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Retro: Washington-Baltimore Saturday, May 26, 1979

From TV Guide, Washington-Baltimore Edition:

WMAR Ch. 2 Baltimore (CBS)

6:30 Summer Semester: "Dilemmas Of Science And
Technology"
7 AM Mr. Magoo (don't know if this is "What's New,
Mr. Magoo?" delayed from Sun 8 AM)
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 And Jerry
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Caboose (local kids' show)
1:30 CBS Children's Film Festival (the Chiffy Kids from England
in "The Great Snail Race" and "Magpie Lays An Egg")
2 PM Baseball: Orioles-Tigers
4:30 Andy Griffith (time approximate)
5 PM CBS Sports Spectacular (Part 2 of the International Boxing
Championships from Havana; Teofilo Stevenson, who I think
could have been world's heavyweight champion, leads the
Cuban team; Part 6 of the International Mixed Pairs Gymnastics
Championship from Atlanta)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM Dolly (guest is Karen Black)
7:30 Cheap Show (Eva Gabor, Robert Guillaume)
8 PM Bad News Bears
8:30 A Boy Named Charlie Brown
9:30 CBS Movie: "The Lords Of Flatbush"
11 PM News
11:30 Kicks (Shalamar, Alton McClain and Destiny)
12:30 Movie: "Don't Just Stand There!" (watch for Robert Wagner and
Mary Tyler Moore in this one from '68)

WRC Ch. 4 Washington, DC (NBC)

5:30 Knowledge
6 AM Better Way
6:30 Vistas
7 AM Beth And Bower Half Hour
7:30 Stuff (Christian the Magician, David Rose sings one of his compositions,
puppeteer and 1968 Olympic gold-medal high-jumper Roman Paska performs)
8 AM Alvin And The Chipmunks
8:30 Fantastic Four
9 AM Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM New Fred And Barney Show
11:30 Jetsons
12 N Buford And The Galloping Ghost
12:30 Fabulous Funnies
1 PM Stuff (pianist Hunter Kimble, Michele Jordan sings "Cabaret," three sets
of twins discuss their experiences)
1:30 Outdoors With Julius Boros
2 PM Tennis: WCT Challenge Cup Final: Ilie Nastase vs. Peter Fleming
4 PM Baseball Warm-Up
4:15 Baseball: Reds-Dodgers (rain game: Braves-Giants)
7 PM Newscenter Forum (time approximate)
7:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM The Buffalo Soldiers (busted pilot)
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (host Buck Henry, musical guest Bette Midler)
1 AM Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (the Doors (from 1968), Bad Company,
Burton Cummings, Kate Bush, Uriah Heep, Jimmy Castor, Australian
comedienne Maureen Murphy)

WTTG Ch. 5 Washington, DC (Ind.)

6:30 Vegetable Soup
7 AM Casper
7:30 Newsbag
8 AM Dennis The Menace
8:30 Partridge Family
9 AM Family Affair
9:30 Leave It To Beaver
10 AM I Love Lucy
10:30 Juke-Box (Marmalade, Guys 'n' Dolls, Ace String Driven
Thing, Sweet)
11 AM Movie: "The Thrill Of It All" (Doris Day, James Garner, from '63)
1 PM Movie: "Send Me No Flowers" (Doris Day, this time with Tony Randall,
Rock Hudson, and Clint Walker, from '64)
3 PM Movie: "The Log Of The Black Pearl"
5 PM Soul Train
6 PM Kicks (Patrick Juvet, Linda Clifford)
7 PM Andy Griffith
7:30 Brady Bunch
8 PM Movie: "Pride And Prejudice"
10 PM News
10:30 Black Reflections
11 PM Odd Couple
11:30 Movie: "The Seven Ups"
1:30 Movie: "Conquest"
3:45 Movie: "Portrait Of A Mobster" (the rise and fall of
Dutch Schultz; watch for Vic Morrow, from '61)

WJLA Ch. 7 Washington, DC (ABC)

