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For Knight Rider's fourth and final season premiere, in which it moved back to Fridays where it was the first season, Michael and KITT take their adventures to Chicago.
2 WBBM (CBS)
5:00 Bill Cosby Show (1969-71)
5:30 Morning Stretch
6:00 Daybreak
6:30 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Donahue - Topic: Hollywood homophobia and AIDS discrimination
10:00 $25,000 Pyramid - Guests: Adrienne Barbeau, Richard Kline
10:30 Press Your Luck
11:00 Body Language - Guests: Jenilee Harrison, Ed Begley Jr.
11:30 Young and Restless
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Capitol
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 Price is Right
4:00 America - Sarah Purcell, Stuart Damon, McLean Stevenson
5:00 Channel 2 News
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 Channel 2 News
7:00 CBS Special: "How Bugs Bunny Won the West"
7:30 Dallas (Repeat of season finale "Swan Song" in which Bobby Ewing dies. Or does he? Could it be just a dream?)
9:00 Falcon Crest (season finale repeat)
10:00 Channel 2 News
10:30 CBS Late Movie: "Sunburn" (1979) - Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Charles Grodin, Art Carney, Joan Collins, William Daniels
12:45 Movie: "What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?" (1969) - Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon (died the previous Aug. 28), Rosemary Forstyh, Robert Fuller, Mildred Dunnock
2:45 Common Ground
3:45 Rockford Files
4:45 Take It From Here
5 WMAQ (NBC)
6:00 Today in Chicago
6:30 NBC News at Sunrise
7:00 Today
9:00 Silver Spoons
9:30 Sale of the Century
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Scrabble
11:00 Super Password - Guests: Bill Cullen, Tom Poston
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
NOON Days of Our Lives
1:00 Another World
2:00 Santa Barbara
3:00 New Newlywed Game
3:30 Love Connection
4:00 People's Court
4:30 Channel 5 News (featuring Deborah Norville)
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Channel 5 News
6:30 Entertainment Tonight
7:00 Knight Rider (SP) - "Knight of the Juggernaut" (filmed in Chicago)
9:00 Miami Vice
10:00 Channel 5 News
10:30 Tonight Show - Guests: David Steinberg, Bob & Ray; Performers: **** Robin
11:30 Friday Night Videos - Paul Young ("I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down"), John Cougar Mellancamp ("Lonely Ol' Night"), Hall & Oates with Ruffin & Kendricks ("The Way You Do the Things You Do"), Cheech & Chong ("Born in East LA"), Cameo ("Single Life")
1:00 Hour Magazine
2:00 Channel 5 News (replay)
2:30 Every Man
7 WLS (ABC)
5:30 20 Minute Workout
6:00 ABC News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 AM Chicago (renamed The Oprah Winfrey Show Sept. 30; became nationally broadcast a year later)
10:00 Angie (1979-80 ABC sitcom)
10:30 All-Stat Blitz - Panel: Jacklyn Zeman, John Matuszak, Doris Roberts, Charles Nelson Reilly
11:00 Ryan's Hope
11:30 Loving
NOON All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Family Feud (Reruns of syndicated and/or ABC version which conitnued for another year)
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 (1 hr. SP)
8:00 Spencer: for Hire (2 hr. P)
10:00 Eyewitness News
10:30 Nightline
11:00 Headline Chasers - Wink Martindale
11:30 Rock On Chicago! - Videos included: Motley Crue ("Smokin' in the Boys Room"), Phil Collins ("Don't Lose My Number")
12:30 Record Guide
1:30 Ebony/Jet Showcase
2:00 Eyewitness News (replay)
2:30 Eye On Hollywood
3:00 Dating Game (R)
3:30 Gong Show (R)
4:00 Break the Bank - Gene Rayburn
9 WGN
5:00 Abbott & Costello
5:30 Faith 20
6:00 Muppet Show
6:30 Bugs Bunny
7:00 Bozo Show
8:30 Beverly Hillbillies
9:00 Waltons
10:00 Big Valley
11:00 Little House on the Prairie
NOON Chicago's Midday News
12:30 INN News
1:00 Carol Burnett
1:30 Andy Griffith
2:00 I Dream of Jeannie
2:30 Scooby-Doo
3:00 Superfriends
3:30 Heathcliff
4:00 Leave It to Beaver
4:30 Laverne & Shirley
5:00 Jeffersons
5:30 WKRP
6:00 Barney Miller
6:30 Benson
7:00 Cubs Baseball: at Philadelphia Phillies
10:00 Ten O'Clock News (normally "Nine O'Clock News", if that was the case)
10:30 INN News
11:00 Twlight Zone
11:30 Movie: "French Connection II" (1975) - Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson, Ed Lauter
2:00 INN News
2:30 Movie: "Call of the Wild" (1935) - Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Jack Oakie
11 WTTW (PBS)
6:00 Farm Day
6:15 AM Weather
6:30 Capitol Journal
7:00 CNN Headline News
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
12:30 Reading Rainbow
1:00 Profiles of Nature
1:30 Great Chefs of New Orleans II
2:00 Mystery!
3:00 Wild, Wild World of Animals
3:30 Reading Rainbow
4:00 Mister Rogers
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
7:00 Wasington Week in Review
7:30 Wall $treet Week
8:00 Chicago Week in Review
8:30 Great Performances: "I, Pagliacci", performed by Placido Domingo and Teresa Stratas
10:00 Nightly Business Report (replay)
10:30 Movie: "King of Hearts" (1966) - Alan Bates, Genevieve Bujold
32 WFLD
6:00 Newstalk
6:30 Casper
7:00 Tom & Jerry
7:30 Flintstones
8:00 GoBots
8:30 Popeye
9:00 LBS (Lexington Broadcasting Services) Children's Theater - "Dig"*
9:30 I Love Lucy
10:00 Divorce Court
10:30 LoveSongs
11:00 All-New Let's Make a Deal
11:30 Munsters
NOON Tom & Jerry
12:30 Fat Albert
1:00 I Love Lucy
1:30 Get Smart
2:00 Great Space Coaster
2:30 Woody Woodpecker
3:00 Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
3:30 He-Man
4:00 She-Ra
4:30 ThunderCats
5:00 What's Happening!!
5:30 Diff'rent Strokes
6:00 Gimme a Break!
6:30 Three's Company
7:00 PM Magazine
7:30 Catch Phrase - Art James
8:00 Best of Satuday Night
8:30 Honeymooners
9:00 Dynasty
10:00 M*A*S*H
10:30 Kojak
11:30 Harry O
12:30 Comedy Classics
1:00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1:30 Solid Gold (from the previous weekend) - Host: Dionne Warwick; Guest co-host: Boy George; Guest performers: Ricky Nelson (final TV performance), Billy Ocean, Sister Sledge, Tears for Fears, Wham!, Arsenio Hall (stand-up comedy)**
60 WPWR (timeshared with Spanish-language WBBS)
5:30 Robin Hood
6:00 Jim Bowie
6:30 The Beachcombers
7:00 Frankenstein Jr.
7:30 Space Ghost
8:00 Herculoids
8:30 Birdman & the Galaxy Trio
9:00 Richard Roberts
10:00 Mundo Hispano (within WPWR's timeshare)
11:00 Wagon Train
12:30 The Beachcombers
1:00 Bewitched
1:30 F-Troop
2:00 Mr. Ed
2:30 Wacky Races
3:00 Fantastic Four
3:30 Tranzor Z
4:00 Jetsons
4:30 Music Video 60
5:00 Gidget
5:30 Bewitched
6:00 Branded
6:30 Guns of Will Sonnett
7:00 --switch to WBBS--
66 WFBN
9:00 BizNet News Today
10:00 Rookies
11:00 Lucy Show
11:30 Make Room for Daddy
NOON Gunsmoke
1:00 My Three Sons
1:30 My Favorite Martian
2:00 Petticoat Junction
2:30 Green Acres
3:00 Movie: "Left, Right and Center" (1959) - Patricia Bedin, Eric Barker
5:00 Avengers
6:00 Hawaii Five-O
7:00 Rookies
8:00 Gunsmoke
9:00 Perry Mason
10:00 Gomer Pyle
10:30 Movie: "Pony Express" (1953) - Charlton Heston, Rhonda Fleming, Jan Sterling, Forrest Tucker
12:30 Bizarre
1:00 Rookies
*The other shows presented for the LBS Children's Theater that week were as follows:
Monday: "The Little Mermaid"
Tuesday: "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"
Wednesday: "Rumplestilsken"
Thursday: ""The Happy Prince"
**The songs on Solid Gold peformed by the guest artists were as follows:
Culture Club: "Love is Love"
Ricky Nelson: "Do You Know What I Mean?"
Billy Ocean: "Mystery Lady"
Sister Sledge: "Frankie"
Tears for Fears: "Head Over Heals"
Wham!: "Young Guns"
Dionne Warwick & Boy George: "I Say a Little Prayer"
Dionne Warkwick: Billy Joel's "You're Only Human (Second Wind)"
2 WBBM (CBS)
5:00 Bill Cosby Show (1969-71)
5:30 Morning Stretch
6:00 Daybreak
6:30 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Donahue - Topic: Hollywood homophobia and AIDS discrimination
10:00 $25,000 Pyramid - Guests: Adrienne Barbeau, Richard Kline
10:30 Press Your Luck
11:00 Body Language - Guests: Jenilee Harrison, Ed Begley Jr.
11:30 Young and Restless
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Capitol
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 Price is Right
4:00 America - Sarah Purcell, Stuart Damon, McLean Stevenson
5:00 Channel 2 News
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 Channel 2 News
7:00 CBS Special: "How Bugs Bunny Won the West"
7:30 Dallas (Repeat of season finale "Swan Song" in which Bobby Ewing dies. Or does he? Could it be just a dream?)
9:00 Falcon Crest (season finale repeat)
10:00 Channel 2 News
10:30 CBS Late Movie: "Sunburn" (1979) - Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Charles Grodin, Art Carney, Joan Collins, William Daniels
12:45 Movie: "What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?" (1969) - Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon (died the previous Aug. 28), Rosemary Forstyh, Robert Fuller, Mildred Dunnock
2:45 Common Ground
3:45 Rockford Files
4:45 Take It From Here
5 WMAQ (NBC)
6:00 Today in Chicago
6:30 NBC News at Sunrise
7:00 Today
9:00 Silver Spoons
9:30 Sale of the Century
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Scrabble
11:00 Super Password - Guests: Bill Cullen, Tom Poston
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
NOON Days of Our Lives
1:00 Another World
2:00 Santa Barbara
3:00 New Newlywed Game
3:30 Love Connection
4:00 People's Court
4:30 Channel 5 News (featuring Deborah Norville)
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Channel 5 News
6:30 Entertainment Tonight
7:00 Knight Rider (SP) - "Knight of the Juggernaut" (filmed in Chicago)
9:00 Miami Vice
10:00 Channel 5 News
10:30 Tonight Show - Guests: David Steinberg, Bob & Ray; Performers: **** Robin
11:30 Friday Night Videos - Paul Young ("I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down"), John Cougar Mellancamp ("Lonely Ol' Night"), Hall & Oates with Ruffin & Kendricks ("The Way You Do the Things You Do"), Cheech & Chong ("Born in East LA"), Cameo ("Single Life")
1:00 Hour Magazine
2:00 Channel 5 News (replay)
2:30 Every Man
7 WLS (ABC)
5:30 20 Minute Workout
6:00 ABC News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 AM Chicago (renamed The Oprah Winfrey Show Sept. 30; became nationally broadcast a year later)
10:00 Angie (1979-80 ABC sitcom)
10:30 All-Stat Blitz - Panel: Jacklyn Zeman, John Matuszak, Doris Roberts, Charles Nelson Reilly
11:00 Ryan's Hope
11:30 Loving
NOON All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Family Feud (Reruns of syndicated and/or ABC version which conitnued for another year)
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 (1 hr. SP)
8:00 Spencer: for Hire (2 hr. P)
10:00 Eyewitness News
10:30 Nightline
11:00 Headline Chasers - Wink Martindale
11:30 Rock On Chicago! - Videos included: Motley Crue ("Smokin' in the Boys Room"), Phil Collins ("Don't Lose My Number")
12:30 Record Guide
1:30 Ebony/Jet Showcase
2:00 Eyewitness News (replay)
2:30 Eye On Hollywood
3:00 Dating Game (R)
3:30 Gong Show (R)
4:00 Break the Bank - Gene Rayburn
9 WGN
5:00 Abbott & Costello
5:30 Faith 20
6:00 Muppet Show
6:30 Bugs Bunny
7:00 Bozo Show
8:30 Beverly Hillbillies
9:00 Waltons
10:00 Big Valley
11:00 Little House on the Prairie
NOON Chicago's Midday News
12:30 INN News
1:00 Carol Burnett
1:30 Andy Griffith
2:00 I Dream of Jeannie
2:30 Scooby-Doo
3:00 Superfriends
3:30 Heathcliff
4:00 Leave It to Beaver
4:30 Laverne & Shirley
5:00 Jeffersons
5:30 WKRP
6:00 Barney Miller
6:30 Benson
7:00 Cubs Baseball: at Philadelphia Phillies
10:00 Ten O'Clock News (normally "Nine O'Clock News", if that was the case)
10:30 INN News
11:00 Twlight Zone
11:30 Movie: "French Connection II" (1975) - Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson, Ed Lauter
2:00 INN News
2:30 Movie: "Call of the Wild" (1935) - Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Jack Oakie
11 WTTW (PBS)
6:00 Farm Day
6:15 AM Weather
6:30 Capitol Journal
7:00 CNN Headline News
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
12:30 Reading Rainbow
1:00 Profiles of Nature
1:30 Great Chefs of New Orleans II
2:00 Mystery!
