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Retro: Washington-Baltimore Saturday, October 8, 1977

From TV Guide, Washington-Baltimore Edition:

WMAR Ch. 2 Baltimore (CBS)

6:30 Sunrise Semester: "Man's Place In Nature"
7 AM Wacko (guests: Richard Dawson, musical group
the Hotcakes, delay from 12 N)
7:30 What's New, Mr. Magoo? (delay from 9 AM)
8 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9 AM Fun World
9:30 Skatebirds
10:30 Space Academy
11 AM Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour
12 N Professor Kool
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Secrets Of Isis
1:30 CBS Children's Film Festival (two animated films:
"The Legend Of Paul Bunyan" and "The Legend
Of John Henry")
2 PM Public Affairs
2:30 Ironside
3:30 NFL Game Of The Week
4 PM In Search Of... (topic: reincarnation)
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular (U.S. Grand Prix (East) from
Watkins Glen, NY; Pro Karate Championships from
Indianapolis; Part 2 of the World's Strongest Man Competition)
6 PM Hee Haw (Jerry Reed, Sammi Smith)
7 PM News
7:30 Candid Camera (subjects make a commercial for a skin cream
that's really paste; Fannie Flagg gets more wallpaper on her helper
than on the wall)
8 PM Bob Newhart
8:30 We've Got Each Other
9 PM The Jeffersons
9:30 Tony Randall
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Earth II"

WRC Ch. 4 Washington, DC (NBC)

6:30 Knowledge
7 AM Big Blue Marble
7:30 Pink Panther
8 AM C.B. Bears
9 AM Young Sentinels
9:30 New Archie/Sabrina Hour
10:30 I Am The Greatest: The Adventures Of
Muhammad Ali
11 AM Thunder
11:30 Search And Rescue
12 N Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
12:30 Red Hand Gang
1 PM Baseball: ALCS Game 4 (Yankees defeated Kansas City,
6-4, won the series three games to two, and beat the
Dodgers in the World Series)
4 PM Jerry Visits (Jerry Dunphy, time approximate)
4:30 Last Of The Wild
5 PM Marty Robbins' Spotlight
5:30 World Of Survival
6 PM Shari Show (Shari Lewis)
6:30 NBC News (anchor not given)
7 PM On The Record
7:30 Family Feud
8 PM Baseball: NLCS Game 4 (Dodgers beat the Phillies, 4-1,
clinched the series 3-1, lost to the Yankees 4-2 in the
World Series.)
11:20 News
11:50 Saturday Night Live (hostess Madeline Kahn; British comedian
Barry Humphries; musical guest Taj Mahal)
1:20 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (Andy Gibb, REO Speedwagon,
Skip Stephenson, the Village Idiots)

WTTG Ch. 5 Washington, DC (Ind.)

6:30 Animal World
7 AM Bullwinkle
7:30 Cartoon Playhouse
8 AM Underdog
8:30 H.R. Pufnstuf
9 AM Porky Pig
9:30 Casper
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Jetsons
11 AM Movie: "Sinbad The Sailor" (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
and Maureen O'Hara, from '46)
1 PM Movie: "Then Came Bronson" (pilot for the 1969-70
NBC series)
3 PM Movie: "The Tartars"
4:30 Ghost And Mrs. Muir
5 PM Soul Train (guest: Lamont Dozier)
6 PM My Three Sons
6:30 Family Affair
7 PM Andy Griffith (guest: Don Rickles as peddler Newton Monroe)
7:30 Brady Bunch
8 PM Movie: "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington"
10:25 News
11 PM Odd Couple
11:30 Movie: "A Fistful Of Dollars"
1:30 Movie: "One Minute To Zero"
3:40 Movie: "Honeymoon" (watch for Guy Madison, aka Wild
Bill Hickok, and a grownup Shirley Temple, from '47)
5:10 Movie: "Annabel Takes A Tour" (Lucille Ball, from '38)

WJLA Ch. 7 Washington, DC (ABC)

