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Retro: Hartford/Springfield Mon, Oct 3, 1988

from TV Guide-Springfield/Chicopee/Holyoke edition

WFSB 3-CBS Hartford
5:00 CBS News Nightwatch
6:00 Business This Morning
6:30 News
7:00 CBS This Morning (guest Sally Field)
9:00 Family Feud
9:30 Card Sharks
10:00 Geraldo (topic: battered women)
11:00 Price is Right
noon News
12:30 Young & the Restless
1:30 Bold & the Beautiful
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Oprah Winfrey
5:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 USA Today (stories include crime on college campuses)
7:30 PM Magazine (topics include Michael Jackson)
8:00 Newhart
8:30 Cavanaghs (season finale)
9:00 Movie "Unholy Matrimony"
11:00 News
11:35 Night Court (premiere)
12:05 Entertainment Tonight
12:35 Family Feud
1:05 Love Boat
2:05 News
2:40 CBS News Nightwatch

WBZ 4-NBC Boston
5:00 Body by Jake (premiere)
5:30 Business This Morning
6:00 NBC News at Sunrise/Local News
6:30 News
7:00 Today (guests Sigourney Weaver and Sandy Duncan)
9:00 Hour Magazine (pt 1 of a 2-parter with Valerie Harper)
10:00 Sale of the Century
10:30 Concentration
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Scrabble
noon News
12:30 People are Talking (discussing appetite disorders)
1:30 Group One Medical (premiere, this series chronicled actual patient-doctor consultations in LA)
2:00 Days of Our Lives ('BZ didn't clear Another World, usually punting it to one of the smaller Boston indies-I've seen it listed on WMFP)
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 Win, Lose or Draw
4:30 Family Feud (premiere)
5:00 People's Court
5:30 Live on 4
6:00 News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Evening Magazine (same topic as PM on ch 3, Evening Magazine was the Westinghouse version of PM Magazine)
8:00 ALF (season premiere, season #3)
8:30 Hogan Family (ditto)
9:00 Movie "The People Across the Lake"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show (guests Helen Shaver, Calvin Trillin, Earl Klugh, and George Benson)
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman (a rerun from 1987 with guests Martina Navratilova and Edward Woodward)
1:30 News
2:00 On Trial
2:30 Love Boat
3:30 News Conference
4:00 People are Talking

WCVB 5-ABC Boston
5:00 Chronicle
5:30 News
7:00 Good Morning America (guests Tom Hanks (pt 1) and Dr. Spock)
9:00 Good Day! (guest T. Berry Brazelton)
10:00 Geraldo (same topic as ch 3)
11:00 Sally Jessy Raphael (importance of physical attributes in sexual attraction, 30 min version)
11:30 Ryan's Hope
noon News
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Phil Donahue (in London with a look at the British press)
5:00 Oprah Winfrey
6:00 News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Chronicle
8:00 ABC News Special: America's Kids-Why They Fail (a look at what executive producer Av Westin calls "the sad state of thje level of knowledge of American high-schools seniors") (MacGyver airs here next week)
9:00 NFL: Dallas-New Orleans
mid. News
12:30 ABC News Nightline
1:00 News
1:30 Sweethearts
2:00 Dynasty
3:00 Hit Squad
3:30 Headline News
4:00 Good Day!
4:55 Morning Glory

WRGB 6-CBS Schenectady
6:00 CBS Morning News
6:30 News
7:00 CBS This Morning
9:00 Little House on the Prairie
10:00 Family Feud
10:30 Love Connection
11:00 Price is Right
noon News
12:30 Young & the Restless
1:30 Bold & the Beautiful
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Movie "The Verdict" (who cleared GL in Albany, if anyone?)
5:00 Judge
5:30 People's Court
6:00 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 USA Today
8:00 Newhart
8:30 Cavanaghs (season finale)
9:00 Movie "Unholy Matrimony"
11:00 News
11:30 Morton Downey Jr. (street beggars)
12:30 Magnum, PI
1:30 USA Today

