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 Godzilla/Hong Kong Phooey Hour
9 AM Flintstones Comedy Show
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM Batman And The Super 7
12 N Wrestling
1 PM Movie: "Camelot"
4 PM Golf: Michelob Houston Open (third round)
5:30 International Sports Experience (rodeo, harness
racing, skydiving)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (Jessica Savitch)
7 PM Dance Fever (Stacey Lattisaw sings "Dynamite";
judges: Chad Everett, Sheree North, Lou Ferrigno)
7:30 Emphasis
8 PM Barbara Mandrell And The Mandrell Sisters (guests:
the Bellamy Brothers, Bobby Goldsboro)
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM Walking Tall
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (Richard Dreyfuss is host, rerun
from 1978)
1 AM Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (Fleetwood Mac, the Commodores,
Steve Forbert, Cindy Bullens)
2:30 Movie: "The Man Who Wanted To Live Forever"
WLWT Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)
6:30 Better Way
7 AM U.S. Farm Report
7:30 Hot Fudge
8 AM Godzilla/Hong Kong Phooey Hour
9 AM Flintstones Comedy Show
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM Batman And The Super 7
12 N Wrestling
1 PM Clubhouse
1:15 Baseball: Reds-Cardinals
4 PM Greatest Sports Legends (profiles Billie Jean King,
time approximate)
4:30 Outdoor Life (Cale Yarborough fishes for wahoo in Panama.)
5 PM Sports Afield
5:30 This Week In Baseball
6 PM News
6:30 In Search Of...
7 PM Lawrence Welk (songs with the color "blue" in the title)
8 PM Barbara Mandrell And The Mandrell Sisters
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM Walking Tall
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM SCTV Television Network
1:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (Lou Reed, Roger Daltrey, Rocky
Burnette, comic Jay Johnson)
WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)
5:55 Farm News
6 AM Sunrise Semester: "Radio, Television And The New Technology"
6:30 Call The Doctor (the relationship between neurology and various
diseases, including multiple sclerosis, rerun from Sun 11 AM)
7:30 Roy Rogers
8 AM Tom And Jerry Comedy Show
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10 AM Tarzan/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour
11 AM All New Popeye Hour
12 N New Fat Albert Show
12:30 Drak Pack
1 PM Jason Of Star Command
1:30 Kidsworld
2 PM Movie: "Oklahoma!"
5 PM CBS Sports Saturday (nine-ball elimination pool tournament from
Lake Tahoe; the Philadelphia Supercross)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM Juvenile Court (cases involve two boys apprehended while throwing
rocks from an interstate viaduct and a girl charged with domestic violence)
7:30 To Tell The Truth (Robin Ward version)
8 PM WKRP In Cincinnati
8:30 Flo
9 PM CBS Movie: "Rio Lobo" (John Wayne)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The New Centurions"
1:30 Here And Now
2 AM News
WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)
7 AM Louisville Tonight (rerun of Friday's show)
7:30 Brady Bunch
8 AM Tom And Jerry Comedy Show
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10 AM Tarzan/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour
11 AM Derby 107 (coverage of all the pre-race activities,
including the seven races that lead up to the "Run
For The Roses")
5 PM Kentucky Derby (ABC was still allowing Ch. 11 to carry
the race--from 1991 to 2000 Ch. 11 would be the sole
station for it in Louisville, having switched from CBS to
ABC in 1990--so two stations, WLKY being the other,
carried this race. Pleasant Colony won this and the Preakness,
but Summing won the Belmont.)
