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Source: Los Angeles Times
Part I: Saturday, December 8, 1984
2 KCBS
6:00 KidsWorld
6:30 LA Kid
7:00 Shirt Tales (1982-83 reruns from NBC)
7:30 Get Along Gang
8:00 Muppet Babies
8:30 Dungeons & Dragons
9:00 Pole Position (based on the arcade game)
9:30 Pryor's Place
10:00 NCAA Basketball - UNLV vs. Georgetown
12:30 NFL Today
1:00 NFL Football - Minnesota Vikings vs. San Francisco 49ers
4:00 American Adventure
4:30 2 With You
5:00 NFL Week in Review
5:30 Rams Report '84
6:00 Kodak All-American Football Team
6:30 Channel 2 News
7:00 2 on the Town
7:30 Dance Fever - Judges: Kristian Alfonso, Lydia Cornell, Ronnie Schell
8:00 Airwolf: "Random Target"
9:00 Mike Hammer: "A Bullet for Benny"
10:00 Cover Up: "Midnight Highway"
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:30 Movie: "El Dorado" (1967) - John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan
2:00 Movie: "The Mind of Mr. Soames" (1970) - Terrence Stamp, Robert Vaughan, Nigel Davenport, Christian Roberts
4 KNBC
6:00 Serendipity
6:30 Kid-a-Littles
7:00 Snorks
7:30 Pink Panther & Sons
8:00 Smurfs
9:00 NFL '84
9:30 NFL Football - Buffalo Bills vs. New York Jets
12:30 NCAA Basketball - Kentucky vs. Indiana
2:30 Al McGuire's Basketball Special - Preview of the NCAA basketball season.
3:00 Best of In Serach Of...
3:30 Movie: "Huckleberry Finn Escapes" (Premiere) - Anime presentation of the Twain character.
5:00 Raiders Playbook '84
5:30 News 4 LA
6:00 NBC Nightly News - Connie Chung
6:30 Headlines on Trial
7:00 Fight Back! with David Horowitz
7:30 America's Choice
8:00 Diff'rent Strokes: "Tonsils"
8:30 Double Trouble: "Do You Believe in Magic?"
9:00 Gimme a Break!: "Baby of the Family"
9:30 Spencer: "The Divorcee"
10:00 Partners in Crime: "Fashioned for Murder"
11:00 News 4 LA
11:30 Saturday Night Live - Host: Ringo Starr (coinciding with the 4th anniversary of the murder of fellow Beatle John Lennon); Musical guest: Herbie Hancock
1:00 Rock-n-America
2:00 News 4 LA (R)
5 KTLA
5:00 Gene Autry Theater
6:00 Sonrisas
6:30 Pacesetters
7:00 Little Rascals
7:30 Starcade - Geoff Edwards (from previous season)
8:00 The Video Game - Greg Winfield (New for this season, from the producers of Starcade. Taped at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, CA.)
8:30 Top 40 Videos - Scott Baio
9:00 Video Beat - Richard Blade
9:30 America's Top 10 - Casey Kasem
10:00 Santa Ana's (Orange County) Toys on Parade - Host: Debby Davison (KTLA news anchor); Grand Marshal: Lou Ferrigno
11:30 Puttin' on the Hits - Allen Fawcett
NOON UCLA Basketball - at Memphis State
2:00 Gilligan's Island (x2)
3:00 Family Film Festival: "Who Killed Doc Robbin" (1948) - Larry Olsen, Billy Gray, Renee Beard, George Zucco
5:00 CHiPs
6:00 Movie for a Saturday Evening: "Seven Alone" (1974) - Dewey Martin, Anne Collings, Aldo Ray
8:00 Saturday Movie Theatre: "Pennies From Heaven" (1981) - Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Walken, Jessica Harper
10:00 Channel 5 News at Ten
11:00 Puttin' on the Hits (R)
11:30 New York Hot Tracks
1:00 America's Top 10 (R)
1:30 Movie: "Sidecar Racers" (1974) - Ben Murphy, Peter Graves, John Clayton, Wendy Hughes
7 KABC
6:00 It Is Written
6:30 The Growing Years
7:00 Superfriends: The Legendary Super Powers Show
7:55 Schoolhouse Rock!
8:00 Mighty Orbots
8:30 Turbo Teen
8:55 Schoolhouse Rock!
9:00 Dragon's Lair (based on the then-popular laserdisc arcade game)
9:25 Schoolhouse Rock!
