Breaking with my pattern of putting up retros on an
"on this day" basis, since I'm going to be out of town
August 11. From TV Guide, North Carolina Edition:
WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS)
7 AM Hot Fudge
7:30 Battle Of The Planets
8 AM All New Popeye Hour
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12 N Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Kidsworld
1:30 CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM NFL Football: Bears-Saints (preseason)
5 PM Golf: Sammy Davis Jr. Greater Hartford
Open (third round, time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Bad News Bears
8:30 Stockard Channing In Just Friends
9 PM Unicorn Tales
9:30 NFL Football: Redskins-Broncos (preseason,
Redskins network)
12:30 Movie: "The Chapman Report" (time approximate)
E (WUND/2 Columbia, NC/Edenton; WUNC/4 Chapel Hill;
WUNK/25 Greenville, NC; WUNL/26 Winston-Salem;
WUNJ/39 Wilmington, NC; WUNG/58 Concord, NC) (PBS)
5 PM Firing Line
6 PM The Advocates
7 PM Evening At Pops
8 PM Poldark (Part 6)
9 PM From The Grand Ole Opry (Part 1, taped
in March 1979)
sign off 12:30 AM
WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)
7 AM Treehouse Club
7:30 Marlo And The Magic Movie Machine
8 AM All-New Popeye Hour
9 AM Boys Town Auction (to benefit Boys Town
of North Carolina)
6 PM News
6:10 Auction continues
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Catch-22"
1:30 With This Ring
WWAY Ch. 3 Wilmington (ABC)
7 AM Kids Are People Too
8 AM Fangface
8:30 Scooby's All-Stars
10 AM Superfriends
11:30 Bigfoot And Wildboy
12 N Gilligan's Island
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Special Report On Physical
Fitness
2 PM NFL Football: Bears-Saints
(it's a CBS telecast, but CBS
had no affiliate in Wilmington
at the time)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports: about the
increased interest in gymnastics
because of Olga Korbut, Nadia
Comaneci, and Kurt Thomas (time
approximate)
6:30 Dolly
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Love Boat
10 PM Jack Van Impe Special: "The Sexual
Revolution" (interesting choice of guest:
Col. Sanders)
11 PM ABC News (Lynn Sherr)
11:15 That Nashville Music
11:45 Arthur Smith
12:15 Wrestling (either Mid-Atlantic or World
Wide, no doubt)
WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (ABC)
7 AM Kids Are People Too
8 AM Fangface
8:30 Scooby's All-Stars
10 AM Superfriends
11:30 Bigfoot And Wildboy
12 N Pink Panther
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Frolics (sort of a local "Soul Train")
2 PM Movie: "Hunters Of The Wild"
4 PM Wild Wild World Of Animals
4:30 Southern Sportsman
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 News
7 PM Harambee (public-affairs show aimed
at the black community)
7:30 Aware (more of the same)
8 PM Movie: "Wonder Woman" (Cathy Lee
Crosby, not Lynda Carter, has the title
role, and she doesn't wear the traditional
outfit.)
9:30 NFL Football: Redskins-Broncos
12:30 Wrestling (Mid-Atlantic, time approximate)
WTTG Ch. 5 Washington, DC (Ind.)
6:30 Vegetable Soup
7 AM Casper
7:30 Newsbag
8 AM Dennis The Menace
8:30 Partridge Family
9 AM Family Affair
9:30 Leave It To Beaver
10 AM I Love Lucy
10:30 Juke-Box (Twiggy hosted this one.)
11 AM Movie: "One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing"
1 PM Movie: "My Darling Clementine"
3 PM Movie: "The Public Eye"
4:30 Family Fun Time
5 PM Soul Train
6 PM Kicks (disco show)
7 PM Soap Factory Disco (2 episodes)
8 PM Spartacade (sports event from the USSR--
this is before the U.S. boycotted the 1980
Moscow Olympics)
9:30 Jack Benny
10 PM News
10:30 Black Reflections
11 PM Odd Couple
11:30 Movie: "Romance Of A Horsethief"
1:30 Movie: "The Canterville Ghost"
3:30 Movie: "Cry Havoc"
WECT Ch. 6 Wilmington (NBC)
7 AM Hot Fudge
7:30 Big Blue Marble
8 AM Alvin And The Chipmunks (this may
be the original, because I don't think
new episodes were made until the
early '80s)
8:30 Fantastic Four
9 AM Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM New Fred And Barney Show
11:30 Jetsons
12 N Buford And The Galloping Ghost
12:30 Family Funtime U.S.A.
