Peoria/Quad Cities, Saturday, June 23, 1984 (5AM-1:30AM)

[Tim from Springfield IL]

From the Galesburg (IL) Register-Mail "Guide," June 22, 1984, p. 4.

OTA Channels listed:
4-WHBF Rock Island (CBS)
6-WOC Davenport (NBC)
8-WQAD Moline (ABC)
19-WRAU Peoria (ABC) (would change calls to its current WHOI by year's end, IIRC)
25-WEEK Peoria (NBC)
31-WMBD Peoria (CBS)
47-WTVP Peoria (PBS)

Notes: Listings for KIIN-12 Iowa City (PBS) were no longer carried in the R-M by '84 (even though its Grade B signal reached the outskirts of Galesburg). In addition, WBLN-43 Bloomington (now Peoria's Fox affiliate as WYZZ) was on the air by its time as an independent station (it signed on Oct. 18, 1982), but its signal cannot be received regularly in Galesburg (its stick is between Peoria and Bloomington) and thus has never been included in the R-M's TV listings. It would be one more year before the Quad Cities' current Fox station, KLJB-18 Davenport, signed on.

Listings:
5AM
8-News

5:30AM
8-Reel to Reel

6AM
8-Romper Room (I'm not sure if it was still airing weekdays on 8 by this time--it still was in fall '83-- but RR was relegated to Saturday morning repeats of previous shows before being dropped by WQAD in '86).

31-Captain Kangaroo (now on weekends only and repeats of previous episodes)

6:30AM
4, 19-Better Way (religious program)
8-Great Space Coaster

7AM
4, 31-Charlie Brown and Snoopy
6-Flintstone Funnies
8, 19-Monchhichis/Little Rascals/Richie Rich
25-Uncle Waldo

7:30AM
4, 31-Saturday Supercade
6, 25-Shirt Tales (would move to CBS that fall)

8AM
6, 25-Smurfs
8-Jackson Five Cartoon ("Jackson 5ive"--NOT a misprint or a listings error-this actually aired!)
19-New Scooby/Scrappy Doo
47-Sesame Street (likely a repeat of one of the previous week's shows)

8:30AM
4, 31-Dungeons and Dragons
8, 19-Pac-Man/Rubik Cube Hour

9AM
4, 31-Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle
47-Sesame Street

9:30AM
4, 31-Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
6, 25-Alvin and the Chipmunks
8, 19-Littles

10AM
6, 25-Mr. T
8, 19-Puppy/Scooby Doo Show (probably not "A Pup Named Scooby Doo," on ABC in the late '80s)
47-Living Wild ("The Search of the Giant Otter")

10:30AM
6, 25-Amazing Spiderman/Incredible Hulk

11AM
4, 31-Biskitts
8, 19-ABC Weekend Special ("The Haunted Mansion Mystery," part 1 of 2)
47-Pet Action Line

11:30AM
4, 31-Benji, Zax and the Alien Prince
6-This Week in Baseball
8, 19-American Bandstand
25-U.S. Farm Report (hosted by Orion Samuelson of WGN Radio, Chicago)
47-Motorweek

12PM
4, 31-New Fat Albert Show
6-This Week in Baseball (apparently a second episode or encore showing)
25-Perspective (public affairs show?)
47-Great Outdoors

12:30PM
4-Children's Film Festival
6, 25-MLB: Cardinals and Cubs (the classic "Sandberg Game.")
8-America's Top Ten
19-Big Valley
31-Muppet Show
47-Last Chance Garage

1PM
4-Hogan's Heroes
8-Like It Is (don't know what this was)
31-MOVIE: "Brief Encounter" (Richard Burton, Sophia Loren, 1974)
47- Do-It-Yourself Show

1:30PM
4-Eight is Enough
8, 19-Professional Bowlers Tour (from Las Vegas, the $125,000 Showboat Doubles Classic)
47-Victory Garden

2PM
31-To Be Announced (1 hr.)
47-Square Foot Gardening

2:30PM
4-Excellence in Education
47-Lap Quilting

3PM
4-F.Y.I.
8, 19-United States Olympic Trials (track and field from Los Angeles Coliseum)
31-More Real People
47-Magic of Oil Painting

3:30PM
4, 31-Atlanta Golf Classic
6, 25-SportsWorld (boxing and World Finals of Drag Racing, likely joined in progress)
47-Magic of Floral Painting

4PM
8, 19-Wide World of Sports (featuring a 12-round WBC lightweight championship bout between Edwin Rosario and Howard Davis)
47-Supersoccer

