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Retro: Dallas/Ft. Worth Saturday, May 10, 1980

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
6:30 Animal World
7 AM Mighty Mouse/Heckle And Jeckle
8 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
9:30 All-New Popeye Hour
10:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
11 AM Shazam!
11:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12:30 30 Minutes
1 PM TBA
1:30 CBS Sports Spectacular: "The Strongest
Man In Football" competition; World Speedway
Motorcycle Championships
2:30 NBA Championships: Lakers-76ers (Game 3)
5 PM Choice Of Champions (time approximate)
5:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
6 PM News
6:30 4-Country Reporter
7 PM Tim Conway Show
8 PM CBS Movie: "Billy Jack"
10 PM News
10:30 Dean Martin Show
11:30 Dance Fever
12 M Movie: "Jenny" (Marlo Thomas and Alan Alda star)
2 AM News

KXAS Ch. 5 (NBC)

6:30 Better Way...
7 AM Godzilla/Globetrotters
8 AM Fred And Barney Meet The Shmoo
9:30 Daffy Duck
10 AM Jetsons
10:30 Jonny Quest
11 AM Godzilla
11:30 Flash Gordon (animated)
12 N Soul Train
1 PM Baseball Warm-Up
1:15 Baseball: Phillies-Reds or Royals-Red Sox
(since the Metroplex is an AL area, it would
make sense to carry Kansas City-Boston)
4 PM Golf: Byron Nelson Classic (third round, played
in Dallas, time approximate)
5:30 News
6 PM Hee Haw (Tennessee Ernie Ford is a guest)
7 PM BJ And The Bear
8 PM Sanford (well, the first thing you know old Fred's
a millionaire...or at least he's living in a mansion)
8:30 Joe's World
9 PM Prime Time Saturday
10 PM News
10:30 Saturday Night Live (Bob Newhart hosts)
12 M Second City Television
12:30 Six Million Dollar Man
1:30 Movie: "Tomb Of The Living Dead"
3 AM News

WFAA Ch. 8 (ABC)

6:30 Country Daybreak
7 AM Superfriends
8 AM Plastic Man
9:30 Scooby And Scrappy-Doo
10:30 Captain Caveman
11 AM ABC Weekend Special: "The Revenge
Of Red Chief"
11:30 Peppermint Place (pre-empts "American
Bandstand"
12 N Probe
12:30 Movie: "Rabbit, Run"
2 PM Tennis: Tournament Of Champions (semifinals
from Forest Hills, NY)
4 PM Wide World Of Sports: Day 1 of the Indy 500
time trials, European weightlifting championships,
women's Masters Surfing Championships
6 PM News
6:30 Saturday (Michael Brown, husband of romance
novelist Sandra Brown, hosts)
7 PM Love Boat (passengers include Donny Osmond,
Robert Guillaume, and Pam Grier)
9 PM Fantasy Island (Joan Collins wants to be Cleopatra,
Larry Linville is a meek man who wants more control
over people)
10 PM News
10:30 Movie: "Westworld"
12:15 News
12:45 Movie: "Scudda-Hoo! Scudda-Hay!"
2:30 Movie: "Sierra Baron"
4 AM Movie: "Swamp Water"
5:30 Ozzie And Harriet

KTVT Ch. 11 (Ind.)

8:30 News In Review
9 AM Extension '80
9:30 Hobab
10 AM TBA
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 Voters' Digest
1 PM Movie: "A Chump At Oxford" (Laurel
and Hardy)
3 PM Fiesta Mexicana
3:30 Variedades Musicales
4 PM Newton/Weaver Western Hour (country
music with local musicians Jim "Shootin'"
Newton and "Cowboy" Weaver)
5 PM Lawrence Welk (salute to Sammy Cahn)
6 PM Real McCoys
6:30 Make Room For Daddy
7 PM Pop! Goes The Country
7:30 That Nashville Music
8 PM Nashville On The Road
8:30 Porter Wagoner
9 PM High Chaparral
10 PM Saturday Night Wrestling
11:30 Ironside
12:30 News

KERA Ch. 13 (PBS)

6 AM Captioned ABC News
6:30 Washington Week In Review
7 AM Sesame Street
8 AM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
8:30 Zoom
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11 AM Sesame Street
12 N Misa de la Raza
12:30 Movie: "Juarez"
2:30 Movie: "Invisible Stripes"
4 PM Movie: "In This Our Life"
6 PM Camera Three (the last, PBS, season after
CBS canceled it in 1979)
6:30 Sneak Previews
7 PM Ten Who Dared
8 PM Movie: "Jezebel"
10 PM Benny Hill
10:30 The Two Ronnies
11 PM Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin
11:30 Dick Cavett
12 M Dick Cavett
12:30 Mystery!: Sgt. Cribb in "Wobble To Death"
1:30 Camera Three
2 AM Three Appeals (one day in the New York State
Court of Appeals)
3 AM Austin City Limits
4 AM Non Fiction Television
5 AM Bill Moyers' Journal

KXTX Ch. 39 (Ind.)

6:30 Hot Fudge
7 AM Woody Woodpecker
7:30 Aquaman
8 AM Backyard
8:30 The Hulk (animated)
9 AM Captain America
9:30 Movie: "Here Come The Co-eds" (Abbott
and Costello)
11 AM Movie: "Wyoming Kid"
1 PM Movie: "The Golden Stallion" (Roy Rogers)
2 PM Wagon Train
3 PM Bonanza
4 PM Rawhide
5 PM Cheyenne
6 PM Wyatt Earp (and these two shows aired back-
to-back on ABC from 1955-59)
6:30 Baseball: Astros-Braves
9 PM TV39 Sports Magazine (WCT Tennis and Byron
Nelson Classic highlights, time approximate)
10:30 Stanley Cup Playoff (semifinal round game, taped)
1:30 Journey To Adventure (time approximate)
 
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