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Source: Atlanta Journal and Constitution via newspapers.com
Here's the broadcast schedule from Turner's home city they day launched TNT (Turner Network Television)
2 WSB (ABC)
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
6:30 Action News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Geraldo - Topic: Battered women who kill.
10:00 The Judge
10:30 Divorce Court
11:00 Superior Court
11:30 Family Medical Center
NOON Action News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Oprah Winfrey - Guest: Joan Collins
5:00 Action News
5:30 People's Court
6:00 Action News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Entertainment Tonight - Featured: Footage from "Imagine: John Lennon" film documentary.
8:00 ABC News Special: "America's Kids: Why They Flunk" - Host: Barbara Walters
9:00 Monday Night Football - Dallas Cowboys vs. New Orleans Saints
MIDNIGHT Action News
12:30 Nightline
1:00 Love Connection
1:30 New Newlywed Game
2:00 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Joan Rivers, Jm J. Bullock, Shadoe Stevens, Thom Bierdz, Steve Garvey, John Mulrooney, Anthony Newly, Richard Simmons, Jimmie Walker
2:30 Think & Grow Rich
3:00 CNN News
5 WAGA (CBS)
5:30 Body by Jake
6:00 Sweethearts
6:30 Business This Morning
7:00 CBS This Morning
9:00 Live With Regis & Kathie Lee - Featured: Sandy Duncan, Jimmie Walker, autumn fashions for plus-sized women, prosthetics specialist and amputees
10:00 Donahue - Topic: A woman uses her mind to heal herself of cancer.
11:00 The Price is Right
NOON Eyewitness News
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 Bold and the Beautiful
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Sally Jessy Raphael - Featured: Brothers and sisters of celebrities.
4:30 A Current Affair
5:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Family Feud
7:30 Win, Lose or Draw
8:00 Newhart - "Reading, Writing, and Rating Points" (Oct. 12, 1987)
8:30 The Cavanaughs - "Gimme Shelter"
9:00 CBS Monday Movie: "Unholy Matrimony" (Premiere) - Patrick Duffy, Charles Durning
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Newhart
MIDNIGHT Magnum, P.I.
1:00 Morton Downey Jr.
2:00 Eyewitness News (R)
2:30 CBS Nightwatch
5:30 Body by Jake (Series Premiere)
8 WGTV (PBS)
6:00 GED
6:30 Georgia Sunrise
6:45 AM Weather
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
8:30 Mister Rogers
9:00 Instructional Programming
3:00 Madeleine Cooks
3:30 Paint With Pittard
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Timmy & Lassie
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
7:00 Nightly Business Report
7:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
8:00 Will Rogers' USA - James Whitmore as Will Rogers; commentary provided by Will Rogers Jr.
9:00 Campaign: The Prime-Time President - Bill Moyers
10:30 Canada: True North: "The Immigrants"
11:30 Nova: "Beyond the Knife: Pioneers of Surgery" (Part 4 of 4)
11 WXIA (NBC)
5:30 Morning Stretch
6:00 NBC News at Sunrise
6:30 11 Alive Today
7:00 Today
9:00 Jeopardy! (Possibly the previous day's episode, thus being the previous Friday)
9:30 Wipeout
10:00 Group One Medical
10:30 Classic Concentration
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Win, Lose or Draw - Teams: Holly Gagnier & Dorothy Lyman vs. Mike Connors & Brad Garrett
NOON Noonday
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 On Trial
4:30 Jeopardy!
5:00 Cosby Show
5:30 11 Alive News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 USA Today
7:30 Wheel of Fortune
8:00 ALF (Season Premiere): "Stop in the Name of Love"
8:30 The Hogan Family (Season Premiere): "Animal House"
9:00 NBC Monday Night at the Movies: "The People Across the Lake" (Premeire) - Valerie Harper, Gerald McRaney
11:00 11 Alive News
11:30 Tonight Show: Best of Carson - (Oct. 21, 1987) Guests: Helen Shaver, Calvin Trillin; Performers: Earl Klugh, George Benson
12:30 Late Night With David Letterman - Guests: Martina Navratilova, Edward Wooward, Allan Harvey
1:30 11 Alive News (R)
2:00 Guns of Will Sonnett
2:30 Later With Bob Costas - Guest: Morton Downey Jr.
