From TV Guide, Carolina-Tennessee Edition. WNSC/30
Rock Hill, SC, and WTVI/42 Charlotte, both PBS, are not
included; WNSC was added later.
WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)
7 AM Treehouse Club
7:30 Hot Fudge
8 AM Sylvester And Tweety
8:30 Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore or
John Hart)
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10 AM Tarzan--Lord Of The Jungle
10:30 Batman (animated)
11 AM Shazam!/Isis
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Ark II
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival:
"Three Nuts For Cinderella,"
Czechoslovakia from 1973
2 PM Movie: "Mysterious Island"
4 PM Pop! Goes The Country
4:30 That Good Ole Nashville Music
5 PM Wrestling (most likely Mid-Atlantic)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Bob Newhart
9 PM All In The Family
9:30 All's Fair
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "One, Two, Three" (watch for
Arlene Francis in this one)
1:30 With This Ring
WFBC (WYFF) Ch. 4 Greenville, SC (NBC)
6 AM Ag-USA
6:30 Agriculture In Action
7 AM Kids From C.A.P.E.R.
7:30 Scrunch (kids' show that aired on all
Multimedia stations)
8 AM Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Speed Buggy
10:30 Monster Squad
11 AM Space Ghost/Frankenstein Jr.
11:30 Big John, Little John
12 N Monty's Rascals
12:30 Nashville On The Road
1 PM Wrestling (Mid-Atlantic)
2 PM Grandstand
2:15 Baseball: Red Sox-Blue Jays
5 PM Mission: Impossible (time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 Dolly
7 PM Music Hall America (a lot of experts thought
this show would compete with Hee Haw and
Lawrence Welk, but it lasted only one season)
8 PM NBC Movie: "Against A Crooked Sky"
9:50 Miss World 1976 Highlights
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Island Of The Burning Doomed"
(Ch. 4 wouldn't pick up SNL until the next season)
1 AM Peter Marshall (the "master of The Hollywood Squares"
makes a one-season attempt at a talk show)
WSPA Ch. 7 Spartanburg, SC (CBS)
6 AM World Thing
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7 AM Cliff Gray (agriculture and music)
7:30 Bullwinkle
8 AM Sylvester And Tweety
8:30 Clue Club
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10 AM Tarzan--Lord Of The Jungle
10:30 Batman (animated)
11 AM Shazam!/Isis
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Ark II
1 PM Confabulation (kids' show)
1:30 Ara's Sports World (Ara Parseghian)
2 PM Downtown
2:30 Here And Now
3 PM Movie: "Angel In My Pocket" (Andy
Griffith's flop theatrical film from '68)
5 PM Arthur Smith
5:30 Pop! Goes The Country
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Bob Newhart
9 PM All In The Family
9:30 All's Fair
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Once You Kiss A Stranger"
WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC)
7 AM Kidsworld
7:30 Batman (Adam West)
8 AM Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Speed Buggy
10:30 Monster Squad
11 AM Space Ghost/Frankenstein Jr.
11:30 Big John, Little John
12 N Land Of The Lost
12:30 World Of Survival
1 PM Outdoors With Ken Callaway
1:30 Sportsman's Friend
2 PM Grandstand
2:15 Baseball: Red Sox-Blue Jays
5 PM Music Hall America (time approximate)
6 PM Eyewitness Magazine
7 PM Bugs Bunny
7:30 Wild Kingdom
8 PM NBC Movie: "Against A Crooked Sky"
9:50 Miss World 1976 Highlights
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night (Live) (Eric Idle is host)
WLOS Ch. 13 Asheville, NC (ABC)
6:30 Ounce Of Prevention
7 AM Mr. Bill's (Norwood) Weekend
8 AM Tom & Jerry/Mumbly
8:30 Jabberjaw
9 AM Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt
10:30 Krofft Supershow
11:30 Superfriends
12 N Oddball Couple
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Soul Train
2:30 Star Trek
3:30 Movie: "The Invisible Man
Returns"
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (Wood
Memorial, last race before the
Kentucky Derby, which Seattle
Slew would win in his first step
toward the Triple Crown)
6:30 Gong Show
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Paul Lynde Special
9 PM Starsky & Hutch
10 PM Dog And Cat (the show that
introduced America to Kim Basinger)
11 PM News
11:15 ABC News
11:30 Wrestling (World Wide, out of Raleigh)
12:30 Best Of Groucho
WHKY Ch. 14 Hickory, NC (Ind.)