WNEV 7-CBS Boston
5:00 CBS News Nightwatch
6:00 CBS Morning News
7:00 Ready to Go!
8:00 CBS This Morning
10:00 Talk of the Town (guest Charles Thomas Cayce, son of psychic Edgar Cayce)
10:30 Family Feud
11:00 Price is Right
noon News
12:30 Young & the Restless
1:30 Bold & the Beautiful
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Cagney & Lacey (premiere)
5:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Jeopardy!
8:00 Newhart
8:30 Magic, Miracles & Morgan (1988 Red Sox season recap, the team finished 89-73 and clinched the AL East pennant, but got swept by Oakland 4-0 in the ALCS)
9:00 Movie "Unholy Matrimony"
11:00 News
11:35 Jeopardy!
12:05 Hunter
1:15 Movie "In the Shadow of Kilimanjaro"
2:35 News
3:05 Talk of the Town
3:35 CBS News Nightwatch

WTNH 8-ABC New Haven
5:30 This Week in Connecticut
6:00 ABC World News This Morning/Local News
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Phil Donahue
10:00 Sally Jessy Raphael (same topic as ch 5)
11:00 Regis & Kathie Lee (guests Sandy Duncan and Jimmie Walker)
noon News
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 People's Court
4:30 Judge
5:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Jeopardy!
8:00 ABC News Special: America's Kids-Why They Fail
9:00 NFL: Dallas-New Orleans
mid. News
12:30 ABC News Nightline
1:00 Family Medical Center
1:30 Superior Court

WTEN 10-Albany/WCDC 19-Adams (ABC)
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Geraldo (same topic as ch 3)
10:00 Sally Jessy Raphael (same as ch 5)
11:00 Growing Pains
11:30 Home (treatment for OCD)
noon News
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 A Current Affair
4:30 Group One Medical (premiere)
5:00 Phil Donahue
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Jeopardy!
8:00 ABC News Special: America's Kids-Why They Fail
9:00 NFL: Dallas-New Orleans
mid. News
12:30 ABC News Nightline

WPIX 11-Ind New York
5:00 Twilight Zone (bw)
5:30 INN News
6:00 Insight
6:30 Tom & Jerry
7:00 Smurfs' Adventures
7:30 Jem
8:00 GI Joe
8:30 Bionic Six
9:00 Munsters (bw)
9:30 Fantasy Island
10:00 Rhoda
10:30 Alice
11:00 Eight is Enough
noon Harry O
1:00 Trapper John, MD
2:00 Best Talk in Town
2:30 Tom & Jerry
3:00 Ghostbusters
3:30 Yogi Bear
4:00 COPS
4:30 Fun House
5:00 Little House on the Prairie
6:00 Gong Show
6:30 Hollywood Squares
7:00 Cheers
7:30 INN News
8:00 Star Trek (2 hrs, no further description as to why-11 Alive usually ran movies in the slot)
10:00 INN News
10:30 Odd Couple
11:00 Cheers
11:30 Honeymooners (bw)
mid. Star Trek
1:00 Twilight Zone (bw)
1:30 INN News
2:00 White Shadow
3:00 Perry Mason (bw)
4:00 Streets of San Francisco

WNYT 13-NBC Albany
5:30 Business This Morning
6:00 NBC News at Sunrise
7:00 Today
9:00 Regis & Kathie Lee (same as WTNH)
10:00 On Trial
10:30 Family Medical Center
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Win, Lose or Draw
noon Hollywood Squares
12:30 Scrabble
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 Oprah Winfrey
5:00 Cheers
5:30 Cosby Show (premiere)
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Entertainment Tonight
7:30 Win, Lose or Draw
8:00 ALF (season premiere)
8:30 Hogan Family (ditto)
9:00 Movie "The People Across the Lake"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman
1:30 Later with Bob Costas (Morton Downey Jr. discusses "shock TV")
2:00 News
2:30 Benson

WHCT 18-Ind Hartford
6:00 Headline News
6:30 Career Media Network
7:00 Spiral Zone
7:30 Care Bears
8:00 Bullwinkle
8:30 Partridge Family
9:00 Catholic Mass
9:30 Career Media Network
10:00 Bob Tilton Ministries
11:00 Home Shopping Network
2:00 Liar's Club (premiere)
2:30 Scrabble
3:00 Brady Bunch
3:30 Care Bears
4:00 Slimer! & the Real Ghostbusters
4:30 Fun House
5:00 Simon & Simon
6:00 Cagney & Lacey
7:00 Rockford Files
8:00 Movie "Body Rock"
10:00 On Trial
10:30 Odd Couple
11:00 Career Media Network
11:30 Abbott & Costello (bw)
mid. Home Shopping Network

