Retro: Los Angeles - Saturday, Nov 22, 1980 & Monday, Nov 16, 1987

[RandTV]

These two dates mark the LA premieres of two of my favorite Hanna-Barbera specials, "Yogi's First Christmas" and "The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones" respectively.

Part I
"Yogi's First Christmas"
Saturday, November 22, 1980

2 KNXT (CBS)
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 Marlo & the Magic Movie Machine
7:30 Dusty's Treehouse (produced by KNXT)
8:00 New Adventures of Mighty Mouse/Heckle & Jeckle; In the News
8:30 Tom & Jerry Comedy Show; In the News
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road-Runner; In the News*
10:30 All New Popeye Hour; In the News*
11:30 Drak Pack; In the News
NOON New Fat Albert; In the News
12:30 Tarzan/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour; In the News*
(*"In the News" aired twice, both during and after program.)
1:30 30 Minutes
2:00 Kidsworld
2:30 Interface With Truman Jacques
3:00 Last of the Wild
3:30 CBS Sports Spectacular - 1) WBA Junior Welterweight Championship: Aaron Pryor vs. Gaetan Hart (Cincinnati); 2) Battle of the NFL Cheerleaders, Part III (Atlantic City; 7 NFC and 7 AFC teams represented)
5:00 NFL Preview & Review
6:00 CBS Evening News - Bob Schieffer
6:30 Channel 2 News
7:00 In Search of...: "Jimmy Hoffa"
7:30 Muppet Show - Guest: Mac Davis
8:00 WKRP in Cincinnati: "The Baby"
8:30 CBS Saturday Night Movies: "Same Time, Next Year" (1978) - Ellen Burstyn, Alan Alda; D: Robert Mulligan
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:45 Saturday Night Movie Festival: "The Gambler" (1974) - James Caan, Paul Sorvino; D: Karl Reisz

4 KNBC
6:30 That's Cat
7:00 Godzilla/Dynomutt Hour; Ask NBC News
8:00 Fred & Barney Meet the Schmoo; Ask NBC News
9:30 Daffy Duck; Ask NBC News
10:00 Batman & the Super 7
11:00 Johnny Quest; Time Out
11:30 Drawing Power
NOON Whitney & the Robot
12:30 Agriculture USA
1:00 Medical Center
2:00 Everywhere
3:30 Free-4-All
4:00 NBC SportsWorld - 1) CART Phoenix 150 Indy Car Race; 2) Legends of Bowling
5:30 NewsCenter 4
6:00 NBC Nightly News - Jane Pauley
6:30 Mary Tyler Moore
7:00 Big City Comedy - Guest: McLean Stevenson
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 NBC Saturday Night at the Movies: "The Car" (1977; Broadcast Premiere) - James Brolin, Ronny Cox; D: Elliot Silverstein
10:00 NBC Special Movie: "The Bermuda Triangle" (1977 Documentary)
11:00 NewsCenter 4
11:30 Saturday Night Live - Host: Malcolm McDowell; Musical guests: Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
1:00 SCTV
1:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert - Guests: Lou Reed, Roger Daltrey, Rocky Burnette, Judas Priest, Jay Johnson

5 KTLA
6:00 Channel 5 News at Ten (R)
6:30 It's Your Business
7:00 Pacesetters
7:30 Big Blue Marble
8:00 Leave It to Beaver
8:30 Rifleman
9:00 I Spy
10:00 Bonanza
11:00 America's Top 10
11:30 Ozzie & Harriet
NOON Lost in Space
1:00 Musters
1:30 F-Troop
2:00 Gilligan's Island (x2)
3:00 Family Film Festival: "Hoppity Goes to Town" (1941; Animated)
5:00 Star Trek
6:00 Movie: "The Dragon Lives" (1976) - Bruce Li (as Bruce Lee)
8:00 Movie: "C. C. and Company" (1970) - Joe Namath, Ann-Margaret; D: Seymour Robbie
10:00 Channel 5 News at Ten
11:00 UCLA Football - at USC (Taped)

