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Retro: DC/Baltimore/Delmarva Wed, May 4, 1977

from TV Guide-Washington/Baltimore edition

WMAR 2-CBS Baltimore
6:30 Sunrise Semester "Teaching the Learning Disabled"
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Romper Room
9:30 Dialing for Dollars
9:55 News
10:00 Here's Lucy
10:30 Price is Right
11:30 Love of Life
11:55 2's Company (Maryl Comer)
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Young & the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:00 All in the Family
3:30 Match Game
4:00 Cross-Wits
4:30 My Three Sons
5:00 Bonanza
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 News
7:30 Candid Camera
8:00 Good Times (1 hr-JJ gets involved in a gambling ring that also dabbles in drugs and hookers)
9:00 Movie "Race with the Devil"
11:00 News
11:30 Love, American Style
mid. Ironside

WRC 4-NBC Washington
6:25 Knowledge
7:00 Today
9:00 Not for Women Only (being a mistress and a feminist at the same time)
9:30 Marcus Welby, MD
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Shoot for the Stars
noon Name That Tune
12:30 Lovers & Friends
1:00 To Tell the Truth
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 Gong Show
4:30 Sanford & Son
5:00 News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Wild Kingdom (trumpeter swans at Montana's Red Rock Lake)
8:00 Grizzly Adams
9:00 Movie "Big Jake"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show (guests Chevy Chase and Marilyn Sokol)
1:00 Tomorrow

WTTG 5-Ind Washington
6:30 Plays of Shakespeare "Hamlet" (bw)
7:00 Casper
7:30 Porky Pig
8:00 Flintstones
8:30 Deputy Dawg
9:00 Dennis the Menace (bw)
9:30 Father Knows Best (bw)
10:00 Dick Van Dyke (bw)
10:30 That Girl
11:00 I Love Lucy (bw)
11:30 Best of Groucho (bw)
noon Panorama
2:00 FBI
3:00 Howdy Doody (bw)
3:30 Flintstones (x2)
4:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
5:00 Archies
5:30 Partridge Family
6:00 My Three Sons
6:30 Family Affair
7:00 Andy Griffith
7:30 Nixon for the First Time (first of 4-90 min interviews with the former President, conducted by David Frost, and condensed from 24 hrs of footage...pre-empts Brady Bunch and Match Game PM, and cutting the normally 90-min Merv to an hour)
9:00 Merv Griffin (in Vegas with guests Paul Anka, Kelly Montieth, and Deniece Williams)
10:00 News
11:00 Odd Couple
11:30 Perry Mason (bw)
12:30 Movie "Grand Slam"
2:50 Mission: Impossible

WMAL 7-ABC Washington
6:30 Headliner
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 AM Washington (Hudgins/Walker; family counselor Thom Thompson discusses complusions)
9:30 Edge of Night
10:00 Second Chance
10:30 Liar's Club (fitting choice for DC :D)
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 "Count Dracula"
6:00 News
7:00 ABC Evening News
7:30 7:30 Live (Curle/Getlein)
8:00 Bionic Woman
9:00 Baretta
10:00 Charlie's Angels
11:00 News
11:30 Rookies
12:40 Mystery of the Week "Please Standby for Murder"

WGAL 8-NBC Lancaster
6:00 News
6:05 Dialogue
6:25 News
6:30 Nashville on the Road
7:00 Today
9:00 Mike Douglas (co-host Bonnie Franklin/guests Freda Payne, Bobby Van, and Shelly Novack)
10:00 Sanford & Son
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Shoot for the Stars
noon Name That Tune
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 Gong Show
4:30 Merv Griffin (guests Jack Carter, Hermione Baddeley, Garson Kanin, and Marilyn Michaels)
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Truth or Consequences
7:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
8:00 Grizzly Adams
9:00 Movie "Big Jake"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 Tomorrow
2:00 News

