February 24, 2020

What's on TV? Saturday, February 23, 1980

Sometimes I think I don't pay enough attention to the weekend listings. In truth, if we were to sort through the 281 previous "What's on TV?" features, we'd probably find that Saturdays and Sundays are represented just as often as any other day of the week. (We'd probably also find that we have far too much free time on our hands.) In this case, looking at Saturday's listings was an obvious choice since we just looked at a 1980 issue last month. Trust me, the weekday daytime programs haven't changed that much in a month. Today's listings, which give us a nice mix of shows, movies and sports, comes from the Kentucky issue, which includes Cincinnati.




 3  WAVE (LOUISVILLE) (NBC)

MORNING

    6:30
FARMING WITH JACK CROWNER

   7 AM
KENTUCKY AFIELD

    7:30
BLUE APPLE CLUBHOUSE

   8 AM
GODZILLA, GLOBETROTTERS—Cartoon

   9 AM
FRED AND BARNEY MEET THE SHMOO—Cartoon

  10:30
DAFFY DUCK—Cartoon

 11 AM
CASPER AND THE ANGELS—Cartoon

  11:30
JETSONS—Cartoon

AFTERNOON

  Noon
HOT HERO SANDWICH—Children
Guests: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Pam Dauber, Robert Guillaume, Michael Learned, Joe Jackson

   1 PM
WRESTLING

   2 PM
NASHVILLE ON THE ROAD—Music

    2:30
GRIZZLY ADAMS—Adventure

    3:30
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Alabama at Vanderbilt

    5:30
POP GOES THE COUNTRY—Music
Guests: Marty Robbins, Brenda Lee, Tom Grant

EVENING

   6 PM
NEWS

    6:30
NBC NEWS—Jane Pauley

   7 PM
CAMOFLAGE—Game

    7:30
EMPHASIS

   8 PM
CHiPs—Crime Drama

   9 PM
BJ AND THE BEAR

 10 PM
PRIME TIME SATURDAY—Tom Snyder

 11 PM
NEWS

  11:30
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
Host: Kirk Douglas. Guest: James Brown

   1 AM
DON KIRSHNER’S ROCK CONCERT
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, David Johansen, the Village People, REO Speedwagon, Jay Leno



 5  WLWT (CINCINNATI) (NBC)

MORNING

   7 AM
U.S. FARM REPORT

    7:30
HOT FUDGE—Children

   8 AM
GODZILLA, GLOBETROTTERS—Cartoon

   9 AM
FRED AND BARNEY MEET THE SHMOO—Cartoon

  10:30
DAFFY DUCK—Cartoon

 11 AM
CASPER AND THE ANGELS—Cartoon

  11:30
JETSONS—Cartoon

AFTERNOON

  Noon
HOT HERO SANDWICH—Children
Guests: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Pam Dauber, Robert Guillaume, Michael Learned, Joe Jackson

   1 PM
BATTLE OF THE PLANETS—Cartoon

    1:30
LONE RANGER—Western BW 

   2 PM
MOVIE—Science Fiction
“Terror of Mechagodzilla” (Japanese’ 1978)

    3:30
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Iowa at Ohio State

    5:30
SHA NA NA—Variety
Guests: Danny and the Juniors

EVENING

   6 PM
NEWS

    6:30
CONSUMER BUYLINE

   7 PM
LAWRENCE WELK

   8 PM
CHiPs—Crime Drama

   9 PM
BJ AND THE BEAR

 10 PM
PRIME TIME SATURDAY—Tom Snyder

 11 PM
NEWS

  11:30
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
Host: Kirk Douglas. Guest: James Brown

   1 AM
SECOND CITY TELEVISION—Comedy

    1:30
DON KIRSHNER’S ROCK CONCERT
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, David Johansen, the Village People, REO Speedwagon, Jay Leno



