Retro Schedule: New York City - Fall 1979 - Network Affiliates

[Markd]

Fall 1979 – November 4-10 - Sussex County NJ's New Jersey herald Sunday Paper

2 WCBS-TV (CBS) CBS
Sunday
5 AM TEST PATTERN
6:55 GIVE US THIS DAY
7 AM THREE ROBONIC STOOGES-Cartoon
7:26 IN THE NEWS
7:30 SKATEBIRDS-Cartoon
7:56 IN THE NEWS
8 AM MARLO & THE AGIC MOVIE MACHINE-Children
8:30 WAY TO GO-Religion
9 AM CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING
10:30 FOR OUR TIMES-Religion
11 AM CHANNEL 2 THE PEOPLE
11:30 FACE THE NATION
12 PM NEWSMAKERS
12:30 NFL TODAY
1 PM NFL FOOTBALL – Dallas Cowboys At New York Giants
4 PM SPORTS RAP
4:30 MOVIE – Tarzan & The Valley Of Gold (1968)
6 PM CHANNEL 2 NEWS
6:30 CBS NEWS
7 PM 60 MINUTES-Newsmagazine
8 PM ARCHIE BUNKER’S PLACE-Comedy
8:30 ONE DAY AT A TIME-Comedy
9 PM JEFFERSONS-Comedy
9:30 ALICE-Comedy
10 PM TRAPPER JOHN MD-Drama
11 PM CHANNEL 2 NEWS
11:30 SPORTS UPDATE
12 AM MOVIE – Murder Once Removed (1971)
1:40 MOVIE – The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951)
3:50 PUBLIC HEARING
4:20 MOVIE – Scotland Land Inspector (1952)

Monday-Friday
5:30 TEST PATTERN
6:10 GIVE US THIS DAY
6:15 AUDIO NEWS
6:30 SUNRISE SEMESTER-Instruction
7 AM CBS NEWS
8 AM CAPTAIN KANGAROO-Children
9 AM JOHN DAVIDSON-Talk
10 AM BEAT THE CLOCK-Game
10:30 WHEW-Game
11 AM PRICE IS RIGHT-Game
12 PM LOVE OF LIFE-Serial
12:30 SEARCH FOR TOMORROW-Serial
1 PM YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS-Serial
1:30 AS THE WORLD TURNS-Serial
2:30 GUIDING LIGHT-Serial
3:30 ONE DAY AT A TIME-Comedy
4 PM MATCH GAME-Game (Except Tuesday)
SCHOOLBREAK SPECIAL (Tuesday) – Going Places
4:30 MIKE DOUGLAS-Talk (5 PM Tuesday)
6 PM CHANNEL 2 NEWS
7 PM CBS NEWS

Monday
7:30 MUPPET SHOW-Children/Variety
8 PM WHITE SHADOW-Drama
9 PM M*A*S*H-Comedy
9:30 WKRP IN CINCINNATI-Comedy
10 PM LOU GRANT-Drama
Tuesday
7:30 GONG SHOW-Game
8 PM CALIFORNIA FEVER-Drama
9 PM CBS MOVIE – 11TH Victim (1979)
Wednesday
7:30 GONG SHOW-Game
8 PM CBS REPORTS
9 PM CBS MOVIE – Suicide’s Wife (1979)
Thursday
7:30 MUPPET SHOW-Children/Variety
8 PM WALTONS-Drama
9 PM HAWAII-FIVE-O-Drama
10 PM BARNABY JONES-Drama
Friday
7:30 THREE’S A CROWD-Game
8 PM INCREDIBLE HULK-Adventure
9 PM DUKES OF HAZARD- Western
10 PM DALLAS-Serial/Drama

