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Retro: Detroit/Windsor/Toledo Thu., Oct. 25, 1979

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From TV Guide, Detroit Edition:

WJBK Ch. 2 Detroit (CBS)

5:45 Town And Country Almanac
6 AM WSU: College Of Lifelong Learning (lecture: "White and Blacks: Popular Ideology")
6:30 Gigglesnort Hotel
7 AM Good Morning, Detroit
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue (guests: Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden)
10 AM Tic Tac Dough
10:30 Whew!
10:55 News
11 AM Price Is Right
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 One Day At A Time
4 PM Mike Douglas (co-hostess Audra Lindley; Ann-Margret, Vic Damone, ventriloquist Jay Johnson)
5:30 News
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM PM Magazine (Minnesota Vikings player Dave Huffman works out at training camp; new developments in artificial body parts; the komodor dog as a pet)
7:30 Newlywed Game
8 PM Waltons
9 PM Hawaii Five-O
10 PM Barnaby Jones
11 PM News
11:30 Carol Burnett And Friends
12 M Columbo (delay from 11:30 PM)
1:55 Banacek (delay from 1:25 AM)
3:25 News

WDIV Ch. 4 Detroit (NBC)

6 AM Classroom ("The Cellular Basis Of Unity And Diversity: Laws Of Inheritance")
6:30 Bugs Bunny And His Superstar Friends
7 AM Today (author Michael Korda discusses his book "Charmed Lives")
9 AM Movie: "The Blue Knight"
10:30 Hollywood Squares (George Gobel, Mariette Hartley, K.C. (of K.C. and the Sunshine Band), Jayne Kennedy, the Lennon Sisters, Tom Poston, Skip Stephenson, Jimmie Walker)
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N News
12:30 Midday (economist Howard Ruff talks about storing essential items in a time of increasing scarcity)
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM The Doctors
2:30 Another World
4 PM Good Times
4:30 Special Treat ("The Rocking Chair Rebellion," about a group of teens and a group of senior citizens tired of being confined to a nursing home, delay from Tue 4 PM, pre-empts "The Gong Show" and "Bewitched")
5:30 All In The Family
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
7:30 3's A Crowd (the controversial Chuck Barris game show beat all its competition in Detroit, but by spring "Joker's Wild" had taken over the timeslot)
8 PM Buck Rogers In The 25th Century
9 PM Quincy
10 PM Kate The Detective (Kate Mulgrew as a detective first presumed to be Mrs. Columbo, but in time the Columbo connection was abandoned)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (Bill Cosby subs for Johnny; Joel Grey, Larry Hagman, Shields & Yarnell)
1 AM Tomorrow (Kris Kristofferson is guest)
2 AM Classroom

WXYZ Ch. 7 Detroit (ABC)

6 AM TV College: "Homosexuality"
6:30 News
7 AM Good Morning America (a visit to the FBI training school in Quantico, VA; part 4 of an interview with Kirk Douglas)
9 AM Kelly & Co. (one of the guests is Vidal Sassoon)
10:30 Edge Of Night (delay from 4 PM)
11 AM Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
12 N Junior Pyramid
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Movie: "Search For The Gods"
5:30 News
6 PM News
7 PM ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Match Game PM (Richard Paul, Don Galloway, Joyce Bulifant, Mary Ann Mobley)
8 PM Laverne & Shirley (one of the scheduling moves that helped ABC lose the 1979-80 season and place CBS back on top)
8:30 Benson
9 PM NFL Football: Chargers-Raiders
12 M News (time approximate)
12:30 Movie: "A Fine Madness" (not sure if this is ABC, Ch. 24 normally carried ABC Late Night but not this movie)
2:45 News

CBET Ch. 9 Windsor, ON (CBC)

7:45 Today From The West
8:45 Friendly Giant
9 AM From Now On
9:30 Ben Wicks (a visit to a natural-gas drilling site near Edmonton)
10 AM Ontario Schools
10:30 Mr. Dressup
11 AM Sesame Street
12 N Movie: "The Three Faces Of Eve"
2 PM Insight (Angust Meier and Elliott Rudwick, coauthors of "Black Detroit And The Rise Of The UAW")
2:30 Take 30
3 PM Bob McLean
4 PM Beyond Reason
4:30 Beachcombers
5 PM Dick Van Dyke
5:30 Mary Tyler Moore
6 PM Newsday
7 PM Odd Couple (Hugh Hefner in a flashback to Felix's first big photography assignment--a Playboy centerfold)
7:30 Carol Burnett And Friends
8 PM On The Record
9 PM Ray Griff's Uptown Country
9:30 Cities (George Plimpton tours New York)
10:30 Flappers
11 PM CBC News (Knowlton Nash)
11:25 News
11:45 Sidestreet
sign off 12:45 AM

