Retro: DC/Baltimore/Delmarva Tues, Dec 20, 1977

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide-Washington/Baltimore edition

WMAR 2-CBS Baltimore
6:30 Sunrise Semester "Man's Place in Nature"
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (WMAR carried only the first half-hour)
8:30 Romper Room
9:00 My Three Sons
9:30 Liar's Club
10:00 Joker's Wild
10:30 Price is Right
11:30 Love of Life
11:55 CBS News
noon 2's Company (how to avoid holiday depression/Italian Christmas recipes)
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Young & the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 All in the Family
4:00 Tom & Jerry
4:30 Andy Griffith
5:00 Bonanza
6:00 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Sha Na Na
8:00 Straight Talk
8:30 Way Maryland Sees It
9:00 M*A*S*H
9:30 GE Theater "Tell Me My Name"
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Norwood"
1:25 Kojak

WRC 4-NBC Washington
6:00 Knowledge
6:30 Not for Women Only
7:00 Today (Gene Shalit has exotic gift ideas)
9:00 Marcus Welby, MD
10:00 Sanford & Son
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Knockout
noon To Say the Least
12:30 That's Cat
1:00 For Richer, for Poorer
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 Gong Show
4:30 Mary Tyler Moore
5:00 News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Hollywood Squares
8:00 Chuck Barris (Gong Show acts share the stage with celebs including Redd Foxx, the Temptations, Michelle Phillips, Linda Hopkins, Stephen Bishop, the Mills Brothers, and the Bay City Rollers)
9:00 Laugh-In Christmas Special (cameos from Shirley MacLaine, Bella Abzug, Robert Conrad, Flip Wilson, Rich Little, Sonny Bono, Roger Moore, Martin Mull, and Marjoe Gortner)
10:00 NBC Reports "Trouble in Coal Country"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show (guest host John Davidson welcomes Sandy Duncan and Marilyn Sokol)
1:00 Tomorrow (honoring the Songwriters Hall of Fame with guests Sam Coslow and Hal Rome)
2:00 Take Five

WTTG 5-Ind Washington
6:30 Girls & Women (bw/examining male and female roles from teen-age to retirement years)
7:00 Tom & Jerry
7:30 Porky Pig
8:00 Flintstones
8:30 Deputy Dawg
9:00 Dennis the Menace "The 50,000th Customer" (bw)
9:30 Father Knows Best (bw)
10:00 Dick Van Dyke (bw)
10:30 That Girl
11:00 Medical Center
noon Panorama
2:00 I Love Lucy (bw)
2:30 I Dream of Jeannie
3:00 Archies
3:30 Fred Flintstone & Friends
4:00 New Mickey Mouse Club
4:30 Flintstones
5:00 Tom & Jerry
5:30 Partridge Family
6:00 My Three Sons
6:30 Family Affair
7:00 Andy Griffith
7:30 Brady Bunch
8:00 Match Game PM
8:30 A Woman is... (profiles 2 octogenarian women, one who runs a seniors group and the other celebrating 53 years of marriage)
9:00 Merv Griffin (from Vegas with guests Rich Little, Joe Frazier, and Doug Kershaw)
10:00 News
11:00 Odd Couple
11:30 Perry Mason (bw)
12:30 Movie "Bordertown" (bw)
2:25 Mission: Impossible

WJLA 7-ABC Washington
6:30 University of Michigan
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 AM Washington
10:00 Edge of Night
10:30 The Better Sex
11:00 Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
noon News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 $20,000 Pyramid
2:30 One Life to Live
3:15 General Hospital
4:00 Movie "Julius Caesar"
6:00 News
7:00 ABC Evening News
7:30 Sha Na Na (guest Bernadette Peters)
8:00 Happy Days
8:30 Laverne & Shirley
9:00 Three's Company
9:30 Fish
10:00 Soap (30 min later and 1 hr long)
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Hey, I'm Alive"

WGAL 8-NBC Lancaster
6:00 News
6:05 Farm, Home & Garden
6:25 News
6:30 Marty Robbins' Sportlight (honoring Mickey Gilley, guests include Cal Smith)
7:00 Today
9:00 Mike Douglas (co-host Jaime Lyn Bauer/guests Cindy Williams, Skitch Henderson, and Chris Barnes)
10:00 Sanford & Son
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Knockout
noon To Say the Least
12:30 Noonday on 8
1:00 To Tell the Truth
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 For Richer, for Poorer
4:30 Merv Griffin (guests Angie Dickinson and Kelly Montieth)
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 My Three Sons
7:30 Hollywood Squares
8:00 Chuck Barris
9:00 Laugh-In Christmas Special
10:00 NBC Reports "Trouble in Coal Country"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 Tomorrow
2:00 News

