Retro: Peoria, IL/Quad Cities, IA-IL--February 8, 1980

[Tim from Springfield IL]

From the Galesburg (IL) Register-Mail "Guide," Feb. 2, 1980, pp. 8, 10.

Stations listed (I listed only the over-the-air stations, which then would have consisted of the full affiliate slate for both the Peoria and Quad Cities markets. Listings for HBO, Galesburg Public Access channel 7, and Chicago stations WGN-9, WTTW-11, WFLD-32, and WSNS-44 were also listed, the latter three then also carried on cable in the 'Burg):

4-WHBF (CBS) Rock Island
6-WOC (now KWQC) (NBC) Davenport
8-WQAD (ABC) Moline ("Active 8")
12-KIIN (PBS, Iowa Public Television) Iowa City
19-WRAU (now WHOI) (ABC) Peoria
25-WEEK (NBC) Peoria
31-WMBD (CBS) Peoria
47-WTVP (PBS) Peoria

Listings began at 7AM (daytime listings were listed in the general M-F format).

7AM
4-Morning (likely "CBS This Morning")
6, 25-Today
8, 19-Good Morning America
12-Instructional Programs
31-Bullwinkle
47-(No programs listed until 9AM)

7:30AM
31-Dudley Do-Right

8AM
4, 31-Captain Kangaroo

9AM
4-Green Acres
6-Mike Douglas
8, 19-Phil Donahue
12, 47-Sesame Street
25-Leave It To Beaver
31-Jeffersons

9:30AM
4, 31-Celebrity WHEW!
25-Hollywood Squares

10AM
4, 31-Price is Right
6, 25-High Rollers
8-Romper Room (Teacher: Miss Peggy)
12-Instructional Programs
19-Newlywed Game
47-Electric Company

10:30AM
6, 25-Wheel of Fortune
8, 19-Family Feud
47-Varied Programs

11AM
4-Mary Tyler Moore
6, 25-Chain Reaction
8, 19-$20,000 Pyramid
31-The Young and the Restless
47-(off-air until 3PM--until June 1987 WTVP had no midday programming until 3PM-not even instructional programs)

11:30AM
4-Search for Tomorrow
6, 25-Password Plus
8, 19-Ryan's Hope

12PM
4-The Young and the Restless
6, 31-News
8, 19-All My Children
25-Days of Our Lives

12:30PM
6-Days of Our Lives
12-Electric Company
31-Search for Tomorrow

1PM
4, 31-As the World Turns
8, 19-One Life to Live
12-Instructional Programs
25-The Doctors

1:30PM
6-The Doctors
25-Another World (90 minutes?)

2PM
4, 31-Guiding Light
6-Another World (90 minutes?)
8, 19-General Hospital

3PM
4-I Love Lucy
8-Merv Griffin
19-Edge of Night
25-Captain Jinks (WEEK's legendary locally-produced children's show)
31-Mary Tyler Moore
47-Sesame Street

3:30PM
4-Bugs Bunny and Friends
6-Bewitched
19-Petticoat Junction
31-Dinah! (90 minutes)

4PM
4, 25-Gilligan's Island
6-Brady Bunch
12-Sesame Street
19-Andy Griffith
47-Mister Rogers Neighborhood

4:30PM
4-Leave It To Beaver
6-Bob Newhart
8-Happy Days Again
19-Hogan's Heroes
25-I Love Lucy
47-Electric Company

5PM
4-Hogan's Heroes
6-Tic Tac Dough
8-News
12-Mister Rogers Neighborhood
19-ABC News
25-Joker's Wild
31-Tom and Jerry
47- 3-2-1 Contact (had premiered a few weeks earlier)

5:30PM
4, 31-CBS News
6, 25-NBC News
8-ABC News
12-Electric Company
19-News
47-Over Easy

6PM
4, 6, 8, 25, 31-News
12-Over Easy
19-M*A*S*H
47-Another Voice

6:30PM
4-Newlywed Game
6-Grizzly Adams (60 minutes)
8-M*A*S*H
12, 47-MacNeil-Lehrer Report
19-Carol Burnett and Friends
25-Tic Tac Dough
31-Happy Days Again

7PM
4-Hee Haw
8, 19-B.A.D. Cats
12, 47-Washington Week in Review
25-Valentine Special (Family Circus--"Mommy, Daddy, Billy, Dolly, Jeffy and little PJ will appear in this animated special")
31-Incredible Hulk

7:30PM
6, 25-Lucy Moves to NBC ("Lucille Ball is welcomed to her new network by Bob Hope, Johnny Carson, Jack Klugman, Gary Coleman, Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Gloria DeHaven, Gale Gordon, Robert Alda, Ruta Lee and Sid Miller") (90 minutes)
12, 47-Wall Street Week

8PM
4, 31-Dukes of Hazzard
8, 19-Movie: "Swan Song" (David Soul, 1980)
12, 47-Market to Market

8:30PM
12-Irish Rovers
47-Sneak Previews (with Siskel and Ebert)

9PM
4, 31-Dallas
6, 25-Elvis Remembered: Nashville to Hollywood ("The career of the late Elvis Presley is recalled in this special hosted by Barbara Mandrell and Larry Gatlin.")
12-Sneak Previews
47-The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (fifth of six parts)

9:30PM
12-Camera Three ("First of 2 parts. This show features an in-depth profile of Leni Riefenstahl's long career in cinema.")

10PM
4, 6, 8, 19, 25, 31-News
12, 47-Dick Cavett

10:30PM
4-Three's a Crowd
6, 25-Tonight Show
8-Movie: "The Affair" (Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner, 1973).
12-Movie: "Charlie Chan at the Olympics" (Warner Oland, Katherine DeMille, 1937)
19-Charlie's Angels ("The angels move into an apartment house as 'working girls' to investigate the deaths of two of the building's most popular tenants.") (part of "ABC Late Night," formerly "Wide World of Entertainment")
31-Movie: "The World of Susie Wong" (William Holden, Nancy Kwan, Laurence Naismith, 1961) (might have been WMBD's own late-night movie offering instead of the "CBS Late Movie," IIRC)

11PM
4-Odd Couple
47-Sign-off

11:30PM
4-700 Club
12-Captioned ABC News
19-Movie: "Plan 9 from Outer Space" (Bela Lugosi, Tor Johnson, 1962)

12AM
6, 25-Midnight Special
12-Sign-off

12:30AM
8-Dating Game

12:45AM
31-Your World

 

[azumanga]

7AM
4-Morning (likely "CBS This Morning")

No, it was just "Morning" (or, technically, "CBS News Morning"). When "Sunday Morning" began in 1979, CBS took the concept weekdays as well, with show called by the particular day of the week ("Monday Morning", "Tuesday Morning", etc.). The weekday editions would soon be called just "Morning".

11AM
47-(off-air until 3PM--until June 1987 WTVP had no midday programming until 3PM-not even instructional programs)

Kind of odd for a station to close midday, everyday, no matter what, unlike other PBS stations, in which, during this period, would have a midday closedown (or start up later) only if school was not in session. I take it WTVP was hard up on money.

1:30PM
25-Another World (90 minutes?)

As mentioned in the Corpus Christi thread earlier, AW was 90 minutes through 8/1/1980.

7:30PM
6, 25-Lucy Moves to NBC ("Lucille Ball is welcomed to her new network by Bob Hope, Johnny Carson, Jack Klugman, Gary Coleman, Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Gloria DeHaven, Gale Gordon, Robert Alda, Ruta Lee and Sid Miller") (90 minutes)

Kind of wondering what this special was all about, since Lucy did not have another series between the end of "Here's Lucy" (1974) and the start of "Life With Lucy" (1986). In fact, I don't think Lucy did anything for NBC, other than this special.

 

[classictvfan]

Could you make a separate post for listings from WGN 9, WFLD 32 and WSNS 44?

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

Could you make a separate post for listings from WGN 9, WFLD 32 and WSNS 44?

For this schedule, I took notes instead of printing out the schedule from microfilm, and I was only interested in the over-the-air stations, so I don't have this day's listings for the aforementioned Chicago stations with me. Sorry!

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

7PM
31-Incredible Hulk

Bumped as I just found on Hulu that evening's (2/8/80) episode of "The Incredible Hulk," titled "Falling Angels" that aired on CBS (well, at least on only one of the two western Illinois CBS affiliates receivable in the Galesburg area, WMBD in Peoria).

http://www.hulu.com/watch/40156/the-incredible-hulk-falling-angels#x-0,vepisode,1

 

[SteveRichards]

I was always puzzled by WHBF's pre-emption of "The Incredible Hulk." Interestingly (and I think Tim is aware), both WMBD in Peoria and WCIA in Champaign (sister stations then and now) pre-empted part or all of the Hulk's first short season beginning in March of 1978. I think WHBF pre-empted the Hulk for a season or so before bringing it back. If they needed a prime-time spot for "Hee Haw," seems like they could have found a weaker CBS show to bump. Almost sounds like the station manager had a personal beef with the green guy.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

I was always puzzled by WHBF's pre-emption of "The Incredible Hulk." Interestingly (and I think Tim is aware), both WMBD in Peoria and WCIA in Champaign (sister stations then and now) pre-empted part or all of the Hulk's first short season beginning in March of 1978. I think WHBF pre-empted the Hulk for a season or so before bringing it back. If they needed a prime-time spot for "Hee Haw," seems like they could have found a weaker CBS show to bump. Almost sounds like the station manager had a personal beef with the green guy.

IIRC when I researched this listing I came across a possible (but likely crucial) reason why WHBF completely bumped the "Hulk" for "Hee Haw" on Friday nights during 1979-80, other than maybe WHBF management thinking that HH would be a better lead-in to the remaining CBS Friday night sked of "Dukes of Hazzard" at 8PM and "Dallas" at 9PM: Channel 4 also had the Quad Cities market's rights to "Lawrence Welk" at the time of this schedule, and they aired it on Saturday evenings at 6PM (instead of a newscast). (It is virtually common knowledge in the Midwest that "Hee Haw" and "Lawrence Welk" attracted the same older audience demo). IMO had ABC affiliate WQAD-8 (while WOC-6 around 1978-80 spent the Saturday 6PM slot airing NBC Friday 7PM shows they bumped for the likes of Kathie Lee's "Name that Tune," "Bob Newhart Show" reruns, and "Grizzly Adams") had the QC rights to Welk instead, and they, like WHBF, chose to air the program at 6PM Saturdays, I could see the Hulk bumped to Saturday evenings against Lawrence Welk rather than bumped completely. Just my 2 cents worth . . .

"Hee Haw" in the Quad Cities later moved for a time to WOC, and then by the mid-'80s to WQAD until about the end of its run in 1993 (but I don't remember if the infamous "update" of the show during 1991-92 and the "Hee Haw Silver" episodes--introduced by Roy Clark--during 1992-93 aired in the Quad Cities, at least on WQAD).

 

[DToTheJ]

12:45AM
31-Your World

When did Neil Cavuto start doing local TV in Peoria?

 

[bpatrick]

"Lucy Moves To NBC" came about halfway between the end
of "Here's Lucy" (CBS) and the start of "Life With Lucy" (ABC).
NBC seemed interested in getting her, but the only thing I
remember about this show was a pilot for a sitcom starring
Donald O'Connor, "The Music Mart," where he played the owner
of a music store. The thing was so '50s-ish it's no wonder it
never became a series. And that was the end of Lucy's relationship
with the Peacock Network.

I think a few years earlier Jackie Gleason had made some overtures
to NBC after CBS canceled his Saturday-night show, but nothing ever
came of that. He did a few "Honeymooners" reunion specials (although
with Jane Kean instead of Joyce Randolph) for ABC in the late '70s,
and that was the end of that as well.

It's tough to bring the legends back for one more try.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

12:45AM
31-Your World

When did Neil Cavuto start doing local TV in Peoria?

I'm not sure what the "Your World" program listed above was (I tried checking to see if this could have been a CBS overnight news program that was the predecessor to "Nightwatch," but I couldn't find any info on it).

 

[SteveRichards]

I never saw it, but I believe "Your World" was a five-minute vignette aired by WMBD before signing off. I'm thinking it was a local thing because I don't ever recall seeing it listed on another station anywhere. They may have aired it at sign-on, as well, but I may be confusing it with "Inspirations" on WQAD.

CBS had no overnight programming (following "The CBS Late Movie") prior to "Nightwatch," and WMBD didn't carry that until shortly after the start of the Gulf War in 1991. WHBF has never carried "Nightwatch" or "Up to the Minute." KHQA in Quincy carried "Nightwatch" from the time it premiered in October of 1982 until September or so of 1986 (they resumed signing off). They started carrying "Up to the Minute" back in the '90s at some point, at first signing on with it at 4AM, and then later resuming 24-hour broadcasting.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

"Lucy Moves To NBC" came about halfway between the end
of "Here's Lucy" (CBS) and the start of "Life With Lucy" (ABC).
NBC seemed interested in getting her, but the only thing I
remember about this show was a pilot for a sitcom starring
Donald O'Connor, "The Music Mart," where he played the owner
of a music store. The thing was so '50s-ish it's no wonder it
never became a series. And that was the end of Lucy's relationship
with the Peacock Network.

I think a few years earlier Jackie Gleason had made some overtures
to NBC after CBS canceled his Saturday-night show, but nothing ever
came of that. He did a few "Honeymooners" reunion specials (although
with Jane Kean instead of Joyce Randolph) for ABC in the late '70s,
and that was the end of that as well.

It's tough to bring the legends back for one more try.

Just noticed a promo on YouTube for the Feb. 8, 1980 NBC lineup--the subject of this western Illinois listing--including "Lucy Moves to NBC." The promo comes in the last 20 seconds of this NBC News Update clip from Sunday, Feb. 3, 1980.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxaOTqS6DIY&feature=related