Source: Detroit Free Press TV Book via Newspapers.com
Some program names may be abbreviated
WJBK 2 (CBS)
6:52 News
7:00 Jason
7:30 Kidsworld
8:00 Mighty Mouse/Heckle & Jeckle
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Popeye
11:30 Fat Albert
12:00 Tarzan's Seven
1:00 Movie: Sir Graves "House of Dracula"
3:00 Soul Train (guests: Smokey Robinson, Keith & Darrell)
4:00 Adam-12
4:30 Sports Spectacular (events TBA)
6:00 News: Willis/Feldman
6:30 CBS News
7:00 Hee Haw (guests: Ray Stevens, Ava Barber, Boxcar Willie)
8:00 Chisholms
9:00 CBS Movie "Citizen's Band"
11;00 News: Willis/Feldman
11:30 Movie "Downhill Racer"
1:30 Late Movie "Phantom Raiders"
3:00 News
WDIV 4 (NBC)
6:00 Here Comes the Sun
6:30 FYI Detroit
7:00 Profiles
7:30 U-M Presents "The Iliad of Homer: Hear a List of Heroes"
8:00 Godzilla/Globetrotters
9:00 Fred & Barney Meet the Shmoo
10:30 Daffy Duck
11:00 Bowling for Dollars
12:00 Hot Hero Sandwich (guests: Henry Fonda, Ron Howard, Loretta Lynn, Marlo Thomas, Stephen Stills)
1:00 Movie "Queen of the Pirates"
2:30 College Basketball (Wisconsin vs. Purdue)
5:30 In Search Of... "Past Lives"
6:00 News: Blunt/Moore
6:30 NBC News
7:00 Muppet Show (guest: Lynda Carter)
7:30 Dance Fever (guests: Jamie Stevens, Melissa Sue Anderson, Gordon Jump, Suzi Lane)
8:00 CHiPs
9:00 Go Tell It
9:30 Profiles
10:00 Prime Time Saturday
11:00 News: Blunt/Moore
11:30 Saturday Night Live (Elliott Gould guest hosts) (NOTE: ch4 did not air SNL when it was WWJ-TV in the late '70s; it aired instead on WKBD ch50)
1:00 Saturday Night Dead "The Vengeance of Fu Manchu"
3:00 News
WXYZ 7 (ABC)
7:00 Infinity Factory "Measurement of Length and Time"
8:00 Greatest Superfriends
9:00 Plasticman
10:30 Scooby & Scrappy
11:30 Spider-Woman
12:00 Weekend Special
12:30 American Bandstand
1:00 XIII Winter Olympics (events: ice hockey, men's 5000m speed skating, 20km individual biathlon, two-man bobsledding, men's and women's luge)
3:30 Pro Bowlers Tour (AMF MagicScore Open live from Peoria, IL)
5:00 Wide World of Sports
6:30 News: Fisher/Geha
7:00 Saturday Evening
8:00 One in a Million
8:30 Ropers
9:00 XIII Winter Olympics
11:00 News: Fisher
11:30 XIII Winter Olympics (summary of day's events)
11:45 Double Feature "Deliverance" / "Deliver Us from Evil"
3:30 Soundings
CBET 9 (CBC)
10:30 Sun Life Ski School
11:00 Trivia Quiz
11:30 Pinocchio
12:00 Wow
1:00 You Can Do It
1:30 Racquetball Classic (Thomas vs. Peck)
2:00 Road to Moscow (profiles of Olympic athletes)
3:00 Sportsweekend (events TBA)
6:00 CBC News
6:30 Six Million Dollar Man
7:30 Sportscene
8:00 NHL Hockey (Hartford at Toronto)
11:00 News: The National
11:20 News (Local)
11:40 Thriller Movie "Spell of Evil"
1:10 Superstars of Wrestling
WXON 20 (Ind.)
6:30 Little Heroes
7:00 Gen. Pete Reads
7:30 Career Spotlight
8:00 700 Club
9:00 Amazing Grace
9:30 Senior Journal
10:00 Career Spotlight
10:30 Consumer Program (host: Avis Bromet)
11:00 Charlie Chan Movie "Charlie Chan in Reno"
12:30 Thriller Movie "The Mysterians"
2:00 Suspense Theatre
3:00 Thriller Movie "Kiss of the Tarantula"
4:30 Superman
5:00 Addams Family
5:30 $1.98 Beauty Show
6:00 Get Smart
6:30 Twilight Zone
7:00 City Update
7:30 Temple Baptist
WKBD 50 (Ind.)
