CBS celebrates 50 years on the air, from TV Guide-Chicago Metro edition
WBBM 2-CBS
6:00 Behold Wondrous Things (clips of religious broadcasting, 1948-51)
6:30 Look Up & Live (guest: Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek)
7:00 Ghost Busters
7:30 Wacko (guest Gary Owens)
8:00 Marlo & the Magic Movie Machine
9:00 Dusty's Treehouse
9:30 Magic Door
10:00 Easter Sunday Mass (live from the chapel of Covenant House, a refuge for runaway and homeless children located in NYC's Times Square)
11:00 Face the Nation
11:30 Newsmakers
noon Challenge of the Sexes (Sue Pirtle v Sandy Kirby-rodeo, Kelly O'Brien v Carl Steinfeldt-horsehoes, Joan Lincoln v Frank Bara II-skiing)
12:45 NBA: Bulls-Cleveland
3:00 Sea Pines Heritage Classic golf
5:00 CBS Evening News
5:30 News
6:00 Movie "The Wizard of Oz"
8:00 CBS: On the Air (CBS launches a week of specials celebrating the network's 50th anniversary, hosted by Mary Tyler Moore, Walter Cronkite, Telly Savalas, and Jean Stapleton; during the rest of the week, specials aired nightly at 9 (10 ET/PT) celebrating programs that aired on that particular night)
10:00 A Matter of Policy (Mort Crim hosts the first of two specials on insurance; pt 2 aired the following night at 10)
11:00 News
11:15 CBS News
11:30 Name of the Game
1:00 Movie "The Searchers"
3:30 Newsmakers
4:00 Movie "Jamboree" (bw; following the movie, ch 2 pulls a WCBS, signing off 5:50-6am)
WMAQ 5-NBC
7:30 Ag-USA
8:00 Everyman
8:30 Gamut
9:00 Some of My Best Friends
9:30 Contigo
10:00 Easter Sunday Mass (live from Washington's National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception)
11:00 City Desk
11:30 Meet the Press
noon Tony Brown's Journal (relationship between blacks' and whites' growing interest in their ethnic heritages)
12:30 News
1:00 Consumer Buyline
1:30 WCT-Caesars Palace Challenge Cup tennis: Vitas Gerulaitis v Rod Laver
2:30 Dynamic Duos: Willie Shoemaker/Eddie Arcaro v Arnold Palmer/Ray Floyd
3:00 SportsWorld: Golden Gloves boxing, AIAW Women's College Basketball Championships, World Invitational Aerial Acrobatic Skiing Championship, Curt Gowdy reports on TV trash-sport
5:00 News
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Wonderful World of Disney "Mixed Nuts" (airing 4 Chip 'n Dale cartoons from the 50s)
7:00 Project UFO
8:00 Tribute to ""Mr. Television" Milton Berle (featuring Lucille Ball, Joey Bishop, George Carlin, Johnny Carson, Angie Dickinson, Kirk Douglas, Bob Hope, Gabriel Kaplan, Gene Kelly, Kermit the Frog, Donny & Marie Osmond, Gregory Peck, Carl Reiner, Don Rickles, Frank Sinatra, Marlo Thomas, and Flip Wilson as Geraldine)
9:00 Second Annual Hollywood Outtakes (hosts George Burns and Marilyn Beck)
10:00 News
10:45 Movie "Jesus Christ Superstar"
1:00 Gamut
1:30 Some of My Best Friends
WLS 7-ABC
7:00 Consultation (looking at variations at homes for the elderly)
7:30 For You...Black Woman (bw/Alice Travis hosts a discussion of wife abuse)
8:00 Jubilee Showcase
8:30 Hot Fudge
9:00 BJ's Gigglesnort Hotel
9:30 Jabberjaw
10:00 Great Grape Ape
10:30 Animals, Animals, Animals
11:00 Directions (an hour-long special visiting Florence)
