NEW YORK TV- FALL 1988 (Part 2)

[highwayman128]

Source: New York Times

NEW YORK TV- FALL 1988 (Part 2)

October 24-28, 1988

WCBS-TV 2
Daytime (Weekdays)
6:00- Business Morning
6:30- CBS News
7:00- This Morning
9:00- Superior Court
9:30- Judge
10:00- Family Feud
10:30- Card Sharks
11:00- The Price is Right
12:00- Channel 2 News at Noon
12:30- The Young and The Restless
1:30- Bold and the Beautiful
2:00- As The World Turns
3:00- Guiding Light
4:00- On Trial
4:30- People's Court
5:00- Channel 2 News at 5 (with Jim Jensen and Carol Martin)
6:00- Channel 2 News at 6 (with Jim Jensen and Michelle Marsh)
6:30- CBS Evening News (with Dan Rather)
7:00- Win, Lose or Draw
7:30- Wheel of Fortune

PRIMETIME
Monday 10-24
8:00- Newhart
8:30- Coming of Age
9:00- CBS Monday Night Movie- Indiscreet (1988)

Tuesday 10-25
8:00- CBS Tuesday Movie- Pancho Barnes (1988)

Wednesday 10-26
8:00- Van Dyke and Company (premiere)
8:30- Annie McGuire (premiere)
9:00- Equalizer
10:00- Wise Guy

Thursday 10-27
8:00- 48 Hours
9:00- Paradise
10:00- Knots Landing

Friday 10-28
8:00- This is America, Charlie Brown
8:30- Garfield's Halloween Adventure
9:00- Dallas
10:00- Falcon Crest

LATE NIGHT
Monday-Friday
11:00- Channel 2 News at 11 (with Michele Marsh and Mike Schnider)
11:35- CBS Late Night: Hunter (Mon), Night Heat (Tue-Thu), Movie- The Last Starfighter (1984) (Fri)
12:45- CBS Late Night Movie- Welcome Home, Bobby (1986) (Mon), The Lady from Yesterday (1985) (Tue), A Time to Triumph (1986) (Wed), Thompson's Last Run (1986) (Thu)
1:50- USA Today (Fri)
2:05- USA Today (Mon-Thu)
2:20- Movie- Wheeler and Murdoch (1972) (Fri)
2:35- CBS News Nightwatch (Mon-Thu)
4:00- Wipeout (Fri)

WNBC-TV 4
Daytime (Weekdays)
6:00- NBC News at Sunrise
6:30- News 4 New York
7:00- Today Show
9:00- Geraldo
10:00- Sale of The Century
10:30- Classic Concentration
11:00- Wheel of Fortune
11:30- Win, Lose or Draw
12:00- Super Password
12:30- Scrabble
1:00- Days of Our Lives
2:00- Another World
3:00- Santa Barbara
4:00- Donahue
5:00- Live at Five (with Cafferty and Simmons)
6:00- News 4 New York at 6 (with Scarborough and Pat Harper)
7:00- NBC Nightly News (with Tom Brokaw)
7:30- Family Feud

PRIMETIME
Monday 10-24
8:00- ALF
9:00- Movie- A Stoning in Fulham County (1988)

Tuesday 10-25
8:00- Devil Worship- Exposing Satan's Underground (host: Geraldo Rivera)
10:00- Midnight Caller

Wednesday 10-26
8:00- Unsolved Mysteries
9:00- Night Court
10:00- The Tattingers

Thursday 10-27
8:00- Cosby Show
8:30- Different World
9:00- Cheers
9:30- Dear John
10:00- L.A Law

Friday 10-28
8:00- Sonny Spoon
9:00- Something is Out There
10:00- Miami Vice

LATE NIGHT
Monday 10-24
11:00- News 4 New York (with Scarborough and Simmons)
11:30- NBC News Special- "Campaign Countdown"
12:00- Best of Carson
1:00- Late Night with David Letterman
2:00- Later
2:30- News 4 New York (repeat of 11pm)
3:00- Group One Medical
3:30- Liar's Club
4:00- Ben Casey

