Retro: Boise/Nampa, ID - Friday-Sunday, September 14-16, 1984

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In honor of the MTV Video Music Awards going on right now, even as I write, I thought I'd put the schedules from the day of the VERY FIRST MTV VMA'S, as well as the following weekend, including new Saturday cartoon premeires, from the market I was living in at the time.

P - (Series) Premeire; in the Friday schedule, all weekday shows which premiered Monday, September 10, are marked with a 'P' as well
SP - Season Premiere

Friday, September 14

2 KBCI (CBS)
6:30 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Price is Right
10:00 Young and the Restless
11:00 Body Language - Guests: Charles Nelson Reilly, Lucille Ball (her first week, usually greeted with a standing ovation; her physical comedy antics were a major factor for her Body Language appearances)
11:30 As the World Turns
12:30 Capitol
1:00 Guiding Light
2:00 $25,000 Pyramid - Guests: Martha Smith, Howard Morton
2:30 Press Your Luck
3:00 Love Boat
4:00 Hour Magazine
5:00 Jeopardy! (P)
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 Channel 2 News
6:30 Wheel of Fortuune
7:00 CBS Special: "Saturday's the Place!" - Joyce DeWitt (Three's Company) and Ted Knight (Too Close for Comfort) introduce CBS's new Saturday morning cartoon lineup, premiering the following day.
7:30 CBS Special: "Bugs Bunny Mystery Special"
8:00 CBS Friday Night Movies: "Threesome" (Premiere) - Stephen Collins, Deborah Raffin
10:00 Channel 2 News
10:30 All in the Family
11:00 CBS Late Movie: "Alligator" (1980) - Robert Forster, Robin Riker

4 KAID (PBS)
7:00 Farm Day
7:15 A.M. Weather
7:30 Victory Garden
8:00 Electric Company
8:30 Voyage of the Mimi (P)
9:00 Mister Rogers
9:30 Educational Programming
10:00 Sesame Street
11:00 Educational Programming
12:30 Quilting
1:00 Educaitonal Programming
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Voyage of the Mimi (P)
6:00 Nightly Business Report
6:30 Idaho Reports
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
8:00 Washington Week in Review
8:30 Wall $treet Week
9:00 Movie: "Ivanhoe" (1982) - James Mason, Anthony Andrews

6 KIVI (ABC)
6:30 ABC News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Celebrity Family Feud (Reruns of the half-hour celebrity episodes from the daytime ABC version)
9:30 Loving
10:00 Family Feud
10:30 Ryan's Hope
11:00 All My Children
NOON One Life to Live
1:00 General Hospital
2:00 Rituals (P)
2:30 One Day at a Time
3:00 All-New Let's Make a Deal (P)
3:30 Love Connection
4:00 Eight is Enough
5:00 People's Court
5:30 ABC World News Tonight
6:00 NewsWatch 6
6:30 Entertainment Tonight
7:00 Benson
7:30 Webster
8:00 Hawaiian Heat (P)
10:00 NewsWatch 6
10:30 Nightline
11:00 Twilight Zone
11:30 Movie: "Husbands" (1970) - Ben Gezzara, Peter Falk, John Cassavetes

7 KTVB (NBC)
6:25 NBC News at Sunrise
7:00 Today
9:00 Donahue
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Scrabble
11:00 Sale of the Century
11:30 Tic-Tac-Dough
NOON NewsCenter 7
1:00 Santa Barbara
2:00 Another World
3:00 Days of Our Lives
4:00 Divorce Court
4:30 Alice
5:00 Three's Company
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 NewsCenter 7
6:30 M*A*S*H
7:00 NBC Friday Night at the Movies: "High School USA" (1983) - Dana Plato, Todd Bridges, Nancy McKeon, Michael J. Fox, Crispin Glover (soon to star with Fox in Back to the Future), plus numerous '50s and '60s sitcom stars
9:00 Pilot: "The Cracker Brothers"
10:00 NewsCenter 7
10:30 Tonight Show - Guest host: Joan Rivers; Guests: George Burns, Tyne Daly; Performer: Peter Allen
11:30 Friday Night Videos: "Blue Jean" - David Bowie, "On the Wings of a Nightingale" - The Everly Brothers, "Torture" - The Jacksons, "The Lucky One" - Laura Branigan, "Strut" - Sheena Easton; Private Reel Segment (interview): John Waite
1:00 NewsCenter 7 (replay)

