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Thanksgiving/Day After Cartoons-1977 Network Schedules (Followup thread)

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MikeyBos

Source: TV Guide, Eastern New England Edition

Network Schedules 9 AM-6 PM EST (as best determined from actual Boston/Providence/Connecticut listings)


ABC

Thanksgiving Day
9:00 Local
11:00 Krofft Supershow
12:00 Scooby's Laff-A-Lympics
2:00 Superfriends
2:30 College Football Pregame Show
2:45 College Football
5:30 Local

Friday
9:00 Local
11:00 Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12:00 The Better Sex
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 College Football Pregame Show
2:30 College Football
5:30 Local


CBS

Thanksgiving Day
9:00 Thanksgiving Day Parade Coverage
12:00 NFL Today
12:30 NFL Football
3:30 Famous Classic Tales: "Five Weeks in a Balloon"
4:30 Local

Friday
9:00 Local
10:00 Fat Albert
10:30 Tarzan
11:00 Space Academy
11:30 Love of Life
11:55 CBS News
12:00 Young and the Restless
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Local
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 All in the Family
4:00 Tattletales
4:30 Local


NBC

Thanksgiving Day
9:00 Thanksgiving Day Parade Coverage
12:00 ??? (Can't tell from local listings)
12:30 Chico and the Man (???-This is what normally aired on weekdays)
1:00 Local
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3:00 NFL '77
3:30 NFL Football

Friday
9:00 Local
10:00 Sanford and Son
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Knockout
12:00 ???
12:30 Chico and the Man
1:00 Local
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 Gong Show
4:30 Local


[Sidenote: As a kid in the 80s, I never remember NBC carrying cartoons on Thanksgiving or the day after. I remember ABC carrying its usual daily lineup on Thanksgiving day, but carrying cartoons Friday morning and a college football game at noon. I remember CBS kids' specials or a movie on Thanksgiving afternoon between 12:30 and 3:30 if they carried the late afternoon NFL game. I remember them always carrying cartoons Friday morning from 10:00 to noon and kids' specials or a movie at 12:30 before a 2:30 college football game. I'll try to look for a schedule from Thanksgiving in the 80s.]
 
The 12:00 Noon listing for NBC I believe is the game show To Say The Least hosted by Tom Kennedy.

Wasn't Match Game '77 still on in the afternoons?
 
Braves2005 said:
Wasn't Match Game '77 still on in the afternoons?
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Yes, though apparently it had those two days off that week -- meaning that the panelists went home sober after the taping.
 
Interesting sked -- by 1977, I was in college and not too aware of T-giving weekend cartoons. I'd like to see a sked or two from the late 60's or early 70's -- back then, I recall only ABC doing it, only on the day after T-giving, and the cartoons ran basically all day (not just a couple of hours in the a.m. as above).
 
I know that probably in the early 70's (maybe late 60's) NBC aired an "Underdog" special showing of the 4-part adventure "Simon Says, No Thanksgiving" on Thanksgiving Day for a few years...If I recall it might have been on at Noon or 12:30 ET as a filler between Parades and Football. I dont believe NBC ever showed Cartoons on The Friday after though..
 
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