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Retro: North Carolina Saturday, October 30, 1976

From TV Guide, North Carolina Edition:

WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS)

7 AM Old Rebel Show
8 AM Sylvester And Tweety
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9:30 Tarzan: Lord Of The Jungle
10 AM Shazam!/Isis Hour
11 AM Ark II
11:30 Clue Club
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Way Out Games (teams from Hawaii, California,
and Missouri compete; Sonny Fox hosts)
1 PM Kidsworld
1:30 What's It All About? (Walter Cronkite explains to
kids how the electoral college works.)
2 PM Southern Sportsman
2:30 Campaign '76 (if this is the CBS series, it's a delay
from Fri 7:30 PM)
3 PM Movie: "Red Dragon"
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular (boxing: Duane Bobick vs. Young Sanford,
heavyweights; Mike Quarry vs. Tom Bethea, light-heavyweights)
5:55 Republican Political Talk
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Dan Rather)
7 PM Carolina Campaign '76
7:30 Hee Haw (C.W. McCall, Crystal Gayle, Brush Arbor)
8:30 Doc (last show; Bob Newhart takes over this slot next week)
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore (moves to 8 PM the following week and "All In
The Family" returns to the CBS Saturday-night lineup at 9)
9:30 Bob Newhart (moves to 8:30 the following week and "Alice" takes
over this timeslot)
10 PM Carol Burnett (guest: Roddy McDowall)
10:55 Republican Political Talk
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Innocents"

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

5 PM The Adams Chronicles (Part 6: John Adams' embattled Presidency)
6 PM Getting On (topic: mandatory retirement)
6:30 Black Perspective On The News
7 PM Pauline Koner Dance Consort
8 PM A Matter Of Size (the effect of government and big business on
everyday life--sort of anticipates the "Occupy" movement)
8:30 Eames Celebration (Charles and Ray Eames, two Californians--I
think Ray is a woman--who are accomplished in filmmaking,
architecture, and furniture designing)
10 PM Visions ("The War Widow," about two women who bond while
one's husband is away fighting in World War I)
sign off 11:30 PM

WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)

7 AM Treehouse Club
7:30 Hot Fudge
8 AM Sylvester And Tweety
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9:30 Tarzan: Lord Of The Jungle
10 AM Shazam!/Isis Hour
11 AM Ark II
11:30 Lone Ranger
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Way Out Games
1 PM Gilligan's Island
1:30 Movie: "Follow That Dream" (Elvis Presley)
3:30 Wrestling (from Raleigh)
4:30 That Good Ole Nashville Music (Jeanne Pruett,
Little David Wilkins, Johnny Gimble)
5 PM Pop Goes The Country (Mickey Gilley, Gary Stewart,
Margo Smith, Minnie Pearl)
5:30 Ball Four (delay from Wed 8:30 PM)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Lawrence Welk (no details, but no doubt it's his
Halloween show)
8 PM The Jeffersons (moves to Wednesday 8:30 PM starting
Nov. 10)
8:30 Doc
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM Carol Burnett
10:55 Republican Political Talk
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Lady In A Cage"
1:30 With This Ring

WWAY Ch. 3 Wilmington, NC (ABC)

7 AM Oddball Couple (delay from Sun 11 AM)
7:30 How To Follow The Campaign (ABC's Steve Bell explains
the candidates and issues to young people; also: kids who
attended the conventions, past campaigns, delay from Sun
11:30 AM)
8 AM Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape/Mumbly
9 AM Jabberjaw
9:30 Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt
10:30 Krofft Supershow
12 N Superman
12:30 American Bandstand (Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids,
Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr., Rodney the computerized puppet)
1:30 College Football Pregame Show
1:45 College Football: Teams TBA
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (the Grand Prix of Japan Formula One race,
World Weightlifting Championships, Evel Knievel attempts a world-
record jump in the Kingdome, time approximate)
6:30 ABC News (Ted Koppel)
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Holmes & Yoyo
8:30 Mr. T & Tina (not that Mr. T, this is Pat Morita)
9 PM Starsky & Hutch
10 PM Most Wanted
11 PM ABC News (anchor not given)
11:15 That Good Ole Nashville Music (Cal Smith, Crystal Gayle,
Kenny Starr)
11:45 Wrestling

WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (ABC)

6:30 Cartoon Festival
7:20 Scouting News
7:30 How To Follow The Campaign
8 AM Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape/Mumbly
9 AM Jabberjaw
9:30 Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt
10:30 Krofft Supershow
12 N Teenage Frolics
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 College Football Pregame Show
1:45 College Football: Teams TBA
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (time approximate)
6:30 Harambee
7 PM TBA
7:30 Harambee
8 PM Holmes & Yoyo
8:30 Mr. T & Tina
9 PM Starsky & Hutch
10 PM Most Wanted
11 PM News
11:30 Wrestling
12:30 Arthur Smith
1 AM Pop Goes The Country (Johnny Rodriguez, Leroy Van
Dyke, Dottsy Brodt--whom I once met and thought she
was on drugs, she seemed so spaced out)
1:30 ABC News

WECT Ch. 6 Wilmington, NC (NBC)

7 AM Hot Fudge
7:30 Big Blue Marble
8 AM Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Pink Panther
10 AM McDuff, The Talking Dog
10:30 Monster Squad
11 AM Land Of The Lost
11:30 Big John, Little John
12 N Kids From C.A.P.E.R.
12:30 Muggsy
1 PM Soul Train (the Emotions, the Rimshots)
2 PM Movie: "Black Legion" (Humphrey Bogart becomes a
killer for a KKK-like organization, from '37)
3:30 Movie: "The Story Of Louis Pasteur"
5 PM Lawrence Welk (definitely his Halloween show)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (John Hart)
7 PM Candid Camera (a disc jockey says sweet nothings to a
listener on the air; passers-by help tune a TV set in a
store window)
7:30 Wild Kingdom
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "McQ" (John Wayne, from '74)
11:15 Movie: "Between Two Worlds"

WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC)

7 AM Across The Fence
7:30 Treehouse Club
8 AM Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Cartoon Carnival
10:30 Monster Squad
11 AM Land Of The Lost
11:30 Big John, Little John
12 N Kids From C.A.P.E.R.
12:30 Muggsy
1 PM Movie: "Sink The Bismarck!"
3 PM Virginian
4:30 Lone Ranger
5 PM Wrestling
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "McQ"
11:15 News
11:45 Saturday Night (Live) (host Buck Henry, musical
guests The Band)
1:15 Christopher Closeup
1:30 Alcoholics Anonymous
1:40 News

WGHP Ch. 8 High Point (ABC)

7 AM Junior Almost Anything Goes (coaches: Jackie Cooper,
Don Knotts, Liz Torres; Soupy Sales hosts, delay from 12 N)
7:30 Hot Fudge
8 AM Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape/Mumbly
9 AM Jabberjaw
9:30 Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt
10:30 Krofft Supershow
12 N TBA
1:30 College Football Pregame Show
1:45 College Football: Teams TBA
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (time approximate)
6:30 TBA
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Holmes & Yoyo
8:30 Mr. T & Tina
9 PM Starsky & Hutch
10 PM Most Wanted
11 PM News
11:20 ABC News
11:35 Movie: "Graveyard Of Horror"
1:05 Movie: "The Devil's Hand"
2:35 Help Yourself

WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS)

7 AM Tarzan (Ron Ely)
8 AM Sylvester And Tweety
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9:30 Tarzan: Lord Of The Jungle
10 AM Shazam!/Isis Hour
11 AM Ark II
11:30 Clue Club
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Way Out Games
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival (Hermione
Gingold in "Winter Of The Witch")
1:30 What's It All About?
2 PM Kidsworld
2:30 Big Valley
3:30 Southern Sportsman
4 PM Arthur Smith
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
5:55 Republican Political Talk
6 PM Porter Wagoner (guest: Melba Montgomery)
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 Carol Burnett
10:55 Republican Political Talk
11 PM News
11:30 Wrestling
12:30 Untouchables

WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (NBC)

