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These listings came from The Winchester ( Virginia ) Star from
Sunday May 7th, 1978. The weekend of the local Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival.
WMAR channel 2 (CBS) Baltimore
7:00 Christopher Close-Up
7:30 Funky Phantom
8:00 Bloomin' Place
8:30 Movie ( Elvis Presley in Kissin' Cousins )
10:30 Look Up and Live
11:00 Behold Wonderous Things
11:30 Face The Nation
Noon Face To Face
12:30 Love, American Style
1:00 Three ON Three ( Basketball )
1:30 NBA Play-offs
6:00 That's Hollywood
6:30 In Search Of
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 Elvis In Concert
9:00 All In The Family
9:30 Alice
10:00 Johnny Cash
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:30 Movie ( More Elvis..."Change of Habit" )
WRC channel 4 ( NBC ) Washington
7:00 Better Way
7:30 Vistas
8:00 Telus ( religious )
9:00 Sunday ( Community Affiars )
10:00 Two Plus You ( interview )
11:00 It's Academic
11:30 One On One
Noon Tony Brown's Journal
12:30 Meet The Press
1:00 Consumer Buyline
1:30 Tennis
2:30 Pilot ( the sitcom "Last Chance" with Sorrell Booke )
3:00 Tennis
4:00 Sportsworld
5:30 Marty Robbins' Spotlight
6:00 Her-Rah ( Information )
6:30 NBC News-Jessica Savitch
7:00 World of Disney
8:00 Project UFO
9:00 Wheels ( mini-series with Rock Hudson & Lee Remick )
11:00 Newscenter 4
11:30 Movie ( 1977 drama "The Hunted Lady" )
WTTG channel 5 ( Metromedia ) Washington
6:30 This Is The Life
7:00 Christopher Closeup
7:30 Jimmy Swaggart
8:00 Tom & Jerry
8:30 Wonderama/ Bob McAllister
11:00 Movie ( 1968 comedy "Yours, Mine and Ours" with Lucille Ball )
1:00 Movie ( 1958's "No Time For Sergeants" with Andy Griffith )
3:00 Movie ( More Elvis....Speedway )
5:00 Movie ( the 1975 drama "the UFO Incident" )
7:00 Hee Haw
8:00 Lawrence Welk
9:00 National Gepgraphic
10:00 Ten O'Clock News
10:30 Garner Ted Armstrong
11:00 Movie ( the 1947 comedy "The Bachlor & The Bobby-Soxer" )
1:00 David Susskind ( featuring three Elvis impersonators )
WINC channel 6* Winchester
8:00 Sports Breakfast ( taped delayed from Saturday at the Lee Jackson Hotel )
11:00 First Baptist Church of Winchester
Noon The Coronation of Queen Shenandoah ( James Gardner from Rockford Files )
2:00 Grand Parade ( taped delayed...with Norman Fell from Three's Company )
6:00 Apple Blossom Celebrity Interviews ( Norman Fell and Dolly Parton )
6:30 Rev. Donald Scruggs
8:00 High School Marching Band competiton
9:00 Firefighters Parade ( taped from Friday with country star Rex Allen Jr. )
WJLA channel 7 (ABC) Washington
6:30 Christopher Close-Up
7:00 Crossfire
7:30 Herald of Truth
8:00 Sermon On the Mount
9:00 Oral Roberts
10:00 Robert Schuller
11:00 Headliner
11:30 Directons
Noon Issues & Answers
12:30 Movie ( "Funny Face" with Fred Astaire & Audrey Hepburn )
2:30 Greatest Sports Legends
3:00 Golf
5:00 Wide World of Sports
6:00 News 7
6:30 Black Forum
7:00 Hardy Boys Mysteries
8:00 How The West Was Won
9:00 Battle of the Network Stars
11:00 News 7
11:30 Movie ( the 1975 thriller "Trilogy of Terror" )
1:30 ABC News- Chase/Jarriel
WTOP channel 9 (CBS) Washington
6:00 Christopher Closeup
6:30 Prisma
7:00 Town Meeting
