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: "The Old Curiosity Shop"
10AM: Consumer Survival Kit
10:30AM: Connections
11:30AM: The Long Search
12:30PM: The Victory Garden (Bob Thomson replaced original host James Underwood Crockett, who died of cancer in July that year)
1PM: "To Be Announced" (Listed in Times as "Film Feature")
4PM: Masterpiece Theatre: "Love for Lydia"
5PM: Soccer Made in Germany
6PM: ¿Qué Pasa USA?
6:30PM: Latino Consortium
7PM: Once Upon a Classic: "The Old Curiosity Shop" (unknown if it's same episode from earlier or the next part)
7:30PM: Here's To Your Health
8PM: Live from Lincoln Center
11PM: Sign Off
WFLA channel 8 (NBC)
6AM: A Better Way
6:30AM: Whitney and the Robot
7AM: Gigglesnort Hotel
7:30AM: Gentle Ben
8AM: The Daffy Duck Show (featuring mainly the late-1960s W7 shorts starring Daffy)
8:30AM: Casper and the Angels
9AM: Fred and Barney Meet The Thing (One of television's least-successful matchups)
10AM: The Super Globetrotters
10:30AM: The New Shmoo
11AM: Movie: Roy Rogers in "The Gay Ranchero" (1952) (Bumped locally: 11AM: Flash Gordon; 11:30AM: Godzilla; 12 Noon: Jonny Quest (reruns); 12:30PM: The Jetsons (reruns))
12 Noon: Saturday Noon
1PM: NASCAR Driver's Roast
1:30PM: Movie: "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946) (130-minute classic heavily edited to fit a 60-minute time slot with commercials; OSB had an episode of "Then Came Bronson" listed here)
2:30PM: Miss Black Florida Pageant
4PM: Sportsworld (NASCAR 500 from Charlotte; Legends of Bowling from dallas; National Men's Gymnastics from Dayton)
5:30PM: In Search Of... ("Carlos, The World's Most Wanted Man")
6PM: News
6:30PM: NBC Nightly News
7PM: News Conference
7:30PM: Rapping
8PM: CHiPs
9PM: BJ and the Bear
10PM: A Man Called Sloane (An NBC special, "Top 10" starring Olivia Newton John, Paul McCartney and Wings, and the Little River Band, with other guests, was previously scheduled here, but postponed.)
11PM: News
11:30PM: Saturday Night Live: Guest Host Michael Sazrrazin, with musical guests Keith Jarrett and Gravity
1AM: The Comedy Shop
1:30AM: Don Kirschner's Rock Concert
3AM: 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
8AM: World's Greatest Super Friends
9AM: Plasticman Comedy Adventure Show
11AM: Spider-Woman
11:30AM: Scooby and Scrappy Doo
12 Noon: ABC Weekend Special: OSB lists "The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy" (repeat of the first animated special featuring Petey the puppy); H-T lists "The Girl with ESP"
12:30PM: NCAA Football: Houston vs. Arkansas
4PM: NCAA Football: Florida State vs. Louisiana State
7PM: Lawrence Welk (Their annual Halloween show)
8PM: The Ropers
8:30PM: Detective School
9PM: The Love Boat
10PM: Fantasy Island
11PM: News
11:30PM: Movie: "The Seven-Ups" (1974)
1:30AM: News; Pastor's Study; Sign off
WTVT Channel 13 (CBS)
6:40: News
7AM: Breath of Life
7:30AM: The Northgate Family
8AM: Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle (The newly-produced Filmation series)
9AM: The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Show
10:30AM: The All-New Popeye Hour
11:30AM: Fat Albert
12 Noon: Jason of Star Command
12:30PM: Tarzan and the Super Seven
1:30PM: 30 Minutes - This week: The poor, black teens of Memphis; a look at the SAT
2PM: Ironside
3PM: The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams
4PM: Adam-12
4:30PM: CBS Sports Spectacular
6PM: News
6:30PM: CBS Evening News
7PM: 3's a Crowd (The menage-a-trois game show that almost sank Chuck Barris)
7:30PM: Dance Fever
8PM: Movie: John Wayne's last film, "The Shootist" (1976); also starring Lauren Bacall, James Stewart and Ron Howard
10PM: Paris (police series starring James Earl Jones)
11PM: News
11:30PM: Movie: Arthur Hailey's "Hotel" (1967)
2AM: Sign Off
WUSF channel 16 (PBS)
9AM: Introduction to Art
9:30AM: Perspectives of the Middle Ages
10AM: Anthropological Perspectives
10:30AM: Japan: The Living Tradition
11:30AM: Pearls
12 Noon: Once Upon a Classic (no episode listed)
1PM: Masters of the Silent Screen
2PM: World in Action
2:30PM: News Night National
3PM: The Long Search
4PM: Washington Week in Review
4:30PM: Wall Street Week
5PM: World Communications
5:30PM: Florida Report
6PM: Music is...
