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Retro: Kentucky Sunday, March 6, 1977

From TV Guide, Kentucky Edition:

WAVE Ch. 3 Louisville (NBC)

7 AM Ag-USA
7:30 Green Acres
8 AM Gospel Singing Jubilee
8:30 Oral Roberts
9 AM The Story (Ford Philpot)
9:30 This Is The Life
10 AM Sing Ye!
10:30 Reflections
11 AM Star Trek
12 N High Q
12:30 Meet The Press (guest: Secretary of
Defense Harold Brown)
1 PM Grandstand (the problems faced by
college-basketball referees; ski jumping
from Lake Placid)
1:30 College Basketball: Marquette-Michigan
3:30 Golf: Florida Citrus Open (final round, time
approximate)
5:30 Grandstand (time approximate)
6 PM Black Is...
6:30 NBC News (Catherine Mackin)
7 PM Wonderful World Of Disney: "Call It Courage,"
about a Polynesian youth on a solo Pacific
voyage
8 PM McCloud (guest: Jack Cassidy)
9:30 The Big Event (Diana Ross in a one-woman show)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Sweet November"

WLWT Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)

6:30 Big Blue Marble
7 AM Dusty's Treehouse
7:30 Sunday Soul (and I don't think this is a local
"Soul Train")
8 AM Catholic Mass
8:30 Rex Humbard
9:30 America: The Super Market
10 AM NAACP Presents
10:30 Church By The Side Of The Road
11 AM World Front (Dr. Michael Baker of the East
Asian Institute on the subject "Decision Time
For Japan")
11:30 Garner Ted Armstrong
12 N The Racers (SCCA "A" Sports Racing finals from
Atlanta)
12:30 Meet The Press
1 PM Ara's Sports World (Pete Maravich gives basketball
tips)
1:30 Antique Furniture Workshop (Homer Formby)
2 PM WHA Hockey: Houston Aeros-Cincinnati Stingers
4:30 Golf: Florida Citrus Open (final round, joined in progress,
time approximate)
5:30 Grandstand (time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 Muppet Show (guest: Avery Schreiber)
7 PM Wonderful World Of Disney
8 PM McCloud
9:30 The Big Event
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Baby, The Rain Must Fall"

WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)

7 AM Kentucky Afield
7:30 Hudson Brothers Comedy Show (delay from 9 AM)
8 AM Daktari
9 AM Play It Safe
9:30 Far Out Space Nuts
10 AM Police Call (fire safety during the winter)
10:30 Black Memo
11 AM Call The Doctor (veterinary medicine)
12 N King Of TV Bowling
1 PM Challenge Of The Sexes (Donna Caponi Young vs.
Al Geiberger in a nine-hole golf match; Stevie
Lederstrom vs. Mel Kenyon in midget-car racing)
1:45 NBA Basketball: Suns-Bullets
4 PM National Geographic: "America's Wonderlands--The
National Parks" (time approximate)
5 PM Kidsworld
5:30 Outdoors With Julius Boros
6 PM Impact
6:30 CBS News (Morton Dean)
7 PM 60 Minutes
8 PM Rhoda
8:30 Phyllis
9 PM Switch
10 PM Delvecchio
11 PM News
11:30 Lohman And Barkley (Anna Maria Alberghetti, Phil
Foster, Ronnie Schell, comedian Lennie Schultz)
12:30 Christopher Closeup (Fred Rogers discusses conquering
children's fears and feelings by encouraging honesty
and imagination)
1 AM News

WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)

7 AM Lamp Unto My Feet (salute to "Christopher Closeup,"
delay from 10 AM)
7:30 Look Up And Live (the Jewish festival of Purim, delay
from 10:30 AM)
8 AM Camera Three (second of two programs on the Yale
Drama School and Repertory Theater, delay from 11 AM)
8:30 Day Of Discovery
9 AM County View
9:30 Moral Side Of The News
10 AM Daktari
11 AM Walnut Street Baptist Church
12 N Face The Nation
12:30 WHAS News Conference
1 PM Patchwork
1:30 Bugs Bunny And Friends
1:45 NBA Basketball: Nuggets-Celtics
4 PM CBS Nations' Cup Basketball Tournament: the Red Army
team meets the Arizona Wildcats (time approximate)
6 PM CBS News
6:30 Weekend Gardener
7 PM 60 Minutes
8 PM Rhoda
8:30 Phyllis
9 PM Switch
10 PM Delvecchio
11 PM News
11:15 CBS News (Ed Bradley)
11:30 Denny Crum: University of Louisville basketball highlights
12 M Best Of Groucho
12:30 Wild Wild West (guest: Pat Paulsen as an inept rookie agent)

WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)

6 AM Junior Almost Anything Goes (coaches: Carol Lynley, Louis
Nye, Sugar Ray Robinson, delay from 10:30 AM)
6:30 Oddball Couple (delay from Sat 12 N)
7 AM Charles Fold Singers
7:30 In The Spirit
8 AM Landmark Bible Class
8:30 Day Of Discovery
9 AM Oral Roberts
9:30 Jimmy Swaggart
10 AM It Is Written
10:30 Dialogue
11 AM Robert Schuller
12 N Movie: "Old Acquaintance"
1:30 Bowling For Dollars
2 PM Superteams (Cincinnati Reds vs. New York
Yankees)
3 PM TBA
3:30 Championship Fishing
4 PM Gale Catlett: West Virginia basketball highlights
4:30 Wide World Of Sports (ice dancing at the World Figure
Skating Championships in Tokyo; the California 200,
the first USAC race of 1977 from Ontario, CA)
6 PM Wild Wild World Of Animals
6:30 Wild Kingdom
7 PM Billy Graham Crusade (third of five programs from
Pontiac, MI; sermon topic: "How To Be Born Again")
8 PM Six Million Dollar Man
9 PM ABC Movie: "The Gambler" (James Caan, not Kenny
Rogers)
11:15 News
11:45 Peter Marshall (David Steinberg, Orson Bean, Mackenzie
Phillips, actress Lee Horwin, Freddy ("Wasted Days And
Wasted Nights") Fender)
1:15 Soul Train
2:15 ABC News (Ted Koppel)
2:30 Insight (Mitch Vogel as a young man whose depression
leads him to drinking)

WKPC Ch. 15 Louisville (PBS)

7:40 Sesame Street
8:45 Sesame Street
9:50 Sesame Street
10:55 Sesame Street
12 N Movie: TBA
2 PM Junior World Curling Championships (from Quebec City, live)
4 PM Tennis: U.S. National Indoor Championships, live from Memphis
(time approximate)
6 PM Studio See (time approximate)
6:30 WKPC Membership Pledge Drive
6:50 Asmat--The Cannibal Craftsmen Of New Guinea
7:50 Previn And The Pittsburgh
8:50 WKPC Membership Pledge Drive
9 PM Masterpiece Theatre: "Upstairs, Downstairs" (Part 8)
10 PM WKPC Membership Pledge Drive
10:05 Bar Mitzvah Boy (a 13-year-old London boy suffers anxiety
on the eve of his bar mitzvah)
11:20 WKPC Membership Pledge Drive
11:30 The Onedin Line
12:30 By-Line (Gene Moore)

WLEX Ch. 18 Lexington (NBC)

6:30 Kentucky Afield
7 AM Jerry Falwell
8 AM Voice Of The Mountains
8:30 The Story
9 AM Gospel Singing Jubilee
10 AM New Shapes: Education
10:30 Immanuel Baptist Church
11:30 Leisure
12 N University Of Kentucky
12:30 Meet The Press
1 PM Grandstand
1:30 College Basketball: Marquette-Michigan
3:30 Golf: Florida Citrus Open (final round, time
approximate)
5:30 Grandstand (time approximate)
6 PM Cross-Wits (Jonathan Harris, Alice Ghostley,
Gregory Sierra, Sally Ann Howes)
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Wonderful World Of Disney
8 PM McCloud
9:30 The Big Event
11 PM News
11:30 Peter Marshall (Dionne Warwick, Ed McMahon,
Valerie Bertinelli, Donny Most, Pat McCormick)

WXIX Ch. 19 Cincinnati (Ind.)

6:45 Perspective
7:30 Revival Fires
8 AM Jerry Falwell
9 AM Leroy Jenkins
9:30 Wonderama
12 N Movie: "Fighting Fools" (the Bowery Boys)
2 PM Movie: "Star!" (Julie Andrews plays Gertrude Lawrence--
did nothing for Andrews' career)
4 PM Movie: "Caprice" (Doris Day)
6 PM Jacques Cousteau (exploring Lake Titicaca)
7 PM Movie: "Legend Of Cougar Canyon"
9 PM Movie: "Battle At Bloody Beach"
11 PM Jerry Falwell
12 M David Susskind (topic: "The Truth About Sports--
Funny, Glamorous And Seedy" with sportswriters
Red Smith and Dave Anderson)

WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (CBS)

