Retro: Denver Wed, Apr 9, 1980

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide-Denver edition

KWGN 2-Ind
6:00 Farm & Ranch Report
6:05 News
6:30 Ed Allen
7:00 Bugs Bunny
7:30 McHale's Navy (bw)
8:00 Flintstones
8:30 Blinky's Fun Club
9:00 Gigglesnort Hotel
9:30 Denver Now (Beverly Martinez)
10:00 Bewitched
10:30 That Girl
11:00 Wild Wild West
noon I Love Lucy (bw)
12:30 Father Knows Best (bw)
1:00 Mike Douglas (co-host Don Rickles/guests Bernie Kopell, Marilyn Beck, Tavares, David Copperfield, and Jane Fonda; Jane demonstrates exercises for women)
2:30 Family Affair
3:00 Flintstones
3:30 Popeye's After School Break
4:00 Woody Woodpecker
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5:00 Beverly Hillbillies
5:30 Andy Griffith (bw)
6:00 Bob Newhart
6:30 All in the Family
7:00 Mandy's Grandmother (pre-empts Sanford & Son)
7:30 Movie "Exodus" (conclusion)
9:30 News
10:00 Odd Couple
10:30 Prisoner: Cell Block H
11:00 Movie "Andy Hardy's Private Secretary" (bw)
1:10 News

KOA 4-NBC
5:30 700 Club
6:30 Picture of Health
7:00 Today
9:00 Phil Donahue (from Miami Beach with guest Bert Parks)
10:00 Hollywood Squares
10:30 Password Plus
11:00 Days of Our Lives
noon Noonday (Jones/Scott; Gilbert Holloway speaks on ESP and psychic phenomena, a formal prom-fashion show is also presented)
1:00 Wheel of Fortune
1:30 Another World
3:00 Big Valley
4:00 Star Trek
5:00 News
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Cross-Wits
6:30 PM Magazine (meeting Dodger Stadium peanut man Roger Owens, interview with ex-Globetrotter Meadowlark Lemon)
7:00 Real People (convention for male centerfolds, a wall made of chewing gum, a bar that offers both drinks and boxing (sounds like one of my local taverns on Friday and Saturday nights ), twin dwarf real-estate agents, and a man who goes to work dressed as a chicken)
8:00 TBA
9:00 From Here to Eternity
10:00 News
10:30 Tonight Show (guests Suzanne Pleshette and farmer Wally Latimer)
mid. Tomorrow (guest: author Nancy Friday)
1:00 News
1:30 700 Club

KRMA 6-PBS
7:15 Weather
7:30 Maggie & the Beautiful Machine
8:00 Instructional Programs
9:00 Electric Company
9:30 Instructional Programs
10:00 Sesame Street
11:00 Instructional Programs
12:30 Men's Tailoring
1:00 Instructional Programs
3:30 Villa Alegre
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 3-2-1 Contact
6:30 Over Easy (guest Stanley Kramer)
7:00 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
7:30 Pavarotti at Juilliard
8:00 Shakespeare Plays "Henry IV, Part 2"
10:35 Music in the Age of Shakespeare (performed by the Waverly Consort)
11:00 Dick Cavett (guest: photojournalist Patrick Segal)
11:30 Captioned ABC News

KMGH 7-CBS
5:20 Pastoral Call
5:30 Sunrise Semester "1400 Years of Islam"
6:00 Wednesday Morning
7:00 Captain Kangaroo
8:00 Noell & Andy
8:30 Petticoat Junction
9:00 Price is Right
10:00 Face the Music
10:30 Match Game
11:00 News
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
noon Young & the Restless
1:00 As the World Turns
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 Afternoon Playhouse "One Last Ride" (pt 3; aired all week in the slot)
3:30 Merv Griffin (guests Jacqueline Bisset, Barbara Carrera, and dermatologist Arnold Klein)
4:30 Carol Burnett & Friends (guest Sammy Davis Jr.)
5:00 News
6:00 CBS Evening News
6:30 Price is Right
7:00 A Boy Named Charlie Brown
8:00 General Foods Television Theater "Nurse"
10:00 News
10:30 After Benny, Thames Presents (featuring Bernard Cribbins)
11:00 Black Sheep Squadron
12:10 Movie "Most Wanted" (series pilot)

