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Retro: Los Angeles - Monday, December 28, 1981

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Source: Los Angeles Times

2 KNXT (CBS)
5:30 Sunrise Semester
6:00 Juntos
6:30 Sunnyside
7:00 Wake Up With Captain Kangaroo
7:30 Monday Morning
9:00 One Day at a Time
9:30 Alice
10:00 The Price is Right
11:00 Up to the Minute
11:30 Young and the Restless
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Search for Tomorrow
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 Rockford Files
4:00 Barney Miller
4:30 Channel 2 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 KNXT Special: "The Lather Over Soaps" - KNXT entertainment correspondent Gary Franklin looks into the world of daytime soap operas. (Pre-empting "2 On the Town".)
8:00 Private Benjamin: "A Bath for Benjamin"
8:30 The Two of Us: "The Christmas Thief"
9:00 M*A*S*H: "'Twas the Day After Christmas"
9:30 House Calls: "Losers Weepers"
10:00 Lou Grant: "Friends"
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:30 Quincy - Featuring a cameo by Joe Louis (died Apr. 12 that year).
12:40 Banacek
2:15 Channel 2 News (R)
2:45 Movie: "Funeral in Berlin" (1967) - Michael Caine, Eva Renzi, Paul Hubschmid, Oscar Homolka

4 KNBC
5:15 Slim Cuisine
5:45 Health Field
6:15 Alcoholism: Specific Answers (Part 1 of 5)
7:00 Today
9:00 Regis Philbin
9:30 Blockbusters
10:00 Wheel of Fortune - Former KNBC meteorologist Pat Sajak debuts as new host, succeeding Chuck Woolery.
10:30 Battlestars - Panel: Stuart Damon, Phyllis Diller, Skip Stephenson, Audrey Landers, Tom Poston, Roxie Roker
11:00 Password Plus - Guests: Jennilee Harrison, James Sikking
11:30 The Doctors
NOON Days of Our Lives
1:00 Another World
2:00 Texas
3:00 Donahue - Guest: Dr. Lennon Smith
4:00 Bob Newhart
4:30 Entertainment Tonight
5:00 NewsCenter 4
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 Little House on the Prairie: "The Reincarnation of Nellie" - Part 1 of 2 (Oct. 5, 1981; season premeire. Allison Balson replaces Alison Arngrim as Nellie Oleson.)
9:00 NBC Mini-Series: "From Here to Eternity" - Part 2 of 3 (1979) - Natalie Wood (one month after her death), William Devane, Kim Basinger, Roy Thinnes, Peter Boyle, Steve Railsback, Joe Pantoliano
11:00 NewsCenter 4
11:30 Tonight Show: Best of Carson (Jan. 11, 1980) - Guests: Lauren Bacall, David Steinberg; Performer: Eubie Blake
12:30 Tomorrow Coast to Coast - Scheduled: Charley Pride, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, drug abuse in the military
2:00 Entertainment Tonight (R)
2:30 Sign-Off News

5 KTLA
5:30 Jimmy Swaggart
6:00 Gallery - Johnny Grant
6:30 Hot Fudge Show
7:00 700 Club
8:30 Leave It to Beaver
9:00 Richard Simmons
9:30 Leave It to the Women
10:00 Big Valley
11:00 Bonanza
NOON Twilight Zone (x2)
1:00 Hour Magazine
2:00 John Davidson - "A Salute to Steve Allen"; Guests: Steve Allen, Andy Williams, Pat Harrington, Bill Dana, Jeff Altman, Jayne Meadows (Steve's wife)
3:30 F Troop
4:00 Emergency!
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: "Wuthering Heights" (1939) Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, David Niven, Flora Robson, Donald Crisp
10:00 Channel 5 News at Ten
11:00 Best of Saturday Night
MIDNIGHT Sha Na Na
12:30 Gene Autry Theater

