Retro: Cincinnati Edition, Thur. April 16th, 1981

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Source: TV Guide (with Ed Asner on the cover)

CHANNELS
2 WDTN Dayton ABC
4 WTTV Indianapolis IN IND
5 WLWT Cincinnati NBC
7 WHIO Dayton CBS
9 WCPO CIncinnati CBS
12 WKRC Cincinnati ABC
14 WPTO Oxford PBS
16 WPTD Dayton PBS
19 WXIX Cincinnati IND
22 WKEF Dayton NBC
43 WUAB Cleveland IND
48 WCET Cincinnati PBS
54 WCVN Covington KY PBS
64 WBTI Cincinnati IND (10AM-7PM)
ON ON-TV (Pay TV Movies)

4/16/1981-Thur.

5:30
4 Portraits
12 Health Field

5:40
9 Sacred Heart

5:45
43 News

5:50
5 Good Morning

5:55
9 Farm News

6AM
2 700 Club
4 R.F.D. 4
5 22 43 Jim Bakker
7 9 Sunrise Semester
WHIO: Women and Men in a Changing Society: Government regulation of labor.
WCPO: Radio, Television and the New Technology: Cable TV is viewed.
12 It's Your Business

6:15
19 Perspective

6:30
4 700 Club
7 Focus
9 Richard Simmons
12 New Zoo Revue

6:45
14 16 AM Weather

7AM
2 12 Good Morning America
5 22 Today
7 9 CBS News
14 16 Sesame Street
19 Romper Room
43 Popeye

7:30
4 Cowboy Bob's Corral
19 Great Space Coaster
43 Flintstones

7:45
48 A.M. Weather

8AM
4 Janie
7 9 Captain Kangaroo
Actor Dick Latessa appears as Sherlock House.
14 16 Lilias, Yoga & You
19 Popeye
43 Fred Flintstone & Friends

8:15
54 A.M. Weather

8:30
14 16 A.M. Weather
19 Groovie Goolies
43 Great Space Coaster

9AM
2 4 5 Phil Donahue
7 Daytime Dayton
9 Uncle Al
Scheduled: Today's theme is being brave; Timmy Thermometer discusses the weather.
12 Edge of Night (preempted from 4pm)
19 Tom & Jerry
22 John Davidson
43 Barnaby
64 Morning Report

9:30
7 Newlywed Game
12 Family Feud
19 Spider-Man
43 Romper Room
64 $50,000 Pyramid

10AM
2 Bob Braun
Scheduled: Country-Western group Kevin Mabry and Liberty Street.
4 John Davidson
5 Days of Our Lives
7 9 Jeffersons
George seeks out an old Navy buddy for a favor.
12 Mike Douglas
A repeat show with co-host Fred Grandy, actress-singer Bernadette Peters, comedian Steve Bluestein and actor Ted Lange.
19 Merv Griffin
Guests: Tom Wopat, Herve Villechaize and author Barbara Goldsmith ('Little Gloria').
22 Las Vegas Gambit
43 43 a.m.
64 700 Club

10:30
7 9 Alice
Alice is left along to serve a gunman (Steve Franken).
22 Blockbusters
43 Let's Make a Deal

11AM
4 Mike Douglas
5 The Doctors
7 9 The Price is Right
12 Love Boat
Passengers: Sonny Bono, Charlie Callas, Jill St. John.
14 16 Fast Forward
19 Brady Bunch
22 Wheel of Fortune
43 Hollywood Squares
48 Electric Company

11:30
2 Richard Simmons
5 Midday
14 16 NOVA
'The Sea Behind the Dunes' studies life in a Massachusetts coastal lagoon. Viewed: a hermit crab, seagulls, a terrapin and insects.
19 My Three Sons
22 Joker's Wild
43 $50,000 Pyramid
48 Sesame Street
64 Bonanza

Noon
2 Family Feud
4 5 Bob Braun
Scheduled: Dr. David Hoy, a psychic; and vaudeville comedian Will B. Able appear.
7 News
9 Noon Report
12 Extra! (This has nothing to do with the current entertainment newsmagazine, right?)
19 Love, American Style
A watchdog with hay fever and acrophobia upsets the lives of Michael Callan and Peggy Fuller.
22 Let's Make a Deal
43 Bewitched

12:30
2 12 Ryan's Hope
7 Search for Tomorrow
14 16 Electric Company
19 Love, American Style
About a girl who lets a neighbor sleep in her house. Donna Douglas, Corbett Monica.
22 The Doctors
43 Gomer Pyle, USMC
64 Movie BW
'Stars over Broadway.' (1935) Entertaining yarn about a press agent (Pat O'Brien) who helps a singer (James Melton) win fame as a crooner and then loses him to grand opera. Nora: Jean Muir. Joan: Jane Froman.