3:00 Love Boat
4:00 Maverick
5:00 Topper
17 WTBS (cable superstation)
6:00 CNN Headline News
6:30 Scooby-Doo
7:00 Tom & Jerry's Funhouse
8:05 Beverly Hillbillies
8:35 Bewitched
9:05 Little House on the Prairie
10:05 Movie: "The Rules of Marriage" (1982) - Elizabeth Montgomery, Elliott Gould
12:05 Perry Mason
1:05 All in the Family (x4)
3:05 Tom & Jerry's Funhouse
3:35 Flintstones (x2)
4:35 Brady Bunch
5:05 Munsters
5:35 One Day at a Time
6:05 Laverne & Shirley
6:35 Andy Griffith
7:05 9 to 5
7:35 Sanford & Son
8:05 Movie: "King of the Olympics: The Lives and Loves of Avery Brundage" (Part 1 of 2) (Premiere) - David Selby, Renee Soutendijk (The 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul ended the previous day. Atlanta would be awarded the 1996 Summer Olympics two years later.)
10:05 Movie: "The Longest Yard" (1974) - Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad
12:35 National Geographic - Host: Tom Chapin
2:35 Hardcastle & McCormick
3:35 Gunsmoke
4:30 All in the Family
5:00 Green Acres
5:30 Gomer Pyle
30 WPBA (PBS secondary)
6:00 Body Electric
6:30 Contemporary Health Issues
7:00 America: The Second Century
7:30 To Life!
8:00 Square One TV
8:30 Instructional Programming
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Instructional Programming
3:00 3-2-1 Contact
3:30 Mister Rogers
4:00 Captain Kangaroo
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Square One TV
6:00 Layman's Lawyer
6:30 Inside Washington
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
8:00 The Africans - Episode 4 of 9: "Tools of Exploitation"
9:00 Campaign: The Prime-Time President - Bill Moyers
10:30 The Real World
11:30 Bill Moyers' World of Ideas
MIDNIGHT MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour (R)
36 WATL (Fox)
6:00 Succuess-N-Life
7:00 Bugs Bunny
7:30 Woody Woodpecker
8:00 My Little Pony
8:30 I Dream of Jeannie
9:00 Heritage Ministries
10:00 Richard Roberts
11:00 700 Club
NOON Hawaii Five-O
1:00 Mannix
2:00 Wonderful World of Disney
3:00 Dennis the Menace
3:30 Woody Woodpecker
4:00 Alvin & the Chipmunks
4:30 DuckTales
5:00 Double Dare
5:30 Finders Keepers
6:00 Family Ties
6:30 Gimme a Break!
7:00 Family Ties
7:30 Cheers
8:00 T. J. Hooker
9:00 Movie: "Terror Train" (1980) - Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Johnson, Hart Bochner
11:00 Cheers
11:30 Carter Country
MIDNIGHT The Late Show - Host: Ross Shafer; Guests: Shannon Tweed, Douchan Gersi (series canceled Oct. 28)
1:00 It's Showtime at the Apollo
46 WGNX
6:00 Study in the Word
6:30 Jetsons
7:00 G.I. Joe
7:30 Jem
8:00 Bravestarr
8:30 Gumby
9:00 Incredible Hulk
10:00 Movie: "Skyjacked" (1972) - Charlton Heston, James Brolin, Yvette Mimieux, Susan Dey, Rosey Grier, Mariette Hartley, Walter Pidgeon, Leslie Uggams
NOON Quincy
1:00 That's Incredible!
