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Source: Chicago Tribune
Note: Some network programming may have been interrupted by news coverage of the hijacking of TWA Flight 847.
2 WBBM (CBS)
AM
5:00 Bill Cosby (1969-71 sitcom)
5:30 Morning Stretch
6:00 Daybreak
6:30 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News (former WBBM anchor Bill Kurtis' final show as anchor, as well as Early Morning News)
9:00 Donahue
10:00 $25,000 Pyramid
10:30 Press Your Luck (The "Sylvester" episode; see link below)
11:00 Body Language
11:30 Young and Restless
PM
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Capitol
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 The Price is Right
4:00 Quincy
5:00 Channel 2 News
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 Channel 2 News
7:00 Dukes of Hazzard
8:00 CBS Special Movie: "Incident at Crestridge"
10:00 Channel 2 News
10:30 CBS Late Movie: "Superdome"
AM
12:45 Movie: "It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy"
2:15 Common Ground
4:15 Take It from Here
4:30 Channel 2: The People
5 WMAQ (NBC)
AM
6:00 Today in Chicago
6:30 NBC News at Sunrise
7:00 Today
9:00 The Facts of Life
9:30 Sale of the Century
10:00 Wheel of Forunte
10:30 Scrabble
11:00 Super Password
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
PM
12:00 Days of Our Lives
1:00 Another World
2:00 Santa Barbara
3:00 Love Connection
3:30 All-New Let's Make a Deal
4:00 People's Court
4:30 Channel 5 News
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Channel 5 News
6:30 $100,000 Name That Tune - Jim Lange
7:00 Michael Nesmith (of the Monkees) in Television Parts
7:30 Spencer
8:00 V
9:00 Miami Vice
10:00 Channel 5 News
10:30 Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
11:30 Friday Night Videos
AM
1:00 Channel 5 News (replay)
1:30 Anything for Money - Fred Travalena
2:00 Everyman
2:30 Today in Chicago
7 WLS (ABC)
AM
5:30 20 Minute Workout
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 AM Chicago (renamed "The Oprah Winfrey Show" Sept. 30, 1985; first national broadcast Sept. 8, 1986)
10:00 All-Star Blitz - Peter Marshall
10:30 Every Second Counts - Bill Rafferty (syndicated)
11:00 Ryan's Hope
11:30 Loving
PM
12:00 All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Family Feud (ABC series finale featuring a teary-eyed Richard Dawson's heartfelt farewell speech; see link below)
3:30 Jeopardy!
4:00 Eyewitness News
5:30 ABC World News Tonight
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 Wheel of Fortune
7:00 Webster (set in Chicago)
7:30 Ripley's Believe It or Not!
8:00 Benson
8:30 People Do the Craziest Things - Bert Convy
9:00 Matt Houston
10:00 Eyewitness News
10:30 Golf: US Open - Second Round Highlights
11:00 Nightline
11:30 Rock On Chicago!
AM
12:30 Record Guide
2:00 Eyewitness News (replay)
