from TV Guide-Toronto/Lake Ontario edition
WGR 2-NBC Buffalo
6:00 PTL Club
7:00 Infinity Factory
7:30 Marlo & the Magic Movie Machine
8:00 Godzilla/Globetrotters
9:00 Fred & Barney Meet the Shmoo
10:30 Daffy Duck
11:00 Casper & the Angels
11:30 Flash Gordon
noon Munsters
12:30 NFL: NY Jets-Miami
3:30 FBI
4:30 Ruff House
5:00 Mission: Impossible
6:00 News
6:30 Inquiry
7:00 Hee Haw
8:00 NHL: Buffalo-Philadelphia
10:30 TBA
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (host Martin Sheen/music from David Bowie)
1:00 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
CKVR 3-CBC Barrie
relayed on 8 Muskoka and 12 Parry Sound
7:30 Circle Square
8:00 All in a Tube
8:30 Scooby-Doo
9:30 Flipper
10:00 What's New?
10:30 Snelgrove Snail
11:00 Conlon's Ontario
11:30 Oceans Alive
noon Glitters
12:30 Trivia
1:00 Wild Animals of the World
1:30 Best of Moira
2:00 Wrestling
3:00 Faces of Small Places
3:30 Reach for the Top
4:00 NFL: Green Bay-Detroit
7:00 Simcoe County Youth Band & Choir
8:00 NHL: Atlanta-Toronto
11:00 The National
11:15 Provincial Affairs
11:20 News
11:50 Movie "Where Does It Hurt?"
1:35 Movie "The High Bright Sun"
WIVB 4-CBS Buffalo
6:30 Sunrise Semester (drama in the Hispanic community)
7:00 US Farm Report
7:30 Carrascolendas
8:00 Mighty Mouse/Heckle & Jeckle
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Popeye
11:30 Fat Albert
noon Jason of Star Command
12:30 Tarzan/Super 7
1:30 30 Minutes (reports on teen suicide and a 19-year-old boxer)
2:00 Bowling: Tim Nabozny takes on the current champ
3:00 It's Academic: teams from Buffalo Seminary, Iroquois Central and Tonawanda
3:30 NFL Today
4:00 NFL: Green Bay-Detroit
7:00 Comeback (Bill Muncey discusses the accident that almost ended both his life and career)
7:30 Sha Na Na (guest Dusty Springfield)
8:00 Bear Who Slept Through Christmas (Tommy Smothers voices the title role in this special, first aired in 1973)
8:30 Story of the First Christmas Snow (voices of Angela Lansbury and Cyril Ritchard)
9:00 Movie "The Gift"
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Dear Brigitte"
CBLT 5-CBC Toronto
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Hobbledehoy
10:30 Agriscope
11:00 Canadians
11:30 What's New?
noon Wow! "Little Women", in dance form
1:00 Reach for the Top: Alderwood Collegiate v Michael Power/St. Joseph's High
1:30 Inventors
2:00 For the Love of Sport (trapshooter Susan Nattrass)
2:30 You Can Do It
3:00 This Week in Ontario
3:30 CBC News: Saturday Report
4:00 NFL: Green Bay-Detroit
7:00 Fawlty Towers
7:30 Ropers
8:00 NHL: Atlanta-Toronto
11:00 The National
11:15 Provincial Affairs
11:20 News
11:40 Movie "Panic in the Wilderness"
1:30 Dance Fever
CKGN-Global: 6 Toronto/22 Uxbridge/2 Bancroft
6:00 Seneca Telecollege
7:00 PTL Club
9:00 Sounds of Asia
10:00 Buford & the Galloping Ghost
10:30 Jabberjaw
11:00 Godzilla
11:30 Scooby & Scrappy-Doo
noon Movie "Poor Devil"
1:30 100 Huntley Street
3:00 Sports Probe (guest Diane Jones Konihowski)
3:30 Kidsworld
4:00 Barbapapa (French viewers got this as part of SRC's Bagatelle series)
4:30 Secret Railroad
5:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
6:00 Global News
6:30 Sports Probe (r)
7:00 Lawrence Welk (salute to big bands)
8:00 Jeffersons
8:30 What Will They Think of Next!
