From TV Guide, Eastern Virginia Edition:
WTAR (WTKR) Ch. 3 Norfolk (CBS)
6:10 Down To Earth
6:15 These Things We Share
6:30 Not For Women Only (third of five on
homosexuality focuses on an organization
of parents of gay people)
7 AM CBS News (Lesley Stahl/Richard Threlkeld)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Dick Lamb (local talk show)
10 AM Donahue
10:30 Price Is Right
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
3:30 All In The Family
4 PM Match Game '78 (Patty Duke Astin, Richard
Dawson, Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers,
baseball's Don Sutton, Betty White)
4:30 Merv Griffin (guest host Steve Allen, Dick Clark,
Helen O'Connell, Pat Harrington, Peter Nero)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Cross-Wits (Milt Kamen, Anita Gillette, Jan Murray,
Patty McCormack)
7:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
8 PM Pilot: "King Of The Road" (Roger Miller--who else?--
plays a semiretired country and western singer who
owns an Alabama motel frequented by musical entertainers.
John Davidson plays himself; also watch for Larry Haines,
best known as Stu Bergman on "Search For Tomorrow".)
9 PM CBS Movie: "Murder At The Mardi Gras"
11 PM News
11:30 Hawaii Five-O
12:40 Kojak
WHSV Ch. 3 Harrisonburg (NBC/ABC)
6:30 Virginia Farmer
7 AM Good Morning America (Attorney General Griffin Bell)
9 AM PTL Club
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares (Diana Canova, Ron Carey, Mac Davis,
David Doyle, Sandy Duncan, Robert Fuller, George Gobel,
Rita Moreno, Paul Lynde)
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N $20,000 Pyramid (Mackenzie Phillips, Robert Urich)
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 Pixanne
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News (Harry Reasoner/Barbara Walters)
7 PM Rollergirls (NBC, delay from 8 PM)
7:30 Joe And Valerie (NBC, delay from 8:30 PM)
8 PM Eight Is Enough
9 PM Charlie's Angels
10 PM Starsky & Hutch
11 PM News
11:30 Police Story
12:40 Mystery Of The Week: "Death In Deep Water"
2:10 News
WTVR Ch. 6 Richmond (CBS)
6:30 Virginia Today
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue (topic: joint custody of children)
10 AM Pass The Buck
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Richmond Today
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 All In The Family
4 PM Match Game '78
4:30 Three Stooges
5 PM Gilligan's Island
5:30 Get Smart (diminutive Michael Dunn as Mr. Big)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM News
7:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
8 PM Pilot: "King Of The Road"
9 PM CBS Movie: "Murder At The Mardi Gras"
11 PM News
11:30 Hawaii Five-O
12:40 Kojak
WXEX (WRIC) Ch. 8 Petersburg-Richmond (ABC)
6:30 Romper Room
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM 700 Club (topic: Communism and Christianity)
10 AM F.Y.I. (local magazine show)
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N $20,000 Pyramid
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 Merv Griffin (same as WTAR/WTKR)
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Mary Tyler Moore
7:30 Odd Couple
8 PM Eight Is Enough
9 PM Charlie's Angels
10 PM Starsky & Hutch
11 PM News
11:30 The Rookies
12:30 Big Valley
1:30 News
WAVY Ch. 10 Norfolk (NBC)
5:50 News
6 AM Yoga For Health
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today (Ethel Merman performs songs by
Irving Berlin.)
9 AM Dinah! (Bob Barker, Bobby Goldsboro, Polly
Holliday, Marla Gibbs, baker Esther Tomich,
financial counselor Lewis Wallensky, Lisa Hartman)
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N Mike And Lynn 'Roundabout Tidewater (consumer tips,
homemaking do-it-yourself ideas)
1 PM Card Sharks
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM New Mickey Mouse Club
4:30 Beverly Hillbillies
5 PM My Three Sons
5:30 The Rookies
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
7 PM Joker's Wild
7:30 Between The Wars (first of two comparing FDR and
Hitler as leaders and policymakers)
8 PM Rollergirls
8:30 Joe And Valerie
9 PM Dean Martin Celebrity Roast (Jimmy Stewart gets
roasted by Dean, June Allyson, Janet Leigh, Henry
Fonda, George Burns, Greer Garson, Lucille Ball,
Sen. Barry Goldwater, Milton Berle, Orson Welles,
Don Rickles, Mickey Rooney, Eddie Albert, Tony Randall,
Foster Brooks, Red Buttons (who no doubt does his "never
had a dinner" routine), LaWanda Page, Ruth Buzzi, Jesse
White, Rich Little)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (Mac Davis, Erma Bombeck, Ronny Graham
(anybody else remember him as "Mr. Dirt" on a motor-oil
commercial around 1973--he looked a bit like Ernest T. Bass),
opera singer Carol Neblett)
1 AM Tomorrow (guest: Don Rickles)
2 AM News
2:10 Pride
WWBT Ch. 12 Richmond (NBC)
6:40 Virginia Almanac/News
7 AM Today
9 AM Movie: "Once Upon A Time" (I wonder if this is where the
idea for the cartoon "One Froggy Evening" came from--a boy
gets unwanted fame from a dancing caterpillar; of course in
the cartoon Michigan J. Frog sings only for the man who found him.)
