Retro: Des Moines, Iowa - Friday, April 20, 1984

[RandTV]

Source: Des Moines Register via newspapers.com

5 WOI (ABC)
5:30 Gateway 5 - German II
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Donahue - Guests: Debbie Reynolds, Carol Lawrence, Rose Marie, Valerie Landsburg
10:00 Woman to Woman
10:30 Loving
11:00 Family Feud
11:30 Magic Window - Local pre-emption: Ryan's Hope
NOON All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 One Day at a Time - Local pre-emption: Edge of Night
3:30 Happy Days Again
4:00 Alice
4:30 The Joker's Wild
5:00 5tv News
5:30 ABC World News Tonight
6:00 Family Feud
6:30 Three's Company
7:00 Benson: "You Can't Give It Away" (Nov 11, 1983)
7:30 Webster: "A Question of Honor" (Dec 16, 1983)
8:00 Masqerade: "Spanish Gambit"
9:00 Matt Houston: "The Crying Clown" (Nov 25, 1983)
10:00 5tv News
10:30 Hawaii Five-O
11:30 Nightline
MIDNIGHT Hot Tracks
1:30 Maverick
2:30 5tv News (R)

8 KCCI (CBS)
6:00 Morning Stretch
6:30 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 More Real People - Local pre-emption: The New $25,000 Pyramid - Guests: Markie Post, Billy Crystal (conclusion of High School Week)
9:30 Press Your Luck
10:00 The Price is Right
11:00 Young and Restless
NOON TV8 News
12:15 Midday
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Capitol
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 Tattletales - Couples: Jordan Clark & Kim Zimmer, Jerry Douglas & Brenda Dickson, Bill Beyers & Leslie Graves
3:30 Tic-Tac-Dough
4:00 Hour Magazine - Guests: Joel Higgins (Silver Spoons)
5:00 Jeffersons
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 TV8 News
6:30 Wheel of Fortune
7:00 Dukes of Hazzard: "Too Many Roscos" (Oct 7, 1983)
8:00 CBS Special Movie: "Murder in Coweta County" (1983) - Johnny Cash, Andy Griffith, Earl Hindman, June Carter Cash (Face-based story on the 1948 murder in Georgia. Pre-empts Dallas and Falcon Crest.)
10:00 TV8 News
10:30 Entertainment Tonight
11:05 CBS Late Movie: "That Lucky Touch" (1975) - Roger Moore, Susannah York, Shelley Winters, Lee J. Cobb
1:20 Movie: "Jesse James at Bay" (1941) - Roy Rogers, Gabby Hayes
2:15 TV8 News (R)

11 KDIN (PBS/IPTV*) *Iowa Public Television
6:15 Hooked on Aerobics
6:45 AM Weather
7:00 Accounting
7:30 Electric Company
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Man Builds, Man Destroys
9:30 Instrucitonal Programming
NOON Writer's Workshop
12:30 Electric Company
1:00 Iowa Heritage
1:30 Instructional Progamming
3:00 Growing Years
3:30 Mister Rogers
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
6:00 Nightly Business Report
6:30 Faces of Culture
7:00 Washington Week in Review
7:30 Wall $treet Week
8:00 Market to Market
8:30 Party With the Rovers - Guests: Geralding Doyle, Rita Coolidge
9:00 Angling Iowa
9:30 Solarworks
10:00 MotorWeek
10:30 Monty Python
11:00 Ramblin' III

