At any rate, we're back to the Twin Cities this week, so let's look at how things have changed since last week's look, and how they remain the same.
KTCA, Channel 2 (PBS)
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Morning
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07:45a
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A.M. Weather
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08:00a
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Sesame Street
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09:00a
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Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
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09:30a
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The Electric Company
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10:00a
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Paint Along with Nancy Kominsky
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10:30a
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Turnabout
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11:00a
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Studio See
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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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The Electric Company
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01:30p
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People and Causes
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02:00p
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Over Easy (guest Bobby Short)
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02:30p
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Dick Cavett (guest Oscar Peterson)
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03:00p
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Firing Line (guests Dorothy Fuldheim, Ben Stein)
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04:00p
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Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
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04:30p
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Sesame Street
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05:30p
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The Electric Company
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Evening
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06:00p
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Once Upon a Classic
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06:30p
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The MacNeil/Lehrer Report
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07:00p
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Dick Cavett (guest Stephen Spender)
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07:30p
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The Explorers
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08:00p
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Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood Special
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09:00p
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Bill Moyers’ Journal (guest Nes Ammin)
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10:00p
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Ripping Yarns
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10:30p
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Masterpiece Theatre (I, Claudius part 12)
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11:30p
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Poldark
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WCCO, Channel 4 (CBS)
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Morning
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06:00a
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CBS News Monday Morning (Bob Schieffer)
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07:00a
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Allan’s Window
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07:30a
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Captain Kangaroo
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08:00a
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Phil Donahue (guest Bob Mackie)
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09:00a
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The Joker’s Wild
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09:30a
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Whew!
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09:55a
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CBS News
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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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11:30a
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Search for Tomorrow
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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Midday
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12:30p
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As the World Turns
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01:30p
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The Guiding Light
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02:30p
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M*A*S*H
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03:00p
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The Joker’s Wild
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03:30p
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Mike Douglas (co-host Carroll O’Connor, guests Gary
Coleman, Linda Clifford, Ali MacGraw)
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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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Family Feud
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07:00p
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The White Shadow
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08:00p
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M*A*S*H
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08:30p
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WKRP in Cincinnati
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09:00p
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Lou Grant
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10:00p
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News (local)
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10:30p
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Marcus Welby, M.D.
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11:30p
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Bonanza
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12:30a
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News (local)
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01:00a
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Phil Donahue (guest Bob Mackie)
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02:00a
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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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News (local)
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06:20a
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Country Day
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07:00a
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Good Morning America (guest Dizzy Gillespie)
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09:00a
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Twin Cities Today (guest Frank Blair)
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10:00a
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Laverne & Shirley
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10:30a
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Family Feud
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11:00a
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The $20,000 Pyramid (guests Robert Walden, Susan Lucci)
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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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Movie – “Duel
in the Sun” (B&W)
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05:00p
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Hogan’s Heroes
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05:30p
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ABC World News Tonight (Reynolds/Robinson/Jennings)
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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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Just for Kicks
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07:00p
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Monday Night Baseball (Teams TBD)
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10:00p
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News (local)
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10:30p
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Police Story
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12:40a
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News (local)
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01:10a
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Doctor Who
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01:40a
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Thrillseekers
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02:10a
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Movie – “If I
Were King” (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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700 Club
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07:00a
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Underdog
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07:30a
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Bullwinkle
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08:00a
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Popeye
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08:30a
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The Archies
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09:00a
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Dinah! (guests Burt Bacharach; Casey Kasem;
Linda Clifford; Emmylou Harris; McGuinn, Clark and Hillman; Ricky Skaggs)
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10:00a
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Medical Center
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11:00a
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Perry Mason (B&W)
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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Noon on Nine
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12:30p
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The Best of Groucho (B&W)
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01:00p
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The Bold Ones (The New Doctors)
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02:00p
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The Streets of San Francisco
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03:00p
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Casper the Friendly Ghost
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03:30p
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Krofft Superstars
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04:00p
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The Munsters
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04:30p
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Gilligan’s Island (B&W)
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05:00p
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The Brady Bunch
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05:30p
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Dick Van Dyke (B&W)
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Evening
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06:00p
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Tic Tac Dough
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06:30p
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The Hollywood Squares (Martin Mull, Susan Ford, Mel Tillis,
Stella Stevens, Candy Clark, Eileen Brennan, Wayland and Madame, George
Gobel, Paul Lynde)
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07:00p
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Gunsmoke
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08:00p
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Dinah! (guests Andy Griffith, Suzanne
Pleshette, Ken Murray, Dale Bard, Dennis Overstreet)
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09:30p
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News (local)
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10:00p
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Maude
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10:30p
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The Rockford Files
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11:40p
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Movie –
“Sunday in New York”
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01:30a
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News (local)
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Channel 9's programming is virtually a who's who of who was big on television in the late '70s - Martin Mull, Wayland and Madame, Mel Tillis, Suzanne Pleshette, Casey Kasem. Screams '70s, both good and bad, doesn't it?
