These TV listings come from the News and Courier and the Sumter Item, from January 6, 1986. Big day of changes at the networks.
WCBD 2 (ABC) Charleston
5:30am- Jim Bakker
6:30am- World News This Morning
7am- Good Morning America (David Hartman, Joan Lunden)
9am- Big Valley
10am- Hour Magazine (Gary Collins)
11am- Headline Chasers (preempting Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak, whose first episode was this day)
11:30- The New Love, American Style
Noon- Ryan's Hope
12:30pm- Loving
1- All My Children
2- One Life to Live
3- General Hospital
4- Quincy
5- Benson
5:30- Three's Company
6- TV-2 Eyewitness News
6:30- World News Tonight (Peter Jennings)
7pm- Wheel of Fortune
7:30- Jeopardy
8- Hardcastle and McCormick (judge ignores his housekeeper's premonitions of death)
9- ABC Movie: "Shattered Spirits" (Martin Sheen, Melinda Dillon, premiere)
11- TV-2 Eyewitness News
11:30- Trapper John, MD
12:30- Nightline
1am- Cannon
2am signoff
WCIV 4 (NBC) Charleston
5:45am: New Day
6am- CNN News
6:30am- NBC News at Sunrise
7am- Today (Jane Pauley, Bryant Gumbel)
9am- Donahue
10am- Santa Barbara (preempts Family Ties reruns and Sale of the Century, probably on one-day delay)
11am- Wheel of Fortune (daytime)
11:30- Scrabble
Noon- Super Password (panelists unknown)
12:30- Search for Tomorrow
1- Days of Our Lives
2- Another World
3pm- She-Ra: Princess of Power (replacing Santa Barbara)
3:30- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
4- Different Strokes
4:30- Bosom Buddies
5- WKRP in Cincinnati
5:30- The $100,000 Pyramid (with Florence Henderson and Stuart Damon)
6- News
6:30- NBC Nightly News (Brokaw)
7- Entertainment Tonight
7:30- The $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime (premiere, which is on YouTube at mtiller2006)
8- TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes (with Meredith Baxter Birney and Jennifer O'Neill)
9pm- Movie: "The Enforcer" (1976, Clint Eastwood, Tyne Daly)
11pm: News
11:30: Best of Carson (from January '85, guests John Davidson, Michael Davis, Elya Baskin)
12:30: Late Night with David Letterman (guests Don King, Jeff Altman, and a smell training demonstration)
1:30am: News (CNN or local?)
WCSC 5 (CBS) Charleston
5am: CBS News Nightwatch (continued from 2:30am)
6am: Jimmy Swaggart
6:30: CBS Early Morning News (no local morning news until later in 1986)
7am: CBS Morning News (Forrest Sawyer and Maria Shriver)
9am: The New Let's Make a Deal
9:30: Divorce Court
10am: $25,000 Pyramid
10:30am: Card Sharks (Bob Eubanks premiere)
11am: The Price is Right
Noon: Midday (with Mike Hiott)
12:30: The Young and the Restless
1:30pm: As the World Turns
2:30: Capitol
3pm: Guiding Light
4pm: Dynasty (preempting the first 4pm airing of Press Your Luck)
5pm: Gimme a Break
5:30: The Jeffersons
6pm: The People's Court
6:30: Live 5 News
7pm: CBS Evening News (Bob Schieffer)
7:30: The New Newlywed Game
8pm: Scarecrow and Mrs. King
9pm: Kate & Allie (Kate stranded at dentist office)
9:30: The Bob Newhart Show
10pm: Cagney & Lacey
11pm: Live 5 News
11:30: Remington Steele
12:30: Movie: "Loving Couples" (1980, Shirley MacLaine, James Coburn)
2am: CBS News Nightwatch
WITV 7 (PBS/ETV) Charleston
6am: Carolina Journal
6:30am: Farm Day
6:45am: A.M. Weather
7am: Sesame Street
8am: Educational Programming
2:30pm: Fast Forward
3pm: Staff Development
4pm: Sesame Street
5pm: Mister Rogers Neighborhood
5:30: Wild, Wild World of Animals
6pm: MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour
7pm: Nightly Business Report
7:30: Carolina Journal
8pm: Great Performances (Live from Lincoln Center: Pavarotti Plus, featuring Luciano Pavarotti)
11pm: Nightly Business Report
11:30: Carolina Journal
Midnight signoff
WTAT 24 (Ind.) Charleston
6am: Underdog
6:30am: Voltron
7am: Robotech
7:30: Flintstones
8am: Superfriends
8:30am: Inspector Gadget
9am: Jim Bakker
10am: The 700 Club
11:30am: Tic Tac Dough (Jim Caldwell)
Noon: Family Feud (Dawson reruns)
12:30pm: Movie "Secret of the Incas" (1954, Charlton Heston, Robert Young)
2:30: The Jetsons
3: Scooby-Doo
3:30: The Transformers
4pm: Challenge of the GoBots
4:30pm: G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
5pm: ThunderCats
5:30: Leave it to Beaver (what a segue!)
