Retro: Dallas/Ft. Worth Wednesday, March 9, 1983

[bpatrick]

By request, from TV Guide, Dallas-Fort Worth Edition:

KDFW Ch. 4 (CBS)

5 AM Crossroads Of The '80s
5:30 CBS News (Bill Kurtis/Diane Sawyer)
6 AM News
6:30 Richard Simmons
7 AM CBS News (Kurtis/Sawyer)
9 AM New $25,000 Pyramid
9:30 Child's Play
10 AM Price Is Right
11 AM Young And The Restless
12 N News
12:30 As The World Turns
1:30 Capitol
2 PM Guiding Light
3 PM Carol Burnett And Friends
3:30 Sanford And Son
4 PM Jeffersons
4:30 Barney Miller
5 PM News
5:30 CBS News (Dan Rather)
6 PM News
6:30 Family Feud
7 PM Seven Brides For Seven Brothers
8 PM CBS Movie: "Svengali" (new version with
Peter O'Toole and Jodie Foster)
10 PM News
10:30 All In The Family
11 PM Hart To Hart
12:10 CBS Movie: "Firepower"
1:30 News
2 AM CBS News Nightwatch (to 5)

KXAS Ch. 5 (NBC)

6 AM NBC News (Bryant Gumbel/Jane Pauley/
Willard Scott)
6:30 News
7 AM Today (Gumbel/Pauley)
9 AM Donahue
10 AM Facts Of Life
10:30 Hit Man (Peter Tomarken and Rod Roddy joined
forces on this show just months before "Press
Your Luck.")
11 AM Just Men! (Betty White, about the only female
emcee at the time, won a Daytime Emmy for
this show.)
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N News
12:30 Days Of Our Lives
1:30 Another World
2:30 Sale Of The Century
3 PM Lie Detector (F. Lee Bailey's show, which got
off to an unfortunate start when nobody believed
Ronald Reagan's barber was telling the truth when
he said he didn't dye the Gipper's hair.)
3:30 Hot Hero Sandwich (pre-empts "Perry Mason")
4:30 People's Court
5 PM News
5:30 NBC News (Tom Brokaw/Roger Mudd)
6 PM News
6:30 Entertainment Tonight
7 PM Mavericks Update
7:30 NBA Basketball: Mavericks-Kansas City Kings
9:30 TBA
10 PM News (time approximate)
10:30 Tonight Show (a rerun with Charles Grodin and
Loretta Lynn)
11:30 Madame's Place
12 M Late Night With David Letterman
1 AM You Asked For It (Jack Smith, the second season
of the syndicated revival)
1:30 NBC News Overnight (Linda Ellerbee/Bill Schechner)
(to 6)

WFAA Ch. 8 (ABC)

5 AM Black Horizons
5:30 CNN Headline News
6 AM ABC News/Local News (probably, like most ABC
affiliates, Ch. 8 had network news at 6 and 6:30,
local news at 6:15 and 6:45)
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Hour Magazine
10 AM Love Boat (passengers: Hope Lange, Red Buttons,
Allen Ludden, Richard Mulligan, Erik Estrada)
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: "Gidget" (Sandra Dee)
4:30 News
5:30 ABC News (Reynolds/Jennings/Robinson, but not for
much longer--Reynolds will pass away soon)
6 PM News
6:30 PM Magazine
7 PM High Performance
8 PM The Fall Guy
9 PM Dynasty
10 PM News
10:30 Nightline (Ted Koppel)
11 PM Movie: "The Court-Martial Of Billy Mitchell"
1 AM The Last Word (Gregory Jackson)
2 AM Movie: "Marjorie Morningstar"
4:10 The Protectors
4:40 TBA

KTVT Ch. 11 (Ind.)

6:30 News
7 AM Slam Bang Theatre
8 AM Comedy Capers
8:30 Gigglesnort Hotel
9 AM I Love Lucy
9:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
10 AM The Fugitive
11 AM News
12 N Mary Tyler Moore
12:30 Bob Newhart
1 PM Movie: "Three Sisters" (Part 1)
3 PM Superfriends
3:30 Slam Bang Theatre
4 PM MV3
5 PM Happy Days Again
5:30 Laverne & Shirley & Company
6 PM Three's Company
6:30 One Day At A Time
7 PM Hawaii Five-O
8 PM Movie: "Looking Up"
10 PM Benny Hill
10:30 Soap
11 PM Odd Couple
11:30 Mary Tyler Moore
12 M Movie: "Fear Is Spreading"
2 AM News

KERA Ch. 13 (PBS)

5:30 Yoga
5:45 A.M. Weather
6 AM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
6:30 English
7 AM Biology
7:30 Government
8 AM Peppermint Place (also aired on Ch. 8
weekend mornings)
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 In-school programs
12 N America: The Second Century
1 PM 3-2-1 Contact
1:30 In-school programs
2:30 Here's To Your Health
3 PM Growing Years
3:30 Over Easy
4 PM 3-2-1 Contact
4:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5 PM Sesame Street
6 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
6:30 Untamed World
7 PM Man Who Loved Bears (nature writer Marty
Stouffer tries to be a matchmaker to two
grizzly bears; teaches survival skills to a
female cub)
8:05 National Geographic: "Save The Panda"
9:15 Clarence Darrow, Starring Henry Fonda
11 PM Great Railway Journeys Of The World (Michael
Palin, who has also written some travel books)
12 M Here's To Your Health
sign off 12:30 AM

KTXA Ch. 21 (Ind.)

