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Retro: North Carolina and Norfolk Saturday, August 7, 1976

Some of you have wondered why Norfolk was not included
in the North Carolina edition of TV Guide. The dividing line
was Albemarle Sound; NC counties north of that body of
water got the Eastern Virginia edition since they were and
are part of the Norfolk DMA. But I'm going to include Norfolk
here; I don't know of any source other than the Raleigh News
& Observer that ever included Norfolk stations (and then only
Chs. 3, 10, and 13) with North Carolina ones. Sources:
TV Guide, North Carolina and Eastern Virginia editions.

WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS)

7:30 Hot Dog
8 AM Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9:30 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
10 AM Shazam!/Isis Hour
11 AM Far Out Space Nuts
11:30 Ghost Busters
12 N Valley Of The Dinosaurs
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival: "The
Camerons" (1974, from England)
2 PM Southern Sportsman
2:30 Movie: "The Shakiest Gun In The West"
4:30 Volvo International Tennis Championships
(semifinals)
6 PM News (time approximate)
6:30 CBS News (Dan Rather)
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 Doc (sitcom with Barnard Hughes)
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM Johnny Mathis In The Canadian Rockies
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "This Savage Land"

E (WUND/2 Columbia, NC; WUNC/4 Chapel Hill; WUNK/25
Greenville, NC; WUNL/26 Winston-Salem; WUNJ/39
Wilmington, NC; WUNG/58 Concord, NC)

6 PM Olympiad
7 PM Erica (needlework)
7:30 Mister Rogers (don't know if this is "Mister Rogers'
Neighborhood" or a special)
8 PM Crockett's Victory Garden
8:30 North Carolina Piano Trio
9 PM At The Top (jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard and
tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine perform)
10 PM Upstairs, Downstairs (Part 5)
11 PM Experience

WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)

6:30 Summer Semester: "Transformation Of American
Society"
7 AM Treehouse Club
7:30 Hot Fudge
8 AM Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9:30 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
10 AM Shazam!/Isis Hour
11 AM Far Out Space Nuts
11:30 Ghost Busters
12 N Valley Of The Dinosaurs
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Movie: "Borderland"
2:30 That Good Ole Nashville Music
3 PM Pop! Goes The Country
3:30 Wrestling
4:30 Movie: "The Girl Rush"
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 Doc
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM NFL Exhibition: Cowboys-Rams
1 AM News (time approximate)

WTAR (WTKR) Ch. 3 Norfolk (CBS)

6 AM Summer Semester
6:30 Across The Fence
7 AM Andy Griffith
7:30 Connie's Magic Cottage
8 AM Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9:30 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
10 AM Shazam!/Isis Hour
11 AM Far Out Space Nuts
11:30 Ghost Busters
12 N Valley Of The Dinosaurs
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM Movie: TBA
4 PM The Explorers
4:30 Volvo International Tennis Championships
(semifinals)
6 PM News (time approximate)
6:30 Newsmakers
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 Doc
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM NFL Exhibition: Cowboys-Rams
1 AM Movie: TBA (time approximate)

WWAY Ch. 3 Wilmington (ABC)

7 AM These Are The Days (delay from Sun 11 AM)
7:30 Make A Wish (delay from Sun 11:30 AM)
8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Tom And Jerry/Grape Ape
9:30 Adventures Of Gilligan (animated)
10 AM Super Friends
11 AM Speed Buggy
11:30 Oddball Couple (Felix and Oscar become Spiffy
the cat and Fleabag the dog--animated)
12 N Lost Saucer
12:30 American Bandstand ("Laverne & Shirley" day:
Cyndi Greco sings the show's theme, "Making
Our Dreams Come True"; interview with Penny
Marshall)
1:30 James Franciscus' Water World
2 PM Movie: "Angel Baby"
3:30 Movie: "Captain Pirate"
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (U.S.-USSR track meet)
6:30 ABC News (Ted Koppel)
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Monty Hall Special (guests Cloris Leachman, Ed
Asner, Minnie Riperton, Shields and Yarnell)
9 PM ABC Movie: "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever"
11:30 ABC News (anchor not given, probably from one of
the o&os)
11:45 That Good Ole Nashville Music
12:15 Wrestling

WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (ABC)

7 AM Cartoon Festival
7:30 Make A Wish
8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Tom And Jerry/Grape Ape
9:30 Adventures Of Gilligan
10 AM Super Friends
11 AM Speed Buggy
11:30 Oddball Couple
12 N Teenage Frolics (local "Soul Train")
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 David Niven's World
2 PM Dimensions 5
2:30 Flying Nun
3 PM Movie: "The Fastest Gun Alive"
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Harambee (local African-American interest
program)
7 PM Public Affairs
7:30 Let's Go To The Races
8 PM Monty Hall Special
9 PM ABC Movie: "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever"
11:30 Wrestling
12:30 Arthur Smith
1 AM Pop! Goes The Country
1:30 ABC News

WECT Ch. 6 Wilmington, NC (NBC)

7 AM Gentle Ben
7:30 Big Blue Marble
8 AM Emergency +4
8:30 Josie And The Pussycats
9 AM Secret Lives Of Waldo Kitty
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Land Of The Lost
10:30 Run, Joe, Run
11 AM Return To The Planet Of The Apes (animated)
11:30 Westwind
12 N Jetsons
12:30 GO-USA
1 PM Soul Train
2 PM Grandstand
2:15 Baseball: Phillies-Cardinals (rain game: Royals-
White Sox)
5 PM Wrestling (time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (Tom Brokaw)
7 PM Wild Kingdom
7:30 Family Affair
8 PM Pilot: "Adventurizing With The Chopper"
8:30 NBC Movie: "There Was A Crooked Man"
11 PM Movie: "Flight For Freedom" (loosely based on
the life of Amelia Earhart)

WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC)

7 AM Across The Fence
7:30 Treehouse Club
8 AM Emergency +4
8:30 Josie And The Pussycats
9 AM Cartoon Carnival
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Land Of The Lost
10:30 Run, Joe, Run
11 AM Return To The Planet Of The Apes
11:30 Westwind
12 N Jetsons
12:30 GO-USA
1 PM High Chaparral
2 PM Grandstand
2:15 Baseball (see Ch. 6 for details)
5 PM Wrestling (time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Pilot: "Adventurizing With The Chopper"
8:30 NBC Movie: "There Was A Crooked Man"
11 PM News
11:30 Weekend
1 AM Christopher Closeup
1:15 TBA
1:25 News

WGHP Ch. 8 High Point (ABC)

7 AM Lost Saucer
7:30 Mayberry R.F.D.
8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Tom And Jerry/Grape Ape
9:30 Adventures Of Gilligan
10 AM Super Friends
11 AM Speed Buggy
11:30 Oddball Couple
12 N Hot Fudge
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Soul Train
2:30 Movie: "3:10 To Yuma"
4 PM Wrestling
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Price Is Right (Dennis James)
7 PM The Commanders (biography of Douglas MacArthur)
8 PM Monty Hall Special
9 PM ABC Movie: "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever"
11:30 News
11:50 ABC News
12:05 Movie: "Bedlam"
1:35 Movie: "The Mysterious Doctor"
3 AM Help Yourself

WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS)

8 AM Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9:30 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
10 AM Shazam!/Isis Hour
11 AM Far Out Space Nuts
11:30 Ghost Busters
12 N Valley Of The Dinosaurs
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM Big Valley
3 PM Mod Squad
4 PM Arthur Smith
4:30 Volvo International Tennis Championships
(semifinals)
6 PM Porter Wagoner (time
approximate)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 Doc
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM NFL Exhibition: Cowboys-Rams
1 AM Wrestling (time approximate)

WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC)

7 AM Vegetable Soup
7:30 Big Blue Marble
8 AM Emergency +4
8:30 Josie And The Pussycats
9 AM Secret Lives Of Waldo Kitty
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Land Of The Lost
10:30 Batman
11 AM Return To The Planet Of The Apes
11:30 Westwind
12 N World Of Survival
12:30 Eyewitness Report To The Carolinas
1 PM Arthur Smith
1:30 Secrets Of The Deep
2 PM Grandstand
2:15 Baseball (see Ch. 6 for details)
5 PM Mission: Impossible (time
approximate)
6 PM Eyewitness Magazine
7 PM Space: 1999
8 PM Pilot: "Adventurizing With The Chopper"
8:30 NBC Movie: "There Was A Crooked Man"
11 PM News
11:30 Weekend