6:30 Treehouse Club
7 AM Animals, Animals, Animals (a Native American folklorist
demonstrates the Buffalo Dance, delay from Sun 11:30 AM)
7:30 Hot Fudge
8 AM Superfriends
9 AM Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics
11 AM Krofft Supershow
12 N ABC Weekend Special (Jodie Foster as "Rookie Of The Year,"
about a girl who battles sex discrimination when she wins a
place on her brother's baseball team, program expands to
one hour today only)
1 PM American Bandstand (guest: Charo, 30 minutes today only)
1:30 Greatest Sports Legends (profiled: Elgin Baylor)
2 PM Wide World Of Sports (Southern 500 from Darlington, SC;
New York State Firemen's Competition)
3:30 College Football Pregame Show
3:45 College Football: Alabama-USC
7 PM News (time approximate)
7:30 Wild Wild World Of Animals
8 PM Fish
8:30 Operation Petticoat
9 PM Starsky & Hutch
10 PM Love Boat (passengers: Loretta Swit, Robert Reed, Kristy
McNichol, Scott Baio)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Dial 'M' For Murder"
1:30 ABC News (anchor not given)

WGAL Ch. 8 Lancaster, PA (NBC)

6:30 Lone Ranger
7 AM Max B. Nimble
7:30 Sunshine Corners
8 AM C.B. Bears
9 AM Young Sentinels
9:30 New Archie/Sabrina Hour
10:30 I Am The Greatest: The Adventures Of
Muhammad Ali
11 AM Thunder
11:30 Search And Rescue
12 N Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
12:30 Red Hand Gang
1 PM Baseball (see Ch. 4)
4 PM Jim & Jesse (time approximate)
4:30 That Nashville Music
5 PM World Of Survival
5:30 Porter Wagoner (guest: Mickey Gilley)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Public Affairs
7:30 Spotlight Series
8 PM Baseball (see Ch. 4)
11:20 News
11:50 Saturday Night Live
1:20 News

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

6 AM Christopher Closeup
6:30 Best Of Morning Break
7 AM Arthur & Company
7:30 Secrets Of Isis (delay from 1 PM)
8 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9 AM What's New, Mr. Magoo?
9:30 Skatebirds
10:30 Space Academy
11 AM Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour
12 N Wacko (guests: Dick Martin, the Sylvers)
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Sneakers
1:30 CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM Movie: "Change Of Habit" (Elvis's last film, from '69,
where he plays a doctor working with three nuns to
help ghetto dwellers; Mary Tyler Moore also stars.)
4 PM This Is The NFL
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM Agronsky & Company
7:30 Virginia Governor's Race
8 PM Bob Newhart
8:30 We've Got Each Other
9 PM The Jeffersons
9:30 Tony Randall
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM News
11:30 College Football: Syracuse-Maryland (taped earlier today)

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 Hot Fudge
9 AM Young Sentinels
9:30 New Archie/Sabrina Hour
10:30 Marlo And The Magic Movie Machine
11:30 Search And Rescue
12 N Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
12:30 Adam-12
1 PM Baseball (see Ch. 4)
4 PM TBA
5 PM Bowling
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Bowling
7:30 Hollywood Squares
8 PM Baseball (see Ch. 4)
11:20 News
11:50 Saturday Night Live
1:20 The FBI

WJZ Ch. 13 Baltimore (ABC)

6 AM Success Without Stress
6:30 Metro
7 AM Big Blue Marble
7:30 Bob Turk And The Sunshine Kids
8 AM Superfriends
9 AM Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics
11 AM Krofft Supershow
12 N ABC Weekend Special
1 PM Blackpoint
1:30 TBA
2 PM Wide World Of Sports
3:30 College Football Pregame Show
3:45 College Football: Alabama-USC
7 PM News (time approximate)
7:30 Metro
8 PM Fish
8:30 Operation Petticoat
9 PM Starsky & Hutch
10 PM Love Boat
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Return To Peyton Place"
1:55 News
2:05 ABC News
2:20 For The Moment (how a child's moving away from
home affects his or her relationship with their parents)
2:50 Movie: "Hitting A New High"

