What? Stanislav did a retro schedule? True, I don’t tend to post them – a little too tedious transcribing all that info. But I’m making an exception for an unusual item in my very small collection of TVGs and other TV listing publications. It is a May 1981 edition of Florida Keys TV Week, an independent pseudo-TVG that lists what was available on cable in the Keys. (Apparently one company had a monopoly on CATV there.) Cover price is 40 cents. (Subscriptions were 3 months for $6, 6 months for $11, or one year for $20.) Total circulation about 8,000 copies.
Historically, the Keys were always a problematic location for TV reception. Too far from the nearest markets (Miami and Ft. Myers) for reliable reception without a big high-gain antenna at a decent height, and though a network of UHF translators was built by the Monroe County government, they only repeated the five major Miami signals (chs. 2, 4, 6, 7, and 10), so anyone desiring a broader choice of viewing options had to rely on cable.
One thing confuses me – the “premium” channels on the system were carried on the same channels as some of the basic offerings (as you will see below). Not sure how this was done, so please enlighten me if you know.
The channel grid:
Basic channels:
(The following listed as white numbers on a black background)
[2] – (Apparently not used for some reason – see below)
(3) – WTBS (Ind.) Atlanta GA (the ubiquitous 80’s superstation)
(4) – WVTJ (CBS) Miami FL
(5) – “WTMC” (Local/SPN) Key West FL (this was apparently a cable-only channel carrying local programming as well as the Satellite Program Network, of which I know absolutely nothing beyond its brief Wikipedia listing)
(6) – WCIX (Ind.) Miami FL
(7) – WCKT (NBC) Miami FL
[8] – Local time and weather (probably one of those “point a cheap camera at a clock and thermometer” things that were common to cable systems back in the day)
(9) – WOR (Ind.) New York NY (Another early superstation, and judging from the programming, well before they established separate feeds for local OTA and national satellite)
(10) – WPLG (ABC) Miami FL
(11) – Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN)
(12) – WPBT (PBS) Miami FL (The only off-air station that was not carried on its OTA RF channel)
(13) – Spanish International Network (SIN) (The progenitor, I believe, of what eventually became Univision)
Ch. 13 SIN is shown as only available in “Area 1” (defined as Key West to Bay Point, or MM 0 to MM 15 on U.S. 1) and not “Area 2” (defined as Sugarloaf to Big Pine and Marathon, or MM 17 to MM 47) -- probably two separate CATV head ends. SIN is shown in the channel grid, but not included in the program listings.
“Premium” channels:
(The following listed as black numbers on a white background)
[8] – Home Box Office (HBO)
(9) – Nickelodeon (which just weeks earlier had become available nationwide, having grown from the former QUBE/Pinwheel days)
(10) – WGN (Ind.) Chicago IL (The third of the primary troika of early superstations)
(11) – ESPN
(12) – Galavision (Spanish) – like SIN above, only available in “Area 1” and not carried in the actual programming listings)
Again, how did they “duplex” two stations onto each channel?
I chose (more or less arbitrarily) Tuesday, May 26, 1981 for the post. Listing the basic channels only. I may or may not subsequently post weekends, or other weekdays’ prime-time, if there is enough interest on your part, and enough desire on my part. (The former, almost assuredly; the latter, not so much...) The program titles are shown verbatim as they are listed.
(3) WTBS (Ind.) (the :05/:35 “Turner Time” programming starts would begin the following month)
5:30 am World at Large
6:00 Hollywood Report
7:00 Fun Time
8:00 I Dream of Jeannie
8:30 My Three Sons
9:00 Hazel
9:30 Green Acres
10:00 Movie (“Calamity Jane”)
12:00 noon Freeman Reports (don’t remember this: news/commentary, perhaps?)
1:00 pm Movie (“How Do I Love Thee?”)