9:00 Point Blank "Palestinians and Israelis: Is There a Peaceful Solution?" (representatives from Arab and Jewish groups discuss)
10:00 Celebrity Cooks (Orson Bean cooks veal)
10:30 America 2Night
11:00 Lottario
11:05 Movie "Scarecrow"
1:00 Movie "A Target for Killing"
CJOH 6-CTV Deseronto
6:00 University of the Air (x2)
7:00 Tree House
7:30 Audubon Wildlife Theatre
8:00 Rocket Robin Hood
8:30 Cartoons
9:30 Let's Go
10:00 Swiss Family Robinson
10:30 Untamed World
11:00 Spiderman (x2)
noon Flintstones
12:30 NFL: NY Jets-Miami
3:30 CTV Wide World of Sports: World Gymnastics Championships
5:00 Olympiad (recalling Jesse Owen's victory at the 1936 Berlin Olympics)
6:00 News
6:30 Regional Contact
7:00 BJ & the Bear
8:00 Movie "The Nativity"
10:00 Man Called Sloane
11:00 CTV National News
11:20 Sports
11:30 Show Biz
mid. Movie "Sweet Hostage"
2:00 Emergency!
WKBW 7-ABC Buffalo
6:00 Better Way
6:30 Agriculture USA
7:00 Barbapapa
7:30 Battle of the Planets
8:00 Three Stooges/Little Rascals (bw)
9:00 Plastic-Man
11:00 Woody Woodpecker
11:30 Scooby & Scrappy-Doo
noon ABC Weekend Special "The Revenge of Red Chief"
12:30 Flintstones
1:00 Buffalo Bills Highlights (recapping last Sunday's game against Minnesota)
1:30 College Football: Division I-AA championship, from Orlando
4:30 Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey (voices of Roger Miller and Brenda Vaccaro)
5:00 ABC Wide World of Sports: same coverage as CTV
6:30 News
7:00 Here & Now
7:30 Eye on Buffalo
8:00 Family Feud
8:30 New Kind of Family (new day/time)
9:00 Love Boat
10:00 Fantasy Island
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Action in the North Atlantic" (bw)
1:50 Challenge
2:20 ABC News
WROC 8-NBC Rochester
5:25 Better Way
5:55 News for Little People
6:00 700 Club
7:00 Tony the Pony
7:30 Bay City Rollers
8:00 Godzilla/Globetrotters
9:00 Fred & Barney Meet the Shmoo
10:30 Daffy Duck
11:00 Casper & the Angels
11:30 Flash Gordon
noon NFL '79 (Dick Butkus recalls his career)
12:30 NFL: NY Jets-Miami
3:30 College Basketball: DePaul-UCLA
5:30 For You...Black Woman
6:00 Hee Haw
7:00 Lawrence Welk
8:00 CHiPs
9:00 BJ & the Bear
10:00 Man Called Sloane
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1:00 Midnight Special (hosts the Village People welcome guests Rupert Jones, the Spinners, the Little River Band, and David Steinberg)
2:30 Movie "Rose of Cimarron" (bw)
3:55 Movie "Fog for a Killer" (bw)
CFTO 9-CTV Toronto
6:00 Cartoons
7:00 Uncle Bobby
7:30 Roger Ramjet
8:00 Mighty Mouse
9:00 Barbapapa
9:30 Let's Go
10:00 Swiss Family Robinson
10:30 Untamed World
11:00 Star Trek
noon Flintstones
12:30 NFL: NY Jets-Miami
3:30 CTV Wide World of Sports
5:00 Olympiad
6:00 Amazing Kreskin
6:30 World Beat News
7:00 BJ & the Bear
8:00 Movie "The Nativity"
10:00 Starlost
11:00 CTV National News
11:20 News
12:15 Movie "For Pete's Sake"
2:05 Movie "Africa-Texas Style!"
4:10 Movie "Desperate Characters"
CFPL 10-CBC London
8:30 Audubon Wildlife Theatre
9:00 Third Story
9:30 Circle Square
10:00 What's New?
