Evening TV Schedule for January 16, 1973

I’m looking forward to “The Voyage of the Yes” at 9:30 with DL faves Desi Arnaz Jr, Della Reese and Beverly Garland.

To men on a boat, learning about life together.

I’m all in for Margaret Hamilton as Professor Crabwell.

I didn’t realize Maude was already on in the early 70s. I imagined it being solely a late 70s show.

Temperature's Rising, followed by The Voyage of the Yes for the shirtless Desi!

For Singles Only (1968) - see link

then

Carson

Hawaii 5-0 was our show.

I'm pretty sure I watched the tv movie The Night Strangler. There were a lot of tv movies back then as well as mini series.

I'm staying up late and watching "Frankenstein Part I".

Johnny Carson with The Borg and Joey Heatherton.

Maude then The Night Strangler then Marcus Welby, MD.

But during the commercials I would switch over to Desi, Jr.

Temperatures Rising with DL fave Joan Van Ark!

R10, did the Borg assimilate Joey Heatherton?

NBC Reports looks good.

Fuck this, I'm going to the adult book stores on route 1 and 9 and suck cock.

For Singles Only has John Saxon shirtless.

I’ll be watching the saucy “For Singles Only”

[quote]Fuck this, I'm going to the adult book stores on route 1 and 9 and suck cock.

^ hawt!

[quote]For Singles Only has John Saxon shirtless.

^ hawt! # 2

Night Strangler. I loved those shows like the later The Night Stalker.

My mother would have watched Bonanza, then Hawaii Five-0, then Marcus Welby.

I'm the nerd with yellow fever that wants to see the 10pm NBC Reports from Peking. After that I'll watch Frankenstein.

For Singles Only:

“…a California apartment complex for singles only where all the occupants are looking to hook up with Milton Berle” - and DL knows why.

Jess Walton was on every episodic show in the 70s - the Bold Ones here. She showed up in that Cannon clip that listed every guest star about 3 times, at least.

Voyage of the Yes about two men on a boat "fighting their inner prejudices" sounds like must-see TV.

I want to see the vivacious Miss Joey Heatherton on [italic]The Tonight Show.[/italic]

For Singles Only

This really takes me back. I had just turned 12 the month before. I know we most likely would have watched Maude and Marcus Welby. My dad died 11 days after this.

R21, Your mother? I would have! Now I must go watch that "Hawaii 5-O" episode, as I bought all seasons!

I don’t feel like watching television 📺 tonight. I’m going to drive my brand new 1973 Pontiac Grand Prix with a 400 cubic inch V-8 to Loyal Inn Bowling 🎳 Alley and play a couple of games.

[quote] I didn’t realize Maude was already on in the early 70s. I imagined it being solely a late 70s show.

It ran from 1972 to 1978.

[quote] Jess Walton was on every episodic show in the 70s

Thats before teh Bells got there hands on her and corerupted her.

I've stayed up late to watch Frankenstein, only to quickly realize it is made for TV-filler, not the original. Here's Elvira giving it to us a decade later:

Was this episode of Maude the introduction of Florida Evans to America?

Seminal!

Who wouldn’t want to miss the FINAL Bonanza!?

THE BOLD ONES

R30, In 1973 I was driving Datsun 240-Z!

[quote] Who would want to miss the FINAL Bonanza!?

We can barely get Channel 4 on our set, unfortunately.

What market is this? Is this NYC?

John Saxon shirtless and sporting a bad hairpiece...

If only instead of John Saxon

it was

John Gavin

R 39 - Must be a small market. no PBS or independent stations. Though it does have the channels match major markets. 2 CBS, 4 NBC, 7 ABC. It is either Eastern or Pacific time.

R42 wait, that might be LA then.

The networks all aired the same shows during Primetime hours throughout the country. Maude was not only aired out East and not West. I’m confused by the weird discussion at r41 r42

It airs out East at 8. Central is one hour behind and then when they hit 8 it airs. And later when it turns 8 out West it airs.

What is the confusion?

[quote]Was this episode of Maude the introduction of Florida Evans to America? Seminal!

Don't be bringin' JIZZ into it, pervert!

