Retro: Gulf Coast Sat, Sept 8, 1984

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide-Gulf Coast edition
ABC premieres new Saturday morning shows, CBS and NBC would follow the next week

WDIQ 2-Dozier/WEIQ 42-Mobile (PBS)
noon Magic of Decorative Painting
12:30 Square Foot Gardening
1:00 Pianist at Work
1:30 Victory Garden
2:00 Advances in Health
2:30 Matinee at the Bijou
4:00 Soundstage
5:00 1984 National Cheerleading Championships
5:30 MotorWeek
6:00 Justin Wilson's Louisiana Cookin'
6:30 America Works
7:00 New Tech Times
7:30 Naturescene
8:00 Dinner at Julia's
8:30 Victory Garden
9:00 Mystery! "Sergeant Cribb: The Last Trumpet"
10:00 Masterpiece Theatre "To Serve Them All My Days" (pt 12)

WEAR 3-ABC Pensacola
7:00 Puppy's Great Adventures
7:30 Superfriends
8:00 Mighty Orbots (premiere)
8:30 Turbo Teen (premiere)
9:00 Dragon's Lair (premiere)
9:30 Wolf Rock TV (premiere)
10:00 New Scooby-Doo Mysteries
10:30 Littles
11:00 College Football: LSU-Florida (WTBS also carried the game nationally)
2:00 TBA
3:30 Sportsbeat
4:00 ABC Wide World of Sports: 10-round lightweight bout between Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini (29-2, 23 KO) and Ken "Bang Bang" Bogner (22-1-1, 13 KO) with the winner hoping to take on Livingston Bramble, who defeated Mancini for the WBA belt...also World Cycling Championships
5:30 Taking Advantage
6:00 Barbara Mandrell (guests Bob Hope and Marty Robbins)
7:00 College Football: Boston College-Alabama
10:00 News
10:30 New York Hot Tracks (Carlos DeJesus celebrates the show's 1st anniversary from Studio 54 with guests Eurythmics, Menudo, and Eddy Grant and also shows videos from Price, Culture Club, and Jacksons)
mid. ABC News
12:15 At the Movies
12:45 Healthfield

WTVY 4-CBS Dothan
5:00 Baptist Message
5:30 Jetsons
6:00 Captain Kangaroo
7:00 Charlie Brown & Snoopy
7:30 Saturday Supercade
8:30 Dungeons & Dragons
9:00 Tarzan
9:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner (WTVY only showed the first 30 min)
10:00 Wrestling
11:00 College Football: LSU-Florida
2:00 US Open Tennis (JIP)
5:00 TBA
6:00 Gene Ragan & Friends
6:30 Outdoors with Red
7:00 Billy Graham Crusade
8:00 Movie "Summer Girl"
10:00 Vega$
11:00 Star Search
mid. This Week in Country Music
12:30 Movie "Exodus"
4:30 Film

WKRG 5-CBS Mobile
5:00 CNN Headline News
6:00 At Your Service
6:30 Something Special
7:00 Charlie Brown & Snoopy
7:30 Saturday Supercade
8:30 Dungeons & Dragons
9:00 Tarzan
9:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
11:00 Wrestling
noon Shopsmith
12:30 US Open Tennis (JIP)
5:00 News Journal
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 Hee Haw (guests Vic Damone, Tommy Lasorda, Moe Bandy, and Gus Hardin)
7:00 Billy Graham Crusade
8:00 Movie "Summer Girl"
10:00 News
10:30 Solid Gold (Rick Dees kicks off his hosting stint with co-hostess LaToya Jackson, Tina Turner, Thompson Twins, the Go-Gos, John Waite and Ronnie Schell; plus a video by Cyndi Lauper)
11:30 Entertainment This Week

WCTV 6-CBS Thomasville/Tallahassee
5:55 Woody Woodpecker
6:00 Bullwinkle
6:30 Happy Days Again
7:00 Woody Woodpecker
7:30 Saturday Supercade
8:30 Dungeons & Dragons
9:00 Tarzan
9:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
11:00 US Open Tennis
5:00 News
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 Entertainment This Week
7:00 Airwolf
8:00 Movie "Summer Girl"
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "Scott Joplin"

