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Retro: New York City - Thanksgiving Week, 1983

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As with my 1973 San Francisco Thanksgiving Week post, I'll only be listing selected weekdays with major significance in TV.

Sunday, November 20

2 WCBS

6:30 Kidsworld
7:00 Captain Kangaroo
8:00 Way to Go
8:30 For Our Times
9:00 Sunday Morning - Included: Report on the life of John F. Kennedy.
10:30 Face the Nation - Guests: Rep. Barbara Miluski (D-NY), Rep. Henry Hyde (R-IL), attorney/conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly, NOW president Judy Goldsmith, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen
11:00 Taking Advantage
11:30 Newsmakers
NOON Bill Parcells
12:30 NFL Today
1:00 NFL Football: New York Giants vs. Philadelphia Eagles
4:30 Movie: "Female Artillery" (1973) - Dennis Weaver, Ida Lupino
6:00 Channel 2 News
6:30 CBS Evening News - Morton Dean
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 Alice
8:30 One Day at a Time
9:00 Jeffersons
9:30 Goodnight, Beantown
10:00 Trapper John, M.D.
11:00 CBS News - Charles Osgood
11:15 Channel 2 News
11:45 Sports Update
MIDNIGHT Movie: "Confessions of a Top Crime Buster" (1971) - Don Adams, Dick Van Patten
2:00 CBS News Nightwatch

4 WNBC
6:30 Agriculture USA
7:00 Journey to Adventure
7:30 Bob Newhart
8:30 The Funeral of John F. Kennedy: A Remembrance
11:00 First Estate: Religion in Review
11:30 News Forum
NOON Meet the Press - Guest: Kenneth Adelman, director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
12:30 NFL '83
1:00 NFL Football: Los Angeles Raiders vs. Buffalo Bills
4:00 NFL Football: Kansas City Chiefs vs. Dallas Cowboys
7:00 First Camera
8:00 NBC Miniseries: "Kennedy" (Part 1 of 3) (Premeire) - Martin Sheen (as JFK), Blair Brown (as Jackie), John Shea (as Robert), Kevin Conroy (as Edward)
11:00 News 4 New York
11:45 Movie: "Going in Style" (1979) - George Burns, Lee Strasberg, Art Carney
1:45 Mary Tyler Moore
2:15 Postively Black
2:45 First Estate: Religion in Review

5 WNEW
5:50 Time for Timothy
6:30 Black News
7:00 Jerry Falwell
8:00 Jimmy Swaggart
9:00 Popeye
9:30 Bugs Bunny & Porky
10:00 Woody Woodpecker Hour
11:00 Movie: "Flipper's New Adventure" (1964) - Brian Kelly, Luke Halpin (two months before the "Flipper" TV series premiered, which added Tommy Norden as young son Bud, who did not appear in either Flipper films)
1:15 Movie: "The Great Escape" (1963) - Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough
5:00 Fame
6:00 Movie: "Death Wish" (1974) - Charles Bronson, Hope Lange (also appearing, uncredited, is Sonia Manzano [Maria from Sesame Street] as a grocery checker)
8:00 Star Search - Guests: Jerry Lewis, Susan Lucci
9:00 Merv Griffin
10:00 10 O'Clock News
10:30 Sports Extra
11:00 Off the Set
11:30 David Susskind

7 WABC
6:30 Christopher Closeup
7:00 Faith for Today
7:30 This Is the Life
8:00 Insight
8:30 Comeback: Rick Nelson
9:00 Safari to Adventure
9:30 Tiempo (Spanish variety series)
10:00 Best of the Morning Show
11:00 It's Your Business
11:30 This Week With David Brinkley - Guests: Richard Perle, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy; Michael Heseltine, British Defense Secretary; Petra Kelly, West German parliament member
12:30 Directions
1:00 Life It Is
2:00 Eyewitness News Conference
2:30 Greatest Sports Legends: Jim Ryun
3:00 Olympiad: "The African Runners"
4:00 New York Hot Tracks
5:00 Entertainment This Week
6:00 ABC World News Sunday - Sam Donaldson
6:30 Eyewitness News
7:00 Ripley's Believe It or Not!
8:00 ABC Sunday Night Movie: "The Day After" (Premiere) - Jason Robards, JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg, John Collum, John Lithgow, Amy Madigan (the utmost emotionally intense film depicting nuclear war between the USA and USSR)
11:25 ABC News - Tom Jarriel
11:40 Eyewitness News
12:10 Eyewitness Sports Special
12:25 Movie: "The Oblong Box" (1969) - Vincent Price, Christopher Lee
2:15 Movie: "The Raven" (1963) - Vincent Price, Peter Lorre

