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The tenth anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination in Los Angeles.
Source: Los Angeles Times via newspapers.com
Part I
Major Full Power LA Stations
2 KNXT (CBS)
5:30 Summer Semester
6:00 Freehand Sketching
6:30 Last of the Wild
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Pass the Buck - Bill Cullen
9:30 The Price is Right
10:30 Love of Life
10:55 CBS Mid-day News
11:00 Young and the Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
NOON Steve Edwards
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2:30 All in the Family
3:00 Mike Douglas - Co-host: Ruth Warrick; Guests: Anson Williams, Leon Spinks, Robert Guillaume, Agnes Nixon
4:30 Match Game '78 - Guests: David Doyle, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Elaine Joyce, Richard Dawson, Betty White
5:00 Channel 2 News - featuring Connie Chung
6:00 CBS Evening News
6:30 Movie: "Prescription: Murder" (1968 pilot to the Columbo series)
8:00 Jeffersons: "Florence's Union" (Jan 28, 1978)
8:30 Good Times: "Requiem for a Wino" (Dec 14, 1977) - Guest starring Robert Guillaume as "Fishbone" the wino.
9:00 M*A*S*H: "War of Nerves" (Oct 11, 1977)
9:30 One Day at a Time: "Ann's Secretary" (Jan 17, 1978)
10:00 Lou Grant: "Housewarming" (Nov 29, 1977) - Guest starring Julie Kavner
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:30 CBS Late Movie: "The Girl Who Came Gift-Wrapped" (1974) - Karen Valentine, Richard Long, Tom Bosley, Farrah Fawcett, Dave Madden
2:00 Late Show: "Scream of Fear" (1961) - Susan Strasberg, Christopher Lee, Ronald Lewis, Ann Todd (released in the UK as "Taste of Fear")
4 KNBC
6:00 Knowledge
6:30 Not for Women Only
7:00 Today
9:00 Card Sharks
9:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Jimmie Walker, Rose Marie, Ron Pallilo, Bruce Boxleitner, Paul Lynde, Susan Sullivan, George Gobel, Mackenzie Phillips, Wayland Flowers & Madame
10:00 High Rollers
10:30 Wheel of Fortune
11:00 Sanford and Son
11:30 Gong Show
NOON For Richer, For Poorer (Retooled and renamed from "Lovers and Friends" on December 6, 1977 after seven-month hiatus.)
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2:00 Another World
3:00 To Tell the Truth - Joe Garagiola
3:30 Medical Center
4:30 Mary Tyler Moore
5:00 NewsCenter 4 - featuring Pat Sajak with the weather and Bryant Gumbel with sports
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 David Horowitz' Consumer Buyline (forerunner to Fight Back!)
8:00 Little House on the Prairie: "Meet Me at the Fair" (Nov 28, 1977)
9:00 (pre-AT&T) Bell System Special: "Our Town" (TV play) - Hal Holbrook, Ned Beatty, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robby Benson, Ronny Cox, Glynnis O'Connor, Sada Thompson
11:00 NewsCenter 4
11:30 Tonight Show - Guest host: Burt Reynolds; Guests: Carol Burnett, James Brolin; Performer: Roger Miller
1:00 Tomorrow - Topic: PCP (aka "Angel Dust")
5 KTLA
6:30 Carrascolendas
7:00 700 Club
8:30 Life in the Spirit
9:00 Gallery
9:30 Mayberry RFD
10:00 Gene Autry
10:30 Dragnet
11:00 Dick Van Dyke
11:30 Father Knows Best
NOON Twilight Zone
12:30 Rifleman
1:00 Big Valley
2:00 Love, American Style
3:00 The Joker's Wild (1972-75 CBS version)
3:30 Dinah! - Guests: Lucille Ball, Gary Morton, Lucie Arnaz, Carl Reiner, Anson Williams, Robert Osborne, Debbie Johnson
5:00 Bonanza
6:00 Emergency One!