Tuesday-Friday
11:00- News 4 New York (with Scarborough and Simmons)
11:30- Best of Carson
12:30- Late Night with David Letterman
1:30- Later (Mon-Thu), Friday Night Videos (Fri)
2:00- News 4 New York (repeat) (Tue-Thu)
2:30- Group one Medical (Tue-Thu), News 4 New York (Fri)
3:00- Liar's Club, Group one Medical (Fri)
3:30- Relatively Speaking (Tue-Thu), Liar's Club (Fri)
4:00- Ben Casey (Tue-Thu), Relatively Speaking (Fri)
4:30- Movie- Second Chorus (1940)

WABC-TV 7
6:00- ABC News This Morning (with local inserts)
7:00- Good Morning America
9:00- Live with Regis and Kathie Lee
10:00- Sally Jesse Raphael
11:00- Growing Pains
11:30- Home
12:00- Ryan's Hope
12:30- Loving
1:00- All My Children
2:00- One Life To Live
3:00- General Hospital
4:00- Oprah Winfrey (Mon-Wed, Fri), ABC Afterschool Special- "When To Tattle on a Friend (Thu)
5:00- Eyewitness News (with Ernie Anastos and Roz Abrams)
6:00- Eyewitness News (with Bill Beutel and John Johnston)
6:30- ABC World News Tonight (with Peter Jennings)
7:00- New York Senatorial Debate (Mon), Jeopardy (Tue-Fri)
7:30- Entertainment Tonight (Tue-Fri)

PRIMETIME
Monday 10-24
8:00- MacGyver
9:00- NFL Monday Night Football- San Francisco 49ers @ Chicago Bears

Tuesday 10-25
8:00- Who's The Boss
8:30- Roseanne
9:00- ABC Tuesday Night Movie- David (1988)

Wednesday 10-26
8:00- Growing Pains
8:30- Head of the Class
9:00- Wonder Years
10:00- Crimes of Passion

Thursday 10-27
8:00- Making of A Model
9:00- Super Model Search: Look of The Year

Friday 10-28
8:00- Perfect Strangers
8:30- Full House
9:00- Mr. Belvedere
9:30- Just the Ten of Us
10:00- 20/20

LATE NIGHT- Monday 10-24
12:00- Eyewitness News (with Ernie Anastos and Kaity Tong)
12:30- ABC News Nightline
1:00- Movie- Last of the Fast Guns (1958)
2:40- Eyewitness News- (repeat of 11pm)
3:10- Movie- Hennessey (1975)

LATE NIGHT- Tuesday-Friday
11:00- Eyewitness News (with Ernie Anastos and Kaity Tong)
11:30- ABC News Nightline (with Ted Koppel)
12:00- Movie- For Love or For Money (1963) (Tue), Johnny Concho (1956) (Wed), Stunt Seven (1979) (Thu), The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951) (Fri)
1:45- Eyewitness News (Wed,Thu)
1:50- Eyewitness News (Fri)
2:10- Eyewitness News (Tue)
2:15- Movie- The McCullochs (1975) (Wed), The Wild Party (1974) (Thu)
2:20- Movie- Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn (1977) (Fri)
2:40- Movie- Welcome to Arrow Beach (1977) (Tue),
4:00- Branded (Wed)
4:30- The New Avengers

WNYW-TV 5
6:00 am - Plastic Man
6:30 - Popeye
7:00 - Good Day New York
9:00 - I Love Lucy
9:30 - I Love Lucy
10:00 - Divorce Court
10:30- Family Medical Center
11:00 - TV Film: The Night of the Wizard (1972) (Mon), If Max is So Smart, Then why doesn't He Tell Us Where he is (Tue), Blues for Sally M. (1972) (Wed), The Colorado Cattle Caper (1974) (Thu), Cop of the Year (1972) (Fri)
12:30 - Hour Magazine
1:30- Bewitched
2:00 - Popeye
2:30- Ghostbusters
3:00 - Alvin and the Chipmunks
3:30 - Ducktales
4:00 - Double Dare
4:30 - Finders Keepers
5:00 - Diff'rent Strokes
5:30 - The Facts of Life
6:00 - Three's Company
6:30 - Family Ties
7:00 - Fox News at Seven**
7:30 - A Current Affair (with Maury Povich)

