From TV Guide, Eastern Virginia Edition:
WTAR (WTKR) Ch. 3 Norfolk (CBS)
5:55 These Things We Share
6:10 Town And Country
6:20 TBA ("Sunrise Semester" does not
air today)
6:50 Lift Up Mine Eyes
7 AM CBS News (John Hart)
7:30 Flibbertigibbet
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Dick Lamb (local talk show)
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Family Affair
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Where The Heart Is
12:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Mildred Alexander
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
4:30 S. Hurok Presents (impresario Sol Hurok
presents a Christmas concert by two
Russian artists: violinist David Olstrakh
and pianist Sviatoslav Richter)
5:30 Hazel
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Dick Van Dyke
7:30 The Interns
8:30 The Headmaster
9 PM Movie: "40 Pounds Of Trouble"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tackle Box
11:45 Movie: "The Inn Of The Sixth Happiness"
(news follows the movie)
WSVA (WHSV) Ch. 3 Harrisonburg (NBC/ABC)
8 AM Today (joined in progress)
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Porky Pig
9:30 Galloping Gourmet
10 AM Christmas At Washington Cathedral (apparently
NBC carried this service then; today WJLA is the
originating stations and Allbritton Communications
carries it on an ad-hoc network)
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Bewitched (an episode that aired today on WGN America:
Esmerelda conjures up Santa)
12:30 A World Apart
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Christmas Music (the Shenandoah Valley Academy)
3 PM The Messiah (presented by the music and drama departments
of Madison College, Harrisonburg)
4:30 North-South Shrine Game (will begin after ABC's coverage of
the Hawks-Suns game, airing on Chs. 8 and 13)
7:30 Brady Bunch (time approximate)
8 PM Nanny And The Professor
8:30 Partridge Family
9 PM That Girl
9:30 Love, American Style
10 PM This Is Tom Jones (Christmas show with Ella Fitzgerald,
Rudolf Nureyev, and the Welsh Treorchy Male Choir)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports (still in b&w)
11:30 Dick Cavett
WTVR Ch. 6 Richmond (CBS)
6 AM Christmas Special (Don Murray--not to be confused with
Don Morrow--hosts, guests are Pat Boone, Jackie Vernon,
Shari Lewis and her puppets, the Free Design, the Little
People)
7 AM Christmas Music: St. Gertrude's Glee Club
7:30 Christmas Music: Maggie Walker High School Choir
8 AM Christmas Music: Hermitage High School Choir
8:30 Christmas Music: Longwood College Choir
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Family Affair
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Where The Heart Is
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Peyton Place
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
4:30 S. Hurok Presents
5:30 Christmas Music: St. Gertrude's Glee Club
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM News, Weather
7:30 The Interns
8:30 The Headmaster
9 PM CBS Movie: "Life With Father"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "Threepenny Opera" (where the song
"Mack the Knife" originated)
WXEX (WRIC) Ch. 8 Petersburg-Richmond (ABC)
7 AM R.F.D. 8
7:30 News
8 AM Contact (local, with John Mackin)
8:50 Fashions In Sewing
9 AM Virginia Graham (Pamela Mason, comedy
writer Pat McCormick, singer John Stewart--
"Dialing For Dollars" interrupts)
10 AM The Saint ("Dialing For Dollars" interrupts)
11 AM Divorce Court
11:30 That Girl
12 N Bewitched
12:30 A World Apart
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 NBA Basketball: Hawks-Suns
4:30 North-South Shrine Game (time approximate)
7:30 Brady Bunch (time approximate)
8 PM Nanny And The Professor
8:30 Partridge Family
9 PM That Girl
9:30 Love, American Style
10 PM This Is Tom Jones
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "1001 Arabian Nights" (Mr. Magoo in
Bagdad--animated)
News follows the movie.
