Retro: Northern California - Friday, January 28 - Sunday, January 30, 1977

[RandTV]

Another retro look at from my cable channel lineup in Dublin, CA (SF Bay Area). This was the weekend of Freddie Prinze's fatal self-shooting as well the final three episodes of the epic miniseries "Roots".

Part I
Friday, January 28, 1977

2 KTVU Oakland
7:00 Cartoon Town
8:00 Bullwinkle
8:30 Romper Room
9:00 Morning Movie: "The Running Man" (1963)
11:00 Donahue - Topic: Male Hustling
NOON Love, American, Style
12:30 Dialing for Dollars Movie: "Hot Blood" (1956)
2:30 Porky & Friends
3:00 Mighty Mouse & Bugs
3:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
4:00 Archies
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5:00 Bewitched (x2)
6:00 Warriors Basketball - at New York Nets (pre-empts Star Trek, The Odd Couple and I Love Lucy)
8:00 8 O'Clock Movie: "Decision Before Dawn" (1951)
10:00 Action News
11:00 Liar's Club - Bill Armstrong
11:30 Steve Allen's Laugh-Back

3 KCRA (NBC) Sacramento
6:00 Educational Film(s)
7:00 Today
9:00 Tattletales (pre-empted by KXTV)
9:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: John Byner, Joan Rivers, Earl Holliman, Karen Valentine, Paul Lynde, Michael Constantine, George Gobel, Isabel Sanford, Paul Williams
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Shoot for the Stars - Guests: Debralee Scott, Rick Hurst
11:00 Name That Tune
11:30 Lovers and Friends
11:55 NBC News Update
NOON Channel 3 Reports
12:30 Donahue (info unavailable)
1:30 Mary Hartman
2:00 Antoher World
3:00 Days of Our Lives
4:00 Sanford and Son
4:30 Lucy Show
5:00 Channel 3 Reports
6:00 NBC Nightly News
6:30 Channel 3 Reports
7:00 Weeknight
7:30 Sanford and Son: "Chinese Torture" (previous week's episode, bumped by a locally aired special)
8:00 Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau: "The Unexpected Voyage of Pepito and Cristobal" (Aired regularly on KCRA in this slot that season, bumping Sanford and Son to 7:30, and Chico and the Man to 6:00 PM the following Sunday.)
9:00 Rockford Files: "The Trees, the Bees, and T.T. Flowers"
10:00 Serpico: "One Long Tomorrow"
11:00 Channel 3 Reports
11:30 Tonight Show - Guest host: McLean Stevenson; Guests: Alan King, Lee Grant, The Amazing Kreskin; Performer: Bob Dylan
1:00 Midnight Special - "Fourth Anniversary" Host: Helen Reddy; Guests: Linda Ronstadt, the Bee Gees, Alice Cooper, David Bowie, Aretha Franklin, Earth, Wind & Fire, Neil Sedaka, the Captain & Tenille, George Carlin, Monty Python troupe

4 KRON (NBC) San Francisco
6:15 School of the Air
7:00 Today
9:00 Sanford and Son
9:30 Hollywood Squares
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Shoot for the Stars
11:00 Name That Tune
11:30 Lovers and Friends
11:55 NBC News Update
NOON Newswatch 4
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 The Doctors
2:00 Another World
3:00 Cross-Wits
3:30 Merv Griffin - From Israel; Featured: a camel race, feast with Bedouin Shiek, interview with Moshe Dayan and Mordechai Gur
5:00 Ironside (set in San Francisco)
6:00 Newswatch 4
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
8:00 Sanford and Son: "A Matter of Silence"
8:30 Chico and the Man: "Champs Ain't Chumps" (As noted above, Freddie "Chico" Prinze was fighting for his life after shooting himself in the head during the pre-dawn hours that day, before dying early afternoon the following day.)
9:00 Rockford Files
10:00 Serpico
11:00 Newswatch 4
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 Midnight Special

