Retro: Dallas/Ft. Worth Monday, April 14, 1980

[bpatrick]

By request, 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" (appropriate
with the Iranian hostage crisis going on)
6 AM Morning With Bob Schieffer
7 AM Captain Kangaroo (Ch. 4 may have been taking the
Eastern time zone feed; I have nothing to compare
this against.)
8 AM Dinah! & Friends (Mike Farrell, Don Adams, Dottie West,
community worker Adrian Miranda, Ken Minyard)
9 AM The Jeffersons
9:30 Whew! (Jamie Farr, Trish Stewart)
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 (in the East, SFT was airing at 12:30;
Y&R, at 1)
1 PM As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
3 PM Rhoda
3:30 One Day At A Time (delay from 3 PM)
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
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 (if I know Ch. 4, this is a week-behind
delay from 10:30)
12:10 McCloud (likewise, I suspect this is a week-behind
delay from 11:40)
1:50 News
2:20 4-Country Reporter (rerun of Saturday's show)

KXAS Ch. 5 (NBC)

6 AM Encounter '80
6:30 Good Morning (Ed Pewitt)
7 AM Today (Tom Brokaw/Jane Pauley)
9 AM Charlie Rose
9:30 Donahue (topic: men's sexual fantasies)
10:30 Wheel Of Fortune
11 AM Chain Reaction (Constance McCashin, Richard
Paul, Robert Walden, Jo Anne Worley)
11:30 Password Plus (Bill Anderson, Elaine Joyce, Allen
Ludden is still hosting)
12 N Days Of Our Lives
1 PM The Doctors
1:30 Another World
3 PM Merv Griffin (Mac Davis, Andrew Lloyd Webber,
Tommy James (of Tommy James and the Shondells))
4:30 M*A*S*H
5 PM News
5:30 NBC News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
6 PM News
6:30 Muppet Show (guest: Carol Channing)
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; comic
Bobby Kelton)
12 M Tomorrow (Judith Krantz and her husband Steve, a producer)
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
7 AM Good Morning America (Scott Baio is a guest; David Hartman
hosts)
9 AM People (Michael Brown)
9:30 Edge Of Night (delay from 3 PM)
10 AM Laverne & Shirley
10:30 Family Feud
11 AM $20,000 Pyramid (Judy Norton-Taylor, Brian Patrick Clarke)
11:30 Ryan's Hope
12 N All My Children (yes, Ch. 8 was airing it in-pattern then)
1 PM One Life To Live
2 PM General Hospital
3 PM Movie: "The Oscar" (tonight is Oscar night)
5 PM News
5:30 ABC World News Tonight
6 PM News
6:30 PM Magazine
7 PM Olivia Newton-John's Hollywood Nights (guests: Gene Kelly,
Elton John, Ted Knight, Andy Gibb, Karen Carpenter, Peaches
(of Peaches and Herb, I presume), Toni Tennille, Tina Turner,
Dick Clark, Cliff Richard)
8 PM 52nd Annual Academy Awards (Johnny Carson hosts; "Ordinary
People" gets Best Picture)
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 Movie: "Reflections In A Golden Eye"
1:35 Nightline (delay from 11:30 PM)
1:55 News
2:25 Barney Miller (delay from 11:50 PM)
3 AM Police Woman (delay from 12:25 AM)
4:10 Movie: "Unknown Wilderness"
5:30 People (rerun of 9 AM show)

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 (watch for Dawn Wells in this Jack
Kelly episode)
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 at 10; movie resumes at 10:15)
11 PM Movie: "Barbary Coast" (nothing to do with
the 1975 ABC series, AFAIK--it was made in 1935
and was largely a romantic story about early-20th-
century San Francisco)
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 (the "old American dream"
vs. the "new American reality")
8 PM Memories Of Eubie (celebration of the music of Eubie
Blake, with singers Alberta Hunter and Lynnie Godfrey,
pianist Billy Taylor, tap dancers Gregory and Maurice Hines)
9 PM American Short Story (Flannery O'Connor's "The Displaced
Person")
10 PM Opera From San Francisco (Act I of Ponchinelli's "La Gioconda"
is performed by Luciano Pavarotti and Renata Scotto)
11 PM Mystery! (rerun of "The Racing Game: Odds Against" by Dick
Francis)
12 M Science

KXTX Ch. 39 (Ind.)

