Retro: Seattle/Tacoma, Thur. April 26th, 1984

[crainbebo]

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 [IND/CBS]
13 KCPQ Tacoma [IND]
28 KTPS Tacoma [PBS]

7AM
4 Good Morning America
5 Today
7 CBS Morning News
8 Canada A.M.
11 Cartoons
12 Frisky Frolics
13 700 Club
Featured: Dana Scallion, one of Europe's hottest recording artists; actor Robert Taylor.

7:30
11 Scooby Doo

8AM
9 Polka Dot Door
11 Cartoons

8:30
9 Mister Rogers
11 Space Coaster
13 Facts of Life
28 3-2-1 Contact

9AM
2 Wok with Yan
4 20 Minute Workout
5 Good Company
Jeff Smith on some roots [other than carrots and potatoes] that you can eat.
7 Hour Magazine
Lee Horsley ["Matt Houston"], spring fashion colors, selecting children's shoes.
8 Webster [1 1/2 hours?]
9 Sesame Street
11 Welcome Back, Kotter
12 700 Club
Featured: a man who couldn't speak until age 17 and who's earned two doctorate degrees; diets that reduce arthritis pain.
13 $25,000 Pyramid-CBS
28 ITV Programming

9:30
2 Corelli
4 The Edge of Night
11 The Odd Couple
13 Sale of the Century-NBC

10AM
2 B.C. Schools
4 Benson
5 Donahue
Guests: three Harlem Globetrotters who are suing the city of Santa Barbra for unfair treatment in being detained as robbery suspects.
7 The Price is Right
9 ITV Programming
11 Sanford and Son
12 Capitol
13 Wheel of Fortune-NBC
28 The Micro

10:30
2 Mr. Dressup
4 Loving
8 Definition
Guests: Vanessa Harwood, Alf Humphrys.
11 House Calls
12 People's Court
13 Card Sharks [reruns? I thought the Jim Perry version ended in '81]
28 ITV Program

11AM
2 Sesame Street
4 Family Feud
5 Hot Potato
7 12 Young and the Restless
8 Appetite
11 Andy Griffith
13 Bullseye

11:30
4 Ryan's Hope
5 Search for Tomorrow
8 Guess What
11 I Love Lucy
13 Joker's Wild
28 Sesame Street

Noon
2 4 All My Children
5 Days of Our Lives
7 8 News
9 Why in the World?
11 Starsky & Hutch
A beautiful call girl creates a conflict between the detective partners.
12 Donahue
See 10AM, KING.
13 Tattletales-CBS

12:30
9 Reading Rainbow
Bill Cosby narrates "Arthur's Eyes," about a boy who needs glasses.
13 Movie
"The Intruders." [1967] Don Murray. The death of an Indian galvanizes a sheriff into action against the Jesse James-Cole Younger gang.
28 Reading Rainbow [unknown episode]

1PM
2 News
4 One Life to Live
5 8 Another World
7 As the World Turns
9 ITV Programming
11 Movie
"Union Station." [1950] William Holden. A blind girl is kidnapped, but doesn't understand her situation due to her sightlessness.
12 Merv Griffin
Guests: singer Vikki Carr, singer Irene Cara, magician Jason Randalf, Mark Harmon ["St. Elsewhere"].
28 ITV Program

1:30
2 Take 30

2PM
2 All in the Family
4 8 General Hospital
5 Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour
7 Guiding Light
9 Movie
"Eternally Yours." [1939] Loretta Young. A young wife tries to persuade her magician husband to leave his career and settle down.
12 Children Running Out of Time
28 High Feather

2:30
2 Coronation Street
28 The Micro

3PM
2 All Creatures Great and Small
4 Woman to Woman [local KOMO show?]
Topic: military wives.
5 Breakaway
Scheduled: Erin Moran ["Happy Days"]; a show business casting school for children; growth problems in children.
7 Merv Griffin
See 1PM, KVOS.
8 Don Harron
Guests: Nancy Dussault, Helen Roddy, Gordon Thomson, Carl Wolfson.
11 Bugs & Woody
12 Here's Lucy
13 Family
28 Odyssey

3:30
9 Yan Can Cook
Tofu Mayonnaise and Eggless Salad.
11 Superfriends
12 Funorama

4PM
2 For Yourself [??]
4 Live at 4 [again, I think it was local]
Dr. Kevin Leman tells how his theory of reality discipline helps parents raise children to accept responsibility for their actions; Ralph Lauren designs in a video fashion show.
5 People's Court
7 Eyewitness News Afternoon
Featured: consumer specialist Herb Weisbaum continues with Consumer Week; a look at eating disorders.
8 Fantasy Island
9 Sesame Street
11 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
12 Scooby-Doo
13 Little House on the Prairie
28 Mister Rogers