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N Sanford And Son
12:30 Gong Show
1 PM For Richer, For Poorer
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Emergency One!
5 PM The Lucy Show
5:30 Green Acres
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Liars Club (Ed Asner, Dick Martin, Dody Goodman,
Larry Hovis)
7:30 In Search Of A Cure (cancer research, diagnosis and
treatment in the Richmond area, pre-empts "Newlywed
Game")
8 PM Rollergirls
8:30 Joe And Valerie
9 PM Dean Martin Celebrity Roast
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow
WVEC Ch. 13 Norfolk (ABC)
6:30 Valley Of The Dinosaurs
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Happy Days (day-behind)
9:30 Movie: "Female On The Beach" (Joan Crawford
falls for beach bum Jeff Chandler, from '55)
11:30 Midday (activities for retarded kids at Camp Parkintan;
fad fashions)
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Edge Of Night (I'm amazed at the clearance rate, in-pattern,
in Virginia; IIRC, Lynchburg's WSET also carried this at 4.)
4:30 Emergency One!
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Movie: "Ripped Off" (from '72: Robert Blake, three years before
"Baretta," plays a boxer accused of murdering his manager;
Ernest Borgnine co-stars)
8 PM Eight Is Enough
9 PM Charlie's Angels
10 PM Starsky & Hutch
11 PM News
11:30 Police Story
12:40 Mystery Of The Week
2:10 News
WHRO Ch. 15 Norfolk (PBS)
In-school programs until
3:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Feeling Free
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Great TV Auction (Ch. 15's annual fundraiser, don't
know how long it goes)
WCVE Ch. 23 Richmond (PBS)
8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 In-school programs
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 In-school programs
3 PM Electric Company
3:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Over Easy (guest: Soupy Sales)
7 PM Watch Your Mouth (show for teenagers;
a new Haitian student refuses to mingle
with her classmates)
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Daniel Foster, M.D.
8:30 Your Health (topic: diabetes)
9 PM Great Performances ("Shooting The Chandelier,"
set near the end of World War II, depicts the
tense relationship among a Red Army officer,
his former professor, and an aristocratic Czech
girl.)
10:30 Country Music
sign off 11 PM
WYAH (WGNT) Ch. 27 Portsmouth (Ind.)
5:45 Ross Bagley (gospel music)
6:45 News
7 AM Lone Ranger
7:30 Popeye 'n Bugs Bunny
8:30 Leave It To Beaver
9 AM Big Valley
10 AM 700 Club (guest: author Catherine Marshall)
11:30 The Rock
12 N Charisma
12:30 Marcus Welby, M.D. (the emotional problems
of a newly-adopted child played by Pamelyn
Ferdin)
1:30 Hazel
2 PM New Zoo Revue
2:30 Little Rascals/Our Gang
3 PM Flintstones
3:30 Fred Flintstone And Friends
4 PM Monkees
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Brady Bunch
5:30 Partridge Family
6 PM Dick Van Dyke
6:30 I Love Lucy
7 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8 PM Andy Griffith
8:30 Doris Day
9 PM 700 Club (rerun of 10 AM program)
10:30 The Rock
11 PM Charisma
11:30 Movie: "Thunder Over The Plains"
WVIR Ch. 29 Charlottesville (NBC)
7 AM Today
9 AM Charlottesville Today
9:30 PTL Club (guest: singer Andrae Crouch)
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N Sanford And Son
12:30 High Rollers
1 PM For Richer, For Poorer
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Mike Douglas (co-host Ted Knight; Robert Klein,
Peter Allen, actor Jack Eagle, astronomer Robert
Jastrow)
5:30 Gong Show
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Donahue (same as Ch. 6)
8 PM Rollergirls
8:30 Joe And Valerie
9 PM Dean Martin Celebrity Roast
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
WVPT Ch. 51 Harrisonburg (PBS)
8 AM Feeling Free
8:30 Over Easy (guest: Dina Merrill)
9 AM In-school programs
3 PM Lilias, Yoga And You
3:30 Villa Alegre
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Great TV Auction (Ch. 51's fundraiser, don't
know how long it goes)
WTAR (WTKR) Ch. 3 Norfolk (CBS)
6:10 Down To Earth
6:15 These Things We Share
6:30 Not For Women Only (third of five on
homosexuality focuses on an organization
of parents of gay people)
7 AM CBS News (Lesley Stahl/Richard Threlkeld)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Dick Lamb (local talk show)
10 AM Donahue
10:30 Price Is Right
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
3:30 All In The Family
4 PM Match Game '78 (Patty Duke Astin, Richard
Dawson, Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers,
baseball's Don Sutton, Betty White)
4:30 Merv Griffin (guest host Steve Allen, Dick Clark,
Helen O'Connell, Pat Harrington, Peter Nero)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Cross-Wits (Milt Kamen, Anita Gillette, Jan Murray,
Patty McCormack)
7:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
8 PM Pilot: "King Of The Road" (Roger Miller--who else?--
plays a semiretired country and western singer who
owns an Alabama motel frequented by musical entertainers.
