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Retro: Kentucky Monday, December 25, 1978

From TV Guide, Kentucky Edition:

WAVE Ch. 3 Louisville (NBC)

6:30 Today In WAVE Country
7 AM Today (Tom Brokaw/Jane Pauley)
9 AM Morning Show Christmas
10 AM Christmas At Washington Cathedral
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N Midday
12:30 Mike Douglas (co-hosts Rita Walter and
Dennis Cooney of "As The World Turns,"
Red Buttons, Eva Marie Saint, singer
Livingston Taylor (James's brother))
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Adam-12
3:30 Fiesta Bowl: Arkansas-UCLA
6:30 NBC News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley,
time approximate)
7 PM Jack Van Impe (from Israel, Rev. Van Impe
speaks on the life of Christ)
8 PM Little House On The Prairie
9 PM NBC Movie: "Sunshine Christmas"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (John Davidson subs for Johnny;
Patrick Duffy, Stephanie Edwards, baritone William
Walker)
1 AM Tomorrow (lyricist Alan Jay Lerner)

WLWT Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)

5:50 Good Morning
6 AM PTL Club
7 AM Today
9 AM Donahue
10 AM Christmas Mass (conducted by the Most Reverend
Joseph L. Bernardin, Archbishop of Cincinnati)
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Midday
12 N Bob Braun
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Doris Day
3:30 Fiesta Bowl
6:30 NBC News (time approximate)
7 PM Christmas Is (animated tale of a young boy transported
back to the first Christmas)
7:30 Family Feud
8 PM Little House On The Prairie
9 PM NBC Movie: "Sunshine Christmas"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)

6:25 News
6:30 Impact
7 AM CBS News (Lesley Stahl/Richard Threlkeld)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Uncle Al
10 AM Match Game '78 (Brett Somers, Fannie Flagg,
delay from Fri 4 PM)
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 All In The Family (delay from 10 AM)
12 N Noon Report
1 PM Peach Bowl: Purdue-Georgia Tech
4 PM Movie: "Holiday Inn" (time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Joker's Wild
7:30 The Next Step Beyond
8 PM White Shadow
9 PM M*A*S*H
9:30 One Day At A Time
10 PM Lou Grant
11 PM News
11:30 Rockford Files
12:40 CBS Movie: "The Spiral Staircase"
2:30 Christopher Closeup
2:45 Praying The Rosary
3 AM News

WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)

6:30 Ed Allen Time (exercises)
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Search For Tomorrow (delay from 12:30 PM)
9:30 Young And The Restless (delay from 12 N)
10 AM Omelet (local talk show)
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12 N Bob Braun
1 PM Peach Bowl
4 PM NBA Basketball: 76ers-Knicks (time approximate)
6 PM Action 11 Magazine (time approximate)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Newlywed Game
7:30 Comedy Shop (Carl Ballantine, Bobby Kelton,
Ric Rodell)
8 PM White Shadow
9 PM M*A*S*H
9:30 One Day At A Time
10 PM Lou Grant
11 PM News
11:30 Rockford Files
12:40 CBS Movie: "The Spiral Staircase"
2:30 News

WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)

6 AM Viewpoint On Nutrition
6:30 Not For Women Only (Part 1 of 5 on allergies)
7 AM Good Morning America (David Hartman--guest
is Dave Prowse, who played Darth Vader in
"Star Wars")
9 AM Edge Of Night (delay from 4 PM)
9:30 $20,000 Pyramid (delay from 12 N)
10 AM Mike Douglas (co-host Jerry Lewis, Joseph Bottoms,
Tanya Tucker, Vidal and Beverly Sassoon, former
representative Wilbur Mills)
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N Extra! (local)
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Dinah! (couples: Dick and Pat Van Patten, Hal
and Frances Linden, George and Brenda Carlin,
also ice sculptor Earl Macomber)
5:30 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7 PM Tic Tac Dough
7:30 Newlywed Game
8 PM Emergency One!
9 PM ABC Movie: "Green Eyes"
11 PM News
11:30 Police Story (Lloyd Bridges as Joe Forrester)
1:10 Baretta (delay from Fri 11:30 PM)

WKPC Ch. 15 Louisville (PBS)

1 PM Piccadilly Circus ("Alice Through The Looking Glass")
2:30 Sing We Noel (the Mormon Youth Symphony and Chorus)
3 PM Over Easy (journalist I.F. Stone)
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 (flamenco guitarist Carlos Montoya)
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Black Perspective On The News
8 PM A Child's Christmas In Wales (Michael Redgrave
reads Dylan Thomas' boyhood recollections as
the National Theatre of the Deaf interprets in
sign language.)
9 PM Gift To Last (Melvyn Douglas in a Christmas drama
set in turn-of-the-20th-century Ontario)
10 PM Silent Night
10:30 Sneak Previews ("Superman" and "Oliver's Story")
11 PM Dick Cavett (guest: P.D.Q. Bach)
11:30 In Search Of The Real America
12 M Lilias, Yoga And You

WLEX Ch. 18 Lexington (NBC)

5:30 Arthur Smith
6 AM PTL Club
7 AM Today
9 AM Donahue
10 AM Christmas At Washington Cathedral
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N News
12:30 Bob Braun
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Beverly Hillbillies
3:30 Fiesta Bowl
6:30 NBC News (time approximate)
7 PM Americanization Of Elias (a Romanian immigrant
boy faces problems of assimilation in early 1900s
America)
7:30 Hollywood Squares (John Byner, George Gobel, Steve
Landesberg (R.I.P.), the Lennon Sisters, Rose Marie,
Paul Williams, Tammy Wynette, Paul Lynde)
8 PM Little House On The Prairie
9 PM NBC Movie: "Sunshine Christmas"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

WXIX Ch. 19 Cincinnati (Ind.)