9 WOR
5:05 News
5:30 Point of View
6:00 New Jersey Report
6:30 News 9
7:00 Newark and Reality
7:30 Jack Van Impe
8:00 Terry Cole-Whittaker
8:30 Day of Discovery
9:00 Oral Roberts
9:30 Point of View
10:00 Sunday Mass
10:30 That's the Spirit
11:00 Make Peace With Nature
11:30 Rex Humbard
NOON Robert Schuller
1:00 Movie: "Stunts" (1977) - Robert Forster, Fiona Lewis
3:00 Movie: "The Night They Took Miss Beautiful" (1977) - Chuck Connors, Stella Stevens, Gary Collins, Sheree North, Phil Silvers
5:00 S.W.A.T.
6:00 Hawaii Five-O
7:00 Switch
8:00 Straight Talk
9:00 New Jersey Report
9:30 Meet the Mayors
10:00 Jimmy Swaggart
11:00 World Tomorrow
11:30 It Is Written
MIDNIGHT Movie: "Black Oak Conspiracy" (1977) - Jesse Vint, Karen Carlson
2:00 Outer Limits

11 WPIX
5:00 Biography
5:30 Christopher Closeup
5:45 Davey and Goliath
6:00 College Football Highlights: Air Force vs. Notre Dame
7:00 Robert Schuller
8:00 Wild Kingdom
8:30 Blackstar
9:00 Tom & Jerry & Friends
9:30 Josie and the Pussycats or Wall Street Journal Report? (Different papers list either one for this slot.)
10:00 Pink Panther
10:30 Three Stooges
11:00 Movie: "Jack and the Beanstalk" (1952) - Abbott & Costello
12:30 Movie: "Mother, Jugs & Speed" (1976) - Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch, Harvey Keitel
2:30 Movie: "Magnum Force" (1973) - Clint Eastwood (as Dirty Harry), Hal Holbrook, Mitchell Ryan
5:00 Movie: "Carrie" (1976) - Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, Betty Buckley, John Travolta, William Katt
7:00 Solid Gold - special "Classics" episode; Host: Marilyn McCoo; Guests: Kool & the Gang, Olivia Newton-John, Eddie Rabbitt, Lionel Richie, Kim Carnes, Survivor, Michael McDonald
8:00 Salute! - Honoree: Neil Sedaka; Guests: the Bee Gees, Andy Gibb, Dionne Warwick, David Brenner, the Captain & Tenille, Jack Klugman, Parker Stevenson
9:00 Tony Randall Show (1976-78 sitcom)
9:30 At the Movies - Reviews: "A Christmas Story", "Star 80", "Running Brave"
10:00 INN News
10:30 From the Editor's Desk
11:00 Odd Couple
11:30 Honeymooners
MIDNIGHT Star Trek
1:00 Twilight Zone
1:30 INN News (R)

13 WNET
7:30 Mister Rogers
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Don't Look Now (PBS clone of "You Can't Do That On Television")
10:00 Reading Rainbow
10:30 Electric Company
11:00 Rainbow Movie of the Week: "College"
NOON The Making of a Continent
1:00 Nova
2:00 Great Performances
3:30 Michael Tecklenberg Story
4:00 Tony Brown's Journal
4:30 Inside Albany
5:00 Mainstream
5:30 Innovation
6:00 Agronsky & Co.
6:30 Firing Line
7:30 World War I: "They Sank the Lusitania"
8:00 Nature: "The Flight of the Condor"
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre: "The Citadel" (Part 1 of 10)
10:00 Fawlty Towers
10:30 Monty Python's Flying Circus
11:00 Metrocosms
11:30 Inside Story
 
