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Retro: Boise, ID - October 18 (Sun.), 19 (Mon.), 24 (Sat.), 1981

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Newspapers.com has started to upload Boise's Idaho Statesman from the '70s and '80s. The Treasure Valley's newest and first independent station, KTRV (call letters meaning "TReasure Valley") Channel 12 joined the airwaves on October 18, 1981. I shall be putting its first Sunday, weekday, and Saturday schedules along with all network stations.

PART I
Sunday, October 18, 1981

2 KBCI (CBS)

AM
7:00 Sunday Morning
8:30 Day of Discovery
9:00 Oral Roberts
9:30 It Is Written
10:00 The Search
10:30 NFL Today
11:00 NFL Football - Phildelphia Eagles vs. Minnesota Vikings
PM
2:00 NFL Football - Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. Oakland Raiders (last season before moving to Los Angeles)
5:00 Interaction
5:30 CBS Evening News - Morton Dean
6:00 60 Minutes
7:00 Archie Bunker's Place: "Norma Rae Bunker"
7:30 One Day at a Time: "Airport"
8:00 Alice: "Comrade Mel"
8:30 Jeffersons: "Louise's Father"
9:00 Trapper John, M.D.: "Give 'Till It Hurts"
10:00 CBS Sunday Night News - Charles Osgood
10:15 Action News
10:30 Movie: "Winning" (1969) - Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward (Newman's wife), Robert Wagner.

4 KAID (PBS/Idaho Public Television)
AM
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Mister Rogers
9:30 Sesame Street
10:30 Electric Company
11:00 I Am, I Can, I Will
11:30 Big Blue Marble
PM
NOON Once Upon a Classic: "The Leatherstocking Tales" (Part 2 of 4)
12:30 Victory Garden
1:00 Shakespeare Plays: "Julius Ceasar"
4:00 This Old House
4:30 Woodwright's Shop
5:00 Wall $treet Week
5:30 The Lawmakers
6:00 Soccer Made in Germany - Bayern Munich vs. New York Cosmos (NASL)
7:00 Great Performances: "A Month in the Country", presented by London's Royal Ballet.
8:00 Nova: "Cosmic Fire"
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre: "A Town Like Alice" (Part 3 of 3; produced in Australia rather than the ususal UK)
10:00 The Shatterer of Worlds
11:00 Presente!

6 KIVI (ABC)
AM
6:00 Robert Schuller
7:00 Jerry Falwell
8:00 Kenneth Copeland
9:00 Jimmy Swaggart
10:00 Movie: "Desert Trail" (1935) - John Wayne, Mary Kornman
11:00 Directions
11:30 Issues and Answers - Guest: President Francois Mitterand of France (from Paris), Pierre Salinger.
PM
NOON Pets on Parade
12:30 Kids Are People Too - Guests: Gilda Radner, Benji and his trainer, consumer expert Jon Steinberg, author and outdoors expert Dian Thomas on camping tips.
1:25 Dear Alex and Annie
1:30 Animals, Animals, Animals: "The Giraffe"
2:00 Movie: "Horse Feathers" (1932) - The Marx Brothers
3:30 Movie: "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (1938) - Errol Flynn (title role), Olivia de Haviland (as Maid Marian), Alan Hale Sr. (as Little John), Claude Rains (as Prince John), Melville Cooper (as Sheriff of Nottingham).
5:30 Coaches' Corner (Boise State University football)
6:00 ABC's NFL Football Special - Los Angeles Rams vs. Dallas Cowboys
9:00 ABC News Closeup: "Wounds From Within" - Probes of racial and religious attacks; Host: Marshall Frady
10:00 Newswatch 6
10:15 ABC News Weekend Report - Tom Jarriel
10:30 Movie: "I Will, I Will...For Now" (1976) - Elliott Gould, Diane Keaton, Paul Sorvino, Victoria Principal.

7 KTVB (NBC)
AM
6:30 Agriculture U.S.A.
7:00 Music and the Spoken Word
7:30 Rainbow Patch
8:00 Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Welcome Back, Kotter
9:00 Look at Us
9:30 Newsbeat Forum
10:00 Meet the Press - Guest: 1981 Nobel Economics Laureate Prof. James Tobin.
10:30 Movie: "One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story" (1978) - LeVar Burton, Madge Sinclair, Paul Benjamin, Billy Martin (as himself).
PM
12:30 NFL Review and Preview
1:30 NFL '81
2:00 NFL Football - Denver Broncos vs. Kansas City Chiefs
5:00 Muppet Show - Guest: John Cleese
5:30 Wild Kingdom
6:00 Flintstones
6:30 Here's Boomer
7:00 CHiPs: "Moonlight"
8:00 NBC Sunday Night at the Movies: "The Nashville Grab" (Premiere) - Jeff Conaway, Cristina Raines, Dianne Kay, Slim Pickens, Henry Gibson, Gary Sandy.
10:00 Newsbeat 7
10:30 M*A*S*H (x2)
11:30 Six Million Dollar Man

12 KTRV (Ind.)
first day on the air

AM
8:00 The LaHayes
8:30 Lowell Lundstrom
9:00 Kroeze Brothers
9:30 Religious Programming
10:30 Movie: "Curly Top" (1935) - Shirley Temple, John Boles, Rochelle Hudson.
PM
NOON Movie: "Something for Joey" (1977) - Marc Singer, Geraldine Page, Steve Guttenberg.
2:00 SFM Holiday Network Movie: "Prince Valiant" (1954) - Robert Wagner (title role), James Mason, Janet Leigh, Sterling Hayden, Debra Paget, Brian Aherne, Donald Crisp. (Based on the comic strip.)
4:00 Movie: "The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming" (1966) - Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Alan Arkin, Brian Keith, Jonathan Winters.
6:30 Dance Fever - Judges: David Copperfield, Ted Lange, Susan Richardson; Guests: Dave Rowland & Sugar.
7:00 Dance Fever - Judges: Jimmy McNichol, Telma Hopkins, Patrick Wayne; Guest: James Marcel.
7:30 Special Movie: "Fred Astaire Salutes the (20th Century) Fox Musicals" (1974)
9:00 Louis Rukeyser's Business Journal
9:30 Canyon Forum (Named for Canyon County where KTRV's home city of Nampa is located.)
10:00 Jack Van Impe
10:30 Louis Rukeyser's Business Journal
11:00 Religious Programming
 
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PART II
Monday, October 19, 1981

2 KBCI (CBS)

AM
6:00 Wake Up With Captain Kangaroo
6:30 Monday Morning
8:00 One Day at a Time
8:30 Alice
9:00 The Price is Right
10:00 As the World Turns
11:00 Young and the Restless
PM
NOON Action News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Guiding Light
2:00 Up to the Minute
2:30 John Davidson: "A Salute to the City of Philadelphia" (produced in Hollywood) - Guests: David Brenner, Dick Clark, Frankie Avalon, Joe Earley (as Benjamin Franklin), Joe Dinella (director of the Philadelphia Mummers Museum).
4:00 Tom & Jerry
4:30 Waltons
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 Action News
6:30 All in the Family
7:00 Private Benjamin: "Judy Got Their Gun"
7:30 The Two of Us: "Brentwood's Agony"
8:00 CBS Special Movie Presentation: "Jacqueline Susan's Valley of the Dolls (Premiere, Part 1 of 2) - Jean Simmons, Lisa Hartman, Veronica Hammel, Catherine Hicks, Britt Ekland, David Birney, James Coburn, Bert Convy, Gary Collins.
10:00 Action News
10:30 Quincy
11:40 Harry O
AM
12:50 Action News (R)

4 KAID (PBS)
AM
7:15 AM Weather
7:30 Market to Market
8:00 Mister Rogers
8:30 Electric Company
9:00 Studio See
9:30 Instructional Programming
10:00 Sesame Street
11:00 Instructional Programming
PM
12:30 Humanities Through the Arts
1:00 Instructional Programming
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Studio See
6:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:00 The Reporters (KAID News/Public Affairs
7:30 Over Easy - Guest: Lillian Gish
8:00 Great Performances - "La Clemenza di Tito", composed by Mozart in 1791, the last year of his life. Singers: Carol Neblett (soprano), Catherine Malfitano (soprano), Tatyana Troyanos (mezzo-soprano), Eric Tappy (tenor).
10:30 (Friedensreich) Hundertwasser's Rainy Day (Austrian painter-printmaker)
11:00 Captioned ABC News