4 PM The King Is Coming
4:45 Scope
5 PM Witnessing For Jesus
5:30 Scope
6 PM News
6:15 Lenoir Rhyne College Today
6:30 American Angler
7 PM Outdoors With Ken Callaway
7:30 Movin' With Bluegrass
8 PM Good News
8:55 The Big Play
9 PM Shower Of Blessings
10 PM Movie: "Cowboy And The Senorita"
11 PM Wrestling (I think it's a Raleigh show,
but don't know if it's Mid-Atlantic
or World Wide)
12 M Movie: "Wall Street Cowboy"
WGGS Ch. 16 Greenville, SC (Ind.)
11:30 Lone Ranger
12 N Sgt. Preston Of The Yukon
12:30 Fisherman
1 PM Thrill-Maker Sports
1:30 Southern Sportsman
2 PM PTL Club
4 PM Gerald Derstine
5 PM Lester Sumrall
5:30 700 Club
7 PM High Adventure
7:30 Jimmy Swaggart
8 PM Joyful News
9 PM Sunday School Lesson
9:30 Gospel Star Time
11 PM Nancy Harmon
WUNE Ch. 17 Linville, NC/
WUNF Ch. 33 Asheville, NC (PBS)
5 PM Nova
6 PM You The Deaf
6:30 Black Perspective On The News
7 PM Chamber Music
7:30 Images Of Country Women
8 PM Lowell Thomas Remembers (Part 1
of 2 on FDR's presidency)
8:30 The Way It Was (Rocky Graziano-
Tony Zale middleweight championship
fight June 10, 1948, rubber match for
the two)
9 PM Best Of Ernie Kovacs
9:30 International Animation Festival
10 PM Masterpiece Theatre: "Upstairs, Downstairs,"
Part 14
sign off 11 PM
WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (ABC)
8 AM Tom & Jerry/Mumbly
8:30 Jabberjaw
9 AM Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt
10:30 Krofft Supershow
11:30 Superfriends
12 N Oddball Couple
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Soul Train
2:30 Inquiry
3:30 Pro Bowlers Tour (Tournament of
Champions, from Akron)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 ABC News (Ted Koppel)
7 PM Inquiry
7:30 Outdoors With Julius Boros
8 PM Paul Lynde Special
9 PM Starsky & Hutch
10 PM Dog And Cat
11 PM 700 Club
12:30 ABC News
WNTV Ch. 29 Greenville, SC (PBS)
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Villa Alegre
11 AM Sesame Street
12 N Zoom
12:30 The Way It Was (the 1964
USC-Notre Dame football game)
1 PM Highway Panorama
1:15 Erica (needlework)
1:30 By-Line
2 PM French Chef
2:30 Garden Spot
3 PM Cinema Showcase: George
Cosmatos (who?)
3:30 Journey Into Art
4 PM Lilias, Yoga And You
4:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
5 PM Consumer Survival Kit
5:30 Job Man Caravan
6 PM Health Sciences
6:30 University Forum
7 PM Once Upon A Classic: "Little
Lord Fauntleroy" (Part 3)
7:30 Studio See
8 PM Best Of Ernie Kovacs
8:30 Romantic Rebellion
9 PM American Short Story: "The
Blue Hotel" by Stephen Crane
10 PM Soundstage
WRET (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (Ind.)
7 AM Cartoon Carnival
8:30 Addams Family
9 AM Speed Racer
9:30 Three Stooges And Pals
11 AM Movie: "Hit The Ice"
12:30 Wrestling (I believe it's World
Wide)
1:30 Movie: "A Bullet Is Waiting"
3 PM Movie: "Night Creatures"
4:30 Nashville On The Road
5 PM Fishin' Hole
5:30 Saturday Showcase (with two local
country-music icons, Tommy Faile
and Ken Linker)
6 PM Star Trek
7 PM Wrestling (don't know which, although
Ch. 36 had Florida wrestling for years)
8 PM Movie: "The Feminist And The Fuzz"
9:30 Rhythm And Blues Awards
11 PM Boxing: Two 10-round light-heavyweight
fights--Lonnie Bennett vs. Alvaro "Yaqui"
Lopez, and Marvin Johnson vs. Tom "The
Bomb" Bethea
12:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
2 AM James Brown's Future Shock
3 AM Movie: "Arrivederci, Baby!"
5 AM Movie: "One Sunday Afternoon"
WAIM (WMYA) Ch. 40 Anderson, SC (CBS, some ABC)
8 AM Sylvester And Tweety
8:30 Clue Club
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10 AM Tarzan--Lord Of The Jungle
10:30 Batman (animated)
11 AM Shazam!/Isis
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Ark II
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival: "Three
Nuts For Cinderella" (Czechoslovakia,
1973)
2 PM Panorama
3 PM Compass
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
6 PM Bill Dance Outdoors
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Quest
8 PM Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Bob Newhart
9 PM All In The Family
9:30 All's Fair
10 PM Carol Burnett
sign off 11 PM
Rock Hill, SC, and WTVI/42 Charlotte, both PBS, are not
included; WNSC was added later.
WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)
7 AM Treehouse Club
7:30 Hot Fudge
8 AM Sylvester And Tweety
8:30 Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore or
John Hart)
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10 AM Tarzan--Lord Of The Jungle
10:30 Batman (animated)
11 AM Shazam!/Isis
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Ark II
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival:
"Three Nuts For Cinderella,"
Czechoslovakia from 1973
2 PM Movie: "Mysterious Island"
4 PM Pop! Goes The Country
4:30 That Good Ole Nashville Music
5 PM Wrestling (most likely Mid-Atlantic)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Bob Newhart
9 PM All In The Family
9:30 All's Fair
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "One, Two, Three" (watch for
Arlene Francis in this one)
1:30 With This Ring
WFBC (WYFF) Ch. 4 Greenville, SC (NBC)
6 AM Ag-USA
6:30 Agriculture In Action
7 AM Kids From C.A.P.E.R.
7:30 Scrunch (kids' show that aired on all
Multimedia stations)
8 AM Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Speed Buggy
10:30 Monster Squad
11 AM Space Ghost/Frankenstein Jr.
11:30 Big John, Little John
12 N Monty's Rascals
12:30 Nashville On The Road
1 PM Wrestling (Mid-Atlantic)
2 PM Grandstand
2:15 Baseball: Red Sox-Blue Jays
5 PM Mission: Impossible (time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 Dolly
7 PM Music Hall America (a lot of experts thought
this show would compete with Hee Haw and
Lawrence Welk, but it lasted only one season)
8 PM NBC Movie: "Against A Crooked Sky"
9:50 Miss World 1976 Highlights
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Island Of The Burning Doomed"
(Ch. 4 wouldn't pick up SNL until the next season)
1 AM Peter Marshall (the "master of The Hollywood Squares"
makes a one-season attempt at a talk show)
WSPA Ch. 7 Spartanburg, SC (CBS)
6 AM World Thing
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7 AM Cliff Gray (agriculture and music)
7:30 Bullwinkle
8 AM Sylvester And Tweety
8:30 Clue Club
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10 AM Tarzan--Lord Of The Jungle
10:30 Batman (animated)
11 AM Shazam!/Isis
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Ark II
1 PM Confabulation (kids' show)
1:30 Ara's Sports World (Ara Parseghian)
2 PM Downtown
2:30 Here And Now
3 PM Movie: "Angel In My Pocket" (Andy
Griffith's flop theatrical film from '68)
5 PM Arthur Smith
5:30 Pop! Goes The Country
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Bob Newhart
9 PM All In The Family
9:30 All's Fair
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Once You Kiss A Stranger"
WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC)
7 AM Kidsworld
7:30 Batman (Adam West)
8 AM Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Speed Buggy
10:30 Monster Squad
11 AM Space Ghost/Frankenstein Jr.
11:30 Big John, Little John
12 N Land Of The Lost
12:30 World Of Survival
1 PM Outdoors With Ken Callaway
1:30 Sportsman's Friend
2 PM Grandstand
2:15 Baseball: Red Sox-Blue Jays
5 PM Music Hall America (time approximate)
6 PM Eyewitness Magazine
7 PM Bugs Bunny
7:30 Wild Kingdom
8 PM NBC Movie: "Against A Crooked Sky"
9:50 Miss World 1976 Highlights
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night (Live) (Eric Idle is host)
WLOS Ch. 13 Asheville, NC (ABC)
6:30 Ounce Of Prevention
7 AM Mr. Bill's (Norwood) Weekend
8 AM Tom & Jerry/Mumbly
8:30 Jabberjaw
9 AM Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt
10:30 Krofft Supershow
11:30 Superfriends
12 N Oddball Couple
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Soul Train
2:30 Star Trek
3:30 Movie: "The Invisible Man
Returns"
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (Wood
Memorial, last race before the
Kentucky Derby, which Seattle
Slew would win in his first step
toward the Triple Crown)
6:30 Gong Show
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Paul Lynde Special
9 PM Starsky & Hutch
10 PM Dog And Cat (the show that
introduced America to Kim Basinger)
11 PM News
11:15 ABC News
11:30 Wrestling (World Wide, out of Raleigh)
12:30 Best Of Groucho
WHKY Ch. 14 Hickory, NC (Ind.)
