From TV Guide, Eastern Virginia Edition:
WTAR (WTKR) Ch. 3 Norfolk (CBS)
6:30 Better Way
7 AM Petticoat Junction
7:30 Kidsworld
8 AM Skatebirds
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour
11:30 Space Academy
12 N Secrets Of Isis
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM What's New, Mr. Magoo?
1:30 CBS Saturday Film Festival: "Little
Pig" (from Hong Kong)
2 PM Wild Wild World Of Animals
2:30 Movie: "Impasse"
4 PM NFL Game Of The Week
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular: NASCAR Los
Angeles Times 500, analysis of the first
ten weeks of the NFL season, Part 8 of
the World's Strongest Man competition
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM Hee Haw (guests: Tom T. Hall and the Sons
of the Pioneers)
8 PM Mary Tyler Moore (pre-empts Bob Newhart)
8:30 We've Got Each Other
9 PM The Jeffersons
9:30 Tony Randall
10 PM Carol Burnett (salute to MGM)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Fun In Acapulco" (Elvis Presley)
1:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (the Average White
Band, Ben E. King, Pablo Cruise, Steve Landesberg,
comics Al Alan Peterson and Jim Samuels)
WHSV Ch. 3 Harrisonburg (NBC/ABC)
7 AM Light Unto My Path
7:30 Jabberjaw (delay from Sun 10:30 AM)
8 AM All New Superfriends Hour
9 AM Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics
11 AM Krofft Supershow
12 N Good News (religion)
12:30 College Football Pregame Show
12:45 College Football: Penn State-Pitt
4 PM Army-Navy Game (time approximate)
7 PM Hee Haw (time approximate)
8 PM Tabitha (you know this one: Samantha's
now-grown daughter works at a TV station)
8:30 Operation Petticoat
9 PM Starsky & Hutch
10 PM Love Boat (passengers include Phil Silvers,
Gary Burghoff, and Jane Curtin)
11 PM James Robison Presents
11:30 700 Club
12:30 Dateline: Religion
WTVR Ch. 6 Richmond (CBS)
6 AM Sunrise Semester: "Man's Place In Nature"
6:30 Cavalcade
7 AM Ghost Busters (delay from Sun 9 AM)
7:30 Wacko (delay from Sun 9:30 AM)
8 AM Skatebirds
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour
11:30 Space Academy
12 N Secrets Of Isis
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Lost In Space
2 PM Pop! Goes The Country
2:30 Nashville On The Road
3 PM Beverly Hillbillies
3:30 Wrestling (from Raleigh)
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Bob Newhart
8:30 We've Got Each Other
9 PM The Jeffersons
9:30 Tony Randall
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM News
11:30 Star Trek
12:30 Gunsmoke
WXEX (WRIC) Ch. 8 Petersburg-Richmond (ABC)
7 AM R.F.D. #8
8 AM All New Superfriends Hour
9 AM Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics
11 AM Krofft Supershow
12 N ABC Weekend Special: "The Nunundaga" (Part
1 of 2 about a fictional Indian tribe in 1820s
Wyoming)
12:30 College Football Pregame Show
12:45 College Football: Penn State-Pitt
4 PM Army-Navy Game (time approximate)
7 PM Lawrence Welk (time approximate)
8 PM Tabitha
8:30 Operation Petticoat
9 PM Starsky & Hutch
10 PM Love Boat
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Chisum" (John Wayne)
WAVY Ch. 10 Norfolk (NBC)
5:50 News
6 AM The Lucy Show
6:30 Batman (Burgess Meredith as the Penguin,
2 episodes)
7:30 Pink Panther
8 AM C.B. Bears
9 AM Space Sentinels
9:30 Super Witch
10 AM Bang-Shang Lalapalooza
10:30 I Am The Greatest: The Adventures Of
Muhammad Ali
11 AM Thunder
11:30 Search And Rescue
12 N Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
12:30 Red Hand Gang
1 PM Cliffwood Avenue Kids
1:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
2 PM Soul Train (Barry White and the Love Unlimited
Orchestra)
3 PM Black Forum
3:30 Ironside
4:30 The Archies
5 PM Wild Kingdom
5:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
6 PM News
6:30 Wrestling (from Raleigh)
7:30 Inside Area 10 (LIN Broadcasting must have identified
its stations' coverage area this way; at the time they
were sole owners of KXAS Fort Worth/Dallas and identified
its coverage area as "Area 5".)