1:30 McHale's Navy
2:00 Snorks
2:30 Filmation's Ghostbusters
3:00 Real Ghostbusters
3:30 C.O.P.S.
4:00 Yogi Bear
4:30 Fun House
5:00 Diff'rent Strokes
5:30 Happy Days
6:00 Facts of Life
6:30 Too Close for Comfort
7:00 Simon & Simon
8:00 Movie: "Weird Science" (1985) - Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Kelly LaBrock, Bill Paxton, Robert Downey Jr.
10:00 Best of Saturday Night - Host: Buck Henry
11:00 Twilight Zone
11:30 Barney Miller
MIDNIGHT Soap
12:30 Night Gallery
1:00 USA Tonight!
1:30 That's Incredible!
2:00 Movie: "Big Rose: Double Trouble" (1974) - Shelley Winters, Barry Primus
4:30 Rawhide
5:00 Tenspeed & Brownshoe
69 WVEU
6:00 Gospel Music
6:30 Fellowship of Faith
7:00 Community
7:30 Teddy Ruxpin
8:00 Saber Rider
8:30 Dinosaucers
9:00 Success-N-Life
10:00 90 & 9 Club
11:00 Growing Pains
11:30 Hangin' In
NOON Family
1:00 Hour Magazine - Featured: Valerie Harper, Alan King, near-death experiences, mother/daughter fashions, baldness
2:00 I Spy
3:00 Wanted: Dead or Alive
3:30 Lingo
4:00 Card Sharks (pre-empted by WAGA)
4:30 Care Bears
5:00 Spider-Man
5:30 Beverly Hills Teens
6:00 Gidget
6:30 New Dating Game
7:00 Mod Squad
8:00 Combat
9:00 Streets of San Francisco
10:00 Deep South Wrestling
11:00 New Liar's Club
11:30 Hunter
12:40 Movie: "Classified Love" (1986) - Michael McKean, Stephanie Faracy, Dinah Manoff
2:00 Improv Tonite
2:30 SETV
3:00 Hit Video USA
Here's the broadcast schedule from Turner's home city they day launched TNT (Turner Network Television)
2 WSB (ABC)
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
6:30 Action News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Geraldo - Topic: Battered women who kill.
10:00 The Judge
10:30 Divorce Court
11:00 Superior Court
11:30 Family Medical Center
NOON Action News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Oprah Winfrey - Guest: Joan Collins
5:00 Action News
5:30 People's Court
6:00 Action News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Entertainment Tonight - Featured: Footage from "Imagine: John Lennon" film documentary.
8:00 ABC News Special: "America's Kids: Why They Flunk" - Host: Barbara Walters
9:00 Monday Night Football - Dallas Cowboys vs. New Orleans Saints
MIDNIGHT Action News
12:30 Nightline
1:00 Love Connection
1:30 New Newlywed Game
2:00 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Joan Rivers, Jm J. Bullock, Shadoe Stevens, Thom Bierdz, Steve Garvey, John Mulrooney, Anthony Newly, Richard Simmons, Jimmie Walker
2:30 Think & Grow Rich
3:00 CNN News
5 WAGA (CBS)
5:30 Body by Jake
6:00 Sweethearts
6:30 Business This Morning
7:00 CBS This Morning
9:00 Live With Regis & Kathie Lee - Featured: Sandy Duncan, Jimmie Walker, autumn fashions for plus-sized women, prosthetics specialist and amputees
10:00 Donahue - Topic: A woman uses her mind to heal herself of cancer.
11:00 The Price is Right
NOON Eyewitness News
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 Bold and the Beautiful
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Sally Jessy Raphael - Featured: Brothers and sisters of celebrities.
4:30 A Current Affair
5:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Family Feud
7:30 Win, Lose or Draw
8:00 Newhart - "Reading, Writing, and Rating Points" (Oct. 12, 1987)
8:30 The Cavanaughs - "Gimme Shelter"
9:00 CBS Monday Movie: "Unholy Matrimony" (Premiere) - Patrick Duffy, Charles Durning
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Newhart
MIDNIGHT Magnum, P.I.
