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Retro: Eastern Virginia Sunday, August 8, 1976

By request, from TV Guide, Eastern Virginia Edition:

WTAR (WTKR) Ch. 3 Norfolk (CBS)

7 AM Andy Griffith
7:30 Connie's Magic Cottage
8 AM Bible Study
8:30 Day Of Discovery
9 AM Oral Roberts
9:30 This Is The Life
10 AM Marshall Efron's Illustrated, Simplified And
Painless Sunday School (Joseph's reunion with
his brothers in Egypt; the parable of the Pharisee
and the publican)
10:30 Questions And Ethics (topic: America's criminal-
justice system)
11 AM House Of Worship
11:30 Face The Nation
12 N Andy Griffith
12:30 That Girl
1 PM TBA
4 PM Tennis: Volvo International Tennis Championships
(men's singles final)
6 PM News (time approximate)
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM 60 Minutes
8 PM Sonny & Cher (Neil Sedaka, a cameo appearance
by Evel Knievel)
9 PM Kojak
10 PM Cannon
11 PM News
11:15 CBS News (Morton Dean)
11:30 Movie: TBA

WHSV Ch. 3 Harrisonburg (NBC/ABC)

7 AM Jerry Falwell
8 AM Rex Humbard
9 AM Day Of Discovery
9:30 Gospel Sing
10 AM Flames Of Revival
10:30 Leonard Repass
11 AM These Are The Days
11:30 Make A Wish (cadets from the Coast Guard Academy
aboard the training bark Eagle, a three-masted sailing
vessel captured from Germany during World War II--
in-pattern time but a delay of at least a week)
12 N Issues And Answers (John Connally is the guest)
12:30 Insight
1 PM Perspective: Black
1:25 Dateline: Religion
1:30 Good News
2 PM This Is The Life
2:30 Movie: "Viva Zapata"
4:30 Medix
5 PM High Chaparral
6 PM Conversations
6:30 NBC News (John Hart)
7 PM Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau ("Sharks,"
first telecast in 1968)
8 PM Six Million Dollar Man
9 PM ABC Movie: "The Adventurers" (based on a Harold
Robbins novel)
12:15 Christopher Closeup
12:45 With This Ring

WTVR Ch. 6 Richmond (CBS)

7 AM Jerry Falwell
8 AM Revival Fires
8:30 Oral Roberts
9 AM Focus: Black Religious Life
9:30 Open Door Church
10 AM Day Of Discovery
10:30 Questions And Ethics
11 AM Community Profiles
11:30 Face The Nation
12 N Viewpoint
12:30 Movie: TBA
2:30 Baseball Highlights
3 PM Champions (sports show similar to "Wide World
Of Sports")
4 PM Volvo International Tennis Championships (men's
singles final)
6 PM Billie Jean King
6:30 CBS News
7 PM 60 Minutes
8 PM Sonny & Cher
9 PM Kojak
10 PM Cannon
11 PM News
11:15 CBS News
11:30 Star Trek
12:30 The Bold Ones

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

7 AM Herald Of Truth
7:30 Gospel Truth
8 AM Gospel Sing
8:30 Focus
9 AM Rex Humbard
10 AM Jimmy Swaggart
10:30 Bible Answers
11 AM Grove Avenue Baptist Church
12 N Issues And Answers
12:30 Come Along
1 PM Make A Wish (a Denver-Salt Lake City train route
that was part of the first transcontinental railroad
system; a master silversmith, delay from 11:30 AM
but this is the show ABC actually aired that day and
was carried in-pattern on Ch. 13)
1:30 Omnibus (local, not the '50s classic)
2 PM Tarzan
3 PM Big Valley
4 PM Movie: "The Battling Bellhop"
6 PM News
6:30 Close-Up
7 PM Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau
8 PM Six Million Dollar Man
9 PM ABC Movie: "The Adventurers"
12:15 Space: 1999
1:15 ABC News (Tom Jarriel)

WAVY Ch. 10 Norfolk (NBC)

7 AM Gospel Singing Jubilee (the Kingsmen, the Hinsons,
the Inspirations)
7:30 Bible Storytime
8 AM Rex Humbard
9 AM Gospel Sing
9:30 United Faith Foundation
10 AM Mr. Magoo
10:30 Leroy Jenkins
11 AM Calvary Baptist Church
11:30 Sweethaven Baptist Church
12 N Pride
12:30 Meet The Press
1 PM Garner Ted Armstrong
1:30 Putt Putt Golf
2 PM Rin Tin Tin
2:30 Mission: Impossible
3:30 Medix
4 PM Outdoors With Ken Calloway
4:30 The Lucy Show (the Jack Benny episode where the
bank builds a vault to get him as a depositor)
5 PM David Niven's World
5:30 Area 10 Magazine
6 PM Dateline Area 10
6:30 Rin Tin Tin
7 PM Wonderful World Of Disney: "Menace On The Mountain"
(returning to his farm after spending time in a Union prison,
a Confederate veteran finds that army deserters have driven
his family from their farm)
8 PM Ellery Queen
9 PM McCloud
11 PM News
11:30 Soul Train
12:30 Sammy And Company (guests: Dr. Joyce Brothers, Monty Hall,
Peter Marshall--who would get his own weekly syndicated talk
show in the fall which, IIRC, went head-to-head with Sammy in
Atlanta-- and Bob Eubanks)
2 AM News
2:10 Gospel Sing

WWBT Ch. 12 Richmond (NBC)