9:30 New Scooby-Doo Mysteries
10:00 Scary Scooby Funnies
10:25 Schoolhouse Rock!
10:30 The Littles
11:00 ABC Weekend Special: "Henry Hamilton, Graduate Ghost" (Part 1 of 2)
11:30 American Bandstand - Guests: Bryan Adams ("Run to You", "Kids Just Wanna Rock"), Teena Marie ("Lovergirl"); Video: Chaka Khan ("I Feel For You")
12:30 Weekend (Music) Videos
1:30 At the Movies - Reviews: "2010: The Year We Make Contact", "Beverly Hills Cop", "Stranger Than Paradise", "City Heat"
2:00 Greatest Sports Legends
2:30 NFL Sympfunnies
3:00 NFL Pro Magazine
3:30 The Race for Number 1
4:00 1984 College All-American Team
4:30 ABC Sportsbeat
5:00 ABC's Wide World of Sports - International Pro Figure Skating Championships (Madison Square Garden)
6:30 Eyewitness News
7:00 LA Gears Up for War (WWII) - KABC anchor Jerry Dunphy hosts a lookback to how Hollywood contributed to the war effort, plus recalls from Dorothy Lamour and Mickey Rooney.
7:30 Hollywood Closeup
8:00 ABC Special: "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" (from the previous year) - Loretta Swit, Anthony Holland, Fairuza Balk, Jackson Davies
9:00 Love Boat: "Country Blues"; "A Matter of Taste"; "Frat Brothers"
10:00 Finder of Lost Loves: "A Gift"
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 ABC Weekend News
11:45 LA Gears Up for War (R)
12:15 Movie: "Love Among the Ruins" (1975) - Katherine Hepburn, Laurence Olivier
2:00 Goodnight LA (music videos)
9 KHJ
6:00 Teen Talk
6:30 Meet the Mayors
7:00 Off Hand
7:30 Youth & the Issues
8:00 Teen Talk
8:30 Davey and Goliath
9:00 New Zoo Revue
9:30 Cimarron Strip
11:00 Wrestling
NOON Movie: "Sherlock Holmes in New York" (1976) - Roger Moore (as Holmes), Patrick Macnee (as Watson)
2:00 Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries
3:00 Kung Fu Theater
7:00 Playback '84: A Year End Review
9:00 Switch
10:00 Boxing - Heavyweights: Gerry Cooney vs. George Chalin; Featherweights: Wilfredo Gomez vs. Azumah Nelson (five-hour tape delay from Phoenix)
MIDNIGHT Playback '84: A Year End Review (R)
11 KTTV
5:30 Eyesat
6:00 Essense
6:30 Speak Out
7:00 Good Day LA
7:30 New Forces
8:00 Movin' On
9:00 S.W.A.T.
10:00 The Blue Knight
11:00 Fame
NOON Blackbelt Theater
2:00 Movie: "Romance of a Horsethief" (1971) - Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach
4:00 Movie: "The Night of the Grizzly" (1966) - Clint Walker, Martha Hyer, Keenan Wynn, Nancy Kulp, Ellen Corby
6:00 Entertainment This Week - Featured: Entire hour devoted to Elvis Presley, in anticipation of his 50th birthday a month away.
7:00 Three's Company
7:30 Too Close for Comfort (N): "Henry Bites the Big Apple"
8:00 Africa: A Continent in Crisis - Hosts: Gary Collins and wife Mary Ann Mobley
9:00 Real Estate Seminar
10:00 Channel 11 News
10:30 Too Close for Comfort (repeat of 7:30 episode)
11:00 Star Search - Guests: Liberace, Catherine Bach
MIDNIGHT Real Estate Seminar (repeat of 9:00 broadcast?)
