Retro: Maine Sat, June 6, 1987

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from TV Guide-Maine edition

WLBZ 2-NBC Bangor
6:55 First Radio Parish Church
7:00 Muppet Show
7:30 Woody Woodpecker
8:00 Kissyfur
8:30 Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
9:00 Smurfs
10:30 Alvin & the Chipmunks
11:00 Foofur
11:30 Punky Brewster
noon News
12:30 French Open Tennis: women's final (JIP)
3:00 Baseball Pre-Game
3:15 Baseball: Detroit-Boston/alt game: LA-Cincinnati
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Fame
8:00 227 (new time)
8:30 Me & Mrs. C (new time)
9:00 Golden Girls
9:30 Amen
10:00 Hunter
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (hosts Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, and Martin Short/music from Randy Newman)

WABI 5-CBS Bangor
7:25 Open Door
7:30 Joy of Gardening
8:00 Berenstain Bears
8:30 Wildfire
9:00 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
10:00 Pee-wee's Playhouse
10:30 Teen Wolf
11:00 Galaxy High School
11:30 CBS StoryBreak
noon Prayer for World Peace (Pope John Paul II leads RC congregations in 17 countries in reciting the Rosary, live from Rome's Basiilica of St. Mary Major; he'll offer prayers in 7 languages, with Mother Teresa also participating from Poland)
1:00 Discover (infomercial)
1:30 Look at Me Now (ditto)
2:00 Showdown
3:00 Indy Challenge (look at the IndyCar circuit and its pit crews)
4:00 Kemper Open golf
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Throb
7:30 Big Country Videos (videos by Michael Martin Murphey, Willie Nelson, and Dwight Yoakum; simulcast on WYOU 97.1-Bangor)
8:00 Master of the Game (pt 1)
11:00 News
11:30 Big Country Videos (rerun of 7:30)
mid. It's a Living
12:30 Star Search
1:30 Tales of the Unexpected

WCSH 6-NBC Portland
6:30 First Radio Parish Church
6:35 News Extra
6:45 News
7:00 Muppet Show
7:30 Littlest Hobo
8:00 Kissyfur
8:30 Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
9:00 Smurfs
10:30 Alvin & the Chipmunks
11:00 Foofur
11:30 Punky Brewster
noon News
12:30 French Open Tennis: women's final (JIP)
3:00 Baseball Pre-Game
3:15 Baseball: Detroit-Boston/alt game: LA-Cincinnati
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Star Trek
8:00 227 (new time)
8:30 Me & Mrs. C (new time)
9:00 Golden Girls
9:30 Amen
10:00 Hunter
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (hosts Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, and Martin Short/music from Randy Newman)
1:00 Movie "Is Everybody Happy But Me?"

WVII 7-ABC Bangor
6:00 GI Joe
6:30 Bullwinkle
7:00 Inhumanoids
7:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
8:00 Wuzzles
8:30 Care Bears Family
9:00 Flintstone Kids
10:00 Voltron
10:30 GI Joe
11:00 Bugs Bunny & Tweety
11:30 Ewoks
noon Voltron
12:30 Jem
1:00 Women's Golf: McDonald's Championship
3:00 ABC Wide World of Sports: a combined male/female team of climbers attempts to climb the Old Man of Hoy mountain in Scotland's Orkneys/Australian Surf Lifesaving Championships
4:30 Belmont Stakes horse race
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Saturday
7:00 Hee Haw (co-host Mel Tellis/guests Louise Mandrell and John Anderson)
8:00 Webster (new day)
8:30 Sidekicks (return)
9:00 Gung Ho (return)
9:30 Dads (return)
10:00 Starman (new time)
11:00 News
11:30 All Hit Videos (the listings didn't indicate it, but I think the show was simulcast on one of the Bangor FM stations)

