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Source: Hartford Courant, Meriden Record-Journal via newspapers.com
P - Series Premiere
SP - Season Premiere
3 WFSB (CBS) - Hartford
6:00 Congressional Report
6:30 Summer Semester
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo - From Marriott's (now Six Flags) Great America in Gurnee, IL with guest star Barbara Rush.
9:00 This Morning (local show, not to be confused with "CBS This Morning" which came a decade later)
10:00 Here's Lucy
10:30 The Price is Right
11:30 Love of Life
11:55 CBS Midday News
NOON Eyewitness News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Tattletales - Couples: Milton & Dr. Joyce Brothers, Gary & Janet Burhhoff, Richard Dawson & Jody Donavan
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:00 All in the Family
3:30 Match Game '77 - Panel: Gary Crosby, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Mary Wickes, Richard Dawson, Joyce Bulifant.
4:00 Gilligan's Island
4:30 Dinah! - Guests: The cast of "Three's Company" (John Ritter, Suzanne Somers, Joyce DeWitt, Norman Fell, Audra Lindley); author Dr. Gerald Walker Smith.
6:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Little Vic (local kids' show)
8:00 CBS Sports Boxing Special: "The Night of Champions" - 1) WBC World Welterweight: Carlos Palomino (USA) vs. Everaldo Costa Azevedo (Italy); 2) WBC World Featherweight: Danny "Little Red" Lopez (USA) vs. Jose Torres (Ghana); 3) Michael Spinks (Leon's brother) vs. Ray Elson; 4) Howard Davis Jr. vs. Arturo Pineda. All fights are from the Los Angeles Olympic Auditorium.
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Kojak
12:30 Toma
8 WTNH (ABC) - New Haven
6:15 Davey and Goliath
6:30 Connecticut: Seen
7:00 Cartoon Carnival
7:30 Dusty's Treehouse
8:00 Good Morning America (second hour only)
9:00 Donahue
10:00 Ryan's Hope
10:30 Edge of Night
11:00 Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
NOON Twelve O'Clock Live
1:00 All My Children
2:00 $20,000 Pyramid - Guests: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy. (The following day's episode featured Shatner's chair-throwing incident.)
2:30 One Life to Live
3:15 General Hopsital
4:00 Brady Bunch
4:30 Star Trek
5:30 Odd Couple
6:00 Action News
6:30 ABC Evening News
7:00 Including Me - Special hosted by Jennifer Neal presenting six portraits of challenged youngsters, focused on their respective special educations.
8:00 Happy Days: "Hollywood" (Parts 1 and 2 of 3; SP) - The episode that brought about the idiom "jumping the shark" to which a TV show starts to wane from quality and/or popularity. Such as which is Fonzie doing a waterskiing shark-jumping stunt (in the following week's conclusion) at a Southern California beach where he was trying out to be the next James Dean. This episode also features the debut of Scott Baio as Fonzie's cousin Chachi Arcola.
9:00 Three's Compay: "Ground Rules" (SP)
9:30 Soap: "Episode 1" (P) - "This is the story of two sisters, Jessica Tate and Mary Campbell." Set in the fictional Connecticut town of Dunn's River, this landmark and partly controversial soap opera parody has its debut, with the disclaimer "Parental Discretion Advised" in its ads over its racy content. This also brings future "Price is Right" announcer Rod Roddy to the national airwaves as this show's announcer. "Confused? You won't be after this episode of...Soap!"
10:00 Family: "Acts of Love" (Part 1 of 2; SP)
11:00 Action News
11:30 ABC Late Night Movie: "Skullduggery" (1970) - Burt Reynolds, Susan Clark.
20 WATR (NBC) - Waterbury
8:00 Today
10:00 Sanford and Son
10:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Paul Williams, Rose Marie, Jimmie Walker, Suzanne Somers, Paul Lynde, Phyllis Diller, George Gobel, Valerie Bertinelli, Richard Crenna.
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 It's Anybody's Guess - Monty Hall
NOON Shoot for the Stars - Geoff Edwards; Guests: Pat Carroll, Nipsey Russell.
12:30 Chico and the Man
1:00 A Woman's Place
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 Gong Show
4:30 Jim Bakker
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Wild Kingdom
7:30 You and Your Car
8:00 Richard Pyror Show (P) - Guests: Paula Kelly, the O'Jays.
