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Retro: New York City - Thursday, July 16, 1981

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This was the day Harry Chapin died in an auto accident on the Long Island Expressway en route to a concert.

2 WCBS
AM
6:10 News
6:30 Summer Semester
7:00 Morning with Charles Kuralt
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (Bob Keeshan had suffered a heart attack July 11 in Toronto, and was released from the hospital on July 29)
9:00 John Davidson - Guests: William Shatner, Gallagher, Thelma Houston, Helen Gurley Brown
10:00 Jeffersons
10:30 Alice
11:00 The Price is Right
PM
12:00 The Lives We Live
12:30 Young and Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Search for Tomorrow
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 One Day at a Time
4:30 Match Game
5:00 Barnaby Jones
6:00 Channel 2 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 In Search Of... "Marilyn Monroe"
8:00 Waltons (series finale was on June 4)
9:00 Magnum, P.I.
10:00 CBS Reports: "Social Insecurity" - Dan Rather examines the problems of the beleaguered Social Security.
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:30 Jeffersons
AM
12:00 Hec Ramsey: "The Mystery of Chalk Hill" (Richard Boone, who played the title character, died January 10 of that year)

4 WNBC
AM
5:55 Health Field
6:25 Five Minutes to Live
7:00 Today
9:00 Donahue
10:00 Las Vegas Gambit
10:30 Blockbusters
11:00 Wheel of Fortune (rerun from April 16, 1981; Day 4 of Teen Week)
11:30 Password Plus (rerun from March 5, 1981; Day 4 of All-Star Week) - Guests: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz Jr., Dick Martin, Betty White (husband and original host Allen Ludden died June 9)
PM
12:00 Card Sharks
12:30 The Doctors
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Texas
4:00 Hour Magazine - Guest: David Cassidy
5:00 News 4: Live at Five
6:00 News 4 New York
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 NBC Magazine with David Brinkley (his last program for NBC, four months before leaving for ABC to host This Week, successor to Issues and Answers)
9:00 NBC Thurday Night at the Movies: "The Other Side of the Mountain" (1975) - Marilyn Hassett, Beau Bridges
11:00 News 4 New York
11:30 Tonight Show - (rerun from Oct. 31, 1979) - Guests: James Woods, Wally Lattimer; Performer: Lola Falana
AM
12:30 Tomorrow
2:00 Mary Tyler Moore (x2)

5 WNEW
AM
5:45 New Zoo Revue
6:15 News
6:30 Fred Flintstone and Friends
7:00 Battle of the Planets
7:30 Great Space Coaster
8:00 Popeye & Porky Hour
9:00 Partridge Family
9:30 Bewitched
10:00 I Love Lucy
10:30 My Three Sons
11:00 Midday
PM
12:30 Love, American Style
1:00 Ghost and Mrs. Muir
1:30 Addams Family
2:00 Make Room for Daddy
2:30 Partridge Family
3:00 Get Smart
3:30 Flintstones
4:00 Brady Bunch
4:30 Little Rascals
5:00 Brady Bunch
5:30 Gilligan's Island
6:00 Chico and the Man
6:30 Carol Burnett and Friends
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 All in the Family
8:00 PM Magazine
8:30 Merv Griffin - Guests: Julie Andrews, William Holden, Blake Edwards (promoting their new film "S.O.B."; final film for Holden, who was found dead four months later)
10:00 10 O'Clock News
11:00 M*A*S*H
11:30 Mission: Impossible
AM
12:30 Hogan's Heroes
1:00 Rat Patrol
2:00 Movie: "Toward the Unknown" (1956) - William Holden, Lloyd Nolan, Virginia Leith, James Garner (screen debut)

7 WABC
AM
6:00 News
6:25 Listen and Learn
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Good Morning New York
10:00 Richard Simmons
10:30 To Tell the Truth - Robin Ward
11:00 Three's Company (x2)
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 Edge of Night
4:30 Movie: "Ben-Hur" (Part 4 of 5) (1959 Best Picture Winner) - Charlton Heston, Haya Harareet, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Sam Jaffe
6:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 That's Hollywood
8:00 Mork & Mindy
8:30 Barney Miller (x2) (first episode pre-empting Bosom Buddies)
9:30 Taxi
10:00 20/20
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Nightline
AM
12:00 Charlie's Angels
1:10 Movie: "The Young Savages" (1961) - Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Dina Merrill, Telly Savalas

9 WOR
AM
5:05 News
5:30 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
6:30 News
7:00 Jimmy Swaggart
7:30 Jim Bakker
8:30 Nine on New Jersey
9:00 Joe Franklin
10:00 Romper Room
11:00 Straight Talk
PM
12:00 News at Noon
12:30 Let's Make a Deal (1980 revival)
1:00 Movie: "The Fickle Finger of Fate" (1967) - Tab Hunter, Luis Prendes
3:00 Bonanza
4:00 Movie: "Flame of Araby" (1951) - Maureen O'Hara, Jeff Chandler
5:30 Stanley Siegal
6:00 The Joker's Wild
6:30 Tic-Tac-Dough
7:00 Bullseye
7:30 Face the Music
8:00 Movie: "Odds Against Tomorrow" (1959) - Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters, Ed Begley Sr.
10:00 Apple Polishers
10:30 Music World
11:00 Benny Hill
11:30 Racing From Roosevelt
AM
12:00 Movie: "Drums Along the Mohawk" (1939) - Henry Fonda, Claudette Colbert
2:00 Joe Franklin

11 WPIX
AM
5:00 Family Affair
5:30 Biography
6:00 I Dream of Jeannie
6:30 Mighty Mouse
7:00 Popeye
7:30 Josie & the Pussycats
8:00 Tom & Jerry
8:30 Heckle & Jeckle
9:00 Munsters
9:30 I Dream of Jeannie
10:00 Mike Douglas - Guests: Dudley Moore, Dr. William Rathje, Dr. Karen Shanor, Irving Wallace
11:00 Black Conversations
11:30 Suburban Close-Up
PM
12:00 Family Affair
12:30 Another Life
1:00 Action News
1:30 700 Club
2:30 Mister Magoo
3:00 Marvel Superheroes
3:30 Tom & Jerry Hour
4:30 Scooby-Doo
5:00 Good Times
5:30 Odd Couple
6:00 Happy Days Again
6:30 Sanford and Son
7:00 Barney Miller
7:30 Action News
8:00 Movie: "Battle of the Bulge" (Part 1 of 2) (1966) - Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan, Dana Andrews, Pier Angeli
10:00 Independent Network News
10:30 Action News
11:00 Tales of the Haunted
11:30 Odd Couple
AM
12:00 Three Stooges
12:30 Twilight Zone (x2)
1:30 Independent Network News (replay)

13 WNET
AM
6:30 ABC Captioned News
7:00 New Jersey Nightly News
7:30 Over Easy
8:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:30 Dick Cavett
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Mister Rogers
10:30 Electric Company
11:00 Odyssey
PM
12:00 Sesame Street
1:00 Masterpiece Theatre
2:00 Soundstage
3:00 Victory Garden
3:30 Studio See
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Once Upon a Classic
6:30 New Jersey Nightly News
7:00 Southbound
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 U.S. Chronicle
8:30 Fast Forward
9:00 Movie: "Cape Fear" (1962) - Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen
11:00 Dick Cavett
11:30 The Lawmakers
AM
12:00 Circuit 11 Miami
 
Addendum: the guests on "Tomorrow" (ch. 4 @ 12:30 AM) were Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
 
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