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Retro: Central & Northern Alberta Wed, Oct 24, 1979

from TV Guide-Edmonton/Northern Alberta edition
Spokane channels listed MT

CKSA 2-CBC Lloydminster
9:30 Film
9:45 Friendly Giant
10:00 Why Should I Care? (special for the International Year of the Child; pre-empts Western Schools and Mr. Dressup)
11:00 Sesame Street
noon Focus
12:30 Time for You
1:00 Today from Ontario
2:00 Edge of Night
2:30 Take 30
3:00 Bob McLean (Gordon Sinclair, Morton Shulman, and Richard Rohmer discuss the 1929 stock market crash)
4:00 Beyond Reason
4:30 TBA
5:00 Beachcombers
5:30 Green Acres
6:00 Mid West Report
6:30 Happy Days
7:00 Love Boat
8:00 Nature of Things (series return-Cleveland State physics professor Jearl Walker puts his life in his hands while demonstrating physics fundamentals, the 1974 Oscar-winning short Don't (about a monarch butterfly's efforts to survive), reports on extended-wear contacts and also on recent developments in treating a rare disorder affercting human immunological defences which guaranteed sterile isolation for victims that survive infacy)
9:00 Music of Man (pt 1) "The Quiver of Life" (examining the first musical expressions and ancient traditions)
10:00 Spectrum (saluting American composer Vincent Youmans)
11:00 The National
11:25 Mid West Report

KREM 2-CBS Spokane
6:55 Down to Earth
7:00 Sunrise Semester (origins of African nationalism)
7:30 Andy Griffith
8:00 Wednesday Morning
9:00 Captain Kangaroo (guest Millicent Martin)
10:00 Beat the Clock
10:30 Whew!
10:55 CBS News
11:00 Price is Right
noon Young & the Restless
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 News
1:20 Topic
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 One Day at a Time
4:00 Mike Douglas (no info listed)
5:00 Lost in Space
6:00 Gomer Pyle, USMC
6:30 News
7:00 CBS Evening News (the listings indicate a tag-team at the desk at the time, one was Walter Cronkite and the other anchor went by the name of Drinkwater)
7:30 Happy Days Again
8:00 Six Million Dollar Man
9:00 State Fair of Texas Rodeo
10:00 Movie "House Calls"
mid. News
12:30 Switch
1:40 Hawaii Five-O

CFRN 3-CTV Edmonton
6:00 University of the Air "Cross-Cultural Psychology"
6:30 Romper Room
7:00 Canada AM
9:00 ACCESS (Alberta educational programming)
11:00 Morning Magazine
11:30 What's Cooking
noon Flintstones
12:30 Tic Tac Dough
1:00 Mad Dash
1:30 Alan Hamel (guests Stephen Yan (of Work with Yan fame), actors John Schuck & Andree Cousineau, comic Kelly Monteith, and jazz group Dale Jacobs & Cobra)
2:30 Another World
4:00 Six Million Dollar Man
5:00 Beverly Hillbillies (bw)
5:30 Newlywed Game
6:00 News
6:30 Western Express Lottery
7:00 Movie "Donner Pass: the Road to Survival"
9:00 Hawaii Five-O
10:00 TBA
11:00 CTV National News
11:20 News
mid. Merv Griffin (guests McLean Stevenson, Vincent Price, wine expert Daniel Mirassou, Jackie Collins, and gymnast Igor Askinazi performs with 13-yr-old Stacy Tuttuon)
1:30 Emergency!
2:30 Gunsmoke (bw)

CITL 4-CTV Lloydminster
7:00 Canada AM
9:00 ACCESS
11:00 University of the Air "Cross-Cultural Psychology"
11:30 Romper Room
noon Focus (CITL and CKSA were sister stations, simulcasting some of the local programs on both channels)
12:30 ACCESS
1:00 What's Cooking
1:30 Alan Hamel
2:30 Another World
4:00 100 Huntley Street
5:30 Mad Dash
6:00 Mid West Report
6:30 Western Express Lottery
7:00 Palace (Jack Jones welcome guests Pearl Bailey, Connie Stevens, Frank Mills, Harry Blackstone Jr., Marty Allen, and Johnny Yune)
8:00 How the West was Won
11:00 CTV National News
11:20 Farm Report
11:25 Mid West Report
11:45 Audubon Wildlife Theatre (Mexican wildlife in their natural habitats)

KXLY 4-ABC Spokane
6:55 Farm Report
7:00 Public Affairs
7:30 Lone Ranger
8:00 Good Morning America
10:00 Phil Donahue (no details listed)
11:00 Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Junior Pyramid
noon Family Feud
12:30 All My Children
1:30 Noon Show
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Edge of Night
4:30 Flintstones
5:00 Gilligan's Island
5:30 Lucy Show
6:00 Carol Burnett & Friends
6:30 News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 3's a Crowd
8:00 Joker's Wild
8:30 Match Game
9:00 Eight is Enough
10:00 Charlie's Angels
11:00 Vega$
mid. News
12:30 Love Boat
1:40 Baretta

CBXT 5-CBC Edmonton
9:45 Friendly Giant
10:00 Why Should I Care?
11:00 Sesame Street
noon Mid-Day
12:30 Wicks (the cartoonist talks to photogs in Halifax and Miami Beach)
1:00 Today from Ontario
2:00 Edge of Night
2:30 Take 30
3:00 Bob McLean
4:00 Beyond Reason
4:30 All in the Family
5:00 Beachcombers
5:30 Mary Tyler Moore
6:00 Happy Days
6:30 News
7:30 Getting It Together
8:00 Nature of Things (return)
9:00 Music of Man (pt 1) "The Quiver of Life"
10:00 Spectrum
11:00 The National
11:25 News
11:45 Movie "Nurse Will Make It Better"