9:00 NBC Tuesday Night at the Movies: "Sex and the Married Woman" (P) - Joanna Pettet, Barry Newman, Dick Gautier, Fannie Flagg, Jayne Meadows, Larry Hovis, Keenan Wynn, Nita Talbott, F. Murray Abraham.
11:00 News 20
11:30 Tonight Show - Guests: Peter Strauss, Jim Henson, Carol Wayne, Dr. Paul Erhlich.
1:00 Tomorrow - Guest: Los Angeles Rams quaterback Pat Haden.
24 WEDH (PBS/Connecticut Public Television*) - Hartford
2:30 TV Community College - Earth, Sea and Sky
3:00 TV Community College - Child Development
3:30 Hodgepodge Lodge
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 TV Community College - Earth, Sea and Sky
6:30 TV Community College - Family Risk Management
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Special: "Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Concert 1976"
8:30 Special: "My Kingdom for Love: Abdication"
9:30 Special: "Giselle
11:00 Masterpiece Theatre: "Upstairs, Downstairs: 'An Old Flame'"
*Connecticut Public Television also consisted of Channels 49 WEDW Bridgepot, 53 WEDN Norwich, and 65 WEDY New Haven.
30 WHNB (NBC) - New Britain
5:55 Today's Woman
6:00 Not for Women Only
6:30 Black Perspective on the News
7:00 Today
9:00 Merv Griffin - Guests: Truman Capote, Steve Allen, Evelyn Keyes.
10:30 Hollywood Squares (see Ch. 20)
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 It's Anybody's Guess
NOON Shoot for the Stars (see Ch. 20)
12:30 Chico and the Man
1:00 Gong Show
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 Flintstones
4:30 Partridge Family
5:00 Emergency One!
6:00 Channel 30 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Cross-Wits
7:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
8:00 Richard Pyror Show (P)
9:00 NBC Tuesday Night at the Movies: "Sex and the Married Woman" (see Ch. 20)
11:00 Channel 30 News
11:30 Tonight Show (see Ch. 20)
1:00 Tomorrow (see Ch. 20)
P - Series Premiere
SP - Season Premiere
3 WFSB (CBS) - Hartford
6:00 Congressional Report
6:30 Summer Semester
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo - From Marriott's (now Six Flags) Great America in Gurnee, IL with guest star Barbara Rush.
9:00 This Morning (local show, not to be confused with "CBS This Morning" which came a decade later)
10:00 Here's Lucy
10:30 The Price is Right
11:30 Love of Life
11:55 CBS Midday News
NOON Eyewitness News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Tattletales - Couples: Milton & Dr. Joyce Brothers, Gary & Janet Burhhoff, Richard Dawson & Jody Donavan
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:00 All in the Family
3:30 Match Game '77 - Panel: Gary Crosby, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Mary Wickes, Richard Dawson, Joyce Bulifant.
4:00 Gilligan's Island
4:30 Dinah! - Guests: The cast of "Three's Company" (John Ritter, Suzanne Somers, Joyce DeWitt, Norman Fell, Audra Lindley); author Dr. Gerald Walker Smith.
6:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Little Vic (local kids' show)
8:00 CBS Sports Boxing Special: "The Night of Champions" - 1) WBC World Welterweight: Carlos Palomino (USA) vs. Everaldo Costa Azevedo (Italy); 2) WBC World Featherweight: Danny "Little Red" Lopez (USA) vs. Jose Torres (Ghana); 3) Michael Spinks (Leon's brother) vs. Ray Elson; 4) Howard Davis Jr. vs. Arturo Pineda. All fights are from the Los Angeles Olympic Auditorium.
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Kojak
12:30 Toma
8 WTNH (ABC) - New Haven
6:15 Davey and Goliath
6:30 Connecticut: Seen
7:00 Cartoon Carnival
7:30 Dusty's Treehouse
8:00 Good Morning America (second hour only)
9:00 Donahue
10:00 Ryan's Hope
10:30 Edge of Night
11:00 Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
NOON Twelve O'Clock Live
1:00 All My Children
2:00 $20,000 Pyramid - Guests: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy. (The following day's episode featured Shatner's chair-throwing incident.)
