By request, from TV Guide, Carolina-Tennessee Edition:
WSJK (WETP) Ch. 2 Sneedville, TN (PBS)
8 AM GED
9 AM Joy Through Yoga
9:30 Once Upon A Classic ("Pinocchio," Part 4)
10 AM Consumer Survival Kit
10:30 Royal Heritage (the influence of George IV)
11:30 Bill Moyers' Journal (Ronald Reagan discusses his Presidential
aspirations.)
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1 PM Big Blue Marble
1:30 Vegetable Soup
2 PM Garden Spot
2:30 Growing Together
3 PM By-Line
3:30 Word On Words
4 PM On Nature's Trail
4:30 Cinema Showcase
5 PM Pro Soccer
6 PM Outlook
6:30 Another Voice
7 PM Consumer Survival Kit
7:30 Footsteps (coping with a child's handicap)
8 PM Once Upon A Classic ("Fern, The Red Deer")
9 PM Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie (British miniseries, not
the movie, part 2)
10 PM The Best Of Families (Part 2)
11 PM Lowell Thomas Remembers
11:30 TBA
WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)
7 AM Treehouse Club
7:30 Clue Club (delay from Sun 8:30 AM)
8 AM All New Popeye Hour
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12 N Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Ark II
1:30 CBS Children's Film Festival ("Starbuck Valley Winter,"
1977 from Canada)
2 PM Wrestling
3 PM Hee Haw Honeys
3:30 Donna Fargo
4 PM Golf: Colonial National Invitation (third round)
5 PM CBS Sports Spectacular (the Cuban boxing team vs. amateurs
from 10 other countries; the U.S. women's volleyball team in
an Olympic qualifying game; Part 5 of the International Mixed
Pairs Gymnastics Championship)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM Lawrence Welk (tribute to Irving Berlin)
8 PM Bad News Bears
8:30 The Hobbit (animated version of the Tolkien story)
10 PM Pilot: "Steeltown" (set in 1963 Pittsburgh, steelworkers fight for
better wages and working conditions; one of them pushes his
son toward a football scholarship and a life away from the mills)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Great Gatsby" (Redford version, from '74)
1:30 With This Ring
WFBC (WYFF) Ch. 4 Greenville, SC (NBC)
6 AM Ag-U.S.A.
6:30 Agriculture In Action
7 AM Hot Fudge
7:30 Bay City Rollers
8 AM Alvin And The Chipmunks
8:30 Fantastic Four
9 AM Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Rascals' Club
11 AM New Fred And Barney Show
11:30 Jetsons
12 N Porter Wagoner
12:30 Nashville On The Road
1 PM Wrestling
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Yankees-Red Sox (rain game: Pirates-Cubs)
5 PM Tarzan (time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 Donna Fargo
7 PM Dolly
7:30 Sha Na Na
8 PM CHiPS
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM Pilot: "The Nightingales" (Marcia Strassman and Colette
Bionigan in what sounds like a forerunner of "Cagney & Lacey")
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (hostess Maureen Stapleton; Linda Ronstadt,
Phoebe Snow)
1 AM Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (the Electric Light Orchestra, the Sylvers,
Nick Gilder, Walter Murphy, comic Mike Preminger)
WCYB Ch. 5 Bristol, VA (NBC)
7 AM Rural Tenneva
7:30 Bugs Bunny
8 AM Alvin And The Chipmunks
8:30 Fantastic Four
9 AM Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM New Fred And Barney Show
11:30 Jetsons
12 N Buford And The Galloping Ghost
12:30 Fabulous Funnies
1 PM Wrestling
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball (see Ch. 4)
5 PM That Nashville Music (time approximate)
5:30 Porter Wagoner
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM Pilot: "The Nightingales"
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
WATE Ch. 6 Knoxville (NBC, moves to ABC Sept. 17)
6:30 Better Way
7 AM Casper And Friends
7:30 Bay City Rollers
8 AM Alvin And The Chipmunks
8:30 Fantastic Four
9 AM Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM New Fred And Barney Show
11:30 Jetsons
12 N Buford And The Galloping Ghost
12:30 Fabulous Funnies
1 PM Marty Robbins' Spotlight
1:30 Porter Wagoner
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball (see Ch. 4)
5 PM Dolly (time approximate)
5:30 Gong Show (judges: Davey Lopes, Mabel King, Carl Ballantine)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM Pilot: "The Nightingales"
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Movie: "They Only Kill Their Masters"
WSPA Ch. 7 Spartanburg, SC (CBS)
5:30 TBA
6 AM Here And Now
6:30 Awareness '79
7 AM Clemson Today
