Newsday TV Book, September 10-16, 1978. (Fall Preview!)

That's right, it's fall preview time, and in your Non-Parader's neck of the woods (and I mean the woods!) we're getting just that: cool days and overnight temps dipping into the forties, leaves coming down prematurely by the bushel, stores even sneaking in a coupla Christmas shelves. In 1978, your favorite shows were returning right about now, and the TV Book featured a colorful, repetitive Sudduth cover as Long Islanders began the second third of September.
(Click or tap the pics to blow them up, grandpa!)

Is Siegfried also Doc? Will Vinnie and 

Jill come back? Are Jan and Buffy dead? These and other dumb questions were on the minds of Nassauans and... Suffolkers?

Let's jump right into the action, with TV Book Editor Tony Gentile's twelve-page look at what was in store for our boob tube viewing in the coming season.

Now let's take a look at Sunday morning, with the premiere of Kids Are People Too (when it was hosted by Wonderama's Bob McAllister) and a warning that there may be programming changes if the New York City newspaper strike was still in effect (it was, and would be until early November--which is about how long McAllister lasted before being fired).

Here's that afternoon, for no real reason other than yet again offering the Noseless Preggo of Dan Howard's Maternity Factory Outlet. I'm starting to think I'm falling in love with her. She's probably married, huh? Well, I'll raise that baby as my own, Noseless Preggo of Dan Howard's Maternity Factory Outlet, you'll see! And I'll find you a damn nose, too!

On ABC, 20/20 began in earnest after a summer debut, and NBC's Sword of Justice began a half-season run before getting the axe.

Late Friday brought some sci-fi and horror flicks to the wee hours (plus the usual hilarious reviews by the bracing John Cashman, whose daughter Kathleen handled that fall movie preview), which led into more horror on Saturday morning (and here's the rest of that day's schedule).

Here's a colorful center spread for Music Warehouse, with many locations on the Island (including my hometown of Plainview--woot woot!--but which I do not remember at all).

Kalinsky's, uh, baby stuff store in Hempstead kept an Artist-in-Residence, namely Walt Smith, M.D.S. (whatever that means--Master of Diaper Studies?). Hey, Noseless Preggo of Dan Howard's Maternity Factory Outlet, I'm taking you to Kalinsky's! Hands off, Walt, she's mine!

Let's finish things up with the Cable TV Highlights (can someone please find Orson Welles at the Magic Castle for me?) and the Quick Guide, which got squeezed down to just the week's movies due to the fall preview.

Back cover is a snooze, so I'm gonna go winterize the mower and bust out the rake!
'til next time...