6:30PM: Spectrum of the Arts
7PM: Song by Song by Alan Jay Lerner
8PM: Running Fence (HT & Ledger: "All-Star Swing")
9PM: Great Performances ("The Cheever Stories")
10PM: Academy Leaders
11PM: Sign off
WCLF channel 22
The local Godcaster signed on a few days prior on October 24; no schedule was published for this day, though most Saturdays at the time reflect this schedule for November 10, 1979 (from the Times):
7AM: The Backyard
7:30AM: Davey and Goliath
8AM: Joy Junction (long-running CTN series that would eventually be syndicated to other Christian stations)
9AM: Treehouse Club
9:30AM: Circle Square
10AM: Lugar Secreto
10:30AM: Rex Humbard (in Spanish)
11:30AM: Felicidad
12 Noon: Nueva Vida
12:30PM: Club PTL (Spanish PTL Club)
1:30PM: Esta es la Vida ("This is the Life" in Spanish)
2PM: The Athletes
2:30PM: Athletes in Action
3:30PM: Evangel Football
4:30PM: The Deaf Hear
5PM: Signs of the Times
5:30PM: Gospel Association for the Blind
6PM: Faith that Sings
6:30PM: Bethel Assembly
7PM: Lakeland First Assembly
8:30PM: Reach Out
9PM: Ross Bagley
9:30PM: Inside Track
10PM: Larry Lea
11PM: Chico Holliday
11:30PM: Sign Off
WXLT Channel 40 (ABC)
7AM: Panorama
8AM: World's Greatest Super Friends
9AM: Plasticman Comedy Adventure Show
11AM: Spider-Woman
11:30AM: Scooby and Scrappy Doo
12 Noon: ABC Weekend Special (see channel 10 for note)
12:30PM: NCAA Football: Houston vs. Arkansas
4PM: NCAA Football: Florida State vs. Louisiana State
7PM: Lawrence Welk (same as channel 10)
8PM: The Ropers
8:30PM: Detective School
9PM: The Love Boat
10PM: Fantasy Island
11PM: ABC News
11:15PM: Local news
11:30PM: Hee Haw (no guests listed)
12:30AM: The Guinness Game
1AM: Don Kirschner's Rock Concert
2AM: Sign Off
WTOG channel 44
5:30AM: Dragnet
6AM: Dragnet
6:30AM: Dudley Do-Right
7AM: Kidsworld
7:30AM: Battle of the Planets
8AM: Hour of Power
9AM: Gerald Derstine
9:30AM: Dr. E.J. Daniels
10AM: Earnest Angley
11AM: The Big Battles
12 Noon: Star Trek
1PM: Kung Fu
2PM: Creature Feature: "The Beast of Hollow Mountain" (1956); "Theatre of Death" (1967)
5PM: Superman
5:30PM: The Brady Bunch (the episode about the trading stamps)
6PM: Hee Haw (guests Tennessee Ernie Ford and Cristy lane)
7PM: Championship Wrestling from Florida
8PM: Pop Goes the Country
8:30PM: That Nashville Music
9PM: Nashville on the Road
9:30AM: Country Roads
10PM: Dolly!
