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Retro: Northern Wisconsin/Western Upper Michigan Sat, Dec 17, 1977

from TV Guide-Northern Wisconsin edition
Michigan channels listed CT

WBAY 2-CBS Green Bay
5:30 Sunrise Semester "Man's Place in Nature"
6:00 Cartoon Time
6:30 Kidsworld
7:00 Skatebirds
8:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
9:30 Batman/Tarzan
10:30 Space Academy
11:00 Isis
11:30 NFL Today
noon NFL: LA Rams-Washington
3:00 Star Trek
4:00 Bowling
5:00 Price is Right
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 News
6:30 Lawrence Welk (Christmas and winter tunes)
7:30 We've Got Each Other
8:00 Jeffersons
8:30 Tony Randall
9:00 Kojak
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "Ritual of Evil"
12:15 Movie "Zita"

WBBM 2-CBS Chicago listed overnight only
12:45am Common Ground
3:15 Movie "Man Bait"

WISC 3-CBS Madison
6:30 Sunrise Semester "Man's Place in Nature"
7:00 Skatebirds
8:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
9:30 Batman/Tarzan
10:30 Space Academy
11:30 NFL Today
noon NFL: Rams-Redskins
3:00 CBS Sports Spectacular: highlights of the WBC welterweight title bout between champ Carlos Palomino and Jose Palacios/NHRA World Finals/US Pro Armwrestling Championships/World's Strongest Man pt 10
5:00 Bobby Vinton (guests Chita Rivera and Tom Bresh)
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 Hee Haw (guests Dennis Weaver and Susan Raye)
7:00 Bob Newhart
7:30 We've Got Each Other
8:00 Jeffersons
8:30 Tony Randall
9:00 Kojak
10:00 News
10:30 In Search of...
11:00 Movie "Young at Heart"
12:30 Pop Goes the Country (guests Crystal Gayle, Tommy Overstreet, and Carl Perkins)

WTMJ 4-NBC Milwaukee
6:00 Ag USA
6:30 Library Playhouse
6:45 Library Story
7:00 CB Bears
8:00 Movie "The Christmas Martian"
9:30 Adventures of Muhammad Ali
10:00 Thunder
10:30 Search & Rescue
11:00 Baggy Pants & the Nitwits
11:30 Red Hand Gang
noon Kidsworld
12:30 Inner View
1:00 Human Rights
1:30 Soul Train
2:30 American Life Style
3:00 NFL: Buffalo-Miami
6:00 News
6:30 Hollywood Squares
7:00 Bionic Woman
8:00 Movie "The Incredible Rocky Mountain Race"
10:00 News
10:30 Saturday Night (viewer-selected host Miskel Spillman; conflicting info on guests: TVG has the Sex Pistols and Franken & David, while online sources say it was Elvis Costello)
mid. Midnight Special (guest host Lou Rawls is joined by Rod Stewart, ELO, Dorothy Moore, Thin Lizzy, and Paul Nicholas)
1:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert

WFRV 5-Green Bay/WJMN 3-Escanaba (NBC)
6:30 Davey & Goliath
7:00 CB Bears
8:00 Space Sentinels
8:30 Super Witch
9:00 Bang-Shang Lalapalooza
9:30 Batman/Tarzan
10:30 Search & Rescue
11:00 Baggy Pants & the Nitwits
11:30 Red Hand Gang
noon Flintstones
12:30 Petticoat Junction
1:00 Wild Kingdom
1:30 Pop Goes the Country
2:00 Big Red Rodeo
3:00 NFL: Bills-Dolphins
6:00 News
6:30 That's Hollywood!
7:00 Bionic Woman
8:00 Movie "The Incredible Rocky Mountain Race"
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "Journey to the Unknown"

