Retro: Houston Tuesday, March 3, 1987

[bpatrick]

From TV Guide, Southeast Texas Edition:

KPRC Ch. 2 (NBC)

5:15 TGI 2
5:45 Before Hours (Bob Jamieson)
6 AM NBC News (Deborah Norville)
6:30 News
7 AM Today (Bryant Gumbel/Jane Pauley)
9 AM Hour Magazine
10 AM Wheel Of Fortune
10:30 Scrabble
11 AM Super Password
11:30 Wordplay
12 N Days Of Our Lives
1 PM Another World
2 PM Santa Barbara
3 PM Love Connection
3:30 Newlywed Game
4 PM Superior Court
4:30 People's Court (Judge Wapner)
5 PM News
5:30 NBC News (Tom Brokaw)
6 PM News
6:30 Hollywood Squares (John Davidson)
7 PM Matlock
8 PM Hunter
9 PM Hill Street Blues (L.A. Law had already replaced
it on Thursday)
10 PM News
10:30 Tonight Show (rerun from 1986 with George Segal,
Kareem Jabbar, and Wil Shriner)
11:30 Late Night With David Letterman
12:30 Ask Dr. Ruth
1 AM Entertainment Tonight
1:30 News

KUHT Ch. 8 (PBS)

6 AM Farm Day
6:15 A.M. Weather
6:30 Body Electric
7 AM Sesame Street
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9 AM Secret City
9:30 Square One Television
10 AM 3-2-1 Contact
10:30 Sesame Street
11:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
12 N Body Electric
12:30 Les Gammas
1 PM We're Cooking Now
1:30 New Southern Cooking With Nathalie Dupree
2 PM Secret City
2:30 Sesame Street
3:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4 PM Square One Television
4:30 3-2-1 Contact
5 PM Magic Of Watercolors
5:30 Wild Side (wildlife)
6 PM MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
7 PM Nightly Business Report
7:30 Faces Of Japan
8 PM Nova
9 PM Frontline
10 PM Legacy In Limbo
11 PM MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
sign off 12 M

KHOU Ch. 11 (CBS)

5 AM CBS News (Faith Daniels/Diane Sawyer)
6 AM AM Houston
7 AM News
7:30 The Morning Program (Mariette Hartley/
Harry Smith)
9 AM $25,000 Pyramid
9:30 Card Sharks
10 AM Price Is Right
11 AM Young And The Restless
12 N News
12:30 As The World Turns
1:30 True Confessions
2 PM Guiding Light
3 PM Oprah Winfrey
4 PM Divorce Court
4:30 Jeopardy!
5 PM News
5:30 CBS News (Dan Rather)
6 PM News
6:30 Wheel Of Fortune
7 PM Spies (Premiere of a short-lived entry
with George Hamilton)
8 PM I'll Take Manhattan (Part 3)
10 PM News
10:30 M*A*S*H
11 PM T.J. Hooker
12:10 CBS Movie: "Fish Hawk"
1:30 News
2 AM CBS News Nightwatch (to 5)

KTRK Ch. 13 (ABC)

5:25 Meditations
5:30 ABC News
6 AM Good Morning Houston
6:30 ABC News
7 AM News
7:30 Good Morning America (joined in progress)
9 AM Good Morning Houston
10 AM Donahue
11 AM Ryan's Hope
11:30 Loving
12 N All My Children
1 PM One Life To Live
2 PM General Hospital
3 PM Movie: "Love Story"
5 PM News
5:30 ABC News (Peter Jennings)
6 PM News
7 PM Who's The Boss?
7:30 Growing Pains
8 PM Moonlighting
9 PM Jack And Mike
10 PM News
10:30 Nightline (Ted Koppel)
11 PM Movie: "Dr. Zhivago" (Part 2)
1 AM News
1:30 Movie: "Slaughterhouse-Five"
3:30 Movie: "Escape To Mindanao"

KTXH Ch. 20 (Ind.)

5 AM Richard Roberts
6 AM Study In The Word With Jimmy
Swaggart
6:30 Day Of Discovery
7 AM He-Man And The Masters Of The
Universe
7:30 She-Ra: Princess Of Power
8 AM Dennis The Menace (animated)
8:30 Scooby Doo
9 AM Dallas
10 AM Big Valley
11 AM Maverick
12 N Rifleman
12:30 F Troop
1 PM Beverly Hillbillies
1:30 Leave It To Beaver
2 PM Dennis The Menace (Jay North)
2:30 Heathcliff
3 PM Jetsons
3:30 Ghostbusters
4 PM Rambo (animated)
4:30 Transformers
5 PM Brady Bunch
5:30 Gilligan's Island
6 PM Gimme A Break!
6:30 Bewitched
7 PM Fall Guy
8 PM Movie: "Iceman"
10 PM Honeymooners
10:30 Maude
11 PM Mary Tyler Moore
11:30 Alfred Hitchcock
12 M Movie: "Disraeli"
2 AM The Invaders

KRIV Ch. 26 (Ind.)

