Retro: New York City - Friday, March 7, 1980

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By request, here's the schedule from the day actress Laura Prepon, best known as Donna Pinciotti on "That '70s Show", was born in nearby Watchung, NJ.

Sources: New York Daily News, Newsday via newspapers.com; New York Times via their TimesMachine.

2 WCBS
5:00 Stanley (Seigal)
6:10 Channel 2 News
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 Friday Morning
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Stanley
9:30 3's a Crowd
10:00 Jeffersons
10:30 Celebrity Whew!: Guests: Jamie Farr, Dick Gautier.
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
4:30 Mike Douglas - Co-host: Robby Benson; Guests: Herb Alpert, Ann Turkel, Bob Seagren, Seawind (jazz fusion band), Shelli Segal (fashion designer), Scherrie Payne & Susaye Greene (two members of the then-most recent lineup of the Supremes, alongside Mary Wilson).
6:00 Channel 2 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Gong Show
8:00 CBS's annual presentation of "The Wizard of Oz" (pre-empting The Incredible Hulk and Dallas, and bumping The Dukes of Hazzard to 10).
10:00 Dukes of Hazzard: "Witness for the Persecution" (Nov 16, 1979)
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:30 The Avengers
12:40 Return of the Saint
1:50 Movie: "Whistling in Brooklyn" (1943) - Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford.

4 WNBC
5:55 Talk About Pictures
6:25 Health Field
7:00 Today
9:00 Donahue
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Robert Fuller, Florence Henderson, Earl Holliman, Robert Hays, Tom Poston, Erin Gray, George Gobel, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Rich Little.
11:00 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
NOON Chain Reaction - Guests: Robert Mandan, Robert Warden, Joanna Gleason, Debralee Scott.
12:30 Password Plus - Guests: Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen.
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 Newlywed Game
8:00 NBC Friday Night at the Movies: Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" (Premiere) - Keir Dullea, Bud Cort, Marcia Strassman, Ron O'Neal.
11:00 NewsCenter 4
11:30 Tonight Show - Guest host: David Brenner: Guests: Bob Hope, Ricardo Montalban.
1:00 Midnight Special - Host: Mac Davis; Guests: ABBA, The Whispers, Thelma Houston; Music video: Andy Gibb; Comedy segment hosted by Jay Wolpert, with Eugenie Ross-Leming, Rufus Shaw Jr., Bruce Vilanch, and Carol Wayne.
2:30 Secret Agent

5 WNEW
5:20 Ed Allen
5:50 New Zoo Revue
6:20 News
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
12:30 Movie Matinee: "Marco the Magnificent" (1966) - Horst Buchholz, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Orson Welles.
2:00 Rex Reed's Movie Guide
2:30 Gilligan's Island
3:00 Popeye and Friends
3:30 Woody Woodpecker4:00 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 Cross-Wits
8:30 Merv Griffin - Guests: Debby Boone, Donny Most (just before leaving "Happy Days"), Michael Keaton, Barry Van Dyke, Graham Chapman.
10:00 Ten O'Clock News
11:00 M*A*S*H
11:30 Kojak
12:30 L.A.T.E.R. (Wonder what this is an acronym of?)
1:00 Hollywood's Finest: "Body and Soul" (1947) - John Garfield, Lilli Palmer.
3:15 Rat Patrol (x2)

7 WABC
6:00 News
6:25 Biology Today
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Morning Movie: "My Six Loves" (1963) - Debbie Reynolds, Cliff Robertson.
11:00 Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
NOON $20,000 Pyramid - Guests: Gina Hecht, Robert Walden.
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Edge of Night
4:30 The 4:30 Movie: "Marooned", Part 2 of 2 (1969) - Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna.
6:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
8:00 ABC Friday Night Movie: "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (1969) - George Lazenby (as James Bond, his only such film), Diana Rigg (as Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo), Telly Savalas (as villain Blofeld, who was later parodied as Dr. Evil in the "Austin Powers" films).
11:00 Eyewitenss News
11:30 The Iran Crisis - American Held Hostage: Day 125 (became known as Nightline March 24)
11:45 Charlie's Angels
12:55 Late Night Movie: "The Kremlin Letter" (1970) - Bibi Anderson, Richard Boone

