Retro: Nebraska, Wed. Jul 31st, 1991

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Source: TV Guide #2000


Channels
2n KNOP North Platte NBC
2v KUSD-TV Vermillion PBS/SDPB
3 KMTV Omaha CBS
4 KTIV Sioux City IA NBC
5h KHAS Hastings NBC
5s KDLT Sioux Falls SD NBC
6 WOWT Omaha NBC
7 KETV Omaha ABC
8a KCAN Albion ABC
8b KESD-TV Brookings PBS
9 KCAU Sioux City IA ABC
10 KOLN Lincoln CBS
11 KELO-TV Sioux Falls SD CBS
12 KUON Lincoln PBS
13k KHGI Kearney ABC
13s KSFY Sioux Falls SD ABC
14 KMEG Sioux City IA CBS/FOX
17 KTTW Sioux Falls SD FOX
26 KYNE Omaha PBS
27 KSIN Sioux City IA PBS
32 KBIN Council Bluffs IA PBS
42 KPTM Omaha FOX
WGN Ch 9 Chicago IND


7/31/1991-Wednesday


5AM
11 CBS News
42 Diff'rent Strokes
WGN One Day at a Time


5:30
6 13k Morning Agriculture Report
8a 9 11 Ag Day
13s ABC News-Mike Schneider
42 Bullwinkle
WGN Faith 20


5:45
12 26 Intro to College Composition


6am
2v 8b To Life!
3 This Morning's Business
4 5h 6 NBC News
5s Morning Agriculture Report
7 ABC News
8a 9 13k ABC News (60 min)
10 11 CBS News (60 min on KOLN)
13s Breakfast Club
14 This Morning
Scheduled: Charlie Sheen and Cary Elwes.
42 Muppet Babies
WGN Success N Life


6:15
2v 8b AM Weather
12 26 Business and the Law
27 32 Homestretch


6:30
2n 5s NBC News
2v 8b Teach An Adult to Read
3 CBS News
4 6 7 11 News
5h Ag Day
17 This Morning's Business
42 Alvin & The Chipmunks


6:45
12 26 27 32 AM Weather


7AM
2n 4 5h 5s 6 Today
Scheduled: Author Donald I. Fine ('The Day the Phones Stopped'). Also: Part 3 of a series on the Gulf War.
2v 8b To Paint the Stars
3 10 11 This Morning
See 6am, ch 14.
7 8a 9 13k 13s Good Morning America
Scheduled: Charlie Sheen ('Hot Shots'). Also: the conclusion of an interview with Princess Stephanie of Monaco.
12 Sesame Street
17 Wake, Rattle & Roll
26 Psychology 101
27 32 Personal Finance
42 Ducktales
WGN Banana Splits


7:30
17 Muppet Babies
27 32 Captain Kangaroo
42 Rescue Rangers
WGN Bozo


8am
2v 8b Olympic
12 26 Zoobilee Zoo
14 Bold & The Beautiful (this has to be 1-day delay)
17 Super Mario Bros.
27 32 Sesame Street
42 Tiny Toons


8:30
2v 8b Welcome to My Studio
12 26 Wind in the Willows
14 Graham Kerr
17 Jetsons
42 Dennis the Menace
WGN Cooky's Cartoon Club


9AM
2n 5h 6 Wheel of Fortune
2v 8b Joy of Painting
3 4 5s 13k Regis & Kathie Lee
Scheduled: A cooking segment featuring a recipe for peach-and-blueberry cobbler.
7 8a 9 10 Sally Jessy Raphael
Scheduled topic: The parents of children who have drowned in pool accidents.
11 14 Designing Women
A job takes the designers to a nudist colony.
12 26 Frugal Gourmet
13s Little House on the Prairie
17 Changed Lives
27 32 Mister Rogers
42 I Love Lucy BW
WGN Trapper John M.D.


