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Retro: Philadelphia TV - May 27, 1994

Retro: Philadelphia TV - May 27, 1994

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer TV Week, May 22-28, 1994

KYW-TV 3 (NBC)
6AM News
7AM Today
9AM Geraldo
10AM Rolonda
11AM Bertice Berry
Noon Vicki!
1PM Days of Our Lives
2PM Another World
3PM Maury Povich
4PM Montel Williams
5PM Inside Edition
5:30 A Current Affair
6PM News
6:30 NBC News
7PM Entertainment Tonight
7:30 Hard Copy
8PM The Bulletin with Larry Kane
9PM Movie: Changes (1991)
11PM News
11:35 Tonight Show with Jay Leno
12:35 Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1:35 Friday Night
2:30 A Current Affair
3AM Leeza
4AM Ricki Lake
5AM Bertice Berry

WPVI-TV 6 (ABC)
6AM News
7AM Good Morning America
9AM Donahue
10AM AM Philadelphia
10:30 Sally Jesse Raphael
11:30 Mike & Maty (JIP)
Noon Action News
12:30 Loving
1PM All My Children
2PM One Life to Live
3PM General Hospital
4PM Oprah Winfrey
5PM Action News
6PM Action News
6:30 ABC News
7PM Jeopardy!
7:30 Wheel of Fortune
8PM Family Matters
8:30 Edith Ann: Homeless Go Home
9PM Step by Step
9:30 Hangin' with Mr. Cooper
10PM 20/20
11PM Action News
11:35 Nightline
12:05 Movie: Back to the Beach (1987)
2:05 In Concert
2:35 Action News
3:05 Movie: Angel and the Badman (1947)
5AM sign-off

WCAU-TV 10 (CBS)
6AM Morning News
7AM This Morning
9AM Regis & Kathie Lee
10AM People's Court
10:30 Family Feud
11AM Price is Right
Noon News
12:30 The Young and the Restless
1:30 The Bold and the Beautiful
2PM As the World Turns
3PM Guiding Light
4PM Rescue 911
4:30 Cops
5PM News
6PM News
6:30 CBS News
7PM Cops
7:30 American Journal
8PM Diagnosis Murder
9PM Burke's Law
10PM Picket Fences
11PM News
11:35 Late Show with David Letterman
12:35 The Kids in the Hall
1:40 People's Court
2:10 Paid Programming
3:10 Movie: Electra Glide in Blue (1973)
5:30 DoRight

WHYY-TV 12 (PBS)
6:30 Business; Weather
7AM Sesame Street
8AM Lamb Chop Play-Along
8:30 Barney & Friends
9AM Sesame Street
10AM Mister Rogers
10:30 Shining Time Station
11AM Reading Rainbow
11:30 Instruction
Noon Medicine at the Crossroads
1PM Harry Chapin: You Are the Only Song
2:30 Wild America
3PM Sesame Street
4PM Barney and Friends
4:30 Square One TV
5PM Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
5:30 News
6PM MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
7PM Nightly Business Report
7:30 Are You Being Served?
8PM Washington Week
8:30 Wall Street Week
9PM Talking with David Frost
10PM The American Experience
11PM Charlie Rose
Midnight Charlie Rose
1AM sign-off

WPHL-TV 17 (Ind)
6AM Kenneth Copeland
6:30 Tom & Jerry
7AM Flintstones
7:30 DuckTales
8AM Pink Panther
8:30 Tom & Jerry
9AM Paid Programming
10AM 700 Club
11AM Can We Shop Starring Joan Rivers
Noon Airwolf
1PM A-Team
2PM Perfect Strangers
2:30 Gilligan's Island
3PM TaleSpin
3:30 Darkwing Duck
4PM Goof Troop
4:30 Bonkers
5PM They Came From Outer Space
6PM Wonder Years
6:30 Married... with Children (x2)
7:30 Real Stories of the Highway Patrol
8PM Movie: The Exorcist III (1990)
10PM The Jeffersons
10:30 Amen
11PM Love Connection
11:30 Best of the Love Connection
Midnight Movie: Back to the Planet of the Apes (1974)
2AM Paid Programming
3AM Movie: Lafayette Escradrilla (1958)

WTXF-TV 29 (Fox)
6AM Paid Program
6:30 Woody Woodpecker
7AM Conan the Adventurer
7:30 Garfield and Friends
8AM Merrie Melodies
8:30 Dennis the Menace
9AM The Bots Master
9:30 ALF
10AM Rush Limbaugh
10:30 A Different World
11:00 Three's Company (x2)
Noon Hogan's Heroes
12:30 In the Heat of the Night
1:30 Hawaii Five-O
2:30 Woody Woodpecker
3PM Tom and Jerry Kids
3:30 Tiny Toon Adventure
4PM Animaniacs
4:30 Batman: The Animated Series
5PM Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
5:30 The Cosby Show (x2)
6:30 Cheers
7PM Star Trek: The Next Generation
8PM The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
9PM The X-Files
10PM News
11PM Coach
11:35 Murphy Brown
Midnight Arsenio Hall (final show)
1AM News
2AM Paid Programming
3AM Family Ties (x2)
4AM American Gladiators
5AM Three Stooges
5:30 Paid Programming

WGBS-TV 57 (Ind)
6AM Profiles
6:30 Inspector Gadget
7AM Mr. Bogus
7:30 Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
8AM Captain Planet
8:30 Xuxa
9AM Happy Days
9:30 Laverne and Shirley
10AM WKRP in Cincinnati
10:30 Designing Women
11AM I Love Lucy
11:30 Andy Griffith
Noon All in the Family (x2)
1PM Paid Programming
2PM Hello Spencer
2:30 Twinkle the Dream Being
3PM Yogi & Friends
3:30 Speed Racer
4PM Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
4:30 Brady Bunch
5PM Saved by the Bell
5:30 Growing Pains
6PM Full House
6:30 Family Matters
7PM Roseanne
7:30 Family Matters
8PM RoboCop
9PM Thunder in Paradise
10PM Matlock
11:00 Designing Women
11:30 Hunter
12:30 Jenny Jones
1:30 All in the Family
2AM Movie: D.O.A. (1949)
4AM Honeymooners
4:30 Uptown Comedy Club
5:30 Paid Programming
 
There’s some yikes going on there

It looks a lot better than that 1993 Friday night schedule we recently dissected. However I snickered when I saw “Can We Shop Starring Joan Rivers”. Like really? Outside of the cartoon blocks WPHL’s entire schedule for looks abysmal overall.

Same with KYW airing a trio of ill fated bottom of the barrel talk shows with Rolanda Watts, Vicki Lawrence and Bertice Berry.
 
Awful talk shows, so many garbage ”news magazines” and...Real Stories of the Highway Patrol.

Wowwwwww
+1

WTXF overall had a solid schedule plus or minus a few shows. As for Fox Primetime even though Brisco County Jr. had reached its natural end, the saving grace was reruns of The X-Files that summer brought in surprisingly higher numbers than anyone at the time could’ve dreamed about for a summer return.
 
I should give a credit amidst the yikes. KYW’s The Bulletin was excellent long-form local journalism. I understand all the reasons it wasn’t destined to last, certainly, but much credit to KYW at the time for undertaking the effort.
 
+1

WTXF overall had a solid schedule plus or minus a few shows. As for Fox Primetime even though Brisco County Jr. had reached its natural end, the saving grace was reruns of The X-Files that summer brought in surprisingly higher numbers than anyone at the time could’ve dreamed about for a summer return.

These programming directors didn't understand how to program Rush Limbaugh's half-hour foray into TV (this time, in between two incompatible sitcoms on WTXF).
 
I think perhaps they understood, but didn’t much care/wish to invest more valuable time slots in some cases. It was a dumping ground.
 
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