Source: TV Guide, Western Illinois Edition
Quad Cities
4 WHBF (CBS)
6 WOC (NBC) (now KWQC)
8 WQAD (ABC)
Quincy
7 KHQA (CBS)
10 WGEM (NBC) (also secondary ABC, but not listed as such)
Springfield
20 WICS (NBC) (now ABC)
Peoria
19 WRAU (ABC) (now WHOI)
25 WEEK (NBC)
31 WMBD (CBS)
47 WTVP (PBS)
Kirksville-Ottumwa
3 KTVO (ABC)
Chicago
2 WBBM (CBS) (12 Mid. to 5 A.M. only)
9 WGN (Ind.) (now CW)
32 WFLD (Ind.) (now Fox)
Iowa City
12 KIIN (PBS) (part of Iowa Public Television)
Atlanta
17 WTBS (Ind.) (now WPCH)
All programs in color except those designated by (BW)
Ch. 12 schedules instructional programming throughout the day.
(The Chicago, Iowa City and Atlanta stations were designated as out-of-market/cable stations and were denoted with combination black-and-white bullets)
WEDNESDAY, December 24, 1980
Morning
5:30
17 Family Affair
5:55
9 Top o’ the Morning
6:00
4-25 PTL Club
7-31 Wednesday Morning (Charles Kuralt)
8 Country Day (Gary Schendel)
17 Funtime
19 700 Club
32 Newstalk
6:25
3-10 Country Day
6 New Zoo Revue
9 News
6:30
8 Richard Simmons
9 Bullwinkle
20 Your New Day (Vidal Sassoon)
32 Three Stooges (BW)
6:45
12 A.M. Weather
6:55
3 American Trail
6 Plain Talk
10 News
7:00
3-8-19 Good Morning America (David Hartman)
4 Wednesday Morning (Charles Kuralt)
6-10-20-25 Today (Tom Brokaw)
7 Farm Report (Chuck Kuppler)
9 Ray Rayner
12 Princess Knight
17 I Love Lucy (BW)
31 Bullwinkle
32 Casper the Ghost
7:15
7 Studio 7
7:30
7 Romper Room
12 Grow Older/Feel Younger
17 I Dream of Jeannie
31 Underdog
32 Magilla Gorilla
7:45
12 A.M. Weather
8:00
4-7-31 Captain Kangaroo
9 Bozo Show
12 Over Easy
17 Hazel
32 Battle of the Planets
8:30
12 Human Relations and Motivations
17 Green Acres
32 Fred Flintstone and Friends
9:00
3 PTL Club
4 Green Acres
6-10-20-25 Las Vegas Gambit
7-31 Jeffersons
8-19 Phil Donahue
9 Movie (BW): “Christmas in Connecticut” (1945)
12-47 Sesame Street
17 Movie: “The Perils of Pauline” (1967)
32 Romper Room
9:30
4-7-31 Alice
6-10-20-25 Blockbusters
32 Please Don’t Eat the Daisies
10:00
3 Phil Donahue
4-7-31 Price Is Right
6-10-20-25 Wheel of Fortune
8-19 Love Boat
12 A Christmas Portrait
32 Partridge Family
47 Studio See
10:30
6-10-20-25 Password Plus
12 Carol of the Violin
32 Green Acres
11:00
3 Love Boat (delay from 10 A.M.)
4 Let’s Make a Deal
6-10 Card Sharks
7 Search for Tomorrow (one-day delay from 11:30 A.M.)
8 Romper Room
9 Phil Donahue
12 A Christmas Songfest
17 Freeman Reports
19 Family Feud
20 To Tell the Truth
25 I Love Lucy (BW)
31 Young and the Restless (one-day delay from 12 P.M.)
32 Monkees
11:30
4 Search for Tomorrow
6-10-20-25 Doctors
7 News
8-19 Ryan’s Hope
12 Cinderella
32 Munsters (BW)
11:40
7 Datebook
11:55
7 Farm Markets
Afternoon
12:00
3-6-31 News
4-7 Young and the Restless
8-19 All My Children
9 Andy Griffith (BW)
10-20-25 Days of Our Lives
17 Movie: “Bundle of Joy” (1956)
32 Underdog
12:15
3 Town and Country Forum
12:25
6 Comment
12:30
3 Ryan’s Hope (delay from 11:30 A.M.)
6 Days of Our Lives
9 Mike Douglas (Co-host: Lee Marvin; guests: Susan Sullivan, Ted Nugent, Peter Ustinov, and ice skaters Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner)
12 Christmas Carol
31 Search for Tomorrow (delay from 11:30 A.M.)
32 Tennessee Tuxedo
1:00
3-8-19 One Life to Live
4-7-31 As the World Turns
10-20-25 Another World
32 I Love Lucy (BW)
1:30
6 Another World
9 Your New Day (Vidal Sassoon)
12 Hanakkuh
32 Courtship of Eddie’s Father
1:50
17 Funtime
2:00
3-8-19 General Hospital
4-7-31 Guiding Light
10-20-25 Texas
12 Marshall Efrom’s Christmas
32 Beverly Hillbillies (BW)
2:30
6 Texas
9 Scooby-Doo
12 Percussion Noel
17 Space Giants
32 Spiderman
3:00
3-19 Edge of Night
4 Stableboy’s Christmas
7 One Day at a Time
8 Happy Days Again
9 Bugs Bunny and Friends
10 Family Feud (from ABC; delay from 11 A.M.)
12 Boys Town Choir
17 Flintstones
20 I Love Lucy (BW)
25 Captain Jinks
31 Tom and Jerry
32 Mighty Mouse/Heckle and Jeckle
47 Sesame Street
3:30
3-10 All My Children (delay from 12 P.M.)
