from TV Guide-Kansas City edition
KQTV 2-ABC St. Joseph
6:25 Story of Jesus
6:30 US Farm Report
7:00 Superfriends
8:00 Mighty Orbots
8:30 Turbo Teen
9:00 Dragon's Lair
9:30 New Scooby-Doo Mysteries
10:00 Scary Scooby Funnies
10:30 Littles
11:00 ABC Weekend Special "The Secret World of Og" (pt 1)
11:30 American Bandstand (guests Stephen Stills and Prime Time, plus a video from Steve Perry)
12:30 Wrestling
1:30 School Days
2:00 Sportsbeat (profile of Lou Guida, who was trying to purchase all the offspring of Niatross, a horse considered to be the best pacer ever)
2:30 College Football: ABC had regional coverage, led by Texas-SMU and Notre Dame-LSU
6:00 Hee Haw (guests Porter Wagoner, Amy Grant, the Million Dollar Band, and the Twin River Cloggers)
7:00 T.J. Hooker
8:00 Love Boat
9:00 Finder of Lost Loves
10:00 News
10:30 Solid Gold (music from Paul McCartney, the Pointer Sisters, Cyndi Lauper, Christopher Cross, and Quiet Riot; plus comedy with Rich Little and John Roarke)
11:30 Star Search (guests Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers)
12:30 Tales from the Darkside
1:00 ABC News
1:15 News
1:45 Story of Jesus
WDAF 4-NBC Kansas City
6:30 Romper Room
7:00 Snorks
7:30 Pink Panther & Sons
8:00 Smurfs
9:30 Alvin & the Chipmunks
10:00 Kidd Video
10:30 Mr. T
11:00 Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends
11:30 Going Bananas (new time)
noon Little House on the Prairie
1:00 Wonder Woman
2:00 Bowling: Indianapolis Open
3:30 NBC SportsWorld: Marvelous Marvin Hagler, the undisputed middleweight champ (59-2-2/49 KO), defends his belt against Mustafa Hamsho (38-2-2/23 KO) in a 15-round bout, taped Oct. 19 in New York)
5:00 News
5:30 Decision '84: Kansas 3rd District Congressional debate (Jan Meyers-R, Jack Reardon-D, and John Ralph-Ind)
6:00 Hee Haw (same line-up as ch 2)
7:00 Diff'rent Strokes
7:30 Gimme a Break!
8:00 Partners in Crime
9:00 Hot Pursuit
10:00 News
10:30 Saturday Night Live: a rerun from May with co-hosts Ed Koch, Edwin Newman, Betty Thomas, Billy Crystal, and Fr. Guido Sarducci; music by the Cars
mid. Star Search
1:00 This Week's Music (performances by Shannon, Gary US Bonds, Comateens, and Cyndi Lauper/videos by David Bowie, the Go-Gos, and Lindsey Buckingham)
KCTV 5-CBS Kansas City
6:30 Captain Kangaroo (visit with a 18-yr-old clarinetist)
7:00 Shirt Tales
7:30 Get Along Gang
8:00 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
8:30 Saturday Supercade
9:30 Pole Position
10:00 Dungeons & Dragons
10:30 Pryor's Place
11:00 College Football: Ohio State-Wisconsin
2:30 NBA: Houston-Dallas
5:00 This Week in Country Music
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 News
6:30 Sports Extra: Kansas City Comets (season preview for the MISL team, which moved from San Francisco in 1981 and was located in Detroit before moving to the Bay Area in 1980)
7:00 Airwolf
8:00 Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
9:00 Cover Up
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "The Philadelphia Story" (bw)
12:45 America's Top 10 (featuring Melissa Manchester, Wham!, Chaka Khan, and the Cars)
1:15 Christian Children's Fund
1:45 CNN Headline News
KMOS 6-PBS Sedalia/Warrensburg
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Voyage of the Mimi
10:30 Spaces
11:00 Victory Garden
11:30 International Kitchen
noon Frugal Gourmet
12:30 This Old House
1:00 Do-It-Yourself Show
1:30 Woodwright's Shop
2:00 MotorWeek
2:30 Wild America
3:00 Nature
4:00 Masterpiece Theatre "Private Schulz" (conclusion)
5:00 Matinee at the Bijou
6:30 Creativity with Bill Moyers (tomatoes are used to examine agricultural innovation)
