From TV Guide, Kentucky Edition:
WAVE Ch. 3 Louisville (NBC)
6:30 Farming With Jack Crowner
7 AM Kentucky Afield
7:30 Blue Apple Clubhouse
8 AM Flintstones
8:30 Smurfs
9:30 Kid Super Power Hour With Shazam
10:30 Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends
11 AM Space Stars
12 N Wrestling (Chs. 3, 5, and 18 all have wrestling
at this time--don't know from where, possibly
Memphis on Ch. 3?)
1 PM College Basketball: Louisville-Florida State
3 PM College Basketball: Georgia-Kentucky (time approximate)
5 PM Portrait Of A Legend (time approximate)
5:30 America's Top 10
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (Jessica Savitch)
7 PM Dance Fever (musical guest: Charly McClain; Rip Taylor
is one of the judges.)
7:30 Emphasis
8 PM One Of The Boys (sitcom starring Mickey Rooney which gave
Dana Carvey a break)
8:30 Harper Valley
9 PM Barbara Mandrell (Donny Osmond and Ray Stevens are guests.)
10 PM Billy Crystal Comedy Hour (debut, with Robin Williams, the Pointer
Sisters, and --from SCTV--John Candy, Dave Thomas, and Rick
Moranis)
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (host John Madden; Andy Kaufman)
1 AM Movie: "Dial 'M' For Murder"
WLWT Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)
6:30 Better Way
7 AM U.S. Farm Report
7:30 Doctor Snuggles
8 AM Flintstones
8:30 Smurfs
9:30 Kid Super Power Hour With Shazam
10:30 Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends
11 AM Mr. Moon's Magic Circus
11:30 Family Classics (don't know if these are live action
or animated)
12 N Wrestling
1 PM College Basketball: Wisconsin-Purdue
3 PM College Basketball: Georgia-Kentucky (time approximate)
5 PM Golf: Andy Williams San Diego Open (third round, time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 Lawrence Welk
7:30 Look At Us (women bodybuilders; changing standards of beauty)
8 PM One Of The Boys
8:30 Harper Valley
9 PM Barbara Mandrell
10 PM Billy Crystal Comedy Hour
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)
6:15 Praying The Rosary
6:30 Call The Doctor (medicine and law; repeat from previous Sunday
11 AM)
7:30 Roy Rogers
8 AM Popeye And Olive
8:30 Tarzan/Lone Ranger/Zorro
9:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
11:30 Blackstar
12 N Trollkins
12:30 Tom And Jerry
1 PM Kwicky Koala
1:30 We're Movin'
2 PM Sports Afield
2:30 Movie: "A Warm December"
4:30 CBS Sports Saturday: WBA lightweight champ Art Frias
vs. Ernesto Espana, 15 rounds, from Atlantic City
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM Juvenile Court (a 9-year-old boy is charged with involuntary
manslaughter; a 17-year-old is charged with grand theft)
7:30 People's Court (cases involve the purchase of a TV set and
legal counseling)
8 PM To Climb A Mountain (Emilio Estevez as a materialistic high-
school wrestling champ whose values change after he visits
the home of an impoverished opponent.)
8:30 College Basketball: Xavier-Loyola (Chicago)
10:30 People's Court (an overheated automobile, a dispute over a
loan of money, time approximate)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Firecreek" (news follows the movie--note: the first
time I ever saw a Kentucky edition of TV Guide this was WKYT's
Saturday late movie)
WGN Ch. 9 Chicago (Ind.)
Listed Eastern Time
7 AM Cartoons
7:30 Bullwinkle
8 AM U.S. Farm Report
8:30 World Tomorrow
9 AM Rex Humbard
9:30 Issues Unlimited
10 AM Charlando (en espanol)
10:30 Abbott And Costello
11 AM Superman
11:30 Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
12:30 Movie: "Rio Grande" (John Wayne)
2:30 Movie: "The Naughty Nineties" (Abbott and
Costello)
4 PM America's Top 10
4:30 Soul Train
5:30 Pink Panther
6 PM Little House On The Prairie
7 PM Muppet Show
7:30 Rhoda
8 PM College Basketball: Marquette-Notre Dame
10 PM Independent Network News (Jeff Kamen, time
approximate)
10:30 News
11 PM Solid Gold
12 M Movie: "Von Ryan's Express"
2:30 Editor's Desk
3 AM News
3:30 Movie: "Johnny Apollo"
5:15 TBA
WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)
7 AM Louisville Tonight (rerun of Friday night's show)
7:30 Bugs Bunny & Friends
8 AM Popeye And Olive
8:30 Tarzan/Lone Ranger/Zorro
9:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
11:30 Blackstar
12 N Trollkins
12:30 Tom And Jerry
1 PM Kwicky Koala
1:30 30 Minutes (a report on veterinary care)