10:30 Wow! "Ida Makes a Movie"
11:30 Rocket Robin Hood
noon Barbapapa
12:30 Children Every Year
1:00 Reach for the Top: Port Dover Composite v London Central Secondary
1:30 You Can Do It
2:00 All About Cameras
2:30 Business as Usual
3:00 NFB Presents
3:30 CBC News: Saturday Report
4:00 NFL: Green Bay-Detroit
7:00 FYI
7:30 Barney Miller
8:00 NHL: Atlanta-Toronto
11:00 The National
11:15 Provincial Affairs
11:20 FYI
11:45 Movie "Happily Ever After"
WHEC 10-CBS Rochester
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 Brady Kids
7:30 Archies
8:00 Mighty Mouse/Heckle & Jeckle
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Popeye
11:30 Fat Albert
noon Kidsworld
12:30 Tarzan/Super 7
1:30 30 Minutes
2:00 Movie "The Deadly Mantis" (bw)
3:30 NFL Today
4:00 NFL: Green Bay-Detroit
7:00 News
7:30 Family of Winners (examining teen suicide)
8:00 Bear Who Slept Through Christmas
8:30 Story of the First Christmas Snow
9:00 Movie "The Gift"
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Double Kill"
CHCH 11-Ind Hamilton
6:00 Hilarious House of Frightenstein (which was produced at ch 11)
7:00 Dale Harney's Magic Show
8:00 Harrigan
8:30 Willy & Floyd
9:00 Spiderman
9:30 Any Woman Can
10:00 Creative Hands
10:30 Ready, Set, Grow
11:00 Church Today
11:30 Inside Track
noon Mohawk Presents: Spectrum
12:30 Wrestling
1:30 Sports Flashback
2:00 OUAA Hockey: teams TBA
4:00 Journal International
4:30 Any Way You Want It
5:30 Idea Machine
6:00 News
6:30 Snelgrove Snail (produced at ch 11)
7:00 Young Maverick
8:00 CHiPs
9:00 Movie "The Gift"
11:00 News
11:05 Peter Appleyard (guests Jerry Van Dyke, and the Silver Jazz Band)
11:30 Sounds Good
mid. Movie "The Return of the Mod Squad"
2:00 Movie "Outrage"
3:30 Movie "Snatched"
CKWS 11-CBC Kingston
9:00 Circle Square
9:30 Oceans Alive
10:00 Harrigan (this CKWS-produced series was syndied across Canada)
10:30 Snelgrove Snail
11:00 Forest Rangers
11:30 Inside Track
noon Any Way You Want It
1:00 Sha Na Na
1:30 Audubon Wildlife Theatre
2:00 Beachcombers
2:30 George Hamilton IV
3:00 Live at the Forum (B.B. King performs)
4:00 NFL: Green Bay-Detroit
7:00 Man Called Sloane
8:00 NHL: Montreal-Winnipeg
11:00 The National
11:15 Provincial Affairs
11:20 News
11:45 Movie "The Silence"
CHEX 12-CBC Peterborough
8:30 Crossroads
9:00 Circle Square
9:30 Jerry Falwell
10:30 Rocket Robin Hood
11:00 Harrigan
11:30 Spiderman
noon Christmas is for Kids
12:30 Oceans Alive
1:00 George Hamilton IV
1:30 Dalliday Goes
2:00 Wow! "Little Women"
3:00 Cartoons
4:00 NFL: Green Bay-Detroit
7:00 Eight is Enough
8:00 NHL: Montreal-Winnipeg
11:00 The National
11:15 Provincial Affairs
11:20 News
mid. Movie "The Great Escape"
CKCO 13-CTV Kitchener
relayed on 2 Georgian Bay (Wiarton) and 11 Muskokas (Huntsville, this tx now relays CTV from North Bay)
6:00 University of the Air
6:30 He Knows, She Knows
7:00 Willy & Floyd
7:30 Uncle Bobby
8:00 Circle Square
8:30 Tree House (CKCO produced this syndied show)
9:00 Oopsy (ditto IIRC)
9:30 Let's Go
10:00 Flower Spot
10:30 Untamed World
11:00 Last of the Wild
11:30 Open Roads (visiting an antique car tour and show in K-W)
noon Red Fisher
12:30 NFL: NY Jets-Miami
3:30 CTV Wide World of Sports
5:00 Olympiad
6:00 Scan
6:30 Bowling for Dollars
7:00 BJ & the Bear
8:00 Movie "The Nativity"
10:00 Four Seasons
11:00 CTV National News
11:20 News
mid. Movie "The Bridge" (bw)
2:00 Bionic Woman
WOKR 13-ABC Rochester
7:30 America '79
8:00 Superfriends
9:00 Plastic-Man
11:00 Spider-Woman
11:30 Tom & Jerry
noon ABC Weekend Special "The Revenge of Red Chief"
12:30 American Bandstand (guests Lauren Wood and Willie Aames)
1:30 Bowling
2:30 Movie "The Pleasure Seekers"
5:00 ABC Wide World of Sports
6:30 News
7:00 Family Feud
7:30 Muppet Show
8:00 Ropers
8:30 New Kind of Family
9:00 Love Boat
10:00 Fantasy Island
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Sodom and Gomorrah"
2:25 ABC News
2:40 News
WNED 17-PBS Buffalo
7:45 Weatheradio
8:00 Humanities Through the Arts
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Pace: Work in Society
noon Making Things Grow
1:00 Antiques
1:30 Paint Along with Nancy Kaminsky
2:00 Nova (MIT physicist Phillip Morrison pays tribute to scientist Jacob Bronowski)
3:00 Until I Get Caught (Dick Cavett narrates a doc about drunk driving)
4:00 Lord Mountbatten: A Man for the Century (pt 4)
5:00 Masterpiece Theatre "Love for Lydia" (conclusion)
