February 10, 2020

What's on TV? Sunday, February 11, 1973

February 12 is Abraham Lincoln's birthday, and in commemoration there are no fewer than five Lincoln specials on TV this week. On Tuesday, NBC celebrates with The Great Man's Whiskers, the story of how Lincoln came to grow his beard, with Dennis Weaver as Honest Abe. The rest are today: Lamp Unto My Feet's "No Lonely Mountain Peak" is a musical tribute, with Met Opera baritone Sherill Milnes performing the Gettysburg Address; WPIX has Abe Lincoln in Illinois, with Raymond Massey in his signature role; and NET Playhouse has D.W. Griffith's Abraham Lincoln biopic. (Various PBS stations also carry A Look at Lincoln, with actor Dick Blake as the 16th president. It was a time for heroes, and speaking of which, who wants to miss Peter Cushing as Doctor Who in Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D., starring the Daleks.

The week's issue is the New Jersey-Pennsylvania edition, with New York City thrown in for good measure.



 2  WCBS (NYC) (CBS)

MORNING

    7:00
ARCHIE’S FUN HOUSE

    7:30
HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS

    8:00
PATCHWORK FAMILY

    9:00
OPPORTUNITY LINE

    9:30
WAY TO GO—Religion

  10:00
LAMP UNTO MY FEET
“No Lonely Mountain Peak”

  10:30
LOOK UP AND LIVE

  11:00
CAMERA THREE

  11:30
FACE THE NATION

AFTERNOON

  12:00
NEWSMAKERS

  12:30
PUBLIC HEARING

    1:00
MOVIE—Adventure
“Africa—Texas Style!” (1967)

    3:00
YOU ARE THERE

    3:30
CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR
Los Angeles Times track & field

    5:00
ST. LOUIS ZOO

    5:30
CBS SPORTS ILLUSTRATED

EVENING

    6:00
60 MINUTES

    7:00
NEWS

    7:30
PEANUTS CARTOON
Special: “Play It Again, Charlie Brown”

    8:00
FLINTSTONES ON ICE
Special

    9:00
DUKE ELLINGTON . . . WE LOVE YOU MADLY
Special: Guests: Count Basie, Ray Charles, Sammy Davis Jr., Louis Bellson, Roberta Flack, Aretha Franklin, Sarah Vaughan, Peggy Lee, Chicago, Billy Eckstine, Paula Kelly, Joe Williams

  10:30
PROTECTORS

  11:00
CBS NEWS—Dan Rather

  11:15
NEWS

  11:30
NAME OF THE GAME—Drama

    1:10
MOVIE—Thriller
“House of Wax” (1953)

    3:10
MOVIE—Biography BW 
“Edison, the Man” (1940)



 3  KYW (PHILADELPHIA) (NBC)

MORNING

    6:25
NEWS BW 

    6:30
INTERNATIONAL ZONE

    7:00
PATTERN FOR LIVING

    7:30
YOUR FUTHRE IS NOW

    8:00
MULLIGAN STEW

    8:30
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS—Cartoon

    9:00
TALKING WITH A GIANT
Guest: Roberta Flack

    9:30
SUNDAY

  10:00
EARTH LAB

  11:00
CHALLENGE

  11:30
MELTING POT

AFTERNOON

  12:00
REPORT FROM GOV. MILTON SHAPP

  12:30
MEET THE PRESS

    1:00
GOLD CONCERT
Special: Performers: the Platters, the Drifters, Jay and the Americans, the Mellow Kings, the Chiffons. Host: Bruce Morrow

    2:00
NHL HOCKEY
Montreal at New York

    4:30
DAVID FROST REVUE
Guest: Art Carney

    5:00
GOLF TOURNAMENT
Special: Bob Hope Desert Classic, final round

EVENING

    6:30
NBC NEWS—Utley

    7:00
SEVEN DAYS

    7:30
WORLD OF DISNEY
“Rascal” (1969, part one

    8:30
COLUMBO
Guest killer: Leonard Nimoy

  10:00
ESCAPE—Adventure
Debut

  10:30
POLICE SURGEON

  11:00
NEWS

  11:30
JOHNNY CARSON
Guests: William F. Buckley Jr., Victor Buono, Rich Little, the Ace Trucking Company