7 KABC
6:00 Family Portrait
6:30 Daybreak LA
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 AM Los Angeles - Paul Moyer, Tawny Little (KABC news anchors; Regis Philbin was a recent host until his aforementioned NBC show's premiere on Nov. 30.)
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
5:30 ABC World News Tonight
6:00 Gator Bowl - North Carolina (31) vs. Arkansas (27)
9:00 That's Incredible!
10:00 Movie: "The Wrecking Crew" (1968) - Dean Martin, Sharon Tate (last film released in her lifetime, second to last altogether), Elke Somer, Nancy Kwan, Tina Louise, Nigel Green
11:30 Eyewitness News
MIDNIGHT Nightline
12:30 Movie: "Strange Homecoming" (1974) - Robert Culp, Glenn Campbell, Leif Garrett
2:30 Eyewitness News (R)

9 KHJ
6:00 Youth & the Issues
6:30 Community Feedback
7:00 The Froozles
7:30 There Is a Way
8:00 Jack LaLanne
8:30 Jim Bakker
9:30 Mid-Morning LA - Geoff Edwards, Meredith MacRae
11:00 Midday Movie: "The Last War" (1961) - Frankie Sakai, Akira Takarada, Yukiro Hoshi (Japanese, dubbed in English)
1:00 Channel 9 News
1:30 Ironside
2:30 Kojak
3:30 The 3:30 Movie: "Creatures of the Amazon" (1977) - Documentary
5:30 Carter Country
6:00 Treasure Hunt
6:30 Celebrity Bullseye
7:00 You Asked For It
7:30 Match Game
8:00 World Vision Special: "Crisis in the Horn of Africa" - Hosts: Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Carol Lawrence, Dean Jones, Dale Evans, Stan Mooneyham (World Vision President)
9:00 NCAA Basketball - UNLV Holiday Classic Tournament (Las Vegas Convention Center)
11:00 Channel 9 News
11:30 Best of Groucho
MIDNIGHT Movie Movie: "Creatures of the Amazon" (replay from 3:30 PM)

11 KTTV
6:00 Jimmy Swaggart
6:30 Great Space Coaster
7:00 Cartoon Town
8:00 Flipper
8:30 Gentle Ben
9:00 I Love Lucy
9:30 Bewitched
10:00 I Dream of Jeannie
10:30 Ghost & Mrs. Muir
11:00 Super Pay Cards - Art James
11:30 LA 11 News
NOON Movie: "The Culpepper Cattle Co." (1972) - Gary Grimes, Billy Green Bush, Raymond Guth, Bo Hopkins
2:00 Open Line
2:30 Jetsons
3:00 Brady Kids
3:30 Flintstones
4:00 Bugs & Porky
4:30 Tom & Jerry
5:00 Brady Bunch
5:30 Bewitched
6:00 Muppet Show - Guest: Jean Stapleton
6:30 I Love Lucy
7:00 Jeffersons
7:30 M*A*S*H
8:00 PM Magazine
8:30 All in the Family
9:00 Merv Griffin - Guests: Wayne Newton, Joan Rivers, Arthur Murray Dancers
10:00 LA 11 News
11:00 Jeffersons
11:30 Documentary: "Diamonds in the Sky", Parts 1 and 2 - Documentary of the impact of airplanes.
1:30 Mike Douglas - Co-host: Dom DeLuise; Guests: Erik Estrada, Jim Stafford, Pete Fountain, the Neville Brothers, the Wild Tchoupitoulas

13 KCOP
6:00 KCOP News Reports: Sign-On Edition
6:15 Films That Teach
6:30 Superman/Batman/Aquaman
7:00 Bugs Bunny
7:30 Kartoon Karnival
8:30 Popeye
9:00 Romper Room
9:30 Bowery Boys
10:30 John Wayne Theater
11:30 Midday News
NOON Hollywood Presents: "Dear Heart" (1964) - Glenn Ford, Geraldine Page, Angela Lansbury
2:00 Superman
2:30 Popeye
3:00 Bugs Bunny
3:30 Heckle & Jeckle
4:00 Kartoon Karnival
5:00 Scooby-Doo
5:30 Good Times
6:00 Hawaii Five-O
7:00 The Joker's Wild
7:30 Tic-Tac-Dough
8:00 8 O'Clock Movie: "Snowman" (1975) - Documentary
10:00 World Network News Los Angeles
10:30 Independent Network News
11:00 Sanford and Son
11:30 The Rookies
12:30 World Network News Los Angeles (R)
1:00 Late Picture Show: "Man in the Middle" (1964) - Robert Mitchum, France Nuyen, Barry Sullivan, Trevor Howard
2:30 KCOP News Reports: Sign-Off Edition