 9  WCPO (CINCINNATI) (CBS)

MORNING

    5:55
FARM NEWS

   6 AM
SUNRISE SEMESTER
Learning to Write/Writing to Learn

    6:30
CALL THE DOCTOR

    7:30
ROY ROGERS—Western BW 

   8 AM
MIGHTY MOUSE/HECKLE AND JECKLE—Cartoons

   9 AM
BUGS BUNNY/ROAD RUNNER—Cartoons

  10:30
POPEYE—Cartoons

  11:30
FAT ALBERT—Cartoon

AFTERNOON

  Noon
SHAZAM!—Children

  12:30
KIDSWORLD—Children

   1 PM
CISCO KID—Western

    1:30
ANNIE OAKLEY—Western BW 

   2 PM
ROY ROGERS—Western BW 

    2:30
MOVIE—Western
“The Gun and the Pulpit” (1974)

   4 PM
SPORTS SPECTACULAR
Boxing: Howard Davis vs. Vilomar Fernandez

   5 PM
GOLF
Special: Glen Campbell Los Angeles Open, third round

EVENING

   6 PM
NEWS

    6:30
CBS NEWS—Schieffer

   7 PM
WHEN HAVOC STRUCK—Documentary

    7:30
JOKER! JOKER!! JOKER!!!—Game

   8 PM
CHISHOLMS—Western

   9 PM
MOVIE—Adventure
“S*H*E” (Made for TV, 1980)

 11 PM
NEWS

  11:30
AVENGERS—Adventure

  12:40
RETURN OF THE SAINT—Crime Drama

    1:50
HERE AND NOW

    2:20
NEWS



11 WHAS (LOUISVILLE) (CBS)

MORNING

    7:30
LONE RANGER—Western

   8 AM
MIGHTY MOUSE/HECKLE AND JECKLE—Cartoons

   9 AM
BUGS BUNNY/ROAD RUNNER—Cartoons

  10:30
POPEYE—Cartoons

  11:30
FAT ALBERT—Cartoon

AFTERNOON

  Noon
SHAZAM!—Children

  12:30
TARZAN/SUPER 7—Cartoons

    1:30
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Memphis State at Tulane

    3:30
BUGS BUNNY AND FRIENDS—Cartoons

   4 PM
CBS REPORTS
Special: “The Trouble with Women”

   5 PM
NAME THAT TUNE—Game

    5:30
FACE THE MUSIC—Game

EVENING

   6 PM
NEWS

    6:30
CBS NEWS—Schieffer

   7 PM
HEE HEW
Guests: Hank Snow, Margo Smith, Rodney Lay

   8 PM
CHISHOLMS—Western

   9 PM
MOVIE—Adventure
“S*H*E” (Made for TV, 1980)

 11 PM
NEWS

  11:30
MOVIE—Western
“The Undefeated” (1969)

    1:30
NEWS



12 WKRC (CINCINNATI) (ABC)

MORNING

   6 AM
KIDS ARE PEOPLE TOO
Guests: Willie Aames, Paradise, Richard Dawson, Richard Simmons, Michael Lloyd

    7:30
MARLO AND THE MAGIC MOVIE MACHINE—Children

   8 AM
WORLD’S GREATEST SUPERFRIENDS—Cartoon

   9 AM
PLASTIC MAN—Cartoons

  10:30
SCOOBY AND SCRAPPY-DOO—Cartoons

  11:30
SPIDER-WOMAN—Cartoon

AFTERNOON

  Noon
BOWLING

  12:30
XIII WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES
Special: Ski jumping, speed skating, women’s slalom skiing

    3:30
PRO BOWLING
$100,000 Ford Open

   5 PM
WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS
Motorcycle racing, Chinese acrobats

EVENING

    6:30
HEE HEW
Guests: Hank Snow, Margo Smith, Rodney Lay

    7:30
BAXTERS

   8 PM
XIII WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES
Special: Women’s figure skating, women’s slalom skiing, speed skating, ski jumping, cross-country skiing, bobsledding

11 PM
NEWS

  11:30
XIII WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES UPDATE
Special

  11:45
MOVIE—Drama BW 
“Gaslight” (1944)

    1:50
MOVIE—Thriller BW 
“The Invisible Man” (1933)