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

6:30 Sunrise Semester
7 AM Peninsula Perspective
7:30 At Home Today
8 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9 AM What's New, Mr. Magoo?
9:30 Skatebirds
10:30 Space Academy
11 AM Batman/Tarzan Adventure Hour
12 N Wacko
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Secrets Of Isis
1:30 CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM Peninsula Perspective
2:30 Wide World Of Sports (joined in progress)
3:30 College Football Pregame Show
3:45 College Football: Alabama-USC
7 PM Lawrence Welk (favorites from the '30s, time
approximate)
8 PM Bob Newhart
8:30 We've Got Each Other
9 PM The Jeffersons
9:30 Tony Randall
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Coogan's Bluff"

WDCA Ch. 20 Washington, DC (Ind.)

7 AM Consultation/Update On Health
7:30 God's Good News
8 AM International Voice Of Victory
8:30 Rex Humbard
9:30 Oral Roberts
10 AM Robert Schuller
11 AM Burns And Allen
11:30 Topper
12 N Movie: "Abbott And Costello Meet The
Invisible Man"
1:30 Movie: "Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's
Daughter"
3 PM Beverly Hillbillies
3:30 Bewitched
4 PM Courtship Of Eddie's Father
4:30 Adam-12
5 PM Emergency One!
6 PM Star Trek
7 PM Space: 1999
8 PM Movie: "Snow Devils"
10 PM Challenge
10:30 Face To Face
11 PM Second City TV
11:30 Movie: "Curse Of The Vampires"
1 AM 700 Club
2:30 The Rock

WAPB Ch. 22 Annapolis/WCPB Ch. 28 Salisbury/
WWPB Ch. 25 Hagerstown/WMPB Ch. 67 Baltimore (PBS)

7:20 Urban Development
7:45 Roman Empire And Its Legacy
8:10 Sociological Perspectives
8:35 Systems Management
9 AM Fundamentals Of Biology
10:30 Personnel Management
12 N Searching Society
1:30 Human Sexuality
2:30 As Man Behaves
3:30 G.E.D.: High School Diploma
4:30 Critics' Place
5:30 Americana
6 PM Book Beat
6:30 Consumer Survival Kit
7 PM Maryland Newswrap
7:30 Agronsky At Large
8 PM Dickens Of London (Part 6)
9 PM Canal Zone (how Americans live and work in
the Panama Canal Zone)
sign off 12 M

WHAG Ch. 25 Hagerstown, MD (NBC)

7 AM Changed Lives
7:30 Open Door Church
8 AM C.B. Bears
9 AM Young Sentinels
9:30 New Archie/Sabrina Hour
10:30 I Am The Greatest: The Adventures Of
Muhammad Ali
11 AM Thunder
11:30 Search And Rescue
12 N Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
12:30 Red Hand Gang
1 PM Baseball (see Ch, 4)
4 PM Wrestling (time approximate)
5 PM Public Policy Forums (the interactions of academia,
politics, and public policy)
6 PM Ocean Fishing
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Baseball (see Ch. 4)
11:20 Secret Sleuth (Dora Hall as a journalist out to catch
a suspected spy; watch for Scatman Crothers and
Sid Melton)
11:50 Saturday Night Live
sign off 1:20 AM

WETA Ch. 26 Washington, DC (PBS)

7:30 Carrascolendas
8 AM Sesame Street
9 AM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30 Electric Company
10 AM Once Upon A Classic ("Robin Hood," part 1 of 12)
10:30 Daniel Foster, M.D.
11 AM Parent Effectiveness
11:30 How Do Your Children Grow?
12 N Remembering Alfred Lunt (not to be confused with
Allen Funt, he and wife Lynn Fontanne were arguably
the first couple of the Broadway theater)
12:30 Equal Justice Under Law (conclusion of "The Trial Of
Aaron Burr")
1 PM Paint Along With Nancy Kominsky
1:30 The Way It Was
2 PM American Short Story
3:30 Art In Public Places
4 PM Destination America
5 PM Nova (the winter roosting of blackbirds in the South)
6 PM Pro Soccer: Aston Villa-Birmingham City
7 PM Africa File (interviews with three residents of West Africa)
7:30 Music (first of 10 aimed at elementary-school kids; topics
tonight are the diversity of musical styles and the difference
between music and noise)
8 PM Wodehouse Playhouse: "Romance At Droitgate Spa"
8:30 World War I ("Wilson And Peace" recounts the Versailles peace
conference and the Fourteen Points--this is the 1964-65 CBS
series which I hope someone reruns next year for the 100th
anniversary of the start of the war.)
9 PM Making Television Dance (Twyla Tharp and Mikhail Baryshnikov
show how video technology and dance are welded together.)
10 PM Movie: "Our Daily Bread"
sign off 11:30 PM