WTOP 9-CBS Washington
Evening programs may be pre-empted for NBA Playoff coverage
6:00 Christopher Closeup (the co-authors of The Mother's Almanac discuss child rearing)
6:30 Sunrise Semester "Teaching the Learning Disabled"
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Mike Douglas (same guests as ch 8; despite having the exact same guest list and length as ch 8, TVG listed both 8 and 9 separately)
10:00 Morning (discussing DC's cocktail party circuit with guests including Warren Adler (Dossier Magazine) and Maxa (Washington Post); also exercises)
11:00 Here's Lucy
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
3:00 All in the Family
3:30 Match Game
4:00 Dinah! (guests Phyllis Diller, Sarah Vaughan, Lynn Anderson, and England Dan & John Ford Coley)
5:30 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 $25,000 Pyramid
8:00 Good Times (1 hr)
9:00 Movie "Race with the Devil"
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Hells Angels on Wheels"

WBAL 11-NBC Baltimore
6:30 Learning to Read
7:00 Today
9:00 Phil Donahue (in Atlanta with a discussion of the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination)
10:00 Consumer's Notebook
10:30 It's Up to You
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Shoot for the Stars
noon News
12:30 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
1:00 Gong Show
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 Brady Bunch
4:30 Emergency One!
5:30 Adam-12
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Bowling
7:30 Maryland State Lottery
8:00 Grizzly Adams
9:00 Movie "Big Jake"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 Tomorrow

WJZ 13-ABC Baltimore
5:40 Sign-On Seminar/News
6:20 Consumer Checkout
6:30 Not for Women Only
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Angelo Live
9:55 News
10:00 Leave It to Beaver (bw)
10:30 Family Affair
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 ch 8/9, plus author Samuel Dunkell)
6:00 News
7:00 ABC Evening News
7:30 Nixon for the First Time (pt 1; pre-empts the 7:30 prime access show and the first hour from ABC)
9:00 Baretta
10:00 Charlie's Angels
11:00 News
11:30 Nixon-Frost: An Overview (live analysis of the Nixon special; local or syndied?)
mid Rookies
1:10 Mystery of the Week "Please Standby for Murder"
2:40 News
2:50 Movie "Swingers' Paradise"

WBOC 16-CBS/NBC/ABC Salisbury
6:30 Sunrise Semester "Teaching the Learning Disabled"
7:00 Today (NBC)
9:00 Romper Room
9:30 Good Day! (author Lyn Tornabene, who wrote a bio of Clark Gable)
10:00 Here's Lucy
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 Sanford & Son (NBC)
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:00 All in the Family
3:30 Match Game
4:00 Edge of Night (ABC)
4:30 Flintstones
5:00 Gunsmoke
6:00 Odd Couple
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 News
7:30 Wild Kingdom (Galapagos, conclusion)
8:00 Bionic Woman (ABC)
9:00 Baretta (ABC)
10:00 Charlie's Angels (ABC)
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show (NBC)

WDCA 20-Ind Washington
6:30 Top Cat
7:00 Spiderman
7:30 Rocket Robin Hood
8:00 Bugs Bunny
8:30 Banana Splits
9:00 Bozo's Circus
9:30 Romper Room
10:00 700 Club (discussing Swedish porn)
11:30 The Rock
noon Movie "The Virginian"
2:00 Huck 'n Yogi
2:30 King Kong
3:00 Fun World
3:30 Star Trek (animated)
4:00 Josie & the Pussycats
4:30 Brady Kids
5:00 Monkees
5:30 Bewitched (bw)
6:00 Emergency One!
7:00 Movie "The Bengal Tiger"
9:00 Fight Against Slavery (x2)
11:00 All That Glitters
11:30 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
mid. Pro Fam
12:30 I Spy

Maryland Public Television (PBS): WAPB 22-Annapolis, WCPB 28-Salisbury, WWPB 31-Hagerstown, WMPB 67-Baltimore (TVG listed 22/67, indicating 28/31 as relays)
7:15 English Literature
7:45 Instructional Programs
8:00 ITV Utilization
8:30 Modern Supervisory Techniques
9:00 Instructional Programs
3:00 Human Relations & Motivation
3:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Electric Company
5:30 Hodgepodge Lodge
6:00 It's Everybody's Business
6:30 Cultural Anthropology
7:00 Introduction to Mathematics
7:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
8:00 Maryland Weekend (visiting events in Frederick, Rockville, and Annapolis)
8:30 Anyone for Tennyson?
9:00 Dance in America (Pilobolus Dance Theatre, a group of 6 dancers who become kinetic human sculptures)
10:00 John Berryman (profiling the Pulitzer-winning poet)
10:30 Book Beat (Abram Sachar's A Host at Last, which details the founding of Brandeis University)
11:00 American Government
11:30 Captioned ABC News

WHAG 25-NBC Hagerstown
7:00 Today
9:00 Bridge to Tomorrow (bw/drug testing to meet marketing rules)
9:30 Hot Lunch (management of school lunch program in Akron, OH)
9:45 Balance, Balance
10:00 Sanford & Son
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Shoot for the Stars
noon Name That Tune
12:30 Lovers & Friends
1:00 Gong Show
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 PTL Club (guest: author Merlin Crothers)
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 That Good Ole Nashville Music (guests Ronnie Milsap, Billie Joe Spears, Del Reeves, and Johnny Gamble)
7:30 Nashville on the Road (guests Don Gibson, Jim Ed Brown, Jerry Clower, Wendy Holcombe, and Helen Cornelius)
8:00 Grizzly Adams
9:00 Movie "Big Jake"
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 War & Peace
1:00 Open Mind
1:30 Agronsky at Large
2:00 Movie "The Ladykillers"
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Sesame Street
7:00 Big Blue Marble
7:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
8:00 Nova "The Red Planet" (discussing theories about Mars)
9:00 Dance in America
10:00 Firebird (performed by the Royal Danish Ballet)
11:00 Anyone for Tennyson? (Fred Gwynne joins in a tribute to anonymous poets)
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 Three Stooges (bw)/Cartoons
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Cartoons (bw)
9:00 Dennis the Menace (bw)
9:30 Lucy Show (guest star Milton Berle)
10:00 I Dream of Jeannie
10:30 My Favorite Martian (bw)
11:00 Big Valley
noon Perry Mason (bw)
1:00 Movie "Inferno"
3:00 Archies
3:30 Dennis the Menace (bw)
4:00 Three Stooges (bw)
4:30 Superman
5:00 Partridge Family
5:30 Gilligan's Island (bw)
6:00 I Dream of Jeannie
6:30 Get Smart
7:00 Hogan's Heroes
7:30 Lucy Show
8:00 Perry Mason (bw)
9:00 Movie "Spencer's Mountain"
11:15 News
11:30 Merv Griffin (same as ch 5, plus Fred Travelena and Ken Edwards)
1:00 News

WNVT 53-PBS Annandale (and 14 Washington; interestingly enough, my copy has a mailing label for an address in Annandale-on Annandale Rd, no less ;D)
Instructional programs in daytime
2:30pm Studio See
3:00 TBA
3:30 Lilias, Yoga & You
4:00 Electric Company
4:30 Villa Alegre
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Zoom
6:30 Lilias, Yoga & You
7:00 Overseas Mission
7:30 Virginia Side (Bruce Miller)
8:00 Great Performances "The Barber of Seville"
10:30 Best of Ernie Kovacs (bw/a poker game gets synched with Beethoven's Fiofth)
11:00 Phil Donahue (discussing self-esteem)
 
Thanks for posting this! I grew up in D.C. and all of this is very familiar.

Well, except the Swedish Porn 700 Club episode..... ;D
 
WHAG 25-NBC Hagerstown
9:00 Bridge to Tomorrow (bw/drug testing to meet marketing rules)


So it's 1977, and you're airing a show titled "Bridge To Tomorrow" - and it's black and white. This just screams irony. Or maybe it tells you about WHAG's budget at the time - certainly, the fact that their entire late-afternoon window consisted of "PTL Club" has to be a clue.
 
Bluenoser said:
WETA 26-PBS Washington

11:00 Anyone for Tennyson? (Fred Gwynne joins in a tribute to anonymous poets)

Was that a locally produced program? I know Fred Gwynne lived in Westminster, Maryland
in his latter years.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
Bluenoser said:
WETA 26-PBS Washington

11:00 Anyone for Tennyson? (Fred Gwynne joins in a tribute to anonymous poets)

Was that a locally produced program? I know Fred Gwynne lived in Westminster, Maryland
in his latter years.

No -- it was produced by Nebraska ETV.
 
spencerkarter85 said:
It's sad that Nation's Capitol viewers didn't get to see the first years of TPIR on CBS.

They did -- through WMAR (and later, WBAL). Considering how close Washington and Baltimore is, I think it was no trouble at all for Washingtonians to tune in to Baltimore stations.
 
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