Sources: Lakeland Ledger and The Evening Independent (St. Petersburg) via Google News Archive
WESH 2 - NBC Daytona Beach
5:30 2's Country
6:00 NBC News at Sunrise
6:30 News
7:00 Today
Scheduled: an examination of college life (part 2 of 4).
9:00 Divorce Court
9:30 Love Connection
10:00 Your Number's Up
10:30 Sale of the Century
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Scrabble
12:00 News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 America
Scheduled: shopping tips; athletes turned actors.
5:00 Newlywed Game
5:30 People's Court
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 $100.000 Pyramid
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
Judith Light talks about the upcoming season of "Who's the Boss?"
8:00 Inside Look
8:15 American League Championship Series
Kansas City Royals vs. Toronto Blue Jays. Game 6 of the series. Toronto leads 3-2 in the best four-out-of-seven series.
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
Scheduled: George Burns.
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman
Scheduled: Dyan Cannon and George Miller.
1:30 sign-off
WEDU 3 - PBS Tampa
7:30 Farm Day
7:45 AM Weather
8:00 Body Electric
8:30 The Electric Company
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Educational programming
3:00 The Electric Company
3:30 3-2-1 Contact
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Understanding Human Behavior
6:00 Understanding Human Behavior
"Stress".
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
8:00 Nova
An examination of the aggressive agricultural technologies being used to develop tougher crop strains.
9:00 War: A Commentary by Gwynne Dyer
Examination of the professional soldier and career officers' techniques.
10:00 Dateline: USSR-USA
Taped coverage of a satellite linkup between Moscow and Washington, D.C. with journalists discussing current events.
11:00 Doctor Who
12:00 Latenight America
Guest host: John Wade.
12:30 Star Hustler
12:35 sign-off
WCPX 6 - CBS Orlando
6:00 Morning Stretch
6:30 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News
Scheduled: Dr. Robert Arnot's exercise series (part 2 of 5).
9:00 Donahue
Phil's guests are several young people who discuss how they have lost weight and how this has changed their lives.
10:00 Hour Magazine
Scheduled: Dixie Whatley (Entertainment Tonight); Pearl Bailey; a police psychic; fear of flying.
11:00 Price is Right
12:00 News
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Diff'rent Strokes
4:30 Three's Company
5:00 M*A*S*H
5:30 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 PM Magazine
7:30 Price is Right
8:00 Hometown
Ben, Peter, Joey and Christopher attempt to recapture their youth by participating in a grueling basketball game.
9:00 Movie: "Promises to Keep" (1985) Robert Mitchum, Christopher Mitchum.
A roustabout's visit to the wife and son he deserted 30 years earlier inflicts new wounds and causes dormant resentments to resurface.
11:00 News
11:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
12:00 Simon and Simon
A routine trip to Las Vegas to deliver a package becomes a deadly hunt for the package's unusual contents.
1:00 Movie: "Rabbit, Run" (1970) James Caan, Anjanette Corner, Jack Albertson.
A former high school basketball star attempts to escape his drab, miserable existence.
2:30 CBS News Nightwatch
WXFL 8 - NBC Tampa
5:00 More Real People
5:30 Jimmy Swaggart
6:00 News
6:30 NBC News at Sunrise
7:00 Today
9:00 Santa Barbara
10:00 Let's Make a Deal
10:30 Sale of the Century
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Scrabble
12:00 News
12:30 All in the Family
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 America (same as ch. 2)
4:00 Trapper John, M.D.
5:00 Quincy
6:00 News (Bill Ratliff/Bob Hite)
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Newlywed Game
7:30 Sale of the Century
8:00 Inside Look
8:15 American League Championship Series
Kansas City Royals vs. Toronto Blue Jays.
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
12:30 Comedy Tonight
1:00 Late Show with David Letterman
2:00 sign-off
WFTV 9 - ABC Orlando
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News This Morning
6:45 News
7:00 Good Morning America
Scheduled: women gymnasts; Sparky Anderson's baseball playoff updates (part 2 of 5); Mary Lou Retton (part 2 of 5)
9:00 Tic Tac Dough
9:30 Joker's Wild
10:00 Barnaby Jones
11:00 Three's a Crowd
11:30 All-Star Blitz
12:00 News
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Merv Griffin Show
5:00 Headline Chasers
5:30 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Jeopardy!
