Retro: Maine Sat, Oct 7, 1978

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from TV Guide-Maine edition

WLBZ 2-NBC Bangor
7:00 Go! (a Coast Guard chopper is shown in action in New York Harbor)
7:30 Land of the Lost
8:00 Yogi's Space Race
9:30 Godzilla
10:30 Fantastic Four
11:00 Krofft Superstar Hour
noon Movie "Experiment in Terror" (bw)
2:30 Porter Wagoner (guests Wendy Holcombe, Mack Magaha, and Speck Rhodes)
3:00 Emergency One!
4:00 Movie "Dogpound Shuffle"
5:55 Art Instruction
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Muppet Show (guest Leo Sayer)
7:30 Wild Kingdom (in the Marshall Islands, exploring the causes of shark attacks)
8:00 CHiPs
9:00 Sword of Justice (2 hr episode, starting an hour early-NBC's ad indicates this is the premiere)
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (the Rolling Stones help kick off SNL's 4th season, doing double duty as hosts and performers)

CHSJ 4-CBC Saint John listed Eastern Time
6:30 100 Huntley Street
8:00 Godzilla Power Hour
9:00 Kids Magazine
9:30 One of a Kind
10:00 Miss Ann
10:30 Circle Square
11:00 Heritage
11:30 Land & Sea
noon McIntyre File
12:30 Who's New
1:00 Movie "Pride of the Yankees" (bw)
3:30 Mr. Chips
4:00 Atlantic Week
4:30 Wild Kingdom
5:00 How the West was Won
6:00 CHiPs
7:00 Peking Man Mystery (in 1937, Canadian Dr. Davidson Black found a single ancient tooth, leading to the discovery of Peking Man...however, the remains disappeared 4 years later- this doc explores what happened, and presents theories as to what might have happened to the remains)
8:30 Movie "Love on the Nose"
10:00 CBC News
10:15 News
10:25 Movie "The Pink Jungle"

WABI 5-CBS Bangor
7:30 Big Blue Marble (a 10-yr-old Uruguayan boy learns about life of a gaucho, a Pennsylvania girl prepares for an equestrian event)
8:00 Popeye
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Tarzan/Super 7
noon Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert
1:00 Ark II
1:30 30 Minutes (interview with Shaun Cassidy)
2:00 Wrestling
3:00 That (Good Ole) Nashville Music (guests Don Williams, Connie Smith, and Mel Street)
3:30 Pop! Goes the Country
4:00 Nashville on the Road (guests the Kendalls)
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular (US Grand Prix auto race/Man o' War Stakes horse race/World's Strongest Man pt 1)
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Lawrence Welk
8:00 Rhoda
8:30 Good Times
9:00 American Girls
10:00 Dallas
11:00 News
11:15 Movie "Seven Days in May" (bw)

WCSH 6-NBC Portland
6:45 News
7:00 Ag-USA (increasing demand from wood from commercial forests)
7:30 Kidsworld (interview with Alice Cooper/children learn the hula in Hawaii/water-skiing sans boat)
8:00 Yogi's Speace Race
9:30 Godzilla
10:30 Fantastic Four
11:00 Krofft Superstar Hour
noon Movie "The Search" (compilation of Lone Ranger episodes)
1:30 One God (Martin Balsam narrates a film on the monothestic doctrine shared by Christians, Jews and Muslims)
2:00 Movie "They Died with Their Boots On" (bw)
5:00 Pop! Goes the Country
5:30 Dolly
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Charley Pride (backed by the Edmonton Symphony and Dave & Sugar)
8:00 CHiPs
9:00 Sword of Justice (2 hrs)
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (season premiere)
1:00 Movie "Silent Night, Bloody Night"

WVII 7-ABC Bangor
7:00 Around the World in 80 Days
7:30 Jonny Quest
8:00 Scooby-Doo
8:30 Fangface
9:00 Superfriends
10:00 Scooby's All-Stars
11:30 Pink Panther
noon ABC Weekend Special "If I'm Lost, How Come I Found You?" (conclusion)
12:30 College Football Pre-Game
12:45 College Football: Oklahoma-Texas was the national game, regional coverage aired in some markets
4:00 National League Championship Series, Game 4: Dodgers 4-Phillies 3 in 10 innings (Dodgers win series 3-1, but lost to the Yankees in 6 games)
had the game not aired: American Bandstand at 4 (guests David Gates, and Tavares), TBA at 5, ABC News at 6:30
7:00 Hee Haw (guests Bobby Goldsboro, John Ritter, and the Oak Ridge Boys)
8:00 Carter Country
8:30 Apple Pie
9:00 Love Boat (90 min)
10:30 TBA (wasn't listed, was the 90 min for Love Boat a typo?)
11:00 News
11:15 Stacey's Country Jamboree

