By request, from TV Guide Central Ohio Edition:
WDTN Ch. 2 Dayton (NBC)
6:30 Family Affair
7 AM Marlo And The Magic Movie Machine (childhood
photos of Woody Allen; an interview with William
Shakespeare, played by Laurie Faso)
7:30 Big Blue Marble
8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Go Go Globetrotters
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
11:30 Space Sentinels
12 N Land Of The Lost
12:30 Thunder
1 PM Cliffwood Avenue Kids
1:30 This Week In Baseball
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Cardinals-Reds or Royals-White Sox
5 PM Gunsmoke (time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 Lawrence Welk (salute to Bing Crosby)
7:30 Price Is Right
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM NBC Movie: "Sex And The Married Woman"
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (host Hugh Hefner, Andy Kaufman,
musical guest Libby Titus)
1 AM Second City TV
1:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (The Spinners, Mink DeVille,
Dean Friedman, comic Bobby Kelton, escape artist Chris
Chalen)
3 AM Movie: "Company Of Killers"
5 AM Movie: "Zita" (to 7 AM)
Ch. 3 Special Network Channel Columbus
Listed here is only what TV Guide shows for this channel.
11:30 Space Sentinels (pre-empted on Ch. 4)
12 N Land Of The Lost (pre-empted on Ch. 4)
12:30 American Bandstand (Crystal Gayle, Randy Bachman, pre-empted
on Ch. 6)
1:30 AM Movie: "Carnival Story"
WCMH Ch. 4 Columbus (NBC)
7 AM Marlo And The Magic Movie Machine (childhood photos of Diane
Keaton, the life of Harry S Truman, a performing cow)
7:30 World Of Survival
8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Go Go Globetrotters
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
11:30 Little Rascals
12 N Movie: "Rawhide" (no relation to the series, this one from '51 is
about a group of stagecoach passengers being held hostage at
the station)
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Cardinals-Reds or Royals-White Sox
5 PM Marcus Welby, M.D. (time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (anchor not given)
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM NBC Movie: "Sex And The Married Woman"
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Movie: "Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here"
WTTV Ch. 4 Indianapolis (Ind.)
Listed EDT
7:30 Lessons For Living
8 AM Popeye And Peggy
9 AM Jerry Falwell
10 AM Focus
10:30 Citizens Forum
10:45 Hoosier Hinterland
11 AM Opera
11:30 Garner Ted Armstrong
12 N Wrestling
1 PM Movie: "Blackbeard The Pirate"
3 PM Movie: "The Interns"
5:30 News
6 PM Beverly Hillbillies
6:30 Andy Griffith
7 PM Dick Van Dyke
7:30 Odd Couple
8 PM Indiana-Kentucky All Star High School Basketball Game
(live from Freedom Hall in Louisville)
10 PM Pop Goes The Country (Mickey Gilley, Margo Smith, Rex
Allen Jr., time approximate)
10:30 That Nashville Music (Barbara Mandrell, Roy Drusky, Darrell
McCall, Johnny Gimble)
11 PM Movie: "Son Of Dracula"
12:30 News
1 AM Wrestling
2 AM Movie: "Somewhere I'll Find You"
4 AM Movie: "Without Love" (watch for Lucille Ball in this Tracy-
Hepburn comedy from '45)
6 AM Movie: "The Man From Down Under" (watch for Donna Reed,
from '43)
WLWT Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)
6:30 Better Way...
7 AM U.S. Farm Report
7:30 Hot Fudge
8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Go Go Globetrotters
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
11:30 Space Sentinels
12 N Land Of The Lost
12:30 Thunder
1 PM The Racers (the Swift Powerboat Classic)
1:30 Greatest Sports Legends (tribute to John Wooden)
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Cardinals-Reds or Royals-White Sox
5 PM This Week In Baseball (time approximate)
5:30 Hollywood Squares (Gary Burghoff, George Gobel,
Earl Holliman, Hal Linden, Denise Nicholas, Bernadette
Peters, Tony Randall, Elke Sommer, Paul Lynde)
6 PM News
6:30 Sportsview (host Bob Trumpy flies a glider; Bengals
cheerleader tryouts; Tex Cauthen, father of jockey
Steve Cauthen)
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM NBC Movie: "Sex And The Married Woman"
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Movie: "Revenge Is My Destiny"
3 AM Movie: "Two Are Guilty"
WTVN (WSYX) Ch. 6 Columbus (ABC)
7 AM Fun For Everyone
7:30 Dusty's Treehouse
8 AM Superfriends
9 AM Scooby's Laff-A-Lympics
11 AM Krofft Supershow
12 N Point Of View
12:30 Soul Train (Brick, Sister Sledge)
1:30 Miniature Golf
2 PM NFL Great Teams/Great Years (the 1973 Buffalo
Bills (O.J. Simpson's 2000-yard season), the 1975
Los Angeles Rams)
3 PM Golf: U.S. Open (third round from Cherry Hills Country
Club, Englewood, CO)
7 PM Hee Haw (Billy Carter, Barbara Mandrell, jockey-turned-singer
Larry Mahan, time approximate)
8 PM Love Boat (Pearl Bailey, Nanette Fabray, Don Adams)
9 PM ABC Presents Tomorrow's Stars (John Ritter hosts this live talent
contest, with performers competing in the categories of male and
female singers, single and group comedy routines, solo and group
instrumental acts.)