    1:00
NEWS

    1:05
HIGHWAY PATROL



 4  WNBC (NYC) (NBC)

MORNING

    7:00
MODERN FARMER

    7:30
WATCH YOUR CHILD

    8:00
LIBRARY LIONS

    8:30
COMMUNITY AT LARGE

    8:45
MARYKNOLL WORLD

    9:00
TV SUNDAY SCHOOL

    9:15
HEBREW SCHOOL

    9:30
FROM NOW ON

  10:00
OPEN CIRCUIT

  10:30
MAN IN OFFICE

  11:00
NEWSLIGHT

  11:30
DIRECT LINE

AFTERNOON

  12:00
RESEARCH PROJECT

  12:30
MEET THE PRESS

    1:00
SPEAKING FREELY

    2:00
NHL HOCKEY
Montreal at New York

    4:30
SPORTS CHALLENGE

    5:00
GOLF TOURNAMENT
Special: Bob Hope Desert Classic, final round

EVENING

    6:30
NBC NEWS—Utley

    7:00
WILD KINGDOM

    7:30
WORLD OF DISNEY
“Rascal” (1969, part one

    8:30
COLUMBO
Guest killer: Leonard Nimoy

  10:30
NEW YORK ILLUSTRATED

  11:00
NEWS

  11:30
MOVIE—Western
“Last Train from Gun Hill” (1959)



 5  WNEW (NYC) (Ind.)

MORNING

    6:30
HUMANIST ALTERNATIVES

    7:00
WONDER WINDOW

    7:30
UNDERDOG

    8:00
WONDERAMA
Special guest: Morris the Cat

  11:00
FLINTSTONES

AFTERNOON

  12:00
MOVIE—Comedy BW 
“In the Money” (1958)

    1:00
MOVIE—Drama BW 
“Dragonwyck” (1946)

    3:00
MOVIE—Drama BW 
“Uncertain Glory” (1944)

    5:00
SECRET AGENT—Adventure BW 

EVENING

    6:00
MOVIE—Adventure
“Casino Royale” (English; 1967)

    8:00
LAWRENCE WELK

    9:00
KING FAMILY VALENTINE’S DAY SPECIAL

  10:00
NEWS

  10:30
SPORTS—Mazer/Leonard

  11:00
GABE PRESSMAN—Interview

  11:30
DAVID SUSSKIND

    1:30
MONEY TALKS



 6  WPVI (PHILADELPHIA) (ABC)

MORNING

    6:50
THE CHRISTIAN ANSWER

    6:55
GUIDEPOST

    7:00
CHRISTOPHER CLOSEUP

    7:30
THIS IS THE LIFE

    8:00
DIALOG

    8:30
DIRECTIONS

    9:00
PUERTO RICAN PANORAMA—Diego Castellanos

    9:30
MAKE A WISH

  10:00
CURIOSITY SHOP

  11:00
AL ALBERTS SHOWCASE ‘73

  11:30
LARRY FERRARI

AFTERNOON

  12:00
FOCUS

  12:30
TELL IT TO THE NATION

    1:00
NEWS

    1:30
ISSUES AND ANSWERS

    2:00
NBA BASKETBALL
Milwaukee at Boston

    4:15
MOVIE—Comedy
“All Hands on Deck” (1961)

EVENING

    6:00
NEWS

    6:30
WHAT ABOUT TOMORROW?—Science
Special: “Cities: Our Next Frontier”

    7:00
WAIT TIL YOUR FATHER GTS HOME

    7:30
PARENT GAME

    8:00
FBI

    9:00
MOVIE—Drama BW 
“The Longest Day” (1962)