WBFF Ch. 45 Baltimore (Ind.)

7 AM Popeye/Cartoons
7:45 Three Score And More
8 AM Baltimore Fire Department
8:15 Baltimore Department Of Social Services
8:30 Baltimore Community Relations Commission
8:45 Baltimore Urban Services Agency
9 AM Swiss Family Robinson
9:30 Highway Patrol
10 AM Notre Dame Highlights (taped: Michigan State-
Notre Dame)
11 AM Bat Masterson
11:30 Lone Ranger
12 N Movie: "These Thousand Hills"
2:30 Lost City Of The Jungle
3 PM Sea Hunt
3:30 Dragnet (the 1967-70 episodes)
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
8 PM Perry Mason
9 PM Name Of The Game
10:30 College Football: Syracuse-Maryland (taped earlier today)
1 AM Movie: "Blood And Lace" (watch for Melody Patterson, aka
Wrangler Jane on "F Troop," from '71)
2:35 Lost City Of The Jungle
2:55 News

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

4:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
5 PM Curious I
5:30 Crafty Creations
6 PM Images Of Aging
7 PM A Chance To Be
7:30 Music
8 PM Poisoning Of Michigan (the contamination of
Michigan livestock in 1973 with the toxic
fire retardant PBB)
9 PM Making Television Dance
10 PM College Football: Virginia Tech-William & Mary
(taped earlier today)
sign off 12 M
 
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Please use abbreviations and keep the headline short enough to show the full date (including the year).
 
B. Patrick took us back to October 8th said:
WRC Ch. 4 Washington, DC (NBC)

6:30 NBC News (anchor not given)

According to Brooks and Marsh, John Hart was the weekend anchor of NBC's evening newscasts (both Saturdays and Sundays) in the 1977/78 season. He had been with CBS for a number of years in the late 1960's and early 1970's, anchoring that network's "Morning News" from 1969 until he was replaced in the Summer of 1973 by the ill-fated pairing of Hughes Rudd and Sally Quinn (Quinn left CBS by year's end; Rudd remained with the show until 1977).

After being dumped from the morning job at CBS, Hart left when his contract expired and moved to NBC.

In 1988 and continuing into the very early 1990's, he was anchor of "World Monitor", a nightly newscast produced by the Christian Science Monitor and seen on both WQTV-68 in Boston (owned at the time by the Monitor) and the Discovery Channel.
 
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Please use abbreviations and keep the headline short enough to show the full date (including the year).

Where, exactly, does this need abbreviations, unless you're referring to my spelling out the words Saturday and October? I don't see where anyone else missed the date. This is the style I always use for retros and nobody else seems to have a problem with the headings, although I'm flexible enough to make the change if anyone else does have a problem.
 
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[sarcasm]Thank you for your courteous reply.[/sarcasm]

If you look at "New Posts" you'll notice the headline cuts off after "October 8" and the year is not shown. You'll notice other "retro" posters do use abbreviations, such as Bluenoser ("Retro: Winnipeg/Fargo-Grand Forks Sat, Oct 12, 1963" with the entire headline showing).
 
Since I never look at "New Posts" I wasn't aware that the date was being
cut off. In all seriousness, thanks for bringing that to my attention; I don't
know if anyone else has caught it, being that the format of this website has
changed with the new owners. Maybe it explains why a lot of dates are
being abbreviated, so your point is taken. I wish you had explained about
"New Posts" when you posted before, but I apologize for the sarcastic tone
of my answer; I haven't had complaints about retros before and didn't understand
where you were coming from.
 
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