7 KABC
7:00 Plastic Man/Baby Plas Super Comedy; Dear Alex & Annie
7:30 Fonz and the Happy Days Gang; Schoolhouse Rock!
8:00 Heathcliff & Dingbat
8:30 Thundarr the Barbarian; Schoolhouse Rock!
9:00 NCAA Football - Florida vs. Florida State
12:30 NCAA Football - UCLA vs. USC
4:00 Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo and Scrappy Too!; Schoohouse Rock!
5:00 Superfriends Hour; Schoolhouse Rock!
6:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 Eyewitness Los Angeles
7:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
8:00 Fantasy Island, Part I: "Possessed" - Guest starring: Barbara Parkins, Missy Gold
8:30 Love Boat (90 min.): 1) "The Horse Lover" - Betty White, Allen Ludden (final acting role; filmed before his coma began Oct. 7), David Doyle; 2) Secretary to the Stars" - Loni Anderson, Charles Frank; 3) Julie's Decision - Robert Stack; 4) "Gopher and Isaac Buy a Horse"; 5) "The Village People Ride Again" - The Village People (as themselves).
10:00 Fantasy Island, Part II: 1) "The Love Doctor" - Loni Anderson; 2) "The Pleasure Palace" - Gary Burghoff
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 ABC Weekend News - Tom Jarriel
11:45 Saturday Night Movie: "Little Murders" (1971) - Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland, Lou Jacobi, Marcia Rodd, Vincent Gardenia; D: Alan Arkin

9 KHJ
6:00 Community Feedback
6:30 Davey & Goliath
7:00 Hot Fudge Show
7:30 Gigglesnort Hotel
8:00 Roller Superstars
9:00 Laurel & Hardy
10:00 NCAA Basketball: 1980 Hall of Fame Tip-off Classic - Louisville vs. DePaul (Season Opener)
NOON East Side Kids
1:30 Movie: "Keep 'em Flying" (1941) - Abbott & Costello, Martha Raye, Dick Foran
3:00 Movie: "Seven Alone" (1974) - Aldo Ray, Dewey Martin; D: Earl Bellamy
5:00 Movie: "Soldier Blue" (1970) - Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, Donald Pleasance; D: Ralph Nelson
7:00 Grizzly Adams
8:00 Save Our Sports (S.O.S.) Telethon
MIDNIGHT Dave Allen at Large
12:30 The Sullivans
1:00 Maverick

11 KTTV
6:00 University of the Air
6:30 Speak Out
7:00 Turnabout
7:30 Elementary News
8:00 Movie: "Four Faces West" (1948) - Joel McCrea, Frances Dee (McCrea's wife), Charles Bickford; D: Alfred E. Green
10:00 Hogan's Heroes
10:30 Six Million Dollar Man
11:30 Soul Train - Guests: Lakeside, Geraldine Hunt
12:30 Movie: "Terror in the Crypt" (1964; Italian) - Christopher Lee, Adriana Ambesi; D: Camillo Mastrocinque
2:00 Outer Limits
3:00 Movie: "Busting" (1974) - Elliott Gould, Robert Blake; D: Peter Hyams
5:00 Movie: "Duel" (1971) - Dennis Weaver, Jacqueline Scott, Carey Loftin; D: Steven Spielberg
7:00 Lawrence Welk - Theme: "Thanksgiving Party"
8:00 Monte Carlo Show - Host: Patrick Wayne (John Wayne's son); Guest: Anthony Newley
9:00 Special: "Julie and Sammy" - Julie Andrews, Sammy Davis Jr.
10:00 Odd Couple
10:30 Metro News
11:00 Movie: "Duel" (see under 5:00 PM)