  11:00
NEWS

  11:30
JACK PAAR TONITE
Guests: Muledeer and Moondogg Medicine Show, Ben Vereen

    1:00
ABC NEWS—Bill Beutel



 7  WABC (NYC) (ABC)

MORNING

    8:00
FAITH FOR TODAY

    8:30
CHRISTOPHER CLOSEUP

    9:00
THE ANSWER

    9:30
FAITH, HOPE AND LOVE

  10:00
CURIOSITY SHOP

  11:00
BULLWINKLE

  11:30
MAKE A WISH

AFTERNOON

  12:00
IT’S ALL ABOUT YOUNG PEOPLE

  12:30
NEWS CONFERENCE

    1:00
DIRECTIONS

    1:30
ISSUES AND ANSWERS

    2:00
NBA BASKETBALL
Milwaukee at Boston

    4:15
AMERICAN SPORTSMAN

    5:15
HOWARD COSELL’S SPORTS MAGAZINE

    5:30
LIFE AROUND US

EVENING

    6:00
PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS

    6:30
COME ALONG

    7:00
FESTIVAL OF FAMILY CLASSICS

    7:30
HALF THE GEORGE KIRBY COMEDY HOUR
Guest: Marilyn Michaels

    8:00
FBI

    9:00
MOVIE—Drama BW 
“The Longest Day” (1962)

  11:00
ABC NEWS—Bill Beutel

  11:15
NEWS

  11:30
MOVIE—Science Fiction
“The Immortal” (1969)

    1:00
MOVIE—Comedy BW 
“The Great Diamond Robbery” (1953)



 9  WOR (NYC) (Ind.)

MORNING

    7:30
CHRISTOPHER CLOSEUP

    8:00
ORAL ROBERTS

    8:30
DAY OF DISCOVERY

    9:00
DAVEY AND GOLIATH

    9:30
RIGHT NOW

  10:00
VALUES FOR THE SEVENTIES

  10:30
POINT OF VIEW

  11:00
REX HUMBARD

AFTERNOON

  12:00
HOUR OF POWER

    1:00
MOVIE—Western BW 
“Texas” (1941)

    3:00
MOVIE—Western
“The Return of the Gunfighter” (1966)

    5:00
MOVIE—Drama
“Spartacus” (1960)

EVENING

    9:00
BLACK OMNIBUS
Host: James Earl Jones. Guests: Ron O’Neal, Hugh Robertson, Alan Weeks, Franklyn Ajaye, Papa John Creach, Ester Phillips

  10:00
GARNER TED ARMSTRONG

  10:30
THIS IS YOUR LIFE
Mrs. Spencer Tracy

  11:00
NEW YORK REPORT

  11:30
MOVIE—Drama BW 
“Billy Budd” (English; 1962)

    1:40
NEWS



10 WCAU (PHILADELPHIA) (CBS)

MORNING

    6:15
BILL BENNETT

    6:30
WAKE UP!

    7:00
ARCHIE’S FUN HOUSE

    7:30
HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS

    8:00
GENE LONDON

    8:30
BUGS BUNNY

    9:00
MAKE UP YOUR MIND

    9:30
CONTINUUM: JUDIASM IN SOCIETY

  10:00
LAMP UNTO MY FEET
“No Lonely Mountain Peak”

  10:30
LOOK UP AND LIVE

  11:00
CAMERA THREE

  11:30
CAPITOL HILL TO PHILADELPHIA

AFTERNOON

  12:00
UPDATE

  12:30
FACE THE NATION

    1:00
YOU ARE THERE

    1:30
OUTDOORS WITH JULIUS BOROS

    2:00
AMERICAN ADVENTURE

    2:30
WOMAN’S GOLF
Sue Bening and Marilynn Smith vs. Debbi Austin and Jan Ferraris

    3:30
CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR
Los Angeles Times track & field

    5:00
RIGHT ON!

