Retro: Seattle/Tacoma, Fri. March 22nd, 1985

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Source: Seattle Times microfilm

CHANNELS
2 CBUT Vancouver [CBC]
4 KOMO Seattle [ABC]
5 KING Seattle [NBC]
7 KIRO Seattle [CBS]
8 CHAN Vancouver [CTV]
9 KCTS Seattle [PBS]
11 KSTW Tacoma [IND]
12 KVOS Bellingham [CBS/IND]
13 KCPQ Tacoma [IND]
28 KTPS Tacoma [PBS]

7AM
4 Good Morning America
5 Today
7 CBS Morning News
8 Canada AM (from 6:30)
9 Sesame Street
11 Popeye
12 Frisky Frolics
13 700 Club
Scheduled: Phyllis Schlaffy discusses parental influences on education; lesbianism.

7:30
2 Muppets
11 Bugs Bunny

8AM
2 Movie
"Pickup on South Street." [1953] Richard Widmark. A pickpocket choose the wrong victim when he steals the purse of an FBI-trailed communist messenger.
9 Polka Dot
11 Banana Splits
12 Scooby-Doo

8:30
9 Mister Rogers
11 Space Coaster
12 Frisky Frolics
13 Bewitched
28 3-2-1 Contact

9AM
4 Merv Griffin
Scheduled: Reunion, actor-comedian Michael Palin, actor Jack Scalia, Martin Kove ["Cagney & Lacey"].
5 Good Company
Women in fields which, until recently, have been closed to females: the ministry, aviation, construction, law enforcement and more.
7 Jeopardy! (Trebek's first season was aired here, then KOMO took it at 7:30 weeknights, and is still there today)
8 Webster (talk show IIRC)
9 Sesame Street
11 Brady Bunch
12 700 Club
See 7AM, KCPQ.
13 $25,000 Pyramid
28 Why in the World

9:30
2 What's New?
7 Love Connection
11 Welcome Back, Kotter
13 Sale of the Century
28 ITV Program

10AM
2 George [what would this be?]
4 Trivia Trap
5 Wheel of Fortune
7 The Price is Right
9 ITV Programming
11 Carter Country
12 $25,000 Pyramid
13 Time Machine
28 3-2-1 Contact

10:30
2 Mr. Dressup
4 Family Feud
5 Scrabble
8 Cooking [??]
11 Rituals (short-lived syndicated soap opera)
12 Donahue
Scheduled: Anne Klein designer Louis Dell'Allo presents spring fashions and a new petite line for the fall.
13 Joker's Wild
28 ITV Programs

11AM
2 Sesame Street
4 Ryan's Hope
5 Super Password
7 Young and the Restless
8 Guess What
11 Bob Newhart Show
13 Tattletales

11:30
4 Loving
5 Search for Tomorrow
8 Definition
Guests: Isabel Bassett, Ben Wicks.
11 Divorce Court
12 Price is Right
13 Match Game

Noon
2 4 All My Children
5 Days Of Our Lives
7 8 News
11 Barnaby Jones
13 Body Language
28 Sesame Street

12:30
12 As the World Turns
13 Press Your Luck

1PM
2 Midday
4 One Life to Live
5 8 Another World
7 As The World Turns
11 Movie
"The Hard Way." [1980] Patrick McGoohan, Lee Van Cleef. A hired assassin has to make one more hit before he can retire.
13 Movie
"How Awful About Allan." [1970] Tony Perkins. A young man tries to overcome his psychosomatic blindness at home, but is tormented by a strange voice.
28 ITV Programs

1:30
12 Capitol

2PM
2 Coronation Street
4 8 General Hospital
5 Santa Barbara
7 Guiding Light
9 Matinee at the Bijou
Featured: "King of the Cowboys" [1943] starting Roy Rogers and Smiley Burnette; a 1945 cartoon; a 1944 short starring James Cagney; and the final chapter of "Lost City of the Jungle" [1946].
12 Big Valley
28 ITV Programs

2:30
2 All in the Family
13 FYI

3PM
2 Quincy
4 Northwest Afternoon
Featured: the plight of the family farm and the cost of farm failures in terms of the economy and human feelings.
5 Sally Jessy Raphael
Scheduled: Wendy Leigh, author of "The Infidelity Report."
7 Name that Tune (Jim Lange)
8 Don Harron
Guests: Judd Hirsch, Bruce Mahler, Andrea Martin, Liberty Silver.
11 Tom & Jerry
12 Funorama
13 Family
28 Nature

