What's on TV? Wednesday, January 2, 1974

Ah, for the days when there were only five stations from which to choose! This old Minneapolis-St. Paul edition is right there: the three commercial networks, independent WTCN, and KTCA, the PBS station that only programs from 4:00 p.m. on. And what a fine lineup WCCO has (with the exception of Sonny and Cher, but even there, they've got a great guest lineup: Laurel and Hardy shorts at 6:30 (now that's the kind of local-access programming I can get behind) and a crime back-to-back of Cannon and Kojak. It certainly beats NBC's schedule, two-thirds of which is going off the air after tonight. Anyway, it's a grand way to get 1974 off to a flying start. Right?

	-2- KTCA (PBS)
	AFTERNOON
	4:00	MISTER ROGERS Guest: Al Worden
	4:30	SESAME STREET
	5:30	ELECTRIC COMPANY—Children
	EVENING
	6:00	TO BE ANNOUNCED
	6:30	INQUEST
	7:00	BILL MOYERS’ JOURNAL—Report
	7:30	CONFLICTS—Drama “Birdbath”
	8:30	TO BE ANNOUNCED
	9:00	REVENUE SHARING: WHAT NEXT?
	9:30	FRENCH CHEF Leg of lamb

 

 

	-4- WCCO (CBS)
	MORNING
	6:30	SUNRISE SEMESTER Twentieth Century Literature: Tennessee Williams
	7:00	CARMEN
	7:30	CLANCY AND WILLIE
	8:00	CAPTAIN KANGAROO Guest: Pete Seeger
	9:00	JOKER’S WILD—Game
	9:30	$10,000 PYRAMID—Game Jo Anne Worley, Soupy Sales
	10:00	GAMBIT—Game
	10:30	LOVE OF LIFE—Serial
	10:55	LIVE TODAY
	11:00	YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS—Serial
	11:30	SEARCH FOR TOMORROW—Serial
	AFTERNOON
	12:00	MIDDAY
	12:30	AS THE WORLD TURNS—Serial
	1:00	GUIDING LIGHT—Serial
	1:30	EDGE OF NIGHT—Serial
	2:00	PRICE IS RIGHT—Game
	2:30	MATCH GAME Charles Nelson Reilly, Richard Dawson, Patti Deutsch, Larry Hovis, Madlyn Rhue, Bret Somers Klugman
	3:00	SECRET STORM—Serial
	3:30	MOVIE—Musical “That Midnight Kiss” (1949)
	5:30	CBS NEWS—Walter Cronkite
	EVENING
	6:00	NEWS
	6:30	LAUREL AND HARDY
	7:00	SONNY AND CHER Guests: Tennessee Ernie Ford, Lyle Waggoner
	8:00	CANNON—Crime Drama
	9:00	KOJAK—Crime Drama
	10:00	NEWS
	10:50	MOVIE—Drama “Desire Under the Elms” (1958)
	12:50	MOVIE—Drama BW  “The Next Voice You Hear” (1950)

 

 

	-5- KSTP (NBC)
	MORNING
	6:00	MINNESOTA TODAY—Stone
	6:30	NOT FOR WOMEN ONLY
	7:00	TODAY—Frank McGee/Barbara Walters
	9:00	DINAH SHORE Guest: Peter Lupus
	9:30	BAFFLE Lyle Waggoner, Nanette Fabray, Charles Nelson Reilly, Tina Cole
	10:00	WIZARD OF ODDS—Game
	10:30	HOLLYWOOD SQUARES Edward Asner, Elke Sommer, Amanda Blake, Pearl Bailey, Jan Murray, Arte Johnson, Bill Bixby
	11:00	JEOPARDY—Game
	11:30	WHO, WHAT OR WHERE—Game
	11:55	NBC NEWS—Edwin Newman
	AFTERNOON
	12:00	NEWS—John Evans
	12:15	DIAL 5
	1:00	DAYS OF OUR LIVES—Serial
	1:30	DOCTORS—Serial
	2:00	ANOTHER WORLD—Serial
	3:00	SOMERSET—Serial
	3:30	DICK VAN DYKE—Comedy BW
	4:00	MOD SQUAD—Crime Drama
	5:00	HOGAN’S HEROES—Comedy
	5:30	NBC NEWS—John Chancellor
	EVENING
	6:00	NEWS
	6:30	HOLLYWOOD SQUARES Marty Allen, Mel Brooks, Gail Fisher, Glenn Ford, Suzanne Pleshette, Vincent Price
	7:00	ADAM-12—Crime Drama
	7:30	TENAFLY—Crime Drama [Last show of the series]
	9:00	LOVE STORY [Last show of the series]
	10:00	NEWS
	10:30	JOHNNY CARSON
	12:00	TOMORROW—Discussion