KBTV 9-ABC
5:30 PTL Club
6:30 Doris Day
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Laverne & Shirley
9:30 Happy Days
10:00 $20,000 Pyramid
10:30 Ryan's Hope
11:00 All My Children
noon News
12:30 Edge of Night
1:00 General Hospital
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 Bionic Woman
4:00 Happy Days Again
4:30 M*A*S*H
5:00 News
6:00 ABC World News Tonight
6:30 Body Works (pt 2 of this 5-part series presented in conjunction with the station's upcoming health fair looks at the respiratory system; hosted by Dr. Timothy Johnson, better known for his stints with ABC and WCVB Boston)
7:00 Eight is Enough
8:00 Charlie's Angels
9:00 Vega$
10:00 News
10:35 M*A*S*H
11:05 Joker's Wild
11:35 ABC News Nightline
11:55 Love Boat
1:05 Baretta
2:15 News

More on ch 9's Health Fair, which was held Apr 13-20...sessions were held in Adams Co (Westminster, Commerce City, Thornton, Brighton), Aurora, Boulder, Denver, Jefferson Co (Lakewood, Golden, Evergreen, Wheat Ridge), Littleton/Englewood, Louisville, Leadville, Bailey, Castle Rock, and Parker. It was a project between the station and community groups throught out the state. Among the screenings: blood pressure (including optional blood testing for $6), anemia, height, weight, and vision; counselling and referrals as well as various exhibits and demos were featured.

 

[harrisburgpatv]

9:00 Laverne & Shirley
9:30 Happy Days

Interesting strategy here, pairing the spinoff (still an ABC daytime rerun until June) with the parent show (which hit syndication the previous September as "Happy Days Again"). No daytime Feud to be found in Denver, however..

 

[Mike Stroud]

More on ch 9's Health Fair, which was held Apr 13-20...sessions were held in Adams Co (Westminster, Commerce City, Thornton, Brighton), Aurora, Boulder, Denver, Jefferson Co (Lakewood, Golden, Evergreen, Wheat Ridge), Littleton/Englewood, Louisville, Leadville, Bailey, Castle Rock, and Parker. It was a project between the station and community groups throught out the state. Among the screenings: blood pressure (including optional blood testing for $6), anemia, height, weight, and vision; counselling and referrals as well as various exhibits and demos were featured.

And maybe, just maybe, checks for altitude-related maladies such as nosebleed, dizzyness, ear-popping, miner's lung, and the "Orange Crush?" In the Mile High City, sounds like a winner to me (and Don Meredith shoulda been given a drug test while they were at it).

 

[DToTheJ]

What did Channel 9 normally air at 7:30 PM? I'm guessing "Joker's Wild" which is seen after "M*A*S*H" in late night?

 

[jfrancispastirchak]

More on ch 9's Health Fair, which was held Apr 13-20...sessions were held in Adams Co (Westminster, Commerce City, Thornton, Brighton), Aurora, Boulder, Denver, Jefferson Co (Lakewood, Golden, Evergreen, Wheat Ridge), Littleton/Englewood, Louisville, Leadville, Bailey, Castle Rock, and Parker. It was a project between the station and community groups throught out the state. Among the screenings: blood pressure (including optional blood testing for $6), anemia, height, weight, and vision; counselling and referrals as well as various exhibits and demos were featured.

And of course Channel 9's Health Fair is still up and running. My church used to participate.

 

[spb]

KMGH 7-CBS
7:00 A Boy Named Charlie Brown
8:00 General Foods Television Theater "Nurse"

Note only 60 minutes for "A Boy Named Charlie Brown," which was 86 minutes long in theaters. I remember seeing this severely cut version on our CBS station.

 

[only1moore]

9:00 Laverne & Shirley
9:30 Happy Days

Interesting strategy here, pairing the spinoff (still an ABC daytime rerun until June) with the parent show (which hit syndication the previous September as "Happy Days Again"). No daytime Feud to be found in Denver, however..

Actually, KUSA pre-empted "Feud." If you noticed by their schedule KUSA was running "M*A*S*H" and "Happy Days (Again)" twice, the latter airing in place of "Family Feud."

 

[azumanga]

KMGH 7-CBS
7:00 A Boy Named Charlie Brown
8:00 General Foods Television Theater "Nurse"

Note only 60 minutes for "A Boy Named Charlie Brown," which was 86 minutes long in theaters. I remember seeing this severely cut version on our CBS station.

CBS had shown all its Peanuts movies cut to fit the 60-minute time slot, with commercials, meaning that practically half the film was scissored when it aired on CBS. The only way you could watch the films complete on TV (apart from home video) was either on a pay channel, or in syndication to local stations.

 

[onairb]

KMGH 7 (CBS)
10:30 After Benny, Thames Presents (featuring Bernard Cribbins)

Did 'The Benny Hill Show' air anywhere in Denver(on weekends, perhaps?) I thought 'After Benny, Thames Presents' was intended to be shown, as the name implies, immediately following Benny. Did any markets have Benny's show on one channel, and this show on another?

 

[harrisburgpatv]

CBS had shown all its Peanuts movies cut to fit the 60-minute time slot, with commercials, meaning that practically half the film was scissored when it aired on CBS. The only way you could watch the films complete on TV (apart from home video) was either on a pay channel, or in syndication to local stations.

As a "Peanuts" fan, I'm curious....I wonder what scenes got the axe to fit the movie into a one-hour slot with commercials?

 

[only1moore]

KMGH 7 (CBS)
10:30 After Benny, Thames Presents (featuring Bernard Cribbins)

Did 'The Benny Hill Show' air anywhere in Denver(on weekends, perhaps?) I thought 'After Benny, Thames Presents' was intended to be shown, as the name implies, immediately following Benny. Did any markets have Benny's show on one channel, and this show on another?

WVTV/Milwaukee aired both "Benny Hill" and "After Benny," so chances are these stations got both shows as a package from Taffner (The US distributor for Thames' catalog).

 

[azumanga]

KMGH 7 (CBS)
10:30 After Benny, Thames Presents (featuring Bernard Cribbins)

Did 'The Benny Hill Show' air anywhere in Denver(on weekends, perhaps?) I thought 'After Benny, Thames Presents' was intended to be shown, as the name implies, immediately following Benny. Did any markets have Benny's show on one channel, and this show on another?

WVTV/Milwaukee aired both "Benny Hill" and "After Benny," so chances are these stations got both shows as a package from Taffner (The US distributor for Thames' catalog).

WTVT in Tampa Bay (then a sister to WVTV) also aired both, but not at the same time. Around 1980-1982, WTVT usually aired "After Benny" for a few weeks in Benny Hill's spot at 7:30PM on Saturdays, after "Dance Fever".

 

[spb]

CBS had shown all its Peanuts movies cut to fit the 60-minute time slot, with commercials, meaning that practically half the film was scissored when it aired on CBS. The only way you could watch the films complete on TV (apart from home video) was either on a pay channel, or in syndication to local stations.

As a "Peanuts" fan, I'm curious....I wonder what scenes got the axe to fit the movie into a one-hour slot with commercials?

This is what I believe was cut early:
Kite flying sequence
Baseball game
Charlie Brown feeding Snoopy after losing tic tac toe to Linus
Snoopy's Red Baron dream and running to sleep in Charlie Brown's bed
Lucy's psychiatric session with Charlie Brown

There was probably more cut later, but I'm not exactly sure what.

 

[Bluenoser]

KMGH 7 (CBS)
10:30 After Benny, Thames Presents (featuring Bernard Cribbins)

Did 'The Benny Hill Show' air anywhere in Denver(on weekends, perhaps?) I thought 'After Benny, Thames Presents' was intended to be shown, as the name implies, immediately following Benny. Did any markets have Benny's show on one channel, and this show on another?

KMGH aired both Benny and After Benny in the 10:30 slot, showing Benny Mon/Fri and After Benny Tues/Wed/Thurs.