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Retro: Los Angeles - Saturday & Sunday, November 18 & 19, 1978

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Part I
Saturday, November 18, 1978

2 KNXT (CBS)

6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 Camera Three
7:30 Dusty's Treehouse
(In the News aired at :26 and :56 of every hour from 8:00 to 1:00)
8:00 All New Popeye Hour
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Tarzan and the Super 7
NOON Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert
1:00 Ark II
1:30 30 Minutes
2:00 Colgate Women's Tennis
3:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
5:00 NFL Game of the Week
5:30 Special: "The Thanksgiving That Almost Wasn't" (Animated)
6:00 CBS Evening News - Bob Schieffer
6:30 Channel 2 News
7:00 The Price is Right
7:30 2 on the Town
8:00 CBS Saturday Night Movies: "The Bible: In the Beginning..." (1966) - John Huston (also director), Stephen Boyd, George C. Scott, Ava Gardner, Peter O'Toole, Richard Harris, Michael Parks
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:30 Late Show: "Red Line 7000" (1965) - James Caan, Laura Devon, Marianna Hill
1:45 Talkabout

4 KNBC
6:00 That's Cat
6:30 Land of the Lost
7:00 Galaxy Goof-Ups
7:30 Fantastic Four
8:00 Godzilla Super 90; Metric Marvels
9:30 Daffy Duck; Metric Marvels
10:00 Yogi's Space Race; Metric Marvels
11:00 Fabulous Funnies
11:30 Bay City Rollers
NOON That's Cat
12:30 Agriculture USA
1:00 Parenting
1:30 On Campus
2:00 Saturday
4:00 Cinema 4: "The Crimson Kimono" (1959) - Victoria Shaw, Glenn Corbet, James Shigeta
5:30 NewsCenter 4
6:00 NBC Nightly News - John Hart
6:30 Mary Tyler Moore
7:00 Please Stand By
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 CHiPs: "The Sheik"
9:00 NBC Special: "Frankie and Annette - The Second Time Around" (Produced by Dick Clark)
10:00 Lifeline
11:00 NewsCenter 4
11:30 Saturday Night Live - Host: Carrie Fisher (the night after she appeared on CBS with her "Star Wars" co-stars for the infamous Holiday Special); Musical guests: The Blues Brothers (Dan Aykroyd & John Belushi)
1:00 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert - Scheduled: the Moody Blues, Thin Lizzy, Evelyn King, City Boy, Art Metrano

5 KTLA
6:00 Channel 5 News at Ten (R)
6:30 Dragnet
7:00 Big Blue Marble
7:30 Pacesetters
8:00 Saturday Morning Movie: "Cattle Queen of Montana" (1954) - Barbara Stanwyck, Ronald Reagan (as shown on a 1955 marquee in "Back to the Future")
9:30 Saturday Morning Movie: "Slightly Scarlet" (1956) - John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, Arlene Dahl
11:30 Dragnet
NOON Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1:00 Big Valley
2:00 Bonanza
3:00 Movie Special: "Little Rascals' Thanksgiving" (compilation of their shorts)
5:00 Star Trek
6:00 Movie for a Saturday Evening: "The Brass Bottle" (1964) - Tony Randall, Burl Ives, Barbara Eden, Kamala Devi (as a genie) (This inspired I Dream of Jeannie which premiered the following year.)
8:00 Channel 5 Movie Theatre: "Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Murder Case" (1975) - George Peppard (as Dr. Shepard), Bernard Hughes (as Attorney Philip J. Madden), Walter McGinn (as F. Lee Bailey), Claudette Nevins (as Marilyn Shepard)
11:00 UCLA Football - at USC (taped)

7 KABC
(Schoolhouse Rock! following all Saturday morning programs)
7:00 All New Pink Panther Show
7:30 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
8:00 Fangface
8:30 Challenge of the Superfriends
9:00 NCAA Football - Texas A&M vs. Arkansas
1:00 NCAA Football - USC vs. UCLA
4:00 Scooby's All-Stars
5:30 ABC Weekend Special: "Soup for President"
6:00 This is the NFL
6:30 Eyewitness News
7:00 Insight
7:30 Match Game PM - Panel: David Doyle, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Debralee Scott, Nipsey Russell, Betty White
8:00 Battle of the Network Stars - Hosts: Howard Cosell, Frank Gifford (see reply for team rosters)
10:00 Fantasy Island: "The Appointment" / "Mr. Tattoo"
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Saturday Night Movie: "Doctors' Wives" (1971) - Dyan Cannon, Richard Crenna, Gene Hackman, Carroll O'Connor

