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Retro: Eastern Virginia, Mon., Nov. 14, 1977

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 (first of two on salt; psychologist Eda LeShan discusses her salt-free diet)
7 AM CBS News (Lesley Stahl/Richard Threlkeld)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Dick Lamb (local talk show)
10 AM Price Is Right
11 AM Donahue
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 Tattletales (Bob and Dorothy Jo Barker, Pat and Patti Cooper, William Shatner and Marcy Lafferty)
4:30 Merv Griffin (Steve Allen, Jerry Van Dyke, Elizabeth Ashley, Hermione Baddeley, animal trainer Ray Berwick)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Cross-Wits (Alice Ghostley, Arte Johnson, Diane Ladd, Avery Schreiber)
7:30 New Truth Or Consequences (Bob Hilton is host)
8 PM Logan's Run
9 PM Betty White
9:30 Maude
10 PM Rafferty (a different type of role for Patrick McGoohan; here he's a U.S.-based doctor)
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Coffee, Tea, Or Me?"
sign off 1:05 AM

WHSV Ch. 3 Harrisonburg (NBC/ABC)

6:30 Virginia Farmer
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM PTL Club
10 AM The Doctors (NBC, delay from 2:30 PM)
10:30 TBA
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N The Better Sex
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM $20,000 Pyramid (David Doyle, Joyce Bulifant)
2:30 One Life To Live
3:15 General Hospital
4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 Gong Show (NBC)
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News (Harry Reasoner/Barbara Walters)
7 PM Little House On The Prairie (NBC, delay from 8 PM)
8 PM Sugar Time!
8:30 Fish
9 PM NFL Football: (St. Louis) Cardinals-Cowboys
12 M News (time approximate)
sign off after the news

WTVR Ch. 6 Richmond (CBS)

6 AM Sunrise Semester: "Discipline In The Classroom"
6:30 Virginia Today
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue
10 AM Price Is Right
11 AM Match Game '77 (Richard Dawson, Fannie Flagg, Polly Holliday, Dick Martin, Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers)
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 Tattletales
4:30 Three Stooges
5 PM Gilligan's Island
5:30 Get Smart
5:55 Weather Wise (Jan Hackler)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM News
7:30 Family Feud
8 PM Logan's Run
9 PM Betty White
9:30 Maude
10 PM Rafferty
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Coffee, Tea, Or Me?"
sign off 1:05 AM

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 magazine show)
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N The Better Sex
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM $20,000 Pyramid
2:30 One Life To Live
3:15 General Hospital
4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 Merv Griffin (same as WTAR/WTKR)
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Mary Tyler Moore
7:30 Odd Couple
8 PM Sugar Time!
8:30 Fish
9 PM NFL Football: (St. Louis) Cardinals-Cowboys
12 M News (time approximate)
12:30 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman

WAVY Ch. 10 Norfolk (NBC)

5:50 News
6 AM Jamestown To Yorktown
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today (Ralph Nader is a guest)
9 AM Dinah! (Richard Thomas, Norm Crosby, Donovan, James J. Kilpatrick, female impersonator Craig Russell)
10:30 Hollywood Squares (Tom Bosley, Donna Fargo, George Gobel, Jack Jones, Rose Marie, Rita Moreno, Cliff Potts, Wayland and Madame, Paul Lynde)
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Knockout (Arte Johnson's only game-show hosting gig)
12 N Mike And Lynn 'Roundabout Tidewater
1 PM Gong Show
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM The Archies
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 Adam-12
7:30 Gong Show (Arte Johnson, Jaye P. Morgan, Jamie Farr)
8 PM Little House On The Prairie
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Godfather" (Part 3 of 4)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (Frank Sinatra subs for Johnny; George Burns, Carroll O'Connor, Angie Dickinson, Don Rickles)
1 AM Tomorrow (Desmond Morris discusses "Manwatching: A Field Guide To Human Behavior")
2 AM News
2:10 Dateline: Area 10

WWBT Ch. 12 Richmond (NBC)

6:40 Virginia Almanac/News
7 AM Today
9 AM Movie: "The Big Store" (not one of the Marx Brothers' best, but watch for Virginia O'Brien's rendition of "Rock-A-Bye Baby," which comes very close to being the first rock 'n' roll song, from '41)
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Knockout
12 N To Say The Least (Jamie Farr, Earl Holliman, Kelly Lange, Jo Anne Worley)
12:30 Chico And The Man
1 PM Gong Show
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM The Archies
4:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
5 PM Brady Bunch
5:30 Adam-12
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Hogan's Heroes
7:30 Bewitched
8 PM Little House On The Prairie
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Godfather" (Part 3 of 4)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

WVEC Ch. 13 Norfolk (ABC)

6:30 H.R. Pufnstuf
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Happy Days (day-behind from 11 AM)
9:30 Movie: "Follow That Camel" (Phil Silvers and the British "Carry On" gang, from '67)
11:30 Midday (Harriet Passarelli)
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM $20,000 Pyramid
2:30 One Life To Live
3:15 General Hospital
4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 Emergency One!
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Movie: "Moon Of The Wolf"
8 PM Sugar Time!
8:30 Fish
9 PM NFL Football: (St. Louis) Cardinals-Cowboys
12 M News (time approximate)
12:30 Target: The Corruptors
1:30 News

WHRO Ch. 15 Norfolk (PBS)

In-school programs until

3 PM Young Children With Special Needs
3:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Zoom
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Young Children With Special Needs
6:30 Over Easy (debut; guest is Mrs. Lillian Carter)
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Dick Cavett (British actress Joyce Grenfell talks about her autobiography)
8 PM The Age Of Uncertainty (the business titans of the 1960s and '70s: the powerful multinational conglomerates)
9 PM American Short Story (John Updike's "The Music School")
10 PM VTR (Ed Emshwiller's "VTR" uses dramatized encounters between men and women to point up different acting styles)
sign off 11 PM

WCVE Ch. 23 Richmond (PBS)

8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 In-school programs
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 In-school programs
3 PM Electric Company
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 Wild Wild World Of Animals
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM The Age Of Uncertainty
9 PM American Short Story
10 PM VTR
sign off 11 PM

WYAH (WGNT) Ch. 27 Portsmouth (Ind.)

