Source: Courier Express (via NYS Historic Newspapers)
WGR [now WGRZ] 2 (NBC)
5:45 The American Trail
6:00 PTL Club
6:55 Mission: Employment
7:00 Today (local news at 7:25/8:25)
9:00 Card Sharks
9:30 Hollywood Squares
10:00 Dinah! and Friends
11:00 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
Noon News
12:30 Dating Game
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 The Doctors
2:30 Another World
4:00 Movie: "Warning Shot" (1967)
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
7:00 Face the Music
7:30 Candid Camera
8:00 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
9:00 Quincy
10:00 Rockford Files
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson (guests Billy Crystal, Suzanne Somers and Billy Crystal)
1:00 Tomorrow (guest Abe Burrows)
2:00 sign-off
WIVB 4 (CBS)
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 Morning with Bob Schieffer
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Jeffersons
9:30 Match Game
10:00 Play the Percentages
10:30 Whew!
10:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
11:00 Price is Right
Noon News 4
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Young and the Restless
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 One Day at a Time
4:30 Emergency One!
5:30 M*A*S*H
6:00 News 4
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 P.M. Magazine
7:30 3's a Crowd
8:00 Palmerstown, USA (series premiere)
10:00 Knots Landing
11:00 News 4
11:30 Columbo
1:15 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
2:30 News
WKBW 7 (ABC)
6:25 Changing Life on Earth
6:55 Employment File
7:00 Commander Tom
8:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Donahue
10:00 A.M. Buffalo
11:00 Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
Noon Eyewitness News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Happy Days Again
4:30 Mike Douglas
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Tic Tac Dough
7:30 Joker's Wild
8:00 Mork & Mindy
8:30 Benson
9:00 Barney Miller
9:30 Soap
10:00 20/20
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 ABC News Special The Iranian Crisis: America Held Hostage
11:45 Police Woman
12:55 Baretta
2:00 Eyewitness News
WROC 8 (NBC, now CBS)
5:55 News for Little People
6:00 700 Club
7:00 Today (Today in Rochester at 7:25 and 8:25)
9:00 Cross-Wits
9:30 Midmorning Break
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
Noon Chain Reaction
12:30 Password Plus
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 The Doctors
2:30 Another World
4:00 Movie
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 Newlywed Game
8:00 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
9:00 Quincy
10:00 Rockford Files
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 Tomorrow
2:00 sign-off
WHEC 10 (CBS, now NBC)
6:00 Sunrise Semester
6:30 Eddie Meath
7:00 Morning with Bob Schieffer
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Eddie Meath
9:30 Tic Tac Dough
10:00 Jeffersons
10:30 Whew!
10:55 CBS News
11:00 Price is Right
Noon News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Young and the Restless
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Bewitched
4:30 Merv Griffin
6:00 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Carol Burnett and Friends
8:00 Palmerstown, USA (series premiere)
10:00 Knots Landing
11:00 News
11:30 Columbo
1:15 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
WICU 12 (NBC)
7:00 Today (local news at 7:25/8:25)
9:00 Donahue
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
Noon Erie Today
12:30 Password Plus
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 The Doctors
2:30 Another World
4:00 Chain Reaction (delayed from 12 Noon)
4:30 Woody Woodpecker
5:00 Big Valley
6:00 Joker's Wild
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 News
7:30 Chicken?
