From The Kingston Whig-Standard, via Newspapers.com
Listings begin at 6am, end at 2am
Part I: Complete Listings
CKGN 2 Bancroft (Global)
6:00 Seneca Telecollege
7:00 Canadian Cavalcade
8:00 Circle Square
8:30 World Tomorrow
9:00 Sounds of Asia
10:00 100 Huntley Street
11:30 Avramis Greek Show
12:00 Wrestling
1:00 Global Shareholders Meeting
2:00 Hammy Hamster
2:30 Zoom the White Dolphin
3:00 Hercules
3:30 Story Theatre "The Fox That Cheated"/"Two Bear Cubs"/"The Master Thief"/"Unexpected Good Fortune"
4:00 Kidsbeat News
4:30 Destinations
5:00 Bugs Bunny
6:00 News
6:30 Everybody's Business
7:00 Wild World (Britain's Harvest Mouse)
7:30 Let Them Live
8:00 Struggle Beneath the Sea
8:30 Newsmakers
9:00 Love Boat
10:00 Fantasy Island
11:00 Lottario
11:05 Bobby Vinton (guests Kelly Garrett, Jackie Mason)
11:30 '50s Connection (guests The Coasters, The Platters)
12:00 Movie "Grand Slam"
WSTM 3 Syracuse (NBC)
6:30 University of Michigan
7:00 Saturday Showboat
8:00 The Flintstones
8:30 Smurfs
9:30 Kid Super Power Hour
10:30 Spider-Man
11:00 Space Stars
12:00 Bowling
1:00 College Basketball
3:00 College Basketball (Virginia at Clemson)
5:00 The Rockford Files
6:00 News
6:30 NBC News
7:00 Laverne and Shirley and Company
7:30 Dance Fever (celebrity judges: Greg Morris, Jim Habors and Carol Connors; guest: Woods Empire)
8:00 The Berenstain Bears' Valentine Special
8:30 One of the Boys
9:00 Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters (guests Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers Band and the Smothers Brothers)
10:00 Billy Crystal Comedy Hour (Nell Carter guests)
11:00 News
11:30 Twilight Theater
1:00 Evening at the Improv
CBOT 4 Ottawa (CBC)
8:30 Bonanza
9:30 Hobbledehoy
10:00 Skipper and Company
10:30 Sesame Street
11:30 Reach for the Top (Gloucester vs. South Carleton)
12:00 What's New
12:30 News from Zoos
1:00 National Film Board
1:30 Wild Kingdom
2:00 This Week in Ontario
2:30 Wok with Yan
3:00 Sportsweekend
6:00 CBC News
6:30 This Week in Parliament
7:00 Happy Days
7:30 Archie Bunker's Place
8:00 NHL Hockey (Winnipeg Jets at Montreal Canadiens)
11:00 The National/Provincial Affairs
11:20 News
11:40 Movie "The Kid from Left Field"
WTVH 5 Syracuse (CBS)
7:30 Gilligan's Island
8:00 Popeye
8:30 Tarzan/Lone Ranger
9:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
11:30 Corporation on Location
12:30 Tom and Jerry
1:00 Kwicky Koala
1:30 30 Minutes
2:00 I Dream of Jeannie
2:30 Kung Fu
3:30 Wild Kingdom
4:00 Sports Special: Busch Clash (NASCAR race live from Daytona International Speedway)
4:30 Sports Saturday
6:30 CBS News
7:00 Hee Haw
8:00 Walt Disney "Disney's Valentine"
9:00 Movie "The Parent Trap"
11:00 News
11:30 Benny Hill
12:00 Movie "The Bingo Long Traveling All Stars and Motor Kings"
CJOH 6 Deseronto (CTV)
6:00/6:30 University of the Air
7:00 Treehouse Club
7:30 Story Time
8:00 Cartoons
8:30 Audubon Wildlife Theatre
9:00 Let's Go
9:30 Spider-Man
10:00 You Can't Do That on Television (half-hour syndicated edits of the hour-long 1981 season episodes)
