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Retro: Youngstown/Erie, Wednesday, April 2nd, 1980

Source: TV Guide off eBay - just delivered today!

CHANNELS
2 KDKA Pittsburgh [CBS]
3 WKYC Cleveland [NBC]
5 WEWS Cleveland [ABC]
7 WTRF Wheeling, WV [CBS/ABC]
8 WJKW Cleveland [CBS]
9n WOR New York [IND]
9s WTOV Steubenville [NBC/ABC]
10 CFPL London, ON [CBC]
11 CHCH Hamilton [IND]
12 WICU Erie [NBC]
17 WJAN Canton [IND/Christian]
21 WFMJ Youngstown [NBC]
23 WAKR Akron [ABC]
24 WJET Erie [ABC]
25 WVIZ Cleveland [PBS]
27 WKBN Youngstown [CBS]
33 WYTV Youngstown [ABC]
35 WSEE Erie [CBS]
43 WUAB Cleveland [IND]
45 WNEO Alliance [PBS]
49 WEAO Akron [PBS]
54 WQLN Erie [PBS]

5:30
2 Speak for Yourself
17 Father Michael Manning
27 Sunrise Semester
Learning to Write/Writing to Learn: Starting a composition.

5:40
3 Knowledge

5:45
8 43 News

5:50
23 News

6AM
2 Woman Is
7 17 24 27 43 PTL Club
8 Sunrise Semester
See 5:30, WKBN.
11 Yoga
23 Ross Bagley

6:10
3 Health Field
Part 3. A discussion of estrogen and cancer. Co-hosts: Dr. Frank Field and his daughter Pamela.

6:15
5 Inner Circle

6:30
2 Sunrise Semester
1400 Years of Islam: Iran.
8 Picture of Health
11 It Figures

6:40
3 Today in Cleveland

6:45
5 News

7AM
2 7 8 27 35 Wednesday Morning-Bob Schieffer
3 9s 12 21 Today-Brokaw
The future of women's colleges is scheduled to be discussed.
5 23 24 33 Good Morning America-David Hartman
The scheduled guests include singer Ronnie Milsap and HUD Secretary Moon Landrieu.
9n News
11 Lynsky and Co.
43 Star Blazers

7:30
9n PTL Club
11 Ontario Schools
43 Battle of the Planets

9AM
2 7 8 27 35 Captain Kangaroo
Evalyn Baron ["The Edge of Night"] visits.
5 Morning Exchange
17 Richard Hogue
43 Flintstones

8:15
10 Friendly Giant
45 49 54 A.M. Weather

8:30
9n Meet the Mayors
10 Ed Allen Time
17 Morning Special
43 Bugs Bunny and Friends
54 MacNeil/Lehrer Report - at 8:30am?

9AM
2 Dudley Do-Right
3 Dave Patterson
7 Phil Donahue
From Miami Beach: Bert Parks is the program guest.
8 Tom & Jerry and Friends
9n Joe Franklin
9s Mary Tyler Moore
To Mary's horror, Lou moves into her apartment building. Lou: Edward Asner.
10 Ontario Schools
12 Phil Donahue
Prayer in the classroom is the program topic.
17 100 Huntley Street - thought this was a Canadian program. What is it doing on a U.S. station?
21 Sesame Street
23 700 Club
24 Mike Douglas
Guests: Don Rickles [co-host], actor Bernie Kopell, columnist Marilyn Beck, disco group Tavares and magician David Copperfield. Also: Jane Fonda demonstrates exercises for women. Music: "More than a Woman" [Tavares].
27 Big Valley
Heath [Lee Majors] is kidnapped and convicted of murder by the members of a religious sect, who order the rancher to do penance-as their slave.
33 Good Morning Youngstown
Scheduled: A preview of the Second Annual Youngstown State Physics Olympics.
35 Rocky
43 Barnaby
54 American Short Story
James Thurber's "The Greatest Man in the World" is a 1930s aviation hero [Brad Davis] whose loutish manner is concealed from an adoring public.

9:30
2 One Day at a Time
Conclusion. Barbara announces the reconciliation of her parents.
8 Play the Percentages - short lived Geoff Edwards game show
9s Bewitched
Samantha turns a stray chimp into a man. Dick York.
10 Mary Tyler Moore
11 It Figures
35 Jeanne Carnes
43 Romper Room

10AM
2 7 8 27 35 Jeffersons
George [Sherman Hemsley] decides to sell out to a big corporation.
3 9s 12 Card Sharks
5 Phil Donahue
From Miami Beach: Bert Parks is the program guest.
9n Romper Room
10 Morning Break
Guests include hair stylist Ron Puccini and psychologist Mario Faveri. Carol Campbell.
11 Doug Hall
21 Underdog
33 Phil Donahue
Topic: the problems of being a celebrity's spouse.
43 43 a.m.
43 Guppies to Grouper