4 City That Forgot About Christmas
6 Brady Bunch
7 Let’s Make a Deal
8 Family Feud (delay from 11 A.M.)
9 Scooby-Doo
12 Mister Rogers
17 Gilligan’s Island
19 Petticoat Junction
20 Gilligan’s Island (BW)
31 Toni Tennille
32 Woody Woodpecker
3:55
25 TV Powww!
4:00
4 Gilligan’s Island (BW)
6 Starsky & Hutch
7 For Kids of All Ages
8 Hour Magazine
9 Flintstones
12 Sesame Street
17-20 Brady Bunch (different episodes)
19 Andy Griffith (BW)
25 Gilligan’s Island
32 Tom and Jerry
47 Mister Rogers
4:30
3 Little Rascals (BW)
4 Leave It to Beaver (BW)
7 Stableboy’s Christmas
9 Gilligan’s Island (BW)
10 Gunsmoke
17 Beverly Hillbillies
19 Hogan’s Heroes
20 Happy Days Again
25 Tic Tac Dough
31 Hour Magazine
32 Brady Bunch
47 Electric Company
5:00
3 Wanted: Dead or Alive (BW)
4 Hogan’s Heroes
6 Barney Miller
7 Music of Christmas
8 Weekday Magazine
9 Good Times
12-47 Studio See
17 Carol Burnett and Friends
19 ABC World News Tonight (Frank Reynolds)
20 News
25 Joker’s Wild
32 Happy Days Again
5:25
7 Weather
5:30
3-8 ABC World News Tonight (Frank Reynolds
4-7-31 CBS Evening News (Walter Cronkite)
6-10-20-25 NBC Nightly News (John Chancellor)
9 Star Trek
12 Electric Company
17 Bob Newhart
19 News
32 Sanford and Son
47 Stitch Along
Evening
6:00
3-4-6-7-8-10-20-25-31 News
12 Over Easy
17 All in the Family
19-32 M*A*S*H (different episodes)
47 Photography: Here’s How
6:25
6 Comment
6:30
3 Hollywood Squares
4 Mr. Krueger’s Christmas
6 PM Magazine
7 City That Forgot About Christmas
8 M*A*S*H
9 Movie (BW): “The Bells of St. Mary’s” (1945)
10 Tic Tac Dough
12-47 MacNeil, Lehrer Report
17 The Little Brown Burro
19-32 All in the Family
20-25 Family Feud
31 Sing We Noel
7:00
3-8-19 Eight Is Enough (2 hrs.)
4-7-31 Fat Albert Christmas Special
6-10-20-25 Real People
12 Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
17 Movie: “Samson and Delilah” (1949)
32 PM Magazine
47 All Creatures Great and Small
7:30
4-7-31 The Nutcracker (1977 American Ballet Theatre production)
32 Joker’s Wild
8:00
6-10-20-25 Diff’rent Strokes
12 Messiah (University of Iowa Choir and Orchestra)
32 Tic Tac Dough
47 Christmas Comes to the Cathedral
8:30
6-10-20-25 Facts of Life
32 To Tell the Truth
9:00
3-8-19 Vega$
4-7-31 Magic of David Copperfield
6-10-20-25 Quincy
9 News
32 Don Lane
47 Messiah (Mormon Tabernacle Choir)
9:30
17 News
9:55
32 News
10:00
3-4-6-7-8-10-19-20-25-31 News
9 Movie (BW): “Christmas Eve” (1947)
17 Christmas Program
32 M*A*S*H
10:30
3-19 ABC News Nightline (Ted Koppel)
4-7 Mary, Full of Grace: Images of Art (presumably a CBS religious special)
6-10-25 Sounds of Christmas Eve (from 1973)
