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Retro: Central Indiana Sat, Jan 17, 1981

Posted by request, from TV Guide-Central Indiana edition
Programs listed in ET

WTWO 2-NBC Terre Haute
6:00 Drama: Play, Performance, Perception
7:00 Letter Shop
7:30 New Zoo Revue
8:00 Godzilla/Hong Kong Phooey
9:00 Flintstones
10:30 Daffy Duck
11:00 Batman (animated)
noon Jonny Quest
12:30 Jack Van Impe
1:00 TV2 Reports (reports on highway safety)
1:30 Nashville on the Road (music from Bill Anderson, Jim Ed Brown, and Wendy Holcombe)
2:00 Big 10 Basketball: Northwestern-Michigan State
4:00 Bob Hope Desert Classic golf
6:00 News
6:30 Pop! Goes the Country (guests Anson Williams and Sheila Andrews)
7:00 Hee Haw (guests Mickey Gilley, Johnny Lee, and the Million Dollar Band)
8:00 Barbara Mandrell & the Mandrell Sisters (guest Tennessee Ernie Ford)
9:00 Walking Tall (premiere)
10:00 Hill Street Blues
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (hostess Karen Black/music by Cheap Trick)
1:00 America's Top 10
1:30 News

WTTV 4-Ind Indianapolis
6:00 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
7:00 La Voz Latina
7:30 Lessons for Living
8:00 Jerry Falwell
9:00 Focus
9:30 Portraits
10:00 Citizens Forum
10:15 Hoosier Hinterland
10:30 Brian Bex
11:00 Wrestling
noon Digger Phelps (Notre Dame basketball)
12:30 Movie "Francis Covers the Big Town" (bw)
2:30 Movie "Cops and Robbers"
4:30 College Basketball: Purdue-Wisconsin
6:30 Welcome Back, Kotter
7:00 Sanford & Son
7:30 All in the Family
8:00 That (Good Ole) Nashville Music (guests Moe Bandy, Stella Parton, Jacky Ward, and Buddy Spicher)
8:30 Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry (guests T.G. Sheppard and Jimmy C. Newman)
9:00 Nashville on the Road (music from Wendy Holcombe and Helen Cornelius)
9:30 Porter Wagoner
10:00 News
11:00 Pop! Goes the Country
11:30 Movie "And God Created Woman"
1:30 Movie "Waterloo Bridge" (bw)
3:30 Movie "A Yank at Oxford" (bw)

WRTV 6-ABC Indianapolis
7:00 Focus on Faith
7:30 Bugs Bunny
8:00 Superfriends
9:00 Fonz
9:30 Richie Rich/Scooby & Scrappy-Doo
10:30 Thundarr
11:00 Heathcliff/Dingbat
11:30 Plastic Man/Baby Plas
noon ABC Weekend Special "Zack and the Magic Factory" (conclusion)
12:30 American Bandstand (guests Rockpile, and the Kings)
1:30 Bugs Bunny
2:00 Sports '80: The George Plimpton Scrapbook
3:30 Pro Bowling: Showboat Invitational
5:00 ABC Wide World of Sports (the Globetrotters open up the usual can of whoop-you-know-what on the Washington Generals in Hollywood/men's World Cup downhill skiing)
6:30 News
7:00 Lawrence Welk (Broadway hits)
8:00 Love Boat (x2)
10:00 Fantasy Island
11:00 News
11:30 ABC News
11:45 After Benny, Thames Presents
12:15 Movie "Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York"

WISH 8-CBS Indianapolis
7:00 Ag-USA
7:30 Who, What, How Do You Know?
8:00 Mighty Mouse/Heckle & Jeckle
8:30 Tom & Jerry
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Popeye
11:30 Fat Albert
noon Tarzan/Lone Ranger
12:00 Senior Bowl: the North takes on the South in the 32nd annual game, live from Mobile
4:00 Alias Smith & Jones "The Girl in Boxcar No. 3"
5:00 Tarzan
6:00 News
6:30 Behind the Scenes
7:00 Hee Haw (same line-up as ch 2)
8:00 WKRP in Cincinnati
8:30 Tim Conway (guest Carol Burnett)
9:00 Freebie & the Bean
10:00 Secrets of Midland Heights
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "King Rat" (bw)
1:30 News

