Retro: West Virginia Sat, Sept 8, 1979

[Bluenoser]

Posted by request, from TV Guide-WV edition

3 WSAZ-NBC Huntington
4 WOAY-ABC Oak Hill
4c WCMH-NBC Columbus
6 WVVA-NBC Bluefield
6c WTVN-ABC Columbus
7 WTRF-NBC/ABC Wheeling
8 WCHS-CBS Charleston
9 WSWP-PBS Beckley
9p WNOW-cable Parkersburg
10 WBNS-CBS Columbus
12 WBOY-ABC/NBC Clarksburg
13 WOWK-ABC Huntington (and 11 Charleston/75 Marietta)
15 WTAP-NBC Parkersburg
17 WTBS-Ind Atlanta
19 WXIX-Ind Cincinnati
20 WOUB-PBS Athens
33 WMUL-PBS Huntington
57 WKYH-NBC Hazard

Morning
5:40
17 World at Large

6:00
10 Summer Semester "Disabilities: Mental Health"

6:10
17 Human Dimension

6:15
19 Perspective

6:30
3 Saturday Report
4 Kids are People Too
4c Battle of the Planets
8 TV Classroom
10 US Farm Report

6:40
17 News

7:00
3 Big Blue Marble
4c Marlo & the Magic Movie Machine
8 Porky Pig & Friends
10 It's Your Business (premiere)
13 Kentucky Afield
17 Three Stooges/Little Rascals
19 Bugs & Porky

7:30
3 Little Rascals
4-13 Animals, Animals, Animals
4c World of Survival
6-7-15 Bay City Rollers
6c Matters of Life
10 Film
12 RFD #12
19 Woody Woodpecker

8:00
3-4c-6-7-15-57 Daffy Duck
4-6c-12-13 Fangface
8-10 Mighty Mouse/Heckle & Jeckle (return)
17 Ultra Man
19 Flintstones

8:30
4-6c-12-13 Scooby's All-Stars
9 Sesame Street
17 Partridge Family
19 Brady Kids

9:00
3-4c-6-7-15-57 Fred & Barney
8-10 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
17 Star Trek
19 Tom & Jerry

9:30
3-4c-6-7-15-57 Jetsons
19 Popeye

10:00
3-4c-6-7-15-57 Globetrotters & Dynomutt
4-6c-12-13 Superfriends
9p Movie "Dirty Mary Crazy Larry"
17 Movie "War & Peace" (conclusion)
19 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

10:30
8 Popeye
10 Movie "Champions of Justice" (Lone Ranger)

11:00
3-6-7-15-57 Flash Gordon
4c Little Rascals
19 Monkees

11:30
3-6-7-15-57 Godzilla
4-12 Kids are People Too
4c Tom & Jerry
6c Gigglesnort Hotel
8 Fat Albert (season premiere #9 introduces the Brown Hornet, who solves problems relating to that week's episode)
13 Action News for Kids
19 Movie "Angels in Disguise"

Afternoon
noon
3-6-7 Jonny Quest
4-13 ABC Weekend Special (season premiere #3) "Weep No More, My Lady"
4c Movie "In Love & War"
6c Communique
8-10 US Open Tennis
9c Tarzan
12 Kids are People Too
15 PTL Club
57 Wrestling (57 also showed rasslin' Thursday nights at 7)

12:30
3-6-7 Hong Kong Phooey
4-12-13 American Bandstand (on 4/13: guest Bonnie Pointer; over on 12: guests Lisa Hartman and Jennifer Warnes)
6c Tony Brown's Journal
9-33 Crockett's Victory Garden
17 Movie "Fighter Attack"

1:00
3 This is the NFL
6 Soul Train (Guests Cheryl Lynn and Joe Simon)
6c Point of View
7 NFL Game of the Week
9 Paint Along with Nancy Kominsky
9p Movie "Volcano"
19 Movie "Pursuit to Algiers"
33 West Virginia Outdoors
57 PTL Club

1:30
3-7 This Week in Baseball
4 Little Rascals
6c Miniature Golf
9 West Virginia Gospel Sing
12 Captain Hook
13 Marlo & the Magic Movie Machine
33 Fireside Kitchen

2:00
3-4c-6-7-15-57 Baseball Warm-Up
4-6c-12-13 Soccer Bowl '79: the NASL championship is on the line from The Meadowlands (commentators Jim McKay, Paul Gardner and Verne Lundquist)...Vancouver beat Tampa Bay 2-1 in a game also aired on CTV north of the border
9 West Virginia Journal
33 Forsyte Saga

2:15
3-4c-6-7-15-57 Baseball: Baltimore-Boston or LA-Cincinnati

2:30
9 National Geographic "Voyage of the Hokule'a"
17 Rat Patrol
19 Movie "Night of the Blood Monster"