10:30 Somethin' Else (a local variety/game show featuring the YCDTOTV kids)
11:00 Forest Rangers
11:30 Willy and Floyd
12:00 Stan Kann
12:30 Red Fisher
1:00 Wrestling
2:00 Movie "Stunts"
4:00 Wide World of Sports
6:00 News
6:30 Regional Contact
7:00 Benson
7:30 Circus
8:00 Movie "Going in Style"
10:00 Best of the West
10:30 City Lights
11:00 CTV National News
11:20 Sportsline
11:30 Smith and Smith
12:00 Movie "The Bridge"
WWNY 7 Watertown (CBS/NBC/ABC)
7:00 The Flintstones
7:30 Dan Burgess
8:00 Popeye
8:30 Tarzan/Lone Ranger
9:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
11:30 Blackstar
12:00 Trollkins
12:30 Tom and Jerry
1:00 Kwicky Koala
1:30 30 Minutes
2:00 The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries "The Mystery of King Tut's Tomb"
3:00 Annual NASCAR Race Drivers Roast
3:30 Professional Bowlers Tour ($115,000 Rolaids Open, live from Florissant, MO)
5:00 Sports Saturday (joined in progress)
6:00 News
6:30 CBS News
7:00 Solid Gold "Countdown '81" (Andy Gibb and Marilyn McCoo host)
9:00 Movie "The Parent Trap"
11:00 News
11:15 Hill Street Blues
12:15 Dance Fever (Charly McClain guests; judges Rip Taylor, Suzy Chaffee and Jeff Conaway)
WIXT 9 Syracuse (ABC)
6:30 New Zoo Revue
7:00 Big Blue Marble
7:30 Great Space Coaster
8:00 The Brady Kids
8:30 Star Trek
9:00 Fonz/Laverne & Shirley
10:00 Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo
11:00 Goldie Gold/Thundarr
12:00 We're Movin'
12:30 America's Top Ten
1:00 Omni: The New Frontier
1:30 The Superstars
2:30 U.S.A. vs. the World in Olympic Sports (U.S. vs. Japan in gymnastics, from Hamamatsu, Japan)
3:30 Professional Bowlers Tour (see ch7)
5:00 Wide World of Sports
6:30 News
7:00 Olivia Newton-John: Let's Get Physical
8:00 King's Crossing
9:00 Love Boat
10:00 Fantasy Island
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Assault on Precinct 13"
1:30 ABC News
CKWS 11 Kingston (CBC)
9:00 Circle Square
9:30 Snelgrove Snail
10:00 Harrigan
10:30 Nuggets
11:00 Magic Palace
11:30 World Alive
12:00 Reach for the Top (Frontenac vs. Anapee)
12:30 100 Huntley Street
2:00 Here's Life "Death and Dying" (guest: Dr. Christiaan Barnard)
3:00 Sportsweekend
6:00 Life
6:30 Community Journal
7:00 Tommy Hunter (John Anderson, Kelita Haverland, Connie Cato and Mary Bailey guest)
8:00 NHL Hockey (see ch4)
11:00 The National/Provincial Affairs
11:20 News
11:45 Movie "Permission to Kill"
WNPE 16 Watertown (PBS)
8:00 Cross-Country Ski School "Introduction and the Diagonal Stride"
8:30 Lilias, Yoga and You
9:00 Erica
9:15 Making Things Work
9:30 Quilting
10:00 Old Houseworks
10:30 This Old House
11:00 Woodwright's Shop "Lathe on McDuff"
11:30 The World of Cooking
12:00 Portraits in Pastels "The Cowboy"
12:30 Victory Garden
1:00 Antiques "Pottery, Stoneware and Southern Crafts"
1:30 The Guitar with Frederick Noad
2:00 Movie "The Great Man's Whiskers"
4:00 Nova "Finding a Voice"
5:00 Firing Line "How Should We Deal with Taiwan?"
