2 KTCA (PBS)
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||
AFTERNOON
|
||
4:00
|
MISTER ROGERS
|
|
4:30
|
SESAME STREET
|
|
5:30
|
ELECTRIC COMPANY
|
|
EVENING
|
||
6:00
|
GERMAN—Education
|
|
6:30
|
CHAN-ESE WAY—Cooking
|
|
7:00
|
WASHINGTON WEEK IN REVIEW
|
|
7:30
|
BLACK PERSPECTIVE ON THE NEWS
|
|
8:00
|
YOUR WORLD THIS WEEK
|
|
8:30
|
CHANGING MUSIC
|
|
9:00
|
WALT HARPER AT FALLINGWATER—Music
Special
|
|
3 KDAL (DULUTH) (CBS)
|
||
MORNING
|
||
7:00
|
CBS NEWS—John Hart
|
|
8:00
|
CAPTAIN KANGAROO
|
|
9:00
|
JOKER’S WILD—Game
|
|
9:30
|
$10,000 PYRAMID—Game
|
|
10:00
|
GAMBIT—Game
|
|
10:30
|
LOVE OF LIFE
|
|
10:55
|
CBS NEWS—Edwards
|
|
11:00
|
THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS—Serial
|
|
11:30
|
SEARCH FOR TOMORROW
|
|
AFTERNOON
|
||
12:00
|
TOWN AND COUNTRY
|
|
12:30
|
AS THE WORLD TURNS
|
|
1:00
|
GUIDING LIGHT
|
|
1:30
|
EDGE OF NIGHT
|
|
2:00
|
PRICE IS RIGHT
|
|
2:30
|
MATCH GAME ‘73
|
|
3:00
|
SECRET STORM
|
|
3:30
|
DRAGNET
|
|
4:00
|
MIKE DOUGLAS
Co-host: Frank Sinatra Jr. Guests:
Aliza Kashi, Pat Cooper, Morris the Cat and his trainer Bob Martwick, Lottie
Jones
|
|
5:30
|
CBS NEWS—Roger Mudd
|
|
EVENING
|
||
6:00
|
NEWS
|
|
6:30
|
BOB NEWHART—Comedy
|
|
7:00
|
60 MINUTES
|
|
8:00
|
MOVIE—Comedy
“Hot Millions” (English; 1968)
|
|
10:00
|
NEWS
|
|
10:30
|
MOVIE—Comedy
“Harum Scarum” (1965)
|
|
12:30
|
MOVIE—Melodrama
“The Strange Case of Doctor Rx” (1942)
|
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4 WCCO (CBS)
|
||
MORNING
|
||
6:30
|
SUMMER SEMESTER
Practical English for Hispanic
Americans
|
|
7:00
|
CARMEN
|
|
7:30
|
CLANCY AND WILLIE
|
|
8:00
|
CAPTAIN KANGAROO
|
|
9:00
|
JOKER’S WILD—Game
|
|
9:30
|
$10,000 PYRAMID—Game
|
|
10:00
|
GAMBIT—Game
|
|
10:30
|
LOVE OF LIFE
|
|
10:55
|
LIVE TODAY—Religion
|
|
11:00
|
THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS—Serial
|
|
11:30
|
SEARCH FOR TOMORROW
|
|
AFTERNOON
|
||
12:00
|
MIDDAY
|
|
12:30
|
AS THE WORLD TURNS
|
|
1:00
|
GUIDING LIGHT
|
|
1:30
|
EDGE OF NIGHT
|
|
2:00
|
PRICE IS RIGHT
|
|
2:30
|
MATCH GAME ‘73
|
|
3:00
|
SECRET STORM
|
|
3:30
|
MOVIE—Drama
“The Great Sinner” (1949)
|
|
5:30
|
CBS NEWS—Roger Mudd
|
|
EVENING
|
||
6:00
|
NEWS
|
|
6:30
|
AMAZING WORLD OF KRESKIN
|
|
7:00
|
60 MINUTES
|
|
8:00
|
MOVIE—Comedy
“Hot Millions” (English; 1968)
|
|
10:00
|
NEWS
|
|
10:50
|
MOVIE—Musical
“In the Good Old Summertime” (1949)
|
|
12:50
|
MOVIE—Musical bw
“Hollywood Party” (1934)
|
