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And to conclude my original Star Wars trilogy TV schedules, here is what was on TV in Chicago the day of the premiere of Return of the Jedi. Again, I will only be listing the major high-powered stations: channels 2, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 32.
Source: Chicago Tribune
2 WBBM (CBS)
MORNING
6:00 Daybreak
6:30 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Donahue
10:00 New $25,000 Pyramid - Guests: Constance McCashin, Brian Mitchell
10:30 Child's Play - Bill Cullen
11:00 Tattletales - Celebrity couples: Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme, Dick & Dolly Martin, Bob & Ginnie Newhart
11:30 Young and Restless
AFTERNOON
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Capitol
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 Price is Right
4:00 Barnaby Jones
5:00 Channel 2 News
5:30 CBS Evening News
EVENING
6:00 Channel 2 News
7:00 CBS Wedneday Night Movies: "Callie & Son" (1981) - Lindsay Wagner, Dabney Coleman, Jameson Parker
10:00 Channel 2 News
10:30 Hart to Hart
11:40 CBS Late Movie: "Wishbone Cutter" (1977) - Joe Don Baker, Sondra Locke
LATE NIGHT
1:00 CBS News Nightwatch (to 6:00 AM)
5 WMAQ (NBC)
MORNING
6:00 Today in Chicago
6:30 Early Today
7:00 Today
9:00 Facts of Life
9:30 Sale of the Century
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Dream House - Bob Eubanks
11:00 New Battlestars (revival of the 1981-82 star-studded game show, again hosted by Alex Trebek) - Guests: Charles Nelson Reilly, Shannon Tweed, Roddy McDowall, Leslie Nielsen, Eileen Davidson, Howie Mandel
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
AFTERNOON
12:00 Channel 5 News
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 Another World
2:30 Fantasy - Peter Marshall and Leslie Uggams
3:30 Entertainment Tonight
4:00 People's Court
4:30 Channel 5 News
5:30 NBC Nightly News
EVENING
6:00 Channel 5 News
6:30 Family Feud
7:00 Real People
8:00 Facts of Life
8:30 Taxi (moved to NBC after its four previous years on ABC; final episode aired three weeks later)
9:00 Quincy (repeat; final episode aired two weeks earlier)
10:00 Channel 5 News
10:30 Tonight Show - Guests: Buddy Rich, Martina Arroyo
11:30 Late Night with David Letterman - Guests: Viasta Krsek (polka queen), Boytarian (Hungarian country & western group)
LATE NIGHT
12:30 NBC News Overnight
1:30 Today in Chicago (repeat)
2:00 Mary Tyler Moore
7 WLS (ABC)
MORNING
6:00 ABC News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 AM Chicago
10:00 Love Boat
11:00 Family Feud
11:30 Ryan's Hope
AFTERNOON
12:00 All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 3:00 Movie: "And I Alone Survived" (1978) - David Ackroyd, Blair Brown, Vera Miles
4:30 Eyewitness News
5:30 ABC World News Tonight - Max Robinson and Peter Jennings, following the departure of the ailing Frank Reynolds who died July 20, exactly three months after his final broadcast
EVENING
6:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 Fall Guy
8:00 ABC Wednesday Night Movie: "Sizzle" (1981) - Loni Anderson, John Forsythe, Leslie Uggams
10:00 Eyewitness News
10:30 Nightline
11:30 One on One
LATE NIGHT
12:00 Movie: "Navy vs. the Night Monsters" (1965) - Mamie Van Doren, Anthony Eisley
9 WGN
MORNING
6:00 Top o' the Morning
6:30 Bullwinkle
7:00 Bozo Show
9:00 Morning Movie: "Night Passage" (1957) - James Stewart, Audie Murphy
11:00 Big Valley
AFTERNOON
12:00 You Asked for It
12:30 INN News
1:00 Dick Van Dyke
1:30 Andy Griffith
2:00 I Dream of Jeannie
2:30 Pink Panther
3:00 Superfriends
3:30 Scooby-Doo
4:00 Good Times
4:30 Little House on the Prairie
5:30 Laverne & Shirley & Company
EVENING
6:00 Barney Miller
6:30 Jeffersons
7:00 Odd Couple
7:30 Cubs Baseball: at Houston Astros
10:30 Night Beat (alternate title used for Nine O'Clock News following sports pre-emptions)
11:30 Movie: "The Seekers" (part 1; 1954) - Jack Hawkins, Glynis Johns
LATE NIGHT
2:30 Tom Cottle: Up Close - Guest: Ray Bradbury (part 1)
3:00 Movie: "Beau James" (1957) - Bob Hope, Vera Miles, Paul Douglas
11 WTTW (PBS)
MORNING
6:30 Business Report
7:00 Powerhouse
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Mister Rogers
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Mister Rogers
10:30 Electric Company
11:00 Instructional Programs
11:30 Sesame Street
AFTERNOON
12:30 World of Cooking
1:00 French Chef
1:30 Over Easy - Guest: family therapist Kathleen Kerr
2:00 Who Killed the Lindbergh Baby?