WTCN, Channel 11 (NBC)
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Morning
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06:00a
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PTL Club
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07:00a
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Today (guest John Connally)
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09:00a
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Card Sharks
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09:30a
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The Hollywood Squares (guests Scott Baio, Dr. Joyce Brothers,
George Gobel, Linda Gray, Mariette Hartley, Pamela Hensley, David Letterman,
Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr., Dick Van Patten)
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10:00a
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High Rollers
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10:30a
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Wheel of Fortune
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11:00a
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Mindreaders (guests Barbara Rhoades, Joe Santos)
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11:30a
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Password (guests Greg Morris, Loretta Swit)
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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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The Doctors
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01:30p
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Another World
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03:00p
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Merv Griffin (guests Hermoine Gingold, Tovah
Feldshuh, Roger Voudouris, Jason Serinus)
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04:00p
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At the Fair ‘79
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05:30p
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NBC Nightly News (Chancellor/Brinkley)
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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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State Fair Highlights
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07:00p
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Little House on the Prairie
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08:00p
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Movie – To Kill a Cop, Part 1
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10:00p
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News (local)
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10:30p
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
(guests Goldie Hawn,
Buck Henry, Dennis Dugan)
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12:00a
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The Tomorrow Show (guests Wendy and Michael Lusa)
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01:00a
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Bewitched
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01:30a
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That Girl
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02:00a
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The Dating Game
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02:30a
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Gomer Pyle, USMC
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03:00a
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The Lucy Show
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03:30a
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The Gong Show
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04:00a
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Loner
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04:30a
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Childrens’ Letters to God
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05:00a
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What’s New?
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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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Dick Cavett
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06:30p
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The MacNeil/Lehrer Report
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07:00p
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Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
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07:30p
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The Electric Company
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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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Firing Line
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10:00p
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Dick Cavett
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10:30p
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ABC World News Tonight for the Hearing
Impaired
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The WTCN overnight lineup is fascinating; looks like a proto-Nick at Nite. How long did they air vintage sitcoms overnight, and was this practice fairly common for 24 hour stations at the time? You wonder what exactly "Loner" and "Children's Letters to God" are, since I've never seen them in a 70s listing before.
ReplyDeleteRegarding HBO & Sesame Street, television was so vastly different in 1979 with only 3 networks and some fledgling cable channels like HBO & ESPN, that I don't think anyone would ever have conceived of a move like what is now going to take place. The big 3 and PBS ruled the airwaves and cable was very much a novelty and didn't program anything of serious competition. I can see the move by Children's Television Workshop to HBO now simply because of that inescapable 5 letter word.....M-O-N-E-Y! If it can benefit CTW in producing more children's programming of the high quality that is found on Sesame Street, then God bless 'em! PBS will still retain their loyal viewers as HBO expands into new territory. HBO is really a top tier, high class network that has given the Big 3 more than a run for their money with excellent programming of all kinds and has the hardware to back it up.
ReplyDeleteI still think to this day that The Phil Donahue Show was the best topical talk program on commercial TV. The best overall talk program was The David Susskind Show on PBS, with Dick Cavett's PBS show close behind.
I can remember KSTP being the most adventurous in airing British programming during the late 1970's through the mid 1980's. I recall watching the Tom Baker episodes of Doctor Who, The World at War (the best documentary ever about WW2), The Benny Hill Show and there were even 2 Australian imports that they aired.....Prisoner: Cell Block H and The Don Lane Show (Australia's version of the Tonight Show). When two of the major networks began to program overnight news programs (CBS Nightwatch, NBC News Overnight), KSTP dropped the imported shows and went into overnight movies.
Did Dinah Shore have two programs going on at the same time? I see the daytime show is 60 minutes and the evening show is 90 minutes. I couldn't find anything on websites which answered that question. If so, that was a lot of TV programming to pump out weekly!
Any idea of whatever happened to former KMSP news anchor Tony Burden and sportscaster Dave Sheehan? I believe weathercaster Ernie Martz still lives here in the cities?
Wow, WTCN programmed a total of 2 hours per day of State Fair related shows. I don't remember any of that, so I have no idea if they were good or not? I think the only station that does State Fair programming outside of the silly and watered down newscasts is KSTP with their Twin Cities Live talk/variety program. KMSP did some programming way back when they were an Independent station, but I don't think KSTP or WCCO did anything outside of their newscasts, with the possible exception being WCCO's Midday with Bill Carlson.
In regards to "Dinah" those are just two different tapes of the same series. "Dinah" gave stations the option of airing hour long or full length episodes; "Merv Griffin" and "Mike Douglas" offered the same option. And since pre-satellite syndicated shows were "bicycled" (sent tapes/films around until all markets were reached) a station could just hold on to one of the tapes a little longer than usual.
DeleteThanks for the information about that. I was aware that in pre-satellite days, kinescopes/films/videotapes were sent as you mentioned, but I wasn't aware that production companies would tailor shows for the option of different run time lengths.
DeleteIIRC during the state fair WCCO nowadays does a one hour show at 4 PM before the 5 PM newscast taking reruns of Ellen off the air during the period of the state fair. Until this past year(I think) WCCO did not do a show like this on labor day due to the fact that through 2014 CBS had the US Open Tennis Tournament and on Labor Day CBS would be showing tennis until 5 PM CT. That changed this year with ESPN getting the US Open contract.
DeleteTo answer Scott's question; not much recent can be found about either Dave Sheehan or Tony Burden, but I'll try to mention something about them.
ReplyDeleteApparently Dave Sheehan went to Houston to work for a short time at then-independent (now FOX station) KRIV before dropping off the map.
Burden was actually trying to rebuild his career by the time he got to the Twin Cities. Burden had previously been lead anchor and news director for the ABC affiliate in my area (Norfolk's WVEC) before being forced out after being busted for marijuana possession in the summer of 1977 (former ABC News correspondent Jim Kincaid replaced Burden and went on to become something of a local legend in the Tidewater/Hampton Roads {both terms get used almost interchangeably} news circles).
Something is better than nothing! Much appreciated, Jacob!
DeleteI don't think CBS had yet cut back "Captain Kangaroo" to a half-hour, but WCCO may have decided against running the first half-hour of "Kangaroo" in favor of a local program.
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