Monday, November 21

2 WCBS

6:00 Daybreak
6:30 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Tic-Tac-Dough
9:30 Joker's Wild
10:00 $25,000 Pryamid - Guests: Didi Conn, Richard Gilliland
10:30 Press Your Luck
11:00 Price is Right
NOON Tattletales - Couples: Lee & Karen Begere, Scoey & Claire Mitchell, Gene Simmons & Shannon Tweed
12:30 Young and Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Barnaby Jones
5:00 Channel 2 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 2 On the Town
8:00 CBS Special: "Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi" - Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) and Billie Dee Williams (Lando Calrissian) host a behind-the-scenes of the newest Star Wars film, plus a look at Hollywoood "creatures" including E. T., Miss Piggy, King Kong, and Godzilla.
9:00 AfterMASH
9:30 Newhart
10:00 Emerald Point N.A.S.
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:30 Hart to Hart
12:40 Columbo
2:00 CBS News Nightwatch

4 WNBC
5:30 Health Field
6:00 Today in New York
6:30 NBC News at Sunrise
7:00 Today
9:00 Donahue
10:00 Diff'rent Strokes
10:30 Sale of the Century
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Dream House
NOON Go - Guests: Bonnie Urseth, Michael J. Fox
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour - Panel: Leonard Frey, Matt McCoy, Alison Arngrim, Tom Poston, Lois Bromfield, Rebecca Holden, Tim Reid, Jim Brogan
4:00 Love Connection
4:30 People's Court
5:00 News 4 Live at Five - Guests: Walter and Gracie Lantz, creator and voice of Woody Woodpecker respectively.
6:00 News 4 New York
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 Boone
9:00 NBC Miniseries: "Kennedy" (Part 2 of 3) - with Charles Brown as Martin Luther King Jr.
11:00 News 4 New York
11:30 Tonight Show - Guests: Dennis Quaid; Performer: Spandau Ballet
12:30 Late Night With David Letterman - Guests: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Siskel & Ebert
1:30 NBC News Overnight

5 WNEW
6:00 New Zoo Revue
6:30 Popeye
7:00 Woody Woodpecker
7:30 Bugs Bunny and Friends
8:00 Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Flintstones
9:00 I Love Lucy
9:30 My Three Sons
10:00 Welcome Back, Kotter
10:30 All in the Family
11:00 Breakaway
NOON Midday
1:00 Hour Magazine - Featured: Dirk Benedict, Love Train and Romance Convention (Part 1)
2:00 News
2:15 Popeye
3:00 Inspector Gadget
3:30 Woody Woodpecker
4:00 He-Man
4:30 What's Happening!!
5:00 One Day at a Time
5:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
6:00 Three's Company
6:30 Taxi
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 All in the Family
8:00 PM Magazine
8:30 Carol Burnett and Friends
9:00 Merv Griffin - Guests: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Chad McQueen, Kathy Smith
10:00 10 O'Clock News
11:00 M*A*S*H
11:30 Thicke of the Night - Guests: Jackie Collins, Susan Sullivan, Richard Hack, magician James "The Amazing" Randi
1:00 Hogan's Heroes
1:30 Chico and the Man
2:00 America's Top 10
2:30 Best of Midday

7 WABC
5:00 Social Problems and Classroom Guidance
5:30 Morning Stretch
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Morning Show
10:30 Woman to Woman
11:00 Benson
11:30 Loving
NOON Family Feud
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Edge of Night
4:30 Eyewitness News Extra
5:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
8:00 That's Incredible!
9:00 Monday Night Football: New York Jets vs. New Orleans Saints
MIDNIGHT Eyewitness News
12:30 Nightline
1:00 Entertainment Tonight (R)

