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Retro: San Francisco/Sacramento - Wednesday, May 25, 1977

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I've shared that day's schedule from Los Angeles, which was the day the very first Star Wars film premiered. Now I thought I'd share the schedule from where I was living, Dublin, CA, that big day. As before, I will be listing the stations according to their cable channel numbers, paired with their UHF channel numbers if applicable.

2 KTVU (Ind.) Oakland
7:00 Cartoon Town
8:00 Bullwinkle
8:30 Romper Room
9:00 Big Valley
10:00 The FBI
11:00 Donahue - Guest: Tony Curtis
NOON That Girl
12:30 Dialing for Dollars Movie: "The Castle" (1968)
2:30 Porky and Friends
3:00 Mighty Mouse and Bugs
3:30 Archies
4:00 New Mickey Mouse Club
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5:00 Bewitched (x 2)
6:00 Star Trek
7:00 Odd Couple
7:30 I Love Lucy
8:00 Movie: "Kifaru...the Black Rhinoceros" (1970)
10:00 Action News
11:00 Liar's Club - Allen Ludden; Guests: Larry Hovis, Peter Lawford, Dody Goodman, Alan Sues
11:30 The Joker's Wild (reruns of 1972-75 CBS version)
MIDNIGHT Action News (replay)

3 KCRA (NBC) Sacramento
6:00 College Credit Courses
7:00 Today
9:00 Tattletales (from CBS)
9:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Paul Lynde, George Gobel, Florence Henderson, Rich Little, Paul Williams, Elke Sommer, Pearl Bailey, Fred Berry, Bonnie Franklin
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Shoot for the Stars - Geoff Edwards; Guests: Debralee Scott, William Shatner
11:00 Name That Tune (NBC daytime version)
11:30 The Joker's Wild (reruns of 1972-75 CBS version)
11:55 NBC Midday News
NOON Channel 3 Reports
12:30 Donahue - Guest: Psychotherapist Dr. Nathaniel Branden
1:30 Mary Hartman
2:00 Another World
3:00 Days of Our Lives
4:00 New Mickey Mouse Club
4:30 Lucy Show
5:00 Channel 3 Reports
6:00 NBC Nightly News
6:30 Channel 3 Reports
7:00 Weeknight
7:30 Little Vic
8:00 The Predators - Robert Redford narrates this documentary on North America's predatory wild animals. (Locally pre-empting "NBC Monday Night at the Movies")
9:00 The Fight Against Slavery - 1975 miniseries starring Evan Jones, David Collins, and John Castle
10:00 Dean Martin Celebrity Roast - Honoree: Jackie Gleason
11:00 Channel 3 Reports
11:30 Tonight Show - Guest Host: Steve Allen; Guests: Jack Klugman, George Gobel (Johnny Carson was hospitalized with a flare-up from a pinched neck nerve; he would return on June 7)
1:00 Tomorrow - Guest: Watergate special prosecutor Leon Jaworski, discussing the first Nixon-Frost interview

4 KRON (NBC) SF
6:20 News
6:30 School of the Air
7:00 Today (with KRON's Community Calendar at 7:25, and Newsign at 8:25)
9:00 Sanford and Son
9:30 Hollywood Squares (see ch. 3 for panel roster)
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Shoot for the Stars (see ch. 3 for guest roster)
11:00 Name That Tune
11:30 Chico and the Man
11:55 NBC Midday News
NOON Newswatch 4
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2:00 Another World
3:00 Cross-Wits
3:30 Merv Griffin - Guests: Joey Bishop, Harry Chapin, George Miller (comic)
5:00 Ironside
6:00 Newswatch 4
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 $128,000 Question - Mike Darrow
8:00 NBC Monday Night at the Movies: "The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams" (1974)
10:00 Dean Martin Celebrity Roast - Honoree: Jackie Gleason
11:00 Newswatch 4
11:30 Tonight Show (see Ch. 3 for more info)
1:00 Tomorrow