2 PM Movie: "Captain Newman, M.D."
4:30 CBS Sports Saturday
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw (Bobby Bare, the Stoneman Family,
the Glaser Brothers, 15-year-old Kippi Brannon)
8 PM Walt Disney: "The Cat From Outer Space" (Part
1 of 2, from '78)
9 PM Golden Globe Awards (hosts: Linda Gray and Robert
Preston; presenters include Connie Francis, Juliet Prowse,
Timothy Hutton, Dudley Moore, Tom Selleck, live)
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 Movie: "To Kill A Mockingbird"
1:30 News
WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)
6:30 Kids Are People Too (quarterback Jim Plunkett, ventriloquist
Willie Tyler and Lester, delay from Sun 10:30 AM)
7:30 Max B. Nimble
8 AM Superfriends
8:30 Heathcliff And Marmaduke
9 AM Fonz And The Happy Days Gang
9:30 Laverne & Shirley (animated)
10 AM Richie Rich/Scooby And Scrappy-Doo
11 AM Goldie Gold And Action Jack
11:30 Thundarr The Barbarian
12 N ABC Weekend Special: "The Notorious Jumping Frog Of
Calaveras County"
12:30 Movie: "The Fiction-Makers" (Roger Moore as The Saint,
originally presented as a two-parter on the series)
2:30 Solid Gold
3:30 Wild Kingdom
4 PM College Basketball: Ohio State-Iowa
6 PM Wild Kingdom (time approximate)
6:30 News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM King's Crossing (attempt at a family-friendly primetime soap)
9 PM Love Boat (passengers: Tanya Roberts, Bert Convy, John Phillip
Law, Lynda Day George, Corey Feldman)
10 PM Fantasy Island (visitors: Genie Francis, Edward Winter)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Cassandra Crossing"
2 AM Movie: "The Three Musketeers" ('48 version with Gene Kelly,
Lana Turner, June Allyson)
WKPC Ch. 15 Louisville (PBS)
12 N Cross-Country Ski School
12:30 This Old House
1 PM Woodwright's Shop
1:30 Photo Show
2 PM Victory Garden
2:30 Quilting
3 PM By-Line
3:30 Word On Words
4 PM 3-2-1 Contact
4:30 Kathy (nothing given about this)
5 PM Soccer Made In Germany
6 PM Matinee At The Bijou ("Movie Struck," with
Laurel and Hardy, from '37)
7:30 Sneak Previews ("On Golden Pond," "Whose Life
Is It Anyway?")
8 PM Movie: "Death Takes A Holiday"
10 PM Movie: "Gulliver's Travels" (the '39 animated feature)
11:30 Big Band Cavalcade
sign off 12:30 AM
WTBS (WPCH) Ch. 17 Atlanta (Ind.)
5:05 Mission: Impossible
6:05 It's Your Business
6:35 Infinity Factory
7:05 Vegetable Soup
7:35 Romper Room And Friends
8:05 The Fight Against Slavery
9:05 Against The Wind
10:05 Movie: "The Phantom Of The Opera" (Claude
Rains version, from '43)
12:05 Movie: "Twilight For The Gods"
2:35 Movie: "The Naked Maja"
5:05 Last Of The Wild
5:35 Motor Week
6:05 Wrestling
8:05 Nashville Alive!
