WLS channel 7 TV schedule for Thursday, May 8, 1975
Morning
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6:30a - Perspectives
6:55a - Earl Nightingale
7a - AM America (2 hours)
9a - Steve Edwards' AM Chicago (1 hr, 30 min)
10:30a - Blankety Blanks
11a - Password
11:30a - Split Second
Afternoon
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Noon - All My Children
12:30p - Let's Make a Deal
1p - The $10,000 Pyramid
1:30p - Big Showdown
2p - General Hospital
2:30p - One Life to Live
3p - Money Maze
3:30p - The 3:30 Movie: The Cardinal (1 hr, 30 min; Part 1)
5p - Eyewitness News at 5
5:30p - ABC Evening News with Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner
Evening
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6p - Eyewitness News at 6 (1 hour)
7p - Barney Miller
7:30p - Karen
8p - Streets of San Francisco (1 hour)
9p - Harry O (1 hour)
10p - Eyewitness News at 10
10:30p - Wide World Special (1 hr, 30 min)
Midnight - Late Night Movie: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1 hr, 45 min)
It was a wild and crazy game of Split Second where 4-time champion Marvin Shinkman trying to win any car on his 5th and last day against Shari Jensen and Valiant Stahl. The first 2 rounds ran smoothly until the Countdown Round where Valiant needed only 3 answers to become the new champion, Shari needs 4 to win, and Marvin must answer all 5 to join the elite list of players who retire undefeated after 5 days. Without a shadow of a doubt, Marvin nail down the final 2 answers that deals with months before October 10th. The studio audience at Hollywood's ABC Television Center erupted when he won his 5th and final game. As far as the question goes, the answers were February 10th (8 months), April 10th (6 months) and July 10th (3 months).
Shari Jensen won $265 and a Broyhill sofa, Valiant was one answer away from the championship, but he gets $330 and a Lear Jet car stereo along with the Gillette Max Hatter hair dryer and flatware by Washington Forge. On Split Second, if a player wins 5 times, get to pick any of the 5 cars after choosing the wrong one for the past 4 days. Marvin Shinkman has officially joined the elite list of undefeated champions, since its March 20, 1972 inception, to retire undefeated after 5 shows has won $1,570 cash, along with the $1,430 in prizes for any Singleton answer he got, the $3,000 jackpot and the 1975 Pontiac Le Mans Safari station wagon for a grad total of $12,268. He wanted to take the Grand Prix, but Tom Kennedy, jokingly said he'd "bet a million dollars." Three new players will be ushered in to close out this awesome week.
