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We all know what happened that day and how the events greatly hindered that day's TV schedules. Since the shooting occurred at 2:27 PM Eastern Time, it would be just after 2:30 when most of the schedule would be altered by news coverages.
Source: Washington Post via proquest.com
4 WRC (NBC)
6:00 Health Field
6:30 Tony Brown's Journal
7:00 Today
9:00 $50,000 Pyramid
9:30 Card Sharks
10:00 Las Vegas Gambit
10:30 Blockbusters
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Password Plus - Guests: Elaine Joyce, Arte Johnson
NOON Charlie Rose
12:30 The Doctors
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Texas
4:00 Mary Tyler Moore
4:30 Hour Magazine - Featured: The impact of television on children; Robert Guillaume; cancer leg amputee Lenor Madruga Chappell.
5:30 NewsCenter 4
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 NCAA Basketball Championship - North Carolina (50) vs. Indiana (63) (After considering postponement, the game, held at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, went on as scheduled when it was learned that Reagan made it through surgery and would survive. Howard Cosell sharply criticized this decision.)
10:20 NBC SportsWorld - Boxing: Tomorrow's Champions - Heavyweights Chris McDonald vs. Steve Huntington (6 rounds; Atlantic City)
11:00 NewsCenter 4
11:30 Tonight Show: Best of Carson - Guests: Angie Dickinson, Tom Snyder; Performer: Ray Price (June 1, 1979)
12:30 Tomorrow Coast to Coast - Guests: Pat Cooper, Leo Sayer, Catherine Denevue, Ralph Salnero (organized crime expert)
5 WTTG
6:00 Panorama
7:00 New Zoo Revue
7:30 Great Space Coaster
8:00 Porky Pig
8:30 Bugs & Popeye
9:00 I Love Lucy
9:30 Make Room for Daddy
10:00 Leave It to Beaver
10:30 My Three Sons
11:00 Medical Center
NOON Panorama
1:00 Mike Douglas - Co-host: Dom DeLuise; Guests: Erik Estrada, Jim Stafford, Pete Fountain, Jimmy Moran, the Neville Brothers, Preservation Hall Jazz Band
2:00 Chico & the Man
2:30 Love, American Style
3:00 Fred Flintstone & Friends
3:30 Tom & Jerry
4:30 Flintstones
5:00 Brady Bunch
5:30 I Love Lucy
6:00 Andy Griffith
6:30 Happy Days Again
7:00 Welcome, Back Kotter
7:30 M*A*S*H
8:00 Starsky & Hutch
9:00 Merv Griffin - "Salute to the New York Dance Experience"; Guests: Ann Reinking, Sandy Duncan, Don Coreia, Chita Rivera, Ron Field
10:00 Ten O'Clock News
11:00 M*A*S*H
11:30 Odd Couple
MIDNIGHT Perry Mason
1:00 Mission: Impossible
7 WJLA (ABC)
6:00 Today's Black Woman
6:30 Richard Simmons
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Good Morning Washington
10:00 Edge of Night
10:30 Family Feud
11:00 Love Boat
NOON News 7
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 4 O'Clock Movie: "The Big Knife" (1955) - Jack Palance, Rod Steiger, Ida Lupino, Shelley Winters
5:30 News 7
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Tic-Tac-Dough
8:00 ABC Special: "Show Business" - Hosts: David Frost, Sandy Hill; Articles: 1) "Marilyn Monroe: Suicide or Murder?"; 2) "Pat Benatar: Hot Queen of Rock"; 3) "An Extra Is Born: Co-Starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau"
9:00 ABC Special: "John Denver With Special Guest George Burns: Two of a Kind" - The co-stars of "Oh, God!" team up again.
10:00 53rd Annual Academy Awards - Host: Johnny Carson (This was perhaps the most notable postponement by the attempt on Reagan. It was held the following night. 13 years earlier, in the wake of the Martin Luther King assassination, the Oscars, originally scheduled for April 8, was rescheduled two days later.)
12:30 News 7
1:00 Nightline
9 WDVM (CBS)
6:00 Christopher Closeup
6:30 Prisma
7:00 Monday Morning
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Donahue - Guests: Former Beatle Ringo Starr and fiancee Barbara Bach (married April 27) discussing their relationship, the skyrocketing growth of the Beatles' commercialization following John Lennon's then-recent murder, and goals for the future.
