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Source: Los Angeles Times
Several new game shows premiered this month, highlighted in bold.
P - Premiere
SP - Season Premiere
2 KCBS
6:00 KidQuiz
6:30 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 $25,000 Pyramid - Guests: Teresa Ganzel, Ed Begley Jr.
9:30 Press Your Luck
10:00 The Price is Right
11:00 Body Language - Guests: Vicki Lawrence, Paul Kreppel
11:30 Young and Restless
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Capitol
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 People's Court (moved from KCOP the previous week)
3:30 America - (premiered the previous week) Hosts: Sarah Purcell, Stuart Damon, McLean Stevenson; Featured: Michael Landon; Ed Begley Jr.; Rona Barrett; fashions from Christie Brinkley and Madonna.
4:30 Channel 2 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 2 on the Town
8:00 Scarecrow and Mrs. King: "A Lovely Little Affair" (SP)
9:00 CBS Special Movie: "Izzy and Moe" (Premiere) - Jackie Gleason, Art Carney (final collaboration of the two former Honeymooners co-stars), Cynthia Harris, Zohra Lampert, Dick Latessa; Directed by Jackie Cooper (CBS normally didn't air movies on Mondays that time, hence the "Special" in its title. The season premieres of Kate & Allie, Newhart, and Cagney & Lacey aired the following week.)
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:30 Remington Steele (rerun of 1982 pilot episode)
12:40 CBS Late Movie: "Something So Right" (1982) - James Farentino, Patty Duke, Ricky Schroder
2:00 CBS Nightwatch
4 KNBC
6:00 Morning Stretch
6:30 NBC News at Sunrise
7:00 Today
9:00 Your Number's Up (P) - Nipsey Russell
9:30 Sale of the Century
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Scrabble
11:00 Super Password - Guests: Bill Cullen, Tom Poston
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
NOON Days of Our Lives
1:00 Another World
2:00 Santa Barbara
3:00 Donahue - Topic: The release of unrepentant murderers from prison.
4:00 Channel 4 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Entertainment Tonight - Featured: Report on the Primetime Emmys.
7:30 The Price is Right - Tom Kennedy (Premiered two weeks earlier.)
8:00 TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes - Practical Joke victims: Johnny Carson, Julian Lennon (SP)
9:00 NBC Monday Night at the Movies: "Family Ties Vacation" (Premiere) - Meredith Baxter Birney, Michael Gross, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman, Tina Yothers - The Keatons take a trip to England after Alex has a won a summer scholarship to attend Oxford Univeristy.
11:00 Channel 4 News
11:30 Tonight Show: Best of Carson - Guests: Sammy Davis Jr., Charles Nelson Reilly (May 23, 1984)
12:30 Late Night With David Letterman - Guests: Michael Keaton, Hugh Hefner, Carroll Pratt (pioneer of the "laugh track"* in which he demonstrates) (May 15, 1985) *The inventor of the laugh track is credited to Charley Douglass.
1:30 Channel 4 News (R)
2:00 Record Guide
5 KTLA
6:00 Jimmy Swaggart
6:30 Gallery
7:00 700 Club
8:00 Munsters
8:30 Leave It to Beaver (x2)
9:30 Gidget
10:00 Love Boat
11:00 Bonanza
NOON Alfred Hitchcock Presents (x2)
1:00 Emergency!
2:00 Starsky & Hutch
3:00 Charlie's Angels
4:00 Little House on the Prairie
5:00 Love Boat
6:00 Matt Houston
7:00 Happy Days
7:30 What's Happening!!
8:00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Mini-Marathon (4 episodes) - Hosted by KTLA personality Tom Hatten. Apparently, in honor of the upcoming NBC revival which premiered the following Sunday.
10:00 Channel 5 News at Ten
11:00 Carson's Comedy Classics (P)
11:30 Comedy Break With Mack (Dryden) & Jamie (Alcroft) (P)
MIDNIGHT Alfred Hitchcock Presents
12:30 Rat Patrol
1:00 Movie: "Hedda" (1975) - Glenda Jackson, Peter Eyre, Patrick Stewart (screen debut)
3:00 Movie: "A Covenant With Death" (1967) - George Maharis, Laura Devon, Katy Jurado, Earl Holliman
7 KABC
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 AM Los Angeles - Featured: Jane Seymour; the eye disease retinitis pigmentosa (RP) which leads to blindness.
