From TV Guide, Dayton Edition:
WDTN Ch. 2 Dayton (NBC)
6 AM Health Field (treatments for diabetes)
6:30 Big Blue Marble (a 9-year-old race driver, a 10-
year-old boy who entertains tourists in Peru)
7 AM Marlo And The Magic Movie Machine (Marlo herds
sheep in Australia.)
7:30 Bay City Rollers
8 AM Daffy Duck
8:30 Casper And The Angels
9 AM New Fred And Barney Show
10 AM Super Globetrotters
10:30 New Shmoo
11 AM Flash Gordon
11:30 Godzilla
12 N Jonny Quest
12:30 Jetsons
1 PM I Love Lucy
1:30 Movie: "Godzilla" (watch for Raymond Burr from '56,
the year before he began playing Perry Mason)
3 PM Movie: "The Big Country"
6 PM $1.98 Beauty Show (the Unknown Comic, Marilyn Beck,
and David Hasselhoff are the panelists)
6:30 News
7 PM Sha Na Na (guest James Darren sings "Gidget")
7:30 Muppet Show (guests: Shields & Yarnell)
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM A Man Called Sloane
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (fifth-season premiere: host Steve Martin,
musical guests Blondie; NOTE: this was the final season with
the original cast (except for Chevy Chase) and Bill Murray)
1 AM Second City Television Network
1:30 Norm Crosby's The Comedy Shop
WCMH Ch. 4 Columbus (NBC)
6:30 Battle Of The Planets
7 AM Marlo And The Magic Movie Machine (Marlo journeys back to
the Colonial period.)
7:30 World Of Survival
8 AM Daffy Duck
8:30 Casper And The Angels
9 AM New Fred And Barney Show
10 AM Super Globetrotters
10:30 Little Rascals
11 AM Tom & Jerry
12 N Movie: "Demetrius And The Gladiators"
2 PM Movie: "Tarzan And The She-Devil" (Lex Barker as Tarzan,
from '53)
3:30 Movie: "Tarzan's Savage Fury" (Lex Barker again, from '52)
5 PM Star Trek
6 PM News
6:30 Dance Fever (judges: Jamie Farr, Mary Frances Crosby, Scott
Baio; musical guest Stephanie Mills)
7 PM Lawrence Welk (farm-country tunes)
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM A Man Called Sloane
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Movie: "Desiree"
WTTV Ch. 4 Indianapolis (Ind.)
listed EDT
8 AM La Voz Latina
8:30 Lessons For Living
9 AM Jerry Falwell
10 AM Focus
10:30 Symphony
11 AM Citizens Forum
11:15 Hoosier Hinterland
11:30 Brian Bex
12 N Wrestling
1 PM 1979 U.S. Nationals Drag Racing (Big Daddy Don Garlits
is one of the participants.)
2 PM Tennis: Island Holidays Pro Classic from Maui (men's singles
final)
3 PM Movie: "The D.I." (Jack Webb, from '57)
5 PM The Racers (the SCCA D Productions Sports Car Finals from
Atlanta)
5:30 News
6 PM All In The Family
6:30 Sanford And Son
7 PM Starsky & Hutch
8 PM Dance Fever (judges: Jane Seymour and Benji, Bobby Van,
Robert Shields; musical guest: Evelyn "Champagne" King)
8:30 Country Roads
9 PM Nashville On The Road (guest: Margo Smith)
9:30 Porter Wagoner (guest: Mickey Gilley)
10 PM Pop Goes The Country (Jimmy Dean, Rex Allen Jr., Peggy Sue)
10:30 That Nashville Music (Billy "Crash" Craddock, Susie Allanson,
Charlie Louvin)
11 PM Movie: "Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde" ('71 version from England)
1 AM Juke-Box
1:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (Olivia Newton-John, Smokey
Robinson, Heart)
3 AM Soul Train (Bonnie Pointer, Switch)
4 AM Movie: "Julia Misbehaves"
6 AM Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea"
WLWT Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)
6:30 Circle Square
7 AM U.S. Farm Report
7:30 Hot Fudge
8 AM Daffy Duck
8:30 Casper And The Angels
9 AM New Fred And Barney Show
10 AM Super Globetrotters
10:30 New Shmoo
11 AM Flash Gordon
11:30 Godzilla
12 N Jonny Quest
12:30 Jetsons
1 PM Greatest Sports Legends (tribute to Wilma Rudolph)
