Source: TV Guide
Channels
2 KCKT Great Bend NBC
3 KARD-TV Wichita NBC
6 KTVC Ensign CBS
7 KAYS-TV Hays CBS/ABC
8 KPTS Wichita PBS
10 KAKE Wichita ABC
11 KGLD Garden City NBC
12 KTVH Hutchinson CBS
13 KUPK Garden City ABC
Satellites and their Originating Stations: For programs on 8 Oberlin (KOMC) see 2. On 10 Goodland (KLOE-TV) see 7. On 18 Salina see 3. On 70 Arkansas City see 12. On 34 Salina, 70 Hays / Manhattan, 71 Great Bend / Herington, 75 Russell / Junction City see 10.
Aug 11 1976 - Wednesday
6am
12 Pastor's Study
6:15
12 Community Window
6:35
12 Agriculture Today
6:45
2 3 11 Kansas Today
6 12 News
10 13 Kansas Scene
7AM
2 3 11 Today-Lloyd Dobyns
6 7 12 CBS News-Morton/Rudd
10 13 Good Morning America-David Hartman
8AM
6 7 12 Captain Kangaroo
The Captain rides in a blimp over the Pacific Ocean and sights some migrating whales.
9AM
2 3 11 Sanford & Son
Lamont's friend (Whitman Mayo) has moved in with the Sanfords and is driving Fred crazy.
6 7 12 Price is Right
8 Sesame Street
10 13 Romper Room
9:30
2 3 11 Celebrity Sweepstakes
Greg Mullavey, Tom Bosley.
10 13 Lassie BW
Christmas trees that Corey provided for a local church are stolen.
10AM
2 3 11 Wheel of Fortune
6 7 12 Joyce Livingston
Guests include Irene Laughlin, who gives a crafts demonstration; Frank Shepherd of the Mended Hearts Club, who discusses heart-surgery patients.
10 13 Green Acres
Arnold the pig hams it up on Oliver's birthday.
10:30
2 3 11 Hollywood Squares
William Shatner, Charo, Roddy McDowall, Bonnie Franklin, John Byner, Joan Rivers, Rip Taylor, Julie McWhirter and Doc Severinsen.
6 7 12 Love of Life
10 13 Happy Days
Richie (Ron Howard) has a date with a girl who has a steamy reputation.
10:55
6 7 12 CBS News
11AM
2 3 11 Fun Factory
6 7 12 Young and the Restless
10 13 Hot Seat
11:30
2 3 11 The Gong Show
6 7 12 Search for Tomorrow
10 13 All My Children
11:55
2 3 11 NBC News
Noon
2 3 6 7 10 11 12 13 News
12:15
2 3 11 Elmer Childress
12 Woman's World
Ruby Truex, Sedgwick County home-extension agent, offers some food ideas for summer.
12:30
2 3 11 Days of Our Lives
6 7 12 As the World Turns
10 13 Family Feud
1PM
10 13 $20,000 Pyramid
Tony Randall, Jo Anne Worley.
1:30
2 3 11 ThE Doctors
6 7 12 Guiding Light
10 13 One Life to Live
2PM
2 3 11 Another World
6 7 12 All in the Family
Archie fears for his job when the man who once held the position turns up looking for work.
2:15
10 13 General Hospital
2:30
6 7 12 Match Game
Betty White, Soupy Sales, Madlyn Rhue, Richard Dawson, Brett Somers and Charles Nelson Reilly.
3PM
2 3 11 Somerset
6 7 12 Tattletales
Mickey Rooney and Jan Chamberlin, Richard Dawson and Jody Donovan.
8 Mister Rogers
10 13 Edge of Night
3:30
2 3 11 Flintstones
6 7 12 Gambit
8 Sesame Street
10 13 Merv Griffin
From Las vegas: Don Rickles, comic Robert Klein and the Hues Corporation singing group.
4PM
2 3 11 I Dream of Jeannie
Jeannie gives Tony one hour with Napoleon-to change the course of history.
6 7 12 Mike Douglas
KTVC / KAYS - From Hollywood: Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Francis Ford Coppola, Cloris Leachman and Telly Savalas are the guests.
KTVH - From Hollywood: Lucille Ball, Michael Caine, Roger Moore, Robert Blake and soul group War. War does 'Why Can't We Be Friends?' and 'Smile Happy.'
4:30
2 3 11 High Chaparral
Victoria and Buck pose as husband and wife to escape from a sinister town boss who is forcing Victoria to work as a saloon hostess.
8 Electric Company
10 13 Gilligan's Island BW
Larry Storch appears as a bank robber on the lam.
5PM
8 Zoom
10 13 ABC News-Harry Reasoner
5:30
2 3 11 NBC News-Chancellor/Brinkley
6 7 12 CBS News-Cronkite
8 Book Beat
Edith Wharton, a product of the elite New York society she attacked with wit in her novels, is discussed by her biographer R.W.B. Lewis.