28 KCET (PBS)
5:45 AM Weather
6:00 The American Story
6:30 Presente!
7:00 Nightly Business Report (R)
7:30 Yoga for Health
8:00 Mister Rogerrs
8:30 Villa Alegre
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Rainbow's End - Award-winning PBS series for hearing-impaired children.
10:30 Legacy of the Northwest
11:00 Electric Company
11:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report (R)
NOON Dick Cavett - Guests: Chamber music group Waverly Consort
12:30 Over Easy
1:00 The End of an Aquifer
1:30 Matinee at the Bijou: "Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor" (1936); "Sinkin' in the Bathtub" (1930); Serial - "The Phantom Empire"
3:00 Personal Finance
3:30 Or Earth & Man
4:00 Villa Alegre
4:30 Mister Rogers
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Nightly Business Report
6:30 KCET Newsbeat With Clete Roberts
7:00 Over Easy - "Education"; Guest: Pearl Bailey
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 Great Performances: "Die Fledermaus" - From 1974, the Vienna State Opera and Orchestra, conducted by Karl Boehm (died Aug. 14 that year). (In German with English subtitles.)
10:30 Suicide: The Last Angry Act
11:00 Dick Cavett - Guest: Maximilian Schell, Part 1
11:30 KCET Newsbeat With Clete Roberts (R?)
MIDNIGHT It's Everybody's Business
 
I forgot to mention that it was also Day 1 of Teen Week on Sajak's "Wheel" debut.
 
As a bonus, here are my local Central Coast network affiliates' schedules from that day.

3 KEYT (ABC) Santa Barbara
6:00 Morning Stretch
6:30 Jimmy Swaggart
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Richard Simmons
9:30 KEY Morning Show
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 Waltons
4:30 Happy Days Again
5:00 KEY News
5:30 ABC World News Tonight
6:00 Gator Bowl
9:00 That's Incredible!
10:00 Glen Campbell
10:30 Myteries of Man
11:00 KEY News
11:30 Nightline
MIDNIGHT Mike Douglas

6 KSBY (NBC) San Luis Obispo
6:00 Eruditus
6:30 Romper Room
7:00 Today
9:00 Regid Philbin
9:30 Donahue (locally pre-empting Blockbusters and Pat Sajak's Wheel of Fortune debut)
10:30 Battlestars
11:00 Password Plus
11:30 The Doctors
NOON Days of Our Lives
1:00 Another World
2:00 Texas
3:00 Big Valley
4:00 Rockford Files
5:00 All in the Family
5:30 Action News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 You Asked For It
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 Little House on the Prairie
9:00 NBC Mini-Series: "From Here to Eternity", Part 2 of 3 (1979)
11:00 Action News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Tomorrow Coast to Coast

12 KCOY (CBS) Santa Maria
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 Wake Up With Captain Kangaroo
7:30 Monday Morning
9:00 One Day at a Time
9:30 Alice
10:00 The Price is Right
11:00 Young and the Restless
MIDNIGHT On the Coast
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Search for Tomorrow
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 Up to the Minute
3:30 Porky Pig
4:00 Hogan's Heroes
4:30 Bob Newhart
5:00 Carol Burnett
5:30 M*A*S*H
6:00 KCOY-TV News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 Muppet Show
8:00 Private Benjamin
8:30 Two of Us
9:00 M*A*S*H
9:30 House Calls
10:00 Lou Grant
11:00 KCOY-TV News
11:30 Quincy
12:40 Banacek

Sources: San Luis Obispo Telegram-Tribune and Santa Maria Times via newspapers.com
 
CORRECTIONS: It should say "Of Earth & Man" (Ch. 28 @ 3:30 PM). Also, I put 'MIDNIGHT' when it should say 'NOON' for KCOY Ch. 12.
 
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