from Toronto Sun
WGRZ 2-NBC Buffalo
5:00 News
5:30 Jim Bakker
6:30 NBC News at Sunrise
7:00 Today
9:00 Santa Barbara
10:00 Benson
10:30 Sale of the Century
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Anything for Money
noon News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Fat Albert
3:30 He-Man & the Masters of the Universe
4:00 Three's Company
4:30 People's Court
5:00 News
5:30 M*A*S*H
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Entertainment Tonight
7:30 PM Magazine
8:00 Cosby Show
8:30 Family Ties
9:00 Cheers
9:30 Night Court
10:00 Hill Street Blues
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show (guests include James Graseck)
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman (guests include Carl Lewis)
1:30 Movie "Seven Angry Men"
3:50 Movie "Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders"
CKVR 3-CBC Barrie
6:00 News
6:30 Morning Exercise
7:00 100 Huntley Street
8:00 Polka Dot Door
8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 Mr. Dressup
10:00 Friendly Giant
10:15 Fitness Break
10:30 Good Company
11:00 I Love Lucy
11:30 My Three Sons
noon Leave It to Beaver
12:30 News
1:00 All My Children
2:00 Parenting
2:30 Do It for Yourself
3:00 Fitness Break
3:30 Video Hits
4:00 Beverly Hillbillies
4:30 Jeffersons
5:00 Three's Company
5:30 News
6:00 Ripley's Believe It or Not!
7:00 I Love Lucy
7:30 Charles in Charge
8:00 Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous
9:00 Dean Martin Celebrity Roast (from the MGM Grand in Vegas, a tribute to Mr. T with Bob Hope, George Peppard, Don Rickles, Gary Coleman, and Ricky Schroeder)
10:00 The National
10:22 The Journal
11:00 News
11:30 Entertainment Tonight
mid. Movie "The Scalphunters"
WIVB 4-CBS Buffalo
5:00 CBS News Nightwatch
5:30 Jimmy Swaggart
6:00 20 Minute Workout
6:30 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Hour Magazine (Henry Winkler on child safety/TV columnist Gary Deeb)
10:00 New $25,000 Pyramid
10:30 Press Your Luck
11:00 Price is Right
noon News
12:30 Young & the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Dukes of Hazzard
5:00 Diff'rent Strokes
5:30 Barney Miller
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Rituals
7:30 Name That Tune
8:00 Magnum, PI
9:00 Simon & Simon
10:00 Knots Landing
11:00 News
11:30 Alice
mid. Newhart
12:35 Movie "Mother and Daughter: A Loving War" (Harry Chapin who co-composed and also is one of the songs' performers, makes a cameo appearance; Sandy Chapin was the other composer/performer)
2:30 CBS News Nightwatch
CBLT 5-CBC Toronto
6:30 Feelin' Good
7:00 CBLT Morning
9:00 Skipper & Company (produced at CBNT St. John's, this was carried by a number of CBC stations outside Newfoundland; I remember seeing it myself on CBCT Charlottetown, who aired it on weekends)
9:30 Muppet Show
10:00 Curious George
10:15 Friendly Giant
10:30 Mr. Dressup
11:00 Sesame Street
noon Noon News
12:30 Parenting
1:00 All My Children
2:00 Dallas
3:00 Coronation Street
3:30 All in the Family
4:00 Do It for Yourself
4:30 What's New?
5:00 Video Hits
5:30 Three's Company
6:00 CBLT Newshour
7:00 Grange Inquiry (investigating infant deaths at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children in 1980/81, chief suspect Susan Nelles was eventually exonerated...more on this at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Nelles)
8:00 Marshall McLuhan: The Man & His Message (Tom Wolfe narrates this doc on the media revolutionary; interviews include former PM Pierre Trudeau, Norman Mailer, and Dr. Thomas Miller...doc was produced/directed by McLuhan's daughter Stephanie)
9:00 A.J. Casson: The Only Critic is Time (profiling the 86-year-old painter, then the only surviving member of the artists known as the Group of Seven; he died in 1992 at age 94)
9:30 Front Page Challenge
10:00 The National
10:22 The Journal
11:00 The National Update
11:05 Newsfinal
11:25 Good Rockin' Tonite (hosted by Terry David Mulligan, who joined MuchMusic the following year)
CKGN-Global: 6 Paris/22 Uxbridge
5:30 Jimmy Swaggart
6:00 Seneca Telecollege
7:00 Hammy Hamster
7:30 Hercules
8:00 He-Man & the Masters of the Universe
8:30 700 Club
9:30 100 Huntley Street
10:30 Celebrity Cooks
11:00 Pizzazz
11:30 What Will They Think of Next!
noon News
1:00 Let's Make a Deal
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Pitfall
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Charlie's Angels (as of October 29th, Global would air Y&R here, snatching it from CHCH; ads in the Sun's TV supplement advertised a phone line with the latest Y&R developments)
5:00 Scooby-Doo
5:30 First News
6:00 6 O'Clock Edition
6:30 World Report
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Pizzazz
8:00 Diff'rent Strokes
8:30 Welcome Back, Kotter
9:00 Wintario (Faye Dance and Greg Beresford host the draw, live from Milverton)
9:30 Rovers (guest Boxcar Willie)
10:00 Hill Street Blues
11:00 News
11:30 Sportsline
mid. Phantom Children
12:30 Welcome Back, Kotter (rerun of the 8:30 episode)
1:00 Chico & the Man
1:30 Kung Fu
WKBW 7-ABC Buffalo
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Donahue (dentistry in the 80s)
10:00 AM Buffalo (guests Helen Grabowski and Michelle Malucci)
11:00 Trivia Trap
11:30 Ryan's Hope
noon News
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Love Boat
5:00 Jeffersons
5:30 Jeopardy!
