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Retro: Central Virginai Thu., Sept. 17, 1981

From TV Guide, Central Virginia Edition:

WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro, NC (CBS)

5:30 Gospel Singing Jubilee
6 AM Good Morning Show (part 4 on experimental surgery to correct nearsightedness)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Against The Wind (Australian miniseries)
10 AM Beverly Hillbillies
10:30 Alice
11 AM Price Is Right
12 N Mary Tyler Moore
12:30 Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Search For Tomorrow
3 PM Guiding Light
4 PM I Love Lucy
4:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
5 PM Wild Wild West
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Dan Rather)
7 PM Face The Music
7:30 PM Magazine (Roger Moore and a man who cares for injured sea birds)
8 PM Magnum, P.I.
9 PM Nurse
10 PM Knots Landing
11 PM News
11:30 Quincy
12:40 The Saint
1:50 News
2:20 Movie: "The Moonshine War"
4:30 Chico And The Man
5 AM Wild Wild World Of Animals

WHSV Ch. 3 Harrisonburg (ABC)

6:25 New Zoo Revue
6:55 News
7 AM Good Morning America (boxers Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns, Rita Coolidge)
9 AM Jim Bakker
10 AM Richard Simmons
10:30 Romper Room
11 AM Love Boat (Nancy Walker, George Gobel, Pat Crowley)
12 N Family Feud
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 Hour Magazine (organizations that help abusive husbands and their families, developments in the treatment of spina bifida, fall fashions with designer Geoffrey Beane)
5:30 All In The Family
6 PM News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7 PM Dance Fever
7:30 M*A*S*H
8 PM Best Of The West (will move to its normal 8:30 timeslot next week)
8:30 NFL Football: Eagles-Bills
11:30 News (time approximate)
12 M Nightline
12:30 Charlie's Angels
1:40 News

WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh, NC (ABC)

6:30 Country Morning
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Hour Magazine (same as Ch. 3)
10 AM Frog Hollow (kids' show)
10:30 Edge Of Night
11 AM Love Boat
12 N News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Bugs Bunny/Tom And Jerry
4:30 Happy Days Again
5 PM Good Times
5:30 Andy Griffith
6 PM News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7 PM Sanford And Son
7:30 PM Magazine (Roger Moore, a world-championship video-game tournament in Fayetteville, NC)
8 PM Best Of The West
8:30 NFL Football: Eagles-Bills
11:30 News (time approximate)
12 M Nightline
12:30 Charlie's Angels
1:40 Three Stooges

WVVA Ch. 6 Bluefield, WV (NBC)

5:55 Jim Bakker
6:55 Thought For Today
7 AM Today (Sissy Spacek, designer Peter Max)
9 AM Hot Fudge
9:30 Romper Room
10 AM Las Vegas Gambit
10:30 Blockbusters
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Password Plus (Dick Martin, Betty White)
12 N News
12:30 The Doctors
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM Another World
3 PM Texas
4 PM Mike Douglas (co-host Billy Daniels; columnist Richard Hack, chef Jim Dodge)
5 PM Addams Family
5:30 Sanford And Son
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (John Chancellor)
7 PM Solid Gold (host Cliff Richard, Natalie Cole, Ray Parker Jr. & Raydio, Badfinger, Mel Tillis)
8 PM Games People Play (the Little Britches Rodeo for young people in Colorado Springs; semifinal tug of war between New Orleans machinists and firefighters; how fans get into the spirit at a football game)
9 PM NBC Movie: "Jennifer: A Woman's Story"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (guest: Mel Tillis)
12:30 Tomorrow Coast-To-Coast (Neil Simon and his wife Marsha Mason)

WDBJ Ch. 7 Roanoke (CBS)

6:30 Mornin'
7 AM CBS News (Charles Kuralt)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Hour Magazine (same as Ch. 3)
10 AM The Jeffersons
10:30 Alice
11 AM Price Is Right
12 N Panorama With Polly
12:30 Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Search For Tomorrow
3 PM Guiding Light
4 PM Little House On The Prairie
5 PM Wonder Woman
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM PM Magazine Special Edition (celebrating the show's second anniversary on Ch. 7 from Lakeside Amusement Park in Salem, VA: behind the scenes at the show, a firefighter's festival, handling stress, applying for a job with lawyer David Damico)
8 PM Magnum, P.I.
9 PM Nurse
10 PM Knots Landing
11 PM News
11:30 Quincy
12:40 The Saint

WGHP Ch. 8 High Point, NC (ABC)

6 AM A.M. Carolina (an interview with Joseph Cali of ABC's "Today's FBI")
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Richard Simmons
9:30 Charlie Rose
10 AM Sanford And Son
10:30 Joker's Wild
11 AM Love Boat
12 N Family Feud
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM People's Court (Judge Wapner)
4:30 Good Times
5 PM Pink Panther
5:30 M*A*S*H
6 PM News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7 PM Entertainment Tonight (the post-fight party following the Leonard-Hearns championship match; Bruce Springsteen; Burt Reynolds--note that Tom Hallick and Marjorie Wallace were the anchors; Mary Hart didn't become one for about a year or so)
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8 PM Best Of The West
8:30 NFL Football: Eagles-Bills
11:30 News (time approximate)
12 M Nightline
12:30 M*A*S*H
1 AM Entertainment Tonight
1:30 Rifleman

WSLS Ch. 10 Roanoke (NBC)