WGN 9-Ind Chicago
7:00 William Tell (bw)
7:30 Buyer's Forum
8:00 US Farm Report
8:30 Daniel Boone
9:30 Movie "Feudin' Fools" (bw)
11:00 Movie "Henry Aldrich for President" (bw)
1:00 Movie "Man Without a Star"
3:00 Movie "Mexican Hayride" (bw)
4:30 America's Top 10
5:00 Soul Train
6:00 Good Times
6:30 Welcome Back, Kotter
7:00 Fish
7:30 Carol Burnett & Friends
8:00 Solid Gold (co-host Jim Stafford/guests Rod Stewart, the Commodores, Leo Sayer, and Billy Burnette)
9:00 Wild Kingdom (rounding up zebras with cloth nets in South Africa)
9:30 In Search of...
10:00 News
11:00 Weekend with the Stars United Cerebral Palsy Telethon (the 30th annual event; hosts Dennis James and Paul Anka in New York, with LA co-hosts Dick Van Patten, Joyce DeWitt, Robert Guillaume, Henry Winkler, Gavin MacLeod, and John Ritter; musical segments from Nashville and Las Vegas; airs to 7pm Sunday)

WTHI 10-CBS Terre Haute
7:00 Three Robonic Stooges
7:30 Jason of Star Command
8:00 Mighty Mouse/Heckle & Jeckle
8:30 Tom & Jerry
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Popeye
11:30 Fat Albert
noon Tarzan/Lone Ranger
1:00 Senior Bowl
4:00 Volvo Grand Prix Masters tennis
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry (guests Roy Clark and Connie Smith)
7:30 College Basketball: Tulsa-Indiana State
9:30 Muppet Show (guest Hal Linden)
10:00 Secrets of Midland Heights
11:00 News
11:30 Monte Carlo Show (guests Neil Sedaka, the Hudson Brothers, and Loretta Swit)
12:30 Movie "A Killer in Every Corner"

WTHR 13-NBC Indianapolis
6:30 US Farm Report
7:00 Gilligan's Island
7:30 Dick Van Dyke (bw)
8:00 Godzilla/Hong Kong Phooey
9:00 Flintstones
10:30 Daffy Duck
11:00 Batman (animated)
noon Jonny Quest
12:30 Drawing Power
1:00 Brain Game: Greenfield Central takes on Lawrence Central
1:30 Indiana Illustrated
2:00 Big 10 Basketball: Northwestern-Michigan State
4:00 Bob Hope Desert Classic
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Bowzer (pilot)
7:30 Sha Na Na (guest John Sebastian)
8:00 Barbara Mandrell & the Mandrell Sisters
9:00 Walking Tall (premiere)
10:00 Hill Street Blues
11:00 Weekend with the Stars United Cerebral Palsy Telethon (til 7pm Sun)

WTBS 17-Ind Atlanta
6:00 It's Your Business
6:30 Rebop
7:00 Vegetable Soup
7:30 Romper Room
8:00 Gilligan's Island
8:30 Movie "Montana"
10:00 Movie "Prince Valiant"
noon Movie "Dracula's Castle"
2:00 Movie "Spartacus and the Ten Gladiators"
4:00 Maverick (bw)
5:00 Last of the Wild
5:30 Fishing with Roland Martin
6:00 Wrestling
8:00 Football Saturday
9:00 College Basketball: Kentucky-Alabama
mid. Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
1:30 Movie "Wings of the Navy" (bw)
3:15 Movie "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (bw)