10:00 Three's a Crowd
10:30 All-Star Blitz - Panel: Anne Bloom, Brian Patrick Clarke, June Lockhart, Robert Mandan
11:00 Ryan's Hope
11:30 Loving
NOON All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Three Three O
4:00 Eyewitness News
5:30 ABC World News Tonight
6:00 Monday Night Football - Los Angeles Rams vs. Seattle Seahawks
9:00 Hardcastle and McCormick: "She Ain't Deep, But She Sure Runs Fast" (SP)
10:00 Eye on LA
10:30 Eyewitness News
11:30 Nightline
MIDNIGHT Three Three O (R)
1:00 Barbara Mandrell & Family Special
2:00 At the Movies
2:30 Eyewitness News (R)
9 KHJ
6:00 Youth & the Issues
6:30 Community Feedback
7:00 The Froozles
7:30 There Is a Way
8:00 Jim Bakker
9:00 Mid-Morning LA
10:30 Eight Is Enough
11:30 Sally Jessy Raphael (LA TV debut) - Topic: "Social Dropout"
NOON Ironside
1:00 Channel Nine News
1:30 Pitfall (P) - Alex Trebek (reruns from 1981-82)
2:00 Break the Bank (P) - Gene Rayburn
2:30 Headline Chasers (P) - Wink Martindale
3:00 Best of Family Feud
3:30 Divorce Court
4:00 Dating Game (R)
4:30 Love Connection
5:00 Video One - Richard Blade
6:00 Hart to Hart
7:00 Dallas
8:00 The Joker's Wild (final SP, second with Bill Cullen)
8:30 Tic-Tac-Dough (final SP; new set debuts, along with new host Jim Caldwell)
9:00 9 O'Clock News
10:00 Million Dollar Movie: "Bruce Lee, the Legend" (1984 follow-up/reworking of the 1973 documentary "Bruce Lee, the Man and the Legend")
11:30 Bizarre
MIDNIGHT Lou Grant
1:00 Movie Movie: "Assignment: Munich" (1972) - Richard Basehart, Roy Scheider, Pernell Roberts, Lesley Ann Warren, Robert Reed, Werner Klemperer, Keenan Wynn
11 KTTV
6:00 Spider-Man
6:30 Flintstones
7:00 Plastic Man
7:30 Woody Woodpecker
8:00 Voltron
8:30 Bugs & Porky
9:00 I Love Lucy
9:30 Here's Lucy
10:00 Love Songs
10:30 Carol Burnett and Friends
11:00 All-New Let's Make a Deal
11:30 Midday News
NOON Hour Magazine - Featured: Ann Jillian discussing breast cancer and her then-recent diagnosis of it; rare phobias and their cures; Club Getaway.
1:00 I Dream of Jeannie
1:30 Gilligan's Island
2:00 Bugs & Porky
2:30 Woody Woodpecker
3:00 Voltron
3:30 Flintstones
4:00 Jayce & the Wheeled Warriors
4:30 ThunderCats
5:00 Jeffersons
5:30 Alice
6:00 Three's Company
6:30 Too Close for Comfort
7:00 Three's Company
7:30 M*A*S*H
8:00 8 O'Clock News
8:30 PM Magazine
9:00 Dynasty
10:00 10 O'Clock News
11:00 WKRP in Cincinnati
11:30 Merv Griffin - Guests: John Forsythe, George Hamilton, Gordon Thomson, Michael Praed
12:30 Comedy Tonight (P)
1:00 Los Angeles at Night Movie: "Guadalcanal Diary" (1943) - William Bendix, Preston Foster, Richard Conte, Lloyd Nolan (died four days later), Anthony Quinn, Richard Jaeckel (debut film)
13 KCOP
6:00 Superfriends
6:30 Scooby-Doo
7:00 M.A.S.K.
