Retro:Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne, Florida, Tuesday, 11/5/85

[classictvfan]

From The Daytona Beach Morning Journal(via Google News Archive)
(Note:I did not list PBS affiliate WMFE Channel 24 or Religious
Independent WIYE Channel 55)

WESH Channel 2(NBC)
5:30 2's Country
6:00 NBC News
6:30 News
7:00 Today
9:00 Divorce Court
9:30 Love Connection
10:00 Your Number's Up
10:30 Sale Of The Century
11:00 Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Scrabble
12:00 Midday
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1:00 Days Of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 America
5:00 Newlywed Game
5:30 People's Court
6:00 News
6:30 NBC News
7:00 $100,000 Pyramid
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
8:00 A-Team
9:00 Amazing Stories
9:30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents
10:00 Riptide
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight(Johnny Carson)
12:30 Late Night With David Letterman

WCPX Channel 6(CBS)
6:00 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Donahue
10:00 Hour Magazine
11:00 Price Is Right
12:00 News
12:30 Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Diff'rent Strokes
4:30 Three's Company
5:00 M*A*S*H
5:30 News
6:30 CBS News
7:00 P.M. Magazine
7:30 Price Is Right
8:00 Dinosaur!(Hosted by Christopher Reeve)
9:00 Movie-Stone Pillow(Made For TV, 1985)
11:00 News
11:30 WKRP In Cincinnati
12:00 Simon And Simon
1:10 Cool Million
2:30 News
3:00 CBS News Nightwatch

WFTV Channel 9(ABC)
5:00 The Saint
6:00 Eyewitness Daybreak
6:30 ABC News
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Tic Tac Dough
9:30 Joker's Wild
10:00 Barnaby Jones
11:00 Three's A Crowd
11:30 All Star Blitz
12:00 News
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life To Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Merv Griffin
5:00 Headline Chasers
5:30 News
6:30 ABC News
7:00 Jeopardy!
7:30 Wheel Of Fortune
8:00 Who's The Boss?
8:30 Growing Pains
9:00 North And South(Part 2)
11:00 News
11:30 Nightline
12:00 Comedy Break
12:30 Movie-Mr. Moto's Last Warning(1939)
1:40 Movie-The Man Who Wouldn't Talk(1958)
3:10 Movie-The Affair(1973)

WOFL Channel 35(Independent)
5:00 News
6:00 Good Day!
6:30 Tom And Jerry
7:00 Challenge Of The Gobots
7:30 G.I. Joe
8:00 Jetsons
8:30 Flintstones
9:00 Waltons
10:00 Dallas
11:00 Big Valley
12:00 Bewitched
12:30 Beverly Hillbillies
1:00 Dick Van Dyke
1:30 Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
2:00 Andy Griffith
2:30 Great Space Coaster
3:00 Scooby Doo
3:30 Jayce And The Wheeled Warriors
4:00 Thundercats
4:30 Transformers
5:00 What's Happening!!
5:30 Alice
6:00 Jeffersons
6:30 Too Close For Comfort
7:00 Barney Miller
7:30 Benson
8:00 Hart To Hart
9:00 Quincy
10:00 I.N.N. News
10:30 Bob Newhart
11:00 Archie Bunker's Place
11:30 Hawaii Five-O
12:30 Chico And The Man
1:00 Bizarre
1:30 SCTV Network
2:00 Gunsmoke
3:00 What's Happening Now!!
3:30 Thames Presents
4:00 Rhoda(2 episodes)

WMOD Channel 43(Independent)
7:00 Batman(Adam West)
6:30 Superfriends
7:00 Voltron
7:30 Robotech
8:00 Heathcliff
8:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
9:00 Brady Bunch
9:30 My Three Sons
10:00 Carol Burnett And Friends
10:30 Odd Couple
11:00 Inday News
11:30 All About Us
12:00 It's A Great Life
12:30 What's Hot! What's Not?
1:00 Movie-They Met In Bombay(1941)
3:00 Inspector Gadget
3:30 M.A.S.K.
4:00 He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
4:30 She-Rarincess Of Power
5:00 Tranzor Z
5:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
6:00 Happy Days
6:30 Laverne And Shirley
7:00 Carson's Comedy Classics
7:30 All In The Family
8:00 Bare Essence(Part 2)
10:00 Rockford Files
11:00 Night Gallery
11:30 Twilight Zone
12:00 Movie-Sahara(1943)