13 WHO (NBC)
5:00 Nightwire
5:30 Body Buddies
6:00 Ag Day
6:30 NBC News at Sunrise
7:00 Today
9:00 Facts of Life
9:30 Sale of the Century
10:00 Wheel of Fortune - Teen Week finals, with the top 3 winning teen contestants.
10:30 Dream House - Bob Eubanks
11:00 Hot Potato - Bill Cullen; Final epsiode with civilian contestant teams. Starting the following Monday, it became Celebrity Hot Potato with one civilan contestant teamed with two celebrities.
11:30 Love Connection
NOON NewsCenter 13
12:15 Duane and Friend
12:30 Movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", Part 2 (1969) - Paul Newman, Robert Redford
2:00 Another World
3:00 Floppy Show
3:30 Love Boat
4:30 Newlywed Game (R)
5:00 People's Court
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 NewsCenter 13
6:30 PM Magazine
7:00 NBC Special: "Smurfs Springtime Special"
7:30 NBC Special: "Berenstain Bears' Easter Surprise"
8:00 The Master: "Rogues"
9:00 NBC Reports: "Assault on Big Brother...Regulating the Regulators"
10:00 NewsCenter 13
10:30 Tonight Show - Guest host: Joan Rivers; Guests: Suzanne Somers, Henry Winkler
11:30 Friday Night Videos - Featured videos: "The Heart of Rock & Roll" - Huey Lewis & the News; "Owner of a Lonely Heart" - Yes; "The Longest Time" - Billy Joel; "Hello" - Lionel Richie; "A Fine, Fine Day" - Tony Carey; "Show Me" -The Prenters; "Borderline" - Madonna; "Living on the Front Line" - Eddy Grant; "Relax" - Frankie Goes to Hollywood; "Against All Odds" - Phil Collins; "Who's That Girl?" - Eurythmics; "Legs" - ZZ Top; "You Might Think" - The Cars; "They Don't Know" - Tracey Ullman; "Original Sin" - INXS; "The Reflex" - Duran Duran; Private Reel: Nick Rhodes and Simon Le Bon (Part 2 of 2)
1:00 Dance Fever
1:30 Rock Palace
2:30 Jackie Gleason
3:00 Nightwire

17 KCBR (Ind.)
6:00 Jim Bakker
7:00 20 Minute Workout
7:30 Superfriends
8:00 Inspector Gadget
8:30 Great Space Coaster
9:00 700 Club
10:00 Jimmy Swaggart
10:30 Family
11:30 INN News
NOON 20 Minute Workout
12:30 Days of Our Lives (pre-empted by WHO)
1:30 Search for Tomorrow (pre-empted by WHO)
2:00 Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour (pre-empted by WHO) - Panel: Debra Sue Maffet (Miss America 1983), Fred Travalena, Edie McClurg, Joe Santos, Linda Dano, Soupy Sales, Bill Anderson, Tim Reid
3:00 Pink Panther
3:30 Scooby-Doo
4:00 Flintstones
4:30 He-Man
5:00 Waltons
6:00 Odd Couple
6:30 Bob Newhart
7:00 Movie: "Barabbas" (1962) - Anthony Quinn (title role), Arthur Kennedy, Ernest Bornine, Jack Palance
9:30 Star Trek
10:30 Movie: "The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant" (1971) - Bruce Dern, Pat Priest, Casey Kasem, John Bloom, Ablert Cole

 

[stratonapba]

I don't know about Nightwire being aired WHO-TV is that a newscast done in text similar to cable tv stations airing text based newscasts or running a community bulletin board set to music?

 

[RandTV]

I don't know about Nightwire being aired WHO-TV is that a newscast done in text similar to cable tv stations airing text based newscasts or running a community bulletin board set to music?

Hopefully, there's someone from Des Moines or elsewhere in Iowa who might be able to answer that.

 

[Cool_guy81]

I don't know about Nightwire being aired WHO-TV is that a newscast done in text similar to cable tv stations airing text based newscasts or running a community bulletin board set to music?

I don't know I was only 2 but I can ask other people if they remember it and see if they do.

 

[johnothy]

It is interesting to see WHO-TV pre-empting Days of our Lives for an afternoon movie.

 

[Cool_guy81]

It is interesting to see WHO-TV pre-empting Days of our Lives for an afternoon movie.

Yes it is and my mom said she began watching Days of our Lives since 1980 and said she remembers watching Days and Another World back to back.

She don't remember Days of our Lives being on Channel 17.

 

[genius]

It is interesting to see WHO-TV pre-empting Days of our Lives for an afternoon movie.

Yes it is and my mom said she began watching Days of our Lives since 1980 and said she remembers watching Days and Another World back to back.

She don't remember Days of our Lives being on Channel 17.

From the July 11, 1982, Des Moines Register:

 

[RandTV]

Searching through the Des Moines Register archives, I've found that WHO Ch. 13 started carrying "Days of Our Lives" on June 4, 1984.

 

[Cool_guy81]

Searching through the Des Moines Register archives, I've found that WHO Ch. 13 started carrying "Days of Our Lives" on June 4, 1984.

Since channel 17 aired NBC soaps did they start airing a movie when WHO started airing Days of our Lives.

 

[RandTV]

Since channel 17 aired NBC soaps did they start airing a movie when WHO started airing Days of our Lives.

Yes, preceded by 20 Minute Workout.

 

[RandTV]

Here is the source of the complete Friday Night Videos lineup.

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