Retro: East Bay Area, CA - Tuesday, August 16, 1977

[RandTV]

Here's the schedule from Dublin, CA (East Bay) where I was living when Elvis died. Once again, I'll be listing them in the order of their cable channel numbers. Note: Game show and talk show guest listings will be listed in Part 2.

2 KTVU Oakland
7:00 Cartoon Town
8:00 Bullwinkle
8:30 Romper Room
9:00 Lucy Show
9:30 Courtship of Eddie's Father
10:00 Big Valley
11:00 Donahue
NOON Medical Center
Dialing for Dollars Movie: "Johnny O'Clock" (1947) - Dick Powell, Lee J. Cobb
3:00 Star Trek (animated version)
3:30 Archies
4:00 New Mickey Mouse Club
4:30 Batman
5:00 Partridge Family
5:30 Bewitched
6:00 Star Trek (original version)
7:00 Odd Couple
7:30 Giants Baseball: at Los Angeles Dodgers
10:00 Action News
11:00 Liar's Club
11:30 Joker's Wild (1972-75 CBS rerun)
MIDNIGHT News

3 KCRA (NBC) Sacramento
6:00 Educational Programming
7:00 Today
9:00 Tattletales (CBS)
9:30 Hollywood Squares
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 It's Anybody's Guess
11:00 Shoot for the Stars
11:30 Joker's Wild (1972-75 CBS rerun)
NOON Channel 3 Reports
12:30 Donahue
1:30 Divorce Court
2:00 Another World
3:00 Days of Our Lives
4:00 Bonanza
5:00 Channel 3 Reports
6:00 NBC Nightly News
6:30 Channel 3 Reports
7:00 Weeknight
7:30 KCRA Reports (weekly investigative newsmagazine)
8:00 Baa Baa Black Sheep
9:00 Police Woman
10:00 Best of Police Story
11:00 Channel 3 Reports
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 Tomorrow

4 KRON (NBC) SF
6:30 School of the Air
7:00 Today
9:00 Sanford and Son
9:30 Hollywood Squares
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 It's Anybody's Guess
11:00 Shoot for the Stars
11:30 Chico and the Man
NOON NewsWatch 4
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2:00 Another World
3:00 Dinah!
4:30 Merv Griffin
6:00 NewsWatch 4
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 $128,000 Question
8:00 Baa Baa Black Sheep
9:00 Police Woman
10:00 Best of Police Story
11:00 NewsWatch 4
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 Tomorrow

5 KPIX (CBS) SF
6:00 Summer Semester
6:30 Sut Yung Ying Yee (English language lessons for Chinese speakers)
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Summer Camp (KPIX summer replacement children's program)
9:30 Price is Right
10:30 Love of Life
10:55 CBS Midday News
11:00 Young and Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
NOON Eyewitness News
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2:00 All in the Family
2:30 Match Game '77
3:00 Tattletales
3:30 Marcus Welby, M.D.
4:30 Mike Douglas
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Eyewitness News
7:30 Evening: The MTWTF Show (later Evening Magazine)
8:00 CBS Reports: "The West Bank Between War and Peace" on turbulent life there between Israelis and Arabs; "Mad City" on the then-recent bizarre happenings in New York City (i.e.: Blackout, "Son of Sam" murders)
9:00 M*A*S*H
9:30 One Day At a Time
10:00 Kojak
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 CBS Late Movie: "A Night to Remember" (1958) - Kenneth Moore, Ronald Allen, Honor Blackman (about the Titanic)
2:00 Movie: "The Queen of Babylon" (1956) - Rhonda Flemming, Ricardo Montalban

6/36 KGSC San Jose
9:30 Yoga for Health
10:00 Public Affairs
10:30 Mike Douglas
NOON Movie: "Black Devil" (1957) - Gerard Landry, Milly Vitale
1:30 Movie: "The Big Wheel" (1949) - Mickey Rooney, Thomas Mitchell
3:30 Movie: "Inner Sanctum" (1947) - Mary Beth Hughes, Charles Russell
5:00 My Favorite Martian
5:30 Get Smart
6:00 Movie: "Mr. Blandings Builds a Dream House" (1948) - Cary Grant, Myrna Loy
8:00 Movie: "Magic Fire" (1954) - Yvonne De Carlo, Rita Gam
10:00 Merv Griffin
11:30 Movie: "Deadly Hunt" (1971) - Peter Lawford, Tony Franciosa

