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Retro: Philadelphia Sun, Aug 12, 1979

from The Bulletin

Philadelphia
KYW 3-NBC
6:30 A Better Way
7:00 Pattern for Living
7:30 University Update
8:00 Survival Skills for the Classroom Teacher
8:30 Questions & Answers
9:00 Challenge
9:30 Sunday
10:00 Myriad (the goals and successes of Jewish education, and the types available)
10:30 Insight
11:00 Feelin' Free
11:30 Report from...
noon Tony Brown's Journal
12:30 Meet the Press
1:00 Racers (IMSA GT 100 Challenge)
1:30 NFL Exhibition: NY Jets-Houston
4:30 AAU Junior Olympics (1979 National AAU Inter-Sport Championships)
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Wonderful World of Disney "Justin Morgan Has a Horse" (pt 1)
8:00 Movie "A Family Upside Down" (an elderly couple, faced with illness and money troubles, is forced to move in with his son and his family)
10:00 Prime Time Sunday
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Incident"
1:29 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
2:59 News

WPVI 6-ABC
6:00 Christopher Closeup (Charles Osgood compares radio and TV broadcasting)
6:30 This is the Life
7:00 Directions (the Roman Catholic church's role in the fight for human rights in the Philippines)
7:30 Sunday Session
8:00 Dialogue
8:30 Sunday Mass
9:00 Puerto Rican Panorama
9:30 Kids are People Too
10:30 Captain Noah
11:00 Al Alberts
noon Movie "The Road to Denver"
1:30 Movie "She's Working Her Way Through College"
3:30 Larry Ferrari
4:00 Issues & Answers
4:30 ABC Wide World of Sports (live coverage of Sugar Ray Leonard v Pete Ranzany for the North American Welterweight belt from Vegas/taped coverage of All-American Soap Box Derby)
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Sunday
7:00 Hardy Boys
8:00 Mork & Mindy
8:30 Ropers
9:00 NFL Exhibition: Dallas-Seattle
11:45 News
12:15 Movie "A Great American Tragedy"
1:45 News

WCAU 10-CBS
5:55 Agricultural News
7:00 Turn to 10
7:30 Mr. Magoo
8:00 Candy Apple News Company
9:00 Sunday Morning
10:30 Eye on...
11:00 Update
11:30 Face the Nation
noon Best of Joel A. (Spivak)
1:00 Steve & Edie "Our Love is Here to Stay"
2:00 Tennis: US Clay Court Championships
4:00 Sammy Davis Jr. Greater Hartford Open golf
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 60 Minutes (giving drugs to racehorses (Reasoner)/foreign ownership of US land (Rather)/recording studios that rip off aspiring musicians (Wallace))
8:00 All in the Family (200th episode)
9:30 One Day at a Time
10:00 Alice
10:30 Jeffersons
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Aquarians"
1:20 AM

WHYY 12-PBS
8:30 Sesame Street
9:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10:00 Zoom
10:30 Sesame Street
11:30 Studio See
noon Great Midwest Hot Air Balloon Rally
12:30 2846 (5 abstract visual compositions develop on screen, with synthesizer accompaniment)
1:00 Movie "The Foreman Went to France" (bw)
2:30 Shakespeare Plays "As You Like It" (starring Helen Mirren)
5:00 Masterpiece Theatre "Poldark" (pt 6)
6:00 The Gambler (Warsaw Chamber Opera performs in Newport, RI)
7:00 The Advocates "Should the US break the price-setting power of OPEC?"
8:00 Evening at Pops (guest Noel Perenti joines Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops in a performance of Morton's Concerto for Tap Dancer and Orchestra)
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre "I, Cladius: Hail Who?"
10:00 David Susskind (guest Truman Capote)
11:00 Goodies

WPHL 17-Ind
7:00 Delaware Valley Forum
7:30 Rev. Thea Jones
8:00 Day of Discovery
8:30 Oral Roberts
9:00 Robert Schuller
10:00 R.A. West Revival Hour
10:30 Rex Humbard (guest Lulu Roman)
11:30 Movie "Captain January" (bw)
1:00 Tarzan
2:00 Movie "Another Part of the Forest" (bw)
4:00 Movie "Room at the Top" (bw)
6:00 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
7:00 Wild Kingdom
7:30 Flipper
8:00 Ruff House
8:30 Jerry Falwell
9:30 Time of Deliverance
10:00 Jersey People
10:30 Delaware Valley Forum
11:00 Rev. Thea Jones
11:30 700 Club
1:00 Rev. Thea Jones

