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Retro: Houston Saturday, February 28-Sunday, March 1, 1987

By request, from TV Guide, Southeast Texas Edition:

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28

KPRC Ch. 2 (NBC)

6 AM Punky Brewster (animated)
6:30 Kids Are People Too
7 AM Kissyfur
7:30 Disney's Adventures Of The
Gummi Bears
8 AM Smurfs
9:30 Alvin And The Chipmunks
10 AM Foofur
10:30 Kid Show
11 AM Lazer Tag Academy
11:30 Kidd Video
12 N La Onda (music)
12:30 Reflejos
1 PM Fight Back! With David Horowitz
1:30 NCAA Basketball: Michigan-Iowa
3:30 Women's Golf: Women's Kemper Open
(Third round, time approximate)
5 PM Stop Smoking
5:30 NBC News (Connie Chung)
6 PM News
6:30 Eyes Of Texas
7 PM Facts Of Life
7:30 227
8 PM Golden Girls
8:30 Amen
9 PM Hunter
10 PM News
10:30 Saturday Night Live (Valerie Bertinelli hosts,
musical guest is guitarist Robert Cray)
12 M Videocity
1 AM MTV Video Countdown
2 AM News

KUHT Ch. 8 (PBS)

7 AM Washington Week In Review
7:30 Wall Street Week
8 AM McLaughlin One-On-One
8:30 American Interests (foreign policy program)
9 AM Economics U.$.A.
10 AM America: The Second Century
11 AM Business Of Management
12 N Focus On Society
1 PM New Literacy (computers)
2 PM Business File
3 PM Blake's 7
4 PM Sneak Previews
4:30 Tony Brown's Journal
5 PM G.E.D.
6 PM Perkins Family (kids' show)
6:30 Sherlock Jones & Proctor Watson (kids' show)
7 PM Wonderworks: "A Little Princess" (Part 2)
8 PM Austin City Limits (Randy Travis and Kathy Mattea
perform)
9 PM Doctor Who
10:30 Fawlty Towers
11 PM Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy
11:30 Monty Python's Flying Circus
12 M Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler

KHOU Ch. 11 (CBS)

5 AM Country Music Television continues
6 AM Ag-USA
6:30 Gumby And Professor Bill
7 AM Berenstain Bears
7:30 Wildfire
8 AM Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
9 AM Pee-Wee's Playhouse
9:30 Teen Wolf (animated)
10 AM Galaxy High School
10:30 CBS Storybreak
11 AM Hulk Hogan's Rock 'N' Wrestling
12 N Weekend Closeup
12:30 Golf: Doral Open (Third round)
2:30 NBA Basketball: Milwaukee-Chicago
5 PM Health Matters (time approximate)
5:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
6 PM News
6:30 Making Dreams Come True
7 PM Outlaws (not to be confused with the 1960-62
NBC series "The Outlaws")
8 PM CBS Movie: "Pals" (George C. Scott and Don Ameche)
10 PM News
10:30 Movie: "Sleeper"
12:10 News
12:40 Country Music Television (to 6 AM)

KTRK Ch. 13 (ABC)

5:25 Carrascolendas
5:55 Meditations
6 AM Viva Houston
6:30 Story Of A People (African-American)
7 AM Wuzzles
7:30 Care Bears
8 AM Flintstone Kids
9 AM Real Ghostbusters
9:30 Pound Puppies
10 AM Bugs Bunny And Tweety
11 AM ABC Weekend Special: "The Secret World
Of Og" (Part 2 of 3)
11:30 Health Show
12 N American Bandstand (guests: the Commodores)
12:30 Viva Houston
1 PM Story Of A People
1:30 Heroes: Made In The U.S.A.
2 PM Pro Bowlers Tour: True Value Open from Peoria, IL
3:30 Wide World Of Sports (World Cup Gymnastics Championships
and the Flamingo Stakes from Hialeah)
5 PM Houston's Great
5:30 ABC News (Kathleen Sullivan)
6 PM News
6:30 Eyewitness Houston
7 PM Sidekicks
7:30 Sledge Hammer!
8 PM ABC Movie: "Supergirl"
10 PM News
10:30 Movie: "Rio Bravo"
1:30 Movie: "Screaming Eagles"
3 AM News
3:30 ABC News (Tom Jarriel)
3:45 Movie: "Try To Catch A Saint" (pilot for
"McNaughton's Daughter" in 1976)

KTXH Ch. 20 (Ind.)

