Retro: Colorado, Wed. July 12th, 1978

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Source: TV Guide, Colorado Edition

CHANNELS
2d KWGN Denver IND
2c KTWO Casper, WY - all 3 networks
3r KOTA Rapid City, SD CBS/NBC
3s KTVS Sterling ABC/CBS
4d KOA-TV Denver NBC
4s KDUH Hay Springs/Scottsbluff, NE ABC/NBC
5c KYCU Cheyenne, WY ABC/CBS
5g KREX Grand Junction - all 3 networks. KJCT-8 was a year away from signing on.
5p KOAA Pueblo NBC
6 KRMA Denver PBS
7d KMGH Denver CBS
7r KEVN Rapid City ABC/CBS
8 KTSC Pueblo PBS
9d KBTV Denver ABC
9r KBHE Rapid City, SD PBS
10 KSTF Scottsbluff, NE ABC/CBS
11 KKTV Colorado Springs CBS
13 KRDO Colorado Springs ABC
None actually had letters. Some channels were black, some were white, and KREX had lines under a white '5'.

7/12/1978

5AM
7r PTL Club
The Palermo Brothers are among the guests.

5:20
7d Pastoral Call

5:30
3r 4s Country Day-Edstrom
7d 11 Summer Semester
Alternative Futures: Altering political and economic structures.

6AM
2c 3s 5c 5g 7d 10 11 CBS News-Stahl/Threlkeid
3r 4s Today
Author-director Elia Kazan talks about his novel 'Acts of Love.'
4d 5p PTL Club
7r 13 Good Morning America
Advice on what to do if raped is the subject of the third of five reports on rape.
9d Sergeant Preston

6:30
9d New Mickey Mouse Club

6:35
2d Farm/Ranch Report

6:40
2d News

7AM
2d Big Blue Marble
A New York stunt man instructs his son in the profession and shows footage of himself in movies.
2c 9d Good Morning America
3s 5c 7d 10 11 Captain Kangaroo
The Captain fills in at the post office. Also: a story, 'Busy Wheels.'
4d 5g 5p Today

7:30
2d I Dream of Jeannie
Tony goes too far in banning Jeannie's magic. His punishment: an elephant in his bedroom. Larry Hagman.

8AM
2d Flintstones
3s 5c 10 11 Tic Tac Dough
3r 4s Phil Donahue
Author Marilyn French ('The Women's Room') is the guest.
5g Good Morning America (an hour a piece of all three morning shows)
6 Sesame Street
7d Noell and Andy
7r The Price is Right
13 Jabberjaw

8:30
2d Blinky's Fun Club
3s 5c 10 11 The Price is Right
7d Gomer Pyle, USMC
Cater promises to set up a recording session for an unknown singer.
13 Happy Days
Part 1. The Fonz goes to Hollywood for a screen test.

9AM
2d New Zoo Revue
Love is the topic.
2c 3r 4s High Rollers
4d Phil Donahue
On the conclusion of a two-part show, families of some of David Berkowitz' victims and their lawyers discuss how the press and the police handled the 'Son of Sam' case.
5p Phil Donahue
Methods of teaching the fundamentals of reading, writing and arithmetic are discussed.
5g Captain Kangaroo - See 7am, KTVS.
6 Psychology
7d The Price is Right
7r 9d Happy Days
Part 2. Everyone awaits the results of Fonzie's Hollywood screen test.
8 Mister Rogers
13 Edge of Night

9:30
2d Bewitched
Samantha helps a former violin prodigy make a belated comeback.
2c 7r 9d 13 Family Feud
3s 5c 10 11 Love of Life
3r 4s Wheel of Fortune
6 Business Law
8 Electric Company

9:55
3s 5c 10 11 CBS News

10AM
2d Not for Women Only
Authors Judith Viorist ('A Visit from St. Nicholas: To a Liberated Household') and Jeanne Sakol ('Flora Sweet'), and actress Bonnie Franklin are the guests.
2c 7r 9d 13 $20,000 Pyramid
3s 5c 5g 10 11 Young and the Restless
3r 4s 5p Sanford and Son
Fred keeps the cure of his hearing problem a secret to gain sympathy.
4d Card Sharks
6 English Grammar
7d Tic Tac Dough
8 Sesame Street

