Chicago TV Flashback - July 9, 1976

WLS channel 7 TV schedule for Friday, July 9, 1976

Morning

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6:30a - Perspectives

6:55a - Earl Nightingale

7a - Good Morning America (2 hours)

9a - Steve Edwards' AM Chicago (1 hr, 30 min)

10:30a - Happy Days

11a - Let's Make a Deal (Finale)

11:30a - All My Children

Afternoon

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Noon - Ryan's Hope

12:30p - Rhyme and Reason (Finale)

1p - The $20,000 Pyramid

1:30p - Break the Bank

2p - General Hospital

2:30p - One Life to Live

3p - Edge of Night

3:30p - The 3:30 Movie: The Lively Set (1 hr, 30 min)

5p - Eyewitness News at 5

5:30p - ABC Evening News with Harry Reasoner

Evening

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6p - Eyewitness News at 6p (1 hour)

7p - Donny and Marie Show (1 hour)

8p - ABC Friday Night Movie: Waterloo (2 hours)

10p - Eyewitness News at 10

10:30p - The Rookies (1 hr, 10 min)

11:40p - Graffiti with John Coleman (50 min)

12:30a - Late Night Movie: Flame of the Barbary Coast (1 hr, 50 min)

The daytime version of Let's Make a Deal called the last traders to make a deal with Monty Hall, the last couple to play the last skill game for a big prize, offered the last big deal and fast deals made for the last time. Since its 1963 inception on NBC, it was dubbed as the top-rated daytime show, but after 13 years on both NBC & ABC, Monty Hall says goodbye to ABC. The weekly nighttime version still airs in syndication until September 1977. The following Monday, July 12th, a new television game called Hot Seat takes over Let's Make a Deal's time slot.

Rhyme and Reason ends its run after one year and it ended on a high note where Brian became the last champion and won a total of $5,500 thanks to Terry Carter who had to guess all three words that rhymed with the word "Gipper" completing the rhyming phrase. His opponent June left with $4,250 after 3 matches. In the first 23 years ABC became a network, something so bizarre that has NEVER been done on any television show and that was to destroy the entire Rhyme and Reason set. At the tail end of Bob Eubanks' farewell speech, the celebrity poets and members of the show's staff began knocking down the host's podium, then they busted the neon lights, tearing up the carpet, and destroying the props as the credits rolled. The following Monday, July 12th, a new but popular Goodson-Todman game Family Feud with regular Match Game panelist Richard Dawson takes over Rhyme and Reason's time slot.