Retro: DC/Baltimore/Delmarva Sat, June 3, 1978

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from TV Guide-Washington/Baltimore edition

WMAR 2-CBS Baltimore
6:30 Summer Semester "Alternative Futures"
7:00 Three Robonic Stooges
7:30 Speed Buggy
8:00 Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Caboose
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Batman/Tarzan
11:30 Isis
noon Fat Albert
12:30 Tom & Jerry
1:00 Mr. Magoo
1:30 CBS Children's Film Festival "The Chiffy Kids"
2:00 TBA
2:30 My Three Sons
3:00 Great Teams/Great Years
4:00 Golf: Kemper Open
5:00 TBA
6:00 Andy Griffith
6:30 News
7:00 Hee Haw (guests Sonny James, and the Oak Ridge Boys)
8:00 Bob Newhart
8:30 Baby, I'm Back
9:00 America Salutes Richard Rodgers (with the help of Gene Kelly, Henry Winkler, Cloris Leachman, Sandy Duncan, Sammy Davis Jr, Diahann Carroll, Vic Damone, Peggy Lee, Lena Horne, and John Wayne)
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Madigan"

WRC 4-NBC Washington
6:30 One on One
7:00 Knowledge
7:30 Big Blue Marble
8:00 Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Go Go Globetrotters
10:30 Pink Panther
11:00 Baggy Pants & the Nitwits
11:30 Space Sentinels
noon Land of the Lost
12:30 Thunder
1:00 Beth & Bower Half Hour
1:30 This Week in Baseball
2:00 Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: LA-Philadelphia or Minnesota-Detroit
5:00 Vistas
5:30 Mary Tyler Moore
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 In Search of...
7:30 NewsCenter Forum
8:00 Bionic Woman
9:00 Movie "Rafferty and the Highway Hustlers" (known in theaters as Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins)
11:00 News
11:30 Weekend (profile of painist Erwin Nyiregyhazi/look at American basketball players playing in Italy)
1:00 Two Plus You
2:00 Take Five

WTTG 5-Ind Washington
5:00 Movie cont'd
6:30 Vegetable Soup
7:00 Porky Pig
7:30 Newsbag
8:00 Movie "Our Vines Have Tender Grapes" (bw)
10:00 Movie "The Man from Down Under" (bw)
noon Movie "Santiago"
1:30 Movie "Frankenstein: The True Story" (conclusion)
3:30 Mission: Impossible
4:30 Racers
5:00 Soul Train
6:00 My Three Sons
6:30 Family Affair
7:00 Andy Griffith (bw)
7:30 Brady Bunch
8:00 Movie "Shall We Dance" (bw)
10:00 News
10:30 Black Reflections
11:00 Odd Couple
11:30 Movie "The War Lord"
2:00 Movie "Frankenstein Created Woman"
3:30 Movie "Her Kind of Man" (bw)

WJLA 7-ABC Washington
6:30 Treehouse Club
7:00 Animals, Animals, Animals
7:30 Hot Fudge
8:00 Superfriends
9:00 Scooby's Laff-a-Lympics
11:00 Krofft Supershow
noon Dynomutt
12:30 American Bandstand (guests KC & the Sunshine Band, and Jimmy "Bo" Horne)
1:30 Children's Classics
3:00 Movie "Land of the Pharoahs"
5:00 Wide World of Sports (WBC superfeatherweight title bout between champ Alexis Arguello (58-3) and challenger Diego Alcala (31-8-2), live from San Juan/preview of WBC heavyweight title bout between Ken Norton and Larry Holmes, which would be held the following Friday)
6:30 ABC Evening News (which would become ABC World News Tonight on July 10)
7:00 News
7:30 Dolly (guest Karen Black)
8:00 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (pt 2)
9:00 ABC Theatre "Eleanor and Franklin"
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" (bw)
1:30 ABC News

WGAL 8-NBC Lancaster
6:30 Lone Ranger
7:00 Marlo & the Magic Movie Machine
7:30 Sunshine Corners
8:00 Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Go Go Globetrotters
10:30 Pink Panther
11:00 Baggy Pants & the Nitwits
11:30 Space Sentinels
noon Land of the Lost
12:30 Thunder
1:00 Country Music
1:30 That Good Ole Nashville Music
2:00 Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: LA-Philadelphia or Minnesota-Detroit
5:00 World of Survival
5:30 Porter Wagoner
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 World of Women
7:30 Community Affairs
8:00 Bionic Woman
9:00 Movie "Rafferty and the Highway Hustlers"
11:00 News
11:30 Weekend
1:00 News

WTOP 9-CBS Washington
6:00 Christopher Close-Up
6:30 Best of Morning Break
7:00 Arthur & Company
7:30 Mr. Magoo
8:00 Three Robonic Stooges
8:30 Speed Buggy
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Batman/Tarzan
11:30 Isis
noon Fat Albert
12:30 Space Academy
1:00 Sneakers
1:30 CBS Children's Film Festival "The Chiffy Kids"
2:00 Movie "Birth of a Legend"
4:00 Golf: Kemper Open
5:00 Americans
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Agronsky & Company
7:30 Political Talks
8:00 Bob Newhart
8:30 Baby, I'm Back
9:00 America Salute Richard Rodgers
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Tales of Terror"