3:00 Wild, Wild World of Animals
3:30 Reading Rainbow
4:00 Mister Rogers
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
7:00 Wasington Week in Review
7:30 Wall $treet Week
8:00 Chicago Week in Review
8:30 Great Performances: "I, Pagliacci", performed by Placido Domingo and Teresa Stratas
10:00 Nightly Business Report (replay)
10:30 Movie: "King of Hearts" (1966) - Alan Bates, Genevieve Bujold
32 WFLD
6:00 Newstalk
6:30 Casper
7:00 Tom & Jerry
7:30 Flintstones
8:00 GoBots
8:30 Popeye
9:00 LBS (Lexington Broadcasting Services) Children's Theater - "Dig"*
9:30 I Love Lucy
10:00 Divorce Court
10:30 LoveSongs
11:00 All-New Let's Make a Deal
11:30 Munsters
NOON Tom & Jerry
12:30 Fat Albert
1:00 I Love Lucy
1:30 Get Smart
2:00 Great Space Coaster
2:30 Woody Woodpecker
3:00 Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
3:30 He-Man
4:00 She-Ra
4:30 ThunderCats
5:00 What's Happening!!
5:30 Diff'rent Strokes
6:00 Gimme a Break!
6:30 Three's Company
7:00 PM Magazine
7:30 Catch Phrase - Art James
8:00 Best of Satuday Night
8:30 Honeymooners
9:00 Dynasty
10:00 M*A*S*H
10:30 Kojak
11:30 Harry O
12:30 Comedy Classics
1:00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1:30 Solid Gold (from the previous weekend) - Host: Dionne Warwick; Guest co-host: Boy George; Guest performers: Ricky Nelson (final TV performance), Billy Ocean, Sister Sledge, Tears for Fears, Wham!, Arsenio Hall (stand-up comedy)**
60 WPWR (timeshared with Spanish-language WBBS)
5:30 Robin Hood
6:00 Jim Bowie
6:30 The Beachcombers
7:00 Frankenstein Jr.
7:30 Space Ghost
8:00 Herculoids
8:30 Birdman & the Galaxy Trio
9:00 Richard Roberts
10:00 Mundo Hispano (within WPWR's timeshare)
11:00 Wagon Train
12:30 The Beachcombers
1:00 Bewitched
1:30 F-Troop
2:00 Mr. Ed
2:30 Wacky Races
3:00 Fantastic Four
3:30 Tranzor Z
4:00 Jetsons
4:30 Music Video 60
5:00 Gidget
5:30 Bewitched
6:00 Branded
6:30 Guns of Will Sonnett
7:00 --switch to WBBS--
66 WFBN
9:00 BizNet News Today
10:00 Rookies
11:00 Lucy Show
11:30 Make Room for Daddy
NOON Gunsmoke
1:00 My Three Sons
1:30 My Favorite Martian
2:00 Petticoat Junction
2:30 Green Acres
3:00 Movie: "Left, Right and Center" (1959) - Patricia Bedin, Eric Barker
5:00 Avengers
6:00 Hawaii Five-O
7:00 Rookies
8:00 Gunsmoke
9:00 Perry Mason
10:00 Gomer Pyle
10:30 Movie: "Pony Express" (1953) - Charlton Heston, Rhonda Fleming, Jan Sterling, Forrest Tucker
12:30 Bizarre
1:00 Rookies
*The other shows presented for the LBS Children's Theater that week were as follows:
Monday: "The Little Mermaid"
Tuesday: "The Sorcerer's Apprentice"
Wednesday: "Rumplestilsken"
Thursday: ""The Happy Prince"
**The songs on Solid Gold peformed by the guest artists were as follows:
Culture Club: "Love is Love"
Ricky Nelson: "Do You Know What I Mean?"
Billy Ocean: "Mystery Lady"
Sister Sledge: "Frankie"
Tears for Fears: "Head Over Heals"
Wham!: "Young Guns"
Dionne Warwick & Boy George: "I Say a Little Prayer"
Dionne Warkwick: Billy Joel's "You're Only Human (Second Wind)"
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