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Retro: New York City - Wednesday, April 22, 1970 (First Earth Day)

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2 WCBS
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 CBS Morning News - Joseph Benti
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Leave It to Beaver
9:30 Donna Reed
10:00 Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11:00 Andy Griffith
11:30 Love of Live
NOON Where the Heart Is
12:25 CBS Midday News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Galloping Gourmet
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3:00 Secret Storm
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Gomer Pyle
4:30 Mike Douglas - Co-host: Jack Jones; Guests: Billy Baxter, Tessie O'Shea, New York film critic Pauline Kael
6:00 Channel 2 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Hee Haw - Guests: George Jones, Tammy Wynette (married the previous year)
8:30 Beverly Hillbillies: "Wedding Plans" (10/22/69)
9:00 Medical Center: "The Sharpest Edge" (11/19/69)
10:00 CBS News Special - "Earth Day: A Question of Survival" - Host: Walter Cronkite (Pre-empts Hawaii Five-O)
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:30 Merv Griffin - Guests: Ford & Hines, Erich Segal, Evie Sands.
1:10 Late Show: "Stop, You're Killing Me" (1952) - Broderick Crawford, Claire Trevor, Virginia Gibson
2:55 Late Late Show: "The Black Duke" (1963; Italian) - Cameron Mitchell, Maria Grazia Spina

4 WNBC
6:30 Education Exchange
7:00 Today - Hugh Downs; Earth Day feature: "Social View of the Environmental Problem"
9:00 For Women Only (forerunner to NOT For Women Only)
9:30 Kup's Show
10:00 It Takes Two - Vin Scully
10:30 Concentration - Bob Clayton
11:00 Sale of the Century - Jack Kelly
11:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Wally Cox, Rose Marie, Jim Backus, Nanette Fabray, Paul Lynde, Bill Bixby, Charley Weaver, Linda Cristal, Lohman & Barkley
NOON Earth Day Special - Host: Edwin Newman (pre-empts Jeopardy!, The Who, What or Where Game, It's Your Bet, and Life With Linkletter)
2:00 Days of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
3:30 Bright Promise
4:00 Somerset
4:30 Movie 4: "A Fever in the Blood" (1961) - Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Angie Dickinson, Jack Kelly, Don Ameche, Carroll O' Connor (first credited film role)
6:00 Sixth Hour News
7:00 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7:30 Virginian: "Duel at Shiloh" (1/2/63)
9:00 Kraft Music Hall - "The Sound of Burt Bachrach" (11/19/69); Guests: Burt Bachrach, Lena Horne, Tony Bennett, Edward Villella.
10:00 WNBC News Special: "VD: A Plague On Our House" (locally pre-empts Then Came Bronson)
11:00 Eleveth Hour News
11:30 Tonight Show - Guest host: Flip Wilson; Performers: The Four Tops, Lovelace Watkins.
1:15 Great Great Show: "Information Received" (1961) - Sabine Sesselmann, William Sylvester.

5 WNEW
8:00 Marine Boy
8:30 Alvin Show
9:00 Eastside Comedy: "Trouble Makers" (1948) - Bowery Boys
10:00 Pixanne
11:00 Wednesday Morning Movie: "Lady of the Tropics" (1939) - Robert Taylor, Hedy Lamarr
1:00 Ladies Day Movie: "Rainbow Island" (1944) - Dorothy Lamour, Eddie Bracken, Gil Lamb, Barry Sullivan
3:00 American West
3:30 Flintstones
4:00 Wonderama
5:00 Huckleberry Hound
5:30 My Favorite Martian
6:00 Lost in Space
7:00 I Love Lucy
7:30 Truth or Consequences
8:00 To Tell the Truth
8:30 David Frost - Guests: Jimmy Dean, The Imperials, Willie Tyler & Lester, Emonds & Curley
10:00 Ten O'Clock News
11:00 Peyton Place
11:30 The 11:30 Movie: "Man About Town" (1939) - Jack Benny, Dorothy Lamour, Edward Arnold, Phil Harris, Betty Grable
1:10 Strange Paradise

