Retro: Orlando - Key Walt Disney World-related dates

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Source: Orlando Sentinal via newspapers.com

Part I: Friday, October 1, 1971
(Magic Kingdom opens)

2 WESH (NBC)
6:15 TV Classroom (Viewpoint)
6:45 Sunshine Almanac
7:00 Today
9:00 Steve Allen
10:00 Dinah's Place - Guests: Sen. and Mrs. Fred Harris (D-OK)
10:30 Concentration
11:00 Sale of the Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Wally Cox, Paul Winchell, Janet Leigh, Della Reese, Charley Weaver, Michelle Lee, Martin Milner, Arte Johnson, Paul Lynde
NOON Jeopardy!
12:30 Newscope (locally pre-empting The Who, What or Where Game)
12:55 NBC Midday News
1:00 Somerset
1:30 Three on a Match
2:00 Days of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
3:30 Bright Promise
4:00 To Tell the Truth
4:30 Munsters
5:00 Dick Van Dyke
5:30 Newscope
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 I Love Lucy
7:30 I Dream of Jeannie
8:00 The D.A.: "The People vs. Gayda"
8:30 NBC World Premiere Movie: "River of Mystery" - Vic Morrow, Claude Akins, Edmond O'Brien
10:30 This Is Your Life - Guest: Joe Frazier
11:00 Newscope
11:30 Tonight Show: Carson's 9th Anniversary - Guest: New York City Mayor John Lindsey (Johnny Carson's 19-year-old son Richard was arrested the previous day for marijuana possesion.)
1:00 Newscope (R)

6 WDBO (CBS)
6:15 Sunshine Almanac
6:30 Summer Semester
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Gomer Pyle
9:30 Lucy Show
10:00 Virginia Graham
11:00 Family Affair
11:30 Love of Life
NOON Where the Heart Is
12:25 CBS Midday News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 What's My Line?
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Love Is a Many Spledored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3:00 Secret Storm
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Flintstones
4:30 Perry Mason
5:30 Green Acres
6:00 Newsbeat
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Truth or Consequences
7:30 Hee Haw (Recently moved to first-run syndication after two years on CBS. Second half locally pre-empts The Chicago Teddy Bears; episode: "Mr. Sauve") - Guests: Amanda Blake, Buddy Alan
8:30 O'Hara, U.S. Treasury: "Operation: Stolen Bonds"
9:30 CBS Friday Night Movies: "The Deadly Hunt" (Premiere) - Tony Franciosa, Peter Lawford, Anjanette Comer, Jim Hutton
11:00 Newsbeat
11:30 Movie: "Blood of the Vampire" (1958) - Donald Wolfit, Barbara Shelley, Vincent Ball

9 WFTV (ABC)
6:30 Daily Word
6:35 Eyewitness (WFTV News)
6:45 Florida Agri-World
7:00 Bozo's Big Top
8:00 Mike Douglas
9:00 Movie: "The Woman on the Beach" (1947) - Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford
11:00 Bewitched
11:30 That Girl
NOON Eyewitness
12:30 Password - Guests: Nanette Fabray, Arte Johnson
1:00 All My Children
1:30 Let's Make a Deal
2:00 Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 One Life to Live
4:00 Love, American Style
4:30 Daniel Boone
5:30 Eyewitness
6:30 ABC Evening News
7:00 Dragnet
7:30 Bobby Sherman
8:00 Brady Bunch: "The Brady Braves" (Part 3 of their Grand Canyon trip) - Guest: Jay "Tonto" Silverheels as Chief Eagle Cloud.
8:30 Partridge Family: "A Man Called Snake" - Guest: Rob Reiner as motorcycle gang leader Snake, who develops a crush on Laurie.
9:00 Room 222: "America's Guest"
9:30 Odd Couple: "Hospital Mates"
10:00 Love, American Style - Segments and guests: 1) "Love and the Traveling Salesman" - Jeannie C. Riley, Dick Gautier; 2) "Love and the Neglected Wife" - Michelle Lee, Roger Perry; 3) "Love and the Artful Codger" - Tom Bosley, Burgess Meredith
11:00 Eyewitness
11:30 Movie: "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" (1949) - John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr.
1:25 Eyewitness (R)

24 WMFE (PBS)
NOTES: Instructional programs are listed by subject area rather than title. Channel began broadcasting in color two days later.