10:30
2d Love, American Style
1. Tiny Tim as a ghoulish host to Judy Carne and Robert Reed. 2. Tina Louise as a too-understanding wife.
2c 7r 9d 13 Ryan's Hope
3s 5c 5g 10 11 Search for Tomorrow
3r 4d 4s 5p The Gong Show
6 American History I
7d Young & The Restless

11AM
2d Father Knows Best BW
The children keep interrupting Jim, who is trying to finish some work.
2c 3s 5c 7r 9d 10 13 All My Children
3r 4s 5p For Richer, For Poorer
4d High Rollers
5g Love of Life
6 8 Over Easy-Hugh Downs
7d Search for Tomorrow
11 Romper Room (local?)

11:25
5g CBS News (obviously tape-delayed)

11:30
2d High Hopes (syndicated soap)
3r 4d 4s 5p Hollywood Squares
George Gobel, Jack Jones, Paul Lynde, Joan Rivres, McLean Stevenson, David Brenner, Dr. Joyce Brothers.
5g As the World Turns (a 1-day delay? Or the East Coast CBS feed?)
6 Speak for Yourself
7d All in the Family (these aired at 3:30 ET on CBS. 1-day delay?)
The Bunkers' black neighbors hold a friendly gathering-in Archie's house.
8 What's Cooking:?
11 Mid Day-Benning/Bruce
Scheduled: A look at an opal collection; horticulturist Curt Swift.

Noon
2d The FBI
2c 7r 13 One Life to Live
3s 7d 9d 10 News (KTVS had local news? I thought they were a KYCU satellite. Look at the 5C listing.)
3r 4s Party Line (probably not news)
4d Noonday-Morris Jones
Dr. Barbara Edelstein returns for a further discussion of diets for women. Also: an explanation of the Civil Defense test.
5c Mid-Day - Smith/O'Brien (not aired on KTVS or KSTF)
5p Wheel of Fortune
9r Sesame Street

12:30
3s 5c 7d 10 As the World Turns
3r 4s 5p The Doctors
5g 11 Guiding Light (assume off the East Coast feed)
9d Explorers

1PM
2d Movie BW
'Young Dr. Kildare.' (1938) This initial entry in the popular series takes its freshly graduated hero (Lew Ayres) from small-town life to the tough New York medical world. Lionel Barrymore.
2c 7r 9d 13 General Hospital
3r 4d 4s 5p Another World
9r Legacy Americana

1:30
3s 5c 7d 10 Guiding Light
5g 11 All in the Family
The Bunkers wage war with a fouled-up computer.
9r Cooking with a Continental Flavor

2PM
2c 3r 4d 4s 5p Days of Our Lives
5g 11 Match Game
Joyce Bulifant, Richard Dawson, Henry Morgan, Charles Nelson Reilly.
7r 9d Edge of Night
9r Lilias, Yoga and You
13 Movie
'Indict and Convict.' (1974) TV-movie about the investigation of a deputy DA suspected of killing his wife and her lover. George Grizzard, Reni Santori.

2:30
2d Denver Now-Beverly Martinez
3s 5c 10 All in the Family
5g Tic Tac Dough
6 Lowell Thomas Remembers
7d Match Game
Didi Carr, Richard Dawson. (1-day delay?)
7r 11 As the World Turns
9d One Life to Live
9r In Search of the Real America

3PM
2d Flintstones
2c Hollywood Squares
3s 5c 10 Match Game (same guests as 2PM on KREX)
3r 4s Card Sharks (preempted from earlier in the day)
4d My Three Sons
A pretty chemistry tutor stirs up dissension among the Douglases.
5p High Hopes
6 Electric Company
7d Dinah!
8 9r Lilias, Yoga and You

3:30
2d Gilligan's Island BW
Larry Storch appears as a bank robber on the Iam.
2c Krofft Supershow
3s 5c 10 $20,000 Pyramid
Sandy Gabriel, Richard Paul.
3r 4s Tennessee Tuxedo
4d Little Rascals BW
5p Doris Day
Part 1. Lew Ayres stars in a two-part story about a millionaire recluse masquerading as Doris's ranch hand.
6 Mister Rogers
7r All in the Family (see 11:30am, KMGH)
8 Villa Alegre
9r Electric Company
9d Dark Shadows (reruns at this point)
11 Dinah!
Guests: George Burns, John Denver, Carl Reiner, the musical group Andrae Crouch and the Disciples, and the mime group Mummenschanz. Songs include 'How Can I Leave You?' (Denver).

