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By request (sort of), the schedule of the day Glee star Lea Michele (my favorite) was born in The Bronx.
Sources: New York Daily News, Newsday, New York Times
2 WCBS
6:00 Daybreak
6:30 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News - Scheduled: Young people discuss drug abuse (Part 5 of 7); Garry Shandling; Labor Day recipes.
9:00 Perfect Match
9:30 Break the Bank (both ended two weeks later)
10:00 $25,000 Pyramid - Guests: Cyndy Garvey, Terry Lester
10:30 Card Sharks
11:00 The Price is Right
NOON Press Your Luck (ended four weeks later)
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Quincy
5:00 Channel 2 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Wheel of Fortune
8:00 Twilight Zone: 1) "Need to Know"; 2) "Red Snow" (Mar 21, 1986)
9:00 CBS Special Movie: "Getting Physical" (1984) - Sandahl Bergman, Alexandra Paul
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:30 U.S. Open Tennis - Early-round play (Tape delayed)
MIDNIGHT CBS Late Movie: "Attack on Fear" (1984) - Paul Michael Glaser, Linda Kelsey, Kevin Conway, Alan Fudge, John Harkins, Barbara Babcock; D: Mel Damski
2:15 Late Late Show: "All Trails Lead to Las Vegas" (1975) - Teresa Graves, Jack Kelly, Phil Silvers, Rose Marie (comprising of two episodes og "Get Christie Love!", starring Graves and Kelly)
5:00 Early Show: "Miracles Still Happen" (1974) - Susan Penhaligon, Paul Muller, Graziela Galvani; D: Giusepe Maria Scotese
4 WNBC
5:00 Here's Lucy (x2)
6:00 Today in New York
6:30 NBC News at Sunrise
7:00 Today - Scheduled: Tommy Lasorda; John Fogerty; street musicians; former Gov. Chuck Robb (D-VA) and wife Linda Bird Johnson (daugther of Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson); editor Dr. Arthur Holleb. (Co-host Jane Pauley had just given birth two days earlier to son Thomas Moore Trudeau; husband was, and still is "Doonesbury" cartoonist Gary Trudeau. Jane returned on October 10, which marked the 10th anniversary of her debut show.)
9:00 Donahue - Topic: Incest
10:00 Family Ties
10:30 Sale of the Century
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Scrabble
NOON Super Password - Guests: Edie McClurg, Pat Harrington
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 Love Connection
4:30 People's Court
5:00 Live at Five - Guest: Tony Orlando
6:00 News 4 New York
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Newlywed Game
8:00 NFL Pre-Season Football - Los Angeles Rams vs. Denver Broncos
11:00 News 4 New York
11:30 Tonight Show - Guests: Paul Reiser, Helen Slater, Victoria Jackson; Musical guest: Pete Fountain
12:30 Friday Night Videos: "The Greatest Hits of the Summer of '86"; Hosts: Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Ahmad Rashad (married to Warner's TV mom from The Cosby Show, Phylicia Rashad last Dec. 14); Videos include Madonna's "Papa Don't Preach and Billy Joel's "A Matter of Trust"
2:00 News 4 New York (R)
2:30 The Price is Right - Tom Kennedy (ended a week later)
3:00 Music City USA
3:30 Hit City
4:00 Ben Casey
5 WNYW
6:00 New Zoo Revue
6:30 Fat Albert
7:00 Inspector Gadget
7:30 Plastic Man
8:00 Jayce & the Wheeled Warriors
8:30 Flintstones
9:00 Brady Bunch
9:30 Leave It to Beaver
10:00 Bionic Woman
11:00 Gilligan's Island
11:30 Divorce Court
NOON Midday
1:00 Hour Magazine - Featured: Robert Conrad with sons Shane and Chris; the father-son relationship; Jacklyn Zeman with isometric exercises.