8:15 Science
8:35 Social Studies
8:55 Music
9:15 Social Studies
9:35 Language Arts
10:05 Science
10:25 Music
10:45 Health
11:05 Music
11:25 Language Arts
NOON Music
12:15 Science
12:35 Music
12:50 Ripples (There's one available title.)
1:05 Language Arts
1:25 Art
1:45 Music
2:05 Science

Off the air for the remainder of Fridays at the time. Normal late weekday schedule was as follows:
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Mister Rogers
6:30 What's New?
7:00 (Various PBS programming depending on the weeknight.)

As a bonus, here's is that day's schedule from Tampa PBS affiliate WEDU Ch. 3.

8:50 In School (Instructional Programming)
3:10 Teacher to Teacher
3:40 Imagine That
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 What's New?
6:00 Unity of Nature
6:30 TV High School
7:00 Sew Easy
7:30 New Season Preview
8:30 Boating With Power Squadron
9:00 Museum Open House
9:30 Boboquivari - Guest: Ramblin' Jack Elliot
10:00 Fanfare - Guest: Roberta Peters

 

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Part II: Saturday, October 23, 1982 (see Ch. 6 at 8 PM)

2 WESH (NBC)
5:00 NBC News Overnight
6:00 Legendary Heroes Spring to Life
7:00 Gilligan's Island (x2)
8:00 Flintstone Funnies
8:30 Shirt Tales
9:00 Smurfs
10:30 Gary Coleman Show
11:00 Incredible Hulk and Amazing Spider-Man
NOON Dance Fever
12:30 America's Top 10
1:00 Wrestling
2:00 Movie: "Kid with the Golden Arm" (1979) - Kuo Chui, Chiang Sheng
3:30 Lorne Greene's New Wilderness
4:00 NBC SportsWorld - 1) NASCAR Charlotte 500 (taped Oct. 10); 2) NABF Middleweight Boxing: "Sugar" Ray Seales vs. James Shuler (Atlantic City); 3) U.S.-China Invitational Gymnastics (Beijing)
5:30 Here's Richard (Simmons)
6:00 NewsCenter 2
6:30 NBC Nightly News - Jessica Savitch (exactly one year before her death)
7:00 League of Women Voters: Senate Debate - Democratic imcumbent Lawton Chiles vs. Republican challenger Van B. Poole (Univerity of South Florida Theater in Tampa)
8:00 Diff'rent Strokes: "Big Brother"
8:30 Silver Spoons: "Takin' a Chance on Love"
9:00 Gimme a Break!: "Grandpa's Visit"
9:30 Love, Sidney: "Sidney's Cousin"
10:00 Devlin Connection: "The Corpse in the Corniche"
11:00 NewsCenter 2
11:30 Saturday Night Live - Host: Howard Hesseman; Musical guests: Men at Work ("Who Can It Be Now?", "Down Under")
1:00 Laugh Trax
2:00 NewsCenter 2 (R)