7 KGO (ABC) SF
6:20 Educational Programming
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 AM San Francisco
10:00 Happy Days
10:30 $20,000 Pyramid
11:00 The Better Sex
11:30 Family Feud
NOON All My Children
1:00 Ryan's Hope
1:30 One Life to Live
2:15 General Hospital
3:00 Edge of Night
3:30 Movie: "Love War" (1969) - Lloyd Bridges, Angie Dickinson
5:00 News Scene
7:00 ABC Evening News
7:30 Hollywood Squares
8:00 Happy Days
8:30 Laverne & Shirley
9:00 ABC Tuesday Night Movie: "For Pete's Sake" (1974) - Barbra Streisand, Michael Sarrazin, Estelle Parsons
11:00 News Scene
11:30 ABC Tuesday Movie of the Week: "WUSA" (1970) - Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Perkins

8/20 KEMO SF
7:30 Stock Market Today
8:00 Stock Update
8:30 Stock and Bond Report
9:00 Corporate Report
9:30 Real Estate Report
10:00 Villa Alegre
10:30 --off the air--
NOON 700 Club
1:30 The Deaf Hear
2:00 Un Verano para recordar (A Summer to Remember)
3:30 Villa Alegre
4:00 La Senora joven (The Young Lady)
5:30 Noti 20
6:30 Un Extrano en nuestras vidas (A Stranger in Our Lives)
7:30 Pecado mortal (Mortal Sin)
8:30 Una Vida para amarte (A Life to Love You)
9:30 Capulina
10:00 Algo especial (Something Special)
11:00 700 Club

9 KQED (PBS) SF
8:00 Electric Company
8:30 Carrascolendas
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 --off the air--
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Zoom
6:30 Open Studio: "Sarah's Southern Cooking"
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 KQED Newsroom
8:00 Music in Jerusalem
9:00 Opera Theatre: Gilbert & Sullivan's "The Mikado" (1967)
11:00 Nova: "The Transplant Experience"

10 KXTV (CBS) Sacramento
6:00 Summer Semester
6:30 Captain Kangaroo
7:30 7:30 AM
8:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Dinah!
10:30 Love of Life
10:55 CBS Midday News
11:00 Young and Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
NOON Newservice 10
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2:00 All in the Family
2:30 Match Game '77
3:00 Price is Right
4:00 Mike Douglas
5:30 Newservice 10
6:00 CBS Evening News
6:30 Newservice 10
7:00 Concentration
7:30 Price is Right - Dennis James (soon to be replaced by Bob Barker)
8:00 CBS Reports (see ch. 5)
9:00 M*A*S*H
9:30 One Day At a Time
10:00 Kojak
11:00 Newservice 10
11:30 It Takes a Thief

11/40 KTXL Sacramento
6:30 Not for Women Only
7:00 New Howdy Doody Show
8:00 Archies
8:30 Lassie
9:00 Flintstones
9:30 Lucy Show
10:00 Movie: "A Man Alone" (1955) - Ray Milland, Raymond Burr
NOON Dick Van Dyke
12:30 Andy Griffith
1:00 Movie: "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946) - Lana Turner, John Garfield
3:00 Three Stooges
3:30 Bugs Bunny and Popeye
4:00 Gilligan's Island
4:30 Partridge Family
5:00 Brady Bunch
5:30 Hogan's Heroes
6:00 Star Trek
7:00 Marcus Welby, M.D.
8:00 Movie: "All the King's Men" (1949) - Broderick Crawford, John Ireland
10:00 Ten O'Clock News
11:00 Night Gallery

12/44 KBHK SF
10:30 Dusty's Treehouse
11:00 Not for Women Only
11:30 Newstalk
NOON Underdog
12:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
1:00 Beverly Hillbillies
1:30 Gomer Pyle
2:00 Huck and Yogi
3:00 Popeye
3:30 Superman
4:00 Flintstones
4:30 Monkees
5:00 Lost in Space
6:00 Emergency One!
7:00 Hogan's Heroes (x2)
8:00 Movie: "Caged" (1950) - Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead
10:00 Burns & Allen
10:30 December Bride
11:00 Fernwood 2Night
11:30 Best of Groucho
MIDNIGHT Night Gallery