6:15 Perspective
7 AM Romper Room
7:30 New Zoo Revue
8 AM New Mickey Mouse Club (in the Talent
Showcase: Mouseketeer Mindy Cohn)
8:30 Groovie Goolies And Friends
9 AM Tom And Jerry
9:30 Flintstones
10 AM Dennis The Menace
10:30 Courtship Of Eddie's Father
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Bewitched
12 N Sleeping Beauty (performed by the
Royal Ballet)
3 PM Fred Flintstone & Friends
3:30 Popeye
4 PM Tom And Jerry
4:30 Spiderman
5 PM Gilligan's Island
5:30 My Three Sons
6 PM Brady Bunch
6:30 Carol Burnett And Friends (guest Sammy
Davis Jr.)
7 PM Mary Tyler Moore
7:30 Odd Couple (one of my favorites: their take
on "A Christmas Carol" finds a dreaming Oscar
being haunted by the ghost of Felix Unger)
8 PM Gunsmoke
9 PM Merv Griffin (Leonard Nimoy, Tony Danza, Charlie
Callas, Yuichiro Miura, who skied down Mount Everest)
10:30 Cross-Wits (Lyle Waggoner, Elaine Joyce, Fred Grandy,
Barbara Rhoades)
11 PM Gong Show (judges: Allen Ludden, Arte Johnson, Jaye P.
Morgan)
11:30 Love Experts
12 M Ironside

WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (CBS)

7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Not For Women Only (women in sports: Althea Gibson,
Patty Berg)
9:30 Dinah! (same as Ch. 12)
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Peach Bowl
4 PM NBA Basketball: 76ers-Knicks (time approximate)
6 PM News (time approximate)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM My Three Sons
7:30 Pop Goes The Country (La Costa, Mickey Gilley,
Ava Barber (Lawrence Welk's "country gal"))
8 PM White Shadow
9 PM M*A*S*H
9:30 One Day At A Time
10 PM Lou Grant
11 PM News
11:30 Rockford Files
12:40 CBS Movie: "The Spiral Staircase"

WLKY 32 Alive Louisville (ABC)

6:30 Romper Room
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Donahue (topic: gifted women)
10 AM Green Acres
10:30 Edge Of Night
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N 32 Alive Christmas Card (pre-empts "$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 Everyday (the Bay City Rollers, Dan Haggerty,
Kitty Kelley, author of "Jackie Oh!")
5 PM The City That Forgot About Christmas
5:30 Christmas Is
6 PM ABC World News Tonight
6:30 Tic Tac Dough
7 PM Joker's Wild
7:30 Family Feud
8 PM Pilot: "Fast Lane Blues" (this sounds more like
a reality show than a sitcom: a group of "average
Americans" is picked for a cross-country auto race
for $1,000,000--watch for Tony Danza and Bert Parks)
9 PM ABC Movie: "Green Eyes"
11 PM News
11:30 The Rookies
12 M Police Story (half-hour delay)

WDRB Ch. 41 Louisville (Ind.)

7:45 News
8 AM New Zoo Revue
8:30 Bugs Bunny
9 AM PTL Club
11 AM Geneva Blancett (religion)
11:30 Life In The Spirit
12 N 700 Club
1:30 Movie: "Christmas In Connecticut"
3:30 New Mickey Mouse Club (same as Ch. 19)
4 PM Popeye
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM I Love Lucy (Tennessee Ernie Ford guests as
the California-bound Ricardos and Mertzes get
jailed in Bent Fork)
5:30 Movie: "Once Upon A Time" (animated collection
of fairy tales, produced in Europe)
7 PM Sanford And Son
7:30 My Three Sons
8 PM Gunsmoke
9 PM Merv Griffin (actress-models Barbara Carrera and
Cheryl Tiegs, models Matt Collins and John McMurray,
model agent Nina Blanchard)
10:30 Odd Couple (same as Ch. 19)
11 PM Love Experts (Geoff Edwards, Soupy Sales, Elaine
Joyce, Mitzi McCall)
11:30 Movie: "The Shadow On The Window"

WTVQ Ch. 62 (Ch. 36) Lexington (ABC)

5:30 700 Club
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM General Hospital
10 AM Marcus Welby, M.D.
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N $20,000 Pyramid (Daryl Anderson, Susan Richardson)
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM Get Smart
3:30 Happy's Hour
3:45 Little Rascals
4 PM Tom And Jerry
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Brady Bunch
5:30 News
6 PM ABC World News Tonight
6:30 That's Hollywood!
7 PM Joker's Wild
7:30 Newlywed Game
8 PM Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Hee Haw Honeys (guest: comedian
Jacky Ward)
9 PM ABC Movie: "Green Eyes"
11 PM News
11:30 Police Story

E Kentucky Educational Television (WKZT/23 Elizabethtown,
WKSO/29 Somerset, WKMR/38 Morehead, WKLE/46 Lexington,
WKON/52 Owenton, WCVN/54 Covington, WKMJ/68 Louisville)

3:30 Over Easy (same as Ch. 15's afternoon broadcast)
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Studio See
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Dick Cavett (same as Ch. 15)
8 PM Evening At Symphony
9:30 Movie: "Hester Street"
sign off 11:45 PM
 
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