RETRO: PHILADELPHIA - SUMMER 1993

[brettfern]

Weekdays

KYW-TV NBC3
06:00AM News
07:00AM Today
09:00AM Geraldo Rivera
10:00AM Montel Williams
11:00AM Joan Rivers
12:00PM Vicki Lawrence
01:00PM Days of Our Lives
02:00PM Another World
03:00PM & 03:30PM Designing Women
04:00PM Hunter
05:00PM A Current Affair
05:30PM Inside Edition
06:00PM News
06:30PM NBC News
07:00PM Entertainment Tonight
07:30PM Hard Copy
11:00PM News
11:30PM Tonight Show with Jay Leno
12:30AM Late Night with David Letterman

WPVI-TV ABC6
06:00AM News
07:00AM Good Morning America
09:00AM Phil Donahue
10:00AM AM Phiadelphia
10:30AM Sally Jessy Raphael
11:30AM Home
12:00PM News
12:30PM Loving
01:00PM All My Children
02:00PM One Life to Live
03:00PM General Hospital
04:00PM Oprah Winfrey
05:00PM News
06:00PM News
06:30PM ABC News
07:00PM Jeopardy
07:30PM Wheel of Fortune
11:00PM News
11:30PM Nightline

WCAU-TV CBS10
06:00AM News
07:00AM CBS This Morning
09:00AM Regis & Kathie Lee
10:00AM Family Feud Challenge
11:00AM The Price is Right
12:00PM News
12:30PM Young and the Restless
01:30PM Bold and the Beautiful
02:00PM As the World Turns
03:00PM Guiding Light
04:00PM Maury Povich
05:00PM Cops
05:30PM News
06:00PM News
06:30PM CBS News
07:00PM You Bet Your Life
07:30PM Family Feud
11:00PM News
11:30PM Cosby Show

WPHL-TV 17
06:00AM Beliver's Voice of Victory
06:30AM Camp Candy
07:00AM Flintstones
07:30AM DuckTales
08:00AM James Bond Jr.
08:30AM Jetsons
09:00AM Diff'rent Strokes
09:30AM Facts of Life
10:00AM The 700 Club
11:00AM Love Boat
12:00PM Airwolf
01:00PM Gilligan's Island
01:30PM Perfect Strangers
02:00PM Sanford and Son
02:30PM Gilligan's Island
03:00PM Chip 'N Dale Rescue Rangers
03:30PM TaleSpin
04:00PM Darkwing Duck
04:30PM Goof Troop
05:00PM Who's the Boss?
05:30PM & 06:00PM Wonder Years
06:30PM & 07:00PM Married with Children
07:30PM Real Stories of the Highway Patrol
10:00PM Sanford & Son
10:30PM The Jeffersons
11:00PM & 11:30PM Love Connection

WTXF FOX29
07:00AM Widget the World Watcher
07:30AM Beetlejuice
08:00AM Alvin and the Chipmunks
08:30AM Dennis the Menace
09:00AM Woody Woodpecker
09:30AM Small Wonder
10:00AM What's Happening
10:30AM What's Happening Now
11:00AM Three's Company
11:30AM M*A*S*H
12:00PM Caesars Challenge
12:30PM In the Heat of the Night
01:30PM Hawaii Five-0
02:30PM ALF
03:00PM Merrie Melodies
03:30PM Tom & Jerry Kids
04:00PM Tiny Toon Adventures
04:30PM Batman: The Animated Series
05:00PM A Different World
05:30PM Night Court
06:00PM & 06:30PM Cheers
07:00PM Star Trek: The Next Generation
10:00PM News
11:00PM Dear John
11:30PM Arsenio Hall
12:30AM Whoopi
01:00AM Rush Limbaugh

WGBS 57
06:30AM Inspector Gadget
07:00AM Young Robin Hood
07:30AM Popeye
08:00AM I Dream of Jeannie
08:30AM Bewitched
09:00AM I Love Lucy
09:30AM Andy Griffith Show
10:00AM Taxi
10:30AM Maude
11:00AM All in the Family
11:30AM The Honeymooners
12:00PM Highway to Heaven
01:00PM Happy Days
01:30PM Laverne & Shirley
02:00PM Good Times
02:30PM Amazin' Adventures
03:00PM Adventures of the T-Rex
03:30PM Stunt Dawgs
04:00PM Captain N
04:30PM Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
05:00PM Brady Bunch
05:30PM Charles in Charge
06:00PM Full House
06:30PM Growing Pains
07:00PM Roseanne
07:30PM Mama's Family
10:00PM Matlock
11:00PM 227
11:30PM All in the Family
12:00AM Jenny Jones

 

[classictvfan]

What source did you use?

