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Retro: Knoxville/Tri-Cities Saturday, April 23, 1977

From TV Guide, Carolina-Tennessee Edition:

WSJK Ch. 2 Sneedville, TN (PBS)

8 AM Cartooning (how to draw cartoons)
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Once Upon A Classic
10:30 Zoom
11 AM Infinity Factory
11:30 Tennessee Mountain Clogging
12 N Carrascolendas
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1 PM United Bank Tennis Classic (semifinals
from Denver. live)
5 PM Nova (time approximate)
6 PM Studio See
6:30 Zoom
7 PM Rebop
7:30 Once Upon A Classic: "Little
Lord Fauntleroy" (Part 4)
8 PM Lowell Thomas Remembers
(Part 1 of 2 on FDR's presidency)
8:30 The Way It Was (Rocky Graziano-
Tony Zale middleweight championship
match of June 10, 1948, rubber match
between the two)
9 PM Six American Families
10 PM Movie: "Shoeshine"
11:30 Films

WCYB Ch. 5 Bristol, VA (NBC)

7 AM Rural Tenneva
7:30 Bugs Bunny
8 AM Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Speed Buggy
10:30 Monster Squad
11 AM Space Ghost/Frankenstein Jr.
11:30 Big John, Little John
12 N Land Of The Lost
12:30 Kids From C.A.P.E.R.
1 PM Lost In Space
2 PM Grandstand
2:15 Baseball: Red Sox at Blue Jays
5 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music
(time approximate)
5:30 Porter Wagoner
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (John Hart)
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM NBC Movie: "Against A Crooked
Sky"
9:50 Miss World 1976 Highlights
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night (Live) (Eric Idle
is host)

WATE Ch. 6 Knoxville (NBC)

6:30 Better Way
7 AM Casper
8 AM Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Speed Buggy
10:30 Monster Squad
11 AM Space Ghost/Frankenstein Jr.
11:30 Big John, Little John
12 N Land Of The Lost
12:30 Kids From C.A.P.E.R.
1 PM Space: 1999
2 PM Grandstand
2:15 Baseball: Red Sox-Blue Jays
5 PM Pop! Goes The Country (time
approximate)
5:30 Porter Wagoner
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM NBC Movie: "Against A Crooked
Sky"
9:50 Miss World 1976 Highlights
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night (Live)
1 AM Lohman And Barkley

WBIR Ch. 10 Knoxville (CBS)

6:30 Sunrise Semester
7 AM UT Ag Science
7:30 Scrunch (kids' show which aired on
all Multimedia stations)
8 AM Sylvester And Tweety
8:30 Clue Club
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10 AM Tarzan--Lord Of The Jungle
10:30 Batman (animated)
11 AM Shazam!/Isis
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Ark II
1 PM Scrunch
1:30 In Touch (black-oriented public
affairs program)
2 PM Southeastern Wrestling
3 PM Movie: "Law Of The Lawless"
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Bob Newhart
9 PM All In The Family
9:30 All's Fair
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM News
11:15 Movie: "Advise And Consent"

WJHL Ch. 11 Johnson City, TN (CBS)

7:15 Uncle Hank
7:30 Far Out Space Nuts
8 AM Sylvester And Tweety
8:30 Clue Club
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10 AM Tarzan--Lord Of The Jungle
10:30 Batman (animated)
11 AM Shazam!/Isis
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Ark II
1 PM Kidsworld
1:30 Southeastern Wrestling
2:30 Music Hall America (a lot of experts
thought this show might compete with
Hee Haw and Lawrence Welk, but it
lasted only one season)
3:30 CBS Festival Of Lively Arts For
Young People
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Bob Newhart
9 PM All In The Family
9:30 All's Fair
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Jayhawkers"

WKPT Ch. 19 Kingsport, TN (ABC)

7 AM Beverly Hillbillies
7:30 Superman (George Reeves)
8 AM Tom & Jerry/Mumbly
8:30 Jabberjaw
9 AM Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt
10:30 Krofft Supershow
11:30 Superfriends
12 N Oddball Couple
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 American Angler
2 PM Ara's Sports World (Ara Parseghian)
2:30 Championship Wrestling (this may have
been Mid-Atlantic, since it was starting
to move into the Tri-Cities)
3:30 Pro Bowlers Tour (Tournament of Champions,
from Akron)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (Wood Memorial, last
race before the Kentucky Derby, two weeks
hence and which Seattle Slew would take the
first step toward the Triple Crown)
6:30 The Racers
7 PM ABC News (Ted Koppel)
7:30 Animal World
8 PM Paul Lynde Special
9 PM Starsky & Hutch
10 PM Dog And Cat (the show that introduced
America to Kim Basinger)
11 PM ABC News
11:15 Movie: "Corvette K-225" (a ship, not a car)
12:45 Movie: "Tower Of London"

WTVK Ch. 26 (WVLT Ch. 8) Knoxville (ABC)

7 AM Bullwinkle
7:30 Jetsons
8 AM Tom & Jerry/Mumbly
8:30 Jabberjaw
9 AM Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt
10:30 Krofft Supershow
11:30 Superfriends
12 N Oddball Couple
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Formby's Antique Furniture Workshop
2 PM Let's Talk Sports
2:30 Bill Dance Outdoors
3 PM Outdoors With Julius Boros
3:30 Pro Bowlers Tour
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Fishing In Tennessee
7:30 In Search Of...
8 PM Paul Lynde Special
9 PM Starsky & Hutch
10 PM Dog And Cat
11 PM ABC News
11:15 700 Club

WSVN (WSBN) Ch. 47 Norton, VA (PBS)

5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Citizen's Forum
6:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
7 PM Rebop
7:30 Once Upon A Classic
8 PM Black Perspective On The News
8:30 The Way It Was
9 PM Six American Families
10 PM Movie: "Shoeshine"
11:30 Films
 
This part of TN was on the borderline of Crockett's area so it i spossible that Mid Atlantic wrestling was aired. The Southeastern promotion was either Welch or Nick Gulas.


The Blue Jays were terrible at this time. They may have won 55 games.
 
drpickle said:
This part of TN was on the borderline of Crockett's area so it i spossible that Mid Atlantic wrestling was aired. The Southeastern promotion was either Welch or Nick Gulas.


The Blue Jays were terrible at this time. They may have won 55 games.
The NBC baseball game was rained (or more likely snowed) out that day.
 
The NBC baseball game was rained (or more likely snowed) out that day.
I'm guessing that was maybe supposed to be the Jays' first national TV appearance, 1977 being their maiden year, along with the Seattle Mariners. (Slight pause while I look that up just to be sure.)

Also, when did "All In The Family" move to Monday nights? I didn't think it was still on Saturdays by '77.

I notice one NBC station airing Lohman & Barkley instead of "SNL"...Never got to see their TV show, but I've heard some airchecks of their AM drive show on KFI in Los Angeles. Comic geniuses, with a style that was kind of a cross between Bob & Ray and Jonathan Winters.
 
I think "All In The Family" aired on Mondays in
the 1975-76 season; I know that it moved to
Sundays in the fall of '77.

Al Lohman and Roger Barkley hosted a short-lived
NBC game show, "Name Droppers," in the 1969-70
season, and I think they had a syndicated game show
in the '70s, "Bedtime Stories," which usually aired after
11 PM, at least on the few stations that bothered with
it.
 
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