From Detroit News TV Magazine, Sept. 24-30, 1978 (BTW, I'm looking
for any Michigan State Edition of TV Guide from the fall of 1979.):
WJBK Ch. 2 Detroit (CBS)
6:20 Town And Country Almanac
6:30 Learn To Live Better
7 AM Good Morning Detroit (Esther Rolle, Detroit News TV critic
David Eden, author Joe Foxworth ("Boss Lady"), actress Amy
Stryker (the bride in Robert Altman's "A Wedding"))
8 AM Captain Kangaroo (guest: Arte Johnson)
9 AM Donahue (guest: Betty Hutton)
10 AM All In The Family
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Young And The Restless (delay from 12 N)
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Love Of Life (delay from 11:30 AM)
1:25 News
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 M*A*S*H
4 PM Mike Douglas (co-hostess Cheryl Ladd; Steve Kanaly, Charlene
Tilton, comic Kip Addotta, Tuxedo Junction (disco singing group),
George Murray (finished first in the Boston Marathon's wheelchair
division), Cleveland mayor Dennis Kusinich (sp?), gossip columnist Liz
Smith, kids from the Marcia Hyland Dance School in Cherry Hill, NY
(I wonder if that should be Cherry Hill, NJ, a suburb of Philadelphia))
5:30 News
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Newlywed Game
7:30 PM Magazine (part one of a feature on the Club Mediterranee, suggestions
for leftovers, choosing a travel agency, review of the movie "Tease,"
George Carlin)
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 In The Beginning
9 PM CBS Movie: "Three Days Of The Condor"
11:25 News
11:55 Fernwood 2Night
12:25 Hawaii Five-O (delay from 11:55 PM)
1:35 Kojak (delay from 1:05 AM)
2:45 The Rookies
WDIV Ch. 4 Detroit (NBC)
6 AM Classroom: "The Medieval And Renaissance Cities"
6:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
7 AM Today
9 AM America Alive! (delay from 12 N)
10 AM This Morning
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N Card Sharks (delay from 10 AM)
12:30 News
1 PM For Richer, For Poorer
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Dinah! (Dick Clark, George Carlin, Sarah Vaughan)
5:30 News
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
7 PM Bowling For Dollars
7:30 Baseball: Tigers-Red Sox
10 PM Julie Andrews And Robert Goulet In Concert
(time approximate)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (Don Rickles substitutes for Johnny)
1 AM Movie: "Operation Mad Ball" (watch for Ernie Kovacs in this
'57 comedy)
2:30 Classroom
3 AM News
WXYZ Ch. 7 Detroit (ABC)
6 AM TV College: "The Screening Room: The Great Film Detectives"
6:30 News
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Kelly & Company
10:30 Edge Of Night (delay from 4 PM)
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N $20,000 Pyramid (LeVar Burton, Adrienne Barbeau)
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Wide World Of Adventure (the insect world in your
backyard, pre-empts Ch. 7's movie)
4:30 ABC Afterschool Special ("One Of A Kind," about a girl who
finds the imaginary slaps and insults of a Punch and Judy show
real because her mother is guilty of child abuse without even
knowing it. Diane Baker produced and stars with Stephanie Brown.)
5:30 News
6 PM News
7 PM ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Bonkers! (guest: Georgia Engel)
8 PM Eight Is Enough
9 PM Charlie's Angels
10 PM Vega$
11 PM News
11:30 Police Woman
12:40 S.W.A.T.
CBET Ch. 9 Windsor (CBC)
9 AM Bob McLean (talk show)
10 AM Friendly Giant
10:15 Bonjour (French lessons for kids)
10:30 Mr. Dressup
11 AM Sesame Street
12 N Movie: "Love Has Many Faces"
2 PM Insight (talk show)
2:30 High Hopes (soap opera briefly syndicated in the U.S.)