10:15
21 Teleview

10:30
2 7 8 27 35 Whew!
Elaine Joyce, John Saxon.
3 9s 12 21 Hollywood Squares
George Gobel, Bernie Kopell, Vincent Price, Frankie Valli, Wayland & Madame, Elayne Boosler.
11 Fry Man Pan
17 Barbara Winn
23 Rock
24 Love, American Style
A "Barefoot in the Park" episode about a sensitivity session that causes repercussions in all quarters. Tracy Reed.
43 Body Buddies
53 Here's to Your Health

10:55
2 7 8 27 35 CBS News-Douglas Edwards

11AM
2 7 8 27 35 Price is Right
3 9s 12 21 High Rollers
5 23 24 Laverne & Shirley
The girls bus to a distant city.
9n Straight Talk
Guest: Dr. Barbara Brown.
10 Beyond Reason
11 Days of Our Lives
17 PTL Club
33 700 Club
43 Dinah and Friends
Guests: Nancy Reagan, Vic and Sheila Tayback, actress Deborah Raffin, singer Armelia McQueen and Ken Minyard. Armelia sings "Squeeze Me."
54 Over Easy-Hugh Downs

11:30
3 9s 12 21 Wheel of Fortune
5 24 Family Feud
10 Mr. Dressup
23 Real McCoys BW
54 3-2-1 Contact

Noon
2 5 7 8 9n 27 News
3 Chain Reaction
Judy Norton-Taylor, Robert Pine.
9s News Nine Index
Featured: members of the Wintersville [Ohio] Jaycees discuss their upcoming Easter-egg hunt.
10 Cartoons
11 Midday
12 Erie Today
21 Mid-Day 21
23 234 33 $20,000 Pyramid
Anne Meara, Nipsey Russell.
35 Rookies
43 Beverly Hillbillies BW
A new fashion called "The Clampett Look" has come to Beverly Hills. It's greatest fans: the wealthy Fenwicks, who the Clampetts think are paupers.
54 Sesame Street

12:25
10 Agri-News

12:30
2 7 8 27 35 Search for Tomorrow
3 9s 12 21 Password Plus
Dick Gautier, Betty White.
5 23 24 33 Ryan's Hope
9n Play the Percentages
10 News
43 Gong Show - wasn't '79-'80 its last season?

12:45
10 Movie BW
"The Proper Time." [1960] Young love and jealousy, as a girl sets out to seduce her roommate's boy friend. Tom Laughlin wrote, directed and starred.

1PM
2 7 8 27 35 Young and the Restless
3 9s 12 21 Days of Our Lives
5 11 23 24 33 All My Children
9n Movie
"The Lady Takes a Flyer." [1957] Comedy-drama vehicle involving Lana Turner, Jeff Chandler and an air-ferry service.
17 Good News America
43 Movie BW
"The Leather Saint." [1956] A young minister [John Derek] doubles as a prize fighter to raise money for polio victims. Cesar Romero.
54 Crockett's Victory Garden

1:30
17 Richard Hogue
54 Electric Company

2PM
2 Pittsburgh 2Day - ATWT was preempted, of course KDKA was Group W...
A profile of actor Jim Davis ["Dallas"]; a visit with Holocaust survivor Gerda Reissman Klein. [Live]
3 9s 12 21 Doctors
5 11 23 24 33 One Life to Live
7 8 27 35 As the World Turns
17 Gerald Derstine Shares
54 Safety on our School Bus

2:30
3 9s 12 21 Another World
10 Take 30
A panel discussion probing children's exposure to, and exploitation in, pornography.
17 Rise and Be Healed
54 Nova

3PM
2 7 8 27 35 Guiding Light
5 11 23 24 33 General Hospital
9n Movie
"The Owl and the Pussycat." [1970] Barbra Streisand and George Segal portray the adult, offbeat romance of a softhearted prostitute and a frustrated New York writer.
10 Bob McLean
Scheduled: Country singer Glory-Anne Carriere.
17 Rex Humbard
43 Little Rascals
45 49 Over Easy

