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Retro: Chicago Sat, Sept 7, 1985

Posted by request, from Chicago Tribune

WBBM 2-CBS
5:30 Morning Stretch
6:00 Daybreak
6:30 Kidsworld
7:00 Biskitts
7:30 Get Along Gang
8:00 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
8:30 Dungeons & Dragons
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:00 TBA
10:30 Land of the Lost
11:00 US Open Tennis: women's final/men's semis
6:00 News
6:30 See How They Rock (Boy George hosts highlights of the summer's hottest concerts)
7:00 Saturday Preview: Kids Just Want to Have Fun (previewing CBS' new Saturday morning sked, which premiered the following week)
8:00 Movie "Dark Night of the Scarecrow"
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "Two Minute Warning"
1:30 Common Ground
2:30 Movie "Death Cruise"
4:00 Rockford Files

WMAQ 5-NBC
7:00 Snorks
7:30 Pink Panther & Sons
8:00 Smurfs
9:30 Alvin & the Chipmunks
10:00 Kidd Video
10:30 Mr. T
11:00 Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends
11:30 Incredible Hulk
noon Movie "Hotel Sahara"
2:00 Baseball Pre-Game
2:15 Baseball: NY Mets-Los Angeles or Philadelphia-San Diego (NBC had regional coverage)
5:00 News
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Weighing Game (NBC5 consumer reporter Erin Moriarty looks at the obsession with dieting and being slim)
6:30 Fight Back! with David Horowitz
7:00 Diff'rent Strokes
7:30 Our Time (Karen Valentine and Harry Anderson welcome Paul Revere & the Raiders, the Coasters, Adam West, Telma Hopkins, and Joe Penny)
8:00 Gimme a Break! (1 hr, Nell's mom moves in)
9:00 Hunter
10:00 News
10:30 Saturday Night Live (host Howard Cosell/music from Greg Kihn)
mid. Entertainment This Week
1:00 New York Hot Tracks
2:00 Movie "Duel in the Sun"

WLS 7-ABC
ABC premiered its Saturday morning line-up that morning
7:00 Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes
8:00 Ewoks/Droids
9:00 Super Powers Team
9:30 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
10:00 Scooby's Mystery Funhouse
10:30 Littles
11:00 ABC Weekend Special "The Adventures of Con Sawyer and Hucklemary Finn" (pt 1, season premiere)
11:30 American Bandstand (season premiere; guests **** Robin and X)
12:30 Rock on Chicago (tribute to Tina Turner and her videos)
1:30 Record Guide
2:00 College Football: Florida State (7-3-2 last season)-Nebraska (10-2)
6:00 News
6:30 Inside High: Paul Robeson High School (Dr. Ruth Love hosts the first of 3 shows on the state of education in Chicagoland high schools; parts 2 and 3 aired the following Saturdays)
7:00 T.J. Hooker
8:00 Love Boat (2 hrs)
10:00 News
10:30 ABC News
10:45 TBA
11:00 Illini Football
1:00 Movie "Buchanan Rides Alone"
2:40 Record Guide

WGN 9-Ind
5:00 Abbott & Costello
5:30 Faith 20
6:00 Cartoons
6:15 Buyer's Forum
6:30 Three Score/Community Calendar
6:45 Cartoons
7:00 US Farm Report
7:30 World Tomorrow
8:00 Garner Ted Armstrong
8:30 Issues Unlimited
9:00 Charlando
9:30 People to People
10:00 Wild Kingdom
10:30 Soul Train
11:30 Movie "Five Deadly Venoms"
1:30 This Week in Baseball
2:00 Bugs Bunny
2:15 Baseball: the Cubs host Cincinnati
5:30 Greatest American Hero
6:30 At the Movies (Siskel & Ebert were on the Trib's cover that week)
7:00 Marco Polo (conclusion)
9:00 News
9:30 INN News
10:00 Twilight Zone
10:30 Movie "The Domino Principle"
12:30 Tales from the Darkside
1:00 Wall Street Journal Report
1:30 From the Editor's Desk
2:00 INN News
2:30 Movie "The Ride to Hangman's Tree"
4:30 Movietone News