John Davidson plays himself; also watch for Larry Haines,
best known as Stu Bergman on "Search For Tomorrow".)
9 PM CBS Movie: "Murder At The Mardi Gras"
11 PM News
11:30 Hawaii Five-O
12:40 Kojak
WHSV Ch. 3 Harrisonburg (NBC/ABC)
6:30 Virginia Farmer
7 AM Good Morning America (Attorney General Griffin Bell)
9 AM PTL Club
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares (Diana Canova, Ron Carey, Mac Davis,
David Doyle, Sandy Duncan, Robert Fuller, George Gobel,
Rita Moreno, Paul Lynde)
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N $20,000 Pyramid (Mackenzie Phillips, Robert Urich)
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 Pixanne
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News (Harry Reasoner/Barbara Walters)
7 PM Rollergirls (NBC, delay from 8 PM)
7:30 Joe And Valerie (NBC, delay from 8:30 PM)
8 PM Eight Is Enough
9 PM Charlie's Angels
10 PM Starsky & Hutch
11 PM News
11:30 Police Story
12:40 Mystery Of The Week: "Death In Deep Water"
2:10 News
WTVR Ch. 6 Richmond (CBS)
6:30 Virginia Today
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue (topic: joint custody of children)
10 AM Pass The Buck
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Richmond Today
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 All In The Family
4 PM Match Game '78
4:30 Three Stooges
5 PM Gilligan's Island
5:30 Get Smart (diminutive Michael Dunn as Mr. Big)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM News
7:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
8 PM Pilot: "King Of The Road"
9 PM CBS Movie: "Murder At The Mardi Gras"
11 PM News
11:30 Hawaii Five-O
12:40 Kojak
WXEX (WRIC) Ch. 8 Petersburg-Richmond (ABC)
6:30 Romper Room
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM 700 Club (topic: Communism and Christianity)
10 AM F.Y.I. (local magazine show)
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N $20,000 Pyramid
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 Merv Griffin (same as WTAR/WTKR)
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Mary Tyler Moore
7:30 Odd Couple
8 PM Eight Is Enough
9 PM Charlie's Angels
10 PM Starsky & Hutch
11 PM News
11:30 The Rookies
12:30 Big Valley
1:30 News
WAVY Ch. 10 Norfolk (NBC)
5:50 News
6 AM Yoga For Health
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today (Ethel Merman performs songs by
Irving Berlin.)
9 AM Dinah! (Bob Barker, Bobby Goldsboro, Polly
Holliday, Marla Gibbs, baker Esther Tomich,
financial counselor Lewis Wallensky, Lisa Hartman)
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N Mike And Lynn 'Roundabout Tidewater (consumer tips,
homemaking do-it-yourself ideas)
1 PM Card Sharks
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM New Mickey Mouse Club
4:30 Beverly Hillbillies
5 PM My Three Sons
5:30 The Rookies
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
7 PM Joker's Wild
7:30 Between The Wars (first of two comparing FDR and
Hitler as leaders and policymakers)
8 PM Rollergirls
8:30 Joe And Valerie
9 PM Dean Martin Celebrity Roast (Jimmy Stewart gets
roasted by Dean, June Allyson, Janet Leigh, Henry
Fonda, George Burns, Greer Garson, Lucille Ball,
Sen. Barry Goldwater, Milton Berle, Orson Welles,
Don Rickles, Mickey Rooney, Eddie Albert, Tony Randall,
Foster Brooks, Red Buttons (who no doubt does his "never
had a dinner" routine), LaWanda Page, Ruth Buzzi, Jesse
White, Rich Little)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (Mac Davis, Erma Bombeck, Ronny Graham
(anybody else remember him as "Mr. Dirt" on a motor-oil
commercial around 1973--he looked a bit like Ernest T. Bass),
opera singer Carol Neblett)
1 AM Tomorrow (guest: Don Rickles)
2 AM News
2:10 Pride
WWBT Ch. 12 Richmond (NBC)
6:40 Virginia Almanac/News
7 AM Today
9 AM Movie: "Once Upon A Time" (I wonder if this is where the
idea for the cartoon "One Froggy Evening" came from--a boy
gets unwanted fame from a dancing caterpillar; of course in
the cartoon Michigan J. Frog sings only for the man who found him.)
