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From the day Chicago-native comic icon John Belushi died.
2 WBBM (CBS)
AM
5:30 Sunrise Semester
6:00 Daybreak (Chicago public affairs)
6:25 Editorial
6:30 Captain Kangaroo
7:00 (Friday) Morning (replaced on March 15 with the new CBS Morning News with Diane Sawyer and WBBM's own Bill Kurtis)
9:00 Donahue
10:00 One Day at a Time
10:30 Alice
11:00 Tattletales
11:30 The Young and the Restless
PM
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Search for Tomorrow
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 The Price is Right
4:00 Barnaby Jones
5:00 Channel 2 News
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 Channel 2 News
7:00 The Dukes of Hazzard
8:00 Dallas
9:00 Lynda Carter: Street Life
10:00 Channel 2 News
10:30 CBS Late Movie: "The Plague" (1979) - Danile Pilon, Kate Reid
AM
12:35 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
5 WMAQ (NBC)
AM
5:50 Meditation (sermon)
5:55 News
6:00 Knowledge (WMAQ-produced educational series)
6:30 Today in Chicago
7:00 Today
9:00 The Regis Philbin Show
9:30 Blockbusters
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Battlestars
11:00 Password Plus - Guests: Steven Ford (son of former President Gerald Ford), Jack Narz (brother of host Tom Kennedy); Jack and Tom switch places for the day with Jack hosting and brother Tom (real name Jim Narz) playing.
11:30 The Doctors
PM
12:00 NewsCenter 5
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 Another World
2:30 Texas
3:30 The Bob Newhart Show
4:00 The Mary Tyler Moore Show
4:30 NewsCenter 5
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 NewsCenter 5
6:30 Family Feud
7:00 NBC Magazine
8:00 NBC Friday Night at the Movies: "Gray Lady Down" (1978) - Charlton Heston, David Carradine, Stacy Keach, Ned Beatty
10:00 NewsCenter 5
10:30 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson - Guests: Walter Cronkite, Dyan Cannon
11:30 SCTV Network (temporary replacement of The Midnight Special since its May 1, 1981 cancellation; replaced in turn by Friday Night Videos on July 29, 1983)
AM
1:00 Entertainment Tonight
1:30 Charlie Rose
2:00 Everyman
2:30 Today in Chicago (repeat)
7 WLS (ABC)
AM
6:20 Reflections (sermon)
6:25 Leading Question
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 AM Chicago (forerunner to The Oprah Winfrey Show)
9:30 The Edge of Night
10:00 The Love Boat
11:00 Family Feud
11:30 Ryan's Hope
PM
12:00 All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 The 3:00 Movie: "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" (part 2 of 2) (1968) - Alan Arkin, Sondra Locke, Biff McGuire, Stacy Keach, Cicely Tyson
4:30 Eyewitness News
5:30 ABC World News Tonight
6:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 Benson
7:30 Open All Night
8:00 Best of the West
8:30 Making a Living (new title of It's a Living for that season; original title remained for syndication as well as its 1985 first-run syndicated revival)
9:00 Strike Force
10:00 Eyewitness News
10:30 Nightline
11:00 Fridays (ABC clone of Saturday Night Live)