8:30 Detroit Today
9:30 Big Blue Marble
10:00 Western Movie "The Indian Fighter"
11:30 Tarzan Movie "Tarzan and the Lost Safari"
1:00 Movie: Bill Kennedy "It Started in Naples"
3:30 Creature Feature "The Skull"
5:00 Star Trek
6:00 Happy Days Again
6:30 Sanford and Son
7:00/7:30 M*A*S*H
8:00 College Basketball (U-M vs. MSU)
10:00 Lawrence Welk
11:00 Comedy Shop (guests: David Doyle, Jackie Vernon, Howie Mandel, Jack DeLeon, Bob Barker)
11:30 Chiller Movie "Night Creatures"
1:00 Tales of the Unexpected
WTVS 56 (PBS)
8:00 to 12:00 Sesame Street marathon
12:00 Once Upon a Classic "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" (ep. 3)
12:30 Harold Lloyd (comedy films: "Hot Water," "An Eastern Westerner")
1:00 Consumer Survival Kit "Money Management"
1:30 Old Houseworks
2:30 Wall $treet Week
3:00 Market to Market (farm reports)
3:30 Life Around Us "Life in a Tropical Forest"
4:00 Nova "Einstein"
5;00 Presente "La Chazz"
5:30 Bonaventure Travel "Portugal"
6:00 Crockett's Victory Garden
6:30 Julia Child "Butterflied Pork for a Party"
7:00 56 Reports
7:30 Sneak Previews
8:00 Live from the Met "Un Ballo in Maschera"
11:05 Visions "Shoes and Strings"
WGPR 62 (Ind.)
9:00 Unity Power Hour
9:30 This Is the Hour
10:00 Auction Movie "Inside Story"
12:00 Uncle Waldo (cartoons)
12:30 Mission: Magic (cartoons)
1:00 Valley of Dinosaurs (cartoons)
1:30 Around the World (cartoons)
2:30 America's Black Forum
3:00 Moon Man
4:00 Big Time Wrestling
5:00 For You, Black Woman
5:30 Challenge Fishing
6:00 Cavalcade of Boxing
7:00 Faith for Miracles
8:00 Wings of Truth
8:30 Bible Prophecy
9:00 Keys to the Kingdom
9:30 Operation Breadbasket
10:00 Hour of Deliverance
11:00 Salvation Rock
11:30 Liberty Temple
12:00 Arab Voice
WTOL 11 Toledo (CBS)
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 Patches & Pockets
7:30 Marlo's Magic Movie Machine
8:00 Mighty Mouse/Heckle & Jeckle
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Popeye
11:30 Fat Albert
12:00 Shazam
12:30 Tarzan's Seven
1:30 30 Minutes
2:00 Abbott and Costello Movie "Abbot and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff"
3:30 Wild Kingdom
4:00 Pop Goes the Country
4:30 Nashville on the Road
5:00 Hee Haw
6:00 News
7:00 Baxters
7:30 Joker, Joker, Joker
8:00 Chisholms
9:00 CBS Movie "Citizen's Band"
11:00 News
WTVG 13 Toledo (NBC)
7:00 Bugs Bunny
7:30 Uncle Ben
8:00 Godzilla/Globetrotters
9:00 Fred & Barney Meet the Shmoo
10:30 Daffy Duck
11:00 Casper & Angels
11:30 Jetsons
12:00 Hot Hero Sandwich
1:00 Kidsworld
1:30 Fishin' Hole
2:00 Adam-12
No programs listed from 2:30-4:30
4:30 Joe Garagiola Open Golf (Semi-finals from Tucson, AZ)
6:00 News
6:30 13 Reports
7:00 Lawrence Welk
8:00 CHiPs
9:00 BJ and the Bear
10:00 Prime Time Saturday
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (see ch4)
WDHO 24 Toledo (ABC)
6:00 Flintstones
6:30 Big Blue Marble
7:00 New Zoo Revue
7:30 Tom & Jerry
8:00 Greatest Superfriends
9:00 Plasticman
10:30 Scooby & Scrappy
11:30 Tom & Jerry
12:00 Weekend Special
12:30 Torch of Champions
1:00 Winter Olympics (see ch7)
3:30 Pro Bowlers Tour (see ch7)
5:00 Wide World of Sports
6:30 On the Issue
7:00 Muppet Show
7:30 Sha Na Na