9 KHJ
6:00 Community Feedback
6:30 Davey & Goliath
7:00 Hot Fudge Show
7:30 Lone Ranger
8:00 Saturday Movie: "Elephant Walk" (1954) - Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch
10:00 Wanted: Dead or Alive
10:30 Hopalong Cassidy
NOON East Side Kids: self-titled movie (1940) - first movie of the East Side Kids series
1:30 Abbott & Costello: "Mexican Hayride" (1948)
3:00 Big Western Movie: "Sam Whiskey" (1969) - Burt Reynolds, Angie Dickinson, Clint Walker, Ossie Davis
5:00 Saturday Showcase: "Skullduggery" (1970) - Burt Reynolds, Susan Clark, Roger C. Carmel
7:00 The Unknown War
8:00 Million Dollar Movie: "The Guns of Navarone" (1961) - Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn
11:00 SCTV
11:30 NCAA Football - Michigan vs. Purdue (taped)
1:30 The Adventurers

11 KTTV
6:00 University of the Air
6:30 Speak Out
7:00 Elementary News
7:30 That's Enough
8:00 Movie: "Boom Town" (1940) - Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr
10:30 That Nashville Music
11:00 National Geographic: "Grizzly"
NOON Soul Train - Guests: Jerry Butler, Rick James
1:00 Outer Limits
2:00 Mission: Impossible
3:00 The Best Picture Show: "The Last American Hero" (1973) - Jeff Bridges, Ned Beatty, Gary Busey
5:00 Movie Eleven: "A Girl Named Sooner" (1975) - Susan Deer, Lee Remick, Richard Crenna, Cloris Leachman, Don Murray, Anne Francis
7:00 Lawrence Welk - Theme: "Thanksgivine Holiday Party"
8:00 Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau: "The Sleeping Sharks of Yucatan"
9:00 Donna Fargo
9:30 Hee Haw - Guests: Mel Tillis, Roy Head, Gerald Smith
10:30 Metro News
11:00 Movie Greats: "Hello, Dolly!" (1969) - Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Louis Armstrong (final film role; recorded the title song in 1964);
Directed by Gene Kelly


13 KCOP
6:00 News; Daybreak
6:30 Guest Spot
7:00 Woman: Reel to Real
7:30 Romper Room
8:30 Southern California
9:00 As We See It
9:30 Vox Popull
10:00 Action Theater: "Battle at Bloody Beach" (1961) - Audie Murphy, Gary Crosby, Alejandro Rey (first US credited role)
11:30 Let's Make a Deal
NOON Tarzan
1:00 Alias Smith and Jones
2:00 Motion Picture Favorites: "Sands of Iwo Jima" (1949) - John Wayne, John Agar, Forrest Tucker, Adele Mara
4:00 Movie for a Saturday Afternoon: "Boeing, Boeing" (1965) - Tony Curtis, Jerry Lewis
6:00 Saturday Film Festival: "Attack on Terror" (1975) - Ned Beatty, John Beck, George Grizzard, Rip Torn, Wayne Rogers, Dabney Coleman
8:00 Repeat of "Sands of Iwo Jima"
10:00 Collage
11:00 USC Football - hosting UCLA (taped) - KTLA was the broadcaster for UCLA, and KCOP for USC.
1:00 Sinister Cinema: "TheTorture Chamber of Dr. Sadism" (1969) - Christopher Lee, Lex Barker