AM
12:30 Movie: "Conspiracy" (1939) - Allan Lane, Charlie Foy
1:45 Leave It to the Women
2:15 Reflections
9 WGN (Ind.)
AM
5:30 Faith 20
6:00 Top O' the Morning
6:30 Bullwinkle
7:00 The Bozo Show
9:00 Morning Movie: "All That Heaven Allows" (1956) - Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorhead
11:00 The Big Valley
PM
12:00 Prisoner: Cell Block H
12:30 Chicago's Midday News
1:00 The Dick Van Dyke Show
1:30 The Andy Griffith Show
2:00 I Dream of Jeannie
2:30 Gilligan's Island
3:00 Scooby-Doo
3:30 Popeye (1960-62 King Features Syndicate TV version)
4:00 The Incredible Hulk
5:00 The Muppet Show
5:30 Welcome Back, Kotter
6:00 Barney Miller
6:30 Laverne & Shirley & Company
7:00 WGN Friday Night Movie: "Hard Driver" (1973) - Jeff Bridges, Valerie Perrine, Geraldine Fitzgerald
9:00 Nine O'Clock News
10:00 Barney Miller
10:30 Saturday Night (Best of SNL)
11:30 The Late Movie: "Not With My Wife, You Don't" (1966) - Tony Curtis, Virna Lisi, George C. Scott, Carroll O'Connor
AM
2:30 Movie: "Return of the Texan" (1952) - Dale Robertson, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan
11 WTTW (PBS)
AM
6:15 AM Weather
6:30 Captioned ABC News
7:00 Enterprise
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10:30 The Electric Company
11:00 Trade-Offs
11:30 3-2-1 Contact
PM
12:00 Sesame Street
1:00 The French Chef - Julia Child
1:30 Over Easy
2:00 Nova
3:00 The Electric Company
3:30 Sesame Street
4:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:00 3-2-1 Contact
5:30 Up and Coming
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
6:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
7:00 Washington Week in Review
7:30 Wall $treet Week
8:00 Chicago Week in Review
8:30 Creativity with Bill Moyers
9:00 Life on Earth
10:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
10:30 Grear Performances
11:30 Movie: "Angel and the Badman" (1947) - John Wayne, Gail Russell, Harry Carey (not to be confused with WGN Cubs announcer Harry Caray)
AM
12:55 Phantom Empire
1:25 Up Pompeii!
1:55 Captioned ABC News
26 WCIU (Ind.)
AM
8:25 Market Wrap-Up
8:30 Jimmy Swaggart
9:00 Stock Market & Business Report (to 3:30 PM)
PM
3:30 Chicago Today
4:00 Disco Connection
4:30 Blacks' View of the News
4:30 Today's Racing (horse racing?)
<<Spanish programming begins>>
5:00 Emilia
5:30 Rosa...de Lejos (from Afar)
6:30 Informacion (noticias/news)
7:00 Mis Huespedes (My Guests)
8:00 Iris Chacon
9:00 Quiereme Siempre (Love Me Forever)
10:00 El Hogar Que Yo Robe (The Home That I Stole)
11:30 Y Ahora... Que? (And Now... What?)
32 WFLD (Ind.)
AM
6:00 Newstalk
6:30 Magilla Gorilla
7:00 Tom & Jerry
7:30 The Flintstones
8:00 Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Popeye (Paramount theatrical shorts)
9:00 The Richard Simmons Show
9:30 The People's Court
10:00 The 700 Club
11:00 Newstalk
11:30 The Hot Fudge Show
PM
12:00 Underdog
12:30 The Great Space Coaster
1:00 I Love Lucy
1:30 Green Acres
2:00 Please Don't Eat the Daisies
2:30 Casper
3:00 Mighty Mouse
3:30 The Flintstones
4:00 Tom & Jerry
4:30 The Brady Bunch
5:00 Wonder Woman
6:00 Happy Days Again
6:30 M*A*S*H
7:00 PM Magazine
7:30 You Asked For It
8:00 8 O'Clock Movie: "Charge of the Model T's" (1979) - John David Carson, Louis Nye, Arte Johnson
10:00 M*A*S*H
10:30 The Benny Hill Show
11:00 All in the Family
11:30 Comedy Classics
AM
12:00 Keyfax Nite Owl
38 WCFC (Christian Ind.)
AM
8:25 Day by Day
8:30 Circle Square
9:00 Captain Andy
9:30 Shape Up
10:00 Chicago
11:00 How Can I Live
11:30 Good News, America
AM
12:00 Ross Bagley
1:00 Panorama
1:30 Teach Us to Pray
2:00 Insight
2:30 100 Huntley Street
4:00 Circle Square
4:30 Inside Track
5:00 Ross Bagley
6:00 Panorama
6:30 Zola Levitt Live
7:00 Chicago
8:00 The Lesson
8:30 Shape Up
9:00 Jimmy Swaggart
10:00 The 700 Club
11:30 Jim Bakker
AM
12:30 Ross Bagley
44 WSNS (Ind./ON TV)
AM
8:00 Illinois Press
8:30 Dimensions
9:00 Movie: "Romeo and Juliet" (part 2 of 2) (1966) - Rudolph Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn
10:30 Mundo Hispano (Hispanic World)
11:30 Leave It to Beaver
PM
12:00 The Addams Family
12:30 Get Smart
1:00 The Outer Limits
2:00 F-Troop
2:30 Movie: "The Great Moment" (1944) - Joel McCrea, Betty Field
4:30 Sha Na Na
<<ON TV subscription programming begins at 5:00>>
Source: Chicago Tribune
Translations of Spanish titles courtesy of Google Translate
2 WBBM (CBS)
AM
5:30 Sunrise Semester
6:00 Daybreak (Chicago public affairs)
6:25 Editorial
6:30 Captain Kangaroo
7:00 (Friday) Morning (replaced on March 15 with the new CBS Morning News with Diane Sawyer and WBBM's own Bill Kurtis)
9:00 Donahue
10:00 One Day at a Time
10:30 Alice
11:00 Tattletales
