Source: Detroit Free Press/News TV Book via Newspapers.com
Program names may be abbreviated
Part I: Detroit Locals + Windsor's Channel 9
WJBK 2 (CBS)
5:30 This Morning's Business
6:00 Rush Limbaugh
6:30 Morning News
7:00 Eyewitness Morning
9:00 Joan Rivers (guests: Julie Andrews, Ben Kingsley and Peabo Bryson)
10:00 Geraldo (topic: how a woman can tell her man is cheating)
11:00 The Price Is Right
12:00 News
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 Bold and the Beautiful
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00/4:30 News
5:00 Donahue
6:00 News
6:30 CBS News
7:00 Hard Copy
7:30 A Current Affair
8:00 Hat Squad
9:00 In the Heat of the Night (season premiere)
10:00 48 Hours
11:00 News
11:35 Night Court
12:05 Cheers
12:35 Arsenio Hall
1:35 Amen
2:05 Up to the Minute
3:00 Byron Allen
3:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
4:00 Newhart
4:30 Barnaby Jones
WDIV 4 (NBC)
5:00 Infatuation
5:30 News at Sunrise
6:00 News
7:00 Today
9:00 Maury Povich
10:00 Jerry Springer
11:00 Faith Daniels
11:30 Classic Concentration
12:00 News
12:30 Cosby Show
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Montel Williams
4:00 Sally Jessy Raphael
5:00/6:00 News
6:30 NBC News
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Jeopardy!
8:00 Unsolved Mysteries
9:00 Seinfeld
9:30 Mad About You
10:00 This Is Michael Bolton
11:00 News
11:35 Tonight Show
12:35 Late Night with David Letterman (Marv Albert guests)
1:35 Inside Edition
2:05 Later with Bob Costas
2:35 Nightside
3:30 The Judge
4:00 Infatuation
4:30 The Judge
WXYZ 7 (ABC)
5:30 News This Morning
6:15 News
6:30 News This Morning
6:45 News
7:00 Good Morning America (guests include columnist Dave Barry and country star Trisha Yearwood)
9:00 Company with John Kelly & Marilyn Turner (topic: beauty school dropouts)
10:00 Regis & Kathie Lee
11:00 Jenny Jones
12:00 News
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Oprah Winfrey
5:00/6:00 News
7:00 ABC News
7:30 Entertainment Tonight (Wesley Snipes is profiled)
8:00 Wonder Years
8:30 Doogie Howser, M.D.
9:00 Home Improvement
9:30 Laurie Hill
10:00 Civil Wars
11:00 News
11:30 Nightline
12:00 Matlock
1:00 Jane Whitney
2:00 Whoopi Goldberg (Robin Williams guests)
2:30 World News Now
4:30 Home
CBET 9 (CBC)
7:00 Morning News
9:00 What on Earth
9:30 Urban Peasant
10:00 Fred Penner's Place
10:15 Under the Umbrella Tree
10:30 Mr. Dressup
11:00 Sesame Street
12:00 Midday
1:00 Emmerdale Farm
1:30 Take the High Road
2:00 Coronation Street
2:30 Neighbours
3:00 Rich Tea & Sympathy
4:00 Gallagher's Video Hits
4:30 Fame
5:30 Babar
6:00 News
7:00 Degrassi Junior High
7:30 Wild World "Micro-Organisms"
8:00 Movie "Red Flag: The Ultimate Game"
10:00 The National / The Journal
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Moneymen"
WXON 20 (Ind.)
5:00 Perceptions
5:30 All News A.M.
6:00 Widget
6:30 Captain N
7:00 James Bond Jr.
7:30 DuckTales
8:00 Flintstones
8:30 Woody Woodpecker
9:00 Highway to Heaven "Keep Smiling"
10:00 St. Elsewhere
11:00 Good Times
11:30 Gimme a Break!
12:00 Designing Women
12:30 Hill Street Blues
1:30 Airwolf
2:30 Camp Candy
3:00 Chip 'N Dale's Rescue Rangers
3:30 TaleSpin
4:00 Darkwing Duck
4:30 Goof Troop
5:00 Mr. Belvedere
5:30 A Different World
6:00 Full House
6:30 Perfect Strangers
7:00 227
7:30 Designing Women
8:00 Movie "The Josephine Baker Story"
10:00 In the Heat of the Night
11:00 A Different World
11:30 Love Connection
12:00 Studs
12:30 People's Court
1:00 All in the Family
1:30 Movie "Star 80"
3:30 Green Acres
4:00 Addams Family
4:30 Green Acres
WADL 38 (Ind.)
