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Retro: Sacramento - Tuesday, March 15, 1977

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The day the Sacramento-based TV series "Eight is Enough", as well as "Three's Company" premeired on ABC.

3 KCRA (NBC)
05:55AM - Farm Market Report
06:00AM - College Credit Course: Community Care
06:30AM - Making Things Grow
07:00AM - Today
09:00AM - Tattletales (pre-empted by KXTV; no celebrity guest info)
09:30AM - Hollywood Squares - Panel: Anthony Newley, Marcia Wallace, Charlie Callas, Wayland Flowers & Madame, Paul Lynde, Stefanie Powers, George Gobel, Liz Torres, Will Geer
10:00AM - Wheel of Fortune
10:30AM - Shoot for the Stars - Guests: Lynn Redgrave, Max Gail
11:00AM - Name That Tune (NBC version)
11:30AM - Lovers and Friends
11:57AM - NBC News Update
12:00PM - Channel 3 Reports
12:30PM - Donahue
01:30PM - Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
02:00PM - Another World
03:00PM - Days of Our Lives
04:00PM - Sanford and Son
04:30PM - Lucy Show
05:00PM - Channel 3 Reports
06:00PM - NBC Nightly News
06:30PM - Channel 3 Reports
07:00PM - KCRA Reports
07:30PM - $128,000 Question - Mike Darrow
08:00PM - NBC Special: "Highlights of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus" - Host: Gene Kelly
09:00PM - NBC Special: "Godzilla vs. Megalon" - spoof starring John Belushi
10:00PM - NBC News Special: "The Last Voyage of the Argo Merchant" - Host: NBC News correspondent John Dancy
11:00PM - Channel 3 Reports
11:30PM - Tonight Show - Guests: Frank Sinatra, James Stewart, Steve Martin, Peformer: Katherine Chase (this episode was planned to be the start of live airings in the West Coast; but was immediately abandoned)
01:00AM - Tomorrow - Topic: "The Selling of Gary Gilmore" with Larry Schiller and Barry Farrell

6 KVIE (PBS)
09:00AM - Sesame Street
10:00AM - Electric Company
10:30AM - Instructional Programming
12:00PM - Lilias, Yoga and You
12:30PM - Instructional Programming
03:00PM - Consultation
03:30PM - Villa Alegre
04:00PM - Membership Pledge Break
04:15PM - Sesame Street
05:15PM - Membership Pledge Break
05:30PM - Mister Rogers
06:00PM - College Credit Course: Making Things Grow
06:30PM - Colelge Credit Course: Open Math
07:00PM - MacNeil/Lehrer Report
07:30PM - Laurel & Hardy
08:00PM - Special: "La Boheme" - Luciano Pavarotti, Renata Scotto; conducted by James Levine; hosted by Tony Randall; from the Metropolitan Opera House (Lincoln Center, New York City)
11:00PM - Membership Pledge Break
11:05PM - Special: "I Regret Nothing" - film biography of Edith Piaf

10 KXTV (CBS)
06:30AM - Sunrise Semester
07:00AM - CBS Morning News
08:00AM - Captain Kangaroo - Guest: Nipsey Russell as The Calendar Salesman; Book: "A Visit From a Turtle" (Gene Deitch) read by Rusell
09:00AM - Jean LaMotte (local talk show)
09:30AM - Price is Right
10:30AM - Love of Life
10:55AM - CBS Midday News
11:00AM - Young and the Restless
11:30AM - Search for Tomorrow
12:00PM - Newservice 10
12:30PM - As the World Turns
01:30PM - Guiding Light
02:00PM - All in the Family
02:30PM - Match Game '77 - Panel: Orson Bean, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Debralee Scott, Richard Dawson, Joyce Bulifant
03:00PM - Dinah! (no guest info)
04:00PM - Mike Douglas (no guest info)
05:30PM - Newservice 10
06:00PM - CBS Evening News
06:30PM - Newservice 10
07:00PM - Concentration - Jack Narz
07:30PM - Price is Right - Dennis James
08:00PM - Who's Who?
09:00PM - M*A*S*H
09:30PM - One Day at a Time
10:00PM - Kojak
11:00PM - Newservice 10
11:30PM - CBS Late Movie: "Catlow" (1971) - Yul Brynner, Richard Crenna, Leonard Nimoy