|
5 KSTP (NBC)
|
||
MORNING
|
||
6:00
|
MINNESOTA TODAY—Stone
|
|
6:30
|
NOT FOR WOMEN ONLY
Host: Barbara Walters. Guests: Lucie
Arnaz, John Lahr, Dena Kaye, Mary Rodgers
|
|
7:00
|
TODAY
|
|
9:00
|
DINAH SHORE
Guests: Edward Asner, Adelle Davis
|
|
9:30
|
BAFFLE—Game
|
|
10:00
|
WIZARD OF ODDS—Game
|
|
10:30
|
HOLLYWOOD SQUARES
|
|
11:00
|
JEOPARDY
|
|
11:30
|
WHO, WHAT OR WHERE—Game
|
|
11:55
|
NBC NEWS--Newman
|
|
AFTERNOON
|
||
12:00
|
NEWS
|
|
12:15
|
DIAL 5
|
|
1:00
|
DAYS OF OUR LIVES
|
|
1:30
|
DOCTORS
|
|
2:00
|
ANOTHER WORLD
|
|
2:30
|
RETURN TO PEYTON PLACE
|
|
3:00
|
SOMERSET
|
|
3:30
|
MIKE DOUGLAS
Guests: Marty Allen, the Spinners,
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, U.S. Navy Parachute Team Atlantic, Flying
Pierces
|
|
4:30
|
DICK VAN DYKE
|
|
5:00
|
HOGAN’S HEROES
|
|
5:30
|
NBC NEWS—John Chancellor
|
|
EVENING
|
||
6:00
|
NEWS
|
|
6:30
|
CIRCUS!
|
|
7:00
|
SANFORD AND SON
|
|
7:30
|
LITTLE PEOPLE—Comedy
|
|
8:00
|
MOVIE—Melodrama
“The Invisible Ray” (1935)
|
|
9:30
|
WHISPERING SHADOW
|
|
10:00
|
NEWS
|
|
10:30
|
JOHNNY CARSON
Guest host: Jerry Lewis. Guest: Dionne
Warwicke
|
|
12:00
|
MIDNIGHT SPECIAL
Host: Dionne Warwicke. Guests: Johnny
Mathis, Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, Leo Kottke, Malo, Bud Brisbois
|
|
6 WDSM (DULUTH) (NBC)
|
||
MORNING
|
||
7:00
|
TODAY
|
|
9:00
|
DINAH SHORE
Guests: Edward Asner, Adelle Davis
|
|
9:30
|
BAFFLE—Game
|
|
10:00
|
WIZARD OF ODDS—Game
|
|
10:30
|
HOLLYWOOD SQUARES
|
|
11:00
|
JEOPARDY
|
|
11:30
|
WHO, WHAT OR WHERE—Game
|
|
11:55
|
NBC NEWS--Newman
|
|
AFTERNOON
|
||
12:00
|
LIVING EASY WITH DR. JOYCE BROTHERS
Guest: Earl Wilson
|
|
12:30
|
THREE ON A MATCH—Game
|
|
1:00
|
DAYS OF OUR LIVES
|
|
1:30
|
DOCTORS
|
|
2:00
|
ANOTHER WORLD
|
|
2:30
|
RETURN TO PEYTON PLACE
|
|
3:00
|
SOMERSET
|
|
3:30
|
MOVIE—To Be Announced
|
|
5:30
|
NBC NEWS—John Chancellor
|
|
EVENING
|
||
6:00
|
NEWS
|
|
6:30
|
NBC NEWS—John Chancellor
|
|
7:00
|
SANFORD AND SON
|
|
7:30
|
LITTLE PEOPLE—Comedy
|
|
8:00
|
MOVIE—Comedy
“Call Me Bwana” (1963)
|
|
10:00
|
NEWS
|
|
10:30
|
JOHNNY CARSON
Guest host: Jerry Lewis. Guest: Dionne
Warwicke
|
|
6 KAUS (AUSTIN) (ABC)
|
||
MORNING
|
||
8:00
|
TOWN AND COUNTRY
|
|
8:30
|
MOVIE—Drama
“Some May Live” (1967)
|
|
10:30
|
BRADY BUNCH
|
|
11:00
|
PASSWORD
|
|
11:30
|
SPLIT SECOND—Game
|
|
AFTERNOON
|
||
12:00
|
ALL MY CHILDREN
|
|
12:30
|
LET’S MAKE A DEAL
|
|
1:00
|
NEWLYWED GAME
|
|
1:30
|