WTTW 11-PBS
7:00 Burns & Allen (x2)
8:00 The Constitution: That Delicate Balance
9:00 Last Change Garage
9:30 Rod & Reel
10:00 CNN News
noon Innovation "A New Breed" (high-tech medical procedures in veterinary medicine)
12:30 Newton's Apple
1:00 Lucy in Disguise
2:00 Nova "Garden of Inheritance"
3:00 Magic of Watercolors
3:30 Magic of Oil Painting
4:00 Victory Garden
4:30 Justin Wilson's Louisiana Cookin'
5:00 All New This Old House
5:30 Frugal Gourmet
6:00 Sneak Previews
6:30 McLaughlin Group
7:00 Movie "The Garden of the Finzi-Continis"
9:00 Alfred Hitchcock Hour "Memo from Purgatory"
10:00 Image Union
10:30 Kup's Show (guests Spiro Agney and Elijah Mohammed)
11:30 Movie "Tight Spot"
1:10 David Susskind

WYCC 20-PBS (daytime only on weekends)
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Health Care Organization (x2)
9:00 In Our Own Image (x2)
10:00 Money Puzzle (x2)
11:00 Woodwright's Shop (x2)
noon Mechanical Universe (x2)
1:00 New Literacy (x2)
2:00 Business Files (x2)

WCIU 26-Ind/Ethnic
7:30 Without a Vision
8:00 Cinema Cinema
9:00 Sangeeta Presents
11:00 Alabare
noon Club del Nino
12:30 La Hora de la Decision
1:00 Chinese Spotlight
3:00 Voice of Assyrians
4:00 Beautiful Korea
5:00 Polonia Today
5:30 Outdoor Sportsman
6:00 Yugoslav-American Show
6:30 Jerry Falwell
7:30 Rock of Ages
8:30 Way of Deliverance
9:00 Peter Popoff
9:30 W.V. Grant
10:00 World Tomorrow
10:30 TBA
11:00 Women in Crisis
mid. Jerry Falwell

WFLD 32-Ind
6:00 Our People/Los Hispanos
6:30 Newstalk
7:00 Chicago '85
7:30 Our People/Los Hispanos
8:00 Romper Room
8:30 Larry Jones
9:00 Expedition Danger
9:30 Comedy Classics
10:30 WWF Wrestling
11:30 Movie "Bruce Lee's Secret"
1:30 Movie "The Walking Dead"
3:00 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
4:00 Star Trek "Miri"
5:00 What's Happening!!
5:30 Diff'rent Strokes
6:00 Small Wonder (premiere)
6:30 Too Close for Comfort
7:00 PM Magazine (saluting the spirit of Chicago and its residents)
7:30 Baseball: White Sox at Texas
10:30 Movie "Tower of Evil"
mid. Summer Rock: Lou Reed (simulcast by WCKG-FM 106)
1:00 TV 2000
2:00 Movie "Somebody Up There Likes Me"

WCFC 38-Religious
5:00 Signs of the Times
5:30 Our World
6:00 Adventures in Learning
6:30 Lift Jesus Higher
7:00 Secret Place
7:30 Kids' Jamboree
8:00 Toddler's Friends
8:30 Davey & Goliath
9:00 KPTL
9:30 Joy Junction
10:00 Bible Bowl
10:30 Circle Square
11:00 Athletes in Action
11:30 Sound Effects
noon Solo Act
12:30 Weekend Gardener
1:00 Greek Program
2:00 Un Nuevo Amenecer
4:00 Vida Abundante
4:30 Cristo Viene
5:00 Love Special
6:00 Week in Review
7:00 Anointed Word
8:00 Day of Discovery
8:30 Herald of Truth
9:00 Gary Greenwald
9:30 What a Fellowship
10:30 Saturday Nite Sing
11:30 Liberty Hour
mid. Paul Yonggi Cho
12:30 Athletes in Action
1:00 Time of Deliverance
1:30 In the Word
2:00 Saturday Nite Sing
3:00 D. James Kennedy
4:00 Abundant Living
4:30 Gary Greenwald