6 PM Derby 107 Wrap-Up
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw (Ed McMahon, the Bellamy Brothers, Jimmy Henley
with Marty Stuart)
8 PM WKRP In Cincinnati
8:30 Flo
9 PM CBS Movie: "Rio Lobo"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Nickel Ride"
1:30 News
WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)
6:30 Kids Are People Too (Ron Howard, Randi Oakes, Rex Smith,
singer-dancer Moses Pendleton, delay from Sun 10:30 AM)
7:30 Animals, Animals, Animals (animals of the Galapagos: penguins,
mockingbirds, tortoises, delay from Sun 11:30 AM)
8 AM World's Greatest Superfriends
9 AM Fonz And The Happy Days Gang
9:30 Richie Rich/Scooby And Scrappy-Doo
10:30 Thundarr The Barbarian
11 AM Heathcliff And Dingbat
11:30 Plastic Man/Baby Plas Super Comedy Show
12 N ABC Weekend Special: "Zack And The Magic Factory"
12:30 Movie: "My Darling Clementine"
2:30 Solid Gold (co-host Bill Cosby; the Manhattan Transfer, Crystal
Gayle, Dr. Hook)
3:30 Cameras In Motion (outdoor sports, mostly water sports, but also
horse racing)
4 PM Wide World Of Sports (the USSR gymnastics team performs in
London; Derby preview)
5 PM Kentucky Derby
6 PM Wide World Of Sports continues (gymnastics continues, a Derby
wrap-up)
6:30 Replay (local interview show)
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Love Boat (a fashion show with designers Geoffrey Beene, Halston,
Bob Mackie, and Gloria Vanderbilt; passengers: Morgan Brittany,
Mike Connors, Jayne Kennedy, Elke Sommer, McLean Stevenson,
Robert Vaughn)
10 PM Fantasy Island (guests: Cleavon Little, Joe Namath, Christopher
Connelly, Trish Stewart)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Part 2 Walking Tall"
1:45 Movie: "Don't Give Up The Ship" (Jerry Lewis)
3:40 Movie: "Visit To A Small Planet" (more Jerry Lewis)
WKPC Ch. 15 Louisville (PBS)
12 N Sesame Street
1 PM So You Want To Be A Star (two groups trying to reach the top
in country music: Ira Allen and the Palomino Riders, and Lee Rogers
and Stampede Pass)
2 PM Matinee At The Bijou ("It's A Joke, Son" with Kenny Delmar as Senator
Claghorn (he sounded like Foghorn Leghorn), from '47; Chapter 3 of
"Don Winslow Of The Navy" from '42)
3:30 Word On Words
4 PM Living Green (topic: heaters for small greenhouses)
4:30 Feeling Free (kids' show)
5 PM Nova (a report about spiders)
6 PM Victory Garden
6:30 This Old House (Bob Vila)
7 PM Power Game (the effects of President Reagan's budget cuts on
the development of synthetic fuels)
7:30 Sneak Previews ("Nighthawks" with Sylvester Stallone; "Modern
Romance" with Albert Brooks; a re-edited version of "Heaven's Gate")
8 PM Movie: "The Lady Wants Mink"
10 PM Song By Song (a salute to lyricist Dorothy Fields)
11 PM Movie: "My Gal Sal"
WLEX Ch. 18 Lexington (NBC)
6:30 Ag-USA
7 AM U.S. Farm Report
7:30 Superman
8 AM Godzilla/Hong Kong Phooey Hour
9 AM Flintstones Comedy Show
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM Baseball Bunch
11:30 Winner's Circle
12 N Wrestling
1 PM Clubhouse
1:15 Baseball: Reds-Cardinals
4 PM Interdependent Relationships (the importance of
support and care for the elderly, time approximate)
4:30 Aerobatic Superstars
5 PM 4-H Youth Showcase
5:30 Our Last Frontier: The Sea, Part Two (the fish and
plant life indigenous to the Caribbean)
6 PM That Nashville Music (Mickey Gilley, Billie Jo Spears,
John Anderson, Buddy Spicher)
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Barbara Mandrell And The Mandrell Sisters
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM Walking Tall
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Sha Na Na
WXIX Ch. 19 Cincinnati (Ind.)
