25 years ago today, from TV Guide-Maine edition
WLBZ 2-Bangor/WCSH 6-Portland (NBC)
6:30 (6) First Radio Parish Church
6:35 (6) News Extra
6:45 (6) News
6:55 (2) First Radio Parish Church
7:00 Muppet Show
7:30 (2) Woody Woodpecker
7:30 (6) Littlest Hobo (is this the CTV version from the early 80s?)
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 (animated)
noon News
12:30 French Open tennis: women's final, same-day tape and JIP
3:00 Baseball Pre-Game
3:15 Baseball: Detroit-Boston (alt game: Los Angeles-Cincinnati; both of Maine's Peacock stations also carried some of WSBK's Sox games)
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 (2) Fame
7:00 (6) Star Trek
8:00 227
8:30 Me & Mrs. C
9:00 Golden Girls
9:30 Amen
10:00 Hunter
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (rerun from December '86 with the Three Amigos Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, and Martin Short, with Randy Newman providing the music)
1:00 (6) Movie "Is Everybody Happy But Me?" (2 signed off at 1)
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 congregations in 17 nations in reciting the Rosary, live from the Vatican; producer-director Tony Verma worked on 1985's Live Aid concerts)
1:00 Infomercials (Discover at 1, Look at Me Now at 1:30)
2:00 Showdown
3:00 Indy Challenge (a look at Indy car racing and the pit crews)
4:00 Kemper Open golf
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Throb
7:30 Big Country Videos (videos from Michael Martin Murphey, Willie Nelson, and Dwight Yoakum; simulcast on WYOU 97.1)
8:00 Master of the Game (pt 1)
11:00 News
11:30 Big Country Videos (r)
mid. It's a Living
12:30 Star Search
1:30 Tales of the Unexpected
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
noon Voltron
12:30 Jem
1:00 McDonald's Championship women's golf
3:00 ABC Wide World of Sports: a male and female team of climbers tackle Scotland's Old Man of Hoy, Australian Surf Lifesaving Championships
4:30 Belmont Stakes horse race
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Saturday
7:00 Hee Haw (guests: co-host Mel Tellis, Louise Mandrell, and John Anderson)
8:00 Webster
8:30 Sidekicks (return)
9:00 Gung Ho (return)
9:30 Dads (return)
10:00 Starman
11:00 News
11:15 ABC News
11:30 All-Hit Videos
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 Pound Puppies
11:00 Bugs Bunny & Tweety
noon ABC Weekend Special "Cap'n Readmore Meets Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
12:30 Health Show
1:00 McDonald's Championship women's golf
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
8:30 Sidekicks (return)
9:00 Gung Ho (return)
9:30 Dads (return)
10:00 Starman
11:00 News
11:30 Throb
mid. Solid Gold (guests Eddie Money, Timbuk 3, Klymaxx, Marie Osmond, Stacy Lattishaw, and Michael Johnson; 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
Network shows from CBS unless otherwise indicated
6:30 Smurfs (NBC/week behind)
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" (Movin' On pilot)
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 (then a separate PBS station, WCBB would merge 5 years later with MPBN; the calls stand for its original partners-Colby College, Bates College, and Bowdoin College)
6:30 Body Electric
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Washington Week in Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9:00 Firing Line (debate over women as Anglican (Episcopal in the US) priests)
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 (Candlepin is also quite popular in the Maritimes as well; around this time, ATV ran a weekly show Saturdays at 4)
6:00 Mystery! "Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime: The Ambassador's Boots"
7:00 Yes Minister
7:30 Victory at Sea (bw; American forces fight to keep the Aleutian Islands out of Japanese hands)
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 the deaths of over 700 GIs on the Devon coast during D-Day practice after German torpedo boats hit their unprotected boat in the dark, and the subsequent cover-up)
7:00 New Hampshire Journal
7:30 Agronsky & Company
8:00 Assignment Adventure (following the 5 week training voyage of a group of teens who sail a ketch from Quebec to Liverpool)
9:00 New Hamphsire Crossroads (Granite Staters who work the night shift)
9:30 Yes Minister
10:00 Mystery! (same show as 6pm, ch 10)
11:00 Mind Your Language
11:30 Tripods
mid. Austin City Limits
1:00 Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler
MPBN (PBS): WMEB 12-Orono/WMEA 26-Biddeford/WMEM 10-Presque Isle/WMED 13-Calais (TVG listed 12/26, mentioning 10/13 as relays)
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" (US and Soviets' first manned flights)
3:00 Spaceflight ""One Giant Leap" (the 1969 moon landing)
4:00 Maine Reporter's Notebook
5:00 Candlepin Bowling
6:00 Doctor Who
7:30 Step Away from War (Paul Newman hosts this anti-nuke testing program, with comments from Ted Turner and (retired) Adm. Gene LaRocque)
8:00 Maine High School Band 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)
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" (John Carpenter's directoral debut in a low-budget spoof of 2001: A Space Odyssey)
12:45 Movie "Sherlock Holmes in Terror by Night" (bw)
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 (Southbridge) v Dick O'Connell (Brockton)
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 American POWs from WWII, Korea and Vietnam)
mid. Movie: TBA
WLVI 56-Ind Boston
7:30 Mighty Mouse
8:00 Photon
8:30 Tom & Jerry
9:00 Heathcliff
9:30 Bugs Bunny/Woody Woodpecker
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)
WLBZ 2-Bangor/WCSH 6-Portland (NBC)
6:30 (6) First Radio Parish Church
6:35 (6) News Extra
6:45 (6) News
6:55 (2) First Radio Parish Church
7:00 Muppet Show
7:30 (2) Woody Woodpecker
7:30 (6) Littlest Hobo (is this the CTV version from the early 80s?)
