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P - Premiere
SP - Season Premiere
3 KORK (NBC)
6:00 Christopher Closeup
6:30 Vegascope
7:00 Today
9:00 Card Sharks
9:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Paul Lynde, David Letterman, George Gobel, Jennifer Salt, William Christopher, Paul Williams, Betty White, Chuck Woolery, Susan Stafford
10:00 High Rollers
10:30 Wheel of Fortune
11:00 America Alive!
NOON Eyewitness News
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2:00 Another World
3:00 For Richer, For Poorer
3:30 That Girl
4:00 Star Trek
5:00 Brady Bunch
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 Adam-12
7:00 Emergency One!
8:00 Dick Clark's Live Wednesday (P) - Guests: Diana Ross, Rick Nelson, Los Angeles Rams Cheerleaders, Dar Robinson (stuntman), a supergroup of multiple famous musicians
9:00 NBC Wednesday Night at the Movies: "Airport '77" (Part 2 of 2) (1977) - Jack Lemmon, James Stewart, Lee Grant, Brenda Vacarro, Joseph Cotten, George Kennedy
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Tonight Show - Guests: Joe Namath, George Plimpton, Jack Klugman; Performer: Kellee Patterson
1:00 Tomorrow - Guests: advertising executives Ed McCabe and Robert Gertenbach
2:00 Movie: "A Great American Tragedy" (1972) - George Kennedy, Vera Miles
5 KVVU (Ind.) Henderson
7:00 New Zoo Revue
7:30 Cartoons
9:00 Donahue - Guest: "Mr. Las Vegas" himself, Wayne Newton
10:00 Dinah! - Guests: Monty & Marilyn Hall, Jamie & Joy Farr, Vincent Price & Coral Browne, Bob Payne (puppeteer)
11:30 Mike Douglas - Co-host: Ben Vereen; Guests: Suzanne Pleshette, Milton Berle, Maximilian Schell, Jim Dannaldson, Margaret Whiting, Helen O'Connell, Rosemary Clooney, Rose Marie
1:00 Movie: "Who is the Black Dahlia?" (1975) - Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Lucie Arnaz, Ronny Cox
3:00 My Three Sons
3:30 Yogi Bear
4:00 Fred Flintstone and Friends
4:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
5:00 Doctor Who
5:30 Gong Show
6:00 Sanford and Son
6:30 Carol Burnett and Friends - Guests: Anthony Newley, Dick Martin
7:00 Bob Newhart
7:30 World War II: G.I. Diary
8:00 Mod Squad
9:00 I Love Lucy
9:30 Dick Van Dyke
10:00 Andy Griffith
10:30 Phil Silvers/Sgt. Bilko
11:00 Love Expers - Bill Cullen (newly premiered)
11:30 Streets of San Francisco
12:30 Movie: "Eric" (1975) - John Savage, Patricia Neal
2:00 Movie: "Middle of the Night" (1959) - Frederic March, Kim Novak
4:00 Move: "Who is the Black Dahlia?" (see 1:00 P.M.)
8 KLAS (CBS)
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo - On location at the San Diego Wild Animal Park (now the San Diego Zoo Safari Park)
9:00 Gambit (local reruns of 1972-76 CBS blackjack game show with Wink Martindale; this may have inspired the 1980 NBC revival Las Vegas Gambit)
9:30 Price is Right
10:30 Love of Life
10:55 CBS Midday News
11:00 Young and Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
NOON Midday
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2:30 Merv Griffin - Guests: Joan Rivers, Bert Convy, Bill Fellows, David Saye, (Vasily) Alexeev (weightlifter), Moore's Mongrel Review
3:30 M*A*S*H
4:00 Match Game '78 - Panel: Tab Hunter, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Marilu Henner, Dick Martin, Fannie Flagg
4:30 Joker's Wild
5:00 Dating Game
5:30 CBS Morning News
6:00 Channel 8 News
6:30 Mary Tyler Moore
7:00 Newlywed Game
7:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
8:00 Jeffersons (SP)
8:30 In the Beginning (P)
9:00 CBS Wednesday Night Movies: "Are You in the House Alone?" (Premiere) - Kathleen Beller, Blythe Danner
11:00 Channel 8 News
11:30 Hawaii Five-O
12:40 Kojak
1:50 Channel 8 News (replay)
10 KLVX (PBS)
9:00 Sesame Street
10:05 MeasureMetric
10:30 Ripples
10:50 Time to Draw
11:10 Mulligan Stew
11:45 Under the Blue Umbrella
1:00 Electric Company
1:35 Patterns in Arithmetic (x2)
2:15 Storytime Friends
2:30 Over Easy
3:00 Lilias, Yoga and You
3:30 Studio See
4:00 Mister Rogers
4:30 Electric Company
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Economically Speaking
6:30 Crockett's Victory Garden (named for host James Underwood Crockett until his death July 11, 1979)
7:00 As We See It: "Anatomy of Riots"
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 Echoes of Silver
8:30 Great Performances: "Live from Lincoln Center: The New York Philharmonic"
10:30 The Pallisers
11:30 Captioned ABC News
13 KSHO (ABC)
6:00 PTL Club
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Marcus Welby, M.D.
