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Pittsburgh, September 17-21, 1979

From The Pittsburgh Press

2-KDKA (CBS)

Weekday
6AM Eyewitness Newsmakers
6:30AM Sunrise Semester
7AM CBS Morning
8AM Captain Kangaroo
9AM Cartoons
9:30 The Love of Life (Delayed from 4PM the previous day)
10AM Beat The Clock
10:30 Whew
11AM The New Price Is Right
12Noon Eyewitness News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1PM The Young and the Restless
1:30 Pittsburgh Today (Not shown: As The World Turns)
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 One Day At A Time
4PM Match Game
4:30 Mike Douglas (Ron Howard is the week's co-host)
6PM Eyewitness News
7PM CBS Evening News
7:30 Evening Magazine
8PM CBS Primetime
11PM News
11:30 CBS Late Night

Monday (17th)
9AM Jason of Star Command (Delayed from 8AM Sunday)
8PM The White Shadow
9PM M*A*S*H
9:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
10PM Lou Grant
11:30 Harry-O
12:30AM McMillan & Wife

Tuesday (18th)
9AM Three Robonic Stooges (Delayed from 8:30AM Sundays)
7:30PM Baseball: Pirates vs. Expos (Not shown: CBS Tuesday Night Movie: "The Other Side of Midnight" [1977] at 8PM)
10PM California Fever (Delayed from 8PM the previous Tuesday)
11:30 Barnaby Jones
12:30AM CBS Late Movie: "A Sensitive, Passionate Man" (1977)

Wednesday (19th)
9AM Dudley Do-Right & Friends
7:30PM Baseball: Pirates vs. Expos (Not shown: Struck by Lightning at 8:30 and CBS Wednesday Night Movie: "Sex and The Single Woman" [Made for TV, 1979] at 9PM)
9PM Channel to Pittsburgh
9:30 The Last Resort (Delayed from 8PM)
11:30 Switch
12:30 Hawaii Five-0

Thursday (20th)
9AM Uncle Waldo Cartoons
5PM Baseball: Pirates vs. Phillies
8PM The Waltons (2-Hour season premiere)
10PM Barnaby Jones (Season Premiere)
11:30 Columbo
12:30AM Banacek

Friday (21st)
9AM Marlo & The Magic Movie Machine
8PM Incredible Hulk
9PM The Dukes of Hazzard
10PM Dallas
11:30 CBS Late Movie: "Moonshine County Express" (1977)
1:30AM Late Movie: "The Curse of the Swamp"

4-WTAE (ABC)

Weekdays
6:30 New Zoo Revue
7AM Good Morning America (60 Minutes)
8AM AM Pittsburgh
9:30 General Hospital (Delayed from 3PM the previous day)
10:30 Edge Of Night (Delayed from 4PM the previous day)
11AM Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
12Noon $20,000 Pyramid
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1PM All My Children
2PM One Life To Live
3PM Cross-Wits
3:30 Mighty Mouse
4PM Tom & Jerry
4:30 Brady Bunch
5PM M*A*S*H
5:30 All In The Family
6PM Channel 4 Action News
6:30 ABC News
7PM Bowling For Dollars
7:30 Various
8PM ABC Primetime
11PM Chanel 4 Action News
11:30 ABC Late Night

Monday (17th)
7:30PM Family Feud
8PM 240-Robert
9PM Monday Night Football: NY Giants vs Redskins
12Mid Channel 4 Action News
12:30AM Pitt Highlights
1AM College Football
1:30 Adam-12

Tuesday (18th)
7:30 Dance Fever
8PM Happy Days
8:30 Laverne & Shirley
9PM Three's Company
9:30 Taxi
10PM Lazarus Syndrome
11:30 Barney Miller
12Mid ABC Late Movie: "Three On A Date" (1978)

Wednesday (19th)
7:30PM Name That Tune
8PM Eight is Enough
9PM Charlie's Angels
10PM Vega$
11:30 Love Boat
12:45AM Baretta

Thursday (20th)
7:30PM Hollywood Squares
8PM Laverne & Shirley
8:30 Benson
9PM Barney Miller
9:30 Soap
10PM 20/20
11:30 Police Woman
12:45 Baretta

