WMAQ channel 5 TV schedule for Friday, March 23, 1973
Morning
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6a - Station Exchange
6:30a - Town and Farm
6:35a - Today in Chicago
7a - Today (2 hours)
9a - Dinah's Place
9:30a - Concentration (Finale)
10a - Sale of the Century
10:30a - Hollywood Squares
11a - Jeopardy!
11:30a - Who, What or Where Game
11:55a - NBC News Update with Floyd Kalber
Afternoon
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Noon - Noon Report with Jorie Lueloff
12:30p - Three on a Match
1p - Days of Our Lives
1:30p - The Doctors
2p - Another World
2:30p - Return to Peyton Place
3p - Somerset
3:30p - Mike Douglas Show (1 hr, 30 min)
5p - NewsFive at 5 (1 hour)
Evening
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6p - NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor
6:30p - Hollywood Squares
7p - Sanford and Son
7:30p - Little People
8p - Circle of Fear (1 hour)
9p - Bobby Darin Show (1 hour)
10p - NewsFive at 10
10:30p - Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1 hr, 30 min)
Midnight - NewsFive Update
12:05a - Tilmon Tempo (55 min)
Early Saturday, March 24, 1973
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1a - Midnight Special (1 hour)
For 14.5 years, America been figuring out every single rebus puzzle from the comfort of their homes, but sadly Concentration has gotten every home viewer watching for the 3,796th and last time as the longest-running game program on daytime TV. The puzzle of the show's debut on Monday, August 25, 1958 with future 20/20 newsman Hugh Downs as host was "It Happened One Night" & the final puzzle on show #3,796 was "You've Been More than Kind."
Since there was no winner in Mrs. Louella Rosen's 6th game after Mrs. Gail Meyers found the birthday present at $100/year for every year the show's been on making it $1,400, the producer took the present and give the ladies $700 each.
In the final few moments, Bob Clayton told everyone that Concentration aired its last show and thanked everyone who loved the show over the years. As the credits rolled for one last time, instead of the show's theme, the tune Auld Lang Syne was played as the cameras get shots of Bob Clayton alongside Paola Diva, the 2 contestants and the studio audience.
The following Monday, March 26th, a new show Baffle hosted by Dick Enberg takes over Concentration's time slot as Clayton found a new home as the announcer of a new Bob Stewart game called The $10,000 Pyramid until his death.
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