WJHG 7-NBC Panama City
7:00 Flintstone Funnies
7:30 Shirt Tales
8:00 Smurfs
9:30 Alvin & the Chipmunks
10:00 Mr. T
10:30 Amazing Spider-Man/Incredible Hulk
11:30 Thundarr
noon Music City USA
12:30 That Good Ole Nashville Music
1:00 Baseball Pre-Game
1:15 Baseball: Detroit-Toronto (alt game: California-Chicago (White Sox))
4:00 Raccoons & the Lost Star
5:00 This Week in Country Music
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Solid Gold (see 11:30pm, WKRG 5 for info)
7:00 Billy Graham Crusade
8:00 Bosom Buddies
8:30 Mama's Family
9:00 NBC Reports (looks at the Star Wars defence system)
10:00 News
10:30 Saturday Night Live (from March: host Billy Crystal, music from Al Jerreau)
mid. Movie "Portrait of a Dead Girl" (McCloud pilot)

WALA 10-NBC Mobile
7:00 Flintstone Funnies
7:30 Shirt Tales
8:00 Smurfs
9:30 Alvin & the Chipmunks
10:00 Mr. T
10:30 Amazing Spider-Man/Incredible Hulk
11:30 Thundarr
noon Dot Moore
12:30 Visions
1:00 Baseball Pre-Game
1:15 Baseball: Detroit-Toronto (alt game: California-Chicago (White Sox))
4:00 Picture of Health
4:30 Hogan's Heroes
5:00 Plain Talk
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 News
6:30 Too Close for Comfort
7:00 Diff'rent Strokes
7:30 Laugh Busters (NBC Saturday morning preview; the layout guy for TVG stuck a typo in the ad, putting in "12" instead of "10" :-D)
8:00 Bosom Buddies
8:30 Mama's Family
9:00 NBC Reports (looks at the Star Wars defence system)
10:00 News
10:30 Saturday Night Live (from March: host Billy Crystal, music from Al Jerreau)
mid. Movie "Night of the Blood Beast" (bw)

WFSU 11-PBS Tallahassee
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Understanding Human Behavior
9:00 Oceanus
10:00 Introducing Biology
11:00 Wall $treet Week
11:30 Victory Garden
noon American Government
1:00 Focus on Society
2:00 Round One
2:30 Sweet By & By
3:00 Florida Homegrown
3:30 Pet Action Line
4:00 Supersoccer
5:00 MotorWeek
5:30 FYI: In the Public Service
6:00 Vibration
6:30 Tony Brown's Journal
7:00 Austin City Limits (guests Michael Murphey and Gary P. Nunn)
8:00 Doctor Who "Time Warrior"
9:30 Movie "Something to Sing About" (bw)

WSFA 12-NBC Montgomery
6:30 King Leonardo
7:00 Young World
8:00 Smurfs
9:30 Alvin & the Chipmunks
10:00 Mr. T
10:30 Kidsworld
11:00 College Football: LSU-Florida
2:00 Baseball (JIP)
4:00 Hee Haw (no details listed)
5:00 Focus
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 News
6:30 TBA
7:00 Diff'rent Strokes
7:30 Billy Graham Crusade
8:30 Mama's Family
9:00 NBC Reports
10:00 News
10:30 Saturday Night Live (host Billy Crystal, music by Al Jerreau)
mid. Entertainment This Week
1:00 With This Ring

WMBB 13-ABC Panama City
7:30 Superfriends
8:00 Mighty Orbots (premiere)
8:30 Turbo Teen (premiere)
9:00 Dragon's Lair (premiere)
9:30 Wolf Rock TV (premiere)
10:00 New Scooby-Doo Mysteries
10:30 Littles
11:00 College Football: LSU-Florida
2:30 Hee Haw (no info listed)
3:30 Sportsbeat
4:00 ABC Wide World of Sports
5:30 In Search of...
6:00 Solid Gold (see 11:30pm, WKRG 5)
7:00 College Football: Boston College-Alabama
10:00 News
10:30 Star Search
11:30 Puttin' On the Hits (pilot; hosts Dick Clark and Allen Fawcett, guest star Sally Struthers)