WSNS 44-SIN
7:30 La Voz de Nuestra Gente
8:00 Embajadores de la Musica Colombiana
8:30 Colorina
9:45 Soccer: 1985 FIFA World Youth Cup final (in Moscow)
noon Cine: TBA
2:00 Mi Secretaria
2:30 Soltero en el Aire
3:00 Rumbo al Mundial
5:00 Ojoreja
6:00 Topacio
7:00 Cine: TBA
9:00 El Mundo del Box
10:30 Lucha Libre
11:30 Cine: TBA

WBBS 60-Ind/Spanish
6:00 Lassie
6:30 Invisible Man
7:00 Jim Bowie
7:30 Greats of the Game
8:00 Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries
9:00 Seeing Stars
9:30 Those Amazing Animals
10:30 Best of Mister Ed
11:00 F Troop
11:30 Movie "Guns Don't Argue"
1:30 Movie "The Deadly Kung Fu Factor"
3:00 Movie "The Horror of Frankenstein"
5:00 World Class Championship Wrestling
6:00 Power Wrestling
6:30 Seeing Stars
7:00 Menudo
7:30 Imagen
8:00 Mundo Music
8:30 Desde Hollywood
9:00 Escenario Mexico
10:00 Opinion Publica
10:30 Grandes Encuentros Boxeo
11:30 Cine "Busco Tonta par sin de Semana"
1:00 La Ultima Tanda
2:30 Movie "Shaolin Deadly Hands"
4:20 Movie "Thunder in the Pines"

WGBO 66-Ind
9:00 It's Your Business
9:30 Lorne Greene's New Wilderness
10:00 Bethel Apostolic Church
11:00 Gunsmoke
noon Movie "The Desperate Hours"
2:00 Movie "Detective Story"
4:00 Gunsmoke
5:00 Stroh's Circle of Sports (interview with LA Lakers & Kings owner Jerry Buss/a visit to Daytona Intl Speedway/interview with Seve Ballesteros/pt 2 of a story on sports gambling)
7:00 College Football: Oklahoma State-Washington
10:00 Hit City
10:30 Movie "So Sad About Gloria"

SportsVision prime listings only
6pm Jimmy Houston
6:30 College Football: Western Michigan v Northern Illinois
9:30 Pro Line
10:00 Boxing (from LA)
 
If that was listed in TV in 1985, channel 60 didn't list WPWR-TV. I was 10 when WPWR-TV & WBBS were on a time share license. WPWR-TV was on from 2:30am - 7pm, while WBBS was on from 7pm - 2:30am. Had WSNS not gone with SIN (Spanish International Network, which became Univision) in 1985, WBBS would have eventually gone 24 hours on 60, because WPWR-TV was already working on acquiring the channel 50 license (at that time, it was a non-commercial license, while 56 that they held, was originally the commercial license) & move there. Of course, the move didn't happen until January 1987.
 
Dave said:
If that was listed in TV in 1985, channel 60 didn't list WPWR-TV. I was 10 when WPWR-TV & WBBS were on a time share license. WPWR-TV was on from 2:30am - 7pm, while WBBS was on from 7pm - 2:30am. Had WSNS not gone with SIN (Spanish International Network, which became Univision) in 1985, WBBS would have eventually gone 24 hours on 60, because WPWR-TV was already working on acquiring the channel 50 license (at that time, it was a non-commercial license, while 56 that they held, was originally the commercial license) & move there. Of course, the move didn't happen until January 1987.

At the time I posted those listings, I had conflicting info as to when the change was, I've since found out that WBBS and WPWR were sharing the frequency at the time. Ch 60 would eventually become a HSN station after WPWR moved to ch 50.
 
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