From The Detroit Free Press TV Book, via Newspapers.com
Part I: Detroit Big Four, PBS & Indies plus Windsor's Channel 9
WJBK 2 (CBS)
7:00 WWF Superstars of Wrestling (Bim Bam Bigelow vs. Nikolai Volkoff)
8:00 Muppet Babies
8:30 Pee Wee's Playhouse
9:00 CBS Movie "The Muppets Take Manhattan"
11:00 Tennis (U.S. Open, Women's Singles Final & Men's Singles Semifinals, from Flushing Meadow, NY)
3:00 U.S. Open Tennis continues
7:00 What a Country!
7:30 Small Wonder
8:00 College Football (Alabama at Penn State)
11:30 News
12:00 Movie (no details)
2:00 The Untouchables
3:00 Naked City
4:00 The Avengers
WDIV 4 (NBC)
7:00 Kidbits
7:30 Saturday Morning Preview
8:00 Gummi Bears (season premiere)
8:30 Smurfs (season premiere)
10:00 Fraggle Rock (animated; series premiere)
10:30 Alvin & the Chipmunks (season premiere)
11:00 ALF (animated; series premiere)
11:30 New Archies (series premiere)
12:00 America's Top Ten
12:30 Born Famous (celebrities with famous parents)
1:30 Week in Baseball
2:00 Baseball Pre-Game
2:15 Baseball (Regional games: St. Louis Cardinals at New York Mets or Los Angeles Dodgers at Atlanta Braves)
5:00 More Real People
5:30 Heroes: Made in the U.S.A.
6:00 News
6:30 NBC News
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Music Machine (judges Sarah Douglas, Richard Moll, Levi Stubbs)
8:00 The Facts of Life
8:30 227
9:00 The Golden Girls
9:30 Amen
10:00 Hunter
11:00 News
11:30 Pope John Paul II: Road to Detroit Update
11:45 Saturday Night Live (joined in progress)
1:00 Dancin' to the Hits
1:30 Love Boat
2:30 Movie "Beneath the 12-Mile Reef"
4:30 News
WXYZ 7 (ABC)
7:00 All-American High School Report
7:30 Daedal Doors
8:00 ABC Movie "The Wind in the Willows" (1985 version)
10:00 My Pet Monster (series premiere)
10:30 Real Ghostbusters (season premiere)
11:00 Flintstone Kids (season premiere)
11:30 Bugs Bunny & Tweety (season premiere)
12:00 Big Ten Pre-Game
12:30 College Football (West Virginia at Ohio State)
3:30 College Football (Notre Dame at Michigan) (joined in progress)
7:00 Golf (1987 Michigan Bell Showdown, from Traverse City)
8:00 National Geographic "Monkeys, Apes and Man"
9:00 Hotel
11:00 News
11:30 WWF Wrestling Spotlight
12:30 Powerful Women of Wrestling
1:30 Movie "Francis Gary Powers: The U-2 Spy Incident"
3:30 Movie "Whiffs"
CBET 9 Windsor (CBC)
8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 Western Gardener
10:00 Skipper & Co.
10:30 Focus North
11:00 Coronation Street
12:00 Real Fishing
12:30 Wonderstruck
1:00 Par 27
1:30 Dawn to Dust
2:00 Land & Sea
2:30 Countryside
3:00 Sportsweekend (events, competitors, locations TBA)
6:00 CBC News
6:30 Heritage Theatre "The Innocence of Father Lacombe"
7:00 Wayne & Shuster International
7:30 Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
8:00 Pro Football (Toronto Argonatus at Edmonton Eskimos)
11:00 National
11:15 News
11:55 Famous Knockouts
12:25 International Wrestling
WXON 20 (Ind.)
7:00 Focus Family
7:30 Madonna Magazine
8:00 The World Tomorrow
8:30 Herald of Truth
9:00 G.L.O.W.
10:00 Movie "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"
12:00 Movie "Gorky Park"
2:00 Movie "Island of Terror"
3:30 Movie "Dracula's Dog"
5:00 Six Million Dollar Man
6:00 Greatest American Hero
7:00 Throb
7:30 It's a Living
8:00 Movie "The Hostage Heart"
10:00 Rockford Files
11:00 Love Connection
11:30 Movie "The 13 Styles Strike"
1:30 Hit City
2:00 Focus Family
2:30 Movie "The Vengeance of Fu Manchu"
4:00 Movie (no details)
WKBD 50 (Fox)
7:30 It's Your Business
8:00 Lady Lovelylocks
8:30 Popples
9:00 Get Along Gang
9:30 Puttin' on the Hits
10:00 Movie "The Desperados"
12:00 Great Lakes State Games (from Northern Michigan University in Marquette)
1:00 What's Happening Now!!
1:30 Movie "See No Evil"
3:00 Movie "Shadow of the Hawk"
5:00 Star Search
6:00 Star Trek "Spectre of the Gun"
7:00 Facts of Life
7:30 9 to 5
8:00 Werewolf
8:30 Adventures of Beans Baxter
9:00 Down and Out in Beverly Hills
9:30 Karen's Song
10:00 Jack Van Impe
11:00 Runaway with the Rich & Famous
11:30 Movie "The Wild Life"
1:30 Movie "Morituri"
WTVS 56 (PBS)
7:00/8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Wildlife Woodcarvers
9:30 Victory Garden
10:00 MotorWeek
10:30 This Old House
11:00 Michigan Outdoors
11:30 Streamside
12:00 Survival
1:00 Nova "Confessions of a Weaponeer"
2:00 World Adventure
3:00 Evening at Pops (Joan Baez performs)
4:00 Modern Maturity
4:30 Frugal Gourmet
5:00 Health Matters
5:30 Louisiana Cookin'
6:00 People, Pets & Dr. Marc
6:30 Innovation (common misconceptions about sugar)
7:00 New Image Teens "Peer Pressure"
7:30 Newton's Apple
8:00 Great Space Race (pt. 1 of 4)
9:00 Upstairs, Downstairs "Goodwill to All Men"
10:00 Edward the King "Scandal"
11:00 Movie "Good Neighbor Sam"
1:10 Australia on the Breeze
WGPR 62 (Ind.)
7:00 New Zoo Revue
7;30 Teen Profile
8:00 The Scene
9:00 Movie "The Human Monster"
11:00 Trackside/DRC
11:30 Sports View Today
12:00 NWA Pro Wrestling
1:00 Hee Haw (Reba McEntire co-hosts; Loretta Lynn, Pat Boone, Keith Stegall and Clyde Foley Cummins guest)
2:00 New Wilderness
2:30 War of the Stars
3:00/3:30 Wanted: Dead or Alive
4:00 Movie "Port of New York"
5:30 Movie "Fighter Pilots"
7:00 College Football (Arizona State at Illinois)
11:00 Arab Voice of Detroit
1:30 Wanted: Dead or Alive
2:30 Movie "Nightmare County"
4:00 Movie "The Unearthly"
Part I: Detroit Big Four, PBS & Indies plus Windsor's Channel 9
WJBK 2 (CBS)
7:00 WWF Superstars of Wrestling (Bim Bam Bigelow vs. Nikolai Volkoff)
8:00 Muppet Babies
8:30 Pee Wee's Playhouse
9:00 CBS Movie "The Muppets Take Manhattan"
11:00 Tennis (U.S. Open, Women's Singles Final & Men's Singles Semifinals, from Flushing Meadow, NY)
3:00 U.S. Open Tennis continues
7:00 What a Country!
7:30 Small Wonder
8:00 College Football (Alabama at Penn State)
11:30 News
12:00 Movie (no details)
2:00 The Untouchables
3:00 Naked City
4:00 The Avengers
WDIV 4 (NBC)
7:00 Kidbits
7:30 Saturday Morning Preview
8:00 Gummi Bears (season premiere)
8:30 Smurfs (season premiere)
10:00 Fraggle Rock (animated; series premiere)
10:30 Alvin & the Chipmunks (season premiere)
11:00 ALF (animated; series premiere)
11:30 New Archies (series premiere)
12:00 America's Top Ten
12:30 Born Famous (celebrities with famous parents)
1:30 Week in Baseball
2:00 Baseball Pre-Game
2:15 Baseball (Regional games: St. Louis Cardinals at New York Mets or Los Angeles Dodgers at Atlanta Braves)
5:00 More Real People
5:30 Heroes: Made in the U.S.A.
6:00 News
6:30 NBC News
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Music Machine (judges Sarah Douglas, Richard Moll, Levi Stubbs)
8:00 The Facts of Life
8:30 227
9:00 The Golden Girls
9:30 Amen
10:00 Hunter
11:00 News
11:30 Pope John Paul II: Road to Detroit Update
11:45 Saturday Night Live (joined in progress)
1:00 Dancin' to the Hits
1:30 Love Boat
2:30 Movie "Beneath the 12-Mile Reef"
4:30 News
WXYZ 7 (ABC)
7:00 All-American High School Report
7:30 Daedal Doors
8:00 ABC Movie "The Wind in the Willows" (1985 version)
10:00 My Pet Monster (series premiere)
10:30 Real Ghostbusters (season premiere)
11:00 Flintstone Kids (season premiere)
11:30 Bugs Bunny & Tweety (season premiere)
12:00 Big Ten Pre-Game
12:30 College Football (West Virginia at Ohio State)
3:30 College Football (Notre Dame at Michigan) (joined in progress)
7:00 Golf (1987 Michigan Bell Showdown, from Traverse City)
8:00 National Geographic "Monkeys, Apes and Man"
9:00 Hotel
11:00 News
11:30 WWF Wrestling Spotlight
12:30 Powerful Women of Wrestling
1:30 Movie "Francis Gary Powers: The U-2 Spy Incident"
3:30 Movie "Whiffs"
CBET 9 Windsor (CBC)
8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 Western Gardener
10:00 Skipper & Co.
10:30 Focus North
11:00 Coronation Street
12:00 Real Fishing
12:30 Wonderstruck
1:00 Par 27
1:30 Dawn to Dust
2:00 Land & Sea
2:30 Countryside
3:00 Sportsweekend (events, competitors, locations TBA)
6:00 CBC News
6:30 Heritage Theatre "The Innocence of Father Lacombe"
7:00 Wayne & Shuster International
7:30 Growing Pains of Adrian Mole
8:00 Pro Football (Toronto Argonatus at Edmonton Eskimos)
11:00 National
11:15 News
11:55 Famous Knockouts
12:25 International Wrestling
WXON 20 (Ind.)
7:00 Focus Family
7:30 Madonna Magazine
8:00 The World Tomorrow
8:30 Herald of Truth
9:00 G.L.O.W.
10:00 Movie "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"
12:00 Movie "Gorky Park"
2:00 Movie "Island of Terror"
3:30 Movie "Dracula's Dog"
5:00 Six Million Dollar Man
6:00 Greatest American Hero
7:00 Throb
7:30 It's a Living
8:00 Movie "The Hostage Heart"
10:00 Rockford Files
11:00 Love Connection
11:30 Movie "The 13 Styles Strike"
1:30 Hit City
2:00 Focus Family
2:30 Movie "The Vengeance of Fu Manchu"
4:00 Movie (no details)
WKBD 50 (Fox)
7:30 It's Your Business
8:00 Lady Lovelylocks
8:30 Popples
9:00 Get Along Gang
9:30 Puttin' on the Hits
10:00 Movie "The Desperados"
12:00 Great Lakes State Games (from Northern Michigan University in Marquette)
1:00 What's Happening Now!!
1:30 Movie "See No Evil"
3:00 Movie "Shadow of the Hawk"
5:00 Star Search
6:00 Star Trek "Spectre of the Gun"
7:00 Facts of Life
7:30 9 to 5
8:00 Werewolf
8:30 Adventures of Beans Baxter
9:00 Down and Out in Beverly Hills
9:30 Karen's Song
10:00 Jack Van Impe
11:00 Runaway with the Rich & Famous
11:30 Movie "The Wild Life"
1:30 Movie "Morituri"
WTVS 56 (PBS)
7:00/8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Wildlife Woodcarvers
9:30 Victory Garden
10:00 MotorWeek
10:30 This Old House
11:00 Michigan Outdoors
11:30 Streamside
12:00 Survival
1:00 Nova "Confessions of a Weaponeer"
2:00 World Adventure
3:00 Evening at Pops (Joan Baez performs)
4:00 Modern Maturity
4:30 Frugal Gourmet
5:00 Health Matters
5:30 Louisiana Cookin'
6:00 People, Pets & Dr. Marc
6:30 Innovation (common misconceptions about sugar)
7:00 New Image Teens "Peer Pressure"
7:30 Newton's Apple
8:00 Great Space Race (pt. 1 of 4)
9:00 Upstairs, Downstairs "Goodwill to All Men"
10:00 Edward the King "Scandal"
11:00 Movie "Good Neighbor Sam"
1:10 Australia on the Breeze
WGPR 62 (Ind.)
7:00 New Zoo Revue
7;30 Teen Profile
8:00 The Scene
9:00 Movie "The Human Monster"
11:00 Trackside/DRC
11:30 Sports View Today
12:00 NWA Pro Wrestling
1:00 Hee Haw (Reba McEntire co-hosts; Loretta Lynn, Pat Boone, Keith Stegall and Clyde Foley Cummins guest)
2:00 New Wilderness
2:30 War of the Stars
3:00/3:30 Wanted: Dead or Alive
4:00 Movie "Port of New York"
5:30 Movie "Fighter Pilots"
7:00 College Football (Arizona State at Illinois)
11:00 Arab Voice of Detroit
1:30 Wanted: Dead or Alive
2:30 Movie "Nightmare County"
4:00 Movie "The Unearthly"