3:30
45 49 Villa Alegre
54 Mister Rogers

4PM
2 Match Game
3 Newlywed Game
5 Afternoon Exchange
Scheduled: Dr. Thomas Cottlek, author of "Children's Secrets"; and WEWS-TV's staff physician Ted Castele.
7 Mike Douglas
See 9AM, WJET.
8 Movie
"The Day of the Dolphin." [1973] Mike Nichols' film about a Florida-based marine scientist [George C. Scott] whose talking dolphins become involved in a Presidential assassination plot. Filmed on location.
9s Gilligan's Island
As the food supply dwindles, the castaways eye Gilligan's pet duck.
10 23 Edge of Night
11 Young and the Restless
12 Chain Reaction
Judy Norton-Taylor, Robert Pine.
17 Crossroads
21 That Girl
24 Gilligan's Island BW
Unaware that World War II has ended, a Japanese soldier [Vito Scotti] invades the island. Bob Denver.
25 45 49 54 Sesame Street
27 Movie BW
"Forbidden." [1953] Hoodlum Tony Curtis and gangster's widow Joanne Dru are menaced by racketeer Lyle Bettger in Macao.
33 Tom & Jerry
35 One Day at a Time
Ann plays peacemaker for her parents [Nanette Fabray, Jeff Corey].
43 Flintstones

4:25
9 News for Little People

4:30
2 Mike Douglas
See 9AM, WJET.
3 Get Smart
This take-off on "The Fugitive" features Milton Berle in a cameo role. Don Adams.
5 23 24 33 Afterschool Special
Special: "A Home Run for Love," set in 1947, shows how a shared devotion to the Brooklyn Dodgers creates a love between a fatherless white 12-year-old boy [Ronnie Scribner] and an ailing 60-year-old black cook [Charles Lampkin]. [Pre-empts regular programming]
9s Brady Bunch
Drawbacks of authority: a lesson for Bobby after he's appointed safety monitor at school.
10 Happy Days
At Thanksgiving dinner, Marion [Marion Ross] tells a tale [dramatized by the cast in Pilgrim garb] about the origin and meaning of Thanksgiving.
12 43 Woody Woodpecker
17 Signs of the Times
21 Adam-12
35 Merv Griffin
The guests include Chad Everett, Lauren Hutton, David Gates, comedienne Dottie Archibald and actress Lorna Patterson.

5PM
3 Bob Newhart
The Hartleys play host to a visiting French couple.
9s Star Trek
On a planet doomed to extinction, two robed figures subject the Enterprise officers to a series of unexplained tortures.
9n Ironside
Hate letters, threatening calls and gasgun pellets have driven a baseball star [Gary Collins] close to a breakdown - but he refuses to cooperate with the police. Raymond Burr.
10 Price is Right [from CBS]
11 Newlywed Game
12 Big Valley
Young Evan Miles [Robert Walker] threatens the long-time friendship between the Mileses and the Barkleys when he makes unwanted advances toward Audra [Linda Evans].
17 After School Special - unrelated to the ABC special? 17 was and is a religious station. Mystery!
21 Jim Rockford: Private Investigator - as we all know well, is the Rockford Files in a syndicated name.
25 45 49 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
43 Bugs Bunny
54 Electric Company

5:30
3 Mary Tyler Moore
Mary is embarrassed by her new beau's public display of affection.
5 Merv Griffin
7 Carol Burnett & Friends
Steve Lawrence is the guest. In a sketch, an elderly man [Tim Conway] manages a shoe store while the regular employees eat lunch.
8 Happy Days Again
The boys take up baby-sitting with a herd of unmanageable kids.
11 Yan Can Cook
17 Father Michael Manning
23 Family Feud - could be the daytime version since I don't see it in the morning
24 Mary Tyler Moore
Hired to beef up WJM's ratings, the stations' new critic-at-large [Eric Braeden] is giving acid reviews of every cultural event.
25 Over Easy
33 All in the Family
A wager has Archie giving up cigars and Mike fasting for two days.
43 Gilligan's Island
Gilligan and the Skipper set sail on a raft to find help.
45 49 Electric Company
54 3-2-1 Contact

6PM
2 3 5 7 8 9s 11 21 23 24 27 33 35 News
9n 12 Joker's Wild
10 FYI
17 Gerald Derstine Shares
25 Meeting of Minds
43 My Three Sons
Romance of Steve; for Robbie and Katie, a home of their own.
45 49 3-2-1 Contact
Trini's discovery of a giant bone prompts a visit to New York's American Museum of Natural History. [Closed-Captioned]
54 Weather World [what is this? A "PM" version of "AM Weather?"]

6:30
5 23 24 33 ABC News-Frank Reynolds
8 27 35 CBS News-Walter Cronkite [WJKW, in the '70s IIRC had a cool chroma key opening to Uncle Walter]
9s 12 21 NBC News-Chancellor/Brinkley
9n Tic Tac Dough
11 Rhoda
The Gerard's apartment is burglarized after Carlton allows strangers into the building.
17 God's News Behind the News
43 Sanford and Son
Fred is horrified when Lamont is seen entering a gay bar.
45 49 Synthesis
54 World War II: G.I. Diary

