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Retro: Buffalo Sun, Mar 3, 1985

By request, from TV Guide-Buffalo Metro edition

WGRZ 2-NBC Buffalo
5:00 Movie "Crime in the Streets" (bw)
7:00 Church Invitation
7:30 Jerry Falwell
8:30 World Tomorrow with Herbert W. Armstrong
9:00 Oral Roberts
9:30 Day of Discovery
10:00 Rev. James Andrews
10:30 Abbott & Costello (bw)
12:30 Meet the Press
1:00 College Basketball: Syracuse-Georgetown
3:00 What's Happening!!
3:30 Charles Dickens Classics
5:00 Greatest American Hero
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Solid Gold
8:00 Knight Rider
9:00 Solid Gold Countdown '84 (Rick Dees and celeb guests look back at the top hits of 1984; guests include Cyndi Lauper, the Pointer Sisters, Thompson Twins, Tina Turner, and Kool & the Gang)
11:00 News
11:30 Sports Extra
mid. Tales from the Darkside
12:30 Solid Gold
1:30 Movie "Killer Bees"
3:30 Movie "The Missing are Deadly"

WIVB 4-CBS Buffalo
6:30 America's Black Forum
7:00 Jimmy Swaggart
8:00 Bishop Head
8:30 Report Card
9:00 CBS News Sunday Morning (medical treatment and the homeless/interview with Joe Theismann's ex Shari Theismann)
10:30 Robert Schuller
11:30 Rex Humbard
noon It's Academic
12:30 College Basketball: Washington-Notre Dame, followed by Georgia Tech-Oklahoma at 2
4:00 CBS Sports Sunday: American Cup gymnastics/men's World Cup super giant slalom skiing/World Junior Figure Skating Championships highlights/John Madden's Journeys
6:00 News
6:30 Alice
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 Murder, She Wrote
9:00 Crazy Like a Fox
10:00 Trapper John, MD
11:00 News
11:30 Harry O
12:30 Eight is Enough
1:30 Report Card
2:00 CBS News Nightwatch

CBLT 5-CBC Toronto
8:30 Country Canada
9:00 Movie "It Should Happen to You" (bw)
11:00 Coronation Street omnibus
noon Meeting Place (First Mennonite Church, Edmonton)
1:00 Country Canada
1:30 Hymn Sing (on the road in the southern Manitoba town of Steinbach)
2:00 Rear-View Mirror (a look back at CBC's programming..."No Two People" (1965 program with sketches on marriage), "The Tape Recorder" (a woman doing transcription for a writer realizes the plot he's dictacting is a murder plot with her as the victim), "Mr. Pearson" (1963 day-in-the-life of then PM Lester Pearson), "From the Heart: Canadian Folk Artists" (profile of 15 artists)
5:00 CBC News: Sunday Report
5:30 Lost Kingdoms
6:00 Wonderful World of Disney "A Woman's Courage" (Swamp Fox)
7:00 Fraggle Rock
7:30 Beachcombers
8:00 Seeing Things
9:00 For the Record
10:00 Lawyers "The Invisible Law" (a look at boards and tribunals)
11:00 CBC News: Sunday Report
11:15 Nation's Business
11:20 Newsfinal
11:55 Dateline Ontario
12:25 Movie "The Eddy Duchin Story"

WKBW 7-ABC Buffalo
6:30 This is the Life
7:00 Faith for Today
7:30 Comfort My People
8:00 Commander Tom
9:30 Kidsworld
10:00 Video Game
10:30 This Week with David Brinkley
11:30 At the Movies
noon Movie "Alex and the Gypsy"
2:00 Movie "Revenge of the Stepford Wives"
3:45 Movie "Rebecca" (bw)
6:00 News
6:30 Fight Back! with David Horowitz (how disabled persons get info on new products and services/stopping shopping cart theft)
7:00 Ripley's Believe It or Not (Eskimo mummies/birth of a whale/computer that alters photos/5-wheeled car/the city that inspired Shangri-La/how cheetah cubs learn to hunt/the Dalai Lama's route to exile through the Himalayas/Henry Ford's early inventions/computer powered with eye power)
8:00 Rodney Dangerfield Special (guests Dick Butkus, Morgan Fairchild, Harvey Korman, and Bubba Smith)
9:00 Moonlighting (2 hr premiere)
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Betrayal"
1:30 Real to Reel
2:00 ABC News

