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Retro: Rochester, NY Sat, Aug 25, 1979

from TV Guide-Rochester edition
Airtimes on 21/24 subject to change due to pledge period

WGR 2-NBC Buffalo
6:00 PTL Club
7:00 Infinity Factory
7:30 Marlo & the Magic Movie Machine
8:00 Alvin & the Chipmunks
8:30 Fantastic Four
9:00 Godzilla
10:30 Daffy Duck
11:00 Fred & Barney
11:30 Jetsons
noon Buford & the Galloping Ghost
12:30 Fabulous Funnies
1:00 To the Point
1:30 Straight Line
2:00 Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Cincinnati-Mets or Boston-Kansas City
5:00 Mission: Impossible
6:00 News
6:30 Inquiry
7:00 Hee Haw (guests Johnny Paycheck and Dickie Lee)
8:00 CHiPs
9:00 NFL Pre-Season: Pittsburgh-Dallas
mid. News
12:30 Saturday Night Live (hosts Peter Cook and Dudley Moore/music from Neil Sedaka)
2:00 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (a 1968 Doors performance on film, plus guests Bad Company, Burton Cummings, Kate Bush, Uriah Heep, Jimmy Castor, and Maureen Murphy)

WCBS 2-CBS New York
Late-night sked only
2:10am Bonkers (guest George Gobel)
2:40 Movie "A Matter of Humanities" (JIP/pilot for Marcus Welby, MD)
4:40 Movie "Spaceways" (bw)

WSYR 3-NBC Syracuse
6:30 University of Michigan
7:00 Saturday Showboat
8:00 Alvin & the Chipmunks
8:30 Fantastic Four
9:00 Godzilla
10:30 Daffy Duck
11:00 Fred & Barney
11:30 Jetsons
noon Bowling
1:00 Movie "Dead Man's Eyes" (bw)
2:00 Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Cincinnati-Mets or Boston-Kansas City
5:00 Movie "Charlie Chan in Egypt" (bw)
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Hee Haw (see WGR for line-up)
8:00 CHiPs
9:00 NFL Pre-Season: Pittsburgh-Dallas
mid. News
12:30 Saturday Night Live
2:00 Comedy Shop (guests Red Buttons, Skip Stephenson, Art Metrano, the Unknown Comic (Murray Langston), Don Rickles, and Gary Muledeer)

WIVB 4-CBS Buffalo
6:30 Summer Semester "Disabilities"
7:00 US Farm Report
7:30 Carrascolendas
8:00 Popeye
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Tarzan/Super 7
noon Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert
1:00 Ark II (series finale)
1:30 CBS Children's Film Festival "Joey"
2:00 Bowling
3:00 Invitation to Dance (guest Edwin Starr)
4:00 Disaster How & Why (profiles the 1956 rescue of an airliner forced to set down in the Pacific between Hawaii and California)
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular: PBA Sarasota Open/NASCAR Daytona Sportsman 300/NHRA Springnationals (bowling is live, racing on tape)
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Next Step Beyond
7:30 Conversation with...
8:00 Bad News Bears
8:30 The 416th (pilot)
9:00 Movie "Rio Lobo"
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Lisa"

WTVH 5-CBS Syracuse
7:30 Summer Semester "Disabilities"
8:00 Popeye
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Tarzan/Super 7
noon Space Academy
12:30 Toy Shop Corporation
1:30 CBS Children's Film Festival "Joey"
2:00 Movie "Buck Privates" (bw)
3:30 World Putting Championship
4:00 Please Don't Eat the Daisies
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 $100,000 Name That Tune
7:30 Candid Camera
8:00 Bad News Bears
8:30 The 416th (pilot)
9:00 NFL Pre-Season: Buffalo-Oakland
mid. News
12:30 Lottery
12:35 Movie "Shalako"

CJOH 6-CTV Deseronto
6:00 University of the Air (x2)
7:00 All in a Tube
7:30 Tree House
8:00 Audubon Wildlife Theatre
8:30 Cartoons
9:30 Let's Go
10:00 George
10:30 Kidstuff
11:30 Willy & Floyd
noon Laurel & Hardy (bw)
12:30 Spiderman (x2)
1:30 Red Fisher
2:00 Movie "Across This Land" (Stompin' Tom Connors in concert at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto)
4:00 CTV Wide World of Sports: Labatts Participation Cup powerboat race/International Cliff Diving Championship/Women's Masters Surfing Championship
6:00 News
6:30 Sports '79
7:00 BJ & the Bear
8:00 Movie "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" (George Lazenby in his only 007 film)
11:00 CTV National News
11:20 Sports
11:30 Show Biz
mid. Movie "Deadman's Curve" (Richard Hatch and Bruce Davison as Jan & Dean)
2:05 Fantasy Island

WKBW 7-ABC Buffalo
6:00 Better Way
6:30 Agriculture USA
7:00 Barbapapa
7:30 Bugs Bunny & Friends
8:30 Scooby's All-Stars
10:00 Challenge of the Superfriends
11:30 Kids are People Too (highlights from earlier shows)
noon NASL Play-Offs (may air at 12:30)
3:00 World Cup Track & Field
5:00 ABC Wide World of Sports: Little League World Series
6:30 News
7:00 Here & Now
7:30 Eye on Buffalo
8:00 Carol Burnett & Company (guest Alan Arkin)
9:00 NFL Pre-Season: Buffalo-Oakland
mid. News
12:30 Movie "Portrait of a Mobster" (bw)
2:30 Challenge

WROC 8-NBC Rochester
5:25 Better Way
5:55 News for Little People
6:00 700 Club
7:00 Magic of Mark Wilson
7:30 Bay City Rollers
8:00 Alvin & the Chipmunks
8:30 Fantastic Four
9:00 Godzilla
10:30 Daffy Duck
11:00 Fred & Barney
11:30 Jetsons
noon Movie "Man on a String"
1:30 This Week in Baseball
2:00 Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Cincinnati-Mets or Boston-Kansas City
5:00 Odd Couple
5:30 That (Good Ole) Nashville Music (guests Mickey Gilley, Jody Miller, Ronnie Sessions, and Johnny Gimble)
6:00 Hee Haw (see WGR for guests)
7:00 Lawrence Welk (big-band songs)
8:00 CHiPs
9:00 NFL Pre-Season: Buffalo-Oakland
mid. News
12:30 Saturday Night Live
2:00 Midnight Special (from 1975, 2nd anniversary show showing earlier performances from the Doobie Brothers, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Joan Baez, Gladys Knight, B.B. King, Helen Reddy, David Bowie, the Birds, and BTO; also, a tribute to Bobby Darrin)
3:30 Movie "The Lady Gambles" (bw)

WIXT 9-ABC Syracuse
7:00 Big Blue Marble (young Costa Rican musicians perform at the White House)
7:30 Marlo & the Magic Movie Machine
8:00 Fangface
8:30 Scooby's All-Stars
10:00 Challenge of the Superfriends
11:30 Kids are People Too
noon NASL Play-Offs (may air at 12:30)
3:00 World Cup Track & Field
5:00 ABC Wide World of Sports
6:30 News
7:00 Lawrence Welk
8:00 Carol Burnett & Company
9:00 Movie "Hart to Hart" (2 hr series pilot, weekly episodes premiere on September 22nd)
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Chapman Report"
1:45 Movie "Doctor Blood's Coffin" (bw)

WOR 9-Ind New York
7:30 News
8:00 Davey & Goliath (x2)
8:30 Viewpoint on Nutrition
9:00 Daniel Boone
10:00 Movie "The Seventh Victim" (bw)
11:30 Movie "Village of the Damned" (bw)
1:00 Movie "The Lost Volcano" (bw)
2:00 Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Cincinnati-Mets
5:00 World at War
6:00 Saratoga Horse Racing
6:30 Life of Riley (bw)
7:00 Come Love the Children (hosts Art Linkletter and Carol Lawrence in a fundraiser to combat world hunger; guests include Melissa Sue Anderson, President Ford, Quinn Cummings, Dale Evans, Hugh Downs, Henry Fonda, Olivia Hussey, and the Lennon Sisters)
mid. Yonkers Horse Racing
12:30 Wrestling
1:30 Movie "The Ringer" (bw)
3:00 News

WHEC 10-CBS Rochester
6:30 Summer Semester "Disabilities"
7:00 Kidsworld
7:30 Archies
8:00 Popeye
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Tarzan/Super 7
noon Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert
1:00 Our 30 Minutes
1:30 CBS Children's Film Festival "Joey"
2:00 World of Survival
2:30 Movie "The Vengeance of Fu Manchu"
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
6:00 News
6:30 In Search of... (whether animals can communicate telepathically with other animals and humans)
7:00 Star Trek
8:00 Bad News Bears
8:30 The 416th (pilot)
9:00 Movie "Rio Lobo"
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "In the Steps of a Dead Man"
1:00 WCT Championship Tennis: John McEnroe v John Alexander

WPIX 11-Ind New York
7:00 Carrascolendas
7:30 Aprenda Ingles
8:00 Gigglesnort Hotel
8:30 Big Blue Marble (Treasure Island, pt 4 (Basil Rathbone as the voice of Long John Silver)/Pete shows off his soccer skills)
9:00 Family Affair
9:30 Herald of Truth
10:00 Jerry Falwell "Things Believed Among Us"
11:00 Hee Haw (see WGR for guests)
noon Soul Alive (guests Rick James and Loleatta Holloway)
1:00 Mr. Wizard
1:30 Get Smart
2:00 Twilight Zone (bw/x2)
3:00 Mod Squad
4:00 Space: 1999
5:00 Emergency One!
6:00 Star Trek
7:00 Odd Couple
7:30 Dance Fever (judges Ben Vereen, Debby Boone, and Joseph Bottoms/the Village People perform "Hot Cop")
8:00 This Week in Baseball
8:30 Baseball: Yankees-Minnesota
11:00 News
11:30 Odd Couple
mid. NFL Pre-Season: it's the Subway Series NFL style as the Giants host the Jets (same-day tape)
3:00 News

WOKR 13-ABC Rochester
7:00 America '79
7:30 Little Rascals (bw)
8:00 Fangface
8:30 Scooby's All-Stars
10:00 Challenge of the Superfriends
11:30 Tom & Jerry
noon NASL Play-Offs (may air at 12:30)
3:00 World Cup Track & Field
5:00 ABC Wide World of Sports
6:30 News
7:00 Saturday Magazine
7:30 Rookies
8:00 Carol Burnett & Company
9:00 Movie "Hart to Hart" (2 hr series pilot)
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Kid from Brooklyn"
1:30 News

WXXI 21-PBS Rochester
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Zoom
9:00 Prime Time (Series finale, this show focused on seniors)
9:30 Visa
10:00 Movie "The Guns of August" (bw)
noon Consumer Survival Kit (Vincent Price helps examine the pros and cons of fast-food joints; also, advice on auto repairs)
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1:00 Washington Week in Review
1:30 Wall Street Week
2:00 French Chef
2:30 Here's to Your Health
3:00 Masterpiece Theatre "I, Claudius" (pt 11)
4:00 Lure of the Dolphins
5:00 Gentle Killers (studies killer whales)
6:00 Wild, Wild World of Animals
6:30 Movie "Silk Stockings"
9:00 Summerfest '79 (Charles Aznavour and Jane Olivor at Pine Knob Music Theater in Michigan)
11:00 The Pythons (the gang on location in Tunisia filming "Life of Brian")

WCNY 24-PBS Syracuse
8:00 Once Upon a Classic "Sky Pirate"
9:00 Dancing Disco
9:30 America
10:00 All Creatures Great & Small
11:00 Poldark (pt eight)
noon Making Things Grow
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1:00 Antiques
1:30 Wall Street Week
2:00 Firing Line (discussing SALT II with retired Army Lt-Gen George Seignious, then Director of the Arms Control & Disarmament Agency)
3:00 Border Traffic
4:00 Meeting of Mind
5:00 Zorro's Fighting Legion (bw)
7:00 That Great American Gospel Music (performing: Tennessee Ernie Ford, Della Reese, the Jordanaires, the Happy Goodman Family, Micki Fuhrman, and the Fisk University Jubilee Singers)
9:00 Summerfest '79 (Aznavour/Olivor)
11:00 Movie "Swept Away..."
 
No ch. 31/WUHF yet, eh? I thought they were on the air by then.

And why did ch. 8 carry The Midnight Special on Saturday night? What did they do on Friday nights in that time slot?
 
oldschooler1 said:
No ch. 31/WUHF yet, eh? I thought they were on the air by then.

And why did ch. 8 carry The Midnight Special on Saturday night? What did they do on Friday nights in that time slot?

According to the Wikipedia article, WUHF didn't sign on until the following January. Midnight Special aired in the regular Friday slot in Buffalo and Syracuse, TV8 delayed it by one day as they carried a late movie on Friday nights.
 
Bluenoser said:
oldschooler1 said:
No ch. 31/WUHF yet, eh? I thought they were on the air by then.

And why did ch. 8 carry The Midnight Special on Saturday night? What did they do on Friday nights in that time slot?

According to the Wikipedia article, WUHF didn't sign on until the following January. Midnight Special aired in the regular Friday slot in Buffalo and Syracuse, TV8 delayed it by one day as they carried a late movie on Friday nights.

Correct - WUHF came on in late January 1980. (I was watching!)

The station's offices were already open in the summer of 1979. I know this because my aunt, who'd been an account executive at WHEC, went down the street to work at WUHF, though she left before the station even made it on the air.

I think WUHF had intended to get on the air sooner, but was delayed by the wait for a new tower to go up on Pinnacle Hill. (Ironically, the "goalpost" tower that went up late in 1979 for WUHF and WXXI-TV/FM is about to get a major overhaul; after 30 years, the crossbar and the analog 21 and 31 antennas will be removed soon to be replaced with a top-mounted antenna for WXXI-TV's digital signal.)
 
Bluenoser said:
WPIX 11-Ind New York

8:00 This Week in Baseball
8:30 Baseball: Yankees-Minnesota
11:00 News
11:30 Odd Couple
mid. NFL Pre-Season: it's the Subway Series NFL style as the Giants host the Jets (same-day tape)
3:00 News

If the Giants are hosting the Jets, then this game was played at Giants Stadium in New Jersey.

If it had been a few years earlier, when the Giants were still at Yankee Stadium, then it would have qualified as the "Subway Bowl" (the Jets called Shea Stadium home then and didn't move to East Rutherford until 1984).
 
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