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Much of the daytime network schedules were pre-empted by news coverage of the assassination of Egytian president Anwar Sadat.
6 WTVR (CBS)
6:00 Sunrise Semester
6:30 Woody Woodpecker
7:00 Wake Up With Captain Kangaroo
7:30 CBS News Tuesday Morning
9:00 Donahue
10:00 One Day at a Time
10:30 Alice
11:00 Price is Right
NOON Richmond Today
12:30 Young and Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Search for Tomorrow
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Tom & Jerry
4:30 Waltons
5:30 All in the Family
6:00 News 90
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 News 90
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 Dukes of Hazzard: "The Fugitive" (What was to be the season premiere, was rescheduled for Nov. 3. It was pre-empted by a CBS News special on Sadat.)
9:00 CBS Monday Night Movies: "Return of the Beverly Hillbillies" (Premiere) - Buddy Ebsen, Donna Douglas, Jane Hathaway (reprising their roles; Max Baer Jr. declined to participate), Werner Klemperer, Imogene Coca
11:00 Late News
11:30 Alice
MIDNIGHT McCloud
8 WXEX (ABC)
6:00 700 Club
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Leave It to the Women
9:30 Hour Magazine
10:30 Good Morning Virginia
11:00 Love Boat
NOON Family Feud
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 MLB Baseball: American League West Playoffs - Oakland Atlhletics (A's) vs. Kansas City Royals
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 PM Magazine
7:30 You Asked For It - Rich Little
8:00 Happy Days: "Home Movies" (1 Hour Season Premiere) - The episode's events are part of a montage of home movies Joannie records to send to Richie, stationed in Greenland along with Ralph in the Army.
9:00 Three's Company: "Jack Bares All" (1 Hour Season Premiere) - Priscilla Barnes makes her debut as new roommate Terri Alden, to fill the void left by Suzanne Somers (Chrissy Snow), and in turn by Jennilee Harrison (cousin Cindy Snow).
10:00 Hart to Hart: "Harts and Flowers" (Season Premiere)
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Rockford Files
12:30 Nightline
1:00 The Rookies
12 WWBT (NBC)
6:40 Almanac and News
7:00 Today
9:00 Richard Simmons
9:30 Good Morning Movie: "Gold Diggers of 1933" (1933) - Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline McMahon, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers, Billy Barty (uncredited); directed by Mervyn LeRoy and choreographed by Busby Berkley.
11:30 Password Plus - Guests: Betty Thomas, Denver Pyle
NOON Card Sharks (soon to end its 3-year run on Oct. 23)
12:30 The Doctors
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Texas
4:00 What's Happening!!
4:30 Happy Days Again
5:00 Jeffersons
5:30 Barney Miller
6:00 The Scene at 6
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
8:00 MLB Baseball: National League West Playoffs - Los Angeles Dodgers (eventual World Series champs) vs. Houston Astros
11:30 The Scene Tonight
MIDNIGHT Tonight Show - Guest: Robin Williams; Performer: Dionne Warwick
1:00 Tomorrow Coast-to-Coast - Guests: Jane Curtin, Allen Carr, Journey (rock band)
23 WCVE (PBS)
8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 Instructional Programming
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Instructional Progamming
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Studio See
6:30 Villa Alegre
7:00 Over Easy
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 Cosmos: "One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue"
9:00 Odyssey: "On the Cowboy Trail"
10:00 Duchess of Duke Street: "Winter Lament"
11:00 Dick Cavett
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch @ newspapers.com
Pre-emption notes: According to Broadcasting magazine (Oct. 12, 1981), the networks' Sadat news coverage times were as follows:
ABC: 7:24 am - 3:00 pm
CBS: 7:18 am - 2:40 pm
NBC: 7:22 am - 6:30 pm
6 WTVR (CBS)
6:00 Sunrise Semester
6:30 Woody Woodpecker
7:00 Wake Up With Captain Kangaroo
7:30 CBS News Tuesday Morning
9:00 Donahue
10:00 One Day at a Time
10:30 Alice
11:00 Price is Right
NOON Richmond Today
12:30 Young and Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Search for Tomorrow
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Tom & Jerry
4:30 Waltons
5:30 All in the Family
6:00 News 90
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 News 90
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 Dukes of Hazzard: "The Fugitive" (What was to be the season premiere, was rescheduled for Nov. 3. It was pre-empted by a CBS News special on Sadat.)
9:00 CBS Monday Night Movies: "Return of the Beverly Hillbillies" (Premiere) - Buddy Ebsen, Donna Douglas, Jane Hathaway (reprising their roles; Max Baer Jr. declined to participate), Werner Klemperer, Imogene Coca
11:00 Late News
11:30 Alice
MIDNIGHT McCloud
8 WXEX (ABC)
6:00 700 Club
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Leave It to the Women
9:30 Hour Magazine
10:30 Good Morning Virginia
11:00 Love Boat
NOON Family Feud
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 MLB Baseball: American League West Playoffs - Oakland Atlhletics (A's) vs. Kansas City Royals
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 PM Magazine
7:30 You Asked For It - Rich Little
8:00 Happy Days: "Home Movies" (1 Hour Season Premiere) - The episode's events are part of a montage of home movies Joannie records to send to Richie, stationed in Greenland along with Ralph in the Army.
9:00 Three's Company: "Jack Bares All" (1 Hour Season Premiere) - Priscilla Barnes makes her debut as new roommate Terri Alden, to fill the void left by Suzanne Somers (Chrissy Snow), and in turn by Jennilee Harrison (cousin Cindy Snow).
10:00 Hart to Hart: "Harts and Flowers" (Season Premiere)
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Rockford Files
12:30 Nightline
1:00 The Rookies
12 WWBT (NBC)
6:40 Almanac and News
7:00 Today
9:00 Richard Simmons
9:30 Good Morning Movie: "Gold Diggers of 1933" (1933) - Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline McMahon, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers, Billy Barty (uncredited); directed by Mervyn LeRoy and choreographed by Busby Berkley.
11:30 Password Plus - Guests: Betty Thomas, Denver Pyle
NOON Card Sharks (soon to end its 3-year run on Oct. 23)
12:30 The Doctors
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Texas
4:00 What's Happening!!
4:30 Happy Days Again
5:00 Jeffersons
5:30 Barney Miller
6:00 The Scene at 6
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
8:00 MLB Baseball: National League West Playoffs - Los Angeles Dodgers (eventual World Series champs) vs. Houston Astros
11:30 The Scene Tonight
MIDNIGHT Tonight Show - Guest: Robin Williams; Performer: Dionne Warwick
1:00 Tomorrow Coast-to-Coast - Guests: Jane Curtin, Allen Carr, Journey (rock band)
23 WCVE (PBS)
8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 Instructional Programming
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Instructional Progamming
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Studio See
6:30 Villa Alegre
7:00 Over Easy
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 Cosmos: "One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue"
9:00 Odyssey: "On the Cowboy Trail"
10:00 Duchess of Duke Street: "Winter Lament"
11:00 Dick Cavett
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch @ newspapers.com
Pre-emption notes: According to Broadcasting magazine (Oct. 12, 1981), the networks' Sadat news coverage times were as follows:
ABC: 7:24 am - 3:00 pm
CBS: 7:18 am - 2:40 pm
NBC: 7:22 am - 6:30 pm
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