8 M*A*S*H
12 Soundstage
17 Christmas Eve at Peachtree Presbyterian
20 Christmas Concert
31 Movie (BW): “A Christmas Carol” (English; 1951)
32 Benny Hill
10:50
3-19 Love Boat
11:00
4 Christmas Concert
6-10-20-25 Christmas Rome—1980
7 Lessons in Carols of Christmas (presumably another CBS religious special, broadcast live from Lincoln, Nebraska)
8 ABC News Nightline (Ted Koppel) (delay from 10:30 P.M.)
32 Three Stooges (BW)
11:20
8 Movie (BW): “A Christmas Carol” (English; 1951)
11:30
4 700 Club
12 Captioned ABC News
17 Movie (BW): “Christmas in Connecticut” (1945)
32 Newstalk
Early Thursday
12:00
2 News
3-19 Police Woman
7 Sing We Noel
9 Midnight Mass from Holy Name Cathedral
12:15
6-10 News
12:20
2 Movie: “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (1961)
12:30
7 Studio 7
12:45
7 News
1:00
4-8 News
1:10
19 News
1:30
9 Music of Christmas
17 Movie: “Kathy O” (1958)
2:00
9 College of DuPage Christmas Concert
2:30
9 Addison Trail High School Christmas Concert
2:45
2 Movie: “Bhowani Junction” (1956)
3:00
9 Larkin High School Christmas Concert
3:30
9 Silent Night, Holy Night
17 Movie (BW): “Daughters Courageous” (1939)
4:00
9 Gift of Winter
4:30
9 Twelve Gifts
THURSDAY, December 25, 1980
Morning
5:00
9 U.S. Navy Christmas Concert
5:30
17 Most Joyful Mystery
6:00
4-25 PTL Club
7-31 Thursday Morning (Charles Kuralt)
8 Country Day (Gary Schendel)
17 Funtime
19 700 Club
32 Newstalk
6:25
3-10 Country Day
6 New Zoo Revue
6:30
8 Richard Simmons
9 A Christmas Child
20 Your New Day (Vidal Sassoon)
32 Three Stooges (BW)
6:45
12 A.M. Weather
6:55
3 American Trail
6 Plain Talk
10 News
7:00
3-8-19 Good Morning America (David Hartman)
4 Thursday Morning (Charles Kuralt)
6-10-20-25 Today (Tom Brokaw)
7 Farm Report (Chuck Kuppler)
9 Ray Rayner
12 Princess Knight
17 I Love Lucy (BW)
31 Christmas Child
32 Casper the Ghost
7:15
7 Studio 7
7:30
7 Romper Room
12 Grow Older/Feel Younger
17 I Dream of Jeannie
31 City That Forgot About Christmas
32 Magilla Gorilla
7:45
12 A.M. Weather
8:00
4-7-31 Captain Kangaroo
9 Bozo Show
12 Over Easy
17 Hazel
32 Battle of the Planets
8:30
12 Mr. Wizard
17 Green Acres
32 Fred Flintstone and Friends
9:00
3 PTL Club
4 Green Acres
6-10-20-25 Christmas from Washington Cathedral (Live)
7-31 Jeffersons
8-19 Phil Donahue
9 Christmas World
12 Sesame Street
17 Movie (BW): “The Bells of St. Mary’s” (1945)
32 Romper Room
9:30
4-7-31 Alice
32 Please Don’t Eat the Daisies
10:00
3-19 Polish-American Christmas
4-7 Price Is Right
6-10-20 Wheel of Fortune
8 Church Service (Catholic)
9 Tiden High School Christmas Concert
12 Christmas Festival of Harps
25 Christmas Comes to the Cathedral
31 Movie (BW): “A Christmas Carol” (English; 1951)
32 Partridge Family
10:30
6-10-20 Password Plus
9 University of Illinois Christmas Concert
12 Christmas 1783
32 Green Acres
11:00
3 Phil Donahue
4 Let’s Make a Deal
6-10 Card Sharks
7 For Unto You
8 Romper Room
9 Church Service (Lutheran)
12 The Drum
19 Family Feud
20 To Tell the Truth
25 I Love Lucy (BW)
32 Monkees
11:30
4-7-31 NBA Basketball: Boston Celtics at New York Knicks (Live)
6-10-20-25 Doctors
8-19 Ryan’s Hope
12 The Gift of the Magi
17 Movie (BW): “Christmas in Connecticut” (1945)
32 Munsters (BW)
Afternoon
12:00
3 News
6 Puppins Christmas Story
8-19 All My Children
9 Harlem High School Christmas Concert
10-20-25 Days of Our Lives
12 Scrooge
32 Underdog
12:15
3 Town and Country Forum
12:30
3 Ryan’s Hope (delay from 11:30 A.M.)
6 Days of Our Lives
9 Mother McCauley High School Choir
12 Singing Christmas Tree
32 Tennessee Tuxedo
1:00
3-8-19 One Life to Live
9 Movie: “Hans Christian Anderson” (1952)
10-20-25 Another World
32 I Love Lucy (BW)
1:30
6 Another World
12 Country Christmas
17 Movie (BW): “The Bishop’s Wife” (1947)
32 Courtship of Eddie’s Father
2:00
3-8-19 General Hospital
4-7-31 Blue-Gray Game (Live)
10-20-25 Texas
12 The Nutcracker Suite
32 Beverly Hillbillies
2:30
6 Texas
32 Spiderman
3:00
3-19 Edge of Night
8 Happy Days Again
10 Family Feud (from ABC; delay from 11 A.M.)
12 The City That Forgot About Christmas
20 I Love Lucy (BW)
25 Christmas Celebration from the Crystal Cathedral (Robert Schuller)
32 Mighty Mouse/Heckle and Jeckle
47 Sesame Street
3:30
3-10 All My Children (delay from 12 P.M.)