6:00 Camera Three (guests Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski are interviews at the Telluride Film Festival)
6:30 Another Voice
7:00 Inside Albany
7:30 Agronsky & Company
8:00 Pro & Con
8:30 Marty Robbins' Spotlight
9:00 Movie "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris"
11:00 Frontier (premiere of a series featuring Buffalo indie filmmakers and video artists)
11:30 Weatheradio
CICA-TVO: 19 Toronto/28 London
8:30 Polka Dot Door
9:00 Jeremy
9:15 Hattytown Tales
9:30 Fish Tales
9:45 Math Patrol
10:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10:30 Down to Earth
11:00 Ski Cross-Country
11:15 Check & Mate
11:30 Just Do It Yourself
noon Championship Bridge
12:30 Pins & Needles
1:00 Media & Methods of the Artist
1:30 Men of Ideas (guest Prof. Ronald Dworkin from Oxford U in England)
2:30 Understanding Behavior in Organizations
3:00 Personal Spaces
3:30 Cope
4:00 Big Blue Marble
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Fables of the Green Forest
6:00 Polka Dot Door
6:30 Wild Animals of the World
7:00 Don't Ask Me
7:30 Doctor Who "Seeds of Doom" (pt 2/Tom Baker as the Doctor)
8:00 Saturday Night at the Movies (NFB tribute)
9:00 Conversation with Elwy Yost (NFB discussion with guests Colin Low, Tom Daly, Grant Munro, Claude Lamy, and Robin Spry)
9:45 Saturday Night at the Movies
10:15 Conversation with Elwy Yost
10:45 NFB "This is a Recorded Message"
1:00 NFB "Grierson"
CBLFT 25-SRC Toronto
relayed on 15 Belleville, 34 Penetanguishene, 44 Peterborough, 55 Barrie, and 76 Kitchener
8:00 Cours scolaires de l'Ontario (TVO)
9:00 Capitaine Caverne (Captain Caveman)
9:30 Le club des cinq (Famous Five)
10:00 Les heroes du samedi: racquetball, from Repentigny QC
11:00 Telejeans
11:30 La semaine Parlementaire a Ottawa
12:30 NFL: NY Jets-Miami
3:30 Defi
4:00 Animagerie
6:00 Noir sur blanc
7:00 Les faucheurs de marguerite
8:00 Cinema "Les detrousseurs"
10:30 Le Telejournal/Nouvelles du sport
11:00 La politique federale
11:10 Cinema "Scorpio"
1:15 Cinema "Un cave"
WUTV 29-Ind Buffalo
10:15 News
10:30 Interview
11:00 Wrestling
noon Big Blue Marble
12:30 Juke-Box
1:00 Garden State Bowl: Temple 28-California 17, at East Rutherford NJ (this bowl was held 1978-81)
4:00 Bonanza
5:00 Star Trek
6:00 Six Million Dollar Man
7:00 This is the NFL
7:30 NFL Game of the Week
9:00 Independence Bowl: Syracuse 31-McNeese State 7, at Shreveport
11:00 Rev. Willie Woods
11:30 Left, Right & Center
mid. Niagara Frontier Now
12:30 Melting Pot
1:00 News
CFMT 47-Ind/Ethnic Toronto
6:00 Canada You & Me (x2)
7:00 Children's Animation Festival (x4)
9:00 PTL Club
10:00 Pow Wow
10:30 Russian Magazine
11:00 Bulgarian Journal
11:30 Czechosolvak Spectrum
noon Ukrainian Magazine
1:00 Sounds of Yugoslavia
1:30 Filipinesca
2:00 Portuguese Movie
4:00 World Class Soccer from Britain
5:00 World Class Soccer from Germany
6:00 German Carousel
7:00 Alpen Journal
7:30 Filipinesca Variety
8:00 Polish Panorama
9:00 Hungarian Magazine
10:00 Pan Ayres
10:30 Movie "Che!"
12:05 Movie "The High Command" (bw)
CITY 79-Ind Toronto
6:00 (Marvel) Superheroes
8:00 Japanese Panorama
9:00 Sounds of the East
10:30 CityPulse News
noon Into the Wishing Well
1:00 CityLights (guest Ed Evanko)
1:30 Gary Buck in Concert
2:30 You're Beautiful! (guest Dr. Harvey Silver)
3:00 Trouble with Tracy
3:30 Celebrity Revue (guest host Arthur Godfrey welcomes Shelley Berman, Nancy Nash, and Jeff Apaka)
4:00 Wrestling
5:00 Red Fisher
5:30 Towards the Year 2000
6:00 Sport City
6:30 Laurel & Hardy (bw)
7:00 CityLights (a hour-long interview with Farrah Fawcett)
8:00 Shulman File "Art: A Question of Taste and Value"
9:30 Sounds Good
10:00 Feel Like Dancin'
11:00 New Music (guests Billy Connolly, Rough Trade, and Tom Petty)
mid. Movie "It's a Bikini World"
WGR 2-NBC Buffalo
6:00 PTL Club
7:00 Infinity Factory
7:30 Marlo & the Magic Movie Machine
8:00 Godzilla/Globetrotters
9:00 Fred & Barney Meet the Shmoo
10:30 Daffy Duck
11:00 Casper & the Angels
11:30 Flash Gordon
noon Munsters
12:30 NFL: NY Jets-Miami
3:30 FBI
4:30 Ruff House
5:00 Mission: Impossible
6:00 News
6:30 Inquiry
7:00 Hee Haw
8:00 NHL: Buffalo-Philadelphia
10:30 TBA
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (host Martin Sheen/music from David Bowie)
1:00 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
CKVR 3-CBC Barrie
relayed on 8 Muskoka and 12 Parry Sound
7:30 Circle Square
8:00 All in a Tube
8:30 Scooby-Doo
9:30 Flipper
10:00 What's New?
