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Retro: Eastern Virginia Wednesday, August 11, 1976

From TV Guide, Eastern Virginia Edition:

WTAR (WTKR) Ch. 3 Norfolk (CBS)

6 AM Summer Semester: "Great Transition" (subject
is multinational corporations)
6:30 These Things We Share/Lift Up Mine Eyes
7 AM CBS News (Bruce Morton/Hughes Rudd)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Dick Lamb (local talk show)
10 AM Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM People, Places And Things
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM All In The Family
3:30 Match Game '76 (Richard Dawson, Robert Hegyes,
Ethel Merman, Brett Somers, Fannie Flagg, Charles
Nelson Reilly)
4 PM Tattletales (Richard Dawson and Jody Donovan, Dan
Rowan and Joanna Young, Mickey Rooney and Jan
Chamberlin)
4:30 Merv Griffin (Betty White, Ann Miller, Phyllis Newman,
Betty Friedan, a swimwear fashion show)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Name That Tune
8 PM Pilot: "Hazard's People" (John Houseman as attorney
John Hazard)
9 PM CBS Movie: "The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman"
11:10 News
11:40 CBS Movie: "When Eight Bells Toll"

WHSV Ch. 3 Harrisonburg (NBC/ABC)

7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Discovery (these must be reruns since the show had been
off ABC for five years--from the Sonora Desert Museum in
Arizona, animals that have learned to survive in hostile
environments)
9:30 Hollywood Squares (Roy Rogers, Nanette Fabray, Marty Allen,
Phyllis Diller, Rip Taylor, Karen Valentine, John Byner, Isabel
Sanford, Bill and Susan Seaforth Hayes--day-behind from
11:30 AM)
10 AM Sanford And Son
10:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes (Tom Bosley, Dick Gautier, Arte Johnson,
Michele Lee, Greg Mullavey, Carol Wayne)
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Happy Days
12 N Hot Seat (game show with Jim Peck)
12:30 All My Children
1 PM Ryan's Hope
1:30 Family Feud
2 PM $20,000 Pyramid (Tony Randall, Jo Anne Worley)
2:30 One Life To Live
3:15 General Hospital
4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 Hennesey
5 PM High Chaparral
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News (Harry Reasoner)
7 PM Music Place
7:30 That Good Ole Nashville Music (Bill Anderson, Mary Lou
Turner, Don Gibson, Jimmy Gately)
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM Baretta
10 PM Starsky & Hutch
11 PM News
11:30 ABC Movie: "The Burglars"

WTVR Ch. 6 Richmond (CBS)

6 AM Summer Semester
6:30 Virginia Today
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Phil Donahue
10 AM Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM All In The Family
3:30 Match Game '76
4 PM Tattletales
4:30 Beverly Hillbillies
5 PM Gunsmoke
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM News
7:30 Mary Tyler Moore (delay from Sat 9 PM--Ch. 6 ran
a block of country-music shows on Saturdays from
7:30-9:30: "Hee Haw," "Pop Goes The Country," and
"Nashville On The Road")
8 PM Pilot: "Hazard's People"
9 PM CBS Movie: "The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman"
11:10 News
11:40 CBS Movie: "When Eight Bells Toll"

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

6:30 Sailor Bob (kids' show formerly seen on Ch. 12)
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Merv Griffin (same as WTAR/WTKR)
10:30 Wilma Smith (local talk show)
11:30 Happy Days
12 N Hot Seat
12:30 All My Children
1 PM Ryan's Hope
1:30 Family Feud
2 PM $20,000 Pyramid
2:30 One Life To Live
3:15 General Hospital
4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 Dinah! (Joel Grey, actor Nick Benedict, fashion
designer Mary McFadden, Tavares, singer-actress
Priscilla Lopez, comic Gary Mule Deer)
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Cross-Wits (Jonathan Harris, Alice Ghostley, Gregory
Sierra, Sally Ann Howes)
7:30 Match Game PM (Bonnie Franklin, Scoey Mitchlll, Patti
Deutsch, Richard Dawson, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson
Reilly)
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM Baretta
10 PM Starsky & Hutch
11 PM News
11:30 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
12 M Perry Mason

WAVY Ch. 10 Norfolk (NBC)