6 Brady Bunch
8 Family Feud (delay from 11 A.M.)
9 Scooby-Doo
12 Mister Rogers
19 Petticoat Junction
20 Gilligan’s Island (BW)
32 Woody Woodpecker
3:45
17 Movie (BW): “I’ll Be Seeing You” (1944)
4:00
6 Starsky & Hutch
8 Hour Magazine
12 Sesame Street
19 Andy Griffith (BW)
20 Brady Bunch
25 Veteran’s Christmas
32 Tom and Jerry
47 Mister Rogers
4:30
3 Little Rascals (BW)
9 Roberto Clemento High School Christmas Concert
10 Country Music Christmas
19 Hogan’s Heroes
20 Happy Days Again
32 Brady Bunch
47 Electric Company
5:00
3 Wanted: Dead or Alive
4 Hogan’s Heroes
6 Barney Miller
7-31 Christmas Concert (presumably different concerts; no details given)
8 Weekday Magazine
9 Deerfield High School Christmas Concert
12-47 Studio See
19 ABC World News Tonight (Frank Reynolds)
20 News
25 Joker’s Wild
32 Happy Days Again
5:25
7 Weather
5:30
3-8 ABC World News Tonight (Frank Reynolds)
4-7-31 CBS Evening News (Walter Cronkite)
6-10-20-25 NBC Nightly News (John Chancellor)
9 Bowling (Chicago Sun-Times Classic)
12 Electric Company
17 Bob Newhart
19 News
32 Sanford and Son
47 Big Blue Marble
Evening
6:00
3-4-6-7-8-10-20-25 News
12 Over Easy
17 All in the Family
19-32 M*A*S*H (different episodes)
31 Christmas World
47 Play Chess
6:25
6 Comment
6:30
3 Pop! Goes the Country (Guests: Anson Williams and Sheila Andrews)
4 Newlywed Game
6 PM Magazine
7 Christmas Child
8 M*A*S*H
9 College of Lake County Christmas Concert
10 Tic Tac Dough
12-47 MacNeil, Lehrer Report
17 Sanford and Son
19-32 All in the Family
20 Once Upon a Starry Night
25 Family Feud
7:00
3-8-19 Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town
4-7-31 Waltons
6-10-25 Games People Play
9 Movie (BW): “Holiday Inn” (1942)
12 Up and Coming
17 Movie (BW): “Since You Went Away” (1944)
32 PM Magazine
47 Once Upon a Classic
7:30
12-47 From Jumpstreet
32 Joker’s Wild
8:00
3-8-19 ABC Movie Special: “An American Christmas Carol” (Made for TV; 1979)
4-7-31 Magnum, P.I.
6-10-20-25 Dick Clark’s Good Ol’ Days II
12-47 Sneak Previews
32 Tic Tac Dough
8:30
12 Festival Bach
32 To Tell the Truth
47 Movie (BW): “The Keys of the Kingdom” (1944)
9:00
4-7-31 Knots Landing
9 News
12 Christmas Concert from Canisius
32 Don Lane
9:55
32 News
10:00
3-4-6-7-8-10-19-20-25-31 News
9 Movie: “Night and Day” (1946)
12 Puppet Theatre
32 M*A*S*H
10:30
3-19 ABC News Nightline (Ted Koppel)
4 Face the Music
6-10-20-25 Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (Guests: Bruce Dern, Johnny Mathis, Myron Cohen and food expert Calvin Trillin)
7 Carol Burnett and Friends
8 M*A*S*H
12 David Susskind
17 News
31 Movie: “Yours, Mine and Ours” (1968)
32 Benny Hill
10:50
3-19 Charlie’s Angels
11:00
4 Odd Couple
7 Lou Grant (delay from Tuesday 10:30 P.M.)
8 ABC News Nightline (Ted Koppel) (delay from 10:30 P.M.)
17 Movie (BW): “The Little Minister” (1934)
32 Three Stooges (BW)
11:20
8 Movie: “The Christmas Tree” (French; 1969)
11:30
4 700 Club
6-10-20-25 Tomorrow (Tom Snyder)