11 PM News
11:15 ABC News (Sylvia Chase/Tom Jarriel)
11:30 Movie: "Thief Of Baghdad"
1 AM Wolfman Jack (Lou Rawls, singer Patsy Gallant)
WHIO Ch. 7 Dayton (CBS)
7 AM Summer Semester: "U.S. Foreign Policy"
7:30 Yogi Bear And Friends
8 AM Three Robonic Stooges
8:30 Speed Buggy
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour
11:30 Secrets Of Isis
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Space Academy
1 PM Courthouse Square
1:30 CBS Children's Film Festival ("Miguel's Navidad,"
from Mexico)
2 PM Movie: "Tarzan Finds A Son!"
3:30 Truth Or Consequences
4 PM That Nashville Music (T.G. Sheppard, O.B. McClinton)
4:30 Nashville On The Road (Nat Stuckey is the guest.)
5 PM Pop Goes The Country (Johnny Rodriguez, LaWanda Lindsey,
Little David Wilkins)
5:30 Porter Wagoner (guest: Ronnie Blackwell)
6 PM News
6:30 Hee Haw
7:30 Match Game PM (Richard Dawson, Charles Nelson Reilly,
Bill Anderson, Marcia Wallace, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Brett Somers)
8 PM Bob Newhart
8:30 Baby, I'm Back
9 PM CBS Movie: "For Better, For Worse" (originally shown in theaters in
'74 as "Zandy's Bride")
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "You Can't Win 'em All" (this may have been CBS's Friday
late movie)
1:30 News
WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)
6 AM Summer Semester
6:30 Environment
7 AM Call The Doctor (topic: pediatrics, rerun from Sun 11 AM)
8 AM Three Robonic Stooges
8:30 Speed Buggy
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour
11:30 Secrets Of Isis
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Space Academy
1 PM Movie: "The Story Of Dr. Wassell"
4 PM That's Hollywood (segments from song-and-dance movies,
including "Saturday Night Fever"; featured are John Travolta,
Burt Reynolds, Gene Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, and Shirley MacLaine)
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular (Mate Perlov makes his first defense of the
WBC light-heavyweight crown against former champ John Conteh,
15 rounds, live from Belgrade)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM Candid Camera (an aerosol can that won't stop spraying; shattering
bowling pins (a classic from the English version, IIRC); a live leg in
a stocking display; Fannie Flagg as a lazy carpet installer)
7:30 All-Star Anything Goes ("Eight Is Enough" vs. "The Waltons"; contestants
include Jon Walmsley, David W. Harper, Grant Goodeve, Lani O'Grady,
Mary McDonough)
8 PM Bob Newhart
8:30 Baby, I'm Back
9 PM CBS Movie: "For Better, For Worse"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Long Hot Summer"
2 AM Movie: "The Professionals" (in this case, bank robbers)
4:15 Here And Now
4:45 News
WBNS Ch. 10 Columbus (CBS)
6 AM Summer Semester
6:30 U.S. Farm Report
7 AM Public Policy Forums (the interrelations of academia, politics,
and public policy)
