This day's TV schedule, from the St. Petersburg Times and Sarasota Herald-Tribune, with some fill-ins from the Ocala Star Banner and the Lakeland Ledger:
WEDU Channel 3 (PBS)
8AM: Sesame Street
9AM: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30AM: Once Upon a Classic (episode not given)
10AM: Cinematic Eye
10:30AM: Movie: Jean Renoir's "The Rules of the Game" (1939)
12:30PM: Can-Do Clinic
1PM: Nova: "The Great Wine Revolution"
2PM: Crockett's Victory Garden
2:30PM: Journey Into Art
3PM: The Onedin Line
4PM: Evening at Symphony
5PM: Studio See
5:30PM: Freestyle
6PM: Lo Nuestro
6:30PM: ¿Qué Pasa USA?
7PM: The Golden Invitational Marching Band Contest
9PM: The Long Search
10PM: Civilisation
11PM: Scenes from a Marriage
12 Mid: Sign Off
WFLA channel 8 (NBC)
6AM: A Better Way
6:30AM: Vegetable Soup
7AM: Gentle Ben
7:30AM: Gentle Ben
8AM: Yogi's Space Race
9:30AM: The Godzilla Power Hour
10:30AM: The Fantastic Four
11AM: Movie: John Wayne in "Dawn Rider" (1938) (Channel 8 did not clear NBC's Saturday morning shows from this point, sparing Tampa Bay from "The Krofft Superstar Hour" with the Bay City Rollers. Also not cleared was "The Fabulous Funnies" at 12 Noon and "Baggy Pants & The Nitwits" at 12:30.)
12 Noon: Information 8
1:30PM: Do It Yourself
2PM: Movies: Fred Allen and Jack Benny in "It's In The Bag" (1945), followed by "One of our Aircraft is Missing: (1941)
5:30PM: Thrillseekers
6PM: News
6:30PM: NBC Nightly News
7PM: News Conference
7:30PM: Rapping
8PM: Movie: "KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park" (1978; premiere)
10PM: Sword of Justice
11PM: News
11:30PM: The Things We Did Last Summer (Pre-empts SNL; special shows the SNL cast members on what they did during the summer.)
1AM: Don Kirschner's Rock Concert
2:30AM: Sign Off
WTSP Channel 10 (ABC)
6AM: The World Today
6:30AM: Growing Things
6:45AM: 4-H Spotlight
7AM: Youth and You
7:30AM: Villa Alegre (Channel 10 relatively ran this pre-8AM Saturday lineup into the mid-1980s)
8AM: Scooby Doo
9AM: Fangface
9AM: Challenge of the Super Friends
10AM: Scooby's All-Starr Laff-a-Lympics
11:30AM: The New Pink Panther Show
12 Noon: ABC Weekend Special: "The $1000 Bill"
12:30PM: The FBI (no more "American Bandstand" unless you dial up channel 40)
1:30PM: NCAA Football: Florida vs. Georgia Tech
5PM: Wide World of Sports
6:30PM: ABC World News Tonight
7PM: Lawrence Welk (Their annual Halloween show)
8PM: Welcome Back, Kotter
8:30PM: Carter Country
9PM: The Love Boat
10PM: Fantasy Island
11PM: News
11:30PM: Movie: "Ordeal" (1973)
1:30AM: Notre Dame Football Highlights: Notre Dame vs. University of Miami
2:30AM: News; Pastor's Study; Sign off (Apparently, channel 10 did not clear the late ABC News bulletin)
WTVT Channel 13 (CBS)
6:40: News
7AM: This is the Life
7:30AM: The Athletes; Listen
8AM: The All-New Popeye Hour
9AM: The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Show
10:30AM: Tarzan and the Super Seven
12 Noon: Space Academy
12:30PM: Fat Albert
1PM: Famous Classic Tales: "Black Beauty" (bumps the Children's Film Festival this week on CBS)
2PM: Tarzan
3PM: Movie: "The Norliss Tapes" (1973)
4:30PM: CBS Sports Spectacular
6PM: News
6:30PM: Adam 12
7PM: Candid Camera
7:30PM: Please Stand By (Syndicated sitcom about a low-rent television station)
8PM: Rhoda
8:30PM: Movie: John Wayne and George Kennedy in "Cahill US Marshal" (1973)
10:30PM: Opposing View (The GOP's response to President Carter's anti-inflation plan)
(Per the other papers, tonight's schedule was to have been "Good Times" at 8:30, "The American Girls" at 9PM and "Dallas" at 10PM.)
