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Retro: Detroit/Windsor/Toledo Sat., Oct. 14, 1978

From TV Guide, Detroit Edition:

NOTES: ABC has a college football game scheduled today; teams and kickoff time had not been set at press time.
The networks may pre-empt regular programming to cover the conclave of Roman Catholic cardinals in Rome (the one that elected Pope John Paul II).

WJBK Ch. 2 Detroit (CBS)

6:25 News
6:30 Better Way
7 AM Ark II (week-behind from 1 PM)
7:30 30 Minutes (a talk with Shaun Cassidy and a look at some of his fans, including one who won a chance to meet him, week-behind from 1:30 PM)
8 AM All-New Popeye Hour
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12 N Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Movie: "Terror Beneath The Sea"
3 PM Adam-12
3:30 Soul Train (the Whispers, Gil Scott-Heron, Evelyn "Champagne" King)
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular (Jockey Club Gold Cup horse race, USTA Women's Indoor Tennis Championship, Part 2 of the World's Strongest Man Competition)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM Family Feud
7:30 Wild Wild World Of Animals
8 PM Rhoda
8:30 Good Times
9 PM The American Girls
10 PM Dallas
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Villa Rides"
1:30 Movie: "Ghosts On The Loose" (Bela Lugosi and Ava Gardner star with the East Side Kids, from '43)
3 AM News

WDIV Ch. 4 Detroit (NBC)

5:55 News
6 AM Pro And Con
6:30 Oopsy! The Clown
8 AM Yogi's Space Race
9:30 Godzilla
10:30 Fantastic Four
11 AM Krofft Superstar Hour
12 N Fabulous Funnies
12:30 Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
1 PM At The Zoo
1:30 Movie: "Legend Of Cougar Canyon"
3 PM World Series Pregame Show
3:15 World Series: Yankees-Dodgers (Game 4; Yankees did exactly what they did in '77, win the Series, 4-2)
6:30 NBC News (time approximate, anchor not given)
7 PM Town Meeting (second of two on equal opportunity programs and their effectiveness)
7:30 Profiles
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM NBC Movie: "Rescue From Gilligan's Island" (Part 1, part 2 airs next week; big difference: Judith Baldwin replaces Tina Louise as Ginger)
10 PM Sword Of Justice
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (Fred Willard (host), musical guests Devo)
1 AM Twiggy's Jukebox
1:30 News

WXYZ Ch. 7 Detroit (ABC)

7 AM Old Time Comedies ("The Hitchhiker," with Harry Langdon)
7:30 Marlo And The Magic Movie Machine (early photos of Andrea McArdle; the career of Lyndon Johnson)
8 AM Scooby-Doo
8:30 Fangface
9 AM Superfriends
10 AM Scooby's All-Stars
11:30 Pink Panther
12 N ABC Weekend Special: "The Rag Tag Champs" (a teenage third baseman tries to find a qualified coach for his team while trying to avoid separation from his guardian uncle, a bachelor musician who's never home nights, part 1 of 2)
12:30 TBA
4 PM The Great And The Greatest (time approximate)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (boxing: U.S. national team against the Cuban national team headed by world amateur heavyweight champ Teofilo Stevenson, time approximate)
6:30 ABC News (Sylvia Chase/Tom Jarriel)
7 PM Studio D
7:30 Hollywood Squares (Steve Landesberg, Priscilla Barnes, Rich Little, Diana Canova, Maren Jensen, George Gobel, Debra Clinger, Herve Villechaize, Paul Lynde)
8 PM Osmond Brothers (Jay, Wayne, Merrill, and Alan welcome Ann-Margret, Tim Conway, Rita Coolidge, and Kris Kristofferson)
9 PM Love Boat (Red Buttons, Allen Ludden, Hope Lange, Richard Mulligan)
10 PM Fantasy Island (Desi Arnaz Jr., Barry Sullivan)
11 PM News
11:15 ABC News (Sylvia Chase/Tom Jarriel)
11:30 Movie: "Oklahoma Crude"
1:30 Movie: "The Monk"
3:30 Soundings

CBET Ch. 9 Windsor, ON (CBC)

9:30 Celebrity Tennis
10 AM Parade (kids' show)
11 AM Sesame Street
12 N Frank DeAngelis
1 PM Mr. Chips
1:30 Movie: "Africa--Texas Style!"
3 PM Movie: "Invisible Invaders"
4:30 Trivia Quiz
5 PM Great Adventure ("Land Divers Of The New Hebrides")
6 PM CBC News (anchor not given)
6:30 Six Million Dollar Man
7:30 Sports Scene
8 PM Hockey Night In Canada: Islanders-Maple Leafs
11 PM CBC News (George McLean, time approximate)
11:15 News
11:35 Movie: "Banning"

