ABC and CBS entered this, the last week of the
"regular" 1979-80 season tied for the ratings lead.
On Sunday, April 20, CBS would win the night, the
week, and the season by one-tenth of a point:
19.6-19.5. What does it? A two-hour "Dukes Of
Hazzard" on CBS against a rerun of "The Sting" on
ABC.
Schedules are from TV Guide, Dallas/Ft. Worth edition:
KDFW Ch. 4 (CBS)
4:45 News
5 AM Joyce Davidson
5:30 Sunrise Semester: "1400 Years Of Islam"
(timely, given that the Iranian hostage crisis
was going on at the time)
6 AM Morning With Bob Schieffer
7 AM Captain Kangaroo (don't know if this is the
East Coast feed or a day-behind telecast)
8 AM Dinah! & Friends
9 AM The Jeffersons
9:30 Whew!
9:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
10 AM Price Is Right
11 AM Young And The Restless
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
3 PM Rhoda
3:30 One Day At A Time
4 PM Sanford And Son
4:30 Carol Burnett And Friends
5 PM News
5:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
6 PM News
6:30 Newlywed Game
7 PM WKRP In Cincinnati
7:30 Stockard Channing (that's really her
name--she was born Susan Stockard,
married a guy named David Channing,
and he got her to change her name
professionally)
8 PM M*A*S*H
8:30 Flo
9 PM Lou Grant
10 PM News
10:30 All In The Family
11 PM Harry O
12:10 McCloud
1:50 News
2:20 4-Country Reporter (rerun of a show
that aired Saturday at 6:30)
KXAS Ch. 5 (NBC)
6 AM Encounter '80
6:30 Good Morning With Ed Pewitt
7 AM Today (Tom Brokaw)
9 AM Charlie Rose
9:30 Donahue
10:30 Wheel Of Fortune
11 AM Chain Reaction
11:30 Password Plus
12 N Days Of Our Lives
1 PM The Doctors
1:30 Another World
3 PM Merv Griffin
4:30 M*A*S*H
5 PM News
5:30 NBC News (Chancellor/Brinkley)
6 PM News
6:30 Muppet Show
7 PM Little House On The Prairie
9 PM Pilot: "The Buffalo Soldiers"
10 PM News
10:30 Tonight Show (Bob Newhart subs for
Johnny, who's hosting the Oscar telecast
on ABC tonight)
12 M Tomorrow
1 AM Odd Couple
1:30 Charlie Rose
2 AM News
WFAA Ch. 8 (ABC)
6 AM Country Daybreak
6:15 Dallas Lift
6:30 Peppermint Place (arguably the Metroplex's
greatest kids' show, although some prefer
Icky Twerp on Ch. 11)
7 AM Good Morning America (David Hartman)
9 AM People (Michael Brown, Sandra's husband--
they co-anchored the weekend news on
Ch. 8 in the late '70s)
9:30 Edge Of Night
10 AM Laverne & Shirley
10:30 Family Feud
11 AM $20,000 Pyramid
11:30 Ryan's Hope
12 N All My Children
1 PM One Life To Live
2 PM General Hospital
3 PM Movie: "The Oscar" (and as Dayton Allen
used to say, "Whhhhyy NOT?")
5 PM News
5:30 ABC News (Frank Reynolds)
6 PM News
6:30 PM Magazine
7 PM Olivia Newton-John's Hollywood Nights
8 PM Oscar Awards ("Kramer vs. Kramer" is
Best Picture)
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 Movie: "Reflections In A Golden Eye"
1:35 Nightline
1:55 News
2:25 Barney Miller
3 AM Police Woman
4:10 Movie: "Unknown Wilderness"
5:30 People
KTVT Ch. 11 (Ind.)