    5:30
CBS SPORTS ILLUSTRATED

EVENING

    6:00
60 MINUTES

    7:00
NEWS

    7:30
PEANUTS CARTOON
Special: “Play It Again, Charlie Brown”

    8:00
FLINTSTONES ON ICE
Special

    9:00
DUKE ELLINGTON . . . WE LOVE YOU MADLY
Special: Guests: Count Basie, Ray Charles, Sammy Davis Jr., Louis Bellson, Roberta Flack, Aretha Franklin, Sarah Vaughan, Peggy Lee, Chicago, Billy Eckstine, Paula Kelly, Joe Williams

  10:30
PROTECTORS

  11:00
CBS NEWS—Dan Rather

  11:15
NEWS

  11:30
NAME OF THE GAME—Drama

    1:00
MOVIE—Drama
“The Big Circus” (1959)

    3:10
ROUTE 66—Drama BW 



11 WPIX (NYC) (Ind.)

MORNING

    7:00
CHRISTOPHER CLOSEUP

    7:15
DAVEY AND GOLIATH

    7:30
LITTLE RASCALS

    9:00
MAGILLA AND FRIENDS

  10:00
SUPERMAN—Adventure

  10:30
SUPERMAN—Adventure

  11:00
NANNY AND THE PROFESSOR—Comedy

  11:30
MOVE-Comedy BW 
“Lost in Alaska” (1952)

AFTERNOON

    1:00
MOVIE—Drama BW 
“I Want You” (1951)

    3:00
MOVIE—Drama BW 
“Wuthering Heights” (1939)

    5:00
MOVIE—Drama BW 
“Abe Lincoln in Illinois” (1940)

EVENING

    7:00
WOMEN’S GOLF

    8:00
SENATOR BUCKLEY REPORTS

    8:30
COUNCIL OF CHURCHES

    9:00
BLACK PRIDE

    9:30
SUBURBAN CLOSEUP

  10:00
NEWS

  10:30
WITH MAYOR LINDSAY

  11:00
EDGAR WALLACE

  12:00
ENCOUNTER

  12:30
ASK CONGRESS

    1:00
INSIGHT



12 WHYY (PHILADELPHIA) (PBS)

MORNING

    8:30
SESAME STREET

    9:30
MISTER ROGERS’ NEIGHBORHOOD

  10:00
ELECTRIC COMPANY

  10:30
SESAME STREET

  11:30
MISTER ROGERS’ NEIGHBORHOOD

AFTERNOON

  12:00
ELECTRIC COMPANY

  12:30
HODGEPODGE LODGE

    4:00
SESAME STREET

    5:00
MISTER ROGERS

    5:30
ELECTRIC COMPANY

EVENING

    6:00
HODGEPODGE LODGE

    6:30
WHAT’S NEW—Children

    7:00
ZOOM

    7:30
EVENING AT POPS

    8:30
EYE TO EYE—Art

    9:00
MASTERPIECE THEATRE
“Tom Brown’s Schooldays” Chapter 5
[Beginning next week: Aldous Huxley’s “Point Counter Point"]

  10:00
FIRING LINE
Guest: Huey Newton



13 WNET (NYC) (PBS)

AFTERNOON

    4:30
NET PLAYHOUSE BIOGRAPHY BW 
“Abraham Lincoln” (1930)

EVENING

    6:00
SESAME STREET

    7:00
ERICA

    7:15
EVENING AT POPS

    8:15
MEMBERSHIP WEEK

    8:30
JOAN SUTHERLAND: WHO’S AFRAID OF OPERA?
Special: “Lucia di Lammermoor”

    9:00
MASTERPIECE THEATRE
“Tom Brown’s Schooldays” Chapter 5
[Beginning next week: Aldous Huxley’s “Point Counter Point]

  10:00
MEMBERSHIP WEEK

  10:15
FANFARE
“Swan Lake”

  11:15
MEMBERSHIP WEEK

  11:30
FIRING LINE
Guest: Huey Newton



17 WPHL (PHILADELPHIA) (Ind.)

MORNING

    7:15
BULLETIN BOARD

    7:30
OLD-TIME GOSPEL HOUR

    8:30
DAY OF DISCOVERY

    9:00
HOUR OF POWER

  10:00
SECRET AGENT—Adventure BW 

  11:00
MAJOR ADAMS—Western BW 

AFTERNOON

  12:00
VIRGINIAN—Western

    1:30
MOVIE—Science Fiction
“Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.”