Friday (21st)
7:30PM Family Feud
8PM Fantasy Island
9PM ABC Friday Night Movie: "Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker" (Made For TV, 1979)
11:30 ABC Late Movie: "The Anderson Tapes" (1971)
1:30AM Emergency One

11-WIIC[Now WPXI] (NBC)

Weekdays
6AM Ed Allen Show
6:30 Starting Today
7AM Today
9AM Phil Donahue
10AM New Dating Game (Not shown: Card Sharks)
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11AM New High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
12Noon Mindreaders
12:30 Joker's Wild (Not shown: Password Plus)
1PM Days of our Lives
2PM Doctors
2:30 Another World
4PM Woody Woodpecker
4:30 Bionic Hour (Six Millon Dollar Man and Bionic Woman alternated in this timeslot)
5:30 Happy Days Again
6PM Steel City News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7PM Tic Tac Dough
7:30 New Newlywed Game
8PM NBC Primetime
11PM News
11:30 The Tonight Show
1AM Tomorrow

Monday (17th)
8PM Little House on the Prairie
9PM NBC Monday Night At The Movies: "Coming Home" (1978)

Tuesday (18th)
8PM The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
9PM NBC Tuesday Night At The Movies: "Semi-Tough" (1977)

Wednesday (19th)
8PM Real People
10PM NBC Wednesday Night At The Movies: "Mrs. R's Daughter" (Made for TV, 1979)

Thursday (20th)
8PM Buck Rogers In The 25th Century (Debut; The film is listed as the first episode)
10PM Quincy

Friday (21st)
8PM Diff'rent Strokes (Season premeire)
9PM Eischied (Debut; 2-hour episode)
1AM Midnight Special

13-WQED (PBS)

Weekdays
9AM Instructional Programming
11:30AM Mr. Rogers
12Noon Sesame Street
1PM Instructional Programming
3PM Dick Cavett
3:30 Over Easy
4PM America After Vietnam (Tues-Fri)
4:30 Zoom
5PM Sesame Street
6PM Once Upon A Classic
6:30 Mr. Rogers
7PM Over Easy
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8PM PBS Prime Time
11PM Dick Cavett
11:30 ABC News (Closed Captioned)

Monday (17th)
4PM In Rehearsal: Sarah Caldwell
8PM Bill Moyer's Journal
9PM Here to Make Music
10PM Poldark

Tuesday (18th)
8PM Once Upon A Classic
9PM Raised In Anger
10PM Raised In Anger Update

Wednesday (19th)
8PM Evening At Pops
9PM Great Performances
10PM TV Quarterbacks

Thursday (20th)
8PM National Geographic
9PM Great Performances
10PM The Man Who Wouldn't Keep Quiet

Friday (21st)
8PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9PM David Susskind
10PM Masterpiece Theater

16-WQEX (PBS)

Weekdays
6PM Weather/World
6:30 Over Easy
7PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Dick Cavett

Monday (17th)
5PM Firing Line
8PM Bottom Line
8:30 Sports Unlimited
9PM Black Man's Land
10PM Public Policy Fourum

Tuesday (18th)
5PM Que Pasa USA
5:30 Like It Is
8PM National Geographic
9PM Lyceum
9:30 Black Horizons
10PM Bill Moyer's Journal

Wednesday (19th)
5PM Guten Tag
8PM Faces of Communism
9PM Great Performances (90 minutes, different from channel 13's telecast)
10:30 Irish Treasures

Thursday (20th)
5PM Black Man's Land
8PM Bill Moyer's Journal
9PM Evening At Symphony
10:30 Estanya Flamenca

Friday (21st)
5PM Que Pasa USA
5:30 Music
8PM Film
9PM Public Policy Fourum
10:30 Faces of Communism

22-WPTT[Now WPMY] (Ind.; Now MNTV)

Weekdays
7AM Three Stooges
7:30 Porky Pig
8AM Three Stooges
8:30 Leave It To Beaver
9AM Dennis The Meanace
9:30 Ozzie & Harriet
10AM Mothers-In-Law
10:30 I Love Lucy
11AM Perry Mason
12Noon Movie
2PM Captain Pitt
3PM Dennis The Meanace
3:30 Leave It To Beaver
4PM Porky Pig
4:30 Three Stooges
5PM Gilligan's Island
5:30 Superman
6PM I Dream of Jeannie
6:30 Chico & The Man
7PM Get Smart
7:30 I Love Lucy
8PM Bonanza
9PM Perry Mason
10PM Avengers
11PM Lucy Show
11:30 Movie
1:30AM Movie

