Retro: San Francisco - Wednesday, May 21, 1980

[RandTV]

Part 2 of my Star Wars premiere day schedules, this one being The Empire Strikes Back. I'll only be listing the major high-power stations. (Channels 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 44)

2 KTVU
MORNING
7:00 Cartoon Town
8:00 Hanna-Barbera Cartoons
8:30 Romper Room
9:00 Bewitched
9:30 Room 222
10:00 Big Valley
11:00 Donahue - Guests: William F. Buckley Jr., Rev. William Sloan Coffin
AFTERNOON
12:00 Medical Center
1:00 Movie (Dialing for Dollars): "Living it Up" (1954) - Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis
3:00 Bugs Bunny
4:00 Tom & Jerry/Spider-Man (featuring TV Powww)
5:00 Six Million Dollar Man
EVENING
6:00 Star Trek
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 Odd Couple
8:00 National Geographic Special - "The Amazon"
9:00 Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau - "Blizzard of Hope Bay"
10:00 Action News
11:00 Prisoner: Cell Block H
LATE NIGHT
12:00 The FBI
1:00 Action News

4 KRON (NBC)
MORNING
5:55 Ed Allen
6:25 Picture of Health
6:55 Community Calendar
7:00 Today
9:00 Card Sharks
9:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Conrad Bain & Todd Bridges, Karen Glassle, Patrick Wayne, Charlotte Rae & Julie Piekarski, Tom Poston, Joe Santos & Melissa Michaelson, George Gobel, Randi Oakes, Tony Randall (paired celebrities shared the same square)
10:00 High Rollers
10:30 Wheel of Fortune
11:00 Cross-Wits (pre-empting NBC's Chain Reaction w/ Bill Cullen)
11:30 Mid-Day (daily KRON news/talk show which pre-empted Password Plus which was carried by ch. 44 KBHK at 10:00 AM)
AFTERNOON
12:00 Days of Our Lives
1:00 The Doctors
1:30 Another World (90-minute program from 3/5/79 to 8/1/1980)
3:00 Play the Percentages - Geoff Edwards
3:30 Merv Griffin - Guests: Madeline Kahn, Alberta Hunter, Pat Carroll, Patti LuPone, Alan Dysert, Wayne Massey
5:00 Mary Tyler Moore
5:30 Bob Newhart
6:00 NewsCenter 4
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Tic-Tac-Dough
8:00 Real People
9:00 Diff'rent Strokes (1 hour episode)
10:00 Quincy
11:00 NewsCetner 4
11:30 Tonight Show - Guests: Gay Talese, Barbara Mandrell
LATE NIGHT
1:00 Tomorrow - Guests: Scatman Crothers, author Dr. Michael McGill
2:00 3's a Crowd - Jim Peck (from Chuck Barris Productions with similar gameplay to The Newlywed Game which pitted husbands between their wives and secretaries)

5 KPIX (CBS)
MORNING
6:30 Morning Stretch
7:00 Wednesday Morning - Bob Schieffer
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Jeffersons
9:30 Celebrity Whew! - Tom Kennedy; Guests: Gary Collins and wife Mary Ann Mobley
9:55 CBS Mid-Morning News - Douglas Edwards
10:00 People Are Talking (daily KPIX talk show which pre-empted The Price is Right)
11:00 Young and Restless
AFTERNOON
12:00 Eyewitness News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 As the World Turns
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 Mike Douglas - Cohost: Larry Wilcox; Guests: Hannie Wilcox (Larry's wife), John McCook, Laurette Spang, Skip Stephenson, Bob Bonney, Severiano Ballesteros, Adrien Arpel
4:30 Carol Burnett
5:00 Newlywed Game
5:30 Match Game (daily syndicated version)
EVENING
6:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Evening Magazine
8:00 Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over
8:30 Carlton Your Doorman (pilot for proposed but unsold spinoff of "Rhoda" starring Lorenzo Music before he started voicing Garfield)
9:00 CBS Wednesday Night Movies: "The Grass is Always Greener over the Septic Tank" (1978) - Carol Burnett, Charles Grodin
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Black Sheep Squadron
LATE NIGHT
12:40 CBS Late Movie: "Easy Come, Easy Go" (1967) - Elvis Presley, Dodie Marshall
2:20 Movie: "The Big Street" (1942) - Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball
4:10 Movie: "The Flying Irishman" (1939) - Paul Kelly, Douglas Corrigan

7 KGO (ABC)
MORNING
6:15 Personal Finance
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 AM San Francisco - Guest: Vidal Sassoon
10:00 Laverne & Shirley
10:30 $20,000 Pyramid - Guests: Laurie Walters, Ken Kercheval
11:00 Family Feud
11:30 Ryan's Hope
AFTERNOON
12:00 All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Edge of Night
3:30 The 3:30 Movie: "Girl Happy" (1965) - Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares
EVENING
6:00 Channel 7 News Scene
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Hollywood Squares (syndicated version)
8:00 Perry Como's Bahama Holiday - with Toni Tenille and Loretta Swit
9:00 ABC Wednesday Night Movie: "Murder Can Hurt You" (premiere) - Jamie Farr, Gavin McLeod
11:00 Channel 7 News Scene
11:30 Nightline (each episode then began by displaying the number of days Americans were held hostage in Iran; then a 20-minute program before expanding to a half-hour the following year)
11:50 Love Boat
LATE NIGHT
1:00 Baretta
2:10 News (don't whether it was from KGO or ABC)