11:30 The Young and the Restless
PM
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Search for Tomorrow
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 The Price is Right
4:00 Barnaby Jones
5:00 Channel 2 News
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 Channel 2 News
7:00 The Dukes of Hazzard
8:00 Dallas
9:00 Lynda Carter: Street Life
10:00 Channel 2 News
10:30 CBS Late Movie: "The Plague" (1979) - Danile Pilon, Kate Reid
AM
12:35 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
5 WMAQ (NBC)
AM
5:50 Meditation (sermon)
5:55 News
6:00 Knowledge (WMAQ-produced educational series)
6:30 Today in Chicago
7:00 Today
9:00 The Regis Philbin Show
9:30 Blockbusters
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Battlestars
11:00 Password Plus - Guests: Steven Ford (son of former President Gerald Ford), Jack Narz (brother of host Tom Kennedy); Jack and Tom switch places for the day with Jack hosting and brother Tom (real name Jim Narz) playing.
11:30 The Doctors
PM
12:00 NewsCenter 5
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 Another World
2:30 Texas
3:30 The Bob Newhart Show
4:00 The Mary Tyler Moore Show
4:30 NewsCenter 5
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 NewsCenter 5
6:30 Family Feud
7:00 NBC Magazine
8:00 NBC Friday Night at the Movies: "Gray Lady Down" (1978) - Charlton Heston, David Carradine, Stacy Keach, Ned Beatty
10:00 NewsCenter 5
10:30 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson - Guests: Walter Cronkite, Dyan Cannon
11:30 SCTV Network (temporary replacement of The Midnight Special since its May 1, 1981 cancellation; replaced in turn by Friday Night Videos on July 29, 1983)
AM
1:00 Entertainment Tonight
1:30 Charlie Rose
2:00 Everyman
2:30 Today in Chicago (repeat)
7 WLS (ABC)
AM
6:20 Reflections (sermon)
6:25 Leading Question
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 AM Chicago (forerunner to The Oprah Winfrey Show)
9:30 The Edge of Night
10:00 The Love Boat
11:00 Family Feud
11:30 Ryan's Hope
PM
12:00 All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 The 3:00 Movie: "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" (part 2 of 2) (1968) - Alan Arkin, Sondra Locke, Biff McGuire, Stacy Keach, Cicely Tyson
4:30 Eyewitness News
5:30 ABC World News Tonight
6:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 Benson
7:30 Open All Night
8:00 Best of the West
8:30 Making a Living (new title of It's a Living for that season; original title remained for syndication as well as its 1985 first-run syndicated revival)
9:00 Strike Force
10:00 Eyewitness News
10:30 Nightline
11:00 Fridays (ABC clone of Saturday Night Live)
AM
12:30 Movie: "Conspiracy" (1939) - Allan Lane, Charlie Foy
1:45 Leave It to the Women
2:15 Reflections
9 WGN (Ind.)
AM
5:30 Faith 20
6:00 Top O' the Morning
6:30 Bullwinkle
7:00 The Bozo Show
9:00 Morning Movie: "All That Heaven Allows" (1956) - Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorhead
11:00 The Big Valley
PM
12:00 Prisoner: Cell Block H
12:30 Chicago's Midday News
1:00 The Dick Van Dyke Show
1:30 The Andy Griffith Show
2:00 I Dream of Jeannie
2:30 Gilligan's Island
3:00 Scooby-Doo
3:30 Popeye (1960-62 King Features Syndicate TV version)
4:00 The Incredible Hulk
5:00 The Muppet Show
5:30 Welcome Back, Kotter
6:00 Barney Miller
6:30 Laverne & Shirley & Company
7:00 WGN Friday Night Movie: "Hard Driver" (1973) - Jeff Bridges, Valerie Perrine, Geraldine Fitzgerald
9:00 Nine O'Clock News
10:00 Barney Miller
10:30 Saturday Night (Best of SNL)
11:30 The Late Movie: "Not With My Wife, You Don't" (1966) - Tony Curtis, Virna Lisi, George C. Scott, Carroll O'Connor
AM
2:30 Movie: "Return of the Texan" (1952) - Dale Robertson, Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan
11 WTTW (PBS)
AM
6:15 AM Weather
6:30 Captioned ABC News
7:00 Enterprise
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10:30 The Electric Company
11:00 Trade-Offs
11:30 3-2-1 Contact
PM
12:00 Sesame Street
1:00 The French Chef - Julia Child
1:30 Over Easy
2:00 Nova
3:00 The Electric Company
3:30 Sesame Street
4:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:00 3-2-1 Contact
5:30 Up and Coming
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
6:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
7:00 Washington Week in Review
7:30 Wall $treet Week
8:00 Chicago Week in Review
8:30 Creativity with Bill Moyers
9:00 Life on Earth
10:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
10:30 Grear Performances
11:30 Movie: "Angel and the Badman" (1947) - John Wayne, Gail Russell, Harry Carey (not to be confused with WGN Cubs announcer Harry Caray)
AM
12:55 Phantom Empire
1:25 Up Pompeii!
