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Retro: Lancaster/Lebanon/Harrisburg/York Sat, Dec 23, 1978

from Lancaster Sunday News
Oddly enough, despite being listed, neither ch 12 or 45 are mentioned in the "stations listed" section...also, the Sunday News did the TV Guide Metro edition format, with local channels listed first, followed by the out-of-town channels in numerical order

WMAR 2-CBS Baltimore
6:30 Sunrise Semester "The American Character"
7:00 What's New, Mr. Magoo?
7:30 Woody Woodpecker
8:00 Popeye Hour
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Tarzan & the Super Seven
noon Tom & Jerry
12:30 Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids
1:00 Caboose
1:30 Sun Bowl: Texas 42-Maryland 0, at El Paso
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular: touch football with the '58 NY Giants and the '58 Baltimore Colts, Professional Skateboard Association World Skate Park Championships, World's Strongest Man pt 10
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Dolly
7:30 Cheap Show
8:00 Movie "The Homecoming: A Christmas Story" (the film that launched The Waltons)
10:00 CBS Reports "But What About the Children?" (looks at the effects of divorce on the kids)
11:00 News
11:30 Hot City Disco
12:30 Movie "The Bridges at Toko-Ri"

KYW 3-NBC Philadelphia
6:00 Consultation
6:30 International Zone
7:00 Carrascolendas
7:30 Challenge
8:00 Galaxy Goof-Ups
8:30 Fantastic Four
9:00 Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Daffy Duck
11:00 Yogi's Space Race
noon Fabulous Funnies
12:30 Bay City Rollers
1:00 Go!
1:30 Juke-Box
2:00 Marcus Welby, MD
3:00 Movie "The Deadly Game"
4:30 Black Edition
5:00 Meeting House
5:30 In Search of...
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Cosmic Christmas
7:30 Next Step Beyond
8:00 Stingiest Man in Town (Walter Matthau leads an all-star cast in this animated special loosely based on A Christmas Carol)
9:00 Lifeline
10:00 Weekend
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (who was on that week? I checked some episode listings, but they have the last live show before Christmas as airing the previous week)
1:00 Soul Train

WRC 4-NBC Washington
6:00 Daybreak
6:30 Vistas
7:00 Big Blue Marble
7:30 Beth & Bower
8:00 Galaxy Goof-Ups
8:30 Fantastic Four
9:00 Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Daffy Duck
11:00 Yogi's Space Race
noon Fabulous Funnies
12:30 Bay City Rollers
1:00 Stuff
1:30 Go!
2:00 Vegetable Soup
2:30 Movie: TBA
4:30 Night the Animals Talked
5:00 Her-Rah!
5:30 Last of the Wild
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Family Feud
7:30 NewsCenter Forum
8:00 Stingiest Man in Town
9:00 Lifeline
10:00 Weekend
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1:00 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert

WTTG 5-Ind Washington
4:55 Movie "Strange Bargain"
6:25 Today in Your Life
6:30 Vegetable Soup
7:00 Casper
7:30 News
8:00 Porky Pig
8:30 Jetsons
9:00 Flintstones
9:30 Laurel & Hardy Laughtoons
10:00 Movie "Little Women"
12:30 Movie "A Holiday Affair"
2:00 Movie "Christmas Eve"
3:30 Gong Show (x2)
4:30 Juke-Box
5:00 Soul Train
6:00 Six Million Dollar Man
7:00 Andy Griffith
7:30 Brady Bunch
8:00 Movie "Brigadoon"
10:00 News
10:30 Black Reflections
11:00 Gong Show
11:30 Movie "Meet Me in St. Louis"
1:30 Movie "The Shop Around the Corner"
3:35 Movie "Weekend at the Waldorf"

WPVI 6-ABC Philadelphia
6:00 Farm, Home & Garden
6:30 Chief Halftown
7:00 Animals, Animals, Animals
7:30 Fangface
8:00 Scooby's All-Stars
9:30 Challenge of the Superfriends
11:00 Captain Noah & His Magic Ark
noon ABC Weekend Special "Trouble River" (pt 1)
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Youth Perspective
2:00 TBA
2:30 College All-America Football Team
3:00 NCAA Bowl Preview
3:30 Liberty Bowl: Missouri 20-LSU 15, at Memphis (as you may have guessed by the title, this started in Philly's JFK Stadium in 1959, moving to Atlantic City's Convention Hall in 1964 (the first-ever indoor bowl game), and to its current home in Memphis in 1965)
6:30 ABC World News Saturday
7:00 News
7:30 Prime Time
8:00 Welcome Back, Kotter
8:30 Carter Country
9:00 Love Boat
10:00 Fantasy Island
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "To Sir with Love"
1:30 Movie "Flight Nurse"
3:30 ABC News