13 KCOP
6:00 KCOP News Reports: Sign-on Edition
6:15 Films That Teach
6:30 Romper Room
7:30 Sonrisas
8:00 Special People
8:30 Infinity Factory
9:00 Carrascolendas
9:30 Gettin' Over
10:00 Movie: "The Yellow Tomahawk" (1954) - Rory Calhoun, Peggie Castle, Noah Beery Jr., Peter Graves, Lee Van Cleef, Rita Moreno, Warner Anderson; D: Lesley Selander
NOON Tarzan
1:00 Marcus Welby
2:00 Movie: "Houdini" (1953) - Tony Curtis (title role), Janet Leigh (Curtis' husband; as Bess Houdini); D: George Marshall
4:00 Movie: "The Geisha Boy" (1958) - Jerry Lewis, Suzanne Pleshette; D: Frank Tashlin
6:00 Movie Special: "Yogi's First Christmas" (Premiere) - Yogi Bear, Boo Boo, Ranger Smith, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, Auggie Doggie, Doggie Daddy, Cindy Bear, and of course...Santa Claus!
8:00 Battlestar Galactica
10:00 Independent Network News
10:30 News in Review
11:00 One Step Beyond
11:30 Rock World
12:30 Tales of the Unexpected
1:00 Movie: "Dear Dead Delilah" (1970) - Agnes Moorehead, Will Geer, Michael Ansara, Dennis Patrick; D: John Farris

28 KCET (PBS)
6:30 Captioned ABC News
7:00 Yoga for Health
7:30 Vegetable Soup
8:00 Once Upon a Classic: "Night Ferry"
8:30 Rebop
9:00 Nova: "The Wizard Who Spat on the Floor" (Thomas Edison)
10:00 The Body in Question
11:00 Making Things Grow
11:30 French Chef
NOON This Old House
12:30 Slim Cuising
1:00 This is Ephemera
1:30 Oceanus: The Marine Environment
2:00 Guten Tag, Wie Geht's (x2; mal zwei)
3:00 Issues in World Communication
3:30 Nature Studies
4:00 Presente
4:30 What's the Word?
5:00 All-Star Soccer
6:00 The Open Mind
6:30 Slim Cuisine
7:00 28 Tonight
7:30 Feelings - Dr. Lee Salk
8:00 Connections
9:00 The Vikings
9:30 Cosmos: "Travels in Space and Time"
10:30 Newport Jazz Festival at Saratoga
11:00 Special: "The Pythons" - Documentary on Monthy Python's Flying Circus, on location in Tunisia.
11:50 Hotspot
MIDNIGHT Movie: "A Taste of Honey" (1961) - Dora Bryan, Robert Stephens, Rita Tushingham, Murray Melvin, Paul Danquah; D: Tony Richardson

 

[RandTV]

First of all, I goofed about the latter date. "The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones" actually premiered in Los Angeles a week later on November 23, 1987.

Secondly, here are some more late night listings, most of them movies. All times are AM.

2 KNXT
1:45 Channel 2 News (R)
2:30 "The Naked and the Dead" (1958) - Aldo Ray, Cliff Robertson; D: Raoul Walsh

4 KNBC
3:00 NewsCenter 4 (R)

5 KTLA
2:00 "Hands of the Ripper" (1971) - Eric Porter, Jane Merrow; D: Peter Sasdy
3:50 "The Strange Door" (1952) - Boris Karloff, Charles Laughton; D: Joseph Pevney

9 KHJ
2:00 "Blind Man's Bluff" (1971; released the year before in Spain as "Cauldron of Blood") - Boris Karloff (posthumous), Jean-Pierre Aumont, Viveca Lindfors; D: Santos Alcocer (aka Edward Mann)
4:00 "Crucible of Horror" (1971) - Michael Gough, Yvonne Mitchell, Sharon Gurney; D: Gabrielle Beaumont

11 KTTV
1:30 "Stairway to Heaven" (1946; released in the UK as "A Matter of Life and Death") - David Niven, Raymond Massey, Roger Livesy, Kim Hunter; D: Michael Power and Emeric Pressburger (aka "The Archers")
3:00 "Watch on the Rhine" (1943) - Bette Davis, Paul Lukas; D: Herman Shumlin