6 KIVI (ABC)
AM
6:30 Beverly Hillbillies
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Love Boat
10:00 Edge of Night
10:30 Ryan's Hope
11:00 All My Children
PM
NOON One Life to Live
1:00 General Hospital
2:00 Midday
2:30 Movie: "The Man Who Could Talk to Kids" (1973) - Peter Boyle, Robert Reed, Scott Jacoby, Tyne Daly, Denise Nickerson.
4:00 Bonanza
5:00 You Asked For It
5:30 ABC World News Tonight
6:00 Newswatch 6
6:30 Entertainment Tonight
7:00 Monday Night Football - Chicago Bears vs. Detroit Lions
10:00 Newswatch 6
10:30 Nightline
11:00 That's Incredible!
AM
MIDNIGHT College Football '81

7 KTVB (NBC)
6:30 Mary Tyler Moore
7:00 Today
9:00 Donahue - Featured: Celebrity look-alikes.
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Password Plus - Guests: Edie McClurg, Robert Donner.
11:00 Las Vegas Gambit
11:30 Blockbusters
PM
NOON Newsbeat 7
12:30 Card Sharks (Start of final week of this version with Jim Perry.)
1:00 Texas
2:00 Another World
3:00 Days of Our Lives
4:00 Richard Simmons
4:30 Happy Days Again
5:00 Laverne & Shirley & Company
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Newsbeat 7
6:30 Viewpoint
7:00 Little House on the Prarie: "Growin' Pains"
8:00 NBC Monday Night at the Movies: "More American Graffiti" (1979) - Ron Howard, Cindy Williams, Harrison Ford, Paul Le Mat, Mackenzie Phillips, Bo Hopkins, Charles Martin Smith.
10:00 Newsbeat 7
10:30 Tonight Show: Best of Carson (Nov. 21, 1979) - Guests: Tony Randall, Kelly Monteith; Musical guest: Buddy Rich.
11:30 Tomorrow Coast to Coast - Guests: Billy Squier, Lt. Gen. Andrew O'Donnell.

12 KTRV (Ind.)
first weekday schedule

AM
6:00 Jim Bakker
7:00 Popeye
7:30 Woody Woodpecker
8:00 Great Space Coaster
8:30 Romper Room
9:00 Jim Bakker
10:00 Health Field
10:30 Jimmy Swaggart
11:00 700 Club
PM
NOON
12:30 Independent Network News - Midday Edition
1:00 Perry Mason
2:00 Big Valley
3:00 Woody Woodpecker
3:30 Scooby-Doo
4:00 Little Rascals
4:30 Flintstones
5:00 I Love Lucy
5:30 Wonder Woman
6:30 Family Feud
7:00 Gunsmoke
8:00 8 O'Clock Movie: "Magnificent Obession" (1954) - Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Agnes Moorehead, Otto Kruger.
10:00 Benny Hill
10:30 Wild, Wild West
11:30 Independent Network News - Nighttime Edition
 
PART III
Saturday, October 24, 1981

2 KBCI (CBS)

AM
7:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
8:30 Popeye and Olive Comedy Show
9:00 Blackstar
9:30 Tarzan/Lone Ranger/Zorro Adventure Hour
10:30 Tom & Jerry Comedy Show
11:00 Fat Albert
11:30 30 Minutes
PM
NOON Trollkins
12:30 Bullwinkle
1:00 Brady Bunch
1:30 Jetsons
2:00 F Troop
2:30 CBS Sports Saturday - 1) Mr. Universe Competition (Cairo, Egypt); 2) Profile of Mickey Mantle.
4:00 Weekend West
4:30 CBS Evening News - Bob Schieffer
5:00 Rockford Files
6:00 Special: "Crisis in the Horn of Africa" - Hosts: Stan Mooneyham, Carol Lawrence.
7:00 Walt Disney: "A Disney Halloween"
8:00 CBS Saturday Night Movies: "Dark Night of the Scarecrow" (Premiere) - Larry Drake, Charles Durning, Tonya Crowe, Lane Smith, Jocelyn Brando (Marlon's sister).
10:00 Action News
10:30 Movie: "Catch-22" (1970) - Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Buck Henry, Art Garfunkel, Jack Gilford.
AM
1:00 Action News (R)