1:30 Whitney And The Robot
2 PM Miss National Teen-Ager Pageant (host Pat Boone;
featured are Michael McKean and David L. Lander (aka
Lenny and Squiggy from "Laverne & Shirley") and contestants
from all 50 states; taped in Atlanta Aug. 10)
3:30 Movie: "Godzilla" (same as Ch. 2)
5 PM Archie Campbell (guests: the Cathedral Quartet)
5:30 Sha Na Na (guest: Barbara Mandrell)
6 PM News
6:30 Consumer Buyline (topic: credit)
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM A Man Called Sloane
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (War, Natalie Cole, Murray
Langston (aka The Unknown Comic))
WTVN (WSYX) Ch. 6 Columbus (ABC)
7:30 Matters Of Life
8 AM Superfriends
9 AM Plastic Man Comedy-Adventure Show
11 AM Spider-Woman
11:30 MVP...World Series Edition (World Series MVPs since 1954)
12:30 World Series: Orioles-Pirates (Game 4; Pittsburgh won the
Series, 4 games to 3)
3:30 College Football Today (time approximate)
3:45 College Football: Oklahoma-Texas (from Dallas)
7 PM Hee Haw (Gene Autry, the Statler Brothers, Randy Barlow,
Joe Frazier (correct me if I'm wrong, but it's not that
Joe Frazier, is it?), time approximate)
8 PM The Ropers
8:30 Detective School
9 PM Love Boat (passengers: Martha Scott, Don Ameche, Jaye P.
Morgan, Joanna Cassidy, Conrad Janis)
10 PM Hart To Hart
11 PM News
11:15 ABC News (anchor not given)
11:30 Miss World-America Beauty Pageant (Gene Rayburn and
Marjorie Wallace co-host from the Virgin Islands, winner goes
on to the Miss World Pageant in London)
sign off 1:30 AM
WHIO Ch. 7 Dayton (CBS)
7 AM Sunrise Semester: "Drama In Education"
7:30 Urban And Suburban
8 AM Mighty Mouse/Heckle And Jeckle
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 All-New Popeye Hour
11:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12 N Courthouse Square
12:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
1:30 30 Minutes (teen-age homosexuality; two New York
Yankee infield prospects)
2 PM Movie: "Don't Raise The Bridge, Lower The River" (Jerry
Lewis from '68)
4 PM That Nashville Music (Sonny James, Dottsy, Mel McDaniel,
Johnny Gimble)
4:30 Pop Goes The Country (the Statler Brothers, Billie Jo Spears)
5 PM Porter Wagoner (guest: Connie Smith)
5:30 Dolly (guest: Chuck Woolery)
6 PM News
6:30 Hee Haw
7:30 Match Game PM (Richard Paul, Don Galloway, Joyce Bulifant,
Mary Ann Mobley)
8 PM Working Stiffs
8:30 Bad News Bears
9 PM Big Shamus, Little Shamus
10 PM Paris (the quick cancellations of this and "The Lazarus Syndrome,"
both of which had African-American stars (James Earl Jones and
Louis Gossett Jr., respectively) caused negative criticism of CBS
and ABC, respectively)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "A Killer In Every Corner"
1 AM Ironside
2 AM News
WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)
5:55 Farm News
6 AM Sunrise Semester
6:30 Call The Doctor (plastic and reconstructive surgery, rerun from
Sun 11 AM)
7:30 Mayberry R.F.D.
8 AM Mighty Mouse/Heckle And Jeckle
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 All-New Popeye Hour
11:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12 N Jason Of Star Command
12:30 Kidsworld (Rev. Jesse Jackson, the sports of polo and kayaking)
1 PM Movie: "Battle Of The Bulge"
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular (Part 2 of the Pacific International Gymnastics
Championships from Vancouver, Parts 5 and 6 of World's Strongest Men)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM Make Me Laugh (the comics are Howard Itzkowitz, Skip Stephenson,
and Vic Dunlop; celebrity contestant: Kaye Stevens)
7:30 Joker! Joker!! Joker!!!