6 WCPX (CBS) (Changed from WDBO June 6, 1982)
6:00 The Law and You
6:30 Spectrum
7:00 Black Awareness
7:30 30 Minutes
8:00 Speed Buggy
8:30 Sylvester & Tweety/Daffy & Speedy
9:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:30 Little Rascals (live action)
11:00 Pandamonium
11:30 Meatballs & Spaghetti
NOON NCAA Today
12:30 NCAA Football - Mississippi vs. Vanderbilt
4:00 Movie: "Monte Walsh" (1970) - Lee Marvin, Jack Palance, Jeanne Moreau
6:00 Newswatch 6
6:30 CBS Evening News - Bob Schieffer
7:00 Hee Haw - Guests: John Schneider, Ed Bruce, Big Al Downing, Felice & Boudleaux Bryant
8:00 Walt Disney: "EPCOT Center: The Opening Celebration" Host: Danny Kaye; Guests: Drew Barrymore, Marie Osmond, Roy Clark, Alex Haley, Alan Shepard, Eric Sevaried (park opened on October 1)
9:00 CBS Saturday Night Movies: "Blazing Saddles" (1974) - Gene Wilder, Cleavon Little, Harvey Korman, Slim Pickens, Alex Karras, Madeleine Kahn, Dom DeLuise, Mel Brooks (also the director)
11:00 Newswatch 6
11:30 Barry Farber (local Orlando talk personality)
12:30 Movie: "The Firechasers" (1971) - Chad Everett, Anjanette Comer, Keith Barron

9 WFTV (ABC)
5:25 Celebrity Revue
6:00 Dr. Snuggles
6:30 Space Kidettes
7:00 Mork & Mindy/Laverne & Shirley/Fonz Hour
7:55 Schoolhouse Rock!
8:00 Superfriends
8:25 Schoolhouse Rock!
8:30 Pac-Man/Little Rascals/Richie Richie
10:00 Lassie
10:30 Kidsworld
11:00 Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour
NOON ABC Weekend Special: "The Puppy Saves the Circus" (With Petey, the "Puppy" from the preceding package.)
12:30 American Bandstand - Guests: Lionel Richie ("Truly", "You Are"), ABC ("The Look of Love", "Poison Arrow")
1:30 The Law Works
2:00 Hollywood & the Stars
2:30 Sounds of Henry Mancini
3:30 NCAA Football - Tennessee vs. Georgia Tech
6:30 Eyewitness News
7:00 Memories With Lawrence Welk: "Country and Western Hoedown"
8:00 T. J. Hooker: "Blind Justice"
9:00 Love Boat: "The Same Wavelength", "Winning Isn't Everything", "A Honeymoon for Horace"; Guest Starring in Alphabetical Order: David Doyle, Jack Gilford, Matthew Labyorteaux, Charlie Siebert, Connie Stevens, Nancy Walker
10:00 Fantasy Island: "Dancing Lady" guest starring Lynda Goodfriend, "The Final Round" guest starring Al Molinaro (both of which starred in Happy Days)
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Movie: "How Green Was My Valley" (1941 Best Picture) - Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Donald Crisp (Best Supporting Actor), Roddy McDowall
1:40 Eyewitness News (R)
2:10 Movie: "Apartment for Peggy" (1948) - William Holden, Jeanne Crain, Edmund Gwenn
3:50 Movie: "The Paradine Case" (1948) - Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Alida Valli, Charles Laughton

24 WMFE (PBS)
8:00 World of Books
8:30 Quilting
9:00 Florida Home Grown
9:30 French Chef
10:00 Magic of Oil Painting
10:30 This Old House
11:00 American Government (x2)
NOON Growing Years (x2)
1:00 Family Portrait (x2)
2:00 It's Everybody's Business (x2)
3:00 Presente
3:30 Tony Brown's Journal
4:00 The Paper Chase (1978-79 CBS series; revived on Showtime from Apr. 15, 1983 - Aug. 9, 1986)
5:00 Washington Week in Review
5:30 Wall $treet Week
6:00 Nature
7:00 Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau
8:00 Politihon '82: Gubernatorial Forum - Democratic imcumbent Bob Graham vs. Republican challenger Skip Bafalis
9:00 Sammy Cahn: The Second Time Around
10:00 Dave Allen at Large
10:30 No, Honestly!
11:00 Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrrin

35 WOFL
7:00 Jim Bakker
8:00 Herald of Truth
8:30 Grand Prix All-Star Show
9:00 Leave It to Beaver
9:30 Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries
10:30 Three Stooges
11:30 At the Movies - Reviews: "First Blood" (debut of the "Rambo" franchise), "Monsignor", "Waitress", "Mephisto"
NOON Movie: "Sword of the Conqueror" (1962) - Jack Palance, Eleanora Rossi-Drago, Guy Madison
2:00 Movie: "Cry, the Beloved Country" (1951) - Canada Lee (final film; died the following year), Sidney Poitier, Charles Carson, Joyce Carey
4:00 Incredible Hulk
5:00 Daniel Boone
6:00 Kung Fu
7:00 Jeffersons
7:30 Barney Miller
8:00 Wild, Wild West
9:00 Gunsmoke
10:00 Independent Network News
10:30 At the Movies (see 11:30 AM)
11:00 Benny Hill
11:30 Madame's Place (x2)
12:30 Movie: "House of Dracula" (1945) - John Carradine (Count Dracula), Lon Chaney Jr. (The Wolf Man), Glenn Strange (Frankenstein's Monster), Martha O'Driscoll, Lionel Atwill

43 WMOD - Melbourne
7:00 Movie: "Lucky Texan" (1934) - John Wayne, Gabby Hayes, Barbara Sheldon
8:00 Movie: "The New Frontier" (1935) - John Wayne, Muriel Evans
9:00 Real Estate Action Line
9:30 Singleton Report
10:00 Youth Wants to Know
10:30 Lou Frey Report
11:00 Contact
NOON Abbott & Costello
12:30 Movie: "Corruption" (1968) - Peter Cushing, Sue Lloyd
2:30 Get Smart
3:00 Wrestling
4:00 Pop! Goes the Country
4:30 Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry
5:00 Nashville on the Road
5:30 Porter Wagoner
6:00 Portrait of a Legend
6:30 Sha Na Na
7:00 Best of Midnight Special
8:00 High School Football - Cocoa Beach vs. Orlando Bishop Moore (taped)
10:00 That Teen Show
10:30 CNN Headline News (incorporating local news)
11:00 Going Platinum

 

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Part III: Monday, May 1, 1989
Disney-MGM (now Disney's Hollywood) Studios opens

Additional source: Tampa Tribune

2 WESH (NBC)
5:00 2's Country
5:30 Morning Stretch
6:00 NBC News at Sunrise
6:30 NewsCenter 2
7:00 Today - Scheduled: Kirk Cameron; family vacationing; U.S. Trade representative Carla Hill; the upcoming Family Ties series finale (May 14); Alice Walker
9:00 Superior Court
9:30 On Trial
10:00 Scrabble
10:30 Classic Concentration
11:00 Wheel of Fortune - Rolf Benirschke
11:30 Couch Potatoes - Marc Summers
NOON NewsCenter 2
12:30 Generations
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 People's Court
4:30 The Judge
5:00 Cosby Show
5:30 Central Florida Live - Coverage of the Disney-MGM Studios opening.
6:00 NewsCenter 2
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 A Current Affair
7:30 Entertainment Tonight - Featured: Actresses who double for stars in nude scenes.
8:00 ALF: "Shake, Rattle and Roll"
8:30 Nearly Departed: "TV or Not TV"
9:00 NBC Monday Night at the Movies: "Dark Holiday" (Premiere) - Lee Remick (final film), Norma Aleandro, Tony Goldwyn
11:00 NewsCenter 2
11:30 Tonight Show - Guest host: Jay Leno; Guests: Richard Lewis, the Smothers Brothers; Performers: Alabama
12:30 Late Night With David Letterman - (Aug. 10, 1988) Guests: Tom Cruise, Connie Chung, Jimmy MacDonald (voice and sound effects artist for Disney)
1:30 Later With Bob Costas - Guest: Patrick Swayze
2:00 USA Today
2:30 Relatively Speaking
3:00 Gong Show
3:30 Love Connection
4:00 Fantasy Island (half-hour edit)
4:30 Family Medical Center