    3:50
MOVIE—Thriller BW 
“The Invisible Man Returns” (1940)



15 WKPC (LOUISVILLE) (PBS)

MORNING

  11:30
SESAME STREET—Children

AFTERNOON

  12:30
FILM

   1 PM
MOVIE—Western BW 
“Heart of the Golden West” (1942)

   2 PM
VOYAGE OF CHARLES DARWIN—Drama

   3 PM
RACQUETBALL
Special: Boise Cascade Pro-Am

    4:30
CINEMA SHOWCASE

   5 PM
SOAPBOX

    5:30
EVEN YOU CAN GROW HOUSEPLANTS

EVENING

   6 PM
OLD HOUSEWORKS—Home Repair

    6:30
DANCING DISCO—Instruction

   7 PM
UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS

   8 PM
SNEAK PREVIEWS

    8:30
MOVIE—Comedy BW 
“It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946)

  10:30
DICK CAVETT

 11 PM
MYSTERY!
“Rumpole of the Bailey”

    Mid.
MOVIE—Comedy
“The Playboy of the Western World” (Irish; 1962)



18 WLEX (LEXINGTON) (NBC)

MORNING

    6:30
AG-USA

   7 AM
U.S. FARM REPORT

    7:30
CARTOONS

   8 AM
GODZILLA, GLOBETROTTERS—Cartoon

   9 AM
FRED AND BARNEY MEET THE SHMOO—Cartoon

  10:30
DAFFY DUCK—Cartoon

 11 AM
CASPER AND THE ANGELS—Cartoon

  11:30
JETSONS—Cartoon

AFTERNOON

  Noon
WRESTLING

   1 PM
CENTER CIRCLE

    1:30
U.K. STUDENT GOVERNMENT PRESENTS

   2 PM
NUCLEAR POWER: WHERE DO WE STAND?—Documentary

    2:30
PHIL SILVERS—Comedy BW 

   3 PM
TWO OF A KIND—Profile

    3:30
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Alabama at Vanderbilt

    5:30
FITNESS MOTIVATION

EVENING

   6 PM
THAT NASHVILLE MUSIC
Billie Jo Spears, Vern Gosdin, the Osborne Brothers, Mac Wiseman

    6:30
NBC NEWS—Jane Pauley

   7 PM
LAWRENCE WELK

   8 PM
CHiPs—Crime Drama

   9 PM
BJ AND THE BEAR

 10 PM
PRIME TIME SATURDAY—Tom Snyder

 11 PM
NEWS

  11:30
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
Host: Kirk Douglas. Guest: James Brown

   1 AM
SECOND CITY TELEVISION—Comedy

    1:30
SECOND CITY TELEVISION—Comedy



19 WXIX (CINCY) (Ind.)

MORNING

    6:15
PERSPECTIVE

   7 AM
FLINTSTONES—Cartoons

    7:30
POPEYE—Cartoons

   8 AM
BUGS AND PORKY—Cartoons

    8:30
TOM & JERRY—Cartoons

   9 AM
POPEYE—Cartoons

    9:30
SUPERMAN—Adventure

 10 AM
MOVIE—Comedy BW 
“The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap” (1947)

  11:30
MOVIE—Western
“The Glory Guys” (1965)

AFTERNOON

    1:30
MOVIE—Drama
“The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960)