GIRL IN MY LIFE
|
|
2:00
|
GENERAL HOSPITAL
|
|
2:30
|
ONE LIFE TO LIVE
|
|
3:00
|
LOVE, AMERICAN STYLE
|
|
3:30
|
MOVIE—Drama BW
“Paris Express” (English; 1953)
|
|
5:00
|
ABC NEWS—Howard K. Smith, Harry
Reasoner
|
|
5:30
|
DICK VAN DYKE
|
|
EVENING
|
||
6:00
|
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES
|
|
6:30
|
GREEN ACRES
|
|
7:00
|
BRADY BUNCH
|
|
7:30
|
ODD COUPLE
|
|
8:00
|
ABC NEWS SPECIAL
Special: How Black POWs Feel About America
|
|
8:30
|
COLLEGE ALL-STAR FOOTBALL
Special: College All-Stars vs. Miami Dolphins
|
|
11:30
|
NEWS
Time approximate
|
|
7 KCMT (ALEXANDRIA) (NBC, ABC)
|
||
MORNING
|
||
7:00
|
TODAY
|
|
9:00
|
DINAH SHORE
Guests: Edward Asner, Adelle Davis
|
|
9:30
|
BAFFLE—Game
|
|
10:00
|
WIZARD OF ODDS—Game
|
|
10:30
|
HOLLYWOOD SQUARES
|
|
11:00
|
JEOPARDY
|
|
11:30
|
WHO, WHAT OR WHERE—Game
|
|
11:55
|
NBC NEWS--Newman
|
|
AFTERNOON
|
||
12:00
|
FARM TODAY
|
|
12:20
|
TRADING POST
|
|
12:30
|
THREE ON A MATCH—Game
|
|
1:00
|
DAYS OF OUR LIVES
|
|
1:30
|
DOCTORS
|
|
2:00
|
ANOTHER WORLD
|
|
2:30
|
RETURN TO PEYTON PLACE
|
|
3:00
|
SOMERSET
|
|
3:30
|
WELCOME INN—Variety
|
|
4:30
|
LIDSVILLE—Children
|
|
5:00
|
OSMONDS—Cartoon
|
|
5:30
|
NBC NEWS—John Chancellor
|
|
EVENING
|
||
6:00
|
NEWS
|
|
6:30
|
WILD KINGDOM
|
|
7:00
|
BRADY BUNCH
|
|
7:30
|
ODD COUPLE
|
|
8:00
|
MOVIE—Comedy
“Call Me Bwana” (1963)
|
|
10:00
|
NEWS
|
|
10:30
|
JOHNNY CARSON
Guest host: Jerry Lewis. Guest: Dionne
Warwicke
|
|
12:00
|
MIDNIGHT SPECIAL
Host: Dionne Warwicke. Guests: Johnny
Mathis, Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, Leo Kottke, Malo, Bud Brisbois
|
|
8 WDSE (DULUTH) (PBS)
|
||
AFTERNOON
|
||
4:00
|
MISTER ROGERS
|
|
4:30
|
ELECTRIC COMPANY
|
|
5:00
|
SESAME STREET
|
|
EVENING
|
||
6:00
|
GERMAN—Education
|
|
6:30
|
FRENCH CHEF
|
|
7:00
|
WASHINGTON WEEK IN REVIEW
|
|
7:30
|
BLACK PERSPECTIVE ON THE NEWS
|
|
8:00
|
YOUR WORLD THIS WEEK
|
|
8:30
|
MAN BUILDS, MAN DESTROYS—Ecology
|
|
9:00
|
MASTERPIECE THEATRE
“Cousin Bette,” Part 1
|
|
9 KMSP (ABC)
|
||
MORNING
|
||
7:00
|
CBS NEWS—John Hart
|
|
8:00
|
NEWS AND VIEWS—Al Tighe
|
|
8:30
|
GRANDPA KEN—Children
|
|
9:00
|
ROMPER ROOM—Miss Jody
|
|
9:30
|
WHAT’S MY LINE?—Game
|
|
10:00
|
HAZEL
|
|
10:30
|
BRADY BUNCH
|
|
11:00
|
PASSWORD
|
|
11:30
|
SPLIT SECOND—Game
|
|
AFTERNOON
|
||
12:00
|
ALL MY CHILDREN
|
|
12:30
|
LET’S MAKE A DEAL
|
|
1:00
|
NEWLYWED GAME
|
|
1:30
|
GIRL IN MY LIFE
|
|
2:00
|
GENERAL HOSPITAL
|
|
2:30
