Retro: Central Virginia Mon, Sept 16, 1985

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide-Central Virginia edition

WFMY 2-CBS Greensboro
5:00 Hogan's Heroes
5:30 Ag-USA
6:00 Good Morning (improving memory, pt 1)
8:00 Beverly Hillbillies
8:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
9:00 Hour Magazine (guests Dyan Cannon (pt 1), David Hartman, and Julie Parish; plus pt 1 of a tour of Paris)
10:00 $25,000 Pyramid
10:30 Press Your Luck
11:00 Price is Right
noon Catch Phrase
12:30 Young & the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 America (premiere)
5:00 Jeffersons
5:30 Andy Griffith (bw)
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 News
7:30 PM Magazine
8:00 Scarecrow & Mrs. King
9:00 Kate & Allie
9:30 Newhart
10:00 Cagney & Lacey
11:00 News
11:30 Bob Newhart
mid. Simon & Simon
1:10 Movie "Crooks and Coronets"
2:30 News
3:00 Movie "Flight to Holocaust"

WHSV 3-ABC Harrisonburg
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America (guests Priscilla Presley (pt 1), Meg Tilly, Miss America 1986, and the Lennon Sisters)
9:00 Jim Bakker
10:00 Hour Magazine (see WFMY for info)
11:00 Angie
11:30 All-Star Blitz
noon Ryan's Hope
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Happy Days
4:30 America (premiere)
5:30 Entertainment Tonight
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 High on the Job (Stacey Keach narrates this special about cocaine use on the job; pre-empts Wheel and Jeopardy!)
8:00 Hardcastle & McCormick
9:00 NFL: Pittsburgh-Cleveland
mid. News
12:30 ABC News Nightline
1:00 News

WRAL 5-CBS Raleigh
6:00 CBS Early Morning News
6:30 Morning
7:00 CBS Morning News (guest Richard Avedon)
9:00 Hour Magazine (see WFMY for info)
10:00 $25,000 Pyramid
10:30 Press Your Luck
11:00 Price is Right
noon Live at Noon
12:30 Young & the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Dukes of Hazzard
5:00 Sanford & Son
5:30 Andy Griffith
6:00 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 PM Magazine
8:00 Scarecrow & Mrs. King
9:00 Kate & Allie
9:30 Newhart
10:00 Cagney & Lacey
11:00 News
11:30 Benson
mid. Simon & Simon
1:10 Movie "Crooks and Coronets"
2:30 CBS News Nightwatch

WTTG 5-Ind Washington
5:55 Today in Your Life
6:00 Panorama
7:00 Great Space Coaster
7:30 Flintstones
8:00 Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids
8:30 Tom & Jerry
9:00 I Love Lucy (bw)
9:30 Andy Griffith
10:00 I Dream of Jeannie
10:30 Bewitched
11:00 Love Boat
noon Panorama
1:00 Merv Griffin (no details listed)
2:00 Love Songs
2:30 Jayce & the Wheeled Warriors
3:00 Inspector Gadget
3:30 Pink Panther
4:00 He-Man & the Masters of the Universe
4:30 ThunderCats
5:00 Star Trek
6:00 Happy Days
6:30 Mork & Mindy
7:00 One Day at a Time
7:30 Redskins Playbook (highlights of the Redskins-Oilers Game, M*A*S*H usually airs here)
8:00 Far Pavilions (pt 2)
10:00 News
11:00 WKRP in Cincinnati
11:30 Baretta
12:30 Mission: Impossible
1:30 Movie "In Old Chicago" (bw)
3:30 Today in Your Life

WVVA 6-NBC Bluefield
5:30 Jim Bakker
6:30 NBC News at Sunrise
7:00 Today (guest Jane Fonda, also pt 1 of a report on learning disabilities)
9:00 Richard Roberts
10:00 Silver Spoons
10:30 Sale of the Century
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Scrabble
noon Super Password
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 Love Connection
4:30 Dating Game
5:00 Dukes of Hazzard
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 New Newlywed Game
7:30 Three's Company
8:00 NBC All-Star Hour (NBC shows off its new season programming)
9:00 Movie "Mirrors"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show (from June '84 with guests Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Bruce Mahler, and Maria Conchita Alonso)
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman (guest Sammy Davis Jr.)

WDBJ 7-CBS Roanoke
6:00 CBS Early Morning News
6:30 Mornin'
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Hour Magazine (see WFMY for info)
10:00 $25,000 Pyramid
10:30 Press Your Luck
11:00 Price is Right
noon News
12:30 Young & the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Dukes of Hazzard
5:00 Hogan's Heroes
5:30 Andy Griffith (bw)
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Price is Right
7:30 M*A*S*H
8:00 Scarecrow & Mrs. King
9:00 Kate & Allie
9:30 Newhart
10:00 Cagney & Lacey
11:00 News
11:30 Simon & Simon
12:40 Movie "Cry Rape!"

WGHP 8-ABC High Point
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Bonanza
10:00 Love Connection
10:30 Alice
11:00 Angie
11:30 Ryan's Hope
noon News
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Dynasty
5:00 Divorce Court
5:30 Three's Company
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Entertainment Tonight
7:30 Newlywed Game
8:00 Hardcastle & McCormick
9:00 NFL: Pittsburgh-Cleveland
mid. News
12:30 M*A*S*H
1:00 ABC News Nightline

WSWP 9-PBS Beckley
6:45 AM Weather
7:00 Brain: Mind & Behavior
8:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 Body Buddies
10:00 Latenight America
11:00 Mystery! "Rumpole of the Bailey III"
noon Instructional Programs
3:00 Magic Brush of Gary Jenkins
3:30 Today's Special
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Child Sexual Abuse
6:00 Wild, Wild World of Animals
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour
8:00 Amazing World of Spiders (first shown in 1976)
9:00 Quest for the Killers "Vaccine on Trial" (late 1970s trials of the Hepatitis B vaccine)
10:00 History of Consumer Protest (narrated by Edwin Newman)
11:00 New Tech Times
11:30 Latenight America
12:30 Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler

WSLS 10-NBC Roanoke
6:30 NBC News at Sunrise
7:00 Today
9:00 Super Password
9:30 Let's Make a Deal
10:00 Silver Spoons
10:30 Sale of the Century
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Scrabble
noon News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 America (premiere)
5:00 People's Court
5:30 Headline Chasers (premiere)
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Jeopardy!
8:00 NBC All-Star Hour
9:00 Movie "Mirrors"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman

WTVD 11-ABC Durham
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Phil Donahue (info not listed)
10:00 Sally Jessy Raphael
10:30 Here's Lucy
11:00 Angie
11:30 Alice
noon News
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Diff'rent Strokes (pt 1 of a 2-parter introducing spinoff Hello, Larry)
4:30 Jeffersons
5:00 Headline Chasers (not listed as such, but I assume this was a premiere as well)
5:30 People's Court
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Jeopardy!
7:30 Wheel of Fortune
8:00 Hardcastle & McCormick
9:00 NFL: Pittsburgh-Cleveland
mid. News
12:30 Entertainment Tonight (rerun of weekend version)
1:30 News

WXII 12-NBC Winston-Salem
5:00 Headline News
5:30 700 Club
6:30 NBC News at Sunrise
7:00 Today
9:00 Phil Donahue (info not listed)
10:00 Silver Spoons
10:30 Let's Make a Deal
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Scrabble
noon News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 Dating Game
4:30 Headline Chasers (premiere?)
5:00 People's Court
5:30 Price is Right
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Jeopardy!
7:30 Wheel of Fortune
8:00 NBC All-Star Hour
9:00 Movie "Mirrors"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman

WSET 13-ABC Lynchburg
6:30 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Phil Donahue "Pampered and Abused Wives"
10:00 Big Valley
11:00 Angie
11:30 All-Star Blitz
noon Ryan's Hope
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Scooby-Doo
4:30 Diff'rent Strokes
5:00 Gimme a Break!
5:30 New Newlywed Game
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Entertainment Tonight
7:30 Three's Company
8:00 Hardcastle & McCormick
9:00 NFL: Pittsburgh-Cleveland
mid. News
12:30 ABC News Nightline

Blue Ridge Public Television (PBS): WBRA 15-Roanoke/WMSY 52-Marion
8:00 Farm Day
8:15 AM Weather
8:30 Instructional Programs (IIRC 15/52 signed-off for part of the daytime?)
3:30 Secret City
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Voyage of the Mimi
6:00 Doctor Who "Hand of Fear" (conclusion, Tom Baker is the Doc)
6:30 Modern Maturity
7:00 MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour
8:00 Amazing World of Spiders
9:00 Quest for the Killers "Vaccine on Trial"
10:00 History of Consumer Protest