2:00 I Love Lucy
2:30 Woody Woodpecker
3:00 Gumby
3:30 She-Ra
4:00 He-Man
4:30 ThunderCats
5:00 Charlie's Angels
6:00 Three's Company
6:30 Too Close for Comfort (Ted Knight died of cancer three days earlier)
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 PM Magazine - Featured: Creator of the Bartles & Jaymes wine cooler commercial chracters.
8:00 Channel 5 Movie: "Arabian Adventure" (1979) - Christopher Lee, Milo O'Shea, Oliver Tobias; D: Kevin Connor
10:00 Ten O'Clock News
11:00 M*A*S*H
11:30 A Current Affair (premiered July 28)
MIDNIGHT Mission: Impossible
1:00 Comedy Tonight
1:30 Star Search
2:30 Movie: "Comes a Horseman" (1978) - James Caan, Jane Fonda, Jason Robards, Richard Farnsworth; D: Alan J. Pakula
7 WABC
5:30 Morning Strech
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America - Scheduled: BOC Challenge, and around-the-world sailing race; U.S. Open Tennis updates, along with and interview with Tracy Austin; former baseball player Tim McCarver; filmakers Spike Lee and John Sayles.
9:00 Morning Show - Guests: Kevin Dobson, John Hurt, Alex Trebek; Hosted by Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Johnson (marred Frank Gifford October 18), it eventually evolved into the nationally syndicated "Live With Regis & Kathie Lee" and into today's "Live With Kelly & Ryan".
10:30 Sally Jessy Raphael - Topic: Men who model women's clothes.
11:00 Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
11:30 Double Talk - Henry Polic II; Guests: Teresa Ganzel, Barry Jenner (premiered August 18)
NOON Ryan's Hope
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Sale of the Century
4:30 Jeopardy!
5:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Entertainment Tonight - Featured: Brian Keith
8:00 Webster: "Love, Papadapolis Style" (Feb 14, 1986)
8:30 Mr. Belvedere: "The Play" (Mar 28, 1986; Season Finale)
9:00 Love Boat (2 hours): "Spain Cruise: The Matadors/Mrs. Jameson Comes Out/Love's Labor Found/Marry Me, Marry Me: Parts 1 & 2" (May 3, 1986)
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Nightline
MIDNIGHT New York Hot Tracks - Videos included: "Venus" - Bananarama; "You Should Be Mine" - Jeffrey Osborne; "On My Own" - Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald; "Who's Johnny?" El DeBarge
1:30 Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
2:00 Movie: "White Zombie" (1932) - Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy; D: Victor Halperin
4:10 Headline Chasers (ended a week later)
9 WOR
6:00 Jimmy Swaggart
6:30 700 Club
7:30 Straight Talk
8:30 Romper Room
9:30 Gidget
10:00 Monkees
10:30 Partridge Family
11:00 Bewitched
11:30 I Dream of Jeannie
NOON News 9: at Noon
1:00 The Joker's Wild
1:30 Tic-Tac-Dough
2:00 Let's Make a Deal (all three ended two weeks later)
2:30 Dating Game (repeat from 1978-80 version; revived on September 15 with Elaine Joyce as host)
3:00 Hawaii Five-O
4:00 Vega$
5:00 Police Woman
6:00 Hart to Hart
7:00 $100,000 Pyramid - Guests: Melody Thomas Scott, Stuart Damon
7:30 Mets Baseball - hosting Los Angeles Dodgers
10:15 Kinder's Korner
10:30 News 9: Prime Time
11:00 Hangin' In
11:30 Canned Film: "Project Moonbase" (1953)
1:00 Joe Franklin
2:00 Movie: "The Swiss Conspiracy" (1976 in UK; 1977 in US) - David Janssen, Senta Berger, John Ireland, John Saxon, Elke Sommer, Ray Milland; D: Jack Arnold
4:00 Joe Franklin
11 WPIX
5:30 INN News
6:00 New Jersey Now
6:30 Great Space Coaster
7:00 Heathcliff
7:30 Scooby-Doo
8:00 GoBots
8:30 Robotech
9:00 Little Rascals
9:30 Munsters
10:00 Keys to Success
10:30 Best Talk in Town
11:00 Movie: "Mirror of Deception" (May 12, 1975 episode of Thriller) - Kim Darby, James Maxwell, Keith Barron
12:30 Movie: "Dead End" (1937) - Humphrey Bogart, Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Wendy Barrie, Claire Trevor, Allen Jenkins; D: William Wyler
2:30 Tom & Jerry
3:00 M.A.S.K.