7:00 Solar Energy Now? (2 solar engineers compare active and passive solar energy systems)
7:30 House in the Sun (construction of a solar home shows the basics of a passive solar energy system)
8:00 Conversations
8:30 Lee Mace Ozark Opry
9:00 Austin City Limits (guest Jerry Lee Lewis)
10:00 Mystery! "Sergeant Cribb"
11:00 Spectrum: Hawaii (the art of Japanese paper making/a Kabuki performance)
KMBC 9-ABC Kansas City
6:30 US Farm Report
7:00 Superfriends
8:00 Mighty Orbots
8:30 Turbo Teen
9:00 Dragon's Lair
9:30 New Scooby-Doo Mysteries
10:00 Scary Scooby Funnies
10:30 Littles
11:00 ABC Weekend Special "The Secret World of Og" (pt 1)
11:30 College Football: Colorado-Oklahoma State
2:30 College Football: ABC regional coverage
6:00 News
6:30 '84 Vote: The Candidates (KS 2nd District Congressional debate between Jim Slattery (R) and Jim Van Slyke (D))
7:00 T.J. Hooker
8:00 Love Boat
9:00 Finder of Lost Loves
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "A Fire in the Sky" (a comet is on a collision course with Phoenix)
1:30 ABC News
KTWU 11-PBS Topeka
7:30 Basic Algebra
8:00 Theory of Communication
9:00 Sneak Previews
9:30 This Old House
10:00 MotorWeek
10:30 Magic of Oil Painting
11:00 Educational Computing
11:30 Victory Garden
noon Sesame Street
1:00 Kansas Archaeology
2:00 Congress: We the People
3:00 Focus on Society
4:00 New Literacy: Intro to Computers
5:00 From Jumpstreet
5:30 Matinee at the Bijou
7:00 Six-Gun Heroes "Forbidden Trails" (bw)
8:00 Austin City Limits (guests Ray Charles and Lee Greenwood; simulcast on KSKX 1440-station is now news/talk/high school sports KMAJ)
9:00 Movie "The Tender Trap"
11:00 David Susskind "Brilliant Minds, Brilliant Conversations" (KC saw this the following night at 10:30 on ch 19)
WIBW 13-CBS Topeka
6:30 Captain Kangaroo
7:00 Kidsworld
7:30 Get Along Gang
8:00 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
8:30 Saturday Supercade
9:30 Pole Position
10:00 Whizzo's Saturday Circus
10:30 Pryor's Place
11:00 College Football: Ohio State-Wisconsin
2:30 NBA: Houston-Dallas
5:00 In Your Own Back Yard
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 This Week in Country Music (interviews wirth Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, and Kenny Rogers)
6:30 Best in the Country
7:00 Airwolf
8:00 Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
9:00 Cover Up
10:00 News
10:30 Solid Gold (Rick Dees and guest co-host Irene Cara welcome guests Mr. T, America, John Schneider, John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band, Champaign, and Herbie Hancock; also a video by the Pointer Sisters)
11:30 Puttin' on the Hits
mid. Entertainment This Week
1:00 News
KCPT 19-PBS Kansas City
8:00 Many Lives of Dr. Faust
10:00 It's Everybody's Business
noon Frugal Gourmet
12:30 This Old House
1:00 Do-It-Yourself Show
1:30 Woodwright's Shop
2:00 Square Foot Gardening
2:30 Victory Garden
3:00 World Chess Championship 1984
3:30 MotorWeek
4:00 New Tech Times
4:30 Newton's Apple (season premiere of its 2nd season, with a 3000-yr-old Egyptian mummy examined with X-rays, a CAT scan, and fiber optics)
5:00 Wild America
5:30 Sneak Previews
6:00 Kansas City Illustrated
7:00 Nature of Things
8:00 Movie "Rancho Notorious"
10:00 Monty Python's Flying Circus
10:30 Austin City Limits (same line-up as ch 6)
KSNT 27-NBC Topeka
7:00 Snorks
7:30 Pink Panther & Sons
8:00 Smurfs
9:30 Alvin & the Chipmunks
10:00 Kidd Video
10:30 Tom & Jerry
11:30 College Football: Colorado-Oklahoma City
2:30 Bowling (JIP)
3:30 NBC SportsWorld: Hagler v Hamsho
5:00 In Search of...
