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Retro: Northern Alabama Sat., March 17, 1979

By request, from TV Guide, Northern Alabama Edition:

WNGE (WKRN) Ch. 2 Nashville (ABC)

6 AM Children's Gospel Hour
6:30 Marlo And The Magic Movie Machine (Alexander Graham Bell, Gen. Jimmy Doolittle)
7 AM Scooby's All-Stars
8:30 Challenge Of The Superfriends
10 AM Fangface
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Battle Of The Planets
11:30 American Bandstand (Brooklyn Dreams, Talking Heads)
12:30 Adam-12
1 PM Sports Afield
1:30 American Sportsman (Tanya Tucker and author Thomas McGuire join a wild-horse roundup in Wyoming, Jan-Michael Vincent and Deborah Raffin scuba dive in Cuban waters, a parachute jump off the El Capitan peak in Yosemite National Park)
2:30 Pro Bowlers Tour (King Louie Open from Overland Park, KS)
4 PM Wide World Of Sports (World Figure Skating Championships (men's and pairs' events), Women's Masters Surfing Championship)
5:30 News
6 PM Bugs Bunny And Friends
7 PM Delta House
7:30 Welcome Back, Kotter
8 PM Love Boat (Sonny Bono, Charlie Callas, Jill St. John, Dana Wynter, Peter Lawford)
9 PM Fantasy Island (Eleanor Parker, Craig Stevens, Lew Ayres, Dennis Cole)
10 PM News
10:30 Movie: "Not As A Stranger"
1 AM ABC News (Tom Jarriel)
1:15 News
1:45 Movie: "Li'l Scratch"
3:30 Movie: "Alaskan Safari"
5 AM Merv Griffin (last of a three-part salute to Columbia Pictures, with Jack Lemmon, Michael Caine, and Jacqueline Bisset)

WCBI Ch. 4 Columbus, MS (ABC)

6 AM Kids Are People Too (opera star Roberta Peters, Nipsey Russell, roller-disco dancer Dexter Abernathy, delay from Sun 9:30 AM)
7 AM Scooby's All-Stars
8:30 Challenge Of The Superfriends
10 AM Fangface
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM ABC Weekend Special: "Little Lulu"
11:30 American Bandstand
12:30 Fishing With Roland Martin
1 PM Pop Goes The Country (Ray Stevens, Moe Bandy)
1:30 American Sportsman
2:30 Pro Bowlers Tour
4 PM Wide World Of Sports
5:30 Tony Brown's Journal
6 PM Dolly (guest is Tennessee Ernie Ford)
6:30 Sha Na Na (guest is Paul Anka)
7 PM Delta House
7:30 Welcome Back, Kotter
8 PM Love Boat
9 PM Fantasy Island
10 PM ABC News
10:15 Soul Train (Gino Vannelli, Gloria Gaynor)
11:15 PTL Club

WSM (WSMV) Ch. 4 Nashville (NBC)

5:55 Ag-USA
6:25 Farm Digest
6:30 Bay City Rollers
7 AM Alvin And The Chipmunks
7:30 Fantastic Four
8 AM Godzilla Super 90
9:30 Daffy Duck
10 AM New Fred And Barney Show
10:30 Jetsons
11 AM Buford And The Galloping Ghost
11:30 Fabulous Funnies
12 N Hot Fudge
12:30 Formby's Antique Furniture Workshop
1 PM NCAA Basketball Tournament: Midwest Regional Final from Cincinnati
3 PM NCAA Basketball Tournament: West Regional Final from Provo, UT (time approximate)
5 PM Pop Goes The Country (Marty Robbins, Louise Mandrell, R.C. Bannon, time approximate)
5:30 That Nashville Music
6 PM News
6:30 Teddy Bart's Nashville
7 PM CHiPs
8 PM BJ And The Bear
9 PM Rockford Files
10 PM News
10:30 Saturday Night Live (hostess Margot Kidder, musical guests The Chieftains)
12 M Movie: "Lady For A Night"

WTVF Ch. 5 Nashville (CBS)

7 AM All-New Popeye Hour
8 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
9:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
11 AM Space Academy
11:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12 N Cliffwood Avenue Kids
12:30 Fun City 5
1 PM Spotlight On Schools
1:30 Channel 5 News Conference
2 PM Wrestling
3 PM Ironside
4 PM Candid Camera (Fannie Flagg as an exterminator who loses control of her demonstration bugs; bystanders react to the opening assault in a pie fight)
4:30 Sha Na Na (guests: the Coasters)
5 PM News
5:30 Hee Haw Honeys (guests: the Oak Ridge Boys)
6 PM Hee Haw (George Jones, Eddie Rabbitt, the Stoney Mountain Cloggers)
7 PM Wonder Woman
8 PM CBS Movie: "Willa"
10 PM News
10:30 Gunsmoke
11:30 The Rookies
12:30 Movie: "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre"
2:30 News

WBRC Ch. 6 Birmingham (ABC)

5 AM Changed Lives
5:30 Youth Speaks Out
6 AM Kids Are People Too
7 AM Scooby's All-Stars
8:30 Challenge Of The Superfriends
10 AM Fangface
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM ABC Weekend Special
11:30 American Bandstand
12:30 Bill Dance Outdoors
1 PM Three's Company (delay from Tue 8 PM)
1:30 American Sportsman
2:30 Movie: "Deliver Us From Evil"
4 PM Wide World Of Sports
5:30 News
6 PM Lawrence Welk (a salute to St. Patrick's Day)
7 PM Delta House
7:30 Welcome Back, Kotter
8 PM Love Boat
9 PM Fantasy Island
10 PM News
10:30 Movie: "Ten North Frederick"
12:30 Sha Na Na (guest is Patti Page)
1 AM Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (A Taste Of Honey, REO Speedwagon, the Climax Blues Band, Jay Leno)
2:30 Soul Train (Gino Vannelli, Gloria Gaynor)
3:30 The FBI
4:30 Faith For Today

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

8 AM Sesame Street
9 AM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
10 AM Garden Show
10:30 Sneak Previews
11 AM Magic Method Of Oil Painting
11:30 Rebop
12 N Sesame Street
1 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
1:30 Electric Company
2 PM Academy Leaders: "Solo," a 1972 documentary about a lone mountain climber's ascent
3 PM World: "F-16: Sale Of The Century" (the 1975 purchase of 348 American fighter planes by four NATO countries for $2.5 billion)
4 PM Footsteps
4:30 Almost Home
5 PM The Other School System
5:30 Capstone Week
6 PM Congressional Outlook
6:30 Another Voice
7 PM Movie: "America At The Movies"
9 PM Austin City Limits (Leon Redbone, Steven Fromholz)
10 PM The Advocates (the pros and cons of deregulating the trucking industry)
sign off 11 PM

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

6 AM Go!
6:30 Bay City Rollers
7 AM Alvin And The Chipmunks
7:30 Fantastic Four
8 AM Godzilla Super 90
9:30 Daffy Duck
10 AM New Fred And Barney Show
10:30 Jetsons
11 AM Buford And The Galloping Ghost
11:30 Fabulous Funnies
12 N Wrestling
1 PM NCAA Basketball Tournament: Midwest Regional Final
3 PM NCAA Basketball Tournament: West Regional Final (time approximate)
5 PM Focus (time approximate)
5:30 NBC News (anchor not given)
6 PM Hee Haw
7 PM CHiPs
8 PM BJ And The Bear
9 PM Rockford Files
10 PM Adam-12
10:30 Saturday Night Live
12 M Movie: "Canyon Passage"
1:30 Movie: "My Wild Irish Rose"
3 AM Movie: "Cinderella Jones"
4:30 Movie: "Devotion"

WAPI (WVTM) Ch. 13 Birmingham (NBC)

5:40 Go!
6:10 Book Talk
6:15 Farm Round-Up
6:30 Bay City Rollers
7 AM Alvin And The Chipmunks
7:30 Fantastic Four
8 AM Godzilla Super 90
9:30 Daffy Duck
10 AM New Fred And Barney Show
10:30 Jetsons
11 AM Buford And The Galloping Ghost
11:30 Fabulous Funnies
12 N That Nashville Music (Johnny Paycheck, Melba Montgomery, Darrell McCall)
12:30 Pop Goes The Country
1 PM NCAA Basketball Tournament: Midwest Regional Final
3 PM NCAA Basketball Tournament: West Regional Final (time approximate)
5 PM News (time approximate)
5:30 NBC News
6 PM Hee Haw
7 PM CHiPs
8 PM BJ And The Bear
9 PM Rockford Files
10 PM Supertrain (delay from Wed 7 PM, when Ch. 13 was showing "Edward The King")
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live

WOWL (WHDF) Ch. 15 Florence (NBC)

6:15 Earline In Storyland
6:30 Bay City Rollers
7 AM Alvin And The Chipmunks
7:30 Fantastic Four
8 AM Godzilla Super 90
9:30 Daffy Duck
10 AM New Fred And Barney Show
10:30 Jetsons
11 AM Buford And The Galloping Ghost
11:30 Fabulous Funnies
12 N Cartoons
12:30 Sports Afield
1 PM NCAA Basketball Tournament: Midwest Regional Final
3 PM NCAA Basketball Tournament: West Regional Final (time approximate)
5 PM Fishing With Roland Martin (time approximate)
5:30 NBC News
6 PM Hee Haw
7 PM CHiPs
8 PM BJ And The Bear
9 PM Rockford Files
10 PM Comedy Shop (Stanley Myron Handelman, Joe Restivo, Pat Henry, Tom Dreesen, Bobby Sandler, Jack Palance--yes, the same)
10:30 Saturday Night Live
sign off 12 M

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

4:40 World At Large
5:10 Discovery
5:40 News
6 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
7 AM Cliffwood Avenue Kids
7:30 Partridge Family
8 AM Star Trek
9 AM Movie: "The Story Of Louis Pasteur"
11 AM Movie: "The Jayhawkers"
1 PM Movie: "Konga"
3 PM Mission: Impossible
4 PM Fishin' Hole
4:30 American Life Style (the life and career of Louis Armstrong)
5 PM Georgia Championship Wrestling
7 PM Hee Haw Honeys (guest: Tom T. Hall)
7:30 Marty Robbins' Spotlight (a salute to Barbara Fairchild, with guest Connie Smith)
8 PM Dolly (guests: K.C. and the Sunshine Band)
8:30 NBA Basketball: Hawks-Nuggets
10:45 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (War, Jean-Luc Ponty, Stormin' Norman and Suzy, Rick Podell, Dale Gonyea, the Village Idiots, time approximate)
12:15 Juke-Box (guests are Kiki Dee, Cliff Richard, and Ace)
12:45 NBA Basketball: Hawks-Nuggets replay
3 AM 12 O'Clock High (time approximate)
4 AM Dragnet

WHNT Ch. 19 Huntsville (CBS)

6 AM Ag-USA
6:30 Tennessee Valley Farm Time
7 AM All-New Popeye Hour
8 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
9:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
11 AM Little Rascals/Our Gang
11:30 Kidsworld (Debby Boone, a school for children with hearing difficulties, a young diving champion)
12 N Ark II
12:30 30 Minutes (the effects of loud rock music on the ears)
1 PM Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1:30 Alabama/Tennessee Outdoors
2 PM Next Step Beyond
2:30 Porter Wagoner (guest: Lois Johnson)
3 PM Golf: Doral-Eastern Open (third round)
4 PM CBS Sports Spectacular (Holmekollen (Norway) Ski Jumping Festival, part 2 of the Pro Ice Spectacular from La Jolla, CA; WBC bantamweight championship: Carlos Zarate (champion) vs. Mensa Kpalogo, 15 rounds, taped in Los Angeles)
5 PM That Nashville Music (Jerry Reed, B.B. King, Buddy Spicher)
5:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
6 PM Lawrence Welk
7 PM Wonder Woman
8 PM CBS Movie: "Willa"
10 PM Marty Robbins' Spotlight (saluted: the Kendalls; guest is Barbara Mandrell)
10:30 Dolly (guest: Bobby Goldsboro)
11 PM Movie: "Change Of Heart"
12:45 Movie: "Dakota Incident"

WAAY Ch. 31 Huntsville (ABC)

6 AM Cartoons
6:30 Animals, Animals, Animals (cautioning against buying exotic animals as pets; how monkeys and apes are maintained at Texas' Gladys Porter Zoo, delay from Sun 10:30 AM)
7 AM Scooby's All-Stars
8:30 Challenge Of The Superfriends
10 AM Fangface
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM ABC Weekend Special
11:30 American Bandstand
12:30 Love, American Style
1 PM Bill Dance Outdoors
1:30 American Sportsman
2:30 Pro Bowlers Tour
4 PM Wide World Of Sports
5:30 News
6 PM Hee Haw
7 PM Delta House
7:30 Welcome Back, Kotter
8 PM Love Boat
9 PM Fantasy Island
10 PM News
10:30 Movie: "Murders In The Rue Morgue" (Bela Lugosi, from '32)
12 M Hee Haw Honeys (guests: the Kendalls)
12:30 Soul Train

WCFT Ch. 33 Tuscaloosa (CBS)

7 AM All-New Popeye Hour
8 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
9:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
11 AM Space Academy
11:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12 N Ark II
12:30 30 Minutes
1 PM Soul Train (Bonnie Pointer, Dan Hartman)
2 PM Wrestling
3 PM Golf: Doral-Eastern Open (third round)
4 PM CBS Sports Spectacular
5 PM Sportsman's Friend
5:30 C.M. Newton: University of Alabama Basketball Highlights
6 PM Hee Haw
7 PM Wonder Woman
8 PM St. Jude's Hospital Telethon (to 1 AM)

WHMA (WJSU) Ch. 40 Anniston (CBS)

7 AM All-New Popeye Hour
8 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
9:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
11 AM Space Academy
11:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12 N Ark II
12:30 The Bible Way
1 PM Books And Bookworms
1:30 Town And Country
2 PM Lawrence Welk (the cast's annual performance at Lake Tahoe)
3 PM Golf: Doral-Eastern Open (third round)
4 PM CBS Sports Spectacular
5 PM Crossroads Hour
5:30 Know Your Bible
6 PM Hee Haw (Faron Young, Mickey Gilley)
7 PM Wonder Woman
8 PM CBS Movie: "Willa"
10 PM Dallas (delay from Fri 9 PM)
11 PM Jerry Falwell
sign off 12 M

WBMG (WIAT) Ch. 42 Birmingham (CBS)

6:45 Focus
7 AM All-New Popeye Hour
8 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
9:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
11 AM Space Academy
11:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12 N Star Trek
1 PM Ark II
1:30 Outdoors With Julius Boros
2 PM Fishin' Hole
2:30 Outdoorsman (I don't think this is Buck McNeely, since, IIRC, his show started in Cape Girardeau, MO, in 1985.)
3 PM Golf: Doral-Eastern Open (third round)
4 PM CBS Sports Spectacular
5 PM C.M. Newton
5:30 CBS News
6 PM Guideline
7 PM Wonder Woman
8 PM CBS Movie: "Wiila"
10 PM Dallas
11 PM Wrestling
12 M Juke-Box
12:30 Focus
sign off 12:45 AM

WAFF Ch. 48 Huntsville (NBC)

6:30 Bay City Rollers
7 AM Alvin And The Chipmunks
7:30 Fantastic Four
8 AM Godzilla Super 90
9:30 Daffy Duck
10 AM New Fred And Barney Show
10:30 Jetsons
11 AM Buford And The Galloping Ghost
11:30 Fabulous Funnies
12 N Wrestling
1 PM NCAA Basketball Tournament: Midwest Regional Final
3 PM NCAA Basketball Tournament: West Regional Final (time approximate)
5 PM Dateline 48 (time approximate)
5:30 NBC News
6 PM News
6:30 Wild Kingdom
7 PM CHiPs
8 PM BJ And The Bear
9 PM Rockford Files
10 PM News
10:30 Saturday Night Live
12 M NBC Movie: "The Critical List" (Part 1, delay from Sun 10:30 PM)
 
Nice. A couple of notes: The Alvin & The Chipmunks listed on the NBC stations was repeats of the original Alvin Show (CBS, 1961-62). The show Ruby-Spears did would not start until 1983. Also, I came across a TV Guide from the Los Angeles area around that time and noticed that ABC started straight away with Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! ("third season" episodes, which had started at the beginning of the 1978-79 season at 8 AM ET) and Scooby's All-Stars aired later. Still trying to figure that one out.
 
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