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Retro: Los Angeles - Sunday, November 29, 1981

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Sad day in Hollywood as the beautiful Natalie Wood tragically and mysteriously drowned off Catalina in the pre-dawn hours.

2 KNXT (CBS)
6:00 For Our Times
6:30 (Lou) Rukeyser's Business Journal (host of PBS's "Wall $treet Week")
7:00 Today's Religion
7:30 Lifetimes
8:00 Sunday Morning
9:30 NFL Today
10:00 NFL Football - Los Angeles Rams vs. Pittsburgh Steelers
1:00 NFL Football - New York Giants vs. San Francisco 49ers
4:00 Last of the Wild
4:30 Interface with Truman Jacques
5:00 Newsmakers
5:30 Face the Nation - Guest: Sen. Pete Domenici (R-OH), chairman of the Senate Budget Committee
6:00 Pro Football Wrap
6:30 Channel 2 News
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 Archie Bunker's Place
8:30 One Day at a Time
9:00 Alice
9:30 Jeffersons
10:00 Trapper John, M.D.
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:15 CBS Weekend News - Charles Osgood
11:30 Sunday Sports Final
11:45 Rockford Files
12:45 Name of the Game

4 KNBC
6:00 That's Cat
6:30 Serenditpty
7:00 Whitney & the Robot
7:30 This Is the Life
8:00 Odyssey
8:30 KNBC News Conference
9:00 Meet the Press - Guest: Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger
9:30 NBC Religious Special: "The Terrible Secret" (regarding the delayed exposure of the Holocaust)
10:30 At One With...
11:30 On Campus - George Fenneman, Jonathan Kirsch; Guest: Sen. Alan Cranston (D-CA)
NOON Insight
12:30 NFL '81
1:00 NFL Football - Denver Broncos vs. San Diego Chargers
4:00 Sunday - Pat Sajak (a month before taking over "Wheel of Fortune"), Susan Hahn
5:30 NBC Nightly News - Jane Pauley
6:00 NewsCenter 4
6:30 Fight Back! with David Horowitz
7:00 Smurfs (Special Sunday evening presentation of this NBC Saturday morning staple.)
8:00 CHiPs
9:00 NBC Sunday Night at the Movies: "Of Mice and Men" (Premiere) - Robert Blake, Randy Quaid, Lew Ayres, Pat Hingle
11:30 NewsCenter 4
12:15 Movie: "Paradise Alley" (1978) - Sylvester Stallone, Armand Assante, Lee Canalito

5 KTLA
6:00 Music and the Spoken Word
6:30 Robert Schuller
7:00 Popeye & Friends
10:00 Family Film Festival: "Alakazam the Great" (1961) - English-dubbed Japanese anime with the voices of Peter Fernandez, Frankie Avalon, Jonathan Winters, Corinne Orr Dodie Stevens, Arnold Stang, Sterling Holloway (narrator)
NOON Lost in Space
1:00 Munsters
1:30 Leave It to Beaver
2:00 Gilligan's Island (x2)
3:00 Family Film Festival: "Miracle on 34th Street: (1947) - Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn, Natalie Wood (possible memorial dedication to her)
5:00 Movie: "Santa and the Three Bears" (1970) - Animated, with the voices of Hal Smith (Mr. Ranger), Jean Vaner Pyl (Nana Bear), Christina Ferra-Gilmore (cub Nikomi), Bobby Riha (cub Chinook)
6:00 Hollywood Christmas Parare (Live) - Hosts: Bob Eubanks, Lee Meriwether; Grand Marshals: Roy Rogers & Dale Evans (Natalie Wood and husband Robert Wagner held that title two years earlier.)

8:00 Undersea World of Jacques Cousteah
9:00 Wild Kingdom
9:30 World of Survival
10:00 Channel 5 News at Ten
11:00 Pacesetters
11:30 700 Club

7 KABC
6:00 Daybreak LA
6:30 People 7
7:00 Is Is Written
7:30 Campus Profile: Viewpoint on Nutrition
8:00 Personal Dimensions
8:30 Today's Black Woman
9:00 Villa Alegre
9:30 It
10:00 Camp Wilderness
10:30 Kids Are People Too - Randy Hamilton; Guests: Jamie Farr, Gregory Hines, Robinson the Magician
11:30 This Week with David Brinkley (premiered two weeks earlier, replacing "Issues and Answers") - Guest: Secretary of the Treasury Donald Regan
12:30 People 7
1:00 Directions
1:30 Movie: "The Lost Man" (1969) - Sidney Poitier, Joanna Shimkus, Richard Dysart, Paul Winfield
3:30 Weekend Heroes
4:00 College Football '81
4:30 Greatest Sports Legends - Pele (Hosted by George Plimpton, who at that time was pitchman for Intellivison video games, often demonstrating their superiority to those of the then-popular Atari.)
5:00 ABC World News Sunday - Sam Donaldson
5:30 Eyewitness News
6:30 People's Court
7:00 Code Red
8:00 Today's FBI (revamped version of the 1965-74 ABC series "The FBI"; only 18 episodes ran)
9:00 ABC Sunday Night Movie: "Sizzle" (Premiere) - Loni Anderson, John Forsythe, Leslie Uggams
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 ABC Weekend News - Tom Jarriel

9 KHJ
6:00 Youth & the Issues
6:30 The American Story
8:00 Lloyd John Ogilvie
8:30 Meeting Time at Calvary
9:00 Oral Roberts
9:30 Radio Bible Class
10:00 Herald Truth
10:30 Robert Schuller
11:30 Terry Cole-Whittaker
NOON Search
12:30 The Baxters
1:00 Teen Talk
1:30 Wild, Wild West
2:30 Movie: "Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon" (1942) - Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce
4:00 Movie: "Cry of the Banshee" (1970) - Vincent Price, Elisabeth Bergner
6:00 Kojak
7:00 Ironside
8:00 It Is Written
8:30 World Tomorrow
9:00 Dr. Cho (not Dr. Who)
9:30 Breath of Life
10:00 Ernest Angley Hour
11:00 Sports Shack
11:30 NCAA Football (Tape-delay) - Stanford Bowl Preview

11 KTTV
5:45 Christopher Closeup
6:00 Bible Answers
6:30 Elementary News
7:00 Day of Discovery
7:30 Jimmy Swaggart
8:30 Frederick K. Price
9:30 World Tomorrow
10:00 Rex Humbard
10:30 Jerry Falwell
11:30 Church in the Home
NOON Movie: "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" (1957) - Van Johnson, Claude Rains, Lori Nelson, Jim Backus, Kay Starr, Doodles Weaver, Stanley Adams
2:00 Movie: "Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows" (1968) - Stella Stevens, Rosalind Russell, Susan Saint James, Mary Wickes, Milton Berle, Arthur Godfrey, Van Johnson, Robert Taylor (final film role)
4:00 Movie: "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" (1968) - Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Adrian Hall, Heather Ripley, Lionel Jeffries, Benny Hill
7:00 Special: "Of Muppets and Men" - Jim Henson hosts a behind-the-scenes look of "The Muppet Show", which had just ended its 5-year run earlier that year. Based on the then-newly released book of that same title.
8:00 Movie: "The Unfinished Dance" (1947) - Margaret O'Brien, Danny Thomas, Cyd Charisse, Karin Booth
10:00 LA 11 News
10:30 Jerry Falwell
11:30 Movie: "Who Was That Lady?" (1962) - Tony Curtis, Dean Martin, Janet Leigh

13 KCOP
6:00 Romper Room
7:00 Sunday Morning Funnies (classic cartoons)
11:00 Movie: "Five Pennies" (1959) - Danny Kaye, Babara Bel Geddes, Louis Armstrong (as himself), Bob Crosby (Bing's brother), Bobby Troup
1:00 Adam-12 (x2)
2:00 Movie: "Lullaby of Broadway" (1951) - Doris Day, Gene Nelson, Billy De Wolfe, Gladys George
4:00 Movie: "Target Zero" (1955) - Richard Conte, Peggie Castle, Charles Bronson, Chuck Connors
6:00 Movie: "None but the Brave" (1965) - Frank Sinatra, Clint Walker, Tommy Sands
8:00 Solid Gold - Guests: Natalie Cole, The Spinners, Quarterflash, John Schneider, Chris Christian, Iron City Houser Bobbers
9:00 Hee Haw - Guests: Johnny Rodriguez, Helen Cornelius, Hank Cochran
10:00 World Network News Los Angeles
10:30 Jimmy Swaggart
11:30 Tales of the Unexpected
MIDNIGHT The Rookies

28 KCET (PBS)
7:00 Yoga for Health
7:30 Exploring Language (College Credit Course)
8:00 Electric Company (x2)
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 The Lawmakers
10:30 The Open Mind
11:00 Masterpiece Theatre - "Edward and Mrs. Simpson", Episode 2 of 7: "Venus at the Prow"
NOON The Duchess of Duke Street
1:00 Murder Most English
2:00 Evening at Symphony - Featured composer: Franz Liszt
3:00 American Skyline - Inteview with Aaron Copland; performance by the Neoclassic Jazz-Orchestra
3:30 LA Week in Review
4:00 Wall $treet Week (R)
4:30 Washington Week in Review (R)
5:00 Great Zoos of the World - Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum near Tucson Pledge Break
5:25 Pledge Break
5:30 Great Parks of the World - Nairobi National Park in Kenya
5:55 Pledge Break
6:00 The Great Radio Comedians - Included: Jack Benny, Burns & Allen, Edgar Bergen and his dummies Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd
7:40 Pledge Break
8:00 Nova: "City Spaces, Human Places"
9:00 Pledge Break
9:05 Masterpiece Theatre: "Edward and Mrs. Simpson", Episode 3 of 7: "The New King"
10:00 Pledge Break
10:05 John Callaway Interviews - Guest: John Updike
11:05 Sneak Previews - Reviews: Siskel and Ebert single out their list of strongly recommended "buried treasures", including "Carny", "Gates of Heaven", and "The Onion Field".
11:35 The Duchess of Duke Street
 
If you're wondering why on earth KHJ was airing religious programming in Sunday prime time, its parent company RKO was fighting a long and eventually futile battle over the station license. The station was nearly broke and (much like fellow RKO station WOR) had to take money where it could find it.
 
There were points, at least during the '70s and 80s based upon the schedules (and a little bit of memory), where Channels 9 and 13 aired religious programming on Sunday nights for many years. It was until later in the decade that both stations aired general entertainment programming (usually a movie or hour-long dramas) in the late-evening hours.

The real saving grace for KHJ back in those days were the Laker road telecasts they had (and this was third season of the "Showtime" era), they also some Kings road games as well, but prior to Wayne Gretzky coming to town in 1988, very few cared about hockey in Los Angeles. Honestly, before the transition to KCAL when Disney bought them, 9 was my least favorite among the traditional independents in L.A. I always thought that 5 and 11 had the better shows, but by the mid-80s, 13 was beefing-up their lineup of shows--including having Wheel & Jeopardy! together starting in '85, before moved to KCBS, then later KABC.
 
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