WTOP 9-CBS Washington
6:00 Christopher Closeup (flag historian Whitney Smith talks about flags' role in history)
6:30 Town Meeting
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Phil Donahue (a Minneapolis cop/minister running a shelter for prostitutes wanting to quit the trade)
10:00 Morning Break
11:00 TBA
11:30 Love of Life
11:55 CBS News
noon Young & the Restless
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 News
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 All in the Family
4:00 Dinah! (guests William & Marcy Lafferty Shatner, Rita Moreno & Dr Leonard Gordon, Vidal & Beverly Sassoon, and plumber Bob Payne)
5:30 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 $25,000 Pyramid
8:00 Fitzpatricks
9:00 M*A*S*H
9:30 GE Theater "Tell Me My Name"
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Norwood"
1:25 Kojak

WBAL 11-NBC Baltimore
6:30 Learning to Do
7:00 Today
9:00 Phil Donahue (same guest as 9)
10:00 Baltimore at 10
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Knockout
noon News
12:30 Bewitched
1:00 For Richer, for Poorer
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 Brady Bunch (guest star Deacon Jones)
4:30 Emergency One!
5:30 Mary Tyler Moore
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Bowling
7:30 Hollywood Squares
8:00 Update
8:30 Black Horizons
9:00 Laugh-In Christmas Special
10:00 NBC Reports "Trouble in Coal Country"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 Tomorrow

WJZ 13-ABC Baltimore
5:50 Sign-On Seminar
6:20 News/Agricultural News
6:30 Not for Women Only
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Movie "Crawlspace"
10:30 On Location (Christmas cooking on the agenda as restauranteur Hans Kramm shows off a traditional Christmas goose recipe, and the DSS' Carol Zimmerman makes eggnog)
11:00 Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
noon News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 $20,000 Pyramid
2:30 One Life to Live
3:15 General Hospital
4:00 Edge of Night
4:30 Mike Douglas (same guests as 8, plus Dirk Benedict)
6:00 News
7:00 ABC Evening News
7:30 Evening Magazine (F. Lee Bailey in the conclusion of a 2-part segment, Baltimore SWAT training, how to make a Christmas cactus bloom)
8:00 Happy Days
8:30 Laverne & Shirley
9:00 M*A*S*H
9:30 Fish
10:00 Impact: Retirement & the Elderly (John Wade hosts a debate on mandatory retirement)
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Hey, I'm Alive"
1:10 News
1:20 Movie "The French Line"

WBOC 16-CBS/NBC/ABC Salisbury
6:30 Sunrise Semester "Man's Place in Nature"
7:00 Today
9:00 Dinah! (guests Orson Welles, Marlo Thomas, Elizabeth Ashley, and Michelle Phillips)
10:00 Sanford & Son
10:30 Price is Right
11:30 Love of Life
11:55 CBS News
noon Young & the Restless
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 For Richer, for Poorer
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 All in the Family
4:00 Edge of Night
4:30 Gilligan's Island (bw)
5:00 Gunsmoke
6:00 Odd Couple (guest star Edward Villella of the NYC ballet teaches to boys how to dance)
6:30 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Welcome Back, Kotter
8:00 Happy Days
8:30 Laverne & Shirley
9:00 M*A*S*H
9:30 GE Theater "Tell Me My Name"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show

WDCA 20-Ind Washington
6:30 Channel 20 Club
7:00 Spiderman
7:30 Woody Woodpecker
8:00 Bugs Bunny
8:30 Kimba the White Lion
9:00 Little Rascals (bw)
9:30 Romper Room
10:00 700 Club (discussing drug addiction)
11:30 Rock
noon Movie "Git!"
2:00 Banana Splits
2:30 Marine Boy
3:00 Speed Racer
3:30 Ultraman
4:00 Jonny Quest
4:30 Superfriends
5:00 Spiderman
5:30 Gilligan's Island (bw)
6:00 Emergency One!
7:00 Carol Burnett & Friends (guests Alan King and Lena Zavaroni)
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8:00 Movie "Bedazzled"
10:00 Oral Roberts Christmas Special (guests Dionne Warwick, Richard Roberts and family, and the World Action singers; WTTG also ran this in DC at 7pm on Christmas Day...this aired Thursday in Hagerstown (7pm, WHAG) and Delmarva (10pm, WBOC))
11:00 Forever Fernwood
11:30 Movie "Keep the Red Light Burning" (bw)