PRIMETIME
Monday 10-24
8:00- Movie- The Prowler (1981)

Tuesday 10-25
8:00- Movie- Halloween (1978)

Wednesday 10-26
8:00- The Secret Identity of Jack the Ripper

Thursday 10-27
8:00- News Special- report on the Death Penalty
9:00- The Reporters

Friday 10-28
8:00- Scooby and the Boo Brothers

LATE NIGHT- Mon-Fri
10:00- Fox 5 News at 10 (with Roland and Mihalik)
11:00 - M*A*S*H
11:30 - Taxi
12:00- Late Show
1:00 - McCreary Report (Mon), Paid Programming (Tue), Archie Bunker's Place (Wed-Thu), Latin Connection- Fri)
1:30- One Day at a Time (Wed-Thu)
2:00- Paid Programming (Mon-Fri)
2:30- Improv Tonite (Mon-Fri)
3:00- Movie- The Young Master (1978) (Mon), The Errand Boy (1961) (Tue), Nickelodeon (1976) (Wed), The Quest (1976) (Thu), Skyhigh (1985) (Fri)

WWOR-TV 9
6:00 am - Snorks
6:30- Popeye
7:00 - Beverly Hills Teens
7:30 - The Jetsons (new and classic episodes)
8:00 - Gumby
8:30- My Little Pony
9:00 - Care Bears
9:30 - I Dream of Jeannie
10:00 - People Are Talking (hosted by Richard Bey)
Noon - News at Noon (with Sara Lee Kessler)
1:00 - Cannon
2:00- Barnaby Jones
3:00 - Sweethearts
3:30- Dating Game
4:00- Newlywed Game
4:30- Love Connection
5:00 - Magnum P.I
6:00 - Matt Hooker
7:00 - Cosby Show
7:30 - Kate & Allie

PRIMETIME
Monday 10-24
8:00- Unauthorized Biography: Jane Fonda

Tuesday 10-25
8:00- Hunter
9:00- Hunter

Wednesday 10-26
8:00- A-Team
9:00- A-Team

Thursday 10-27
8:00- Untouchables
9:00- Untouchables

Friday 10-28
8:00- Movie- Mazes and Monsters (1982)

LATE NIGHT- Mon-Fri
10:00 - The News at Ten (with Roland Smith? and Jennifer Valoppi)
11:00 - Benny Hill
11:30- Morton Downey Jr. Show
12:30 - Alfred Hitchcock
1:00 - The Joe Franklin Show
2:00 - Home Shopping Club Overnight (4 hrs.)

WPIX-TV 11
6:00 - Insight
6:30 - Tom and Jerry
7:00 - Smurfs
7:30 - Jem
8:00 - The Bionic Six
8:30 - Ghostbusters
9:00 - Munsters
9:30- Rhoda, (Mon-Thu) Lucky Luke (Fri)
10:00 - Alice (Mon-Thu)
10:30 - Eight is Enough (Mon-Thu)
11:30- Carson's Classics
Noon - Harry O
1:00- Trapper John, M.D
2:00- Best Talk in Town (host: Nola Roeper)
2:30- Tom And Jerry
3:00- Yogi Bear
3:30- G.I Joe
4:00- C.O.P.S (the cartoon, not the FOX police show)
4:30- Fun House
5:00- Little House on the Prairie
6:00 - Gong Show
6:30 - Hollywood Squares
7:00 - Cheers
7:30 - The Independent News (with Brad Holbrook and Donna Hanover)

PRIMETIME
Monday 10-24
8:00- Crimes of Violence

Tuesday 10-25
8:00- Movie- The Holocroft Convenant (1985)

Wednesday 10-26
8:00- Hemingway (Part 1 of 3)

Thursday 10-27
8:00- Hemingway (Part 2 of 3)

Friday
8:00- Hemingway (Part 3 of 3)

LATE NIGHT- Monday-Friday
10:00- INN News
10:30- Odd Couple
11:00- Cheers
11:30- Honeymooners
Midnight - Star Trek (Mon-Thu), War of the Worlds (Fri)
1:00 - The Twilight Zone (Mon-Wed), Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous (Thu), Monsters (Fri)
1:30 - USA Tonight (repeat of national broadcast only)
2:00 - White Shadow (Mon-Wed), Wrestling (Thu), Friday the 13th: The Series (Fri)
3:00- Perry Mason (Mon, Wed-Fri), Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous (Thu)
4:00- Streets of San Francisco