 

[ssetta]

Any listings for WHYY-12?

 

[brettfern]

What source did you use?

Newspaperarchive.com... For some reason, it won't let me access PDFs anymore. Some said "free for visitors" and now they're not...

Schedules often changed throughout those years (i.e. instead of showing sitcom reruns, paid programming would air in those slots atleast once or twice a week)..

 

[brettfern]

Any listings for WHYY-12?

It doesn't show full listings, but here's what was scheduled on 6/25/93:

07:00AM Sesame Street
08:00AM Lamb Chop's Play Along
08:30AM Barney & Friends
09:00AM Sesame Street
10:00AM Mister Rogers Neighborhood
10:30AM Shining Time Station
11:00AM Reading Rainbow
11:30AM ? Lihas
12:00PM & 12:30PM Yangtze
01:00PM MOVIE - Henry V
03:30PM Wild America
04:00PM Sesame Street
05:00PM Barney & Friends
05:30PM News
06:00PM MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour
07:00PM ? Business
07:30PM Are You Being Served?

 

[ssetta]

Thanks for posting that. I was mainly curious about what time Sesame Street aired on WHYY.

 

[mleach]

Kinda curious..what was the line-up for Atlantic City's WMGM-TV 40 around this time?

I remember watching them in Atlantic City back in the early 80s and outside of the NBC line-up and their news, WMGM carried a lot of religious programming and Donahue I believe. I am sure that had changed by the time of these listings.

 

[brettfern]

Thanks for posting that. I was mainly curious about what time Sesame Street aired on WHYY.

Your welcome!

Kinda curious..what was the line-up for Atlantic City's WMGM-TV 40 around this time?

I remember watching them in Atlantic City back in the early 80s and outside of the NBC line-up and their news, WMGM carried a lot of religious programming and Donahue I believe. I am sure that had changed  by the time of these listings.

Sorry don't have listings for them.

 

[brettfern]

WPHL: Fyi, for like the first 1/2 of that summer, Hogan's Hereos would air at 1pm, and Gilligan would air at 2pm followed by Head of the Class

WTXF: Our then-NBC affiliate did not carry Caesars Challenge, so it aired on WTXF.. It premiered on June 14, 1993, and would not be seen here in Philly until like later that month or the first week of July

WGBS: Hard to believe that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles lasted in the 4:30pm weekday slot from 1989-1993. It was never moved!

Does anyone have any promos from WGBS dating around this time? They were always fun to watch, especially with voiceover artist Kim Martin who made the promos worth watching with his "distinctive" voice...

 

[DToTheJ]

Any listings for WHYY-12?

It doesn't show full listings, but here's what was scheduled on 6/25/93:

11:30AM ? Lihas

07:00PM ? Business

These might be "Lilias" (a yoga show) and "Nightly Business Report."

 

[DToTheJ]

Does anyone have any promos from WGBS dating around this time? They were always fun to watch, especially with voiceover artist Kim Martin who made the promos worth watching with his "distinctive" voice...

Dude, just search "WGBS" on YouTube - you'll be amazed, my friend!

 

[brettfern]

Does anyone have any promos from WGBS dating around this time? They were always fun to watch, especially with voiceover artist Kim Martin who made the promos worth watching with his "distinctive" voice...

Dude, just search "WGBS" on YouTube - you'll be amazed, my friend!

There are some stuff, mainly from 1986-1988, and I was born in 1988 so I can't find much from thereafter...