6:15 Perspective
7 AM Woody Woodpecker
7:30 Bugs And Porky
8 AM Popeye
8:30 Tom And Jerry
9 AM Monkees
9:30 Laurel & Hardy Laugh Tunes
10 AM Movie: "It Ain't Hay" (Abbott and Costello)
11:30 Movie: "Bruce Lee, His Last Days"
1:30 Movie: "Band Of Angels"
4 PM Movie: "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way
To The Forum"
6 PM Happy Days Again
6:30 M*A*S*H
7 PM Sha Na Na (guest: Johnny Paycheck)
7:30 Sha Na Na (guest: Milton Berle)
8 PM Backstage At The Grand Ole Opry (Bobby Bare,
Lonzo & Oscar, Justin Tubb)
8:30 Pop Goes The Country (Ed Bruce, Dick Feller,
Cristy Lane)
9 PM Porter Wagoner
9:30 Nashville Swing
10 PM Nashville On The Road
10:30 That Nashville Music (Joe Stampley, Lacy J. Dalton,
Leon Everette)
11 PM M*A*S*H
11:30 All In The Family
12 M Monte Carlo Show (Anne Murray, Rod McKuen, the Swingle
Singers, a Ukrainian folk-dancing duo)
WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (CBS)
7 AM Movie: "Homesteaders Of Paradise Valley" (Allan "Rocky" Lane,
the voice of Mister Ed, from '47)
8 AM Tom And Jerry Comedy Show
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10 AM Tarzan/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour
11 AM All New Popeye Hour
12 N New Fat Albert Show
12:30 Drak Pack
1 PM Jason Of Star Command
1:30 30 Minutes (Notre Dame football coach Gerry Foust; the
effects of smoking on young people)
2 PM Kidsworld (Sugar Ray Leonard, Joan Embery, pilots who fly
their planes through tropical storms)
2:30 Tobacco Talk
3 PM Tony Brown's Journal
3:30 Wild Kingdom (a trip to the Galapagos)
4 PM Nashville On The Road (Charly McClain, Jim Ed Brown)
4:30 Backstage At The Grand Ole Opry (same as Ch. 19)
5 PM McLain Family Band (local bluegrass group)
5:30 Pop Goes The Country (same as Ch. 19)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM WKRP In Cincinnati
8:30 Flo
9 PM CBS Movie: "Rio Lobo"
11 PM News
11:30 Solid Gold (same as Ch. 12)
12:30 America's Top Ten
1 AM SCTV Television Network
WLKY 32 Alive Louisville (ABC)
7 AM Big Blue Marble
7:30 Kidsworld
8 AM World's Greatest Superfriends
9 AM Fonz And The Happy Days Gang
9:30 Richie Rich/Scooby And Scrappy-Doo
10:30 Thundarr The Barbarian
11 AM Heathcliff And Dingbat
11:30 Plastic Man/Baby Plas Super Comedy Show
12 N ABC Weekend Special
12:30 American Bandstand (Kingbees, Rufus)
1:30 Movie: "The Great Race"
4:30 Live From Churchill Downs
5 PM Kentucky Derby
6 PM Wide World Of Sports (Ch. 32 picks up the last 30 minutes.)
6:30 Fight Back! With David Horowitz (preventing car thefts; saving
lives in high-rise fires)
7 PM Tales Of The Unexpected
7:30 Medical Line
8 PM Love Boat
10 PM Fantasy Island
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "What's Up, Doc?" (Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal)
1:20 Movie: "The Horse's Mouth"
3:10 ABC News (Tom Jarriel)
WTVQ Ch. 36 Lexington (ABC)
7:30 Tom And Jerry And Friends
8 AM World's Greatest Superfriends
9 AM Popeye
9:30 1981 Pegasus Parade (the Kentucky Derby Parade, taped)
11 AM Derby 107
5 PM Kentucky Derby
6 PM Derby 107 Wrap-Up
6:30 Derby Festival '81 (Nancy Addison of "Ryan's Hope" looks at
the events of Derby Week, including a hot-air balloon race
and a mini-marathon--doesn't mention the steamboat race
between the Delta Queen from Cincinnati and the Belle of Louisville.)