WGAL 8-NBC Lancaster
6:30 Lone Ranger
7:00 Sunshine Corners
7:30 Santa Claus
8:00 Galaxy Goof-Ups
9:00 Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Daffy Duck
11:00 Yogi's Space Race
noon Fabulous Funnies
12:30 Bay City Rollers
1:00 Country Music
1:30 That (Good Ole) Nashville Music
2:00 Movie "Young at Heart"
4:00 Music for Christmas
5:00 World of Survival
5:30 Porter Wagoner
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Moravian Merry Christmas
7:30 Magic Cocoon Christmas Special
8:00 Stingiest Man in Town
9:00 Lifeline
10:00 Weekend
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1:00 Juke-Box
1:30 News

WCAU 10-CBS Philadelphia
4:58 Joel A. Spivak
5:50 Agriculture News
6:00 Sunrise Semester "The American Character"
6:30 Doctors' Appointment
7:00 Gene London
8:00 Marlo & the Magic Movie Machine
8:30 What's New, Mr. Magoo?
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Tarzan & the Super Seven
noon Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids
1:00 Ark II
1:30 Sun Bowl
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Sha Na Na
7:30 Bonkers!
8:00 Movie "The Homecoming: A Christmas Story"
10:00 CBS Reports "But What About the Children?"
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "High Society"
1:25 Movie "Mutiny on the Bounty"

WBAL 11-NBC Baltimore
6:30 Learning to Read
7:00 A Better Way
7:30 Garden Living
8:00 At Home in Maryland
8:30 Beverly Hillbillies
9:00 Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Marlo & the Magic Movie Machine
11:00 Yogi's Space Race
noon Hocus Focus
12:30 Kidsworld
1:00 It's Academic
1:30 Soul Train
2:30 Western Theatre
5:00 Pinbusters
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Bowling for Dollars
7:30 Comedy Shop
8:00 Stingiest Man in Town
9:00 Lifeline
10:00 Weekend
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1:00 FBI
2:00 News

WHYY 12-PBS Wilmington/Philadelphia
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 A Child's Christmas in Wales (Sir Michael Redgrave narrates a performance by the National Theater of the Deaf)
11:00 Simple Gifts: Six Episodes for Christmas
noon Hanukkah (Ed Asner hosts this show about the Jewish celebration)
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1:00 Congressional Outlook (the dangers of fast-tracking the licensing of nuclear power plants are discussed by James R. Schlesinger, Peter A. Bradford, David Freeman, and Sen. Gary Hart)
1:30 David Susskind
2:30 Economically Speaking
3:00 We Interrupt This Week
3:30 Kup's Show
4:30 TV Garden Club
5:00 Turnabout "Common Ground"
5:30 Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
6:30 Black Perspective on the News
7:00 Soccer Made in Germany
8:00 Once Upon a Classic "The Secret Garden" (pt 7)
8:30 Julia Child & Company
9:00 Simple Gifts: Six Episodes for Christmas
10:00 Movie "Oliver Twist"
11:50 Soundstage (David Amram is joined by Dizzy Gillespie, Steve Goodman, and members of the Chicago Symphony)

WJZ 13-ABC Baltimore
6:00 Seminar
6:30 Villa Alegre
7:00 Big Blue Marble
7:30 Sunshine Kids
8:00 Scooby's All-Stars
9:30 Challenge of the Superfriends
11:00 Fangface
11:30 All-New Pink Panther
noon ABC Weekend Special "Trouble River" (pt 1)
12:30 Movie "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines"
3:00 Pop! Goes the Country
3:30 Liberty Bowl
6:30 ABC World News Saturday
7:00 News
7:30 Sunshine Kids
8:00 Welcome Back, Kotter
8:30 Square Off
9:00 Love Boat
10:00 Fantasy Island
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Agony and the Ectasy"
2:10 Juke-Box
2:40 One on One
3:10 News
3:20 ABC News
3:35 Movie "The Saint's Double Trouble"

WLYH 15-Lancaster/Lebanon, WSBA 43-York (CBS)
6:30 (15) Farm, Home & Garden
7:00 (15) What's New, Mr. Magoo?
7:30 (15) Clue Club
8:00 Popeye Hour
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 (15) Tarzan & the Super Seven
10:30 (43) Bugs Bunny
11:00 (43) Santa Claus
noon Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids
1:00 Ark II
1:30 Sun Bowl
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
6:00 (15) Wild Kingdom
6:00 (43) York Gospel Center Christmas Cantata
6:30 Bonkers!
7:00 Hee Haw
8:00 Tangerine Bowl: NC State 30-Pittsburgh 17, at Orlando (this became the Florida Citrus Bowl in 1983 and is now the CapitalOne Bowl since 2003)
11:00 World War II GI Diary
11:30 PTL Club
1:30 (43) Your Congressman Reports

WPHL 17-Ind Philadelphia
6:30 Delaware Valley Forum
7:00 700 Club
8:30 Gerald Derstine Shares
9:00 Dr. Thea F. Jones
9:30 America's Black Forum
10:00 Life Around Us
10:30 R.J.'s Disco USA
11:00 NFL Game of the Week
11:30 Movie "The Ghost Chasers"
1:00 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
2:00 Movie "The Human Monster"
3:30 Movie "The Mummy's Tomb"
5:00 Wrestling
6:00 Hee Haw
7:00 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
8:00 Tangerine Bowl
11:00 Soap Factory Disco
11:30 Movie "Creatures of Destruction"
1:00 700 Club
2:30 Delaware Valley Forum