WTOL Ch. 11 Toledo (CBS)

7 AM Sunrise Semester: "English Language Arts"
7:30 Patches And Pockets
8:30 Marlo And The Magic Movie Machine (events of 1959, the world's biggest apple pie, marathon running)
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12 N Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Ark II
1:30 30 Minutes ("Harry the Bear" Geisler, who merchandises products with celebrities' faces on them)
2 PM Movie: "Castle Keep"
4 PM Marty Robbins' Spotlight (Barbara Mandrell helps salute the Kendalls.)
4:30 Pop Goes The Country
5 PM Hee Haw (Hank Williams Jr., Connie Smith)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Wild Kingdom
7:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
8 PM Rhoda
8:30 Good Times
9 PM The American Girls
10 PM Dallas
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Topaz" (Hitchcock thriller about a security leak during the Cuban Missile Crisis, from '69)
1 AM News

WSPD (WTVG) Ch. 13 Toledo (NBC)

6:45 Farm Report
7 AM Vegetable Soup
7:30 Uncle Ben (kids' show)
8 AM Yogi's Space Race
9:30 Godzilla
10:30 Fantastic Four
11 AM Krofft Superstar Hour
12 N Fabulous Funnies
12:30 Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
1 PM Kidsworld
1:30 Do It Yourself With Homer Formby
2 PM Gong Show
2:30 Candid Camera
3 PM World Series Pregame Show
3:15 World Series (see Ch. 4)
6:30 13 Reports (time approximate)
7 PM Lawrence Welk (music with a Hawaiian theme)
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM NBC Movie: "Rescue From Gilligan's Island" (part 1 of 2)
10 PM Sword Of Justice
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM News

WXON Ch. 20 Detroit (Ind.)

8:30 Amazing Grace Bible Class
9 AM Senior Journal
10 AM Public Policy Forum: "Taxpayers' Revolt: Are Constitutional Limits Desirable?"
11 AM Bullwinkle
11:30 Popeye
12 N Jetsons
12:30 Get Smart
1 PM Movie: "Blondie Plays Cupid"
2:30 Mister Ed
3 PM Movie: "The Day Of The Triffids"
4:30 Movie: "The Fuller Brush Man" (Red Skelton, from '48)
6 PM Get Smart
6:30 Twilight Zone
7 PM Lohman And Barkley (Gordon MacRae, Louis Nye, Soupy Sales)
8 PM City Update
8:30 Temple Baptist Church
9 PM 700 Club
10:30 The Lesson
11 PM College Football: Michigan State-Michigan (taped earlier today in Ann Arbor)

WDHO (WNWO) Ch. 24 Toledo (ABC)

7 AM Big Blue Marble
7:30 Hot Fudge
8 AM Scooby-Doo
8:30 Fangface
9 AM Tarzan
10 AM Scooby's All-Stars
11:30 Pink Panther
12 N ABC Weekend Special
12:30 TBA
4 PM Last Of The Wild (time approximate)
4:30 Wide World Of Stunts (time approximate)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (time approximate)
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Space: 1999
8 PM Osmond Brothers
9 PM Love Boat
10 PM Fantasy Island
11 PM News
11:15 ABC News
11:30 Movie: "Behind The Eight Ball"
1 AM Movie: "A Lion Is In The Streets" (Jimmy Cagney as a Huey Long-type politician, from '53)

WGTE Ch. 30 Toledo (PBS)

5 PM Ohio Journal
5:30 Economically Speaking
6 PM Like It Is
6:30 Black Perspective On The News
7 PM Washington Week In Review
7:30 Wall Street Week
8 PM Nova ("One Small Step," first of two on space exploration, recalls America's efforts to beat the Russians to the moon.)
9 PM The Long Search (host Ronald Eyre searches for the meaning of Judaism; he interviews Elie Wiesel in New York and tours Jerusalem)
10 PM Country Tales: The Miracle Of Brother Humphrey (a monk thinks he has received a sign from the heavens; he talks about it until he bores the other monks--then they find out he can perform miracles)
sign off 10:30 PM

WKBD Ch. 50 Detroit (Ind.)