6:30 Christopher Closeup
7 AM Hot Fudge
7:30 Animals, Animals, Animals (lizards that dwell in the Mojave
Desert; the chuckwalla, a large lizard found in the Southwest)
8 AM Scooby's All-Stars
9:30 Superfriends
11 AM Fangface
11:30 Pink Panther
12 N ABC Weekend Special: "The Baby With Four Fathers" (four boys
look after an abandoned baby, in hopes it won't go to an orphanage)
12:30 American Bandstand (Dream Express, Carrie Lucas)
1:30 Indianapolis 500 Festival Parade (Gerald Ford is grand marshal; other
celebrity participants are Peter Marshall, Michael Learned, Loni Anderson,
Adam Rich, Larry Wilcox, Lloyd Bridges, and Elizabeth Ashley)
3:30 The Next Step Beyond
4 PM Greatest Sports Legends (Wilma Rudolph)
4:30 The Racers (Champion Spark Plug Radial Challenge)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (European Men's Gymnastics Championships;
World Lumberjack Championships; preview of the Grand Prix of Monaco)
6:30 News
7 PM $1.98 Beauty Show (judges: Doug Rau, Altovise Davis, Jack LaLanne)
7:30 Muppet Show (guest: Raquel Welch)
8 PM Love Boat (John Mills, Celeste Holm, Juliet Mills, David Hedison)
9:30 Fantasy Island (Lisa Hartman, Don Knotts, Florence Henderson)
11 PM News
11:15 ABC News (Tom Jarriel)
11:30 Movie: "Born Innocent"

WGAL Ch. 8 Lancaster, PA (NBC)

6:30 Lone Ranger
7 AM Incredible Dr. Dudd
7:30 Bay City Rollers
8 AM Alvin And The Chipmunks
8:30 Fantastic Four
9 AM Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM New Fred And Barney Show
11:30 Jetsons
12 N Buford And The Galloping Ghost
12:30 Fabulous Funnies
1 PM Country Music
1:30 Do-It-Yourself With Homer Formby
2 PM Underwater Adventures
3 PM World Of Survival
3:30 Porter Wagoner
4 PM Baseball Warm-Up
4:15 Baseball: Reds-Dodgers (rain game: Braves-Giants)
7 PM Art Of Thanatology (Joy Ufema explains how she counsels
terminally ill patients, time approximate)
7:30 Young Scene
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM The Buffalo Soldiers
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 Infinity Factory
7 AM Villa Alegre
7:30 Prisma (public affairs)
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 Marlo And The Magic Movie Machine
1:30 CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM Neighborhood News Conference
2:30 Racing Speed Demons (the rewards and dangers of various
kinds of auto racing)
3 PM Disaster: How And Why (British efforts to smuggle Jews into
British-ruled Palestine after World War II)
3:30 Golf: Memorial Tournament (third round)
5 PM Candid Camera
5:30 World War II: G.I. Diary (the role of the Merchant Marine)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Agronsky & Company
7:30 Probe: Employment
8 PM Bad News Bears
8:30 A Boy Named Charlie Brown
9:30 CBS Movie: "The Lords Of Flatbush"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Bus Stop" (Marilyn Monroe, from '56, later a 1961-62
ABC series which met a premature end when Fabian appeared
as a psychopathic killer; Sen. John Pastore said he watched it
and "still [had] the stench in his nose.")

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 Bewitched
9 AM Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Kidsworld (Judy Norton Taylor, pigeons, an Ohio circus in which all
the performers are children)
11 AM New Fred And Barney Show
11:30 Jetsons
12 N Hocus Focus (excerpts from "Oliver" by performers from the Burn Brae
Dinner Theatre)
12:30 It's Academic
1 PM Soul Train
2 PM Six Million Dollar Man
3 PM Bowling
4 PM Baseball Warm-Up
4:15 Baseball: Reds-Dodgers (rain game: Braves-Giants)
7 PM Action News Focus (time approximate)
7:30 Black Horizons
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM The Buffalo Soldiers
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1 AM The FBI

WJZ Ch. 13 Baltimore (ABC)

6 AM Sign-On Seminar
6:30 Villa Alegre
7 AM Big Blue Marble
7:30 Bumblebunkers
8 AM Scooby's All-Stars
9:30 Superfriends
11 AM Fangface
11:30 Pink Panther
12 N ABC Weekend Special
12:30 Leave It To Beaver
1 PM Lawrence Welk
2 PM Movie: "The Nutty Professor" (Jerry Lewis version)
4 PM Odd Couple
4:30 The Racers
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 News
7 PM Square Off
7:30 Muppet Show
8 PM Love Boat
9:30 Fantasy Island
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "To Sir, With Love"
1:35 Movie: "The Deep Six"
3:45 News
3:55 ABC News
4:10 Movie: "The Last Day Of The War"