CKRD 6-CBC Red Deer
7:00 Today from Quebec (1 day delay)
8:00 PTL Club
9:00 ACCESS
11:00 Sesame Street
noon Film
12:30 Dialog
1:30 Young & the Restless
2:00 Edge of Night
2:30 Take 30
3:00 Bob McLean
4:00 Beyond Reason
4:30 Yan Can
5:00 Beachcombers
5:30 Profile
6:00 Happy Days
6:30 Eight is Enough
7:30 TBA
8:00 Nature of Things (return)
9:00 Music of Man (pt 1) "The Quiver of Life"
10:00 Spectrum
11:00 The National
11:25 News
mid. America 2Night (guests Roger Miller and ex-gangster Mario Doresett (played by Val Gould); Martin Mull and Fred Willard starred in this talk-show spoof)

KHQ 6-NBC Spokane
6:50 Home & Farm Report
7:20 Huckleberry Hound/Yogi Bear
8:00 Today (guests include Shari Lewis)
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
noon Mindreaders
12:30 Password Plus
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Doctors
2:30 Another World
4:00 Big Valley
5:00 Merv Griffin (details n/a)
6:30 News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Cross-Wits
8:00 M*A*S*H
8:30 PM Magazine
9:00 Real People (a 10-yr-old DJ/a bicyclist who rides in reverse/a man who walks backwards/visiting the Colorado River/a reunion of black WWII fighter pilots/a turtle race/barbershop quartet convention)
10:00 Diff'rent Strokes (Muhammad Ali guest stars as Willis and Kimberly, trying to help Arnold after he misses an opportunity to meet The Greatest, tell Ali that Arnold's dying wish is to meet him)
10:30 Hello, Larry (new day/time)
11:00 Best of Saturday Night Live
mid. News
12:30 Tonight Show (guests include George Gobel)
2:00 700 Club "Seven Days Ablaze" (pt 3)

KSPS 7-PBS Spokane
Instructional programs in daytime
4:30pm Villa Alegre
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6:30 Electric Company
7:00 American Story
7:30 Over Easy (Hugh Downs talks with Col. Sanders)
8:00 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
8:30 Dick Cavett (guest Dudley Moore)
9:00 Great Performances "The Sorrows of Gin" (the first of 3 dramatizations of stories by John Cheever)
10:00 Alwin Nikolais Dance Theatre (the choreographer creates the dance Aviary, which is an abstract mixture of movement, light, and sound)
11:00 Connections
mid. Dick Cavett (repeat from 8:30)
12:30 Captioned ABC News

CBXFT 11-SRC Edmonton
9:00 En mouvement
9:15 L'Evangile en papier
9:30 TBA
10:30 Magazine-Express
11:00 Au fil de la semaine
11:30 Madame et son fantome
noon Les filles du cial
12:30 Les Coqueluches
1:30 Le Telejournal
1:35 Femme d'aujourd'hui
2:30 Le temps de vivre
4:00 Bobino
4:30 Nic et Pic
5:00 Cosmos 1999 (Space: 1999)
6:00 Ce soir Alberta
7:00 Quelle famille!
7:30 Winston McQuade recoit (his sister Penelope is also a well-known Quebecois TV personality)
8:30 Caroline
9:00 Best-Sellers
10:00 Science-realite
10:30 Le Telejournal
11:00 Derniere edition
11:20 Reflets d'un pays (docs from SRC stations across Canada)
12:20 Cinema "Monsieur Verdoux" (bw)

CITV 13-Ind Edmonton
6:00 Doug Hall
6:30 It Figures
7:00 Spider-Man
7:30 Rocket Robin Hood
8:00 Ed Allen Time
8:30 100 Huntley Street
10:00 Barbara Kelly
11:30 Hammy Hamster
noon Bewitched
12:30 Movie "Intimate Strangers"
2:30 Celebrity Cooks
3:00 Yan Can
3:30 Party Game
4:00 Battle of the Planets
4:30 Family Affair
5:00 Match Game
5:30 NHL: Edmonton-NY Rangers (pre-empts Family Feud at 5:30, Dating Game at 6, M*A*S*H at 6:30, and various US programs at 7)
8:30 M*A*S*H
9:00 Rock It
10:00 Ten O'Clock
11:00 Keith McColl
11:30 Street Talk
mid. Movie "Gold of the Amazon Women"
2:00 Marcus Welby, MD
3:00 All That Gilitters
 
Bluenoser said:
KREM 2-CBS Spokane
7:00 CBS Evening News (the listings indicate a tag-team at the desk at the time, one was Walter Cronkite and the other anchor went by the name of Drinkwater)

Terry Drinkwater, who anchored the West Coast edition from Los Angeles, with updates on national news, as well as news reports that are pertinent to the west coast. Cronkite, of course, anchors the non-timely portions via tape delay from the east coast broadcast.
 
azumanga said:
Bluenoser said:
KREM 2-CBS Spokane
7:00 CBS Evening News (the listings indicate a tag-team at the desk at the time, one was Walter Cronkite and the other anchor went by the name of Drinkwater)

Terry Drinkwater, who anchored the West Coast edition from Los Angeles, with updates on national news, as well as news reports that are pertinent to the west coast. Cronkite, of course, anchors the non-timely portions via tape delay from the east coast broadcast.

This clip of Cronkite's last CBS Evening News illustrates this bicoastal arrangement:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp3UiDLI_mA
 
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