noon Of Cabbages & Kings
12:30 Passage to Adventure
1:00 World Superstars (14 athletes from 3 continents square off in Freeport, Bahamas)
2:15 Boxing: US-Ireland amateur bouts
3:15 Sports Magazine
3:30 ABC Wide World of Sports: USAC California 200 auto race/World Ice Dancing Championship
5:00 That's Hollywood (looking at special effects)
5:30 Match Game PM
6:00 Hardy Boys
7:00 How the West was Won
8:00 Movie "SST Disaster in the Sky" (aka SST-Death Flight)
10:00 News
10:15 ABC News
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 Movie "Godspell"
1:10 Movie "Barabbas"
WGN 9-Ind
7:00 News
7:15 Buyer's Forum
7:30 Three Score/Community Calendar
7:45 Easter Mass (location not listed, but I assume this was local)
8:30 Chicagoland Church Services
9:00 Issues Unlimited (Green)
9:30 Flash Gordon "Captured by Shark Men" (bw/pt 3)
10:00 Tarzan
11:00 Cisco Kid
11:30 Lone Ranger
noon Movie "The Song of Bernardette" (bw)
3:30 Movie "Lassie Come Home"
5:30 Space: 1999
6:30 In Search of... (a 1977 look at ongoing genetic studies, including recombinant DNA research and experimental cloning)
7:00 That (Good Ole) Nashville Music (guests Don Williams, Billie Joe Spears, and Ronnie Sessions)
7:30 Hee Haw (giuests the Statler Brothers, Linda Hargrove, and WTOG St. Pete's Dr. Paul Bearer)
8:30 Bobby Vinton (guests Phyllis Diller and Shawne Jackson)
9:00 Lawrence Welk (Easter songs)
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "The Seven Little Foys"
12:20 News
12:50 Cromie Circle
WTTW 11-PBS
8:30 Zoom
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Big Blue Marble
10:30 Sesame Street
11:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
noon Wall Street Week
12:30 Consumer Survival Kit
1:00 University of Illinois President's Address
1:30 Great Performances (Herbert von Karajan conducts the La Scala Orchestra & Chorus in Verdi's Requiem Mass; simulcast on WFMT 1450/98.7)
3:00 Meeting of Minds
4:00 Firing Line (Percy Braetrup analyzes media coverage of the 1968 Tet offensive)
5:00 Sunday Evening Club
6:00 Royal Heritage
7:00 Sneak Previews
7:30 Inside Spring Training (visiting the White Sox camp in Sarasota)
8:00 Anna Karenina, pt 8
9:00 Nova "The Mind Machines" (look at computer technology)
10:00 Two Ronnies
10:30 Monty Python's Flying Circus
11:00 Prisoner (repeat of the premiere; which also aired the previous night at 8pm)
11:50 Jean Shepherd's America
WCIU 26-Ind
8:00 Rex Humbard
9:00 Reverend Al
9:30 Philippine Revue (Joe Reyes)
10:30 Jerry Falwell
11:30 Day of Discovery
noon Beat of Yugoslavia
1:00 Asi es Mi Tierra
2:30 Benny Zucchini's Italian Variety
3:30 Angelo Liberati
4:30 Bob Lewandowski
6:00 Benny Zucchini's Italian Variety
7:00 Hellenic Theater
8:00 Jimmy Swaggart
8:30 Lithuanian TV
9:00 Leroy Jenkins
9:30 Greek World
10:00 John & George Trakakis
WFLD 32-Ind
7:30 Day of Discovery
8:00 Oral Roberts
8:30 Robert Schuller
9:30 Rex Humbard
10:30 Popeye (bw)
11:00 Valley of the Dinosaurs
11:30 Jetsons
noon Movie "A Guy Named Joe" (bw)
2:30 Movie "Planet on the Prowl"
4:00 Lucy Show
4:30 Beverly Hillbillies (bw)
5:00 Partridge Family
5:30 Brady Bunch