Maryland Public TV (PBS): WAPB 22-Annapolis, WCPB 28-Salisbury, WWPB 31-Hagerstown, WMPB 67-Baltimore (TVG listed 22/67, mentioning 28/31 as relays)
7:00 Up on the Farm
7:30 19th Century Novel
8:00 Teaching Children with Special Needs
8:30 Eight Steps to Excellence
9:00 Instructional Programs
3:00 Organizational Transactions
3:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Electric Company
5:30 Over Easy (guest Frederick Brisson, husband of Rosalind Russell)
6:00 Basic Education: Teaching the Adult
6:30 ITV Utilization
7:00 GED: High School Diploma
7:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
8:00 Christmastime with Mister Rogers
9:00 In Performance at Wolf Trap (a all-Tchaikovsky concert with the National Symphony Orchestra and Rohan McCullough, featuring the Nutcracker Suite)
10:00 Festival of Carols (7 local choirs perform at Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church in Baltimore)
11:00 Elizabethan Christmas Celebration
11:30 Dick Cavett (guest Psychologist Julian Jaynes)
12:30 Captioned ABC News

WHAG 25-NBC Hagerstown
7:00 Today
9:00 Insight
9:30 Music City
10:00 Sanford & Son
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Knockout
noon To Say the Least
12:30 Gong Show
1:00 For Richer, for Poorer
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 PTL Club (guests the Rex Nelon Singers and Robert P. Lamb)
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Jacobs Brothers
7:30 Insight
8:00 Chuck Barris
9:00 Laugh-In Christmas Special
10:00 NBC Reports "Trouble in Coal Country"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 Tomorrow

WETA 26-PBS Washington
7:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
8:00 Lilias, Yoga & You
8:30 Villa Alegre
9:00 Sesame Street (x2)
11:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11:30 Electric Company
noon Over Easy (Brisson)
12:30 Dick Cavett (guest illustrator Edward Gorey)
1:00 Norman Scribner Choir (the choir performs "The Christmas Story" by Heinrich Schutz)
2:00 Movie "Breaking the Sound Barrier" (bw)
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Zoom
6:30 Over Easy (interview with Patricia Beal/Marvin Belli with law notes)
7:00 TBA
7:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
8:00 Christmastime with Mister Rogers
9:00 In Performance at Wolf Trap
10:00 Greenpeace: Voyages to Save the Whale (a look at 1975/76 Greenpeace attempts to stop commercial whaling)
11:00 Dick Cavett (Jaynes)
11:30 Captioned ABC News

WBFF 45-Ind Baltimore
6:45 News
7:00 Three Stooges (bw)/Cartoons
7:30 Little Rascals (bw)
8:00 Flintstones
8:30 Gilligan's Island
9:00 Dennis the Menace (bw)
9:30 I Love Lucy (bw)
10:00 Sanford & Son (not cleared by ch 11)
10:30 Dinah! (same guests as 9)
noon Perry Mason (bw)
1:00 Movie "Blood Arrow" (bw)
3:00 Munsters (bw)
3:30 Flintstones (x2)
4:30 Batman (Victor Buono as King Tut)
5:00 Gilligan's Island
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 Champions
10:00 Oral Roberts Christmas Special
11:00 Peyton Place
11:30 Movie "Fort Worth"
12:55 News

WNVT 53-PBS Annandale (relayed on 14 Washington)
Instructional programs during daytime
3pm Over Easy (Brisson)
3:30 Lilias, Yoga & You
4:00 Parent Effectiveness
4:30 Villa Alegre
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Lilias, Yoga & You
6:30 Over Easy (Neal/Belli)
7:00 Sing Me Noel (Mormon Youth Symphony & Chorus perform Christmas music)
7:30 Virginia Side
8:00 Christmastime with Mister Rogers
9:00 In Performance at Wolf Trap
10:00 Greenpeace: Voyages to Save the Whale

 

[FreddyE1977]

hmmm....as I recall I probably watched way, way too much television in '77,
but I do not recall this Laugh-In Christmas Special. Seems to me Rowan and Martin
were long gone from my dial by then. Wasn't Dan Rowan off enjoying retirement on
his houseboat in Europe?

Curious why I do not see Captain Chesapeake listed on Channel 45 in Baltimore.
The same people owned WPTT in Pittsburgh when it came on the air, and the same
actor did double-duty as Captain Pitt. Often times they would screw-up and run
clips of the Baltimore show with his other identity in Pittsburgh. The girl who played
Taylor would get visibly upset and think she blew it when she would start reading a
letter from some kid in western Maryland (who would actually have been watching
the Pittsburgh show)

 

[azumanga]

hmmm....as I recall I probably watched way, way too much television in '77,
but I do not recall this Laugh-In Christmas Special. Seems to me Rowan and Martin
were long gone from my dial by then. Wasn't Dan Rowan off enjoying retirement on
his houseboat in Europe?

