Retro: Port Huron, MI Saturday, 12/07/1986

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From The Port Huron Times-Herald via Newspapers.com
Listings start at 8:00am

Part I: VHF

WJBK 2 Detroit (CBS)
8:00 Berenstain Bears
8:30 Wildfire
9:00 Jim Henson's Muppets, Babies & Monsters (which was actually just Muppet Babies by then, as Little Muppet Monsters had been cancelled a year earlier)
10:00 Pee Wee's Playhouse
10:30 Teen Wolf
11:00 Wrestling
12:00/1:00 Big Valley
2:00 College Football (Army vs. Navy, from Philadelphia)
5:30 CBS Sports Special: Heisman Trophy Award
6:00 News
6:30 Angie
7:00 Ted Knight Show
7:30 Small Wonder
8:00 Downtown
9:00 Movie "Against All Odds"
11:30 News
12:00 Movie "Sharon: Portrait of a Mistress"
2:00 Untouchables
3:00 Naked City
4:00 The Avengers

WDIV 4 Detroit (NBC)
8:00 Kissyfur
8:30 Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
9:00 Smurfs
10:30 Alvin and the Chipmunks
11:00 Foofur
11:30 Punky Brewster
12:00 America's Top Ten
12:30 Dream Girl U.S.A.
1:00 Main Street
2:00 PBA Bowling (Budweiser Touring Players Championship, live from Taylor, a Detroit suburb)
3:30 Sportsworld (repeat of World Professional Figure Skating Championships from Landover, MD)
5:00 Barney Miller
5:30 Heroes: Made in the U.S.A.
6:00 News
6:30 NBC News
7:00 Dance Fever
7:30 Wheel of Fortune
8:00 Facts of Life
8:30 227
9:00 Golden Girls
9:30 Amen
10:00 Hunter
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1:00 Dancin' to the Hits
1:30 Rock 'n Roll Evening News
2:30 Movie "Satan's Cheerleaders"
4:30 News

WNEM 5 Bay City/Saginaw/Flint (NBC)
8:00 Kissyfur
8:30 Disney Adventures of the Gummi Bears
9:00 Smurfs
10:30 Alvin and the Chipmunks
11:00 Foofur
11:30 Movie "Track of the Giant Snow Bear"
1:30 Essence
2:00 Movie "They Went That-a-Way and That-a-Way"
4:00 Too Close for Comfort
4:30 The Ropers
5:00 Three's Company
5:30 Private Benjamin
6:00 News
6:30 Hee Haw (Jerry Reed co-hosts, guests are Dottie West, Ray Pillow, David Holt)
7:30 Throb
8:00 Facts of Life
8:30 227
9:00 Golden Girls
9:30 Amen
10:00 Hunter
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1:00 Dancin' to the Hits
1:30 Movie "White Line Fever"

WXYZ 7 Detroit (ABC)
8:00 Wuzzles
8:30 Care Bears Family
9:00 Flintstone Kids
10:00 Real Ghostbusters
10:30 Pound Puppies
11:00 Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show
11:30 All New Ewoks
12:00 Weekend Special "Pippi Longstocking" (pt. 1 of 2)
12:30 Littles
1:00 PGA Golf
3:00 College Football Today
3:25 College Football (Brigham Young at Air Force)
7:00 Entertainment This Week (Duran Duran profile)
8:00 Jim Henson's The Christmas Toy
9:00 John Grin's Christmas
10:00 Perry Como Christmas Show (with guests Julia Migenes-Johnson, George Strait and Angie Dickinson)
11:00 News
11:30 Miss World Beauty Pageant
1:00 Movie "Breaker Morant"
3:20 Movie "Smokey and the Bandit"

CBET 9 Windsor (CBC)
8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 Western Gardener
10:00 The Prisoner
11:00 Coronation Street
12:00 Real Fishing Show
12:30 Ski Base
1:00 Par 27
1:30 Celebrity Tennis
2:00/2:30 Land & Sea
3:00 Sportsweekend
6:00 Saturday Report
6:30 This Week in Parliament
7:00 We Don't Knock
7:30 NHL Hockey (Montreal Canadiens at Washington Capitals)
10:30 Don Cherry's Grapevine
11:00 The National
11:15 News/Provincial Affairs
12:00 Famous Knockouts
12:30 Wrestling