5 KPIX (CBS) San Francisco
6:00 Sunrise Semester
6:30 What's It All About?
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo - From Busch Gardens in Tampa with guest star Dick Shawn.
9:00 Family Affair
9:30 Kathrn Crosby
10:00 Double Dare - Alex Trebek, with memorable champion Ray Winston
10:30 Love of Life
10:55 CBS Midday News
11:00 Young and Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
NOON Eyewitness News
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2:00 All in the Family
2:30 Match Game '77 - Panel: Nipsey Russell, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Rosemary Forsyth, Richard Dawson, Joyce Bulifant
3:00 Tattletales - Couples: Buddy & Nancy Ebsen, Jim Gruzalski & Lee Meriwether, Mark Shera & Barbara Deutsch (no relation to Patti Deutsch)
3:30 Marcus Welby
4:30 Mike Douglas - Co-host: David Brenner; Guests: Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, Pat Henry, Berger Chimps
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Eyewitness News
7:30 Evening: The MTWTF Show
8:00 Code R: "The Great Boat Race"
9:00 Sonny & Cher - Guests: Ruth Buzzi, Barbi Benton, William Conrad
10:00 Executive Suite: "Re: The Rules of Seduction"
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Movie: "Elvira Madigan" (1967)
1:30 Movie: "Frenchman's Creek" (1944)

6/36 KGSC San Jose
9:30 Yoga for Health
10:00 Left, Right and Center
10:30 Mike Douglas (info unavailable)
NOON Playhouse 36: "Powder Town" (1942)
1:30 Matinee Movie: "My Favorite Wife" (1940)
3:30 Afternoon Movie: "You Only Life Once" (1937)
5:00 My Favorite Martian
5:30 Get Smart
6:00 Movie: "Last Train from Gun Hill" (1959)
8:00 Movie: "Anna Karenina" (1948)
10:00 Merv Griffin - Guests: Bill Cosby, Kelly Monteith, Frank Welker, Freda Payne
11:30 Movies Till Dawn: 1) "The Bullfigher and the Lady" (1950); 2) "Eternal Sea" (1954); 3) "A Matter of WHO" (1962); 4) "Spring Tonic" (1935)

7 KGO (ABC) San Francisco
6:30 Homeric World: The Odyssey
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 AM San Francisco
10:00 Happy Days
10:30 Don Ho
11:30 Family Feud
NOON $20,000 Pyramid - Guests: Vicki Lawrence, Soupy Sales
12:30 All My Children
1:30 Ryan's Hope
2:15 General Hospital
3:00 Edge of Night
3:30 3:30 Movie: "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" (1954)
5:00 Channel 7 News Scene
7:00 ABC Evening News
7:30 Gong Show - Gary Owens
8:00 Donny & Marie - Guests: Milton Berle, Connie Stevens
9:00 Roots - Episode 6 of 8
11:00 Channel 7 News Scene
11:30 S.W.A.T.
12:37 Crisis

8/20 KEMO San Francisco
7:00 Stock Market Today
7:30 Money Market Report
8:00 Commodities Update
8:30 Stock & Bond Report
9:00 Corporate Report
9:30 **OFF THE AIR**
NOON 700 Club
1:30 The Lesson
2:00 Cinema 20
4:00 Los Torres
5:00 Su Comedia
5:30 Noti 20
6:30 Cuando se Quiere ser Feliz (When You Want to Be Happy)
7:30 La Voragine (The Maelstrom)
8:00 Los Pecados de Ayer (The Sins of Yesterday)
9:00 Pobre Diabla (Poor Devil)
10:00 Boxing from the Olympic
11:00 700 Club

9 KQED (PBS) San Francisco
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Instructional Programming
NOON Lilias, Yoga and You
12:30 World Press
1:00 Instructional Programming
2:00 Meeting of Minds
3:00 Instructional Programming
3:30 Lilias, Yoga and You
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Open Studio
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Newsroom
8:00 Washington Week in Review
8:30 Wall $treet Week
9:00 Visions
10:30 Jeanne Wolf With... Jimmy Stewart
11:00 Agronsky at Large

10 KXTV (CBS) Sacramento
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 At Nine on Ten
9:30 Price is Right
10:30 Love of Live
10:55 CBS Midday News
11:00 Young and Restless
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
NOON Newservice 10
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Guiding Light
2:00 All in the Family
2:30 Match Game '77
3:00 Dinah! (info unavailable)
4:00 Mike Douglas - Co-host: James Carroll Jordan; Guests: Robert Hegyes, Billy Davis Jr. & Marilyn McCoo ("You Don't Have to Be a Star"), Ron Nessen (former press secertary to President Ford)
5:30 Newservice 10
6:00 CBS Evening News
6:30 Newservice 10
7:00 Concentration
7:30 $25,000 Pyramid
8:00 Code R
9:00 Sonny & Cher
10:00 Executive Suite
11:00 Newservice 10
11:30 Movie: "Home Before Dark" (1958)