Actually, this was a series of revival specials, with an all-new cast (which also included Robin Williams) and a different guest host each week. Neither Rowan nor Martin participated, though they later sued producer George Schlatter for bringing the series back without their say-so.

These specials would later be repeated on a weekly basis in 1979, after "Mork and Mindy" took off on ABC.

 

[mleach]

Curious why I do not see Captain Chesapeake listed on Channel 45 in Baltimore.
The same people owned WPTT in Pittsburgh when it came on the air, and the same
actor did double-duty as Captain Pitt. Often times they would screw-up and run
clips of the Baltimore show with his other identity in Pittsburgh. The girl who played
Taylor would get visibly upset and think she blew it when she would start reading a
letter from some kid in western Maryland (who would actually have been watching
the Pittsburgh show)

The reason why Captian Chesapeake wasn't includied in these listings is that in 1977 the "show" was more/less just clips of the captian and his sidekick "Mondy" the sea monster shown between and during the shows within the 3 to 5pm block. Example: "...three bells..time for the Flintstones". I also seem to recall Captain Chesapeake also doing the legal ID between shows too.

Interesting thing about Captain Chesapeake/Pitt which was played by the late George Lewis. For the longest time its been rumored that movie director John Waters actually has a script done where the main character was based on none-other than Captain Chesapeake. A TV kids show host from Baltimore who enjoys his taste of Jack Daniels. No secret over the years that Lewis enjoyed his booze...often a bit much.

I don't think that John Waters has ever said one way or the other about the Captain C script but then again I don't believe Buddy Deane or WJZ knew about Hairspray either..until the flick was already made..with enough changes in the script to avoid "legal issues".

 

[DToTheJ]

WTOP 9-CBS Washington
4:00 Dinah! (guests William & Marcy Lafferty Shatner, Rita Moreno & Dr Leonard Gordon, Vidal & Beverly Sassoon, and plumber Bob Payne)

I assume Mr. Payne's mate was his plunger? ;D

 

[FreddyE1977]

Curious why I do not see Captain Chesapeake listed on Channel 45 in Baltimore.
The same people owned WPTT in Pittsburgh when it came on the air, and the same
actor did double-duty as Captain Pitt. Often times they would screw-up and run
clips of the Baltimore show with his other identity in Pittsburgh. The girl who played
Taylor would get visibly upset and think she blew it when she would start reading a
letter from some kid in western Maryland (who would actually have been watching
the Pittsburgh show)

The reason why Captian Chesapeake wasn't includied in these listings is that in 1977 the "show" was more/less just clips of the captian and his sidekick "Mondy" the sea monster shown between and during the shows within the 3 to 5pm block. Example: "...three bells..time for the Flintstones". I also seem to recall Captain Chesapeake also doing the legal ID between shows too.

Interesting thing about Captain Chesapeake/Pitt which was played by the late George Lewis. For the longest time its been rumored that movie director John Waters actually has a script done where the main character was based on none-other than Captain Chesapeake. A TV kids show host from Baltimore who enjoys his taste of Jack Daniels. No secret over the years that Lewis enjoyed his booze...often a bit much.

I don't think that John Waters has ever said one way or the other about the Captain C script but then again I don't believe Buddy Deane or WJZ knew about Hairspray either..until the flick was already made..with enough changes in the script to avoid "legal issues".

Here's hoping that Will Ferrell never gets wind of this board, and never makes a movie about a drunken
Sea Captain/TV kids show host.

 

[Ultimajock]

Here's hoping that Will Ferrell never gets wind of this board, and never makes a movie about a drunken
Sea Captain/TV kids show host.

...too late. He's got the third such script in development since Thanksgiving at least ;D ...

 

[wbhist]

hmmm....as I recall I probably watched way, way too much television in '77,
but I do not recall this Laugh-In Christmas Special. Seems to me Rowan and Martin were long gone from my dial by then. Wasn't Dan Rowan off enjoying retirement on his houseboat in Europe?

Actually, this was a series of revival specials, with an all-new cast (which also included Robin Williams) and a different guest host each week. Neither Rowan nor Martin participated, though they later sued producer George Schlatter for bringing the series back without their say-so.

These specials would later be repeated on a weekly basis in 1979, after "Mork and Mindy" took off on ABC.

And by then, in any case, there would appear to have been some bad blood between Rowan & Martin and Schlatter - the latter of whom had sued to ensure that the final 1972-73 season (made after Schlatter and Ed Friendly left, and Rowan & Martin took over as executive producers) was neither included in the 1980's syndicated package, nor aired during the last days of the Trio channel, nor any episodes from that season put out on DVD.

And part of the reason for Rowan's semi-retirement after the end of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In in 1973, from what I read, had something to do with his being a Type II diabetic.