What's on TV? Wednesday, February 16, 1977

This week we're in St. Louis, a city I've never visited except for stopovers in the airport. I have seen the Arch and the new Cardinals stadium from the air, though; very impressive.

There's a real similarity between these stations and those which I grew up with in Minneapolis-St. Paul.  Our Channel 4 was a CBS affiliate, and so is their's.  Our Channel 5 was an NBC affiliate; so is their's. Our Channel 11 is an independent - guess what? We had Channel 2 and Channel 9 as main stations, but our Channel 2 belonged to PBS, while here it's ABC. Our Channel 9 was ABC; here it's PBS. So it's the same, but different. Anyway, let's see what these stations have to offer.

	KTVI, Channel 2 (ABC)
	Morning
	06:30a	Kidsworld
	07:00a	Good Morning America
	09:00a	Phil Donahue (guest Marlo Thomas)
	10:00a	Family Feud
	10:30a	Happy Days
	11:00a	Don Ho
	11:30a	Ryan’s Hope
	Afternoon
	12:00p	News (local)
	12:30p	All My Children
	01:00p	The $20,000 Pyramid (guests John Schuck, Jo Anne Worley)
	01:30p	One Life to Live
	02:15p	General Hospital
	03:00p	The Edge of Night
	03:30p	The Partridge Family
	04:00p	ABC Afterschool Special
	05:00p	News (local)
	05:30p	ABC Evening News With Harry Reasoner and Barbara Walters
	Evening
	06:00p	The $25,000 Pyramid (guests Lee Meriwether, John Schuck)
	06:30p	To Tell the Truth (panelists Nipsey Russell, Peggy Cass, Charles Nelson Reilly, Kitty Carlisle)
	07:00p	Wonder Woman
	08:00p	Baretta
	09:00p	Charlie’s Angels
	10:00p	News (local)
	10:30p	The Rookies
	11:40p	Mystery of the Week
	01:10a	Peter Gunn (B&W)
	01:40a	Perception

I'm sure someone out there can tell me when Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue first met; they weren't yet married when this show was on, but they may have already been a couple.  There are still a lot of celebrity game shows on TV, starting with KTVI, and you'll notice the same names popping up over and over - John Schuck, Charles Nelson Reilly, Elaine Joyce.

	KMOX, Channel 4 (CBS)
	Morning
	05:35a	News (local)
	05:45a	People Speak
	06:00a	PS 4
	06:30a	Sunrise Semester (Teaching the Learning Disabled)
	07:00a	CBS Morning News (Bruce Morton, Hughes Rudd)
	08:00a	Captain Kangaroo (guest Alan Arkin)
	09:00a	The Price is Right
	10:00a	Double Dare
	10:30a	Love of Life
	10:55a	CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
	11:00a	The Young and the Restless
	11:30a	Search for Tomorrow
	Afternoon
	12:00p	Tattletales (guests Martin and Judy Millner, Ken Dudney and Barbara Mandrell, Bobby Van and Elaine Joyce)
	12:30p	As the World Turns
	01:30p	The Guiding Light
	02:00p	All in the Family
	02:30p	Match Game (guests Bill Daily, Richard Dawson, Elaine Joyce, Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers, Betty White)
	03:00p	Mike Douglas (guests Doc Severinsen, David Soul, Earl Holliman, David Lander)
	04:00p	Dinah! (guests Mary Tyler Moore, Valerie Harper, David Groh, Julie Kavner)
	05:00p	News (local)
	05:30p	CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite
	Evening
	06:00p	News (local)
	06:30p	Bobby Vinton (guests Phyllis Diller, Gabe Kaplan, Rene Simard)
	07:00p	Monte Carlo Circus Festival (special)
	08:00p	Movie – “A Man Called Horse”
	10:20p	News (local)
	10:50p	Movie – “The FBI Story: The FBI vs. Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One”
	12:50a	People Speak
	01:05a	The Name of the Game
	02:35a	News (local)
	03:05a	Movie – “The Geisha Boy”

I've always had a fondness for KMOX - not from television, but radio. You see, when I lived in the World's Worst Town™, the clear-channel KMOX was one of the stations I could bring in, so I was treated to Jack Buck calling the Cardinals games, a very young Bob Costas (before he became so full of himself) doing call-in shows, and the odd basketball game featuring the Spirits of St. Louis. Good times.

