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Retro: Indianapolis/Lafayette/Terre Haute Thurs, Jan 22, 1981

from TV Guide-Central Indiana edition
Programs listed ET

WTWO 2-NBC Terre Haute
6:00 Today in Illiana
6:15 Agriculture Day
6:30 Country Day
7:00 Today (guests include Reps. Claudine Schneider (R-RI) and Eugene Chappie (R-CA))
9:00 Phil Donahue (topic: teens and birth control)
10:00 Las Vegas Gambit
10:30 Blockbusters
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Password Plus
noon Card Sharks
12:30 Doctors
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Texas
4:00 Petticoat Junction
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-host Susan Anton/guests Dolly Parton, Ted Nugent, and Bob Mackie)
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 Happy Days Again
8:00 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (2 hrs)
10:00 Hill Street Blues
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show (guests Michael Douglas, Debby Boone, and Suzanne Somers)
12:30 Tomorrow Coast-to-Coast
2:00 News
followed by sign-off

WTTV 4-Ind Indianapolis (COLed to Bloomington)
5:00 Movie "The Citadel" (cont'd)
5:30 Portraits
6:00 RFD 4
6:30 700 Club
7:30 Cowboy Bob's Corral
8:00 Janie
9:00 Phil Donahue (no topic listed)
10:00 John Davidson (co-host Robert Hays/guests Kurt Russell, Billy Preston, Syreeta, and Gallagher)
11:00 Mike Douglas (co-host Jerry Lewis/guests Sophia Loren, Pam Dawber, Patrick Wayne, and Lee Salk)
noon Bob Braun (Cincinnati K9 officer Howard Nichols demonstrates the Cincy PD's K9s' capabilities; live)
1:30 Jim Gerard
2:00 Your Show
3:00 Fred Flintstone & Friends
3:30 Three Stooges (bw)
4:00 Woody Woodpecker
4:30 Little Rascals (bw)
5:00 Flintstones
5:30 Brady Bunch
6:00 Good Times
6:30 Welcome Back, Kotter
7:00 Sanford & Son
7:30 College Basketball: Iowa-Indiana (WTTV usually showed All in the Family at 7:30, Gunsmoke at 8, and Joker's Wild at 9...when they weren't showing Pacers games or other sports)
9:30 Tic Tac Dough
10:00 News
11:00 Newlywed Game
11:30 Streets of San Francisco
12:30 Joker's Wild
1:00 Movie "Alexander the Great" (the late show usually started at 12:30)
3:30 Movie "Violent Road" (bw)

WRTV 6-ABC Indianapolis
6:40 Good Morning Indiana
7:00 Good Morning America (report on people out of work in DC due to the change in Presidents- Reagan was inaugurated 2 days earlier)
9:00 Bullseye
9:30 Family Feud
10:00 Toni Tenille (guests Cathy Lee Crosby, Charlie Pride, Karen Morrow, and Allan Carr)
11:00 Love Boat
noon News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Merv Griffin (guests Dick & Vince Van Patten, Ann Jillian, Betty Buckley, and Nastassia Kinski)
5:00 Barney Miller
5:30 World of People
6:00 News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Face the Music
8:00 Mork & Mindy
8:30 Bosom Buddies
9:00 Barney Miller
9:30 It's a Living
10:00 20/20
11:00 News
11:30 ABC News Nightline
mid. Charlie's Angels
1:10 sign-off

WISH 8-CBS Indianapolis
6:30 Captain Kangaroo (1 day delayed)
7:30 Indy Today
8:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Beverly Hillbillies
9:30 I Dream of Jeannie
10:00 Jeffersons
10:30 Alice
11:00 Price is Right
noon News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Young & the Restless
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Hour Magazine (guest Ginger Rogers, plus a discussion of job discrimination and a recipe for Italian cake)
5:00 Bewitched
5:30 Andy Griffith
6:00 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 PM Magazine
8:00 Waltons
9:00 Magnum, PI
10:00 Knots Landing
11:00 News
11:45 Jeffersons
12:15 McMillan & Wife
1:55 News
followed by sign-off

