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Retro: Central Indiana Sun, Jan 18, 1981

30 years ago, from TV Guide-Central Indiana edition

WTWO 2-NBC Terre Haute
6:00 Writing for a Reason
6:30 Outdoors in Indiana
7:00 Jerry Falwell
8:00 Insight
8:30 Thy Kingdom Come
9:00 Rex Humbard
10:00 Day of Discovery
10:30 Abundant Life
11:00 Revival Fires
11:30 NFL Review & Preview
12:30 Meet the Press
1:00 Big Ten Basketball: Indiana-Ohio State
3:00 NBC SportsWorld: World Pro Figure Skating Championships-pt 1/basketball hijinx aboard the USS Kitty Hawk with Wilt Chamberlain and Marques Haynes joining Meadowlark Lemon and the Bucketeers/SportsJournal report
4:30 Golf: Bob Hope Desert Classic
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Disney's Wonderful World
8:00 CHiPs
9:00 Bob Hope 30th Anniversary Special (Ol' Ski-Nose celebrates 30 years on TV with Douglas Fairbanks Jr (who appeared with Bob in his first TV appearance on April 9, 1950), Lucille Ball, Milton Berle, George Burns, Rosemary Clooney, Sammy Davis Jr, Eydie Gorme, Steve Lawrence, Marie Osmond, Martha Raye, Danny Thomas, and Robert Urich; plus plenty of clips from the 200 shows he's appeared in)
11:00 News
11:30 One on One
12:30 Norm Crosby's Comedy Shop
1:00 News

WTTV 4-Ind Indianapolis
5:00 Movie "A Yank in Oxford" cont'd (bw)
5:30 Sacred Heart
5:45 La Voz Latina
6:30 Outdoors in Indiana
7:00 Kenneth Copeland
8:00 Abundant Life
8:30 Jimmy Swaggart
9:30 Popeye
10:00 Movie "Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops" (bw)
11:30 Bowling
noon Bob Knight (Indiana basketball)
12:30 Love, American Style
1:00 Big Ten Basketball: Indiana-Ohio State
3:00 Movie "Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?"
5:00 Movie "Love Story"
7:00 Alice in Wonderland
8:00 Tales of the Unexpected
8:30 Fiction, Fantasy, Reality
9:00 Statehouse Report
9:30 Four-Thought
10:00 News
10:30 Close-Up
11:00 Gene Keady (Purdue basketball)
11:30 Solid Gold (co-hosts the Pointer Sisters/guests Dottie West, the Vapors, Billie Burnette, Richie Havens, and Tierra)
12:30 It's Your Business "Government Spending: Where to Cut?" (discussing this is NAACP executive director Benjamin Hooks, Reps. George Miller (D-CA) & Barber B. Conable Jr (R-NY), and US Chamber of Commerce president Richard Lesher)

WRTV 6-ABC Indianapolis
6:00 Human Dimension
6:30 Newsmakers
7:00 Impact: Indiana
7:30 Amazing Grace
8:00 Rex Humbard
9:00 Herald of Truth
9:30 Insight
10:00 Focus on Faith
10:30 Kids are People Too (guests Barbara Walters, Jay Johnson, and psychologist Tom Cottle)
11:30 Animals, Animals, Animals
noon Issues & Answers
12:30 Livin' for the City
1:00 Tony Brown's Journal (discussing black English and standard American English)
1:30 Sports Afield
2:00 Movie "The Alien Encounters"
3:30 Movie "The Hound of the Baskervilles"
5:00 Monte Carlo Show (guests Neil Sedaka, the Hudson Brothers, and Loretta Swit)
6:00 News
6:30 Newsmakers
7:00 Catastrophe! No Safe Place (Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland talk to surviviors of disasters)
8:00 Those Amazing Animals
9:00 Movie "The Choirboys" (30 min of added footage not shown in theaters)
11:30 News
mid. ABC News
12:15 Movie "Airport 1975"