5 KPIX (CBS) SF
6:00 Summer Semester
6:30 Sut Yung Ying Yee
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo - Guest: Kaye Ballard as the Tooth Fairy
9:00 Kathryn Crosby Show
9:30 The Price is Right
10:30 Love of Life
10:55 CBS Midday News
11:00 Young and the Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
NOON Eyewitness News
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2:00 All in the Family
2:30 Match Game '77 - Panel: Dick Smothers, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Meg Bennett, Richard Dawson, Fannie Flagg
3:00 Tattletales - Couples: Allen Ludden & Betty White, Jon Walmsley & Lisa Harrison, Darren McGavin & Kathie Browne
3:30 Marcus Welby, M.D.
4:30 Baseball: Oakland A's vs. Toronto Blue Jays (debut season)
7:00 Eyewitness News
7:30 Nixon-Frost Interview - Finale
9:00 CBS Monday Night Movies: "Red Sun" (1972)
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Nixon-Frost: An Overview
MIDNIGHT Movie: "The Movie Murderer" (1970) (local KPIX broadcast, as opposed to the CBS Late Movie)
2:00 Rifleman

6/36 KGSC (Ind.) San Jose
9:30 Yoga for Health
10:00 Public Affairs
10:30 Mike Douglas (no guest info)
11:55 News
NOON Movie: "Young and Willing" (1943)
1:30 Movie: "Girls Town" (1959)
3:30 Movie: "The Healer" (AKA "Little Pal") (Drama)
5:00 My Favorite Martian
5:30 Get Smart
6:00 Movie: "Peyton Place", Part 2 (1957)
8:00 Movie: "The Grand Duel" (1972)
10:00 Merv Griffin - Guests: Paul Anka, Kelly Monteith
11:30 Movie Till Dawn

7 KGO (ABC) SF
6:20 Educational Programming
6:50 News
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 AM San Francisco
10:00 Happy Days
10:30 $20,000 Pyramid - Guests: Kate Jackson, Robert Hegyes
11:00 Second Chance
11:30 Family Feud
NOON All My Children
1:00 Ryan's Hope
1:30 One Life to Live
2:15 General Hospital
3:00 Edge of Night
3:30 The 3:30 Movie: "One Million Years B.C." (1967)
5:00 7 News Scene
7:00 ABC Evening News
7:30 Match Game PM
8:00 Brady Bunch Hour - Guests: Paul Williams, Lynn Anderson, Rip Taylor
9:00 Baretta
10:00 Charlie's Angels
11:00 7 News Scene
11:30 Rookies
12:37 Wide World of Mystery: "The Centerfold Murders" (1975)

8/20 KEMO (Ind.) SF
7:30 Stock Market Today
8:00 News (Business and Stock Market, most likely)
8:30 Stock and Bond Report
9:00 Corporate Report
9:30 Real Estate Report
10:00 Villa Alegre
10:30 <<OFF THE AIR>>
NOON 700 Club
1:30 Charisma
2:00 El Amo (Master)
3:30 Villa Alegre
4:00 El Padre de mi barrio (Neighborhood of My Father)
5:00 Azul (Blue)
5:30 Noti 20
6:30 Cuando se quiere ser feliz (When You Want to Be Happy)
7:30 La Involvidable (The Unforgettable)
8:30 Una vida para amarte (A Life to Love You)
9:30 Papa y Mama
10:00 Championship Kick Boxing
11:00 700 Club

9 KQED (PBS) SF
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 <<Off the Air>>
NOON Lilias, Yoga and You
12:30 Americana
2:00 Womantime and Co.
2:30 Consumer Survival Kit
3:30 Lilias, Yoga and You
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Zoom
6:30 Villa Alegre
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 KQED Newsroom
8:00 Nova: "A Desert Place" (Sonoran Desert)
9:00 Hard Times
10:00 People vs. Ines Garcia