28 KCET (PBS)
6:30 Captioned ABC News
7:00 Yoga for Health
7:30 Adams Chronicles
8:30 Masterpiece Theatre
9:30 Zoom
10:00 Once Upon a Classic
10:30 Freestyle
11:00 Documentary: "The Valley That Was" - Depicition of life in the Santa Clara Valley in the 1920s and 1930s.
11:30 Film Feature
NOON Julia Child & Company
12:30 Cinematic Eye: "Hobson's Choice" (1954) - Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda de Banzie, Daphne Anderson, Prunella Scales; Directed by David Lean
3:00 Guten Tag
3:30 Economically Speaking
4:00 Latino Consortium
4:30 Supreme Court
5:00 Star Soccer
6:00 Turnabout
6:30 Julia Child & Company
7:00 California Tonight
7:30 The Six Wives of Henry VIII
9:00 The Long Search: "Zulu Zion"
10:00 Visions
11:30 (Ingmar) Bergman Film Festival: "The Virgin Spring" (1960; Swedish) - Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Birgitta Petersson, Gunnel Lindblom
 
Battle of the Network Stars team rosters

Stars listed on top in bold indicate captains.

ABC
Gabriel Kaplan (Welcom Back, Kotter)

Debby Boone (Pat Boone and Family Springtime Special)
Billy Crystal (Soap)
Joyce DeWitt (Three's Company)
Richard Hatch (Battlestar Galactica)
Maren Jensen (Battlestar Galactica)
Robert Urich (Vega$)
Robin Williams (Mork & Mindy)

CBS
McLean Stevenson (In the Beginning)

Valerie Bertinelli (One Day at a Time)
LeVar Burton (The Ron LeFlore Story)
Lou Ferrigno (The Incredible Hulk)
Pat Klous (Flying High)
David Letterman (Mary)
Tim Reid (WKRP in Cincinnati)
Charlene Tilton (Dallas)

NBC
Robert Conrad (Centennial)

Joseph Bottoms (Return Entertainment)
William Devane (From Here to Eternity)
Pamela Hensley (Buck Rogers)
Brianne Leary (CHiPs)
Wendy Rastatter (David Cassidy: Man Undercover)
William Shatner (Little Women)
Caskey Swaim (Project UFO)
 
Part II
Sunday, November 19, 1978


With the tragic news unfolding from Jonestown, Guyana, programming was interrupted, delayed, or pre-empted by news coverage, particularly the Big Three networks.

2 KNXT (CBS)
6:00 Lamp Unto My Feet
6:30 Look Up and Live
7:00 Today's Religion
7:30 Days of Brother Sun
8:00 What's New, Mr. Magoo?; In the News
8:30 Clue Club; In the News
9:00 Marlo and the Magic Movie Machine
9:30 NFL Today
10:00 NFL Football - St. Louis Cardinals vs. Washington Redskins
1:00 NFL Football - Los Angeles Rams vs. San Francisco 49ers
4:00 It Takes All Kinds
5:00 Face the Nation - Guest: David Jones, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
5:30 Newsmakers
6:00 Pro Football Wrap
6:30 Channel 2 News
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 All in the Family: "Edith vs. the Bank"
8:30 Alice: "Who Ordered the Hot Turkey?"
9:00 CBS Special: "Lucy Comes to Nashville" - Country music stars joining Lucille Ball: Lynn Anderson, Archie Campbell, Tom T. Hall, Barbara Mandrell, Ronnie Milsap, the Oak Ridge Boys, Mel Tillis
10:00 Dallas: "Act of Love"
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:15 CBS Sunday Night News - Ed Bradley
11:30 Sunday Sports Final
11:45 Channel 2 Sunday Night Movie: "The Badge or the Cross" (1961) - George Kennedy, Diane Baker, Ricardo Montalban

4 KNBC
6:30 Serendipity
7:00 That's Cat
7:30 NBC Religious Special: "Harvesting Hope"
8:30 Odyssey
9:00 Meet the Press - Guest: South African Prime Minister P. W. Botha (since Oct. 9)
9:30 NFL '78
10:00 NFL Football - San Diego Chargers vs. Minnesota Vikings
1:00 At One With...
2:00 Cinema 4: "Pardon My Past" (1945) - Fred MacMurray, Marguerite Chapman, Akim Tamiroff, William Demarest (MacMurray's future co-star on My Three Sons)
4:00 Sunday
5:30 NBC Nightly News - Jessica Savitch (The following NBC News personnel who were murdered along with California congressman Leo Ryan by Jim Jones' bodyguards were reporter Don Harris and camera operator Bob Brown. Two other personnel, audio technician Steve Sung and producer Bob Flick survived the attack.)
6:00 NewsCenter 4
6:30 News Conference
7:00 Wonderful World of Disney: "Mickey's 50" - All-Star celebration of Mickey Mouse's 50th birthday.
8:30 NBC Mini-series: "Greatest Heroes of the Bible" - 1) David and Goliath; 2) Samson and Delilah; 3) The Story of Noah (Part 1 of 2) (see reply for cast and characters)

11:00 NewsCenter 4
11:30 Cinema 4: "Starship Invasions" (1977) - Robert Vaughan, Christopher Lee

5 KTLA
6:30 Music and the Spoken Word
7:00 A Better Way
7:30 Underdog
8:00 Popeye and Friends
10:00 Family Film Festival: "Little Rascals' Thanksgiving" (repeat from 3:00 PM Saturday)
NOON Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
1:00 Big Valley
2:00 Bonanza
3:00 Family Film Festival: "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" (1972; Animated) - From Rankin/Bass Productions' Festival of Family Classics.
4:30 KTLA Special: "Godilocks" (1970; Live Action/Animated) - Bing, Kathryn Grant, Mary Frances and Nathaniel Crosby; Paul Winchell, Avery Schreiber; Produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises
5:00 Star Trek
6:00 Movie for a Sunday Evening: "The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams" (1974) - Dan Haggerty, Marjorie Harper
8:00 Wild Kingdom
8:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
9:00 Robert Schuller
10:00 The King Is Coming
10:30 Jimmy Swaggart
11:00 Pacesetters
11:30 700 Club

7 KABC
6:00 Daybreak LA
6:30 Eyewitness Los Angeles
7:00 It Is Written
7:30 Contemporary California Issues
8:00 Dimensions
8:30 For You, Black Woman - Guest: Grace Jones
9:00 Villa Alegre
9:30 It
10:00 Kids Are People Too - Guests: The mothers of Barry Manilow, Scott Baio, John Travolta, and Paul Simon.
11:25 Dear Alex & Annie
11:30 Animals, Animals, Animals: "The Monkey"
NOON Issues and Answers - Guest: UN Secretary-General and future Austrian president Kurt Waldheim
12:30 People 7
1:00 Sunday Afternoon Movie: "The Son of Cleopatra" (1965) - Mark Damon, Scilla Gabel
3:00 Comedy Shop
3:30 Dolly (Parton)
4:00 College Football '78
4:30 Greatest Sports Legends - Willie Mays
5:00 Eyewitness News
5:30 Wide World of Adventure: "Tornado Alley" - KABC meteorologist Dr. George Fischbeck takes a look at the devestating 1964 tornado in Wichita Falls, Texas.
6:00 Lucan: "Brother Wolf"
7:00 Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries: "Defection to Paradise" (Part 1 of 2)
8:00 Battlestar Galactica: "The Young Lords"
9:00 ABC Miniseries: "Pearl" (Part 3 of 3)
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 ABC Weekend News - Tom Jarriel
11:45 Sunday Night Movie: "Come Blow Your Horn" (1963) - Frank Sinatra, Lee J. Cobb, Barbara Rush, Jill St. John

9 KHJ
6:00 Youth and the Issues
6:30 Davey and Goliath (x2)
7:30 Jimmy Swaggart
8:00 Let God Love You
8:30 Meeting Time at Calvary
9:00 Oral Roberts
9:30 Meeting Time at Calvary
10:00 Herald of Truth
10:30 Leroy Jenkins
11:00 Rev. David Epley
11:30 American Religious Town Hall
NOON Search
12:30 Big Western Movie: "Hellfire" (1949) - "Wild" Bill Elliot, Marie Windsorl, Forrest Tucker, Jim Davis (Jock Ewing from Dallas)
2:30 Abbott & Costello: "Keep 'Em Flying" (1941) - Also starring: Martha Raye, Carol Bruce
4:00 USC Football - at UCLA (Rose Bowl; Taped) (Turns out channel 9 had their share of USC sports with channel 13. Channel 11 also carried USC a decade earlier, whereas channel 5 carried UCLA.)
6:00 Big Movie: "The Magnificent Seven" (1960) - Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughan, James Coburn
8:00 It Is Written
8:30 Come Walk the World
9:00 The Ruff House
9:30 Meeting Time at Calvary
10:00 Ernest Angley Hour
11:00 Oral Roberts and You
11:30 Sunday Night Showcase: repeat of "The Magnificent Seven"

