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Sources: Tacoma News Tribune, The Olympian, Bellingham Herald via newspapers.com
Stations marked with 'T' are based in Tacoma, otherwise are based in Seattle.
4 KOMO (ABC)
5:30 Body by Jake
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Geraldo
10:00 Home
10:30 Growing Pains
11:00 Ryan's Hope
11:30 Loving
NOON All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Northwest Afternoon
4:00 Win, Lose or Draw - Bert Convy
4:30 Family Feud
5:00 KOMO News 4
6:00 ABC World News Tonight
6:30 KOMO News 4
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Jeopardy!
8:00 Special: "A Muppet Family Christmas" (second annual broadcast) - Featuring brilliant crossovers with Muppet characters from The Muppet Show, Sesame Street and Fraggle Rock. (Pre-empting Pefect Strangers and Full House.)
9:00 Mr. Belvedere: "The Curse"
9:30 Just the Ten of Us: "The Merry Mix-Up"
10:00 20/20
11:00 KOMO News 4
11:30 Nightline
MIDNIGHT Hollywood Squares - Panel: Betty White (center square), Shadoe Stevens, Jm J. Bullock, Andrea Evans, Mrs. (Debbi) Fields (cookie entrepreneur), Gloria Loring, Little Richard, McClean Stevenson, Don Yesso
12:30 Star Search
1:30 Avengers
2:30 KOMO News 4 (R)
5 KING (NBC)
5:30 Business This Morning
6:00 NBC News at Sunrise
6:30 KING 5 News
7:00 Today
9:00 Seattle Today
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Win, Lose or Draw - Vicki Lawrence; Teams: Gladys Knight & Pat Carroll vs. Chris Lemon & Roddy McDowall
11:00 Super Password - Guests: Marsha Warfield, Jerry Orbach
11:30 Scrabble
NOON Sale of the Century
12:30 Classic Concentration
1:00 Another World
2:00 Santa Barbara
3:00 Days of Our Lives
4:00 Scarecrow and Mrs. King
5:00 KING 5 News
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 KING 5 News
7:00 Entertainment Tonight - Featured: Bea Arthur
7:30 Evening (local)
8:00 Sonny Spoon: "Ratman Can"
9:00 Something is Out There: "A Message from Mr. Cool"
10:00 Miami Vice: "Bad Timing"
11:00 KING 5 News
11:30 Tonight Show - Guest host: Jay Leno; Guests: Cindy Williams, Stephen Collins; Peformer: Phil Collins
12:30 Late Night With David Letterman (Dec. 16, 1986) - Guests: Jay Leno, Pam Shriver; Performer: Darlene Love (The original 1986 listing had Dizzy Gillespie instead of Darlene Love. Was he unable to appear?)
1:30 Friday Night Videos - Hosts: "Head of the Class" stars Dan Frischman (Arvid) and Dan Schneider (Dennis); Artists and Videos: Phil Collins ("Two Hearts"), Anita Baker ("Giving You the Best That I Got"), Sam Kinison ("Wild Thing" by The Troggs, as opposed to the then-new Ton Loc song of the same name), Traveling Wilburys ("Handle With Care"; four days before Roy Orbison's death)
2:30 KING 5 News (R)
7 KIRO (CBS)
5:30 KIRO Morning News
6:00 Sweethearts - Charles Nelson Reilly
6:30 CBS Morning News
7:00 CBS This Morning
9:00 Sally Jessy Raphael
10:00 The Price is Right
11:00 Young and the Restless
NOON KIRO Eyewitness News
1:00 As the World Turns
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 Oprah Winfrey - Topic: Betrayed friends
4:00 Donahue - Topic: How marriage has changed over the years.
5:00 KIRO Eyewitness News
6:00 CBS Evening News
6:30 Cosby Show
7:00 KIRO Eyewitness News
7:30 USA Today
8:00 Beauty and the Beast: "Ashes, Ashes"
9:00 Dallas: "Road Work"
10:00 Falcon Crest: "Tuscany Venus"
11:00 KIRO Eyewitness News
11:33 Hawk News (Seattle Seahawks)
11:45 Magnum, P.I.
12:45 Movie: "Underground Aces" (1980) - Frank Gorshin, Dirk Benedict, Melanie Griffith, Audrey Landers
3:00 KIRO Eyewitness News (R)
9 KCTS (PBS)
6:00 Hooked On Aerobics
6:30 Zoobilee Zoo
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
8:30 Mister Rogers
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Instructional Programming
2:00 Wild America
2:30 Victory Garden
3:00 Sesame Street
4:00 3-2-1 Contact
4:30 Square One TV
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
6:00 Nightly Business Report
6:30 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
7:30 Bill Moyers' World
8:00 Washington Week in Review
8:30 Wall $treet Week
9:00 Great Performances: "(Rudolph) Nureyev's Cinderella"
11:30 Movie: "The Servant" (1963) - Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig, James Fox
1:30 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour (R)
11 KSTW (Ind.) T
5:00 Chip 'n' Dale: Rescue Rangers
5:30 Bravestarr
6:00 Jimmy Swaggart
6:30 Beverly Hills Teens
7:00 C.O.P.S.