2:30 Newlywed Game
3:00 Dating Game
3:30 Treasure Hunt
4:00 Gong Show
4:30 Reflections
9 WGN (Ind.)
AM
5:00 Abbott & Costello
5:30 Faith 20
6:00 Muppet Show
6:30 Terrytoons
7:00 Bozo Show (either a repeat hosted by the late Frazier Thomas prior to his death April 3, or a new episode hosted by his successor Pat Hurley)
8:30 Beverly Hillbillies
9:00 Waltons
10:00 Big Valley
11:00 Family
PM
12:00 Chicago's Midday News
12:30 INN News
1:00 Carol Burnett
1:30 Andy Griffith
2:00 I Dream of Jeannie
2:30 Bugs Bunny (pre-empting Scooby-Doo)
2:45 Lead Off Man
3:00 Cubs Baseball: vs. St. Louis Cardinals at Wrigley Field (see below for pre-emptions in reply)
6:00 Private Benjamin
6:30 Soap
7:00 WGN Friday Night Movie: "Evil Under the Sun"
9:00 Nine O'Clock News
9:30 INN News
10:00 SCTV
10:30 Cannon
11:30 Movie: "Mystery on Monster Island"
AM
2:00 INN News
2:30 Movie: "Forty Guns"
4:30 Movietone News
11 WTTW (PBS)
AM
6:00 CNN News
7:00 Electric Company
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Mister Rogers
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Mister Rogers
10:30 Electric Company
11:00 Reading Rainbow
11:30 Sesame Street
PM
12:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
1:00 Profiles in Nature
1:30 Great Chefs of San Francisco
2:00 Mystery!: "Reilly: Ace of Spies" (Part 2 of 12)
3:00 Wild, Wild World of Animals
3:30 Mister Rogers Neighborhood
4:00 Reading Rainbow
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
7:00 Washington Week in Review
7:30 Wall $treet Week
8:00 Chicago Week in Review
8:30 Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World
9:00 Symphonie Fantastique: A Conductor's View
10:00 Nightly Business Report
10:30 Movie: "Five Golden Hours"
AM
1:00 Mystery! (see under 2:00 PM)
20 WYCC (sister station to WTTW)
AM
6:00 Business of Magagement
6:30 Business of Management
7:00 Faces of Culture
7:30 Money Puzzle
8:00 Making a Living Work
8:30 Russia: Its People & Culture
9:00 Zarabanda
9:30 Zarabanda
10:00 **off the air**
PM
5:00 People & Organizations
5:30 Age of Enlightenment
6:00 Growing Years
6:30 Growing Years
7:00 Business of Management
7:30 Money Puzzle
8:00 Enterprise
8:30 Enterprise
9:00 Project: Universe
9:30 Project: Universe
26 WCIU (SIN; Spanish programming starting at 5:00 PM)
AM
6:00 Noticias
6:30 El Club 700
7:00 Jimmy Swaggart
7:30 Richard Roberts
8:30 Jimmy Swaggart
9:00 Opening Stock Market
9:30 Business Newsmakers
10:30 Ask an Expert on Stocks
11:00 News
11:30 Ask an Expert
PM
12:20 Ask an Expert
1:00 News
1:15 Most Active Stocks
1:30 Ask an Expert
2:30 Ask an Expert
3:30 700 Club
4:30 Chicago Today
5:00 Fue Sin Querer (It Was Unintentional)
6:00 Noticias
6:30 Amada Mia (My Love)
7:30 Concierto (Concert)
8:30 Hollywood Latino
9:00 Laura Guzman/Culpable (Guilty)
10:00 Noticias
10:30 Hola...Pelusa (Hello...Fluff)
11:30 El Show de Alva Molina
AM
12:00 El Club 700
32 WFLD (Ind.)
AM
6:00 Newstalk
6:30 Casper
7:00 Tom & Jerry
7:30 Flintstones
8:00 Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Popeye
9:00 Brady Bunch
9:30 I Love Lucy
10:00 Divorce Court
10:30 Rituals
11:00 Emergency!
PM
12:00 Get Smart
12:30 Munsters
1:00 Alive & Well! (Part 5 of 5; pre-empting "I Love Lucy" and "Get Smart" throughout the week)
2:00 Great Space Coaster
2:30 Inspector Gadget
3:00 Woody Woodpecker
3:30 Tom & Jerry
4:00 Flintstones
4:30 He-Man
5:00 What's Happening!!
5:30 Diff'rent Strokes
6:00 Three's Company
6:30 Taxi
7:00 PM Magazine
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
8:00 All in the Family
8:30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
9:00 Best of Saturday Night
9:30 White Sox Baseball: vs. California Angels as Anaheim Stadium (see pre-emptions in Reply)
AM
12:30 Visions: A Mid-Year Preview (pre-empting Comedy Classics)
2:30 Entertainment Tonight
38 WCFC (Ind.)
AM
5:00 Mike Adkins
5:30 Shape Up
6:00 Breakfast Club (obviously NOT the Brat Pack hit film released early that year)
7:00 KPTL (Kids Praise the Lord)
