Retro:WOR-TV 9 New York City Sat.-Sun. January 19-20, 1980

[Tim L]

Source:Youngstown-Erie TV Guide..

At this point, WOR-TV was the one "cable-only" channel carried in this edition

Saturday, Jan. 19

8AM Davey and Goliath
8:30 Viewpoint On Nutrition
9AM Daniel Boone
10AM Dr. Who-Tom Baker (2 half hour episodes-same storyline)
11AM Movie-Sapphire-1959
1PM NHL Hockey-Rangers at Bruins
4PM Bonanza
5PM Outer Limits
6PM Horse Racing-Aqueduct
6:30 Jackie Gleason
7PM Benny Hill
7:30 Dave Allen At Large
8PM Movie-The Satan Bug-1965
10PM Thriller
11PM Benny Hill
11:30 Horse Race-Yonkers
Midnight Wrestling
1AM Movie-The Crawling Eye-English 1958
3AM Movie-The Wicker Man-English 1974
5AM News
5:20 Life Of Riley
5:50 Straight Talk

Sunday, January 20

6:55 News
7:30 Christopher Closeup
8AM James Robison
8:30 Day Of Discovery
9AM Oral Roberts
9:30 Nine on New Jersey
10AM Catholic Church Service
10:30 Point Of View
11AM Rex Humbard
Noon Robert Schuller
1PM Movie-Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell-1951
3PM Movie-A Lovely Way to Die-1968
5PM Joker! Joker! Joker!
5:30 Dating Game
6PM Movie-Phantom of the Opera-1943
8PM Rex Humbard
9PM It is Written
9:30 World Tomorrow
10PM Jimmy Swaggart
11PM Benny Hill
11:30 Carry On Laughing
Midnight Movie-House Of Cards-1968
2AM Thriller
3AM Movie-The Fallen Sparrow-1943
5AM News
5:20 Movie-Cat Girl-English 1957

 

[DToTheJ]

I'd like to see a very religious person fall asleep watching WOR's programming on a Sunday evening, only to wake up after 11 PM to the sinful antics of Benny Hill. :

 

[Stanislav]

I'd like to see a very religious person fall asleep watching WOR's programming on a Sunday evening, only to wake up after 11 PM to the sinful antics of Benny Hill. :

What -- you don't think watching sped-up film of a horde of comely British birds in garters, stockings, and 5-inch FMP heels chasing a pudgy, middle-aged man to the tune of "Yakety Sax" is a religious experience?

 

[hubcity]

What -- you don't think watching sped-up film of a horde of comely British birds in garters, stockings, and 5-inch FMP heels chasing a pudgy, middle-aged man to the tune of "Yakety Sax" is a religious experience?

I would like to sign up for your newsletter.

 

[cwf1701]

10AM Dr. Who-Tom Baker (2 half hour episodes-same storyline)

seeing that, Besides WOR, New York and WGPR (WWJ(2) today) Detroit, what other non-PBS stations carried Doctor Who in the USA?

 

[wbhist]

I'd like to see a very religious person fall asleep watching WOR's programming on a Sunday evening, only to wake up after 11 PM to the sinful antics of Benny Hill. :

Actually, at that point the sketches from Hill's show that were aired were from when there was (relatively) more emphasis on his TV show and film parodies, his gallery of characters, his impersonations, his poems, his songs . . . (that is, the period from 1969 to '79).

 

[azumanga]

I'd like to see a very religious person fall asleep watching WOR's programming on a Sunday evening, only to wake up after 11 PM to the sinful antics of Benny Hill. :

Actually, at that point the sketches from Hill's show that were aired were from when there was (relatively) more emphasis on his TV show and film parodies, his gallery of characters, his impersonations, his poems, his songs . . . (that is, the period from 1969 to '79).

Yet there were some ribald material that made the American airwaves -- one sketch involved Benny and a few other men in a ballet involving a flasher. Just be glad they were wearing body suits.

 

[wbhist]

Actually, at that point the sketches from Hill's show that were aired were from when there was (relatively) more emphasis on his TV show and film parodies, his gallery of characters, his impersonations, his poems, his songs . . . (that is, the period from 1969 to '79).

Yet there were some ribald material that made the American airwaves -- one sketch involved Benny and a few other men in a ballet involving a flasher. Just be glad they were wearing body suits.

Yet, at this point, Channel 9 had not yet gotten the half-hour edits of the episodes which essentially transformed Hill's show into a de facto Playboy magazine of the air.

 

[bk77]

I have always wondered what exactly was the difference between the Benny Hill show that the UK saw and what we saw here in the US? For years I was under the impression that "their" version of Benny Hill had a lot more nudity and sex jokes but over the years from those who had seen Benny on UK TV, I have been told otherwise.

I do remember back in 1981, maybe it was 1982 when HBO gave Benny Hill the chance to do a special for them. People were really expecting totally nude women dancing and Eddie Murphy-style sex jokes. I mean hey its HBO !!! Then when Benny's HBO special finally did air I seem to recall it really wasn't all that much more different that what was seen on the many of the OTA stations at the time other than HBO's Benny Hill was 60 minutes while on plain old regular TV, Benny's show lasted only 30 minutes. I remember a LOT of people were disappointed with HBO's version of Benny Hill.

 

[wbhist]

Much of what was "edited" from the early years of the Hill shows when assembled for syndication were, largely, songs from musical guests that no American would know of (i.e. Design, Two's Company, Berry Cornish), or to save money on songwriters' royalties per such numbers, or both. And in the early years of U.S. syndication, many "verbal" comedy routines (i.e. Scuttle) were cut out altogether. All this was found out upon the release of the complete Hill shows on DVD by A&E Video several years ago.

 

[cowboybud]

Actually, at that point the sketches from Hill's show that were aired were from when there was (relatively) more emphasis on his TV show and film parodies, his gallery of characters, his impersonations, his poems, his songs . . . (that is, the period from 1969 to '79).

Yet there were some ribald material that made the American airwaves -- one sketch involved Benny and a few other men in a ballet involving a flasher. Just be glad they were wearing body suits.

There was at least one instance of nudity on the US version of Benny Hill. Somehow it got past the syndicator and whoever screened the show at local stations.

Yet, at this point, Channel 9 had not yet gotten the half-hour edits of the episodes which essentially transformed Hill's show into a de facto Playboy magazine of the air.

 

[wbhist]

There was at least one instance of nudity on the US version of Benny Hill. Somehow it got past the syndicator and whoever screened the show at local stations.

That would have come from his 1977 Australian-made special, Benny Hill Down Under. The complete edition of which to date has not been put out on DVD in America, England - and Australia.

 

[azumanga]

Yet, at this point, Channel 9 had not yet gotten the half-hour edits of the episodes which essentially transformed Hill's show into a de facto Playboy magazine of the air.

What was strange was that, in the Tampa Bay area in the early-1980s, WTVT ran Benny Hill Saturday nights at 7:30PM after "Dance Fever" -- when the kiddies are watching.

 

[TVCOOL]

WOR had a very sports heavy schedule.

 

[K.M. Richards]

seeing that, Besides WOR, New York and WGPR (WWJ(2) today) Detroit, what other non-PBS stations carried Doctor Who in the USA?

Only five years late in answering ...

KBSC/52 in Los Angeles carried the Tom Baker episodes for a few years, airing one episode per weekday at either 7:00 or 7:30pm, until they went 24/7 subscription television as ON TV.