7:30 Wheel of Fortune
8:00 Who's the Boss?
Mona receives an inheritance from a mysterious benefactor.
8:30 Growing Pains
Carol's hopes to be a writer are crushed by Maggie's honest criticism of Carol's work.
9:00 Moonlighting
In black-and-white sequences, David and Maddie time-travel to the 1940s to investigate a murder.
10:00 Our Family Honor
Jerry's day of reckoning nears; Frank's drug-related stakeout is fouled up; Liz and her partner become emotionally involved in a case.
11:00 News
11:30 Nightline
12:00 Comedy Break with Mack and Jamie
12:30 Movie: "Mr. Moto's Gamble" (1938) Peter Lorre, Lynn Bari.
Mr. Moto assigns students a real case to solve.
2:00 Movie: "No Road Back" (1957) Skip Homeier, Sean Connery, Paul Carpenter, Patricia Dainton.
A blind and deaf woman acts as a fence for a notorious jewel gang, eventually involving murder.
4:15 Movie: "The Secret Night Caller" (1975) Robert Reed, Hope Lange, Michael Constantine.
A respected family man suffers from a compulsion to make obscene phone calls.
WOR 9 - Secaucus (Independent)
5:00 CNN Headline News
6:00 Jimmy Swaggart
6:30 700 Club
7:30 Straight Talk
"The U.S. Supreme Court: Its Impact on Our Lives".
Guest: Lawrence H. Tribe, Harvard Law School.
8:30 Flying Nun
9:00 Gidget
9:30 Romper Room
10:30 Partridge Family
11:00 Bewitched
11:30 I Dream of Jeannie
12:00 News
1:00 Joker's Wild
1:30 Tic Tac Dough
2:00 Let's Make a Deal
2:30 Dating Game
3:00 Hawaii Five-O
4:00 Dallas
5:00 Police Woman
6:00 Hart to Hart
The Harts go undercover to investigate industrial espionage and murder.
7:00 $100.000 Pyramid
7:30 Benny Hill Show
8:00 News
8:30 Family Feud
9:00 Movie: "A Rumor of War" (1980) Brad Davis, Keith Carradine.
Based on Phillip Caputo's story of his life from his idealistic college days to war-torn Vietnam and, finally, to a military court case. (part 1 of 2)
11:00 Bizarre
11:30 Hawaii Five-O
The witness to a mob murder is hunted by a hit man.
12:30 Saturday Night
Host: Steve Martin.
1:00 Joe Franklin
2:00 Movie: "Magnificent Obsession" (1954) Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson.
A rich playboy studies medicine to add meaning to his empty life and later restores sight to the woman he loves.
4:00 Joe Franklin
WTSP 10 - ABC St. Petersburg
6:00 Youth and You
6:30 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Donahue (same as ch. 6)
10:00 Murphy in the Morning
Disney cartoonist.
10:30 Sally
Psychics.
11:00 Ryan's Hope
11:30 Jeopardy!
12:00 News
12:30 Headline Chasers
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Police Woman
5:00 Hart to Hart
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 $100.000 Pyramid
8:00 Who's the Boss?
8:30 Growing Pains
9:00 Moonlighting
10:00 Our Family Honor
11:00 News
11:30 Nightline
12:00 Cannon
A young black doctor is the victim of a drug theft frame-up.
1:00 News
1:30 sign-off
WTVT 13 - CBS Tampa
5:00 CBS News Nightwatch
6:00 News
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Tic Tac Dough
9:30 Joker's Wild
10:00 $25.000 Pyramid
10:30 Press Your Luck
11:00 Price is Right
12:00 News
1:00 Young and the Restless
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Hour Magazine (same as ch. 6)
5:00 News
5:30 Price is Right
6:00 News (Hugh Smith/Kelly Craig)
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
8:00 Hometown
9:00 Movie: "Promises to Keep" (1985) Robert Mitchum, Christopher Mitchum.