    3:00
MOVIE—Comedy
“How to Marry a Millionaire” (1953)

    5:00
OF LANDS AND SEAS

EVENING

    6:00
HEE HAW
Guests: Oral Roberts, Richard and Patti Roberts, Frankie Laine, Buddy Allan

    7:00
LUCY-DESI HOUR BW 

    8:00
SHOWTIME—Variety
Host: Don Knotts. Guests: Julie London, Errol Garner

    9:00
MOVIE—Mystery
“Strategy of Terror” (1967)

  11:00
TWILIGHT ZONE—Drama BW 

  11:30
BULLETIN BOARD

  11:45
AT YOUR SERVICE



29 WTAF (PHILADELPHIA) (Ind.)

MORNING

    8:00
STREAMS OF FAITH

    8:30
BILLY JAMES HARGIS AND HIS ALL-AMERICAN KIDS

    9:00
REV. McKINLEY WILLIAMS

    9:30
ARMANDO COMEDY SHOW

  10:00
MY FAVORITE MARTIAN—Comedy BW 

  10:30
FRANK VENTRESCA

  11:30
IT IS WRITTEN

AFTERNOON

  12:00
BOWLING

    1:00
MOVIE—Drama BW 
“The Young Lions” (1958)

    5:00
TARZAN—Adventure

EVENING

    6:00
HERE COME THE BRIDES—Comedy-Drama

    7:00
TOM JONES—Variety

    8:00
NHL HOCKEY PRE-GAME SHOW

    8:30
NHL HOCKEY
Philadelphia at Chicago

  11:15
CHANGING TIMES

  11:30
HARRY BRISTOW SHOW



48 WKBS (PHILADELPHIA) (Ind.)

MORNING

    8:00
REX HUMBARD

    9:00
YOGI BEAR

    9:30
UNDERDOG

  10:00
BANANA SPLITS

  10:30
SPEED RACER

  11:00
FLINTSTONES

  11:30
MUNSTERS—Comedy BW 

AFTERNOON

  12:00
MOVIE—Western BW 
“Fort Apache” (1948)

    2:30
MOVIE—Crime Drama BW 
“San Quentin” (1937)

    4:00
ROLLER GAME
Eastern Warriors vs. Western Renegades

EVENING

    6:00
WILD WILD WEST—Adventure

    7:00
UNTAMED WORLD

    7:30
THIS IS YOUR LIFE
Anne Baxter

    8:00
MOVIE—Drama BW 
“Casablanca” (1942)

  10:00
LOU GORDON
Guests: Lt. Col. Anthony B. Herbert, Louis Nizer

  11:30
REX HUMBARD



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11 comments:

  1. Very Off-Topic, but I gotta get it in:

    Late last night (actually very early morning, but you get the idea), I happened upon Episode 82 of the Eventually Supertrain podcast, appearing before the actual blog post at the site.

    Earlier, I wondered aloud about how far in advance you and Dan recorded the Bourbon Street Beat segments; obviously you're working way in advance of the posting, which is why I'm a bit nettled here.

