WTOL Ad

Here's a vintage ad for the 13 Nightly News on WTOL(13). It caught my eye because that proclaim that their anchor, Randy Price, is the "Unanchored Anchorman". I presume that WTOL kept sending Mr. Price out to all crime, fire, & disaster scenes in their area. From the Detroit, MI edition of TV Guide, dated April 5-11, 1980.

WGPR Channel 62 TV Schedule for Friday, April 11, 1980

Morning
========
   7:30 am                     News
   8:00 am                     Rocky & His Friends
   8:30 am                     Rebop
   9:00 am                     Rifleman
   9:30 am                     Friday's Feature
 10:00 am                     News
 10:30 am                     Dwight Hurlbut
 10:45 am                     To be announced
 11:00 am                     PTL Club


Afternoon
=========
   1:00 pm                    Spirit of Detroit
   1:30 pm                    Faith for Miracles
   2:00 pm                    Judge Roy Bean
   2:30 pm                    Movie   "Gulliver's Travels"
   4:00 pm                    New Zoo Revue
   4:30 pm                    Rocky & His Friends
   5:00 pm                    Scene (dance program)


Evening
=======
   6:00 pm                   News
   6:30 pm                   26 Men
   7:00 pm                   This Is the Day
   7:30 pm                   Hal Roach Theater
   8:00 pm                   Message of Deliverance
   8:30 pm                   PTL Club
 11:00 pm                   Spirit of Detroit
 11:30 pm                   March of Faith


Early Saturday, April 12, 1980
=======================
 12 midnight             Hal Roach Theater
 12:30 am                 Spirit of Detroit
   2:00 am                 Movie   "Paradise In Harlem"
   3:30 am                 Movie   "Sanders of the River" (time approximate)

WTVS Chtannel 56 TV Schedule for Friday, April 11, 1980

Morning
======
   6:45 am                  A.M. Weather
   7:00 am                  Lowell Thomas Remembers
   7:30 am                  Dick Cavett (guest: Howard Smith)
   8:00 am                  MacNeil/Lehrer Report
   8:30 am                  Over Easy with Hugh Downs (rerun)
   9:00 am                  A.M. Weather
   9:30 am                  3-2-1 Contact
 10:00 am                  Sesame Street
 11:00 am                  Mister Rogers
 11:30 am                  Electric Company


Afternoon
========
 12 noon                  As We See It
 12:30 pm                3-2-1 Contact
   1:00 pm                Feast or Famine: the Great American Diet
   1:30 pm                Lowell Thomas Remembers
   2:00 pm                Dick Cavett (guest: Lorin Maazel)
   2:30 pm                Here's to Your Health (rerun)
   3:00 pm                Sesame Street
   4:00 pm                3-2-1 Contact
   4:30 pm                Electric Company


Evening
========
   6:30 pm              Wild Wild World of Animals
   7:00 pm              Feedback
   7:30 pm              MacNeil/Lehrer Report
   8:00 pm              Washington Week In Review
   8:30 pm              Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser
   9:00 pm              56 Reports
   9:30 pm              Off the Record
 10:00 pm              Another Voice
 10:30 pm              Detroit Black Journal
 11:00 pm              Dick Cavett (guest: Alvin Tottler)
 11:30 pm              ABC Captioned News

WKBD Channel 50 TV Schedule for Friday, April 11, 1980

Morning
=======
   6:50 am                       News
   7:00 am                       Bugs Bunny
   7:30 am                       Casper
   8:00 am                       Tom & Jerry
   8:30 am                       Gilligan's Island
   9:00 am                       Please Don't Eat the Daisies
   9:30 am                       Family Affair
 10:00 am                       Detroit Today with Makupson (guest: Dorothy Kahkonen)
 10:30 am                       Health Field
 11:00 am                       Romper Room
 11:30 am                       Lucy Show


