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Retro: Minneapolis-St Paul, Monday, October 26, 1987

1st time doing one of these so be gentle ;)
From the paper copy of the Minneapolis Star Tribune....found a box of old newspapers (mainly with articles and papers revolving around the Minnesota Twins)

KTCA 2 PBS
6:00 Working Adults
6:30 Business Report
7:00 Child Abuse
7:30 3-2-1 Contact
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Mister Rogers Neighborhood
9:30 Captain Kangaroo
10:00 Kathy’s Kitchen
10:30 Floral Painting
11:00 We’re Cooking
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Mister Rogers Neighborhood
1:00 Movie-The Courtneys of Carson Street
3:00 3-2-1 Contact
3:30 Square One TV
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers Neighborhood
5:30 Business Report
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:00 The Last Bastion
8:00 America By Design (Shape of the Land)
9:00 The Story of English (Guid Scots Tongue)
10:00 Yes Minister
10:30 Place/Home
11:00 Report/Defense Secretaries
MIDNITE MacNeil/Lehrer Report

WCCO 4 CBS
6:00 News (started at 5:30)
6:30 The Morning Program
8:00 Donahue
9:00 Hour Magazine
10:00 Price is Right
11:00 Young & Restless
NOON News
12:30 Bold & Beautiful
1:00 As the World Turns
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 Hollywood Squares
3:30 Newlywed Game
4:00 Jeopardy
4:30 Newsday
5:00 News
5:30 CBS News
6:00 News
6:30 Wheel of Fortune
7:00 MN Twins Celebration (Twins won the World Series the previous night) This pre-empted "Frank's Place"
7:30 Kate & Allie
8:00 Newhart
8:30 Designing Women
9:00 Cagney & Lacey
10:00 News
10:35 Hill Street Blues
11:35 Shriner
12:35 Sally Jesse Raphael
1:05 Barnaby Jones
2:05 Nightwatch

KSTP 5 ABC
6:00 News
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Twin Cities Live (local show that still is around)
10:00 Geraldo
11:00 Peoples Court
11:30 News
NOON All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Good Company (another locally produced show)
4:00 Oprah Winfrey
5:00 News
5:30 ABC News
6:00 News
6:30 A Current Affair
7:00 MacGyver
8:00 Monday Night Football – LA Rams at Cleveland OR Denver Broncos at Minnesota Vikings (The Vikings game was scheduled for Sunday but due to World Series game 7 the NFL game got pushed to Monday)
11:00 News
11:30 Nightline
12:30 Movie-Dark Purpose
2:20 Movie-The War in Space
4:00 Selected Short Subjects
4:30 Morning Ag Report

KMSP 9 FOX
technically FOX at the time even though FOX only programmed two nights a week + the Joan Rivers talk show noted below. FOX was dropped in January 1988 and went back to Independent.
6:00 Beverly Hills
6:30 GI Joe
7:00 JEM
7:30 Flintstones
8:00 Tom & Jerry
8:30 Dennis the Menace
9:00 My Little Pony
9:30 Ghostbusters
10:00 Love Boat
11:00 Hart to Hart
NOON Twilight Zone
12:30 News
1:00 Love Connection
1:30 Good Times
2:00 Woody Woodpecker
2:30 Transformers
3:00 Scooby Doo
3:30 Smurfs
4:00 Jetsons
4:30 Duck Tails
5:00 Happy Days
5:30 Different Strokes
6:00 Facts of Life
6:30 Family Ties
7:00 Movie-A Change of Seasons
9:00 News
10:00 Jeffersons
10:35 The Late Show with Joan Rivers
11:35 Movie-The Great Train Robbery
1:35 Movie-The Left-Handed Gun
3:20 Movie-Calamity Jane

KARE 11 NBC
6:00 News
7:00 Today Show
9:00 Sale of the Century
9:30 Concentration
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Win Lose or Draw
11:00 Matchmaker
11:30 Scrabble
NOON Days of Our Lives
1:00 Another World
2:00 Santa Barbara
3:00 Magnum PI
4:00 Three’s Company
4:30 MASH
5:00 News
5:30 NBC News
6:00 News
6:30 Entertainment Tonight
7:00 ALF
7:30 Storyteller
8:00 Movie-Deep Dark Secrets
10:00 News
10:35 Cheers
11:05 The Tonight Show
12:05 Late Night with David Letterman
1:05 Alice
1:35 News
2:05 Home Shopping Overnight

KTCI 17 PBS
6:00 Weather Radar
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Business Report
6:30 Adam Smith
7:00 Child Abuse
7:30 Minnesota Issues
8:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
9:00 Almanac (locally produced current affairs show)
10:00 The Great Space Race
11:00 America by Design (Shape of the Land)

KTMA 23 Independent (now WUCW CW)
6:00 Home Shopping Network (from 5am)
6:30 Spiderman
7:00 TBA
7:30 Danger Mouse
8:00 Plasticman
8:30 Zoobilee Zoo
9:00 Jimmy Swaggart
9:30 James Robison
10:00 Who’s the Boss?
10:30 Getting in Touch
11:00 Ryan’s Hope
11:30 Loving
NOON Movie-Buster and Billie
1:30 Mr Ed
2:00 Mr Ed
2:30 Dennis the Menace
3:00 Spiral Zone
3:30 Danger Mouse
4:00 Dinosaucers
4:30 Bravestarr
5:00 Punky Brewster
5:30 Gomer Pyle
6:00 Andy Griffith
6:30 Andy Griffith
7:00 TJ Hooker
8:00 Movie-Covert Action
10:00 The Untouchables
11:00 Hawaii Five-o
MIDNIGHT Mannix

KITN 29 Independent (now WFTC FOX9+ aka My Network)
6:00 Jimmy Swaggart
6:30 Popeye
7:00 Bugs Bunny
7:30 Ghostbusters
8:00 Saber Rider
8:30 Silverhawks
9:00 The 700 Club
10:00 Success-N-Life
11:00 Emergency!
NOON Perry Mason
1:00 Cannon
2:00 Slim Cooking
2:30 Thundercats
3:00 Teddy Ruxpin
3:30 Comic Strip
4:00 Bionic Six
4:30 Beverly Hillbillies
5:00 Silver Spoons
5:30 Hogan’s Heroes
6:00 Star Trek
7:00 Movie-Night Watch
9:00 Perry Mason
10:00 Mary Tyler Moore
10:35 The Honeymooners
11:05 Sanford & Son
11:35 Archie Bunker’s Place
12:05 Discover
12:35 Movie-Who?
2:35 Movie-Escape from the Planet of the Apes

KXLI 41 Independent (now KPXM Ion)
6:00 CNN News
6:30 Morning Stretch
7:00 CNN news
7:30 Morning Stretch
8:00 Richard Roberts
9:00 PTL Club
10:00 America’s Value Network
NOON CNN News
12:30 Crook & Chase
1:00 Movie-Five Gates to Hell
3:00 Alvin & the Chipmunks
3:30 Record Guide
4:00 Whirly Birds
4:30 My Three Sons
5:00 Rawhide
6:00 Rockford Files
7:00 Movie-Rogue Mate
9:00 Millionaire
9:30 Have Gun Will Travel
10:00 Phil Silvers
10:30 Movie-Ordeal
 
Actually, Joan Rivers had left The Late Show in May of that year. I'm sure some other posters can fill in the details.
 
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