11:00 News
11:30 Comedy Break with Mack and Jamie
12:00 Simon and Simon
A woman disappears shortly after occupying a supposedly haunted hotel room.
1:10 Movie: "Seed of Innocence" (1980) Tim Wead, Mary Cannon.
A young unwed couple flees to New York City when the girl becomes pregnant.
2:30 CBS News Nightwatch
WUSF 16 - PBS Tampa
7:45 AM Weather
8:00 Nova
9:00 Quilting
9:30 Viewpoint on Nutrition
10:00 Sew Easy Without Pins
10:30 Even You Can Grow Houseplants
11:00 Painting with Elke Sommer
11:30 New Tech Times
12:00 Last Chance Garage
12:30 Aloha China
1:00 Rod and Reel
1:30 Square Foot Gardening
2:00 Lilias, Yoga and You
2:30 Introduction to Art
3:00 Language and Meaning
3:30 Love, Sex and Violence
4:00 University Experience
4:30 Even You Can Grow Houseplants
5:00 Painting with Elke Sommer
5:30 Gourmet Cooking
6:00 Debut
6:30 Introduction to Biology
7:00 Spanish I
7:30 Living with Animals
8:00 From Jumpstreet
8:30 Alive From Off Center
Special effects accompany monologue.
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre
"The Good Soldier". Robin Ellis and Jeremy Brett star in an adaptation of Ford Madox Ford's novel tracing the relationship between two wealthy Edwardian couples who meet yearly at a fashionable German spa.
11:00 Tenko
Marion rises to the position of camp leader; Captain Yamauchi shows some compassion when malaria strikes.
12:00 sign-off
WTBS 17 - Atlanta (Independent)
5:00 Bob Newhart
5:30 Beverly Hillbillies
6:00 CNN Headline News
6:30 Funtime
7:35 The Flinstones
8:05 I Dream of Jeannie
8:35 Bewitched
9:05 Hazel
9:35 I Love Lucy
10:05 Movie: "The Sisters" (1938) Errol Flynn, Bette Davis.
Two women straighten out their problems as well as their sisters.
12:05 Perry Mason
1:05 Movie: "Safari" (1956) Victor Mature, Janet Leigh.
While on a safari, an African guide encounters the Mau Mau natives who killed his family.
3:05 Bugs Bunny and Friends
4:05 The Flinstones
4:35 Brady Bunch
5:05 Leave it to Beaver
5:35 Beverly Hillbillies
6:05 Andy Griffith Show
Andy encourages Barney's romance.
6:35 Carol Burnett and Friends
Guest: Rita Moreno.
7:05 Mary Tyler Moore Show
Can Lou and Rhoda find true happiness?
7:35 Sanford and Son
Fred spends time with a white teacher.
8:05 Movie: "One-Eyed Jacks" (1961) Marlon Brando, Karl Malden.
An ex-con feigns friendship with his betrayer, so he can custom design his revenge.
11:05 Movie: "Rough Night in Jericho" (1967) Dean Martin, George Peppard.
A town boss is challenged by a female stagecoach owner.
1:05 Movie: "The Nutty Professor" (1963) Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens.
A meek professor is transformed into an irresistible charmer who can have any girl except the one he wants.
3:15 Movie: "The Swimmer" (1968) Burt Lancaster, Janice Rule.
Based on a John Cheever story. While swimming the pools of his wealthy Connecticut friends, a middle-aged man reflects upon his past and present.
WMFE 24 - PBS Orlando
6:45 AM Weather
7:00 Farm Day
7:15 AM Weather
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Mister Rogers
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 The Electric Company
10:30 3-2-1 Contact
11:00 We're Cooking Now
11:30 Florida Style
12:00 Masterpiece Theatre
"The Good Soldier".
3:00 Florida Style
3:30 Mister Rogers
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Understanding Human Behavior
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
7:00 Nature of Things
8:00 Nova
"National Science Test II". Art Fleming host this science quiz show with a celebrity panel including defending champion Edwin Newman.