CFTO 9-CTV Toronto
5:00 Movie "Three Sisters" cont'd
5:35 sign-off
6:00 Cartoons
7:00 Professor Kitzel
7:30 Uncle Bobby
8:00 Interaid
8:30 Paradox
9:00 Worldwide Church of God (World Tomorrow)
9:30 Just Like Mom
10:00 It is Written
10:30 Day of Discovery
11:00 People's Church
noon Album TV (Italian program)
1:00 Italian Cooking
1:30 Question Period
2:00 NHL: Vancouver-Hartford
5:00 Sun Country
5:30 Circus
6:00 Welcome to My World
6:30 World Beat News
7:00 Hart to Hart
8:00 Knight Rider
9:00 Scarecrow & Mrs. King
10:00 W5 (a Toronto bag lady is reunited with her now Calgary-based daughter, who recongnized her from an earlier interview)
11:00 CTV National News
11:20 Night Beat News

International Cable 10
5:00 Movie "In Love with Life" cont'd (bw)
6:00 CableGuide
7:00 Community Billboard
8:00 CableGuide
9:00 Jimmy Swaggart
10:00 CableView
10:30 United Way in Action
11:00 Chamber Week
11:30 Real Estate Magazine
noon Library Limelight "Friends of the Library"
12:20 HBO Preview
12:30 Real to Reel
1:00 CableGuide
3:00 Community Billboard
3:30 Sports/Weather
4:00 CableGuide
6:00 Walt Disney Showcase
6:30 ABC World News Sunday (ABC, not cleared by ch 7)
7:00 NHL: NY Islanders-Buffalo
10:00 Community Billboard
11:00 CableGuide
2:00 Movie "the Dark Hour" (bw)
3:30 Movie "Trapped" (bw)

CHCH 11-Ind Hamilton
6:00 Willy & Floyd
6:30 Treehouse Club
7:00 Food for Life
7:30 Father Meehan
8:00 Camera on Canada
8:30 Oral Roberts
9:00 Italian Panorama
noon Hispanovision
12:30 News
12:45 Town & Country
1:00 World Alive
1:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
2:00 Audubon Wildlife Theatre
2:30 New Faces (visiting Niagara Falls; hosted by Dan McLean, who anchored news for many years at ch 11)
3:00 Your Wealth
3:30 Young Talent Time
4:00 Eight is Enough
5:00 Wild Kingdom
5:30 Taxi
6:00 News
6:30 Way It Is (look at the Concorde)
7:00 Ripley's Believe It or Not!
8:00 Entertainment This Week
9:00 Movie "Secret Weapons"
11:00 News
11:30 Best of Cherington
1:00 Medical Center

WNED 17-PBS Buffalo
7:55 Weather Radio
8:00 Sesame Street (x4)
noon Wall Street Week
12:30 Jack Benny (bw)
1:00 Over 50
2:00 Movie "Koyaanisqatsi"
3:30 TBA
4:00 Mystery! "In a Glass Darkly"
5:00 Firing Line
6:00 Artscene
6:30 Adam Smith's Money World
7:00 WonderWorks "Clown White"
8:00 Nature (life in a California kelp forest)
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre "The Jewel in the Crown" (pt 12)
10:00 Mystery "The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife"
11:00 These British Isles
11:30 Weather Radio

CICA 19-TVO Toronto
On Sundays, TVO aired all-French programs Sundays noon to sign-off; in the early days of TFO, the same thing was done in reverse
8:00 Polka Dot Door
8:30 Cucumber
9:00 Tales of the Green Forest
9:30 Sesame Street
10:30 Jeremy
10:45 Readlong/Willo the Wisp
11:00 Read All About It!
11:15 Music Box
11:30 Kidsbeat
noon Mangeaille
12:30 De fil en aiguille
1:00 A toute vitesse
1:30 Au nord du 60 degres
2:00 Scenes et miroirs
3:30 Vue globale
4:00 Terrarium
4:30 Entre deux nuages/Colargol
5:00 Passe-Partout
5:30 Charlie Brown (Charlie Brown & Snoopy)
6:00 Robinson Suisse (Swiss Family Robinson)
6:30 National Geographic (monuments erected during the reign of Ramses II/archeologists' efforts to restore and preserve great works of art)
7:30 A votre service
8:00 Mosaique
8:30 C'est to droit
9:00 Cinema "Rue Cases-Negres"
11:00 A votre service
11:30 Vue globale

CBLFT 25-SRC Toronto
7:30 Le petit castor
8:00 Demetan le petit grenouille
8:30 Passe-Partout
9:00 Michou et Pilo
9:30 Fables d'Europe
9:45 Paraboles
10:00 Le Jour du Seigneur
11:00 Les grandes batailles du passe
noon La semaine verte
1:00 Propos et confidences
1:30 Rencontres
2:00 Univers des sports (elite selection gymnastics/World Cup skiing)
4:00 Par les chemins d'Ambroise
4:30 Entre les lignes
5:00 Second regard
6:00 Science-realite
6:30 Dans un monde d'hommes
7:00 Terre humaine
7:30 Les Beaux Dimanches
12:15 Le Telejournal
12:40 Cinema "La Kermesse heroique" (bw)