1 PM Six Million Dollar Man
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Brewers-Red Sox
5 PM Lawrence Welk (time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (John Hart)
7 PM Muppet Show
7:30 Mary Tyler Moore
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM Sword Of Justice
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (host Gary Busey,
musical guests Eubie Blake and Gregory
Hines)
1 AM Movie: "Three Strangers"
WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC)
6:30 Better Way
7 AM Treehouse Club
7:30 Bay City Rollers
8 AM Alvin And The Chipmunks
8:30 Fantastic Four
9 AM Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM New Fred And Barney Show
11:30 Jetsons
12 N Buford And The Galloping Ghost
12:30 Fabulous Funnies
1 PM Wrestling
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Brewers-Red Sox
5 PM AAU Junior Olympics (time approximate)
6:30 News
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM Sword Of Justice
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Christopher Closeup
1:15 News
WGHP Ch. 8 High Point (ABC)
6 AM Tennessee Tuxedo
6:30 Devlin
7 AM Marlo And The Magic Movie
Machine
7:30 Jetsons (Ch. 8 got this from the
DFS Program Exchange; this is
not the show airing later on NBC.)
8 AM Fangface
8:30 Scooby's All-Stars
10 AM Superfriends
11:30 Bigfoot And Wildboy
12 N Pink Panther
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Soul Train
2:30 Donna Fargo (2 episodes)
3:30 Hee Haw Honeys
4 PM Wrestling (World Wide)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 American Life Style
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Love Boat
10 PM Fantasy Island
11 PM News
11:15 ABC News
11:30 Movie: "Battle In Outer Space"
1 AM Movie: "Mothra"
2:30 Help Yourself
WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS)
7 AM Gilligan's Island
7:30 Laurel And Hardy
8 AM All-New Popeye Hour
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12 N Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Juke-Box
1:30 Southern Sportsman
2 PM NFL Football: Bears-Saints
5 PM Golf: Sammy Davis Jr. Greater Hartford
Open (third round, time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Bad News Bears
8:30 Stockard Channing In Just Friends
9 PM Burl Ives' America
9:30 NFL Football: Redskins-Broncos
12:30 Movie: "Where Have All The People
Gone?" (time approximate)
WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (ABC)
6:15 Mr. Magoo
6:30 Flipper
7 AM Kids Are People Too
8 AM Fangface
8:30 Scooby's All-Stars
10 AM Superfriends
11:30 Kidsworld
12 N Pink Panther
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Movie: "Those Fantastic Flying
Fools"
3:30 Movie: "Patterns"
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 News
7 PM Bugs Bunny
7:30 1979 College Bowl Championship
(Sydney Sussex College of Cambridge
University vs. Davidson College--near
Charlotte--in a one-night revival of
"GE College Bowl.")
8 PM Love Boat
10 PM Fantasy Island
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Doberman Gang"
1:30 ABC News
WIS Ch. 10 Columbia, SC (NBC)