Afternoon
=========
 12 noon                        Popeye
 12:30 pm                      Beverly Hillbillies
   1:00 pm                      Movie   "Up Front"
   2:55 pm                      News
   3:00 pm                      Bugs Bunny
   3:30 pm                      Woody Woodpecker
   4:00 pm                      Tom & Jerry
   4:30 pm                      Flintstones
   5:00 pm                      Brady Bunch   "The Big Sprain"
   5:30 pm                      I Love Lucy


Evening
=======
   6:00 pm                   Happy Days Again
   6:30 pm                   Sanford & Son   "Watts Side Story"
   7:00 pm                   M*A*S*H   "Hawkeye Get Your Gun"
   7:30 pm                   M*A*S*H   "The Korean Surgeon"
   8:00 pm                   National Geographic   "Grizzly!"
   9:00 pm                   Jacques Cousteau
   9:55 pm                   News
 10:00 pm                   Dinah & Friends (guests: Charles Nelson Reilly, Bob Hope, Betty Ford, &
                                                                                Robert Guillame)
 11:00 pm                   Prisoner: Cell Block H
 11:30 pm                   Benny Hill


Early Saturday, April 12, 1980
=========================
 12 midnight               Make Me Laugh
 12:30 am                   Movie   "Wings of the Navy"

WXON Channel 20 TV Schedule for Friday, April 11, 1980

Morning
=======
   6:30 am                     Cartoon Carnival
   6:45 am                     News
   7:00 am                     700 Club
   8:30 am                     Movie   "Docks of New York"
   9:55 am                     News
 10:00 am                     700 Club
 11:30 am                     News
 11:45 am                     Dick Tracy



Afternoon
========
 12 noon                      Petticoat Junction
 12:30 pm                    Big Valley
   1:30 pm                    Twilight Zone
   2:00 pm                    F-Troop
   2:30 pm                    Leave It to Beaver
   3:00 pm                    Mighty Mouse/Deputy Dawg
   3:30 pm                    Super Heroes
   4:00 pm                    Spiderman
   4:30 pm                    Superman (TV series)
   5:00 pm                    Addams Family
   5:30 pm                    New Soupy Sales


Evening
=======
   6:00 pm                   Get Smart
   6:30 pm                   Gomer Pyle, USMC
   7:00 pm                   Dating Game
   7:30 pm                   Green Acres

The Comeback Kid Ad

Here's a vintage ad for the movie The Comeback Kid, starring John Ritter & Susan Dey, that aired on WXYZ(7) & WDHO(24) on Friday, April 11, 1980. From the Detroit, MI edition of TV Guide, dated April 5-11, 1980.

WXYZ Channel 7 TV Schedule for Friday, April 11, 1980

Morning
========
   6:00 am                    TV College  "Identity: Acculturation, Assimilation, Marginality" (part 1)
   6:30 am                    News
   7:00 am                    Good Morning America (guest: John Ritter)
   9:00 am                    Kelly & Company (guest: Bob Griese)
 10:30 am                    Edge of Night
 11:00 am                    Laverne & Shirley
 11:30 am                    Family Feud


Afternoon
========
 12 noon                      $20,000 Pyramid
 12:30 pm                    Ryan's Hope
  1:00 pm                     All My Children
  2:00 pm                     One Life To Live
  3:00 pm                     General Hospital
  4:00 pm                     Movie   "The Angry Red Planet"
  5:30 pm                     News


Evening
=======
   6:00 pm                  News
   7:00 pm                  ABC News with Frank Reynolds
   7:30 pm                  Hollywood Squares
   8:00 pm                  When the Whistle Blows   "God's Country"
   9:00 pm                  Movie   "The Comeback Kid"
 11:00 pm                  News
 11:30 pm                  Fridays (premiere; musical guest: Kenny Loggins)


Early Saturday, April 12, 1980
========================
 12:40 am                 Movie   "Dracula's Castle"
   2:40 am                 News