7:30 Say It Now (topic: entering college)
8 AM All New Popeye Hour
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12 N Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Beverly Hillbillies
1:30 Please Stand By (some of you probably watched this show,
which took place at a shoestring-operation TV station)
2 PM Movie: "Love Me Tender" (Elvis' first movie, from '56)
4 PM Golf: Colonial National Invitation (third round)
5 PM Pop Goes The Country
5:30 Marty Robbins' Spotlight
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw (Mel Tillis, Roy Head, Gerald Smith)
8 PM Bad News Bears
8:30 The Hobbit
10 PM Pilot: "Steeltown"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid"
WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (ABC)
6:15 Mr. Magoo
6:30 Flipper
7 AM Kids Are People Too (Marvel Comics publisher Stan Lee,
Fred Berry of "What's Happening!!", Geraldo Rivera, delay
from Sun 10 AM and only an hour out of 90 minutes is shown)
8 AM Scooby's All-Stars
9:30 Challenge Of The Superfriends
11 AM Fangface
11:30 Kidsworld (Mark Hamill, a wildlife refuge in Alabama)
12 N ABC Weekend Special: "Weep No More, My Lady," about a dog
living in a Louisiana bayou who can laugh, cry, and hunt--but
not bark
12:30 American Bandstand (guests: Badfinger)
1:30 Star Maidens (two women from the female-dominated planet
Medusa arrive on Earth to escape their overseers)
4 PM Wide World Of Sports (U.S. Amateur Boxing Championships,
Indy 500 time trials)
5 PM The Preakness (Spectacular Bid makes it two of the three jewels
in the Triple Crown; he will lose to Coastal in the Belmont)
6 PM Wide World Of Sports continues
6:30 News
7 PM Bugs Bunny
7:30 Gong Show
8 PM Love Boat (Soupy Sales, Jo Anne Worley, Robert Goulet, Juliet
Mills, Loretta Swit)
9:30 Fantasy Island (Paul Sand, Darren McGavin, Pamela Franklin)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Macho Callahan"
1:30 ABC News (Tom Jarriel)
WBIR Ch. 10 Knoxville (CBS)
6:30 TV 10 Report
7 AM Best Of Carl Williams
7:30 University Of Tennessee Agricultural Science
8 AM Fascination Express (local kids' show)
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12 N Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Ark II
1:30 In Touch (Beverly Johnson, not Charles Stanley)
2 PM Wrestling
3 PM Movie: "The Long Duel"
5 PM Gilligan's Island
5:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Bad News Bears
8:30 The Hobbit
10 PM Pilot: "Steeltown"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Stalag 17"
WJHL Ch. 11 Johnson City, TN (CBS)
7:15 Uncle Hank
7:30 What's New, Mr. Magoo? (delay from Sun 8 AM)
8 AM All New Popeye Hour
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12 N Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Ark II
1:30 CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM Wrestling
3 PM Marty Robbins' Spotlight
3:30 Arthur Smith
4 PM Golf: Colonial National Invitation (third round)
5 PM CBS Sports Spectacular
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Bad News Bears
8:30 The Hobbit
10 PM Pilot: "Steeltown"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Secret Of The Incas"
WLOS Ch. 13 Asheville, NC (ABC)
6:30 America's Problems And Challenges
7 AM Mr. Bill's Weekend
8 AM Scooby's All Stars
9:30 Challenge Of The Superfriends
11 AM Fangface
11:30 All New Pink Panther Show
12 N Juke-Box (Twiggy welcomes Cliff Richard, Tina
Charles, and Frankie Miller)
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Movie: "Werewolf Of London"
3 PM Bowling: Pabst National Collegiate Bowling Championships
(from Milwaukee)
4 PM Wide World Of Sports
5 PM The Preakness
6 PM Wide World Of Sports continues
6:30 Wild Kingdom (Bengal tigers in Sariska, India)
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Love Boat
9:30 Fantasy Island
11 PM News
11:15 ABC News
11:30 Wrestling
12:30 Movie: "One Deadly Owner"
WHKY Ch. 14 Hickory, NC (Ind.)
11 AM Hot Fudge
11:30 Wrestling
12:30 Moon Man Connection
1:30 Soul Train (guests: Bohannon)
2:30 Movie: "The Curse Of The Aztec Mummy"
4 PM Prayer Band Gospel Hour
4:30 Early Evening Gospel Time
5 PM Witnessing For Jesus
5:45 Scope
6 PM News
6:15 Lenoir Rhyne College Today
6:30 Southern Sportsman
7 PM Gospel Of Deliverance
7:30 Movin' With Bluegrass
8 PM Good News
8:55 NASA Space Report
9 PM Shower Of Blessings
10 PM Hal Roach Presents
10:30 Public Defender
11 PM Wrestling
12 M Movie: "The Human Monster"
WGGS Ch. 16 Greenville, SC (Ind.)
