New York TV- Late Summer 1987

[highwayman128]

NEW YORK TV- LATE SUMMER 1987

Monday August 31, 1987

Source: New York Times

WCBS-TV 2
6:00 am - CBS Morning News (with local inserts)
7:30 - The Morning Program
9:00 – Home Shopping Game
9:30 - Divorce Court
10:00 - The $25,000 Pyramid
10:30 - Card Sharks (hosted by Bob Eubanks)
11:00 - The Price is Right
Noon - Channel 2 News at Noon
12:30 - The Young and the Restless
1:30 - The Bold and the Beautiful
2:00 - As the World Turns
3:00 - Guiding Light
4:00 – Divorce Court
4:30 – Superior Court
5:00 - Channel 2 News at 5 (with Jim Jensen and Carol Martin)
5:30 - Channel 2 News at 5:30
6:00 - Channel 2 News at 6 (who anchored the 5:30,6 and 11 o’clock newscast for WCBS in 1987)
7:00 - CBS Evening News with Dan Rather
7:30 - Wheel of Fortune
8:00 – Michael Jackson- The Magic Returns
8:30- Kate & Allie
9:00- Newhart
9:30- Designing Women
10:00- Cagney and Lacey
11:00 - Channel 2 News at 11
11:30 – Simon and Simon
12:40 am - CBS Late Night Movie: King of the Mountain (1981)
2:00 - CBS News Nightwatch (with Charlie Rose; 4 hrs.)

WNBC-TV 4
5:00- Ben Casey
6:00 - NBC News at Sunrise (with Deborah Norville)
6:30 - Before Hours (business news)
6:45 - News 4 New York update
7:00 - Today (with Bryant Gumbel and Jane Pauley)
9:00 – People’s Court
9:30- Love Connection
10:00 - Sale of the Century
10:30 - Classic Concentration
11:00 - Wheel of Fortune
11:30 - Scrabble
Noon - Super Password
12:30 - Wordplay
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 (with Scarborough and Pat Harper)
7:00 - NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw
7:30 – Newlywed Game
8:00- Alf
8:30- Valerie
9:00- Year in the Life
11:00 - News 4 New York (with Scarborough and Simmons)
11:30 – Best of Carson
12:30 am – Track and Field (Where’s Letterman?- he normally airs here)
1:30 - News 4 New York (repeat from 11:00)
2:00 - Ask Dr. Ruth
2:30 – Cross-Wits
3:00 – Sally Jessy Raphael
3:30 – Record Guide
4:00 - Ben Casey

WABC-TV 7
5:00- Dating Game
5:30 - Morning Stretch
6:00 - ABC World News This Morning (with local inserts)
7:00 - Good Morning America
9:00 - The Morning Show (aka Live with Regis and Kathie Lee)
10:00 – Jeopardy!
10:30- Split Second
11:00 – Who’s the Boss
11:30 – Bargain Hunters
Noon - Ryan's Hope
12:30 - Loving
1:00 - All My Children
2:00 - One Life to Live
3:00 - General Hospital
4:00 - The Oprah Winfrey Show
5:00 - Eyewitness News (with Ernie Anastos and Roz Abrams)
6:00 - Eyewitness News (with Bill Beutel and John Johnson)
6:30 - ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings
7:00 - Jeopardy!
7:30 - Hollywood Squares
8:00- NFL Exhibition Football- St. Louis Cardinals .@ Chicago Bears (the Cardinals would move to Phoenix the next year)
11:00- Eyewitness News (with Ernie Anastos and Kaity Tong)
11:30- ABC News Nightline
12am- Monday Sportsnite
1:00am- Movie- Wild in the Streets
3:00am- Eyewitness News (repeat of 11pm)
3:30am- Nightlife
4:00am- Tales of the Unexpected
4:30am- Card Sharks (Syndicated version of the CBS Game Show hosted by Bill Rafferty, now that show is on GSN)

WNYW 5 (owned by Fox/News Corp.)
5:30- Jayce
6:00 am - Silverhawks
6:30 - Centurions
7:00 - Rambo
7:30 - Defenders
8:00 – The Flintstones
8:30 - My Little Pony
9:00 – Leave it to Beaver
9:30 – I Love Lucy
10:00 – Bionic Woman
11:00 - Bewitched
11:30 – One Day at A Time
Noon - All in the Family
12:30 - A Current Affair (repeat from previous night)
1:00 - Hour Magazine (with Gary Collins)
2:00 – Dennis the Menace
2:30 - Jetsons
3:00 – She-Ra
3:30 – He-Man
4:00 - Thundercats
4:30 – Gilligan’s Island
5:00 – Brady Bunch
5:30 – What’s Happening
6:00 - Three's Company
6:30 – M*A*S*H
7:00 - Fox News at Seven**
7:30 - A Current Affair (with Maury Povich)
8:00 – We Love Lucy
10:00 - The Ten O'Clock News (with Roland and Mihalik)
11:00 – The Late Show
12:00 am - WKRP in Cincinnati
12:30 - Archie Bunker's Place
1:00 - Get Smart
2:00 - Movie: Bataan (1943)
4:25 - I Love Lucy