11/40 KTXL Sacramento
5:50 Public Affairs
6:30 Not for Women Only
7:00 New Howdy Doody Show
7:30 Cap'n Mitch Cartoons
8:00 Archies
8:30 Lassie
9:00 Flintstones
9:30 I Love Lucy
10:00 Morning Movie: "Waterloo Bridge" (1940)
NOON Dick Van Dyke
12:30 Andy Griffith
1:00 Movie Matinee: "Last Train From Gun Hill" (1959)
3:00 Three Stooges
3:30 Popeye & Bugs Bunny
4:00 Gilligan's Island
4:30 Partridge Family
5:00 Brady Bunch
5:30 Hogan's Heroes
6:00 Star Trek
7:00 The FBI
8:00 Big Movie: "The Little Murders" (1971)
10:00 Ten O'Clock News
11:00 Mod Squad
MIDNIGHT Midnight Movie: "The Prize (1963)
2:00 All Night Movies: 1) "Glory" (1956); 2) "The Blancheville Monster" (1962)

12/44 KBHK San Francisco
11:00 Not for Women Only
11:30 Newstalk
NOON Little Rascals
12:30 Leave It to Beaver
1:00 Beverly Hillbillies
1:30 Gomer Pyle
2:00 Huck & Yogi
3:00 Bugs & Popeye
4:00 Flintstones (x2)
5:00 Brady Bunch (x2)
6:00 Emergency One!
7:00 Adam-12
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8:00 Maverick
9:00 Dinah! - Guests: "Roots" stars Ed Asner, Ralph Waite, Ben Vereen, LeVar Burton
10:30 Best of Groucho
11:00 Mary Hartman
11:30 Dark Shadows
MIDNIGHT Night Gallery

13 KOVR (ABC) Sacramento
6:30 Guten Tag
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Morning Scene
10:00 I Dream of Jeannie
10:30 Happy Days
11:00 Don Ho
11:30 Family Feud
NOON $20,000 Pyramid
12:30 To Tell the Truth
1:00 Ryan's Hope
1:30 One Life to Live
2:15 General Hospital
3:00 Edge of Night
3:30 All My Children
4:00 My Three Sons
4:30 Family Affair
5:00 Adam-12
5:30 Action News 13
6:00 ABC Evening News
6:30 Merv Griffin - Guests: Rita Moreno, Abbe Lane, Larry Storch, Joe Williams, James Darren
8:00 Donny & Marie
9:00 Roots
11:00 Action News 13
11:30 Ironside
12:30 S.W.A.T.

 

[GSpsu]

KPIX preempted TPIR

 

[RandTV]

Part II
Saturday, January 29, 1977

2 KTVU Oakland
8:00 Voice of Agriculture
8:30 Overseas Mission
9:00 Asians Now
9:30 Revista de la Semana (Review of the Week/Week in Review)
10:00 Our Men in the Capitol
10:30 Champions - 1) Certs World Cup Skiing; 2) National AAU Men's Single Trampoline Championship
11:00 Music Hall America
NOON Soul Train - Guests: Billy Preston, Brenda Payton
1:00 Tarzan
2:00 Saturday Afternoon Movie: "Beneath the Twelve Mile Reef" (1953)
4:00 Hee Haw - Guests: Mel Tillis, Susan Raye
5:00 Candid Camera
5:30 Premiere Movie: "The Roots of Heaven" (1958)
8:00 Hollywood and the Stars: "The Great Director"
8:30 34th Annual Golden Globe Awards (aired on syndicated TV back then)
10:00 Action News
10:30 Community Affairs - Topic: Interracial Marriages

3 KCRA (NBC) Sacramento
6:30 A Better Way
7:00 Woody Woodpecker
7:30 Pink Panther
9:00 Speed Buggy
9:30 Monster Squad
10:00 Space Ghost/Frankenstein Jr.
10:30 Big John, Little John
11:00 Land of the Lost
11:30 Mugsy
NOON Kidsworld
12:30 Laurel & Hardy
1:00 Movie: "They Came From Beyond Space" (1967)
3:00 Music Hall America
4:00 Nashville on the Road
4:30 That Good Ole' Nashville Music
5:00 Pop Goes the Country
5:30 Channel 3 Reports
6:30 New Andy Williams Show - Guest: Anthony Newley
7:00 Hee Haw (see ch. 2 at 4:00 PM)
8:00 All-Disney NBC Saturday Night at the Movies: 1) "Wonders of the Water World" (1961); 2) "A Horse Called Commanche" (1958; originally released as "Tonka"; first hour pre-empts Emergency!)
11:00 Channel 3 Reports
11:30 Saturday Night Live - Host: Fran Tarkenton; Musical guests: Leo Sayer, Donny Harper

4 KRON (NBC) San Francisco
6:00 University of Michigan
6:30 A Better Way
7:00 Woody Woodpercker
7:30 Pink Panther
9:00 Speed Buggy
9:30 Monster Squad
10:00 Space Ghost/Frankenstein Jr.
10:30 Big John, Little John
11:00 Land of the Lost
11:30 Mugsy
NOON Youth Inquries
12:30 Gift Box
1:00 Antique Workshop
1:30 Movie: "Casanova's Big Night" (1954)
3:00 Ironside
4:00 NCAA Basketball - Washington vs. Washington State
6:00 Newswatch 4
6:30 NBC Nightly News - John Hart
7:00 Electric Magazine
8:00 All-Disney NBC Saturday Night at the Movies: "A Horse Called Commanche"
11:00 Newswatch 4
11:30 Saturday Night Live

5 KPIX (CBS) San Francisco
6:00 Agricultural Film
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 Carrascolendas
7:30 Family Affair
8:00 Sylvester & Tweety
8:30 Clue Club
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:00 Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle
10:30 Shazam!/Isis
11:30 Ark II
NOON Fat Albert
12:30 Way Out Games
1:00 I Believe
1:30 Solesvida (Sun is Life)
2:00 Vibrations for a New People
2:30 Movie: "Birth of the Blues" (1941)
4:00 CBS Sports Spectacular - 1) World Lightweight Championship Boxing: Roberto Duran vs. Vilomar Fernandez (15 rounds; Miami Beach); 2) Motorcycle Race of Champions (Louisville)
5:00 Mod Squad
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 CBS Evening News - Bob Schieffer
7:00 Lawrence Welk - "Songs From the World's Greatest Classics"
8:00 Mary Tyler Moore: "Sue Ann Gets the Ax"
8:30 Bob Newhart: "Halls of Hartley"
9:00 All in the Family: "Stretch Cunningham, Goodbye"
9:30 Alice: "The Failure"
10:00 Carol Burnett - Guests: Rock Hudson, Steve Lawrence
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Peter Marshall - Guests: Ron Palillo, Rita Moreno, Kelly Monteith
1:00 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert - Guests: Wild Cherry, Al Wilson
2:30 Solesvida

6/36 KGSC San Jose
8:00 Yoga for Health
8:30 Left, Right and Center
9:00 Movie: "The Spanish Main" (1945)
11:00 Movie: "Carnival in Costa Rica" (1947)
1:00 Movie: "The Spanish Main" (R)
3:00 Movie: "Days of Thrills and Laughter" (1961)
5:00 Buck Owens
5:30 Rawhide
6:30 Saturday Cinema: "Mr. Wong, Detective" (1938)
8:00 Wrestling
9:00 Boxing
10:00 I Spy
11:00 Movies Till Dawn: 1) "Girl of the Night" (1960); 2) "Last Train From Gun Hill" (1959); 3) "My Favorite Wife" (1940); 4) "The Bullfighter and the Lady" (1950)

7 KGO (ABC) San Francisco
7:00 Tom & Jerry/Mumbly
7:30 Jabberjaw
9:00 Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt
9:30 Krofft Supershow
10:30 Superfriends
11:00 ABC Short Story Special (Premiere) - "Valentine's Second Chance" (As the forerunner to ABC Weekend Special, the series subsequently aired March 26, April 16, and April 30 before becoming the aforementioned full-fledged series the following season.)
11:30 American Bandstand - Guests: Gene Cotton, Deniece Williams, Rodney the Computerized Puppet
12:30 Perspective
2:00 Ara Parseghian's Sports
2:30 The Winners: Tom Weiskopf (golfer)
3:30 ABC Pro Bowlers Tour - Quaker State Open (Grand Prairie, TX)
5:00 ABC's Wide World of Sports - USA vs. USSR Boxing Championships (Las Vegas)
6:30 ABC Evening News Saturday - Ted Koppel
7:00 Bay Scene 7
7:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes
8:00 Wonder Woman: "The Bushwackers"
9:00 Starsky & Hutch: "The Set-Up" (Part 2 of 2)
10:00 Roots - Episode 7 of 8
11:00 Channel 7 News Scend
11:30 ABC Weekend News - John Kelly
11:45 Special: "Johnny Mathis in Concert"