WMTW 8-ABC Poland Spring
5:30 Exercite
6:30 Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers (x2)
7:30 Inhumanoids
8:00 Wuzzles
8:30 Care Bears Family
9:00 Flintstone Kids
10:00 Real Ghostbusters
10:30 GI Joe
11:00 Bugs Bunny & Tweety
11:30 Ewoks
noon ABC Weekend Special "Cap'n Readmore Meets Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
12:30 Health Show
1:00 Women's Golf: McDonald's Championship
3:00 ABC Wide World of Sports
4:30 Belmont Stakes horse race
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Saturday
7:00 Star Search
8:00 Webster (new day)
8:30 Sidekicks (return)
9:00 Gung Ho (return)
9:30 Dads (return)
10:00 Starman (new time)
11:00 News
11:30 Throb
mid. Solid Gold (guests Eddie Money, Timbuk 3, Klymaxx, Marie Osmond, Stacy Lattishaw, and Michael Jackson; flashback with the Searchers; interview with the Pointer Sisters)
1:00 America's Top 10
1:30 News

WAGM 8-CBS/NBC/ABC Presque Isle
6:30 Smurfs (NBC/1 week delay)
8:00 Berenstain Bears
8:30 Wildfire
9:00 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
10:00 Pee-wee's Playhouse
10:30 Teen Wolf
11:00 Galaxy High School
11:30 CBS StoryBreak
noon Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling!
1:00 Movie "Terror on the 40th Floor"
2:20 Movie "In Tandem" (pilot for Movin' On)
4:30 Belmont Stakes horse race (ABC)
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Highway to Heaven (NBC/Wed 8pm)
8:00 Master of the Game (pt 1)
11:00 Moonlighting (ABC/Tues 10pm)
mid. Miami Vice (NBC/Fri 9pm)

WCBB 10-PBS Augusta
6:30 Body Electric
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Washington Week in Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9:00 Firing Line (debating female ministers in the Anglican/Episcopalian church)
10:00 Rod & Reel
10:30 Magic of Oil Painting
11:00 MotorWeek
11:30 Great Outdoors
noon French Chef
12:30 This Old House
1:00 Frugal Gourmet
1:30 Victory Garden
2:00 Justin Wilson's Louisiana Cookin': Outdoors
2:30 Bodywatch
3:00 Joy of Painting
3:30 Wild America
4:00 Woodwright's Shop
4:30 Sneak Previews
5:00 Candlepin Bowling
6:00 Mystery! "Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime: The Ambassador's Boots"
7:00 Yes Minister
7:30 Victory at Sea (bw)
8:00 WonderWorks "The December Rose" (pt 1)
9:00 Doctor Who
10:30 Exit 13 (guests Devonsquare)
11:00 Movie "Kiss of Death" (bw)
12:30 Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler

WENH 11-PBS Durham
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Reading Rainbow (x2)
9:00 Perkins Family
9:30 Knowzone
10:00 WonderWorks "Colour in the Creek" (conclusion)
11:00 From a Country Garden
11:30 Justin Wilson's Louisiana Cookin': Outdoors
noon European Journal
12:30 Antiques
1:00 Frugal Gourmet
1:30 Ken Hom's Chinese Cookery
2:00 Welcome to My Studio
2:30 Magic of Oil Painting
3:00 Painting Ceramics
3:30 Living with Animals
4:00 Soapbox
4:30 Doctor Who
6:00 Sands of Silence (a British doc on a WWII tragedy (and subsequent cover-up) that saw over 700 American GIs practicing for D-Day wiped out by the Germans when torpedo boats attacked their unprotected landing craft in the dark)
6:30 Wartime in Washington
7:00 New Hampshire Journal
7:30 Agronsky & Company
8:00 Assignment Adventure (the 5-week training voyage of a group of teens sailing a ketch from Quebec to Liverpool)
9:00 New Hampshire Crossroads (looking at Granite State night-shift workers)
9:30 Yes Minister
10:00 Mystery! "Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime: The Ambassador's Boots"
11:00 Mind Your Language
11:30 Tripods
mid. Austin City Limits

