Retro: Calgary Sat 8/9/80

[Bluenoser]

from Calgary Sun

CFAC 2-Ind Calgary
6:00 Secret Railroad
6:30 Fabulous Talking Time Machine
7:00 Hilarious House of Frightenstein
8:00 Flintstones
9:00 Hammy Hamster
9:30 Zoom the White Dolphin
10:00 Harrigan
10:30 Snelgrove Snail
11:00 Oceans Alive
11:30 Kidsworld
Noon Any Way You Want It
1:00 Red Fisher
1:30 Behind the Scenes
2:00 Wild Animals of the World
2:30 Jo Gaillard
3:30 Wrestling (likely Stampede, 2&7 was originating station)
4:30 Karate Championships
5:30 Sports Probe
6:00 Sports Journal
6:30 Peter Appleyard
7:00 University Reaction
7:30 Dimensions in Science
8:00 The Palace
9:00 Soccer-Red Leaf Tournament: Nancy (France)-Rangers (Scotland), from Calgary
10:00 WCT Tennis
11:00 Great Debate
Mid. Movie "The President's Mistress"

CFCN 4-CTV Calgary
6:00 University of the Air
6:30 Definition
7:00 NFB
8:00 Spider-Man
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:00 Cartoons
10:30 Let's Go
11:00 Swiss Family Robinson
11:30 Untamed World
Noon Journal International
12:30 The Name of the Game is Tennis
1:00 Horst Koehler
1:30 Make Me Laugh
2:00 Sports Digest
2:30 Wrestling (from where?)
3:30 George Dalgleish
4:00 CTV Wide World of Sports (Castol Motorcycle Grand Prix of Canada/Pocono 500 stock car race/German Grand Prix report)
6:00 News
6:30 Kingo Bingo
7:00 Educated Guess
7:30 Sports Hot Seat
8:00 BJ & the Bear
9:00 Academy Performance "The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings"
11:00 CTV National News
11:20 News
11:30 Educated Guess
Mid. Movie "Krakatoa, East of Java"

CBRT 9-CBC Calgary
Noon WOW!
1:00 CBC Sportsweekend (Peter Jackson Golf Classic/Sportsweekend Pace horse race from Stampede Park/Maple Leaf Trot horse race/Swiftsure Yacht Race)
4:00 You Can Do It
4:30 Reach for the Top
5:00 Great Adventures
6:00 CBC Evening News
6:30 Par 27
7:00 Star Chart
7:30 A New Kind of Family
8:00 Return of the Saint
9:00 CBC Film Festival "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"
11:00 The National
11:15 News
11:30 Movie: TBA

CBRFT 16-SRC Calgary(relay of CBXFT Edmonton)
9:00 Candy
9:30 Les aventures de Chaperonnette a Pois
10:00 Les heros du samedi
11:00 Les chevaux du soleil
11:30 Une arche immobile
Noon Cristal voyageur
1:00 Univers des sports (Peter Jackson Golf Classic)
3:00 Bagatelle
3:55 Le Telejournal
4:00 Harold Lloyd
4:30 La vie secrete des animaux
5:00 En vedette cette semaine (Leningrad Ice Show, pt 1)
6:00 Une fenetre sur le monde
6:30 La Sagouine
7:00 Winston dans les iles
8:00 Cinema canadien "Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang"
10:00 Cineastes americains
10:30 Le Telejournal
10:50 Derniere edition
11:05 Politique federale
11:10 Cinema "Trader Horn"

KREM 2-CBS Spokane
7:00 Summer Semester
7:30 Brady Kids
8:00 Little Rascals-Our Gang
9:00 Mighty Mouse/Heckle & Jeckle
10:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
11:30 Popeye
12:30 Fat Albert
1:00 Shazam
1:30 Tarzan/Super Seven
2:30 Baseball: Oakland-Seattle
5:00 Movie "Dangerous Venture"
6:00 Wanted: Dead or Alive
6:30 Lawman
7:00 CBS News
7:30 Maverick
8:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
9:00 That's My Line
10:00 Movie "No Other Love"
Mid. News
12:15 Movie "The Third Day"

KXLY 4-ABC Spokane
7:15 New Zoo Revue
7:45 Sunday School of the Air
8:00 Superfriends
9:00 Plasticman
10:30 Scooby & Scrappy-Doo
11:30 Harvey Cartoons
Noon Weekend Special "The Contest Kid"
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 ABC Wide World of Sports (Lightweight boxing: Alexis Arguello v Vilomar Fernandez/Pocono 500 stock car race)
3:00 PGA Championship
5:30 Sha Na Na
6:00 Pop! Goes the Music
6:30 Nashville On the Road
7:00 That Good Ole Nashville Music
7:30 News
8:00 Lawrence Walk
9:00 240-Robert
10:00 Love Boat
11:00 Fantasy Island
Mid. News
12:20 ABC News
12:35 Movie: TBA

KHQ 6-NBC Spokane
7:00 Infinity Factory
7:30 Big Blue Marble
8:00 US Farm Report
8:30 Romper Room
9:00 Fred & Barney Meet the Shmoo
10:30 Daffy Duck
11:00 Jetsons
11:30 This Week in Baseball
Noon Baseball Pre-Game
12:15 Baseball: Philadelphia-Pittsburgh or Chicago White Sox-Boston
3:00 Western Outdoorsman
3:30 Wood's Workshop
4:00 Cameras in Motion
4:30 Alias Smith & Jones
5:30 Stan Hitchcock
6:00 Country Roads
6:30 Hee Haw
7:30 NBC News
8:00 Family Feud
8:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
9:00 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
11:00 Pre-Convention Special Report (Democratic National Convention)
Mid. News
12:30 Saturday Night Live
2:00 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert

KSPS 7-PBS Spokane
10:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11:00 Sesame Street
Noon Electric Company
12:30 Sesame Street
1:30 Villa Alegre
2:00 Spoleto Festival
3:00 Magic Method of Oil Painting
3:30 Slim Cuisine
4:00 Victory Garden
4:30 Presente
5:00 Que Pasa, USA?
5:30 As We See It
6:00 Feeling Free
6:30 High School Football All-Star Game
8:00 Once Upon a Classic
8:30 Here's to Your Health
9:00 Lord Mountbatten: A Man for the Century
10:00 Evening at Pops
11:00 Images of Indians
11:30 The Human Face of China

The Sun listed the following cable line-up:
(2)KSPS-PBS
(3)KHQ-NBC
(4)News/Weather
(5)CFCN-CTV
(6)CBRT-CBC
(7)CFAC-Ind
(8)KXLY-ABC
(9)Stocks/Shopping Guide/Community News/House of Commons
(10)Community Channel
(11)CBRFT-SRC
(12)KREM-CBS
(13)CETC Educational Channel<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by Bluenoser on 10/12/05 01:39 PM.</FONT></P>

 

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> CFAC 2-Ind Calgary
> 7:00 Hilarious House of Frightenstein

Repeats of the 1970s off-beat educational series starring comedian Billy Van. Had a short life in the US, mainly because some stations did not know what to do with it -- in Milwaukee in 1974, WTMJ ch.4 scheduled Frighenstein weeknights at 1AM CT, after The Tomorrow Show. And it's supposed to be for children.

> 9:00 Hammy Hamster

Live-action series starring a live hamster and other rodents.

> 9:30 Zoom the White Dolphin

Never heard of it, though I take it there's no relation to PBS's "Zoom".

> 10:30 Snelgrove Snail

Musical faux Muppet series featuring a group of snails.

> 1:00 Red Fisher

Outdoors program that later provided the inspiration for Red Green.

> 2:00 Wild Animals of the World

Is this the same program as "Wild Wild World of Animals"?

> CFCN 4-CTV Calgary
> 6:30 Definition

Was this past repeat episodes? I think Definition was usually a weekday program.

> 7:00 NFB

Film Board shorts, I guess.

> 10:30 Let's Go

No relation to the 1960s CBC dance program, isn't it?

> 4:00 CTV Wide World of Sports (Castol Motorcycle Grand Prix
> of Canada/Pocono 500 stock car race/German Grand Prix
> report)

The stock car race was originally seen earlier that day on ABC's Wide World of Sports -- apparently, CTV and ABC exchange segments for their own series.

>
> CBRT 9-CBC Calgary
> Noon WOW!

Why did the CBC (at least, in Alberta) had a late start-up time? Not only on Saturdays, but weekdays, too?

WOW, by the way, was a children's variety and film anthology series hosted by various guest hosts.

> 4:30 Reach for the Top

High school quiz program.
>
> CBRFT 16-SRC Calgary(relay of CBXFT Edmonton)
> 9:00 Candy

Francophone version of Japanese anime series "Candy Candy", based on the manga. This was during a time when anime was viewed more as cheap kiddie programming than a real art form in its own right -- it'll be another decade or so before the "otakus" take over the anime genre.

> 8:00 Cinema canadien "Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang"

Based on a series of stories by famed Canadian author Mordecai Richler. Around 2003, "Jacob Two-Two" (so named because Jacob would often say things twice) became an animated series on Canada's "Teletoon" network, in English and French (in French, he was known as "Jacob Jacob").
>
> KREM 2-CBS Spokane

(All Spokane stations asjusted for Mountain time.)

> 9:00 Mighty Mouse/Heckle & Jeckle

1980s Filmation revival of the classic Terrytoon series. Fitting that they appeared on CBS, as CBS originally owned Terrytoons (they were sold to Viacom with CBS's syndication division in 1971).

> 6:00 Wanted: Dead or Alive
> 6:30 Lawman
> 7:00 CBS News
> 7:30 Maverick
> 8:30 Have Gun, Will Travel

Old westerns in Prime Time on a major station?

> 9:00 That's My Line

"What's My Line", without the panel, hosted by Bob Barker, which ran for two brief summer runs (this was the first).

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> KXLY 4-ABC Spokane
> 8:00 Superfriends
> 9:00 Plasticman
> 10:30 Scooby & Scrappy-Doo
> 11:30 Harvey Cartoons
> Noon Weekend Special "The Contest Kid"
> 12:30 American Bandstand

ABC, at the time, presented its Saturday morning schedule starting at 7AM PT. Adjusted for Mountain, it looks like the Eastern schedule. (I take it "Harvey Cartoons" bumped an ABC show locally.)

> 6:00 Pop! Goes the Music
> 6:30 Nashville On the Road
> 7:00 That Good Ole Nashville Music

Is it just me, or did many stations run Showbiz's country music programs in blocks? I know WTOG ch.44 in Tampa Bay did in the 1970s and 1980s.
>
> KSPS 7-PBS Spokane
> 5:00 Que Pasa, USA?

A PBS rarity -- a made-for-PBS sitcom set in a Latino neighborhood in Miami. In my opinion, the series ranks up there with Norman Lear's series like "All In The Family" and "the Jeffersons". This series would be repeated in reruns into the early 1990s, and would later be repeated on Univision's "Galavision" channel. Many of QPUSA's stars would go on to star in Mexican telenovelas.