WGN 9-Ind Chicago
5:00 TBA
6:55 Top o' the Morning
7:25 News
7:30 Bullwinkle
8:00 Ray Rayner
9:00 Bozo Show
10:00 Bewitched
10:30 Your New Day
11:00 Mike Douglas (no details listed)
noon Phil Donahue (Dr. Charles King, president of Atlanta's Urban Crisis Center, talks about his racial sensitivity seminars; WGN took Donahue live)
1:00 Andy Griffith (bw)
1:30 Love, American Style
2:00 Movie "The Shrike" (bw)
4:00 Bugs Bunny & Friends
4:30 Scooby-Doo
5:00 Flintstones
5:30 I Dream of Jeannie
6:00 Good Times
6:30 Welcome Back, Kotter
7:00 Barney Miller
7:30 Carol Burnett & Friends (guest Rita Moreno)
8:00 NBA: Chicago-Detroit (from the Pontiac Silverdome; movie usually aired at 8pm)
10:00 News
11:00 Hollywood Squares
11:30 Prisoner: Cell Block H
mid. Movie "The Unforgiven"
2:25 News
2:55 Movie "Charlie Chan's Secret" (bw)
4:20 TBA

WTHI 10-CBS Terre Haute
6:00 Captain Kangaroo (1 day delayed)
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Hour Magazine (guests Tom Jones and Neal Olshan)
9:00 One Day at a Time
9:30 Face the Music
10:00 Jeffersons
10:30 Alice
11:00 Price is Right
noon News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Young & the Restless
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Tom & Jerry
4:30 Captain Jack
5:00 Leave It to Beaver (bw)
5:30 Andy Griffith (bw/guest star Don Rickles)
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 PM Magazine
7:30 College Basketball: Drake-Indiana State
9:30 Tic Tac Dough (usually shown at 7:30)
10:00 Knots Landing
11:00 News
11:30 Jeffersons
mid. McMillan & Wife
1:45 sign-off

WTHR 13-NBC Indianapolis
6:00 Indiana Illustrated
6:30 Richard Simmons
7:00 Today
9:00 Movie "Jane Eyre" (bw)
11:00 Days of Our Lives (were the NBC soaps run 1 day behind on 13?)
noon News
12:30 Doctors
1:00 Another World
2:00 Texas
3:00 I Love Lucy (bw/guest star Barbara Eden)
3:30 Space: 1999
4:30 Rockford Files
5:30 M*A*S*H
6:00 News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (2 hrs)
10:00 Hill Street Blues (TVG had a MTM ad for the show, featuring an appearance from Mimsy the MTM Cat and a caption reading "Turn on and see the best things on TV from *meow* MTM")
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Tomorrow Coast-to-Coast
2:00 News
followed by sign-off

WTBS 17-Ind Atlanta
5:00 Movie "Black Fury" cont'd (bw)
5:50 World at Large
6:30 Famiily Affair
7:00 Funtime
8:00 I Love Lucy (bw)
8:30 I Dream of Jeannie
9:00 Hazel
9:30 Green Acres
10:00 Movie "Top Hat" (bw)
noon Freeman Reports
1:00 Movie "The Lost Moment" (bw)
2:50 Funtime
3:30 Space Giants
4:00 Flintstones
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5:00 Brady Bunch
5:30 Beverly Hillbillies
6:00 Carol Burnett & Friends
6:30 Bob Newhart
7:00 All in the Family
7:30 Sanford & Son
8:00 Energy the Way We Live (looks at solar energy)
9:00 College Basketball: UNC-Wake Forest
11:00 News
mid. Movie "The Hustler" (bw)
2:55 Movie "The Pumpkin Eater" (bw)

WLFI 18-CBS Lafayette
6:00 TBA
8:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Captain Kangaroo
10:00 Jeffersons
10:30 Alice
11:00 Price is Right
noon Midbreak 18
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Young & the Restless
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 One Day at a Time
4:30 My Three Sons
5:00 Beverly Hillbillies
5:30 M*A*S*H
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Rockford Files
8:00 Waltons
9:00 Magnum, PI
10:00 Knots Landing
11:00 News
11:30 Jeffersons
mid. McMillan & Wife
1:45 sign-off