9:00 War: A Commentary with Gwynne Dyer (same as ch. 3)
10:00 Connections
11:00 Dave Allen at Large
11:30 Star Hustler
11:35 sign-off
WFTS 28 - Tampa (Independent)
5:30 CNN Headline News
6:00 Tranzer
6:30 Inspector Gadget
7:00 The Jetsons
7:30 M.A.S.K
8:00 He-Man and Masters of the Universe
8:30 Robotech
9:00 The B.J./Lobo Show
10:00 Andy Griffith Show
10:30 Love Songs
11:00 Independent Network News
11:30 All About Us
12:00 It's a Great Life
12:30 What's Hot! What's Not?
1:00 I Love Lucy
1:30 Beverly Hillbillies
2:00 I Dream of Jeannie
2:30 Bewitched
3:00 The Jetsons
3:30 Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
4:00 He-Man and Masters of the Universe
4:30 She-Ra: Princess of Power
5:00 Diff'rent Strokes
5:30 What's Happening!!
6:00 Diff'rent Strokes
6:30 Good Times
7:00 Benson
7:30 Carson's Comedy Classics
8:00 Kojak
9:00 Movie: "Three Violent People" (1956) Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter.
Two men and a woman become involved in a triangle while fighting an unfair provisional government.
11:00 The Twilight Zone
11:30 Night Gallery
12:00 The Odd Couple
12:30 Movie: "A Time for Killing" (1967) Glenn Ford, Inger Stevens.
A Union officer's zeal is heightened when the Confederates kidnap his girlfriend.
2:30 sign-off
WOFL 35 - Orlando (Independent)
5:00 CNN Headline News
6:00 Good Day!
7:00 G.I. Joe
7:30 Challenge of the GoBots
8:00 The Jetsons
8:30 The Flinstones
9:00 The Waltons
10:00 Big Valley
11:00 Dallas
12:00 Bewitched
12:30 Beverly Hillbilles
1:00 Dick Van Dyke Show
1:30 Gomer Pyle
2:00 Andy Griffith
2:30 Great Space Coaster
3:00 Scooby Doo
3:30 Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
4:00 Thundercats
4:30 Transformers
5:00 What's Happening!!
5:30 Alice
6:00 The Jeffersons
6:30 Too Close for Comfort
7:00 Barney Miller
7:30 Benson
8:00 Hart to Hart
9:00 Quincy
10:00 Independent Network News
10:30 Bob Newhart
11:00 Archie Bunker's Place
11:30 Hawaii Five-O
12:30 Chico and the Man
1:00 Bizarre
1:30 SCTV Network
2:00 Gunsmoke
3:00 I Love Lucy
3:30 Leave it to Beaver
4:00 Rhoda
WTOG 44 - St. Petersburg (Independent)
5:00 Mary Tyler Moore Show
5:30 News (probably from CNN)
6:00 Religious Town Hall
6:30 Great Space Coaster
7:00 Kids Club
8:00 Challenge of the GoBots
8:30 The Flinstones
9:00 The Waltons
10:00 Maude
10:30 Phyllis
11:00 Break the Bank
11:30 Catch Phrase
12:00 Dallas
1:00 Movie: "Golden Earrings" (1947) Ray Milland, Marlene Dietrich.
During World War II, a British agent seeks shelter from the Gestapo by travelling with a gypsy caravan.
3:00 Scooby Doo
3:30 Thundercats
4:00 Transformers
4:30 G.I. Joe
5:00 Bugs Bunny
5:30 One Day at a Time
6:00 Gimme a Break!
6:30 Taxi
Alex confronts his long-missing father.
7:00 Dynasty
7:30 People's Court
8:00 Movie: "Downhill Racer" (1969) Robert Redford, Gene Hackman.
As a result of circumstance, an American ski bum becomes an Olympic champion.
10:00 News
11:00 Divorce Court
11:30 Love Connection
12:00 The Untouchables
Eliot Ness tracks a smalltime hoodlum from Chicago to Washington, D.C.
1:00 Happy Days Again
Wedding plans.
1:30 Rhoda
Carlton is fired.
2:00 Mary Tyler Moore Show
2:30 Happy Days Again
Howard's partner flirts.
3:00 Video Country Music
*WXFL's 6PM newscast from this day was uploaded to YouTube last year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSlcjBFjje0&t=130s
WESH 2 - NBC Daytona Beach
5:30 2's Country
6:00 NBC News at Sunrise
6:30 News
7:00 Today
Scheduled: an examination of college life (part 2 of 4).
9:00 Divorce Court
9:30 Love Connection
10:00 Your Number's Up
10:30 Sale of the Century
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Scrabble
12:00 News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 America
Scheduled: shopping tips; athletes turned actors.
5:00 Newlywed Game
5:30 People's Court
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 $100.000 Pyramid
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
Judith Light talks about the upcoming season of "Who's the Boss?"
8:00 Inside Look
8:15 American League Championship Series
Kansas City Royals vs. Toronto Blue Jays. Game 6 of the series. Toronto leads 3-2 in the best four-out-of-seven series.
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
Scheduled: George Burns.
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman
Scheduled: Dyan Cannon and George Miller.
1:30 sign-off
WEDU 3 - PBS Tampa
7:30 Farm Day
7:45 AM Weather
8:00 Body Electric
8:30 The Electric Company
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Educational programming
3:00 The Electric Company
3:30 3-2-1 Contact
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Understanding Human Behavior
6:00 Understanding Human Behavior
"Stress".
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
8:00 Nova
An examination of the aggressive agricultural technologies being used to develop tougher crop strains.
9:00 War: A Commentary by Gwynne Dyer
Examination of the professional soldier and career officers' techniques.
10:00 Dateline: USSR-USA
Taped coverage of a satellite linkup between Moscow and Washington, D.C. with journalists discussing current events.
11:00 Doctor Who
12:00 Latenight America
Guest host: John Wade.
12:30 Star Hustler
12:35 sign-off
WCPX 6 - CBS Orlando
6:00 Morning Stretch
6:30 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News
Scheduled: Dr. Robert Arnot's exercise series (part 2 of 5).
9:00 Donahue
Phil's guests are several young people who discuss how they have lost weight and how this has changed their lives.
10:00 Hour Magazine
Scheduled: Dixie Whatley (Entertainment Tonight); Pearl Bailey; a police psychic; fear of flying.
11:00 Price is Right
12:00 News
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Diff'rent Strokes
4:30 Three's Company
5:00 M*A*S*H
5:30 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 PM Magazine
7:30 Price is Right
8:00 Hometown
Ben, Peter, Joey and Christopher attempt to recapture their youth by participating in a grueling basketball game.
9:00 Movie: "Promises to Keep" (1985) Robert Mitchum, Christopher Mitchum.
A roustabout's visit to the wife and son he deserted 30 years earlier inflicts new wounds and causes dormant resentments to resurface.
11:00 News
11:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
12:00 Simon and Simon
A routine trip to Las Vegas to deliver a package becomes a deadly hunt for the package's unusual contents.
1:00 Movie: "Rabbit, Run" (1970) James Caan, Anjanette Corner, Jack Albertson.
A former high school basketball star attempts to escape his drab, miserable existence.
2:30 CBS News Nightwatch
WXFL 8 - NBC Tampa
5:00 More Real People
5:30 Jimmy Swaggart
6:00 News
6:30 NBC News at Sunrise
7:00 Today
9:00 Santa Barbara
10:00 Let's Make a Deal
10:30 Sale of the Century
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Scrabble
12:00 News
12:30 All in the Family
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 America (same as ch. 2)
4:00 Trapper John, M.D.
5:00 Quincy
6:00 News (Bill Ratliff/Bob Hite)
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Newlywed Game
7:30 Sale of the Century
8:00 Inside Look
8:15 American League Championship Series
Kansas City Royals vs. Toronto Blue Jays.
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
12:30 Comedy Tonight
1:00 Late Show with David Letterman
2:00 sign-off
WFTV 9 - ABC Orlando
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News This Morning
6:45 News
7:00 Good Morning America
Scheduled: women gymnasts; Sparky Anderson's baseball playoff updates (part 2 of 5); Mary Lou Retton (part 2 of 5)
9:00 Tic Tac Dough
9:30 Joker's Wild
10:00 Barnaby Jones
11:00 Three's a Crowd
11:30 All-Star Blitz
12:00 News
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Merv Griffin Show
5:00 Headline Chasers
5:30 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Jeopardy!
