(Source: Milwaukee Journal)
WTMJ-TV 4 (NBC)
AM
6 Gigglesnort Hotel
6:30 Topper
7 Today
9 A New Day (Guests: Robert Dunn of Grand Circle Travel; Charles Colson about his prison ministry and Watergate)
10 Richard Simmons
10:30 $50,000 Pyramid
11 Card Sharks
11:30 The Doctors
PM
12 Days Of Our Lives
1 Another World
2 Texas
3 Merv Griffin (Guests: David Brenner, Nancy Friday, Robert Goulet, Connie Selleca)
4:30 The World Of People
5 News
5:30 NBC News
6 News
6:30 Family Feud
7 Real People
8 Diff’rent Strokes
8:30 Facts of Life
9 Quincy
10 News
10:30 Tonight
11:30 Carol Burnett & Friends
12M Tomorrow Coast-To-Coast
1:30 Health Field
WITI 6 (CBS)
AM
5:50 TV Chapel
5:55 TV6 Editorial
6 Morning with Charles Kuralt
7 Captain Kangaroo
8 The Jeffersons
8:30 Alice
9 Phil Donahue (Guest: Elton John; rerun)
10 The Price Is Right
11 Young And The Restless
PM
12 TV6 News at Noon
12:30 Charlie Rose (Guest: Susan Saint James)
1 As The World Turns
2 Guiding Light
3 One Day At A Time
3:30 New York Too Far From Tampa Blues (rerun)
4:30 Starsky and Hutch
5:30 CBS News
6 News
6:30 Joker’s Wild
7 Enos
8 CBS Wednesday Night Movie: “Outlaw Blues”
10 News
10:30 Bob Newhart
11 Mary Tyler Moore
11:30 Late Show: “Two People”
1:20A TV6 Late News
1:50 Late, Late Show: “Destination Murder” (B&W)
3:10 TV6 Editorial
3:15 TV Chapel
WMVS 10 (PBS)
AM
7:45 AM Weather
8 South by Northwest
8:30 Dimensions in Nursing
9 ThinkAbout
9:15 The Write Channel
9:30 Ripples
9:45 Wordsmith
10 Measuremetric
10:15 Discovering
10:30 Electric Company
11 Exploring The World Of Science
11:15 Self-inc.
11:30 Sesame Street
PM
12:30 Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
1 Dragons, Wagons And Wax
1:15 Ripples
1:30 ThinkAbout
1:45 Story Bound
2 Personal Finance
2:30 The Growing Years
3 Over Easy
3:30 Dick Cavett (Part 2 of interview with author Oliver Saks
4 Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Discovery
6 D.C. Circuits
6:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7 MKE At 7: The Business of Wisconsin
7:30 Over Easy
8 World Special: (No More Mountains: The Story of the Hmong People)
9 The Fabulous Philadelphians: From Ormandy to Muti (Philadelphia Orchestra)
10:30 Dick Cavitt
11 Bill Moyers’ Journal
12M Speak Easy
WISN-TV 12 (ABC)
AM
6 At Large
6:30 My Three Sons
7 Good Morning America (Guests: British author Philip Norman “Shout“; Dinah Shore)
9 All My Children
10 Love Boat
11 Family Feud
11:30 Edge of Night
PM
12 At Twelve With Howard and Rosemary (Guests: Bonnie Prudden; hypnotist Grace Reinbold; cook Sophie Kay; plant-garden expert Tom Lied)
1 One Life To Live
2 General Hospital
3 Hour Magazine
4 Happy Days Again
4:30 Welcome Back, Kotter
5 ABC News
5:30 News
6 Tic Tac Dough
6:30 PM Magazine
7 Love Boat
8 Aloha Paradise
9 On Borrowed Time (special on pro golfer Ron Drimak’s open-heart surgery)
10 News
10:30 MASH
11 Odd Couple
11:30 Nightline
12M Love Boat
1 $6 Million Man
2:20 Channel 12 Action News
WVTV 18
AM
6 Ed Allen
6:30 Casper and Friends
7 Flintstones
7:30 Woody Woodpecker
8 Great Space Coaster
8:30 Leave It to Beaver
9 Las Vegas Gambit
9:30 Blockbusters
10 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Doris Day
11 Ross Bagley
11:30 700 Club (Guest: Actor-producer Bob O’Donnell highlights life and works of author C.S. Lewis)
PM
1 UWM News Focus (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
1:30 Andy Griffith
2 Beverly Hillbillies
