Retro: Maine Tues, Sept 17, 1985

[Bluenoser]

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
9:00 Days of Our Lives
10:00 Silver Spoons
10:30 Sale of the Century
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Scrabble
noon News
12:30 Phil Donahue
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 A-Team
9:00 Bob Hope (in this special, Bob buys NBC)
10:00 Remington Steele
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman
1:30 sign-off

WABI 5-CBS Bangor
5:55 Open Door
6:00 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News
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 Movie "Sunset Limousine"
10:00 West 57th
11:00 News
11:30 Magnum, PI
12:40 McCloud
2:00 sign-off

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 Silver Spoons
10:30 Sale of the Century
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Scrabble
noon News
12:30 Phil Donahue
1:30 Search for Tomorrow
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 Littlest Hobo
4:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
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 A-Team
9:00 Bob Hope
10:00 Remington Steele
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman
1:30 Entertainment Tonight
2:00 sign-off

WVII 7-ABC Bangor
6:00 Jim Bakker
7:00 Good Morning America
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
8:00 Who's the Boss?
8:30 Three's a Crowd (finale)
9:00 Our Family Honor (2 hr premiere)
11:00 News
11:30 Nightline
mid. Starsky & Hutch
1:00 sign-off

WMTW 8-ABC Poland Spring
5:30 Our Changing World
6:00 ABC World News This Morning/Local News
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Movie "Tulsa"
11:00 Angie
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
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 New Newlywed Game
7:30 Carson's Comedy Classics
8:00 Who's the Boss?
8:30 Three's a Crowd (finale)
9:00 Our Family Honor (2 hr premiere)
11:00 News
11:30 Nightline
mid. Eye on Hollywood
12:30 Laverne & Shirley
1:00 News
1:30 sign-off

WAGM 8-CBS/NBC/ABC Presque Isle
Network programs from CBS unless otherwise indicated
4:30 Potato Pickers' Special
6:30 ABC World News This Morning (ABC)
7:00 Good Morning America (ABC)
9:00 Phil Donahue
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 Newhart (1 day delay, WAGM spiked CBS' 9-10 hour on Mondays to air a 6 day delayed A-Team; Kate & Allie wasn't aired)
8:00 Movie "Sunset Limousine"
10:00 West 57th
11:00 News
11:30 Magnum, PI
12:40 McCloud
2:00 sign-off

WCBB 10-PBS Augusta
6:00 Body Electric
6:30 Farm Day
6:45 AM Weather
7:00 Body Electric
7:30 Latenight America
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 Bridge Basics
3:00 Adam Smith's Money World
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 Nova "Baby Talk"
9:00 Lifeline (following obstetrician Roger Freeman, first aired in 1978)
10:00 Soundstage (season finale, guests the Roches)
11:00 McLaughlin Group
11:30 Latenight America
12:30 Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler
12:35 sign-off

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 Mechanical Universe
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 Wild, Wild World of Animals
8:00 Nova "Baby Talk"
9:00 Sting (a look at whether FBI sting operations are Constitutionally legal)
10:00 Good Neighbors
10:30 Bounder
11:00 To the Manor Born
11:30 Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler
11:35 sign-off

WMEB 12-Orono/WMEM 10-Presque Isle/WMED 13-Calais/WMEA 26-Biddeford (PBS)
7:15 AM Weather
7:30 Nightly Business Report
8:00 Body Electric
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Instructional Programs
11:30 Secret City
noon Sesame Street
1:00 Instructional Programs
2:30 Body Electric
3:00 Growing Years
3:30 Educational Computing
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Innovation "Get the Picture"
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour
8:00 Nova "Baby Talk"
9:00 Lifeline
10:00 Soundstage (season finale)
11:00 sign-off

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 Movie "Sunset Limousine"
10:00 West 57th
11:00 News
11:30 Magnum, PI
12:40 McCloud
2:00 CBS News Nightwatch

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 "Marshal of Madrid" (Cade's County compilation)
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 "Stand by Your Man"
10:00 Odd Couple
10:30 Dick Van Dyke (bw)
11:00 M*A*S*H
11:30 Hogan's Heroes (double bill)
12:30 Maude
1:00 Phil Silvers (bw)
1:30 sign-off

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 De Todo Un Poco
11:00 New England Today
noon I Love Lucy (bw/double bill)
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 (double bill)
7:00 Benson
7:30 Taxi
8:00 Movie "First to Fight"
10:00 News
10:30 Carson's Comedy Classics
11:00 Bizarre
11:30 Benny Hill
mid. News
12:30 sign-off

 

[DToTheJ]

WVII 7-ABC Bangor
11:00 Transformers
11:30 Voltron

As if "big three" network affiliates airing cartoons wasn't odd enough, to be airing it in an hour in which even independents wouldn't choose to run it (WLVI notwithstanding) seems really odd!