7:00 Liar's Club
7:30 Newlywed Game
8:00 Channel 5 Movie Theatre: "California" (1947) - Ray Milland, Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Fitzgerald, Anthony Quinn
10:00 News Watch
11:00 Love, American Style
MIDNIGHT Twilight Zone
12:30 Gene Autry
7 KABC
6:00 Real Estate and You
6:30 Daybreak LA
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 AM Los Angeles
10:00 Happy Days
10:30 $20,000 Pyramid - Guests: Kathy Glass, Robert Walden
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 ABC Evening News
4:00 Eyewitness News
5:00 Monday Night Baseball - Los Angeles Dodgers vs. New York Mets
8:30 Movie: "The Wild Bunch" (1969) - William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Soap: "Episode 1" (Sept 13, 1977)
MIDNIGHT Police Story
9 KHJ
6:00 Community Feedback
6:30 Youth and the Issues
7:00 Davey and Goliath
7:30 The Froozles
8:00 PTL Club
9:00 Body Buddies
9:30 Lone Ranger
10:00 Mid-Morning LA
NOON Midday Movie: "The Vanishing American" (1953) - Scott Brady, Audrey Totter, Forrest Tucker, Gene Lockhart, Jim Davis
1:30 Channel Nine News
2:00 Jim Nabors - Guests: Jimmy Osmond, Marilyn Maye, Kip Adotta, Scatman Crothers
3:00 Green Acres
3:30 Concentration
4:00 Ironside
5:00 Wild, Wild West
6:00 Gunsmoke
7:00 Bowling for Dollars
7:30 The Joker's Wild (first-run syndicated version)
8:00 Million Dollar Movie: "Stopover Tokyo" (1957) - Robert Wagner, Joan Collins, Edmond O'Brien, Ken Scott
10:00 10 O'Clock News
11:00 Million Dollar Movie: "White Horses of Summer" (1975) - Jean Seberg, Frederick Stafford
1:00 Maverick
11 KTTV
6:00 University of the Air
6:30 New Zoo Revue
7:00 Bugs & Porky
7:30 Tom & Jerry
8:30 Flintstones
9:00 I Love Lucy
9:30 Family Affair
10:00 Andy Griffith
10:30 Hogan's Heroes
11:00 Metro News
11:30 Ben Hunter Movie Matinee: "Letter From an Unknown Woman" (1948) - Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan
1:50 Ben Hunter Interview
2:00 Let's Rap
2:30 Archies
3:00 Fred Flintstone and Friends
3:30 Bugs & Porky
4:30 Tom & Jerry
5:00 New Mickey Mouse Club
5:30 Family Affair
6:00 Brady Bunch
6:30 Bewitched
7:00 I Love Lucy
7:30 Brady Bunch
8:00 Carol Burnett and Friends
8:30 $128,000 Question - Alex Trebek
9:00 Merv Griffin - Guests: Susan Marfolis, Rona Barrett, John & Maureen Dean, George Plimpton (As a Harvard classmate and close friend of RFK, Plimpton was at the scene of his assassination and seized his assassin Sirhan Sirhan with the help of Rosey Grier and Rafer Johnson. It's possible he may have been talking about it on this episode.)