9:05 Jacques Cousteau
10:05 News
11:05 The World At War
12:05 Movie: "Walk On The Wild Side" (nothing to do
with Lou Reed)
2:35 Movie: "Yellow Canary" (not Tweety)
4:35 Mission: Impossible
WLEX Ch. 18 Lexington (NBC)
6 AM U.S. Farm Report
6:30 Farming With Jack Crowner
7 AM Space Kidettes
7:30 Jetsons
8 AM Flintstones
8:30 Smurfs
9:30 Kid Super Power Hour With Shazam
10:30 Addams Family
11 AM Call The Doctor
11:30 Winner's Circle
12 N Wrestling
1 PM College Basketball: Louisville-Florida State
3 PM College Basketball: Georgia-Kentucky (time approximate)
5 PM Center Circle (time approximate)
5:30 Bill Dance Outdoors
6 PM That Nashville Music (Bobby Bare, Billie Jo Spears, the
Osborne Brothers (not to be confused with the Osmonds--
these brothers do bluegrass), Buddy Spicher)
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM One Of The Boys
8:30 Harper Valley
9 PM Barbara Mandrell
10 PM Billy Crystal Comedy Hour
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Movie: "Horror Hospital"
WXIX Ch. 19 Cincinnati (Ind.)
6:15 Perspective
7 AM Laurel And Hardy Laugh Tunes
7:30 Bugs And Porky
8 AM Tom And Jerry
8:30 Woody Woodpecker
9 AM Movie: "Invasion From Inner Earth"
10:30 Movie: "The World Of Abbott And Costello"
12 N Soul Train
1 PM Star Trek (animated)
1:30 College Basketball: St. Louis-Cincinnati
3:30 Cartoon Festival (time approximate)
4 PM Movie: "No Time For Sergeants" (as Castleman and
Podrazik said, "what it was, was Gomer.")
6 PM Happy Days Again
6:30 M*A*S*H
7 PM CHL Hockey: Dallas-Cincinnati
10 PM Nashville On The Road (guest: Susie Allanson, time
approximate)
10:30 That Nashville Music (Dave Rowland & Sugar, Gene
Watson, Hank Thompson)
11 PM M*A*S*H
11:30 Love Boat (passengers: Loretta Swit, Robert Reed,
Hermione Baddeley, Richard Mulligan, Kristy McNichol,
pre-empted on Ch. 12, delay from Wed 12 M)
12:40 Evening At The Improv
WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (CBS)
7 AM Movie: "Yodelin' Kid From Pine Ridge" (Gene Autry)
8 AM Popeye And Olive
8:30 Tarzan/Lone Ranger/Zorro
9:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
11:30 Blackstar
12 N Trollkins
12:30 Wild Kingdom
1 PM Tobacco Talk
1:30 Sugar Ray Leonard's Golden Gloves (a 26-week amateur-
boxing tournament debuts, with a team from Iowa against
a combined Kansas-Oklahoma team)
2:30 Nashville On The Road
3 PM Backstage At The Grand Ole Opry
3:30 McLain Family Band
4 PM Pop Goes The Country
4:30 CBS Sports Saturday
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Walt Disney
9 PM College Basketball: LSU-Florida
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 Country Top 20 (Mickey Gilley hosts a show of 1981's
chart-toppers; performing: T.G. Sheppard, the Oak
Ridge Boys, Alabama)
WLKY 32 Alive Louisville (ABC)
7 AM Romper Room
7:30 Kidsworld
8 AM Superfriends
8:30 Heathcliff And Marmaduke
9 AM Fonz And The Happy Days Gang
9:30 Laverne & Shirley (animated)
10 AM Richie Rich/Scooby And Scrappy-Doo
11 AM Goldie Gold And Action Jack
11:30 Thundarr The Barbarian
12 N ABC Weekend Special
12:30 American Bandstand (Innocents, Tom Wopat)
1:30 Emergency!
2:30 The Rookies
3 PM Bill Dance Outdoors
3:30 Pro Bowlers Tour: Quaker State Open finals, live
from Grand Prairie, TX (Dallas affiliate WFAA used
to really play this up; when they had "Bowling For
Dollars" in the '70s they would originate it in Grand
Prairie the week of the event.)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (U.S. Ladies' Figure Skating
Championships, Duke Kahanamoku Surfing Classic)
6:30 News
7 PM Skater (the parents of a 12-year-old skater forbid
her to take part in a big race after a drug bust at
the local rink)
7:30 Healthbeat (cancer therapy using pi-meson radiation;
an update on arthritis treatments)
8 PM King's Crossing
9 PM Love Boat
10 PM Fantasy Island
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Airport"
2:15 ABC News (Tom Jarriel)
WTVQ Ch. 36 Lexington (ABC)
7 AM Tom And Jerry And Friends
8 AM Superfriends
8:30 Heathcliff And Marmaduke
9 AM Fonz And The Happy Days Gang
9:30 Laverne & Shirley (animated)
10 AM Richie Rich/Scooby And Scrappy-Doo
11 AM Goldie Gold And Action Jack
11:30 Thundarr The Barbarian
12 N ABC Weekend Special
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Focus
2 PM Wrestling
3 PM My Three Sons
3:30 Movie: "The Bank Dick" (W.C. Fields classic,
from '40)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 The Jeffersons
7 PM Movie: "Cooley High"
9 PM Love Boat
10 PM Fantasy Island
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Hannie Caulder"
WDRB Ch. 41 Louisville (Ind.)