Here's the entire 1972-1973 TV season schedule.

I watched some Beatles shit on FH. Meh

[quote] who informs Joe he has only fours to escape

[quote] in-genius electronic plants

Oh, dear.

Why do the call it "Johnny Carson" instead of "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson"?

I only knew Robert Foxworth from Falcon Crest, but I guess he got a lot of work.

[quote] It airs out East at 8. Central is one hour behind and then when they hit 8 it airs.

Prime time begins at 7 Central time. If Maude was on at 8 Eastern, then it was on at 7 Central.

[quote]R49: Why do the (sic) call it "Johnny Carson" instead of "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson"?

To save space in the printed media.

I hope I make it home in time to watch Bonanza but I’ve got to pull into this service station and get the car filled with regular.

Hello, fill it with regular. Yes you clean 🧽 my windows, thank you. Gasoline is expensive nowadays- 37 cents a gallon!

Yes you CAN clean my windows.

I like the way TV Guide listed the guest stars.

[quote]I'm staying up late and watching "Frankenstein Part I".

Yes. There’s little enough Susan Strasberg out there as it is!

Joey Heatherton was pretty talented. All the crazy stuff came later.

I was two years-old and an only child at that point. Maude, Jack Lord, and Johnny were in my consciousness at that point. As it was 1972 Liza would loom large later that year in a most fabulous way.

Bonanza description that Tom Skeritt informs Joe that “he has four to escape”? Four what? Hours? Seconds? Days? On all fours with his tight tush exposed for msn to man action?

When I was a kid, I frequently referred to the show Bonanza as Ponderosa.

My grandparents thought that was funny.

I never sat through more than two minutes of the show; learning its actual name was not a priority for me.

I was a Bewitched gayling, through and through.

r49 r52 I remember seeing his show and Dick Cavett's listed as just "Carson" and "Cavett" in our edition, at some point and time.

R57, her Dallas Cowboys husband was arrested for exposing himself to a ten-year-old girl in 1970.

That probably set off her own mental collapse more than anything else.

[quote][R42] wait, that might be LA then.

Can't be LA -- it's always had lots of independent stations (5, 9, 13)

[quote]When I was a kid, I frequently referred to the show Bonanza as Ponderosa.

Bonanza reruns that aired on NBC in summer 1972 were called Ponderosa for some reason.

I wish Marcus Welby was not on so late.

Joey Heatherton!!

Hubba Hubba Hubba!

[quote]I wish Marcus Welby was not on so late.

I wish James Brolin was shirtless more often on Marcus Welby.

In his day, Lance Rentzel could have shown his weiner to me!

It was a Tuesday night and I was a kid. We didn't watch TV most weeknights. I spent my evenings doing projects. Craft projects, building, science, etc. Back in those days middle class kids had an instrument to practice, maybe a winter sport practice, a bit of homework, and projects. TV wasn't a "hobby" for kids.

I have a copy of Voyage of the Yes and I can attest to there being plenty of hot, hairy, shirtless Desi, Jr. But the film itself is actually pretty good.

Who the hell had the bright idea to move Bonanza to Tuesdays?

[quote]Who the hell had the bright idea to move Bonanza to Tuesdays?

That's where they sent it to die.

Bonanza was a Sunday night staple since its premier, but they moved it to Tuesdays for its final season.

Yeah, usually moves like that are intended to kill a show. (see: Murder She Wrote)

Tuesdays in the 60s and early 70s was generally the lowest rated night of the week.

CBS sent most of its rural comedies to Tuesday in the 1970-71 season to kill them off -- Beverly Hillbillies at 7:30 p.m., Green Acres at 8 p.m. and Hee Haw at 8:30 p.m.

All three were cancelled at end of season, along with Mayberry RFD, which aired on Mondays.

Hee Haw went on to find a long life in syndication.

No idea. I'm an eldergay, but not an elder-eldergay.

Two Dan Curtis productions on the same page - The Night Strangler and Frankenstein.

I'll watch Night Strangler since I never miss a Jo Ann Pflug movie.

Is that TV schedule page real? Something about it seems off, including all the errors.