8:00 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
9:00 Quincy
10:00 Rockford Files
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 Tomorrow
WOKR [now WHAM] 13 (ABC)
6:25 Romper Room
6:55 News
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Donahue
10:00 AM Rochester
10:55 News
11:00 Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
Noon $20,000 Pyramid
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Mike Douglas
5:30 All in the Family
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Happy Days Again
7:30 P.M. Magazine
8:00 Mork & Mindy
8:30 Benson
9:00 Barney Miller
9:30 Soap
10:00 20/20
11:00 News
11:30 ABC News Special The Iranian Crisis: America Held Hostage
11:45 Police Woman
12:55 Baretta
2:04 News
WNED 17 (PBS)
7:10 WeatherRadio
7:15 A.M. Weather
7:30 Over Easy
8:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Instructional Programs
3:00 French Chef
3:30 Villa Alegre
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 3-2-1 Contact
6:00 Doctor Who
6:30 Over Easy (guests Steve Allen, Jane Meadows)
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Dick Cavett
8:00 Artscene
8:30 Call 17
9:00 Movie: "The Kid from Brooklyn" (1946)
11:00 Captioned ABC News
11:30 Dick Cavett
Midnight WeatherRadio
WJET 24 (ABC)
6:00 PTL Club
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Mike Douglas
10:30 Love, American Style
11:00 Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
Noon $20,000 Pyramid
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Gilligan's Island
4:30 Brady Bunch
5:00 Bewitched
5:30 Mary Tyler Moore
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Happy Days Again
7:30 M*A*S*H
8:00 Mork & Mindy
8:30 Benson
9:00 Barney Miller
9:30 Soap
10:00 20/20
11:00 News
11:30 ABC News Special The Iranian Crisis: America Held Hostage
11:45 Police Woman
12:55 Baretta
WUTV Channel 29 (Independent, now Fox)
6:45 News
7:00 Spider-Man
7:30 Porky Pig & Popeye
8:00 Bugs Bunny, Casper & Friends
9:00 Interview
9:30 Ross Bagley
10:30 700 Club
Noon Chain Reaction (NBC, preempted by Ch. 2)
12:30 Password Plus (NBC, also preempted by Ch. 2)
1:00 Ed Allen
1:30 Bewitched
2:00 Partridge Family
2:30 New Zoo Revue
3:00 Star Blazers
3:30 Cartoons
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5:00 Brady Bunch
5:30 Bewitched
6:00 Sanford and Son
6:30/7:00 Mary Tyler Moore (2x)
7:30 The Odd Couple
8:00 NHL Hockey: Toronto Maple Leafs at Philadelphia Flyers
11:00 Dave Allen at Large
11:30 Newlywed Game
Midnight Alfred Hitchcock Presents
12:30 News
WSEE 35 (CBS)
6:55 The American Trail
7:00 Morning with Bob Schieffer
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Rocky and Bullwinkle/Underdog
9:30 Jeanne Carnes
10:00 Jeffersons
10:30 Whew!
10:55 CBS News
11:00 Price is Right
Noon You Don't Say
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Young and the Restless
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 One Day at a Time
4:30 Merv Griffin
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Hogan's Heroes
7:30 Cross-Wits
8:00 Palmerstown, USA (series premiere)
10:00 Knots Landing
11:00 News
11:30 Columbo
1:15 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
WGR [now WGRZ] 2 (NBC)
5:45 The American Trail
6:00 PTL Club
6:55 Mission: Employment
7:00 Today (local news at 7:25/8:25)
9:00 Card Sharks
9:30 Hollywood Squares
10:00 Dinah! and Friends
11:00 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
Noon News
12:30 Dating Game
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 The Doctors
2:30 Another World
4:00 Movie: "Warning Shot" (1967)
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
7:00 Face the Music
7:30 Candid Camera
8:00 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
9:00 Quincy
10:00 Rockford Files
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson (guests Billy Crystal, Suzanne Somers and Billy Crystal)
1:00 Tomorrow (guest Abe Burrows)
2:00 sign-off
WIVB 4 (CBS)
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 Morning with Bob Schieffer
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Jeffersons
9:30 Match Game
10:00 Play the Percentages
10:30 Whew!
10:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
11:00 Price is Right
Noon News 4
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Young and the Restless
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 One Day at a Time
4:30 Emergency One!
5:30 M*A*S*H
6:00 News 4
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 P.M. Magazine
7:30 3's a Crowd
8:00 Palmerstown, USA (series premiere)
10:00 Knots Landing
11:00 News 4
11:30 Columbo
1:15 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
2:30 News
WKBW 7 (ABC)
6:25 Changing Life on Earth
6:55 Employment File
7:00 Commander Tom
8:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Donahue
10:00 A.M. Buffalo
11:00 Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
Noon Eyewitness News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Happy Days Again
4:30 Mike Douglas
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Tic Tac Dough
7:30 Joker's Wild
8:00 Mork & Mindy
8:30 Benson
9:00 Barney Miller
9:30 Soap
10:00 20/20
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 ABC News Special The Iranian Crisis: America Held Hostage
11:45 Police Woman
12:55 Baretta
2:00 Eyewitness News
WROC 8 (NBC, now CBS)
5:55 News for Little People
6:00 700 Club
7:00 Today (Today in Rochester at 7:25 and 8:25)
9:00 Cross-Wits
9:30 Midmorning Break
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
Noon Chain Reaction
12:30 Password Plus
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 The Doctors
2:30 Another World
4:00 Movie
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 Newlywed Game
8:00 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
9:00 Quincy
10:00 Rockford Files
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 Tomorrow
2:00 sign-off
WHEC 10 (CBS, now NBC)
6:00 Sunrise Semester
6:30 Eddie Meath
7:00 Morning with Bob Schieffer
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Eddie Meath
9:30 Tic Tac Dough
10:00 Jeffersons
10:30 Whew!
