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Retro: Washington-Baltimore Saturday, December 9, 1978

By request, from TV Guide, Washington-Baltimore Edition:

WMAR Ch. 2 Baltimore (CBS)

6:30 Sunrise Semester: "American Character"
7 AM Mr. Magoo (don't know if this is CBS's "What's New,
Mr. Magoo?" delayed from Sun 9 AM, or the older
ones from the '60s)
7:30 Woody Woodpecker
8 AM All New Popeye Hour
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12 N Tom & Jerry
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Caboose (local kids' show)
1:30 30 Minutes (the Kansas State Industrial Reformatory;
a look at Mad magazine)
2 PM Straight Talk
2:30 My Three Sons
3 PM NFL Game Of The Week
3:30 The NFL Today
4 PM NFL Football: Vikings-Lions
7 PM Dolly (guest: Kenny Rogers, time approximate)
7:30 The Cheap Show (guests: Jill St. John and Truman Capote)
8 PM Rhoda
8:30 Good Times
9 PM CBS Movie: "A Real American Hero" (Brian Dennehy as Buford Pusser)
11 PM News
11:30 Hot City (disco)
12:30 Movie: "Secret Ceremony"

WRC Ch. 4 Washington, DC (NBC)

6 AM Daybreak (Tony Brown)
6:30 Vistas
7 AM Big Blue Marble
7:30 Beth And Bower Half Hour
8 AM Galaxy Goofups
8:30 Fantastic Four
9 AM Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM Yogi's Space Race
12 N Fabulous Funnies
12:30 NFL '78
1 PM NFL Football: Colts-Steelers
4 PM Bowling: AMF Grand Prix of Bowling (time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (John Hart)
7 PM Hollywood Squares (Robert Urich, Karen Grassle, Vincent
Price, Scott Baio, Caren Kaye, George Gobel, Marcia Lewis,
Dick Clark, Paul Lynde)
7:30 Newscenter Forum
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM Dean Martin ("Christmas In California" with Lee Meriwether,
Connie Stevens, Mel Tillis, the Golddiggers, and Jonathan Winters)
10 PM Weekend (a report on legalized gambling explores why Florida rejected
a proposal for casino gambling in Miami Beach)
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (host Eric Idle, musical guest Kate Bush)
1 AM Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (Paul McCartney and Wings, Marilyn McCoo
and Billy Davis Jr., Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, comedians Richard
Belzer and George Miller)

WTTG Ch. 5 Washington, DC (Ind.)

6:30 Vegetable Soup
7 AM Casper
7:30 Newsbag
8 AM Porky Pig
8:30 Jetsons
9 AM Flintstones
9:30 Laurel And Hardy
10 AM Movie: "Cheers For Miss Bishop"
12 N Movie: "The Questor Tapes"
2 PM Movie: "Young Billy Young"
3:30 Gong Show (Jaye P. Morgan, Arte Johnson, Barbara McNair)
4 PM Gong Show (Jamie Farr, Jaye P. Morgan, Pat Paulsen)
4:30 Juke-Box (Twiggy welcomes Rod Stewart, the Babys, the
Bay City Rollers, and Paul Nicholas.)
5 PM Soul Train
6 PM Six Million Dollar Man
7 PM Andy Griffith
7:30 Brady Bunch
8 PM College Basketball: Georgetown-St. John's
10 PM News (time approximate)
10:30 Black Reflections
11 PM College Basketball: Notre Dame-UCLA
1 AM Movie: "In Name Only" (time approximate)
3 AM Movie: "Manhattan Melodrama"
5 AM Merv Griffin (Dick Clark, George Gobel, Linda Lavin, gymnast
Kurt Thomas, actress Kathy Cronkite (Walter's daughter))

WJLA Ch. 7 Washington, DC (ABC)

6:30 Christopher Closeup
7 AM Hot Fudge
7:30 Animals, Animals, Animals (a film about peregrine falcons and
an animated fable, "The Falcon And The Dragon," delay from
Sun 11:30 AM)
8 AM Scooby's All-Stars
9:30 Superfriends
11 AM Sixth Annual Clothing For Kids Telethon
8 PM TBA
9 PM Love Boat (passengers include Robert Urich, Connie Stevens,
Dabney Coleman, and Rue McClanahan)
10 PM Fantasy Island
11 PM ABC News (Sylvia Chase/Tom Jarriel)
11:15 Movie: "Shalako"

WGAL Ch. 8 Lancaster, PA (NBC)