10:30PM: Marty Robbin's Spotlight
11PM: Sha Na Na
11:30PM: Movie: "OSS 117 Double Agent" (1971)
1:30AM: All-Night Movies: "Across the Pacific" (1942); "Escape Me Never" (1947)
WEDU Channel 3 (PBS)
8AM: Sesame Street
9AM: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30AM: Once Upon a Classic: "The Old Curiosity Shop"
10AM: Consumer Survival Kit
10:30AM: Connections
11:30AM: The Long Search
12:30PM: The Victory Garden (Bob Thomson replaced original host James Underwood Crockett, who died of cancer in July that year)
1PM: "To Be Announced" (Listed in Times as "Film Feature")
4PM: Masterpiece Theatre: "Love for Lydia"
5PM: Soccer Made in Germany
6PM: ¿Qué Pasa USA?
6:30PM: Latino Consortium
7PM: Once Upon a Classic: "The Old Curiosity Shop" (unknown if it's same episode from earlier or the next part)
7:30PM: Here's To Your Health
8PM: Live from Lincoln Center
11PM: Sign Off
WFLA channel 8 (NBC)
6AM: A Better Way
6:30AM: Whitney and the Robot
7AM: Gigglesnort Hotel
7:30AM: Gentle Ben
8AM: The Daffy Duck Show (featuring mainly the late-1960s W7 shorts starring Daffy)
8:30AM: Casper and the Angels
9AM: Fred and Barney Meet The Thing (One of television's least-successful matchups)
10AM: The Super Globetrotters
10:30AM: The New Shmoo
11AM: Movie: Roy Rogers in "The Gay Ranchero" (1952) (Bumped locally: 11AM: Flash Gordon; 11:30AM: Godzilla; 12 Noon: Jonny Quest (reruns); 12:30PM: The Jetsons (reruns))
12 Noon: Saturday Noon
1PM: NASCAR Driver's Roast
1:30PM: Movie: "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946) (130-minute classic heavily edited to fit a 60-minute time slot with commercials; OSB had an episode of "Then Came Bronson" listed here)
2:30PM: Miss Black Florida Pageant
4PM: Sportsworld (NASCAR 500 from Charlotte; Legends of Bowling from dallas; National Men's Gymnastics from Dayton)
5:30PM: In Search Of... ("Carlos, The World's Most Wanted Man")
6PM: News
6:30PM: NBC Nightly News
7PM: News Conference
7:30PM: Rapping
8PM: CHiPs
9PM: BJ and the Bear
10PM: A Man Called Sloane (An NBC special, "Top 10" starring Olivia Newton John, Paul McCartney and Wings, and the Little River Band, with other guests, was previously scheduled here, but postponed.)
11PM: News
11:30PM: Saturday Night Live: Guest Host Michael Sazrrazin, with musical guests Keith Jarrett and Gravity
1AM: The Comedy Shop
1:30AM: Don Kirschner's Rock Concert
3AM: 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
8AM: World's Greatest Super Friends
9AM: Plasticman Comedy Adventure Show
11AM: Spider-Woman
11:30AM: Scooby and Scrappy Doo
12 Noon: ABC Weekend Special: OSB lists "The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy" (repeat of the first animated special featuring Petey the puppy); H-T lists "The Girl with ESP"
12:30PM: NCAA Football: Houston vs. Arkansas
4PM: NCAA Football: Florida State vs. Louisiana State
7PM: Lawrence Welk (Their annual Halloween show)
8PM: The Ropers
8:30PM: Detective School
9PM: The Love Boat
10PM: Fantasy Island
11PM: News
11:30PM: Movie: "The Seven-Ups" (1974)
1:30AM: News; Pastor's Study; Sign off
WTVT Channel 13 (CBS)
6:40: News
7AM: Breath of Life
7:30AM: The Northgate Family
8AM: Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle (The newly-produced Filmation series)
9AM: The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Show
10:30AM: The All-New Popeye Hour
11:30AM: Fat Albert
12 Noon: Jason of Star Command
12:30PM: Tarzan and the Super Seven
1:30PM: 30 Minutes - This week: The poor, black teens of Memphis; a look at the SAT
2PM: Ironside
3PM: The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams
4PM: Adam-12
4:30PM: CBS Sports Spectacular
6PM: News
6:30PM: CBS Evening News
7PM: 3's a Crowd (The menage-a-trois game show that almost sank Chuck Barris)
7:30PM: Dance Fever
8PM: Movie: John Wayne's last film, "The Shootist" (1976); also starring Lauren Bacall, James Stewart and Ron Howard
10PM: Paris (police series starring James Earl Jones)
11PM: News
11:30PM: Movie: Arthur Hailey's "Hotel" (1967)
2AM: Sign Off
WUSF channel 16 (PBS)
9AM: Introduction to Art
9:30AM: Perspectives of the Middle Ages
10AM: Anthropological Perspectives
10:30AM: Japan: The Living Tradition
11:30AM: Pearls
12 Noon: Once Upon a Classic (no episode listed)
1PM: Masters of the Silent Screen
2PM: World in Action
2:30PM: News Night National
3PM: The Long Search
4PM: Washington Week in Review
4:30PM: Wall Street Week
5PM: World Communications
5:30PM: Florida Report
6PM: Music is...
