Retro: DC/Baltimore/Delmarva Fri, Sept 22, 1978

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide-Washington/Baltimore edition

2 WMAR-CBS Baltimore
4 WRC-NBC Washington
5 WTTG-Ind Washington
7 WJLA-ABC Washington
8 WGAL-NBC Lancaster
9 WUSA-CBS Washington
11 WBAL-NBC Baltimore
13 WJZ-ABC Baltimore
16 WBOC-ABC/CBS/NBC Salisbury
20 WDCA-Ind Washington
22 WAPB-PBS Annapolis
25 WHAG-NBC Hagerstown
26 WETA-PBS Washington
45 WBFF-Ind Baltimore
53 WNVT-PBS Annandale (also on 14 Washington)
67 WMPB-PBS Baltimore/WCPB 28-Salisbury/WWPB 31-Hagerstown

Morning
5:30
4 Knowledge

5:45
20 PTL Club

5:50
13 Sign-On Seminar

6:00
4 Not for Women Only
5 Education
8 News
9 Christopher Closeup

6:05
8 Dialogue

6:20
13 News/Agriculture News

6:25
8 News

6:30
2-16 Sunrise Semester "English Language Arts"
4 Daybreak
5 New Zoo Revue
7 Bauman Bible Telecast
8 Dolly
9 Best of Morning Break
11 Learning to Read
13 Not for Women Only

6:45
20 Felix the Cat
45 News

6:55
25 Paul Harvey Commentary

7:00
2-9 CBS Morning News
4-8-11-16-25 Today
5 Tom & Jerry
7-13 Good Morning America
20 Space Ghost
45 Three Stooges/Cartoons (bw)

7:10
22-67 Systems Management

7:30
5 Porky Pig
20 Woody Woodpecker
26 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
45 Little Rascals (bw)

7:35
22-67 Psychological Perspectives

8:00
2-9 Captain Kangaroo
5-45 Flintstones
20 Bugs Bunny
22-67 GED: High School Diploma
26 Lilias, Yoga & You

8:30
5 Archies
20 Abbott & Costello (bw)
22-67 Desk Set
26 Over Easy
45 Gilligan's Island

9:00
2 Romper Room
4-8 Mike Douglas
5-45 Partridge Family
7 AM Washington
9-11 Phil Donahue
13 Odd Couple
16 Dinah! (a salute to Rabbit Test)
20 Channel 20 Club
22-67 Instructional Programs
25 Gospel Singing Jubliee
26 Sesame Street

9:30
2 Joker's Wild
5 Leave It to Beaver (bw)
13 $20,000 Pyramid
20 Romper Room
45 I Love Lucy (bw)

10:00
2 New Dating Game
4-8-25 Card Sharks
5 Dick Van Dyke (bw)
7 Edge of Night
9 Morning Break
11 Baltimore at 10
13 People are Talking
20 700 Club
26 Sesame Street
45 Dinah! (a different episode than what 16 aired)

10:30
2-16 Price is Right
4-8-11-25 Hollywood Squares
5 Father Knows Best (bw)
7 $20,000 Pyramid

11:00
4-8-11-25 High Rollers
5 Family Affair
7-13 Happy Days
9 All in the Family
26 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

11:30
2-9-16 Love of Life
4-8-11-25 Wheel of Fortune
5 My Three Sons
7-13 Family Feud
20 Bible
26 Electric Company
45 High Hopes

11:55
2-9 CBS News
16 Mid-Day Farm Report

Afternoon
noon
2-9-16 Young & the Restless
4-8-25 America Alive!
5 Panorama
7-11-13 News
20 Movie "The Eagle and the Hawk" (bw)
26 Erica
45 Big Valley

12:30
2-9-16 Search for tomorrow
7-13 Ryan's Hope
8 Noonday on 8
11 Bewitched
26 Dick Cavett

1:00
2 2's Company
4-11-16-25 For Richer, For Poorer
7-13 All My Children
8 Do-It-Yourself with Homer Formby
9 News
26 Great Performances
45 Movie "Stopover Tokyo"

1:30
2-9-16 As the World Turns
4-8-11-25 Days of Our Lives

2:00
5 High Hopes
7-13 One Life to Live
20 Rebop
26 Movie "Stairway to Heaven"

2:30
2-9-16 Guiding Light
4-8-11-25 Doctors
5 Groovie Goolies
20 Woody Woodpecker

3:00
4-8-11-25 Another World
5 New Mickey Mouse Club
7-13 General Hospital
20 Herculoids
22-67 You the Supervirsor
45 Munsters (bw)
53 Over Easy