8:00 Believer's Voice of Victory
8:30 Star Performance
9:00 Movie (no details)
10:00 The New Family Feud Challenge
11:00 Home Shopping Spree
5:00 Movie "Echoes"
7:00 Greatest Sports Legends (profile of Bruce Jenner)
7:30 Lock Up
8:00 News
8:30 Small Wonder
9:00 Barnaby Jones
10:00 Byron Allen
10:30 Racket Squad
11:00 News
11:30 Dangerous Curves
12:30 A Perfect Score
1:00 Personals
1:30 Home Shopping Spree
WKBD 50 (Fox)
5:00 Family Ties
5:30 CNN News
6:00 Silver Spoons
6:30 Inspector Gadget
7:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
7:30 Stunt Dawgs
8:00 Beetlejuice
8:30 Dennis the Menace (animated version)
9:00 Sanford & Son
9:30 Three's Company
10:00 Family Ties
10:30 Laverne & Shirley
11:00 Little House on the Prairie
12:00 Andy Griffith
12:30 That's Amore
1:00 Vicki!
2:00 Bewitched
2:30 Alvin & the Chipmunks
3:00 Merrie Melodies
3:30 Tom & Jerry Kids
4:00 Tiny Toon Adventures
4:30 Batman: The Animated Series
5:00 Saved by the Bell
5:30 Growing Pains
6:00 Roseanne
6:30 Golden Girls
7:00 Married... with Children "God's Shoes"
7:30 You Bet Your Life
8:00 Beverly Hills, 90210
9:00 Melrose Place
10:00 News
11:00 Murphy Brown
11:30 Star Trek: The Next Generation "The Measure of a Man"
12:30 Star Search
1:00 That's Amore
1:30 Hunter
2:30 Movie "The Manchurian Candidate"
WTVS 56 (PBS)
5:00 Faces of Culture
5:30 Economics USA
6:00 Sociological Imagination "Race & Ethnicity"
6:30 American Adventure "Failure of Diplomacy"
7:00 To Life!
7:15 A.M. Weather
7:30 By the Numbers "Compound Interest"
8:00 Business & the Law
8:30 Sandie's Fitness Firm
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Lamb Chop's Play-Along
10:30 Shining Time Station "Field Day"
11:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11:30 Barney & Friends "Home Sweet Homes"
12:00 Frugal Gourmet
12:30 Health Matters
1:00 Reading Road Quiz
1:30 Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? "Boosting the Belt or Radiation Rip-Off"
2:00 Sesame Street
3:00 Barney & Friends (repeat from 11:30a)
3:30 Reading Rainbow "Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport"
4:00 Square One TV
4:30 Club Connect
5:00 Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (repeat from 1:30p)
5:30 Global Connections
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
7:00 Nightly Business Report
7:30 Great Lakes Escape
8:00 Innovation "The Future Is Now: Home, Sweet Home" (pt. 2 of 3)
9:00 American Experience "The Donner Party" (directed by Ric Burns, Ken's brother)
10:30 Caught in Bristol Bay
11:00 Are You Being Served?
11:30 Best of National Geographic "Treasure!"
