Here we are on the last day of August, 1972. I believe by this time I'd already moved on from the Twin Cities to The World's Worst Town™, because I never did get to see any of the Summer Olympics that year. It was culture shock for me, to be sure. So I share this particular listing with you with a sense of mourning, as I started to get used to being away from the city in which I'd grown up and lived my entire life.* I was, truly, away from civilization.
*When I moved to Texas, it was by my own choice, and a better one I've seldom made.
When Jean Shepherd was still known as a humorist instead of as the author of A Christmas Story, he had a wonderful PBS series where he toured America looking at what it was that made it America. This week, he's in Milwaukee to investigate "America's love affair with beer." Wonderful!
Horton Hears a Who never quite attained the status of Dr. Seuss' classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas, but it's still a much-loved story of those same Whos and the same Whoville that tormented the Grinch. Imagine the big, bad Grinch being so small that he's just one figure living in a universe that can fit on the head of a pin!
I wasn't familiar with the British import Man in a Suitcase until a few years ago when I saw its late '60s premiere on ABC as a summer series. I've seen several episodes since, but this is the first time I've run across it in syndication. I shouldn't be surprised, I guess, since The Saint and The Avengers, made (I think) by the same production company, are already big hits in America.
I've mentioned this before, but for new readers it bears repeating, that until Charles Kuralt brought the Sunday Morning concept to weekday mornings, Channel 4 rarely carried the CBS Morning News. My memories of it are that it was always on Channel 9, since ABC had no morning program at the time. I always thought it was a good news show, no matter who hosted it, and as a kid I was certainly confused as to why the CBS news was on an ABC affiliate. It only makes slightly more sense today.
The Lucille Rivers show at 2:50pm is, believe it or not, a sewing show. You won't see that on television nowadays. The rest of Channel 11's schedule is basically MeTV before it was nostalgia: It Takes a Thief, Batman, The Addams Family, The Munsters, Daniel Boone and I Dream of Jeannie. They're all on one of the retro networks nowadays, but back then it was no big deal; people probably looked at them as the same-old, same-old.
*When I moved to Texas, it was by my own choice, and a better one I've seldom made.
KTCA, Channel 2 (PBS) | ||
Afternoon | ||
04:00p | Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood | |
04:30p | Sesame Street | |
05:30p | The Electric Company | |
Evening | ||
06:00p | Reading | |
06:30p | Piano Technique (debut) | |
07:00p | Jean Shepherd’s America | |
07:30p | Jazz Set | |
08:00p | Hollywood Television Theatre | |
09:00p | Yard ‘n Garden | |
09:30p | Town and Country |
WCCO, Channel 4 (CBS) | ||
Morning | ||
06:30a | Summer Semester (The Cold War and Beyond) | |
07:00a | Clancy and Carmen | |
07:30a | Clancy and Willie | |
08:00a | Captain Kangaroo | |
09:00a | The Lucy Show | |
09:30a | The Beverly Hillbillies | |
10:00a | Family Affair | |
10:30a | Love of Life | |
11:00a | Where the Heart Is | |
11:25a | Live Today | |
11:30a | Search for Tomorrow | |
Afternoon | ||
12:00p | Midday | |
12:30p | As the World Turns | |
01:00p | Love is a Many Splendored Thing | |
01:30p | The Guiding Light | |
02:00p | The Secret Storm | |
02:30p | The Edge of Night | |
03:00p | My Three Sons | |
03:30p | Movie – “The Second Greatest Sex” | |
05:30p | CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite | |
Evening | ||
06:00p | News (local) | |
06:30p | Scene at the Fair | |
07:00p | My World and Welcome to It | |
07:30p | Horton Hears a Who (special) | |