WMTW 8-ABC Poland Spring
6:00 New You
7:00 Animals, Animals, Animals (a 3-man expedition collects small sharks for San Francisco's Steinhart Aquarium)
7:30 Archies
8:00 Scooby-Doo
8:30 Fangface
9:00 Superfriends
10:00 Scooby's All-Stars
11:30 Pink Panther
noon ABC Weekend Special "If I'm Lost, How Come I Found You?" (conclusion)
12:30 College Football Pre-Game
12:45 College Football: Oklahoma-Texas was the national game, regional coverage aired in some markets
4:00 NLCS, Game 4
had the game not aired: American Bandstand at 4, TBA at 5, Film at 6:30
7:00 Twin Double
7:30 Bonkers! (guest Petula Clark)
8:00 Carter Country
8:30 Apple Pie
9:00 Love Boat (90 min)
10:30 TBA (wasn't listed, was the 90 min for Love Boat a typo?)
11:00 News
11:15 Twiggy's Jukebox (guests Kiki Dee, Cliff Richard, and Ace)
11:45 Lohman & Barkley (guests Elliott Gould, Mike Connors, Kelly Garrett, Gary Mule Deer, Paul Jabara & Company, and San Diego Mayor Pete Wilson)

WAGM 8-CBS/NBC/ABC Presque Isle
5:00 Call for Potato Pickers (WAGM's broadcast area on both sides of the border is prime potato country)
7:00 Treehouse Club
7:30 Marlo & the Magic Movie Machine (Jimmy Connors' childhood photos/film highlights from September 1958)
8:00 Popeye
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Tarzan/Super 7
noon Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert
1:00 Ark II
1:30 30 Minutes
2:00 Journey to Adventure
2:30 Pop! Goes the Country
3:00 Nashville on the Road
3:30 Follow-Up
4:00 NLCS, Game 4 (ABC)
if the game hadn't aired: TBA at 4, CBS Sports Spectacular at 4:30, TBA at 6, CBS News at 6:30
7:00 Lawrence Welk
8:00 CHiPs (NBC)
9:00 Love Boat (ABC/90 min?)
10:30 TBA
11:30 Saturday Night Live (NBC/season premiere)
1:00 With This Ring

WCBB 10-PBS Augusta (now part of MPBN, the stations merged in 1992)
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30 Saint-Galy Tiles (looks at the craft of tilemaker Geza Saint-Galy)
10:00 Big Blue Marble
10:30 Movie "Andy Hardy's Private Secretary" (bw)
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1:00 Consumer Survival Kit
1:30 Wilderness
2:00 Life Around Us
2:30 On Nature's Trail
3:00 Movie (rerun from 10:30/bw)
5:00 Studio See
5:30 Freestyle
6:00 Big Blue Marble
6:30 Short Story Theatre
7:00 Pro Soccer
8:00 Once Upon a Classic "Dominic" (pt 1, this launches the show's 3rd season)
8:30 Julia Child & Company (the legendary chef returns to the tube after 5 years)
9:00 Long Search (a look at tribal religions)
10:00 Movie "Long Day's Journey Into Night" (bw)

WENH 11-PBS Durham
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30 Smithsonian Institution
10:00 Vegetable Soup
10:30 Cover to Cover
10:45 Looks at Books
11:00 Music
11:30 American Enterprise
noon Every Penny Counts
12:30 Antiques
1:00 Movie "Encore" (bw)
2:30 Conversations
3:00 Outdoors with Art Reid
3:30 Lowell Thomas Remembers
4:00 Judiciary & the Media
5:00 Nova (a 1977 report on the Nazis' V2 rocket, this was the series' 6th season premiere)
6:00 Firing Line (a 2-part debate on the SALT talks as Buckley matches wits with SD Democratic Sen. George McGovern)
7:00 Congressional Outlook (premiere, examing Congressional support for the Navy)
7:30 Turnabout (season premiere, with guests Donny & Marie Osmond; this episode dealt with young people's increasing interest in structured religion)
8:00 World "Blacks Britannica" (examining the UK's black community)
9:00 Ripping Yarns "The Testing of Eric Olthwaite"
9:30 Monty Python's Flying Circus
10:00 Cinema Showcase "Pumping Iron" (starring future Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger as he defends his Mr. Olympia title against a host of contenders, including Incredible Hulk Lou Ferrigno)

WMEB 12-Orono/WMEM 10-Presque Isle/WMED 13-Calais/WMEG 26-Biddeford (PBS)
4pm Sesame Street
5:00 Studio See
5:30 On Nature's Trail
6:00 Characteristics of Learning Disabilities
6:30 Wake of '38
7:30 Agronsky & Company
8:00 Opium (all 3 parts air in one shot)

WGAN 13-CBS Portland
6:00 Maine Weather
6:30 Sunrise Semester "American Character"
7:00 Marlo & the Magic Movie Machine (childhood photos of Diane Keaton/look at the life of former President Truman)
7:30 News
8:00 Popeye
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Tarzan/Super 7
noon Space Academy
12:30 Wrestling
1:30 30 Minutes
2:00 Movie "Santiago"
4:00 Silver Safari
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Hee Haw (same guests as ch 7)
8:00 Rhoda
8:30 Good Times
9:00 American Girls
10:00 Dallas
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Violent Road" (bw)

 

[cd637299]

Another WAGM posting, hooray!

Noticed that if the ABC ballgame was not gonna air (rain, perhaps?), their backup would be CBS programs. I wonder how ABC & CBS felt about that arrangement....

cd

 

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Another WAGM posting, hooray!

Noticed that if the ABC ballgame was not gonna air (rain, perhaps?), their backup would be CBS programs. I wonder how ABC & CBS felt about that arrangement....

cd

Good question, given that the station was primary CBS and cherry-picked from the other two

 

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Another WAGM posting, hooray!

Here's what they ran for the rest of the week:

Sun, Oct 8
7:00 PTL Club
8:00 Christian Outreach/Sunday School of the Air
8:30 Rex Humbard
9:30 Day of Discovery
10:00 Jerry Falwell
11:00 Jimmy Swaggart
noon LDS World Conference
1:00 NFL: Philadelphia-New England
4:00 NFL: NY Giants-Dallas (ABC would have aired Game 5 of the NLCS, if it was needed, at 3:30 )
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 Battlestar Galactica (ABC, Game 5 of the ALCS would have aired here if needed)
9:00 All in the Family
9:30 Alice
10:00 Kaz
11:00 News
11:15 CBS News
11:30 PTL Club

Weekdays
5:00 Call for Potato Pickers
7:00 Today (NBC)
9:00 Captain Kangaroo
10:00 All in the Family
10:30 PTL Club
11:30 Love of Life
11:55 CBS News
noon Young & the Restless
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Not for Women Only
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 M*A*S*H
4:00 Match Game
4:30 Mike Douglas
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 To Tell the Truth
7:30 Tic Tac Dough

Mon, Oct 9
8:00 Little House on the Prairie (NBC)
9:00 TBA
9:30 CMA Awards
11:00 News
11:30 Rockford Files
12:40 Movie "Unwed Father"

Tues, Oct 10
8:00 World Series Pre-Game (NBC)
8:15 World Series, Game 1 (NBC)
11:30 News (likely airing only because CBS' movie, Jacqueline Susann's Once is Not Enough, ran til 11:25)
11:55 Barnaby Jones
1:05 Madigan

Wed, Oct 11
8:00 World Series Pre-Game
8:15 World Series, Game 2
11:30 Hawaii Five-O
12:40 Kojak

Thurs, Oct 12
8:00 Waltons
9:00 Hawaii Five-O
10:00 Barnaby Jones
11:00 News
11:30 M*A*S*H
12:05 Movie "All Fall Down"

Fri, Oct 13
8:00 World Series Pre-Game (NBC)
8:15 World Series, Game 3 (NBC)
11:30 New Avengers
12:40 Movie "Stalk the Wild Child"

 

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Another WAGM posting, hooray!

Noticed that if the ABC ballgame was not gonna air (rain, perhaps?), their backup would be CBS programs. I wonder how ABC & CBS felt about that arrangement....

cd

I've also noticed that WAGM carried a lot of the syndied programs from WABI...did WAGM pick up CBS OTA from Bangor, or was it just a coincidence that WAGM and WABI carried syndied programming in tandem?

 

[KML0224]

Presque Isle and Bangor are 134 air miles apart, so I doubt WAGM-TV would've picked Bangor up over the air. I know that they get NBC and ABC from Bangor on cable to this day.

 

[DToTheJ]

So Sunday was a day of rest for the potato pickers? :

 

[JeeperOne]

Presque Isle and Bangor are 134 air miles apart, so I doubt WAGM-TV would've picked Bangor up over the air. I know that they get NBC and ABC from Bangor on cable to this day.

Unless for viewing within the station newsroom as is the case in every newsroom, I don't see how that's possible since WAGM is a CBS affiliate with a Fox duopoly

Cheers & 73 ;D

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

Do you have the CBC schedule for Monday, Oct. 9--Canadian Thanksgiving Day (and of course Columbus Day in the US)? Just curious what the holiday schedule for CBC (and/or if you also have CTV) looked like back then--would there have been a lot of special holiday programming on that day?

 

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Do you have the CBC schedule for Monday, Oct. 9--Canadian Thanksgiving Day (and of course Columbus Day in the US)? Just curious what the holiday schedule for CBC (and/or if you also have CTV) looked like back then--would there have been a lot of special holiday programming on that day?

Turkey Day line-up, from L'Evangeline:
Listings in Atlantic time, subtract 1 hr for Maine time

CBC-CHSJ
7:30 100 Huntley Street
9:00 Ed Allen
9:30 Film Fill
10:00 Camera 12
10:30 Mr. Dressup
11:00 Sesame Street
noon Merv Griffin
12:55 News
1:00 Match Game '78
1:30 Family Feud
2:00 Stan Kann
2:30 Cartoons
3:00 CFL: Hamilton 25-Ottawa 5 (at Hamilton, scores from Pro Football Archives website)
pre-empted: Take 30 at 3, Celebrity Cooks at 3:30, CBC children's programs at 4, Cartoons at 5, TBA at 5:30
6:00 News
6:30 Gong Show
7:00 Hawaii Five-O
8:00 WKRP in Cincinnati
8:30 M*A*S*H
9:00 CBC SuperSpecial
10:00 CBC Newsmagazine
10:30 TBA
11:00 The National
11:27 Final Report
11:45 Canada After Dark

CTV-CKCW/ATV
7:00 University of the Air
7:30 Romper Room
8:00 Canada AM
10:00 What's Cooking
10:30 It's Your Move
11:00 Mad Dash
11:30 Definition
noon Agri-News
12:05 TBA (Flintstones normally aired here)
12:30 Hogan's Heroes
1:00 TBA
2:00 Oktoberfest Parade (from CKCO Kitchener, many CTV stations still air this on Thanksgiving; on ATV, this runs in place of Live at 5)
pre-empts the Midday Matinee, which usually aired at 1
3:00 Alan Hamel
4:00 Another World
5:00 Beverly Hillbillies
5:30 CFL: BC 15-Edmonton 3 (at Edmonton)
spiked ATV Evening News at 5:30, New Price is Right at 6:30, and Little House on the Prairie at 7:30
8:30 National Fire Drill
pre-empts What's My Line at 8:30 and punts Alice ahead an hour
9:30 Operation Petticoat
10:00 Alice
10:30 Vega$
11:30 Show Biz
mid. CTV National News
12:20 ATV Late News
12:40 Celebrity Revue

 

[BRNout]

Presque Isle and Bangor are 134 air miles apart, so I doubt WAGM-TV would've picked Bangor up over the air. I know that they get NBC and ABC from Bangor on cable to this day.

Unless for viewing within the station newsroom as is the case in every newsroom, I don't see how that's possible since WAGM is a CBS affiliate with a Fox duopoly

Cheers & 73 ;D

I think that KML was referring to two different things: first off was how WAGM received a network signal as well as syndie fare (back in their 3 network days). He dismissed the idea that they could have been received over the air from Bangor (and I agree). Second part of his statement referred to the offerings on local cable in the Presque Isle area, which include ABC and NBC affiliates from Bangor. If the newsroom at WAGM has cable TV (a safe bet), then they too can see those channels.

I'm happy to translate anytime and can even do some Spanish. Mandarin'll cost you extra....

 

[KML0224]

I just keep an interest in Maine because I've lived there twice (I'm a native of Connecticut). However, both times were well within the Portland/Poland Spring DMA and not Presque Isle. It was fun doing a day trip to Portland and picking up the Maine Edition of TV Guide. The listings of WAGM-TV were always the first ones I looked up, seeing what cherry picking they were doing back then.

On a foot note: my two stints in Maine were both in York County. They received the New Hampshire Edition in those parts. Nothing from Bangor or Presque Isle were included in that one.