10 13 News
6PM
2 3 6 7 11 12 News
8 Antiques
10 13 To Tell the Truth
Bill Cullen, Peggy Cass, Tom Poston and Kitty Carlisle.
6:30
2 3 11 Name that Tune (was it giving away $100,000 at that point?)
6 7 12 The Jeffersons
With encouragement from publisher Tom, Louise begins work on her first writing venture: a cookbook containing many of her grandmother's favorite recipes. Louise: Isabel Sanford. Tom: Franklin Cover.
8 Robert MacNeil Report
10 13 Partridge Family
Ray Bolger and Rosemary De Camp as Shirley's mom and dad, ready to split up after 40 years. He digs hot pants; she likes warm milk.
7PM
2 3 11 Little House on the Prairie
Discouraged over the loss of his crop to a tornado, Charles prepares to sell the farm and move the family back to Wisconsin. Charles: Michael Landon. Guest...Matthew: E.J. Andre. Anna Simms: Lurene Tuttle.
6 7 12 Pilot-Mystery
Oscar winner John Houseman plays unorthodox lawyer John Hazard in 'Hazard's People,' about the defense of a renowned doctor accused of killing his girlfriend. This pilot for a possible series is not on the networks' fall schedules. Michael Crowder: John Elerick. Trish Corelli: Jesse Welles. Ernest Clay: Roger Kill.
8 Nova
Space probes to 'The Planets' are surveyed in this report about U.S. and Soviet missions to Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter and the moon. According to scientists, data from these ventures show similarities between these planets now and the Earth in its early history.
10 13 Bionic Woman
Jaime is framed for the theft of a $40,000,000 decoder she was to deliver to a secret desert testing center.
[Postponed from an earlier date.]
8PM
2 3 11 Pilot-Comedy
World War II is played mostly for laughs in 'Over and Out,' about five women communicators downed on an all-male base in the Pacific. This is the pilot for a possible new series, but it is not on the networks' fall schedules. Lt. Betty Jack Daniels: Michele Lee. Paula: Pat Finley. Lizard: Alice Playten. Cookie: Susan Lanier.
6 7 12 Movie
'The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.' One of the most critically acclaimed TV-movies ever made. Cicely Tyson won an Emmy for her performance in a role that takes her from age 19 to 110. She portrays a fictitious character named Jane Pittman, who was born in slavery and lived to see the civil-rights movement of the early 1960s. The drama unfolds in flashbacks as Miss Pittman recounts her life to a journalist. Her story, set against a backdrop of racial intolerance and violence, is moving and courageous. The 1974 movie is based on the novel by Ernest J. Gaines; it was filmed near Baton Rouge, La. Beatrice Winde, Rod Perry.
8 Great Performances
The lauching of both an expensive literary magazine and a hospital ship for the Boer War are two projects undertaken by 'Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill' in part 5. But what stirs the disapproval of her family and friends is Jennie's love affair with George Cornwallis-West, a man nearly half her age. Jennie: Lee Remick. [After the drama: Jennie's influence on Winston's political career is discussed by her grandson Peregrine and series writer Julian Mitchell.]
10 13 Baretta
Baretta is led to a ring that black-markets children by a young other who sold her baby but now wants it back. Janice: Laurie Prange.
8:30
2 3 11 The Virginian
Ben Justin (Charles Bronson) is determined to make a sucess of his modest ranch-with no help from the Virginian (James Drury). Mary: Loius Nettleton.
9PM
8 Life of Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo's twilight years unfold as the series concludes. It's a period of scientific endeavor marked by plans for urban renewal and anatomical studies drawn from corpses.
10 13 Starsky & Hutch
After murdering a man who tried to escape their clutches, a pair of extortionists go after the dead man's girl friend, who could implicate them in the killing. Lola: Lola Albright.
10PM
2 3 10 11 13 News
8 Captioned ABC News
10:10
6 7 12 News
10:30
2 3 11 Johnny Carson
Concert violinist Itzhak Perlman and comedian Stan Kann are scheduled to join guest host Joey Bishop.
10 13 Movie
Omar Sharif plays cat-and-mouse with Jean-Paul Belmondo in 'The Burglars (1971), a caper thriller about emerald thieves stranded in a Greek port. Filmed in Athens and Corfu. Dyan Cannon, Robert Hossein.
10:40
6 7 12 Movie
Alistair Maclean's 'When Eight Bells Toll' (1971) features Anthony Hopkins as a Naval secret-service agent tracking gold-bullion pirates in the Irish Sea. Filmed in Scotland and Malta. Sir Arthur: Robert Morley.
