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Retro: Dallas/Ft. Worth Sunday, March 6, 1983

From TV Guide, Dallas/Fort Worth Edition:

KDFW Ch. 4 (CBS)

5 AM News
5:30 Crossroads Of The '80s
6 AM Today's Black Woman
6:30 Faith For Today
7 AM Words Of Life
7:15 Jesus Today
7:30 The Bible Says
7:45 Church Service
8 AM Church Service
8:15 Way Of Truth
8:30 Church Service
8:45 Real To Reel
9 AM Point Of View
9:30 Church Service
10:30 Face The Nation
11 AM NBA Basketball: Philadelphia-New Jersey
1:30 Four Hours For Life (time approximate)
5:30 News
6 PM 60 Minutes
7 PM Archie Bunker's Place
7:30 Gloria
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 One Day At A Time
9 PM Trapper John, M.D.
10 PM News
10:15 CBS News (Charles Osgood)
10:30 Insights (local public affairs)
11 PM Movie: "El Dorado"
1:15 News
1:30 CBS News Nightwatch

KXAS Ch. 5 (NBC)

6 AM Focus On
6:30 Faith Focus
7 AM Carpenter's Children
7:30 Children's Hour
9 AM Oral Roberts
9:30 Church Service
10:30 Access 5
11 AM Counterpoint
11:30 Meet The Press
12 N NCAA Basketball: Memphis State-
Louisville
2 PM Golf: Honda Inverrary Classic (final
round, time approximate)
4 PM Sportsworld: World Cup Bobsled Championship
(time approximate)
5 PM News
5:30 NBC News (Chris Wallace)
6 PM Voyagers!
7 PM CHiPs
8 PM NBC Movie: "The Demon Murder Case"
10 PM News
10:35 Perry Mason
11:35 Entertainment This Week
12:35 Merv Griffin

WFAA Ch. 8 (ABC)

5 AM The Adventurer
5:30 TBA
5:45 You And Your Life
6 AM Peppermint Place
7 AM Shopping Smart
7:30 Robert Schuller
8:30 Dan Griffin (religion)
9 AM James Robison
9:30 This Week With David Brinkley
10:30 Reporters' Roundup
11 AM Church Service
12 N Nuestro Dia
12:30 Wide World Of Sports: Olympic Figure
Skating Champions, World Professional
Bodybuilding Championship
2 PM USFL Football: Teams not listed but this
is the first ABC telecast of the new league.
5 PM Shopping Smart (time approximate)
5:30 Black Horizons
6 PM Ripley's Believe It Or Not!
7 PM Matt Houston
8 PM ABC Movie: "Baby Sister"
10 PM News
10:30 Movie: "The Train"
1 AM News

KTVT Ch. 11 (Ind.)

7 AM Jimmy Swaggart
8 AM Town Meeting
8:30 Day Of Discovery
9 AM Rex Humbard
9:30 Insight (religion)
10 AM It Is Written
10:30 Herald Of Truth
11 AM Church Service
12 N Quarter Horse Show
12:30 Fun Of Fishing
1 PM Wallace Wildlife
1:30 Jimmy Houston Outdoors
2 PM Movie: "Good Times" (with Sonny and
Cher, nothing to do with the series)
4 PM Grizzly Adams
5 PM The Fugitive
6 PM Movie: "Great Expectations"
8 PM Solid Gold Countdown
10 PM Solid Gold Countdown '82
sign off 12 M

KERA Ch. 13 (PBS)

5:30 Sneak Previews
6 AM Washington Week In Review
6:30 Biology
7 AM English
8 AM Business Of Management
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11 AM Here's To Your Health
12 N In Our Own Image
1 PM Great Performances: "die Walkure"
by Richard Wagner (Part 3)
4 PM Sea Power
4:30 Festival '83 Preview
5 PM Movie: "George Washington Slept Here"
(w/Jack Benny--one of my favorite movies)
7 PM Life On Earth
8:10 Masterpiece Theatre: "Winston Churchill: The
Wilderness Years" (conclusion)
9:20 Night Bombers
10:30 Up Pompeii
11 PM The Two Ronnies
11:30 Dave Allen At Large
12 M Doctor In The House
sign off 12:30 AM

KTXA Ch. 21 (Ind.)