WISH 8-CBS Indianapolis
6:40 Light of Life
7:00 IMA Art World
7:30 Religion in the News
8:00 Show My People
8:30 Day of Discovery
9:00 Oral Roberts
9:30 It is Written
10:00 Robert Schuller
11:00 Black Focus
11:30 Face the Nation
noon This is Your City
12:30 Bill Dance Outdoors
1:00 NBA: Los Angeles-Boston
3:00 Tennis: Volvo Grand Prix Masters finals
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 One Day at a Time (1 hr)
9:00 Alice
9:30 Jeffersons
10:00 Trapper John, MD
11:00 News
11:30 Wild Wild West
12:30 Rookies
1:30 News

WGN 9-Ind Chicago Listed ET
5am United Cerebral Palsy Telethon (the 30th annual program with hosts Dennis James and Paul Anka in NYC, and Dick Van Patten, Joyce DeWitt, Robert Guillaume, Henry Winkler, Gavin MacLeod, and John Ritter in LA)
8pm Wild Kingdom
8:30 Maude
9:00 Lawrence Welk (Broadway hits)
10:00 News
11:00 Morecambe & Wise
11:30 Movie "Destry Rides Again" (bw)
1:05 News
1:35 Cromie Circle
3:05 Movie "Charlie Chan on Broadway" (bw)
4:25 TBA

WTHI 10-CBS Terre Haute
7:00 Faith for Today
7:30 This is the Life
8:00 Jimmy Swaggart
9:00 CBS News Sunday Morning
10:30 Oral Roberts
11:00 Robert Schuller
noon Face the Nation
12:30 Bill Hodges (Indiana State basketball)
1:00 NBA: Los Angeles-Boston
3:00 Tennis: Volvo Grand Prix Masters finals
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 One Day at a Time (1 hr)
9:00 Alice
9:30 Jeffersons
10:00 Trapper John, MD
11:00 News
11:15 CBS News
11:30 Jackie Gleason (bw/guest Henny Youngman)
mid. Gunsmoke

WTHR 13-NBC Indianpolis
5am United Cerebral Palsy Telethon
7pm Disney's Wonderful World
8:00 CHiPs
9:00 Bob Hope's 30th Anniversary Special
11:00 News
11:30 Golf: Bob Hope Desert Classic (same-day tape)

WTBS 17-Ind Atlanta
5:00 Movie "A Midsummer Night's Dream" cont'd (bw)
5:30 Ag-USA
6:00 Between the Lines
7:00 James Robison
7:30 Is is Written
8:00 Three Stooges & Friends (bw)
9:00 Lost in Space
10:00 Hazel
10:30 Movie "Mister Roberts"
1:00 Movie "The Garden of Allah"
2:30 Movie "A Very Special Favor"
4:30 Movie "Jack and the Beanstalk"
6:00 Wrestling
7:00 Tush
8:00 Mission: Impossible
9:00 NBA: Atlanta-Phoenix
11:15 News
12:15 Ruff House
12:45 Open Up
1:45 Rat Patrol
2:15 Movie "My Dream is Yours"
4:20 Movie "Larceny, Inc." (bw)

WLFI 18-CBS Lafayette
6:00 TBA
8:00 Three Robonic Stooges
8:30 Sunday with the First Assembly of God
9:00 CBS News Sunday Morning
10:30 Jerry Falwell
11:30 Face the Nation
noon Bill Dance Outdoors (guest Foster Brooks)
12:30 Gene Keady (Purdue)
1:00 NBA: Los Angeles-Boston
3:00 Tennis: Volvo Grand Prix Masters finals
6:00 1979 All-American Football Team
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 One Day at a Time (1 hr)
9:00 Alice
9:30 Jeffersons
10:00 Trapper John, MD
11:00 CBS News
11:15 Mid-North Magazine
11:30 That (Good Ole) Nashville Music (guests Rex Allen Jr, Sheila Andrews, Vern Gosdin, and Buddy Spicher)
mid. TBA