7:30 Dance Fever (judges: Wolfman Jack, Anne Lockhart, Steve Ford)
8 PM Love Boat
10 PM Fantasy Island
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Cocoanuts" (the Marx Brothers' first picture, from '29)
WDRB Ch. 41 Louisville (Ind.)
7:30 New Shapes: Education
8 AM Space Kidettes
8:30 Jim Bakker
9:30 Wrestling
10:30 Tennis: WCT Challenge Cup: John McEnroe vs. Ilie Nastase (wonder
how many tantrums were thrown during that match?)
11:30 Eleventh Annual Senior Olympics
12:30 Car Care Central (how to replace spark plugs; tire coding)
1 PM Clubhouse
1:15 Baseball: Reds-Cardinals
4 PM Movie: "Tarzan Goes To India" (Jock Mahoney as Tarzan, from '62,
time approximate)
5:30 Sha Na Na (guest: Johnny Paycheck)
6 PM Solid Gold (same as Ch. 12)
7 PM Kung Fu
8 PM Lawrence Welk
9 PM That Nashville Music (Bobby Bare, Sylvia (not Sylvia of "Pillow Talk"
notoriety), Ed Bruce, Buddy Spicher)
9:30 Wild Kingdom (the migration of the sandhill crane to a small area of
Nebraska's Platte River)
10 PM Independent Network News
10:30 In Search Of... (evidence that might prove Bruno Richard Hauptmann
did not kidnap the Lindbergh baby)
11 PM 700 Club
12:30 Ross Bagley
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 Education Development
4:30 General Education Development
5 PM Matinee At The Bijou (same as Ch. 15)
6:30 McLain Family Festival (guests: members of the bluegrass group
Buck White and the Down Home Folk)
7 PM Song By Song (same as Ch. 15)
8 PM Search For Solutions (sculptor Henry Moore explains his technique;
the work of 16th-century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe)
9 PM All Creatures Great And Small
10 PM Mystery! ("Sergeant Cribb")
WAVE Ch. 3 Louisville (NBC)
6:30 Farming With Jack Crowner
7 AM Kentucky Afield
7:30 Blue Apple Clubhouse
8 AM Godzilla/Hong Kong Phooey Hour
9 AM Flintstones Comedy Show
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM Batman And The Super 7
12 N Wrestling
1 PM Movie: "Camelot"
4 PM Golf: Michelob Houston Open (third round)
5:30 International Sports Experience (rodeo, harness
racing, skydiving)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (Jessica Savitch)
7 PM Dance Fever (Stacey Lattisaw sings "Dynamite";
judges: Chad Everett, Sheree North, Lou Ferrigno)
7:30 Emphasis
8 PM Barbara Mandrell And The Mandrell Sisters (guests:
the Bellamy Brothers, Bobby Goldsboro)
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM Walking Tall
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (Richard Dreyfuss is host, rerun
from 1978)
1 AM Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (Fleetwood Mac, the Commodores,
Steve Forbert, Cindy Bullens)
2:30 Movie: "The Man Who Wanted To Live Forever"
WLWT Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)
6:30 Better Way
7 AM U.S. Farm Report
7:30 Hot Fudge
8 AM Godzilla/Hong Kong Phooey Hour
9 AM Flintstones Comedy Show
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM Batman And The Super 7
12 N Wrestling
1 PM Clubhouse
1:15 Baseball: Reds-Cardinals
4 PM Greatest Sports Legends (profiles Billie Jean King,
time approximate)
4:30 Outdoor Life (Cale Yarborough fishes for wahoo in Panama.)
5 PM Sports Afield
5:30 This Week In Baseball
6 PM News
6:30 In Search Of...