Monday-Friday
11 PM CHANNEL 2 NEWS

Monday/Early Tuesday
11:30 HARRY O - Drama
12:40 CBS MOVIE – McMillan & Wife (1972)
2:20 CHANNEL 2 NEWS
3 AM MOVIE – Calamity Jane (1954)
5:10 TEST PATTERN
Tuesday/Early Wednesday
11:30 BARNABY JONES-Drama
12:40 CBS MOVIE – Las Vegas Lady (1976)
2:50 CHANNEL 2 NEWS
3:20 MOVIE – Prisoner Of Zenda (1937)
5:40 TEST PATTERN
Wednesday/Early Thursday
11:30 BLACK SHEEP SQUALDRON-Drama
12:40 HAWAII-FIVE-O-Drama
1:50 CHANNEL 2 NEWS
2:20 MOVIE – Stolen Face (1952)
4 AM MOVIE – Tarzan’s New York Adventure (1958)
5:55 TEST PATTERN
Thursday/Early Friday
11:30 CBS LATE MOVIE – Columbo: Try & Catch (1977)
1:20 CBS LATE LATE MOVIE – Banacek (1972)
2:50 CHANNEL 2 NEWS
3:30 MOVIE – Run Like A Thief (1967)
5:30 TEST PATTERN
Friday/Early Saturday
11:30 NIGHT STALKER
12:40 CBS LATE LATE MOVIE – Beyond The Door (1975)
2:50 CHANNEL 2 NEWS
3:30 MOVIE – So This Is Love (1953)
5:45 TEST PATTERN

Saturday
5 AM TEST PATTERN
6:25 GIVE US THIS DAY
6:30 SUNRISE SEMESTER-Instruction
7 AM PATCHWORK FAMILY –Children
8 AM MIGHTY MOUSE/HECKLE & JECKAL-Cartoons
8:56 IN THE NEWS
9 AM BUGS BUNNY/ROAD RUNNER-Cartoons
10:26 IN THE NEWS
10:30 ALL NEW POPEYE HOUR-Cartoons
11:26 IN THE NEWS
11:30 FAT ALBERT-Cartoon
11:56 IN THE NEWS
12 PM JASON OF STAR COMMAND-Science Fiction
12:26 IN THE NEWS
12:30 TARZAN/SUPER 7-Cartoons
1:26 IN THE NEWS
1:30 30 MINUTES-ChildreN
1:56 IN THE NEWS
2 PM KIDSWORLD-Children
2:30 PUBLIC HEARING
3 PM EYE ON
3:30 READ TO DRAMA
4 PM CHANNEL 2 THE PEOPLE
4:30 CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR
6 PM CHANNEL 2 NEWS
6:30 CBS NEWS
7 PM PRICE IS RIGHT-Game
7:30 THREE’S A CROWD-Game
8 PM LOST TREASURE OF CONCEPTION
9 PM CBS MOVIE – Act Of Violence (1979)
11 PM CHANNEL 2 NEWS
11:30 MOVIE – Darling Lilly (1970)
1:40 CHANNEL 2 NEWS
2:20 MOVIE – China Seas (1937)
4:40 MOVIE – Island Of Burning Doom (1967)
6:45 TEST PATTERN

4 WNBC-TV (NBC) NBC
Sunday
6 AM SCHOOL ALIVE AND WELL
6:30 AMERICA’S DREAM HOUSE
7 AM 4 H IN THE CITY
7:30 INFINITY FACTORY-Children
8 AM VILLA ALGRE-Children
8:30 MARYKNOLL WORLD-Catholic
8:45 YOUR SUNDAY BEST-Religion
9 AM SUNDAY SCHOOL-Religion
9:30 BOB JONES UNIVERSITY: SHOW MY PEOPLE-Religion
10 AM FIRST ESTATE-Religion
10:30 CATCH THE VISION-Religion
11 AM PRIME TIME
11:30 NEWSCENTER FORUM
12 PM MEET THE PRESS
12:30 NOT FOR WOMEN ONLY
1 PM FLYING NUN-Comedy
1:30 FLYING NUN-Comedy
2 PM HERE’S LUCY-Comedy
2:30 MARY TYLER MOORE-Comedy
3 PM BOB NEWHART-Comedy
3:30 NFL 79
4 PM NFL FOOTBALL – New York Jets At Green Bay Packers
7 PM DISNEY’S WONDERFUL WORLD
9 PM NBC MOVIE – McArthur (1979)
11:30 NEWSCENTER 4
12 AM NBC MOVIE – Hard Times (1975)
2 AM NEWSCENTER 4
2:30 FLYING NUN-Comedy
3 AM HERE’S LUCY-Comedy
3:30 VISIONS
4 AM SIGN OFF