WFYI 20-PBS Indianapolis
9:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30 Electric Company
10:00 Sesame Street
11:00 On Stage!
11:30 Big Blue Marble
noon Market to Market
12:30 Indiana Journal
1:00 Washington Week in Review
1:30 Wall Street Week
2:00 Matinee at the Bijou "Philo Vance Returns"/"Don Winslow of the Navy"-pt 5 (bw)
3:30 Mark Russell
4:00 Firing Line (Massachusetts sheriff John Buckley and the NRA's Harlon Carter square off over gun control)
5:00 Odyssey "N!ai, the Story of a !Kung Woman"
6:00 Once Upon a Classic "The Mill on the Floss" (pt 3)
6:30 On the Street
7:00 New Voice
7:30 From Jumpstreet (Oscar Brown Jr. traces the history of gospels and spirituals with guests Rev. James Cleveland, the DC Mass Choir, and the Mighty Clouds of Joy)
8:00 Shock of the New (Robert Hughes discusses the relationship between art and politics)
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre "Danger UXB" (pt 3)
10:00 Sullivans (2 episodes; first PBS station I've come across in my archives airing this Aussie classic)
11:30 Wall Street Week

WVUT 22-PBS Vincennes
5pm Drama: Play, Performance, Perception
6:00 Firing Line (Rev. William Sloane Coffin and Laurence Beilenson debate civil defense)
7:00 New Voice
7:30 From Jumpstreet
8:00 Shock of the New
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre "Danger UXB" (pt 3)
10:00 Steichen...A Century in Photography (looks at legendary photographer Edward Steichen)

WTIU 30-PBS Bloomington
9:00 Mister Rogers's Neighborhood
9:30 Electric Company
10:00 Sesame Street
11:00 Matinee at the Bijou (see 2pm, 20 for details)
12:30 Once Upon a Classic "The Mill on the Floss" (pt 3)
1:00 Washington Week in Review
1:30 Wall Street Week
2:00 Great Performances (Mikhail Baryshnikov and Natalia Makarova show off their pas de deux skills)
3:00 World of Mother Teresa
4:00 Deadly Winds of War (looks at chemical weapons in the Western US)
5:00 Odyssey (same show as 20)
6:00 Firing Line (same show as 22)
7:00 New Voice
7:30 From Jumpstreet
8:00 Shock of the New
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre "Danger UXB" (pt 3)
10:00 Steichen...a Century in Photography
11:00 Paper Chase

WFLD 32-Ind Chicago Listed ET
8:00 TBA
8:30 Rev. Arthur DeKutter
9:00 Robert Schuller
10:00 Woody Woodpecker
10:30 Way to Go
11:00 Tom & Jerry
11:30 Movie "Safari Drums" (bw)
1:00 Movie "Fame is the Name of the Game"
3:00 Movie "A Man Could Get Killed"
5:30 Beverly Hillbillies (bw)
6:00 Partridge Family
6:30 Brady Bunch
7:00 Movie "Bedtime for Bonzo" (bw, Ronald Reagan would be inaugurated 2 days later)
8:55 Movie "The Winning Team" (bw)
11:00 Baxters
11:30 It's Your Business

WBAK 38-ABC Terre Haute
5am United Cerebral Palsy Telethon
7pm Catastrophe! No Safe Place
8:00 Those Amazing Animals
9:00 Movie "The Choirboys"
11:30 News
11:45 ABC News
mid. Movie "Claudia" (bw)

WHMB 40-Ind/Rel Indianapolis
8:00 In His Labour
8:30 Kenneth Copeland
9:30 Lester Sumrall Teaches
10:00 Jimmy Swaggart
11:00 Bible Hour
noon 700 Club Telethon "Decade of Destiny-Mandate for Change"

WIPB 49-PBS Muncie
9:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30 Electric Company
10:00 Sesame Street
11:00 Statehouse Report
11:30 Human Dimension
noon Freedom's Defense: America's Cup 1980
1:00 Matinee at the Bijou (see 2pm, 20)
2:30 Sneak Previews
3:00 Movie "Palmy Days" (bw)
4:30 Story Theatre
5:00 Deadly Winds of War
6:00 Firing Line (civil defense)
7:00 Washington Week in Review
7:30 Wall Street Week
8:00 All Creatures Great & Small
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre "Danger UXB" (pt 3)
10:00 Shock of the New

HBO
2:30pm Emerald Cup women's gymnastics
3:30 Movie "Moonraker"
6:00 Movie "Big Jake"
8:00 Movie "Meatballs"
9:30 Movie "Moonraker"
11:45 Movie "The Bridge at Remagen"
1:45 Beautiful, Baby, Beautiful! (examing the world of fashion photography with the help of Christie Brinkley, Rene Russo, Cristina Ferrara, and Suzy Parker)
 
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