3:00 Fun Time
3:30 Flintstones
4:00 Addams Family
4:30 Brady Bunch
5:00 I Love Lucy (a different episode of which was also shown by WCIX in the same time slot)
5:30 Beverly Hillbillies
6:00 Carol Burnett and Friends
6:30 Bob Newhart Show
7:00 All in the Family
7:30 Baseball (Braves vs. Dodgers)
10:00 TBS Evening News (actually produced by co-owned CNN)
11:00 Night Gallery
11:30 Movie (“Men’s Favorite Sport?” [1964] w/Rock Hudson, Paula Prentiss)
2:00 am Atlanta Braves Baseball Replay (tape of game played earlier)
4:30 Rat Patrol
5:00 Mission Impossible
(4) WTVJ (CBS)
6:00 am 700 Club
7:00 Morning (assuming abbreviated title for CBS Morning News – who would have been the
anchor in ’81?)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Price is Right (tape-delay – network ran it from 11-12)
10:00 John Davidson Show (did this really garner better ratings locally than TPIR?)
11:30 One Day at a Time (tape-delay – network ran it @ 4 pm)
11:57 Newsbreak (CBS) (Assume they briefly cut to live network for this, and this is not also tape delay!) <g>
12:00 noon News (believe this was branded “News at Noon with Del Frank”)
12:30 pm Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Young and the Restless
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Merv Griffin
5:30 M.A.S.H.
6:00 News (branded simply as “Channel 4 News” if Wikipedia can be believed)
6:30 CBS News (with Cousin Dan, who had replaced Uncle Walter about 10 weeks prior)
7:00 Cross Wits (Jack Clark)
7:30 PM Magazine
8:00 Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977) (the 3rd of the feature-length “Peanuts” movies;
also the first “Peanuts” production without Vince Guaraldi’s music)
9:30 National Collegiate Cheerleading Championships (hosted by John Davidson, who
was apparently adored by WTVJ [see 10 am] and Victoria Principal – CBS or syndie?)
11:00 News (“The World Tonight With Jim Brosemer”)
11:30 CBS Late Movie (Columbo: “Any Old Port in the Storm” - guest: Donald Pleasance)
1:00 am [Sign-off]
(5) “WTMC” (Local/SPN)
7:00 am International Byline
7:30 Various Programming (catchy title) <g>
8:30 Women’s Channel
9:00 Susan Noon Show (Wikipedia says it was a celebrity interview show)
9:30 Fran Carlton Show (a couple generations of Florida women exercised with Fran)
10:00 Movietown (“Flying Fool”)
11:30 Picture of Health
12:00 noon Various Programming
12:30 pm Joan Fontaine Show (the classic actress’ talk/interview show)
1:00 School of Country Living (may have had something to do with Carla Emery, who wrote the
best-selling Encyclopedia of Country Living and appeared on many late 70’s talk shows)
1:30 Paul Ryan Show (?? celeb interviews?)
2:00 Various Programming
3:00 It’s a Great Idea
3:30 Women’s Channel (wow...deja vu)
4:00 Fran Carlton Show (ditto)
4:30 Movietown (“Call It Murder”)
6:00 Don Kennedy’s Spotlight (guessing this is the old Westerns actor?)
6:30 Dance Connection Disco (disco’s in decline, but not quite dead yet)
7:00 History of Space (betting this was public-domain NASA films)
7:30 Good Livin’
8:00 It’s a Great Idea
8:30 Women’s Channel (in case you missed it the first two times)
9:00 Telefrance-U.S.A. (a 3-HOUR nightly block of French-language programming – was there
really an audience for this in the Keys? – French-Canadian snowbirds, perhaps?)
12:00 mid Don Kennedy’s Spotlight
12:30 am Paul Ryan Show
1:00 All Night at the Movies: “Under Texas Skies,” “Taming of Dorothy,” Westward Bound,” and “Jungle
Thief” (My fantasy alternative title for this movie block is “It Came From Public Domain Hell!”) <LOL>
(6) WCIX (Ind.)
6:00 am Community Closeup
6:30 Spiderman
7:00 Flintstones
7:30 Great Space Coaster
8:00 Duck Duck Goose (obviously kiddie fare – unknown what relation to the classic playground
game of the same name...)
