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Retro: Charleston, SC May 13, 1987

Source: News and Courier (now Post and Courier) of Charleston, South Carolina
Date: May 13, 1987

Big 3 Networks Only.

WCBD-TV 2 ABC (now NBC)

6:00am: Streches
6:30am: World News This Morning
7:00am: Good Morning America (Joan Lunden/Charlie Gibson after taking over from David Hartman three months earlier)
9:00am: Cannon
10:00am: The Love Boat
11:00am: Fantasy Island (pre-empts Fame Fortune and Romance and daytime reruns of Webster)
12:00pm: Ryan's Hope
12:30pm: Loving
1:00pm: All My Children
2:00pm: One Life to Live
3:00pm: General Hospital (now ABC's last remaining soap)
4:00pm: Hart to Hart
5:00pm: Benson
5:30pm: Three's Company
6:00pm: TV-2 Eyewitness News
6:30pm: World News Tonight with Peter Jennings (RIP)
7:00pm: Wheel of Fortune
7:30pm: Jeopardy!
8:00pm: Perfect Strangers
8:30pm: Head of The Class
9:00pm: James Bond 25th Anniversary Special
10:00pm: Mariah (Last show of the series!)
11:00pm: TV-2 Eyewitness News
11:30pm: Benson (pushes Nightline to 12:30am)

WCIV-TV 4 NBC (now ABC)

6:00am: Headline News
6:30am: NBC News at Sunrise
7:00am: Today (Gumbel/Pauley)
9:00am: Donahue
10:00am: Hollywood Squares (pre-empts $ale of The Century)
10:30am: Love Connection (pre-empts Alex Trebek's Classic Concentration)
11:00am: Wheel of Fortune (daytime)
11:30am: Scrabble
12:00pm: Super Password
12:30pm: Wordplay
1:00pm: Days of Our Lives
2:00pm: Another World
3:00pm: Santa Barbara
4:00pm: The Oprah Winfrey Show (later moved to WCBD 2)
5:00pm: Superior Court (Judge William D. Burns)
5:30pm: The Judge (starring the late Bob Shield as Judge Robert J. Franklin)
6:00pm: News 4 with Dee Crosby and Dean Swanson
6:30pm: NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw
7:00pm: Diff'rent Strokes
7:30pm: WKRP in Cincinnati
8:00pm: Highway to Heaven
9:30pm: Night Court
10:00pm: St. Elsewhere (The late Ed Flanders' final season)
11:00pm: News 4 Nightcast
11:30pm: The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson (RIP)
12:30pm: Late Night with David Letterman

WCSC-TV 5 CBS

6:00am: Jimmy Swaggart
6:30am: Live 5 News?
7:00am: CBS Morning News (joined in progress)
7:30am: The Morning Program
9:00am: Knots Landing
10:00am: Divorce Court (Judge William B. Keene, sadly pre-empts The $25,000 Pryamid hosted by the late Dick Clark)
10:30am: Card Sharks (Bob Eubanks)
11:00am: The Price is Right (Bob Barker's final season with dark hair)
12:00pm: Midday (hosted by Mike Hiott?)
12:30pm: The Young and The Restless
1:30pm: The Bold and The Beautiful (which replaced the five year old soap Capitol two months earlier)
2:00pm: As The World Turns
3:00pm: Guiding Light
4:00pm: Good Times
4:30pm: The Facts of Life
5:00pm: Gimmie a Break (with the late greats Nell Carter and Dolph Sweet)
5:30pm: The Jeffersons
6:00pm: The People's Court (Wapner)
6:30pm: Live 5 News at 6:30 (with Bill Sharpe and Debi Chard?)
7:00pm: CBS Evening News with Dan Rather
7:30pm: The All New Newlywed Game (with Bob Eubanks of course)
8:00pm: The New Mike Hammer (with Stacy Ketch from neighboring Savannah!)
9:00pm: Magnum P.I. (with Tom Selleck!)
10:00pm: The Equalizer (with the late Edward Woodward)
11:00pm: Live 5 News Nightwatch
11:30pm: Sanford & Son
 
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