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Retro: North Carolina Saturday, November 4, 1978

From TV Guide, North Carolina Edition:

WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS)

7 AM Hot Fudge
7:30 Kidsworld
8 AM All-New Popeye Hour
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12 N Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Ark II
1:30 30 Minutes
2 PM Do-It-Yourself With Homer Formby
2:30 Wild Wild West
3:30 Nashville On The Road
4 PM Pop! Goes The Country
4:30 That Nashville Music
5 PM Next Step Beyond (attempt to revive
One Step Beyond--maybe because this
one was in color it wasn't as scary)
5:30 Two's Company (nothing to do with
Three's Company--that was on Ch. 8--
but a local public-affairs show)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 CBS Movie: "The Poseidon Adventure"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Tom Jones"

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

4 PM Guten Tag In Deutschland
4:30 Guten Tag Wie Geht's
5 PM Studio See
5:30 Freestyle
6 PM Discovering Scouting
6:30 Black Perspective On The News
7 PM North Carolina String Quartet
8 PM Once Upon A Classic: "Dominic"
(Part 5)
8:30 Julia Child & Company
9 PM The Pallisers (Part 10)
10 PM Evening With Chuck Mangione
sign off 12 Midnight

WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)

7 AM Treehouse Club
7:30 What's New, Mr. Magoo?
8 AM All-New Popeye Hour
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12 N Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Ark II
1:30 30 Minutes
2 PM Movie: "Tarzan's Revenge"
3:30 Wrestling
4:30 That Nashville Music
5 PM Pop! Goes The Country
5:30 Hee Haw Honeys
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 CBS Movie: "The Poseidon Adventure"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Firecreek" (ironically, about a
week before this I noticed another
CBS affiliate, WKYT/27 Lexington,
carrying this movie in the same time slot)
1:30 With This Ring

WWAY Ch. 3 Wilmington (ABC)

7 AM Kids Are People Too
8 AM Scooby's All-Stars
9:30 Superfriends
11 AM Fangface
11:30 Pink Panther
12 N Superman
12:30 College Football Pre-Game Show
12:45 College Football: Maryland at
Penn State
4 PM College Football: Teams TBA (time
approximate)
7 PM Hee Haw (time approximate)
8 PM Love Boat
9:30 Fantasy Island
11 PM ABC News (Sylvia Chase/Tom Jarriel)
11:15 That Nashville Music
11:45 Arthur Smith
12:15 Political Talk (off-year elections on
Tuesday, November 7)
12:20 Wrestling

WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (ABC)

6:50 Scouting News
7 AM Kids Are People Too
8 AM Scooby's All-Stars
9:30 Superfriends
11 AM Fangface
11:30 Pink Panther
12 N Teenage Frolics
12:30 College Football Pre-Game Show
12:45 College Football: Maryland at
Penn State
4 PM College Football: Teams TBA (time
approximate)
7 PM Aware (time approximate)
7:30 Harambee
8 PM Love Boat
9:30 Fantasy Island
11 PM News
11:15 ABC News
11:30 Wrestling
12:30 Baretta (delay from Friday 11:30)

WTTG Ch. 5 Washington, DC (Ind.)

6:30 Vegetable Soup
7 AM Casper
7:30 Newbag
8 AM Porky Pig
8:30 Jetsons
9 AM Flintstones
9:30 Laurel And Hardy
10 AM Movie: "Flying Leathernecks"
12 N Movie: "The Underground Man"
2 PM Movie: "Fuzz"
3:30 Gong Show (2 episodes)
4:30 Twiggy's Jukebox
5 PM Soul Train
6 PM Six Million Dollar Man
7 PM Andy Griffith
7:30 Brady Bunch
8 PM Movie: "Singin' In The Rain"
10 PM News
10:30 Black Reflections
11 PM Gong Show
11:30 Movie: "Two Mules For Sister
Sara"
1:30 Movie: "The Wheeler Dealers"
3:30 Movie: "You Can't Escape Forever"
5 AM Movie: "The Affairs Of Annabel"
(with Lucille Ball)

WECT Ch. 6 Wilmington (NBC)