4PM
2d My Favorite Martian BW
Martin's invisibility mechanism goes haywire-everything he touches disappears.
3s 5c 10 Little Rascals BW
3r 4d 4s Big Valley
4d episode: Mexican revolutionaries jail Heath (Lee Majors)-using his life to bargain for the return of a loyalist general being hidden at the Barkley ranch.
3r/4s episode: Unknown.
5p My Three Sons
In Hong Kong, Charley tries to find a woman he met in 1931.
5g Space Sentinels (only 13 episodes were produced and aired on NBC Saturday Mornings in 1977. KREX aired a mix of cartoons at 4pm including The Pink Panther on Tuesdays. Thankfully this wasn't aired every day - imagine how old and stale those 13 episodes would get!)
6 8 Sesame Street
7d Merv Griffin
Guests: Dick Van Dyke and Ann Miller. Mort Lindsey orchestra.
7r New Mickey Mouse Club
Excerpts from the animated film 'Bambi' are shown.
9d Mike Douglas
Co-host Sandy Duncan is joined by Billy Crystal, composer Eubie Blake, singer Alberta Hunter and unicycle-riding basketball team. (I could already imagine those fourth guests!)
9r Mister Rogers
13 Flintstones

4:30
2d Family Affair
Part 1, adventure awaits Bill and the kids in Barcelona.
2c 3s 5c 10 ABC News
5p Beverly Hillbillies BW
A con man (Jesse White) tries to sell Jed the Hollywood Bowl.
5g Interaction (no idea what this is - game show?)
7r Beverly Hillbillies
Soldier Jethro leaps into battle when he spots a movie company filming a Civil War scene.
9r Sesame Street
13 Gilligan's Island

5PM
2d I Love Lucy BW
Ricky is pleased about the show he has been signed for-until he realizes that it's a rodeo.
2c 3r 4s 5p NBC News-Chancellor/Brinkley
3s 5g 5c 10 11 CBS News-Walter Cronkite
4d Mary Tyler Moore
Sue Ann's new boyfriend (James Luisi) falls for Mary. Betty White.
6 Psychology
7d 9d 13 News
7r ABC News
8 Mister Rogers

5:30
2d Mayberry, RFD
A planned European tour has Emmett and Martha squabbling before they even leave. Paul Hartman.
2c 3s 3r 4s 5c 5g 5p 7r 10 11 News
4d NBC News
6 Business Law
8 Electric Company
9r Over Easy
13 ABC News

6PM
2d Dick Van Dyke BW
The Petries' young baby sitter (Eddie Hodges) is in love with Laura.
2c Hee Haw
Guests: Patti Page, Brush Arbor, Buddy Alan and Detroit TV anchorman Wesley Sarginson. Songs: 'We Sure Can Love Each Other' (Patti); 'Don't Play That Song' (Brush). (Wesley was at WSB from late 1978 to 1984, and spent a decade at WXIA as well. Not sure where in Detroit.)
3s 5c 10 Eight is Enough - see 7pm. KYCU had ABC from 6-8p followed by a CBS movie.
3r 4s Wild Kingdom
Monkeys, sloths, jaguars, bats and other animals living in the Amazon jungle are observed. Included: the bagging of a large snake.
4d News
5p Odd Couple
A comedy about Felix's bungling attempt to direct a TV commercial. Felix: Tony Randall.
5g Carol Burnett - see 7PM, KMGH
6 English Grammar
7d CBS News
7r Movie
In the conclusion of 'Where the Lillies Bloom' (1974), young Mary Call (Julie Gholson) tries to prevent her older sister's marriage to a neighboring land owner. Jan Smithers, Harry Dean Stanton.
8 Insight (a religious show on a PBS station?)
9d ABC News
9r What's Cooking?
11 American Life Style (never heard of this one)
The career of Lou Gehrig (1903-1941), who played 2,130 consecutive games with the New York Yankees from 1925-1939, is traced.
13 The FBI
A race down the Rogue River as jewel thieves try to elude the FBI.