8:30 Partridge Family
9:00 Fran Carlton Show (miss it and you can catch it at 9:30 on ch.5)
9:30 Health Field
10:00 Mike Douglas
11:30 Love American Style
12:00 noon Movie (“Frozen Dead”)
2:00 pm Let’s Make a Deal
2:30 $50,000 Pyramid
3:00 Flintstones
3:30 Little Rascals
4:00 Woody Woodpecker
4:30 Tom and Jerry
5:00 I Love Lucy
5:30 Mary Tyler Moore Show
6:00 Starsky and Hutch
7:00 Barney Miller
7:30 Sanford and Son
8:00 Movie (“The Alamo” [1960] w/John Wayne & Richard Widmark – this is “part one” with the
balance airing the following evening)
10:00 News
11:00 Benny Hill Show (also on WOR at this time – unknown if same episode)
11:30 Movie (“Only Two Can Play” [1963] w/Peter Sellers & Mai Zetterling)
2:00 am Movie (“Genevieve” [1954] w/Kenneth More & Kay Kendall)
4:00 am Movie (“Best of the Badmen” [1951] w/Robert Ryan & Clare Trevor)
(7) WCKT (NBC)
5:30 am Inspiritional [sic] Message
5:35 Open College
6:35 South Florida Home and Gardening
6:45 Community Report
7:00 Today
9:00 Bonanza
10:00 Las Vegas Gambit
10:30 Blockbusters
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Password Plus
12:00 noon News (“NewsCenter 7” in this era, I believe...)
12:30 pm Doctors
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Hour Magazine (I guess NBC’s “Texas” didn’t fly in Miami-Dade...)
4:00 Ironside
5:00 Barnaby Jones
6:00 News (NewsCenter 7)
7:00 NBC News (still Chancellor – Brokaw would take over the following year)
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8:00 Lobo
9:00 Hill Street Blues (one of two 2-hour episodes that closed the season, pre-empting "Nero Wolfe")
11:00 News (NewsCenter 7)
11:30 The Tonight Show (Guests: Liza Minelli, Dr. Paul Ehrlich)
12:30 am Tomorrow Coast-to-Coast (this night saw Tom presiding over “The Second Annual NBC and
Only NBC Employees Talent Showcase”) <g>
2:00 am [Sign-off]
(9) WOR (Ind.)
6:30 am News
7:00 Richard Simmons Show
7:30 Jim Bakker
8:30 Various Programming (and you thought this was “WTMC’s” idea – actually, I think the
publication just did this on the daytime schedule when something different aired each day M-
F – it shows up on CBN’s schedule, too, and with annoying frequency)
9:00 Joe Franklin Show
10:00 Romper Room
11:00 Straight Talk
12:30 pm Let’s Make a Deal
1:00 Movie (“Road to Salina”)
3:00 Bonanza
4:00 Movie (“Grave of the Vampire”)
6:00 Joker’s Wild
6:30 Tic Tac Dough
7:00 Bullseye
7:30 Face the Music
8:00 Movie (“Homecoming” [1948] w/Clark Gable & Lana Turner)
10:00 Latin New York
10:30 Nine on New Jersey
11:00 Benny Hill Show
11:30 Maude
12:00 mid Racing From Yonkers Raceway
12:30 am Movie (“Kiss the Blood Off my Hands” [1948] w/Burt Lancaster & Joan Fontaine)
2:00 Joe Franklin Show
3:00 Movie (“Trained to Kill” [1975] w/Steve Sandor & Richard X. Slattery)
5:00 Prayer
5:30 Daniel Boone
(10) WPLG (ABC)
6:00 am Noticero Observador
6:15 Job Line
6:30 Body Factory
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Phil Donahue Show
10:00 Richard Simmons Show
10:30 Charlie Rose Show (pre-PBS syndie – last 60 min. run instead of ABC “Love Boat” reruns)
12:00 noon Family Feud
12:30 pm News (“NewsWatch 10” –would change to “Eyewitness News” in ’82)
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Happy Days Again
4:30 Good Times
5:00 All in the Family
5:30 News (NewsWatch 10)
7:00 ABC News (still using their three-anchor split of Reynolds/Robinson/Jennings)
7:30 Family Feud (the syndie version, not a repeat of the noontime network edition)
8:00 Happy Days (the series having long since jumped the Selachimorpha, both literally and
figuratively, tonight’s 8th season finale has Fonzie helping Chachi with history homework,
becoming a musical fantasy on the American melting pot – how the mighty have fallen...)