WBAL 11-NBC Baltimore
6:30 Learning to Read
7:00 Better Way...
7:30 Garden Living
8:00 At Home in Maryland
8:30 Brady Bunch
9:00 Hot Fudge
9:30 Globetrotters (same show as 4-8-25 at 8:30?)
10:30 Marlo & the Magic Movie Machine
11:00 Baggy Pants & the Nitwits
11:30 Space Sentinels
noon Soul Train
1:00 It's Academic
1:30 Adam-12
2:00 Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: LA-Philadelphia or Minnesota-Detroit
5:00 Bowling
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Bowling
7:30 American Life Style
8:00 Bionic Woman
9:00 Movie "Rafferty and the Highway Hustlers"
11:00 News
11:30 Weekend
1:00 FBI

WJZ 13-ABC Baltimore
6:00 Sign-On Seminar
6:30 Villa Alegre
7:00 Big Blue Marble
7:30 Bob Turk & the Sunshine Kids
8:00 Superfriends
9:00 Scooby's Laff-a-Lympics
11:00 Krofft Supershow
noon Dynomutt
12:30 Blackpoint
1:00 Women Now
1:30 Lawrence Welk
2:30 Movie "In Like Flint"
4:30 This Week in Baseball
5:00 Wide World of Sports
6:30 ABC Evening News
7:00 News
7:30 Metro
8:00 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (pt 2)
9:00 ABC Theatre "Eleanor and Franklin"
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Ambushers"
1:30 News
1:40 ABC News
1:55 For the Moment
2:25 Movie "San Quentin" (bw)

WBOC 16-CBS/NBC/ABC Salisbury
6:30 Summer Semester "Alternative Futures"
7:00 Peninsula Perspective
7:30 At Home Today
8:00 Three Robonic Stooges
8:30 Speed Buggy
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Batman/Tarzan
11:30 Isis
noon Fat Albert
12:30 Space Academy
1:00 Wally's Workshop
1:30 US Farm Report
2:00 Baseball Warm-Up (NBC)
2:15 Baseball: LA-Philadelphia or Minnesota-Detroit (NBC)
5:00 Wide World of Sports (ABC)
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Lawrence Welk
8:00 Bob Newhart
8:30 Baby, I'm Back
9:00 America Salutes Richard Rodgers
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "It Happened at the World's Fair"

WDCA 20-Ind Washington
6:00 PTL Club
7:00 Your Divine Appointment
7:30 God's Good News
8:00 Christophers
8:30 PTL Club
9:30 Oral Roberts
10:00 Rex Humbard
11:00 Wrestling
noon Movie "Abbott and Costello Go to Mars" (bw)
1:30 Movie "The Beast with 1,000,000 Eyes" (bw)
3:00 Beverly Hillbillies
3:30 Bewitched
4:00 NHRA Gatornationals Drag Racing
5:00 Emergency One!
6:00 Star Trek
7:00 Space: 1999
8:00 Movie "The Enemy Below"
10:00 Challenge
10:30 Petey Greene's Washington
11:00 Second City TV
11:30 Movie "I was a Teen-Age Werewolf" (bw)
1:00 700 Club
2:30 Rock

Maryland Public Television (PBS): WAPB 22-Annapolis, WCPB 28-Salisbury, WWPB 31-Hagerstown, WMPB 67-Baltimore
11:00 Fireside Kitchen
11:30 Soundstage
12:30 Goin' Fishin'
1:00 Day Care
1:50 Urban Development
2:15 Comparative Government
2:40 Adjustment & Learning
3:05 Future
3:30 GED: High School Diploma
4:30 Anyone for Tennyson?
5:00 Critics' Place
6:00 Book Beat
6:30 Consumer Survival Kit
7:00 Maryland Newswrap
7:30 Agronsky & Company
8:00 Our Mutual Friend (conclusion)
9:00 America, America, America (Bicentennial concert by the Mormon Youth Symphony & Orchestra)
10:30 Previn & the Pittsburgh

WHAG 25-NBC Hagerstown
7:00 Changed Lives
7:30 Muhammad Ali
8:00 Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Go Go Globetrotters
10:30 Pink Panther
11:00 Baggy Pants & the Nitwits
11:30 Space Sentinels
noon Land of the Lost
12:30 Thunder
1:00 Marlo & the Magic Movie Machine
1:30 Fisherman
2:00 Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: LA-Philadelphia or Minnesota-Detroit
5:00 WCT-Shakey's Tournament of Champions Tennis: Harold Solomon v Vijay Amritraj
6:00 Fishing with Roland Martin
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Hee Haw (same line-up as WMAR)
8:00 Bionic Woman
9:00 Movie "Rafferty and the Highway Hustlers"
11:00 That Good Ole Nashville Music
11:30 Weekend

