Retro: New York City - 1980 Winter Olympics (Lake Placid)

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Sources: New York Daily News, Newsday, New York Times

Opening Day
Wednesday, February 18, 1980

2 WCBS
5:10 Stanley (Siegel)
6:10 Channel 2 News
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 Wednesday Morning - Bob Schieffer.
8:00 Captain Kangaroo - Guest: Georgia Engel.
9:00 Stanley
9:30 3's A Crowd - Jim Peck.
10:00 Jeffersons
10:30 Celebrity Whew! - Tom Kennedy; Guests: Meredith MacRae, Jon Walmsley.
10:55 CBS Mid-Morning News
11:00 The Price is Right
NOON One Day at a Time
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Young and the Restless
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Match Game (syndicated)
4:30 Mike Douglas - Co-host: Steve Kanaly; Guests: Priscilla Presley, Kelly Monteith, Joan Embery.
6:00 Channel 2 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Camouflage - Tom Campbell.
8:00 President Carter Press Conference (discussing the Iran and Afghanistan crises)
8:30 CBS Special: "Bugs Bunny's Valentine"
9:00 CBS Wednesday Night at the Movie: "Exorcist II: The Heretic" (1977) - Linda Blair, Richard Burton, Louise Fletcher, Max von Sydow, James Earl Jones.
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:30 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (x2)
12:30 CBS Late Movie: "Overboard" (1978) - Angie Dickinson, Cliff Robertson.
2:25 Late Late Show (Movie): "Villa Rides" (1968) - Yul Brynner, Robert Mitchum
4:25 Stanley

4 WNBC
5:55 Growing as a Minority
6:25 Health Field
7:00 Today - Scheduled: William Wolf; Ron Hendren; Jim Backus; Phil Donahue (then a correspondent, broadcasts from Chicago affiliate WMAQ Ch. 5) presents a segment; Dick Schaap reports from Lake Placid; discussion on bankruptcy; Part 3 of "Love, American Style - Couples Living Together"
9:00 Donahue - Topic: Mormon women.
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Doc Severinsen, Rose Marie, Vincent Price, Jayne Kennedy, Arte Johnson (Center Square), Laurie Walters, George Gobel, Randi Oakes, (Bill) Skiles & (Pete) Henderson.
11:00 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
NOON Chain Reaction - Guests: Peggy Smith, Shelley Smith, Fred Grany, Robert Mandan.
12:30 Password Plus - Guests: Marcia Wallace, Wesley Eure.
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 The Doctors
2:30 Another World
4:00 Newlywed Game
4:30 Mary Tyler Moore
5:00 NewsCenter 4
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 President Carter Press Conference
8:30 Real People
9:30 Diff'rent Strokes: "Valentine's Day Retrospective" (AKA "Valentine's Vigil")
10:00 Hello, Larry (Diff'rent Strokes spin-off): "Larry's Mid-Life Crisis" (Part 1 of 3)
10:30 Best of Saturday Night Live
11:30 NewsCenter 4
MIDNIGHT Tonight Show - Guests: Steve Martin, Lynn Redgrave, Bob Newhart; Performer: Linda Hopkins.
1:30 Tomorrow - Guests: Sister Carolyn Farrell (nun and mayor of Dubuque, IA), Dr. Arthur Kraus (banned from riding a bus because of his garlic breath).
2:25 Mary Tyler Moore

5 WNEW
5:20 Ed Allen
5:50 New Zoo Revue
6:20 News Headlines
6:30 Star Blazers
7:00 Bugs Bunny and Friends
7:30 Woody Woodpecker
8:00 Flintstones
8:30 Little Rascals
9:00 Andy Griffith
9:30 Partridge Family
10:00 Brady Bunch
10:30 My Three Sons
11:00 Midday - Topic: Bachelors.
12:30 Movie: "Close to My Heart" (1951) - Ray Milland, Gene Tierney.
2:30 Gilligan's Island
3:00 Popeye and Friends
3:30 Woody Woodpecker
4:00 Little Rascals
4:30 Flintstones
5:00 Gilligan's Island
5:30 Brady Bunch
6:00 I Love Lucy
6:30 Carol Burnett and Friends
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 All in the Family
8:00 Mini-Series: "Edward and Mrs. Simpson" (Part 4 of 7) - Edward Fox, Cynthia Harris
10:00 10 O'Clock News
11:00 M*A*S*H
11:30 Kojak
12:30 L.A.T.E.R. (Life and Time of Eddie Roberts)
1:00 Movie: "Desert Sands" (1955) - Ralph Meeker, Maria English.
2:55 Rat Patrol
3:55 Gong Show

