From 40 holiday seasons ago!
From The Detroit Free Press "TV Book" via Newspapers.com
Part I: Detroit locals + Windsor's Channel 9
WJBK 2 (CBS)
6:00 Face to Face
6:30 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 Morning News
9:00 Tom Cottle: Up Close (guest Alan King)
9:30 Card Sharks
10:00 Donahue
11:00 The Price Is Right
12:00 News
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Eight Is Enough
5:00 Maude
5:30/6:00 News
6:30 CBS News
7:00 Family Feud
7:30 P.M. Magazine
8:00 Frosty the Snowman
9:00 G.E. Theater "Bill"
11:00 News
11:30 Madame's Place
12:00 Ironside
1:00 Saturday Night Live (Elliott Gould hosts; guest Peter Tosh)
2:00 CBS News Nightwatch
WDIV 4 (NBC)
5:00 Sonya (guests: Helen Gurley Brown, Leah Feldon, James Phelan)
6:00 Morning Stretch
6:30 Early Today
7:00 Today
9:00 Bullseye
9:30 Wheel of Fortune
10:00 Soap World
10:30 Entertainment Tonight
11:00 Sonya (guests: Rev. Jerry Falwell, Ari Kiev, Deborah Durham)
12:00 News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Fantasy
4:00 The Jeffersons
4:30 All in the Family
5:00 Barney Miller
5:30/6:00 News
6:30 NBC News
7:00 Joker's Wild
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8:00 Father Murphy
9:00 Gavilan
10:00 St. Elsewhere
11:00 News
11:30 The Best of Carson (guests Lee Marvin, Buck Henry)
12:30 Entertainment Tonight (Lorne Greene interview)
1:00 Late Night with David Letterman (guests George Miller, H.B. Halicki)
2:00 Romance Theatre
2:30 Movie "Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?"
4:30 News
WXYZ 7 (ABC)
6:00 ABC News This Morning
6:15 No Nonsense Exercise
6:45 ABC News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Kelly and Company
10:30 Edge of Night
11:00 Love Boat
12:00 Family Feud
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Good Afternoon Detroit
5:00/6:00 News
7:00 ABC News
7:30 People's Court
8:00 John Denver & The Muppets
9:00 Three's Company
9:30 9 to 5
10:00 Hart to Hart
11:00 News
11:30 ABC News Nightline
12:00 The Last Word
1:00 Movie "Li'l Scratch"
CBET 9 (CBC)
8:45 Ed Allen
9:15 Wok with Yan
9:45 Friendly Giant
10:00 Children's Cinema "Miguel's Navidad"
10:30 Mr. Dressup
11:00 Sesame Street
12:00 Movie "Silent Night, Lonely Night"
2:00 Take 30
2:30 Coronation Street
3:00 Coming Attractions
3:30 Afternoon Delight
4:00 Do It for Yourself
4:30 Yes You Can
5:00 King of Kensington
5:30 Carol Burnett
6:00 News
7:00 Hawaii Five-O
8:00 The Fifth Estate
9:00 Performance
9:30 Anka (guest Tony Orlando)
10:00 The National / Journal
11:05 News
11:35 Mary Tyler Moore
WXON 20 (Ind./ONTV pay service) (note - Detroit had no cable TV at this time, although several suburbs did)
6:30 Survival '83
7:00 700 Club
8:30 Movie "The Dark Corner"
10:00 700 Club
11:30 News
11:45 Your Health
12:00 Little Rascals
12:30 The Addams Family
1:00 Green Acres
1:30 In Search Of...
2:00 Adam-12
2:30 Leave It to Beaver
3:00 Cartoons
3:30 Little Rascals
4:00 Incredible Hulk
5:00 Buck Rogers
6:00 BJ / Lobo
7:00 Kojak
No listings again until 11:30; I assume this was when ONTV was on the air
11:30 Christian Children's Fund
WKBD 50 (Ind.)