6 WCPX (CBS)
6:00 CBS Morning News
7:00 CBS This Morning - Scheduled: John Hurt; Patrick Dempsey; up-and-coming Hollywood stars (Part 1 of 4)
9:00 Donahue - Topic: Cosmetic surgery
10:00 Sally Jessy Raphael - Guest: Connie Francis
11:00 The Price is Right
NOON WCPX Channel 6 News
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 Bold and the Beautiful
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Star Trek: The Next Generation
5:00 M*A*S*H
5:30 WCPX Channel 6 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 PM Magazine
7:30 Mama's Family
8:00 Live-In: "Mommy and Me and Au Pair Makes Three"
8:30 Heartland: "The Sky is Falling"
9:00 Murphy Brown: "The Unshrinkable Murphy Brown"
9:30 Designing Women: "The Women of Atlanta"
10:00 Newhart: "Homes and Jo-Jo"
10:30 Kate & Allie: "The Last Temptation of Allie"
11:00 WCPX Channel 6 News
11:30 M*A*S*H
MIDNIGHT Pat Sajak - Guests: Bob Rosefski (financial columnist), Joel Higgins (formerly of NBC's Silver Spoons, then starring in ABC's Have Faith); Performer: Billy Joe Royal
1:00 Sweethearts
1:30 Wipeout
2:00 Night Heat
3:00 CBS Nightwatch (to 6:00 AM)

9 WFTV (ABC)
5:00 Body by Jake
5:30 This Morning's Business
6:00 Eyewitness Daybreak
7:00 Good Morning America - Featured: On the set of Internal Affairs with Richard Gere, Andy Garcia, and Laurie Metcalf; Tammy Wynette; author Patrick Reynolds; Energy Secretary James Watkins; oceanographer Robert Ballard; Disney-MGM Studios tour
9:00 Geraldo - Topic: Wives vs. the women of a legal brothell (on location in Reno)
10:00 Live With Regis & Kathie Lee - On location at the Grand Opening of the Disney-MGM Studios; Guests: Annette Funicello, Josh Saviano (Paul from The Wonder Years), The Pointer Sisters, Jim Varney
11:00 Home
NOON Eyewitness News
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Oprah Winfrey - Guests: Parents of slain satanic cult victim Mark Kilroy
5:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Jeopardy!
7:30 Wheel of Fortune
8:00 MacGyver: "Easy Target"
9:00 Columbo: "Grand Deceptions"
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Inside Edition
MIDNIGHT Nightline
12:30 Movie: "The Searchers" (1956) - John Wayne, Natalie Wood, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond
3:00 Movie: "Les Miserables" (1952) - Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Robert Newton, Edmund Gwenn

24 WMFE (PBS)
7:15 AM Weather
7:30 Captain Kangaroo
8:00 Sesame Street (x2)
10:00 Mister Rogers
10:30 Zoobilee Zoo
11:00 Reading Rainbow
11:30 Body Electric
NOON Florida Home Grown
12:30 Yan Can Cook
1:00 Mister Rogers
1:30 Wild America
2:00 Nature
3:00 Zoobilee Zoo
3:30 Sesame Street
4:30 Reading Rainbow
5:00 WonderWorks: "Good Old Boy" (Part 2 of 2)
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
7:00 Nightly Business Report
7:30 World of Survival: "What Makes Cats So Special"
8:00 Movie: "George Washington: Forging of a Nation" (Premiere; Part 1 of 2) - Barry Bostwick (as George Washington), Patty Duke (as Martha Washington), Jeffrey Jones (as Thomas Jefferson), Richard Bekins (as Alexander Hamilton) (The previous day marked the bicentennial of Washington's inauguration as the first President.)
10:00 Today in the Legislature