3 PM Take 30
3:30 Celebrity Cooks
4 PM Just William (the story of "William And The Sleeping Beauty")
4:30 For Kids Only: "Pencil Box"
5 PM Six Million Dollar Man
6 PM News
7 PM Odd Couple
7:30 Mary Tyler Moore
8 PM Movie: "The Long Gray Line" (watch for Ward Bond and Betsy
Palmer, from '55)
11 PM News (possibly CBC and local?)
11:45 Canada After Dark
12:45 Shades Of Greene (Graham Greene)
WTOL Ch. 11 Toledo (CBS)
6:20 Sunrise Semester: "American Character"
6:50 Town & Country
7 AM CBS News (Lesley Stahl/Richard Threlkeld)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM My Three Sons
9:30 Match Game '78 (delay from 4 PM, celebrities not listed)
10 AM All In The Family
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 M*A*S*H
4 PM Movie: "Magnificent Obsession"
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Brady Bunch
7:30 Mary Tyler Moore
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 In The Beginning
9 PM CBS Movie: "Three Days Of The Condor"
11:25 News
11:55 Hawaii Five-O
1:05 Kojak
WSPD (WTVG) Ch. 13 Toledo (NBC)
7 AM Today
9 AM Donahue (same as Ch. 2)
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares (celebrities not listed)
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N News
12:30 America Alive!
1 PM Joker's Wild
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM The Rookies
5 PM Adam-12
5:30 Odd Couple
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Liars Club
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8 PM Dick Clark's Live Wednesday (Suzanne Somers, Barry
Manilow, Natalie Cole, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy,
Melissa Gilbert)
9 PM NBC Movie: "Zuma Beach"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow (authors Kitty Kelly and Lester David)
WXON Ch. 20 Detroit (Ind.)
9:20 News
9:30 700 Club
11 AM Super Heroes (Iron Man)
11:30 Spiderman
12 N Beatles (animated)
12:30 Movie: "My Pal Gus"
2 PM Nanny And The Professor
2:30 Popeye
3 PM The Archies
3:30 Abbott And Costello
4 PM Mighty Mouse
4:30 Cartoon Carnival (with the Mighty Heroes)
5 PM Jetsons
5:30 Addams Family
6 PM Get Smart
6:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
7 PM Green Acres
7:30 Petticoat Junction
8 PM Room 222
8:30 Twilight Zone
9 PM 700 Club
10:30 Hi Doug!
11 PM Movie: "Buffalo Bill" (Joel McCrea, Linda Darnell, from '44)
WDHO (WNWO) Ch. 24 Toledo (ABC)
6 AM AM 24
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM The Lucy Show (guest: Ken Berry)
9:30 Edge Of Night
10 AM Cross-Wits
10:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N $20,000 Pyramid
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Battle Of The Planets
4:30 ABC Afterschool Special (pre-empts "The Six
Million Dollar Man")
5:30 News
6 PM ABC World News Tonight
6:30 Dating Game
7 PM Newlywed Game
7:30 $1.98 Beauty Show
8 PM Eight Is Enough
9 PM Charlie's Angels
10 PM Vega$
11 PM News
11:30 Police Woman
12:40 S.W.A.T.
WKBD Ch. 50 Detroit (Ind.)
7 AM Bugs Bunny
7:30 Woody Woodpecker
8 AM Tom And Jerry
8:30 Gilligan's Island
9 AM Please Don't Eat The Daisies
9:30 Family Affair
10 AM Detroit Today
10:30 Not For Women Only
11 AM Romper Room
11:30 Fred Flintstone And Friends
12 N Popeye
12:30 The Lucy Show
1 PM Movie: "That Funny Feeling"
2:55 News
3 PM Casper
3:30 Woody Woodpecker
4 PM Tom And Jerry
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Battle Of The Planets
5:30 Brady Bunch
6 PM Emergency One!
6:30 Joker's Wild (I don't think this is a typo)
7 PM Sanford And Son
7:30 Bob Newhart
8 PM Movie: "Suddenly Last Summer"
10:30 Hollywood And The Stars (the career of Bing Crosby)
11 PM Honeymooners
11:30 Movie: "A Private Affair"
1 AM Tomorrow (pre-empted on Ch. 4)
WTVS Ch. 56 Detroit (PBS)
6 AM Culture, Community And Identity: "Community Shared Experience"
6:30 Energy, Technology And Society
7 AM Designing Home Interiors: "Themes And Moods"
7:30 Over Easy (Rollo May talks about new ways to deal with anxiety.)