1:55 Captioned ABC News
26 WCIU (Ind.)
AM
8:25 Market Wrap-Up
8:30 Jimmy Swaggart
9:00 Stock Market & Business Report (to 3:30 PM)
PM
3:30 Chicago Today
4:00 Disco Connection
4:30 Blacks' View of the News
4:30 Today's Racing (horse racing?)
<<Spanish programming begins>>
5:00 Emilia
5:30 Rosa...de Lejos (from Afar)
6:30 Informacion (noticias/news)
7:00 Mis Huespedes (My Guests)
8:00 Iris Chacon
9:00 Quiereme Siempre (Love Me Forever)
10:00 El Hogar Que Yo Robe (The Home That I Stole)
11:30 Y Ahora... Que? (And Now... What?)
32 WFLD (Ind.)
AM
6:00 Newstalk
6:30 Magilla Gorilla
7:00 Tom & Jerry
7:30 The Flintstones
8:00 Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Popeye (Paramount theatrical shorts)
9:00 The Richard Simmons Show
9:30 The People's Court
10:00 The 700 Club
11:00 Newstalk
11:30 The Hot Fudge Show
PM
12:00 Underdog
12:30 The Great Space Coaster
1:00 I Love Lucy
1:30 Green Acres
2:00 Please Don't Eat the Daisies
2:30 Casper
3:00 Mighty Mouse
3:30 The Flintstones
4:00 Tom & Jerry
4:30 The Brady Bunch
5:00 Wonder Woman
6:00 Happy Days Again
6:30 M*A*S*H
7:00 PM Magazine
7:30 You Asked For It
8:00 8 O'Clock Movie: "Charge of the Model T's" (1979) - John David Carson, Louis Nye, Arte Johnson
10:00 M*A*S*H
10:30 The Benny Hill Show
11:00 All in the Family
11:30 Comedy Classics
AM
12:00 Keyfax Nite Owl
38 WCFC (Christian Ind.)
AM
8:25 Day by Day
8:30 Circle Square
9:00 Captain Andy
9:30 Shape Up
10:00 Chicago
11:00 How Can I Live
11:30 Good News, America
AM
12:00 Ross Bagley
1:00 Panorama
1:30 Teach Us to Pray
2:00 Insight
2:30 100 Huntley Street
4:00 Circle Square
4:30 Inside Track
5:00 Ross Bagley
6:00 Panorama
6:30 Zola Levitt Live
7:00 Chicago
8:00 The Lesson
8:30 Shape Up
9:00 Jimmy Swaggart
10:00 The 700 Club
11:30 Jim Bakker
AM
12:30 Ross Bagley
44 WSNS (Ind./ON TV)
AM
8:00 Illinois Press
8:30 Dimensions
9:00 Movie: "Romeo and Juliet" (part 2 of 2) (1966) - Rudolph Nureyev, Margot Fonteyn
10:30 Mundo Hispano (Hispanic World)
11:30 Leave It to Beaver
PM
12:00 The Addams Family
12:30 Get Smart
1:00 The Outer Limits
2:00 F-Troop
2:30 Movie: "The Great Moment" (1944) - Joel McCrea, Betty Field
4:30 Sha Na Na
<<ON TV subscription programming begins at 5:00>>
Source: Chicago Tribune
Translations of Spanish titles courtesy of Google Translate
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