From TV Guide, Michigan State Edition:
NOTE: PBS may rebroadcast last night's Gerald Ford-Jimmy Carter debate tonight. I don't recall if that happened.
WJBK Ch. 2 Detroit (CBS)
6:20 Town And Country Almanac
6:30 College Of Lifelong Learning
7 AM Bozo
7:30 News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Phil Donahue
10 AM Price Is Right
11 AM Tattletales (Marjoe Gortner and Lynne Kimball, Mark Shera and Barbara Deutsch, Jimmie Walker and Edy Roberts, day-behind from 4 PM)
11:30 Young And The Restless (delay from 12 N)
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Love Of Life (delay from 11:30 AM)
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM All In The Family
3:30 Match Game '76 (Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers, Joyce Bulifant, Richard Dawson, Debralee Scott, Scoey Mitchlll)
4 PM Mike Douglas (co-host Bobby Rydell; Bill and Susan Seaforth Hayes, Jacqueline Susann's husband Irving Mansfield)
5:30 Adam-12
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7:30 $25,000 Pyramid
8 PM Spencer's Pilots
9 PM CBS Movie: "Magnum Force" (Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry)
11:30 News
12 M Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
12:30 CBS Movie: "Heatwave!" (delay from 12 M)
2 AM Movie: "The Jackpot" (what happens when a couple, played by Jimmy Stewart and Barbara Hale, win a huge showcase of prizes on a radio game show, from '50)
WKZO (WWMT) Ch. 3 Kalamazoo (CBS)
6:30 Sunrise Semester: "Communication, The Invisible Environment"
7 AM CBS News (Bruce Morton/Hughes Rudd)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Clubhouse
9:30 Morning Accent
10 AM Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Accent
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM All In The Family
3:30 Match Game '76
4 PM Tattletales
4:30 Dinah! (saluting the college theater at Northwestern University with Charlton Heston, Cloris Leachman, Ann-Margret, Richard Schaal, and Claude Akins)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Concentration
7:30 $25,000 Pyramid
8 PM Spencer's Pilots
9 PM CBS Movie: "Magnum Force"
11:30 News
12 M CBS Movie: "Heatwave!"
1:30 Movie: "Sundays And Cybele"
WTOM Ch. 4 Cheboygan, MI/WPBN Ch. 7 Traverse City (NBC)
7 AM Today (Tom Brokaw; Alex Haley talks about his then-upcoming miniseries "Roots")
9 AM Good Day! (psychiatrist Daniel Ellsberg and actor John Gabriel)
9:30 Not For Women Only
10 AM Sanford And Son
10:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes (Loretta Swit, Shelley Winters, Jack Albertson, David Huddleston, Alan Sues, Carol Wayne)
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Tim Matheson, Kurt Russell, Wayland and Madame, Lesley Ann Warren, Dick Van Dyke, George Gobel, Florence Henderson, Jack Klugman, Paul Lynde)
12 N Lassie
12:30 Gong Show
12:55 NBC News (anchor not given)
1 PM The Fun Factory (delay from 12 N)
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Bugs Bunny
4:30 Mike Douglas (same as Ch. 2)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
7 PM Pop Goes The Country (Barbara Mandrell, Bobby Bare, Cledus Maggard)
7:30 Andy Williams (guest: Charo)
8 PM Sanford And Son
9 PM Rockford Files
10 PM Serpico (debut)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
WWJ (WDIV) Ch. 4 Detroit (NBC)
6:30 Classroom: Oil painters show how to mix colors for good skin tones.
7 AM Today
9 AM Concentration
9:30 Gong Show
9:55 Carol Duvall
10 AM Sanford And Son
10:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N To Tell The Truth
12:30 News
1 PM Somerset
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Dinah! (Lou Rawls, singers Morris Albert and Red Sovine, the O'Jays, composer Arthur Schwartz)
5:30 News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Bowling For Dollars
7:30 Muppet Show (guest: Jim Nabors)
8 PM Sanford And Son
9 PM Rockford Files
10 PM Serpico
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Midnight Special (an all-oldies show with the Kingston Trio, Del Shannon, Lloyd Price, the Drifters, Danny & The Juniors, Bobby Vee, Jimmie Rodgers, and Johnny Tillotson)
2:30 News
WNEM Ch. 5 Bay City (NBC)
5:45 University Of Michigan Presents
6:15 With This Ring
6:30 Scope
6:45 News
7 AM Today
9 AM Ironside
10 AM Sanford And Son
10:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News
12:30 Gong Show
12:55 NBC News
1 PM The Fun Factory
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Movie: "The Road Back" (edited from four "Lassie" TV episodes, from '70)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Wild Kingdom
7:30 Muppet Show (same as Ch. 4 Detroit)
8 PM Sanford And Son
9 PM Rockford Files
10 PM Serpico
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Midnight Special
2:30 News
WJIM (WLNS) Ch. 6 Lansing (CBS)
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Good Day! (Cab Calloway; Dr. Edgar Berman, author of "The Solid Gold Stethoscope")