WUTV 29-Ind Buffalo
6:00 700 Club
7:00 MDTV
7:30 Catholic Mass
8:00 Jimmy Swaggart
9:00 Casper & Friends
9:30 Banana Splits & Friends
10:00 George of the Jungle
10:30 Cartoon Carnival
11:30 Transformers
noon Wrestling
1:00 Movie "Legend of Boggy Creek"
3:00 Movie "A Stranger is Watching"
5:00 Wonder Woman
6:00 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
7:00 Star Search (guests Morgan Fairchild and David Hasselhoff)
8:00 Movie "Convoy"
10:00 700 Club
11:00 Peter Popoff
11:30 Rev. Al
mid. Changing Your World

Superstations
WPIX
5:00 Life of Riley (bw)
5:30 INN News
6:00 Wall Street Journal Report
6:30 Christopher Closeup
6:45 Davey & Goliath
7:00 Jerry Falwell
8:00 Ever Increasing Faith
9:00 Know Your Heritage
10:00 Transformers
10:30 Three Stooges (bw)
11:00 Movie "In Society" (bw)
12:30 Movie "Kung Fu" (series pilot)
2:00 Movie "Seconds" (bw)
4:00 Movie "The Other Side of Midnight"
7:00 Solid Gold
8:00 Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous
9:00 Conversation with Archbishop O'Connor (guest: Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin, Chicago)
10:00 INN News
10:30 From the Editor's Desk
11:00 Odd Couple
11:30 Honeymooners (bw)
mid. Star Trek
1:00 Tales from the Darkside
1:30 INN News
2:00 Wall Street Journal Report
2:30 Movie "The Horse's Mouth" (Alec Guinness both wrote and starred in this film, based on the novel by Joyce Cary)
4:30 Biography (bw)

WSBK
7:00 Kenneth Copeland
8:00 D. James Kennedy
9:00 World Tomorrow with Herbert W. Armstrong
9:30 Porky Pig/Bugs Bunny
10:00 Voltron
10:30 Jackson 5ive
11:00 Three Stooges (bw)
noon Movie "White Lightning"
2:00 Movie "This Savage Land"
4:00 Movie "Volcano"
7:00 Safe Harbor
7:30 College Hockey: BU-Boston College
10:00 Hands On (infomercial)
10:30 Wall Street Journal Report
11:00 Ask the Manager
11:30 Profile: Boston
mid. Exchange
12:30 Faith for Today

WTBS
5:00 Night Tracks cont'd
6:00 CNN Headline News
7:00 World Tomorrow with Herbert W. Armstrong
7:30 It is Written with George Vandeman
8:00 Cartoon Carnival
8:35 Lost in Space
9:35 Andy Griffith
10:05 Good News (Liz Wickersham)
10:35 Movie "Giant"
2:45 High Chaparral
3:45 CNN Headline News
4:05 NBA: Philadelphia-Houston
6:20 Wrestling
7:20 Wild, Wild World of Animals
7:50 CNN Headline News
8:00 American Caesar (pt 1 of a 3-part profile of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, with readings by John Huston)
10:00 Sports Page
10:35 Day of Discovery
11:05 Jerry Falwell
12:05 Open Up
1:05 Movie "If a Man Answers"
3:15 Movie "I Saw What You Did" (bw)

WOR
5:00 CNN Headline News
5:30 Straight Talk
6:30 News
7:00 Hispanic Horizons
7:30 Point of View
8:00 Terry Cole-Whitaker
8:30 Day of Discovery
9:00 Oral Roberts
9:30 Point of View
10:00 Catholic Mass
10:30 That's the Spirit
11:00 Make Peace with Nature
noon Robert Schuller
1:00 Movie "Terror Among Us"
3:00 Movie "Detour to Terror" (OJ plays a tour bus driver whose bus gets hijacked between New Mexico and Vegas)
5:00 Black Sheep Squadron
6:00 World at War
7:00 Switch
8:00 Straight Talk
9:00 Hispanic Horizons
9:30 9 on New Jersey
10:00 Meet the Mayors
10:30 New Jersey People
11:00 World Tomorrow with Herbert W. Armstrong
11:30 It is Written with George Vandeman
mid. Jimmy Swaggart
1:00 Movie "The Wrong Box"
3:00 Movie "A Woman's Vengeance" (bw)
 
Bluenoser said:
2:00 NHL: Vancouver-Hartford

A prime example of why "Travel Agent to an NHL Club" was always a hideous job.
 
Unless it was on the regular schedule on NBC that night, it looked "Punky Power!", Silver Spoons, and the Sunday Night at the Movies got bumped for the Solid Gold Dancers on Channel 2.
 
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