9 WOR
5:00 WOR-TV News
5:22 Thriller Theater (?): "Dark Eyes of London" (1939) - Bela Lugosi, Greta Gynt.
7:00 WOR-TV News
7:30 Jim Bakker
8:30 Newar and Reality
9:00 Joe Franklin
10:00 Romper Room
11:00 Straight Talk
NOON News at Noon
12:30 Play the Percentages
1:00 Movie 9: "I Was a Male War Bride" (1949) - Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan.
3:00 9 in the Afternoon: "Diamond Head" (1963) - Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, George Chakaris.
5:00 Ironside
6:00 The Joker's Wild
6:30 Tic-Tac-Dough
7:00 Face the Music
7:30 Dating Game
8:00 New York Report
8:30 Knicks Basketball - at San Antonio Spurs
11:00 Benny Hill
11:30 Dave Allen
MIDNIGHT Late Movie: "God's Little Acre" (1958) - Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray.
2:00 Joe Frankliin
3:00 All Night Movie: "Stanley and Livingstone" (1939) - Spencer Tracy, Richard Greene.

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 and Friends - Co-host: Fernando Lamas; Guests: Beau Bridges, Carl Reiner, Richard Crenna, David Gates, Marlo Thomas, Ken Minyard.
11:00 Open Mind
11:30 The Pulpit and the People
NOON Tom & Jerry
12:30 Fun World of Hanna-Barbera
1:00 Action News
1:30 700 Club
2:30 Joya's Fun School
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 MISL Soccer - New York Arrows vs. Pittsburgh Spirit
10:00 Action News
10:30 Open Mind
11:00 Prisoner: Cell Block H
11:30 Odd Couple
MIDNIGHT Three Stooges
12:30 Twilight Zone (x2; some episodes were full-hour)
1:30 Good News
2:00 Action News (R)
2:30 Channel 11 Film Festival: "The Seven Little Foys" (1955) - Bob Hope (as Eddie Foy), James Cagney (as George M. Cohan), Milly Vitale, George Tobias, Jerry Mathers (uncredited; two years before being cast as "The Beaver").

13 WNET
NOTE: Normal scheduling altered by pledge breaks.
6:30 Captioned ABC News (R)
7:00 New Jersey Nightly News (R)
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report (R)
8:00 Dick Cavett - Guest: Phil Donahue (Part 2)
8:30 Over Easy
9:05 Sesame Street
10:15 Cover to Cover
10:30 Bread and Butterflies
10:45 L-4
11:00 Vegetable Soup II
11:15 What's in the News?
11:30 3-2-1 Contact
NOON Once Upon a Classic: "The Legend of King Arthur"
12:30 Electric Company
1:00 Readalong/Write On
1:15 What's in the News?
1:30 Many Worlds of Nature
1:45 Search for Science
2:00 Environmental Studies
2:20 Write On
2:30 Dimensions in Science
3:00 Que Pasa, USA?
3:30 Villa Alegre
4:00 Sesame Street
5:15 Mister Rogers
5:50 3-2-1 Contact
6:30 News Jersey Nightly News
7:00 Dick Cavett - Guest: Sarah Vaughan (Part 2)
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 Washington Week in Review
8:30 Wall $treet Week
9:00 Cinema Thirteen: "The Student Prince" (1954) - Edmund Purdom (singing voice by Mario Lanza), Ann Blyth, Edmund Gwenn, John Ericson.
11:15 Soundstage: "An Evening With Ella Fitzgerald"
12:45 Dick Cavett - Guest: Sarah Vaughan (Part 2; R)

 

[RandTV]

The guests on that day's Donahue episode were authors Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman, talking about their book "Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change".

 

[TVCOOL]

Thanks for these listings have the weekend listings for March 8-9, 1980?

 

[RandTV]

Thanks for these listings have the weekend listings for March 8-9, 1980?

Since you mention it, I'll put those on as well.

 

[RandTV]

Part II
Saturday, March 8, 1980

2 WCBS
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 Patchwork Family
8:00 New Adventures of Mighty Mouse/Heckle & Jeckle
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 All-New Popeye Hour
11:30 Fat Albert
NOON Jason of Star Command
12:30 Tarzan and the Super 7
(Ten segments of In the News aired both during and between the aforementioned CBS programs starting at 8.)
1:30 30 Minutes
2:00 Kidsworld
2:30 Public Hearing
3:00 Stanley
3:30 World of Survival
4:00 CBS Sports Spectacular - 1) Heavyweight boxing: Leon Spinks vs. Eddie Lopez (Las Vegas); 2) Men's World Speed Skating Championships.
5:00 Golf - Jackie Gleason Inverrary Classic, Round 3 (Inverrary Golf & Country Club, Lauderhill, FL)
6:00 Channel 2 the People
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Channel 2 News
7:30 The Price is Right
8:00 The Chisolms: "Chains"
9:00 Hawaii Five-O: "Clash of Shadows"
10:00 Hagen: "The Rat Pack" (Online sources say the pilot actually aired the following week. Was it pre-empted/postponed?
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:30 CBS News Special Report - Results of the South Carolina primary.
MIDNIGHT Late Show: "A Gunfight" (1971) - Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash.
1:55 News
2:05 Late Late Show: "Week-End at the Waldorf" (1945) - Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson.
4:25 Early Show: "Barnacle Bill" (1941) - Wallace Beery, Marjorie Main, Leo Carrillo.

4 WNBC
6:00 Agriculture USA
6:30 A Better Way
7:00 Talk About Pictures
7:30 Bay City Rollers
8:00 Godzilla/Globetrotters Adventure Hour; Ask NBC News
9:00 Fred & Barney Meet the Schmoo; Ask NBC News
10:30 Daffy Duck; Ask NBC News
11:00 Casper and the Angels; Ask NBC News
11:30 Jetsons; Time Out
NOON Hot Hero Sandwich - Guests: Stockard Channing, McLean Stevenson, Sally Struthers, Julius "Dr. J" Erving, KISS.
1:00 NCAA Basketball Special
1:30 NCAA Basketball Championships - St. John's vs. Purdue
3:30 NCAA Basketball Championships - Missouri vs. Notre Dame
6:00 NewsCenter 4
6:30 NBC Nightly News - Jane Pauley, Dick Schaap.
7:00 Divorce Test (Part 1)
7:30 Guiness Game
8:00 CHiPs: "Death Watch" (Oct 13, 1979)
9:00 B.J. and the Bear: "Snow White and the Seven Lady Truckers: Part 2" (Oct 6, 1979)
10:00 Prime Time Saturday
11:00 NewsCenter 4
11:30 Saturday Night Live - Host: Rodney Dangerfield; Musical guests: The J. Geils Band.
1:00 SCTV
1:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert - Guests: KISS, Gloria Gaynor, New England, John Cougar (now Mellencamp), Roger & Roger.
3:00 Rockworld - Guests: David Johansen, Rory Gallagher.
3:30 Mary Tyler Moore (x2)

5 WNEW
6:00 Patterns for Living
6:30 Abbott & Costello (cartoon)
7:00 Brady Kids
7:30 Groovie Goolies
8:00 Popeye and Friends
8:30 Flintstones
9:00 John Wayne Theater: "Flying Tigers" (1942) - also starring Paul Kelly.
11:00 Soul Train - Guests: Shalamar, The Gap Band.
NOON Rat Patrol
12:30 Andy Griffith
1:00 Patridge 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
8:30 Merv Griffin - Guests: Ben Vereen, Herve Villechaise.
10:00 Ten O'Clock News
10:30 Black News
11:00 All in the Family
11:30 Tales of the Unexpected
MIDNIGHT Creature Features: "Crucible of Horror" (1970) - Michael Grough, Yvonne Mitchell.
1:55 Creature Features: "Devil Doll" (1964) - Brian Halliday, William Sylvester.
3:40 Creature Features: "Curse of the Voodoo" (1965) - Bryant Halliday, Dennis Price.

7 WABC
6:30 Eyewitness News
7:00 Davey and Goliath
7:30 Magic of Mark Wilson
8:00 World's Greatest Superfriends; Schoolhouse Rock!
9:00 Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure; Schoolhouse Rock!
10:30 Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo; Schoolhouse Rock!
11:30 Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels; Dear Alex and Annie
NOON ABC Weekend Special: "The Ghost of Thomas Kempe" (Part 2)
12:30 American Bandstand - Guests: Bonnie Pointer, The (English) Beat.
1:30 Eyewitness News Conference
2:00 World Series of Auto Racing - International Race of Champions: "The Indy-Type Qualifier"
2:45 American Sportsman
3:30 ABC Pro Bowlers Tour - Fair Lanes Open (Fair Lanes University*, Langley Park, MD *Not an actual univeristy, just the name of the street and district it's located in.)
5:00 ABC's Wide World of Sports - 1) Heavyweight boxing: Ernie Shavers vs. Bernardo Mercadeo; 2) American Cup Gymnastics; 3) Golden Skate Speed Skating.
6:30 Eywitness News
7:00 Colgate Women's Games
8:00 One in a Million: "Cushing Quits" - starring Shirley Hemphill from "What's Happening!!"
8:30 The Ropers ("Three's Company" spin-off): "Man About the House" (That was the title of the British sitcom in which "Three's Company" was based on.)
9:00 Love Boat: "Another Time, Another Place/Doctor Who/Gopher's Engagement"
10:00 Fantasy Island: "Mary Ann and Miss Sophisticate/Jungle Man"
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:15 The Iran Crisis - America Held Hostage: Day 126
11:30 ABC News Weekend Report
11:45 Saturday Night Movie: "Easy Rider" (1969) - Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper.
1:45 Late Night Movie: "Pickup on 101" (1972) - Jack Albertson, Lesley Ann Warren, Martin Sheen.

9 WOR
7:00 News Digest
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 Spaced Out Films: "Curse of the Vampires" (1966 in the Philippines; 1971 in the US) - Amalia Fuentes, Eddie Garcia. (Possibly dubbed in English from Tagalog.)
1:00 Movie 9: "Battle of the Commandos" (1971) - Jack Palance, Thomas Hunter.
3:00 Million Dollar Movie: "Chino" (1973) - Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland.
5:00 Outer Limits
6:00 Racing from Aqueduct
6:30 Jackie Gleason
7:00 Benny Hill
7:30 Dave Allen
8:00 Rangers Hockey - at Montreal Canadiens
10:30 Life of Riley
11:00 Benny Hill
11:30 Racing from Roosevelt
MIDNIGHT Championship Wrestling
1:00 Fright Night: "The Black Cobra" (1964; German) - Adrian Hoven, Wolfgang Preiss.
3:00 Late Movie: "Foxfire" (1955) - Jane Russell, Jeff Chandler.

11 WPIX
6:30 Barbapapa
7:00 Carrascolendas
7:30 Aprenda 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: Dennis Weaver, Dottsy, Randy Boone, Woody Woodbury.
NOON WCT Tennis - Peter Fleming vs. Tim Gullikson
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 Eight O'Clock Movie: "Where Love Has Gone" (1964) - Susan Hayward, Bette Davis, Mike Connors, Joey Heatherton.
10:30 Action News
11:00 Odd Couple
11:30 The Rookies
12:30 The FBI
1:30 Night Final (News)
2:00 Channel 11 Film Festival: "Paradise Alley" (1961) - Hugo Haas, Marie Windsor.

13 WNET
NOTE: Normal scheduling altered by pledge breaks between and during several programs.
8:00 Sesame Street
9:05 Mister Rogers
9:45 Once Upon a Classic: "King Arthur" (Part 3 of 8)
10:20 Villa Alegre
11:00 Family Portrait (x2)
NOON It's Everybody's Business (x2)
1:00 Nova: "Umealit: the Whale Hunters"
2:00 National Geographic: "The Invisible World"
3:10 Great Performances: "The Most Happy Fella" - Giorgio Tozzi, Sharon Daniels.
6:00 New Jersey Nightly News
6:30 Camera Three: "Goddess Dancers of Cambodia"
7:00 Inside Albany
7:30 Agronsky & Co.
8:00 Cinema Thirteen "Can-Can" (1960) - Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan.
10:35 Satchmo - Louis Armstrong narrating this documentary on his life.
12:30 Buddy Holly: Reminiscing

 

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Part III:
Sunday, March 9, 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: Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA), a presidential contender that year.
NOON Newsmakers
12:30 Public Hearing
1:00 NBA Basketball - Philadelphia 76ers vs. San Antonio Spurs
3:15 CBS Sports Spectacular - Heavyweight boxing: Ron Lyle vs. Scott LeDoux (St. Paul, MN)
4:00 Jackie Gleason Inverrary Golf Classic, Final Round
6:00 Channel 2 News
6:30 CBS Evening News - Morton Dean
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 Archie Bunker's Place: "Veronica's Ex"
8:30 One Day at a Time: "Perils of Plastic" (final episode with Mackenzie Phillips as a series regular)
9:00 Alice: "One Too Many Girls"
9:30 Jeffersons: "A Night to Remember"
10:00 Trapper John, M.D.: "Short Odds"
11:00 CBS Sunday Night News - Ed Bradley
11:15 Channel 2 News
11:45 Sports Update
MIDNIGHT Late Show: "Die, Darling, Die" (1973) - James Stewart, Murray Hamilton.
1:35 News
1:40 Late, Late Show: "Romeo and Juliet" (1937) - Leslie Howard, Norma Shearer.

4 WNBC
6:00 Italian-American Conversations
6:30 Private Colleges: an Endangered Species?
7:00 Talk About Pictures
7:30 Creative Years of the Child
8:00 Villa Alegre
8:30 Maryknoll World
8:45 Your Sunday Best
9:00 Sunday School
9:15 Jewish Scene
9:30 The 1980 Census
10:00 First Estate
10:30 Prime of Your Life
11:00 Positively Black
11:30 Tony Brown's Journal
NOON NewsCenter Forum
12:30 Meet the Press - Guest: Gar Alperovitz, co-director of the National Center of Economic Alternatives.
1:00 NCAA Basketball Playoffs - Doubleheader; teams TBA
5:00 NBC SportsWorld - Middleweight boxing: David Love vs. Curtis Parker (Atlantic City)
6:00 NewsCenter 4
6:30 NBC Nightly News - Jessica Savitch, Dick Schaap.
7:00 Disney's Wonderful World: "The Shaggy D.A." (1976) - Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette, Tim Conway, Keenan Wynn, Vic Tayback, Dick Van Patten, Jo Anne Worley.
9:00 NBC Sunday Night at the Movies: "Battles: The Murder That Wouldn't Die" (Premiere) - William Conrad, Jose Ferrer, Don Porter, Lane Caudell, Robin Mattson, Marj Dusay.
11:00 NewsCenter 4
11:45 NBC Late Night Movie: "Checkered Flag or Crash" (1977) - Joe Don Baker, Susan Sarandon, Larry Hagman, Alan Vint, Parnelli Jones (as himself).
1:45 Mary Tyler Moore (x2)
2:45 First Estate

5 WNEW
6:20 News
6:30 Time for Timothy
7:00 Wonderama
9:00 Woody & Bugs Hour
10:00 Little Rascals
10:30 Brady Bunch
11:00 Adventure Theater: "Tarzan and the Huntress" (1947) - Johnny Weismuller (11th film as Tarzan), Brenda Joyce (as Jane), Johnny Sheffield (as Boy), Patricia Morrison, Barton MacLane.
1:00 Movie: "The Bobo" (1967) - Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland.
3:00 Movie: "The Scalphunters" (1968) - Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Ossie Davis, Telly Savalas.
5:00 Mission: Impossible
6:00 Movie: "The Last American Hero" (1973) - Jeff Bridges, Valerie Perrine, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ned Beatty (Jim Croce's hit song "I Got a Name" is the film's theme song.)
8:00 American Athletes 1980
9:00 National Geographic: "Reptiles and Amphibians"
10:00 Ten O'Clock News
10:30 Sports Extra
11:00 Public Affairs
11:30 David Susskind

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 Hot Fudge Show
10:00 Kids Are People Too - Guests: Ron Palillo, The Sylvers, Eric Poppick, Noah Hathaway. Also appearing was Dutch-born model Wilhelmina who had just died of cancer eight days earleir. It's likely that host Michael Young made a dedication announcement before or after the show.
11:25 Dear Alex and Annie
11:30 Animals, Animals, Animals: "Desert Animals"
NOON Issues and Anwers - Guest: Rep. John Anderson (R-IL), soon to be the third party presidential nominee against Carter and Reagan.
12:30 Directions
1:00 Like It Is
2:00 The Superstars
3:15 International Boxing - USA vs. East Germany
4:30 ABC's Wide World of Sports - 1) American Cup Gymnastics (Madison Square Garden); 2) Golden Skate Speed Skating (Inzell, West Germany).
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 ABC World News Sunday - Sam Donaldson
7:00 ABC Special Movie: "Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger", Part 2 (1977; stop-motion animated) - Voices: Patrick Wayne, Taryn Power, Mararet Whiting, Jane Seymour, Patrick Troughton.
8:00 Tenspeed and Brown Shoe: "The Sixteen Byte Data Chip and the Brown-Eyed Fox" (Starring Ben Vereen and Jeff Goldbum.)
9:00 ABC Sunday Night Movie: "Amber Waves" (Premiere) - Dennis Weaver, Kurt Russell
11:00 ABC Weekend News - Tom Jarriel
11:15 Eyewitness News
11:45 (WABC) Sunday Night Movie: "Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1971) - Jason Robards, Lilli Palmer.

9 WOR
5:00 News
5:20 Life of Riley
5:50 Straight Talk
7:00 WOR-TV News
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 Life of Riley
1:30 Islanders Hockey - at Washington Capitals
4:00 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
5:00 Joker! Joker!! Joker!!!
5:30 Dating Game
6:00 Movie: "The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea" (1976) - Kris Kristofferson, Sarah Miles, Jonathan Kahn.
8:00 Rex Humbard
9:00 It Is Written
9:30 World Tomorrow
10:00 Jimmy Swaggart
10:30 Norm Crosby's Comedy Shop
11:00 Benny Hill
11:30 Carry on Laughing
MIDNIGHT Movie: "A Man For All Seasons" (1966 Best Picture) - Paul Scofield (Best Actor), Robert Shaw, Wendy Hiller, Orson Welles, Robert Shaw, Susannah York.
2:30 Life of Riley
3:00 Movie: "Grave of the Vampire" (1972) - William Smith, Michael Pataki, Lyn Peters.
5:20 Movie: "Passage West" (1951) - John Payne, Dennis O'Keefe, Arleen Whelan.

11 WPIX
6:30 Christopher Closeup
6:45 Davey and Goliath
7:00 Robert Schuller
8:00 Ever Increasing Faith
9:00 Josie and the Pussycats
9:30 Marvel Men
10:00 Tom & Jerry Hour
11:00 F-Troop
11:30 Sunday Mornng Movie: "Abbott & Costello Meet the Keystone Kops" (1955) - Also starring: Fred Clark, Lynn Bari, Mack Sennett.
1:00 Sunday Afternoon Movie: "Donovan's Reef" (1963) - John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Elizabeth Allen, Dorothy Lamour.
3:00 Sunday's Great Movie: "Pork Chop Hill" (1959) - Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn.
5:00 Sunday's Best Movie: "Shane" (1953) - Alan Ladd, Van Heflin, Jean Arthur, Jack Palance.
7:40 Action News
8:00 Lawrence Welk - Theme: "Songs From the Classics" (Welk's 77th birthday, two days later, is celebrated!)
9:00 Indoor Soccer - New York Arrows vs. Philadelphia Fever
11:00 Odd Couple
11:30 The Rookies
12:30 The FBI
1:30 Action News
2:00 Movie: "The Daring Dobermans" (1973) - Charles Robinson, Tim Considine, Joan Caulfield.

13 WNET
NOTE: Normal schedule altered by pledge breaks.
8:00 Sesame Street
9:05 Mister Rogers
9:40 Electric Company
10:15 3-2-1 Contact
10:55 Sesame Street
NOON It's Eveybody's Business (x2)
1:00 Firing Line
2:00 Bill Moyers' Journal
2:45 Cinema Thirteen - "The Student Prince" (1954) - Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, John Ericson, Edmund Gwenn.
5:00 Free to Choose
6:00 New Jersey Nightly News
6:30 Dateline New Jersey
7:00 Year of the Wildebeest - Narrator: Richard Widmark
8:00 The Voyage of Charles Darwin (Episode 7 of 7)
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre: "The Duchess of Duke Street II" - Epsiode 13 of 16: "Lottie"
10:15 Dick Cavett - Guest: Allistair Cooke (host of "Masterpiece Theatre")

If anyone knows the movie umbrella titles for channels 5 and 9, and whether or not I've named those for channel 11 correctly, pleas let me know.

 

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"Iran in Crisis" (the soon to be "Nightline") on a Saturday night? I checked the "Daily News" archives and apparently the Saturday edition only lasted one more week. Wonder how different TV history would have been if "Nightline" was a Saturday show; considering how poorly SNL did in 80-81, could a Saturday "Nightline" have killed it off?

 

[RandTV]

"Iran in Crisis" (the soon to be "Nightline") on a Saturday night? I checked the "Daily News" archives and apparently the Saturday edition only lasted one more week. Wonder how different TV history would have been if "Nightline" was a Saturday show; considering how poorly SNL did in 80-81, could a Saturday "Nightline" have killed it off?

Or even a Sunday show.

 

[TVCOOL]

Thanks for these listings