1:00 Mission: Impossible
2:00 Healthbeat
2:30 Movie: "The Razor's Edge" (1946) - Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb, Herbert Marshall
13 KCOP
6:00 In Studio
7:00 First Person
8:00 In Studio
9:00 Bewitched
9:30 Get Smart
10:00 Hawaii Five-O
11:00 Soul Train - Guests: Herb Alpert ("Bullish", "Struttin' on Five"), Rodney Saulsberry ("I Wonder", "Look What You've Done")
NOON Solid Gold - Host: Rick Dees; Co-host: Lisa Hartman ("If Love Must Go"); Music guests: Ronnie Milsap ("I Love My Car"), New Edition ("Cool It Now"), REO Speedwagon ("I Do' Wanna Know"?), Tommy Shaw ("Girls With Guns"), Jack Wagner ("All I Need"); Video: "No More Lonely Nights" by Paul McCartney; Comedy guests: David Brenner, Julie McWhirter-Dees (Rick's wife)
1:00 Movie: "Trouble Along the Way" (1953) - John Wayne, Donna Reed, Charles Coburn
3:00 Movie: "Ulysses" (1955) - Kirk Douglas, Silvana Mangano, Anthony Quinn
5:00 Battlestar Galactica
6:00 Movie: "Miracle on 34th Street" (1973) - Sebastian Cabot, Jane Alexander, David Hartman, Jim Backus, Tom Bosley, David Doyle, Roddy McDowall
8:00 Love, American Style
8:30 Money: How to Make It
9:00 Save Autistic Children Telethon (to 2:00 AM) - Hosts: Frankie Avalon, Joe Campenella, Terry Cole-Whittaker, Jack Klugman, Lloyd Nolan, Sylvester & Sasha Stallone, Larry Van Nuys, Dennis Weaver
2:00 INN News
2:30 Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
3:30 This Week's Music
28 KCET
Note: Schedule altered by Pledge Breaks.
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Wild America
9:00 Academy on Computers
9:30 Square Foot Gardening
10:00 All-New This Old House
10:30 Do-It-Yourself Show
11:00 Painting with Elke Sommer
11:30 Frugal Gourmet
NOON Movie: "Elvis" (1979) - Kurt Russell (Elvis), Ronnie McDowall (Elvis' singing voice), Shelley Winters (Gladys Presley), Bing Russell (Vernon Presley), Season Hubley (Priscilla Presley), Pat Hingle (Col. Tom Parker), Charles Cyphers (Sam Phillips)
3:00 Pledge Break; Nova
4:00 Pledge Break
4:10 The Ra Expeditions
5:45 Pledge Break
6:00 "Liberace in Las Vegas" (joined by Ballet de Folklorico de Mexico)
7:20 Pledge Break
7:30 Glenn Miller: A Moonlight Serenade - Host: Van Johnson
9:20 Pledge Break
9:30 Great Performances: "Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music"
11:40 Pledge Break
11:50 American Playhouse: "Heartland" - Rip Torn, Conchata Ferrell
Part I: Saturday, December 8, 1984
2 KCBS
6:00 KidsWorld
6:30 LA Kid
7:00 Shirt Tales (1982-83 reruns from NBC)
7:30 Get Along Gang
8:00 Muppet Babies
8:30 Dungeons & Dragons
9:00 Pole Position (based on the arcade game)
9:30 Pryor's Place
10:00 NCAA Basketball - UNLV vs. Georgetown
12:30 NFL Today
1:00 NFL Football - Minnesota Vikings vs. San Francisco 49ers
4:00 American Adventure
4:30 2 With You
5:00 NFL Week in Review
5:30 Rams Report '84
6:00 Kodak All-American Football Team
6:30 Channel 2 News
7:00 2 on the Town
7:30 Dance Fever - Judges: Kristian Alfonso, Lydia Cornell, Ronnie Schell
8:00 Airwolf: "Random Target"
9:00 Mike Hammer: "A Bullet for Benny"
10:00 Cover Up: "Midnight Highway"
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:30 Movie: "El Dorado" (1967) - John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan
2:00 Movie: "The Mind of Mr. Soames" (1970) - Terrence Stamp, Robert Vaughan, Nigel Davenport, Christian Roberts
4 KNBC
6:00 Serendipity
6:30 Kid-a-Littles
7:00 Snorks
7:30 Pink Panther & Sons
8:00 Smurfs
9:00 NFL '84
9:30 NFL Football - Buffalo Bills vs. New York Jets
12:30 NCAA Basketball - Kentucky vs. Indiana
2:30 Al McGuire's Basketball Special - Preview of the NCAA basketball season.
3:00 Best of In Serach Of...
3:30 Movie: "Huckleberry Finn Escapes" (Premiere) - Anime presentation of the Twain character.
5:00 Raiders Playbook '84
5:30 News 4 LA
6:00 NBC Nightly News - Connie Chung
6:30 Headlines on Trial
7:00 Fight Back! with David Horowitz
7:30 America's Choice
8:00 Diff'rent Strokes: "Tonsils"
8:30 Double Trouble: "Do You Believe in Magic?"
9:00 Gimme a Break!: "Baby of the Family"
9:30 Spencer: "The Divorcee"
10:00 Partners in Crime: "Fashioned for Murder"
11:00 News 4 LA
11:30 Saturday Night Live - Host: Ringo Starr (coinciding with the 4th anniversary of the murder of fellow Beatle John Lennon); Musical guest: Herbie Hancock
1:00 Rock-n-America
2:00 News 4 LA (R)
5 KTLA
5:00 Gene Autry Theater
6:00 Sonrisas
6:30 Pacesetters
7:00 Little Rascals
7:30 Starcade - Geoff Edwards (from previous season)
8:00 The Video Game - Greg Winfield (New for this season, from the producers of Starcade. Taped at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, CA.)
8:30 Top 40 Videos - Scott Baio
9:00 Video Beat - Richard Blade
9:30 America's Top 10 - Casey Kasem
10:00 Santa Ana's (Orange County) Toys on Parade - Host: Debby Davison (KTLA news anchor); Grand Marshal: Lou Ferrigno
11:30 Puttin' on the Hits - Allen Fawcett
NOON UCLA Basketball - at Memphis State
2:00 Gilligan's Island (x2)
3:00 Family Film Festival: "Who Killed Doc Robbin" (1948) - Larry Olsen, Billy Gray, Renee Beard, George Zucco
5:00 CHiPs
6:00 Movie for a Saturday Evening: "Seven Alone" (1974) - Dewey Martin, Anne Collings, Aldo Ray
8:00 Saturday Movie Theatre: "Pennies From Heaven" (1981) - Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Walken, Jessica Harper
10:00 Channel 5 News at Ten
11:00 Puttin' on the Hits (R)
11:30 New York Hot Tracks
1:00 America's Top 10 (R)
1:30 Movie: "Sidecar Racers" (1974) - Ben Murphy, Peter Graves, John Clayton, Wendy Hughes
7 KABC
6:00 It Is Written
6:30 The Growing Years
7:00 Superfriends: The Legendary Super Powers Show
7:55 Schoolhouse Rock!
8:00 Mighty Orbots
8:30 Turbo Teen
8:55 Schoolhouse Rock!
9:00 Dragon's Lair (based on the then-popular laserdisc arcade game)
9:25 Schoolhouse Rock!
9:30 New Scooby-Doo Mysteries
10:00 Scary Scooby Funnies
10:25 Schoolhouse Rock!
10:30 The Littles
11:00 ABC Weekend Special: "Henry Hamilton, Graduate Ghost" (Part 1 of 2)
11:30 American Bandstand - Guests: Bryan Adams ("Run to You", "Kids Just Wanna Rock"), Teena Marie ("Lovergirl"); Video: Chaka Khan ("I Feel For You")
12:30 Weekend (Music) Videos
1:30 At the Movies - Reviews: "2010: The Year We Make Contact", "Beverly Hills Cop", "Stranger Than Paradise", "City Heat"
2:00 Greatest Sports Legends
2:30 NFL Sympfunnies
3:00 NFL Pro Magazine
3:30 The Race for Number 1
4:00 1984 College All-American Team
4:30 ABC Sportsbeat
5:00 ABC's Wide World of Sports - International Pro Figure Skating Championships (Madison Square Garden)
6:30 Eyewitness News
7:00 LA Gears Up for War (WWII) - KABC anchor Jerry Dunphy hosts a lookback to how Hollywood contributed to the war effort, plus recalls from Dorothy Lamour and Mickey Rooney.
7:30 Hollywood Closeup
8:00 ABC Special: "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" (from the previous year) - Loretta Swit, Anthony Holland, Fairuza Balk, Jackson Davies
9:00 Love Boat: "Country Blues"; "A Matter of Taste"; "Frat Brothers"
10:00 Finder of Lost Loves: "A Gift"
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 ABC Weekend News
11:45 LA Gears Up for War (R)
12:15 Movie: "Love Among the Ruins" (1975) - Katherine Hepburn, Laurence Olivier
2:00 Goodnight LA (music videos)
9 KHJ
6:00 Teen Talk
6:30 Meet the Mayors
7:00 Off Hand
7:30 Youth & the Issues
8:00 Teen Talk
8:30 Davey and Goliath
9:00 New Zoo Revue
9:30 Cimarron Strip
11:00 Wrestling
NOON Movie: "Sherlock Holmes in New York" (1976) - Roger Moore (as Holmes), Patrick Macnee (as Watson)
2:00 Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries
3:00 Kung Fu Theater
7:00 Playback '84: A Year End Review
9:00 Switch
10:00 Boxing - Heavyweights: Gerry Cooney vs. George Chalin; Featherweights: Wilfredo Gomez vs. Azumah Nelson (five-hour tape delay from Phoenix)
MIDNIGHT Playback '84: A Year End Review (R)
11 KTTV
5:30 Eyesat
6:00 Essense
6:30 Speak Out
7:00 Good Day LA
7:30 New Forces
8:00 Movin' On
9:00 S.W.A.T.