WDCA 20-Ind Washington
7:00 Bugs Bunny Hour
8:00 Voltron
8:30 Heathcliff
9:00 WOW
9:30 Romper Room
10:00 700 Club
11:30 INN News
noon Movie "The Gay Divorcee" (bw, WDCA showed a Astaire/Rogers festival in the timeslot all week)
2:00 Eye on Washington
2:30 Children's Theatre
3:00 Jetsons
3:30 MASK
4:00 Challenge of the GoBots
4:30 Voltron
5:00 Laverne & Shirley (x2)
6:00 Diff'rent Strokes
6:30 What's Happening!!
7:00 Jeffersons
7:30 Benson
8:00 Movie "Cheyenne Autumn"
11:00 All in the Family
11:30 Alfred Hitchcock (bw)
mid. Puttin' on the Hits
12:30 Jim Bakker
1:30 Jimmy Swaggart
2:00 INN News
2:30 Doctor is In

WVPT 51-PBS Harrisonburg
7:15 AM Weather
7:30 Body Electric
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Instructional Programs
3:30 Voyage of the Mimi
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Secret City
6:00 MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour
7:00 Nightly Business Report
7:30 McLaughlin Group
8:00 Amazing World of Spiders
9:00 Evening at Pops (1983 tribute to Irving Berlin with guests Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme)
10:00 New York's Master Chefs
10:30 Great Chefs of New Orleans

 

[mleach]

Re: WTTG/WDCA..I don't recall if they did this in the summer of 1985 but for a time in the early 80s both stations would offer "Youth Watch". "Youth Watch" was nothing more than WDCA and WTTG's way for them to stop airing certain shows for the summer in favor of shows they felt would attract the children such as The Six Million Dollar Man, Star Trek and the Bionic Woman.

While Star Trek does appear on these listings on WTTG, I just don't remember if that was still part of "Youth Watch on Metromedia 5" but I do have on tape ( though I havent seen it for several years ) of The Six Million Dollar Man tape off of WTTG from 1983 that opened up with the Youth Watch logo. The same logo FWIW that was used on WDCA as well.

I assume that Youth Watch was strictly a "DC thing" since in the past I had chatted with people in New York who don't remember ever seeing WTTG's sister station in DC WNEW channel 5 ever doing this.

 

[DToTheJ]

WTVD 11-ABC Durham
12:30 Entertainment Tonight (rerun of weekend version)

Then wouldn't the program have been called "Entertainment This Week"? ;D It has to be that day's "Entertainment Tonight" in that timeslot.

By the way, no listings for Channel 28 in Raleigh in this edition? I guess they really were that bad.

 

[Bluenoser]

WTVD 11-ABC Durham
12:30 Entertainment Tonight (rerun of weekend version)

Then wouldn't the program have been called "Entertainment This Week"? ;D It has to be that day's "Entertainment Tonight" in that timeslot.

By the way, no listings for Channel 28 in Raleigh in this edition? I guess they really were that bad.

If it was, they ran it twice in a row as TVG listed it for an hour ;D As for the lack of the Triangle's 28 in the edition, my guess is it wasn't cablecast in the edition area...

 

[bpatrick]

The weekend version is on for an hour (WXII has it Saturdays 7-8),
and TV Guide nearly always listed it as "Entertainment Tonight," even
though--at least at first--it was called "Entertainment This Week."

BTW, "ET" is now in its 30th season, having debuted in 1981.

 

[71dude]

Did any CBS station that delayed their late show had to carry it a week later instead of a half hour later?

 

[bpatrick]

KDFW and WAGA delayed CBS's late-night programming
a week.

 

[8638]

WTVD 11-ABC Durham
12:30 Entertainment Tonight (rerun of weekend version)

By the way, no listings for Channel 28 in Raleigh in this edition? I guess they really were that bad.

I didn't live there then, but my electronics instructor in Raleigh related doing a custom indoor attic antenna installation in Norlina, NC, specifically to receive WPTF-TV 28. He said that that had a very difficult time obtaining a noise free signal, so I'm guessing 28 didn't have much punch OTA. The other Triangle and Triad stations probably could be viewed OTA in southside and central Virginia, subject to terrain issues, of course.

 

[bpatrick]

I know that WRAL and WTVD get into Mecklenburg County, VA,
on the North Carolina line; the Triad stations get into Virginia, since
WFMY regularly gives weather information for Patrick, Henry, and
Carroll Counties, as well as the independent cities of Danville and
Martinsville, while WXII gives weather information for Galax.

 

[mleach]

the Triad stations get into Virginia, since
WFMY regularly gives weather information for Patrick, Henry, and
Carroll Counties, as well as the independent cities of Danville and
Martinsville, while WXII gives weather information for Galax.