	KSD, Channel 5 (NBC)
	Morning
	06:30a	Focus Your World
	07:00a	Today
	09:00a	Sanford and Son
	09:30a	The Hollywood Squares (guests George Gobel, Gabe Kaplan, Paul Lynde, Karen Valentine, Marcia Wallace, Richard Anderson, Pearl Bailey, John Byner, Robert Fuller)
	10:00a	Wheel of Fortune
	10:30a	Shoot for the Stars (guests Tony Randall, Lynn Redgrave)
	11:00a	Name That Tune
	11:30a	Lovers and Friends
	Afternoon
	12:00p	News (local)
	12:30p	Days of Our Lives
	01:30p	The Doctors
	02:00p	Another World
	03:00p	Merv Griffin (guests Richard Hatch, Ronnie Schell, Rick Moses)
	04:00p	The Big Valley
	05:00p	News (local)
	05:30p	NBC Nightly News With John Chancellor and David Brinkley
	Evening
	06:00p	News (local)
	06:30p	Newsbeat (Dick Ford/John Auble)
	07:00p	Grizzly Adams
	08:00p	CPO Sharkey
	08:30p	McLean Stevenson
	09:00p	Tales of the Unexpected
	10:00p	News (local)
	10:30p	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (guests Tony Bennett, Joey Heatherton, Thalassa Cruso)
	12:00a	Tomorrow (guest James Dickey)

KSD is now known as KSDK, and was the first television station in Missouri. Like so many other NBC affiliates, it was also the first to broadcast in color.  Unfortunately, the NBC programs they broadcast in 1977 aren't much worth watching, color or not. I think, although I'm not sure, Grizzly Adams was the longest running of the programs on tonight, although it could have been CPO Sharkey. It sure wasn't The McLean Stevenson Show.

	KETC, Channel 9 (PBS)
	Morning
	06:30a	Captioned ABC Evening News
	07:00a	Lilias, Yoga and You
	07:30a	Technology
	Afternoon
	03:00p	Sesame Street
	04:00p	Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
	04:30p	The Electric Company
	05:00p	Sesame Street
	Evening
	06:00p	The Electric Company
	06:30p	Zoom
	07:00p	Nova
	08:00p	Childhood (debut)
	09:00p	Documentary Showcase
	10:00p	Chris Moore
	10:30p	Movie – “Richard III”
	12:00a	St. Louis Sings

Not much to see here, although the primetime lineup is familiar to anyone who watches Nova. According to the always-reliable Wikipedia, Channel 9 has a reputation for frequently pre-empting PBS shows to show something less controversial; apparently, that's something that's not uncommon across the board in St. Louis, I'd like to know more about that someday.

	KPLR, Channel 11 (Ind.)
	Morning
	06:00a	News (local)
	06:30a	Bozo’s Big Top
	07:00a	The Lone Ranger (B&W)
	07:30a	Popeye/Bugs Bunny
	08:00a	George and Friends
	08:30a	The Flintstones
	09:00a	Andy Griffith (B&W)
	09:30a	I Love Lucy (B&W)
	10:00a	The Lucy Show
	10:30a	Dick Van Dyke (B&W)
	11:00a	Not For Women Only
	11:30a	The Gong Show
	Afternoon
	12:00p	The Jetsons
	12:30p	Lassie
	01:00p	Movie – “Come Back, Little Sheba” (B&W)
	03:00p	The Flintstones
	03:30p	The Archies
	04:00p	Gilligan’s Island (B&W)
	04:30p	Gomer Pyle, USMC
	05:00p	Bewitched
	05:30p	Emergency One!
	Evening
	06:30p	Hogan’s Heroes
	07:00p	Gunsmoke
	08:00p	Ironside
	09:00p	Love, American Style
	09:30p	News (local)
	10:00p	Cross-Wits (guests Bill Cullen, Fannie Flagg, Elaine Joyce, Rick Hurst)
	10:30p	Movie – “The Mountain”
	01:00a	News (local)
	01:30a	Good Day! (guest David Toma)

When you look at the network stations, you see how much the hour-long format dominates the scheduling. Not so at Channel 11, where the schedule is almost entirely half-hour sitcoms, with the occasional game show or cartoon thrown in. It's the kind of schedule you might have seen 20 years before.

	KDNL, Channel 30 (Ind.)
	Morning
	07:00a	Popeye
	07:30a	The Little Rascals (B&W)
	08:00a	Ultra Man
	08:30a	Underdog
	09:00a	I Dream of Jeannie
	09:30a	Financial Reports
	10:30a	700 Club
	Afternoon
	12:00p	Financial Reports
	03:00p	Popeye
	03:30p	Spiderman
	04:00p	Aquaman, Batman and Superman
	04:30p	Superman (B&W)
	05:00p	My Three Sons
	05:30p	The Brady Bunch
	Evening
	06:00p	The Brady Bunch
	06:30p	Adam-12
	07:00p	Maverick (B&W)
	08:00p	Movie – “The Wheeler Dealers”
	10:00p	Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
	10:30p	Star Trek
	11:30p	The 700 Club

Look at that lineup: My Three Sons, The Brady Bunch, Adam-12, Maverick, Star Trek. Something for almost every classic TV lover's dream, isn't it? TV