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Retro: West Virginia Sunday, September 25, 1977

From TV Guide, West Virginia Edition:

WSAZ Ch. 3 Huntington (NBC)

7 AM Christopher Closeup (Robert Young talks about
his career and sex and violence in the movies.)
7:30 This Is The Life
8 AM Mormon Choir
8:30 Oral Roberts
9 AM Gospel Singing Jubilee (the Florida Boys, the Inspirations,
the Hinsons, and the Dixie Echoes)
10 AM Christ Is The Answer
10:30 Big Blue Marble
11 AM TV Chapel
11:30 At Issue
12 N Meet The Press
12:30 NFL '77 (the court case involving George Atkinson of the
Raiders and Steelers coach Chuck Noll)
1 PM NFL Football: Seahawks-Bengals
4 PM NFL Football: Raiders-Steelers (time approximate)
7 PM Wonderful World Of Disney: "King Of The Grizzlies," from 1970
(time approximate)
9 PM NBC Movie: "Kill Me If You Can" (Alan Alda as convicted murderer
Caryl Chessman)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Jezebel" (Bette Davis as a Civil War-era Southern vixen in
a movie that got overshadowed by "Gone With The Wind.")

WCMH Ch. 4 Columbus, OH (NBC)

6:30 Jerry Falwell
7:30 Your Health
7:55 Black Cameo
8 AM Day Of Discovery
8:30 Jimmy Swaggart
9 AM Robert Schuller (Carol Lawrence and Jimmy Carter's sister Ruth
Carter Stapleton are guests.)
10 AM Catholic Mass
10:30 Yours For The Asking
11 AM Doctors On Call (subject: sexually-transmitted diseases)
11:30 Focus On Columbus
12 N Meet The Press
12:30 News Conference 4
1 PM NFL Football: Seahawks-Bengals
4 PM NFL Football: Raiders-Steelers (time approximate)
7 PM Wonderful World Of Disney (time approximate)
9 PM NBC Movie: "Kill Me If You Can"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Night People"
1:30 Peyton Place

WOAY Ch. 4 Oak Hill, WV (ABC)

7 AM Jerry Falwell
8 AM Ernest Barley's Good News Hour
8:30 Rev. Leonard Repass
9:30 Miracle Of Deliverance
10 AM Flames Of Revival
10:30 Jabberjaw
11 AM Grape Ape
11:30 Animals, Animals, Animals (the International Crane
Foundation in Wisconsin, set up to help endangered
species)
12 N Rex Humbard (Rev. Humbard recalls an encounter with
Elvis in Las Vegas and tells why he was chosen as a
pallbearer at Elvis' funeral.)
1 PM Spirit Of Victory
1:30 700 Club
3 PM Issues And Answers (delay from 12 N)
3:30 College Football '77 (delay from 12:30 PM)
4 PM Directions (Rhodesian blacks discuss life under white
rule, delay from 1 PM)
4:30 Medix (Jane Wyman is among those featured on a program
about arthritis.)
5 PM Movie: "The Charge Of The Light Brigade"
7 PM Hardy Boys
8 PM Six Million Dollar Man
9 PM ABC Movie: "The Longest Yard"
11:30 ABC News (Bill Beutel)
11:45 Rev. Leonard Repass
12:15 Sweet Hour Of Prayer

WHIS (WVVA) Ch. 6 Bluefield, WV (NBC)

6:30 Gospel Singing Jubilee (Jeff Steinberg, the Inspirations, the
Hinsons, the Dixie Echoes, the Florida Boys)
7 AM Viola Clark Spirituals
7:30 Christian Viewpoint
8 AM What The Bible Plainly Says
8:30 Gospel Sing
9 AM Oral Roberts
9:30 Rev. Leonard Repass
10 AM Day Of Discovery
10:30 Rex Humbard
11:30 West Virginia Football Highlights (highlights of WVU at Kentucky)
12:30 NFL '77
1 PM NFL Football: Colts (still in Baltimore)-Jets
4 PM NFL Football: Raiders-Steelers (time approximate)
7 PM Wonderful World Of Disney (time approximate)
9 PM NBC Movie: "Kill Me If You Can"
11 PM News
11:30 NBC Movie: "Elvis: That's The Way It Is" (films of Elvis performing
in Las Vegas in 1970)