7:30 Heathcliff
8:00 Care Bears
8:30 Jetsons
9:00 Great Space Coaster
9:30 Superman
10:00 Bewitched
10:30 Get Smart
11:00 Hawaii Five-O
NOON Cinema Thirteen: "Having Babies" (1976) - Karen Valentine, Vicki Lawrence, Desi Arnaz Jr., Ronny Cox, Abe Vigoda, Tom Kennedy (Yes, the game show host! Except he didn't play one here.)
2:00 Bugs Bunny/Pink Panther
2:30 Tom & Jerry
3:00 He-Man (SP)
3:30 She-Ra (P)
4:00 Transformers
4:30 GoBots
5:00 G.I. Joe
5:30 Mork & Mindy
6:00 Diff'rent Strokes
6:30 Jeopardy
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 New Newlywed Game (Premiered the previous week.)
8:00 8 O'Clock Movie: "Hurricane" (1979) - Jason Robards, Mia Farrow, Max von Sidow, Trevor Howard, Timothy Bottoms, James Keach
10:00 News 13
11:00 Barney Miller
11:30 Hawaii Five-O
12:30 INN News - Morton Dean (formerly of CBS News)
1:00 LA Theater: "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" (1971) - Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois, William Devane
28 KCET (PBS)
6:00 American Government
6:30 Yoga and Meditation
7:00 Hooked on Aerobics
7:30 Mister Rogers
8:00 Sesame Street (x2)
10:00 Instructional Programming
11:00 Electric Company
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Mister Rogers
1:00 Hollywood Cinema Showcase: "Shopworm" (1932) - Barbara Stanwyck, Regis Toomey
2:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
3:00 Mechanical Universe
3:30 Business File
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 3-2-1 Contact
5:30 Frugal Gourmet
6:00 Nightly Business Report
6:30 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
7:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
8:00 National Geographic: "Miraculous Machines" - An overview of computers and robots.
9:00 Quest for the Killers: "The Three Valleys of St. Lucia"
10:00 Connections
11:00 Only When I Laugh
11:30 Latenight America
12:30 Oceanus
Several new game shows premiered this month, highlighted in bold.
P - Premiere
SP - Season Premiere
2 KCBS
6:00 KidQuiz
6:30 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 $25,000 Pyramid - Guests: Teresa Ganzel, Ed Begley Jr.
9:30 Press Your Luck
10:00 The Price is Right
11:00 Body Language - Guests: Vicki Lawrence, Paul Kreppel
11:30 Young and Restless
12:30 As the World Turns
1:30 Capitol
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 People's Court (moved from KCOP the previous week)
3:30 America - (premiered the previous week) Hosts: Sarah Purcell, Stuart Damon, McLean Stevenson; Featured: Michael Landon; Ed Begley Jr.; Rona Barrett; fashions from Christie Brinkley and Madonna.
4:30 Channel 2 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 2 on the Town
8:00 Scarecrow and Mrs. King: "A Lovely Little Affair" (SP)
9:00 CBS Special Movie: "Izzy and Moe" (Premiere) - Jackie Gleason, Art Carney (final collaboration of the two former Honeymooners co-stars), Cynthia Harris, Zohra Lampert, Dick Latessa; Directed by Jackie Cooper (CBS normally didn't air movies on Mondays that time, hence the "Special" in its title. The season premieres of Kate & Allie, Newhart, and Cagney & Lacey aired the following week.)
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:30 Remington Steele (rerun of 1982 pilot episode)
12:40 CBS Late Movie: "Something So Right" (1982) - James Farentino, Patty Duke, Ricky Schroder
2:00 CBS Nightwatch
4 KNBC
6:00 Morning Stretch
6:30 NBC News at Sunrise
7:00 Today
9:00 Your Number's Up (P) - Nipsey Russell
9:30 Sale of the Century
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Scrabble
11:00 Super Password - Guests: Bill Cullen, Tom Poston
11:30 Search for Tomorrow
NOON Days of Our Lives
1:00 Another World
2:00 Santa Barbara
3:00 Donahue - Topic: The release of unrepentant murderers from prison.
4:00 Channel 4 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Entertainment Tonight - Featured: Report on the Primetime Emmys.