1PM
2 12 All My Children
7 9 Young & The Restless
19 Movie
'The Pajama Game.' (1957) A light-hearted look at labor problems in a pajama factory. Doris Day, John Raitt. Gladys: Carol Haney.
22 Days of Our Lives
43 Movie BW
'The Leather Saint.' (1956) A young minister (John Derek) doubles as a prize fighter to raise money for polio victims. Tony: Cesar Romero.

1:30
4 Jim Gerard
5 Bullseye

2PM
2 12 One Life to Live
4 Your Show
5 22 Another World
7 9 As the World Turns

2:30
64 Archies

3PM
2 12 General Hospital
4 64 Casper & Friends
5 Texas
7 9 Guiding Light
14 16 Pacific Bridges
The girls debate the boys on Asian-American history.
19 Popeye
22 Gilligan's Island
43 Banana Splits
48 Over Easy
A look at the ACLU.

3:30
4 Woody Woodpecker
14 16 Villa Alegre
19 Flintstone & Friends
22 Tom & Jerry
43 Flintstones
48 Lilias, Yoga & You
54 Over Easy
A look at the ACLU, a talk with Buddhist leader Dalai Lama.
64 Munsters BW
The police try to help Herman, who is striken with amnesia. Herman: Fred Gwynne.

4PM
2 Movie
'Chato's Land.' (1972) Charles Bronson plays an Apache half-breed on the run after the self-defense killing of a white sheriff. Filmed in Spain. Jack Palance, Richard Basehart.
4 19 Tom & Jerry
5 Bionic Woman
To deactivate a doomsday device, Jaime (Lindsay Wagner) must outwit a computer programmed to defend the weapon against any attack. Second of two parts. Cooper: Lew Ayres.
7 Brady Bunch
Cindy (Susan Olsen) becomes an expert tattletale. Postman: John Wheeler.
9 Hour Magazine
Interviews with Rita Jenrette and pharmacologist Joe Graedon. Also: A kitchen visit with Nancy Walker and a look at fashions by Evan-Picone. Gary Collins hosts.
12 Movie BW
'The Keys of the Kingdom.' (1944) Well-acted version of A.J. Cronin's novel about a priest (Gregory Peck) doing missionary work in China. Vincent Price. [This movie, shown in two parts, concludes tomorrow at 4PM.]
14 16 48 54 Sesame Street
22 Merv Griffin
From Hollywood: Author Gore Vidal ('Creation') and Rita Jenrette. Mort Lindsey band.
43 Scooby-Doo
64 Addams Family BW
Ophelia visits the Addams home. Carolyn Jones.

4:30
7 Bewitched
Maurice Evans plays Sam's pompous dad, making a mortal pest of himself after he loses his powers.
19 Gilligan's Island BW
The Skipper crash-diets in hopes of qualifying for the Navy.
43 Popeye
64 Ozzie & Harriet

5PM
4 Little Rascals BW
5 Good Times
Michael (Ralph Carter) decides to share an apartment with a young white girl. Julia: DeAnn Mears.
7 Happy Days Again
Fonzie doesn't know that his bride-to-be is a stripper.
9 John Davidson
Guests: Art Linkletter, actress Cathryn Damon ['Soap'] and musical group Taste of Honey.
14 16 48 54 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
19 Wonder Woman
Part 1 of a two-part story revolving around the Amazons' bullet-reflecting bracelets introduces Debra Winger as the sister of Wonder Woman (Lynda Carter). Radl: John Saxon.
22 Tic Tac Dough
43 Woody Woodpecker
64 I Love Lucy BW
Lucy outdoes herself on a camping trip with Ricky & the Mertzes.