7 WABC
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:25 Listen and Learn
7:00 Good Morning America - Scheduled: Ali McGraw; Dr. Lee Salk; Ben and Minnie Rabinowitz (nonagenerian couple married 71 years); report from Lake Placid on the unsung Olympic heroes.
9:00 AM New York
10:00 Movie: "An Affair to Remember" (Part 3) (1957) - Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr.
11:00 Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
NOON $20,000 Pyramid - Guests: Anita Gillette, John Schuck.
12:30 Ryan's Rope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 1980 Winter Olymics (Lake Placid, NY) - Opening Ceremonies; Host: Jim McKay.
4:00 ABC Afterschool Special: "The Heartbreak Winner: One Girl's Struggle for Olympic Gold" - Melissa Sherman stars as an aspiring Olympic figure skater afflicted with early stages of arthritis.
5:00 Monsters and Monkeys
6:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Hollywood Squares
8:00 President Carter Press Conference
8:30 Eight is Enough: "The Return of Joe Simons" (RIP Adam Rich)
9:30 1980 Winter Olympics - Highlights of the opening ceremonies; Events: Men's Downhill Skiing non-stop final training run; Men's and Women's Luge, 1st Run
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 The Iran Crisis - America Held Hostage: Day 102
11:50 Love Boat
12:55 Baretta
2:05 Movie: "The Tall Men" (Part 1) (1955) - Clark Gable, Jane Russell, Robert Ryan.

9 WOR
5:00 News
5:20 Movie: "The Saved Hitler's Brain" (1968) - Walter Stocker, Audrey Claire, Carlos Rivas.
7:00 News
7:30 Jim Bakker
8:30 Meet the Mayors
9:00 Joe Franklin
10:00 Romper Room
11:00 Straight Talk - Guests: Dr. Joyce Brothers, Harry Stein, Genevieve Millet Landau.
NOON News at Noon
12:30 Life of Riley
1:00 Movie: "Blood on the Arrow" (1964) - Dale Robertson, Martha Hyer, Wendell Corey.
3:00 Ironside
4:00 Movie: "Arena" (1958) - Gig Young, Jean Hagen.
5:30 Play the Percentages
6:00 The Joker's Wild
6:30 Tic-Tac-Dough
7:00 Face the Music
7:30 Dating Game
8:00 Meet the Mayors
8:30 Rangers Hockey - at Chicago Black Hawks (spelling changed to "Blackhawks" in 1986)
11:00 Benny Hill
11:30 Racing from Yonkers
MIDNIGHT Movie: "Mr. Kingstreet's War" (1971) - John Saxon, Tippi Hedren.
2:00 Joe Franklin
3:00 Movie: "Claudia" (1943) - Dorothy McGuire, Robert Young.

11 WPIX
6:30 Mighty Mouse
7:00 Popeye
7:30 Tom & Jerry
8:00 Josie and the Pussycats
8:30 Jetsons
9:00 Munsters
9:30 Dick Van Dyke
10:00 Dinah! - Co-host: Paul Williams; Guests: Charlton Heston, John Ritter, Kiss, The Oak Ridge Boys, Anne Archer, Billy Crystal.
11:00 Survival or Suicide
11:30 Jewish Dimension
NOON Tom & Jerry
12:30 Fun World of Hanna-Barbera
1:00 Action News
1:30 700 Club
2:30 Magic Garden
3:00 Magilla Gorilla
3:30 Tom & Jerry Hour
4:30 Batman
5:00 Three Stooges
5:30 Good Times
6:00 Sanford and Son
6:30 Odd Couple
7:00 Happy Days Again
7:30 Action News
8:00 Dean Martin
9:00 Kung Fu
10:00 Action News
10:30 New York, New York
11:00 Prisoner: Cell Block H
11:30 Odd Couple
MIDNIGHT Three Stooges
12:30 Twilight Zone Hour (either two half-hour episodes or one full-hour episode)
1:30 Action News (R)
2:00 Movie: "Istanbul Express" (1968) - Gene Barry, John Saxon.
4:00 Biography