6:00 Soccer Made in Germany (Austria vs. Finland)
7:00 Inside Albany
7:30 Agronsky and Company
8:00 World at War "Occupation" (the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands)
9:00 Classic Country
10:00 Austin City Limits (Willie Nelson and Guy Clark perform)
11:00 Movie "Francis Goes to the Races"
WUTR 20 Utica (ABC)
7:30 Harold Lloyd
8:00 Superfriends
8:30 Heathcliff and Marmaduke
9:00 Fonz/Laverne & Shirley
10:00 Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo
11:00 Goldie Gold/Thundarr
12:00 Weekend Special "Scruffy" (pt. 1)
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Kids Are People Too (guests: Mark Hamill, Richard Simmons, Robert Joffe (17-year-old TV reporter), Frank Tetro ("Space Invaders" champion))
2:30 Sugar Ray Leonard's Golden Gloves
3:30 Professional Bowlers Tour (see ch7)
5:00 Wide World of Sports
6:30 Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry
7:00 Solid Gold "Salute to the Grammys" (Andy Gibb hosts)
8:00 King's Crossing
9:00 Love Boat
10:00 Fantasy Island
11:00 ABC News
11:15 Solid Gold "Countdown '81"
CICO 24 Ottawa (TVO) (this would have been cable only in Kingston at the time, as TVO didn't sign on an OTA signal there until 1986)
8:30 Polka Dot Door
9:00 Guess What?/Tell Me a Story/Robin and Rosie of Cockleshell Bay
9:30 Just Do It Yourself
10:00 Cross-Country Ski School
10:30 Media and Methods of the Artist
11:00 Superstar Volleyball
11:30 Championship Bridge
12:00 Pins and Needles
12:30 Age of Uncertainty "The Prophets and Promise of Classical Capitalism"
1:30 Understanding Human Behavior "Personality Tests"
2:00 Understanding the Earth "Evolution"
3:00 Parents' Academy
3:30 How to Start a Small Business "So You Want to Start a Small Business"
4:00 Outside In: Health and the Environment "The City: Resource and Challenge"
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Doctor Snuggles
6:00 Polka Dot Door
6:30 Don't Ask Me
7:00 Struggle Beneath the Sea "The Tide Pool"
7:30 Doctor Who
8:00 Movie "Stormy Weather"
9:20 Conversations (with Elwy Yost) "Movie Musicals" (pt. 1; guests include H. Bruce Humberstone, Betty Garrett, Gwen Verdon, Steve Martin, Gordon Willis, Ken Adam and Danny Daniels)
10:00 Movie "The Dolly Sisters"
11:55 Conversations (pt. 2)
12:30 Rough Cut
CBLFT 32 Kingston (Radio-Canada)
8:30 Passe-Partout
9:00 Les Contes de la Foret Verte (Fables of the Green Forest)
9:30 Candy (Candy Candy)
10:00 Les Heros du Samedi
11:00 Les Enfants du 47-A
11:30 Bof et Cie
12:00 La Semaine Parlementaire a Ottawa
1:00 D'Hier a Demain
2:00 Cine-Famille "Pierre-a-Feu Fait Feu"
3:30 Defi
4:00 Bagatelle
5:00 La Course Autour de Monde
6:00 Science-realite
7:00 Le Monde Merveilleux de Disney (Wonderful World of Disney)
8:00 Cinema "Pas de Chocolat pour les Americains" (Italian Secret Service)
10:30 Le Telejournal/Nouvelles du Sport
11:05 La Politique Federale
11:15 Cinema "Le Blanc, le Jeune et le Noir" (The White, the Yellow and the Black)
1:05 Cine-Nuit "Les Canons de Cordoba" (Cannon for Cordoba)
Listings begin at 6am, end at 2am
Part I: Complete Listings
CKGN 2 Bancroft (Global)
6:00 Seneca Telecollege
7:00 Canadian Cavalcade
8:00 Circle Square
8:30 World Tomorrow
9:00 Sounds of Asia
10:00 100 Huntley Street
11:30 Avramis Greek Show
12:00 Wrestling
1:00 Global Shareholders Meeting
2:00 Hammy Hamster
2:30 Zoom the White Dolphin
3:00 Hercules
3:30 Story Theatre "The Fox That Cheated"/"Two Bear Cubs"/"The Master Thief"/"Unexpected Good Fortune"
4:00 Kidsbeat News
4:30 Destinations
5:00 Bugs Bunny
6:00 News
6:30 Everybody's Business
7:00 Wild World (Britain's Harvest Mouse)
7:30 Let Them Live
8:00 Struggle Beneath the Sea
8:30 Newsmakers
9:00 Love Boat
10:00 Fantasy Island
11:00 Lottario
11:05 Bobby Vinton (guests Kelly Garrett, Jackie Mason)
11:30 '50s Connection (guests The Coasters, The Platters)
12:00 Movie "Grand Slam"
WSTM 3 Syracuse (NBC)
6:30 University of Michigan
7:00 Saturday Showboat
8:00 The Flintstones
8:30 Smurfs
9:30 Kid Super Power Hour
10:30 Spider-Man
11:00 Space Stars
12:00 Bowling
1:00 College Basketball
3:00 College Basketball (Virginia at Clemson)
5:00 The Rockford Files
6:00 News
6:30 NBC News
7:00 Laverne and Shirley and Company
7:30 Dance Fever (celebrity judges: Greg Morris, Jim Habors and Carol Connors; guest: Woods Empire)
8:00 The Berenstain Bears' Valentine Special
8:30 One of the Boys
9:00 Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters (guests Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers Band and the Smothers Brothers)
