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Retro: North Carolina Wednesday, December 5, 1979

From TV Guide, North Carolina Edition:

WFMY Ch. 2 Greensboro (CBS)

6 AM Good Morning Show
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM One Day At A Time (delay from 3:30)
9:30 I Love Lucy (Lucy steals John Wayne's
footprints from Grauman's Chinese Theater.)
10 AM Beat The Clock (Monty Hall version, guests: Gary
Collins, Elaine Joyce, Mary Ann Mobley, Bobby Van)
10:30 Whew! (guests: Didi Conn, John Schuck)
10:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
11 AM Price Is Right
12 N Hollywood And The Stars (normally, "Love Of
Life" airs on a day-behind here, but was pre-empted
by CBS yesterday)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 Fabulous Funnies
4:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
5 PM Starsky & Hutch
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM PM Magazine (a $67,000 luxury car with a stereo system
and crystal ashtrays; baboon trainer Carmen Hall)
7:30 Hollywood Squares (Ernest Borgnine, John Byner, George
Gobel, Gabe Kaplan, Rita Moreno, Connie Stevens, Karen
Valentine, Jonathan Winters, Paul Lynde)
8 PM Young Maverick (Charles Frank as Ben Maverick--could have
been called "Maverick: The Next Generation")
9 PM Hallmark Hall Of Fame: Jean Stapleton as "Aunt Mary"
11 PM News
11:30 Black Sheep Squadron
12:40 Hawaii Five-O

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)

7:45 A.M. Weather
8:05 Over Easy (guest: actress Geraldine Fitzgerald)
8:30 In-school program(s)
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM In-school programs
12:30 Electric Company
1 PM In-school programs
2:30 Freestyle (kids' show)
3 PM In-school program(s)
3:30 Over Easy (repeat of 8:05 AM show)
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Guten Tag Wie Geht (German lessons)
7 PM Exposures (federal and state agencies that provide
aid to senior citizens)
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Connections (conclusion of a series about scientific
innovations)
9 PM Great Performances: "Carmen," with Placido Domingo
in the male lead
sign off 12 M

WBTV Ch. 3 Charlotte (CBS)

6:15 This Morning
7 AM Morning With Bob Schieffer
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue (Norman Mailer discusses "The Executioner's
Song".)
10 AM Beat The Clock
10:30 Whew!
10:55 CBS News
11 AM Price Is Right
12 N Top O' The Day
1 PM Search For Tomorrow
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 Gilligan's Island
4 PM Emergency One!
5 PM Gunsmoke
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News
7:30 PM Magazine (same as Ch. 2)
8 PM Young Maverick
9 PM Hallmark Hall Of Fame
11 PM News
11:30 Black Sheep Squadron
12:40 Hawaii Five-O

WWAY Ch. 3 Wilmington, NC (ABC)

6 AM PTL Club
7 AM Good Morning America (how to teach preschoolers
to read, David Hartman hosts)
9 AM PTL Club continues
10 AM Big Valley
11 AM Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
12 N News
12:15 Mid-Day
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 ABC Afterschool Special: "The Seven
Wishes Of A Rich Kid"
5:30 Sanford And Son
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News (Frank Reynolds/Peter Jennings/
Max Robinson)
7 PM Happy Days Again
7:30 Newlywed Game
8 PM John Denver & The Muppets: A Christmas
Together
9 PM Charlie's Angels
10 PM Billy Graham Crusade (second of three telecasts
from Milwaukee)
11 PM News
11:30 The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage
11:45 Love Boat (time approximate)
12:55 Baretta (time approximate)
2:05 News (time approximate)

WRAL Ch. 5 Raleigh (ABC)

6:30 Country Morning: Farm News
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Mike Douglas (co-host Burt Bacharach; guests
Paul Anka, Crystal Gayle, Jay Leno)
10 AM Time For Uncle Paul
10:30 Edge Of Night
11 AM Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
12 N News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Bugs Bunny And Friends
4:30 ABC Afterschool Special
5:30 Andy Griffith
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Happy Days Again
7:30 Sanford And Son
8 PM John Denver & The Muppets: A
Christmas Together
9 PM Charlie's Angels
10 PM Barbara Walters (interviews with
Suzanne Somers, Sylvester Stallone,
Stevie Wonder)
11 PM News
11:30 The Iran Crisis
11:45 Love Boat (time approximate)
12:55 Baretta (time approximate)

WTTG Ch. 5 Washington, DC (Ind.)