8 AM Three Robonic Stooges
8:30 Speed Buggy
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour
11:30 Secrets Of Isis
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Space Academy
1 PM What's New, Mr. Magoo?
1:30 CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM Movie: "It Started In Naples"
4 PM That Nashville Music (Barbara Fairchild, the Osborne (not the
Osmond) Brothers, Carl Perkins)
4:30 Nashville On The Road (guest: Freddy Weller)
5 PM Pop Goes The Country (the Statler Brothers, Bobby Borchers)
5:30 Porter Wagoner (guest: Bob Luman)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Bugs Bunny
7:30 All-Star Anything Goes (Olympians from 1968 vs. Olympians from
1972; contestants include Peggy Fleming, Mark Spitz, Bob Seagren,
and Steve Furniss)
8 PM Bob Newhart
8:30 Baby, I'm Back
9 PM CBS Movie: "For Better, For Worse"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Third Day"
WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)
6:30 Max B. Nimble
7 AM Marlo And The Magic Movie Machine (childhood photos of Jimmy
Connors; highlights of September 1958)
7:30 Partridge Family
8 AM Superfriends
9 AM Scooby's Laff-A-Lympics
11 AM Krofft Supershow
12 N Movie: "Scared Stiff" (Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, from '53)
2 PM Bowling
3 PM Golf: U.S. Open (third round)
7 PM Hee Haw (time approximate)
8 PM Love Boat
9 PM ABC Presents Tomorrow's Stars
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Sea Chase"
1:30 Movie: "Lady Godiva"
3:30 Movie: "The Prince Who Was A Thief"
WPTO Ch. 14 Oxford, OH/WPTD Ch. 16 Dayton (PBS)
2 PM Crockett's Victory Garden
2:30 Romagnolis' Table
3 PM In Search Of The Real America
4 PM Nova ("Memories From Eden"--spacious zoos that are
becoming the last refuge for many species)
5 PM Consumer Survival Kit
5:30 Turnabout
6 PM Old Friends...New Friends
6:30 Que Pasa, U.S.A.?
7 PM Insights
7:30 Paint Along With Nancy Kominsky
8 PM In Search Of The Real America (former CIA directors William
Colby and Richard Helms, and former CIA deputy director Thomas
Karamessines defend the CIA against its critics, among them people
who think the CIA engineered assassinations)
8:30 Waite Hoyt Through The Years
9 PM Pro Soccer
10 PM Racquetball: Colgate Pro-Am Finals from Tempe, AZ
11 PM No, Honestly
sign off 11:30 PM
WHIZ Ch. 18 Zanesville, OH (NBC/ABC)
7 AM Focus On Agriculture
7:30 I Am The Greatest: The Adventures Of Muhammad Ali
8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Go Go Globetrotters
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
11:30 Space Sentinels
12 N Land Of The Lost
12:30 Thunder
1 PM Small Talk
1:30 Ray Weaver & The Great Outdoors
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Cardinals-Reds or Royals-White Sox
5 PM Playhouse (time approximate)
5:30 Journey To Adventure
6 PM Wild Kingdom (the Grand Teton Mountains in Wyoming)
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM Sixth Annual Zane's Trace Commemoration (being held in
Zanesville that weekend)
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
WXIX Ch. 19 Cincinnati (Ind.)
6:15 Perspective
7 AM Porky Pig
7:30 Bugs Bunny
8 AM Popeye
8:30 Flintstones
9 AM Tom And Jerry
9:30 Woody Woodpecker
10 AM Magic Of Mark Wilson
10:30 Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
11:30 Movie: "Spy Chasers" (the Bowery Boys, from '56)
1 PM Movie: "The Scarlet Claw" (Basil Rathbone and Nigel
Bruce as Sherlock Holmes and Watson, from '44)
2:30 Movie: "Tarzan Finds A Son!" (Johnny Weissmuller as
Tarzan)
4 PM Movie: "Emperor Of The North"
6 PM Jacques Cousteau (the manatee as it makes it way down
Florida's St. Johns River)
7 PM Grease Day U.S.A. (a "prom" held on the movie's high-school
set, with John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Sid Caesar, Eve
Arden, Stockard Channing, Sha Na Na, Yvonne Elliman, and
Andy Gibb)
8 PM 1978 Gatornationals (taped in Gainesville, FL)
9 PM Pop Goes The Country (Charlie Rich, Barbara Fairchild)
9:30 Porter Wagoner
10 PM Marty Robbins' Spotlight (guest: Ray Stevens)
10:30 Nashville On The Road (guest: Don Gibson)
11 PM That Nashville Music (Larry Gatlin, Dottsy, Moe Bandy)
11:30 Tennis: WCT-Shakey's Tournament of Champions from Las Vegas:
Ken Rosewall vs. Eddie Dibbs
12:30 Movie: "Assignment Terror"
WOUB Ch. 20 Athens, OH (PBS)
5 PM Art America
5:30 Art America
6 PM Zoom
6:30 You Bet Your Life ("Best Of Groucho")
7 PM Electric Company
7:30 Once Upon A Classic ("Robin Hood," Part 5)
8 PM Onedin Line
9 PM Great Performances (the three-part "The Norman Conquests,"
a comedy about a family gathering as seen from three different
perspectives; Part 1, "Table Manners," is set in the dining room
and deals with Norman's unsuccessful attempt at a liaison with
his sister-in-law)
sign off 11 PM
WKEF Ch. 22 Dayton (ABC)
7 AM Better Way...
7:30 Clubhouse Saturday
9 AM Scooby's Laff-A-Lympics
11 AM Krofft Supershow
12 N Dynomutt
12:30 Movie: "Year 2889"
2:30 Miniature Golf
3 PM Golf: U.S. Open (third round)
7 PM Wild Wild World Of Animals (desert animals--bighorn
sheep, burros, mustangs, and coyotes--gather at
a watering hole in the Badlands; birds of prey that
nest in canyon walls, time approximate)
7:30 That's Hollywood (war heroes; movies include "Tora!