7:30 The Price is Right - Tom Kennedy (Premiered two weeks earlier.)
8:00 TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes - Practical Joke victims: Johnny Carson, Julian Lennon (SP)
9:00 NBC Monday Night at the Movies: "Family Ties Vacation" (Premiere) - Meredith Baxter Birney, Michael Gross, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman, Tina Yothers - The Keatons take a trip to England after Alex has a won a summer scholarship to attend Oxford Univeristy.
11:00 Channel 4 News
11:30 Tonight Show: Best of Carson - Guests: Sammy Davis Jr., Charles Nelson Reilly (May 23, 1984)
12:30 Late Night With David Letterman - Guests: Michael Keaton, Hugh Hefner, Carroll Pratt (pioneer of the "laugh track"* in which he demonstrates) (May 15, 1985) *The inventor of the laugh track is credited to Charley Douglass.
1:30 Channel 4 News (R)
2:00 Record Guide
5 KTLA
6:00 Jimmy Swaggart
6:30 Gallery
7:00 700 Club
8:00 Munsters
8:30 Leave It to Beaver (x2)
9:30 Gidget
10:00 Love Boat
11:00 Bonanza
NOON Alfred Hitchcock Presents (x2)
1:00 Emergency!
2:00 Starsky & Hutch
3:00 Charlie's Angels
4:00 Little House on the Prairie
5:00 Love Boat
6:00 Matt Houston
7:00 Happy Days
7:30 What's Happening!!
8:00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Mini-Marathon (4 episodes) - Hosted by KTLA personality Tom Hatten. Apparently, in honor of the upcoming NBC revival which premiered the following Sunday.
10:00 Channel 5 News at Ten
11:00 Carson's Comedy Classics (P)
11:30 Comedy Break With Mack (Dryden) & Jamie (Alcroft) (P)
MIDNIGHT Alfred Hitchcock Presents
12:30 Rat Patrol
1:00 Movie: "Hedda" (1975) - Glenda Jackson, Peter Eyre, Patrick Stewart (screen debut)
3:00 Movie: "A Covenant With Death" (1967) - George Maharis, Laura Devon, Katy Jurado, Earl Holliman
7 KABC
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 AM Los Angeles - Featured: Jane Seymour; the eye disease retinitis pigmentosa (RP) which leads to blindness.
10:00 Three's a Crowd
10:30 All-Star Blitz - Panel: Anne Bloom, Brian Patrick Clarke, June Lockhart, Robert Mandan
11:00 Ryan's Hope
11:30 Loving
NOON All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Three Three O
4:00 Eyewitness News
5:30 ABC World News Tonight
6:00 Monday Night Football - Los Angeles Rams vs. Seattle Seahawks
9:00 Hardcastle and McCormick: "She Ain't Deep, But She Sure Runs Fast" (SP)
10:00 Eye on LA
10:30 Eyewitness News
11:30 Nightline
MIDNIGHT Three Three O (R)
1:00 Barbara Mandrell & Family Special
2:00 At the Movies
2:30 Eyewitness News (R)
9 KHJ
6:00 Youth & the Issues
6:30 Community Feedback
7:00 The Froozles
7:30 There Is a Way
8:00 Jim Bakker
9:00 Mid-Morning LA
10:30 Eight Is Enough
11:30 Sally Jessy Raphael (LA TV debut) - Topic: "Social Dropout"
NOON Ironside
1:00 Channel Nine News
1:30 Pitfall (P) - Alex Trebek (reruns from 1981-82)
2:00 Break the Bank (P) - Gene Rayburn
2:30 Headline Chasers (P) - Wink Martindale
3:00 Best of Family Feud
3:30 Divorce Court
4:00 Dating Game (R)
4:30 Love Connection
5:00 Video One - Richard Blade
6:00 Hart to Hart
7:00 Dallas
8:00 The Joker's Wild (final SP, second with Bill Cullen)
8:30 Tic-Tac-Dough (final SP; new set debuts, along with new host Jim Caldwell)
9:00 9 O'Clock News
10:00 Million Dollar Movie: "Bruce Lee, the Legend" (1984 follow-up/reworking of the 1973 documentary "Bruce Lee, the Man and the Legend")
11:30 Bizarre
MIDNIGHT Lou Grant
1:00 Movie Movie: "Assignment: Munich" (1972) - Richard Basehart, Roy Scheider, Pernell Roberts, Lesley Ann Warren, Robert Reed, Werner Klemperer, Keenan Wynn
11 KTTV
6:00 Spider-Man
6:30 Flintstones
7:00 Plastic Man
7:30 Woody Woodpecker
8:00 Voltron
8:30 Bugs & Porky
9:00 I Love Lucy
9:30 Here's Lucy
10:00 Love Songs
10:30 Carol Burnett and Friends
11:00 All-New Let's Make a Deal
11:30 Midday News
NOON Hour Magazine - Featured: Ann Jillian discussing breast cancer and her then-recent diagnosis of it; rare phobias and their cures; Club Getaway.
