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Retro: Maine Sat, Feb 28, 1981

from TV Guide-Maine edition

WLBZ 2-NBC Bangor
7:00 Little Rascals (bw)
7:30 Kidsworld
8:00 Godzilla/Hong Kong Phooey
9:00 Flintstones
10:30 Daffy Duck
11:00 Batman
noon Movie "The Black Rose"
2:30 Wild Kingdom (pt 1 of a 2-parter on gorillas)
3:00 Movie "Frankie & Johnny"
5:00 American Life Style (story of George Eastman, photography pioneer)
5:30 Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry (Bill Anderson welcomes Minnie Pearl, Del Reeves, and the Osborne Brothers)
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Muppet Show (guest Wally Boag plays a rock version of Swanee River on the bagpipes, accompanied by the Electric Mayhem Band)
7:30 Dance Fever (judges Maureen McGovern (who also performs), Jim Stafford, and Charlene Tilton)
8:00 CHiPs
9:00 Gangster Chronicles
10:00 Hill Street Blues
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (re-run from Dec 1980: host David Carradine, music by Linda Rondstadt and the cast of The Pirates of Penzance)

CHSJ 4-CBC Saint John Listed ET
7:00 Circle Square
7:30 100 Huntley Street
9:00 Hilarious House of Frightenstein
10:00 Popeye
10:30 Land & Sea
11:00 Heritage
11:30 22 Hazelwood
noon Wok with Yan
12:30 Movie "Hatari"
2:00 Man from UNCLE
3:00 CBC SportsWeekend: Canadian Ladies' Curling Championship/highlights of Edmonton Journal Track & Field Meet
6:00 Movie "When the Circus Came to Town"
8:00 Hockey Night in Canada: Toronto-Montreal
11:00 CBC News: Saturday Report
11:15 News
11:25 Movie "Wipeout!"

WABI 5-CBS Bangor, WAGM 8-CBS/NBC/ABC Presque Isle
6:30 (WAGM) Big Blue Marble
7:00 (WAGM) New Zoo Revue
7:25 (WABI) Open Door
7:30 (WABI) Hot Fudge
7:30 (WAGM) Littlest Hobo (was the 80s Canadian version syndied in the US?)
8:00 High School Basketball: Eastern Maine girls' and boys' Class A quarterfinals (from Bangor)
1:00 (WABI) Top Rank Fights of the 70s: from 1979, Matthew Saad Muhammad defends his WBC light-heavyweight belt against former champ John Conteh
1:00 (WAGM) Pop! Goes the Country
1:30 (WAGM) Journey to Adventure
2:00 High School Basketball
6:45 News
7:00 Lawrence Welk (memorable music from America's past)
8:00 High School Basketball
11:00 (WABI) News
11:00 (WAGM) Monte Carlo Show (guests Kris Kristofferson, Shields & Yarnell, and Stephane Grappelli)
11:15 (WABI) Wrestling
mid. (WAGM) Movie "Midas Run"

WCSH 6-NBC Portland
6:30 First Radio Parish Church
6:35 News Extra
6:45 News
7:00 Jetsons
7:30 Kidsworld
8:00 Godzilla/Hong Kong Phooey
9:00 Flintstones
10:30 Daffy Duck
11:00 Batman
noon Movie "The Battle of Neretva"
2:00 Movie "Francis" (bw)
4:00 Nashville on the Road (featuring Alabama)
4:30 Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry (Bill welcomes Hank Snow, Kelly Foxton, and David Allan Coe)
5:00 Pop! Goes the Country (guests Jimmy Dean and Bobby Bare)
5:30 Let's Rock (what a lead-in, 90 min of country shows :D)
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Muppet Show (guest Debbie Harry)
7:30 Dance Fever (judges Alison Arngrim, Roxie Roker, and Anson Williams)
8:00 CHiPs
9:00 Gangster Chronicles
10:00 Hill Street Blues
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1:00 Movie "Batman" (based on the cheesy 60s series)

WVII 7-ABC Bangor
6:00 Big Blue Marble
6:30 New Zoo Revue
7:00 Star Blazers
7:30 Archies
8:00 Superfriends
9:00 Fonz
9:30 Richie Rich/Scooby & Scrappy-Doo
10:30 Thundarr
11:00 Heathcliff/Dingbat
11:30 Plastic Man/Baby Plas
noon ABC Weekend Special "The Ghost of Thomas Kempe"
12:30 American Bandstand (guests the Association, and Johnny Rivers)
1:30 Movie "Casablanca" (bw)
3:30 Pro Bowling: Cleveland Open
5:00 ABC Wide World of Sports: World Wristwrestling Championships/International Tobaggan Championships/Women's Masters Surfing Championship
6:30 Sports Afield
7:00 Hee Haw (guests Rex Allen Sr & Jr, Margo Smith, Eddy Raven, and the Million Dollar Band)
8:00 Charlie's Angels
9:00 Love Boat
10:00 Fantasy Island
11:00 ABC News
11:15 Stacey's Country Jamboree

WMTW 8-ABC Poland Spring
6:00 New You
7:00 Animals, Animals, Animals
7:30 Krofft Superstars
8:00 Superfriends
9:00 Fonz
9:30 Richie Rich/Scooby & Scrappy-Doo
10:30 Thundarr
11:00 Heathcliff/Dingbat
11:30 Plastic Man/Baby Plas
noon ABC Weekend Special "The Ghost of Thomas Kempe"
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Movie "Yukon Safari"
3:30 Pro Bowling: Cleveland Open
5:00 ABC Wide World of Sports
6:30 High School Quiz: Greely v Portland
7:00 Lawrence Welk
8:00 Charlie's Angels
9:00 Love Boat
10:00 Fantasy Island
11:00 ABC News
11:15 Benny Hill (x2)
12:15 Movie "The Grissom Gang"

WCBB 10-PBS Augusta
7:30 Project Universe (x3)
9:00 Growing Years (x3)
10:30 Characteristics of Learning Disabilities (x2)
11:30 Masterpiece Theatre "Danger UXB" (pt eight)
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1:00 Washington Week in Review
1:30 Wall Street Week
2:00 All-Star Soccer
3:00 Movie "Jubal"
5:00 All Creatures Great & Small
6:00 Magic of Oil Painting
6:30 This Old House
7:00 Once Upon a Classic "Black Island" (conclusion)
7:30 With Ossie & Ruby (guest Sterling Brown)
8:00 Odyssey "Maasai Women"
9:00 Austin City Limits (a "Mandolin Special" with guests the David Grisman Quartet, Tiny Moore, Jethro Burns, and Johnny Gimble)
10:00 Movie "The Last Angry Man" (bw)

WENH 11-PBS Durham
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 This Old House
10:30 Nova (Julie Harris narrates a comparison of American and British health care)
11:30 Young Children with Special Needs
noon Growing Years
12:30 Open Mind
1:00 Lawmakers
1:30 Here's to Your Health (guest Norman Cousins in the first part of a series where he discusses stress and its effects on well-being)
2:00 Power Game
2:30 Great Decisions '81
3:00 Cousteau Odyssey "Clipperton: The Island Time Forgot" (visiting a Pacific atoll 670 miles off the Mexican coast)
4:00 Antiques
4:30 Once Upon a Classic "Black Island" (pt 1)
5:00 Vikings! (this episode looks at their presence in the British Isles)
5:30 Your Time
6:00 That's It in Sports
6:30 Soccer Made in Germany
7:30 Twilight Zone (bw)
8:00 Sneak Previews
8:30 Superstar Profile: Mel Brooks
9:00 Great Performances "To Be Young, Gifted and Black" (story of playwright Lorraine Hansberry/first aired 1972)
10:30 Only the Ball was White (a look at the old Negro baseball league)

MPBN: WMEB 12-Orono, WMEG 26-Biddeford, WMEM 10-Presque Isle, WMED 13-Calais (PBS)
7:30 Project Universe (x3)
9:00 Growing Years (x3)
10:30 Characteristics of Leaning Disabilities (x2)
11:30 Masterpiece Theatre "Danger UXB" (pt eight)
12:30 Antiques
1:00 All Creatures Great & Small
2:00 Movie "Doctor in the House" (bw)
3:30 So You Think You Know Maine?
4:30 Ordinary People
5:00 Shock of the New (modern culture's effect on art)
6:00 Sneak Previews
6:30 Once Upon a Classic "Black Island" (pt 1, followed by the conclusion at 7)
7:30 Agronsky & Company
8:00 Paper Chase
9:00 Movie "Outcast of the Islands" (bw)
10:50 NASA Year-End Review
11:00 Austin City Limits (guests Tony Joe White and Gary Stewart with "swamp music" and honky-tonk)

WGAN 13-CBS Portland
6:00 Maine Weather
6:30 Sunrise Semester "Women and Men in a Changing Society"
7:00 Great Space Coaster
7:30 Courtship of Eddie's Father
8:00 Mighty Mouse/Heckle & Jeckle
8:30 Tom & Jerry
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Popeye
11:30 Drak Pack
noon Fat Albert
12:30 Tarzan/Lone Ranger
1:30 30 Minutes (Berry Ann Bowser reports on a rehab program where kids with problems work on a sailing ship taking a 10-day voyage around Lake Ontario)
2:00 Wrestling
3:00 Hee Haw (see 7pm, WVII)
4:00 TBA
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular: Matthew Saad Muhammad (28-3-2) defends his WBC light-heavy crown against #8 contender Vonzell Johnson (22-1) in Atlantic City/European Figure Skating Championships
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Kung Fu
8:00 WKRP in Cincinnati
8:30 Tim Conway
9:00 Flo
9:30 (Not listed, I'm guessing a movie aired here?)
11:00 News
11:30 Top Rank Fights of the 70s: see 1pm, WABI
12:30 Movie "First to Fight"

WSBK 38-Ind Boston
7:00 Faith for Today
7:30 Viewpoint on Nutrition
8:00 Public Affairs
8:30 Villa Alegre
9:00 Carrascolendas
9:30 Hot Fudge
10:00 Ask the Manager (Dimino)
10:30 Movie "The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb"
noon Movie "Grizzly"
2:00 Movie "Broken Arrow"
4:00 Movie "Roll, Freddy, Roll"
6:00 Hogan's Heroes
6:30 Bob Newhart
7:00 What's Happening America (Newark Mayor Kenneth Gibson on gun control, Shirley Jones and Marty Engels discuss suing the National Enquirer)
8:00 Movie "Junior Bonner"
10:00 INN News
10:30 Forum 38
11:00 Odd Couple
11:30 Movie "Think Fast, Mr. Moto" (bw)

WLVI 56-Ind Boston
8:00 Music & the Spoken Word
8:30 Rex Humbard
9:00 Oral Roberts
9:30 Jimmy Swaggart
10:30 De Todo un Poco (Mass Dept of Mental Health rep Melvin Montero talks about centers for Hispanic alcoholics)
11:00 Wrestling
noon Six Million Dollar Man
1:00 Movie "It Came from Outer Space" (bw)
2:30 Movie "Gargoyles"
4:00 Movie "Rock-a-Bye Baby"
6:00 Happy Days Again
6:30 Good Times
7:00 Sanford & Son
7:30 Mary Tyler Moore
8:00 College Basketball: Seton Hall-Boston College (Dan Davis and Ken Hudson with the call)
10:00 Movie "What's Up, Tiger Lily?"
11:30 Tales from the Unexpected
 
Bluenoser said:
7:30 Dance Fever (judges Maureen McGovern (who also performs), Jim Stafford, and Charlene Tilton)

By comparison, Jim Stafford's song are more "dance-able" than Maureen McGovern's. (IMHO, anyways...)

By the way, interesting that WLBZ didn't air the same episode as WCSH. Someone is either a week behind or on time.
 
blackgold said:
WHAT? No listing for Radio-Canada's stations in the Maritimes?!

Nope, CHSJ was the only Maritime station listed by the ME edition of TVG-and they were gone by the mid 80s. The Bangor Daily News, on the other hand, has listed both CHSJ/CBAT and CKLT (ATV/CTV) for many years.
 
Personally, I'd love to see more WAGM listings, even up to the mid 90s, as they were truly the last of the 3-network cherry-pickers (heck even in 1995 was they had FOX' NFL coverage, they were a 4-network channel).

TV Guide even ran an article about them in 1977. (I know WAGM wasn't the only one, but they were the last one standing.)

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I think the last one standing in that regard would've been KXGN-TV channel 5 in Glendive, MT. They were a CBS primary and NBC secondary station, if I'm not mistaken.

As for WAGM-TV channel 8, they even carried WWE Smackdown! for a short time, back when it was carried by UPN. The same may be true for Star Trek: Enterprise. Today, WAGM-TV 8-1 is CBS only while 8-2 is a FOX station.
 
KML-224 said:
I think the last one standing in that regard would've been KXGN-TV channel 5 in Glendive, MT. They were a CBS primary and NBC secondary station, if I'm not mistaken.

As for WAGM-TV channel 8, they even carried WWE Smackdown! for a short time, back when it was carried by UPN. The same may be true for Star Trek: Enterprise. Today, WAGM-TV 8-1 is CBS only while 8-2 is a FOX station.

True, KXGN was the last more-than-one-network TV station; but WAGM was the last of the 3-or-more-network TV stations.

In 1995, WAGM faxed me their weekly schedule, and I color-coded them from each network. I do not think that I have that paper anymore.

As a child, we used to visit relatives near Hagerstown MD....I enjoyed the TV Guide edition there, including ch 16 Salisbury MD which was also a good cherry-picker, and on UHF of all things.

Back to the topic at hand....

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