What's (Not) On TV Tonight (1973)?

The Indianapolis 500, that's what:

I'm not sure what Channel 3 is going to show now that the race is delayed, but the great news is this frees up my Memorial Day May 28, 1973, Monday evening to watch baseball on Channel 6. In some markets at least, that game is scheduled to be the Oakland A's at the Detroit Tigers.

And if that doesn't happen--the A's-Tigers game was rained out Sunday--I will settle for the Channel 12 sitcom reruns. Per the Paducah, Kentucky, Sun-Democrat, here's what we can look forward to at 8 and 8:30 Central:

Here's Lucy. Lucy lands the job when singer Petula Clark contacts the agency for a secretary who can also act as her companion.

The Doris Day Show. Doris spends so much time interviewing a rock music star that word spreads that the young singer and Doris are seriously involved.

I actually saw both of these episodes when they originally ran during the fake 1972/73 TV season that I've been enjoying, and I would be happy to watch them both again.

Newsstand, March 1973

Paducah made Ebony!

Meanwhile, Boys' Life has an enthralling depiction on a Catlettsburg, Kentucky, Scout's springing into action to save a neighbor boy's life. (I loved these "Scouts In Action" features in Boys' Life when I was a kid.)

I don't really know much at all about National Lampoon magazine, but its March 1973 cover cracks me up. It's like one of those great overly specific Onion editorial cartoons, and, in this one, the personified magazine is marching into "GOOD TASTE" and "SWEETNESS AND LIGHT" and away from its "BAD TASTE" marked by "VICIOUS ATTACKS," "UNCALLED-FOR SMUT" and--my favorite--"TEARING DOWN WITHOUT BUILDING UP." This last one is represented by a man maniacally smashing birds with a hammer. As it moves toward a future of "MIRTH," "MERRIMENT" and "HARMLESS JOSHING," National Lampoon declares in a sturdy, seriffed font that it is "On the Right Path." Now this is a fantastic cover.

Here are the Nixons, by Norman Rockwell, on a magazine I had never heard of, First Monday. From looking at other eBay searches, it appears to be some sort of GOP-advocacy publication--and maybe even produced by a Nixon-specific organization.

I also was unaware of QST, "The Official Journal of the ARRL," or Amateur Radio Relay League of Hartford and now Newington, Connecticut.

I'm so happy to report that I still so love television, and each of this 1973 month's TV Guide covers--March 3, March 10, March 17, March 24 and March 31--just absolutely makes me want to watch more.

Turning to sports, Action Sports Hockey is taking us “INSIDE THE CANADIENS’ HATE-FILLED DRESSING ROOM;” Carlos Monzon is Boxing Illustrated's fighter of the year, and The Sporting News picks Nate Archibald and Bill Walton for its pro and college players of the 1972-73 basketball season, respectively (and congratulations, William "Bird" Averitt of Hoptown and Pepperdine for his honorable mention!)

More from March 1973 magazines:

-- Music Star, "The Loneliness of Michael Jackson"

-- Country Song Roundup, "who is Jim Ed Brown?"

-- Tiger Beat, "OSMONDS: Will Religion STOP Them From LOVING YOU?!"

-- 16 Magazine, "David--Is He a Phony?!"

-- Seventeen, "the real-life BRIDGET AND BERNIE"

-- Modern Screen, “DISCOVERED! BURT REYNOLDS & DINAH SHORE’S Secret Love Hideout!”

-- TIME, "EUROPE, AMERICA'S NEW RIVAL"

-- Christian Crusade Weekly, “POWs Tell of Religious Experiences” and “US Warming Up To Cuba?”

-- Consumer Reports, “The High-Filth Diet, Compliments of FDA”

Oh, Kentucky

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— Sherry Radford (@sherryberry54) August 9, 2018

The allegedly promised Adair County oil boom that wasn't.

The Mayfield boom reportedly is a real thing, however.

Alexandria's County Market is getting out before its narrowing window shuts.

Bus-driver shortage in Warren County.

Veterans Telehealth comes to the Evarts Public Library.

The TV grid and some comics leave the Middlesboro Daily News.

Assessing Year 1 for Etown's Kentucky High School Basketball Hall of Fame.

"An unpleasant ... necessary story" of Logan County's lynching history, well told by Wes Swietek in Bowling Green's Daily News.

What's On TV Tonight (Mondays 1971)?

Cynthia Lowry, the AP's crisp and oft-crispy TV-radio writer, mostly panned the fifth-season opener of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In: "some signs of fatigue, or maybe age ... slowed to a walk ... diminished." She bolstered her point with detail on the appearance of Martha/Mrs. U.S. attorney general John Mitchell: "Replying to a question about her husband's reaction to her activity, she replied, 'John and I have an understanding--I don't tell him how to run the Justice Department and he doesn't tell me how to run the rest of the world.' It sounded more like something from a comedy writer's typewriter than native Mitchell wit." I love Cynthia Lowry.

Also, I like Arnie a good bit.

And, of course, I love Here's Lucy , which opened with Flip Wilson as its first guest star. He portrayed Butterfly McQueen in a little-theater production of Gone With the Wind. Here's how CBS promoted each of its Monday-night season openers.

That Stand Up and Cheer thing is actually syndicated. I could see myself getting into it.

Of course, my TV attention is pretty much sucked up by one show on Monday nights in the fall.

The Oct. 25, 1971, game is a doozy: the 4-1 Baltimore Colts at the 4-1 Minnesota Vikings.

What (Commercials) Are On TV Tonight (1970)?

The Freakin' Weekend (1970)

Give it all you got, take your very best shot, and may the best team win. The time is now. The name of the game is action! ...

ABC's Wide World of Sports is carrying the Rebel 400 NASCAR Grand National Race from Darlington, S.C.

I don't know what this college-basketball game is that CBS is scheduled to be showing tonight, but, per the Kentucky New Era TV grid, it will apparently be pre-empting my My Three Sons rerun and might push me over to Lawerence Welk.

I don't often watch Lawrence Welk, but the old boy did have a winning appearance on Here's Lucy this season.

It's only Game 4 of the Stanley Cup playoffs, but it appears the NHL also might be wrapping up its 1969-70 season this weekend.

Even this week's Sports Illustrated doesn't look particularly enticing ..

What's On TV Tonight (1970)?

I love TV. I really, really do.

Mayberry RFD - S02E24 - Aloha Goober by superannuatedlps

What's On TV Tonight (1969)?

Here's Lucy. Annnnnd Johnny.

Football On TV

Tonight 1969's episode of Here's Lucy revealed that Craig Carter is a third-string offensive guard on the football team at his and sister Kim's high school--and that the team's uniforms feature a big "V" on the front of the jersey. More: