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Source: Chicago Tribune
P - Series Premiere
SP - Season Premiere
2 WBBM (CBS)
6:00 Daybreak
6:30 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Donahue
10:00 $25,000 Pyramid - Guests: Martha Smith, Howard Morton
10:30 Press Your Luck
11:00 Lee Phillip Show (locally pre-empting Body Language* for that day)
11:30 Young and the Restless
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Capitol
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 The Price is Right (SP) - Special appearance by Mark Goodson.
4:00 Quincy
5:00 Channel 2 News
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 Channel 2 News
7:00 Scarecrow and Mrs. King
8:00 Kate & Allie
8:30 Newhart
9:00 Cagney & Lacey
10:00 Channel 2 News
10:30 Simon & Simon
11:40 McMillan & Wife
1:00 CBS Nightwatch
*Body Language guests: Lucille Ball, Charles Nelson Reilly
5 WMAQ (NBC)
6:00 You
6:30 NBC News at Sunrise
7:00 Today
9:00 Fact of Life
9:30 Sale of the Century
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Scrabble
11:00 Diff'rent Strokes
11:30 Search for Romottow
NOON Days of Our Lives
1:00 Another World
2:00 Santa Barbara
3:00 Eight is Enough
4:00 People's Court
4:30 Channel 5 News
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Channel 5 News
6:30 New $100,000 Name That Tune (P) - Jim Lange
7:00 TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes - Celebrity joke victims: Jerry Lewis and the show's own, Dick Clark!
8:00 NBC Miniseries: "Marco Polo", Part 2 of 4 (1982) - Kenneth Marshall, Denholm Elliott, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Burt Lancaster, Ian McShane, Leonard Nimoy
10:00 Channel 5 News
10:30 Tonight Show - Guest host: Joan Rivers; Guests: John Byner, Ted Danson, Helen Gurley Brown
11:30 Late Night with David Letterman - Guests: Lily Tomlin, Joel Hodgson
12:30 Love Connection
1:00 Mary Tyler Moore
1:30 Family Feud
2:00 You
7 WLS (ABC)
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 AM Chicago - Oprah Winfrey
10:00 Celebrity Family Feud
10:30 Loving
11:00 (Regular) Family Feud
11:30 Ryan's Hope
NOON All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Edge of Night
3:30 Jeopardy! (P)
4:00 Eyewitness News
5:30 ABC World News Tonight
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 Wheel of Fortune (SP)
7:00 A Barbara Walters Special Celebration - Highlights of her interview specials.
8:00 Monday Night Football - Washington Redskins vs. San Francisco 49ers
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Nightline
MIDNIGHT Great Record Album Collection
12:30 Movie: "Flying Leathernecks" (1951) - John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Janis Carter
9 WGN
6:00 Chicago's First Report
6:30 Muppet Show
7:00 Bozo Show - Joey D'Auria debuts as "The World's Most Famous Clown", replacing Bob Bell.
8:30 Beverly Hillbillies
9:00 Movie: "All That Heaven Allows" (1955) - Jayne Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead
11:00 Family
NOON Chicago's Midday News
12:30 INN News
1:00 Rhoda
1:30 Andy Griffith
2:00 I Dream of Jeannie
2:30 Bugs Bunny
3:00 Cubs Baseball - hosting Philadelphia Phillies
6:00 Alice
6:30 Carol Burnett
7:00 Puttin' on the Hits - 60 min. preview to the 30 min. series
8:00 Greatest American Hero
9:00 Nine O'Clock News
9:30 INN News
10:00 Twilight Zone
10:30 Cannon
11:30 Miniseries: "Sadat" (1983), Part 1 of 2 - Louis Gossett Jr. (as Anwar Sadat)
2:00 INN News
2:30 Laugh-In
3:00 The Protectors
3:30 Movie: "Wonder Woman" (1974) - Cathy Lee Crosby, Kaz Garas, Ricardo Montalban
11 WTTW (PBS)
6:15 AM Weather
6:30 Understanding Human Behavior
7:00 Nightly Business Report (R)
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 Chicago Tonight with John Callaway
1:00 World of Cooking
1:30 Up and Coming
2:00 Kup's Show
3:00 Wild, Wild World of Animals
3:30 Mister Rogers
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Voyage of the Mimi (P)
5:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
7:00 Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau
8:00 Gossip from the Forest
9:30 Fade Out
10:00 Nightly Business Report
10:30 Time Out
11:00 Movie: "Our Man in Havana" (1959, year of the Castro Revolution) - Alec Guiness, Burl Ives, Ralph Richardson, Noel Coward, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs
12:50 LateNight America
20 WYCC (PBS secondary)
6:00 The Write Course
6:30 English as a Second Language
7:00 The New Literacy
7:30 The American Story
8:00 Project Universe
8:30 In Our Own Image
9:00 The Money Puzzle
9:30 Applied Sketching Techniques
10:00 (OFF THE AIR)
5:00 GED-TV
5:30 Enterprise
6:00 Needlecraft
6:30 Family Portrait
7:00 Project Universe
7:30 Understanding Human Behavior
8:00 The New Literacy
8:30 The American Story
9:00 In Our Own Image
9:30 The Write Course
26 WCIU (Ind./Stock Market Oberver through much of the day/SIN starting @ 5:00 PM)
8:30 Jimmy Swaggart
9:00 Financial News
9:30 R. H. Love Galleries
10:30 Ask an Expert
10:00 News
11:30 Ask an Expert
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
4:40 Today's Racing
5:00 Si...Vale (Yes...Okay)
5:30 La pequena Maria
6:30 Informacion
7:00 Cine (title unavailable)
9:00 Hermanos Coraje (Courage Brothers)
10:00 Informacion
10:30 La hija de nadie (Nobody's Daughter)
11:30 Jimmy Swaggart (English or Spanish?)
32 WFLD
6:00 Newstalk
6:30 Mighty Mouse
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 Partridge Family
10:30 Monkees
11:00 Get Smart
11:30 Little Rascals
NOON CHiPs
1:00 Hour Magazine
2:00 Great Space Coaster
2:30 Woody Woodpecker
3:00 Inspector Gadget
3:30 Tom & Jerry
4:00 Flintstones
4:30 He-Man
5:00 Brady Bunch
5:30 Happy Days
6:00 Mork & Mindy
6:30 Sanford and Son
7:00 PM Magazine
7:30 Rituals (P) - First-run syndicated soap opera.
8:00 Entertainment Tonight - Featured: Johnny Mathis
8:30 Benny Hill
9:00 Best of Saturday Night
9:30 White Sox Baseball - at Oakland Athletics
12:30 All in the Family
1:00 700 Club
2:00 Entertainment Tonight (R)
38 WCFC (Religious Ind.)
6:30 Climb That Mountain
7:00 Stuff
7:30 Toddler's Friends
8:00 Something Beautiful
9:00 Shape Up
9:30 Another Life
10:00 Celebration
11:30 Jimmy Swaggart
NOON Marvin Gorman
12:30 Zola Levitt
1:00 Camp Meeting USA
2:00 The Totaled Woman
2:30 The La Hayes on Family Life
3:00 100 Huntley Street
4:00 Kids' Jamboree
4:30 Stuff
5:00 Jim Bakker
6:00 This Is the Life
6:30 Dwight Thompson
7:30 Prophecy Conference
9:30 700 Club
10:30 Jim Bakker
11:30 The Blackwood Brothers
MIDNIGHT Jimmy Swaggart
12:30 Another Life
1:00 Dwight Thompson
2:00 Celebration
3:30 This Is the Life
4:00 French PTL
4:30 Climb That Mountain
44 WSNS
(not listed in log)
60 WPWR (English)/WBBS (Spanish, starting at 7:00 PM)
6:30 Wacky Races
7:00 Car-toons
8:00 Battle of the Planets
8:30 Dennis the Menace (live series; cartoon series premiered in 1986)
9:00 Tic-Tac-Dough
9:30 The Joker's Wild (SP) - Bill Cullen debuts as the new host, succeeding the late Jack Barry. This was his final game show of his illustrious career.
10:00 Mundo Hispanico
11:00 Maverick
NOON Movie: "A Star is Born" (1937) - Janet Gaynor (died four days later), Frederic March, Adolph Menjou, Lionel Stander
2:00 Battle of the Planets
2:30 Shazzam!
3:00 Spectreman
3:30 Voltron (P)
4:00 Music Video 60
5:00 Addams Family
5:30 Bewitched
6:00 B.J/Lobo
7:00 Amor gitano (Gypsy Love)
8:00 Twenty-Sixth Street Parade - In honor of Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) Week.
9:00 Coralito (Little Coral)
10:00 La senora joven (The Young Lady)
11:00 Cine: "Fighting Coast Guard"/"Guardacostas luchando" (1951) - Brian Donlevy, Forrest Tucker, Ella Raines (Spanish-dubbed)
12:30 Cine (title unavailable)
2:30 Movie: "Back Street" (1941) - Charles Boyer, Margaret Sullivan, Richard Carlson
4:15 Movie: "Grand Canyon" (1949) - Richard Allen, Mary Beth Hughes
66 WFBN
(18 hours of music videos)
P - Series Premiere
SP - Season Premiere
2 WBBM (CBS)
6:00 Daybreak
6:30 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Donahue
10:00 $25,000 Pyramid - Guests: Martha Smith, Howard Morton
10:30 Press Your Luck
11:00 Lee Phillip Show (locally pre-empting Body Language* for that day)
11:30 Young and the Restless
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Capitol
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 The Price is Right (SP) - Special appearance by Mark Goodson.