WDIV Channel 4 TV Schedule for Friday, April 11, 1980

Morning
========
   6:00 am                    Classroom   "Everything You've Wanted to Know about Play & Leisure but
                                                                 Were Afraid to Ask"
   6:30 am                    Bugs Bunny & His Superstar Friends
   7:00 am                    Today with Tom Brokaw
   9:00 am                    Movie   "The Man from Button Willow"
 10:30 am                    Hollywood Squares
 11:00 am                    High Rollers
 11:30 am                    Wheel of Fortune


Afternoon
========
 12 noon                     News
 12:30 pm                  Taylor Made with Gene Taylor
   1:00 pm                  Days of Our Lives
   2:00 pm                  Doctors
   2:30 pm                  Another World
   4:00 pm                  Good Times
   4:30 pm                  Bewitched
   5:00 pm                  What's Happening
   5:30 pm                  All In the Family


Evening
=======
   6:00 pm                 News
   7:00 pm                 NBC News with Chancellor & Brinkley
   7:30 pm                 Joker's Wild
   8:00 pm                 Here's Boomer    "Tell 'Em Boomer Sent You"
   8:30 pm                 Facts of Life    "Flash Flood"
   9:00 pm                 Pink Lady (guests: Bobby Vinton, Sid Caesar, & Byron Allen)
 10:00 pm                 Best of Saturday Night Live
 11:00 pm                 News
 11:30 pm                 Tonight (guests: Angie Dickinson & McLean Stevenson)


Early Saturday, April 12, 1980
======================
   1:00 am                Midnight Special (featured: the Spinners, Kool & the Gang, Andy Gibb, the
                                             Byrds, Herman's Hermits, & Pink Floyd)
   2:30 am               Rockworld
   3:00 am               Country Roads

WJBK Channel 2 TV Schedule for Friday, April 11, 1980

Morning
=======
   6:30 am                 Skatebirds
   7:00 am                 Captain Kangaroo (guest: Paul Dooley)
   8:00 am                 Good Morning Detroit (guest: Dr. Allan Ryan)
   9:00 am                 Phil Donahue (topic: euthanasia)
 10:00 am                 Jeffersons
 10:30 am                 Newlywed Game
 10:55 am                 News
 11:00 am                 Price Is Right


Afternoon
========
 12 noon                 News
 12:30 pm               Search for Tomorrow
   1:00 pm               Young & the Restless
   2:00 pm               As The World Turns
   3:00 pm               Guiding Light
   4:00 pm               Afternoon Playhouse   "One Last Ride" (conclusion; miniseries)
   4:30 pm               Mike Douglas (Cohost: Don Rickles. Guests: Liberace, & Andrea McArdle)
   5:30 pm               News


Evening
=======
   6:00 pm              News
   6:30 pm             CBS News with Cronkite
   7:00 pm             PM Magazine
   7:30 pm             Tic Tac Dough
   8:00 pm             Incredible Hulk   "On the Line"
   9:00 pm             Dukes of Hazzard (rerun)
 10:00 pm             Dallas (rerun)
 11:00 pm             News
 11:30 pm             Maude


Early Saturday, April 12, 1980
=======================
 12 midnight        Masters Highlights (taped; special)
 12:10 am            NBA Playoff (taped coverage of a Western Conference game; special)
   2:15 am            News

Cartoon

Here's a vintage cartoon from the Detroit MI edition of TV Guide, dated April 5-11, 1980.

WGPR Channel 62 TV Schedule for Thursday, April 10, 1980

Morning
=======
   7:30 am                    News
   8:00 am                    Rocky & His Friends
   8:30 am                    Valley of the Dinosaurs
   9:00 am                    Rifleman
   9:30 am                    Teen Profile
 10:00 am                    News
 10:30 am                    Christians & Mental Health
 11:00 am                    PTL Club


Afternoon
========
   1:00 pm                  Spirit of Detroit
   1:30 pm                  Faith for Miracles with Richard Brookes
   2:00 pm                  Judge Roy Bean
   2:30 pm                  Movie   "The Great Gabbo"
   4:00 pm                  New Zoo Revue
   4:30 pm                  Rocky & His Friends
   5:00 pm                  Scene (dance program)


Evening
======
   6:00 pm                 News
   6:30 pm                 26 Men
   7:00 pm                 This Is the Day
   7:30 pm                 Movie   "His Double Life"
   9:00 pm                 PTL Club
 11:00 pm                 Spirit of Detroit
 11:30 pm                 Faith for Miracles with Richard Brookes


Early Friday, April 11, 1980
=====================
 12:30 am                Spirit of Detroit
   2:00 am                Movie   "Sands of Beersheba"
   3:30 am                Movie   "Killer Cop" (time approximate)

WTVS Channel 56 TV Schedule for Thursday, April 10, 1980

Morning
========
   6:45 am                     A.M. Weather
   7:00 am                     Lowell Thomas Remembers
   7:30 am                     Dick Cavett (guest: Patrick Segal)
   8:00 am                     MacNeil/Lehrer Report
   8:30 am                     Over Easy with Hugh Downs (guest: Stanley Kramer; rerun)
   9:00 am                     A.M. Weather
   9:30 am                     3-2-1 Contact
 10:00 am                     Sesame Street
 11:00 am                     Electric Company
 11:30 am                     Mister Rogers


Afternoon
========
 12 noon                      Advocates In Brief
 12:30 pm                    The Sound & Rhythm of Young Japan
   1:00 pm                    Front Row Center: Strictly Dance
   1:30 pm                    Lowell Thomas Remembers
   2:00 pm                    Dick Cavett (guest: Patrick Segal)
   2:30 pm                    Julia Child & More Company
   3:00 pm                    Sesame Street
   4:00 pm                    3-2-1 Contact


Evening
=======
   6:30 pm                  Wild Wild World of Animals
   7:00 pm                  Feedback
   7:30 pm                  MacNeil/Lehrer Report
   8:00 pm                  To be announced
   9:00 pm                  Austin City Limits (guests: Johnny Paycheck & Billy Joe Shaver)
 10:00 pm                  Second City Television Network (featuring: Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, John
                                                                                               Candy, & Andrea Martin)
 10:30 pm                  Monty Python (featuring Terry Jones & Eric Idle)
 11:00 pm                 Dick Cavett (guest: Lorin Maazel)
 11:30 pm                 ABC Captioned News

WKBD Channel 50 TV Schedule for Thursday, April 10, 1980

Morning
=======
    6:50 am                    News
    7:00 am                    Bugs Bunny
    7:30 am                    Casper
    8:00 am                    Tom & Jerry
    8:30 am                    Gilligan's Island
    9:00 am                    Please Don't Eat the Daisies
    9:30 am                    Family Affair
  10:00 am                    Detroit Today with Makupson (guest: Alfred Baume)
  10:30 am                    Health Field
  11:00 am                    Romper Room
  11:30 am                    Lucy Show


Afternoon
========
  12 noon                     Popeye
  12:30 pm                  Beverly Hillbillies
    1:00 pm                  Movie   "I'd Climb the Highest Mountain"
    2:55 pm                  News
    3:00 pm                  Bugs Bunny
    3:30 pm                  Woody Woodpecker
    4:00 pm                  Tom & Jerry
    4:30 pm                  Flintstones
    5:00 pm                  Brady Bunch   "Brace Yourself"
    5:30 pm                  I Love Lucy


Evening
======
   6:00 pm                  Happy Days Again
   6:30 pm                  Sanford & Son   "Lamont Goes African"
   7:00 pm                  M*A*S*H   "The Colonel's Horse"
   7:30 pm                  M*A*S*H   "Life with Father"
   8:00 pm                  Movie   "Angels with Dirty Faces"
   9:55 pm                  News
 10:00 pm                  Dinah & Friends (guests: Audra Lindley, Eddy Arnold, Graham Nash, Ken
                                                                          Minyard, & Howard J. Ruff)
 11:00 pm                  Prisoner: Cell Block H
 11:30 pm                  Benny Hill