8:30 Jerry Falwell
9:30 Big Blue Marble
10 AM Movie: "Sierra Baron"
11:30 Movie: "Tarzan Triumphs" (Johnny Weissmuller, from '43)
1 PM Movie: "Spencer's Mountain" (Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara in the 1963 film which would be tweaked into "The Waltons")
3:30 Movie: "House Of Wax" (classic Vincent Price thriller from '53)
5 PM Star Trek
6 PM Hogan's Heroes
6:30 Lawrence Welk (same as Ch. 13)
7:30 NBA Basketball: Pistons-Hawks
9:30 Night Gallery (time approximate)
10 PM Untouchables (time approximate)
11 PM Flash Gordon ("The Shattering Doom," Chapter 7, with Buster Crabbe)
11:30 Boxing: John Tate vs. Roy "Cookie" Wallace, heavyweights, 10 rounds, from Houston; preliminaries: Jose Pena vs. David Vasquez, super bantamweights, 10 rounds, Harold Weston vs. Sam Masias, welterweights, 10 rounds)

WTVS Ch. 56 Detroit (PBS)

8 AM Sesame Street
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Sesame Street
11 AM Sesame Street
12 N Cinematic Eye: Benjamin Dunlap analyzes Fritz Lang's 1931 psychological thriller "M"
12:30 Movie: "M" (Peter Lorre made his film debut here.)
2:10 Films
2:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
3 PM Farm Digest
3:30 Consumer Survival Kit
4 PM It's Your Turn (Friends of the Public Library discuss rare books and manuscripts.)
5 PM Pro Soccer
6 PM Economically Speaking (tax limitation)
6:30 Black Perspective On The News
7 PM Once Upon A Classic ("Dominic," Part 1 of 8)
7:30 Julia Child & Company
8 PM Evening At Symphony (Seiji Ozawa conducts the Boston Symphony and Itzhak Perlman is soloist in Stravinsky's Violin Concerto in D; Brahms' Third Symphony.)
9 PM The Long Search
10 PM Movie: "Port Of Call"
sign off 11:40 PM

WBGU Ch. 57 Bowling Green, OH (PBS)

8 AM Sesame Street
9 AM Art America
9:30 Guten Tag In Deutschland
10 AM The Long Search
11 AM Cooking Mexican
11:30 Julia Child & Company
12 N Economically Speaking
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1 PM Cinematic Eye
1:30 Movie: "M"
3:10 Films
3:30 Crosstalk
4 PM Soundstage (Leo Sayer performs.)
5 PM Studio See
5:30 Freestyle (kids' show)
6 PM Pro Soccer
7 PM Once Upon A Classic
7:30 Three By Four (three short subjects by four filmmakers: (1) Alan Beattie's "Doubletalk," in which we get to hear--simultaneously--what both sides are thinking when a boy meets his girlfriend's parents for the first time; (2) Marjie Short's "Kudzu," tracing the growth of the vine we Southerners hate; (3) Peter Werner and Andre Guttfreund's "In The Region Of Ice," about a teaching nun who becomes emotionally involved with a brilliant but unstable student)
8:30 Sneak Previews ("Death On The Nile," "The Boys From Brazil"
9 PM Champions (part 1 of 2 with Canada's prime minister Pierre Trudeau and Quebec's premier Rene Levesque, concludes tomorrow at 8 PM)
10 PM Reel West (actors, directors, and ranchers compare the real West to what the movies show)
10:30 College Football: Ohio State-Purdue (taped earlier today)

WGPR (WWJ) Ch. 62 Detroit (Ind.)

7 AM Now Faith Is
7:30 Miracle Prayer Hour
8 AM Second Canaan Evangelist Hour
8:30 Meet Jesus
9 AM Unity Power Hour
9:30 This Is The Hour
10 AM Fit For The King
10:30 Gospel Crusade For Spiritual Awakening
11 AM Voice Of True Light
11:30 Watch Your Mouth
12 N Valley Of The Dinosaurs
12:30 Name Of The Game Is Golf
1 PM Withit (pet care)
1:30 R.F.D. Hollywood
2 PM Journey To Adventure
2:30 Hal Roach Theatre
3 PM Felix The Cat
3:30 America's Black Forum
4 PM Wrestling
5 PM Moon Man Connection
6 PM Gino Washington Show
6:30 Boxing
7:30 Nothing Is Impossible
8 PM Wide World Of Truth
8:30 Lord's Nest
9 PM Keys To The Kingdom
10 PM Hour Of Deliverance
11 PM Salvation Rock
11:30 Liberty Temple
12 M Faith For Miracles

I can't decide if Ch. 62 reminds me more of WATL/36 Atlanta or what was then WRIP/61 Chattanooga in those days.
 
ABC's college football game at 12:30 was Pitt at Notre Dame for most of the country, with lower-division Wisconsin-Whitewater at Northern Michigan as a regional broadcast(Would WXYZ have shown that game?)
 
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