MPBN (PBS): WMEB 12-Orono, WMEA 26-Biddeford, WMEM 10-Presque Isle, WMED 13-Calais
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30 Reading Rainbow
10:00 Wild America
10:30 People, Pets & Dr. Marc
11:00 Wildlife Woodcarvers
11:30 Great American Woodlots
noon Victory Garden
12:30 Frugal Gourmet
1:00 Masterpiece Theatre "The Jewel in the Crown" (pt 2)
2:00 Spaceflight "The Wings of Mercury", followed by "One Giant Leap" at 3
4:00 Maine Reporter's Notebook
5:00 Candlepin Bowling
6:00 Doctor Who
7:30 Step Away from War (Paul Newman narrates this anti-nuclear testing program, featuring interviews with Ted Turner and retired Adm. Gene LaRocque)
8:00 Maine High School Band Festival
9:00 Maine High School Choral Festival
10:00 Austin City Limits (guests Joe Ely and Eric Johnson)
11:00 Yes Minister
11:30 'Allo! 'Allo! (premiere)

WGME 13-CBS Portland
6:00 Maine Weather
6:30 Defenders of the Earth
7:00 Kids are People Too
7:30 Happy Days
8:00 Berenstain Bears
8:30 Wildfire
9:00 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
10:00 Pee-wee's Playhouse
10:30 Teen Wolf
11:00 Galaxy High School
11:30 CBS StoryBreak
noon Prayer for World Peace
1:00 Wrestling
2:00 Movie "And Nothing But the Truth"
4:00 Kemper Open golf
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 It's a Living
8:00 Master of the Game (pt 1)
11:00 News
11:30 MTV Video Countdown
12:30 Ask Dr. Ruth (x2)

WSBK 38-Ind Boston
7:00 Newsmakers
7:30 It's Your Business
8:00 Wall Street Journal Report
8:30 Bottom Line
9:00 Ask the Manager (Daniel Berkery in those days)
9:30 Andy Griffith (bw)
10:00 Underdog
10:30 Batman
11:00 Three Stooges (bw)
noon Movie "That Man Bolt"
2:00 Movie "Fade In"
4:00 Movie "Suddenly, Love"
6:00 It's a Living
6:30 Mama's Family
7:00 One Big Family
7:30 Maude
8:00 Movie "Cheaper to Keep Her"
10:00 Twilight Zone (bw)
11:00 Movie "Dark Star"

WPXT 51-Fox Portland
6:00 New Zoo Revue
6:30 Heathcliff
7:00 Inspector Gadget
7:30 My Little Pony 'n Friends
8:00 Rocky & Bullwinkle
8:30 Abbott & Costello (bw)
9:00 Batman (x2)
10:00 Monkees (x2)
11:00 Whiz Kids
noon Candlepin Bowling (Steve Renaud of Southbridge MA takes on fellow Bay Stater Dick O'Connell of Brockton; given the location, this must be syndied from one of the Beantown stations-WCVB perhaps?)
1:00 Wrestling
2:00 Movie "Challenge to Be Free"
4:00 Insiders
5:00 Fame
6:00 What's Happening Now!!
6:30 New Gidget
7:00 One Big Family
7:30 9 to 5
8:00 Movie "Same Time, Next Year"
10:00 POW: Americans in Enemy Hands (profiling 9 POWs from WWII, Korea and Vietnam)
mid. Movie: TBA

WLVI 56-Ind Boston
7:00 Bozo's Big Top
7:30 Mighty Mouse
8:00 Photon
8:30 Tom & Jerry
9:00 Heathcliff
9:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:00 Flintstones
10:30 MASK
11:00 Wrestling
noon Movie "Star Odyssey"
2:00 Movie "Future Women"
4:00 Dance Fever
4:30 Puttin' on the Hits
5:00 Angie
5:30 Good Times
6:00 What's Happening!!
6:30 Throb
7:00 Charles in Charge
7:30 What a Country!
8:00 Movie "Tourist Trap"
10:00 News
10:30 INN News
11:00 At the Movies
11:30 Movie "Hell's Kitchen" (bw)

 

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WHAT? No Canadian listings?!

 

[DToTheJ]

WLBZ 2-NBC Bangor
7:30 Woody Woodpecker

I wonder if this was the Program Exchange-packaged half-hour show that started to be distributed around this time, as opposed to random shorts hand-selected by the stations.

 

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WLBZ 2-NBC Bangor
7:30 Woody Woodpecker

I wonder if this was the Program Exchange-packaged half-hour show that started to be distributed around this time, as opposed to random shorts hand-selected by the stations.

I thought it wasn't until around 1990 when the pre-packaged version hit the airwaves?

 

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WHAT? No Canadian listings?!