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 Movie "Grease"
11:00 News
11:30 ABC News Nightline
mid. Merv Griffin (guests Susan Anton, Parker Stevenson, Bob Greene, and Erica Jones)
1:00 Eye on Hollywood
1:30 News
WROC 8-NBC Rochester
5:30 News
6:00 20 Minute Workout
6:30 NBC News at Sunrise
7:00 Today
9:00 Facts of Life
9:30 Guilty or Innocent
10:00 Joker's Wild
10:30 Sale of the Century
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Scrabble
noon Bob Newhart
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 Rituals
4:30 Dating Game
5:00 Newlywed Game
5:30 M*A*S*H
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 Jeopardy!
8:00 Cosby Show
8:30 Family Ties
9:00 Cheers
9:30 Night Court
10:00 Hill Street Blues
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman
1:30 Movie "UFO Journals"
CFTO 9-CTV Toronto
6:00 Romper Room
6:30 Canada AM
9:00 Toronto Today
9:30 What's Cooking
10:00 Definition
10:30 Guess What
11:00 Just Like Mom
11:30 Love Connection
noon Flintstones
12:30 People's Court
1:00 Don Harron (guests John Clarke, his wife Lynn Redgrave, Phil Edmondston, and Andrea Martin)
2:00 Another World
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 One Life to Live
5:00 Hart to Hart
6:00 WKRP in Cincinnati
6:30 Worldbeat News
7:30 Littlest Hobo
8:00 Magnum, PI
9:00 Cheers
9:30 Night Court
10:00 Hunter
11:00 CTV National News
11:20 News
12:30 Six Million Dollar Man
1:30 Movie "Shout at the Devil"
WHEC 10-CBS Rochester
5:00 CBS News Nightwatch
5:30 Jim Bakker
6:30 Early Morning
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Love Connection
9:30 Every Second Counts
10:00 New $25,000 Pyramid
10:30 Anything for Money
11:00 Price is Right
noon News
12:30 Young & the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Quincy
5:00 Hour Magazine (same guests as ch 4)
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 Magnum, PI
9:00 Simon & Simon
10:00 Knots Landing
11:00 News
11:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
mid. Newhart
12:35 Movie "Mother and Daughter: A Loving War"
2:30 Entertainment Tonight
3:00 CBS News Nightwatch
CHCH 11-Ind Hamilton
6:00 Mad Dash
6:30 It Figures
7:00 Magic Palace
7:30 Body Moves
8:00 Elegant Appetites
8:30 New You
9:00 Good Morning Workout
9:30 Celebrity Microwaves
10:00 Hour Magazine (as ch 4)
11:00 Cherington
12:30 Young & the Restless
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Soapbox
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 Little House on the Prairie
5:00 Rituals
5:30 Taxi
6:00 Newsroom
7:00 Entertainment Tonight
7:30 Backstage
8:00 Niagara Repertory
8:30 Family Ties
9:00 Simon & Simon
10:00 Hot Pursuit
11:00 News
11:30 Family Brown Country
mid. Movie "Back to the Planet of the Apes" (edited episodes from the TV series)
2:00 Hawaii Five-O
3:00 Flipper
CHEX 12-CBC Peterborough
7:30 Ed Allen
8:00 Jimmy Swaggart
8:30 Going Great
9:00 Just Like Mom
9:30 Audubon Wildlife Theatre
10:00 Silver Basketball
10:15 Friendly Giant
10:30 Mr. Dressup
11:00 Polka Dot Door
11:30 Curious George
11:45 Silver Basketball
noon News
12:30 Andy Griffith
1:00 All My Children
2:00 Afternoon Show
2:30 Do It for Yourself
3:00 Super Pay Cards
3:30 20 Minute Workout
4:00 Beverly Hillbillies
4:30 Video Hits
5:00 Bob Newhart
5:30 Three's Company
6:00 News
6:30 Taxi
7:00 A-Team
8:00 Paper Dolls
9:00 Wild Wild West
10:00 The National
10:22 The Journal
11:00 News
11:30 Simon Locke, MD
mid. Movie "The Dion Brothers"
CKCO 13-CTV Kitchener
5:00 CBS News Nighwatch (that's not a typo, CKCO apparently carried Nightwatch in those days...I'm fairly certain they also ran either MuchMusic or CMT overnights later in the decade, but I stand to be corrected on that)
5:50 Ontario Report
6:30 Canada AM
9:00 Romper Room (which CKCO produced for CTV...a recent KW Record article I read in the Halifax Chronicle Herald reports that Miss Fran is now a Muslim, you can read it at http://news.therecord.com/article/761500)
9:30 What's Cooking
10:00 Trivia Company
10:30 Be My Guest
11:00 Guess What
11:30 Definition
noon Flintstones
12:30 Wheel of Fortune
1:00 Don Harron
2:00 Another World
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 One Life to Live
5:00 Hart to Hart
6:00 News
7:00 Family Feud
7:30 Littlest Hobo
8:00 Magnum, PI
9:00 Cheers
9:30 Night Court
10:00 Cover Up
11:00 CTV National News
11:20 News
mid. Movie "In the Good Old Summertime"
2:00 CBS News Nightwatch
WOKR 13-ABC Rochester
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Donahue (as ch 7)
10:00 Morning Break
10:30 TBA
11:00 Trivia Trap
11:30 Family Feud
noon News