6:45 Davey And Goliath
7 AM Viewpoint On Nutrition
7:30 Mr. Knozit
8 AM Alvin And The Chipmunks
8:30 Fantastic Four
9 AM Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM New Fred And Barney Show
11:30 Jetsons
12 N Buford And The Galloping Ghost
12:30 Fabulous Funnies
1 PM WCT Tennis: Jimmy Connors vs.
Adriano Panatta
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Pirates-Phillies
5 PM AAU Junior Olympics (time approximate)
6:30 NBC News
7 PM News
7:30 Awareness
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM Sword Of Justice
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Dance
1:30 Ironside
2:30 With This Ring
WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (CBS)
6:30 Summer Semester: "Disabilities"
7 AM Superman
7:30 My Three Sons
8 AM All-New Popeye Hour
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12 N Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Soul Train
2 PM NFL Football: Bears-Saints
5 PM Golf: Sammy Davis Jr. Greater Hartford
Open (third round, time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 Reflections
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Bad News Bears
8:30 Stockard Channing In Just Friends
9 PM CBS Movie: "Mixed Company"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Birds Of Prey"
WCTI Ch. 12 New Bern (ABC)
6 AM Cystic Fibrosis Telethon (from 11 PM
Friday)
6:30 PM Nashville On The Road
7 PM Wrestling
8 PM Love Boat
10 PM Fantasy Island
11 PM Will's Red-Eye Cinema
11:05 Movie: "Pocketful Of Miracles"
1:05 Movie: "Billie"
WXII Ch. 12 Winston-Salem (NBC)
6:30 For You...Black Woman
7 AM Scrunch
7:30 Big Blue Marble
8 AM Alvin And The Chipmunks
8:30 Fantastic Four
9 AM Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM New Fred And Barney Show
11:30 Jetsons
12 N Buford And The Galloping Ghost
12:30 Fabulous Funnies
1 PM Wrestling (Mid-Atlantic)
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Pirates-Phillies
5 PM AAU Junior Olympics (time approximate)
6:30 News
7 PM Report To The People
7:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
8 PM NFL Football: Colts-Browns (preseason)
(Colts network)
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM WCT Tennis: Bjorn Borg vs. Geoff Masters
2 AM Win The Jam (music, not roller derby)
WBTW Ch. 13 Florence, SC (CBS/ABC)
6:50 Puppet Love
7 AM What's New, Mr. Magoo?
7:30 Clue Club
8 AM All-New Popeye Hour
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12 N Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Happening (public affairs)
1:30 Involvement (more public affairs)
2 PM NFL Football: Bears-Saints
5 PM Wrestling (time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Bad News Bears
8:30 Stockard Channing In Just Friends
9 PM CBS Movie: "Mixed Company"
11 PM News
11:30 Soap Factory Disco
12 M Soul Train
1 AM Movie: TBA
WTCG (WPCH) Ch. 17 Atlanta (Ind.)
5:20 World At Large
6:10 Human Dimension
6:40 News
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8 AM Ultra Man
8:30 Partridge Family
9 AM Star Trek
10 AM Movie: "The Buccaneer"
12:30 Movie: "The Funniest Man In The
World" (retrospective on Charlie Chaplin)
2:30 Movie: "Maryjane" (title refers to marijuana)
4:30 Rat Patrol
5 PM American Angler Club
5:30 This Week In Baseball
6 PM Wrestling (Georgia)
8 PM Hee Haw Honeys
8:30 Marty Robbins' Spotlight
9 PM Dolly
9:30 That Nashville Music
10 PM Pop Goes The Country
10:30 Nashville On The Road
11 PM Porter Wagoner
11:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
1 AM Juke-Box
1:30 Movie: "The Great Manhunt"
4 AM Avengers
5 AM Dragnet
WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (Ind.)
6 AM News
6:30 Forum
7 AM Groovie Goolies
8 AM Spider-Man
8:30 Battle Of The Planets
9 AM Movie: "Two Flags West"
11 AM Movie: "See My Lawyer"
12 N Movie: "Rebecca Of Sunnybrook
Farm"
2 PM Movie: "The Pride Of St. Louis"
4 PM Movie: "Home Of The Brave"
6 PM Bonanza
7 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
7:30 Real McCoys
8 PM Spartacade
9:30 NFL Football: Redskins-Broncos
12:30 Movie: "The View From Pompey's
Head" (time approximate)
2 AM Movie: "Hot Line"
3:30 Movie: "Violent Saturday"
5 AM Movie: "I Cover The Underworld"
WDCA Ch. 20 Washington, DC (Ind.)
5:25 Agricultural Update
5:30 Consultation
6 AM PTL Club
7 AM Get Smart
7:30 God's Great News
8 AM Jimmy Swaggart
8:30 PTL Club
9:30 Get Smart
10 AM Ernest Angley
11 AM Wrestling (WWF)
12 N Three Stooges
12:30 Movie: "Abbott And Costello
Meet The Mummy"
2 PM Movie: "The Night The World
Exploded"
3:30 Bewitched
4 PM Mothers-In-Law
4:30 Emergency One!
