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Retro: Maine Sat, Aug 7, 1976

from TV Guide-Maine edition

WLBZ 2-NBC Bangor
8:00 Emergency Plus 4
8:30 Josie & the Pussycats
9:00 Waldo Kitty
9:30 Pink Panther
10:00 Land of the Lost
10:30 Run, Joe, Run
11:00 Return to the Planet of the Apes
11:30 Westwind
noon Jetsons
12:30 Go-USA "Go Away Kid, You Bother Me"
1:00 Bonanza
2:00 Grandstand
2:15 Baseball: Philadelphia-St. Louis (alt game: KC-White Sox)
5:00 Movie "Adventures of Neeka" (edited Lassie episodes)
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Wild Kingdom
7:30 Candid Camera
8:00 Adventurizing with the Chopper (pilot)
8:30 Movie "There was a Crooked Man"
11:00 Irish Rovers (guests the Clancy Brothers)
11:30 Weekend (a report claiming 2 NC brothers convicted of kidnapping are innocent; also a report on how Thai prostitution has attracted foreign tourists)

CHSJ 4-CBC Saint John (programs listed ET)
11:00 Circle Square
11:30 Onedin Line
12:30 Scintillating Science
1:00 Saturday Sports (how Canadians fared at the 1976 Summer Olympics)
3:00 Boat Racing: international tiger-class sailing from the Rideau Canal in Ottawa
4:00 Lost Islands
4:30 Welcome Back, Kotter
5:00 Klahanie
5:30 Phyllis
6:00 Hawaii Five-O
7:00 TBA
8:00 Baseball: Cubs-Montreal
11:00 The National
11:15 News
11:25 Movie "The Silencers"

WABI 5-CBS Bangor
7:00 Friends of Man
7:30 Underdog
8:00 Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
9:30 Scooby-Doo
10:00 Shazam!/Isis
11:00 Space Nuts
11:30 Ghost Busters
noon Valley of the Dinosaurs
12:30 Fat Albert
1:00 CBS Children's Film Festival "The Camerons"
2:00 Big Blue Marble
2:30 Pop! Goes the Country (guests Merle Haggard, Leona Williams, and Ronnie Reno)
3:00 Wrestling
4:00 Volvo International Tennis Championships semi-finals
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Lawrence Welk "Shall We Dance?"
8:00 Jeffersons
8:30 Doc
9:00 Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10:00 NFL Exhibition: Dallas-LA

WCSH 6-NBC Portland
6:55 First Radio Parish Church
7:00 News
7:15 Davey & Goliath
7:30 Go-USA "Gordon"
8:00 Emergency Plus 4
8:30 Josie & the Pussycats
9:00 Waldo Kitty
9:30 Pink Panther
10:00 Land of the Lost
10:30 Run, Joe, Run
11:00 Return to the Planet of the Apes
11:30 Westwind
noon Movie "Girl from Mexico" (bw)
1:30 This is the Life "Half Way House"
2:00 Grandstand
2:15 Baseball: Philadelphia-St. Louis (alt game: KC-White Sox)
5:00 My Partner, the Ghost
6:00 Dragnet
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Wild Kingdom
7:30 Candid Camera
8:00 Adventurizing with the Chopper (pilot)
8:30 Movie "There was a Crooked Man"
11:00 Irish Rovers (guests the Clancy Brothers)
11:30 Weekend

WEMT 7-ABC Bangor
7:30 Groovie Goolies
8:00 Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape
9:30 Adventures of Gilligan
10:00 Super Friends
11:00 Speed Buggy
11:30 Oddball Couple
noon Lost Saucer
12:30 American Bandstand (music from Cyndi Greco, and interview with Penny Marshall)
1:30 This is Baseball
2:00 Baseball: Milwaukee-Boston (via WSBK)
4:30 Wally's Workshop
5:00 ABC Wide World of Sports: the American and Soviet track teams square off in College Park, MD
6:30 Wrestling
7:30 James Robison Presents "Why Jesus Came"
8:00 Monty Hall (guests Cloris Leachman, Ed Asner, Minnie Ripperton, and Shields & Yarnell)
9:00 Movie "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever"
11:30 Stacey's Country Jamboree

WMTW 8-ABC Poland Spring
7:00 Across the Fence
7:30 Jetsons
8:00 Word of Life for Youth Today (guests include ex-Navy QB John Cartwright)
8:30 Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape
9:30 Adventures of Gilligan
10:00 Super Friends
11:00 Speed Buggy
11:30 Oddball Couple
noon Lost Saucer
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Movie "The Hasty Heart" (bw)
3:30 NFL Championship Games (1970 NFC championship game: Cowboys 17-49ers 10, game was played at Kazar Stadium in SF; they would square off again the following year at Texas Stadium with the Niners losing again 14-3)
4:00 This is Baseball
4:30 Greatest Sports Legends: Jerry West
5:00 ABC Wide World of Sports
6:30 Hogan's Heroes
7:00 Welcome Back, Kotter
7:30 What's Happening! (premiere, this was originally a 4-week series)
8:00 Monty Hall
9:00 Movie "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever"
11:30 ABC News
11:45 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (guests Gloria Gaynor, Leslie West, and Jimme Spheeris)
1:15 News

