source: The London Sunday Times
RETRO LONDON TV- Thursday May 7, 1987
BBC1
6.00am- Ceefax AM
6.55- Weather
7.00- Breakfast Time- (National and International News at 7.00, 7.30, 8.00, and 8.30/regional news and travel reports at 7.15, 7.45 and 8.15, weather at 7.25, 7.55 and 8.25)
8.40- Watchdog
8.55- Regional News and Weather
9.00- News and Weather
9.05- Day to Day
10.00- News and Weather
10.05- Neighbours
10.25- Children's BBC
10.30- Play School
10.50- Paddington
10.55- Five to Eleven
11.00- News and Weather
11.05- The Woolridge View
12.00- News and Weather
12.05- Open Air
12.55- Regional News and Weather
1.00- One O'Clock News with Martyn Lewis
1.25- Neighbours
1.50- Pinny's House
1.55- Bric-A-Brac
2.15- 1915
3.50- Lay on Five
4.10- The Adventures of Spot
4.15- Jonny Briggs
4.30- Yogi Bear
4.35- Thundercats
4.55- John Craven's Newsstand
5.05- Blue Peter
5.35- Go For It
6.00- Six O'Clock News with Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell
6.35- London Plus
7.00- Top of the Pops
7.30- Eastenders
8.00- Tomorrow's World
8.30- A Question of Sport
9.00- Nine O'Clock News with Martyn Lewis and Phillip Hayton (regional news and weather)
9.30- Victoria Wood- As Seen on TV
10.05- Question Time
11.05- Don't Break Your Heart
11.30- Local Elections 87
3.00- approximately Weather
3.05-6.40am- Ceefax
BBC2
6.55am- Open University: A Woman's Place
7.20-9.00- Ceefax
9.35- Daytime on Two- summertime in the Austrian Mountains
9.52- Mindstretchers-Solutions
9.57- Ceefax
10.15- Science: twigs and wood
10.38- History: The Cuban Missile Crisis
11.00- Thinkabout
11.18- A-level studies: statistics
11.40- Good Neighbours
12.12pm- How will a 17-year old girl's life develop now shee has left school
12.45- Microelectronics
1.05- Ceefax
2.00- News and Weather
2.02- Telling a story using just sound effects
2.15- Music: talking drums
2.35- Ceefax
3.00- News and weather
3.03- Sign Extra
3.25- Songs of Praise
4.00- Regional News, News and Weather
4.10- Don't Break your Heart (part 2)
4.35- Three in the Wild
5.05- Review: Art and Craft
6.00- Mission Impossible
6.50- Our Future, We Build From the Past
7.30- Call My Bluff
8.00- Bookmark
9.00- Naked Video
9.25- Edge of Life
10.25- Newsnight
11.10- Weather
11.15- Film: I Confess (1953)
12.55am- Closedown
ITV/LONDON
6.15am- TV-am (Weather at 6.28 and 6.58/news at 6.30/financial news at 6.35/sport at 6.40/and exercises at 6.55)
7.00- Good Morning Britain (News at 7.00, 7.30, 8.00, 8.30 and 9.00/cartoon at 7.25/sport at 7.40/pop music at 7.55/postbag at 8.35/After Nine includes Claire Rayner with advice on women's health issues)
9.25- Thames News headlines
9.30- Schools: a visit to Quarry Bank Mill, Styall
9.42- Bernard Ashley's story, Someone Special
9.54- Children Growing
10.11- Part 2 of the Golden Antelope, an Indian legend
10.28- A Jewish Boy from Manchester celebrates his Bar Mitzvah in Jerusalem
10.48- A-Level biology Experiment
11.03- A Game of Soldiers (Episode 1)
11.20- Writing and Illustrating Children's Books
11.40- History at Home
12.00pm- Creepy Crawlies
12.10- Puddle Lane
12.30- The Sullivans
1.00- News at One (Leonard Parkin)
1.20- Thames News
1.30- Falcon Crest
2.25- Home Cookery Club
2.30- Somethhing to Treasure
3.00- Take The High Road
3.25- Thames news headlines
3.30- Sons and Daughters
4.00- Orm and Cheep
4.10- Dennis
4.20- Inspector Gadget
4.45- The Blunders
4.50- Adventures of a Lifetime
5.15- Diff'rent Strokes
5.45- News with Alastair Stewart
6.00- Thames News
6.25- Help!