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Love Boat
5:00 Bowling for Dollars
5:30 People's Court
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Mork & Mindy
7:30 Taxi
8:00 Movie "Grease"
11:00 News
11:30 Maude
mid. ABC News Nightline
12:30 More Real People
1:00 News
WNED 17-PBS Buffalo
6:45 AM Weather
7:00 Lilias, Yoga & You
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Instructional Programs
noon Sesame Street
1:00 The Brain (pt 2) "Vision and Movement"
2:00 The People vs Dan White (detaling the murders of Harvey Milk and George Moscone, and the trial of Dan White, the man charged with killing both men)
3:30 Latenight America (guests Frances Moore and Dr. Kevin Leman)
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Lassie
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Doctor Who "City of Death" (conclusion)
6:30 MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour
7:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
8:00 Wild America
8:30 Sneak Previews
9:00 Golden Years of Television (from 1954: the Buick Berle Show with guests Mickey Rooney and Nancy Walker)
10:00 Mystery! "Rumpole and the Bailey: Rumpole and the Genuine Article"
11:00 Nightly Business Report
11:30 Latenight America (guests include Dan Chumley, director of the San Francisco Mime Troupe)
CICA 19-TVO Toronto
7:00 Energy
7:30 Down to Earth
8:00 Polka Dot Door
8:30 Tell Me a Story
8:45 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:15 Report Canada
9:30 It's Your Move
9:45 You Can Write Anything!
10:00 Write On!
10:15 See, Hear!
10:30 Jeremy
10:45 World of B.J. Vibes
11:00 Logiciel
11:30 Report Canada
11:45 Harriet's Magic Hats
noon Realities
12:30 People & Pets
1:00 Career Planning
1:15 Arts Alive
1:30 Report Canada/It's Your World/Readalong
2:00 Safety Scouts
2:15 MathMakers
2:30 Tell Me a Story
2:45 Hattytown Tales
3:00 Homeostasis
4:00 Vue globale
4:30 Kidsworld
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Polka Dot Door
6:30 Today's Special
7:00 Doctor Who "Castrovalva" (conclusion)
7:30 Magic Shadows "Life Begins at 8:30" (conclusion)
8:00 Realities
8:30 People Patterns
9:00 Speaking Out "Psychiatry and Women: Blaming Women?"
10:30 Options
11:00 Realities (repeat from earlier)
11:30 Witness to Yesterday
mid. Perspectives
12:30 sign-off
CBLFT 25-SRC Toronto
9:20 Fariboles
9:45 A votre rythme
10:00 Passe-Partout
10:30 Felix et Ciboulette
11:00 Question de droit
11:30 Salut sante
noon Premiere edition
12:30 Allo Bou Bou
1:30 Au jour le jour
2:30 Cinema "Les Miserables" (pt 1, this version is from 1934)
4:00 Bobino
4:30 Traboulidon
5:00 Legendes du monde
5:30 La vie secrete des animaux
6:00 Ce soir
6:30 Avis de recherche
7:00 Genies en herbe: Ecole secondaire de Vaudreuil v Ecole Bernard-Gariepy (Tracy)
7:30 Cinema "Alien, le huitieme passager"
10:00 Le Telejournal
10:25 Le Point/Meteo
11:05 Nouvelles du sport
11:25 A premiere vue
11:55 Cinema "Funny Girl"
WUTV 29-Ind Buffalo
6:30 Ag Day
7:00 Banana Splits
7:30 Tom & Jerry
8:00 Flintstones
8:30 Great Space Coaster
9:00 Brady Bunch
9:30 Welcome Back, Kotter
10:00 Mary Tyler Moore
10:30 Love Connection
11:00 Benny Hill
11:30 All in the Family
noon Cartoons
1:00 700 Club
2:30 Josie & the Pussycats
3:00 Bugs Bunny
3:30 Superfriends
4:00 Scooby-Doo
4:30 Tom & Jerry
5:00 Voltron
5:30 Great Record Album
6:00 Little House on the Prairie
7:00 One Day at a Time
7:30 Let's Make a Deal
8:00 Movie "Let's Dance"
10:00 Benny Hill
10:30 Dave Allen at Large
11:00 Bizarre
11:30 Movie "Key West" (series pilot)
1:30 INN News
CFMT 47-Ethnic Toronto
5:30 Chinese Journal
6:00 Portugal Today
7:00 Jim Bakker
8:00 Force Five
8:30 Stranger Paradise
9:00 Jimmy Swaggart
9:30 Spanish Magazine
11:00 Italianissimo AM
12:30 Force Five
1:00 Hello, Jerusalem
2:00 Matinee Magazine
4:00 Force Five
4:30 Video Singles
5:00 Video Flipside
6:00 Portugal Today
7:00 Italianissimo Sera
8:00 Tele-Corriere
9:00 Movie "By Love Possessed"
11:00 Bless This House
11:30 Chinese Journal
mid. Jim Bakker
1:00 Video Singles
1:30 Video Flipside
2:00 Video Singles
2:30 100 Huntley Street
3:30 Nite Lite
CITY 57-Ind Toronto
5:00 MuchMusic
7:00 20 Minute Workout
7:30 Toronto Rocks
8:30 Rocket Robin Hood
9:00 Donahue (as 7)
10:00 New $25,000 Pyramid
10:30 CityPulse News
11:30 Micromagic
noon Ryan's Hope
12:30 Loving
1:00 CityLife
1:30 CityLights (guest Patrick Swayze)
2:00 20 Minute Workout
2:30 Quincy
3:30 This Week's Music
4:00 Toronto Rocks
5:00 Price is Right
6:00 CityPulse News
7:00 Movie "The Turning Point"
10:00 CityPulse News
11:00 SCTV Network
11:30 Movie "Sweet Charity"
2:20 MuchMusic
Over on the paynets...