Tora! Tora!," "The Longest Day," "Twelve O'Clock High,"
"M*A*S*H," "Guadalcanal Diary," "The Purple Heart")
8 PM Love Boat
9 PM ABC Presents Tomorrow's Stars
11 PM Star Trek
12 M 700 Club
WOSU Ch. 34 Columbus (PBS)
4 PM Daniel Foster, M.D.
4:30 Paint Along With Nancy Kominsky
5 PM Consumer Survival Kit
5:30 Turnabout
6 PM Pro Soccer
7 PM Black Perspective On The News
7:30 Lowell Thomas Remembers (the career of Gen. George
S. Patton)
8 PM Harold Lloyd ("Safety Last," his classic from 1923 where
he ends up dangling from a building clock; "Hey There"
from 1918)
8:30 In Performance At Wolf Trap (Donizetti's 1837 opera "Roberto
Devereux," about Queen Elizabeth I's love for the unfaithful
Earl of Essex; Beverly Sills plays Elizabeth)
sign off 11 PM
WLIO Ch. 35 Lima, OH (NBC/ABC)
7:30 U.S. Farm Report
8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Go Go Globetrotters
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
11:30 Space Sentinels
12 N Land Of The Lost
12:30 Thunder
1 PM Bass Fishin' America
1:30 American Adventure (American Olympic skiers in training
in Colorado)
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Cardinals-Reds or Royals-White Sox
5 PM Bewitched (time approximate)
5:30 Porter Wagoner (guest: Merle Haggard)
6 PM Wild Kingdom (U.S. Forest Service rangers putting out
a Montana fire)
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM NBC Movie: "Sex And The Married Woman"
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
WUAB Ch. 43 Cleveland (Ind.)
8:30 For You...Black Woman
9 AM Ernest Angley
10 AM Lorain Conversation
10:30 Petticoat Junction
11 AM Animal World (African birds: plovers, storks, cranes, sandpipers,
vultures, flamingos, ibises)
11:30 American Angler (Johnny Rutherford goes after largemouth bass.)
12 N Three Stooges
12:20 Dick Tracy ('40s movie serial)
12:40 Three Stooges
1 PM Movie: "20 Million Miles To Earth"
2:30 Movie: "It Ain't Hay" (Abbott and Costello, from '43)
4 PM Movie: "A Time For Every Season" (tour of the northern Alaskan
wilderness, from '72)
6 PM Star Trek
7 PM Space: 1999
8 PM Movie: "Countdown" (about the first man on the moon, from '68,
a year before the real thing)
10 PM Soul Train (Brick, Sister Sledge)
11 PM Dolly (a classic: Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris are the guests)
11:30 That Nashville Music (the Statler Brothers, Ronnie Milsap, Johnny Duncan)
12 M Marty Robbins' Spotlight (Bobby Bare and Tom T. Hall salute Johnny Rodriguez)
12:30 Pop Goes The Country (Johnny Rodriguez, LaWanda Lindsey, Little David Wilkins)
WCET Ch. 48 Cincinnati (PBS)
9 AM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30 Electric Company
10 AM Once Upon A Classic ("Robin Hood," Part 5)
10:30 Daniel Foster, M.D.
11 AM Paint Along With Nancy Kominsky
11:30 Consumer Survival Kit
12 N French Chef
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1 PM Lilias, Yoga And You
1:30 Think Cincinnati
2 PM Conversation With Irma
2:30 Romagnolis' Table
3 PM Antiques
3:30 Withit
4 PM Old Friends...New Friends
4:30 Book Beat (novelist Richard Adams discusses "The Plague
Dogs," about two dogs who flee inhumane treatment at an
experimental lab)
5 PM Five String Breakdown
5:30 Over Easy (the Metropolitan Opera's John Reardon)