35 WOFL (Fox)
5:00 That's Incredible!
6:00 Good Day!
6:30 G.I. Joe
7:00 C.O.P.S.
7:30 Dennis the Menace
8:00 Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Tom & Jerry
9:00 Waltons
10:00 Movie: "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (1947) - Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff
NOON Andy Griffith
12:30 Beverly Hillbillies
1:00 Hawaii Five-O
2:00 Bewitched
2:30 Scooby-Doo
3:00 Alvin & the Chipmunks
3:30 Real Ghostbusters
4:00 DuckTales
4:30 Double Dare
5:00 Facts of Life
5:30 Silver Spoons
6:00 Family Ties
6:30 Newhart
7:00 Cheers
7:30 Night Court
8:00 Movie: "Three Amigos" (1986) - Steve Martin, Chevy Chase, Martin Short
10:00 USA Tonight
10:30 Bob Newhart
11:00 Arsenio Hall - Guests: Dick Clark, Heather Locklear, Jimmie Walker
MIDNIGHT Hawaii Five-O
1:00 Jeffersons
1:30 Fish
2:00 CHiPs
3:00 SCTV (x2)
4:00 Dallas

56 WAYK
6:30 Saber Rider
7:00 Care Bears
7:30 My Little Pony
8:00 Comic Strip
8:30 Bionic Six
9:00 Ask Washington
10:00 Hangin' In
10:30 Sweethearts
11:00 Weekday
11:30 I Dream of Jeannie
NOON Fugitive
1:00 Movie: "Sisters of Death" (1977) - Arthur Franz, Claudia Jennings
3:00 Jem
3:30 Popeye
4:00 Jetsons
4:30 Beverly Hills Teens
5:00 Gilligan's Island
5:30 Fame (Half-hour edit or first half of a full episode.)
6:00 New Gidget
6:30 Newlywed Game
7:00 News
7:30 MLB Baseball - Houston Astros vs. Philadelphia Phillies
10:00 MLB Baseball - St. Louis Cardinals vs. San Diego Padres
1:00 World Class Wrestling

68 WKCF
6:00 Snorks
6:30 Smurfs
7:00 Gumby
7:30 ThunderCats
8:00 Heart to Heart
8:30 One Day at a Time
9:00 Knots Landing
10:00 Charlie's Angels
11:00 Cannon
NOON Rockford Files
1:00 Perry Mason
2:00 Hogan's Heroes
2:30 My Favorite Martian
3:00 Flintstones
3:30 Yogi Bear
4:00 Bravestarr
4:30 Fun House
5:00 Happy Days
5:30 Laverne & Shirley
6:00 Wonderful World of Disney
7:00 Knight Rider
8:00 Movie: "American Ninja" (1985) - Michael Dudikoff, Steve James, Judie Aronson, Guich Knock
10:00 Morton Downey Jr. - Topic: Men's rights
11:00 Soap
11:30 Movie: "Sitting Target" (1972) - Oliver Reed, Jill St. John, Ian McShane
1:30 Here's Lucy
2:00 Laverne & Shirley (x2)
3:00 One Day at a Time (x2)
4:00 My Favorite Martian (x2)
5:00 Mork & Mindy (x2)

 

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Part IV: Sunday, May 6, 1990 (see Ch. 2 at 7:00 PM)

