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Retro: Detroit/Windsor/Toledo Wed., Oct. 18, 1978

By request, from TV Guide, Detroit Edition:

WJBK Ch. 2 Detroit (CBS)

6:20 Town And Country Almanac
6:30 Wayne State University: College Of Lifelong Learning
7 AM Good Morning Detroit (Ch. 2's 30th-anniversary celebration continues from Somerset Mall in Troy, MI.)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue (the occurrence of marital breakup after putting one's spouse through school)
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 (local)
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 Everyday (Norman Fell, Stefanie Powers, exercises, a discussion of dominant and submissive roles in family life; Stephanie Edwards and John Bennett Perry host; this is the show that morphed into "Hour Magazine" in 1980)
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-host Anthony Newley; Alan King, Rita Moreno)
5:30 News
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Newlywed Game
7:30 PM Magazine (fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg)
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 In The Beginning
9 PM CBS Movie: "McLintock!" (John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, from '63)
11:30 News
12 M Fernwood 2Night
12:30 Hawaii Five-O (delay from 12 M)
1:40 Kojak (delay from 1:10 AM)
2:50 The Rookies
3:20 News

WDIV Ch. 4 Detroit (NBC)

6 AM Classroom: "Quality Of Life: What Is It?" (Part 1)
6:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
7 AM Today (Irving Wallace and David Wallechinsky cite facts from volume two of "The People's Almanac.")
9 AM America Alive! (Jack Linkletter, delay from 12 N)
10 AM This Morning (Cathie Mann)
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N Dating Game
12:30 News
1 PM Hollywood Squares (Diahann Carroll, Gwynne Gilford, George Gobel, Steve Landesberg, Rose Marie, Kelly Monteith, Mackenzie Phillips, Seals and Crofts, Paul Lynde)
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Dinah! (Lucille Ball, Orson Welles, Dick Van Dyke, Sally Struthers)
5:30 News
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
7 PM Bowling For Dollars
7:25 Michigan State Daily Lottery
7:30 Please Stand By
8 PM NBC Movie: "Little Big Man"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (Gregory Peck, Martin Mull, Metropolitan Opera soprano Judith Blegen)
1 AM Tomorrow
2 AM Classroom
2:30 News

WXYZ Ch. 7 Detroit (ABC)

6 AM TV College: "The Screening Room: Hollywood In The Thirties," conclusion
6:30 News
7 AM Good Morning America (Liv Ullmann)
9 AM Kelly And Company (model Wilhelmina, psychiatric social worker Lyn Delliquadri)
10:30 Edge Of Night (delay from 4 PM)
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N $20,000 Pyramid (Caren Kaye, Richard Paul)
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Movie: "Goodnight, My Love"
5:30 News
6 PM News
7 PM ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Bonkers! (guest: Juliet Prowse)
8 PM Eight Is Enough
9 PM Charlie's Angels
10 PM Vega$
11 PM News
11:30 Police Woman
12:40 S.W.A.T.
1:50 News

CBET Ch. 9 Windsor, ON (CBC)

8:50 Friendly Giant
9:05 Bob McLean
10 AM Ontario Schools
10:30 Mr. Dressup
11 AM Sesame Street
12 N Movie: "Mission Balangas"
2 PM Insight (talk show)
2:30 Where The Sky Begins
3 PM Take 30
3:30 Celebrity Cooks (Julia Child makes poached chicken with wine sauce.)
4 PM Just William (kids' show)
4:30 For Kids Only
5 PM Six Million Dollar Man
6 PM Newsday
7 PM Odd Couple
7:30 Mary Tyler Moore
8 PM NHL Hockey: Sabres-Maple Leafs
11 PM CBC News (time approximate)
11:25 News
11:45 Canada After Dark (Noel Harrison, producer Alan Lund)
12:45 Shades Of Greene

WTOL Ch. 11 Toledo (CBS)

6:20 Sunrise Semester: "American Character"
6:50 Town And Country
7 AM CBS News (Lesley Stahl/Richard Threlkeld)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM My Three Sons
9:30 Match Game '78 (Bill Daily, Fannie Flagg, Greg Morris, Charles Nelson Reilly, Barbara Rhoades, Brett Somers, day-behind from 4 PM)
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: "Inside Daisy Clover"
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: "McLintock!"
11:30 News
12 M Hawaii Five-O
1:10 Kojak
2:20 News

WSPD (WTVG) Ch. 13 Toledo (NBC)

6:55 Farm Report
7 AM Today
9 AM Donahue (same as Ch. 2)
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 Jeopardy! (except for Art Fleming, the producers got everything wrong: the lowest-scoring contestant was eliminated at the end of each round, with the winner playing the "Super Jeopardy!" board, trying to make a row of five without three incorrect responses--when the show returned in 1984 they wisely went back to the original format)
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N News
12:30 America Alive! (joined in progress)
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 (Betty White, William Conrad, Dick Gautier, Larry Hovis)
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8 PM NBC Movie: "Little Big Man"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow
2 AM News

WXON Ch. 20 Detroit (Ind.)