WAGM 8-CBS/NBC/ABC Presque Isle
Network shows from CBS unless otherwise indicated
8:00 Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
9:30 Scooby-Doo
10:00 Shazam!/Isis
11:00 Space Nuts
11:30 Ghost Busters
noon Valley of the Dinosaurs
12:30 Fat Albert
1:00 CBS Children's Film Festival "The Camerons"
2:00 Grandstand (NBC)
2:15 Baseball: Philadelphia-St. Louis (NBC/alt game: KC-White Sox)
5:00 ABC Wide World of Sports (ABC)
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Lawrence Welk
8:00 Adventurizing with the Chopper (NBC/pilot)
8:30 Movie "There was a Crooked Man" (NBC)
11:00 TBA
11:30 Weekend (NBC)

WCBB 10-PBS Augusta
4pm Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 TV Garden Club
6:00 Washington Week in Review
6:30 Consumer Survival Kit
7:00 Wall Street Week
7:30 Agronsky & Company
8:00 At the Top (tribute to Bix Beiderbecke with guests Jimmy McPartland, Marian McPartland, and Joe Venuti)
9:00 Movie "Dr. Mabuse, King of Crime" (bw)
10:35 Men Who Made the Movies (profiles Raoul Walsh)

WENH 11-PBS Durham
6pm Upstairs, Downstairs
7:00 Nova "The Williamsburg File"
8:00 At the Top (same show as 10)
9:00 Movie "Dr. Mabuse, King of Crime" (bw)

WMEB 12-PBS Orono
relayed by WMEM 10-Presque Isle, WMED 13-Calais, and WMEA 26-Biddeford
4pm Sesame Street
5:00 Olympiad "The Australians"
6:00 Upstairs, Downstairs
7:00 Wall Street Week
7:30 Agronsky & Company
8:00 Nova "The Williamsburg File"
9:00 Movie "The Iron Horse" (bw)

WGAN 13-CBS Portland
6:00 Maine Weather
6:30 Summer Semester "Transformation of American Society"
7:00 Ozzie & Harriet (bw)
7:30 Monkees
8:00 Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
9:30 Scooby-Doo
10:00 Shazam!/Isis
11:00 Space Nuts
11:30 Ghost Busters
noon Ironside
1:00 Wrestling
2:00 Baseball: Milwaukee-Boston (WSBK)
4:30 Volvo International Tennis Championships semi-finals
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Phyllis
7:30 Bobby Vinton (guest Anne Murray)
8:00 Jeffersons
8:30 Doc
9:00 Jack Van Impe Crusade "Can America Survive?" (from Convention Hall, Philly)
10:00 NFL Exhibition: Dallas-LA
 
To show how much WAGM picked and chose in those days, here's what their sked looked like for the rest of the week...

Sun, Aug 8
7:45 James Robison Presents
8:15 Rex Humbard
9:15 Sacred Heart
9:30 Day of Discovery
10:00 Jerry Falwell
11:00 Follow-Up
11:30 Face the Nation
noon It is Written
12:30 Meet the Press (NBC)
1:00 Insight
1:30 Movie "Bad Man's River"
3:30 TBA
4:00 Volvo International Tennis Championships singles final
6:00 Friends of Man
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Jacques Cousteau "Sharks" (ABC)
8:00 Six Million Dollar Man (ABC)
9:00 Movie "The Adventurers" (ABC)
12:15 Sammy & Company

Weekdays
7:00 Today (NBC)
9:00 Captain Kangaroo (1 hr delay)
10:00 Price is Right
11:00 Gambit
11:30 Love of Life
11:55 CBS News
noon Young & the Restless
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Ryan's Hope (ABC)
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:00 All in the Family
3:30 Match Game
4:00 Edge of Night (ABC; in Portland Edge aired on WGAN 13 as WMTW ran Lassie in the slot)
4:30 Mike Douglas
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 To Tell the Truth (except on Fri)

Mon, Aug 9
7:30 Adam-12
8:00 Rhoda (which WABI Bangor spiked to show Space: 1999 at 7:30)
8:30 Baseball: Yankees-KC or LA-Pittsburgh (ABC)
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Say Hello to Yesterday"

Tues, Aug 10
7:30 Price is Right
8:00 Happy Days (ABC)
8:30 Laverne & Shirley (ABC)
9:00 Police Woman (NBC)
10:00 Switch
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Wings of Eagles"

Wed, Aug 11
7:30 $25,000 Pyramid
8:00 Little House on the Prairie (NBC)
9:00 Movie "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman"
11:10 News
11:40 Movie "When Eight Bells Toll"

Thurs, Aug 12
7:30 That Good Ole Nashville Music
8:00 Waltons
9:00 Hawaii Five-O (WGAN spiked both Five-O and Barnaby to show a movie; was it a one-off or a regular occurance?)
10:00 Barnaby Jones
11:00 News
11:30 Amy Prentiss

Fri, Aug 13
7:00 Space: 1999
8:00 For Better or Worse (NBC/pilot)
8:30 Phillip & Barbara (NBC/pilot)
9:00 Your Place or Mine (NBC/pilot)
9:30 Rockford Files (NBC/repeat of 1974 pilot)
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Sailor Beware" (bw)
 
Bluenoser said:
Weekdays
9:00 Captain Kangaroo (1 hr delay)

Not exactly, or at least not a delay by the affiliate. This was the second feed of
the Captain, primarily for Central Time Zone stations (8 CT), although a few ET
affils also used it.
 
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