6 PM Anyone For Tennyson?
6:30 Lowell Thomas Remembers
7 PM Firing Line (former CIA director Vernon Walters discusses diplomacy)
8 PM Movie: "Tom, Dick And Harry"
9:30 In Performance At Wolf Trap (the Martha Graham Dance Company
performs "Seraphic Dialogue" (Joan of Arc looking back on her life),
"O Thou Desire Who Are About To Sing" (two lovers break up, regret it,
and reconcile), and "Phaedra" (the Greek myth about a woman who lusts
after her stepson))
11 PM Bluegrass, Bluegrass
WDTN Ch. 2 Dayton (NBC)
6:30 Family Affair
7 AM Marlo And The Magic Movie Machine (childhood
photos of Woody Allen; an interview with William
Shakespeare, played by Laurie Faso)
7:30 Big Blue Marble
8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Go Go Globetrotters
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
11:30 Space Sentinels
12 N Land Of The Lost
12:30 Thunder
1 PM Cliffwood Avenue Kids
1:30 This Week In Baseball
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Cardinals-Reds or Royals-White Sox
5 PM Gunsmoke (time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 Lawrence Welk (salute to Bing Crosby)
7:30 Price Is Right
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM NBC Movie: "Sex And The Married Woman"
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (host Hugh Hefner, Andy Kaufman,
musical guest Libby Titus)
1 AM Second City TV
1:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (The Spinners, Mink DeVille,
Dean Friedman, comic Bobby Kelton, escape artist Chris
Chalen)
3 AM Movie: "Company Of Killers"
5 AM Movie: "Zita" (to 7 AM)
Ch. 3 Special Network Channel Columbus
Listed here is only what TV Guide shows for this channel.
11:30 Space Sentinels (pre-empted on Ch. 4)
12 N Land Of The Lost (pre-empted on Ch. 4)
12:30 American Bandstand (Crystal Gayle, Randy Bachman, pre-empted
on Ch. 6)
1:30 AM Movie: "Carnival Story"
WCMH Ch. 4 Columbus (NBC)
7 AM Marlo And The Magic Movie Machine (childhood photos of Diane
Keaton, the life of Harry S Truman, a performing cow)
7:30 World Of Survival
8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Go Go Globetrotters
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
11:30 Little Rascals
12 N Movie: "Rawhide" (no relation to the series, this one from '51 is
about a group of stagecoach passengers being held hostage at
the station)
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Cardinals-Reds or Royals-White Sox
5 PM Marcus Welby, M.D. (time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (anchor not given)
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM NBC Movie: "Sex And The Married Woman"
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Movie: "Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here"
WTTV Ch. 4 Indianapolis (Ind.)
Listed EDT
7:30 Lessons For Living
8 AM Popeye And Peggy
9 AM Jerry Falwell
10 AM Focus
10:30 Citizens Forum
10:45 Hoosier Hinterland
11 AM Opera
11:30 Garner Ted Armstrong
12 N Wrestling
1 PM Movie: "Blackbeard The Pirate"
3 PM Movie: "The Interns"
5:30 News
6 PM Beverly Hillbillies
6:30 Andy Griffith
7 PM Dick Van Dyke
7:30 Odd Couple
8 PM Indiana-Kentucky All Star High School Basketball Game
(live from Freedom Hall in Louisville)
10 PM Pop Goes The Country (Mickey Gilley, Margo Smith, Rex
Allen Jr., time approximate)
10:30 That Nashville Music (Barbara Mandrell, Roy Drusky, Darrell
McCall, Johnny Gimble)
11 PM Movie: "Son Of Dracula"
12:30 News
1 AM Wrestling
2 AM Movie: "Somewhere I'll Find You"
4 AM Movie: "Without Love" (watch for Lucille Ball in this Tracy-
Hepburn comedy from '45)
6 AM Movie: "The Man From Down Under" (watch for Donna Reed,
from '43)
WLWT Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)
6:30 Better Way...
7 AM U.S. Farm Report
7:30 Hot Fudge
8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Go Go Globetrotters
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
11:30 Space Sentinels
12 N Land Of The Lost
12:30 Thunder
1 PM The Racers (the Swift Powerboat Classic)
1:30 Greatest Sports Legends (tribute to John Wooden)
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Cardinals-Reds or Royals-White Sox
5 PM This Week In Baseball (time approximate)
5:30 Hollywood Squares (Gary Burghoff, George Gobel,
Earl Holliman, Hal Linden, Denise Nicholas, Bernadette
Peters, Tony Randall, Elke Sommer, Paul Lynde)
6 PM News
6:30 Sportsview (host Bob Trumpy flies a glider; Bengals
cheerleader tryouts; Tex Cauthen, father of jockey
Steve Cauthen)
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM NBC Movie: "Sex And The Married Woman"
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Movie: "Revenge Is My Destiny"
3 AM Movie: "Two Are Guilty"
WTVN (WSYX) Ch. 6 Columbus (ABC)
7 AM Fun For Everyone
7:30 Dusty's Treehouse
8 AM Superfriends
9 AM Scooby's Laff-A-Lympics
11 AM Krofft Supershow
12 N Point Of View
12:30 Soul Train (Brick, Sister Sledge)
1:30 Miniature Golf
2 PM NFL Great Teams/Great Years (the 1973 Buffalo
Bills (O.J. Simpson's 2000-yard season), the 1975
Los Angeles Rams)
3 PM Golf: U.S. Open (third round from Cherry Hills Country
Club, Englewood, CO)
7 PM Hee Haw (Billy Carter, Barbara Mandrell, jockey-turned-singer
Larry Mahan, time approximate)
8 PM Love Boat (Pearl Bailey, Nanette Fabray, Don Adams)
9 PM ABC Presents Tomorrow's Stars (John Ritter hosts this live talent
contest, with performers competing in the categories of male and
female singers, single and group comedy routines, solo and group
instrumental acts.)