WLFI 18-CBS Lafayette
7:00 US Farm Report
7:30 New Zoo Revue
8:00 Mighty Mouse/Heckle & Jeckle
8:30 Tom & Jerry
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Popeye
11:30 Fat Albert
noon Tarzan/Lone Ranger
1:00 Senior Bowl
4:00 Wild Kingdom (studying hibernating bears)
4:30 College Basketball: Purdue-Wisconsin
6:30 Stan Hitchcock (guest Del Reeves)
7:00 Hee Haw (same line-up as ch 2)
8:00 WKRP in Cincinnati
8:30 Tim Conway
9:00 Freebie & the Bean
10:00 Secrets of Midland Heights
11:00 Big Country
11:30 Japan Bowl: college seniors from East and West square off in Yokohama for the 6th annual match-up

WFYI 20-PBS Indianapolis
9:00 Slim Cuisine
9:30 Lap Quilting
10:00 Yoga Alive
10:30 Trains, Tracks & Trestles
11:00 This Old House
11:30 Masterpiece Theatre "Danger UXB" (pt 2)
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1:00 Nova "Umealit: The Whale Hunters"
2:00 Rick's Animals
2:30 Sneak Previews
3:00 Drama: Play, Performance, Perception
4:00 Soundstage (guests Little River Band)
5:00 Soccer Made in Germany
6:00 Freedom's Defense: America's Cup 1980 (highlights)
7:00 All Creatures Great & Small
8:00 Paper Chase (premiere)
9:00 World "Sweden: Waiting for Spring"
10:00 Odyssey "N!ai, the Story of a !Kung Woman"
11:00 David Susskind "Feeling Good All Under-Elegant New Lingerie"

WVUT 22-PBS Vincennes
5:30pm Sneak Previews
6:00 TBA
6:30 This Old House
7:00 Once Upon a Classic "The Mill on the Floss" (pt 3)
7:30 Cross Country Ski School
8:00 Odyssey "N!ai, the Story of a !Kung Woman"
9:00 World "Sweden: Waiting for Spring"
10:00 Matinee at the Bijou (bw/Philo Vance Returns, followed by pt 5 of Don Winslow of the Navy)

WTIU 30-PBS Bloomington
8:30 Lilias, Yoga & You
9:00 This Old House
9:30 Writing for a Reason
10:30 World of Mother Teresa
11:30 Masterpiece Theatre "Danger UXB" (pt 2)
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1:00 Lawmakers
1:30 Here's to Your Health
2:00 Soccer Made in Germany
3:00 Matinee at the Bijou (bw/Cowboy Commandos, followed by pt 4 of Don Winslow of the Navy, and a 1943 color short)
4:30 Day to Remember-August 28, 1963 (recalling that day's civil rights demonstration in Washington)
5:00 Nova "Umealit: The Whale Hunters"
6:00 Sneak Previews
6:30 This Old House
7:00 Once Upon a Classic "The Mill on the Floss" (pt 3)
7:30 Cross Country Ski School
8:00 Odyssey "N!ai, the Story of a !Kung Woman"
9:00 World "Sweden: Waiting for Spring"
10:00 Matinee at the Bijou (bw/same line-up as ch 22)
11:30 Soundstage (Little River Band)

WFLD 32-Ind Chicago
7:30 World of Survival
8:00 World Tomorrow
8:30 Our People
9:00 Soul Searching
9:30 Chicago '81 (Norman Mark)
10:00 Romper Room
10:30 Big Blue Marble
11:00 Movie "Yellowstone Kelly"
1:00 Movie "Blondie's Lucky Day" (bw)
2:30 Movie "She-Wolf of London" (bw)
4:00 Movie "The Big Broadcast of 1938" (bw)
5:30 Beverly Hillbillies
6:00 Partridge Family
6:30 Brady Bunch
7:00 I Love Lucy (bw)
7:30 Dance Fever (judges Alison Arngrim, Roxie Roker, and Anson Williams)
8:00 Alice in Wonderland (in this version, Alice ends up in Wonderland after tumbling into a TV)
9:00 Movie "Monster on the Campus" (bw)
11:00 Norm Crosby's Comedy Shop
11:30 Kenry Everett Video Show (another Thames import; music from Bryan Ferry & Roxy Martin, Dave Edmunds' Rockpile, and Cliff Richard, plus dancing from Hot Gossip)
mid. Honeymooners (bw)
12:30 Three Stooges (bw)