4:30
2 What's New?
5 Newscope
11 Brady Bunch
12 Flintstones
28 Electric Company

5PM
2 NHL Hockey
Conference Championship [starting time tentative]
4 5 7 News
8 Hawaii Five-0
9 Mister Rogers
11 Laverne & Shirley & Company
Carmine tries for the role of a boxer in a movie.
12 CHiPs
13 Eight is Enough
Tom is dismayed when Abby's thesis gets a publishing offer after his novel is rejected.
28 3-2-1 Contact

5:30
9 Nightly Business Report
11 Mork & Mindy
Upset over being different from other children, Mearth runs away and joins a cult.
28 Sesame Street

6PM and later tonight.

-crainbebo

 

[Marckd]

No Woman to Woman at 3 PM on KOMO TV was syndicated - I believe by Telepictures. It was a low budget barter talk show. Amazed that in a city with 2 independents one of them took the adult approach with drama shows, movies, and network rejects and steered clear of cartoons except maybe on Saturday mornings and had hardly any sitcoms to speak of. Usually that type of station would be in a market with 3 or more independents. 13 KCPQ positioned itself as a network affiliate without a network leaving a more traditional lineup on KSTW.

A year later in 1985, 22 KTZZ filled the void with tons of cartoons and classic sitcoms. They did very well at first until in 1987 KCPQ 13 entered the kids business adding tons of newer syndicated cartoons and a few sitcoms but still continuing to run tons of drama shows and old movies and game shows. That station still steered clear of older sitcoms with an occasional exception. By 1990 KTZZ was low rated and did not gain ground till the mid 90's when KIRO evicted CBS only to take it back in 1997. KTZZ then picked up cartoons from KSTW and a few sitcoms.

 

[azumanga]

9AM
8 Webster [1 1/2 hours?]

This was a talk show hosted by Jack Webster -- unrelated to the ABC sitcom that debuted in Fall 1983.

10:30
13 Card Sharks [reruns? I thought the Jim Perry version ended in '81]

Yes, these were reruns of the NBC series, released this season to take advantage of Jim Perry's stint on "Sale of the Century". The reruns were so popular, that "Card Sharks" was revived in 1986, with Bob Eubanks hosting on CBS, and a syndicated nighttime version hosted by Bill Rafferty.

12:30
9 Reading Rainbow
Bill Cosby narrates "Arthur's Eyes," about a boy who needs glasses.

The first book of Marc Brown's "Arthur" series which, like Reading Rainbow, became a longtime fixture on PBS.

 

[Wright County Guy]

"Facts of Life" at 8:30 on 13 were most likely the reruns NBC ran at 10am Eastern.

 

[crainbebo]

KTZZ was an OK indie at first, but lots of older shows on the lineup, like Hawaii Five-0 and Perry Mason. Then by the early 1990s, KTZZ got worse. Talk shows in primetime, lots of low budget barter stuff, and Casey Treat/Success N Life/700 Club in midday. Around when KIRO's "out of the box" news format started (1993), KTZZ had a 10pm newscast powered by KIRO. KSTW had better ratings, and so it went off the air. When the WB took over, KTZZ got progressively better, talk shows in the day and late night, cartoons in the morning and afternoon, and WB shows as well as a couple sitcoms (Step by Step, etc.) in the early evening.

KCPQ had a Noon or 1PM daytime movie until the late 1990s. However, I think late 1987 or early 1988, KCPQ added a few cartoons. Zoobilee Zoo was the only children's show in the daytime in the mid-1980s, airing at 8:30.

Thanks for letting me know about the Facts of Life reruns. I know KCPQ took the preempted NBC/CBS shows until the early 1990s. The only way you could see Ray Combs' Family Feud from CBS in Seattle was on KCPQ.

-crainbebo

 

[visaman]

Source: Seattle Times microfilm

CHANNELS
2 CBUT Vancouver [CBC]

4PM
2 For Yourself [??]