Looks exactly like the pages of TV Guide that I read every week growing up.

I had a friend who worked at CBS in the early '70's and he told me they were going to "de-ruralize" the network and get rid of all the "country" shows no matter what their ratings were. Fred Silverman was promoted to programming chief and made that his first mission.

R77 Assuming you're not trolling and meant what you posted, would you kindly elaborate re the "errors?"

If I were thrown back in time to an era before VCRS (let alone 6-tuner DVRS), the stress of having to choose one show at a time would be too much for me.

I probably watched Maude/the Night Strangler/followed by Marcus Welty so I could have a nightmare-less sleep.

My parents were distracted and neglectful R69, so TV was our nightly hobby.

I, too, was hoping for a shirtless James Brolin, R67. The guys in our gym class was going through puberty at the time. I admired the guys who were growing really big bushes; I wanted one myself. So, I imagined James Brolin had a really big bush.

I didn't get one, myself. Who knows if I was right about Brolin.

[quote]If I were thrown back in time to an era before VCRS (let alone 6-tuner DVRS), the stress of having to choose one show at a time would be too much for me.

But remember, you only had three networks to choose from. So, the stress level would be been a little less than having to choose out of 3,000 channels.

And you could always flip back and forth between two shows during the commercial break. That is, unless you had to adjust the antenna to receive the second station clearly. Then, it really wasn't worth it trying to flip between two stations.

As an adolescent I had kind of a crush on McGarrett, not realizing exactly that I wanted to be his bitch as much as Dan-O.

Hard to believe that For Singles Only (1968) was a theatrical release. The description makes it sound like a made4TV movie.

Speak for yourself R69.

[quote] If Maude was on at 8 Eastern, then it was on at 7 Central.

As a kid growing up in the Central time zone, I wondered how kids on the East coast managed to stay up late enough to watch their shows. I remember seriously thinking that maybe everything, including school, started an hour later in the East. The school issue really concerned me.

“Watching? Honey this is Chicago, we go out dancing!”

I always thought that Friday night had the least amount of viewers. I wonder why Tuesday was the TV graveyard night. Was everyone bowling?

R28, I'm sorry you lost your dad at such a young age.

[quote]I always thought that Friday night had the least amount of viewers.

Networks don't schedule there #1 show for the night with the least viewership. Why do you think Dallas aired on Fridays throughout the 80s.

It wasn't until sometime in the 90s that viewership on Friday and Saturdays began to fall of substantially to the point where the networks mostly air repeats or news shows on those nights.

No idea why Tuesdays was considered a slow night in the 60s and 70s, but it was. I guess that changed by the mid 70s when Happy Days began airing on Tuesdays with Laverne & Shirley and Three's Company soon premiering as part of the Tuesday lineup. Those were all programming decisions made by Fred Silverman which helped take ABC to the top of the ratings.

[quote] Networks don't schedule there #1 show

Oh, dear.

I'm trying to figure out what market that TV guide page represents. Channel 2 is CBS, Channel 4 is NBC, Channel 7 is ABC. I'm assuming New York?

^ Correct

OMG! The pilot movie for the Kolchak: The Night Stalker series is airing! Gotta watch that.

Sorry, Danno. I'll just have to lust over you next week.

Hawaii Five-O sandwiched in between the Quinn-Martin productions.

Ohh, Robert Foxworth fans can catch him on Hawaii Five-O at 8:30 p.m. on CBS and on Frankenstein at 11:30 p.m. on ABC.

R95 - but the movie they're showing is The Night Strangler (the sequel) not The Night Stalker (the original film from the previous year).

r93 Read the thread. It's not New York, LA, or any major market because there are only three stations. TV Guide used to have a national edition that only listed the major nationwide networks, but it didn't have channel numbers. So it's quite confusing.

R99 - but the channels line up with NY metro area stations.

CBS is channel 2, NBC is channel 4, and ABC is channel 7.

ONCE again -- if it's NY, LA (which uses the same numbering) or any other major market, there would be MANY other independent, UHF and PBS stations listed.

My family would have watched Maude. Then my parents probably would have watched Hawaii Five-O and Marcus Welby, while I would've gone to my room to watch The Night Strangler.

You had a TV in your room???

ONCE again, this is a phony TV schedule. It is not a "real" page from TV Guide from 1973.

R104 Now I am starting to believe that might be the case.

Without the small stations and more complete listings that does seem more like a mock up.

A real page from what appears to be the Detroit edition.

A 1971 page from what looks to be the Cleveland edition which includes Erie PA TV stations. I recognize WJET.

Room 222 is on, gurls!

^^^ Are there one or more online sites that best display this info and for numerous or all major tv markets in the US that you'd recommend? I did some poking around for such info when this thread began but did not arrive at anything conclusive.

For a few years I've been trying to find info on the Twin Cities tv listings for the first 2 weeks of December of 1963. I eventually came to the conclusion that I'd need to visit the archives of the Mpls Public Library or the Minneapolis Tribune in order to find what I'm specifically looking for. Anything found or recommended to point me in the right direction would be appreciated!

Those are the same as in Denver, r100.

R108 TV listings don't usually show up on searchable online databases. But you could see if the Sunday papers that those libraries have archived might have saved it. Library first, not sure if the paper itself would have it saved. If the Minneapolis library doesn't have it check others in the area.

I have Newspapers.com (because I am on Ancestry.com) and just did a check for you for the Star Tribune - unfortunately Newspapers.com only has a few months of 1963 and December isn't one of them.

^^^ Thanks for your reply and the effort you made on my behalf!

How dare you, r33, the Dan Curtis made-for-TV movies were not filler!

This site shows "The Bold Ones" as "Houston PD - Hernandez," with the same description and actors.

For a long time, syndicated shows had to have a different title than the original TV show, for copyright reasons apparently, r64. "Happy Days" was "Happy Days Again" and "CHiPS" was something like "CHiPS on Patrol."

Cover from that week's TV Guide.

NY Times review June 6, 1968 Vincent Canby

QUITE unintentionally, "For Singles Only" may be the definitive movie about certain aspects of southern California life.The film, which opened at neighborhood theaters here yesterday, is a mindless, witless romantic drama about the mindless, witless young people who live, swim and boogoloo all day in one of those southern California apartment houses restricted to chamois-skinned unmarrieds.It stars John Saxon, an actor who looks a lot like Marlon Brando, and Mary Ann Mobley, a former Miss America. Milton Berle plays the social director at the apartment house, and Lana Wood is seen as a girl wronged by a married wolf who sneaks into the singles paradise.Typical of the values in the film itself is a statement in a publicity brochure about Miss Wood. She is, says the brochure, the younger sister of Natalie and "a talented actress in her own right."The movie, which is really an impotent fantasy about the sex life of the young, was produced by Sam Katzman ("Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land," "Life Begins at 17," etc.) Possibly only an elderly movie producer living in southern California could remain alive and yet be so dead to the meaning of the world around him.Singular California

FOR SINGLES ONLY, screenplay by Hal Collins and Arthur Dreifuss based on a story by Arthur Hoerl and Albert Derr. Directed by Mr. Dreifuss; produced by Sam Katzman. A Four Leaf Production, presented by Columbia Pictures. At neighborhood theaters. Running time: 91 minutes.Bret Hendley . . . . . John SaxonAnne Carr . . . . . Mary Ann MobleyHelen Todd . . . . . Lana WoodGerald Pryor . . . . . Mark RichmanNydia Walker . . . . . Ann ElderLily . . . . . Chris NoelArchibald Baldwin . . . . . Marty IngelsMiss Jens . . . . . Hortense PetraJim Allen . . . . . Charles RobinsonBob Merrick . . . . . Duke HobbieMr. Parker . . . . . Milton Berle

You can find out what was playing on any day via TV Tango and also sometimes Wikipedia, so I don't know why someone would go to the trouble of Photoshopping a fake TV Guide page that matches what was actually on that night.

Except it DOESN'T match. At least on NBC at 9PM.

And on CBS at 8PM.

Yes it does, r118. "The Bold Ones" IS "The New Doctors." There were a whole batch of shows that were shown under the umbrella title "The Bold Ones."