 

[brettfern]

For those that want WFMZ Allentown's Channel 69's lineup from around then, here is what their schedule was on June 25, 1993:

06:30AM CNN Headline News
07:00AM The 700 Club
08:00AM Life Today
08:30AM CNN Headline News
09:00AM Little House on the Prairie
10:00AM The 700 Club
12:00PM CNN Headline News
12:30PM I Love Lucy
01:00PM The Honeymooners
01:30PM Andy Griffith Show
02:00PM Perry Mason
03:00PM Beverly Hillbillies
03:30PM My Three Sons
04:00PM Little House on the Prairie
05:00PM News
05:30PM Bob Newhart Show
06:00PM Happy Days
06:30PM Andy Griffith Show
07:00PM News
07:30PM Rush Limbaugh
09:00PM Matlock
10:00PM News
10:30PM CNN Headline News

Today, the channel airs first run shows Judge Judy, Judge Joe Brown, Deal or No Deal and Family Feud. The only classic shows they still run are Family Ties, I Love Lucy, Hawaii Five-O and Matlock. They have also expanded their news operations, and have been for like the last 10 years or so.

 

[classictvfan]

Do you have any movies or late night programs from WPHL/WGBS/WTXF listed?

 

[brettfern]

Do you have any movies or late night programs from WPHL/WGBS/WTXF listed?

Here's a late night lineup from June 25, 1993 (early June 26) for the channels you asked for:

WPHL
12:00AM It's Showtime at the Apollo
01:00AM MOVIE: The Devil and Max Devlin
03:00AM MOVIE: The Making of a Lady
05:00AM Kate & Allie
05:30AM Delaware Valley Forum

WTXF
12:00AM Arsenio Hall
12:30AM Whoopi
01:00AM Rush Limbaugh
01:30AM ALF
02:00AM Paid Programming
03:00am Fishing
03:30AM Gidget
04:00AM Baywatch

WGBS
12:00AM Jenny Jones
01:00AM Paid Programming
01:30AM Jane Whitney
02:30AM Infatuation
03:00AM MOVIE: Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.
04:30AM Leave it to Beaver
05:00AM Fame

 

[DToTheJ]

Do you have any movies or late night programs from WPHL/WGBS/WTXF listed?

WTXF
01:00AM Rush Limbaugh
01:30AM ALF

Ah, nothing like two puppets, back-to-back! Good scheduling on their part!

 

[brettfern]

WTXF was the only station here in Philly that showed ALF while it appeared in repeats in broadcast syndication. They aired it from 1990 to 1994. I think it faded from local stations a year later.

 

[ShawnHill1]

WTXF was the only station here in Philly that showed ALF while it appeared in repeats in broadcast syndication. They aired it from 1990 to 1994. I think it faded from local stations a year later.

Many of those Warner Brothers Television-distributed off-network shows from that era (late 80s to early 90s) didn't last all too long in broadcast syndication. Here in Los Angeles, KCOP had Head of the Class, Growing Pains, and Night Court, while KCAL had Perfect Strangers, ALF, and The Hogan Family. Head of the Class was gone within two years on KCOP (it was sandwiched between The Cosby Show at 6pm and Night Court at 7), and Perfect Strangers, ALF, and The Hogans were also gone from KCAL within a couple of years. However, KTLA got the rights to Full House (1991), Family Matters (1994), and Fresh Prince (also '94), and each of those shows lasted there at least nearly a decade or more.

 

[brettfern]

However, KTLA got the rights to Full House (1991), Family Matters (1994), and Fresh Prince (also '94), and each of those shows lasted there at least nearly a decade or more.

Family Matters went into off-net syndication in the fall of 1993.

 

[mleach]

WTXF was the only station here in Philly that showed ALF while it appeared in repeats in broadcast syndication. They aired it from 1990 to 1994. I think it faded from local stations a year later.

Wasn't one of the reasons why Alf didn't do very well in syndication was due to some scandal involving the star of Alf Max Wright ? I believe it had to do with Wright being photographed doing crack cocaine and having sex with male hookers. Even though there is nothing about this on Wikipedia or IMDB, I do remember when that made headlines.