Sources: The Daily Union Democrat & Cloverdale Reveille
KTVU 2 (Independent, now Fox)
7:30 Archie Campbell Show
8:00 Voice of Agriculture
8:30 America's Black Forum
9:00 Asians Now!
9:30 Aqui y Ahora
10:00 Our Men in the Capitol
10:30 The World Tomorrow
11:00 Getting Your Act Together
11:30 Soul Train
12:30 Movie: "A Bullet is Waiting" (1954)
2:00 Hee Haw
3:00 Movie: "Virgin Soldiers" (1970)
5:00 Movie: "A Thousand Clowns" (1965)
7:00 Solid Gold
8:00 Movie: "Public Eye" (1972)
10:00 News
10:30 Stolen Innocence
11:00 Dance Fever
11:30 Movie: "Frankenstein's Bloody Terror" (1971)
KCRA 3 (NBC)
6:00 A Better Way
6:30 Mr. Ed
7:00 Godzilla / Hong Kong Phooey
8:00 Flintstone Comedy Show
9:30 Daffy Duck
10:00 Batman and the Super 7
11:00 Laugh-Time
11:30 Drawing Power
Noon Bionic Woman
1:00 SportsWorld
2:30 The Racers
3:00 Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry
3:30 Easy Livin' Country
4:00 Nashville on the Road
4:30 That Nashville Music
5:00 Pop! Goes the Country
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 News
6:30 Hee Haw
7:30 In Search of...
8:00 Blair Pro Rodeo
9:00 NBC Saturday Night at the Movies: "Semi-Tough" (1977)
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1:00 Movie: "Curse of Bigfoot" (1975)
2:30 Movie: "The Hostage" (1967)
4:00 Movie: "Blood Mania" (1970)
KRON 4 (NBC)
6:00 University of Michigan
6:30 Community Circle
7:00 Buster and Me
7:30 Just Kidding
8:00 Flintstone Comedy Show
9:30 Daffy Duck
10:00 Batman and the Super 7
11:00 Jonny Quest
11:30 Drawing Power
Noon America's Top Ten
12:30 Let's Rock
1:00 SportsWorld
2:30 Community Circle
3:00 That Nashville Music
3:30 Please Stand By
4:00 Greatest Sports Legend
4:30 Raiders Playbook '80
5:00 NewsCenter 4
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Lawrence Welk
7:00 SFO
8:00 Hollywood Christmas Parade
10:00 What's Happening America
11:00 NewsCenter 4
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1:00 SCTV
1:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
3:00 sign-off
KPIX 5 (CBS)
6:00 Agricultural Film
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 Villa Alegre
7:30 Kids News Conference
8:00 New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle
8:30 Tom and Jerry
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Popeye
11:30 Superkids
Noon Fat Albert
12:30 Tarzan/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour
1:30 30 Minutes
2:00 Cinco Dias En Revista
2:30 Movie: "The Yearling" (1946)
5:00 NFL Review and Preview
6:00 CBS Evening News
6:30 Eyewitness News
7:00 Pacific Currents
7:30 All Together Now
8:00 WKRP in Cincinnati
8:30 Tim Conway Show
9:00 Freebie and the Bean (series premiere)
10:00 Secrets of Midland Heights (debut)
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Movie: "The Anderson Tapes" (1971)
1:10 Movie: "The Arrangement" (1969)
3:20 Movie: "Make Mine Laughs" (1949)
KVIE Channel 6 (PBS)
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
8:30 Electric Company
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Once Upon a Classic "Swish of the Curtain"
10:30 Julia Child & More Company
11:00 Basic Solar Energy
11:30 Victory Garden
Noon Old Friends, New Friends
12:30 The Art of Living
1:00 Cosmos
2:00 Movie: "Back Street" (1961)
3:45 The Art of Being Human
5:00 Survival
7:00 Connections
8:00 All Creatures Great and Small
9:00 When the Movies Were Young
10:00 Movie: "The Glenn Miller Story" (1954)
Midnight sign-off
KGO 7 (ABC)
6:30 Bay Scene 7
7:00 Plastic Man/Baby Plas
7:30 Fonz and the Happy Days Gang
8:00 Heathcliff and Dingbat
8:30 Thundarr the Barbarian
9:00 College Football (Can someone help me identify the teams that were playing that day?)