WTXX 20-Ind Waterbury
6:00 Bravestarr
6:30 Gumby
7:00 GI Joe
7:30 COPS
8:00 Bugs Bunny & Friends
8:30 Scooby-Doo
9:00 Popeye
9:30 Jimmy Swaggart
10:00 Matters of Life & Death
10:30 New Gidget
11:00 I Dream of Jeannie
11:30 Bewitched
noon Movie "A Family Upside Down"
2:00 ThunderCats (TVG Typo strikes again, it claims this was B&W :D)
2:30 Smurfs' Adventures
3:00 Dennis the Menace (animated)
3:30 Slimer! & the Real Ghostbusters
4:00 Double Dare
4:30 Finders Keepers
5:00 Fun House
5:30 Happy Days
6:00 A-Team
7:00 M*A*S*H (x2)
8:00 Movie "Weird Science"
10:00 Morton Downey Jr. (teens' access to porn)
11:00 All in the Family
11:30 Hunter
12:40 Movie "Classified Love"

WWLP 22-NBC Springfield
6:00 NBC News at Sunrise
6:30 News
7:00 Today
9:00 Sally Jessy Raphael (same as ch 5; the station had recently switched from the 30 min version to the full hour and ran ads in TVG that week promoting that fact)
10:00 Family Ties
10:30 Concentration
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Win, Lose or Draw
noon News
12:30 Scrabble
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 Phil Donahue (same as ch 5)
5:00 Cheers
5:30 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Jeopardy!
8:00 ALF (season premiere)
8:30 Hogan Family (season premiere)
9:00 Movie "The People Across the Lake"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman

WEDH 24-PBS Hartford
6:45 AM Weather
7:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Zoobilee Zoo
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Instructional Programs
noon Masterpiece Theatre "By the Sword Divided" (pt 6)
1:00 Instructional Programs
1:30 Fourth Estate
2:00 Madeleine Cooks
2:30 New Southern Cooking with Nathalie Dupree
3:00 Justin Wilson's Louisiana Cookin'
3:30 Sesame Street
4:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:00 Square One Television
5:30 3-2-1 Contact
6:00 Doctor Who "The Dominators" (pt 1/bw)
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour
8:00 National Geographic "Ballad of the Irish Horse"
9:00 Campaign: The Prime-Time President (Bill Moyers hosts an edited version of how TV has affected Presidential politics)
10:30 Canada: True North "The Immigrants" (how immigration and multiculturalism have helped define Canadian identity)
11:30 Bill Moyers' World of Ideas (guest: ethicist Sissela Bok)

WFXT 25-Fox Boston
6:30 Gilligan's Island
7:00 Mighty Mouse & Alvin
7:30 Dinosaucers
8:00 Casper
8:30 Popeye
9:00 Mayberry RFD
9:30 Catholic Mass
10:00 Dukes of Hazzard
11:00 Movie "The Lucky Star"
1:00 Hollywood Squares
1:30 Relatively Speaking (premiere, John Byner hosts with celeb panelists guessing the identity of contestants' famous family members)
2:00 Bugs Bunny & Friends
2:30 Snorks
3:00 Yogi Bear
3:30 Flintstones
4:00 Jetsons
4:30 Double Dare
5:00 Finders Keepers
5:30 Happy Days
6:00 Diff'rent Strokes (Janet Jackson guest stars as Willis' girlfriend)
6:30 Silver Spoons
7:00 Entertainment Tonight
7:30 A Current Affair
8:00 Shogun (pt 1)
11:00 A Current Affair
11:30 Late Show (guest Shannon Tweed)
12:30 I Love Lucy (bw)

WVIT 30-NBC New Britain
6:00 It's Your Business
6:30 NBC News at Sunrise/Local News
7:00 Today
9:00 Group One Medical (premiere)
9:30 Wipeout
10:00 Sale of the Century
10:30 Concentration
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Win, Lose or Draw
noon Super Password
12:30 Hollywood Squares
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 A Current Affair
4:30 Taxi
5:00 Cosby Show (premiere)
5:30 Cheers
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 News
7:30 Win, Lose or Draw
8:00 ALF (season premiere)
8:30 Hogan Family (season premiere)
9:00 Movie "The People Across the Lake"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman
1:30 Later with Bob Costas
2:00 Dating Game

