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Another new station, KSCH Chanel 58, signs on.
Source: Sacramento Bee via newspapers.com
3 KCRA (NBC)
6:00 CNN Headline News
6:30 A Better Way
7:00 CNN Headline News
7:30 Connections
8:00 Vistas
8:30 Capitol & the Clergy
9:00 CNN Headline News
9:30 Meet the Press - Guest: Vice-President George H. W. Bush
10:00 Strictly Business
10:30 CNN Headline News
11:00 Tennis - Family Circle Cup, Women's Singles Final (Hilton Head Island, SC)
1:00 Giants Baseball - at Los Angeles Dodgers (KCRA was the Sacramento area's broadcaster of both Bay Area MLB teams at the time.)
4:00 NBC SportsWorld - Superstars Competition, Preliminary Round (Miami Beach)
5:30 Fight Back! With David Horowitz
6:00 Channel 3 Reports
7:00 De Colores (local Latino interview show) - Guests: Luis Valdez, Ruben Blades. (locally bumping Punky Brewster to 7:30, and pre-empting Fathers and Sons episode "We'll Always Have the Mall")
7:30 Punky Brewster: "The Perils of Punky", Part 2 of 2 (Oct 20, 1985)
8:00 Amazing Stories: "Hell Toupee"
8:30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "Deadly Honeymoon"
9:00 NBC Sunday Night at the Movies: "Return to Mayberry" (Premiere) - Andy Griffith, Ron Howard, Don Knotts, Jim Nabors, George Lindsey; Charming reunion of the Andy Griffith Show cast, with sixteen surviving cast members, including those listed above, rerpising their roles.
11:00 Channel 3 Reports
11:30 George Michael's Sports Machine
MIDNIGHT At the Movies - Siskel & Ebert discuss Hollywood's underrated actors.
6 KVIE (PBS)
7:00 Sesame Street (x4)
11:00 Modern Maturity
11:30 Crime File
NOON Tony Brown's Journal
12:30 American Interests
1:00 McLauglin Group
1:30 Can't Read, Can't Cope
2:00 Great Performances: "The Cotton Club Remembered" - Performers: Cab Calloway, the Nicholas Brothers, Adelaide Hall, Max Roach, Don Cheatham, Chuck Green.
3:00 Silk Screen: "Jazz is My Native Language" - with Japanese-American jazz pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi.
4:00 Vietnam: A Television History - Episode 4 of 13: "LBJ Goes to War"
5:00 Shakespeare Hour: "Twelfth Night" (Part 2 of 3)
6:00 Adam Smith's Money World
6:30 Sneak Previews - Reviews: "Off Beat", "Legend".
7:00 This Old House
7:30 Bodywatch: "Stress to Your Advantage"
8:00 Nature: "Fragments of Eden"
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre: "By the Sword Divided" (Part 4 of 9)
10:00 Arctic Window
11:00 Firing Line
10 KXTV (CBS)
6:00 Kidsworld
6:30 Conversation With Fred Lewis
7:00 Moments of Reflection
7:15 Lift Your Heart
7:30 Sunday Morning
9:00 Tennis - WCT Finals, Men's Singles Finals (Dallas)
NOON Golf - The Masters, Final Round (Augusta, GA)
3:00 Secrets of Success
4:00 Movie: "My Darling Daughters' Anniversary" (1973) - Robert Young, Ruth Hussey, Raymond Massey, Darleen Carr.
5:30 Eyewitness News 10
6:00 International Investments
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 Murder, She Wrote: "The Perfect Foil"
9:00 CBS Mini-Series: "Dream West" (Premiere, Part 1 of 3) - Fritz Weaver, Richard Chamberlain, John Anderson, Alice Krige, Rip Torn, Ben Johnson, Mel Ferrer, F. Murray Abraham.
11:00 Eyewitness News 10
11:30 CBS Weekend News
11:45 Face the Nation - Guests: John Whitehead, Deputy Secretary of State; Future Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, then Israeli UN Ambassador.