3:00 Wild, Wild World of Animals
3:30 Electric Company
4:00 Mister Rogers
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 This Old House
EVENING
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
6:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
7:00 Chicago Feedback
8:00 Different Drummer: Blacks in the Military (part 2 of 3)
9:00 Ready When You Are, Mr. (Cecil B.) DeMille
10:00 Business Report
10:30 Movie: "Full of Life" (1957) - Judy Holliday, Richard Conte
LATE NIGHT
12:00 PBS LateNight
32 WFLD
MORNING
6:00 Newstalk
6:30 Mighty Mouse
7:00 Tom & Jerry
7:30 Flintstones
8:00 Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Popeye
9:00 Richard Simmons
9:30 20 Minute Workout
10:00 700 Club
11:00 Newstalk
11:30 CNN Headline News
AFTERNOON
12:00 Woody Woodpecker
12:30 Great Space Coaster
1:00 I Love Lucy
1:30 Courtship of Eddie's Father
2:00 Partridge Family
2:30 Casper
3:00 Tom & Jerry
4:00 Flintstones
4:30 CHiPs Patrol
5:30 Happy Days Again
EVENING
6:00 Three's Company
6:30 M*A*S*H
7:00 Movie: "Zulu" (1964) - Michael Caine
9:30 Newscene
10:00 M*A*S*H
10:30 Starsy & Hutch
11:30 Mary Hartman
LATE NIGHT
12:00 CNN Headline News
Source: Chicago Tribune
2 WBBM (CBS)
MORNING
6:00 Daybreak
6:30 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Donahue
10:00 New $25,000 Pyramid - Guests: Constance McCashin, Brian Mitchell
10:30 Child's Play - Bill Cullen
11:00 Tattletales - Celebrity couples: Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme, Dick & Dolly Martin, Bob & Ginnie Newhart
11:30 Young and Restless
AFTERNOON
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Capitol
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 Price is Right
4:00 Barnaby Jones
5:00 Channel 2 News
5:30 CBS Evening News
EVENING
6:00 Channel 2 News
7:00 CBS Wedneday Night Movies: "Callie & Son" (1981) - Lindsay Wagner, Dabney Coleman, Jameson Parker
10:00 Channel 2 News
10:30 Hart to Hart
11:40 CBS Late Movie: "Wishbone Cutter" (1977) - Joe Don Baker, Sondra Locke
LATE NIGHT
1:00 CBS News Nightwatch (to 6:00 AM)
5 WMAQ (NBC)
MORNING
6:00 Today in Chicago
6:30 Early Today
7:00 Today
9:00 Facts of Life
9:30 Sale of the Century
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Dream House - Bob Eubanks
11:00 New Battlestars (revival of the 1981-82 star-studded game show, again hosted by Alex Trebek) - Guests: Charles Nelson Reilly, Shannon Tweed, Roddy McDowall, Leslie Nielsen, Eileen Davidson, Howie Mandel
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
AFTERNOON
12:00 Channel 5 News
12:30 Days of Our Lives
1:30 Another World
2:30 Fantasy - Peter Marshall and Leslie Uggams
3:30 Entertainment Tonight
4:00 People's Court
4:30 Channel 5 News
5:30 NBC Nightly News
EVENING
6:00 Channel 5 News
6:30 Family Feud
7:00 Real People
8:00 Facts of Life
8:30 Taxi (moved to NBC after its four previous years on ABC; final episode aired three weeks later)
9:00 Quincy (repeat; final episode aired two weeks earlier)
10:00 Channel 5 News
10:30 Tonight Show - Guests: Buddy Rich, Martina Arroyo
11:30 Late Night with David Letterman - Guests: Viasta Krsek (polka queen), Boytarian (Hungarian country & western group)
LATE NIGHT
12:30 NBC News Overnight
1:30 Today in Chicago (repeat)
