July 1st, 1974-January 3rd, 1975.

A daytime game show hosted by Bill Cullen. Contestants answered questions to win letters of the alphabet in order to assemble words. 

Host: Bill Cullen. Announcer: Don Pardo.     

    Only two programs survive from the entire series,
a complete broadcast (August 9, 1974) and the first 210 seconds from a broadcast televised on December 26, 1974. The remaining 118 pre-recorded programs were all wiped which was a network practice of that era.                              

July 1st, 1974-January 3rd, 1975.

A daytime game show hosted by Bill Cullen. Contestants answered questions to win letters of the alphabet in order to assemble words. 

Host: Bill Cullen. Announcer: Don Pardo.   

     Only two programs survive from the entire series,
a complete broadcast (August 9, 1974) and the first 210 seconds from a broadcast televised on December 26, 1974. The remaining 118 pre-recorded programs were all wiped which was a network practice of that era.                  

July 1st, 1974-January 3rd, 1975.

A daytime game show hosted by Bill Cullen. Contestants answered questions to win letters of the alphabet in order to assemble words. 

Host: Bill Cullen. Announcer: Don Pardo.    

  Only two programs survive from the entire series,
a complete broadcast (August 9, 1974) and the first 210 seconds from a broadcast televised on December 26, 1974. The remaining 118 pre-recorded programs were all wiped which was a network practice of that era.                                              

July 1st, 1974-January 3rd, 1975.

A daytime game show hosted by Bill Cullen. Contestants answered questions to win letters of the alphabet in order to assemble words. 

Host: Bill Cullen. Announcer: Don Pardo.      

    Only two programs survive from the entire series,
a complete broadcast (August 9, 1974) and the first 210 seconds from a broadcast televised on December 26, 1974. The remaining 118 pre-recorded programs were all wiped which was a network practice of that era.                                                       

January 1, 1973-September 5, 1975. ABC's Wide World of Entertainment late-night programming consisting of TV movies, variety programs, and rock music specials including "In Concert" produced by Dick Clark. 

Dick Cavett interviews Walter Cronkite and wife Betsy. 

July 1, 1974-January 3, 1975.

 Daytime series with host Bill Cullen. Two contestants compete against each other to spell words in a designated category from a pool of 16 letters of the alphabet. Don Pardo announcer. 

Only two programs survive from the entire series,
a complete broadcast (August 9, 1974) and the first 210 seconds from a broadcast televised on December 26, 1974. The remaining 118 pre-recorded programs were all wiped which was a network practice of that era.  

On this program returning champion Judy Redflat, a teacher, ends up winning $7,800. Other contestants include Audrey Wilkes, Ty Williams, a NYC cab driver, Lois Ragolski, a speech Pathologist, and Lee Kissman, a clothes cutter.               

Talk, and commentary.                         

Live commentary.      

News from WBAI radio in New York City.          

Host Curt Gowdy reminisces with Mel Allen, Casey Stengel, Mickey Mantle, Duke Snider, Clem Labine and Sal Maglie about Don Larsen's Perfect 1956 World Series Game against the Brooklyn Dodgers.            

Watergate verdict, plus sports and weather.  

Rolland Smith reports.                                     

Watergate jurors John Hopper and Ruth Jewel are interviewed.          

Helen Reddy and Paul Williams are co-hosts at the finals of the first annual American Song Festival, held Sept. 2 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Winning entries are performed by Jose Feliciano, Richie Havens, Sarah Vaughan, Molly Bee, the Lettermen, the Limeliters, Al Wilson, Etta James, the Hagers, the Oak Ridge Boys, and the Rev. James Cleveland and the Cleveland Singers. Also: interviews with competing songwriters Kenny Loggins, Alex Harvey and Tim Moore.  

NOTE:

   September 2, 1974: (Monday) The finals of the American Song Festival was held in Saratoga Springs, New York on this date. The finals started 45 minutes late and ended at almost 6:00 the following morning. (September 3rd) Woodstock's Tim Moore's "Charmer" was declared the winner by Skitch Henderson of the judge's panel. He was awarded $30,500 and a Yamaha grand piano. Etta James performed "Charmer" during the finals. Her performance was issued on an LP WINNERS! - Live At America's First International Songwriting Competition on Buddah BDS 5624 along with performances of other festival winners.  The finals were taped by ABC - TV to be aired on October 18, 1974. The festival opened on Friday, August 30th with the semi-finals which lasted for three days before the finals. 