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM NBC Movie: "Family Plot"
11:20 News
11:50 Saturday Night Live (repeat from 1976: Lily Tomlin hosts,
James Taylor is musical guest)
1:20 Movie: "I Bury The Living"
3:10 News
3:20 For You...Black Woman
3:50 Movie: "The Flying Serpent"
4:30 Ironside
WWBT Ch. 12 Richmond (NBC)
7 AM Whistle Stop (sister station WBTV had a kids' show
by this name--wonder if it's the same?)
7:30 Courtship Of Eddie's Father
8 AM Batman (same as the 6:30 AM episode on Ch. 10)
8:30 Our Gang
9 AM Little Rascals
9:30 Who, What Wherehouse (not a revival of "The Who,
What Or Where Game" obviously, but a local kids' show)
10 AM Cliffwood Avenue Kids
10:30 I Am The Greatest: The Adventures Of Muhammad Ali
11 AM Thunder
11:30 Search And Rescue
12 N Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
12:30 Changing Focus
1 PM Movie: "The Harvey Girls" (Judy Garland and Ray Bolger
team up again; watch for a young Angela Lansbury, not
long from England--this is 1945)
3 PM Movie: "The Prisoner Of Zenda"
5 PM Lone Ranger
5:30 Sha Na Na (guest: Frank Gorshin)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (John Hart)
7 PM Emergency One!
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM NBC Movie: "Family Plot"
11:20 News
11:50 Saturday Night Live
WVEC Ch. 13 Norfolk (ABC)
6:30 Comedy Time
7:30 Hot Fudge
8 AM All-New Superfriends Hour
9 AM Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics
11 AM Krofft Supershow
12 N ABC Weekend Special
12:30 College Football Pregame
12:45 College Football: Penn State-Pitt
4 PM Army-Navy Game (time approximate)
7 PM Lawrence Welk (time approximate, theme
is storybook songs)
8 PM Tabitha
8:30 Operation Petticoat
9 PM Starsky & Hutch
10 PM Love Boat
11 PM ABC News (Sylvia Chase/Tom Jarriel)
11:15 News
11:30 Movie: "Pillars Of The Sky"
1 AM Conversation
1:30 News/Alcoholics Anonymous
WHRO Ch. 15 Norfolk (PBS)
8 AM Antiques
8:30 Consumer Survival Kit
9 AM Crockett's Victory Garden
9:30 French Chef
10 AM I, Claudius (Part 3)
11 AM Forsyte Saga
12 N Camera Three (this may have been a program
pre-empted on Ch. 3 Norfolk; it did move to
PBS for about a year after CBS canceled it
in 1979)
12:30 off the air
5 PM The Best Of Families
6 PM Age Of Uncertainty (subject: poverty and land
distribution)
7 PM Nova (profile of Linus Pauling)
8 PM Microbes And Men (stories of Louis Pasteur and
Robert Koch)
9 PM Pro Soccer
10 PM Movie: "Kameradschaft" (German, 1931, recreates
a 1906 mine disaster on the Franco-German border)
sign off 11:35 PM
WCVE Ch. 23 Richmond (PBS)
7:30 P.S. 23
8 AM Wild Wild World Of Animals
8:30 Microbes And Men (same as Ch. 15)
9:30 VTR (film about a ghastly glove whose owner walks
it on a leash)
10 AM Lilias, Yoga And You
10:30 Crafty Creations
11 AM Parent Effectiveness
11:30 Belly Dancing For Fun And Health
12 N French Chef
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1 PM Sesame Street
2 PM Electric Company
2:30 Sesame Street
3:30 Electric Company
4 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 The Commanders (WWII biographies)
5:30 Best Of Ernie Kovacs
6 PM The Best Of Families (Part 5)
7 PM Membership-Pledge Drive
7:10 Once Upon A Classic: "Robin Hood,"
Part 8
7:40 Membership-Pledge Drive
7:50 Music (Murray Sidlin explains the role of
the orchestra conductor.)
8:20 Membership-Pledge Drive
8:30 Festival In Vienna (Vienna Symphony)
9:30 High School Football (Maggie Walker vs.
Armstrong, taped)
sign off 12 M
WYAH (WGNT) Ch. 27 Portsmouth (Ind.)
