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
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