WAVY Ch. 10 Norfolk (NBC)

6:35 Lucy Show
7 AM Vegetable Soup
7:30 Rin Tin Tin
8 AM Emergency +4
8:30 Josie And The Pussycats
9 AM Secret Lives Of Waldo Kitty
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Land Of The Lost
10:30 Run, Joe, Run
11 AM Return To The Planet Of The Apes
11:30 Westwind
12 N Jetsons
12:30 Rin Tin Tin
1 PM Champions (sports)
2 PM Grandstand
2:15 Baseball (see Ch. 6 for details)
5 PM Lucy Show (time approximate)
5:30 Rin Tin Tin
6 PM News
6:30 Wrestling
7:30 Inside Area 10
8 PM Pilot: "Adventurizing With The Chopper"
8:30 NBC Movie: "There Was A Crooked Man"
11 PM News
11:30 Weekend
1 AM Movie: "Black Friday"

WIS Ch. 10 Columbia, SC (NBC)

6:45 Viewpoint On Nutrition
7:15 Davey And Goliath
7:30 Mr. Knozit
8:30 Josie And The Pussycats
9 AM Secret Lives Of Waldo Kitty
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Land Of The Lost
10:30 Run, Joe, Run
11 AM Return To The Planet Of The Apes
11:30 Westwind
12 N Jetsons
12:30 GO-USA
1 PM Emergency +4
1:30 Pop! Goes The Country
2 PM Grandstand
2:15 Baseball (see Ch. 6 for details)
5 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music (time approximate)
5:30 Space: 1999
6:30 NBC News
7 PM News
7:30 Awareness (local)
8 PM Pilot: "Adventurizing With The Chopper"
8:30 NBC Movie: "There Was A Crooked Man"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Thief"
1:30 Space: 1999
2:30 With This Ring

WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (CBS)

6 AM Now (farm show)
6:30 Summer Semester
7 AM That Girl
7:30 Let's Look At...
8 AM Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9:30 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
10 AM Shazam!/Isis Hour
11 AM Far Out Space Nuts
11:30 Ghost Busters
12 N Valley Of The Dinosaurs
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM Soul Train
3 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music
3:30 Wrestling
4:30 Volvo International Tennis Championships
(semifinals)
6 PM Black Unlimited (time approximate)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 Doc
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM NFL Exhibition: Cowboys-Rams
1 AM Curious Kaleidoscope (time approximate)

WCTI Ch. 12 New Bern (ABC)

7:45 Telestory
8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Tom And Jerry/Grape Ape
9:30 Adventures Of Gilligan
10 AM Super Friends
11 AM Speed Buggy
11:30 Oddball Couple
12 N Lost Saucer
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Soul Train
2:30 Nashville On The Road
3 PM Movie: "Shenandoah"
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Wrestling
8 PM Monty Hall Special
9 PM ABC Movie: "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever"
11:30 ABC News
11:45 Will C.'s Red-Eye Cinema
12 M Movie: "Another Dawn"
1:30 Movie: "Cry Wolf"
3 AM Movie: "Desperate Journey"

WXII Ch. 12 Winston-Salem (NBC)

6:55 Camera 12
7 AM Vegetable Soup
7:30 Big Blue Marble
8 AM Emergency +4
8:30 Josie And The Pussycats
9 AM Secret Lives Of Waldo Kitty
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Land Of The Lost
10:30 Run, Joe, Run
11 AM Return To The Planet Of The Apes
11:30 Westwind
12 N Scrunch (kids' show airing on Ch. 12 and
sister stations in Greenville, SC; Knoxville;
Macon, GA)
12:30 GO-USA
1 PM Youth '76
1:30 Outdoors With Ken Callaway
2 PM Grandstand
2:15 Baseball (see Ch. 6 for details)
5 PM Wrestling (time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 Campaign '76 (candidates for North Carolina
lieutenant governor are interviewed)
7 PM Shades Of Ebony
7:30 Wrestling (no idea what this is)
8 PM Pilot: "Adventurizing With The Chopper"
8:30 NBC Movie: "There Was A Crooked Man"
11 PM News
11:30 Weekend

