Retro: Kentucky Tue., Oct. 13, 1970

From TV Guide, Kentucky Edition:

WAVE Ch. 3 Louisville (NBC)

6:45 Today In Louisville
7 AM Today (former Prime Minister of Ireland Terence O'Neill; a World Series report from Joe Garagiola)
9 AM Morning Show
9:55 News (Bob Kay)
10 AM Dinah's Place (Mrs. Muriel Humphrey prepares one of the former vice president's favorite meals.)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Marty Allen, Nanette Fabray, Pat Henry, Sue Ane Langdon, Denise Nicholas, Vincent Price)
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 World Series Pregame Show
1 PM World Series: Reds-Orioles (Game 3; Orioles won the Series, 4-1)
5 PM TBA (pre-empted is Ch. 3's 4 o'clock movie)
5:30 Flintstones
6 PM News, Weather And Sports
6:30 NBC News (the three-anchor format of Brinkley, Chancellor, and McGee)
7 PM Petticoat Junction
7:30 Don Knotts (Irene Ryan, Bobby Sherman, Jack Weston, Emmaline Henry, comedienne Ann Elder, rock group the Tapestry)
8:30 Julia (guests: Gary Crosby, Robert Alda (Alan's dad))
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Night Of The Following Day" (Marlon Brando, Richard Boone, from '69)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show (Ann-Margret)

WLWT Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)

6:15 Moment Of Meditation
6:20 Good Morning
6:30 University Of Michigan
7 AM Today
9 AM Paul Dixon
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Bob Braun's 50-50 Club (Hans Holzer discusses ESP, ghosts and reincarnation--the show itself apparently aired the full 90 minutes (it was carried on the ABC affiliate in Indianapolis) but it airs for only 30 minutes in Cincinnati today.)
12:30 World Series Pregame Show
1 PM World Series (see Ch. 3)
5 PM Star Trek (time approximate; Phil Donahue, who normally aired at 4, was pre-empted)
6 PM News, Weather And Sports
6:30 NBC News
7 PM News, Weather And Sports
7:30 Don Knotts
8:30 Julia
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Night Of The Following Day"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show

WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)

5:50 Farm News
6 AM Sunrise Semester: "Renaissance Art"
6:30 Young World
7 AM CBS News (John Hart)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Uncle Al
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Search For Tomorrow (delay from 12:30 PM)
11:30 Love Of Life (one of the few occasions Ch. 9 carried the classic soap)
12 N News, Weather And Sports
12:30 Nick Clooney
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Movie: "Mickey One"
6 PM News, Weather And Sports
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 National Geographic: "Zoos Of The World"
8:30 Hee Haw (Marty Robbins, Connie Eaton
9:30 To Rome With Love
10 PM 60 Minutes (highlight is a profile of Henry Kissinger, including footage of him at San Clemente, with President Nixon in Mexico, and taking his kids to Disneyland)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Merv Griffin (Joel McCrea, boxer Jerry Quarry (talking about his upcoming bout with Muhammad Ali), rodeo star Casey Tibbs, Marcia Wallace)
1 AM Jewish Hour
1:30 Local News

WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)

6:30 Sunrise Semester
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Beat The Clock (native Louisvillian Jack Narz hosts)
9:30 Edge Of Night (delay from 3:30 PM)
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Family Affair
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Where The Heart Is
12:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM News (Lee Denney)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 My Favorite Martian
4 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
4:30 Perry Mason
5:30 Dick Van Dyke
6 PM News, Weather And Sports
7 PM CBS News
7:30 National Geographic
8:30 Hee Haw
9:30 WHAS News Conference
10 PM 60 Minutes
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Merv Griffin

WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)

7 AM This Is The Life
7:30 Cattanooga Cats
8 AM Skipper Ryle/Bozo
9 AM Movie: "Untamed Youth" (conclusion of a two-parter that started Monday)
9:50 Fashions In Sewing
10 AM Dinah's Place (pre-empted on Ch. 5)
10:30 Galloping Gourmet
11 AM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 That Girl
12 N Bewitched
12:30 A World Apart
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Munsters
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Big Valley
5:30 David Frost (Jose Feliciano; attorney Melvin Belli, who explains why he's against wiretapping and for military trials as the best system of justice, and his relationship with Jack Ruby)
7 PM News, Weather And Sports
7:30 Mod Squad
8:30 ABC Movie: "The Old Man Who Cried Wolf" (Edward G. Robinson makes a rare TV appearance as a 70-year-old man who can't convince anyone he saw his best friend robbed and murdered--except the killer. Watch for Martin Balsam and Ed Asner in this "Movie Of The Week.")
10 PM Marcus Welby, M.D.
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Dick Cavett (Jacques Cousteau, Trevor Howard, British comedienne Joyce Grenfell)
1 AM News, Weather, Sports

WKPC Ch. 15 Louisville (PBS)

