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TV Shows that did nothing more than fill time on the schedule-50's to the 70's..

"With This Ring," produced at WJBK Detroit and featuring a
minister who talked about marriage and family issues, was
a weekend staple in many markets, usually airing either before
sign-off on Saturday or Sunday nights, or around sign-on Saturday
or (more likely) Sunday mornings. It was a 15-minute program.
 
bpatrick said:
"With This Ring," produced at WJBK Detroit and featuring a
minister who talked about marriage and family issues, was
a weekend staple in many markets, usually airing either before
sign-off on Saturday or Sunday nights, or around sign-on Saturday
or (more likely) Sunday mornings. It was a 15-minute program.
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Also, all Storer (WJBK, WSBK...et.al.) stations and a lot of predominantly religious stations ran both "With This Ring" and "Worship For Shut Ins" for many years. I know that WHCT/18 in Hartford (during the Dr. Gene days) ran both shows. The only secular program on WHCT back in the late 70's was "WCT World Cup Tennis" complete with commercials EXCEPT those for Lowenbrau Beer. Apparently, the other Hartford area stations passed on WCT World Cup Tennis and gave it to WHCT free, as long as they ran the spots. Since WHCT is mainly religious, they were able to opt out the Lowenbrau spots.
 
"Back in the day" WFIL-6 Philadelphia would have Sunday filler like The Living Word, produced by the Salvation Army, and Aeronautics and Space Report, produced by NASA.

ixnay
 
Another religious program that I remember WAGA pairing with
"The Living Word" was "The Sacred Heart," which, despite a
long run in syndication, I never saw. I think it was produced
by an arm of the Catholic Church. Anyway, these two programs
aired back-to-back in Atlanta early Sunday mornings.

Oddly, WBMG (WIAT) Birmingham had a local program called "The
Living Word," not related to the syndicated program but produced
by one of the local churches. It was a half-hour late Sunday nights.
But then again, WTVT Tampa had a public-affairs program on weekends
called "Insight," which had nothing to do with Father Ellwood Kieser (sp?).
 
I guess the first thing that comes to mind is "TV Bloopers and Practical Jokes"
and all of the other low-budget clip shows that have ever been thrown up there
by a network in a time slot they knew they were going to lose anyhow.
 
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