9:30
2n 5h Classic Concentration
2v 8b Joy of Country Painting
6 $100,000 Pyramid (John Davidson version)
11 14 Family Feud (daytime)
12 26 Joy of Painting
17 Come Alive
27 32 Portrait of a Family
42 Bewitched


10am
2n 4 5h 5s 6 Full House
Joey plays Las Vegas, opening for Wayne Newton (who appears in a cameo). (Apparently *NBC* aired reruns of an *ABC* series in daytime for a couple months, prior to the syndication run beginning in September.)
2v 8b Acrylic Art is Fun
3 10 11 14 Price is Right
7 8a 9 13k Home (60 min on 7/13k, 90 on 8a/9)
Scheduled: The Iowa test gardens of Better Homes & Gardens magazine; Nolan Ryan.
12 26 Today's Gourmet
13s Sally Jessy Raphael
Scheduled topic: wives who feel that their husbands don't listen to them.
27 32 Inspiration of Painting
42 Happy Days
WGN Joan Rivers


10:30
2n 4 5h 5s Cover to Cover (just premiered the previous Monday)
Scheduled: Dating services; diet pills.
2v 8b Fashion Painting Step by Step
6 Graham Kerr
12 26 We Do the Work
17 Word of Truth
27 32 Amish Cooking
42 New Leave it to Beaver


11am
2n 4 A Closer Look-Faith Daniels
2v 8b Blitz on Cartooning
3 10 11 14 Young and the Restless
5h 5s Graham Kerr
6 Santa Barbara
7 Challengers
12 26 Justin Wilson's Louisiana Cookin'
13k All My Children
13s Home
17 Truth Alive
27 32 Sewing Connection
42 Highway to Heaven
WGN Geraldo


11:30
2n 7 News
2v 8 12 26 Sesame Street
4 Wheel of Fortune (Bob Goen, daytime, tape-delayed)
5h 5s A Closer Look
8a 9 Loving
27 32 From a Country Garden


Noon
2n 5s Days of Our Lives
3 4 5h 6 10 11 13k News
7 8a 9 13s All My Children
14 Phil Donahue
Scheduled: Phil's bloopers from previous shows.
17 Christian Lifestyle Magazine
27 32 Zoobilee Zoo
42 Perry Mason BW
WGN News


12:30
2v 8b Long Ago & Far Away
3 10 11 Bold & The Beautiful
4 5h Days of Our Lives
6 A Closer Look
12 26 Homestretch
13k Loving
17 Sunshine Factory
27 32 Reading Rainbow


1PM
2n 5s 6 Another World
2v 8b OWL/TV
3 10 11 14 As the World Turns
7 8a 9 13k 13s One Life to Live
12 26 Movie
'La Traviata.' (1982) Franco Zeffirelli's lavish production of the Verdi opera, with Placido Domingo and Teresa Stratas as the tragic 19th-century lovers.
17 Davey & Goliath
27 32 Nova
42 Hunter
WGN Dick Van Dyke BW


1:30
2v 8b Ramona
4 5h Another World
17 Joker's Wild (the ill-fated Pat Finn version)
WGN Gidget


2PM
2n 5s Santa Barbara
2v 8b Shining Time Station
3 10 11 14 Guiding Light
6 Days of Our Lives
7 8a 9 13k 13s General Hospital
17 Cope
27 32 Innovation
42 CHiPs
WGN One Day at a Time


2:30
2v 8b Sesame Street
4 5h Santa Barbara
27 32 All Creatures Great & Small


3PM
2n 6 The Judge
3 10 Oprah Winfrey
Scheduled program topic: when honesty causes pain.
5s WGN Flintstones
7 Mama's Family
8a 9 Highway to Heaven
11 ALF
12 26 3-2-1 Contact
13k Merrie Melodies
13s Phil Donahue
See noon, ch 14.
14 Dennis the Menace (Cartoon)
17 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
42 Peter Pan & The Pirates


3:25
27 32 Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler (Odd time for this to air. Normally PBS stations aired this right before sign-off)


3:30
2n 5h WGN DuckTales
2v 8b 12 26 27 32 Mister Rogers
4 Oprah Winfrey
See 3PM, ch 3.
5s Bullwinkle
6 People's Court
7 Growing Pains
11 Hogan Family
13k 14 Tiny Toons
17 Gummi Bears
42 Tale Spin