Nope, CHSJ was the only Canadian station that TVG ever listed in the Maine edition...according to copies in my archives, it was still listed in 1981, so it was likely dropped sometime in the early 80s. If people wanted Canadian listings, the Bangor Daily News would have filled their needs...

 

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The wrestling on WPXT-TV channel 51 of Portland was WWF Superstars, of which I was a faithful viewer of in Old Orchard Beach at this time (I moved two weeks after this to Connecticut, though). The wrestling on WGME-TV channel 13 was the ICW group. The candle pin bowling show likely came from WLVI-TV channel 56 of Cambridge/Boston. Back then, WCSH-TV channel 6 had a nasty habit of preempting NBC SportsWorld, unless it was Major League Baseball or NFL Football. WCBB-TV (PBS) channel 10 of Augusta wouldn't become a part of MPBN until about 1992 or so.

 

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The wrestling on WPXT-TV channel 51 of Portland was WWF Superstars, of which I was a faithful viewer of in Old Orchard Beach at this time (I moved two weeks after this to Connecticut, though). The wrestling on WGME-TV channel 13 was the ICW group. The candle pin bowling show likely came from WLVI-TV channel 56 of Cambridge/Boston. Back then, WCSH-TV channel 6 had a nasty habit of preempting NBC SportsWorld, unless it was Major League Baseball or NFL Football. WCBB-TV (PBS) channel 10 of Augusta wouldn't become a part of MPBN until about 1992 or so.

WVII also ran ICW at one point in the Sunday 12:30pm slot, I've also seen a clip on YouTube that indicates that they also ran WWF at one point...

 

[KML0224]

Perhaps. I've only been in Bangor once and that was in 1996, pretty much the last days of WWE doing syndication. WGME used to air ICW Wrestling. I knnow the late Randy Savage wrestled there for a time. So did his brother Lanny Poffo, who turned 53 on Thursday. I know that WPXT-TV channel 51 of Portland carried WWE until at least 1996. Coming back to 2011, I've seen very little of today's channel 51 or WPME-TV (MY) channel 35 of Lewiston. The Clarion Inn & Suites had the channel on the room's TV, but the LaQuinta nearby on Park Avenue did not.

 

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Perhaps. I've only been in Bangor once and that was in 1996, pretty much the last days of WWE doing syndication. WGME used to air ICW Wrestling. I knnow the late Randy Savage wrestled there for a time. So did his brother Lanny Poffo, who turned 53 on Thursday. I know that WPXT-TV channel 51 of Portland carried WWE until at least 1996. Coming back to 2011, I've seen very little of today's channel 51 or WPME-TV (MY) channel 35 of Lewiston. The Clarion Inn & Suites had the channel on the room's TV, but the LaQuinta nearby on Park Avenue did not.

The local cableco here (like many in the Maritimes in those days) picked up both WLBZ and WVII via microwave from Chamcook at that time, so I can personally attest that ICW did air on WVII around that time. The cableco here would dump those signals for their Detroit counterparts from Cancom around '88/'89 due to signal concerns, mainly from WVII whose signal would occasionally conk out from time to time (WLBZ and WABI had translators in Calais, near Chamoook, where WVII didn't).

 

[Maine-i-ac]

from TV Guide-Maine edition

WLBZ 2-NBC Bangor
7:30 Woody Woodpecker

These were the shorts complete with opening and closing credits. Channel 2 would also run them as filler at the end of their movies.

from TV Guide-Maine edition
WABI 5-CBS Bangor

7:30 Big Country Videos (videos by Michael Martin Murphey, Willie Nelson, and Dwight Yoakum; simulcast on WYOU 97.1-Bangor)

This show was hosted by Steve MacKay (meterologist at WLBZ) and Michael W. Hale (morning host at WNSX-FM 97.7)

from TV Guide-Maine edition
WVII 7-ABC Bangor
11:30 All Hit Videos (the listings didn't indicate it, but I think the show was simulcast on one of the Bangor FM stations)

WWFX (Fox 104.7, Belfast) started in 1986 and I'm quite positive that the simulcast started shortly after they went on the air. According to Chuck Foster's website, "AHV" is still on the air and is America's longest running music video show.