WITI 6-CBS Milwaukee
6:00 Skatebirds
7:00 Popeye
7:30 Porky Pig & Friends
8:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
9:30 Batman/Tarzan
10:30 Space Academy
11:00 Isis
11:30 NFL Today
noon NFL: Rams-Redskins
3:00 CBS Sports Spectacular
5:00 TV6 Reports
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 Season's Greetings from Our New Home (Christmas celebrations from the WITI Communications Center includes tree decorating, carols, and Albert the Alleycat with his version of The Night Before Christmas)
6:30 Sights & Sounds of Christmas (highlights of Christmas concerts and the Milwaukee Christmas Parade)
7:00 Fantastic Toyshop (the Milwaukee Symphony's Kinderkonzert, with help from the Robin Reed Puppet Theatre)
8:00 Jeffersons
8:30 Tony Randall
9:00 Kojak
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "A Christmas Carol" (bw/1938 version)
11:50 Movie "Packetful of Miracles"
2:25 News
2:30 Speak Freely

WLUC 6-CBS/ABC Marquette
7:00 Skatebirds
8:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
9:30 Batman/Tarzan
10:30 Space Academy
11:00 Santa Claus
11:30 NFL Today
noon NFL: Rams-Redskins
3:00 CBS Sports Spectacular
5:00 News
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 Lawrence Welk (same as ch 2)
7:00 Bob Newhart
7:30 We've Got Each Other
8:00 Jeffersons
8:30 Tony Randall
9:00 Kojak
10:00 News
10:30 Gunsmoke
11:30 Movie "Sally and Saint Anne" (bw)

WSAU 7-CBS Wausau
7:00 Skatebirds
8:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
9:30 Batman/Tarzan
10:30 Space Academy
11:00 Isis
11:30 NFL Today
noon NFL: Rams-Redskins
3:00 CBS Sports Spectacular
5:00 High Quiz Bowl: Antigo High v last week's winner
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 News
6:30 Lawrence Welk (same as ch 2)
7:30 We've Got Each Other
8:00 Jeffersons
8:30 Tony Randall
9:00 Kojak
10:00 News
10:30 Ironside
11:30 Columbo

WKBT 8-CBS La Crosse
7:00 Skatebirds
8:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
9:30 Batman/Tarzan
10:30 Space Academy
11:00 Isis
11:30 NFL Today
noon NFL: Rams-Redskins
3:00 CBS Sports Spectacular
5:00 High Quiz Bowl: La Crosse Aquinas v last week's winner (were this and ch 7's version related?)
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 Lawrence Welk (as ch 2)
7:00 Bob Newhart
7:30 We've Got Each Other
8:00 Jeffersons
8:30 Tony Randall
9:00 Kojak
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "Assignment K"
12:20 PTL Club

WAOW 9-Wausau/WXOW 19-La Crosse (ABC)
7:00 Superfriends
8:00 Scooby's Laff-a-Lympics
10:00 Krofft Supershow
11:00 ABC Weekend Special "Pssst! Hammerman's After You" (1 hr)
noon US Farm Report
12:30 Agriculture Today
1:00 A Better Way
1:30 Quest for Adventure
2:00 America's Problems & Challenges
2:30 Navy Film
3:00 12 O'Clock High
4:00 ABC Wide World of Sports: Sugar Ray Leonard (5-0) v Hector "Chinito" Diaz (17-6-3) in a welterweight bout live from DC-this was Sugar Ray's debut in that category; National 500 auto race/World Pro Skiing Championships
5:30 ABC Evening News
6:00 Community '77
6:30 Brady Bunch
7:00 Tabitha
7:30 Operation Petticoat
8:00 NFL: Minnesota-Detroit
11:00 Movie "Flame of the Barbary Coast" (bw)
12:40 ABC News
12:55 12 O'Clock High (bw)

WGN 9-Ind Chicago
6:30 News
7:00 US Farm Report
7:30 Daniel Boone
8:30 Movie "Crashing Las Vegas" (bw)
10:00 Movie "The Littlest Rebel" (bw)
11:30 Charlando
noon Movie "David Copperfield" (bw)
2:30 Movie "Keep 'Em Flying" (bw)
4:00 Soul Train (guests the Spinners; and Hedges, James & Smith)
5:00 Family Affair
5:30 My Three Sons
6:00 Dick Van Dyke (bw)
6:30 Odd Couple
7:00 NBA: Chicago-New York (live from MSG; Lorn Brown/Johnny Kerr)
9:00 TBA
9:30 Hogan's Heroes
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "The Victors" (bw)
1:30 News
2:00 Movie "Slattery's Hurricane" (bw)

WMVS 10-PBS Milwaukee
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Electric Company
10:30 Consumer Survival Kit
11:00 French Chef
11:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
noon Sesame Street
1:00 Once Upon a Classic "Robin Hood" (pt 11)
1:30 Music from Summerfest
2:30 Age of Uncertainty (taped in 1976 at John Kenneth Galbraith's Vermont farm, Henry Kissiner and ex-British PM Edward Heath head an international forum as the series concludes)
4:00 Best of Families
5:00 Metroplex
6:00 Black Perspective on the News
6:30 Once Upon a Classic (rerun from 1pm)
7:00 James Michener's World "Hawaii Revisited"
8:00 Hollywood Television Theatre "Six Characters in Search of an Actor" (the cast is led by John Houseman and Andy Griffith)
9:30 Portrait of a Nurse (following a Boston nurse practitioner)
10:00 No-Honestly
10:30 David Susskind "Who was Lee Harvey Oswald?" (Columnist Jack Anderson leads the panel)

WLUK 11-ABC Green Bay
6:30 Valley of the Dinosaurs
7:00 Superfriends
8:00 Scooby's Laff-a-Lympics
10:00 Krofft Supershow
11:00 ABC Weekend Special "Pssst! Hammerman's After You" (1 hr)
noon US Farm Report
12:30 Movie "Hansel and Gretel" (bw)
1:15 Movie "The Golden Goose"
2:30 Movie "Dogs to the Rescue"
4:00 ABC Wide World of Sports
5:30 All-Star Anything Goes: Busting Loose takes on Eight is Enough
6:00 Hee Haw (same as ch 3)
7:00 Tabitha
7:30 Peege (drama detailing a family's final visit to a dying grandma during the Christmas season)
8:00 NFL: Minnesota-Detroit
11:00 ABC News
11:15 News
11:30 Wrestling
12:30 700 Club
1:30 Movie "Bad Lands" (bw)

WISN 12-ABC Milwaukee
6:00 Badger Farm Report
6:30 Bozo's Big Top
7:00 Superfriends
8:00 Scooby's Laff-a-Lympics
10:00 Krofft Supershow
11:00 ABC Weekend Special "Pssst! Hammerman's After You"
noon American Bandstand (guests the Babys; 30 min)
12:30 Movie "You're Never Too Young" (Dean and Jerry take on The Major and the Minor)
2:30 Closeup: Ethnic Milwaukee (a look at the city's various groups)
3:30 Skiing is Believing
4:00 ABC Wide World of Sports
5:30 News
6:00 Inn by the Side of the Road (a woman, still in love with the husband who dumped her a few years earlier, finally comes to grips with her situation during a weekend stay at an inn)
6:30 Night the Animals Talked
7:00 Tabitha
7:30 Operation Petticoat
8:00 NFL: Vikings-Lions
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Anything Goes"
12:55 Movie "Riding High" (bw)

WAEO 12-NBC Rhinelander
7:00 CB Bears
8:00 Space Sentinels
8:30 Super Witch
9:00 Bang-Shang Lalapalooza
9:30 Adventures of Muhammad Ali
10:00 Thunder
10:30 Search & Rescue
11:00 Baggy Pants & the Nitwits
11:30 Red Hand Gang
noon Nicolet College Forum
12:30 Answers for Today
1:00 PTL Club
3:00 NFL: Bills-Dolphins
6:00 Hee Haw (as ch 3)
7:00 Bionic Woman
8:00 Movie "The Incredible Rocky Mountain Race"
10:00 News
10:30 Saturday Night

WNMU 13-PBS Marquette
8:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
8:30 Electric Company
9:00 NMU Commencement
10:30 Consumer Survival Kit
11:00 French Chef
11:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
noon Parent Effectiveness
12:30 Montage
1:00 Movie "Open City" (bw)
2:40 Rebop
3:00 Nova "The Red Planet" (examines theories about life on Mars)
4:00 Age of Uncertainty
5:30 Best of Ernie Kovacs (bw)
6:00 No-Honestly
6:30 Portrait of a Nurse
7:00 Best of Families (finale)
8:00 James Michener's World "Hawaii Revisited"
9:00 Movie "M" (bw)
10:40 Films

WEAU 13-NBC Eau Claire
7:00 CB Bears
8:00 Space Sentinels
8:30 Super Witch
9:00 Bang-Shang Lalapalooza
9:30 Adventures of Muhammad Ali
10:00 Thunder
10:30 Search & Rescue
11:00 Baggy Pants & the Nitwits
11:30 My Three Sons
noon Dick Rodgers
12:30 US Farm Report
1:00 Adam-12
1:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
2:00 Pop Goes the Country
2:30 NFL '77
3:00 NFL: Bills-Dolphins
6:00 Hee Haw (as ch 3)
7:00 Bionic Woman
8:00 Movie "The Incredible Rocky Mountain Race"
10:00 News
10:30 Saturday Night
mid. Marcus Welby, MD

WVTV 18-Ind Milwaukee
11:00 South by Northwest
11:30 Big Blue Marble
noon Magilla Gorilla
12:30 Comedy Cutups
1:00 Tarzan
2:00 Movie "Song of Scherherazade"
4:00 Twilight Zone (bw/x2)
5:00 Wrestling
6:00 Hee Haw (as ch 3)
7:00 Pop Goes the Country (guests Jerry Reed, Susan Raye, and Mickey Newbury)
7:30 Dolly (guest Jim Stafford)
8:00 National Geographic "The Lonely Doryman-Portugal's Men of the Sea"
9:00 Movie "The Night Walker" (bw)
11:00 700 Club
12:30 News

WHRM 20-Wausau/WPNE 38-Green Bay/WHWC 28-Eau Claire/WHLA 31-La Crosse (PBS, Wisconsin Public TV)
8:00 Washington Week in Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9:00 Dick Cavett (guest: playwright Ntozake Shange)
9:30 Daniel Foster, MD
10:00 Parent Effectiveness
10:30 Consumer Survival Kit
11:00 French Chef
11:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
noon Dick Cavett (guest Thomas Hoving, outgoing director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
12:30 Montage
1:00 Farm Digest
1:30 Target: The State
2:00 (20) Studio See
2:00 (38/28/31) Encompass
2:30 Rebop
3:00 Nova "The Red Planet"
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Images of Aging
6:00 Black Perspective on the News
6:30 Once Upon a Classic "Robin Hood" (pt 11)
7:00 James Michener's World "Hawaii Revisited"
8:00 Evening at Symphony
9:30 David Susskind
11:25 Rest of the Story

WKBD 50-Ind Detroit
7:30 Jerry Falwell
8:30 Big Blue Marble
9:00 Movie "Coast of Skeletons"
11:00 Movie "Sierra Baron"
12:30 Movie "The Disembodied" (bw)
2:00 Movie "Caribbean"
4:00 Star Trek
5:00 Emergency One!
6:00 I Love Lucy (bw)
6:30 Brady Bunch
7:00 Movie "Ice Palace"
10:00 Flash Gordon "Rocketing to Earth" (bw)
10:30 Saturday Night (what did Motown's NBC affiliate WWJ run in the time slot?)
 
10:30 Saturday Night (viewer-selected host Miskel Spillman; conflicting info on guests: TVG has the Sex Pistols and Franken & David, while online sources say it was Elvis Costello)

The Sex Pistols were scheduled, but cancelled on short notice. Costello, in an unusual move, started playing one song ('Less Than Zero'), then abruptly stopped, and began playing playing 'Radio Radio'...the song he had wanted to play in the first place, but the producers, for whatever reason, preferred the other one.
 
The Pistols' visa problems were the result of their criminal records. Attractions drummer Pete Thomas wore a "Thanks, Malc" shirt during "Radio Radio"'s performance--a reference to Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren.

I remember this broadcast well; in fact, it was my introduction to Elvis Costello. He and the band were great; still, I would have loved to see Johnny Rotten and the lads on "SNL." Rotten/Lydon's memorable run-in with Tom Snyder was still two-and-a-half years down the long and winding road.
 
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