12:15 Magnum, P.I.
1:25 Hawaii Five-O
2:30 CBS Nightwatch (joined in progress)
13 KOVR (ABC)
6:00 Voice of Agriculture
6:30 Ask a Woman - Topic: Breast cancer.
7:00 It Is Written
7:30 Larry Jones
8:00 Oral Roberts
8:30 World Tomorrow
9:00 La Voz de la Raza (The Voice of the Race)
9:30 Progresso
10:00 Urban Times
10:30 Ask a Woman - Topic: Proper food combinations.
11:00 This Week With David Brinkley - Guests: Former UN Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick; Robert Oakley, head of the State Department's counterterrorism office; former Defense Secretary Harold Brown; George Joffe, "Economist" magazine's Middle East/North Africa editor; Geoffrey Kemp former White House Middle East specialist. (This was two days before the U.S. bombing of Libya.)
NOON MLB Baseball - New York Mets vs. Philadelphia Phillies
3:00 Movie: "Miracle of the Heart: A Boys Town Story" (syndicated TV premiere: March 31) - Art Carney, Jack Bannon, Anne Pitoniak, Casey Siemaszko.
5:00 Newswatch 13
5:30 ABC World News Sunday - Sam Donaldson
6:00 Check it Out! - Starring Don Adams as the uptight supermarket manager Howard Bannister.
6:30 It's a Living
7:00 Disney Sunday Movie: "A Fighting Choice" (Premiere) - Patrick Dempsey, Beau Bridges, Karen Valentine.
9:00 ABC Sunday Night Movie: "The Man With the Golden Gun" (1974) - Roger Moore (his second film as James Bond), Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland (Ian Fleming's final James Bond novel, published posthumously.)
11:30 Newswatch 13
MIDNIGHT Reggie Theus
12:30 Secrets of Success
1:30 NBA Today
2:00 Star Games - Teams: "The Love Boat", "Playboy", "Not Necessarily the News".
3:00 ABC Weekend News
19 KCSO (Religious/SIN) - Modesto
7:00 Marilyn Hickey
7:30 Peter Popoff
8:00 Jerry Falwell
9:00 Jimmy Swaggart
10:00 Kenneth Copeland
11:00 Round Cero (Zero)
11:15 Para Gente Grande (For Big People
1:00 Musicalisimo (Very Musical)
2:00 Cine: "El Rey" ("The King") (1976) - Antonio Aguilar, Carmen Montejo.
4:00 Los Polivoces (The Polyvocals)
5:00 Siempre en Domingo (Always on Sunday)
9:00 Cristal
10:00 Ernest Angley
11:00 Jerry Falwell
MIDNIGHT David Paul
31 KRBK
6:00 Esta es la Vida (This is the Life)
6:30 Spectrum
7:00 Mid-East Analysis (in the wake of recent terror attacks)
7:30 Day of Discovery
8:00 Jerry Falwell
9:00 Jem: Truly Outrageous - Mashup of the first five episodes of the Jem cartoon series from the previous fall.
11:00 Three Stooges
NOON Movie: "It Happens Every Spring" (1949) - Ray Milland, Jean Peters, Paul Douglas.
1:55 Movie: "The Road Hustlers" (1968) - Jim Davis, Scott Brady, Bruce Yarnell, Sue Raney, Victoria Carroll, Robert Dix, Andy Devine.
4:00 Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous - Featured: Tammy Wynette, Tony Danza, Bill Conti, Eileen & Jerry Ford, tour of Bavaria, the Cattle Barons' Ball.
5:00 Fame
6:00 Star Search - Guests: Kool and the Gang
7:00 Carter Country
7:30 Tales from the Darkside
8:00 Hee Haw - Guests: Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Medley, the Million Dollar Band. (Oct. 12-13, 1985; last season with Buck Owens as co-host)
9:00 Black Sheep Squadron
10:00 Wild, Wild West
11:00 Japanese Theater
MIDNIGHT David Susskind (final season; ended the following August, six months before Susskind's death)
1:00 Children Caught in the Crossfire - A study of the lives of six children victimized by wars in their homelands including Cambodia, El Salvador, and Somalia.