WSBK 38-Ind Boston
5:00 Home Shopping Overnight Service
5:30 Homestretch
6:00 Gumby
6:30 Bravestarr
7:00 ThunderCats
7:30 He-Man & the Masters of the Universe
8:00 Care Bears
8:30 My Little Pony 'n Friends
9:00 Gidget
9:30 Andy Griffith
10:00 Beverly Hillbillies
10:30 Alice
11:00 Dick Van Dyke (bw)
11:30 AM Boston
noon Trapper John, MD
1:00 Maude
1:30 Jeffersons
2:00 Scooby-Doo
2:30 Ghostbusters
3:00 Beverly Hills Teens
3:30 Comic Strip
4:00 Alvin & the Chipmunks
4:30 DuckTales
5:00 Fun House
5:30 Punky Brewster
6:00 Family Ties (x2)
7:00 Cheers
7:30 Newhart
8:00 Movie "Only When I Laugh"
10:30 Hogan's Heroes
11:00 M*A*S*H
11:30 Morton Downey Jr.
12:30 Alfred Hitchcock (bw)
1:00 Hart to Hart
2:00 Home Shopping Overnight Service

WGGB 40-ABC Springfield
6:00 ABC World News This Morning/Local News
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Regis & Kathie Lee (as WTNH)
10:00 A Current Affair
10:30 Family Medical Center
11:00 Growing Pains
11:30 Home
noon Ryan's Hope
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Judge
4:30 Superior Court
5:00 People's Court
5:30 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Win, Lose or Draw
7:30 Cosby Show (premiere)
8:00 ABC News Special: America's Kids-Why They Fail
9:00 NFL: Dallas-New Orleans
mid. News
12:30 ABC News Nightline
1:00 A Current Affair
1:30 Hollywood Squares

WLVI 56-Ind Boston
6:30 Bionic Six
7:00 Dennis the Menace (animated)
7:30 GI Joe
8:00 Bugs Bunny & Friends
9:00 Jem
9:30 Popeye
10:00 Zoobilee Zoo
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11:00 De Todo un Poco
11:30 Classified Express
noon Laverne & Shirley
12:30 That Girl
1:00 Bewitched
1:30 I Dream of Jeannie
2:00 Bugs Bunny & Friends
2:30 Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin
3:00 Smurfs' Adventures
3:30 Woody Woodpecker & Friends
4:00 Slimer! & the Real Ghostbusters
4:30 COPS
5:00 Brady Bunch
5:30 Webster
6:00 Facts of Life
6:30 Three's Company
7:00 Night Court (premiere)
7:30 USA Today
8:00 Movie "Taps"
10:00 News
11:00 USA Today
11:30 Gong Show
mid. Newlywed Game
12:30 Dating Game
1:00 Let's Talk (infomercial)
1:30 Breakthrough '88 (infomercial)

WGBY 57-PBS Springfield
6:45 AM Weather
7:00 Reading Rainbow
7:30 3-2-1 Contact
8:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10:00 Instructional Programs
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Instructional Progtams
2:30 Joy of Painting
3:00 World of Survival
3:30 Collectibles, Etc.
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Square One Television
6:00 World of Survival
6:25 Community Calendar
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour
8:00 Will Rogers USA (James Whitmore's one-man show on the humorist, taped in 1972; Will Rogers Jr. provides current introductory remarks and reviews his father's life as a performer and social commentator)
9:00 Campaign: The Prime-Time President
10:30 Canada: True North "The Immigrants"
11:30 Bill Moyers' World of Ideas
mid. News
12:30 Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler

WTIC 61-Fox Hartford
6:00 Body by Jake (premiere)
6:30 Jem
7:00 Flintstones
7:30 Alvin & the Chipmunks
8:00 My Little Pony 'n Friends
8:30 Woody Woodpecker
9:00 Movie "The Gentle Rain"
11:00 Growing Pains (ABC)
11:30 Home (ABC)
noon Sweethearts
12:30 Relatively Speaking
1:00 Hour Magazine (same as ch 4)
2:00 Carol Burnett & Friends
2:30 Snorks
3:00 Jetsons
3:30 Beverly Hills Teens
4:00 Yogi Bear
4:30 DuckTales
5:00 Gong Show
5:30 Three's Company
6:00 Divorce Court
6:30 Love Connection
7:00 Family Ties
7:30 Newhart
8:00 Movie "Compromising Positions"
10:00 National Geographic: On Assignment
11:00 Love Connection
11:30 Late Show
12:30 Dr. Gene Scott (for 2 1/2 hrs)
 
