Source: TV Guide
CHANNELS
3 WSIL Harrisburg, IL [ABC]
6 WPSD Paducah, KY [NBC]
7 WTVW Evansville, IN [ABC]
8 WSIU Carbondale, IL [PBS]
9 WNIN Evansville, IN [PBS]
12 KFVS Cape Girardeau, MO [CBS]
14 WFIE Evansville, IN [NBC]
25 WEHT Evansville, IN [CBS]
KET Kentucky Educational TV [PBS, on 21 Murray, 23 Elizabethtown, 35 Madisonville, 53 Bowling Green, those were the four listed]
6AM
12 Summer Semester
Aging: Retirement is discussed.
25 CBS News-Morton/Rudd
6:15
6 Weather
6:25
6 Arthur Smith
6:30
12 Breakfast Show
6:55
6 Pastor Speaks
7 News
14 Farm and Family
7AM
3 7 Good Morning America
6 14 Today
12 CBS News-Morton/Rudd
25 Bullwinkle
7:30
25 Peggy Mitchell [local? Says Children]
8PM
12 25 Captain Kangaroo
Mr. Green Jeans finds a magic doorknob that produces fairy-tale characters. Also: The Captain reads "Miranda's Magic" [either that or Magio]
9PM
3 700 Club
6 14 Sanford and Son
Fred and his cronies offer Lamont legal advice after he gets a traffic citation he didn't deserve.
7 Phil Donahue
Totie Fields is the guest.
12 25 Here's Lucy
Lucy shepherds Craig through his driving exam.
9:30
6 Romper Room
12 25 Price is Right
14 Hollywood Squares
Marty Allen, LeVar Burton, Donna Fargo, George Gobel, Hal Linden.
9:55
6 Calendar
10AM
6 14 Wheel of Fortune
7 Romper Room
10:30
3 7 Family Feud
6 14 Shoot for the Stars [game show]
Adrienne Barbeau, William Christopher. Host: Geoff Edwards.
12 25 Love of Life
10:55
12 25 CBS News-Edwards
11AM
3 7 Second Chance
6 14 Name That Tune
12 25 Young And The Restless
11:30
3 7 Ryan's Hope
6 14 Chico and the Man
The new bakery-shop owner [Shelley Winters] turns sweet on Ed.
Noon
3 7 All My Children
6 12 14 News
25 I Love Lucy BW
Lucy invades Wall Street when she hears about some available oil stock.
12:30
6 14 Days of Our Lives
12 25 As The World Turns
1PM
3 7 $20,000 Pyramid
Mike Farrell, Pat Carroll.
1:30
3 7 One Life to Live
6 14 The Doctors
12 25 Guiding Light
2PM
6 14 Another World
12 25 All in The Family
Cleavon Little plays a burglar who gets embroiled in one of the Bunkers' myriad arguments.
2:15
3 7 General Hospital
2:30
9 Lilias, Yoga and You
12 25 Match Game
Richard Dawson, Fannie Flagg, Elaine Joyce, Charles Nelson Reilly.
KET Teaching Children to Read
3PM
3 7 Edge of Night
6 14 Gong Show
9 KET Sesame Street
12 25 Tattletales
Ron Kass and Joan Collins, Dan Rowan and Joanna Young.
3:30
3 Lassie
A cactus plant provides a prickly problem for Lassie. Corey: Robert Bray.
6 Gilligan's Island
A rare disease may turn Gilligan [Bob Denver] old before his time. Skipper: Alan Hale.
7 Dinah!
From Houston: Dinah's guests are Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Dan Rowan, Wayne Rogers, Dina Merrill, Lucie Arnaz and teen-age actor Vincent Van Patten.
12 Beverly Hillbillies BW
An oilman tries his best to avoid hillbilly hospitality. Jed: Buddy Ebsen. Brewster: Frank Wilcox.
14 Movie BW: "Mr, Soft Touch" [1949] A gambler, pursued by racketeers, hides in a settlement house and is reformed by a social worker. Glenn Ford, Evelyn Keyes.
25 Cartoon Carnival
4PM
3 Movie: "Story of Three Loves" [1953] Kirk Douglas, Pier Angeli, Leslie Caron, Farley Granger, Moira Shearer and James Mason in an entertaining trio of short stories.
6 Brady Bunch
A no-girls-allowed clubhouse comes under siege. Mike: Robert Reed.