WTVN (WSYX) Ch. 6 Columbus, OH (ABC)

7 AM Rev. Eddie Saunders
7:30 Show My People (Bob Jones)
8 AM Grace Cathedral
8:30 Celebration Of Praise
9 AM Rex Humbard
10 AM Communique
10:30 Hot Fudge
11 AM Notre Dame Highlights (yesterday's game at Purdue)
12 N Issues And Answers
12:30 College Football '77
1 PM Directions (same as WOAY)
1:30 America's Black Forum
2 PM Aware
2:30 Animals, Animals, Animals (same as WOAY)
3 PM Mod Squad
4 PM Movie: "The Caper Of The Golden Bulls"
6 PM Let's Deal With It (current affairs, nothing to do with a
certain game show hosted by Monty Hall or Wayne Brady)
6:30 News
7 PM Hardy Boys
8 PM Six Million Dollar Man
9 PM ABC Movie: "The Longest Yard"
11:30 News
11:45 ABC News
12 M Second City TV
12:30 The FBI

WTRF Ch. 7 Wheeling (NBC/ABC)

7 AM Gospel Singing Jubilee
8 AM Revival Of America
8:30 Spiritual Awakening (WRAL has an all-African-American gospel-
music program by this name on Sundays at 6 AM)
9 AM Oral Roberts
9:30 Robert Schuller
10:30 This Is The Life
11 AM WVU Football Highlights (same as WHIS/WVVA)
12 N Meet The Press
12:30 NFL '77
1 PM NFL Football: Seahawks-Bengals
4 PM NFL Football: Raiders-Steelers (time approximate)
7 PM Wonderful World Of Disney (time approximate)
9 PM NBC Movie: "Kill Me If You Can"
11 PM News
11:30 NBC Movie: "Elvis: That's The Way It Is"

WCHS Ch. 8 Charleston, WV (CBS)

6:30 Talking Hands
7 AM Thinking In Black
7:30 Jerry Falwell
8:30 Day Of Discovery
9 AM Rev. Leonard Repass
9:30 What Does The Bible Plainly Say?
10 AM Christian Center
10:30 Rex Humbard
11:30 WVU Highlights (same as WHIS/WVVA)
12:30 The NFL Today
1 PM NFL Football: Falcons-Redskins
4 PM Movie: TBA (time approximate)
6 PM Face The Nation (delay from 11:30 AM)
6:30 30 Minutes
7 PM 60 Minutes
8 PM CBS Movie: "That's Entertainment, Part 2"
11 PM News
11:15 CBS News (Ed Bradley, not yet a correspondent
on "60 Minutes")
11:30 700 Club
12:30 Notre Dame Highlights (Notre Dame-Purdue)

WSWP Ch. 9 Beckley, WV (PBS)

8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 Big Blue Marble
10 AM Once Upon A Classic ("The Man From Nowhere")
11 AM Sesame Street
12 N Electric Company
12:30 Consumer Survival Kit
1 PM Tennis: men's and women's singles finals and mixed-doubles
finals at the Friends of Channel 9 and WVPB Radio Tennis
Tournament
9 PM Dickens Of London (Part 5, time approximate)
10 PM Group Portrait (four New York artists: sculptors Mary Frank and
John Kenneth Snelson, painters Norman Bluhm and John White)
11 PM Art In Public Places (outdoor art in New York City)
sign off 11:30 PM

WNOW-cTV Ch. 9 Parkersburg, WV (Cable)

12 N The Champions ('60s British series about three spies transformed
into superheroes)
1 PM Movie: "Intermezzo"
2:30 Movie: "The Disappearance Of Flight 412"
4 PM Adventure Theater
5 PM Ghost And Mrs. Muir
5:30 Dick Van Dyke
6 PM Celebrity (guest: Barbi Benton of "Hee Haw")
7 PM Testimony Time Today
sign off after this