2:00 Mary Tyler Moore
7 WLS (ABC)
MORNING
6:00 ABC News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 AM Chicago
10:00 Love Boat
11:00 Family Feud
11:30 Ryan's Hope
AFTERNOON
12:00 All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 3:00 Movie: "And I Alone Survived" (1978) - David Ackroyd, Blair Brown, Vera Miles
4:30 Eyewitness News
5:30 ABC World News Tonight - Max Robinson and Peter Jennings, following the departure of the ailing Frank Reynolds who died July 20, exactly three months after his final broadcast
EVENING
6:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 Fall Guy
8:00 ABC Wednesday Night Movie: "Sizzle" (1981) - Loni Anderson, John Forsythe, Leslie Uggams
10:00 Eyewitness News
10:30 Nightline
11:30 One on One
LATE NIGHT
12:00 Movie: "Navy vs. the Night Monsters" (1965) - Mamie Van Doren, Anthony Eisley
9 WGN
MORNING
6:00 Top o' the Morning
6:30 Bullwinkle
7:00 Bozo Show
9:00 Morning Movie: "Night Passage" (1957) - James Stewart, Audie Murphy
11:00 Big Valley
AFTERNOON
12:00 You Asked for It
12:30 INN News
1:00 Dick Van Dyke
1:30 Andy Griffith
2:00 I Dream of Jeannie
2:30 Pink Panther
3:00 Superfriends
3:30 Scooby-Doo
4:00 Good Times
4:30 Little House on the Prairie
5:30 Laverne & Shirley & Company
EVENING
6:00 Barney Miller
6:30 Jeffersons
7:00 Odd Couple
7:30 Cubs Baseball: at Houston Astros
10:30 Night Beat (alternate title used for Nine O'Clock News following sports pre-emptions)
11:30 Movie: "The Seekers" (part 1; 1954) - Jack Hawkins, Glynis Johns
LATE NIGHT
2:30 Tom Cottle: Up Close - Guest: Ray Bradbury (part 1)
3:00 Movie: "Beau James" (1957) - Bob Hope, Vera Miles, Paul Douglas
11 WTTW (PBS)
MORNING
6:30 Business Report
7:00 Powerhouse
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Mister Rogers
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Mister Rogers
10:30 Electric Company
11:00 Instructional Programs
11:30 Sesame Street
AFTERNOON
12:30 World of Cooking
1:00 French Chef
1:30 Over Easy - Guest: family therapist Kathleen Kerr
2:00 Who Killed the Lindbergh Baby?
3:00 Wild, Wild World of Animals
3:30 Electric Company
4:00 Mister Rogers
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 This Old House
EVENING
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
6:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
7:00 Chicago Feedback
8:00 Different Drummer: Blacks in the Military (part 2 of 3)
9:00 Ready When You Are, Mr. (Cecil B.) DeMille
10:00 Business Report
10:30 Movie: "Full of Life" (1957) - Judy Holliday, Richard Conte
LATE NIGHT
12:00 PBS LateNight
32 WFLD
MORNING
6:00 Newstalk
6:30 Mighty Mouse
7:00 Tom & Jerry
7:30 Flintstones
8:00 Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Popeye
9:00 Richard Simmons
9:30 20 Minute Workout
10:00 700 Club
11:00 Newstalk
11:30 CNN Headline News
AFTERNOON
12:00 Woody Woodpecker
12:30 Great Space Coaster
1:00 I Love Lucy
1:30 Courtship of Eddie's Father
2:00 Partridge Family
2:30 Casper
3:00 Tom & Jerry
4:00 Flintstones
4:30 CHiPs Patrol
5:30 Happy Days Again
EVENING
6:00 Three's Company
6:30 M*A*S*H
7:00 Movie: "Zulu" (1964) - Michael Caine
9:30 Newscene
10:00 M*A*S*H
10:30 Starsy & Hutch
11:30 Mary Hartman
LATE NIGHT
12:00 CNN Headline News