8 Sesame Street
9 KET Mister Rogers
12 Hogan's Heroes
Schultz [John Banner], an unwitting Allied courier, must be saved from a transfer to the Russian front.
25 Batman
Conclusion. The Riddler [Frank Gorshin] uses Robin [Burt Ward] to bait a trap for Batman [Adam West]. Gordon: Neil Hamilton.
4:30
6 Ironside
Someone is mailing Ironside films of future murder victims. The latest: Off. Fran Belding. Ironside: Raymond Burr.
7 Gilligan's Island BW
Mrs. Howell [Natalie Schafer] plays Cupid for Gilligan [Bob Denver] and Mary Ann [Dawn Wells].
9 KET Electric Company
12 Andy Griffith
Andy fires crossing guard Ernest for throwing rocks at passing cars.
25 Gomer Pyle, USMC
Carter tries stopping Gomer from making a parachute jump. Gomer: Jim Nabors. Carter: Frank Sutton.
5PM
7 ABC News-Reasoner/Walters
8 News
9 KET Zoom
12 To Tell The Truth
Nipsey Russell, Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen and Kitty Carlisle.
25 Brady Bunch
A lesson in the danger of playing with people's feelings.
5:30
3 Cactus Pete
6 14 NBC News-Chancellor/Brinkley
7 My Three Sons
A happily married couple start Robbie leaning toward the altar. Fred MacMurray.
8 Electric Company
9 KET Studio See
12 News
25 CBS News-Walter Cronkite
6PM
6 7 14 25 News
8 Zoom
9 Book Beat
Bruce Cook talks about his biography "Dalton Trumbo." Cook describes the life of the late screenwriter, whose refusal to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 led to his being blacklisted.
12 CBS News-Walter Cronkite
KET GED Series
6:15
3 News
6:30
3 ABC News-Harry Reasoner/Barbara Walters
6 25 $128,000 Question [with Mike Darow as host, and later Alex Trebek before Jeopardy!]
7 Muppet Show
British comedian Bruce Forsyth is the guest. He does "Side by Side" with Fozzie Bear and "Let There Be Love" with Miss Piggy. Kermit the Frog is the host of the series.
8 Photography, Here's How
9 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
12 Name That Tune
14 Adam-12
Acting on an informer's tip, Reed and Malloy lead a narcotics raid. The officers also help a forlorn young woman who's penniless and lost. Malloy: Martin Milner.
KET French Chef
Unconventional ham recipes: braised in Madeira or baked in a pie crust.
7PM
3 7 Happy Days
Richie [Ron Howard] basks in instant celebrity after dropping a lucky game-winning shot in the state basketball semifinals. Fonzie: Henry Winkler. Howard: Tom Bosley.
6 14 Baa Baa Black Sheep
As a propaganda gimmick to boost home-front morale, a Hollywood movie hero is given command of the 214th. Boyington: Robert Conrad. Gutterman: James Whitmore Jr. Bragg: Dirk Blocker.
8 9 National Geographic
Special: "Search for the Great Apes" follows scientists on the trail of orangutans and gorillas. On Borneo, anthropologist Birute Galdikas-Brinadmour and her husband Rod are seen training orphaned orangutans to survive on their own, and studying a wild orangutan in its natural habitat. In Rwanda, Africa, zoologist Dian Fosley has befriended a family of mountain gorillas, who are seen resting, at play and foraging.
12 25 Family Holvak
Return: Repeats from the 1975 series about a rural minister [Glenn Ford] struggling to nourish family and faith during the Depression. In the first half of a two-part story, only young son Ramey is aware that the charming drifter the Holvaks are sheltering is a convict. Ramey: Lance Kerwin.
KET Track & Field
Highlights of the Kentucky state high-school track competition.
7:30
3 7 Laverne & Shirley
Laverne and Shirley resolve to trade their bottle-capping jobs for careers as high-fashion models. Laverne: Penny Marshall. Shirley: Cindy Williams.
8PM
2 7 Rich Man, Poor Man
Virginia Calderwood vents bitter anger on Rudy as her jealousy of Julie grows. Meanwhile, Tom invite disaster by starting yet another affair, this time with the wife of a syndicate-controlled boxer. Tom: Nick Nolte. Julie: Susan Blakely.
6 14 Police Woman
Pepper and Crowley track a rapist whose latest victim was a coed. Pepper: Angie Dickinson. Crowley: Earl Holliman.