WBNS Ch. 10 Columbus, OH (CBS)

6 AM This Is The Life
6:30 America's Problems And Challenges
7 AM Treehouse Club
7:30 Urban League
8 AM Church Service (Baptist)
8:30 James Robison Presents
9 AM Oral Roberts
9:30 It Is Written
10 AM Movie: "The King And I"
12:30 The Issue
12:55 NFL Follies
1 PM NFL Football: Saints-Lions
4 PM Movie: "The Princess And The Pirate" (Bob Hope,
Walter Brennan, from '44) (time approximate)
6 PM The Lions Are Free (actor Bill Travers returns to "Born
Free" country to see how the lions are doing and gets
a warm reception from them)
7 PM 60 Minutes
8 PM CBS Movie: "That's Entertainment, Part 2"
11 PM News
11:15 CBS News
11:30 Face The Nation
12 M Movie: "Loving" (a comedy, nothing to do with the
ABC soap)

WBOY Ch. 12 Clarksburg, WV (ABC/NBC)

8 AM Rev. E.J. Daniels
8:30 Rev. Leonard Repass
9 AM Pyle Gospel Party (I'm quite sure this is neither Gomer nor
Goober.)
9:30 Day Of Discovery
10 AM Rev. O.D. Harmon
10:30 Gospel Travelers
11 AM Rex Humbard
12 N WVU Football Highlights (same as WHIS/WVVA)
1 PM NFL Football: Seahawks-Bengals
4 PM NFL Football: Raiders-Steelers (time approximate)
7 PM Hardy Boys (time approximate)
8 PM Six Million Dollar Man
9 PM ABC Movie: "The Longest Yard"
11:30 News
12 M Issues And Answers
12:30 Community Report

WOWK Ch. 13 Huntington (ABC)

7 AM Newsmaker '77
7:30 Amazing Grace Bible Class
8 AM Dr. E.J. Daniels Presents Happiness Is
8:30 Rex Humbard
9:30 Rev. Jim Franklin
10 AM Jimmy Swaggart
10:30 Garner Ted Armstrong
11 AM Rev. Henry Mahan
11:30 Medix (biofeedback as a treatment for migraines,
epilepsy, insomnia, and back pain)
12 N Evangelistic Outreach
12:30 Rev. Willard Wilcox
1 PM Issues And Answers
1:30 Town Topics
2 PM Neighborhood Forum
2:30 Tony The Pony
3 PM Cliffwood Avenue Kids
3:30 Movie: "The King And I"
6 PM Fran Curci: Kentucky Football (highlights of UK and
West Virginia, played yesterday at Lexington)
6:30 Newsmaker '77
7 PM Hardy Boys
8 PM Six Million Dollar Man
9 PM ABC Movie: "The Longest Yard"
11:30 News
12 M PTL Club
1 AM ABC News

WTAP Ch. 15 Parkersburg, WV (NBC)

8:30 Open Bible
9 AM Ernest Angley
10 AM Gospel Singing Jubilee
11 AM Rex Humbard
12 N Meet The Press
12:30 NFL '77
1 PM NFL Football: Seahawks-Bengals
4 PM NFL Football: Raiders-Steelers (time approximate)
7 PM Wonderful World Of Disney (time approximate)
9 PM NBC Movie: "Kill Me If You Can"
11 PM News
11:30 NBC Movie: "Elvis: That's The Way It Is"

WXIX Ch. 19 Cincinnati (Ind.)

7:15 Perspective
8 AM Jerry Falwell
9 AM Leroy Jenkins
9:30 Tom And Jerry
10 AM Wonderama
12 N Movie: "Tora! Tora! Tora!"
2:30 Movie: "Fighting Fools" (the Bowery Boys)
4 PM Movie: "Hard Driver" (Jeff Bridges and Valerie Perrine in
a tale of North Carolina stock-car racers and their fans,
from '73)
6 PM Movie: "Damn Yankees"
8 PM Movie: "Anna And The King Of Siam" (later the musical "The
King And I" and the short-lived 1972 CBS series "Anna And
The King")
10 PM Love, American Style
10:30 Love, American Style (the pilot for "Wait Till Your Father Gets
Home")
11 PM Jerry Falwell
12 M David Susskind (topics: baldness, exterminating cockroaches)

