Retro: Los Angeles - Friday, October 1, 1982

[RandTV]

This is the first of four schedules for each season premiere day of one of my all-time favorite shows, "Knight Rider". This, of course, is the series premiere, filmed in Los Angeles. The next three season premieres were filmed in Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Chicago respectively, and I will be post schedules from those markets on the day of those "Knight Rider" season premoeres".

2 KNXT (CBS)
5:30 Juntos (Together)
6:00 LA Morning (renamed "2 With You" the following Monday)
6:30 Captain Kangaroo (last weekday show after 27 years; aired on weekends starting Sept. 18; in its place the following Monday will be the premeire CBS Early Morning News; also, CBS News Nightwatch premiered in the pre-dawn hours)
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 $25,000 Pyramid - Guests: Denise Miller, Jay Johnson
9:30 Child's Play - Bill Cullen
10:00 Price is Right
11:00 Young and Restless
NOON Tattletales - Couples: Peter Brown & Barbara Whinnery, Robert & Candace Culp, Joe Sharkey & Marcia Wallace
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Capitol
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 Rockford Files
4:00 Barney Miller
4:30 Channel 2 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 2 On the Town
8:00 Dukes of Hazzard
9:00 Dallas (SP)
10:00 Falcon Crest (SP)
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:30 CBS Late Movie: "Sex and the Single Parent" (1979) - Mike Farrell, Susan Saint James
1:45 Channel 2 News (replay)
2:15 Movie: "The Miracle of the Bells" (1948) - Frank Sinatra, Fred MacMurray, Alida Valli, Lee J. Cobb

4 KNBC
6:00 Health Field
6:30 Early Today
7:00 Today
9:00 Diff'rent Strokes
9:30 Wheel of Fortune (Susan Stafford's last show was three weeks away)
10:00 Texas
11:00 The Doctors
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
NOON Days of Our Lives
1:00 Another World
2:00 Fantasy
3:00 Donahue
4:00 News 4 LA
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 The Powers of Matthew Star
9:00 Knight Rider (P) - "Knight of the Phoenix"
10:00 Remington Steele (P)
11:00 News 4 LA
11:30 Tonight Show - Guest host: Martin Mull; Guests: Margot Kidder, nut collector Elizabeth Tashjian; Performer: Anthony Newley
12:30 Late Night With David Letterman - Guests: Robert Klein, Laraine Newman, Divine
2:00 NBC News Overnight

5 KTLA
5:30 A Study in the World
6:00 Carrascolendas
6:30 '80s Woman
7:00 700 Club
8:30 Leave It to Beaver
9:00 Ozzie & Harriet
9:30 Rifleman
10:00 Emergency!
11:00 Bonanza
NOON Twilight Zone (x2)
1:00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (x2)
2:00 Hour Magazine
3:00 Richard Simmons
3:30 Tom Cottle: Up Close
4:00 Couples - Walter Brackelmanns
4:30 Entertainment Tonight - Ron Hendren, Dixie Whatley
5:00 Little House on the Prairie
6:00 Charlie's Angels
7:00 Happy Days Again
7:30 Laverne & Shirley & Company
8:00 Channel 5 Movie Theatre: "Sisters" (1972) - Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning
10:00 Channel 5 News at Ten
11:00 Best of Saturday Night (Live)
MIDNIGHT Entertainment Tonight (replay)
12:30 Couples (replay)
1:00 America's Top 10
1:30 Movie: "The Nanny" (1965) - Bette Davis, William Dix, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett

7 KABC
5:30 Daybreak LA
6:00 ABC News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 AM Los Angeles
10:00 Love Boat
11:00 Family Feud
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 People's Court
4:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Eye on LA
8:00 ABC Special: "The World's Greatest Escape Artist" - featuring Chris Shayland; hosted by William Devane
9:00 ABC Special: "Battle of the Network Stars" - Howard Cosell, Debbie Allen
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Nightline
MIDNIGHT Fridays (repeat; series ended last April 23)
1:30 Circle 7 Concerts (named for its 'Circle 7' logo)