10:30 Snelgrove Snail
11:00 Conlon's Ontario
11:30 Oceans Alive
noon Glitters
12:30 Trivia
1:00 Wild Animals of the World
1:30 Best of Moira
2:00 Wrestling
3:00 Faces of Small Places
3:30 Reach for the Top
4:00 NFL: Green Bay-Detroit
7:00 Simcoe County Youth Band & Choir
8:00 NHL: Atlanta-Toronto
11:00 The National
11:15 Provincial Affairs
11:20 News
11:50 Movie "Where Does It Hurt?"
1:35 Movie "The High Bright Sun"
WIVB 4-CBS Buffalo
6:30 Sunrise Semester (drama in the Hispanic community)
7:00 US Farm Report
7:30 Carrascolendas
8:00 Mighty Mouse/Heckle & Jeckle
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Popeye
11:30 Fat Albert
noon Jason of Star Command
12:30 Tarzan/Super 7
1:30 30 Minutes (reports on teen suicide and a 19-year-old boxer)
2:00 Bowling: Tim Nabozny takes on the current champ
3:00 It's Academic: teams from Buffalo Seminary, Iroquois Central and Tonawanda
3:30 NFL Today
4:00 NFL: Green Bay-Detroit
7:00 Comeback (Bill Muncey discusses the accident that almost ended both his life and career)
7:30 Sha Na Na (guest Dusty Springfield)
8:00 Bear Who Slept Through Christmas (Tommy Smothers voices the title role in this special, first aired in 1973)
8:30 Story of the First Christmas Snow (voices of Angela Lansbury and Cyril Ritchard)
9:00 Movie "The Gift"
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Dear Brigitte"
CBLT 5-CBC Toronto
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Hobbledehoy
10:30 Agriscope
11:00 Canadians
11:30 What's New?
noon Wow! "Little Women", in dance form
1:00 Reach for the Top: Alderwood Collegiate v Michael Power/St. Joseph's High
1:30 Inventors
2:00 For the Love of Sport (trapshooter Susan Nattrass)
2:30 You Can Do It
3:00 This Week in Ontario
3:30 CBC News: Saturday Report
4:00 NFL: Green Bay-Detroit
7:00 Fawlty Towers
7:30 Ropers
8:00 NHL: Atlanta-Toronto
11:00 The National
11:15 Provincial Affairs
11:20 News
11:40 Movie "Panic in the Wilderness"
1:30 Dance Fever
CKGN-Global: 6 Toronto/22 Uxbridge/2 Bancroft
6:00 Seneca Telecollege
7:00 PTL Club
9:00 Sounds of Asia
10:00 Buford & the Galloping Ghost
10:30 Jabberjaw
11:00 Godzilla
11:30 Scooby & Scrappy-Doo
noon Movie "Poor Devil"
1:30 100 Huntley Street
3:00 Sports Probe (guest Diane Jones Konihowski)
3:30 Kidsworld
4:00 Barbapapa (French viewers got this as part of SRC's Bagatelle series)
4:30 Secret Railroad
5:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
6:00 Global News
6:30 Sports Probe (r)
7:00 Lawrence Welk (salute to big bands)
8:00 Jeffersons
8:30 What Will They Think of Next!
9:00 Point Blank "Palestinians and Israelis: Is There a Peaceful Solution?" (representatives from Arab and Jewish groups discuss)
10:00 Celebrity Cooks (Orson Bean cooks veal)
10:30 America 2Night
11:00 Lottario
11:05 Movie "Scarecrow"
1:00 Movie "A Target for Killing"
CJOH 6-CTV Deseronto
6:00 University of the Air (x2)
7:00 Tree House
7:30 Audubon Wildlife Theatre
8:00 Rocket Robin Hood
8:30 Cartoons
9:30 Let's Go
10:00 Swiss Family Robinson
10:30 Untamed World
11:00 Spiderman (x2)
noon Flintstones
12:30 NFL: NY Jets-Miami
3:30 CTV Wide World of Sports: World Gymnastics Championships
5:00 Olympiad (recalling Jesse Owen's victory at the 1936 Berlin Olympics)
6:00 News
6:30 Regional Contact
7:00 BJ & the Bear
8:00 Movie "The Nativity"
10:00 Man Called Sloane
11:00 CTV National News
11:20 Sports
11:30 Show Biz
mid. Movie "Sweet Hostage"
2:00 Emergency!
