RETRO: Fairbanks, Alaska (April 12, 1986)

[johnnya2k6]

Y'all know the source and channel lineups, so on to the listings.

6:00 AM
2-Snorks
11-Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors (full hour)

6:30
2-Adventures of the Gummi Bears

7:00
2-Smurfs
11-Jim Henson's Muppets, Babies, and Monsters (which didn't last long; the show became "Muppet Babies" again after only two weeks)
WOR-WWF Wrestling Spotlight

8:00
9-Sesame Street
11-Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n Wrestling

8:30
2-Punky Brewster

9:00
2-MLB Baseball: New York Mets @ Philadelphia Phillies
9-Sesame Street
11-Richie Rich

9:30
11-Dungeons and Dragons

10:00
9-Focus on Society (full hour)
11-Tennis: WCT Championship semi-finals

11:00
9-Mechanical Universe (full hour)

Noon
2-World Cup Skiing
9-Understanding Human Behavior (full hour)
WGN-Soul Train

1:00
2-Solid Gold
9-Invitation to Fly (full hour)
WGN-FTV (remember that show?)

1:30
WGN-Puttin' on the Hits

2:00
2-Star Games (remember THAT show?)
9-Matinee at the Bijou
11-GEO: A Ticket to the World (remember THAT show?!?!?!)
TBS-NWA World Championship Wrestling
WOR-WWF All-Star Wrestling (I think)

3:00
2-PBA Bowling: $135,000 Long Island Open
11-Fame
WGN-It's A Living (the syndicated revival of the early '80s ABC show)

3:30
9-Special Operations Executive
WGN-At The Movies (hosted by Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert before they moved from Tribune to Buena Vista (Disney) and changed the title to "Siskel & Ebert")

4:00
11-Hee Haw

4:30
2-Wide World of Sports

4:55
4-Devotion with Pastor Hughes

5:00
4-In Touch
9-Invitation to Fly ("Radio Navigation", another would follow at 5:30)

5:30
11-CBS Evening News

6:00
2-Voyagers
9-Crime File ("Heroin")
11-Star Trek

6:30
2/4-Interior Focus
2-Sneak Previews

7:00
2-Cheers
4-James Robison
9-Golden Years of Television
11-Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

7:30
2-Night Court
4-Tribal Trails
WGN-Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
WOR-WWF Championship Wrestling

8:00
2-The Golden Girls
4-Movie: "Pilgrim's Progress" (It didn't have a date, but according to the IMDB, it was from 1979 and starred a young Liam Neeson)
9-Doctor Who ("The Daleks")
11-Crazy Like A Fox

8:30
2-The Facts of Life

9:00
2-Amazing Stories
11-Movie: "A Touch of Scandal" (1984)

9:30
2-Alfred Hitchcock Presents
4-Jimmy Swaggart

10:00
2-St. Elsewhere
WGN-Tales From the Darkside

10:30
4-Since You Asked

11:00
2-Mr. and Mrs. Ryan
9-Austin City Limits
11-Entertainment This Week (aka Entertainment Tonight Weekend)

Midnight
2-Saturday Night Live (Oprah Winfrey/Joe Jackson)
11-Switch

1:00 AM
11-Movie: "Stranger In Our House" (1978)

1:30
2-Wrestling (dunno which promotion, but definitely NOT WWF)

2:30
2-CNN Headline News

As you can see, for many of us who could afford cable in Fairbanks in 1986, there were many alternatives on WGN and WOR with "Soul Train" and WWF wrestling on them respectively as well as other shows. As for "Star Games", we were given two chances to see it: At 7:30 am on WGN and at 2:00 pm on KATN.

As for wrestling, which followed SNL on Channel 2: Besides NWA and WWF, I wonder what other promotions had televised wrestling in 1986.

Jonathan Allen

 

[Braves2005]

9:00 AM

2 MLB Baseball: New York Mets @ Philadelphia Phillies


Weird time for a baseball game. I've seen baseball games played in the mornings but not at this time slot.

 

[bhayes1016]

As for wrestling, which followed SNL on Channel 2: Besides NWA and WWF, I wonder what other promotions had televised wrestling in 1986.

Who *didn't*?

I think the AWA ran some shows in Alaska around this time period, it could have been them.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

9:00 AM
2 MLB Baseball: New York Mets @ Philadelphia Phillies
Weird time for a baseball game. I've seen baseball games played in the mornings but not at this time slot.

Not weird if you're in Alaska and are picking up the game live on the bird.

This was after Alaska "consolidated" (screwed up might be a better description)
its time zones in October 1983, and on April 12, 1986 it was still standard time
across the U.S. (the early-April DST start did not begin unti 1987).

Fairbanks was an hour behind Pacific and four behind Eastern, so this would
have been a 1:00pm ET start in Philly.

By 1986 the Saturday Game Of The Week start times must have had some
variances, even with a single game. Up through at least the early 1980s,
NBC almost always used a 2 ET/11 PT start time for single games from the
east and midwest (left coast games were either 3 ET/12 PT or 4 ET/1 PT).

 

[johnnya2k6]

As for wrestling, which followed SNL on Channel 2: Besides NWA and WWF, I wonder what other promotions had televised wrestling in 1986.

Who *didn't*?

I think the AWA ran some shows in Alaska around this time period, it could have been them.

Or maybe it was World Class Championship Wrestling from Dallas, which was also syndicated nationwide.