7PM
2 7 CBS News-Cronkite
3 NBC News
5 Match Game
Robert Pine, Bill Daily, Stephanie Edwards, Charles Nelson Reilly.
8 Joker's Wild
9n 33 Face the Music
9s Sanford and Son
Fred tries to keep Lamont from finding out who broke his valuable porcelain collection. Redd Foxx.
10 Eight is Enough
Lifetime expectations are examines when Tommy [Willie Aames] opts for a musical career and wordly Aunt V [Janis Paige] brings her latest fiance for a visit. Dick Van Patten.
11 Street Talk
Guest: MPP Gordon Walker.
12 News
17 Bible Temple of God
21 Carol Burnett and Friends
Comedy: after a car accident, a driver [Carol] confronts her whiplash victim [Harvey Korman].
23 Dinah & Friends
Guests: Nancy Reagan, Vic and Sheila Tayback, actress Deborah Raffin, singer Armelia McQueen and Ken Minyard. Armelia sings "Squeeze Me."
24 Happy Days Again
Fonzie's dog loses his spunk. Psychologist Joyce Brothers appears as herself. Henry Winkler.
25 45 49 54 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
27 Tic Tac Dough
35 Hogan's Heroes
Hogan is itching to get a furlough for Klink-who has been conned into acting as a courier for the POWs. Bob Crane.
43 M*A*S*H
Potter [Harry Morgan] learns that a subordinate is filing highly critical reports of his leadership. Alan Alda, Mike Farrell.

7:30
2 Evening Magazine
A visit to the Culinary Institute of America. Also: a look at pickle ball, a cross between paddle ball and tennis.
3 Family Feud
5 Tic Tac Dough
7 M*A*S*H
The 4077th is dismayed by Potter's desire to make Charles [David Ogden Stiers] a permanent member of the unit. Second of two parts.
8 PM Magazine
A look at washboard musician Charlie Knotts; and a visit to the Culinary Institute of America.
9n Benny Hill
Benny plays a deputy.
9s Happy Days
Tired of being called a twerp, Chachi [Scott Baio] sells his soul to the devil's nephew [Richard Levin] to become "warm and wonderful." Angel Random: Jimmy Brogan.
11 Smith and Smith
12 Muppet Show
Kermit doubts guest Andy Williams' friendship when Miss Piggy cons the singer into crooning "Love Story" in an effort to persuade the frog to give up bachelorhood. Other musical highlights include "Two of a Kind" [Andy, Kermit].
17 Rex Humbard
From the Holy Land: A Palm Sunday sermon about communion. Music: "I Am Loved," "There's Something About that Name."
21 Mary Tyler Moore
Mary fears that she is becoming addicted to her sleeping pills.
24 M*A*S*H
Hot Lips [Loretta Swit] asserts himself as a divorced, independent woman, while Radar [Gary Burghoff] tries to find a way to assert himself with a pretty new nurse [Peggy Lee Brenan]. Alan Alda.
25 To Be Announced
27 Joker's Wild
33 Easter Fever
Special: On the eve of the Easter Bunny's retirement, his friends "roast" him in an effort to persuade the rabbit to continue his job.
35 Cross-Wits
Guests: Fred Grandy, Elaine Joyce, Soupy Sales and Jan Sterling.
43 Hogan's Heroes
Hogan [Bob Crane] is mixed up in a plot to kill Hitler.
45 49 54 Dick Cavett
Actress Gale Sondergaard is scheduled to be interviewed.

8PM and later to be covered in a separate post.

-crainbebo
 
8PM
2 7 8 27 35 Bugs Bunny
Special: Scenes from old-time Warner Bros. cartoons are interwoven with new footage in this Bugs Bunny outing, which is loosely tied to an Easter theme and was first shown in 1977. Featured characters include Daffy Duck; Tweety and Sylvester; the skunk Pepe Le Pew; Porky Pig and Yosemite Sam.
3 9s 12 21 Real People
Reports on a convention for male centerfolds; a wall made of chewing gum; a bar that features boxing as well as drinks; twin dwarfs who make their living selling real estate [John and Greg Rice, aka Cash Flow infomercial folks]; and a man who goes to work dresssed as a chicken. Mark Russell, John Barbour, Sarah Purcell, Byron Allen (before Entertainment Studios), Skip Stephenson. [Closed-Captioned]
5 23 24 33 Eight is Enough
See 7PM, CFPL.
9n MLB Baseball
The Mets play the St. Louis Cardinals in an exhibition game at St. Petersburg, Fla. Ralph Kiner, Bob Murphy, Steve Albert report.
[TV Guide says there was a possibility of an MLB strike. Did that happen?]
10 Newcomers
"1978." An Italian-Canadian plans to return to his native country despite his family's insistence that you can't go home again.
11 NHL Hockey
The Boston Bruins meet the Maple Leafs in Toronto. Bill Hewitt, Brian McFarlane, Dave Hodge report.
25 45 49 Great Performances
Karl Richter leads the Munich Bach Orchestra and Choir in Bach's powerful oratorio "Saint John Passion." Written in 1724, the choral work depicts the final sufferings of Christ. The performance, taped at the Church of the Cloisters outside Munich, features soloists Peter Schreier, Ernst Gerold Schramm, Siegmund Nimsgern, Helen Donath.
43 Gunsmoke BW
Matt [James Arness] may be forced to arm the murderer he's bringing in: both men are being hunted by a rancher.
54 Shakespeare Plays
"Henry IV, Part 1" casts Jon Finch as the besieged king and Anthony Quayle as the ignoble Sir John Falstaff.