5 AM Funky Phantom
5:30 Romper Room
6 AM George Of The Jungle
6:30 Adelante
7 AM City Beat
7:30 New Gidget
8 AM Puttin' On The Kids (kids' version of Puttin'
On The Hits)
8:30 Batman (Adam West)
9 AM Wrestling
10 AM Fishing Texas
10:30 Cisco Kid
11 AM The Rebel
11:30 Wagon Train
1 PM Daniel Boone
2 PM Maverick
3 PM Rawhide
4 PM Fame
5 PM New Gidget
5:30 Silver Spoons
6 PM Throb
6:30 What A Country!
7 PM Solid Gold
8 PM Movie: "Wilderness Family Part 2"
10 PM Puttin' On The Hits
10:30 Dance Fever
11 PM Dream Girl U.S.A.
12 M Movie: "The Mad Butcher"
2 AM Movie: "The House Of Fear"

KRIV Ch. 26 (Ind.)

6 AM Herencia
6:30 Black Voice
7 AM Rainbow Brite
7:30 Popples (cartoon)
8 AM Lady Lovelylocks And The Pixietails
8:30 Laurel And Hardy
10 AM Wrestling
11 AM Movie: "3 Evil Masters"
1 PM Movie: "The Northville Cemetery Massacre"
3 PM Mission: Impossible
4 PM Good Times
4:30 Small Wonder
5 PM Facts Of Life
5:30 9 To 5
6 PM Ted Knight ("Garfield" creator Jim Davis guests--
this would be the last season, since Knight
passed away in 1986)
6:30 Three's Company
7 PM News
7:30 Benson
8 PM Movie: "The Wild Country"
10 PM Wrestling
11 PM Taxi
11:30 The Ropers
12 M At The Movies
12:30 News
1 AM Black Voice
1:30 Shopping Service
2;30 Star Search
3:30 Movie: "Battle Cry" (to 6)

KHTV Ch. 39 (Ind.)

5:30 That's Incredible!
6 AM Outlook
6:30 America's Black Forum
7 AM Church Service
7:30 World Tomorrow
8 AM Larry Jones (religion)
8:30 Garner Ted Armstrong
9 AM Photon (sci-fi)
9:30 Can You Be Thinner? (infomercial)
10 AM Wrestling
11 AM Dukes Of Hazzard
12 N Soul Train
1 PM College Basketball: Houston at Texas
3 PM Wonder Woman (time approximate)
4 PM Greatest American Hero
5 PM Charles In Charge
5:30 Sanford And Son
6 PM Star Trek
7 PM Movie: "Saturday Night Fever"
9:30 Benny Hill
10 PM Wrestling
12 M Movie: "The Vampire Lovers"
2 AM Shopping Service
4 AM Movie: "No Survivors, Please"

SUNDAY, MARCH 1

KPRC Ch. 2 (NBC)

5:30 Kid Show
6 AM La Onda
6:30 Sunday Morning (local, this is an NBC affiliate)
7 AM World Tomorrow
7:30 Jimmy Swaggart
8:30 Oral Roberts
9 AM TGI 2
9:30 Ebony/Jet Showcase
10 AM Church Service
10:30 Church Service
11:30 Meet The Press
12 N NCAA Basketball: North Carolina-Georgia Tech
2 PM Sportsworld: NHRA Winternationals (time approximate)
3 PM Women's Golf: Women's Kemper Open (final round)
5 PM News (time approximate)
5:30 NBC News (Chris Wallace)
6 PM Our House
7 PM Easy Street
7:30 Valerie (would eventually be "Valerie's Family," then
"The Hogan Family")
8 PM NBC Movie: "The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission"
(made for TV)
10 PM News
10:25 Channel Two Sports Sunday
10:45 Robert Reid (basketball, don't know where he coached)
11:15 Entertainment This Week
12:15 Cover Story
12:45 News
1:10 Channel Two Sports Sunday