7:30 Kids Jamboree
8:00 Something Beautiful
9:00 Shape Up
9:30 Windy City Alive
10:30 Totaled Woman
11:00 Heritage Singers
11:30 Jimmy Swaggart
PM
12:00 Marvin Gorman
12:30 Visit With Suzanne
1:00 Camp Meeting USA
2:00 Jack Hayford
2:30 Prophecy Digest
3:00 100 Huntley Street
4:00 Circle Square
4:30 Kids Jamboree
5:00 Jim Bakker
6:00 Jewish Jewels
6:30 Mike Adkins
7:00 Windy City Alive
8:00 Light Music
8:30 Jimmy Swaggart
9:30 700 Club
11:00 Jim Bakker
AM
12:00 Jimmy Swaggart
12:30 700 Club
2:00 Sound Effects
2:30 Windy City Alive
3:30 Gary Greenwald
4:00 100 Huntley Street
60 WPWR (Ind.)
AM
5:30 Robin Hood
6:00 Gidget
6:30 Beatles (cartoon series)
7:00 Voltron
7:30 Robotech
8:00 King Kong (cartoon series)
8:30 PicturePages - Bill Cosby (formerly a segment from Captain Kangaroo)
8:40 Gumby
9:00 Richard Roberts (Oral's son)
10:00 Mundo Hispanico
11:00 Maverick
PM
12:00 Tic-Tac-Dough
12:30 Joker's Wild - Bill Cullen
1:00 Ben Casey
2:00 Mister Ed
2:30 PicturePages
2:40 Gumby
3:00 Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show
3:30 Tranzor Z
4:00 Voltron
4:30 Music Video 60
5:00 Gidget
5:30 Bewitched
6:00 Chico and the Man
6:30 Rat Patrol
7:00 El Retrato de un Canalla (Portrait of a Scoundrel)
8:00 Chaconisimo
9:00 Estefania
10:00 Julian de Madrugada (Early Morning)
11:00 Cine (Spanish Movie)
AM
12:30 La Ultima Tanda (The Last Batch)
2:30 Movie: "Footprints on the Moon"
4:20 Movie: "Tales of Robin Hood"
66 WFBN (Ind.)
AM
9:00 BizNet News Today
10:00 Rookies
11:00 Lucy Show
11:30 Make Room for Daddy
PM
12:00 Daniel Boone
1:00 My Three Sons
1:30 My Favorite Martian
2:00 Petticoat Junction
2:30 Green Acres
3:00 Movie: "The Punch and Judy Man"
5:00 Avengers
6:00 Dallas
7:00 Hawaii Five-O
8:00 Gunsmoke
9:00 Perry Mason
10:00 Gomer Pyle
10:30 Movie: "Holiday on the Buses"
AM
12:30 Bizarre
1:00 Rookies
Note: Some network programming may have been interrupted by news coverage of the hijacking of TWA Flight 847.
2 WBBM (CBS)
AM
5:00 Bill Cosby (1969-71 sitcom)
5:30 Morning Stretch
6:00 Daybreak
6:30 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News (former WBBM anchor Bill Kurtis' final show as anchor, as well as Early Morning News)
9:00 Donahue
10:00 $25,000 Pyramid
10:30 Press Your Luck (The "Sylvester" episode; see link below)
11:00 Body Language
11:30 Young and Restless
PM
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Capitol
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 The Price is Right
4:00 Quincy
5:00 Channel 2 News
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 Channel 2 News
7:00 Dukes of Hazzard
8:00 CBS Special Movie: "Incident at Crestridge"
10:00 Channel 2 News
10:30 CBS Late Movie: "Superdome"
AM
12:45 Movie: "It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy"
2:15 Common Ground
4:15 Take It from Here
4:30 Channel 2: The People
5 WMAQ (NBC)
AM
6:00 Today in Chicago
6:30 NBC News at Sunrise
7:00 Today
9:00 The Facts of Life
9:30 Sale of the Century
10:00 Wheel of Forunte
10:30 Scrabble
11:00 Super Password
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
PM
12:00 Days of Our Lives
1:00 Another World
2:00 Santa Barbara
3:00 Love Connection
3:30 All-New Let's Make a Deal
4:00 People's Court
4:30 Channel 5 News
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Channel 5 News
6:30 $100,000 Name That Tune - Jim Lange
7:00 Michael Nesmith (of the Monkees) in Television Parts
7:30 Spencer
8:00 V
9:00 Miami Vice
10:00 Channel 5 News
10:30 Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
11:30 Friday Night Videos
AM
1:00 Channel 5 News (replay)
1:30 Anything for Money - Fred Travalena
2:00 Everyman
2:30 Today in Chicago
7 WLS (ABC)
AM
5:30 20 Minute Workout
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 AM Chicago (renamed "The Oprah Winfrey Show" Sept. 30, 1985; first national broadcast Sept. 8, 1986)
10:00 All-Star Blitz - Peter Marshall
10:30 Every Second Counts - Bill Rafferty (syndicated)
11:00 Ryan's Hope
11:30 Loving
PM
12:00 All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Family Feud (ABC series finale featuring a teary-eyed Richard Dawson's heartfelt farewell speech; see link below)
3:30 Jeopardy!