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 (animated)
noon News
12:30 French Open tennis: women's final, same-day tape and JIP
3:00 Baseball Pre-Game
3:15 Baseball: Detroit-Boston (alt game: Los Angeles-Cincinnati; both of Maine's Peacock stations also carried some of WSBK's Sox games)
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 (2) Fame
7:00 (6) Star Trek
8:00 227
8:30 Me & Mrs. C
9:00 Golden Girls
9:30 Amen
10:00 Hunter
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (rerun from December '86 with the Three Amigos Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, and Martin Short, with Randy Newman providing the music)
1:00 (6) Movie "Is Everybody Happy But Me?" (2 signed off at 1)
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 congregations in 17 nations in reciting the Rosary, live from the Vatican; producer-director Tony Verma worked on 1985's Live Aid concerts)
1:00 Infomercials (Discover at 1, Look at Me Now at 1:30)
2:00 Showdown
3:00 Indy Challenge (a look at Indy car racing and the pit crews)
4:00 Kemper Open golf
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Throb
7:30 Big Country Videos (videos from Michael Martin Murphey, Willie Nelson, and Dwight Yoakum; simulcast on WYOU 97.1)
8:00 Master of the Game (pt 1)
11:00 News
11:30 Big Country Videos (r)
mid. It's a Living
12:30 Star Search
1:30 Tales of the Unexpected
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
noon Voltron
12:30 Jem
1:00 McDonald's Championship women's golf
3:00 ABC Wide World of Sports: a male and female team of climbers tackle Scotland's Old Man of Hoy, Australian Surf Lifesaving Championships
4:30 Belmont Stakes horse race
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Saturday
7:00 Hee Haw (guests: co-host Mel Tellis, Louise Mandrell, and John Anderson)
8:00 Webster
8:30 Sidekicks (return)
9:00 Gung Ho (return)
9:30 Dads (return)
10:00 Starman
11:00 News
11:15 ABC News
11:30 All-Hit Videos
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 Pound Puppies
11:00 Bugs Bunny & Tweety
noon ABC Weekend Special "Cap'n Readmore Meets Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
12:30 Health Show
1:00 McDonald's Championship women's golf
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
8:30 Sidekicks (return)
9:00 Gung Ho (return)
9:30 Dads (return)
10:00 Starman
11:00 News
11:30 Throb
mid. Solid Gold (guests Eddie Money, Timbuk 3, Klymaxx, Marie Osmond, Stacy Lattishaw, and Michael Johnson; 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
Network shows from CBS unless otherwise indicated
6:30 Smurfs (NBC/week behind)
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" (Movin' On pilot)
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 (then a separate PBS station, WCBB would merge 5 years later with MPBN; the calls stand for its original partners-Colby College, Bates College, and Bowdoin College)
6:30 Body Electric
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Washington Week in Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9:00 Firing Line (debate over women as Anglican (Episcopal in the US) priests)
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 (Candlepin is also quite popular in the Maritimes as well; around this time, ATV ran a weekly show Saturdays at 4)
6:00 Mystery! "Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime: The Ambassador's Boots"
7:00 Yes Minister
7:30 Victory at Sea (bw; American forces fight to keep the Aleutian Islands out of Japanese hands)
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 the deaths of over 700 GIs on the Devon coast during D-Day practice after German torpedo boats hit their unprotected boat in the dark, and the subsequent cover-up)
7:00 New Hampshire Journal
7:30 Agronsky & Company
8:00 Assignment Adventure (following the 5 week training voyage of a group of teens who sail a ketch from Quebec to Liverpool)
9:00 New Hamphsire Crossroads (Granite Staters who work the night shift)
9:30 Yes Minister
10:00 Mystery! (same show as 6pm, ch 10)
11:00 Mind Your Language
11:30 Tripods
mid. Austin City Limits
1:00 Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler
MPBN (PBS): WMEB 12-Orono/WMEA 26-Biddeford/WMEM 10-Presque Isle/WMED 13-Calais (TVG listed 12/26, mentioning 10/13 as relays)
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" (US and Soviets' first manned flights)
3:00 Spaceflight ""One Giant Leap" (the 1969 moon landing)
4:00 Maine Reporter's Notebook
5:00 Candlepin Bowling
6:00 Doctor Who
7:30 Step Away from War (Paul Newman hosts this anti-nuke testing program, with comments from Ted Turner and (retired) Adm. Gene LaRocque)
8:00 Maine High School Band 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)
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" (John Carpenter's directoral debut in a low-budget spoof of 2001: A Space Odyssey)
12:45 Movie "Sherlock Holmes in Terror by Night" (bw)
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 (Southbridge) v Dick O'Connell (Brockton)
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 American POWs from WWII, Korea and Vietnam)
mid. Movie: TBA
WLVI 56-Ind Boston
7:30 Mighty Mouse
8:00 Photon
8:30 Tom & Jerry
9:00 Heathcliff
9:30 Bugs Bunny/Woody Woodpecker
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)