3:30 Transformers
4:00 G.I. Joe
4:30 Jetsons
5:00 Eight is Enough
6:00 Gimme a Break!
6:30 Benson
7:00 Jeffersons
7:30 INN News
8:00 Eight O'Clock Movie: "Brainstorm" (1965) - Jeffrey Hunter, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews, Viveca Lindfors; D: William Conrad
10:00 INN News
10:30 Yankees Baseball - at Seattle Mariners
1:00 Comedy Break
1:30 INN News
2:00 Keys to Success
2:30 Emergency!
3:30 Kung Fu
4:30 One Step Beyond
5:00 U.S. Farm Report
13 WNET
8:00 Reading Rainbow
8:30 Mister Rogers
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Everybody's Here
10:30 Reading Rainbow
11:00 John McLaughlin's One on One
11:30 Movie: "Dark Journey" (1937) - Conrad Veidt, Vivien Leigh; D: Victor Saville
1:00 Matinee at the Bijou
2:30 French Chef
3:00 Frugal Gourmet
3:30 Victory Garden
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Reading Rainbow
6:00 New Jersey Nightly News
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 Sneak Previews - Special episode: "Hollywood's Cold War: How Communism is Portrayed in the Movies"
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
8:30 Great Peformances: Tchaikovsky's "The Queen of Spades" - Opera Company of Philadelphia, conducted by Russian maestro Woldemar Nelsson.
MIDNIGHT Movie: "A Special Day" (1977; Italian) - Sopia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Francoise Berd; D: Ettora Scola
Sources: New York Daily News, Newsday, New York Times
2 WCBS
6:00 Daybreak
6:30 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News - Scheduled: Young people discuss drug abuse (Part 5 of 7); Garry Shandling; Labor Day recipes.
9:00 Perfect Match
9:30 Break the Bank (both ended two weeks later)
10:00 $25,000 Pyramid - Guests: Cyndy Garvey, Terry Lester
10:30 Card Sharks
11:00 The Price is Right
NOON Press Your Luck (ended four weeks later)
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Quincy
5:00 Channel 2 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Wheel of Fortune
8:00 Twilight Zone: 1) "Need to Know"; 2) "Red Snow" (Mar 21, 1986)
9:00 CBS Special Movie: "Getting Physical" (1984) - Sandahl Bergman, Alexandra Paul
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:30 U.S. Open Tennis - Early-round play (Tape delayed)
MIDNIGHT CBS Late Movie: "Attack on Fear" (1984) - Paul Michael Glaser, Linda Kelsey, Kevin Conway, Alan Fudge, John Harkins, Barbara Babcock; D: Mel Damski
2:15 Late Late Show: "All Trails Lead to Las Vegas" (1975) - Teresa Graves, Jack Kelly, Phil Silvers, Rose Marie (comprising of two episodes og "Get Christie Love!", starring Graves and Kelly)
5:00 Early Show: "Miracles Still Happen" (1974) - Susan Penhaligon, Paul Muller, Graziela Galvani; D: Giusepe Maria Scotese
4 WNBC
5:00 Here's Lucy (x2)
6:00 Today in New York
6:30 NBC News at Sunrise
7:00 Today - Scheduled: Tommy Lasorda; John Fogerty; street musicians; former Gov. Chuck Robb (D-VA) and wife Linda Bird Johnson (daugther of Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson); editor Dr. Arthur Holleb. (Co-host Jane Pauley had just given birth two days earlier to son Thomas Moore Trudeau; husband was, and still is "Doonesbury" cartoonist Gary Trudeau. Jane returned on October 10, which marked the 10th anniversary of her debut show.)