4:00 Eyewitness News
5:30 ABC World News Tonight
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 Wheel of Fortune
7:00 Webster (set in Chicago)
7:30 Ripley's Believe It or Not!
8:00 Benson
8:30 People Do the Craziest Things - Bert Convy
9:00 Matt Houston
10:00 Eyewitness News
10:30 Golf: US Open - Second Round Highlights
11:00 Nightline
11:30 Rock On Chicago!
AM
12:30 Record Guide
2:00 Eyewitness News (replay)
2:30 Newlywed Game
3:00 Dating Game
3:30 Treasure Hunt
4:00 Gong Show
4:30 Reflections
9 WGN (Ind.)
AM
5:00 Abbott & Costello
5:30 Faith 20
6:00 Muppet Show
6:30 Terrytoons
7:00 Bozo Show (either a repeat hosted by the late Frazier Thomas prior to his death April 3, or a new episode hosted by his successor Pat Hurley)
8:30 Beverly Hillbillies
9:00 Waltons
10:00 Big Valley
11:00 Family
PM
12:00 Chicago's Midday News
12:30 INN News
1:00 Carol Burnett
1:30 Andy Griffith
2:00 I Dream of Jeannie
2:30 Bugs Bunny (pre-empting Scooby-Doo)
2:45 Lead Off Man
3:00 Cubs Baseball: vs. St. Louis Cardinals at Wrigley Field (see below for pre-emptions in reply)
6:00 Private Benjamin
6:30 Soap
7:00 WGN Friday Night Movie: "Evil Under the Sun"
9:00 Nine O'Clock News
9:30 INN News
10:00 SCTV
10:30 Cannon
11:30 Movie: "Mystery on Monster Island"
AM
2:00 INN News
2:30 Movie: "Forty Guns"
4:30 Movietone News
11 WTTW (PBS)
AM
6:00 CNN News
7:00 Electric Company
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Mister Rogers
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Mister Rogers
10:30 Electric Company
11:00 Reading Rainbow
11:30 Sesame Street
PM
12:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
1:00 Profiles in Nature
1:30 Great Chefs of San Francisco
2:00 Mystery!: "Reilly: Ace of Spies" (Part 2 of 12)
3:00 Wild, Wild World of Animals
3:30 Mister Rogers Neighborhood
4:00 Reading Rainbow
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
7:00 Washington Week in Review
7:30 Wall $treet Week
8:00 Chicago Week in Review
8:30 Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World
9:00 Symphonie Fantastique: A Conductor's View
10:00 Nightly Business Report
10:30 Movie: "Five Golden Hours"
AM
1:00 Mystery! (see under 2:00 PM)
20 WYCC (sister station to WTTW)
AM
6:00 Business of Magagement
6:30 Business of Management
7:00 Faces of Culture
7:30 Money Puzzle
8:00 Making a Living Work
8:30 Russia: Its People & Culture
9:00 Zarabanda
9:30 Zarabanda
10:00 **off the air**
PM
5:00 People & Organizations
5:30 Age of Enlightenment
6:00 Growing Years
6:30 Growing Years
7:00 Business of Management
7:30 Money Puzzle
8:00 Enterprise
8:30 Enterprise
9:00 Project: Universe
9:30 Project: Universe
26 WCIU (SIN; Spanish programming starting at 5:00 PM)
AM
6:00 Noticias
6:30 El Club 700
7:00 Jimmy Swaggart
7:30 Richard Roberts
8:30 Jimmy Swaggart
9:00 Opening Stock Market
9:30 Business Newsmakers
10:30 Ask an Expert on Stocks
11:00 News
11:30 Ask an Expert
PM
12:20 Ask an Expert
1:00 News
1:15 Most Active Stocks
1:30 Ask an Expert
2:30 Ask an Expert
3:30 700 Club
4:30 Chicago Today
5:00 Fue Sin Querer (It Was Unintentional)
6:00 Noticias
6:30 Amada Mia (My Love)
7:30 Concierto (Concert)
8:30 Hollywood Latino
9:00 Laura Guzman/Culpable (Guilty)
10:00 Noticias
10:30 Hola...Pelusa (Hello...Fluff)
11:30 El Show de Alva Molina
AM
12:00 El Club 700
32 WFLD (Ind.)
AM
6:00 Newstalk
6:30 Casper
7:00 Tom & Jerry
7:30 Flintstones
8:00 Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Popeye
9:00 Brady Bunch
9:30 I Love Lucy
10:00 Divorce Court
10:30 Rituals
11:00 Emergency!
