From TV Guide, Eastern Virginia Edition:
WTAR (WTKR) Ch. 3 Norfolk (CBS)
6:10 Down To Earth
6:15 These Things We Share
6:30 Not For Women Only (conclusion of a
series on urban and suburban lifestyles,
with Christie Hefner, Mickey Rooney, and
Irv Kupcinet)
7 AM CBS News (Lesley Stahl/Richard Threlkeld)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue (guest Mike Douglas)
10 AM That Girl
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM People, Places And Things
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 All In The Family
4 PM Match Game '78 (guests Bill Daily, Richard Dawson,
Bonnie Franklin, Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers,
Marcia Wallace)
4:30 Merv Griffin (guests Ron Howard, Erik Estrada, Hermione
Gingold, JoAnna ("Isis") Cameron)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Cross-Wits (guests David Doyle, Lynda Day George,
Rita Moreno, John Schuck)
7:30 Tackle Box (Ch. 3 sportscaster Jeff Dane hosts a
local fishing show)
8 PM Horton Hears A Who
8:30 The Lorax
9 PM CBS Movie: "A Warm December"
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "The Firechasers"
1:45 Pop Goes The Country
2:15 Nashville On The Road
WHSV Ch. 3 Harrisonburg (NBC/ABC)
6:30 Romper Room
7 AM Good Morning America (David Hartman)
9 AM PTL Club
10 AM Card Sharks (Jim Perry)
10:30 Hollywood Squares (in the secret square:
Dirk Benedict, Cathy Lee Crosby, Sandy Duncan,
George Gobel, Earl Holliman, Rose Marie, Vincent
Price, McLean Stevenson, or Paul Lynde)
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N $20,000 Pyramid (guests Peter Bonerz and Didi Conn)
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 Pixanne
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News ("World News Tonight" had just started,
with Frank Reynolds, Peter Jennings, and Max Robinson)
7 PM Marty Robbins' Spotlight
7:30 CPO Sharkey (the closest thing Don Rickles ever had to
a hit series)
8 PM Tabitha (limp "Bewitched" spinoff with the now-grown
Tabitha and Adam working at an LA TV station)
8:30 Operation Petticoat
9 PM ABC Movie: "Take The Money And Run"
11 PM News
11:30 PGA Championship (second-round highlights)
12 M Baretta
1:10 News
WTVR Ch. 6 Richmond (CBS)
6 AM Summer Semester: "Alternative Futures"
6:30 Virginia Today
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue (topic: the black-market traffic
in babies)
10 AM Tic Tac Dough (when the CBS daytime version
tanked, station managers who had bought the
syndicated access version panicked--but that
and "PM Magazine" were the syndicated hits
of fall 1978)
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Richmond Today
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 All In The Family
4 PM Match Game '78
4:30 My Three Sons
5 PM Beverly Hillbillies
5:30 Andy Griffith
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM News
7:30 Match Game PM
8 PM Horton Hears A Who
8:30 The Lorax
9 PM CBS Movie: "A Warm December"
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "The Firechasers"
1:45 Gunsmoke
WXEX (WRIC) Ch. 8 Petersburg-Richmond (ABC)
6:30 Romper Room
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM 700 Club
10 AM F.Y.I. (local)
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 Edge Of Night
4:30 Merv Griffin (same as Ch. 3 Norfolk)
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Honeymooners
7:30 Odd Couple (guest Howard Cosell)
8 PM Tabitha
8:30 Operation Petticoat
9 PM ABC Movie: "Take The Money And Run"
11 PM News
11:30 The Rookies
12:30 Big Valley
1:30 News
WAVY Ch. 10 Norfolk (NBC)
5:50 News
6 AM Yoga For Health
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today (Tom Brokaw; guest is author-journalist
Pete Hamill)
9 AM Dinah! (guests Allen Ludden, Sandy Duncan,
Bob Barker, Robert Urich, singer Linda Clifford)
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers (Alex Trebek's first success in the U.S.)