8 9 KET Queen's Silver Jubilee Gala at Covent Garden [arrival of Queen Elizabeth II at London's Covent Garden, Royal Ballet and Opera perform in celebration of 25 years reign]
12 25 NBA Playoff
Special: Game four in the championship round between the 76ers and the Blazers.
[Portland won 130-98 over the 76ers in this game. Portland later would win the 1977 NBA Championship]
9PM
3 7 Barbara Walters
Special: In California, Barbara Walters profiles three men she calls "originals entertaining and enduring", Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Redd Foxx.
6 14 Police Story
A vice officer [James Farentino] poses as a well-heeled procurer to nab the leader of a prostitution racket. First shown in 1973.
10PM
3 6 7 14 News
8 Movie BW: "Metropolis," Fritz Lang's 1927 classic, envisions a city in the year 2000, when the wealthy dwell in high-rise luxury and the workers slave at machines underground. This silent German film won praise for its striking, often bizarre sets and special effects. John Fredersen: Alfred Abel.
9 International Animation Festival
"Opera," an Italian satire; "Bigger is Better," an English cartoon about the growth of a city; and "The Do-It-Yourself Cartoon Kit."
10:30
3 7 Movie: "Punch and Jody," a 1974 TV-movie about a circus jack-of-all-trades [Glenn ford] who suddenly becomes the guardian of a teenager [Pam Griffin]. Lil: Ruth Roman.
6 14 Johnny Carson
Scheduled: Guest host David Brenner; Evel Knievel; John Davidson; and Irving Wallace and David Wallenchinsky, authors of "The Book of Lists".
9 Captioned ABC News
12 25 News
11PM
9 Austin City Limits
The banjo-picking Earl Scruggs Revue presents country classics. Selections include Scruggs' 1948 hit "Foggy Mountain Breakdown," "Orange Blossom Special," "Nashville Skyline Rag."
12 25 McMillan & Wife
Mac enlists Sally's aid in solving the murder of his old friend, an intelligence agent who may have been working on a top-secret assignment. Mac: Rock Hudson.
Midnight
6 14 Tomorrow-Tom Snyder
Scheduled guests: Dr. Joyce Brothers and author Sarah Kernochan ["Dry Hustle"].
12:19
3 7 News
1AM
12 14 25 News
1:05
25 Law of The Land
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CHANNELS
3 WSIL Harrisburg, IL [ABC]
6 WPSD Paducah, KY [NBC]
7 WTVW Evansville, IN [ABC]
8 WSIU Carbondale, IL [PBS]
9 WNIN Evansville, IN [PBS]
12 KFVS Cape Girardeau, MO [CBS]
14 WFIE Evansville, IN [NBC]
25 WEHT Evansville, IN [CBS]
KET Kentucky Educational TV [PBS, on 21 Murray, 23 Elizabethtown, 35 Madisonville, 53 Bowling Green, those were the four listed]
6AM
12 Summer Semester
Aging: Retirement is discussed.
25 CBS News-Morton/Rudd
6:15
6 Weather
6:25
6 Arthur Smith
6:30
12 Breakfast Show
6:55
6 Pastor Speaks
7 News
14 Farm and Family
7AM
3 7 Good Morning America
6 14 Today
12 CBS News-Morton/Rudd
25 Bullwinkle
7:30
25 Peggy Mitchell [local? Says Children]
8PM
12 25 Captain Kangaroo
Mr. Green Jeans finds a magic doorknob that produces fairy-tale characters. Also: The Captain reads "Miranda's Magic" [either that or Magio]
9PM
3 700 Club
6 14 Sanford and Son
Fred and his cronies offer Lamont legal advice after he gets a traffic citation he didn't deserve.
7 Phil Donahue
Totie Fields is the guest.
12 25 Here's Lucy
Lucy shepherds Craig through his driving exam.
9:30
6 Romper Room
12 25 Price is Right
14 Hollywood Squares
Marty Allen, LeVar Burton, Donna Fargo, George Gobel, Hal Linden.
9:55
6 Calendar
10AM
6 14 Wheel of Fortune
7 Romper Room
10:30
3 7 Family Feud
6 14 Shoot for the Stars [game show]
Adrienne Barbeau, William Christopher. Host: Geoff Edwards.
12 25 Love of Life
10:55
12 25 CBS News-Edwards
11AM
3 7 Second Chance
6 14 Name That Tune
12 25 Young And The Restless
11:30
3 7 Ryan's Hope
6 14 Chico and the Man
The new bakery-shop owner [Shelley Winters] turns sweet on Ed.