5:30
4 Brady Bunch
5 Sanford & Son
Fred (Redd Foxx) ruins Lamont's plans to give him a happy birthday.
7 M*A*S*H
Someone's after the hide of Lt. Col. Henry Blake (McLean Stevenson).
12 22 News
14 16 48 54 Electric Company
43 Bugs Bunny
64 I Dream of Jeannie
Milton Berle plays a con man who tries to get Jeannie's priceless scarab pin.

 

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6PM
2 5 7 9 News
4 Good Times
14 16 The Dollar Stretcher
19 Happy Days Again
Joanie's date for her Sweet 16 party is a libidinous star quarterback (Ray Underwood). Joanie: Erin Moran.
22 Sanford & Son
Fred is upset when he sees his new brother-in-law, a gambler who is very friendly and very white. Rodney: Allan Drake.
43 Welcome Back, Kotter
48 International Kitchen
Host Nino J. Martin prepares two classic salads: spinach and Caesar.
54 Bywords
Tonight's guest is Grant Turner, an announcer at the Grand Ole Opry for almost 36 years.
64 Beverly Hillbillies BW
Jethro finds his true love in an exotic belly dancer.

6:30
4 Welcome Back, Kotter
5 22 NBC News-John Chancellor
7 9 CBS News-Dan Rather
12 ABC News-Frank Reynolds
14 16 Over Easy
A talk with Mitch Miller.
19 Carol Burnett & Friends
William Conrad is the guest. In a sketch, Carol plays a woman who twitches whenever sex is the topic of conversation.
43 Sanford & Son
48 Here's to Your Health
Low-level radiation and unnecessary X-rays are discussed by a radiologist and an FDA representative.
54 General Educational Development
64 Hogan's Heroes
The POWs try putting the lid on a Luftwaffe mission to destroy British bombers.

7PM
2 ABC News-Frank Reynolds
4 Sanford & Son
5 Buck Rogers
The Searcher's passengers are subjected to life-threatening temperature extremes by an alien ship whose commander accuses Buck (Gil Gerard) of harboring a murderess. Asimov: Jay Garner. Hawk: Thom Christopher. [Preempts regular programming.]
7 News
9 7 O'Clock Report
12 Tic Tac Dough
14 16 Here's To Your Health
The risks of low-level radiation and the need to eliminate unnecessary X-rays are discussed by radiology professor Fred Bonti and John Barnett of the FDA.
19 43 M*A*S*H
WXIX: A berserk Turk is only one contributor to what Trapper (Wayne Rogers) terms a well-rounded day of insanity.
22 Benny Hill
48 54 MacNeil, Lehrer Report
ON Movie
'Fish Hawk.' (1979) Will Sampson plays an aging, alcoholic Indian befriended by a farm boy (Charlie Fields). Charlie: Geoffrey Bowes.

7:30
2 12 PM Magazine
Segments on a Wisconsin couple who write romantic paperback novels, and a 'skull sculptor' who works to identify murder victims by recreating their faces with clay.
4 43 All in the Family
7 The Cross-Wits
The guests are Jim Staahl, Marc Wallace, Ted Lange and Anita Gillette.
9 Joker's Wild
14 16 MacNeil, Lehrer Report
19 All in the Family
The Bunkers hope a rich widow (Peggy Rea) will cheer up Barney (Allan Melvin), whose wife has again run off.
22 Family Feud
48 Dick Cavett
Scheduled: A conversation with playwright Peter Shaffer ('Amadeus').
54 Kentucky Journal: News