Monday (17th)
12Noon and 1AM "Come Fill The Cup" (1951)
11:30PM "The Scarf" (1951)

Tuesday (18th)
12Noon and 1:30AM "Lad, A Dog" (1962)
11:30PM "Strange Lady In Town (1955)

Wednesday (19th)
12Noon and 1:30AM "Black Gold" (1963)
10PM "The Verdict" (1946)

Thursday (20th)
12Noon and 1:30AM "Close To My Heart" (1951)
11:30PM "Fireball" (1962)

Friday (21st)
12Noon and 1:30AM "The Conspirators" (1944)
11:30PM "Objective Burma" (1945)

40-WPCB (Religious)

Weekdays
2PM PTL Club
5:30 News
6PM Ross Bagley
7PM 700 Club
9PM Getting Together
11PM 100 Huntley Street
12:30AM Ross Bagley (except Tuesdays)
2AM PTL Club
4AM 700 Club

Monday (17th)
4PM Charisma
4:30 Davey & Goliath
5PM Let The Sunshine In
8:30 Hi Doug
10:30 Jesus Is The Answer
1AM Charisma
1:30 Hi Doug

Tuesday (18th)
4PM Rays of Hope
4:30 Circle Square
5PM Kids Jamboree
8:30 Christian Living
10:30 The Story
12:30AM The Jewish Voice
1AM Rays of Hope
1:30 Christian Living

Wednesday (19th)
4PM Gerald Derstine Shares
4:30 Puppet Tree Gang
5PM Bible Bowl
8:30 Jesus Festival
10:30 Sallis Revival
1AM Gerald Derstine Shares
1:30 Jesus Festival

Thursday (20th)
4PM Dan Griffin
4:30 Treehouse Club
5PM Childrens' Film Festival
8:30 Manna
10:30 Sounds of Life
1AM Dan Griffin
1:30 Manna

Friday (21st)
4PM The Rock
4:30 Adventure Club
5PM Pirate Adventures
8:30 The Lesson
10:30 W.R. Portee
1AM Brother Dave
1:30 The Lesson

53-WPGH (Ind; Now FOX)

Weekdays
6AM Pittsburgh Tomorrow
6:30 Health Field
7AM Fun World
7:30 Spiderman
8AM Casper
8:30 Star Blazers
9AM Mr. Ed
9:30 Good Day Pittsburgh
10AM 700 Club
11:30 Munsters
12Noon Room 222
12:30 Medical Center
1:30 Merv Griffin
3PM Casper
3:30 Huck & Yogi
4PM Bugs Bunny & Friends 1
4:30 Super Adventures
5PM Flintstones
5:30 Bugs Bunny & Friends 2
6PM Partridge Family
6:30 Dick Van Dyke
7PM Sanford & Son
7:30 Hogan'sHeroes
8PM Jim Rockford, Private Investigator (AKA The Rockford Files)
9PM Movie
11PM Benny Hill
11:30 Streets of San Francisco
12:30AM Twilight Zone

Monday (17th)
9PM "Roseanna McCoy" (1949)

Tuesday (18th)
9PM "She" (1965)

Wednesday (19th)
9PM "Hard Driver" (AKA "The Last American Hero," 1973)

Thursday (20th)
9PM "The Virgin Queen" (1955)

Friday (21st)
9PM "The Cowboy & The Lady" (1939)
 
only1moore said:
From The Pittsburgh Press

2PM Captain Pitt

Over the years I have been told that the guy who played Captian Pitt on WPTT was none other than the late George Lewis who also
was known as the famous Captian Chesapeake on Baltimore's WBFF-TV 45. Actually weren't those two stations owned by the same
people back then ( Sinclair ), I seem to remember both stations used more/less the same "C" logo back then.

There is a story about how one day the video tapes got mixed up which resulted in Captian Chesapeake airing in Pittsburgh while Captain Pitt aired
in Baltimore. Back in the 70s WBFF was seen everywhere since that station was available on cable in six states ( I heard it was even available on the Washington DC cable system ), wonder if WPTT back then had as many viewers as WBFF did?
 
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