from TV Guide-Rochester edition
Programs on PBS (ch 21 and 24) subject to change, as both stations were in pledge periods
WGR 2-NBC Buffalo
6:30 This is the Life
7:00 Ecumedia News
7:15 Church Invitation
7:30 Day of Discovery
8:00 Jimmy Swaggart
8:30 Jerry Falwell
9:30 Oral Roberts
10:00 Rex Humbard
11:00 Open Rap
11:30 Rev. James Andrews
noon Ruff House
12:30 Meet the Press
1:00 Movie "Snow Treasure"
3:30 Chuck Knox (Bills football)
4:00 NBC SportsWorld: James Scott (15-0-1) takes on Enio Cometti (29-4-2) in a 10-round light-heavyweight tilt at Rahway State Prison, NJ
5:30 $1.98 Beauty Show (judges Peter Lawford, Jamie Farr and Patti Andrews)
6:00 News
6:30 Wild Kingdom
7:00 Wonderful World of Disney "The Sky's the Limit" (pt 1, first aired in 1975)
8:00 Movie "Rooster Cogburn"
10:00 Prime Time Sunday (Jack Perkins reports on a San Francisco PR firm counselling oil execs on dealing with the media, Chris Wallace interviews LA chiropractor Joe Perry who specializes in treating athletes; Tom Snyder hosts)
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Hotel Paradiso"
1:25 With This Ring
WCBS 2-CBS New York late-night listings only
11:45pm Movie "A Tattered Web"
1:20 News
1:30 Movie "Duel" (JIP)
3:20 Newsmakers
3:50 Public Hearing
4:20 Movie "Loan Shark" (bw)
WSYR 3-NBC Syracuse
5:30 University of Michigan
6:00 This is the Life
6:30 Faith for Today
7:00 Music & the Spoken Word
7:30 Gospel Caravan
8:00 At Home with the Bible (guest: author Elizabeth Newby)
8:30 For You...Black Woman "Status of the Black Woman" (pt 1)
9:00 Our Community
9:30 Movie "The Good Humor Man" (bw)
11:00 Bowling
noon News & Views: Black Perspective
12:30 Meet the Press
1:00 Movie "Charlie Chan in Reno" (bw)
2:15 Baseball: Yankees-Minnesota
5:00 NBC SportsWorld: Scott v Cometti (JIP)
5:30 This Week in Baseball
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Wonderful World of Disney "The Sky's the Limit" (pt 1)
8:00 Movie "Rooster Cogburn"
10:00 Prime Time Sunday
11:00 News
11:30 79 Park Avenue (conclusion)
WIVB 4-CBS Buffalo
6:30 America's Black Forum
7:00 Public Policy Forums "The Dollar Abroad: Inflation at Home" (rerun from 1978)
8:00 Concerns
8:30 By the People
9:00 CBS News Sunday Morning
10:30 Robert Schuller
11:30 Face the Nation
noon Movie "The Princess and the Pirate"
1:30 1979 College Bowl Championships: Harvard v Davidson
2:00 TBA
2:30 Racers (Benihaha Offshore Powerboat Grand Prix)
3:00 NFL Preview "Passport to Pasadena"
4:00 ATP Championship, singles final
6:00 News
6:30 Consumer Buyline (David Horowitz looks at diamond purchasing and what's happened to the "dill" in dill pickles)
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 All in the Family
8:30 One Day at a Time
9:00 Alice (1 hr, Mel sells the diner)
10:00 Jeffersons (1 hr, Louise is kidnapped in a repeat from 1977)
11:00 News
11:30 Marcus Welby, MD
12:30 Conversation with...