9 KQED (PBS)
MORNING
8:00 Hatha Yoga
8:30 Mister Rogers
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Electric Company
10:30 Movie: "An Inspector Calls" (1954) - Alastair Slim
AFTERNOON
12:00 Dick Cavett - Guest: author William Styron (part 2 of 2)
12:30 Over Easy - Guest: Polly Bergen
1:00 Guale
2:00 Mystery: "Sergeant Cribb: Abracadaver
3:00 Personal Finance
3:30 Sesame Street
4:30 Mister Rogers
5:00 Sesame Street
EVENING
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
6:30 Over Easy - Guest: Ellen Burstyn
7:00 Dick Cavett - Guests: Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (all-male drag ballet group)
7:30 Evening Edition
8:00 Non-Fiction Television: "No Maps on My Taps"
9:00 Great Performance: "Dance in America: Beyond the Mainstream"
10:00 Back Wards to Back Streets
11:00 Dick Cavett - same episode from 7:00 PM
11:30 Movie: "David and Lisa" (1962) - Keir Dullea, Janet Margolin

44 KBHK
MORNING
6:30 Bozo's Big Top
7:00 Flintstones
7:30 Casper
8:00 Banana Splits
8:30 Battle of the Planets
9:00 Leave It to Beaver
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10:00 Password Plus (from NBC)
10:30 Health Field
11:00 News Talk
11:30 New Zoo Revue
AFTERNOON
12:00 Huck and Yogi
12:30 Beverly Hillbillies
1:00 Gomer Pyle
1:30 Dick Van Dyke
2:00 Leave It to Beaver
2:30 Popeye
3:00 Casper
3:30 Porky Pig
4:00 Flintstones
4:30 Brady Bunch
5:00 Bugs Bunny
5:30 Brady Bunch
EVENING
6:00 Happy Days Again
6:30 Sanford and Son
7:00 Joker's Wild
7:30 All in the Family
8:00 8:00 Movie: "Harper" (1966) - Paul Newman, Julie Harris
10:55 News Update
11:00 Twilight Zone
11:30 Best of Groucho

 

[RandTV]

Sources: San Fransico Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, Oakland Tribune
Game show guest rosters courtesy of Mark Goodson, Bob Stewart, and Heatter-Quigley Fandom sites.

 

[RandTV]

NBC game show celebrity guests pre-empted from KRON; the latter carried by independent KBHK -

Chain Reaction: Anita Gillette, Wesley Eure, Vicki Lawrence, Ron Silver
Password Plus: Phyllis Diller, Bert Convy

 

[installLSC]

2:00 3's a Crowd - Jim Peck (from Chuck Barris Productions with similar gameplay to The Newlywed Game which pitted husbands between their wives and secretaries)

And an excellent contender for "worst game show of all time". The backlash against the show was so bad Barris later claimed it was a big reason he soon got out of the game show biz
Induction #18: Three's A Crowd

 

[RandTV]

And an excellent contender for "worst game show of all time". The backlash against the show was so bad Barris later claimed it was a big reason he soon got out of the game show biz
Induction #18: Three's A Crowd

I couldn't agree more with that! I wonder if any couples who were on that show got separated or divorced as a result of their appearance?

 

[MarioMania]

You're missing Channel 20, 26, 32

 

[RandTV]

You're missing Channel 20, 26, 32

I've already mentioned at the top that I'd only be covering the major high-powered stations, for there was hardly anything high-profile in those stations you've listed. I hope that doesn't too discriminatory to you. If it does, I most humbly apologize.

 

[johnothy]

Did any other station carry Price is Right? I'd think KPIX would have chosen to air it at 9am instead of the Jeffersons reruns and Celebrity Whew!.

 

[RandTV]

Did any other station carry Price is Right? I'd think KPIX would have chosen to air it at 9am instead of the Jeffersons reruns and Celebrity Whew!.

If you lived in the North Bay or East Bay (where I was living at the time), you could still catch The Price is Right on the Sacramento CBS affiliate KTXTV 10 (now ABC), which interestingly enough did not air Whew!, but repeats of the Liar's Club (w/ Allen Ludden), and prior to that, repeats of The Joker's Wild from its first syndicated season (1977-78).

 

[onairb2014]

At some point in 1977-78, channel 44 carried 'TPIR', but after that, the Bay Area was shut out until whenever KTZO picked it up(1981?)

 

[RandTV]

At some point in 1977-78, channel 44 carried 'TPIR', but after that, the Bay Area was shut out until whenever KTZO picked it up(1981?)

Now that I don't remember. I'll check in the papers to out about 44. As for 20 picking up TPIR for the first time, the earliest date I found happened to be December 8, 1980.

 

[onairb2014]

Now that I don't remember. I'll check in the papers to out about 44. As for 20 picking up TPIR for the first time, the earliest date I found happened to be December 8, 1980.

Thanks! If you have listings for June 20, 1980 handy, could you confirm if KRON aired the last episode of NBC's 'Hollywood Squares'?
I'm enjoying these Bay Area/Sac flashbacks!

 

[RandTV]

Thanks! If you have listings for June 20, 1980 handy, could you confirm if KRON aired the last episode of NBC's 'Hollywood Squares'?
I'm enjoying these Bay Area/Sac flashbacks!

That was indeed the final day not only for Hollywood Squares, but also High Rollers, and Chain Reaction.

 

[Ccook55]

The cancellation of Chain Reaction was Fred Silverman's payback at Bob Stewart for having "Hit Shows on NBC" as a bogus subject on the finale of The $20,000 Pyramid.

 

[RandTV]

That was the week after BTW.

 

[onairb2014]

Yeah, 'Pyramid' ended on June 27. Bad timing, coming early in summer vacation.