July 20, 2020

What's on TV? Friday, July 27, 1973

There's not much to add here that I didn't discuss on Saturday. You see above the notice about the Watergate hearings; there were none scheduled for this Friday, and none were held, leaving the night open for the College All-Star Game at 8:30 p.m. What interests me is this movie at midnight on KMSP: War Hunt. "In Korea, Pvt. Raymond Endore wins the high regard of his captain for his one-man night patrols—killing silently with a stiletto—but the new man in the squad thinks Endore's killer instinct has grown to psychotic proportions." It sounds like a cross between Seven and The Manchurian Candidate, doesn't it? John Saxon is Endore, his captain is Charles Aidman, and Robert Redford plays the "new man." Additionally, the movie features Sydney Pollack, Gavin McLeod and Tom Skerritt, and, as a truck driver, Francis Ford Coppola. Better throw Apocalypse Now in that mix for good measure. The listings are from the Minnesota State Edition.


 2  KTCA (PBS)

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 BW 
“The Strange Case of Doctor Rx” (1942)



 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 BW 
“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 BW 

    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 BW 
“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 BW 
“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 BW 

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 BW 

    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 BW 
“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 BW 

    9:00
FLINTSTONES—Cartoon

    9:30
I DREAM OF JEANNIE

  10:00
FATHER KNOWS BEST BW 

  10:30
ANDY GRIFFITH—Comedy BW 

  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 BW 

    4:00
FLINTSTONES—Cartoon

    4:30
ADDAMS FAMILY—Comedy BW 

    5:00
ANDY GRIFFITH—Comedy BW 

    5:30
DANIEL BOONE—Adventure BW 

EVENING

    6:30
THAT GIRL

    7:00
IT TAKES A THIEF

    8:00
MERV GRIFFIN

    9:30
NEWS—Gil Amundson

  10:00
PERRY MASON BW 

  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)

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5 comments:

  1. The sort of thing I notice:

    KSTP, 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 …

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  2. 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.
    Leaving 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.

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  3. 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?

    I 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.

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    1. FYI:

      The 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.

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    2. 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.

      UFO 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.

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