Early Friday, April 11, 1980
======================
 12 midnight             Make Me Laugh
 12:30 am                 Movie   "Bullets or Ballots"

WXON Channel 20 TV Schedule for Thursday, April 10, 1980

Morning
=======
   6:30 am                     Cartoon Carnival
   6:45 am                     News
   7:00 am                     700 Club
   8:30 am                     Movie   "The Plunderers"
   9:55 am                     News
 10:00 am                     700 Club
 11:30 am                     News
 11:45 am                     Dick Tracy


Afternoon
=========
 12 noon                      Petticoat Junction
 12:30 pm                    Big Valley
   1:30 pm                    Twilight Zone
   2:00 pm                     F-Troop
   2:30 pm                     Leave It to Beaver
   3:00 pm                     Mighty Mouse/Deputy Dawg
   3:30 pm                     Super Heroes
   4:00 pm                     Spiderman
   4:30 pm                     Superman (TV series)
   5:00 pm                     Addams Family
   5:30 pm                     New Soupy Sales


Evening
=======
    6:00 pm                    Get Smart
    6:30 pm                    Gomer Pyle, USMC
    7:00 pm                    Dating Game
    7:30 pm                    Green Acres

Action News Ad

Here's a vintage ad for WXYZ(7)'s 11:00 pm Action News, complete with the team they had at the time. From the Detroit, MI edition of TV Guide, dated April 5-11, 1980.

WXYZ Channel 7 TV Schedule for Thursday, April 10, 1980

Morning
=======
   6:00 am                     TV College   "Community Shared Experience" (part 2)
   6:30 am                     News
   7:00 am                     Good Morning America with David Hartman (guest: Frank Shorter)
   9:00 am                     Kelly & Company
 10:30 am                     Edge of Night
 11:00 am                     Laverne & Shirley
 11:30 am                     Family Feud


Afternoon
========
 12 noon                     $20,000 Pyramid
 12:30 pm                   Ryan's Hope
   1:00 pm                   All My Children
   2:00 pm                   One Life To Live
   3:00 pm                   General Hospital
   4:00 pm                   Movie   "Five Million Years To Earth"
   5:30 pm                   News


Evening
=======
   6:00 pm                 News
   7:00 pm                 ABC News with Frank Reynolds
   7:30 pm                 Family Feud
   8:00 pm                 Mork & Mindy (rerun)
   8:30 pm                 Benson (rerun)
   9:00 pm                 Barney Miller (rerun)
   9:30 pm                 Associates   "The Censors"
 10:00 pm                 20/20
 11:00 pm                 News
 11:30 pm                 ABC News(Nightline) with Ted Koppel
 11:50 pm                 Charlie's Angels


Early Friday, April 11, 1980
=====================
   1:00 am                  Baretta
   2:10 am                  News

WDIV Channel 4 TV Schedule for Thursday, April 10, 1980

Morning
=======
   6:00 am                   Classroom   "Play & Leisure In a Commodity Culture"
   6:30 am                   Bugs Bunny & His Superstar Friends
   7:00 am                   Today with Tom Brokaw
   9:00 am                    Movie   "Stowaway to the Moon"
 10:30 am                    Hollywood Squares
 11:00 am                    High Rollers
 11:30 am                    Wheel of Fortune


Afternoon
========
 12 noon                     News
 12:30 pm                   Taylor Made with Gene Taylor (guest: Joe Graedon)
   1:00 pm                   Days of Our Lives
   2:00 pm                   Doctors
   2:30 pm                   Another World
   4:00 pm                   Good Times
   4:30 pm                   Bewitched
   5:00 pm                   What's Happening
   5:30 pm                   All In the Family