8 PM Working Stiffs
8:30 Bad News Bears
9 PM Big Shamus, Little Shamus
10 PM Paris
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "McQ"
2 AM Here And Now
2:30 News
WBNS Ch. 10 Columbus (CBS)
6 AM Societies In Transition
6:30 U.S. Farm Report
7 AM It's Your Business (topic: Social Security)
7:30 Not For Women Only
8 AM Mighty Mouse/Heckle And Jeckle
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Movie: "Justice Of The West" (compilation of
"Lone Ranger" episodes)
12:30 Hogan's Heroes
1 PM In The Know
1:30 30 Minutes
2 PM Movie: "Journey To The Unknown" (two episodes
of the short-lived 1968 ABC series)
4 PM Nashville On The Road (guest: T.G. Sheppard)
4:30 Pop Goes The Country (T.G. Sheppard, Charly McClain (a
female), George Jones)
5 PM Dolly (perhaps the best show she ever did, either in syndication
or on ABC: guests are Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris)
5:30 Porter Wagoner (guest: Mickey Gilley)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Bugs Bunny
7:30 Kicks (Edwin Starr, disco group Arpeggio)
8 PM Working Stiffs
8:30 Bad News Bears
9 PM Big Shamus, Little Shamus
10 PM Paris
11 PM News
11:30 Earle Bruce: Football (highlights of Indiana-Ohio State, played
earlier today)
12 M Movie: "Goodbye, Columbus"
WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)
6 AM Kids Are People Too (Wolfman Jack, Lenny and Squiggy, Joan Embery,
bodybuilder Franco Columbu, Richard Hatch (of "Battlestar Galactica,"
not "Survivor," delay from Sun 10 AM)
7:30 Marlo And The Magic Movie Machine (the 10-year anniversary of the first
moon landing)
8 AM Superfriends
9 AM Plastic Man Comedy-Adventure Show
11 AM Spider-Woman
11:30 Scooby And Scrappy-Doo
12 N Bowling
12:30 World Series (Game 4, see Ch. 6)
3:30 College Football Today (time approximate)
3:45 College Football: Oklahoma-Texas
7 PM Hee Haw (time approximate)
8 PM The Ropers
8:30 Sanford And Son
9 PM Love Boat
10 PM Hart To Hart
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Escape From The Planet Of The Apes"
1:30 Movie: "Rio Rita" (Abbott and Costello, from '42)
3:40 Movie: "Lost In A Harem" (Abbott and Costello, from '44)
WPTO Ch. 14 Oxford, OH/WPTD Ch. 16 Dayton (PBS)
Ch. 14's transmitter was being replaced when this issue went to press;
if it is back up, normal programming will air, so I'm listing the lineup here.
9 AM Footsteps
9:30 Japan: The Living Tradition
10 AM Japan: The Changing Tradition
10:30 Connections (or did you know the origins of the atomic bomb can
be traced back 2700 years to the development of gold assay?)
11:30 Nova ("Life On A Silken Thread," about spiders)
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1 PM Camera Three ("Dreams," a dance about victims of the Holocaust)
1:30 Volunteer Jam
3 PM World (the death of Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov, from a poison
pellet allegedly injected by a passerby on a London street in 1978)
4 PM Poldark (Part 15)
5 PM Freestyle
5:30 Feelings
6 PM Masterpiece Theatre ("Love For Lydia," Part 3)
7 PM Ohio Journal
7:30 In Touch (tips on buying seafood)
8 PM Evening At Symphony (Seiji Ozawa conducts the Boston Symphony
in Johann Christian Bach's Symphony for Double Orchestra, Opus 18.)
9 PM Movie: "A Delicate Balance"
11:15 Movie: "On The Town"
WXIX Ch. 19 Cincinnati (Ind.)
6:15 Perspective
7 AM Brady Kids
7:30 Woody Woodpecker
8 AM Bugs And Porky
8:30 Tom & Jerry
9 AM Popeye
9:30 Spiderman
10 AM Movie: "Abbott And Costello Meet The Keystone
Cops"
11:30 Movie: "The Burning Hills"
1:30 Movie: "The Sins Of Rachel Cade"
4 PM Movie: "For A Few Dollars More"
6 PM Happy Days Again
6:30 M*A*S*H
7 PM Soap Factory Disco (Bunny Sigler, McFadden & Whitehead)
7:30 Soap Factory Disco (Witch Queen, Kathy Barnes)
8 PM Dolly
8:30 Pop Goes The Country (Jim Ed Brown, Helen Cornelius, John
Conlee)
9 PM Porter Wagoner (Little David Wilkins)
9:30 Country Roads
10 PM Nashville On The Road
10:30 That Nashville Music (Bill Anderson, Reba McEntire, John Conlee)
11 PM Juke-Box (Rod Stewart, Alicia Bridges, the Tubes)
oddly, nothing is listed after this
WKEF Ch. 22 Dayton (ABC)