2 WESH (NBC)
6:00 Magnum, P.I.
7:00 Vibrations
7:30 Voice of Victory
8:00 Real to Reel
8:30 TV Mass
9:00 Sunday Today
10:30 Meet the Press - Topic: The New Europe (with the then-recent downfalls of the continent's Communist regimes); Guests: Zbigniew Brzezinski (former National Security Advisor under Jimmy Carter), Jeane Kirkpatrick (former UN Ambassador)
11:00 2's Company
11:30 Better Homes & Gardens
NOON InSport
12:30 Water Sports World
1:00 Movie: "There Was a Crooked Man" (1960) - Norman Wisdom, Alfred Marks, Andrew Cruickshank
3:30 Movie: "The Cowboys" (1972) - John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern, Colleen Dewhurst
6:00 NewsCenter 2
6:30 NBC Nightly News - Garrick Utley
7:00 Magical World of Disney: "The Muppets at Walt Disney World" - Human guests: Raven-Symone, Charles Grodin; This broadcast was an awareness campaign to promote the first planned merger between Disney and the Muppets (excluding Sesame Street and Fraggle Rock). Sadly, Jim Henson died just ten days later.
8:00 ALF: "Live and Let Die" (Nov. 13, 1989) - After the Tanner family cat Lucky dies, ALF adopts a group of kittens for a meal (cats are a delicacy on his home planet of Melmac). However, he begins to change his personal view on cats as one kitten grows fond of him.
8:30 227: "No Place Like Home" (Series Finale)
9:00 NBC Sunday Night at the Movies: "Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again" (Premiere) - Christopher Rich (Archie Andrews), Gary Kroeger (Reggie Mantle), Lauren Holly (Betty Cooper), Karen Kopins (Veronica Lodge), Sam Whipple (Forsythe "Jughead" Jones), Jeff Hochendoner (Moose Mason), Fran Ryan (Miss Grundy), David Doyle (Mr. Weatherbee)
11:00 NewsCenter 2
11:30 Entertainment This Week
12:30 Siskel & Ebert - Reviews: "Short Time", "Without You I'm Nothing", "A Show of Force", "Wild Orchid"
1:00 Magnum, P.I.

6 WCPX (CBS)
6:30 The Law & You
7:00 Robert Schuller
8:00 World Tomorrow
8:30 Day of Discovery
9:00 Sunday Morning
10:30 Face the Nation - Topic: Changes in the Soviet Union and Iran; Guests: Vitaly Churkin (Soviet Foreign Ministry advisor), Ali Akbar Velayati (Iranian Minister of Foreigh Affairs)
11:00 You and Your Health
11:30 Paid Programming
NOON Missing-Reward
12:30 Basketball Show
1:00 NBA Playoffs - Eastern Conference: Game 5 - New York Knicks vs. Boston Celtics
3:30 NBA Playoffs - Western Conference: Game 5 - Phoenix Suns vs. Utah Jazz
6:00 CBS Evening News - Connie Chung
6:30 WCPX Channel 6 News
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 Murder, She Wrote: "The Szechuan Dragon"
9:00 CBS Sunday Movie: "The Untouchables" (1987) - Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro
11:30 WCPX Channel 6 News
12:05 Mama's Family
12:35 CBS News
12:50 Home Shopping Spree (to 6:00 AM)

9 WFTV (ABC)
6:00 Little Rascals
6:30 Ebony/Jet Showcase
7:00 Paid Program
7:30 Kenneth Copeland
8:30 Oral Roberts
9:00 First Presbyterian Church
9:30 First Baptist Church
10:30 It Is Written
11:00 Paid Programming
11:30 Health Matters
NOON This Week With David Brinkley - Topic: Lebanon hostages; Guests: Kamal Kharrazi (Iranian ambassafor to the UN), future Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (then Deputy Foreign Minister), Farouk Al-Sharra (Syrian Foreign Minister), Gary Sick (former National Security Council advisor) (This topic comes in the wake of the recent releases of Robert Polhill and Frank Reed, the first from the U.S. in four years.)
1:00 Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
2:00 Movie: "36 Hours" (1965) - James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Taylor
4:00 Golf - GTE Byron Nelson Classic, Final Round (TPC Las Colinas, Irving, TX)
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 ABC World News Sunday - Forrest Sawyer
7:00 Life Goes On: "Ordinary Heroes" (Dec. 3, 1989)
8:00 America's Funniest Home Videos - Bob Saget
8:30 Anything for Laughs (unsold pilot)
9:00 ABC Sunday Night Movie: "Burning Bridges" (Premiere) - Meredith Baxter, Nick Mancuso, Lois Chiles
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Runaway With the Rich and Famous
MIDNIGHT Paid Programming
1:00 Movie: "Portrait of a Mobster" (1961) - Vic Morrow, Leslie Parrish, Ray Danton
3:00 Movie: "Anatomy of an Illness" (1984) - Ed Asner, Eli Wallach, David Ogden Stiers

