By the way, someone can correct me on this (Mike Doran would probably know), but to the best of my knowledge, The Waltons is one of the very few program titles in the listings to include the article "The" - ordinarily, it would only read "Waltons." The only other show I can think of is the 1972 series The Men. Another piece of useless trivia.
No surprise that this week's listings are once again from the Twin Cities.
2 KTCA (PBS)
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AFTERNOON
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3:30
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DESIGNING
SUCCESS STRATEGY
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4:00
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MISTER
ROGERS
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4:30
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SESAME
STREET
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5:30
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ELECTRIC
COMPANY
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EVENING
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6:00
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TO
BE ANNOUNCED
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6:30
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OUR
MUSICAL HERITAGE
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7:00
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EVENING
AT POPS—Music
Guest: Ana Marie Vera
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8:00
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INTERNATIONAL
PERFORMANCE—Music
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9:30
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YARD
AND GARDEN
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4 WCCO (CBS)
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MORNING
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6:30
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SUMMER
SEMESTER
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7:00
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CARMEN
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7:30
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CLANCY
AND WILLIE
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8:00
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CAPTAIN
KANGAROO
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9:00
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JOKER’S
WILD—Game
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9:30
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GAMBIT—Game
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10:00
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NOW
YOU SEE IT—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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LIVE
TODAY—Religion
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11:00
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YOUNG
AND THE RESTLESS—Serial
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11:30
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SEARCH
FOR TOMORROW—Serial
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AFTERNOON
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12:00
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MIDDAY
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12:30
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AS
THE WORLD TURNS—Serial
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1:00
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GUIDING
LIGHT—Serial
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1:30
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EDGE
OF NIGHT—Serial
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2:00
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PRICE
IS RIGHT—Game
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2:30
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MATCH
GAME
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3:00
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TATTLETALES—Game
Phyllis Diller and Ward Donovan, Patty
Deutsch and Donald Ross
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3:30
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MOVIE—Drama
“Ransom” (1956)
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5:20
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SCENE
AT THE FAIR
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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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BOBBY
GOLDSBORO
Guest: Maureen McGovern
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7:00
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THE
WALTONS—Drama
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8:00
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MOVIE—Drama
“Secret World” (French; 1968)
[Postponed from an earlier date]
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10:00
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NEWS
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10:50
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MOVIE—Drama
“Dead Ringer” (1964)
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12:50
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MOVIE—Western
“The Desperados” (1969)
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5 KSTP (NBC)
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MORNING
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6:00
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MINNESOTA
TODAY—Stone
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6:30
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NOT
FOR WOMEN ONLY
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7:00
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TODAY—Hartz/Walters
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9:00
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NAME
THAT TUNE—Game
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9:30
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WINNING
STREAK—Game
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10:00
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HIGH
ROLLERS—Game
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10:30
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HOLLYWOOD
SQUARES
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11:00
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JACKPOT!—Game
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11:30
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CELEBRITY
SWEEPSTAKES—Game
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11:55
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NBC
NEWS—Edwin Newman
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AFTERNOON
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12:00
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NEWS
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12:15
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DIAL
5
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1:00
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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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2:30
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HOW
TO SURVIVE A MARRIAGE—Serial
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3:00
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SOMERSET—Serial
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3:30
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MAYBERRY
R.F.D.