7 AM Hot Fudge
7:30 Big Blue Marble
8 AM Galaxy Goof-Ups
8:30 Fantastic Four
9 AM Godzilla Super 90 (includes
"Jonny Quest" and "Jana Of
The Jungle")
10:30 Daffy Duck (premiere)
11 AM Yogi's Space Race
12 N Fabulous Funnies
12:30 Bay City Rollers
1 PM Movie: "Double Trouble" (Elvis
Presley)
3 PM Movie: "The Outside Man'
5 PM Lawrence Welk
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Muppet Show
7:30 Closer Look
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM Centennial
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (host Steve
Martin, musical guest Van Morrison)

WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC)

7 AM Better Way
7:30 Treehouse Club
8 AM Galaxy Goof-Ups
8:30 Fantastic Four
9 AM Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM Yogi's Space Race
12 N Fabulous Funnies
12:30 Bay City Rollers
1 PM Movie: "Batman" (from '66)
3 PM Ironside
4 PM Family Affair
4:30 Lone Ranger
5 PM Wrestling
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM Centennial
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Christopher Closeup
1:15 Alcoholics Anonymous
1:25 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
8 AM Scooby's All-Stars
9:30 Superfriends
11 AM TBA
11:30 Pink Panther
12 N ABC Weekend Special:
"Little Lulu"
12:30 College Football Pre-Game Show
12:45 College Football: Maryland at
Penn State
4 PM College Football: Teams TBA
(time approximate)
7 PM Lawrence Welk (time approximate)
8 PM Love Boat
9:30 Fantasy Island
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Dracula" (the original with
Bela Lugosi, from '31)
1 AM Movie: "Son Of Dracula"
2:30 ABC News
2:45 Help Yourself

WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS)

7 AM Tarzan (Ron Ely)
8 AM All-New Popeye Hour
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12 N Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Ark II
1:30 30 Minutes
2 PM PTL Club
3 PM Hee Haw Honeys
3:30 Porter Wagoner
4 PM Horse Racing: Washington, DC,
International, from Laurel, MD
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular: Howard
Davis Jr. vs. Luis Davila, lightweights,
10 rounds from Atlantic City
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 CBS Movie: "The Poseidon Adventure"
11 PM News
11:30 Juke-Box
12 M Movie: "The Moon Is Blue"

WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (ABC)

6:15 Mr. Magoo
6:30 Batman (Adam West)
7 AM Kids Are People Too
8 AM Scooby's All-Stars
9:30 Superfriends
11 AM Fangface
11:30 Kidsworld
12 N ABC Weekend Special
12:30 College Football Pre-Game Show
12:45 College Football: Maryland at
Penn State
4 PM College Football: Teams TBA
(time approximate)
7 PM Gong Show
7:30 Hollywood Squares
8 PM Love Boat
9:30 Fantasy Island
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "They Call Me Trinity"
1:30 ABC News

WIS Ch. 10 Columbia, SC (NBC)

6:15 With This Ring
6:30 Viewpoint On Nutrition
7 AM Kidsworld
7:30 Mr. Knozit
8 AM Galaxy Goof-Ups
8:30 Fantastic Four
9 AM Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM Yogi's Space Race
12 N Fabulous Funnies
12:30 Bay City Rollers
1 PM Dance
1:30 That Nashville Music
2 PM Movie: "Masquerade"
4 PM Who's Watching The Kids?
(delayed from Friday 8:30)
4:30 Movie: "The Wayfarers" (the
edited episodes of "Lassie"
when Ranger Cory Stuart became
her (his?) owner)
6 PM Wild Kingdom
6:30 NBC News
7 PM News
7:30 Awareness
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM Centennial
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Dance
1:30 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
2 AM With This Ring

WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (CBS)

6:30 Sunrise Semester: "American
Character"
7 AM Superman
7:30 Let's Look At...
8 AM All-New Popeye Hour
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
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 Movie: "Send Me No Flowers"
4 PM Horse Racing
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
6 PM Black Unlimited
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 CBS Movie: "The Poseidon Adventure"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Birds"
1:30 Curious Kaleidoscope

WCTI Ch. 12 New Bern (ABC)