WBTW Ch. 13 Florence, SC (CBS/ABC)

7:30 Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine (delay
from Sun 9:30 AM)
8 AM Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9:30 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
10 AM Shazam!/Isis Hour
11 AM Far Out Space Nuts
11:30 Ghost Busters
12 N Valley Of The Dinosaurs
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM Adventures Of Gilligan
2:30 Arthur Smith
3 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music
3:30 Wrestling
4:30 Volvo International Tennis Championships
(semifinals)
6 PM Happy Days (time approximate)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw (same as Ch. 2)
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 Doc
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM NFL Exhibition: Cowboys-Rams

WVEC Ch. 13 Norfolk (ABC)

7 AM Comedy Time
7:30 Hong Kong Phooey
8 AM Sandy (this is probably Sandy Kandy, a
weekend fixture on Ch. 13 for years)
8:30 Tom And Jerry/Grape Ape
9:30 Adventures Of Gilligan
10 AM Super Friends
11 AM Speed Buggy
11:30 Oddball Couple
12 N Lost Saucer
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Movie: "Abandon Ship"
3:30 Bonanza
4:30 Greatest Sports Legends
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Candid Camera
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Monty Hall Special
9 PM ABC Movie: "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever"
11:30 ABC News
11:45 News
12 M Movie: "Sands Of The Kalahari"
1:30 Conversation
2 AM News
2:05 Alcoholics Anonymous (another longtime fixture
on Ch. 13)

WHRO Ch. 15 Norfolk (PBS)

9 AM Lilias, Yoga And You
9:30 Anyone For Tennyson
10 AM Upstairs, Downstairs
11 AM Chust For Fancy (decorative art)
11:30 Cookin' Cajun (Justin Wilson)
12 N A Bushel And A Peck
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1 PM A Family At War
2 PM A Word On Words
2:30 Guppies To Groupers
3 PM By-Line
3:30 Ilona's Palette
4 PM Garden Show
4:30 Five String Breakdown: Basic Banjo
5 PM Olympiad
6 PM A Family At War
7 PM Firing Line (guest Fred Friendly discusses
"Free Speech vs. Fairness In Broadcasting")
8 PM Movie: "History Is Made At Night"
(repeats at 9:40 and 11:20 PM)

WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (ABC)

8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Tom And Jerry/Grape Ape
9:30 Adventures Of Gilligan
10 AM Super Friends
11 AM Speed Buggy
11:30 Oddball Couple
12 N Lost Saucer
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Supersonic
2 PM Soul Train
3 PM Viewpoint
3:30 Southern Sportsman
4 PM James Franciscus' Water World
4:30 Viewpoint
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Inquiry
7:30 Animal World
8 PM Monty Hall Special
9 PM ABC Movie: "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever"
11:30 Wrestling
12:30 ABC News

WYAH (WGNT) Ch. 27 Portsmouth, VA (Ind.)

6:45 Davey And Goliath
7 AM Hot Fudge
7:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Porky Pig
9 AM Popeye
9:30 Little Rascals
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Jetsons
11 AM James Franciscus' Water World
11:30 Jeff's Collie
12 N Mr. Chips
12:30 NFL Action '76
1 PM Friends Of Man
1:30 Hazel
2 PM This Is Baseball
2:30 Movie: "Against The Wind" (not the
Australian miniseries that played on
some U.S. stations around 1979 or '80)
4 PM NFL Championship Games
4:30 Sports Challenge (former New York Yankees
Mickey Mantle, Tony Kubek, and Don Larsen
vs. 1957 Milwaukee Braves Lew Burdette,
Warren Spahn, and Eddie Mathews--Dick
Enberg hosts)
5 PM Laredo
6 PM Movie: "San Demetrio--London"
8 PM Rex Humbard
8:30 Warren Roberts
9:30 The Lesson
10 PM Oral Roberts
10:30 Moment Of Truth (Garland Faw)
11 PM Public Policy Forums