|
ONE LIFE TO LIVE
|
|
3:00
|
LOVE, AMERICAN STYLE
|
|
3:30
|
BEAT THE CLOCK
Guest: Bert Convy. Host: Gene Wood
|
|
4:00
|
GREEN ACRES
|
|
4:30
|
I LOVE LUCY BW
|
|
5:00
|
NEWS—Jerry Smith
|
|
5:30
|
ABC NEWS—Howard K. Smith, Harry
Reasoner
|
|
EVENING
|
||
6:00
|
TO TELL THE TRUTH—Game
Gene Rayburn, Kitty Carlisle, Bill
Cullen, Peggy Cass. Host: Garry Moore
|
|
6:30
|
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES
|
|
7:00
|
BRADY BUNCH
|
|
7:30
|
ODD COUPLE
|
|
8:00
|
ABC NEWS SPECIAL
Special: How Black POWs Feel About America
|
|
8:30
|
COLLEGE ALL-STAR FOOTBALL
Special: College All-Stars vs. Miami Dolphins
|
|
11:30
|
NEWS
Time approximate
|
|
12:00
|
MOVIE—Drama
“War Hunt” (1962)
|
|
10 WDIO (DULUTH) (ABC)
|
||
MORNING
|
||
9:00
|
NOT FOR WOMEN ONLY
|
|
9:30
|
JACK LaLANNE—Exercise
|
|
10:00
|
NEWLYWED GAME
|
|
10:30
|
BRADY BUNCH
|
|
11:00
|
PASSWORD
|
|
11:30
|
SPLIT SECOND—Game
|
|
AFTERNOON
|
||
12:00
|
ALL MY CHILDREN
|
|
12:30
|
LET’S MAKE A DEAL
|
|
1:00
|
LIFE STYLE—Peggy Chisholm
|
|
1:30
|
GIRL IN MY LIFE
|
|
2:00
|
GENERAL HOSPITAL
|
|
2:30
|
ONE LIFE TO LIVE
|
|
3:00
|
LOVE, AMERICAN STYLE
|
|
3:30
|
MOVIE—Drama
“Hell and High Water” (1954)
|
|
5:30
|
ABC NEWS—Howard K. Smith, Harry
Reasoner
|
|
EVENING
|
||
6:00
|
NEWS
|
|
6:30
|
FAMILY FESTIVAL
|
|
7:00
|
BRADY BUNCH
|
|
7:30
|
ODD COUPLE
|
|
8:00
|
ABC NEWS SPECIAL
Special: How Black POWs Feel About America
|
|
8:30
|
COLLEGE ALL-STAR FOOTBALL
Special: College All-Stars vs. Miami Dolphins
|
|
11:30
|
NEWS
Time approximate
|
|
12:00
|
UFO
|
|
1:00
|
MOVIE—Comedy
“Catch as Catch Can” (Italian; 1968)
|
|
10 KROC (ROCHESTER) (NBC)
|
||
MORNING
|
||
7:00
|
TODAY
|
|
7:30
|
POPEYE AND PORKY—Cartoon
|
|
9:00
|
DINAH SHORE
Guests: Edward Asner, Adelle Davis
|
|
9:30
|
BAFFLE—Game
|
|
10:00
|
WIZARD OF ODDS—Game
|
|
10:30
|
HOLLYWOOD SQUARES
|
|
11:00
|
JEOPARDY
|
|
11:30
|
WHO, WHAT OR WHERE—Game
|
|
11:55
|
NEWS—Jim Paulson
|
|
AFTERNOON
|
||
12:00
|
LIVING EASY WITH DR. JOYCE BROTHERS
Guest: Herbert Michelman
|
|
12:30
|
THREE ON A MATCH—Game
|
|
1:00
|
DAYS OF OUR LIVES
|
|
1:30
|
DOCTORS
|
|
2:00
|
ANOTHER WORLD
|
|
2:30
|
RETURN TO PEYTON PLACE
|
|
3:00
|
SOMERSET
|
|
3:30
|
MUNSTERS BW
|
|
4:00
|
BONANZA
|
|
5:00
|
PETTICOAT JUNCTION
|
|
5:30
|
NBC NEWS—John Chancellor
|
|
EVENING
|
||
6:00
|
NEWS
|
|
6:30
|
MOUSE FACTORY
|
|
7:00
|
SANFORD AND SON
|
|
7:30
|
LITTLE PEOPLE—Comedy
|
|
8:00
|
MOVIE—Comedy
“Call Me Bwana” (1963)