KUHT Ch. 8 (PBS)

7 AM Sesame Street
8 AM Sesame Street
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Lap Quilting With Georgia Bonesteel
10:30 Hometime
11 AM Motorweek
11:30 This Old House
12 N Woodwright's Shop
12:30 Victory Garden
1 PM Agronsky And Company
1:30 McLaughlin Group
2 PM Firing Line
3 PM Video Workshop
3:30 Modern Maturity
4 PM Owl/TV
4:30 Wild America
5 PM New Visions
5:30 Making The Right Moves
6 PM Flyers In Search Of A Dream
7 PM Nature
8 PM One By One
9 PM Masterpiece Theatre: "Lost Empires"
(Part 6)
10 PM Rush (drama)
sign off 11 PM

KHOU Ch. 11 (CBS)

5 AM Country Music Television continues
6 AM Health Matters
6:30 Robert Schuller
7:30 Ed Young (I attended the church in Greenville, SC,
where he preached before moving to Houston.)
8 AM CBS News Sunday Morning
9:30 Sunday Morning (local)
10:30 Face The Nation
11 AM NCAA Basketball: Oklahoma-Kentucky
1 PM NBA Basketball: Philadelphia-Houston (game is on CBS,
time approximate)
3:30 Golf: Doral Open (final round, time approximate)
5 PM CBS News (no anchor given, time approximate)
5:30 News
6 PM 60 Minutes
7 PM Murder, She Wrote
8 PM I'll Take Manhattan (Part 1 of a four-part miniseries with
Valerie Bertinelli)
10 PM News
10:30 CBS News (Charles Osgood)
10:45 Siskel & Ebert & The Movies
11:15 Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous
sign off 12:15 AM

KTRK Ch. 13 (ABC)

5:25 Meditations
5:30 Insight (religion)
6 AM Sunday Devotions
6:30 Inspirations
7 AM Infinity Factory
7:30 Sonrisas
8 AM Voyagers!
9 AM Movie: "Geronimo"
11 AM Church Service
12 N This Week With David Brinkley
1 PM NCAA Basketball: Indiana-Illinois
3 PM Wide World Of Sports: Race Across America
bicycle race (time approximate)
5 PM ABC News (Sam Donaldson)
5:30 News
6 PM Disney Sunday Movie: "Disney Goes To The
Academy Awards" (tribute to Disney's Oscar
winners)
7 PM ABC Movie: "Casanova" (Richard Chamberlain
plays the great lover)
10 PM News
10:30 Movie: "Joe Kidd"
12:30 News
1 AM ABC News (Tom Jarriel)
1:15 Business World
1:45 Eyewitness Houston
2:15 Movie: "The Exorcist" (to 5:25)

KTXH Ch. 20 (Ind.)

5 AM Romper Room
5:30 Romper Room
6 AM Church Service
6:30 Jerry Falwell
7:30 Funtastic World Of Hanna-Barbera
9:30 Inhumanoids
10 AM JEM
10:30 Movie: "The Body Snatcher"
12 N Movie: "The Long Duel"
2:15 Movie: "Hombre"
4:30 Movie: "Wilderness Family Part 2"
6:30 Square Pegs
7 PM Fame
8 PM Little House On The Prairie
9 PM Hart To Hart
10 PM Quincy
11 PM Solid Gold
12 M Church Service
1 AM Tales From The Darkside
sign off 1:30 AM

KRIV Ch. 26 (Ind.)

6 AM Children Caught In The Crossfire
7 AM Oral Roberts
7:30 Kenneth Copeland
8:30 John Osteen (religion)
9 AM Three Stooges
10 AM Wonderful World Of Disney
11 AM Movie: "Giant" (one of only three movies
James Dean ever made)
3 PM National Geographic
4 PM National Geographic
5 PM Movie: "The Seduction"
7 PM News
7:30 Three's A Crowd (the sitcom)
8 PM Wonderful World Of Disney
9 PM Star Search
10 PM Check It Out!
10:30 Movie: "The Big Sleep" (1978 remake of the
Bogart classic with Robert Mitchum)
12:30 At The Movies
sign off 1 AM

KHTV Ch. 39 (Ind.)