6pm: Gilligan's Island
6:30: Star Trek
7:30: Hogan's Heroes
8pm: Movie- "Lady Caroline Lamb" (1972, Sarah Miles, Richard Chamberlain)
10:30: The Bob Newhart Show
11pm: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
11:30: Sergeant Bilko
Midnight: Comedy Break (comedy talk show)
12:30am: McMillan and Wife (guest star June Havoc)
2am: Movie: "Secret of the Incas"
4am: Movie: "Black Angel" (1946, Dan Duryea, Peter Lorre)
WIS 10 (NBC) Columbia
6:20am: Early Riser
6:30: NBC News at Sunrise
6:45: News
7am: Today
9am: Jeopardy (weird time)
9:30: Super Password (on a delay?)
10am: Family Ties (rerun)
10:30: Sale of the Century
11am: Wheel of Fortune
11:30: Scrabble
Noon: Carolina Today
12:30pm: News (local, preempts Search for Tomorrow)
1pm: Days of our Lives
2pm: Another World
3pm: Santa Barbara
4pm: Dallas
5pm: Wheel of Fortune (nighttime)
5:30: M*A*S*H
6pm: Entertainment Tonight (no 6pm news until 1991)
6:30: NBC Nightly News
7pm: Seven O'Clock Report
7:30: PM Magazine
8pm: TV Bloopers and Practical Jokes
9pm: Dukes of Hazzard (local preemption of movie)
10pm: College Basketball (South Carolina at Memphis St, also on ESPN, Memphis won 89-81)
Midnight: News
12:30am: Best of Carson
1:30: Late Night with David Letterman
2:30am sign-off
WLTX 19 (CBS) Columbia
5am: Bonanza
6am: 700 Club
7am: CBS Morning News
9am: Donahue
10am: $25,000 Pyramid
10:30: Card Sharks (premiere)
11am: The Price is Right
Noon: Alice
12:30: The Young and the Restless
1:30: As the World Turns
2:30: Capitol
3pm: Guiding Light
4pm: Little House on the Prairie (preempting PYL)
5pm: What's Happening!
5:30: Good Times
6pm: News
6:30: CBS Evening News
7pm: Diff'rent Strokes
7:30: The Jeffersons
8pm: Scarecrow and Mrs. King
9pm: Kate & Allie (Kate stranded at dentist office)
9:30: The Bob Newhart Show
10pm: Cagney & Lacey
11pm: Andy Griffith (an institution at 11 in Columbia)
11:30: Remington Steele
12:30: Movie: "Loving Couples"
2am: CBS News Nightwatch
4am: One Day at a Time
4:30: All in the Family
WOLO 25 (ABC) Columbia
6am: CBN Jimmy Swaggart
6:30: ABC's World News This Morning
7am: Good Morning America
9am: Divorce Court
9:30: Catch Phrase (in its last week)
10am: Three's Company
10:30: Benson
11am: Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak (premiere)
11:30: New Love, American Style
Noon: Ryan's Hope
12:30: Loving
1pm: All My Children
2pm: One Life to Live
3pm: General Hospital
4pm: Scooby Doo
4:30: ThunderCats
5pm: Gomer Pyle
5:30: The People's Court
6: News
6:30: World News Tonight
7pm: The Price is Right (nighttime)
7:30: The New Newlywed Game
8- Hardcastle and McCormick
9- ABC Movie: "Shattered Spirits" (Martin Sheen, Melinda Dillon, premiere)
11: News
11:30: Benson
Midnight: Nightline
12:30am: Hawaii Five-O
1:30: Hogan's Heroes
2:30am sign-off
WBTW 13 (CBS) Florence
5:30am: AgDay
6am: CBN Jimmy Swaggart
6:30: CBS Early Morning News
7am: CBS Morning News
9am: Donahue
10am: $25,000 Pyramid
10:30: Card Sharks
11am: The Price is Right
Noon: Divorce Court
12:30: The Young and the Restless
1:30: As the World Turns
2:30: Capitol
3pm: Guiding Light
4pm: Love Connection (PYL preempted)
4:30: The New Newlywed Game
5pm: The People's Court
5:30: The Price is Right (nighttime)
6pm: Channel 13 News
6:30: CBS Evening News
7pm: Wheel of Fortune
7:30: Jeopardy!