WETA 26-PBS Washington
7:00 Competency Based Curriculum
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30 Electric Company
10:00 Wilderness
10:30 Daniel Foster, MD
11:00 Paint Along with Nancy Kaminsky
11:30 Saint-Galy Tiles of Williamsburg
noon French Chef
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1:00 All About TV
1:30 Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin
2:00 Nova "The Desert's Edge"
3:00 Best of Over Easy
3:30 Old Friends...New Friends
4:00 Watch Your Mouth
4:30 Que Pasa, USA?
5:00 French Chef (bw)
5:30 Turnabout
6:00 Pro Soccer
7:00 Austin City Limits (guests Earl Scruggs Revue)
8:00 Catherine Filene Shouse
8:30 In Performance at Wolf Trap (Verdi's Requiem Mass, performed by the National Symphony Orchestra and the University of Maryland Chorus)
10:00 Movie "Rattle of a Simple Man" (bw)

WBFF 45-Ind Baltimore
7:00 Popeye (bw)
7:45 Three Score & More
8:00 Know Your FBI
8:15 Baltimore Department of Social Services
8:30 Baltimore Community Relations Commission
8:45 Baltimore Urban Services Agency
9:00 Movie "Clipped Wings" (bw)
10:30 Movie "Blondie Goes to College" (bw)
noon Movie "The Pathfinder"
1:45 Miracle Rider (bw)
2:00 WCT-Shakey's Tournament of Champions Tennis: Solomon-Amritraj
3:00 Racers
3:30 Greatest Sports Legends
4:00 Wrestling
5:00 Gilligan's Island (bw)
5:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
6:00 I Dream of Jeannie
6:30 Get Smart
7:00 Hogan's Heroes
7:30 I Love Lucy (bw)
8:00 Perry Mason (bw)
9:00 Movie "Alexander the Great"
11:15 News
11:30 Movie "Stanley"
2:55 Miracle Rider (bw)
3:10 News

WNVT 53-PBS Annandale (and 14 Washington)
3:30pm Growing Years
4:00 Making It Count (x2)
5:00 Paint Along with Nancy Kaminsky
5:30 Zoom
6:00 Studio See
6:30 Que Pasa, USA?
7:00 WNVT Great TV Auction (honorary chairman Sonny Jurgenson, celeb auctioneer chairman Willard Scott (who was with WRC in those days))

 

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from TV Guide-Washington/Baltimore edition

WNVT 53-PBS Annandale (and 14 Washington)
3:30pm Growing Years
4:00 Making It Count (x2)
5:00 Paint Along with Nancy Kaminsky
5:30 Zoom
6:00 Studio See
6:30 Que Pasa, USA?
7:00 WNVT Great TV Auction (honorary chairman Sonny Jurgenson, celeb auctioneer chairman Willard Scott (who was with WRC in those days))

I was present for those Great TV Auctions and was there that night. Although an auctioneer, I was not quite the celeb that Willard was! For those who don't know, this was an excellent way for public stations to fund their broadcasting. The FCC allowed it especially because the public never seemed to object.

The station asked businesses to donate items to the station. It went on the air for 10 days and auctioned these items to the highest bidder. The bidder generally paid less than retail, although some people paid more than the item was worth to help the station. Items auctioned off ranged from normal items such as TV's, drsses, trip and autographed scripts. Strange or novel items included 1 day's interest on a million dollars (you had to determine which bank rate they were using), a car, dinner with a celeb and even Liz Ray's hot pants (she was found in the Capitol reflecting pool with her boss as I remember).

One year a guy showed up and asked if we could use a donation of those compressed wood fireplace logs. When we said yes, he ponted to a tractor trailer of them in the parking lot! Another product we had donated were small bowls with fake flowers and a small bulb of fragrance in there. We tried to sell them but had no luck until one worker refered to them as "smelly jars" and we sold out.

We often had Redskins footballs and jerseys to auction off. Politicians also were in great supply. Once we had one of the airlines who donated fresh pineapples from Hawaii, flown in fresh and delivered from the airport. A congressman was there that night hawking them when a bid for something like $100 came in. It was a fraternatity who said they would pay the high price if the politician would come to their party and mix drinks!

As you can see, it was 10 nights of commercials and fun all while raising perhaps tens to a hundred thousand dollars each year.

Each night many volunteers were needed to man phones, dress tables and so on. When we took over an empty storefront in a mall, I was tasked to find volunteers. I walked into the mall and asked people if they would like to be on TV that night! believe it or not, it worked and we filled the studio with people willing to be on TV and help out Public TV.

There was one night that for an hour or two, every commercial TV station in Washington and Baltimore simulcasted the show. The stations found that carrying the TV auction for an hour could count an hour of public service time they would not have to transmit. The public really loved the show each year and this was done for at least 8 to 10 years in DC.

The last year they held it, the GM thought it wa sjust too much work each year. I suggested they only get a few items each night. Just take a half hour, have someone sit on a stool and do the one table of items. The GM said "Noby will tune in every night to watch us sell things!" This was a few months before the Home Shopping Network debuted. I still snicker about his comments!

For those who watched WNVT/WNCV during these years, I hope this brings back some memories.