WFYI 20-PBS Indianapolis
6:45 Writing for a Reason
7:15 AM Weather
7:30 Over Easy
8:00 Villa Alegre
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Lilias, Yoga & You
10:30 Countdown to the White House (a look at the transition from Carter to Reagan)
11:30 IMA Art World
noon Dick Cavett
12:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
1:00 Masterpiece Theatre ""Danger UXB" (pt 3)
2:00 Shock of the New
3:00 Over Easy
3:30 Lilias, Yoga & You
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 3-2-1 Contact
6:30 Writing for a Reason
7:00 Over Easy
7:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
8:00 Speakeasy
8:30 Hospice: An Alternative Way for Dying
9:00 Sneak Previews
9:30 Wodehouse Playhouse "Tangled Hearts"
10:00 Austin City Limits (guests George Jones and Hank Thompson)
11:00 Dick Cavett
11:30 Captioned ABC News
mid. sign-off

WVUT 22-PBS Vincennes
7:45 AM Weather
8:00 Villa Alegre
8:30 Watch Your Mouth!
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10:30 Writing for a Reason
11:00 3-2-1 Contact
11:30 Electric Company
noon News
12:30 Over Easy
1:00 Once Upon a Classic ""The Mill on the Floss" (pt 3)
1:30 3-2-1 Contact
2:00 Soundstage (guests Johnny Paycheck and Mickey Gilley)
3:00 Watch Your Mouth!
3:30 Villa Alegre
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 News
6:30 Growing Years
7:00 Dick Cavett
7:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
8:00 Soundstage (Paycheck/Gilley)
9:00 Sneak Previews
9:30 This Old House
10:00 Austin City Limits
11:00 Dick Cavett
11:30 Captioned ABC News
mid. sign-off

WTIU 30-PBS Bloomington
8:45 AM Weather
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10:30 Electric Company
11:00 3-2-1 Contact
11:30 Thirty/30
noon Over Easy
12:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
1:00 Once Upon a Classic "The Mill on the Floss" (pt 3)
2:00 Self
2:30 Thinkabout
3:00 Watch Your Mouth!
3:30 Lilias, Yoga & You
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Focus on Children
6:00 3-2-1 Contact
6:30 Over Easy
7:00 Crockett's Victory Garden
7:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
8:00 Paper Chase
9:00 Sneak Previews
9:30 This Old House
10:00 Austin City Limits
11:00 Dick Cavett
11:30 Captioned ABC News
mid. sign-off

WFLD 32-Ind Chicago
7:00 Newstalk
7:30 Three Stooges (bw)
8:00 Tom & Jerry
8:30 Great Space Coaster
9:00 Popeye
9:30 Fred Flintstone & Friends
10:00 Richard Simmons
10:30 Please Don't Eat the Daisies
11:00 Partridge Family
11:30 Green Acres
noon Monkees
12:30 Munsters (bw)
1:00 Underdog
1:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
2:00 I Love Lucy (bw)
2:30 Courtship of Eddie's Father
3:00 Beverly Hillbillies (bw)
3:30 Casper the Friendly Ghost
4:00 Mighty Mouse/Heckle & Jeckle
4:30 Woody Woodpecker
5:00 Tom & Jerry
5:30 Brady Bunch
6:00 Happy Days Again
6:30 Sanford & Son
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 All in the Family
8:00 PM Magazine
8:30 Joker's Wild
9:00 Tic Tac Dough
9:30 To Tell the Truth
10:00 All in the Family
10:30 Honeymooners (bw)
10:55 News
11:00 M*A*S*H
11:30 Benny Hill
mid. Three Stooges "Mutts to You" (bw)
12:30 Newstalk
1:00 sign-off

WBAK 38-ABC Terre Haute
6:45 Good Morning Valley
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 PTL Club
11:00 Love Boat
noon Family Feud
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Edge of Night
4:30 Battle of the Planets
5:00 Star Trek
6:00 Brady Bunch
6:30 Odd Couple (yep, 38 blew off World News Tonight)
7:00 Prisoner: Cell Block H (normally shown at 7:30, Let's Make a Deal usually aired at 7)
7:30 College Basketball: Iowa-Indiana
9:30 Life in America (discusses abortion)
10:00 20/20
11:00 News
11:30 ABC News Nightline
mid. Charlie's Angels
1:10 News
followed by sign-off