13 KCOP
3:00 "They Saved Hitler's Brain" (1968; originally released in 1963 as "Madmen of Mandoras") - Walter Stocker, Audrey Claire, Carlos Rivas; D: David Bradley

 

[RandTV]

Part II
"The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones"
Monday, November 23, 1987

2 KCBS
6:00 Kidquiz
6:30 CBS Morning News
7:30 Morning Program - Featured: Tom Selleck, Tim Conway, John Denver, author Diana E. H. Russell.
9:00 $25,000 Pyramid - Guests: Alison LaPlace, Tom Villard
9:30 Card Sharks
10:00 Price is Right
11:00 Slim Cooking
11:30 Young and Restless
12:30 Bold and Beautiful
1:00 As the World Turns
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 Divorce Court
3:30 People's Court
4:00 Simon & Simon
5:00 Channel 2 Action News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Channel 2 Action News
7:30 2 On the Town
8:00 Frank's Place: "The Reverend Gets a Flock"
8:30 Kate & Allie: "The Marriage Counselor"
9:00 Newhart: "Telethon Man"
9:30 Designing Women: "I'll Be Seeing You"
10:00 Cagney & Lacey: "Secrets"
11:00 Channel 2 Action News
11:30 Hunter
12:40 Partners in Crime (1984-85 NBC series with Loni Anderson and Lynda Carter)
2:00 CBS Nightwatch

4 KNBC
5:00 News Conference
5:30 Ag Day; Before Hours
6:00 NBC News at Sunrise
6:30 Today in LA
7:00 Today - Broadcasting from the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Coral Sea in the Mediterranean; Featured: The future of aircraft carriers; a tour of the U.S.S. Coral Sea; a European orhpanage supported by U.S. sailors; Hollywood and the Navy; a sailors 24-hour shift.
9:00 Sale of the Century
9:30 Classic Concentration
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Win, Lose or Draw - Vicki Lawrence; Teams: Tempestt Bledsoe & Sabrina Le Beauf (Vanessa & Sondra Huxtable from The Cosby Show) vs. Dan Frischman & Tony O'Dell (Arvid Engen & Alan Pinkard from Head of the Class).
11:00 Super Password - All-Star Guests: Markie Post & Marsha Warfield (Night Court) vs. Leann Hunley & Jack Coleman (Dynasty).
11:30 Scrabble
NOON Days of Our Lives
1:00 Another World
2:00 Santa Barbara
3:00 Donahue - Topic: Teenaged boys seduced by older women.
4:00 Channel 4 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Entertainment Tonight - Featured: Burt Reynolds ("Smoke")
7:30 Marblehead Manor: "An Aunt Hill for Hillary"
8:00 ALF: "Isn't It Romantic?"
8:30 Valerie's Family: "Nightmare on Oak Street"
9:00 NBC Monday Night at the Movies: "Lena: My 100 Children" (Premiere) - Linda Lavin, Leonore Harris. Based on the true story Lena Kuchler-Silberman (died the previous August 6; played by Lavin), a Jewish teacher in postwar Poland who helped neglected Jewish children escape to Israel.
11:00 Channel 4 News
11:30 Tonight Show: Best of Carson - (Oct 23, 1986) Guests: Lily Tomlin, Ray Combs
12:30 Late Night With David Letterman - Guests: Matt Frewer ("Max Headroom"), Grace Jones; Musical guest: Todd Rundgren
1:30 Channel 4 News (R)
2:00 Entertainment Tonight (R)
2:30 Getting in Touch - Dr. David Viscott
3:00 Matchmaker - Dave Hull
3:30 Love Me, Love Me Not - Ross Shafer
4:00 Record Guide
4:30 Ask Washington

