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Retro: Dallas/Ft. Worth Thursday, June 11, 1981

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From TV Guide, Dallas/Ft. Worth Edition:

KDFW Ch. 4 (CBS)

5 AM News
5:30 Summer Semester
6 AM News
6:30 CBS News (Charles Kuralt)
7:30 Captain Kangaroo
8:30 To Tell The Truth (Robin Ward
hosts)
9 AM The Jeffersons
9:30 Alice
10 AM Price Is Right
11 AM Young And The Restless
12 N News
12:30 As The World Turns
1:30 Search For Tomorrow (a major
scheduling mistake, moving it
from 11:30 AM Central, and it
would be back in its traditional
time but on NBC within the year)
2 PM Guiding Light
3 PM Rhoda
3:30 Carol Burnett And Friends
4 PM Sanford And Son
4:30 Good Times
5 PM News
5:30 CBS News
6 PM News
6:30 Family Feud
7 PM The Waltons
8 PM Magnum, P.I.
9 PM Knots Landing
10 PM News
10:30 All In The Family
11 PM The Jeffersons
11:30 Hec Ramsey
1:30 News
2 AM Insights (not the religious
program "Insight")

KXAS Ch. 5 (NBC)

6 AM Newsworthy
6:30 News
7 AM Today
9 AM Donahue
10 AM Wheel Of Fortune
10:30 Wedding Day (Mary Ann Mobley
and Huell Howser hosting the
fourth of what must have been
a five-day pilot. The format
resembled the '50s hit "Bride
And Groom," with couples getting
married on the air. This one
never became a series.)
11 AM The Doctors
11:30 Charlie Rose
12 N News
12:30 Days Of Our Lives
1:30 Another World
2:30 Texas
3:30 Merv Griffin
4:30 M*A*S*H
5 PM News
5:30 NBC News
6 PM News
6:30 Tic Tac Dough
7 PM NBC Magazine With David
Brinkley
8 PM NBC Movie: "The Adventures
Of Nellie Bly"
10 PM News
10:30 Tonight Show
11:30 Maude
12 M Tomorrow Coast-To-Coast
1:30 News

WFAA Ch. 8 (ABC)

6 AM Country Daybreak
6:30 Peppermint Place
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Hour Magazine
10 AM Love Boat
11 AM Family Feud
11:30 Ryan's Hope
12 N All My Children
1 PM One Life To Live
2 PM General Hospital
3 PM Movie: "55 Days At Peking"
(Part 1)
4:30 News
5 PM News
5:30 ABC News
6 PM News
6:30 PM Magazine
7 PM Mork & Mindy
7:30 Bosom Buddies
8 PM Barney Miller
8:30 Taxi
9 PM 20/20
10 PM News
10:30 Nightline
11 PM Movie: "The Odd Couple"
1 AM News
1:05 Charlie's Angels
2:15 Movie: "Limbo Line"
4:10 Movie: "The Fickle Finger
Of Fate" (nothing to do
with Laugh-In)

KTVT Ch. 11 (Ind.)

6:35 News
7 AM Slam Bang Theatre
8 AM Comedy Capers
8:30 Gigglesnort Hotel
9 AM Richard Simmons
9:30 My Three Sons
10 AM Adam-12
10:30 Maverick
11:30 News
12:30 $50,000 Pyramid
1 PM Movie: "Creatures Of The
Amazon"
3 PM Wacky Races
3:30 Banana Splits
4 PM Bugs & Porky
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM I Love Lucy
5:30 Carter Country
6 PM Welcome Back, Kotter
6:30 Happy Days Again
7 PM Gunsmoke
8 PM Movie: "Try To Catch A
Saint" (pilot for the
short-lived "McNaughton's
Daughter")
10 PM Odd Couple
10:30 Bob Newhart
11 PM Mary Tyler Moore
11:30 Movie: "The Night They
Raided Minsky's"
1:30 News

KERA Ch. 13 (PBS)

5:45 A.M. Weather
6 AM Captioned ABC News
6:30 Government
8 AM Newsday
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Villa Alegre
11 AM Sesame Street
12 N Over Easy
12:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
1 PM The Ambassadors
2:30 Claes Oldenburg's Crusoe
Umbrella
3 PM Dick Cavett
3:30 Over Easy
4 PM Studio See
4:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5 PM Sesame Street
6 PM Electric Company
6:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7 PM Newsday
7:30 Sneak Previews
8 PM Fall Of Eagles
9 PM Search For Solutions
10 PM Lawmakers
10:30 Fight Against Slavery
sign off 12:30 AM

KTXA Ch. 21 (Ind.)

6 AM Study In The Word
6:30 Concepts Of Faith
6:45 Congressman's Report
7 AM World Of Super Adventure
7:30 Groovie Goolies
8 AM People Are Talking
9 AM Movie: TBA
11 AM Daystar (KDTN Ch. 2 is
affiliated with Daystar,
but that station wasn't
on the air then)
12 N Divorce Court
12:30 Hollywood Squares
1 PM Mike Douglas
2:30 Beverly Hillbillies
3 PM Fantastic Four
3:30 Jonny Quest
4 PM Munsters
4:30 Twilight Zone
5 PM Wild Wild West
6 PM Starsky & Hutch
I believe that at the time Ch. 21
had subscription (PPV) television
in prime time.
12:15 Grapevine Opry (Grapevine is a
suburb located about halfway
between Dallas and Ft. Worth,
near Irving and Arlington)
12:45 Movie: "The Last Shot You Hear"
2:45 Movie: "Magnificent Thief" (pilot
for "It Takes A Thief")
4:45 Movie: "The Mystery Of Marie Roget"

KTWS Ch. 27 (Ind.)

7:30 Jim Bakker
8:30 Public Affairs
9 AM New Zoo Revue
9:30 Felix The Cat/Mighty Hercules
10:30 My Favorite Martian
11 AM Jim Bakker
12 N Shootin' Newton Country Music
12:30 Movie: "Raiders Of The Border"
2 PM Jim Bakker
2:55 News
3 PM Felix The Cat/Mighty Hercules
4 PM Speed Racer
4:30 Lassie
5 PM Cross-Wits
5:30 Bullseye
6 PM Crisis In The Horn Of Africa
no listing after 7 PM, don't know if this
was also a PPV station

KNBN Ch. 33 (Ind.)

Station was then affiliated with National
Business Network, with news and business
updates all day.

4 PM John Davidson
5:30 Vantage Point
no listings after 6 PM

KXTX Ch. 39 (Ind.) (CBN)

6 AM Romper Room
6:30 Tom And Jerry
7 AM Bugs Bunny & Friends
7:30 Popeye
8 AM Fred Flintstone And Friends
8:30 Great Space Coaster
9 AM 700 Club
10:30 Get Smart
11 AM Big Valley
12 N Another Life (CBN attempts a
soap where the characters find
a Christian solution to their
problems.)
12:30 Chico And The Man
1 PM Green Acres
1:30 Andy Griffith
2 PM Father Knows Best
2:30 Popeye & Bugs
3 PM Flintstones
3:30 Tom And Jerry/Woody Woodpecker
4:30 Scooby-Doo
5 PM Wonder Woman
6 PM Star Trek
7 PM Medical Center
8 PM Another Life
8:30 INN News
9 PM 700 Club
10:30 Rockford Files
11:30 Movie: "Trade Winds"
sign off 1:30 AM
 
Buddy Hayes said:
21 and 27 both had subscription TV in primetime.

As did 33. But they all dumped the nighttime subscription TV programming by the mid-80s. When I moved to Dallas in 1984, the only station still running STV at night was 27, and they dropped it within a year.
 
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