13 WNET
6:30 ABC Captioned News
7:00 New Jersey Nightly News (R)
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 Free to Choose
8:30 Over Easy
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 When You Grow Up
10:15 Odyssey
10:30 The Blue Book
10:45 Wordsmith
11:00 Vegetable Soup
11:15 Thinkabout
11:30 Write On!
11:40 The Universe and I
11:55 Most Important Person
NOON Short Story Showcase
12:30 Electric Company
1:00 MeasureMetric
1:15 Wordshop
1:30 Discovering
1:45 Inside/Out
2:00 Self, Incorporated
2:15 Cover to Cover
2:30 Performing Arts
2:45 L-4
3:00 As We See It
3:30 Villa Alegre
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 3-2-1 Contact
6:30 New Jersey Nightly News
7:00 Over Easy
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 Pavarotti at Juilliard (Part 4 of 6)
8:30 Dick Cavett
9:00 Great Performances: "When Hell Freezes Over, I Skate"
10:00 Men of Bronze
11:00 Newsline
11:10 Masterpiece Theatre: "The Duchess of Duke Street II" - Episode 9 of 16: "Tea and a Wad"

 

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"Mircacle on Ice"
Friday, February 22, 1980

Same weekday schedule as Opening Day - February 13, as indicated by spaces between the following differing listings.

2 WCBS

8:00 Captain Kangaroo - Guests: John Shuck, Stu Kerr.

10:30 Celebrity Whew! - Guests: Rita Moreno, Ross Martin.

2:30 Mike Douglas - Co-host: Liberace: Guests: Lou Ferigno, Maureen McGovern, Pat Cooper, the Rockettes, the Seven Alexanders, Naomi Uyemura, Marco Valenti.

7:30 Gong Show
8:00 The Incredible Hulk: "The Psychic"
9:00 Dukes of Hazzard: "Return of the Ridge Raiders"
10:00 Dallas: "Jock's Trial" (Part 1 of 2)

11:30 Avengers
12:40 Return of the Saint
1:50 CBS Late Movie: "Your Money or Your Wife" (1972) - Ted Bessell, Elizabeth Ashley.
3:20 Stanley
3:50 Late Late Show: "The Bishop Misbehaves" (1935) - Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Sullivan

4 WNBC
5:55 Inflation: Past and Future

7:00 Today - Scheduled: Linda Lovelace; Liv Ullman.
9:00 Donahue - Guest: George Bach.

10:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: David Doyle, Pia Zadora, Ernest Borgnine, Beth Howland, Tom Poston (Center Square), Norm Crosby, George Gobel, Diana Canova, Steve Landesberg.

NOON Chain Reaction - Guests: Lois Nettleton, Debralee Scott, Jay Johnson, Soupy Sales.
12:30 Password Plus - Guests: Patty Duke-Astin, husband John Astin.

7:30 Young People's Special: "I'm Sooo Ugly"
8:00 NBC Disney Special: "This is Your Life, Donald Duck" (Mar. 11, 1960)
9:00 NBC Friday Night at the Movies: "Detour to Terror" (Premiere) - O. J. Simpson, Randall Carver, Anne Francis, Arte Johnson, Gerald O'Loughlin, Lorenzo Lamas, Kathryn Holcomb.

11:30 Tonight Show - Guests: Dean Martin, Florence Henderson, Kurt Thomas.
1:00 Midnight Special - Host: Bonnie Pointer (Pointer Sisters); Musical guests: Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), Nicolette Larson, The Spinners; Comedy guests: Eugenie Ross-Leming, Lonnie Shorr, Bruce Vilanch, Carol Wayne.
2:30 Secret Agent

5 WNEW

12:30 Movie: "Divorce His, Divorce Hers" (1972) - Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton (during their first of two marriages).
2:00 Rex Reed's Movie Guide

8:00 Cross-Wits
8:30 Merv Griffin - Guests: Tim Conway, Pat McCormick, Gallagher, Anne Archer, Stan Kann.

1:00 Movie: "The Visit" (1964) - Ingrid Bergman, Anthony Quinn.
3:10 Rat Partol (x2)
4:10 Gong Show

7 WABC
6:25 Biology Today
7:00 Good Morning America - Scheduled: Figure skaters Charles Ticknor, Linda Fratianne and Lisa Marie Allan; Tommy Lasorda

10:00 Movie: "Daddy Long Legs" (Part 3) (1955) - Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Thelma Ritter.

NOON $20,000 Pyramid - Guests: Brynn Thayer, Robert Mandan.