Monday-Friday
6 AM HEALTH FIELD
6:30 NEWSCENTER 4
7 AM TODAY
9 AM PHIL DONAHUE-Talk
10 AM CARD SHARKS-Game
10:30 HOLLYWOOD SQUARES-Game
11 AM WHEEL OF FORTUNE-Game
11:30 HIGH ROLLERS-Game
12 PM MINDREADERS-Game
12:30 PASSWORD PLUS-Game
1 PM DAYS OF OUR LIVES-Serial
2 PM DOCTORS-Serial
2:30 ANOTHER WORLD-Serial
4 PM MARY TYLER MOORE-Comedy
4:30 BOB NEWHART-Comedy
5 PM NEWSCENTER 4
7 PM NBC NEWS

Monday
7:30 FAMILY FEUD-Game
8 PM LITTLE HOUSE ON A PRAIRIE-Drama
9 PM NBC MOVIE – Heroes (1977)
Tuesday
7:30 IN SEARCH OF-Documentary
8 PM BJ AND THE BEAR-Adventure
9 PM SHERIFF LOBO-Adventure
10 PM NEW CANDID CAMERA-Comedy
Wednesday
7:30 FAMILY FEUD-Game
8 PM REAL PEOPLE-Magazine
9 PM DIFF’RENT STROKES-Comedy
9:30 HELLO LARRY-Comedy
10 PM BEST OF SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE-Comedy
Thursday
7:30 DOLLAR 98 BEAUTY SHOW-Game
8 PM BUCK ROGERS-Science Fiction
9 PM QUINCY-Drama
10 PM KATE LOVES A MYSTERY-Drama
Friday
7:30 SHA NA NA-Music
8 PM SHIRLEY-Drama
9 PM ROCKFORD FILES-Drama
10 PM EISCHED-Drama

Monday-Friday
11 PM NEWSCENTER 4
11:30 TONIGHT SHOW-Johnny Carson
1 AM TOMORROW-Tom Snyder (Except Friday)
MIDNIGHT SPECIAL (Friday)
2 AM MARCUS WELBY MD-Drama
3 AM NEWLYWED GAME-Game
3:30 HERE’S LUCY-Comedy
4 AM MARY TYLER MOORE-Comedy
4:30 BOB NEWHART-Comedy
5 AM SIGN OFF

Saturday
6 AM AG USA
6:30 A BETTER WAY
7 AM REBOP-Children
7:30 NEW KROFT SUPERSTARS SHOW-Variety
8 AM DAFFY DUCK-Cartoons
8:30 CASPER AND THE ANGELS-Cartoons
9 AM FRED AND BARNEY MEET THE THING-Cartoons
10 AM SUPER GLOBETROTTERS-Cartoons
10:30 THE SHMOO-Cartoons
11 AM FLASH GORDON-Cartoons
11:30 GODZILLA-Cartoons
12 PM JETSONS-Cartoon
12:30 JOHNNY QUEST-Cartoon
1 PM PINK PANTHER-Cartoon
1:30 WHITNEY AND THE ROBOT-Children
2 PM POSITIVELY BLACK
2:30 KNOWLEDGE
3 PM IN SEARCH OF
3:30 GREATEST SPORTS LEGENDS
4 PM SPORTSWORLD
6 PM NEWSCENTER 4
6:30 NBC NEWS
7 PM VISIONS
7:30 PRIME TIME
8 PM CHIPS-Drama
9 PM BJ AND THE BEAR-Adventure
10 PM REAL PEOPLE
11 PM NEWSCENTER 4
11:30 SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE-Comedy
1 AM SCTV
2 AM ROCK CONCERT
3 AM MARCUS WELBY MD
4 AM SIGN OFF

