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Retro: Eastern Virginia Saturday, August 7, 1976

By request, from TV Guide, Eastern Virginia Edition:

WTAR (WTKR) Ch. 3 Norfolk (CBS)

6 AM Summer Semester: "Transformation Of American
Society"
6:30 Across The Fence
7 AM Andy Griffith
7:30 Connie's Magic Cottage (local kids' show)
8 AM Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9:30 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
10 AM Shazam!/Isis Hour
11 AM Far Out Space Nuts
11:30 Ghost Busters
12 N Valley Of The Dinosaurs
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival: "The Camerons" ('74,
from England)
2 PM Movie: TBA
4 PM The Explorers
4:30 Volvo International Tennis Championships
6 PM News (time approximate)
6:30 Newsmakers
7 PM Hee Haw (George Jones, Sunday Sharpe, Cincinnati
disc jockey Larry B.)
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 Doc
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM NFL Preseason: Cowboys-Los Angeles Rams
1 AM Movie: TBA (time approximate)

WHSV Ch. 3 Harrisonburg (NBC/ABC)

7 AM Light Unto My Path
7:30 Groovie Goolies
8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Tom And Jerry/Grape Ape
9:30 Adventures Of Gilligan
10 AM Super Friends
11 AM Speed Buggy
11:30 Oddball Couple
12 N Lost Saucer
12:30 American Bandstand (Cyndi Greco, who sings the
"Laverne & Shirley" theme, "Making Our Dreams
Come True"; an interview with Penny Marshall)
1:30 Wally's Workshop
2 PM Overseas Mission
2:30 Movie: "I Was A Male War Bride"
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (U.S.-USSR Olympic track
teams meet in College Park, MD)
6:30 Wild Kingdom
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Monty Hall Special (guests: Cloris Leachman, Ed Asner,
Minnie Riperton, Shields and Yarnell)
9 PM ABC Movie: "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever"
11:30 James Robison Presents
12 M Dateline: Religion
12:05 Gospel Singing Jubilee (the Inspirations, the Hinsons, the
Dixie Echoes)

WTVR Ch. 6 Richmond (CBS)

6 AM Summer Semester
6:30 Cavalcade
7 AM U.S. Of Archie (delay from Sun 9 AM)
7:30 Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine (guest: Arte Johnson,
delay from Sun 9:30 AM)
8 AM Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9:30 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
10 AM Shazam!/Isis Hour
11 AM Far Out Space Nuts
11:30 Ghost Busters
12 N Valley Of The Dinosaurs
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Spirit Of Independence
2 PM Arthur Smith
2:30 Lost In Space
3:30 Wrestling (from Raleigh, IIRC)
4:30 Volvo International Tennis Championships
6 PM News (time approximate)
6:30 CBS News (Dan Rather)
7 PM Partridge Family
7:30 Hee Haw
8:30 Pop! Goes The Country
9 PM Nashville On The Road
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM NFL Preseason: Cowboys-Los Angeles Rams
1 AM The Virginian (time approximate)

WXEX (WRIC) Ch. 8 Petersburg-Richmond (ABC)

7 AM RFD #8
8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Tom And Jerry/Grape Ape
9:30 Adventures Of Gilligan
10 AM Super Friends
11 AM Speed Buggy
11:30 Oddball Couple
12 N Lost Saucer
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Formby's Antique Furniture Workshop
2 PM Big Valley
3 PM Movie: "Arsenic And Old Lace"
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 News
7 PM Lawrence Welk ("Shall We Dance?"--music to
dance to)
8 PM Monty Hall Special
9 PM ABC Movie: "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever"
11:30 News
12 M Soul Train
1 AM Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (Ike & Tina Turner, C.W.
McCall, Queen, Lisa Hartman)

WAVY Ch. 10 Norfolk (NBC)

6:30 The Lucy Show (guest: Tennessee Ernie Ford, whom Lucy
tries to get as a depositor at the bank)
7 AM Vegetable Soup
7:30 Rin Tin Tin
8 AM Emergency +4
8:30 Josie And The Pussycats
9 AM Secret Lives Of Waldo Kitty
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Land Of The Lost
10:30 Run, Joe, Run
11 AM Return To The Planet Of The Apes
11:30 Westwind
12 N Jetsons
12:30 Rin Tin Tin
1 PM Champions (sports series similar to "Wide World
Of Sports")
2 PM Grandstand
2:15 Baseball: Phillies-Cardinals (rain game: Royals-White Sox)
5 PM The Lucy Show (guest: Frankie Avalon, time approximate)
5:30 Rin Tin Tin
6 PM News
6:30 Wrestling (from Raleigh, I'm sure)
7:30 Inside Area 10
8 PM Pilot: "Adventurizing With The Chopper"
8:30 NBC Movie: "There Was A Crooked Man"
11 PM News
11:30 Weekend (two brothers convicted in a North Carolina kidnapping
case who may be innocent; how prostitution in Thailand has
attracted foreign visitors)
1 AM Movie: "Black Friday"

WWBT Ch. 12 Richmond (NBC)