7 AM Jetsons
7:30 Huck 'n Yogi
8 AM Popeye 'n Bugs Bunny
9 AM Jonny Quest
9:30 Brady Kids
10 AM Superman
10:30 Tarzan
11:30 Lone Ranger
12 N Movie: "White Feather"
2 PM Laredo
3 PM High Chaparral
4 PM Big Valley
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM Movie: "The Enemy Below"
8 PM Holiday In Melodyland
8:30 Rex Humbard
9:30 The Lesson
10 PM Oral Roberts
10:30 George & Diane Ivey (gospel music)
11 PM Rifleman
11:30 Journey To Adventure
WVIR Ch. 29 Charlottesville (NBC)
8 AM Marlo And The Magic Movie Machine
(the year: 1956, focus on Jackie Robinson)
9 AM Big Blue Marble
9:30 Animal World
10 AM Wild Kingdom
(Ch. 29 certainly wouldn't have had a problem with the
E/I rules had they existed then; they needed just one more
half-hour.)
10:30 I Am The Greatest: The Adventures Of Muhammad
Ali
11 AM Thunder
11:30 Search And Rescue
12 N Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
12:30 R.F.D. Hollywood
1 PM Wrestling (probably from Raleigh)
2 PM Movie: "Trial Run"
4 PM Movie: "Madigan" (pilot for the 1972 Richard Widmark
segment of NBC's Wednesday Mystery Movie)
6 PM Movie: "The Thing" (James Arness in the title role)
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM NBC Movie: "Family Plot"
11:20 Sha Na Na (guest: Zsa Zsa Gabor)
11:50 Saturday Night Live
1:20 Circuit Rider
WVPT Ch. 51 Harrisonburg (PBS)
8 AM Sesame Street
9 AM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30 Electric Company
10 AM Once Upon A Classic (same as Ch. 23)
10:30 Daniel Foster, M.D.
11 AM Consultation (medical advice)
11:30 Consumer Survival Kit
12 N Better Way
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1 PM Hodgepodge Lodge
1:30 Flower Show
2 PM Word On Words
2:30 Guppies To Groupers
3 PM By-Line
3:30 Opa! (don't know what this is)
4 PM Garden Show
4:30 Cinema Showcase
5 PM The Best Of Families (Part 5)
6 PM Images Of Aging
7 PM Black Perspective On The News
7:30 Music (same as Ch. 23)
8 PM Forsyte Saga
9 PM Jacques Cousteau: "Calypso's Search
For The Britannic" (the Titanic's sister
ship which sank mysteriously during
World War I)
10 PM Movie: "Kameradschaft"
sign off 11:35 PM
WTAR (WTKR) Ch. 3 Norfolk (CBS)
6:30 Better Way
7 AM Petticoat Junction
7:30 Kidsworld
8 AM Skatebirds
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour
11:30 Space Academy
12 N Secrets Of Isis
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM What's New, Mr. Magoo?
1:30 CBS Saturday Film Festival: "Little
Pig" (from Hong Kong)
2 PM Wild Wild World Of Animals
2:30 Movie: "Impasse"
4 PM NFL Game Of The Week
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular: NASCAR Los
Angeles Times 500, analysis of the first
ten weeks of the NFL season, Part 8 of
the World's Strongest Man competition
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM Hee Haw (guests: Tom T. Hall and the Sons
of the Pioneers)
8 PM Mary Tyler Moore (pre-empts Bob Newhart)
8:30 We've Got Each Other
9 PM The Jeffersons
9:30 Tony Randall
10 PM Carol Burnett (salute to MGM)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Fun In Acapulco" (Elvis Presley)
1:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (the Average White
Band, Ben E. King, Pablo Cruise, Steve Landesberg,
comics Al Alan Peterson and Jim Samuels)
WHSV Ch. 3 Harrisonburg (NBC/ABC)
7 AM Light Unto My Path
7:30 Jabberjaw (delay from Sun 10:30 AM)
8 AM All New Superfriends Hour
9 AM Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics
11 AM Krofft Supershow
12 N Good News (religion)
12:30 College Football Pregame Show
12:45 College Football: Penn State-Pitt
4 PM Army-Navy Game (time approximate)