WLOX 13-ABC Biloxi
6:45 Rev. Jesse Trotter
7:00 Puppy's Great Adventures
7:30 Superfriends
8:00 Mighty Orbots (premiere)
8:30 Turbo Teen (premiere)
9:00 Dragon's Lair (premiere)
9:30 Wolf Rock TV (premiere)
10:00 New Scooby-Doo Mysteries
10:30 Littles
11:00 ABC Weekend Special "A Different Twist"
11:30 American Bandstand (guests Scandal and Patrice Rushen)
12:30 Wrestling
1:30 Ebony Experience
2:30 Gunsmoke
3:30 Sportsbeat
4:00 ABC Wide World of Sports
5:30 News
6:00 In-Depth
6:30 This Week in Country Music (guests Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings)
7:00 College Football: Boston College-Alabama
10:00 News
10:30 ABC News
10:45 Movie "The Odd Couple"

WPMI 15-Ind Mobile
6:00 Space Kidettes
6:30 Bullwinkle
7:00 Aunt Beka's Bible Stories
7:30 Healthbeat
8:00 From the Editor's Desk
8:30 Wall Street Journal Report
9:00 Wild Kingdom
9:30 Wrestling
10:30 Ray Perkins (Alabama)
11:00 College Football: Miami-Michigan
2:00 Soul Train (no info listed)
3:00 Dance Show
4:00 Dance Fever
4:30 Greatest American Hero
5:30 Fame
6:30 On Stage America (guests: Ben Vereen in a tribute to Bob Fosse, the Gatlin brothers, Peggy Lee, Joan Rivers, Norman Gunston & Dottie Archibald, and Mickey Gilley)
8:30 Movie "The Castle of Terror" (bw)
10:00 Star Search (naming of the 8 Grand Champions, judges include Dick Clark and Lee Majors)
11:00 Movie "The Death of Ocean View Park"
12:30 Rock-N-America

WDHN 18-ABC Dothan
6:30 Weekend Gardener
7:00 Puppy's Great Adventures
7:30 Superfriends
8:00 Mighty Orbots (premiere)
8:30 Turbo Teen (premiere)
9:00 Dragon's Lair (premiere)
9:30 Wolf Rock TV (premiere)
10:00 New Scooby-Doo Mysteries
10:30 Littles
11:00 ABC Weekend Special "A Different Twist"
11:30 American Bandstand (guests Scandal and Patrice Rushen)
12:30 That Teen Show
1:00 Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous
2:00 Sacred Heart
2:30 College National Finals Rodeo
3:30 Sportsbeat
4:00 ABC Wide World of Sports
5:30 Joe Torre: An Inside Look
6:00 Solid Gold (a salute to country music with Mickey Gilley & Charly McClain, Eddie Rabbitt, Crystal Gayle, Waylon Jennings, Alabama, Anne Murray, Ronnie Milsap, and Jerry Reed)
7:00 College Football: Boston College-Alabama
10:00 ABC News
10:15 Hee Haw (no info listed)
11:15 Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous
12:15 Soul Train (info n/a)

WSRE 23-PBS Pensacola
7:00 Understanding Human Behavior
8:00 Money Puzzle
9:00 It's Everybody's Business
10:00 Business of Management
11:00 Faces of Culture
noon Justin Wilson's Louisiana Cookin'
12:30 At the Movies
1:00 Do-It-Yourself Show
1:30 Victory Garden
2:00 Woodwright's Shop
2:30 Colorsounds
3:00 Magic of Watercolors
3:30 Adam Smith's Money World
4:00 Soundstage
5:00 Matinee at the Bijou
6:30 News
7:00 From Verona "Turandot"
9:00 Oil Kingdoms (a look at Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and the UAE)
10:00 Ounce of Prevention (a look at how to save healthcare costs)
11:00 Moonchild (story of Chris Carlson (who plays himself) in a dramatization of his journey both into and out of the Moonies)

WPAN 53-Ind Fort Walton Beach
6:00 CNN Headline News
7:00 Flipper
7:30 Gentle Ben
8:00 Lassie
8:30 Leave It to Beaver (bw)
9:00 Daktari
10:00 Movie "Stagecoach to Fury" (bw)
11:30 Cartoons
noon Movie "Dr. Kildare's Strangest Case" (bw)
1:20 Movie "Remember?" (bw)
3:00 Hazel
3:30 Bill Dance Outdoors
4:00 Laramie
5:00 High Chaparral
6:00 Six Million Dollar Man
7:00 Movie "Two Girls and a Sailor" (bw)
9:00 NFL Football: Teams
10:00 CNN Headline News
10:30 Movie "Bombshell" (bw)

 

[bpatrick]

I doubt if WTVY made it a habit to run only 30 minutes of
"The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show," but you'll note the
station had a pretty full sports plate that day; they were on
the SEC network, then there was tennis on CBS. So to get
their wrestling show in, they no doubt aired it at a special
time. I'd bet that if you looked at subsequent weeks Bugs
and the Road Runner would be on in their entirety.

 

[azumanga]

WJHG 7-NBC Panama City
6:00 Solid Gold (see 11:30pm, WKRG 5 for info)

WMBB 13-ABC Panama City
6:00 Solid Gold (see 11:30pm, WKRG 5)

I find it kind of unusual for two unrelated stations in the same city carrying the same program at the same time (unless it was an infomercial). Could it be that WMBB was showing something else at that time?

 

[DToTheJ]

WEAR 3-ABC Pensacola
10:30 New York Hot Tracks (Carlos DeJesus celebrates the show's 1st anniversary from Studio 54 with guests Eurythmics, Menudo, and Eddy Grant and also shows videos from Price, Culture Club, and Jacksons)

Wow! I thought this show only aired on WABC/7 in New York. So this show was syndicated/network?

 

[bpatrick]

I think this show was syndicated; I've never known ABC
to carry a network show at 11:30/10:30 on Saturday night.

 

[mleach]

from TV Guide-Gulf Coast edition

WEAR 3-ABC Pensacola

10:30 New York Hot Tracks (Carlos DeJesus celebrates the show's 1st anniversary from Studio 54 with guests Eurythmics, Menudo, and Eddy Grant and also shows videos from Prince, Culture Club, and Jacksons)

Ah..had this program would had aired five years earlier ( 1979 )..safe bet to say that Menudo would NOT be a part of the lineup. Boy George OTOH would had been right at home at 54 in those days !!

By the time of these listings New York's Studio 54 was not the same Studio 54 as we come to know and remember under the Steve Rubell & Ian Schrager days. The days of that infamous restrictive admission policy ( even CHER and the famous disco band Chic were turned away..get a chance read about the orgins of their tune "Le Freak" ), the drugs, the sex, money hidden away in trash bags, more sex, live horses on the dance floor, the stars doing coke in the bathrooms, even more sex, Liza Minnelli. Hmmmm..the more I think of it the latter part really makes sense...one would had to be high on coke to even consider thinking of sex with Liza Minnelli !!!..but anyway THAT was Studio 54 !!!!

Sadly ( or maybe not-so depending on your point of view )..by 1984 Studio 54 was just your average disco where you, I and even Cher could enter without having some short little shrimp guy telling us otherwise.

 

[azumanga]

By the time of these listings New York's Studio 54 was not the same Studio 54 as we come to know and remember under the Steve Rubell & Ian Schrager days. The days of that infamous restrictive admission policy ( even CHER and the famous disco band Chic were turned away..get a chance read about the orgins of their tune "Le Freak" )...

Indeed a true "Casey Kasem" moment -- see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Freak

 

[Bluenoser]

WJHG 7-NBC Panama City
6:00 Solid Gold (see 11:30pm, WKRG 5 for info)

WMBB 13-ABC Panama City
6:00 Solid Gold (see 11:30pm, WKRG 5)

I find it kind of unusual for two unrelated stations in the same city carrying the same program at the same time (unless it was an infomercial). Could it be that WMBB was showing something else at that time?

I double-checked that listing...and that is indeed correct, both of Panama City's Big 3 affiliates (IIRC WTVY provides CBS to PC and WJHG relays NBC to Dothan?) was carrying Solid Gold at 6pm; I have no clue why they did that...

 

[bpatrick]

Doesn't WSFA provide NBC to Dothan?

 

[azumanga]

Doesn't WSFA provide NBC to Dothan?