8/20 KEMO
9:00 Kids News Reports
9:30 Soccer
NOON Boxing
1:00 Roller Derby
2:00 Championship Kickboxing
3:00 Pelicula (title unavailable)
5:00 Ecos de Inspiracion
6:00 Noti-20
6:30 Viendo a (Watching) Biondi
7:00 Desde (From) San Francisco
8:00 Pelicula (title unavailable)
10:00 Fuji TV
11:00 Local Topics (Japanese)
11:30 Samaurai Story
MIDNIGHT Naji Baba (Japanese)

9 KQED (PBS) San Francisco
9:00 Once Upon a Classic: "David Copperfield" (Part 3 of 10)
9:30 Zoom
10:00 Infinity Factory
10:30 Rebop
11:00 Carrascolendas
11:30 **OFF THE AIR**
4:30 Infinity Factory
5:00 Vegetable Soup
5:30 Rebop
6:00 Once Upon Classic (repeat of 9:00 AM episode)
6:30 Firing Line
7:30 World Press
8:00 General's Day
9:00 Martial Law in Taiwan and American Politics
9:30 Visions
11:30 Woman

10 KXTV (CBS) Sacramento
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 On Saturday Morning
7:30 Focus on Farming
8:00 Sylvester & Tweety
8:30 Clue Club
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:00 Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle
10:30 Shazam!/Isis
11:30 Ark II
NOON Fat Albert
12:30 Way Out Games
1:00 CBS Children's Film Festival: "The Firefighters"
2:00 Who, What, How Do You Know Show
2:30 Big Blue Marble
3:00 F-Troop
3:30 The Movies: "The D.I." (1957)
5:30 Newservice 10
6:00 CBS Evening News
6:30 Odd Couple
7:00 Let's Make a Deal
7:30 Break the Bank - Jack Barry
8:00 Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Bob Newhart
9:00 All in the Family
9:30 Alice
10:00 Carol Burnett
11:00 Newservice 10
11:30 Peter Marshall

11/40 KTXL Sacramento
10:00 Image
10:30 Sherlock Holmes Theater: "Pursuit to Algiers" (1945)
NOON Action Movie: "Battle Stations" (1956)
1:30 Talk About Pictures
2:00 Fantastic Flick: "X: Man With the X-Ray Eyes" (1963)
3:30 Easy Livin' Country Music
4:00 Wrestling
5:00 Wild, Wild West
6:00 The Invaders
7:00 Premiere Movie "Cry Rape" (1973)
8:30 34th Annual Golden Globe Awards
10:00 Horror Movie: "The Creature With the Blue Hand" (1970)
11:30 All Night Movies: 1) "The Night of the Witches" (1974); 2) "Once a Thief" (1965); 3) "Waterloo Bridge" (1940)

12/44 KBHK San Francisco
8:00 Music and the Spoken Word
8:30 Friends of Man
9:00 Big Blue Marble
9:30 Wrestling
10:30 Monster Mash: "Rodan" (1957)
NOON Lone Ranger
1:30 Tarzan Movie: "Tarzan's Secret Treasure" (1941)
3:00 Movie: "Ali Baba and the Forty Theives" (1943)
4:30 Abbott & Costello Movie: "Buck Privates Come Home" (1947)
6:00 Emergency One!
7:00 Adam-12
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8:00 Maverick
9:00 Movie: "All About Eve" (1950)
11:00 Sherlock Holmes Movie: "Pursuit to Algiers" (1945)

13 KOVR (ABC) Sacramento
6:30 Voice of Agriculture
7:00 Tom & Jerry/Mumbly
7:30 Jabberjaw
8:00 Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt
9:30 Krofft Supershow
10:30 Superfriends
11:00 ABC Short Story Special
11:30 American Bandstand
12:30 Dusty's Treehouse
1:00 Vision On
1:30 American Ski Scene
2:00 Ski Scene (perhaps a California version of the preceding)
2:30 Ara Parseghian's Sports
3:00 The Outdoorsman
3:30 ABC Pro Bowlers Tour
5:00 ABC's Wide World of Sports
6:30 Action News 13
7:00 Lawrence Welk (see ch. 5 at 7:00 PM)
8:00 Wonder Woman
9:00 Starsky & Hutch
10:00 Roots
11:00 Action News 13
11:30 Mission: Impossible
12:30 Sammy & Company - Guests: Shields & Yarnell, Carmen McRae, Billy Dee Williams, Marilyn Michaels