5:30 In Search Of...
6 PM Star Trek
7 PM Space: 1999
8 PM Movie: "Journey To The Center
Of The Earth"
10 PM Challenge (discussion)
10:30 Petey Greene's Washington
11 PM Movie: "Invisible Invaders"
12:30 700 Club
WPTF (WRDC) Ch. 28 Durham (NBC)
7:30 Bay City Rollers
8 AM Alvin And The Chipmunks
8:30 PTL Club
10:30 Jerry Falwell
11:30 Black Forum
12 N Buford And The Galloping Ghost
12:30 Fabulous Funnies
1 PM The Racers
1:30 That Nashville Music
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Pirates-Phillies
5 PM Spartacade (time approximate)
6:30 Wild Kingdom
7 PM In Search Of...
7:30 Muppet Show
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM Sword Of Justice
11 PM Second City Television Network
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Movie: "Donovan's Brain"
WRET (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (NBC)
7 AM Three Stooges & Pals
7:30 Bay City Rollers
8 AM Alvin & The Chipmunks
8:30 Fantastic Four
9 AM Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM New Fred And Barney Show
11:30 Jetsons
12 N Buford And The Galloping Ghost
12:30 Fabulous Funnies
1 PM Wrestling (World Wide)
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Phillies-Pirates
5 PM AAU Junior Olympics (time approximate)
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Kicks (disco music)
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM James Robison Tonight!
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Star Trek
2 AM Movie: "The Bamboo Saucer"
3:30 Movie: "Affair In Havana"
5 AM Movie: "Jack Slade"
WTVI Ch. 42 Charlotte (PBS)
4 PM Prime Time (I didn't know--or had
forgotten--that Don McNeill hosted
this show, one of his few forays into
television.)
4:30 Cinema Showcase
5 PM Consumer Survival Kit
5:30 Here's To Your Health
6 PM Julia Child & Company
6:30 Another Voice
7 PM Pro Soccer (no details given)
8 PM Meeting Of Minds
9 PM Pete Seeger And Arlo Guthrie In
Concert (isn't this usually the stuff
of pledge week?)
sign off 11 PM
"on this day" basis, since I'm going to be out of town
August 11. From TV Guide, North Carolina Edition:
WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS)
7 AM Hot Fudge
7:30 Battle Of The Planets
8 AM All New Popeye Hour
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12 N Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Kidsworld
1:30 CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM NFL Football: Bears-Saints (preseason)
5 PM Golf: Sammy Davis Jr. Greater Hartford
Open (third round, time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Bad News Bears
8:30 Stockard Channing In Just Friends
9 PM Unicorn Tales
9:30 NFL Football: Redskins-Broncos (preseason,
Redskins network)
12:30 Movie: "The Chapman Report" (time approximate)
E (WUND/2 Columbia, NC/Edenton; WUNC/4 Chapel Hill;
WUNK/25 Greenville, NC; WUNL/26 Winston-Salem;
WUNJ/39 Wilmington, NC; WUNG/58 Concord, NC) (PBS)
5 PM Firing Line
6 PM The Advocates
7 PM Evening At Pops
8 PM Poldark (Part 6)
9 PM From The Grand Ole Opry (Part 1, taped
in March 1979)
sign off 12:30 AM
WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)
7 AM Treehouse Club
7:30 Marlo And The Magic Movie Machine
8 AM All-New Popeye Hour
9 AM Boys Town Auction (to benefit Boys Town
of North Carolina)
6 PM News
6:10 Auction continues
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Catch-22"
1:30 With This Ring
WWAY Ch. 3 Wilmington (ABC)
7 AM Kids Are People Too
8 AM Fangface
8:30 Scooby's All-Stars
10 AM Superfriends
11:30 Bigfoot And Wildboy
12 N Gilligan's Island
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Special Report On Physical
Fitness
2 PM NFL Football: Bears-Saints
(it's a CBS telecast, but CBS
had no affiliate in Wilmington
at the time)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports: about the
increased interest in gymnastics
because of Olga Korbut, Nadia
Comaneci, and Kurt Thomas (time
approximate)
6:30 Dolly
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Love Boat
10 PM Jack Van Impe Special: "The Sexual
Revolution" (interesting choice of guest:
Col. Sanders)
11 PM ABC News (Lynn Sherr)
11:15 That Nashville Music
11:45 Arthur Smith
12:15 Wrestling (either Mid-Atlantic or World
Wide, no doubt)
WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (ABC)
7 AM Kids Are People Too
8 AM Fangface
8:30 Scooby's All-Stars
10 AM Superfriends
11:30 Bigfoot And Wildboy
12 N Pink Panther
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Frolics (sort of a local "Soul Train")
2 PM Movie: "Hunters Of The Wild"
4 PM Wild Wild World Of Animals
4:30 Southern Sportsman
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 News
7 PM Harambee (public-affairs show aimed
at the black community)
7:30 Aware (more of the same)
8 PM Movie: "Wonder Woman" (Cathy Lee
Crosby, not Lynda Carter, has the title
role, and she doesn't wear the traditional
outfit.)