12 KTRV (Ind.)
7:00 Popeye
7:30 Woody Woodpecker
8:00 Inspector Gadget
8:30 Romper Room
9:00 Jim Bakker
10:00 Jimmy Swaggart
10:30 INN News
11:00 Gidget
11:30 I Love Lucy
NOON Family
1:00 Big Valley
2:00 I Dream of Jeannie
2:30 Bewitched
3:00 Scooby-Doo
3:30 Superfriends
4:00 Leave It to Beaver
4:30 Wonder Woman
5:30 Fantasy Island
6:30 Animated Special: "The Transformers" (Pilot miniseries; Part 3 of 3; retroactively titled "More Than Meets the Eye")
7:00 Puttin' on the Hits (hour-long preview special)
8:00 Movie: "Cross of Iron" (1977) - James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner
10:30 Movie: "Tempest" (1959) (Italian/English) - Silvana Mangano, Van Heflin, Geoffery Horne
1:00 INN News

 

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Saturday, September 15

2 KBCI (CBS)
6:00 Shirt Tales (NBC reruns from the previous two seasons)
6:30 Get Along Gang (P)
7:00 Muppet Babies (P)
7:30 Saturday Supercade
8:30 Pole Position (P)
9:00 Dungeons & Dragons
9:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner (final season on CBS, before moving to ABC)
10:00 NCAA Football: Washington vs. Michigan
1:30 CBS Sports Saturday: WBC Super Welterweight Championship with Thomas Hearns vs. Fred Hutchings; Woodward Stakes from Belmont Park, Elmont NY
4:00 This Week in Country Music - Featured: Hank Williams Jr., Charly Mclain, Larry Gatlin & the Galtin Brothers, Razzy Bailey, John Schneider
4:30 Lorne Greene's New Wilderness
5:00 CBS Evening News - Bob Schiefer
5:30 Channel 2 News
6:00 Dukes of Hazzard
7:00 Airwolf
8:00 CBS Saturday Night Movies: "Quarterback Princess" (1983) - Helen Hunt, Don Murray
10:00 Channel 2 News
10:30 Taxi
11:00 Movie: "In the Cool of the Day" (1963) - Peter Finch, Jane Fonda, Angela Lansbury

4 KAID (PBS)
9:00 Business of Management (x2)
10:00 Understanding Human Behavior (x2)
11:00 Navigators
NOON American Story: "The English Settlements"
12:30 American Story: "Pilgrims and Puritans"
1:00 Congress: We the People
2:00 New Literacy: An Introduction to Computers (x2)
3:00 Write Course (x2)
4:00 Moneymakers
4:30 Do It Yourself Show
5:00 Firing Line - Guest: New York City Mayor Edward Koch
6:00 Visions
6:30 From Star Wars to (Return of the) Jedi: The Making of a Saga - Behind-the-scenes look at the original Star Wars trilogy.
7:30 Sneak Previews - Reviews: "Bolero", "A Question of Science"
8:00 All Creatures Great & Small
9:00 Mystery!: "Sergeant Cribb: The Choir That Wouldn't Sing"
10:00 Outdoor Idaho
10:30 Movie: "Show Boat" (1951) - Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ava Gardner

