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WBBM 2-CBS
5:00 Bill Cosby
5:30 For Our Times
6:00 Daybreak
6:30 Objective: Jobs
7:00 Kidsworld
7:30 Magic Door
8:00 CBS News Sunday Morning
9:30 Face the Nation
10:00 Lee Phillip (guests: prominent Chicagoans Miles & Sally Berger; author Sue Goldstein on Chicago's best bargains)
10:30 Newsmakers
11:00 Different Drummers
11:30 US Open Tennis
5:00 CBS Evening News
5:30 News
6:00 60 Minutes
7:00 Murder, She Wrote
8:00 Crazy Like a Fox
9:00 Trapper John, MD
10:00 News
10:30 Twain's River (Bob Wallace explores life on the Mississippi)
11:00 CBS News
11:15 Barnaby Jones
12:15 Take It from Here
12:30 Newsmakers
1:00 CBS News Nightwatch
WMAQ 5-NBC
6:30 New Zoo Revue
7:00 Kidding Around (interview with Chuck Norris, plus segments on karate and wolves)
7:30 Every Man
8:00 Friends (rabbis representing various branches of Judaism discuss their beliefs and approaches to specific issues central to the religion)
8:30 Gamut
9:00 Inside Out
9:30 I am Joe's Spine
10:00 Essence
10:30 Warner
11:00 City Desk
11:30 Meet the Press
noon Latin Tempo
12:30 NBA Summer All-Star Game (East meets West in DC)
2:30 Exciting World of Speed & Beauty
3:00 Super Chargers
3:30 NBC SportsWorld: Coors International Bicycle Classic, a 16 day race from San Francisco to Boulder
5:00 News
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Punky Brewster
6:30 Silver Spoons
7:00 oceanQuest (pt 3-divers look for monsters in Cuba's Blue Hole, and explore sunken ships in the Dominican and Micronesia)
8:00 Movie "On the Road Again"
10:00 News
10:25 Sports Sunday
10:45 Strictly Business
11:00 George Michael's Sports Machine
11:30 Family Feud
mid. Joe Forrester
1:00 City Desk
1:30 Friends
2:00 Gamut
WLS 7-ABC
6:30 Wildlife Adventure
7:00 Of Cabbages & Kings
7:30 Weekend Edition
8:00 Vernon Jarrett: Face to Face
8:30 World of Photography
9:00 Eyewitness Forum
9:30 This Week with David Brinkley
10:30 Taking Advantage (stories on America's $15b counterfeit-goods business, visiting ancient Greece, and small claims court)
11:00 Windy City Racing
11:30 Challengers (crossing the English Channel in a ultralight human-powered aircraft)
noon Movie "Jennifer's Journey"
3:30 Golf: US Amateur Golf Championship
5:00 ABC World News Sunday
5:30 News
6:00 Ripley's Believe It or Not! (art created by throwing paint into airplane exhausts, the origins of brain surgery, and computer technology that may help blind people to see)
7:00 Movie "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"
10:00 News
10:30 Sports Final
10:45 ABC News
11:00 Frey/LaRussa Show (Tony LaRussa was the Sox skipper at the time)
11:30 Hollywood Closeup
mid. Movie "Isn't It Shocking?"
1:45 Movie "The Night Strangler"
4:30 AM Chicago
WGN 9-Ind
5:00 Sea Hunt
5:30 Zane Grey Theater
6:00 Greatest Sports Legends
6:30 Three Score/Community Calendar
6:45 What's Nu?