    I would call your attention to a comment I sent you on this past January 12, 2020,
    wherein I called your attention to the earlier incarnation of BSB's "Suitable for Framing" from 1960, as a 77 Sunset Strip segment from 1958, "The Well-Selected Frame".
    "Incarnation" is putting it mildly - "Suitable" is more or less a direct lift from "Well-Selected", scene for scene; "W. Hermanos" at his (its?) grandest.
    The provenance was easy enough to suss out: Charles Hoffman wrote the original 77SS script from Gerald Drayson Adams's story.
    A few years on, when the WGAw strike hit, Hoffman was BSB's showrunner, charged with finding WB properties that could be "Hermanosed" for his show.
    Using his own old 77 Sunset Script was an obvious move here; he could still take his old credit for a royalty, while giving "W. Hermanos" a screen mention (and cut-price payoff) for the "new" show (I suspect that in this case, Mr. 'Hermanos' was likely Hoffman himself, but we'll never know, will we?).
    There was intrigue in those days …

    To the point, however:
    If you and Dan recorded the podcast before my January 12 comment reached you, I do think that simple common courtesy would hold that you let me know that my little effort didn't make your deadline.
    I mean, really - almost a whole month?

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    1. Charles Hoffman lives on in a way on THE BRADY BUNCH. He was story editor for about 1 1/2 seasons, through Season 2, and his name was worked into an early Season 2 episode, "The Babysitters". In this episode, Greg & Marcia have been left in charge of the other Brady kids while Mike & Carol have gone out to a restaurant to be followed by a show. However, Cindy has come down w/ something, and that worries Mike & Carol. Mike & Carol both make excuses to phone home, and Mike's first excuse is telling Carol "Hey, there's Charlie Hoffman!". He walks across the restaurant to call home instead. Carol did the same a few minutes earlier w/o Mike's knowledge. The names of a few Brady background people were worked into scripts occasionally, so Mr. Hoffman's was included once as well.

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    2. This is a long-standing practice, not only in movies, radio, and TV, but in prose as well.
      In the literary fields, it's called "Tuckerizing", after Wilson "Bob" Tucker, who called out his friends and fellow writers in his science-fiction stories.
      In TV, Hal Horn can tell you many examples of how Paul Henning memorialized his friends and colleagues on his various shows, from Love That Bob! onward (one example to serve for many).
      During Hoffman's Warner-TV period, he and his colleagues called each other out so many times … you could write a book (and I wish somebody would).

      *Irrelevant anecdote (but I just thought of it and had to throw it in):
      In one of 77 Sunset Strip's Hollywood shows, they were having a premiere soiree at Dino's, and the red-carpet announcer announced the arrival of "that bright new star Billy Anderson!"
      I can't recall if "Billy" got on camera here, so if the real "Billy Anderson", who'd just officially changed his credit to Adam West … well, you can fill in the rest, right?*

      Back to the point(?):
      This has been going on for as long as there's been Hollywood.
      So There Too.

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    3. Hello Mike.

      Sorry about not mentioning your comment. We recorded that back on October 1st.

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  2. This is the first time I've seen anyone referred to as "Guest killer" on COLUMBO. If I remember correctly Nimoy intended to "kill" Will Geer but "killed" Anne Francis instead. Capt. Kirk would join Mr. Spock on Murderers Row about 3 1/2 years later.

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    1. Great linkage! Without going into full-fledged descriptions of each show, I thought it would be kind of fun to identify the killer, as well as the guest villains on Batman. You know, after almost 10 years, you have to find ways to keep yourself amused...

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  3. I suspect the home team of NBC's NHL game at 2 P.M. was he New York Rangers, as they had been Stanley Cup finalists the prior year, while Montreal had won the Stanley Cup in 1968, 1969, and 1971; and was still a solid contender (they'd regain the Cup later that spring and then win four straight titles from 1976 through 1979).

    The other New York team, the Long Island-based New York Islanders, were in their first season and were a couple of years away from being a good team.

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    1. You are correct - I completely forgot that the Islanders had come into the league that season. I live too much in the past.

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  4. The call letters for Philadelphia's channel 29 should have been WTAF (WTAP is a TV station in Parkersburg, West Virginia).

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  5. This was the PA-NJ edition of the TV Guide witch eventually merged with the the Philadelphia edition in the early 80's

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