12 To Say I Am
32 Newstalk
Early Friday
12:00
2 McMillan & Wife (Joined in progress; began at 11 P.M.)
19 Police Woman
12:10
7 CBS Late Movie: “Cactus in the Snow” (1972) (delay from Tuesday 11:40 P.M.)
12:30
9 News
1:00
4-6-10 News
9 Movie: “Young at Heart” (1954)
1:05
2 News
1:10
19 News
1:15
17 Movie (BW): “Sister Kenny” (1946)
1:20
8 News
1:25
2 Movie (BW): “Situation Hopeless but Not Serious” (1965)
2:05
7 Studio 7
2:20
7 News
3:20
9 To Be Announced
3:25
2 Name of the Game
3:45
17 Movie (BW): “Broadway Gondolier” (1935)
Quad Cities
4 WHBF (CBS)
6 WOC (NBC) (now KWQC)
8 WQAD (ABC)
Quincy
7 KHQA (CBS)
10 WGEM (NBC) (also secondary ABC, but not listed as such)
Springfield
20 WICS (NBC) (now ABC)
Peoria
19 WRAU (ABC) (now WHOI)
25 WEEK (NBC)
31 WMBD (CBS)
47 WTVP (PBS)
Kirksville-Ottumwa
3 KTVO (ABC)
Chicago
2 WBBM (CBS) (12 Mid. to 5 A.M. only)
9 WGN (Ind.) (now CW)
32 WFLD (Ind.) (now Fox)
Iowa City
12 KIIN (PBS) (part of Iowa Public Television)
Atlanta
17 WTBS (Ind.) (now WPCH)
All programs in color except those designated by (BW)
Ch. 12 schedules instructional programming throughout the day.
(The Chicago, Iowa City and Atlanta stations were designated as out-of-market/cable stations and were denoted with combination black-and-white bullets)
WEDNESDAY, December 24, 1980
Morning
5:30
17 Family Affair
5:55
9 Top o’ the Morning
6:00
4-25 PTL Club
7-31 Wednesday Morning (Charles Kuralt)
8 Country Day (Gary Schendel)
17 Funtime
19 700 Club
32 Newstalk
6:25
3-10 Country Day
6 New Zoo Revue
9 News
6:30
8 Richard Simmons
9 Bullwinkle
20 Your New Day (Vidal Sassoon)
32 Three Stooges (BW)
6:45
12 A.M. Weather
6:55
3 American Trail
6 Plain Talk
10 News
7:00
3-8-19 Good Morning America (David Hartman)
4 Wednesday Morning (Charles Kuralt)
6-10-20-25 Today (Tom Brokaw)
7 Farm Report (Chuck Kuppler)
9 Ray Rayner
12 Princess Knight
17 I Love Lucy (BW)
31 Bullwinkle
32 Casper the Ghost
7:15
7 Studio 7
7:30
7 Romper Room
12 Grow Older/Feel Younger
17 I Dream of Jeannie
31 Underdog
32 Magilla Gorilla
7:45
12 A.M. Weather
8:00
4-7-31 Captain Kangaroo
9 Bozo Show
12 Over Easy
17 Hazel
32 Battle of the Planets
8:30
12 Human Relations and Motivations
17 Green Acres
32 Fred Flintstone and Friends
9:00
3 PTL Club
4 Green Acres
6-10-20-25 Las Vegas Gambit
7-31 Jeffersons
8-19 Phil Donahue
9 Movie (BW): “Christmas in Connecticut” (1945)
12-47 Sesame Street
17 Movie: “The Perils of Pauline” (1967)
32 Romper Room
9:30
4-7-31 Alice
6-10-20-25 Blockbusters
32 Please Don’t Eat the Daisies
10:00
3 Phil Donahue
4-7-31 Price Is Right
6-10-20-25 Wheel of Fortune
8-19 Love Boat
12 A Christmas Portrait
32 Partridge Family
47 Studio See
10:30
6-10-20-25 Password Plus
12 Carol of the Violin
32 Green Acres
11:00
3 Love Boat (delay from 10 A.M.)
4 Let’s Make a Deal
6-10 Card Sharks
7 Search for Tomorrow (one-day delay from 11:30 A.M.)
8 Romper Room
9 Phil Donahue
12 A Christmas Songfest
17 Freeman Reports
19 Family Feud
20 To Tell the Truth
25 I Love Lucy (BW)
31 Young and the Restless (one-day delay from 12 P.M.)
32 Monkees
11:30
4 Search for Tomorrow
6-10-20-25 Doctors
7 News
8-19 Ryan’s Hope
12 Cinderella
32 Munsters (BW)
11:40
7 Datebook
11:55
7 Farm Markets
Afternoon
12:00
3-6-31 News
4-7 Young and the Restless
8-19 All My Children
9 Andy Griffith (BW)
10-20-25 Days of Our Lives
17 Movie: “Bundle of Joy” (1956)
32 Underdog
12:15
3 Town and Country Forum
12:25
6 Comment
12:30
3 Ryan’s Hope (delay from 11:30 A.M.)
6 Days of Our Lives
9 Mike Douglas (Co-host: Lee Marvin; guests: Susan Sullivan, Ted Nugent, Peter Ustinov, and ice skaters Tai Babilonia and Randy Gardner)
12 Christmas Carol
31 Search for Tomorrow (delay from 11:30 A.M.)
32 Tennessee Tuxedo
1:00
3-8-19 One Life to Live
4-7-31 As the World Turns
10-20-25 Another World
32 I Love Lucy (BW)
1:30
6 Another World
9 Your New Day (Vidal Sassoon)
12 Hanakkuh
32 Courtship of Eddie’s Father
1:50
17 Funtime
2:00
3-8-19 General Hospital
4-7-31 Guiding Light
10-20-25 Texas
12 Marshall Efrom’s Christmas
32 Beverly Hillbillies (BW)
2:30
6 Texas
9 Scooby-Doo
12 Percussion Noel
17 Space Giants
32 Spiderman
3:00
3-19 Edge of Night
4 Stableboy’s Christmas
7 One Day at a Time
8 Happy Days Again
9 Bugs Bunny and Friends
10 Family Feud (from ABC; delay from 11 A.M.)
12 Boys Town Choir
17 Flintstones
20 I Love Lucy (BW)
25 Captain Jinks
31 Tom and Jerry
32 Mighty Mouse/Heckle and Jeckle
47 Sesame Street
3:30
3-10 All My Children (delay from 12 P.M.)
4 City That Forgot About Christmas
6 Brady Bunch
7 Let’s Make a Deal
8 Family Feud (delay from 11 A.M.)
9 Scooby-Doo
12 Mister Rogers
17 Gilligan’s Island
19 Petticoat Junction
20 Gilligan’s Island (BW)
31 Toni Tennille
32 Woody Woodpecker
3:55
25 TV Powww!
4:00
4 Gilligan’s Island (BW)
6 Starsky & Hutch
7 For Kids of All Ages
8 Hour Magazine
9 Flintstones
12 Sesame Street
17-20 Brady Bunch (different episodes)
19 Andy Griffith (BW)
25 Gilligan’s Island
32 Tom and Jerry
47 Mister Rogers
4:30
3 Little Rascals (BW)
4 Leave It to Beaver (BW)
7 Stableboy’s Christmas
9 Gilligan’s Island (BW)
10 Gunsmoke
17 Beverly Hillbillies
19 Hogan’s Heroes
20 Happy Days Again
25 Tic Tac Dough
31 Hour Magazine
32 Brady Bunch
47 Electric Company
5:00
3 Wanted: Dead or Alive (BW)
4 Hogan’s Heroes
6 Barney Miller
7 Music of Christmas
8 Weekday Magazine
9 Good Times
12-47 Studio See
17 Carol Burnett and Friends
19 ABC World News Tonight (Frank Reynolds)
20 News
25 Joker’s Wild
32 Happy Days Again
5:25
7 Weather
5:30
3-8 ABC World News Tonight (Frank Reynolds
4-7-31 CBS Evening News (Walter Cronkite)
6-10-20-25 NBC Nightly News (John Chancellor)
9 Star Trek
12 Electric Company
17 Bob Newhart
19 News
32 Sanford and Son
47 Stitch Along
Evening
6:00
3-4-6-7-8-10-20-25-31 News
12 Over Easy
17 All in the Family
19-32 M*A*S*H (different episodes)
47 Photography: Here’s How
6:25
6 Comment
6:30
3 Hollywood Squares
4 Mr. Krueger’s Christmas
6 PM Magazine
7 City That Forgot About Christmas
8 M*A*S*H
9 Movie (BW): “The Bells of St. Mary’s” (1945)
10 Tic Tac Dough
12-47 MacNeil, Lehrer Report
17 The Little Brown Burro
19-32 All in the Family
20-25 Family Feud
31 Sing We Noel
7:00
3-8-19 Eight Is Enough (2 hrs.)
4-7-31 Fat Albert Christmas Special
6-10-20-25 Real People
12 Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
17 Movie: “Samson and Delilah” (1949)
32 PM Magazine
47 All Creatures Great and Small
7:30
4-7-31 The Nutcracker (1977 American Ballet Theatre production)
32 Joker’s Wild
8:00
6-10-20-25 Diff’rent Strokes
12 Messiah (University of Iowa Choir and Orchestra)
32 Tic Tac Dough
47 Christmas Comes to the Cathedral
8:30
6-10-20-25 Facts of Life
32 To Tell the Truth
9:00
3-8-19 Vega$
4-7-31 Magic of David Copperfield
6-10-20-25 Quincy
9 News
32 Don Lane
47 Messiah (Mormon Tabernacle Choir)
9:30
17 News
9:55
32 News
10:00
3-4-6-7-8-10-19-20-25-31 News
9 Movie (BW): “Christmas Eve” (1947)
17 Christmas Program
32 M*A*S*H
10:30
3-19 ABC News Nightline (Ted Koppel)
4-7 Mary, Full of Grace: Images of Art (presumably a CBS religious special)
6-10-25 Sounds of Christmas Eve (from 1973)
