Source: Seattle Times microfilm
CHANNELS
2 CBUT Vancouver [CBC]
4 KOMO Seattle [ABC]
5 KING Seattle [NBC]
7 KIRO Seattle [CBS]
9 KCTS Seattle [PBS]
11 KSTW Tacoma [IND]
13 KCPQ Tacoma [Fox]
22 KTZZ Seattle [IND]
28 KTPS Tacoma [PBS]
7AM
4 Good Morning America
Mel Gibson and Glen Close ["Hamlet"]; amateur-night host Ralph Cooper.
5 Today
Willem Dafoe ["Flight of the Intruder"]; supermarket trends; author Robert Parker.
7 This Morning
Andie MacDowell ["Green Card"]; popularity of bed & breakfast inns.
9 Sesame Street
11 Video Power
13 G.I. Joe
22 Thundercats
7:30
11 Ranger Charlie and Rosco
13 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
22 Woody Woodpecker
8AM
9 Captain Kangaroo
11 Wake, Rattle and Roll
13 Tom & Jerry
22 Police Academy
28 Sesame Street
8:30
9 Mister Rogers
11 Dennis the Menace
13 Flintstones
22 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
9AM
4 Regis & Kathie Lee
5 Seattle Today
Hosts: Pat Finley, Colby Chester, Cliff Lenz.
7 Geraldo
9 Sesame Street
11 Punky Brewster
13 Family Feud [CBS]
22 Paid Program
28 Sit & Be Fit
9:30
2 Wok With Yan
11 New Leave it to Beaver
13 Wheel of Fortune [CBS, Bob Goen]
22 Casey Treat
28 Instructional TV
10AM
2 Fred Penner's Place
4 Home
Mary Lou Retton and husband, Shannon Kelley.
5 Graham Kerr
7 The Price is Right
9 Instructional TV
11 Love Connection
13 Joan Rivers
Guest: Freddie Jackson.
22 Success-N-Life
28 Painting [likely Joy of Painting]
10:30
2 Mr. Dressup
5 Marsha Warfield
11 Love Connection
28 Acrylic Art
11AM
2 Sesame Street
4 Match Game
5 Let's Make a Deal
7 Young and the Restless
11 People's Court
13 Instant Recall
22 The 700 Club
28 Instructional TV
11:30
4 Loving
5 Classic Concentration
11 The Judge
13 To Be Announced
28 3-2-1 Contact
Noon
2 4 All My Children
5 To Tell the Truth
7 News
9 Nova
Crews return a decade after the eruption of Mt. St. Helens to see how nature has reacted to the disaster.
11 News
13 Rockford Files
A bookkeeper wants Rockford to find her missing brother, a stockbroker she thinks was taken by the mob.
22 Paid Program
28 Sesame Street
12:30
5 Generations
11 CNN Headline News
22 Bewitched
1PM
2 Midday
4 One Life to Live
5 Another World
7 As The World Turns
9 28 Instructional TV
11 Movie
"Hear No Evil." [1982] Gil Gerard. Deaf from a bomb rigged by bikers, a former San Francisco policeman and his dog hunt them down.
13 Movie
"Never a Dull Moment." [1968] Dick Van Dyke. Mistaken for a hitman, a TV actor plays the part to foil a gangster's pop-art plot.
22 I Love Lucy
Lucy and Ricky acquire youthful admirers.
1:30
22 Hazel
George's ne'er-do-well cousin unjustly earns a label of thief.
2PM
2 Coronation Street
4 General Hospital
5 Santa Barbara
7 Guiding Light
9 Masterpiece Theatre
"Room of One's Own." Eileen Atkins performs a program based on 1928 lectures by Virginia Woolf to Girton College students.]
22 Highway to Heaven
A U.S. senator [Eddie Albert] opposes Jonathan and Mark's efforts to pass legislation to save a little girl's life.
28 Write Course
2:30
2 Alice
28 Write Course
3PM
2 Welcome Back, Kotter
4 Northwest Afternoon
Scheduled: Guests share unusual romance stories.
5 Days Of Our Lives
7 Sally Jessy Raphael
9 Sesame Street
11 Alvin and the Chipmunks
13 Peter Pan & The Pirates
22 Movie
"The Late George Apley." [1947] Ronald Colman. A Boston blueblood expects his son and daughter to follow certain traditions, namely, his.
28 Welcome [??]
3:30
2 The Facts of Life
11 Muppet Babies
13 Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
28 Lap Quilting
4PM
2 WKRP in Cincinnati
4 The Challengers [Dick Clark-hosted game show]
5 Oprah Winfrey
Scheduled topic: confessions of thieves.