7:30 Villa Alegre ( kids )
8:00 Marlo & The Magic Movie Machine
8:30 Best of Morning Break
9:00 Spread A Little Sunshine
9:30 Dialogue
10:00 Prisma
10:30 Agronsky & Company
11:00 Town Meeting
11:30 Face The Nation
Noon Apple Blossom Festival Highlights from Winchester, VA
1:00 All-Star Anything Goes
1:30 NBA Play-Offs
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 CBS News-Morton Dean
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 Elvis In Concert
9:00 All In The Family
9:30 Alice
10:00 Johnny Cash
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 CBS News-Ed Bradley
11:45 Movie ( 1956 drama "The Harder They Fall" )
WJZ-TV 13 (ABC) Baltimore
6:00 This Is The Life
6:30 International Zone
7:00 Blackpoint
7:30 To Be Announced
8:00 Metro Report
8:30 For The Moment ( religious )
9:00 Directions
9:30 Insight
10:00 Bob Turk & The Sunshine Kids ( still WJZ's weatherman )
10:30 Jabberjaw
11:00 Grape Ape
11:30 Animals, Animals, Animals
Noon Issues & Answers
12:30 Newsmakers with Jerry Turner
1:00 Star Trek
2:00 Concert Behind Prison Walls ( Johnny Cash, Linda Ronstadt and Roy Clark )
3:00 Golf
5:00 Wide World of Sports
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 Muppet Show
7:00 Hardy Boys Mysteries
8:00 How The West Was Won
9:00 Battle of the Network Stars
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Star Trek
12:30 Eyewitness news
12:40 ABC News
WDCA channel 20 ( ind. ) Washington
6:30 Top Cat
7:00 Young Samson
7:30 Wacky Races
8:00 Jackson 5
8:30 Brady Kids
9:00 Josie & The Pussycats
9:30 Jonny Quest
10:00 Fantastic Voyage
10:30 Journey to the Center of the Earth
11:00 Valley of the Dinosaurs
11:30 Movie ( "Tarzan Finds A Son" )
1:00 Movie ( The Beatles "A Hard Days Night" )
3:00 Movie ( "Casablanca" )
5:00 Movie ( the 1972 drama "The Doberman Gang" )
7:00 Hogan's Heroes
7:30 Jerry Falwell
8:30 700 Club
10:30 Jimmy Swaggart
11:00 God's Good News
11:30 Riverdale Baptist Chruch
Mid Ernest Angley
1:00 PTL Club
WHAG channel 25 (NBC) Hagerstown,MD
6:30 Blue Rige Quartet
7:00 Open Door Church
7:30 Rex Humbard
8:30 Broadfording Gospel Hour
9:00 Echoes Of Hope
9:30 Jerry Falwell
10:30 Day Of Discovery
11:00 American Religious Town Hall
11:30 Word Of Life
Noon Jacobs Brothers
12:30 Meet The Press
1:00 Francis of Assisi
2:00 Gospel Singing Jubilee
3:00 Apple Blossom Festival Highlights from Winchester, VA
4:00 Soccer
6:00 Fishing with Roland Martin
6:30 NBC News-Jessica Savitch
7:00 World of Disney
8:00 Project UFO
9:00 Wheels ( mini-series with Rock Hudson & Lee Remick )
11:00 The Valley News
11:30 PTL Club
WBFF channel 45 ( ind. ) Baltimore
7:00 Cartoons
7:30 Healing Today
8:00 Jimmy Swaggart
8:30 Oral Roberts
9:00 Leroy Jenkins
9:30 Ernest Angley
10:00 Rex Humbard
11:00 Robert Schuller
Noon Garner Ted Armstrong
12:30 Rifleman
1:00 Tennis
4:00 Apple Blossom Festival Highlights from Winchester, VA
5:00 McHale's Navy
5:30 Rat Patrol
6:00 Movie ( 1952 drama "Five Fingers" )
8:00 Let's Celebrate Life
9:00 Jerry Falwell
10:00 Ernest Angley
11:00 Dragnet
11:30 Movie ( "Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror" )
12:40 News
*WINC channel 6 was ( and still is ) a cable only channel based in Winchester.
