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Retro: Portland, OR - Friday, January 26, 1979

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Source: Oregonian and Oregon Journal via geneologybank.com

NOTES: Some programming may have been interrupted by news coverage of the death of former Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller. Also, President Carter gives a press conference at noon Pacific Time.

2 KATU (ABC)
6:30 Viewpoint on Nutrition
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 AM Northwest - Guests: Vidal and Beverly Sassoon
10:00 Happy Days
10:30 $20,000 Pyramid - Guests: Didi Conn, LeVar Burton
11:00 Edge of Night
11:30 Ryan's Hope
NOON President Carter Press Conference
12:30 TBA (possibly the second half of All My Children)
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Family Feud
3:30 Dinah! - from St. Petersburg, FL; Guests: Mayor Corinne Freeman, Phil Harris, Susan Sullivan, Tony Danza, Marilu Tolo, Largo Band of Gold (third half-hour cut)
4:30 Bob Newhart
5:00 Channel Two News
6:00 ABC World News Tonight
6:30 Channel Two News
7:00 Cross-Wits
7:30 Special Movie: "The Spirit of Adenture: Night Flight" (Premiere) - Trevor Howard, Bo Sevenson, Celine Lomez
8:00 All-Star Family Feud Special - Competing shows' casts: The Love Boat, Eight is Enough, Family, What's Happening!!
9:00 ABC Friday Night Movie: "The Pink Panther Strikes Again" (1976) - Peter Sellers (as Inspector Clouseau), Herbert Lom, Colin Blakely, Lesley-Anne Down
11:00 Channel Two News
11:30 Movie: "I'll Never Forget "What'sisname" (1967) - Orson Welles, Oliver Reed, Carol White, Harry Andrews
1:25 Movie: "The Runaway Bus" (1954) - Margaret Rutherford, Frankie Howard, Petula Clark

6 KOIN (CBS)
6:00 Sunrise Semester
6:30 Gary Randall
7:00 CBS Morning News - Final broadcast of this version, replaced by Morning with Bob Schieffer, while Charles Kuralt anchored the Sunday Morning debut. Final anchors were Lesley Stahl and Richard Thelkeld.
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Donahue - Guest: Calvin Klein
10:00 Mid-Morning (local)
10:30 Love of Life
10:55 CBS Mid-Day News
11:00 Young and Restless
11:30 Newsroom 6
NOON President Carter Press Conference
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2:30 All in the Family
3:00 Match Game '79 - Panel: Robert Pine, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Susan Richardson, Richard Deacon, Fannie Flagg
3:30 Mike Douglas - Co-host: Burt Reynolds; Guests: Pat & Debby Boone, Pat O'Brien, Rip Taylor, Jim Stafford, Dave Barry
5:00 Newsroom 6
6:00 CBS Evening News
6:30 Carol Burnett and Friends
7:00 Merv Griffin - Guests: Richard Pryor, Eartha Kitt, Elizabeth Ashley
8:00 Wonder Woman: "Spaced Out"
9:00 Dukes of Hazzard (Series Premiere): "One Armed Bandits"
10:00 Dallas: "Julie's Return" - Guest starring: Tina Louise as Julie Grey
11:00 Newsroom 6
11:30 New Avengers
12:45 CBS Late Movie: "The Great Houdini" (1976) - Paul Michael Glaser, Sally Struthers, Ruth Gordon, Vivian Vance, Bill Bixby, Adrienne Barbeau, Jack Carter, Peter Cushing, Maureen O'Sullivan
2:38 Peter Gunn
3:08 Star Performance
3:38 Big Story

8 KGW (NBC)
6:10 Town and Country
6:15 Villa Alegre
6:45 Early Bird Exercises
7:00 Today
9:00 Card Sharks
9:30 Dating Game
10:00 High Rollers
10:30 Wheel of Fortune
11:00 Jeopardy!
11:30 Password Plus - Guests: Carol Burnett, Vicki Lawrance (premiered January 8, same day as All-Star Secrets)
NOON President Carter News Conference
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2:00 Another World
3:00 Movie: "The Crimson Pirate" (1952) - Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok, Leslie Bradley
5:00 Channel 8 News
6:00 NBC Nightly News
6:30 Channel 8 News
7:00 Newlywed Game
7:30 Evening
8:00 Diff'rent Strokes: "No Time for Arnold"
8:30 Brothers and Sisters: "High Times" (second episode)
9:00 Turnabout (Pilot)
9:30 Hello, Larry (Series Premiere; set in Portland): "How to Not To" TRIVIA: The tenth episode crossed over with Diff'rent Strokes as Larry Alder (McLean Stevenson) and Phillip Drummond (Conrad Bain) were army buddies. Drummond's company has purchased Larry's radio station, prompting the travel from New York to Portland. Contrary to some media articles, Hello, Larry was NOT a spin-off of Diff'rent Strokes.
10:00 $weepstake$ (Series Premiere): "Lynn and Grover and Joey" (A similar series, Lottery! was launched on ABC in 1983.)
11:00 Channel 8 News
11:30 Tonight Show - Guest host: Rich Little; Guests: Charles Grodin, Phyllis Diller; Performer: Bernadette Peters
1:00 Midnight Special - Hosts: The Village People; Guests: Eric Carmen, Gloria Gaynor, Toto, Jeff Kutash Dancers, Rod Stewart (possibly via music video for "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?")

10 KOAP (PBS/Oregon Public Broadcasting)
7:30 Statehouse '79
8:00 Over Easy - Guest: Sen. Henry "Scoop" Jackson (D-WA)
8:30 The New You
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 It's Happening
10:15 L-4
10:30 Measure Up
10:45 Let's Draw
11:00 Music
11:30 Oregon Legislature
12:30 Infinity Factory
1:00 Electric Company
1:30 Zebra Wings
1:50 Trade-Offs
2:10 Survival Economics
2:30 Lilias, Yoga and You
3:00 Keep It Running
3:30 Creative Stitchery
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 An Active Life
6:30 Lowell Thomas Remembers...
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Statehouse '79
8:00 Washington Week in Review
8:30 Wall $treet Week
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre: "The Duchess of Duke Street" - Season 1, Episode 14 of 15: "Plain Sailing"
10:00 Firing Line
11:00 Dick Cavett
11:30 Captioned ABC News

12 KPTV
6:30 Not for Women Only
7:00 Cartoon Castle
7:30 Ramblin' Rod's Cartoons
8:30 Flintstones
9:00 Marcus Welby
10:00 Bonanza
11:00 Tic-Tac-Dough
11:30 The Joker's Wild
NOON Perry Mason
1:00 Movie: "An Act of Murder" (1948) - Frederic March, Edmond O'Brien
3:00 Andy Griffith
3:30 Bugs Bunny
4:00 Flintstones
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5:00 Bewitched
5:30 Adam-12
6:00 Emergency One!
7:00 I Love Lucy
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8:00 Movie: "Kill a Dragon" (1967) - Jack Palance, Fernando Lamas
10:00 10 O'Clock News
10:30 Newsmakers
11:00 Chico and the Man
11:30 Movie: "By Love Possessed" (1961) - Lana Turner, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
 
9:30 Hello, Larry (Series Premiere; set in Portland): "How to Not To" TRIVIA: The tenth episode crossed over with Diff'rent Strokes as Larry Alder (McLean Stevenson) and Phillip Drummond (Conrad Bain) were army buddies. Drummond's company has purchased Larry's radio station, prompting the travel from New York to Portland. Contrary to some media articles, Hello, Larry was NOT a spin-off of Diff'rent Strokes.

Not a spin-off in the literal sense of the word, but they certainly wanted to show it was part of the Diff'rent Strokes universe to try to prop the turkey up.

Remember, in 1979 NBC was being held together by Johnny Carson, Michael Landon, Gary Coleman, and scotch tape.

So if there was any way for a struggling show to tether itself to these lifelines, they were gonna find it.
 
Not a spin-off in the literal sense of the word, but they certainly wanted to show it was part of the Diff'rent Strokes universe to try to prop the turkey up.

Remember, in 1979 NBC was being held together by Johnny Carson, Michael Landon, Gary Coleman, and scotch tape.

So if there was any way for a struggling show to tether itself to these lifelines, they were gonna find it.
Good point.
 
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Good point.
Thank you.

It really was a flat out dud, and NBC trying to link it up (however tangentially) with one of their few hits was essentially a Hello Larry Hail Mary.

Truthfully NBC was basically a zombie network from the late 70s until the early 80s.
 
Not a spin-off in the literal sense of the word, but they certainly wanted to show it was part of the Diff'rent Strokes universe to try to prop the turkey up.

Remember, in 1979 NBC was being held together by Johnny Carson, Michael Landon, Gary Coleman, and scotch tape.

So if there was any way for a struggling show to tether itself to these lifelines, they were gonna find it.
But the foundation was slowly being fortified for a 1980s rebirth of NBC during 1979.
 
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