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune (Chuck Woolery and Susan Stafford)
12 N America Alive! (report on anorexia nervosa; host is
Jack Linkletter; Ch. 10 carries only the first 30 minutes)
12:30 Mike And Lynn "Roundabout Tidewater
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM New Mickey Mouse Club
4:30 Beverly Hillbillies
5 PM My Three Sons
5:30 The Rookies
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
7 PM Joker's Wild
7:30 Muppet Show (guest Rudolf Nureyev)
8 PM Black Sheep Squadron
9 PM Rockford Files
10 PM Quincy
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (guests Lola Falana, Shecky
Greene)
1 AM Midnight Special (repeat of the 1972 debut:
John Denver hosts, with Linda Ronstadt,
Helen Reddy, Cass Elliot, War, the Isley
Brothers, Harry Chapin, David Clayton-Thomas,
the Everly Brothers, Argent)
2:30 News
2:40 Ironside
3:30 Movie: "New Invisible Man"
5 AM Ironside
5:50 News
WWBT Ch. 12 Richmond (NBC)
6:40 Virginia Almanac/News
7 AM Today
9 AM Movie: "Flying Tigers"
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N America Alive!
1 PM For Richer, For Poorer
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Emergency One!
5 PM The Lucy Show
5:30 Green Acres
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Liars Club (guests Betty White, Dick Gautier,
Steve Franken, Larry Hovis--host Allen Ludden)
7:30 Newlywed Game
8 PM Black Sheep Squadron
9 PM Rockford Files
10 PM Quincy
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Midnight Special
WVEC Ch. 13 Norfolk (ABC)
6:30 Comedy Time (cartoons)
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Happy Days (airs on a day-behind)
9:30 Movie: "Diary Of A Madman" (stars--who else?--
Vincent Price)
11:30 Midday (local, with Harriet Passarelli)
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 Emergency One!
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Movie: "1776" (conclusion)
8 PM Tabitha
8:30 Operation Petticoat
9 PM ABC Movie: "Take The Money And Run"
11 PM News
11:30 PGA Championship Highlights
12 M Baretta
1:10 Avengers
2:10 News/Alcoholics Anonymous
WHRO Ch. 15 Norfolk (PBS)
3:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Zoom
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Summer Semester (See Ch. 6)
6:30 Over Easy (guests Arthur Godfrey and
Pete Seeger)
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Dick Cavett (guest: artist Larry Rivers)
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM Evening At Pops (guest Itzhak Perlman)
10 PM Firing Line (guest Malcolm Muggeridge)
sign off 11 PM
WYAH (WGNT) Ch. 27 Portsmouth (Ind.)
5:45 Ross Bagley (gospel music)
6:45 News
7 AM Lone Ranger
7:30 Popeye 'n Bugs Bunny
8:30 Leave It To Beaver
9 AM Big Valley
10 AM 700 Club
11:30 The Bible With Pat Robertson
12 N Holiday In Melodyland
12:30 Marcus Welby, M.D.
1:30 Hazel
2 PM New Zoo Revue
2:30 Little Rascals/Our Gang
3 PM Flintstones
3:30 Fred Flintstone & Friends
4 PM Monkees
4:30 Superman
5 PM Family Affair
5:30 Father Knows Best
6 PM Dick Van Dyke
6:30 I Love Lucy
7 PM Andy Griffith
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
8:30 Doris Day
9 PM 700 Club
10:30 The Bible With Pat Robertson
11 PM Movie: "Meet John Doe"
1 AM Journey To Adventure
WVIR Ch. 29 Charlottesville (NBC)
7 AM Today
9 AM Charlottesville Today
9:30 PTL Club
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N America Alive!