WTOL Ch. 11 Toledo (CBS)

6:15 Sunrise Semester: the origins of African nationalism
6:45 Town And Country
7 AM Morning With Bob Schieffer
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Brady Bunch
9:30 Love Of Life (delay from 4 PM)
10 AM Beat The Clock (Monty Hall version)
10:30 Dating Game
10:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
11 AM Price Is Right
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 One Day At A Time
4 PM Movie: "Downhill Racer"
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Match Game (Jack Jones, Patty Duke Astin, Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers, Debralee Scott, Alfie Wise)
7:30 Joker's Wild
8 PM Waltons
9 PM Hawaii Five-O
10 PM Barnaby Jones
11 PM News
11:30 Columbo
1:25 Banacek
2:55 News

WTVG Ch. 13 Toledo (NBC)

5:55 700 Club
6:55 Farm Report
7 AM Today
9 AM Donahue (same as Ch. 2)
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N News
12:30 Password Plus (Greg Morris, Judy Norton-Taylor)
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM The Doctors
2:30 Another World
4 PM Jim Rockford, Private Investigator ("Rockford Files" reruns)
5 PM Odd Couple
5:30 M*A*S*H
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Happy Days Again
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8 PM Buck Rogers In The 25th Century
9 PM Quincy
10 PM Kate The Detective
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow
2 AM News

WXON Ch. 20 Detroit (Ind.)

6:30 News
6:45 Abbott And Costello (animated)
7 AM 700 Club
8:30 Movie: "Mr. Winkle Goes To War" (Edward G. Robinson; watch for Ruth Warrick, aka Phoebe Wallingford from "All My Children," from '44)
9:55 News
10 AM 700 Club
11:30 Green Acres
12 N Petticoat Junction
12:30 Big Valley
1:30 Twilight Zone
2 PM McHale's Navy
2:30 Leave It To Beaver
3 PM Mighty Mouse/Deputy Dawg
3:30 Jetsons
4 PM Spiderman
4:30 Superman (George Reeves)
5 PM Addams Family
5:30 New Soupy Sales Show
6 PM Get Smart
6:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
7 PM Dating Game
7:30 Rhoda
I'm not sure if Ch. 20 went to pay-per-view at 8 PM.

WDHO (WNWO) Ch. 24 Toledo (ABC)

5:30 PTL Club
6:30 New Day
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Edge Of Night
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 AM Emergency One!
11 AM Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
12 N Junior Pyramid
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Tom & Jerry
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Carol Burnett And Friends (guest: Jack Weston)
5:30 News
6 PM ABC World News Tonight
6:30 Newlywed Game
7 PM 3's A Crowd
7:30 All In The Family
8 PM Laverne & Shirley
8:30 Benson
9 PM NFL Football: Chargers-Raiders
12 M News (time approximate)
sign off 12:30 AM

WGTE Ch. 30 Toledo (PBS)

8:15 A.M. Weather
8:30 In-school programs
11 AM Electric Company
11:30 In-school programs
3 PM Masterpiece Theatre: "Love For Lydia," Part 5
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Over Easy (guest: singer Kaye Stevens)
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Dick Cavett (guest: animator Chuck Jones)
8 PM Evening At Symphony (the Boston Symphony performs Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9)
9 PM Vibrations
9:30 Sneak Previews (reviewed: "And Justice For All" with Al Pacino; "Luna" with Jill Clayburgh)
10 PM The Scarlett Letter (Part 3)
11 PM Dick Cavett (same as 7:30 PM)
sign off 11:30 PM

WKBD Ch. 50 Detroit (Ind.)

6:50 News
7 AM Bugs Bunny
7:30 Casper
8 AM Tom & Jerry
8:30 Gilligan's Island
9 AM Please Don't Eat The Daisies
9:30 Family Affair
10 AM Detroit Today
10:30 Health Field (Dr. Frank Field discusses surgical procedures to remove kidney and bladder stones.)
11 AM Romper Room
11:30 Huck And Yogi
12 N Popeye
12:30 Beverly Hillbillies
1 PM Movie: "Hell's Kitchen"
2:55 News
3 PM Bugs Bunny
3:30 Woody Woodpecker
4 PM Tom & Jerry
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Brady Bunch
5:30 I Love Lucy
6 PM Happy Days Again
6:30 Sanford And Son
7 PM M*A*S*H
7:30 Andy Griffith
8 PM Movie: "Caribbean"
9:55 News
10 PM Dinah! & Friends (co-host Don Meredith; Loni Anderson and husband Ross Bickell, Tom Wopat, karate expert Joe Lewis, singing group Come to New Zealand)
11 PM Make Me Laugh (Bruce Baum, the Unknown Comic, Argus Hamilton; celebrity contestant: Tamara Dobson)
11:30 Benny Hill
12 M Movie: "Beau Geste"