6:45 With This Ring
7 AM Light Unto My Path
7:30 Lessons For Living
8 AM Treehouse Club
8:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
9 AM Southern Sportsman
9:30 Lidsville
10 AM Whistle Stop (kids' show from sister station
WBTV Charlotte)
10:30 Insight (Bob Newhart as a man convinced that
life is over at 40)
11 AM Human Dimension
11:30 This Is The Life
12 N Sports Challenge (former Brooklyn Dodgers Duke
Snider, Don Drysdale and Don Newcombe vs.
former New York Yankees Tom Henrich, George
Selkirk and Allie Reynolds)
12:30 Meet The Press
1 PM Movie: "The Little Colonel" (Shirley Temple stars
in this one from '35, but long before that WSB
radio in Atlanta had a personality named Lambdin Kay,
who was known as "the little colonel of WSB".)
2:30 Movie: "The King's Pirate"
4:30 41st Eucharistic Congress (the Solemn Mass which ends
the gathering in Philadelphia)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Wonderful World Of Disney
8 PM Ellery Queen
9 PM McCloud
11 PM News
11:30 Mission: Impossible

WVEC Ch. 13 Norfolk (ABC)

7 AM Christophers
7:30 Jerry Falwell
8:30 Guidepost Presents
9 AM Hour Of Power
10 AM Animal Fair (another long-running kids' show
in Hampton Roads)
10:30 Groovie Goolies
11 AM These Are The Days
11:30 Make A Wish (in-pattern, see 1 PM Ch. 8)
12 N Roller Games (an institution at this time for years
on Ch. 13--I remember when the Bay Area Bombers
came to Norfolk and Joanie Weston singlehandedly
sold out the arena)
1 PM Conversation
1:30 Issues And Answers (delay from noon)
2 PM Movie: "Deep Waters"
3:30 Formby's Antique Furniture Workshop
4 PM Bonanza
5 PM Movie: "Duffy"
7 PM Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau
8 PM Six Million Dollar Man
9 PM ABC Movie: "The Adventurers"
12:15 ABC News
12:30 News
12:45 Movie: "More" (something from Luxembourg about
flower children on the island of Ibiza, from '69)

WHRO Ch. 15 Norfolk (PBS)

7 AM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Electric Company
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Sesame Street
11:30 Electric Company
12 N Zoom
12:30 Camera Three (pre-empted on WTAR/WTKR)
1 PM Masterpiece Theatre ("Shoulder To Shoulder," Part 2)
2 PM Tennis: Buckeye Boys Ranch Championships from Columbus,
OH (live)
6 PM Consumer Survival Kit (time approximate)
6:30 World Press
7 PM Third Testament
8 PM Evening At Pops (the poetry of Edith Sitwell set to music
and read by Tony Randall)
9 PM Masterpiece Theatre ("Shoulder To Shoulder," Part 3)
10 PM Great Performances ("Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill,"
Part 4)
11 PM Rivals Of Sherlock Holmes
sign off 12 M

WCVE Ch. 23 Richmond (PBS)

1:30 Steel Reefs
2 PM Tennis: Buckeye Boys Ranch Championships
6 PM Washington Week In Review (time approximate)
6:30 Wall Street Week
7 PM Lowell Thomas Remembers (1959: visits to the U.S.
by Fidel Castro and Nikita Khrushchev)
7:30 World Press
8 PM Evening At Pops
9 PM Masterpiece Theatre
10 PM Monty Python's Flying Circus
10:30 Five String Breakdown: Basic Banjo
11 PM Masterpiece Theatre: "The First Churchills" (Part 5)
sign off 12 M

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

7 AM Panorama
7:30 New Directions
8 AM The Lesson
8:30 Jimmy Swaggart
9 AM Bob Harrington (the "Chaplain of Bourbon Street")
9:30 Leonard Repass
10 AM Charisma
10:30 Word Of Life Today
11 AM Rex Humbard
12 N Panorama
12:30 Human Dimension
1 PM Happy Hunters (gospel-singing family)
1:30 Good News
2 PM He Lives
2:30 Deaf Hear
3 PM Life In The Spirit
3:30 Ernest Angley
4 PM The Answer
4:30 Chris Panos
5 PM Flames Of Revival
5:30 Jerry Falwell
6:30 Practical Christian Living
7 PM Warren Roberts
8 PM 700 Club
9:30 Word Of Life Today
10 PM Ernest Angley
11 PM Public Policy Forums
sign off 12 M

WVIR Ch. 29 Charlottesville (NBC)

8 AM Leonard Repass
8:30 Gospel Sing
9 AM Jerry Falwell
10 AM Movie: "The Sword Of Ali Baba"
11:30 Friends Of Man
12 N Southern Sportsman
12:30 Meet The Press
1 PM American Angler
1:30 Movie: "Task Force"
3:30 The Fisherman (with Homer Circle)
4 PM PTL Club Telethon continues (and wipes out the
rest of the day's programming)

WVPT Ch. 51 Harrisonburg (PBS)

2 PM Tennis: Buckeye Boys Ranch Championships
6 PM Consumer Survival Kit (time approximate)
6:30 World Press
7 PM TBA
8 PM Evening At Pops
9 PM Masterpiece Theatre
10 PM Great Performances
11 PM Inner Tennis
 
bpatrick said:
WVEC Ch. 13 Norfolk (ABC)

12:45 Movie: "More" (something from Luxembourg about
flower children on the island of Ibiza, from '69)

The West Germans and the French had a hand in producing this film as well, which included a soundtrack by Pink Floyd. Looking at its Wikipedia article, it has "art film" written all over it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_(1969_film)

bpatrick said:
WVIR Ch. 29 Charlottesville (NBC)

4 PM PTL Club Telethon continues (and wipes out the
rest of the day's programming)

What would WVIR normally show on Sunday, besides the usual NBC programs?
 
Unless NBC had some sports programming on Sunday afternoons
WVIR was likely to show movies; "Wild Kingdom" always aired at 6.
"PTL" aired at 11 PM.
 
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