2:30 I Love Lucy
3 Flintstones
3:30 Scooby Doo
4 Tom & Jerry and Bugs
4:30 Gilligan’s Island
5 Brady Bunch
5:30 Sanford & Son
6 All In The Family
6:30 Major League Baseball: Milwaukee Brewers at Toronto Blue Jays (Brewers won 8-1)
9:30 All In The Family
10 Benny Hill
10:30 Independent Network News
11 Late Movie 18: “They Call It Murder”
1A News Final
WCGV 24
AM
8:30 Morning Stretch with Joanie
9 John Davidson (Guests: Bernie and Yolanda Kopell, Elizabeth Ashley, Bill Medley, Larry Wilson, Gayle Olinekova, Julius Fast)
10:30 Room 222
11 Jim Bakker
PM
12 SelecTV
2 Two O’Clock Movie: “Her Husband’s Affairs” (1947, B&W)
4 McHale’s Navy
4:30 Gomer Pyle
5 Chico and the Man
5:30 Get Smart
6 Kojak
7 SelecTV (until signoff)
WMVT 36 (PBS)
** Studentvision 1981 programs were produced by Milwaukee Area Technical College students)
PM (No listings before 3:30)
3 Studentvision 1981: Racquetball Today
3:30 Studentvision 1981: Karate
4 Studentvision 1981: Milwaukee magician David Seebach
4:30 TV High School: Math V
5 Communication Skills
5:30 Studentvision 1981: Welcome to Sri Lanka (part 1)
6 Studentvision 1981: Unexposed Art (three Milwaukee-area artists)
6:30 Personal Finance
7 Marketing Perspectives
7:30 Studentvision 1981: What’s Happening In Milwaukee (discussion of city’s sewer problems)
8 Studentvision 1981: Escape to Southeastern Wisconsin
8:30 Studentvision 1981: EAA: Putting Wings on Dreams (tour of Experimental Aircraft Assoc. museum)
9:30 Studentvision 1981: Olympic Skating (hopefuls discuss their chances)
10 Studentvision 1981: The Sexually-Abused Child (service agences discuss solutions)
10:30 ABC Captioned News
11 Studentvision 1981: Comedy Corner (live, Al Castellano hosts several standup comedians)
11:30 Studentvision 1981: Caught At Studio A (jazz band performs)
12M Studentvision 1981: Stage 36 (two folk groups perform)
WTMJ-TV 4 (NBC)
AM
6 Gigglesnort Hotel
6:30 Topper
7 Today
9 A New Day (Guests: Robert Dunn of Grand Circle Travel; Charles Colson about his prison ministry and Watergate)
10 Richard Simmons
10:30 $50,000 Pyramid
11 Card Sharks
11:30 The Doctors
PM
12 Days Of Our Lives
1 Another World
2 Texas
3 Merv Griffin (Guests: David Brenner, Nancy Friday, Robert Goulet, Connie Selleca)
4:30 The World Of People
5 News
5:30 NBC News
6 News
6:30 Family Feud
7 Real People
8 Diff’rent Strokes
8:30 Facts of Life
9 Quincy
10 News
10:30 Tonight
11:30 Carol Burnett & Friends
12M Tomorrow Coast-To-Coast
1:30 Health Field
WITI 6 (CBS)
AM
5:50 TV Chapel
5:55 TV6 Editorial
6 Morning with Charles Kuralt
7 Captain Kangaroo
8 The Jeffersons
8:30 Alice
9 Phil Donahue (Guest: Elton John; rerun)
10 The Price Is Right
11 Young And The Restless
PM
12 TV6 News at Noon
12:30 Charlie Rose (Guest: Susan Saint James)
1 As The World Turns
2 Guiding Light
3 One Day At A Time
3:30 New York Too Far From Tampa Blues (rerun)
4:30 Starsky and Hutch
5:30 CBS News
6 News
6:30 Joker’s Wild
7 Enos
8 CBS Wednesday Night Movie: “Outlaw Blues”
10 News
10:30 Bob Newhart
11 Mary Tyler Moore
11:30 Late Show: “Two People”
1:20A TV6 Late News
1:50 Late, Late Show: “Destination Murder” (B&W)
3:10 TV6 Editorial
3:15 TV Chapel
WMVS 10 (PBS)
AM
7:45 AM Weather
8 South by Northwest
8:30 Dimensions in Nursing
9 ThinkAbout
9:15 The Write Channel
9:30 Ripples
9:45 Wordsmith
10 Measuremetric
10:15 Discovering
10:30 Electric Company
11 Exploring The World Of Science
11:15 Self-inc.
