TV lineup vivid with 1979 programs and movies
Wednesday February 21 1979 TV slate lists Bewitched The Mary Tyler Moore Show Jokers Wild and more in prime time. Serials include The Jeffersons Maude MASH and crime dramas Rockford Files Kojak Mannix Ironside. Ends with game shows and soaps like The Price is Right Jeopardy and Ryan's Hope.
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Karen Holmes
Milt Warden
Prewitt
Natalie Wood
William Devane
Europe
Simon Haley
92Nd
Simon
Fidelio
Leonard Berstein
Beethoven
Vienna State Opera House
Ann
Mary Tyler Moore
the Jeffersons
Tom Willis
Helen
Bob Newhart
Kaz
Gregory Peck
Pat Quinn
Cowboy
Afternoon Television Schedule Highlights and Changes
TV guide style listing shows the day’s afternoon programming across networks with exact times. It includes soap operas such as General Hospital and Another World, daytime dramas like Days of Our Lives, game shows like Match Game, cartoons such as Popeye and Bugs Bunny, and children’s programs including Sesame Street and Mister Rogers.
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FBI
THOR
Lilias
Merv Griffin
Krofft
NEW Zoo Revue
Green Acres
Froozies Show Stands Out In Kid Friendly TV at KHJ
KHJTV's Froozies, a model of quality children's TV with positive values and varied characters, contrasts with costly independent programming. Sally Baker and Lionel Schoen lead a show praised for nonviolent storytelling but facing looming production costs that may end new episodes without sponsor support.
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Barbara Riegelhaupt
Associated Press
LOS Angeles
Big Bird
Cookie Monster
Muffen
Julie
Franz
KHJTV
KHJ
TV For Kids
Lionel Schoen
Sally Baker
Armed Forces TV
Baker
Schoen
ABCs midseason surge reshapes rival networks and schedules
ABC solidifies its lead with new and returning hits, prompting CBS NBC to scramble. NBC hunts 11 new shows, CBS adds seven or eight, while ABC sticks to four new series. Weeknights center on familiar staples like Happy Days and Eight is Enough, with ambitious moves on Monday through Sunday shaping the season.
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ABC
CBS
Flatbush
Billy
Laverne and
Shirley
Three
Taxi
Starsky and Hutch
Ular
Charlie’s Angels
Vegas
Mark
Mindy
Angie
Mark and Mindy top show for last week
ABC led television with Mork and Mindy as the week’s top rated program per AC Nielsen figures. Elvis special on ABC topped the night while Gone With the Wind on CBS and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest on NBC followed as competing heavyweights.
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New York
ABC
CBS
NBC
Mork
Mindy
A.C. Nielsen Co
Top TV ratings and top 10 music lists from AP compiled by Billboard
The piece lists the week’s top 10 singles and albums, led by Do You Think I'm Sexy and Blondes Have More Fun. It notes NBC gains to second place in ratings, with ABC and CBS also posting strong programs and a rundown of top shows like Mork and Mindy, Three's Company, Happy Days, andElvis.
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Rod _ Stewart
Warner Bros
Fire
Pointer Sisters
Planet
Olivia Newton John
MCA
Gloria Gaynor
Polydor
Atlantic
Village People
Casablanca
Blues Brothers
52Nd Street
Billy Joel
Columbia
Dire Straits
Doobie Brothers
Toto
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Bert Convy
Barbara Howard
Pepper
Mannix
Elizabeth
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Kojak
Tears
Telly Savalas
Dan Frazer
Tom Snyder
Martin Shepard
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Phil Donahue
Price IS
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Young and the Restless
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New Mexico
Doctors
Guiding Light
Another World
General Hospital
NBC News
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CBS News
Dick van Dyke
Roxanne Waltisperger
Trinity Lutheran Church
Wendell Taylor
Harry Boehnemann
Richard Howell
Jack Hamilton
Roy Lee
Harold Meyer
Jackie Whitely
D.R. Bowman
Brownwood
Texas
Robert Hinojos
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Peter J. Boyer
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Louis Gossett Jr
Leslie Uggams
Richard C. White
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Gene Kirkwood
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