-crainbebo

The full title is. "Do It For Yourself". Hosted by Mary Bellows, the show taught housewives how to do simple home repairs and projects in a lighthearted manner. http://www.tvarchive.ca/database/19370/do_it_for_yourself/details/

Mary Bellows was very charming and attractive. I met her in person in 1985 at a Simpson Sears store in Burnaby, BC when Mary was on a cross country promotional tour. I still have the roll of making tape that she autographed for me

 

[crainbebo]

6PM
4 ABC News
5 NBC News
7 CBS News
8 News
9 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
11 Three's Company
Another student switches cooking exam dishes with Jack.
12 Three's Company
Jack secretly signs up with a computer dating service.
13 Quincy

6:30
4 News
5 Top Story
7 PM Magazine
Colleen Morgan travels to the Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma to watch polar bears perform a ballet underwater; a lion tamer who has 21 "cats" of his own.
11 WKRP in Cincinnati
Andy, bent on getting a new transmitter one way or another, takes Momma Carlson out after hours.
12 M*A*S*H
B.J. writes home to his wife report Klinger's escape attempts and one of Frank's goof-ups.
28 Nightly Business Report

7PM
4 Wheel of Fortune
5 12 Entertainment Tonight
Featured: actor Jeff Goldblum ["The Big Chill."]
7 News
8 WKRP in Cincinnati
Despite Bailey's lack of experience, Andy lets her produce a public affairs program.
9 Wildlife [??]
11 M*A*S*H
As soon as Frank is in charge, Hawkeye skips camp, ruins a blockade to find Trapper and welcomes a new surgeon.
13 Lou Grant
28 GED

7:30
4 Weeknight
A profile of Kenny G., a local rock-music act breaking into the big time. [Nothing to do with the smooth jazz artist?]
5 Tic Tac Dough
7 Family Feud-Dawson Syndi.
9 Wild, Wild World of Animals
Wildlife detectives make animal tracks meaningful to earliest men.
11 Taxi
Elaine's budding romance with a handsome stranger takes a startling turn when he makes a surprising revelation.
12 Taxi
Latka's habit of changing personalities prompts Elaine and Alex to take him to a psychiatrist where Latka assumes Alex's personality.
28 Odyssey

8PM
2 News
4 That's Incredible!
5 Gimme a Break!
Samantha [Lara Jill Miller] is confused when her boyfriend tries to advance their relationship after an earthquake jolts Glenlawn.
7 8 Magnum P.I.
Magnum [Tom Selleck] must protect the heir to the throne of Jorono [Wesley Ogata] from terrorists.
9 Mystery!
"Shades of Darkness." Mary Morris, Paul Hertzberg and Peter Settelen star in a story by Walter de la Mare about a boy who believes his aunt is in league with Satan.
11 Movie
"Who Is Harry Kellerman And Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?" [1971] Dustin Hoffman. A successful rock composer becomes obsessed with a mystery figure who has been spreading vicious rumors about him.
12 Movie
"The Destructors." [1974] Anthony Quinn. A debonair hit man is hired by the American government to assassinate the leader of an international drug smuggling ring.
13 The Cousteau Odyssey
Jacques and Philippe Cousteau explore Easter Island, the site of an ancient society that exploded in violence and cannibalism.

8:30
2 Three's Company
5 Family Ties
Alex [Michael J. Fox] turns to prescription diet pills to cope with the pressures of taking college entrance exams.
28 Latenight America
Guest: Rabbi James Rudin, author of "Israel for Christians," discusses understanding modern Israel.

9PM
2 Fame
A former singer tries to hide her identity when she becomes a substitute teacher at the school.
4 Two Marriages
Nancy questions her role as a traditional housewife, and Scott has trouble accepting his mother's pregnancy.
5 Cheers
Sam [Ted Danson] and Diane [Shelley Long] try a one-week separation to evaluate their relationship.
7 Simon & Simon
A.J. [Jameson Parker] and Rick [Gerald McRaney] are hired by a woman who wants to prove that her husband's death in a skydiving accident was actually murder.
8 Live it Up
Featured: A California school for chauffeurs; leg language; a wheat picnic in Gray, SK; Jamaican singer Carlene Davis.
9 Great Chefs of San Francisco
Chef Warren Le Ruth prepares Shrimp Remoulade.
13 Billy Graham Crusade

9:30
5 The Duck Factory
Marty [Jay Tarses] has a date with Victoria Hamel, and Roland [Clarence Gilyard Jr.] winds up escorting a prostitute as they prepare to attend the annual Annie Awards presentation.
8 Bizarre
Featured: Super Dave Osborne goes street-dancing; the fable of the salesman and the witch; Little Stevie Byner.
9 This Old House
The possibilities for creating space where none presently exists.
28 Enterprise
The owners of a California winery discuss their plans to quadruple production without disrupting quality.