WTVS Ch. 56 Detroit (PBS)

6:45 A.M. Weather
7 AM Maggie And The Beautiful Machine
7:30 Dick Cavett (guest: Dudley Moore)
8 AM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:30 Over Easy (guest: Col. Harland Sanders)
9 AM In-school programs
11 AM Electric Company
11:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
12 N Freestyle
12:30 In-school programs
2 PM Dick Cavett (rerun of the 7:30 AM show)
2:30 French Chef
3 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
3:30 Villa Alegre
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM nothing listed until 7 PM
7 PM Feedback
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM The Commanders (Isoroku Yamamoto)
9 PM Soundstage (the Doobie Brothers)
10 PM Second City Television Network
10:30 Monty Python's Flying Circus
11 PM Dick Cavett (Chuck Jones)
11:30 Captioned ABC News
sign off 12 M

WBGU Ch. 57 Bowling Green, OH (PBS)

7:15 A.M. Weather
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 TBA
8:45 Community Datebook
9 AM In-school programs (time approximate)
11 AM Electric Company
11:30 Nova (the flight of the Gossamer Condor, a plane which works by pedaling it like a bicycle)
12:30 In-school programs
3 PM Over Easy (Kaye Stevens)
3:30 Bonaventure Travel
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM News
6:30 Over Easy (rerun of the 3 PM show)
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Sneak Previews (a retrospective of movie monsters includes "King Kong" and "Alien")
8 PM Evening At Symphony
9 PM Movie: "Lost In The Stars"
10:40 TBA
11 PM Dick Cavett (Chuck Jones)
11:30 Captioned ABC News
12 M Community Datebook

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

9 AM Pastor James Holmes
9:30 Jubilee Time
10:30 Christians And Mental Health
11 AM PTL Club
1 PM Spirit Of Detroit
1:30 Faith For Miracles
2:30 Movie: "Hoppity Goes To Town"
4 PM New Zoo Revue
4:30 Rocky And His Friends
5 PM The Scene (dance show)
6 PM News
6:30 Rifleman
7 PM This Is The Day
7:30 Movie: "Hell's Crossroads"
9 PM PTL Club
11 PM Spirit Of Detroit
11:30 Faith For Miracles
1 AM Movie: "Texas Lady"
2:10 Movie: "The Magnificent Doll"
 
Hey bpatrick2?

Do you have any TV listings from Local TV Guides from Detroit from the time period of 1985-1989 (late 80s)

for the following stations?

2 - WJBK Detroit (CBS)
4 - WDIV Detroit (NBC)
7 - WXYZ Detroit (ABC)
9 - CBET Windsor (CBC)
11 - WTOL Toledo (CBS)
13 - WTVG Toledo (NBC)
20 - WXON Detroit (Ind)
24 - WNWO Toledo (ABC)
30 - WGTE Toledo (PBS)
31 - WIHT Ann Arbor (Ind)
36 - WUPW Toledo (Ind, became Fox affiliate in 1986)
50 - WKBD Detroit (Ind, became Fox affiliate in 1986)
56 - WTVS Detroit (PBS)
57 - WBGU Bowling Green (PBS, moved to channel 27 in 1986)
62 - WGPR Detroit (Ind)

If you have any, just let me know! And I'll be grateful if you posted some!
 
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Yes Channel 20 WXON ran ON-TV Supscription TV programming scrambled after 8 PM beginning the fall of 79. Unlike many ON-TV Affiliates, WXON remained with general entertainment programming till 6 PM weekdays and 3 PM weekends. WSNS Chicago, though began running ON-TV in the fall of 1980 weeknights after 7 PM initially, then in 1981 expanded to after 6 PM wwedkays and from 1 PM on during weekends. Then later in 1981, WSNS cut back unscrambled programming to only 7 to 11 AM being the FCC still demanded stations with STV programming run at least 28 unscrambled programs per week. Then in 1983, The FCC stopped requiring that aand a few STV stations like WSNS went scrambled 24/7, even for the public affiars shows. KVEA Los Angeles also went ON TV 24/7 in 1983. Only a few stations scrambled 24/7. Most did run a couple hours of religion a day.
 
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