5PM
4-Jeffersons
6-Newscope
25-Dance Fever
31-Muppet Show
47-Yan Can Cook

5:30PM
4-CBS News
6, 25-NBC News
8-In Search Of... (this was given as the program title in the listings)
19-Twilight Zone
31-News
47-Sneak Previews (previewing "films in limited release that you should not miss such as 'Danton' and 'Carmen'")

6PM
4-Buck Rogers
6-Solid Gold (IIRC, Rick Dees didn't host until that fall)
8-Greatest American Hero
19-To Climb a Mountain
25-News
31-Hee Haw
47-Nature of Things

6:30PM
19-Alice
25-At the Movies (Siskel and Ebert)

7PM
4, 31-Mama Malone
6-Diff'rent Strokes
8, 19-T.J. Hooker
25-Crumpet Corners (don't know what this was other than it preempted "Diff'rent Strokes" on WEEK that evening)
47-Austin City Limits

7:30PM
4, 31-MOVIE: "The Fury" (Kirk Douglas, 1978)
6, 25-Silver Spoons

8PM
6, 25-Mama's Family
8, 19-Love Boat
47- Six-Gun Heroes

8:30PM
6, 25-Scene of the Crime ("Orson Welles hosts this program in which the viewing audience is challenged to solve a murder")

9PM
6-Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters (preempted "NBC Reports" on WOC likely because of content)
8, 19-Fantasy Island
25-NBC Reports ("Mark Nykanen examines the sexual abuse of children by adults and the world of child pornography")
47-Mystery! ("Quiet as a Nun")

10PM
4, 6, 8, 19, 25, 31-News

10:30PM
4-Switch
6, 25-Saturday Night Live (repeat, no host info. given)
8-MOVIE: "Ride Vaquero!" (Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, 1953)
19-MOVIE: "And Millions Will Die Young" (Richard Basehart, Susan Strasberg, Leslie Nielsen, 1973)
31-MOVIE: "The Seven Percent Solution" (Alan Arka, Robert Duvall, 1977)

11PM
47-JFK: A One-Man Show (portrayed by Mike Farrell, hosted by Walter Cronkite)

11:30PM
4-Harry-O

12AM
6-Star Search
25-MOVIE: "The Great Smokey Roadblock" (1978-listed in Internet Movie Database as "The Last of the Cowboys"--appears to be a Smokey and the Bandit rip-off with Henry Fonda, Eileen Brennan, and John Byner)

12:30AM
8-New York Hot Tracks
19-Dance Show

1AM
6-News/Sign off

1:30AM
19-ABC News
25-Weekend

 

[azumanga]

5:30PM
8-In Search Of... (this was given as the program title in the listings)

Very likely that is the title -- "In Search Of..." was a weekly documentary series from the 1970s and early-1980s, hosted by Leonard Nimoy.

 

[bpatrick]

31-Captain Kangaroo (now on weekends only and repeats of previous episodes)

8AM

8-Jackson Five Cartoon ("Jackson 5ive"--NOT a misprint or a listings error-this actually aired!)


10AM

8, 19-Puppy/Scooby Doo Show (probably not "A Pup Named Scooby Doo," on ABC in the late '80s)



12PM

25-Perspective (public affairs show?)


1PM

8-Like It Is (don't know what this was)

I knew that Captain Kangaroo had been relegated to 30 minutes on
weekends, but are you sure they were repeats? They would have
had to be either edited versions of the hour shows or repeats of
very recent (1981 on) "Wake Up With The Captain" shows if they
were.

Channel 8 must have pre-empted the ABC show at 8 AM, because
"Jackson 5ive" (yes, that was its name) was on ABC back around
1972. And the "Puppy" on the 10 AM ABC show is not "A Pup Named
Scooby Doo." His name is Petey, and he was introduced on an
"ABC Weekend Special" called "The Puppy Who Wanted A Boy" in
1978. He proved popular enough to get his own show, as seen here.

Anytime you see the title "Perspective," it's a good bet it's a local
public-affairs program, especially if it's on when the station's network
is down. "Like It Is," although it sounds like something with Howard
Cosell, was also a local public-affairs show, IIRC.

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

"Jackson 5ive" in 1984

About Captain Kangaroo, to be honest I'm not sure if they were repeats--I must have been thinking of the PBS run of the Captain (with the "Colorful, Magical, Wonderful, Wow" song).