7:30 Dennis the Menace
8:00 Bugs Bunny and Friends
8:30 Scooby-Doo
9:00 Brady Bunch
9:30 Bewitched
10:00 On Trial
10:30 Divorce Court
11:00 The Judge
11:30 Superior Court
NOON Live With Regis & Kathie Lee - Guest: Bob Saget
1:00 Newlywed Game - Second to final show of this version (since 1985) with Bob Eubanks, before passing it over to Paul Rodriguez the following Tuesday.
1:30 Dating Game
2:00 Jem
2:30 My Little Pony
3:00 Woody Woodpecker
3:30 Alvin and the Chipmunks
4:00 Real Ghostbusters
4:30 Jetsons
5:00 Silver Spoons
5:30 Three's Company
6:00 Family Ties
6:30 M*A*S*H
7:00 Cheers
7:30 Night Court
8:00 Movie: "Little Darlings" (1980) - Tatum O'Neal, Kristy McNichol
10:00 Ten O'Clock News
11:00 M*A*S*H
11:30 Fast Forward
MIDNIGHT Morton Downey Jr.
1:00 Barnaby Jones
2:00 Movie: "Frankenstein: The True Story", Part 2 of 2 (1973) - Leonard Whiting, James Mason, Jane Seymour
4:00 Love Boat
13 KCPQ (Fox) T
5:00 CNN Headline News (x2)
6:00 Gidget
6:30 Finder Keepers
7:00 Double Dare
7:30 Dinosaucers
8:00 Tom & Jerry
8:30 Snorks
9:00 Family Feud (pre-empted by KIRO)
9:30 Card Sharks (pre-empted by KIRO)
10:00 Gong Show
10:30 Relatively Speaking
11:00 Happy Days
11:30 Partridge Family
NOON Hour Magazine
1:00 Movie: "Big Rose: Double Trouble" (1974) - Shelley Winters, Barry Primus
2:30 Toon Time
3:00 Smurfs
3:30 Flintstones
4:00 Tom & Jerry
4:30 DuckTales
5:00 Wonderful World of Disney: "Charley and the Angel"
6:00 Love Connection
6:30 Current Affair
7:00 Hill Street Blues - Guest starring: Dolph Sweet (from Gimme a Break!)
8:00 Movie: "The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again" (1979) - Tim Conway, Don Knotts
10:00 Star Trek: The Next Generation (Season Premiere)
11:00 Love Connection
11:30 Current Affair
MIDNIGHT Improv Tonite
12:30 New Liar's Club - Eric Boardman
1:00 SCTV
1:30 Mind Set for Success
2:00 Movie: "Death Be Not Proud" (1975) - Arthur Hill, Jane Alexander
4:00 Big Valley
22 KTZZ
6:00 Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs
6:30 Bionic Six
7:00 Thundercats
7:30 Filmation's Ghostbusters
8:00 Gumby
8:30 Care Bears
9:00 SilverHawks
9:30 Casey Treat
10:00 Success-N-Life
11:00 700 Club
NOON Perry Mason
1:00 Hawaii Five-O
2:00 Gunsmoke
3:00 Van Patten TV Special (pre-empting Dick Van Dyke)
3:30 Bob Newhart
4:00 I Dream of Jeannie
4:30 Hogan's Heroes
5:00 I Love Lucy
5:30 Leave It to Beaver
6:00 Newhart
6:30 Kate & Allie
7:00 St. Eleswhere
8:00 Best of National Geographic
9:00 Movie: "Decision Before Dawn" (1952) - Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill, Oskar Werner, Hildegard Knef
11:30 Movie: "Quicksand" (1950) - Mickey Rooney, Barbara Bates, Jeanne Cagney, Peter Lorre
1:30 The Fugitive
2:30 Suspense Theater
28 KTPS (PBS) T
8:00 French in Action
8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 Instructional Programming
11:00 Globe Watch
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Y.E.S. Inc.
1:00 Instructional Programming
3:00 Flower Shop
3:30 Creative Living With Sheryl Borden
4:00 Teaching Reading Comprehension
4:30 Square One TV
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 European Journal
6:30 Money World
7:00 Washington Week in Review
7:30 Wall $treet Week
8:00 Mexico
9:00 Austin City Limits - Featured: Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers, Holly Dunn
10:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
Stations marked with 'T' are based in Tacoma, otherwise are based in Seattle.