4PM
2n Super Mario Bros.
2v 8b Reading Rainbow
A show on animals includes a visit to the Philadelphia Zoo.
3 11 Family Feud
5h WGN Rescue Rangers
5s Mr. Belvedere
Wesley (Brice Beckham) Commits a major faux pas with his classmates, while Kevin thinks he's had a close encounter with aliens.
6 Hard Copy
7 10 Phil Donahue
KETV - same as KMEG at noon
KOLN - Scheduled from Los Angeles: The cast of 'In Living Color.'
8a 9 ALF
ALF, Lynn and Jake are unlikely cohorts in a scheme to fix the auto mechanic who took Willie for a ride.
12 26 27 32 Sesame Street
13k 42 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
13s Oprah Winfrey
See 3pm, KMTV.
14 Alvin & The Chipmunks
17 DuckTales


4:30
2n Highway to Heaven
Three generations of bickering couples embark on a fantasy trip to learn what it was that brought them together. Part 1 of 2.
2v 8b 3-2-1 Contact
A study of weight and density examines the way that a snowfall is measured.
3 Jeopardy!
4 Cosby Show
Clair (Phylicia Ayers-Allen) puts in extra hours preparing to represent plaintiff Sonmdra (Sabrina LeBeauf) in a civil suit.
5h Tale Spin
5s Mama's Familyy
Iola (Beverly Archer) confronts her dominating mother, who responds to her plea for independence by throwing her out.
6 A Current Affair
8a 9 42 ALF
KCAN/KCAU: ALF takes matters into his own hands when a blackmailer threatens to turn him in to the task force.
KPTM: Willie (Max Wright) and ALF try to get rid of a Melmacian roach that not only is impervious to insecticide but grows larger when sprayed.
11 Challengers
13k E.D.J.
14 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
17 Rescue Rangers
WGN The Mask

5PM
2v 8b Captain Kangaroo
3 6 7 11 News
4 10 13s Jeopardy!
5h Mama's Family
When Mama's reams styart providing the names of winning race horses, the family figures they're in the money.
5s 13k A Current Affair
8a 9 Entertainment Tonight
Scheduled: Princess Stephanie of Monaco.
12 26 Reading Rainbow
See 4pm, ch 2v.
14 Perfect Strangers
17 Tale Spin
27 32 MacNeil, Lehrer Newshour
42 Charles in Charge
When Walter makes dates with three women for the same evening, Buddy comes up with a plan to bail Walter out.
WGN Andy Griffith


5:30
2n 4 5h 5s 6 NBC News-Brokaw
2v 8b Nightly Business Report
Commentator: Robert Reich.
3 10 11 14 CBS News-Rather
7 8a 9 13k 13s ABC News-Jennings
12 26 Wild America
'Beautiful Blues' takes a look at nature's examples of the color blue and its place in the plant and animal kingdoms.
17 Peter Pan & The Pirates
42 227
Mary's boss (Garrett Morris) at a travel agency finds her so invaluable that he wants her to accompany him on a trip.
WGN I Dream of Jeannie

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6PM
2n 3 4 5h 5s 6 7 8a 9 10 11 13k 13s News
2v 8b 12 26 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
14 Mama's Family
An old friend convinces Naomi (Dorothy Lyman) to enter a wrestling match, but Mama (Vicki Lawrence) ends up in the ring when she accidentally knocks out Naomi's partner.
17 WKRP in Cincinnati
27 32 Nightly Business Report
42 M*A*S*H
Potter asks the near-impossible of his surgeons: be nice to Frank.
WGN Night Court


