Retro: North Texas Thursday, October 13, 1977

[bpatrick]

From TV Guide, North Texas Edition:

KFDX Ch. 3 Wichita Falls (NBC)

6:30 RFD 3
7 AM Today (guest is Art Buchwald)
9 AM Sanford And Son
9:30 Hollywood Squares (Victor Borge, Sandy Duncan, Barbara
Eden, Robert Fuller, George Gobel, Rose Marie, Leslie Uggams,
Anson Williams, Paul Lynde)
10 AM Wheel Of Fortune
10:30 Knockout
11 AM To Say The Least
11:30 Chico And The Man
12 N News
12:20 Patchwork
12:25 Focus
12:30 Days Of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2 PM Another World
3 PM Gong Show
3:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
4 PM Emergency One!
5 PM Adam-12
5:30 NBC News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
6 PM News
6:30 My Three Sons
7 PM CHiPs
8 PM Man From Atlantis
9 PM Rosetti And Ryan
10 PM News
10:30 Tonight Show (comic Irv Benson, who heckled Milton Berle
on Uncle Miltie's 1966 ABC show)
12 M Tomorrow (fourth-anniversary show with guest, creator Mort Werner)

KDFW Ch. 4 Dallas (CBS)

5:30 Sunrise Semester: "Man's Place In Nature"
6 AM Real McCoys
6:30 CBS News (Hughes Rudd/Lesley Stahl)
7:30 News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Here's Lucy
9:30 Price Is Right
10:30 Love Of Life
10:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
11 AM Young And The Restless
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
12 N News
12:30 As The World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2 PM All In The Family
2:30 Match Game '77 (Richard Dawson, Patti Deutsch, Elaine Joyce,
Dick Martin, Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers)
3 PM Winners (despite physical handicaps, 17-year-old Debbie Phillips
enters trials for the U.S. Junior Olympics equestrian team, pre-empts
"Tattletales")
3:30 Dinah! (Vincent Price, Ted Knight, William Devane, Jonelle Allen, Andrea
McArdle)
4:30 Merv Griffin (B.J. Thomas, Crystal Gayle, pianist Chick Corea, the Keane Brothers)
6 PM CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
6:30 News
7 PM The Waltons
8 PM Hawaii Five-O
9 PM Barnaby Jones
10 PM News
10:30 Peyton Place
11 PM CBS Movie: "Dirty Dingus McGee" (week-behind from 10:30 PM)
12:50 News

KXAS Ch. 5 Ft. Worth (NBC)

5:55 Day By Day
6 AM Not For Women Only
6:30 Good Morning (Ed Pewitt)
7 AM Today
9 AM Donahue (Betty Rollin, author of "First You Cry")
9:30 Hollywood Squares
10 AM Wheel Of Fortune
10:30 Knockout
11 AM To Say The Least
11:30 Chico And The Man
12 N News
12:30 Days Of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2 PM Another World
3 PM Gong Show
3:30 Emergency One!
4:30 Odd Couple
5 PM News
5:30 NBC News
6 PM News
6:30 Hollywood Squares (John Amos, LeVar Burton, George Gobel,
Linda Lavin, Rose Marie, Tony Randall, Karen Valentine, Paul
Lynde)
7 PM CHiPs
8 PM Man From Atlantis
9 PM Rosetti And Ryan
10 PM News
10:30 Tonight Show
12 M Tomorrow
1 AM News
1:30 Day By Day

KAUZ Ch. 6 Wichita Falls (CBS)

6 AM PTL Club
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Here's Lucy
9:30 Price Is Right
10:30 Love Of Life
10:55 CBS News
11 AM Young And The Restless
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
12 N News
12:25 Community Notebook
12:30 As The World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2 PM All In The Family
2:30 Match Game '77
3 PM Winners
3:30 Leave It To Beaver
4 PM Gilligan's Island
4:30 Bonanza
5:30 CBS News
6 PM News
6:30 Brady Bunch
7 PM The Waltons
8 PM Hawaii Five-O
9 PM Barnaby Jones
10 PM News
10:30 CBS Movie: "Massacre At Fort Holman"
sign off 12:25 AM