This was also a big night in TV history, as TNT launched that night...here's the first night line-up as well as the first full day of programming on the 4th:

Monday, October 3
8pm Movie "Gone with the Wind" (pt 1, replayed at 11)
2:00 Movie "Strange Interlude" (bw)
4:30 Movie "Let Us Be Gay" (bw/which meant something else when this was released in 1930 ;D)

Tuesday, October 4
6:00 Fun Zone
7:30 Popeye
8:30 Fraggle Rock
9:00 Movie "Hold Your Man" (bw)
11:00 Medical Center
noon Movie "Dancing Lady" (bw)
2:00 Movie "Wife vs Secretary" (bw)
4:00 Movie "Too Hot to Handle" (bw)
6:00 Muppet Show
6:30 Bugs Bunny & Pals
7:30 Fraggle Rock
8:00 Movie "Gone with the Wind" (conclusion)
10:00 Dear Mr. Gable (portrait of Clark Gable)
11:00 Movie "Gone with the Wind" (conclusion)
1:00 Dear Mr. Gable
2:00 Movie "Parnell" (bw)
4:30 Movie "Thirteen Women" (bw)
 
Odd that a lot of programs are debuting in October here, as opposed to the traditional third or fourth week of September. Equally odd is the fact that not one, but two stations in the Hartford market (WHCT, WTXX) cleared "Fun House"...

Bluenoser said:
WRGB 6-CBS Schenectady
11:30 Morton Downey Jr. (street beggars)

Some folks called him beggar
While others called him bum
Some just say he's a dirty old man in town
You'd better stop and think about it
Don't be too harsh, my friend
In another 60 years or so
You're gonna be just like him


Actual lyrics from a Morton Downey, Jr. song, "Old Man," from his 1990 album "Morton Downey, Jr. Sings." What I wouldn't pay to have a clean MP3 copy of that album...
 
DToTheJ said:
Equally odd is the fact that not one, but two stations in the Hartford market (WHCT, WTXX) cleared "Fun House"...

Given the state of affairs at WHCT at that time, not unusual at all. The program distributor probably hadn't been paid, and chose to take their product to another station that would pay for it & clear it. Which means 18 probably would have run something else in its place (most likely paid programming).
 
There was a Writer's Strike in the summer of '88, so scripted shows premiered later than usual that fall.

DToTheJ said:
Odd that a lot of programs are debuting in October here, as opposed to the traditional third or fourth week of September.
 
Bluenoser said:
WPIX 11-Ind New York
8:00 Star Trek (2 hrs, no further description as to why-11 Alive usually ran movies in the slot)

I recall around this time that stations telecasted the series' two-hour pilot, "The Cage", as a tie-in with the debut of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" around this time -- could that be it?


KYLEBOOK said:
DToTheJ said:
Equally odd is the fact that not one, but two stations in the Hartford market (WHCT, WTXX) cleared "Fun House"...

Given the state of affairs at WHCT at that time, not unusual at all. The program distributor probably hadn't been paid, and chose to take their product to another station that would pay for it & clear it. Which means 18 probably would have run something else in its place (most likely paid programming).

And in light of that, maybe WHCT was slow in providing TVG with an updated version of that week's listings -- hence why you see two "Full Houses".

Did that week's TVG include a disclaimer saying that WHCT's schedules were not firm as of press? I recall similar disclaimers appearing for the Philly indies in 1983, when WKBS folded, and for WGBS in Philly and WAYK in Orlando when those stations got into programming trouble.
 
azumanga said:
And in light of that, maybe WHCT was slow in providing TVG with an updated version of that week's listings -- hence why you see two "Full Houses".

Did that week's TVG include a disclaimer saying that WHCT's schedules were not firm as of press? I recall similar disclaimers appearing for the Philly indies in 1983, when WKBS folded, and for WGBS in Philly and WAYK in Orlando when those stations got into programming trouble.