6 AM Education
6:30 New Zoo Revue
7 AM Tom And Jerry
7:30 Porky Pig
8 AM Flintstones
8:30 Bullwinkle
9 AM Dennis The Menace
9:30 My Three Sons
10 AM Leave It To Beaver
10:30 Father Knows Best
11 AM Love, American Style
11:30 Dating Game
12 N News
12:30 Panorama (Ron Nessen)
2 PM Please Don't Eat The Daisies
2:30 The Archies
3 PM Bugs Bunny/Popeye
3:30 Tom And Jerry
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Superman
5:30 Brady Bunch
6 PM I Love Lucy
6:30 Andy Griffith
7 PM Happy Days Again
7:30 M*A*S*H
8 PM Edward The King
9 PM Merv Griffin
10 PM News
11 PM M*A*S*H
11:30 Odd Couple
12 M Perry Mason
1 AM Mission: Impossible
2 AM Dragnet

WECT Ch. 6 Wilmington, NC (NBC)

6 AM Carolina In The Morning
7 AM Today (guest: Leonard Nimoy, Tom Brokaw
and Jane Pauley host)
9 AM Donahue (guests: Kate Jackson and her
husband Andrew Stevens)
10 AM Card Sharks (Jim Perry version)
10:30 Hollywood Squares (sixteen stars from daytime soaps)
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N Carolina At Noon
12:30 Dating Game
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM The Doctors
2:30 Another World
4 PM Beverly Hillbillies
4:30 Bugs Bunny
5 PM Andy Griffith
5:30 Carol Burnett And Friends
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
7 PM M*A*S*H
7:30 All In The Family
8 PM Real People (a monkey that guards a pig pen,
a hobo convention, a school for vacuum-cleaner
salesmen, a girl who delivers messages on roller
skates, a frisbee expert)
9 PM Diff'rent Strokes
9:30 Hello, Larry (McLean Stevenson's umpteenth failure)
10 PM Best Of Saturday Night Live (host Fran Tarkenton,
musical guest Leo Sayer)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (David Letterman subs for Johnny)
1 AM News

WITN Ch. 7 Washington, NC (NBC)

5:30 Doris Day
6 AM Almanac
7 AM Today
9 AM Dinah! & Friends
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N News
12:30 Password Plus (guests: Jon Bauman,
Debralee Scott)
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM The Doctors
2:30 Another World
4 PM Match Game
4:30 Wild Wild West
5:30 Newlywed Game
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM All In The Family
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8 PM Real People
9 PM Diff'rent Strokes
9:30 Hello, Larry
10 PM Best Of Saturday Night Live
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow (guest: daredevil car driver
Kenny Carter)
2 AM News

WGHP Ch. 8 High Point (ABC)

6 AM Good Morning Piedmont
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Movie: "Best Of The Badmen"
11 AM Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
12 N $20,000 Pyramid (guests: Grant Goodeve,
Anita Gillette)
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM TV POWWW All Star Afternoon (pre-empts
"The Six Million Dollar Man")
4:30 ABC Afterschool Special
5:30 M*A*S*H
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Joker's Wild
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8 PM John Denver & The Muppets: A Christmas
Together
9 PM Charlie's Angels
10 PM Barbara Walters
11 PM News
11:30 The Iran Crisis
11:45 Love Boat (time approximate)
12:55 Baretta (time approximate)
2:05 News (time approximate)

WNCT Ch. 9 Greenville, NC (CBS)

5 AM PTL Club
6 AM Carolina Today
8 AM Morning With Bob Schieffer
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Beat The Clock
10:30 Whew!
10:55 CBS News
11 AM Price Is Right
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 One Day At A Time
4 PM Love Of Life
4:30 Merv Griffin (from New York: Marvin
Hamlisch, Crystal Gayle, Pearl Bailey
and husband Louis Bellson)
5:30 Happy Days Again
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Joker's Wild
7:30 M*A*S*H
8 PM Young Maverick
9 PM Hallmark Hall Of Fame
11 PM News
11:30 Black Sheep Squadron
12:40 Hawaii Five-O

WSOC Ch. 9 Charlotte (ABC)

6 AM Rise And Shine
6:15 Arthur Smith
6:45 News
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Good Morning Carolina
9:45 News
10 AM $20,000 Pyramid (guests: Robert
Mandan, Didi Conn)
10:30 Cross-Wits (Chuck Woolery, Geoff
Edwards, Allen Ludden, Dennis James)
11 AM Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
12 N Tic Tac Dough
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 ABC Afterschool Special
5:30 M*A*S*H
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Dating Game
7:30 Newlywed Game
8 PM John Denver & The Muppets: A
Christmas Together
9 PM Charlie's Angels
10 PM Barbara Walters
11 PM News
11:30 The Iran Crisis
11:45 Love Boat (time approximate)
12:55 Baretta (time approximate)
2:05 News (time approximate)

WIS Ch. 10 Columbia, SC (NBC)

6:20 Early Riser
6:30 Knozit-Land
7 AM Today
9 AM Carolina Today
9:25 News
9:30 Knozit-Land
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N Mindreaders (Patty Duke Astin,
Arte Johnson; Dick Martin hosts)
12:30 News
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM The Doctors
2:30 Another World
4 PM Brady Bunch
4:30 Tom And Jerry
5:30 F Troop
6 PM News (an hour earlier due to a women's
basketball game at 7, pre-empts "Joker's
Wild")
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Women's Basketball: South Carolina-Clemson
(joined in progress)
8:30 Happy Days Again (time approximate)
9 PM College Basketball: South Carolina-Clemson
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

WTVD Ch. 11 Durham (CBS)

6:30 Sunrise Semester: "Southern Africa"
7 AM Morning With Bob Schieffer
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue (from Baltimore: prostitution
is the topic--BTW, Oprah first came to
ABC's attention when she was head-to-
head with Phil in Baltimore and trounced him)
10 AM Beat The Clock
10:30 Whew!
10:55 News (local)
11 AM Price Is Right
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM At Home With Peggy Mann
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 One Day At A Time
4 PM Love Of Life
4:30 Merv Griffin (same as WNCT)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Joker's Wild
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8 PM Young Maverick
9 PM Hallmark Hall Of Fame
11 PM News
11:30 M*A*S*H
12 M Jim Rockford, Private Investigator
(syndicated title for "The Rockford Files")

WCTI Ch. 12 New Bern (ABC)

6 AM Morning Magazine
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Donahue (topic: faith healing)
10 AM Mike Douglas (from Monte Carlo: co-host
Prince Rainier, Sean Connery, James Franciscus,
Vince Van Patten, Cathy Lee Crosby, tennis
instructor Vic Braden)
11 AM Laverne & Shirley
11:30 Family Feud
12 N $20,000 Pyramid
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Tom And Jerry/Bugs Bunny
4:30 ABC Afterschool Special
5:30 Sanford And Son
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM 3's A Crowd
7:30 Donahue (cut down to 30 minutes,
guest is David Horowitz)
8 PM John Denver & The Muppets: A
Christmas Together
9 PM Charlie's Angels
10 PM Barbara Walters
11 PM News
11:30 The Iran Crisis
11:45 Love Boat (time approximate)
12:55 Baretta (time approximate)
2:05 Maverick (the original, time approximate)

WXII Ch. 12 Winston-Salem (NBC)

5:30 700 Club
6:30 News
7 AM Today
9 AM Donahue (topic: facing life-and-death
situations in childhood)
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N News
12:30 12:30 (that's the program's name)
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM The Doctors
2:30 Another World
4 PM Tom And Jerry
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Happy Days Again
5:30 All In The Family
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM 3's A Crowd
7:30 Match Game
8 PM Real People
9 PM Diff'rent Strokes
9:30 Hello Larry
10 PM Best Of Saturday Night Live
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

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

6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Good Morning Jesus
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Morning With Bob Schieffer
10 AM Beat The Clock
10:30 Whew!
10:55 CBS News
11 AM Price Is Right
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Edge Of Night
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 One Day At A Time
4 PM Love Of Life
4:30 All My Children
5:30 Dating Game
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM CBS News
7:30 The Lucy Show
8 PM Young Maverick
9 PM Hallmark Hall Of Fame
11 PM News
11:30 Black Sheep Squadron
12:40 Hawaii Five-O

WTBS Ch. 17 Atlanta (Ind.)

5:50 World At Large
6:30 News
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8 AM Family Affair
8:30 Romper Room
9 AM The Lucy Show
9:30 Green Acres
10 AM Movie: "Day Of The Badman"
11:55 News
12 N Love, American Style
12:30 Movie: "Miracle In Soho"
2:25 News
2:30 Gigglesnort Hotel
3 PM I Love Lucy
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Spectreman
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM My Three Sons
5:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
6 PM Carol Burnett And Friends
6:30 Bob Newhart
7 PM Sanford And Son
7:30 NBA Basketball: Hawks-Celtics
10 PM Upstairs, Downstairs (time approximate)
11 PM Last Of The Wild
11:30 Movie: "The Wild One" (Marlon Brando)
1 AM News
1:05 NBA Basketball: Hawks-Celtics replay
3:35 Movie: "Fortunes Of Captain Blood" (time
approximate)
5:35 Love, American Style

WCCB Ch. 18 Charlotte (Ind.)

6 AM News
6:35 Forum
6:50 Cartoon Carnival
7 AM 700 Club
8:30 Ross Bagley (religion, actually a program
of gospel music)
9 AM Green Acres
9:30 Mayberry R.F.D.
10 AM Real McCoys
10:30 Forum
10:45 News
11 AM PTL Club
1 PM The Rookies
2 PM Groovie Goolies
2:30 Krofft Superstars
3 PM Star Blazers
3:30 Spectreman
4 PM Popeye Adventure Hour
5 PM Wild Wild West (Agnes Moorehead won an Emmy
for her appearance in this episode, where she plots
to become queen of the U.S.)
6 PM I Love Lucy
6:30 Dick Van Dyke
7 PM Good Times
7:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
8 PM Movie: "The Adding Machine"
10 PM Bonanza
11 PM Gong Show
11:30 PTL Club

WDCA Ch. 20 Washington, DC (Ind.)

5:45 PTL Club
6:45 Community News
6:55 News
7 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
7:30 Shazzan & The Herculoids
8 AM Krofft Superstars
8:30 Casper
9 AM Channel 20 Club
9:30 Romper Room
10 AM 700 Club
11:30 Ross Bagley
12 N Captain 20's World
12:30 Newsprobe
1 PM Bewitched
1:30 Flipper
2 PM Banana Splits
2:30 Lancelot Link
3 PM Woody Woodpecker & Popeye
3:30 Krofft Superstars
4:30 Batman
5 PM Bugs Bunny/Woody Woodpecker
5:30 Gilligan's Island
6 PM Good Times
6:30 Sanford And Son
7 PM All In The Family
7:30 Carol Burnett And Friends
8 PM It Takes A Thief
9 PM Movie: "The Proud And The Profane"
11 PM Benny Hill
11:30 Second City Television
12 M PTL Club
1 AM Untouchables

WPTF (WRDC) Ch. 28 Durham (NBC)

5:30 700 Club
6:30 Hap Hansen Today (farm show, IIRC)
7 AM Today
9 AM Movie: "In Name Only"
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N Mindreaders
12:30 Password Plus
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM The Doctors
2:30 Card Sharks
3 PM Superadventures
3:30 Star Blazers
4 PM Lost In Space
5 PM Wild Wild West
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Newlywed Game
7:30 Dating Game
8 PM Real People
9 PM Diff'rent Strokes
9:30 Hello Larry
10 PM Best Of Saturday Night Live
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

WRET (WCNC) Ch. 36 Charlotte (NBC)

6 AM New Zoo Revue
6:30 Ed Allen Time
7 AM Today
9 AM Another World
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N Mary Tyler Moore
12:30 Password Plus
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM The Doctors
2:30 Flintstones
3 PM Three Stooges
3:30 Spectreman
4 PM Lost In Space
5 PM Carol Burnett And Friends
5:30 Sanford And Son
6 PM Hogan's Heroes
6:30 NBC News
7 PM News
7:30 $1.98 Beauty Show
8 PM Real People
9 PM Diff'rent Strokes
9:30 Hello Larry
10 PM Best Of Saturday Night Live
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow
2 AM News
2:20 Movie: "Pimpernel Smith"
4 AM Movie: "A Tale Of Five Women"

WTVI Ch. 42 Charlotte (PBS)

In-school programs until

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Child Development
6:30 Over Easy (guest: Frankie Laine)
7 PM Charlotte Arts (a visit to Morrocroft, home
of the late Gov. Cameron Morrison)
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Great Performances: "Carmen"
11 PM Dick Cavett (second of two shows with singer
Alberta Hunter)
sign off 11:30 PM
 
There was an "ABC Afterschool Special" that day, disrupting
normal late-afternoon programming on the ABC affiliates.
Figuring that someone will want to know what normally aired,
I give you the normal 4-6 PM lineups for the five ABC stations:

WWAY/3 4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 Popeye And Friends
5 PM Real McCoys
5:30 Sanford And Son

WRAL/5 4 PM Bugs Bunny And Friends
4:30 Brady Bunch
5 PM Good Times
5:30 Andy Griffith

WGHP/8 4 PM Six Million Dollar Man (MWF)/
Bionic Woman (TTh)
5 PM Sanford And Son
5:30 M*A*S*H

WSOC/9 4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 3's A Crowd
5 PM All In The Family
5:30 M*A*S*H

WCTI/12 4 PM Tom And Jerry/Bugs Bunny
5 PM Andy Griffith
5:30 Sanford And Son
 
Correction for WCCB at 3:30 PM: should be "Batman";
"Spectreman" aired on Ch. 36 and I think I was looking
at the wrong thing (easy to do with this many stations).
 
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