12:30 Adventures, Journeys & Archives
1:00-4:00 repeat of 8-11p
4:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
WGPR 62 (Ind.; aired some CBS and NBC programs not cleared by chs 2 & 4)
6:00 Soul Beat
6:30 Newsworthy
7:00 This Morning (guests include L.A. riot assault victim Reginald Denny, authors Patricia Aberdene, John Naisbit and Donna Mills)
9:00 Morris Cerullo
9:30 James Robison
10:00 TBA
10:30 Insight
11:00 700 Club
12:00 Success-N-Life
1:00 Ben Casey
2:00 Lou Grant
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 Movie (no details)
6:00 New Dance
7:00 Streets of San Francisco
8:00 Ralph Martin
9:00 Success-N-Life
10:00 Great Faith Temple
10:30 Miracle Moments
11:00 Family Feud
11:30 One Step Beyond
12:00 Streets of San Francisco
1:00 Combat
2:00 New Dance
3:00 Movie (no details)
4:00 Movie (no details)
Program names may be abbreviated
Part I: Detroit Locals + Windsor's Channel 9
WJBK 2 (CBS)
5:30 This Morning's Business
6:00 Rush Limbaugh
6:30 Morning News
7:00 Eyewitness Morning
9:00 Joan Rivers (guests: Julie Andrews, Ben Kingsley and Peabo Bryson)
10:00 Geraldo (topic: how a woman can tell her man is cheating)
11:00 The Price Is Right
12:00 News
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 Bold and the Beautiful
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00/4:30 News
5:00 Donahue
6:00 News
6:30 CBS News
7:00 Hard Copy
7:30 A Current Affair
8:00 Hat Squad
9:00 In the Heat of the Night (season premiere)
10:00 48 Hours
11:00 News
11:35 Night Court
12:05 Cheers
12:35 Arsenio Hall
1:35 Amen
2:05 Up to the Minute
3:00 Byron Allen
3:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
4:00 Newhart
4:30 Barnaby Jones
WDIV 4 (NBC)
5:00 Infatuation
5:30 News at Sunrise
6:00 News
7:00 Today
9:00 Maury Povich
10:00 Jerry Springer
11:00 Faith Daniels
11:30 Classic Concentration
12:00 News
12:30 Cosby Show
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Montel Williams
4:00 Sally Jessy Raphael
5:00/6:00 News
6:30 NBC News
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Jeopardy!
8:00 Unsolved Mysteries
9:00 Seinfeld
9:30 Mad About You
10:00 This Is Michael Bolton
11:00 News
11:35 Tonight Show
12:35 Late Night with David Letterman (Marv Albert guests)
1:35 Inside Edition
2:05 Later with Bob Costas
2:35 Nightside
3:30 The Judge
4:00 Infatuation
4:30 The Judge
WXYZ 7 (ABC)
5:30 News This Morning
6:15 News
6:30 News This Morning
6:45 News
7:00 Good Morning America (guests include columnist Dave Barry and country star Trisha Yearwood)
9:00 Company with John Kelly & Marilyn Turner (topic: beauty school dropouts)
10:00 Regis & Kathie Lee
11:00 Jenny Jones
12:00 News
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Oprah Winfrey
5:00/6:00 News
7:00 ABC News
7:30 Entertainment Tonight (Wesley Snipes is profiled)
8:00 Wonder Years
8:30 Doogie Howser, M.D.
9:00 Home Improvement
9:30 Laurie Hill
10:00 Civil Wars
11:00 News
11:30 Nightline
12:00 Matlock
1:00 Jane Whitney
2:00 Whoopi Goldberg (Robin Williams guests)
2:30 World News Now
4:30 Home
CBET 9 (CBC)
7:00 Morning News
9:00 What on Earth
9:30 Urban Peasant
10:00 Fred Penner's Place
10:15 Under the Umbrella Tree
10:30 Mr. Dressup
11:00 Sesame Street
12:00 Midday
1:00 Emmerdale Farm
1:30 Take the High Road
2:00 Coronation Street
2:30 Neighbours
3:00 Rich Tea & Sympathy
4:00 Gallagher's Video Hits
4:30 Fame
5:30 Babar
6:00 News
7:00 Degrassi Junior High
7:30 Wild World "Micro-Organisms"
8:00 Movie "Red Flag: The Ultimate Game"
10:00 The National / The Journal
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Moneymen"
WXON 20 (Ind.)
5:00 Perceptions
5:30 All News A.M.
6:00 Widget
6:30 Captain N
7:00 James Bond Jr.
7:30 DuckTales
8:00 Flintstones
8:30 Woody Woodpecker
9:00 Highway to Heaven "Keep Smiling"
10:00 St. Elsewhere
11:00 Good Times
11:30 Gimme a Break!
12:00 Designing Women
12:30 Hill Street Blues
1:30 Airwolf
2:30 Camp Candy
3:00 Chip 'N Dale's Rescue Rangers
3:30 TaleSpin
4:00 Darkwing Duck
4:30 Goof Troop
5:00 Mr. Belvedere
5:30 A Different World
6:00 Full House
6:30 Perfect Strangers
7:00 227
7:30 Designing Women
8:00 Movie "The Josephine Baker Story"
10:00 In the Heat of the Night
11:00 A Different World
11:30 Love Connection
12:00 Studs
12:30 People's Court
1:00 All in the Family
1:30 Movie "Star 80"
3:30 Green Acres
4:00 Addams Family
4:30 Green Acres
WADL 38 (Ind.)