4 KOMO (ABC)
5:30 Body by Jake
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Geraldo
10:00 Home
10:30 Growing Pains
11:00 Ryan's Hope
11:30 Loving
NOON All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Northwest Afternoon
4:00 Win, Lose or Draw - Bert Convy
4:30 Family Feud
5:00 KOMO News 4
6:00 ABC World News Tonight
6:30 KOMO News 4
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Jeopardy!
8:00 Special: "A Muppet Family Christmas" (second annual broadcast) - Featuring brilliant crossovers with Muppet characters from The Muppet Show, Sesame Street and Fraggle Rock. (Pre-empting Pefect Strangers and Full House.)
9:00 Mr. Belvedere: "The Curse"
9:30 Just the Ten of Us: "The Merry Mix-Up"
10:00 20/20
11:00 KOMO News 4
11:30 Nightline
MIDNIGHT Hollywood Squares - Panel: Betty White (center square), Shadoe Stevens, Jm J. Bullock, Andrea Evans, Mrs. (Debbi) Fields (cookie entrepreneur), Gloria Loring, Little Richard, McClean Stevenson, Don Yesso
12:30 Star Search
1:30 Avengers
2:30 KOMO News 4 (R)
5 KING (NBC)
5:30 Business This Morning
6:00 NBC News at Sunrise
6:30 KING 5 News
7:00 Today
9:00 Seattle Today
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Win, Lose or Draw - Vicki Lawrence; Teams: Gladys Knight & Pat Carroll vs. Chris Lemon & Roddy McDowall
11:00 Super Password - Guests: Marsha Warfield, Jerry Orbach
11:30 Scrabble
NOON Sale of the Century
12:30 Classic Concentration
1:00 Another World
2:00 Santa Barbara
3:00 Days of Our Lives
4:00 Scarecrow and Mrs. King
5:00 KING 5 News
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 KING 5 News
7:00 Entertainment Tonight - Featured: Bea Arthur
7:30 Evening (local)
8:00 Sonny Spoon: "Ratman Can"
9:00 Something is Out There: "A Message from Mr. Cool"
10:00 Miami Vice: "Bad Timing"
11:00 KING 5 News
11:30 Tonight Show - Guest host: Jay Leno; Guests: Cindy Williams, Stephen Collins; Peformer: Phil Collins
12:30 Late Night With David Letterman (Dec. 16, 1986) - Guests: Jay Leno, Pam Shriver; Performer: Darlene Love (The original 1986 listing had Dizzy Gillespie instead of Darlene Love. Was he unable to appear?)
1:30 Friday Night Videos - Hosts: "Head of the Class" stars Dan Frischman (Arvid) and Dan Schneider (Dennis); Artists and Videos: Phil Collins ("Two Hearts"), Anita Baker ("Giving You the Best That I Got"), Sam Kinison ("Wild Thing" by The Troggs, as opposed to the then-new Ton Loc song of the same name), Traveling Wilburys ("Handle With Care"; four days before Roy Orbison's death)
2:30 KING 5 News (R)
7 KIRO (CBS)
5:30 KIRO Morning News
6:00 Sweethearts - Charles Nelson Reilly
6:30 CBS Morning News
7:00 CBS This Morning
9:00 Sally Jessy Raphael
10:00 The Price is Right
11:00 Young and the Restless
NOON KIRO Eyewitness News
1:00 As the World Turns
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 Oprah Winfrey - Topic: Betrayed friends
4:00 Donahue - Topic: How marriage has changed over the years.
5:00 KIRO Eyewitness News
6:00 CBS Evening News
6:30 Cosby Show
7:00 KIRO Eyewitness News
7:30 USA Today
8:00 Beauty and the Beast: "Ashes, Ashes"
9:00 Dallas: "Road Work"
10:00 Falcon Crest: "Tuscany Venus"
11:00 KIRO Eyewitness News
11:33 Hawk News (Seattle Seahawks)
11:45 Magnum, P.I.
12:45 Movie: "Underground Aces" (1980) - Frank Gorshin, Dirk Benedict, Melanie Griffith, Audrey Landers
3:00 KIRO Eyewitness News (R)
9 KCTS (PBS)
6:00 Hooked On Aerobics
6:30 Zoobilee Zoo
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
8:30 Mister Rogers
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Instructional Programming
2:00 Wild America
2:30 Victory Garden
3:00 Sesame Street
4:00 3-2-1 Contact
4:30 Square One TV
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
6:00 Nightly Business Report
6:30 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
7:30 Bill Moyers' World
8:00 Washington Week in Review
8:30 Wall $treet Week
9:00 Great Performances: "(Rudolph) Nureyev's Cinderella"
11:30 Movie: "The Servant" (1963) - Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig, James Fox
1:30 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour (R)
11 KSTW (Ind.) T
5:00 Chip 'n' Dale: Rescue Rangers
5:30 Bravestarr
6:00 Jimmy Swaggart
6:30 Beverly Hills Teens
7:00 C.O.P.S.