6 AM Yoga For Health
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today (Lloyd Dobyns, an alumnus of Ch. 10, hosts.)
9 AM Sanford And Son (day-behind)
9:30 Dinah! (Susan George, Randolph Mantooth and Kevin
Tighe, Alex Trebek, Julius Erving, Tom Dreesen, paramedic
Bob Hoff)
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Hollywood Squares (William Shatner, Charo, Roddy McDowall,
Bonnie Franklin, John Byner, Joan Rivers, Rip Taylor, Julie McWhirter,
Doc Severinsen--this week and next the stars are playing "Storybook
Squares")
12 N The Fun Factory (Bobby Van)
12:30 Gong Show (Chuckie Baby Barris)
12:55 NBC News (anchor not given)
1 PM Roundabout Tidewater (Rhonda Glenn)
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Mickey Mouse Club (the original--the "new" version wouldn't start
until 1977)
4:30 Ironside
5:30 Adam-12
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
7 PM To Tell The Truth (Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen, Kitty Carlisle, Soupy
Sales)
7:30 Wild Kingdom
8 PM Little House On The Prairie
9 PM Pilot: "Over And Out" (WWII-based sitcom about five female
communicators downed on an all-male base in the Pacific)
9:30 Chico And The Man
10 PM Hawk (Burt Reynolds' 1966 ABC series)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (Joey Bishop subs for Johnny; guests are Itzhak
Perlman and Stan Kann)
1 AM Tomorrow
2 AM News

WWBT Ch. 12 Richmond (NBC)

6:40 Virginia Almanac/News
7 AM Today
9 AM Good Morning
9:30 Betty Feezor
10 AM Sanford And Son
10:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N The Fun Factory
12:30 Gong Show
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Somerset
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Mickey Mouse Club
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Bewitched
5:30 Adam-12
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Hogan's Heroes
7:30 Wild Kingdom
8 PM Little House On The Prairie
9 PM Pilot: "Over And Out"
9:30 Chico And The Man
10 PM Hawk
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

WVEC Ch. 13 Norfolk (ABC)

6:30 Bullwinkle
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Happy Days (day-behind)
9:30 Movie: "Mister Cory"
11:30 Midday (Harriet Passarelli)
12:30 All My Children
1 PM Ryan's Hope
1:30 Family Feud
2 PM $20,000 Pyramid
2:30 One Life To Live
3:15 General Hospital
4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 McHale's Navy
5 PM Bewitched
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Movie: "Space Monster"
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM Baretta
10 PM Starsky & Hutch
11 PM News
11:30 ABC Movie: "The Burglars"
1:40 News

WHRO Ch. 15 Norfolk (PBS)

3:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
4 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Electric Company
7 PM Masterpiece Theatre ("Shoulder To Shoulder," about
the suffragette movement in England, Part 3)
8 PM Nova (voyages to Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, and
the moon)
9 PM Great Performances ("Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill,"
Part 5)
10 PM The Life Of Leonardo da Vinci
11 PM Robert MacNeil Report (Jim Lehrer hadn't joined him yet.)
11:30 Captioned ABC News

WCVE Ch. 23 Richmond (PBS)

10 AM Sesame Street
11 AM Electric Company
11:30 off the air
4 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Book Beat (R.W.B. Lewis, author of a biography of Edith
Wharton, whose novels attacked New York society)
7 PM Five String Breakdown: Basic Banjo
7:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
8 PM American Indian Artists (painter Fritz Scholder, whose work
depicts Native Americans caught between past and present)
8:30 Ivanhoe (conclusion)
9 PM Great Performances
10 PM The Life Of Leonardo da Vinci
11 PM Captioned ABC News
sign off 11:30 PM

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

7 AM Tennessee Tuxedo
7:30 Lassie
8 AM Little Rascals
8:30 Dennis The Menace
9 AM Cartoon Festival
9:30 Circus
10 AM Leave It To Beaver
10:30 700 Club
12 N The Rock
12:30 Charisma
12:55 Paul Harvey
1 PM Hazel
1:30 Huck 'n Yogi
2 PM Porky Pig
2:30 Bugs Bunny
3 PM Popeye
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Green Acres
4:30 Brady Bunch
5 PM I Love Lucy
5:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
6 PM Dick Van Dyke
6:30 Rifleman
7 PM Family Affair
7:30 Room 222
8 PM 700 Club
9:30 The Rock
10 PM Charisma
10:30 Gerald Derstine Shares
11 PM Movie: "Ten Gentlemen From West Point"
1 AM Paul Harvey
1:05 News

WVIR Ch. 29 Charlottesville (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Charlottesville Today
9:30 PTL Club
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N The Fun Factory
12:30 Gong Show
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Somerset
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Movie: "The Forbin Project"
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Phil Donahue (topic: wife-beating)
8 PM Little House On The Prairie
9 PM Pilot: "Over And Out"
9:30 Chico And The Man
10 PM Hawk
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show

WVPT Ch. 51 Harrisonburg (PBS)

3:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
4 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Book Beat
7 PM Robert MacNeil Report
7:30 Williamsburg Revisited (how guns were made in
the 18th century)
8 PM Nova
9 PM Great Performances
10 PM The Life Of Leonardo da Vinci
sign off 11 PM
 
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