5 AM Vegetable Soup
5:30 Texas America
6 AM Doctor Snuggles
6:30 Sonrisas
7 AM World Tomorrow
7:30 Larry Jones (religion)
8 AM Jerry Falwell
9 AM Porky And Bugs
9:30 Flintstones
10 AM Jetsons
10:30 Fred Flintstone & Friends
11 AM Movie: "Tarzan's Revenge"
12:30 Movie: "The Son Of Dr. Jekyll"
2 PM Movie: TBA
5 PM Movie: "Born Free"
I believe Ch. 21 switched to pay-TV at 7 PM.

KTWS Ch. 27 (Ind.)

7 AM 27 Minutes
7:30 W.V. Grant, Jr. (religion)
8 AM End Crowd
8:30 Faith Messenger
9 AM Kenneth Copeland
10 AM Jim Bakker
11 AM Ernest Angley
Nothing is listed after 12 N. They may have switched
to pay-TV at that time.

KNBN Ch. 33 (Ind.)

7:30 Divine Plan
8 AM W.V. Grant Sr.
8:30 Fountain Of Life
9 AM W.V. Grant Jr.
9:30 Jimmy Swaggart
10:30 Peter Popoff Presents (religion)
11 AM TBA
12 N Pelicula: "Una viuda sin sosten"
2 PM Round Cero
2:15 Para Gente Grande
3:30 300 Millones
4:30 No Toca Boton (comedy)
6 PM Soledad (novela)
6:30 Raiza (drama)
7:30 Jose Luis Rodriguez (music)
8:30 Oriental (drama)
10 PM Sintesis Deportiva
10:30 Pelicula: "Uno, dos, tres al escondite ingles"
sign off 12:30 AM

KXTX Ch. 39 (Ind.)

6:30 Public Affairs
7 AM The Lesson
7:30 Lloyd Ogilvie (religion)
8 AM Phil Arms (religion)
8:30 LaHayes On Family Life
9 AM Jerry Falwell
10 AM Athletes In Action
10:30 Lorne Greene's New Wilderness
11 AM Wrestling
12 N Battlestar Galactica
1 PM Lone Ranger
2 PM Rifleman
3 PM Bonanza
4 PM Rawhide
5 PM Big Valley
6 PM Wrestling
7 PM Jerry Falwell
8 PM Robert Schuller
8:30 Jack Van Impe
9 PM Zola Levitt Live
9:30 The King Is Coming
10 PM Jimmy Swaggart
11 PM Sunday Night Live (religion)
12 M From The Editor's Desk
12:30 Public Affairs
sign off 1 AM
 
bpatrick said:
KTXA Ch. 21 (Ind.)
I believe Ch. 21 switched to pay-TV at 7 PM.

KTWS Ch. 27 (Ind.)
Nothing is listed after 12 N. They may have switched
to pay-TV at that time.

I take it this edition had no "subscription television" listing for these channels, unlike the other editions.
 
bpatrick said:
KDFW Ch. 4 (CBS)
5 AM News

I have to ask...a thirty-minute newscast at 5 AM on a Sunday?

Could it be a replay of the Saturday 10 PM 'cast? If not,
was it really a live studio anchored, full crewed production?

If it was just a booth announcer reading wire copy over a
slide, that in itself would be a herculean effort. Unless it was
Mayor LaGuardia deja vu all over again (thanks, Yogi!), but in
this case where the announcer read through as much of the
Dallas Times-Herald* as could be fit into 28:55.


*: Obviously it wouldn't be the Dallas Morning News, and no way
in he** would it be that...that...Fort Worth paper! ;)
 
Ch. 4 repeated its Saturday 10 PM newscast at
2:30 AM Sunday, so I don't know what the 5 AM
newscast might have been (I was no longer living
in Dallas).

There are stranger things, mostly on Ch. 21.
They carried Lawrence Welk at 2:45 Sunday morning,
and cartoons at 4:45 Sunday morning.
 
bpatrick said:
KTVT Ch. 11 (Ind.)
8 PM Solid Gold Countdown
10 PM Solid Gold Countdown '82
sign off 12 M

Were these two different shows?

Even odder is the midnight sign-off time for an independent in a major market. (Yes, I know WSBK/Boston used to sign off around that time, but still...)
 
DToTheJ said:
bpatrick said:
KTVT Ch. 11 (Ind.)
8 PM Solid Gold Countdown
10 PM Solid Gold Countdown '82
sign off 12 M

Were these two different shows?

Even odder is the midnight sign-off time for an independent in a major market. (Yes, I know WSBK/Boston used to sign off around that time, but still...)

What is even odder...is that it is KTVT signing off...then again, I grew up with KTVT already 24 hrs by the mid 80s.

Anyone got a Saturday 3/5/83 schedule?
 
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