Channel 8's run of "Jackson 5ive" in the summer of 1984 (about eleven years after the show was cancelled) was my only exposure to the show (and I do distinctly remember the theme). However, despite growing up technically within the Peoria market (but with good OTA reception of all Peoria and Quad Cities stations), until reading this listing I had thought that ABC (not just WQAD) had brought back "Jackson 5ive" throughout the network to capitalize on Michael's superstardom at the time, as well as that summer's "Victory" tour with the rest of the original Jackson Five (I had also thought, perhaps mistakenly, that I recall seeing the program on channel 19 that summer).

Nothing has been mentioned on any "Jackson 5ive" information on the internet regarding an apparent revival of the program in 1984 because of Michael's superstardom. Was this cartoon also brought back in syndication in other markets that summer, or did it only play again in the Quad Cities?

 

[azumanga]

Re: "Jackson 5ive" in 1984

Was this cartoon also brought back in syndication in other markets that summer, or did it only play again in the Quad Cities?

I think Worldvision, then-syndicator of "Jackson 5ive", brought the show into syndication nationally that season, because of the aforementioned popularity of Michael Jackson and The Jacksons' Victory Tour (remember the way you had to get tickets?). In Tampa Bay, WFLA ch.8 (during their WXFL period) carried Jackson 5ive Saturday mornings at 7:30AM, before the start of NBC's schedule.

 

[Braves2005]

6:30 AM
4,19 Better Way(religious program)

TV Guide made a misprint here. Better Way was a consumer report show that started back in the late 70's. The show usually aired before cartoons came on on Saturday mornings.

9:00 PM
6 Barbara Mandrell And The Mandrell Sisters

For a time during the mid and late 80's and before reruns of the show aired on TNN,they aired reruns of the show to syndication. Barbara Mandrell's show usually aired on Saturday or Sunday afternoons or in a place where a network show was not doing very well on a certain night. In San Antonio,I remember seeing the reruns on Friday nights at 7:00 PM.

I think that the content of NBC Reports about the child porn led the station to show Barbara Mandrell instead. Did channel 6 show Barbara Mandrell on Saturday or Sunday afternoons and that this 9:00 PM deal was a one time deal?

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

6:30 AM
4,19 Better Way(religious program)

TV Guide made a misprint here. Better Way was a consumer report show that started back in the late 70's. The show usually aired before cartoons came on on Saturday mornings.

Actually, that was my mistake. I was the one that added the comments regarding some of the programs listed.

9:00 PM
6 Barbara Mandrell And The Mandrell Sisters

For a time during the mid and late 80's and before reruns of the show aired on TNN,they aired reruns of the show to syndication. Barbara Mandrell's show usually aired on Saturday or Sunday afternoons or in a place where a network show was not doing very well on a certain night. In San Antonio,I remember seeing the reruns on Friday nights at 7:00 PM.

I think that the content of NBC Reports about the child porn led the station to show Barbara Mandrell instead. Did channel 6 show Barbara Mandrell on Saturday or Sunday afternoons and that this 9:00 PM deal was a one time deal?

I'm actually not sure if or when they were shown in syndication on WOC. I would have to look at other listings around that time, but I'm not sure when I'll get a chance to do so.

 

[Ultimajock]

Re: "Jackson 5ive" in 1984

Was this cartoon also brought back in syndication in other markets that summer, or did it only play again in the Quad Cities?

I think Worldvision, then-syndicator of "Jackson 5ive", brought the show into syndication nationally that season, because of the aforementioned popularity of Michael Jackson and The Jacksons' Victory Tour (remember the way you had to get tickets?). In Tampa Bay, WFLA ch.8 (during their WXFL period) carried Jackson 5ive Saturday mornings at 7:30AM, before the start of NBC's schedule.

...in 1984 Chicago, independent WPWR-TV/60 ran "Jackson 5ive" on (IIRC) Sunday mornings along with the cartoon incarnations of The Beatles and The Osmonds. This was in the days when WPWR split time on Channel 60 with Spanish-language independent WBBS-TV taking the channel over from 7:00 P.M. to 2:30 A.M. I also seem to recall that WPWR had some problems getting ads purchased during their cartoon reruns at the time (they also ran "Top Cat," "George of the Jungle" and "Cool McCool" half hours), so it was frequent to see a "Rojer Ramjet" reel leading up to the :00 and :30 legal ID...

 

[MarcB]

Being that I'm 24 my only memory of the Jackson 5ive Cartoon is from when the show aired on BET.