WKBW 7-ABC Buffalo
6:00 Better Way
6:30 Agriculture USA
7:00 Barbapapa
7:30 Battle of the Planets
8:00 Three Stooges/Little Rascals (bw)
9:00 Plastic-Man
11:00 Woody Woodpecker
11:30 Scooby & Scrappy-Doo
noon ABC Weekend Special "The Revenge of Red Chief"
12:30 Flintstones
1:00 Buffalo Bills Highlights (recapping last Sunday's game against Minnesota)
1:30 College Football: Division I-AA championship, from Orlando
4:30 Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey (voices of Roger Miller and Brenda Vaccaro)
5:00 ABC Wide World of Sports: same coverage as CTV
6:30 News
7:00 Here & Now
7:30 Eye on Buffalo
8:00 Family Feud
8:30 New Kind of Family (new day/time)
9:00 Love Boat
10:00 Fantasy Island
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Action in the North Atlantic" (bw)
1:50 Challenge
2:20 ABC News
WROC 8-NBC Rochester
5:25 Better Way
5:55 News for Little People
6:00 700 Club
7:00 Tony the Pony
7:30 Bay City Rollers
8:00 Godzilla/Globetrotters
9:00 Fred & Barney Meet the Shmoo
10:30 Daffy Duck
11:00 Casper & the Angels
11:30 Flash Gordon
noon NFL '79 (Dick Butkus recalls his career)
12:30 NFL: NY Jets-Miami
3:30 College Basketball: DePaul-UCLA
5:30 For You...Black Woman
6:00 Hee Haw
7:00 Lawrence Welk
8:00 CHiPs
9:00 BJ & the Bear
10:00 Man Called Sloane
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1:00 Midnight Special (hosts the Village People welcome guests Rupert Jones, the Spinners, the Little River Band, and David Steinberg)
2:30 Movie "Rose of Cimarron" (bw)
3:55 Movie "Fog for a Killer" (bw)
CFTO 9-CTV Toronto
6:00 Cartoons
7:00 Uncle Bobby
7:30 Roger Ramjet
8:00 Mighty Mouse
9:00 Barbapapa
9:30 Let's Go
10:00 Swiss Family Robinson
10:30 Untamed World
11:00 Star Trek
noon Flintstones
12:30 NFL: NY Jets-Miami
3:30 CTV Wide World of Sports
5:00 Olympiad
6:00 Amazing Kreskin
6:30 World Beat News
7:00 BJ & the Bear
8:00 Movie "The Nativity"
10:00 Starlost
11:00 CTV National News
11:20 News
12:15 Movie "For Pete's Sake"
2:05 Movie "Africa-Texas Style!"
4:10 Movie "Desperate Characters"
CFPL 10-CBC London
8:30 Audubon Wildlife Theatre
9:00 Third Story
9:30 Circle Square
10:00 What's New?