6.35- Crossroads
7.00- Emmerdale Farm
7.30- Carry On Laughing
8.00- This Week: Inside Terror
8.30- Fresh Fields
9.00- L.A Law
10.00- News at 10 with Sandy Gail and Carol Barnes weather followed by Thames news headlines
10.30- Brief Lives
11.00- Alfred Hitchcock Presents
11.30- Meltdown
12.30- Local Elections- National Summary
12.40- Closedown
Channel 4
2.20pm- Their Lordships' House
2.35- Film: No Highway in the Sky (1951)
4.20- The Miner's Daughter
4.30- Countdown
5.00- Film: Escapade (1955)
6.40- Film- Tell Me If it Hurts (1934)
7.00- Channel 4 News with Peter Sissons and Nicholas Owen
7.50- Comment followed by Weather
8.00- Treasure Hunt
9.00- Film on Four: Letter to Breshnev (1985)
10.50- Faiz: Poet in Troubled Times
11.45- Their Lordships' House
12.00- Larissa
12.20am- Film: The Ascent (1976)
2.20am- Closedown
RETRO LONDON TV- Thursday May 7, 1987
BBC1
6.00am- Ceefax AM
6.55- Weather
7.00- Breakfast Time- (National and International News at 7.00, 7.30, 8.00, and 8.30/regional news and travel reports at 7.15, 7.45 and 8.15, weather at 7.25, 7.55 and 8.25)
8.40- Watchdog
8.55- Regional News and Weather
9.00- News and Weather
9.05- Day to Day
10.00- News and Weather
10.05- Neighbours
10.25- Children's BBC
10.30- Play School
10.50- Paddington
10.55- Five to Eleven
11.00- News and Weather
11.05- The Woolridge View
12.00- News and Weather
12.05- Open Air
12.55- Regional News and Weather
1.00- One O'Clock News with Martyn Lewis
1.25- Neighbours
1.50- Pinny's House
1.55- Bric-A-Brac
2.15- 1915
3.50- Lay on Five
4.10- The Adventures of Spot
4.15- Jonny Briggs
4.30- Yogi Bear
4.35- Thundercats
4.55- John Craven's Newsstand
5.05- Blue Peter
5.35- Go For It
6.00- Six O'Clock News with Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell
6.35- London Plus
7.00- Top of the Pops
7.30- Eastenders
8.00- Tomorrow's World
8.30- A Question of Sport
9.00- Nine O'Clock News with Martyn Lewis and Phillip Hayton (regional news and weather)
9.30- Victoria Wood- As Seen on TV
10.05- Question Time
11.05- Don't Break Your Heart
11.30- Local Elections 87
3.00- approximately Weather
3.05-6.40am- Ceefax
BBC2
6.55am- Open University: A Woman's Place
7.20-9.00- Ceefax
9.35- Daytime on Two- summertime in the Austrian Mountains
9.52- Mindstretchers-Solutions
9.57- Ceefax
10.15- Science: twigs and wood
10.38- History: The Cuban Missile Crisis
11.00- Thinkabout
11.18- A-level studies: statistics
11.40- Good Neighbours
12.12pm- How will a 17-year old girl's life develop now shee has left school
12.45- Microelectronics
1.05- Ceefax
2.00- News and Weather
2.02- Telling a story using just sound effects
2.15- Music: talking drums
2.35- Ceefax
3.00- News and weather
3.03- Sign Extra
3.25- Songs of Praise
4.00- Regional News, News and Weather
4.10- Don't Break your Heart (part 2)
4.35- Three in the Wild
5.05- Review: Art and Craft
6.00- Mission Impossible
6.50- Our Future, We Build From the Past
7.30- Call My Bluff
8.00- Bookmark
9.00- Naked Video
9.25- Edge of Life
10.25- Newsnight
11.10- Weather
11.15- Film: I Confess (1953)
12.55am- Closedown
ITV/LONDON
6.15am- TV-am (Weather at 6.28 and 6.58/news at 6.30/financial news at 6.35/sport at 6.40/and exercises at 6.55)
7.00- Good Morning Britain (News at 7.00, 7.30, 8.00, 8.30 and 9.00/cartoon at 7.25/sport at 7.40/pop music at 7.55/postbag at 8.35/After Nine includes Claire Rayner with advice on women's health issues)
9.25- Thames News headlines
9.30- Schools: a visit to Quarry Bank Mill, Styall
9.42- Bernard Ashley's story, Someone Special
9.54- Children Growing
10.11- Part 2 of the Golden Antelope, an Indian legend
10.28- A Jewish Boy from Manchester celebrates his Bar Mitzvah in Jerusalem
10.48- A-Level biology Experiment
11.03- A Game of Soldiers (Episode 1)
11.20- Writing and Illustrating Children's Books
11.40- History at Home
12.00pm- Creepy Crawlies
12.10- Puddle Lane
12.30- The Sullivans
1.00- News at One (Leonard Parkin)
1.20- Thames News
1.30- Falcon Crest
2.25- Home Cookery Club
2.30- Somethhing to Treasure
3.00- Take The High Road
3.25- Thames news headlines
3.30- Sons and Daughters
4.00- Orm and Cheep
4.10- Dennis
4.20- Inspector Gadget
4.45- The Blunders
4.50- Adventures of a Lifetime
5.15- Diff'rent Strokes
5.45- News with Alastair Stewart
6.00- Thames News
6.25- Help!
6.35- Crossroads
7.00- Emmerdale Farm
7.30- Carry On Laughing
8.00- This Week: Inside Terror
8.30- Fresh Fields
9.00- L.A Law
10.00- News at 10 with Sandy Gail and Carol Barnes weather followed by Thames news headlines
10.30- Brief Lives
11.00- Alfred Hitchcock Presents
11.30- Meltdown
12.30- Local Elections- National Summary
12.40- Closedown
Channel 4
2.20pm- Their Lordships' House
2.35- Film: No Highway in the Sky (1951)
4.20- The Miner's Daughter
4.30- Countdown
5.00- Film: Escapade (1955)
6.40- Film- Tell Me If it Hurts (1934)
7.00- Channel 4 News with Peter Sissons and Nicholas Owen
7.50- Comment followed by Weather
8.00- Treasure Hunt
9.00- Film on Four: Letter to Breshnev (1985)
10.50- Faiz: Poet in Troubled Times
11.45- Their Lordships' House
12.00- Larissa
12.20am- Film: The Ascent (1976)
2.20am- Closedown