7 AM Cisco Kid
7:30 Lone Ranger
8 AM Westerners
8:30 Stagecoach West
9:30 Little Rascals
10:30 American Outdoors
11 AM Southern Sportsman
11:30 Bass Fishin' America
12 N Tennis: WCT Challenge Cup (Jimmy Connors
vs. Vitas Gerulaitis)
1 PM Theater One
2:30 Kaleidoscope
3 PM PTL Club
5 PM Harvester Hour
6 PM 700 Club
7 PM High Adventure
7:30 Jimmy Swaggart
8 PM Joyful News
9 PM Sunday School Lesson
9:30 Gospel Star Time
11 PM Nancy Harmon
WTCG (WPCH) Ch. 17 Atlanta (Ind.)
5:50 World At Large
6:40 News
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8 AM Cliffwood Avenue Kids
8:30 Partridge Family
9 AM Star Trek
10 AM Movie: "Moby Dick" (Gregory Peck version
from '56)
12:30 Movie: "The Young Lions" (Dean Martin was first
taken seriously as an actor in this '58 war drama
with Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift.)
4 PM Mission: Impossible
5 PM American Angler Club
5:30 This Week In Baseball
6 PM Wrestling
8 PM Hee Haw Honeys
8:30 Marty Robbins' Spotlight
9 PM Dolly
9:30 That Nashville Music
10 PM Pop Goes The Country
10:30 Nashville On The Road
11 PM Porter Wagoner
11:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
1 AM Juke-Box
1:30 Movie: "Live Fast, Die Young" (a young Mike Connors
plays a teen-age criminal, even though in real life he
was a little past age, from '58)
3:15 Movie: "The Last Of The Fast Guns"
WUNE Ch. 17 Linville, NC/WUNF Ch. 33 Asheville (PBS)
5 PM Firing Line
6 PM Engineering Economy
6:30 Another Voice
7 PM NCSA Presents (the School of Music of the North Carolina
School of the Arts)
8 PM Once Upon A Classic
9 PM Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
10 PM The Best Of Families
sign off 11 PM
WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (Ind.)
6 AM News
6:30 Forum
7 AM Groovie Goolies
8 AM Spider-Man
8:30 Battle Of The Planets
9 AM Movie: "Chad Hanna"
11 AM Movie: "Francis Goes To West Point" (Donald
O'Connor with Francis the Talking Mule)
12:30 Movie: "Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm" (updated
for 1938, Shirley Temple plays a little girl who goes
on a radio talent show to win enough money to save
the family farm)
2 PM Movie: "Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes"
4 PM Movie: "Battle For The Planet Of The Apes"
6 PM Bonanza (Dawn Wells is guest star)
7 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
7:30 Real McCoys
8 PM Dolly
8:30 Marty Robbins' Spotlight
9 PM Nashville On The Road
9:30 Porter Wagoner
10 PM Upstairs, Downstairs
11 PM Movie: "Dr. Terror's House Of Horrors"
1 AM Movie: "Count Dracula" (Christopher Lee version,
from '70)
3 AM Movie: "Frankenstein's Daughter" (John Ashley,
from '58)
4:30 Movie: "Wipeout!" (from '73, sounds like a quickie way
to cash in on the success of "The Godfather" as two
Mafia factions try to wipe each other out, with Henry
Silva and Richard Conte)
WKPT Ch. 19 Kingsport, TN (ABC)
6:45 Farm Digest
6:55 News
7 AM Kids Are People Too (same as Ch. 9)
8 AM Scooby's All Stars
9:30 Challenge Of The Superfriends
11 AM Fangface
11:30 All New Pink Panther Show
12 N ABC Weekend Special
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 The Racers (the Gatornationals drag race from
Atlanta)
2 PM Star Trek
3 PM Perry Mason
4 PM Wide World Of Sports
5 PM The Preakness
6 PM Wide World Of Sports continues
6:30 Petticoat Junction
7 PM Little Rascals
7:30 Soap Factory Disco (Vicki Sue Robinson, Keith Barrow)
8 PM Love Boat
9:30 Fantasy Island
11 PM ABC News
11:15 Juke-Box (Sailor, Climax Blues Band, David Essex)
11:45 Tennis: WCT Challenge Cup (Jimmy Connors vs. Vitas
Gerulaitis)
12:45 Perry Mason
WTVK Ch. 26 (WVLT Ch. 8) (ABC, moves to NBC Sept. 17)
6:30 Inch High Private Eye
7 AM Underdog
7:30 Uncle Waldo
8 AM Scooby's All Stars
9:30 Challenge Of The Superfriends
11 AM Fangface
11:30 All New Pink Panther Show
12 N ABC Weekend Special
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Juke-Box
2 PM Sportsman's Friend
2:30 Room 222
3 PM Donna Fargo (guest: Robert Guillaume)
3:30 NFL Great Teams/Great Years
4 PM Wide World Of Sports
5 PM The Preakness
6 PM Wide World Of Sports continues
6:30 Fishing In Tennessee
7 PM POWWW Playoff