8pm: Scarecrow and Mrs. King
9pm: Kate & Allie (Kate stranded at dentist office)
9:30: The Bob Newhart Show
10pm: Cagney & Lacey
11pm: Channel 13 News
11:30: Remington Steele
12:30: Movie: "Loving Couples"
2am sign-off
WPDE 15 (ABC) Florence/Myrtle Beach
6am: ABC's World News This Morning
7am: Good Morning America
9am: Big Valley
10am: Andy Griffith
10:30: Happy Days Again
11am: Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak (premiere)
11:30: New Love, American Style
Noon: Ryan's Hope
12:30: Loving
1pm: All My Children
2pm: One Life to Live
3pm: General Hospital
4pm: Dukes of Hazzard
5pm: Diff'rent Strokes
5:30: The Jeffersons
6pm: Action News 15
6:30: World News Tonight
7pm: Knot's Landing
8- Hardcastle and McCormick
9- ABC Movie: "Shattered Spirits"
11: Action News 15
11:30: Sanford and Son
Midnight: Good Times
12:30: Nightline
1am sign-off
WRJA 27 (PBS/ETV) Sumter
Same schedule as WITV except for Agriculture Today, 7pm.
Weirdly, WPCQ (NBC) Charlotte was on the Sumter cable in 1986, but WCCB, the independent out of Charlotte, was not.
WCBD 2 (ABC) Charleston
5:30am- Jim Bakker
6:30am- World News This Morning
7am- Good Morning America (David Hartman, Joan Lunden)
9am- Big Valley
10am- Hour Magazine (Gary Collins)
11am- Headline Chasers (preempting Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak, whose first episode was this day)
11:30- The New Love, American Style
Noon- Ryan's Hope
12:30pm- Loving
1- All My Children
2- One Life to Live
3- General Hospital
4- Quincy
5- Benson
5:30- Three's Company
6- TV-2 Eyewitness News
6:30- World News Tonight (Peter Jennings)
7pm- Wheel of Fortune
7:30- Jeopardy
8- Hardcastle and McCormick (judge ignores his housekeeper's premonitions of death)
9- ABC Movie: "Shattered Spirits" (Martin Sheen, Melinda Dillon, premiere)
11- TV-2 Eyewitness News
11:30- Trapper John, MD
12:30- Nightline
1am- Cannon
2am signoff
WCIV 4 (NBC) Charleston
5:45am: New Day
6am- CNN News
6:30am- NBC News at Sunrise
7am- Today (Jane Pauley, Bryant Gumbel)
9am- Donahue
10am- Santa Barbara (preempts Family Ties reruns and Sale of the Century, probably on one-day delay)
11am- Wheel of Fortune (daytime)
11:30- Scrabble
Noon- Super Password (panelists unknown)
12:30- Search for Tomorrow
1- Days of Our Lives
2- Another World
3pm- She-Ra: Princess of Power (replacing Santa Barbara)
3:30- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
4- Different Strokes
4:30- Bosom Buddies
5- WKRP in Cincinnati
5:30- The $100,000 Pyramid (with Florence Henderson and Stuart Damon)
6- News
6:30- NBC Nightly News (Brokaw)
7- Entertainment Tonight
7:30- The $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime (premiere, which is on YouTube at mtiller2006)
8- TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes (with Meredith Baxter Birney and Jennifer O'Neill)
9pm- Movie: "The Enforcer" (1976, Clint Eastwood, Tyne Daly)
11pm: News
11:30: Best of Carson (from January '85, guests John Davidson, Michael Davis, Elya Baskin)
12:30: Late Night with David Letterman (guests Don King, Jeff Altman, and a smell training demonstration)
1:30am: News (CNN or local?)