10PM
2 National-Journal
4 20/20
5 8 Hill Street Blues
Daniels [Jon Cypher] indicates Furillo may be the next chief, and a strange little man [Kenneth Tigar] mounts a one-man campaign for office.
7 Knots Landing
Lilimae [Julie Harris] is rebuffed in her efforts to make Chip confess, and Karen's attempt at reconciling with Diana [Claudia Lonow] fails.
9 Movie
"It Happens Every Spring." [1949] Ray Miliand. A chemistry professor discovers a formula that turns the baseball world upside down.
11 13 News
12 Benny Hill
There must be money in commercials, but not with Benny in charge.
28 The Lawmakers

10:30
12 News
13 Movie
"A Howling in the Woods."
28 Tony Brown's Journal

11PM
2 4 5 7 News
8 CTV News
11 Barney Miller
While investigating vandals' attacks on a porno bookstore, the detectives are astonished to discover the owners are an elderly couple.
12 Music Videos

11:25
2 Barney Miller
The detectives contend with an Indian protesting the desecration of his ancestors' remains and a hood who tried to mug a scoutmaster.

11:30
4 ABC News
5 Tonight Show/Johnny Carson
Guest: Joan Embrey of the San Diego Zoo; actor Ken Wahl.
7 Closeup
8 News
9 Third World Report
Host Randall Robinson examines the global implications of conflicts between South Africa and its neighbors through film clips and discussion among experts.
11 Benny Hill
Benny Hill looks at children's programming on German television.
12 Trapper John M.D.
Gonzo [Gregory Harrison] must prove to Trapper that his old college friend [Kristoffer Tabori] is not actually suffering from a deadly disease.

11:45
7 Trapper John M.D.
Trapper [Pernell Roberts] refuses to treat an important Soviet diplomat [Theodore Bikel] in need of surgery because of his sensitive international status.

11:55
2 Movie
"Larceny, Inc." Edward G. Robinson. An ex-con buys a luggage store as a means of access to the bank next door, but discovers he doesn't have to steal to make money. [1942]

12AM
4 Hollywood [not Squares I think right?]
9 Latenight America
See 8:30PM, KTPS.
11 700 Club
See 7AM, KCPQ.
13 Another Evening with the Statler Brothers: Heroes, Legends and Friends
The Brothers' attempt at writing a TV show is the springboard for a series of musical sketches including Reba McIntire on horseback, a tribute to the song "Elizabeth," a gospel sing with the Masters V and a Western operetta featuring Mel Tillis as a stuttering sheriff.

12:05
8 Movie
"The Journey." [1959] Yul Brynner. People from different countries are trapped in Budapest during the Hungarian Revolution.

12:30
4 The Saint
Simon becomes suspicious when a Dutch diamond cutter denies seeing a certain valuable stone.
5 Late Night with David Letterman
Guest: comedienne Phyllis Diller.

12:40
12 CBS Late Movie
"Like Mom, Like Me." [1976] Linda Lavin. A woman abandoned by her husband is forced to create a new life for herself and her daughter.

12:55
7 CBS Late Movie
"Leave Yesterday Behind." [1978] John Ritter. After a tragic accident, an understanding woman helps an injured college athlete to learn to live and love again.

1AM
11 News

-crainbebo

 

[azumanga]

11:30
12 Trapper John M.D.
Gonzo [Gregory Harrison] must prove to Trapper that his old college friend [Kristoffer Tabori] is not actually suffering from a deadly disease.

11:45
7 Trapper John M.D.
Trapper [Pernell Roberts] refuses to treat an important Soviet diplomat [Theodore Bikel] in need of surgery because of his sensitive international status.

12:40
12 CBS Late Movie
"Like Mom, Like Me." [1976] Linda Lavin. A woman abandoned by her husband is forced to create a new life for herself and her daughter.

12:55
7 CBS Late Movie
"Leave Yesterday Behind." [1978] John Ritter. After a tragic accident, an understanding woman helps an injured college athlete to learn to live and love again.

So which station is showing it with the network and which is a week behind?

 

[crainbebo]

That would be 7 (KIRO). Checking the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette microfilm for that date, all stations (KDKA 2, WTRF 7, WTAJ 10) showed "Like Mom, Like Me" from 1976 that night.

-crainbebo

 

[Tim from Springfield IL]

5 Family Ties
Alex [Michael J. Fox] turns to prescription diet pills to cope with the pressures of taking college entrance exams.

Was this promoted as a "very special Family Ties." Wouldn't surprise me if so.

 

[azumanga]

5 Family Ties
Alex [Michael J. Fox] turns to prescription diet pills to cope with the pressures of taking college entrance exams.

Was this promoted as a "very special Family Ties." Wouldn't surprise me if so.

In retrospect, I believe that NBC carried alot of "very special episodes" of their series.