9 WOR
5:05 News
5:30 Joe Franklin
6:30 Jimmy Swaggart
7:00 700 Club
8:30 Straight Talk
9:30 9 News
10:00 Romper Room
11:00 Bonanza
NOON 9 News at Noon
1:00 Movie: "Laserblast" (1978) - Kim Milford, Cheryl Smith, Gianni Russo, Roddy McDowall, Keenan Wynn
2:30 In Search Of...
3:00 Family
4:00 Movie: "Doctor Franken" (1980) - Robert Vaughan, Terri Garr
6:00 Buck Rogers
7:00 Laugh-In
7:30 Benny Hill
8:00 News 9: Primetime
8:30 Movie: "The Train" (1964) - Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau
11:00 Soap
11:30 Hawaii Five-O
12:30 World Vision Special: "Children Running Out of Time"
1:30 News 9: Primetime (R)
2:00 Joe Franklin

11 WPIX
5:00 Biography
5:30 INN News
6:00 20 Minute Workout
6:30 Jetsons
7:00 Superfriends
7:30 Scooby-Doo
8:00 Pink Panther
8:30 Tom & Jerry
9:00 Great Space Coaster
9:30 Focus: New Jersey
10:00 Rangel Report
10:30 Magic Garden
11:00 Richard Simmons
11:30 I Dream of Jeannie
NOON INN Midday Edition
12:30 Movie: "Eric" (1975) - John Savage, Patricia Neal
2:30 Tom & Jerry
3:00 Superfriends
3:30 Scooby-Doo
4:00 Pink Panther
4:30 Happy Days Again
5:00 Little House on the Prairie
6:00 Love Boat
7:00 Barney Miller
7:30 INN News
8:00 Rascal Dazzle - Jerry Lewis hosts this feature-length compilation of the Little Rascals films.
10:00 INN News
11:00 Odd Couple
11:30 Honeymooners
MIDNIGHT Star Trek
1:00 Twilight Zone
1:30 INN News (R)
2:00 Emergency!

13 WNET
7:30 Rutgers Forum
8:00 Washington Week in Review
8:30 Inside Albany
9:00 Sesame Street - 15th Season Premiere: Gordon and Mr. Snufflupagus participate in the New York City Marathon.
10:00 Up Close and Natural
10:15 All About You
10:30 ThinkAbout
10:45 Write On
11:00 Tuned In
11:15 American Scrapbook
11:30 High Feather
NOON Tomorrow's Families
12:30 Dimensions in Science
1:00 Music Box
1:15 Letter People
1:30 Music and Me
1:45 Give and Take
2:00 Parlez-moi
2:10 Secondary Science
2:30 20th Century History
2:50 Parlez-moi
3:00 Dinner at Julia's
3:30 Electric Company
4:00 Sesame Street - 15th season premiere
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 3-2-1 Contact (1983 revival)
6:00 New Jersey Nightly News
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
8:00 Great Performances: "The Life of Verdi" (Part 5 of 6)
9:30 Raphael Soyer: A New York Artist
10:00 Making of Mankind
11:00 Austin City Limits - Featured: David Frizzell & Shelly West, Con Hunley
 
Tuesday, November 22
JFK assassination 20th anniversary


7:00
2 - CBS Morning News - Interview with Walter Cronkite about his coverage of the assassination, plus Bob Hope, author William Manchester, Sargent Shriver, Theodore Sorenson, and historian Herbert Parmel.
4 - Today - Interviews with Arthur Schlesinger Jr., John Glenn, Dave Powers (Kennedy's special assistant), Daniel Patrick MOynihan, Evelyn Lincoln (Kennedy's personal secretary, who warned him against visiting Dallas), William F. Buckley, Theodore White, Theodore Sorenson (presidential advisor), John and Nellie Connally.
7 - Good Morning America - Interview with John and Nellie Connally (Part 2), plus Pierre Salinger, Helen Thomas, Dean Rusk, Hugh Sidey (photographer) who were all in Dallas that fateful day.

10:00
2, 4, 7 - John F. Kennedy Memorial Mass - from the Holy Trinity Church in Washington.