   4 PM
MOVIE—Adventure
“Juggernaut” (1974)

EVENING

   6 PM
HAPY DAYS AGAIN—Comedy

    6:30
M*A*S*H

   7 PM
ALL IN THE FAMILY

   8 PM
DOLLY—Variety
Guest: Rod McKuen

   9 PM
PORTER WAGONER—Music
Guest: Johnny Russell

    9:30
COUNTRY ROADS—Music

 10 PM
NASHVILLE ON THE ROAD—Music

  10:30
THAT NASHVILLE MUSIC

 11 PM
NHL HIGHLIGHTS

    Mid.
TENNIS
Ilie Nastase vs. Peter Fleming



27 WKYT (LEXINGTON) (CBS)

MORNING

   7 AM
MOVIE—Western BW 
“Song of Arizona” (1946)

   8 AM
MIGHTY MOUSE/HECKLE AND JECKLE—Cartoons

   9 AM
BUGS BUNNY/ROAD RUNNER—Cartoons

  10:30
POPEYE—Cartoons

  11:30
FAT ALBERT—Cartoon

AFTERNOON

  Noon
SHAZAM!—Children

    1:30
30 MINUTES

   2 PM
KIDSWORLD—Children

    2:30
TOBACCO TALK

   3 PM
TONY BROWN’S JOURNAL

    3:30
JIMMY HOUSTON OUTDOORS

   4 PM
WILD KINGDOM

    4:30
NASHVILLE ON THE ROAD

   5 PM
COUNTRY ROADS—Music

    5:30
POP GOES THE COUNTRY—Music
Guests: Ronnie Milsap, Ronnie McDowell

EVENING

   6 PM
NEWS

    6:30
CBS NEWS—Schieffer

   7 PM
HEE HEW
Guests: Hank Snow, Margo Smith, Rodney Lay

   8 PM
CHISHOLMS—Western

   9 PM
MOVIE—Adventure
“S*H*E” (Made for TV, 1980)

 11 PM
NEWS

  11:30
MOVIE—Drama BW 
“The Great Lie” (1941)

    1:30
IT’S YOUR BUSINESS—Discussion



32 WLKY (LOUISVILLE) (ABC)

MORNING

    6:30
BIG BLUE MARBLE

   7 AM
KIDSWORLD—Children

    7:30
MARLO AND THE MAGIC MOVIE MACHINE—Children

   8 AM
WORLD’S GREATEST SUPERFRIENDS—Cartoon

   9 AM
PLASTIC MAN—Cartoons

  10:30
SCOOBY AND SCRAPPY-DOO—Cartoons

  11:30
SPIDER-WOMAN—Cartoon

AFTERNOON

  Noon
WEEKEND SPECIAL
“The Trouble with Miss Switch”

  12:30
XIII WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES
Special: Ski jumping, speed skating, women’s slalom skiing

    3:30
PRO BOWLING
$100,000 Ford Open

   5 PM
WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS
Motorcycle racing, Chinese acrobats

EVENING

    6:30
ROWLAND’S JOURNAL

   7 PM
JOKER! JOKER!! JOKER!!!—Game

    7:30
BAXTERS

   8 PM
XIII WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES
Special: Women’s figure skating, women’s slalom skiing, speed skating, ski jumping, cross-country skiing, bobsledding

 11 PM
NEWS

  11:30
XIII WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES UPDATE
Special

  11:45
MOVIE—Crime Drama
“Dirty Harry” (1971)

    1:45
MOVIE—Drama
“A Star is Born” (1937)

    3:55
ABC NEWS



41 WDRB (LOUISVILLE) (Ind.)

MORNING

    7:30
NEW SHAPES: EDUCATION

   8 AM
JETSONS—Cartoons

    8:30
PTL CLUB—Religion

  10:30
TENNIS
Ilie Nastase vs. Peter Fleming

AFTERNOON

  12:30
MOVIE—Comedy BW 
“High Society” (1955)

    1:45
MOVIE—Adventure BW 
“Tarzan Escapes” (1936)

    3:30
MOVIE—Adventure
“Hercules Unchained” (Italian; 1959)

    5:30
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Purdue at Illinois

EVENING

    7:30
SANFORD AND SON—Comedy

   8 PM
WILD KINGDOM

    8:30
IN SEARCH OF

   9 PM
AMERICA’S ATHLETES—1980

 10 PM
JIMMY HOUSTON OUTDOORS

  10:30
FISHING WITH ROLAND MARTIN

 11 PM
700 CLUB—Religion

  12:30
ROSS BAGLEY—Religion



62 WTVQ (LEXINGTON) (ABC)

MORNING

    6:30
MOVIE—Adventure
“Flight of the Cougar” (1987)