6:30 Lone Ranger
7 AM Sunshine Corners
7:30 Santa Claus
8 AM Galaxy Goofups
8:30 Fantastic Four
9 AM Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM Yogi's Space Race
12 N Fabulous Funnies
12:30 NFL '78
1 PM NFL Football: Colts-Steelers
4 PM Bowling: AMF Grand Prix of Bowling (time
approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM World Of Women
7:30 Our Hispanic Community
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM Dean Martin
10 PM Weekend
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM Juke-Box
1:30 News

WDVM (WUSA) Ch. 9 Washington, DC (CBS)

6 AM Christopher Closeup
6:30 Best Of Morning Break
7 AM Infinity Factory
7:30 Sneakers (local kids' show)
8 AM All New Popeye Hour
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12 N Space Academy
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Sneakers
1:30 30 Minutes
2 PM Neighborhood News Conference
2:30 American Documents (documents related to Presidential
inaugurations from Washington to Ford)
3:30 The NFL Today
4 PM NFL Football: Vikings-Lions
7 PM Agronsky & Company (time approximate)
7:30 My Washington, My World
8 PM Merry Christmas With Love, Julie (Julie Andrews with
Jimmy Stewart and cameos by Cass Elliot, Joel Grey, and
Carl Reiner)
9 PM CBS Movie: "A Real American Hero"
11 PM News
11:30 First Annual American Black Achievement Awards

WBAL Ch. 11 Baltimore (NBC)

6:30 Learning To Read
7 AM Better Way
7:30 Garden Living
8 AM At Home In Maryland
8:30 Beverly Hillbillies
9 AM Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Marlo And The Magic Movie Machine (childhood
photos of Paul Lynde; the career of Albert Einstein)
11 AM Yogi's Space Race
12 N Kidsworld (Frankie Valli, a music camp in Michigan)
12:30 It's Academic
1 PM NFL Football: Colts-Steelers
4 PM Wild Bill Hickok (time approximate)
5 PM Bowling
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Bowling
7:30 Comedy Shop (Jackie Vernon, Phil Foster, Jackie Kahane,
Jill St. John, Bobby Kosser)
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM Dean Martin
10 PM Weekend
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM The FBI

WJZ Ch. 13 Baltimore (ABC)

6 AM Sign-On Seminar: Working Together
6:30 Villa Alegre
7 AM Big Blue Marble
7:30 Bob Turk And The Sunshine Kids
8 AM Scooby's All-Stars
9:30 Superfriends
11 AM Fangface
11:30 Pink Panther
12 N ABC Weekend Special: "The Winged Colt" (Part
2 of 3)
12:30 Lawrence Welk (tunes from the '70s)
1:30 College Football (one of the following: NCAA Division II
championship from Longview, TX; NCAA Division I-A semifinals
from Reno, NV or Jackson, MS)
4:30 TBA
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Armando Muniz,
welterweights, 10 rounds, from Springfield, MA; the Russian
gymnastics team in an exhibition from London)
6:30 ABC News (Sylvia Chase/Tom Jarriel)
7 PM News
7:30 Square Off (topic: the presentation of the 1978 Nobel Peace
Prize to Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin)
8 PM Rudolph's Shiny New Year (voices of Red Skelton, Frank Gorshin,
and Morey Amsterdam)
9 PM Love Boat
10 PM Fantasy Island
11 PM News
11:30 College Basketball: Notre Dame-UCLA (joined in progress)
1 AM Juke-Box (Leo Sayer, the Little River Band, John Miles, R & J Stone,
time approximate)
1:30 One On One
2 AM News
2:10 ABC News
2:25 Movie: "The Arizona Ranger"

WBOC Ch. 16 Salisbury, MD (ABC/CBS/NBC)

7 AM Peninsula Perspective
7:30 At Home Today
8 AM All New Popeye Hour
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12 N Space Academy
12:30 U.S. Farm Report
1 PM NFL Football: Colts-Steelers
4 PM NFL Football: Vikings-Lions (time approximate)
7 PM Lawrence Welk (time approximate)
8 PM Rhoda
8:30 Good Times
9 PM CBS Movie: "A Real American Hero"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Fear No Evil"

WDCA Ch. 20 Washington, DC (Ind.)

