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Retro: Las Vegas - Sunday, October 2, 1983

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"Knight Rider" starts its second season, set mostly in Las Vegas, pitting Michael Knight and KITT against his evil double Garthe Knight and his destructive mega-truck Goliath.

3 KVBC (NBC)
5:30 News 3
6:00 Dimension 3
6:30 Action Seniors
7:00 James Robison
7:30 Jerry Falwell
8:30 Day of Discovery
9:00 Oral Roberts
9:30 NFL '83
10:00 NFL Football: Los Angeles Raiders vs. Washington Redskins
1:00 NFL Football: San Diego Chargers vs. New York Giants
4:00 Dick Gregg Sports
4:30 Meet the Press - Guest: Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India (one year before her assassination)
5:00 News 3
5:30 NBC Nightly News - Chris Wallace
6:00 News 3
6:30 Wild Kingdom
7:00 First Camera (NBC's unsuccessful attempt to challenge CBS's 60 Minutes; first premiered as Monitor on Saturday, March 12, then moved to Sunday Sept. 18, directly opposite 60 Minutes and renamed First Camera; cancelled April 1, 1984)
8:00 Knight Rider (SP) - "Goliath"
10:00 The Yellow Rose (P)
11:00 News 3
11:30 Movie: "Touched by Love" (1980) - Deborah Rafin, Diane Lane
1:30 News 3 (replay)

5 KVVU
6:00 News (possibly INN News from the previous night and/or CNN Headline News)
7:00 Bugs Bunny and Friends
7:30 Spectreman
8:00 Three Stooges
9:00 Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries
10:00 Incredible Hulk
11:00 Movie: "Mask of Fu Manchu" (1932) - Boris Karloff, Myrna Loy
12:30 Movie: "The White Sister" (1933) - Helen Hayes, Clark Gable
2:30 Movie: "Follow the Fleet" (1936) - Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
4:30 Fight Back! With David Horowitz
5:00 Harry-O
6:00 Switch
7:00 Memories With Lawrence Welk
8:00 Special: "Janie Fricke: You Ought to Be in Pictures" - Guests: Alabama, Ronnie Milsap, George Jones, Rosanne Cash, Gordon MacRae, Charley Pride
10:00 INN Network News
10:30 On Camera
11:00 Soar With Eagles
11:30 Solid Gold - Host: Marilyn McCoo; Guest host: Tom Woppat; Guest performers: Sparks, Juice Newton, Madness, Ronnie Milsap, George Benson, Huey Lewis & the News
12:30 Movie: "Back to Bataan" (1945) - John Wayne, Anthony Quinn
2:30 Movie: "James Dean: The First American Teenager" (Released Sept. 30, 1975, the 20th anniverary of his death) - Narrator: Stacy Keach; Interviewees: Carroll Baker, Leslie Caron, Dennis Hopper, Leonard Rosenman, Natalie Wood, Sammy Davis Jr., Sal Mineo (five months before his murder)

8 KLAS (CBS)
6:00 Tom & Jerry
6:30 Underdog
7:00 Jetsons
7:30 Kenneth Copeland
8:30 World Tomorrow
9:00 NFL Week in Review
9:30 NFL Today
10:00 NFL Football: Dallas Cowboys vs. Minnesota Vikings
1:30 Movie: "The Life and Time of Judge Roy Bean" (1972) - Paul Newman, Ava Gardner, Tab Hunter, Jacqueline Bisset, John Huston, Stacy Keach, Roddy McDowall, Anthony Perkins, Victoria Principal, Anthony Zerbe
4:00 Movie: "Nero Wolfe" (1977) - Thayer David, Tom Mason, Brooke Adams, Anne Baxter
6:00 Eyewitness News 8
6:30 CBS Evening News - Morton Dean
7:00 60 Minutes - Wallace, Safer, Reasoner, Bradley
8:00 Alice (SP) - "Dukes of Hazzard" crossover episode with Boss Hogg (a distant cousin of waitress Jolene) and Enos Strate at Mel's Diner in an attempt to purchase the site.
8:30 One Day at a Tme (final SP)
9:00 Jeffersons (SP)
9:30 Goodnight, Beantown (sole SP) (series ended Jan. 15, 1984)
10:00 Trapper John, M.D. (SP)
11:00 Eyewitness News 8
11:30 Entertainment This Week
12:30 Movie: "A Letter to Three Wives" (1949) - Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas, Paul Douglas (screen debut; no relation to Kirk), Jeffrey Lynn
2:30 CBS News Nightwatch