A&E
8:00 By Design
9:00 Stage "Twigs"
11:45 Great Poets & Writers
noon Movie "Hannah"
2:15 Movie "Fothergill"
4:00 A Portrait of Giselle
5:45 Great Painters
6:00 George Orwell "the Road to Wigan Pier"
7:00 Great Expectations (pt 3)
8:00 Performers' Showcase "Music After Mao"
9:00 To Dance for Gold: II International Ballet Competition (from Jackson, MS)
10:50 Handmade in America
11:20 Conversations on the Arts & Letters
mid. Performers' Showcase
1:00 To Dance for Gold
2:50 Handmade in America
3:20 Conversations on the Arts & Letters
First Choice-Superchannel
5:00 Neil Young
7:00 Business Times
7:30 Movie "The Chosen"
10:00 Movie "Two-Lane Blacktop"
noon Hellogoodbye
1:00 Compleat Beatles
3:00 Burton Cummings: My Own Way to Rock
4:00 Earth Odyssey
5:00 Mr. Wizard
5:30 Inspector Gadget
6:00 Movie "Father Goose"
8:00 Compleat Beatles
10:00 Movie "Two-Lane Blacktop"
mid. Movie "Initiation"
1:30 Movie "Private School"
3:00 Romance: Stolen Love
3:30 Honeymoon Haven
4:00 Movie "The Pyx"
Nashville Network
6:30 Jimmy Swaggart
7:00 Jim Bakker
8:00 Amazing Facts
8:30 Porter Wagoner
9:00 Nashville Now
10:30 New Country
11:00 Fandango
11:30 You Can Be a Star
noon I-40 Paradise
12:30 Pickin' at the Paradise
1:00 Nashville Yesteryear
1:30 Porter Wagoner
2:00 I-40 Paradise
2:30 Dancin' USA
3:00 You Can Be a Star
3:30 Fandango
4:00 Nashville Now
5:30 New Country
6:00 Bobby Bare (guests Earl Thomas Conley, Randy Scruggs, and Clayton Thomas)
7:00 I-40 Paradise
7:30 Dancin' USA
8:00 You Can Be a Star
8:30 Fandango
9:00 Nashville Now
10:30 New Country
11:00 Bobby Bare (same guest as 6pm)
mid. Nashville Now
1:30 New Country
2:00 Offstage
2:30 Nashville Yesteryear
Premiere Choix
5:00 Cinema "Joy" cont'd
6:00 Cinema "Le Marginal"
8:00 Albator
8:30 San Ku Kai
9:00 Cinema "King Creole" (PC was airing an Elvis film fest that day)
11:00 Cinema "Cafe Europa en uniforme"
1:00 Cinema "Girls, Girls, Girls"
3:00 Cinema "Fun in Acapulco"
5:00 Cinema "Sous le ciel bleu d'Hawaii"
7:00 Pat Benatar
8:00 Cinema "Le Marginal"
10:00 Cinema "Le sang du sorcier"
mid. Cinema "L'homme blesse"
2:00 Cinema "J'aurai ta peau"
4:00 Cinema "Le Marginal"
TSN
5:00 SportsWorld
6:00 TBA
6:30 PKA Karate
8:00 All-Star Soccer (UK action)
10:00 TBA
10:30 PKA Karate
noon Rugby Union
1:00 TBA
1:30 All-Star Soccer
3:30 TBA
4:00 PKA Karate
5:30 Hydroplane Racing
6:30 NFL Week
7:00 SportsDesk
7:30 Soccer News
10:00 Top Rank Boxing
11:30 SportsDesk
mid. NFL Week
12:30 Soccer News
2:00 Top Rank Boxing
3:30 TBA
4:30 NFL Week
WGRZ 2-NBC Buffalo
5:00 News
5:30 Jim Bakker
6:30 NBC News at Sunrise
7:00 Today
9:00 Santa Barbara
10:00 Benson
10:30 Sale of the Century
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Anything for Money
noon News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Fat Albert
3:30 He-Man & the Masters of the Universe
4:00 Three's Company
4:30 People's Court
5:00 News
5:30 M*A*S*H
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Entertainment Tonight
7:30 PM Magazine
8:00 Cosby Show
8:30 Family Ties
9:00 Cheers
9:30 Night Court
10:00 Hill Street Blues
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show (guests include James Graseck)
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman (guests include Carl Lewis)
1:30 Movie "Seven Angry Men"
3:50 Movie "Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders"
CKVR 3-CBC Barrie
6:00 News
6:30 Morning Exercise
7:00 100 Huntley Street
8:00 Polka Dot Door
8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 Mr. Dressup
10:00 Friendly Giant
10:15 Fitness Break
10:30 Good Company
11:00 I Love Lucy
11:30 My Three Sons
noon Leave It to Beaver
12:30 News
1:00 All My Children
2:00 Parenting
2:30 Do It for Yourself
3:00 Fitness Break
3:30 Video Hits
4:00 Beverly Hillbillies
4:30 Jeffersons
5:00 Three's Company
5:30 News
6:00 Ripley's Believe It or Not!
