This week we're back in the Twin Cities, back in the '80s. It is, all in all, a fairly unremarkable day in the midst of the sweeps weeks, with the three-hour conclusion of East of Eden and the sensationalist movie A Gun in the House, which I hope you read about in my Saturday report. So let's get started, and what better way to kick things off than with a 6:15am broadcast of Domestic and International Conflict? Great way to get the day started, don't you think? Ought to put us in a fine mood!
KTCA, Channel 2 (PBS)
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Morning
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06:15a
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Domestic and International Conflict
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06:45a
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A.M. Weather
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07:00a
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Children of the 21st Century
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07:30a
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Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
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08:00a
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Sesame Street
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09:00a
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The Electric Company
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09:30a
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New Voice
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10:00a
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3-2-1 Contact
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10:30a
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The Electric Company
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11:00a
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Up and Coming
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11:30a
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Sesame Street
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Afternoon
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12:30p
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Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
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01:00p
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Dick Cavett (guest Anthony Burgess)
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01:30p
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Over Easy (guest Yul Brynner)
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02:00p
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Masterpiece Theatre – “Danger UXB, Part 6”
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03:00p
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Crockett’s Victory Garden
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03:30p
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Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
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04:00p
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Sesame Street
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05:00p
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The Electric Company
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05:30p
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3-2-1 Contact
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Evening
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06:00p
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Over Easy (guest Jessica Mitford)
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06:30p
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The MacNeil/Lehrer Report
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07:00p
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Sportsline with Jim Klobuchar
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07:30p
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Dick Cavett (guest Dame Janet Baker)
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08:00p
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National Geographic
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09:00p
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Musical Comedy Tonight II
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10:30p
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Non Fiction Television
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11:30p
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Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King
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12:30a
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Sportsline with Jim Klobuchar
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WCCO, Channel 4 (CBS)
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Morning
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06:00a
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CBS Morning News (Charles Kuralt)
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07:00a
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News (local)
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07:30a
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Alice
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08:00a
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Phil Donahue (guests from the Jewish Defense League)
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09:00a
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Hour Magazine
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10:00a
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The Price is Right
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11:00a
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The Young and the Restless
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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Midday (local news)
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12:30p
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Search for Tomorrow
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01:00p
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As the World Turns
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02:00p
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The Guiding Light
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03:00p
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The Joker’s Wild
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03:30p
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John Davidson (guests Johnny Mathis, Jack Klugman,
Ann Jillian)
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05:00p
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News (local)
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05:30p
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CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
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Evening
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06:00p
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News (local)
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06:30p
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PM Magazine
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07:00p
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Enos
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08:00p
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Movie – “A Gun
in the House” (parental discretion advised)
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10:00p
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News (local)
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10:30p
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Carol Burnett and Friends
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11:00p
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Movie – “Hitler’s
Gold”
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01:15a
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News (local)
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01:45a
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News (local)
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04:00a
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News (local)
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KSTP, Channel 5 (ABC)
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Morning
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06:00a
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Country Day
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06:30a
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News (local)
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07:00a
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Good Morning America (guests Alan and Marilyn Bergman)
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09:00a
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Twin Cities Today
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10:00a
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The Love Boat
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11:00a
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Family Feud
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11:30a
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Ryan’s Hope
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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All My Children
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01:00p
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One Life to Live
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02:00p
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General Hospital
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03:00p
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Match Game (panelists Susan Howard, Gary Burghoff,
David Doyle, Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers, Marcia Wallace)
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03:30p
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ABC Afterschool Special (special)
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04:30p
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Happy Days Again
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05:00p
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News (local)
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05:30p
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ABC World News Tonight (Frank Reynolds)
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Evening
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06:00p
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News (local)
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06:30p
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Tic Tac Dough
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07:00p
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East of Eden (conclusion) (parental discretion
advised)
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10:00p
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News (local)
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10:30p
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Nightline (Ted Koppel)
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11:00p
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The Love Boat
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12:10a
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Police Woman
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01:20a
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Don Lane (guests Mark Wilson, Del Shannon, Ralph
McTeil)
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02:20a
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The Little Rascals (B&W)
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02:50a
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Movie – “Four
Desperate Men” (B&W)
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05:00a
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To Be
Announced
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KMSP, Channel 9 (Ind.)