8:30 Laverne and Shirley
9:00 Three’s Company
9:30 Too Close for Comfort
10:00 Hart to Hart
11:00 News (NewsWatch 10)
11:30 ABC News Nightline
12:00 mid Tuesday Movie of the Week (“Crash” [1978] w/WilliamShatner & Eddie Albert – about the infamous
1972 crash of Eastern Flight 401 into the Everglades)
2:00 Job Line
2:15 Noticero Observador
2:30 [Sign-off]
(11) CBN (an almost useless sked with all the “Various Programming” and “Programming Unannounced entries!)
6:00 am Programming Unannounced (obviously a rip-off of ”Various Programming”)
8:00 Various Programming (speak of the devil...er, sorry, Pat, just a figure of speech...)
8:30 Gary Randall Show
9:00 Various Programming
9:30 Westbrook Hospital (a spin-off from the long-running “Faith for Today”)
10:00 700 Club
11:30 Various Programming
12:00 noon Ross Bagley Show
1:30 pm Various Programming
3:00 700 Club
4:30 Various Programming
5:00 Various Programming
5:30 Ross Bagley Show
7:00 Programming Unannounced
8:00 Oral Roberts
8:30 Good News
9:00 700 Club
10:30 Sound of Trumpets
11:00 Program Unannounced
11:30 Ross Bagley Show
12:58 am CBN Sports Report
1:00 Ever Increasing Faith
2:00 Worldview
2:30 Ross Bagley Show
3:58 CBN Sports Report
4:00 700 Club
5:30 Blackwood Brothers
5:58 CBN Sports Report
(12) WPBT (PBS) (converted from RF channel 2)
6:45 am A.M. Weather
7:00 Nightly Business Report
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Villa Alegre
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Mister Rogers
10:30 Lilias, Yoga and You
11:00 War and Peace
12:00 noon Doctor in the House
12:30 pm [Off-air for 90 minutes] (not just missing, the listing literally says “Off the air”)
2:00 Movie (“Beachcomber”)
3:30 Food, Wine and Friends
4:00 Over Easy
4:30 Electric Company
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Dr. Who
6:30 Dick Cavett Show
7:00 Nightly Business Report
7:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
8:00 Edge of Survival (Documentary)
9:00 Nova (“A Touch of Sensitivity”)
10:00 Mystery! (“A Case of Spirits”)
11:00 Dick Cavett Show
11:30 Today in the Legislature
12:30 am ABC Captioned News
1:00 Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler
1:30 [Sign-off]
(Sorry about the crappy formatting -- I can't seem to get things to line up right after pasting the text here, no matter what I do...)
Historically, the Keys were always a problematic location for TV reception. Too far from the nearest markets (Miami and Ft. Myers) for reliable reception without a big high-gain antenna at a decent height, and though a network of UHF translators was built by the Monroe County government, they only repeated the five major Miami signals (chs. 2, 4, 6, 7, and 10), so anyone desiring a broader choice of viewing options had to rely on cable.
One thing confuses me – the “premium” channels on the system were carried on the same channels as some of the basic offerings (as you will see below). Not sure how this was done, so please enlighten me if you know.
The channel grid:
Basic channels:
(The following listed as white numbers on a black background)
[2] – (Apparently not used for some reason – see below)
(3) – WTBS (Ind.) Atlanta GA (the ubiquitous 80’s superstation)
(4) – WVTJ (CBS) Miami FL
(5) – “WTMC” (Local/SPN) Key West FL (this was apparently a cable-only channel carrying local programming as well as the Satellite Program Network, of which I know absolutely nothing beyond its brief Wikipedia listing)
(6) – WCIX (Ind.) Miami FL
(7) – WCKT (NBC) Miami FL
[8] – Local time and weather (probably one of those “point a cheap camera at a clock and thermometer” things that were common to cable systems back in the day)
(9) – WOR (Ind.) New York NY (Another early superstation, and judging from the programming, well before they established separate feeds for local OTA and national satellite)
(10) – WPLG (ABC) Miami FL
(11) – Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN)
(12) – WPBT (PBS) Miami FL (The only off-air station that was not carried on its OTA RF channel)
(13) – Spanish International Network (SIN) (The progenitor, I believe, of what eventually became Univision)
Ch. 13 SIN is shown as only available in “Area 1” (defined as Key West to Bay Point, or MM 0 to MM 15 on U.S. 1) and not “Area 2” (defined as Sugarloaf to Big Pine and Marathon, or MM 17 to MM 47) -- probably two separate CATV head ends. SIN is shown in the channel grid, but not included in the program listings.