The Shenandoah Valley's PBS station at this time was Harrisonburg's WVPT. The listings say "TBA" with the exception of an edition of Sesame Street in the morning. I would guess that pretty much most of the programs that aired on WVPT this Sunday were Apple Blossom related as it was WVPT who supplied channel 6 the equipment so they could show the highlights in color so a lot of what was on channel 6 chances are aired on WVPT as well.
The Apple Blossom coverage that aired on WTOP, WHAG, and WBFF were done by a seperate company. Not sure who produced it or even hosted it but I remember seeing a picture in a book about the bloom awhile back showed a pic of Tom Bosley from Happy Days in front of the camera. The national telecasts of the Apple Blossom were discontinued in 1980. They not only aired all over Virginia, Maryland and West Virginia but I believe they aired in Salt Lake City, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Atlanta and a number of other markets as well.
There were ( still is ) two parades during Apple Blossom. The Firefighters Parade on Friday night and the Grand Feature Parade that takes place on Saturday afternoon. Both were very long parades. The Grand Feature Parade I believe may still be one of the longest parades in America. Today it's more like a 2-3 hour parade but back in the 70's, they have been known to run 4 hours or more. The Firefighters parade I think today only runs for 2 hours. Back in the 70's, even that parade lasted 4 hours, well into the night.
For the record, here is who was at Apple Blossom in 1978.
Norman Fell ( Three's Company )
Dolly Parton
Andrew Gold ( remember the song "Lonely Boy" ? )
James Gardner ( The Rockford Files )
Gigi Gardner ( his daughter who was the Queen )
Johnny Unitas ( football great )
Rex Allen Jr. ( then-popular country star )
Sunday May 7th, 1978. The weekend of the local Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival.
WMAR channel 2 (CBS) Baltimore
7:00 Christopher Close-Up
7:30 Funky Phantom
8:00 Bloomin' Place
8:30 Movie ( Elvis Presley in Kissin' Cousins )
10:30 Look Up and Live
11:00 Behold Wonderous Things
11:30 Face The Nation
Noon Face To Face
12:30 Love, American Style
1:00 Three ON Three ( Basketball )
1:30 NBA Play-offs
6:00 That's Hollywood
6:30 In Search Of
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 Elvis In Concert
9:00 All In The Family
9:30 Alice
10:00 Johnny Cash
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:30 Movie ( More Elvis..."Change of Habit" )
WRC channel 4 ( NBC ) Washington
7:00 Better Way
7:30 Vistas
8:00 Telus ( religious )
9:00 Sunday ( Community Affiars )
10:00 Two Plus You ( interview )
11:00 It's Academic
11:30 One On One
Noon Tony Brown's Journal
12:30 Meet The Press
1:00 Consumer Buyline
1:30 Tennis
2:30 Pilot ( the sitcom "Last Chance" with Sorrell Booke )
3:00 Tennis
4:00 Sportsworld
5:30 Marty Robbins' Spotlight
6:00 Her-Rah ( Information )
6:30 NBC News-Jessica Savitch
7:00 World of Disney
8:00 Project UFO
9:00 Wheels ( mini-series with Rock Hudson & Lee Remick )
11:00 Newscenter 4
11:30 Movie ( 1977 drama "The Hunted Lady" )
WTTG channel 5 ( Metromedia ) Washington
6:30 This Is The Life
7:00 Christopher Closeup
7:30 Jimmy Swaggart
8:00 Tom & Jerry
8:30 Wonderama/ Bob McAllister