KCEN Ch. 6 Temple-Waco (NBC/ABC)

6:30 Agriculture USA
7 AM Today
9 AM Sanford And Son
9:30 Hollywood Squares
10 AM Wheel Of Fortune
10:30 Knockout
11 AM To Say The Least
11:30 Chico And The Man
12 N Midday Newswatch
12:30 Days Of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2 PM Another World
3 PM Courtship Of Eddie's Father
3:30 Gilligan's Island
4 PM Brady Bunch
4:30 Emergency One!
5:30 NBC News
6 PM News
6:30 Adam-12
7 PM CHiPs
8 PM Man From Atlantis
9 PM Rosetti And Ryan
10 PM News
10:30 Tonight Show
12 M Tomorrow

KLTV Ch. 7 Tyler, TX (NBC/ABC/CBS)

5:30 PTL Club
6:30 Farm And Ranch News
7 AM Today
9 AM PTL Club continues
10 AM Happy Days
10:30 Family Feud
11 AM The Better Sex
11:30 Ryan's Hope
12 N News
12:30 Days Of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2 PM Another World
3 PM Edge Of Night
3:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
4 PM Little Rascals
4:30 Partridge Family
5 PM Brady Bunch
5:30 ABC News (Harry Reasoner/Barbara Walters)
6 PM News
6:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
7 PM Welcome Back, Kotter
7:30 What's Happening!!
8 PM Three's Company (pre-empts "Barney Miller" tonight as
ABC aired a World Series game on Tuesday)
8:30 TBA
9 PM Redd Foxx
10 PM News
10:30 Tonight Show
12 M News

KSWO Ch. 7 Lawton, OK/Wichita Falls (ABC)

7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Not For Women Only
9:30 Little Rascals
10 AM Happy Days
10:30 Family Feud
11 AM The Better Sex
11:30 Midday
12 N All My Children
1 PM $20,000 Pyramid (Soupy Sales, female opponent not named)
1:30 One Life To Live
2:15 General Hospital
3 PM Edge Of Night
3:30 Merv Griffin (from Las Vegas: Bill Cosby; singer Cleo Laine and her
husband, saxophonist John Dankworth; singer-songwriter Peter McCann;
actor Reid Shelton)
5 PM ABC News
5:30 Andy Griffith
6 PM News
6:30 Cross-Wits
7 PM Welcome Back, Kotter
7:30 What's Happening!!
8 PM Three's Company
8:30 Soap (pre-empts "Carter Country" tonight, but will move to Thursdays
at 8:30 in fall 1978)
9 PM Redd Foxx
10 PM News
10:30 Police Story
11:40 Assassinations: An American Nightmare (and a perfect choice, I suppose,
to host: Peter Lawford, brother-in-law of JFK and RFK)

KCTV (KLST) Ch. 8 San Angelo (CBS)

6:55 Livestock Report
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Here's Lucy
9:30 Price Is Right
10:30 Love Of Life
10:55 CBS News
11 AM Young And The Restless
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
12 N News
12:30 As The World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2 PM All In The Family
2:30 Match Game '77
3 PM Winners
3:30 Little Rascals
4 PM Brady Bunch
4:30 Hogan's Heroes
5 PM Pat Attebery
5:30 CBS News
6 PM News
6:30 Match Game PM
7 PM The Waltons
8 PM Hawaii Five-O
9 PM Barnaby Jones
10 PM News
10:30 CBS Movie: "Massacre At Fort Holman"

WFAA Ch. 8 Dallas (ABC)

5:20 Inside Television (rerun from Sat 6:30 PM)
5:50 Operation Lift
6:10 Murray Cox, R.F.D.
6:30 Peppermint Place
7 AM A.M. (John Criswell)
8 AM Good Morning America
9:30 People (Michael Brown, husband of novelist Sandra Brown)
10 AM Edge Of Night
10:30 Family Feud
11 AM The Better Sex
11:30 Ryan's Hope
12 N All My Children
1 PM $20,000 Pyramid
1:30 One Life To Live
2:15 General Hospital
3 PM Movie: "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" (Part 1, concludes tomorrow at 3 PM)
5 PM News
5:30 ABC News
6 PM News
6:30 Bowling For Dollars
7 PM Welcome Back, Kotter
7:30 What's Happening!!
8 PM Three's Company
8:30 Soap
9 PM Redd Foxx
10 PM News
10:30 Movie: "On The Beach"
1:05 News
1:35 Police Story
2:45 Assassinations: An American Nightmare
4:15 Movie: "The Amazing Transparent Man"

KRBC Ch. 9 Abilene (NBC)
satellite: KACB Ch. 3 San Angelo

6:45 Big Country Report
6:55 Extension Line
7 AM Today
9 AM Sanford And Son
9:30 Hollywood Squares
10 AM Wheel Of Fortune
10:30 Knockout
11 AM To Say The Least
11:30 Chico And The Man
12 N News
12:15 Natalee Powers
12:30 Days Of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2 PM Another World
3 PM Gong Show
3:30 Movie: "My Gal Sal"
5:30 NBC News
6 PM News
6:30 Muppet Show (guest: Steve Martin)
7 PM CHiPs
8 PM Man From Atlantis
9 PM Rosetti And Ryan
10 PM News
10:30 Tonight Show
12 M Tomorrow

KWTX Ch. 10 Waco (CBS/ABC)

6 AM CBS News
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Good Morning Region Ten
9:30 Price Is Right
10:30 Love Of Life
10:55 CBS News
11 AM Young And The Restless
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
12 N Ten Acres (Johnny Watkins)
12:30 As The World Turns
1:30 One Life To Live
2:15 General Hospital
3 PM Edge Of Night
3:30 Little Rascals And Friends
4:30 Beverly Hillbillies
5 PM Andy Griffith
5:30 CBS News
6 PM News
6:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
7 PM The Waltons
8 PM Movie: "Dragnet" (1954)
10 PM News
10:30 Police Story
11:40 Assassinations: An American Nightmare

KTVT Ch. 11 Ft. Worth (Ind.)

6:40 News
7 AM Slam Bang Theatre
8 AM Comedy Capers
8:30 Dusty's Treehouse
9 AM Leave It To Beaver
9:30 That Girl
10 AM The FBI
11 AM Ironside
12 N News
12:30 The Archies
1 PM Movie: "The Bravos"
3 PM Popeye
3:30 Fred Flintstone And Friends
4 PM New Mickey Mouse Club
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM I Love Lucy
5:30 Dick Van Dyke
6 PM Bewitched
6:30 Adam-12
7 PM Gunsmoke
8 PM My Three Sons
8:30 Beverly Hillbillies
9 PM Movie: "Hot Millions" (interrupted at 10 PM for news)
11 PM Movie: "Gumshoe"
12:30 News

KTXS Ch. 12 Sweetwater-Abilene (ABC/CBS)

6 AM PTL Club
8 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Henry's Den
10 AM Happy Days
10:30 Family Feud
11 AM Young And The Restless
11:30 Ryan's Hope
12 N All My Children
1 PM $20,000 Pyramid
1:30 One Life To Live
2:15 General Hospital
3 PM Edge Of Night
3:30 Price Is Right
4:30 The Better Sex
5 PM ABC News
5:30 Gunsmoke
6:30 News
7 PM Welcome Back, Kotter
7:30 What's Happening!!
8 PM Three's Company
8:30 Soap
9 PM Redd Foxx
10 PM News
10:30 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
11 PM Starsky & Hutch (delay from Wed 10:45 PM)
12:10 Henry's Den

KXII Ch. 12 Ardmore, OK/Sherman/Denison, TX (NBC/CBS)

6:45 Twelve Acres (Rudy Dockray)
7 AM Today
9 AM Today In Texoma
9:30 Price Is Right
10:30 Love Of Life
10:55 CBS News
11 AM Young And The Restless
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
12 N Twelve Acres (Rudy Dockray)
12:30 As The World Turns
1:30 The Doctors
2 PM Another World
3 PM Winners
3:30 Three Stooges
4 PM Superman
4:30 Rifleman
5 PM Beverly Hillbillies
5:30 CBS News
6 PM News
6:30 Andy Griffith
7 PM The Waltons
8 PM Hawaii Five-O
9 PM Barnaby Jones
10 PM News
10:30 Tonight Show

KERA Ch. 13 Dallas/KIDZ Ch. 24 Wichita Falls (PBS)

6 AM Lilias, Yoga And You
6:30 (13) In-school programs
(24) TBA
8 AM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Villa Alegre
11 AM (13) In-school programs
(24) TBA
3 PM Once Upon A Classic ("Robin Hood," Part 1 of 12)
3:30 Villa Alegre
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Zoom
5:30 As We See It
6:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7 PM Once Upon A Classic ("Robin Hood," Part 2)
7:30 Daniel Foster, M.D.
8 PM The Advocates (topic: "Nuclear Power--Where Do
We Go From Here?" For nuclear power: former
Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Charls Walker;
against: attorney Anthony Roisman)
9 PM The Prisoner
10 PM Dick Cavett (guest is architect Philip Johnson)
10:30 Leaf From A Town Record (Hudson, NY is a study in contrasts:
patriotic parades but also grimness from a sluggish economy.
Note: Dan Region, former announcer on "As The World Turns,"
lives in Hudson.)
sign off 11 PM

KXTX Ch. 39 Dallas (Ind.)

6 AM Ross Bagley
7 AM Heckle & Jeckle
7:30 Mighty Mouse
8 AM Deputy Dawg
8:30 Little Rascals/Our Gang
9 AM 700 Club
10:30 Manna
11 AM Acts 29
11:30 Big Valley
12:30 Marcus Welby, M.D.
1:30 Andy Griffith
2 PM Dennis The Menace
2:30 Popeye And Bugs Hour
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Star Trek/Super Heroes
4:30 Brady Bunch
5 PM Partridge Family
5:30 Star Trek
6:30 Hogan's Heroes
7 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
7:30 Doris Day
8 PM 700 Club
9:30 Manna
10 PM Melodyland
10:30 The Lucy Show
11 PM Green Acres
11:30 Life Of Riley
sign off 12 M

 

[Markd]

What was Comedy capers on KTVT 11??? My guess a mix od pre 48 looney Toons and Merrie melodies shorts considered less violent and funny alongwith a Three Stooges episode here or there....Slam Bang Theatre I hear had a mix pr pre 48 Bugs Bunny cartoons, Three Stooges films, Theatrical Popeye episodes, etc.

 

[Gregg.]

I notice only one station, KXAS 5 Fort Worth, carries Donohue, and only for 30 minutes. I never knew there was a half hour version. And I thought he was very popular in the 70s, although I guess not in Texas. But then not many affiliates are carrying other syndicated talk shows. Merv Griffin has two, but Dinah Shore only has one and I don't see Mike Douglas anywhere.

Also notice only one station, WFAA 8 Dallas, stays on all night with movies. Most of these stations, even in Dallas, are off to bed by midnight or 1am.

I notice Independent 39 in Dallas runs a lot of religious shows between the black and white sitcoms and Westerns. Maybe at this time, the station was owned by Pat Robertson of the 700 Club? It runs 700 Club twice a day. But even network affiliates are running the PTL Club before or after the early morning news shows. Texas is in the Bible Belt.

 

[Markd]

Mark Daniels

I notice Independent 39 in Dallas runs a lot of religious shows between the black and white sitcoms and Westerns. Maybe at this time, the station was owned by Pat Robertson of the 700 Club? It runs 700 Club twice a day. But even network affiliates are running the PTL Club before or after the early morning news shows. Texas is in the Bible Belt.

Yes KXTX was owned by The Christian Broadcasting Network back then. Actually KXTX began in 1972 on Channel 33 and was on the air 8 hours a day and Christian stuff 5 hours a day. Meanwhile, Doubleday Broadcasting owned Channel 39 KDTV which was also on the air about 10 hours a day with entertainment shows. Doubleday and CBN were losing money. Doubleday put Channel 39 up for sale but with no takers they opted to donate the station to Pat Robertson. They opted to include license, equipment, and programming for the donation. In 1973, CBN took Channel 33's real estate, programming assets, and Christian shows, along with Channel 39's programming and equipment as well as the 39 license. CBN combined assets and made one independent station. They kept Channel 39 blending the shows from both stations creating one station. Channel 33's license was turned to the FCC and a few years later they took Business news during the day as well as network rejected shows and Spanish programs at night. Channel 33 expanded to about 16 hours a day. They still were more secular than religious running only about 2 hours weekday mornings and an hour and a half to 2 hours at night. The rest of the day they were a conventional indie.

 

[easttxtv]

I would tend to believe an hour of Donahue on KXAS/5 with a pre-emption of one of those game shows, over a 30-minute Donahue. Not that I'm cynical or anything, just that Ch.5 was quite pre-emption happy over the years (especially the 70s and early-mid 80s). Donahue actually ran a long time on Ch.5, a shorter time on WFAA/8, and later on KDFW/4.

WFAA/8 did like to run movies, especially afternoons and overnights. They did do sign-offs still back then (not spending all night every night with movies), as evidenced by their end-of-analog going-away present, a showing of their last classic sign-off (which is somewhere on YouTube even as we speak).

A few 'I-don't-remember's':
* KDFW/4 running CBS Evening News at 6pm and local news afterward at 6:30 (???)
* KLTV/7 doing 2 showings of PTL Club, I remember the one at 9a, but I didn't think anything was on before Farm & Ranch News
* KLTV/7 airing New Mickey Mouse Club?? I do remember them airing Little Rascals in the afternoon for sure.
* Any of the DFW stations trying to fit in Dinah! with one of the other talk shows both in the same afternnon back-to-back.

It still amazes me to this day how the multi-net stations of the time juggled the various schedules of their networks' feeds. I would have liked sampling the mixes more back then, if only: I weren't in grade school at the time, and, I'd been able to afford a VCR in those days. The only one I saw with any irregularity was KLTV/7's attempt to take on NBC and ABC (Edge of Night on after Another World? Don't remember it, but I sure would have been up for it!!). The only CBS stuff I remember them airing was Cowboys games (a big hit with my mother back then, as well as those fans in DFW who were blacked out and tried their best to turn their antennas toward Tyler!) and maybe a Houston Oilers game if NBC didn't already have it that weekend.

 

[bpatrick]

Donahue was still available in 30- and 60-minute versions; I remember KENS/5
San Antonio airing hins for 30 minutes at 9 AM in this same time frame.

A few other "I don't remember"s (and I lived in Dallas in '77):

Good Morning America airing from 8 to 9:30 on Channel 8. I thought GMA was
airing the whole two hours (7-9 AM), followed by Mike Douglas from 9 to 10
in the fall of '77.

I also don't remember Edge Of Night in the morning; I remember it airing at 3,
followed by a movie from 3:30 to 5. In fact, I remember Sanford And Son being
the only network daytime show airing out of pattern, with Channels 4 and 8 carrying
everything in pattern. (OTOH, I do remember KTRK/13 Houston pre-empting Edge
Of Night and doing a two-hour movie from 3 to 5.)

I don't remember The Odd Couple on Ch. 5's afternoon schedule before 1978;
I do remember Sanford And Son at 3:30 (because a neighbor's kid used to rush
home from school to see it), followed by Emergency One! at 4.

And I remember Channel 4's schedule from 3-6:30 being:

3 PM Tattletales
3:30 Merv Griffin
5 PM News
5:30 CBS News
6 PM News

After which, the station checkerboarded (five different shows) 6:30.