5:30 Jim And Tammy
6:30 Inspector Gadget
7 AM Thundercats
7:30 Defenders Of The Earth
8 AM Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Tom And Jerry
9 AM Happy Days
9:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Andy Griffith
11 AM All In The Family
11:30 Police Woman
12:30 News
1 PM Shopping Service
2 PM Bugs And Porky
2:30 Tom And Jerry
3 PM Woody Woodpecker
3:30 G.I. Joe
4 PM Thundercats
4:30 Good Times
5 PM Facts Of Life
5:30 Too Close For Comfort
6 PM Jeffersons
6:30 Three's Company
7 PM News
7:30 PM Magazine
8 PM Movie: "The Honor Guard"
10 PM The Late Show With Joan Rivers (this is a
Fox show, but TV Guide had not yet begun
identifying Ch. 26 as Fox)
11 PM Taxi
11:30 Benson
12 M All In The Family
12:30 News
1 AM Jim And Tammy
2 AM Movie: "Gunsmoke" (from '53, with Audie Murphy,
and no connection to the show which had already
started on radio)
3:30 Movie: "Billion Dollar Brain"

KHTV Ch. 39 (Ind.)

5:30 That's Incredible!
6 AM 700 Club
7 AM Adventures Of The Galaxy Rangers
7:30 Plastic Man
8 AM Flintstones
8:30 Look At Me Now! (infomercial)
9 AM My Favorite Martian
9:30 That's Incredible!
10 AM Mayberry R.F.D.
10:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
11 AM One Day At A Time
11:30 Alice
12 N Rockford Files
1 PM Gunsmoke
2 PM My Favorite Martian
2:30 Fat Albert
3 PM My Little Pony 'n Friends
3:30 Smurfs' Adventures
4 PM Plastic Man
4:30 What's Happening!!
5 PM Diff'rent Strokes
5:30 That's My Mama
6 PM Sanford And Son
6:30 Barney Miller
7 PM Magnum, P.I.
8 PM Movie: "Seems Like Old Times"
10 PM Benny Hill
10:30 Bizarre
11 PM Police Story
12 M City Of Angels
1 AM Twilight Zone
1:30 Movie: "Almost Summer"
3:30 Movie: "With This Ring"

 

[classictvfan]

Could you please upload Saturday-Sunday listings for that week?

 

[classictvfan]

Were Houston stations the only stations listed in here?

 

[cowboybud]

Were Houston stations the only stations listed in here?

Yes...the Houston edition stopped carrying listings from adjoining markets sometime in the late 70s.

 

[Stanislav]

KRIV Ch. 26 (Ind.)


10 PM The Late Show With Joan Rivers (this is a
Fox show, but TV Guide had not yet begun
identifying Ch. 26 as Fox)

The Late Show With Joan Rivers had been on for about 5 months at that point as Fox's only networked show, but Fox would not enter prime-time for another month with the debut of Married...with Children. Many people in the industry were dubious of Fox's chances for success since other previous attempts to launch "fourth networks" had failed. Though Rivers' show had already survived more than twice as long as the ill-fated Las Vegas Show on the Overmyer Network/United Network in 1967, I'm willing to bet that TVG and other sources refrained from formally identifying Fox affiliates as such until they had established a successful beachhead in prime-time.

 

[bpatrick]

This was Southeast Texas, so it had Beaumont, Lafayette,
Lake Charles, Bryan, and Lufkin as well. I didn't post them
for lack of time.

 

[bk77]

KRIV Ch. 26 (Ind.)


10 PM The Late Show With Joan Rivers (this is a
Fox show, but TV Guide had not yet begun
identifying Ch. 26 as Fox)

The Late Show With Joan Rivers had been on for about 5 months at that point as Fox's only networked show, but Fox would not enter prime-time for another month with the debut of Married...with Children. Many people in the industry were dubious of Fox's chances for success since other previous attempts to launch "fourth networks" had failed. Though Rivers' show had already survived more than twice as long as the ill-fated Las Vegas Show on the Overmyer Network/United Network in 1967, I'm willing to bet that TVG and other sources refrained from formally identifying Fox affiliates as such until they had established a successful beachhead in prime-time.

When Joan Rivers' show began in the fall of 1986, TV Guide in the Washington-Baltimore edition listed WBFF & WTTG as being "FBC" as in Fox Broadcasting Company.

Maybe this was done in just a few markets because I can remember seeing some Pennsylvania editions where "FBC" wasn't listed though Joan's show did air in the market, such as York's WPMT.

Anyway few weeks later later the "FBC" was dropped so WBFF & WTTG went back as far a being independents were concerned..at least to TV Guide. Once Married..with Children & Tracy Ullman had their debut in the spring of 87, both stations were listed as "FOX"...as was York's WPMT.

