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Retro: Los Angeles - Tuesday, November 17, 1981

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Boldfaced highlight of the day: Luke & Laura's "General Hospital wedding!

2 KNXT (CBS)
5:30 Sunrise Semester
6:00 Juntos
6:30 Sunnyside
7:00 Wake Up with the Captain (Kangaroo)
7:30 Morning - Charles Kuralt, Diane Sawyer
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 Restless
12:30 As the World Turns
1:00 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 2 on the Town
8:00 CBS Special Movie: "Skokie" (Premiere) - Dramatization of the events surrounding the 1977-78 neo-Nazi demonstrations in the Chicago suburb of Skokie, IL. Stars: Danny Kaye, John Rubinstein, Carl Reiner, Kim Hunter, Eli Wallach
10:30 Mike Wallace Profiles (Debut) - "A Cinderella Story Gone Sour", profiling actress Jean Seberg (1938-1979)
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:30 Alice
MIDNIGHT McCloud

4 KNBC
5:15 Designing Home Interiors
5:45 Health Field
6:15 College Athletics: A Contradiction?
7:00 Today
9:00 Las Vegas Gambit
9:30 Blockbusters
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Battlestars - no panel info
11:00 Password Plus - Guests: Audrey Landers, Regis Philbin (launched his namesake talk show November 30 in Las Vegas Gambit's former slot; co-hosted by Mary Hart before finding greater fame on Entertainment Tonight; canceled Apr. 9, 1982 due to poor ratings)
11:30 The Doctors
NOON Days of Our Lives
1:00 Another World
2:00 Texas
3:00 Donahue - Guest: Jane Fonda (On Golden Pond would be released December 4)
4:00 Bob Newhart
4:30 Entertainment Tonight
5:00 NewsCenter 4
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 Father Murphy
9:00 NBC Special: "The First All-American Ultra-Quiz" (Part 2 of 2) - Based on the hit Japanese game show; hosted by Dan Rowan & Dick Martin
11:00 NewsCenter 4
11:30 Tonight Show - Guests: Joan Rivers, David Horowitz; Performer: Linda Hopkins
12:30 Tomorrow - Guests: Hamilton Jordan, Liona Boyd (guitarist); Rex Reed interviews Lena Horne

5 KTLA
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 - Features: Dr. William Rader discusses accidents in the home; training program for female firefighters
2:00 John Davidson - Theme: Salute to the Roaring '20s; Guests: Loni Anderson, John Forsythe, Leslie Uggams, Phyllis Davis, Roy Thinnes, Michael Goodwin, Charles Lookwood
3:30 F-Troop
4:00 Sha Na Na (x2)
5:00 Little House on the Prairie
6:00 Charlie's Angels
7:00 Happy Days Again
7:30 Movie: "Cabaret" (1972) - Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey, Michael York
10:00 Channel 5 News at Ten
11:00 Best of Saturday Night
MIDNIGHT Movie: "No Man of Her Own" (1932) - Clark Gable, Carole Lombard (their only film together, seven years before their marriage)

7 KABC
6:00 Voyage: Career-Life Planning
6:30 Daybreak LA
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 AM Los Angeles
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 (Luke & Laura's Big Wedding Day!)
3:00 Edge of Night
3:30 People's Court
4:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Eye On LA
8:00 Happy Days
8:30 Laverne & Shirley
9:00 Three's Company
9:30 Too Close for Comfort
10:00 Hart to Hart
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Nightline
MIDNIGHT Fantasy Island

9 KHJ
6:00 Meet the Mayors
6:30 Youth & the Issues
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 Movie: "Change of Habit" (1969) - Elvis Presley, Mary Tyler Moore
1:00 Channel 9 News
1:30 Ironside
2:30 Kojak
3:30 Movie: "The Secret War of Harry Frigg" - (1969) - Paul Newman, Sylva Koscina
5:30 Cater Country
6:00 Treasure Hunt
6:30 Bullseye
7:00 You Asked For It
7:30 Match Game
8:00 Movie: "Von Ryan's Express" (1965) - Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carra
10:00 10 O'Clock News
11:00 Paul Hogan
11:30 Best of Groucho
MIDNIGHT Movie: "The Secret World of Harry Frigg" (repeat)

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
11:30 LA 11 News
NOON Movie: "Spellbound" (1945) - Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck; directed by Alfred Hitchcock
2:00 Open Line
2:30 Jetsons
3:00 Flinstones
3:30 Bugs & Porky
4:00 Tom & Jerry
4:30 Brady Bunch
5:00 Incredible Hulk
6:00 Muppet Show - Guest: Sylvester Stallone
6:30 Welcome Back, Kotter
7:00 M*A*S*H (x2)
8:00 PM Magazine
8:30 All in the Family
9:00 Merv Griffin - Theme: Hit record makers; Guests: Ringo Starr, Cal Rudman, Juice Newton
10:30 LA 11 News
11:00 Jeffersons
11:30 Odd Couple
MIDNIGHT Mike Douglas - Co-host: Don Rickles; Guests: Telma Hopkins, Wendy Holcombe
1:00 Movie: "Barrabas" (1961) - Anthony Quinn, Arthur Kennedy, Jack Palance, Ernest Borgnine

13 KCOP
6:00 News
6:15 Films That Teach
6:30 Heckle & Jeckle
7:00 Bugs Bunny
7:30 Kartoon Karinval
8:30 Popeye
9:00 Romper Room
9:30 Bowery Boys
10:30 John Wayne Theater
NOON Movie: "Shake Hands With the Devil" (1959) - James Cagney, Don Murray
2:00 Superman
2:30 Popeye
3:00 Bugs Bunny
3:30 Scooby-Doo
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 Movie: "Goodbye Bruce Lee: His Last Game of Death" - Documentary mixed with the 39-minute "Game of Death film, released in 1978, five years after Lee's death; also featuring Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
10:00 World Network News: Los Angeles
10:30 INN News
11:00 Benny Hill
11:30 Sanford & Son
MIDNIGHT The Rookies

28 KCET (PBS)
6:00 Humanities Through the Arts
6:30 Captioned ABC News
7:00 Nightly Business Report (from previous night)
7:30 Yoga for Health
8:00 Mister Rogers
8:30 Villa Alegre
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Instructional Programs
11:00 Electric Company
11:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report (from previous night)
NOON Dick Cavett
12:30 Over Easy
1:00 Instructional Programs
3:00 The Growing Years
3:30 Voyage: Career-Life Planning
4:00 Villa Alegre
4:30 Mister Rogers
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Nightly Business Report
6:30 Newsbeat with Clete Roberts
7:00 Over Easy
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 Cosmos
9:00 Odyssey
10:00 Presente
10:30 The Independent Eye: The Year of the Disabled Person
11:00 Dick Cavett
11:30 Newsbeat with Clete Roberts
MIDNIGHT Exploring Language
12:30 Contemporary Health Issues
 
It was said that 31 million viewers watched it!

The only thing I could find though were the overall monthly daytime ratings for November 1981:
 

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I can see The Price is Right topped out only by Family Feud. I wonder how long it took for them to regain the top? What's that attachment from BTW?
 
I can see The Price is Right topped out only by Family Feud. I wonder how long it took for them to regain the top? What's that attachment from BTW?

I am not sure I’ll look for ya though. The attachment is from Daytime TV Magazine, a publication that ran from the late 70’s to about the late 80’s or so.
 
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