13 KOVR (ABC) Sacramento
6:30 Let's Speak Spanish
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Morning Scene
10:00 Happy Days
10:30 $20,000 Pyramid
11:00 The Better Sex
11:30 Family Feud
NOON All My Children
1:00 Cross-Wits
1:30 One Life to Live
2:15 General Hospital
3:00 Edge of Night
3:30 Ryan's Hope
4:00 My Three Sons
4:30 Family Affair
5:00 Adam-12
5:30 Action News 13
6:00 ABC Evening News
6:30 Merv Griffin
8:00 Happy Days
8:30 Laverne & Shirley
9:00 ABC Tuesday Night Movie (see ch. 7)
11:00 Action News 13
11:30 Ironside
12:30 ABC Tuesday Movie of the Week (see ch. 7 at 11:30)

 

[RandTV]

PART 2

Game Show Guests

Hollywood Squares (9:30 am 3, 4) - Paul Lynde, Rose Marie, George Gobel, Andy Kaufman, Paul Williams, Suzanne Somers, Phyllis Diller, Donna Fargo, Roddy McDowall

$20,000 Pyramid (10:30 am 7, 13) - Anita Gillette, Jack Klugman

Shoot for the Stars (11:00 am 3, 4) - June Lockhart, David L. Lander

Match Game '77 (2:30 pm 5, 10) - Nipsey Russell, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Sarah Kennedy, Richard Dawson, Patti Deutsch

Tattletales (9:00 am 3; 3:00 pm 5) - Richard Deacon & Dody Goodman, Bobby Troup & Julie London, John Aniston & Nancy Dow (Jennifer Aniston's parents)

Liar's Club (11:00 pm 2) - Larry Hovis, Jackie Kahane, Dody Goodman, Andy Griffith

Talk Show Guests

Dinah! (9:00 am 10; 3:00 pm 5) - Lucille Ball, Gary Morton (Ball's husband), Gale Gordon, Valerie Harper, Carol Burnett

Donahue (11:00 am 2; 12:30 pm 3) - Sophie Leavitt, author of "Penny Pincher's Cookbook" (unable to find info to establish whether the 12:30 episode on KCRA 3 was the same as on KTVU 2)

Mike Douglas (10:30 am 36; 4:00 pm 10; 4:30 pm 5) - Co-host: Jamie Lyn Bauer; Guests: Cindy Williams, Skitch Henderson, Chris Barnes, Dirk Benedict, Ernie Andersen (folk singer)

Merv Griffin (4:30 pm 4) - Buddy Hackett, Robby Benson, Steve Collura, Morton Schulman; (6:30 pm 13) - Robert Conrad, Rick Moses, Valerie Bertinelli, The Joffrey Ballet; (10:00 pm 36) - Orson Bean, Jackie Vernon, Beau Kayzer, Addresi Brothers, Gallagher

Tonight Show (11:30 pm 3, 4) - Guest host: John Davidson; Guests: Natalie Cole, John Schuck

Tomorrow (1:00 am 3, 4) - Robert Smith, editior of "The Privacy Journal"

 

[RandTV]

I forgot to mention regarding "The Best of Groucho" (11:30 pm, 44), he died just three days later.

 

[RandTV]

CORRECTION: On Match Game '77, it was Suzanne Somers, not Sarah Kennedy on that week's panel.

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

8/20 KEMO SF
7:30 Stock Market Today
8:00 Stock Update
8:30 Stock and Bond Report
9:00 Corporate Report
9:30 Real Estate Report
10:00 Villa Alegre
10:30 --off the air--
NOON 700 Club
1:30 The Deaf Hear
2:00 Un Verano para recordar (A Summer to Remember)
3:30 Villa Alegre
4:00 La Senora joven (The Young Lady)
5:30 Noti 20
6:30 Un Extrano en nuestras vidas (A Stranger in Our Lives)
7:30 Pecado mortal (Mortal Sin)
8:30 Una Vida para amarte (A Life to Love You)
9:30 Capulina
10:00 Algo especial (Something Special)
11:00 700 Club

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Here is a rare aircheck of KEMO-TV 20 airing the morning report on Business news back then. Note Stuart Varney is on this aircheck back when he was a local host in San Francisco.