8:00 One in a Million
8:30 Ropers
9:00 Winter Olympics
11:00 News
11:30 Winter Olympics (day's highlights)
11:45 Movie "The Dirty Dozen"
CICO 32 Windsor (TVO)
8:30 Polka Dot Door
9:00 Jeremy/Hattytown Tales
9:30 Story/Simon/Two (not sure of complete titles, Simon was probably Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings)
10:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10:30 Down to Earth "Roses"
11:00 Sports Skills: Golf/Check and Mate
11:30 Just Do It Yourself (wallpapering problems; microwave cooking)
12:00 Championship Bridge
12:30 Pins and Needles
1:00 Media and Methods of Artists
1:30 Third Testament
2:30 Outside In
3:00 Environments
3:30 Cope
4:00 Big Blue Marble
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Fables of the Green Forest
6:00 Polka Dot Door
6:30 Wild Animals: Raccoon
7:00 Don't Ask Me (topic: magic acts)
7:30 Doctor Who
8:00 Movie "The Man in the Flannel Gray Suit"
10:40 Elwy Yost
11:00 Movie "Over the Moon"
12:15 Elwy Yost
CKCO 42 Sarnia (CTV)
6:00 University of the Air
6:30 He Knows, She Knows
7:00 Willy and Floyd
7:30 Uncle Bobby
8:00 Let's Go
8:30 Tree House
9:00 Oopsy
9:30 Agri-News
10:00 Flower Spot
10:30 Untamed World
11:00 Last of the Wild
11:30 Open Roads
12:00 Winter Olympics
1:30 Movie "The Prince Who Was a Thief"
3:00 Road to Moscow
4:00 Winter Olympics
6:00 Scan
6:30 Bowling for Dollars
7:00 Movie "Deliver Us from Evil"
8:30 Winter Olympics
11:00 News
11:45 Olympic Highlights
12:00 Movie "Papillon"
1:30 Bionic Woman
CBEFT 78 Windsor (Radio-Canada)
8:00 Colargol
8:30 Les Recits de Tuktu
8:45 Enviroscope
9:00 Le Petit Castor (anime series from the mid-'70s, original title Don Chuck Monogatari)
9:30 Les Aventures de Pinocchio
10:00 Orzowei ou L'Enfant de la Foret
10:30 Les Heros du Samedi
11:30 A Communiquer
2:00 Femme d'Aujourd'hui
5:00 Bagatelle
6:00 Le Telejournal/Echos de la Riviere Rouge
6:30 Un Pays, Un Gout, Une Maniere
7:00 Univers Inconnus
8:00 Les Amis de Mes Amis
8:30 Cinema Canadien (no details)
11:00 Cinema (no details)
Some program names may be abbreviated
WJBK 2 (CBS)
6:52 News
7:00 Jason
7:30 Kidsworld
8:00 Mighty Mouse/Heckle & Jeckle
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Popeye
11:30 Fat Albert
12:00 Tarzan's Seven
1:00 Movie: Sir Graves "House of Dracula"
3:00 Soul Train (guests: Smokey Robinson, Keith & Darrell)
4:00 Adam-12
4:30 Sports Spectacular (events TBA)
6:00 News: Willis/Feldman
6:30 CBS News
7:00 Hee Haw (guests: Ray Stevens, Ava Barber, Boxcar Willie)
8:00 Chisholms
9:00 CBS Movie "Citizen's Band"
11;00 News: Willis/Feldman
11:30 Movie "Downhill Racer"
1:30 Late Movie "Phantom Raiders"
3:00 News
WDIV 4 (NBC)
6:00 Here Comes the Sun
6:30 FYI Detroit
7:00 Profiles
7:30 U-M Presents "The Iliad of Homer: Hear a List of Heroes"
8:00 Godzilla/Globetrotters
9:00 Fred & Barney Meet the Shmoo
10:30 Daffy Duck
11:00 Bowling for Dollars
12:00 Hot Hero Sandwich (guests: Henry Fonda, Ron Howard, Loretta Lynn, Marlo Thomas, Stephen Stills)
1:00 Movie "Queen of the Pirates"
2:30 College Basketball (Wisconsin vs. Purdue)
5:30 In Search Of... "Past Lives"
6:00 News: Blunt/Moore
6:30 NBC News
7:00 Muppet Show (guest: Lynda Carter)