10:00 Morning Break
11:00 Jeffersons
11:30 Alice
NOON Eyewitness News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Young and Restless
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 John Davidson - Guests: Mackenzie Phillips and her father John Phillips (The Mamas & the Papas), Dr. Mark Gold, Donna Mills, Gerald Goldfarb, Jerome Alexander; Performers: Blondie
5:30 Eyewitness News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 PM Magazine
8:00 CBS Special: "Bugs Bunny's Easter Special" (Apr 7, 1977)
9:00 M*A*S*H: "The Life You Save" - A sniper attack occurs on camp. Due to the attempt on Reagan, CBS felt the audience would not be in the mood for such an episode. It was rescheduled for May 4, airing as the season finale.
9:30 House Calls: "Adieu, Kind Friend"
10:00 Lou Grant: "Nightside" (Sep 22, 1980; Season Premiere)
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Qunicy
12:40 Harry O
20 WDCA
6:00 Jim Bakker
7:00 Woody Woodpecker
7:30 Mighty Mouse
8:00 Popeye
8:30 Casper
9:00 WOW! - with Captain 20
9:30 Romper Room
10:00 700 Club
NOON Kids Break
12:30 Newsprobe
1:00 One O'Clock Movie Matinee: "Marked Woman" (1937) - Bette Davis, Humprhey Bogart
3:00 Krofft Super Stars
4:00 Scooby-Doo
4:30 Bugs Bunny
5:00 Woody Woodpecker
5:30 Little Rascals
6:00 What's Happening!!
6:30 Good Times
7:00 Barney Miller
7:30 Sanford & Son
8:00 Eight O'Clock Movie 20: "Butley" (1974) - Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Richard O'Callaghan
10:00 Rockford Files
11:00 Benny Hill
11:30 Independent Network News
MIDNIGHT Jim Bakker
26 WETA (PBS)
8:00 Lilias, Yoga and You
8:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
9:00 Sesame Street (x2)
11:00 3-2-1 Contact
11:30 Mister Rogers
NOON Here's to Your Health
12:30 Dick Cavett
1:00 Cinema 26: "Tunes of Glory" (1960) - Alec Guinness, John Mills
3:00 Mundo Real
3:30 Mister Rogers
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Electric Company
5:30 Villa Alegre
6:00 3-2-1 Contact
6:30 Once Upon a Classic: "A Tale of Two Cities" (Part 6 of 6)
7:00 Over Easy
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 Great Performances: "Dance in America: The Tempest"
10:00 Meeting of Minds
11:00 Tomb of the Lost King
Source: Washington Post via proquest.com
4 WRC (NBC)
6:00 Health Field
6:30 Tony Brown's Journal
7:00 Today
9:00 $50,000 Pyramid
9:30 Card Sharks
10:00 Las Vegas Gambit
10:30 Blockbusters
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Password Plus - Guests: Elaine Joyce, Arte Johnson
NOON Charlie Rose
12:30 The Doctors
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Texas
4:00 Mary Tyler Moore
4:30 Hour Magazine - Featured: The impact of television on children; Robert Guillaume; cancer leg amputee Lenor Madruga Chappell.
5:30 NewsCenter 4
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 NCAA Basketball Championship - North Carolina (50) vs. Indiana (63) (After considering postponement, the game, held at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, went on as scheduled when it was learned that Reagan made it through surgery and would survive. Howard Cosell sharply criticized this decision.)