October 18, 1974: (Friday) The finals of The American Song Festival aired as a 90 minute ABC Wide World Special starting at 11:30 p. m.  Etta James' performance of "Charmer" was featured in the broadcast. 

This broadcast was re-run on January 2, 1975.
#6785: WIDE WORLD EVENT
1975-01-02, ABC, 90 min.
        

Newscaster Bob Jordan reports on the day's news events.                         

January 7th, 1972- (PBS)  

Louis Rukeyser is host and moderator of this long-running public affairs program that deals with the stock market and personal investing.

Guest: Eliot Janeway.     

       A brief summation and review of the Muhammad Ali vs Chuck Wepner Heavyweight Championship fight held March 24, 1975. Howard Cosell discusses the controversial 9th round "knockdown" of Ali, with Muhammad in the ABC studio, which actually was achieved by Wepner stepping on Ali's foot as he was leaning backwards.  
Some very comedic verbal exchanges as well as a serious analysis of the fight  by both Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell.      

Matches of the World Wrestling Federation.

Host: Vince McMahon and Champion long time wrestler, Antonino Rocca call the matches.                                  

WBAI commentary on the surrender of South Vietnam to the communists.           

January 6, 1975-June 30, 1989. Game show on which three contestants take turns spinning a large wheel, with a chance to guess the letters of a mystery word or phrase. Chuck Woolery hosted the show from 1975 to 1982, when Pat Sajak became host. Susan Stafford assisted until the Fall of 1982, and was succeeded by Vanna White.

Host Chuck Woolery.   

NOTE: WHEEL OF FORTUNE was one of the scores of game shows broadcast through the 1970's on NBC Television that fell victim to indiscriminate wiping. The programs were originally recorded for later telecasts on 2" Quadrplex Video Tape and then broadcast, and then erased to economically re-use and record for later shows.   
  
Virtually, ALL of WHEEL OF FORTUNE broadcasts were erased by NBC covering the period 1975 thru 1983. From 1985 to the present almost ALL of the programs have been archived.      

A five-hour local telethon to raise funds for world hunger. 
Dr. Lester Brown, president of Worldwatch Institute in Washington, D.C. and noted authority on the world food crisis, is among the respected scholars who share some informative and surprising facts about the causes and cures of world hunger.

A landmark television experience-a sweeping five-hour presentation that will show you how more than two billion of the world's people are living every day with the heartbreak and despair of constant hunger. 

Thirty filmed reports from three continents will take you beyond statistics and headlines to life-and-death experiences of real people living with the personal agony of hunger.

America's top entertainers will join with leaders of our government to share their concern.

Respected educators will dispel the myths about the causes and the cures for a hungry world.

Ordinary people from all over the USA will tell how they are helping to bring life and hope into the heartbreak and despair of a hungry, hurting world. They will share what it means to them and their families.

This is the only time this remarkable television program will ever be shown.                     

January 6, 1975-June 30, 1989. Game show on which three contestants take turns spinning a large wheel, with a chance to guess the letters of a mystery word or phrase. Chuck Woolery hosted the show from 1975 to 1982, when Pat Sajak became host. Susan Stafford assisted until the Fall of 1982, and was succeeded by Vanna White.

Host Chuck Woolery. 

NOTE: The website Wheel of Fortune History Wiki / Fandom 
https://wheeloffortunehistory.fandom.com/wkik/Daytime_episodes
_known_to_exist  
incorrectly states that Archival Television Audio, Inc. archived episode of August 29, 1975 is erroneously dated and correctly should be September 5, 1975. The correct date of this rare extant TV Audio Air Check broadcast  was recorded off the air on August 29, 1975.           

February 22nd, 1967- 

PBS series with focus on current events. 


Journalist Peter Lisagor is the guest.            