WOUB Ch. 20 Athens, OH (PBS)

8 AM Sesame Street
9 AM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30 Sesame Street
10:30 Zoom
11 AM Electric Company
11:30 Once Upon A Classic ("The Man From Nowhere")
12:30 A Few Good Boys
1 PM Nova
2 PM Great Performances: Leonard Bernstein leads the
Vienna Philharmonic in Mahler's Symphony No. 4
in G Major
3:30 College Football: Oklahoma-Ohio State (taped yesterday)
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Ohio Writers (author Walter Tevis)
7:30 Antiques
8 PM Evening At Pops
9 PM Dickens Of London (Part 5)
10 PM Childhood (a woman tries to raise three sons in Depression-
era Wales)

WMUL (WPBY) Ch. 33 Huntington (PBS)

1 PM Evening At Pops
2 PM Great Performances
3:30 Performance Jazz (the Fred Thaxton Trio)
4 PM Documentary Showcase ("Murder One" profiles six convicted
murderers in Georgia and North Carolina.)
5 PM In Pursuit Of Liberty (freedom of thought: can it be absolute?)
6 PM Americana ("The Only Game In Town" profiles ghetto youth hoping
to make it to the NBA.)
6:30 Wall Street Week
7 PM The Onedin Line
8 PM Evening At Pops
9 PM Dickens Of London (Part 5)
10 PM Tom Wolfe's Los Angeles (youth gangs, bus riders, and middle-class
liberals are grist for Wolfe's satirical mill; in one sketch, a teen-ager
and a cop team up to give a TV scriptwriter misleading information
about life on the streets)
11 PM Monty Python's Flying Circus
11:30 Janaki
 
bpatrick said:
WCHS Ch. 8 Charleston, WV (CBS)

6:30 30 Minutes
7 PM 60 Minutes

There was actually a children's version of "60 Minutes" called "30 Minutes" which aired Saturday mornings on CBS in the late '70s-early '80s.
 
johnnya2k6 said:
bpatrick said:
WCHS Ch. 8 Charleston, WV (CBS)

6:30 30 Minutes
7 PM 60 Minutes

There was actually a children's version of "60 Minutes" called "30 Minutes" which aired Saturday mornings on CBS in the late '70s-early '80s.

The "30 Minutes" here was likely a local program, as CBS's "30 Minutes" didn't start until 1978.
 
I assume WXIX, Channel 19, from Cincinnati got onto the cable systems there at the time because it was an independent station. In 1977, the station's over-the-air signal must have been picked up by the cable company (companies) in that area and sent to homes via their system(s).
 
azumanga said:
johnnya2k6 said:
bpatrick said:
WCHS Ch. 8 Charleston, WV (CBS)

6:30 30 Minutes
7 PM 60 Minutes

There was actually a children's version of "60 Minutes" called "30 Minutes" which aired Saturday mornings on CBS in the late '70s-early '80s.

The "30 Minutes" here was likely a local program, as CBS's "30 Minutes" didn't start until 1978.

By comparison...
Here's one local version of "30 Minutes" (from WTEN, an ABC station in Albany, NY): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaElX5ENQnM
And here's CBS': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waPwi0GXu0E
 
bpatrick said:
WXIX Ch. 19 Cincinnati (Ind.)

4 PM Movie: "Hard Driver" (Jeff Bridges and Valerie Perrine in
a tale of North Carolina stock-car racers and their fans,
from '73)
...the title this film was theatrically released under was The Last American Hero, and the theme song used in it was Jim Croce's recording of "I Got a Name" by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox. Although the film had been released in July 1973, the release of the Croce 45rpm single was delayed so as not to interfere with the sales of "Bad Bad Leroy Brown," which was #1 on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles chart that month. Although Croce had taped a performance of "I Got a Name" for The Midnight Special, the single did not enter the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 until after Croce's death in a Louisiana plane crash that September...
 
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