8 PM Love Boat
9:30 Fantasy Island
11 PM Movie: "Imperial Venus" (Gina Lollobrigida as
Napoleon's sister Paolina, from '63)
1:15 Victory Temple
1:45 ABC News
WNTV Ch. 29 Greenville, SC (PBS)
7 AM Sesame Street
8 AM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
8:30 Electric Company
9 AM Big Blue Marble
9:30 Once Upon A Classic ("Pinocchio," Part 3)
10 AM Footsteps (fostering creativity in children)
10:30 Growing Together
11 AM Over Easy
12 N Global Paper Forum
1 PM Lilias, Yoga And You
1:30 By-Line
2 PM On Nature's Trail
2:30 Cookin' Cajun
3 PM Cinema Showcase
3:30 Jobman Caravan
4 PM Health Sciences
4:30 Garden Spot
5 PM Crockett's Victory Garden
5:30 Nova (how a form of radiation detected by radio
astronomers may hold clues to the universe's origin)
6:30 Footsteps (coping with a child's handicap)
7 PM Once Upon A Classic
7:30 Studio See
8 PM Wodehouse Playhouse
8:30 Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin
9 PM Royal Heritage
10 PM Great Performances (the Eliot Feld Ballet)
11 PM One Of The Missing (a Confederate sniper lies trapped in
the rubble of a deserted mansion, his rifle pointed directly
at him--one false move and he's dead)
sign off 12 M
WNSC Ch. 30 Rock Hill, SC (PBS)
10 AM Zoom
10:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11 AM Sesame Street
12 N Freestyle
12:30 Big Blue Marble
1 PM Once Upon A Classic
1:30 Garden Spot
2 PM Great Performances
3 PM Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
4 PM By-Line
4:30 Cinema Showcase
5 PM Health Sciences
5:30 High School News Quiz Bowl
6 PM Japan: The Changing Tradition
7 PM Folkswatch
8 PM Once Upon A Classic
9 PM Wodehouse Playhouse
9:30 Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin
10 PM The Best Of Families
sign off 11 PM
WRET (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (NBC)
7 AM Three Stooges & Pals
7:30 Bay City Rollers
8 AM Alvin And The Chipmunks
8:30 Fantastic Four
9 AM Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM New Fred And Barney Show
11:30 Jetsons
12 N Buford And The Galloping Ghost
12:30 Fabulous Funnies
1 PM Wrestling
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball (see Ch. 4)
5 PM Do-It-Yourself With Homer Formby (time
approximate)
5:30 Race Week Charlotte Style (previews of the
World 600, Can-Am Jam, and Sun Drop 300)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Kicks (guest: Tasha Thomas)
8 PM CHiPS
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM Pilot: "The Nightingales"
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Star Trek
2 AM Movie: "The Day The Earth Stood Still"
3:30 Movie: "Agent For H.A.R.M."
5 AM Movie: "Johnny Allegro"
WAIM (WMYA) Ch. 40 Anderson, SC (Ind.)
2:30 Public Policy Forums
3:30 Viewpoint On Nutrition
4 PM American Angler
4:30 NASCAR
5 PM Wrestling
6 PM Movie: TBA
8 PM Movie: TBA
WSVN (WSBN) Ch. 47 Norton, VA (PBS)
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Pro Soccer
6 PM Que Pasa, U.S.A.?
6:30 Another Voice
7 PM Japan: The Living Tradition
7:30 Footsteps
8 PM Once Upon A Classic
9 PM Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
10 PM The Best Of Families
sign off 11 PM
WCPT Ch. 55 Crossville, TN (Ind.)
9 AM Mickey Mouse Roundup (I assume this is the week's
worth of "The New Mickey Mouse Club")
11:30 Mission: Magic
12 N Cartoon Carnival
1 PM Uncle Waldo
1:30 Jetsons
2 PM Valley Of The Dinosaurs
2:30 Soul Train
3:30 Peter Gunn
4 PM Not For Women Only
4:30 My Hero (nobody in 1952 could have guessed that Bob
Cummings would become a sitcom superstar; here he plays
inept realtor Bob Beanblossom; his next series, in 1955, would
forever cement his image as a skirt-chaser, win Ann B. Davis
two Emmies, and become a favorite in reruns in the '60s)
5 PM American Enterprises
5:30 R.F.D. Hollywood
6 PM Biography
6:30 Sha Na Na
7 PM Wrestling
8 PM Saturday Night Jamboree
11 PM PTL Club
1 AM Movie: TBA
WSJK (WETP) Ch. 2 Sneedville, TN (PBS)
8 AM GED
9 AM Joy Through Yoga
9:30 Once Upon A Classic ("Pinocchio," Part 4)
10 AM Consumer Survival Kit
10:30 Royal Heritage (the influence of George IV)
11:30 Bill Moyers' Journal (Ronald Reagan discusses his Presidential
aspirations.)
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1 PM Big Blue Marble
1:30 Vegetable Soup
2 PM Garden Spot
2:30 Growing Together
3 PM By-Line
3:30 Word On Words
4 PM On Nature's Trail
4:30 Cinema Showcase
5 PM Pro Soccer
6 PM Outlook
6:30 Another Voice
7 PM Consumer Survival Kit
7:30 Footsteps (coping with a child's handicap)
8 PM Once Upon A Classic ("Fern, The Red Deer")
9 PM Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie (British miniseries, not
the movie, part 2)
10 PM The Best Of Families (Part 2)
11 PM Lowell Thomas Remembers
11:30 TBA
WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)
7 AM Treehouse Club
7:30 Clue Club (delay from Sun 8:30 AM)
8 AM All New Popeye Hour
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12 N Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Ark II
1:30 CBS Children's Film Festival ("Starbuck Valley Winter,"
1977 from Canada)
2 PM Wrestling
3 PM Hee Haw Honeys
3:30 Donna Fargo
4 PM Golf: Colonial National Invitation (third round)
5 PM CBS Sports Spectacular (the Cuban boxing team vs. amateurs
from 10 other countries; the U.S. women's volleyball team in
an Olympic qualifying game; Part 5 of the International Mixed
Pairs Gymnastics Championship)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM Lawrence Welk (tribute to Irving Berlin)
8 PM Bad News Bears
8:30 The Hobbit (animated version of the Tolkien story)
10 PM Pilot: "Steeltown" (set in 1963 Pittsburgh, steelworkers fight for
better wages and working conditions; one of them pushes his
son toward a football scholarship and a life away from the mills)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Great Gatsby" (Redford version, from '74)
1:30 With This Ring
WFBC (WYFF) Ch. 4 Greenville, SC (NBC)
6 AM Ag-U.S.A.
6:30 Agriculture In Action
7 AM Hot Fudge
7:30 Bay City Rollers
8 AM Alvin And The Chipmunks
8:30 Fantastic Four
9 AM Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Rascals' Club
11 AM New Fred And Barney Show
11:30 Jetsons
12 N Porter Wagoner
12:30 Nashville On The Road
1 PM Wrestling
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Yankees-Red Sox (rain game: Pirates-Cubs)
5 PM Tarzan (time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 Donna Fargo
7 PM Dolly
7:30 Sha Na Na
8 PM CHiPS
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM Pilot: "The Nightingales" (Marcia Strassman and Colette
Bionigan in what sounds like a forerunner of "Cagney & Lacey")
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (hostess Maureen Stapleton; Linda Ronstadt,
Phoebe Snow)
1 AM Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (the Electric Light Orchestra, the Sylvers,
Nick Gilder, Walter Murphy, comic Mike Preminger)
WCYB Ch. 5 Bristol, VA (NBC)
7 AM Rural Tenneva
7:30 Bugs Bunny
8 AM Alvin And The Chipmunks
8:30 Fantastic Four
9 AM Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM New Fred And Barney Show
11:30 Jetsons
12 N Buford And The Galloping Ghost
12:30 Fabulous Funnies
1 PM Wrestling
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball (see Ch. 4)
5 PM That Nashville Music (time approximate)
5:30 Porter Wagoner
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM Pilot: "The Nightingales"
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
WATE Ch. 6 Knoxville (NBC, moves to ABC Sept. 17)
6:30 Better Way
7 AM Casper And Friends
7:30 Bay City Rollers
8 AM Alvin And The Chipmunks
8:30 Fantastic Four
9 AM Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM New Fred And Barney Show
11:30 Jetsons
12 N Buford And The Galloping Ghost
12:30 Fabulous Funnies
1 PM Marty Robbins' Spotlight
1:30 Porter Wagoner
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball (see Ch. 4)
5 PM Dolly (time approximate)
5:30 Gong Show (judges: Davey Lopes, Mabel King, Carl Ballantine)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM Pilot: "The Nightingales"
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Movie: "They Only Kill Their Masters"
WSPA Ch. 7 Spartanburg, SC (CBS)
5:30 TBA
6 AM Here And Now
6:30 Awareness '79
7 AM Clemson Today
7:30 Say It Now (topic: entering college)
8 AM All New Popeye Hour
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12 N Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Beverly Hillbillies