3:30
2-9-16 M*A*S*H
5 Fred Flintstone & Friends
20 Shazzan
22-67 Over Easy
45 Flintstones
53 Lilias, Yoga & You

4:00
2 Woody Woodpecker
4 Bob Newhart
5 Tom & Jerry
7 Movie "I Confess" (bw)
8 For Richer, For Poorer
9 Dinah! (9 aired the same episode as 45)
11 Battle of the Planets (ATV in my neck of the woods aired this as a lead-in to the 5:30 news )
13-16 Edge of Night
20 Superfriends
22-67 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
25 PTL Club
26 Sesame Street
45 Fred Flintstone & Friends
53 Possom Trot (a look at the "town" of Possom Trot, CA which was created by folk artist Calvin Black)

4:30
2 Bionic Woman
4 Mary Tyler Moore
5 Flintstones
8 Merv Griffin (stars from fall 1978 series including Jane Seymour (Battlestar Galactica), Debra Clinger and Priscilla Barnes (American Girls))
11 Six Million Dollar Man
13 Mike Douglas (co-host Cheryl Ladd)
16 Gilligan's Island (bw)
20 Fantastic Four
22-67 Sesame Street
45 Batman
53 Villa Alegre

5:00
4 Mary Tyler Moore
5 Battle of the Planets
16 Gunsmoke
20 Bugs Bunny
26-53 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
45 Gilligan's Island

5:30
2-4-7-9 News
5 Six Million Dollar Man
11 Mary Tyler Moore
20 Gilligan's Island
22-26-53-67 Electric Company
45 Gomer Pyle, USMC

Evening
6:00
7-8-9-11-13-25 News
16 Odd Couple
20 Bewitched (bw)
22-67 Gifted & Talented
26-53 Zoom
45 I Dream of Jeannie

6:30
2-16 CBS Evening News
4-8-11-25 NBC Nightly News
5 Andy Griffith
20 Carol Burnett & Friends (guests Steve Lawrence and Lily Tomlin)
22-67 Maryland Weekend
26 Villa Alegre
45 Get Smart
53 Keep It Running

7:00
2-4 Newlywed Game
5 Brady Bunch
7-13 ABC World News Tonight
8 Tic Tac Dough
9 CBS Evening News
11 Bowling
16 News
20 Star Trek
22-67 Dick Cavett
25 Pop Goes the Country (guests Jimmy Rodriguez and Gene Watson)
26 Over Easy
45 Hogan's Heroes
53 Lilias, Yoga & You

7:30
2 $1.98 Beauty Show
4-11 Hollywood Wquares
5 New Dating Game
7 Tic Tac Dough
8 Muppet Show
9 World War II GI Diary
13 Evening Magazine
16 That Good Ole Nashville Music
22-26-67 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
25 Marty Robbins' Spotlight
45 I Love Lucy (bw)
53 Over Easy

8:00
2-9-16 Wonder Woman (Season premiere #3)
4-8-11-25 Waverly Wonders (premiere)
5 Gong Show
7-13 Donny & Marie (season premiere #4 with guests Bob Hope, Olivia Newton-John, and KC & the Sunshine Band)
20 Emergency One!
22-26-67 Washington Week in Review
45 Perry Mason
53 Adams Chronicles (pt 1)

8:30
4-8-11-25 Who's Watching the Kids? (premiere)
5 Merv Griffin
22-26-67 Wall Street Week

9:00
2-9-16 Incredible Hulk (season premiere #2, 2 hrs)
4-8-11-25 Rockford Files (season premiere #5)
7-13 Movie "The Bad News Bears"
20 Movie "The Frogmen" (bw)
22-67 Soundstage (guests B.B. King and Bobby "Blue" Bland)
26-53 Mayor of Casterbridge (pt 3 on 26, pt 2 on 53)
45 Movie "Cash McCall"

10:00
4-8-11-25 Eddie Capra Mysteries (premiere)
5 News
22-67 Maryland Newswrap
26-53 Pallisers (pt 18)

10:30
22-67 In Person

11:00
2-4-7-8-9-11-13-16-25 News
5 Odd Couple
20 Twilight Zone (bw)
22-26-67 Dick Cavett
45 Lucy Show (bw)
53 Lilias, Yoga & You

11:30
2 Avengers
4-8-11-25 Tonight Show
5 Love Experts
7-13 Baretta
9 Comedy Shop
20 Twilight Zone (bw)
22-26-67 Captioned ABC News
45 Movie "Crash Dive"