7:30 Sesame Street (doesn't say what fills the 8:30-8:35 slot)
8:35 In-school programs
2:30 TBA
3:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM What's New
5:30 Children's Fair
6 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6:30 What's New
7 PM Environmental Engineering
7:30 Book Beat (former LBJ assistant Douglass Cater discusses his first novel, "Dana: The Irrelevant Man," about an unnamed president and his top adviser)
8 PM Southern Perspective
9 PM The Advocates (debated: "Should The Federal Government Subsidize All National Elections?" (The U.S. is one of the few countries that does not make free television time available to political candidates.))
10 PM San Francisco Mix (various clips illustrate the concept of play: senior citizens playing cricket, a kids' picnic in Golden Gate Park, Chinese kids in a mock sword fight, the Italian game of bocce ball, a party in a singles'-apartment complex)
sign off 11 PM

WLEX Ch. 18 Lexington (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Steve Allen
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News, Weather And Sports
12:30 World Series Pregame Show
1 PM World Series (see Ch. 3)
5 PM Timmy And Lassie (time approximate, "The Flintstones" was pre-empted at 4:30)
5:30 News, Weather And Sports
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Country Carnival (guest is singer Glen Barbour (I wonder if even the staunchest country fan has ever heard of him))
7:30 Don Knotts
8:30 Julia
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Night Of The Following Day"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Take Five

WXIX Ch. 19 Cincinnati (Ind.)

2 PM Movie Game (George Carlin, Joe Flynn, James Mason, Mary Tyler Moore, Terry Moore, Stefanie Powers)
2:30 Cartoons
3 PM Larry Smith Puppets
3:30 Krazy Kat
4 PM Snuffy Smith/Beetle Bailey
4:30 Augie Doggie/Rocket Robin Hood
5 PM Batman (Burgess Meredith as the Penguin)
5:30 Patty Duke
6 PM Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea (Vincent Price as a malevolent puppeteer who uses puppet versions of the crew to get control of the Seaview.)
7 PM Flintstones
7:30 Music Connection
9 PM Movie: "Woman Obsessed"
11 PM Can You Top This? (panelists include Morey Amsterdam and Rose Marie--I think Morey Amsterdam bought the rights to this old radio-TV warhorse; Wink Martindale was host and Dick Gautier read the viewers' jokes for the panel to top)
11:30 Movie: "Anne Of The Indies"

WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (CBS)

7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Town Talk
10 AM Galloping Gourmet
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Family Affair
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N News, Weather And Sports
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Mike Douglas (co-host Roger Miller; Don Rickles, singer Aliza Kashi, two men who are planning to hike around the world)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Movie: "Appointment With Danger"
6 PM News, Weather And Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Can You Top This? (Morey Amsterdam, Jack Carter, Paul Winchell)
7:30 National Geographic
8:30 Hee Haw
9:30 To Rome With Love
10 PM 60 Minutes
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "Destroyer" (Why does this movie sound like "The Caine Mutiny"? A World War I veteran reenters the navy as a boatswain's made, but his constant striving for perfection keeps the ship in turmoil. Edward G. Robinson and Glenn Ford star, from '43.)

WLKY Ch. 32 Louisville (ABC)

7:30 Bob Terry & His Pirates
8 AM Real McCoys
8:30 Hazel
9 AM Movie: "Warlock" (it's the name of the town where the citizens want a notorious outlaw gang out; Henry Fonda stars, from '59)
11 AM Bewitched (day-behind from 12 N)
11:30 That Girl
12 N News, Weather And Sports
12:30 A World Apart
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Galloping Gourmet
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Batman (Cesar Romero as the Joker)
5 PM Gilligan's Island
5:30 News, Weather And Sports
6 PM Movie: "Remains To Be Seen" (watch for Angela Lansbury, from '53)
7:30 Mod Squad
8:30 ABC Movie: "The Old Man Who Cried Wolf"
10 PM Marcus Welby, M.D.
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "The Fugitive" (no, not David Janssen or Harrison Ford; this is Henry Fonda as the only survivor of a purge of priests by a Latin American dictatorship, who is determined to return to his native village, from '47)

WBLG Ch. 62 (WTVQ Ch. 36) Lexington (ABC)

8 AM News (Chet Huntley)
8:05 News
8:30 Little Rascals
9 AM Romper Room
10 AM TV Hour Of Stars (Macdonald Carey, Fay Wray and Johnny Washbrook ("My Friend Flicka") in "In Times Like These," in which a man, in the middle of a dinner in his honor, receives a telegram notifying him that his son has been killed in action.)
11 AM Movie Game (Stephen Boyd, Jack Carter, Jeanne Crain, Susan Strasberg--this is the first version, with host Sonny Fox, in which two celebrities were paired with a civilian contestant; the six-celebrity format came in when Larry Blyden became host)
11:30 That Girl
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Dick Van Dyke
1 PM Dale Wright
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Daniel Boone
6 PM News, Weather And Sports
6:30 I Love Lucy
7 PM Hazel
7:30 Mod Squad
8:30 ABC Movie: "The Old Man Who Cried Wolf"
10 PM Marcus Welby, M.D.
11 PM News, Weather, Sports

Notice that ABC News isn't carried on 12, 32, or 62. No wonder Harry Reasoner chastised the holdouts at the 1971 ABC affiliates' convention.