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Morning
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06:00a
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7oo Club
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07:00a
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Fred Flintstone& Friends
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07:30a
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The Great Space Coaster
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08:00a
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Kroft Superstars
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08:30a
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Rocky & Friends
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09:00a
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Candid Camera
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09:30a
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Dick Van Dyke (B&W)
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10:00a
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Merv Griffin (guests Andy Gibb, Cliff Richard,
Lonnie Shore, Danielle Brisebois)
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11:30a
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Mike Douglas (co-host Jeanne Cooper, guests Gil
Gerard, LaWanda Page, Pat Cooper, Michael Levine)
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Afternoon
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01:00p
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$50,000 Pyramid
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01:30p
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Let’s Make a Deal
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02:00p
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You Bet Your Life
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02:30p
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The Hollywood Squares
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03:00p
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Casper
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03:30p
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Popeye
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04:00p
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Scooby-Do
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04:30p
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Gilligan’s Island
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05:00p
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The Brady Bunch
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05:30p
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Good Times
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Evening
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06:00p
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Barney Miller
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06:30p
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All in the Family
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07:00p
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Gunsmoke
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08:00p
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Toni Tennille (guests Tom Wopat, the Lou Ferrignos,
Tom Dressen, Linda Hopkins)
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09:00p
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World of People
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09:30p
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News (local)
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10:00p
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Rhoda
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10:30p
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The Rockford Files
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11:40p
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Kojak
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12:50a
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Face the Music
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01:20a
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News (local)
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WTCN, Channel 11 (NBC)
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Morning
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05:30a
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What’s New?
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06:00a
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Jim Bakker
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07:00a
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Today (guest Paul Newman)
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09:00a
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Las Vegas Gambit
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10:00a
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Wheel of Fortune
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10:30a
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Password Plus (guests Gene Rayburn, Wink Martindale)
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11:00a
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To Tell the Truth
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11:30a
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The Doctors
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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Days of Our Lives
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01:00p
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Another World
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02:00p
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Texas
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03:00p
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My Three Sons
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03:30p
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Welcome Back, Kotter
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04:00p
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Chico and the Man
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04:30p
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M*A*S*H
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05:00p
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M*A*S*H
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05:30p
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News (local)
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Evening
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06:00p
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NBC Nightly News (John Chancellor)
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06:30p
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Family Feud
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07:00p
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Real People
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08:00p
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Bob Hope (guests Barbara Mandrell, Cathy Lee
Crosby, Charlene Tilton, Phyllis Diller, Dr. Joyce Brothers) (special)
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09:00p
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Quincy, M.E.
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10:00p
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News (local)
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10:30p
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Tonight (guests Charles Grodin, Loretta Lynn)
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11:30p
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Tomorrow Coast-to-Coast (guests Paul Williams, Wayland Flowers
and Madame)
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01:00a
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Mary Tyler Moore
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KTCI, Channel 17 (PBS)
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Afternoon
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05:30p
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Villa Alegre
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Evening
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06:00p
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Domestic and International Conflict
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06:30p
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Dick Cavett
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07:00p
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Soccer Made in Germany
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08:00p
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The MacNeil/Lehrer Report
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08:30p
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Over Easy
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09:00p
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National Geographic
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10:00p
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Dick Cavett
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10:30p
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World News Tonight (closed-captioned)
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I agree with you on John Davidson and "Tomorrow". Davidson is one of those performers who keeps getting jobs even though he has no real fanbase. He's an example of what Hollywood "thinks" people want on their TVs. And seeing the intimate interviews of "Tomorrow" turned into your typical hooting and hollering studio audience show was so depressing.
ReplyDeleteLove all the sitcoms, both in their variety (when's the last time you saw "Chico and the Man" or "Rhoda"?) and in their time sweep. I mean "Alice" airs at 7:30 am!
One of my favorite Quincy M.E.'s from the "social issue" years was the one that aired this night: "Scream to the Skies"; some really hilarious Superhero Quincy stuff in the opening 15 minutes.
ReplyDeleteChico and the Man really needs to be a little better known these days.
My gosh, what an absolute trip it is to see this schedule! It may be from 35 years ago, but looking back at it, it seems like only a decade ago instead.
ReplyDeleteI was a big fan of watching The Dick Cavett Show on PBS and many of the National Geographic episodes as that series was huge for PBS before cable came into existence.
I would have the TV on at breakfast and have one eye glued to Charles Kuralt for 'Morning' and then later when Bill Carlson did 'The Morning Report', just before I had to head out the door. If I recall correctly, I think what got WCCO involved in a local morning newscast was around 1978 or 79, there was a fairly long strike at the Minneapolis Star/Tribune and a few days into it, they began this new morning 30 minute newscast. I tried looking on Google for exact details, but came up empty handed. My day wasn't finished until I had a chance to watch Carol Burnett & Friends.
Our house wasn't much for watching KSTP/ABC. My Dad would get home from his 2nd shift job in time for a cup of coffee and something small to eat with my Mom and they never missed Nightline. I would catch a few promos for the Don Lane Show, as always, voiced by the late Jimmy Valentine who was one of KSTP's announcers who had an incredibly distinctive voice and speech pattern. Never got to see an episode of it, but it looked like alot of fun and because it was an import, it seemed like something so exciting. My Dad and I always stayed up on Saturday nights at 10:30 to catch The Benny Hill Show, when KSTP aired it. I'll catch bits of shows on YouTube and I still laugh like hell at what I watch.