7 WABC-TV (ABC) ABC
Sunday
6:30 AUDIO NEWS
7 AM FAITH FOR TODAY-Drama
7:30 THIS IS THE LIFE-Drama
8 AM CHRISTOPHER CLOSEUP-Religion
8:30 SUNDAY MASS-Catholic
9:30 HOT FUDGE-Children
10 AM KIDS ARE PEOPLE TOO-Children
11:26 SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK
11:30 ANIMALS ANIMALS ANIMALS-Children
11:56 SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK
12 PM WILD KINGDOM
12:30 ISSUES AND ANSWERS
1 PM LIKE IT IS
2 PM NEWS CONFERENCE
2:30 FOR YOU BLACK WOMAN
3 PM DIRECTIONS
3:30 INSIGHT-Drama
4 PM MOVIE – 1001 Arabian Nights (1960)
6 PM EYEWITNESS NEWS
6:30 ABC NEWS
7 PM SALVAGE ONE
8 PM MORK AND MINDY-Comedy
8:30 BENSON-Comedy
9 PM ABC MOVIE - Jaws (1975)
11:30 EYEWITNESS NEWS
12 AM LIKE IT IS
1 AM NEWS CONFERENCE
1:30 FOR YOU BLACK WOMAN
2 AM SIGN OFF

Monday-Friday
6 AM LISTEN AND LEARN
6:30 AUDIO NEWS
7 AM GOOD MORNING AMERICA
9 AM AM NEW YORK
10:30 THAT’S HOLLYWOOD-Documentary
11 AM LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY-Comedy
11:30 FAMILY FEUD-Game
12 PM 25,000 DOLLAR PYRAMID-Game
12:30 RYAN’S HOPE-Serial
1 PM ALL MY CHILDREN-Serial
2 PM ONE LIFE TO LIVE-Serial
3 PM GENERAL HOSPITAL-Serial
4 PM EDGE OF NIGHT-Serial
4:30 4:30 MOVIE – Roots (1977) All Week
6:30 EYEWITNESS NEWS
7 PM ABC NEWS

Monday
7:30 HOLLYWOOD SQUARES-Game
8 PM THAT’S INCREDIBLE-Magazine
9 PM NFL FOOTBALL – Houston Oilers At Miami Dopphins
12 AM EYEWITNESS NEWS
12:35 ABC NEWS NIGHTLINE
1:10 MOVIE – Kansas City Massacre (1975)
3:20 EYEWITNESS NEWS
4 AM SIGN OFF
Tuesday
7:30 MATCH GAME-Game
8 PM HAPPY DAYS-Comedy
8:30 LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY-Comedy
9 PM THREE’S COMPANY-Comedy
9:30 TAXI-Comedy
10 PM HART TO HART-Drama
Wednesday
7:30 HOLLYWOOD SQUARES-Game
8 PM EIGHT IS ENOUGH-Comedy/Drama
9 PM BARETTA-Drama
10 PM CHARLIE’S ANGELS-Drama
Thursday
7:30 NAME THAT TUNE-Game
8 PM MORK AND MINDY-Comedy
8:30 ANGIE-Comedy
9 PM BARNEY MILLER-Comedy
9:30 SOAP-Comedy
10 PM 20/20-Newsmagazine
Friday
7:30 NAME THAT TUNE-Game
8 PM FAMILY FEUD SPECIAL-Game
9 PM MOVIE – New Topper (1979)

