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Retro: New York City - December 8, 1980

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Guest
2 WCBS (CBS)
AM
6:10 News
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 Morning (Charles Kuralt)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Mike Douglas Show (Guests: Anthony Newley, Englebert Humperdink, Marie Osmond, John Stossel)
10:00 The Jeffersons
10:30 Alice
11:00 The Price is Right
PM
12:00 The Lives We Live
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 The Young and the Restless
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 One Day at a Time
4:30 Match Game
5:00 John Davidson Show (Guests: Helen Reddy, Pearl Bailey, Andy Bumatai)
6:00 Channel 2 News
7:00 CBS Evening News (Walter Cronkite)
7:30 The Muppet Show (Guest: French flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal)
8:00 Flo (Alice spin-off)
8:30 Ladies Man
9:00 M*A*S*H
9:30 House Calls
10:00 Lou Grant
11:00 Channel 2 News (including breaking news coverage on John Lennon assassination)
11:30 Quicy, M.E.

4 WNBC (NBC)
AM
5:55 Carrascolendas
6:25 Health Field
7:00 Today (Guest: Robin Williams, promoting the soon-to-be released "Popeye" film, with Williams as the title role)
9:00 Donahue (Topic: "Pretty Baby Models")
10:00 Las Vegas Gambit (Wink Martindale)
10:30 Blockbusters (Bill Cullen)
11:00 Wheel of Fortune (Chuck Woolery & Susan Stafford)
11:30 Password Plus (Tom Kennedy; Guests: Judy Norton Taylor & Bert Convy)
PM
12:00 Card Sharks (Jim Perry)
12:30 The Doctors
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Texas (Another World spin-off)
4:00 Toni Tenille Show (Guests: Sarah Purcell, Rip Taylor, Patti Davis [daughter of then-President-elect Reagan])
5:00 News 4: Live at Five (Guests: Dick Clark, Marshall Tucker Band)
6:00 News 4
7:00 NBC Nightly News (John Chancellor & Roger Mudd)
7:30 Christmas in Rockefeller Center
8:00 Little House on the Prairie
9:00 NBC Movie: My Kidnapper, My Love (Premiere)
11:00 News 4 (predominately John Lennon coverage)
11:30 The Best of Carson (Mar. 28, 1979; Guets: Buddy Hackett, Ron Leibman, Mel Tillis, Lola Falana)
AM
12:30 Tomorrow (Guest: Morley Safer)

5 WNEW (Ind./Metromedia)
AM
5:15 Ed Allen Show (exercise)
5:45 New Zoo Revue
6:15 News
6:30 Fred Flintstone and Friends
7:00 Popeye/Bugs Bunny
7:30 The Flintstones (original '60s version)
8:00 Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Gilligan's Island
9:00 The Brady Bunch
9:30 I Love Lucy
10:00 Midday
PM
12:30 Your New Day with Vidal Sassoon
1:00 My Three Sons
1:30 The Addams Family
2:00 Get Smart
2:30 The Little Rascals
3:00 Woody Woodpecker
3:30 The Flintstones
4:00 Gilligan's Island
4:30 The Flintstones
5:00 I Love Lucy
5:30 Welcome Back, Kotter
6:00 Starsky & Hutch
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 Hollywood Squares
8:00 PM Magazine
8:30 Merv Griffin Show (Guests: Jacqueline Bisset, Barbara Carrera, Gil Gerard, Connie Sellecca, Dr. Arnold Klein)
10:00 10 O'Clock News
11:00 M*A*S*H
11:30 Kojak
AM
12:30 Hogan's Heroes
1:00 Rat Patrol
1:30 Adam-12

7 WABC (ABC)
AM
6:00 News
6:25 Listen and Learn
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Good Morning New York
10:00 To Tell the Truth (Robin Ward)
10:30 Tic-Tac-Dough (rerun)
11:00 The Love Boat
PM
12:00 Family Feud
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 The Edge of Night
4:30 Movie: Stagecoach, Part 1 (1966)
6:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight (Frank Reynolds, Max Robinson, Peter Jennings)
7:30 Hollywood Squares
8:00 That's Incredible! (Fran Tarkenton, Cathy Lee Crosby, John Davidson)
9:00 Monday Night Football - New England Patriots at Miami Dolphins (featuring Howard Cosell's announcement of the Lennon assassination)
AM
12:15 (aprox.) Nightline (Lennon coverage)

9 WOR (Ind./RKO General)
AM
5:30 Daniel Boone
6:30 News
7:00 Richard Simmons Show
7:30 PTL Club
8:30 Meet the Mayors
9:00 Joe Franklin Show
10:00 Romper Room
11:00 Straight Talk
PM
12:00 News at Noon
12:30 Let's Make a Deal (from Vancouver)
1:00 Movie: Two Tickets to Broadway (1951)
3:00 Movie: The Benny Goodman Story (1955)
5:00 Ironside
6:00 The Joker's Wild (Jack Barry)
6:30 Tic-Tac-Dough (Wink Martindale)
7:00 Bullseye (Jim Lange)
7:30 Face the Music (Ron Ely)
8:00 The World at War
9:00 Movie: The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
11:00 Maude
11:30 Music World
AM
12:00 Movie: Lady in the Dark (1944)