7 Donahue
Scheduled: Danny Thomas.
9 Reading Rainbow
11 Merrie Melodies
13 DuckTales
28 Sesame Street
4:30
2 Danger Bay
4 Family Feud [Syndicated]
9 Square One Television
11 Tiny Toon Adventures
13 Chip 'N Dale
5PM
2 Video Hits
4 5 7 News
9 Mister Rogers
11 AKF
13 Tale Spin
22 Leave it to Beaver
Beaver asks a new girl to a dance party.
28 Square One Television
5:30
2 Golden Girls
9 Nightly Business Report
11 Family Ties
Alex learns Skippy will be a fraternity-prank victim.
13 Head of the Class
T.J. makes a costly deal to get into the IHP.
22 I Love Lucy
Lucy's mother and the Mertzes join in the trip west.
28 3-2-1 Contact
6PM
2 News
4 ABC News
5 NBC News
7 CBS News
9 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
11 Growing Pains
Maggie has misgivings about the new nanny.
13 Perfect Strangers
Balki and Larry try to impress health fanatics.
22 Kate & Allie
Jennie and Ben announce their engagement.
28 John McLaughlin's One on One
6:30
4 5 News
7 Cosby Show
Cliff may not get to a ceremony to accept an award.
11 Who's The Boss?
Tony has strong feelings for a classmate.
13 Hard Copy
22 Three's Company
Jack skips Janet's birthday to date Roper's niece.
28 Hometime
7PM
2 Working for Wildlife
John and Janet Foster film volunteers banding migrant birds on the shores of Lakes Erie and Ontario.
4 Wheel of Fortune
5 Entertainment Tonight
Sexy stars of daytime drama.
7 News
9 National Geographic
Through the ages, people regard the domestic cat with both admiration and loathing.
11 Cheers
Sam tries to reconcile Rebecca and her sister.
13 Inside Edition
Coercion at a convenience store chain.
22 Newhart
Larry and the Darryls promise snow for a winter carnival.
28 Nightly Business Report
7:30
2 Inside Stories
Black women work in white households in Halifax, Nova Scotia. With Susie Gangoo, Jackie Richardson.
4 Jeopardy!
5 Evening
Interview with David Cassidy.
7 Trump Card
11 Night Court
Dan, Harry and two women face embarrassment.
13 A Current Affair
22 Bob Newhart
Emily refuses to allow a student to skip two grades.
28 World of Ideas
Historian/author William Shirer. Host: Bill Moyers.
8PM
2 4 The Wonder Years
Paul tricks Kevin into running for student-council president.
5 Unsolved Mysteries
Washington teen's controversial death; model citizen allegedly kills family; parents search for a son, missing for 47 years.
7 48 Hours
Report follows 13 marines from Camp LeJeune, N.C. to Saudi Arabia.
9 What's Up?
What's going on for arts and performances during 1991.
11 Movie
"The Big Sleep." [1978] Robert Mitchum. Private eye Philip Marlowe falls into a porno/blackmail/murder case in 1970s London.
13 Movie
"Year of the Dragon." [1985] Mickey Rourke,. A Polish-American police captain topples an upstart crimelord in New York's Chinatown. Directed by Michael Cimino.
22 Perry Mason
A man finds himself accused in a murder of a woman detective.
28 Scientific American Frontiers
Long-term effects of space flight; Bronze Age city; physics of circus acts; endangered bustard; improving circulation.
8:30
2 The Fanelli Boys
Tensions at home send the brothers to a counselor [Estelle Getty].
4 Growing Pains
Mike and Jason try to settle their differences at a seminar.
9PM
2 Nature of Things
Salt.
4 Doogie Howser M.D.
Death strikes someone close to Doogie.
5 Hunter
Hunter and a detective [Lauren Lane] investigate a series of college-campus murders in which a professor is implicated.
7 Jake and the Fatman
Jake and McCabe suspect the charismatic leader of a South African pro-Apartheid group for a recent murder.
9 Made for TV
Performances by Ranch Romance, the Mazelton and others.
22 Movie
"Ensign Pulver." [1964] Robert Walker. Would-be doctor Pulver ends up in a life raft with the World War II Navy captain he hates.
28 Arrau & Muti & Beethoven
Pianist Claudio Arrau, conductor Ricardo Muti and the Philadelphia Orchestra perform Beethoven's 4th Concerto in G major.
9:30
4 Married People
A streetwise applicant conflicts with Russell's [Jay Thomas] idea of a nanny.
10PM
2 National-Journal
4 Equal Justice
James prosecutes a man who didn't tell a sex-partner [Carrie Hamilton] that he has AIDS.