5:45 Telestory
6 AM The Archies (2 episodes)
7 AM Animals, Animals, Animals
7:30 Marlo And The Magic Movie
Machine
8 AM Scooby's All-Stars
9:30 Superfriends
11 AM Fangface
11:30 Pink Panther
12 N ABC Weekend Special
12:30 College Football Pre-Game Show
12:45 College Football: Maryland at
Penn State
4 PM College Football: Teams TBA
(time approximate)
7 PM Wrestling (time approximate)
8 PM Love Boat
9:30 Fantasy Island
11 PM Will C's Red-Eye Cinema
11:15 Movie: "Tony Rome"
12:45 Movie: "Lady In Cement"

WXII Ch. 12 Winston-Salem (NBC)

6 AM For You...Black Woman
6:30 Scrunch
7 AM Big Blue Marble
7:30 Vegetable Soup
8 AM Galaxy Goof-Ups
8:30 Fantastic Four
9 AM Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM Yogi's Space Race
12 N Fabulous Funnies
12:30 Bay City Rollers
1 PM Wrestling
2 PM 12 O'Clock High
3 PM Rat Patrol
3:30 Man From U.N.C.L.E.
4:30 Ironside
5:30 Who's Watching The Kids?
6 PM News
6:30 Report To The People
7 PM $100,000 Name That Tune
7:30 Match Game PM
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM Centennial
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live

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

7 AM What's New, Mr. Magoo?
7:30 Clue Club
8 AM All-New Popeye Hour
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12 N Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Ark II
1:30 30 Minutes
2 PM Wrestling
3 PM Soul Train
4 PM Happening (public affairs)
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 CBS Movie: "The Poseidon Adventure"
11 PM News
11:30 Good Morning Jesus
12:30 Power Hour Of Deliverance
1 AM Movie: "Sicilian Connection"

WTCG (WPCH) Ch. 17 Atlanta (Ind.)

5:25 World At Large
6:10 Discovery (I think these were
reruns of the ABC series)
6:40 News
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8 AM Ultra Man
8:30 Partridge Family
9 AM Star Trek (soon to move to
Ch. 11 in Atlanta amid great
fanfare)
10 AM Movie: "Moulin Rouge"
12:30 Movie: "The Naked Prey"
2:30 Movie: "The Barbarian And
The Geisha"
4:30 Wanted: Dead Or Alive
5 PM Mission: Impossible
6 PM Wrestling
8 PM NHL Hockey: Atlanta Flames
at Montreal Canadiens
10:30 Dolly (time approximate)
11 PM The Love Experts (an unlikely
game-show vehicle for Bill
Cullen)
11:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
1 AM Twiggy's Jukebox
1:30 Movie: "Z"
4 AM Maverick
5 AM Wanted: Dead Or Alive

WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (Ind.)

6:30 News
7 AM Hot Fudge
7:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
8 AM Mighty Mouse
8:30 Spider-Man
9 AM Super Heroes
9:30 Movie: "Planet On The Prowl"
11 AM This Is The NFL
11:30 NFL Game Of The Week
12 N Bo Rein: Highlights of NC State-
South Carolina
12:30 Mike McGee: Highlights of
Duke-Tennessee
1 PM Soul Train
2 PM Movie: "O.S.S."
4 PM Movie: "The Lives Of A Bengal
Lancer"
6 PM Bonanza
7 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
7:30 Real McCoys
8 PM Dolly
8:30 Marty Robbins' Spotlight
9 PM Nashville On The Road
9:30 Porter Wagoner
10 PM Wrestling
11 PM Movie: "Cinderella Liberty"
1 AM Movie: "Casanova In Burlesque"
3:30 Movie: "Guest Wife"
5:30 Movie: "Web Of The Spider"

WDCA Ch. 20 Washington, DC (Ind.)

5:25 Agricultural Update
5:30 Consultation
6 AM PTL Club
7 AM Do-It-Yourself With Homer
Formby
7:30 God's Good News
8 AM Breath Of Life
8:30 PTL Club
9:30 Oral Roberts
10 AM Rex Humbard
11 AM Wrestling
12 N Wild Kingdom
12:30 Movie: "Comin' Round The
Mountain"
2 PM Movie: "World Without End"
3:30 Bewitched
4 PM Courtship Of Eddie's Father
4:30 Emergency One!
5:30 In Search Of...
6 PM Star Trek
7 PM Space: 1999
8 PM NHL Hockey: Washington Capitals
at New York Islanders
10:30 Petey Greene's Washington (time
approximate)
11 PM Movie: "The Crimson Cult"
1 AM 700 Club

WPTF (WRDC) Ch. 28 Durham (NBC)

8 AM Cliffwood Avenue Kids
8:30 PTL Club
10:30 Jerry Falwell
11:30 Tom Brown's Schooldays
12 N Fabulous Funnies
12:30 Bay City Rollers
1 PM Mothers-In-Law
1:30 Black Forum
2 PM Movie: "Irene"
4 PM Movie: "China Clipper"
5:30 That Nashville Music
6 PM In The Public Interest
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Wild Kingdom
7:30 In Search Of...
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM Centennial
11 PM Second City TV
11:30 Saturday Night Live

WRET (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (NBC)

7 AM Go
7:30 Vegetable Soup
8 AM Galaxy Goof-Ups
8:30 Fantastic Four
9 AM Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM Yogi's Space Race
12 N Fabulous Funnies
12:30 Bay City Rollers
1 PM Wrestling
2 PM Movie: "Bandolero!"
4 PM Movie: "McHale's Navy
Joins The Air Force"
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM World At War
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM Centennial
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Movie: "Duffy"
2:30 Movie: "The Left Handed Gun"
4 AM Movie: "The Deadly Affair"

WTVI Ch. 42 Charlotte (PBS)

7 PM Pro Soccer
8 PM Once Upon A Classic
8:30 Place In Time
9 PM Evening With Chuck Mangione
sign off 11 PM
 
bpatrick said:
WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (ABC)

12 N Teenage Frolics

7:30 Harambee

With these two shows in addition to his editorial work for WRAL, J.D. Lewis I believe became one of the most prominent black TV personalities in the Triangle, save maybe for WTVD's Ervin Hester.

bpatrick said:
WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (CBS)

1:30 Curious Kaleidoscope

I know I asked a similar question on a previous post, but what was this show about?
 
bpatrick said:
From TV Guide, North Carolina Edition:

WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS)

12 N Space Academy
5 PM Next Step Beyond (attempt to revive
One Step Beyond--maybe because this
one was in color it wasn't as scary)


WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)

12 N Space Academy
3:30 Wrestling

WWAY Ch. 3 Wilmington (ABC)

12:20 Wrestling

WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (ABC)

11:30 Wrestling

WTTG Ch. 5 Washington, DC (Ind.)

4:30 Twiggy's Jukebox

WECT Ch. 6 Wilmington (NBC)

12:30 Bay City Rollers

WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC)

12:30 Bay City Rollers
5 PM Wrestling

WGHP Ch. 8 High Point (ABC)

7 AM Marlo And The Magic Movie
Machine
11:30 Movie: "Dracula" (the original with
Bela Lugosi, from '31)

WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS)

12 N Space Academy
11:30 Juke-Box


WIS Ch. 10 Columbia, SC (NBC)

12:30 Bay City Rollers

WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (CBS)

12 N Space Academy

WCTI Ch. 12 New Bern (ABC)

7:30 Marlo And The Magic Movie
Machine
7 PM Wrestling (time approximate)

WXII Ch. 12 Winston-Salem (NBC)

12:30 Bay City Rollers
1 PM Wrestling

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

12 N Space Academy
2 PM Wrestling

WTCG (WPCH) Ch. 17 Atlanta (Ind.)

6 PM Wrestling
1 AM Twiggy's Jukebox

WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (Ind.)

10 PM Wrestling

WDCA Ch. 20 Washington, DC (Ind.)

11 AM Wrestling

WPTF (WRDC) Ch. 28 Durham (NBC)

12:30 Bay City Rollers
1 PM Mothers-In-Law

WRET (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (NBC)

12:30 Bay City Rollers
1 PM Wrestling
7 PM World At War

..."Space Academy" was, IIRC, Pamelyn Ferdin's last crack at series television before retiring to the world of medicine and animal welfare activism. And it also had James Doohan in a space opera without that Scots accent that would never fool anyone on the other side of the Atlantic ;-) ...