8PM
2 Girl on the Edge of Town
Special: A popular high-school junior (Sherry Hursey) accepts the responsibility for her untimely pregnancy and in the process learns about the beauty of love and the pain of alienation. Martha: Patty Duke Astin. Wayne: Brad Wilkin. [Preempts regular programming.]
4 Gunsmoke
5 22 Seven Dials Mystery
Special: A stylist British-produced adaptation of Agatha Chrstie's 1929 whodunit. It begins, innocently enough, on an English country weekend with a seemingly harmless prank staged by a group of 'gay young things.' But the net morning, the victim of their practical joke is found dead in his bed. And that piques the interest of a plucky amateur sleuth named 'Bundle' Brent (Cheryl Campbell), who is soon enmeshed in a web of murder and intrigue involving the British Foreign Office, an ambitious industralist and a mysterious secret society known only as the Seven Dials. James Warwick, Lucy Gutteridge, John Gielgud.
7 9 Checking In
Block's high-school nemesis-now a professional football coach-and his rowdy football team check into the St. Frederick. Block: Larry Linville. Florence: Marla Gibbs.
12 Mork & Mindy
When Cora (Elizabeth Kerr) is mugged during her visit, Mork (Robin Williams) uses his powers to show the culprits what it's like to be elderly. Mindy: Pam Dawber.
14 16 Search for Solutions
Return: Scientists and their work are studied in this three-part series. The first show, 'Evidence, Patterns & Investigation,' reports on how an epidemiologist uncovered the cause of a nerve disease affecting a New Guinean tribe; an astronomer's photographic examination of a 10th planet; studies of cloud and weather patterns; a search for the origin of the human species; and research into the structure of cells.
19 Movie BW
'The Song of Bernadette.' (1943) Franz Werfel's best-seller about the peasant girl (Jennifer Jones) who claimed she saw a vision of the Holy Mother (Linda Darnell) in a grotto at Lourdes. Charles Bickford, Vincent Price, Lee J. Cobb.
43 Rockford Files
48 All Creatures Great & Small
A hovering farmer makes a difficult calving even more complicated. James: Christopher Timothy.
54 Flying Fortress: A Question of Defense
This program examines B-52 practice bombing runs over Kentucky.

8:30
7 9 Park Place
David (Harold Gould) aids a teenager seeking legal separation from her parents, middle-aged hippies who permit her to do whatever she wants. Universe: Olivia Barash. Howie: Don Calfa.
12 Bosom Buddies
Kip (Tom Hanks) nervously asks Sonny (Donna Dixon) for a date and is thrilled when she accepts.
54 Begin with Goodbye
A profile of a family's move to the west coast details their feelings of separation from family & friends.

8:45
ON Movie
'Apocalypse Now.' (1979) Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War epic sends Martin Sheen on a mission into the Heart of Darkness to 'terminate' a renegade Green Beret (Marlon Brando).

9PM
2 12 Barney Miller
Barney (Hal Linden) and his men are joined by Sgt. Eric Dorsey (Paul Lieber), who assumes the detectives are on the take and asks to be left out. Meanwhile, a junkie promises to divulge his drug connection if the cops get him a fix; and a patron of a stop-smoking clinic says that its proprietors use savage tactics. Pryor: Michael Lombard.
4 Joker's Wild
7 9 Magnum, P.I.
Magnum (Tom Selleck) is maneuvered into a grueling 'iron man' race by a fitness instructor who also wants him to find her missing fiance. Barbara: Marcia Wallace.
14 16 48 54 Sneak Previews
Scenes from 'Ordinary People' and 'The Great Santini' are included in a show on movies about family life. Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel host.
43 Movie
'Luther.' (1974) Stacy Keach's powerful performance highlights John Osborne's play about Martin Luther, the 16th-century cleric who founded Protestantism.

9:30
2 12 Taxi
During a training drive with a pretty cabbie, Louie can't keep his eyes on the road and runs down an elderly woman. Louie: Danny Devito. Edith: Iris Korn.
4 Tic Tac Dough
14 16 Lillian Hellman: A Profile
In the 2nd of five interviews, the playwright speaks of her many years with mystery writer Dashiell Hammett, his influence on her writing, their happy times on Hard Scrabble Farm in Pleasantville, NY, and her dependence on him, although she's still not sure she understands him (he died in 1961): 'Dash had a mistaken belief that there was plenty of time for everything...there wasn't.' Marilyn Berger conducts the interview. (Lillian died 3 years later, in 1984.)
48 54 Vic Braden's Tennis for the Future
WCET: Debut, Tennis coach Vic Braden is the host of this 13-week series of tennis instructions. This week: Braden discusses his 'laugh and win' philosophy and dispels common myths about the forehand.
WCVN: Braden analyzes the fear of the backhand and discusses ways to master this misunderstood stroke.