WTVH 5-CBS Syracuse
7:00 Toy Shop Corporation
8:00 Day of Discovery
8:30 Oral Roberts
9:00 Mass for Shut-Ins
9:30 Jewish Journal
10:00 Karamu
10:30 World Putting Championship
11:00 Straight to the Source
11:30 Face the Nation
noon Movie "Mysteries for Beyond Earth"
2:00 Tarzan
3:00 NFL Preview "Passport to Pasadena"
4:00 ATP Championships, singles final
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 All in the Family
8:30 One Day at a Time
9:00 Alice
10:00 Jeffersons
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Deadliest Season"
CJOH 6-CTV Deseronto
6:00 University of the Air (x2)
7:00 Crossroads
7:30 Circle Square
8:00 Church Today
8:30 Jimmy Swaggart
9:00 Day of Discovery
9:30 Ernest Angley
10:00 It is Written
10:30 Rex Humbard
11:30 People's Church
12:30 Quest
1:00 Bill Prankard
1:30 Showcase Canada
2:00 Flower Spot
2:30 Horst Koehler
3:00 Movie "No Down Payment" (bw)
5:00 Untamed World "South American Tribes"
5:30 Question Period
6:00 News
6:30 Sports Flashback
7:00 Hardy Boys
8:00 Kaz
9:00 Vega$
10:00 Spirit of Acadia (a look at Acadians living in the Maritimes, I believe ATV produced this)
11:00 CTV National News (Keith Morrison was on the weekend desk in those days)
11:20 Sportsline
11:30 Young Performers
mid. Movie "Hotel"
WKBW 7-ABC Buffalo
6:30 Christopher Closeup (banker William Covington Hardee discusses business ethics)
7:00 Faith for Today
7:30 World of Gospel
8:00 Sunday Surprise
8:30 Commander Tom
10:00 Woody Woodpecker
10:30 Kids are People Too (guests Kiki Dee, Fred Grandy, and adventurer Davis Smith)
11:30 Animals, Animals, Animals
noon Movie "Pete Kelly's Blues"
2:00 Challenge
2:30 Building a Decent Future
3:00 1979 World Cup track and field
5:00 ABC Wide World of Sports: AAU Long Course Swimming Championships
6:00 News
6:30 Buffalo Bills Special
7:00 Hardy Boys (series finale)
8:00 Mork & Mindy
8:30 Ropers
9:00 Movie "Stone"
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Assault on the Wayne"
1:00 Sunday Surprise
1:30 ABC News
WROC 8-NBC Rochester
5:55 News for Little People
6:00 700 Club (topics include life after death, and incurable diseases)
7:00 Ernest Angley
8:00 Day of Discovery
8:30 Jimmy Swaggart
9:00 James Robison Presents
9:30 World Tomorrow
10:00 Robert Schuller (future Surgeon-General C. Everett Koop is Rev. Schuller's guest)
11:00 Ernest Angley
noon For You...Black Woman (same topic as ch 3)
12:30 Meet the Press
1:00 Movie "The River's Edge"
2:40 Movie "Cattle Empire"
4:20 Movie "Sierra Baron"
6:00 1979 College Bowl Championships: Sydney Sussex College (Cambridge University, UK) v Davidson
6:30 Challenge
7:00 Wonderful World of Disney "The Sky's the Limit" (pt 1)
8:00 Movie "Rooster Cogburn"
10:00 Prime Time Sunday
11:00 News
11:30 Second City Television Network
mid. Miss National Teen-Ager Pageant (the 8th annual-taped August 10 in Atlanta, hosted by Pat Boone with guests Michael McKean and David L. Lander)
WIXT 9-ABC Syracuse
7:00 Rex Humbard
8:00 Jimmy Swaggart
8:30 Robert Schuller
9:30 Jerry Falwell
10:30 Kids are People Too
11:30 Animals, Animals, Animals
noon Alive in Syracuse
12:30 Community Forum
1:00 Movie "Stolen Hours" (a British remake of the Bette Davis flick Dark Victory)
3:00 1979 World Cup track & field
5:00 ABC Wide World of Sports
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Sunday
7:00 Hardy Boys (series finale)