24 WMFE (PBS)
8:00 Reading Rainbow (x2)
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 This Old House
10:30 Gourmet Cooking
11:00 Movie: "Central Park" (1989) - Documentary by Frederick Wiseman
2:00 Masterpiece Theatre: "Traffik" (Part 3 of 5)
3:00 Raising America's Children
3:30 Florida Crossroads
4:00 Lawrence Welk: "Salute to Mexico"
5:00 Firing Line
5:30 John McLaughlin's One on One
6:00 Washington Week in Review
6:30 Wall $treet Week
7:00 Austin City Limits
8:00 (Figure) Skating Spectacular - Skaters: Ginger & Archie Tse, Caryn Kadavy, Suzanne Semanick, Ron Kravette; Hosts: Jo Jo Starbuck, Ken Shelley (Rochester, NY)
9:00 Mystery!: "Insepctor Morse: Setting of the Sun" (Part 1 of 2)
10:00 Masterpiece Theatre (see 2:00 PM)

35 WOFL (Fox)
6:00 America's Black Forum
6:30 Impact
7:00 Popeye
7:30 Bullwinkle
8:00 Maxie's World
8:30 Porky Pig
9:00 Tom & Jerry
9:30 Bugs Bunny
10:00 Movie: "Oh, God!" (1977) - George Burns, John Denver, Terri Garr
NOON Movie: "Swamp Thing" (1982) - Ray Wise, Louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau, Dick Durock
2:00 Movie: "Enemy Mine" (1985) - Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr.
4:00 Movie: "Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior" (1981) - Mel Gibson, Bruce Spense, Mike Preston, Vernon Wells
6:00 Simon & Simon
7:00 The Outsiders: "Storm Warning"
8:00 America's Most Wanted
8:30 Simpsons: "Call of the Simpsons" (Feb. 18, 1990)
9:00 Married...With Children: "The Agony of Defeet"
9:30 Open House: "First Impression"
10:00 Booker: "Father's Day"
11:00 Hawaii Five-O
MIDNIGHT Alias Smith & Jones

56 WAYK
6:00 Peppermint Place
6:30 Abbott & Costello
7:00 News
7:30 Business Report
8:00 Walker Roundup
8:30 Paid Programming
10:30 Kentucky Derby Festival Parade
NOON Paid Programming
1:00 This Week in Baseball
1:30 MLB Baseball - Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Philadelphia Phillies
4:30 MLB Baseball - Baltimore Orioles vs. Seattle Mariners
7:30 Witness
8:00 Movie: "The Solitary Man" (1979) - Earl Holliman, Carrie Snodgress
10:00 USA Tonight
10:30 Images
11:00 Night Music
MIDNIGHT Women in Rock
1:00 TBA
1:30 USA Tonight (R)

68 WKCF
6:00 College Consortium (x2)
8:00 Forum 68
9:00 Paid Programming
11:00 Wild Kingdom
11:30 10th Frame (bowling)
MIDNIGHT Mission: Impossible
1:00 Cannon
2:00 Police Story
3:00 S.W.A.T.
4:00 Starsky & Hutch
5:00 Crazy Like a Fox
6:00 Movie: "A Guy Named Joe" (1943) - Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson, Ward Bond, James Gleason, Lionel Barrymore, Barry Nelson, Esther Williams
8:00 National Geographic Assignment
9:00 Paid Programming
MIDNIGHT Mannix
1:00 Naked City