 

[azumanga]

WVII 7-ABC Bangor
11:00 Transformers
11:30 Voltron

As if "big three" network affiliates airing cartoons wasn't odd enough, to be airing it in an hour in which even independents wouldn't choose to run it (WLVI notwithstanding) seems really odd!

Especially when the target audience is at school.. why put it on if no one is watching?

 

[Bluenoser]

WVII 7-ABC Bangor
11:00 Transformers
11:30 Voltron

As if "big three" network affiliates airing cartoons wasn't odd enough, to be airing it in an hour in which even independents wouldn't choose to run it (WLVI notwithstanding) seems really odd!

Especially when the target audience is at school.. why put it on if no one is watching?

Just what you'd expect from Bangor's El Cheapo network affiliate ...WVII has had some strange scheduling practices over the years.

 

[KML0224]

Yes! I remember this lineup! I was living in Old Orchard Beach (York County) at that time. It was a year before WPXT-TV channel 51 of Portland would sign on (and later become a charter FOX affiliate). The leftovers of Hurricane Gloria would come through 10 days later, knocking out my power. The second season premiere of Miami Vice was that night and I was miffed that I couldn't see it. Yes, the things I remember! 24 years later, I'm finishing a visit to nearby Portland.

 

[mleach]

WVII 7-ABC Bangor
11:00 Transformers
11:30 Voltron

As if "big three" network affiliates airing cartoons wasn't odd enough, to be airing it in an hour in which even independents wouldn't choose to run it (WLVI notwithstanding) seems really odd!

Especially when the target audience is at school.. why put it on if no one is watching?

I agree it doesn't make sense unless..the school systems in and around Bangor would show these cartoons to kids at school at lunchtime. My high school actually did something similar for a time back in the mid 80's..problem was the school only got three channels "Live"..WVPT ( PBS ), WHAG-TV NBC 25 out of Hagerstown, MD and Washington's WJLA-TV ( ABC ). At the time both WJLA and WHAG were big on court shows ( People's Court, The Judge, Superior Court, Divorce Court ) and on Fridays our government teacher "Mr. Monohan" would actually show them in class to us since we were learning about the court system.

Alas...this came to a sudden end when one Friday when Mr. Monohan showed our class an episode of Divorce Court, the one where a preteen aged girl walked into her parents bedroom catching her mother having sex...with her son !!!

The next day..the showing of live" TV was banned in our school except for special news reports like the Challenger disaster. And yes "Mr.Monohan" found himself getting the ax as a result of "Divorce Court". He died 3 years later as a result of a car accident..at the age of 31.

 

[DToTheJ]

Are you changing the teacher's name to protect his security?

Wow, what an amazing story!

 

[harrisburgpatv]

Interesting with the NBC stations in Bangor and Portland carrying DooL at 9, to have Donahue at 12:30 and Search an hour later at 1:30. How long did that arrangement last?

I also noticed a PBS station carrying "Electric Company" this late in 1985...I thought it had exited all PBS stations by this point?

 

[KML0224]

It was still that way on WCSH-TV (Portland) in 1986-87. They would also only carry the second half of NFL Live! on Sundays, thanks to a noon newscast. Why on a Sunday, I'll never know! They also didn't often carry the NBC Sportsworld stuff on the weekends. In 1986-87 the coverage of The Skins Game (golf) on NBC wound up on WPXT-TV channel 51!

 

[DToTheJ]

I also noticed a PBS station carrying "Electric Company" this late in 1985...I thought it had exited all PBS stations by this point?

I know for a fact that WNET used to carry "Electric Company" as late as 1986. I know because I used to be a loyal viewer!

 

[bpatrick]

WVII 7-ABC Bangor
11:00 Transformers
11:30 Voltron

As if "big three" network affiliates airing cartoons wasn't odd enough, to be airing it in an hour in which even independents wouldn't choose to run it (WLVI notwithstanding) seems really odd!

Especially when the target audience is at school.. why put it on if no one is watching?

Just what you'd expect from Bangor's El Cheapo network affiliate ...WVII has had some strange scheduling practices over the years.

Reminds me of WGRZ Buffalo's carrying The Flintstones at noon.

 

[harrisburgpatv]

Reminds me of WGRZ Buffalo's carrying The Flintstones at noon.

Was there a reason for that? And how long did that air at noon for? I remember seeing that in an April 1994 TVG...