7 PM Lawrence Welk (songs with the color "blue" in the title)
8 PM Barbara Mandrell And The Mandrell Sisters
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM Walking Tall
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM SCTV Television Network
1:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (Lou Reed, Roger Daltrey, Rocky
Burnette, comic Jay Johnson)
WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)
5:55 Farm News
6 AM Sunrise Semester: "Radio, Television And The New Technology"
6:30 Call The Doctor (the relationship between neurology and various
diseases, including multiple sclerosis, rerun from Sun 11 AM)
7:30 Roy Rogers
8 AM Tom And Jerry Comedy Show
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10 AM Tarzan/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour
11 AM All New Popeye Hour
12 N New Fat Albert Show
12:30 Drak Pack
1 PM Jason Of Star Command
1:30 Kidsworld
2 PM Movie: "Oklahoma!"
5 PM CBS Sports Saturday (nine-ball elimination pool tournament from
Lake Tahoe; the Philadelphia Supercross)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM Juvenile Court (cases involve two boys apprehended while throwing
rocks from an interstate viaduct and a girl charged with domestic violence)
7:30 To Tell The Truth (Robin Ward version)
8 PM WKRP In Cincinnati
8:30 Flo
9 PM CBS Movie: "Rio Lobo" (John Wayne)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The New Centurions"
1:30 Here And Now
2 AM News
WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)
7 AM Louisville Tonight (rerun of Friday's show)
7:30 Brady Bunch
8 AM Tom And Jerry Comedy Show
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10 AM Tarzan/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour
11 AM Derby 107 (coverage of all the pre-race activities,
including the seven races that lead up to the "Run
For The Roses")
5 PM Kentucky Derby (ABC was still allowing Ch. 11 to carry
the race--from 1991 to 2000 Ch. 11 would be the sole
station for it in Louisville, having switched from CBS to
ABC in 1990--so two stations, WLKY being the other,
carried this race. Pleasant Colony won this and the Preakness,
but Summing won the Belmont.)
6 PM Derby 107 Wrap-Up
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw (Ed McMahon, the Bellamy Brothers, Jimmy Henley
with Marty Stuart)
8 PM WKRP In Cincinnati
8:30 Flo
9 PM CBS Movie: "Rio Lobo"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Nickel Ride"
1:30 News
WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)
6:30 Kids Are People Too (Ron Howard, Randi Oakes, Rex Smith,
singer-dancer Moses Pendleton, delay from Sun 10:30 AM)
7:30 Animals, Animals, Animals (animals of the Galapagos: penguins,
mockingbirds, tortoises, delay from Sun 11:30 AM)
8 AM World's Greatest Superfriends
9 AM Fonz And The Happy Days Gang
9:30 Richie Rich/Scooby And Scrappy-Doo
10:30 Thundarr The Barbarian
11 AM Heathcliff And Dingbat
11:30 Plastic Man/Baby Plas Super Comedy Show
12 N ABC Weekend Special: "Zack And The Magic Factory"
12:30 Movie: "My Darling Clementine"
2:30 Solid Gold (co-host Bill Cosby; the Manhattan Transfer, Crystal
Gayle, Dr. Hook)
3:30 Cameras In Motion (outdoor sports, mostly water sports, but also
horse racing)
4 PM Wide World Of Sports (the USSR gymnastics team performs in
London; Derby preview)
5 PM Kentucky Derby
6 PM Wide World Of Sports continues (gymnastics continues, a Derby
wrap-up)
6:30 Replay (local interview show)
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Love Boat (a fashion show with designers Geoffrey Beene, Halston,
Bob Mackie, and Gloria Vanderbilt; passengers: Morgan Brittany,
Mike Connors, Jayne Kennedy, Elke Sommer, McLean Stevenson,
Robert Vaughn)
10 PM Fantasy Island (guests: Cleavon Little, Joe Namath, Christopher
Connelly, Trish Stewart)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Part 2 Walking Tall"
1:45 Movie: "Don't Give Up The Ship" (Jerry Lewis)
3:40 Movie: "Visit To A Small Planet" (more Jerry Lewis)
WKPC Ch. 15 Louisville (PBS)
12 N Sesame Street
1 PM So You Want To Be A Star (two groups trying to reach the top