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Hee Haw (same guests as ch 2)
7:00 Diff'rent Strokes
7:30 Gimme a Break!
8:00 Partners in Crime
9:00 Hot Pursuit
10:00 News
10:30 College Football: Oklahoma-Kansas (tape delay)
KSHB 41-Ind Kansas City
5:00 Rat Patrol
5:30 Topper (bw)
6:00 Target
6:30 Mighty Mouse
7:00 Popeye
8:00 Pink Panther
9:00 Bugs Bunny
9:30 Kids Incorporated
10:00 Fame
11:00 Solid Gold
noon Battlestar Galactica
1:00 Starsky & Hutch
2:00 Six Million Dollar Man
3:00 Emergency!
4:00 Kung Fu
5:00 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
6:00 Star Trek
7:00 Solid Gold (same show as ch 13)
8:00 Movie "Dallas"
10:00 Soap
10:30 Movie "The Curse of Frankenstein"
12:30 Puttin' on the Hits
1:00 Essence (interview with Gladys Knight/discussing apartheid/relationship between diet and health)
1:30 Black Music Magazine (videos from Prince, Donna Summer, Madonna, and Ray Parker Jr...one of these things is not like the others ;D)
2:00 Music Magazine (videos from Kansas, Sheena Easton, Eurythmics, Donald Fagan, and Central Line)
2:30 Movie "Sweet Hostage"
4:30 Gunsmoke
KLDH 49-ABC Topeka
7:00 Superfriends
8:00 Mighty Orbots
8:30 Turbo Teen
9:00 Dragon's Lair
9:30 New Scooby-Doo Mysteries
10:00 Scary Scooby Funnies
10:30 Littles
11:00 ABC Weekend Special "The Secret World of Og" (pt 1)
11:30 American Bandstand
12:30 America's Top 10
1:00 BJ/Lobo
2:00 Sportsbeat
2:30 College Football: ABC regional coverage
6:00 Small World (KLDH didn't have local news; through the week, Jennings aired at 6)
7:00 T.J. Hooker
8:00 Love Boat
9:00 Finder of Lost Loves
10:00 INN News (which aired here 7 nights a week)
10:30 Movie "Red Alert"
KEKR 62-Ind Kansas City
7:00 NFL Week in Review
7:30 MDTV
8:00 Golf
9:00 Roller Game
10:00 Wrestling
11:00 Soul Train
noon Movie "Toklat"
2:00 Movie "The Cold Room"
4:00 Movie "Wild River"
6:00 Which Witch is Which?