CFPL 10 London (CBC)
9:00 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
9:30 She-Ra: Princess of Power
10:00 Voltron, Defender of the Universe
10:30 Zig Zag
11:00 Friends
11:30 Ski Base
12:00 OWL-TV
12:30 Wonderstruck
1:00 Danger Bay
1:30 Reach for the Top
2:00 Sketches of Our Town (profile of Port Colborne, Ontario)
2:30 This Week in Ontario
3:00 Sportsweekend
6:00 News
6:30 Wizard
7:30 NHL Hockey (same as ch9)
10:30 ALF
11:00 The National
11:15 News/Provincial Affairs
11:50 Jenny's War

WJRT 12 Flint (ABC)
8:00 Wuzzles
8:30 Care Bears Family
9:00 Flintstone Kids
10:00 Real Ghostbusters
10:30 Pound Puppies
11:00 Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show
11:30 All New Ewoks
12:00 Weekend Special "Pippi Longstocking" (pt. 1 of 2)
12:30 Littles
1:00 Newsmaker
1:30 Impressions
2:00 NHRA U.S. Nationals
3:00 College Football Today
3:25 College Football (same as ch7)
7:00 Jeopardy
7:30 Wheel of Fortune
8:00 Jim Henson's The Christmas Toy
9:00 John Grin's Christmas
10:00 Perry Como Christmas Show (see ch7)
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Ike: The War Years"
1:50 News

 

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Part II: UHF and Cable Superstations

WXON 20 Detroit (Indie)
8:00 World Tomorrow
8:30 Herald of Truth
9:00 Starsky and Hutch
10:00 Movie "Breakaway"
12:00 Movie "Evil Roy Slade"
2:00 Movie "The Snow Creature"
3:30 Movie "Terror"
5:00 Six Million Dollar Man
6:00 Greatest American Hero
7:00 Throb
7:30 It's a Living
8:00 Little Drummer Boy
8:30 Pinocchio's Christmas
9:30 Night Gallery
10:00 Rockford Files
11:00 Off the Wall
11:30 Movie "Hand of Death"
1:30 Closer Look
2:00 Issues in the News
2:15 News

WEYI 25 Saginaw/Bay City/Flint (CBS)
8:00 Berenstain Bears
8:30 Wildfire
9:00 Jim Henson's Muppets, Babies & Monsters (see comment under ch2)
10:00 Movie "Heidi's Song"
12:00 Big 10 Today
12:30 Wrestling
1:30 Kodak All-American Football Team
2:00 College Football (same as ch2)
5:30 CBS Sports Special: Heisman Trophy Award
6:00 Small Wonder
6:30 The Christmas Tree Train
7:00 Dance Fever
7:30 Puttin' on the Hits
8:00 Downtown
9:00 Movie "Against All Odds"
11:30 Siskel & Ebert
12:00 Tales from the Darkside
12:30 Miss Black America Pageant

WFUM 28 Flint (PBS)
8:00/8:30 Focus on Society
9:00/9:30 American Government Survey
10:00/10:30 Humanities Through the Arts
11:00 The Africans
12:00 Motorweek
12:30 French Chef
1:10 Frugal Gourmet
1:50 This Old House
2:30 Victory Garden
3:10 Woodwright's Shop
3:50 Magic of Oil Painting
4:30 Michigan Outdoors
5:05 Living with Animals
5:45 High School Challenge (Beecher vs. Morrice)
6:20 Newton's Apple
7:00 Wonderworks "Anne of Green Gables" (pt. 1)
9:05 Great Performances "Judy Garland: The Concert Years"
11:10 I, Claudius

CIII 29 Sarnia (Global)
NOTE: Still listed under former call letters, CKGN
8:00 World Tomorrow
8:30 Care Bears Family
9:00 Smurfs
10:30 Alvin and the Chipmunks
11:00 My Little Pony 'n' Friends
11:30 Punky Brewster
12:00 Kidsbeat
12:30 Mr. Wizard's World
1:00 Captain Nemo
1:30 Hercules
2:00 Ewoks
2:30 Droids
3:00 The GLO Friends Save Christmas
3:30 Blinkins and the Blizzard
4:00 Care Bears Family
4:30 Alvin and the Chipmunks
5:00 Ghostbusters
5:30 Jem
6:00 News
6:30 Everybody's Business
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
8:30 227
9:00 Variety Tonight
9:30 Amen
10:00 Love Boat
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1:00 Starsky and Hutch
2:00 Charlie's Angels
3:00 Night Moves
3:30 Night Ride
4:30 Night Walk