in country music: Ira Allen and the Palomino Riders, and Lee Rogers
and Stampede Pass)
2 PM Matinee At The Bijou ("It's A Joke, Son" with Kenny Delmar as Senator
Claghorn (he sounded like Foghorn Leghorn), from '47; Chapter 3 of
"Don Winslow Of The Navy" from '42)
3:30 Word On Words
4 PM Living Green (topic: heaters for small greenhouses)
4:30 Feeling Free (kids' show)
5 PM Nova (a report about spiders)
6 PM Victory Garden
6:30 This Old House (Bob Vila)
7 PM Power Game (the effects of President Reagan's budget cuts on
the development of synthetic fuels)
7:30 Sneak Previews ("Nighthawks" with Sylvester Stallone; "Modern
Romance" with Albert Brooks; a re-edited version of "Heaven's Gate")
8 PM Movie: "The Lady Wants Mink"
10 PM Song By Song (a salute to lyricist Dorothy Fields)
11 PM Movie: "My Gal Sal"
WLEX Ch. 18 Lexington (NBC)
6:30 Ag-USA
7 AM U.S. Farm Report
7:30 Superman
8 AM Godzilla/Hong Kong Phooey Hour
9 AM Flintstones Comedy Show
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM Baseball Bunch
11:30 Winner's Circle
12 N Wrestling
1 PM Clubhouse
1:15 Baseball: Reds-Cardinals
4 PM Interdependent Relationships (the importance of
support and care for the elderly, time approximate)
4:30 Aerobatic Superstars
5 PM 4-H Youth Showcase
5:30 Our Last Frontier: The Sea, Part Two (the fish and
plant life indigenous to the Caribbean)
6 PM That Nashville Music (Mickey Gilley, Billie Jo Spears,
John Anderson, Buddy Spicher)
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Barbara Mandrell And The Mandrell Sisters
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM Walking Tall
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Sha Na Na
WXIX Ch. 19 Cincinnati (Ind.)
6:15 Perspective
7 AM Woody Woodpecker
7:30 Bugs And Porky
8 AM Popeye
8:30 Tom And Jerry
9 AM Monkees
9:30 Laurel & Hardy Laugh Tunes
10 AM Movie: "It Ain't Hay" (Abbott and Costello)
11:30 Movie: "Bruce Lee, His Last Days"
1:30 Movie: "Band Of Angels"
4 PM Movie: "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way
To The Forum"
6 PM Happy Days Again
6:30 M*A*S*H
7 PM Sha Na Na (guest: Johnny Paycheck)
7:30 Sha Na Na (guest: Milton Berle)
8 PM Backstage At The Grand Ole Opry (Bobby Bare,
Lonzo & Oscar, Justin Tubb)
8:30 Pop Goes The Country (Ed Bruce, Dick Feller,
Cristy Lane)
9 PM Porter Wagoner
9:30 Nashville Swing
10 PM Nashville On The Road
10:30 That Nashville Music (Joe Stampley, Lacy J. Dalton,
Leon Everette)
11 PM M*A*S*H
11:30 All In The Family
12 M Monte Carlo Show (Anne Murray, Rod McKuen, the Swingle
Singers, a Ukrainian folk-dancing duo)
WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (CBS)
7 AM Movie: "Homesteaders Of Paradise Valley" (Allan "Rocky" Lane,
the voice of Mister Ed, from '47)
8 AM Tom And Jerry Comedy Show
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10 AM Tarzan/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour
11 AM All New Popeye Hour
12 N New Fat Albert Show
12:30 Drak Pack
1 PM Jason Of Star Command
1:30 30 Minutes (Notre Dame football coach Gerry Foust; the
effects of smoking on young people)
2 PM Kidsworld (Sugar Ray Leonard, Joan Embery, pilots who fly
their planes through tropical storms)
2:30 Tobacco Talk
3 PM Tony Brown's Journal
3:30 Wild Kingdom (a trip to the Galapagos)
4 PM Nashville On The Road (Charly McClain, Jim Ed Brown)
4:30 Backstage At The Grand Ole Opry (same as Ch. 19)
5 PM McLain Family Band (local bluegrass group)
5:30 Pop Goes The Country (same as Ch. 19)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM WKRP In Cincinnati
8:30 Flo
9 PM CBS Movie: "Rio Lobo"
11 PM News
11:30 Solid Gold (same as Ch. 12)
12:30 America's Top Ten
1 AM SCTV Television Network
WLKY 32 Alive Louisville (ABC)
7 AM Big Blue Marble
7:30 Kidsworld
8 AM World's Greatest Superfriends
9 AM Fonz And The Happy Days Gang
9:30 Richie Rich/Scooby And Scrappy-Doo
10:30 Thundarr The Barbarian
11 AM Heathcliff And Dingbat
11:30 Plastic Man/Baby Plas Super Comedy Show
12 N ABC Weekend Special
12:30 American Bandstand (Kingbees, Rufus)
1:30 Movie: "The Great Race"