8 AM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
9 AM TBA
9:15 In-school program(s)
10 AM Sesame Street
11 AM Electric Company
11:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
12:05 In-school programs
2 PM Designing Home Interiors (same as 7 AM)
2:30 Turnabout
3 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
3:30 Sesame Street
4:30 Zoom
5 PM Over Easy (same as 7:30 AM)
5:30 Quality Of Life (same as 6 AM, Ch. 4)
6 AM Culture, Community And Identity (same as 6 AM)
6:30 Energy, Technology And Society (same as 6:30 AM)
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 United Foundation Training Program
8 PM Great Performances (cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and the
Berlin Philharmonic perform Strauss's "Don Quixote")
9 PM Making Television Dance (Twyla Tharp and Mikhail Baryshnikov
show how television and dance can be used creatively.)
10 PM Great Performances (the Pennsylvania Ballet performs George
Balanchine's "Concerto Baracco" and artistic director Benjamin
Harkarvya's "Madrigalesco")
11 PM Dick Cavett (songwriter E.Y. "Yip" Harburg)
11:30 Captioned ABC News
12 M The Screening Room (same as 6 AM, Ch. 7)
WGPR (WWJ) Ch. 62 Detroit (Ind.)
6 AM Rocky And His Friends
6:30 TV Bible Study
7 AM Praise The Lord (PTL Club?)
9 AM Jack Rehburg
9:30 Dwight Thompson
10 AM Hicks Temple
10:30 PTL Club
12:30 This Is The Day
1 PM Movie: "The Woman's Angle"
2:30 Peyton Place
3 PM Kimba The White Lion
3:30 New Zoo Revue
4 PM Rocky And His Friends
4:30 Mission: Magic
5 PM The Scene (teen music show)
6 PM News
6:30 Rifleman
7 PM This Is The Day
7:30 Hal Roach Theater
8 PM Movie: "The Woman's Angle"
10 PM PTL Club
12 M Faith For Miracles (movies follow--did Ch. 62
stay on all night?)
for any Michigan State Edition of TV Guide from the fall of 1979.):
WJBK Ch. 2 Detroit (CBS)
6:20 Town And Country Almanac
6:30 Learn To Live Better
7 AM Good Morning Detroit (Esther Rolle, Detroit News TV critic
David Eden, author Joe Foxworth ("Boss Lady"), actress Amy
Stryker (the bride in Robert Altman's "A Wedding"))
8 AM Captain Kangaroo (guest: Arte Johnson)
9 AM Donahue (guest: Betty Hutton)
10 AM All In The Family
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Young And The Restless (delay from 12 N)
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Love Of Life (delay from 11:30 AM)
1:25 News
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 M*A*S*H
4 PM Mike Douglas (co-hostess Cheryl Ladd; Steve Kanaly, Charlene
Tilton, comic Kip Addotta, Tuxedo Junction (disco singing group),
George Murray (finished first in the Boston Marathon's wheelchair
division), Cleveland mayor Dennis Kusinich (sp?), gossip columnist Liz
Smith, kids from the Marcia Hyland Dance School in Cherry Hill, NY
(I wonder if that should be Cherry Hill, NJ, a suburb of Philadelphia))
5:30 News
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Newlywed Game
7:30 PM Magazine (part one of a feature on the Club Mediterranee, suggestions
for leftovers, choosing a travel agency, review of the movie "Tease,"
George Carlin)
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 In The Beginning
9 PM CBS Movie: "Three Days Of The Condor"
11:25 News
11:55 Fernwood 2Night
12:25 Hawaii Five-O (delay from 11:55 PM)
1:35 Kojak (delay from 1:05 AM)
2:45 The Rookies
WDIV Ch. 4 Detroit (NBC)
6 AM Classroom: "The Medieval And Renaissance Cities"
6:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
7 AM Today
9 AM America Alive! (delay from 12 N)
10 AM This Morning
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N Card Sharks (delay from 10 AM)
12:30 News
1 PM For Richer, For Poorer
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Dinah! (Dick Clark, George Carlin, Sarah Vaughan)
5:30 News
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
7 PM Bowling For Dollars
7:30 Baseball: Tigers-Red Sox
10 PM Julie Andrews And Robert Goulet In Concert
(time approximate)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (Don Rickles substitutes for Johnny)
1 AM Movie: "Operation Mad Ball" (watch for Ernie Kovacs in this
'57 comedy)
2:30 Classroom
3 AM News
WXYZ Ch. 7 Detroit (ABC)
6 AM TV College: "The Screening Room: The Great Film Detectives"
6:30 News
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Kelly & Company
10:30 Edge Of Night (delay from 4 PM)
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N $20,000 Pyramid (LeVar Burton, Adrienne Barbeau)
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Wide World Of Adventure (the insect world in your
backyard, pre-empts Ch. 7's movie)
4:30 ABC Afterschool Special ("One Of A Kind," about a girl who
finds the imaginary slaps and insults of a Punch and Judy show
real because her mother is guilty of child abuse without even
knowing it. Diane Baker produced and stars with Stephanie Brown.)