7 WIOU
A strike cripples the newsroom; Hank, Neal and Willis [John Sea, Harris Yulin, Wallace Langham] report from a gang-ridden neighborhood.
9 Scientific American Frontiers
See 8PM, KTPS.
11 News
28 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
Sign off 11PM.
10:30
11 CNN Headline News
13 Arsenio Hall
Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal; singing groups the Boys.
11PM
2 4 5 7 News
9 An American Family
11 Cheers
A man who writes about fidelity flirts with Rebecca.
22 Bob Newhart
Bob learns that Ellen may move in with Howard.
11:30
2 Newhart
Stephanie worries her father has lost the family fortune.
4 Nightline
5 Tonight Show
Tony Danza, musician Chris Issak; hotel employee Willis Eden.
11 Hunter
Hunter finds a beautiful blonde murdered in his apartment, but when he returns with McCall, the corpse is gone.
13 Party Machine/Nia Peeples
Little Richard; Cathy Dennis ["Just Another Dream," "All Night Long"]; Father MC's video, "I'll Do For You."
22 Three's Company
Jack and Vicky disrupt Janet's wedding.
11:35
7 America Tonight
12AM
2 Kate & Allie
Lacking romance, Kate and Allie consider their fates.
4 Into the Night with Rick Dees
James Earl Jones; pianist Michael Feinstein.
9 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
13 Star Trek: The Next Generation
On Velara III, Data and Geordi discover a microscopic creature responsible for the death of an engineer.
22 Paid Program
12:05
7 Magnum, P.I.
Magnum copes with the murder of a French Inspector during a private investigator's convention.
12:30
2 Movie
"Two Living, One Dead." [1961] Virginia McKenna. Two postal workers out of three survive a robbery; one is suspected of being involved.
5 Late Night with David Letterman
Scheduled: Marv Albert.
11 Twilight Zone
Three boys get wishes from a crafty leprechaun.
22 Movie
"Chinese Caper." [1980] Geoffrey Deuel. A couple try to return a jade Buddha statuette stolen from a temple in Taipei.
1AM
4 Hardcastle & McCormick
By pressuring a young boxer's father, a crooked promoter tries to force the Olympic hopeful to turn professional.
9 Today's Japan
11 Twilight Zone
A man can change his face to assume other identities.
13 Personalities
1:05
7 Mission [Mission Impossible?]
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CHANNELS
2 CBUT Vancouver [CBC]
4 KOMO Seattle [ABC]
5 KING Seattle [NBC]
7 KIRO Seattle [CBS]
9 KCTS Seattle [PBS]
11 KSTW Tacoma [IND]
13 KCPQ Tacoma [Fox]
22 KTZZ Seattle [IND]
28 KTPS Tacoma [PBS]
7AM
4 Good Morning America
Mel Gibson and Glen Close ["Hamlet"]; amateur-night host Ralph Cooper.
5 Today
Willem Dafoe ["Flight of the Intruder"]; supermarket trends; author Robert Parker.
7 This Morning
Andie MacDowell ["Green Card"]; popularity of bed & breakfast inns.
9 Sesame Street
11 Video Power
13 G.I. Joe
22 Thundercats
7:30
11 Ranger Charlie and Rosco
13 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
22 Woody Woodpecker
8AM
9 Captain Kangaroo
11 Wake, Rattle and Roll
13 Tom & Jerry
22 Police Academy
28 Sesame Street
8:30
9 Mister Rogers
11 Dennis the Menace
13 Flintstones
22 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
9AM
4 Regis & Kathie Lee
5 Seattle Today
Hosts: Pat Finley, Colby Chester, Cliff Lenz.
7 Geraldo
9 Sesame Street
11 Punky Brewster
13 Family Feud [CBS]
22 Paid Program
28 Sit & Be Fit
9:30
2 Wok With Yan
11 New Leave it to Beaver
13 Wheel of Fortune [CBS, Bob Goen]
22 Casey Treat
28 Instructional TV
10AM
2 Fred Penner's Place
4 Home
Mary Lou Retton and husband, Shannon Kelley.
5 Graham Kerr
7 The Price is Right
9 Instructional TV
11 Love Connection
13 Joan Rivers
Guest: Freddie Jackson.
22 Success-N-Life
28 Painting [likely Joy of Painting]
10:30
2 Mr. Dressup
5 Marsha Warfield
11 Love Connection
28 Acrylic Art
11AM
2 Sesame Street
4 Match Game
5 Let's Make a Deal
7 Young and the Restless
11 People's Court
13 Instant Recall
22 The 700 Club
28 Instructional TV
11:30
4 Loving
5 Classic Concentration
11 The Judge
13 To Be Announced
28 3-2-1 Contact
Noon
2 4 All My Children
5 To Tell the Truth
7 News
9 Nova
Crews return a decade after the eruption of Mt. St. Helens to see how nature has reacted to the disaster.