10 KLVX (PBS)
9:00 153rd Semi-Annual Latter-Day Saints Conference
11:00 The Lunts (Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne): A Life in the Theatre
NOON Masterpiece Theatre: "The Flame Trees of Thika" - Episode 7 of 7: "The Drums of War"
1:00 The Shakespeare Plays: "Hamlet" - Derek Jacobi, Clare Bloom, Eric Porter, Patrick Stewart
4:30 National High School Cheerleading Championships
5:00 Supersoccer
6:00 Jazz in America - Featured performers: Dizzy Gillespie, Paquito D'Rivera, Ed Sherry, Valeria Capers, Tom Campbell, Tom MacIntosh, Michael Howell, Ray Brown; from Concerts by the Sea in Redondo Beach, CA
7:00 Inside Business Today: "Ted Turner - How He Did It"
7:30 Israeli Diary: "Shimon Peres"
8:00 Evening at Pops - Featured: Bernadette Peters
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre: "Pictures" - Episode 1 of 7 (no episode titles)
10:00 The Giulini Concerts

13 KTNV (ABC)
6:30 Directions
7:00 Probe
7:30 Robert Schuller
8:30 Jimmy Swaggart
9:30 Emergency: A Special Report
10:30 HealthBeat
11:00 MLB Baseball: Teams TBA (Playoffs began two days later)
1:30 This Week With David Brinkley - Guest: President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines (questioning in the wake of the recent assassination of opposition leader Benigno Aquino Jr.)
2:30 Probe
3:00 Baretta
4:00 Wonder Woman
5:00 ABC World News Sunday - Sam Donaldson
5:30 Newscope
6:00 Vega$
7:00 Ripley's Believe It or Not!
8:00 Hardcastle & McCormick
9:00 ABC Sunday Night Movie: "Heaven Can Wait" (1978) - Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, James Mason, Charles Grodin, Dyan Cannon, Buck Henry
11:00 ABC News
11:15 All in the Family
11:45 Movie: "The Boy Who Cried Werewolf" (1973) - Kerwin Mathews, Elaine Devry
 
Interesting that The Yellow Rose aired right after Knight Rider initially. It was supposed to be NBC’s answer to Dallas and starred David Soul and Cybill Shepherd, but it ultimately ended up airing in a dismal Saturday night time slot and flopped. NBC later made the same mistake with Berrenger’s the following season.


No big loss for Cybill though as her big comeback would finally come two years later with Moonlighting.
 
Interesting that The Yellow Rose aired right after Knight Rider initially. It was supposed to be NBC’s answer to Dallas and starred David Soul and Cybill Shepherd, but it ultimately ended up airing in a dismal Saturday night time slot and flopped. NBC later made the same mistake with Berrenger’s the following season.


No big loss for Cybill though as her big comeback would finally come two years later with Moonlighting.
If you can recall, all of NBC's 1983 fall premieres failed to survive that season. Night Court, Riptide, and TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes, which premiered the following January, were the network's three season survivors.
 
If you can recall, all of NBC's 1983 fall premieres failed to survive that season. Night Court, Riptide, and TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes, which premiered the following January, were the network's three season survivors.

Yep!! NBC’s 1983-84 season and CBS’s 1997-98 season share that very dubious distinction, both occurring right before each network was reinvigorated.
 
Vaguely recall NBC's Monitor, envisioning it as a TV edition of their weekend variety radio show of the same name. Loved listening to the radio show as a kid...heard songs as recognizable as Paul McCartney's "Another Day" and then hear something like the Irish Rovers' "Lily the Pink."
 
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