7:30 New Shapes: Education
8 AM Space Kidettes
8:30 Jim Bakker
9:30 Love, American Style
10:30 Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
11:30 Rifleman
12 N I Love Lucy
12:30 In Search Of...
1 PM Wild Kingdom
1:30 College Basketball: St. Louis-Cincinnati
3:30 Wrestling (time approximate)
4:30 Movie: "Racket Busters" (Humphrey Bogart)
6 PM Solid Gold (KISS, Olivia Newton-John, Ronnie Laws)
7 PM Battlestar Galactica
8 PM Rockford Files
9 PM Lawrence Welk
10 PM Independent Network News
10:30 Jimmy Houston Outdoors
11 PM Sugar Ray Leonard's Golden Gloves
12 M Movie: "Only A Scream Away"
KET Kentucky Educational Television (WKZT/23 Elizabethtown,
WKSO/29 Somerset, WKMR/38 Morehead, WKLE/46 Lexington,
WKON/52 Owenton, WCVN/54 Covington, WKMJ/68 Louisville) (PBS)
4 PM General Educational Development
5 PM Making It Count
6 PM Firing Line (John Kenneth Galbraith debates Reaganomics with
William F. Buckley Jr.)
7 PM Creativity With Bill Moyers ("Olympics Of The Mind," a nationwide
competition in problem-solving; sounds like "Million Dollar Mind Game")
7:30 Another Page
8 PM Life On Earth (Part 3: "The First Forests")
9 PM All Creatures Great And Small
10 PM The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie (Part 2)
sign off 11 PM
WAVE Ch. 3 Louisville (NBC)
6:30 Farming With Jack Crowner
7 AM Kentucky Afield
7:30 Blue Apple Clubhouse
8 AM Flintstones
8:30 Smurfs
9:30 Kid Super Power Hour With Shazam
10:30 Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends
11 AM Space Stars
12 N Wrestling (Chs. 3, 5, and 18 all have wrestling
at this time--don't know from where, possibly
Memphis on Ch. 3?)
1 PM College Basketball: Louisville-Florida State
3 PM College Basketball: Georgia-Kentucky (time approximate)
5 PM Portrait Of A Legend (time approximate)
5:30 America's Top 10
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (Jessica Savitch)
7 PM Dance Fever (musical guest: Charly McClain; Rip Taylor
is one of the judges.)
7:30 Emphasis
8 PM One Of The Boys (sitcom starring Mickey Rooney which gave
Dana Carvey a break)
8:30 Harper Valley
9 PM Barbara Mandrell (Donny Osmond and Ray Stevens are guests.)
10 PM Billy Crystal Comedy Hour (debut, with Robin Williams, the Pointer
Sisters, and --from SCTV--John Candy, Dave Thomas, and Rick
Moranis)
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (host John Madden; Andy Kaufman)
1 AM Movie: "Dial 'M' For Murder"
WLWT Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)
6:30 Better Way
7 AM U.S. Farm Report
7:30 Doctor Snuggles
8 AM Flintstones
8:30 Smurfs
9:30 Kid Super Power Hour With Shazam
10:30 Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends
11 AM Mr. Moon's Magic Circus
11:30 Family Classics (don't know if these are live action
or animated)
12 N Wrestling
1 PM College Basketball: Wisconsin-Purdue
3 PM College Basketball: Georgia-Kentucky (time approximate)
5 PM Golf: Andy Williams San Diego Open (third round, time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 Lawrence Welk
7:30 Look At Us (women bodybuilders; changing standards of beauty)
8 PM One Of The Boys
8:30 Harper Valley
9 PM Barbara Mandrell
10 PM Billy Crystal Comedy Hour
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)
6:15 Praying The Rosary
6:30 Call The Doctor (medicine and law; repeat from previous Sunday
11 AM)
7:30 Roy Rogers
8 AM Popeye And Olive
8:30 Tarzan/Lone Ranger/Zorro
9:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
11:30 Blackstar
12 N Trollkins
12:30 Tom And Jerry
1 PM Kwicky Koala
1:30 We're Movin'
2 PM Sports Afield
2:30 Movie: "A Warm December"
4:30 CBS Sports Saturday: WBA lightweight champ Art Frias
vs. Ernesto Espana, 15 rounds, from Atlantic City
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM Juvenile Court (a 9-year-old boy is charged with involuntary
manslaughter; a 17-year-old is charged with grand theft)
7:30 People's Court (cases involve the purchase of a TV set and
legal counseling)
8 PM To Climb A Mountain (Emilio Estevez as a materialistic high-
school wrestling champ whose values change after he visits
the home of an impoverished opponent.)