PRIME TIME
8:00
2 - The Mississippi
4 - The A-Team
7 - Just Our Luck

8:30
7 - Happy Days

9:00
2 - CBS Tuesday Night Movies: "The Hunter" (1980) - Steve McQueen (final film, released three months before his death), Eli Wallach, LeVar Burton, Kathryn Harrold, Ben Johnson
4 - NBC Miniseries: "Kennedy" (Conclusion)
5 - Merv Griffin - Guests: Ted Knight, Helen Gurley Brown, Andrea McArdle
7 - Three's Company
13 - Vietnam: A Telelvision History: "Cambodia and Laos" (Episode 9 of 13)

9:30
7 - Oh, Madeline - starring Madeline Kahn

10:00
7 - Hart to Hart
13 - Thank You, Mr, President: The Press Conferences of JFK - Host: E. G. Marshall
 
Thursday, November 24
Thanksgiving


NOTE: Gapped portions under each station schedule indicate the same normal weekday schedule as shown on the aforementioned Monday schedule.

2 WCBS
7:00 CBS Mornng News
9:00 All-American Thanksgiving Day Parade - Hosts: Larry Hagman, Linda Gray; Co-hosts: Robert Foxworth, Catherine Bach, Mary Frann, John Hillerman, Michele Lee, Andrew Stevens
NOON Special: "The Great Bear Scare" (animated)
12:30 Kenner Family Classics: "The Legend of Hiawatha" (animated)
1:30 CBS Afternoon Playhouse: "Secret Agent Boy"
2:30 CBS Children's Mystery Theater: "Dirkham Detective Agency"
3:30 NFL Today
4:00 NFL Football: St. Louis Cardinals vs. Dallas Cowboys (Yes, the St. Louis Cardinals were also a football team back then, before moving to Phoenix in 1988.)
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 2 On the Town
8:00 Magnum, P.I.
9:00 Simon & Simon
10:00 Knots Landing
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:30 Trapper John, M.D.
12:40 CBS Late Movie: "Health" (1979) - Lauren Bacall, Glenda Jackson

4 WNBC
7:00 Today
9:00 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade - Hosts: Bryant Gumbel, Sarah Purcell
NOON NFL '83
12:30 NFL Football: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Detroit Lions

8:00 NBC Special: "Animals Are the Funniest People" - Hosts: Loretta Swit, Bill Burrud; Correspondents: Dick Clark, Brooke Shields, Byron Allen
9:00 We Got It Made
9:30 Cheers
10:00 Hill Street Blues (Michael Conrad, who played Sgt. Phil Esterhaus, died of cancer two days earlier.)
11:00 News 4 New York
11:30 Tonight Show - Guests: Robert Blake, Bud Greenspan, Jim Carrey
12:30 Late Night With David Letterman - Guests: Marilu Henner, Albert Brooks
1:30 NBC News Overnight

5 WNEW

9:00 (PM) Merv Griffin - Guests: Bo Derek, Earl Thomas Conley

11:30 Thicke of the Night - Guests: Lee Merriwether, Fred Willard, pianist Linda Genteel, roller derby manager Bill Griffith with star Debbie Garvey

7 WABC

9:00 Movie: "The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad" (1958) - Kerwin Mathews, Torin Hatcher, Kathryn Grant

8:00 ABC Special: "Hollywood Private Home Movies II" - Host: Tim Conway
9:00 Trauma Center - cast including Lou Ferrigno and James Naughton
10:00 20/20 - Reports on the Soviets' television view of the U.S.; Linda Ronstadt profiled

1:00 Movie: "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald" (Part 2 of 2) (1977) - Ben Gazzara, Lorne Greene (An alternative history documentary on what woudl've happened if Oswald lived to stand trial if not for Jack Ruby.)

9 WOR

1:00 Movie: "King Kong" (1933) - Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong
3:00 Movie: "Son of Kong" (1933) - Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack

8:30 Teleplay: "Our Town" (1977) - Hal Holbrook, Barbara Bel Geddes, Ned Beatty, Robby Benson, Sada Thompson, Charlotte Rae
10:30 Straight Talk - Special Edition: A Season for Children - Behind-the-scenes look at the WOR Children's Christmas Fund.