6:30PM: Spectrum of the Arts
7PM: Song by Song by Alan Jay Lerner
8PM: Running Fence (HT & Ledger: "All-Star Swing")
9PM: Great Performances ("The Cheever Stories")
10PM: Academy Leaders
11PM: Sign off
WCLF channel 22
The local Godcaster signed on a few days prior on October 24; no schedule was published for this day, though most Saturdays at the time reflect this schedule for November 10, 1979 (from the Times):
7AM: The Backyard
7:30AM: Davey and Goliath
8AM: Joy Junction (long-running CTN series that would eventually be syndicated to other Christian stations)
9AM: Treehouse Club
9:30AM: Circle Square
10AM: Lugar Secreto
10:30AM: Rex Humbard (in Spanish)
11:30AM: Felicidad
12 Noon: Nueva Vida
12:30PM: Club PTL (Spanish PTL Club)
1:30PM: Esta es la Vida ("This is the Life" in Spanish)
2PM: The Athletes
2:30PM: Athletes in Action
3:30PM: Evangel Football
4:30PM: The Deaf Hear
5PM: Signs of the Times
5:30PM: Gospel Association for the Blind
6PM: Faith that Sings
6:30PM: Bethel Assembly
7PM: Lakeland First Assembly
8:30PM: Reach Out
9PM: Ross Bagley
9:30PM: Inside Track
10PM: Larry Lea
11PM: Chico Holliday
11:30PM: Sign Off
WXLT Channel 40 (ABC)
7AM: Panorama
8AM: World's Greatest Super Friends
9AM: Plasticman Comedy Adventure Show
11AM: Spider-Woman
11:30AM: Scooby and Scrappy Doo
12 Noon: ABC Weekend Special (see channel 10 for note)
12:30PM: NCAA Football: Houston vs. Arkansas
4PM: NCAA Football: Florida State vs. Louisiana State
7PM: Lawrence Welk (same as channel 10)
8PM: The Ropers
8:30PM: Detective School
9PM: The Love Boat
10PM: Fantasy Island
11PM: ABC News
11:15PM: Local news
11:30PM: Hee Haw (no guests listed)
12:30AM: The Guinness Game
1AM: Don Kirschner's Rock Concert
2AM: Sign Off
WTOG channel 44
5:30AM: Dragnet
6AM: Dragnet
6:30AM: Dudley Do-Right
7AM: Kidsworld
7:30AM: Battle of the Planets
8AM: Hour of Power
9AM: Gerald Derstine
9:30AM: Dr. E.J. Daniels
10AM: Earnest Angley
11AM: The Big Battles
12 Noon: Star Trek
1PM: Kung Fu
2PM: Creature Feature: "The Beast of Hollow Mountain" (1956); "Theatre of Death" (1967)
5PM: Superman
5:30PM: The Brady Bunch (the episode about the trading stamps)
6PM: Hee Haw (guests Tennessee Ernie Ford and Cristy lane)
7PM: Championship Wrestling from Florida
8PM: Pop Goes the Country
8:30PM: That Nashville Music
9PM: Nashville on the Road
9:30AM: Country Roads
10PM: Dolly!
10:30PM: Marty Robbin's Spotlight
11PM: Sha Na Na
11:30PM: Movie: "OSS 117 Double Agent" (1971)
1:30AM: All-Night Movies: "Across the Pacific" (1942); "Escape Me Never" (1947)
