By the way, this week's listings are from Nashville, with a guest appearance from Bowling Green.
WDCN, Channel 2 (NET)
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Morning
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08:35a
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In-School
Programming
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09:00a
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Sesame Street
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10:00a
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In-School
Programming
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Afternoon
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02:30p
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All Aboard
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03:00p
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Sesame Street
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04:00p
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What’s New (B&W)
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04:30p
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Art Studio, Too (B&W)
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05:00p
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Auto Mechanics (B&W)
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05:30p
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Film (B&W)
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Evening
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06:00p
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Film – “The
Quitters” (B&W)
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06:30p
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Misterogers (B&W)
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07:00p
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Washington Review
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07:30p
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Which Craft (B&W)
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08:00p
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Gent’s a Gourmet (B&W)
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08:30p
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Firing Line (B&W)
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09:30p
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Look at Us, Lord (B&W)
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WDCN is still broadcasting mostly in B&W, but some of the NET broadcasts are in color. I look at that old NET logo, with its tagline "National Educational Television," and I think to myself that this was a noble idea. In execution, however, not so much. I don't think anyone looks at today's PBS as educational television.
WSM, Channel 4 (NBC)
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Morning
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06:00a
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Morning Show
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07:00a
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Today
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09:00a
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Dinah’s Place
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09:30a
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Concentration
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10:00a
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Sale of the Century
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10:30a
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The Hollywood Squares
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11:00a
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Jeopardy
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11:30a
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The Who, What or Where Game
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11:55a
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NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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Noon Show
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01:00p
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Days of Our Lives
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01:30p
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The Doctors
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02:00p
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Another World/Bay City
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02:30p
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Bright Promise
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03:00p
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Another World/Somerset
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03:30p
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Star Trek
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04:30p
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The Wild Wild West
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05:25p
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Weather (Bob
Olson)
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05:30p
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NBC Nightly News
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Evening
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06:00p
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News, Weather,
Sports (local)
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06:30p
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Flip Wilson (guests James Brown, David Frost, Sunday’s
Child, Oscar the Grouch and Big Bird) (debut)
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07:30p
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Ironside
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08:30p
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Dragnet
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09:00p
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Dean Martin (guests Orson Welles, Petula Clark, Joey
Bishop, Kay Medford, Laurie Ichino)
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10:00p
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News, Weather,
Sports (local)
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10:30p
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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (guests Richie Havens, Pat Morita)
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WLAC, Channel 5 (CBS)
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Morning
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05:45a
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Country Journal
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06:00a
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CBS Morning News with John Hart
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06:30a
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Jake Hess
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06:55a
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Morning Watch/Dialing for Dollars
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07:55a
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Wake Up With Jackie
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08:00a
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Captain Kangaroo
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08:30a
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Mike Douglas (co-host Pat Boone, guest Celeste Holm, O.C.
Smith, Grandpa Jones, Victor Buono)
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10:00a
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Family Affair
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10:30a
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Love of Life
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11:00a
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Where the Heart Is
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11:25a
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CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
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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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News (Brad
James)
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12:05p
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Singing Convention/Dialing for Dollars
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12:30p
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As the World Turns
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01:00p
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Love is a Many Splendored Thing
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01:30p
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The Guiding Light
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02:00p
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The Secret Storm
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02:30p
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The Edge of Night
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03:00p
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Gomer Pyle, USMC
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03:30p
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Gilligan’s Island
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04:00p
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Movie – “Black
Sabbath”/Dialing for Dollars
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05:00p
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Weather (Bob
Lobertini)
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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, Weather,
Sports (local)
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06:30p
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Family Affair
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07:00p
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Jim Nabors (guests The Jackson 5)
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08:00p
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Thursday Night Movie – “The Brotherhood of the Bell”
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10:00p
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News, Weather,
Sports (local)
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10:30p
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Merv Grifin
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Merv Griffin is starting his first week in Los Angeles, after having been based in New York for the entire run of his show. In doing so, he loses Arthur Treacher as his sidekick, since Treacher didn't want to make the move to the West Coast. A pity; I always liked Treacher's presence on the show. Merv really was better with a sidekick.