7:00 D. James Kennedy
7:30 Robert Schuller
8:00 Mass for Shut-Ins
8:30 Chicagoland Church Hour
9:00 Cisco Kid
9:30 Lone Ranger
10:00 Rawhide
11:00 Wild Wild West
noon One Step Beyond
12:30 Twilight Zone
1:00 Lead-Off Man
1:15 Baseball: Cubs host Atlanta
4:30 Victor Awards (the 19th annual ceremony honors athletes and salutes the 1984 Olympic winners; Richard Dawson hosts, with presenters including Paul Newman and Joe Theismann)
5:30 Fantasy Island
6:30 Movie "Great Catherine"
8:30 News
9:00 1985 MDA Telethon (national hosts Jerry Lewis, Ed McMahon, Casey Kasem, Sammy Davis Jr, and Tony Orlando; on Chicago's Very Own, Adrian Zmed and Cora-Ann Mihalik co-host; this contines to 1pm Labor Day, taking a break for the Cubs game, and picking up again 4:30-7)
WTTW 11-PBS
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 Burns & Allen
10:00 CNN News
noon Adam Smith's Money World
12:30 Tony Brown's Journal "Mr. Movie" (profile of film producer Oscar Micheaux)
1:00 Capitol Journal
1:30 From the American Film Institute "Moonface"
2:00 Movie "The Notorious Landlady"
4:00 Firing Line (guests the Whiffenpoofs join Bill to discuss the role of music in education)
5:00 Chicago Sunday Evening Club
6:00 Evening at Pops (a salute to Judy Garland, guests Katia & Marielle Labeque)
7:00 Lucy in Disguise (the 3.5 million year old fossil found in Ethiopia)
8:00 Case of Dashiel Hammett (profile of the mystery writer)
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre "The Irish RM" (pt 1)
10:00 Monty Python's Flying Circus
10:30 Dave Allen at Large
11:00 Doctor Who "The Hand of Fear"
1:00 Two Ronnies
1:30 Image Union
WYCC 20-PBS (the station only aired programs during the daytime)
7:00 Villa Alegre
7:30 Reading Rainbow
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Understanding Human Behavior (x2)
10:00 Growing Years (x2)
11:00 Marketing (x2)
noon Money Puzzle "The Pieces of the Puzzle", followed by "The Choice is Yours" at 12:30
1:00 Math for Modern Living "Lead", followed by "Reason and Math" at 1:30
2:00 Greek Language & People
2:30 Write Course "The Beginning"
WCIU 26-Ind/Ethnic
7:00 Divine Plan
7:30 Faith Messanger
8:00 Ever Increasing Faith
9:00 Jimmy Swaggart
10:00 Robert Schuller
11:00 All-Star Wrestling
noon Chicago Wrestling
12:30 World Tomorrow
1:00 Town Hall Telecast
1:30 TBA
3:00 Anointed Word
4:00 Johnny Colemon
4:30 W.V. Grant
5:00 Bob Lewandowski
6:00 TBA
6:30 NHK Weekly News
7:00 Haru no Hato
8:00 Grecian Spotlite
8:30 Hellenic Theatre
9:00 National Greek TV
9:30 Korean Gospel Hour
10:00 Beautiful Korea
11:00 Sister Allen
11:30 Old Landmark Church
WFLD 32-Ind
6:00 Chicago '85
6:30 Jimmy Swaggart
7:30 Dr. Dekruyter
8:00 Expect a Miracle
8:30 Spider-Man & Superheroes
9:30 Popeye
10:00 Tom & Jerry
10:30 GoBots
11:00 Brady Bunch
11:30 Happy Days Again
noon Movie "Jumping Jacks"
2:00 Movie "Yours, Mine and Ours"
4:00 Star Trek "Mudd's Women"
5:00 Movie "Those Daring Young Men in Jaunty Jalopies"
7:00 Star Search (finals)
8:00 Start of Something Big (careers of Joan Collins, Bob Hope, and Julio Iglesias/origins of the bikini, potato chips, ice cream, and I Love Lucy)
9:00 Miller's Court
9:30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
10:00 Too Close for Comfort
10:30 Mission: Impossible
11:30 Star Search (r)
12:30 Fame
WCFC 38-Religious
5:00 James Robison
5:30 Blackwood Brothers
6:00 Transformed
6:30 Paul Yonggi Cho
7:00 Rejoice in the Lord
8:00 Changed Lives
8:30 Living Stones
9:00 Marilyn Hickey
9:30 Lloyd Oglivie
10:00 Monument of Faith
11:00 Anointed Word
noon Marvin Gorman
1:00 Week in Review
2:00 Closer Look
2:30 Visit with Suzanne
3:00 Victory in Jesus
3:30 Larry Jones
4:00 Billy Egr Ministers
4:30 Today in Bible Prophecy
5:00 Paul Yonggi Cho
5:30 D. James Kennedy
6:30 The King is Coming
7:00 Kenneth Copeland
8:00 Jerry Falwell
9:00 Chicago Gospel Hour
10:00 In Touch
11:00 John Ankerberg
11:30 Memories
WSNS 44-SIN
8:00 El Pequeno Cid
8:30 Ulises
9:00 Round Cero
9:15 Para Gente Grande
11:00 Misa
11:30 Temas y Debates
noon World Cup Soccer
2:00 El Enemigo
3:00 Asi Va el Beisbol
3:30 Punto de Encuentro
4:30 Chiquilladas
5:00 Musicalisimo
6:00 Topacio
7:00 Siempro en Domingo
mid. La Carabina de Ambrosio
