Retro: Las Vegas - Monday, October 27, 1980

[RandTV]

Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal via geneologybank.com

3 KVBC (NBC)

MORNING
6:00 The Jews of Hungary: A Study in Survival
7:00 Today
9:00 Las Vegas Gambit (debut w/ Wink Martindale, from the Tropicana)
9:30 Blockbusters (debut w/ Bill Cullen)
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Password Plus - Guests: Vicki Lawrence, Robert Donner (Sadly, this was Allen Ludden's final episode, for he fell into his final illness 20 days earlier, two days after it was taped, which happened to be his 63rd birthday. He was succeeded by friend and colleague Tom Kennedy the following day, and died on June 9, 1981.)
11:00 Card Sharks
11:30 The Doctors
AFTERNOON
12:00 Today at Noon
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 Another World
2:30 Texas
3:30 Mike Douglas
4:30 Rockford Files
5:30 NBC Nightly News
EVENING
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 Hollywood Squares (from the Riviera)
7:00 Good Times
7:30 Welcome Back, Kotter
8:00 Little House on the Prairie
9:00 NBC Monday Night at the Movies: "Father Damien: The Leper Priest" (Premiere; Biography) - Ken Howard, Mike Farrell
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Tonight Show - Guest host: Martin Mull; Guests: Smothers Brothers, Elizabeth Ashley; Performers: The Manhattan Transfer
LATE NIGHT
12:30 Tomorrow - Guest: Norman Mailer, Heart (rock band), Quentin Crisp; Rona Barrett debuts as West Coast anchor, interviewing Mary Tyler Moore
2:00 Eyewitness News
2:30 Movie: "Lucky Stiff" (1949; Mystery) - Dorothy Lamour, Brian Donlevy

5 KVVU (Ind.)
MORNING
7:00 New Zoo Revue
7:30 Fred Flintstone and Friends
8:00 Richard Simmons
8:30 Page 5
9:00 Donahue
10:00 Toni Tennille
11:00 John Davidson
AFTERNOON
12:30 Carol Burnett
1:00 You Bet Your Life!
1:30 Movie: "Shamus" (1973; Comedy) - Burt Reynolds, Dyan Cannon
3:00 I Love Lucy
3:30 Cisco Kid
4:00 Gilligan's Island
4:30 Sanford & Son
5:00 Rhoda
5:30 Bob Newhart
EVENING
6:00 Hogan's Heroes
6:30 Independent Network News
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 M*A*S*H
8:00 Star Trek
9:00 Movie: "Ben" (1972; Horror) - Lee Montgomery, Joseph Campanella, Arthur O'Connell, Meredith Baxter
11:00 Benny Hill
11:30 Morecambe & Wise
LATE NIGHT
12:00 Prisoner: Cell Block H
12:30 Movie: "The Bachelor Party" (1957; Comedy) - Don Murray, Carolyn Jones, Jack Warden

8 KLAS (CBS)
MORNING
6:00 700 Club
7:00 Morning
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Jeffersons
9:30 Alice
10:00 Young and Restless
11:00 Hour Magazine
AFTERNOON
12:00 NewsCenter 8
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 As the World Turns
2:00 Guidging Light
3:00 One Day at a Time
3:30 To Tell the Truth
4:00 Match Game
4:30 The Joker's Wild
5:00 Bullseye
5:30 CBS Evening News
EVENING
6:00 NewsCenter 8
6:30 PM Magazine
7:00 Family Feud
7:30 Tic-Tac-Dough
8:00 Flo (season premiere)
8:30 Ladies Man (debut)
9:00 M*A*S*H
9:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
10:00 Lou Grant
11:00 NewsCenter 8
11:30 Quincy
LATE NIGHT
12:40 The New Avengers
1:50 Sig Sakowicz Superstar

10 KLVX (PBS)
MORNING
7:45 A.M. Weather
8:00 Bill Moyers' Journal
9:00 Sesame Street
10:05 Educational TV
11:30 The Universe and I
AFTERNOON
1:00 Electric Company
1:35 3-2-1 Contact
2:10 Educational TV
2:30 How to...
3:00 Villa Alegre
3:30 3-2-1 Contact
4:00 Electric Company
4:30 Mister Rogers
5:00 Sesame Street
EVENING
6:00 Dick Cavett
6:30 Over Easy
7:00 Evening Docket
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer
8:00 Great Performances: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
9:00 The Advocates/Election '80
10:00 Captioned ABC News
10:30 MacNeil/Lehrer
11:00 Upstairs, Downstairs

13 KTNV (ABC)
MORNING
6:00 Lassie
6:30 Lone Ranger
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Your New Day
9:30 All in the Family
10:00 Love Boat
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 Merv Griffin
5:00 ABC World News Tonight
5:30 News 13
EVENING
6:00 Monday Night Football - Miami Dolphins vs. New York Jets
8:45 That's Incredible!
9:45 TBA
10:00 Live Debate
10:30 All in the Famile
11:00 News 13
11:30 Nightline
11:50 The Untouchables
LATE NIGHT
12:50 News 13

 

[installLSC]

"Sig Sakowicz Superstar" was a locally hosted interview show.
Two very odd evening news decisions: KVVU airing Independent Network News at 6:30 (virtually every other station saved it for prime time) and KTNV airing Reynolds/Jennings/Max Robinson at 5pm. A number of Mountain Zone affiliates did that, but this is a first time seeing a Pacific Zone affiliate doing that.
"Morecambe and Wise" is an interesting program. Iconic comedians in the UK, their show was used by Benny Hill's distributor to fill out the Hill package. Anyone know how long they were offered or if any other comedians were packaged in the same way?

 

[RandTV]

"Sig Sakowicz Superstar" was a locally hosted interview show.
Two very odd evening news decisions: KVVU airing Independent Network News at 6:30 (virtually every other station saved it for prime time) and KTNV airing Reynolds/Jennings/Max Robinson at 5pm. A number of Mountain Zone affiliates did that, but this is a first time seeing a Pacific Zone affiliate doing that.
"Morecambe and Wise" is an interesting program. Iconic comedians in the UK, their show was used by Benny Hill's distributor to fill out the Hill package. Anyone know how long they were offered or if any other comedians were packaged in the same way?

I wouldn't know the answer to that question.

 

[RandTV]

I just found out that The Price is Right was shut out by KLAS from Sept 8, 1980 to Sept. 4, 1984. They moved the Young and the Restless to TPIR's slot and put in Hour Magazine in Y&R's.

 

[installLSC]

I wouldn't know the answer to that question.

Oh don't worry I was speaking to anybody reading, not just you.

 

[Ccook55]

I like what Tom Kennedy said on the Password Plus finale a couple of years later. He said he wasn't replacing Allen, he was filling in while Allen was "taking care of other business."

 

[johnothy]

I just found out that The Price is Right was shut out by KLAS from Sept 8, 1980 to Sept. 4, 1984. They moved the Young and the Restless to TPIR's slot and put in Hour Magazine in Y&R's.

It's interesting they would choose to pre-empt a popular first-run show like The Price is Right and choose to air reruns of Jeffersons and Alice from 9-10 AM. I loved watching TPIR as a kid, I can't imagine our station pre-empting it.