7:00 I Love Lucy
7:30 Charles in Charge
8:00 Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous
9:00 Dean Martin Celebrity Roast (from the MGM Grand in Vegas, a tribute to Mr. T with Bob Hope, George Peppard, Don Rickles, Gary Coleman, and Ricky Schroeder)
10:00 The National
10:22 The Journal
11:00 News
11:30 Entertainment Tonight
mid. Movie "The Scalphunters"
WIVB 4-CBS Buffalo
5:00 CBS News Nightwatch
5:30 Jimmy Swaggart
6:00 20 Minute Workout
6:30 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Hour Magazine (Henry Winkler on child safety/TV columnist Gary Deeb)
10:00 New $25,000 Pyramid
10:30 Press Your Luck
11:00 Price is Right
noon News
12:30 Young & the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Dukes of Hazzard
5:00 Diff'rent Strokes
5:30 Barney Miller
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Rituals
7:30 Name That Tune
8:00 Magnum, PI
9:00 Simon & Simon
10:00 Knots Landing
11:00 News
11:30 Alice
mid. Newhart
12:35 Movie "Mother and Daughter: A Loving War" (Harry Chapin who co-composed and also is one of the songs' performers, makes a cameo appearance; Sandy Chapin was the other composer/performer)
2:30 CBS News Nightwatch
CBLT 5-CBC Toronto
6:30 Feelin' Good
7:00 CBLT Morning
9:00 Skipper & Company (produced at CBNT St. John's, this was carried by a number of CBC stations outside Newfoundland; I remember seeing it myself on CBCT Charlottetown, who aired it on weekends)
9:30 Muppet Show
10:00 Curious George
10:15 Friendly Giant
10:30 Mr. Dressup
11:00 Sesame Street
noon Noon News
12:30 Parenting
1:00 All My Children
2:00 Dallas
3:00 Coronation Street
3:30 All in the Family
4:00 Do It for Yourself
4:30 What's New?
5:00 Video Hits
5:30 Three's Company
6:00 CBLT Newshour
7:00 Grange Inquiry (investigating infant deaths at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children in 1980/81, chief suspect Susan Nelles was eventually exonerated...more on this at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Nelles)
8:00 Marshall McLuhan: The Man & His Message (Tom Wolfe narrates this doc on the media revolutionary; interviews include former PM Pierre Trudeau, Norman Mailer, and Dr. Thomas Miller...doc was produced/directed by McLuhan's daughter Stephanie)
9:00 A.J. Casson: The Only Critic is Time (profiling the 86-year-old painter, then the only surviving member of the artists known as the Group of Seven; he died in 1992 at age 94)
9:30 Front Page Challenge
10:00 The National
10:22 The Journal
11:00 The National Update
11:05 Newsfinal
11:25 Good Rockin' Tonite (hosted by Terry David Mulligan, who joined MuchMusic the following year)
CKGN-Global: 6 Paris/22 Uxbridge
5:30 Jimmy Swaggart
6:00 Seneca Telecollege
7:00 Hammy Hamster
7:30 Hercules
8:00 He-Man & the Masters of the Universe
8:30 700 Club
9:30 100 Huntley Street
10:30 Celebrity Cooks
11:00 Pizzazz
11:30 What Will They Think of Next!
noon News
1:00 Let's Make a Deal
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Pitfall
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Charlie's Angels (as of October 29th, Global would air Y&R here, snatching it from CHCH; ads in the Sun's TV supplement advertised a phone line with the latest Y&R developments)
5:00 Scooby-Doo
5:30 First News
6:00 6 O'Clock Edition
6:30 World Report
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Pizzazz
8:00 Diff'rent Strokes
8:30 Welcome Back, Kotter
9:00 Wintario (Faye Dance and Greg Beresford host the draw, live from Milverton)
9:30 Rovers (guest Boxcar Willie)
10:00 Hill Street Blues
11:00 News
11:30 Sportsline
mid. Phantom Children
12:30 Welcome Back, Kotter (rerun of the 8:30 episode)
1:00 Chico & the Man
1:30 Kung Fu
WKBW 7-ABC Buffalo
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Donahue (dentistry in the 80s)
10:00 AM Buffalo (guests Helen Grabowski and Michelle Malucci)
11:00 Trivia Trap
11:30 Ryan's Hope
noon News
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Love Boat
5:00 Jeffersons
5:30 Jeopardy!