12:30 Cine: TBA
WBBS 60-Ind/Spanish
6:00 Star Trek (animated)
6:30 Abbott & Costello
7:00 Laurel & Hardy Laughtoons
7:30 Gumby
8:00 King Leonardo
8:30 Jackson 5ive
9:00 Kids, Incorporated
9:30 Voltron
10:00 Millionaire Maker
11:00 World Class Championship Wrestling (also aired Saturdays at 5, followed by Power Wrestling at 6)
noon Movie "Cattle Drive"
1:30 Movie "Standing Room Only"
3:00 Movie "Johnny O'Clock"
5:00 Best of World Class Championship Wrestling
6:00 Roller Derby
7:00 Esta Semana en el Beisbol
7:30 Beisbol en Chicago con Ruben Amaro
8:00 Las Despedida de Eloy Cavazos
9:00 Mundo del Football
9:30 Vamos a Ver
11:30 Val de la O
12:30 Lucha Libre
1:30 Nuestra Familia
2:30 Movie "Enchanted Island"
4:20 Movie "Roaring City"
WGBO 66-Ind
8:00 Manoranjan
9:00 Leroy Jenkins
9:30 Philippine Report
10:00 Petticoat Junction
10:30 Green Acres
11:00 Telephone Auction
noon Movie "Outcast of the Islands"
2:00 Movie "Gilbert & Sullivan"
4:00 Movie "Endless Night"
6:00 Hee Haw (performing: Tom T. Hall, Jim Glaser, the Million Dollar Band, Kenny Price & Jackie Phelps, and Lulu Roman)
7:00 Hawaii Five-O
8:00 Rookies
9:00 Perry Mason
10:00 This Week in Country Music (Sylvia and Hank Williams Jr. perform/interviews with Hank Jr., Conway Twitty, and Gene Watson)
10:30 Movie "The Big Carnival"
12:30 Reverend Ike
SportsVision (originally part of WPWR's programming, it migrated to cable in 1984) prime listings only
6pm Inside NASCAR
6:30 Pro Wrestling USA
7:30 Pennant Chase
8:00 White Sox Game of the Week
11:00 Tom Seever
WBBM 2-CBS
5:00 Bill Cosby
5:30 For Our Times
6:00 Daybreak
6:30 Objective: Jobs
7:00 Kidsworld
7:30 Magic Door
8:00 CBS News Sunday Morning
9:30 Face the Nation
10:00 Lee Phillip (guests: prominent Chicagoans Miles & Sally Berger; author Sue Goldstein on Chicago's best bargains)
10:30 Newsmakers
11:00 Different Drummers
11:30 US Open Tennis
5:00 CBS Evening News
5:30 News
6:00 60 Minutes
7:00 Murder, She Wrote
8:00 Crazy Like a Fox
9:00 Trapper John, MD
10:00 News
10:30 Twain's River (Bob Wallace explores life on the Mississippi)
11:00 CBS News
11:15 Barnaby Jones
12:15 Take It from Here
12:30 Newsmakers
1:00 CBS News Nightwatch
WMAQ 5-NBC
6:30 New Zoo Revue
7:00 Kidding Around (interview with Chuck Norris, plus segments on karate and wolves)
7:30 Every Man
8:00 Friends (rabbis representing various branches of Judaism discuss their beliefs and approaches to specific issues central to the religion)
8:30 Gamut
9:00 Inside Out
9:30 I am Joe's Spine
10:00 Essence
10:30 Warner
11:00 City Desk
11:30 Meet the Press
noon Latin Tempo
12:30 NBA Summer All-Star Game (East meets West in DC)
2:30 Exciting World of Speed & Beauty
3:00 Super Chargers
3:30 NBC SportsWorld: Coors International Bicycle Classic, a 16 day race from San Francisco to Boulder
5:00 News
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Punky Brewster
6:30 Silver Spoons
7:00 oceanQuest (pt 3-divers look for monsters in Cuba's Blue Hole, and explore sunken ships in the Dominican and Micronesia)
8:00 Movie "On the Road Again"
10:00 News
10:25 Sports Sunday
10:45 Strictly Business
11:00 George Michael's Sports Machine
11:30 Family Feud
mid. Joe Forrester
1:00 City Desk
1:30 Friends
2:00 Gamut
WLS 7-ABC
6:30 Wildlife Adventure
7:00 Of Cabbages & Kings
7:30 Weekend Edition
8:00 Vernon Jarrett: Face to Face
8:30 World of Photography
9:00 Eyewitness Forum
9:30 This Week with David Brinkley
10:30 Taking Advantage (stories on America's $15b counterfeit-goods business, visiting ancient Greece, and small claims court)
11:00 Windy City Racing
11:30 Challengers (crossing the English Channel in a ultralight human-powered aircraft)
noon Movie "Jennifer's Journey"
3:30 Golf: US Amateur Golf Championship
5:00 ABC World News Sunday
5:30 News
6:00 Ripley's Believe It or Not! (art created by throwing paint into airplane exhausts, the origins of brain surgery, and computer technology that may help blind people to see)
7:00 Movie "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"
10:00 News
10:30 Sports Final
10:45 ABC News
11:00 Frey/LaRussa Show (Tony LaRussa was the Sox skipper at the time)
11:30 Hollywood Closeup
mid. Movie "Isn't It Shocking?"
