TV Guide Retro

[trainman]

Modor recently posted Los Angeles's January 1984 game shows; going back almost 10 years, here were southern California's game show choices early in the 1974-75 season.

Two channels that weren't in the 1984 TV listings: 3 is KEYT, Santa Barbara (ABC); 12 is KCOY, Santa Maria (CBS).  The Palm Springs stations are listed by their over-the-air channel numbers.

Saturday
7:30 PM (3,7) Let's Make a Deal
(4) Jeopardy!
(5) Liars' Club

Weekdays
9:00 AM (2,12) The Joker's Wild
(4,36) Name That Tune
9:30 (2,12) Gambit
(4,36) Winning Streak
10:00 (2,12) Now You See It
(4,36) High Rollers
10:30 (4,36) Hollywood Squares (George Gobel, Sandy Duncan, James Coco, Joan Rivers, Doc Severinsen, Wayne Rogers, Paul Lynde, Charley Weaver)
11:00 (4,36) Jackpot!
11:30 (3,7,42) The $10,000 Pyramid (John Forsythe, Anne Meara)
(4,36) Celebrity Sweepstakes (Jo Ann Pflug, Mike Evans, Marty Feldman, Peter Brown, Joey Bishop, Carol Wayne)
Noon (3,7,42) Password (Betty White & Richard Dawson vs. Allen Ludden and Arlene Francis; Edward Albert & Betty White vs. Kate Jackson & Allen Ludden)
(4,36) Jeopardy!
12:30 PM (3,7,42) Split Second
1:30 (3,7,42) Let's Make a Deal
2:00 (2,12) The Price Is Right
(3,7,42) The Newlywed Game
2:30 (2,12) Match Game '74
3:00 (2,12) Tattletales
(4) Truth or Consequences
6:00 (9) What's My Line? (Soupy Sales, Meredith MacRae, Joe Silver)
7:00 (5) Bowling for Dollars
(12) Beat the Clock
7:30 (2) Checkerboard (see below)
(4) Checkerboard (see below)
(7) Checkerboard (see below)
8:00 (11) Dealer's Choice
11:00 (5) Best of Groucho

7:30 Checkerboards (non-game shows shown for your information, in italics)
(2) Monday: Masquerade Party
Tuesday: The $25,000 Pyramid (Fannie Flagg and Peter Lawford)
Wednesday: Last of the Wild
Thursday: The New Candid Camera
Friday: The New Treasure Hunt
(4) Monday: Police Surgeon
Tuesday: Hollywood Squares (Eva Gabor, Richard Roundtree, Hope Lange, Doc Severinsen, Marcia Wallace, Rich Little, Rose Marie, Charley Weaver, Paul Lynde)
Wednesday: Name That Tune
Thursday: The New Price Is Right
Friday: Hollywood Squares (Redd Foxx, Florence Henderson, James Coco, Suzanne Pleshette, George Gobel, Nanette Fabray, Vincent Price, Charley Weaver, Paul Lynde)
(7) Monday: Monday Night Football
Tuesday: Salty
Wednesday: Let's Make a Deal
Thursday: Celebrity Sweepstakes (Robert Stack, Buddy Hackett, Peggy Fleming, Chad Everett, Barbara Eden, Don Adams)
Friday: To Tell the Truth (Kitty Carlisle, Bill Cullen, Peggy Cass, Henry Morgan)

[Jimmy Owen]

Rough times for TTTT in the 74-75 season.  Down to once a week in on KABC in LA and NY (WNBC had it Sat. at 7pm).  Mark J. could verify, but I think TTTT bypassed Chicago that season.  

In Detroit, it was on 10 times a week on ABC O&O WXYZ at 10:30 am and 7 pm until "AM America" debuted and an expansion of "Action News." in Jan of 75.  TTTT finished out the season on the indie Channel 20 at 7pm.  It later moved to NBC affil WWJ Channel 4 at Noon.

[zachhoran]

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(5) Liars' Club

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In 1974, this must have either been reruns of the Rod Serling version or a local LA-based program.

[Ian Wallis]

Two things:  I find it interesting that the West Coast ABC schedule differed from the East Coast.  I always thought they figured out ratings by how shows were doing against each other (TV Guide even had an article about this in 1971, about the "Least Objectional Program") When your show is against different shows in different time zones, how do they figure it out?  Maybe you're beating one show in one time zone, but losing to a completely different show in another time zone.

Also, by summer 1974 Carol Wayne was a regular on "Celebrity Sweepstakes", but from listings I've seen, she missed a number of nighttime shows.

[Jimmy Owen]

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(5) Liars' Club

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In 1974, this must have either been reruns of the Rod Serling version or a local LA-based program.

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It was a new local version.  Bill Armstrong on the familiar set, two years before it went into national syndication.

[uncamark]

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Apr 14 2005, 03:02 AM\']Rough times for TTTT in the 74-75 season.  Down to once a week in on KABC in LA and NY (WNBC had it Sat. at 7pm).  Mark J. could verify, but I think TTTT bypassed Chicago that season. 

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Might've been on WSNS as a strip then, but it never had a long run of any kind in Chicago--one year as an afternoon strip with the block of "Game Game" and "He Said She Said" on WBBM at the beginning, less than a year in once-a-week access on WBBM a year later and a brief run on WSNS in 1974ish.  Nothing else in Chicago (meanwhile, at college in DeKalb WCEE in Rockford had it on at 6:30 p.m. weeknights, one year behind the major markets--I was seeing the first year of the completely non-psychedelic set).