9:30 Tattletales
10 AM Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM All In The Family
3:30 Match Game '76
4 PM Confetti (local kids' show)
4:30 Bewitched
5 PM Gunsmoke
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hogan's Heroes
7:30 Price Is Right
8 PM Spencer's Pilots
9 PM CBS Movie: "Magnum Force"
11:30 News
12 M CBS Movie: "Heatwave!"
WXYZ Ch. 7 Detroit (ABC)
6 AM Ounce Of Prevention (preventive dentistry through the use of fluoride)
6:30 News
7 AM Good Morning America (David Hartman)
9 AM Movie: "Paris Blues" (conclusion)
10:30 A.M. Detroit
11 AM Edge Of Night (delay from 4 PM)
11:30 Happy Days
12 N Hot Seat (game show)
12:30 All My Children
1 PM Ryan's Hope
1:30 Family Feud
2 PM $20,000 Pyramid (Vicki Lawrence, Rick Hurst)
2:30 One Life To Live
3:15 General Hospital
4 PM Movie: "The Rat Race"
6 PM News
7 PM ABC News (Harry Reasoner; Barbara Walters becomes co-anchor Oct. 4)
7:30 Hollywood Squares (George Gobel, Jonathan Winters, McLean Stevenson, Dennis Weaver, Bernadette Peters, Wayland and Madame, Paul Lynde)
8 PM Donny & Marie (Paul Lynde leads a tour through the Television Hall of Fame; cameo appearances by Groucho Marx, Milton Berle, Desi Arnaz, Art Linkletter, George Gobel, Arthur Godfrey, Lorne Greene, Harriet Nelson, Howdy Doody, Peggy Fleming, George Fenneman, Robert Hegyes, Gale Storm, Jim Connell)
9 PM ABC Movie: "Part 2 Walking Tall"
11 PM News
11:30 S.W.A.T.
12:40 Movie: "To Love A Vampire"
2:05 News
WOTV (WOOD) Ch. 8 Grand Rapids (NBC)
6:30 University Of Michigan Presents
7 AM Today
9 AM Buck Matthews (local talk show)
9:30 Not For Women Only (conclusion of a series on hair care with a scalp expert)
10 AM Sanford And Son
10:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News
12:30 Mike Douglas (same as Ch. 2 without Irving Mansfield)
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Bugs Bunny
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Partridge Family (guest: Morey Amsterdam)
5:30 Brady Bunch
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News
7:30 Wild Kingdom
8 PM Sanford And Son
9 PM Rockford Files
10 PM Serpico
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Midnight Special
CBET Ch. 9 Windsor, ON (CBC)
8:30 It's Your Choice (game show)
9 AM Mr. Dressup
9:30 Summer Schools
10 AM Friendly Giant
10:15 Mon Ami
10:30 Mr. Dressup
11 AM Sesame Street
12 N Bob McLean (the Diamonds and Chapter 5 of the serial "The Rocket Man")
12:30 Celebrity Cooks (folk singer Leon Bibb makes ham hocks and bean soup)
1 PM Movie: "A Lovely Way To Die"
3 PM Insight (public affairs)
3:30 Take 30
4 PM Vision On
4:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
5 PM Bewitched
5:30 Room 222
6 PM My Three Sons
6:30 Newsday
7:30 Odd Couple
8 PM Gordon Sinclair...Gordon Sinclair (the Canadian broadcasting legend talks about his career; included are anecdotes about Hitler and Mahatma Gandhi, clips from his game show "Front Page Challenge," a roast given him in Toronto, dropping the puck at a Maple Leafs game)
9 PM Tommy Hunter (singers Gloria Kaye, Donna Ramsey, and Leroy Anderson)
10 PM Man About The House (the British series that was Americanized as "Three's Company")
10:30 Sports Scene
11 PM CBC News (Lloyd Robertson)
11:20 Nightbeat
12 M Movie: "Face Of Fear"
1:30 Get Down
WWTV Ch. 9 Cadillac (CBS)
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Cartoons
9:30 Galloping Gourmet
10 AM Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM News
1:10 Accent
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM All In The Family
3:30 Match Game '76
4 PM Tattletales
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
5:30 Partridge Family (guest: Bobby Sherman; this may have been the pilot for his spinoff series "Getting Together")
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw (George Gobel, Billie Jo Spears)