2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Edge of Night
4:30 Movie: "Escape from the Planet of the Apes" - (1971) - Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Bradford Dillman, Ricardo Montalban, Sal Mineo.
7:30 $100,000 Name That Tune - Tom Kennedy.
8:00 ABC Special: "The Pink Panther in: Olympinks" (Premiere)
8:30 Winter Olympics - Events: Ice Hockey (USA vs. USSR) featuring the triumphant "Miracle on Ice"; Men's Slalom Skiing.

11:30 Winter Olympics - Special features; coverage not previously televised; summary of the day's events, especially the "Miracle on Ice".
MIDNIGHT The Iran Crisis - America Held Hostage: Day 211
12:20 Charlie's Angels
1:25 Movie: "The Flim-Flam Man" (1967) - George C. Scott, Sue Lyon.

9 WOR
5:20 Movie: "Sitting Pretty" (1948) - Clifton Webb, Robert Young.

8:30 Newark and Reality

11:00 Straight Talk - Guest: Chip Dent.

1:00 Movie: "Blanche Fury" (1948) - Stewart Granger, Valeria Hobson.

4:00 Movie: "I've Lived Before" (1956) - Jock Mahoney, Leigh Snowden.

8:00 Movie: "Dollars" (1971) - Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn.
10:30 New York Report

11:30 Nets Basketball - at Los Angeles Lakers.

3:00 Movie: "Fury of Hercules" (1961) - Brad Harris, Alan Steel.

11 WPIX

10:00 Dinah! - Co-host: Burt Reynolds; Guests: Carol Burnett, Andy Gibb, Betty White, Lee Corso, Larry Csonka, Jack Pickney, Susan Shashy.
11:00 Focus: New Jersey
11:30 Pulpit and People

2:30 Joya's Fun School

8:00 Arrows Soccer (Major Indoor Soccer League) - hosting Hartford Hellions.

10:30 Focus: New Jersey

1:30 Good News
2:00 Action News (R)
2:30 Movie: "Escape to Mindao" (1968) - George Maharis, James Shigeta, Nehemiah Peroff, Willi Koopman.

13 WNET

10:00 Under the Blue Umbrella
10:15 Cover to Cover
10:30 Bread and Butterflies
10:45 L-4
11:00 Vegetable Soup
11:15 What's in the News?
11:30 3-2-1 Contact
NOON Once Upon a Classic: "King Arthur" (Part 1 of 8)

1:00 Readalong
1:10 Write On!
1:15 What's in the News?
1:30 Many Worlds of Nature
1:45 Search for Science
2:00 The Universe and I
2:20 Write On! (x2)
2:30 Dimensions in Science
3:00 Que Pasa, USA?

7:00 Dick Cavett - Guest: Alberta Hunter (Part 1).

8:00 City Edition: On the Line
8:30 Dick Cavett - Guest: Myrna Loy.
9:00 Washington Week in Review
9:30 Wall $treet Week
10:00 Pennies from Heaven (1978 Mini-Series) - Part 5: "Painting the Clouds"
11:30 Johnny Mathis Special

 

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Closing Eve
Saturday, February 23, 1980

2 WCBS
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 Patchwork Family
8:00 Mighty Mouse/Heckle & Jeckle
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 All New Popeye Hour
11:30 Fat Albert
NOON Shazam!
12:30 Tarzan/Super 7
1:30 30 Minutes
2:00 Kidsworld
2:30 Public Hearing - Thomas Downey, Hamilton Fish Jr.
3:00 Stanley: "The Military Draft and You"
3:30 Spotlight: "Water"
4:00 CBS Sports Spectacular - 1) 12-Round Lightweight Boxing: Howard Davis vs. Vilomar Fernandez (Live from Atlantic City); 2) Mary Decker's record-breaking mile run.
5:00 Golf - Glen Campbell Los Angeles Open: Third Round (Riviera Country Club, Pacific Palisades)
6:00 Channel 2 the People
6:30 CBS Evening News - Bob Schieffer.
7:00 Channel 2 News
7:30 The Price is Right (syndicated) - Bob Barker.
8:00 The Chisolms: "Promised Land"
9:00 CBS Saturday Night Movies: "S*H*E" (Premiere) - Cornelia Sharpe, Omar Sharif.
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:40 CBS Late Movie: "Newman's Law" (1974) - George Peppard, Roger Robinson, Eugene Roche, Abe Vigoda.
1:40 Late Late Show: "Girl Crazy" (1943) - Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland.
3:40 Early Show: "Shadow of the Thin Man" (1941) - William Powell, Myrna Loy.