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4:00
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MOD
SQUAD—Crime Drama
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5:00
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HOGAN’S
HEROES
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5:30
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NBC
NEWS—John Chancellor
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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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BOWLING
FOR DOLLARS
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7:00
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MAC
DAVIS—Variety
Guests: Andy Griffith, Stiller and
Meara, Steve Simon
[Last show of the series]
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7:30
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JUST
FOR LAUGHS
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8:00
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IRONSIDE
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9:00
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NBC
NEWS PRESENTS—Documentary
Special
“Social Change in the
South”
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10:00
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NEWS
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10:30
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JOHNNY
CARSON
Guest host: Sammy Davis, Jr. Guest:
Roger Miller
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12:00
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TOMORROW—Discussion
Guest: David Hoy
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9 KMSP (ABC)
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MORNING
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7:00
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CBS
NEWS—Hughes Rudd
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8:00
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NEWS
AND VIEWS—Smith
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8:30
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ROMPER
ROOM
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9:00
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I
LOVE LUCY BW
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9:30
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GREEN
ACRES
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10:00
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BEAT
THE CLOCK
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10:30
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BRADY
BUNCH
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11:00
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PASSWORD—Game
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11:30
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SPLIT
SECOND—Game
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AFTERNOON
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12:00
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ALL
MY CHILDREN—Serial
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12:30
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LET’S
MAKE A DEAL—Game
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1:00
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NEWLYWED
GAME
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1:30
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GIRL
IN MY LIFE
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2:00
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GENERAL
HOSPITAL—Serial
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2:30
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ONE
LIFE TO LIVE—Serial
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3:00
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$10,000
PYRAMID—Game
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3:30
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MIKE
DOUGLAS
Co-host: John Davidson. Guests: Pat
O’Brien, Ben Vereen, Morton Halpern, Kip Adotta
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5:00
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NEWS—Boyett/Bremen
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5:30
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ABC
NEWS—Smith/Reasoner
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EVENING
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6:00
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TO
TELL THE TRUTH
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6:30
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TRUTH
OR CONSEQUENCES
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7:00
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TEMPERATURE’S
RISING—Comedy
[Last show of the series]
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8:00
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KUNG
FU—Drama
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10:00
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NEWS
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10:30
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WIDE
WORLD SPECIAL
“Geraldo Rivera: Good-Night America”
Guests: Carol Channing, Peter Cook and
Dudley Moore, Marlo Thomas
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12:00
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MOVIE—Drama
“The Mudlark” (1951)
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1:00
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NEWS
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11 WTCN (IND.)
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MORNING
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6:30
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PROBE—Discussion
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7:00
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NEW
ZOO REVUE
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7:30
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POPEYE
AND PORKY—Children
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8:30
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BATMAN
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9:00
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FLINTSTONES
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9:30
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I
DREAM OF JEANNIE—Comedy
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10:00
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FATHER
KNOWS BEST
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10:30
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BEWITCHED—Comedy
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11:00
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GOMER
PYLE, USMC
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11:30
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DAYS
AT THE FAIR
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AFTERNOON
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3:00
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GOMER
PYLE, USMC
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3:30
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I
DREAM OF JEANNIE—Comedy
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4:00
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FLINTSTONES
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4:30
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GENTLE
BEN
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5:00
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BEWITCHED—Comedy
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5:30
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MISSION:
IMPOSSIBLE
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EVENING
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6:30
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LUCY
SHOW—Comedy
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7:00
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FAIR
DAYS
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7:30
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FATHER
KNOWS BEST
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8:00
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WFL
FOOTBALL
Birmingham Americans at Chicago Fire
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11:00
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PERRY
MASON
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12:00
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MOVIE—Western
“No Name on the Bullet” (1959)
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17 KTCI (PBS)
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EVENING
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6:30
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DESIGNING
SUCCESS STRATEGY
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7:00
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HUMANIST
ALTERNATIVE
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7:30
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HISTORY
OF THE JUVENILE COURT
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8:00
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MEDIA
7 PRESENTS
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9:00
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EVENING
AT POPS—Music
Guest: Ana Marie Vera
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10:00
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ABC
NEWS FOR THE DEAF
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TV
Sometimes you lock on to the silliest things …
ReplyDeleteIn re whether the show was listed as The Waltons, or simply as Waltons -
- Who the hell cared?
When the show was in first-run, I didn't care - in fact, I never even noticed.
Apart from the printing plant manager (or whoever had charge of typesetting), I doubt that anybody in the immediate world noticed.
As part of my due diligence, I did check the comparatively few TV Guides I have from the '70s (this one isn't among them), and what I found was that while the article appears in the early run of The Waltons, it kind of disappears by the mid-'70s, so the listing just says WALTONS - Drama.
And throughout the length and breadth of our great land - nobody gave a rat's rear end.
In recent times, I've seen some very odd reactions indeed to the disappearance of The from the opening titles of the last two seasons of Twilight Zone.
