Election Day 1980, from TV Guide-St. Louis edition
KTVI 2-ABC
6:00 Romper Room
6:30 Jeff's Collie (bw/Lassie)
7:00 Good Morning America (guests include pollster Louis Harris)
9:00 Phil Donahue (grown children living with their parents; guests include psychiatrist Paul Kingsley)
10:00 Love Boat
11:00 Mary Tyler Moore
11:30 Ryan's Hope
noon All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Match Game (syndied version)
3:30 Family Feud
4:00 M*A*S*H
4:30 Barney Miller
5:00 News
5:30 ABC World News Tonight
6:00 Election Coverage (usually News aired at 6, followed by Hollywood Squares at 6:30)
1:00 FBI
2:00 Perception
KMOX 4-CBS
5:30 News
5:40 People Speak "The Leader and the Party" (guest Alvin W. Gouldner)
6:00 PS 4
6:30 Sunrise Semester "City in American Literature"
7:00 CBS Morning News (the Captain gets keelhauled for an expanded 2 hr edition for Election Day)
9:00 Jeffersons
9:30 Alice
10:00 Price is Right
11:00 One Day at a Time
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
noon Young & the Restless
1:00 As the World Turns
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 John Davidson (guests Bill Cosby, Sylvia, atsrologer Joyce Jillson, and psychologist Irene Kassoria)
4:00 Rockford Files
5:00 News
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 Election Coverage (normally: News at 6, Family Feud at 6:30)
1:00 People Speak "The Leader and the Media" (guest Alvin W. Gouldner)
1:20 Movie "Suzy" (bw)
3:10 News
KSDK 5-NBC
6:00 Focus on Your World "Dickens' World: The Radical Reformer"
6:30 Your New Day
7:00 Today (a look at how NBC will project election results)
9:00 Las Vegas Gambit
9:30 Blockbusters
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Password Plus
11:00 Card Sharks
11:30 Mid-Day AM
noon News
12:30 Days of Your Lives
1:30 Another World
2:30 Texas
3:30 Hour Magazine (an all-female detective agency/Ali McGraw with a hairstyling session)
4:30 World of People (a fashion show for big people, vsiting Turk Murphy's 20th anniversary party, a look at a DC computer/robot show)
5:00 News
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Election Coverage (usually: News at 6, Newsbeat at 6:30)
1:00 News
1:30 Newsbeat
KETC 9-PBS
6:30 Making It Count
7:00 Weather
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Instructional Programs
9:00 Electric Company
9:30 Instructional Programs
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Instructional Programs
3:00 Sesame Street
4:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Electric Company
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 3-2-1 Contact
6:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
7:00 Post Script
7:30 Up & Coming
8:00 Nova "The Big IF" (a look at interferon, which was touted as a promising cancer drug"
9:00 Body in Question (focusing on the heart)
10:00 Dick Cavett (Ray Bradbury, pt 1)
10:30 Kup's Show
11:30 Captioned ABC News
KPLR 11-Ind
6:00 News
6:30 Lone Ranger (bw)
7:00 Bugs Bunny & Friends
7:30 Heckle & Jeckle
8:00 Fred Flintstone & Friends
8:30 Green Acres
9:00 Merv Griffin (in NYC with guests Lillian Gish, Ann Miller, Myrna Loy, Ethel Merman, and Renata Scotto)
10:00 Mike Douglas (co-host Mac Davis/guests Ron Howard, Anson Williams, George Wallace (the comedian), and Lisa Donovan)
11:00 Don Lane
noon You Bet Your Life
12:30 Movie "Run to the High Country"
2:30 Flintstones
3:00 Cartoons
4:00 Scooby-Doo
4:30 Tom & Jerry
5:00 Starsky & Hutch
6:00 All in the Family
6:30 Hogan's Heroes
7:00 Washington Behind Closed Doors (pt 3)
9:00 Joker's Wild
9:30 News
10:00 Doctor in the House
10:30 Prisoner: Cell Block H
11:00 Movie "Tora! Tora! Tora!"
2:05 News
2:35 Movie "Sherlock Holmes in Dressed to Kill" (bw)
4:00 Health Field (depression in the elderly)
4:30 Continuous Weather
KDNL 30-Ind
6:30 New Zoo Revue
7:00 Little Rascals (bw)
7:30 Casper & Friends
8:00 PTL Club
10:00 News
10:30 700 Club (mental illness and the changing Church)
noon Doctors (NBC)
12:30 Let's Make a Deal (Canadian-produced syndied version)
1:00 Movie "The April Fools"
3:00 Beverly Hillbillies (bw)
3:30 Munsters (bw)
4:00 Brady Bunch (x2)
5:00 Good Times
5:30 Happy Days Again
6:00 Sanford & Son
6:30 Welcome Back, Kotter
7:00 Movie "The Reivers" (TV30's TVG ad advertises the night's movies as "Election Alternative", albeit with election updates throughout the night)
9:00 Movie "Coogan's Bluff" (McCloud was loosely based on this film)
11:15 INN News (usually ran at 9, followed by To Tell the Truth at 9:30, Newlywed Game at 10, and a movie at 10:30)
11:45 700 Club (personal freedom)
KTVI 2-ABC
6:00 Romper Room
6:30 Jeff's Collie (bw/Lassie)
7:00 Good Morning America (guests include pollster Louis Harris)
9:00 Phil Donahue (grown children living with their parents; guests include psychiatrist Paul Kingsley)
10:00 Love Boat
11:00 Mary Tyler Moore
11:30 Ryan's Hope
noon All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Match Game (syndied version)
3:30 Family Feud
4:00 M*A*S*H
4:30 Barney Miller
5:00 News
5:30 ABC World News Tonight
6:00 Election Coverage (usually News aired at 6, followed by Hollywood Squares at 6:30)
1:00 FBI
2:00 Perception
KMOX 4-CBS
5:30 News
5:40 People Speak "The Leader and the Party" (guest Alvin W. Gouldner)
6:00 PS 4
6:30 Sunrise Semester "City in American Literature"
7:00 CBS Morning News (the Captain gets keelhauled for an expanded 2 hr edition for Election Day)
9:00 Jeffersons
9:30 Alice
10:00 Price is Right
11:00 One Day at a Time
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
noon Young & the Restless
1:00 As the World Turns
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 John Davidson (guests Bill Cosby, Sylvia, atsrologer Joyce Jillson, and psychologist Irene Kassoria)
4:00 Rockford Files
5:00 News
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 Election Coverage (normally: News at 6, Family Feud at 6:30)
1:00 People Speak "The Leader and the Media" (guest Alvin W. Gouldner)
1:20 Movie "Suzy" (bw)
3:10 News
KSDK 5-NBC
6:00 Focus on Your World "Dickens' World: The Radical Reformer"
6:30 Your New Day
7:00 Today (a look at how NBC will project election results)
9:00 Las Vegas Gambit
9:30 Blockbusters
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Password Plus
11:00 Card Sharks
11:30 Mid-Day AM
noon News
12:30 Days of Your Lives
1:30 Another World
2:30 Texas
3:30 Hour Magazine (an all-female detective agency/Ali McGraw with a hairstyling session)
4:30 World of People (a fashion show for big people, vsiting Turk Murphy's 20th anniversary party, a look at a DC computer/robot show)
5:00 News
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Election Coverage (usually: News at 6, Newsbeat at 6:30)
1:00 News
1:30 Newsbeat
KETC 9-PBS
6:30 Making It Count
7:00 Weather
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Instructional Programs
9:00 Electric Company
9:30 Instructional Programs
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Instructional Programs
3:00 Sesame Street
4:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Electric Company
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 3-2-1 Contact
6:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
7:00 Post Script
7:30 Up & Coming
8:00 Nova "The Big IF" (a look at interferon, which was touted as a promising cancer drug"
9:00 Body in Question (focusing on the heart)
10:00 Dick Cavett (Ray Bradbury, pt 1)
10:30 Kup's Show
11:30 Captioned ABC News
KPLR 11-Ind
6:00 News
6:30 Lone Ranger (bw)
7:00 Bugs Bunny & Friends
7:30 Heckle & Jeckle
8:00 Fred Flintstone & Friends
8:30 Green Acres
9:00 Merv Griffin (in NYC with guests Lillian Gish, Ann Miller, Myrna Loy, Ethel Merman, and Renata Scotto)
10:00 Mike Douglas (co-host Mac Davis/guests Ron Howard, Anson Williams, George Wallace (the comedian), and Lisa Donovan)
11:00 Don Lane
noon You Bet Your Life
12:30 Movie "Run to the High Country"
2:30 Flintstones
3:00 Cartoons
4:00 Scooby-Doo
4:30 Tom & Jerry
5:00 Starsky & Hutch
6:00 All in the Family
6:30 Hogan's Heroes
7:00 Washington Behind Closed Doors (pt 3)
9:00 Joker's Wild
9:30 News
10:00 Doctor in the House
10:30 Prisoner: Cell Block H
11:00 Movie "Tora! Tora! Tora!"
2:05 News
2:35 Movie "Sherlock Holmes in Dressed to Kill" (bw)
4:00 Health Field (depression in the elderly)
4:30 Continuous Weather
KDNL 30-Ind
6:30 New Zoo Revue
7:00 Little Rascals (bw)
7:30 Casper & Friends
8:00 PTL Club
10:00 News
10:30 700 Club (mental illness and the changing Church)
noon Doctors (NBC)
12:30 Let's Make a Deal (Canadian-produced syndied version)
1:00 Movie "The April Fools"
3:00 Beverly Hillbillies (bw)
3:30 Munsters (bw)
4:00 Brady Bunch (x2)
5:00 Good Times
5:30 Happy Days Again
6:00 Sanford & Son
6:30 Welcome Back, Kotter
7:00 Movie "The Reivers" (TV30's TVG ad advertises the night's movies as "Election Alternative", albeit with election updates throughout the night)
9:00 Movie "Coogan's Bluff" (McCloud was loosely based on this film)
11:15 INN News (usually ran at 9, followed by To Tell the Truth at 9:30, Newlywed Game at 10, and a movie at 10:30)
11:45 700 Club (personal freedom)