   8 AM
WORLD’S GREATEST SUPERFRIENDS—Cartoon

   9 AM
PLASTIC MAN—Cartoons

  10:30
SCOOBY AND SCRAPPY-DOO—Cartoons

  11:30
SPIDER-WOMAN—Cartoon

AFTERNOON

  Noon
WEEKEND SPECIAL
“The Trouble with Miss Switch”

  12:30
XIII WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES
Special: Ski jumping, speed skating, women’s slalom skiing

    3:30
FOCUS

   4 PM
FISHING WITH ROLAND MARTIN

    4:30
BILL DANCE OUTDOORS

   5 PM
WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS
Motorcycle racing, Chinese acrobats

EVENING

    6:30
MUPPET SHOW—Variety
Guest: Dyan Cannon

   7 PM
DANCE FEVER
Guest judges: Robert Mandan, Cathy Rigby, Ronnie Schell
Host: Deney Terrio

    7:30
SHA NA NA—Variety
Guests: the Kingston Trio

   8 PM
XIII WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES
Special: Women’s figure skating, women’s slalom skiing, speed skating, ski jumping, cross-country skiing, bobsledding

 11 PM
NEWS

  11:15
ABC NEWS

  11:30
XIII WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES UPDATE
Special

  11:45
WRESTLING

  12:45
MOVIE—Adventure
“Gold” (English; 1974)



 E  KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL NETWORK

MORNING

11 AM
ALTERNATIVES IN EDUCATION

  11:30
NEW SHAPES: EDUCATION

AFTERNOON

  Noon
OF EARTH AND MAN

   1 PM
GED SERIES

   2 PM
ART OF BEING HUMAN

   3 PM
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT

   4 PM
GREAT DECISIONS 1980

    4:30
GREAT DECISIONS 1980: KENTUCKY PERSPECTIVE

   5 PM
ADVOCATES IN BRIEF

    5:30
AS WE SEE IT

EVENING

   6 PM
PRISONER—Drama

   7 PM
ONCE UPON A CLASSIC—Children

    7:30
DICK CAVETT
Guest: Myrna Loy

   8 PM
UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS

   9 PM
VISIONS

 11 PM
MONTY PYTHON’S FLYING CIRCUS

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2 comments:

  1. I just saw that 2/23/1980 episode of SNL last week via DVD. The musical guest however was Sam & Dave (one of their last performances before Dave Prater died in 1981) instead of James Brown. They were probably a last minute substitution like how Buck Henry was a last minute substitute as host in the early years.

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  2. About Saturday Night Live that week:
    As noted, Kirk Douglas was guest host that week.
    Major stars usually had a tough time with the then-newish format (the original cast was in what would be its final season as a unit).
    My recollection was that Kirk Douglas went all-in, and had himself a ball.
    His Spartacus sketch ("What If Spartacus Had a Piper Cub") went very well indeed, and his intro for "those great artists" Sam & Dave also scored.
    This particular SNL became legendary for a major meltdown during rehearsals by an original cast member (still alive, so I won't ID), which led Douglas to comment "That's the best acting I've seen all week!" (he was likely trying to break the tension).

    Looking at the Other Stuff:
    - The Hot Hero Sandwich listing shows you one of life's little oddities:
    The logger spelled Robert Guillaume correctly, but not Pam Dawber. Hmmmmm …

    - The CBS movie is actually titled "S.H.E.: Security Hazards Expert".
    It's a pilot for Cornelia Sharpe, produced by her soon-to-be-husband Martin Bregman (the marriage was more successful, but that's another story).
    40 years on, it sure looks interesting: the screenplay is by Richard Maibaum (James Bond alumnus), and the Major Villains are Omar Sharif, Anita Ekberg, and Robert Lansing.
    Hey, I might have watched - and remember, February was still a Nielsen Sweeps Month back then.
    (Also, I had no interest in the Winter Olympics, So There Too.)

    - Channel 41's noon movie is "High Society", which is not the Crosby/Sinatra/Grace Kelly musical, but rather the Bowery Boys comedy that was nominated for an Oscar by mistake.
    Funny story - look it up sometime.

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