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

6:30 Summer Semester
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 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM U.S. Farm Report
1:30 CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM Baseball: Orioles-Tigers
4:30 Golf: Memorial Tournament (third round, time approximate,
joined in progress)
5 PM CBS Sports Spectacular
6 PM Peninsula Perspective
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Bad News Bears
8:30 A Boy Named Charlie Brown
9:30 CBS Movie: "The Lords Of Flatbush"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Eye Of The Cat"

WDCA Ch. 20 Washington, DC (Ind.)

5:25 Agricultural Update
5:30 Consultation
6 AM PTL Club
7 AM Challenge
7:30 God's Great News
8 AM Jimmy Swaggart
8:30 PTL Club
9:30 Oral Roberts
10 AM Ernest Angley
11 AM Wrestling (WWF)
12 N Three Stooges
12:30 Movie: "Lost In Alaska" (Abbott and Costello, from '52)
2 PM Movie: "Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes"
4 PM The Mothers-In-Law
4:30 Emergency One!
5:30 In Search Of... (searching for Bigfoot in the Pacific Northwest)
6 PM Star Trek
7 PM Space: 1999
8 PM TBA
11 PM Movie: "Chamber Of Horrors"
1 AM 700 Club

WAPB Ch. 22 Annapolis/WCPB Ch. 28 Salisbury/WWPB Ch. 31 Hagerstown/
WMPB Ch. 67 Baltimore (PBS)

11:20 Urban Future And Planning
11:45 Systems Performance
12:10 Systems Management
12:35 Age Of Revolutions
1 PM Tex Beneke From Wolf Trap (the bandleader, formerly with Glenn
Miller, teams up with Helen O'Connell and Bob Eberly)
3 PM Gifted And Talented
4 PM On Two Wheels
4:30 Sneak Previews
5 PM Critics' Place
6 PM Firing Line (Maurice Stans, treasurer of the 1972 Nixon re-election
campaign, discusses Watergate.)
7 PM Maryland Newswrap
7:30 Agronsky & Company
8 PM Meeting Of Minds (actors playing historical figures recall their lives
and times with host Steve Allen; tonight: Bernard Behrens as Aristotle,
Alfred Ryder as Machiavelli, Jayne Meadows Allen as Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, Keye Luke as Sun Yat-sen)
9 PM Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie (Part 3)
10 PM Pennies From Heaven (Part 4)
sign off 11:15 PM

WHAG Ch. 25 Hagerstown, MD (NBC)

7:30 Bay City Rollers
8 AM Alvin And The Chipmunks
8:30 Fantastic Four
9 AM Godzilla Super 90
10:30 Daffy Duck
11 AM New Fred And Barney Show
11:30 Jetsons
12 N Buford And The Galloping Ghost
12:30 Fabulous Funnies
1 PM Marlo And The Magic Movie Machine (Marlo goes
to Australia and learns to throw a boomerang.)
1:30 Wild Kingdom
2 PM Wrestling
3 PM Miles To Go (a college athlete deals with epilepsy)
4 PM Baseball Warm-Up
4:15 Baseball: Reds-Dodgers (rain game: Braves-Giants)
7 PM Hee Haw (Don Williams, the Kendalls, time approximate)
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM BJ And The Bear
10 PM The Buffalo Soldiers
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
sign off 1 AM

WETA Ch. 26 Washington, DC (PBS)

8 AM Sesame Street
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Once Upon A Classic: "Fern, The Red Deer"
11 AM Washington Week In Review
11:30 Wall Street Week
12 N Book Beat (Elizabeth Hardwick talks about her novel
"Sleepless Nights," in which an aging writer reflects
on her past.)
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1 PM All About TV
1:30 Originals: Writers In America (Kenneth Miller, a/k/a
mystery writer Ross Macdonald)
2 PM Que Pasa, U.S.A.?
2:30 Latino Consortium
3 PM The Long Search (Buddhism in Sri Lanka)
4 PM Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie (Part 3)
5 PM Pro Soccer
6 PM Once Upon A Classic (same as 10 AM show)
7 PM Life Around Us (dam builders: beavers and engineers,
and how they affect ecology)
7:30 Here's To Your Health (common ailments anyone can treat)
8 PM Meeting Of Minds
9 PM Royal Heritage (the influence of King George IV)
10 PM The Best Of Families (Part 3)
11 PM The New Kup's Show

WBFF Ch. 45 Baltimore (Ind.)