As above - nobody noticed, nobody cared.
Until the belated emergence of the Continuity Dweebs (of which I am one, but not to this OCD extent - I hope).
By the way, The Men was a wheel series: Jigsaw, Assignment: Vienna, The Delphi Bureau, in that order of rotation.
TV Guide's policy with wheels was to list by the component parts, so this series was never listed as The Men - or even as Men.
And the one I was able to find in my (admittedly quick) search was listed as Delphi Bureau - no article.
Nobody noticed, nobody cared - this is so damned silly …
As I said above, I don't have this issue, but I can contribute - sort of.
- In your header grab, I noticed the bobtailed part of the listing for Just For Laughs, ABC's 'Failure Theater' of unsold comedy pilots.
Check back, and you'll see that this was Ernie, Madge, And Artie, a fantasy about a widow (Cloris Leachman) who gets remarried to an old friend (Dick Van Patten), only to be reunited with the ghost of husband #1 (Frank Sutton); hilarity ensues (it says here).
You'll note that this broadcast was "Postponed from an earlier date".
What happened was that back in June, Frank Sutton had died in real life - and someone at ABC thought it would be in questionable taste to run this show so soon after the unfortunate event.
So ABC delayed Ernie, Madge, And Artie - for one whole week.
True Story …
- Also from the header grab:
Tonight's Ironside rerun is "Riddle At 24,000", about Ironside visiting an old friend, a Cuban-born doctor who's become the coroner for a small California town, and they work together to solve a murder that takes place in a small plane in mid-air.
The doctor is Desi Arnaz (Senior, though not called that in the titles), for whom this was a backdoor pilot (I didn't know the term at that time, but my dad, my brother, and I all spotted it as such).
Dr. Domingo the series didn't sell; I have it on an Ironside Season 7 DVD (from Australia, where the late seasons were released that way, unlike Stateside).
I liked it, anyway …
Mike, nothing personal, but it's my site, and I'm going to write about whatever interests me. That's who cares. Grammar and punctuation interest me. You're more than happy to start your own and write about what whatever interests you. As Jon points out below, sometimes articles can change the meaning of things. . .
DeleteGive it a rest, Mike. Are you ever satisfied?
DeleteMitchell, old friend:
DeleteYou're the one who asked me.
If you don't want an answer, don't ask the question.
(Or is it that the news about MeTV's forthcoming program switch ticked you off {see: shooting the messenger}?)
Mike, I really appreciate your contributions to this forum but you are regularly condescending toward Mitchell. As far as "The" appearing before a show title, frankly I wondered the same thing over the years.
DeleteRespectfully, can we not focus on the enjoyment we receive from Mitchell's research and not be snarky about minutiae?
As I think you mentioned in the past, ABC's 1977-78 game show THE BETTER SEX also should have "THE" in front of it, or its meaning is completely different.
ReplyDeleteI see that this day was finally the end of the line for TEMPERATURES RISING, after 2 years & 3 formats. TVG incorrectly inserted an apostrophe before the 'S' in the 1st word of the title.
Where would we all be if we dropped T.H.E. from the 60's series starring Robert Loggia? Personally, Mitchell, I noticed the same thing as an avid Guide reader from the early 1960's on. Glad you reference it regularly. If anything, it proves that copywriters (or typesetters back then) got lazy.
ReplyDeleteT.H.E. CAT was the man's name - initials and all.
DeleteNo article - no omission.
And no issue.
Anybody here old enough to remember that Bob Kane's comic book hero was originally called The Batman?
Nobody made a big whoop when that was dropped.
How do you know, Mike? There were no blogs. Plus, it was meant to add a little levity to the discussion.
DeleteThere must have been a major county or state fair that week in the Twin Cities since it appears a couple of special programs ( a ten minute show on WCCO at 5:20 P.M. and a half-hour on WTCN at 7 P.M.) originated from the fairgrounds.
ReplyDeleteMike Doran: Worst. Post. Ever.
ReplyDeleteArticle optional.
Mike Douglas features comic Kip Adotta, who just passed on...
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