 

[RandTV]

KPIX preempted TPIR

You still could see it on KXTV if you had that as well, including my household back then in Dublin, California as noted above. KPIX brought back TPIR on March 7, and dropped it again exactly eight months later. On a side note, KXTV switched TPIR and Dinah! on May 9. I remember watching TPIR twice on both CBS stations that summer at those different times.

 

[installLSC]

1:00 Midnight Special - "Fourth Anniversary" Host: Helen Reddy; Guests: Linda Ronstadt, the Bee Gees, Alice Cooper, David Bowie, Aretha Franklin, Earth, Wind & Fire, Neil Sedaka, the Captain & Tenille, George Carlin, Monty Python troupe

You're probably thinking "Monty Python was on the Midnight Special?" Yes they did--way back in 1973, a full year before PBS started showing the series

 

[RandTV]

You're probably thinking "Monty Python was on the Midnight Special?" Yes they did--way back in 1973, a full year before PBS started showing the series

Just confirmed from thetvdvb as some of those guests are from flashbacks. Had no way of knowing beforehand. Thanks for the clarification. Was that Monty Python's sole Midnight Special appearance?

 

[installLSC]

Just confirmed from thetvdvb as some of those guests are from flashbacks. Had no way of knowing beforehand. Thanks for the clarification. Was that Monty Python's sole Midnight Special appearance?

Probably. IMDB claims they also appeared on a David Steinberg hosted all-comedy show in 1974. But since that's all the proof there was a 1974 appearance, while there is lots of evidence of the 1973 appearance, either the 1974 appearance never happened or it was just a reran clip.

 

[RandTV]

Part III
Sunday, January 30, 1977

2 KTVU Oakland
7:00 Reverend Al
7:30 Robert Schuller
8:30 Faith for Today
9:00 Day of Discovery
9:30 Oral Roberts
10:00 Rex Humbard
11:00 It Is Written
11:30 One the Square
12:30 Tarzan (1966-68 TV series)
1:30 Supercinema - Laurel & Hardy: 1) "Pack Up Your Troubles"; 2) "The Music Box" (both from 1932)
3:30 KTVU Presents: "Lady From Shanghai" (1948)
5:30 Premiere Movie: "The Roots of Heaven" (1953)
8:00 KTVU Special: "Star Trek: The Superstars - The Superfans" - Bob Wilkins, host of KTVU's "Creature Features", interviews the Star Trek cast.
10:00 Action News
10:30 Open Line
11:00 All the People

3 KCRA (NBC) Sacramento
7:00 Catholic Forum
7:30 NBC Religious Special Series: "Keeping Fit"
8:30 It Is Written
9:00 Capitol and the Clergy
9:30 Meet the Press - Lloyd McBride and Ed Sadlowski, the two candidates for president of the United Steelworkers of America.
10:00 Grandstand
10:30 NCAA Basketball - UCLA vs. Tennessee (Atlanta)
12:30 US Pro Indoor Tennis Championship (The Spectrum, Philadelphia)
3:00 Movie: "Tarzan and the Slave Girl" (1950)
4:30 In Search Of...
5:00 Candid Camera
5:30 Gong Show - Gary Owens
6:00 Chico and the Man: "Champs Ain't Chumps" (See note under Ch. 3 in Friday's schedule) - Fans mourn the loss of Freddie Prinze from the previous day.
6:30 Wild Kingdom: "World of the Shark"
7:00 Wonderful World of Disney: "Barry of the Great St. Bernard" (Premiere; Part 1 of 2)
8:00 NBC Mystery Movie - McMillan: "Coffee, Tea, or Cyanide?"
9:30 NBC Mystery Movie - Lanigan's Rabbi: "Corpse of the Year"
11:00 Movie: "They Got Me Covered" (1943)