8 PM Spencer's Pilots
9 PM CBS Movie: "Magnum Force"
11:30 News
12 M CBS Movie: "Heatwave!"
WILX Ch. 10 Jackson, MI (NBC)
7 AM Today
9 AM Marcus Welby, M.D.
10 AM Sanford And Son
10:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N The Fun Factory
12:30 Gong Show
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Somerset
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Scrambled Eggs (kids' show)
4:30 Family Affair
5 PM Andy Griffith
5:30 Campaign '76
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM To Tell The Truth (Gene Shalit, Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen, Kitty Carlisle)
7:30 Muppet Show
8 PM Sanford And Son
9 PM Rockford Files
10 PM Serpico
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Midnight Special
2:30 News
WBKB Ch. 11 Alpena, MI (CBS)
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Phil Donahue (pediatrician Ben Feingold, author of "Why Your Child Is Hyperactive")
10 AM Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Northeast Journal
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM All In The Family
3:30 Match Game '76
4 PM Tattletales
4:30 Good Day! (same as Ch. 4 Cheboygan and Ch. 7 Traverse City)
5 PM Phil Donahue (guest: Reverend Ike)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Pop Goes The Country (Mel Tillis, Crystal Gayle, Terry Bradshaw)
7:30 Campaign '76
8 PM Spencer's Pilots
9 PM CBS Movie: "Magnum Force"
11:30 News
12 M CBS Movie: "Heatwave!"
WJRT Ch. 12 Flint (ABC)
6:30 Town And Country Almanac
6:35 News And Farm Report
7 AM Bozo
7:30 Cartoons
8 AM Sesame Street
9 AM Dinah! (same as Ch. 3)
10:30 Hot Seat
11 AM Edge Of Night
11:30 Happy Days
12 N News
12:30 All My Children
1 PM Ryan's Hope
1:30 Family Feud
2 PM $20,000 Pyramid
2:30 One Life To Live
3:15 General Hospital
4 PM Wild Wild West
5 PM Emergency One!
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Brady Bunch
7:30 $25,000 Pyramid
8 PM Donny & Marie
9 PM ABC Movie: "Part 2 Walking Tall"
11 PM News
11:30 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
12 M Movie: "War Of The Planets"
1:55 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (Ike & Tina Turner, C.W. McCall, Queen)
3:25 News
WZZM Ch. 13 Grand Rapids (ABC)
6:30 Farm Report
7 AM Lone Ranger
7:30 Bozo
8 AM Good Morning America (joined in progress)
9 AM Movie: "They Made Me A Criminal"
10:30 Hot Seat
11 AM Edge Of Night
11:30 Happy Days
12 N Eyewitness At Noon
12:30 All My Children
1 PM Ryan's Hope
1:30 Family Feud
2 PM $20,000 Pyramid
2:30 One Life To Live
3:15 General Hospital
4 PM Flintstones
4:30 Bewitched
5 PM Beverly Hillbillies (guest: Pat Boone)
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Adam-12
7 PM Cross-Wits (Ed Asner, Betty White, Richard Deacon, Joyce Bulifant)
7:30 To Tell The Truth (Soupy Sales, Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen, Kitty Carlisle)
8 PM Donny & Marie
9 PM ABC Movie: "Part 2 Walking Tall"
11 PM News
11:30 Hogan's Heroes
12 M Movie: "The Lady In The Car With Glasses And A Gun"
1:30 News
WCMU Ch. 14 Mt. Pleasant, MI (PBS)
6:20 Town And Country Almanac
6:30 Sesame Street
7:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
8 AM Woman
8:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Anyone For Tennyson?
11 AM Naturalists
11:30 Hollywood Television Theatre ("The Hemingway Play" has four actors playing Ernest Hemingway at various stages of his life.)
1 PM Upstairs, Downstairs
2 PM Nova (James Watson and Francis Crick recall how they discovered the structure of DNA.)
3 PM TBA
3:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Caught In The Act (The Boys Of The Lough perform traditional Scottish and Irish songs.)
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Candidates And Issues
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM U.S.A.: People And Politics
9:30 From These Roots (Harlem in the 1920s)
10 PM Masterpiece Theatre ("The Moonstone," Chapter 3)
11 PM Monty Python's Flying Circus
11:30 Captioned ABC News
12 M Movie: "League Of Gentlemen"
WUCM Ch. 19 Flint/Saginaw/Bay City (PBS)
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Anyone For Tennyson?