8 M*A*S*H
12 Soundstage
17 Christmas Eve at Peachtree Presbyterian
20 Christmas Concert
31 Movie (BW): “A Christmas Carol” (English; 1951)
32 Benny Hill
10:50
3-19 Love Boat
11:00
4 Christmas Concert
6-10-20-25 Christmas Rome—1980
7 Lessons in Carols of Christmas (presumably another CBS religious special, broadcast live from Lincoln, Nebraska)
8 ABC News Nightline (Ted Koppel) (delay from 10:30 P.M.)
32 Three Stooges (BW)
11:20
8 Movie (BW): “A Christmas Carol” (English; 1951)
11:30
4 700 Club
12 Captioned ABC News
17 Movie (BW): “Christmas in Connecticut” (1945)
32 Newstalk
Early Thursday
12:00
2 News
3-19 Police Woman
7 Sing We Noel
9 Midnight Mass from Holy Name Cathedral
12:15
6-10 News
12:20
2 Movie: “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (1961)
12:30
7 Studio 7
12:45
7 News
1:00
4-8 News
1:10
19 News
1:30
9 Music of Christmas
17 Movie: “Kathy O” (1958)
2:00
9 College of DuPage Christmas Concert
2:30
9 Addison Trail High School Christmas Concert
2:45
2 Movie: “Bhowani Junction” (1956)
3:00
9 Larkin High School Christmas Concert
3:30
9 Silent Night, Holy Night
17 Movie (BW): “Daughters Courageous” (1939)
4:00
9 Gift of Winter
4:30
9 Twelve Gifts
THURSDAY, December 25, 1980
Morning
5:00
9 U.S. Navy Christmas Concert
5:30
17 Most Joyful Mystery
6:00
4-25 PTL Club
7-31 Thursday Morning (Charles Kuralt)
8 Country Day (Gary Schendel)
17 Funtime
19 700 Club
32 Newstalk
6:25
3-10 Country Day
6 New Zoo Revue
6:30
8 Richard Simmons
9 A Christmas Child
20 Your New Day (Vidal Sassoon)
32 Three Stooges (BW)
6:45
12 A.M. Weather
6:55
3 American Trail
6 Plain Talk
10 News
7:00
3-8-19 Good Morning America (David Hartman)
4 Thursday Morning (Charles Kuralt)
6-10-20-25 Today (Tom Brokaw)
7 Farm Report (Chuck Kuppler)
9 Ray Rayner
12 Princess Knight
17 I Love Lucy (BW)
31 Christmas Child
32 Casper the Ghost
7:15
7 Studio 7
7:30
7 Romper Room
12 Grow Older/Feel Younger
17 I Dream of Jeannie
31 City That Forgot About Christmas
32 Magilla Gorilla
7:45
12 A.M. Weather
8:00
4-7-31 Captain Kangaroo
9 Bozo Show
12 Over Easy
17 Hazel
32 Battle of the Planets
8:30
12 Mr. Wizard
17 Green Acres
32 Fred Flintstone and Friends
9:00
3 PTL Club
4 Green Acres
6-10-20-25 Christmas from Washington Cathedral (Live)
7-31 Jeffersons
8-19 Phil Donahue
9 Christmas World
12 Sesame Street
17 Movie (BW): “The Bells of St. Mary’s” (1945)
32 Romper Room
9:30
4-7-31 Alice
32 Please Don’t Eat the Daisies
10:00
3-19 Polish-American Christmas
4-7 Price Is Right
6-10-20 Wheel of Fortune
8 Church Service (Catholic)
9 Tiden High School Christmas Concert
12 Christmas Festival of Harps
25 Christmas Comes to the Cathedral
31 Movie (BW): “A Christmas Carol” (English; 1951)
32 Partridge Family
10:30
6-10-20 Password Plus
9 University of Illinois Christmas Concert
12 Christmas 1783
32 Green Acres
11:00
3 Phil Donahue
4 Let’s Make a Deal
6-10 Card Sharks
7 For Unto You
8 Romper Room
9 Church Service (Lutheran)
12 The Drum
19 Family Feud
20 To Tell the Truth
25 I Love Lucy (BW)
32 Monkees
11:30
4-7-31 NBA Basketball: Boston Celtics at New York Knicks (Live)
6-10-20-25 Doctors
8-19 Ryan’s Hope
12 The Gift of the Magi
17 Movie (BW): “Christmas in Connecticut” (1945)
32 Munsters (BW)
Afternoon
12:00
3 News
6 Puppins Christmas Story
8-19 All My Children
9 Harlem High School Christmas Concert
10-20-25 Days of Our Lives
12 Scrooge
32 Underdog
12:15
3 Town and Country Forum
12:30
3 Ryan’s Hope (delay from 11:30 A.M.)
6 Days of Our Lives
9 Mother McCauley High School Choir
12 Singing Christmas Tree
32 Tennessee Tuxedo
1:00
3-8-19 One Life to Live
9 Movie: “Hans Christian Anderson” (1952)
10-20-25 Another World
32 I Love Lucy (BW)
1:30
6 Another World
12 Country Christmas
17 Movie (BW): “The Bishop’s Wife” (1947)
32 Courtship of Eddie’s Father
2:00
3-8-19 General Hospital
4-7-31 Blue-Gray Game (Live)
10-20-25 Texas
12 The Nutcracker Suite
32 Beverly Hillbillies
2:30
6 Texas
32 Spiderman
3:00
3-19 Edge of Night
8 Happy Days Again
10 Family Feud (from ABC; delay from 11 A.M.)
12 The City That Forgot About Christmas
20 I Love Lucy (BW)
25 Christmas Celebration from the Crystal Cathedral (Robert Schuller)
32 Mighty Mouse/Heckle and Jeckle
47 Sesame Street
3:30
3-10 All My Children (delay from 12 P.M.)