4 KRON (NBC) San Francisco
6:00 University of Michigan
6:30 Agriculture USA
7:00 NBC Religious Special Series: "Keeping Fit"
8:00 Andy Griffith
8:30 Circus
9:00 Community Circle
9:30 Tell a Vision
10:00 Grandstand
10:30 NCAA Basketball - UCLA vs. Tennessee
12:30 US Pro Indoor Tennis Championship
3:00 Alma de Bronce (Bronze Soul)
3:30 Meet the Press
4:00 Ironside
5:00 Newswatch 4
5:30 NBC Nightly News - Cassie Mackin
6:00 Wild Kingdom - "Bear Cubs of Painted Canyon"
6:30 Muppet Show - Guest: Vincent Price
7:00 Wonderful World of Disney
8:00 NBC Mystery Movie - McMillan
9:30 NBC Mystery Movie - Lanigan's Rabbi
11:00 Newswatch 4
11:30 Bobby Vinton - Guests: Phyllis Diller, Rene Semard, Gabe Kaplan
MIDNIGHT Ironside

5 KPIX (CBS) San Francisco
6:30 International Zone
7:00 Lamp Unto My Feet
7:30 Look Up and Live
8:00 Camera Three
8:30 Villa Alegre
9:00 Kids' News Conference
9:30 Dusty's Treehouse
10:00 Medix
10:30 Insight
11:00 Newsmaker
11:30 Face the Nation - Guest: Rep. David Obey (D-WI)
NOON CBS Children's Film Festival: "The Firefighter"
1:00 CBS Challenge of the Sexes - Events: Swimming, Skateboarding, Surfing
1:45 NBA Basketball - San Antonio Spurs vs. Seattle Supersonics
4:00 Movie: "The White Birch" (1968)
5:30 In Search Of...
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 CBS Evening News - Morton Dean
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 Rhoda: "The Ulimatum"
8:30 Phyllis: "Broken-Hearted Bess"
9:00 Switch: "Camera Angles"
10:00 Delvecchio: "One Little Indian"
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 CBS Sunday Night News - Ed Bradley
11:45 CBS Late Movie: "Willard" (1971)
1:45 I Believe
2:15 Vibrations for a New People

6/36 KGSC San Jose
8:00 Yoga for Health
8:30 Left, Right and Center
9:00 Movie: "War of the Planets" (1967)
11:00 Movie: "To Be or Not To Be" (1942)
1:00 Movie: "Yellow Sky" (1948)
3:00 Movie: "The Big Lift" (1950)
6:00 Movie: "Young at Heart" (1954)
8:00 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert - Guests: LaBelle, Samuels & Cohen, The Untouchables, Gary Muledeer; plus the Rock Awards newsreel
9:30 It's Your Affair
10:00 Movie" "Solo for Sparrow" (1963)
11:55 Left, Right and Center

7 KGO (ABC) San Francisco
7:00 This is the Life
7:30 Movie: "I Dood It" (1943)
9:00 Hot Fudge Show
9:30 California Countdown - Jim Lange
10:00 Family Matters
10:30 Junior Almost Anything Goes - Soupy Sales
11:00 Adventures of Gilligan
11:30 Animals, Animals, Animals - "The Cat"
NOON Issues and Answers - Guest: UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim
12:30 Directions - Guest: President Carter's sister Ruth Carter Stapleton
1:00 The Superstars
2:30 American Sportsman
3:30 ABC's Wide World of Sports - 1) US Grand Prix Motocross Championships (Carlsbad, CA); 2) World Freestyle Skiing Championships (Snowbird, UT)
5:00 Andy Williams - Guest: Roger Miller
5:30 Animal World
6:00 Channel 7 News Scene
6:30 Let's Make a Deal
7:00 Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries: "The Mystery of the Haunted House" (Premiere)
8:00 Six Million Dollar Man: "Fires of Hell"
9:00 Roots - Conclusion
11:00 Channel 7 News Scene
11:30 ABC Weekend News - Bill Beutel
11:45 Sammy & Company - Guests: Richard Pyror, Paul Williams, Freda Payne

8/20 KEMO San Francisco
8:30 Reach Out
9:00 Al Dia
9:30 Alebemos al Senor (Praise the Lord)
10:00 La Voz de la Comunidad (Voice of the Community)
10:30 Oil Eon
11:00 Mid-East Analysis
11:30 Guity's World of Women
NOON World of Women
1:00 Action Reality
1:30 TBA
2:00 TBA
2:30 Emmit Powell
3:00 Filipinas
3:30 Amapola Presents
4:00 Orrizonti Cristiani (Italian: Christian Horizons)
5:00 Suadade (Portuguese: Longing/Yearning)
5:30 Re di Cuori (Italian: King of Hearts)
7:00 Soccer Report
7:30 Roger Boschetti (Italian)
8:00 Classic Children's Tales
8:30 Adventures of Raideen (Japanese)
9:00 News from Japan
10:00 Home Drama (Japanese)
MIDNIGHT Amapola Presents
12:30 Sound Check