7 PM Hee Haw (time approximate)
8 PM Tabitha (you know this one: Samantha's
now-grown daughter works at a TV station)
8:30 Operation Petticoat
9 PM Starsky & Hutch
10 PM Love Boat (passengers include Phil Silvers,
Gary Burghoff, and Jane Curtin)
11 PM James Robison Presents
11:30 700 Club
12:30 Dateline: Religion
WTVR Ch. 6 Richmond (CBS)
6 AM Sunrise Semester: "Man's Place In Nature"
6:30 Cavalcade
7 AM Ghost Busters (delay from Sun 9 AM)
7:30 Wacko (delay from Sun 9:30 AM)
8 AM Skatebirds
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour
11:30 Space Academy
12 N Secrets Of Isis
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Lost In Space
2 PM Pop! Goes The Country
2:30 Nashville On The Road
3 PM Beverly Hillbillies
3:30 Wrestling (from Raleigh)
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Bob Newhart
8:30 We've Got Each Other
9 PM The Jeffersons
9:30 Tony Randall
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM News
11:30 Star Trek
12:30 Gunsmoke
WXEX (WRIC) Ch. 8 Petersburg-Richmond (ABC)
7 AM R.F.D. #8
8 AM All New Superfriends Hour
9 AM Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics
11 AM Krofft Supershow
12 N ABC Weekend Special: "The Nunundaga" (Part
1 of 2 about a fictional Indian tribe in 1820s
Wyoming)
12:30 College Football Pregame Show
12:45 College Football: Penn State-Pitt
4 PM Army-Navy Game (time approximate)
7 PM Lawrence Welk (time approximate)
8 PM Tabitha
8:30 Operation Petticoat
9 PM Starsky & Hutch
10 PM Love Boat
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Chisum" (John Wayne)
WAVY Ch. 10 Norfolk (NBC)
5:50 News
6 AM The Lucy Show
6:30 Batman (Burgess Meredith as the Penguin,
2 episodes)
7:30 Pink Panther
8 AM C.B. Bears
9 AM Space Sentinels
9:30 Super Witch
10 AM Bang-Shang Lalapalooza
10:30 I Am The Greatest: The Adventures Of
Muhammad Ali
11 AM Thunder
11:30 Search And Rescue
12 N Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
12:30 Red Hand Gang
1 PM Cliffwood Avenue Kids
1:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
2 PM Soul Train (Barry White and the Love Unlimited
Orchestra)
3 PM Black Forum
3:30 Ironside
4:30 The Archies
5 PM Wild Kingdom
5:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
6 PM News
6:30 Wrestling (from Raleigh)
7:30 Inside Area 10 (LIN Broadcasting must have identified
its stations' coverage area this way; at the time they
were sole owners of KXAS Fort Worth/Dallas and identified
its coverage area as "Area 5".)
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM NBC Movie: "Family Plot"
11:20 News
11:50 Saturday Night Live (repeat from 1976: Lily Tomlin hosts,
James Taylor is musical guest)
1:20 Movie: "I Bury The Living"
3:10 News
3:20 For You...Black Woman
3:50 Movie: "The Flying Serpent"
4:30 Ironside
WWBT Ch. 12 Richmond (NBC)
7 AM Whistle Stop (sister station WBTV had a kids' show
by this name--wonder if it's the same?)
7:30 Courtship Of Eddie's Father
8 AM Batman (same as the 6:30 AM episode on Ch. 10)
8:30 Our Gang
9 AM Little Rascals
9:30 Who, What Wherehouse (not a revival of "The Who,
What Or Where Game" obviously, but a local kids' show)
10 AM Cliffwood Avenue Kids
10:30 I Am The Greatest: The Adventures Of Muhammad Ali
11 AM Thunder
11:30 Search And Rescue
12 N Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
12:30 Changing Focus
1 PM Movie: "The Harvey Girls" (Judy Garland and Ray Bolger
team up again; watch for a young Angela Lansbury, not
long from England--this is 1945)
3 PM Movie: "The Prisoner Of Zenda"
5 PM Lone Ranger
5:30 Sha Na Na (guest: Frank Gorshin)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (John Hart)