7 AM Better Way...
7:30 Underdog
8 AM Superfriends
9 AM Plastic-Man Comedy-Adventure Show
11 AM Spider-Woman
11:30 Kidsworld (Danielle Brisebois, roller coasters, a cross-country runner)
12 N ABC Weekend Special: "The Contest Kid Strikes Again"
12:30 World Series (game 4, see Ch. 6)
3:30 College Football Today (time approximate)
3:45 College Football (Oklahoma-Texas)
7 PM Family Feud (time approximate)
7:30 Dance Fever (judges: Arthur and Kathryn Murray (how appropriate),
Tina Turner, Bob Seagren; musical guests: the Jones Girls)
8 PM The Ropers
8:30 Detective School
9 PM Love Boat
10 PM Hart To Hart
11 PM Odd Couple
11:30 Earle Bruce: Football
12 M 700 Club
WOSU Ch. 34 Columbus (PBS)
4 PM Other School System
4:30 Footsteps (preparing for parenthood)
5 PM Camera Three
5:30 Ohio Journal
6 PM National Geographic ("Holland Against The Sea"
7 PM Pro Soccer
8 PM Movie: "Wilderness Journey"
9:30 The Explorers
10 PM Countdown To Kick-Off
10:30 College Football: Indiana-Ohio State replay
WLIO Ch. 35 Lima (NBC/ABC)
7:30 U.S. Farm Report
8 AM Daffy Duck
8:30 Casper And The Angels
9 AM New Fred And Barney Show
10 AM Super Globetrotters
10:30 New Shmoo
11 AM Flash Gordon
11:30 Godzilla
12 N Jonny Quest
12:30 Jetsons
1 PM Soul Train (guest: Deniece Williams)
2 PM Mary Tyler Moore
2:30 Wild Kingdom
3 PM This Is The NFL
3:30 College Football Today
3:45 College Football: Oklahoma-Texas
7 PM Lawrence Welk (time approximate)
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM A Man Called Sloane
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
sign off 1 AM
WUAB Ch. 43 Cleveland (Ind.)
8:30 For You...Black Woman
9 AM Ernest Angley
10 AM Lorain Conversation (isn't WUAB in Lorain, OH?)
10:30 Movie: "Tarzan's Secret Treasure" (Johnny Weissmuller as
Tarzan, from '41)
12 N Three Stooges
12:20 Three Stooges
12:40 Dick Tracy ('40s short)
1 PM Movie: "War-Gods Of The Deep"
2:30 Movie: "The Skull"
4 PM Movie: "The Happening"
6 PM Star Trek
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Lawrence Welk
9 PM Movie: "Knute Rockne--All American"
11 PM Benny Hill
11:30 Benny Hill
12 M Earle Bruce: Football
12:30 Pop Goes The Country (Jim Ed Brown, Helen Cornelius,
John Conlee)
1 AM That Nashville Music (Faron Young, Kelly Warren, David
Houston)
1:30 Country Roads
WCET Ch. 48 Cincinnati (PBS)
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Once Upon A Classic: "The Old Curiosity Shop," Part 1
of 10
10:30 Big Blue Marble
11 AM French Chef
11:30 Paint Along With Nancy Kominsky
12 N Lilias, Yoga And You
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1 PM Over Easy (guest: First Lady Rosalynn Carter)
1:30 Here's To Your Health
2 PM Movie: "The Las Vegas Story"
3:30 Footsteps
4 PM Ohio Journal
4:30 Master Classes
5 PM Freestyle
5:30 Feelings
6 PM Like It Is
6:30 Another Voice
7 PM Connections (same as Chs. 14, 16)
8 PM The Scarlet Letter (Part 2)
9 PM All Creatures Great And Small
10 PM Countdown To Kick-Off
10:30 College Football: Indiana-Ohio State replay
WDTN Ch. 2 Dayton (NBC)
6 AM Health Field (treatments for diabetes)
6:30 Big Blue Marble (a 9-year-old race driver, a 10-
year-old boy who entertains tourists in Peru)
7 AM Marlo And The Magic Movie Machine (Marlo herds
sheep in Australia.)
7:30 Bay City Rollers
8 AM Daffy Duck
8:30 Casper And The Angels
9 AM New Fred And Barney Show
10 AM Super Globetrotters
10:30 New Shmoo
11 AM Flash Gordon
11:30 Godzilla
12 N Jonny Quest
12:30 Jetsons
1 PM I Love Lucy
1:30 Movie: "Godzilla" (watch for Raymond Burr from '56,
the year before he began playing Perry Mason)
3 PM Movie: "The Big Country"
6 PM $1.98 Beauty Show (the Unknown Comic, Marilyn Beck,
and David Hasselhoff are the panelists)
6:30 News
7 PM Sha Na Na (guest James Darren sings "Gidget")
7:30 Muppet Show (guests: Shields & Yarnell)
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM A Man Called Sloane
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (fifth-season premiere: host Steve Martin,
musical guests Blondie; NOTE: this was the final season with
the original cast (except for Chevy Chase) and Bill Murray)
1 AM Second City Television Network
1:30 Norm Crosby's The Comedy Shop
WCMH Ch. 4 Columbus (NBC)
6:30 Battle Of The Planets
7 AM Marlo And The Magic Movie Machine (Marlo journeys back to
the Colonial period.)
7:30 World Of Survival
8 AM Daffy Duck
8:30 Casper And The Angels
9 AM New Fred And Barney Show
10 AM Super Globetrotters
10:30 Little Rascals
11 AM Tom & Jerry
12 N Movie: "Demetrius And The Gladiators"
2 PM Movie: "Tarzan And The She-Devil" (Lex Barker as Tarzan,
from '53)
3:30 Movie: "Tarzan's Savage Fury" (Lex Barker again, from '52)
5 PM Star Trek
6 PM News
6:30 Dance Fever (judges: Jamie Farr, Mary Frances Crosby, Scott
Baio; musical guest Stephanie Mills)
7 PM Lawrence Welk (farm-country tunes)
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM A Man Called Sloane
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Movie: "Desiree"
WTTV Ch. 4 Indianapolis (Ind.)
listed EDT
8 AM La Voz Latina
8:30 Lessons For Living
9 AM Jerry Falwell
10 AM Focus
10:30 Symphony
11 AM Citizens Forum
11:15 Hoosier Hinterland
11:30 Brian Bex
12 N Wrestling
1 PM 1979 U.S. Nationals Drag Racing (Big Daddy Don Garlits
is one of the participants.)
2 PM Tennis: Island Holidays Pro Classic from Maui (men's singles
final)
3 PM Movie: "The D.I." (Jack Webb, from '57)
5 PM The Racers (the SCCA D Productions Sports Car Finals from
Atlanta)
5:30 News
6 PM All In The Family
6:30 Sanford And Son
7 PM Starsky & Hutch
8 PM Dance Fever (judges: Jane Seymour and Benji, Bobby Van,
Robert Shields; musical guest: Evelyn "Champagne" King)
8:30 Country Roads
9 PM Nashville On The Road (guest: Margo Smith)
9:30 Porter Wagoner (guest: Mickey Gilley)
10 PM Pop Goes The Country (Jimmy Dean, Rex Allen Jr., Peggy Sue)
10:30 That Nashville Music (Billy "Crash" Craddock, Susie Allanson,
Charlie Louvin)
11 PM Movie: "Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde" ('71 version from England)
1 AM Juke-Box
1:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (Olivia Newton-John, Smokey
Robinson, Heart)
3 AM Soul Train (Bonnie Pointer, Switch)
4 AM Movie: "Julia Misbehaves"
6 AM Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea"
WLWT Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)
6:30 Circle Square
7 AM U.S. Farm Report
7:30 Hot Fudge
8 AM Daffy Duck
8:30 Casper And The Angels
9 AM New Fred And Barney Show
10 AM Super Globetrotters
10:30 New Shmoo
11 AM Flash Gordon
11:30 Godzilla
12 N Jonny Quest
12:30 Jetsons
1 PM Greatest Sports Legends (tribute to Wilma Rudolph)
1:30 Whitney And The Robot
2 PM Miss National Teen-Ager Pageant (host Pat Boone;
featured are Michael McKean and David L. Lander (aka
Lenny and Squiggy from "Laverne & Shirley") and contestants
from all 50 states; taped in Atlanta Aug. 10)
3:30 Movie: "Godzilla" (same as Ch. 2)
5 PM Archie Campbell (guests: the Cathedral Quartet)
5:30 Sha Na Na (guest: Barbara Mandrell)
6 PM News
6:30 Consumer Buyline (topic: credit)
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM A Man Called Sloane
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (War, Natalie Cole, Murray
Langston (aka The Unknown Comic))
WTVN (WSYX) Ch. 6 Columbus (ABC)
7:30 Matters Of Life
8 AM Superfriends
9 AM Plastic Man Comedy-Adventure Show
11 AM Spider-Woman
11:30 MVP...World Series Edition (World Series MVPs since 1954)
12:30 World Series: Orioles-Pirates (Game 4; Pittsburgh won the
Series, 4 games to 3)
3:30 College Football Today (time approximate)
3:45 College Football: Oklahoma-Texas (from Dallas)
7 PM Hee Haw (Gene Autry, the Statler Brothers, Randy Barlow,
Joe Frazier (correct me if I'm wrong, but it's not that
Joe Frazier, is it?), time approximate)
8 PM The Ropers
8:30 Detective School
9 PM Love Boat (passengers: Martha Scott, Don Ameche, Jaye P.
Morgan, Joanna Cassidy, Conrad Janis)
10 PM Hart To Hart
11 PM News
11:15 ABC News (anchor not given)
11:30 Miss World-America Beauty Pageant (Gene Rayburn and
Marjorie Wallace co-host from the Virgin Islands, winner goes
on to the Miss World Pageant in London)
sign off 1:30 AM
WHIO Ch. 7 Dayton (CBS)
7 AM Sunrise Semester: "Drama In Education"
7:30 Urban And Suburban
8 AM Mighty Mouse/Heckle And Jeckle
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 All-New Popeye Hour
11:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12 N Courthouse Square
12:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
1:30 30 Minutes (teen-age homosexuality; two New York
Yankee infield prospects)
2 PM Movie: "Don't Raise The Bridge, Lower The River" (Jerry
Lewis from '68)
4 PM That Nashville Music (Sonny James, Dottsy, Mel McDaniel,
Johnny Gimble)
4:30 Pop Goes The Country (the Statler Brothers, Billie Jo Spears)
5 PM Porter Wagoner (guest: Connie Smith)
5:30 Dolly (guest: Chuck Woolery)
6 PM News
6:30 Hee Haw
7:30 Match Game PM (Richard Paul, Don Galloway, Joyce Bulifant,
Mary Ann Mobley)
8 PM Working Stiffs
8:30 Bad News Bears
9 PM Big Shamus, Little Shamus
10 PM Paris (the quick cancellations of this and "The Lazarus Syndrome,"
both of which had African-American stars (James Earl Jones and
Louis Gossett Jr., respectively) caused negative criticism of CBS
and ABC, respectively)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "A Killer In Every Corner"
1 AM Ironside
2 AM News
WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)
5:55 Farm News
6 AM Sunrise Semester
6:30 Call The Doctor (plastic and reconstructive surgery, rerun from
Sun 11 AM)
7:30 Mayberry R.F.D.
8 AM Mighty Mouse/Heckle And Jeckle
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 All-New Popeye Hour
11:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12 N Jason Of Star Command
12:30 Kidsworld (Rev. Jesse Jackson, the sports of polo and kayaking)
1 PM Movie: "Battle Of The Bulge"
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular (Part 2 of the Pacific International Gymnastics
Championships from Vancouver, Parts 5 and 6 of World's Strongest Men)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM Make Me Laugh (the comics are Howard Itzkowitz, Skip Stephenson,
and Vic Dunlop; celebrity contestant: Kaye Stevens)
7:30 Joker! Joker!! Joker!!!
8 PM Working Stiffs
8:30 Bad News Bears
9 PM Big Shamus, Little Shamus
10 PM Paris
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "McQ"
2 AM Here And Now
2:30 News
WBNS Ch. 10 Columbus (CBS)
6 AM Societies In Transition
6:30 U.S. Farm Report
7 AM It's Your Business (topic: Social Security)
7:30 Not For Women Only
8 AM Mighty Mouse/Heckle And Jeckle
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Movie: "Justice Of The West" (compilation of
"Lone Ranger" episodes)
12:30 Hogan's Heroes
1 PM In The Know
1:30 30 Minutes
2 PM Movie: "Journey To The Unknown" (two episodes
of the short-lived 1968 ABC series)
4 PM Nashville On The Road (guest: T.G. Sheppard)
4:30 Pop Goes The Country (T.G. Sheppard, Charly McClain (a
female), George Jones)
5 PM Dolly (perhaps the best show she ever did, either in syndication
or on ABC: guests are Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris)
5:30 Porter Wagoner (guest: Mickey Gilley)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Bugs Bunny
7:30 Kicks (Edwin Starr, disco group Arpeggio)
8 PM Working Stiffs
8:30 Bad News Bears
9 PM Big Shamus, Little Shamus
10 PM Paris
11 PM News
11:30 Earle Bruce: Football (highlights of Indiana-Ohio State, played
earlier today)
12 M Movie: "Goodbye, Columbus"
WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)
6 AM Kids Are People Too (Wolfman Jack, Lenny and Squiggy, Joan Embery,
bodybuilder Franco Columbu, Richard Hatch (of "Battlestar Galactica,"
not "Survivor," delay from Sun 10 AM)
7:30 Marlo And The Magic Movie Machine (the 10-year anniversary of the first
moon landing)
8 AM Superfriends
9 AM Plastic Man Comedy-Adventure Show
11 AM Spider-Woman
11:30 Scooby And Scrappy-Doo
12 N Bowling
12:30 World Series (Game 4, see Ch. 6)
3:30 College Football Today (time approximate)
3:45 College Football: Oklahoma-Texas
7 PM Hee Haw (time approximate)
8 PM The Ropers
8:30 Sanford And Son
9 PM Love Boat
10 PM Hart To Hart
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Escape From The Planet Of The Apes"
1:30 Movie: "Rio Rita" (Abbott and Costello, from '42)
3:40 Movie: "Lost In A Harem" (Abbott and Costello, from '44)
WPTO Ch. 14 Oxford, OH/WPTD Ch. 16 Dayton (PBS)
Ch. 14's transmitter was being replaced when this issue went to press;
if it is back up, normal programming will air, so I'm listing the lineup here.
9 AM Footsteps
9:30 Japan: The Living Tradition
10 AM Japan: The Changing Tradition
10:30 Connections (or did you know the origins of the atomic bomb can
be traced back 2700 years to the development of gold assay?)
11:30 Nova ("Life On A Silken Thread," about spiders)
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1 PM Camera Three ("Dreams," a dance about victims of the Holocaust)
1:30 Volunteer Jam
3 PM World (the death of Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov, from a poison
pellet allegedly injected by a passerby on a London street in 1978)
4 PM Poldark (Part 15)
5 PM Freestyle
5:30 Feelings
6 PM Masterpiece Theatre ("Love For Lydia," Part 3)
7 PM Ohio Journal
7:30 In Touch (tips on buying seafood)
8 PM Evening At Symphony (Seiji Ozawa conducts the Boston Symphony
in Johann Christian Bach's Symphony for Double Orchestra, Opus 18.)
9 PM Movie: "A Delicate Balance"
11:15 Movie: "On The Town"
WXIX Ch. 19 Cincinnati (Ind.)
6:15 Perspective
7 AM Brady Kids
7:30 Woody Woodpecker
8 AM Bugs And Porky
8:30 Tom & Jerry
9 AM Popeye
9:30 Spiderman
10 AM Movie: "Abbott And Costello Meet The Keystone
Cops"
11:30 Movie: "The Burning Hills"
1:30 Movie: "The Sins Of Rachel Cade"
4 PM Movie: "For A Few Dollars More"
6 PM Happy Days Again
6:30 M*A*S*H
7 PM Soap Factory Disco (Bunny Sigler, McFadden & Whitehead)
7:30 Soap Factory Disco (Witch Queen, Kathy Barnes)
8 PM Dolly
8:30 Pop Goes The Country (Jim Ed Brown, Helen Cornelius, John
Conlee)
9 PM Porter Wagoner (Little David Wilkins)
9:30 Country Roads
10 PM Nashville On The Road
10:30 That Nashville Music (Bill Anderson, Reba McEntire, John Conlee)
11 PM Juke-Box (Rod Stewart, Alicia Bridges, the Tubes)
oddly, nothing is listed after this
WKEF Ch. 22 Dayton (ABC)