9 KHJ
6:00 Community Feedback
6:30 It Can Be Done
7:00 Froozles
7:30 There Is a Way
8:00 Jim Bakker
9:00 Jack LaLanne
9:30 Mid-Morning LA
11:00 The Saint
NOON Movie: "My Boys Are Good Boys" (1978) - Ralph Meeker, Ida Lupino, Lloyd Nolan
1:30 Channel 9 News
2:00 Ironside
3:00 Kojak
4:00 What's Happening!! (x2)
5:00 White Shadow
6:00 Eight is Enough
7:00 Soap
7:30 Madame's Place
8:00 Million Dollar Movie: "The Steagle" (1971) - Richard Benjamin, Cloris Leachman, Chill Wills
9:30 Eric Sevareid's Chronicle
10:00 10 O'Clock News
11:00 In Search Of...
11:30 You Asked for It
MIDNIGHT Movie Movie (KHJ's late night movie broascast title): "The Italian Connection" (1972) - Mario Adorf, Henry Silva, Woody Strode

11 KTTV
5:00 Hogan's Heroes
5:30 Latin Tempo
6:00 CNN Headline News
6:30 Cartoon Town
7:00 Flintstones
7:30 Battle of the Planets
8:00 Spider-Man
8:30 Muppet Show
9:00 Soap World - Michael Young
9:30 Movie: "Dr. Jekyll an Mr. Hyde" (1941) - Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner
11:30 LA 11 News
12:30 Movie: "The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad" (1958) - Kerwin Mathews, Torin Thatcher, Kathryn Grant, Richard Eyer, Alex Mango
2:30 Open Line (possibly the new title for "Let's Rap")
3:00 Waltons
4:00 Flintstones
4:30 Groovie Goolies
5:00 Welcome Back, Kotter (x2)
6:00 M*A*S*H (x2)
7:00 Dodger Dugout; Pre-Game
7:30 Dodgers Baseball: at San Francisco Giants - reported by Vin Scully (RIP) and Ross Porter
10:30 LA 11 News
11:30 Jeffersons
MIDNIGHT Movie: "The Other" (1972) - Uta Hagen, Diana Muldaur, Victor French, John Ritter
2:00 LA 11 News (replay)

13 KCOP
6:00 Up and Coming
6:30 Mighty Mouse
7:00 Woody Woodpecker
8:00 Fred Flintstone and Friends
8:30 Popeye
9:00 Romper Room (and Friends)
9:30 Victory at Sea
10:00 Movie: "Mary, Mary" (1963) - Debbie Reynolds, Barry Nelson
NOON Love, American Style (x2)
1:00 Marcus Welby, M.D.
2:00 Superman
2:30 Popeye
3:00 Kartoon Karnival
4:00 Bugs Bunny
4:30 Fred Flintstone and Friends
5:00 Scooby-Doo
5:30 Pink Panther
6:00 Hawaii Five-O
7:00 Joker's Wild
7:30 Tic-Tac-Dough
8:00 8 O'Clock Movie: "Victory at Entebbe" (1976) - Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Dreyfuss, Helen Hayes, Anthony Hopkins
10:00 World Network News: Los Angeles
10:30 INN News
11:00 Streets of San Francisco
MIDNIGHT Love, American Style (x2)
1:00 Movie: "Warpath" (1951) - Edmond O'Brien, Polly Bergen, Dean Jagger

28 KCET (PBS)
5:45 AM Weather
6:00 Contemporary Health Issues
6:30 Captioned ABC News
7:00 Nightly Business Report (from the previous night)
7:30 Yoga for Health
8:00 Mister Rogers
8:30 Villa Alegre
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Instructional Programming
11:00 Electric Company
11:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report (from the previous night)
NOON Dick Cavett
12:30 Over Easy
1:00 Instructional Programming
3:00 High Feather
3:30 Project Universe
4:00 Mister Rogers
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 3-2-1 Contact
6:00 Over Easy
6:30 Dick Cavett
7:00 Nightly Business Report
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 Washington Week in Review
8:30 Wall $treet Week
9:00 South Africa Belongs to Us - Filmed documentary on black women in South Africa struggling to survive under Apartheid.
10:00 LA Week in Review
10:30 Matters of Life and Death
11:00 Nightly Business Report (replay)