6:00 World at War (former Hitler secretary Traudi Junge recalls the Fuhrer's final months)
7:00 Movie "Louisa" (bw)
9:00 Oral Roberts Special (guests Vikki Carr, Richard Roberts, and the World Action Singers)
10:00 Best of Groucho (bw)
10:30 Chicago '78 (discussing school desegregation with City-Wide Advisory Committee members Rev. George Riddick and Harriet O'Donnell)
11:00 Soul Searching (Lindsay)
11:30 Los Hispanos (Melendez)
WCFC 38-Rel
4:30pm Worship for Shut-Ins
5:00 Amazing Grace
5:30 Sunday Celebration
6:30 God is Moving
7:30 James Robison
8:00 Sagamore Hill Baptist Church
9:00 Chicago Gospel Hour
10:00 Bible Hour
WSNS 44-Ind
7:30 Leroy Jenkins
8:00 Jerry Falwell
9:00 It is Written
9:30 Jimmy Swaggart
10:00 Day of Discovery
10:30 Faith for Today
11:00 Wrestling
noon Have Gun Will Travel (bw)
12:30 Exhibition Baseball: the White Sox host the Red Sox in Sarasota
3:30 My Favorite Martian
4:00 Uncle Waldo
4:30 Leave it to Beaver (bw)
5:00 Maverick (bw)
6:00 Jerry Falwell
7:00 Rex Humbard
8:00 The King is Coming
8:30 Day of Discovery
9:00 Jimmy Swaggart
9:30 Garner Ted Armstrong
10:00 Changed Lives
10:30 Movie "Hong Kong Farewell"
WCAE 50-PBS (licenced to St. John IN, this was the only station in the edition with a white channel bullet)
3pm Great Performances "Count Dracula" (conclusion)
4:00 William B. Tenner Pro-Am Racquetball Tournament (from Memphis)
5:00 Crockett's Victory Garden
5:30 French Chef
6:00 Turnabout
6:30 Dick Cavett
7:00 Previn & the Pittsburgh "Music That Made the Movies" (season premiere)
8:00 Anna Karenina, pt 8
9:00 Nova "The Mind Machines"
10:00 Indiana Outdoors
WBBM 2-CBS
6:00 Behold Wondrous Things (clips of religious broadcasting, 1948-51)
6:30 Look Up & Live (guest: Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek)
7:00 Ghost Busters
7:30 Wacko (guest Gary Owens)
8:00 Marlo & the Magic Movie Machine
9:00 Dusty's Treehouse
9:30 Magic Door
10:00 Easter Sunday Mass (live from the chapel of Covenant House, a refuge for runaway and homeless children located in NYC's Times Square)
11:00 Face the Nation
11:30 Newsmakers
noon Challenge of the Sexes (Sue Pirtle v Sandy Kirby-rodeo, Kelly O'Brien v Carl Steinfeldt-horsehoes, Joan Lincoln v Frank Bara II-skiing)
12:45 NBA: Bulls-Cleveland
3:00 Sea Pines Heritage Classic golf
5:00 CBS Evening News
5:30 News
6:00 Movie "The Wizard of Oz"
8:00 CBS: On the Air (CBS launches a week of specials celebrating the network's 50th anniversary, hosted by Mary Tyler Moore, Walter Cronkite, Telly Savalas, and Jean Stapleton; during the rest of the week, specials aired nightly at 9 (10 ET/PT) celebrating programs that aired on that particular night)
10:00 A Matter of Policy (Mort Crim hosts the first of two specials on insurance; pt 2 aired the following night at 10)
11:00 News
11:15 CBS News
11:30 Name of the Game
1:00 Movie "The Searchers"
3:30 Newsmakers
4:00 Movie "Jamboree" (bw; following the movie, ch 2 pulls a WCBS, signing off 5:50-6am)
WMAQ 5-NBC
7:30 Ag-USA
8:00 Everyman
8:30 Gamut
9:00 Some of My Best Friends
9:30 Contigo
10:00 Easter Sunday Mass (live from Washington's National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception)