WHMB 40-Ind/Rel Indianapolis
5:45 News
6:00 PTL Club
8:00 Lester Sumrall Teaches
8:30 Sharing with Steve
9:00 Today with Lester Sumrall
10:00 700 Club
11:30 Manna
noon Today with Lester Sumrall
1:00 Sharing with Steve
1:30 Lester Sumrall Teaches
2:00 Cartoon Festival
2:30 Banana Splits
3:00 New Zoo Revue
3:30 Bugs Bunny & Friends
4:00 Tennessee Tuxedo
4:30 Underdog
5:00 College Basketball: San Francisco-Notre Dame (1 day delay; WGN aired this live the previous night...usually aired: Bullwinkle at 5, Leave It to Beaver at 5:30, Blackwood Brothers at 6, and Dwight Thompson at 6:30)
7:00 Miracle Revival Hour
7:30 Dawn of a New Day
8:00 Lester Sumrall Teaches
8:30 Abundant Life
9:00 Today with Lester Sumrall
10:00 Jack Van Impe
10:30 In His Labour
11:00 Praise the Lord
mid. News
followed by sign-off

WIPB 49-PBS Muncie
8:45 AM Weather
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10:30 Letter Shop
11:00 Writing for a Reason
11:30 Electric Company
noon Sesame Street
1:00 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
1:30 Second Look
2:00 Soundstage
3:00 Over Easy
3:30 Lilias, Yoga & You
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Second Look
5:55 News
6:00 3-2-1 Contact
6:30 Over Easy
7:00 Dick Cavett
7:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
8:00 Paper Chase
9:00 Sneak Previews
9:30 This Old House
10:00 Austin City Limits
11:00 Dick Cavett
11:30 Captioned ABC News
mid. News
followed by sign-off

HBO
5pm Davy Crockett at the Alamo
6:00 Movie "Dot and the Kangaroo"
7:30 Inside the NFL
8:30 Movie "Meatballs"
10:00 Young Comedians Show (Carl Reiner host the 5th annual event from the Comedy Store in Los Angeles)
11:30 Inside the NFL
12:30 Movie "North Dallas Forty"
2:30 sign-off
 
Wow, look at all of the stations that aired "Tic Tac Dough" in primetime (I know WTHI's doing so was a matter of happenstance, what with the CBS primetime lineup airing hourlong shows that evening)...

And speaking of CBS... Look at WISH with its 45-minute nightly newscast. Looks like they were way ahead of their time, before they started that "11:35" thing in late night...
 
Bluenoser said:
WISH 8-CBS Indianapolis
11:00 News
11:45 Jeffersons
12:15 McMillan & Wife
1:55 News
followed by sign-off

DToTheJ said:
And speaking of CBS... Look at WISH with its 45-minute nightly newscast. Looks like they were way ahead of their time,
before they started that "11:35" thing in late night.

KSL-TV Salt Lake City was doing a 40-minute (10:00-10:40 MT) late 'cast
in the fall of 1979. It was followed by several syndicated reruns, as KSL
did not clear the CBS Late Movie. I can't get a good handle on whether
or not an indie picked it up--there's always the factor of having to delay
the program (MT).

Back to WISH-TV...could the CBS late night offerings have been a day, or
or even a week behind? Even with one-inch VTRs common in '81, it would
be a real adventure to delay 2:10 of network programming by 15 minutes.
Today with a digital delay server--no sweat.
 
Atlanta's Ch. 11 also did a 40-minute newscast (11-11:40 PM)
from the fall of '72 to the fall of '74, followed first by movies,
then by reruns of "The Untouchables," and finally by reruns of
"Mission: Impossible." ABC's "Wide World Of Entertainment"
aired on a one-night delay at 12:40 AM, starting (IIRC) in the
summer of '73.

As for the NBC soaps airing on a one-day delay on WTHR, I
would suspect they were. It looks like, since Indianapolis was
on Eastern Standard (or, if you prefer, Central Daylight) in the
summer, Ch. 13 wanted to keep the shows at the same time the
year 'round and avoid confusion. What would be interesting to
know is if "Another World" and "Texas" were live feeds in the summer.
 
WTHI's Captain Jack show, the man who played Captain Jack, later worked in the Broadcasting Department at Vincennes University.
 
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