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Retro: Dallas/Ft. Worth Wed., July 26, 1978

From TV Guide, Dallas-Fort Worth Edition:

KDFW Ch. 4 (CBS)

5:30 Summer Semester: "Alternative Futures"
6 AM Our Miss Brooks
6:30 CBS News (Lesley Stahl/Richard Threlkeld)
7:30 News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Tic Tac Dough (short-lived CBS version of that fall's big syndication hit)
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 (Bob Hope, singer Laurie Nelson, dancer Ray Harris)
5 PM News
5:30 News
6 PM CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
6:30 News
7 PM Funny Business (Walter Matthau introduces clips of Jack Benny, the Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, W.C. Fields, Mae West, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby)
9 PM CBS Reports: "The Fire Next Time," Bill Moyers' expose of urban problems in Brooklyn, including poverty, violence, vandalism, and especially arson, said to average 30 cases a day
10 PM News
10:30 America 2Night
11 PM Hawaii Five-O (week-behind from 10:30 PM)
12:10 Kojak (week-behind from 11:40 PM)
1:20 News
1:50 Crossroads Of The '70s

KXAS Ch. 5 (NBC)

6 AM Not For Women Only (Bonnie Franklin, authors Judith Viorst and Jeanne Sokol)
6:30 Good Morning (Ed Pewitt)
7 AM Today
9 AM Donahue (Howard Jarvis, drafter of California's Proposition 13, which limits property taxes)
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! (host Jack Linkletter; Bruce Jenner interviews Rock Hudson)
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
4 PM Emergency One!
5 PM News
5:30 NBC News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
6 PM News
6:30 Price Is Right
7 PM Grizzly Adams
8 PM Black Sheep Squadron
9 PM Police Woman
10 PM News
10:30 Tonight Show (Charles Nelson Reilly, golfer Nancy Lopez)
12 M Tomorrow ("Colonel" Richard Dwees, who runs the Missouri Auction School in Kansas City; Michael Weiner, author of "Taster's Guide To Beer")
1 AM News
1:30 Counterpoint

WFAA Ch. 8 (ABC)

6 AM Country Daybreak
6:30 Peppermint Place
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM People (Michael Brown)
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: "The Greatest Show On Earth" (Part 1 of 2)
5 PM News
5:30 ABC World News Tonight
6 PM News
6:30 Bowling For Dollars
7 PM Eight Is Enough
8 PM Charlie's Angels
9 PM Starsky & Hutch
10 PM News
10:30 Movie: "El Condor"
12:30 News
1 AM Police Story (delay from 10:30 PM)
2:10 Mystery Of The Week: "Demon, Demon!" (delay from 11:40 PM)
3:40 Movie: "Pretty Poison"
5:15 How's Your Family?
5:45 Film

KTVT Ch. 11 (Ind.)

6:40 News
7 AM Cartoons
8 AM Batman (Frank Gorshin as the Riddler; part 2 airs this afternoon)
8:30 Dusty's Treehouse
9 AM Leave It To Beaver
9:30 Love, American Style (Bill Bixby, Marlyn Mason)
10 AM The FBI
11 AM Ironside
12 N News
12:30 Cartoons
1 PM Movie: "Billy The Kid" (Robert Taylor, from '41)
3 PM Three Stooges & Friends
3:30 Cartoons
4 PM Batman (Frank Gorshin as the Riddler; conclusion of this morning's episode)
4:30 Superman
5 PM I Love Lucy
5:30 Dick Van Dyke (Jerry Van Dyke as Rob's brother Stacy)
6 PM Bewitched
6:30 Rat Patrol
7 PM Alias Smith And Jones
8 PM Family Affair
8:30 Beverly Hillbillies
9 PM Movie: "Cannon For Cordoba" (interrupted for news at 10 PM)
11 PM Movie: "Cannon For Cordoba" (rerun without the news interruption)
12:45 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 Rebop
11:30 Electric Company
12 N Over Easy
12:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
1 PM Voices
1:30 Dick Cavett (first of two with Gwen Verdon and the American Dance Machine)
2 PM Firing Line
3 PM Lowell Thomas Remembers
3:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Zoom
5:30 Over Easy (playwright Paul Zindel, organist Robert Vaughn)
6 PM Dick Cavett (rerun from 1:30)
6:30 Turnabout (topic: women in music)
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Swank In Arts
8 PM Great Performances: "Waiting For Godot"
10:30 Renascence (how individuals develop a new sense of self through vocational or recreational activities)
11 PM History
11:30 History
sign off 12 M

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 The Rock
11 AM Charisma
11:30 Big Valley (guest: Lou Rawls)
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
8 PM 700 Club
9:30 The Rock
10 PM Human Dimension
10:30 Hi Doug!
11 PM Wide World Of Truth
11:30 Life Of Riley (Bendix version)
sign off 12 M
 
Nice little recap. Interesting to see on channel 39 where Mickey Mouse follows Mighty Mouse.
 
I didn't see "The Mike Douglas Show" anywhere in the listings. That's kind of weird for a large market like Dallas-Fort Worth in 1978.
 
Channel 8 did, at one time, carry Mike at 9 AM but dropped him sometime in 1977 or '78 when it expanded its afternoon movie to two hours and began delaying "Edge Of Night."
 
Somebody else will have to answer that one. When I moved to Dallas in '76, Mike was on 8, Merv on 4, Dinah on 5. Dinah eventually moved to 4, running back to back with Merv (fall 1978), when 5 decided to pick up Donahue at 9 AM, moving "Sanford And Son" to 3:30, followed by "Emergency One!" at 4. After "Sanford And Son" ended its daytime run on NBC and "Card Sharks" replaced it at 9 AM, 5 put "The Odd Couple" at 3:30. Whether anyone else picked up Mike I have no idea; I left Dallas in '79.
 
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