9 KQED (PBS) San Francisco
4:30 (PM) Victory Garden
5:00 Washington Week in Review
5:30 Wall $treet Week
6:00 Agronsky at Large
6:30 World Press
7:00 Womantime and Co.
7:30 Consumer Survival Kit
8:00 Evening at Symphony
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre - Upstairs, Downstairs: "Laugh at Little Louder Please"
10:00 Nova: "The First Signs of Washoe"
11:00 Documentary Showcase

10 KXTV (CBS) Sacramento
7:00 Sacred Songs (renamed Moments of Reflection May 15)
7:15 Sacred Heart
7:30 Camera Three
8:00 Jimmy Swaggart
8:30 Robert Schuller
9:30 Lift Every Voice
10:00 Conversation Jr.
10:30 Conversation
11:00 Face the Nation
11:30 Formby's Antique Workshop
NOON Outdoors With Liberty Mutual
12:30 Ken Callaway
1:00 CBS Challenge of the Sexes
1:45 NBA Basketball - San Antonio Spurs vs. Seattle Supersonics
4:00 The Movies: "Run Wild, Run Free" (1969)
6:00 TBA
6:30 Thirty Minutes (unrelated to CBS's 30 Minutes which premiered in 1978)
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 Rhoda
8:30 Phyllis
9:00 Switch
10:00 Delvecchio
11:00 Newservice 10
11:30 CBS Late Movie: "Willard" (1971)

11/40 KTXL Sacramento
6:00 Bullwinkle
6:30 Hot Fudge Show
7:00 Public Affairs
8:00 Rex Humbard
9:00 Robert Schuller
10:00 Koinonia
10:30 Cap'n Mitch Cartoons
11:30 Lone Ranger Theater
1:00 Award Theater: "Billy Budd" (1962)
3:30 Family Movie: "Kidnapped" (1948)
5:00 Dinner Movie: "Villa Rides" (1968)
7:30 Victory at Sea
8:00 Premiere Movie: "Cry Rape" (1973)
9:30 Love, American Style
10:00 Japanese Theater
11:00 James Robison
11:30 Good News
MIDNIGHT Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (guest info unavailable)

12/44 KBHK San Francisco
7:30 Big Blue Marble
8:00 Bugs Bunny & Popeye
9:00 Flintstones
9:30 Three Stooges
10:00 Little Rascals
10:30 Abbott & Costello: "Comin' Round the Mountain" (1951)
NOON Movie: "Arsenic and Old Lace" (1944)
2:00 Movie: "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (1947)
4:00 Movie: "A High Wind in Jamaica" (1965)
6:00 Hogan's Heroes (x2)
7:00 Wild, Wild West
8:00 Maverick
9:00 El Amanacer (Sunrise)
9:30 Black Renaissance
10:00 Lou Gordon

13 KOVR (ABC) Sacramento
6:45 Sacred Heart
7:00 This Is the Life
7:30 Day of Discovery
8:00 Pat's Playroom
8:30 Oral Roberts
9:00 La Voz de la Raza (Voice of the Race)
9:30 Progreso
10:30 Focus on Education
11:00 Garner Ted Armstrong
11:30 Animals, Animals, Animals
NOON State Capitol
12:30 Urban League Presents
1:00 The Superstars
2:30 American Sportsman
3:30 ABC's Wide World of Sports
5:00 Muppet Show - Guest: Ben Vereen
5:30 Action News 13
6:00 Space: 1999
7:00 Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (Premiere)
8:00 Six Million Dollar Man
9:00 Roots - Conclusion
11:00 Action News 13
11:30 Mission: Impossible

 

[RandTV]

Schoolhouse Rock! followed all ABC weekend children's programs except The Krofft Supershow, the ABC Short Story Special (Saturday) and The New Advenutres of Gilligan (Sunday).

In the News followed all CBS Saturday morning programs.

Also, KGO's Saturday listing of Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt should be 8:00 instead of 9:00.