5:30 News
6:00 Jimmy Swaggart
6:30 Health Field
7:00 Tom and Jerry
7:30 Great Space Coaster
8:00 The Flintstones
8:30 Popeye
9:00 Gilligan's Island
9:30 Please Don't Eat the Daisies
10:00 Richard Simmons
10:30 Morning Break
11:00 Andy Griffith
11:30 News
12:00 Beverly Hillbillies
12:30 I Love Lucy
1:00 Movie "Hell's Kitchen" (starring then-President Ronald Reagan)
3:00 Woody Woodpecker
3:30 Scooby-Doo
4:00 Pink Panther
4:30 The Brady Bunch
5:00 CHiPs Patrol
6:00 Mork and Mindy
6:30 Laverne & Shirley & Company
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 Three's Company
8:00 Movie "The Nickel Ride"
10:00 News
11:00 Sanford and Son
11:30 Benny Hill
12:00/12:30 Three Stooges
1:00 Movie "A Bit of Divorcement"
2:35 News
WTVS 56 (PBS)
5:00 Energy Store
5:30 Girl's High School Basketball (Class B State Finals)
7:15 A.M. Weather
7:30 Business Report
8:00 Scrooge (Sam Douglas opera version)
8:30 Over Easy (guest Margaret Whiting)
9:00 Educational Programming
9:30 Energy Store
10:00 Sesame Street
11:00 Mister Rogers
11:30 Powerhouse "Name of the Game"
12:00 Electric Company
12:30 Lilias, Yoga and You
1:00 Movie "Range Defenders"
3:00 Mister Rogers
3:30 Magic of Oil Painting
4:00 Free Climb (narrated by Robert Redford)
5:00 High School Football (Class B State Finals)
6:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals "Ecology of a Shipwreck"
7:00 Business Report
7:30 MacNeil / Lehrer Report
8:00 Nova "The Television Explosion" (a profile of American TV)
9:00 Mystery "Quiet as a Nun" (Pt. 1)
10:00 Ireland: A Television History "Rising: 1914-1916"
11:00 Butterflies
11:30 PBS Latenight (guest Michael Pertschuk, Federal Trade Commissioner)
12:30 Untamed World "Australia" (pt. 3)
1:00 Nova (rerun from 8pm)
2:00 Mystery (rerun from 9pm)
3:00 Ireland: A Television History (rerun from 10pm)
4:00 PBS Latenight (rerun from 11:30pm)
WGPR 62 (Ind.)
7:00 Jim Bakker
8:00 Funny Fables
8:30 Villa Alegre
9:00 Morning Report
10:00 Black Forum
10:30 Up and Coming
11:00 Jim Bakker
12:00 Judge Roy Bean
12:30 26 Men
1:00 Movie "Four Faces West"
3:00 Jim Bakker
4:00 Mod Squad
5:00 Doctor Who
5:30 Dark Shadows
6:00 The Scene
7:00 Evening Report
7:30 College Basketball (Cleveland vs. Michigan)
9:30 TBA
10:00 Faith for Miracles
11:00 Spirit of Detroit
12:00 News
12:15 Movie "Casanova in Burlesque"
1:45 Movie "Hitler - Dead or Alive"
3:00 Movie "Jack and the Beanstalk" (Abbott and Costello version)
4:30 Movie "Mr. Imperium"
From The Detroit Free Press "TV Book" via Newspapers.com
Part I: Detroit locals + Windsor's Channel 9
WJBK 2 (CBS)
6:00 Face to Face
6:30 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 Morning News
9:00 Tom Cottle: Up Close (guest Alan King)
9:30 Card Sharks
10:00 Donahue
11:00 The Price Is Right
12:00 News
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Eight Is Enough
5:00 Maude
5:30/6:00 News
6:30 CBS News
7:00 Family Feud
7:30 P.M. Magazine
8:00 Frosty the Snowman
9:00 G.E. Theater "Bill"
11:00 News
11:30 Madame's Place
12:00 Ironside
1:00 Saturday Night Live (Elliott Gould hosts; guest Peter Tosh)
2:00 CBS News Nightwatch
WDIV 4 (NBC)
5:00 Sonya (guests: Helen Gurley Brown, Leah Feldon, James Phelan)
6:00 Morning Stretch
6:30 Early Today
7:00 Today
9:00 Bullseye
9:30 Wheel of Fortune
10:00 Soap World
10:30 Entertainment Tonight
11:00 Sonya (guests: Rev. Jerry Falwell, Ari Kiev, Deborah Durham)
12:00 News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Fantasy
4:00 The Jeffersons
4:30 All in the Family
5:00 Barney Miller
5:30/6:00 News
6:30 NBC News
7:00 Joker's Wild
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8:00 Father Murphy
9:00 Gavilan
10:00 St. Elsewhere
11:00 News
11:30 The Best of Carson (guests Lee Marvin, Buck Henry)
12:30 Entertainment Tonight (Lorne Greene interview)
1:00 Late Night with David Letterman (guests George Miller, H.B. Halicki)
2:00 Romance Theatre
2:30 Movie "Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?"