Evening
======
   6:00 pm                  News
   7:00 pm                  NBC News with Chancellor & Brinkley
   7:30 pm                  Joker's Wild
   8:00 pm                  This Week In Baseball with Mel Allen (return; review of the 1979 season)
   8:30 pm                  Baseball: Detroit Tigers at Kansas City Royals (notes that there may be a strike)
 11:00 pm                  News
 11:30 pm                  Tonight (guests: David Letterman, Sydney Goldsmith & Tom Wolfe)


Early Friday, April 11, 1980
=======================
   1:00 am                  Tomorrow with Tom Snyder (guest: Marvin Hamlisch)
   2:00 am                   Classroom

WJBK Channel 2 TV Schedule for Thursday, April 10, 1980

Morning
=======
   6:30 am                     Gigglesnort Hotel
   7:00 am                     Captain Kangaroo
   8:00 am                     Good Morning Detroit (guests: Noelle Clark & Ginny Stollicker)
   9:00 am                     Phil Donahue
 10:00 am                     Jeffersons
 10:30 am                     Newlywed Game
 10:55 am                     News
 11:00 am                     Price Is Right


Afternoon
========
 12 noon                      News
 12:30 pm                    Search for Tomorrow
   1:00 pm                    Young & the Restless
   2:00 pm                    As The World Turns
   3:00 pm                    Guiding Light
   4:00 pm                    Afternoon Playhouse   "One Last Ride" (part 4; miniseries; preempts regular
                                                                                                                  programming)
   4:30 pm                    Mike Douglas (Cohost: Don Rickles. Guests: Shirley Jones & Billy Preston)
   5:30 pm                    News


Evening
=======
   6:00 pm                  News
   6:30 pm                  CBS News with Cronkite
   7:00 pm                  PM Magazine
   7:30 pm                  Tic Tac Dough
   8:00 pm                  Palmerstown, U.S.A.   "The Lesson"
   9:00 pm                  Hagen     "Jeopardy" (preempts regular programming)  
 10:00 pm                  Contender
 11:00 pm                  News
 11:30 pm                  Maude


Early Friday, April 11, 1980
========================
 12 midnight             Rookies
   1:00 am                  Marcus Welby, M.D.
   2:00 am                  News 

Nurse Ad

Here's a vintage ad for the movie "Nurse", starring Michael Learned, Robert Reed, & Antonio Vargas, that aired on WJBK(2) & WTOL(11) on Wednesday, April 9, 1980. From the Detroit, MI edition of TV Guide, dated April 5-11, 1980.

WGPR Channel 62 TV Schedule for Wednesday, April 9, 1980

Morning
=======
   7:30 am                   News
   8:00 am                   Rocky & His Friends
   8:30 am                   Mission: Magic
   9:00 am                   Rifleman
   9:30 am                   Something Special
 10:00 am                   News
 10:30 am                   Outreach
 11:00 am                   PTL Club


Afternoon
========
   1:00 pm                 Spirit of Detroit
   1:30 pm                 Faith for Miracles
   2:00 pm                 Judge Roy Bean
   2:30 pm                 Movie   "Flying Deuces"
   4:00 pm                 New Zoo Revue
   4:30 pm                 Rocky & His Friends
   5:00 pm                 Scene (dance program)


Evening
=======
   6:00 pm                News
   6:30 pm                26 Men
   7:00 pm                This Is the Day
   7:30 pm                Rifleman
   8:00 pm                Full Gospel Hour
   8:30 pm                Methodist Hour
   9:00 pm                PTL Club
 11:00 pm                Faith for Miracles with Richard Brookes


Early Thursday, April 10, 1980
========================
 12:30 am               Spirit of Detroit
   2:00 am               Movie   "Three for Jamie Dawn"
   3:30 am               Movie   "Pot O' Gold"