6 AM Ross Bagley (gospel music)
7 AM Porky Pig 'n Friends
7:30 Popeye 'n Bugs Bunny
8:30 Leave It To Beaver
9 AM Big Valley
10 AM 700 Club (from Hollywood: Pat Robertson interviews Dean Jones, James Hampton, and Tom Lester (Eb on "Green Acres")
11:30 Life In The Spirit
12 N Patterns For Living
12:30 Marcus Welby, M.D.
1:30 Green Acres
2 PM Hazel
2:30 Little Rascals/Our Gang
3 PM Flintstones
3:30 Fred Flintstone And Friends
4 PM Monkees
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Brady Bunch
5:30 Partridge Family
6 PM Dick Van Dyke
6:30 I Love Lucy
7 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8 PM Andy Griffith
8:30 Doris Day
9 PM 700 Club (rerun of the 11 AM telecast)
10:30 Life In The Spirit
11 PM Gerald Derstine Shares
11:30 Movie: "Mr. Scoutmaster"
sign off 1:30 AM

WVIR Ch. 29 Charlottesville (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Charlottesville Today
9:30 PTL Club
11:30 Knockout
12 N To Say The Least
12:30 Chico And The Man
1 PM Wheel Of Fortune
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Mike Douglas (co-hosts Beau Kayzer and Victoria Mallory ("The Young And The Restless"), Louis Gossett Jr., Jim Henson and the Muppets, comedian Kip Addotta, Agnes Nixon (creator of "All My Children" and "One Life To Live" and co-creator of "Search For Tomorrow")
5:30 Gong Show
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Donahue (James Gaylord, a high-school teacher fired when his homosexuality was discovered, discusses the October 1977 Supreme Court decision that upheld his dismissal.)
8 PM Little House On The Prairie
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Godfather" (Part 3 of 4)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
sign off 1 AM

WVPT Ch. 51 Harrisonburg (PBS)

In-school programs until

3 PM Big Blue Marble
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 Virginia And The Economy
8 PM The Age Of Uncertainty
9 PM American Short Story
10 PM VTR
sign off 11 PM
 
WYAH 27 had a strong schedule of shows for that time, strong as any other independent station...It seemed like WTTG or WNEW TV in terms of shows except they had 700 club instead of a local talk show middays and 700 club prime time instead of Merv Griffin or a movie...Still a good station considering it was Christian owned. This station evolved from an 8 hour a day operation in 1971 with 5 hours of religion and a couple hours of low budget secular shows to a 20 hour a day general interest station. BY 1972 they were up to 10 hours a day. By the fall of 72, 12 hours a day. By the start of 1973 they were 15 hours a day and by the fall of 73 they were on 20 hours a day. As the station expanded, it was adding sitcoms, cartoons, and movies, while keeping with maybe 4 or 5 hours of Christian programming a day. They were all Christian on SUndays though...they began a few hours of movies Sundays in October of 1980.
 
At the time I was getting Ch. 27's sister station, KXTX/39 Dallas-Ft. Worth, and it had a very similar lineup, as did Ch. 46 in Atlanta, which changed its call letters from WHAE to WANX about this time.

I remember watching Ch. 27 when I lived in Virginia Beach (1966-68); at the time its programming was all religion, broadcasting about five hours a day (6-11 PM Mon-Fri and 1-6 PM Sun, off the air Sat). CBN expanded considerably after I left and before I got another CBN station (Atlanta, after I started at the University of Georgia in 1973).
 
Hey bpatrick, do you have any TV Listings from the TV Guide Eastern Virginia editions from the late 90s? If so, just let me know, and I'd be appreciated if you posted some.

Here are the listings...

Do you have any TV Listings from the Eastern Virginia TV Guides from the late 90s, if so, just let me know and I'd love to see some posted!

Here are the listings...

3 - WHSV Harrisonburg (ABC)
3N - WTKR Norfolk (CBS)
5 - WTTG Washington (Fox)
6 - WVIR Richmond (CBS)
8 - WRIC Petersburg (ABC)
10 - WAVY Norfolk (NBC)
12 - WWBT Richmond (NBC)
13 - WVEC Hampton (ABC)
15 - WHRO Norfolk (PBS)
20 - WDCA Washington (UPN)
23 - WCVE Richmond (PBS)
27 - WGNT Portsmouth (UPN)
29 - WVIR Charlottesville (NBC)
33 - WTVZ Norfolk (Fox, switched to the WB in 1998)
35 - WRLH Richmond (Fox)
41 - WHTJ Charlottesville (PBS)
43 - WVBT Virginia Beach (WB, switched to Fox in 1998)
49 - WJCB Norfolk (Ind, became Pax affiliate and changed call letters to WPXV in 1998)
51 - XWBH Gloucester (Ind)
51H - WVPT Harrisonburg (PBS)
57 - WCVW Richmond (PBS)
62 - XWCN Norfolk (Ind)
65 - WAWB Ashland (WB, switched to UPN and changed call letters to WUPV in 1997)
68 - WPEN Newport News (Ind)
 
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