11:00 City Desk
11:30 Meet the Press
noon Tony Brown's Journal (relationship between blacks' and whites' growing interest in their ethnic heritages)
12:30 News
1:00 Consumer Buyline
1:30 WCT-Caesars Palace Challenge Cup tennis: Vitas Gerulaitis v Rod Laver
2:30 Dynamic Duos: Willie Shoemaker/Eddie Arcaro v Arnold Palmer/Ray Floyd
3:00 SportsWorld: Golden Gloves boxing, AIAW Women's College Basketball Championships, World Invitational Aerial Acrobatic Skiing Championship, Curt Gowdy reports on TV trash-sport
5:00 News
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Wonderful World of Disney "Mixed Nuts" (airing 4 Chip 'n Dale cartoons from the 50s)
7:00 Project UFO
8:00 Tribute to ""Mr. Television" Milton Berle (featuring Lucille Ball, Joey Bishop, George Carlin, Johnny Carson, Angie Dickinson, Kirk Douglas, Bob Hope, Gabriel Kaplan, Gene Kelly, Kermit the Frog, Donny & Marie Osmond, Gregory Peck, Carl Reiner, Don Rickles, Frank Sinatra, Marlo Thomas, and Flip Wilson as Geraldine)
9:00 Second Annual Hollywood Outtakes (hosts George Burns and Marilyn Beck)
10:00 News
10:45 Movie "Jesus Christ Superstar"
1:00 Gamut
1:30 Some of My Best Friends
WLS 7-ABC
7:00 Consultation (looking at variations at homes for the elderly)
7:30 For You...Black Woman (bw/Alice Travis hosts a discussion of wife abuse)
8:00 Jubilee Showcase
8:30 Hot Fudge
9:00 BJ's Gigglesnort Hotel
9:30 Jabberjaw
10:00 Great Grape Ape
10:30 Animals, Animals, Animals
11:00 Directions (an hour-long special visiting Florence)
noon Of Cabbages & Kings
12:30 Passage to Adventure
1:00 World Superstars (14 athletes from 3 continents square off in Freeport, Bahamas)
2:15 Boxing: US-Ireland amateur bouts
3:15 Sports Magazine
3:30 ABC Wide World of Sports: USAC California 200 auto race/World Ice Dancing Championship
5:00 That's Hollywood (looking at special effects)
5:30 Match Game PM
6:00 Hardy Boys
7:00 How the West was Won
8:00 Movie "SST Disaster in the Sky" (aka SST-Death Flight)
10:00 News
10:15 ABC News
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 Movie "Godspell"
1:10 Movie "Barabbas"
WGN 9-Ind
7:00 News
7:15 Buyer's Forum
7:30 Three Score/Community Calendar
7:45 Easter Mass (location not listed, but I assume this was local)
8:30 Chicagoland Church Services
9:00 Issues Unlimited (Green)
9:30 Flash Gordon "Captured by Shark Men" (bw/pt 3)
10:00 Tarzan
11:00 Cisco Kid
11:30 Lone Ranger
noon Movie "The Song of Bernardette" (bw)
3:30 Movie "Lassie Come Home"
5:30 Space: 1999
6:30 In Search of... (a 1977 look at ongoing genetic studies, including recombinant DNA research and experimental cloning)
7:00 That (Good Ole) Nashville Music (guests Don Williams, Billie Joe Spears, and Ronnie Sessions)
7:30 Hee Haw (giuests the Statler Brothers, Linda Hargrove, and WTOG St. Pete's Dr. Paul Bearer)
8:30 Bobby Vinton (guests Phyllis Diller and Shawne Jackson)
9:00 Lawrence Welk (Easter songs)
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "The Seven Little Foys"
12:20 News
12:50 Cromie Circle
WTTW 11-PBS
8:30 Zoom
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Big Blue Marble