11 PM News
11:15 ABC News (Sylvia Chase/Tom Jarriel)
11:30 Movie: "Thief Of Baghdad"
1 AM Wolfman Jack (Lou Rawls, singer Patsy Gallant)
WHIO Ch. 7 Dayton (CBS)
7 AM Summer Semester: "U.S. Foreign Policy"
7:30 Yogi Bear And Friends
8 AM Three Robonic Stooges
8:30 Speed Buggy
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour
11:30 Secrets Of Isis
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Space Academy
1 PM Courthouse Square
1:30 CBS Children's Film Festival ("Miguel's Navidad,"
from Mexico)
2 PM Movie: "Tarzan Finds A Son!"
3:30 Truth Or Consequences
4 PM That Nashville Music (T.G. Sheppard, O.B. McClinton)
4:30 Nashville On The Road (Nat Stuckey is the guest.)
5 PM Pop Goes The Country (Johnny Rodriguez, LaWanda Lindsey,
Little David Wilkins)
5:30 Porter Wagoner (guest: Ronnie Blackwell)
6 PM News
6:30 Hee Haw
7:30 Match Game PM (Richard Dawson, Charles Nelson Reilly,
Bill Anderson, Marcia Wallace, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Brett Somers)
8 PM Bob Newhart
8:30 Baby, I'm Back
9 PM CBS Movie: "For Better, For Worse" (originally shown in theaters in
'74 as "Zandy's Bride")
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "You Can't Win 'em All" (this may have been CBS's Friday
late movie)
1:30 News
WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)
6 AM Summer Semester
6:30 Environment
7 AM Call The Doctor (topic: pediatrics, rerun from Sun 11 AM)
8 AM Three Robonic Stooges
8:30 Speed Buggy
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour
11:30 Secrets Of Isis
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Space Academy
1 PM Movie: "The Story Of Dr. Wassell"
4 PM That's Hollywood (segments from song-and-dance movies,
including "Saturday Night Fever"; featured are John Travolta,
Burt Reynolds, Gene Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, and Shirley MacLaine)
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular (Mate Perlov makes his first defense of the
WBC light-heavyweight crown against former champ John Conteh,
15 rounds, live from Belgrade)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM Candid Camera (an aerosol can that won't stop spraying; shattering
bowling pins (a classic from the English version, IIRC); a live leg in
a stocking display; Fannie Flagg as a lazy carpet installer)
7:30 All-Star Anything Goes ("Eight Is Enough" vs. "The Waltons"; contestants
include Jon Walmsley, David W. Harper, Grant Goodeve, Lani O'Grady,
Mary McDonough)
8 PM Bob Newhart
8:30 Baby, I'm Back
9 PM CBS Movie: "For Better, For Worse"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Long Hot Summer"
2 AM Movie: "The Professionals" (in this case, bank robbers)
4:15 Here And Now
4:45 News
WBNS Ch. 10 Columbus (CBS)
6 AM Summer Semester
6:30 U.S. Farm Report
7 AM Public Policy Forums (the interrelations of academia, politics,
and public policy)