11 News
13 Rockford Files
A bookkeeper wants Rockford to find her missing brother, a stockbroker she thinks was taken by the mob.
22 Paid Program
28 Sesame Street
12:30
5 Generations
11 CNN Headline News
22 Bewitched
1PM
2 Midday
4 One Life to Live
5 Another World
7 As The World Turns
9 28 Instructional TV
11 Movie
"Hear No Evil." [1982] Gil Gerard. Deaf from a bomb rigged by bikers, a former San Francisco policeman and his dog hunt them down.
13 Movie
"Never a Dull Moment." [1968] Dick Van Dyke. Mistaken for a hitman, a TV actor plays the part to foil a gangster's pop-art plot.
22 I Love Lucy
Lucy and Ricky acquire youthful admirers.
1:30
22 Hazel
George's ne'er-do-well cousin unjustly earns a label of thief.
2PM
2 Coronation Street
4 General Hospital
5 Santa Barbara
7 Guiding Light
9 Masterpiece Theatre
"Room of One's Own." Eileen Atkins performs a program based on 1928 lectures by Virginia Woolf to Girton College students.]
22 Highway to Heaven
A U.S. senator [Eddie Albert] opposes Jonathan and Mark's efforts to pass legislation to save a little girl's life.
28 Write Course
2:30
2 Alice
28 Write Course
3PM
2 Welcome Back, Kotter
4 Northwest Afternoon
Scheduled: Guests share unusual romance stories.
5 Days Of Our Lives
7 Sally Jessy Raphael
9 Sesame Street
11 Alvin and the Chipmunks
13 Peter Pan & The Pirates
22 Movie
"The Late George Apley." [1947] Ronald Colman. A Boston blueblood expects his son and daughter to follow certain traditions, namely, his.
28 Welcome [??]
3:30
2 The Facts of Life
11 Muppet Babies
13 Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
28 Lap Quilting
4PM
2 WKRP in Cincinnati
4 The Challengers [Dick Clark-hosted game show]
5 Oprah Winfrey
Scheduled topic: confessions of thieves.
7 Donahue
Scheduled: Danny Thomas.
9 Reading Rainbow
11 Merrie Melodies
13 DuckTales
28 Sesame Street
4:30
2 Danger Bay
4 Family Feud [Syndicated]
9 Square One Television
11 Tiny Toon Adventures
13 Chip 'N Dale
5PM
2 Video Hits
4 5 7 News
9 Mister Rogers
11 AKF
13 Tale Spin
22 Leave it to Beaver
Beaver asks a new girl to a dance party.
28 Square One Television
5:30
2 Golden Girls
9 Nightly Business Report
11 Family Ties
Alex learns Skippy will be a fraternity-prank victim.
13 Head of the Class
T.J. makes a costly deal to get into the IHP.
22 I Love Lucy
Lucy's mother and the Mertzes join in the trip west.
28 3-2-1 Contact
6PM
2 News
4 ABC News
5 NBC News
7 CBS News
9 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
11 Growing Pains
Maggie has misgivings about the new nanny.
13 Perfect Strangers
Balki and Larry try to impress health fanatics.
22 Kate & Allie
Jennie and Ben announce their engagement.
28 John McLaughlin's One on One
6:30
4 5 News
7 Cosby Show
Cliff may not get to a ceremony to accept an award.
11 Who's The Boss?
Tony has strong feelings for a classmate.
13 Hard Copy
22 Three's Company
Jack skips Janet's birthday to date Roper's niece.
28 Hometime
7PM
2 Working for Wildlife
John and Janet Foster film volunteers banding migrant birds on the shores of Lakes Erie and Ontario.
4 Wheel of Fortune
5 Entertainment Tonight
Sexy stars of daytime drama.
7 News
9 National Geographic
Through the ages, people regard the domestic cat with both admiration and loathing.
11 Cheers
Sam tries to reconcile Rebecca and her sister.
13 Inside Edition
Coercion at a convenience store chain.
22 Newhart
Larry and the Darryls promise snow for a winter carnival.
28 Nightly Business Report
7:30
2 Inside Stories
Black women work in white households in Halifax, Nova Scotia. With Susie Gangoo, Jackie Richardson.
4 Jeopardy!
5 Evening
Interview with David Cassidy.
7 Trump Card
11 Night Court
Dan, Harry and two women face embarrassment.
13 A Current Affair
22 Bob Newhart
Emily refuses to allow a student to skip two grades.