5:25 Agricultural Update
5:30 Consultation
6 AM PTL Club
7 AM Do It Yourself With Homer Formby
7:30 God's Good News
8 AM Breath Of Life
8:30 PTL Club
9:30 Oral Roberts
10 AM Rex Humbard
11 AM Wrestling
12 N Wild Kingdom (killer whales in Argentina)
12:30 Movie: "Buck Privates Come Home" (Abbott and
Costello, from '47)
2 PM Movie: "Die, Monster, Die!"
3:30 Bewitched
4 PM Mothers-In-Law
4:30 Emergency One!
5:30 In Search Of... (the possible location of Sodom and
Gomorrah)
6 PM Star Trek
7 PM Space: 1999
8 PM Movie: "Master Of The World"
10 PM Challenge (Herb Davis)
10:30 Petey Greene's Washington
11 PM Twilight Zone
11:30 Boxing: WBA light-heavyweight championship match between
champ Mike "The Jewish Bomber" Rossman and Aldo Traversaro,
15 rounds, from Philadelphia
1 AM 700 Club

WAPB Ch. 22 Annapolis/WCPB Ch. 28 Salisbury/WWPB Ch. 31 Hagerstown/
WMPB Ch. 67 Baltimore (PBS
Pledge breaks may delay or postpone programming.

7:15 Age Of Revolutions
7:35 Comparative Government And Politics
8 AM Future
8:25 Sociological Perspectives
8:50 English Literature
10:25 Economic Perspectives
12 N American Story
1 PM Writing For A Reason
2 PM Dimensions In Culture
3 PM Afro-American Perspectives
4 PM Adams Chronicles
5 PM Critics' Place
6 PM Firing Line (the future status of Puerto Rico)
7 PM Maryland Newswrap
7:30 Agronsky & Company
8 PM Evening At Symphony (guest conductor Colin Davis
and the Boston Symphony Orchestra perform works
by Wagner, Sibelius, and Elgar)
9:15 The Long Search (Ronald Eyre's three-year investigation
of the world's religions)
10:15 Big Band Bash (Count Basie, Maynard Ferguson, and Woody
Herman and their orchestras; singers Dick Haymes, Anita O'Day,
and the Pied Pipers)

WHAG Ch. 25 Hagerstown (NBC)

7 AM Go USA (an escaped slave sacrifices his freedom to help the
Continental Army fight the British)
7:30 Land Of The Lost
8 AM Galaxy Goofups
8:30 Fantastic Four
9 AM Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM Yogi's Space Race
12 N Fabulous Funnies
12:30 NFL '78
1 PM NFL Football: Colts-Steelers
4 PM Bowling: AMF Grand Prix of Bowling (time approximate)
6 PM College Basketball Highlights: Maryland-Penn State
7 PM Hee Haw (Jim Stafford, Sonny James, Jana Jae)
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM Dean Martin
10 PM Weekend
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live

WETA Ch. 26 Washington, DC (PBS)
Pledge breaks may delay or postpone programming.

8 AM Sesame Street
9:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10 AM Cinematic Eye
10:30 Movie: "L'Avventura"
12:55 TBA
1 PM Congressional Outlook (President Carter's plans
to revitalize the economies of the nation's major cities)
1:30 Turnabout
2 PM Tennis: 1978 Davis Cup final
6 PM Pro Soccer (time approximate)
7 PM The Long Search
8 PM Big Band Bash
11 PM Laurel And Hardy
11:30 Movie: "Way Out West" (one of Laurel and Hardy's best,
from '37)

WBFF Ch. 45 Baltimore (Ind.)

7 AM Cartoons
7:15 Vegetable Soup
7:45 Outlook (program for senior citizens)
8 AM News & Views (Baltimore fire department)
8:15 Baltimore Department Of Social Services
8:30 Baltimore Community Relations Commission
8:45 Baltimore Urban Services Agency
9 AM Movie: "Mr. Hex" (the Bowery Boys, from '46)
10:30 Movie: "Blondie In Society"
12 N Hopalong Cassidy
12:30 Movie: "Fury Of The Congo" (Johnny Weissmuller
as Jungle Jim, from '51)
1:40 Law Of The Wild (movie serial)
2:30 Rifleman
3 PM Rifleman
3:30 Lefty Driesell: University of Maryland basketball
4 PM Wrestling
5 PM Gilligan's Island
5:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
6 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
6:30 Get Smart
7 PM Hogan's Heroes
7:30 I Love Lucy (Lucy in the wine vat)
8 PM Hee Haw
9 PM Movie: "Sergeant York"
11:15 News
11:30 Movie: "The Crime Of Dr. Hallett"
12:45 Movie: "Horror Hotel"
2:05 Law Of The Wild
2:20 News

WNVT Ch. 53 Annandale, VA (simulcast in Washington on Ch. 14) (PBS)

6 PM Birth And Death Of A Star
6:30 Freestyle
7 PM Rebop
7:30 Visions (a drama about the hiring of illegal aliens)
9:30 Movie: "The Stars Look Down"
 
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