WBAK 38-ABC Terre Haute
7:00 Area Focus
7:30 Archies
8:00 Superfriends
9:00 Fonz
9:30 Richie Rich/Scooby & Scrappy-Doo
10:30 Thundarr
11:00 Heathcliff/Dingbat
11:30 Plastic Man/Baby Plas
noon ABC Weekend Special "Zack and the Magic Factory" (conclusion)
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Fishing with Roland Martin
2:00 Digger Phelps
2:30 Area Focus
3:00 Close Up
3:30 Perry Mason (bw)
4:30 College Basketball: Purdue-Wisconsin
6:30 Sha Na Na (guest: the Unknown Comic, better known as Murray Langston)
7:00 Solid Gold (the Pointer Sisters co-host, with guests Dotie West, the Vapors, Billie Burnette, Richie Havens, and Tierra)
8:00 Love Boat (x2)
10:00 Fantasy Island
11:00 Weekend with the Stars United Cerebral Plasy Telethon (til 7pm Sun)

WHMB 40-Ind/Rel Indianapolis
8:00 Uncle Waldo
8:30 Pirate Adventures
9:00 Jonny Quest
9:30 Jetsons
10:00 Wheelie & the Chopper Bunch
10:30 Dudley Do-Right
11:00 Hot Fudge
11:30 Hallelujah Club
noon Apropos
12:30 Community Forum
1:00 One on One
2:00 Human Dimension
2:30 Challenge Match Fishing
3:00 Movie "Hamlet" (bw)
6:00 Rex Humbard
7:00 Ernest Angley Hour
8:00 End Time Economics
8:30 Lowell Lundstrom
9:00 Contact
9:30 Lester Sumrall Teaches
10:00 PTL Club

WIPB 49-PBS Muncie
11:00 Writing for a Reason
noon Gravity is My Enemy
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1:00 Big Blue Marble
1:30 Here's to Your Health
2:00 New Voice
2:30 History of Space
3:00 Housemanship
3:30 Old Friends, New Friends (Mr. Rogers welcomes Pirates star Willie Stargell)
4:00 Focus on the Family
4:30 3rd House Session (local State legislators in a Q&A from Muncie, same-day tape)
6:30 Anderson USA
7:00 Once Upon a Classic "The Mill on the Floss" (pt 3)
7:30 Cross Country Ski School
8:00 Odyssey "N!ai, the Story of a !Kung Woman"
9:00 World "Sweden: Waiting for Spring"
10:00 Austin City Limits (guests Bobby Bare and Lacy J. Dalton)
11:00 Movie "Citizen Kane" (bw)
 
Bluenoser said:
Posted by request, from TV Guide-Central Indiana edition

WTHR 13-NBC Indianapolis

1:00 Brain Game: Greenfield Central takes on Lawrence Central

Under the direction of the late Glenn "Doc" Barrett, Greenfield-Central High School had a consistently strong Brain Game team through the mid and late 70s and into the 80s.

Of course, we sucked sewer gas at most sports. Though Bob Caldwell had the Girls Basketball team fighting for state championships in those days. And Bob Miller's golf teams were always strong. (By the way, both Miller and Caldwell were one time play-by-play announcers on the old WSMJ. Have to somehow keep it pertaining to radio.)

There's always a balance. We Hancock County farm boys were brains, not athletes. God love us!
 
I'll let you guess which Midwestern scheduling heresy was committed by two Indy network affiliates on this date. ;D Hint: the two shows scheduled against each other in the same time slot would have attracted similar audiences.
 
Charles1 said:
Do you mean Lawrence Welk vs. Hee Haw?

Correct! ;D

And the same situation (to a lesser extent) in Terre Haute, where HH was on at 7PM on WTWO while "Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry" aired for a half-hour preceding basketball on WTHI in that same time slot. Ironically, Roy Clark was listed as one of the "Backstage" hosts for the week.
 
Would love to see Sunday as well...Maybe eventually similar schedules from other years??? THANKS AGAIN..enjoy seeing these
 
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