9:30 NFL Football: Redskins-Broncos
12:30 Wrestling (Mid-Atlantic, time approximate)
WTTG Ch. 5 Washington, DC (Ind.)
6:30 Vegetable Soup
7 AM Casper
7:30 Newsbag
8 AM Dennis The Menace
8:30 Partridge Family
9 AM Family Affair
9:30 Leave It To Beaver
10 AM I Love Lucy
10:30 Juke-Box (Twiggy hosted this one.)
11 AM Movie: "One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing"
1 PM Movie: "My Darling Clementine"
3 PM Movie: "The Public Eye"
4:30 Family Fun Time
5 PM Soul Train
6 PM Kicks (disco show)
7 PM Soap Factory Disco (2 episodes)
8 PM Spartacade (sports event from the USSR--
this is before the U.S. boycotted the 1980
Moscow Olympics)
9:30 Jack Benny
10 PM News
10:30 Black Reflections
11 PM Odd Couple
11:30 Movie: "Romance Of A Horsethief"
1:30 Movie: "The Canterville Ghost"
3:30 Movie: "Cry Havoc"
WECT Ch. 6 Wilmington (NBC)
7 AM Hot Fudge
7:30 Big Blue Marble
8 AM Alvin And The Chipmunks (this may
be the original, because I don't think
new episodes were made until the
early '80s)
8:30 Fantastic Four
9 AM Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM New Fred And Barney Show
11:30 Jetsons
12 N Buford And The Galloping Ghost
12:30 Family Funtime U.S.A.
1 PM Six Million Dollar Man
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Brewers-Red Sox
5 PM Lawrence Welk (time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (John Hart)
7 PM Muppet Show
7:30 Mary Tyler Moore
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM Sword Of Justice
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (host Gary Busey,
musical guests Eubie Blake and Gregory
Hines)
1 AM Movie: "Three Strangers"
WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC)
6:30 Better Way
7 AM Treehouse Club
7:30 Bay City Rollers
8 AM Alvin And The Chipmunks
8:30 Fantastic Four
9 AM Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM New Fred And Barney Show
11:30 Jetsons
12 N Buford And The Galloping Ghost
12:30 Fabulous Funnies
1 PM Wrestling
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Brewers-Red Sox
5 PM AAU Junior Olympics (time approximate)
6:30 News
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM Sword Of Justice
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Christopher Closeup
1:15 News
WGHP Ch. 8 High Point (ABC)
6 AM Tennessee Tuxedo
6:30 Devlin
7 AM Marlo And The Magic Movie
Machine
7:30 Jetsons (Ch. 8 got this from the
DFS Program Exchange; this is
not the show airing later on NBC.)
8 AM Fangface
8:30 Scooby's All-Stars
10 AM Superfriends
11:30 Bigfoot And Wildboy
12 N Pink Panther
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Soul Train
2:30 Donna Fargo (2 episodes)
3:30 Hee Haw Honeys
4 PM Wrestling (World Wide)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 American Life Style
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Love Boat
10 PM Fantasy Island
11 PM News
11:15 ABC News
11:30 Movie: "Battle In Outer Space"
1 AM Movie: "Mothra"
2:30 Help Yourself
WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS)
7 AM Gilligan's Island
7:30 Laurel And Hardy
8 AM All-New Popeye Hour
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12 N Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Juke-Box
1:30 Southern Sportsman
2 PM NFL Football: Bears-Saints
5 PM Golf: Sammy Davis Jr. Greater Hartford
Open (third round, time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Bad News Bears
8:30 Stockard Channing In Just Friends
9 PM Burl Ives' America
9:30 NFL Football: Redskins-Broncos
12:30 Movie: "Where Have All The People
Gone?" (time approximate)
WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (ABC)
6:15 Mr. Magoo
6:30 Flipper
7 AM Kids Are People Too
8 AM Fangface
8:30 Scooby's All-Stars
10 AM Superfriends
11:30 Kidsworld
12 N Pink Panther
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Movie: "Those Fantastic Flying
Fools"
3:30 Movie: "Patterns"
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 News
7 PM Bugs Bunny
7:30 1979 College Bowl Championship
(Sydney Sussex College of Cambridge
University vs. Davidson College--near
Charlotte--in a one-night revival of
"GE College Bowl.")
8 PM Love Boat
10 PM Fantasy Island
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Doberman Gang"
1:30 ABC News
WIS Ch. 10 Columbia, SC (NBC)
6:45 Davey And Goliath
7 AM Viewpoint On Nutrition
7:30 Mr. Knozit
8 AM Alvin And The Chipmunks
8:30 Fantastic Four
9 AM Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM New Fred And Barney Show
11:30 Jetsons
12 N Buford And The Galloping Ghost
12:30 Fabulous Funnies
1 PM WCT Tennis: Jimmy Connors vs.
Adriano Panatta
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Pirates-Phillies
5 PM AAU Junior Olympics (time approximate)
6:30 NBC News
7 PM News
7:30 Awareness
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM Sword Of Justice
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Dance
1:30 Ironside
2:30 With This Ring
WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (CBS)
6:30 Summer Semester: "Disabilities"
7 AM Superman
7:30 My Three Sons
8 AM All-New Popeye Hour
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12 N Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Soul Train
2 PM NFL Football: Bears-Saints
5 PM Golf: Sammy Davis Jr. Greater Hartford
Open (third round, time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 Reflections
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Bad News Bears
8:30 Stockard Channing In Just Friends
9 PM CBS Movie: "Mixed Company"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Birds Of Prey"
WCTI Ch. 12 New Bern (ABC)
6 AM Cystic Fibrosis Telethon (from 11 PM
Friday)
6:30 PM Nashville On The Road
7 PM Wrestling
8 PM Love Boat
10 PM Fantasy Island
11 PM Will's Red-Eye Cinema
11:05 Movie: "Pocketful Of Miracles"
1:05 Movie: "Billie"
WXII Ch. 12 Winston-Salem (NBC)
6:30 For You...Black Woman
7 AM Scrunch
7:30 Big Blue Marble
8 AM Alvin And The Chipmunks
8:30 Fantastic Four
9 AM Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM New Fred And Barney Show
11:30 Jetsons
12 N Buford And The Galloping Ghost
12:30 Fabulous Funnies
1 PM Wrestling (Mid-Atlantic)
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Pirates-Phillies
5 PM AAU Junior Olympics (time approximate)
6:30 News
7 PM Report To The People
7:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
8 PM NFL Football: Colts-Browns (preseason)
(Colts network)
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM WCT Tennis: Bjorn Borg vs. Geoff Masters
2 AM Win The Jam (music, not roller derby)
WBTW Ch. 13 Florence, SC (CBS/ABC)
6:50 Puppet Love
7 AM What's New, Mr. Magoo?
7:30 Clue Club
8 AM All-New Popeye Hour
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12 N Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Happening (public affairs)
1:30 Involvement (more public affairs)
2 PM NFL Football: Bears-Saints
5 PM Wrestling (time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Bad News Bears
8:30 Stockard Channing In Just Friends
9 PM CBS Movie: "Mixed Company"
11 PM News
11:30 Soap Factory Disco
12 M Soul Train
1 AM Movie: TBA
WTCG (WPCH) Ch. 17 Atlanta (Ind.)
