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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1972
Page
6
The page lists a dense TV schedule with titles like Jeannie and Friends, The Persuaders, Tom Jones, Johnny Carson, The Curse of Frankenstein, Sesame Street, Jeopardy, and News. It covers programs from early morning to late evening including cartoons, game shows, dramas, soaps, and variety segments across multiple channels.
The page lists a Thursday film lineup featuring Jeanne Eagles and titles such as Mirage and The Curse of Frankenstein with showings from morning to night. A single line notes the whippoorwill flies only after dark.
Television trends shift toward miniseries built around related themes. NBC expands Mystery Movie with Columbo and McMillan and Wife, plus Hec Ramsey and Madigan. ABC plans The Men trilogy with police action and James Bond style tales. Kung Fu joins schedule replacing Alias Smith and Jones periodically.
Celebrities spark romance as Liza Minnelli and Desi Arnaz Jr announce their engagement while Desi films in Tokyo. Informants note age difference rumored to hinder marriage but Desi Sr. says it should not be a barrier, citing Lucy and Desi as a precedent.
Phyllis Ann Clark earns a masters in elementary education from Harding College after a BA from Jacksonville State University and will join the Morgan County Board of Education in Decatur. Nina Ruth Brown enters Mercer University’s Sigma Mu. Ronald Guster makes Knoxville College Dean's List. Marc Alan Michelson earns an MS from Tulane. H M Nowlin and Thomas A. Allen inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma at Alabama.
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