CKCO 42 Sarnia (CTV)
8:00 Kidsworld
8:30 Paul Hann and Friends
9:00 Let's Go (topic: style)
9:30 Don't Stop Now!
10:00 Camp Cariboo
10:30 Treehouse Club
11:00 Oopsy Daisy
11:30 George
12:00 Big Top Talent
12:30 Real Fishing
1:00 Red Fisher
1:30 Open Road
2:00/3:00 Wrestling
4:00 Wide World of Sports
6:00 News
6:30 Bowling for Dollars
7:00 Polka Time (according to the station's anniversary documentaries, this was a real ratings winner!)
7:30 Check It Out!
8:00 Movie (no details)
10:00 What a Country!
10:30 Swing Sensation
11:00 CTV News
12:00 Movie "Prophecy"
2:00 Movie "Carnival Story"

WKBD 50 Detroit (Indie/FOX)
8:00 Kideo TV
9:30 Photon
10:00 Movie (no details)
12:00 Movie "Tarzan's Secret Treasure"
1:30 Nicholas Nickleby (animated version)
3:30 Movie "Godzilla vs. the Thing"
5:00 Star Search
6:00 Star Trek
7:00 What's Happening Now!!
7:30 What a Country!
8:00 NHL Hockey (Detroit Red Wings at Hartford Whalers)
11:00 9 to 5
11:30 American Vice: Doping of a Nation (with Geraldo Rivera)
1:30 Movie "Valley of the Dolls"
3:50 Wild Kingdom
4:20 Lorne Greene's New Wilderness

WTVS 56 Detroit (PBS)
NOTE: Regularly scheduled programming may be delayed due to pledge breaks
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Pledge Break
9:05 Magic Brush of Gary Jenkins
9:40 All New Painting Ceramics
10:15 Victory Garden
10:50 House for All Seasons
11:20 Motorweek
12:00 Michigan Outdoors
12:30 Hometime
1:00 Pledge Break
1:05 Saving the Wildlife
3:15 Nature (a look at carnivorous plants)
4:25 Home Free: Return of the Bald Eagle
5:00 When Bad Things Happen to Good People
6:00 The Queen and Her Ceremonial Horses
7:00 WonderWorks "Anne of Green Gables" (pt. 1 of 2)
9:00 James Cagney: That Yankee Doodle Dandy
10:30 Movie "Yankee Doodle Dandy"
1:00 Back to the Stage Door Canteen

WGPR 62 Detroit (Indie)
8:00 Hit City
8;30 City Sounds
9:00 Movie "Slaughter Day"
11:00 Sportsview
11:30 Music Locations
12:00 Wrestling
1:00 The Scene (local teen dance show focusing on Urban music, which created a nice tie-in with sister radio station WGPR-FM 107.5; Soul Train aired in Detroit on WXON 20)
2:00 Radio Videos
2:30 Westerners
3:00 Route 66
4:00 The Scene
5:00 Telephone Auction
7:00 Zion Evangelistic Temple
8:00 Living the New Life
8:30 W.V. Grant
9:00 1st Greater St. Paul Baptist Church
10:00 Arab Voice of Detroit
12:30 Late Night with R.J. Watkins (Watkins now operates a flea-powered FM station, WHPR 88.1, in suburban Highland Park, and a low-power TV station WHPS-CD 33.1 which IDs with WHPR calls)
2:30 Home Village
4:30 Curro Jimenez

WGN Chicago (cable superstation)
(In Eastern time)
8:00 U.S. Farm Report
8:30 World Tomorrow
9:00 Charlando
9:30 Minority Business Report
10:00 People to People
10:30 Wild Kingdom
11:00 Photon
11:30 Transformers
12:00 Jem
12:30 Movie "The Smurfs and the Magic Flute"
2:00 Robinson Crusoe (animated version)
2:30 Soul Train
3:30 College Basketball (DePaul at Illinois State)
5:30 Good Times
6:00 It's a Living
6:30 One Big Family
7:00 What a Country!
7:30 College Basketball (Brigham Young at Notre Dame)
9:30 Rock 'n Roll Evening News
10:00 News
10:30 INN News
11:00 You Write the Songs
11:30 Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
12:30 American Vice: The Doping of a Nation (see ch50)
2:30 You Write the Songs
3:00 INN News
3:30 Movie "Backlash"

WTBS Atlanta (cable superstation)
8:00 Wrestling
9:00 National Geographic Explorer
11:00 Movie "The Heroes of Telemark"
1:45 Movie "Submarine Command"
3:30 Women's Tennis
5:05 Fishin' with Orlando Wilson
5:35 Motorweek Illustrated
6:05 Wrestling
8:05 Movie "The Fighting Seabees"
10:05 Billy Graham Crusade
11:05 Night Tracks: Chartbusters
12:05 Night Tracks (continued through the remainder of the early AM)