7 AM Better Way...
7:30 Underdog
8 AM Superfriends
9 AM Plastic-Man Comedy-Adventure Show
11 AM Spider-Woman
11:30 Kidsworld (Danielle Brisebois, roller coasters, a cross-country runner)
12 N ABC Weekend Special: "The Contest Kid Strikes Again"
12:30 World Series (game 4, see Ch. 6)
3:30 College Football Today (time approximate)
3:45 College Football (Oklahoma-Texas)
7 PM Family Feud (time approximate)
7:30 Dance Fever (judges: Arthur and Kathryn Murray (how appropriate),
Tina Turner, Bob Seagren; musical guests: the Jones Girls)
8 PM The Ropers
8:30 Detective School
9 PM Love Boat
10 PM Hart To Hart
11 PM Odd Couple
11:30 Earle Bruce: Football
12 M 700 Club
WOSU Ch. 34 Columbus (PBS)
4 PM Other School System
4:30 Footsteps (preparing for parenthood)
5 PM Camera Three
5:30 Ohio Journal
6 PM National Geographic ("Holland Against The Sea"
7 PM Pro Soccer
8 PM Movie: "Wilderness Journey"
9:30 The Explorers
10 PM Countdown To Kick-Off
10:30 College Football: Indiana-Ohio State replay
WLIO Ch. 35 Lima (NBC/ABC)
7:30 U.S. Farm Report
8 AM Daffy Duck
8:30 Casper And The Angels
9 AM New Fred And Barney Show
10 AM Super Globetrotters
10:30 New Shmoo
11 AM Flash Gordon
11:30 Godzilla
12 N Jonny Quest
12:30 Jetsons
1 PM Soul Train (guest: Deniece Williams)
2 PM Mary Tyler Moore
2:30 Wild Kingdom
3 PM This Is The NFL
3:30 College Football Today
3:45 College Football: Oklahoma-Texas
7 PM Lawrence Welk (time approximate)
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM A Man Called Sloane
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
sign off 1 AM
WUAB Ch. 43 Cleveland (Ind.)
8:30 For You...Black Woman
9 AM Ernest Angley
10 AM Lorain Conversation (isn't WUAB in Lorain, OH?)
10:30 Movie: "Tarzan's Secret Treasure" (Johnny Weissmuller as
Tarzan, from '41)
12 N Three Stooges
12:20 Three Stooges
12:40 Dick Tracy ('40s short)
1 PM Movie: "War-Gods Of The Deep"
2:30 Movie: "The Skull"
4 PM Movie: "The Happening"
6 PM Star Trek
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Lawrence Welk
9 PM Movie: "Knute Rockne--All American"
11 PM Benny Hill
11:30 Benny Hill
12 M Earle Bruce: Football
12:30 Pop Goes The Country (Jim Ed Brown, Helen Cornelius,
John Conlee)
1 AM That Nashville Music (Faron Young, Kelly Warren, David
Houston)
1:30 Country Roads
WCET Ch. 48 Cincinnati (PBS)
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Once Upon A Classic: "The Old Curiosity Shop," Part 1
of 10
10:30 Big Blue Marble
11 AM French Chef
11:30 Paint Along With Nancy Kominsky
12 N Lilias, Yoga And You
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1 PM Over Easy (guest: First Lady Rosalynn Carter)
1:30 Here's To Your Health
2 PM Movie: "The Las Vegas Story"
3:30 Footsteps
4 PM Ohio Journal
4:30 Master Classes
5 PM Freestyle
5:30 Feelings
6 PM Like It Is
6:30 Another Voice
7 PM Connections (same as Chs. 14, 16)
8 PM The Scarlet Letter (Part 2)
9 PM All Creatures Great And Small
10 PM Countdown To Kick-Off
10:30 College Football: Indiana-Ohio State replay