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Retro: Maine Fri, Sept 20, 1985

25 years ago in the Pine Tree State, from TV Guide-Maine edition

WLBZ 2-NBC Bangor
5:30 Morning Stretch
6:00 NBC News at Sunrise
6:30 News
7:00 Today (preview of the next day's Holmes-Spinks heavyweight title bout)
9:00 Days of Our Lives
10:00 Silver Spoons (last day; Your Number's Up debuts Monday)
10:30 Sale of the Century
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Scrabble
noon News
12:30 Phil Donahue (fundamentalists in the Federal Government)
1:30 Search for Tomorrow
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 Three's Company
4:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
5:00 M*A*S*H
5:30 Entertainment Tonight
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Jeopardy!
8:00 Knight Rider (2 hr season premiere, season #4)
10:00 Miami Vice
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show (guests Courtney Cox, and **** Robin)
12:30 Friday Night Videos (vids from Paul Young, John Cougar Mellencamp, Cheech & Chong, and Cameo)

WABI 5-CBS Bangor
5:55 Open Door
6:00 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News (FarmAid preview (the concert was held 2 days later), and guest Peter Graves)
9:00 Merv Griffin
10:00 $25,000 Pyramid
10:30 Press Your Luck
11:00 Price is Right
noon Divorce Court
12:30 Young & the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Body Language
4:30 Dukes of Hazzard
5:30 Price is Right
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Waltons
8:00 Bugs Bunny (from 1978: Denver Pyle narrates this spoof of the Old West; Twilight Zone premieres here next week)
8:30 Dallas (90 min rerun of season finale)
10:00 Falcon Crest (rerun of season finale)
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Sunburn"

WCSH 6-NBC Portland
5:30 Morning Stretch
6:00 NBC News at Sunrise
6:30 News
7:00 Today
9:00 Days of Our Lives
10:00 Every Second Counts
10:30 Sale of the Century
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Scrabble
noon News
12:30 Phil Donahue (same show as its Bangor sister station)
1:30 Search for Tomorrow
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 Littlest Hobo
4:30 WKRP in Cincinnati (2 and 6 ran different episodes)
5:00 Jeffersons
5:30 Entertainment Tonight
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Benson
7:30 Three's Company
8:00 Knight Rider (2 hr season premiere, season #4)
10:00 Miami Vice
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Friday Night Videos
2:00 News

WVII 7-ABC Bangor
6:00 Jim Bakker
7:00 Good Morning America (guests Jane Fonda and Robert Urich)
9:00 Eight is Enough
10:00 Catch Phrase
10:30 Bewitched
11:00 Transformers
11:30 Voltron
noon Ryan's Hope
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Scooby-Doo
4:30 People's Court
5:00 Star Trek
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 America (archaeology with Morgan Fairchild/plastic surgery for guys/Robert Urich)
8:00 Webster (1 hr season premiere, season #3)
9:00 Spenser: For Hire (2 hr premiere)
11:00 News
11:30 ABC News Nightline
mid. All-Hit Videos (simulcast on WGUY-FM 100.9)

WMTW 8-ABC Poland Spring
5:30 Joy of Gardening
6:00 ABC World News This Morning/Local News
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Movie "The Silencers"
11:00 Angie (last ep; Three's a Crowd starts Monday)
11:30 All-Star Blitz
noon Ryan's Hope
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Hart to Hart
5:00 America (see WVII for details)
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 New Newlywed Game
7:30 Carson's Comedy Classics
8:00 Webster (1 hr season premiere, season #3)
9:00 Spenser: For Hire (2 hr premiere)
11:00 News
11:30 ABC News Nightline
mid. Start of Something Big
1:00 News

WAGM 8-CBS/NBC/ABC Presque Isle
Network shows from CBS, unless otherwise indicated
4:30 Potato Picker's Special
6:30 ABC World News This Morning (ABC)
7:00 Good Morning America (ABC)
9:00 Phil Donahue (Phil's in LA with a discussion of AIDS affecting Hollywood)
10:00 $25,000 Pyramid
10:30 Press Your Luck
11:00 Price is Right
noon Let's Make a Deal
12:30 Young & the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Body Language
4:30 Little House on the Prairie
5:30 Bewitched
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Cosby Show (NBC/1 day delay)
8:00 Bugs Bunny
8:30 Dallas (season finale/90 min)
10:00 Falcon Crest (season finale)
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Sunburn"

WCBB 10-PBS Augusta
6:30 Farm Day
6:45 AM Weather
7:00 Body Electric
7:30 Latenight America (guest Carole Bayer Singer)
8:30 Today's Special
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Instructional Programs
11:30 Polka Dot Door
noon Sesame Street
1:00 Instructional Programs
2:30 Nova "Baby Talk"
3:30 Secret City
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Today's Special
6:00 Voyage of the Mimi
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour
8:00 Washington Week in Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9:00 Capitol Journal
9:30 Movie "McCabe and Mrs. Miller"
11:30 Latenight America (guests Charlayne Hunter-Gault)
12:30 Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler

WENH 11-PBS Durham
7:30 Farm Day
7:45 AM Weather
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Lilias, Yoga & You
9:30 Instructional Programs
noon Sesame Street
1:00 Instructional Programs
2:30 Masterpiece Theatre "The Irish RM" (pt 3)
3:30 Lilias, Yoga & You
4:00 Voyage of the Mimi
4:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour
7:00 Nightly Business Report
7:30 McLaughlin Group
8:00 Washington Week in Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9:00 New Hampshire Journal
9:30 To the Manor Born
10:00 Triple Grand Jazz (a 1982 concert from Jacksonville, FL with George Shearing, Marian McPartland, and Adam Makowicz)
11:00 Country Express (videos from Heart of Nashville, Dolly Parton, Atlanta, and others in a top viewer request show)
11:30 Austin City Limits (guests Dottie West and Floyd Cramer)
12:30 Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler

MPBN (PBS): WMEB 12-Orono, WMEA 26-Biddeford, WMEM 10-Presque Isle, WMED 13-Calais (TVG listed 12/26 and mentioned 10/13 as satellites)
7:15 AM Weather
7:30 Nightly Business Report
8:00 Body Electric
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:00 (10/12/13) Sesame Street
9:00 (26) Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30 (26) Electric Company
10:00 Instructional Programs
11:30 Secret City
noon Sesame Street
1:00 Instructional Programs
2:30 Body Electric
3:00 Instructional Programs
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Educational Computing
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour
8:00 Washington Week in Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9:00 Maine Reporters Notebook (return)
9:30 Dad's Army
10:00 Father's Day
10:30 Last Song
11:00 Butterflies
11:30 Sneak Previews

WGME 13-CBS Portland
5:00 CBS News Nightwatch
6:00 Headline Chasers
6:30 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Catch Phrase
9:30 Love Connection
10:00 $25,000 Pyramid
10:30 Press Your Luck
11:00 Price is Right
noon News
12:30 Young & the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Jeopardy!
4:30 People's Court
5:00 Merv Griffin
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 M*A*S*H
8:00 Bugs Bunny
8:30 Dallas (season finale/90 min)
10:00 Falcon Crest (season finale)
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Sunburn"

WSBK 38-Ind Boston
6:00 20 Minute Workout
6:30 Porky Pig/Bugs Bunny
7:00 Voltron
7:30 He-Man & the Masters of the Universe
8:00 Tranzor
8:30 Scooby-Doo
9:00 Fat Albert
9:30 My Three Sons
10:00 Movie "The Defector"
noon Dick Van Dyke (bw)
12:30 Beverly Hillbillies
1:00 Andy Griffith (bw)
1:30 My Three Sons
2:00 Heckle & Jeckle/Deputy Dawg
2:30 Voltron
3:00 Jayce & the Wheeled Warriors
3:30 Challenge of the GoBots
4:00 He-Man & the Masters of the Universe
4:30 Tranzor Z
5:00 Quincy
6:00 Hart to Hart
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 Barney Miller
8:00 Movie "The Compleat Beatles"
10:00 Odd Couple
10:30 Dick Van Dyke (bw)
11:00 M*A*S*H
11:30 Hogan's Heroes (x2)
12:30 Maude
1:00 Phil Silvers (bw)

WLVI 56-Ind Boston
6:30 Bozo's Big Top
7:00 Tom & Jerry
7:30 Heathcliff
8:00 Bugs Bunny/Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Casper
9:00 Mighty Mouse
9:30 Great Space Coaster
10:00 Bewitched
10:30 Headline News
11:00 Changing Lanes
noon I Love Lucy (bw/x2)
1:00 Mighty Mouse
1:30 Casper
2:00 Flintstones
2:30 Tom & Jerry
3:00 ThunderCats
3:30 Super Week
4:00 Heathcliff
4:30 Inspector Gadget
5:00 Brady Bunch
5:30 Happy Days
6:00 Three's Company (x2)
7:00 Benson
7:30 Taxi
8:00 Movie "Desperate Journey" (bw)
10:00 News
10:30 Carson's Comedy Classics
11:00 Wrestling
mid. News
 
I remember this lineup like it was yesterday, since I lived in Old Orchard Beach, ME from 1985 to 1987. We used to get the New Hampshire Edition of TV Guide, since we were in York County. I used to watch WCSH's NewsCenter 6 all the time. I found it odd that WCSH would frequently preempt the NBC SportsWorld package nearly every weekend. My programming choices back then were limited since I didn't have cable and it would be another year before WPXT-TV channel 51 would sign on (as an independent, then FOX, then WB and now CW). I should also mention that the following Friday evening is when the remnants of Hurricane Gloria came through the area, knocking out my power. I was ticked because I wanted to see the season premiere of Miami Vice that night.
 
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