11:30 Racing from Roosevelt

11 WPIX

9:00 High School Football Highlights: PSAL Championship - John Adams vs. Bayside (both in Queens)
10:00 High School Football: New Rochelle vs. Iona Prep (also in New Rochelle)

1:00 Movie: "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1938) - Tommy Kelly (Tom Sawyer), Jackie Moran (Huckleberry Finn), Ann Gillis (Becky Thatcher)

8:00 Movie: "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" (1955) - William Holden, Jennifer Jones

13 WNET
7:30 New Jersey Nightly News (previous night)
8:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour (previous night)
9:00 Sesame Street: "Farewell Mr. Hooper" - The poignant landmark episode in which a stunned and saddened Big Bird is explained the concept of death by his adult friends of Mr. Hooper, played by Will Lee who died the previous December 7.
10:00 Music Box
10:15 Inside Story With Slim Goodbody
10:30 Electric Company
11:00 Sports America
12:30 1983 Drum Corps International Championship
2:30 National High School Cheerleading Championship
3:00 This Old House
3:30 Electric Company
4:00 Sesame Street: "Farewell Mr. Hooper"
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 3-2-1 Contact
6:00 Atlantic High
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
8:00 Dinner at Julia's
8:30 Sneak Previews - Reviews: "Star 80", "Going Berserk"
9:00 Innovation: "High Tech Harvest"
9:30 Jazz Tonight: Dixieland Jazz from New Orleans - James David Band
10:30 The Glittering Prizes: "A Double Life" (Episode 6 of 6)
 
Saturday, November 26

2 WCBS

5:30 Public Hearing
6:00 Patchwork Family
7:00 Captain Kangaroo
8:00 Biskits
8:30 Saturday Supercade
9:30 Dungeons and Dragons
10:00 Plastic Man
10:30 Charlie Brown & Snoopy Show
11:00 Benji, Zax & the Alien Prince
11:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
1:00 NCAA Basketball: Kansas vs. Houston
3:30 NCAA Today
3:45 NCAA Football: Nebraska vs. Oklahoma
7:00 Channel 2 News
7:30 Muppet Show - Guest: Gilda Radner - Everyone ends up stuck together by Dr. Bunsen Honeydew's new super-adhesive glue in which Gilda accidentally sprays all over the place during Honeydew's experiment.
8:00 CBS Special: "Here Comes Garfield" - Second broadcast of the first of 12 Garfield animated specials, originally broadcast October 25,1982
8:30 CBS Saturday Night Movies: "Any Which Way You Can" (1980) - Clint Eastwood, Sandra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Ruth Gordon
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:45 Sports People
MIDNIGHT Movie: "Winning" (1969) - Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward

4 WNBC
*NBC Saturday morning show followed by One to Grow On.
6:00 Rebop
6:30 Carrascolendas
7:00 One of a Kind
7:30 B.C.: The First Thanksgiving
8:00 Flintstone Funnies
8:30 Shirt Tales*
9:00 Smurfs*
10:30 Alvin and the Chipmunks*
11:00 Mister T
11:30 Amazing Spider-Man/Incredible Hulk*
12:30 Thundarr the Barbarian
1:00 Fight Back! With David Horowitz
1:30 NFL Pro Magazine
2:00 NFL Week in Review
2:30 NBC SportsWorld - A look at the previous night's Larry Holmes-Marvis Frazier (Joe Frazier's son) heavyweight championship fight between (son of Joe Frazier) in which Holmes won in a knockout in the first round.
4:00 Golf: "The Skins Game" - Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, and Tom Watson compete at the Desert Highlands Golf Course in Scottsdale, AZ.
6:00 News 4 New York
6:30 NBC Nightly News - Connie Chung
7:00 Prime of Your Life
7:30 This Is Your Life
8:00 Diff'rent Strokes
8:30 Silver Spoons
9:00 NBC Special: "It's the Real Thing: Television's Greatest Commercials IV" - Ed McMahon, Ann Jillian
10:00 The Yellow Rose
11:00 News 4 New York
11:30 Saturday Night Live - (April 9, 1983) Host: Joan Rivers; Musical guests: Musical Youth
1:00 Rock TV - Jerry Lee Lewis
2:00 Mary Tyler Moore

