2 KTCA (PBS)
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MORNING
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7:00
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ISSUES
IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE
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7:30
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SURVIVAL
SKILLS FOR THE CLASSROOM TEACHER
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8:00
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SESAME
STREET—Children
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9:00
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ELECTRIC
COMPANY—Children
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9:30
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MUSIC—Children
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10:00
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CONSUMER
SURVIVAL KIT
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10:30
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TRADE-OFFS
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11:00
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ZOOM—Children
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11:30
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SESAME
STREET—Children
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AFTERNOON
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12:30
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MISTER
ROGERS—Children
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1:00
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ELECTRIC
COMPANY—Children
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1:30
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MINNESOTA
ISSUES
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2:00
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OVER
EASY—Hugh Downs
Guest: Howard Jarvis
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2:30
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DICK
CAVETT
Guest: William F. Buckley Jr.
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3:00
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NOVA
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4:00
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MISTER
ROGERS—Children
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4:30
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SESAME
STREET—Children
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5:30
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ELECTRIC
COMPANY—Children
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EVENING
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6:00
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FREESTYLE—Children
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6:30
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MacNEIL/LEHRER
REPORT
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7:00
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LIVE
FROM THE MET—Opera
Special:
“The Bartered Bride”
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10:10
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AMERICA
2NIGHT—Comedy
Guest: Mark Hamill
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10:40
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VISIONS—Drama
“The Dancing Bear”
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12:10
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SOUNDSTAGE
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4 WCCO (CBS)
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MORNING
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5:30
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SUNRISE
SEMESTER
American Character
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6:00
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CBS
NEWS—Stahl/Threlkeld
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7:00
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ALLEN’S
WINDOW—Children
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7:30
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CAPTAIN
KANGAROO
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8:00
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PHIL
DONAHUE
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9:00
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JOKER’S
WILD—Game
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9:30
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PRICE
IS RIGHT—Game
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10:30
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LOVE
OF LIFE—Serial
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10:55
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NEWS
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11:00
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YOUNG
AND THE RESTLESS
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11:30
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SEARCH
FOR TOMORROW
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AFTERNOON
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12:00
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MIDDAY
Guest: Charlton Heston
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12:30
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AS
THE WORLD TURNS—Serial
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1:30
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GUIDING
LIGHT—Serial
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2:30
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M*A*S*H
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3:00
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EVERYDAY
Guests: Seals & Crofts
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4:00
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MIKE
DOUGLAS
Co-host: Helen Reddy. Guests: Richard
Benjamin, Isaac Hayes, Elayne Boosler, Richard Hatch
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5:30
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CBS
NEWS—Walter Cronkite
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EVENING
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6:00
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NEWS
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6:30
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$1.98
BEAUTY SHOW
Judges: Gloria DeHaven, Jamie Farr,
Jaye P. Morgan
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7:00
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PAPER
CHASE—Drama
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8:00
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MOVIE—Drama
“The Pirate” (Made For TV; 1978)
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10:00
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NEWS
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10:45
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MARCUS
WELBY, M.D.—Drama
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11:55
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BONANZA—Western
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1:00
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ROOKIES—Crime
Drama
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5 KSTP (NBC)
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MORNING
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5:50
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MINNESOTA
TODAY
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6:20
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COUNTRY
DAY
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7:00
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TODAY—Tom
Brokaw
Guest: Alexis Smith
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9:00
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TWIN
CITIES TODAY
Guest: Charlton Heston
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10:00
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HIGH
ROLLERS—Game
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10:30
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WHEEL
OF FORTUNE—Game
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11:00
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AMERICA
ALIVE!—Jack Linkletter
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AFTERNOON
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12:00
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HOLLYWOOD
SQUARES—Game
June Carter Cash, Melissa Gilbert,
George Gobel, Richard Lewis, Paul Lynde, Roddy McDowall, Richard Mulligan,
Wendy Phillips, Jimmie Walker
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12:30
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DAYS
OF OUR LIVES—Serial
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1:30
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DOCTORS—Serial
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2:00
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ANOTHER
WORLD—Serial
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3:00
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CONCENTRATION
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3:30
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NEW
MICKEY MOUSE CLUB
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4:00
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BATTLE
OF THE PLANETS
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4:30
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DR.
WHO—Science Fiction
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5:00
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HOGAN’S
HEROES—Comedy
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5:30
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NBC
NEWS—Chancellor/Brinkley
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EVENING
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6:00
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NEWS
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6:30
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THAT’S
HOLLYWOOD!
|
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7:00
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GREATEST
HEROES OF THE BIBLE—Drama
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9:00
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DEAN
MARTIN
Special:
Suzanne Somers Roast
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10:00
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NEWS
|
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10:30
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JOHNNY
CARSON
Guests: Anthony Quinn, Steve Martin,
Paul Williams
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12:00
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TOMORROW—Tom
Snyder
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1:00
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NEWS
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9 KMSP (ABC)
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MORNING
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||
6:30
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GOOD
MORNING MINNESOTA
Guest: David Wallechinsky
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7:00
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GOOD
MORNING AMERICA
Guest: Rossano Brazzi
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9:00
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DINAH!
