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Retro: Eastern Illinois, Fri. October 7th, 1977

Source: TV Guide

CHANNELS
2 WTWO Terre Haute NBC
3 WCIA Champaign CBS
9 WGN Chicago IND
10 WTHI Terre Haute CBS
11 KPLR St. Louis IND
12 WILL-TV Urbana PBS
15 WICD Champaign NBC
17 WAND Decatur ABC
19 WRAU Peoria ABC
20 WICS Springfield NBC
25 WEEK-TV Peoria NBC
31 WMBD Peoria CBS
38 WBAK Terre Haute ABC
44 WSNS Chicago IND
47 WTVP Peoria PBS

10/7/1977 - Friday

5:50
17 PTL Club

6AM
2 Weather
10 CBS News-Rudd/Stahl
11 News
25 PTL Club
38 Good Morning America

6:15
2 Hoosie Schoolmasters
9 Top O' the Morning

6:30
9 News
11 Bozo's Big Top
Subject: mathematics.
15 20 U.S. Farm Report
19 Archies

6:45
2 Today in Illiana
9 Cartoons

6:50
17 Closer to God Today
31 Loving Free

6:55
3 Farm Feature
31 Town & Country

7AM
2 15 20 25 Today-Tom Brokaw
3 31 CBS News-Rudd/Stahl
9 Ray Rayner
10 Captain Kangaroo
See 8AM, WCIA.
11 Beatles & Friends
17 Bozo's Big Top
19 Good Morning America

7:30
11 Heckle & Jeckle
17 Archies

8AM
3 31 Captain Kangaroo
Guest: Hermione Gingold, who appears as Queen Mad in Mr. Moose's story 'The Court Jesters.'
10 Dinah!
Guests: Jim Nabors, Anthony Hopkins, the England Dan & John Ford Coley musical group, singer Debby Boone (Pat Boone's daughter), and physical fitness authority Walter Rozhen. Songs include 'Sing Me a Love Song' (Jim).
11 Fred Flintstone & Friends
12 Lilias, Yoga & You
17 Good Morning America
38 PTL Club

8:15
44 Humanities 201

8:30
9 Howdy Doody
11 Archies
12 Mister Rogers

8:45
44 Business 101

9AM
2 Phil Donahue
How loneliness may affect health is discussed.
3 19 Phil Donahue
Chuck Barris joins Phil and staff for a 'Gong Show' takeoff and discusses his TV ventures.
9 Movie
'Oh, Men! Oh, Women!' (1957) Psychiatry gets the satiric needle in writer-director Nunnally Johnson's amusing adaptation of the stage hit. David Niven, Dan Dailey.
10 31 Here's Lucy
A country boy turned Hollywood swinger (Don Knotts) courts Lucy.
11 $20,000 Pyramid
George Maharis, Adrienne Barbeau.
12 47 Sesame Street
15 20 25 Sanford & Son
Part 2. The Sanfords arrive in Hawaii, unaware that they're being set up to smuggle gems back to the mainland.
17 Looking In

9:30
10 31 Price is Right
11 I Love Lucy BW
When Lucy plans a publicity stunt for Ricky, she asks for help from columnist Hedda Hopper.
15 20 25 Hollywood Squares
Tom Kennedy, Paul Lynde, Jim Nabors, Joan Rivers, Barbara Rhoades, Isabel Sanford, Edward Asner.
17 Edge of Night
44 Mundo Hispano

10AM
2 15 20 25 Wheel of Fortune
3 Here's Lucy
A country boy turned Hollywood swinger (Don Knotts) courts ucy.
11 Lucy Show
Lucy and Viv win a weekend in Las Vegas, but they have to furnish their own gambling money.
12 47 Electric Company
17 19 38 Happy Days
The Fonz is after the vandal who demolished his motorcycle.

10:30
2 15 20 25 Knockout
3 10 31 Love of Life
11 Andy Griffith
Goober moves in with lonesome Andy.
17 19 38 Family Feud
44 700 Club
Featured: satellite transmissions from Europe.

