Retro: Denver Sat, Mar 5, 1980

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide-Denver edition

KWGN 2-Ind
6:55 US Farm Report
7:25 Lo Mejor del Cine Espanol
9:20 Noticias
9:25 Soul Train (guests Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, and Brass Construction)
10:25 Black Spectrum
10:30 Bugs Bunny
11:00 Jetsons
11:30 Woody Woodpecker
noon Movie "The Phantom Planet" (bw)
1:30 Movie "Battle Beneath the Earth"
3:30 Movie "The Big Blockade" (bw)
5:00 Beverly Hillbillies (bw)
5:30 Andy Griffith (bw)
6:00 Bob Newhart
6:30 All in the Family
7:00 Hee Haw (guests Joe Stampley, Moe Bandy, and Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown)
8:00 Pop Goes the Country (guest Jerry Lee Lewis)
8:30 Nashville on the Road (guest Connie Smith)
9:00 That (Good Ole) Nashville Music (guests Hank Williams Jr., Ed Bruce, the Cates, and Mel Kilgore)
9:30 News
10:00 Rat Patrol
10:30 Movie "Spirits of the Dead"
1:00 News

KOA 4-NBC
6:00 700 Club
7:00 Fred & Barney Meet the Shmoo
8:30 Daffy Duck
9:00 Casper & the Angels
9:30 Jetsons
10:00 Hot Hero Sandwich (the season finale features interviews with Loretta Lynn, Leonard Nimoy, and Richard Pryor; music from Joe Jackson)
11:00 NBC Special Treat "Papa and Me" (first aired in 1976)
noon 1979 Super Bowl of Motocross (from the LA Coliseum)
12:30 America's Athletes-1980 (profiles of runner Billy Mullins, equestrian Michael Matz, and long jumper Jodi Anderson)
1:30 Olympic Diary "A Salute to the Athletes" (featuring swimmer Mary T. Meagher and gumnast Ron Galimore; Ron's dad was a NFL star with Da Bears in the early 60s; other segments include a visit to Oregon's Mulvahill Gymnastics School and Indiana University swimmiung coach "Doc" Counsilman)
3:00 Women's Golf: Colgate-Dinah Shore Winners Circle
4:30 NBC Nightly News
5:00 News
5:30 Dimension 4 (discussing controversy over Denver landmarks owners' rights vs the public's right to history, reports on forensic medicine, and successful parenting; rerun Sunday at noon)
6:00 Bugs Bunny
6:30 Sha Na Na (guest Barbara Mandrell)
7:00 BJ & the Bear
8:00 Sanford
8:30 Me & Maxx
9:00 Prime Time Saturday (profiles of ex-undercover cop David Toma (whose experiences inspired the series Toma), and feminist Sonia Johnson)
10:00 News
10:30 Saturday Night Live (co-hosts Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss/music by the Grateful Dead)
mid. Buck Rogers (bw; Buck was a big part of the weekend late-night sked, with Buck Rogers in the 25th Century aired Sunday nights at 11:30)
12:30 Movie "The Jokers"
2:30 Movie "The King's Pirate" (a 1967 tongue-in-cheek remake of Errol Flynn's Against All Flags)

KRMA 6-PBS
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 3-2-1 Contact
9:30 Footsteps
10:00 Crockett's Victory Garden
10:30 Gardening from the Ground Up
11:00 Old Houseworks
11:30 You're an Artist
noon Northwest Visionaries (profiling 8 Seattle-area artists)
1:00 American Short Story "Soldier's Home"/"Almos' a Man"
2:30 Mystery! "Rebecca" (conclusion)
3:30 Synthesis "Here Today, Here Tomorrow...Nuclear Waste in America"
4:00 Firing Line (from Miami, Pulitzer-winning reporter Thomas Powers discusses the CIA)
5:00 Julia Child & More Company
5:30 As We See It (A visit to Chicago's Little Big Horn school-within-a-school, which serves the Windy City's American Indian population)
6:00 Presente (the 1980 census, and how it will affect Hispanics)
6:30 Another Voice
7:00 Once Upon a Classic "The Legend of King Arthur" (pt 3)
7:30 Little Women "Ambitions and Sacrifice" (chapter 3)
7:55 Calendar
8:00 Search for the Nile (pt 1)
9:00 China Times Two (a British archaeologist and a BBC reporter head to China to document origins and historical contexts of art treasures exhibited in Europe and the US in the early 70s)
10:00 Monty Python's Flying Circus
10:30 Play of the Month "A Room with a View"

KMGH 7-CBS
5:50 Pastoral Call
6:00 Mighty Mouse/Heckle & Jeckle
7:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
8:30 Popeye
9:30 Fat Albert
10:00 Shazam
10:30 Tarzan/Super 7
11:30 30 Minutes (Betsy Aaron reports on problems affecting alcoholics' children, while Christopher Glenn visits a Houston high school offering medical courses)
mid. Weekend Gardener
12:30 Movie "Born Free"
2:30 CBS Sports Spectacular (heavyweight boxing, live from Louisville as Greg Page (9-0) takes on George Chaplin (17-1-1)/Pro Invitational Aerial Skiing)
4:00 Gunsmoke
5:00 News
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 Hollywood Squares
6:30 Muppet Show (guest Carol Channing)
7:00 Tim Conway (guest Melba Moore, with Don Knotts making a cameo)
8:00 Hawaii Five-O (series finale)
9:00 Hagen
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "Cancel My Reservation"
12:30 Movie "Otley"