 

 

	-9- KMSP (ABC)
	MORNING
	7:00	CBS NEWS—Hughes Rudd/Sally Quinn
	8:00	NEWS AND VIEWS—Smith
	8:30	ROMPER ROOM
	9:00	MIKE DOUGLAS Guests: Maureen Stapleton, Donald O’Connor, Stiller and Meara, George Bach
	10:00	GREEN ACRES
	10:30	BRADY BUNCH
	11:00	PASSWORD—Game Pat Carroll, Peter Lawford
	11:30	SPLIT SECOND—Game
	AFTERNOON
	12:00	ALL MY CHILDREN—Serial
	12:30	LET’S MAKE A DEAL—Game
	1:00	NEWLYWED GAME
	1:30	GIRL IN MY LIFE
	2:00	GENERAL HOSPITAL—Serial
	2:30	ONE LIFE TO LIVE—Serial
	3:00	LOVE, AMERICAN STYLE
	3:30	BEAT THE CLOCK Dick Shawn
	4:00	BIG VALLEY—Western
	5:00	NEWS—Boyett/Breman
	5:30	ABC NEWS—Howard K. Smith/Harry Reasoner
	EVENING
	6:00	TO TELL THE TRUTH Bill Cullen, Peggy Cass, Larry Blyden, Kitty Carlisle
	6:30	TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES
	7:00	ROCK AND ROLL YEARS—Music
	7:30	MOVIE—Drama “A Brand New Life” (Made for TV; 1973)
	9:00	OWEN MARSHALL—Drama [“Owen Marshall” moves to Saturday beginning Jan. 19]
	10:00	NEWS
	10:30	ROD SERLING AT LAX—Interview
	12:00	NAME OF THE GAME—Drama

 

 

	11 WTCN (Ind.)
	MORNING
	6:30	FIGURE FITNESS
	7:00	NEW ZOO REVUE—Children
	7:30	POPPY AND PORKY
	8:30	MISTER ED—Comedy BW
	9:00	FLINTSTONES
	9:30	I DREAM OF JEANNIE—Comedy
	10:00	FATHER KNOWS BEST BW
	10:30	ANDY GRIFFITH—Comedy BW
	11:00	THAT GIRL—Comedy
	11:30	WHAT’S NEW—Variety
	AFTERNOON
	1:00	MOVIE—Western “Day of the Badman” (1958)
	3:00	GOMER PYLE, USMC—Comedy
	3:30	PETTICOAT JUNCTION—Comedy
	4:00	FLINTSTONES
	4:30	GILLIGAN’S ISLAND—Comedy
	5:00	BEWITCHED—Comedy BW
	5:30	MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE—Adventure
	EVENING
	6:30	LUCY SHOW—Comedy BW
	7:00	STAR TREK—Adventure
	8:00	MERV GRIFFIN Guests: Trini Lopez, Jaye P. Morgan
	9:30	NEWS
	10:00	PERRY MASON BW
	11:00	MOVIE—Musical “Lucky Me” (1954)

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