8:00 Believer's Voice of Victory
8:30 Star Performance
9:00 Movie (no details)
10:00 The New Family Feud Challenge
11:00 Home Shopping Spree
5:00 Movie "Echoes"
7:00 Greatest Sports Legends (profile of Bruce Jenner)
7:30 Lock Up
8:00 News
8:30 Small Wonder
9:00 Barnaby Jones
10:00 Byron Allen
10:30 Racket Squad
11:00 News
11:30 Dangerous Curves
12:30 A Perfect Score
1:00 Personals
1:30 Home Shopping Spree
WKBD 50 (Fox)
5:00 Family Ties
5:30 CNN News
6:00 Silver Spoons
6:30 Inspector Gadget
7:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
7:30 Stunt Dawgs
8:00 Beetlejuice
8:30 Dennis the Menace (animated version)
9:00 Sanford & Son
9:30 Three's Company
10:00 Family Ties
10:30 Laverne & Shirley
11:00 Little House on the Prairie
12:00 Andy Griffith
12:30 That's Amore
1:00 Vicki!
2:00 Bewitched
2:30 Alvin & the Chipmunks
3:00 Merrie Melodies
3:30 Tom & Jerry Kids
4:00 Tiny Toon Adventures
4:30 Batman: The Animated Series
5:00 Saved by the Bell
5:30 Growing Pains
6:00 Roseanne
6:30 Golden Girls
7:00 Married... with Children "God's Shoes"
7:30 You Bet Your Life
8:00 Beverly Hills, 90210
9:00 Melrose Place
10:00 News
11:00 Murphy Brown
11:30 Star Trek: The Next Generation "The Measure of a Man"
12:30 Star Search
1:00 That's Amore
1:30 Hunter
2:30 Movie "The Manchurian Candidate"
WTVS 56 (PBS)
5:00 Faces of Culture
5:30 Economics USA
6:00 Sociological Imagination "Race & Ethnicity"
6:30 American Adventure "Failure of Diplomacy"
7:00 To Life!
7:15 A.M. Weather
7:30 By the Numbers "Compound Interest"
8:00 Business & the Law
8:30 Sandie's Fitness Firm
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Lamb Chop's Play-Along
10:30 Shining Time Station "Field Day"
11:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11:30 Barney & Friends "Home Sweet Homes"
12:00 Frugal Gourmet
12:30 Health Matters
1:00 Reading Road Quiz
1:30 Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? "Boosting the Belt or Radiation Rip-Off"
2:00 Sesame Street
3:00 Barney & Friends (repeat from 11:30a)
3:30 Reading Rainbow "Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport"
4:00 Square One TV
4:30 Club Connect
5:00 Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (repeat from 1:30p)
5:30 Global Connections
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
7:00 Nightly Business Report
7:30 Great Lakes Escape
8:00 Innovation "The Future Is Now: Home, Sweet Home" (pt. 2 of 3)
9:00 American Experience "The Donner Party" (directed by Ric Burns, Ken's brother)
10:30 Caught in Bristol Bay
11:00 Are You Being Served?
11:30 Best of National Geographic "Treasure!"
12:30 Adventures, Journeys & Archives
1:00-4:00 repeat of 8-11p
4:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
WGPR 62 (Ind.; aired some CBS and NBC programs not cleared by chs 2 & 4)
6:00 Soul Beat
6:30 Newsworthy
7:00 This Morning (guests include L.A. riot assault victim Reginald Denny, authors Patricia Aberdene, John Naisbit and Donna Mills)
9:00 Morris Cerullo
9:30 James Robison
10:00 TBA
10:30 Insight
11:00 700 Club
12:00 Success-N-Life
1:00 Ben Casey
2:00 Lou Grant
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 Movie (no details)
6:00 New Dance
7:00 Streets of San Francisco
8:00 Ralph Martin
9:00 Success-N-Life
10:00 Great Faith Temple
10:30 Miracle Moments
11:00 Family Feud
11:30 One Step Beyond
12:00 Streets of San Francisco
1:00 Combat
2:00 New Dance
3:00 Movie (no details)
4:00 Movie (no details)