WNJS 23-Camden/WNJT 52-Trenton (NJN/PBS)
3:30pm Victory Garden
4:00 Imagenes Latinas
4:30 Bill Moyers' Journal "Harvest" (Bill reports on a city family reconciling their dreams with life's realities on a North Dakota family farm)
5:30 Another Voice
6:00 New Jersey Nightly News
6:30 Focal Point "Workin' or Slavin'" (work ethics in Jersey's correctional institutions)
7:00 Views of Asia (looking at Thai society)
8:00 New Jersey Local
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre "I, Claudius: Hail Who?"

WTAF 29-Ind
7:20 Community Update
7:30 At Home with the Bible
8:00 A Better Way
8:30 Rev. Dr. D. James Kennedy
9:30 Tony the Pony
10:00 Jetsons
10:30 Three Stooges (bw)
11:30 Superman
noon FBI
1:00 Tennis: $200,000 Dallas Finals
2:00 World of Survival
2:30 Gilligan's Island
3:00 Movie "Winner Take All"
5:00 Movie "Spitfire" (bw)
7:00 Newsprobe
7:30 Search Telecast
8:00 Jimmy Swaggart
8:30 The King is Coming
9:00 James Robison
9:30 Jerry Falwell
10:30 It is Written
11:00 PTL Club
mid. W.R. Portee
12:30 Community Update

WKBS 48-Ind
8:00 Jimmy Swaggart
8:30 Show My People
9:00 Popeye
9:30 Brady Kids
10:00 Casper
10:30 Star Trek (animated)
11:00 Little Rascals (bw)
11:30 Munsters (bw)
noon Movie "Dough Boys" (bw)
1:30 Movie "Hard to Get"
3:00 Movie "Andy Hardy's Double Life" (bw)
5:00 Movie "Happy Birthday Wanda June"
7:00 It Takes a Thief
8:00 Spartacade '79 (the Soviet sports event opens itself up to international athletes for the first time)
9:30 Adam-12
10:00 Joe Oteri
11:30 On Target

New York City
WCBS 2-CBS
7:00 Mr. Magoo
7:30 Clue Club
8:00 Magic Movie Machine
8:30 Way to Go
9:00 Sunday Morning
10:30 For Our Times
11:00 The People
11:30 Face the Nation
noon Newsmakers
1:00 NFL: Great Teams, Great Years
1:30 Journey to Adventure
2:00 US Clay Courts Championships
4:00 Sammy Davis Jr. Greater Hartford Open
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 All in the Family (200th episode)
9:30 One Day at a Time
10:00 Alice
10:30 Jeffersons
11:00 News
11:45 Movie: TBA
1:20 News
1:27 Movie: TBA
3:22 Newsmakers
3:52 Public Hearing
4:22 Movie: TBA

WNBC 4-NBC
7:00 Our Incredible Gifts
7:30 Women & the Law
8:00 Vegetable Soup
8:30 Maryknoll World
8:45 Your Sunday Best
9:00 Sunday School
9:30 Research Project
10:00 Religion in Review
10:30 Prime of Your Life
11:00 Please Stand By
11:30 Visions
noon NewsCenter Forum
12:30 Meet the Press
1:00 Super Bowl XIII: Battle of Champions Highlights
1:30 NFL Exhibition: NY Jets-Houston
4:30 AAU Junior Olympics
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Wonderful World of Disney "Justin Morgan Had a Horse" (pt 1)
8:00 Movie "A Family Upside Down"
10:00 Prime Time Sunday
11:00 News
11:45 Movie "79 Park Avenue" (pt 1)
1:45 Hee Haw Honeys
2:15 Marcus Welby, MD
3:15 Religion in Focus

WNEW 5-Ind
6:30 Time for Timothy
7:00 Wonderama
9:00 Cartoons (as listed...the Bulletin liked to list the network cartoons by name, but not the syndied ones)
11:00 Gilligan's Island
11:30 Spartacade '79
1:00 Movie "The Monster Maker"
2:15 Movie "Dive Bomber"
5:00 Mission: Impossible
6:00 Movie "Can-Can"
9:00 David Frost Presents
10:00 News
10:30 Sports Extra
11:00 Sunday Night Extra
11:30 David Susskind

WABC 7-ABC
7:00 Faith for Today
7:30 This is the Life
8:00 Christopher Closeup
8:30 Insight
9:00 Interface
9:30 Hot Fudge
10:00 Kids are People Too
11:30 Animals, Animals, Animals
noon Issues & Answers
12:30 Directions (conservative Jews in Minneapolis turn back to the ancient Jewish burial rites)
1:00 Like It Is
2:00 Eyewitness News Conference
2:30 For You, Black Woman
3:00 Great Adventure
4:00 Racers (D Production Sports Car)
4:30 ABC Wide World of Sports
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Sunday
7:00 Hardy Boys
8:00 Mork & Mindy
8:30 Ropers
9:00 NFL Exhibition: Dallas-Seattle
11:45 ABC News
mid. News
12:30 Movie "Assault on the Wayne"
2:00 Movie "Man on a String"
3:55 News

WOR 9-Ind
7:00 Roy Brown
7:30 Christopher Closeup
8:00 James Robison
8:30 Day of Discovery
9:00 Oral Roberts
9:30 Newark & Reality
10:00 Sunday Mass
10:30 Point of View
11:00 Rex Humbard
noon Robert Schuller
1:00 Baseball: Montreal-Mets doubleheader
6:40 Kiner's Corner
7:00 Greatest Sports Legends (Gordie Howe)
7:30 Life of Riley
8:00 Rex Humbard
9:00 9 on New Jersey
9:30 It is Written
10:00 World Tomorrow
10:30 Jimmy Swaggart
11:00 Life of Riley
11:30 Ruff House
mid. Movie "The Captain's Paradise"
1:30 News

WPIX 11-Ind
7:00 Christopher Closeup
7:15 Davey & Goliath
7:30 Cartoons
11:00 F Troop
11:30 Movie "Lost in Alaska" (bw)
1:00 Gomer Pyle, USMC
1:30 This Week in Baseball
2:00 Baseball: Baltimore-Yankees
5:00 Movie "The Court Jester"
7:00 News
7:30 NFL Exhibition: NY Giants-Pittsburgh
9:30 Puerto Rican New Yorker
10:00 Upstairs, Downstairs
11:00 Odd Couple
11:30 Rookies
12:30 FBI
1:30 News
2:00 Black Conversations

WNET 13-PBS
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30 Electric Company
10:00 Studio See
10:30 Zoom
11:00 Sesame Street
noon National Geographic Special
1:00 Firing Line
2:00 Shakespeare Plays
5:00 Bill Moyers' Journal
6:00 New Jersey Nightly News
6:30 Dateline: New Jersey
8:00 Evening at Pops
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre "I, Claudius: Hail Who?"
10:00 Prisoner
11:00 Video & Film Review
11:30 For a Moment You Fly
 
Bonus listings, covering the pay channels:

HBO
3pm Movie "The Bees"
4:30 Movie "Griffin & Phoenix"
6:30 Movie "The Great Bank Hoax"
8:00 Movie "Jaws"
10:00 Casino de Paris
11:30 Movie "The All-American Boy"

PRISM
6:00 Movie "High Anxiety"
8:00 Movie "F.I.S.T."
10:30 Movie "Silver Bears"
12:30 Movie "F.I.S.T."
3:00 Movie "Lucky Texan"
4:00 Movie "Desert Trail"
5:00 Movie "High Anxiety"
7:00 Baseball: Phillies v Pittsburgh
9:30 Movie "Jaws"
11:45 Spectacular Evening in Paris
 
From the New Jersey-Pennsylvania TVG from that day, here's the details on the cartoons on WNEW and WPIX:

WNEW
9:00 Frankenstein Jr. & the Impossibles
9:30 Space Ghost & Dino Boy
10:00 Herculoids
10:30 Spiderman

WPIX
7:30 Barbapapa
8:00 Banana Splits
8:30 Marvel Men
9:00 Mr. Magoo & Friends
9:30 Josie & the Pussycats
10:00 Tom & Jerry

From that edition, here's listings for WCMC 40-NBC Wildwood--
4:30pm AAU Junior Olympics
6:00 Film (bw)
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 NBC primetime programming
11:00 sign-off
 
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