8 AM Three Robonic Stooges
8:30 Speed Buggy
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour
11:30 Secrets Of Isis
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Space Academy
1 PM What's New, Mr. Magoo?
1:30 CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM Movie: "It Started In Naples"
4 PM That Nashville Music (Barbara Fairchild, the Osborne (not the
Osmond) Brothers, Carl Perkins)
4:30 Nashville On The Road (guest: Freddy Weller)
5 PM Pop Goes The Country (the Statler Brothers, Bobby Borchers)
5:30 Porter Wagoner (guest: Bob Luman)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Bugs Bunny
7:30 All-Star Anything Goes (Olympians from 1968 vs. Olympians from
1972; contestants include Peggy Fleming, Mark Spitz, Bob Seagren,
and Steve Furniss)
8 PM Bob Newhart
8:30 Baby, I'm Back
9 PM CBS Movie: "For Better, For Worse"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Third Day"
WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)
6:30 Max B. Nimble
7 AM Marlo And The Magic Movie Machine (childhood photos of Jimmy
Connors; highlights of September 1958)
7:30 Partridge Family
8 AM Superfriends
9 AM Scooby's Laff-A-Lympics
11 AM Krofft Supershow
12 N Movie: "Scared Stiff" (Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, from '53)
2 PM Bowling
3 PM Golf: U.S. Open (third round)
7 PM Hee Haw (time approximate)
8 PM Love Boat
9 PM ABC Presents Tomorrow's Stars
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Sea Chase"
1:30 Movie: "Lady Godiva"
3:30 Movie: "The Prince Who Was A Thief"
WPTO Ch. 14 Oxford, OH/WPTD Ch. 16 Dayton (PBS)
2 PM Crockett's Victory Garden
2:30 Romagnolis' Table
3 PM In Search Of The Real America
4 PM Nova ("Memories From Eden"--spacious zoos that are
becoming the last refuge for many species)
5 PM Consumer Survival Kit
5:30 Turnabout
6 PM Old Friends...New Friends
6:30 Que Pasa, U.S.A.?
7 PM Insights
7:30 Paint Along With Nancy Kominsky
8 PM In Search Of The Real America (former CIA directors William
Colby and Richard Helms, and former CIA deputy director Thomas
Karamessines defend the CIA against its critics, among them people
who think the CIA engineered assassinations)
8:30 Waite Hoyt Through The Years
9 PM Pro Soccer
10 PM Racquetball: Colgate Pro-Am Finals from Tempe, AZ
11 PM No, Honestly
sign off 11:30 PM
WHIZ Ch. 18 Zanesville, OH (NBC/ABC)
7 AM Focus On Agriculture
7:30 I Am The Greatest: The Adventures Of Muhammad Ali
8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Go Go Globetrotters
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
11:30 Space Sentinels
12 N Land Of The Lost
12:30 Thunder
1 PM Small Talk
1:30 Ray Weaver & The Great Outdoors
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Cardinals-Reds or Royals-White Sox
5 PM Playhouse (time approximate)
5:30 Journey To Adventure
6 PM Wild Kingdom (the Grand Teton Mountains in Wyoming)
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM Sixth Annual Zane's Trace Commemoration (being held in
Zanesville that weekend)
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
WXIX Ch. 19 Cincinnati (Ind.)
6:15 Perspective
7 AM Porky Pig
7:30 Bugs Bunny
8 AM Popeye
8:30 Flintstones
9 AM Tom And Jerry
9:30 Woody Woodpecker
10 AM Magic Of Mark Wilson
10:30 Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
11:30 Movie: "Spy Chasers" (the Bowery Boys, from '56)
1 PM Movie: "The Scarlet Claw" (Basil Rathbone and Nigel
Bruce as Sherlock Holmes and Watson, from '44)
2:30 Movie: "Tarzan Finds A Son!" (Johnny Weissmuller as
Tarzan)
4 PM Movie: "Emperor Of The North"
6 PM Jacques Cousteau (the manatee as it makes it way down
Florida's St. Johns River)
7 PM Grease Day U.S.A. (a "prom" held on the movie's high-school
set, with John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Sid Caesar, Eve
Arden, Stockard Channing, Sha Na Na, Yvonne Elliman, and
Andy Gibb)
8 PM 1978 Gatornationals (taped in Gainesville, FL)
9 PM Pop Goes The Country (Charlie Rich, Barbara Fairchild)
9:30 Porter Wagoner
10 PM Marty Robbins' Spotlight (guest: Ray Stevens)
10:30 Nashville On The Road (guest: Don Gibson)
11 PM That Nashville Music (Larry Gatlin, Dottsy, Moe Bandy)
11:30 Tennis: WCT-Shakey's Tournament of Champions from Las Vegas:
Ken Rosewall vs. Eddie Dibbs
12:30 Movie: "Assignment Terror"
WOUB Ch. 20 Athens, OH (PBS)
5 PM Art America
5:30 Art America
6 PM Zoom
6:30 You Bet Your Life ("Best Of Groucho")
7 PM Electric Company
7:30 Once Upon A Classic ("Robin Hood," Part 5)
8 PM Onedin Line
9 PM Great Performances (the three-part "The Norman Conquests,"
a comedy about a family gathering as seen from three different
perspectives; Part 1, "Table Manners," is set in the dining room
and deals with Norman's unsuccessful attempt at a liaison with
his sister-in-law)
sign off 11 PM
WKEF Ch. 22 Dayton (ABC)
7 AM Better Way...
7:30 Clubhouse Saturday
9 AM Scooby's Laff-A-Lympics
11 AM Krofft Supershow
12 N Dynomutt
12:30 Movie: "Year 2889"
2:30 Miniature Golf
3 PM Golf: U.S. Open (third round)
7 PM Wild Wild World Of Animals (desert animals--bighorn
sheep, burros, mustangs, and coyotes--gather at
a watering hole in the Badlands; birds of prey that
nest in canyon walls, time approximate)
7:30 That's Hollywood (war heroes; movies include "Tora!