As I see it, I think both WSFA and WJHG share Dothan -- they are both available on cable there.

 

[Bluenoser]

Doesn't WSFA provide NBC to Dothan?

As I see it, I think both WSFA and WJHG share Dothan -- they are both available on cable there.

And WJHG and WTVY occasionally air each other's stories- they're sister stations.

 

[bpatrick]

I'm not sure but I think NBC considers WSFA its de facto Dothan affiliate,
much as WECT/6 Wilmington was for Myrtle Beach until the Grand Strand
got its own NBC affiliate, WMBF/32, in 2008; WIS/10 Columbia was also
carried on cable in Myrtle Beach until WMBF's arrival. Maybe someday Dothan will
have its own NBC affiliate and Panama City, its own CBS one; I don't know
why nobody in either market is using a subchannel to do this.

 

[DToTheJ]

I know; you would think someone in those areas would follow Myrtle Beach's example and construct a new network affiliate on cable! (If I recall correctly, WMBF is cable-only.)

 

[classictvfan]

Could you please post listings for Friday 9/14/84?

 

[mleach]

I know; you would think someone in those areas would follow Myrtle Beach's example and construct a new network affiliate on cable! (If I recall correctly, WMBF is cable-only.)

Myrtle Beach's WMBF signal is actually over the air on digital channel 32.

Actually a "cable only" network affiliate really isn't a good idea unless if the channel in question is 100% owned by the cable system and not by someone else otherwise its drama in the waiting as Gray Television had found out the hard way when their Harrisonburg, VA's WHSV launched the northern Shenandoah Valley, Virginia ABC affiliate.."TV3 Winchester" a few years ago.

Even though "TV3 Winchester" does broadcast an OTA signal ( WHSV-DT 49.3 ), too many people in the area "assumed" that "TV3 Winchester" was strictly a Comcast venture. At first that was no big deal but when Comcast recently decided to suspend all local TV production in the Winchester, VA area..well...a lot of people "assumed" that TV3 Winchester would be defunct as well..the result.. what was once a very successful venture on the part of Gray TV ( with the ABC-TV affiliation in the valley Gray was actually making more money for a time with TV3 Winchester than with Harrisonburg's ABC 3)...with the "rumors"..a lot of local Winchester, VA area businesses today won't have anything to do with their own local ABC affiliate because they really believe Comcast will pull the plug even though TV3 Winchester is totally owned by Gray and Comcast doesn't have a single say in regards to "TV3 Winchester" other than carriage.


To sum it up..you really are at the mercy of somebody else.

 

[bpatrick]

I know; you would think someone in those areas would follow Myrtle Beach's example and construct a new network affiliate on cable! (If I recall correctly, WMBF is cable-only.)

Myrtle Beach's WMBF signal is actually over the air on digital channel 32.

Actually a "cable only" network affiliate really isn't a good idea unless if the channel in question is 100% owned by the cable system and not by someone else otherwise its drama in the waiting as Gray Television had found out the hard way when their Harrisonburg, VA's WHSV launched the northern Shenandoah Valley, Virginia ABC affiliate.."TV3 Winchester" a few years ago.

Even though "TV3 Winchester" does broadcast an OTA signal ( WHSV-DT 49.3 ), too many people in the area "assumed" that "TV3 Winchester" was strictly a Comcast venture. At first that was no big deal but when Comcast recently decided to suspend all local TV production in the Winchester, VA area..well...a lot of people "assumed" that TV3 Winchester would be defunct as well..the result.. what was once a very successful venture on the part of Gray TV ( with the ABC-TV affiliation in the valley Gray was actually making more money for a time with TV3 Winchester than with Harrisonburg's ABC 3)...with the "rumors"..a lot of local Winchester, VA area businesses today won't have anything to do with their own local ABC affiliate because they really believe Comcast will pull the plug even though TV3 Winchester is totally owned by Gray and Comcast doesn't have a single say in regards to "TV3 Winchester" other than carriage.


To sum it up..you really are at the mercy of somebody else.

Time Warner Cable carries WMBF on Channel 10, where WIS was. WMBF was set up as digital-only; just as well since it went on the air in August 2008 and it would have been a waste of time to do an analog-to-digital conversion just ten months later.