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Retro: Northern Alabama Mon., March 19, 1979

From TV Guide, Northern Alabama Edition:

WNGE (WKRN) Ch. 2 Nashville (ABC)

5:30 Not For Women Only (first of five on prescription-drug abuse)
6 AM Little Rascals
6:25 Green Acres
6:55 News
7 AM Good Morning America (guest: actress Constance Cummings)
9 AM $20,000 Pyramid (Richard Paul, Kelly Garrett, delay from Fri 11 AM)
9:30 Cross-Wits (Jim Backus, Joseph Campanella, Barbara Feldon, Alice Ghostley)
10 AM Happy Days
10:30 Family Feud
11 AM Edge Of Night (delay from 3 PM)
11:30 Ryan's Hope
12 N All My Children
1 PM One Life To Live
2 PM General Hospital
3 PM Three Stooges/Porky Pig
3:30 Brady Bunch
4 PM Bonanza
5 PM ABC World News Tonight
5:30 Dating Game
6 PM News
6:30 Make Me Laugh
7 PM Salvage-1
8 PM How The West Was Won
10 PM News
10:30 Police Story
11:40 Adam-12
12:10 News

WCBI Ch. 4 Columbus, MS (ABC)

6 AM PTL Club
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Donahue (guest is Bella Abzug)
10 AM Happy Days
10:30 Family Feud
11 AM $20,000 Pyramid (Richard Mulligan, Linda Kelsey)
11:30 Ryan's Hope
12 N All My Children
1 PM One Life To Live
2 PM General Hospital
3 PM Edge Of Night
3:30 Beverly Hillbillies
4 PM Gunsmoke
5 PM Andy Griffith
5:30 ABC World News Tonight
6 PM News
6:30 My Three Sons
7 PM Billy Graham Philippines Crusade
8 PM How The West Was Won
10 PM News
10:30 Police Story
11:40 Mod Squad

WSM (WSMV) Ch. 4 Nashville (NBC)

5:45 Weather
5:50 Morning Devotion
6 AM Morning Show (Ralph Emery)
7 AM Today (guest is Mary Martin)
9 AM Donahue (topic: pursuing a career after age 65)
10 AM High Rollers
10:30 Wheel Of Fortune
11 AM Password Plus (Joyce Bulifant, Greg Morris)
11:30 Noon Show (Teddy Bart/Elaine Ganick)
12:30 Days Of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2 PM Another World
3:30 Superman
4 PM Bionic Woman
5 PM Bewitched
5:30 NBC News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
6 PM News
7 PM Little House On The Prairie
8 PM NBC Movie: "Fast Friends"
10 PM News
10:30 Tonight Show (Beverly Sills subs for Johnny; Victor Buono, Phyllis Newman)
12 M Tomorrow (former "Dead End Kids" Huntz Hall and Gabe Dell)

WTVF Ch. 5 Nashville (CBS)

5:15 Country Journal
5:30 Carl Tipton
6 AM Morning With Bob Schieffer
7 AM Captain Kangaroo (Ch. 5 took the first Eastern feed (8 AM ET))
8 AM Mornings On 5
8:30 Joker's Wild
9 AM All In The Family
9:30 Price Is Right
10:30 Love Of Life
10:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
11 AM Young And The Restless
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
12 N To Tell The Truth (Nipsey Russell, Kitty Carlisle, Bill Cullen, Peggy Cass)
12:30 As The World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2:30 M*A*S*H
3 PM Match Game '79 (David Doyle, Fannie Flagg, Scoey Mitchlll, Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers, Loretta Swit)
3:30 Woody Woodpecker
4 PM Munsters
4:30 Addams Family
5 PM Carol Burnett And Friends
5:25 News
5:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
6 PM News
6:30 Newlywed Game
7 PM You're The Greatest, Charlie Brown
7:30 Billy
8 PM M*A*S*H
8:30 WKRP In Cincinnati
9 PM Lou Grant
10 PM News
10:30 Rockford Files
11:40 McMillan & Wife
1:35 News

WBRC Ch. 6 Birmingham (ABC)

5 AM Country Boy Eddie
5:30 News (I assume "Country Boy Eddie" continues after a newsbreak)
7 AM Morning Show (Tom York)
8 AM Good Morning America (joined in progress)
9 AM Merv Griffin (Cher, her mother Georgia Holt, sister Georgeanne LaPiere, son Elijah Blue)
10 AM Family Feud
10:30 All My Children
11:30 Ryan's Hope
12 N News
12:30 Dating Game
1 PM One Life To Live
2 PM General Hospital
3 PM Edge Of Night
3:30 Bewitched
4 PM Six Million Dollar Man
5 PM ABC World News Tonight
5:30 News
6 PM To Tell The Truth (Nipsey Russell, Kitty Carlisle, Bill Cullen, Peggy Cass)
6:30 Hollywood Squares (Lynn Redgrave, Yvonne Elliman, Frankie Valli, Wolfman Jack, Carole Bayer Sager, Melissa Manchester, Martin Mull, George Gobel, Paul Lynde)
7 PM Salvage-1
8 PM How The West Was Won
10 PM News
10:30 Bonanza
11:30 The FBI
12:30 Movie: "I Am The Law"
2:30 High Chaparral
3:30 Not For Women Only (love is the topic on this second of five about the "seven ages of man")
4 AM PTL Club

WCIQ Ch. 7 Cheaha State Park/WBIQ Ch. 10 Birmingham/WHIQ Ch. 25 Huntsville/WFIQ Ch. 36 Florence, AL (PBS)

7:45 Weather
8 AM In-school programs
2 PM Lilias, Yoga And You
2:30 Villa Alegre
3 PM Sesame Street
4 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Electric Company
5 PM Studio See
5:30 Over Easy (Hubert Humphrey's widow Muriel reminisces about their 38-year marriage.)
6 PM Book Beat (Caroline Richards, author of "Sweet Country," about the events in Chile after the overthrow of Salvador Allende)
6:30 (7) (36) MacNeil/Lehrer Report
(10) Metrospect
(25) Update
7 PM Bill Moyers' Journal
8 PM Mobile Jazz Festival
8:30 Youth Speaks Out
9 PM Profiles, Issues And Black Culture
9:30 Income Tax (instructions on filling out forms)
10 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
10:30 Captioned ABC News
11 PM Dick Cavett (mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne of the Metropolitan Opera is Dick's guest)
sign off 11:30 PM

WTWV (WTVA) Ch. 9 Tupelo, MS (NBC)

6 AM Mornin'
7 AM Today
9 AM Card Sharks
9:30 All Star Secrets (Richard Anderson, Phil Foster, George Hamilton, Karen Morrow)
10 AM High Rollers
10:30 Wheel Of Fortune
11 AM Password Plus
11:30 Hollywood Squares (David Brenner, James Darren, George Gobel, Dianne Kay, Chris Lemmon, Anne Lockhart, Donna Pescow, Stella Stevens, Paul Lynde)
12 N Noon
12:30 Days Of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2 PM Another World
3:30 Little Rascals
4 PM Gilligan's Island
4:30 Brady Bunch
5 PM Bewitched
5:30 NBC News
6 PM News
6:30 To Tell The Truth (Bill Cullen, Peggy Cass, Frank Field, Kitty Carlisle)
7 PM Little House On The Prairie
8 PM NBC Movie: "Fast Friends"
10 PM News
10:30 Tonight Show
12 M Tomorrow
1 AM News

WAPI (WVTM) Ch. 13 Birmingham (NBC)

5:15 Consultation
5:45 Top Of The Morning Show
6 AM Today (Ch. 13 and Montgomery's WSFA carried the Eastern feed of the "Today" show for several years.)
8 AM Donahue (the case of confessed mass-murderer John Gacy)
9 AM Card Sharks
9:30 All Star Secrets
10 AM High Rollers
10:30 Wheel Of Fortune
11 AM Password Plus
11:30 News
12 N Days Of Our Lives
1 PM The Doctors
1:30 Another World
3 PM Hollywood Squares (same as Ch. 9; NBC offered two feeds of the show)
3:30 Cliffwood Avenue Kids (Bugs Bunny aired at this time the rest of the week.)
4 PM Partridge Family
4:30 My Three Sons
5 PM Mary Tyler Moore
5:30 NBC News
6 PM News
6:30 Family Feud
7 PM Little House On The Prairie
8 PM Billy Graham Philippines Crusade
9 PM Marcus Welby, M.D.
10 PM News
10:30 Streets Of San Francisco
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

WOWL (WHDF) Ch. 15 Florence, AL (NBC)

5 AM PTL Club
6 AM Cartoons
6:45 Fitness 15
7 AM Today
9 AM PTL Club continues
10 AM High Rollers
10:30 Wheel Of Fortune
11 AM Password Plus
11:30 News
11:45 Bible Televisit
12 N Days Of Our Lives
1 PM The Doctors
1:30 Another World
3 PM As The World Turns
4 PM All Star Secrets
4:30 Hollywood Squares
5 PM News
5:30 NBC News
6 PM Bionic Woman
7 PM Little House On The Prairie
8 PM NBC Movie: "Fast Friends"
10 PM Hollywood Squares (Ed Asner, Sandy Duncan, Rose Marie, Vincent Price, Elke Sommer, Ken Stabler, Mel Tillis, Paul Lynde)
10:30 Tonight Show
12 M Tomorrow

WTCG (WPCH) Ch. 17 Atlanta (Ind.)
Listed Central Time

4:30 World At Large
5:30 Romper Room
6 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
7 AM Leave It To Beaver
7:30 Hazel
8 AM The Lucy Show
8:30 Green Acres
9 AM Movie: "The Two Mrs. Carrolls"
10:55 News
11 AM Love, American Style (guests: Sid Caesar, Kathleen Nolan)
11:30 Movie: "Dangerous Exile"
1:25 News
1:30 I Love Lucy
2 PM Speed Racer
2:30 Flintstones
3 PM Space Giants
3:30 Gilligan's Island
4 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
4:30 The Lucy Show
5 PM Andy Griffith
5:30 My Three Sons
6 PM Carol Burnett And Friends (guest: Charo)
6:30 Sanford And Son
7 PM Let's Go To The Races
7:30 Dragnet
8 PM Movie: "Deadly Game"
10 PM Hogan's Heroes
10:30 Movie: "The Brides Of Fu Manchu"
12:30 Movie: "Battle Stations"
2:20 News
2:40 Open Up

WHNT Ch. 19 Huntsville (CBS)

6 AM Morning With Bob Schieffer
7 AM Mornin' Folks (Grady Reeves)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM All In The Family
9:30 Donahue (guest: Bella Abzug)
10:30 Love Of Life
10:55 CBS News
11 AM Young And The Restless
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
12 N News
12:30 As The World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2:30 M*A*S*H
3 PM Match Game '79
3:30 Gilligan's Island
4 PM Brady Bunch
4:30 Gunsmoke
5:30 CBS News
6 PM News
6:30 Newlywed Game
7 PM You're The Greatest, Charlie Brown
7:30 Billy
8 PM M*A*S*H
8:30 WKRP In Cincinnati
9 PM Billy Graham Philippines Crusade
10 PM News
10:30 Rockford Files
11:40 McMillan & Wife

WAAY Ch. 31 Huntsville (ABC)

5:30 Cartoons
6:30 Three Stooges
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Morning-WAAY
9:30 I Love Lucy
10 AM Happy Days
10:30 Family Feud
11 AM $20,000 Pyramid
11:30 Ryan's Hope
12 N All My Children
1 PM One Life To Live
2 PM General Hospital
3 PM Edge Of Night
3:30 Bugs Bunny/Porky Pig
4 PM Partridge Family
4:30 Bewitched
5 PM My Three Sons
5:30 ABC World News Tonight
6 PM News
6:30 Sanford And Son
7 PM Salvage-1
8 PM How The West Was Won
10 PM News
10:30 Police Story
11:40 Mission: Impossible

WCFT Ch. 33 Tuscaloosa (CBS)

6:45 Cartoons
7 AM Morning With Bob Schieffer
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM All In The Family
9:30 Price Is Right
10:30 Love Of Life
10:55 CBS News
11 AM Young And The Restless
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
12 N News
12:10 Kaleidoscope
12:30 As The World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2:30 M*A*S*H
3 PM Match Game '79
3:30 Fun N Stuff
4 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
4:30 Brady Bunch
5 PM Bewitched
5:30 CBS News
6 PM News
6:30 Soap Factory Disco
7 PM Billy Graham Philippines Crusade
8 PM M*A*S*H
8:30 WKRP In Cincinnati
9 PM Lou Grant
10 PM News
10:30 Rockford Files
11:40 McMillan & Wife

WHMA (WJSU) Ch. 40 Anniston (CBS)

5:55 PTL Club
6:55 News
7 AM Morning With Bob Schieffer
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM All In The Family
9:30 PTL Club continues
10:30 Love Of Life
10:55 CBS News
11 AM Young And The Restless
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
12 N News
12:05 By The Way
12:30 As The World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2:30 M*A*S*H
3 PM Match Game '79
3:30 Price Is Right
4:30 Mary Tyler Moore
5 PM The Rookies
5:30 News
6 PM CBS News
6:30 Southern Outdoorsman
7 PM Billy Graham Philippines Crusade
8 PM M*A*S*H
8:30 WKRP In Cincinnati
9 PM Lou Grant
10 PM News
10:30 Rockford Files
11:40 McMillan & Wife

WBMG (WIAT) Ch. 42 Birmingham (CBS)

5:45 700 Club
6:45 Focus
7 AM Morning With Bob Schieffer
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM All In The Family
9:30 Price Is Right
10:30 Love Of Life
10:55 CBS News
11 AM Young And The Restless
11:30 Search For Tomorrow
12 N Let's Make A Deal (Ch. 42 carries the current version at 9 AM.)
12:30 As The World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2:30 M*A*S*H
3 PM Match Game '79
3:30 Fred Flintstone & Friends
4 PM Space: 1999
5 PM I Love Lucy (this aired on Ch. 6 at 5 PM for years, until ABC forced the station to carry the network news)
5:30 CBS News
6 PM Cross-Wits (Della Reese, Rhonda Bates, Bernie Kopell, Fred Grandy)
6:30 Newlywed Game
7 PM You're The Greatest, Charlie Brown
7:30 Billy
8 PM M*A*S*H
8:30 WKRP In Cincinnati
9 PM Lou Grant
10 PM The Lucy Show (watch for Keith Thibodeaux, who played Little Ricky, in this episode from the '60s)
10:30 News
11 PM Wings Over The World (Paul and Linda McCartney and Wings' 1978 tour of Scotland, Australia, and the U.S., delay from Fri 10:30 PM)
1 AM CBS Movie: "The Human Factor" (delay from Fri/Sat 12:30 AM)

WAFF Ch. 48 Huntsville (NBC)

6 AM PTL Club
7 AM Today
9 AM PTL Club continues
10 AM High Rollers
10:30 Wheel Of Fortune
11 AM Password Plus
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Days Of Our Lives
1 PM The Doctors
1:30 Another World
3 PM Cartoons
3:30 Andy Griffith
4 PM Bionic Woman
5 PM Dating Game
5:30 NBC News
6 PM News
6:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
7 PM Little House On The Prairie
8 PM NBC Movie: "Fast Friends"
10 PM News
10:30 Tonight Show
12 M Tomorrow
 
Hey bpatrick, do you have any TV listings from local TV guides from Northern Alabama from the late 1980s (1985-1989)? If so, just let me know and I'd love to see some posted, and I hope you're on the lookout for some!

Here are the listings...

4 - WCBI Columbus (CBS)
6 - WBRC Birmingham (ABC)
7 - WCIQ Mount Cheaha (PBS)
9 - WTVA Tupelo (NBC)
10 - WBIQ Birmingham (PBS)
13 - WVTM Birmingham (NBC)
15 - WOWL Florence (NBC)
17 - WDBB Tuscaloosa (Ind, became Fox affiliate in 1986)
19 - WHNT Huntsville (CBS)
21 - WTTO Birmingham (Ind.)
25 - WHIQ Huntsville (PBS)
26 - WTRT Florence (Ind.)
31 - WAAY Huntsville (ABC)
33 - WCFT Tuscaloosa (CBS)
36 - WFIQ Florence (PBS)
40 - WJSU Anniston (CBS)
42 - WBMG Birmingham (CBS)
44 - WNAL Gadsgen (Ind, became Fox affiliate in 1986)
48 - WAFF Huntsville (NBC)
54 - WZDX Huntsville (Ind.)
68 - WCAJ Birmingham (Ind.)
 
I assume that "To Tell The Truth" was all in reruns since the original TTTT ended in 1978 and the Robin Ward TTTT didn't start until a year later. Why wasn't "Tic Tac Dough" shown in Alabama in 1979 and when did Alabama pick up TTD?
 
The Robin Ward version of "TTTT" didn't start until 1980; what you see here are the Joe Garagiola episodes. At the time it was not uncommon for a station to pick up a syndicated show that might be in its second or third year of production and begin with year one; syndicated "TTTT" began in 1969 but wasn't picked up in Birmingham until 1972 ("What's My Line?" went into syndication in 1968 and wasn't picked up by Channel 42 until 1972, and they were showing episodes taped in 1968 the first year they had it.) However, in the fall of 1979, WBRC began airing "Tic Tac Dough" at 6 and "Joker's Wild" at 6:30; they did this for a year before putting "PM Magazine" at 6:30 and moving "Joker's Wild" to 12:30 PM. WTVF, you'll note, was already carrying "Joker's Wild" at 8:30 AM; I don't recall who had "TTD" in Nashville.
 
I didn't know WOWL ever cleared game shows in the 4-5 slot. When we lived in Northern Mississippi (until August 1978), Guiding Light aired at that time. The station must have dropped it and then picked it up again because when I stayed in Florence with my relatives during the summer of 1980, I'm sure I remember my cousins watching GL right before the 5pm news. We had just seen Kevin Bacon in Friday the 13th, and I was surprised to see him that same summer on GL.
 
I was surprised to see that, too, because every Northern Alabama TV Guide I've seen from 1977 on (with the obvious exception of this one) had "ATWT" at 3 and "GL" at 4 on Channel 15. Perhaps viewers demanded the return of "GL" because, despite the Luke and Laura craze on "General Hospital," which aired against "GL" at 2 PM, "GL" still held onto third or fourth place in the ratings, thanks to the Four Musketeers: Rick Bauer, Phillip Spaulding, Mindy Lewis, and Beth Raines. The last episode of "GL" showed Phillip and Beth married, IIRC, and Rick and Mindy headed in that direction.
 
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