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N Sanford And Son
12:30 Gong Show
1 PM For Richer, For Poorer
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Emergency One!
5 PM The Lucy Show
5:30 Green Acres
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Liars Club (Ed Asner, Dick Martin, Dody Goodman,
Larry Hovis)
7:30 In Search Of A Cure (cancer research, diagnosis and
treatment in the Richmond area, pre-empts "Newlywed
Game")
8 PM Rollergirls
8:30 Joe And Valerie
9 PM Dean Martin Celebrity Roast
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow
WVEC Ch. 13 Norfolk (ABC)
6:30 Valley Of The Dinosaurs
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Happy Days (day-behind)
9:30 Movie: "Female On The Beach" (Joan Crawford
falls for beach bum Jeff Chandler, from '55)
11:30 Midday (activities for retarded kids at Camp Parkintan;
fad fashions)
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Edge Of Night (I'm amazed at the clearance rate, in-pattern,
in Virginia; IIRC, Lynchburg's WSET also carried this at 4.)
4:30 Emergency One!
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Movie: "Ripped Off" (from '72: Robert Blake, three years before
"Baretta," plays a boxer accused of murdering his manager;
Ernest Borgnine co-stars)
8 PM Eight Is Enough
9 PM Charlie's Angels
10 PM Starsky & Hutch
11 PM News
11:30 Police Story
12:40 Mystery Of The Week
2:10 News
WHRO Ch. 15 Norfolk (PBS)
In-school programs until
3:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Feeling Free
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Great TV Auction (Ch. 15's annual fundraiser, don't
know how long it goes)
WCVE Ch. 23 Richmond (PBS)
8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 In-school programs
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 In-school programs
3 PM Electric Company
3:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Over Easy (guest: Soupy Sales)
7 PM Watch Your Mouth (show for teenagers;
a new Haitian student refuses to mingle
with her classmates)
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Daniel Foster, M.D.
8:30 Your Health (topic: diabetes)
9 PM Great Performances ("Shooting The Chandelier,"
set near the end of World War II, depicts the
tense relationship among a Red Army officer,
his former professor, and an aristocratic Czech
girl.)
10:30 Country Music
sign off 11 PM
WYAH (WGNT) Ch. 27 Portsmouth (Ind.)
5:45 Ross Bagley (gospel music)
6:45 News
7 AM Lone Ranger
7:30 Popeye 'n Bugs Bunny
8:30 Leave It To Beaver
9 AM Big Valley
10 AM 700 Club (guest: author Catherine Marshall)
11:30 The Rock
12 N Charisma
12:30 Marcus Welby, M.D. (the emotional problems
of a newly-adopted child played by Pamelyn
Ferdin)
1:30 Hazel
2 PM New Zoo Revue
2:30 Little Rascals/Our Gang
3 PM Flintstones
3:30 Fred Flintstone And Friends
4 PM Monkees
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Brady Bunch
5:30 Partridge Family
6 PM Dick Van Dyke
6:30 I Love Lucy
7 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8 PM Andy Griffith
8:30 Doris Day
9 PM 700 Club (rerun of 10 AM program)
10:30 The Rock
11 PM Charisma
11:30 Movie: "Thunder Over The Plains"
WVIR Ch. 29 Charlottesville (NBC)
7 AM Today
9 AM Charlottesville Today
9:30 PTL Club (guest: singer Andrae Crouch)
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N Sanford And Son
12:30 High Rollers
1 PM For Richer, For Poorer
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Mike Douglas (co-host Ted Knight; Robert Klein,
Peter Allen, actor Jack Eagle, astronomer Robert
Jastrow)
5:30 Gong Show
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Donahue (same as Ch. 6)
8 PM Rollergirls
8:30 Joe And Valerie
9 PM Dean Martin Celebrity Roast
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
WVPT Ch. 51 Harrisonburg (PBS)
8 AM Feeling Free
8:30 Over Easy (guest: Dina Merrill)
9 AM In-school programs
3 PM Lilias, Yoga And You
3:30 Villa Alegre
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Great TV Auction (Ch. 51's fundraiser, don't
know how long it goes)