5 AM Carrascolendas
5:30 Romper Room And Friends
6 AM Study In The Word With Jimmy Swaggart
6:30 Charles Capps: Concepts Of Faith
6:45 Best Day Of Your Life
7 AM Porky And Bugs
7:30 Flintstones
8 AM Fred Flintstone & Friends
8:30 Dennis The Menace (Jay North)
9 AM Movie: "Decameron Nights"
11 AM Daystar (now the owner of Ch. 2 in Denton)
12 N Texas America
12:30 Maverick
1:30 Andy Griffith
2 PM Munsters
2:30 Porky And Bugs
3 PM Flintstones
3:30 Fred Flintstone & Friends
4 PM no listing given
5 PM Twilight Zone
5:30 Charlie's Angels
6:30 M*A*S*H
7 PM Subscription TV
2:25 Texas America
2:45 News
3:10 Couples
sign off 3:40 AM

KTWS Ch. 27 (Ind.)

7 AM Ag-Day
7:30 Jim Bakker
8:30 Jim Newton (country music, local)
9 AM Jack LaLanne & You
9:30 Edge Of Night (had been dropped by Ch. 8)
10 AM Jim Bakker
11 AM Financial Network News
2 PM Jim Bakker
3 PM That Girl
3:30 Financial Network News
4 PM Sha Na Na
4:30 Dark Shadows
5 PM Untouchables
6 PM Mission: Impossible
7 PM Subscription TV

KNBN Ch. 33 (Ind.)

7:30 Polivoces (comedy)
8:30 Buena Vibra (exercises)
9 AM Manan Sera Otra Dia (novela)
10:30 Hoy Mismo (variety)
12 N Charlando con Rebeca Nieto Olind
12:30 Mundo Latino
1 PM Aventuras de Capulina (comedy)
1:30 Limosna de Amor (novela)
2 PM Andrea Celeste (novela)
3 PM Conflictos de un Medico
4 PM Nino de Papel (comedy)
4:30 Extranos Caminos del Amor
5 PM Mundo Latino
5:30 Noticias
6 PM Soledad (novela)
6:30 Trampa para un Sonador
7:30 Mi Colonia-Esperanza (comedy)
8 PM Carabina de Ambrosio
8:30 Vanessa (novela)
9 PM Noticias
10 PM Pelicula: "Cuatro budas de Kriminal"
sign off 12 M

KXTX Ch. 39 (Ind.)

6:30 Cartoons
7 AM Tom And Jerry
7:30 Woody Woodpecker
8 AM Bugs & Friends
8:30 Great Space Coaster
9 AM 700 Club
10:30 Richard Hogue Weekdays
11:30 News
12 N Big Valley
1 PM Green Acres
1:30 Here's Lucy
2 PM Father Knows Best
2:30 Popeye And Bugs Hour
3:30 Tom And Jerry
4 PM Pink Panther
4:30 Scooby-Doo
5 PM Eight Is Enough
6 PM Little House On The Prairie
7 PM Waltons
8 PM Billy Graham Crusade (highlights of crusades
in East Berlin and Prague in 1982)
9 PM 700 Club
10 PM Mork & Mindy
10:30 Buck Rogers In The 25th Century (Gil Gerard)
11:30 Movie: "Four Faces West"
1:30 Independent Network News

 

[newsmark]

Are you sure about

>>1:30 NBC News Overnight (Linda Ellerbee/Bill Schechner)
(to 6)

I'm pretty sure that was just an hour-long broadcast, although I don't know what channel 5 did from 2:30-6. A few years later, the newscast NBC Nightside (not NBC NEWS Nightside) did run for several hours.

Also I was surprised to see Nightline at 10:30 on channel 8. When did Entertainment Tonight start running at 10:30?

 

[azumanga]

KXAS Ch. 5 (NBC)

3:30 Hot Hero Sandwich (pre-empts "Perry Mason")

Wasn't "Hot Hero Sandwich" seen on Saturday mornings on NBC around this time? By what I read, I recall this being a hybrid variety series and talk show for teenagers, kind of what like "Livewire" was on Nickelodeon. (Only guessing, as I never saw the show.)

Nevertheless, it looked like "Hot Hero Sandwich" was an occasional afternoon special, just like NBC's "Special Treats" (an Afterschool Special clone) and the later "Main Street" with Bryant Gumbel (another talk series for teens, with music videos).

KTXA Ch. 21 (Ind.)

7 PM Subscription TV

KTWS Ch. 27 (Ind.)

7 PM Subscription TV

What services did they carry?

Are you sure about

>>1:30 NBC News Overnight (Linda Ellerbee/Bill Schechner)
(to 6)

I'm pretty sure that was just an hour-long broadcast, although I don't know what channel 5 did from 2:30-6. A few years later, the newscast NBC Nightside (not NBC NEWS Nightside) did run for several hours.