11:30 Sesame Street
PM
12:30 Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
1 Dragons, Wagons And Wax
1:15 Ripples
1:30 ThinkAbout
1:45 Story Bound
2 Personal Finance
2:30 The Growing Years
3 Over Easy
3:30 Dick Cavett (Part 2 of interview with author Oliver Saks
4 Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Discovery
6 D.C. Circuits
6:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7 MKE At 7: The Business of Wisconsin
7:30 Over Easy
8 World Special: (No More Mountains: The Story of the Hmong People)
9 The Fabulous Philadelphians: From Ormandy to Muti (Philadelphia Orchestra)
10:30 Dick Cavitt
11 Bill Moyers’ Journal
12M Speak Easy
WISN-TV 12 (ABC)
AM
6 At Large
6:30 My Three Sons
7 Good Morning America (Guests: British author Philip Norman “Shout“; Dinah Shore)
9 All My Children
10 Love Boat
11 Family Feud
11:30 Edge of Night
PM
12 At Twelve With Howard and Rosemary (Guests: Bonnie Prudden; hypnotist Grace Reinbold; cook Sophie Kay; plant-garden expert Tom Lied)
1 One Life To Live
2 General Hospital
3 Hour Magazine
4 Happy Days Again
4:30 Welcome Back, Kotter
5 ABC News
5:30 News
6 Tic Tac Dough
6:30 PM Magazine
7 Love Boat
8 Aloha Paradise
9 On Borrowed Time (special on pro golfer Ron Drimak’s open-heart surgery)
10 News
10:30 MASH
11 Odd Couple
11:30 Nightline
12M Love Boat
1 $6 Million Man
2:20 Channel 12 Action News
WVTV 18
AM
6 Ed Allen
6:30 Casper and Friends
7 Flintstones
7:30 Woody Woodpecker
8 Great Space Coaster
8:30 Leave It to Beaver
9 Las Vegas Gambit
9:30 Blockbusters
10 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Doris Day
11 Ross Bagley
11:30 700 Club (Guest: Actor-producer Bob O’Donnell highlights life and works of author C.S. Lewis)
PM
1 UWM News Focus (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
1:30 Andy Griffith
2 Beverly Hillbillies
2:30 I Love Lucy
3 Flintstones
3:30 Scooby Doo
4 Tom & Jerry and Bugs
4:30 Gilligan’s Island
5 Brady Bunch
5:30 Sanford & Son
6 All In The Family
6:30 Major League Baseball: Milwaukee Brewers at Toronto Blue Jays (Brewers won 8-1)
9:30 All In The Family
10 Benny Hill
10:30 Independent Network News
11 Late Movie 18: “They Call It Murder”
1A News Final
WCGV 24
AM
8:30 Morning Stretch with Joanie
9 John Davidson (Guests: Bernie and Yolanda Kopell, Elizabeth Ashley, Bill Medley, Larry Wilson, Gayle Olinekova, Julius Fast)
10:30 Room 222
11 Jim Bakker
PM
12 SelecTV
2 Two O’Clock Movie: “Her Husband’s Affairs” (1947, B&W)
4 McHale’s Navy
4:30 Gomer Pyle
5 Chico and the Man
5:30 Get Smart
6 Kojak
7 SelecTV (until signoff)
WMVT 36 (PBS)
** Studentvision 1981 programs were produced by Milwaukee Area Technical College students)
PM (No listings before 3:30)
3 Studentvision 1981: Racquetball Today
3:30 Studentvision 1981: Karate
4 Studentvision 1981: Milwaukee magician David Seebach
4:30 TV High School: Math V
5 Communication Skills
5:30 Studentvision 1981: Welcome to Sri Lanka (part 1)
6 Studentvision 1981: Unexposed Art (three Milwaukee-area artists)
6:30 Personal Finance
7 Marketing Perspectives
7:30 Studentvision 1981: What’s Happening In Milwaukee (discussion of city’s sewer problems)
8 Studentvision 1981: Escape to Southeastern Wisconsin
8:30 Studentvision 1981: EAA: Putting Wings on Dreams (tour of Experimental Aircraft Assoc. museum)
9:30 Studentvision 1981: Olympic Skating (hopefuls discuss their chances)
10 Studentvision 1981: The Sexually-Abused Child (service agences discuss solutions)
10:30 ABC Captioned News
11 Studentvision 1981: Comedy Corner (live, Al Castellano hosts several standup comedians)
11:30 Studentvision 1981: Caught At Studio A (jazz band performs)
12M Studentvision 1981: Stage 36 (two folk groups perform)
Hard to believe.