1:30 Please Stand By (some of you probably watched this show,
which took place at a shoestring-operation TV station)
2 PM Movie: "Love Me Tender" (Elvis' first movie, from '56)
4 PM Golf: Colonial National Invitation (third round)
5 PM Pop Goes The Country
5:30 Marty Robbins' Spotlight
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw (Mel Tillis, Roy Head, Gerald Smith)
8 PM Bad News Bears
8:30 The Hobbit
10 PM Pilot: "Steeltown"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid"
WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (ABC)
6:15 Mr. Magoo
6:30 Flipper
7 AM Kids Are People Too (Marvel Comics publisher Stan Lee,
Fred Berry of "What's Happening!!", Geraldo Rivera, delay
from Sun 10 AM and only an hour out of 90 minutes is shown)
8 AM Scooby's All-Stars
9:30 Challenge Of The Superfriends
11 AM Fangface
11:30 Kidsworld (Mark Hamill, a wildlife refuge in Alabama)
12 N ABC Weekend Special: "Weep No More, My Lady," about a dog
living in a Louisiana bayou who can laugh, cry, and hunt--but
not bark
12:30 American Bandstand (guests: Badfinger)
1:30 Star Maidens (two women from the female-dominated planet
Medusa arrive on Earth to escape their overseers)
4 PM Wide World Of Sports (U.S. Amateur Boxing Championships,
Indy 500 time trials)
5 PM The Preakness (Spectacular Bid makes it two of the three jewels
in the Triple Crown; he will lose to Coastal in the Belmont)
6 PM Wide World Of Sports continues
6:30 News
7 PM Bugs Bunny
7:30 Gong Show
8 PM Love Boat (Soupy Sales, Jo Anne Worley, Robert Goulet, Juliet
Mills, Loretta Swit)
9:30 Fantasy Island (Paul Sand, Darren McGavin, Pamela Franklin)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Macho Callahan"
1:30 ABC News (Tom Jarriel)
WBIR Ch. 10 Knoxville (CBS)
6:30 TV 10 Report
7 AM Best Of Carl Williams
7:30 University Of Tennessee Agricultural Science
8 AM Fascination Express (local kids' show)
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12 N Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Ark II
1:30 In Touch (Beverly Johnson, not Charles Stanley)
2 PM Wrestling
3 PM Movie: "The Long Duel"
5 PM Gilligan's Island
5:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Bad News Bears
8:30 The Hobbit
10 PM Pilot: "Steeltown"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Stalag 17"
WJHL Ch. 11 Johnson City, TN (CBS)
7:15 Uncle Hank
7:30 What's New, Mr. Magoo? (delay from Sun 8 AM)
8 AM All New Popeye Hour
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12 N Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Ark II
1:30 CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM Wrestling
3 PM Marty Robbins' Spotlight
3:30 Arthur Smith
4 PM Golf: Colonial National Invitation (third round)
5 PM CBS Sports Spectacular
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Bad News Bears
8:30 The Hobbit
10 PM Pilot: "Steeltown"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Secret Of The Incas"
WLOS Ch. 13 Asheville, NC (ABC)
6:30 America's Problems And Challenges
7 AM Mr. Bill's Weekend
8 AM Scooby's All Stars
9:30 Challenge Of The Superfriends
11 AM Fangface
11:30 All New Pink Panther Show
12 N Juke-Box (Twiggy welcomes Cliff Richard, Tina
Charles, and Frankie Miller)
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Movie: "Werewolf Of London"
3 PM Bowling: Pabst National Collegiate Bowling Championships
(from Milwaukee)
4 PM Wide World Of Sports
5 PM The Preakness
6 PM Wide World Of Sports continues
6:30 Wild Kingdom (Bengal tigers in Sariska, India)
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Love Boat
9:30 Fantasy Island
11 PM News
11:15 ABC News
11:30 Wrestling
12:30 Movie: "One Deadly Owner"
WHKY Ch. 14 Hickory, NC (Ind.)
11 AM Hot Fudge
11:30 Wrestling
12:30 Moon Man Connection
1:30 Soul Train (guests: Bohannon)
2:30 Movie: "The Curse Of The Aztec Mummy"
4 PM Prayer Band Gospel Hour
4:30 Early Evening Gospel Time
5 PM Witnessing For Jesus
5:45 Scope
6 PM News
6:15 Lenoir Rhyne College Today
6:30 Southern Sportsman
7 PM Gospel Of Deliverance
7:30 Movin' With Bluegrass
8 PM Good News
8:55 NASA Space Report
9 PM Shower Of Blessings
10 PM Hal Roach Presents
10:30 Public Defender
11 PM Wrestling
12 M Movie: "The Human Monster"
WGGS Ch. 16 Greenville, SC (Ind.)