11 WPIX (Ind./WPIX Inc.)
AM
5:00 Life of Riley
5:30 News
6:00 Carrascolendas
6:30 Mighty Mouse
7:00 Popeye
7:30 Josie and the Pussycats
8:00 Tom & Jerry
8:30 Heckle & Jeckle
9:00 The Munsters
9:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
10:00 Hollywood Squares
10:30 I Dream of Jeannie
11:00 Focus: New Jersey
11:30 Hispanic Perspective
PM
12:00 The Magic Garden
12:30 You Bet Your Life! (Buddy Hackett)
1:00 Action News
1:30 The 700 Club
2:30 The Banana Splits
3:00 Tom & Jerry
3:30 Batman
4:00 Tom & Jerry
4:30 Scooby-Doo
5:00 Good Times
5:30 Happy Days (Again)
6:00 Happy Days (Again)
6:30 Sanford and Son
7:00 Barney Miller
7:30 Action News
8:00 Movie: Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
10:00 Independent Network News
10:30 Action News
11:00 Barney Miller
11:00 Prisoner: Cell Block H
AM
12:00 The Odd Couple
12:30 Movie: The Death Policy (1973)

13 WNET (PBS/The WNET Group)
AM
6:00 It's Everybody's Business
6:30 Inside Albany
7:00 Dateline: New Jersey
7:30 Over Easy
8:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 SCHOOL TV (Instructional programs)
PM
12:00 Fast Forward
12:30 3-2-1 Contact
1:00 SCHOOL TV
2:30 Getting to Know Me
3:00 As We See It
3:30 Villa Alegre
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 The Electric Company
6:00 The Black Tulip
6:30 New Jersey Nightly News
7:00 3-2-1 Contact
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 Great Performances: Der Rosenkavalier (opera)
11:30 Dick Cavett Show (Angelo Dundee)
AM
12:15 Vikings!
12:30 Sneak Previews


 
Wait! I have one: November 10, 1969, the day Sesame Street premiered.
 
Man, the early '80s were some weird days.

I do remember getting both WOR and WPIX on cable back then and watching the Barry & Enright games off channel 9.
 
Some takes...

Channel 2 runs an old Quincy at 11:30 p.m. I guess there wasn't room to include all the late night movies after midnight. But I think by the late 1960s, WCBS-TV was running nearly 24 hours a day. Those movies usually ended 30-60 minutes before 6 a.m. to do some transmitter maintenance. And by 1980, WOR-TV and WPIX may also have 24 hour schedules, since they served as cable superstations.

Channel 5 runs I Love Lucy twice a day. It's one of the few black and white shows still on the schedule in 1980.

Channel 11 runs the Buddy Hackett version of You Bet Your Life at 12:30pm. Of course, Groucho Marx was the original host and WPIX had run the black and white 1950s show well into the 1970s. Then Hackett gave it a try. Then Bill Cosby. Neither was successful. Jay Leno & Kevin Eubanks are currently doing You Bet Your Life. I think this one is a success, getting runs these days on Channel 5 at 7 p.m. and on Channel 9 at 12 a.m.
 
Gregg. said:
Some takes...

Channel 2 runs an old Quincy at 11:30 p.m. I guess there wasn't room to include all the late night movies after midnight. But I think by the late 1960s, WCBS-TV was running nearly 24 hours a day. Those movies usually ended 30-60 minutes before 6 a.m. to do some transmitter maintenance. And by 1980, WOR-TV and WPIX may also have 24 hour schedules, since they served as cable superstations.

Channel 5 runs I Love Lucy twice a day. It's one of the few black and white shows still on the schedule in 1980.

Channel 11 runs the Buddy Hackett version of You Bet Your Life at 12:30pm. Of course, Groucho Marx was the original host and WPIX had run the black and white 1950s show well into the 1970s. Then Hackett gave it a try. Then Bill Cosby. Neither was successful. Jay Leno & Kevin Eubanks are currently doing You Bet Your Life. I think this one is a success, getting runs these days on Channel 5 at 7 p.m. and on Channel 9 at 12 a.m.
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Richard Dawson also made an attempt at YBYL in 1988, but it didn't even made it past the pilot.
 
We've all seen the coverage of Cosell breaking the news of Lennon's death on "Monday Night Football". How did the other networks and stations handle the news?
 
installLSC said:
We've all seen the coverage of Cosell breaking the news of Lennon's death on "Monday Night Football". How did the other networks and stations handle the news?
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NBC interrupted the intro of The Tonight Show with staff announcer Fred Facey (who voiced the Today Show and Nightly News intros). As for CBS, I don't know whether they did a Special Report with Walter Cronkite or some other anchor around that hour, but I do know the following night, they aired a special "The Dream is Over" with Charles Osgood. I'd sure like to see footage from CNN, which was then in its infancy.
 
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