4:00 Quincy
5:00 Channel 2 News
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 Channel 2 News
7:00 Scarecrow and Mrs. King
8:00 Kate & Allie
8:30 Newhart
9:00 Cagney & Lacey
10:00 Channel 2 News
10:30 Simon & Simon
11:40 McMillan & Wife
1:00 CBS Nightwatch
*Body Language guests: Lucille Ball, Charles Nelson Reilly
5 WMAQ (NBC)
6:00 You
6:30 NBC News at Sunrise
7:00 Today
9:00 Fact of Life
9:30 Sale of the Century
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Scrabble
11:00 Diff'rent Strokes
11:30 Search for Romottow
NOON Days of Our Lives
1:00 Another World
2:00 Santa Barbara
3:00 Eight is Enough
4:00 People's Court
4:30 Channel 5 News
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Channel 5 News
6:30 New $100,000 Name That Tune (P) - Jim Lange
7:00 TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes - Celebrity joke victims: Jerry Lewis and the show's own, Dick Clark!
8:00 NBC Miniseries: "Marco Polo", Part 2 of 4 (1982) - Kenneth Marshall, Denholm Elliott, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Burt Lancaster, Ian McShane, Leonard Nimoy
10:00 Channel 5 News
10:30 Tonight Show - Guest host: Joan Rivers; Guests: John Byner, Ted Danson, Helen Gurley Brown
11:30 Late Night with David Letterman - Guests: Lily Tomlin, Joel Hodgson
12:30 Love Connection
1:00 Mary Tyler Moore
1:30 Family Feud
2:00 You
7 WLS (ABC)
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 AM Chicago - Oprah Winfrey
10:00 Celebrity Family Feud
10:30 Loving
11:00 (Regular) Family Feud
11:30 Ryan's Hope
NOON All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Edge of Night
3:30 Jeopardy! (P)
4:00 Eyewitness News
5:30 ABC World News Tonight
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 Wheel of Fortune (SP)
7:00 A Barbara Walters Special Celebration - Highlights of her interview specials.
8:00 Monday Night Football - Washington Redskins vs. San Francisco 49ers
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Nightline
MIDNIGHT Great Record Album Collection
12:30 Movie: "Flying Leathernecks" (1951) - John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Janis Carter
9 WGN
6:00 Chicago's First Report
6:30 Muppet Show
7:00 Bozo Show - Joey D'Auria debuts as "The World's Most Famous Clown", replacing Bob Bell.
8:30 Beverly Hillbillies
9:00 Movie: "All That Heaven Allows" (1955) - Jayne Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead
11:00 Family
NOON Chicago's Midday News
12:30 INN News
1:00 Rhoda
1:30 Andy Griffith
2:00 I Dream of Jeannie
2:30 Bugs Bunny
3:00 Cubs Baseball - hosting Philadelphia Phillies
6:00 Alice
6:30 Carol Burnett
7:00 Puttin' on the Hits - 60 min. preview to the 30 min. series
8:00 Greatest American Hero
9:00 Nine O'Clock News
9:30 INN News
10:00 Twilight Zone
10:30 Cannon
11:30 Miniseries: "Sadat" (1983), Part 1 of 2 - Louis Gossett Jr. (as Anwar Sadat)
2:00 INN News
2:30 Laugh-In
3:00 The Protectors
3:30 Movie: "Wonder Woman" (1974) - Cathy Lee Crosby, Kaz Garas, Ricardo Montalban
11 WTTW (PBS)
6:15 AM Weather
6:30 Understanding Human Behavior
7:00 Nightly Business Report (R)
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 Chicago Tonight with John Callaway
1:00 World of Cooking
1:30 Up and Coming
2:00 Kup's Show
3:00 Wild, Wild World of Animals
3:30 Mister Rogers
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Voyage of the Mimi (P)
5:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
7:00 Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau
8:00 Gossip from the Forest
9:30 Fade Out
10:00 Nightly Business Report
10:30 Time Out
11:00 Movie: "Our Man in Havana" (1959, year of the Castro Revolution) - Alec Guiness, Burl Ives, Ralph Richardson, Noel Coward, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs
12:50 LateNight America
20 WYCC (PBS secondary)
6:00 The Write Course
6:30 English as a Second Language
7:00 The New Literacy
7:30 The American Story
8:00 Project Universe
8:30 In Our Own Image
9:00 The Money Puzzle
9:30 Applied Sketching Techniques
10:00 (OFF THE AIR)
5:00 GED-TV
5:30 Enterprise
6:00 Needlecraft
6:30 Family Portrait
7:00 Project Universe
7:30 Understanding Human Behavior
8:00 The New Literacy
8:30 The American Story
9:00 In Our Own Image
9:30 The Write Course
26 WCIU (Ind./Stock Market Oberver through much of the day/SIN starting @ 5:00 PM)
8:30 Jimmy Swaggart
9:00 Financial News
9:30 R. H. Love Galleries
10:30 Ask an Expert
10:00 News
11:30 Ask an Expert
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
4:40 Today's Racing
5:00 Si...Vale (Yes...Okay)
5:30 La pequena Maria
6:30 Informacion
7:00 Cine (title unavailable)
9:00 Hermanos Coraje (Courage Brothers)
10:00 Informacion
10:30 La hija de nadie (Nobody's Daughter)
11:30 Jimmy Swaggart (English or Spanish?)
32 WFLD
6:00 Newstalk
6:30 Mighty Mouse
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 Partridge Family
10:30 Monkees
11:00 Get Smart
11:30 Little Rascals
NOON CHiPs
1:00 Hour Magazine
2:00 Great Space Coaster
2:30 Woody Woodpecker
3:00 Inspector Gadget
3:30 Tom & Jerry
4:00 Flintstones
4:30 He-Man
5:00 Brady Bunch
5:30 Happy Days
6:00 Mork & Mindy
6:30 Sanford and Son
7:00 PM Magazine
7:30 Rituals (P) - First-run syndicated soap opera.
8:00 Entertainment Tonight - Featured: Johnny Mathis
8:30 Benny Hill
9:00 Best of Saturday Night
9:30 White Sox Baseball - at Oakland Athletics
12:30 All in the Family
1:00 700 Club
2:00 Entertainment Tonight (R)
38 WCFC (Religious Ind.)
6:30 Climb That Mountain
7:00 Stuff
7:30 Toddler's Friends
8:00 Something Beautiful
9:00 Shape Up
9:30 Another Life
10:00 Celebration
11:30 Jimmy Swaggart
NOON Marvin Gorman
12:30 Zola Levitt
1:00 Camp Meeting USA
2:00 The Totaled Woman
2:30 The La Hayes on Family Life
3:00 100 Huntley Street
4:00 Kids' Jamboree
4:30 Stuff
5:00 Jim Bakker
6:00 This Is the Life
6:30 Dwight Thompson
7:30 Prophecy Conference
9:30 700 Club
10:30 Jim Bakker
11:30 The Blackwood Brothers
MIDNIGHT Jimmy Swaggart
12:30 Another Life
1:00 Dwight Thompson
2:00 Celebration
3:30 This Is the Life
4:00 French PTL
4:30 Climb That Mountain
44 WSNS
(not listed in log)
60 WPWR (English)/WBBS (Spanish, starting at 7:00 PM)
6:30 Wacky Races
7:00 Car-toons
8:00 Battle of the Planets
8:30 Dennis the Menace (live series; cartoon series premiered in 1986)
9:00 Tic-Tac-Dough
9:30 The Joker's Wild (SP) - Bill Cullen debuts as the new host, succeeding the late Jack Barry. This was his final game show of his illustrious career.
10:00 Mundo Hispanico
11:00 Maverick
NOON Movie: "A Star is Born" (1937) - Janet Gaynor (died four days later), Frederic March, Adolph Menjou, Lionel Stander
2:00 Battle of the Planets
2:30 Shazzam!
3:00 Spectreman
3:30 Voltron (P)
4:00 Music Video 60
5:00 Addams Family
5:30 Bewitched
6:00 B.J/Lobo
7:00 Amor gitano (Gypsy Love)
8:00 Twenty-Sixth Street Parade - In honor of Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) Week.
9:00 Coralito (Little Coral)
10:00 La senora joven (The Young Lady)
11:00 Cine: "Fighting Coast Guard"/"Guardacostas luchando" (1951) - Brian Donlevy, Forrest Tucker, Ella Raines (Spanish-dubbed)
12:30 Cine (title unavailable)
2:30 Movie: "Back Street" (1941) - Charles Boyer, Margaret Sullivan, Richard Carlson
4:15 Movie: "Grand Canyon" (1949) - Richard Allen, Mary Beth Hughes
66 WFBN
(18 hours of music videos)