6:30 and later in a separate post.

 

[johnothy]

Back during this time did Mountain time zone stations mainly air programs one hour earlier than the central time zone with no actual feed? It doesn't seem like in daytime, shows aired in any specific pattern at all.

 

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6:30
2d Adam-12
Police are after four youths who have staged a successful holdup. Kent McCord.
3r 4s Pop Goes the Country
Marty Robbins does 'My Blue Heaven' and 'Harbor Lights', Jody Miller sings 'Reaching Out to Hold You.'
4d Between the Wars
The intensification of the Sino-Japanese conflict from 1937-41 is chronicled. Stills, film footage and interviews recall the period, which also saw the sinking of the U.S. gunboat Panay on the Yangtze.
5p Gomer Pyle, USMC
Gomer and a new recruit compete in the base talent contest. Jim Nabors (Gomer) sings 'Our Love.'
6 American History I
7d Family Feud
8 La Esquina
Students are outraged when the school board decides to close the high school.
9d Joker's Wild
9r MacNeil/Lehrer Report
11 Hollywood Squares
Ernest Borgnine, Gary Burghoff, Vikki Carr, Phyllis Diller, George Gobel, Earl Holliman, Paul Lynde, Tony Randall and Stella Stevens are the celebrity guests. Host: Peter Marshall.

7PM
2d Wanted-Dead or Alive BW
Josh is hired by a pony-express company to resolve the mystery surrounding a murdered express rider and a stolen ring.
2c 7r 9d 13 Eight is Enough
Tom is upset because Abby's love is cooling, so the Bradford girls try to reheat the romance by setting him up with another woman to make Abby jealous. Tom: Dick Van Patten. Abby: Betty Buckley.
3s 5c 10 Charlie's Angels
See 8pm.
3r 4d 4s 5p Grizzly Adams
Nakuma's tribe orders him to hunt down and destroy the cougar that he helped raise. Don Shanks.
5g Movie
'Daddy I Don't Like It Like This.' See 8pm.
6 In Search of the Real America
French political philosopher Jean-Francois Revel voices his concern over what he sees as the spreading influence of communism and socialism.
7d 11 Carol Burnett
Steve Lawrence is the guest. Comedy spots include a World War II spy caper and a sketch about a robber who can't get a foreign storekeeper too understand his demands. Musical highlights: 'We're All Alone' (Steve), 'You Light Up My Life' (Carol), and a medley of hit songs from the past 11 years with Steve, Carol and Vicki Lawrence.
8 Over Easy-Hugh Downs
Segments include an interview with Dick Gregory; a look at the Equal Rights Amendment; and notes on medical prescriptions.
9r Nova - see 8pm, KRMA.

7:30
2d Movie
'Million Dollar Countdown.' (1967) Leaving prison, an expert safe-cracker is kidnaped by spies out to steal a rocket-control device. Frank Wolff.
6 8 MacNeil/Lehrer Report

8PM
2c 7r 9d 13 Charlie's Angels
A beach community is terrorized by a killer who buries the bodies of his victims under sand castles. Sabrina: Kate Jackson.
3s 5c 10 11 Movie
Burt Young and Talia Shire (brother and sister in 'Rocky') play husband and wife in 'Daddy I Don't Like It Like This,' a 1978 TV-movie about an embittered couple who take out frustrations on their son (Doug McKeon). Written by Young. Tresa Hughes, Melanie Griffith.
3r 4d 4s 5p Black Sheep Squadron
Return: A new nurse (Denise DuBarry) and an underaged replacement pilot (Jeb Adams) join the Black Sheep as they prepare for risky night flights against enemy bombers. (Notice it used the 'syndicated' name for Baa Baa Black Sheep.)
6 8 NOVA
'The Green Machine' examines theories that plants can be coaxed into growing, and that they can sense injury to other organisms. The report, using time-lapse photography and animation, also shows how photosynthesis works, and looks at the evolution of vegetation.
7d Movie
'The Long Goodbye.' (1973) Elliott Gould plays Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe in director Robert Altman's adaptation of the Raymond Chandler thriller. Nina Van Pallandt. (Preempted 'Daddy I Don't Like it Like This'.)
9r Great Performances - See 9pm, KRMA

9pm
2c 7r 9d 13 Starsky & Hutch
Conclusion. To obtain an antitoxin, Starsky offers immunity to the criminal carrying the virus that has infected Hutch (David Soul) and a boy.
3r 4d 4s 5p Police Woman
A killer attired in a nun's habit is slaying members of a Greek family, leaving only a dried buttercup as a clue. Earl Holliman, Jo Van Fleet.
5g Laverne & Shirley (preempted from Monday)
6 8 Great Performances
'Secret Service,' an 1895 spy thriller by William Gillette. A Union spy slips into Richmond in 1864 by posing as a Confederate captain named Thorne (John Lithgow). But a suspicious Southern agent sets a trap for him, using a girl in love with Thorne as his reluctant accomplice. Edith: Meryl Streep. Arrelsford: Charles Kimbrough.
[Between acts, members of the cast perform Civil War songs.]

9:30
2d News
5g Laverne & Shirley (also preempted from Monday)

10PM
2d Phil Silvers BW
Bilko (Phil Silvers) gets even with a socialite who refused to reign as Queen of the Motor Pool. Joy: Constance Ford.
2c 3s 3r 4d 4s 5g 5p 5c 7d 7r 9d 10 11 13 News
9r Mosaic

10:30
2d Movie BW
'Romeo & Juliet.' (1937) William Shakespeare's tragedy of two star-crossed lovers; glitteringly produced. Leslie Howard, Norma Shearer, Johnny Barrymore, Basil Rathbone.
2c 3r 4d 4s 5p Johnny Carson
Guest host Robert Klein. Vincent Price, Leo Durocher.
3s 5c 10 11 Hawaii Five-O
A psychotic murders people he thinks are enemies of his comic-strip heroine.
5g Hawaii Five-O
Real-life private eye Jay J. Armes, a double amputee, plays a cop-killing sniper who uses hooks instead of hands. (1-week delay?)
7d Movie
'Daddy I Don't Like It Like This.' See 8pm.
7r 13 police Story
Detectives tail a pair of out-of-town jewel thieves suspected of murdering a fence. Benson: David Groh.
9r Captioned ABC News

10:35
9d America 2Night
Guests include McLean Stevenson. Host: Barth Gimble (Martin Mull). Co-host: Jerry Hubbard (Fred Willard). (Was KBTV one of the first to have a 35-minute late-evening newscast?)

11PM
6 Dick Cavett
The conclusion of an interview with New York Times columnist William Safire is scheduled.
8 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
9r Soundstage
Blues musicians B.B. King and Bobby 'Blue' Bland perform separately and together.

11:05
9d Newlywed Game

11:30
6 8 Captioned ABC News

11:35
9d Police Story - see 10:30

11:40
3s 5c 10 11 Kojak
Kojak (Telly Savalas) helps a young sociologist keep her paroled fiance from jeopardizing his freedom.
5g Kojak
An incarcerated cop killer tries to barter his way out of jail by ordering his gang to kidnap Kojak's niece.
7r 13 Mystery of the Week
An emotionally unstable orphan (Kate Mulgrew) finds an 'Alien Lover' in a handsome young man (John Ventantonio) who appears only on an old TV set in the attic. (The irony! Kate Mulgrew meets an 'alien lover', then she becomes Capt. Janeway on Star Trek Voyager some 17 years later...meeting aliens and Romulans and Klingons along the way!)

12AM
2c 3r 4d 4s 5p Tomorrow-Tom Snyder
Scheduled guest: magazine editor Al Goldstein.

12:30
7d Marcus Welby, M.D
Brenda Vaccaro as a lonely nurse who discovers her fiance (Patrick O'Neal) is marrying her to insure a future for his crippled son.

12:45
9d Mystery of the Week - see 11:40

1AM
4d News

1:10
2d News
4d PTL Club