On the (belated) 25th anniversary of the Great Affiliation Switch between WRAL and WTVD, I present the following look back at that first Monday:
Source: News & Observer
WUNC Channel 4 Chapel Hill (still PBS)
7:15 AM Weather
7:30 Capitol Journal
8:00 Lilias, Yoga and You
8:30 Today's Special - from TVOntario
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Reading Rainbow - LeVar Burton at National Space Camp; "Hot-Air Henry" by Mary Calhoun is narrated by William Windom; kid-reviewed books include "Easy-to-Make Spaceships That Really Fly" by Mary and Dewey Blocksma, "The Big Balloon Race" by Eleanor Coerr, and "Just Us Women" by Jeannette Caines
10:30 Powerhouse - 1982 preteen series
11:00 Footsteps
11:30 Focus on Society
12:00 GED
12:30 Yan Can Cook
1:00 Masterpiece Theatre
2:00 Evening at Pops
3:00 Joy of Painting
3:30 Square Foot Gardening
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Lassie (Timmy and Lassie)
6:00 The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
7:00 The Nightly Business Report
7:30 North Carolina People - guest: Martha Schumacher, president of the North Carolina Film Company
8:00 Survival
9:00 Edward the King "A Hundred Thousand Welcomes"
10:00 Nanny (not the Fran Drescher sitcom, but an early-1980s BBC series drama)
11:00 Doctor Who "Curse of the Dileks" (part 5)
11:30 Dad's Army "Time on My Hands"
WRAL Channel 5 Raleigh (from ABC to CBS)
6:00 CBS Early Morning News (Forrest Sawyer/Faith Daniels)
6:30 Action News 5 This Morning (John Hudson)
7:00 CBS Morning News (Phyllis George/Bob Schieffer)
9:00 Hour Magazine (Gary Collins) - a reunion of "Steve Allen Show" regulars Louis Nye, Bill Dana and Tom Poston; other guests include Sophia Loren and Chris Evert Lloyd
10:00 The $25,000 Pyramid - guests Catherine Hickland and Robert Mandan
10:30 Press Your Luck
11:00 The Price is Right
12:00 Action News 5: Live at Noon (John Hudson/Denece Boyer/Greg Fishel/Ray Wilkinson)
12:30 The Young and the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 The Dukes of Hazzard
5:00 Sanford and Son
5:30 The Andy Griffith Show
6:00 Action News 5 (Charlie Gaddy/Adele Arakawa/Bob DeBardelaben/Tom Suiter)
7:00 CBS Evening News (Dan Rather)
7:30 PM Magazine (Tom McNamara/Susan Dahlin) - John Ritter; an Osage Indian with a passion for hang gliding
8:00 Scarecrow and Mrs. King "Our Man in Tegernsee" (repeat)
9:00 Kate & Allie "Rear Window" (repeat)
9:30 Newhart "Georgie's Girl" (repeat)
10:00 Cagney & Lacey "Organized Crime" (repeat)
11:00 Action News 5 (Charlie Gaddy/Adele Arakawa/Bob DeBardelaben/Tom Suiter)
11:30 Benson
12:00 Simon & Simon
1:00 Columbo
2:30 Nightwatch (Charlie Rose)
WTVD Channel 11 Durham (from CBS to ABC)
6:00 World News This Morning (Steve Bell/Jeanne Meserve)
7:00 Good Morning America (David Hartman/Joan Lunden)
9:00 Donahue - New York City firefighters demonstrate their cooking skills
10:00 Sally Jessy Raphael
10:30 M*A*S*H
11:00 Angie
11:30 Alice
12:00 WTVD 11 News (Miriam Thomas/Bill Reh)
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Diff'rent Strokes
4:30 Three's Company
5:00 The Jeffersons
5:30 The People's Court
6:00 WTVD 11 News (Larry Stogner/Andy Park/Rich Brenner)
6:30 World News Tonight (Peter Jennings)
7:00 Jeopardy!
7:30 Wheel of Fortune
8:00 Hardcastle & McCormick "There Goes the Neighborhood" (repeat)
9:00 ABC Monday Night Movie "Command 5"
11:00 WTVD 11 News (Larry Stogner/Andy Park/Rich Brenner)
11:30 Entertainment Tonight (Mary Hart/Robb Weller) - a profile of Marilyn Monroe
12:00 Nightline (Ted Koppel)
12:30 M*A*S*H
1:00 WTVD 11 News (encore of 11 p.m. news)
WLFL Channel 22 Raleigh (still independent)
6:00 Underdog
6:30 Popeye
7:00 The Great Space Coaster
7:30 The Flinstones
8:00 The Three Stooges
9:00 Leave it to Beaver
9:30 I Dream of Jeannie
10:00 The 700 Club
11:30 The PTL Club
12:30 Movie "The Court Jester"
2:30 Bewitched
3:00 The Flinstones
3:30 SuperFriends
4:00 TranZor
4:30 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
5:00 Scooby Doo
5:30 Gidget
6:00 One Day at a Time
6:30 Barney Miller
7:00 Trapper John, M.D.
8:00 Prime Time Movie "Lucky Lady"
11:00 Taxi
11:30 Mannix
12:30 Independent News
WPTF Durham 28 (still NBC)
5:30 Yesterday's Newsreels
6:00 Jimmy Swaggart
6:30 NBC News at Sunrise (Connie Chung)
7:00 Today (Bryant Gumbel/Jane Pauley)
9:00 Santa Barbara
10:00 Silver Spoons
10:30 Sale of the Century
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Scrabble
12:00 Super Password
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Days of our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 The Pink Panther
3:30 Inspector Gadget
4:00 Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats
4:30 Voltron: Defender of the Universe
5:00 Battlestar Galactica
6:00 Dallas
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Bosom Buddies
8:00 TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes (Dick Clark/Ed McMahon) - practical jokes on Kim Fields and Tony Danza
9:00 NBC Monday Night at the Movies "The Covenant"
10:30 Scene of the Crime "Murder on the Half Shell"
11:00 The Benny Hill Show
11:30 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson - "Best of Carson" with Sammy Davis Jr. and Charles Nelson Reilly
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman - guests Andy Rooney and Franklyn Ajaye
WKFT Channel 40 Fayetteville (independent)
6:00 Beverly Exercise
6:30 Morning Stretch with Joannie Greggains
7:00 Inspector Gadget
7:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
8:00 Morning Madness
9:00 Gidget
9:30 The Partridge Family
10:00 The 700 Club
11:30 Richard Roberts
12:30 Carolina Spotlight
1:00 News
1:30 The Three Stooges
3:00 Scooby Doo
3:30 The Flinstones
4:00 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
4:30 Superfriends
5:00 Family Feud
5:30 Carol Burnett and Friends
6:00 News
6:30 Wheel of Fortune
7:00 Black Sheep Squadron
8:00 Movie "Run, Stranger, Run"
10:00 News
11:00 Hogan's Heroes
11:30 The Outer Limits
Source: News & Observer
WUNC Channel 4 Chapel Hill (still PBS)
7:15 AM Weather
7:30 Capitol Journal
8:00 Lilias, Yoga and You
8:30 Today's Special - from TVOntario
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Reading Rainbow - LeVar Burton at National Space Camp; "Hot-Air Henry" by Mary Calhoun is narrated by William Windom; kid-reviewed books include "Easy-to-Make Spaceships That Really Fly" by Mary and Dewey Blocksma, "The Big Balloon Race" by Eleanor Coerr, and "Just Us Women" by Jeannette Caines
10:30 Powerhouse - 1982 preteen series
11:00 Footsteps
11:30 Focus on Society
12:00 GED
12:30 Yan Can Cook
1:00 Masterpiece Theatre
2:00 Evening at Pops
3:00 Joy of Painting
3:30 Square Foot Gardening
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Lassie (Timmy and Lassie)
6:00 The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
7:00 The Nightly Business Report
7:30 North Carolina People - guest: Martha Schumacher, president of the North Carolina Film Company
8:00 Survival
9:00 Edward the King "A Hundred Thousand Welcomes"
10:00 Nanny (not the Fran Drescher sitcom, but an early-1980s BBC series drama)
11:00 Doctor Who "Curse of the Dileks" (part 5)
11:30 Dad's Army "Time on My Hands"
WRAL Channel 5 Raleigh (from ABC to CBS)
6:00 CBS Early Morning News (Forrest Sawyer/Faith Daniels)
6:30 Action News 5 This Morning (John Hudson)
7:00 CBS Morning News (Phyllis George/Bob Schieffer)
9:00 Hour Magazine (Gary Collins) - a reunion of "Steve Allen Show" regulars Louis Nye, Bill Dana and Tom Poston; other guests include Sophia Loren and Chris Evert Lloyd
10:00 The $25,000 Pyramid - guests Catherine Hickland and Robert Mandan
10:30 Press Your Luck
11:00 The Price is Right
12:00 Action News 5: Live at Noon (John Hudson/Denece Boyer/Greg Fishel/Ray Wilkinson)
12:30 The Young and the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 The Dukes of Hazzard
5:00 Sanford and Son
5:30 The Andy Griffith Show
6:00 Action News 5 (Charlie Gaddy/Adele Arakawa/Bob DeBardelaben/Tom Suiter)
7:00 CBS Evening News (Dan Rather)
7:30 PM Magazine (Tom McNamara/Susan Dahlin) - John Ritter; an Osage Indian with a passion for hang gliding
8:00 Scarecrow and Mrs. King "Our Man in Tegernsee" (repeat)
9:00 Kate & Allie "Rear Window" (repeat)
9:30 Newhart "Georgie's Girl" (repeat)
10:00 Cagney & Lacey "Organized Crime" (repeat)
11:00 Action News 5 (Charlie Gaddy/Adele Arakawa/Bob DeBardelaben/Tom Suiter)
11:30 Benson
12:00 Simon & Simon
1:00 Columbo
2:30 Nightwatch (Charlie Rose)
WTVD Channel 11 Durham (from CBS to ABC)
6:00 World News This Morning (Steve Bell/Jeanne Meserve)
7:00 Good Morning America (David Hartman/Joan Lunden)
9:00 Donahue - New York City firefighters demonstrate their cooking skills
10:00 Sally Jessy Raphael
10:30 M*A*S*H
11:00 Angie
11:30 Alice
12:00 WTVD 11 News (Miriam Thomas/Bill Reh)
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Diff'rent Strokes
4:30 Three's Company
5:00 The Jeffersons
5:30 The People's Court
6:00 WTVD 11 News (Larry Stogner/Andy Park/Rich Brenner)
6:30 World News Tonight (Peter Jennings)
7:00 Jeopardy!
7:30 Wheel of Fortune
8:00 Hardcastle & McCormick "There Goes the Neighborhood" (repeat)
9:00 ABC Monday Night Movie "Command 5"
11:00 WTVD 11 News (Larry Stogner/Andy Park/Rich Brenner)
11:30 Entertainment Tonight (Mary Hart/Robb Weller) - a profile of Marilyn Monroe
12:00 Nightline (Ted Koppel)
12:30 M*A*S*H
1:00 WTVD 11 News (encore of 11 p.m. news)
WLFL Channel 22 Raleigh (still independent)
6:00 Underdog
6:30 Popeye
7:00 The Great Space Coaster
7:30 The Flinstones
8:00 The Three Stooges
9:00 Leave it to Beaver
9:30 I Dream of Jeannie
10:00 The 700 Club
11:30 The PTL Club
12:30 Movie "The Court Jester"
2:30 Bewitched
3:00 The Flinstones
3:30 SuperFriends
4:00 TranZor
4:30 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
5:00 Scooby Doo
5:30 Gidget
6:00 One Day at a Time
6:30 Barney Miller
7:00 Trapper John, M.D.
8:00 Prime Time Movie "Lucky Lady"
11:00 Taxi
11:30 Mannix
12:30 Independent News
WPTF Durham 28 (still NBC)
5:30 Yesterday's Newsreels
6:00 Jimmy Swaggart
6:30 NBC News at Sunrise (Connie Chung)
7:00 Today (Bryant Gumbel/Jane Pauley)
9:00 Santa Barbara
10:00 Silver Spoons
10:30 Sale of the Century
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Scrabble
12:00 Super Password
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Days of our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 The Pink Panther
3:30 Inspector Gadget
4:00 Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats
4:30 Voltron: Defender of the Universe
5:00 Battlestar Galactica
6:00 Dallas
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Bosom Buddies
8:00 TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes (Dick Clark/Ed McMahon) - practical jokes on Kim Fields and Tony Danza
9:00 NBC Monday Night at the Movies "The Covenant"
10:30 Scene of the Crime "Murder on the Half Shell"
11:00 The Benny Hill Show
11:30 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson - "Best of Carson" with Sammy Davis Jr. and Charles Nelson Reilly
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman - guests Andy Rooney and Franklyn Ajaye
WKFT Channel 40 Fayetteville (independent)
6:00 Beverly Exercise
6:30 Morning Stretch with Joannie Greggains
7:00 Inspector Gadget
7:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
8:00 Morning Madness
9:00 Gidget
9:30 The Partridge Family
10:00 The 700 Club
11:30 Richard Roberts
12:30 Carolina Spotlight
1:00 News
1:30 The Three Stooges
3:00 Scooby Doo
3:30 The Flinstones
4:00 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
4:30 Superfriends
5:00 Family Feud
5:30 Carol Burnett and Friends
6:00 News
6:30 Wheel of Fortune
7:00 Black Sheep Squadron
8:00 Movie "Run, Stranger, Run"
10:00 News
11:00 Hogan's Heroes
11:30 The Outer Limits