28 World of Ideas
Historian/author William Shirer. Host: Bill Moyers.
8PM
2 4 The Wonder Years
Paul tricks Kevin into running for student-council president.
5 Unsolved Mysteries
Washington teen's controversial death; model citizen allegedly kills family; parents search for a son, missing for 47 years.
7 48 Hours
Report follows 13 marines from Camp LeJeune, N.C. to Saudi Arabia.
9 What's Up?
What's going on for arts and performances during 1991.
11 Movie
"The Big Sleep." [1978] Robert Mitchum. Private eye Philip Marlowe falls into a porno/blackmail/murder case in 1970s London.
13 Movie
"Year of the Dragon." [1985] Mickey Rourke,. A Polish-American police captain topples an upstart crimelord in New York's Chinatown. Directed by Michael Cimino.
22 Perry Mason
A man finds himself accused in a murder of a woman detective.
28 Scientific American Frontiers
Long-term effects of space flight; Bronze Age city; physics of circus acts; endangered bustard; improving circulation.
8:30
2 The Fanelli Boys
Tensions at home send the brothers to a counselor [Estelle Getty].
4 Growing Pains
Mike and Jason try to settle their differences at a seminar.
9PM
2 Nature of Things
Salt.
4 Doogie Howser M.D.
Death strikes someone close to Doogie.
5 Hunter
Hunter and a detective [Lauren Lane] investigate a series of college-campus murders in which a professor is implicated.
7 Jake and the Fatman
Jake and McCabe suspect the charismatic leader of a South African pro-Apartheid group for a recent murder.
9 Made for TV
Performances by Ranch Romance, the Mazelton and others.
22 Movie
"Ensign Pulver." [1964] Robert Walker. Would-be doctor Pulver ends up in a life raft with the World War II Navy captain he hates.
28 Arrau & Muti & Beethoven
Pianist Claudio Arrau, conductor Ricardo Muti and the Philadelphia Orchestra perform Beethoven's 4th Concerto in G major.
9:30
4 Married People
A streetwise applicant conflicts with Russell's [Jay Thomas] idea of a nanny.
10PM
2 National-Journal
4 Equal Justice
James prosecutes a man who didn't tell a sex-partner [Carrie Hamilton] that he has AIDS.
7 WIOU
A strike cripples the newsroom; Hank, Neal and Willis [John Sea, Harris Yulin, Wallace Langham] report from a gang-ridden neighborhood.
9 Scientific American Frontiers
See 8PM, KTPS.
11 News
28 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
Sign off 11PM.
10:30
11 CNN Headline News
13 Arsenio Hall
Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal; singing groups the Boys.
11PM
2 4 5 7 News
9 An American Family
11 Cheers
A man who writes about fidelity flirts with Rebecca.
22 Bob Newhart
Bob learns that Ellen may move in with Howard.
11:30
2 Newhart
Stephanie worries her father has lost the family fortune.
4 Nightline
5 Tonight Show
Tony Danza, musician Chris Issak; hotel employee Willis Eden.
11 Hunter
Hunter finds a beautiful blonde murdered in his apartment, but when he returns with McCall, the corpse is gone.
13 Party Machine/Nia Peeples
Little Richard; Cathy Dennis ["Just Another Dream," "All Night Long"]; Father MC's video, "I'll Do For You."
22 Three's Company
Jack and Vicky disrupt Janet's wedding.
11:35
7 America Tonight
12AM
2 Kate & Allie
Lacking romance, Kate and Allie consider their fates.
4 Into the Night with Rick Dees
James Earl Jones; pianist Michael Feinstein.
9 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
13 Star Trek: The Next Generation
On Velara III, Data and Geordi discover a microscopic creature responsible for the death of an engineer.
22 Paid Program
12:05
7 Magnum, P.I.
Magnum copes with the murder of a French Inspector during a private investigator's convention.
12:30
2 Movie
"Two Living, One Dead." [1961] Virginia McKenna. Two postal workers out of three survive a robbery; one is suspected of being involved.
5 Late Night with David Letterman
Scheduled: Marv Albert.
11 Twilight Zone
Three boys get wishes from a crafty leprechaun.
22 Movie
"Chinese Caper." [1980] Geoffrey Deuel. A couple try to return a jade Buddha statuette stolen from a temple in Taipei.
1AM
4 Hardcastle & McCormick
By pressuring a young boxer's father, a crooked promoter tries to force the Olympic hopeful to turn professional.
9 Today's Japan
11 Twilight Zone
A man can change his face to assume other identities.
13 Personalities
1:05
7 Mission [Mission Impossible?]
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