6:30 D. James Kennedy
7 AM James Robison
7:30 Day Of Discovery
8 AM Phil Arms (religion)
8:30 Church Service
9:30 Discover (don't know what this is)
10 AM Wrestling
11 AM Wrestling
12 N Movie: "What Waits Below"
2 PM College Basketball: Arkansas-SMU
4 PM Battlestar Galactica (time approximate)
5 PM Movie: "Zone Troopers"
7 PM It's A Living
7:30 One Big Family
8 PM Mama's Family
8:30 Death Valley Days
9 PM Hee Haw
10 PM Benny Hill
10:30 Ed Young
11 PM Jimmy Swaggart
12 M 700 Club
1 AM Mind Power (infomercial)
sign off 2 AM
 
bpatrick said:
KPRC Ch. 2 (NBC)

5 PM Stop Smoking

KHOU Ch. 11 (CBS)

6:30 Making Dreams Come True

Were these infomercials?

bpatrick said:
KHOU Ch. 11 (CBS)

12:40 Country Music Television (to 6 AM)

Didn't even know there were any terrestrial affiliates of CMT -- this must be years before Viacom or even Gaylord owned the channel.

bpatrick said:
KTRK Ch. 13 (ABC)

5:25 Carrascolendas
5:55 Meditations
6 AM Viva Houston

"Carrascolendas" must be the program talked about in "The S from Hell" thread that had the PBS logo at the end, as it was primarily a PBS program, broadcast by KTRK to make good with the FCC.

Though I find it funny that not only they aired this children's program at such an early hour, but they aired it BEFORE the sermonette, which came between two Latin-American-oriented programs, ''Carrascolendas" and "Viva Houston".

bpatrick said:
KTRK Ch. 13 (ABC)
12 N American Bandstand (guests: the Commodores)
12:30 Viva Houston

This was American Bandstand's last season on ABC before moving to syndication -- however, I thought the move was due to the fact that ABC wanted the show to be trimmed to a half-hour, and not already cut back?
 
Re: The Doral Open on KHOU...

This was another example of how cigarettes were still able to "advertise" on American TV long after that 1971 ban against TV cigarette ads. Doral was/is one of those cheap cigarettes, had totally forgot they were into golf.

It was around this time Marlboro was sponsoring horse racing and many of those races ended up on CBS. Likewise with tennis with Virginia Slims & Benson and Hedges and of course you had NASCAR's Winston Cup. KOOL & Salem were into jazz concerts and many of those concerts were on PBS plus not too mention the many of televised baseball games, in the backgroud there was usually a giant billboard ( always in camera view ) of either Marlboro, Winston or Newport.

About a year or two later I believe Camel became a major sponsor of rock concerts and skateboard champonships and it was around this time they brought out "Joe Camel" which of course a number of years later would led to the so-called second ban on TV cigarette advertising involving sporting events and concerts.

Several years ago Tbe Simpsons actually turned all of this into a joke when Homer put up the cash to have Lisa in a beauty contest for little girls which was sponsored by...Laramie "High Tars" Cigarettes.
 
Doral is the country club where the tournament was played;
I don't recall any connection to Doral cigarettes.

Re "Stop Smoking" and "Make Your Dreams Come True": I
would assume these were infomercials; TV Guide did not, at
the time, label them as such.

And "Meditations" aired at 5:25 AM seven days a week on
Ch. 13.
 
KHOU Ch. 11 (CBS)

12:40 Country Music Television (to 6 AM)

Didn't even know there were any terrestrial affiliates of CMT -- this must be years before Viacom or even Gaylord owned the channel.[/quote]

KCEN in Waco also carried CMT OTA back in the mid 1980s. And of course, this was back when CMT was nothing but country music videos.
 
stdjsb25 said:
KHOU Ch. 11 (CBS)

12:40 Country Music Television (to 6 AM)

Didn't even know there were any terrestrial affiliates of CMT -- this must be years before Viacom or even Gaylord owned the channel.

KCEN in Waco also carried CMT OTA back in the mid 1980s. And of course, this was back when CMT was nothing but country music videos.
[/quote]

KLFY Lafayette, LA also carried CMT OTA in 1987.
 
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