8:30
17 Father Michael Manning

9PM
2 7 8 27 35 Movie
"Belle Starr."
3 9s 12 21 Diff'rent Strokes
As Drummond [Conrad Bain] is completing legalities to adopt Arnold and Willis, junkman Jethro L. Simpson [Whitman Mayo] shows up, claiming to be "Cousin Jethro" and armed with a long-lost will and testament making the boys heirs to a small fortune. First of two parts.
5 23 24 33 Charlie's Angels
Barbara Stanwyck plays Antonia Blake, who runs a detective agency with the help of three handsome operatives and a butler. At Charlie's behest, she pairs her agents with the Angels to foil an assassination. Jaclyn Smith.
10 Challengers
Singer Bob Segarini and Commonwealth pentathlon champion Diane Jones Konihowski are among those interviewed in the last of three shows focusing on Canadian success stories. Others profiled include Edmonton architect Douglas Cardinal and Toronto businessman Aron Bonca.
17 PTL Club
43 Movie
"The Devil at 4 O'clock." [1961] Hawaiian locations embellish this tale of convicts helping a priest evacuate an endangered Pacific island. Spencer Tracy, Frank Sinatra.

9:30
3 9s 12 21 Hello, Larry
Conclusion. To keep Larry [McLean Stevenson] from taking another job, Henry [Fred Stuthman] chains himself to a desk at the radio station. Joanna Gleason.

10PM
3 9s 12 21 From Here to Eternity
Hospitalized, Warden [William Devane] grows depressed over missing combat, and his relationship with Karen [Barbara Hershey] deteriorates; Jeff's socialite girl friend gets involved in his scheme to supply Islanders with army equipment. Don Johnson [before Miami Vice].
5 23 24 33 Vega$
Twoleaf [Will Sampson] is framed for the murder of a former girl friend. Dan: Robert Urich. [Closed-Captioned]
10 Juno Awards
Special: Burton Cummings is the host for the recording industry's annual Juno Awards, telecast from Toronto's Harbour Castle Convention Centre. Scheduled presenters include Bryan Adams, Myles Goodwyn of April Wine, Dan Hill, Freddie James, France Joli, Marc Jordan, Barbara Law, Cherrill and Robbie Rae.

10:30
9n Meet the Mayors
25 Interlochen
A typical summer day at Interlochen National Music Camp in Michigan is captured in this film essay. The camp is designed for youngsters, from age 8 to college age, with an interest in the arts. Observed: an opera productions' final dress rehearsal, a dance class.
45 49 Mark Russell
The Presidential candidates are primary targets for the humor of Mark Russell.
54 To Be Announced

11PM
2 3 5 7 8 9s 11 12 21 23 24 27 33 35 News
9n Benny Hill
Benny does a sketch from the life of an imaginary famous musician.
17 Richard Hogue
25 54 Dick Cavett
Actress Gale Sondergaard is scheduled to be interviewed.
45 49 Nightime

11:30
2 7 27 35 Black Sheep Squadron
Con artist Pappy meets his match in a wheeling-dealing sergeant [Scott Colomby] who squires civilian VIPs around the South Pacific. Robert Conrad.
3 9s 12 21 Tonight Show
Scheduled: Buddy Rich, Tony Bennett. Johnny Carson.
5 23 24 33 ABC News Nightline-Ted Koppel
8 Maude
Maude and Walter [Beatrice Arthur, Bill Macy] vie for a local Businessman of the Year award.
9n Dave Allen at Large
Characters are a sheriff, an assassin.
11 Party Game
17 PTL Club
25 45 49 54 Captioned ABC News
43 Make Me Laugh
The comics are Roger & Roger, Murray Langston and Sean Morey. Celebrity contestant: Joan Prather.