7 AM Cisco Kid
7:30 Lone Ranger
8 AM Westerners
8:30 Stagecoach West
9:30 Little Rascals
10:30 American Outdoors
11 AM Southern Sportsman
11:30 Bass Fishin' America
12 N Tennis: WCT Challenge Cup (Jimmy Connors
vs. Vitas Gerulaitis)
1 PM Theater One
2:30 Kaleidoscope
3 PM PTL Club
5 PM Harvester Hour
6 PM 700 Club
7 PM High Adventure
7:30 Jimmy Swaggart
8 PM Joyful News
9 PM Sunday School Lesson
9:30 Gospel Star Time
11 PM Nancy Harmon
WTCG (WPCH) Ch. 17 Atlanta (Ind.)
5:50 World At Large
6:40 News
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8 AM Cliffwood Avenue Kids
8:30 Partridge Family
9 AM Star Trek
10 AM Movie: "Moby Dick" (Gregory Peck version
from '56)
12:30 Movie: "The Young Lions" (Dean Martin was first
taken seriously as an actor in this '58 war drama
with Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift.)
4 PM Mission: Impossible
5 PM American Angler Club
5:30 This Week In Baseball
6 PM Wrestling
8 PM Hee Haw Honeys
8:30 Marty Robbins' Spotlight
9 PM Dolly
9:30 That Nashville Music
10 PM Pop Goes The Country
10:30 Nashville On The Road
11 PM Porter Wagoner
11:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
1 AM Juke-Box
1:30 Movie: "Live Fast, Die Young" (a young Mike Connors
plays a teen-age criminal, even though in real life he
was a little past age, from '58)
3:15 Movie: "The Last Of The Fast Guns"
WUNE Ch. 17 Linville, NC/WUNF Ch. 33 Asheville (PBS)
5 PM Firing Line
6 PM Engineering Economy
6:30 Another Voice
7 PM NCSA Presents (the School of Music of the North Carolina
School of the Arts)
8 PM Once Upon A Classic
9 PM Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
10 PM The Best Of Families
sign off 11 PM
WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (Ind.)
6 AM News
6:30 Forum
7 AM Groovie Goolies
8 AM Spider-Man
8:30 Battle Of The Planets
9 AM Movie: "Chad Hanna"
11 AM Movie: "Francis Goes To West Point" (Donald
O'Connor with Francis the Talking Mule)
12:30 Movie: "Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm" (updated
for 1938, Shirley Temple plays a little girl who goes
on a radio talent show to win enough money to save
the family farm)
2 PM Movie: "Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes"
4 PM Movie: "Battle For The Planet Of The Apes"
6 PM Bonanza (Dawn Wells is guest star)
7 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
7:30 Real McCoys
8 PM Dolly
8:30 Marty Robbins' Spotlight
9 PM Nashville On The Road
9:30 Porter Wagoner
10 PM Upstairs, Downstairs
11 PM Movie: "Dr. Terror's House Of Horrors"
1 AM Movie: "Count Dracula" (Christopher Lee version,
from '70)
3 AM Movie: "Frankenstein's Daughter" (John Ashley,
from '58)
4:30 Movie: "Wipeout!" (from '73, sounds like a quickie way
to cash in on the success of "The Godfather" as two
Mafia factions try to wipe each other out, with Henry
Silva and Richard Conte)
WKPT Ch. 19 Kingsport, TN (ABC)
6:45 Farm Digest
6:55 News
7 AM Kids Are People Too (same as Ch. 9)
8 AM Scooby's All Stars
9:30 Challenge Of The Superfriends
11 AM Fangface
11:30 All New Pink Panther Show
12 N ABC Weekend Special
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 The Racers (the Gatornationals drag race from
Atlanta)
2 PM Star Trek
3 PM Perry Mason
4 PM Wide World Of Sports
5 PM The Preakness
6 PM Wide World Of Sports continues
6:30 Petticoat Junction
7 PM Little Rascals
7:30 Soap Factory Disco (Vicki Sue Robinson, Keith Barrow)
8 PM Love Boat
9:30 Fantasy Island
11 PM ABC News
11:15 Juke-Box (Sailor, Climax Blues Band, David Essex)
11:45 Tennis: WCT Challenge Cup (Jimmy Connors vs. Vitas
Gerulaitis)
12:45 Perry Mason
WTVK Ch. 26 (WVLT Ch. 8) (ABC, moves to NBC Sept. 17)
6:30 Inch High Private Eye
7 AM Underdog
7:30 Uncle Waldo
8 AM Scooby's All Stars
9:30 Challenge Of The Superfriends
11 AM Fangface
11:30 All New Pink Panther Show
12 N ABC Weekend Special
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Juke-Box
2 PM Sportsman's Friend
2:30 Room 222
3 PM Donna Fargo (guest: Robert Guillaume)
3:30 NFL Great Teams/Great Years