6:30
2n 3 4 10 13s Wheel of Fortune
5h 7 Cosby Show
See 4:30, KTIV.
5s Golden Girls
Blanche (Rue McClanahan) is upset because she thinks she's pregnant-then despondent when she learns it's the onset of menopause.
6 Perfect Strangers
Larry (Mark Linn-Baker) imprudently advises Balki, the official negotiator for a company's purchase of a large chunk of Myposian land.
8a 9 A Current Affair
11 42 M*A*S*H
KELO - Conclusion. Klinger faces court-martial for the theft of a camera. Jamie Farr.
KPTM - Frank charges Hawkeye with mutiny. Carmichael: Ned Wilson.
13k Challengers
14 Night Court
Two feuding advice columnists (Lynne Stewart, Jodi Carlisle) offer to help Christine (Markie Post), who is troubled by her new romance.
17 Newhart
27 32 Frugal Gourmet-Jeff Smith
Spanish dishes include paella; chorizo.
WGN Andy Griffith BW


7PM
2h 4 5h 5s 6 Unsolved Mysteries
The reported hit-and-run death of a Spokane teen whose parents believe he was murdered; Edgar Cayce's history of diagnosing and treating illnesses; a Houston woman's 6-year search for her two sons.
2v 8b Letters from America: O.E. Rolvaag
Chronicling the life of author-teacher O.E. Rolvaag (1876-193), a Norwegian immigrant who wrote the novel 'Giants in the Earth.'
3 Commercial Program (on a Wednesday night in primetime. Really?)
7 8a 9 13k 13s Wonder Years
Kevin is the epitome of cool at school, but the times they are a-changin' and his mom (Alley Mills) is looking beyond her housewifely duties to working-at his school. Kevin: Fred Savage.
10 11 14 Police Squad!
Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) goes undercover to corner a boxing promoter who's fixing fights. Hocken: Alan North.
12 26 That Special Summer
Three children from Omaha enter Nebraska's Ag-Link program to get a fresh outlook on life.
17 Movie
'Perry Mason: The Case of the Lady in the Lake.' (1988) Perry (Raymond Burr) defends a man charged with murdering his heiress wife.
27 32 National Geographic
Thousands of animals 'Journey to the Forgotten River,' Botswana's Linyanti waterway, which became an emergency haven for wildlife after droughts dried up traditional watering holes in the early 1980s.
42 Movie
'Spaceballs.' (1987) May the farce be with Mel Brooks' 'Star Wars' parody, with characters like Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis).
WGN Movie
'Invasion U.S.A.' (1985) Chuck Norris launches deadly assaults against terrorist infiltators who have landed on Florida's coast.


7:30
2v 8b Civil War Filmmaker
Documentarian Ken Burns offers a behind-the-scenes look at the five-year production of the series 'The Civil War.'
3 10 11 14 Morton & Hayes
The boys (Kevin Pollak, Bob Amaral) get wrapped up in trying to save a songbird (Penelope Ann Miller) from becoming the bride of a mummy (Michael McKean). Steve: Hamilton Camp.
7 8a 9 13k 13s Growing Pains
Paradise isn't all it's cracked up to be for Maggie (Joanna Kerns), who's whisked away by Jason for the chance to finally grieve over her father while the kids take charge at home. Alan Thicke.


8PM
2n 4 5h 5s 6 Night Court
Dan (John Larroquette) suffers insomnia, hallucinations and a guilty conscience over misuse of funds for the Phil Foundation. Meanwhile, a toupee gives Bull (Richard Moll) a swelled head. Phil: William Utay.
2v 8b 27 32 The Civil War
1863...Part 4: Lee's victory at Chancellorsville, VA, is his 'masterpiece,' but he loses Stonewall Jackson; Grant (voice of Jason Robards) lays siege to Vicksburg, Miss., prompting Lee (George Black) to move north; Frederick Douglass (Morgan Freeman) calls for the arming of free blacks and former slaves. Part 5: In early July, Lee meets new Union commander George Meade at Gettysburg, PA, in the 'greatest battle ever fought in the Western Hemisphere'; the first black regiment is organized.
3 10 11 14 Circus of the Stars
From 1990: Whoopi Goldberg, Robert Urich, Joan Van Ark and Richard Crenna are the ringmasters for the 15th annual edition. Featured: animal trainers David Soul, Morgan Brittany and Dick Van Patten; trapezistts John Buchanan, Shane Butterworth and Dah-Ve Chodan; aeralists Tony Carreiro, Lisa Rinna and Victoria Rowell. Also: Jocelyn Peden and Wendy Cox catapult from a swing.
7 8a 9 13k 13s Doogie Howser, M.D.
Dr. J (Julius Eving) inspires Dr. Doogie when Eastman doctors face fierce competitors from a rival hospital for the league basketball championship.
12 26 Skyscraper
In Part 2, 'Time and Money,' wind, water and smoke tests are conducted on a mockup of the exterior wall; beams, columns and decking are put in place; and disagreements arise over whether the brick should be 'highly colorful' or 'quieter.'


