From TV Guide, Dallas/Ft. Worth Edition:
KDFW Ch. 4 (CBS)
5 AM News
5:30 Sunrise Semester: "Learning To Write/
Writing To Learn"
6 AM For Our Times (CBS religious program with
Douglas Edwards, delay from Sun 9:30 AM)
6:30 Animal World
7 AM New Adventures Of Mighty Mouse And Heckle
And Jeckle
8 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
9:30 All New Popeye Hour
10:30 New Fat Albert Show
11 AM Shazam!
11:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12:30 30 Minutes (topic: the SATs)
1 PM Movie: "Damn The Defiant!"
3 PM The Masters (third round--Seve Ballesteros would
win and, at 23, be the youngest person to wear
the green jacket until 21-year-old Tiger Woods
did it in 1997)
5 PM Homestyle Champions (off-beat motor sports: tractor
pulls, snowmobile races on frozen lakes, off-road races)
5:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
6 PM News
6:30 4-Country Reporter
7 PM Tim Conway Show (guest: Susan Anton)
8 PM CBS Movie: "Magnum Force" (Clint Eastwood as Dirty
Harry, from '73)
10:25 News
10:55 Best Of The Dean Martin Show
11:55 Dance Fever (judges: Ray Bolger, Jayne Kennedy, David
Hasselhoff (then appearing on "The Young And The Restless");
the Ritchie Family performs)
12:25 Movie: "Lord Jim"
3:30 News
KXAS Ch. 5 (NBC)
6:30 Better Way
7 AM Super Globetrotters
7:30 Casper And The Angels
8 AM Fred And Barney Meet The Shmoo
9:30 Jetsons
10 AM Daffy Duck
10:30 Jonny Quest
11 AM Godzilla
11:30 Flash Gordon
12 N Soul Train (guests: the Spinners and
Con funk shun)
1 PM People Test (Dr. Frank Field poses frequently-
asked questions about the 1980 census to a
panel of census officials; for example, if there
is a legal obligation to fill out a census form)
1:30 Emergency!
2:30 This Week In Baseball
3 PM Baseball Warm-Up
3:15 Baseball: Dodgers-Astros
6 PM Hee Haw (Billy Graham, Tennessee Ernie Ford,
Jimmie Rodgers and his daughter Michelle,
Bobby Butler, time approximate)
7 PM BJ And The Bear
9 PM Sneak Preview...The Oscar Race (David Sheehan,
Judith Crist, Rex Reed, Irv Kupcinet, Liz Smith, and
James Bacon preview the 1980 Academy Awards and
Jimmy the Greek offers odds on the nomineees--wonder
if he picked Best Picture--"Ordinary People"?)
10 PM News
10:30 Variety Club Telethon (Dennis James hosts, to 5 PM Sun)
WFAA Ch. 8 (ABC)
6:30 Country Daybreak
7 AM The World's Greatest Superfriends
8 AM Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show
9:30 Scooby And Scrappy Doo
10:30 Captain Caveman
11 AM ABC Weekend Special: "The Winged Colt" (Part 2 of 3)
11:30 Peppermint Place (and "American Bandstand" gets blacked
out in the Metroplex)
12 N Probe
12:30 WCT Tennis: Jimmy Connors vs. Hans Gildemeister
1:30 Baseball: Decade Of Transition (the '70s: Hank Aaron's 715th
home run, Pete Rose's 44-game hitting streak, the sixth game
of the '75 World Series between the Red Sox and the Reds)
2:30 Pro Bowlers Tour (King Louie Open from Kansas City)
4 PM Wide World Of Sports (WBC featherweight championship:
champ Salvador Sanchez vs. Rubin Castillo, 15 rounds, from
Tucson--Sanchez won and remained champ until 1982)
5:30 Que Pasa?
6 PM News
6:30 Saturday (Michael Brown interviews Eddie Chiles, owner of
the Western Company)
7 PM Angie
7:30 Goodtime Girls
8 PM Love Boat (passengers: Demond Wilson, Telma Hopkins,
Sydney Goldsmith, Jimmie Walker, Alex Cord, Nancy McKeon)
9 PM Fantasy Island (guests: David Doyle and Eve Plumb)
10 PM News
10:30 Movie: "The Doomsday Flight"
12:20 News
12:50 Movie: "Beast From 20,000 Fathoms"
2:20 Movie: "Grizzly And The Treasure"
4 AM Movie: "Strange Lady In Town"
6:10 TBA
KTVT Ch. 11 (Ind.)
8:30 News In Review
9 AM Extension '80
9:30 Hobab (kids' show)
10 AM Political Talk (Republican)
10:15 Los Tiempos
10:30 What About People?
11 AM Political Talk (Democratic)
11:15 Time Out With Scott
11:30 Parents In Action
12 N Signs Of The Times
12:30 Voter's Digest
1 PM Movie: "Block-Heads" (Laurel and Hardy)
3 PM Fiesta Mexicana
3:30 Variedades Musicales
4 PM Newton/Weaver Western Hour (country music)
5 PM Lawrence Welk (the music of Cole Porter)
6 PM Real McCoys
6:30 Make Room For Daddy
7 PM Pop Goes The Country
7:30 That Nashville Music (Rex Allen Sr. and Jr.,
Sammi Smith, Buddy Spicher)
8 PM Nashville On The Road (guest: Barbara Fairchild)
8:30 Porter Wagoner
9 PM High Chaparral
10 PM Wrestling
11:30 Ironside
12:30 News
KERA Ch. 13 (PBS)
6 AM Captioned ABC News
6:30 Washington Week In Review
7 AM Government
8 AM English
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11 AM Business
12 N Government
1 PM English
2 PM History
3 PM Psychology
4 PM Science
5 PM Humanities
6 PM Camera Three (sculptor and filmmaker Hans
Richter on a program that first aired on CBS
in 1973)
6:30 Sneak Previews
7 PM Ten Who Dared (Alexander von Humboldt's exploration
of the Orinoco River basin in Venezuela in 1789--
Humboldt is considered the father of modern geography)
8 PM Live From The Met: "Don Carlo" (Verdi opera written in 1867)
11:30 Dick Cavett (conductor Lorin Maazel)
12 M Dick Cavett (Alvin Toffler, author of "The Third Wave")
12:30 Mystery! ("The Racing Game: Odds Against," Part 1 of 3
based on a Dick Francis novel)
1:30 American Short Story (Olivia Cole and James Bond III in
Edward J. Gaines' "The Sky Is Gray")
2:30 Camera Three (repeat of 6 PM broadcast)
3 AM The World At War
4 AM National Geographic ("Super-Liners: Twilight Of An Era"
includes a voyage aboard the QE2)
5 AM Bill Moyers' Journal (the May election for a seat on the
Texas Railroad Commission, the state's energy-regulation
agency)
KXTX Ch. 39 (Ind.)
6:30 Hot Fudge
7 AM Woody Woodpecker
7:30 Aquaman
8 AM Backyard (religion)
8:30 The Hulk
9 AM Captain America
9:30 Movie: "Keep 'Em Flying" (Abbott and Costello)
11 AM Movie: "The Outcast" (John Derek, Jim (Jock Ewing)
Davis, from '54)
1 PM Movie: "Stage To Mesa City" (Lash LaRue, from '48)
2 PM Wagon Train
3 PM Bonanza
4 PM Rawhide
5 PM Cheyenne
6 PM Big Valley
7 PM Movie: "So Proudly We Hail!" (Claudette Colbert is the
star of this '43 film about Red Cross nurses in the Philippines
during World War II, but George Reeves made such an impression
that producer Mark Sandrich had big plans for him. However, Reeves
was drafted and while he was in the Army, Sandrich died. Years later,
playing Superman, Reeves told Jack Larson, "If Mark Sandrich had lived,
I wouldn't be wearing this monkey suit" (referring to the costume).)