WWOR-TV 9
5:00 am- CNN News
6:00 am – Jimmy Swaggart
6:30 – 700 Club
7:30 – Straight Talk
8:30 – Romper Room
9:30 – Zoobilee Zoo
10:00 – My Favorite Martian
10:30- Monkees
11:00 – Bosom Buddies
11:30- House Calls
Noon - News at Noon (with Sara Lee Kessler)
1:00 – Marco Polo
3:00 - Cannon
4:00 - Barnaby Jones
5:00 – Hawaii Five-O
6:00 – Matt Houston
7:00 - The $100,000 Pyramid
7:30 – Entertainment Tonight (with Mary Hart and John Tesh)
8:00-- News 9: Primetime
8:30- $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime (hosted by Jim Lange)
9:00 – Sex Symbols II
10:00 – Gladys Knight and The Pips with Ray Charles
11:00 – Carol Burnett
Midnight - Cannon
1:00 - The Joe Franklin Show
2:00 – Movie- Human Feelings (1978)
4:00- Movie- Something Evil (1971)

WPIX 11
5:00 am – One Step Beyond
5:30 - INN News
6:00 – Tom and Jerry
6:30 – Mask
7:00 – Heathcliff
7:30 - The Transformers
8:00 - Gobots
8:30 – Pink Panther
9:00 - Munsters
9:30 - F-Troop
10:00 – Mork and Mindy
10:30 - Sanford and Son (2 episodes)
11:30 - Best Talk in Town (host: Nola Roeper)
Noon – The Odd Couple
12:30- Movie- The Choice (1981)
2:30 – Scooby Doo
3:00 – Smurfs
3:30 – Ghostbusters
4:00 - G.I. Joe
4:30 – Good Times
5:00 - CHiPs
6:00 – Gimme A Break
6:30 - Benson
7:00 – The Jeffersons
7:30 - The Independent News (with Brad Holbrook and Donna Hanover)
8:00 – INN News
10:00- News
10:30- INN News
11:00- The Odd Couple
11:30- Honeymooners
Midnight - Star Trek
1:00 – Star Trek
2:00- INN News
2:30- The Twilight Zone
3:00- Movie- Color Me Dead (1969)

 

[classictvfan]

Thanks for actually giving us a source, Highwayman128.

 

[dxtrfn]

> 12:30 am – Track and Field (Where’s Letterman?- he normally
> airs here)
This was probably highlights from the World Track Championships in Rome.

 

[KML0224]

I couldn't help but notice the Michael Jackson special which CBS aired that night. I believe that is where the world premiere for his "Bad" video took place.

 

[Rollo-Smokes]

The first summer where I stayed up all night watching TV. I was only eleven at the time, so staying up all night (or almost all night) was a big deal back then...

> WCBS-TV 2
> 6:00 - Channel 2 News at 6 (who anchored the 5:30, 6 and 11
> o’clock newscast for WCBS in 1987)

...Jim Jensen should have been at the anchor desk at 6 with the lovely Michele Marsh, who I had a huge crush on. IIRC, Marsh was paired with Mike Schneider (who later moved to ABC News) at 11. As for the separate 5:30 half-hour, I can't remember right now.

> WNYW 5 (owned by Fox/News Corp.)
> 5:30- Jayce

...The full title was "Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors", produced by DIC with only one season's ('85-'86) worth of episodes.

> 7:30 - Defenders

..another missing title? This was "Defenders of the Earth", which featured Flash Gordon and a bunch of other superheroes.

> WWOR-TV 9
> 8:00-- News 9: Primetime

...Since you mentioned news anchor pairings, I'm surprised you left this one out. Sara Lee Kessler (Mondays thru Thursdays) and Tom Dunn co-anchored this program. However, I think Dunn had retired by this time. Not too long later, the now-MCA-owned WWOR moved the primetime news to 10:00 and expanded it to a full hour, with two new anchors.

> 1:00 - The Joe Franklin Show

...The late night legend.

> 2:00 – Movie- Human Feelings (1978)
> 4:00- Movie- Something Evil (1971)

...Wow, late night movies!! Nowadays, channel nine runs informercials between 2 and 6 AM.

> WPIX 11

> 7:30 - The Transformers
> 4:30 – Good Times

...WPIX made this change in the spring of '87. I was so mad at them for doing it that I wrote a letter to them and had most of my fifth-grade classmates to sign it along with me. Back then, The Transformers was my favorite cartoon show, and I was ticked off that it went to mornings, where I couldn't watch it on school days.

> 7:30 - The Independent News (with Brad Holbrook and Donna
> Hanover)

...Brad Holbrook now co-anchors one of those weekly syndicated business news shows. Donna Hanover is out there, somewhere, far removed from her days as New York City's first lady.

> 8:00 – INN News

...A correction: this is the "Eight o'Clock Movie", when there wasn't a Yankees game (and there weren't too many of those on WPIX in the '87 season).

> 10:00- News

..."New York Tonight", anchored by Holbrook and Shelia Stainback.