40 KTXL
6:00 Sunday Mass
6:30 Best Is Yet to Be
7:00 W. V. Grant
7:30 Millionaire Maker
8:00 Robert Schuller
9:00 Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera
10:30 Kids Incorporated
11:00 Solid Gold - "Solid Gold Salutes the Movies", Part 2 - Guests: Stevie Wonder, Kenny Loggins, Ray Parker Jr., the Pointer Sisters, Stephen Bishop, Harold Faltermeyer. (Nov 9-10, 1985)
NOON Gilligan's Island
12:30 My Favorite Martian
1:00 Movie: "The Brink's Job" (1978) - Peter Falk, Peter Boyle.
3:00 Movie: "The Great Waldo Pepper" (1975) - Robert Redford, Susan Sarandon, Margot Kidder, Bo Svenson.
5:00 Movie: "For the Love of Benji" (1977) - Benjean (Benji), Patsy Garrett, Ed Nelson, Peter Bowles.
7:00 Defenders of the Earth - Pilot for an animated Flash Gordon series, which premiered the following fall.
8:00 Movie: "Take Down" (1979) - Edward Hermann, Lorenzo Lamas, Maureen McCormick.
10:00 10 O'Clock News
10:30 INN News
11:00 Sanford and Son
11:30 Movie: "The Don is Dead" (1973) - Anthony Quinn, Frederic Forrest, Robert Forster.
1:30 Millionaire Maker
2:00 Switch
58 KSCH (inaugural broadcast day)
7:00 (PM) This is KSCH - Introduction of the market's newest TV station.
8:00 Best of the Superfest
9:00 Flip Wilson
10:00 Tom Jones
10:30 Rollin' On the River
11:00 SCTV
11:30 Dobie Gillis
KSCH was originally to have signed on April 5, but technical problems delayed the launch to April 13.
Source: Sacramento Bee via newspapers.com
3 KCRA (NBC)
6:00 CNN Headline News
6:30 A Better Way
7:00 CNN Headline News
7:30 Connections
8:00 Vistas
8:30 Capitol & the Clergy
9:00 CNN Headline News
9:30 Meet the Press - Guest: Vice-President George H. W. Bush
10:00 Strictly Business
10:30 CNN Headline News
11:00 Tennis - Family Circle Cup, Women's Singles Final (Hilton Head Island, SC)
1:00 Giants Baseball - at Los Angeles Dodgers (KCRA was the Sacramento area's broadcaster of both Bay Area MLB teams at the time.)
4:00 NBC SportsWorld - Superstars Competition, Preliminary Round (Miami Beach)
5:30 Fight Back! With David Horowitz
6:00 Channel 3 Reports
7:00 De Colores (local Latino interview show) - Guests: Luis Valdez, Ruben Blades. (locally bumping Punky Brewster to 7:30, and pre-empting Fathers and Sons episode "We'll Always Have the Mall")
7:30 Punky Brewster: "The Perils of Punky", Part 2 of 2 (Oct 20, 1985)
8:00 Amazing Stories: "Hell Toupee"
8:30 Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "Deadly Honeymoon"
9:00 NBC Sunday Night at the Movies: "Return to Mayberry" (Premiere) - Andy Griffith, Ron Howard, Don Knotts, Jim Nabors, George Lindsey; Charming reunion of the Andy Griffith Show cast, with sixteen surviving cast members, including those listed above, rerpising their roles.
11:00 Channel 3 Reports
11:30 George Michael's Sports Machine
MIDNIGHT At the Movies - Siskel & Ebert discuss Hollywood's underrated actors.
6 KVIE (PBS)
7:00 Sesame Street (x4)
11:00 Modern Maturity
11:30 Crime File
NOON Tony Brown's Journal
12:30 American Interests
1:00 McLauglin Group
1:30 Can't Read, Can't Cope
2:00 Great Performances: "The Cotton Club Remembered" - Performers: Cab Calloway, the Nicholas Brothers, Adelaide Hall, Max Roach, Don Cheatham, Chuck Green.