4 WNBC
6:00 Agriculture USA
6:30 A Better Way
7:00 Inflation: Past and Future
7:30 Bay City Rollers
8:00 Godzilla/Globetrotters Adventure Hour
9:00 Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo
10:30 Daffy Duck
11:00 Casper and the Angels
11:30 Jetsons
NOON Hot Hero Sandwich - Guests: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Pam Dawber, Robert Guillaume, Michael Learned, Joe Jackson.
1:00 Whitney and the Robot
1:30 Positively Black
2:00 Movie: "Assignment to Kill" (1969) - Patrick O'Neal, Joan Hackett.
3:30 NCAA Basketball - Syracuse vs. Boston College
5:30 Mary Tyler Moore
6:00 NewsCenter 4
6:30 NBC Nightly News - Jane Pauley, Dick Schaap.
7:00 Buyline - Betty Furness.
7:30 Guiness Game - Bob Hilton or Don Galloway.
8:00 CHiPs: "Thrill Show"
9:00 B.J. and the Bear: "The Girls of Hollywood High"
10:00 Prime Time Saturday - Tom Snyder, Jessica Savitch, Chris Wallace, Jack Perkins.
11:00 NewsCenter 4
11:30 Saturday Night Live - Host: Kirk Douglas; Musical guests: Sam & Dave.
1:00 Second City TV
1:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert - Guests: the O'Jays, Janis Ian, Roxy Music, Rob Grill, Paul Mooney.
3:00 Rockworld
3:30 Mary Tyler Moore (x2)

5 WNEW
6:00 Patterns for Living
6:30 Abbott & Costello
7:00 Brady Kids
7:30 Groovie Goolies
8:00 Popeye and Friends
8:30 Flintstones
9:00 Movie: "Flame of the Barbary Coast" (1945) - John Wayne, Ann Dvorak, Joseph Schildkraut, William Frawley.
11:00 Soul Train
NOON Rat Patrol
12:30 Andy Griffith
1:00 Partridge Family
1:30 Little Rascals
2:00 Laurel & Hardy Laughtoons
2:30 Gilligan's Island
3:00 Brady Bunch
3:30 I Love Lucy
4:00 Big Valley
5:00 Mission: Impossible
6:00 Six Million Dollar Man
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 All in the Family
8:00 Soap Factory Disco
8:30 Merv Griffin - Theme: "Millionaires"; Guests: Kemmons Wilson (founder of Holiday Inn), Meshulam Riklis (Israeli financier/businessman), Wally "Famous" Amos (cookie empire founder), Rory Fuerst (founder of Keen Footwear), Mel Siegel (Carneige Mellon University Robotics Institute).
10:00 10 O'Clock News
10:30 Black News
11:00 All in the Family
11:30 Tales of the Unexpected
MIDNIGHT Movie: "Them!" (1954) - James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness.
2:00 Movie: "The Sound of Horror" (1965) - Arturo Fernandez, Soledad Miranda.
3:45 Movie: "Planet on the Prowl" (1970) - Jack Stewart, Amber Collins.

7 WABC
6:30 Eyewitness News
7:00 Davey and Goliath
7:30 Magic of Mark Wilson
8:00 World's Greatest Superfriends
8:55 Schoolhouse Rock!
9:00 Plasticman
10:25 Schoolhouse Rock!
10:30 Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo
11:25 Schoolhouse Rock!
11:30 Spider-Woman
11:55 Schoolhouse Rock!
NOON ABC Weekend Special: "The Trouble With Miss Switch" (Part 2 of 2)
12:30 Winter Olympics - Events: 90-Meter Ski Jumping (Men), Men's 10,000-Meter Speed Skating, Women's Slalom Skiing.
3:30 ABC Pro Bowlers Tour - $100,000 Ford Open (Buckeye Lanes, North Olmstead, OH)
5:00 ABC's Wide World of Sports - 1) Superbikers: International Invitational All-Around Motorycycle Championship, Part 1 (Carlsbad [CA] Raceway); 2) Chinese Acrobats of Taiwan.
6:30 Eyewitness News
7:00 You!
7:30 Wild Kingdom
8:00 Winter Olympics - Events: Same listed in 12:30 slot, plus Women's Figure Skating; Men's 50-Kilometer Cross Country Skiing; 4-man Bobsledding (first and second runs).
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Winter Olympics - Coverage not previously televised; summary of the day's events.
11:40 Iran Crisis - America Held Hostage: Day 212
MIDNIGHT Movie: "The Naked Jungle" (1954) - Charlton Heston, Eleanor Parker
2:00 Movie: "Secret of the Incas" (1954) - Charlton Heston, Robert Young.
3:50 Eyewitness News (R)