10:55
3 10 31 CBS News

11AM
2 15 20 25 To Say the Least
3 10 31 Young & The Restless
9 Phil Donahue
11 Dick Van Dyke BW
Rob recalls his Army boxing match with Boom-Boom Bailey.
17 19 38 The Better Sex

11:30
2 25 Chico & The Man
Chico (Freddie Prinze) announces his plans to pursue a boxing career.
3 10 31 Search for Tomorrow
11 Gong Show
12 Sesame Street
15 20 Newlywed Game
17 19 38 Ryan's Hope

Noon
2 Hollywood Squares
Tom Kennedy, Paul Lynde, Jim Nabors, Joan Rivers, Barbara Rhoades.
3 10 31 News
9 Bozo's Circus
11 New Mickey Mouse Club
A tap dancer and a violinist, both 14, are guests on 'Showtime Day.'
15 20 Cross-Wits
17 19 38 All My Children
25 Dick Van Dyke BW
There's unleashed chaos when Rob (Dick Van Dyke) presents a canine version of 'Pygmalion.'
44 Super Heroes

12:30
2 15 20 25 Days of Our Lives
3 10 31 As the World turns
11 Movie
'The Great Sioux Massacre.' (1965) Cavalry vs. Indians in yet another account of events leading up to Custer's last stand. Reno: Joseph Cotten.
44 Bullwinkle

1PM
9 Bewitched
A hexed bowl of popcorn creates chaos in the Stephenses' household.
17 19 38 $20,000 Pyramid
George Maharis, Adrienne Barbeau.
44 Movie BW
'The Great Flamarion.' (1945) Erich von Stroheim as a trick-shot artist whose foil (Mary Beth Hughes) does some double-dealing on him. Dan Duryea.

1:30
2 15 20 25 The Doctors
3 10 31 Guiding Light
9 Love, American Style
1. Story of a girl with a phobia about men's apartments. Arlene Golonka. 2. Two fathers try to arrange a marriage between their reluctant kids. Philip Ahn.
17 19 38 One Life to Live

2PM
2 15 20 25 Baseball Playoff
Special: The Los Angeles Dodgers meet the Phillies in Philadelphia in game 3 of the National League Championship Series.
(On NBC, this preempted Another World & The Gong Show, plus other afternoon shows carried by local stations)
3 10 31 All in the Family
Part 2. A two-timing Archie nervously prepares to face the music with Edith.
9 Love, American Style
1. Monty Hall plays a comedian who neglects his family to do charity benefits. 2. Sue Lyon as a girl with an original way to earn money for law school.

2:15
17 19 38 General Hospital

2:30
3 10 31 Match Game
Brett Somers, Marcia Wallace, Richard Dawson, Charles Nelson Reilly.
9 Flintstones
11 Banana Splits
12 Romantic Rebellion
44 Addams Family BW
A pair of bank robbers, who've just pulled a Halloween heist, are invited to share a 'fun evening' with the Addams Family. Claude: Don Rickles.

3PM
3 Movie BW
'King Creole.' (1958) Elvis Presley is fine as a teenager trying to quit the rackets and make it as a singer. Carolyn Jones, Dolores Hart.
9 Archies
10 31 Tattletales
George Johnston and Totie Fields.
11 Flintstones
12 47 Sesame Street
17 Mike Douglas
Co-host: Ben Vereen. Guests include singers Minnie Riperton and George Benson; actors Burt Young and Talia Shire; Miss Universe 1977 Janelle Penny Commissiong; Mad magazine editor Al Feldstein.
19 38 Edge of Night
44 King Kong

3:30
9 New Mickey Mouse Club
10 Our Gang BW
11 Bugs Bunny & Friends
19 Batman
Conclusion. The Joker (Cesar Romero) threatens Gotham City.
31 Dinah!
Mackenzie Phillips; Kenny Rogers; impressionist Frank Welker; actress Jaime Lyn Bauer; singer Stephenie Caravella.
38 700 Club
A program filmed in the Florida State Prison at Starke.
44 Ultra Man