5:30 News
6 PM News
7 PM ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Bonkers! (guest: Georgia Engel)
8 PM Eight Is Enough
9 PM Charlie's Angels
10 PM Vega$
11 PM News
11:30 Police Woman
12:40 S.W.A.T.
CBET Ch. 9 Windsor (CBC)
9 AM Bob McLean (talk show)
10 AM Friendly Giant
10:15 Bonjour (French lessons for kids)
10:30 Mr. Dressup
11 AM Sesame Street
12 N Movie: "Love Has Many Faces"
2 PM Insight (talk show)
2:30 High Hopes (soap opera briefly syndicated in the U.S.)
3 PM Take 30
3:30 Celebrity Cooks
4 PM Just William (the story of "William And The Sleeping Beauty")
4:30 For Kids Only: "Pencil Box"
5 PM Six Million Dollar Man
6 PM News
7 PM Odd Couple
7:30 Mary Tyler Moore
8 PM Movie: "The Long Gray Line" (watch for Ward Bond and Betsy
Palmer, from '55)
11 PM News (possibly CBC and local?)
11:45 Canada After Dark
12:45 Shades Of Greene (Graham Greene)
WTOL Ch. 11 Toledo (CBS)
6:20 Sunrise Semester: "American Character"
6:50 Town & Country
7 AM CBS News (Lesley Stahl/Richard Threlkeld)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM My Three Sons
9:30 Match Game '78 (delay from 4 PM, celebrities not listed)
10 AM All In The Family
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 M*A*S*H
4 PM Movie: "Magnificent Obsession"
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Brady Bunch
7:30 Mary Tyler Moore
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 In The Beginning
9 PM CBS Movie: "Three Days Of The Condor"
11:25 News
11:55 Hawaii Five-O
1:05 Kojak
WSPD (WTVG) Ch. 13 Toledo (NBC)
7 AM Today
9 AM Donahue (same as Ch. 2)
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares (celebrities not listed)
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N News
12:30 America Alive!
1 PM Joker's Wild
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM The Rookies
5 PM Adam-12
5:30 Odd Couple
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Liars Club
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8 PM Dick Clark's Live Wednesday (Suzanne Somers, Barry
Manilow, Natalie Cole, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy,
Melissa Gilbert)
9 PM NBC Movie: "Zuma Beach"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow (authors Kitty Kelly and Lester David)
WXON Ch. 20 Detroit (Ind.)
9:20 News
9:30 700 Club
11 AM Super Heroes (Iron Man)
11:30 Spiderman
12 N Beatles (animated)
12:30 Movie: "My Pal Gus"
2 PM Nanny And The Professor
2:30 Popeye
3 PM The Archies
3:30 Abbott And Costello
4 PM Mighty Mouse
4:30 Cartoon Carnival (with the Mighty Heroes)
5 PM Jetsons
5:30 Addams Family
6 PM Get Smart
6:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
7 PM Green Acres
7:30 Petticoat Junction
8 PM Room 222
8:30 Twilight Zone
9 PM 700 Club
10:30 Hi Doug!