7:30 Wheel of Fortune
8:00 Who's the Boss?
Mona receives an inheritance from a mysterious benefactor.
8:30 Growing Pains
Carol's hopes to be a writer are crushed by Maggie's honest criticism of Carol's work.
9:00 Moonlighting
In black-and-white sequences, David and Maddie time-travel to the 1940s to investigate a murder.
10:00 Our Family Honor
Jerry's day of reckoning nears; Frank's drug-related stakeout is fouled up; Liz and her partner become emotionally involved in a case.
11:00 News
11:30 Nightline
12:00 Comedy Break with Mack and Jamie
12:30 Movie: "Mr. Moto's Gamble" (1938) Peter Lorre, Lynn Bari.
Mr. Moto assigns students a real case to solve.
2:00 Movie: "No Road Back" (1957) Skip Homeier, Sean Connery, Paul Carpenter, Patricia Dainton.
A blind and deaf woman acts as a fence for a notorious jewel gang, eventually involving murder.
4:15 Movie: "The Secret Night Caller" (1975) Robert Reed, Hope Lange, Michael Constantine.
A respected family man suffers from a compulsion to make obscene phone calls.
WOR 9 - Secaucus (Independent)
5:00 CNN Headline News
6:00 Jimmy Swaggart
6:30 700 Club
7:30 Straight Talk
"The U.S. Supreme Court: Its Impact on Our Lives".
Guest: Lawrence H. Tribe, Harvard Law School.
8:30 Flying Nun
9:00 Gidget
9:30 Romper Room
10:30 Partridge Family
11:00 Bewitched
11:30 I Dream of Jeannie
12:00 News
1:00 Joker's Wild
1:30 Tic Tac Dough
2:00 Let's Make a Deal
2:30 Dating Game
3:00 Hawaii Five-O
4:00 Dallas
5:00 Police Woman
6:00 Hart to Hart
The Harts go undercover to investigate industrial espionage and murder.
7:00 $100.000 Pyramid
7:30 Benny Hill Show
8:00 News
8:30 Family Feud
9:00 Movie: "A Rumor of War" (1980) Brad Davis, Keith Carradine.
Based on Phillip Caputo's story of his life from his idealistic college days to war-torn Vietnam and, finally, to a military court case. (part 1 of 2)
11:00 Bizarre
11:30 Hawaii Five-O
The witness to a mob murder is hunted by a hit man.
12:30 Saturday Night
Host: Steve Martin.
1:00 Joe Franklin
2:00 Movie: "Magnificent Obsession" (1954) Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson.
A rich playboy studies medicine to add meaning to his empty life and later restores sight to the woman he loves.
4:00 Joe Franklin
WTSP 10 - ABC St. Petersburg
6:00 Youth and You
6:30 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Donahue (same as ch. 6)
10:00 Murphy in the Morning
Disney cartoonist.
10:30 Sally
Psychics.
11:00 Ryan's Hope
11:30 Jeopardy!
12:00 News
12:30 Headline Chasers
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Police Woman
5:00 Hart to Hart
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 $100.000 Pyramid
8:00 Who's the Boss?
8:30 Growing Pains
9:00 Moonlighting
10:00 Our Family Honor
11:00 News
11:30 Nightline
12:00 Cannon
A young black doctor is the victim of a drug theft frame-up.
1:00 News
1:30 sign-off
WTVT 13 - CBS Tampa
5:00 CBS News Nightwatch
6:00 News
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Tic Tac Dough
9:30 Joker's Wild
10:00 $25.000 Pyramid
10:30 Press Your Luck
11:00 Price is Right
12:00 News
1:00 Young and the Restless
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Hour Magazine (same as ch. 6)
5:00 News
5:30 Price is Right
6:00 News (Hugh Smith/Kelly Craig)
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
8:00 Hometown
9:00 Movie: "Promises to Keep" (1985) Robert Mitchum, Christopher Mitchum.
11:00 News
11:30 Comedy Break with Mack and Jamie
12:00 Simon and Simon
A woman disappears shortly after occupying a supposedly haunted hotel room.