8:30 College Basketball: Xavier-Loyola (Chicago)
10:30 People's Court (an overheated automobile, a dispute over a
loan of money, time approximate)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Firecreek" (news follows the movie--note: the first
time I ever saw a Kentucky edition of TV Guide this was WKYT's
Saturday late movie)
WGN Ch. 9 Chicago (Ind.)
Listed Eastern Time
7 AM Cartoons
7:30 Bullwinkle
8 AM U.S. Farm Report
8:30 World Tomorrow
9 AM Rex Humbard
9:30 Issues Unlimited
10 AM Charlando (en espanol)
10:30 Abbott And Costello
11 AM Superman
11:30 Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
12:30 Movie: "Rio Grande" (John Wayne)
2:30 Movie: "The Naughty Nineties" (Abbott and
Costello)
4 PM America's Top 10
4:30 Soul Train
5:30 Pink Panther
6 PM Little House On The Prairie
7 PM Muppet Show
7:30 Rhoda
8 PM College Basketball: Marquette-Notre Dame
10 PM Independent Network News (Jeff Kamen, time
approximate)
10:30 News
11 PM Solid Gold
12 M Movie: "Von Ryan's Express"
2:30 Editor's Desk
3 AM News
3:30 Movie: "Johnny Apollo"
5:15 TBA
WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)
7 AM Louisville Tonight (rerun of Friday night's show)
7:30 Bugs Bunny & Friends
8 AM Popeye And Olive
8:30 Tarzan/Lone Ranger/Zorro
9:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
11:30 Blackstar
12 N Trollkins
12:30 Tom And Jerry
1 PM Kwicky Koala
1:30 30 Minutes (a report on veterinary care)
2 PM Movie: "Captain Newman, M.D."
4:30 CBS Sports Saturday
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw (Bobby Bare, the Stoneman Family,
the Glaser Brothers, 15-year-old Kippi Brannon)
8 PM Walt Disney: "The Cat From Outer Space" (Part
1 of 2, from '78)
9 PM Golden Globe Awards (hosts: Linda Gray and Robert
Preston; presenters include Connie Francis, Juliet Prowse,
Timothy Hutton, Dudley Moore, Tom Selleck, live)
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 Movie: "To Kill A Mockingbird"
1:30 News
WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)
6:30 Kids Are People Too (quarterback Jim Plunkett, ventriloquist
Willie Tyler and Lester, delay from Sun 10:30 AM)
7:30 Max B. Nimble
8 AM Superfriends
8:30 Heathcliff And Marmaduke
9 AM Fonz And The Happy Days Gang
9:30 Laverne & Shirley (animated)
10 AM Richie Rich/Scooby And Scrappy-Doo
11 AM Goldie Gold And Action Jack
11:30 Thundarr The Barbarian
12 N ABC Weekend Special: "The Notorious Jumping Frog Of
Calaveras County"
12:30 Movie: "The Fiction-Makers" (Roger Moore as The Saint,
originally presented as a two-parter on the series)
2:30 Solid Gold
3:30 Wild Kingdom
4 PM College Basketball: Ohio State-Iowa
6 PM Wild Kingdom (time approximate)
6:30 News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM King's Crossing (attempt at a family-friendly primetime soap)
9 PM Love Boat (passengers: Tanya Roberts, Bert Convy, John Phillip
Law, Lynda Day George, Corey Feldman)
10 PM Fantasy Island (visitors: Genie Francis, Edward Winter)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Cassandra Crossing"
2 AM Movie: "The Three Musketeers" ('48 version with Gene Kelly,
Lana Turner, June Allyson)
WKPC Ch. 15 Louisville (PBS)
12 N Cross-Country Ski School
12:30 This Old House
1 PM Woodwright's Shop
1:30 Photo Show
2 PM Victory Garden
2:30 Quilting
3 PM By-Line
3:30 Word On Words
4 PM 3-2-1 Contact
4:30 Kathy (nothing given about this)
5 PM Soccer Made In Germany
6 PM Matinee At The Bijou ("Movie Struck," with
Laurel and Hardy, from '37)
7:30 Sneak Previews ("On Golden Pond," "Whose Life
Is It Anyway?")
