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Retro: Buffalo Sat, Mar 2, 1985

from TV Guide-Buffalo Metro edition

WGRZ 2-NBC Buffalo
5:00 Movie "Family Honor" (aka Honor)
6:00 Jim Bakker
7:00 Romper Room & Friends
7:30 New Zoo Revue
8:00 Snorks
8:30 Pink Panther & Sons
9:00 Smurfs
10:30 Alvin & the Chipmunks
11:00 Kidd Video
11:30 Mr. T
noon Amazing Spider-Man
12:30 Incredible Hulk
1:00 Fat Albert
1:30 Buffalo, Etc.
2:00 Taking Advantage
2:30 Laverne & Shirley
3:00 Movie "Batman"
5:00 Entertainment This Week
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 NHL: Buffalo-Washington (Sabres rights were split between ch 2 and cable 10)
10:00 Berrenger's
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (Billy Crystal hosts a retrospective of the last 5 seasons, with Siskel & Ebert weighing in)
1:00 Movie "Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons" (bw)
3:00 Movie "Crime and Punishment, USA" (bw)

WIVB 4-CBS Buffalo
6:30 It's Academic
7:00 US Farm Report
7:30 King Kong
8:00 Shirt Tales
8:30 Get Along Gang
9:00 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
9:30 Dungeons & Dragons
10:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
11:00 Beat the Champ
noon College Basketball: Louisville-Memphis State, followed by Villanova-Pittsburgh at 2
4:00 Movie "The Quest"
6:00 News
6:30 Muppet Show (guest Dom DeLuise)
7:00 Dance Fever
7:30 America's Top 10
8:00 Bowling
9:00 Airwolf
10:00 Cover Up
11:00 News
11:30 Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous
12:30 Charlie's Angels

CBLT 5-CBC Toronto
9:00 What's New?
9:30 Mr. Microchip
10:00 Sesame Street
11:00 Reach for the Top: Cardinal Newman High v Earl Haig/Watson Secondary
11:30 This Week in Ontario
noon Star Trek
1:00 CBC SportsWeekend: women's World Cup downhill skiing/Canadian men's downhill championships; then at 2, the final of the Canadian Senior Women's Curling Championship; the afternoon concludes at 5 with men's World Cup downhill and the World Srint Speedskating Championships
6:00 CBC News: Saturday Report
6:30 This Week in Parliament
7:00 Wayne & Shuster (the boys spoof Bridge on the River Kwai)
7:30 Front Page Challenge
8:00 NHL: NY Islanders-Toronto
11:00 The National
11:15 Newsfinal
11:45 Movie "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" (bw)

WKBW 7-ABC Buffalo
6:00 Better Way
6:30 Agriculture USA
7:00 Woody Woodpecker
8:00 Kids Incorporated
8:30 Jackson 5ive
9:00 Mighty Orbots
9:30 Turbo Teen
10:00 Dragon's Lair
10:30 New Scooby-Doo Mysteries
11:00 Scary Scooby Funnies
11:30 Littles
noon ABC Weekend Special "The Adventures of a Two-Minute Werewolf" (Conclusion)
12:30 Mind Over Myth
1:00 Real to Reel
1:30 Babe Winkleman's Real Fishing
2:00 Al Lindner's In-Fisherman (first of 4 specials on fishing techiques)
3:00 Bowling: Lite Beer Open
4:30 ABC Wide World of Sports: Aaron Pryor (35-0/32 KO) takes on Gary Hinton (23-2-1/10 KO) and a 15-round bout in Atlantic City/Florida Derby horse race)
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Sunday
7:00 Buffalo Tonight
7:30 Urban Focus
8:00 T.J. Hooker
9:00 Love Boat
10:00 Finder of Lost Loves
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Hawaiians"
2:00 Mind Over Myth
2:30 ABC News

CFTO 9-CTV Toronto
6:00 Cartoons
7:00 Professor Kitzel
7:30 Romper Room & Friends (CTV version, produced at CKCO Kitchener)
8:00 Popeye
8:30 Story Time
9:00 Let's Go!
9:30 You Can't Do That on Television (the gang does skits on the weather)
10:00 Kid's Corner
10:30 Funtown
11:30 Just Like Mom
noon Waltons
1:00 Movie "Bedtime Story"
3:00 Showbiz
3:30 Red Fisher
4:00 CTV Wide World of Sports (ABC's events, plus PWA Pro Tour skiing)
6:00 Just Kidding
6:30 News
7:00 Knight Rider
8:00 Movie "Author! Author!"
10:00 Cover Up
11:00 CTV National News
11:20 News
12:15 Movie "Woodstock"
2:15 Movie "Three Sisters"

International Cable 10
6:00 CableGuide
7:00 Community Billboard
8:00 Superfriends (ABC)
9:00 CableGuide
11:30 Pryor's Place (CBS)
noon Library Limelight
12:20 HBO Preview
12:30 American Bandstand (ABC/guests the Blasters, and Jermaine Jackson)
1:30 Assembly Calendar Update
2:00 LaFalce Report
2:15 Sertoma Club Freedom Program
3:00 Inside Your Schools
3:30 Call New York State
4:30 CableGuide
6:00 High School Basketball: Section VI championships (live from the Aud)
9:00 Gimme a Break! (NBC)
9:30 It's Your Move (NBC)
10:00 Community Billboard
11:00 CableGuide
1:00 Saturday Night Sports
2:00 Movie "Money Means Nothing" (bw)
3:20 Movie "Jungle Goddess" (bw)
4:40 Movie "In Love with Life" (bw)

CHCH 11-Ind Hamilton
6:00 Harrigan
6:30 Circle Square
7:00 Zig Zag
7:30 Lynsky & Company
8:00 Monty's Travelling Reptile Show
8:30 Mohawk Presents: Counterpoint
9:00 Greek Panorama
10:00 Hispanovision
10:30 Italian Panorama
11:30 Ready, Set, Grow
noon Creative Hands
12:30 Ski West
1:00 Wrestling (likely WWF; CHCH produced Canadianized versions of its programming)
2:00 OUAA Basketball: Western Division final
4:00 Bonspiel '85: Milton v Thames Valley (curling)
5:00 Original Six Hockey Heroes: from Markham, ON-New York v Boston
6:00 News
6:30 Dick Beddoes
7:00 To Calcutta with Love (Dale Evans looks at relief efforts in the Indian city)
8:00 Otherworld
9:00 Airwolf
10:00 Berrenger's
11:00 News
11:30 Just Jazz
mid. Movie "The Users"
2:30 Movie "Stowaway to the Moon"

WNED 17-PBS Buffalo
8:55 Weather Radio
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 MotorWeek
10:30 This Old House
11:00 House for All Seasons
11:30 Frugal Gourmet
noon Magic of Oil Painting
12:30 Victory Garden
1:00 Antiques
1:30 Acrylic Painting with Barclay Sheaks
2:00 Nature
3:00 Nova "Baby Talk" (research into how children learn how to speak)
4:00 Matinee at the Bijou
5:30 Tony Brown's Journal
6:00 Masterpiece Theatre "The Jewel in the Crown" (pt 11)
7:00 Inside Albany
7:30 Agronsky & Company
8:00 Jacques Cousteau (following walruses' spring migration)
9:00 Movie "Louisiana Purchase"
10:30 Austin City Limits (guest Glen Campbell)
11:30 Movie "You're Telling Me" (bw)
12:40 Weather Radio

CICA 19-TVO Toronto
8:00 Polka Dot Door
8:30 Math Patrol
8:45 Wombles/Body Works
9:00 People & Pets
9:30 Ski Cross-Country
10:00 Pins & Needles
10:30 Championship Bridge (bw)
11:00 Half-a-Handy Hour
11:30 Academy on Moral Philosophy
12:30 Understanding Human Behavior
1:00 New Literacy
1:30 Music of Western Civilization
2:30 Understanding the Earth
3:30 Long Search
4:30 Kidsbeat
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Polka Dot Door
6:30 Amateur Naturalist (a photo safari in South Africa's Umfolozi Game Sanctuary)
7:00 Doctor Who "Time Flights" (pt 2)
7:30 Dick Turpin
8:00 Movie "Guadacanal Diary" (bw)
9:40 Conversations with Elwy Yost (discussing Hollywood's treatment of war with guests Lew Ayres, Jack Lemmon, Kirk Douglas, and Daniel Taradish)
10:00 Movie "Three Came Home" (bw)
11:45 Conversations with Elwy Yost
12:15 Movie Show

CBLFT 25-SRC Toronto
7:30 Contes de la foret verte (Tales of the Green Forest)
8:00 Belle et Sebastien
8:30 Passe-Partout
9:00 Astro le petit robot (Astroboy)
9:30 Lucky Luke
10:00 Les mysterieuses cites d'or (Mysterious Cities of Gold)
10:30 L'ile des rescapes
11:00 Les heros du samedi (girls' tennis)
noon La semaine Parlementaire a Ottawa
1:00 D'hier a demain
2:00 Les Jeux du Quebec (coverage of the opening, taped yesterday in Dolbeau)
4:00 Bagatelle
4:30 Schtroumpfs (Smurfs)
5:00 Raid le Cap-Terre de Feu
6:00 Le Telejournal
6:05 Impacts
7:00 Le monde merveilleux de Disney (Wonderful World of Disney)
8:00 NHL: NY Islanders-Toronto
10:30 Le Telejournal
10:50 Nouvelles du sport
11:05 La politique federale
11:15 Cinema "Avec les compliments de Charlie"

WUTV 29-Ind Buffalo
6:00 700 Club
7:00 In League with You
7:30 Dimensions
8:00 Dudley Do-Right
8:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
9:00 Bullwinkle
9:30 George of the Jungle
10:00 Underdog
10:30 Movie "Tarzan and the Trappers" (bw)
noon Wrestling
1:00 Wild Kingdom
1:30 Movie "Dynamo"
3:30 Eischied
4:30 Puttin' on the Hits
5:00 Wonder Woman
6:00 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
7:00 Fame (guest star Milton Berle)
8:00 Movie "Ship of Fools" (bw)
11:00 Movie "The Bride of Frankenstein" (bw)

Superstations
WPIX
5:00 Insight
5:30 INN News
6:00 Wall Street Journal Report
6:30 Wild Kingdom
7:00 Pink Panther
7:30 Jackson 5ive
8:00 Voltron
8:30 Hee Haw
9:30 Puttin' on the Hits
10:00 Soul Train
11:00 Wrestling
noon College Basketball: Providence-St. John's
2:00 White Shadow
3:00 CHiPs
4:00 Star Trek
5:00 Love Boat
6:00 Puttin' on the Hits
6:30 Dance Fever
7:00 Jeffersons
7:30 At the Movies
8:00 Movie "Class of '44"
10:00 INN News
10:30 Wall Street Journal Report
11:00 Tales from the Darkside
11:30 Honeymooners (bw)
mid. Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous
1:00 At the Movies
1:30 INN News
2:00 Movie "Brief Encounter" (bw)
4:00 Abbott & Costello (bw)
4:30 Biography (bw)

WSBK
6:00 SurgSat
6:30 EyeSat
7:00 Kid-a-Littles
7:30 Exchange
8:00 It's Your Business
8:30 From the Editor's Desk
9:00 Ask the Manager
9:30 Movie "I, Monster" (Christopher Lee takes on Jekyll/Hyde)
11:00 Three Stooges (bw)
noon Movie "Beneath the Planet of the Apes"
2:00 Movie "Deathmoon"
4:00 Movie "Executive Action"
6:00 White Shadow
7:00 We Don't Knock!
7:30 Odd Couple
8:00 Movie "The Great Smokey Roadblock"
10:00 Charlie's Angels
11:00 Alfred Hitchcock (bw)
11:30 Twilight Zone (bw)
mid. Movie "Sherlock Holmes and the Woman in Green" (bw)

WTBS
5:00 Night Tracks
6:00 CNN Headline News
6:30 Between the Lines
7:05 Saturday Funnies
7:35 Get Smart
8:05 Cimarron Strip
9:35 Wrestling
10:35 Movie "Stalag 17" (bw)
1:10 Movie "Fort Worth"
3:00 Movie "Cowboy"
5:05 Fishin' with Orlando Wilson
5:35 MotorWeek Illustrated
6:05 Wrestling
8:05 Movie "Operation Petticoat"
10:40 CNN Headline News
11:00 Night Tracks Chartbusters
mid. Night Tracks

WOR
5:00 CNN Headline News
5:30 Movie "Canyon Passage"
7:00 News
7:30 Newark & Reality
8:00 Christopher Closeup
8:30 In Celebration of Black Culture
9:00 9 on New Jersey
9:30 Davey & Goliath
10:00 Wrestling
11:00 Hardy Boys
noon Voyagers!
1:00 Movie "Seven"
3:00 Movie "The Steel Cowboy"
5:00 Top 40 Videos
6:00 Battlestar Galactica
7:00 News
7:30 House Calls
8:00 NHL: NY Rangers-Pittsburgh
10:30 In Search of...
11:00 Burns & Allen (bw)
11:30 Horse Racing
mid. Wrestling
1:00 Movie "Kiss of the Tarantula"
3:00 Movie "This Earth is Mine"
 
Looks like "International 10" served to pick up network shows the local affiliates passed on. Did they do it on weekdays as well? Do you know what stations they used to pick up those shows?
 
newsmark said:
Looks like "International 10" served to pick up network shows the local affiliates passed on. Did they do it on weekdays as well? Do you know what stations they used to pick up those shows?

I would imagine Rochester and/or Erie. In Bay City, Michigan, the old Gerity Cablevision did the same thing on one of their local access channels, supplementing local programming with uncleared network shows via stations in Detroit and Grand Rapids.
 
azumanga said:
newsmark said:
Looks like "International 10" served to pick up network shows the local affiliates passed on. Did they do it on weekdays as well? Do you know what stations they used to pick up those shows?

I would imagine Rochester and/or Erie. In Bay City, Michigan, the old Gerity Cablevision did the same thing on one of their local access channels, supplementing local programming with uncleared network shows via stations in Detroit and Grand Rapids.

I think Erie more than Rochester, generally. For whatever reason, the Rochester stations never had any cable coverage in Buffalo, even though we in Rochester got all of the Buffalo "big 3" right through most of the 1980s. I remember when WKBW would sign off at night and our cable system in suburban Rochester would end up with a weak signal of WWNY-7 from Watertown off the back of their receive antenna.
 
newsmark said:
Looks like "International 10" served to pick up network shows the local affiliates passed on. Did they do it on weekdays as well?

Just on weekends...the only other network pick-up was ABC World News Sunday (WKBW showed Fight Back! at 6:30 on Sundays). During the week, they ran financial news (FNN?) during the daytime, with cable access, movies and Sabres games in the evening and overnights.
 
Would love a weekday and Sunday Schedule from this time period??? Thanks if you can.
 
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