08:00p | Movie – “Promise Her Everything” | |
10:00p | News(local) | |
10:50p | Movie – “Malaya” (B&W) | |
12:40a | Movie – “The Little Hut” |
KSTP, Channel 5 (NBC) | ||
Morning | ||
06:30a | Minnesota Today | |
07:00a | Today (guest host Edwin Newman, guest Helen Hayes) | |
09:00a | Dinah’s Place (guest Loretta Lynn) | |
09:30a | Concentration | |
10:00a | Sale of the Century | |
10:30a | The Hollywood Squares (guests Sandra Dee, Eva Gabor, Rose Marie, Kent McCord, Jan Murray, Tony Randall, Karen Valentine, Wally Cox, Paul Lynde) | |
11:00a | Jeopardy | |
11:30a | Who, What or Where Game | |
11:55a | NBC News (Floyd Kalber) | |
Afternoon | ||
12:00p | News, Weather (local) | |
12:15p | Dial 5 (guests Bobby Goldsboro, Billy Thundercloude and the Chief Tones) | |
01:00p | Days of Our Lives | |
01:30p | The Doctors | |
02:00p | Another World | |
02:30p | Return to Peyton Place | |
03:00p | Somerset | |
03:30p | Mike Douglas (co-host Florence Henderson, guests Robert Reed, Helen Gurley Brown, Karl Wallenda, Pete Hamill) | |
04:30p | Dick Van Dyke (B&W) | |
05:00p | Hogan’s Heroes | |
05:30p | NBC Nightly News (John Chancellor) | |
Evening | ||
06:00p | News(local) | |
06:30p | Circus! | |
07:00p | Magic Circus | |
08:00p | Ironside | |
09:00p | San Francisco: The City That Waits to Die (special) | |
10:00p | News(local) | |
10:30p | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (guest host Joey Bishop, guests Jerry Reed, Milt Kamen) | |
12:00a | Man in a Suitcase |
KMSP, Channel 9 (ABC) | ||
Morning | ||
07:00a | CBS Morning News with John Hart | |
08:00a | News and Views | |
08:30a | Grandpa Ken | |
09:00a | Romper Room (Miss Jody) | |
09:30a | Beat the Clock (guest Rich Little) | |
10:00a | What’s My Line? (panelists Bert Convy, Arlene Francis, Phyllis Newman, Gene Rayburn) | |
10:30a | Bewitched | |
11:00a | Password (guests Tony Randall, Betty White) | |
11:30a | Split Second | |
Afternoon | ||
12:00p | All My Children | |
12:30p | Let’s Make a Deal | |
01:00p | The Newlywed Game | |
01:30p | The Dating Game | |
02:00p | General Hospital | |
02:30p | One Life to Life | |
03:00p | Love, American Style | |
03:30p | Green Acres | |
04:00p | Lancer | |
05:00p | News, Weather, Sports (local) | |
05:30p | ABC Evening News with Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner | |
Evening | ||
06:00p | To Tell the Truth (Panelists Kitty Carlisle, Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen, Nipsey Russell) | |
06:30p | Truth or Consequences | |
07:00p | Summer Olympics (special) | |
10:00p | News (local) | |
10:30p | The Wild Wild West | |
11:30p | Dick Cavett | |
01:00a | News (local) |
WTCN, Channel 11 (Ind.) | ||
Morning | ||
07:30a | New Zoo Revue | |
08:00a | Casey and Roundhouse | |
09:00a | What’s New? | |
10:30a | Movie – “Woman in a Dressing Gown” (B&W) | |
Afternoon | ||
12:00p | Lunch with Casey | |
01:00p | Movie – “The Informers” (B&W) | |
02:50p | Lucille Rivers | |
03:00p | It Takes a Thief | |
04:00p | Batman | |
04:30p | The Addams Family (B&W) | |
05:00p | The Munsters (B&W) | |
05:30p | Daniel Boone | |
Evening | ||
06:30p | I Dream of Jeannie | |
07:00p | Country Fair Roundup (special) | |
07:30p | It’s Your Bet (guests the Rod Serlings, Elke Sommer and Joe Hyams) | |
08:00p | Merv Griffin (guests Otto Preminger, Peter Fonda, Virginia Graham, Fred Williamson) | |
09:30p | News, Weather, Sports (local) | |
10:00p | Perry Mason (B&W) | |
11:00p | Movie – “Interlude” |
The Lucille Rivers show at 2:50pm is, believe it or not, a sewing show. You won't see that on television nowadays. The rest of Channel 11's schedule is basically MeTV before it was nostalgia: It Takes a Thief, Batman, The Addams Family, The Munsters, Daniel Boone and I Dream of Jeannie. They're all on one of the retro networks nowadays, but back then it was no big deal; people probably looked at them as the same-old, same-old.