5 KTLA
5:00 Faith 20
5:30 Jimmy Swaggart
6:00 700 Club
7:00 Bravestarr
7:30 G.I. Joe
8:00 Ghostbusters (not to be confused with The Real Ghostbusters; 4:30 PM on Channel 11)
8:30 Happy Days
9:00 Geraldo - Topic: "Royal dirt"
10:00 Big Valley
11:00 Bonanza
NOON Twilight Zone (x2)
1:00 Emergency!
2:00 Charlie's Angels
3:00 CHiPs
4:00 Little House on the Prairie
5:00 Matt Houston
6:00 Magnum, P.I.
7:00 Silver Spoons
7:30 Charles in Charge
8:00 Special: "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: 20th Anniversary" (Originally aired on NBC Oct 3, 1982)
10:00 Channel 5 News at Ten
11:00 Cheers
11:30 Taxi
MIDNIGHT Honeymooners
12:30 Twilight Zone
1:00 USA Tonight (formerly INN News)
1:30 America's Top 10
2:00 Movie: "Who's Got the Action?" (1962) - Dean Martin, Lana Turner, Eddie Albert, Walter Matthau, Paul Ford, Nita Talbot; D: Daniel Mann
4:00 F-Troop (x2)

7 KABC
5:00 Best of AM Los Angeles
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America - Featured: Author Pat Conroy; Tom Selleck; William Shatner at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center; Russian comedian Yakov Smiroff; Jacques Cousteau.
9:00 AM Los Angeles - Featured: Gregory Peck, Meredith Baxter Birney, Eva Marie Saint; dominant women and submissive men.
10:00 Who's the Boss?
10:30 Mr. Belvedere
11:00 Ryan's Hope
11:30 Loving
NOON All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Oprah Winfrey - Broadcast from Geoffrey's restaurant in Malibu; Guests: Tom Selleck and Ted Danson from "Three Men and a Baby", released two days later.
4:00 Eyewitness News
4:30 ABC World News Tonight
5:00 Eyewitness News
6:00 Monday Night Football - Los Angeles Rams vs. Washington Redskins
9:00 MacGyver: "Hell Week"
10:00 David Brenner - A Q&A session session with Brenner, plus some of his comic routines.
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Nightline
MIDNIGHT Win, Lose or Draw - Bert Convy
12:30 D.C. Follies
1:00 Ask Dr. Ruth - Topic: A woman with a bisexual fiance.
1:30 Movie: "The High Command" (1937) - Lionel Atwill, Lucie Mannheim, James Mason; D: Thorold Dickinson
3:00 Eyewitness News Replay

9 KHJ
6:00 Youth & the Issues
6:30 Community Feedback
7:00 Froozles
7:30 There Is a Way
8:00 PTL Club
9:00 Lou Grant
10:00 Midmorning LA - Topic: Child victims of AIDS.
11:30 Movie: "Our Family Business" (1981) - Sam Wanamaker, Ted Danson, Christopher Mayer, Vera Miles, Ray Milland; D: Robert L. Collins
1:00 Midday News
1:30 Sally Jessy Raphael - Topic: An abused babysitter.
2:00 Fantasy Island
3:00 Love Connection
3:30 The Judge
4:00 Superior Court
4:30 The Judge
5:00 Sanford & Son
5:30 Good Times
6:00 T .J. Hooker
7:00 Love Connection
7:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Joan Rivers (center square), Shadoe Stevens (announcer), Jm J. Bullock, Steve Allen & Jayne Meadows (sharing a square), Charo, Khrystyne Haje & Kimberly Russell (sharing a square), Don King, Jim Morris, Yakov Smirnoff.
8:00 $100,000 Pyramid - Guests: Lois Nettleton, Terry Laster
8:30 High Rollers (1987 revival) - Wink Martindale
9:00 9 O'Clock News
10:00 Wil Shriner - Guests: Vicki Lawrence, Ally Sheedy, Lyle Alzado, authors Harvey & Marilyn Diamond ("Fit for Life").
11:00 Carol Burnett & Friends
11:30 Truth or Consequences (1987 revival) - Larry Anderson
MIDNIGHT Wild, Wild West
1:00 I Spy