1 PM For Richer, For Poorer
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM High Rollers
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-host Tony Bennett;
guests Peter Frampton, Pat Cooper,
Larry Gatlin, Miss USA 1978 Judi Andersen,
Billy Carter's wife Sybil, beauty expert
Adrien Arpel)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Donahue (same as Ch. 6)
8 PM Black Sheep Squadron
9 PM Rockford Files
10 PM Quincy
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Midnight Special
WVPT Ch. 51 Harrisonburg (PBS)
3 PM Lilias, Yoga And You
3:30 Villa Alegre
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Over Easy
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Spectrum (newsmagazine)
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM Evening At Pops
10 PM Firing Line
sign off 11 PM
WCVW Ch. 57 Richmond (PBS)
3:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Over Easy
7 PM Ethics In America
7:30 The Way It Was
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM Evening At Pops
10 PM Strange Case Of The End Of Civilization
(John Cleese in a Sherlock Holmes satire)
sign off 11 PM
WTAR (WTKR) Ch. 3 Norfolk (CBS)
6:10 Down To Earth
6:15 These Things We Share
6:30 Not For Women Only (conclusion of a
series on urban and suburban lifestyles,
with Christie Hefner, Mickey Rooney, and
Irv Kupcinet)
7 AM CBS News (Lesley Stahl/Richard Threlkeld)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue (guest Mike Douglas)
10 AM That Girl
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM People, Places And Things
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 All In The Family
4 PM Match Game '78 (guests Bill Daily, Richard Dawson,
Bonnie Franklin, Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers,
Marcia Wallace)
4:30 Merv Griffin (guests Ron Howard, Erik Estrada, Hermione
Gingold, JoAnna ("Isis") Cameron)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Cross-Wits (guests David Doyle, Lynda Day George,
Rita Moreno, John Schuck)
7:30 Tackle Box (Ch. 3 sportscaster Jeff Dane hosts a
local fishing show)
8 PM Horton Hears A Who
8:30 The Lorax
9 PM CBS Movie: "A Warm December"
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "The Firechasers"
1:45 Pop Goes The Country
2:15 Nashville On The Road
WHSV Ch. 3 Harrisonburg (NBC/ABC)
6:30 Romper Room
7 AM Good Morning America (David Hartman)
9 AM PTL Club
10 AM Card Sharks (Jim Perry)
10:30 Hollywood Squares (in the secret square:
Dirk Benedict, Cathy Lee Crosby, Sandy Duncan,
George Gobel, Earl Holliman, Rose Marie, Vincent
Price, McLean Stevenson, or Paul Lynde)
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N $20,000 Pyramid (guests Peter Bonerz and Didi Conn)
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 Pixanne
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News ("World News Tonight" had just started,
with Frank Reynolds, Peter Jennings, and Max Robinson)
7 PM Marty Robbins' Spotlight
7:30 CPO Sharkey (the closest thing Don Rickles ever had to
a hit series)
8 PM Tabitha (limp "Bewitched" spinoff with the now-grown
Tabitha and Adam working at an LA TV station)
8:30 Operation Petticoat
9 PM ABC Movie: "Take The Money And Run"
11 PM News
11:30 PGA Championship (second-round highlights)
12 M Baretta
1:10 News
WTVR Ch. 6 Richmond (CBS)
6 AM Summer Semester: "Alternative Futures"
6:30 Virginia Today
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue (topic: the black-market traffic
in babies)
10 AM Tic Tac Dough (when the CBS daytime version
tanked, station managers who had bought the
syndicated access version panicked--but that
and "PM Magazine" were the syndicated hits
of fall 1978)
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Richmond Today
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 All In The Family
4 PM Match Game '78
4:30 My Three Sons
5 PM Beverly Hillbillies
5:30 Andy Griffith
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM News
7:30 Match Game PM
8 PM Horton Hears A Who
8:30 The Lorax
9 PM CBS Movie: "A Warm December"
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "The Firechasers"
1:45 Gunsmoke
WXEX (WRIC) Ch. 8 Petersburg-Richmond (ABC)
6:30 Romper Room
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM 700 Club
10 AM F.Y.I. (local)
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 Edge Of Night
4:30 Merv Griffin (same as Ch. 3 Norfolk)
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Honeymooners
7:30 Odd Couple (guest Howard Cosell)
8 PM Tabitha
8:30 Operation Petticoat
9 PM ABC Movie: "Take The Money And Run"
11 PM News
11:30 The Rookies
12:30 Big Valley
1:30 News
WAVY Ch. 10 Norfolk (NBC)
5:50 News
6 AM Yoga For Health
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today (Tom Brokaw; guest is author-journalist
Pete Hamill)
9 AM Dinah! (guests Allen Ludden, Sandy Duncan,
Bob Barker, Robert Urich, singer Linda Clifford)
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers (Alex Trebek's first success in the U.S.)