11 PM Movie: "Buffalo Bill" (Joel McCrea, Linda Darnell, from '44)
WDHO (WNWO) Ch. 24 Toledo (ABC)
6 AM AM 24
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM The Lucy Show (guest: Ken Berry)
9:30 Edge Of Night
10 AM Cross-Wits
10:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N $20,000 Pyramid
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Battle Of The Planets
4:30 ABC Afterschool Special (pre-empts "The Six
Million Dollar Man")
5:30 News
6 PM ABC World News Tonight
6:30 Dating Game
7 PM Newlywed Game
7:30 $1.98 Beauty Show
8 PM Eight Is Enough
9 PM Charlie's Angels
10 PM Vega$
11 PM News
11:30 Police Woman
12:40 S.W.A.T.
WKBD Ch. 50 Detroit (Ind.)
7 AM Bugs Bunny
7:30 Woody Woodpecker
8 AM Tom And Jerry
8:30 Gilligan's Island
9 AM Please Don't Eat The Daisies
9:30 Family Affair
10 AM Detroit Today
10:30 Not For Women Only
11 AM Romper Room
11:30 Fred Flintstone And Friends
12 N Popeye
12:30 The Lucy Show
1 PM Movie: "That Funny Feeling"
2:55 News
3 PM Casper
3:30 Woody Woodpecker
4 PM Tom And Jerry
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Battle Of The Planets
5:30 Brady Bunch
6 PM Emergency One!
6:30 Joker's Wild (I don't think this is a typo)
7 PM Sanford And Son
7:30 Bob Newhart
8 PM Movie: "Suddenly Last Summer"
10:30 Hollywood And The Stars (the career of Bing Crosby)
11 PM Honeymooners
11:30 Movie: "A Private Affair"
1 AM Tomorrow (pre-empted on Ch. 4)
WTVS Ch. 56 Detroit (PBS)
6 AM Culture, Community And Identity: "Community Shared Experience"
6:30 Energy, Technology And Society
7 AM Designing Home Interiors: "Themes And Moods"
7:30 Over Easy (Rollo May talks about new ways to deal with anxiety.)
8 AM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
9 AM TBA
9:15 In-school program(s)
10 AM Sesame Street
11 AM Electric Company
11:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
12:05 In-school programs
2 PM Designing Home Interiors (same as 7 AM)
2:30 Turnabout
3 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
3:30 Sesame Street
4:30 Zoom
5 PM Over Easy (same as 7:30 AM)
5:30 Quality Of Life (same as 6 AM, Ch. 4)
6 AM Culture, Community And Identity (same as 6 AM)
6:30 Energy, Technology And Society (same as 6:30 AM)
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 United Foundation Training Program
8 PM Great Performances (cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and the
Berlin Philharmonic perform Strauss's "Don Quixote")
9 PM Making Television Dance (Twyla Tharp and Mikhail Baryshnikov
show how television and dance can be used creatively.)
10 PM Great Performances (the Pennsylvania Ballet performs George
Balanchine's "Concerto Baracco" and artistic director Benjamin
Harkarvya's "Madrigalesco")
11 PM Dick Cavett (songwriter E.Y. "Yip" Harburg)
11:30 Captioned ABC News
12 M The Screening Room (same as 6 AM, Ch. 7)
WGPR (WWJ) Ch. 62 Detroit (Ind.)
6 AM Rocky And His Friends
6:30 TV Bible Study
7 AM Praise The Lord (PTL Club?)
9 AM Jack Rehburg
9:30 Dwight Thompson
10 AM Hicks Temple
10:30 PTL Club
12:30 This Is The Day
1 PM Movie: "The Woman's Angle"
2:30 Peyton Place
3 PM Kimba The White Lion
3:30 New Zoo Revue
4 PM Rocky And His Friends
4:30 Mission: Magic
5 PM The Scene (teen music show)
6 PM News
6:30 Rifleman
7 PM This Is The Day
7:30 Hal Roach Theater
8 PM Movie: "The Woman's Angle"
10 PM PTL Club
12 M Faith For Miracles (movies follow--did Ch. 62
stay on all night?)
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