Channel 3 at 8:
That leaves a half-hour gap between the two broadcasts, and rich 1973 me will probably use it to watch the videotape of last Friday's Partridge Family, which I missed.
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
What's On TV Tonight (1973)?
Channel 12 at 7 Central tonight 1973:
Channel 3 at 8:
That leaves a half-hour gap between the two broadcasts, and rich 1973 me will probably use it to watch the videotape of last Friday's Partridge Family, which I missed.
Channel 3 at 8:
That leaves a half-hour gap between the two broadcasts, and rich 1973 me will probably use it to watch the videotape of last Friday's Partridge Family, which I missed.
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Ah, Walter's turning 50 on Maude.
ReplyDeleteMaude was not a big hit in our house.
DeleteNor in ours.
DeleteWould be interesting to see how the Jan. 30, 1973, episode turns out to be funny, based on this Wikipedia description of the episode: "Maude and Walter are all ready to take their second honeymoon to Rome. A tetanus shot Maude received as a prerequisite for travel gives her a rash, and when she encounters a busy doctor (Tom Bosley) who gives her medication without telling her correct dosage, her equilibrium becomes completely off balance, forcing both of them to cancel their trip. Out $800 for their deposit, they are enraged enough to sue the doctor for malpractice."
DeleteI saw recently that the actor who played Walter, Bill Macy, also was in Oh, Calcutta!.
ReplyDeleteI've seen probably a half-dozen episodes of Maude, and I remember probably one full minute of scenes from the show. And it turned out this was one of the episodes I had seen, and it had one of the scenes I remember watching.
ReplyDeleteThe Jan. 23, 1973, Sports Illustrated "Scorecard" on the contemporary anthem controversy:
ReplyDeleteThe flap in New York City over whether or not The Star-Spangled Banner should be played at a track meet was a tempest in a teapot, but it has excited passion among the lunatic fringe east and west of reason. Opportunists raced to make a law of anthem-playing at sports events, which is nonsense even if routine form for politicians. We are dealing here with a tradition which should remain just that—and nothing more—until people tire of it.
It is reasonable for someone to be simultaneously patriotic and against the incessant playing of the anthem at insignificant events. It is also logical to be anti-anthem on political grounds. But the majority of Americans evidently likes to hear The Star-Spangled Banner played, and it is not mandatory for the majority to abandon its preferences because of the feelings of a dissident minority. If an athlete chooses to be so ill-mannered as not to honor the anthem, that is his right, but it does not justify rejection of a tradition favored by most Americans.
Our position on discourtesy is that we are against it. But we would hate to call it a crime.
Check that ... this is actually the Jan. 29, 1973, issue; it covers events through Jan. 22.
DeleteMeanwhile, Cadiz made "Faces in the Crowd!" "Selby Grubbs, a senior tailback for Trigg County High in Cadiz, led his team to Kentucky state football championships in both 1971 and 1972. Over this span, Grubbs scored 366 points and accounted for 4,012 yards rushing on 343 carries."
ReplyDeleteOK, timeout for the NBA game of the week ...
ReplyDeleteThe two Bullets in this game, Elvin Hayes and Wes Unseld, look fantastic in their swoopy warmup suits.
ReplyDeleteWatching this game seems like it would be a bit of heaven for you.
DeleteThis new SI has a big article on the Bullets: "The old Bullets were good enough to win games, lots of them, but the new ones are better. They are capable of winning championships."
ReplyDeleteThe article has two pictures which show the striking 1972-73 Baltimore Bullets swoops.
DeleteThese are considerably toned-down Bullets compared to the ones who lost the championship round of the 1971 playoffs to Milwaukee in four straight games. Earl Monroe now struts his stuff for the Knicks. Gone too is weary-kneed Gus Johnson, who is best remembered in Baltimore floating on high, his gold-starred incisor twinkling amid a shower of purportedly shatterproof glass as he razed yet another see-through backboard. Only Center Wes Unseld and Forward John Tresvant remain from that squad. Today the Bullets go with the likes of smooth Guard Phil Chenier, spunky Forward Mike Riordan, solid Unseld, silken Elvin Hayes, speedy rookie Kevin Porter and the shifty Clark.