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 Movie "Grease"
11:00 News
11:30 ABC News Nightline
mid. Merv Griffin (guests Susan Anton, Parker Stevenson, Bob Greene, and Erica Jones)
1:00 Eye on Hollywood
1:30 News
WROC 8-NBC Rochester
5:30 News
6:00 20 Minute Workout
6:30 NBC News at Sunrise
7:00 Today
9:00 Facts of Life
9:30 Guilty or Innocent
10:00 Joker's Wild
10:30 Sale of the Century
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Scrabble
noon Bob Newhart
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 Rituals
4:30 Dating Game
5:00 Newlywed Game
5:30 M*A*S*H
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 Jeopardy!
8:00 Cosby Show
8:30 Family Ties
9:00 Cheers
9:30 Night Court
10:00 Hill Street Blues
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman
1:30 Movie "UFO Journals"
CFTO 9-CTV Toronto
6:00 Romper Room
6:30 Canada AM
9:00 Toronto Today
9:30 What's Cooking
10:00 Definition
10:30 Guess What
11:00 Just Like Mom
11:30 Love Connection
noon Flintstones
12:30 People's Court
1:00 Don Harron (guests John Clarke, his wife Lynn Redgrave, Phil Edmondston, and Andrea Martin)
2:00 Another World
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 One Life to Live
5:00 Hart to Hart
6:00 WKRP in Cincinnati
6:30 Worldbeat News
7:30 Littlest Hobo
8:00 Magnum, PI
9:00 Cheers
9:30 Night Court
10:00 Hunter
11:00 CTV National News
11:20 News
12:30 Six Million Dollar Man
1:30 Movie "Shout at the Devil"
WHEC 10-CBS Rochester
5:00 CBS News Nightwatch
5:30 Jim Bakker
6:30 Early Morning
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Love Connection
9:30 Every Second Counts
10:00 New $25,000 Pyramid
10:30 Anything for Money
11:00 Price is Right
noon News
12:30 Young & the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Quincy
5:00 Hour Magazine (same guests as ch 4)
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 Magnum, PI
9:00 Simon & Simon
10:00 Knots Landing
11:00 News
11:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
mid. Newhart
12:35 Movie "Mother and Daughter: A Loving War"
2:30 Entertainment Tonight
3:00 CBS News Nightwatch
CHCH 11-Ind Hamilton
6:00 Mad Dash
6:30 It Figures
7:00 Magic Palace
7:30 Body Moves
8:00 Elegant Appetites
8:30 New You
9:00 Good Morning Workout
9:30 Celebrity Microwaves
10:00 Hour Magazine (as ch 4)
11:00 Cherington
12:30 Young & the Restless
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Soapbox
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 Little House on the Prairie
5:00 Rituals
5:30 Taxi
6:00 Newsroom
7:00 Entertainment Tonight
7:30 Backstage
8:00 Niagara Repertory
8:30 Family Ties
9:00 Simon & Simon
10:00 Hot Pursuit
11:00 News
11:30 Family Brown Country
mid. Movie "Back to the Planet of the Apes" (edited episodes from the TV series)
2:00 Hawaii Five-O
3:00 Flipper
CHEX 12-CBC Peterborough
7:30 Ed Allen
8:00 Jimmy Swaggart
8:30 Going Great
9:00 Just Like Mom
9:30 Audubon Wildlife Theatre
10:00 Silver Basketball
10:15 Friendly Giant
10:30 Mr. Dressup
11:00 Polka Dot Door
11:30 Curious George
11:45 Silver Basketball
noon News
12:30 Andy Griffith
1:00 All My Children
2:00 Afternoon Show
2:30 Do It for Yourself
3:00 Super Pay Cards
3:30 20 Minute Workout
4:00 Beverly Hillbillies
4:30 Video Hits
5:00 Bob Newhart
5:30 Three's Company
6:00 News
6:30 Taxi
7:00 A-Team
8:00 Paper Dolls
9:00 Wild Wild West
10:00 The National
10:22 The Journal
11:00 News
11:30 Simon Locke, MD
mid. Movie "The Dion Brothers"
CKCO 13-CTV Kitchener
5:00 CBS News Nighwatch (that's not a typo, CKCO apparently carried Nightwatch in those days...I'm fairly certain they also ran either MuchMusic or CMT overnights later in the decade, but I stand to be corrected on that)
5:50 Ontario Report
6:30 Canada AM
9:00 Romper Room (which CKCO produced for CTV...a recent KW Record article I read in the Halifax Chronicle Herald reports that Miss Fran is now a Muslim, you can read it at http://news.therecord.com/article/761500)
9:30 What's Cooking
10:00 Trivia Company
10:30 Be My Guest
11:00 Guess What
11:30 Definition
noon Flintstones
12:30 Wheel of Fortune
1:00 Don Harron
2:00 Another World
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 One Life to Live
5:00 Hart to Hart
6:00 News
7:00 Family Feud
7:30 Littlest Hobo
8:00 Magnum, PI
9:00 Cheers
9:30 Night Court
10:00 Cover Up
11:00 CTV National News
11:20 News
mid. Movie "In the Good Old Summertime"
2:00 CBS News Nightwatch
WOKR 13-ABC Rochester
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Donahue (as ch 7)
10:00 Morning Break
10:30 TBA
11:00 Trivia Trap
11:30 Family Feud
noon News