4 KAID (PBS)
AM
10:00 Contemporary Health Issues (x2)
11:00 Firing Line
PM
NOON Humanities Through the Arts (x2)
1:00 Movie: "Crossfire" (1947) - Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame, Sam Levene.
2:30 Dick Cavett - Guest: Jacqueline Bisset
3:00 Matinee at the Bijou - 1) "Parlor Bedroom and Bath" (1931) - Buster Keaton, Charlotte Greenwood; 2) Betty Boop cartoon;
3) Rudy Vallee short; 4) Chapter 3 of "The Phantom Empire" (1935) - Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette.
4:30 Sports America - Kentucky Futurity Harness Racing
5:30 Once Upon a Classic: "The Leatherstocking Tales" (Part 3 of 3)
6:30 Cosmos: "Heaven and Hell"
7:00 The Duchess of Duke Street: "Your Country Needs You"
8:00 The Paper Chase (1978-79 CBS series)
9:00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
9:30 The Crisco Kid
10:00 Movie: "Raffles" (1939) - David Niven, Olivia de Haviland.

6 KIVI (ABC)
AM
6:00 Super Fun Hour (Superfriends; Heathcliff & Marmaduke)
7:00 Fonz-Laverne & Shirley Hour
8:00 Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show and Scrappy Too!
8:56 Schoolhouse Rock!
9:00 Goldie Gold and Action Jack/Thundarr Hour
9:56 Schoolhouse Rock!
10:00 ABC Weekend Special: "Arthur the Kid"
10:30 NCAA Football - Iowa vs. Minnesota
PM
2:00 World Series, Game 4 - New York Yankees vs. Los Angeles Dodgers
5:00 Solid Gold - Guests: A Taste of Honey, Rick Springfield, Nicolette Larso, Conway Twitty, Balance, Carl Carlton, Freddy "Boom Boom Cannon, the Belmonts; Comedy: Marty Cohen, Madame (performed by Wayland Flowers).
6:00 Entertainment This Week
7:00 Maggie (Premiere): "Alienation of Affection"
7:30 Making a Living (Season Premiere; renamed from "It's a Living" for this season): "Boys of Summer"
8:00 Love Boat: "The Incredible Hunk/Isaac, the Marriage Counselor/Jewels & Jim"
9:00 Fantasy Island: "Cyranno/The Magician"
10:00 Newswatch 6
10:15 ABC News Weekend Report - Tom Jarriel
10:30 Movie: "The War Dragon" (1967) - John Wayne, Kirk Douglas.

7 KTVB (NBC)
AM
6:30 Smurfs
7:30 Kid Super Power Hour
8:30 Space Stars
9:30 Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends
10:00 Daffy-Speedy Show
10:30 Bullwinkle (part of NBC's shedule)
11:00 Flintstone Comedy Show
PM
NOON NFL Review and Preview
1:00 Boise State Football - at Weber State
4:30 NBC Nightly News - Jessica Savitch
5:00 Hee Haw - Guests: Big Bird, Sonny James, Billy 'Crash' Craddock.
6:00 Lawrence Welk - Theme: "Halloween Party"
7:00 Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters - Guests: John Schneider, Terry Gibbs.
8:00 The Nashville Palace (Premiere) - Host: Roy Clark; Guests: Tanya Tucker, Jerry Reed, Rev. Grady Nutt, Woody Herman and the Young Thundering Herds, Lynn Hancock, the Little General Cloggers.
9:00 Fitz and Bones (Premiere): "Terror at Newsline 3" (starring the Smothers Brothers)
10:00 Newsbeat 7
10:30 NBC Special: "Bob & Ray & Gilda & Jane & Larraine" (pre-empting Saturday Night Live)
AM
MIDNIGHT Evening at the Improv

12 KTRV (Ind.)
first Saturday schedule

AM
7:30 Jim Bakker
8:30 Movie: "Annie Oakley" (1935) - Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas.
10:30 Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries
11:30 Movie: "Abbott & Costello Go to Mars" (1953) - also starring Mari Blanchard, Horace McMahon, Jack Kruschen.
PM
1:00 Movie: "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" (1961) - Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden, Frankie Avalon, Peter Lorre. (Its success paved the way for the 1964-68 ABC series of the same title.)
3:00 Movie: "A High Wind in Jamaica" (1965) - Anthony Quinn, James Coburn, Lila Kedrova.
5:00 Movie: "Secret of the Incas" (1954) - Charlton Heston, Robert Young.
7:00 Gunsmoke
8:00 8 O'Clock Movie: "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1968) - Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway.
10:00 Movie: "Dracula: Prince of Darkness" (1966) - Christopher Lee (title role), Barbara Shelley, Andrew Keir.
AM
MIDNIGHT Movie: "Murder, My Sweet" (1944) - Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley.
 
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