10:00 Billy Crystal Comedy Hour (Nell Carter guests)
11:00 News
11:30 Twilight Theater
1:00 Evening at the Improv
CBOT 4 Ottawa (CBC)
8:30 Bonanza
9:30 Hobbledehoy
10:00 Skipper and Company
10:30 Sesame Street
11:30 Reach for the Top (Gloucester vs. South Carleton)
12:00 What's New
12:30 News from Zoos
1:00 National Film Board
1:30 Wild Kingdom
2:00 This Week in Ontario
2:30 Wok with Yan
3:00 Sportsweekend
6:00 CBC News
6:30 This Week in Parliament
7:00 Happy Days
7:30 Archie Bunker's Place
8:00 NHL Hockey (Winnipeg Jets at Montreal Canadiens)
11:00 The National/Provincial Affairs
11:20 News
11:40 Movie "The Kid from Left Field"
WTVH 5 Syracuse (CBS)
7:30 Gilligan's Island
8:00 Popeye
8:30 Tarzan/Lone Ranger
9:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
11:30 Corporation on Location
12:30 Tom and Jerry
1:00 Kwicky Koala
1:30 30 Minutes
2:00 I Dream of Jeannie
2:30 Kung Fu
3:30 Wild Kingdom
4:00 Sports Special: Busch Clash (NASCAR race live from Daytona International Speedway)
4:30 Sports Saturday
6:30 CBS News
7:00 Hee Haw
8:00 Walt Disney "Disney's Valentine"
9:00 Movie "The Parent Trap"
11:00 News
11:30 Benny Hill
12:00 Movie "The Bingo Long Traveling All Stars and Motor Kings"
CJOH 6 Deseronto (CTV)
6:00/6:30 University of the Air
7:00 Treehouse Club
7:30 Story Time
8:00 Cartoons
8:30 Audubon Wildlife Theatre
9:00 Let's Go
9:30 Spider-Man
10:00 You Can't Do That on Television (half-hour syndicated edits of the hour-long 1981 season episodes)
10:30 Somethin' Else (a local variety/game show featuring the YCDTOTV kids)
11:00 Forest Rangers
11:30 Willy and Floyd
12:00 Stan Kann
12:30 Red Fisher
1:00 Wrestling
2:00 Movie "Stunts"
4:00 Wide World of Sports
6:00 News
6:30 Regional Contact
7:00 Benson
7:30 Circus
8:00 Movie "Going in Style"
10:00 Best of the West
10:30 City Lights
11:00 CTV National News
11:20 Sportsline
11:30 Smith and Smith
12:00 Movie "The Bridge"
WWNY 7 Watertown (CBS/NBC/ABC)
7:00 The Flintstones
7:30 Dan Burgess
8:00 Popeye
8:30 Tarzan/Lone Ranger
9:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
11:30 Blackstar
12:00 Trollkins
12:30 Tom and Jerry
1:00 Kwicky Koala
1:30 30 Minutes
2:00 The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries "The Mystery of King Tut's Tomb"
3:00 Annual NASCAR Race Drivers Roast
3:30 Professional Bowlers Tour ($115,000 Rolaids Open, live from Florissant, MO)
5:00 Sports Saturday (joined in progress)
6:00 News
6:30 CBS News
7:00 Solid Gold "Countdown '81" (Andy Gibb and Marilyn McCoo host)
9:00 Movie "The Parent Trap"
11:00 News
11:15 Hill Street Blues
12:15 Dance Fever (Charly McClain guests; judges Rip Taylor, Suzy Chaffee and Jeff Conaway)
WIXT 9 Syracuse (ABC)
6:30 New Zoo Revue
7:00 Big Blue Marble
7:30 Great Space Coaster
8:00 The Brady Kids
8:30 Star Trek
9:00 Fonz/Laverne & Shirley
10:00 Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo
11:00 Goldie Gold/Thundarr
12:00 We're Movin'
12:30 America's Top Ten
1:00 Omni: The New Frontier
1:30 The Superstars
2:30 U.S.A. vs. the World in Olympic Sports (U.S. vs. Japan in gymnastics, from Hamamatsu, Japan)
3:30 Professional Bowlers Tour (see ch7)
5:00 Wide World of Sports
6:30 News
7:00 Olivia Newton-John: Let's Get Physical
8:00 King's Crossing
9:00 Love Boat
10:00 Fantasy Island
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Assault on Precinct 13"
1:30 ABC News
CKWS 11 Kingston (CBC)
9:00 Circle Square
9:30 Snelgrove Snail
10:00 Harrigan
10:30 Nuggets
11:00 Magic Palace
11:30 World Alive
12:00 Reach for the Top (Frontenac vs. Anapee)
12:30 100 Huntley Street
2:00 Here's Life "Death and Dying" (guest: Dr. Christiaan Barnard)
3:00 Sportsweekend
6:00 Life
6:30 Community Journal
7:00 Tommy Hunter (John Anderson, Kelita Haverland, Connie Cato and Mary Bailey guest)
8:00 NHL Hockey (see ch4)
11:00 The National/Provincial Affairs
11:20 News
11:45 Movie "Permission to Kill"
WNPE 16 Watertown (PBS)
8:00 Cross-Country Ski School "Introduction and the Diagonal Stride"
8:30 Lilias, Yoga and You
9:00 Erica
9:15 Making Things Work
9:30 Quilting
10:00 Old Houseworks
10:30 This Old House
11:00 Woodwright's Shop "Lathe on McDuff"
11:30 The World of Cooking
12:00 Portraits in Pastels "The Cowboy"
12:30 Victory Garden
1:00 Antiques "Pottery, Stoneware and Southern Crafts"
1:30 The Guitar with Frederick Noad
2:00 Movie "The Great Man's Whiskers"
4:00 Nova "Finding a Voice"
5:00 Firing Line "How Should We Deal with Taiwan?"