6 KIVI (ABC)
NOTE: ABC's Saturday morning season premiered the previous week; those new programs are marked with a 'P'.
6:00 Puppy's Great Adventures
6:25 Schoolhouse Rock!
6:30 Superfriends: The Legenday Super Powers Show (new title)
7:00 Mighty Orbots (P)
7:30 Turbo Teen (P)
7:55 ABC Fun Fit
8:00 Dragon's Lair (P)
8:25 ABC Fun Fit
8:30 Wolf Rock TV (P) - starring Wolfman Jack, live and animated
9:00 New Scooby-Doo Mysteries
9:30 The Littles
10:00 ABC Weekend Special: "The Amazing Bunjee Venture" (Part 1 of 2)
10:30 American Bandstand - Guests: Janet Jackson, Lakeside
11:30 Pets on Parade
NOON Sanford and Son
12:30 Fishing the Northwest
1:00 One Day at a Time
1:30 NCAA Football: Oklahoma vs. Pittsburgh
5:00 Bob Newhart
5:30 Mary Tyler Moore
6:00 Entertainment This Week - Preview of the new fall TV season.
7:00 Love Boat (ABC) Fall Preview Party
8:00 Love Boat (2 hrs.)
10:00 NewsChannel 6
10:30 Movie: "Good Neighbor Sam" (1964) - Jack Lemmon, Romy Schneider

7 KTVB (NBC)
6:00 Snorks (P)
6:30 Pink Panther and Sons (P)
7:00 Smurfs
8:30 Alvin and the Chipmunks
9:00 Kidd Video (P)
9:30 Mister T
10:00 Going Bananas (P)
10:30 Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends
11:00 Batman (x2)
NOON MLB Baseball: Chicago White Sox vs. California Angels
3:00 TBA
4:00 Wild Kingdom (start of final season with Marlin Perkins as host)
4:30 NBC Nightly News - John Hart
5:00 Hee Haw - Guests: Glen Campbell, Mel Tillis, Bill Monroe, Steve Wariner, Zeke Shepard (season finale; new season next week)
6:00 Diff'rent Strokes
6:30 Gimme a Break!
7:00 Bosom Buddies (from ABC, 1980-82)
7:30 Mama's Family
8:00 1985 Miss America Pagaent - Host: Gary Collins; Winner: Sharlene Wells (Utah)
10:00 Newscenter 7
10:30 Saturday Night Live - Host: Betty Thomas; Musical guests: The Stray Cats (from November 5, 1983)
MIDNIGHT Rock-N-America

12 KTRV (Ind.)
7:00 Bullwinkle
7:30 Tennesee Tuxedo
8:00 Jackson 5ive (in honor of the regrouped Jacksons, plus Randy who was not part of the original Jackson Five, who were peforming their "Victory" tour)
8:30 Wonder Woman
9:30 The Virginian
11:00 Wrestling
NOON Movie: "The Black Night" (1954) - Alan Ladd, Patricia Medina
2:00 Movie: "My Sister Eileen" (1955) - Janet Leigh, Jack Lemmon, Betty Garrett
4:00 Movie: "Written on the Wind" (1956) - Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone
6:00 How the West Was Won
7:00 Star Search
8:00 Movie: "The Right of Way" (1931) - Conrad Nagel, Loretta Young
10:00 Movie: "6 Bridges to Cross" (1955) - Tony Curtis, Julie Adams, George Nader

 

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Sunday, September 16

2 KBCI (CBS)
7:00 Sunday Morning
8:30 Day of Discovery
9:00 World Tomorrow
9:30 It Is Written
10:00 For Our Times
10:30 NFL Today
11:00 NFL Football: Atlanta Falcons vs. Minnesota Vikings
2:00 NFL Football: Los Angeles Rams vs. Pittsburgh Steelers
5:00 Interaction
5:30 Channel 2 News
6:00 60 Minutes (SP) (Diane Sawyer joins the team of Wallace, Safer, Reasoner, and Bradley)
7:00 E/R (P) (hour-long sitcom pilot set in a Chicago hospital starring Elliott Gould, predating the unrelated NBC drama 'ER' by a decade and lasting only this season)
8:00 CBS Sunday Movies: "Some Kind of Hero" (1982) - Richard Pryor, Margot Kidder
10:00 Barney Miller
10:30 Taxi
11:00 CBS News

4 KAID (PBS)
8:00 Mister Rogers
8:30 Electric Company
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Mister Rogers
10:30 Electric Company
11:00 Movie: "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1939) - Mickey Rooney, William Frawley
1:00 Magic of Oil Painting
1:30 Wine, What Pleasure!
2:00 Congress: We the People (x2)
3:00 Woodwright's Shop
3:30 Under Sail
4:00 Victory Garden
4:30 This Old House
5:00 Wall $treet Week
5:30 Adam Smith's Money World
6:00 Best of Live From the Grand Ole Opry - Featured: Ernest Tubb (died ten days earlier), Bill Monroe, Roy Acuff, Barbara Mandrell, Ronnie Milsap, Porter Wagoner, Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers; plus a special tribute to the late Marty Robbins
7:30 Outdoor Idaho
8:00 Evening at Pops - Featured: The Canadian Brass
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre: "Private Schulz" (Part 1 of 6)
10:00 Hispanus
11:00 Backstage Tonight

6 KIVI (ABC)
7:00 D. James Kennedy
8:00 Jerry Falwell
9:00 Oral Roberts
9:30 Kenneth Copeland
10:30 This Week With David Brinkley
11:30 Taking Advantage
NOON MLB Baseball: Minnesota Twins vs. Texas Rangers
2:30 Bonanza
3:30 Bob Newhart
4:00 Barbara Walters Special Celebration - Seven years of her namesake ABC specials are celebrated.
5:00 NewsWatch 6
6:30 Twlight Zone
6:00 Ripley's It Or Not! - Host: Jack Palance
7:00 NFL Football: Denver Broncos vs. Cleveland Browns
10:00 NewsWatch 6
10:15 ABC News
10:30 Movie: "Unwed Father" (1974) - Joseph Bottoms, Kay Lenz

7 KTVB (NBC)
6:30 Agriculture U.S.A.
7:00 News (unsure exactly whose broadcast)
7:30 Music and the Spoken Word
8:00 Wall Street Journal Report
8:30 NFL Week in Review
9:00 News (same uncertainty as 7:00)
9:30 Forum
10:00 Meet the Press
10:30 NFL '84
11:00 NFL Football: Seattle Seahawks vs. New England Patriots
2:00 From Hawaii With Love - Beauty pagaent for the title of Miss Hawaiian Tropic International, hosted by Ann Jillian and Tom Wopat.
4:00 Muppet Show - Guest: George Burns
4:30 NBC Nightly News - John Palmer
5:00 Newscope
5:30 Viewpoint
6:00 Silver Spoons (SP) (Alfonso Ribeiro joins the cast)
6:30 Punky Brewster (P) (Part 1 of 3)
7:00 Knight Rider
8:00 NBC Sunday Night Movie: "Miami Vice" (Series Pilot) (Premiere on Friday September 28)
10:00 NewsCenter 7
10:30 Alice
11:00 Vega$

12 KTRV (Ind.)
7:30 Jimmy Swaggart
8:30 700 Club
9:30 Robert Schuller
10:30 Rex Humbard
11:00 World Vision
NOON Movie: "Riding High" (1950) - Bing Crosby, Coleen Gray
2:00 Movie: "Star Spangled Girl" (1971) - Sandy Duncan, Tony Roberts
4:00 Movie: "Hello Down There" (1969) - Tony Randall, Janet Leigh
6:00 Fame
7:00 Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
8:00 On Stage America - Featured: Air Supply, Oak Ridge Boys, Emmanuel Lewis, Anne Murray, New Christy Minstrels, Judy Carter, Iris Chacon, Andy Williams
10:00 Canyon Forum
10:30 Gunsmoke