7:30 Dennis the Menace
8:00 Bugs Bunny and Friends
8:30 Scooby-Doo
9:00 Brady Bunch
9:30 Bewitched
10:00 On Trial
10:30 Divorce Court
11:00 The Judge
11:30 Superior Court
NOON Live With Regis & Kathie Lee - Guest: Bob Saget
1:00 Newlywed Game - Second to final show of this version (since 1985) with Bob Eubanks, before passing it over to Paul Rodriguez the following Tuesday.
1:30 Dating Game
2:00 Jem
2:30 My Little Pony
3:00 Woody Woodpecker
3:30 Alvin and the Chipmunks
4:00 Real Ghostbusters
4:30 Jetsons
5:00 Silver Spoons
5:30 Three's Company
6:00 Family Ties
6:30 M*A*S*H
7:00 Cheers
7:30 Night Court
8:00 Movie: "Little Darlings" (1980) - Tatum O'Neal, Kristy McNichol
10:00 Ten O'Clock News
11:00 M*A*S*H
11:30 Fast Forward
MIDNIGHT Morton Downey Jr.
1:00 Barnaby Jones
2:00 Movie: "Frankenstein: The True Story", Part 2 of 2 (1973) - Leonard Whiting, James Mason, Jane Seymour
4:00 Love Boat
13 KCPQ (Fox) T
5:00 CNN Headline News (x2)
6:00 Gidget
6:30 Finder Keepers
7:00 Double Dare
7:30 Dinosaucers
8:00 Tom & Jerry
8:30 Snorks
9:00 Family Feud (pre-empted by KIRO)
9:30 Card Sharks (pre-empted by KIRO)
10:00 Gong Show
10:30 Relatively Speaking
11:00 Happy Days
11:30 Partridge Family
NOON Hour Magazine
1:00 Movie: "Big Rose: Double Trouble" (1974) - Shelley Winters, Barry Primus
2:30 Toon Time
3:00 Smurfs
3:30 Flintstones
4:00 Tom & Jerry
4:30 DuckTales
5:00 Wonderful World of Disney: "Charley and the Angel"
6:00 Love Connection
6:30 Current Affair
7:00 Hill Street Blues - Guest starring: Dolph Sweet (from Gimme a Break!)
8:00 Movie: "The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again" (1979) - Tim Conway, Don Knotts
10:00 Star Trek: The Next Generation (Season Premiere)
11:00 Love Connection
11:30 Current Affair
MIDNIGHT Improv Tonite
12:30 New Liar's Club - Eric Boardman
1:00 SCTV
1:30 Mind Set for Success
2:00 Movie: "Death Be Not Proud" (1975) - Arthur Hill, Jane Alexander
4:00 Big Valley
22 KTZZ
6:00 Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs
6:30 Bionic Six
7:00 Thundercats
7:30 Filmation's Ghostbusters
8:00 Gumby
8:30 Care Bears
9:00 SilverHawks
9:30 Casey Treat
10:00 Success-N-Life
11:00 700 Club
NOON Perry Mason
1:00 Hawaii Five-O
2:00 Gunsmoke
3:00 Van Patten TV Special (pre-empting Dick Van Dyke)
3:30 Bob Newhart
4:00 I Dream of Jeannie
4:30 Hogan's Heroes
5:00 I Love Lucy
5:30 Leave It to Beaver
6:00 Newhart
6:30 Kate & Allie
7:00 St. Eleswhere
8:00 Best of National Geographic
9:00 Movie: "Decision Before Dawn" (1952) - Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill, Oskar Werner, Hildegard Knef
11:30 Movie: "Quicksand" (1950) - Mickey Rooney, Barbara Bates, Jeanne Cagney, Peter Lorre
1:30 The Fugitive
2:30 Suspense Theater
28 KTPS (PBS) T
8:00 French in Action
8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 Instructional Programming
11:00 Globe Watch
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Y.E.S. Inc.
1:00 Instructional Programming
3:00 Flower Shop
3:30 Creative Living With Sheryl Borden
4:00 Teaching Reading Comprehension
4:30 Square One TV
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 European Journal
6:30 Money World
7:00 Washington Week in Review
7:30 Wall $treet Week
8:00 Mexico
9:00 Austin City Limits - Featured: Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers, Holly Dunn
10:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour