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Retro: Mobile/Biloxi/New Orleans August 6-10, 1979

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Mario500

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Here are the local TV listings from the Mobile Press-Register:

WALA-TV Channel 10 (NBC)

5:55 AM PTL Club
6:55 AM Farm Report
7:00 AM Today (news presenter Tony Guida’s first program)
7:25 AM News
7:30 AM Today
8:00 AM Today
8:25 AM Coffee with the Parson (with the Reverend Robert “Bob” Barker)
8:30 AM Today
9:00 AM Gulf Coast Today (host Dot Moore)
9:30 AM All Star Secrets
10:00 AM High Rollers
10:30 AM Wheel of Fortune
11:00 AM Password Plus
11:30 AM Hollywood Squares
12:00 PM Days of Our Lives
1:00 PM The Doctors
1:30 PM Another World
3:00 PM Movie
5:00 PM Gilligan’s Island

August 6-7
6:00 PM News
6:30 PM The Newlywed Game
7:00 PM Little House on the Prairie
8:00 PM NBC Movie “Murder in Peyton Place” (1977)
10:00 PM News
10:30 PM Tonight (guest host George Carlin)
12:00 AM Tomorrow (guest author Tom Wolfe)

WEAR-TV Channel 3 (ABC)

6:10 AM News
6:15 AM Agriculture
6:25 AM Tennessee Tuxedo
6:55 AM Consumer Tips (Monday)
Dimensions (Tuesday-Friday)
7:00 AM Good Morning America
9:00 AM Gomer Pyle
9:30 AM My Three Sons
10:00 AM Laverne & Shirley
10:30 AM Family Feud
11:00 AM $20,000 Pyramid
11:30 AM Ryan’s Hope
12:00 PM All My Children
1:00 PM One Life to Live
2:00 PM General Hospital
3:00 PM Edge of Night
3:30 PM Superman
4:00 PM Beverly Hillbillies
4:30 PM Six Million Dollar Man
5:30 PM ABC News

August 6-7
6:00 PM News
6:30 PM Adam-12
7:00 PM Baseball (regional coverage of Baltimore Orioles at New York Yankees; San Francisco Giants at Los Angeles Dodgers)
10:00 PM Comedy Shop
10:30 PM Chico and the Man
11:00 PM News
11:30 PM Police Story

WEIQ-TV Channel 42 (Alabama Public Television/PBS)

2:00 PM Lilias, Yoga, and You
2:30 PM Villa Alegre
3:00 PM Sesame Street
4:00 PM Mister Rogers
4:30 PM Electric Company (Monday and Wednesday)
Grunches and Grins (Tuesday and Thursday)
5:00 PM Once Upon A Classic

August 6-7
6:00 PM A Word on Words (host John Seigenthaler and guest Marshall Frady, author of “Biography of Billy Graham”)
6:30 PM Metrospect
7:00 PM Bill Moyers’ Journal
8:00 PM Footsteps
8:30 PM In the Garden
9:00 PM Session
9:30 PM Cahaba Bluegrass Festival
10:00 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
10:30 PM Captioned ABC News
11:00 PM Dick Cavett (guest Jonathan Miller part 2 of 2)

WGNO-TV Channel 26 (Independent)

6:25 AM News
6:30 AM New Zoo Review
7:00 AM Fred Flintstone and Friends
7:30 AM Popeye
8:00 AM Johnny Quest (Monday, Wednesday-Friday)
8:30 AM Mighty Hercules
9:00 AM Card Sharks
9:30 AM Life of Riley
10:30 AM 700 Club
12:00 PM Reaching Out
12:30 PM Marvin E. Gorman
1:30 PM Three Stooges (Monday-Thursday)
For You, Black Woman (Friday
2:00 PM Hollywood Squares
3:00 PM Speed Racer
3:30 PM Bugs Bunny and Friends
4:30 PM I Dream of Jeannie
5:00 PM F-Troop
5:30 PM Green Acres