1:10 Movie: "Seed of Innocence" (1980) Tim Wead, Mary Cannon.
A young unwed couple flees to New York City when the girl becomes pregnant.
2:30 CBS News Nightwatch
WUSF 16 - PBS Tampa
7:45 AM Weather
8:00 Nova
9:00 Quilting
9:30 Viewpoint on Nutrition
10:00 Sew Easy Without Pins
10:30 Even You Can Grow Houseplants
11:00 Painting with Elke Sommer
11:30 New Tech Times
12:00 Last Chance Garage
12:30 Aloha China
1:00 Rod and Reel
1:30 Square Foot Gardening
2:00 Lilias, Yoga and You
2:30 Introduction to Art
3:00 Language and Meaning
3:30 Love, Sex and Violence
4:00 University Experience
4:30 Even You Can Grow Houseplants
5:00 Painting with Elke Sommer
5:30 Gourmet Cooking
6:00 Debut
6:30 Introduction to Biology
7:00 Spanish I
7:30 Living with Animals
8:00 From Jumpstreet
8:30 Alive From Off Center
Special effects accompany monologue.
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre
"The Good Soldier". Robin Ellis and Jeremy Brett star in an adaptation of Ford Madox Ford's novel tracing the relationship between two wealthy Edwardian couples who meet yearly at a fashionable German spa.
11:00 Tenko
Marion rises to the position of camp leader; Captain Yamauchi shows some compassion when malaria strikes.
12:00 sign-off
WTBS 17 - Atlanta (Independent)
5:00 Bob Newhart
5:30 Beverly Hillbillies
6:00 CNN Headline News
6:30 Funtime
7:35 The Flinstones
8:05 I Dream of Jeannie
8:35 Bewitched
9:05 Hazel
9:35 I Love Lucy
10:05 Movie: "The Sisters" (1938) Errol Flynn, Bette Davis.
Two women straighten out their problems as well as their sisters.
12:05 Perry Mason
1:05 Movie: "Safari" (1956) Victor Mature, Janet Leigh.
While on a safari, an African guide encounters the Mau Mau natives who killed his family.
3:05 Bugs Bunny and Friends
4:05 The Flinstones
4:35 Brady Bunch
5:05 Leave it to Beaver
5:35 Beverly Hillbillies
6:05 Andy Griffith Show
Andy encourages Barney's romance.
6:35 Carol Burnett and Friends
Guest: Rita Moreno.
7:05 Mary Tyler Moore Show
Can Lou and Rhoda find true happiness?
7:35 Sanford and Son
Fred spends time with a white teacher.
8:05 Movie: "One-Eyed Jacks" (1961) Marlon Brando, Karl Malden.
An ex-con feigns friendship with his betrayer, so he can custom design his revenge.
11:05 Movie: "Rough Night in Jericho" (1967) Dean Martin, George Peppard.
A town boss is challenged by a female stagecoach owner.
1:05 Movie: "The Nutty Professor" (1963) Jerry Lewis, Stella Stevens.
A meek professor is transformed into an irresistible charmer who can have any girl except the one he wants.
3:15 Movie: "The Swimmer" (1968) Burt Lancaster, Janice Rule.
Based on a John Cheever story. While swimming the pools of his wealthy Connecticut friends, a middle-aged man reflects upon his past and present.
WMFE 24 - PBS Orlando
6:45 AM Weather
7:00 Farm Day
7:15 AM Weather
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Mister Rogers
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 The Electric Company
10:30 3-2-1 Contact
11:00 We're Cooking Now
11:30 Florida Style
12:00 Masterpiece Theatre
"The Good Soldier".
3:00 Florida Style
3:30 Mister Rogers
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Understanding Human Behavior
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
7:00 Nature of Things
8:00 Nova
"National Science Test II". Art Fleming host this science quiz show with a celebrity panel including defending champion Edwin Newman.