11PM: News
11:30PM: Movie: "The World of Susie Wong" (1960)
2AM: Sign Off
WUSF channel 16 (PBS)
2:30PM The Long Search
3:30PM: Man's Religious Expressions
4:30PM: Weather and Man
5:30PM: New Perspectives
6PM: The Heart of Teaching
6:30PM: Masters of the Silent Screen (another long-running WUSF telecourse series on silent films, filmed entirely in black and white)
7:30PM: Cinematic Eye
8PM: Movie (title not given)
9:30PM: Congressional Outlook
10PM: Washington Week in Review
10:30PM: Wall Street Week
11PM: Sign off
WXLT Channel 40 (ABC)
6:30AM: A Better Way
7AM: Kids are People Too (delay from Sunday)
8AM: Scooby Doo
9AM: Fangface
9AM: Challenge of the Super Friends
10AM: Scooby's All-Starr Laff-a-Lympics
11:30AM: The New Pink Panther Show
12 Noon: ABC Weekend Special
12:30PM: American Bandstand
1:30PM: NCAA Football: Florida vs. Georgia Tech
5PM: Wide World of Sports
6:30PM: ABC World News Tonight
7PM: Lawrence Welk (same as channel 10)
8PM: Welcome Back, Kotter
8:30PM: Carter Country
9PM: The Love Boat
10PM: Fantasy Island
11PM: ABC News
11:15PM: Local news
11:30PM: Notre Dame Football Highlights (same as channel 10)
12:30AM: Soap Factory Disco
1AM: Sign Off
WTOG channel 44
6AM: The King of Kensington
6:30AM: That Girl
7AM: Kidsworld
7:30AM: The Flintstones
8AM: Hour of Power
9AM: Gerald Derstine
9:30AM: Dr. E.J. Daniels
10AM: Earnest Angley
11AM: Soul Train
12 Noon: Space: 1999
1PM: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
2PM: Creature Feature: "War of the Colossal Beast (1958); a "Buck Rogers" serial; and "Bela Lugosi meets a Brooklyn Gorilla" (1952)
5PM: I Dream of Jeannie
5:30PM: Hogan's Heroes
6PM: Hee Haw (guests Larry Gatlin and Ava Barber)
7PM: Championship Wrestling from Florida
8PM: Pop Goes the Country
8:30PM: That Nashville Music
9PM: Dolly!
9:30PM: Marty Robbin's Spotlight
10PM: Hee Haw Honeys (Ill-fated Hee Haw spinoff; guest star Conway Twitty)
10:30PM: Porter Waggoner
11PM: Sha Na Na
11:30PM: Movie: "Sands of Khalihari" (1965)
1:30AM: All-Night Movies: "Mummy's Revenge" (1973); "The Invisible Creature" (1960); "Fear Chamber" (1969); "The Lions are Free" (1969)
WEDU Channel 3 (PBS)
8AM: Sesame Street
9AM: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30AM: Once Upon a Classic (episode not given)
10AM: Cinematic Eye
10:30AM: Movie: Jean Renoir's "The Rules of the Game" (1939)
12:30PM: Can-Do Clinic
1PM: Nova: "The Great Wine Revolution"
2PM: Crockett's Victory Garden
2:30PM: Journey Into Art
3PM: The Onedin Line
4PM: Evening at Symphony
5PM: Studio See
5:30PM: Freestyle
6PM: Lo Nuestro
6:30PM: ¿Qué Pasa USA?
7PM: The Golden Invitational Marching Band Contest
9PM: The Long Search
10PM: Civilisation
11PM: Scenes from a Marriage
12 Mid: Sign Off
WFLA channel 8 (NBC)
6AM: A Better Way
6:30AM: Vegetable Soup
7AM: Gentle Ben
7:30AM: Gentle Ben
8AM: Yogi's Space Race
9:30AM: The Godzilla Power Hour
10:30AM: The Fantastic Four
11AM: Movie: John Wayne in "Dawn Rider" (1938) (Channel 8 did not clear NBC's Saturday morning shows from this point, sparing Tampa Bay from "The Krofft Superstar Hour" with the Bay City Rollers. Also not cleared was "The Fabulous Funnies" at 12 Noon and "Baggy Pants & The Nitwits" at 12:30.)
12 Noon: Information 8
1:30PM: Do It Yourself
2PM: Movies: Fred Allen and Jack Benny in "It's In The Bag" (1945), followed by "One of our Aircraft is Missing: (1941)
5:30PM: Thrillseekers
6PM: News
6:30PM: NBC Nightly News
7PM: News Conference
7:30PM: Rapping
8PM: Movie: "KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park" (1978; premiere)
10PM: Sword of Justice
11PM: News
11:30PM: The Things We Did Last Summer (Pre-empts SNL; special shows the SNL cast members on what they did during the summer.)