7 PM Emergency One!
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM NBC Movie: "Family Plot"
11:20 News
11:50 Saturday Night Live
WVEC Ch. 13 Norfolk (ABC)
6:30 Comedy Time
7:30 Hot Fudge
8 AM All-New Superfriends Hour
9 AM Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics
11 AM Krofft Supershow
12 N ABC Weekend Special
12:30 College Football Pregame
12:45 College Football: Penn State-Pitt
4 PM Army-Navy Game (time approximate)
7 PM Lawrence Welk (time approximate, theme
is storybook songs)
8 PM Tabitha
8:30 Operation Petticoat
9 PM Starsky & Hutch
10 PM Love Boat
11 PM ABC News (Sylvia Chase/Tom Jarriel)
11:15 News
11:30 Movie: "Pillars Of The Sky"
1 AM Conversation
1:30 News/Alcoholics Anonymous
WHRO Ch. 15 Norfolk (PBS)
8 AM Antiques
8:30 Consumer Survival Kit
9 AM Crockett's Victory Garden
9:30 French Chef
10 AM I, Claudius (Part 3)
11 AM Forsyte Saga
12 N Camera Three (this may have been a program
pre-empted on Ch. 3 Norfolk; it did move to
PBS for about a year after CBS canceled it
in 1979)
12:30 off the air
5 PM The Best Of Families
6 PM Age Of Uncertainty (subject: poverty and land
distribution)
7 PM Nova (profile of Linus Pauling)
8 PM Microbes And Men (stories of Louis Pasteur and
Robert Koch)
9 PM Pro Soccer
10 PM Movie: "Kameradschaft" (German, 1931, recreates
a 1906 mine disaster on the Franco-German border)
sign off 11:35 PM
WCVE Ch. 23 Richmond (PBS)
7:30 P.S. 23
8 AM Wild Wild World Of Animals
8:30 Microbes And Men (same as Ch. 15)
9:30 VTR (film about a ghastly glove whose owner walks
it on a leash)
10 AM Lilias, Yoga And You
10:30 Crafty Creations
11 AM Parent Effectiveness
11:30 Belly Dancing For Fun And Health
12 N French Chef
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1 PM Sesame Street
2 PM Electric Company
2:30 Sesame Street
3:30 Electric Company
4 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 The Commanders (WWII biographies)
5:30 Best Of Ernie Kovacs
6 PM The Best Of Families (Part 5)
7 PM Membership-Pledge Drive
7:10 Once Upon A Classic: "Robin Hood,"
Part 8
7:40 Membership-Pledge Drive
7:50 Music (Murray Sidlin explains the role of
the orchestra conductor.)
8:20 Membership-Pledge Drive
8:30 Festival In Vienna (Vienna Symphony)
9:30 High School Football (Maggie Walker vs.
Armstrong, taped)
sign off 12 M
WYAH (WGNT) Ch. 27 Portsmouth (Ind.)
7 AM Jetsons
7:30 Huck 'n Yogi
8 AM Popeye 'n Bugs Bunny
9 AM Jonny Quest
9:30 Brady Kids
10 AM Superman
10:30 Tarzan
11:30 Lone Ranger
12 N Movie: "White Feather"
2 PM Laredo
3 PM High Chaparral
4 PM Big Valley
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM Movie: "The Enemy Below"
8 PM Holiday In Melodyland
8:30 Rex Humbard
9:30 The Lesson
10 PM Oral Roberts
10:30 George & Diane Ivey (gospel music)
11 PM Rifleman
11:30 Journey To Adventure
WVIR Ch. 29 Charlottesville (NBC)
8 AM Marlo And The Magic Movie Machine
(the year: 1956, focus on Jackie Robinson)
9 AM Big Blue Marble
9:30 Animal World
10 AM Wild Kingdom
(Ch. 29 certainly wouldn't have had a problem with the
E/I rules had they existed then; they needed just one more
half-hour.)
10:30 I Am The Greatest: The Adventures Of Muhammad
Ali
11 AM Thunder
11:30 Search And Rescue
12 N Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
12:30 R.F.D. Hollywood
1 PM Wrestling (probably from Raleigh)
2 PM Movie: "Trial Run"
4 PM Movie: "Madigan" (pilot for the 1972 Richard Widmark
segment of NBC's Wednesday Mystery Movie)
6 PM Movie: "The Thing" (James Arness in the title role)
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM NBC Movie: "Family Plot"
11:20 Sha Na Na (guest: Zsa Zsa Gabor)
11:50 Saturday Night Live
1:20 Circuit Rider
WVPT Ch. 51 Harrisonburg (PBS)
8 AM Sesame Street
9 AM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30 Electric Company
10 AM Once Upon A Classic (same as Ch. 23)
10:30 Daniel Foster, M.D.
11 AM Consultation (medical advice)
11:30 Consumer Survival Kit
12 N Better Way
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1 PM Hodgepodge Lodge
1:30 Flower Show
2 PM Word On Words
2:30 Guppies To Groupers
3 PM By-Line
3:30 Opa! (don't know what this is)
4 PM Garden Show
4:30 Cinema Showcase
5 PM The Best Of Families (Part 5)
6 PM Images Of Aging
7 PM Black Perspective On The News
7:30 Music (same as Ch. 23)
8 PM Forsyte Saga
9 PM Jacques Cousteau: "Calypso's Search
For The Britannic" (the Titanic's sister
ship which sank mysteriously during
World War I)
10 PM Movie: "Kameradschaft"
sign off 11:35 PM