“Premium” channels:
(The following listed as black numbers on a white background)
[8] – Home Box Office (HBO)
(9) – Nickelodeon (which just weeks earlier had become available nationwide, having grown from the former QUBE/Pinwheel days)
(10) – WGN (Ind.) Chicago IL (The third of the primary troika of early superstations)
(11) – ESPN
(12) – Galavision (Spanish) – like SIN above, only available in “Area 1” and not carried in the actual programming listings)
Again, how did they “duplex” two stations onto each channel?
I chose (more or less arbitrarily) Tuesday, May 26, 1981 for the post. Listing the basic channels only. I may or may not subsequently post weekends, or other weekdays’ prime-time, if there is enough interest on your part, and enough desire on my part. (The former, almost assuredly; the latter, not so much...) The program titles are shown verbatim as they are listed.
(3) WTBS (Ind.) (the :05/:35 “Turner Time” programming starts would begin the following month)
5:30 am World at Large
6:00 Hollywood Report
7:00 Fun Time
8:00 I Dream of Jeannie
8:30 My Three Sons
9:00 Hazel
9:30 Green Acres
10:00 Movie (“Calamity Jane”)
12:00 noon Freeman Reports (don’t remember this: news/commentary, perhaps?)
1:00 pm Movie (“How Do I Love Thee?”)
3:00 Fun Time
3:30 Flintstones
4:00 Addams Family
4:30 Brady Bunch
5:00 I Love Lucy (a different episode of which was also shown by WCIX in the same time slot)
5:30 Beverly Hillbillies
6:00 Carol Burnett and Friends
6:30 Bob Newhart Show
7:00 All in the Family
7:30 Baseball (Braves vs. Dodgers)
10:00 TBS Evening News (actually produced by co-owned CNN)
11:00 Night Gallery
11:30 Movie (“Men’s Favorite Sport?” [1964] w/Rock Hudson, Paula Prentiss)
2:00 am Atlanta Braves Baseball Replay (tape of game played earlier)
4:30 Rat Patrol
5:00 Mission Impossible
(4) WTVJ (CBS)
6:00 am 700 Club
7:00 Morning (assuming abbreviated title for CBS Morning News – who would have been the
anchor in ’81?)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Price is Right (tape-delay – network ran it from 11-12)
10:00 John Davidson Show (did this really garner better ratings locally than TPIR?)
11:30 One Day at a Time (tape-delay – network ran it @ 4 pm)
11:57 Newsbreak (CBS) (Assume they briefly cut to live network for this, and this is not also tape delay!) <g>
12:00 noon News (believe this was branded “News at Noon with Del Frank”)
12:30 pm Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Young and the Restless
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Merv Griffin
5:30 M.A.S.H.
6:00 News (branded simply as “Channel 4 News” if Wikipedia can be believed)
6:30 CBS News (with Cousin Dan, who had replaced Uncle Walter about 10 weeks prior)
7:00 Cross Wits (Jack Clark)
7:30 PM Magazine
8:00 Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977) (the 3rd of the feature-length “Peanuts” movies;
also the first “Peanuts” production without Vince Guaraldi’s music)
9:30 National Collegiate Cheerleading Championships (hosted by John Davidson, who
was apparently adored by WTVJ [see 10 am] and Victoria Principal – CBS or syndie?)
11:00 News (“The World Tonight With Jim Brosemer”)
11:30 CBS Late Movie (Columbo: “Any Old Port in the Storm” - guest: Donald Pleasance)
1:00 am [Sign-off]
(5) “WTMC” (Local/SPN)
7:00 am International Byline
7:30 Various Programming (catchy title) <g>
8:30 Women’s Channel
9:00 Susan Noon Show (Wikipedia says it was a celebrity interview show)
9:30 Fran Carlton Show (a couple generations of Florida women exercised with Fran)
10:00 Movietown (“Flying Fool”)
11:30 Picture of Health
12:00 noon Various Programming
12:30 pm Joan Fontaine Show (the classic actress’ talk/interview show)
1:00 School of Country Living (may have had something to do with Carla Emery, who wrote the
best-selling Encyclopedia of Country Living and appeared on many late 70’s talk shows)
1:30 Paul Ryan Show (?? celeb interviews?)