6:15 Today On The Farm/Perspective
7 AM Today
9 AM Donahue (second of two with William Winpisinger of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers)
10 AM Las Vegas Gambit
10:30 Blockbusters
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Password Plus
12 N Card Sharks (Jim Perry version)
12:30 News
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM Another World
3 PM Texas
4 PM Tom And Jerry
4:30 Woody Woodpecker
5 PM Happy Days Again
5:30 Krofft Superstars
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM All In The Family
7:30 Joker's Wild
8 PM Games People Play
9 PM NBC Movie: "Jennifer: A Woman's Story"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Tomorrow Coast-To-Coast

WTVD Ch. 11 Durham, NC (CBS)

6:30 Summer Semester: "The Italian-Americans"
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue (Iris Ellis, author of "S.O.S. Directory," a guide to bargain outlets)
10 AM The Jeffersons
10:30 Alice
11 AM Price Is Right
12 N News
12:30 Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Search For Tomorrow
3 PM Guiding Light
4 PM One Day At A Time
4:30 John Davidson (Judith Light, Jeff Altman, Vikki Carr, travel tipster Marty Leshner, impressionist Billy Fellows, a discussion of the second space-shuttle mission)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Family Feud
7:30 M*A*S*H
8 PM Magnum, P.I.
9 PM Nurse
10 PM Knots Landing
11 PM News
11:30 Mary Tyler Moore
12 M Gunsmoke

WXII Ch. 12 Winston-Salem, NC (NBC)

5:30 700 Club
6:30 Great Space Coaster
7 AM Today
9 AM Donahue (Erma Bombeck)
10 AM Hour Magazine (Robert Culp and his son Joshua, a technique for preventing breast cancer)
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Password Plus
12 N Piedmont
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM Another World
3 PM Texas
4 PM Big Valley
5 PM My Three Sons
5:30 All In The Family
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Family Feud
7:30 Bullseye
8 PM Games People Play
9 PM NBC Movie: "Jennifer: A Woman's Story"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Tomorrow Coast-To-Coast

WSET Ch. 13 Lynchburg (ABC)

7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Edge Of Night
9:30 John Davidson
10:30 Metro
11 AM Love Boat
12 N Family Feud
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Richard Simmons (from Tucson: sportsmanship is the topic; exercises using a tennis racquet; sportswear fashions)
4:30 Good Times
5 PM Sanford And Son
5:30 Movie: "How The West Was Won" (Part 4 of 5)
6 PM News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7 PM Entertainment Tonight
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8 PM Best Of The West
8:30 NFL Football: Eagles-Bills
11:30 News (time approximate)
12 M Nightline
12:30 Charlie's Angels

WBRA Ch. 15 Roanoke (PBS)

8:15 A.M. Weather
8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 In-school programs
11:30 Electric Company
12 N In-school programs
3:30 Over Easy (Dr. Joyce Brothers discusses her self-help book)
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Modern Supervisory Techniques
8 PM Voyage Of Charles Darwin (conclusion: Darwin delays publishing his theory of evolution until he discovers it isn't his alone)
9 PM Sneak Previews (assessments of black performers in films: Paul Winfield and Cicely Tyson ("Sounder"), Diana Ross ("The Wiz"), Richard Pryor ("Stir Crazy"), James Brown ("The Blues Brothers"), Richard Roundtree ("Shaft"))
9:30 Vic Braden's Tennis For The Future
10 PM Lawmakers
10:30 Nevada Fallout: The Hot Years (atmospheric fallout from nuclear testing in Nevada in the '50s and '60s)
11 PM Dick Cavett (second of two with actress Philippine de Rothschild)
sign off 11:30 PM

WVPT Ch. 51 Harrisonburg (PBS)

6:15 It's Everybody's Business
6:45 A.M. Weather
7 AM Market To Market
7:30 Food Preserving
8 AM Tom Cottle (two veterans link their chronic illnesses to nuclear-weapon tests in the '50s)
8:30 Over Easy (same as Ch. 15)
9 AM In-school programs
3:30 Villa Alegre
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Understanding Human Behavior
6:30 Over Easy (singer Anna Maria Alberghetti)
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Dick Cavett (same as Ch. 15)
8 PM Voyage Of Charles Darwin
9 PM On The Line
9:30 Bridgewater College Presents (topic: nutrition, with chef Alexander MacPhail and his wife Alice, a nutrition counselor)
10 PM Lawmakers
10:30 Nevada Fallout: The Hot Years
sign off 11 PM
 
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Hey bpatrick?

Do you have any TV Listings from local TV guides from Central Virginia from the time period of 1987-1991? I sure hope you'll be on the lookout for some! And if you get some just let me know, and i'll be grateful if you posted some!

Here are the listings!

2 - WFMY Greensboro (CBS)
5R - WRAL Raleigh (CBS)
5W - WTTG Washington (Fox)
6 - WVVA Bluefield (NBC)
7 - WDBJ Roanoke (CBS)
8 - WGHP High Point (ABC)
9 - WSWP Grandview (PBS)
10 - WSLS Roanoke (NBC)
11 - WTVD Durham (ABC)
12 - WXII Winston-Salem (NBC)
13 - WSET Lynchburg (ABC)
15 - WBRA Roanoke (PBS)
20 - WDCA Washington (Ind)
21 - WJPR Lynchburg (Fox)
27 - WVFT Roanoke (Ind, became Fox affiliate in 1990)
 
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