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And now, we look at the Boston schedule from the day of Cheers' "last call", as well as the "The Pilot" episode of Seinfeld preceding it.
2 WGBH (PBS)
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Shining Time Station
8:30 Barney & Friends
9:00 Lamb Chop's Play-Along
9:30 Mister Rogers
10:00 Attention to Prevention
10:15 Immune System and AIDS
10:30 Teen AIDS in Focus
10:50 AIDS Youth in Danger
11:10 Diets for All Reasons
11:30 Not Yet, Baby!
NOON Sesame Street
1:00 Reading Rainbow
1:30 Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
2:00 Square One TV
2:30 Lamb Chop's Play-Along
3:00 Mister Rogers
3:30 Sesame Street
4:30 Reading Rainbow
5:00 Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? (x 2)
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
7:00 Thursday Group (each episodes' titles corresponded to the day of the broadcast, i.e.: ""Monday Group", "Tuesday Group")
7:30 Are You Being Served?
8:00 This Old House
8:30 Say Brother
9:00 Mystery!: "Rumpole at Sea"
10:00 Blackadder Goes Forth: "General Hospital"
10:30 Blackadder Goes Forth: "Goodbyeee"
11:00 Are You Being Served?
11:30 Charlie Rose
4 WBZ (NBC)
6:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 Today - Scheduled: The "Cheers" finale; Regis Philbin
9:00 Joan Rivers - Topic: Organized crime
10:00 Vicki! (Lawrence) - Topic: Secret crushes
11:00 Scrabble (1993 revival, again with Chuck Woolery hosting)
11:30 Scattergories - Dick Clark
NOON Eyewitness News
12:30 People Are Talking - Scheduled: Fans of Jay Leno
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Designing Women (x 2)
3:00 Montel Williams - Topic: Expectant fathers
4:00 Maury Povich - Topics: Sexy lingerie; celebrity look-alikes
5:00 A Current Affair
5:30 Eyewitness News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Entertainment Tonight - Scheduled: Jerry Seinfeld
8:00 Seinfeld: "The Pilot" (1 hr. season finale)
9:00 'Cheers' Finale Celebration - Retrospective with Bob Costas; series finale "One for the Road" begins at 9:22; special appearance by Shelley Long (Diane Chambers, 1982-87)
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:35 Tonight Show - from Boston's Bull & Finch Pub, the inspiration for 'Cheers', which looks nothing like the bar in the series; Jay Leno interviews and celebrates with the cast members and producers
12:35 Late Night With David Letterman - Guests: Bob Hoskins, L.L. Cool J
5 WCVB (ABC)
7:00 Good Morning America - On the set of 'Home Improvement'; during the end of its first season
9:00 Home
10:00 Geraldo - Topic: Men choosing between wives and mistresses
11:00 Sally Jessy Raphael - Topic: Man who had an affair with his teenage daugther's boyfriend
NOON NewsCenter 5
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Donahue - Topic: Transvestites
5:00 Oprah Winfrey - Topic: Men in love with criminals
6:00 NewsCenter 5
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Chronicle
8:00 Matlock (2 hrs.)
10:00 PrimeTime Live
11:00 NewsCenter 5
11:35 Nightline
12:05 Whoopi Goldberg (talk show)
12:35 Jane Whitney (tabloid talk show)
1:35 Jerry Springer (x 2)
7 WHDH (CBS)
6:00 This Morning's Business
6:30 CBS Morning News
7:00 CBS This Morning - Scheduled: Cannes Film Festival; Willie Nelson and his career; victims portrayed on "Rescue 911"
9:00 Regis and Kathie Lee -Scheduled: Debbie Reynolds; behind the scences of the show
10:00 Jenny Jones - Topic: Divorce fails to end an abusive relationship
11:00 The Price is Right
NOON News 7
12:30 Young and Restless
1:30 Bold and Beautiful
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Inside Edition
4:30 Inside Edition Extra (co-production of WHDH and King World)
5:00 Hard Copy
5:30 News 7
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Jeopardy
8:00 CBS Special Movie: "The Color Purple" (1985, Drama) - Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey
11:10 News 7
11:40 Night Court
12:10 Jeopardy
12:40 News 7 (replay)
1:10 Scene of the Crime
2:10 CBS Up to the Minute (to dawn)
25 WFXT (Fox)
6:00 Paid Program
6:30 Believer's Voice in Victory
7:00 Tom & Jerry
7:30 Beetlejuice
8:00 Alvin & the Chipmunks
8:30 Widget
9:00 Gilligan's Island
9:30 Catholic Mass
10:00 Simon & Simon
11:00 Paid Program
NOON People's Court (final season of the Wapner era)
12:30 Divorce Court
1:00 The Judge
1:30 Out of This World
2:00 Bugs Bunny
2:30 Popeye
3:00 Tom & Jerry
3:30 Merrie Melodies
4:00 Tom & Jerry Kids (child versions of them)
4:30 Tiny Toon Adventures
5:00 Batman: The Animated Series
5:30 Cosby Show (x 2)
6:30 Wonder Years (series finale had aired May 12 on ABC)
7:00 Married...With Children (x 2)
8:00 Simpsons (x 2)
9:00 America's Most Wanted
10:00 In the Heat of the Night
11:00 Studs
11:30 Infatuation
MIDNIGHT Rush Limbaugh
38 WSBK
6:00 George of the Jungle
6:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
7:00 Small Wonder
7:30 DuckTales
8:00 Camp (John) Candy (ten months before his death)
8:30 Woody Woodpecker
9:00 Paid Programming
9:30 Hogan Family
10:00 Beverly Hillbillies
10:30 Andy Griffith
11:00 Honeymooners
11:30 Jeffersons
NOON Andy Griffith
12:30 Beverly Hillbillies
1:00 Jeffersons
1:30 Family Ties
2:00 Heathcliff
2:30 DuckTales
3:00 Chip 'n Dale's Rescue Rangers
3:30 Tale Spin
4:00 Darkwing Duck
4:30 Goof Troop
5:00 Punky Brewster
5:30 Saved by the Bell
6:00 M*A*S*H (x 2)
7:00 Cheers (200th episode, from Oct. 25, 1990)
7:30 Cheers 200th anniversary special
8:00 Movie: "High Plains Drifter" (1973, Western) - Clint Eastwood
10:30 Real Stories of the Highway Patrol
11:00 Cheers (from Nov. 2, 1989 with a guest appearance by then-Boston Mayor Ray Flynn, as well as Lilith giving birth to Frederick Crane in a taxicab; Flynn declared May 20, 1993 "Cheers Day" for Boston)
11:30 Golden Girls
MIDNIGHT Kojak
1:00 Honeymooners
1:30 Odd Couple
NOTE: WSBK was originally scheduled to cover the Blues Jays vs. Red Sox game from Fenway, starting at 6:00 PM, with occasional updates.
44 WGBX (sister PBS station to WGBH)
7:30 Hooked on Aerobics
8:00 Frugal Gourmet
8:30 Ciao Italia!
9:00 Cook's Tour
9:30 Eating Well
10:00 Victory Garden
10:30 The New Garden
11:00 Country Basketweaving
11:30 Joy of Painting
NOON Frugal Gourmet
12:30 Ciao Italia!
1:00 Mark Russell
1:30 The Artist and the Wolves
2:00 New Explorers
3:00 Masterpiece Theatre: "Doctor Finlay/Working Together" (Part 2 of 6)
4:00 Nature
5:00 Square One TV
5:30 Sesame Street
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
8:00 Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory (Part 2 of 3)
9:00 Moving Mountains
10:00 Thurday Group
10:30 John McLaughlin's One on One
11:00 Nightly Business Report Special: "Real Estate: Getting In on the Ground Floor" (Part 3 of 3)
11:30 Today's Japan
56 WLVI
6:00 Top Cat
6:30 Captain N
7:00 Inspector Gadget & Goo Goo
7:30 Dennis the Menace
8:00 James Bond Jr.
8:30 Pirates of Dark Water
9:00 Jetsons
9:30 Casper and Friends
10:00 Popeye
10:30 Bewitched
11:00 Laverne & Shirley
11:30 All in the Family
NOON Love Connection
12:30 Family Feud
1:00 I Dream of Jeannie
1:30 Brady Bunch
2:00 Jetsons
2:30 Flintstones
3:00 T-Rex
3:30 Stunt Dawgs
4:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
4:30 Captain N
5:00 Perfect Strangers
5:30 Growing Pains
6:00 Full House
6:30 Who's the Boss?
7:00 Star Trek: The Next Generation
8:00 Movie: "Police Academy 3: Back in Training" (1986, Comedy) - Steve Guttenberg, Michael Winslow, George Gaynes
10:00 News at Ten
11:00 Arsenio Hall - Guests: Jane Seymour, Father Guido Sarducci, Kiss
MIDNIGHT Love Connection
12:30 All in the Family
68 WMFP
6:30 Daily Bible Lesson
7:00 Children's Room
8:00 Make Room for Daddy
8:30 Burns & Allen
9:00 Rodina
10:00 Gunsmoke (x 2)
NOON Make Room for Daddy
12:30 Burns & Allen
1:00 Movie: "Revenge!" (1971, Crime/Horror) - Shelley Winters, Stuart Whitman, Bradford Dillman
2:30 Bob Newhart
3:00 The Saint
4:00 Cannon
5:00 Barnaby Jones
6:00 Hardcastle & McCormick
7:00 T.J. Hooker
8:00 Movie: "Fanny by Gaslight" (1981, Drama) - Chloe Salaman, Peter Woodward, Anthony Bate
10:00 Streets of San Francisco
11:00 Bob Newhart
11:30 Twilight Zone
MIDNIGHT Gunsmoke
2 WGBH (PBS)
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Shining Time Station
8:30 Barney & Friends
9:00 Lamb Chop's Play-Along
9:30 Mister Rogers
10:00 Attention to Prevention
10:15 Immune System and AIDS
10:30 Teen AIDS in Focus
10:50 AIDS Youth in Danger
11:10 Diets for All Reasons
11:30 Not Yet, Baby!
NOON Sesame Street
1:00 Reading Rainbow
1:30 Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
2:00 Square One TV
2:30 Lamb Chop's Play-Along
3:00 Mister Rogers
3:30 Sesame Street
4:30 Reading Rainbow
5:00 Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? (x 2)
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
7:00 Thursday Group (each episodes' titles corresponded to the day of the broadcast, i.e.: ""Monday Group", "Tuesday Group")
7:30 Are You Being Served?
8:00 This Old House
8:30 Say Brother
9:00 Mystery!: "Rumpole at Sea"
10:00 Blackadder Goes Forth: "General Hospital"
10:30 Blackadder Goes Forth: "Goodbyeee"
11:00 Are You Being Served?
11:30 Charlie Rose
4 WBZ (NBC)
6:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 Today - Scheduled: The "Cheers" finale; Regis Philbin
9:00 Joan Rivers - Topic: Organized crime
10:00 Vicki! (Lawrence) - Topic: Secret crushes
11:00 Scrabble (1993 revival, again with Chuck Woolery hosting)
11:30 Scattergories - Dick Clark
NOON Eyewitness News
12:30 People Are Talking - Scheduled: Fans of Jay Leno
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Designing Women (x 2)
3:00 Montel Williams - Topic: Expectant fathers
4:00 Maury Povich - Topics: Sexy lingerie; celebrity look-alikes
5:00 A Current Affair
5:30 Eyewitness News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Entertainment Tonight - Scheduled: Jerry Seinfeld
8:00 Seinfeld: "The Pilot" (1 hr. season finale)
9:00 'Cheers' Finale Celebration - Retrospective with Bob Costas; series finale "One for the Road" begins at 9:22; special appearance by Shelley Long (Diane Chambers, 1982-87)
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:35 Tonight Show - from Boston's Bull & Finch Pub, the inspiration for 'Cheers', which looks nothing like the bar in the series; Jay Leno interviews and celebrates with the cast members and producers
12:35 Late Night With David Letterman - Guests: Bob Hoskins, L.L. Cool J
5 WCVB (ABC)
7:00 Good Morning America - On the set of 'Home Improvement'; during the end of its first season
9:00 Home
10:00 Geraldo - Topic: Men choosing between wives and mistresses
11:00 Sally Jessy Raphael - Topic: Man who had an affair with his teenage daugther's boyfriend
NOON NewsCenter 5
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Donahue - Topic: Transvestites
5:00 Oprah Winfrey - Topic: Men in love with criminals
6:00 NewsCenter 5
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Chronicle
8:00 Matlock (2 hrs.)
10:00 PrimeTime Live
11:00 NewsCenter 5
11:35 Nightline
12:05 Whoopi Goldberg (talk show)
12:35 Jane Whitney (tabloid talk show)
1:35 Jerry Springer (x 2)
7 WHDH (CBS)
6:00 This Morning's Business
6:30 CBS Morning News
7:00 CBS This Morning - Scheduled: Cannes Film Festival; Willie Nelson and his career; victims portrayed on "Rescue 911"
9:00 Regis and Kathie Lee -Scheduled: Debbie Reynolds; behind the scences of the show
10:00 Jenny Jones - Topic: Divorce fails to end an abusive relationship
11:00 The Price is Right
NOON News 7
12:30 Young and Restless
1:30 Bold and Beautiful
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Inside Edition
4:30 Inside Edition Extra (co-production of WHDH and King World)
5:00 Hard Copy
5:30 News 7
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Jeopardy
8:00 CBS Special Movie: "The Color Purple" (1985, Drama) - Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey
11:10 News 7
11:40 Night Court
12:10 Jeopardy
12:40 News 7 (replay)
1:10 Scene of the Crime
2:10 CBS Up to the Minute (to dawn)
25 WFXT (Fox)
6:00 Paid Program
6:30 Believer's Voice in Victory
7:00 Tom & Jerry
7:30 Beetlejuice
8:00 Alvin & the Chipmunks
8:30 Widget
9:00 Gilligan's Island
9:30 Catholic Mass
10:00 Simon & Simon
11:00 Paid Program
NOON People's Court (final season of the Wapner era)
12:30 Divorce Court
1:00 The Judge
1:30 Out of This World
2:00 Bugs Bunny
2:30 Popeye
3:00 Tom & Jerry
3:30 Merrie Melodies
4:00 Tom & Jerry Kids (child versions of them)
4:30 Tiny Toon Adventures
5:00 Batman: The Animated Series
5:30 Cosby Show (x 2)
6:30 Wonder Years (series finale had aired May 12 on ABC)
7:00 Married...With Children (x 2)
8:00 Simpsons (x 2)
9:00 America's Most Wanted
10:00 In the Heat of the Night
11:00 Studs
11:30 Infatuation
MIDNIGHT Rush Limbaugh
38 WSBK
6:00 George of the Jungle
6:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
7:00 Small Wonder
7:30 DuckTales
8:00 Camp (John) Candy (ten months before his death)
8:30 Woody Woodpecker
9:00 Paid Programming
9:30 Hogan Family
10:00 Beverly Hillbillies
10:30 Andy Griffith
11:00 Honeymooners
11:30 Jeffersons
NOON Andy Griffith
12:30 Beverly Hillbillies
1:00 Jeffersons
1:30 Family Ties
2:00 Heathcliff
2:30 DuckTales
3:00 Chip 'n Dale's Rescue Rangers
3:30 Tale Spin
4:00 Darkwing Duck
4:30 Goof Troop
5:00 Punky Brewster
5:30 Saved by the Bell
6:00 M*A*S*H (x 2)
7:00 Cheers (200th episode, from Oct. 25, 1990)
7:30 Cheers 200th anniversary special
8:00 Movie: "High Plains Drifter" (1973, Western) - Clint Eastwood
10:30 Real Stories of the Highway Patrol
11:00 Cheers (from Nov. 2, 1989 with a guest appearance by then-Boston Mayor Ray Flynn, as well as Lilith giving birth to Frederick Crane in a taxicab; Flynn declared May 20, 1993 "Cheers Day" for Boston)
11:30 Golden Girls
MIDNIGHT Kojak
1:00 Honeymooners
1:30 Odd Couple
NOTE: WSBK was originally scheduled to cover the Blues Jays vs. Red Sox game from Fenway, starting at 6:00 PM, with occasional updates.
44 WGBX (sister PBS station to WGBH)
7:30 Hooked on Aerobics
8:00 Frugal Gourmet
8:30 Ciao Italia!
9:00 Cook's Tour
9:30 Eating Well
10:00 Victory Garden
10:30 The New Garden
11:00 Country Basketweaving
11:30 Joy of Painting
NOON Frugal Gourmet
12:30 Ciao Italia!
1:00 Mark Russell
1:30 The Artist and the Wolves
2:00 New Explorers
3:00 Masterpiece Theatre: "Doctor Finlay/Working Together" (Part 2 of 6)
4:00 Nature
5:00 Square One TV
5:30 Sesame Street
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
8:00 Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory (Part 2 of 3)
9:00 Moving Mountains
10:00 Thurday Group
10:30 John McLaughlin's One on One
11:00 Nightly Business Report Special: "Real Estate: Getting In on the Ground Floor" (Part 3 of 3)
11:30 Today's Japan
56 WLVI
6:00 Top Cat
6:30 Captain N
7:00 Inspector Gadget & Goo Goo
7:30 Dennis the Menace
8:00 James Bond Jr.
8:30 Pirates of Dark Water
9:00 Jetsons
9:30 Casper and Friends
10:00 Popeye
10:30 Bewitched
11:00 Laverne & Shirley
11:30 All in the Family
NOON Love Connection
12:30 Family Feud
1:00 I Dream of Jeannie
1:30 Brady Bunch
2:00 Jetsons
2:30 Flintstones
3:00 T-Rex
3:30 Stunt Dawgs
4:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
4:30 Captain N
5:00 Perfect Strangers
5:30 Growing Pains
6:00 Full House
6:30 Who's the Boss?
7:00 Star Trek: The Next Generation
8:00 Movie: "Police Academy 3: Back in Training" (1986, Comedy) - Steve Guttenberg, Michael Winslow, George Gaynes
10:00 News at Ten
11:00 Arsenio Hall - Guests: Jane Seymour, Father Guido Sarducci, Kiss
MIDNIGHT Love Connection
12:30 All in the Family
68 WMFP
6:30 Daily Bible Lesson
7:00 Children's Room
8:00 Make Room for Daddy
8:30 Burns & Allen
9:00 Rodina
10:00 Gunsmoke (x 2)
NOON Make Room for Daddy
12:30 Burns & Allen
1:00 Movie: "Revenge!" (1971, Crime/Horror) - Shelley Winters, Stuart Whitman, Bradford Dillman
2:30 Bob Newhart
3:00 The Saint
4:00 Cannon
5:00 Barnaby Jones
6:00 Hardcastle & McCormick
7:00 T.J. Hooker
8:00 Movie: "Fanny by Gaslight" (1981, Drama) - Chloe Salaman, Peter Woodward, Anthony Bate
10:00 Streets of San Francisco
11:00 Bob Newhart
11:30 Twilight Zone
MIDNIGHT Gunsmoke
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