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Retro: Kentucky Saturday, December 23, 1978

From TV Guide, Kentucky Edition:

WAVE Ch. 3 Louisville (NBC)

6:30 U of L Gallery
7 AM Farming With Jack Crowner
7:30 Kentucky Afield
8 AM Galaxy Goofups
8:30 Fantastic Four
9 AM Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM Yogi's Space Race
12 N Fabulous Funnies
12:30 Flintstones
1 PM Batman (the Green Hornet and Kato
team up with Batman and Robin to
capture Colonel Gumm)
1:30 Little Rascals (x2)
2 PM Movie: "Goodbye Mr. Chips" (Peter
O'Toole, from '69)
4:30 Nashville On The Road (guest: Bob Luman)
5 PM Mel Tillis Time (Bill Anderson, Sherry Bryce,
comedian Jerry Clower, the Florida A&M
Gospel Choir)
5:30 Donna Fargo (guest: Diana Canova)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (John Hart)
7 PM Cross-Wits (Peter Lawford, Alice Ghostley,
Jo Anne Worley, Arte Johnson)
7:30 Emphasis (local, name no doubt comes from
a longtime hourly fixture on NBC radio)
8 PM The Stingiest Man In Town (animated version
of "A Christmas Carol" with Walter Matthau
as the voice of Scrooge; other voices include
Tom Bosley, Theodore Bikel, Robert Morse, and
Dennis Day)
9 PM University Of Kentucky Invitational Tournament
Championship Game
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 Saturday Night Live (repeat of the 1977 Christmas
show with Mrs. Miskel Spillman hosting and musical
guest Elvis Costello)
1 AM Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (John Travolta, the Silver
Convention, the Manhattans, Carol ("Doctor's Orders")
Douglas, Jimmie Walker, comedians the New Untouchables)

WLWT Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)

6:30 Better Way
7 AM U.S. Farm Report
7:30 Hot Fudge
8 AM Galaxy Goofups
8:30 Fantastic Four
9 AM Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM Yogi's Space Race
12 N Fabulous Funnies
12:30 Bay City Rollers
1 PM Lone Ranger
1:30 Little Rascals
1:45 Our Gang (these are from the early '40s
and include Robert Blake, then using his
real name: Mickey Gubitosi)
2 PM To Tell The Truth (Peggy Cass, Kitty Carlisle,
Bill Cullen, Orson Bean--Joe Garagiola has replaced
Garry Moore as host)
2:30 Hollywood Connection (Meredith MacRae, Milton Berle,
Zsa Zsa Gabor, Anson Williams, Pat Carroll, Jan Murray--
Jim Lange hosts)
3 PM Beverly Hillbillies
3:30 Movie: "Once Upon A Time" (European-produced animated
collection of fairy tales)
5 PM Consumer Buyline
5:30 Sha Na Na (guest: Fabian)
6 PM The Stingiest Man In Town (Ch. 5 gets it early because
the Tangerine Bowl airs at 8 PM)
7 PM Lawrence Welk (Christmas show)
8 PM Tangerine Bowl: Pitt-North Carolina State
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Dick Tracy
1:20 Movie: "Money From Home" (Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis)
3:05 Movie: "Champagne For Caesar" (broadcasting satire with
Ronald Colman as a game-show contestant determined to
win enough money to put the sponsor out of business)

WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)

5:55 Farm News
6 AM Sunrise Semester: "The American Character"
6:30 Call The Doctor (topic: cancer, repeat from Sun 11 AM)
7:30 Mayberry R.F.D.
8 AM All New Popeye Hour
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12 N Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM American Life Style (the work of Pearl S. Buck)
1:30 Sun Bowl: Maryland-Texas
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular: participants in the NFL's
"greatest game ever played," the 1958 championship
game between the Colts and Giants, take part in a
touch-football game--for the Giants, Frank Gifford,
Kyle Rote, Charlie Conerly; for the Colts, Johnny Unitas,
Raymond Berry, Alan Ameche; World Cup Skiing (time
approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM Candid Camera
7:30 Please Stand By (unsuccessful syndicated sitcom set
in a small television station)
8 PM The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971 TV-movie
that served as the pilot for "The Waltons")
10 PM CBS Reports: "But What About The Children" examines
the impact of divorce on one Phoenix family
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Can-Can"
2 AM Movie: "Wells Fargo" (Joel McCrea, from '37)
4 AM Here And Now
4:30 News

WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)

7:30 That Girl
8 AM All-New Popeye Hour
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12 N Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Bugs Bunny And Friends
1:30 Sun Bowl
4:30 Barbi Doll For Christmas (Barbi Benton, with
Johnny Rodriguez, Mickey Gilley, Archie Campbell,
Dave & Sugar, Charlie McCoy, Johnny Gimble, Penny
DeHaven) (time approximate)
5:30 American Life Style (Admiral Richard E. Byrd)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw (guests: Floyd Cramer, playing his biggest
hit "Last Date"; singer Kenny Roberts, not to be confused
with Kenny Rogers)
8 PM The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
10 PM CBS Reports
11 PM News
11:30 American Black Achievement Awards (presenters include
Diahann Carroll, Alex Haley, Lena Horne, James Earl Jones,
and Redd Foxx)
1 AM News

WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)

6 AM Kids Are People Too (Victor Borge, Billie Jean King, Didi
Conn, choreographer Jo Jo Smith)
7:30 Partridge Family
8 AM Scooby's All-Stars
9:30 Challenge Of The Superfriends
11 AM Fangface
11:30 Pink Panther
12 N Movie: "Christmas In Connecticut"
2 PM Hee Haw Honeys (guest: Roy Clark)
2:30 Bowling
3:30 Liberty Bowl: LSU-Missouri
6:30 Hee Haw (time approximate)
7:30 Christmas On The Go
8 PM Oral Roberts Christmas Special
9 PM Love Boat (passengers: John Gavin, Donna Mills,
Dick Sargent, Florence Henderson, Shecky Greene)
10 PM Fantasy Island (guests: Richard Dawson, Kathryn Holcomb)
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 Movie: "A Christmas Carol" ('51 version from England
with Alistair Sim, usually considered to be the best)
1:20 Movie: "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines"
3:30 Movie: "Room Service" (the only Marx Brothers picture not
written expressly for them--watch for Lucille Ball, if only
briefly)

WKPC Ch. 15 Louisville (PBS)

12 N Christmastime With Mister Rogers
1 PM Movie: "The Browning Version"
2:30 Psychology On Film
3 PM Wonder Anew (the Christmas Festival at St. Olaf's
College, Northfield, MN)
4 PM Crockett's Victory Garden
4:30 Julia Child & Company
5 PM Consumer Survival Kit
5:30 Book Beat (Arthur Schlesinger Jr. talks about "Robert
Kennedy And His Times")
6 PM Other School System
6:30 Soapbox
7 PM Adams Chronicles (during Reconstruction, Henry Adams
begins teaching at Harvard; brother Charles Francis Adams
becomes--unsuccessfully--a railroad speculator)
8 PM Once Upon A Classic: "The Secret Garden" (Part 3)
8:30 Movie: "The 3 Worlds Of Gulliver"
10:30 Soundstage
11:30 Movie: "Gilbert And Sullivan"

WLEX Ch. 18 Lexington (NBC)

6:30 Ag-USA
7 AM U.S. Farm Report
7:30 Dusty's Treehouse
8 AM Galaxy Goofups
8:30 Fantastic Four
9 AM Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM Yogi's Space Race
12 N Wrestling
1 PM Center Circle: Basketball
1:30 Movie: "Run, Stranger, Run"
3:30 Bluegrass Personalities
4 PM Kentucky State Government
4:30 Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol
5:30 Blood, Sweat And Cheers (a history of
the Rose Bowl)
6 PM Porter Wagoner (guests: Cheryl & Teryl)
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM The Stingiest Man In Town
9 PM Lifeline (profile of Dr. Henry Cleveland, trauma
surgeon at St. Anthony Hospital in Denver,
who in this episode attends to two motorcycle-
accident victims)
10 PM Weekend (life in a small circus: the Carson and
Barnes Wild Animal Circus)
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Star Trek

WXIX Ch. 19 Cincinnati (Ind.)