I recall "NBC News Overnight" being an all-night program -- in 1982, while staying up all night to witness a lunar eclipse, I caught the program on Orlando's NBC affiliate, WESH, which carried the show until local programs began later that morning. My own local NBC affiliate, WXFL (WFLA), carried a feed of a new all-news channel during the late-night hours called "CNN2" (now HLN).

 

[bpatrick]

I think I am wrong about "Overnight"; I think it was
an hour-long program; in that case, Ch. 5 would have
signed off at 2:30. (Brooks and Marsh confirm that
it was an hour program.) "Nightside," OTOH, did run
all night; I remember WXIA running it from about
3:30 to 5:30 AM.

The episode of "Hot Hero Sandwich" had originally
aired in 1979; among the guests were Pam Dawber
and Robert Guillaume.

I'm not sure when Ch. 8 began running "ET" at 10:30,
since I haven't lived in the Metroplex since 1979. I
do know it airs at 6:30 on Ch. 8 at present, and that
"Nightline" is back at 10:35.

 

[Bluenoser]

KTXA Ch. 21 (Ind.)

7 PM Subscription TV

KTWS Ch. 27 (Ind.)

7 PM Subscription TV

What services did they carry?

According to Wikipedia (usual disclaimers apply ), 21 carried ON TV and 27 carried Preview and VEU programming.

 

[azumanga]

According to Wikipedia (usual disclaimers apply ), 21 carried ON TV and 27 carried Preview and VEU programming.

Did the DFW TVG list either one? By then, some TVG editions listed subscription TV services separately, where they're available. For example, the Detroit edition listed On-TV and IT, separate from its carriers, WXON and WIHT, respectively. I think the New York City and Los Angeles editions had similar listings.

 

[stdjsb25]

Are you sure about

>>1:30 NBC News Overnight (Linda Ellerbee/Bill Schechner)
(to 6)

I'm pretty sure that was just an hour-long broadcast, although I don't know what channel 5 did from 2:30-6. A few years later, the newscast NBC Nightside (not NBC NEWS Nightside) did run for several hours.

Also I was surprised to see Nightline at 10:30 on channel 8. When did Entertainment Tonight start running at 10:30?

Overnight was just a 30 minute program from what I can recall

As for ET, I believe it switched during the 84-85 season

 

[DToTheJ]

KTXA Ch. 21 (Ind.)
8:30 Dennis The Menace (Jay North)

Thanks for posting these listings, but I don't think it's necessary, when posting listings prior to 1986, that when "Dennis The Menace" is listed, that it's the live-action Jay North sitcom, as the animated show had not yet existed. ;D

 

[BobbyNBC10]

For example, the Detroit edition listed On-TV and IT, separate from its carriers, WXON and WIHT, respectively. I think the New York City and Los Angeles editions had similar listings.

The Flint-Lansing edition of TV Guide had both WXON-TV and WIHT,but no, no listings for ON-TV or IT, ON's signal reached into parts of both Flint and also Jackson. And IT's stretched as far as Marshall, east of Battle Creek and Hillsdale. And both IT and ON reached Toledo.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

WFAA Ch. 8 (ABC)
12 N All My Children

And not a day behind!

But nowadays...

C'mon ABC, you're dark from 12-1 ET/11-12 CT, how much can it cost you
to do a second feed of AMC then, so those CT affils that want a noon news
don't have to be a day behind on the soap. If CBS can split-feed Y&R,
why can't you do the same? :

 

[easttxtv]

Also I was surprised to see Nightline at 10:30 on channel 8. When did Entertainment Tonight start running at 10:30?

Well,

KXAS Ch. 5 (NBC)

6:30 Entertainment Tonight

It would have to have been after Ch.5 gave up on ET starting (I think) in the 1983-1984 season. They went for the first season of syndie Wheel of Fortune, and when they did, they gave up on ET and Ch.8 then got it. Then Ch.5 (IIRR) only kept Wheel for a year and Ch.8 snapped it up. With Wheel being on at 6:30p, they had to air ET later on Ch.8, and that had to be when the 10:30(or :35) airings started.

 

[bpatrick]

According to Wikipedia (usual disclaimers apply ), 21 carried ON TV and 27 carried Preview and VEU programming.

Did the DFW TVG list either one? By then, some TVG editions listed subscription TV services separately, where they're available. For example, the Detroit edition listed On-TV and IT, separate from its carriers, WXON and WIHT, respectively. I think the New York City and Los Angeles editions had similar listings.

The DFW edition listed the services but not which channel carried a particular service.

Re "Dennis The Menace": I don't know how many people know when the animated version started, which is why I put Jay North's name in parentheses, to stress that this is the live-action version.

 

[Rollo-Smokes]

Re "Dennis The Menace": I don't know how many people know when the animated version started, which is why I put Jay North's name in parentheses, to stress that this is the live-action version.

The animated Dennis the Menace series started in the spring of 1987. At least, that is when we first got it here in New York, because it replaced Inspector Gadget rather abruptly on the Fox station.