9:20 News
9:30 700 Club
11 AM Super Heroes
11:30 Spiderman
12 N Beatles (animated)
12:30 Movie: "The Plunderers"
1:55 News
2 PM Nanny And The Professor
2:30 Popeye & Pals
3 PM The Archies
3:30 Abbott And Costello (animated)
4 PM Mighty Mouse/Deputy Dawg
4:30 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: "Wild Riders"

WDHO (WNWO) Ch. 24 Toledo (ABC)

6 AM PTL Club
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM The Lucy Show
9:30 Edge Of Night
10 AM Everyday
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 Six Million Dollar Man
5:30 News
6 PM ABC World News Tonight
6:30 Dating Game
7 PM Newlywed Game
7:30 $1.98 Beauty Show (judges: Louis Nye, Gene Gene, Char Fontane)
8 PM Eight Is Enough
9 PM Charlie's Angels
10 PM Vega$
11 PM News
11:30 Police Woman
12:40 S.W.A.T.

WGTE Ch. 30 Toledo (PBS)

In-school programs until

11 AM Electric Company
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 In-school programs
3 PM The Long Search
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Over Easy (guest: Jack LaLanne)
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Roundtable
8 PM Marie Curie (Part 2)
9 PM Great Performances (works choreographed by George Balanchine are performed by the New York City Ballet, including "Jewels," a work whose three sections reflect different facets of dance, and a piece for two couples and ensemble set to Stravinsky's Violin Concerto in D Major)
10:30 Monet (the landscapes of French impressionist Claude Monet)
11 PM Adams Chronicles (during the Revolution, John Adams becomes a commissioner to France in order to persuade that country to help the American cause)
sign off 12 M

WKBD Ch. 50 Detroit (Ind.)

7 AM Bugs Bunny
7:30 Woody Woodpecker
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 (Shirley Moore of the U.S. Product Safety Commission discusses toy safety.)
10:30 Not For Women Only (helping people accept death without isolation and deception--part 3 of 5 on death)
11 AM Romper Room
11:30 Fred Flintstone And Friends
12 N Popeye
12:30 The Lucy Show
1 PM Movie: "Pride Of The Yankees" (conclusion of a two-parter)
2:55 News
3 PM Casper & Friends
3:30 Woody Woodpecker
4 PM Tom & Jerry
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Battle Of The Planets
5:30 Brady Bunch
6 PM Emergency One!
7 PM Sanford And Son
7:30 NHL Hockey: Red Wings-Rangers
10 PM Best Of Groucho (time approximate)
10:30 Honeymooners
11 PM Gong Show (Chuck Woolery, Jamie Farr, Jaye P. Morgan)
11:30 Movie: "The Westerner" (Gary Cooper stars, but Walter Brennan won his third Best Supporting Actor Oscar, from '40)

WTVS Ch. 56 Detroit (PBS)

7:30 Over Easy (guest: Abe Burrows)
8 AM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
9 AM In-school programs
10 AM Sesame Street
11 AM Electric Company
11:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
12 N In-school programs
2:30 Turnabout (I think this is a magazine show, it's not the 1979 NBC flop about a couple who magically switch bodies.)
3 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
3:30 Sesame Street
4:30 Zoom
5 PM Over Easy (rerun from 7:30 AM)
5:30 TBA
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Para Mi Pueblo (part 1 on living conditions in Cuba today)
8 PM Marie Curie
9 PM Great Performances
10:30 Monet
11 PM Dick Cavett (Quentin Crisp discusses his autobiography "The Naked Civil Servant.")
11:30 Captioned ABC News
12 M Screening Room ("Hollywood In The Thirties")
sign off 12:30 AM

WBGU Ch. 57 Bowling Green, OH (PBS)

7:15 Community Datebook
7:20 Lilias, Yoga And You
7:50 Sesame Street
8:50 In-school programs
11 AM Electric Company
11:30 In-school programs
12 N Consumer Survival Kit
12:30 In-school programs
3 PM Lilias, Yoga And You
3:30 Julia Child & Company
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM News
6:30 Over Easy (Jack LaLanne)
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Cooking Mexican
8 PM Marie Curie
9 PM Great Performances
10:30 Monet
11 PM Dick Cavett
11:30 Captioned ABC News
12 M Community Datebook

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

6 AM Rocky And His Friends
6:30 TV Bible Study
7 AM Praise The Lord (I think this is from Trinity Broadcasting, not the "PTL Club.")
9 AM Jack Rehburg (religion)
9:30 Dwight Thompson
10 AM Hicks Temple
10:30 PTL Club
12:30 This Is The Day
1 PM Movie: "The Return Of Jack Slade"
2:30 Peyton Place (if you think this is weird, some people look on soaps as morality plays where good always eventually triumphs)
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 (dance show)
6 PM News
6:30 Rifleman
7 PM This Is The Day
7:30 Teen Profile
8 PM Movie: "The Return Of Jack Slade"
10 PM PTL Club
12 M Faith For Miracles
1 AM Movies: TBA (all night)
 
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