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Retro: Memphis - Monday, April 4, 1988

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The 20th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr's assassination in Memphis.

Source: Memphis Commercial-Appeal via newspapers.com

3 WREG (CBS)
5:00 Ag Day
5:30 CBS Morning News
6:00 Business This Morning
6:30 News 3
7:00 CBS This Morning
9:00 High Rollers
9:30 Card Sharks
10:00 The Price is Right
11:00 Young and Restless
NOON News 3
12:30 Bold and Beautiful
1:00 As the World Turns
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 Leave It to Beaver
3:30 Andy Griffith
4:00 Beverly Hillbillies
4:30 The Judge
5:00 People's Court
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 News 3
6:30 Entertainment Tonight - Featured: Demi Moore
7:00 Kate & Allie: "Jenny's New Deal" (Nov 9, 1987)
7:30 Designing Women: "Heart Attacks" (Nov 9, 1987)
8:00 NCAA Basketball Championship, Final Game - Kansas (83) vs. Oklahoma (79) (Kemper Arena, Kansas City)
10:00 News 3
10:30 Cheers
11:00 Perry Mason
12:10 Movie: "April Love" (1957) - Pat Boone, Shirley Jones
1:50 Movie: "The Strawberry Blonde" (1941) - James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Rita Hayworth
3:50 Hopalong Cassidy Movie: "Hills of Old Wyoming" (1937) - William Boyd, Gabby Hayes

5 WMC (NBC)
5:30 NBC News at Sunrise
6:00 Wake-Up Call
7:00 Today
9:00 Donahue - Guest: Bette Davis
10:00 Geraldo - Topic: Rights and needs of the mentally challenged.
11:00 Another World
NOON Action News 5
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 Another World
2:30 Wheel of Fortune (NBC)
3:00 Oprah Winfrey - Guests: Sports stars Sugar Ray Leonard, Michael Spinks, Doug Williams, Dexter Manley.
4:00 Divorce Court
4:30 Jeopardy!
5:00 Action News 5
6:00 NBC Nightly News
6:30 Wheel of Fortune (syndicated)
7:00 NBC Mini-Series: Mario Puzo's "The Fortunate Pilgrim" (Premiere, Part 2 of 2) - Sophia Loren, Edward James Olmos, John Turturro, Hal Holbrook
10:00 Action News 5
10:30 Tonight Show: Best of Carson - Guests: Chevy Chase, Teri Garr (Apr 24, 1987)
11:30 Late Night With David Letterman - Guests: Billy Crystal, socialite Cornelia Guest (June 25, 1986)
12:30 Action News 5 (R)
1:00 Muppet Show - Guest: Teresa Brewer

10 WKNO (PBS)
6:45 AM Weather
7:00 Mister Rogers
7:30 Square One TV
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Instructional Programming
3:00 Sesame Street
4:00 Mister Rogers
4:30 3-2-1 Contact
5:00 Newton's Apple
5:30 Nightly Business Report
6:00 Frugal Gourmet
6:30 World of Survival
7:00 Discoveries Underwater
8:00 Martin Luther King Jr.: A Tribute by William Warfield - Backed by the Eastman Philharmonia.
9:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
10:00 Masterpiece Theatre: "Day After the Fair" (Part 2 of 2)
11:00 Face to Face: The Media - Teleconference from New York and Tokyo, featuring American and Japanese journalists.

13 WHBQ (ABC)
5:00 Country Music TV
5:30 Morning Agriculture Report
6:00 AM Memphis
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Bonanza
10:00 Dallas
11:00 All My Children
NOON Eyewitness News
12:30 Loving
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Dukes of Hazzard
4:00 Dating Game - Jeff MacGregor
4:30 Win, Lose or Draw - Bert Convy
5:00 Eyewitness News
6:00 ABC World News Tonight
6:30 Newlywed Game
7:00 MacGyver: "GX-1" (Nov 2, 1987)
8:00 ABC Monday Night Movie: "Best Friends" (1982) - Burt Reynolds, Goldie Hawn
10:00 Eyewitness News
10:30 Alice
11:00 Sanford and Son
11:30 Nightline
MIDNIGHT Love Connection
12:30 Movie: "Wanted: Babysitter" (1975) - Vic Morrow, Maria Schneider, Sydne Rome, Robert Vaughan (Joint German-French-Italian-produced film with English dialogue.)
2:30 Eyewitness News (R)
3:00 Country Music TV