7:30 Dance Fever (guests: Jamie Stevens, Melissa Sue Anderson, Gordon Jump, Suzi Lane)
8:00 CHiPs
9:00 Go Tell It
9:30 Profiles
10:00 Prime Time Saturday
11:00 News: Blunt/Moore
11:30 Saturday Night Live (Elliott Gould guest hosts) (NOTE: ch4 did not air SNL when it was WWJ-TV in the late '70s; it aired instead on WKBD ch50)
1:00 Saturday Night Dead "The Vengeance of Fu Manchu"
3:00 News
WXYZ 7 (ABC)
7:00 Infinity Factory "Measurement of Length and Time"
8:00 Greatest Superfriends
9:00 Plasticman
10:30 Scooby & Scrappy
11:30 Spider-Woman
12:00 Weekend Special
12:30 American Bandstand
1:00 XIII Winter Olympics (events: ice hockey, men's 5000m speed skating, 20km individual biathlon, two-man bobsledding, men's and women's luge)
3:30 Pro Bowlers Tour (AMF MagicScore Open live from Peoria, IL)
5:00 Wide World of Sports
6:30 News: Fisher/Geha
7:00 Saturday Evening
8:00 One in a Million
8:30 Ropers
9:00 XIII Winter Olympics
11:00 News: Fisher
11:30 XIII Winter Olympics (summary of day's events)
11:45 Double Feature "Deliverance" / "Deliver Us from Evil"
3:30 Soundings
CBET 9 (CBC)
10:30 Sun Life Ski School
11:00 Trivia Quiz
11:30 Pinocchio
12:00 Wow
1:00 You Can Do It
1:30 Racquetball Classic (Thomas vs. Peck)
2:00 Road to Moscow (profiles of Olympic athletes)
3:00 Sportsweekend (events TBA)
6:00 CBC News
6:30 Six Million Dollar Man
7:30 Sportscene
8:00 NHL Hockey (Hartford at Toronto)
11:00 News: The National
11:20 News (Local)
11:40 Thriller Movie "Spell of Evil"
1:10 Superstars of Wrestling
WXON 20 (Ind.)
6:30 Little Heroes
7:00 Gen. Pete Reads
7:30 Career Spotlight
8:00 700 Club
9:00 Amazing Grace
9:30 Senior Journal
10:00 Career Spotlight
10:30 Consumer Program (host: Avis Bromet)
11:00 Charlie Chan Movie "Charlie Chan in Reno"
12:30 Thriller Movie "The Mysterians"
2:00 Suspense Theatre
3:00 Thriller Movie "Kiss of the Tarantula"
4:30 Superman
5:00 Addams Family
5:30 $1.98 Beauty Show
6:00 Get Smart
6:30 Twilight Zone
7:00 City Update
7:30 Temple Baptist
WKBD 50 (Ind.)
8:30 Detroit Today
9:30 Big Blue Marble
10:00 Western Movie "The Indian Fighter"
11:30 Tarzan Movie "Tarzan and the Lost Safari"
1:00 Movie: Bill Kennedy "It Started in Naples"
3:30 Creature Feature "The Skull"
5:00 Star Trek
6:00 Happy Days Again
6:30 Sanford and Son
7:00/7:30 M*A*S*H
8:00 College Basketball (U-M vs. MSU)
10:00 Lawrence Welk
11:00 Comedy Shop (guests: David Doyle, Jackie Vernon, Howie Mandel, Jack DeLeon, Bob Barker)
11:30 Chiller Movie "Night Creatures"
1:00 Tales of the Unexpected
WTVS 56 (PBS)
8:00 to 12:00 Sesame Street marathon
12:00 Once Upon a Classic "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" (ep. 3)
12:30 Harold Lloyd (comedy films: "Hot Water," "An Eastern Westerner")
1:00 Consumer Survival Kit "Money Management"
1:30 Old Houseworks
2:30 Wall $treet Week
3:00 Market to Market (farm reports)
3:30 Life Around Us "Life in a Tropical Forest"
4:00 Nova "Einstein"
5;00 Presente "La Chazz"
5:30 Bonaventure Travel "Portugal"
6:00 Crockett's Victory Garden
6:30 Julia Child "Butterflied Pork for a Party"
7:00 56 Reports
7:30 Sneak Previews
8:00 Live from the Met "Un Ballo in Maschera"
11:05 Visions "Shoes and Strings"
WGPR 62 (Ind.)