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune (Chuck Woolery and Susan Stafford)
12 N America Alive! (report on anorexia nervosa; host is
Jack Linkletter; Ch. 10 carries only the first 30 minutes)
12:30 Mike And Lynn "Roundabout Tidewater
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM New Mickey Mouse Club
4:30 Beverly Hillbillies
5 PM My Three Sons
5:30 The Rookies
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
7 PM Joker's Wild
7:30 Muppet Show (guest Rudolf Nureyev)
8 PM Black Sheep Squadron
9 PM Rockford Files
10 PM Quincy
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (guests Lola Falana, Shecky
Greene)
1 AM Midnight Special (repeat of the 1972 debut:
John Denver hosts, with Linda Ronstadt,
Helen Reddy, Cass Elliot, War, the Isley
Brothers, Harry Chapin, David Clayton-Thomas,
the Everly Brothers, Argent)
2:30 News
2:40 Ironside
3:30 Movie: "New Invisible Man"
5 AM Ironside
5:50 News
WWBT Ch. 12 Richmond (NBC)
6:40 Virginia Almanac/News
7 AM Today
9 AM Movie: "Flying Tigers"
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N America Alive!
1 PM For Richer, For Poorer
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Emergency One!
5 PM The Lucy Show
5:30 Green Acres
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Liars Club (guests Betty White, Dick Gautier,
Steve Franken, Larry Hovis--host Allen Ludden)
7:30 Newlywed Game
8 PM Black Sheep Squadron
9 PM Rockford Files
10 PM Quincy
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Midnight Special
WVEC Ch. 13 Norfolk (ABC)
6:30 Comedy Time (cartoons)
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Happy Days (airs on a day-behind)
9:30 Movie: "Diary Of A Madman" (stars--who else?--
Vincent Price)
11:30 Midday (local, with Harriet Passarelli)
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 Emergency One!
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Movie: "1776" (conclusion)
8 PM Tabitha
8:30 Operation Petticoat
9 PM ABC Movie: "Take The Money And Run"
11 PM News
11:30 PGA Championship Highlights
12 M Baretta
1:10 Avengers
2:10 News/Alcoholics Anonymous
WHRO Ch. 15 Norfolk (PBS)
3:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Zoom
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Summer Semester (See Ch. 6)
6:30 Over Easy (guests Arthur Godfrey and
Pete Seeger)
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Dick Cavett (guest: artist Larry Rivers)
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM Evening At Pops (guest Itzhak Perlman)
10 PM Firing Line (guest Malcolm Muggeridge)
sign off 11 PM
WYAH (WGNT) Ch. 27 Portsmouth (Ind.)
5:45 Ross Bagley (gospel music)
6:45 News
7 AM Lone Ranger
7:30 Popeye 'n Bugs Bunny
8:30 Leave It To Beaver
9 AM Big Valley
10 AM 700 Club
11:30 The Bible With Pat Robertson
12 N Holiday In Melodyland
12:30 Marcus Welby, M.D.
1:30 Hazel
2 PM New Zoo Revue
2:30 Little Rascals/Our Gang
3 PM Flintstones
3:30 Fred Flintstone & Friends
4 PM Monkees
4:30 Superman
5 PM Family Affair
5:30 Father Knows Best
6 PM Dick Van Dyke
6:30 I Love Lucy
7 PM Andy Griffith
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
8:30 Doris Day
9 PM 700 Club
10:30 The Bible With Pat Robertson
11 PM Movie: "Meet John Doe"
1 AM Journey To Adventure
WVIR Ch. 29 Charlottesville (NBC)
7 AM Today
9 AM Charlottesville Today
9:30 PTL Club
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N America Alive!
1 PM For Richer, For Poorer
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM High Rollers
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-host Tony Bennett;
guests Peter Frampton, Pat Cooper,
Larry Gatlin, Miss USA 1978 Judi Andersen,
Billy Carter's wife Sybil, beauty expert
Adrien Arpel)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Donahue (same as Ch. 6)
8 PM Black Sheep Squadron
9 PM Rockford Files
10 PM Quincy
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Midnight Special
WVPT Ch. 51 Harrisonburg (PBS)
3 PM Lilias, Yoga And You
3:30 Villa Alegre
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Over Easy
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Spectrum (newsmagazine)
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM Evening At Pops
10 PM Firing Line
sign off 11 PM
WCVW Ch. 57 Richmond (PBS)
3:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Over Easy
7 PM Ethics In America
7:30 The Way It Was
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM Evening At Pops
10 PM Strange Case Of The End Of Civilization
(John Cleese in a Sherlock Holmes satire)
sign off 11 PM