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Retro: Dallas/Ft. Worth Tue., July 25, 1978

From TV Guide, Dallas-Fort Worth Edition:

KDFW Ch. 4 (CBS)

5:30 Summer Semester ("U.S. Foreign Policy")
6 AM Our Miss Brooks
6:30 CBS News (Lesley Stahl/Richard Threlkeld)
7:30 News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo (from Six Flags Over Georgia)
9 AM Tic Tac Dough (oddly, the network version of the show flopped, but the syndicated version with first Wink Martindale, then Jim Caldwell, lasted from 1978-86)
9:30 Price Is Right
10:30 Love Of Life
10:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
11 AM Young And The Restless
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
12 N News
12:30 As The World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2:30 All In The Family
3 PM Match Game '78 (Richard Dawson, Fannie Flagg, Charles Nelson Reilly, Susan Richardson, Nipsey Russell, Brett Somers)
3:30 Merv Griffin (Carol Burnett, former CIA chief William Colby, journalist-authors Tom Wicker ("On Press") and Maxine Cheshire ("Maxine Cheshire--Reporter"))
5 PM News
5:30 News
6 PM CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
6:30 News
7 PM CBS Movie: "Tom Sawyer" (conclusion of the 1973 version with Johnny Whitaker)
8 PM CBS Movie: "Man On A Swing"
10 PM News
10:30 America 2Night (Roger Miller, gardener Toshiro Asaki (played by Tak Kubota))
11 PM McMillan & Wife (week delay from 10:30 PM)
12:45 Kojak (week delay from 12:15 AM)
1:55 News
2:25 Point Of View

KXAS Ch. 5 (NBC)

6 AM Not For Women Only (Philip Zimbardo, author of "Shyness: What It Is, What To Do About It"; mime group Mummenschanz)
6:30 Good Morning (Ed Pewitt)
7 AM Today (scheduled guest: Jon Peters, formerly Barbra Streisand's husband)
9 AM Donahue (Howard Jarvis discusses Proposition 13, the proposal to limit property taxes in California)
9:30 Hollywood Squares (Sandy Duncan, Robert Fuller, George Gobel, David L. Lander, Erin Moran, Vincent Price, Marion Ross, Vic Tayback, Paul Lynde)
10 AM High Rollers
10:30 Wheel Of Fortune
11 AM America Alive! (David Sheehan interviews the Bee Gees and Steve Martin; a discussion of the dangers of sunbathing)
12 N News
12:30 Days Of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2 PM Another World
3 PM For Richer, For Poorer
3:30 Odd Couple (Edward Villella of the New York City Ballet teaches Felix and Oscar to dance and also performs to music from "Swan Lake")
4 PM Emergency One!
5 PM News
5:30 NBC News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
6 PM News
6:30 Family Feud
7 PM Man From Atlantis (pre-Bobby Ewing Patrick Duffy)
8 PM NBC Movie: "Darker Than Amber"
10 PM News
10:30 Tonight Show (Don Rickles, John Byner, Buddy Rich, Cathy Rich)
12 M Tomorrow (Henry Gris, editor of the National Enquirer)
1 AM News
1:30 Insight '78

WFAA Ch. 8 (ABC)

6 AM Country Daybreak
6:30 Peppermint Place
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM People (Michael Brown, husband of novelist Sandra Brown; both worked at Ch. 8 at the time)
9:30 Edge Of Night (delay from 3 PM)
10 AM Happy Days
10:30 Family Feud
11 AM $20,000 Pyramid (Debralee Scott, Sal Viscuso)
11:30 Ryan's Hope
12 N All My Children
1 PM One Life To Live
2 PM General Hospital
3 PM Movie: "Jumbo" (a circus elephant not to be confused with Dumbo)
5 PM News
5:30 ABC World News Tonight
6 PM News
6:30 Bowling For Dollars
7 PM Happy Days
7:30 Laverne & Shirley
8 PM Three's Company
8:30 Carter Country ("Soap" was off for the summer, airing only in late-night reruns, see below)
9 PM 20/20
10 PM News
10:15 Soccer: Dallas Tornado at Portland Timbers
12:15 Movie: "The Grand Duel" (time approximate)
2:05 News
2:20 Soap (delay from 10:30 PM)
2:55 Movie: "Bang The Drum Slowly" (don't know if this was on ABC at 11:05 PM)
4:55 Thrillseekers
5:25 Ozzie And Harriet
5:55 Black Forum

KTVT Ch. 11 (Ind.)

6:40 News
7 AM Cartoons
8 AM Batman (Roddy McDowall as the Bookworm)
8:30 Dusty's Treehouse
9 AM Leave It To Beaver
9:30 Love, American Style (Monte Markham, Dorothy Provine, Phyllis Diller)
10 AM The FBI
11 AM Ironside
12 N News
12:30 Cartoons
1 PM Movie: "Jigsaw" (Bradford Dillman as a scientist whose amnesia prevents him from recalling a murder; from '68 and not to be confused with "Jigsaw," which was part of ABC's "The Men" in 1972-73)
3 PM Three Stooges & Friends
3:30 Cartoons
4 PM Batman (Part 2 with Roddy McDowall as the Bookworm)
4:30 Superman (one of the episodes with Phyllis Coates as Lois Lane; she tries to rescue a trapped coal miner and is trapped herself)
5 PM I Love Lucy
5:30 Dick Van Dyke
6 PM Bewitched
6:30 Rat Patrol
7 PM Alias Smith And Jones
8 PM Family Affair
8:30 Beverly Hillbillies
9 PM Movie: "My Sweet Charlie" (interrupted at 10 PM for news)
11 PM Movie: "Counterpoint"
1 AM News

KERA Ch. 13 (PBS)

6:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
7 AM Sesame Street
8 AM Lilias, Yoga And You
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Villa Alegre
11 AM Studio See
11:30 Electric Company
12 N Over Easy
12:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
1 PM Texas Politics
1:30 Dick Cavett (guest: Henry Winkler)
2 PM Nova (how the genetic substance HLA triggers the body's disease-defense mechanisms)
3 PM Crockett's Victory Garden
3:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Zoom
5:30 Over Easy (guest: folk singer Theodore Bikel)
6 PM Dick Cavett (same as the 1:30 show)
6:30 Black Perspective On The News
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Voices
8 PM Opera Theater (Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman" is sung in English)
10:30 Dance At Dawn (the Performing Arts Company of Florida performs a dance on different state beaches to demonstrate concern for the state's seacoasts)
11 PM History
11:30 History

KXTX Ch. 39 (Ind.)

6 AM Ross Bagley
7 AM Heckle & Jeckle
7:30 Mighty Mouse
8 AM New Mickey Mouse Club
8:30 Little Rascals/Our Gang
9 AM 700 Club
10:30 Practical Christian Living
11 AM Hi Doug (Doug Oldham of CBN)
11:30 Big Valley (guest: Marty Allen as a bumbling ranch hand)
12:30 Marcus Welby, M.D.
1:30 Andy Griffith
2 PM New Zoo Revue
2:30 Popeye And Bugs Hour
3:30 Fred Flintstone & Friends
4 PM Monkees
4:30 Brady Bunch
5 PM Partridge Family
5:30 Star Trek
6:30 Hogan's Heroes
7 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
7:30 The Lucy Show (Tennessee Ernie Ford plays a wealthy country-music star whom Lucy tries to get as a depositor at the bank.)
8 PM 700 Club
9:30 Practical Christian Living
10 PM Dwight Thompson
10:30 Bob Nichols Presents Today In Christ
11 PM Rise And Be Healed
11:30 Life Of Riley (Bendix version)
 
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