11 AM Naturalists
11:30 Consumer Survival Kit
12 N Vegetable Soup
12:30 Villa Alegre
1 PM In-school programs
2:30 Erica (needlework)
3 PM Day By Day (discussion)
3:30 What's Cooking?
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Consumer Survival Kit
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Day By Day
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM U.S.A.: People And Politics
9:30 Off The Record
10 PM Masterpiece Theatre
11 PM Black Perspective On The News
11:30 Captioned ABC News
WKAR Ch. 23 Jackson, MI (PBS)
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Zoom
11 AM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
12 N Firing Line (Zbigniew Brzezinski takes a hard look at U.S. foreign policy.)
1 PM Memories For A Centennial
2 PM Frank Lloyd Wright: Prophet Without Honor
2:30 Right Out Of The Blue
3 PM Silent Drum
3:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Silent Drum
6:30 Antiques
7 PM Off The Record
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM Masterpiece Theatre
10 PM International Animation Festival
10:30 Monty Python's Flying Circus
11 PM Jazz Is Alive And Well (the Preston Love Band from Omaha)
11:30 Captioned ABC News
WEYI Ch. 25 Saginaw (CBS)
6:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Mike Douglas (co-hosts: race driver Johnny Rutherford and his wife Betty; Kevin and Susan Dobson, Dr. Joyce Brothers)
10:30 700 Club
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM That Girl
1:25 News
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM All In The Family
3:30 Match Game '76
4 PM Bugs Bunny And Friends
5 PM Batman
5:30 News
6 PM My Three Sons
6:30 Room 222
7 PM CBS News
7:30 Beverly Hillbillies
8 PM Spencer's Pilots
9 PM CBS Movie: "Magnum Force"
11:30 News
11:35 Twilight Zone
12 M CBS Movie: "Heatwave!"
WGTU Ch. 29 Traverse City (ABC)
9 AM Good Morning America
10 AM PTL Club
12 N Hot Seat
12:30 All My Children
1 PM Ryan's Hope
1:30 Family Feud
2 PM $20,000 Pyramid
2:30 One Life To Live
3:15 General Hospital
4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Wild Wild West
6 PM ABC News
6:30 To Tell The Truth
7 PM My Three Sons
7:30 Adam-12
8 PM Donny & Marie
9 PM ABC Movie: "Part 2 Walking Tall"
11 PM Weather/Paul Harvey
11:05 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (Gladys Knight, Doug Kershaw, the Crusaders, Undisputed Truth)
12:35 Weather
WGVC Ch. 35 Grand Rapids/Kalamazoo/Battle Creek (PBS)
7:20 Town And Country Almanac
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 In-school programs
3 PM Consumer Survival Kit
3:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 TBA
7 PM Over Easy (Phyllis Diller; a 67-year-old cowboy)
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM U.S.A.: People And Politics
9:30 Off The Record
10 PM Masterpiece Theatre
WUHQ (WOTV) Ch. 41 Battle Creek (ABC)
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM 700 Club
10 AM Romper Room
10:30 Lassie
11 AM Edge Of Night
11:30 Happy Days
12 N Hot Seat
12:30 All My Children
1 PM Ryan's Hope
1:30 Family Feud
2 PM $20,000 Pyramid
2:30 One Life To Live
3:15 General Hospital
4 PM Speed Racer
4:30 Batman
5 PM Andy Griffith
5:30 Dick Van Dyke
5:55 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Movie: "In Search Of America"
8 PM Donny & Marie
9 PM ABC Movie: "Part 2 Walking Tall"
11 PM Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
11:30 S.W.A.T.
12:40 College Football '76
WKBD Ch. 50 Detroit (Ind.)
9:30 Formby's Antique Furniture Workshop
10 AM Detroit Today
10:30 Not For Women Only (last of five on heart care; Michael DeBakey is shown on film performing a bypass operation)
11 AM Romper Room
11:30 Underdog
12 N Bugs Bunny
12:30 The Lucy Show
1 PM Movie: "The Jazz Singer" (the original with Al Jolson, from '27)
3 PM Popeye
3:30 Bugs Bunny
4 PM Three Stooges
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Gilligan's Island
5:30 Brady Bunch
6 PM Emergency One!
7 PM I Love Lucy
7:30 Family Affair
8 PM Merv Griffin (a salute to Carol Burnett, with Harvey Korman, Tim Conway, and Joe Hamilton (Carol's husband))
9 PM Movie: "Battle Cry"
12 M Movie: "Invisible Stripes"
NOTE: PBS may rebroadcast last night's Gerald Ford-Jimmy Carter debate tonight. I don't recall if that happened.