4PM
9 Gilligan's Island
Who should be the Skipper's replacement?
10 Bewitched BW
Darrin's problem: teaching Samantha (Elizabeth Montgomery) the unmagical way to drive a car.
11 Gilligan's Island
Isolation takes its toll as the castaways become quarrelsome.
12 Electric Company
19 Brady Bunch
Cindy's dilemma: only one parent may be invited to her upcoming school play. Mike: Robert Reed.
44 Space Giants
47 Mister Rogers

4:30
9 I Dream of Jeannie
Singer Don Ho appears in this Hawaiian adventure.
10 Andy Griffith BW
Barney & Thelma Lou tag along on Andy's date with the country nurse.
11 Get Smart
In this spoof of 'Rear Window,' Max stays in the background while 99 tackles KAOS. 99: Barbara Feldon.
12 Big Blue Marble
17 Andy Griffith BW
One look at beautiful Melissa Stevens and Barney's in love. Melissa: Beverly Tyler.
19 Bewitched
44 Spiderman
47 Electric Company

5PM
2 Gilligan's Island
The castaways try using a jet-powered flight pack to send an SOS. [Time approximate after baseball.]
3 My Three Sons
Ernie is crushed when he's not invited to Chip's party.
9 Family Affair
Bill searches for the twins, who are lost in New York City.
10 My Three Sons
Ernie secretly conducts an experiment on the power of suggestion.
11 Bewitched
Darrin discovers a money-filled envelope. Kosko: Arch Johnson.
12 47 Zoom
15 News
17 19 ABC News-Reasoner/Walters
20 Brady Bunch
The Bradys try to decide what to get with their 94 books of trading stamps.
25 Partridge Family
The family plays Cupid for a motorcycle nut with girl problems. Snake: Stuart Margolin.
31 My Three Sons
Barbara (Beverly Garland) and Steve (Fred MacMurray) get prewedding jitters. Uncle Charley: William Demarest.
38 44 Rifleman BW
WBAK: Unknown episode
WSNS: Mark is puzzled by Lucas's strange reaction to threats from a vengeful family.

5:30
2 15 20 25 NBC News-Chancellor/Brinkley
3 10 31 CBS News-Cronkite
9 My Three Sons
Harry the dog lets out with a continuous howl whenever Steve tries to leave the house.
11 Emergency One!
Gage falls for an alluring woman who is treated by the paramedics after being hit by a car. Randolph Mantooth.
12 47 As We See It
A North Carolina high school that gives students a voice in administrative decisions is the subject.
17 19 News
38 ABC News
44 F Troop
Wild Eagle locates a girl kidnapped years before by the Apaches.

6PM
2 3 10 20 25 31 News
9 Dick Van Dyke BW
Alan (Carl Reiner) buys Rob's autobiography.
12 Lilias, Yoga and You
15 Brady Bunch
With a new Brady lady at the helm, Alice (Ann B. Davis) decides it's time to leave.
17 Gunsmoke
Man-to-man range war: determined sodbuster vs. unyielding cattle baron (Alex Cord, Morgan Woodward).
19 Gunsmoke
John Payne plays a land baron who considers himself and his family above the law. Claire Gentry: Louise Latham.
38 Green Acres
Lisa's matchmaking schemes carry her to ridiculous extremes. Ralph: Mary Grace Canfield.
44 I Love Lucy BW
It's double trouble when Lucy babysits for twins.
47 Parent Effectiveness
Debut: A series of dramatized classes that teach techniques for improving parent-child relationships. The first show introduces the nine fictional parents attending the class.

