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Retro: Kentucky Saturday May 2, 1981

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")
 
WTVQ Ch. 36 Lexington (ABC)
11 AM Derby 107

Channel 36 ran the WHAS coverage. WTVQ covered the bumpers with their own production. If I remember correctly, WTVQ received the feed off air as there were elements of over the air interference.
 
That reminds me of a few years ago when WTVD picked up
WHAS's feed of a North Carolina-Louisville football game; they,
too, put their own bumpers over WHAS's (both stations are on
Ch. 11 but the "11" logos are different). But WTVD either couldn't--
or didn't--cut the audio on promos, so Triangle viewers were subject
to promos for, among other things, "Good Morning Kentuckiana," which
would mean nothing to a North Carolina viewer--except me or someone
from Kentucky.
 
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)

Son, I say Son, this weren't a sound-alike of Foghorn Leghorn, in fact it was just the opposite. Foghorn, I say Foghorn Leghorn, was a copy of Senator Claghorn. Delmar's Claghorn was from Fred Allen's radio program. So Leghorn was a copy, a fraud, a copywritten infringement of Claghorn.
 
Yes, Kenny Delmar began playing Senator Claghorn around
1945, so his character does predate Foghorn. But the TV
generation is more familiar with Foghorn than with Claghorn,
which is why I worded it that way. Actually, Bob McKimson
used to say that he could remember the same voice on a local
LA radio show in the 1930s, long before either Claghorn or Foghorn,
so maybe both he and Delmar were guilty of stealing a voice.

But at this late date I don't think there are going to be any legal
actions. Meantime, for those of you who have never heard a Fred
Allen show with Allen's Alley (and these are mostly 1945-49), try to
find a tape of one with Delmar, Minerva Pious (Mrs.
Nussbaum), Parker Fennelly (Titus Moody), and Peter Donald (Ajax
Cassidy). They are brilliant.
 
bpatrick said:
Yes, Kenny Delmar began playing Senator Claghorn around
1945, so his character does predate Foghorn. But the TV
generation is more familiar with Foghorn than with Claghorn,
which is why I worded it that way. Actually, Bob McKimson
used to say that he could remember the same voice on a local
LA radio show in the 1930s, long before either Claghorn or Foghorn,
so maybe both he and Delmar were guilty of stealing a voice.

But at this late date I don't think there are going to be any legal
actions. Meantime, for those of you who have never heard a Fred
Allen show with Allen's Alley (and these are mostly 1945-49), try to
find a tape of one with Delmar, Minerva Pious (Mrs.
Nussbaum), Parker Fennelly (Titus Moody), and Peter Donald (Ajax
Cassidy). They are brilliant.

Agreed..I can come up with "catch phrases" for most of the "Alley" regulars:

Mrs. Nussbaum "You were expecting maybe Mrs. Goldberg?"
Moody:"Howdy Bub"
Claghorn: "Somebody, I say somebody knocked"

Alan Reed, best known as Fred Flintstone, played Poet Falstaff Openshaw in the Alley for a time..Although the character didnt work out on the Allen Show, Reed later used the character for a 5 minute ABC Radio Series ,"Falstaff's Fables" sponsored by Mars Candy in 1949-50..
 
KyDXIn said:
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)

Son, I say Son, this weren't a sound-alike of Foghorn Leghorn, in fact it was just the opposite. Foghorn, I say Foghorn Leghorn, was a copy of Senator Claghorn. Delmar's Claghorn was from Fred Allen's radio program. So Leghorn was a copy, a fraud, a copywritten infringement of Claghorn.
it is kinda hard to write in the style of Claghorn/Leghorn.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=UTB9cT1aG8s&NR=1
 
I can't remember all of Senator Claghorn's lines
but I do remember something about the way they
celebrate Thanksgiving in his house: the main course
is alligator, they top off the meal with a mint julep with
a cotton ball on top, then they stand up and give thanks--
thanks for not being born in the North.

I also like his line, "I never go near Yankee Stadium unless
a southpaw is pitching."

BTW, the show Bob McKimson said he used to listen to
was called "Blue Monday Jamboree." Mel Blanc mentioned
it in his autobiography, but in effect said who cares who
came first--that character, Claghorn, or Leghorn? I've never
heard "Blue Monday Jamboree" but I find Claghorn and Leghorn
to be equally funny, so I'm not going to split hairs (or as Bugs
would say, "split hares") over which came first.
 
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