 

[azumanga]

This was Southeast Texas, so it had Beaumont, Lafayette,
Lake Charles, Bryan, and Lufkin as well. I didn't post them
for lack of time.

In the late-1970s, the Houston metro area got its own TVG, which featured only the Houston channels. As far as I know, no Houston channels (at the time of the split) were dropped from the SETX edition.

 

[MikeyBos]

That's not quite how I remember it... Here in Boston, neither ch. 25 nor ch. 64 were listed as Fox at all until the debut of the Sunday night primetime programming in April 1987. They were listed as Independent right up until the week before, all the while they were carrying the "Late Show." Starting with that first week of primetime programming, TVG started listing them as FBC, and during the first week had a programming note somewhere in the listings explaining that there was a new network called FBC or the Fox Broadcasting Company. Within a few weeks, they switched from listing the affiliation as FBC to listing it as Fox.

When Joan Rivers' show began in the fall of 1986, TV Guide in the Washington-Baltimore edition listed WBFF & WTTG as being "FBC" as in Fox Broadcasting Company.

Maybe this was done in just a few markets because I can remember seeing some Pennsylvania editions where "FBC" wasn't listed though Joan's show did air in the market, such as York's WPMT.

Anyway few weeks later later the "FBC" was dropped so WBFF & WTTG went back as far a being independents were concerned..at least to TV Guide. Once Married..with Children & Tracy Ullman had their debut in the spring of 87, both stations were listed as "FOX"...as was York's WPMT.

 

[FreddyE1977]

Same with WPGH in Pittsburgh. I have a creaky old VHS tape of an early Married with Children
where the station ID's are for WPGH-TV and not "Fox 53"

 

[cowboybud]

Same with WPGH in Pittsburgh. I have a creaky old VHS tape of an early Married with Children
where the station ID's are for WPGH-TV and not "Fox 53"

Only the former Metromedia stations used the "Fox" branding from the beginning.

 

[Rollo-Smokes]

KHOU Ch. 11 (CBS)

5 AM CBS News (Faith Daniels/Diane Sawyer)
7:30 The Morning Program (Mariette Hartley/
Harry Smith)

I don't recall Diane Sawyer anchoring the early CBS Morning News cast in '87. She must have been full-time at 60 Minutes by this time. Also, Rolland Smith should have been the co-anchor on the Morning Program; Harry Smith didn't come onboard until it became CBS This Morning later in the year.

 

[classictvfan]

Could you please upload listings from February 28-March 1, 1987?

 

[bpatrick]

I remember TV Guide identifying Fox affiliates as FBC for a
couple of weeks or so when Fox began its Sunday-night lineup
("21 Jump Street," "Married With Children," etc.) in the spring
of 1987. I guess they figured no one knew what FBC was, and
besides, Fox has never identified itself as anything but Fox. In
short order, Fox stations were identified as Fox.

And no, Houston stations were not dropped from the Southeast
Texas edition; those listings I posted were from the Southeast
Texas edition. The Houston edition was like the Dallas/Ft. Worth
one; both served their respective metro areas, but the Southeast
Texas and North Texas editions (with Houston and DFW listings,
respectively, included) served the rest of their DMAs. So North
Texas not only included DFW listings, but also Waco, Wichita Falls,
Abilene/Sweetwater, Tyler, San Angelo, and Ada/Ardmore, OK.
Southeast Texas, as I've already mentioned, included Houston, Beaumont,
Lafayette, Lake Charles, Bryan, and Lufkin.

 

[azumanga]

I remember TV Guide identifying Fox affiliates as FBC for a
couple of weeks or so when Fox began its Sunday-night lineup
("21 Jump Street," "Married With Children," etc.) in the spring
of 1987. I guess they figured no one knew what FBC was, and
besides, Fox has never identified itself as anything but Fox. In
short order, Fox stations were identified as Fox.

The Canadian "TV Guide" also used "FBC" for Fox following the launch, but unlike the US version, the Canadian TVG continued to use "FBC" into the early-1990s.

 

[bpatrick]

KHOU Ch. 11 (CBS)

5 AM CBS News (Faith Daniels/Diane Sawyer)
7:30 The Morning Program (Mariette Hartley/
Harry Smith)

I don't recall Diane Sawyer anchoring the early CBS Morning News cast in '87. She must have been full-time at 60 Minutes by this time. Also, Rolland Smith should have been the co-anchor on the Morning Program; Harry Smith didn't come onboard until it became CBS This Morning later in the year.

Correct on both counts. It was Forrest Sawyer who co-anchored the CBS Morning News with Faith Daniels, and it was Rolland Smith who co-hosted The Morning Program with Mariette Hartley; "The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television" by Wesley Hyatt has a picture of the Morning Program cast, which includes a pre-"Full House" Bob Saget. That's what I get for relying too much on TV Guide's use of last names only. Thanks for straightening me out.