5:20 World At Large
6:10 Human Dimension
6:40 News
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8 AM Ultra Man
8:30 Partridge Family
9 AM Star Trek
10 AM Movie: "The Buccaneer"
12:30 Movie: "The Funniest Man In The
World" (retrospective on Charlie Chaplin)
2:30 Movie: "Maryjane" (title refers to marijuana)
4:30 Rat Patrol
5 PM American Angler Club
5:30 This Week In Baseball
6 PM Wrestling (Georgia)
8 PM Hee Haw Honeys
8:30 Marty Robbins' Spotlight
9 PM Dolly
9:30 That Nashville Music
10 PM Pop Goes The Country
10:30 Nashville On The Road
11 PM Porter Wagoner
11:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
1 AM Juke-Box
1:30 Movie: "The Great Manhunt"
4 AM Avengers
5 AM Dragnet
WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (Ind.)
6 AM News
6:30 Forum
7 AM Groovie Goolies
8 AM Spider-Man
8:30 Battle Of The Planets
9 AM Movie: "Two Flags West"
11 AM Movie: "See My Lawyer"
12 N Movie: "Rebecca Of Sunnybrook
Farm"
2 PM Movie: "The Pride Of St. Louis"
4 PM Movie: "Home Of The Brave"
6 PM Bonanza
7 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
7:30 Real McCoys
8 PM Spartacade
9:30 NFL Football: Redskins-Broncos
12:30 Movie: "The View From Pompey's
Head" (time approximate)
2 AM Movie: "Hot Line"
3:30 Movie: "Violent Saturday"
5 AM Movie: "I Cover The Underworld"
WDCA Ch. 20 Washington, DC (Ind.)
5:25 Agricultural Update
5:30 Consultation
6 AM PTL Club
7 AM Get Smart
7:30 God's Great News
8 AM Jimmy Swaggart
8:30 PTL Club
9:30 Get Smart
10 AM Ernest Angley
11 AM Wrestling (WWF)
12 N Three Stooges
12:30 Movie: "Abbott And Costello
Meet The Mummy"
2 PM Movie: "The Night The World
Exploded"
3:30 Bewitched
4 PM Mothers-In-Law
4:30 Emergency One!
5:30 In Search Of...
6 PM Star Trek
7 PM Space: 1999
8 PM Movie: "Journey To The Center
Of The Earth"
10 PM Challenge (discussion)
10:30 Petey Greene's Washington
11 PM Movie: "Invisible Invaders"
12:30 700 Club
WPTF (WRDC) Ch. 28 Durham (NBC)
7:30 Bay City Rollers
8 AM Alvin And The Chipmunks
8:30 PTL Club
10:30 Jerry Falwell
11:30 Black Forum
12 N Buford And The Galloping Ghost
12:30 Fabulous Funnies
1 PM The Racers
1:30 That Nashville Music
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Pirates-Phillies
5 PM Spartacade (time approximate)
6:30 Wild Kingdom
7 PM In Search Of...
7:30 Muppet Show
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM Sword Of Justice
11 PM Second City Television Network
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Movie: "Donovan's Brain"
WRET (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (NBC)
7 AM Three Stooges & Pals
7:30 Bay City Rollers
8 AM Alvin & The Chipmunks
8:30 Fantastic Four
9 AM Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM New Fred And Barney Show
11:30 Jetsons
12 N Buford And The Galloping Ghost
12:30 Fabulous Funnies
1 PM Wrestling (World Wide)
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Phillies-Pirates
5 PM AAU Junior Olympics (time approximate)
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Kicks (disco music)
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM James Robison Tonight!
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Star Trek
2 AM Movie: "The Bamboo Saucer"
3:30 Movie: "Affair In Havana"
5 AM Movie: "Jack Slade"
WTVI Ch. 42 Charlotte (PBS)
4 PM Prime Time (I didn't know--or had
forgotten--that Don McNeill hosted
this show, one of his few forays into
television.)
4:30 Cinema Showcase
5 PM Consumer Survival Kit
5:30 Here's To Your Health
6 PM Julia Child & Company
6:30 Another Voice
7 PM Pro Soccer (no details given)
8 PM Meeting Of Minds
9 PM Pete Seeger And Arlo Guthrie In
Concert (isn't this usually the stuff
of pledge week?)
sign off 11 PM