10:55 CBS News
11:00 Price is Right
Noon News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Young and the Restless
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Bewitched
4:30 Merv Griffin
6:00 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Carol Burnett and Friends
8:00 Palmerstown, USA (series premiere)
10:00 Knots Landing
11:00 News
11:30 Columbo
1:15 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
WICU 12 (NBC)
7:00 Today (local news at 7:25/8:25)
9:00 Donahue
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
Noon Erie Today
12:30 Password Plus
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 The Doctors
2:30 Another World
4:00 Chain Reaction (delayed from 12 Noon)
4:30 Woody Woodpecker
5:00 Big Valley
6:00 Joker's Wild
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 News
7:30 Chicken?
8:00 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
9:00 Quincy
10:00 Rockford Files
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 Tomorrow
WOKR [now WHAM] 13 (ABC)
6:25 Romper Room
6:55 News
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Donahue
10:00 AM Rochester
10:55 News
11:00 Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
Noon $20,000 Pyramid
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Mike Douglas
5:30 All in the Family
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Happy Days Again
7:30 P.M. Magazine
8:00 Mork & Mindy
8:30 Benson
9:00 Barney Miller
9:30 Soap
10:00 20/20
11:00 News
11:30 ABC News Special The Iranian Crisis: America Held Hostage
11:45 Police Woman
12:55 Baretta
2:04 News
WNED 17 (PBS)
7:10 WeatherRadio
7:15 A.M. Weather
7:30 Over Easy
8:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Instructional Programs
3:00 French Chef
3:30 Villa Alegre
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 3-2-1 Contact
6:00 Doctor Who
6:30 Over Easy (guests Steve Allen, Jane Meadows)
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Dick Cavett
8:00 Artscene
8:30 Call 17
9:00 Movie: "The Kid from Brooklyn" (1946)
11:00 Captioned ABC News
11:30 Dick Cavett
Midnight WeatherRadio
WJET 24 (ABC)
6:00 PTL Club
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Mike Douglas
10:30 Love, American Style
11:00 Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
Noon $20,000 Pyramid
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Gilligan's Island
4:30 Brady Bunch
5:00 Bewitched
5:30 Mary Tyler Moore
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Happy Days Again
7:30 M*A*S*H
8:00 Mork & Mindy
8:30 Benson
9:00 Barney Miller
9:30 Soap
10:00 20/20
11:00 News
11:30 ABC News Special The Iranian Crisis: America Held Hostage
11:45 Police Woman
12:55 Baretta
WUTV Channel 29 (Independent, now Fox)
6:45 News
7:00 Spider-Man
7:30 Porky Pig & Popeye
8:00 Bugs Bunny, Casper & Friends
9:00 Interview
9:30 Ross Bagley
10:30 700 Club
Noon Chain Reaction (NBC, preempted by Ch. 2)
12:30 Password Plus (NBC, also preempted by Ch. 2)
1:00 Ed Allen
1:30 Bewitched
2:00 Partridge Family
2:30 New Zoo Revue
3:00 Star Blazers
3:30 Cartoons
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5:00 Brady Bunch
5:30 Bewitched
6:00 Sanford and Son
6:30/7:00 Mary Tyler Moore (2x)
7:30 The Odd Couple
8:00 NHL Hockey: Toronto Maple Leafs at Philadelphia Flyers
11:00 Dave Allen at Large
11:30 Newlywed Game
Midnight Alfred Hitchcock Presents
12:30 News
WSEE 35 (CBS)
6:55 The American Trail
7:00 Morning with Bob Schieffer
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Rocky and Bullwinkle/Underdog
9:30 Jeanne Carnes
10:00 Jeffersons
10:30 Whew!
10:55 CBS News
11:00 Price is Right
Noon You Don't Say
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Young and the Restless
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 One Day at a Time
4:30 Merv Griffin
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Hogan's Heroes
7:30 Cross-Wits
8:00 Palmerstown, USA (series premiere)
10:00 Knots Landing
11:00 News
11:30 Columbo
1:15 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman