
10:30 CONCENTRATION (C)
11:00 SALE OF THE CENTURY (C)
11:30 HOLLYWOOD SQUARES (C)
12:00 NEWS-Miller/Rudes (C)
12:30 WHO, WHAT, OR WHERE
1:00 PHIL DONAHUE (C)
2:00 DAYS OF OUR LIVES (C)
2:30 THE DOCTORS (C)
3:00 ANOTHER WORLD (C)
3:30 BRIGHT PROMISE (C)
4:00 GILLIGAN'S ISLAND (C)
4:30 GET SMART (C)
5:00 PERRY MASON
6:00 NEWS, WEATHER, & SPORTS (C)
6:30 NBC NEWS (C)
7:00 WHAT'S MY LINE? (C)
7:30 HIGH CHAPARRAL (C)
9:30 THE NAME OF THE GAME (C)
11:00 NEWS, WEATHER, & SPORTS (C)
11:30 TONIGHT SHOW (C)
1:00 NEWS UPDATE (C)

WTVG apparently didn't clear the NBC soap "Somerset".

[24] WDHO

7:55am FARM REPORT (C)
8:00 MARINE BOY (C)
8:30 ROMPER ROOM (C)
9:00 DENNIS THE MENACE
9:30 MIKE DOUGLAS (C)
10:50 GALLOPING GOURMET (C)
11:20 FASHIONS IN SEWING (C)
11:30 THAT GIRL (C)
12:00 BEWITCHED (C)
12:30 WORLD APART (C)
1:00 ALL MY CHILDREN (C)
1:30 LET'S MAKE A DEAL (C)
2:00 NEWLYWED GAME (C)
2:30 DATING GAME (C)
3:00 GENERAL HOSPITAL (C)
3:30 ONE LIFE TO LIVE (C)
4:00 DARK SHADOWS (C)
4:30 MOVIE-"The Spoilers" (1942)
6:00 ABC NEWS-Smith/Reasoner (C)
6:30 HERE COME THE BRIDES (C)
7:30 THE BRADY BUNCH (C)
8:00 NANNY AND THE PROFESSOR (C)
8:30 THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY (C)
9:00 THAT GIRL (C)
9:30 THE ODD COUPLE (C)
10:00 LOVE, AMERICAN STYLE (C)
11:00 MANTRAP-Talk (C)
11:30 DICK CAVETT (C)
1:00 NEWS (C)*

*Apparently just a brief update. Earlier schedules from the late '60s advertised "The Eleven O'Clock News" on WDHO-TV, at the time the only news broadcast on the station.

[30] WGTE

11:30am SESAME STREET (C)
(Unless WGTE was showing instructional programming, they signed off at 12:30pm. No listing is given until 3:30pm.)
3:30 JULIA CHILD
4:00 SESAME STREET (C)
5:00 MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD
5:30 WHAT'S NEW (C)
6:00 DAVEY & GOLIATH
6:15 BROWNIE BEAR (C)
6:30 YOGA FOR HEALTH
7:00 HOORAY FOR LOVE-Pledge Drive (C)
8:00 WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR.
9:00 SOUL!-Music (C)
10:00 NET PLAYHOUSE*

*(A program that apparently retained the pre-PBS brand.)
 
> [11] WTOL
> 10:00 LUCILLE BALL (C)*
> *Here's Lucy or The Lucy Show? "Lucille Ball" is what was
> listed.

At the time, it was reruns of "The Lucy Show". Repeats of "Here's Lucy" didn't enter CBS daytime until 1977.

> **A WTOL-TV print ad talks about the premiere of "Eyewitness
> News". However, a
> long-time WTOL employee didn't recall the station ever using
> that branding.
>
Just like schedules being subject to last minute changes without notice (as TVG always promised us at the end of the listings), the same could be said for Tv programs.

Maybe someone thought that "Toledo Eleven News" sounded better than "Eyewitness News" (provided that the former began in 1971).

> 1:00 NEWS (C)*
>
> *Apparently just a brief update. Earlier schedules from the
> late '60s advertised "The Eleven O'Clock News" on WDHO-TV,
> at the time the only news broadcast on the station.
>

Until Malrite acquired the station and flipped it to NBC, ch.24 always seemed to have a hard time getting a news organisation off the ground. Apparently, this was their only newscast each weekday in 1971, and given the nature, it was probably an announcer reading the wires behind a "news" slide (the only reason why it was listed as being in color, unless it was a black-and-white slide).

> [30] WGTE
>
> 11:30am SESAME STREET (C)
> (Unless WGTE was showing instructional programming, they
> signed off at 12:30pm. No listing is given until 3:30pm.)

Given the time of year, they probably did have in-school TV that day.

> 6:00 DAVEY & GOLIATH
> 6:15 BROWNIE BEAR (C)

I thought all "Davey and Goliath" episodes were in colorn (unless some black-and-white prints were made).

> 7:00 HOORAY FOR LOVE-Pledge Drive (C)

Since this was a pledge special and the 1970s, was Leo Buscaglia involved with this?<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by rugrats1 on 11/18/05 10:57 PM.</FONT></P>
 
What was "The New Andy Griffith Show"? I knew about "Headmaster", and that the original show morphed into "Mayberry RFD" with Ken Berry, but wasn't aware of a "new" show with Griffith.
 
> What was "The New Andy Griffith Show"? I knew about
> "Headmaster", and that the original show morphed into
> "Mayberry RFD" with Ken Berry, but wasn't aware of a "new"
> show with Griffith.

The New Andy Griffith Show was a show where Andy played Andy Sawyer the mayor of Greenwood(nothing was mentioned of the state Greenwood was in). Lee Meriwether portrayed his wife Lee and it was basically something similiar to the Andy Griffith Show only that he was mayor and not sheriff. Unfortunately the show only lasted 5 months on Friday nights at 7:30 PM Central from January 8,1971 to May 21,1971. Also it was up against The Partridge Family in that time slot on ABC and also CBS was beginning to pull the gauntlet on rural shows like The Beverly Hillbillies,Green Acres,Hee Haw,and Mayberry RFD so the show didn't have a chance in the first place.
 
I recall that growing up in the mid 1970's in Columbus,Ohio, the local cable tv system cherry picked two stations from Toledo, Channel 11 and Channel 13.

[11] WTOL (CBS) The cable system sometimes showed the local news from WTOL Toledo. I remember that the name of their newscast back then was Toledo 11 News. Does WTOL still name their newscasts Toledo 11 News or has it since been changed? I also recall that WTOL also carried the Detroit Tigers baseball games in the mid 1970's which the cable system also carried.

[13] WTVG (NBC) I recall that the call letters were WSPD in the mid 1970's. I don't recall seeing the WTVG call letters back then. When did WSPD change their call letters to WTVG?
 
> [13] WTVG (NBC) I recall that the call letters were WSPD in
> the mid 1970's. I don't recall seeing the WTVG call letters
> back then. When did WSPD change their call letters to WTVG?
>
Good catch -- even I didn't notice that. I figure around 1979 at the earliest. When the station first started to use its "13 Strong" moniker around 1978 (I think), they were still WSPD -- they became WTVG when then-owner Storer spunoff WSPD radio.
 
> [11] WTOL (CBS) The cable system sometimes showed the local
> news from WTOL Toledo. I remember that the name of their
> newscast back then was Toledo 11 News. Does WTOL still name
> their newscasts Toledo 11 News or has it since been changed?

They kept the "Toledo 11" name until last year, when they adopted the Liberty corporate graphics. They're now "WTOL News 11".<P ID="signature">______________
Derek
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