WHP 21-CBS Harrisburg
6:30 Sunrise Semester "The American Character"
7:00 Topic A
7:30 Flintstones
8:00 Popeye Hour
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Tarzan & the Super Seven
noon Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids
1:00 Ark II
1:30 Sun Bowl
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Pennsylvania Lottery Daily Number
7:01 Jack Van Impe Christmas Crusade
8:00 Movie "The Homecoming: A Christmas Story"
10:00 CBS Reports "But What About the Children?"
11:00 News
11:30 Ironside Theatre
1:30 News

WTPA 27-ABC Harrisburg
8:00 Scooby's All-Stars
9:30 Challenge of the Superfriends
11:00 Fangface
11:30 All-New Pink Panther
noon ABC Weekend Special "Trouble River" (pt 1)
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Christmas is...
2:00 Movie "Joan of Arc"
3:30 Liberty Bowl
6:30 ABC World News Saturday
7:00 Lawrence Welk
8:00 Welcome Back, Kotter
8:30 Carter Country
9:00 Love Boat
10:00 Fantasy Island
11:00 ABC News
11:15 Movie "It's a Wonderful Life"

WTAF 29-Ind Philadelphia
7:50 Community Update
8:00 For You...Black Woman
8:30 Movie "Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster"
10:00 Movie "Maciste in King Solomon's Mine"
noon Bowling
1:00 Wrestling
2:00 Movie "Twisted Brain"
4:00 American Lifestyle
4:30 US National Drag Racing Special
5:30 Movie "Those Endearing Young Charms"
7:30 Newsprobe
8:00 Face Off
8:30 Hockey: the Broad Street Bullies head to Chicago to take on the Black Hawks
11:30 Ernest Angley Hour
12:30 PTL Club
2:00 Community Update

WITF 33-PBS Hershey
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:00 Economically Speaking
9:30 Book Beat
10:00 Julia Child & Company
10:30 People's Business
11:00 Newsmakers
11:30 360
noon Film Makers
12:30 Movie "Nicholas Nickelby"
2:30 Fawlty Towers
3:00 TV Garden Club
3:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
4:00 Masterpiece Theatre "The Duchess of Duke Street" (pt 9)
5:00 Studio See
5:30 Freestyle "Hey, Mom"
6:00 Rebop
6:30 Black Perspective on the News
7:00 Soccer Made in Germany
8:00 Once Upon a Classic "The Secret Garden" (pt 3)
8:30 Person to Person
9:00 Simple Gifts: Six Episodes for Christmas
10:00 Christmas Snows, Christmas Winds
10:30 Marshall Efron & Christmas
11:00 Movie "The Big Broadcast"

WBFF 45-Ind Baltimore
7:00 Cartoons
7:15 Vegetable Soup
7:45 Outlook
8:00 Open Wide
8:15 Department of Social Services
8:30 Community Relations Commission
8:45 Urban Services Agency
9:00 Movie "No Holds Barred"
10:30 Movie "Blondie's Blessed Event"
12:30 Movie "Captive GFirl"
2:30 Rifleman (x2)
3:30 Lefty Driesell
4:00 Wrestling
5:00 Gilligan's Island
5:30 Gomer Pyle
6:00 I Dream of Jeannie
6:30 Get Smart
7:00 Hogan's Heroes
7:30 I Love Lucy
8:00 Tangerine Bowl
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Dracula's Daughter"
12:45 Movie "Devil Bat's Daughter"
1:50 Serial Theatre
2:05 News

WKBS 48-Ind Philadelphia
8:00 Friday
8:30 On Target
9:00 Amazing Grace
9:30 Hot Fudge
10:00 Big Blue Marble
10:30 Wild Wild West
11:30 Movie "More Than Magic" (Lone Ranger)
1:00 Movie "The Amazing Colossal Man"
2:30 Movie "Kronos"
4:00 Star Trek
5:00 Emergency One!
6:00 Six Million Dollar Man
7:00 Lawrence Welk
8:00 Movie "Our Vines Have Tender Grapes"
10:00 It Takes a Thief
11:00 Monty Python's Flying Circus
11:35 Movie "Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum"

PRISM (Philadelphia regional pay TV, Cable TV Associates in Lancaster carried it)
4:30pm Movie "The Prince and the Pauper"
6:00 Movie "Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown"
7:30 Movie "The $1,000,000 Duck"
9:30 Movie "September 30, 1955"
11:30 Movie "Silver Streak"
 
Wonder why the listings for Washington's WRC are included here? Can one even pick up WRC in Lancaster?

OTOH I can understand WTTG being included though since they were for all intents & purposes in 1978 a regional "superstation" and they were quite popular in PA..as was WTTG's sister..NYC's WNEW. Which brings up this question...wonder if there were any cable systems in PA at the time of these lsitings who had offered BOTH WTTG and WNEW?
 
The "SNL" episode was a repeat of the 1977 Christmas
show. Mrs. Miskel Spillman, winner of the "Anyone Can
Host" contest, and musical guest Elvis Costello were featured.
 
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