3:00 Silk Screen: "Jazz is My Native Language" - with Japanese-American jazz pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi.
4:00 Vietnam: A Television History - Episode 4 of 13: "LBJ Goes to War"
5:00 Shakespeare Hour: "Twelfth Night" (Part 2 of 3)
6:00 Adam Smith's Money World
6:30 Sneak Previews - Reviews: "Off Beat", "Legend".
7:00 This Old House
7:30 Bodywatch: "Stress to Your Advantage"
8:00 Nature: "Fragments of Eden"
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre: "By the Sword Divided" (Part 4 of 9)
10:00 Arctic Window
11:00 Firing Line
10 KXTV (CBS)
6:00 Kidsworld
6:30 Conversation With Fred Lewis
7:00 Moments of Reflection
7:15 Lift Your Heart
7:30 Sunday Morning
9:00 Tennis - WCT Finals, Men's Singles Finals (Dallas)
NOON Golf - The Masters, Final Round (Augusta, GA)
3:00 Secrets of Success
4:00 Movie: "My Darling Daughters' Anniversary" (1973) - Robert Young, Ruth Hussey, Raymond Massey, Darleen Carr.
5:30 Eyewitness News 10
6:00 International Investments
7:00 60 Minutes
8:00 Murder, She Wrote: "The Perfect Foil"
9:00 CBS Mini-Series: "Dream West" (Premiere, Part 1 of 3) - Fritz Weaver, Richard Chamberlain, John Anderson, Alice Krige, Rip Torn, Ben Johnson, Mel Ferrer, F. Murray Abraham.
11:00 Eyewitness News 10
11:30 CBS Weekend News
11:45 Face the Nation - Guests: John Whitehead, Deputy Secretary of State; Future Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, then Israeli UN Ambassador.
12:15 Magnum, P.I.
1:25 Hawaii Five-O
2:30 CBS Nightwatch (joined in progress)
13 KOVR (ABC)
6:00 Voice of Agriculture
6:30 Ask a Woman - Topic: Breast cancer.
7:00 It Is Written
7:30 Larry Jones
8:00 Oral Roberts
8:30 World Tomorrow
9:00 La Voz de la Raza (The Voice of the Race)
9:30 Progresso
10:00 Urban Times
10:30 Ask a Woman - Topic: Proper food combinations.
11:00 This Week With David Brinkley - Guests: Former UN Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick; Robert Oakley, head of the State Department's counterterrorism office; former Defense Secretary Harold Brown; George Joffe, "Economist" magazine's Middle East/North Africa editor; Geoffrey Kemp former White House Middle East specialist. (This was two days before the U.S. bombing of Libya.)
NOON MLB Baseball - New York Mets vs. Philadelphia Phillies
3:00 Movie: "Miracle of the Heart: A Boys Town Story" (syndicated TV premiere: March 31) - Art Carney, Jack Bannon, Anne Pitoniak, Casey Siemaszko.
5:00 Newswatch 13
5:30 ABC World News Sunday - Sam Donaldson
6:00 Check it Out! - Starring Don Adams as the uptight supermarket manager Howard Bannister.
6:30 It's a Living
7:00 Disney Sunday Movie: "A Fighting Choice" (Premiere) - Patrick Dempsey, Beau Bridges, Karen Valentine.
9:00 ABC Sunday Night Movie: "The Man With the Golden Gun" (1974) - Roger Moore (his second film as James Bond), Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland (Ian Fleming's final James Bond novel, published posthumously.)
11:30 Newswatch 13
MIDNIGHT Reggie Theus
12:30 Secrets of Success
1:30 NBA Today
2:00 Star Games - Teams: "The Love Boat", "Playboy", "Not Necessarily the News".