Here's another schedule for the same night, r119. It has "Maude" listed. The schedules match.

r120 see r113

Both the TV movie "Hernandez" and "The Bold Ones: The New Doctors: The Night Crawler" show a release date on NBC on January 16, 1973, r122.

I don't know which one aired at 8:00 p.m. that night, but they were both scheduled. There was probably a last-minute change, with "Hernandez" pre-empting "The Bold Ones," since "Hernandez" is listed as being a special presentation.

That doesn't mean the OP mocked up a fake TV Guide page. It would be real weird for someone to fake a TV Guide page that is exactly the same as what was on television that night.

Ohh, that Cleveland Friday night TV schedule that r107 posted has a repeat showing of Cinderella with Lesley Ann Warren and Stuart Damon.

I'd probably skip the sacred ABC Friday night lineup of Brady Bunch, Partridge Family, Room 222, Odd Couple and Love, American Style to watch Cinderella.

I received a portable TV for my 13th birthday in 1973. It was small enough to sit on my desk in my bedroom, and it was black and white. But it was a TV, that's all that mattered.

I used to read the TV Guide as a kid. We didn't have that much to read back then and we lived 12 miles from the library.

I'm going for the Robert Foxworth double bill

Hawaii Five-O at 8:30 p.m. on CBS and on Frankenstein at 11:30 p.m. on ABC.

Fortunately I have a 2 hour break to enjoy one or two Swanson's Hungry Man Fish and Chips TV Dinners

There are a few left in the freezer from 1973.

Fall '73

...and Susan Strasberg as Patty Toma

Sally Field plays a married woman in the r128 intro, but is still “The [italic]Girl [/italic]with Something Extra.”

Sigh.

I notice Helen Lawson’s series BOTTOMS UP! isn’t in that NBC retrospective.

Didn’t she play a hardened streetwalker who inherits a tavern?

[quote]Fuck this, I'm going to the adult book stores on route 1 and 9 and suck cock.

lol. And I know exactly which adult book stores you're referring to!

[quote] You had a TV in your room???

Yes. It was a smallish B&W table top set, not one of those behemoth Magnavox monstrosities with color. That was in the living room.

[quote]Dan Curtis made-for-TV movies were not filler

Indeed. Not if he's the same Dan Curtis who produced and directed the Winds of War and War & Remembrance miniseries.

Adrienne Barbeau at 8; Jo Ann Pflug at 8:30, then Joey Heatherton at 11:30. It’s tits & ass night and I’m here for it!

OP- 1973 was the good old days. 1973 was the very year that our standard of living in the United States peaked. It's also the year that our manufacturing peaked- both have dropped dramatically since then.

R135- Adrienne Barbeau - just for you

1973 was also the year Playgirl started publishing. Some of the celebrities we saw while growing up were full-frontal naked, or nearly so. That trend continued into the following year.

R103, I had my own TV from 10th grade (thanks, Grandmom!).

R69, I watched television every single weeknight, having done my homework before supper. Plus, I could now multi-task with Science Fair projects (remember school-wide Science Fairs? They're defunct, I think.), e.g. As for practicing (trombone, in my case), eh. I did enough.

But miss my TV?! No way! Nobody could record/TIVO/DVR then! I always watched Wild Wild West, Peyton Place, I Spy, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., The Avengers, Mission: Impossible, Wagon Train (if Michael Burns was on), Star Trek, That Was The Week That Was, Ed Sullivan, The Smothers Brothers, Hootenanny, Shindig, Hullabaloo, and more!

My high school senior year, 1966--67:

Was that Frankenstein "Frankenstein: The True Story"? If so it was excellent and heartbreaking, starring Michael Sarrazin and introducing Jane Seymour as Prima:

Speaking of Seymour, did you know she has two different colored eyes?

She is a mutant.

Every national network TV schedule from the 1940s to the present is located here. I remember watching shows in the 1966-67 schedule, on the same nights and sequences listed here.

The Class Of 1973

R143 - Voted most likely to guzzle gas and kill its owners in a fiery explosion.

R144- That's the Ford Pinto silly.