Sorry to go off topic with this but it has to be asked..but exactly why are Virginia's cities "independent"? Baltimore and St. Louis are both independent as well but over the years its not hard to find out but with Virginia its usually "..why silly Virginia is a commomwealth..not a state?" But if thats the case shoudln't Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Boston, Erie, Louisville and Lexington be independent cities as well since Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Kentucky, like Virginia are "commonwealth"...in other words nobody it seems really knows why Virginia's cities are independent other than "..well thats just the way it is...". ? ? ? ?

 

[bpatrick]

It's something peculiar to Virginia: any municipality with
a population over 5000 can split away from its county and
become an independent city, not located in any county.
Sometimes entire counties have become independent cities:
Virginia Beach was once Princess Anne County, Chesapeake
was once Norfolk County, and what is now the independent
city of Suffolk encompasses all of what used to be Nansemond
County (Nansemond County existed when I lived in Virginia Beach
in the late '60s and there were 96 counties in Virginia; now there
are 95). The idea has been in effect since the 1871 state constitution;
for reasons not clear to me, it was a result of the splitting away
of the 58 western counties that now comprise West Virginia (with virtually
no slavery in those counties, they had nothing in common with the rest
of the state and thus formed their own).

It's not the same as localities where the city and county governments
are essentially one, such as Miami-Dade, Nashville-Davidson, Louisville-
Jefferson, Lexington-Fayette. An independent city can be surrounded
by the county from which it separated or, as noted above, the county
can cease to exist altogether.

I suppose there are advantages to not having to pay both city
and county taxes.

 

[mleach]

Actually Virginia no longer allows towns to become independent cities. Not sure when the cut off date was but today there are some rather big 'towns" in Virginia that are bigger than many of those so-called "independent cities". Blacksburg comes to mind as does Leesburg. Front Royal is getting up there and considering all those lawsuits and fighting between them and Warren County, I am sure Front Royal would love to become independent..but Virginia won't allow it.

Also despite being independent many cities in Virginia are still considered "county seats" and they still continue to get at least some county funds even if the city isn't part of the county. Example..Harrisonburg and Rockingham County.

You are right it is very peculiar. However something tells me back in 1871 ( though I had thought it was much later than that )..race was the reason why in Virginia cities and counties are seperated.

 

[bpatrick]

It is true that independent cities can be county seats,
although they are not part of the county when it comes
to government services, etc.

West Virginia became a state in 1863, so those western
counties seceded from Virginia (again, remember, little or
no slavery) during the Civil War. How that impacted the
decision to create independent cities, I have no idea.
I also didn't know that Virginia no longer allows the creation
of new ones. Thanks for that bit of info.

 

[mleach]

It is true that independent cities can be county seats,
although they are not part of the county when it comes
to government services, etc.

There are a few exceptions though such as fire, police and rescue. Wasn't always that way though. Back in 1991 a man had a heart attack in a parking lot of a Holiday Inn in Frederick County, VA. Not only was the Holiday Inn was only a few feet from the Winchester city limits, but within site of the Winchester City rescue squad. Because the vicitim was in the "county" the rescue squad in the "city" wasnt allowed under Virginia law to help. To may a long story short it took the county rescue squad THIRTY MINUTES to reach the vicitm so as a result he had died. Had the city was allowed to help chances are he would had lived since they were, well just down the street not several miles away. Anyway the victim's family filed suit against the commonwealth of Virginia, city of Winchester and county of Frederick and not only did they win but changed policy too.

Today regardless of location ( city or county ), in most parts of Virginia its a question who can get there first not where they are based out and hope for the best.

 

[DToTheJ]

WTTG 5-Ind Washington
1:00 Merv Griffin (no details listed)
2:00 Love Songs
2:30 Jayce & the Wheeled Warriors
3:00 Inspector Gadget

Was this an infomercial for the old "Secret Love" music compilation from Time-Life or whoever released that set? Given how it's scheduled between Merv and kiddie fare, I'd imagine it was not a half-hour of music videos, per se.

 

[EricStein]

WTTG 5-Ind Washington
1:00 Merv Griffin (no details listed)
2:00 Love Songs
2:30 Jayce & the Wheeled Warriors
3:00 Inspector Gadget

Was this an infomercial for the old "Secret Love" music compilation from Time-Life or whoever released that set? Given how it's scheduled between Merv and kiddie fare, I'd imagine it was not a half-hour of music videos, per se.

If my memory serves me right, "Love Songs" was a syndicated music show from the producers behind USA Network's "Night Flight" and "Radio 1990." They had a couple other syndicated music shows on the air, if I recall correctly.