Retro: Phoenix/Flagstaff Sat, Apr 14, 1979

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide-Phoenix edition

KOAI 2-NBC Flagstaff
7:00 Godzilla
8:30 Daffy Duck
9:00 Fred & Barney Meet the Shmoo
9:30 Jetsons
10:00 Buford & the Galloping Ghost
10:30 Fabulous Funnies
11:00 Great Parsoni
11:30 Marlo & the Magic Movie Machine
noon Baseball Warm-Up
12:15 Baseball: Philadelphia-NY Mets (alt game: St. Louis-Pittsburgh)
3:00 Soul Train (guests Isaac Hayes and Tasha Thomas)
4:00 La Voz Mexicana
5:00 NBC Nightly News
5:30 High School Highlights
6:00 Hee Haw Honeys (guest Johnny Russell)
6:30 Copper State Cavalcade (was this syndied in Tucson?)
7:00 CHiPs
8:00 BJ & the Bear
9:00 Supertrain
10:00 Sha Na Na (guest Johnny Tillotson)
10:30 Saturday Night Live (host Milton Berle/music by Ornette Coleman)

KTVK 3-ABC Phoenix
6:30 Carrascolendas
7:00 Infinity Factory
7:30 Superfriends
9:00 Fangface
9:30 Pink Panther
10:00 ABC Weekend Special "The Escape of a One-Ton Pet" (pt 1)
10:30 American Bandstand (guests Arpeggio and Edwin Starr)
11:30 Pets on Parade
noon 21st Century Native Americans
12:30 Star Trek
1:30 Pro Bowling: Midas Golden Challenge
3:00 ABC Wide World of Sports: Mike Rossman (36-4-2) defends his WBA light-heavyweight belt against the man he beat, Victor Galindez (52-5-4) in a 15-round tili from New Orleans; this match, originally scheduled for Feb 24th, was postponed due to a WBA-Nevada Boxing Commission turf war
4:30 Untamed World
5:00 Lawrence Welk (Easter/Passover show)
6:00 Total News
6:30 City Talk
7:00 Easter Bunny is Comin' to Town
8:00 Love Boat (2 hrs)
10:00 Total News
10:30 Star Trek (x2)

KPHO 5-Ind Phoenix
Programs may be pre-empted due to NBA Playoff coverage
5:00 FBI cont'd
5:30 Night Gallery
6:00 Lucy Show
6:30 Hot Fudge
7:00 Jetsons
7:30 Josie & the Pussycats
8:00 Jonny Quest
8:30 Valley of the Dinosaurs
9:00 Movie "Fighting Trouble" (bw)
10:30 Movie "The Magic Voyage of Sinbad"
noon Movie "Black Gold"
2:00 Movie "An Elephant Called Slowly"
4:00 Bionic Woman
5:00 Sha Na Na (guests the Shirelles)
5:30 Dolly (guests Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr.)
6:00 Hee Haw (guests John Hartford and Moe Bandy)
7:00 Hee Haw Honeys (guest Loretta Lynn; did many stations air these two back-to-back?)
7:30 Year of the Dragon
8:00 Movie "The Man on the Outside" (pilot for Griff)
10:00 Eyewitness News
10:30 Movie "Goodbye, Mr. Chips"
1:00 Movie "You Can't Cheat an Honest Man" (bw)
2:30 News
3:00 Ironside
4:00 Jack Benny (bw)
4:30 FBI

KAET 8-PBS Tempe
6:30 Captioned ABC News
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Big Blue Marble
8:30 Studio See
9:00 Museum Backroom
9:30 Freestyle
10:00 Rainbow's End
10:30 Exceptional Child
11:00 Open Math
11:30 Latina Americana
noon Pro Soccer
1:00 Once Upon a Classic "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"
2:00 Sneak Previews
2:30 Turnabout
3:00 Austin City Limits (the Texas sound with guests Alvin Crow & the Pleasant Valley Boys, and Marcia Ball)
4:00 Kup's Show (guests Joel Grey, Jack Carter, and David Doyle)
5:00 Washington Week in Review
5:30 Wall Street Week
6:00 Economically Speaking
6:30 Arizona Weekly
7:00 Hollywood Television Theatre "And the Soul Shall Dance"
8:30 Paul Jacobs: An Addendum (a follow-up to Paul Jacobs & the Nuclear Gang)
9:00 Royal Heritage (pt 1 of a series showing off the treasures of the British monarchy)
10:00 Movie "Easter Parade"