8 PM Movie: "Death Takes A Holiday"
10 PM Movie: "Gulliver's Travels" (the '39 animated feature)
11:30 Big Band Cavalcade
sign off 12:30 AM
WTBS (WPCH) Ch. 17 Atlanta (Ind.)
5:05 Mission: Impossible
6:05 It's Your Business
6:35 Infinity Factory
7:05 Vegetable Soup
7:35 Romper Room And Friends
8:05 The Fight Against Slavery
9:05 Against The Wind
10:05 Movie: "The Phantom Of The Opera" (Claude
Rains version, from '43)
12:05 Movie: "Twilight For The Gods"
2:35 Movie: "The Naked Maja"
5:05 Last Of The Wild
5:35 Motor Week
6:05 Wrestling
8:05 Nashville Alive!
9:05 Jacques Cousteau
10:05 News
11:05 The World At War
12:05 Movie: "Walk On The Wild Side" (nothing to do
with Lou Reed)
2:35 Movie: "Yellow Canary" (not Tweety)
4:35 Mission: Impossible
WLEX Ch. 18 Lexington (NBC)
6 AM U.S. Farm Report
6:30 Farming With Jack Crowner
7 AM Space Kidettes
7:30 Jetsons
8 AM Flintstones
8:30 Smurfs
9:30 Kid Super Power Hour With Shazam
10:30 Addams Family
11 AM Call The Doctor
11:30 Winner's Circle
12 N Wrestling
1 PM College Basketball: Louisville-Florida State
3 PM College Basketball: Georgia-Kentucky (time approximate)
5 PM Center Circle (time approximate)
5:30 Bill Dance Outdoors
6 PM That Nashville Music (Bobby Bare, Billie Jo Spears, the
Osborne Brothers (not to be confused with the Osmonds--
these brothers do bluegrass), Buddy Spicher)
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM One Of The Boys
8:30 Harper Valley
9 PM Barbara Mandrell
10 PM Billy Crystal Comedy Hour
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Movie: "Horror Hospital"
WXIX Ch. 19 Cincinnati (Ind.)
6:15 Perspective
7 AM Laurel And Hardy Laugh Tunes
7:30 Bugs And Porky
8 AM Tom And Jerry
8:30 Woody Woodpecker
9 AM Movie: "Invasion From Inner Earth"
10:30 Movie: "The World Of Abbott And Costello"
12 N Soul Train
1 PM Star Trek (animated)
1:30 College Basketball: St. Louis-Cincinnati
3:30 Cartoon Festival (time approximate)
4 PM Movie: "No Time For Sergeants" (as Castleman and
Podrazik said, "what it was, was Gomer.")