6 Brady Bunch
8 Family Feud (delay from 11 A.M.)
9 Scooby-Doo
12 Mister Rogers
19 Petticoat Junction
20 Gilligan’s Island (BW)
32 Woody Woodpecker
3:45
17 Movie (BW): “I’ll Be Seeing You” (1944)
4:00
6 Starsky & Hutch
8 Hour Magazine
12 Sesame Street
19 Andy Griffith (BW)
20 Brady Bunch
25 Veteran’s Christmas
32 Tom and Jerry
47 Mister Rogers
4:30
3 Little Rascals (BW)
9 Roberto Clemento High School Christmas Concert
10 Country Music Christmas
19 Hogan’s Heroes
20 Happy Days Again
32 Brady Bunch
47 Electric Company
5:00
3 Wanted: Dead or Alive
4 Hogan’s Heroes
6 Barney Miller
7-31 Christmas Concert (presumably different concerts; no details given)
8 Weekday Magazine
9 Deerfield High School Christmas Concert
12-47 Studio See
19 ABC World News Tonight (Frank Reynolds)
20 News
25 Joker’s Wild
32 Happy Days Again
5:25
7 Weather
5:30
3-8 ABC World News Tonight (Frank Reynolds)
4-7-31 CBS Evening News (Walter Cronkite)
6-10-20-25 NBC Nightly News (John Chancellor)
9 Bowling (Chicago Sun-Times Classic)
12 Electric Company
17 Bob Newhart
19 News
32 Sanford and Son
47 Big Blue Marble
Evening
6:00
3-4-6-7-8-10-20-25 News
12 Over Easy
17 All in the Family
19-32 M*A*S*H (different episodes)
31 Christmas World
47 Play Chess
6:25
6 Comment
6:30
3 Pop! Goes the Country (Guests: Anson Williams and Sheila Andrews)
4 Newlywed Game
6 PM Magazine
7 Christmas Child
8 M*A*S*H
9 College of Lake County Christmas Concert
10 Tic Tac Dough
12-47 MacNeil, Lehrer Report
17 Sanford and Son
19-32 All in the Family
20 Once Upon a Starry Night
25 Family Feud
7:00
3-8-19 Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town
4-7-31 Waltons
6-10-25 Games People Play
9 Movie (BW): “Holiday Inn” (1942)
12 Up and Coming
17 Movie (BW): “Since You Went Away” (1944)
32 PM Magazine
47 Once Upon a Classic
7:30
12-47 From Jumpstreet
32 Joker’s Wild
8:00
3-8-19 ABC Movie Special: “An American Christmas Carol” (Made for TV; 1979)
4-7-31 Magnum, P.I.
6-10-20-25 Dick Clark’s Good Ol’ Days II
12-47 Sneak Previews
32 Tic Tac Dough
8:30
12 Festival Bach
32 To Tell the Truth
47 Movie (BW): “The Keys of the Kingdom” (1944)
9:00
4-7-31 Knots Landing
9 News
12 Christmas Concert from Canisius
32 Don Lane
9:55
32 News
10:00
3-4-6-7-8-10-19-20-25-31 News
9 Movie: “Night and Day” (1946)
12 Puppet Theatre
32 M*A*S*H
10:30
3-19 ABC News Nightline (Ted Koppel)
4 Face the Music
6-10-20-25 Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (Guests: Bruce Dern, Johnny Mathis, Myron Cohen and food expert Calvin Trillin)
7 Carol Burnett and Friends
8 M*A*S*H
12 David Susskind
17 News
31 Movie: “Yours, Mine and Ours” (1968)
32 Benny Hill
10:50
3-19 Charlie’s Angels
11:00
4 Odd Couple
7 Lou Grant (delay from Tuesday 10:30 P.M.)
8 ABC News Nightline (Ted Koppel) (delay from 10:30 P.M.)
17 Movie (BW): “The Little Minister” (1934)
32 Three Stooges (BW)
11:20
8 Movie: “The Christmas Tree” (French; 1969)
11:30
4 700 Club
6-10-20-25 Tomorrow (Tom Snyder)
12 To Say I Am
32 Newstalk
Early Friday
12:00
2 McMillan & Wife (Joined in progress; began at 11 P.M.)
19 Police Woman
12:10
7 CBS Late Movie: “Cactus in the Snow” (1972) (delay from Tuesday 11:40 P.M.)
12:30
9 News
1:00
4-6-10 News
9 Movie: “Young at Heart” (1954)
1:05
2 News
1:10
19 News
1:15
17 Movie (BW): “Sister Kenny” (1946)
1:20
8 News
1:25
2 Movie (BW): “Situation Hopeless but Not Serious” (1965)
2:05
7 Studio 7
2:20
7 News
3:20
9 To Be Announced
3:25
2 Name of the Game
3:45
17 Movie (BW): “Broadway Gondolier” (1935)