12:30 College Football
4:00 Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show (and Scrappy Too!)
5:00 Super Friends
6:00 Hollywood Squares
6:30 Channel 7 News Scene
7:00 Bay Scene 7
7:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
8:00 Breaking Away
9:00 Love Boat
10:00 Fantasy Island
11:00 Channel 7 News Scene
11:30 ABC News Weekend Report
11:45 Movie: "Murderer's Row" (1966)
1:45 Channel 7 News Scene
KSBW 8 (NBC) Salinas
6:30 Voice of Agriculture
7:00 Godzilla / Hong Kong Phooey
8:00 Flintstone Comedy Show
9:30 Daffy Duck
10:00 Batman and the Super 7
11:00 Jonny Quest
11:30 Imagine That
Noon Val De La O Show
1:00 SportsWorld
2:30 That Nashville Music
3:00 America's Top Ten
3:30 Movie: "Legend of Death Valley"
5:30 News (in Spanish)
6:00 NBC Nightly News
6:30 Viewpoint
7:00 Solid Gold
8:00 Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters
9:00 NBC Saturday Night at the Movies: "Semi-Tough" (1977)
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1:00 Solid Gold
2:00 sign-off
KQED 9 (PBS)
8:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
8:30 Sesame Street
10:15 Big Bill: Story of a Heron
Noon 1980: A Tennis Year to Remember
1:00 Festival in Vienna
2:00 G.I. Jive
5:00 Nova
6:15 Gorilla, Gorilla, Gorilla
7:00 Fred Astaire: Puttin' on His Top Hat
8:55 Bay Area Art Notes
9:00 Night of the Pythons
Midnight sign-off
KXTV 10 (CBS, now ABC)
7:30 Focus on Farming
8:00 New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle
8:30 Tom and Jerry
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Popeye
11:30 Drak Pack
Noon Fat Albert
12:30 Tarzan/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour
1:30 30 Minutes
2:00 Who, What, How Do You Know
2:30 Big Blue Marble
3:00 U.S. Nationals
4:00 Movie: "Someone I Touched" (1975)
5:30 News
6:00 CBS Evening News
6:30 Happy Days Again
7:00 Wild, Wild World of Animals
7:30 Match Game
8:00 WKRP in Cincinnati
8:30 Tim Conway Show
9:00 Freebie and the Bean (series premiere)
10:00 Secrets of Midland Heights (debut)
11:00 News
11:30 Movie: "The Man Who Haunted Himself" (1970)
KNTV 11 (ABC, now NBC) San Jose
6:00 Gigglesnort Hotel
6:30 Kidsworld
7:00 Plastic Man/Baby Plas
7:30 Fonz and the Happy Days Gang
8:00 Heathcliff and Dingbat
8:30 Thundarr the Barbarian
9:00 College Football
1:00 College Football
4:00 Noticero
4:30 Movie: "The Mark of Zorro" (1974)
6:00 World of People
6:30 News
7:00 Star Trek
8:00 Breaking Away
9:00 Love Boat
10:00 Fantasy Island
11:00 News
11:30 Movie: "Kelly's Heroes" (1970)
KOVR 13 (ABC, now CBS)
6:00 Mr. Wizard
6:30 Voice of Agriculture
7:00 Plastic Man/Baby Plas
7:30 Fonz and the Happy Days Gang
8:00 Heathcliff and Dingbat
8:30 Thundarr the Barbarian
9:00 College Football
12:30 College Football
4:00 Agony of Victory
4:30 Get Smart
5:00 Mayberry, R.F.D.