E Kentucky Educational Television (WKZT/23 Elizabethtown, WKSO/29 Somerset, WKMR/38 Morehead, WKLE/46 Lexington, WKON/52 Owenton) (PBS)

8:30 In-school programs
4:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5 PM Sesame Street
6 PM Creative Clipboard (how to make objects from household items)
6:15 Window/Classroom
6:30 TV High School
7 PM Supervisory Practice
7:30 Busy Knitter (how to start a raglan sweater)
8 PM Southern Perspective
9 PM The Advocates
10 PM San Francisco Mix
sign off 11 PM

This is way, way back when all of the world series games were played in the afternoon.

It began to change the following year when Game Four between the Pirates & Orioles was played at night.

Hey bpatrick,

If you have any, can you please post TV listings from local TV guides from Kentucky during the mid '90s (1993-1997) for the following listings?

3 - WAVE Louisville (NBC)
4 - WTTV Bloomington (Ind, became UPN affiliate in 1995)
5 - WLWT Cincinnati (NBC)
9 - WCPO Cincinnati (CBS, switched to ABC in 1996)
11 - WHAS Louisville (ABC)
12 - WKRC Cincinnati (ABC, switched to CBS in 1996)
15 - WKPC Louisville (PBS)
18 - WLEX Lexington (NBC)
19 - WXIX Newport (Fox)
21 - WBNA Louisville (Ind, became WB affiliate in 1995)
23 - WKZT Elizabethtown (PBS)
27 - WKYT Lexington (CBS)
29K - WTTK Kokomo (Ind, became UPN affiliate in 1995)
29S - WKSO Somerset (PBS)
32 - WLKY Louisville (CBS)
34 - WGRB Campbellsville (Fox, switched to the WB in 1997)
35 - WKHA Hazard (PBS)
36 - WTVQ Lexington (ABC)
38 - WKMR Morehead (PBS)
41 - WDRB Louisville (Fox)
46 - WKLE Lexington (PBS)
52 - WKON Owenton (PBS)
54 - WCVN Covington (PBS)
56 - WDKY Danville (Fox)
57 - WYMT Hazard (CBS)
58 - WFTE Salem (Ind, became UPN affiliate in 1995)
64 - WSTR Cincinnati (Ind, became UPN affiliate in 1995)

Cincinnati Kid said:

This is way, way back when all of the world series games were played in the afternoon.

It began to change the following year when Game Four between the Pirates & Orioles was played at night.

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Does anyone know when all the games started in the nighttime? My 1974 TV Guide lists all weekday games at night, but weekend games still start at 1pm Pacific Time (opening games in Los Angeles).

The first night game was Game 4 of the '71 Series between the Orioles and the Pirates. Since 1988, all games have been played at night.

The first Series in which every game was played in prime time was 1985(Kansas City-St. Louis). That continued for the Mets-Red Sox the following year, then Game 6 in 1987 was the last afternoon game(Had the 1988 Series lasted longer, Game 6 that year would also have been a day game).
In 1972, baseball began a pattern of weekend day games and night games the rest of the way. That was broken in 1976, when Game 2 of the Reds-Yankees was played on Sunday night. After that one year experiment, 1977-1984 continued the 1972 shedule format.

onairb said:

The first Series in which every game was played in prime time was 1985(Kansas City-St. Louis). That continued for the Mets-Red Sox the following year, then Game 6 in 1987 was the last afternoon game(Had the 1988 Series lasted longer, Game 6 that year would also have been a day game).
In 1972, baseball began a pattern of weekend day games and night games the rest of the way. That was broken in 1976, when Game 2 of the Reds-Yankees was played on Sunday night. After that one year experiment, 1977-1984 continued the 1972 shedule format.

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I think what you're getting at, onairb, is that a previous taboo/curfew on Sunday night sports was broken by that game 2 of the '76 Series. Remember that churchgoing habits were still strong in this country back then, and religious leaders may have conducted a quiet campaign against ABC and NBC to persuade them not to make Sunday night baseball (and, by extension, other pro sports) a permanent, even if intermittent, idea. Pastors and religious leaders already faced the earlier start times of NFL games by the early 1970s (from 2/1 CT, generally in the 60s to 1/Noon CT to accommodate a game apiece on NBC and CBS until 7/6), causing many to skip worship (especially in the Central Time Zone), and back then, Sunday evening services were common, which faced the tail end of the late games that had to be carried until their conclusion (just like today, in the aftermath of the 1968 "Heidi Game"). But one baseball game out of the nearly 200 a year was one thing; the real legacy for that Sunday night in October '76 was the NFL finally putting one and one together and realizing that the Super Bowl was now so big that it should be played at night, which happened a year and a half later with the 12th game on CBS on January 15, 1978 (Dallas won over Denver in New Orleans' Superdome). By '85, much of the religious resistance had faded away in comparison to the heat the networks were feeling from the rise of ESPN as a potential competitor and from the advertisers themselves, so the nets obliged the leagues' preferences for prime-time coverage. It was in the second half of the '87 NFL season that ESPN began Sunday night coverage, making the cable net a major player in sports broadcasting for the first time, and the rest is history.