Tuesday-Friday
11 PM EYEWITNESS NEWS

Tuesday/Early Wednesday
11:30 ABC NEWS NIGHTLINE
12:05 BARNEY MILLER-Comedy
12:40 ABC LATE MOVIE - Beautiful But Deadly (1973)
2:50 EYEWITNESS NEWS
3:20 MOVIE – A Time For Killing (1967)
5:20 SIGN OFF
Wednesday/Early Thursday
11:30 ABC NEWS NIGHTLINE
12:05 LOVE BOAT-Comedy
1:15 BARETTA-Drama
2:25 EYEWITNESS NEWS
2:55 MOVIE – Cast A Giant Shadow (1966)
5:55 TEST PATTERN
Thursday/Early Friday
11:30 ABC NEWS NIGHTLIONE
12:05 POLICE WOMAN-Drama
1:15 QUINCY-Drama
2:25 EYEWITNESS NEWS
2:55 MOVIE – Valley Of The Dolls (1967) Part One
4:55 SIGN OFF
Friday/Early Saturday
11:30 ABC NEWS NIGHTLINE
12:05 CHARLIE’S ANGELS –Drama
1:15 MOVIE – Snake People (1968)
3:25 MOVIE – Valley Of Dolls (1967) Part 2
5:35 SIGN OFF

Saturday
6:30 AUDIO NEWS
7 AM TIME FOR TIMOTHY–Children
7:30 DAVEY AND GOLIATH-Children
8 AM SUPERFRIENDS-Cartoons
8:56 SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK
9 AM SCOOBY DOO ALL STAR LAFF OLYMPICS-Cartoons
10:56 SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK
11 AM SPIDERWOMAN-Cartoons
11:26 SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK
11:30 SCRAPPY/SCOOBY DOO-Cartoons
11:56 SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK
12 PM WEEKEND SPECIAL
12:26 SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK
12:30 AMERICAN BANDSTAND-Music/COLLEGE FOOTBALL
1:30 DIRECTIONS/COLLEGE FOOTBALL
2 PM FAITH FOR TODAY-Religion/COLLEGE FOOTBALL
2:30 ABC WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS/COLLEGE FOOTBALL
4 PM COLLEGE FOOTBALL
7 PM EYEWITNESS NEWS
7:30 YOU
8 PM LOVE BOAT-Comedy
9 PM LOVE BOAT-Comedy
10 PM FANTYASY ISLAND-Fantasy
11 PM EYEWITNESS NEWS
11:30 MOVIE – Sunshine Boys (1975)
1:40 MOVIE – Kiss Girls & Make The Die (1967)
3:50 EYEWITNESS NEWS
4:10 SIGN OFF

 

[RALfan]

2 WCBS-TV (CBS) CBS

Monday-Friday

9 AM JOHN DAVIDSON-Talk

This has to be a chronological mistake; I find it hard to believe that The John Davidson Show actually premiered in the fall of 1979. I thought it made its debut in the fall of 1980. If this is wrong, then what actually aired at 9 a.m. on WCBS?

 

[bpatrick]

That's a good question. John Davidson's show
started in the summer of 1980, replacing Mike
Douglas on most stations. I recall that WAGA
did this, airing Davidson at 4:30, with Mike
(with a new syndicator) moving
to WSB at 10 AM. It was at about the time David
Letterman's morning show debuted on NBC.

WSB had announced its intention of changing from
NBC to ABC and turned down Letterman; it became
the first NBC show to air on WXIA.

 

[nbc9houston]

7 WABC-TV (ABC) ABC

Monday-Friday

12 PM 25,000 DOLLAR PYRAMID-Game

The ABC version of Pyramid at that time was "The $20,000 Pyramid."

 

[bpatrick]

I never knew that "Show My People" was produced
by Bob Jones University, and I lived in Greenville, SC
for a total of 12 years (two different occasions).
That program did air on WYFF and sister station WXII
Winston-Salem, NC.

 

[mleach]

That's a good question. John Davidson's show
started in the summer of 1980, replacing Mike
Douglas on most stations. I recall that WAGA
did this, airing Davidson at 4:30, with Mike
(with a new syndicator) moving
to WSB at 10 AM. It was at about the time David
Letterman's morning show debuted on NBC.