3:30
5 Every Second Counts
7 Let's Make a Deal
9 Training Dogs the Woodhouse Way
Barbara Woodhouse shows how easy it is to teach a dog to sit and stay by using the dog's "pocket" and a certain tone of voice.
11 Superfriends

4PM
2 Yourself [??]
4 Hart to Hart
5 Donahue
See 10:30AM, KVOS.
7 People's Court
8 Dallas
9 Sesame Street
11 12 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
13 Little House on the Prairie
28 Mister Rogers

4:30
2 Zigzags
7 Eyewitness News
11 Mork & Mindy
12 Flintstones
28 Electric Company

5PM
2 Video Hits
4 5 7 News
8 Hart to Hart
9 Mister Rogers
11 Love Boat
12 Diff'rent Strokes
13 Quincy
28 3-2-1 Contact

5:30
2 Three's Company
9 Nightly Business Report
12 Too Close for Comfort
28 Sesame Street

6PM and later tomorrow.

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6PM
2 8 News
4 ABC News
5 NBC News
7 CBS News
9 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
11 Diff'rent Strokes
Kimberly's actions could get Willis into hot water when she is transferred into his public school.
12 Three's Company
Jack defends Chrissy's honor when a man follows her home from a bar.
13 Rockford Files
Rockford and a released convict battle for pearls and a beautiful woman.

6:30
4 7 News
5 Top Story
11 WKRP in Cincinnati
Twenty-five years after their elopement, Arthur and Carmen plan a "simple little wedding."
12 M*A*S*H
Col. Potter, Hawkeye, B.J., Frank and Radar get hopelessly lost on their way back from a medical meeting.
28 Nightly Business Report

7PM
2 Murder, She Wrote
Jessica travels to San Francisco where she attempts to clear a bridegroom-to-be of a nightclub owner's murder.
4 Wheel of Fortune
5 8 Entertainment Tonight
Featured: Sally Field.
7 College Basketball Regional Semifinal
Southeast or West regional semifinal.
9 Passion for Excellence: An Evening with Tom Peters
Author Tom Peters ["In Search of Excellence"] discusses the application of excellence and self-improvement to schools, hospitals, households and small businesses.
11 M*A*S*H
Major Charles Winchester assumes command of the 4077th.
12 Taxi
Louie's girlfriend Zena takes him home to meet her parents.
13 American Caesar
This biographical portrait of Gen. Douglas MacArthur concludes with his clash with President Truman during the Korean War and his emotion-packed homecoming following his dismissal. Film footage, interviews and narration by John Colicos and John Huston. Part 5 of 6.
28 Alaska

7:30
4 Weeknight
Reporter Grant McOmie tours Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo, and Betty Bender views the attractions of Seattle's Broadway district.
5 Tic Tac Dough
8 Academy Awards Preview
11 Taxi
Louie starts dating the wacky Emily after she breaks up with her boyfriend.
12 Jeffersons
George gets caught between his morals and his money.
28 Wall $treet Week

8PM
2 Tommy Hunter
Guests: Hank Snow ["I Don't Hurt Anymore"]; Boots Randolph ["Yakety Sax"]; Gus Hardin ["Lovin' You Hurts."]
4 Webster
Hoping to cure Katherine of her crush on a college professor, George and Webster don bear costumes.
5 Codename: Foxfire
Liz, Maggie and Danny travel to an exclusive private prep school to investigate the copying of top-secret documents and to enlist the students' help in stopping a Soviet agent.
8 Movie
"Conan the Barbarian." [1982] Arnold Schwartzenegger, James Earl Jones. In a mythical past, a warrior-thief and his companions are sent by a Nordic king to free the ruler's daughter from the leader of a snake cult.
9 28 Washington Week in Review
11 Movie
"El Condor." [1970] Jim Brown. A chain gang escapee and a white Apache leader head for Mexico to steal a million-dollar fortune in gold.
12 Movie
"West Side Story." [1961] Natalie Wood. A West Side boy falls in love with a Puerto Rican girl, adding fuel to the fire of a New York gang war.
13 Movie
"You're A Big Boy Now." [1967] Elizabeth Hartman. After being kicked out of his father's house, a librarian learns about life from two different women.