Tora! Tora!," "The Longest Day," "Twelve O'Clock High,"
"M*A*S*H," "Guadalcanal Diary," "The Purple Heart")
8 PM Love Boat
9 PM ABC Presents Tomorrow's Stars
11 PM Star Trek
12 M 700 Club
WOSU Ch. 34 Columbus (PBS)
4 PM Daniel Foster, M.D.
4:30 Paint Along With Nancy Kominsky
5 PM Consumer Survival Kit
5:30 Turnabout
6 PM Pro Soccer
7 PM Black Perspective On The News
7:30 Lowell Thomas Remembers (the career of Gen. George
S. Patton)
8 PM Harold Lloyd ("Safety Last," his classic from 1923 where
he ends up dangling from a building clock; "Hey There"
from 1918)
8:30 In Performance At Wolf Trap (Donizetti's 1837 opera "Roberto
Devereux," about Queen Elizabeth I's love for the unfaithful
Earl of Essex; Beverly Sills plays Elizabeth)
sign off 11 PM
WLIO Ch. 35 Lima, OH (NBC/ABC)
7:30 U.S. Farm Report
8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Go Go Globetrotters
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
11:30 Space Sentinels
12 N Land Of The Lost
12:30 Thunder
1 PM Bass Fishin' America
1:30 American Adventure (American Olympic skiers in training
in Colorado)
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Cardinals-Reds or Royals-White Sox
5 PM Bewitched (time approximate)
5:30 Porter Wagoner (guest: Merle Haggard)
6 PM Wild Kingdom (U.S. Forest Service rangers putting out
a Montana fire)
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM NBC Movie: "Sex And The Married Woman"
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
WUAB Ch. 43 Cleveland (Ind.)
8:30 For You...Black Woman
9 AM Ernest Angley
10 AM Lorain Conversation
10:30 Petticoat Junction
11 AM Animal World (African birds: plovers, storks, cranes, sandpipers,
vultures, flamingos, ibises)
11:30 American Angler (Johnny Rutherford goes after largemouth bass.)
12 N Three Stooges
12:20 Dick Tracy ('40s movie serial)
12:40 Three Stooges
1 PM Movie: "20 Million Miles To Earth"
2:30 Movie: "It Ain't Hay" (Abbott and Costello, from '43)
4 PM Movie: "A Time For Every Season" (tour of the northern Alaskan
wilderness, from '72)
6 PM Star Trek
7 PM Space: 1999
8 PM Movie: "Countdown" (about the first man on the moon, from '68,
a year before the real thing)
10 PM Soul Train (Brick, Sister Sledge)
11 PM Dolly (a classic: Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris are the guests)
11:30 That Nashville Music (the Statler Brothers, Ronnie Milsap, Johnny Duncan)
12 M Marty Robbins' Spotlight (Bobby Bare and Tom T. Hall salute Johnny Rodriguez)
12:30 Pop Goes The Country (Johnny Rodriguez, LaWanda Lindsey, Little David Wilkins)
WCET Ch. 48 Cincinnati (PBS)
9 AM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30 Electric Company
10 AM Once Upon A Classic ("Robin Hood," Part 5)
10:30 Daniel Foster, M.D.
11 AM Paint Along With Nancy Kominsky
11:30 Consumer Survival Kit
12 N French Chef
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1 PM Lilias, Yoga And You
1:30 Think Cincinnati
2 PM Conversation With Irma
2:30 Romagnolis' Table
3 PM Antiques
3:30 Withit
4 PM Old Friends...New Friends
4:30 Book Beat (novelist Richard Adams discusses "The Plague
Dogs," about two dogs who flee inhumane treatment at an
experimental lab)
5 PM Five String Breakdown
5:30 Over Easy (the Metropolitan Opera's John Reardon)
6 PM Anyone For Tennyson?
6:30 Lowell Thomas Remembers
7 PM Firing Line (former CIA director Vernon Walters discusses diplomacy)
8 PM Movie: "Tom, Dick And Harry"
9:30 In Performance At Wolf Trap (the Martha Graham Dance Company
performs "Seraphic Dialogue" (Joan of Arc looking back on her life),
"O Thou Desire Who Are About To Sing" (two lovers break up, regret it,
and reconcile), and "Phaedra" (the Greek myth about a woman who lusts
after her stepson))
11 PM Bluegrass, Bluegrass