2:30 One Life to Live
3:15 General Hopsital
4:00 Brady Bunch
4:30 Star Trek
5:30 Odd Couple
6:00 Action News
6:30 ABC Evening News
7:00 Including Me - Special hosted by Jennifer Neal presenting six portraits of challenged youngsters, focused on their respective special educations.
8:00 Happy Days: "Hollywood" (Parts 1 and 2 of 3; SP) - The episode that brought about the idiom "jumping the shark" to which a TV show starts to wane from quality and/or popularity. Such as which is Fonzie doing a waterskiing shark-jumping stunt (in the following week's conclusion) at a Southern California beach where he was trying out to be the next James Dean. This episode also features the debut of Scott Baio as Fonzie's cousin Chachi Arcola.
9:00 Three's Compay: "Ground Rules" (SP)
9:30 Soap: "Episode 1" (P) - "This is the story of two sisters, Jessica Tate and Mary Campbell." Set in the fictional Connecticut town of Dunn's River, this landmark and partly controversial soap opera parody has its debut, with the disclaimer "Parental Discretion Advised" in its ads over its racy content. This also brings future "Price is Right" announcer Rod Roddy to the national airwaves as this show's announcer. "Confused? You won't be after this episode of...Soap!"
10:00 Family: "Acts of Love" (Part 1 of 2; SP)
11:00 Action News
11:30 ABC Late Night Movie: "Skullduggery" (1970) - Burt Reynolds, Susan Clark.
20 WATR (NBC) - Waterbury
8:00 Today
10:00 Sanford and Son
10:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Paul Williams, Rose Marie, Jimmie Walker, Suzanne Somers, Paul Lynde, Phyllis Diller, George Gobel, Valerie Bertinelli, Richard Crenna.
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 It's Anybody's Guess - Monty Hall
NOON Shoot for the Stars - Geoff Edwards; Guests: Pat Carroll, Nipsey Russell.
12:30 Chico and the Man
1:00 A Woman's Place
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 Gong Show
4:30 Jim Bakker
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Wild Kingdom
7:30 You and Your Car
8:00 Richard Pyror Show (P) - Guests: Paula Kelly, the O'Jays.
9:00 NBC Tuesday Night at the Movies: "Sex and the Married Woman" (P) - Joanna Pettet, Barry Newman, Dick Gautier, Fannie Flagg, Jayne Meadows, Larry Hovis, Keenan Wynn, Nita Talbott, F. Murray Abraham.
11:00 News 20
11:30 Tonight Show - Guests: Peter Strauss, Jim Henson, Carol Wayne, Dr. Paul Erhlich.
1:00 Tomorrow - Guest: Los Angeles Rams quaterback Pat Haden.
24 WEDH (PBS/Connecticut Public Television*) - Hartford
2:30 TV Community College - Earth, Sea and Sky
3:00 TV Community College - Child Development
3:30 Hodgepodge Lodge
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 TV Community College - Earth, Sea and Sky
6:30 TV Community College - Family Risk Management
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Special: "Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Concert 1976"
8:30 Special: "My Kingdom for Love: Abdication"
9:30 Special: "Giselle
11:00 Masterpiece Theatre: "Upstairs, Downstairs: 'An Old Flame'"
*Connecticut Public Television also consisted of Channels 49 WEDW Bridgepot, 53 WEDN Norwich, and 65 WEDY New Haven.
30 WHNB (NBC) - New Britain
5:55 Today's Woman
6:00 Not for Women Only
6:30 Black Perspective on the News
7:00 Today
9:00 Merv Griffin - Guests: Truman Capote, Steve Allen, Evelyn Keyes.
10:30 Hollywood Squares (see Ch. 20)
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 It's Anybody's Guess
NOON Shoot for the Stars (see Ch. 20)
12:30 Chico and the Man
1:00 Gong Show
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 Flintstones
4:30 Partridge Family
5:00 Emergency One!
6:00 Channel 30 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Cross-Wits
7:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
8:00 Richard Pyror Show (P)
9:00 NBC Tuesday Night at the Movies: "Sex and the Married Woman" (see Ch. 20)
11:00 Channel 30 News
11:30 Tonight Show (see Ch. 20)
1:00 Tomorrow (see Ch. 20)