5:30 My Three Sons
6:00 All in the Family
6:30 News
7:00 Dance Fever
7:30 Sha Na Na
8:00 Breaking Away
9:00 Love Boat
10:00 Fantasy Island
11:00 News
11:30 Dolly Parton Show
Midnight Marty Robbins Spotlight
12:30 Country Roads
1:00 ABC News Weekend Report
1:15 News
KICU 36 (Independent)
6:00 Yoga for Health
6:30 It's Your Affair
7:00 Good News
7:30 Cartoons
8:00 Movie: TBA (can't remember the name of that movie but it was a Western)
9:30 Movie: TBA (can't remember the name of that movie but I know to be a Western again)
11:00 Movie: "Raid on Rommel" (1971)
1:00 Movie: "The Hell with Heroes" (1968)
3:00 Roy Rogers
4:00 All Star Wrestling
5:00 Combat
6:00 Movie: "Lock, Stock and Barrel" (1970)
8:00 Flip Wilson Show
9:00 Dean Martin Show
10:00 Celebrity Concert
11:00 Movie: "Savages" (1974)
12:30 Movie: "Second Chance" (1972)
1:55 Movie: "The Priest Killer" (1971)
3:45 Movie: TBA (Can't recall the name of it, but was a Drama)
KTXL 40 (Independent, now Fox)
6:00 Physical Fitness
6:30 Public Affairs
7:00 It's Your Business
7:30 Health Field
8:00 700 Club
10:00 Reach Out
10:30 Image
11:00 Saturday Morning Magazine
Noon Partridge Family
12:30 Movie: "Buck Privates" (1941)
2:00 Hollywood Christmas Parade
4:00 Movie: "Top Secret" (1978)
6:00 Solid Gold
7:00 Movie: "Winterhawk" (1979)
9:00 Monte Carlo Show (guest Doc Severinse)
10:00 Independent Network News
10:30 Benny Hill
11:00 Morecambe and Wise
11:30 Movie: "Horror Express" (1972)
1:30 Movie: "The Man with the Golden Arm" (1956)
3:45 Movie: "Quest for Love" (1971)
KBHK [now KBCW] 44 (Ind., now affiliated with the CW)
6:00 It's Your Business
6:30 Black Renaissance
7:00 El Amanecer
7:30 Music and the Spoken Word
8:00 World of Survival
8:30 Hot Fudge
9:00 Movie: "The Truth" (1960)
10:30 Movie: "Blondie's Big Moment" (1947)
Noon Movie: "Tarzan and the Green Goddess" (1938)
1:30 Movie: "Captive Wild Woman" (1943)
3:00 Movie: "Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man" (1951)
4:30 Movie: "Brian's Song" (1971)
6:00 Kung Fu
7:00 Joker! Joker! Joker! (Kids version of "The Joker's Wild")
7:30 All in the Family
8:00 Movie: "The Haunted Strangler" (1958)
9:30 Night Gallery
10:00 Independent Network News
10:30 Hogan's Heroes
11:00 The Baxters
KTVU 2 (Independent, now Fox)
7:30 Archie Campbell Show
8:00 Voice of Agriculture
8:30 America's Black Forum
9:00 Asians Now!
9:30 Aqui y Ahora
10:00 Our Men in the Capitol
10:30 The World Tomorrow
11:00 Getting Your Act Together
11:30 Soul Train
12:30 Movie: "A Bullet is Waiting" (1954)
2:00 Hee Haw
3:00 Movie: "Virgin Soldiers" (1970)
5:00 Movie: "A Thousand Clowns" (1965)
7:00 Solid Gold
8:00 Movie: "Public Eye" (1972)
10:00 News
10:30 Stolen Innocence
11:00 Dance Fever
11:30 Movie: "Frankenstein's Bloody Terror" (1971)
KCRA 3 (NBC)
6:00 A Better Way
6:30 Mr. Ed
7:00 Godzilla / Hong Kong Phooey
8:00 Flintstone Comedy Show
9:30 Daffy Duck
10:00 Batman and the Super 7
11:00 Laugh-Time
11:30 Drawing Power
Noon Bionic Woman
1:00 SportsWorld
2:30 The Racers
3:00 Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry
3:30 Easy Livin' Country
4:00 Nashville on the Road
4:30 That Nashville Music
5:00 Pop! Goes the Country
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 News
6:30 Hee Haw
7:30 In Search of...