1:45 Movie "The Night Strangler"
4:30 AM Chicago
WGN 9-Ind
5:00 Sea Hunt
5:30 Zane Grey Theater
6:00 Greatest Sports Legends
6:30 Three Score/Community Calendar
6:45 What's Nu?
7:00 D. James Kennedy
7:30 Robert Schuller
8:00 Mass for Shut-Ins
8:30 Chicagoland Church Hour
9:00 Cisco Kid
9:30 Lone Ranger
10:00 Rawhide
11:00 Wild Wild West
noon One Step Beyond
12:30 Twilight Zone
1:00 Lead-Off Man
1:15 Baseball: Cubs host Atlanta
4:30 Victor Awards (the 19th annual ceremony honors athletes and salutes the 1984 Olympic winners; Richard Dawson hosts, with presenters including Paul Newman and Joe Theismann)
5:30 Fantasy Island
6:30 Movie "Great Catherine"
8:30 News
9:00 1985 MDA Telethon (national hosts Jerry Lewis, Ed McMahon, Casey Kasem, Sammy Davis Jr, and Tony Orlando; on Chicago's Very Own, Adrian Zmed and Cora-Ann Mihalik co-host; this contines to 1pm Labor Day, taking a break for the Cubs game, and picking up again 4:30-7)
WTTW 11-PBS
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 Burns & Allen
10:00 CNN News
noon Adam Smith's Money World
12:30 Tony Brown's Journal "Mr. Movie" (profile of film producer Oscar Micheaux)
1:00 Capitol Journal
1:30 From the American Film Institute "Moonface"
2:00 Movie "The Notorious Landlady"
4:00 Firing Line (guests the Whiffenpoofs join Bill to discuss the role of music in education)
5:00 Chicago Sunday Evening Club
6:00 Evening at Pops (a salute to Judy Garland, guests Katia & Marielle Labeque)
7:00 Lucy in Disguise (the 3.5 million year old fossil found in Ethiopia)
8:00 Case of Dashiel Hammett (profile of the mystery writer)
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre "The Irish RM" (pt 1)
10:00 Monty Python's Flying Circus
10:30 Dave Allen at Large
11:00 Doctor Who "The Hand of Fear"
1:00 Two Ronnies
1:30 Image Union
WYCC 20-PBS (the station only aired programs during the daytime)
7:00 Villa Alegre
7:30 Reading Rainbow
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Understanding Human Behavior (x2)
10:00 Growing Years (x2)
11:00 Marketing (x2)
noon Money Puzzle "The Pieces of the Puzzle", followed by "The Choice is Yours" at 12:30
1:00 Math for Modern Living "Lead", followed by "Reason and Math" at 1:30
2:00 Greek Language & People
2:30 Write Course "The Beginning"
WCIU 26-Ind/Ethnic
7:00 Divine Plan
7:30 Faith Messanger
8:00 Ever Increasing Faith
9:00 Jimmy Swaggart
10:00 Robert Schuller
11:00 All-Star Wrestling
noon Chicago Wrestling
12:30 World Tomorrow
1:00 Town Hall Telecast
1:30 TBA
3:00 Anointed Word
4:00 Johnny Colemon
4:30 W.V. Grant
5:00 Bob Lewandowski
6:00 TBA
6:30 NHK Weekly News
7:00 Haru no Hato
8:00 Grecian Spotlite
8:30 Hellenic Theatre
9:00 National Greek TV
9:30 Korean Gospel Hour
10:00 Beautiful Korea
11:00 Sister Allen
11:30 Old Landmark Church
WFLD 32-Ind
6:00 Chicago '85
6:30 Jimmy Swaggart
7:30 Dr. Dekruyter
8:00 Expect a Miracle
8:30 Spider-Man & Superheroes
9:30 Popeye
10:00 Tom & Jerry
10:30 GoBots
11:00 Brady Bunch