Noon
3 7 All My Children
6 12 14 News
25 I Love Lucy BW
Lucy invades Wall Street when she hears about some available oil stock.
12:30
6 14 Days of Our Lives
12 25 As The World Turns
1PM
3 7 $20,000 Pyramid
Mike Farrell, Pat Carroll.
1:30
3 7 One Life to Live
6 14 The Doctors
12 25 Guiding Light
2PM
6 14 Another World
12 25 All in The Family
Cleavon Little plays a burglar who gets embroiled in one of the Bunkers' myriad arguments.
2:15
3 7 General Hospital
2:30
9 Lilias, Yoga and You
12 25 Match Game
Richard Dawson, Fannie Flagg, Elaine Joyce, Charles Nelson Reilly.
KET Teaching Children to Read
3PM
3 7 Edge of Night
6 14 Gong Show
9 KET Sesame Street
12 25 Tattletales
Ron Kass and Joan Collins, Dan Rowan and Joanna Young.
3:30
3 Lassie
A cactus plant provides a prickly problem for Lassie. Corey: Robert Bray.
6 Gilligan's Island
A rare disease may turn Gilligan [Bob Denver] old before his time. Skipper: Alan Hale.
7 Dinah!
From Houston: Dinah's guests are Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Dan Rowan, Wayne Rogers, Dina Merrill, Lucie Arnaz and teen-age actor Vincent Van Patten.
12 Beverly Hillbillies BW
An oilman tries his best to avoid hillbilly hospitality. Jed: Buddy Ebsen. Brewster: Frank Wilcox.
14 Movie BW: "Mr, Soft Touch" [1949] A gambler, pursued by racketeers, hides in a settlement house and is reformed by a social worker. Glenn Ford, Evelyn Keyes.
25 Cartoon Carnival
4PM
3 Movie: "Story of Three Loves" [1953] Kirk Douglas, Pier Angeli, Leslie Caron, Farley Granger, Moira Shearer and James Mason in an entertaining trio of short stories.
6 Brady Bunch
A no-girls-allowed clubhouse comes under siege. Mike: Robert Reed.
8 Sesame Street
9 KET Mister Rogers
12 Hogan's Heroes
Schultz [John Banner], an unwitting Allied courier, must be saved from a transfer to the Russian front.
25 Batman
Conclusion. The Riddler [Frank Gorshin] uses Robin [Burt Ward] to bait a trap for Batman [Adam West]. Gordon: Neil Hamilton.
4:30
6 Ironside
Someone is mailing Ironside films of future murder victims. The latest: Off. Fran Belding. Ironside: Raymond Burr.
7 Gilligan's Island BW
Mrs. Howell [Natalie Schafer] plays Cupid for Gilligan [Bob Denver] and Mary Ann [Dawn Wells].
9 KET Electric Company
12 Andy Griffith
Andy fires crossing guard Ernest for throwing rocks at passing cars.
25 Gomer Pyle, USMC
Carter tries stopping Gomer from making a parachute jump. Gomer: Jim Nabors. Carter: Frank Sutton.
5PM
7 ABC News-Reasoner/Walters
8 News
9 KET Zoom
12 To Tell The Truth
Nipsey Russell, Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen and Kitty Carlisle.
25 Brady Bunch
A lesson in the danger of playing with people's feelings.
5:30
3 Cactus Pete
6 14 NBC News-Chancellor/Brinkley
7 My Three Sons
A happily married couple start Robbie leaning toward the altar. Fred MacMurray.
8 Electric Company
9 KET Studio See
12 News
25 CBS News-Walter Cronkite
6PM
6 7 14 25 News
8 Zoom
9 Book Beat
Bruce Cook talks about his biography "Dalton Trumbo." Cook describes the life of the late screenwriter, whose refusal to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 led to his being blacklisted.
12 CBS News-Walter Cronkite
KET GED Series
6:15
3 News
6:30
3 ABC News-Harry Reasoner/Barbara Walters
6 25 $128,000 Question [with Mike Darow as host, and later Alex Trebek before Jeopardy!]
7 Muppet Show
British comedian Bruce Forsyth is the guest. He does "Side by Side" with Fozzie Bear and "Let There Be Love" with Miss Piggy. Kermit the Frog is the host of the series.
8 Photography, Here's How
9 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
12 Name That Tune
14 Adam-12
Acting on an informer's tip, Reed and Malloy lead a narcotics raid. The officers also help a forlorn young woman who's penniless and lost. Malloy: Martin Milner.