8:00 Mork & Mindy
8:30 Ropers
9:00 Movie "Stone"
11:00 News
11:30 Soap (1 hr, 10 min)
12:40 Issues & Answers (guest: HEW Secretary Patricia Roberts Harris)
WOR 9-Ind New York
7:30 Christopher Closeup (guest: poet Nikki Giovanni)
8:00 James Robison Presents
8:30 Day of Discovery
9:00 Oral Roberts
9:30 Newark & Reality
10:00 Catholic Mass (Fr. Francis X. Mulhall presides)
10:30 Point of View
11:00 Rex Humbard
noon Robert Schuller (Dr. Koop's here too)
1:00 Movie "Bomba, the Jungle Boy" (bw)
2:00 Baseball: the Mets host Cincinnati
5:00 Greatest Sports Legends: Jean Beliveau
5:30 Life of Riley (bw)
6:00 Movie "The Dam Busters" (bw)
8:00 Rex Humbard
9:00 9 on New Jersey
9:30 It is Written
10:00 World Tomorrow
10:30 Jimmy Swaggart
11:30 Ruff House (guest: money/precious metal expert Thomas W. Wolfe)
mid. Movie "The October Man" (bw)
1:45 News
WHEC 10-CBS Rochester
7:00 Public Policy Forums "Freedom of the Press: The First Amendment Protections" (first shown in 1975)
8:00 Mass for Shut-Ins
8:30 Marlo & the Magic Movie Machine
9:00 CBS News Sunday Morning
10:30 For Our Times (saluting the Mormon Tabernacle Choir)
11:00 Newsmaker
11:30 Face the Nation
noon Movie "Don't Give Up the Ship" (bw)
1:40 Movie "Tall Man Riding"
3:00 NFL Preview "Passport to Pasadena"
4:00 ATP Championships, singles final
6:00 CBS Evening News
6:30 That's Hollywood (comic-strip heroes on film)
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 All in the Family
8:30 One Day at a Time
9:00 Alice
10:00 Jeffersons
11:00 News
11:15 CBS News
11:30 Movie "Heat of Anger"
WPIX 11-Ind New York
7:00 Christopher Closeup (the conclusion of a 2-parter on cancer focuses on leukemia)
7:15 Davey & Goliath
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
11:00 F Troop (bw)
11:30 Movie "The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap" (bw)
1:00 Movie "Battle Beyond the Sun"
2:15 Baseball: Yankees-Minnesota
5:15 Movie "On Any Sunday"
7:00 News
7:30 NFL Exhibtion: Jets v Giants, taped yesterday at Giants Stadium
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 Rangel Report
WOKR 13-ABC Rochester
7:00 Insight
7:30 Jerry Falwell
8:30 Oral Roberts
9:00 Music & the Spoken Word
9:30 Little Rascals (bw)
10:00 Kids are People Too (same guests as ch 7/9; 13 aired 90 min)
11:30 Animals, Animals, Animals
noon Issues & Answers (same guest as ch 9)
12:30 Community Forum
1:00 Black Dimensions
1:30 Robert F. Kennedy Pro-Celebrity Tennis Tournament
3:00 1979 World Cup track & field
5:00 ABC Wide World of Sports
6:00 ABC World News Sunday
6:30 Dolly (guest Rod McKuen)
7:00 Hardy Boys (series finale)
8:00 Mork & Mindy
8:30 Ropers
9:00 Movie "Stone"
11:00 News
11:15 ABC News
11:30 Movie "These Three" (bw)
WXXI 21-PBS Rochester
6:50 Vegetable Soup
7:20 Sesame Street (x3, also at 8:30 and 9:40)
10:50 Once Upon a Classic "Robin Hood Junior"
noon Movie "Rainbow Over Texas" (bw)
1:00 From the Grand Ole Opry (pt 1 of a March 1979 show, with guests Roy Acuff, Barbara Mandrell, Jim Ed Brown, Porter Wagoner, Minnie Pearl, and Hank Snow)
4:00 Poldark, pt 8
5:00 Crockett's Victory Garden
5:30 Agronsky & Company
6:00 Americans
7:00 Evening at Pops (guests Pete Fountain and his group)
8:05 Meeting of Minds
9:10 Masterpiece Theatre "I, Claudius" (pt 12, followed by the conclusion at 10:20)
11:45 Dick Cavett
12:15 Two Ronnies
12:45 Inside Albany