1AM: Don Kirschner's Rock Concert
2:30AM: Sign Off
WTSP Channel 10 (ABC)
6AM: The World Today
6:30AM: Growing Things
6:45AM: 4-H Spotlight
7AM: Youth and You
7:30AM: Villa Alegre (Channel 10 relatively ran this pre-8AM Saturday lineup into the mid-1980s)
8AM: Scooby Doo
9AM: Fangface
9AM: Challenge of the Super Friends
10AM: Scooby's All-Starr Laff-a-Lympics
11:30AM: The New Pink Panther Show
12 Noon: ABC Weekend Special: "The $1000 Bill"
12:30PM: The FBI (no more "American Bandstand" unless you dial up channel 40)
1:30PM: NCAA Football: Florida vs. Georgia Tech
5PM: Wide World of Sports
6:30PM: ABC World News Tonight
7PM: Lawrence Welk (Their annual Halloween show)
8PM: Welcome Back, Kotter
8:30PM: Carter Country
9PM: The Love Boat
10PM: Fantasy Island
11PM: News
11:30PM: Movie: "Ordeal" (1973)
1:30AM: Notre Dame Football Highlights: Notre Dame vs. University of Miami
2:30AM: News; Pastor's Study; Sign off (Apparently, channel 10 did not clear the late ABC News bulletin)
WTVT Channel 13 (CBS)
6:40: News
7AM: This is the Life
7:30AM: The Athletes; Listen
8AM: The All-New Popeye Hour
9AM: The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Show
10:30AM: Tarzan and the Super Seven
12 Noon: Space Academy
12:30PM: Fat Albert
1PM: Famous Classic Tales: "Black Beauty" (bumps the Children's Film Festival this week on CBS)
2PM: Tarzan
3PM: Movie: "The Norliss Tapes" (1973)
4:30PM: CBS Sports Spectacular
6PM: News
6:30PM: Adam 12
7PM: Candid Camera
7:30PM: Please Stand By (Syndicated sitcom about a low-rent television station)
8PM: Rhoda
8:30PM: Movie: John Wayne and George Kennedy in "Cahill US Marshal" (1973)
10:30PM: Opposing View (The GOP's response to President Carter's anti-inflation plan)
(Per the other papers, tonight's schedule was to have been "Good Times" at 8:30, "The American Girls" at 9PM and "Dallas" at 10PM.)
11PM: News
11:30PM: Movie: "The World of Susie Wong" (1960)
2AM: Sign Off
WUSF channel 16 (PBS)
2:30PM The Long Search
3:30PM: Man's Religious Expressions
4:30PM: Weather and Man
5:30PM: New Perspectives
6PM: The Heart of Teaching
6:30PM: Masters of the Silent Screen (another long-running WUSF telecourse series on silent films, filmed entirely in black and white)
7:30PM: Cinematic Eye
8PM: Movie (title not given)
9:30PM: Congressional Outlook
10PM: Washington Week in Review
10:30PM: Wall Street Week
11PM: Sign off
WXLT Channel 40 (ABC)
6:30AM: A Better Way
7AM: Kids are People Too (delay from Sunday)
8AM: Scooby Doo
9AM: Fangface
9AM: Challenge of the Super Friends
10AM: Scooby's All-Starr Laff-a-Lympics
11:30AM: The New Pink Panther Show
12 Noon: ABC Weekend Special
12:30PM: American Bandstand
1:30PM: NCAA Football: Florida vs. Georgia Tech
5PM: Wide World of Sports
6:30PM: ABC World News Tonight
7PM: Lawrence Welk (same as channel 10)
8PM: Welcome Back, Kotter
8:30PM: Carter Country
9PM: The Love Boat
10PM: Fantasy Island
11PM: ABC News
11:15PM: Local news
11:30PM: Notre Dame Football Highlights (same as channel 10)
12:30AM: Soap Factory Disco
1AM: Sign Off
WTOG channel 44
6AM: The King of Kensington
6:30AM: That Girl
7AM: Kidsworld
7:30AM: The Flintstones
8AM: Hour of Power
9AM: Gerald Derstine
9:30AM: Dr. E.J. Daniels
10AM: Earnest Angley
11AM: Soul Train
12 Noon: Space: 1999
1PM: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
2PM: Creature Feature: "War of the Colossal Beast (1958); a "Buck Rogers" serial; and "Bela Lugosi meets a Brooklyn Gorilla" (1952)
5PM: I Dream of Jeannie
5:30PM: Hogan's Heroes
6PM: Hee Haw (guests Larry Gatlin and Ava Barber)
7PM: Championship Wrestling from Florida
8PM: Pop Goes the Country
8:30PM: That Nashville Music
9PM: Dolly!
9:30PM: Marty Robbin's Spotlight
10PM: Hee Haw Honeys (Ill-fated Hee Haw spinoff; guest star Conway Twitty)
10:30PM: Porter Waggoner
11PM: Sha Na Na
11:30PM: Movie: "Sands of Khalihari" (1965)
1:30AM: All-Night Movies: "Mummy's Revenge" (1973); "The Invisible Creature" (1960); "Fear Chamber" (1969); "The Lions are Free" (1969)
