Retro: Philadelphia Sat, Aug 18, 1979

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide-Philadelphia Metro edition

KYW 3-NBC
6:00 Consultation (an anethesiology professor on how children's fears of surgery may be allayed)
6:30 Man Builds, Man Destroys (the effects of too-rapid urban growth in Auckland and Jakarta)
7:00 Carrascolendas "Agapito Wants a Job"
7:30 Challenge
8:00 Alvin & the Chipmunks
8:30 Fantastic Four
9:00 Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Daffy Duck
11:00 Fred & Barney Meet the Shmoo
11:30 Jetsons
noon Buford & the Galloping Ghost
12:30 Fabulous Funnies
1:00 Juke-Box (guests Linda Lewis, Showaddywaddy, Paul Nicholas, and Gilbert O'Sullivan)
1:30 Next Step Beyond
2:00 Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Atlanta-Montreal (alt game: White Sox v Red Sox)
5:00 In Search of...where animals can communicate psychically with other animals and humans
5:30 Racers (Western 500 Grand National Stock-Car Race, taped in January...Roger Penske does color)
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 That's Hollywood (strange happenings in movies)
7:30 Gong Show (panelists Pearl Bailey, Jamie Farr, and Jaye P. Morgan)
8:00 BJ & the Bear (90 min episode, airing an hour earlier than normal)
9:30 Movie "Who is Killing the Stunt Men?" (aka Stunts)
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (rerun from December '78 with host Walter Matthau and music by SNL regular Garrett Morris)
1:00 Soul Train
2:00 Interaction

WPVI 6-ABC
6:00 Extensions
6:30 Chief Halftown
7:00 Animals, Animals, Animals (looks at pigeons)
7:30 Captain Noah
8:30 Scooby's All-Stars
10:00 Superfriends
11:30 Bigfoot & Wildboy
noon Perspective
12:30 American Bandstand (guests Maureen McGovern and Roger Voudouris)
1:30 Perspective
2:00 Action News Issues & Answers
2:30 NASL Play-Offs, first round game
5:00 ABC Wide World of Sports: Matthew Saad Muhammad (nee Matthew Franklin, 23-3-2) defends his WBC light-heavyweight belt against #1 contender John Conteh (33-2-1) in a 15-rounder, live from Atlantic City
6:30 News
7:00 Visions
7:30 Prime Time (profiling a family of deer hunters/gourmet meal of venison)
8:00 Carol Burnett & Company (premiere of a 4-week series with guest Cheryl Ladd)
9:00 NFL Exhibition: Houston-Dallas
mid. News
12:30 Movie "Footsteps"
2:00 Movie "The Mudlark" (bw)
4:00 ABC News

WCAU 10-CBS
6:00 Summer Semester "Disabilities"
6:30 Just Mom, Dad & the Kids (discussion of parents' rights)
7:00 Credo
8:00 Marlo & the Magic Movie Machine (Marlo visits Japan)
8:30 Clue Club
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Tarzan/Super 7
noon Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert
1:00 Ark II
1:30 CBS Children's Film Festival "The Shopping Bag Lady"
2:00 Kidsworld (interview with Charlie's Angels second banana David Doyle and a look at traditional logging methods in NH)
2:30 Movie "Island of the Burning Doomed"
3:30 Pro Bowling: PBA Buffalo Open final
4:00 Golf: Manufacturers Hanover Westchester Classic
5:00 Travers Stakes horse race
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Sha Na Na (guests the Angels)
7:30 Bonkers (guest Connie Stevens)
8:00 Bad News Bears
8:30 Movie "Logan's Run"
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Peyton Place"
2:10 Movie "The Man Behind the Gun"
3:35 Give Us This Day
3:40 Movie "Earth vs the Flying Saucers" (bw)

WHYY 12-PBS Wilmington/Philadelphia
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Once Upon a Classic "Avalanche"
11:00 James Michener's World "The South Pacific: End of Eden?"
noon Wall Street Week
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1:00 White Bear
2:00 1979 Drum Corps International Championship (12 marching bands from across the US and Canada square off in Birmingham for the crown)
6:30 Another Voice
7:00 Pro Soccer
8:00 Tex Beneke from Wolf Trap (Tex and his orchestra are joined by Helen O'Connell and Bob Eberly in a tribute to the big-band era)
10:00 Membership Pledge Drive
10:15 Movie "Seven Beauties"
12:30 The Pythons (on location in Tunisia, where the boys were filming The Life of Brian)

WPHL 17-Ind
6:30 Delaware Valley Forum
7:00 700 Club (guest Georgi Vins, one of 5 Soviet dissidents released from the USSR in return for 2 Soviet spies held by the US)
8:30 Gerard Derstine Shares
9:00 Dr. Thea F. Jones
9:30 America's Black Forum
10:00 Vegetable Soup
10:30 F Troop
11:00 Andy Griffith (bw)
11:30 Movie "Master Minds" (bw)
1:00 Tarzan
2:00 Movie "Mania"
3:30 Movie "Jungle Woman" (bw)
5:00 Wrestling
6:00 Hee Haw (guests Tennessee Ernie Ford and Stella Parton)
7:00 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (bw)
8:00 Baseball Warm-Up
8:30 Baseball: Philadelphia-Houston (commentators Harry Kalas/Andy Musser/Rich Ashburn)
11:00 Hee Haw Honeys (guest Larry Gatlin)
11:30 Movie "Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things"
1:15 700 Club (r)
2:45 Delaware Valley Forum

WNJS 23-PBS Camden
4pm That's It in Sports (talking about athletes' knees)
4:30 Irish Treasures
5:00 Previn & the Pittsburgh (guest Itzhak Perlman)
6:00 New Jersey News
6:30 Footsteps (Judy and Mike Farrell on coping with a child's handicap)
7:00 Imagenes Latina (Spanish w/English subtitles)
7:30 Que Pasa, USA?
8:00 Great Steam & Air Race (a Stanley Steamer and gyroscope race across the Garden State)
8:30 1979 Drum Corps International Championship

WTAF 29-Ind
7:50 Community Update
8:00 For You...Black Woman (Neil Bassett talkes with 3 teens about their opinions and hopes for the future)
8:30 Movie "The Last Woman on Earth"
10:00 Movie "Perseus the Invincible"
noon Wrestling
1:00 Movie "The Unearthly" (bw)
2:30 Movie "Attack of the 50-Foot Woman" (bw)
4:00 Three Stooges (bw)
5:00 Movie "Jory"
7:00 Discophonic Scene
7:30 Bilko (bw)
8:00 Newsprobe
8:30 Christian Youth Cinema
9:00 Ernest Angley
10:00 PTL Club
mid. Community Update

WKBS 48-Ind
8:30 On Target
9:00 Amazing Grace Bible School
9:30 Herald of Truth
10:00 Friday
10:30 Big Blue Marble
11:00 Hot Fudge
11:30 Inch High Private Eye
noon Wild Wild West
1:00 Movie "Horror House"
2:30 Movie "Kronos" (bw)
4:00 Movie "This Gun for Hire" (bw)
6:00 Kicks (guests the Sylvers, and First Choice)
7:00 Lawrence Welk (big-band era songs)
8:00 Upstairs, Downstairs
9:00 Movie "Cabin in the Sky" (bw)
11:00 Monty Python's Flying Circus
11:35 Movie "Mississippi"

 

[DToTheJ]

Hard to fathom one of Fox's most worthy affiliates signed off so early on Saturday nights a mere thirty years ago... :

 

[DToTheJ]

WKBS 48-Ind
10:00 Friday

Odd that such a program aired on a Saturday... Was it an early Ice Cube vehicle? Or, perhaps, Rebecca Black? :

 

[Mr. Mike]

WKBS 48-Ind
10:00 Friday

Odd that such a program aired on a Saturday... Was it an early Ice Cube vehicle? Or, perhaps, Rebecca Black? :

You can rule out the former for obvious reasons. As to the latter, who knows?.

 

[Ultimajock]

WKBS 48-Ind
10:00 Friday

Odd that such a program aired on a Saturday... Was it an early Ice Cube vehicle? Or, perhaps, Rebecca Black? :

You can rule out the former for obvious reasons. As to the latter, who knows?.

...also rule out a tape-delay of the ABC late-night sketch comedy Fridays, which wouldn't debut until eight months later (did WPVI clear Fridays or shunt it off to one of the indies?)...

 

[cd637299]

I see on KYW the show "Juke-Box." Was this an import? Showaddywaddy were a very popular British band, but never hit it big across the pond. (I think they still perform, but don't hold me to it.)

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[azumanga]

I see on KYW the show "Juke-Box." Was this an import?

Yes it was, from the UK, where it originally was known as "Super Sonic". Previously, the US version was known as "Twiggy's Jukebox", with intros and outros hosted by Twiggy inserted.

 

[Rollo-Smokes]

KYW 3-NBC
8:00 Alvin & the Chipmunks

This had to have been The Alvin Show, from 1961-62. Alvin and the Chipmunks arrived on NBC four years later.

 

[Bluenoser]

KYW 3-NBC
8:00 Alvin & the Chipmunks

This had to have been The Alvin Show, from 1961-62. Alvin and the Chipmunks arrived on NBC four years later.

According to Wikipedia (usual disclaimers apply), that's what it was. Wiki sez it was a midseason replacement...what did it replace?

 

[Ultimajock]

I see on KYW the show "Juke-Box." Was this an import?

Yes it was, from the UK, where it originally was known as "Super Sonic". Previously, the US version was known as "Twiggy's Jukebox", with intros and outros hosted by Twiggy inserted.

...http://homepage.ntlworld.com/e.watkins/musictv/Supersonic.htm is a web page for the original Supersonic series, which was syndicated in the U.S. in '76; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=383HgJQlSTQ (Suzi Quatro's "I May Be Too Young") and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPkh8Q9tatE ("Let's Call It Quits" by Slade) are from the original version of the show (WFLD/32 Chicago ran the show in its original incarnation in 1976-77, so I suspect then-Kaiser sister station WKBS/48 may have ran it as well)...

 

[BoscoGoldBear]

KYW 3-NBC
8:00 Alvin & the Chipmunks

This had to have been The Alvin Show, from 1961-62. Alvin and the Chipmunks arrived on NBC four years later.

According to Wikipedia (usual disclaimers apply), that's what it was. Wiki sez it was a midseason replacement...what did it replace?

Apparently either Yogi Bear's Space Race or Yogi Bear's Galaxy Goofups, both big-time NBC bombs and both long gone by this time.

 

[cd637299]

^ T'was definitely The Alvin Show. I was stationed in the USAF in Alaska at that time, and would wake up to see it, then likely go back to sleep. Funny that it was syndicated over 10 years earlier, then back to network; not many shows do that.

I even remember the NBC jingle right into Alvin: "Saturday Morning Fever is on the rise on NBC."

Wiki says that the opening title card w/ the 1961 copyright did not show on the NBC run, and I tend to agree with that.

Later in 1980 (according to Wiki) the LP "Chipmunk Punk" came out, with the Chipmunks singing songs of the time. Possibly these reruns were a springboard to the Chipmunks' comeback....

Even though the whole "Alvin Show" theme played, the break was something like " 'Alvin & the Chipmunks' (as opposed to 'The Alvin Show') will be back after these messages," IIRC.

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