WCNY 24-PBS Syracuse
7:30 Sesame Street (x3, also at the same times as TV21)
10:50 Nova (profile of Navajo-born nuclear physicist Fred Young)
noon Movie "Whirlwind Horseman" (bw)
1:05 Movie "Made for Each Other" (bw)
2:55 Movie "It's a Wonderful Life" (bw, and 4 months before Christmas at that
)
5:30 Movie "On the Town" (bw)
7:30 PBS Fall Highlights
8:00 Evening at Pops (guest Henry Mancini, in a rerun from 1978)
9:10 Masterpiece Theatre "I, Claudius" (pt 12, conclusion follows at 10:15)
Programs on PBS (ch 21 and 24) subject to change, as both stations were in pledge periods
WGR 2-NBC Buffalo
6:30 This is the Life
7:00 Ecumedia News
7:15 Church Invitation
7:30 Day of Discovery
8:00 Jimmy Swaggart
8:30 Jerry Falwell
9:30 Oral Roberts
10:00 Rex Humbard
11:00 Open Rap
11:30 Rev. James Andrews
noon Ruff House
12:30 Meet the Press
1:00 Movie "Snow Treasure"
3:30 Chuck Knox (Bills football)
4:00 NBC SportsWorld: James Scott (15-0-1) takes on Enio Cometti (29-4-2) in a 10-round light-heavyweight tilt at Rahway State Prison, NJ
5:30 $1.98 Beauty Show (judges Peter Lawford, Jamie Farr and Patti Andrews)
6:00 News
6:30 Wild Kingdom
7:00 Wonderful World of Disney "The Sky's the Limit" (pt 1, first aired in 1975)
8:00 Movie "Rooster Cogburn"
10:00 Prime Time Sunday (Jack Perkins reports on a San Francisco PR firm counselling oil execs on dealing with the media, Chris Wallace interviews LA chiropractor Joe Perry who specializes in treating athletes; Tom Snyder hosts)
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Hotel Paradiso"
1:25 With This Ring
WCBS 2-CBS New York late-night listings only
11:45pm Movie "A Tattered Web"
1:20 News
1:30 Movie "Duel" (JIP)
3:20 Newsmakers
3:50 Public Hearing
4:20 Movie "Loan Shark" (bw)
WSYR 3-NBC Syracuse
5:30 University of Michigan
6:00 This is the Life
6:30 Faith for Today
7:00 Music & the Spoken Word
7:30 Gospel Caravan
8:00 At Home with the Bible (guest: author Elizabeth Newby)
8:30 For You...Black Woman "Status of the Black Woman" (pt 1)
9:00 Our Community
9:30 Movie "The Good Humor Man" (bw)
11:00 Bowling
noon News & Views: Black Perspective
12:30 Meet the Press
1:00 Movie "Charlie Chan in Reno" (bw)
2:15 Baseball: Yankees-Minnesota
5:00 NBC SportsWorld: Scott v Cometti (JIP)
5:30 This Week in Baseball
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Wonderful World of Disney "The Sky's the Limit" (pt 1)
8:00 Movie "Rooster Cogburn"
10:00 Prime Time Sunday
11:00 News
11:30 79 Park Avenue (conclusion)
WIVB 4-CBS Buffalo
6:30 America's Black Forum
7:00 Public Policy Forums "The Dollar Abroad: Inflation at Home" (rerun from 1978)
8:00 Concerns
8:30 By the People
9:00 CBS News Sunday Morning
10:30 Robert Schuller
11:30 Face the Nation
noon Movie "The Princess and the Pirate"
1:30 1979 College Bowl Championships: Harvard v Davidson
2:00 TBA
2:30 Racers (Benihaha Offshore Powerboat Grand Prix)
3:00 NFL Preview "Passport to Pasadena"
4:00 ATP Championship, singles final
6:00 News
6:30 Consumer Buyline (David Horowitz looks at diamond purchasing and what's happened to the "dill" in dill pickles)
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 All in the Family
8:30 One Day at a Time
9:00 Alice (1 hr, Mel sells the diner)
10:00 Jeffersons (1 hr, Louise is kidnapped in a repeat from 1977)
11:00 News
11:30 Marcus Welby, MD
12:30 Conversation with...
WTVH 5-CBS Syracuse
7:00 Toy Shop Corporation
8:00 Day of Discovery
8:30 Oral Roberts
9:00 Mass for Shut-Ins
9:30 Jewish Journal
10:00 Karamu
10:30 World Putting Championship
11:00 Straight to the Source
11:30 Face the Nation
noon Movie "Mysteries for Beyond Earth"
2:00 Tarzan
3:00 NFL Preview "Passport to Pasadena"
4:00 ATP Championships, singles final
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 All in the Family
8:30 One Day at a Time
9:00 Alice
10:00 Jeffersons
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Deadliest Season"
CJOH 6-CTV Deseronto
6:00 University of the Air (x2)
7:00 Crossroads
7:30 Circle Square
8:00 Church Today
8:30 Jimmy Swaggart
9:00 Day of Discovery
9:30 Ernest Angley
10:00 It is Written
10:30 Rex Humbard
11:30 People's Church
12:30 Quest
1:00 Bill Prankard
1:30 Showcase Canada
2:00 Flower Spot
2:30 Horst Koehler
3:00 Movie "No Down Payment" (bw)
5:00 Untamed World "South American Tribes"
5:30 Question Period
6:00 News
6:30 Sports Flashback
7:00 Hardy Boys
8:00 Kaz
9:00 Vega$
10:00 Spirit of Acadia (a look at Acadians living in the Maritimes, I believe ATV produced this)
11:00 CTV National News (Keith Morrison was on the weekend desk in those days)
11:20 Sportsline
11:30 Young Performers
mid. Movie "Hotel"
WKBW 7-ABC Buffalo
6:30 Christopher Closeup (banker William Covington Hardee discusses business ethics)
7:00 Faith for Today
7:30 World of Gospel
8:00 Sunday Surprise
8:30 Commander Tom
10:00 Woody Woodpecker
10:30 Kids are People Too (guests Kiki Dee, Fred Grandy, and adventurer Davis Smith)
11:30 Animals, Animals, Animals
noon Movie "Pete Kelly's Blues"
2:00 Challenge
2:30 Building a Decent Future
3:00 1979 World Cup track and field
5:00 ABC Wide World of Sports: AAU Long Course Swimming Championships
6:00 News
6:30 Buffalo Bills Special
7:00 Hardy Boys (series finale)
8:00 Mork & Mindy
8:30 Ropers
9:00 Movie "Stone"
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Assault on the Wayne"
1:00 Sunday Surprise
1:30 ABC News
WROC 8-NBC Rochester
5:55 News for Little People
6:00 700 Club (topics include life after death, and incurable diseases)
7:00 Ernest Angley
8:00 Day of Discovery
8:30 Jimmy Swaggart
9:00 James Robison Presents
9:30 World Tomorrow
10:00 Robert Schuller (future Surgeon-General C. Everett Koop is Rev. Schuller's guest)
11:00 Ernest Angley
noon For You...Black Woman (same topic as ch 3)
12:30 Meet the Press
1:00 Movie "The River's Edge"
2:40 Movie "Cattle Empire"
4:20 Movie "Sierra Baron"
6:00 1979 College Bowl Championships: Sydney Sussex College (Cambridge University, UK) v Davidson
6:30 Challenge
7:00 Wonderful World of Disney "The Sky's the Limit" (pt 1)
8:00 Movie "Rooster Cogburn"
10:00 Prime Time Sunday
11:00 News
11:30 Second City Television Network
mid. Miss National Teen-Ager Pageant (the 8th annual-taped August 10 in Atlanta, hosted by Pat Boone with guests Michael McKean and David L. Lander)
WIXT 9-ABC Syracuse
7:00 Rex Humbard
8:00 Jimmy Swaggart
8:30 Robert Schuller
9:30 Jerry Falwell
10:30 Kids are People Too
11:30 Animals, Animals, Animals
noon Alive in Syracuse
12:30 Community Forum
1:00 Movie "Stolen Hours" (a British remake of the Bette Davis flick Dark Victory)
3:00 1979 World Cup track & field
5:00 ABC Wide World of Sports
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Sunday
7:00 Hardy Boys (series finale)
8:00 Mork & Mindy
8:30 Ropers
9:00 Movie "Stone"
11:00 News
11:30 Soap (1 hr, 10 min)
12:40 Issues & Answers (guest: HEW Secretary Patricia Roberts Harris)
WOR 9-Ind New York
7:30 Christopher Closeup (guest: poet Nikki Giovanni)
8:00 James Robison Presents
8:30 Day of Discovery
9:00 Oral Roberts
9:30 Newark & Reality
10:00 Catholic Mass (Fr. Francis X. Mulhall presides)
10:30 Point of View
11:00 Rex Humbard
noon Robert Schuller (Dr. Koop's here too)
1:00 Movie "Bomba, the Jungle Boy" (bw)
2:00 Baseball: the Mets host Cincinnati
5:00 Greatest Sports Legends: Jean Beliveau
5:30 Life of Riley (bw)
6:00 Movie "The Dam Busters" (bw)
8:00 Rex Humbard
9:00 9 on New Jersey
9:30 It is Written
10:00 World Tomorrow
10:30 Jimmy Swaggart
11:30 Ruff House (guest: money/precious metal expert Thomas W. Wolfe)
mid. Movie "The October Man" (bw)
1:45 News
WHEC 10-CBS Rochester
7:00 Public Policy Forums "Freedom of the Press: The First Amendment Protections" (first shown in 1975)
8:00 Mass for Shut-Ins
8:30 Marlo & the Magic Movie Machine
9:00 CBS News Sunday Morning
10:30 For Our Times (saluting the Mormon Tabernacle Choir)
11:00 Newsmaker
11:30 Face the Nation
noon Movie "Don't Give Up the Ship" (bw)
1:40 Movie "Tall Man Riding"
3:00 NFL Preview "Passport to Pasadena"
4:00 ATP Championships, singles final
6:00 CBS Evening News
6:30 That's Hollywood (comic-strip heroes on film)
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 All in the Family
8:30 One Day at a Time
9:00 Alice
10:00 Jeffersons
11:00 News
11:15 CBS News
11:30 Movie "Heat of Anger"
WPIX 11-Ind New York
7:00 Christopher Closeup (the conclusion of a 2-parter on cancer focuses on leukemia)
7:15 Davey & Goliath
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
11:00 F Troop (bw)
11:30 Movie "The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap" (bw)
1:00 Movie "Battle Beyond the Sun"
2:15 Baseball: Yankees-Minnesota
5:15 Movie "On Any Sunday"
7:00 News
7:30 NFL Exhibtion: Jets v Giants, taped yesterday at Giants Stadium
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 Rangel Report
WOKR 13-ABC Rochester
7:00 Insight
7:30 Jerry Falwell
8:30 Oral Roberts
9:00 Music & the Spoken Word
9:30 Little Rascals (bw)
10:00 Kids are People Too (same guests as ch 7/9; 13 aired 90 min)
11:30 Animals, Animals, Animals
noon Issues & Answers (same guest as ch 9)
12:30 Community Forum
1:00 Black Dimensions
1:30 Robert F. Kennedy Pro-Celebrity Tennis Tournament
3:00 1979 World Cup track & field
5:00 ABC Wide World of Sports
6:00 ABC World News Sunday
6:30 Dolly (guest Rod McKuen)
7:00 Hardy Boys (series finale)
8:00 Mork & Mindy
8:30 Ropers
9:00 Movie "Stone"
11:00 News
11:15 ABC News
11:30 Movie "These Three" (bw)
WXXI 21-PBS Rochester
6:50 Vegetable Soup
7:20 Sesame Street (x3, also at 8:30 and 9:40)
10:50 Once Upon a Classic "Robin Hood Junior"
noon Movie "Rainbow Over Texas" (bw)
1:00 From the Grand Ole Opry (pt 1 of a March 1979 show, with guests Roy Acuff, Barbara Mandrell, Jim Ed Brown, Porter Wagoner, Minnie Pearl, and Hank Snow)
4:00 Poldark, pt 8
5:00 Crockett's Victory Garden
5:30 Agronsky & Company
6:00 Americans
7:00 Evening at Pops (guests Pete Fountain and his group)
8:05 Meeting of Minds
9:10 Masterpiece Theatre "I, Claudius" (pt 12, followed by the conclusion at 10:20)
11:45 Dick Cavett
12:15 Two Ronnies
12:45 Inside Albany
WCNY 24-PBS Syracuse
7:30 Sesame Street (x3, also at the same times as TV21)
10:50 Nova (profile of Navajo-born nuclear physicist Fred Young)
noon Movie "Whirlwind Horseman" (bw)
1:05 Movie "Made for Each Other" (bw)
2:55 Movie "It's a Wonderful Life" (bw, and 4 months before Christmas at that
)5:30 Movie "On the Town" (bw)
7:30 PBS Fall Highlights
8:00 Evening at Pops (guest Henry Mancini, in a rerun from 1978)
9:10 Masterpiece Theatre "I, Claudius" (pt 12, conclusion follows at 10:15)