11 KTTV (Fox)
5:30 Morning Stretch
6:00 Gilligan's Island
6:30 Woody Woodpecker
7:00 ThunderCats
7:30 SilverHawks
8:00 Defenders of the Earth
8:30 Gumby
9:00 I Love Lucy (x2)
10:00 One Day at a Time
10:30 Alice
11:00 Rhoda
11:30 A Current Affair
NOON Hour Magazine - Featured: Pam Dawber; high-risk pregnancies; celebrity photographer Gene Lester; baby actors.
1:00 Archie Bunker's Place
1:30 Brady Bunch
2:00 Porky Pig
2:30 Popeye
3:00 Woody Woodpecker
3:30 Flintstones
4:00 Dennis the Menace
4:30 Real Ghostbusters
5:00 DuckTales
5:30 Facts of Life
6:00 Three's Company
6:30 Too Close for Comfort
7:00 Family Ties
7:30 M*A*S*H
8:00 Special: "The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones" ("Where the Stone Age Meets the Space Age!")
10:00 Fox News (KTTV)
10:30 A Current Affair
11:00 Late Show - Host: Arsenio Hall; Guests: Elliott Gould, Shalamar, editor Carole Shaw, jump-roper James Thompson.
MIDNIGHT Movie: "Charlie's Angels" (1976 pilot for the same-named TV series) - Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith.
1:30 Movie: "The Children's Hour" (1961) - Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner; D: William Wyler
3:30 Movie: "The Lion Hunters" (1951) - Johnny Sheffield (as Bomba, the Jungle Boy), Morris Ankrum, Ann E. Todd; D: Ford Beebe

13 KCOP
5:00 Romper Room
5:30 Spiral Zone
6:00 Dinosaucers
6:30 Scooby-Doo
7:00 Tom & Jerry
7:30 Jem
8:00 Teddy Ruxpin
8:30 My Little Pony
9:00 Transformers
9:30 Dukes of Hazzard
10:30 Bewitched
11:00 I Dream of Jeannie
11:30 All-New Dating Game - Jeff McGregor
NOON Movie: "El Dorado" (1967) - John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan
2:00 Bionic Six
2:30 Tom & Jerry
3:00 Heathcliff
3:30 Smurfs
4:00 Jetsons
4:30 Beverly Hills Teens
5:00 Diff'rent Strokes (x2)
6:00 Gimme a Break
6:30 Newlywed Game
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Jeopardy!
8:00 Movie: "Sixteen Candles" (1984) - Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Michael Schoeffling; D: John Hughes
10:00 News 13
11:00 Star Trek
MIDNIGHT Rockford Files
1:00 Keys to Success
1:30 Movie: "Barabbas" (1962) - Anthony Quinn, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Palance, Ernest Borgnine; D: Richard Fleicher
3:30 Movie: "The Chadwick Family" (1974) - Fred MacMurray, Kathleen Maguire, Darleen Carr; D: David Lowell Rich

28 KCET (PBS)
5:15 AM Weather
5:30 American Government
6:00 Yoga & Meditation
6:30 Hooked On Aerobics
7:00 Captain Kangaroo
7:30 Mister Rogers
8:00 Sesame Street (x2)
10:00 WonderWorks: "Run, Rebecca, Run!"
11:00 Musical Encounters
11:30 Square One TV
NOON Business File (x2)
1:00 Odyssey - Portrait: Margaret Mead
2:00 Nature of Things
2:50 Videolog - Huell Howser
3:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
4:00 Sesame Street - 19th Season Premiere, featuring a visit to the Bronx Zoo.
5:00 Holiday Entertaining With Martha Stewart
6:00 Nightly Business Report
6:30 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
7:30 Family Passages; Wild, Wild World of Animals
8:00 The First Eden - Episode 4 of 4: "Strangers in the Garden"
9:00 The Brain (Part 8 of 8)
10:00 Trying Times
10:30 Ask Dr. Science
11:00 Moving
11:30 Are You Being Served?
MIDNIGHT Currents
12:30 Humanities Through the Arts