3:00
17 American Angler
33 Upstairs, Downstairs

3:30
9p Judd for the Defense
17 This Week in Baseball

4:00
9 Sesame Street
17 Horse Race: All-American Futurity (at Ruidoso, NM)
19 Movie "Band of Angels"
33 When the Boat Comes In

4:30
4-6c-12-13 College Football Pre-Game Show
9p Movie "There's a Girl in My Soup"

4:45
4-6c-12-13 College Football: Alabama-Georgia Tech (the Crimson Tide swept the Yellow Jackets 30-6; Keith Jackson and Asa Parseghian call the action)

5:00
3 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
4c Star Trek
6-7-15 SportsWorld (Marlboro Cup horse race/IAAF World Series of Track & Field 10,000m race; among those calling the action are Dick Schaap and Pete Axthelm)
9 Boston Marathon (taped Apr 16, from WGBH?)
17 American Lifestyle
20 Coping with Kids
33 Catch 33
57 PTL Club

5:30
17 Love American Style
20 Lock, Stock & Barrel
33 West Virginia NAACP Convention

5:55
17 College Scoreboard

Evening
6:00
3-4c-6-7 News
9 Makem & Clancy
15 God Has the Answer
17 Wrestling (TBS also had wrestling Sundays at 7)
19 National Geographic (no title listed; a 30' ketch and its owners make an unusual cross-Europe trip)
20 Crockett's Victory Garden
33 Like It Is
57 John Flannery

6:30
3-6-7-15-57 NBC Nightly News
4c Dance Fever: competing are Anthony Wright/Cheryl Quarries (LA), Kevin Buck/Janet Jones (St Louis) and Tom Trasport/Erin Dowling (Huntington Beach, CA)
9 Another Voice
20 Electric Company
33 Know Your Schools

7:00
3 Abbott & Costello
4c-7-15 Lawrence Welk
6-8 Hee Haw (guests Jim Stafford, Zella Lehr, Eddie Low)
9 Consumer Survival Kit
10 Bugs Bunny
19 Kicks (guests Patrick Juvet and Linda Clifford; this was a disco show)
20 Masterpiece Theatre "I, Claudius" (pt 9)
33 Food Tax: Relief or Burden?
57 Jamboree

7:30
3 An Inside Look
9 Here's to Your Health
10 Billy Graham Crusade (from Nashville: "The Second Coming" with guests Larnelle Harris, Amy Grant and George Beverly Shea)

8:00
3-4c-6-7-15-57 US Against the World II
for the US: Robert Conrad, Lou Ferrigno, Sarah Purcell, Melissa Gilbert, Toni Tennille, Quinn Cummings, William Devane, Norman Fell and Patrick Duffy; Team World consists of William Shatner, Susan George, Britt Eklund, Maud Adams, LeVar Burton, Robert Powell, Bo Swenson, Conrad Bain, Twiggy and Alex Trebek...with the play-by-play: Ed McMahon, Bruce Jenner, Richard Dawson and Jack Klugman
4 Billy Graham Crusade (as 7:30, 10)
6c-13 Carol Burnett & Company (Carol finishes her summer run with guest Sally Field; The Ropers and Detective School start next week)
8 Bad News Bears (next week, Working Stiffs airs here, followed by the Bears)
9-20 Meeting of Minds
12 Hee Haw (as 7pm, 6/8)
17 Miss National Teen-Ager Pageant (Pat Boone hosts and Michael McKean/David L. Lander guest at Atlanta)
19 Donna Fargo
33 Once Upon a Classic "Hijack!"

8:30
8-10 Movie "The Getaway"
19 Pop Goes the Country (guests T.G. Sheppard/Charly McClain/George Jones)

9:00
4-6c-12 Love Boat
9-33 Summerfest '79
13 Greatest Concert of All: A Tribute to Ali (taped the previous Thurs at the LA Forum)
19 Porter Wagoner
20 Upstairs, Downstairs

9:30
17 Onstage at the Agora (which was the Agora Ballroom in Atlanta)
19 Marty Robbins' Spotlight

10:00
3-4c-6-7-15-57 Miss America Pageant (Bert Parks celebrates his 25th year with the pageant)
4-12 Carol Burnett & Company (as 8pm, 6c/13)
6c Hee Haw (as 7pm, 6/8)
19 Nashville on the Road
20 All Creatures Great & Small

10:30
17 Nashville on the Road
19 That Good Ole Nashville Music

11:00
4-6c-8-10-12-13 News
9 Best of Groucho
17 Porter Wagoner
19 Juke-Box
20 Great Performances (Arthur Mitchell's Dance Theatre of Harlem)
33 College Football: Marshall hosts Toledo (tape-delay; the Herd put out the Rockets 31-14)