11:30 Happy Days Again
noon Movie "Jumping Jacks"
2:00 Movie "Yours, Mine and Ours"
4:00 Star Trek "Mudd's Women"
5:00 Movie "Those Daring Young Men in Jaunty Jalopies"
7:00 Star Search (finals)
8:00 Start of Something Big (careers of Joan Collins, Bob Hope, and Julio Iglesias/origins of the bikini, potato chips, ice cream, and I Love Lucy)
9:00 Miller's Court
9:30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
10:00 Too Close for Comfort
10:30 Mission: Impossible
11:30 Star Search (r)
12:30 Fame
WCFC 38-Religious
5:00 James Robison
5:30 Blackwood Brothers
6:00 Transformed
6:30 Paul Yonggi Cho
7:00 Rejoice in the Lord
8:00 Changed Lives
8:30 Living Stones
9:00 Marilyn Hickey
9:30 Lloyd Oglivie
10:00 Monument of Faith
11:00 Anointed Word
noon Marvin Gorman
1:00 Week in Review
2:00 Closer Look
2:30 Visit with Suzanne
3:00 Victory in Jesus
3:30 Larry Jones
4:00 Billy Egr Ministers
4:30 Today in Bible Prophecy
5:00 Paul Yonggi Cho
5:30 D. James Kennedy
6:30 The King is Coming
7:00 Kenneth Copeland
8:00 Jerry Falwell
9:00 Chicago Gospel Hour
10:00 In Touch
11:00 John Ankerberg
11:30 Memories
WSNS 44-SIN
8:00 El Pequeno Cid
8:30 Ulises
9:00 Round Cero
9:15 Para Gente Grande
11:00 Misa
11:30 Temas y Debates
noon World Cup Soccer
2:00 El Enemigo
3:00 Asi Va el Beisbol
3:30 Punto de Encuentro
4:30 Chiquilladas
5:00 Musicalisimo
6:00 Topacio
7:00 Siempro en Domingo
mid. La Carabina de Ambrosio
12:30 Cine: TBA
WBBS 60-Ind/Spanish
6:00 Star Trek (animated)
6:30 Abbott & Costello
7:00 Laurel & Hardy Laughtoons
7:30 Gumby
8:00 King Leonardo
8:30 Jackson 5ive
9:00 Kids, Incorporated
9:30 Voltron
10:00 Millionaire Maker
11:00 World Class Championship Wrestling (also aired Saturdays at 5, followed by Power Wrestling at 6)
noon Movie "Cattle Drive"
1:30 Movie "Standing Room Only"
3:00 Movie "Johnny O'Clock"
5:00 Best of World Class Championship Wrestling
6:00 Roller Derby
7:00 Esta Semana en el Beisbol
7:30 Beisbol en Chicago con Ruben Amaro
8:00 Las Despedida de Eloy Cavazos
9:00 Mundo del Football
9:30 Vamos a Ver
11:30 Val de la O
12:30 Lucha Libre
1:30 Nuestra Familia
2:30 Movie "Enchanted Island"
4:20 Movie "Roaring City"
WGBO 66-Ind
8:00 Manoranjan
9:00 Leroy Jenkins
9:30 Philippine Report
10:00 Petticoat Junction
10:30 Green Acres
11:00 Telephone Auction
noon Movie "Outcast of the Islands"
2:00 Movie "Gilbert & Sullivan"
4:00 Movie "Endless Night"
6:00 Hee Haw (performing: Tom T. Hall, Jim Glaser, the Million Dollar Band, Kenny Price & Jackie Phelps, and Lulu Roman)
7:00 Hawaii Five-O
8:00 Rookies
9:00 Perry Mason
10:00 This Week in Country Music (Sylvia and Hank Williams Jr. perform/interviews with Hank Jr., Conway Twitty, and Gene Watson)
10:30 Movie "The Big Carnival"
12:30 Reverend Ike
SportsVision (originally part of WPWR's programming, it migrated to cable in 1984) prime listings only
6pm Inside NASCAR
6:30 Pro Wrestling USA
7:30 Pennant Chase
8:00 White Sox Game of the Week
11:00 Tom Seever