6:30 Fat Albert Halloween Special
7:00 Halloween Thriller (Vincent Price hosts this show featuring videos from ghosts and ghouls of every kind, including Ozzy and "Time Warp" from Rocky Horror)
8:00 Countryline (pilot/music from Ronnie Milsap, Waylon Jennings, Juice Newton, Dolly Parton, and Earl Thomas Conley; also behind the scenes at an Alabama video)
10:00 Movie "mark of the Devil"
mid. Outer Limits (bw)
1:00 Movin' On
KQTV 2-ABC St. Joseph
6:25 Story of Jesus
6:30 US Farm Report
7:00 Superfriends
8:00 Mighty Orbots
8:30 Turbo Teen
9:00 Dragon's Lair
9:30 New Scooby-Doo Mysteries
10:00 Scary Scooby Funnies
10:30 Littles
11:00 ABC Weekend Special "The Secret World of Og" (pt 1)
11:30 American Bandstand (guests Stephen Stills and Prime Time, plus a video from Steve Perry)
12:30 Wrestling
1:30 School Days
2:00 Sportsbeat (profile of Lou Guida, who was trying to purchase all the offspring of Niatross, a horse considered to be the best pacer ever)
2:30 College Football: ABC had regional coverage, led by Texas-SMU and Notre Dame-LSU
6:00 Hee Haw (guests Porter Wagoner, Amy Grant, the Million Dollar Band, and the Twin River Cloggers)
7:00 T.J. Hooker
8:00 Love Boat
9:00 Finder of Lost Loves
10:00 News
10:30 Solid Gold (music from Paul McCartney, the Pointer Sisters, Cyndi Lauper, Christopher Cross, and Quiet Riot; plus comedy with Rich Little and John Roarke)
11:30 Star Search (guests Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers)
12:30 Tales from the Darkside
1:00 ABC News
1:15 News
1:45 Story of Jesus
WDAF 4-NBC Kansas City
6:30 Romper Room
7:00 Snorks
7:30 Pink Panther & Sons
8:00 Smurfs
9:30 Alvin & the Chipmunks
10:00 Kidd Video
10:30 Mr. T
11:00 Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends
11:30 Going Bananas (new time)
noon Little House on the Prairie
1:00 Wonder Woman
2:00 Bowling: Indianapolis Open
3:30 NBC SportsWorld: Marvelous Marvin Hagler, the undisputed middleweight champ (59-2-2/49 KO), defends his belt against Mustafa Hamsho (38-2-2/23 KO) in a 15-round bout, taped Oct. 19 in New York)
5:00 News
5:30 Decision '84: Kansas 3rd District Congressional debate (Jan Meyers-R, Jack Reardon-D, and John Ralph-Ind)
6:00 Hee Haw (same line-up as ch 2)
7:00 Diff'rent Strokes
7:30 Gimme a Break!
8:00 Partners in Crime
9:00 Hot Pursuit
10:00 News
10:30 Saturday Night Live: a rerun from May with co-hosts Ed Koch, Edwin Newman, Betty Thomas, Billy Crystal, and Fr. Guido Sarducci; music by the Cars
mid. Star Search
1:00 This Week's Music (performances by Shannon, Gary US Bonds, Comateens, and Cyndi Lauper/videos by David Bowie, the Go-Gos, and Lindsey Buckingham)
KCTV 5-CBS Kansas City
6:30 Captain Kangaroo (visit with a 18-yr-old clarinetist)
7:00 Shirt Tales
7:30 Get Along Gang
8:00 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
8:30 Saturday Supercade
9:30 Pole Position
10:00 Dungeons & Dragons
10:30 Pryor's Place
11:00 College Football: Ohio State-Wisconsin
2:30 NBA: Houston-Dallas
5:00 This Week in Country Music
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 News
6:30 Sports Extra: Kansas City Comets (season preview for the MISL team, which moved from San Francisco in 1981 and was located in Detroit before moving to the Bay Area in 1980)
7:00 Airwolf
8:00 Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
9:00 Cover Up
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "The Philadelphia Story" (bw)
12:45 America's Top 10 (featuring Melissa Manchester, Wham!, Chaka Khan, and the Cars)
1:15 Christian Children's Fund
1:45 CNN Headline News
KMOS 6-PBS Sedalia/Warrensburg
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Voyage of the Mimi
10:30 Spaces
11:00 Victory Garden
11:30 International Kitchen
noon Frugal Gourmet
12:30 This Old House
1:00 Do-It-Yourself Show
1:30 Woodwright's Shop