ReplyDeleteAlthough Baltimore has won three division championships and a conference title in the past four seasons, Shue has generally been overlooked when the NBA's best coaches are mentioned. But in recent weeks he has become the object of considerable admiration, not so much for his team's 18-5 record since Dec. 1 and a 4½-game lead in the Central Division as for the alacrity with which he disbanded one team, put together another and molded it into a cohesive unit. The old Bullets were a helter-skelter fast-break outfit, which even in their best season allowed 112 points a game and whose set offense consisted of four men going one-on-one while Unseld looked on. This year Baltimore is among the league's best defensive clubs, permitting fewer than 100 points in 23 of its games, and it runs a pattern offense as smoothly as it does the break.
Most coaches admitted they would rather take arsenic than Elvin Hayes. His reputation was that of a man with a fragile ego who alternately stormed and sulked at criticism, who was sometimes sullen with his teammates and coaches, who could cause dissension in the Partridge family. At the press conference announcing the deal, Shue was asked if it was strictly one-for-one. "No," he replied, "we get Elvin's psychiatrist, too."
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of The Partridge Family, this episode I had on the ol' VCR was also one where I specifically remembered one of the gags--Keith asks a girl for a quarter so he can buy a taco. (It's funnier than I make it sound here.) This and my Maude experience make me wonder if I'm remembering back to watching TV with my family this actual week in 1973 when I was 4. As previously reported, the Dec. 31, 1972, AFC championship is the first football game I remember watching on TV. And now we might be bumping into the first days of TV sitcom watching I can remember, Jan. 19-23, 1973. I think I am now ready to declare, THIS IS THE DAWNING OF THE AGE OF ERIC!
DeleteThe Jan. 26, 1973, Partridge Family, meanwhile, is the famous one where Johnny Bench portrays an unnamed server for Kings Island poolside dining. This makes me excited to start digging in to my baseball cards for MLB73.
DeleteBoth Hayes and the man Baltimore traded to Houston for him, Jack Marin, made the East All-Star team.
ReplyDeleteThe most impressive players to me in this game so far are both with the West: guard Nate Archibald and forward Sidney Wicks. I have a slew of basketball cards for both of these guys, and I could tell by their statistics and their All-Star appearances that they were both really good. But I really remember watching Archibald only late in his career, when he was with the Larry Bird Celtics, and I don't remember watching Wicks at all. Archibald is a quick-stepping magician with the ball, and Wicks is a high riser with all kinds of interesting shots from 10 feet or so--turnaround jumpers, banks highhighhigh off the glass, etc. It's fun to see both in their prime.
ReplyDeleteAh, yes, I forgot the NBA used to do center jumps at the top of each quarter.
ReplyDeleteThe West is starting to slip behind in this game. They are playing without Rick Barry, who is hurt, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who was dismissed from the game after a massacre at a home he formerly owned at 16th and Juniper streets in Washington, D.C. The AP dispatch about the tragedy said eight people had been killed; I had never heard about this story.
ReplyDeleteIt's an even more grisly and terrifying story than I initially realized, per Sports Illustrated.
DeleteIn happier news, Chris Schenkel throws to Washington for a special address from President Nixon: An internationally supervised cease-fire will begin in Vietnam at 7 p.m. Eastern Saturday. American POWs throughout Indochina will be released and all U.S. forces will be withdrawn from South Vietnam within 60 days, he says. All conditions for "peace with honor" have been met.
ReplyDeleteSchenkel revels in the wonderful news with his color commentator, Bill Russell, and notes how much more lively the Chicago Stadium crowd seems since Nixon's cease-fire announcement was broadcast over inside.