10:30 Sesame Street
11:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
noon Wall Street Week
12:30 Consumer Survival Kit
1:00 University of Illinois President's Address
1:30 Great Performances (Herbert von Karajan conducts the La Scala Orchestra & Chorus in Verdi's Requiem Mass; simulcast on WFMT 1450/98.7)
3:00 Meeting of Minds
4:00 Firing Line (Percy Braetrup analyzes media coverage of the 1968 Tet offensive)
5:00 Sunday Evening Club
6:00 Royal Heritage
7:00 Sneak Previews
7:30 Inside Spring Training (visiting the White Sox camp in Sarasota)
8:00 Anna Karenina, pt 8
9:00 Nova "The Mind Machines" (look at computer technology)
10:00 Two Ronnies
10:30 Monty Python's Flying Circus
11:00 Prisoner (repeat of the premiere; which also aired the previous night at 8pm)
11:50 Jean Shepherd's America
WCIU 26-Ind
8:00 Rex Humbard
9:00 Reverend Al
9:30 Philippine Revue (Joe Reyes)
10:30 Jerry Falwell
11:30 Day of Discovery
noon Beat of Yugoslavia
1:00 Asi es Mi Tierra
2:30 Benny Zucchini's Italian Variety
3:30 Angelo Liberati
4:30 Bob Lewandowski
6:00 Benny Zucchini's Italian Variety
7:00 Hellenic Theater
8:00 Jimmy Swaggart
8:30 Lithuanian TV
9:00 Leroy Jenkins
9:30 Greek World
10:00 John & George Trakakis
WFLD 32-Ind
7:30 Day of Discovery
8:00 Oral Roberts
8:30 Robert Schuller
9:30 Rex Humbard
10:30 Popeye (bw)
11:00 Valley of the Dinosaurs
11:30 Jetsons
noon Movie "A Guy Named Joe" (bw)
2:30 Movie "Planet on the Prowl"
4:00 Lucy Show
4:30 Beverly Hillbillies (bw)
5:00 Partridge Family
5:30 Brady Bunch
6:00 World at War (former Hitler secretary Traudi Junge recalls the Fuhrer's final months)
7:00 Movie "Louisa" (bw)
9:00 Oral Roberts Special (guests Vikki Carr, Richard Roberts, and the World Action Singers)
10:00 Best of Groucho (bw)
10:30 Chicago '78 (discussing school desegregation with City-Wide Advisory Committee members Rev. George Riddick and Harriet O'Donnell)
11:00 Soul Searching (Lindsay)
11:30 Los Hispanos (Melendez)
WCFC 38-Rel
4:30pm Worship for Shut-Ins
5:00 Amazing Grace
5:30 Sunday Celebration
6:30 God is Moving
7:30 James Robison
8:00 Sagamore Hill Baptist Church
9:00 Chicago Gospel Hour
10:00 Bible Hour
WSNS 44-Ind
7:30 Leroy Jenkins
8:00 Jerry Falwell
9:00 It is Written
9:30 Jimmy Swaggart
10:00 Day of Discovery
10:30 Faith for Today
11:00 Wrestling
noon Have Gun Will Travel (bw)
12:30 Exhibition Baseball: the White Sox host the Red Sox in Sarasota
3:30 My Favorite Martian
4:00 Uncle Waldo
4:30 Leave it to Beaver (bw)
5:00 Maverick (bw)
6:00 Jerry Falwell
7:00 Rex Humbard
8:00 The King is Coming
8:30 Day of Discovery
9:00 Jimmy Swaggart
9:30 Garner Ted Armstrong
10:00 Changed Lives
10:30 Movie "Hong Kong Farewell"
WCAE 50-PBS (licenced to St. John IN, this was the only station in the edition with a white channel bullet)
3pm Great Performances "Count Dracula" (conclusion)
4:00 William B. Tenner Pro-Am Racquetball Tournament (from Memphis)
5:00 Crockett's Victory Garden
5:30 French Chef
6:00 Turnabout
6:30 Dick Cavett
7:00 Previn & the Pittsburgh "Music That Made the Movies" (season premiere)
8:00 Anna Karenina, pt 8
9:00 Nova "The Mind Machines"
10:00 Indiana Outdoors