9 WOR
7:00 News
7:30 Newark and Reality
8:00 Davey and Goliath
8:30 Viewpoint on Nutrition
9:00 Daniel Boone
10:00 Doctor Who
11:00 Movie: "Theatre of Death" (1967) - Christopher Lee, Lelia Goldoni, Julian Glover.
1:00 Life of Riley
1:30 NHL Hockey - Chicago Black Hawks vs. Washington Capitals
4:30 Life of Riley
5:00 Outer Limits
6:00 Racing from Aqueduct
6:30 Jackie Gleason
7:00 Benny Hill
7:30 Dave Allen
8:00 Bonanza
9:00 Rangers Hockey - at Minnesota North Stars
11:30 Racing from Roosevelt
MIDNIGHT Wrestling
3:00 Movie: "Run for Cover" (1955) - James Cagney, Viveca Lindfors, John Derek.

11 WPIX
6:30 Barbapapa
7:00 Carrascolendas
7:30 Apredna Ingles
8:00 Gigglesnort Hotel
8:30 Big Blue Marble
9:00 It's Your Business
9:30 Herald of Truth
10:00 Jerry Falwell
11:00 Hee Haw - Guests: Hank Snow, Margo Smith, Rodney Lay.
NOON WCT Tennis - Peter Fleming vs. Ilie Natase (Maurice Richard Arena, Montreal)
1:00 World of Survival
1:30 Sports Afield
2:00 Three Stooges
3:00 Grizzly Adams
4:00 Emergency!
5:00 Kung Fu
6:00 Star Trek
7:00 Odd Couple
7:30 Dance Fever
8:00 Movie: "The Barefoot Contessa" (1954) - Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien.
11:00 Odd Couple
11:30 Rookies
12:30 The FBI
1:30 Action News
2:00 Movie: "Cry of Battle" (1963) - Van Heflin, Rita Moreno, James MacArthur.

13 WNET
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Mister Rogers
9:30 Once Upon a Classic
10:00 As We See It
10:30 Villa Alegre
11:00 Family Portrait (x2)
NOON It's Everybody's Business (x2)
1:00 National Breast Cancer Teach-In
3:00 Live from the Met: "Un Ballo in Maschera" - Luciano Pavarotti, Katia Ricciarelli
6:00 New Jersey Nightly News
6:30 Camera Three
7:00 Inside Albany
7:30 Agronsky & Co.
8:00 Joe Albert's Fox Hunt...and Other Stories from the Pine Barrens of New Jersey
9:00 Elixir of Love
11:00 Paul Robeson - portrayed by James Earl Jones
1:00 Masterpiece Theatre: "Poldark I" (Part 16 of 16)

 

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Closing Day
Sunday, February 24, 1980

2 WCBS
7:00 Skatebirds
7:30 Jason of Star Command
8:00 Marlo and the Magic Movie Machine
8:30 Way to Go
9:00 Sunday Morning
10:30 For Our Times
11:00 Channel 2 the People
11:30 Face the Nation - Guest: Mansour Farhang, Iranian UN ambassador.
NOON Newsmakers
12:30 Public Hearing
1:00 NBA Basketball - Milwaukee Bucks vs. Kansas City Kings
3:15 CBS Sports Spectacular - WBA Boxing: 10-round Light Heavyweight with Mike Spinks vs. Ramon Ranquello (Atlantic City)
4:00 Golf - Glenn Campbell Los Angeles Open: Final Round (Riviera Country Club, Pacific Palisades)
6:00 Channel 2 News
6:30 CBS Evening News - Morton Dean
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 One Day at a Time: "Retrospective" - Hour-long episode featuring clips of past episodes, hence the episode title.
9:00 Alice: "Flo's Farewell" - Final episode with Polly Holiday as Flo, heading for her character's namesake spin-off series.
9:30 Jeffersons: "The Longest Day"
10:00 Trapper John, M.D.: "Strike"
11:00 CBS Weekend News - Ed Bradley
11:15 Channel 2 News
11:45 Sports Update
MIDNIGHT Late Show: "Letters from Three Lovers" (1973) - Martin Sheen, Belinda Montgomery, Ken Berry, Juliet Mills, Barry Sullivan, June Allyson.
1:40 Late Late Show: "Act of Violence" (1949) - Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Phyliss Thaxter.
3:20 Newsmakers
4:30 Early Show: "The Candy Man" (1969) - George Sanders, Leslie Parrish