13 KOVR (ABC)
06:20AM - Action News Headlines
06:25AM - College Credit Course: Consumer Nutrition
06:55AM - Chemagro Update
07:00AM - Good Morning America
09:00AM - Morning Scene
10:00AM - I Dream of Jeannie
10:30AM - Happy Days
11:00AM - Second Chance - Jim Peck
11:30AM - Family Feud
12:00PM - $20,000 Pyramid - Guests: Penny Peyser, Harry Rhodes
12:30PM - To Tell the Truth
01:00PM - Ryan's Hope
01:30PM - One Life to Live
02:15PM - General Hospital
03:00PM - Edge of Night
03:30PM - All My Children
04:00PM - My Three Sons
04:30PM - Family Affair
05:00PM - Adam-12
05:30PM - Action News 13
06:00PM - ABC Evening News
06:30PM - Merv Griffin - Guests: Betty White, Rosemary Clooney, Bert Convy, Chuck Berry, Ed Bluestone (comic)
08:00PM - Happy Days
08:30PM- Eight is Enough (P)
09:30PM- Three's Company (P)

10:00PM - Westside Medical (P)
11:00PM - Action News 13
11:30AM - Ironside
12:30AM - Tuesday Movie of the Week: "Isn't It Shocking?" (1973) - Alan Alda, Louise Lasser, Edmond O'Brien, Ruth Gordon, Lloyd Nolan
02:10AM - Action News Headlines

40 KTXL
05:50AM - Public Affairs
06:30AM - Not for Women Only
07:00AM - New Howdy Doody Show
07:30AM - Cap'n's (Mitch) Cartoons
08:00AM - Archies
08:30AM - Lassie
09:00AM - Flintstones
09:30AM - I Love Lucy
10:00AM - Morning Movie: "The Mind of Mr. Soames" (1970) - Terrence Stamp, Robert Vaughan, Nigel Davenport, Christian Roberts
12:00PM - Dick Van Dyke
12:30PM - Andy Griffith
01:00PM - Matinee Movie: "In Our Life" (1942) - Bette Davis, George Brent, Olivia de Havilland, Dennis Morgan, Charles Coburn
03:00PM - Three Stooges
03:30PM - Popeye and Bugs Bunny
04:00PM - Gilligan's Island
04:30PM - Partridge Family
05:00PM - Brady Bunch
05:30PM - Hogan's Heroes
06:00PM - Star Trek
07:00PM - Marcus Welby, M.D.
08:00PM - Big Movie: "Muntiny on the Bounty (1962) (Part 2 of 2) - Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris
10:00PM - 10 O'Clock News
11:00PM - The FBI
12:00AM - Night Comfort Theatre: "Beach Party" (1963) - Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Bob Cummings, Dorothy Malone, Morey Amsterdam
02:00AM - Night Comfort Theatre: "I Was a Male War Bride" (1949) - Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan
04:00AM - Night Comfort Theatre: "Thieves' Highway" (1949) - Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb, Barbara Lawrence
 
On this date: Tuesday March 15th, 1977 where many PBS stations including my own station: KPBS San Diego continue the Festival '77 Membership Pledge Drive with the world premiere of Live from the Met (New PBS opera Series): La Boheme, and is part of PBS' 15-night Festival '77 pledge drive, which continues through Sunday March 20th, 1977!! Festival' 77: Some Great Things to See on Public TV!!
 
On this date: Tuesday March 15th, 1977 where many PBS stations including my own station: KPBS San Diego continue the Festival '77 Membership Pledge Drive with the world premiere of Live from the Met (New PBS opera Series): La Boheme, and is part of PBS' 15-night Festival '77 pledge drive, which continues through Sunday March 20th, 1977!! Festival' 77: Some Great Things to See on Public TV!!
So "Live from the Met" was the official title, and was La Boheme their very first broadcast?
 
That's where I get most of these schedules from, along with geneologybank.com.
Great. And That's where Live from the Met: La Boheme featured the greatest tenor Luciano Pavarotti and this program grew a wonderful response during the Festival '77 Pledge Drive!!
 
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I always find the Sacramento stations daytime line ups to be odd and unusual. As the 80s and 90s and 00s there of course lots of pre-emotions.

KCRA didn’t bother to air the long running soap The Doctors at all yet aired the short lived failed soap Lovers & Friends.

KOVR didn’t air All My Children until the very end of the line at 3:30 after Edge of Nighr. All My Children would expand to one hour the following month in April 1977 so I wonder what the schedule looked like then.
 
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