5 WNEW
6:00 Pattern for Living
6:30 Insight
7:00 World Tomorrow
7:30 Bullwinkle
8:00 Wonderama
8:30 Flintstones
9:00 Star Search (repeat from Sunday at 8:00 PM)
10:00 Saturday Morning
NOON Fame
1:00 Movie: "Kung Fu Conspiracy" (1981) - Nick Cheung, Pong Ting Sze
2:45 Movie: "Two Champions of Death" (1980) - Lo Meng, Sheng Chiang, Li Wang
5:00 Starsky & Husky
6:00 Blue Knight
7:00 Welcome Back, Kotter
7:30 All in the Family
8:00 Movie: "Jezebel" (1938) - Bette Davis, Henry Fonda
10:00 10 O'Clock News
10:30 Black News
11:00 Movie: "Friday the 13th, Part II" (1981) - Adrienne King, Amy Steel, John Furey
1:00 Movine: "Edge of Darkness" (1943) - Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston

7 WABC
7:00 Davey and Goliath
7:30 The Little Prince
8:00 Best of Scooby-Doo
8:25 Menudo on ABC
8:30 Monchichis/Little Rascals/Richie Rich
9:30 Pac-Man/Rubik, the Amazing Cube Hour
10:25 Menudo on ABC
10:30 The Littles
11:00 Puppy's Further Adventures
11:30 New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo
11:55 Schoolhouse Rock!
NOON NCAA Football: Texas vs. Texas A&M
4:00 Amateur Boxing: U.S. vs. Great Britain and Canada (from Reno, NV)
5:00 ABC's Wide World of Sports: U.S. Grand Prix Motocross Championships (Carlsbad, CA); The Peking Acrobats (Vancouver, BC); a report on the U.S. Olympic Hockey Team (Toronto, OT; in preparation for the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia)
6:30 Eyewitness News
7:00 National Save-a-Life Test - Bernie Kopell, Michael Learned
8:00 T. J. Hooker
9:00 Love Boat
10:00 Fantasy Island
11:00 ABC News - Tom Jarriel
11:15 Eyewitness News
11:45 Movie: "Earthquake" (1974) - Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Lorne Greene, Richard Roundtree, Victoria Principal
2:15 Movie: "The Day the Earth Moved" (1974) - Jackie Cooper, Stella Stevens, Cleavon Little, William Windom, Beverly Garland

9 WOR
5:30 Movie: "Taza, Son of Cochise" (1954) - Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush
7:30 Newark and Reality
8:00 Christopher Closeup
8:30 Meet the Mayors
9:00 Nine on New Jersey
9:30 Davey and Goliath
10:00 All-Star Wrestling
11:00 BJ/Lobo
NOON Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries
1:00 NJ Devils Hockey: at Boston Bruins
4:00 Hawaii Five-O
5:00 Battlestar Galactica
6:00 Racing from Aquaduct
6:30 In Search Of...
7:00 News 9
7:30 NY Rangers Hockey: at Hartford Whalers
10:30 Neward and Reality
11:00 Jackie Gleason
11:30 Racing from Roosevelt
MIDNIGHT Championship Wrestling
1:00 Movie: "Death Moon" (1978) - Robert Foxworth, Barbara Trentham