9:00 War: A Commentary with Gwynne Dyer (same as ch. 3)
10:00 Connections
11:00 Dave Allen at Large
11:30 Star Hustler
11:35 sign-off
WFTS 28 - Tampa (Independent)
5:30 CNN Headline News
6:00 Tranzer
6:30 Inspector Gadget
7:00 The Jetsons
7:30 M.A.S.K
8:00 He-Man and Masters of the Universe
8:30 Robotech
9:00 The B.J./Lobo Show
10:00 Andy Griffith Show
10:30 Love Songs
11:00 Independent Network News
11:30 All About Us
12:00 It's a Great Life
12:30 What's Hot! What's Not?
1:00 I Love Lucy
1:30 Beverly Hillbillies
2:00 I Dream of Jeannie
2:30 Bewitched
3:00 The Jetsons
3:30 Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
4:00 He-Man and Masters of the Universe
4:30 She-Ra: Princess of Power
5:00 Diff'rent Strokes
5:30 What's Happening!!
6:00 Diff'rent Strokes
6:30 Good Times
7:00 Benson
7:30 Carson's Comedy Classics
8:00 Kojak
9:00 Movie: "Three Violent People" (1956) Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter.
Two men and a woman become involved in a triangle while fighting an unfair provisional government.
11:00 The Twilight Zone
11:30 Night Gallery
12:00 The Odd Couple
12:30 Movie: "A Time for Killing" (1967) Glenn Ford, Inger Stevens.
A Union officer's zeal is heightened when the Confederates kidnap his girlfriend.
2:30 sign-off
WOFL 35 - Orlando (Independent)
5:00 CNN Headline News
6:00 Good Day!
7:00 G.I. Joe
7:30 Challenge of the GoBots
8:00 The Jetsons
8:30 The Flinstones
9:00 The Waltons
10:00 Big Valley
11:00 Dallas
12:00 Bewitched
12:30 Beverly Hillbilles
1:00 Dick Van Dyke Show
1:30 Gomer Pyle
2:00 Andy Griffith
2:30 Great Space Coaster
3:00 Scooby Doo
3:30 Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
4:00 Thundercats
4:30 Transformers
5:00 What's Happening!!
5:30 Alice
6:00 The Jeffersons
6:30 Too Close for Comfort
7:00 Barney Miller
7:30 Benson
8:00 Hart to Hart
9:00 Quincy
10:00 Independent Network News
10:30 Bob Newhart
11:00 Archie Bunker's Place
11:30 Hawaii Five-O
12:30 Chico and the Man
1:00 Bizarre
1:30 SCTV Network
2:00 Gunsmoke
3:00 I Love Lucy
3:30 Leave it to Beaver
4:00 Rhoda
WTOG 44 - St. Petersburg (Independent)
5:00 Mary Tyler Moore Show
5:30 News (probably from CNN)
6:00 Religious Town Hall
6:30 Great Space Coaster
7:00 Kids Club
8:00 Challenge of the GoBots
8:30 The Flinstones
9:00 The Waltons
10:00 Maude
10:30 Phyllis
11:00 Break the Bank
11:30 Catch Phrase
12:00 Dallas
1:00 Movie: "Golden Earrings" (1947) Ray Milland, Marlene Dietrich.
During World War II, a British agent seeks shelter from the Gestapo by travelling with a gypsy caravan.
3:00 Scooby Doo
3:30 Thundercats
4:00 Transformers
4:30 G.I. Joe
5:00 Bugs Bunny
5:30 One Day at a Time
6:00 Gimme a Break!
6:30 Taxi
Alex confronts his long-missing father.
7:00 Dynasty
7:30 People's Court
8:00 Movie: "Downhill Racer" (1969) Robert Redford, Gene Hackman.
As a result of circumstance, an American ski bum becomes an Olympic champion.
10:00 News
11:00 Divorce Court
11:30 Love Connection
12:00 The Untouchables
Eliot Ness tracks a smalltime hoodlum from Chicago to Washington, D.C.
1:00 Happy Days Again
Wedding plans.
1:30 Rhoda
Carlton is fired.
2:00 Mary Tyler Moore Show
2:30 Happy Days Again
Howard's partner flirts.
3:00 Video Country Music
*WXFL's 6PM newscast from this day was uploaded to YouTube last year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSlcjBFjje0&t=130s
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