January 6, 1975-June 30, 1989. 
Game show on which three contestants take turns spinning a large wheel, with a chance to guess the letters of a mystery word or phrase. Chuck Woolery hosted the show from 1975 to 1982, when Pat Sajak became host. Susan Stafford assisted until the Fall of 1982, and was succeeded by Vanna White. Charlie O'Donnell was the announcer from the premiere until 1982 when he was replaced by Jack Clark. 

NOTE: Joined in progress as stated by NBC announcer after President Gerald Ford's News Conference ran seven minutes into the beginning of Wheel of Fortune time slot, 10:30am-11:30am.   

NOTE: For one week November 3-7, 1975 Wheel of Fortune expanded to a one hour format. It was then decided that it would continue as an hour broadcast but only briefly for six weeks. 

From Monday, December 1st, 1975 to Friday, January 16th, 1976, (five Monday - Friday weeks), the program aired a series of hour-long episodes in an attempt to duplicate & surpass its popularity to the CBS' successful of expanded The Price Is Right (1972). Two three-round games were played with two different sets of three contestants. The winners of each game played a head-to-head speed-up round, with the winner of that round playing the Bonus Round.
                                                           

A special focusing on unnecessary surgeries women often endure.             

 Animated short subject presentation of lumberjack Paul Bunyan and his blue ox Babe enter a titanic tree cutting contest against a steam-powered saw.  The third of three re-run presentations on World of Disney,.   

1971 - 1977 Syndicated 

A half- hour home improvement, home fix-it show hosted by Wally Bruner with the help from his wife, Natalie Bruner. The series was distributed with the sponsorship of Young & Rubicam's household-improvement  clientele.  

The final two minutes of this broadcast with wrap up from announcer Johnny Olson.     

January 6, 1975-June 30, 1989. 
Game show on which three contestants take turns spinning a large wheel, with a chance to guess the letters of a mystery word or phrase. Chuck Woolery hosted the show from 1975 to 1982, when Pat Sajak became host. Susan Stafford assisted until the Fall of 1982, and was succeeded by Vanna White.

NOTE: For a period of seven weeks from December 1, 1975 to January 16, 1976 WHEEL OF FORTUNE reverted from a 30 minute format to a 60 minute format game show. A total of 33 programs were aired (pre-empted on December 25, 1975 and on January 1, 1976). 

None of these broadcasts and 99% of ALL WHEEL OF FORTUNE broadcasts (1975-1983) are known to exist IN ANY BROADCAST FORMAT OR TRANSCRIPT, with the exception of eight TV Audio Air Checks ATA original pristine recordings off the air including this first 11 minutes  partial audio air check from December 29, 1975, one almost complete 53 minute air check (one hour trial basis one week) from November 6, 1975 (ATA #9869), and one complete 60  minute Television Audio Air Check archived by Archival Television Audio, Inc. (January 9, 1975).                                                              

#9871: WHEEL OF FORTUNE
1976-01-09, NBC, 60 min.
Chuck Woolery, Susan Stafford, Judy Von Garzon

January 6, 1975-June 30, 1989. 

The longest running syndicated game show in U.S. television history. 

Game show on which three contestants take turns spinning a large wheel, with a chance to guess the letters of a mystery word or phrase. Chuck Woolery hosted the show from 1975 to 1982, when Pat Sajak became host. Susan Stafford assisted until the Fall of 1982 and was succeeded by Vanna White.

Host Chuck Woolery.    

   NOTE: For a period of seven weeks from December 1, 1975, to January 16, 1976, WHEEL OF FORTUNE reverted from a 30-minute format to a 60 minute format game show. A total of 33 programs were aired (pre-empted on December 25, 1975, and on January 1, 1976). 

None of these complete broadcasts are known to exist IN ANY BROADCAST FORMAT OR TRANSCRIPT, except for this complete 60minute Television Audio Air Check archived by Archival Television Audio, Inc. which aired on January 9, 1975.  

NOTE: Contestant Judy Von Garzon wins the most ever amount of prizes and cash on this show, totaling $24,725 of which $17,850 is cash.  

Wheel Of Fortune is another massive, long-running gameshow. The show debuted in 1975 with the original host, Chuck Woolery doing the daytime run and Pat Sajak doing the night. The show was highly successful and remains popular even to this day.