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Love Boat
5:00 Bowling for Dollars
5:30 People's Court
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Mork & Mindy
7:30 Taxi
8:00 Movie "Grease"
11:00 News
11:30 Maude
mid. ABC News Nightline
12:30 More Real People
1:00 News
WNED 17-PBS Buffalo
6:45 AM Weather
7:00 Lilias, Yoga & You
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Instructional Programs
noon Sesame Street
1:00 The Brain (pt 2) "Vision and Movement"
2:00 The People vs Dan White (detaling the murders of Harvey Milk and George Moscone, and the trial of Dan White, the man charged with killing both men)
3:30 Latenight America (guests Frances Moore and Dr. Kevin Leman)
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Lassie
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Doctor Who "City of Death" (conclusion)
6:30 MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour
7:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
8:00 Wild America
8:30 Sneak Previews
9:00 Golden Years of Television (from 1954: the Buick Berle Show with guests Mickey Rooney and Nancy Walker)
10:00 Mystery! "Rumpole and the Bailey: Rumpole and the Genuine Article"
11:00 Nightly Business Report
11:30 Latenight America (guests include Dan Chumley, director of the San Francisco Mime Troupe)
CICA 19-TVO Toronto
7:00 Energy
7:30 Down to Earth
8:00 Polka Dot Door
8:30 Tell Me a Story
8:45 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:15 Report Canada
9:30 It's Your Move
9:45 You Can Write Anything!
10:00 Write On!
10:15 See, Hear!
10:30 Jeremy
10:45 World of B.J. Vibes
11:00 Logiciel
11:30 Report Canada
11:45 Harriet's Magic Hats
noon Realities
12:30 People & Pets
1:00 Career Planning
1:15 Arts Alive
1:30 Report Canada/It's Your World/Readalong
2:00 Safety Scouts
2:15 MathMakers
2:30 Tell Me a Story
2:45 Hattytown Tales
3:00 Homeostasis
4:00 Vue globale
4:30 Kidsworld
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Polka Dot Door
6:30 Today's Special
7:00 Doctor Who "Castrovalva" (conclusion)
7:30 Magic Shadows "Life Begins at 8:30" (conclusion)
8:00 Realities
8:30 People Patterns
9:00 Speaking Out "Psychiatry and Women: Blaming Women?"
10:30 Options
11:00 Realities (repeat from earlier)
11:30 Witness to Yesterday
mid. Perspectives
12:30 sign-off
CBLFT 25-SRC Toronto
9:20 Fariboles
9:45 A votre rythme
10:00 Passe-Partout
10:30 Felix et Ciboulette
11:00 Question de droit
11:30 Salut sante
noon Premiere edition
12:30 Allo Bou Bou
1:30 Au jour le jour
2:30 Cinema "Les Miserables" (pt 1, this version is from 1934)
4:00 Bobino
4:30 Traboulidon
5:00 Legendes du monde
5:30 La vie secrete des animaux
6:00 Ce soir
6:30 Avis de recherche
7:00 Genies en herbe: Ecole secondaire de Vaudreuil v Ecole Bernard-Gariepy (Tracy)
7:30 Cinema "Alien, le huitieme passager"
10:00 Le Telejournal
10:25 Le Point/Meteo
11:05 Nouvelles du sport
11:25 A premiere vue
11:55 Cinema "Funny Girl"
WUTV 29-Ind Buffalo
6:30 Ag Day
7:00 Banana Splits
7:30 Tom & Jerry
8:00 Flintstones
8:30 Great Space Coaster
9:00 Brady Bunch
9:30 Welcome Back, Kotter
10:00 Mary Tyler Moore
10:30 Love Connection
11:00 Benny Hill
11:30 All in the Family
noon Cartoons
1:00 700 Club
2:30 Josie & the Pussycats
3:00 Bugs Bunny
3:30 Superfriends
4:00 Scooby-Doo
4:30 Tom & Jerry
5:00 Voltron
5:30 Great Record Album
6:00 Little House on the Prairie
7:00 One Day at a Time
7:30 Let's Make a Deal
8:00 Movie "Let's Dance"
10:00 Benny Hill
10:30 Dave Allen at Large
11:00 Bizarre
11:30 Movie "Key West" (series pilot)
1:30 INN News
CFMT 47-Ethnic Toronto
5:30 Chinese Journal
6:00 Portugal Today
7:00 Jim Bakker
8:00 Force Five
8:30 Stranger Paradise
9:00 Jimmy Swaggart
9:30 Spanish Magazine
11:00 Italianissimo AM
12:30 Force Five
1:00 Hello, Jerusalem
2:00 Matinee Magazine
4:00 Force Five
4:30 Video Singles
5:00 Video Flipside
6:00 Portugal Today
7:00 Italianissimo Sera
8:00 Tele-Corriere
9:00 Movie "By Love Possessed"
11:00 Bless This House
11:30 Chinese Journal
mid. Jim Bakker
1:00 Video Singles
1:30 Video Flipside
2:00 Video Singles
2:30 100 Huntley Street
3:30 Nite Lite
CITY 57-Ind Toronto
5:00 MuchMusic
7:00 20 Minute Workout
7:30 Toronto Rocks
8:30 Rocket Robin Hood
9:00 Donahue (as 7)
10:00 New $25,000 Pyramid
10:30 CityPulse News
11:30 Micromagic
noon Ryan's Hope
12:30 Loving
1:00 CityLife
1:30 CityLights (guest Patrick Swayze)
2:00 20 Minute Workout
2:30 Quincy
3:30 This Week's Music
4:00 Toronto Rocks
5:00 Price is Right
6:00 CityPulse News
7:00 Movie "The Turning Point"
10:00 CityPulse News
11:00 SCTV Network
11:30 Movie "Sweet Charity"
2:20 MuchMusic
Over on the paynets...