KOOL 10-CBS Phoenix
5:30 Sesame Semester: Ancient Egyptian Art
6:00 Popeye
7:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
8:30 Tarzan/Super 7
10:00 Space Academy
10:30 Fat Albert
11:00 Ark II
11:30 30 Minutes (Christopher Glenn reports on driver's ed, and Betsy Aaron looks at programs to help runaways)
noon Ninos Contentos
1:00 Chapter Ten
1:30 Life Around Us
2:00 Golf: The Masters
4:00 Great Adventure
5:00 Face the State
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 KOOL News 10
6:30 Copper State Cavalcade
7:00 America's Junior Miss Pageant (Hal Linden hosts the 22nd annual event from Mobile)
8:00 Movie "Cold Turkey"
10:00 KOOL News 10
10:30 College Football: Arizona State intramural action (same-day tape)
12:30 Movie "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" (bw)
3:00 Movie "Under Mexicali Stars" (bw)
4:10 News

KTAR 12-NBC Phoenix
6:00 Alvin & the Chipmunks
6:30 Fantastic Four
7:00 Godzilla
8:30 Daffy Duck
9:00 Fred & Barney Meet the Shmoo
9:30 Jetsons
10:00 Buford & the Galloping Ghost
10:30 Fabulous Funnies
11:00 Outdoors with Julius Boros
11:30 Sports Afield
noon Baseball Warm-Up
12:15 Baseball: Philadelphia-NY Mets (alt game: St. Louis-Pittsburgh)
3:00 Women's Tennis: Family Circle Cup semis
4:00 Mary Tyler Moore
4:30 That (Good Ole) Nashville Music (guests the Statler Brothers, Barbara Mandrell, and Johnny Gimble)
5:00 NBC Nightly News
5:30 Action News
6:00 Muppet Show (guest Liberace)
6:30 Family Feud
7:00 CHiPs
8:00 BJ & the Bear
9:00 Supertrain
10:00 Action News
10:30 Saturday Night Live
mid. Juke-Box (Twiggy welcomes Sailor, Climax Blues Band, and David Essex)
12:30 Movie "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"

KPAX 21-Rel Phoenix
5:00 Dan Griffin
5:30 Oral Roberts
6:00 Love Special
7:00 Adventures in Life
8:00 Praise the Lord
9:00 Backyard
9:30 Puppet Tree Gang
10:00 Backyard
10:30 Davey & Goliath
11:00 Praise the Lord
noon Today in Bible Prophecy
1:00 Pass It On
1:30 Deaf World
2:00 Indians Ought to Know
2:30 Esta es la Vida (This is the Life en espanol)
3:00 Un Camino Mejor
3:30 Vida en Cristo
4:00 Rex Humbard (given the bookends, likely the Espanol version)
5:00 Demos Gloria a Dios
7:00 Felicidad
7:30 Faith That Sings
8:00 Broadcast
8:30 Living Word
9:00 Film
11:00 Love Special
mid. Ever Increasing Faith
1:00 Holiday at Melodyland
1:30 Good Life
2:00 Spirit Song
2:30 Roger MacDuff
3:00 Church Service
4:00 Church in the Home

 

[DToTheJ]

KTAR 12-NBC Phoenix
6:00 Alvin & the Chipmunks

Didn't the "Alvin & The Chipmunks" show that we all know not debut until at least 1983? Was this "The Alvin Show"?

 

[bpatrick]

It sounds like "The Alvin Show," although I think most people
think of Alvin and his brothers as "Alvin and the Chipmunks."
I do recall that when NBC had "Alvin And The Chipmunks" on
Saturday mornings, CBS affiliate WHIO Dayton ran the original
"Alvin Show" later in the morning (11:30 AM, IIRC) and used the
"Alvin Show" title to avoid confusion.

As for the back-to-back episodes of "Hee Haw" it sounds like
something pre-empted it at its regular time the week before,
and this was a way to catch up. Did KPHO, by chance, carry
Phoenix Suns games then?

 

[KeithE4]

KPHO 5-Ind Phoenix
Programs may be pre-empted due to NBA Playoff coverage

For the record, there was no game on 4/14/1979. The first round of the NBA playoffs between the Suns and Trailblazers was on 4/10, 4/13, and 4/15 (Best of 3 in those days). The Suns won the series 2 games to 1.

According to Wikipedia (so take it with a truckload of salt), then-KTAR-TV/12 carried Suns games from Day One in 1968 (KTAR owner Karl Eller was also one of the founders of the Suns) until the '80s when they went to then-independent KNXV-TV/15. But according to PhxSuns.net, they were on KTAR/KPHX from 1968-74 and 1979-85, KPHO from 1974-79, and KNXV from 1985-88 before moving to KUTP/45 (which ended after this season).

 

[dhett]

KPAX 21-Rel Phoenix

Misprint or typo? Should be KPAZ.

 

[Ultimajock]

According to Wikipedia (so take it with a truckload of salt), then-KTAR-TV/12 carried Suns games from Day One in 1968 (KTAR owner Karl Eller was also one of the founders of the Suns) until the '80s when they went to then-independent KNXV-TV/15. But according to PhxSuns.net, they were on KTAR/KPHX from 1968-74 and 1979-85, KPHO from 1974-79, and KNXV from 1985-88 before moving to KUTP/45 (which ended after this season).

...I'm assuming you meant to say KTAR/KPNX; KPHX is of course that one-lung AM station on 1480 kHz that's connected to the Suns only by being on different stretches of Washington Street ;D ...

 

[Ultimajock]

KOAI 2-NBC Flagstaff
7:00 Godzilla

...okeh, KOAI wasn't running NBC's calendestine repeat of The Bay City Rollers Show at 6:30 ;D ...

11:30 Marlo & the Magic Movie Machine

...good kid's show. Easily qualify for an E/I today. Did I read somewhere that the master tapes of this one no longer exist? Pity if true...

10:30 Saturday Night Live (host Milton Berle/music by Ornette Coleman)

...Ornette Coleman was the musical guest for Berle Night??? No wonder things went awry ;D ...

KPHO 5-Ind Phoenix
5:30 Night Gallery

...first time I've ever seen Night Gallery in early mornings...

KTAR 12-NBC Phoenix
mid. Juke-Box (Twiggy welcomes Sailor, Climax Blues Band, and David Essex)

...of course, none of those acts were in the studio with Twiggy, since the music for this series was cribbed from old episodes of London Weekend's Supersonic; the episode listings at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/e.watkins/musictv/Supersonic.htm suggest the music for this broadcast came from the 4 October 1976 LWT program...

...interesting to note no presence of a wrestling show, as I know Verne Gagne was running AWA cards in Phoenix for years. Did any of the stations (KPHO?) perhaps run All-Star Wrestling on Friday nights or Sundays instead (like WCIU/26 Chicago did)?...

 

[KeithE4]

...I'm assuming you meant to say KTAR/KPNX; KPHX is of course that one-lung AM station on 1480 kHz that's connected to the Suns only by being on different stretches of Washington Street ;D ...

Yes, KPNX, including (the former) KTYL-TV, KVAR, and KTAR-TV, but not KPHX, KPKX, or KFNX (and no, I don't know what their Dewey point is). ;D

Actually, USAirways Center (the home of Your Phoenix Suns!) is at 201 E. Jefferson St., not Washington.

 

[Ultimajock]

Actually, USAirways Center (the home of Your Phoenix Suns!) is at 201 E. Jefferson St., not Washington.

...but isn't there a Washington Street entrance on that building? Or does one street branch off into the other near there?...

 

[KeithE4]

Actually, USAirways Center (the home of Your Phoenix Suns!) is at 201 E. Jefferson St., not Washington.

...but isn't there a Washington Street entrance on that building? Or does one street branch off into the other near there?...

USAirways Center and Chase Field are on the south side of Jefferson St.. Washington is one block north. Jackson St. is at the back of the arenas, one block south of Jefferson, with (Alice) Cooperstown directly across the street on Jackson.

Jefferson merges into Washington at 26th St. - 3 miles east of downtown.

 

[Ultimajock]

Actually, USAirways Center (the home of Your Phoenix Suns!) is at 201 E. Jefferson St., not Washington.

...but isn't there a Washington Street entrance on that building? Or does one street branch off into the other near there?...

USAirways Center and Chase Field are on the south side of Jefferson St.. Washington is one block north. Jackson St. is at the back of the arenas, one block south of Jefferson, with (Alice) Cooperstown directly across the street on Jackson.

Jefferson merges into Washington at 26th St. - 3 miles east of downtown.

...okeh. My bad. I just recalled passing the place on the way to KPHX a few times and thought they were on the same street...

 

[bpatrick]

KPHO 5-Ind Phoenix
Programs may be pre-empted due to NBA Playoff coverage

For the record, there was no game on 4/14/1979. The first round of the NBA playoffs between the Suns and Trailblazers was on 4/10, 4/13, and 4/15 (Best of 3 in those days). The Suns won the series 2 games to 1.

According to Wikipedia (so take it with a truckload of salt), then-KTAR-TV/12 carried Suns games from Day One in 1968 (KTAR owner Karl Eller was also one of the founders of the Suns) until the '80s when they went to then-independent KNXV-TV/15. But according to PhxSuns.net, they were on KTAR/KPHX from 1968-74 and 1979-85, KPHO from 1974-79, and KNXV from 1985-88 before moving to KUTP/45 (which ended after this season).

I was wondering if, possibly, there was a Suns game on April 7 that pre-empted "Hee Haw," and that KPHO was playing both that show and the one scheduled for April 14. Unlike most syndicated shows in that era of bicycling, "Hee Haw" and Lawrence Welk nearly always aired the same show the same week on every station, but individual stations might have to play catch-up occasionally if they had to pre-empt one or the other.

 

[desertv]

6:30 Copper State Cavalcade (was this syndied in Tucson?)

Copperstate Cavalcade was produced by KOOL-TV, it was a monthly Arizona history/culture program sponsored by Phelps Dodge that ran up to the network change at ch 10 to Fox. It was shown in Tucson on KOLD-TV...how KOAI(KNAZ) was able to show it is a mystery, due to the fact that KOOL-TV was available on translator in Flagstaff ???

 

[Bluenoser]

KPAX 21-Rel Phoenix

Misprint or typo? Should be KPAZ.

Typo...that should be a Z on the end

 

[Bluenoser]

6:30 Copper State Cavalcade (was this syndied in Tucson?)

Copperstate Cavalcade was produced by KOOL-TV, it was a monthly Arizona history/culture program sponsored by Phelps Dodge that ran up to the network change at ch 10 to Fox. It was shown in Tucson on KOLD-TV...how KOAI(KNAZ) was able to show it is a mystery, due to the fact that KOOL-TV was available on translator in Flagstaff ???

Forgot about Yuma, when I asked that question...was it shown there as well?

 

[compubit]

Interesting how KTVK, the ABC affiliate was carrying Carrascolendas at 6:30am (a PBS show) at the same time as KAET, the PBS outlet was carrying Open Captioned ABC News... Things that make you go "Hmmmm..."

Jim

 

[Ultimajock]

Interesting how KTVK, the ABC affiliate was carrying Carrascolendas at 6:30am (a PBS show) at the same time as KAET, the PBS outlet was carrying Open Captioned ABC News... Things that make you go "Hmmmm..."

...IIRC, Carrascolendas had ceased production the previous year and KLRN/9 San Antonio, which owned and produced the series, made available a commercial edit of the series to stations interested in carrying it. Apparently, KTVK was one of those stations...