WJBK Ch. 2 Detroit (CBS)
6:20 Town And Country Almanac
6:30 College Of Lifelong Learning
7 AM Bozo
7:30 News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Phil Donahue
10 AM Price Is Right
11 AM Tattletales (Marjoe Gortner and Lynne Kimball, Mark Shera and Barbara Deutsch, Jimmie Walker and Edy Roberts, day-behind from 4 PM)
11:30 Young And The Restless (delay from 12 N)
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Love Of Life (delay from 11:30 AM)
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM All In The Family
3:30 Match Game '76 (Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers, Joyce Bulifant, Richard Dawson, Debralee Scott, Scoey Mitchlll)
4 PM Mike Douglas (co-host Bobby Rydell; Bill and Susan Seaforth Hayes, Jacqueline Susann's husband Irving Mansfield)
5:30 Adam-12
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7:30 $25,000 Pyramid
8 PM Spencer's Pilots
9 PM CBS Movie: "Magnum Force" (Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry)
11:30 News
12 M Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
12:30 CBS Movie: "Heatwave!" (delay from 12 M)
2 AM Movie: "The Jackpot" (what happens when a couple, played by Jimmy Stewart and Barbara Hale, win a huge showcase of prizes on a radio game show, from '50)
WKZO (WWMT) Ch. 3 Kalamazoo (CBS)
6:30 Sunrise Semester: "Communication, The Invisible Environment"
7 AM CBS News (Bruce Morton/Hughes Rudd)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Clubhouse
9:30 Morning Accent
10 AM Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Accent
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM All In The Family
3:30 Match Game '76
4 PM Tattletales
4:30 Dinah! (saluting the college theater at Northwestern University with Charlton Heston, Cloris Leachman, Ann-Margret, Richard Schaal, and Claude Akins)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Concentration
7:30 $25,000 Pyramid
8 PM Spencer's Pilots
9 PM CBS Movie: "Magnum Force"
11:30 News
12 M CBS Movie: "Heatwave!"
1:30 Movie: "Sundays And Cybele"
WTOM Ch. 4 Cheboygan, MI/WPBN Ch. 7 Traverse City (NBC)
7 AM Today (Tom Brokaw; Alex Haley talks about his then-upcoming miniseries "Roots")
9 AM Good Day! (psychiatrist Daniel Ellsberg and actor John Gabriel)
9:30 Not For Women Only
10 AM Sanford And Son
10:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes (Loretta Swit, Shelley Winters, Jack Albertson, David Huddleston, Alan Sues, Carol Wayne)
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Tim Matheson, Kurt Russell, Wayland and Madame, Lesley Ann Warren, Dick Van Dyke, George Gobel, Florence Henderson, Jack Klugman, Paul Lynde)
12 N Lassie
12:30 Gong Show
12:55 NBC News (anchor not given)
1 PM The Fun Factory (delay from 12 N)
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Bugs Bunny
4:30 Mike Douglas (same as Ch. 2)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
7 PM Pop Goes The Country (Barbara Mandrell, Bobby Bare, Cledus Maggard)
7:30 Andy Williams (guest: Charo)
8 PM Sanford And Son
9 PM Rockford Files
10 PM Serpico (debut)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
WWJ (WDIV) Ch. 4 Detroit (NBC)
6:30 Classroom: Oil painters show how to mix colors for good skin tones.
7 AM Today
9 AM Concentration
9:30 Gong Show
9:55 Carol Duvall
10 AM Sanford And Son
10:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N To Tell The Truth
12:30 News
1 PM Somerset
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Dinah! (Lou Rawls, singers Morris Albert and Red Sovine, the O'Jays, composer Arthur Schwartz)
5:30 News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Bowling For Dollars
7:30 Muppet Show (guest: Jim Nabors)
8 PM Sanford And Son
9 PM Rockford Files
10 PM Serpico
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Midnight Special (an all-oldies show with the Kingston Trio, Del Shannon, Lloyd Price, the Drifters, Danny & The Juniors, Bobby Vee, Jimmie Rodgers, and Johnny Tillotson)
2:30 News
WNEM Ch. 5 Bay City (NBC)
5:45 University Of Michigan Presents
6:15 With This Ring
6:30 Scope
6:45 News
7 AM Today
9 AM Ironside
10 AM Sanford And Son
10:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News
12:30 Gong Show
12:55 NBC News
1 PM The Fun Factory
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Movie: "The Road Back" (edited from four "Lassie" TV episodes, from '70)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Wild Kingdom
7:30 Muppet Show (same as Ch. 4 Detroit)
8 PM Sanford And Son
9 PM Rockford Files
10 PM Serpico
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Midnight Special
2:30 News
WJIM (WLNS) Ch. 6 Lansing (CBS)
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Good Day! (Cab Calloway; Dr. Edgar Berman, author of "The Solid Gold Stethoscope")