10:30 Wow! "Ida Makes a Movie"
11:30 Rocket Robin Hood
noon Barbapapa
12:30 Children Every Year
1:00 Reach for the Top: Port Dover Composite v London Central Secondary
1:30 You Can Do It
2:00 All About Cameras
2:30 Business as Usual
3:00 NFB Presents
3:30 CBC News: Saturday Report
4:00 NFL: Green Bay-Detroit
7:00 FYI
7:30 Barney Miller
8:00 NHL: Atlanta-Toronto
11:00 The National
11:15 Provincial Affairs
11:20 FYI
11:45 Movie "Happily Ever After"
WHEC 10-CBS Rochester
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 Brady Kids
7:30 Archies
8:00 Mighty Mouse/Heckle & Jeckle
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Popeye
11:30 Fat Albert
noon Kidsworld
12:30 Tarzan/Super 7
1:30 30 Minutes
2:00 Movie "The Deadly Mantis" (bw)
3:30 NFL Today
4:00 NFL: Green Bay-Detroit
7:00 News
7:30 Family of Winners (examining teen suicide)
8:00 Bear Who Slept Through Christmas
8:30 Story of the First Christmas Snow
9:00 Movie "The Gift"
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Double Kill"
CHCH 11-Ind Hamilton
6:00 Hilarious House of Frightenstein (which was produced at ch 11)
7:00 Dale Harney's Magic Show
8:00 Harrigan
8:30 Willy & Floyd
9:00 Spiderman
9:30 Any Woman Can
10:00 Creative Hands
10:30 Ready, Set, Grow
11:00 Church Today
11:30 Inside Track
noon Mohawk Presents: Spectrum
12:30 Wrestling
1:30 Sports Flashback
2:00 OUAA Hockey: teams TBA
4:00 Journal International
4:30 Any Way You Want It
5:30 Idea Machine
6:00 News
6:30 Snelgrove Snail (produced at ch 11)
7:00 Young Maverick
8:00 CHiPs
9:00 Movie "The Gift"
11:00 News
11:05 Peter Appleyard (guests Jerry Van Dyke, and the Silver Jazz Band)
11:30 Sounds Good
mid. Movie "The Return of the Mod Squad"
2:00 Movie "Outrage"
3:30 Movie "Snatched"
CKWS 11-CBC Kingston
9:00 Circle Square
9:30 Oceans Alive
10:00 Harrigan (this CKWS-produced series was syndied across Canada)
10:30 Snelgrove Snail
11:00 Forest Rangers
11:30 Inside Track
noon Any Way You Want It
1:00 Sha Na Na
1:30 Audubon Wildlife Theatre
2:00 Beachcombers
2:30 George Hamilton IV
3:00 Live at the Forum (B.B. King performs)
4:00 NFL: Green Bay-Detroit
7:00 Man Called Sloane
8:00 NHL: Montreal-Winnipeg
11:00 The National
11:15 Provincial Affairs
11:20 News
11:45 Movie "The Silence"
CHEX 12-CBC Peterborough
8:30 Crossroads
9:00 Circle Square
9:30 Jerry Falwell
10:30 Rocket Robin Hood
11:00 Harrigan
11:30 Spiderman
noon Christmas is for Kids
12:30 Oceans Alive
1:00 George Hamilton IV
1:30 Dalliday Goes
2:00 Wow! "Little Women"
3:00 Cartoons
4:00 NFL: Green Bay-Detroit
7:00 Eight is Enough
8:00 NHL: Montreal-Winnipeg
11:00 The National
11:15 Provincial Affairs
11:20 News
mid. Movie "The Great Escape"
CKCO 13-CTV Kitchener
relayed on 2 Georgian Bay (Wiarton) and 11 Muskokas (Huntsville, this tx now relays CTV from North Bay)
6:00 University of the Air
6:30 He Knows, She Knows
7:00 Willy & Floyd
7:30 Uncle Bobby
8:00 Circle Square
8:30 Tree House (CKCO produced this syndied show)
9:00 Oopsy (ditto IIRC)
9:30 Let's Go
10:00 Flower Spot
10:30 Untamed World
11:00 Last of the Wild
11:30 Open Roads (visiting an antique car tour and show in K-W)
noon Red Fisher
12:30 NFL: NY Jets-Miami
3:30 CTV Wide World of Sports
5:00 Olympiad
6:00 Scan
6:30 Bowling for Dollars
7:00 BJ & the Bear
8:00 Movie "The Nativity"
10:00 Four Seasons
11:00 CTV National News
11:20 News
mid. Movie "The Bridge" (bw)
2:00 Bionic Woman
WOKR 13-ABC Rochester
7:30 America '79
8:00 Superfriends
9:00 Plastic-Man
11:00 Spider-Woman
11:30 Tom & Jerry
noon ABC Weekend Special "The Revenge of Red Chief"
12:30 American Bandstand (guests Lauren Wood and Willie Aames)
1:30 Bowling
2:30 Movie "The Pleasure Seekers"
5:00 ABC Wide World of Sports
6:30 News
7:00 Family Feud
7:30 Muppet Show
8:00 Ropers
8:30 New Kind of Family
9:00 Love Boat
10:00 Fantasy Island
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Sodom and Gomorrah"
2:25 ABC News
2:40 News
WNED 17-PBS Buffalo
7:45 Weatheradio
8:00 Humanities Through the Arts
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Pace: Work in Society
noon Making Things Grow
1:00 Antiques