Not at all. The traffic department posted the schedules & sent them to TVG weeks in advance. However, many times there would be an update in your mailbox at the station the day before, or even the day of, with one show crossed out & another in its place.
 
The animated version of the Ghostbusters movie franchise was known in syndication as The Real Ghostbusters. The Slimer! and... part was added for season three of the ABC Saturday morning edition.

azumanga said:
Bluenoser said:
WPIX 11-Ind New York
8:00 Star Trek (2 hrs, no further description as to why-11 Alive usually ran movies in the slot)

I recall around this time that stations telecasted the series' two-hour pilot, "The Cage", as a tie-in with the debut of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" around this time -- could that be it?

Star Trek: TNG was entering its second season in the fall of '88.
 
Rollo-Smokes said:
The animated version of the Ghostbusters movie franchise was known in syndication as The Real Ghostbusters. The Slimer! and... part was added for season three of the ABC Saturday morning edition.

Ah...I was wondering about that- I thought that they used the Slimer title on the syndied version :D
 
I'm sure the programming on WTXX from 11:30 PM onward was dumped on them by WFSB...

And as long as we're pointing out that the "Dennis The Menace" program that appears on several stations is the "animated" version, let's say the same for "COPS." ;D
 
in South Carolina in Greenville, Love Connection was on between Price is Right and Feud. If I was program director of a station at the time, I wouldn't put LC between TPIR and Feud.

1. There were a lot better dayparts for it like late afternoon or something
2. LC has no place between two traditional game shows
 
On second look, this was also the day The Cosby Show premiered in syndication. I noticed it on in Albany, Springfield, and Hartford-New Haven...but where was Boston?

It should be noted that WCVB-TV got the syndication rights for the program in Boston, but ran it on weekends (three episodes on Saturday, two on Sunday) in order to leave their afternoon lineup intact.
 
Bluenoser said:
WRGB 6-CBS Schenectady
9:00 Little House on the Prairie

3:00 Movie "The Verdict" (who cleared GL in Albany, if anyone?)

This was the first day WRGB began the ill-fated experiment of airing movies from 3:00-5:00 and beginning the next day they began airing Guiding Light on a one-day delay at 9:00 AM; the airing of Little House was filler. The movies lasted only a year tops though Guiding Light would keep airing at 9:00 AM until 1999 (when then-Regis & Kathie Lee moved over from WNYT and GL moved to 10:00).
 
Are we sure some of those syndicated programs premiered on Oct 3? I know that "Cosby Show" did......That was a very big deal, being arguably one of the biggest syndicated rerun premieres of the decade and I remember it well. However, the syndicated "Family Feud" premiered in other places (like WCAU in Philly) on September 19...

Oh, and thanks to Bluenoser for posting the first hours of TNT....That was one channel my cable didn't pick up right away that I really wanted...Had to wait until a year later and switching through the channels, on the electronic bulletin board, there was a screen of several channel lineup changes: "TNT on dial position 7". :)
 
harrisburgpatv said:
Are we sure some of those syndicated programs premiered on Oct 3? I know that "Cosby Show" did......That was a very big deal, being arguably one of the biggest syndicated rerun premieres of the decade and I remember it well. However, the syndicated "Family Feud" premiered in other places (like WCAU in Philly) on September 19...

Ironically, WCAU-TV had both The Cosby Show and Family Feud (both daytime and syndicated) on its air that fall.

As for the Oct. 3 date, I think that had a lot to do with the Summer Olympics, which took place in the middle of September. It made better sense to hold off on fall premieres until after the Olympics rather then have those shows preempted for two weeks. (Example: WNBC-TV here in NYC bought the nighttime Feud and it premiered on Oct. 3 as well.)
 
in South Carolina in Greenville, Love Connection was on between Price is Right and Feud. If I was program director of a station at the time, I wouldn't put LC between TPIR and Feud.

1. There were a lot better dayparts for it like late afternoon or something
2. LC has no place between two traditional game shows

in South Carolina in Greenville, Love Connection was on between Price is Right and Feud. If I was program director of a station at the time, I wouldn't put LC between TPIR and Feud.

1. There were a lot better dayparts for it like late afternoon or something
2. LC has no place between two traditional game shows
I thought Hollywood Squares or Couch Potatoes would be a better fit there if WSPA didn't want to air NYSI.
 
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