6 PM Happy Days Again
6:30 M*A*S*H
7 PM CHL Hockey: Dallas-Cincinnati
10 PM Nashville On The Road (guest: Susie Allanson, time
approximate)
10:30 That Nashville Music (Dave Rowland & Sugar, Gene
Watson, Hank Thompson)
11 PM M*A*S*H
11:30 Love Boat (passengers: Loretta Swit, Robert Reed,
Hermione Baddeley, Richard Mulligan, Kristy McNichol,
pre-empted on Ch. 12, delay from Wed 12 M)
12:40 Evening At The Improv
WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (CBS)
7 AM Movie: "Yodelin' Kid From Pine Ridge" (Gene Autry)
8 AM Popeye And Olive
8:30 Tarzan/Lone Ranger/Zorro
9:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
11:30 Blackstar
12 N Trollkins
12:30 Wild Kingdom
1 PM Tobacco Talk
1:30 Sugar Ray Leonard's Golden Gloves (a 26-week amateur-
boxing tournament debuts, with a team from Iowa against
a combined Kansas-Oklahoma team)
2:30 Nashville On The Road
3 PM Backstage At The Grand Ole Opry
3:30 McLain Family Band
4 PM Pop Goes The Country
4:30 CBS Sports Saturday
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Walt Disney
9 PM College Basketball: LSU-Florida
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 Country Top 20 (Mickey Gilley hosts a show of 1981's
chart-toppers; performing: T.G. Sheppard, the Oak
Ridge Boys, Alabama)
WLKY 32 Alive Louisville (ABC)
7 AM Romper Room
7:30 Kidsworld
8 AM Superfriends
8:30 Heathcliff And Marmaduke
9 AM Fonz And The Happy Days Gang
9:30 Laverne & Shirley (animated)
10 AM Richie Rich/Scooby And Scrappy-Doo
11 AM Goldie Gold And Action Jack
11:30 Thundarr The Barbarian
12 N ABC Weekend Special
12:30 American Bandstand (Innocents, Tom Wopat)
1:30 Emergency!
2:30 The Rookies
3 PM Bill Dance Outdoors
3:30 Pro Bowlers Tour: Quaker State Open finals, live
from Grand Prairie, TX (Dallas affiliate WFAA used
to really play this up; when they had "Bowling For
Dollars" in the '70s they would originate it in Grand
Prairie the week of the event.)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (U.S. Ladies' Figure Skating
Championships, Duke Kahanamoku Surfing Classic)
6:30 News
7 PM Skater (the parents of a 12-year-old skater forbid
her to take part in a big race after a drug bust at
the local rink)
7:30 Healthbeat (cancer therapy using pi-meson radiation;
an update on arthritis treatments)
8 PM King's Crossing
9 PM Love Boat
10 PM Fantasy Island
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Airport"
2:15 ABC News (Tom Jarriel)
WTVQ Ch. 36 Lexington (ABC)
7 AM Tom And Jerry And Friends
8 AM Superfriends
8:30 Heathcliff And Marmaduke
9 AM Fonz And The Happy Days Gang
9:30 Laverne & Shirley (animated)
10 AM Richie Rich/Scooby And Scrappy-Doo
11 AM Goldie Gold And Action Jack
11:30 Thundarr The Barbarian
12 N ABC Weekend Special
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Focus
2 PM Wrestling
3 PM My Three Sons
3:30 Movie: "The Bank Dick" (W.C. Fields classic,
from '40)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 The Jeffersons
7 PM Movie: "Cooley High"
9 PM Love Boat
10 PM Fantasy Island
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Hannie Caulder"
WDRB Ch. 41 Louisville (Ind.)
7:30 New Shapes: Education
8 AM Space Kidettes
8:30 Jim Bakker
9:30 Love, American Style
10:30 Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
11:30 Rifleman
12 N I Love Lucy
12:30 In Search Of...
1 PM Wild Kingdom
1:30 College Basketball: St. Louis-Cincinnati
3:30 Wrestling (time approximate)
4:30 Movie: "Racket Busters" (Humphrey Bogart)
6 PM Solid Gold (KISS, Olivia Newton-John, Ronnie Laws)
7 PM Battlestar Galactica
8 PM Rockford Files
9 PM Lawrence Welk
10 PM Independent Network News
10:30 Jimmy Houston Outdoors
11 PM Sugar Ray Leonard's Golden Gloves
12 M Movie: "Only A Scream Away"
KET Kentucky Educational Television (WKZT/23 Elizabethtown,
WKSO/29 Somerset, WKMR/38 Morehead, WKLE/46 Lexington,
WKON/52 Owenton, WCVN/54 Covington, WKMJ/68 Louisville) (PBS)
4 PM General Educational Development
5 PM Making It Count
6 PM Firing Line (John Kenneth Galbraith debates Reaganomics with
William F. Buckley Jr.)
7 PM Creativity With Bill Moyers ("Olympics Of The Mind," a nationwide
competition in problem-solving; sounds like "Million Dollar Mind Game")
7:30 Another Page
8 PM Life On Earth (Part 3: "The First Forests")
9 PM All Creatures Great And Small
10 PM The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie (Part 2)
sign off 11 PM