 

[DToTheJ]

Source: New York Times

WCBS-TV 2
Friday 10-28
8:00- This is America, Charlie Brown

WNBC-TV 4
11:30- NBC News Special- "Campaign Countdown"

WNYW-TV 5
2:00 - Popeye
7:00 - Fox News at Seven**

WPIX-TV 11
4:00- C.O.P.S (the cartoon, not the FOX police show)

A few odds and ends:

1. What kind of a special was that? I would imagine it's about the Fourth of July, but why air it in October? Did the venerable "Great Pumpkin" special already air? Of course, these days, with a title like that, it could make for some good political talk radio...

2. Hosted by Keith Olbermann? ;D ;D ;D

3A. I remember around that time, 5 ran a ten-minute news brief, followed by Popeye at 2:10. Perhaps they did away with the news brief by this time.
3B. The original poster planted asterisks alongside the program - I wonder what he was going to indicate...

4. Turns out the show is now known as "Cyber-C.O.P.S." From what I read, the producers of the "COPS" TV show forced the producers of the cartoon series to change the name. Kinda like when two "Ghostbusters" cartoons aired at the same time...

 

[BRNout]

FOX must have been brand new at that time. I lived in Utah at the time and there was no FOX station there yet.

Also fun to be reminded of how Johnny Carson was already mailing it in at that point. A whole week of "Best of Carson" just before an election! By that time, it seemed like he was getting 16 or 20 weeks of vacation! Not that he didn't necessarily deserve it, but I particularly disliked it when they went with "Best of.." and preferred a live show with "Johnny's guest host."

All in all, I guess we never realized how good we had it back then. There was a lot of good stuff on TV to watch back in 1988.

 

[gr8oldies]

Midnight Caller...cop turns all night talk show host who solves murders during the commercial breaks.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

WNBC-TV 4

PRIMETIME
Monday 10-24
8:00- ALF
9:00- Movie- A Stoning in Fulham County (1988)

Also fun to be reminded of how Johnny Carson was already mailing it in at that point. A whole week of "Best of Carson" just before an election! By that time, it seemed like he was getting 16 or 20 weeks of vacation! Not that he didn't necessarily deserve it, but I particularly disliked it when they went with "Best of.." and preferred a live show with "Johnny's guest host."

Speaking of Carson, guest hosts, and "Best of Carson," the Oct. 24, 1988 hour-long "ALF" special episode (which preempted "Hogan Family" for the evening) was the one where he guest-hosted the "Tonight Show" (with Ed McMahon and Tommy Newsom still on hand, and guests Dr. Joyce Brothers, Joan Embree of the San Diego Zoo, and Pope John Paul II)--and turned the whole show into an ALF clip show to the chagrin of Johnny and the guests:

http://beta.sling.com/video/show/66394/93/Tonight,-Tonight

 

[TVCOOL]

What wrestling aired on 2am thursdays(horrible time slot for wrestling especially on a weeknight) on WPIX 11? NWA or AWA Wrestling? And both Fox 5 and Ch.9 airing Popeye at 6:30am? i wonder if Fox 5 was already programming WWOR-TV schedule 13 years earlier than 2001?

 

[onairb]

A few odds and ends:

1. What kind of a special was that? I would imagine it's about the Fourth of July, but why air it in October? Did the venerable "Great Pumpkin" special already air? Of course, these days, with a title like that, it could make for some good political talk radio...

"This Is America, Charlie Brown" was actually an 8-part mini-series that had the 'Peanuts' characters acting out moments of American history. I think it was rushed into production because of the SAG strike that year. CBS aired the first four episodes weekly during October and November(it premiered on October 21), ran the rest as specials throughout the season, and repeated the whole thing as filler in the summer of 1990. I didn't watch it, because I was in my teens at the time, and had 'moved on' from 'Peanuts' TV shows. Apparently, not too many others bothered to tune in, either.