24 WPTY
6:00 He-Man
6:30 Transformers
7:00 Filmation's Ghostbusters
7:30 Scooby-Doo
8:00 Dennis the Menace
8:30 Teddy Ruxpin
9:00 Bewitched
9:30 Bountiful Blessing
10:00 Jimmy Swaggart
10:30 James Robison
11:00 Bob Tilton
NOON White Shadow
1:00 Kung Fu
2:00 Batman
2:30 Tom & Jerry
3:00 Dinosacers
3:30 Saber Rider
4:00 Bravestarr
4:30 Double Dare
5:00 Memphis
5:30 Family Ties
6:00 Simon & Simon
7:00 Hill Street Blues
8:00 Movie: "Shout! The Story of Johnny O'Keefe" (1986) - Terry Serio (title role), John McTernan, Marcelle Schmitz, Candy Raymond
10:00 Legacy of a Dream - James Earl Jones narrates this MLK docuementary. (pre-empts WKRP in Cincinnati)
10:30 Fall Guy
11:30 Superior Court
MIDNIGHT Movie: "The Islander" (1978) - Dennis Weaver, Sharon Gless


30 WMKW (Fox)
6:00 Bionic Six
6:30 Jem
7:00 Smurfs
7:30 Flintstones
8:00 ThunderCats
8:30 My Little Pony
9:00 Cannon
10:00 Who's the Boss?
10:30 Julia
11:00 700 Club
NOON PTL Club
1:00 Wild, Wild West
2:00 Freedom From Fat
2:30 SilverHawks
3:00 Woody Woodpecker
3:30 Real Ghostbusters
4:00 Jetsons
4:30 DuckTales
5:00 Facts of Life (x2)
6:00 Star Trek
7:00 Wonderful World of Disney: "The Swamp Fox" - Episode 4 of 8: "Day of Reckoning" (Jan 8, 1960) - starring Leslie Nielsen as Revolutionary War heo Francis Marion (aka "The Swamp Fox")
8:00 Movie: "Red Sonja" (1985) - Brigitte Nielsen, Arnold Schwarzenegger
10:00 Hit Squad
10:30 Late Show - Guest host: John Mulrooney; Guests: Chris Lemmon, Jean LeClerc, Fred Savage
11:30 Movie: "Ruby" (1977) - Piper Laurie, Stuart Whitman
 
I see no love for The $25,000 Pyramid in Memphis, after it returned following a three-month downtime. (A short-lived game, Blackout, filled the interim time.)
 
I notice that Memphis NBC affiliate WMC-TV preempted or didn't show most of the peacock's lineup were: Super Password, Classic Concentration, Scrabble, Santa Barbara, Sale of the Century nor Win, Lose or Draw (the daytime version) as part of their schedule except for Another World, Days and the daytime Wheel of Fortune but delayed it to the afternoon
 
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5 WMC (NBC)
11:00 Another World
NOON Action News 5
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 Another World

So they aired Another World two times a day?
 
Cool_guy81 said:
5 WMC (NBC)
11:00 Another World
NOON Action News 5
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 Another World

So they aired Another World two times a day?
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I must've goofed on that. I'll check on and correct that ASAP.
 
It turns out to be an error on the Commercial Appeal's part. I've checked another edition around that date, and it should be Santa Barbara in the 11:00 AM slot. Another error they made on the April 4 edition is Ryan's Hope instead of All My Children at 11:00 AM as well. Ryan's Hope BTW, never expanded to a full hour like most other soaps.
 
WMC was notorious from the late 70's to the early 90's for pre-empting almost all of NBC's game shows except for Wheel and possibly one more to fill out the hour and replaced them with syndicated talk shows, and the more viewers complained the worse they got as if the station management was trying to spite viewers. It continued like that until the station was sold to what eventually became Raycom in the early 90's.

I still believe that stations like WMC who were pre-emption crazy were the start of daytime TV turning into the sorry state it's in today.
 
What was the program called "Memphis" on channel 24
at 5 PM? Given the date, I assume something about the Martin
Luther King, Jr. assassination. What program did it preempt?
 
classictvfan said:
What was the program called "Memphis" on channel 24
at 5 PM? Given the date, I assume something about the Martin
Luther King, Jr. assassination. What program did it preempt?
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If it's not about MLK, then it's probably a local public affairs show. I'll research on that when I get the chance.
 
classictvfan said:
What was the program called "Memphis" on channel 24
at 5 PM? Given the date, I assume something about the Martin
Luther King, Jr. assassination. What program did it preempt?
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Turns out it was Benson that was pre-empted by "Memphis", so it must've been about MLK after all.
 
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