Mid
2 3 11 Tomorrow-Tom Snyder
12:40
10 13 News
1AM
2 3 11 News
Channels
2 KCKT Great Bend NBC
3 KARD-TV Wichita NBC
6 KTVC Ensign CBS
7 KAYS-TV Hays CBS/ABC
8 KPTS Wichita PBS
10 KAKE Wichita ABC
11 KGLD Garden City NBC
12 KTVH Hutchinson CBS
13 KUPK Garden City ABC
Satellites and their Originating Stations: For programs on 8 Oberlin (KOMC) see 2. On 10 Goodland (KLOE-TV) see 7. On 18 Salina see 3. On 70 Arkansas City see 12. On 34 Salina, 70 Hays / Manhattan, 71 Great Bend / Herington, 75 Russell / Junction City see 10.
Aug 11 1976 - Wednesday
6am
12 Pastor's Study
6:15
12 Community Window
6:35
12 Agriculture Today
6:45
2 3 11 Kansas Today
6 12 News
10 13 Kansas Scene
7AM
2 3 11 Today-Lloyd Dobyns
6 7 12 CBS News-Morton/Rudd
10 13 Good Morning America-David Hartman
8AM
6 7 12 Captain Kangaroo
The Captain rides in a blimp over the Pacific Ocean and sights some migrating whales.
9AM
2 3 11 Sanford & Son
Lamont's friend (Whitman Mayo) has moved in with the Sanfords and is driving Fred crazy.
6 7 12 Price is Right
8 Sesame Street
10 13 Romper Room
9:30
2 3 11 Celebrity Sweepstakes
Greg Mullavey, Tom Bosley.
10 13 Lassie BW
Christmas trees that Corey provided for a local church are stolen.
10AM
2 3 11 Wheel of Fortune
6 7 12 Joyce Livingston
Guests include Irene Laughlin, who gives a crafts demonstration; Frank Shepherd of the Mended Hearts Club, who discusses heart-surgery patients.
10 13 Green Acres
Arnold the pig hams it up on Oliver's birthday.
10:30
2 3 11 Hollywood Squares
William Shatner, Charo, Roddy McDowall, Bonnie Franklin, John Byner, Joan Rivers, Rip Taylor, Julie McWhirter and Doc Severinsen.
6 7 12 Love of Life
10 13 Happy Days
Richie (Ron Howard) has a date with a girl who has a steamy reputation.
10:55
6 7 12 CBS News
11AM
2 3 11 Fun Factory
6 7 12 Young and the Restless
10 13 Hot Seat
11:30
2 3 11 The Gong Show
6 7 12 Search for Tomorrow
10 13 All My Children
11:55
2 3 11 NBC News
Noon
2 3 6 7 10 11 12 13 News
12:15
2 3 11 Elmer Childress
12 Woman's World
Ruby Truex, Sedgwick County home-extension agent, offers some food ideas for summer.
12:30
2 3 11 Days of Our Lives
6 7 12 As the World Turns
10 13 Family Feud
1PM
10 13 $20,000 Pyramid
Tony Randall, Jo Anne Worley.
1:30
2 3 11 ThE Doctors
6 7 12 Guiding Light
10 13 One Life to Live
2PM
2 3 11 Another World
6 7 12 All in the Family
Archie fears for his job when the man who once held the position turns up looking for work.
2:15
10 13 General Hospital
2:30
6 7 12 Match Game
Betty White, Soupy Sales, Madlyn Rhue, Richard Dawson, Brett Somers and Charles Nelson Reilly.
3PM
2 3 11 Somerset
6 7 12 Tattletales
Mickey Rooney and Jan Chamberlin, Richard Dawson and Jody Donovan.
8 Mister Rogers
10 13 Edge of Night
3:30
2 3 11 Flintstones
6 7 12 Gambit
8 Sesame Street
10 13 Merv Griffin
From Las vegas: Don Rickles, comic Robert Klein and the Hues Corporation singing group.
4PM
2 3 11 I Dream of Jeannie
Jeannie gives Tony one hour with Napoleon-to change the course of history.
6 7 12 Mike Douglas
KTVC / KAYS - From Hollywood: Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Francis Ford Coppola, Cloris Leachman and Telly Savalas are the guests.
KTVH - From Hollywood: Lucille Ball, Michael Caine, Roger Moore, Robert Blake and soul group War. War does 'Why Can't We Be Friends?' and 'Smile Happy.'
4:30
2 3 11 High Chaparral
Victoria and Buck pose as husband and wife to escape from a sinister town boss who is forcing Victoria to work as a saloon hostess.
8 Electric Company
10 13 Gilligan's Island BW
Larry Storch appears as a bank robber on the lam.
5PM
8 Zoom
10 13 ABC News-Harry Reasoner
5:30
2 3 11 NBC News-Chancellor/Brinkley
6 7 12 CBS News-Cronkite
8 Book Beat
Edith Wharton, a product of the elite New York society she attacked with wit in her novels, is discussed by her biographer R.W.B. Lewis.
10 13 News
6PM
2 3 6 7 11 12 News
8 Antiques
10 13 To Tell the Truth
Bill Cullen, Peggy Cass, Tom Poston and Kitty Carlisle.
6:30
2 3 11 Name that Tune (was it giving away $100,000 at that point?)
6 7 12 The Jeffersons
With encouragement from publisher Tom, Louise begins work on her first writing venture: a cookbook containing many of her grandmother's favorite recipes. Louise: Isabel Sanford. Tom: Franklin Cover.
8 Robert MacNeil Report
10 13 Partridge Family
Ray Bolger and Rosemary De Camp as Shirley's mom and dad, ready to split up after 40 years. He digs hot pants; she likes warm milk.
7PM
2 3 11 Little House on the Prairie
Discouraged over the loss of his crop to a tornado, Charles prepares to sell the farm and move the family back to Wisconsin. Charles: Michael Landon. Guest...Matthew: E.J. Andre. Anna Simms: Lurene Tuttle.
6 7 12 Pilot-Mystery
Oscar winner John Houseman plays unorthodox lawyer John Hazard in 'Hazard's People,' about the defense of a renowned doctor accused of killing his girlfriend. This pilot for a possible series is not on the networks' fall schedules. Michael Crowder: John Elerick. Trish Corelli: Jesse Welles. Ernest Clay: Roger Kill.
8 Nova
Space probes to 'The Planets' are surveyed in this report about U.S. and Soviet missions to Mars, Venus, Mercury, Jupiter and the moon. According to scientists, data from these ventures show similarities between these planets now and the Earth in its early history.
10 13 Bionic Woman
Jaime is framed for the theft of a $40,000,000 decoder she was to deliver to a secret desert testing center.
[Postponed from an earlier date.]
8PM
2 3 11 Pilot-Comedy
World War II is played mostly for laughs in 'Over and Out,' about five women communicators downed on an all-male base in the Pacific. This is the pilot for a possible new series, but it is not on the networks' fall schedules. Lt. Betty Jack Daniels: Michele Lee. Paula: Pat Finley. Lizard: Alice Playten. Cookie: Susan Lanier.
6 7 12 Movie
'The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.' One of the most critically acclaimed TV-movies ever made. Cicely Tyson won an Emmy for her performance in a role that takes her from age 19 to 110. She portrays a fictitious character named Jane Pittman, who was born in slavery and lived to see the civil-rights movement of the early 1960s. The drama unfolds in flashbacks as Miss Pittman recounts her life to a journalist. Her story, set against a backdrop of racial intolerance and violence, is moving and courageous. The 1974 movie is based on the novel by Ernest J. Gaines; it was filmed near Baton Rouge, La. Beatrice Winde, Rod Perry.
8 Great Performances
The lauching of both an expensive literary magazine and a hospital ship for the Boer War are two projects undertaken by 'Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill' in part 5. But what stirs the disapproval of her family and friends is Jennie's love affair with George Cornwallis-West, a man nearly half her age. Jennie: Lee Remick. [After the drama: Jennie's influence on Winston's political career is discussed by her grandson Peregrine and series writer Julian Mitchell.]
10 13 Baretta
Baretta is led to a ring that black-markets children by a young other who sold her baby but now wants it back. Janice: Laurie Prange.
8:30
2 3 11 The Virginian
Ben Justin (Charles Bronson) is determined to make a sucess of his modest ranch-with no help from the Virginian (James Drury). Mary: Loius Nettleton.
9PM
8 Life of Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo's twilight years unfold as the series concludes. It's a period of scientific endeavor marked by plans for urban renewal and anatomical studies drawn from corpses.
10 13 Starsky & Hutch
After murdering a man who tried to escape their clutches, a pair of extortionists go after the dead man's girl friend, who could implicate them in the killing. Lola: Lola Albright.
10PM
2 3 10 11 13 News
8 Captioned ABC News
10:10
6 7 12 News
10:30
2 3 11 Johnny Carson
Concert violinist Itzhak Perlman and comedian Stan Kann are scheduled to join guest host Joey Bishop.
10 13 Movie
Omar Sharif plays cat-and-mouse with Jean-Paul Belmondo in 'The Burglars (1971), a caper thriller about emerald thieves stranded in a Greek port. Filmed in Athens and Corfu. Dyan Cannon, Robert Hossein.
10:40
6 7 12 Movie
Alistair Maclean's 'When Eight Bells Toll' (1971) features Anthony Hopkins as a Naval secret-service agent tracking gold-bullion pirates in the Irish Sea. Filmed in Scotland and Malta. Sir Arthur: Robert Morley.
Mid
2 3 11 Tomorrow-Tom Snyder
12:40
10 13 News
1AM
2 3 11 News