WAVY Ch. 10 Norfolk (NBC)
6:30 Farm Show
7 AM Today
9 AM David Frost (King Hussein of Jordan, interviewed
while in the U.S. earlier in the month, Jackie Vernon--
"Dialing For Dollars" interrupts)
10 AM Christmas At Washington Cathedral
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
1 PM Somerset (Another World/Somerset)
1:30 News Magazine
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World (Another World/Bay City)
3:30 I Love Lucy (the country-club dance episode with
Barbara Eden)
4 PM Wild Wild West
5 PM Star Trek/The Invaders (doesn't say which)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 NBC News (Chancellor/Brinkley/McGee)
7 PM Petticoat Junction
7:30 High Chaparral
8:30 Name Of The Game
10 PM Bracken's World (last show, to be replaced
Jan. 8 by "Strange Report")
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show (Jerry Lewis subs for Johnny;
Tiny Tim, Julie Budd)
1 AM News, Weather, Sports
WWBT Ch. 12 Richmond (NBC)
6:30 Virginia Almanac
7 AM Today
9 AM A Day For Dancing: the Christmas story is
retold through carols presented by the
Richmond Choral Society and Virginia Theater
Dance Ensemble (first aired the previous Sunday,
7 PM)
9:30 Movie Game
10 AM Christmas At Washington Cathedral
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Somerset
1:30 Words And Music
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Petticoat Junction
4:30 Star Trek
5:30 News, Weather, Sports
6 PM Perry Mason
7 PM NBC News
7:30 High Chaparral
8:30 Name Of The Game
10 PM Bracken's World
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show
WVEC Ch. 13 Norfolk (ABC)
6:30 Film
7 AM Comedy Time ("Skippy The Bush Kangaroo"
is included)
8 AM Happy New Year (Davey and Goliath learn
the meaning of Christmas)
8:30 Christmas Special (Christmas as seen through
a child's eyes)
9 AM To Tell The Truth (Orson Bean, Kitty Carlisle,
Bill Cullen, Marian Mercer)
9:30 Movie: "Miracle In The Rain"
11:20 Fashions In Sewing
11:30 That Girl
12 N Bewitched
12:30 A World Apart
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 NBA Basketball: Hawks-Suns
4:30 North-South Shrine Game (time approximate)
7:30 Brady Bunch (time approximate)
8 PM Nanny And The Professor
8:30 Partridge Family
9 PM That Girl
9:30 Love, American Style
10 PM This Is Tom Jones
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:35 Dark Shadows (apparently Ch. 13, like Ch. 8,
saved up the week's episodes and ran them
in one two-and-a-half-hour sitting, although this
week it would be only two hours since the show
was pre-empted today)
WHRO/15 is not included in TV Guide's listings.
WCVE Ch. 23 Richmond (PBS)
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Sesame Street
6:30 Christmas Through The Years
7:30 Film (Bill Cosby narrates a film about the birth of
Christ.)
8 PM Realities
9 PM Virginia Folk Festival
9:30 Book Beat (Lady Bird Johnson's "A White House
Diary")
10 PM Pete Seeger (a Christmas show from a New England
coach house)
sign off 11 PM
WYAH (WGNT) Ch. 27 Portsmouth (Ind.)
3 PM Panorama
3:30 Romper Room
4:30 Mister Ed
5 PM Leave It To Beaver
5:30 Jim And Tammy
6:30 Flipper
7 PM News, Weather, Sports
7:30 Inspiration Time
8 PM Christmas Music (Ferguson High School,
Newport News)
9 PM Film
9:30 Billy Graham
10:30 News, Weather, Sports
sign off 11 PM
WTAR (WTKR) Ch. 3 Norfolk (CBS)
5:55 These Things We Share
6:10 Town And Country
6:20 TBA ("Sunrise Semester" does not
air today)
6:50 Lift Up Mine Eyes
7 AM CBS News (John Hart)
7:30 Flibbertigibbet
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Dick Lamb (local talk show)
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Family Affair
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Where The Heart Is
12:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Mildred Alexander
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
4:30 S. Hurok Presents (impresario Sol Hurok
presents a Christmas concert by two
Russian artists: violinist David Olstrakh
and pianist Sviatoslav Richter)
5:30 Hazel
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Dick Van Dyke
7:30 The Interns
8:30 The Headmaster
9 PM Movie: "40 Pounds Of Trouble"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tackle Box
11:45 Movie: "The Inn Of The Sixth Happiness"
(news follows the movie)
WSVA (WHSV) Ch. 3 Harrisonburg (NBC/ABC)
8 AM Today (joined in progress)
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Porky Pig
9:30 Galloping Gourmet
10 AM Christmas At Washington Cathedral (apparently
NBC carried this service then; today WJLA is the
originating stations and Allbritton Communications
carries it on an ad-hoc network)
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Bewitched (an episode that aired today on WGN America:
Esmerelda conjures up Santa)
12:30 A World Apart
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Christmas Music (the Shenandoah Valley Academy)
3 PM The Messiah (presented by the music and drama departments
of Madison College, Harrisonburg)
4:30 North-South Shrine Game (will begin after ABC's coverage of
the Hawks-Suns game, airing on Chs. 8 and 13)
7:30 Brady Bunch (time approximate)
8 PM Nanny And The Professor
8:30 Partridge Family
9 PM That Girl
9:30 Love, American Style
10 PM This Is Tom Jones (Christmas show with Ella Fitzgerald,
Rudolf Nureyev, and the Welsh Treorchy Male Choir)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports (still in b&w)
11:30 Dick Cavett
WTVR Ch. 6 Richmond (CBS)
6 AM Christmas Special (Don Murray--not to be confused with
Don Morrow--hosts, guests are Pat Boone, Jackie Vernon,
Shari Lewis and her puppets, the Free Design, the Little
People)
7 AM Christmas Music: St. Gertrude's Glee Club
7:30 Christmas Music: Maggie Walker High School Choir
8 AM Christmas Music: Hermitage High School Choir
8:30 Christmas Music: Longwood College Choir
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Family Affair
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Where The Heart Is
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Peyton Place
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
4:30 S. Hurok Presents
5:30 Christmas Music: St. Gertrude's Glee Club
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM News, Weather
7:30 The Interns
8:30 The Headmaster
9 PM CBS Movie: "Life With Father"
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "Threepenny Opera" (where the song
"Mack the Knife" originated)
WXEX (WRIC) Ch. 8 Petersburg-Richmond (ABC)
7 AM R.F.D. 8
7:30 News
8 AM Contact (local, with John Mackin)
8:50 Fashions In Sewing
9 AM Virginia Graham (Pamela Mason, comedy
writer Pat McCormick, singer John Stewart--
"Dialing For Dollars" interrupts)
10 AM The Saint ("Dialing For Dollars" interrupts)
11 AM Divorce Court
11:30 That Girl
12 N Bewitched
12:30 A World Apart
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 NBA Basketball: Hawks-Suns
4:30 North-South Shrine Game (time approximate)
7:30 Brady Bunch (time approximate)
8 PM Nanny And The Professor
8:30 Partridge Family
9 PM That Girl
9:30 Love, American Style
10 PM This Is Tom Jones
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "1001 Arabian Nights" (Mr. Magoo in
Bagdad--animated)
News follows the movie.
WAVY Ch. 10 Norfolk (NBC)
6:30 Farm Show
7 AM Today
9 AM David Frost (King Hussein of Jordan, interviewed
while in the U.S. earlier in the month, Jackie Vernon--
"Dialing For Dollars" interrupts)
10 AM Christmas At Washington Cathedral
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
1 PM Somerset (Another World/Somerset)
1:30 News Magazine
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World (Another World/Bay City)
3:30 I Love Lucy (the country-club dance episode with
Barbara Eden)
4 PM Wild Wild West
5 PM Star Trek/The Invaders (doesn't say which)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 NBC News (Chancellor/Brinkley/McGee)
7 PM Petticoat Junction
7:30 High Chaparral
8:30 Name Of The Game
10 PM Bracken's World (last show, to be replaced
Jan. 8 by "Strange Report")
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show (Jerry Lewis subs for Johnny;
Tiny Tim, Julie Budd)
1 AM News, Weather, Sports
WWBT Ch. 12 Richmond (NBC)
6:30 Virginia Almanac
7 AM Today
9 AM A Day For Dancing: the Christmas story is
retold through carols presented by the
Richmond Choral Society and Virginia Theater
Dance Ensemble (first aired the previous Sunday,
7 PM)
9:30 Movie Game
10 AM Christmas At Washington Cathedral
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Somerset
1:30 Words And Music
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Petticoat Junction
4:30 Star Trek
5:30 News, Weather, Sports
6 PM Perry Mason
7 PM NBC News
7:30 High Chaparral
8:30 Name Of The Game
10 PM Bracken's World
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Tonight Show
WVEC Ch. 13 Norfolk (ABC)
6:30 Film
7 AM Comedy Time ("Skippy The Bush Kangaroo"
is included)
8 AM Happy New Year (Davey and Goliath learn
the meaning of Christmas)
8:30 Christmas Special (Christmas as seen through
a child's eyes)
9 AM To Tell The Truth (Orson Bean, Kitty Carlisle,
Bill Cullen, Marian Mercer)
9:30 Movie: "Miracle In The Rain"
11:20 Fashions In Sewing
11:30 That Girl
12 N Bewitched
12:30 A World Apart
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 NBA Basketball: Hawks-Suns
4:30 North-South Shrine Game (time approximate)
7:30 Brady Bunch (time approximate)
8 PM Nanny And The Professor
8:30 Partridge Family
9 PM That Girl
9:30 Love, American Style
10 PM This Is Tom Jones
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:35 Dark Shadows (apparently Ch. 13, like Ch. 8,
saved up the week's episodes and ran them
in one two-and-a-half-hour sitting, although this
week it would be only two hours since the show
was pre-empted today)
WHRO/15 is not included in TV Guide's listings.
WCVE Ch. 23 Richmond (PBS)
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Sesame Street
6:30 Christmas Through The Years
7:30 Film (Bill Cosby narrates a film about the birth of
Christ.)
8 PM Realities
9 PM Virginia Folk Festival
9:30 Book Beat (Lady Bird Johnson's "A White House
Diary")
10 PM Pete Seeger (a Christmas show from a New England
coach house)
sign off 11 PM
WYAH (WGNT) Ch. 27 Portsmouth (Ind.)
3 PM Panorama
3:30 Romper Room
4:30 Mister Ed
5 PM Leave It To Beaver
5:30 Jim And Tammy
6:30 Flipper
7 PM News, Weather, Sports
7:30 Inspiration Time
8 PM Christmas Music (Ferguson High School,
Newport News)
9 PM Film
9:30 Billy Graham
10:30 News, Weather, Sports
sign off 11 PM