6:40 News
7 AM Slam Bang Theatre
8 AM Krofft Superstars
8:30 New Zoo Revue
9 AM Leave It To Beaver
9:30 My Three Sons
10 AM Maverick
11 AM Ironside
12 N News
12:30 Movie: "In Search Of Gregory"
2:30 Popeye & Friends
3:30 Banana Splits
4 PM Bugs And Porky
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM I Love Lucy
5:30 Dick Van Dyke
6 PM Bewitched
6:30 Adam-12
7 PM Gunsmoke
8 PM Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Bob Newhart
9 PM Movie: "The Honkers" (news interrupts
the movie 10-10:15)
11 PM Movie: "Barbary Coast" (from 1935, no
relation to William Shatner's failed 1975
ABC series)
1 AM News
KERA Ch. 13 (PBS)
5:45 AM Weather
6 AM Wall Street Week
6:30 Government
7 AM English
7:30 History
8 AM News Day
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 In-school programs
12 N English
12:30 Villa Alegre
1 PM In-school programs
3 PM English
3:30 Over Easy
4 PM 3-2-1 Contact
4:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5 PM Sesame Street
6 PM Another Voice
6:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7 PM News Day
7:30 Alistair Cooke's America
8 PM Memories Of Eubie (tribute to
Eubie Blake)
9 PM American Short Story: "The
Displaced Person" by Flannery
O'Connor
10 PM Opera From San Francisco:
"La Gioconda"
11 PM Mystery!
12 M Science
sign off 12:30 AM
KXTX Ch. 39 (Ind.)
5:30 Ross Bagley
6 AM Romper Room
6:30 Tom & Jerry
7 AM Bugs Bunny
7:30 Popeye
(note: Ch. 39 had those WB cartoons not
airing on "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show"
or with the AAP opening; the Popeye cartoons
were the ones produced in the early '60s--Ch. 11
had the older ones of both)
8 AM Mighty Mouse
8:30 Little Rascals
9 AM 700 Club
10:30 Get Smart
11 AM Marcus Welby, M.D.
12 N Big Valley
1 PM Green Acres
1:30 Andy Griffith
2 PM Superfriends
2:30 Popeye And Bugs Hour
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Tom And Jerry
5 PM Brady Bunch
5:30 Hogan's Heroes
6 PM Star Trek
7 PM Jim Rockford, Private
Investigator (Rockford Files)
8 PM 700 Club
9:30 Dwight Thompson (religion)
10 PM Today In Bible Prophecy
10:30 The Bible
11 PM World Of Pentecost
11:30 Life Of Riley (Bendix)
sign off 12 M
"regular" 1979-80 season tied for the ratings lead.
On Sunday, April 20, CBS would win the night, the
week, and the season by one-tenth of a point:
19.6-19.5. What does it? A two-hour "Dukes Of
Hazzard" on CBS against a rerun of "The Sting" on
ABC.
Schedules are from TV Guide, Dallas/Ft. Worth edition:
KDFW Ch. 4 (CBS)
4:45 News
5 AM Joyce Davidson
5:30 Sunrise Semester: "1400 Years Of Islam"
(timely, given that the Iranian hostage crisis
was going on at the time)
6 AM Morning With Bob Schieffer
7 AM Captain Kangaroo (don't know if this is the
East Coast feed or a day-behind telecast)
8 AM Dinah! & Friends
9 AM The Jeffersons
9:30 Whew!
9:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
10 AM Price Is Right
11 AM Young And The Restless
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
3 PM Rhoda
3:30 One Day At A Time
4 PM Sanford And Son
4:30 Carol Burnett And Friends
5 PM News
5:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
6 PM News
6:30 Newlywed Game
7 PM WKRP In Cincinnati
7:30 Stockard Channing (that's really her
name--she was born Susan Stockard,
married a guy named David Channing,
and he got her to change her name
professionally)
8 PM M*A*S*H
8:30 Flo
9 PM Lou Grant
10 PM News
10:30 All In The Family
11 PM Harry O
12:10 McCloud
1:50 News
2:20 4-Country Reporter (rerun of a show
that aired Saturday at 6:30)
KXAS Ch. 5 (NBC)
6 AM Encounter '80
6:30 Good Morning With Ed Pewitt
7 AM Today (Tom Brokaw)
9 AM Charlie Rose
9:30 Donahue
10:30 Wheel Of Fortune
11 AM Chain Reaction
11:30 Password Plus
12 N Days Of Our Lives
1 PM The Doctors
1:30 Another World
3 PM Merv Griffin
4:30 M*A*S*H
5 PM News
5:30 NBC News (Chancellor/Brinkley)
6 PM News
6:30 Muppet Show
7 PM Little House On The Prairie
9 PM Pilot: "The Buffalo Soldiers"
10 PM News
10:30 Tonight Show (Bob Newhart subs for
Johnny, who's hosting the Oscar telecast
on ABC tonight)
12 M Tomorrow
1 AM Odd Couple
1:30 Charlie Rose
2 AM News
WFAA Ch. 8 (ABC)
6 AM Country Daybreak
6:15 Dallas Lift
6:30 Peppermint Place (arguably the Metroplex's
greatest kids' show, although some prefer
Icky Twerp on Ch. 11)
7 AM Good Morning America (David Hartman)
9 AM People (Michael Brown, Sandra's husband--
they co-anchored the weekend news on
Ch. 8 in the late '70s)
9:30 Edge Of Night
10 AM Laverne & Shirley
10:30 Family Feud
11 AM $20,000 Pyramid
11:30 Ryan's Hope
12 N All My Children
1 PM One Life To Live
2 PM General Hospital
3 PM Movie: "The Oscar" (and as Dayton Allen
used to say, "Whhhhyy NOT?")