8:30
2n 4 5h 5s 6 Seinfeld
It's just a joke, but maybe, just maybe it's more when Jerry's unwitting remark precedes a tragedy. Morty: Barney Martin
7 8a 9 13k 13s Man in the Family
Sal's old pal Joey (Michael Prozzo) is so much like him that Sal (Ray Sharkey) doesn't trust him to go out with Tina (Leah Remini). [Last show of the series.]


9pm
2n 4 5h 5s 6 Quantum Leap
It's a fine trick when Sam (Scott Bakula) leaps into a pimp running a New Orleans bordello, and he's called on to save one of the women from an unseemly demise. Marsha: Rita Taggart. Gina: Georgia Emelin.
7 8a 9 13k 13s Bay City Story (Pilot)
A San Francisco TV reporter (William Russ), aided by his new researcher (Cheryl Pollak), focuses his investigation on a mobster (Paul Regina) after the murder of a fellow journalist and the mobster's girlfriend. Not on ABC's fall schedule.
12 26 Studebaker: Less Than They Promised
On December 9th, 1963, the Studebaker plant in South Bend, Ind. closed its doors forever. This program analyzes the shutdown and attempts to pinpoint the problem through archival footage, and interviews with former Studebaker officials and union leaders.
17 St. Elsewhere
42 WGN News (60 min on WGN)


9:30
42 Newhart
Dick is flattered, then embarrassed, when an ardent fan (Deena Freeman) breezes into his life.


10PM
2n 3 4 5h 5s 6 7 8a 9 10 11 13k 13s News
12 26 Sherlock Holmes BW
Holmes' adversary seems to be a ghost involved in a plot to burglarize a London museum.
14 Cheers
After selling the bar and sinking the profits into a ketch that did likewise, Sam (Ted Danson) turns to Cheers, hoping to tend bar under the new manager (Kirstie Alley). (this was 'Home is the Sailor,' the first with Alley, and the 6th season premiere. The episode originally got a 44 share when it aired on 9/24/87)
17 Johnny B (What was this?)
42 Star Trek
Attorney Melvin Belli stars as Gorgan the Friendly Angel, the incarnation of pure evil who uses children to unleash the beast in human souls.
WGN Twilight Zone


10:30
2n 4 5h 5s 6 Tonight Show
Scheduled: Mel Torme, Michael J. Fox. Johnny Carson.
2v 8b Adam Smith's Money World
From 1990: Environmental concerns posed by Louisiana's petrochemical industry.
3 Cheers
7 Night Court
A mad inventor (Ron Boussom) flees when Harry calls in the boys from Bellevue; a computer glitch declades Christine dead.
8a 9 Nightline
10 M*A*S*H
Unsettling news from home makes B.J. reckless at poker, and a delinquent traffic ticket sends Potter to a remedial-driving class.
11 Scene of the Crime
Someone 'borrows' the identity of a lawyer (Robert Paisley) recovering from surgery. Lisa Houle.
12 26 New Television
'Sun, Moon & Feather,' three Native American sisters raised in Brooklyn, recall their lives through songs, stories and home movies. A film by Jane Zipp and Bob Rosen.
13k Entertainment Tonight
13s Cheers
To get back at a rich snob (Tyrone Power Jr.), Woody goes after his girlfriend (Jackie Swanson). Mr. Gaines: Richard Doyle.
14 Odd Couple
Felix horns in with his own ideas for upping ratings when Oscar takes a job as a radio talk-show host.
17 Arsenio Hall
Scheduled: actors Christian Slater ('Mobsters') and Valeria Golino.
27 32 Long Way Home
Examining the life of ahomeless person, through commentary by the individual; a look at his daily routine.
WGN Magnum P.I.