WSIX, Channel 8 (ABC)
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Morning
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06:30a
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Tales of Wells Fargo (B&W)
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07:00a
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Bozo the Clown
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08:50a
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Lucille Rivers
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09:00a
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The Lucy Show
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09:30a
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The Beverly Hillbillies
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10:00a
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Bewitched
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10:30a
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That Girl
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11:00a
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The Best of Everything
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11:30a
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A World Apart
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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All My Children
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12:30p
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Let’s Make a Deal
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01:00p
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The Newlywed Game
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01:30p
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The Dating Game
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02:00p
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General Hospital
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02:30p
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One Life to Live
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03:00p
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Dark Shadows
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03:30p
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F Troop
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04:00p
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Daniel Boone
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05:00p
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News, Weather,
Sports
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05:30p
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ABC Evening News with Frank Reynolds
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Evening
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06:00p
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Dick Van Dyke
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06:30p
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Animal World
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07:00p
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That Girl
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07:30p
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Bewitched
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08:00p
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The Many Sides of Don Rickles (guests Don Adams, Robert Goulet, Harvey
Korman) (special)
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10:00p
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News, Weather,
Sports (local)
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10:30p
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Television & Outdoors
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10:50p
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Movie – “April
Love”
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I'd imagine the Don Rickles special was probably pretty funny. I know he's an acquired taste; you either like him or you don't. I acquired the taste a long time ago, which may explain more about me than anything else I write. And by the way, I think I mentioned this when I wrote about Nashville previously, but you have to admit that no matter why the reason, it's amusing that a station with the call letters WSIX would be Channel 8.
WLTV, Channel 13 (Bowling Green, KY)
(ABC)
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Morning
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10:00a
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Bewitched
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10:30a
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That Girl
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11:00a
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The Best of Everything
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11:30a
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A World Apart
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Afternoon
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12:00p
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All My Children
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12:30p
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Let’s Make a Deal
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01:00p
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The Newlywed Game
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01:30p
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The Dating Game
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02:00p
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General Hospital
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02:30p
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One Life to Live
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03:00p
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Dark Shadows
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03:30p
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Divorce Court (B&W)
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04:00p
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America Sings (B&W)
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04:30p
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Gospel Caravan (B&W)
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05:00p
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Country Music Holiday (B&W)
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05:30p
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ABC Evening News with Frank Reynolds
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Evening
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06:00p
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News, Weather,
Sports (local) (B&W)
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06:30p
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Animal World
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07:00p
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That Girl
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07:30p
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Bewitched
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08:00p
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The Many Sides of Don Rickles (guests Don Adams, Roubert Goulet, Harvey
Korman) (special)
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09:00p
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Harold Robbins’ The Survivors (last show of the series)
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10:00p
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News, Weather,
Sports (local) (B&W)
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10:30p
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Dick Cavett (guest Victor B. Scheffer)
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WMCV, Channel 17 (Ind.)
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Afternoon
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03:20p
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News/Community
Calendar
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03:30p
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News, Weather,
Sports (local) (B&W)
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03:45p
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Laurel and Hardy (B&W)
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04:30p
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Topper (B&W)
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05:00p
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The Munsters (B&W)
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05:30p
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My Favorite Martian
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Evening
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06:00p
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I Spy
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07:00p
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Run For Your Life
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08:00p
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The Movie Game (guests
Dyan Cannon, Paul Henreid, George Peppard, Alan Sues, Brenda Vaccaro, Ray
Walston)
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08:30p
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Movie – “Black
Legion” (B&W)
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A nice lineup for an independent station of the early '70s; almost all of them would be considered staples of classic television today. TV
Did Ch.13 air those afternoon music programs every day? If they did, that's stunning that in 1970 a small market would air that much local programming--and kudos for them.
ReplyDeleteWhen WLTV-13 first went on the air in 1962, its call letters stood for "Wonderful Live TV" Throughout the 1960s, and even for a time after the station affiliated with ABC in 1967, WLTV continued to air live gospel and country shows. Best that I can tell, by the very early 1970s, these local music shows began to fade away, so this 1970 schedule probably represents some of the last gasps of that programming.
DeleteMy family moved to the Nashville metro area late in 1976, so I knew these stations pretty well from then until the early 80s, when I started college out of state.
ReplyDeleteIn Dec. 1973, WDCN and WSIX switched channels, WDCN moving to channel 8 and WSIX (which means "Where Service Is Excellent" and still remains on an FM radio station having once been also on an AM radio station) moving to channel 2 & changing its call letters to WNGE (meaning With Nashville General Electric). Around 1983 GE sold WNGE to Knight-Ridder, which changed the call letters to WKRN. (Knight-Ridder has since sold the station to Young Broadcasting, which later became Media General & Nexstar, but the call letters remain today.) WDCN (which stood for Davidson County Nashville) received equipment from WNGE to allow local color broadcasting. Its call letters are now WNPT (Nashville Public Television).
WSM-TV (meaning "We Shield Millions", the slogan of its then-parent, National Life and Accident Insurance Company) became WSMV in 1981 when the station was sold to a broadcaster named George Gillette. It has been sold a few times since then and now belongs to Meredith Corporation. WSM radio (650 AM) originated in 1925 and still today broadcasts the Grand Ole Opry weekly.
WLAC, named for Life and Casualty Insurance, shared its call letters with a radio station (1510 AM) and changed its call letters to WTVF in 1975 when it was sold to the Hobby family of Houston. The long-running CBS & syndicated country music variety show Hee-Haw was taped at WLAC/WTVF studios from its 1969 beginning until well into the 1980s. I still recall hearing about the 1977 passing of Elvis Presley while watching a Gomer Pyle rerun on WTVF.