10:30 Metro News
11:00 Odd Couple
11:30 That Girl
MIDNIGHT High Hopes
12:30 Cross-Wits
13 KCOP
6:00 KCOP News: Sign-on Edition
6:15 Daybreak
6:30 Funky Phantom
7:00 Penelope Pitstop
7:30 Woody and Heckle & Jeckle
8:00 Wacky Races
8:30 Popeye
9:00 Superman
9:30 Romper Room
10:00 Woman: Reel to Real
10:30 Sgt. Bilko
11:00 Gomer Pyle
11:30 Nanny and the Professor
NOON I Dream of Jeannie (x2)
1:00 Get Smart
1:30 Gomer Pyle
2:00 News 13 - Charlie O'Donnell
2:30 Terrytoons
3:00 Heckle & Jeckle
3:30 Woody & Popeye
4:30 Josie and the Pussycats
5:00 Batman - Guest villain: Van Johnson as the Minstrel
5:30 Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
6:00 Adam-12
6:30 The Rookies (half-hour partly due to violent content edited out)
7:00 Adam-12
7:30 America 2Night - Guest: Billy Crystal (then starring as Jodie Dallas on ABC's "Soap")
8:00 8 O'Clock Movie: "Flame Over India" (1960) - Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall, Herbert Lom (released in the UK as "North West Frontier", and in Australia as "Empress of India")
10:30 News 13
11:00 Monty Python's Flying Circus
11:30 Get Smart
MIDNIGHT Honeymooners
12:30 Late Picture Show: "State Fair" (1945) - Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes, Vivian Blaine
2:00 KCOP News: Sign-off Edition
28 KCET (PBS)
7:00 Yoga for Health
7:30 Mister Rogers
8:00 Zoom
8:30 Villa Alegre
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Nova: "The Desert's Edge"
11:00 Electric Company
11:30 Dick Cavett
NOON Michael Jackson (LA interviewer, not the singer)
12:30 Yoga for Health
1:00 Previn and the Pittsburgh
2:00 Symbiosis - featuring the San Diego Ballet
2:30 Instructional Programming
3:00 On the Track
3:30 History of Mexico
4:00 Villa Alegre
4:30 Mister Rogers
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Electric Company
6:30 Over Easy - Guests: Mr. and Mrs. Peter Marshall
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 28 Tonight
8:00 Special: "Henry Ford's America"
9:00 Meeting of Minds
10:00 Michael Jackson - Guest: Steve Allen
10:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report (R)
11:00 Dick Cavett - Guest: Ginger Rogers
11:30 Dick Hanna Story (former Orange County Congressman who had served a year in prison for his role in the "Koreagate" scandal)
MIDNIGHT Captioned ABC News
Source: Los Angeles Times via newspapers.com
Part I
Major Full Power LA Stations
2 KNXT (CBS)
5:30 Summer Semester
6:00 Freehand Sketching
6:30 Last of the Wild
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Pass the Buck - Bill Cullen
9:30 The Price is Right
10:30 Love of Life
10:55 CBS Mid-day News
11:00 Young and the Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
NOON Steve Edwards
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2:30 All in the Family
3:00 Mike Douglas - Co-host: Ruth Warrick; Guests: Anson Williams, Leon Spinks, Robert Guillaume, Agnes Nixon
4:30 Match Game '78 - Guests: David Doyle, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Elaine Joyce, Richard Dawson, Betty White
5:00 Channel 2 News - featuring Connie Chung
6:00 CBS Evening News
6:30 Movie: "Prescription: Murder" (1968 pilot to the Columbo series)
8:00 Jeffersons: "Florence's Union" (Jan 28, 1978)
8:30 Good Times: "Requiem for a Wino" (Dec 14, 1977) - Guest starring Robert Guillaume as "Fishbone" the wino.
9:00 M*A*S*H: "War of Nerves" (Oct 11, 1977)
9:30 One Day at a Time: "Ann's Secretary" (Jan 17, 1978)
10:00 Lou Grant: "Housewarming" (Nov 29, 1977) - Guest starring Julie Kavner
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:30 CBS Late Movie: "The Girl Who Came Gift-Wrapped" (1974) - Karen Valentine, Richard Long, Tom Bosley, Farrah Fawcett, Dave Madden
2:00 Late Show: "Scream of Fear" (1961) - Susan Strasberg, Christopher Lee, Ronald Lewis, Ann Todd (released in the UK as "Taste of Fear")
4 KNBC
6:00 Knowledge
6:30 Not for Women Only
7:00 Today
9:00 Card Sharks
9:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Jimmie Walker, Rose Marie, Ron Pallilo, Bruce Boxleitner, Paul Lynde, Susan Sullivan, George Gobel, Mackenzie Phillips, Wayland Flowers & Madame
10:00 High Rollers
10:30 Wheel of Fortune
11:00 Sanford and Son
11:30 Gong Show
NOON For Richer, For Poorer (Retooled and renamed from "Lovers and Friends" on December 6, 1977 after seven-month hiatus.)