6:00 Soccer Made in Germany (Austria vs. Finland)
7:00 Inside Albany
7:30 Agronsky and Company
8:00 World at War "Occupation" (the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands)
9:00 Classic Country
10:00 Austin City Limits (Willie Nelson and Guy Clark perform)
11:00 Movie "Francis Goes to the Races"
WUTR 20 Utica (ABC)
7:30 Harold Lloyd
8:00 Superfriends
8:30 Heathcliff and Marmaduke
9:00 Fonz/Laverne & Shirley
10:00 Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo
11:00 Goldie Gold/Thundarr
12:00 Weekend Special "Scruffy" (pt. 1)
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Kids Are People Too (guests: Mark Hamill, Richard Simmons, Robert Joffe (17-year-old TV reporter), Frank Tetro ("Space Invaders" champion))
2:30 Sugar Ray Leonard's Golden Gloves
3:30 Professional Bowlers Tour (see ch7)
5:00 Wide World of Sports
6:30 Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry
7:00 Solid Gold "Salute to the Grammys" (Andy Gibb hosts)
8:00 King's Crossing
9:00 Love Boat
10:00 Fantasy Island
11:00 ABC News
11:15 Solid Gold "Countdown '81"
CICO 24 Ottawa (TVO) (this would have been cable only in Kingston at the time, as TVO didn't sign on an OTA signal there until 1986)
8:30 Polka Dot Door
9:00 Guess What?/Tell Me a Story/Robin and Rosie of Cockleshell Bay
9:30 Just Do It Yourself
10:00 Cross-Country Ski School
10:30 Media and Methods of the Artist
11:00 Superstar Volleyball
11:30 Championship Bridge
12:00 Pins and Needles
12:30 Age of Uncertainty "The Prophets and Promise of Classical Capitalism"
1:30 Understanding Human Behavior "Personality Tests"
2:00 Understanding the Earth "Evolution"
3:00 Parents' Academy
3:30 How to Start a Small Business "So You Want to Start a Small Business"
4:00 Outside In: Health and the Environment "The City: Resource and Challenge"
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Doctor Snuggles
6:00 Polka Dot Door
6:30 Don't Ask Me
7:00 Struggle Beneath the Sea "The Tide Pool"
7:30 Doctor Who
8:00 Movie "Stormy Weather"
9:20 Conversations (with Elwy Yost) "Movie Musicals" (pt. 1; guests include H. Bruce Humberstone, Betty Garrett, Gwen Verdon, Steve Martin, Gordon Willis, Ken Adam and Danny Daniels)
10:00 Movie "The Dolly Sisters"
11:55 Conversations (pt. 2)
12:30 Rough Cut
CBLFT 32 Kingston (Radio-Canada)
8:30 Passe-Partout
9:00 Les Contes de la Foret Verte (Fables of the Green Forest)
9:30 Candy (Candy Candy)
10:00 Les Heros du Samedi
11:00 Les Enfants du 47-A
11:30 Bof et Cie
12:00 La Semaine Parlementaire a Ottawa
1:00 D'Hier a Demain
2:00 Cine-Famille "Pierre-a-Feu Fait Feu"
3:30 Defi
4:00 Bagatelle
5:00 La Course Autour de Monde
6:00 Science-realite
7:00 Le Monde Merveilleux de Disney (Wonderful World of Disney)
8:00 Cinema "Pas de Chocolat pour les Americains" (Italian Secret Service)
10:30 Le Telejournal/Nouvelles du Sport
11:05 La Politique Federale
11:15 Cinema "Le Blanc, le Jeune et le Noir" (The White, the Yellow and the Black)
1:05 Cine-Nuit "Les Canons de Cordoba" (Cannon for Cordoba)