Retro: Chicago VHFs, Saturday, May 15, 1976

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(Source: The Herald, suburban Chicago)

WBBM-TV 2 (CBS)
AM
6 TBA
6:30 It’s Worth Knowing About Us
7 Pebbles & Bamm Bamm
7:26 In The News
7:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
7:56 In The News
8:26 In The News
8:30 Scooby Doo Where Are You?
8:56 In The News
9 Shazam/Isis Hour
9:56 In The News
10 Far Out Space Nuts
10:26 In The News
10:30 Ghostbusters
10:56 In The News
11 Valley Of The Dinosaurs
11:26 In The News
11:30 Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids
11:56 In The News
PM
12 Children’s Film Festival: “Shopping Bag Lady”
12:30 What’s It All About?
1 Different Drummers (features Experimental Black Actors Guild)
1:30 Opportunity Line
2 Soul Train (guests: Billy Paul, The Trammps)
3 Pro Golf (third round, Colonial National Invitational)
4 The Preakness
5 Channel Two The People (a survey of gospel music)
5:30 CBS News
6 News
6:30 Emmy Hopefuls (Host: David Sheehan)
7 Jeffersons
7:30 Doc
8 Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Bob Newhart
9 Miss USA pageant (from Niagara Falls; hosts: Helen O’Connell, Bob Barker; entertaining, Engelbert Humperdinck)
11 News
11:30 Movie: “Man on the Outside”
1A Movie: “The Bridges at Toko-Ri”
3:10 Movie: “Harriet Craig”

WMAQ-TV 5 (NBC)
AM
7 Emergency Plus 4
7:30 Josie & The Pussycats
8 Secret Lives Of Waldo Kitty
8:30 Pink Panther
9 Land Of The Lost
9:30 Run Joe Run
10 Return To The Planet Of The Apes
10:30 Westwind
11 Jetsons
11:30 Go-USA
PM
12 Suspense Theatre
1 Grandstand
1:15 Game Of The Week: Dodgers at Pirates
4 Ecos Latinos
4:30 City Desk
5 Kukla, Fran & Ollie
5:30 NBC News
6 Sorting It Out (A visit to the village of Long Grove, 40 miles west of the Loop.)
6:30 Don Adams Screen Test
7 Emergency!
8 Movie: “White Lightning”
10 News
10:30 Saturday Night
12M Tilmon Tempo
1 Movie: “The Secret of Convict Lake”

WLS-TV 7 (ABC)
AM
7 Hong Kong Phooey
7:25 Schoolhouse Rock
7:30 Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape
8:25 Schoolhouse Rock
8:30 New Adventures of Gilligan
9 Super Friends
9:55 Schoolhouse Rock
10 Speed Buggy
10:25 Schoolhouse Rock
10:30 Odd Ball Couple
11 Lost Saucer
11:25 Schoolhouse Rock
11:30 American Bandstand (Guests: Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds; Jan and Jill; comic Tom Dreesen)
PM
12:30 Oiga Amigo!
1 Feminine Franchise
1:30 Black On Black
2 Water World (host James Franciscus and hockey star Gerry Unger fish for tarpon in the Florida Keys, watch a family regatta in Michigan)
2:30 Pro Tennis
4 Wide World of Sports
5:30 ABC News
6 Eyewitness Chicago
6:30 Let’sMake A Deal
7 Movie: “Panache”
8:30 Movie: “High Risk”
10 News
10:15 ABC News
10:30 Movie: “Easy Rider”
12:30A Movie: “Tribes”

WGN-TV 9
AM
6:45 News
7 U.S. Farm Report
7:30 H.R. Pufnstuf
8 Friends Of Man (A look at greyhounds)
8:30 Lost In Space
9:30 Jetsons
10 Movie: “Kidnapped”
PM
12 Charlando
12:30 Sportsman’s Friend
1 Lead Off Man
1:10 Baseball: Padres at Cubs
4 Sports Special: North American Light Heavyweight Boxing Championship
5:30 National Geographic
6:30 Bonanza
7:30 Movie: “Duck Soup”
9 The Presidents: 76 Years On Camera
10 Movie
10:30 Movie: “Zulu”
1:15A News
1:30 Movie: “Johnny Apollo”
3:15 News

WTTW 11 (PBS)
AM
7 Sesame Street
8 Mr. Rogers
8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 Electric Company
10 Mr. Rogers
10:30 Sesame Street
11:30 Behind The Lines
PM
12 Geo TV
1 Consumer Survival Kit
1:30 Adams Chronicles
2:30 Zoom
3 Sesame Street
4 Electric Company
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Firing Line (The implications of the Hearst trial)
6:30 Book Beat
7 Movie: “Hobson’s Choice”
9 Sea Marks (two-character play)
11 David Susskind (Part 1: The New Millionaires; Part 2: Marion Javits)