KET French Chef
Unconventional ham recipes: braised in Madeira or baked in a pie crust.
7PM
3 7 Happy Days
Richie [Ron Howard] basks in instant celebrity after dropping a lucky game-winning shot in the state basketball semifinals. Fonzie: Henry Winkler. Howard: Tom Bosley.
6 14 Baa Baa Black Sheep
As a propaganda gimmick to boost home-front morale, a Hollywood movie hero is given command of the 214th. Boyington: Robert Conrad. Gutterman: James Whitmore Jr. Bragg: Dirk Blocker.
8 9 National Geographic
Special: "Search for the Great Apes" follows scientists on the trail of orangutans and gorillas. On Borneo, anthropologist Birute Galdikas-Brinadmour and her husband Rod are seen training orphaned orangutans to survive on their own, and studying a wild orangutan in its natural habitat. In Rwanda, Africa, zoologist Dian Fosley has befriended a family of mountain gorillas, who are seen resting, at play and foraging.
12 25 Family Holvak
Return: Repeats from the 1975 series about a rural minister [Glenn Ford] struggling to nourish family and faith during the Depression. In the first half of a two-part story, only young son Ramey is aware that the charming drifter the Holvaks are sheltering is a convict. Ramey: Lance Kerwin.
KET Track & Field
Highlights of the Kentucky state high-school track competition.
7:30
3 7 Laverne & Shirley
Laverne and Shirley resolve to trade their bottle-capping jobs for careers as high-fashion models. Laverne: Penny Marshall. Shirley: Cindy Williams.
8PM
2 7 Rich Man, Poor Man
Virginia Calderwood vents bitter anger on Rudy as her jealousy of Julie grows. Meanwhile, Tom invite disaster by starting yet another affair, this time with the wife of a syndicate-controlled boxer. Tom: Nick Nolte. Julie: Susan Blakely.
6 14 Police Woman
Pepper and Crowley track a rapist whose latest victim was a coed. Pepper: Angie Dickinson. Crowley: Earl Holliman.
8 9 KET Queen's Silver Jubilee Gala at Covent Garden [arrival of Queen Elizabeth II at London's Covent Garden, Royal Ballet and Opera perform in celebration of 25 years reign]
12 25 NBA Playoff
Special: Game four in the championship round between the 76ers and the Blazers.
[Portland won 130-98 over the 76ers in this game. Portland later would win the 1977 NBA Championship]
9PM
3 7 Barbara Walters
Special: In California, Barbara Walters profiles three men she calls "originals entertaining and enduring", Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Redd Foxx.
6 14 Police Story
A vice officer [James Farentino] poses as a well-heeled procurer to nab the leader of a prostitution racket. First shown in 1973.
10PM
3 6 7 14 News
8 Movie BW: "Metropolis," Fritz Lang's 1927 classic, envisions a city in the year 2000, when the wealthy dwell in high-rise luxury and the workers slave at machines underground. This silent German film won praise for its striking, often bizarre sets and special effects. John Fredersen: Alfred Abel.
9 International Animation Festival
"Opera," an Italian satire; "Bigger is Better," an English cartoon about the growth of a city; and "The Do-It-Yourself Cartoon Kit."
10:30
3 7 Movie: "Punch and Jody," a 1974 TV-movie about a circus jack-of-all-trades [Glenn ford] who suddenly becomes the guardian of a teenager [Pam Griffin]. Lil: Ruth Roman.
6 14 Johnny Carson
Scheduled: Guest host David Brenner; Evel Knievel; John Davidson; and Irving Wallace and David Wallenchinsky, authors of "The Book of Lists".
9 Captioned ABC News
12 25 News
11PM
9 Austin City Limits
The banjo-picking Earl Scruggs Revue presents country classics. Selections include Scruggs' 1948 hit "Foggy Mountain Breakdown," "Orange Blossom Special," "Nashville Skyline Rag."
12 25 McMillan & Wife
Mac enlists Sally's aid in solving the murder of his old friend, an intelligence agent who may have been working on a top-secret assignment. Mac: Rock Hudson.
Midnight
6 14 Tomorrow-Tom Snyder
Scheduled guests: Dr. Joyce Brothers and author Sarah Kernochan ["Dry Hustle"].
12:19
3 7 News
1AM
12 14 25 News
1:05
25 Law of The Land
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