7 WABC
6:30 Project Know
7:00 His and Her of It
8:30 Girl Talk
9:00 Morning Movie: "Delightfully Dangerous" (1945) - Jane Powell, Ralph Bellamy
11:00 Bewitched
11:30 That Girl
NOON Best of Everything
12:30 A World Apart
1:00 All My Children
1:30 Let's Make a Deal
2:00 Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 One Life to Live
4:00 Dark Shadows
4:30 The 4:30 Movie: "Wall of Noise" (1963) - Suzanne Pleshette, Ty Hardin
6:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 ABC Evening News
7:30 Nanny and the Professor: "A Fowl Episode"
8:00 Courtship of Eddie's Father: "Guess Who's Coming for Lunch" (10/29/69); Guest starring Cicely Tyson
8:30 Room 222: "Clothes Make the Boy" (12/3/69)
9:00 Johnny Cash - Guests: Burl Ives, Lynn Anderson, Tompall & the Glazer Brothers
10:00 Engelbert Humperdinck - Guests: Dusty Springfield, Jonathan Winters, Buddy Greco
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 ABC News Special: "Earth Day: S.O.S. for Survival"
MIDNIGHT Dick Cavett - Judy Carne, Russian correspondent Henry Borovic, Sen. Charles H. Percy (R-IL)
1:00 The Best of Broadway: "Goliath and the Sins of Babylon" (1963) - Mark Forest (It's not a musical, but that was Ch. 7's movie umbrella title for that slot.)

9 WOR
7:56 News and Weather
8:00 Bozo's Bid Top
8:30 Cartoons a Go-Go
9:00 Romper Room
10:30 Joe Franklin
11:30 Loretta Young
NOON Journey to Adventure
12:30 Stock Market Observer
1:00 Mets Baseball - hosting San Diego Padres
4:45 (Ralph) Kiner's Corner - Mets commentator's
5:00 Big Movie: "I Walked With a Zombie" (1943) - James Ellison, Frances Dee, Tom Conway
6:00 Gilligan's Island
6:30 Dick Van Dyke
7:00 What's My Line? - Wally Brunner
7:30 Divorce Court
8:00 Laredo
9:00 Million Dollar Movie: "Gone Are the Days!" (1963) - Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Geoffery Cambridge, Beah Richards, Alan Alda, Sorrell Booke (film debuts for the latter two)
11:00 Late Movie: "Suspicion" (1941) - Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine
1:00 Joe Franklin

11 WPIX
7:15 Morning News
7:30 Popeye
9:00 Sesame Street (carrying the morning broadcast for WNDT, as they were broadcasting their instructional programs most of the day)
10:00 Fashions in Sewing
10:10 Jack LaLanne
10:30 Jewish Dimension
11:00 Gourmet With David Wade
11:30 Gumby
NOON Underdog
12:30 Rocky & His Friends
12:50 Fashions in Sewing
1:00 Perfect Match
1:30 Steve Allen - Guests: June Lockhart, Rich Little, Bob Einstein, Marv Newland
2:30 Patty Duke
3:00 Popeye
3:30 Superman
4:00 Addams Family
4:30 Three Stooges
5:00 Timmy & Lassie
5:30 Munsters
6:00 Batman
6:30 Star Trek
7:30 Beat the Clock - Jack Narz
8:00 Can You Top This? - Wink Martindale
8:30 He Said, She Said - Joe Garagiola
9:00 NYPD
9:30 Victory at Sea
10:00 Ten O'Clock News
11:00 Perry Mason
MIDNIGHT Late Report
12:15 Movie Favorites: "Belle of the Nineties" (1934) - Mae West, Roger Pryor, Johnny Mack Brown, Duke Ellington, Katherine DeMille

13 WNDT (NET)
Much of NET's programming (including Sesame Street) was devoted to Earth Day.

8:30 Instructional Programming
4:30 Sesame Street - special Earth Day episode
5:30 Misterogers (that's how it was spelled that time, until the following year)
6:00 What's New?
6:30 University of the Air
7:00 NET Earth Day - Nationwide coverage of the first Earth Day
8:30 Book Beat - Inteview with Frank Graham, author of the then-newly published "Beyond Silent Spring"
9:00 NET Earth Day (continued)
10:00 WNDT Newsfront - Earth Day news
 
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