From TV Guide, Eastern Virginia Edition:
WTAR (WTKR) Ch. 3 Norfolk (CBS)
6:30 A Better Way (consumer report)
7 AM Andy Griffith
7:30 Vision On
8 AM Sylvester And Tweety
8:30 Clue Club
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
10 AM Tarzan: Lord Of The Jungle
10:30 Shazam!/Isis Hour
11:30 Ark II
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 The NFL Today
1 PM NFL Football: NFC divisional playoff
game (teams TBA)
4 PM Famous Classic Tales: "A Christmas
Carol" (animated, time approximate)
5 PM TBA
6 PM News
6:30 Newsmakers
7 PM Hee Haw (guests: Jimmy Dean and Margo
Smith)
8 PM A Charlie Brown Christmas
8:30 How The Grinch Stole Christmas
9 PM All In The Family
9:30 Andy Williams (he was doing a syndicated
show at the time, guests: the Lennon Sisters)
10 PM Carol Burnett (guest: Dick Van Dyke, who would
become a regular--briefly--the following year)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Cotton Comes To Harlem"
12:55 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
WHSV Ch. 3 Harrisonburg (NBC/ABC)
7 AM Light Unto My Path
7:30 New Adventures Of Gilligan (delay from Sun
10:30 AM)
8 AM Tom & Jerry/Mumbly
8:30 Jabberjaw
9 AM Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt
10:30 Krofft Supershow
11:30 Superfriends
12 N National Finals Rodeo
3 PM Good News
3:30 Grandstand
4 PM TBA (I think Ch. 3 carried the game between
the AFC wild-card team and the Oakland Raiders)
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Wonder Woman
9 PM Starsky & Hutch
10 PM Most Wanted
11 PM James Robison Presents
11:30 Dateline: Religion
11:45 700 Club
WTVR Ch. 6 Richmond (CBS)
6 AM Sunrise Semester: "The Novel And Theater Of
Contemporary France"
6:30 Cavalcade
7 AM Hudson Brothers Comedy Show (delay from Sun
9 AM)
7:30 Far Out Space Nuts (delay from Sun 9:30 AM)
8 AM Sylvester And Tweety
8:30 Clue Club
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
10 AM Tarzan: Lord Of The Jungle
10:30 Shazam!/Isis Hour
11:30 Ark II
12 N Carl Slone (University of Richmond basketball coach)
12:30 The NFL Today
1 PM NFL Football: NFC divisional playoff game
4 PM Famous Classic Tales (time approximate)
5 PM Wrestling (from Raleigh)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM Oral Roberts' Christmas Dream (guests: Natalie
Cole and the Krofft puppets)
8 PM Hee Haw ("A Charlie Brown Christmas" is delayed
to Wed 7:30; "How The Grinch Stole Christmas"
to Mon 7:30)
9 PM All In The Family
9:30 Alice
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM News
11:30 Star Trek
12:30 The Bold Ones
WXEX (WRIC) Ch. 8 Petersburg-Richmond (ABC)
7 AM R.F.D. #8
8 AM Tom & Jerry/Mumbly
8:30 Krazy 8's (local kids' show)
9 AM Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt
10:30 Krofft Supershow
11:30 Superfriends
12 N Junior Almost Anything Goes (coaches:
Marty Allen, Phyllis Diller, Jo Anne Worley;
host: Soupy Sales)
12:30 American Bandstand (guests: Walter Murphy
and Johnny Bristol)
1:30 Soul Train (guests: Donna Summer and The Moments)
2:30 Tarzan (Ron Ely)
3:30 Movie: "The Thing"
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (Billy Smart's Circus and the
NASCAR Ontario (CA) 500)
6:30 News
7 PM Lawrence Welk (songs of the '40s)
8 PM Wonder Woman
9 PM Starsky & Hutch
10 PM Most Wanted
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Sergeant York"
WAVY Ch. 10 Norfolk (NBC)
