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Retro: This Week in TV Guide, September 8, 1979 - MSP Edition

This week it's the start of the 1979-80 television season! How many of the new programs do you remember? There are previews of sports, movies and public TV, plus the Miss America pageant and more!

http://www.itsabouttv.com/2014/09/this-week-in-tv-guide-september-8-1979.html

As always your comments, positive as well as negative, are most welcome.

This week's listing is from Wednesday, September 12

Wednesday, September 12, 1979
KTCA, Channel 2 (Educ.)
Morning

07:45a A.M. Weather
08:00a Sesame Street
09:00a Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
09:30a The Electric Company
10:00a Once Upon a Classic
11:00a Once Upon a Classic
11:30a Sesame Street
Afternoon
12:30p Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
01:00p The Electric Company
01:30p Issues in World Communication
02:00p Over Easy (Irene Papas)
02:30p Dick Cavett
03:00p Meeting of Minds
04:00p Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
04:30p Sesame Street
05:30p The Electric Company
Evening
06:00p Once Upon a Classic
06:30p MacNeil/Lehrer Report
07:00p Dick Cavett (Mickey Mantle)
07:30p Dancing Disco
08:00p Great Performances
09:30p Frankie and Johnny
10:00p Ripping Yarns
10:30p Bill Moyers’ Journal
11:30p Black Man’s Land

WCCO, Channel 4 (CBS)
Morning

06:00a CBS News Wednesday Morning (Bob Schieffer)
07:00a Allan’s Window
07:30a Captain Kangaroo
08:00a Phil Donahue (nutritionists Nikki and David Goldbeck)
09:00a Cross-Wits (Roxie Roker, Geoff Edwards, Sarah Purcell, Robert Mandan)
09:30a Whew!
09:55a 55 CBS News
10:00a The Price Is Right
11:00a The Young and the Restless
11:30a Search For Tomorrow
Afternoon
12:00p Midday
12:30p As the World Turns
01:30p Guiding Light
02:30p M*A*S*H
03:00p The Joker’s Wild
03:30p Mike Douglas (K.C. and the Sunshine Band, Sarah Vaughan, Joe Williams, Don McLean, Tom Dreesen, the Great Wallendas)
05:00p News (local)
05:30p CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
Evening
06:00p News (local)
06:30p PM Magazine
07:00p Movie – “The Bingo Long Travelling All-Stars & Motor Kings”
09:00p Pilot – “Bender”
10:00p News (local)
10:30p Marcus Welby, M.D.
11:30p Bonanza
12:30a News (local)
01:00a Phil Donahue (repeat of 8am)
02:00a News (local)
04:00a News (local)

KSTP, Channel 5 (ABC)
Morning

06:00a News (local)
06:20a Country Day
07:00a Good Morning America (Monty Python)
09:00a Twin Cities Today
10:00a Laverne & Shirley
10:30a Family Feud
11:00a $20,000 Pyramid (Daryl Anderson, Terry Davis)
11:30a Ryan’s Hope
Afternoon
12:00p All My Children
01:00p One Life to Live
02:00p General Hospital
03:00p Match Game
03:30p Emergency One!
04:30p Happy Days Again
05:00p Hogan’s Heroes
05:30p ABC News (Frank Reyonlds)
Evening
06:00p News (local)
06:30p Match Game PM
07:00p Eight is Enough
08:00p Charlie’s Angels
10:00p News (local)
10:30p Police Woman
11:40p Baretta
12:50a News (local)
01:20a Doctor Who
01:50a Thrillseekers
02:20a Movie – “The Blue Dahlia” (B&W)
05:00a To Be Announced

KMSP, Channel 9 (Ind.)
Morning

06:00a 700 Club
07:00a Underdog
07:30a Bullwinkle
08:00a Popeye
08:30a The Archies
09:00a Dinah! (Chuck WOllery, Tom Wopat, Susan Richartdson, Susie Allanson, Greg Travis)
10:00a Medical Center
11:00a Perry Mason (B&W)
Afternoon
12:00p Noon on Nine
12:30p The Best of Groucho (B&W)
01:00p The Bold Ones (Doctors)
02:00p The Streets of San Francisco
03:00p Casper
03:30p Krofft Superstars
04:00p The Munsters (B&W)
04:30p Gilligan’s Island
05:00p The Brady Bunch
05:30p Dick Van Dyke (B&W)
Evening
06:00p Tic Tac Dough
06:30p Sports Journal
07:30p Baseball (Twins vs. Royals)
10:00p News (local)
10:30p Maude
11:00p Switch
12:10a Hawaii Five-O
01:20a News (local)

WTCN, Channel 11 (NBC)
Morning

06:00a PTL Club
07:00a Today (report on the record industry)
09:00a Card Sharks
09:30a Hollywood Squares (Doc Severinsen, Dionne Warwick, Fred Willard, George Gobel, Bernie Kopell, the Lennon Sisters, John McCook, Erin Moran)
10:00a High Rollers
10:30a Wheel of Fortune
11:00a Mindreaders (Bill Daily, Betty White)
11:30a Password (Greg Moris, Loretta Swit)
Afternoon
12:00p Days of Our Lives
01:00p The Doctors
01:30p Another World
03:00p Merv Griffin (Chad Evertt, William Demarest, Deney Terrio, Alan Sues, Richard Simmons)
04:30p Carol Burnett and Friends
05:00p I Love Lucy (B&W)
05:30p NBC News (Chancellor/Brinkley)
Evening
06:00p News (local)
06:30p The Newlywed Game
07:00p Real People
08:00p Holocaust (part 3)
10:00p News (local)
10:30p Johnny Carson (Buddy Rich, Charles Nelson Reilly, Dionne Warwick)
12:00a Tomorrow (labor leader William Wipisinger)
01:00a The Dating Game
01:30a Bewitched
02:00a Family Affair
02:30a Gomer Pyle, USMC
03:00a Mayberry, R.F.D.
03:30a The Gong Show
04:00a Ironside
05:00a What’s New?

KTCI, Channel 17 (PBS)
Afternoon

05:30p Villa Alegre
Evening
06:00p Dick Cavett
07:00p Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
07:30p The Electric Company
08:00p MacNeil/Lehrer Report
08:30p Over Easy
09:00p Bill Moyers’ Journal
10:00p Dick Cavett
10:30p ABC News (captioned for the hearing-impaired)
 
Two and a half hours for a baseball game on KMSP. And in those days that was about right. Also the Twins were in the AL West Race along with Kansas City and California and Texas(IIRC) until the last week of the regular season
 
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