7 AM Tobacco Talk
7:30 Sky King
8 AM Rex Humbard
9 AM Hudson Brothers Comedy Show
9:30 Far Out Space Nuts
10 AM Day Of Discovery
10:30 Revival Tabernacle
11 AM It Is Written
11:30 Face The Nation
12 N Directions (not the ABC religious program,
but local with hostess Karolyn Kell)
12:30 Newsmaker
1 PM Challenge Of The Sexes
1:45 NBA Basketball: Nuggets-Celtics
4 PM CBS Nations' Cup Basketball Tournament
(time approximate)
6 PM Andy Williams
6:30 Joe Hall: University of Kentucky basketball
highlights
7 PM 60 Minutes
8 PM Rhoda
8:30 Phyllis
9 PM Switch
10 PM Delvecchio
11 PM News
11:15 CBS News
11:30 Sonny & Cher (guests: Charo and George
Gobel, delay from Fri 9 PM)
12:30 WCT Tennis: Adriano Panatta vs. Vitas
Gerulaitis

WLKY Ch. 32 Louisville (ABC)

7 AM Agricscope
7:30 Big Blue Marble
8 AM Jimmy Swaggart
8:30 Rex Humbard
9:30 Abundant Life
10 AM Tomorrow Is Now
10:30 League Of Women Voters
11 AM Superman ("Ghost Wolf")
11:30 Antique Furniture Workshop
12 N Issues And Answers (guest: Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin)
12:30 Newsmakers (sister station WXIA had an
identical show at this time, "11 Alive Newsmakers")
1 PM Maverick
2 PM Superteams
3 PM United States Boxing Championships (we could do a
whole thread on this charade--Don King appears pretty
conclusively to have fixed matches so that his fighters
would win; this telecast is from King's former home, the
Marion (OH) Correctional Facility--a detailed account
of the series is in Bert Sugar's history of ABC Sports to
1978, "The Thrill Of Victory")
4:30 Wide World Of Sports
6 PM Movie: "After The Fox" (Peter Sellers)
8 PM Six Million Dollar Man
9 PM ABC Movie: "The Gambler"
11:15 News
11:45 Perspective
12:15 Perry Mason
1:15 ABC News
1:30 With This Ring

WDRB Ch. 41 Louisville (Ind.)

7 AM The King Is Coming
7:30 Revival Fires
8 AM Church Service
8:30 Robert Schuller
9:30 The Life That Wins (religious)
10 AM Leroy Jenkins
10:30 Church Service
11:30 Movie: "In Society" (Abbott and Costello)
1:05 Movie: "Passage To Marseille" (Humphrey Bogart)
3:15 Movie: "The Wonderful Country" (Robert Mitchum)
5:15 Movie: "All The King's Men" (Broderick Crawford's
Oscar-winning performance as a Huey Long-like
Southern politician)
7:30 Love, American Style (x2)
8:30 Rap
9 PM Jerry Falwell
10 PM The King Is Coming
10:30 Foresight
11 PM 700 Club

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

7:30 Good News
8 AM Blue Ridge Quartet (WSPA is the only other station
I recall carrying this)
8:30 Revival Fires
9 AM New Adventures Of Gilligan (delay from 11 AM)
9:30 Animals, Animals, Animals (a marine biologist who's
trying to save a species of turtle from extinction,
delay from 11:30 AM)
10 AM Norman Vincent Peale
10:30 Biblical Alternative
11 AM One Way
12 N Robert Schuller
1 PM New Life
1:30 Issues And Answers
2 PM Superteams
3 PM United States Boxing Championships
4:30 Wide World Of Sports
6 PM Jacques Cousteau (same as Ch. 19)
7 PM Focus (the Fayette County Schools' collective-
bargaining issue)
8 PM Six Million Dollar Man
9 PM ABC Movie: "The Gambler"
11:15 News
11:30 ABC News
11:45 700 Club
1:15 With This Ring

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)

2 PM Classic Theatre Preview (John Webster's "The Duchess Of
Malfi")
2:30 Classic Theatre ("The Duchess Of Malfi")
4:30 Black Journal
5 PM Sarah (a little girl startles her adoptive parents by choosing
another father)
6 PM Crockett's Victory Garden
6:30 It's Everybody's Business (x2)
7:30 Kentucky Magazine
8 PM Previn And The Pittsburgh
9 PM Masterpiece Theatre
10 PM The Onedin Line
 
bpatrick said:
WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)

11 AM Walnut Street Baptist Church

My high school choral group, the Heights Singers of Cleveland Heights (OH) High School, would perform at this same church four weeks later while we were on tour in the Louisville area. (The tour was cut a day short when a lot of members got sick one day.)
 
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