1:00 I Dream of Jeannie
1:30 Gilligan's Island
2:00 Bugs & Porky
2:30 Woody Woodpecker
3:00 Voltron
3:30 Flintstones
4:00 Jayce & the Wheeled Warriors
4:30 ThunderCats
5:00 Jeffersons
5:30 Alice
6:00 Three's Company
6:30 Too Close for Comfort
7:00 Three's Company
7:30 M*A*S*H
8:00 8 O'Clock News
8:30 PM Magazine
9:00 Dynasty
10:00 10 O'Clock News
11:00 WKRP in Cincinnati
11:30 Merv Griffin - Guests: John Forsythe, George Hamilton, Gordon Thomson, Michael Praed
12:30 Comedy Tonight (P)
1:00 Los Angeles at Night Movie: "Guadalcanal Diary" (1943) - William Bendix, Preston Foster, Richard Conte, Lloyd Nolan (died four days later), Anthony Quinn, Richard Jaeckel (debut film)
13 KCOP
6:00 Superfriends
6:30 Scooby-Doo
7:00 M.A.S.K.
7:30 Heathcliff
8:00 Care Bears
8:30 Jetsons
9:00 Great Space Coaster
9:30 Superman
10:00 Bewitched
10:30 Get Smart
11:00 Hawaii Five-O
NOON Cinema Thirteen: "Having Babies" (1976) - Karen Valentine, Vicki Lawrence, Desi Arnaz Jr., Ronny Cox, Abe Vigoda, Tom Kennedy (Yes, the game show host! Except he didn't play one here.)
2:00 Bugs Bunny/Pink Panther
2:30 Tom & Jerry
3:00 He-Man (SP)
3:30 She-Ra (P)
4:00 Transformers
4:30 GoBots
5:00 G.I. Joe
5:30 Mork & Mindy
6:00 Diff'rent Strokes
6:30 Jeopardy
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 New Newlywed Game (Premiered the previous week.)
8:00 8 O'Clock Movie: "Hurricane" (1979) - Jason Robards, Mia Farrow, Max von Sidow, Trevor Howard, Timothy Bottoms, James Keach
10:00 News 13
11:00 Barney Miller
11:30 Hawaii Five-O
12:30 INN News - Morton Dean (formerly of CBS News)
1:00 LA Theater: "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" (1971) - Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois, William Devane
28 KCET (PBS)
6:00 American Government
6:30 Yoga and Meditation
7:00 Hooked on Aerobics
7:30 Mister Rogers
8:00 Sesame Street (x2)
10:00 Instructional Programming
11:00 Electric Company
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Mister Rogers
1:00 Hollywood Cinema Showcase: "Shopworm" (1932) - Barbara Stanwyck, Regis Toomey
2:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
3:00 Mechanical Universe
3:30 Business File
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 3-2-1 Contact
5:30 Frugal Gourmet
6:00 Nightly Business Report
6:30 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
7:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
8:00 National Geographic: "Miraculous Machines" - An overview of computers and robots.
9:00 Quest for the Killers: "The Three Valleys of St. Lucia"
10:00 Connections
11:00 Only When I Laugh
11:30 Latenight America
12:30 Oceanus