11:00 Movie ( 1968 comedy "Yours, Mine and Ours" with Lucille Ball )
1:00 Movie ( 1958's "No Time For Sergeants" with Andy Griffith )
3:00 Movie ( More Elvis....Speedway )
5:00 Movie ( the 1975 drama "the UFO Incident" )
7:00 Hee Haw
8:00 Lawrence Welk
9:00 National Gepgraphic
10:00 Ten O'Clock News
10:30 Garner Ted Armstrong
11:00 Movie ( the 1947 comedy "The Bachlor & The Bobby-Soxer" )
1:00 David Susskind ( featuring three Elvis impersonators )
WINC channel 6* Winchester
8:00 Sports Breakfast ( taped delayed from Saturday at the Lee Jackson Hotel )
11:00 First Baptist Church of Winchester
Noon The Coronation of Queen Shenandoah ( James Gardner from Rockford Files )
2:00 Grand Parade ( taped delayed...with Norman Fell from Three's Company )
6:00 Apple Blossom Celebrity Interviews ( Norman Fell and Dolly Parton )
6:30 Rev. Donald Scruggs
8:00 High School Marching Band competiton
9:00 Firefighters Parade ( taped from Friday with country star Rex Allen Jr. )
WJLA channel 7 (ABC) Washington
6:30 Christopher Close-Up
7:00 Crossfire
7:30 Herald of Truth
8:00 Sermon On the Mount
9:00 Oral Roberts
10:00 Robert Schuller
11:00 Headliner
11:30 Directons
Noon Issues & Answers
12:30 Movie ( "Funny Face" with Fred Astaire & Audrey Hepburn )
2:30 Greatest Sports Legends
3:00 Golf
5:00 Wide World of Sports
6:00 News 7
6:30 Black Forum
7:00 Hardy Boys Mysteries
8:00 How The West Was Won
9:00 Battle of the Network Stars
11:00 News 7
11:30 Movie ( the 1975 thriller "Trilogy of Terror" )
1:30 ABC News- Chase/Jarriel
WTOP channel 9 (CBS) Washington
6:00 Christopher Closeup
6:30 Prisma
7:00 Town Meeting
7:30 Villa Alegre ( kids )
8:00 Marlo & The Magic Movie Machine
8:30 Best of Morning Break
9:00 Spread A Little Sunshine
9:30 Dialogue
10:00 Prisma
10:30 Agronsky & Company
11:00 Town Meeting
11:30 Face The Nation
Noon Apple Blossom Festival Highlights from Winchester, VA
1:00 All-Star Anything Goes
1:30 NBA Play-Offs
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 CBS News-Morton Dean
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 Elvis In Concert
9:00 All In The Family
9:30 Alice
10:00 Johnny Cash
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 CBS News-Ed Bradley
11:45 Movie ( 1956 drama "The Harder They Fall" )
WJZ-TV 13 (ABC) Baltimore
6:00 This Is The Life
6:30 International Zone
7:00 Blackpoint
7:30 To Be Announced
8:00 Metro Report
8:30 For The Moment ( religious )
9:00 Directions
9:30 Insight
10:00 Bob Turk & The Sunshine Kids ( still WJZ's weatherman )
10:30 Jabberjaw
11:00 Grape Ape
11:30 Animals, Animals, Animals
Noon Issues & Answers
12:30 Newsmakers with Jerry Turner
1:00 Star Trek
2:00 Concert Behind Prison Walls ( Johnny Cash, Linda Ronstadt and Roy Clark )
3:00 Golf
5:00 Wide World of Sports
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 Muppet Show
7:00 Hardy Boys Mysteries
8:00 How The West Was Won
9:00 Battle of the Network Stars
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Star Trek
12:30 Eyewitness news
12:40 ABC News
WDCA channel 20 ( ind. ) Washington
6:30 Top Cat
7:00 Young Samson
7:30 Wacky Races
8:00 Jackson 5
8:30 Brady Kids
9:00 Josie & The Pussycats
9:30 Jonny Quest
10:00 Fantastic Voyage
10:30 Journey to the Center of the Earth
11:00 Valley of the Dinosaurs
11:30 Movie ( "Tarzan Finds A Son" )
1:00 Movie ( The Beatles "A Hard Days Night" )