WCSC 5 (CBS) Charleston
5am: CBS News Nightwatch (continued from 2:30am)
6am: Jimmy Swaggart
6:30: CBS Early Morning News (no local morning news until later in 1986)
7am: CBS Morning News (Forrest Sawyer and Maria Shriver)
9am: The New Let's Make a Deal
9:30: Divorce Court
10am: $25,000 Pyramid
10:30am: Card Sharks (Bob Eubanks premiere)
11am: The Price is Right
Noon: Midday (with Mike Hiott)
12:30: The Young and the Restless
1:30pm: As the World Turns
2:30: Capitol
3pm: Guiding Light
4pm: Dynasty (preempting the first 4pm airing of Press Your Luck)
5pm: Gimme a Break
5:30: The Jeffersons
6pm: The People's Court
6:30: Live 5 News
7pm: CBS Evening News (Bob Schieffer)
7:30: The New Newlywed Game
8pm: Scarecrow and Mrs. King
9pm: Kate & Allie (Kate stranded at dentist office)
9:30: The Bob Newhart Show
10pm: Cagney & Lacey
11pm: Live 5 News
11:30: Remington Steele
12:30: Movie: "Loving Couples" (1980, Shirley MacLaine, James Coburn)
2am: CBS News Nightwatch
WITV 7 (PBS/ETV) Charleston
6am: Carolina Journal
6:30am: Farm Day
6:45am: A.M. Weather
7am: Sesame Street
8am: Educational Programming
2:30pm: Fast Forward
3pm: Staff Development
4pm: Sesame Street
5pm: Mister Rogers Neighborhood
5:30: Wild, Wild World of Animals
6pm: MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour
7pm: Nightly Business Report
7:30: Carolina Journal
8pm: Great Performances (Live from Lincoln Center: Pavarotti Plus, featuring Luciano Pavarotti)
11pm: Nightly Business Report
11:30: Carolina Journal
Midnight signoff
WTAT 24 (Ind.) Charleston
6am: Underdog
6:30am: Voltron
7am: Robotech
7:30: Flintstones
8am: Superfriends
8:30am: Inspector Gadget
9am: Jim Bakker
10am: The 700 Club
11:30am: Tic Tac Dough (Jim Caldwell)
Noon: Family Feud (Dawson reruns)
12:30pm: Movie "Secret of the Incas" (1954, Charlton Heston, Robert Young)
2:30: The Jetsons
3: Scooby-Doo
3:30: The Transformers
4pm: Challenge of the GoBots
4:30pm: G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
5pm: ThunderCats
5:30: Leave it to Beaver (what a segue!)
6pm: Gilligan's Island
6:30: Star Trek
7:30: Hogan's Heroes
8pm: Movie- "Lady Caroline Lamb" (1972, Sarah Miles, Richard Chamberlain)
10:30: The Bob Newhart Show
11pm: Alfred Hitchcock Presents
11:30: Sergeant Bilko
Midnight: Comedy Break (comedy talk show)
12:30am: McMillan and Wife (guest star June Havoc)
2am: Movie: "Secret of the Incas"
4am: Movie: "Black Angel" (1946, Dan Duryea, Peter Lorre)
WIS 10 (NBC) Columbia
6:20am: Early Riser
6:30: NBC News at Sunrise
6:45: News
7am: Today
9am: Jeopardy (weird time)
9:30: Super Password (on a delay?)