5 PM News
5:30 ABC News (Frank Reynolds)
6 PM News
6:30 PM Magazine
7 PM Olivia Newton-John's Hollywood Nights
8 PM Oscar Awards ("Kramer vs. Kramer" is
Best Picture)
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 Movie: "Reflections In A Golden Eye"
1:35 Nightline
1:55 News
2:25 Barney Miller
3 AM Police Woman
4:10 Movie: "Unknown Wilderness"
5:30 People
KTVT Ch. 11 (Ind.)
6:40 News
7 AM Slam Bang Theatre
8 AM Krofft Superstars
8:30 New Zoo Revue
9 AM Leave It To Beaver
9:30 My Three Sons
10 AM Maverick
11 AM Ironside
12 N News
12:30 Movie: "In Search Of Gregory"
2:30 Popeye & Friends
3:30 Banana Splits
4 PM Bugs And Porky
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM I Love Lucy
5:30 Dick Van Dyke
6 PM Bewitched
6:30 Adam-12
7 PM Gunsmoke
8 PM Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Bob Newhart
9 PM Movie: "The Honkers" (news interrupts
the movie 10-10:15)
11 PM Movie: "Barbary Coast" (from 1935, no
relation to William Shatner's failed 1975
ABC series)
1 AM News
KERA Ch. 13 (PBS)
5:45 AM Weather
6 AM Wall Street Week
6:30 Government
7 AM English
7:30 History
8 AM News Day
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 In-school programs
12 N English
12:30 Villa Alegre
1 PM In-school programs
3 PM English
3:30 Over Easy
4 PM 3-2-1 Contact
4:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5 PM Sesame Street
6 PM Another Voice
6:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7 PM News Day
7:30 Alistair Cooke's America
8 PM Memories Of Eubie (tribute to
Eubie Blake)
9 PM American Short Story: "The
Displaced Person" by Flannery
O'Connor
10 PM Opera From San Francisco:
"La Gioconda"
11 PM Mystery!
12 M Science
sign off 12:30 AM
KXTX Ch. 39 (Ind.)
5:30 Ross Bagley
6 AM Romper Room
6:30 Tom & Jerry
7 AM Bugs Bunny
7:30 Popeye
(note: Ch. 39 had those WB cartoons not
airing on "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show"
or with the AAP opening; the Popeye cartoons
were the ones produced in the early '60s--Ch. 11
had the older ones of both)
8 AM Mighty Mouse
8:30 Little Rascals
9 AM 700 Club
10:30 Get Smart
11 AM Marcus Welby, M.D.
12 N Big Valley
1 PM Green Acres
1:30 Andy Griffith
2 PM Superfriends
2:30 Popeye And Bugs Hour
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Tom And Jerry
5 PM Brady Bunch
5:30 Hogan's Heroes
6 PM Star Trek
7 PM Jim Rockford, Private
Investigator (Rockford Files)
8 PM 700 Club
9:30 Dwight Thompson (religion)
10 PM Today In Bible Prophecy
10:30 The Bible
11 PM World Of Pentecost
11:30 Life Of Riley (Bendix)
sign off 12 M