10 KXTV (CBS) Sacramento
6:00 Summer Semester
6:30 Captain Kangaroo - Guest: Michael Lembeck as The Toy Boy, a "Six Million Part Boy" invented by Mr. Green Jeans
7:30 7:30 AM
8:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Dinah! (no guest info)
10:30 Love of Life
10:55 CBS Midday News
11:00 Young and the Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
NOON Newservice 10
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2:00 All in the Family
2:30 Match Game '77 (see ch. 5 for panel roster)
3:00 The Price is Right
4:00 Mike Douglas - Co-host: Dolly Parton; Guests: Burt Reynolds, Bob Newhart, Anthony Newley, Tony Curtis
5:30 Newservice 10
6:00 CBS Evening News
6:30 Newservice 10
7:00 Concentration
7:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
8:00 Good Times
8:30 Roosevelt and Truman (failed sitcom pilot starring Philip Michael Thomas and Art Evans as the title roles)
9:00 Odd Couple (syndication)
9:30 Frost-Nixon Interview - Finale
11:00 Newservice 10
11:30 CBS Late Movie: "Columbo: Playback"

11/40 KTXL (Ind.) Sacramento
5:50 Public Affairs
6:30 Not for Women Only
7:00 New Howdy Doody Show
7:30 Captain Mitch Cartoons
8:00 Archies
8:30 Lassie
9:00 Flintstones
9:30 Lucy Show
10:00 Movie: "The Nun's Story", Part 2 (1959)
NOON Dick Van Dyke
12:30 Andy Griffith
1:00 Movie: "The Story on Page One", Part 2 (1960)
3:00 Three Stooges
3:30 Bugs Bunny and Popeye
4:00 Gilligan's Island
4:30 Partridge Family
5:00 Brady Bunch
5:30 Hogan's Heroes
6:00 Star Trek
7:00 Movie: "North by Northwest" (1959)
10:00 Ten O'Clock News
11:00 All That Glitters
11:30 Lucy Show
MIDNIGHT Movie: "Road to Bali" (1952)

12/44 KBHK (Ind.) SF
11:00 Not for Women Only
11:30 Newstalk
NOON Little Rascals
12:30 Leave It to Beaver
1:00 Beverly Hillbillies
1:30 Gomer Pyle
2:00 Huck and Yogi
2:30 Popeye
3:00 Bugs Bunny and Friends
3:30 Brady Kids
4:00 Flintstones (x 2)
5:00 Brady Bunch (x 2)
6:00 Emergency One!
7:00 Adam-12 (x 2)
8:00 Good Times (carrying for KPIX 5)
8:30 Roosevelt and Truman (same thing)
9:00 Dinah! - Guests: Robert Blake, Jessie Colter, Susan Sullivan, Betty White
10:30 Best of Groucho (died August 19 of that year)
11:00 Mary Hartman
11:30 All That Glitters
MIDNIGHT Night Gallery

13 KOVR (ABC) Sacramento
6:30 Let's Speak Spanish
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Morning Scene (KOVR talk show)
10:00 Happy Days
10:30 $20,000 Pryamid (see ch. 7 for guest roster)
11:00 Second Chance
11:30 Family Feud
NOON All My Children
1:00 Cross-Wits
1:30 One Life to Live
2:15 General Hospital
3:00 Edge of Night
3:30 Ryan's Hope
4:00 My Three Sons
4:30 Family Affair
5:00 Adam-12
5:30 Action News 13
6:00 ABC Evening News
6:30 Merv Griffin - Guests: Florence Henderson, Cloris Leachman, Bonnie Franklin, Kristy McNichol
8:00 Brady Bunch Hour (see ch. 7 for guest roster)
9:00 Baretta
10:00 Charlie's Angels
11:00 Action News 13
11:30 Ironside
12:30 Rookies
1:40 News

Note: 'Part 2' for some movies does mean a sequel, but a carryover from the previous day.
 
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