6:30 Mission: Impossible
7:30 Rin Tin Tin
8 AM Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Speed Buggy
10:30 Monster Squad
11 AM Space Ghost/Frankenstein Jr.
11:30 Big John, Little John
12 N Land Of The Lost
12:30 Muggsy
1 PM Ara's Sports World (Ara Parseghian)
1:30 Champions (sports, not the '60s British series)
2:30 Wrestling (from Raleigh)
3:30 Grandstand
4 PM NFL Football: AFC wild-card team-Oakland Raiders
7 PM News (time approximate)
7:30 Inside Area 10
8 PM Story Of The First Christmas Snow (features the
voices of Angela Lansbury and Cyril Ritchard)
8:30 NBC Movie: "Mame" (Lucille Ball's failed 1974 version,
also stars Bea Arthur)
11:15 News
11:45 Saturday Night (Live) (hostess Madeline Kahn, musical
guest Carly Simon)
1:15 Movie: "Unknown Island"
WWBT Ch. 12 Richmond (NBC)
7 AM Rocky And His Friends
7:30 Uncle Waldo
8 AM Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Speed Buggy
10:30 Bullwinkle
11 AM Tennessee Tuxedo
11:30 Flintstones
12 N Little Rascals
12:30 Batman
1 PM Movie: "The Dawn Rider" (John Wayne)
2 PM Movie: "Counterpoint"
3:30 Grandstand
4 PM NFL Football: AFC wild-card team-Oakland Raiders
7 PM Pinocchio (time approximate)
8 PM Story Of The First Christmas Snow
8:30 NBC Movie: "Mame"
11:15 News
11:45 Saturday Night (Live)
WVEC Ch. 13 Norfolk (ABC)
6:30 Underdog
7 AM Uncle Waldo
8 AM Tom & Jerry/Mumbly
8:30 Jabberjaw
9 AM Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt
10:30 Krofft Supershow
11:30 Superfriends
12 N Junior Almost Anything Goes
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Movie: "The Wonderful Country"
3:30 Movie: "Kona Coast"
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Candid Camera (the announcer of a football
game attempts to pronounce unpronounceable
ethnic names)
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Wonder Woman
9 PM Starsky & Hutch
10 PM Most Wanted
11 PM ABC News (anchor not given)
11:15 News
11:30 Movie: "The Nanny" (Bette Davis, not Fran Drescher)
1 AM Get Down
1:30 Conversation
2 AM News
2:05 Alcoholics Anonymous
WHRO Ch. 15 Norfolk (PBS)
7 AM Sunrise Semester: "The Novel And Theater Of
Contemporary France" (the week's three lectures,
pre-empted on Ch. 3)
8:30 Dreams: From Mystery To Meaning
9 AM Masterpiece Theatre: "How Green Was My Valley"
(conclusion)
10 AM Boston Pops In Hollywood (taped during the Bicentennial,
also celebrates Arthur Fiedler's career--guest is Charlton
Heston)
11:30 Cookin' Cajun (Justin Wilson cooks lamb and pork)
12 N Consumer Survival Kit
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1 PM A Family At War
2 PM Golf: Pepsi Mixed Team Championship (live from Miami)
4 PM Nova (the ecology of San Francisco Bay)
5 PM Adams Chronicles (Charles Francis Adams II loses control
of the Union Pacific railroad to Jay Gould as the series
comes to an end.)
6 PM Getting On (a retired man who serves as a volunteer
guide at the Bronx Zoo)
6:30 Ourstory (how Queen Liliuokalani's monarchy in Hawaii
was overthrown by Americans)
7 PM Rebop
7:30 Once Upon A Classic ("Heidi," Part 5)
8 PM The Way It Was (the 1954 World Series between the
Giants and Indians--Willie Mays, Leo Durocher, Vic
Wertz, and Al Lopez talk about it)
8:30 Boston Pops In Hollywood
10 PM Visions: "Scenes From The Middle Class"--two dramas:
"Monkey In The Middle," about the shaky marriage of
a well-to-do black couple; "Winter Tour," about a teenage
girl who finds love and heartbreak
sign off 12 M
WCVE Ch. 23 Richmond (PBS)
7:30 P.S. 23
8 AM Soundstage (featured: Dizzy Gillespie)
9 AM Wild Wild World Of Animals
9:30 In Performance At Wolf Trap (the Preservation Hall
Jazz Band)
10:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
11 AM Visions (same as Ch. 15)
1 PM Sesame Street
2 PM Golf: Pepsi Mixed Team Championship
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Adams Chronicles
6 PM Getting On
6:30 Zoom
7 PM Rebop
7:30 Once Upon A Classic
8 PM The Way It Was
8:30 Boston Pops In Hollywood
10 PM Dance In America (the American Ballet
Theatre)
sign off 11 PM
WYAH (WGNT) Ch. 27 Portsmouth (Ind.)