4 PM The King Is Coming
4:45 Scope
5 PM Witnessing For Jesus
5:30 Scope
6 PM News
6:15 Lenoir Rhyne College Today
6:30 American Angler
7 PM Outdoors With Ken Callaway
7:30 Movin' With Bluegrass
8 PM Good News
8:55 The Big Play
9 PM Shower Of Blessings
10 PM Movie: "Cowboy And The Senorita"
11 PM Wrestling (I think it's a Raleigh show,
but don't know if it's Mid-Atlantic
or World Wide)
12 M Movie: "Wall Street Cowboy"
WGGS Ch. 16 Greenville, SC (Ind.)
11:30 Lone Ranger
12 N Sgt. Preston Of The Yukon
12:30 Fisherman
1 PM Thrill-Maker Sports
1:30 Southern Sportsman
2 PM PTL Club
4 PM Gerald Derstine
5 PM Lester Sumrall
5:30 700 Club
7 PM High Adventure
7:30 Jimmy Swaggart
8 PM Joyful News
9 PM Sunday School Lesson
9:30 Gospel Star Time
11 PM Nancy Harmon
WUNE Ch. 17 Linville, NC/
WUNF Ch. 33 Asheville, NC (PBS)
5 PM Nova
6 PM You The Deaf
6:30 Black Perspective On The News
7 PM Chamber Music
7:30 Images Of Country Women
8 PM Lowell Thomas Remembers (Part 1
of 2 on FDR's presidency)
8:30 The Way It Was (Rocky Graziano-
Tony Zale middleweight championship
fight June 10, 1948, rubber match for
the two)
9 PM Best Of Ernie Kovacs
9:30 International Animation Festival
10 PM Masterpiece Theatre: "Upstairs, Downstairs,"
Part 14
sign off 11 PM
WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (ABC)
8 AM Tom & Jerry/Mumbly
8:30 Jabberjaw
9 AM Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt
10:30 Krofft Supershow
11:30 Superfriends
12 N Oddball Couple
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Soul Train
2:30 Inquiry
3:30 Pro Bowlers Tour (Tournament of
Champions, from Akron)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 ABC News (Ted Koppel)
7 PM Inquiry
7:30 Outdoors With Julius Boros
8 PM Paul Lynde Special
9 PM Starsky & Hutch
10 PM Dog And Cat
11 PM 700 Club
12:30 ABC News
WNTV Ch. 29 Greenville, SC (PBS)
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Villa Alegre
11 AM Sesame Street
12 N Zoom
12:30 The Way It Was (the 1964
USC-Notre Dame football game)
1 PM Highway Panorama
1:15 Erica (needlework)
1:30 By-Line
2 PM French Chef
2:30 Garden Spot
3 PM Cinema Showcase: George
Cosmatos (who?)
3:30 Journey Into Art
4 PM Lilias, Yoga And You
4:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
5 PM Consumer Survival Kit
5:30 Job Man Caravan
6 PM Health Sciences
6:30 University Forum
7 PM Once Upon A Classic: "Little
Lord Fauntleroy" (Part 3)
7:30 Studio See
8 PM Best Of Ernie Kovacs
8:30 Romantic Rebellion
9 PM American Short Story: "The
Blue Hotel" by Stephen Crane
10 PM Soundstage
WRET (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (Ind.)
7 AM Cartoon Carnival
8:30 Addams Family
9 AM Speed Racer
9:30 Three Stooges And Pals
11 AM Movie: "Hit The Ice"
12:30 Wrestling (I believe it's World
Wide)
1:30 Movie: "A Bullet Is Waiting"
3 PM Movie: "Night Creatures"
4:30 Nashville On The Road
5 PM Fishin' Hole
5:30 Saturday Showcase (with two local
country-music icons, Tommy Faile
and Ken Linker)
6 PM Star Trek
7 PM Wrestling (don't know which, although
Ch. 36 had Florida wrestling for years)
8 PM Movie: "The Feminist And The Fuzz"
9:30 Rhythm And Blues Awards
11 PM Boxing: Two 10-round light-heavyweight
fights--Lonnie Bennett vs. Alvaro "Yaqui"
Lopez, and Marvin Johnson vs. Tom "The
Bomb" Bethea
12:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
2 AM James Brown's Future Shock
3 AM Movie: "Arrivederci, Baby!"
5 AM Movie: "One Sunday Afternoon"
WAIM (WMYA) Ch. 40 Anderson, SC (CBS, some ABC)
8 AM Sylvester And Tweety
8:30 Clue Club
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10 AM Tarzan--Lord Of The Jungle
10:30 Batman (animated)
11 AM Shazam!/Isis
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Ark II
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival: "Three
Nuts For Cinderella" (Czechoslovakia,
1973)
2 PM Panorama
3 PM Compass
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
6 PM Bill Dance Outdoors
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Quest
8 PM Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Bob Newhart
9 PM All In The Family
9:30 All's Fair
10 PM Carol Burnett
sign off 11 PM