6:30
2 Brady Bunch
Self-pity is making Bobby very hard to live with. Mike Lookinland.
3 Mary Tyler Moore
Murray's play is going to be produced, with one hitch-egomaniac Ted Baxter has the starring role.
9 Odd Couple
Mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne of the New York Metropolitan Opera stars as Felix's new discovery, who's too shy to appear in Felix's opera unless her friend Oscar is in it too.
10 Cross-Wits
Ross Hunter, Jo Anne Worley, Jack Cassidy and Meredith MacRae.
11 Hogan's Heroes
Hogan (Bob Crane) plots to obtain key Nazi documents. Klink: Werner Klemperer.
12 47 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
15 20 To Tell the Truth
Bill Cullen, Peggy Cass, Tom Seaver and Kitty Carlisle.
25 Andy Griffith BW
Barbershop business booms, thanks to the new manicurist (Barbara Eden). Floyd: Howard McNear.
31 Mary Tyler Moore
Problem for Lou: his boss (Lois Nettleton) is in love with him.
38 News
44 Get Smart
Agent 99 shadowed by KAOS? No-just two CONTROL rookies learning the art of trailing a subject.

7pm and later in a separate post
 
7PM
2 15 20 25 Baseball Play-Off
Special: The East Division winners face the Royals at Kansas City, in game three of the American League championship series. [Preempts regular programming.]
3 10 31 Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman (Lynda Carter) has mixed emotions about stopping a sabotage attempt on a planned nuclear facility in the Bermuda Triangle: if she succeeds, the plant could endanger her own Paradise Island. Steve: Lyle Waggoner. Manta: Charles Cloffi.
9 Star Trek
On Omega IV, Kirk (William Shatner) battles a starship captain who is using advanced weaponry to decide the outcome of the planet's civil war. Tracey: Morgan Woodward.
11 Gunsmoke
A politically ambitious Indian agent charges Matt with complicity in a murder committed on the Elm Fork reservation.
12 47 Washington Week in Review
17 19 38 Donny & Marie
Robert Young, Neil Sedaka, Paul Lynde and Miss America 1978 Susan Yvonne Perkins are the scheduled guests. Also: Jay Osmond.
44 Superman
Jimmy and Lois find trouble in a small Western town. George Reeves.

7:30
12 47 Wall $treet Week-Louis Rukeyser
The current market is assessed by research manager Monte Gordon.
44 Gomer Pyle, USMC BW
Carter's trying for admittance to the Officer Candidate School. Carter: Frank Sutton.

8PM
3 10 31 Movie
'Escape from Bogen County' involves a ruthless politician, his estranged wife and a Texas Ranger in a story of corruption, intimidation and reprisal. A 1977 TV-movie. Jaclyn Smith, Mitch Ryan, Michael Parks.
9 Movie
'Then Came Bronson.' (1969) A disillusioned writer (Michael Parks) encounters other troubled people on an odyssey of self-discovery. Bonnie Bedelia, Gary Merrill.
11 To Tell the Truth
Gene Shalit, Kitty Carlisle, Bill Cullen and Peggy Cass.
12 Canal Zone BW
Special: Emmy winner Frederick Wiseman studies life inside the Panama Canal Zone. Filmed in the summer of 1976 (before a U.S.-Panamanian 'principle of agreement' was reached on a new Canal treaty), the cinema-verite film shows how Americans live and work in an area preoccupied with canal operations. There is no narration. After an opening segment on the canal, the film observes everyday scenes...community meetings, activities on military bases (U.S. servicemen and their families make up most of the zone's population). [Preempts regular programming.]
17 19 38 Movie
A pregnant but unmarried college student plays into the hands of a 'baby-for-sale' racket in "Black Market Babies," a 1977 TV-movie. Desi Arnaz Jr., Linda Purl, Bill Bixby, Jessica Walter.
44 Hazel
The Durhams-and their 50-pound dog visit the Baxters. Shirley Booth, Don DeFore.
47 Age of Uncertainity
Profiling Karl Marx (1818-83). Though long associated with communism and revolution, Marx was a learned man who excelled in social science, political philosophy, economics and journalism. The program shows how censorship, police persecution and political upheavals in France gradually changed him from a moderate reformer to a radical.