4:30 Live From Churchill Downs
5 PM Kentucky Derby
6 PM Wide World Of Sports (Ch. 32 picks up the last 30 minutes.)
6:30 Fight Back! With David Horowitz (preventing car thefts; saving
lives in high-rise fires)
7 PM Tales Of The Unexpected
7:30 Medical Line
8 PM Love Boat
10 PM Fantasy Island
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "What's Up, Doc?" (Barbra Streisand, Ryan O'Neal)
1:20 Movie: "The Horse's Mouth"
3:10 ABC News (Tom Jarriel)
WTVQ Ch. 36 Lexington (ABC)
7:30 Tom And Jerry And Friends
8 AM World's Greatest Superfriends
9 AM Popeye
9:30 1981 Pegasus Parade (the Kentucky Derby Parade, taped)
11 AM Derby 107
5 PM Kentucky Derby
6 PM Derby 107 Wrap-Up
6:30 Derby Festival '81 (Nancy Addison of "Ryan's Hope" looks at
the events of Derby Week, including a hot-air balloon race
and a mini-marathon--doesn't mention the steamboat race
between the Delta Queen from Cincinnati and the Belle of Louisville.)
7:30 Dance Fever (judges: Wolfman Jack, Anne Lockhart, Steve Ford)
8 PM Love Boat
10 PM Fantasy Island
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Cocoanuts" (the Marx Brothers' first picture, from '29)
WDRB Ch. 41 Louisville (Ind.)
7:30 New Shapes: Education
8 AM Space Kidettes
8:30 Jim Bakker
9:30 Wrestling
10:30 Tennis: WCT Challenge Cup: John McEnroe vs. Ilie Nastase (wonder
how many tantrums were thrown during that match?)
11:30 Eleventh Annual Senior Olympics
12:30 Car Care Central (how to replace spark plugs; tire coding)
1 PM Clubhouse
1:15 Baseball: Reds-Cardinals
4 PM Movie: "Tarzan Goes To India" (Jock Mahoney as Tarzan, from '62,
time approximate)
5:30 Sha Na Na (guest: Johnny Paycheck)
6 PM Solid Gold (same as Ch. 12)
7 PM Kung Fu
8 PM Lawrence Welk
9 PM That Nashville Music (Bobby Bare, Sylvia (not Sylvia of "Pillow Talk"
notoriety), Ed Bruce, Buddy Spicher)
9:30 Wild Kingdom (the migration of the sandhill crane to a small area of
Nebraska's Platte River)
10 PM Independent Network News
10:30 In Search Of... (evidence that might prove Bruno Richard Hauptmann
did not kidnap the Lindbergh baby)
11 PM 700 Club
12:30 Ross Bagley
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 Education Development
4:30 General Education Development
5 PM Matinee At The Bijou (same as Ch. 15)
6:30 McLain Family Festival (guests: members of the bluegrass group
Buck White and the Down Home Folk)
7 PM Song By Song (same as Ch. 15)
8 PM Search For Solutions (sculptor Henry Moore explains his technique;
the work of 16th-century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe)
9 PM All Creatures Great And Small
10 PM Mystery! ("Sergeant Cribb")