August 9, 1974

It was on this day that Richard M. Nixon hopped on that helicopter and Gerald Ford became our newest President. What was on TV in New York that day? Let's find out...

Sourced from New York Daily News and Newsday, 8/9/1974.

WCBS-TV/CBS (2)

• 6:30am - Summer Semester
• 7:00am - News
• 8:00am - Captain Kangaroo
• 9:00am - The Farmer's Daughter
• 9:30am - The Pat Collins Show
• 10:00am - Joker's Wild
• 10:30am - Gambit
• 11:00am - Now You See It
• 11:30am - Love of Life
• 12:00pm - The Young and the Restless
• 12:30pm - Search for Tomorrow
• 1:00pm - What's My Line?
• 1:30pm - As the World Turns
• 2:00pm - The Guiding Light
• 2:30pm - Edge of Night
• 3:00pm - The Price is Right
• 3:30pm - Match Game
• 4:00pm - Tattletales
• 4:30pm - The Mike Douglas Show
• 6:00pm - News
• 7:00pm - CBS Evening News
• 7:30pm - Secrets of the Deep: "Under the Caribbean"
• 8:00pm - Your Hit Parade
• 8:30pm - Good Times: "Springtime in the Ghetto"
• 9:00pm - MOVIE: The Christmas Tree (1969)
• 11:00pm - News
• 11:30pm - THE LATE SHOW: Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)
• 1:20am - THE LATE LATE SHOW: The Neon Ceiling (1971)

WNBC-TV/NBC (4)

• 6:30am - Education Exchange
• 7:00am - Today
• 9:00am - Not for Women Only
• 9:30am - Truth or Consequences
• 10:00am - Name That Tune
• 10:30am - Winning Streak
• 11:00am - High Rollers
• 11:30am - Hollywood Squares
• 12:00pm - Jackpot
• 12:30pm - Celebrity Sweepstakes
• 1:00pm - Concentration
• 1:30pm - Jeopardy!
• 2:00pm - Days of Our Lives
• 2:30pm - The Doctors
• 3:00pm - Another World
• 3:30pm - How to Survive Marriage
• 4:00pm - Somerset
• 4:30pm - Room 222
• 5:00pm - NewsCenter 4 at Five
• 6:00pm - NewsCenter4 at Six
• 7:00pm - NBC Nightly News
• 7:30pm - Police Surgeon
• 8:00pm - Sanford and Son: "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe"
• 8:30pm - The Brian Keith Show: "The Titanic Sails Again"
• 9:00pm - MOVIE: Limbo (1972)
• 11:00pm - NewsCenter 4 at Eleven
• 11:30pm - The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
• 1:00am - The Midnight Special
• 2:30am - MOVIE: They Made Me a Criminal (1939)

WNEW-TV (5)

• 6:30am - Inside the Arts
• 7:00am - Underdog
• 7:30am - The Flintstones
• 8:00am - Bugs Bunny
• 8:30am - Mr. Ed
• 9:00am - The Rifleman
• 9:30am - Dennis the Menace
• 10:00am - Hazel
• 10:30am - The Mothers-in-Law
• 11:00am - I Love Lucy
• 11:30am - Midday Live
• 1:00pm - MOVIE: Battle Taxi (1955)
• 2:30pm - Insight
• 3:00pm - Casper the Friendly Ghost
• 3:30pm - Huckleberry Hound
• 4:00pm - Bugs Bunny
• 4:30pm - Mr. Ed
• 5:00pm - Dennis the Menace
• 5:30pm - The Flintstones
• 6:00pm - I Love Lucy
• 6:30pm - Bewitched
• 7:00pm - Mission: Impossible
• 8:00pm - Dealer's Choice
• 8:30pm - The Merv Griffin Show
• 10:00pm - The Ten O'Clock News
• 11:00pm - SPECIAL: "Merv Griffin Presents Paul Anka"
• 12:00am - Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
• 1:30am - MOVIE: Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)

WABC-TV/ABC (7)

• 6:30am - Listen and Learn
• 7:00am - A.M. New York
• 9:00am - THE MORNING MOVIE: A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed (1958)
• 11:00am - Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
• 11:30am - The Brady Bunch
• 12:00pm - Password
• 12:30pm - Split Second
• 1:00pm - All My Children
• 1:30pm - Let's Make a Deal
• 2:00pm - The Newlywed Game
• 2:30pm - Girl in My Life
  
• 3:00pm - General Hospital
• 3:30pm - One Life to Live
• 4:00pm - $10,000 Pyramid
• 4:30pm - THE 4:30 MOVIE: Bus Stop (1956)
• 6:00pm - Eyewitness News
• 7:00pm - ABC Evening News
• 7:30pm - Let's Make a Deal
• 8:00pm - The Six Million Dollar Man: "The Solid Gold Kidnapping"
• 9:30pm - Toma: "Pound of Flesh"
• 10:30pm - PGA Golf Championship Highlights
• 11:00pm - Eyewitness News
• 11:30pm - ABC's Wide World of Entertainment: California, My Way (1974)
• 1:00am - THE ONE O'CLOCK MOVIE: Shoot Loud, Louder...I Don't Understand (1966)

WPIX-TV (11)

• 7:00am - News
• 7:30am - The Little Rascals
• 8:00am - Courageous Cat
• 8:30am - Timmy and Lassie
• 9:00am - Black Pride
• 9:30am - Pulpit and People
• 10:00am - MOVIE: Dark Angel (1935)
• 12:00pm - New Zoo Revue
• 12:30pm - Joya's Fun School
• 1:00pm - The Galloping Gourmet
• 1:30pm - Get Smart
• 2:00pm - The Addams Family
• 2:30pm - The Bill Cosby Show
• 3:00pm - Father Knows Best
• 3:30pm - Nanny and the Professor
• 4:00pm - F Troop
• 4:30pm - The Munsters
• 5:00pm - Gilligan's Island
• 5:30pm - I Dream of Jeannie
• 6:00pm - I Dream of Jeannie
• 6:30pm - Beat the Clock
• 7:00pm - The Mod Squad
• 8:00pm - To Tell the Truth
• 8:30pm - Dragnet: "D.H.Q. - Night School"
• 9:00pm - Bonanza: "Desert Justice"
• 10:00pm - News
• 11:00pm - Perry Mason
• 12:00am - The Twilight Zone
• 12:30am - News

WNET-TV/PBS (13)

• 9:00am - Sesame Street
• 10:00am - The Electric Company
• 10:30am - Making Things Grow
• 11:00am - Bit with Knit
• 11:30am - Lilias, Yoga and You
• 12:00pm - Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
• 12:30pm - Hodgepodge Lodge
• 1:00pm - The Electric Company
• 1:30pm - Joyce Chen Cooks
• 2:00pm - Man Builds, Man Destroys: "Living Off the Land"
• 2:30pm - Eye to Eye: "Dreams Money Can Buy"
• 3:00pm - Villa Alegre
• 3:30pm - Hodgepodge Lodge
• 4:00pm - Sesame Street
• 5:00pm - Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
• 5:30pm - The Electric Company
• 6:00pm - Zoom
• 6:30pm - Guten Tag Wie Gehts
• 7:00pm - Man Builds, Man Destroys: "Living Off the Land"
• 7:30pm - A Time for Music
• 8:00pm - SPECIAL: "America in Transition"
• 11:00pm - Video Visionaries: "The Medium is the Medium"
• 11:30pm - Day at Night
• 12:00am - ABC Evening News (Captioned for the hearing-impared)