9:30 12 O'Clock High
10:30 Stanley Cup Playoff (first-round game, taped)
KDFW Ch. 4 (CBS)
5 AM News
5:30 Sunrise Semester: "Learning To Write/
Writing To Learn"
6 AM For Our Times (CBS religious program with
Douglas Edwards, delay from Sun 9:30 AM)
6:30 Animal World
7 AM New Adventures Of Mighty Mouse And Heckle
And Jeckle
8 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
9:30 All New Popeye Hour
10:30 New Fat Albert Show
11 AM Shazam!
11:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12:30 30 Minutes (topic: the SATs)
1 PM Movie: "Damn The Defiant!"
3 PM The Masters (third round--Seve Ballesteros would
win and, at 23, be the youngest person to wear
the green jacket until 21-year-old Tiger Woods
did it in 1997)
5 PM Homestyle Champions (off-beat motor sports: tractor
pulls, snowmobile races on frozen lakes, off-road races)
5:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
6 PM News
6:30 4-Country Reporter
7 PM Tim Conway Show (guest: Susan Anton)
8 PM CBS Movie: "Magnum Force" (Clint Eastwood as Dirty
Harry, from '73)
10:25 News
10:55 Best Of The Dean Martin Show
11:55 Dance Fever (judges: Ray Bolger, Jayne Kennedy, David
Hasselhoff (then appearing on "The Young And The Restless");
the Ritchie Family performs)
12:25 Movie: "Lord Jim"
3:30 News
KXAS Ch. 5 (NBC)
6:30 Better Way
7 AM Super Globetrotters
7:30 Casper And The Angels
8 AM Fred And Barney Meet The Shmoo
9:30 Jetsons
10 AM Daffy Duck
10:30 Jonny Quest
11 AM Godzilla
11:30 Flash Gordon
12 N Soul Train (guests: the Spinners and
Con funk shun)
1 PM People Test (Dr. Frank Field poses frequently-
asked questions about the 1980 census to a
panel of census officials; for example, if there
is a legal obligation to fill out a census form)
1:30 Emergency!
2:30 This Week In Baseball
3 PM Baseball Warm-Up
3:15 Baseball: Dodgers-Astros
6 PM Hee Haw (Billy Graham, Tennessee Ernie Ford,
Jimmie Rodgers and his daughter Michelle,
Bobby Butler, time approximate)
7 PM BJ And The Bear
9 PM Sneak Preview...The Oscar Race (David Sheehan,
Judith Crist, Rex Reed, Irv Kupcinet, Liz Smith, and
James Bacon preview the 1980 Academy Awards and
Jimmy the Greek offers odds on the nomineees--wonder
if he picked Best Picture--"Ordinary People"?)
10 PM News
10:30 Variety Club Telethon (Dennis James hosts, to 5 PM Sun)
WFAA Ch. 8 (ABC)
6:30 Country Daybreak
7 AM The World's Greatest Superfriends
8 AM Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show
9:30 Scooby And Scrappy Doo
10:30 Captain Caveman
11 AM ABC Weekend Special: "The Winged Colt" (Part 2 of 3)
11:30 Peppermint Place (and "American Bandstand" gets blacked
out in the Metroplex)
12 N Probe
12:30 WCT Tennis: Jimmy Connors vs. Hans Gildemeister
1:30 Baseball: Decade Of Transition (the '70s: Hank Aaron's 715th
home run, Pete Rose's 44-game hitting streak, the sixth game
of the '75 World Series between the Red Sox and the Reds)
2:30 Pro Bowlers Tour (King Louie Open from Kansas City)
4 PM Wide World Of Sports (WBC featherweight championship:
champ Salvador Sanchez vs. Rubin Castillo, 15 rounds, from
Tucson--Sanchez won and remained champ until 1982)
5:30 Que Pasa?