4:30 News
WXYZ 7 (ABC)
6:00 ABC News This Morning
6:15 No Nonsense Exercise
6:45 ABC News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Kelly and Company
10:30 Edge of Night
11:00 Love Boat
12:00 Family Feud
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Good Afternoon Detroit
5:00/6:00 News
7:00 ABC News
7:30 People's Court
8:00 John Denver & The Muppets
9:00 Three's Company
9:30 9 to 5
10:00 Hart to Hart
11:00 News
11:30 ABC News Nightline
12:00 The Last Word
1:00 Movie "Li'l Scratch"
CBET 9 (CBC)
8:45 Ed Allen
9:15 Wok with Yan
9:45 Friendly Giant
10:00 Children's Cinema "Miguel's Navidad"
10:30 Mr. Dressup
11:00 Sesame Street
12:00 Movie "Silent Night, Lonely Night"
2:00 Take 30
2:30 Coronation Street
3:00 Coming Attractions
3:30 Afternoon Delight
4:00 Do It for Yourself
4:30 Yes You Can
5:00 King of Kensington
5:30 Carol Burnett
6:00 News
7:00 Hawaii Five-O
8:00 The Fifth Estate
9:00 Performance
9:30 Anka (guest Tony Orlando)
10:00 The National / Journal
11:05 News
11:35 Mary Tyler Moore
WXON 20 (Ind./ONTV pay service) (note - Detroit had no cable TV at this time, although several suburbs did)
6:30 Survival '83
7:00 700 Club
8:30 Movie "The Dark Corner"
10:00 700 Club
11:30 News
11:45 Your Health
12:00 Little Rascals
12:30 The Addams Family
1:00 Green Acres
1:30 In Search Of...
2:00 Adam-12
2:30 Leave It to Beaver
3:00 Cartoons
3:30 Little Rascals
4:00 Incredible Hulk
5:00 Buck Rogers
6:00 BJ / Lobo
7:00 Kojak
No listings again until 11:30; I assume this was when ONTV was on the air
11:30 Christian Children's Fund
WKBD 50 (Ind.)
5:30 News
6:00 Jimmy Swaggart
6:30 Health Field
7:00 Tom and Jerry
7:30 Great Space Coaster
8:00 The Flintstones
8:30 Popeye
9:00 Gilligan's Island
9:30 Please Don't Eat the Daisies
10:00 Richard Simmons
10:30 Morning Break
11:00 Andy Griffith
11:30 News
12:00 Beverly Hillbillies
12:30 I Love Lucy
1:00 Movie "Hell's Kitchen" (starring then-President Ronald Reagan)
3:00 Woody Woodpecker
3:30 Scooby-Doo
4:00 Pink Panther
4:30 The Brady Bunch
5:00 CHiPs Patrol
6:00 Mork and Mindy
6:30 Laverne & Shirley & Company
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 Three's Company
8:00 Movie "The Nickel Ride"
10:00 News
11:00 Sanford and Son
11:30 Benny Hill
12:00/12:30 Three Stooges
1:00 Movie "A Bit of Divorcement"
2:35 News
WTVS 56 (PBS)
5:00 Energy Store
5:30 Girl's High School Basketball (Class B State Finals)
7:15 A.M. Weather
7:30 Business Report
8:00 Scrooge (Sam Douglas opera version)
8:30 Over Easy (guest Margaret Whiting)
9:00 Educational Programming
9:30 Energy Store
10:00 Sesame Street
11:00 Mister Rogers
11:30 Powerhouse "Name of the Game"
12:00 Electric Company
12:30 Lilias, Yoga and You
1:00 Movie "Range Defenders"
3:00 Mister Rogers
3:30 Magic of Oil Painting
4:00 Free Climb (narrated by Robert Redford)
5:00 High School Football (Class B State Finals)
6:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals "Ecology of a Shipwreck"
7:00 Business Report
7:30 MacNeil / Lehrer Report
8:00 Nova "The Television Explosion" (a profile of American TV)
9:00 Mystery "Quiet as a Nun" (Pt. 1)
10:00 Ireland: A Television History "Rising: 1914-1916"
11:00 Butterflies
11:30 PBS Latenight (guest Michael Pertschuk, Federal Trade Commissioner)
12:30 Untamed World "Australia" (pt. 3)
1:00 Nova (rerun from 8pm)
2:00 Mystery (rerun from 9pm)
3:00 Ireland: A Television History (rerun from 10pm)
4:00 PBS Latenight (rerun from 11:30pm)
WGPR 62 (Ind.)
7:00 Jim Bakker
8:00 Funny Fables
8:30 Villa Alegre
9:00 Morning Report
10:00 Black Forum
10:30 Up and Coming
11:00 Jim Bakker
12:00 Judge Roy Bean
12:30 26 Men
1:00 Movie "Four Faces West"
3:00 Jim Bakker
4:00 Mod Squad
5:00 Doctor Who
5:30 Dark Shadows
6:00 The Scene
7:00 Evening Report
7:30 College Basketball (Cleveland vs. Michigan)
9:30 TBA
10:00 Faith for Miracles
11:00 Spirit of Detroit
12:00 News
12:15 Movie "Casanova in Burlesque"
1:45 Movie "Hitler - Dead or Alive"
3:00 Movie "Jack and the Beanstalk" (Abbott and Costello version)
4:30 Movie "Mr. Imperium"