A&E
8:00 By Design
9:00 Stage "Twigs"
11:45 Great Poets & Writers
noon Movie "Hannah"
2:15 Movie "Fothergill"
4:00 A Portrait of Giselle
5:45 Great Painters
6:00 George Orwell "the Road to Wigan Pier"
7:00 Great Expectations (pt 3)
8:00 Performers' Showcase "Music After Mao"
9:00 To Dance for Gold: II International Ballet Competition (from Jackson, MS)
10:50 Handmade in America
11:20 Conversations on the Arts & Letters
mid. Performers' Showcase
1:00 To Dance for Gold
2:50 Handmade in America
3:20 Conversations on the Arts & Letters
First Choice-Superchannel
5:00 Neil Young
7:00 Business Times
7:30 Movie "The Chosen"
10:00 Movie "Two-Lane Blacktop"
noon Hellogoodbye
1:00 Compleat Beatles
3:00 Burton Cummings: My Own Way to Rock
4:00 Earth Odyssey
5:00 Mr. Wizard
5:30 Inspector Gadget
6:00 Movie "Father Goose"
8:00 Compleat Beatles
10:00 Movie "Two-Lane Blacktop"
mid. Movie "Initiation"
1:30 Movie "Private School"
3:00 Romance: Stolen Love
3:30 Honeymoon Haven
4:00 Movie "The Pyx"
Nashville Network
6:30 Jimmy Swaggart
7:00 Jim Bakker
8:00 Amazing Facts
8:30 Porter Wagoner
9:00 Nashville Now
10:30 New Country
11:00 Fandango
11:30 You Can Be a Star
noon I-40 Paradise
12:30 Pickin' at the Paradise
1:00 Nashville Yesteryear
1:30 Porter Wagoner
2:00 I-40 Paradise
2:30 Dancin' USA
3:00 You Can Be a Star
3:30 Fandango
4:00 Nashville Now
5:30 New Country
6:00 Bobby Bare (guests Earl Thomas Conley, Randy Scruggs, and Clayton Thomas)
7:00 I-40 Paradise
7:30 Dancin' USA
8:00 You Can Be a Star
8:30 Fandango
9:00 Nashville Now
10:30 New Country
11:00 Bobby Bare (same guest as 6pm)
mid. Nashville Now
1:30 New Country
2:00 Offstage
2:30 Nashville Yesteryear
Premiere Choix
5:00 Cinema "Joy" cont'd
6:00 Cinema "Le Marginal"
8:00 Albator
8:30 San Ku Kai
9:00 Cinema "King Creole" (PC was airing an Elvis film fest that day)
11:00 Cinema "Cafe Europa en uniforme"
1:00 Cinema "Girls, Girls, Girls"
3:00 Cinema "Fun in Acapulco"
5:00 Cinema "Sous le ciel bleu d'Hawaii"
7:00 Pat Benatar
8:00 Cinema "Le Marginal"
10:00 Cinema "Le sang du sorcier"
mid. Cinema "L'homme blesse"
2:00 Cinema "J'aurai ta peau"
4:00 Cinema "Le Marginal"
TSN
5:00 SportsWorld
6:00 TBA
6:30 PKA Karate
8:00 All-Star Soccer (UK action)
10:00 TBA
10:30 PKA Karate
noon Rugby Union
1:00 TBA
1:30 All-Star Soccer
3:30 TBA
4:00 PKA Karate
5:30 Hydroplane Racing
6:30 NFL Week
7:00 SportsDesk
7:30 Soccer News
10:00 Top Rank Boxing
11:30 SportsDesk
mid. NFL Week
12:30 Soccer News
2:00 Top Rank Boxing
3:30 TBA
4:30 NFL Week