Late Night
midnight
5 Perry Mason (bw)
9 Movie "Open Season"
20 PTL Club

12:40
2 Movie "Dillinger"
7 Who's Gonna Win Sunday?
13 News

12:50
13 Take Five

12:55
13 Movie "Joy of Living" (bw)

1:00
4-8-11-25 Midnight Special (guests REO Speedwagon, Little River Band, A Taste of Hiney, Atlanta Rhythm Section, Climax Blues Band, and the Ozark Mountain Daredevils)
5 Movie "Dinner at Eight" (bw)
20 Movie "Sherlock Holmes Faces Death" (bw)

1:20
45 News

2:30
2 Love, American Style
8 News

2:45
13 Movie "Count the Hours" (bw)

3:00
2 News

3:15
5 Movie "The Master Race" (bw)

 

[DToTheJ]

10:00
9 Morning Break

10:30
2-16 Price is Right

So did WUSA pre-empt "TPIR" and "Morning Break" was 1 1/2 hours, or was this an oversight on your part?

 

[mleach]

10:00
9 Morning Break

10:30
2-16 Price is Right

So did WUSA pre-empt "TPIR" and "Morning Break" was 1 1/2 hours, or was this an oversight on your part?

Actually I think channel 9 was WDVM at the time of these listings not WUSA.

WDVM was known for years to not carry The Price is Right even through the early to mid 80s even when the show was listed in TV Guide. Reason? WDVM at the time felt that The Price is Right and the other CBS game shows like "Press Your Luck" and "Child's Play" was garbage. The GM of WDVM at the time actually went on the air ( on Morning Break ) and admitted to that. He also made the same claim in regards to the CBS Saturday morning line-up too.

Of course when WDVM was sold to Gannett in 1985 that GM was shown the door and as a result few CBS shows was pre-empted on Washington's channel 9.

 

[wbhist]

Actually I think channel 9 was WDVM at the time of these listings not WUSA.

You'd be correct on that; indeed, it was a few months before this that the station first adopted the WDVM calls, after nearly three decades of being known as WTOP-TV. (A change due to a license swap between the Evening News Association and Post-Newsweek Stations, Inc., which also led to Detroit's WWJ-TV, Channel 4, changing calls to WDIV.)

 

[RALfan]

WDVM was known for years to not carry The Price is Right even through the early to mid 80s even when the show was listed in TV Guide. Reason? WDVM at the time felt that The Price is Right and the other CBS game shows like "Press Your Luck" and "Child's Play" was garbage. The GM of WDVM at the time actually went on the air ( on Morning Break ) and admitted to that. He also made the same claim in regards to the CBS Saturday morning line-up too.

Of course when WDVM was sold to Gannett in 1985 that GM was shown the door and as a result few CBS shows was pre-empted on Washington's channel 9.

As a casual game show fan, I am both vindicated and pissed-off by this revelation. I have assumed for years that the GMs of network affiliates were (and are) quite passionately biased against game shows; they're literally Fred Silverman clones. I wonder if there were others like his ilk at other stations....

 

[cowboybud]

WDVM was known for years to not carry The Price is Right even through the early to mid 80s even when the show was listed in TV Guide. Reason? WDVM at the time felt that The Price is Right and the other CBS game shows like "Press Your Luck" and "Child's Play" was garbage. The GM of WDVM at the time actually went on the air ( on Morning Break ) and admitted to that. He also made the same claim in regards to the CBS Saturday morning line-up too.

Of course when WDVM was sold to Gannett in 1985 that GM was shown the door and as a result few CBS shows was pre-empted on Washington's channel 9.

As a casual game show fan, I am both vindicated and pissed-off by this revelation. I have assumed for years that the GMs of network affiliates were (and are) quite passionately biased against game shows; they're literally Fred Silverman clones. I wonder if there were others like his ilk at other stations....

KHOU in Houston pre-empted TPIR to show Hour Magazine for a few years in the late 70s-early 80s.

 

[Silkie]

I remember the 1:00 movie everyday on WBFF 45. I worked the midnight shift and had classes in late afternoon and early evening. Slept from about 8 am until a little before 1:00 when I would get up, have coffee, turn on the movie. You knew the movie was about to come on when you heard "Syncopated Clock" and saw the clock on the TV screen. It must have helped my GPA, because I did reasonably well studying by the movie. LOL.

Of course, in the previous two years we got run out of the college community center for watching Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, which came on at 12:25 p.m.