8:00 Blair Pro Rodeo
9:00 NBC Saturday Night at the Movies: "Semi-Tough" (1977)
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1:00 Movie: "Curse of Bigfoot" (1975)
2:30 Movie: "The Hostage" (1967)
4:00 Movie: "Blood Mania" (1970)
KRON 4 (NBC)
6:00 University of Michigan
6:30 Community Circle
7:00 Buster and Me
7:30 Just Kidding
8:00 Flintstone Comedy Show
9:30 Daffy Duck
10:00 Batman and the Super 7
11:00 Jonny Quest
11:30 Drawing Power
Noon America's Top Ten
12:30 Let's Rock
1:00 SportsWorld
2:30 Community Circle
3:00 That Nashville Music
3:30 Please Stand By
4:00 Greatest Sports Legend
4:30 Raiders Playbook '80
5:00 NewsCenter 4
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Lawrence Welk
7:00 SFO
8:00 Hollywood Christmas Parade
10:00 What's Happening America
11:00 NewsCenter 4
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1:00 SCTV
1:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
3:00 sign-off
KPIX 5 (CBS)
6:00 Agricultural Film
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 Villa Alegre
7:30 Kids News Conference
8:00 New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle
8:30 Tom and Jerry
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Popeye
11:30 Superkids
Noon Fat Albert
12:30 Tarzan/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour
1:30 30 Minutes
2:00 Cinco Dias En Revista
2:30 Movie: "The Yearling" (1946)
5:00 NFL Review and Preview
6:00 CBS Evening News
6:30 Eyewitness News
7:00 Pacific Currents
7:30 All Together Now
8:00 WKRP in Cincinnati
8:30 Tim Conway Show
9:00 Freebie and the Bean (series premiere)
10:00 Secrets of Midland Heights (debut)
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Movie: "The Anderson Tapes" (1971)
1:10 Movie: "The Arrangement" (1969)
3:20 Movie: "Make Mine Laughs" (1949)
KVIE Channel 6 (PBS)
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
8:30 Electric Company
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Once Upon a Classic "Swish of the Curtain"
10:30 Julia Child & More Company
11:00 Basic Solar Energy
11:30 Victory Garden
Noon Old Friends, New Friends
12:30 The Art of Living
1:00 Cosmos
2:00 Movie: "Back Street" (1961)
3:45 The Art of Being Human
5:00 Survival
7:00 Connections
8:00 All Creatures Great and Small
9:00 When the Movies Were Young
10:00 Movie: "The Glenn Miller Story" (1954)
Midnight sign-off
KGO 7 (ABC)
6:30 Bay Scene 7
7:00 Plastic Man/Baby Plas
7:30 Fonz and the Happy Days Gang
8:00 Heathcliff and Dingbat
8:30 Thundarr the Barbarian
9:00 College Football (Can someone help me identify the teams that were playing that day?)
12:30 College Football
4:00 Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show (and Scrappy Too!)
5:00 Super Friends
6:00 Hollywood Squares
6:30 Channel 7 News Scene
7:00 Bay Scene 7
7:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
8:00 Breaking Away
9:00 Love Boat
10:00 Fantasy Island
11:00 Channel 7 News Scene
11:30 ABC News Weekend Report
11:45 Movie: "Murderer's Row" (1966)
1:45 Channel 7 News Scene
KSBW 8 (NBC) Salinas
6:30 Voice of Agriculture
7:00 Godzilla / Hong Kong Phooey
8:00 Flintstone Comedy Show
9:30 Daffy Duck
10:00 Batman and the Super 7
11:00 Jonny Quest
11:30 Imagine That
Noon Val De La O Show
1:00 SportsWorld
2:30 That Nashville Music
3:00 America's Top Ten
3:30 Movie: "Legend of Death Valley"
5:30 News (in Spanish)
6:00 NBC Nightly News
6:30 Viewpoint
7:00 Solid Gold
8:00 Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters
9:00 NBC Saturday Night at the Movies: "Semi-Tough" (1977)
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1:00 Solid Gold
2:00 sign-off
KQED 9 (PBS)
8:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
8:30 Sesame Street
10:15 Big Bill: Story of a Heron
Noon 1980: A Tennis Year to Remember
1:00 Festival in Vienna
2:00 G.I. Jive
5:00 Nova
6:15 Gorilla, Gorilla, Gorilla
