TV Christmas Past:December 19, 1974

Ad for the Tenth showing of "Charlie Brown Christmas" On CBS. After all those years on CBS, it stll seems like the Charlie Brown Specials shouldnt be on ABC.


Ad for the Tony Orlando and Dawn Christmas Show..still in its first months on the air..


TV Guide Ad for "The Bear who slept through Christmas"..Second showing of what would become a minor Christmas Classic..Not on the order of "Rudolph" or Charlie Brown", but this special was shown several times on broadcast TV

We begin our look at Christmas through the years with the year 1974..Watergate brought about a presidential resignation and price inflation was starting to hit Americans in the Pocketbook..WEWS' Morning Exchange was hitting its stride..Gene Carroll (with Don Webster) and Polka Varieties were still going..the previous summer (1973) WNEO-45 Alliance, Ohio (PBS) signed on-The first use of Channel 45 in Northeast Ohio since the ill-fated WXTV-45 ceased operations in 1962. Mac Davis' returned in his Variety Show on NBC Thursday nights at 8PM Bing Crosby and Perry Como also had specials this week, as well as Bob Hope..

Thursday, December 19, 1974

3 WKYC-NBC-Cleveland
5 WEWS-ABC
8 WJW-CBS
25 WVIZ PBS
43 WUAB
61 WKBF

17 WJAN Canton
23 WAKR-ABC Akron
45 WNEO-PBS Alliance

5:45
3 News

5:50
3 Farm Fare

5:55
3 Knowledge

6:20
8 News

6:25
3 Nor For Women Only
8 First Edition

6:30
8 Sunrise Semester

6:55
3 What's Doing?
5 News

7AM
3 Today
5 Inner Circle
8 CBS News-Hughes/Rudd

7:30
5 Cartoons

8AM
5 Morning Exchange-Fred Griffith, Liz Richards, Joel Rose
8 Captain Kangaroo

9AM
3 Mike Douglas-Liberace CoHost (Today Only) In a salute to the 1950's-Douglas had 5 differesnt cohosts (one each day) saluting a different decade..

8 Mayberry RFD

9:30
8 Tattletales-Bert Convy-Amanda Blake, Gary Burghoff, Gene Rayburn and spouses

10AM
5 Split Second
8 Joker's Wild

10:20
23-43 News

10:30
3 Winning Streak
5 I Dream Of Jeannie
8 Gambit
23-61 Jack LaLanne (he is still doing infomercials at 93 years old!)
43 Coffee Shoppe

11AM
3 High Rollers-Alex Trebek
5 $10,000 Pyramid-Dick Clark-Betsy Palmer. Leonard Nimoy
8 Now You See It-Jack Narz
23-43 Romper Room
61 News

11:30
3 Hollywood Squares-Peter Marshall
5-23 Brady Bunch
8 Love Of Life
43 Barnaby
61 Huck and Yogi

Noon
3 Jackpot!-Geoff Edwards
5 Password All-Stars-Allen Ludden
8 News
43 Speed Racer
61 Banana Splits

12:30
3 Celebrity Sweepstakes-Jim McKrell
5 News
8 Search For Tomorrow
23 Split Second
43 Spiderman

12:55
3 NBC News-Edwin Newman

1PM
3 Name That Tune
5-23 All My Children
8 Young And The Restless
43 Movie-Two Guys From Milwaukee-1946
61 I Love Lucy

1:30
3 Jeopardy!
5-23 Let's Make a Deal
8 As The World Turns
61 The Lucy Show

2PM
3 Says Of Our Lives
5-23 Newlywed Game
8 Guiding Light
61 Make Room For Daddy

2:30
3 Doctors
5-23 Girl in My Life
8 Edge Of Night
17 Movie-What a Life-1939 First Henry Aldrich Movie
61 New Zoo Revue-Still shown today on channel 67 in Canton

3PM
3 Another World
5-23 General Hospital
8 Price Is Right-Bob Barker
43 Superman
61 Magilla Gorilla