As a kid, I watched alot of KMSP for the reruns of shows I never caught before or just because they had a favorite series of mine and I could watch it again. It was a rare treat to be home on a day off from school and be able to catch a late 1950's kinescope film of Groucho Marx doing 'You Bet Your Life'. He was still funny without Chico, Zeppo, Gummo and Harpo.
We also were not big WTCN/NBC watchers. Only thing I recall sometimes watching was Tom Snyder on 'Tomorrow', depending on his guests. I was a very crafty and quiet kid to avoid being detected by my folks in order to be up that late and watch it. Metromedia still owned the station then and it really showed in their news programs.....almost no budget to speak of and very cheaply done in terms of production, graphics, news helicopter, etc... Nothing would change until Gannett bought it in 1983.
I needed some extra time to check my references - I don't have this particular issue.
ReplyDeleteSome researched notes, as they presented themselves:
- Your PBS stations were no more respectful of the network's schedule than the ones we have in Chicago were (or are, comes to that).
- The local network affiliates did quite a bit of scrambling of their daytime slates:
Ch4 (CBS) used Hour Magazine in place of reruns of The Jeffersons and Alice (the latter delayed to 7:30 the next AM), and Joker's Wild in place of One Day At A Time
reruns.
Ch5 (ABC), as noted in another past post, bypassed Edge Of Night in favor of Match Game. Their loss - Edge was really good at this point; Henry Slesar was coming to the end of his tenure as head writer along about now, and his last few stories were among his best.
Ch11 (NBC) seems to be missing two games, Blockbusters and Card Sharks.
I say 'seems to be" because Blockbusters is supposed to go in between Las Vegas Gambit and Wheel Of Fortune at 9:30 (I'm pretty sure Gambit wasn't an hour).
- For the record, the regular Wednesday night lineup on ABC was:
7:00 : Eight Is Enough at the end of its run.
8:00 : Aloha Paradise, an Aaron Spelling self-knockoff with Debbie Reynolds running a Hawaiian resort hotel.
9:00 : Vegas, winding down; Dynasty started up that spring.
- The Bob Hope special preempted Different Strokes and The Facts Of Life.
Give the choice, I would have preempted Real People, which holds a high position on my all-time most-hated list.
But hey, that's me ...
- In Chicago, The Don Lane Show aired nightly in prime time on ch32 (9:00 pm).
I remember liking this show a lot; Don Lane, a New Yorker, and his on-stage sidekick Bert Newton, a native Aussie, were huge boosters for "Oz", showcasing local stars like Diana Trask alongside of visiting artists from GB and US as well.
During the US syndication run, Bert Newton won a "Gold Logie", the biggest award in Australian TV. Don Lane threw the whole show to Newton, who spoke quite eloquently about Australia's emerging role in the world's entertainment.
The Don Lane Show didn't catch on in US syndication as much as the Nine Network hoped it would, which is kind of a shame; as I said before, I really enjoyed it.
Oh well ...
Now the moment of truth - does this one go through, or not?
You got it! Congratulations! :)
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DeleteMike I'm suitably impressed with your knowledge of things Australian TV and The Don Lane Show.
The show was hugely popular and like you say certainly brought a touch of Hollywood and British showbiz down under with lots of interviews and performances of overseas artists. Improvements in satellites also led to the show being one of the first in Australia to take advantage and do lots of live via satellite interviews. It must have cost a pretty penny but I'm sure it was worth it when the ratings numbers would come out.
Sammy Davis Jnr was also a fan of the show and apparently while touring Australia, on one night he made a surprise visit to Don while the show was in progress.
The Don Lane Show wrapped up in 1983 and while Australia has various other 'tonight' shows since then (including Lane's short-lived Late Night Australia in 1988) I don't think any have matched the success of The Don Lane Show. The success of the show led to a DVD release of highlights a few years ago.
I hope you don't mind me posting a link Mitchell but here is the obituary I wrote after Don Lane's passing in 2009: http://televisionau.com/2009/10/don-lane.html
I agree with you about John Davidson. I never liked him, he always seemed so... smarmy too me. This post and your comments reminded me of what may be the only time I made a point to watch Davidson's show. Sometime in 1980 I'd heard that Ringo was to be one of his guest's. I remember that Ringo and wife Barbara Bach were on (plugging their movie "Caveman") and weren't too interested in being on this show. Davidson soon loses all control and can never get the former Beatle to answer any of his Beatle questions. For the heck of it, I just checked You Tube, and what do you know, here it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eer7hlOsFaE
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