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2:00 Another World
3:00 To Tell the Truth - Joe Garagiola
3:30 Medical Center
4:30 Mary Tyler Moore
5:00 NewsCenter 4 - featuring Pat Sajak with the weather and Bryant Gumbel with sports
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 David Horowitz' Consumer Buyline (forerunner to Fight Back!)
8:00 Little House on the Prairie: "Meet Me at the Fair" (Nov 28, 1977)
9:00 (pre-AT&T) Bell System Special: "Our Town" (TV play) - Hal Holbrook, Ned Beatty, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robby Benson, Ronny Cox, Glynnis O'Connor, Sada Thompson
11:00 NewsCenter 4
11:30 Tonight Show - Guest host: Burt Reynolds; Guests: Carol Burnett, James Brolin; Performer: Roger Miller
1:00 Tomorrow - Topic: PCP (aka "Angel Dust")
5 KTLA
6:30 Carrascolendas
7:00 700 Club
8:30 Life in the Spirit
9:00 Gallery
9:30 Mayberry RFD
10:00 Gene Autry
10:30 Dragnet
11:00 Dick Van Dyke
11:30 Father Knows Best
NOON Twilight Zone
12:30 Rifleman
1:00 Big Valley
2:00 Love, American Style
3:00 The Joker's Wild (1972-75 CBS version)
3:30 Dinah! - Guests: Lucille Ball, Gary Morton, Lucie Arnaz, Carl Reiner, Anson Williams, Robert Osborne, Debbie Johnson
5:00 Bonanza
6:00 Emergency One!
7:00 Liar's Club
7:30 Newlywed Game
8:00 Channel 5 Movie Theatre: "California" (1947) - Ray Milland, Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Fitzgerald, Anthony Quinn
10:00 News Watch
11:00 Love, American Style
MIDNIGHT Twilight Zone
12:30 Gene Autry
7 KABC
6:00 Real Estate and You
6:30 Daybreak LA
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 AM Los Angeles
10:00 Happy Days
10:30 $20,000 Pyramid - Guests: Kathy Glass, Robert Walden
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 ABC Evening News
4:00 Eyewitness News
5:00 Monday Night Baseball - Los Angeles Dodgers vs. New York Mets
8:30 Movie: "The Wild Bunch" (1969) - William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Warren Oates
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Soap: "Episode 1" (Sept 13, 1977)
MIDNIGHT Police Story
9 KHJ
6:00 Community Feedback
6:30 Youth and the Issues
7:00 Davey and Goliath
7:30 The Froozles
8:00 PTL Club
9:00 Body Buddies
9:30 Lone Ranger
10:00 Mid-Morning LA
NOON Midday Movie: "The Vanishing American" (1953) - Scott Brady, Audrey Totter, Forrest Tucker, Gene Lockhart, Jim Davis
1:30 Channel Nine News
2:00 Jim Nabors - Guests: Jimmy Osmond, Marilyn Maye, Kip Adotta, Scatman Crothers
3:00 Green Acres
3:30 Concentration
4:00 Ironside
5:00 Wild, Wild West
6:00 Gunsmoke
7:00 Bowling for Dollars
7:30 The Joker's Wild (first-run syndicated version)
8:00 Million Dollar Movie: "Stopover Tokyo" (1957) - Robert Wagner, Joan Collins, Edmond O'Brien, Ken Scott
10:00 10 O'Clock News
11:00 Million Dollar Movie: "White Horses of Summer" (1975) - Jean Seberg, Frederick Stafford
1:00 Maverick
11 KTTV
6:00 University of the Air
6:30 New Zoo Revue
7:00 Bugs & Porky
7:30 Tom & Jerry
8:30 Flintstones
9:00 I Love Lucy
9:30 Family Affair
10:00 Andy Griffith
10:30 Hogan's Heroes
11:00 Metro News