6:15 Davey And Goliath
6:30 Dusty's Treehouse
7 AM Hot Fudge
7:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Porky Pig
9 AM Popeye
9:30 Flintstones
10 AM Jetsons
10:30 Tarzan
11:30 Flash Gordon (serial)
12 N Movie: "Calling Northside 777"
2 PM NFL Game Of The Week
2:30 Super Bowl Specials '76
3 PM Pro Football Playback (highlights of last
week's games)
3:30 Hogan's Heroes
4 PM In Conquest Of The Sea
5 PM High Chaparral
6 PM The City That Forgot About Christmas
(Sebastian Cabot provides the voices.)
6:30 Rex Humbard
7 PM Oral Roberts
7:30 The Lesson
8 PM Tangerine Bowl: BYU-Oklahoma State
(live from Orlando)
11 PM Moment Of Truth (time approximate)
11:30 Washington Debates For The '70s (topic:
impeachable offenses and executive privilege)
sign off 12:30 AM
WVIR Ch. 29 Charlottesville (NBC)
8 AM Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Speed Buggy
10:30 Movie: "Christmas In Connecticut"
12:30 Friends Of Man
1 PM Roller Derby
2 PM Wrestling (probably from Raleigh, not sure)
3 PM Film
3:30 Grandstand
4 PM TBA (I feel certain it's the AFC wild-card team-
Oakland Raiders game)
7 PM Van Dyke And Company (guests: Bobbie Gentry and John
Byner, delay from Thu 8 PM)
8 PM Story Of The First Christmas Snow
8:30 NBC Movie: "Mame"
11:15 Andy Williams (guest: Leslie Uggams)
sign off 11:45 PM
WVPT Ch. 51 Harrisonburg (PBS)
7:30 Evening At Symphony (Michael Tilson Thomas leads the
Boston Symphony in Schoenberg's Five Pieces For Orchestra)
8:30 Movie: "Waltz Of The Toreadors"
10:20 Films
10:30 Visions (same as Ch. 15)
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1 PM Five String Breakdown: Basic Banjo
1:30 Chust For Fancy (art)
2 PM Golf: Pepsi Mixed Team Championship
4 PM Garden Show
4:30 Cinema Showcase
5 PM Adams Chronicles
6 PM Getting On
6:30 Zoom
7 PM Rebop
7:30 Once Upon A Classic
8 PM The Way It Was
8:30 Boston Pops In Hollywood
10 PM The Strauss Family (Part 1)
WTAR (WTKR) Ch. 3 Norfolk (CBS)
6:30 A Better Way (consumer report)
7 AM Andy Griffith
7:30 Vision On
8 AM Sylvester And Tweety
8:30 Clue Club
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
10 AM Tarzan: Lord Of The Jungle
10:30 Shazam!/Isis Hour
11:30 Ark II
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 The NFL Today
1 PM NFL Football: NFC divisional playoff
game (teams TBA)
4 PM Famous Classic Tales: "A Christmas
Carol" (animated, time approximate)
5 PM TBA
6 PM News
6:30 Newsmakers
7 PM Hee Haw (guests: Jimmy Dean and Margo
Smith)
8 PM A Charlie Brown Christmas
8:30 How The Grinch Stole Christmas
9 PM All In The Family
9:30 Andy Williams (he was doing a syndicated
show at the time, guests: the Lennon Sisters)
10 PM Carol Burnett (guest: Dick Van Dyke, who would
become a regular--briefly--the following year)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Cotton Comes To Harlem"
12:55 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
WHSV Ch. 3 Harrisonburg (NBC/ABC)
7 AM Light Unto My Path
7:30 New Adventures Of Gilligan (delay from Sun
10:30 AM)
8 AM Tom & Jerry/Mumbly
8:30 Jabberjaw
9 AM Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt
10:30 Krofft Supershow
11:30 Superfriends
12 N National Finals Rodeo
3 PM Good News
3:30 Grandstand
4 PM TBA (I think Ch. 3 carried the game between
the AFC wild-card team and the Oakland Raiders)
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Wonder Woman
9 PM Starsky & Hutch
10 PM Most Wanted
11 PM James Robison Presents
11:30 Dateline: Religion
11:45 700 Club
WTVR Ch. 6 Richmond (CBS)
6 AM Sunrise Semester: "The Novel And Theater Of
Contemporary France"
6:30 Cavalcade
7 AM Hudson Brothers Comedy Show (delay from Sun
9 AM)
7:30 Far Out Space Nuts (delay from Sun 9:30 AM)
8 AM Sylvester And Tweety
8:30 Clue Club
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
10 AM Tarzan: Lord Of The Jungle
10:30 Shazam!/Isis Hour
11:30 Ark II
12 N Carl Slone (University of Richmond basketball coach)
12:30 The NFL Today
1 PM NFL Football: NFC divisional playoff game
4 PM Famous Classic Tales (time approximate)