PM
12:00 Get Smart
12:30 Munsters
1:00 Alive & Well! (Part 5 of 5; pre-empting "I Love Lucy" and "Get Smart" throughout the week)
2:00 Great Space Coaster
2:30 Inspector Gadget
3:00 Woody Woodpecker
3:30 Tom & Jerry
4:00 Flintstones
4:30 He-Man
5:00 What's Happening!!
5:30 Diff'rent Strokes
6:00 Three's Company
6:30 Taxi
7:00 PM Magazine
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
8:00 All in the Family
8:30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
9:00 Best of Saturday Night
9:30 White Sox Baseball: vs. California Angels as Anaheim Stadium (see pre-emptions in Reply)
AM
12:30 Visions: A Mid-Year Preview (pre-empting Comedy Classics)
2:30 Entertainment Tonight
38 WCFC (Ind.)
AM
5:00 Mike Adkins
5:30 Shape Up
6:00 Breakfast Club (obviously NOT the Brat Pack hit film released early that year)
7:00 KPTL (Kids Praise the Lord)
7:30 Kids Jamboree
8:00 Something Beautiful
9:00 Shape Up
9:30 Windy City Alive
10:30 Totaled Woman
11:00 Heritage Singers
11:30 Jimmy Swaggart
PM
12:00 Marvin Gorman
12:30 Visit With Suzanne
1:00 Camp Meeting USA
2:00 Jack Hayford
2:30 Prophecy Digest
3:00 100 Huntley Street
4:00 Circle Square
4:30 Kids Jamboree
5:00 Jim Bakker
6:00 Jewish Jewels
6:30 Mike Adkins
7:00 Windy City Alive
8:00 Light Music
8:30 Jimmy Swaggart
9:30 700 Club
11:00 Jim Bakker
AM
12:00 Jimmy Swaggart
12:30 700 Club
2:00 Sound Effects
2:30 Windy City Alive
3:30 Gary Greenwald
4:00 100 Huntley Street
60 WPWR (Ind.)
AM
5:30 Robin Hood
6:00 Gidget
6:30 Beatles (cartoon series)
7:00 Voltron
7:30 Robotech
8:00 King Kong (cartoon series)
8:30 PicturePages - Bill Cosby (formerly a segment from Captain Kangaroo)
8:40 Gumby
9:00 Richard Roberts (Oral's son)
10:00 Mundo Hispanico
11:00 Maverick
PM
12:00 Tic-Tac-Dough
12:30 Joker's Wild - Bill Cullen
1:00 Ben Casey
2:00 Mister Ed
2:30 PicturePages
2:40 Gumby
3:00 Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show
3:30 Tranzor Z
4:00 Voltron
4:30 Music Video 60
5:00 Gidget
5:30 Bewitched
6:00 Chico and the Man
6:30 Rat Patrol
7:00 El Retrato de un Canalla (Portrait of a Scoundrel)
8:00 Chaconisimo
9:00 Estefania
10:00 Julian de Madrugada (Early Morning)
11:00 Cine (Spanish Movie)
AM
12:30 La Ultima Tanda (The Last Batch)
2:30 Movie: "Footprints on the Moon"
4:20 Movie: "Tales of Robin Hood"
66 WFBN (Ind.)
AM
9:00 BizNet News Today
10:00 Rookies
11:00 Lucy Show
11:30 Make Room for Daddy
PM
12:00 Daniel Boone
1:00 My Three Sons
1:30 My Favorite Martian
2:00 Petticoat Junction
2:30 Green Acres
3:00 Movie: "The Punch and Judy Man"
5:00 Avengers
6:00 Dallas
7:00 Hawaii Five-O
8:00 Gunsmoke
9:00 Perry Mason
10:00 Gomer Pyle
10:30 Movie: "Holiday on the Buses"
AM
12:30 Bizarre
1:00 Rookies
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