9:30 Tattletales
10 AM Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM All In The Family
3:30 Match Game '76
4 PM Confetti (local kids' show)
4:30 Bewitched
5 PM Gunsmoke
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hogan's Heroes
7:30 Price Is Right
8 PM Spencer's Pilots
9 PM CBS Movie: "Magnum Force"
11:30 News
12 M CBS Movie: "Heatwave!"
WXYZ Ch. 7 Detroit (ABC)
6 AM Ounce Of Prevention (preventive dentistry through the use of fluoride)
6:30 News
7 AM Good Morning America (David Hartman)
9 AM Movie: "Paris Blues" (conclusion)
10:30 A.M. Detroit
11 AM Edge Of Night (delay from 4 PM)
11:30 Happy Days
12 N Hot Seat (game show)
12:30 All My Children
1 PM Ryan's Hope
1:30 Family Feud
2 PM $20,000 Pyramid (Vicki Lawrence, Rick Hurst)
2:30 One Life To Live
3:15 General Hospital
4 PM Movie: "The Rat Race"
6 PM News
7 PM ABC News (Harry Reasoner; Barbara Walters becomes co-anchor Oct. 4)
7:30 Hollywood Squares (George Gobel, Jonathan Winters, McLean Stevenson, Dennis Weaver, Bernadette Peters, Wayland and Madame, Paul Lynde)
8 PM Donny & Marie (Paul Lynde leads a tour through the Television Hall of Fame; cameo appearances by Groucho Marx, Milton Berle, Desi Arnaz, Art Linkletter, George Gobel, Arthur Godfrey, Lorne Greene, Harriet Nelson, Howdy Doody, Peggy Fleming, George Fenneman, Robert Hegyes, Gale Storm, Jim Connell)
9 PM ABC Movie: "Part 2 Walking Tall"
11 PM News
11:30 S.W.A.T.
12:40 Movie: "To Love A Vampire"
2:05 News
WOTV (WOOD) Ch. 8 Grand Rapids (NBC)
6:30 University Of Michigan Presents
7 AM Today
9 AM Buck Matthews (local talk show)
9:30 Not For Women Only (conclusion of a series on hair care with a scalp expert)
10 AM Sanford And Son
10:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News
12:30 Mike Douglas (same as Ch. 2 without Irving Mansfield)
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Bugs Bunny
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Partridge Family (guest: Morey Amsterdam)
5:30 Brady Bunch
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News
7:30 Wild Kingdom
8 PM Sanford And Son
9 PM Rockford Files
10 PM Serpico
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Midnight Special
CBET Ch. 9 Windsor, ON (CBC)
8:30 It's Your Choice (game show)
9 AM Mr. Dressup
9:30 Summer Schools
10 AM Friendly Giant
10:15 Mon Ami
10:30 Mr. Dressup
11 AM Sesame Street
12 N Bob McLean (the Diamonds and Chapter 5 of the serial "The Rocket Man")
12:30 Celebrity Cooks (folk singer Leon Bibb makes ham hocks and bean soup)
1 PM Movie: "A Lovely Way To Die"
3 PM Insight (public affairs)
3:30 Take 30
4 PM Vision On
4:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
5 PM Bewitched
5:30 Room 222
6 PM My Three Sons
6:30 Newsday
7:30 Odd Couple
8 PM Gordon Sinclair...Gordon Sinclair (the Canadian broadcasting legend talks about his career; included are anecdotes about Hitler and Mahatma Gandhi, clips from his game show "Front Page Challenge," a roast given him in Toronto, dropping the puck at a Maple Leafs game)
9 PM Tommy Hunter (singers Gloria Kaye, Donna Ramsey, and Leroy Anderson)
10 PM Man About The House (the British series that was Americanized as "Three's Company")
10:30 Sports Scene
11 PM CBC News (Lloyd Robertson)
11:20 Nightbeat
12 M Movie: "Face Of Fear"
1:30 Get Down
WWTV Ch. 9 Cadillac (CBS)
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Cartoons
9:30 Galloping Gourmet
10 AM Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM News
1:10 Accent
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM All In The Family
3:30 Match Game '76
4 PM Tattletales
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
5:30 Partridge Family (guest: Bobby Sherman; this may have been the pilot for his spinoff series "Getting Together")
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw (George Gobel, Billie Jo Spears)