7 AM Cartoons
7:15 Vegetable Soup
7:45 Outlook (senior citizens' program)
8 AM Open Wide (dentistry)
8:15 Baltimore Department Of Social Services
8:30 Baltimore Community Relations Commission
8:45 Baltimore Urban Services Agency
9 AM Movie: "Dig That Uranium" (the Bowery Boys, from '56)
10:30 Movie: "Blondie On A Budget"
12 N Hopalong Cassidy
12:30 Rifleman
1 PM TBA
1:30 Indianapolis 500 Festival Parade
3:30 AIAW Gymnastics Championships: Eastern and Western Regional
Finals
4:30 Wrestling (WWF)
5:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
6 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
6:30 Get Smart
7 PM Hogan's Heroes
7:30 Sanford And Son
8 PM Hee Haw
9 PM Movie: "Virginia City"
11:30 Movie: "Beast From 20,000 Fathoms"
12:55 Hurricane Express (serial that probably aired in theaters on
Saturday mornings in the '40s)

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

4:30 Growing Years
5 PM Pearls (preview of a PBS series about the lives and contributions
of Asian-Americans)
5:30 Virginia Forum
6 PM Que Pasa, U.S.A.?
6:30 Studio See
7 PM Gettin' Over (show for teenagers)
7:30 Michael Joe's Memorial Day Show
8 PM Originals: Women In Art (Mary Cassatt)
8:30 Originals: Writers In America (same as Ch. 26)
9 PM Movie: "Algiers" (Charles Boyer as Pepe le Moko and the classic
line, "Come wiz me to ze Casbah," no doubt the inspiration for
Pepe Le Pew)
sign off 10:30 PM
 
WMAR Ch. 2 Baltimore (CBS)

2 PM Baseball: Orioles-Tigers

Out of curiosity, I checked retrosheet, the 'old baseball box scores' site. This game lasted 16 innings, and over 5 hours, so a lot of 'pre-empted regular programming' that day! (I wonder if WMAR might have run Andy after the game, at 7:30; it sounds like something some markets further south might have done!)
 
onairb said:
WMAR Ch. 2 Baltimore (CBS)

2 PM Baseball: Orioles-Tigers

Out of curiosity, I checked retrosheet, the 'old baseball box scores' site. This game lasted 16 innings, and over 5 hours, so a lot of 'pre-empted regular programming' that day! (I wonder if WMAR might have run Andy after the game, at 7:30; it sounds like something some markets further south might have done!)

As they had a 6PM newscast, I would think they went to news after the game, then right to CBS prime-time at 8.
 
bpatrick said:
WRC Ch. 4 Washington, DC (NBC)
WGAL Ch. 8 Lancaster, PA (NBC)
WHAG Ch. 25 Hagerstown, MD (NBC)

8 AM Alvin And The Chipmunks

This must have been reruns of The Alvin Show from 1961. Alvin and the Chipmunks would not premiere on NBC until the fall of 1983.
 
9 PM Movie: "Algiers" (Charles Boyer as Pepe le Moko and the classic
line, "Come wiz me to ze Casbah," no doubt the inspiration for
Pepe Le Pew)

Always wondered where that line came from! I think I first heard it in a 1940s Popeye cartoon-one of the handful co-starring 'Shorty', a short-lived (no pun intended) sidekick of the Sailor Man, who actually put the moves on Olive in one cartoon(her eyes were like 'limpid pools'...)
Boyer's character's name must have been the inspiration for Le skunque romantique, although Blanc and other sources say the skunk's voice was based on Maurice Chevalier.
 
bpatrick said:
WTTG Ch. 5 Washington, DC (Ind.)