5 PM Wrestling (from Raleigh)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM Oral Roberts' Christmas Dream (guests: Natalie
Cole and the Krofft puppets)
8 PM Hee Haw ("A Charlie Brown Christmas" is delayed
to Wed 7:30; "How The Grinch Stole Christmas"
to Mon 7:30)
9 PM All In The Family
9:30 Alice
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM News
11:30 Star Trek
12:30 The Bold Ones
WXEX (WRIC) Ch. 8 Petersburg-Richmond (ABC)
7 AM R.F.D. #8
8 AM Tom & Jerry/Mumbly
8:30 Krazy 8's (local kids' show)
9 AM Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt
10:30 Krofft Supershow
11:30 Superfriends
12 N Junior Almost Anything Goes (coaches:
Marty Allen, Phyllis Diller, Jo Anne Worley;
host: Soupy Sales)
12:30 American Bandstand (guests: Walter Murphy
and Johnny Bristol)
1:30 Soul Train (guests: Donna Summer and The Moments)
2:30 Tarzan (Ron Ely)
3:30 Movie: "The Thing"
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (Billy Smart's Circus and the
NASCAR Ontario (CA) 500)
6:30 News
7 PM Lawrence Welk (songs of the '40s)
8 PM Wonder Woman
9 PM Starsky & Hutch
10 PM Most Wanted
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Sergeant York"
WAVY Ch. 10 Norfolk (NBC)
6:30 Mission: Impossible
7:30 Rin Tin Tin
8 AM Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Speed Buggy
10:30 Monster Squad
11 AM Space Ghost/Frankenstein Jr.
11:30 Big John, Little John
12 N Land Of The Lost
12:30 Muggsy
1 PM Ara's Sports World (Ara Parseghian)
1:30 Champions (sports, not the '60s British series)
2:30 Wrestling (from Raleigh)
3:30 Grandstand
4 PM NFL Football: AFC wild-card team-Oakland Raiders
7 PM News (time approximate)
7:30 Inside Area 10
8 PM Story Of The First Christmas Snow (features the
voices of Angela Lansbury and Cyril Ritchard)
8:30 NBC Movie: "Mame" (Lucille Ball's failed 1974 version,
also stars Bea Arthur)
11:15 News
11:45 Saturday Night (Live) (hostess Madeline Kahn, musical
guest Carly Simon)
1:15 Movie: "Unknown Island"
WWBT Ch. 12 Richmond (NBC)
7 AM Rocky And His Friends
7:30 Uncle Waldo
8 AM Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Speed Buggy
10:30 Bullwinkle
11 AM Tennessee Tuxedo
11:30 Flintstones
12 N Little Rascals
12:30 Batman
1 PM Movie: "The Dawn Rider" (John Wayne)
2 PM Movie: "Counterpoint"
3:30 Grandstand
4 PM NFL Football: AFC wild-card team-Oakland Raiders
7 PM Pinocchio (time approximate)
8 PM Story Of The First Christmas Snow
8:30 NBC Movie: "Mame"
11:15 News
11:45 Saturday Night (Live)
WVEC Ch. 13 Norfolk (ABC)
6:30 Underdog
7 AM Uncle Waldo
8 AM Tom & Jerry/Mumbly
8:30 Jabberjaw
9 AM Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt
10:30 Krofft Supershow
11:30 Superfriends
12 N Junior Almost Anything Goes
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Movie: "The Wonderful Country"
3:30 Movie: "Kona Coast"
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Candid Camera (the announcer of a football
game attempts to pronounce unpronounceable
ethnic names)
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Wonder Woman
9 PM Starsky & Hutch
10 PM Most Wanted
11 PM ABC News (anchor not given)
11:15 News
11:30 Movie: "The Nanny" (Bette Davis, not Fran Drescher)
1 AM Get Down
1:30 Conversation
2 AM News
2:05 Alcoholics Anonymous
WHRO Ch. 15 Norfolk (PBS)
7 AM Sunrise Semester: "The Novel And Theater Of
Contemporary France" (the week's three lectures,
pre-empted on Ch. 3)
8:30 Dreams: From Mystery To Meaning
9 AM Masterpiece Theatre: "How Green Was My Valley"
(conclusion)
10 AM Boston Pops In Hollywood (taped during the Bicentennial,
also celebrates Arthur Fiedler's career--guest is Charlton
Heston)
11:30 Cookin' Cajun (Justin Wilson cooks lamb and pork)
12 N Consumer Survival Kit
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1 PM A Family At War
2 PM Golf: Pepsi Mixed Team Championship (live from Miami)
4 PM Nova (the ecology of San Francisco Bay)
5 PM Adams Chronicles (Charles Francis Adams II loses control
of the Union Pacific railroad to Jay Gould as the series
comes to an end.)