8:30
11 Let's Make a Deal
44 Room 222
A history teacher's jokes about marijuana get him into big trouble. Roger: Bernie Kopell.

9PM
11 Joker's Wild
44 700 Club
47 Canal Zone BW
See 8PM, WILL-TV.

9:30
11 News

10PM
2 3 9 10 15 17 19 20 25 31 News
11 Cross-Wits
Peter Lawford, Alice Ghostley, Jo Anne Worley and Arte Johnson.
38 Best of Groucho.
44 Movie
'Majin, Monster of Terror.' (Japanese, 1966) The warrior god Majin, Nippon's answer to the golem, battles terror-lords of the Middle Ages.

10:30
2 15 20 25 Johnny Carson
Scheduled: Phyllis Newman, journalist Dorothy Fuldheim and Charlie Callas. Ed McMahon, Doc Severinsen orchestra.
3 Movie
'An American in Paris.' (1951) This Oscar winner for Best Pictures features great Gershwin songs and classic Gene Kelly-Leslie Caron dance numbers. Adam: Oscar Levant.
Milo: Nina Foch.
9 Movie
'Hang 'Em High.' (1968) Violent action yarn with Clint Eastwood as a rancher seeking vengeance on the lynch mob that nearly killed him. Rachel: Inger Stevens.
10 M*A*S*H
The goings-on at the 4077th flabbergast a general (Sorrell Booke) visiting MASH to check out new chief surgeon Hawkeye (Alan Alda).
11 Movie
'The Buccaneer.' (1958) Actor Anthony Quinn directed this saga of pirate Jean Lafitte's role in the War of 1812. Lafitte: Yul Brynner. Jackson: Charlton Heston.
17 38 Baretta
Baretta meets his match in a streetwise 9-year-old (Diego Gonzalez) who steals to help support his family.
19 Love, American Style
A doorknob a source of consternation for newlyweds Gary Lockwood and Stefanie Powers.
31 Movie
"Dracula-Prince of Darkness." (1966) The Count puts the bite on a vacationing foursome. Dracula: Christopher Lee.

11PM
12 Captioned ABC News
19 Movie BW
'The Moon is Blue.' (1953) Amusing adult romp about two roues (William Holden and David Niven) pursuing a mischievous but highly moral girl (Maggie McNamara). Cynthia: Dawn Addams.

11:05
10 Kojak
Kojak (Telly Savalas) competes with a world-famous criminologist (David Opatoshu) to recover five priceless Rembrandt drawings.

11:40
17 Movie
'The Raven.' (1963) Roger Corman directed this horror farce loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe's classic poem. Vincent Price, Boris Karloff.
38 Movie
'Daggers of Blood.' (1963) A ruthless dictator is determined to marry a princess whose family is under his protection. Jeanne Crain.

12AM
2 15 25 Midnight Special
Performing are guest host Kenny Rogers, Andy Gibb, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Supertramp and Debby Boone. Highlights: 'Daytime Friends' (Kenny), 'Thicker than Water' (Andy), 'Get Up, Stand Up' (Bob Marley).
20 Movie
'Footsteps.' (1972) TV-movie with Richard Crenna as a has-been football coach trying for a comeback at a small college. Sarah: Joanna Pettet.
44 Secret Agent BW
Drake (Patrick McGoohan) follows a defector's wife to Greece, hoping she'll persuade her husband to return to England. Paula: Sylvia Syms.

12:15
31 Your World

12:45
9 News

1AM
3 11 19 News

1:15
9 Movie BW
'The Glass Web.' (1953) All about the murder of a blackmailing television actress. Edward G. Robinson.

1:30
11 Three Stooges Bw
15 News

1:40
17 PTL Club
38 News

2AM
11 Not for Women Only
Food writer Craig Claiborne is among the guests for a concluding discussion of sugar and salt.
20 News

2:40
17 News
 
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