10PM
2 12 20/20
4 News
7 9 Nurse
A deaf man is reluctant to undergo an operation that could restore his hearing but might also threaten his relationship with a deaf woman. Mary: Michael learned. Ben: David Purdham. Alma: Elizabeth Quinn.
14 16 Song by Song
The lyrics of E.Y. Harburg ['The Wizard of Oz,' 'Finian's Rainbow'] are featured in a 1980 salute by Georgia Brown, David Kernan and Clarke Peters. Songs include 'Over the Rainbow,' 'Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?,' 'How Are Things in Glocca Morra?,' 'April in Paris,' 'It's Only a Paper Moon,' 'Devil Moon' and 'The Eagle & Me'.
48 Soundstage
Roberta Flack in concert. Her songs include 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,' 'Killing Me Softly,' 'Feel like Makin' Love,' 'The Closer I Get to You,' 'Where is the Love?', 'Jesse,' 'Don't Make Me Wait Too Long,' 'Disguises.' [Simulcast on WVXU-FM 91.7]
54 McLain Family Festival
The Bluebird Special and the McLain Family Band perform.

10:30
5 In Search Of...
Current knowledge of UFOs is examined in interviews with ex-military officers and scientists, including a visit to a reported cache of extraterrestrial objects. [Preempts regular programming. What was the Thursday Night Movie that both 5 and 22 preempted?]
22 To Be Announced
54 American Indian Artists
Return: Contemporary American Indian artists are profiled in this six-part series from 1976. The first subjects are Santa Clara, N.M. potters Grace Medicine Flower and her brother Joseph Lonewolf, who discuss their art while working with clay.

11PM
2 5 7 9 12 22 News
4 All in the Family
14 16 48 Dick Cavett
Scheduled: A conversation with playwright Peter Shaffer.
19 M*A*S*H
Trapper bristles when he's ordered to undergo a medical checkup.

11:15
ON Movie
'Get Out Your Handkerchiefs.' (1978) Bertrand Biler directed this Oscar-winning film about a husband's unusual solution to his wife's sexual apathy. Gerard Depradieu.

11:30
2 Nightline
4 Streets of San Francisco
5 22 Tonight Show
Scheduled: Don McLean, Lorna Patterson, comic George Miller. Johnny Carson, Ed McMahon.
7 9 Jeffersons
Bentley takes George's advice to be aggressive and lands in jail.
12 Movie BW
'The Adventures of Tartu.' (1943) Effective yarn about a chemist (Robert Donat) maneuvering cross-country to blow up a Nazi factory. Valerie Hobson.
14 16 MacNeil, Lehrer Report
19 Rockford Files
Rockford's life is endangered when an old friend, a con man, sets him up as a fall guy in a poker-game holdup.
43 Benny Hill
48 Captioned ABC News

12AM
2 Charlie's Angels
Bosley falls into the clutches of smugglers who are using Charlie's yacht to transpor gol.
7 9 McMillan & Wife
An earthquake crumbles Mac and Sally's living room wall, revealing a human skeleton concealed behind it.
43 Movie
'Birth of a Legend.' (1973) Wildlife feature centering on an orphaned coyote pup who is trained to herd sheep.

12:30
4 Movie BW
'Cleopatra.' (1934) Claudette Colbert is dazzling as the Egyptian queen in Cecil B. DeMille's lavish spectacle of ancient Rome, done in his most florid style.
5 22 Tomorrow Coast to Coast
Scheduled: Sen. Jeremiah Denton (R-AL) and singer Ted Nugent.
19 Mission: Impossible
George Sanders is the villain of the piece as the IMF works to stop sale of arms to guerrilla forces.

2AM
22 News

2:05
7 9 News

2:30
4 Movie BW
'Hold Back the Dawn.' (1941) Fine, well-acted story about the romance of a European gigolo and a vacationing schoolteacher in Mexico.

5AM
4 Love, American Style

 

[umfan]

Checking In was the very short spinoff from the Jeffersons starring Marla Gibbs and Larry Linville of MASH fame. I think it went all of four episodes and these are now included with The Jeffersons syndication package.