WMCV went out of business about 6 months after this issue, sometime in March 1971, but the station came back early in 1976 as WZTV. I was thrilled finally to be living in a tv market with an independent station with more off-network reruns than the network affiliates had time to run. WZTV at one time ended up with Johnny Carson's Tonight Show when NBC wouldn't allow WSMV to postpone the show by half-hour for Three's Company reruns. WNGE had the Tonight Show for a little while until it found it had been getting better ratings with its MASH reruns, which it restored. Eventually Tonight got back to WSMV, certainly by the Jay Leno era. WZTV is now Nashville's Fox affiliate, and there are other new stations in the 80s & 90s which eventually became the CW & MyNetwork affliates.
To add a bit about WLTV out of Bowling Green:
DeleteIt premiered as an independent station in 1962 and became an ABC affiliate in March 1967. WBKO probably affiliated with ABC because of the relatively weak signal from WSIX when it was on channel 8. Its original owners sold it in 1971, at which time the call letters became WBKO, which they remain today. It now has subchannels for Fox & CW networks in Bowling Green.
Yes, in the Bowling Green market, WSIX-8 was tougher to receive than WSM-4 and WLAC-5, hence the reason WLTV-13 affiliated with ABC. (I know this reception-wise as I have family in that area, and I recall WSIX-8 was the toughest to receive, followed by WSM-4. WLAC-5 came through loud n' clear.)
DeleteTalk about a tough after-school decision on weekdays: F TROOP, GILLIGAN'S ISLAND and STAR TREK all on at 3:30 in the afternoon.
ReplyDeleteAnd thus the origin of the DVR! :)
DeleteWSIX has the Don Rickles special running from 8:00 to 10:00 while WLTV has that same special running from 8:00 to 9:00 with The Survivors airing in the 9-10 slot. I’m guessing that the WSIX listing may be a typo, I mean, I like Don Rickles but I can’t see him insulting people for two solid hours.
ReplyDeleteDon't have the issue in front of me at this second, but you're undoubtedly right. (On both points, that is!)
DeleteAccording to other sources, DRAGNET was replaced by the debut of NANCY (a sitcom about a country vet and his wife...the President's daughter)
DeleteI verified with a copy of this same issue from NYC that on ABC the Rickles special was just 60 mins long, followed by the final rerun of THE SURVIVORS. NANCY also premiered this day at 9:30 PM ET on NBC, replacing DRAGNET.
DeleteWCBS in NYC preceded the CBS sitcom reruns starting at 10 AM ET with reruns of LEAVE IT TO BEAVER and THE DONNA REED SHOW. The network only reran its own sitcoms in its morning programming, but its affiliates, including its O&Os like WCBS, were free to rerun sitcoms which originally appeared on other networks, like those two.
I just looked at this issue again, from Nashville, and WSIX-TV & WBKO-TV both had THE SURVIVORS at 9 PM CT. WSM-TV both here & in that day's NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN lists DRAGNET at 8:30 PM, but the NBC network aired the premiere of NANCY that day. This was likely an error by WSM-TV, since it appears in both places.
DeleteI looked at THE TENNESSEAN (on www.newspapers.com) from this date a bit more. Oddly enough WSM-TV has an ad for NBC Week along w/ the listings where it again shows DRAGNET at 8:30 PM w/ an illustration of Jack Webb and description of him & his costar, Harry Morgan. From what I've seen looking at later Thursday nights on WSM, DRAGNET ran in place of NANCY all season. THE TENNESSEAN made no mention of NANCY at all, as lead actress Renne Jarrett was only mentioned in 1970 in a January MOD SQUAD episode, and Celeste Holm was mentioned that year only for her appearance in John Wayne's Nov. 29 special, "Swing Out, Sweet Land".
DeleteThere is also a good review of the Don Rickles special. Its full name was "The Many Sides of Don Rickles", and it mentions that most of the show was Rickles and his costars Don Adams, Harvey Korman, & Robert Goulet "...sitting around and talking and breaking each other up". (I imagine Korman was broken up the most, based on his well-known "breaking up" on THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW.) The ending has Rickles speaking w/ "a psychiatrist, a sociologist and a doctor about what makes him tick". The reviewer laments that this segment was "too short". I think it would be fun to see this, along w/ THE JIM NABORS HOUR season premiere w/ the Jackson 5.
WSIX was airing The Lucy Show and Beverly Hillbillies from CBS since WLAC was airing the syndicated Mike Douglas Show at 9 a.m. For a couple of years, WSIX delayed Dark Shadows by a half hour, running it at 3:30 so the teenagers could see it after school. By this point it was beginning to fade so I guess ch. 8 decided to return it to the ABC 3 p.m. Time slot.
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