9:00 Unity Power Hour
9:30 This Is the Hour
10:00 Auction Movie "Inside Story"
12:00 Uncle Waldo (cartoons)
12:30 Mission: Magic (cartoons)
1:00 Valley of Dinosaurs (cartoons)
1:30 Around the World (cartoons)
2:30 America's Black Forum
3:00 Moon Man
4:00 Big Time Wrestling
5:00 For You, Black Woman
5:30 Challenge Fishing
6:00 Cavalcade of Boxing
7:00 Faith for Miracles
8:00 Wings of Truth
8:30 Bible Prophecy
9:00 Keys to the Kingdom
9:30 Operation Breadbasket
10:00 Hour of Deliverance
11:00 Salvation Rock
11:30 Liberty Temple
12:00 Arab Voice
WTOL 11 Toledo (CBS)
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 Patches & Pockets
7:30 Marlo's Magic Movie Machine
8:00 Mighty Mouse/Heckle & Jeckle
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Popeye
11:30 Fat Albert
12:00 Shazam
12:30 Tarzan's Seven
1:30 30 Minutes
2:00 Abbott and Costello Movie "Abbot and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff"
3:30 Wild Kingdom
4:00 Pop Goes the Country
4:30 Nashville on the Road
5:00 Hee Haw
6:00 News
7:00 Baxters
7:30 Joker, Joker, Joker
8:00 Chisholms
9:00 CBS Movie "Citizen's Band"
11:00 News
WTVG 13 Toledo (NBC)
7:00 Bugs Bunny
7:30 Uncle Ben
8:00 Godzilla/Globetrotters
9:00 Fred & Barney Meet the Shmoo
10:30 Daffy Duck
11:00 Casper & Angels
11:30 Jetsons
12:00 Hot Hero Sandwich
1:00 Kidsworld
1:30 Fishin' Hole
2:00 Adam-12
No programs listed from 2:30-4:30
4:30 Joe Garagiola Open Golf (Semi-finals from Tucson, AZ)
6:00 News
6:30 13 Reports
7:00 Lawrence Welk
8:00 CHiPs
9:00 BJ and the Bear
10:00 Prime Time Saturday
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (see ch4)
WDHO 24 Toledo (ABC)
6:00 Flintstones
6:30 Big Blue Marble
7:00 New Zoo Revue
7:30 Tom & Jerry
8:00 Greatest Superfriends
9:00 Plasticman
10:30 Scooby & Scrappy
11:30 Tom & Jerry
12:00 Weekend Special
12:30 Torch of Champions
1:00 Winter Olympics (see ch7)
3:30 Pro Bowlers Tour (see ch7)
5:00 Wide World of Sports
6:30 On the Issue
7:00 Muppet Show
7:30 Sha Na Na
8:00 One in a Million
8:30 Ropers
9:00 Winter Olympics
11:00 News
11:30 Winter Olympics (day's highlights)
11:45 Movie "The Dirty Dozen"
CICO 32 Windsor (TVO)
8:30 Polka Dot Door
9:00 Jeremy/Hattytown Tales
9:30 Story/Simon/Two (not sure of complete titles, Simon was probably Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings)
10:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10:30 Down to Earth "Roses"
11:00 Sports Skills: Golf/Check and Mate
11:30 Just Do It Yourself (wallpapering problems; microwave cooking)
12:00 Championship Bridge
12:30 Pins and Needles
1:00 Media and Methods of Artists
1:30 Third Testament
2:30 Outside In
3:00 Environments
3:30 Cope
4:00 Big Blue Marble
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Fables of the Green Forest
6:00 Polka Dot Door
6:30 Wild Animals: Raccoon
7:00 Don't Ask Me (topic: magic acts)
7:30 Doctor Who
8:00 Movie "The Man in the Flannel Gray Suit"
10:40 Elwy Yost
11:00 Movie "Over the Moon"
12:15 Elwy Yost
CKCO 42 Sarnia (CTV)
6:00 University of the Air
6:30 He Knows, She Knows
7:00 Willy and Floyd
7:30 Uncle Bobby
8:00 Let's Go
8:30 Tree House
9:00 Oopsy
9:30 Agri-News
10:00 Flower Spot
10:30 Untamed World
11:00 Last of the Wild
11:30 Open Roads
12:00 Winter Olympics
1:30 Movie "The Prince Who Was a Thief"
3:00 Road to Moscow
4:00 Winter Olympics
6:00 Scan
6:30 Bowling for Dollars
7:00 Movie "Deliver Us from Evil"
8:30 Winter Olympics
11:00 News
11:45 Olympic Highlights
12:00 Movie "Papillon"
1:30 Bionic Woman
CBEFT 78 Windsor (Radio-Canada)
8:00 Colargol
8:30 Les Recits de Tuktu
8:45 Enviroscope
9:00 Le Petit Castor (anime series from the mid-'70s, original title Don Chuck Monogatari)
9:30 Les Aventures de Pinocchio
10:00 Orzowei ou L'Enfant de la Foret
10:30 Les Heros du Samedi
11:30 A Communiquer
2:00 Femme d'Aujourd'hui
5:00 Bagatelle
6:00 Le Telejournal/Echos de la Riviere Rouge
6:30 Un Pays, Un Gout, Une Maniere
7:00 Univers Inconnus
8:00 Les Amis de Mes Amis
8:30 Cinema Canadien (no details)
11:00 Cinema (no details)