4 PM Wide World Of Sports
5 PM The Preakness
6 PM Wide World Of Sports continues
6:30 Fishing In Tennessee
7 PM POWWW Playoff
8 PM Love Boat
9:30 Fantasy Island
11 PM Movie: "Imperial Venus" (Gina Lollobrigida as
Napoleon's sister Paolina, from '63)
1:15 Victory Temple
1:45 ABC News
WNTV Ch. 29 Greenville, SC (PBS)
7 AM Sesame Street
8 AM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
8:30 Electric Company
9 AM Big Blue Marble
9:30 Once Upon A Classic ("Pinocchio," Part 3)
10 AM Footsteps (fostering creativity in children)
10:30 Growing Together
11 AM Over Easy
12 N Global Paper Forum
1 PM Lilias, Yoga And You
1:30 By-Line
2 PM On Nature's Trail
2:30 Cookin' Cajun
3 PM Cinema Showcase
3:30 Jobman Caravan
4 PM Health Sciences
4:30 Garden Spot
5 PM Crockett's Victory Garden
5:30 Nova (how a form of radiation detected by radio
astronomers may hold clues to the universe's origin)
6:30 Footsteps (coping with a child's handicap)
7 PM Once Upon A Classic
7:30 Studio See
8 PM Wodehouse Playhouse
8:30 Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin
9 PM Royal Heritage
10 PM Great Performances (the Eliot Feld Ballet)
11 PM One Of The Missing (a Confederate sniper lies trapped in
the rubble of a deserted mansion, his rifle pointed directly
at him--one false move and he's dead)
sign off 12 M
WNSC Ch. 30 Rock Hill, SC (PBS)
10 AM Zoom
10:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11 AM Sesame Street
12 N Freestyle
12:30 Big Blue Marble
1 PM Once Upon A Classic
1:30 Garden Spot
2 PM Great Performances
3 PM Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
4 PM By-Line
4:30 Cinema Showcase
5 PM Health Sciences
5:30 High School News Quiz Bowl
6 PM Japan: The Changing Tradition
7 PM Folkswatch
8 PM Once Upon A Classic
9 PM Wodehouse Playhouse
9:30 Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin
10 PM The Best Of Families
sign off 11 PM
WRET (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (NBC)
7 AM Three Stooges & Pals
7:30 Bay City Rollers
8 AM Alvin And The Chipmunks
8:30 Fantastic Four
9 AM Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM New Fred And Barney Show
11:30 Jetsons
12 N Buford And The Galloping Ghost
12:30 Fabulous Funnies
1 PM Wrestling
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball (see Ch. 4)
5 PM Do-It-Yourself With Homer Formby (time
approximate)
5:30 Race Week Charlotte Style (previews of the
World 600, Can-Am Jam, and Sun Drop 300)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Kicks (guest: Tasha Thomas)
8 PM CHiPS
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM Pilot: "The Nightingales"
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Star Trek
2 AM Movie: "The Day The Earth Stood Still"
3:30 Movie: "Agent For H.A.R.M."
5 AM Movie: "Johnny Allegro"
WAIM (WMYA) Ch. 40 Anderson, SC (Ind.)
2:30 Public Policy Forums
3:30 Viewpoint On Nutrition
4 PM American Angler
4:30 NASCAR
5 PM Wrestling
6 PM Movie: TBA
8 PM Movie: TBA
WSVN (WSBN) Ch. 47 Norton, VA (PBS)
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Pro Soccer
6 PM Que Pasa, U.S.A.?
6:30 Another Voice
7 PM Japan: The Living Tradition
7:30 Footsteps
8 PM Once Upon A Classic
9 PM Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
10 PM The Best Of Families
sign off 11 PM
WCPT Ch. 55 Crossville, TN (Ind.)
9 AM Mickey Mouse Roundup (I assume this is the week's
worth of "The New Mickey Mouse Club")
11:30 Mission: Magic
12 N Cartoon Carnival
1 PM Uncle Waldo
1:30 Jetsons
2 PM Valley Of The Dinosaurs
2:30 Soul Train
3:30 Peter Gunn
4 PM Not For Women Only
4:30 My Hero (nobody in 1952 could have guessed that Bob
Cummings would become a sitcom superstar; here he plays
inept realtor Bob Beanblossom; his next series, in 1955, would
forever cement his image as a skirt-chaser, win Ann B. Davis
two Emmies, and become a favorite in reruns in the '60s)
5 PM American Enterprises
5:30 R.F.D. Hollywood
6 PM Biography
6:30 Sha Na Na
7 PM Wrestling
8 PM Saturday Night Jamboree
11 PM PTL Club
1 AM Movie: TBA