5:30 Ross Bagley (gospel music)
6 AM Romper Room
6:30 Tom & Jerry
7 AM Bugs Bunny
7:30 Popeye
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 & Jerry
5 PM Brady Bunch
5:30 Hogan's Heroes
6 PM Star Trek
7 PM Jim Rockford, Private Investigator ("Rockford
Files" reruns)
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
sign off 12 M

 

[easttxtv]

By request, from TV Guide, Dallas/Ft. Worth Edition:

KXAS Ch. 5 (NBC)

9 AM Charlie Rose
9:30 Donahue (topic: men's sexual fantasies)
10:30 Wheel Of Fortune
11 AM Chain Reaction (Constance McCashin, Richard
Paul, Robert Walden, Jo Anne Worley)
11:30 Password Plus (Bill Anderson, Elaine Joyce, Allen
Ludden is still hosting)
12 N Days Of Our Lives
1 PM The Doctors
1:30 Another World

Ah yes, the glory days : of the pre-emption happy Ch.5 (if it wasn't mornings without some of NBC's game shows, it was evenings or afternoons with another frickin' Rangers game >ugh<).... I don't know how I missed it, but I didn't realize there was a time that Ch.5 didn't have noon news. And the last few months of the 90-minute Another World; too bad the show lost Harding Lemay as a writer over that.

12 M Tomorrow (Judith Krantz and her husband Steve, a producer)

How I wish I could have stayed up for smoke 'n colortinis with Tom back then....

WFAA Ch. 8 (ABC)

9:30 Edge Of Night (delay from 3 PM)

I'd almost forgotten that Ch.8 wasn't living up to the title of the show. I really miss Edge. Not another show like it.

11:30 Ryan's Hope
12 N All My Children (yes, Ch. 8 was airing it in-pattern then)
1 PM One Life To Live

Same can be said for Ch.8 as with Ch.5, it seemed like they've always had noon news.

 

[BobbyNBC10]

Who aired The Joker's Wild, Tic Tac Dough and syndie Family Feud in the Metroplex?.

 

[easttxtv]

Who aired The Joker's Wild, Tic Tac Dough and syndie Family Feud in the Metroplex?.

IINM, syn Feud was on KDFW/4 in its earliest incarnation (before the more recent non-Dawson or non-Combs array of hosts, whose shows have been on some of the other stations like KDAF/33 (not sure about KTXA/21 or KDFI/27)).

As for Joker's Wild and Tic Tac Dough, KDFW/4 would have had the network version for sure, but I don't know whether the syndie versions of those were shown in DFW and if so, who would have shown them.

 

[stdjsb25]

Adam-12 on Channel 11? I could have sworn sometime during the 80s, that Adam-12 was on Channel 8?

 

[bpatrick]

I believe it was in the fall of 1980 that KDFW began airing
"Family Feud" (with Dawson) and KXAS, "Tic Tac Dough,"
at 6:30; I remember that the Dallas network stations' 6:30
programming was identical to St. Louis: "PM Magazine" on
the ABC station, "Family Feud" on the CBS one, "Tic Tac
Dough" on the NBC one.

"Joker's Wild" aired at one point on either Ch. 21 or Ch. 27.

As for "Adam-12" Ch. 8 may very well have picked it up in
the later '80s; the lineup you see on Ch. 11 from 5 to 7 is exactly
the same as it was when I moved out there in 1976.

One other point about the daytime schedules: starting in 1977,
KXAS ran "Sanford And Son" at 3:30 PM rather than 9 AM and I
don't recall that it ever carried another NBC program at that time
(it pre-empted David Letterman's morning show, I know); KXAS also
had a noon newscast before "Another World" expanded to 90 minutes;
"Days Of Our Lives" aired in-pattern at 12:30, "The Doctors" at 1:30,
"Another World" at 2.

When I lived in Dallas (1976-79), WFAA ran "Edge Of Night" at 3 until
just before we moved and did not have a noon newscast; the only
program it pre-empted was "Happy Days" (which it later picked up) at
10 AM in order to run "Peppermint Place." KDFW carried the entire CBS
daytime lineup in-pattern during that time.

However (and you can see this in this retro), both KDFW and WFAA delayed
their networks' late-night programs; KDFW liked to show sitcom reruns at 10:30,
and WFAA had a movie at that time.

Other than that, the pre-emptions were minimal: KDFW pre-empted CBS's
Sunday-morning block of "Lamp Unto My Feet," "Look Up And Live," and "Camera
Three" (but did carry "Sunday Morning"); WFAA pre-empted "American Bandstand"
and ABC's weekend newscasts, and that's about it. DFW ranks as one of the
least pre-emption happy markets I've lived in.

 

[stdjsb25]

WFAA pre-empted "American Bandstand"
and ABC's weekend newscasts, and that's about it.

I believe WFAA still preempted World News on Sunday until recently.