2:00 MotorWeek
2:30 Wild America
3:00 Nature
4:00 Masterpiece Theatre "Private Schulz" (conclusion)
5:00 Matinee at the Bijou
6:30 Creativity with Bill Moyers (tomatoes are used to examine agricultural innovation)
7:00 Solar Energy Now? (2 solar engineers compare active and passive solar energy systems)
7:30 House in the Sun (construction of a solar home shows the basics of a passive solar energy system)
8:00 Conversations
8:30 Lee Mace Ozark Opry
9:00 Austin City Limits (guest Jerry Lee Lewis)
10:00 Mystery! "Sergeant Cribb"
11:00 Spectrum: Hawaii (the art of Japanese paper making/a Kabuki performance)
KMBC 9-ABC Kansas City
6:30 US Farm Report
7:00 Superfriends
8:00 Mighty Orbots
8:30 Turbo Teen
9:00 Dragon's Lair
9:30 New Scooby-Doo Mysteries
10:00 Scary Scooby Funnies
10:30 Littles
11:00 ABC Weekend Special "The Secret World of Og" (pt 1)
11:30 College Football: Colorado-Oklahoma State
2:30 College Football: ABC regional coverage
6:00 News
6:30 '84 Vote: The Candidates (KS 2nd District Congressional debate between Jim Slattery (R) and Jim Van Slyke (D))
7:00 T.J. Hooker
8:00 Love Boat
9:00 Finder of Lost Loves
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "A Fire in the Sky" (a comet is on a collision course with Phoenix)
1:30 ABC News
KTWU 11-PBS Topeka
7:30 Basic Algebra
8:00 Theory of Communication
9:00 Sneak Previews
9:30 This Old House
10:00 MotorWeek
10:30 Magic of Oil Painting
11:00 Educational Computing
11:30 Victory Garden
noon Sesame Street
1:00 Kansas Archaeology
2:00 Congress: We the People
3:00 Focus on Society
4:00 New Literacy: Intro to Computers
5:00 From Jumpstreet
5:30 Matinee at the Bijou
7:00 Six-Gun Heroes "Forbidden Trails" (bw)
8:00 Austin City Limits (guests Ray Charles and Lee Greenwood; simulcast on KSKX 1440-station is now news/talk/high school sports KMAJ)
9:00 Movie "The Tender Trap"
11:00 David Susskind "Brilliant Minds, Brilliant Conversations" (KC saw this the following night at 10:30 on ch 19)
WIBW 13-CBS Topeka
6:30 Captain Kangaroo
7:00 Kidsworld
7:30 Get Along Gang
8:00 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
8:30 Saturday Supercade
9:30 Pole Position
10:00 Whizzo's Saturday Circus
10:30 Pryor's Place
11:00 College Football: Ohio State-Wisconsin
2:30 NBA: Houston-Dallas
5:00 In Your Own Back Yard
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 This Week in Country Music (interviews wirth Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, and Kenny Rogers)
6:30 Best in the Country
7:00 Airwolf
8:00 Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
9:00 Cover Up
10:00 News
10:30 Solid Gold (Rick Dees and guest co-host Irene Cara welcome guests Mr. T, America, John Schneider, John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band, Champaign, and Herbie Hancock; also a video by the Pointer Sisters)
11:30 Puttin' on the Hits
mid. Entertainment This Week
1:00 News
KCPT 19-PBS Kansas City
8:00 Many Lives of Dr. Faust
10:00 It's Everybody's Business
noon Frugal Gourmet
12:30 This Old House
1:00 Do-It-Yourself Show
1:30 Woodwright's Shop
2:00 Square Foot Gardening
2:30 Victory Garden
3:00 World Chess Championship 1984
3:30 MotorWeek
4:00 New Tech Times
4:30 Newton's Apple (season premiere of its 2nd season, with a 3000-yr-old Egyptian mummy examined with X-rays, a CAT scan, and fiber optics)
5:00 Wild America
5:30 Sneak Previews
6:00 Kansas City Illustrated
7:00 Nature of Things
8:00 Movie "Rancho Notorious"
10:00 Monty Python's Flying Circus
10:30 Austin City Limits (same line-up as ch 6)
KSNT 27-NBC Topeka
7:00 Snorks
7:30 Pink Panther & Sons
8:00 Smurfs
9:30 Alvin & the Chipmunks
10:00 Kidd Video
10:30 Tom & Jerry
11:30 College Football: Colorado-Oklahoma City
2:30 Bowling (JIP)
3:30 NBC SportsWorld: Hagler v Hamsho
5:00 In Search of...