8:30
4 Mr. Belvedere
Wesley and four friends aren't invited to a birthday party, a situation that tests Mr. Belvedere's otherwise brilliant ability to solve domestic crises.
9 Wall $treet Week
28 Latenight America

9PM
2 Anne Murray's Winter Carnival From Quebec
Claude Leveille, Dionne Warwick and Glen Campbell join the Canadian country singer for an evening of song and celebration at Quebec City's 1984 Winter Carnival.
4 Benson
Clayton and Benson find Katie and her cousin in a bar with two college men.
5 V
Diana schemes to destroy the peace declared by the Leader, while resistance leaders, despite their suspicions about this latest turn of events, accompany Elizabeth aboard the mothership.
7 Detective in the House
A wealthy industrialist [Don Ameche] thinks one of his children may be responsible for an attempt on his life, and he hires Press to find out the truth.
9 In The Swing
Patty Andrews sings "South Rampart Street Parade," "I Can Dream, Can't I?" and "Boogie Woogie Bugie Boy" in this salute to the music, dance and humor of the 1940s. Steve Allen hosts.

9:30
4 Off the Rack
Sam arranges a special blind date for Kate, hoping to keep her out of his hair.
28 Nature
A study of the history and plight of the rhinoceros, one of the most seriously endangered species on earth.

10PM
2 National-Journal
4 8 Matt Houston
Matt is stymied when the major suspect in the killing of a model and her chauffeur has an airtight alibi.
5 Miami Vice
Crockett and Tubbs help federal agents pursue an arms dealer, but the G-men appear more interested in retrieving the merchandise than in making the arrest.
7 Knots Landing
Abby tries to charm secrets from John Coblenz; Ruth pressures Greg to dissuade Mack from investigating Galveston Industries; Cathy is angered by Joshua's television marriage proposal.
11 13 News

10:10
9 Masterpiece Theatre

10:30
13 Soap
Jessica and Mary commiserate over a cup of yea; Danny tries to kill Burt.
28 Interests
Sign off 11PM.

11PM
2 4 5 7 News
8 CTV News
11 Star Search
Guests: Carl Reiner, Pamela Bellwood.
12 Mary Tyler Moore
Lou achieves a lifelong ambition when he becomes the owner of his own bar.
13 SCTV

11:15
9 Jewel in the Crown Salute
At a party saluting Masterpiece Theatre's "Jewel in the Crown" series, cast members Charles Dance, Tim Pigott-Smith, Art Malik and Geraldine James are interviewed by NPR's Susan Stamberg. From the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, MA.

11:25
2 Good Rockin' I
Videos by Joan Jett, John Pare, Greg Kihn Band, Scandal.

11:30
4 ABC News Nightline
South Africa's social, political and economic problems are examined.
5 Tonight Show
Scheduled: The Labeque Sisters, duo pianists. Johnny Carson.
7 College Basketball
Southeast or West regional semifinal.
8 News
12 Movie
"One Summer Love." [1976] Beau Bridges. A disturbed young man lives in constant fear of his own potential for violence.

11:35
13 Movie
"Goodnight, My Love" [1972] Richard Boone. A "Mutt-and-Jeff" detective duo is hired to locate a missing man.

11:55
2 Rock Wars
From Edmonton: performances by Boystown, Voice, Peter Mann and the Lonely, the Tim Feehan band.

12AM
9 Latenight America
11 Delvecchio

12:05
8 Movie
"Goin' South." [1978] Jack Nicholson. A captured horse thief is offered a chance to escape hanging by marrying a young lady from the town in which he's imprisoned.

12:25
2 Good Rockin' II
Featured: Top 20 albums; winners of the Huey Lewis trivia contest; interview with Paul Stanley of KISS; videos by Malcolm McLaren, Huey Lewis and the News, Deep Purple, the Pointer Sisters.

12:30
4 Movie
"Come Die With Me." [1974] George Maharis. Having witnessed a murder, a housekeeper blackmails the culprit into a love affair.
5 Friday Night Videos
Featured: "We Are The World," the USA for Africa video featuring 45 top musical performers; other videos by Phil Collins, Mick Jagger, Kool & The Gang, Don Henley.

1AM
11 News
13 Here's Television Entertainment
Recaptures television as far back as the 1950s, with clips of Milton Berle, Jack Benny, Dinah Shore, Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Carol Burnett and others.

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