3:00 Movie ( "Casablanca" )
5:00 Movie ( the 1972 drama "The Doberman Gang" )
7:00 Hogan's Heroes
7:30 Jerry Falwell
8:30 700 Club
10:30 Jimmy Swaggart
11:00 God's Good News
11:30 Riverdale Baptist Chruch
Mid Ernest Angley
1:00 PTL Club
WHAG channel 25 (NBC) Hagerstown,MD
6:30 Blue Rige Quartet
7:00 Open Door Church
7:30 Rex Humbard
8:30 Broadfording Gospel Hour
9:00 Echoes Of Hope
9:30 Jerry Falwell
10:30 Day Of Discovery
11:00 American Religious Town Hall
11:30 Word Of Life
Noon Jacobs Brothers
12:30 Meet The Press
1:00 Francis of Assisi
2:00 Gospel Singing Jubilee
3:00 Apple Blossom Festival Highlights from Winchester, VA
4:00 Soccer
6:00 Fishing with Roland Martin
6:30 NBC News-Jessica Savitch
7:00 World of Disney
8:00 Project UFO
9:00 Wheels ( mini-series with Rock Hudson & Lee Remick )
11:00 The Valley News
11:30 PTL Club
WBFF channel 45 ( ind. ) Baltimore
7:00 Cartoons
7:30 Healing Today
8:00 Jimmy Swaggart
8:30 Oral Roberts
9:00 Leroy Jenkins
9:30 Ernest Angley
10:00 Rex Humbard
11:00 Robert Schuller
Noon Garner Ted Armstrong
12:30 Rifleman
1:00 Tennis
4:00 Apple Blossom Festival Highlights from Winchester, VA
5:00 McHale's Navy
5:30 Rat Patrol
6:00 Movie ( 1952 drama "Five Fingers" )
8:00 Let's Celebrate Life
9:00 Jerry Falwell
10:00 Ernest Angley
11:00 Dragnet
11:30 Movie ( "Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror" )
12:40 News
*WINC channel 6 was ( and still is ) a cable only channel based in Winchester.
The Shenandoah Valley's PBS station at this time was Harrisonburg's WVPT. The listings say "TBA" with the exception of an edition of Sesame Street in the morning. I would guess that pretty much most of the programs that aired on WVPT this Sunday were Apple Blossom related as it was WVPT who supplied channel 6 the equipment so they could show the highlights in color so a lot of what was on channel 6 chances are aired on WVPT as well.
The Apple Blossom coverage that aired on WTOP, WHAG, and WBFF were done by a seperate company. Not sure who produced it or even hosted it but I remember seeing a picture in a book about the bloom awhile back showed a pic of Tom Bosley from Happy Days in front of the camera. The national telecasts of the Apple Blossom were discontinued in 1980. They not only aired all over Virginia, Maryland and West Virginia but I believe they aired in Salt Lake City, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Atlanta and a number of other markets as well.
There were ( still is ) two parades during Apple Blossom. The Firefighters Parade on Friday night and the Grand Feature Parade that takes place on Saturday afternoon. Both were very long parades. The Grand Feature Parade I believe may still be one of the longest parades in America. Today it's more like a 2-3 hour parade but back in the 70's, they have been known to run 4 hours or more. The Firefighters parade I think today only runs for 2 hours. Back in the 70's, even that parade lasted 4 hours, well into the night.
For the record, here is who was at Apple Blossom in 1978.
Norman Fell ( Three's Company )
Dolly Parton
Andrew Gold ( remember the song "Lonely Boy" ? )
James Gardner ( The Rockford Files )
Gigi Gardner ( his daughter who was the Queen )
Johnny Unitas ( football great )
Rex Allen Jr. ( then-popular country star )