4 WNBC
6:00 Italian-American Conversations
6:30 Fit for Fun
7:00 Inflation: Past and Future
7:30 Fingermath (Also known as chisenbop. I was learning this unique counting technique at that time in my 3rd grade class. I still use it occasionally.)
8:00 Villa Alegre
8:30 Maryknoll World
9:00 TV Sunday School
9:15 Jewish Scene
9:30 The 1980 Census
10:00 The First Estate: Religion in Review
10:30 Prime of Your Life
11:00 Visiones (Spanish)
11:30 Tony Brown's Journal
NOON NewsCenter Forum - Guest: Sen. Bill Bradley (D-NJ)
12:30 Meet the Press - Guest: Sen. Howard Baker (R-TN), interviewed from New Hampshire.
1:00 As We With Candles Do
2:00 Young Matadors - Featured: Motorcycle racer Jay Springsteen (no relation to Bruce Springsteen).
2:30 NCAA Basketball - Marquette vs. Notre Dame
4:30 NBC SportsWorld - 1) Boxing: 10-round Welterweight with Roberto Duran vs. Wellington Wheatley (Las Vegas); 2) Finals of the Professional Roller Disco Invitational (location unknown).
6:00 NewsCenter 4
6:30 NBC Nightly News - Jessica Savitch, Dick Schaap.
7:00 Disney's Wonderful World: "The Apple Dumpling Gang" (1975) - Don Knotts, Tim Conway, Bill Bixby, Suzanne Pleshette, David Wayne, Slim Pickens, Harry Morgan.
9:00 NBC Sunday Night at the Movies - "Harper Valley PTA" (1978) - Barbara Eden, Nanette Fabray, Ronny Cox, Louie Nye, Susan Swift, Pat Paulsen. (Based on the 1968 song by Jeannie C. Riley; became a comedy series on NBC the following year, lasting two seasons. Barbara Eden was the sole movie cast member to star in the sitcom as well.)
11:00 NewsCenter 4
11:45 Movie: "The Revengers" (1972) - William Holden, Ernest Borgnine.
1:45 Mary Tyler Moore (x2)
2:45 The First Estate: Religion in Review

5 WNEW
6:20 News Headlines
6:30 Time for Timothy
7:00 Wonderama (R) - Host Bob McAllister was reportedly unhappy with the rerun edits which usually eliminated the celebrity guests' performances, in order to avoid having to pay royalties.
9:00 Woody and Bugs Hour
10:00 Tom & Jerry (original MGM cartoons)
10:30 Brady Bunch
11:00 Movie: "Tarzan's Fight for Life" (1958) - Gordon Scott, Eve Brent.
1:00 Movie: "Yours, Mine and Ours" (1968) - Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda.
3:00 Movie: "The Count of Monte Christo" (1975) - Richard Chamberlain, Louis Jordan, Kate Nelligan, Tony Curtis, Donald Pleasance, Trevor Howard.
5:00 Mission: Impossible
6:00 Movie: "The Way West" (1967) - Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark.
8:00 Road to Moscow - Profiles of would-be U.S. Summer Olympians for that year's boycotted games in Moscow. Hosted by Steve Garvey.
9:00 National Geographic: "Grizzly"
10:00 10 O'Clock News
10:30 Sports Extra
11:00 Public Affairs
11:30 Davis Susskind - Topics: "Growing Up in Hollywood" and "Garbage of the Stars".