6 PM Getting On (a retired man who serves as a volunteer
guide at the Bronx Zoo)
6:30 Ourstory (how Queen Liliuokalani's monarchy in Hawaii
was overthrown by Americans)
7 PM Rebop
7:30 Once Upon A Classic ("Heidi," Part 5)
8 PM The Way It Was (the 1954 World Series between the
Giants and Indians--Willie Mays, Leo Durocher, Vic
Wertz, and Al Lopez talk about it)
8:30 Boston Pops In Hollywood
10 PM Visions: "Scenes From The Middle Class"--two dramas:
"Monkey In The Middle," about the shaky marriage of
a well-to-do black couple; "Winter Tour," about a teenage
girl who finds love and heartbreak
sign off 12 M
WCVE Ch. 23 Richmond (PBS)
7:30 P.S. 23
8 AM Soundstage (featured: Dizzy Gillespie)
9 AM Wild Wild World Of Animals
9:30 In Performance At Wolf Trap (the Preservation Hall
Jazz Band)
10:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
11 AM Visions (same as Ch. 15)
1 PM Sesame Street
2 PM Golf: Pepsi Mixed Team Championship
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Adams Chronicles
6 PM Getting On
6:30 Zoom
7 PM Rebop
7:30 Once Upon A Classic
8 PM The Way It Was
8:30 Boston Pops In Hollywood
10 PM Dance In America (the American Ballet
Theatre)
sign off 11 PM
WYAH (WGNT) Ch. 27 Portsmouth (Ind.)
6:15 Davey And Goliath
6:30 Dusty's Treehouse
7 AM Hot Fudge
7:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Porky Pig
9 AM Popeye
9:30 Flintstones
10 AM Jetsons
10:30 Tarzan
11:30 Flash Gordon (serial)
12 N Movie: "Calling Northside 777"
2 PM NFL Game Of The Week
2:30 Super Bowl Specials '76
3 PM Pro Football Playback (highlights of last
week's games)
3:30 Hogan's Heroes
4 PM In Conquest Of The Sea
5 PM High Chaparral
6 PM The City That Forgot About Christmas
(Sebastian Cabot provides the voices.)
6:30 Rex Humbard
7 PM Oral Roberts
7:30 The Lesson
8 PM Tangerine Bowl: BYU-Oklahoma State
(live from Orlando)
11 PM Moment Of Truth (time approximate)
11:30 Washington Debates For The '70s (topic:
impeachable offenses and executive privilege)
sign off 12:30 AM
WVIR Ch. 29 Charlottesville (NBC)
8 AM Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Speed Buggy
10:30 Movie: "Christmas In Connecticut"
12:30 Friends Of Man
1 PM Roller Derby
2 PM Wrestling (probably from Raleigh, not sure)
3 PM Film
3:30 Grandstand
4 PM TBA (I feel certain it's the AFC wild-card team-
Oakland Raiders game)
7 PM Van Dyke And Company (guests: Bobbie Gentry and John
Byner, delay from Thu 8 PM)
8 PM Story Of The First Christmas Snow
8:30 NBC Movie: "Mame"
11:15 Andy Williams (guest: Leslie Uggams)
sign off 11:45 PM
WVPT Ch. 51 Harrisonburg (PBS)
7:30 Evening At Symphony (Michael Tilson Thomas leads the
Boston Symphony in Schoenberg's Five Pieces For Orchestra)
8:30 Movie: "Waltz Of The Toreadors"
10:20 Films
10:30 Visions (same as Ch. 15)
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1 PM Five String Breakdown: Basic Banjo
1:30 Chust For Fancy (art)
2 PM Golf: Pepsi Mixed Team Championship
4 PM Garden Show
4:30 Cinema Showcase
5 PM Adams Chronicles
6 PM Getting On
6:30 Zoom
7 PM Rebop
7:30 Once Upon A Classic
8 PM The Way It Was
8:30 Boston Pops In Hollywood
10 PM The Strauss Family (Part 1)