Retro: Spokane - September 4, 1994 (NFL on Fox debuts; "Simpsons" returns to Sunday)
Channels:
2—KREM (CBS)
4—KXLY (ABC)
6—KHQ (NBC)
7—KSPS (PBS)
28—KAYU (Fox)
MORNING
5:30 am
4—EWU Education
6—Shop at Home
6:00
4—Kenneth Copeland
7—Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
28—SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron
6:30
2—Paid Programming
7—Barney & Friends
28—Stone Protectors
7:00
2—Paid Programming
4—Robert Schuller
6—Day of Discovery
7—The Kidsongs Television Show
28—Exosquad
7:30
2—Ernst Home and Garden Show
6—Q6 News Sunday
7—Reading Rainbow
28—Transformers: Generation 2
8:00
2—CBS Sunday Morning
Miami readies for a potential influx of Cubans and Haitians; a profile of architect Paul Williams; "Postcard from Nebraska"; moving a Block Island, R.I., lighthouse back off an eroding cliff. (Charles Osgood)
4—Day of Discovery
7—Lamb Chop's Play-Along
28—The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
8:30
4—Martha Stewart Living
6—Meet the Press
(Tim Russert)
7—Barney & Friends
28—Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
9:00
4—Bob Vila's Home Again
"Wayland, Massachusetts." Furniture and carpeting are selected. Also: advice for adding a shut-off valve to a sink. (Repeat)
7—Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?
28—Fox NFL Sunday
9:30
2—Tennis
U.S. Open, early round matches. Pete Sampras of the United States and Steffi Graf of Germany are the defending singles champions. (Live from Flushing, N.Y.)
4—Who's the Boss?
6—NFL Live!
7—Ghostwriter
10:00
4—To be announced.
6—NFL Football
Seattle Seahawks at Washington Redskins. (Live)
7—European Journal
28—NFL Football
Minnesota Vikings at Green Bay Packers. (Live)
10:30
7—Asia Now
11:00
7—North Idaho College Public Forum
11:30
4—This Week with David Brinkley
7—Think Tank
(Ben Wattenberg)
AFTERNOON
12 pm
7—Washington Week in Review
12:30
4—Lifestories: Families in Crisis
7—Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser
1:00
6—Shop at Home
7—Firing Line
"Where Is the GOP Going? Part 3: Big Government." Decreasing the size of government, taxes and unfunded mandates. (Part 3 of 4) (William F. Buckley, Jr.)
28—NFL Football
Dallas Cowboys at Pittsburgh Steelers. (Live)
1:30
4—Why Didn't I Think of That?
7—Editors [?]
2:00
4—M*A*S*H
7—Getting the Love You Want
2:30
4—Fishing the West
"Flat Creek Cutthroat." Fly-fishing for cutthroat trout in Wyoming's Flat Creek.
3:00
2—Acapulco H.E.A.T.
"Code Name: Stalemate." The HEAT guards a former KGB agent attending a chess match, but the game may be up when the team's nemesis returns to assassinate the Russian. Part 1 of two. Strake: James Healy. Ashley: Catherine Oxenberg. Mike: Brendan Kelly. Mr. Smith: John Vernon. (Repeat)
4—Golf
Greater Milwaukee Open, final round. Past winners include Billy Mayfair ('93), Richard Zoikoi ('92) and Mark Brooks ('91). (Taped)
6—Jeopardy!
7—Rough Guide
3:30
6—Wheel of Fortune
4:00
2—MOVIE: La Bamba
(1987) Lou Diamond Phillips, Esai Morales. A fact-based account of Ritchie Valens' (1941-59) rise to musical stardom before his death in a plane crash that also claimed the lives of Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper.
6—National Geographic: On Assignment
"Giant Tarantulas of the Lost World/Yanomami Homecoming." Giant tarantulas are food for man and insects; a suburban woman visits her Yanomami rainforest birthplace. (Repeat)
7—Travel Magazine
28—MOVIE: Bandit: Bandit's Silver Angel
(TV, 1994) Brian Bloom, Traci Lords. The trucker helps the heiress to his uncle's debt-ridden carnival get out of town.
5:00
4—Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
"Crossover." Bashir and Kira find themselves in an alternate universe where Klingons, Cardassians and Bajorans have formed an alliance—and humans are slaves. Bahsir: Siddig El Fadil. Kira: Nana Visitor. Sisko: Avery Brooks. Odo: Rene Auberjonois. Quark: Armin Shimerman. (Repeat)
6—Haven
Actors Susan Keith and James Kiberd; Victorian restoration; mission furniture. (Repeat)
7—The New Yankee Workshop
5:30
6—NBC Nightly News
7—This Old House
EVENING
6:00
2—CBS Evening News
4—News 4
6—Q6 News
7—Evening at Pops
"James Taylor." James Taylor performs many of his hits, including "Carolina in My Mind," "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight," Secret of Life," "Copperline" and "The Way You Look Tonight." (Repeat)
28—Baywatch
"Western Exposure." C.J. fishes a country singer out of the surf and helps him find his estranged wife and son; Hobie's heartthrob gets a crush on Mitch. Sadie: Martina McBride. Crystal: Kassie Wesley. Jackson: Brady Bluhm. Hobie: Jeremy Jackson. Mitch: David Hasselhoff. (Repeat)
6:30
2—KREM 2 News
4—World News Sunday
6—Inside Edition Weekend
7:00
2—60 Minutes
4—America's Funniest Home Videos
Girls makes mess blowing out candles; tent-pitchers brave wind; a boy knocks himself out exercising. (Bob Saget) (Repeat)
6—NBC Sunday Night Movie: Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
(1989) Bubba Smith, David Graf. Clownish police officers are on the lookout for a three-ring circus of thieves.
7—Nature
"A Celebration of Birds with Roger Tory Peterson." Naturalist/author Roger Tory Peterson fights to save U.S. birds and their habitats.
28—Fortune Hunger
(Debut) "Pilot." Carlton Dial, a suave ex-spy (Mark Frankel) works for a high-tech global recovery organization. In the opener, Agent Dial goes to Morocco to retrieve "Frostfire," a prototype weapons system that has fallen into the hands of a corrupt industrialist.
7:30
4—The ABC Sunday Night Movie: Ducktales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
(1990) Voices of Alan Young, Russi Taylor. Scrooge McDuck finds a magic lamp with Huey, Dewey and Louie and their girlfriend, Webby. Animated.
8:00
2—Stars Across America: Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Weekend
Ed McMahon, Leeza Gibbons, Elayne Boosler, Norm Crosby, Maureen McGovern and Casey and Jean Kasem join Jerry in presenting the annual parade of celebrities. Tony Bennett, Boyz II Men, Billy Ray Cyrus and the Harlem Globetrotters are scheduled to appear.
7—Masterpiece Theatre
In Part 2 of "Calling the Shots," Maggie (Lynn Redgrave) continues to receive threatening phone calls and begins to suspect a co-worker. Paul: Cyril Nri. Charlie: John Benfield. George: Sidney Livingstone. Atima: Rita Wolf.
28—The Simpsons
"Bart of Darkness." The sixth-season opener finds the Simpsons getting a pool, but a broken leg sinks the summer for Bart. Voices: Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner.
8:30
28—Hardball
"Pilot." The life and times of the Pioneers, a struggling major-league baseball club. In the opener, team owner Mitzi Balzer (Rose Marie) hires a no-nonsense manager (Dann Florek) when the team returns from a devastating road trip. Dave: Bruce Greenwood. Mike: Mike Starr.
9:00
4—The ABC Sunday Night Movie: Look Who's Talking Too
(1990) John Travolta, Kirstie Alley. The parents of baby Mikey, who's voiced by Bruce Willis, now add baby Julie, voiced by Roseanne Barr. (Repeat)
6—NBC Sunday Night Movie: Confessions: Two Faces of Evil
(TV, 1994) James Earl Jones, Jason Bateman. Two men being questioned in a police station on Christmas Eve both confess to the murder of a cop. With both stories seeming plausible, an investigator is called in to determine which suspect is telling the truth—and why the other one is lying. James Wilder. (Repeat)
7—MGM: When the Lion Roars
"The Lion Roars." Host Patrick Stewart covers 1924-1936; Jean Harlow, Johnny Weismuller, Greta Garbo and Irving Thalberg help secure MGM's early position in films. (Part 1 of 3)
28—Married... with Children
"Shoeway to Heaven." In the ninth-season opener, Al and Jefferson make money selling shoes from the '70s; Kelly is forced to tell the truth. Terry Murphy ("Hard Copy") has a cameo. Dominique: Tawny Kitaen. Billy Ray: Joe Bob Briggs. Al: Ed O'Neill.
