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Retro: San Francisco - Monday, March 5, 1979 (channel number swap)

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The swap was between PBS channel 14 KCSM from the College of San Mateo, and SIN affiliate channel 60 KDTV.

2 KTVU Oakland
AM
7:00 Cartoon Town
8:30 Romper Room
9:00 I Love Lucy
9:30 Room 222
10:00 Big Valley
11:00 Donahue - Guest: Gloria Steinem
PM
12:00 Medical Center
1:00 Dialing for Dollars Movie: "Here Come the Girls" (1953, Comedy) - Bob Hope, Tony Martin, Arlene Dahl, Rosemary Clooney
3:00 Woody Woodpecker
4:00 Tom & Jerry (featuring TV Powww)
5:00 Captain Cosmic (Bob Wilkins) and his Wonder Robot 2-T-2 (parodic reference to both R2-D2 and KTVU's channel number 2)
5:30 Bewitched
6:00 Six Million Dollar Man
7:00 Odd Couple
7:30 Dating Game - Jim Lange (of San Francisco)
8:00 8 O'Clock Movie: "Bless the Beasts and the Children" (1971, Drama) - Bill Mumy, Barry Robbins, Miles Chapin
10:00 Action News
11:00 Liar's Club - Allen Ludden
11:30 The FBI

4 KRON (NBC)
AM
5:45 School of the Air
6:15 Ed Allen
6:45 Community Calendar
6:50 Newsign (for the hearing-impaired)
7:00 Today
9:00 Card Sharks
9:30 All Star Secrets - Bob Eubanks; Panel: Wolfman Jack, Kaye Ballard, Ken Berry, Carol Lynley, Rex Reed
10:00 High Rollers
10:30 Wheel of Fortune
11:00 Password Plus - Guests: Betty White (Mrs. Allen Ludden), Robert Pine
11:30 Mid-Day (KRON talk show)
PM
12:00 Days of Our Lives
1:00 The Doctors
1:30 Dinah! - Guests: Charlton Heston, Bob Hope, Ron Howard, Donna Summer, Don Crichton, John Mack Carter
3:00 Hollywood Squares (bumped from 11:30 slot by Mid-Day) - Panel: Paul Lynde, Jay Leno, Marion Ross, Robert Mandan, Conrad Bain, Melissa Gilbert, Wayland Flowers & Madame, Brianne Leary, Robert Fuller
3:30 Merv Griffin - Guests: Florence Henderson, Charles Grodin, Steve Landesberg
5:00 Mary Tyler Moore
5:30 Bob Newhart
6:00 NewsCenter 4
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Tic-Tac-Dough (new station and timeslot; previously on 44 KBHK at 6:30 PM)
8:00 Little House on the Prairie
9:00 NBC Monday Night at the Movies: "Jennifer: A Woman's Story" (Premiere, Drama) - Elizabeth Montgomery, Bradford Dillman
11:00 NewsCenter 4
11:30 Tonight Show - Guest Host: Bob Newhart; Guests: Walter Matthau, Norman Fell; Performer: Freddy Fender
AM
1:00 Tomorrow - Guests: Itzhak Perlman, Gore Vidal

5 KPIX (CBS)
AM
6:00 Sunrise Semester
6:30 Sut Yung Ying Yee (English language lessons for the Bay Area's Chinese speakers)
7:00 Monday Morning
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 All in the Family
9:30 Morning Show - Ross McGowan, Ann Fraser (later renamed People Are Talking)
10:30 Love of Life
10:55 CBS Mid-Morning News
11:00 Young and the Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
PM
12:00 Eyewitness News
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2:30 M*A*S*H
3:00 Match Game '79 - Panel: Guich Cook, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Debralee Scott, Paul Williams, Betty White
3:30 Mike Douglas - Co-Host: Sean Connery; Guests: Natalie Wood, Joyce Burditt, Rose Royce, Michael Keaton, Dottie West, Franco & Anita Columbu
5:00 Newlywed Game
5:30 Carol Burnett
6:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Evening Magazine
8:00 Billy
8:30 Flatbush
9:00 M*A*S*H
9:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
10:00 Lou Grant
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Rockford Files
AM
12:40 McMillan and Wife

7 KGO (ABC)
AM
6:15 Educational Programming
6:45 News
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 AM San Francisco - Jim Dunbar, Nancy Fleming (married Jim Lange just the previous year)
10:00 Happy Days
10:30 $20,000 Pyramid - Guests: Anne Meara, Bill Cullen (host of the syndicated $25,000 Pyramid)
11:00 Family Feud
11:30 Ryan's Hope
PM
12:00 All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Edge of Night
3:30 Movie: "Gigi" (1958 Best Picture Winner) - Maurice Chevalier, Leslie Caron (Part 1 of 2)
o5:00 Channel 7 News Scene
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 KGO News Special - Medi-Scare: A National Scandal
8:00 Salvage 1
9:00 How the West Was Won
11:00 Channel 7 News Scene
11:30 Police Story
AM
12:37 Viewfinder