Guests: Orson Welles, Peter Strauss,
Rita Moreno, Britt Ekland
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10:00
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HAPPY
DAYS
|
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10:30
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FAMILY
FEUD—Game
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11:00
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$25,000
PYRAMID—Game
Nipsey Russell, Elaine Joyce
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11:30
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RYAN’S
HOPE—Serial
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AFTERNOON
|
||
12:00
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ALL
MY CHILDREN—Serial
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1:00
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ONE
LIFE TO LIVE—Serial
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2:00
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GENERAL
HOSPITAL—Serial
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3:00
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MEDICAL
CENTER—Drama
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4:00
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STREETS
OF SAN FRANCISCO
|
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5:00
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ABC
NEWS
|
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5:30
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SANFORD
AND SON—Comedy
|
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EVENING
|
||
6:00
|
NEWS
|
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6:30
|
$100,000
NAME THAT TUNE
|
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7:00
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HAPPY
DAYS
|
|
7:30
|
LAVERNE
& SHIRLEY
|
|
8:00
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THREE’S
COMPANY
|
|
8:30
|
TAXI—Comedy
|
|
9:00
|
STARSKY
& HUTCH
|
|
10:00
|
NEWS
|
|
10:30
|
PHOTOPLAY
AWARDS
Special
|
|
12:00
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MOD
SQUAD—Crime Drama
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1:00
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TWILIGHT
ZONE—Drama
|
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1:30
|
NEWS
|
|
11 WTCN (Ind.)
|
||
MORNING
|
||
5:30
|
WHAT’S
NEW?
|
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6:00
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PTL
CLUB—Religion
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7:00
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ARCHIES—Cartoons
|
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7:30
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POPEYE
AND PORKY—Cartoons
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8:30
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GROOVE
GOOLIES AND FRIENDS—Cartoon
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9:00
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FRED
FLINTSTONE & FRIENDS
|
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9:30
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BEWITCHED—Comedy
|
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10:00
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FAMILY
AFFAIR—Comedy
|
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10:30
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MAYBERRY
R.F.D.—Comedy
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11:00
|
LOVE
AMERICAN STYLE
|
|
11:30
|
WHAT’S
NEW?
|
|
AFTERNOON
|
||
12:30
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ANDY
GRIFFITH—Comedy
|
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1:00
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MOVIE—Western
“The Violent Men” (1954)
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3:00
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SPIDERMAN—Cartoon
|
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3:30
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TOM
AND JERRY—Cartoons
|
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4:30
|
LEAVE
IT TO BEAVER
|
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5:00
|
I
LOVE LUCY—Comedy
|
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5:30
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MY
THREE SONS—Comedy
|
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EVENING
|
||
6:00
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CAROL
BURNETT AND FRIENDS
|
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6:30
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NEWLYWED
GAME
|
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7:00
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DATING
GAME
|
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7:30
|
CROSS-WITS—Game
Nipsey Russell, Bo Svenson, Marcia
Wallace, Marianne Black
|
|
8:00
|
MERV
GRIFFIN
Guests: Odyssey, Tom Brokaw, Jane
Pauley, Theodore White, William Manchester, Arthur Schlessinger Jr.
|
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9:30
|
NEWS
|
|
10:00
|
MARY
TYLER MOORE—Comedy
|
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10:30
|
BOB
NEWHART—Comedy
|
|
11:00
|
ODD
COUPLE—Comedy
|
|
11:30
|
GONG
SHOW—Game
Judges: Rip Taylor, Patti Andrews, Pat
McCormick
|
|
12:00
|
IRONSIDE—Crime
Drama
|
|
1:00
|
ALFRED
HITCHCOCK—Drama BW
|
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17 KTCI (PBS)
|
||
AFTERNOON
|
||
5:30
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VILLA
ALEGRE—Children
|
|
EVENING
|
||
6:00
|
ISSUES
IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE
|
|
6:30
|
SURVIVAL
SKILLS FOR THE CLASSROOM TEACHER
|
|
7:00
|
MISTER
ROGERS—Children
|
|
7:30
|
ELECTRIC
COMPANY—Children
|
|
8:00
|
MacNEIL/LEHRER
REPORT
|
|
8:30
|
OVER
EASY—Hugh Downs
Guest: Sen. Charles Percy
|
|
9:00
|
SOUNDSTAGE
Doobie Brothers in concert
|
|
10:00
|
DICK
CAVETT
Guest: Jan Morris
|
|
10:30
|
ABC
NEWS
Captioned for the hearing-impaired.