 

[bpatrick]

Lucille Ball was surprisingly good playing a relatively straight
role in "Stone Pillow," although she had appeared in some dramas
in the '30s and '40s ("Five Came Back" from '39 comes to mind).
In fact, critics and viewers alike wondered why she'd go back
to her Lucy character for the short-lived "Life With Lucy" in
1986, rather than try something different, or at least something
more befitting her age (75), having seen how well "Stone Pillow"
did.

"America," you will not be surprised to learn, is not Alistair Cooke's
first-rate series about American history, but a disastrous talk show
with McLean Stevenson, Sarah Purcell, and Stuart Damon; the show
was savaged by critics, Damon went back to "General Hospital" almost
immediately, and Stevenson was fired--after Paramount announced the
show's cancellation effective in December after 13 weeks.

 

[wbhist]

Lucille Ball was surprisingly good playing a relatively straight role in "Stone Pillow," although she had appeared in some dramas in the '30s and '40s ("Five Came Back" from '39 comes to mind). In fact, critics and viewers alike wondered why she'd go back to her Lucy character for the short-lived "Life With Lucy" in 1986, rather than try something different, or at least something more befitting her age (75), having seen how well "Stone Pillow" did.

Alas, the making of Stone Pillow permanently damaged Lucy's health and made her more frail in her final years, in no small part due to the weather being especially hot when it was filmed (it was supposed to take place in the winter, and she had to wear several layers of clothing) - this, from what I read in one of her bios (I think the Desilu book). But it was not the only time Miss Ball put her health at risk in the name of her art - another was when appearing in her only Broadway musical, Wildcat!, in 1960-61, when she was hampered by a string of illnesses that led to many cancellations - and only 171 performances.

"America," you will not be surprised to learn, is not Alistair Cooke's first-rate series about American history, but a disastrous talk show with McLean Stevenson, Sarah Purcell, and Stuart Damon; the show was savaged by critics, Damon went back to "General Hospital" almost immediately, and Stevenson was fired--after Paramount announced the show's cancellation effective in December after 13 weeks.

I actually saw that show when it was on. Seemed to go over like a lead balloon.

 

[DToTheJ]

"America"... [was] a disastrous talk show with McLean Stevenson, Sarah Purcell, and Stuart Damon; the show was savaged by critics, Damon went back to "General Hospital" almost immediately, and Stevenson was fired--after Paramount announced the show's cancellation effective in December after 13 weeks.

I wonder if McLean is related to Cynthia ("My Talk Show") Stevenson. :

Purcell, by the way, would eventually host her own syndicated newsmagazine program a few years later titled "Public People, Private Lives."

 

[bpatrick]

McLean Stevenson was a distant relative of Adlai Stevenson,
who ran for President against Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956 and
was defeated both times; he later became our ambassador to
the UN and is remembered for his confrontation with the Russian
Valerian Zorin after the Cuban Missile Crisis when he forced Zorin
to admit that the Soviets had had missiles in Cuba for several months.

BTW, if you can find it, there's a whole chapter in Kevin Allman's book
"TV Turkeys" about McLean Stevenson's post-"M*A*S*H" career, and
it's not pretty; his flops include "The McLean Stevenson Show" (1976-77),
"Celebrity Challenge Of The Sexes" (1978), "In The Beginning" (1978),
"Hello, Larry" (1979-80), "Condo" (1983), and "America."

 

[BobbyNBC10]

And Mc Lean was also a Match Game panelist.

 

[bpatrick]

And I think he showed up on "Hollywood Squares" as well, but
he was not a regular on either show.

 

[classictvfan]

I made 2 mistakes:
On Channel 35, It should be The Big Valley at 10 AM, Dallas at 11 AM
On Channel 43, Batman should be 6 AM, not 7 AM