11:30 Ben Hunter Movie Matinee: "Letter From an Unknown Woman" (1948) - Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan
1:50 Ben Hunter Interview
2:00 Let's Rap
2:30 Archies
3:00 Fred Flintstone and Friends
3:30 Bugs & Porky
4:30 Tom & Jerry
5:00 New Mickey Mouse Club
5:30 Family Affair
6:00 Brady Bunch
6:30 Bewitched
7:00 I Love Lucy
7:30 Brady Bunch
8:00 Carol Burnett and Friends
8:30 $128,000 Question - Alex Trebek
9:00 Merv Griffin - Guests: Susan Marfolis, Rona Barrett, John & Maureen Dean, George Plimpton (As a Harvard classmate and close friend of RFK, Plimpton was at the scene of his assassination and seized his assassin Sirhan Sirhan with the help of Rosey Grier and Rafer Johnson. It's possible he may have been talking about it on this episode.)
10:30 Metro News
11:00 Odd Couple
11:30 That Girl
MIDNIGHT High Hopes
12:30 Cross-Wits
13 KCOP
6:00 KCOP News: Sign-on Edition
6:15 Daybreak
6:30 Funky Phantom
7:00 Penelope Pitstop
7:30 Woody and Heckle & Jeckle
8:00 Wacky Races
8:30 Popeye
9:00 Superman
9:30 Romper Room
10:00 Woman: Reel to Real
10:30 Sgt. Bilko
11:00 Gomer Pyle
11:30 Nanny and the Professor
NOON I Dream of Jeannie (x2)
1:00 Get Smart
1:30 Gomer Pyle
2:00 News 13 - Charlie O'Donnell
2:30 Terrytoons
3:00 Heckle & Jeckle
3:30 Woody & Popeye
4:30 Josie and the Pussycats
5:00 Batman - Guest villain: Van Johnson as the Minstrel
5:30 Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
6:00 Adam-12
6:30 The Rookies (half-hour partly due to violent content edited out)
7:00 Adam-12
7:30 America 2Night - Guest: Billy Crystal (then starring as Jodie Dallas on ABC's "Soap")
8:00 8 O'Clock Movie: "Flame Over India" (1960) - Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall, Herbert Lom (released in the UK as "North West Frontier", and in Australia as "Empress of India")
10:30 News 13
11:00 Monty Python's Flying Circus
11:30 Get Smart
MIDNIGHT Honeymooners
12:30 Late Picture Show: "State Fair" (1945) - Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews, Dick Haymes, Vivian Blaine
2:00 KCOP News: Sign-off Edition
28 KCET (PBS)
7:00 Yoga for Health
7:30 Mister Rogers
8:00 Zoom
8:30 Villa Alegre
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Nova: "The Desert's Edge"
11:00 Electric Company
11:30 Dick Cavett
NOON Michael Jackson (LA interviewer, not the singer)
12:30 Yoga for Health
1:00 Previn and the Pittsburgh
2:00 Symbiosis - featuring the San Diego Ballet
2:30 Instructional Programming
3:00 On the Track
3:30 History of Mexico
4:00 Villa Alegre
4:30 Mister Rogers
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Electric Company
6:30 Over Easy - Guests: Mr. and Mrs. Peter Marshall
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 28 Tonight
8:00 Special: "Henry Ford's America"
9:00 Meeting of Minds
10:00 Michael Jackson - Guest: Steve Allen
10:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report (R)
11:00 Dick Cavett - Guest: Ginger Rogers
11:30 Dick Hanna Story (former Orange County Congressman who had served a year in prison for his role in the "Koreagate" scandal)
MIDNIGHT Captioned ABC News
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