Woolery's run went from the show's debut all the way until 1981 when he departed and passed the show to Pat Sajak. Woolery's run, as well as early Sajak daytime episodes,  was repeatedly taped over to create room for new episodes.
No known episodes of Chuck Woolery episodes of Wheel of Fortune are known to exist in their entirety. 

                                                                                                

January 6, 1975-June 30, 1989. Game show on which three contestants take turns spinning a large wheel, with a chance to guess the letters of a mystery word or phrase. Chuck Woolery hosted the show from 1975 to 1982, when Pat Sajak became host. Susan Stafford assisted until the Fall of 1982, and was succeeded by Vanna White.



Host Chuck Woolery.                                                    

The legend of the Loch Ness monster or "Nessie," a documentary exploring the existence of the aquatic dinosaur that is believed to exist in the depth of Loch Ness, Scotland.              

Jim McKay is the host for the X11 Winter Olympic Games from Innsbruck, Austria.             

England's John H. Stracey meets Hedgemon Lewis for the WBC Welterweight Championship of the world. Stracey captures the title via a 10th round TKO. Howard Cosell reports from ringside.              

The ten women voted for the Woman Of The Year Award by Ladies Home Journal. 

Barbara Walters hosts the fourth Woman of the Year awards broadcast live from New York City. Ten women of outstanding achievement will be honored for their contributions to American life. They will be selected according to standards which reflect both public and professional judgements. Women throughout the country were asked to respond to a questionnaire in the January issue of Ladies Home Journal by taking recommendations in each of 10 categories. A panel of 14 distinguished women made the the final selections guided by the reader preferences but not bound by them,. The winner, who will be announced on the NBC telecast, will each receive a special pendant designed ty Cartier and presented by personalities for the arts show business and government 

The 10 categories in which 1976 "Women of the Year" awards are made is government and diplomacy, political life, business and economics, science and research sports, communications, performing arts, inspirational leadership, educational leadership and humanitarian and community service. 

Carol Burnett, Pearl Bailey, Billie Jean King, Marlo Thomas, Rep. Barbara Jordan and Jill Ruckelshaus serve as special presenters. 

Songs heard on the program include:
"Super Lovin' Lady," "This is my Song," "God Bless the Child by 
Petula Clark.
"God Bless America" by Kate Smith.
"Ease on Down the Road"  and " "Love Hangover" by Fifth Dimension.                                                              

January 6, 1975-June 30, 1989. Game show on which three contestants take turns spinning a large wheel, with a chance to guess the letters of a mystery word or phrase. Chuck Woolery hosted the show from 1975 to 1982, when Pat Sajak became host. Susan Stafford assisted until the Fall of 1982, and was succeeded by Vanna White.



Host Chuck Woolery.                                                                 

Magician Doug Henning's first television special. 

Host: Gene Kelly. 

Originally telecast on December 26th, 1975.             

1967-1994.

The World Tomorrow was a syndicated half-hour television show that featured biblical and religious topics. Garner Ted Armstrong was the host of this program, later replaced by his father, Herbert W. Armstrong. 

Host: Garner Ted Armstrong.             

January 6, 1975-June 30, 1989. Game show on which three contestants take turns spinning a large wheel, with a chance to guess the letters of a mystery word or phrase. Chuck Woolery hosted the show from 1975 to 1982, when Pat Sajak became host. Susan Stafford assisted until the Fall of 1982, and was succeeded by Vanna White.



Host Chuck Woolery.                                                                              

The 9th inning of game 4 of the 1976 World Series between the Cincinnati Reds and the New York Yankees is heard in this radio broadcast. Brent Musberger is the host for the post-game interviews. The Reds captured game 4 7-2 to win their second consecutive World Series title.                         

January 4th, 1977-June 26th, 1977

Hour-long news magazine with an emphasis on people. Dan Rather was the chief reporter and Barbara Hower and Charles Kuralt were regular contributors.  

This was the series premiere.          

January 4th, 1977-June 26th, 1977

Hour-long news magazine with an emphasis on people. Dan Rather was the chief reporter and Barbara Hower and Charles Kuralt were regular contributors.