7:00 Fred Astaire: Puttin' on His Top Hat
8:55 Bay Area Art Notes
9:00 Night of the Pythons
Midnight sign-off
KXTV 10 (CBS, now ABC)
7:30 Focus on Farming
8:00 New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle
8:30 Tom and Jerry
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Popeye
11:30 Drak Pack
Noon Fat Albert
12:30 Tarzan/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour
1:30 30 Minutes
2:00 Who, What, How Do You Know
2:30 Big Blue Marble
3:00 U.S. Nationals
4:00 Movie: "Someone I Touched" (1975)
5:30 News
6:00 CBS Evening News
6:30 Happy Days Again
7:00 Wild, Wild World of Animals
7:30 Match Game
8:00 WKRP in Cincinnati
8:30 Tim Conway Show
9:00 Freebie and the Bean (series premiere)
10:00 Secrets of Midland Heights (debut)
11:00 News
11:30 Movie: "The Man Who Haunted Himself" (1970)
KNTV 11 (ABC, now NBC) San Jose
6:00 Gigglesnort Hotel
6:30 Kidsworld
7:00 Plastic Man/Baby Plas
7:30 Fonz and the Happy Days Gang
8:00 Heathcliff and Dingbat
8:30 Thundarr the Barbarian
9:00 College Football
1:00 College Football
4:00 Noticero
4:30 Movie: "The Mark of Zorro" (1974)
6:00 World of People
6:30 News
7:00 Star Trek
8:00 Breaking Away
9:00 Love Boat
10:00 Fantasy Island
11:00 News
11:30 Movie: "Kelly's Heroes" (1970)
KOVR 13 (ABC, now CBS)
6:00 Mr. Wizard
6:30 Voice of Agriculture
7:00 Plastic Man/Baby Plas
7:30 Fonz and the Happy Days Gang
8:00 Heathcliff and Dingbat
8:30 Thundarr the Barbarian
9:00 College Football
12:30 College Football
4:00 Agony of Victory
4:30 Get Smart
5:00 Mayberry, R.F.D.
5:30 My Three Sons
6:00 All in the Family
6:30 News
7:00 Dance Fever
7:30 Sha Na Na
8:00 Breaking Away
9:00 Love Boat
10:00 Fantasy Island
11:00 News
11:30 Dolly Parton Show
Midnight Marty Robbins Spotlight
12:30 Country Roads
1:00 ABC News Weekend Report
1:15 News
KICU 36 (Independent)
6:00 Yoga for Health
6:30 It's Your Affair
7:00 Good News
7:30 Cartoons
8:00 Movie: TBA (can't remember the name of that movie but it was a Western)
9:30 Movie: TBA (can't remember the name of that movie but I know to be a Western again)
11:00 Movie: "Raid on Rommel" (1971)
1:00 Movie: "The Hell with Heroes" (1968)
3:00 Roy Rogers
4:00 All Star Wrestling
5:00 Combat
6:00 Movie: "Lock, Stock and Barrel" (1970)
8:00 Flip Wilson Show
9:00 Dean Martin Show
10:00 Celebrity Concert
11:00 Movie: "Savages" (1974)
12:30 Movie: "Second Chance" (1972)
1:55 Movie: "The Priest Killer" (1971)
3:45 Movie: TBA (Can't recall the name of it, but was a Drama)
KTXL 40 (Independent, now Fox)
6:00 Physical Fitness
6:30 Public Affairs
7:00 It's Your Business
7:30 Health Field
8:00 700 Club
10:00 Reach Out
10:30 Image
11:00 Saturday Morning Magazine
Noon Partridge Family
12:30 Movie: "Buck Privates" (1941)
2:00 Hollywood Christmas Parade
4:00 Movie: "Top Secret" (1978)
6:00 Solid Gold
7:00 Movie: "Winterhawk" (1979)
9:00 Monte Carlo Show (guest Doc Severinse)
10:00 Independent Network News
10:30 Benny Hill
11:00 Morecambe and Wise
11:30 Movie: "Horror Express" (1972)
1:30 Movie: "The Man with the Golden Arm" (1956)
3:45 Movie: "Quest for Love" (1971)
KBHK [now KBCW] 44 (Ind., now affiliated with the CW)
6:00 It's Your Business
6:30 Black Renaissance
7:00 El Amanecer
7:30 Music and the Spoken Word
8:00 World of Survival
8:30 Hot Fudge
9:00 Movie: "The Truth" (1960)
10:30 Movie: "Blondie's Big Moment" (1947)
Noon Movie: "Tarzan and the Green Goddess" (1938)
1:30 Movie: "Captive Wild Woman" (1943)
3:00 Movie: "Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man" (1951)
4:30 Movie: "Brian's Song" (1971)
6:00 Kung Fu
7:00 Joker! Joker! Joker! (Kids version of "The Joker's Wild")
7:30 All in the Family
8:00 Movie: "The Haunted Strangler" (1958)
9:30 Night Gallery
10:00 Independent Network News
10:30 Hogan's Heroes
11:00 The Baxters
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