10:00 Happy Days
10:30 $20,000 Pyramid - Guests: Didi Conn, Martin Mull
11:00 Liar's Club
11:30 Ryan's Hope
NOON All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Edge of Night
3:30 Battle of the Planets
4:00 Krofft Superstars
4:30 Family Feud (ABC)
5:00 You Don't Say! - Jim Peck
5:30 ABC World News Tonight
6:00 Action News 13
6:30 Cross-Wits
7:00 Wild, Wild World of Animals
7:30 Last of the Wild
8:00 Eight is Enough
9:00 Charlie's Angels (Farrah Fawcett-Majors makes the first of six return guest appearances. Also, the previous week's season premiere was set in Las Vegas and featured a crossover at the end with Robert Urich as Dan Tanna, his Vega$ character.)
10:00 Vega$ (P) (Previously aired as a pilot movie on ABC April 25, 1978)
11:00 Action News 13
11:30 Police Woman
12:37 S.W.A.T.
1:45 Action News 13 (replay)
2:15 Movie: "Winter Carnival" (1939) - Ann Sheridan, Richard Carlson
SP - Season Premiere
3 KORK (NBC)
6:00 Christopher Closeup
6:30 Vegascope
7:00 Today
9:00 Card Sharks
9:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Paul Lynde, David Letterman, George Gobel, Jennifer Salt, William Christopher, Paul Williams, Betty White, Chuck Woolery, Susan Stafford
10:00 High Rollers
10:30 Wheel of Fortune
11:00 America Alive!
NOON Eyewitness News
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2:00 Another World
3:00 For Richer, For Poorer
3:30 That Girl
4:00 Star Trek
5:00 Brady Bunch
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 Adam-12
7:00 Emergency One!
8:00 Dick Clark's Live Wednesday (P) - Guests: Diana Ross, Rick Nelson, Los Angeles Rams Cheerleaders, Dar Robinson (stuntman), a supergroup of multiple famous musicians
9:00 NBC Wednesday Night at the Movies: "Airport '77" (Part 2 of 2) (1977) - Jack Lemmon, James Stewart, Lee Grant, Brenda Vacarro, Joseph Cotten, George Kennedy
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Tonight Show - Guests: Joe Namath, George Plimpton, Jack Klugman; Performer: Kellee Patterson
1:00 Tomorrow - Guests: advertising executives Ed McCabe and Robert Gertenbach
2:00 Movie: "A Great American Tragedy" (1972) - George Kennedy, Vera Miles
5 KVVU (Ind.) Henderson
7:00 New Zoo Revue
7:30 Cartoons
9:00 Donahue - Guest: "Mr. Las Vegas" himself, Wayne Newton
10:00 Dinah! - Guests: Monty & Marilyn Hall, Jamie & Joy Farr, Vincent Price & Coral Browne, Bob Payne (puppeteer)
11:30 Mike Douglas - Co-host: Ben Vereen; Guests: Suzanne Pleshette, Milton Berle, Maximilian Schell, Jim Dannaldson, Margaret Whiting, Helen O'Connell, Rosemary Clooney, Rose Marie
1:00 Movie: "Who is the Black Dahlia?" (1975) - Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Lucie Arnaz, Ronny Cox
3:00 My Three Sons
3:30 Yogi Bear
4:00 Fred Flintstone and Friends
4:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
5:00 Doctor Who
5:30 Gong Show
6:00 Sanford and Son
6:30 Carol Burnett and Friends - Guests: Anthony Newley, Dick Martin
7:00 Bob Newhart
7:30 World War II: G.I. Diary
8:00 Mod Squad
9:00 I Love Lucy
9:30 Dick Van Dyke
10:00 Andy Griffith
10:30 Phil Silvers/Sgt. Bilko
11:00 Love Expers - Bill Cullen (newly premiered)
11:30 Streets of San Francisco
12:30 Movie: "Eric" (1975) - John Savage, Patricia Neal
2:00 Movie: "Middle of the Night" (1959) - Frederic March, Kim Novak
4:00 Move: "Who is the Black Dahlia?" (see 1:00 P.M.)
