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Retro: Dallas/Ft. Worth Saturday, August 13, 1977

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From the Dallas Morning News. Schedules
run 7 AM-1 AM.

KDFW Ch. 4 (CBS)

7 AM Sylvester And Tweety
7:30 Clue Club
8 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9 AM Tarzan (animated)
9:30 New Adventures Of Batman (animated)
10 AM Shazam-Isis Hour
11 AM Fat Albert
11:30 Ark II
12 N CBS Children's Film Festival:
"Captain Mikula, The Kid"
1 PM Young 4-Country
1:30 Action Theater: "The Comancheros"
w/John Wayne, Stuart Whitman
3:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
5 PM McHale's Navy
5:30 CBS Evening News
6 PM Eyewitness News
6:30 4-Country Reporter
7 PM Mary Tyler Moore
7:30 Bob Newhart
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Alice
9 PM Switch
10 PM Eyewitness News
10:30 Twilight Zone
11 PM Honeymooners
11:30 Channel 4 Movie: "North
To Alaska" w/John Wayne,
Stewart Granger, Ernie Kovacs

KXAS Ch. 5 (NBC)

7 AM Woody Woodpecker (NBC)
7:30 Pink Panther
9 AM Speed Buggy
9:30 Monster Squad
10 AM Space Ghost--Frankenstein Jr.
10:30 Big John, Little John
11 AM Land Of The Lost
11:30 Kids From C.A.P.E.R.
12 N Challenge
12:30 Putt Putt Golf
1 PM Baseball (teams not given)
4 PM Junior Olympics (time approximate)
5:30 Texas News
6 PM Hee Haw
7 PM Emergency!
8 PM Pre-Season Football: Cowboys vs.
Seahawks
11 PM Texas News (time approximate)
11:30 Saturday Night (Live, joined in
progress)
12 M Phil Donahue

WFAA Ch. 8 (ABC)

7 AM Tom And Jerry/Jabberjaw
8 AM Scooby Doo/Dynomutt Show
9:30 Krofft Supershow
10:30 Super Friends
11 AM Oddball Couple
11:30 Peppermint Place
12 N News 8 Probe

**These last two are why American Bandstand
wasn't carried in Dallas.**

12:30 Collins In Washington (I think this
was a member of the House of Representatives.)
1 PM Hardy Boys--Nancy Drew Mysteries
2 PM Ara Parseghian's Sports
2:30 Gong Show
3 PM Wide World Of Sports
4:30 PGA Championship (Third round)
6 PM News 8: The Scene Tonight (time
approximate)
6:30 Access
7 PM Fish
7:30 Sugar (a/k/a Sugar Time!)
8 PM Starsky And Hutch
9 PM Most Wanted
10 PM News 8: The Scene Tonight
10:30 Great Movie: "Captain Horatio
Hornblower" w/Gregory Peck,
Virginia Mayo
12:45 ABC Weekend News

KTVT Ch. 11 (Ind.)

8:30 News In Review
9 AM Extension '77
9:30 Fury
10 AM Hobab
10:30 What About People?
11 AM Los Tiempos
11:15 Time Out With Scott
11:30 Parents In Action
12 N Signs Of The Times
12:30 Point Of View
1 PM Congressman Collins
1:15 Listen
1:30 Love, American Style
2 PM The Racers
2:30 American Angler
3 PM Fiesta Mexicana
3:30 Hanna-Barbera Comedy
4 PM Newton-Weaver Western Hour
5 PM Lawrence Welk
6 PM Rifleman
6:30 Beverly Hillbillies
7 PM Music Hall America
8 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music
8:30 Porter Wagoner
9 PM High Chaparral
10 PM Saturday Night Wrestling
11:30 Ironside
12:30 Nightwatch News
12:45 Sign Off

KERA Ch. 13 (PBS)

7 AM Carrascolendas
7:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
8 AM Studio See
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10:30 Electric Company
11 AM Zoom
11:30 Villa Alegre
12 N Rebop
12:30 Sesame Street
1:30 Carrascolendas
2 PM Studio See
2:30 Electric Company
3 PM Rebop
3:30 Texas Weekly
4 PM Firing Line
5 PM Book Beat
5:30 Masterpiece Theater: "Poldark"
6:30 Once Upon A Classic: "Little
Lord Fauntleroy"
7 PM The Goodies
7:30 Wodehouse Playhouse
8 PM Evening At Pops
9 PM Axelford's Angel
10 PM Movies By Great Directors:
"The Harder They Fall" w/
Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger
12 M Austin City Limits

KXTX Ch. 39 (Ind.)

7 AM Underdog
7:30 Jonny Quest
8 AM Popeye And Bugs Hour (note that
it goes up against the Bugs
Bunny/Road Runner Hour on Ch. 4)
9 AM Mighty Mouse
9:30 Heckle And Jeckle
10 AM Jetsons
10:30 Saturday Movie: "Come To The Stable"
w/Loretta Young, Celeste Holm
12:30 Swiss Family Robinson (I think this
came from Canada and was not the
1975 ABC series.)
1 PM This Week In Baseball
1:30 Outdoors With Ken Callaway
2 PM Wagon Train
3 PM Bronco
4 PM Laramie
5 PM Cheyenne
6 PM Big Valley
7 PM Last Of The Wild
7:30 Dolly
8 PM Rex Humbard
9 PM Festival Of Praise
9:30 The Lesson
10 PM 700 Club
11 PM Celebrity Bowling
11:30 WCT Tournament Of Champions
12:30 Look Up (this is not Look Up
And Live)
12:45 Sign Off
 
> From the Dallas Morning News. Schedules
> run 7 AM-1 AM.

>
> KXAS Ch. 5 (NBC)
>
> 8 PM Pre-Season Football: Cowboys vs.
> Seahawks
> 11 PM Texas News (time approximate)
> 11:30 Saturday Night (Live, joined in
> progress)
> 12 M Phil Donahue
>
Why didn't KXAS just carry Saturday Night Live from 11:30 to 1:00 A.M. instead of joining it in progress to just air the last 30 minutes of it? Besides that,they were showing reruns from the 1976-1977 season anyways.

> WFAA Ch. 8 (ABC)
>
> 1 PM Hardy Boys--Nancy Drew Mysteries
> Delay from previous Sunday at 6:00 PM

And why wasn't American Bandstand shown in Dallas?
 
> > From the Dallas Morning News. Schedules
> > run 7 AM-1 AM.
>
> >
> > KXAS Ch. 5 (NBC)
> >
> > 8 PM Pre-Season Football: Cowboys vs.
> > Seahawks
> > 11 PM Texas News (time approximate)
> > 11:30 Saturday Night (Live, joined in
> > progress)
> > 12 M Phil Donahue
> >
> Why didn't KXAS just carry Saturday Night Live from 11:30
> to 1:00 A.M. instead of joining it in progress to just air
> the last 30 minutes of it? Besides that,they were showing
> reruns from the 1976-1977 season anyways.

No idea, except that they had an episode of Donahue
they wanted to get on at midnight.
>
> > WFAA Ch. 8 (ABC)
> >
> > 1 PM Hardy Boys--Nancy Drew Mysteries
> > Delay from previous Sunday at 6:00 PM
>
> And why wasn't American Bandstand shown in Dallas?
>
Again, I don't know. On his program Inside Television,
Ch. 8 president Mike Shapiro was probably asked that
question more times than any other, and he never did
give a satisfactory answer. All he would ever say was
that the show had been off Ch. 8 for several years.
 
> American Bandstand was never seen in Houston, either. I
> think they aired local public affairs programming in its
> place.

I just don't understand why Dallas or Houston(the two largest cities in the United States) never carried American Bandstand. In San Antonio,American Bandstand was always seen on Saturday mornings/afternoons depending on what time it aired(11:30 AM or Noon) from the 60's onward till the late 80's when it was cancelled by ABC and USA started carrying it for a season.

And an OT(Off-Topic):I was 1 day into my 6th birthday when this list was posted.
 
>
> No idea, except that they had an episode of Donahue
> they wanted to get on at midnight.

It must have been a pretty controversial subject then for KXAS to show Phil Donahue at midnight and on Saturday night to boot. They thought that maybe the young kids were in bed or the teenagers were out on dates.
 
> >
> > No idea, except that they had an episode of Donahue
> > they wanted to get on at midnight.
>
> It must have been a pretty controversial subject then for
> KXAS to show Phil Donahue at midnight and on Saturday night
> to boot. They thought that maybe the young kids were in bed
> or the teenagers were out on dates.
>
Could be. I remember that during the 1976-77 season KXAS
carried The $128,000 Question, the unsuccessful revival of
The $64,000 Question, on Tuesdays at 6:30. One week a
contestant's category was "Human Sexuality." Ch. 5 delayed
that program until Sunday morning at 11:30, when, presumably,
most people would be in church. It didn't matter; the guy
was eliminated on his first appearance because the following week
The $128,000 Question was back at its regular time.
 
> I just don't understand why Dallas or Houston(the two
> largest cities in the United States)

Uh, Texas, actually. Not that any other state matters. :-D
 
> Why didn't KXAS just carry Saturday Night Live from 11:30
> to 1:00 A.M. instead of joining it in progress to just air
> the last 30 minutes of it? Besides that,they were showing
> reruns from the 1976-1977 season anyways.

NBC and KXAS had ongoing disputes about runovers. During the
week, when a Rangers game went past 10:00, NBC would not allow
KXAS to tape delay Carson. (But then Carson would call them
out on the air for JIPing his show.)

It was probably a similar issue with SNL.

(Side note: Carson had a clause in his contract stating that if
his show didn't go on by Midnight eastern, it didn't go on at all.
That's why on the rare occasions that NBC prime ran past 11:30 eastern, Letterman would start EARLY.)
 
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