6 PM News
6:30 Saturday (Michael Brown interviews Eddie Chiles, owner of
the Western Company)
7 PM Angie
7:30 Goodtime Girls
8 PM Love Boat (passengers: Demond Wilson, Telma Hopkins,
Sydney Goldsmith, Jimmie Walker, Alex Cord, Nancy McKeon)
9 PM Fantasy Island (guests: David Doyle and Eve Plumb)
10 PM News
10:30 Movie: "The Doomsday Flight"
12:20 News
12:50 Movie: "Beast From 20,000 Fathoms"
2:20 Movie: "Grizzly And The Treasure"
4 AM Movie: "Strange Lady In Town"
6:10 TBA
KTVT Ch. 11 (Ind.)
8:30 News In Review
9 AM Extension '80
9:30 Hobab (kids' show)
10 AM Political Talk (Republican)
10:15 Los Tiempos
10:30 What About People?
11 AM Political Talk (Democratic)
11:15 Time Out With Scott
11:30 Parents In Action
12 N Signs Of The Times
12:30 Voter's Digest
1 PM Movie: "Block-Heads" (Laurel and Hardy)
3 PM Fiesta Mexicana
3:30 Variedades Musicales
4 PM Newton/Weaver Western Hour (country music)
5 PM Lawrence Welk (the music of Cole Porter)
6 PM Real McCoys
6:30 Make Room For Daddy
7 PM Pop Goes The Country
7:30 That Nashville Music (Rex Allen Sr. and Jr.,
Sammi Smith, Buddy Spicher)
8 PM Nashville On The Road (guest: Barbara Fairchild)
8:30 Porter Wagoner
9 PM High Chaparral
10 PM Wrestling
11:30 Ironside
12:30 News
KERA Ch. 13 (PBS)
6 AM Captioned ABC News
6:30 Washington Week In Review
7 AM Government
8 AM English
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11 AM Business
12 N Government
1 PM English
2 PM History
3 PM Psychology
4 PM Science
5 PM Humanities
6 PM Camera Three (sculptor and filmmaker Hans
Richter on a program that first aired on CBS
in 1973)
6:30 Sneak Previews
7 PM Ten Who Dared (Alexander von Humboldt's exploration
of the Orinoco River basin in Venezuela in 1789--
Humboldt is considered the father of modern geography)
8 PM Live From The Met: "Don Carlo" (Verdi opera written in 1867)
11:30 Dick Cavett (conductor Lorin Maazel)
12 M Dick Cavett (Alvin Toffler, author of "The Third Wave")
12:30 Mystery! ("The Racing Game: Odds Against," Part 1 of 3
based on a Dick Francis novel)
1:30 American Short Story (Olivia Cole and James Bond III in
Edward J. Gaines' "The Sky Is Gray")
2:30 Camera Three (repeat of 6 PM broadcast)
3 AM The World At War
4 AM National Geographic ("Super-Liners: Twilight Of An Era"
includes a voyage aboard the QE2)
5 AM Bill Moyers' Journal (the May election for a seat on the
Texas Railroad Commission, the state's energy-regulation
agency)
KXTX Ch. 39 (Ind.)
6:30 Hot Fudge
7 AM Woody Woodpecker
7:30 Aquaman
8 AM Backyard (religion)
8:30 The Hulk
9 AM Captain America
9:30 Movie: "Keep 'Em Flying" (Abbott and Costello)
11 AM Movie: "The Outcast" (John Derek, Jim (Jock Ewing)
Davis, from '54)
1 PM Movie: "Stage To Mesa City" (Lash LaRue, from '48)
2 PM Wagon Train
3 PM Bonanza
4 PM Rawhide
5 PM Cheyenne
6 PM Big Valley
7 PM Movie: "So Proudly We Hail!" (Claudette Colbert is the
star of this '43 film about Red Cross nurses in the Philippines
during World War II, but George Reeves made such an impression
that producer Mark Sandrich had big plans for him. However, Reeves
was drafted and while he was in the Army, Sandrich died. Years later,
playing Superman, Reeves told Jack Larson, "If Mark Sandrich had lived,
I wouldn't be wearing this monkey suit" (referring to the costume).)
9:30 12 O'Clock High
10:30 Stanley Cup Playoff (first-round game, taped)