11PM
2v 8b Bookmark
The black-male experience in America, with John Edgar Wideman ('Philadelphia Fire').
3 Commercial Programs (again? at 11PM?)
7 Entertainment Tonight
8a 9 Into the Night
Scheduled: Comedian Bobby Collins.
10 Scene of the Crime
See 10:30, KELO.
12 26 European Journal
13k Love Connection
13s Who's the Boss?
Tony develops a skin rash after doing a soap commercial for Angela's potentially large account. Larson: John Ingle.
14 Star Trek: The Next Generation
An exchange program that allows Cdr. Riker (Jonathan Frakes) to become the first Federation officer to serve on a Klingon vessel turns into a dangerous confrontation.
27 32 Skyscraper
42 Arsenio Hall
See 10:30, KTTW.


11:30
2n 4 5h 5s David Letterman
Scheduled: Music group The Subdudes.
2v 8b Collectors
A look at military memorabilia.
6 Commercial Program
7 13k 13s Nightline
11 Night Heat
Who killed the street-gang member?
12 26 Executive Stress
Anthea's new beau (David Troughton) causes quite a stir at Oasis Publishing.
17 Party Machine
Featured: Special Generation.
WGN Movie BW
'Strangers on a Train.' (1951) Alfred Hitchcock's masterly take of a young man (Farley Granger) railroaded into a weird murder pact by a demented playboy (Robert Walker).


12am
2v 8b International Cooking School
Tips on how to cook with a Chinese wok.
3 Fall Guy
6 David Letterman
7 Johnny B
8a 9 E.D.J.
10 Night Heat
12 26 Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler
13k Trump Card
13s Into the Night
14 Arsenio Hall
42 Love Connection


12:30
4 5s Later-Bob Costas
In Part 3, Mel Brooks discusses 'The Producers,' the Three Stooges and the Marx Brothers.
7 It's a Living
42 Party Machine


12:40
11 News


1am
5s News
6 Later-Bob Costas
42 Bluffs Run Review (dog racing)


1:10
10 Commercial Program
11 CBS News Nightwatch


1:30
42 Dick Van Dyke
WGN Tales from the Darkside


2AM
42 Untouchables BW
WGN Facts of Life


2:30
WGN Soap


3AM
42 T.J. Hooker
WGN Movie BW
'The Strange Mrs. Crane.' (1948) An innocent girl (Ruthe Brady) is tried after a woman (Marjorie Lord) kills her ex-partner in crime.


4AM
42 Trapper John M.D.

 

[ftballfan]

KMTV airing paid programming in prime time made no sense. At 11pm CT, it might have made a little more sense considering how bad CBS's late night programming was at the time

 

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I bet it was a paid religious program like Feed the Children or World Vision.

 

[Brother]

Regarding paid programming in prime time, many network affiliates would substitute shows in place of network fare. KMOV here in St. Louis was notorious for it during their Viacom years. There were the hour-long national specials from Billy Graham or St. Jude's, as well as half-hour shows from local supermarkets and restaurants disguised as cooking/travel/lifestyle shows.

In the case of Channel 3 in Omaha, dropping a brilliant comedy like Police Squad! in favor of an infomercial may sound like sacrilege, but when you consider it as running a commercial program in place of a summer rerun of a nine-year-old show, it makes a bit more sense. At least in the pocketbook, anyway.

As for Johnny B at 10 pm on Channel 17: "Johnny B... on the Loose" was a very short-lived syndicated comedy show starring Chicago radio host Jonathon Brandmeier. It debuted June 24, 1991, and its cancellation had already been announced by the time of this TV listing.