10:00 The Blue Knight
11:00 Fame
NOON Blackbelt Theater
2:00 Movie: "Romance of a Horsethief" (1971) - Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach
4:00 Movie: "The Night of the Grizzly" (1966) - Clint Walker, Martha Hyer, Keenan Wynn, Nancy Kulp, Ellen Corby
6:00 Entertainment This Week - Featured: Entire hour devoted to Elvis Presley, in anticipation of his 50th birthday a month away.
7:00 Three's Company
7:30 Too Close for Comfort (N): "Henry Bites the Big Apple"
8:00 Africa: A Continent in Crisis - Hosts: Gary Collins and wife Mary Ann Mobley
9:00 Real Estate Seminar
10:00 Channel 11 News
10:30 Too Close for Comfort (repeat of 7:30 episode)
11:00 Star Search - Guests: Liberace, Catherine Bach
MIDNIGHT Real Estate Seminar (repeat of 9:00 broadcast?)
1:00 Mission: Impossible
2:00 Healthbeat
2:30 Movie: "The Razor's Edge" (1946) - Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, John Payne, Anne Baxter, Clifton Webb, Herbert Marshall
13 KCOP
6:00 In Studio
7:00 First Person
8:00 In Studio
9:00 Bewitched
9:30 Get Smart
10:00 Hawaii Five-O
11:00 Soul Train - Guests: Herb Alpert ("Bullish", "Struttin' on Five"), Rodney Saulsberry ("I Wonder", "Look What You've Done")
NOON Solid Gold - Host: Rick Dees; Co-host: Lisa Hartman ("If Love Must Go"); Music guests: Ronnie Milsap ("I Love My Car"), New Edition ("Cool It Now"), REO Speedwagon ("I Do' Wanna Know"?), Tommy Shaw ("Girls With Guns"), Jack Wagner ("All I Need"); Video: "No More Lonely Nights" by Paul McCartney; Comedy guests: David Brenner, Julie McWhirter-Dees (Rick's wife)
1:00 Movie: "Trouble Along the Way" (1953) - John Wayne, Donna Reed, Charles Coburn
3:00 Movie: "Ulysses" (1955) - Kirk Douglas, Silvana Mangano, Anthony Quinn
5:00 Battlestar Galactica
6:00 Movie: "Miracle on 34th Street" (1973) - Sebastian Cabot, Jane Alexander, David Hartman, Jim Backus, Tom Bosley, David Doyle, Roddy McDowall
8:00 Love, American Style
8:30 Money: How to Make It
9:00 Save Autistic Children Telethon (to 2:00 AM) - Hosts: Frankie Avalon, Joe Campenella, Terry Cole-Whittaker, Jack Klugman, Lloyd Nolan, Sylvester & Sasha Stallone, Larry Van Nuys, Dennis Weaver
2:00 INN News
2:30 Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
3:30 This Week's Music
28 KCET
Note: Schedule altered by Pledge Breaks.
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Wild America
9:00 Academy on Computers
9:30 Square Foot Gardening
10:00 All-New This Old House
10:30 Do-It-Yourself Show
11:00 Painting with Elke Sommer
11:30 Frugal Gourmet
NOON Movie: "Elvis" (1979) - Kurt Russell (Elvis), Ronnie McDowall (Elvis' singing voice), Shelley Winters (Gladys Presley), Bing Russell (Vernon Presley), Season Hubley (Priscilla Presley), Pat Hingle (Col. Tom Parker), Charles Cyphers (Sam Phillips)
3:00 Pledge Break; Nova
4:00 Pledge Break
4:10 The Ra Expeditions
5:45 Pledge Break
6:00 "Liberace in Las Vegas" (joined by Ballet de Folklorico de Mexico)
7:20 Pledge Break
7:30 Glenn Miller: A Moonlight Serenade - Host: Van Johnson
9:20 Pledge Break
9:30 Great Performances: "Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music"
11:40 Pledge Break
11:50 American Playhouse: "Heartland" - Rip Torn, Conchata Ferrell