August 6-7
6:00 PM Beverly Hillbillies
6:30 PM Andy Griffith
7:00 PM Merv Griffin (guests Burt Bacharach, Paul Williams, Jimmy “J. J.” Walker, Pete Barbutti)
8:00 PM Marvin E. Gorman
9:00 PM 700 Club
10:00 PM Abbott and Costello
10:30 PM Police Story

WLOX-TV Channel 13 (ABC)

5:30 AM Fish and Game Commission (Friday)
5:45 AM South Mississippi R. F. D.
6:00 AM PTL Club
7:00 AM Good Morning America
9:00 AM Good Morning South Mississippi
10:00 AM Laverne & Shirley
10:30 AM Family Feud
11:00 AM The $20,000 Pyramid
11:30 AM Ryan’s Hope
12:00 PM All My Children
1:00 PM One Life to Live
2:00 PM General Hospital
3:00 PM Edge of Night
3:30 PM Bewitched
4:00 PM Beverly Hillbillies
4:30 PM Andy Griffith
5:00 PM News
5:30 PM ABC News

August 6-7
6:00 PM News
6:30 PM Wild Kingdom
7:00 PM Baseball (regional coverage of Baltimore Orioles at New York Yankees; San Francisco Giants at Los Angeles Dodgers)
10:00 PM News
10:30 PM Lawrence Welk
11:30 PM Pop Goes the Country (guests Ray Stevens, Moe Brandy, and Melanie Jayne)
12:00 AM Porter Wagoner (guest Lois Johnson)

WKRG-TV Channel 5 (CBS)

6:00 AM Congressional Report (Monday)
Gulf Coast Extension Report (Tuesday)
At Your Service (Wednesday)
Operation Understanding (Thursday)
Your Health (Friday)
(all local public affairs)
6:30 AM Partyline
7:00 AM Monday Morning (Monday)
Tuesday Morning (Tuesday)
Wednesday Morning (Wednesday)
Thursday Morning (Thursday)
Friday Morning (Friday)
8:00 AM Captain Kangaroo
9:00 AM Donahue
10:00 AM The Price is Right
11:00 AM The Young and the Restless
11:30 AM Search for Tomorrow
12:00 PM Woman’s World (local news, interviews, fashions, cooking)
12:30 PM As the World Turns
1:30 PM Guiding Light
2:30 PM M*A*S*H
3:00 PM Life of Love (Monday, Wednesday-Friday)
Razzmatazz (Tuesday)
3:30 PM The Brady Bunch
4:00 PM The Little Rascals
4:30 PM The Flintstones
5:00 PM Andy Griffith
5:30 PM CBS News

August 6-7
6:00 PM News
6:30 PM The Cross-Wits
7:00 PM The White Shadow
8:00 PM M*A*S*H
8:30 PM WKRP in Cincinnati
9:00 PM Lou Grant
10:00 PM News
10:30 PM Rockford Files
11:40 PM CBS Late Movie “Sweet Bird of Youth” (1962)
1:42 AM News
 
Since I cannot edit the original post, here are some evening listings for the rest of the week:

WEAR-TV Channel 3 (ABC)

August 10 Evening
7:00 PM All-Star Family Feud Special (the casts of "Three's Company", "Soap", and "Love Boat")

WEIQ-TV Channel 42 (Alabama Public Television/PBS)

August 7 Evening
9:00 PM Gospel Resurrection

WGNO-TV Channel 26 (Independent)

August 9 Evening
7:00 PM James Robinson Crusade
8:00 PM Jack Van Impe Crusade

August 10 Evening
7:00 PM To Lassie with Love

WLOX-TV Channel 13 (ABC)

August 7 Evening
8:00 PM Choice for the 80's/Election '79
10:30 PM Choice for the 80'S/Election '79

August 10 Evening
7:00 PM All-Star Family Feud Special (the casts of "Three's Company", "Soap", and "Love Boat")

WKRG-TV Channel 5 (CBS)

August 7 Evening
7:00 PM To America with Love
 
Mario-500 said:
WKRG-TV Channel 5 (CBS)

6:00 AM Congressional Report (Monday)
Gulf Coast Extension Report (Tuesday)

The Tuesday morning program was actually "Gulf Coast Extension Review".
 
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