2:00 Various Programming
3:00 It’s a Great Idea
3:30 Women’s Channel (wow...deja vu)
4:00 Fran Carlton Show (ditto)
4:30 Movietown (“Call It Murder”)
6:00 Don Kennedy’s Spotlight (guessing this is the old Westerns actor?)
6:30 Dance Connection Disco (disco’s in decline, but not quite dead yet)
7:00 History of Space (betting this was public-domain NASA films)
7:30 Good Livin’
8:00 It’s a Great Idea
8:30 Women’s Channel (in case you missed it the first two times)
9:00 Telefrance-U.S.A. (a 3-HOUR nightly block of French-language programming – was there
really an audience for this in the Keys? – French-Canadian snowbirds, perhaps?)
12:00 mid Don Kennedy’s Spotlight
12:30 am Paul Ryan Show
1:00 All Night at the Movies: “Under Texas Skies,” “Taming of Dorothy,” Westward Bound,” and “Jungle
Thief” (My fantasy alternative title for this movie block is “It Came From Public Domain Hell!”) <LOL>
(6) WCIX (Ind.)
6:00 am Community Closeup
6:30 Spiderman
7:00 Flintstones
7:30 Great Space Coaster
8:00 Duck Duck Goose (obviously kiddie fare – unknown what relation to the classic playground
game of the same name...)
8:30 Partridge Family
9:00 Fran Carlton Show (miss it and you can catch it at 9:30 on ch.5)
9:30 Health Field
10:00 Mike Douglas
11:30 Love American Style
12:00 noon Movie (“Frozen Dead”)
2:00 pm Let’s Make a Deal
2:30 $50,000 Pyramid
3:00 Flintstones
3:30 Little Rascals
4:00 Woody Woodpecker
4:30 Tom and Jerry
5:00 I Love Lucy
5:30 Mary Tyler Moore Show
6:00 Starsky and Hutch
7:00 Barney Miller
7:30 Sanford and Son
8:00 Movie (“The Alamo” [1960] w/John Wayne & Richard Widmark – this is “part one” with the
balance airing the following evening)
10:00 News
11:00 Benny Hill Show (also on WOR at this time – unknown if same episode)
11:30 Movie (“Only Two Can Play” [1963] w/Peter Sellers & Mai Zetterling)
2:00 am Movie (“Genevieve” [1954] w/Kenneth More & Kay Kendall)
4:00 am Movie (“Best of the Badmen” [1951] w/Robert Ryan & Clare Trevor)
(7) WCKT (NBC)
5:30 am Inspiritional [sic] Message
5:35 Open College
6:35 South Florida Home and Gardening
6:45 Community Report
7:00 Today
9:00 Bonanza
10:00 Las Vegas Gambit
10:30 Blockbusters
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Password Plus
12:00 noon News (“NewsCenter 7” in this era, I believe...)
12:30 pm Doctors
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Hour Magazine (I guess NBC’s “Texas” didn’t fly in Miami-Dade...)
4:00 Ironside
5:00 Barnaby Jones
6:00 News (NewsCenter 7)
7:00 NBC News (still Chancellor – Brokaw would take over the following year)
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8:00 Lobo
9:00 Hill Street Blues (one of two 2-hour episodes that closed the season, pre-empting "Nero Wolfe")
11:00 News (NewsCenter 7)
11:30 The Tonight Show (Guests: Liza Minelli, Dr. Paul Ehrlich)
12:30 am Tomorrow Coast-to-Coast (this night saw Tom presiding over “The Second Annual NBC and
Only NBC Employees Talent Showcase”) <g>
2:00 am [Sign-off]
(9) WOR (Ind.)