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Tuesday was November 21, not November 22, in 1978. Thanks for a good look back though!
ReplyDeleteFixed - thanks!
DeleteIn the absence of this issue from my "collection"(?), here's a true story of a sort from this time.
ReplyDelete- Noting (as I have in the past) that your M-StP ABC station isn't carrying the best daytime drama ever, The Edge Of Night.
At this point in '78, EON's headwriter, the great Henry Slesar, had begun a storyline about a pseudo-spiritual cult called Children of the Earth.
As was always the case with daytime dramas, this story was months in the preparation: Slesar did his main plotting up to a year in advance, and outlines, summaries, and scripts were always cleared by both ABC and Proctor & Gamble well in advance of taping, which was normally two weeks in advance of air date.
The Children of the Earth storyline had starting airing in October; they were about a month into it by this week.
… when, on November 18, the Jonestown Massacre happened.
Actually, at the time nobody outside of Rev. Jim Jones's locality had ever even heard of the People's Temple; the Massacre story was all the more shocking for that fact.
But when the story broke, the phone lines between ABC in New York City, Proctor & Gamble in Cincinnati, and Edge's offices in Manhattan went alight, and the word went forth: Wrap this storyline up - real fast.
Henry Slesar and his associate writer worked Golden Time to turn the cult leader into a standard-issue con man (they liked the actor and wanted to keep him), and the day was saved, so to speak.
This wasn't the first time that soaps were caught short by a sudden news story, and it wouldn't be the last.
This being an "anniversary" (what a word to use in this context!), and since the Twin Cities missed out on the whole thing for the most arbitrary of reasons, I thought to pass this cautionary tale along for whatever it was worth …
- On a "personal" note:
A new addition to my Old DVD Wall is an incomplete set of The Eddie Capra Mysteries, a legal whodunit that NBC picked up during this season.
This series was the creation of Peter S. Fischer, whom I've mentioned elsewhere; the story goes that he used some leftover stories from Ellery Queen from a couple of years before - but that's neither here nor there …
I mention Eddie Capra here because Wendy Phillips, who had the obligatory femme sidekick role here, was on Hollywood Squares this week (in case you saw her name there and wondered who she was).
The beloved Ken Swofford was also a Capra cast member; I wonder if Squares ever considered using him on the panel (what might have been …).
- I wonder sometimes how many Millennials (God, I hate terms like that!) who are seeing ZAZ'z Airplane! for the first time wonder about the fat old guy who hails Robert Hays's cab at the start (and pays off the movie at the finish).
That, of course, was Howard Jarvis, who was all over the news/talk circuit at the time; the paying movie audience recognized him, and laughed - but who today would even have heard of him (or his cause)?
Sic transit Gloria Mundi … (you remember her, don't you?)
Jarvis:Well, I'll give him another twenty minutes, but that's it! :D
ReplyDeleteFrom what I remember the Eddie Capra Mysteries were picked up by NBC instead of renewing Ellery Queen because it would be cheaper to produce with it being in the present day. I heard getting those vintage 1940’s cars for Queen would run the budget up.
ReplyDeleteMr. Morgan:
DeleteI think you got yourself an Urban Legend here.
Ellery Queen was dropped in spring of '76.
Eddie Capra was picked up in '78 - two years later.
Beyond the involvement of Peter Fischer - pure coincidence.
Or if you like - PHEPH.
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc (After me, therefore because of me).
Again, I suggest that you try and find Peter S. Fischer's memoir Me And Murder, She Wrote for details.
(Available at Amazon.)
(Unpaid recommendation.)
You are right. I was born in 1951. I guess my memory is gone because I could have sworn this came on Sept. of 76. O well next time I”ii stop and do some research before I let my fingers start typing. By the way Ellery Queen was one of my favorite shows from the 70’s.
DeleteIn the 1970's, the Metromedia independents ran "Merv Griffin" in prime-time.
ReplyDeleteThis was about four months before a major three-way affiliation swap in the Twin Cities. KSTP Channel 5 went from NBC to ABC; KMSP Chanel 9 went from ABC to becoming an independent; and WTCN Channel 11 went from being an independent to becoming an NBC affiliate.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the play-by-play sports (Minnesota Twins, Minnesota Northstars, University of Minnesota, etc.) that had been on WTCN moved to KMSP at the same time, meaning that the 1978-79 Northstars' TV schedule was split between WTCN (before it became NBC) and KMSP (after it became an independent).
Mitch, you should know that "The $25,000 Pyramid" was a SYNDICATED show in '78; the daytime version had a top prize of $20,000. Dick Clark was the daytime host, while Bill Cullen handled the nighttime (or Prime Access) version.
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