11:50
5 24 33 Love Boat
A boy [Charlie Aiken] tries to stop lying at the urging of his parents [Gary Collins, Mary Ann Mobley]; a former model [Barbara Anderson], disfigured by an auto accident, contemplates suicide; an illusionist and his fiancee [Vincent Price, Joan Blondell] look for magic in their tired romance.
23 700 Club

12AM
8 Ironside
Mark rejects Ironside's warning not to associate with Sam Noble [Mel Scott], an ex-convict who brought a little sunshine into Mark's otherwise dismal childhood.
9n Movie
"Warpath." [1951] Edmond O'Brien after the men responsible for his wife's death, with an impending Indian attack complicating matters. Forrest Tucker.
10 CBC News-Knowlton Nash
11 Kojak
A tip-off indicates a heist is in the works that will make the police look like monkeys. Telly Savalas.
43 Movie
"Ulysses." [1954] Spectacular, ambitious attempt to translate Homer's epic to the screen. Good entertainment. Kirk Douglas.

12:25
10 News

12:40
2 7 27 35 Movie
Killer "Barracuda" [1978] terrorize a Florida community. Wayne David Crawford.

12:45
10 Movie
"All the Fine Young Cannibals." [1960] Expensively produced account of the moral problems of four young moderns [Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, George Hamilton, and Susan Kohner.]

1AM
3 9s 12 21 Tomorrow
Film director King Vidor is scheduled to be interviewed.
5 24 33 Baretta
Baretta [Robert Blake] painfully comes to realize that there may be a connection between a rash of peculiar burglaries and his mentally retarded friend [Burt Young].
8 Movie BW
"The Heart of the Matter" [1953] Excellent adaption of Graham Greene's novel about tragic love in East Africa. Maria Schell, Trevor Howard.
11 Medical Center
A misanthropic con artist and an awkward innocent share an offbeat relationship while being treated at the hospital.

1:20
23 Movie BW
"Joe Palooka." [1934] A rowdy and funny spoof of the prize-fight business, based on the famous comic strip. Jimmy Durante.

1:30
17 The Story

2AM
9n Joe Franklin
17 PTL Club
21 News

2:10
5 33 News

2:50
23 Movie BW
"My Man Godfrey." [1936] Highly acclaimed screwball comedy about a hobo [William Powell] hired as a butler by a madcap society girl [Carole Lombard].

3AM
9 Movie
"The Looking Glass War." [1970] John Le Carre's Cold War novel about a British spy [Christopher Jones] in East Germany.

4AM
17 Revival Fires

4:20
23 Movie BW
"Abilene Town." [1946] Cattlemen vs. homesteaders after the Civil War. Randolph Scott.

4:30
17 Jerry Falwell

5AM
9n News

5:20
9n Movie BW
"Race Street." [1948] A big-time bookie [George Raft] goes out to avenge the murder of his pal by a syndicate.

-crainbebo
 
9n MLB Baseball
The Mets play the St. Louis Cardinals in an exhibition game at St. Petersburg, Fla. Ralph Kiner, Bob Murphy, Steve Albert report.
[TV Guide says there was a possibility of an MLB strike. Did that happen?]


I don't think there was a strike in '80. Of course, there was one in '81 that split the season into two halves.
 
Sweet! Another big ol' edition with 21 different channels (excluding "superstation" WOR), from what I could count. And we thought South Georgia or Montana was all alone at the top of the heap.

I don't know much about eastern Ohio or western Pennsylvania, but it seems to me there were/are an awful lot of UHFs for that part of the country. I wonder about reception, since I would think the region is fairly hilly and even mountainous in spots. Then again, I might be wrong, and the FCC had to know what it was doing in the allocations. At least Youngstown got designated as a U island, leaving all three big-network affils on a pretty even keel, the contrast of the situation in Erie, where a long-dominant V (12) probably ran roughshod over the two Us (24 and 35)--and perhaps still does. Of course, surrounded by Cleveland, Wheeling-Steubenville, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo, it looks like only 6 or 13 would have been available for either market, with the nearest 6 at Johnstown, Pennsylvania (WJAC) and 13 at Toledo, Ohio (WTVG).
 
crainbebo said:
9AM
17 100 Huntley Street - thought this was a Canadian program. What is it doing on a U.S. station?

"100 Huntley Street" was also syndicated to mainly-Christian stations in the US. I also recall WCLF in Tampa Bay carrying the show into the 1990s.

crainbebo said:
4:30
5 23 24 33 Afterschool Special

What was normally on in the afternoons?

Mike Stroud said:
I don't know much about eastern Ohio or western Pennsylvania, but it seems to me there were/are an awful lot of UHFs for that part of the country. I wonder about reception, since I would think the region is fairly hilly and even mountainous in spots. Then again, I might be wrong, and the FCC had to know what it was doing in the allocations. At least Youngstown got designated as a U island, leaving all three big-network affils on a pretty even keel, the contrast of the situation in Erie, where a long-dominant V (12) probably ran roughshod over the two Us (24 and 35)--and perhaps still does. Of course, surrounded by Cleveland, Wheeling-Steubenville, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo, it looks like only 6 or 13 would have been available for either market, with the nearest 6 at Johnstown, Pennsylvania (WJAC) and 13 at Toledo, Ohio (WTVG).