9:30
28—Wild Oats
(Debut) "Pilot." The lives of a group of friends in their 20s. The opener finds Jack (Tim Conlon) pushing his roommate Brian (Paul Stephen Rudd) into being spontaneous, but becoming jealous when he begins dating Jack's ex-girlfriend. Shelly: Paula Marshall.
10:00
28—Babylon 5
"TKO." A rabbi offers to help Ivanova resolve feelings about her recently deceased father; Garibaldi tries to deter a friend from competing in a martial-arts match. Walker Smith: Greg McKinney. The Muta-Do: Soon-Teck Oh. Caliban: Don Stroud. (Repeat)
LATE NIGHT
11:00
4—News 4 at 11
6—Q6 News Eleven at 11
7—MOVIE: Yankee Doodle Dandy
(1942) James Cagney, Joan Leslie. Oscar-winning biography of George M. Cohan, whose patriotic ideals influenced his acting, producing and writing and made him a show business legend.
28—Time Trax
"Photo Finish." A fugitive uses a steroid on his boss's stable to insure that they will win races—even if it kills them. Quinn: Bryan Marshall. Kate: Nikki Coghill. Darien: Dale Midkiff. (Repeat)
11:30
4—The Untouchables
11:35
6—The George Michael Sports Machine
12 am
28—Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
"The Possessed." The Ancient fears the spirit of an evil Chinese warrior "will devour a succession of human lives" unless Caine can exorcise it from its latest victim (Geraint Wyn Davies). Desjardin: Bernard Behrens. Petrovitch: Damir Andrei. Helen: Lorraine Landry. (Repeat)
12:05
6—To be announced.
12:30
4—Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1:00
7—Off the air.
28—Entertainment This Week
1:30
4—News 4 at 11
2:00
4—World News Now
28—MOVIE: The Chase
(TV, 1991) Casey Siemaszko, Barry Corbin. A fact-based account of the 1988 pursuit of bank robber Mark Taylor, a high-speed chase that made national news and endangered the lives of several Denver policemen and citizens.
3:30
6—NBC Nightside
4:00
28—Paid Programming
4:30
28—Off the air.
Channels:
2—KREM (CBS)
4—KXLY (ABC)
6—KHQ (NBC)
7—KSPS (PBS)
28—KAYU (Fox)
MORNING
5:30 am
4—EWU Education
6—Shop at Home
6:00
4—Kenneth Copeland
7—Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
28—SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron
6:30
2—Paid Programming
7—Barney & Friends
28—Stone Protectors
7:00
2—Paid Programming
4—Robert Schuller
6—Day of Discovery
7—The Kidsongs Television Show
28—Exosquad
7:30
2—Ernst Home and Garden Show
6—Q6 News Sunday
7—Reading Rainbow
28—Transformers: Generation 2
8:00
2—CBS Sunday Morning
Miami readies for a potential influx of Cubans and Haitians; a profile of architect Paul Williams; "Postcard from Nebraska"; moving a Block Island, R.I., lighthouse back off an eroding cliff. (Charles Osgood)
4—Day of Discovery
7—Lamb Chop's Play-Along
28—The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
8:30
4—Martha Stewart Living
6—Meet the Press
(Tim Russert)
7—Barney & Friends
28—Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
9:00
4—Bob Vila's Home Again
"Wayland, Massachusetts." Furniture and carpeting are selected. Also: advice for adding a shut-off valve to a sink. (Repeat)
7—Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?
28—Fox NFL Sunday
9:30
2—Tennis
U.S. Open, early round matches. Pete Sampras of the United States and Steffi Graf of Germany are the defending singles champions. (Live from Flushing, N.Y.)
4—Who's the Boss?
6—NFL Live!
7—Ghostwriter
10:00
4—To be announced.
6—NFL Football
Seattle Seahawks at Washington Redskins. (Live)
7—European Journal
28—NFL Football
Minnesota Vikings at Green Bay Packers. (Live)
10:30
7—Asia Now
11:00
7—North Idaho College Public Forum
11:30
4—This Week with David Brinkley
7—Think Tank
(Ben Wattenberg)
AFTERNOON
12 pm
7—Washington Week in Review
12:30
4—Lifestories: Families in Crisis
7—Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser
1:00
6—Shop at Home
7—Firing Line
"Where Is the GOP Going? Part 3: Big Government." Decreasing the size of government, taxes and unfunded mandates. (Part 3 of 4) (William F. Buckley, Jr.)