6:30 am News
7:00 Richard Simmons Show
7:30 Jim Bakker
8:30 Various Programming (and you thought this was “WTMC’s” idea – actually, I think the
publication just did this on the daytime schedule when something different aired each day M-
F – it shows up on CBN’s schedule, too, and with annoying frequency)
9:00 Joe Franklin Show
10:00 Romper Room
11:00 Straight Talk
12:30 pm Let’s Make a Deal
1:00 Movie (“Road to Salina”)
3:00 Bonanza
4:00 Movie (“Grave of the Vampire”)
6:00 Joker’s Wild
6:30 Tic Tac Dough
7:00 Bullseye
7:30 Face the Music
8:00 Movie (“Homecoming” [1948] w/Clark Gable & Lana Turner)
10:00 Latin New York
10:30 Nine on New Jersey
11:00 Benny Hill Show
11:30 Maude
12:00 mid Racing From Yonkers Raceway
12:30 am Movie (“Kiss the Blood Off my Hands” [1948] w/Burt Lancaster & Joan Fontaine)
2:00 Joe Franklin Show
3:00 Movie (“Trained to Kill” [1975] w/Steve Sandor & Richard X. Slattery)
5:00 Prayer
5:30 Daniel Boone
(10) WPLG (ABC)
6:00 am Noticero Observador
6:15 Job Line
6:30 Body Factory
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Phil Donahue Show
10:00 Richard Simmons Show
10:30 Charlie Rose Show (pre-PBS syndie – last 60 min. run instead of ABC “Love Boat” reruns)
12:00 noon Family Feud
12:30 pm News (“NewsWatch 10” –would change to “Eyewitness News” in ’82)
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Happy Days Again
4:30 Good Times
5:00 All in the Family
5:30 News (NewsWatch 10)
7:00 ABC News (still using their three-anchor split of Reynolds/Robinson/Jennings)
7:30 Family Feud (the syndie version, not a repeat of the noontime network edition)
8:00 Happy Days (the series having long since jumped the Selachimorpha, both literally and
figuratively, tonight’s 8th season finale has Fonzie helping Chachi with history homework,
becoming a musical fantasy on the American melting pot – how the mighty have fallen...)
8:30 Laverne and Shirley
9:00 Three’s Company
9:30 Too Close for Comfort
10:00 Hart to Hart
11:00 News (NewsWatch 10)
11:30 ABC News Nightline
12:00 mid Tuesday Movie of the Week (“Crash” [1978] w/WilliamShatner & Eddie Albert – about the infamous
1972 crash of Eastern Flight 401 into the Everglades)
2:00 Job Line
2:15 Noticero Observador
2:30 [Sign-off]
(11) CBN (an almost useless sked with all the “Various Programming” and “Programming Unannounced entries!)
6:00 am Programming Unannounced (obviously a rip-off of ”Various Programming”)
8:00 Various Programming (speak of the devil...er, sorry, Pat, just a figure of speech...)
8:30 Gary Randall Show
9:00 Various Programming
9:30 Westbrook Hospital (a spin-off from the long-running “Faith for Today”)
10:00 700 Club
11:30 Various Programming
12:00 noon Ross Bagley Show
1:30 pm Various Programming
3:00 700 Club
4:30 Various Programming
5:00 Various Programming
5:30 Ross Bagley Show
7:00 Programming Unannounced
8:00 Oral Roberts
8:30 Good News
9:00 700 Club
10:30 Sound of Trumpets
11:00 Program Unannounced
11:30 Ross Bagley Show
12:58 am CBN Sports Report
1:00 Ever Increasing Faith
2:00 Worldview
2:30 Ross Bagley Show
3:58 CBN Sports Report
4:00 700 Club
5:30 Blackwood Brothers
5:58 CBN Sports Report
(12) WPBT (PBS) (converted from RF channel 2)
6:45 am A.M. Weather
7:00 Nightly Business Report
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Villa Alegre
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Mister Rogers
10:30 Lilias, Yoga and You
11:00 War and Peace
12:00 noon Doctor in the House
12:30 pm [Off-air for 90 minutes] (not just missing, the listing literally says “Off the air”)
2:00 Movie (“Beachcomber”)
3:30 Food, Wine and Friends
4:00 Over Easy
4:30 Electric Company
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Dr. Who
6:30 Dick Cavett Show
7:00 Nightly Business Report
7:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
8:00 Edge of Survival (Documentary)
9:00 Nova (“A Touch of Sensitivity”)
10:00 Mystery! (“A Case of Spirits”)
11:00 Dick Cavett Show
11:30 Today in the Legislature
12:30 am ABC Captioned News
1:00 Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler
1:30 [Sign-off]
(Sorry about the crappy formatting -- I can't seem to get things to line up right after pasting the text here, no matter what I do...)