1:30 Paint Along with Nancy Kaminsky
2:00 Nova (MIT physicist Phillip Morrison pays tribute to scientist Jacob Bronowski)
3:00 Until I Get Caught (Dick Cavett narrates a doc about drunk driving)
4:00 Lord Mountbatten: A Man for the Century (pt 4)
5:00 Masterpiece Theatre "Love for Lydia" (conclusion)
6:00 Camera Three (guests Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski are interviews at the Telluride Film Festival)
6:30 Another Voice
7:00 Inside Albany
7:30 Agronsky & Company
8:00 Pro & Con
8:30 Marty Robbins' Spotlight
9:00 Movie "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris"
11:00 Frontier (premiere of a series featuring Buffalo indie filmmakers and video artists)
11:30 Weatheradio
CICA-TVO: 19 Toronto/28 London
8:30 Polka Dot Door
9:00 Jeremy
9:15 Hattytown Tales
9:30 Fish Tales
9:45 Math Patrol
10:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10:30 Down to Earth
11:00 Ski Cross-Country
11:15 Check & Mate
11:30 Just Do It Yourself
noon Championship Bridge
12:30 Pins & Needles
1:00 Media & Methods of the Artist
1:30 Men of Ideas (guest Prof. Ronald Dworkin from Oxford U in England)
2:30 Understanding Behavior in Organizations
3:00 Personal Spaces
3:30 Cope
4:00 Big Blue Marble
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Fables of the Green Forest
6:00 Polka Dot Door
6:30 Wild Animals of the World
7:00 Don't Ask Me
7:30 Doctor Who "Seeds of Doom" (pt 2/Tom Baker as the Doctor)
8:00 Saturday Night at the Movies (NFB tribute)
9:00 Conversation with Elwy Yost (NFB discussion with guests Colin Low, Tom Daly, Grant Munro, Claude Lamy, and Robin Spry)
9:45 Saturday Night at the Movies
10:15 Conversation with Elwy Yost
10:45 NFB "This is a Recorded Message"
1:00 NFB "Grierson"
CBLFT 25-SRC Toronto
relayed on 15 Belleville, 34 Penetanguishene, 44 Peterborough, 55 Barrie, and 76 Kitchener
8:00 Cours scolaires de l'Ontario (TVO)
9:00 Capitaine Caverne (Captain Caveman)
9:30 Le club des cinq (Famous Five)
10:00 Les heroes du samedi: racquetball, from Repentigny QC
11:00 Telejeans
11:30 La semaine Parlementaire a Ottawa
12:30 NFL: NY Jets-Miami
3:30 Defi
4:00 Animagerie
6:00 Noir sur blanc
7:00 Les faucheurs de marguerite
8:00 Cinema "Les detrousseurs"
10:30 Le Telejournal/Nouvelles du sport
11:00 La politique federale
11:10 Cinema "Scorpio"
1:15 Cinema "Un cave"
WUTV 29-Ind Buffalo
10:15 News
10:30 Interview
11:00 Wrestling
noon Big Blue Marble
12:30 Juke-Box
1:00 Garden State Bowl: Temple 28-California 17, at East Rutherford NJ (this bowl was held 1978-81)
4:00 Bonanza
5:00 Star Trek
6:00 Six Million Dollar Man
7:00 This is the NFL
7:30 NFL Game of the Week
9:00 Independence Bowl: Syracuse 31-McNeese State 7, at Shreveport
11:00 Rev. Willie Woods
11:30 Left, Right & Center
mid. Niagara Frontier Now
12:30 Melting Pot
1:00 News
CFMT 47-Ind/Ethnic Toronto
6:00 Canada You & Me (x2)
7:00 Children's Animation Festival (x4)
9:00 PTL Club
10:00 Pow Wow
10:30 Russian Magazine
11:00 Bulgarian Journal
11:30 Czechosolvak Spectrum
noon Ukrainian Magazine
1:00 Sounds of Yugoslavia
1:30 Filipinesca
2:00 Portuguese Movie
4:00 World Class Soccer from Britain
5:00 World Class Soccer from Germany
6:00 German Carousel
7:00 Alpen Journal
7:30 Filipinesca Variety
8:00 Polish Panorama
9:00 Hungarian Magazine
10:00 Pan Ayres
10:30 Movie "Che!"
12:05 Movie "The High Command" (bw)
CITY 79-Ind Toronto
6:00 (Marvel) Superheroes
8:00 Japanese Panorama
9:00 Sounds of the East
10:30 CityPulse News
noon Into the Wishing Well
1:00 CityLights (guest Ed Evanko)
1:30 Gary Buck in Concert
2:30 You're Beautiful! (guest Dr. Harvey Silver)
3:00 Trouble with Tracy
3:30 Celebrity Revue (guest host Arthur Godfrey welcomes Shelley Berman, Nancy Nash, and Jeff Apaka)
4:00 Wrestling
5:00 Red Fisher
5:30 Towards the Year 2000
6:00 Sport City
6:30 Laurel & Hardy (bw)
7:00 CityLights (a hour-long interview with Farrah Fawcett)
8:00 Shulman File "Art: A Question of Taste and Value"
9:30 Sounds Good
10:00 Feel Like Dancin'
11:00 New Music (guests Billy Connolly, Rough Trade, and Tom Petty)
mid. Movie "It's a Bikini World"