1:00 Morton Downey Jr.
2:00 Eyewitness News (R)
2:30 CBS Nightwatch
5:30 Body by Jake (Series Premiere)
8 WGTV (PBS)
6:00 GED
6:30 Georgia Sunrise
6:45 AM Weather
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
8:30 Mister Rogers
9:00 Instructional Programming
3:00 Madeleine Cooks
3:30 Paint With Pittard
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Timmy & Lassie
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
7:00 Nightly Business Report
7:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
8:00 Will Rogers' USA - James Whitmore as Will Rogers; commentary provided by Will Rogers Jr.
9:00 Campaign: The Prime-Time President - Bill Moyers
10:30 Canada: True North: "The Immigrants"
11:30 Nova: "Beyond the Knife: Pioneers of Surgery" (Part 4 of 4)
11 WXIA (NBC)
5:30 Morning Stretch
6:00 NBC News at Sunrise
6:30 11 Alive Today
7:00 Today
9:00 Jeopardy! (Possibly the previous day's episode, thus being the previous Friday)
9:30 Wipeout
10:00 Group One Medical
10:30 Classic Concentration
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Win, Lose or Draw - Teams: Holly Gagnier & Dorothy Lyman vs. Mike Connors & Brad Garrett
NOON Noonday
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 On Trial
4:30 Jeopardy!
5:00 Cosby Show
5:30 11 Alive News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 USA Today
7:30 Wheel of Fortune
8:00 ALF (Season Premiere): "Stop in the Name of Love"
8:30 The Hogan Family (Season Premiere): "Animal House"
9:00 NBC Monday Night at the Movies: "The People Across the Lake" (Premeire) - Valerie Harper, Gerald McRaney
11:00 11 Alive News
11:30 Tonight Show: Best of Carson - (Oct. 21, 1987) Guests: Helen Shaver, Calvin Trillin; Performers: Earl Klugh, George Benson
12:30 Late Night With David Letterman - Guests: Martina Navratilova, Edward Wooward, Allan Harvey
1:30 11 Alive News (R)
2:00 Guns of Will Sonnett
2:30 Later With Bob Costas - Guest: Morton Downey Jr.
3:00 Love Boat
4:00 Maverick
5:00 Topper
17 WTBS (cable superstation)
6:00 CNN Headline News
6:30 Scooby-Doo
7:00 Tom & Jerry's Funhouse
8:05 Beverly Hillbillies
8:35 Bewitched
9:05 Little House on the Prairie
10:05 Movie: "The Rules of Marriage" (1982) - Elizabeth Montgomery, Elliott Gould
12:05 Perry Mason
1:05 All in the Family (x4)
3:05 Tom & Jerry's Funhouse
3:35 Flintstones (x2)
4:35 Brady Bunch
5:05 Munsters
5:35 One Day at a Time
6:05 Laverne & Shirley
6:35 Andy Griffith
7:05 9 to 5
7:35 Sanford & Son
8:05 Movie: "King of the Olympics: The Lives and Loves of Avery Brundage" (Part 1 of 2) (Premiere) - David Selby, Renee Soutendijk (The 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul ended the previous day. Atlanta would be awarded the 1996 Summer Olympics two years later.)
10:05 Movie: "The Longest Yard" (1974) - Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad
12:35 National Geographic - Host: Tom Chapin
2:35 Hardcastle & McCormick
3:35 Gunsmoke
4:30 All in the Family
5:00 Green Acres
5:30 Gomer Pyle
30 WPBA (PBS secondary)
6:00 Body Electric
6:30 Contemporary Health Issues
7:00 America: The Second Century
7:30 To Life!