9:00 Donahue - Topic: Incest
10:00 Family Ties
10:30 Sale of the Century
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Scrabble
NOON Super Password - Guests: Edie McClurg, Pat Harrington
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 Love Connection
4:30 People's Court
5:00 Live at Five - Guest: Tony Orlando
6:00 News 4 New York
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Newlywed Game
8:00 NFL Pre-Season Football - Los Angeles Rams vs. Denver Broncos
11:00 News 4 New York
11:30 Tonight Show - Guests: Paul Reiser, Helen Slater, Victoria Jackson; Musical guest: Pete Fountain
12:30 Friday Night Videos: "The Greatest Hits of the Summer of '86"; Hosts: Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Ahmad Rashad (married to Warner's TV mom from The Cosby Show, Phylicia Rashad last Dec. 14); Videos include Madonna's "Papa Don't Preach and Billy Joel's "A Matter of Trust"
2:00 News 4 New York (R)
2:30 The Price is Right - Tom Kennedy (ended a week later)
3:00 Music City USA
3:30 Hit City
4:00 Ben Casey
5 WNYW
6:00 New Zoo Revue
6:30 Fat Albert
7:00 Inspector Gadget
7:30 Plastic Man
8:00 Jayce & the Wheeled Warriors
8:30 Flintstones
9:00 Brady Bunch
9:30 Leave It to Beaver
10:00 Bionic Woman
11:00 Gilligan's Island
11:30 Divorce Court
NOON Midday
1:00 Hour Magazine - Featured: Robert Conrad with sons Shane and Chris; the father-son relationship; Jacklyn Zeman with isometric exercises.
2:00 I Love Lucy
2:30 Woody Woodpecker
3:00 Gumby
3:30 She-Ra
4:00 He-Man
4:30 ThunderCats
5:00 Charlie's Angels
6:00 Three's Company
6:30 Too Close for Comfort (Ted Knight died of cancer three days earlier)
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 PM Magazine - Featured: Creator of the Bartles & Jaymes wine cooler commercial chracters.
8:00 Channel 5 Movie: "Arabian Adventure" (1979) - Christopher Lee, Milo O'Shea, Oliver Tobias; D: Kevin Connor
10:00 Ten O'Clock News
11:00 M*A*S*H
11:30 A Current Affair (premiered July 28)
MIDNIGHT Mission: Impossible
1:00 Comedy Tonight
1:30 Star Search
2:30 Movie: "Comes a Horseman" (1978) - James Caan, Jane Fonda, Jason Robards, Richard Farnsworth; D: Alan J. Pakula
7 WABC
5:30 Morning Strech
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America - Scheduled: BOC Challenge, and around-the-world sailing race; U.S. Open Tennis updates, along with and interview with Tracy Austin; former baseball player Tim McCarver; filmakers Spike Lee and John Sayles.
9:00 Morning Show - Guests: Kevin Dobson, John Hurt, Alex Trebek; Hosted by Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Johnson (marred Frank Gifford October 18), it eventually evolved into the nationally syndicated "Live With Regis & Kathie Lee" and into today's "Live With Kelly & Ryan".
10:30 Sally Jessy Raphael - Topic: Men who model women's clothes.
11:00 Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
11:30 Double Talk - Henry Polic II; Guests: Teresa Ganzel, Barry Jenner (premiered August 18)
NOON Ryan's Hope
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Sale of the Century
4:30 Jeopardy!
5:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Entertainment Tonight - Featured: Brian Keith
8:00 Webster: "Love, Papadapolis Style" (Feb 14, 1986)
8:30 Mr. Belvedere: "The Play" (Mar 28, 1986; Season Finale)
9:00 Love Boat (2 hours): "Spain Cruise: The Matadors/Mrs. Jameson Comes Out/Love's Labor Found/Marry Me, Marry Me: Parts 1 & 2" (May 3, 1986)
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Nightline
MIDNIGHT New York Hot Tracks - Videos included: "Venus" - Bananarama; "You Should Be Mine" - Jeffrey Osborne; "On My Own" - Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald; "Who's Johnny?" El DeBarge
1:30 Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
2:00 Movie: "White Zombie" (1932) - Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy; D: Victor Halperin
4:10 Headline Chasers (ended a week later)
9 WOR
6:00 Jimmy Swaggart
6:30 700 Club
7:30 Straight Talk
8:30 Romper Room
9:30 Gidget
10:00 Monkees
10:30 Partridge Family
11:00 Bewitched
11:30 I Dream of Jeannie
NOON News 9: at Noon
1:00 The Joker's Wild
1:30 Tic-Tac-Dough
2:00 Let's Make a Deal (all three ended two weeks later)
2:30 Dating Game (repeat from 1978-80 version; revived on September 15 with Elaine Joyce as host)
3:00 Hawaii Five-O
4:00 Vega$
5:00 Police Woman
6:00 Hart to Hart
7:00 $100,000 Pyramid - Guests: Melody Thomas Scott, Stuart Damon
7:30 Mets Baseball - hosting Los Angeles Dodgers
10:15 Kinder's Korner
10:30 News 9: Prime Time
11:00 Hangin' In
11:30 Canned Film: "Project Moonbase" (1953)
1:00 Joe Franklin
2:00 Movie: "The Swiss Conspiracy" (1976 in UK; 1977 in US) - David Janssen, Senta Berger, John Ireland, John Saxon, Elke Sommer, Ray Milland; D: Jack Arnold
4:00 Joe Franklin
11 WPIX
5:30 INN News
6:00 New Jersey Now
6:30 Great Space Coaster
7:00 Heathcliff
7:30 Scooby-Doo
8:00 GoBots
8:30 Robotech
9:00 Little Rascals
9:30 Munsters
10:00 Keys to Success
10:30 Best Talk in Town
11:00 Movie: "Mirror of Deception" (May 12, 1975 episode of Thriller) - Kim Darby, James Maxwell, Keith Barron
12:30 Movie: "Dead End" (1937) - Humphrey Bogart, Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Wendy Barrie, Claire Trevor, Allen Jenkins; D: William Wyler
2:30 Tom & Jerry
3:00 M.A.S.K.
3:30 Transformers
4:00 G.I. Joe
4:30 Jetsons
5:00 Eight is Enough
6:00 Gimme a Break!
6:30 Benson
7:00 Jeffersons
7:30 INN News
8:00 Eight O'Clock Movie: "Brainstorm" (1965) - Jeffrey Hunter, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews, Viveca Lindfors; D: William Conrad
10:00 INN News
10:30 Yankees Baseball - at Seattle Mariners
1:00 Comedy Break
1:30 INN News
2:00 Keys to Success
2:30 Emergency!
3:30 Kung Fu
4:30 One Step Beyond
5:00 U.S. Farm Report
13 WNET
8:00 Reading Rainbow
8:30 Mister Rogers
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Everybody's Here
10:30 Reading Rainbow
11:00 John McLaughlin's One on One
11:30 Movie: "Dark Journey" (1937) - Conrad Veidt, Vivien Leigh; D: Victor Saville
1:00 Matinee at the Bijou
2:30 French Chef
3:00 Frugal Gourmet
3:30 Victory Garden
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Reading Rainbow
6:00 New Jersey Nightly News
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 Sneak Previews - Special episode: "Hollywood's Cold War: How Communism is Portrayed in the Movies"
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
8:30 Great Peformances: Tchaikovsky's "The Queen of Spades" - Opera Company of Philadelphia, conducted by Russian maestro Woldemar Nelsson.
MIDNIGHT Movie: "A Special Day" (1977; Italian) - Sopia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Francoise Berd; D: Ettora Scola