What about WQED Pittsburgh, which was also on 13?

As for channel 6, we should also consider Canada as well -- across the lake is CKGN / CIII channel 6, the Global flagship station in Paris, Ontario.
 
WEWS would have continued with the second-half of the Afternoon Exchange, leading into Merv Griffin at 5PM.
WAKR had a religious show at 4:30 (changes every day), and a different low-budget children's show every weekday at 5 (Fridays it was Circle Square, Thursday it was Inside Track).
WJET had Brady Bunch at 4:30, Bewitched at 5PM.
WYTV had Gilligan's Island at 4:30, and Good Times at 5PM.

-crainbebo
 
Even without cable in this immediate area, I've always felt someone with a good fringe antenna and a rotor could have picked up a large number of over-the-air stations on both VHF and UHF on their home TV. In terms of those over-the-air signals, I'm thinking of: Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Akron, Wheeling, maybe even Columbus along with the other cities with UHF outlets. I thought that might have been the case with many persons who lived in northeastern Ohio and had the proper equipment to use.

A similar location that I have seen numerous stations received was in west central Ohio. I was visiting my former employer in Eaton, Ohio one summer evening and saw him pick up a station on each VHF channel and sometimes a second one on the same channel when he re-directed the antenna and also a number of UHF outlets. In that particularl case, the outside antenna he was using wasn't particularly high off the ground.
 
crainbebo said:
Source: TV Guide off eBay - just delivered today!

CHANNELS
21 WFMJ Youngstown [NBC]
27 WKBN Youngstown [CBS]
33 WYTV Youngstown [ABC]
45 WNEO Alliance [PBS]

-crainbebo

9:00
21 Sesame Street

When did WFMJ drop this? I know back before WNEO signed on, they carried this as there was no Youngstown market PBS station I just did not realize this was still on 21 in 1980 despite having WNEO in Alliance serving the area.

33 Good Morning Youngstown
Scheduled: A preview of the Second Annual Youngstown State Physics Olympics.

I remember they had this local AM news talk show until at least 1984 as when I was in the first grade I went over and saw a live taping from there now defunct studios on Shady run Rd in Youngstown.

Also around 1982 they added a local for the time newscast at 5:30 PM which featured jack Marshall who would go on to WUAB Cleveland and Andrea Wood who along with her husband would go on to create the business-journal in 1984. I also have a Tv guide which features an add of the program.

21 Teleview

What was this?
4PM
27 Movie BW
"Forbidden." [1953] Hoodlum Tony Curtis and gangster's widow Joanne Dru are menaced by racketeer Lyle Bettger in Macao.

This was the 27 money movie which was hosted by weatherman Rich Morgan who still does weather in the AM on WKBN/WYFX. I remember how they would run alot of old movies and I also recall that these stopped between 1985-1987.

33 Tom & Jerry
This is around the time they had 33 POWWW! and i do believe that these were the cartoons they used around the video game show hosted by current anchor Stay Boney.

4:30
5 23 24 33 Afterschool Special
Special: "A Home Run for Love," set in 1947, shows how a shared devotion to the Brooklyn Dodgers creates a love between a fatherless white 12-year-old boy [Ronnie Scribner] and an ailing 60-year-old black cook [Charles Lampkin]. [Pre-empts regular programming]

I remember that by 1982-1983? that WYTV was running the Flintstones at either 4:00 or 4:30 and I also remember them picking up reruns of happy days Again! as I have a TV Guide from 1983 stating that.
 
crainbebo said:
WEWS would have continued with the second-half of the Afternoon Exchange, leading into Merv Griffin at 5PM.

Which, as it appears, was joined in progress after the Afterschool Special.

crainbebo said:
WAKR had a religious show at 4:30 (changes every day), and a different low-budget children's show every weekday at 5 (Fridays it was Circle Square, Thursday it was Inside Track).

"Circle Square" and "Inside Track" were Christian shows for children, produced in Toronto by the same people that produced the aforementioned "100 Huntley Street". The former had practically been a mainstay on Global's schedule for many years.

mavtv said:
crainbebo said:
9:00
21 Sesame Street
When did WFMJ drop this? I know back before WNEO signed on, they carried this as there was no Youngstown market PBS station I just did not realize this was still on 21 in 1980 despite having WNEO in Alliance serving the area.

Maybe either WNEO was not on the air yet, or they were showing in-school programming, thus leading to WFMJ showing Sesame Street. The first scheduled 45/49 show this day was not until 3PM, with "Over Easy".
 