> 10:30- INN News

...Morton Dean may have still been there. Then again, his time on INN was a blur anyways.

A few weeks later, WPIX made a boner of a scheduling move. The primetime movie was pushed back to 9:00; the local and national INN news was condensed into 30 minutes at 11:00; and the empty 8:00 hour was filled with reruns of Hill Street Blues. By the start of 1988, the changes were reversed.

How about WNET and WLIG skeds from the same week?
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[highwayman128]

> How about WNET and WLIG skeds from the same week?

Sure

source: New York Times

Here is a WNET-TV and a WLIG-TV schedule from the same day (August 31, 1987)

WNET-TV 13 (PBS)
7am- Sesame Street
8am- Mister Rogers
8:30- Reading Rainbow
9am- Sesame Street
10am- Mister Rogers
10:30- Knowzone
11am- Newton's Apple
11:30- Wild America
12pm- Good Health from Jane Brady's Kitchen
12:30- Hometime
1pm- Inside Albany
1:30- American Interests
2pm- Justin Wilson's Louisiana Cookin
2:30- French Chef (Bon Appetit!)
3pm- Frugal Gourmet
3:30- This Old House
4pm- Sesame Street
5pm- Mister Rogers
5:30- Reading Rainbow
6pm- Wild America
6:30- New Jersey Network News
7pm- Business Report
7:30- MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
8:30- Adam Smith's Money World
9pm- American Masters
10pm- Upstairs, Downstairs (Part 25 of 55)
11pm- The Beaux arts Trio: An Enduring Sound
12am- MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
1am- Sign-Off

WLIG-TV 55 (Ind.)
8pm- Movie- The Miracle Worker (1979) (Did WLIG sign-on at 8pm?)
10pm- News 55
10:30- Long Island Family
11pm- Tales of the Unexpected
11:30- Combat
12am- Sign-Off

 

[rugrats1]

> WLIG-TV 55 (Ind.)
> 8pm- Movie- The Miracle Worker (1979) (Did WLIG sign-on at
> 8pm?)
> 10pm- News 55
> 10:30- Long Island Family
> 11pm- Tales of the Unexpected
> 11:30- Combat
> 12am- Sign-Off
>
With WLIG technically not a local station in NYC, maybe the Times only listed the prime-time schedule. Also, "Combat" is supposed to be an hour-long show, not half-hour. <P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by rugrats1 on 09/18/05 05:28 PM.</FONT></P>

 

[Number_Six]

> NEW YORK TV- LATE SUMMER 1987

> 11:30 – Simon and Simon
> 12:40 am - CBS Late Night Movie: King of the Mountain (1981)
>

This must have been before CBS tried to establish a late-night franchise
with The Pat Sajak Show. [And it was a number of years before they wooed
David Letterman away from NBC.] Throughout most of the 1980's, CBS aired
reruns in the 11:30 PM time slot or low-budget first-run programs produced
in Canada. [I can't remember all of them, but I think "Adderly" was one of
them.] Remember when CBS showed reruns of "The Prisoner" in the early 1990's at about 12:30 AM on Thursdays?


> 2:00 - CBS News Nightwatch (with Charlie Rose; 4 hrs.)
>
> WNBC-TV 4
> 5:00- Ben Casey
> 6:00 - NBC News at Sunrise (with Deborah Norville)

Deborah Norville, before she was on The Today Show, and before she
was booted off The Today Show.


>
> WNYW 5 (owned by Fox/News Corp.)

> 4:30 – Gilligan’s Island
> 5:00 – Brady Bunch
> 5:30 – What’s Happening
> 6:00 - Three's Company
> 6:30 – M*A*S*H

This is interesting, if for no other reason than to indicate what slim pickings there were in terms of syndicated reruns.


> 12:00 am - WKRP in Cincinnati

I think back then they still had the music licensed, so the rock music in the soundtrack wasn't replaced with generic music.

>
> WWOR-TV 9
> 11:00 – Bosom Buddies

Was this show made for any reason other than to embarrass Tom Hanks once he became famous?


>
> 11:00- The Odd Couple
> 11:30- Honeymooners

Will any two reruns have the staying power of The Odd Couple and The Honeymooners in the 11:00 PM/11:30 PM time slots on channel 11? [I think every once in a while they would flip them around and start with The Honeymooners at 11 PM, but otherwise, that lineup was more or less intact from the mid 1970's, when The Odd Couple ended its run on ABC, until perhaps the 1990's? I'm not sure when they changed their lineup.]

 

[TVCOOL]

When WPIX got the rights to air Seinfield in 1995.

 

[Gregg.]

Channel 2 WCBS-TV...
11:30 – Simon and Simon
12:40 am - CBS Late Night Movie: King of the Mountain (1981)
2:00 - CBS News Nightwatch (with Charlie Rose; 4 hrs.)

I had forgotten that Charlie Rose had done the overnight news on CBS in the 80s. Here we are 30 years later and at age 70 he's hosting the morning news program, as well as filling in on the CBS Evening News. Not to mention his one-hour weeknight interview show and weekend news roundup show for PBS. He's like this decade's Regis Philbin, busier than ever at an age when many are retired.