8 PM Spencer's Pilots
9 PM CBS Movie: "Magnum Force"
11:30 News
12 M CBS Movie: "Heatwave!"
WILX Ch. 10 Jackson, MI (NBC)
7 AM Today
9 AM Marcus Welby, M.D.
10 AM Sanford And Son
10:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N The Fun Factory
12:30 Gong Show
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Somerset
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Scrambled Eggs (kids' show)
4:30 Family Affair
5 PM Andy Griffith
5:30 Campaign '76
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM To Tell The Truth (Gene Shalit, Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen, Kitty Carlisle)
7:30 Muppet Show
8 PM Sanford And Son
9 PM Rockford Files
10 PM Serpico
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Midnight Special
2:30 News
WBKB Ch. 11 Alpena, MI (CBS)
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Phil Donahue (pediatrician Ben Feingold, author of "Why Your Child Is Hyperactive")
10 AM Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Northeast Journal
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM All In The Family
3:30 Match Game '76
4 PM Tattletales
4:30 Good Day! (same as Ch. 4 Cheboygan and Ch. 7 Traverse City)
5 PM Phil Donahue (guest: Reverend Ike)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Pop Goes The Country (Mel Tillis, Crystal Gayle, Terry Bradshaw)
7:30 Campaign '76
8 PM Spencer's Pilots
9 PM CBS Movie: "Magnum Force"
11:30 News
12 M CBS Movie: "Heatwave!"
WJRT Ch. 12 Flint (ABC)
6:30 Town And Country Almanac
6:35 News And Farm Report
7 AM Bozo
7:30 Cartoons
8 AM Sesame Street
9 AM Dinah! (same as Ch. 3)
10:30 Hot Seat
11 AM Edge Of Night
11:30 Happy Days
12 N News
12:30 All My Children
1 PM Ryan's Hope
1:30 Family Feud
2 PM $20,000 Pyramid
2:30 One Life To Live
3:15 General Hospital
4 PM Wild Wild West
5 PM Emergency One!
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Brady Bunch
7:30 $25,000 Pyramid
8 PM Donny & Marie
9 PM ABC Movie: "Part 2 Walking Tall"
11 PM News
11:30 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
12 M Movie: "War Of The Planets"
1:55 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (Ike & Tina Turner, C.W. McCall, Queen)
3:25 News
WZZM Ch. 13 Grand Rapids (ABC)
6:30 Farm Report
7 AM Lone Ranger
7:30 Bozo
8 AM Good Morning America (joined in progress)
9 AM Movie: "They Made Me A Criminal"
10:30 Hot Seat
11 AM Edge Of Night
11:30 Happy Days
12 N Eyewitness At Noon
12:30 All My Children
1 PM Ryan's Hope
1:30 Family Feud
2 PM $20,000 Pyramid
2:30 One Life To Live
3:15 General Hospital
4 PM Flintstones
4:30 Bewitched
5 PM Beverly Hillbillies (guest: Pat Boone)
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Adam-12
7 PM Cross-Wits (Ed Asner, Betty White, Richard Deacon, Joyce Bulifant)
7:30 To Tell The Truth (Soupy Sales, Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen, Kitty Carlisle)
8 PM Donny & Marie
9 PM ABC Movie: "Part 2 Walking Tall"
11 PM News
11:30 Hogan's Heroes
12 M Movie: "The Lady In The Car With Glasses And A Gun"
1:30 News
WCMU Ch. 14 Mt. Pleasant, MI (PBS)
6:20 Town And Country Almanac
6:30 Sesame Street
7:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
8 AM Woman
8:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Anyone For Tennyson?
11 AM Naturalists
11:30 Hollywood Television Theatre ("The Hemingway Play" has four actors playing Ernest Hemingway at various stages of his life.)
1 PM Upstairs, Downstairs
2 PM Nova (James Watson and Francis Crick recall how they discovered the structure of DNA.)
3 PM TBA
3:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Caught In The Act (The Boys Of The Lough perform traditional Scottish and Irish songs.)
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Candidates And Issues
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM U.S.A.: People And Politics
9:30 From These Roots (Harlem in the 1920s)
10 PM Masterpiece Theatre ("The Moonstone," Chapter 3)
11 PM Monty Python's Flying Circus
11:30 Captioned ABC News
12 M Movie: "League Of Gentlemen"
WUCM Ch. 19 Flint/Saginaw/Bay City (PBS)
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Anyone For Tennyson?
11 AM Naturalists
11:30 Consumer Survival Kit
12 N Vegetable Soup
12:30 Villa Alegre
1 PM In-school programs
2:30 Erica (needlework)
3 PM Day By Day (discussion)
3:30 What's Cooking?
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Consumer Survival Kit
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Day By Day
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM U.S.A.: People And Politics
9:30 Off The Record
10 PM Masterpiece Theatre
11 PM Black Perspective On The News
11:30 Captioned ABC News
WKAR Ch. 23 Jackson, MI (PBS)
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Zoom
11 AM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
12 N Firing Line (Zbigniew Brzezinski takes a hard look at U.S. foreign policy.)
1 PM Memories For A Centennial
2 PM Frank Lloyd Wright: Prophet Without Honor
2:30 Right Out Of The Blue
3 PM Silent Drum
3:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Silent Drum
6:30 Antiques
7 PM Off The Record
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM Masterpiece Theatre
10 PM International Animation Festival
10:30 Monty Python's Flying Circus
11 PM Jazz Is Alive And Well (the Preston Love Band from Omaha)
11:30 Captioned ABC News
WEYI Ch. 25 Saginaw (CBS)
6:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Mike Douglas (co-hosts: race driver Johnny Rutherford and his wife Betty; Kevin and Susan Dobson, Dr. Joyce Brothers)
10:30 700 Club
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM That Girl
1:25 News
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM All In The Family
3:30 Match Game '76
4 PM Bugs Bunny And Friends
5 PM Batman
5:30 News
6 PM My Three Sons
6:30 Room 222
7 PM CBS News
7:30 Beverly Hillbillies
8 PM Spencer's Pilots
9 PM CBS Movie: "Magnum Force"
11:30 News
11:35 Twilight Zone
12 M CBS Movie: "Heatwave!"
WGTU Ch. 29 Traverse City (ABC)
9 AM Good Morning America
10 AM PTL Club
12 N Hot Seat
12:30 All My Children
1 PM Ryan's Hope
1:30 Family Feud
2 PM $20,000 Pyramid
2:30 One Life To Live
3:15 General Hospital
4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Wild Wild West
6 PM ABC News
6:30 To Tell The Truth
7 PM My Three Sons
7:30 Adam-12
8 PM Donny & Marie
9 PM ABC Movie: "Part 2 Walking Tall"
11 PM Weather/Paul Harvey
11:05 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (Gladys Knight, Doug Kershaw, the Crusaders, Undisputed Truth)
12:35 Weather
WGVC Ch. 35 Grand Rapids/Kalamazoo/Battle Creek (PBS)
7:20 Town And Country Almanac
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 In-school programs
3 PM Consumer Survival Kit
3:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 TBA
7 PM Over Easy (Phyllis Diller; a 67-year-old cowboy)
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM U.S.A.: People And Politics
9:30 Off The Record
10 PM Masterpiece Theatre
WUHQ (WOTV) Ch. 41 Battle Creek (ABC)
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM 700 Club
10 AM Romper Room
10:30 Lassie
11 AM Edge Of Night
11:30 Happy Days
12 N Hot Seat
12:30 All My Children
1 PM Ryan's Hope
1:30 Family Feud
2 PM $20,000 Pyramid
2:30 One Life To Live
3:15 General Hospital
4 PM Speed Racer
4:30 Batman
5 PM Andy Griffith
5:30 Dick Van Dyke
5:55 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Movie: "In Search Of America"
8 PM Donny & Marie
9 PM ABC Movie: "Part 2 Walking Tall"
11 PM Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
11:30 S.W.A.T.
12:40 College Football '76
WKBD Ch. 50 Detroit (Ind.)
9:30 Formby's Antique Furniture Workshop
10 AM Detroit Today
10:30 Not For Women Only (last of five on heart care; Michael DeBakey is shown on film performing a bypass operation)
11 AM Romper Room
11:30 Underdog
12 N Bugs Bunny
12:30 The Lucy Show
1 PM Movie: "The Jazz Singer" (the original with Al Jolson, from '27)
3 PM Popeye
3:30 Bugs Bunny
4 PM Three Stooges
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Gilligan's Island
5:30 Brady Bunch
6 PM Emergency One!
7 PM I Love Lucy
7:30 Family Affair
8 PM Merv Griffin (a salute to Carol Burnett, with Harvey Korman, Tim Conway, and Joe Hamilton (Carol's husband))
9 PM Movie: "Battle Cry"
12 M Movie: "Invisible Stripes"