8:00 Square One TV
8:30 Instructional Programming
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Instructional Programming
3:00 3-2-1 Contact
3:30 Mister Rogers
4:00 Captain Kangaroo
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Square One TV
6:00 Layman's Lawyer
6:30 Inside Washington
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
8:00 The Africans - Episode 4 of 9: "Tools of Exploitation"
9:00 Campaign: The Prime-Time President - Bill Moyers
10:30 The Real World
11:30 Bill Moyers' World of Ideas
MIDNIGHT MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour (R)
36 WATL (Fox)
6:00 Succuess-N-Life
7:00 Bugs Bunny
7:30 Woody Woodpecker
8:00 My Little Pony
8:30 I Dream of Jeannie
9:00 Heritage Ministries
10:00 Richard Roberts
11:00 700 Club
NOON Hawaii Five-O
1:00 Mannix
2:00 Wonderful World of Disney
3:00 Dennis the Menace
3:30 Woody Woodpecker
4:00 Alvin & the Chipmunks
4:30 DuckTales
5:00 Double Dare
5:30 Finders Keepers
6:00 Family Ties
6:30 Gimme a Break!
7:00 Family Ties
7:30 Cheers
8:00 T. J. Hooker
9:00 Movie: "Terror Train" (1980) - Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Johnson, Hart Bochner
11:00 Cheers
11:30 Carter Country
MIDNIGHT The Late Show - Host: Ross Shafer; Guests: Shannon Tweed, Douchan Gersi (series canceled Oct. 28)
1:00 It's Showtime at the Apollo
46 WGNX
6:00 Study in the Word
6:30 Jetsons
7:00 G.I. Joe
7:30 Jem
8:00 Bravestarr
8:30 Gumby
9:00 Incredible Hulk
10:00 Movie: "Skyjacked" (1972) - Charlton Heston, James Brolin, Yvette Mimieux, Susan Dey, Rosey Grier, Mariette Hartley, Walter Pidgeon, Leslie Uggams
NOON Quincy
1:00 That's Incredible!
1:30 McHale's Navy
2:00 Snorks
2:30 Filmation's Ghostbusters
3:00 Real Ghostbusters
3:30 C.O.P.S.
4:00 Yogi Bear
4:30 Fun House
5:00 Diff'rent Strokes
5:30 Happy Days
6:00 Facts of Life
6:30 Too Close for Comfort
7:00 Simon & Simon
8:00 Movie: "Weird Science" (1985) - Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Kelly LaBrock, Bill Paxton, Robert Downey Jr.
10:00 Best of Saturday Night - Host: Buck Henry
11:00 Twilight Zone
11:30 Barney Miller
MIDNIGHT Soap
12:30 Night Gallery
1:00 USA Tonight!
1:30 That's Incredible!
2:00 Movie: "Big Rose: Double Trouble" (1974) - Shelley Winters, Barry Primus
4:30 Rawhide
5:00 Tenspeed & Brownshoe
69 WVEU
6:00 Gospel Music
6:30 Fellowship of Faith
7:00 Community
7:30 Teddy Ruxpin
8:00 Saber Rider
8:30 Dinosaucers
9:00 Success-N-Life
10:00 90 & 9 Club
11:00 Growing Pains
11:30 Hangin' In
NOON Family
1:00 Hour Magazine - Featured: Valerie Harper, Alan King, near-death experiences, mother/daughter fashions, baldness
2:00 I Spy
3:00 Wanted: Dead or Alive
3:30 Lingo
4:00 Card Sharks (pre-empted by WAGA)
4:30 Care Bears
5:00 Spider-Man
5:30 Beverly Hills Teens
6:00 Gidget
6:30 New Dating Game
7:00 Mod Squad
8:00 Combat
9:00 Streets of San Francisco
10:00 Deep South Wrestling
11:00 New Liar's Club
11:30 Hunter
12:40 Movie: "Classified Love" (1986) - Michael McKean, Stephanie Faracy, Dinah Manoff
2:00 Improv Tonite
2:30 SETV
3:00 Hit Video USA