KBTV 9-ABC
6:00 Superfriends
7:00 Plastic Man
8:30 Kidsworld
9:00 9 File
9:30 Herrick Roth's Roundup "Libraries: Resource Centers for All the People" (guests include Colorado Library Assn prez Pam Nissler)
10:00 LDS World Conference (Sunday's coverage aired on ch 2; were there many markets that ran the LDS conference where coverage aired on 2 different stations on the same weekend?)
noon Colorado '80
12:30 American Sportsman
1:30 Pro Bowling: Miller High Life Open (held, appropriately enough, in Milwaukee)
3:00 ABC Wide World of Sports (the Harlem Globetrotters visit Lake Placid/World Record High Dive Challenge)
4:30 Joker! Joker!! Joker!!!
5:00 News
5:30 High Time (interview with Family Circus cartoonist Bil Keane, and a look at the 1980 census and how it could benefit seniors; this pre-empts The Baxters)
6:00 Lawrence Welk (Easter show)
7:00 Easter Bunny is Comin' to Town (Narrated by Fred Astaire)
8:00 Love Boat
9:00 Fantasy Island
10:00 News
10:35 M*A*S*H
11:05 Movie "Darling Lili"
News follows the late show

 

[RyanHoward]

That should be Saturday, April 5, 1980.

 

[Bluenoser]

That should be Saturday, April 5, 1980.

Exactly...don't ask me how I bunged up the month, the date was staring me right in the face

 

[DToTheJ]

I'd like to know how Denver has two stations (2 and 4) airing Bugs Bunny.

 

[Scoobyfan1]

I'd like to know how Denver has two stations (2 and 4) airing Bugs Bunny.

If I had to guess, I would say Channel 2's broadcast was whatever syndicated package of Bugs Bunny cartoons they had at the time, considering the timeslot.

As for Channel 4, I have no idea. 6 PM on a Saturday afternoon/evening is a little weird as far as a time slot goes; it's certainly possible that listing is wrong.

 

[ShawnHill1]

I'd like to know how Denver has two stations (2 and 4) airing Bugs Bunny.

If I had to guess, I would say Channel 2's broadcast was whatever syndicated package of Bugs Bunny cartoons they had at the time, considering the timeslot.

As for Channel 4, I have no idea. 6 PM on a Saturday afternoon/evening is a little weird as far as a time slot goes; it's certainly possible that listing is wrong.

KOA (KCNC) wasn't the only station to air Bugs Bunny early Saturday evenings; Detroit's WDIV did the same, around this same time period...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5_yhvdfubg

 

[azumanga]

I'd like to know how Denver has two stations (2 and 4) airing Bugs Bunny.

My guess is that one station had the AAP package of pre-1948 Looney Tunes, and the other had the post-1948 package.

 

[Bluenoser]

I'd like to know how Denver has two stations (2 and 4) airing Bugs Bunny.

If I had to guess, I would say Channel 2's broadcast was whatever syndicated package of Bugs Bunny cartoons they had at the time, considering the timeslot.

As for Channel 4, I have no idea. 6 PM on a Saturday afternoon/evening is a little weird as far as a time slot goes; it's certainly possible that listing is wrong.

I double-checked the listing again...that 6pm timeslot for Bugs on KOA-TV is indeed correct...for the record, the Duece also aired Bugs weekday mornings at 6:30 as well...

 

[Mike Stroud]

I'd like to know how Denver has two stations (2 and 4) airing Bugs Bunny.

If I had to guess, I would say Channel 2's broadcast was whatever syndicated package of Bugs Bunny cartoons they had at the time, considering the timeslot.

As for Channel 4, I have no idea. 6 PM on a Saturday afternoon/evening is a little weird as far as a time slot goes; it's certainly possible that listing is wrong.

KOA (KCNC) wasn't the only station to air Bugs Bunny early Saturday evenings; Detroit's WDIV did the same, around this same time period...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5_yhvdfubg

In fact, it may have been a minor trend among some stations at the time. I recall Nashville ABC affil WNGE (now WKRN) running the WB shorts in 1979-80 between 6 and 7 p.m. Central Time. These probably ran on third-place network affils that didn't carry either Hee Haw or Lawrence Welk, as a cheap filler of the PTAR slot before prime-time. Remember, a recession was going on then, so first-run syndie stuff was probably losing its attractiveness.

 

[onairb]

Another market where a network affiliate aired cartoons early in the evening:
KRON(then NBC) in San Francisco aired 'The Pink Panther' for a while on Sundays at 6:30, during the spring and summer of 1981...replacing 'The Muppet Show', which ended poduction that year.

 

[azumanga]

Another market where a network affiliate aired cartoons early in the evening:
KRON(then NBC) in San Francisco aired 'The Pink Panther' for a while on Sundays at 6:30, during the spring and summer of 1981...replacing 'The Muppet Show', which ended poduction that year.

WTOG, an independent in Tampa Bay, also ran The Pink Panther in prime-time on weeknight. Likewise for WNEM in Saginaw (then an NBC affiliate), though only on Saturday nights at 7:30PM, after "Hee Haw". It's as if the syndicator wanted The Pink Panther on in prime-time, instead of the usual morning or afternoon time slots.

 

[onairb]

Another market where a network affiliate aired cartoons early in the evening:
KRON(then NBC) in San Francisco aired 'The Pink Panther' for a while on Sundays at 6:30, during the spring and summer of 1981...replacing 'The Muppet Show', which ended poduction that year.

WTOG, an independent in Tampa Bay, also ran The Pink Panther in prime-time on weeknight. Likewise for WNEM in Saginaw (then an NBC affiliate), though only on Saturday nights at 7:30PM, after "Hee Haw". It's as if the syndicator wanted The Pink Panther on in prime-time, instead of the usual morning or afternoon time slots.

In 1982, KBHK in San Francisco aired the Pink Panther in the afternoon...briefly.

 

[Markd]

Would like to see a weekday Denver schedule from this time period - Also March 5 in 1980 was a Wednesday - The 8th was a Saturday.