ReplyDelete"That's the best news that any of us could hope for," Russell says, "that this horrible war is over."
DeleteSaturday on ABC: bowling from Denver and then ABC's Wide World of Sports, including last night's George Foreman-Joe Frazier fight from Kingston, Jamaica (Foreman won) and a ski tournament from Vermont. The on-screen graphics and the way that Schenkel talked about it, it sounds like the bowling was a standalone broadcast not under the Wide World umbrella. I wonder how ABC figured out how to sort all of that.
ReplyDeleteSunday on ABC: Knicks at Celtics.
ReplyDeleteNow the ABC sideline reporter has an interview from the sideline with Spencer Haywood of the West. Haywood says playing in the All-Star Game is "about the biggest thrill of the year for players like me whose team is in second-to-last place and some of the younger players who are in their first All-Star Game."
ReplyDeleteI'll tell you what, Sidney Wicks is a heck of a passer, too. This broadcast is really challenging my 45-years-honed, unfounded opinions of Sidney Wicks.
After the game, ABC will be broadcasting a one-on-one competition between Jim Barnett and Elvin Hayes! Chris Schenkel hints that it was quite a closely contested affair, so I'm hopeful that's here on this YouTube video, too.
ReplyDeleteThe Wednesday morning, Jan. 24, 1973 issue of The Messenger (“Serving Madisonville And Hopkins County In The Heart Of The Western Kentucky Coal Field;” “Madisonville Hopkins County ON THE MOVE!”) banners a headline, “Peace With Honor In Vietnam” and accentuates it with lines of star border tape along the top and bottom of the words. Under the banner, then, The Messenger has the AP report headlined, “‘The Longest War’ Will End Saturday,” plus a localized report by Joan Bryant.
ReplyDelete“Area people are cautiously happy today following the peace announcement by President Nixon last night,” she writes. “Mixed emotions were sorted out by some in an attempt to relate their feelings about the agreement, the return of the fighting men and prisoners and the hope of lasting peace in Vietnam and elsewhere.” Then there are a bunch of quotes from local people.
ReplyDeleteStories like this where you get person-on-the-street reactions to some event are pretty easy and fun to gather, but I think getting the bracketing right—figuring out the first paragraph or two, telling enough of the story but not too much, sufficiently throwing a tarp over the topics and emotions covered in all of the quotes (that are probably still being gathered, by the way)—is really, really hard. Joan Bryant has done a perfect job here.
Everything you imagine someone saying about the Vietnam War in January 1973 is said by one of the local people: hopes and doubts for lasting peace in the region, gladness that some soldiers are coming home, sadness that many are not, concerns for the entire region and "who won the war?"
ReplyDeleteThe forthcoming Jan. 29 Newsweek asks on its cover, "How Solid A Peace?"
ReplyDeleteWhat's (Not) On TV Tonight (Feb. 6, 1973)? The ABA All-Star Game.
ReplyDelete"Basketball is a burgeoning professional sport, and the ABA has sought to bring it where the fans are. From the Carolinas to New York, from the Rocky Mountain West to southern California, the ABA has found a growing audience excited by the kind of team play that the league has fostered."
ReplyDeleteMan, I love those two sentences of this script.
"Rigorous, demanding, non-stop effort and dedication to the game--that is the hallmark of the ABA player. For Warren Jabali and his brothers in the ABA, to be at the summit of the pro-basketball appearance is to be called ALL-STAR!"
ReplyDeleteYES! YES! YES!
Well done, Robert Halsband, writer and editor for this 13-minute "Low Spark Production" narrated by Andy Musser and paid for by adidas.
Rest in peace, Robert Halsband.
ReplyDeleteAnd Warren Jabali.
DeleteAnd Andy Musser.
ReplyDeleteAnd Bea Arthur.
ReplyDeleteAnd now here's Maude--from Feb. 6, 1973.