 

[RandTV]

KTTV's normal schedule the previous Monday and Tuesday before the 3-game Dodgers series against the Giants:

6:00 S.W.A.T.
7:00 M*A*S*H (x2)
8:00 PM Magazine
8:30 Odd Couple
9:00 Merv Griffin
10:00 LA 11 News
11:00 M*A*S*H

The following Monday, October 4, KTTV changed their weekday schedule starting in the afternoon:

12:30 Open Line
1:00 I Love Lucy
1:30 Please Don't Eat the Daisies
2:00 All in the Family (x2)
3:00 Waltons
4:00 Flipper
4:30 Gentle Ben
5:00 Here's Lucy
5:30 Jeffersons
6:00 M*A*S*H
6:30 Alice
7:00 Three's Company
7:30 M*A*S*H
8:00 PM Magazine
8:30 So You Think You Got Troubles?! (debut) - Hosts: Jay Johnson and Bob (from Soap); Guest panel: Dr. Joyce Brothers, Rev. Bob Harrington, numerologist Darrah Meley
9:00 Merv Griffin
10:00 LA 11 News
11:00 That **** (Awful!) Quiz Show (debut) - Hosts: twin dwarves Greg & John Rice
11:30 Jeffersons

 

[genius]

Umm one important correction: but 10/1/82 was not the premiere date for Knight Rider, it was actually earlier in the week on Sunday 9/26/82 as a two hour premiere.

I double checked my hard copy of the Primetime Directory to be sure. Now the premiere date for Remington Steele is correct. Perhaps the newspaper made an error?

Both shows initially had a hard time making headway against #2 Dallas and #8 Falcon Creat NBC would eventually move them around later in the season were both eventually were successful and made David Hasselhoff and Pierce Bronsan household names.

Meanwhile ABC aired aired Battle of the Network Stars like it was still the 70’s LOL.

 

[RandTV]

Umm one important correction: but 10/1/82 was not the premiere date for Knight Rider, it was actually earlier in the week on Sunday 9/26/82 as a two hour premiere.

I double checked my hard copy of the Primetime Directory to be sure. Now the premiere date for Remington Steele is correct. Perhaps the newspaper made an error?

Both shows initially had a hard time making headway against #2 Dallas and #8 Falcon Creat NBC would eventually move them around later in the season were both eventually were successful and made David Hasselhoff and Pierce Bronsan household names.

Meanwhile ABC aired aired Battle of the Network Stars like it was still the 70’s LOL.

My extreme bad! However, 10/1/82 was the date of the first Knight Rider episode following its 9/26 premiere, if that's of any consolation. I think that was the first Battle of the Network Stars I watched! I was starting to watch prime time TV again by that season. For the previous two seasons, I usually started with my homework after the syndicated game show blocks (i.e. Joker's Wild, Tic-Tac-Dough).

 

[genius]

My extreme bad! However, 10/1/82 was the date of the first Knight Rider episode following its 9/26 premiere, if that's of any consolation. I think that was the first Battle of the Network Stars I watched! I was starting to watch prime time TV again by that season. For the previous two seasons, I usually started with my homework after the syndicated game show blocks (i.e. Joker's Wild, Tic-Tac-Dough).

Oh no worries haha just figured you should know so you find a 9/26/82 schedule to post as well! 🙂

In the late 70’s I remember my parents always watched the Battle of the Network Stars which I thought was fun but by 1982 wasn’t something I would have been interested in watching—I would have been watching CBS on Friday night before going out with friends as these were my college days….I recall this season premieres had random Duke cousins introduced instead of Bo & Luke on Dukes of Hazzard, the aftermath of Jock’s death on Dallas, while Falcon Crest’s season premiere introduced the treacherous Richard Channing who would be the show’s main villain until the series end.