ABC Schedule Friday, May 25, 1979

[RALfan]

All Times EST

7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Local Programming
11:00 Laverne & Shirley & Company
11:30 Family Feud
12:00 The $20,000 Pyramid (guests Anita Gillette and Daryl Anderson)
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 The Edge of Night
4:30 Local Programming

World News Tonight airs between 6:00 and 7:30

8:00 Welcome Back, Kotter "Oo, Oo, I Do"
9:00 Friday Night Movie: "Hot Rod"
11:00 Local Programming
11:30 Soap
12:00 Baretta

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMggSz3HwVE

Sources:

The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television by Wesley Hyatt
The Complete Guide of The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946 – Present
by Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh
The Pyramid Celebrity Archives http://www.fortunecity.com/lavendar/westbridge/448/25kceleb.htm
TV.com http://www.tv.com

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

The "E! True Hollywood Story" program on "Welcome Back, Kotter" a few years ago indicated that this highly anticipated episode (Horshack's wedding) was bumped for an address by President Carter.

 

[bhayes1016]

The "E! True Hollywood Story" program on "Welcome Back, Kotter" a few years ago indicated that this highly anticipated episode (Horshack's wedding) was bumped for an address by President Carter.

Given the date (Friday of Memorial Day weekend), wouldn't this have been a rerun?

 

[Newname]

Usually, it would have been, but these were among the last (if not the absolute last)first-run episodes of 'Kotter' to air, as the series had just been cancelled. ABC had moved or pre-empted the show frequently that season, as it was clear it was on its last legs, and they were just 'burning it off'. They continued to air reruns through the summer; maybe these episodes aired at some point later on?

 

[harrisburgpatv]

Minor nitpick: The "& Company" wasn't added to "Laverne & Shirley" until it hit syndication in the fall of 1981. However, there was a real funky edit with the opening theme for the show.

I have an off-air recording of the 10:40-11:40 hour of ABC from back in spring 1980 off WABC-7 in NY with, of course, all of L&S and some of the Feud...L&S is interesting to watch...It looked like the copy provided for daytime reruns wasn't in very good quality...

 

[ixnay]

I missed the entire schedule (and Carter's speech [what was it about?]) on all three networks that night. I was attending my senior prom (or as our school called it, our senior banquet).

And on a more tragic note (correct me on the date), wasn't 5/25/79 the day that a Lockheed TriStar, immediately after takeoff from Chicago-O'Hare, have an engine drop off due to a faulty bracket, and plummet to earth, killing everyone on board? I believe it was the deadliest pre-9/11 air disaster in U.S. history. I remember seeing a documentary on that crash a couple of years ago on (I think) HIST.

ixnay

 

[oldiesfan6479]

...wasn't 5/25/79 the day that a Lockheed TriStar, immediately after takeoff from Chicago-O'Hare, have an engine drop off due to a faulty bracket, and plummet to earth, killing everyone on board?

DC-10 (not L-1011) N110AA, operating AA 191 ORD-LAX.

 

[Stanislav]

I missed the entire schedule (and Carter's speech [what was it about?]) on all three networks that night. I was attending my senior prom (or as our school called it, our senior banquet).

And on a more tragic note (correct me on the date), wasn't 5/25/79 the day that a Lockheed TriStar, immediately after takeoff from Chicago-O'Hare, have an engine drop off due to a faulty bracket, and plummet to earth, killing everyone on board? I believe it was the deadliest pre-9/11 air disaster in U.S. history. I remember seeing a documentary on that crash a couple of years ago on (I think) HIST.

You are correct, sir -- it was AA Flight 191, the crash of which killed all 271 passengers and crew, plus 2 people on the ground. I recall watching network live coverage of that crash when it happened. However, the crash occurred at 4:04 EDT which means, at least in the Eastern and Central zones, it didn't really impact network schedules as there would have been no network programming (save for the nightly newscasts) until 8 pm. (Unless CBS was sending out a 4 pm feed of GL or some other soap to some affiliates.)

Remember when the broadcast networks actually covered stuff like that? Nowadays, it just about takes something on the scale of a 9/11 or them to gear up, having all but abandoned live breaking news coverage to the cable news networks. Which, of course, doesn't help the 13 million or so Americans who rely on OTA reception for their TV. But then, traditionally they got far more flak from viewers about pre-empting their shows than viewers who appreciated the news coverage (even on 9/11 there were actually calls from viewers irate that their soaps and game shows were being canceled to show this historic and world-changing event), so they probably figure they come out ahead in the PR department. :

 

[Ultimajock]

And on a more tragic note (correct me on the date), wasn't 5/25/79 the day that a Lockheed TriStar, immediately after takeoff from Chicago-O'Hare, have an engine drop off due to a faulty bracket, and plummet to earth, killing everyone on board? I believe it was the deadliest pre-9/11 air disaster in U.S. history. I remember seeing a documentary on that crash a couple of years ago on (I think) HIST.

...among those killed were Sheldon Wax, managing editor of Playboy; his wife Judith Wax, who contributed material to the magazine; and Playboy's fiction editor, Vicki Haider. I seem to recall that WLS-TV had legendary anchorman Fahey Flynn cover the story from the crash site, and he got a local Emmy for it...

 

[harrisburgpatv]

However, the crash occurred at 4:04 EDT which means, at least in the Eastern and Central zones, it didn't really impact network schedules as there would have been no network programming (save for the nightly newscasts) until 8 pm. (Unless CBS was sending out a 4 pm feed of GL or some other soap to some affiliates.)

It did impact network schedules, but really not by much...ABC's 4pm offering was "The Edge of Night", CBS's was "Love of Life" (recently dispatched from its long time 11:30am (EST) slot to make room for Price is Right, which moved from 10:30 to 11). NBC stopped programming the 1pm/4pm slot earlier in the year when "Another World" expanded to 90 minutes and "Days of our Lives" moved to 1pm (EST).

 

[Stanislav]

However, the crash occurred at 4:04 EDT which means, at least in the Eastern and Central zones, it didn't really impact network schedules as there would have been no network programming (save for the nightly newscasts) until 8 pm. (Unless CBS was sending out a 4 pm feed of GL or some other soap to some affiliates.)

It did impact network schedules, but really not by much...ABC's 4pm offering was "The Edge of Night", CBS's was "Love of Life" (recently dispatched from its long time 11:30am (EST) slot to make room for Price is Right, which moved from 10:30 to 11). NBC stopped programming the 1pm/4pm slot earlier in the year when "Another World" expanded to 90 minutes and "Days of our Lives" moved to 1pm (EST).

Huh, that's right...I forgot that EON had moved to ABC for a few years. Because when I was growing up (and my mother and grandmother were huge soap fans at the time) it was on CBS, I always mentally associate it with that network.