7 AM Rocky And His Friends
7:30 Uncle Waldo
8 AM Emergency +4
8:30 Josie And The Pussycats
9 AM Secret Lives Of Waldo Kitty
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Land Of The Lost
10:30 Run, Joe, Run
11 AM Return To The Planet Of The Apes
11:30 Westwind
12 N Jetsons
12:30 Go-USA
1 PM Movie: "Two-Gun Sheriff" (Don "Red" Barry)
2 PM Grandstand
2:15 Baseball (same as Ch. 10)
5 PM Ironside (time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (Tom Brokaw)
7 PM On Twelve
7:30 Adam-12
8 PM Pilot: "Adventurizing With The Chopper"
8:30 NBC Movie: "There Was A Crooked Man"
11 PM News
11:30 Weekend

WVEC Ch. 13 Norfolk (ABC)

7 AM Comedy Time
7:30 Hong Kong Phooey
8 AM Sandy (Sandy Kandy, almost as popular as Bungles
among Ch. 13's kid viewers)
8:30 Tom And Jerry/Grape Ape
9:30 Adventures Of Gilligan
10 AM Super Friends
11 AM Speed Buggy
11:30 Oddball Couple
12 N Lost Saucer
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Movie: "Abandon Ship"
3:30 Bonanza
4:30 Greatest Sports Legends
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Candid Camera (reactions to the candid canine, Goldie)
7 PM Lawrence Welk (salute to musical instruments)
8 PM Monty Hall Special
9 PM ABC Movie: "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever"
11:30 ABC News (anchor not given)
11:45 News
12 M Movie: "Sands Of The Kalahari"
1:30 Conversation
2 AM News
2:05 Alcoholics Anonymous

WHRO Ch. 15 Norfolk (PBS)

9 AM Lilias, Yoga And You
9:30 Anyone For Tennyson?
10 AM Upstairs, Downstairs
11 AM Chust For Fancy (decorative art)
11:30 Cookin' Cajun
12 N A Bushel And A Peck
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1 PM A Family At War
2 PM A Word On Words
2:30 Guppies To Groupers
3 PM By-Line
3:30 Ilona's Palette (art)
4 PM Garden Show
4:30 Five String Breakdown: Basic Banjo
5 PM Olympiad
6 PM A Family At War
7 PM Firing Line (Fred Friendly discusses free speech vs.
the Fairness Doctrine)
8 PM Movie: "History Is Made At Night"
9:40 Movie: "History Is Made At Night" repeats
11:20 Movie: "History Is Made At Night" repeats again
sign off 1 AM

WCVE Ch. 23 Richmond (PBS)

5 PM Olympiad
6 PM Upstairs, Downstairs
7 PM Firing Line
8 PM At The Top (salute to Bix Beiderbecke)
9 PM NASCAR Racing (doesn't say from where)
9:30 Country Music Spectacular
10 PM Masterpiece Theatre ("The First Churchills" concludes)
sign off 11 PM

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

6:45 Davey And Goliath
7 AM Hot Fudge
7:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Porky Pig
9 AM Popeye
9:30 Little Rascals
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Jetsons
11 AM James Franciscus' Water World
11:30 Jeff's Collie
12 N Mr. Chips
12:30 NFL Action '76
1 PM Friends Of Man
1:30 Hazel
2 PM This Is Baseball
2:30 Movie: "Against The Wind"
4 PM NFL Championship Games
4:30 Sports Challenge (Yankees Mickey Mantle, Tony
Kubek, and Don Larsen vs. 1957 Milwaukee Braves
Lew Burdette, Warren Spahn, and Eddie Mathews)
5 PM Laredo
6 PM Movie: "San Demetrio--London" (true story of a British
Merchant Marine ship in World War II)
8 PM Rex Humbard
8:30 Warren Roberts
9:30 The Lesson
10 PM Oral Roberts
10:30 Moment Of Truth
11 PM Public Policy Forums
sign off 12 M

WVIR Ch. 29 Charlottesville (NBC)

8 AM Emergency +4
8:30 Josie And The Pussycats
9 AM Secret Lives Of Waldo Kitty
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Land Of The Lost
10:30 Run, Joe, Run
11 AM Return To The Planet Of The Apes
11:30 Westwind
12 N Jetsons
12:30 Go-USA
1 PM Bowling
2 PM Grandstand
2:15 Baseball (same as Ch. 10)
5 PM Wrestling (time approximate)
6 PM PTL Club Telethon (don't know how long it goes but it
wipes out the rest of the evening)

WVPT Ch. 51 Harrisonburg (PBS)

8 AM Sesame Street
9 AM Electric Company
9:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10 AM Sesame Street
11 AM Electric Company
11:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
12 N Ivanhoe
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1 PM Five String Breakdown: Basic Banjo
1:30 Legacy Americana
2 PM Word On Words
2:30 Guppies To Groupers
3 PM By-Line
3:30 Ilona's Palette
4 PM Garden Show
4:30 Cinema Showcase
5 PM Olympiad
6 PM Upstairs, Downstairs
7 PM Firing Line
8 PM At The Top
9 PM Movie: "Dr. Mabuse, King Of Crime" (silent, from '22)
10:35 Men Who Made The Movies (Raoul Walsh)
sign off 12:05 AM
 
bpatrick said:
WHRO Ch. 15 Norfolk (PBS)

8 PM Movie: "History Is Made At Night"
9:40 Movie: "History Is Made At Night" repeats
11:20 Movie: "History Is Made At Night" repeats again

Did WHRO normally show films in this manner?
 
Not that I know of, and why they ran this one three times in a
row I have no idea. But I left the Norfolk area in 1968, so somebody
who was there in the '70s might have a better idea.
 
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