11:15
4-6c ABC News
12 Movie "The Blue Knight"

11:30
4 Movie "The High Commissioner"
6c College Football: Wisconsin-Purdue (tape-delay; 41-20 for the Boilermakers over the Badgers)
8 Movie "A Target for Killing"
9 Makem & Clancy
10 Earle Bruce (Ohio State; highlights of their 31-8 crushing of Syracuse)
13 Movie "The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave"
17 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
19 Movie "Graveyard of Horror"

Late Night
midnight
3-4c-6-7-15 News
10 Movie "Walk, Don't Run"
57 Journey to Adventure

12:30
3-4c-6-7-15-57 Saturday Night Live (from 1976: host Elliott Gould, music from Anne Murray)

1:00
13 Movie "Nightmare Hotel"
17 Juke-Box

1:30
17 Movie "Singapore, Singapore"
19 Tennis-WCT Championship 1st round, John McEnroe vs John Alexander (at Dallas, commentators Cliff Drydale/Vic Braden)

2:00
3 Movie "In Search of Gregory"
4c Movie "The Scarlet Claw"

2:30
13 ABC News

3:30
17 Movie "Violent Stranger"

4:00
3 News

4:30
3 Movie "Dive Bomber"

[classictvfan]

8:00
3-4c-6-7-15-57 US Against the World II
for the US: Robert Conrad, Lou Ferrigno, Sarah Purcell, Melissa Gilbert, Toni Tennille, Quinn Cummings, William Devane, Norman Fell and Patrick Duffy; Team World consists of William Shatner, Susan George, Britt Eklund, Maud Adams, LeVar Burton, Robert Powell, Bo Swenson, Conrad Bain, Twiggy and Alex Trebek...with the play-by-play: Ed McMahon, Bruce Jenner, Richard Dawson and Jack Klugman

Since this program aired on affiliates of all three networks, I assume this was a syndicated program

[classictvfan]

It appears that none of the ABC affiliates listed here aired Fantasy Island(at least not that night)

[azumanga]

8:00
3-4c-6-7-15-57 US Against the World II

Since this program aired on affiliates of all three networks, I assume this was a syndicated program

This was an NBC program -- all the channels listed were NBC affiliates:

3 WSAZ-NBC Huntington
4c WCMH-NBC Columbus
6 WVVA-NBC Bluefield
7 WTRF-NBC/ABC Wheeling
15 WTAP-NBC Parkersburg
57 WKYH-NBC Hazard

Team World consists of William Shatner, Susan George, Britt Eklund, Maud Adams, LeVar Burton, Robert Powell, Bo Swenson, Conrad Bain, Twiggy and Alex Trebek...with the play-by-play: Ed McMahon, Bruce Jenner, Richard Dawson and Jack Klugman

If the show was "US Against The World", why are some of the team members American (to my knowledge)? By the looks of things, this was NBC's answer to "Battle of the Network Stars" (apparently, short-lived).

[DToTheJ]

7:00
10 Bugs Bunny

7:30
10 Billy Graham Crusade (from Nashville: "The Second Coming" with guests Larnelle Harris, Amy Grant and George Beverly Shea)

I just find it hilarious that when it came time to decide what programming to pre-empt to make room for Billy Graham, that they tore into the primetime lineup. Nobody dare touch the mighty Bugs Bunny! 

(Any cartoon at that hour in and of itself is an oddity.)

[ssetta]

9 Boston Marathon (taped Apr 16, from WGBH?)

I doubt it was taped from WGBH; they never usually aired the marathon. It was only on the networks here in Boston.

[Stanislav]

7:00
10 Bugs Bunny

7:30
10 Billy Graham Crusade (from Nashville: "The Second Coming" with guests Larnelle Harris, Amy Grant and George Beverly Shea)

I just find it hilarious that when it came time to decide what programming to pre-empt to make room for Billy Graham, that they tore into the primetime lineup. Nobody dare touch the mighty Bugs Bunny! 

(Any cartoon at that hour in and of itself is an oddity.)

I wonder just what "Bugs Bunny" show that was. Per the schedule, they aired The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show in pattern that morning, so it wasn't a tape-delay (and even so, the original was 90 min. and this was a 30 min. slot). So, I assume one of the syndicated Looney Tunes packages, or maybe a local show that ran older BB shorts (the ones not in the network package)? In any case, yeah, 7 pm Saturday night is an odd time for this.

[Bluenoser]

9 Boston Marathon (taped Apr 16, from WGBH?)

I doubt it was taped from WGBH; they never usually aired the marathon. It was only on the networks here in Boston.

Did other PBS stations show the Marathon highlights as well? If so, where would they have gotten the highlights from?