11 KTTV
6:00 Bible Answers
6:30 Elementary News
7:00 Day of Discovery
7:30 World Tomorrow
8:00 Jimmy Swaggart
8:30 Frederick K. Price
9:30 Spider-Man
10:00 Bugs Bunny/Tom & Jerry
11:00 Metromedia Theatre: "Heidi" (1937) - Shirley Temple, Jean Hersholt, Arthur Treacher, Mary Nash
12:30 Sunday Movie: "Good Day for a Hanging" (1959) - Fred MacMurray, Maggie Hayes, Robert Vaughan
2:30 Movie Eleven: "Hello, Dolly" (see Saturday @ 11:00 PM)
5:00 SFM Holiday Network's Double Family Treat: 1) "Lili" (1953) - Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Zsa Zsa Gabor;
2) "Gypsy Colt" (1954) - Donna Corcoran, Ward Bond, Frances Dee
8:00 Movie Greats: "A Girl Named Sooner" (see Saturday @ 5:00 PM)
10:00 Hee Haw Honeys - Guests: the Statler Brothers
10:30 Metro News
11:00 Movie Eleven: repeat of "A Girl Named Sooner"

13 KCOP
6:00 Romper Room
7:00 Ernest Angley Hour
8:00 Rex Humbard
9:00 Don Stewart
9:30 Jerry Falwell
10:30 Calvary Chapel
11:00 Church in the Home
NOON Tarzan
1:00 Get Smart
1:30 Comedy Classics: "Frances Goes to the Races" (1951) - Donald O'Connor, Piper Laurie, Chill Wills (as the voice of Frances)
3:00 Alias Smith and Jones
4:00 Sinister Cinema: "Them!" (1954) - James Arness, James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon
6:00 Sunday Film Festival: "Attack on Terror: FBI vs. Ku Klux Klan", Part 2 (see Saturday @ 6:00 PM)
8:00 Sam Yorty (former Los Angeles mayor)
9:00 Rex Humbard
10:00 Jerry Falwell
11:00 Day of Discovery
11:30 NCAA Football - Notre Dame vs. Georgia Tech (taped)

28 KCET (PBS)
7:00 Yoga for Health
7:30 Mister Rogers
8:00 Sesame Street (x3)
11:00 Freestyle
11:30 Rebop
NOON Great Peformances: "A Month in the County"
1:00 Tennis - Almaden Grand Masters (Mendon Valley Tennis Club, near Rochester, NY)
4:00 Wall $treet Week
4:30 Washington Week in Review
5:00 Firing Line
6:00 The Long Search: "Zulu Zion"
7:00 Faces of Communism: "Yugoslavia"
8:00 PBS Special: "The New Klan" - Among the KKK interviewees is future Louisiana congressman David Duke, who ran unsuccessfully for US Senator and Louisiana Governor.
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre: "The Duchess of Duke Street"; Season 1, Episode 5 of 15: "A Bed of Roses"
10:00 Theater in America: "Distant Thunder" (1973) - Director: Satyajit Ray
MIDNIGHT Bergman Film Festival: "Scenes From a Marriage" (1973) - Liv Ullman, Erland Josephson, Bibi Andersson
 
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"Greatest Heores of the Bible" cast of title characters in respective order:

"David and Goliath" - Roger Kern, Ted Cassidy (died January 16, 1979)

"Samson and Delilah" - John Beck, Ann Turkel

"The Story of Noah" - Lew Ayres (as Noah),
 
I'm surprised that LA got Texas A&M vs Arkansas (at Little Rock) rather than Iowa St @ Colorado. You'd think the West Coast would have gotten the later game.
 
Noticed Chewbacca and R2-D2 in the list for Mickey's birthday. Long before Disney got their mitts on Star Wars.
 
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