7 AM Mr. Magoo
7:30 Batman (David Wayne as the Mad Hatter)
8 AM Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Pink Panther
10 AM McDuff, The Talking Dog
10:30 Monster Squad
11 AM Land Of The Lost
11:30 Big John, Little John
12 N Kidsworld
12:30 World Of Survival
1 PM Movie: "Handford's Point" (collection of "Lassie"
episodes about two kids hindering the development
of a lakeside recreation project)
2:30 Movie: "Way...Way Out" (Jerry Lewis)
4:30 Space: 1999
5:30 The Practice (Danny Thomas, delay from Wed 8 PM)
6 PM Eyewitness Magazine
7 PM Bugs Bunny
7:30 Wild Kingdom
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "McQ"
11:15 News
11:45 Saturday Night (Live)

WIS Ch. 10 Columbia, SC (NBC)

6:45 Viewpoint On Nutrition
7:15 Davey And Goliath
7:30 Mr. Knozit
8:30 Pink Panther
10 AM McDuff, The Talking Dog
10:30 Monster Squad
11 AM Land Of The Lost
11:30 Big John, Little John
12 N Kids From C.A.P.E.R.
12:30 Muggsy
1 PM Friends Of Man
1:30 My Three Sons
2 PM Movie: "El Greco"
4 PM Space: 1999
5 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music
5:30 Lawrence Welk
6:30 NBC News
7 PM News
7:30 Awareness
8 PM WIS-TV News Special: "South Carolina
Blue Laws"
9 PM NBC Movie: "McQ"
11:15 News
11:45 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (2 episodes)
12:45 Ironside
1:45 With This Ring

WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (CBS)

6:30 Sunrise Semester: "The Novel And Theater Of
Contemporary France"
7 AM Bewitched
7:30 Let's Look At...
8 AM Sylvester And Tweety
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9:30 Tarzan: Lord Of The Jungle
10 AM Shazam!/Isis Hour
11 AM Ark II
11:30 Clue Club
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Way Out Games
1 PM Tarzan
2 PM Soul Train (Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr.)
3 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music (Mickey Gilley,
Nat Stuckey, Karen Wheeler, Johnny Gimble)
3:30 Wrestling (IIRC, Ch. 11 had ICW wrestling)
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
5:55 Republican Political Talk
6 PM Black Unlimited
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 Carol Burnett
10:55 Republican Political Talk
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Story Of A Woman"

WCTI Ch. 12 New Bern (ABC)

7:45 Telestory
8 AM Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape/Mumbly
9 AM Jabberjaw
9:30 Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt
10:30 Krofft Supershow
12 N Junior Almost Anything Goes (coaches: Abe
Vigoda, Lesley Ann Warren, Avery Schreiber)
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 College Football Pregame Show
1:45 College Football: Teams TBA
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (time approximate)
6:30 Dolly (guests: Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr.)
7 PM Wrestling (IIRC, Ch. 12 carried wrestling from Nick
Gulas' territory, basically Tennessee, Kentucky, and
northern Alabama)
8 PM Holmes & Yoyo
8:30 Mr. T & Tina
9 PM Starsky & Hutch
10 PM Most Wanted
11 PM ABC News
11:15 Will C.'s Red-Eye Cinema (Will C. Morgan)
11:30 Movie: "House Of Frankenstein"
1 AM Movie: "The House Of Fear"
2:30 Movie: "House Of Dracula"
4 AM Movie: "House Of Horrors"

WXII Ch. 12 Winston-Salem (NBC)

6:55 Camera 12
7 AM Big Blue Marble
7:30 Scrunch
8 AM Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Pink Panther
10 AM McDuff, The Talking Dog
10:30 Monster Squad
11 AM Land Of The Lost
11:30 Big John, Little John
12 N Kids From C.A.P.E.R.
12:30 Youth '76
1 PM Champions (don't know if this is the sports show
or the '60s British adventure series)
2 PM Formby's Antique Furniture Workshop
2:30 Bonnie Lou And Buster (country music)
3 PM I Spy
4 PM Green Acres
4:30 NFL Game Of The Week
5 PM Wrestling
6 PM News
6:30 Report To The People
7 PM Shades Of Ebony
7:30 Gene Overby Roast (WXII's sports director is roasted
as he is named sportscaster of the year by the National
Association of Sportswriters and Sportscasters.)
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "McQ"
11:15 News
11:45 Saturday Night (Live)
1:15 Wrestling (I think Ch. 12 had both ICW and WRAL's "Mid-
Atlantic Championship Wrestling" with Bob Caudle)

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

7 AM Far Out Space Nuts (delay from Sun 9:30 AM)
7:30 Hudson Brothers (delay from Sun 9 AM)
8 AM Sylvester And Tweety
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9:30 Batman
10 AM Shazam!/Isis Hour
11 AM Ark II
11:30 Clue Club
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Way Out Games
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival
1:30 What's It All About?
2 PM Tarzan: Lord Of The Jungle
2:30 Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape/Mumbly
3:30 Wrestling
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
5:55 Republican Political Talk
6 PM Happy Days (ABC, delay from Tue 8 PM)
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 Carol Burnett
10:55 Republican Political Talk
11 PM Ralph Anderson (public affairs)
11:30 Streets Of San Francisco (ABC, delay from Thu
11:30 PM)
12:40 Dan August (ABC, delay from Fri 12:40 AM)

WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (ABC)

7:30 Dusty's Treehouse
8 AM Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape/Mumbly
9 AM Jabberjaw
9:30 Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt
10:30 Krofft Supershow
12 N Junior Almost Anything Goes
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 College Football Pregame Show
1:45 College Football: Teams TBA
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (time approximate)
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Inquiry
7:30 Southern Sportsman
8 PM Holmes & Yoyo
8:30 Mr. T & Tina
9 PM Starsky & Hutch
10 PM Most Wanted
11 PM Wrestling
12 M ABC News

WRDU (WRDC) Ch. 28 Durham (NBC)

8 AM Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Pink Panther
10 AM McDuff, The Talking Dog
10:30 Monster Squad
11 AM Land Of The Lost
11:30 Big John, Little John
12 N Kids From C.A.P.E.R.
12:30 Muggsy
1 PM Medix
1:30 Celebrity Tennis (Robert Stack and Dabney
Coleman vs. Bobby Riggs and James Franciscus)
2 PM Public Policy Forums ("How Much Defense Spending
Is Enough?" is debated by Reps. Les Aspin and Jack Kemp.)
3 PM Carolina Focus
3:30 TBA
4 PM Three Musketeers (animated)
5:30 Nashville On The Road (guest: Tommy Overstreet)
6 PM NFL Game Of The Week
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Wrestling (I remember Ch. 28 having Tampa's show)
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "McQ"
11:15 Andy Williams (guest: Robert Goulet)
11:45 Saturday Night (Live)
1:15 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (Led Zeppelin, Starz, Mother's
Finest, Billy Crystal, comedy group Natural Gas)

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

7 AM Cartoon Carnival
8:30 Addams Family
9 AM Speed Racer
9:30 Three Stooges And Pals
10:30 Rin Tin Tin
11 AM Movie: "Arrivederci, Baby!"
1 PM Movie: "Berlin Affair"
3 PM Movie: "American Guerrilla In The Philippines"
5 PM Hazel
5:30 Hogan's Heroes
6 PM Star Trek
7 PM Wrestling (again, this may be from Tampa)
8 PM NHL Hockey: Atlanta Flames-Vancouver Canucks
10:30 Saturday Showcase (Tommy Faile/Ken Linker, time
approximate)
11 PM Nashville On The Road
11:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
1 AM James Brown's Future Shock

WTVI Ch. 42 Charlotte (PBS)

8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Once Upon A Classic: "The Prince And The Pauper,"
Part 3
10:30 Big Blue Marble
11 AM Zoom
11:30 Rebop
12 N Crockett's Victory Garden
12:30 off the air
6 PM Big Blue Marble
6:30 Zoom
7 PM Rebop
7:30 Once Upon A Classic: "The Prince And The Pauper,"
Part 4
8 PM A Matter Of Size
8:30 Soundstage (jazz singers Annie Ross, Jon Hendricks,
Eddie Jefferson, Leon Thomas)
9:30 Anyone For Tennyson? (20 love poems)
10 PM Visions (same as Ch. E)
sign off 11:30 PM
 
bpatrick said:
WCTI Ch. 12 New Bern (ABC)


11:30 Movie: "House Of Frankenstein"
1 AM Movie: "The House Of Fear"
2:30 Movie: "House Of Dracula"
4 AM Movie: "House Of Horrors"

Was this a special for Halloween? Running 2 "creature features" wasn't uncommon, but usually not 4.
 
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