Cincinnati Kid said:
A similar location that I have seen numerous stations received was in west central Ohio. I was visiting my former employer in Eaton, Ohio one summer evening and saw him pick up a station on each VHF channel and sometimes a second one on the same channel when he re-directed the antenna and also a number of UHF outlets. In that particularl case, the outside antenna he was using wasn't particularly high off the ground.

Lessee, CK, my guess is that your ex-boss got the following on VHF:

2--WDTN, Dayton
3--either WAVE, Louisville, KY or WSAZ, Huntington, WV (outside shot at WKYC, Cleveland)
4--WTTV, Indianapolis or WCMH, Columbus
5--WLWT, Cincinnati
6--WRTV, Indianapolis or WSYX, Columbus
7--WHIO, Dayton
8--WISH, Indianapolis
9--WCPO, Cincinnati
10--WBNS, Columbus
11--WHAS, Louisville or perhaps WTOL, Toledo
12--WKRC, Cincinnati
13--WTHR, Indianapolis

As for UHF, he could have easily gotten WKEF in Dayton (22), WCET in Cincinnati (48), WPTD in Dayton (16), WPTO in Oxford (14), WCET in Cincinnati (48), WXIX in Cincinnati (19), WSTR in Cincinnati (64), WCVN in Covington, Kentucky (54), probably WLIO in Lima (35), and possibly WOSU in Columbus (34). Outside possibilities would have included the UHFs in Indy and Louisville.

Any speculation beyond that?
 
Mike -

Pretty good. I think you got almost all of them. I don't recall WLIO, Channel 35 in Lima, but based on it being really not that far away, he probably could have gotten it. One that I believe he did get which you didn't mention is WOWK, Channel 13 in Huntington, W.V. He did advise me that on some mornings, he picked up Toledo although I don't recall him saying the channel number. There were no Cleveland stations picked up and I don't remember seeing WOSU in Columbus that evening.

Thanks.

Cincinnati Kid
 
I remember seeing "Good Morning Youngstown" (Gary Cubberly, Cindy Ikins-Always wondered if they ever made it out of Youngstown) on occasion in the mid-late 70's when living with my sister and her husband in Waynesburg Ohio.
 
crainbebo said:
4PM

27 Movie BW
"Forbidden." 1953 Hoodlum Tony Curtis and gangster's widow Joanne Dru are menaced by racketeer Lyle Bettger in Macao.

That would have been the TV 27 Money Movie, a program I always liked to check out because the numbers they called were chosen absolutely at random by a set of tumblers. The guy never knew who or what he was going to be calling....often with hilarious results!

A few years earlier they were running an early afternoon movie as well, in lieu of the CBS daytime lineup.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
crainbebo said:
4PM

27 Movie BW
"Forbidden." 1953 Hoodlum Tony Curtis and gangster's widow Joanne Dru are menaced by racketeer Lyle Bettger in Macao.

That would have been the TV 27 Money Movie, a program I always liked to check out because the numbers they called were chosen absolutely at random by a set of tumblers. The guy never knew who or what he was going to be calling....often with hilarious results!

A few years earlier they were running an early afternoon movie as well, in lieu of the CBS daytime lineup.

I do remember that as a child Mr Morgan had his picture placed on 5 dollar bills on money the station made as promotions and to this day many over 80 years old in town think Rich Morgan is on the 5 dollar bill.

That movie show concept was ironically brought back for at least one night a couple of years ago on sister station MY-YTV (WYTV-33.2)as the prize move during a my network TV showing of the 1996 comedy Kingpin on a Thursday night at the movies. They were offering free bowling at a local bowling alley.
 
mavtv said:
I do remember that as a child Mr Morgan had his picture placed on 5 dollar bills on money the station made as promotions and to this day many over 80 years old in town think Rich Morgan is on the 5 dollar bill.

After watching this program for two or three weeks I came to the conclusion that absolutely no one
in Youngstown, Ohio had the slightest idea who was on the five-dollar bill! :D

Is Rich Morgan still around? Seems to me as recently as 4 or 5 years ago I heard him
doing a newsbreak on WKBN radio.
 
FreddyE1977 said:
mavtv said:
I do remember that as a child Mr Morgan had his picture placed on 5 dollar bills on money the station made as promotions and to this day many over 80 years old in town think Rich Morgan is on the 5 dollar bill.

After watching this program for two or three weeks I came to the conclusion that absolutely no one
in Youngstown, Ohio had the slightest idea who was on the five-dollar bill! :D

Is Rich Morgan still around? Seems to me as recently as 4 or 5 years ago I heard him
doing a newsbreak on WKBN radio.

He still does the 5-7 AM show on WKBN and rebroadcast/live from 7-9AM on their sister station WYFX-19 Fox Youngstown.
 
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