6:15 Perspective
7 AM Bugs And Porky
7:30 Woody Woodpecker
8 AM Flintstones
8:30 Brady Kids
9 AM Tom And Jerry
9:30 Popeye
10 AM Lost In Space
11 AM Laurel And Hardy (says it's animated)
11:30 Movie: "Jinx Money" (the Bowery Boys)
1 PM Movie: "Arrow In The Dust"
2:30 Movie: "The Indestructible Man"
4 PM Movie: "Guns Of The Magnificent Seven"
6 PM Hot City (guests: Sylvester and Evelyn "Champagne"
King)
7 PM Peary's Race To The North Pole
8 PM Donna Fargo (John Byner is guest; brother Tom Biener
is a regular on this show)
8:30 Pop Goes The Country (Barbara Mandrell, Anne Murray,
Don King--and I don't think that's the fight promoter)
9 PM University Of Kentucky Invitational Tournament Championship
Game
11 PM Juke-Box (Sailor, Slade (not the funk group Slave), Roy Wood,
Chris Spedding, R and J Stone, Fancy) (time approximate)
11:30 Movie: "Yog--Monster From Space" (from Japan)

WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (CBS)

7 AM Movie: "Dead Or Alive" (Tex Ritter)
8 AM All-New Popeye Hour
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12 N Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Ark II
1:30 Sun Bowl
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular (time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw (will be pre-empted if UK is in the
UK Invitational consolation game)
8 PM Rod McKuen's Christmas In New England
(guests: Dusty Springfield, the St. Paul's
Boys Choir)
9 PM University Of Kentucky Invitational Tournament
Championship Game
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 Tangerine Bowl (tape-delay)

WLKY 32 Alive Louisville (ABC)

7 AM King Kong (the '60s Rankin-Bass animated show)
7:30 Marlo And The Magic Movie Machine
8 AM Scooby's All-Stars
9:30 Challenge Of The Superfriends
11 AM Fangface
11:30 Pink Panther
12 N ABC Weekend Special: "Trouble River" (Part 1 of 2)
12:30 American Bandstand (Charo, Patrick Juvet)
1:30 Maverick
2:30 Tarzan
3:30 Liberty Bowl
6:30 Green Acres (time approximate)
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Welcome Back, Kotter
8:30 Carter Country
9 PM Love Boat
10 PM Fantasy Island
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Fitzwilly" (Dick Van Dyke as a butler who
turns his fellow servants into thieves to save their
mistress' fortune)
1:30 ABC News (Sylvia Chase/Tom Jarriel)

WDRB Ch. 41 Louisville (Ind.)

7 AM New Shapes: Education
7:30 Gospel Singing Jubilee (guests: the Blackwoods)
8 AM Underdog
8:30 Jetsons
9 AM PTL Club
11 AM Wrestling
12 N Movie: "Crazy Over Horses" (the Bowery Boys)
1:20 Movie: "The Deadly Mantis"
2:55 Movie: "The Return Of Mr. Moto"
4:20 Movie: "Murder By Contract" (pre-"Ben Casey"
Vince Edwards, from '59)
6 PM Partridge Family
6:30 Juke-Box (same as Ch. 19)
7 PM Hot City (same as Ch. 19)
8 PM Tangerine Bowl
11 PM 700 Club (time approximate)
12:30 Warren Roberts

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

7 AM Hot Fudge
7:30 The Archies
8 AM Scooby's All-Stars
9:30 Challenge Of The Superfriends
11 AM Fangface
11:30 Pink Panther
12 N ABC Weekend Special
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Movie: "The Voyager" (edited from a seven-
part "Lassie" episode)
3:30 Liberty Bowl
6:30 Marty Robbins' Spotlight (Jimmy Dean is featured;
Mike Douglas is a guest, time approximate)
7 PM King Of The Gypsies (preview of the movie of the
same name, with Paul Newman, Shelley Winters,
Brooke Shields, Telly Savalas, Dom DeLuise, Scott
Baio, Joseph Bottoms)
8 PM Welcome Back, Kotter
8:30 Carter Country
9 PM Love Boat
10 PM Fantasy Island
11 PM News
11:15 ABC News
11:30 Movie: "Goodbye, Columbus"
1:30 Movie: "Fade In"

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)

1 PM GED Series (x2)
2 PM Christmas Snows, Christmas Winds
2:30 Marshall Efron's Christmas
3 PM Lilias, Yoga And You
3:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
4 PM Julia Child & Company
4:30 Medix
5 PM Pro Soccer
6 PM Christmas Eve (Rimsky-Korsakov's opera performed
by the Indiana University Opera Theater)
8 PM Firing Line
9 PM Simple Gifts: Six Episodes For Christmas
10 PM The Prisoner
11 PM Monty Python's Flying Circus
 
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