10am: Family Ties (rerun)
10:30: Sale of the Century
11am: Wheel of Fortune
11:30: Scrabble
Noon: Carolina Today
12:30pm: News (local, preempts Search for Tomorrow)
1pm: Days of our Lives
2pm: Another World
3pm: Santa Barbara
4pm: Dallas
5pm: Wheel of Fortune (nighttime)
5:30: M*A*S*H
6pm: Entertainment Tonight (no 6pm news until 1991)
6:30: NBC Nightly News
7pm: Seven O'Clock Report
7:30: PM Magazine
8pm: TV Bloopers and Practical Jokes
9pm: Dukes of Hazzard (local preemption of movie)
10pm: College Basketball (South Carolina at Memphis St, also on ESPN, Memphis won 89-81)
Midnight: News
12:30am: Best of Carson
1:30: Late Night with David Letterman
2:30am sign-off
WLTX 19 (CBS) Columbia
5am: Bonanza
6am: 700 Club
7am: CBS Morning News
9am: Donahue
10am: $25,000 Pyramid
10:30: Card Sharks (premiere)
11am: The Price is Right
Noon: Alice
12:30: The Young and the Restless
1:30: As the World Turns
2:30: Capitol
3pm: Guiding Light
4pm: Little House on the Prairie (preempting PYL)
5pm: What's Happening!
5:30: Good Times
6pm: News
6:30: CBS Evening News
7pm: Diff'rent Strokes
7:30: The Jeffersons
8pm: Scarecrow and Mrs. King
9pm: Kate & Allie (Kate stranded at dentist office)
9:30: The Bob Newhart Show
10pm: Cagney & Lacey
11pm: Andy Griffith (an institution at 11 in Columbia)
11:30: Remington Steele
12:30: Movie: "Loving Couples"
2am: CBS News Nightwatch
4am: One Day at a Time
4:30: All in the Family
WOLO 25 (ABC) Columbia
6am: CBN Jimmy Swaggart
6:30: ABC's World News This Morning
7am: Good Morning America
9am: Divorce Court
9:30: Catch Phrase (in its last week)
10am: Three's Company
10:30: Benson
11am: Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak (premiere)
11:30: New Love, American Style
Noon: Ryan's Hope
12:30: Loving
1pm: All My Children
2pm: One Life to Live
3pm: General Hospital
4pm: Scooby Doo
4:30: ThunderCats
5pm: Gomer Pyle
5:30: The People's Court
6: News
6:30: World News Tonight
7pm: The Price is Right (nighttime)
7:30: The New Newlywed Game
8- Hardcastle and McCormick
9- ABC Movie: "Shattered Spirits" (Martin Sheen, Melinda Dillon, premiere)
11: News
11:30: Benson
Midnight: Nightline
12:30am: Hawaii Five-O
1:30: Hogan's Heroes
2:30am sign-off
WBTW 13 (CBS) Florence
5:30am: AgDay
6am: CBN Jimmy Swaggart
6:30: CBS Early Morning News
7am: CBS Morning News
9am: Donahue
10am: $25,000 Pyramid
10:30: Card Sharks
11am: The Price is Right
Noon: Divorce Court
12:30: The Young and the Restless
1:30: As the World Turns
2:30: Capitol
3pm: Guiding Light
4pm: Love Connection (PYL preempted)
4:30: The New Newlywed Game
5pm: The People's Court
5:30: The Price is Right (nighttime)
6pm: Channel 13 News
6:30: CBS Evening News
7pm: Wheel of Fortune
7:30: Jeopardy!
8pm: Scarecrow and Mrs. King
9pm: Kate & Allie (Kate stranded at dentist office)
9:30: The Bob Newhart Show
10pm: Cagney & Lacey
11pm: Channel 13 News
11:30: Remington Steele
12:30: Movie: "Loving Couples"
2am sign-off
WPDE 15 (ABC) Florence/Myrtle Beach
6am: ABC's World News This Morning
7am: Good Morning America
9am: Big Valley
10am: Andy Griffith
10:30: Happy Days Again
11am: Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak (premiere)
11:30: New Love, American Style
Noon: Ryan's Hope
12:30: Loving
1pm: All My Children
2pm: One Life to Live
3pm: General Hospital
4pm: Dukes of Hazzard
5pm: Diff'rent Strokes
5:30: The Jeffersons
6pm: Action News 15
6:30: World News Tonight
7pm: Knot's Landing
8- Hardcastle and McCormick
9- ABC Movie: "Shattered Spirits"
11: Action News 15
11:30: Sanford and Son
Midnight: Good Times
12:30: Nightline
1am sign-off
WRJA 27 (PBS/ETV) Sumter
Same schedule as WITV except for Agriculture Today, 7pm.
Weirdly, WPCQ (NBC) Charlotte was on the Sumter cable in 1986, but WCCB, the independent out of Charlotte, was not.