7 WABC
6:30 Eyewitness News
7:00 Faith For Today
7:30 This is the Life
8:00 Christopher Closeup
8:30 Insight
9:00 Interface
9:30 Kids Are People Too - Guests: Rona Barrett, Tim Matheson, Eddie Money, Hans Holzer, Tom Kelsey.
10:55 Dear Alex and Annie
11:00 Winter Olympics - Hockey finals (USA vs. Finland) (USA won the gold!)
1:30 The Superstars - Second Round of Men's Finals (from Freeport, Bahamas)
2:30 Winter Olympics - Events: Hockey finals (USSR vs. Sweden) (USSR won the silver, Sweden won the bronze.); 4-man Bobsledding (third and fourth runs).
5:00 ABC's Wide World of Sports - 1) Part 2 of the Superbikers International Invitational All-Around Motorcycle Championship (Carlsbad [CA] Raceway); 2) Women's Invitational Cliff Diving Championships (Oahu)
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 ABC World News Sunday - Sam Donaldson
7:00 Winter Olympics - Featured: Figure Skating Exhibition by medal winners; Highlights of the Games; Closing Ceremonies.
10:30 ABC News Special: The '80 Vote - Preview of the New Hampshire Primary.
11:00 ABC Weekend News - Tom Jarriel
11:15 Iran Crisis - America Held Hostage: Day 213
11:30 Eyewitness News
MIDNIGHT Movie: "Halls of Montezuma" (1951) - Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Boone, Jack Webb, Martin Milner.
2:15 Movie: "Battle at Bloody Beach" (1961) - Audie Murphy, Gary Crosby, Dolores Michaels.

9 WOR
5:00 News Headlines
5:20 Life of Riley
5:50 Straight Talk
7:00 News Digest
7:30 Christopher Closeup
8:00 James Robison
8:30 Day of Discovery
9:00 Oral Roberts
9:30 Newark and Reality
10:00 Sunday Mass
10:30 Point of View
11:00 Rex Humbard
NOON Robert Schuller
1:00 Movie: "Has Anybody Seen My Gal?" (1952) - Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Charles Coburn, Gigi Perreau, Lynn Bari.
3:00 Movie: "The World in His Arms" (1952) - Gregory Peck, Ann Blyth, Anthony Quinn
5:00 Joker! Joker!! Joker!!! (weekly kids' version of The Joker's Wild)
5:30 Dating Game
6:00 Movie: "Bus Stop" (1956) - Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell, Betty Field. Eileen Heckart.
8:00 Rex Humbard
9:00 It Is Written
9:30 World Tomorrow
10:00 Jimmy Swaggart
11:00 Benny Hill
11:30 Carry on Laughing
MIDNIGHT Movie: "Tobruk" (1967) - Rock Hudson, George Peppard, Guy Stockwell, Nigel Green.
2:00 Boris Karloff's Thriller
3:00 Movie: "They Live by Night" (1949) - Farley Granger, Cathy O'Donnell, Howard Da Silva.

11 WPIX
7:00 Robert Schuller
8:00 Ever Increasing Faith
9:00 Josie and the Pussycats
9:30 Marvel Men
10:00 Tom & Jerry Show (1975 ABC Saturday Morning series)
11:00 F Troop
11:30 Movie: "Abbott & Costello Go to Mars" (1953) - Abbott & Costello, Mari Blanchard, Horace McMahon.
1:00 Movie: "The Road to Bali" (1952) - Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour.
3:00 Movie: "Take the Money and Run" (1969) - Woody Allen, Janet Margolin.
4:45 Movie: "Mame" (1974) - Lucille Ball, Beatrice Arthur, Robert Preston, Bruce Davison, Jane Connell.
7:30 Action News
8:00 Lawrence Welk - Theme: "Broadway Musical Hit Tunes"
9:00 Grizzly Adams
10:00 The Baxters
10:30 Norm Crosby's Comedy Shop
11:00 Odd Couple
11:30 Rookies
12:30 The FBI
1:30 Action News (R)
2:00 Movie: "The Steel Claw" (1961) - George Montgomery, Charito Luna, Mario Barri, Paul Sorensen.

13 WNET
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Mister Rogers
9:30 Electric Company
10:00 3-2-1 Contact
10:30 Sesame Street
11:30 Great Decisions - "The World Engergy Crunch: U.S. Choices at Home and Abroad"
NOON It's Everybody's Business (x2)
1:00 Firing Line
2:00 Bill Moyers' Journal - Reporting from the New Hampshire Primary campaign of eventual Third Party nominee John Anderson.
3:00 Great Performances: "Dance in America - Two Duets"
4:00 In Concert: Sarah Vaughan
5:00 Free to Choose
6:00 New Jersey Nightly News
6:30 Dateline New Jersey
7:00 War & Peace
8:00 Voyage of Charles Darwin
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre: "The Duchess of Duke Street II", Episode 11 of 16: "Where There's a Will"
10:00 Bill Moyers' Journal: "The Politics of Regulation"
11:00 Independent Focus

 

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CORRECTION: February 13 schedule under Channel 2 should say "CBS Wednesday Night Movies". I mistakenly phrased NBC's movie umbrella title.