The interesting thing about Davidson's Group W show and Mike Douglas' was that both shows would be gone by mid-1982.

John Davidson, I seem to recall reading awhile back that at first he actually enjoyed doing his talk show..at first but by 1981 had lost interest. Somewhere I remember reading ( maybe it was in one of his bios someplace ), Davidson wasn't exactly happy at Group W's treatment of Mike Douglas such as telling Mike's staff about the situation and offering jobs to Mike's staff to join Davidson's..all of this BEFORE Group W told Mike Douglas. On the other hand I also recall reading in Mike Douglas' bio that came out some years back, I had the feeling there was ( at the time of his bio...late 90s ) still bad blood between the two men. Somewhat like that Joan Rivers-Johnny Carson feud over Joan doing her own talk show in 1986 to compete with Carson ( those two former friends never spoke to each other again as Rivers would point out when Carson had died in 2005 ). I wonder if Davidson & Douglas ever did bury that hatchet before Mike's death a few years back?

 

[oldiesfan6479]

2 WCBS-TV (CBS) CBS
Monday-Friday
10 AM BEAT THE CLOCK-Game
10:30 WHEW-Game
11 AM PRICE IS RIGHT-Game
12 PM LOVE OF LIFE-Serial
12:30 SEARCH FOR TOMORROW-Serial
1 PM YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS-Serial
1:30 AS THE WORLD TURNS-Serial
2:30 GUIDING LIGHT-Serial
3:30 ONE DAY AT A TIME-Comedy
4 PM MATCH GAME-Game (Except Tuesday)

From other sources I've determined that Match Game was 5x/week syndicated,
and that Love Of Life was network at 4:00 ET.

Being the flagship O&O and in the same plant (or dairy barn) as the net operation,
was WCBS-TV able to air Love Of Live at noon ahead of the network feed, or was
it a one-DB? IIRC, WCBS ran Tattletales the same-day at 1:00 during part of its
network run at 4:00. Sort of like "Guiding Light in reverse" before its alternate
feed(s) came about a few years ago.

Was Y&R still network at 12:00 ET in fall 79, or had the local hole been moved
from 1:00 to 12:00 by then?

 

[bpatrick]

In the North Carolina edition of TV Guide, Sept. 8-14, 1979,
it shows "Y&R" at 12 on WTVD/11 and WBTW/13; at 1 on
WFMY/2 and WNCT/9. "Y&R" didn't move to 1 on CBS until
February 4, 1980, when it went to an hour following the
cancellation of "Love Of Life." Knowing that "Love Of Life"'s
best years had been 1958-69, when it aired on CBS at noon,
WCBS may have been hoping to save the show by putting it
back at its old time; WFMY did the same thing before the
venerable soap was put out of its misery.

I'm under the impression that "Love Of Life" aired on a
day-behind in New York; the main reason "Guiding Light"
has the multiple feeds is because of the number of CBS
o&os that carry it in the morning: New York, Chicago,
Philadelphia, Boston, Detroit, Miami, Baltimore, and Pittsburgh.

I know of only one other soap (a P&G one at that) that ran
on a multiple feed: "Somerset" aired at 1 PM and 4 PM, and
each NBC affiliate could choose its time.

Which brings up an old question we've never really resolved:
why doesn't ABC split-feed "All My Children" at 11 AM and
noon (CT)?

 

[SteveRichards]

As far as why ABC doesn't offer a double-feed of "All My Children"...I've always thought it's because ABC doesn't want to indirectly encourage its Central Time Zone affiliates to run AMC head-to-head against "The Young and the Restless," which airs at 11AM on most CBS affiliates outside of the Eastern Time Zone.

 

[RALfan]

Another issue that's unresolved is this - what really aired on WCBS at 9 a.m.? If somebody could get their hands on the New York Times from anytime during the fall of '79, I would be happy.