WRDU (WRDC) Ch. 28 Durham (NBC)

8 AM Emergency +4
8:30 Josie And The Pussycats
9 AM Secret Lives Of Waldo Kitty
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Land Of The Lost
10:30 Run, Joe, Run
11 AM Return To The Planet Of The Apes
11:30 Westwind
12 N Jetsons
12:30 GO-USA
1 PM Medix
1:30 Celebrity Tennis (Macdonald Carey and
Ben Murphy vs. Jim McKrell and Howard Duff)
2 PM Grandstand
2:15 Baseball (see Ch. 6 for details)
5 PM Sports Challenge (former Brooklyn Dodgers
Duke Snider, Don Drysdale, and Don Newcombe
vs. former Dallas Cowboys Eddie LeBaron, Don
Meredith, and Don Perkins--time approximate)
5:30 Bill Dance Outdoors
6 PM Score With Off-Road Racing
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Wrestling
8 PM Pilot: "Adventurizing With The Chopper"
8:30 NBC Movie: "There Was A Crooked Man"
11 PM Greatest Sports Legends
11:30 Weekend
1 AM Don Kirshner's Rock Concert

WRET (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (Ind.)

7 AM Your Future Is Now
7:30 Across The Fence
8 AM Friends Of Man
8:30 American Angler
9 AM Speed Racer
9:30 Three Stooges And Pals
10:30 Happy Place
11 AM Movie: "April In Paris"
1 PM Movie: "Sword In The Desert"
3 PM Movie: "Pillow Talk"
5 PM Star Trek
6 PM Champions (sports)
7 PM Wrestling
8 PM Del Reeves
8:30 Let's Go To The Races
9 PM Buck Owens
9:30 Tommy Faile And Ken Linker (local country-
music show)
10 PM Nashville On The Road
10:30 Wilburn Brothers
11 PM Don Kirshner's Rock Concert

WTVI Ch. 42 Charlotte (PBS)

8 AM Sesame Street
9 AM Electric Company
9:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10 AM Sesame Street
11 AM Electric Company
11:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
12 N Zoom
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1 PM off the air
6:30 Book Beat (guest: Louis L'Amour)
7 PM Black Perspective On The News
7:30 Consumer Survival Kit
8 PM At The Top (salute to Bix Beiderbecke,
with Jimmy and Marian McPartland, and
violinist Joe Venuti)
9 PM Great Performances: "Jennie: Lady Randolph
Churchill" (Part 4)
10 PM Life Of Leonardo DaVinci (Part 4)
 
The ABC Saturday night late news was probably anchored by Bill Beutel from New York. He would have been back at the WABC-TV Eyewitness News desk by this time, as it was nearly a year after the demise of AM America.

And what is with the lack of late news on the Raleigh-Durham stations? Was it because it was a Saturday?
 
WRAL and WTVD did late newscasts on Saturdays, ordinarily.
But on this night both stations had programming running past
11 PM; WRAL may have wanted to get right to wrestling, one
of its most popular shows, while WTVD had a football game from
CBS that didn't start until 10 PM. (Note: by the end of the '70s
WRAL had an early local newscast at 6:30 PM.)

Bill Beutel could have anchored ABC's late newscast that night;
other possibilites could have been Joel Daly or Fahey Flynn (WLS),
or Van Amberg (KGO, I believe).
 
I hope the Cowboys/Rams NFL exhibition game CBS carried at 10 PM was live... then again, this is the same network infamous for airing the NBA Finals on tape delay in late night...
 
The Cowboys-Rams game was indeed live, played in Los Angeles
at 7 PM (PT). What I find odd is that WFMY did not carry the game.
I've never known them to pre-empt a football game; in fact, they
carry the Carolina Panthers exhibition games (most of the regular-season
games are on WGHP/FOX8). But at the time Ch. 2's g.m. was its former
news director, and it's my unprovable theory that he was going to get
his 11 PM news on, regardless.
 
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