10:30 Juke-Box (Marmalade, Guys 'n' Dolls, Ace String Driven
Thing, Sweet)


WGAL Ch. 8 Lancaster, PA (NBC)

1 AM Juke-Box
...Ace (their "How Long" was a U.S. hit circa '75) and String Driven Thing were two separate acts. And this lineup of acts, taken from 1976 episodes of London Weekend Television's Supersonic, show why Jukebox got very little viewership traction in '78-'79 -- these were all ancient, pre-punk glam rock and pop acts that even the British had quit buying the records of years earlier. I myself loved it, but it had little relevance to the British rock acts -- Elvis Costello, Dire Straits, Sad Cafe, Nick Lowe -- that were popping up on Saturday Night Live, The Midnight Special and even Don Kirshner's Rock Concert...

WGAL Ch. 8 Lancaster, PA (NBC)

7:30 Bay City Rollers


WHAG Ch. 25 Hagerstown, MD (NBC)

7:30 Bay City Rollers
...now, this is an interesting case. Although NBC officially cancelled The Bay City Rollers Show in November 1979, the show's head writer, Mark Evanier, found out NBC was feeding it to affiliates in the half-hour before the "official" start of their Saturday morning lineup as late as 1982. Apparently, someone at NBC thought the network had unlimited runs of the show (they didn't) and told master control in New York to send it out, but it wasn't until several years later that someone else at NBC ordered it stopped. Evanier alerted executive producer Marty Krofft about the unauthorised reruns, and when NBC finally pulled the plug on the feeds, Krofft then approached NBC to demand fee payments for the post-November 1979 runs. It actually generated a "0.0" Nielsen rating in that early morning slot, leading NBC to try to haggle on the amount they owed Sid & Marty Krofft, Mark Evanier, the Bay City Rollers and anyone else involved in the show, but the Kroffts dug their heels in and, according to Evanier, NBC eventually ponied up for all of the money they owed...
 
Ultimajock said:
bpatrick said:
WTTG Ch. 5 Washington, DC (Ind.)

10:30 Juke-Box (Marmalade, Guys 'n' Dolls, Ace String Driven
Thing, Sweet)


WGAL Ch. 8 Lancaster, PA (NBC)

1 AM Juke-Box
...Ace (their "How Long" was a U.S. hit circa '75) and String Driven Thing were two separate acts. And this lineup of acts, taken from 1976 episodes of London Weekend Television's Supersonic, show why Jukebox got very little viewership traction in '78-'79 -- these were all ancient, pre-punk glam rock and pop acts that even the British had quit buying the records of years earlier. I myself loved it, but it had little relevance to the British rock acts -- Elvis Costello, Dire Straits, Sad Cafe, Nick Lowe -- that were popping up on Saturday Night Live, The Midnight Special and even Don Kirshner's Rock Concert...

WGAL Ch. 8 Lancaster, PA (NBC)

7:30 Bay City Rollers


WHAG Ch. 25 Hagerstown, MD (NBC)

7:30 Bay City Rollers
...now, this is an interesting case. Although NBC officially cancelled The Bay City Rollers Show in November 1979, the show's head writer, Mark Evanier, found out NBC was feeding it to affiliates in the half-hour before the "official" start of their Saturday morning lineup as late as 1982. Apparently, someone at NBC thought the network had unlimited runs of the show (they didn't) and told master control in New York to send it out, but it wasn't until several years later that someone else at NBC ordered it stopped. Evanier alerted executive producer Marty Krofft about the unauthorised reruns, and when NBC finally pulled the plug on the feeds, Krofft then approached NBC to demand fee payments for the post-November 1979 runs. It actually generated a "0.0" Nielsen rating in that early morning slot, leading NBC to try to haggle on the amount they owed Sid & Marty Krofft, Mark Evanier, the Bay City Rollers and anyone else involved in the show, but the Kroffts dug their heels in and, according to Evanier, NBC eventually ponied up for all of the money they owed...

Thanks for the info on "Juke Box." I remember Ace and "How Long" being on the charts when I was in college, but knowing that this show came from England, somebody could assume there was a group called Ace and String Driven Thing; obviously there was a typo (a comma left out) in the guest listing for this show.

Somebody mentioned "Alvin And The Chipmunks": I feel sure that those were the 1961 "Alvin Show" episodes, but by the early '80s there was renewed interest in the boys so that Ross Bagadasarian Jr. and his wife Janice Karmen (sp?) came up with the show that debuted in 1983; interestingly, at one point in the '80s, WKEF, then the NBC affiliate in Dayton, was carrying the new episodes, while CBS affiliate WHIO carried the 1961 episodes.
 
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