11 WPIX
5:00 Biography
5:30 Insight
6:00 Aprenda Ingles
6:30 Gigglesnort Hotel
7:00 Return to the Planet of the Apes
7:30 Pink Panther
8:00 Tom & Jerry & Friends
8:30 Herald of Truth
9:00 Jerry Falwell
10:00 Essence
10:30 Hee Haw - Guests: John Anderson, Charly McClain, Dub Taylor, Million Dollar Band
11:30 Wall Street Journal Report
NOON How the West Was Won
1:00 Movie: "Amsterdam Connection" (1978) - Sing Chen, Lan Mi, Jason Piao Pai
3:00 Movie: "The Man with the Power" (1977) - Bob Neill, Vic Morrow, Tim O'Connor
5:00 Little House on the Prairie
6:00 Star Trek
7:00 Dance Fever - Celebrity judges: Lynn Redgrave, Conrad Bain, Toni Tennille; Guest performer: Taco ("Puttin' On the Ritz")
7:30 At the Movies - Siskel & Ebert look at some of the hottest selling movie video cassettes, including "Flashdance", "48 Hours", and "Raiders of the Lost Ark".
8:00 NCAA Basketball: Kentucky vs. Louisville
11:00 INN News
11:30 Odd Couple
MIDNIGHT Twilight Zone
12:30 Wall Street Journal Report
1:00 Twilight Zone
1:30 INN News (R)
2:00 Movie: "Hamlet" (1948) - Laurence Olivier (also produced, directed, and wrote the screenplay), Jean Simmons

13 WNET
7:30 Mainstream
8:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour (R)
9:00 Wall $treet Week (R)
9:30 The Lawmakers
10:00 American Interests
10:30 International Edition
11:00 Vietnam: A Television History: "Peace Is at Hand: 1968-1973" (Episode 10 of 13)
NOON Open Mind
12:30 Black Forum
1:00 Presente (Spanish)
1:30 Sports America: "Holiday Special"
3:00 National High School Cheerleading Competition (R)
3:30 Jazz Tonight: Dixieland Jazz from New Orleans - James David Band (R)
4:30 Movie: "John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums" (1966) - Narrator: Gregory Peck
6:00 Nature: "The Flight of the Condor" (R)
7:00 Newton's Apple - Host: Ira Flatow; Topics: Colorblindness, taste buds, black holes
7:30 Wild America - "Wild Cats"
8:00 Nature of Things - Topics: Aspirin, fluorescent lights
9:00 Seeing Things
10:00 Movie: "The Young Lions" (1958) - Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift
 
Tuesday, November 22
JFK assassination 20th anniversary


7:00
2 - CBS Morning News - Interview with Walter Cronkite about his coverage of the assassination, plus Bob Hope, author William Manchester, Sargent Shriver, Theodore Sorenson, and historian Herbert Parmel.
4 - Today - Interviews with Arthur Schlesinger Jr., John Glenn, Dave Powers (Kennedy's special assistant), Daniel Patrick MOynihan, Evelyn Lincoln (Kennedy's personal secretary, who warned him against visiting Dallas), William F. Buckley, Theodore White, Theodore Sorenson (presidential advisor), John and Nellie Connally.
7 - Good Morning America - Interview with John and Nellie Connally (Part 2), plus Pierre Salinger, Helen Thomas, Dean Rusk, Hugh Sidey (photographer) who were all in Dallas that fateful day.

10:00
2, 4, 7 - John F. Kennedy Memorial Mass - from the Holy Trinity Church in Washington.

PRIME TIME
8:00
2 - The Mississippi
4 - The A-Team
7 - Just Our Luck

8:30
7 - Happy Days

9:00
2 - CBS Tuesday Night Movies: "The Hunter" (1980) - Steve McQueen (final film, released three months before his death), Eli Wallach, LeVar Burton, Kathryn Harrold, Ben Johnson
4 - NBC Miniseries: "Kennedy" (Conclusion)
5 - Merv Griffin - Guests: Ted Knight, Helen Gurley Brown, Andrea McArdle
7 - Three's Company
13 - Vietnam: A Telelvision History: "Cambodia and Laos" (Episode 9 of 13)

9:30
7 - Oh, Madeline - starring Madeline Kahn

10:00
7 - Hart to Hart
13 - Thank You, Mr, President: The Press Conferences of JFK - Host: E. G. Marshall
I should've boldened the Kennedy Memorial Mass and "Thank You, Mr. President".
 
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