|
|
10:00
|
NEWS
|
|
10:30
|
JOHNNY CARSON
Guest host: Jerry Lewis. Guest: Dionne
Warwicke
|
|
12:00
|
MIDNIGHT SPECIAL
Host: Dionne Warwicke. Guests: Johnny
Mathis, Kenny Rogers and the First Edition, Leo Kottke, Malo, Bud Brisbois
|
|
11 WTCN (Ind.)
|
||
MORNING
|
||
6:30
|
FIGURE FITNESS
|
|
7:00
|
NEW ZOO REVUE—Children
|
|
8:30
|
MR. ED
|
|
9:00
|
FLINTSTONES—Cartoon
|
|
9:30
|
I DREAM OF JEANNIE
|
|
10:00
|
FATHER KNOWS BEST
|
|
10:30
|
ANDY GRIFFITH—Comedy
|
|
11:00
|
SAFFARI TO ADVENTURE
|
|
11:30
|
WHAT’S NEW?—Variety
|
|
AFTERNOON
|
||
1:00
|
MOVIE—Adventure
“Behind the Mask of Zorro” (Italian;
1962)
|
|
3:00
|
I DREAM OF JEANNIE
|
|
3:30
|
FATHER KNOWS BEST
|
|
4:00
|
FLINTSTONES—Cartoon
|
|
4:30
|
ADDAMS FAMILY—Comedy
|
|
5:00
|
ANDY GRIFFITH—Comedy
|
|
5:30
|
DANIEL BOONE—Adventure
|
|
EVENING
|
||
6:30
|
THAT GIRL
|
|
7:00
|
IT TAKES A THIEF
|
|
8:00
|
MERV GRIFFIN
|
|
9:30
|
NEWS—Gil Amundson
|
|
10:00
|
PERRY MASON
|
|
11:00
|
MOVIE—Comedy
“The Prince and the Showgirl” (1957)
|
|
12 KEYC (MANKATO) (CBS)
|
||
MORNING
|
||
7:00
|
CBS NEWS—John Hart
|
|
8:00
|
CAPTAIN KANGAROO
|
|
9:00
|
JOKER’S WILD—Game
|
|
9:30
|
$10,000 PYRAMID—Game
|
|
10:00
|
GAMBIT—Game
|
|
10:30
|
LOVE OF LIFE
|
|
10:55
|
CBS NEWS—Edwards
|
|
11:00
|
THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS—Serial
|
|
11:30
|
SEARCH FOR TOMORROW
|
|
AFTERNOON
|
||
12:00
|
NEWS
|
|
12:30
|
AS THE WORLD TURNS
|
|
1:00
|
GUIDING LIGHT
|
|
1:30
|
EDGE OF NIGHT
|
|
2:00
|
PRICE IS RIGHT
|
|
2:30
|
MATCH GAME ‘73
|
|
3:00
|
SECRET STORM
|
|
3:30
|
JOANNE CARSON’S VIPs
Guest: Henry Kingston
|
|
4:00
|
INSIGHT
|
|
4:30
|
UNDERDOG—Cartoon
|
|
5:00
|
CHARLES BLAIR’S BETTER WORLD
|
|
5:30
|
CBS NEWS—Roger Mudd
|
|
EVENING
|
||
6:00
|
NEWS
|
|
6:30
|
BILL ANDERSON—Music
|
|
7:00
|
60 MINUTES
|
|
8:00
|
MOVIE—Comedy
“Hot Millions” (English; 1968)
|
|
10:00
|
NEWS
|
|
10:30
|
MOVIE—Comedy
“Harum Scarum” (1965)
|
|
TV
The sort of thing I notice:
ReplyDeleteKSTP, the NBC affiliate in Minn-StP, is bypassing the network's showing of a Bob Hope comedy in favor of The Invisible Ray, a Karloff/Lugosi programmer from 1936.