...perhaps "Next Step Beyond" would have worked if they called the thing "Alcoa Presents Again"? No? Okeh, never mind...

...I know that the WTCG wrestling was Georgia Championship, and I'm assuming the WDCA wrestling was WWWF from New York. Would all the rest be Crockett's Mid-Atlantic NWA affiliate?...

..."Twiggy's Jukebox" was a rather odd item. American International Pictures TV had acquired the U.S. rights to "SuperSonic," a marvelous little glam rock series produced a few years earlier by London Weekend in the UK (a synopsis of the October 25, 1975 broadcast is on the British Film Institute's website at http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/631854?view=synopsis). The original series had run in the U.S. in syndication in '76 and '77 (I caught it on Friday nights on both WFLD/32 Chicago and WLUK/11 Green Bay during that run). Seeing that Twiggy had appeared on the program a few times, someone at AIPTV got the idea of having her do links inbetween assorted performances from different episodes and put out a dozen weeks' worth of the show. Interesting problem -- very few of the songs performed had been hits in the United States, and of those that had been (for example, David Essex's "Rock On"), the hits were often five or six years old by this time. Thus, what we got in '78-'79 was a batch of British rock bands that were no longer together being introduced by a model-turned-singer whose two albums of the period stiffed badly in the United States. "Twiggy's Jukebox" was on WISN-TV/12 Milwaukee doring the '78-'79 season. In '79, "Jukebox" (sans Twiggy) became a standard music video clip show with links by Britt Ekland (recently split from Rod Stewart, then dating Bay City Roller Les McKeown), and limped along for a few more weeks; I don't think the Ekland version even made it through to the summer of 1980...

...and speaking of the Bay City Rollers, comedy/comicbook writer Mark Evanier, who wrote for "The Bay City Rollers Show," has written somewhere on his blog http://newsfromME.com about how he found out that NBC, without his (or producers Sid & Marty Krofft's, for that matter) knowledge, were running and running and rerunning the seven or eight episodes that were produced of this thing all the way into 1983 or so. I've tried to search his blog for the story but can't locate it; maybe someone else here can...

..."Marlo & The Magic Movie Machine" was a dynamite little kiddie show that recycled old educational film shorts into an entertaining format. WFSB-TV Hartford was where it originated...

...The Bela Lugosi 1931 version of DRACULA was the original English-language version. Of course, the story had been pirated by German director F.W. Murnau for his landmark silent movie NOSFERATU, and there was a Spanish-language version produced by Universal (using the same sets) simultaneously -- Lugosi and company during the day, the Spanish cast later the same nights -- that is actually visually better than the Lugosi version...

...there were still stations rerunning "The Mothers-In-Law" in 1978??!?...

...and that's an interesting note about WRET -- I thought only clowns like me could handle "The Bay City Rollers Show," wrestling and a prestegious documentary series like "The World at War" in a single 8-hour stretch :D ...
 
I think "Curious Kaleidoscope" was some sort
of religious program; I never saw it. In fact,
I wasn't living in North Carolina in the '70s.

J.D. Lewis first made his name as host of
WRAL's "Teenage Frolics," which by 1978
looked an awful lot like "Soul Train" (I did
see it while visiting here from Texas, although
I used to watch it in the '60s).

The wrestling shows on the North Carolina
stations were Crockett's, except (I remember
reading somewhere) that WCTI carried Nick
Gulas' shows, probably out of Nashville. He
sometimes booked cards in eastern North Carolina,
although his principal territory was Tennessee/Kentucky/
northern Alabama.

I didn't know about the foreign-language versions of
"Dracula" that preceded Bela Lugosi's. My only familiarity
with silent-era European films is the great "The Cabinet
Of Dr. Caligari," from Germany in 1919. Thanks for the info.

WXIA/11 Alive was running "The Mothers-In-Law" in
out-of-the-way time slots like 5:30 AM in the 1980s.
 
Do you have the October 28-November 3 1978 issue of TV Guide? If so,
could you post the schedules for Friday 11/3/78? That was when Diff'rent
Strokes debuted on NBC.
 
I don't have one for the preceding week (Oct. 28-Nov. 3),
but I can post the listings for Nov. 10, and that's the best
I can do for now. I'll start a new thread, possibly tomorrow.
 
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