10:20 NBC SportsWorld - Boxing: Tomorrow's Champions - Heavyweights Chris McDonald vs. Steve Huntington (6 rounds; Atlantic City)
11:00 NewsCenter 4
11:30 Tonight Show: Best of Carson - Guests: Angie Dickinson, Tom Snyder; Performer: Ray Price (June 1, 1979)
12:30 Tomorrow Coast to Coast - Guests: Pat Cooper, Leo Sayer, Catherine Denevue, Ralph Salnero (organized crime expert)
5 WTTG
6:00 Panorama
7:00 New Zoo Revue
7:30 Great Space Coaster
8:00 Porky Pig
8:30 Bugs & Popeye
9:00 I Love Lucy
9:30 Make Room for Daddy
10:00 Leave It to Beaver
10:30 My Three Sons
11:00 Medical Center
NOON Panorama
1:00 Mike Douglas - Co-host: Dom DeLuise; Guests: Erik Estrada, Jim Stafford, Pete Fountain, Jimmy Moran, the Neville Brothers, Preservation Hall Jazz Band
2:00 Chico & the Man
2:30 Love, American Style
3:00 Fred Flintstone & Friends
3:30 Tom & Jerry
4:30 Flintstones
5:00 Brady Bunch
5:30 I Love Lucy
6:00 Andy Griffith
6:30 Happy Days Again
7:00 Welcome, Back Kotter
7:30 M*A*S*H
8:00 Starsky & Hutch
9:00 Merv Griffin - "Salute to the New York Dance Experience"; Guests: Ann Reinking, Sandy Duncan, Don Coreia, Chita Rivera, Ron Field
10:00 Ten O'Clock News
11:00 M*A*S*H
11:30 Odd Couple
MIDNIGHT Perry Mason
1:00 Mission: Impossible
7 WJLA (ABC)
6:00 Today's Black Woman
6:30 Richard Simmons
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Good Morning Washington
10:00 Edge of Night
10:30 Family Feud
11:00 Love Boat
NOON News 7
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 4 O'Clock Movie: "The Big Knife" (1955) - Jack Palance, Rod Steiger, Ida Lupino, Shelley Winters
5:30 News 7
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Tic-Tac-Dough
8:00 ABC Special: "Show Business" - Hosts: David Frost, Sandy Hill; Articles: 1) "Marilyn Monroe: Suicide or Murder?"; 2) "Pat Benatar: Hot Queen of Rock"; 3) "An Extra Is Born: Co-Starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau"
9:00 ABC Special: "John Denver With Special Guest George Burns: Two of a Kind" - The co-stars of "Oh, God!" team up again.
10:00 53rd Annual Academy Awards - Host: Johnny Carson (This was perhaps the most notable postponement by the attempt on Reagan. It was held the following night. 13 years earlier, in the wake of the Martin Luther King assassination, the Oscars, originally scheduled for April 8, was rescheduled two days later.)
12:30 News 7
1:00 Nightline
9 WDVM (CBS)
6:00 Christopher Closeup
6:30 Prisma
7:00 Monday Morning
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Donahue - Guests: Former Beatle Ringo Starr and fiancee Barbara Bach (married April 27) discussing their relationship, the skyrocketing growth of the Beatles' commercialization following John Lennon's then-recent murder, and goals for the future.
10:00 Morning Break
11:00 Jeffersons
11:30 Alice
NOON Eyewitness News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Young and Restless
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 John Davidson - Guests: Mackenzie Phillips and her father John Phillips (The Mamas & the Papas), Dr. Mark Gold, Donna Mills, Gerald Goldfarb, Jerome Alexander; Performers: Blondie
5:30 Eyewitness News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 PM Magazine
8:00 CBS Special: "Bugs Bunny's Easter Special" (Apr 7, 1977)
9:00 M*A*S*H: "The Life You Save" - A sniper attack occurs on camp. Due to the attempt on Reagan, CBS felt the audience would not be in the mood for such an episode. It was rescheduled for May 4, airing as the season finale.
9:30 House Calls: "Adieu, Kind Friend"
10:00 Lou Grant: "Nightside" (Sep 22, 1980; Season Premiere)
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Qunicy
12:40 Harry O
20 WDCA
6:00 Jim Bakker
7:00 Woody Woodpecker
7:30 Mighty Mouse
8:00 Popeye
8:30 Casper
9:00 WOW! - with Captain 20
9:30 Romper Room
10:00 700 Club
NOON Kids Break
12:30 Newsprobe
1:00 One O'Clock Movie Matinee: "Marked Woman" (1937) - Bette Davis, Humprhey Bogart
3:00 Krofft Super Stars
4:00 Scooby-Doo
4:30 Bugs Bunny
5:00 Woody Woodpecker
5:30 Little Rascals
6:00 What's Happening!!
6:30 Good Times
7:00 Barney Miller
7:30 Sanford & Son
8:00 Eight O'Clock Movie 20: "Butley" (1974) - Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Richard O'Callaghan
10:00 Rockford Files
11:00 Benny Hill
11:30 Independent Network News
MIDNIGHT Jim Bakker
26 WETA (PBS)
8:00 Lilias, Yoga and You
8:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
9:00 Sesame Street (x2)
11:00 3-2-1 Contact
11:30 Mister Rogers
NOON Here's to Your Health
12:30 Dick Cavett
1:00 Cinema 26: "Tunes of Glory" (1960) - Alec Guinness, John Mills
3:00 Mundo Real
3:30 Mister Rogers
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Electric Company
5:30 Villa Alegre
6:00 3-2-1 Contact
6:30 Once Upon a Classic: "A Tale of Two Cities" (Part 6 of 6)
7:00 Over Easy
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 Great Performances: "Dance in America: The Tempest"
10:00 Meeting of Minds
11:00 Tomb of the Lost King
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