28—NFL Football
Dallas Cowboys at Pittsburgh Steelers. (Live)
1:30
4—Why Didn't I Think of That?
7—Editors [?]
2:00
4—M*A*S*H
7—Getting the Love You Want
2:30
4—Fishing the West
"Flat Creek Cutthroat." Fly-fishing for cutthroat trout in Wyoming's Flat Creek.
3:00
2—Acapulco H.E.A.T.
"Code Name: Stalemate." The HEAT guards a former KGB agent attending a chess match, but the game may be up when the team's nemesis returns to assassinate the Russian. Part 1 of two. Strake: James Healy. Ashley: Catherine Oxenberg. Mike: Brendan Kelly. Mr. Smith: John Vernon. (Repeat)
4—Golf
Greater Milwaukee Open, final round. Past winners include Billy Mayfair ('93), Richard Zoikoi ('92) and Mark Brooks ('91). (Taped)
6—Jeopardy!
7—Rough Guide
3:30
6—Wheel of Fortune
4:00
2—MOVIE: La Bamba
(1987) Lou Diamond Phillips, Esai Morales. A fact-based account of Ritchie Valens' (1941-59) rise to musical stardom before his death in a plane crash that also claimed the lives of Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper.
6—National Geographic: On Assignment
"Giant Tarantulas of the Lost World/Yanomami Homecoming." Giant tarantulas are food for man and insects; a suburban woman visits her Yanomami rainforest birthplace. (Repeat)
7—Travel Magazine
28—MOVIE: Bandit: Bandit's Silver Angel
(TV, 1994) Brian Bloom, Traci Lords. The trucker helps the heiress to his uncle's debt-ridden carnival get out of town.
5:00
4—Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
"Crossover." Bashir and Kira find themselves in an alternate universe where Klingons, Cardassians and Bajorans have formed an alliance—and humans are slaves. Bahsir: Siddig El Fadil. Kira: Nana Visitor. Sisko: Avery Brooks. Odo: Rene Auberjonois. Quark: Armin Shimerman. (Repeat)
6—Haven
Actors Susan Keith and James Kiberd; Victorian restoration; mission furniture. (Repeat)
7—The New Yankee Workshop
5:30
6—NBC Nightly News
7—This Old House
EVENING
6:00
2—CBS Evening News
4—News 4
6—Q6 News
7—Evening at Pops
"James Taylor." James Taylor performs many of his hits, including "Carolina in My Mind," "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight," Secret of Life," "Copperline" and "The Way You Look Tonight." (Repeat)
28—Baywatch
"Western Exposure." C.J. fishes a country singer out of the surf and helps him find his estranged wife and son; Hobie's heartthrob gets a crush on Mitch. Sadie: Martina McBride. Crystal: Kassie Wesley. Jackson: Brady Bluhm. Hobie: Jeremy Jackson. Mitch: David Hasselhoff. (Repeat)
6:30
2—KREM 2 News
4—World News Sunday
6—Inside Edition Weekend
7:00
2—60 Minutes
4—America's Funniest Home Videos
Girls makes mess blowing out candles; tent-pitchers brave wind; a boy knocks himself out exercising. (Bob Saget) (Repeat)
6—NBC Sunday Night Movie: Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
(1989) Bubba Smith, David Graf. Clownish police officers are on the lookout for a three-ring circus of thieves.
7—Nature
"A Celebration of Birds with Roger Tory Peterson." Naturalist/author Roger Tory Peterson fights to save U.S. birds and their habitats.
28—Fortune Hunger
(Debut) "Pilot." Carlton Dial, a suave ex-spy (Mark Frankel) works for a high-tech global recovery organization. In the opener, Agent Dial goes to Morocco to retrieve "Frostfire," a prototype weapons system that has fallen into the hands of a corrupt industrialist.
7:30
4—The ABC Sunday Night Movie: Ducktales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
(1990) Voices of Alan Young, Russi Taylor. Scrooge McDuck finds a magic lamp with Huey, Dewey and Louie and their girlfriend, Webby. Animated.
8:00
2—Stars Across America: Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Weekend
Ed McMahon, Leeza Gibbons, Elayne Boosler, Norm Crosby, Maureen McGovern and Casey and Jean Kasem join Jerry in presenting the annual parade of celebrities. Tony Bennett, Boyz II Men, Billy Ray Cyrus and the Harlem Globetrotters are scheduled to appear.
7—Masterpiece Theatre
In Part 2 of "Calling the Shots," Maggie (Lynn Redgrave) continues to receive threatening phone calls and begins to suspect a co-worker. Paul: Cyril Nri. Charlie: John Benfield. George: Sidney Livingstone. Atima: Rita Wolf.
28—The Simpsons
"Bart of Darkness." The sixth-season opener finds the Simpsons getting a pool, but a broken leg sinks the summer for Bart. Voices: Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner.
8:30
28—Hardball
"Pilot." The life and times of the Pioneers, a struggling major-league baseball club. In the opener, team owner Mitzi Balzer (Rose Marie) hires a no-nonsense manager (Dann Florek) when the team returns from a devastating road trip. Dave: Bruce Greenwood. Mike: Mike Starr.
9:00
4—The ABC Sunday Night Movie: Look Who's Talking Too
(1990) John Travolta, Kirstie Alley. The parents of baby Mikey, who's voiced by Bruce Willis, now add baby Julie, voiced by Roseanne Barr. (Repeat)
6—NBC Sunday Night Movie: Confessions: Two Faces of Evil
(TV, 1994) James Earl Jones, Jason Bateman. Two men being questioned in a police station on Christmas Eve both confess to the murder of a cop. With both stories seeming plausible, an investigator is called in to determine which suspect is telling the truth—and why the other one is lying. James Wilder. (Repeat)
7—MGM: When the Lion Roars
"The Lion Roars." Host Patrick Stewart covers 1924-1936; Jean Harlow, Johnny Weismuller, Greta Garbo and Irving Thalberg help secure MGM's early position in films. (Part 1 of 3)
28—Married... with Children
"Shoeway to Heaven." In the ninth-season opener, Al and Jefferson make money selling shoes from the '70s; Kelly is forced to tell the truth. Terry Murphy ("Hard Copy") has a cameo. Dominique: Tawny Kitaen. Billy Ray: Joe Bob Briggs. Al: Ed O'Neill.
9:30
28—Wild Oats
(Debut) "Pilot." The lives of a group of friends in their 20s. The opener finds Jack (Tim Conlon) pushing his roommate Brian (Paul Stephen Rudd) into being spontaneous, but becoming jealous when he begins dating Jack's ex-girlfriend. Shelly: Paula Marshall.
10:00
28—Babylon 5
"TKO." A rabbi offers to help Ivanova resolve feelings about her recently deceased father; Garibaldi tries to deter a friend from competing in a martial-arts match. Walker Smith: Greg McKinney. The Muta-Do: Soon-Teck Oh. Caliban: Don Stroud. (Repeat)
LATE NIGHT
11:00
4—News 4 at 11
6—Q6 News Eleven at 11
7—MOVIE: Yankee Doodle Dandy
(1942) James Cagney, Joan Leslie. Oscar-winning biography of George M. Cohan, whose patriotic ideals influenced his acting, producing and writing and made him a show business legend.
28—Time Trax
"Photo Finish." A fugitive uses a steroid on his boss's stable to insure that they will win races—even if it kills them. Quinn: Bryan Marshall. Kate: Nikki Coghill. Darien: Dale Midkiff. (Repeat)
11:30
4—The Untouchables
11:35
6—The George Michael Sports Machine
12 am
28—Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
"The Possessed." The Ancient fears the spirit of an evil Chinese warrior "will devour a succession of human lives" unless Caine can exorcise it from its latest victim (Geraint Wyn Davies). Desjardin: Bernard Behrens. Petrovitch: Damir Andrei. Helen: Lorraine Landry. (Repeat)
12:05
6—To be announced.
12:30
4—Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1:00
7—Off the air.
28—Entertainment This Week
1:30
4—News 4 at 11
2:00
4—World News Now
28—MOVIE: The Chase
(TV, 1991) Casey Siemaszko, Barry Corbin. A fact-based account of the 1988 pursuit of bank robber Mark Taylor, a high-speed chase that made national news and endangered the lives of several Denver policemen and citizens.
3:30
6—NBC Nightside
4:00
28—Paid Programming
4:30
28—Off the air.
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