9 KQED (PBS)
Pledge Breaks at various times throughout
AM
7:00 Voyager 1 Jupiter Space Probe Live (pre-empting all programs to 11:00)
11:00 **off the air**
PM
12:00 Dick Cavett - Guest: Jacques Cousteau (Part 2 of 2)
12:30 Over Easy - Guest: Joseph Fuchs
1:00 **off the air**
2:00 Turnabout
2:30 Julia Child & Company
3:00 Foods for the Modern Family
3:30 Sesame Street
4:30 Electric Company
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Sesame Street
6:30 Over Easy - Guest: HEW (now HHS) Secretary Joseph Califano
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 A Closer Look
8:00 Woody Hayes, the Football Coach
9:05 Rush
10:05 Big Band Cavalcade
11:05 Dick Cavett - Guest: Katherine Hepburn (Part 1 of 5)
11:45 Movie: "Tight Little Island" (1949, Comedy) - Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood

14 KDTV (SIN) (switched from channel 60 with KCSM)
PM
1:30 Villa Alegre
2:00 Rosalia
2:30 Los Hermanos Coraje (Brothers Courage)
3:30 Caras y Gestos (Faces and Gestures)
4:00 Cepillin (Clown host played by Ricardo Gonzalez Gutierrez)
4:30 Isabelita
5:30 Noticiero (News)
6:30 El Chapulin (Grasshopper) Colorado
7:00 La Senora de Cardenas (Mrs. Cardenas)
8:00 Viviana
8:30 Esta Noche Olga (Olga Tonight)
9:00 Super Estelar (Stellar) Musical
9:30 Paciones Encendidas (Burning Passions)
10:00 24 Horas
11:00 Veriadades de Medianoche (Midnight Varieties)

20 KEMO
AM
7:00 Stock Market Today
7:30 Stock Market Update
8:00 Stock & Bond Report
8:30 Corporate Report
9:00 Praise the Lord
11:00 Film Feature
11:30 Villa Alegre
PM
12:00 700 Club
1:30 Life in the Spirit
2:00 Children's Hour
2:30 PTL Club
3:30 Cuando se Quiere ser Feliz (When You Want to Be Happy)
4:30 Almas Malditas (Cursed Souls)
5:00 Noticiero 20
6:00 Cumbres Borrascosas (Wuthering Heights; Venezuelan 'televovela'/soap opera)
6:30 Rafaela
7:30 Maria Soledad
8:30 Historias de Papa y Mama
10:00 Roller Derby
11:00 PTL Club

26 KTSF
PM
5:00 Gigglesnort Hotel (produced by KGO's sister station WLS Chicago)
5:30 Heatbeat West
6:00 Movie: "Open City" (1946, War Drama, Italian) - Aldo Fabrizi
8:00 Today/Tomorrow
8:30 An American Asset
9:00 Various Chinese Programs
11:00 Movie: "The Stranger" (1946, Crime Drama/Noir) - Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles

32 KQEC (secondary station to KQED)
PM
6:00 Foods for the Modern Family
6:30 Book Beat
7:00 Voyager 1 Jupiter Space Probe (taped from KQED's 7:00-11:00 AM live coverage)
11:00 ABC Captioned News

44 KBHK
AM
7:00 Battle of the Planets
7:30 Popeye
8:00 Banana Splits
8:30 Fred Flintstone and Friends
9:00 Dusty's Treehouse (from KNXT Los Angeles; now KCBS)
9:30 Another World (from NBC; bumped from Dinah! on KRON at 1:30)
10:30 Not For Women Only
11:00 News Talk
11:30 New Zoo Revue
PM
12:00 Underdog
12:30 Huck & Yogi
1:00 Beverly Hillbillies
1:30 Gomer Pyle
2:00 Leave It to Beaver
2:30 Popeye
3:00 Casper
3:30 Bugs Bunny
4:00 Superman
4:30 Flintstones
5:00 Brady Bunch
5:30 Brady Bunch
6:00 Sanford and Son
6:30 Make Me Laugh - Bobby Van
7:00 Joker's Wild
7:30 Dick Van Dyke
8:00 Pac-10 Basketball: Washington State vs. Arizona State
10:00 Hogan's Heroes
10:30 Best of Groucho
11:00 Gong Show
11:30 Maverick
AM
12:30 Beverly Hillbillies
1:00 Gomer Pyle

60 KCSM (PBS) San Mateo (switched from channel 14 with KDTV)
AM
6:45 AM Weather
7:00 Project Universe
7:30 Family Portrait
8:00 Dimenions in Culture
8:30 Desigining Home Interiors
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Anyone for Tennyson?
10:30 Electric Company
11:00 Freestyle
11:30 People
PM
12:00 Earth, Sea & Sky
12:30 Dimenions in Culture
1:00 Project Universe
1:30 Family Portrait
2:00 Lillias, Yoga and You
2:30 Villa Alegre
3:00 Sesame Street
4:00 Mister Rogers
4:30 Electric Company
5:00 Dimensions in Culture
6:00 Project Universe
6:30 Foods for the Modern Family
7:00 People
7:30 Over Easy (see channel 9 KQED at 6:30 PM)
8:00 Academy Leaders
9:00 Austin City Limits
10:00 Bill Moyers' Journal
 
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Monday March 5th, 1979 where many PBS stations including KPBS San Diego(my local PBS station), are conducting its Festival '79 Membership Pledge Campaign which began Saturday March 3rd through Sunday March 18th where on the weekend on Saturday March 17 through Sunday March 18th when many PBS stations are airing more than 30 HOURS OF NON-STOP ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMMING TO CONCLUDE Festival '79 Plus the Grand Finale with many PBS celebrities. It's TV WORTH STAYING HOME FOR!!
 
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