3:30
3 How To Survive A Marriage
5-23 One Life To Live
8 Match Game (74)-Gene Rayburn
43 Bullwinkle
61 Three Stooges

3:55
43 Mr. Jingeling-Earl Keyes

4PM
3 Somerset
5 Dinah!-Dinah Shore-With Robert Goulet, Ken Berry and Chet Atkins
8 Adventure Road-Jim Doney
17 Milton The Milkman-Cartoons
23 $100,000 Pyramid-Betsy Palmer, Leonard Nimoy
25-45 Sesame Street
43 Frightenstein
61 Little Rascals

4:30
3 Room 222
8 Merv Griffin
23 Santa Claus
43 Gilligan's Island

4:45
17 Louisville Schools Report

5PM
3 Partridge Family
5 Bonanza
17 Our Day In Canton
23 Choral Christmas-St. Hilary's Choir
25-45 Misterogers Neighborhood
43 Gomer Pyle
61 Flintstones(2 episodes)

5:30
3 News
23 Davey and Goliath
25-45 Villa Allegre
43 Green Acres

5:45
23 Hour Of Power Singers-Dave Lombardi-Trinity Gospel Temple in Canton, Ohio

6PM
3-5-8-23 News
17 Journey To Adventure
25 Your Future Is Now
43 Bewitched
45 Electric Company
61 Beverly Hillbillies

6:30
5-23 ABC News-Howard K. Smith, Harry Reasoner
8 CBS News-Walter Cronkite
17 American Ski Scene
25-45 Zoom
43 Love, American Style
61 Andy Griffith

7PM
3 News-John Chancellor
5 To Tell The Truth-Garry Moore
8 Truth Or Consequences-Bob Barker
17 Galloping Gourmet-Graham Kerr
23 Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
25 Electric Company
43 Hogan's Heroes
45 Aviation Weather
61 Star Trek

7:30
3 Hollywood Squares
5 Police Surgeon
8 Treasure Hunt-Geoff Edwards
17 Not For Women Only-Barbara Walters
25 Behind The lines
43 WHA Hockey-Cleveland Crusaders at Michigan Stags (Detroit)-Steve Albert and Paul Wilcox report-Crusaders lost 1-0..(shrpsports.com). The Michigan (Former Los Angeles Sharks) team would move to Baltimore (1-19-75) before the end of the 1974-75 season and fold at the end of the season..

45 Inside/Out

8PM
3 Mac Davis Show-Return
5 Fron Sea To Shining Sea-Historical Drama
8 The Waltons
17 Hee Haw
23 Odd Couple
25-45 The Way It Was-1953/54 Stanley Cup-Detroit/Montreal
61 Dealer's Choice-Jack Clark

8:30
23 Paper Moon
25 Kamm's Corner-Cleveland Press editor Herb Kamm hosted this discussion show, Though the program title was a play on the name of a Far West side Cleveland Neighborhood, Kamm's Corners..

45 Religious America
61 What's My Line?-Larry Blyden

9PM
3 Ironside
5-23 Streets Of San Francisco
8 CBS Movie-Catlow-1971
17 PTL Club-Jim Bakker
25-45 Soul!
61 Movie-Moonfleet-1955

10PM
3 Movin' On
5-23 Sadat-Action Biography
17 Christmas With Oral Roberts-Florence Henderson. Charley Pride
25 Life Of Leonardo Da Vinci
43 Rodeo
45 High Cost Of Healing

11PM
3-5-8 News
17 Movie-Wharf Angel-1934
23 Buck Owens
25 Closed Caption ABC News
43 One Step Beyond
61 Best Of Groucho

11:30
3 Johnny Carson
5-23 Wide World Special
43 Movie-Beasts of Marseilles -English 1957
61 Movie-The Pathfinder -1952

11:40
8 Movie-Rogue's Gallery-1968

1AM
3 Tomorrow-Ton Snyder
5-23-43 News

1:20
8 Movie-Donovan's Reef-1963

2AM
3 News

3:20
8 News