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Hee Haw (same guests as ch 2)
7:00 Diff'rent Strokes
7:30 Gimme a Break!
8:00 Partners in Crime
9:00 Hot Pursuit
10:00 News
10:30 College Football: Oklahoma-Kansas (tape delay)
KSHB 41-Ind Kansas City
5:00 Rat Patrol
5:30 Topper (bw)
6:00 Target
6:30 Mighty Mouse
7:00 Popeye
8:00 Pink Panther
9:00 Bugs Bunny
9:30 Kids Incorporated
10:00 Fame
11:00 Solid Gold
noon Battlestar Galactica
1:00 Starsky & Hutch
2:00 Six Million Dollar Man
3:00 Emergency!
4:00 Kung Fu
5:00 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
6:00 Star Trek
7:00 Solid Gold (same show as ch 13)
8:00 Movie "Dallas"
10:00 Soap
10:30 Movie "The Curse of Frankenstein"
12:30 Puttin' on the Hits
1:00 Essence (interview with Gladys Knight/discussing apartheid/relationship between diet and health)
1:30 Black Music Magazine (videos from Prince, Donna Summer, Madonna, and Ray Parker Jr...one of these things is not like the others ;D)
2:00 Music Magazine (videos from Kansas, Sheena Easton, Eurythmics, Donald Fagan, and Central Line)
2:30 Movie "Sweet Hostage"
4:30 Gunsmoke
KLDH 49-ABC Topeka
7:00 Superfriends
8:00 Mighty Orbots
8:30 Turbo Teen
9:00 Dragon's Lair
9:30 New Scooby-Doo Mysteries
10:00 Scary Scooby Funnies
10:30 Littles
11:00 ABC Weekend Special "The Secret World of Og" (pt 1)
11:30 American Bandstand
12:30 America's Top 10
1:00 BJ/Lobo
2:00 Sportsbeat
2:30 College Football: ABC regional coverage
6:00 Small World (KLDH didn't have local news; through the week, Jennings aired at 6)
7:00 T.J. Hooker
8:00 Love Boat
9:00 Finder of Lost Loves
10:00 INN News (which aired here 7 nights a week)
10:30 Movie "Red Alert"
KEKR 62-Ind Kansas City
7:00 NFL Week in Review
7:30 MDTV
8:00 Golf
9:00 Roller Game
10:00 Wrestling
11:00 Soul Train
noon Movie "Toklat"
2:00 Movie "The Cold Room"
4:00 Movie "Wild River"
6:00 Which Witch is Which?
6:30 Fat Albert Halloween Special
7:00 Halloween Thriller (Vincent Price hosts this show featuring videos from ghosts and ghouls of every kind, including Ozzy and "Time Warp" from Rocky Horror)
8:00 Countryline (pilot/music from Ronnie Milsap, Waylon Jennings, Juice Newton, Dolly Parton, and Earl Thomas Conley; also behind the scenes at an Alabama video)
10:00 Movie "mark of the Devil"
mid. Outer Limits (bw)
1:00 Movin' On