3:00 ABC Weekend News
19 KCSO (Religious/SIN) - Modesto
7:00 Marilyn Hickey
7:30 Peter Popoff
8:00 Jerry Falwell
9:00 Jimmy Swaggart
10:00 Kenneth Copeland
11:00 Round Cero (Zero)
11:15 Para Gente Grande (For Big People
1:00 Musicalisimo (Very Musical)
2:00 Cine: "El Rey" ("The King") (1976) - Antonio Aguilar, Carmen Montejo.
4:00 Los Polivoces (The Polyvocals)
5:00 Siempre en Domingo (Always on Sunday)
9:00 Cristal
10:00 Ernest Angley
11:00 Jerry Falwell
MIDNIGHT David Paul
31 KRBK
6:00 Esta es la Vida (This is the Life)
6:30 Spectrum
7:00 Mid-East Analysis (in the wake of recent terror attacks)
7:30 Day of Discovery
8:00 Jerry Falwell
9:00 Jem: Truly Outrageous - Mashup of the first five episodes of the Jem cartoon series from the previous fall.
11:00 Three Stooges
NOON Movie: "It Happens Every Spring" (1949) - Ray Milland, Jean Peters, Paul Douglas.
1:55 Movie: "The Road Hustlers" (1968) - Jim Davis, Scott Brady, Bruce Yarnell, Sue Raney, Victoria Carroll, Robert Dix, Andy Devine.
4:00 Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous - Featured: Tammy Wynette, Tony Danza, Bill Conti, Eileen & Jerry Ford, tour of Bavaria, the Cattle Barons' Ball.
5:00 Fame
6:00 Star Search - Guests: Kool and the Gang
7:00 Carter Country
7:30 Tales from the Darkside
8:00 Hee Haw - Guests: Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Medley, the Million Dollar Band. (Oct. 12-13, 1985; last season with Buck Owens as co-host)
9:00 Black Sheep Squadron
10:00 Wild, Wild West
11:00 Japanese Theater
MIDNIGHT David Susskind (final season; ended the following August, six months before Susskind's death)
1:00 Children Caught in the Crossfire - A study of the lives of six children victimized by wars in their homelands including Cambodia, El Salvador, and Somalia.
40 KTXL
6:00 Sunday Mass
6:30 Best Is Yet to Be
7:00 W. V. Grant
7:30 Millionaire Maker
8:00 Robert Schuller
9:00 Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera
10:30 Kids Incorporated
11:00 Solid Gold - "Solid Gold Salutes the Movies", Part 2 - Guests: Stevie Wonder, Kenny Loggins, Ray Parker Jr., the Pointer Sisters, Stephen Bishop, Harold Faltermeyer. (Nov 9-10, 1985)
NOON Gilligan's Island
12:30 My Favorite Martian
1:00 Movie: "The Brink's Job" (1978) - Peter Falk, Peter Boyle.
3:00 Movie: "The Great Waldo Pepper" (1975) - Robert Redford, Susan Sarandon, Margot Kidder, Bo Svenson.
5:00 Movie: "For the Love of Benji" (1977) - Benjean (Benji), Patsy Garrett, Ed Nelson, Peter Bowles.
7:00 Defenders of the Earth - Pilot for an animated Flash Gordon series, which premiered the following fall.
8:00 Movie: "Take Down" (1979) - Edward Hermann, Lorenzo Lamas, Maureen McCormick.
10:00 10 O'Clock News
10:30 INN News
11:00 Sanford and Son
11:30 Movie: "The Don is Dead" (1973) - Anthony Quinn, Frederic Forrest, Robert Forster.
1:30 Millionaire Maker
2:00 Switch
58 KSCH (inaugural broadcast day)
7:00 (PM) This is KSCH - Introduction of the market's newest TV station.
8:00 Best of the Superfest
9:00 Flip Wilson
10:00 Tom Jones
10:30 Rollin' On the River
11:00 SCTV
11:30 Dobie Gillis
KSCH was originally to have signed on April 5, but technical problems delayed the launch to April 13.
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