8 KLAS (CBS)
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo - On location at the San Diego Wild Animal Park (now the San Diego Zoo Safari Park)
9:00 Gambit (local reruns of 1972-76 CBS blackjack game show with Wink Martindale; this may have inspired the 1980 NBC revival Las Vegas Gambit)
9:30 Price is Right
10:30 Love of Life
10:55 CBS Midday News
11:00 Young and Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
NOON Midday
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2:30 Merv Griffin - Guests: Joan Rivers, Bert Convy, Bill Fellows, David Saye, (Vasily) Alexeev (weightlifter), Moore's Mongrel Review
3:30 M*A*S*H
4:00 Match Game '78 - Panel: Tab Hunter, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Marilu Henner, Dick Martin, Fannie Flagg
4:30 Joker's Wild
5:00 Dating Game
5:30 CBS Morning News
6:00 Channel 8 News
6:30 Mary Tyler Moore
7:00 Newlywed Game
7:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
8:00 Jeffersons (SP)
8:30 In the Beginning (P)
9:00 CBS Wednesday Night Movies: "Are You in the House Alone?" (Premiere) - Kathleen Beller, Blythe Danner
11:00 Channel 8 News
11:30 Hawaii Five-O
12:40 Kojak
1:50 Channel 8 News (replay)
10 KLVX (PBS)
9:00 Sesame Street
10:05 MeasureMetric
10:30 Ripples
10:50 Time to Draw
11:10 Mulligan Stew
11:45 Under the Blue Umbrella
1:00 Electric Company
1:35 Patterns in Arithmetic (x2)
2:15 Storytime Friends
2:30 Over Easy
3:00 Lilias, Yoga and You
3:30 Studio See
4:00 Mister Rogers
4:30 Electric Company
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Economically Speaking
6:30 Crockett's Victory Garden (named for host James Underwood Crockett until his death July 11, 1979)
7:00 As We See It: "Anatomy of Riots"
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 Echoes of Silver
8:30 Great Performances: "Live from Lincoln Center: The New York Philharmonic"
10:30 The Pallisers
11:30 Captioned ABC News
13 KSHO (ABC)
6:00 PTL Club
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Marcus Welby, M.D.
10:00 Happy Days
10:30 $20,000 Pyramid - Guests: Didi Conn, Martin Mull
11:00 Liar's Club
11:30 Ryan's Hope
NOON All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Edge of Night
3:30 Battle of the Planets
4:00 Krofft Superstars
4:30 Family Feud (ABC)
5:00 You Don't Say! - Jim Peck
5:30 ABC World News Tonight
6:00 Action News 13
6:30 Cross-Wits
7:00 Wild, Wild World of Animals
7:30 Last of the Wild
8:00 Eight is Enough
9:00 Charlie's Angels (Farrah Fawcett-Majors makes the first of six return guest appearances. Also, the previous week's season premiere was set in Las Vegas and featured a crossover at the end with Robert Urich as Dan Tanna, his Vega$ character.)
10:00 Vega$ (P) (Previously aired as a pilot movie on ABC April 25, 1978)
11:00 Action News 13
11:30 Police Woman
12:37 S.W.A.T.
1:45 Action News 13 (replay)
2:15 Movie: "Winter Carnival" (1939) - Ann Sheridan, Richard Carlson