You've established in the past that the network stations in the Twin Cities had little regard for the mothership's schedules, but this - even in the middle of summer …
… Even with one of Bob Hope's lesser movies (Call Me Bwana was a movie Hope joked about in later years) getting dumped …
… Even with the added attraction of an episode of The Whispering Shadow, a Mascot cliffhanger from a few years before - best recalled these days as one in which Bela Lugosi doesn't play the Villain …
… Was this something that KSTP was doing that summer as a weekly show?
A B thriller followed by a weekly chapter of Whispering Shadow?
And on a major network affiliate yet?
I'm guessing that there's a story behind the story here …
Side Note:
I happen to have The Whispering Shadow on a scratchy DVD of uncertain provenance (got it at a dollar store); it's not that bad, really …
There's a Phantom Villain who has a plot to take over something-or-other, and everybody thinks it's Lugosi, and there are lots of suspicious characters lurking about, and there's a comic handyman (played by Karl Dane, who was a silent comedy star whose career went bad when talkies came in and his Danish accent got in the way), and Lugosi has a slinky female assistant (played by an actress named Viva Tattersall, who walked away from her career some years later in order to marry Sidney Toler - but that's another story …), and a lot of fun stuff like that there.
Mascot was at the low end of Poverty Row; all twelve episodes probably had a total budget that wouldn't have covered craft services for Call Me Bwana
But in 1973, KSTP put it on in prime time (coupled with a Universal horror pic, but still …), and that leads me to wonder: was this something that KSTP did very often?
Just askin', is all; the cupboard is pretty bare this week.
Maybe next time …
I had just moved out of the Twin Cities just months before, but I lived there from late 1964 to very early 1973. So there's much about the area's TV and radio I still remember. Obviously, I love these excerpts from TC TV Guides, and look forward to more of them. With regard to your subject, as I recall, it was not unusual for one or more TC stations to preempt the network during the summer. My next to last summer there, KMSP, I remember, had a local Wednesday night movie during the summer of '71; the following summer, WCCO had a Friday night movie, with a neat intro showing boats docked at a lake. Their reasoning, obviously, was, we know what network shows are popular and which won't be missed if we show something of our own, and keep all the ad revenue ourselves instead of having to share it with the network. I don't recall KSTP doing it while I was there, but it has been 50 years, so my memory might leave something to be desired.
ReplyDeleteLeaving the Cities when I did means there were things that happened in the months and years to follow that I heard about but didn't get to see. I didn't see KSTP's switch to Eyewitness News, and KMSP's much-hyped but less-successful Newsnine effort. I also missed KSTP radio's highly successful switch to top 40, or the short but tumultuous period of competitor U100.
My last few years there, I was splitting my time between the Cities and a boarding school in New Hampshire, my original home state. The Boston TV stations, in the late 60s/early 70s, were pre-empting like mad. For a few years, then-NBC station WBZ chose to air a noon newscast and Mike Douglas in place of three of NBC's daytime shows, including Jeopardy and the Who What or Where Game; and WNAC (ABC), aired a 2 PM movie instead of the likes of the Dating Game, Newlywed Game, General Hospital and One Life to Live. Independent WSBK, channel 38, showed all those instead.
From my (English) perspective the listing that stands out is KDIO Duluth, who were showing UFO at midnight. I have all manner of questions: Was the series shown on a network or syndicated? Was this likely to be the first run of UFO or a rerun?
ReplyDeleteI don't know if anyone has undertaken the potentially massive task of tracking UFO's initial screenings in the USA, but at least this listing is a starting point.
FYI:
DeleteThe ITC UFO series was syndicated to local stations in the USA in 1972, so this would have been the rerun season of the first (and only) year of production.
Since WDIO is running it after midnight, I believe that they're just running out the string; if Channel 10 showed UFO in primetime (or at least early or late fringe time) the previous fall, it was probably less than a hit.
As my own faulty memory indicates, UFO ran here in Chicago on WGN-Channel 9, sometime on the weekend (early Saturday or Sunday evenings).
I don't recall how well it might have done against CBS's powerful sitcom block on Saturday, or against the Big Three's blocks on Sunday, but my guess would be - not all that well.
As always, correction welcomed if needed.
Thank you Mike. A couple of UFO episodes were regarded as having adult themes and were shown in the UK outside the main run of the series in late night slots. This was particularly true of the last episode in the production run, The Long Sleep, which had drug-related themes. It's not impossible that this is the episode WDIO was screening.
DeleteUFO must have done decent rating at some point, as one of the networks seriously considered ordering a second season. The premise for the second season was reworked as Space:1999.