It looks like KSKN was shaping up to become a pretty decent independent station under new ownership. I wonder if the station would have succeeded had Gene Adelstein not suddenly passed away a few months later.
2—KREM (CBS)
6 am—Tom and Jerry
7:00—Bugs Bunny and Friends
7:30—Disney’s Wuzzles
8:00—Jim Henson’s Muppet Babies
9:00—Hulk Hogan’s Rock ‘n Wrestling
10:00—CBS Storybreak
10:30—Dungeons & Dragons
11:00—Land of the Lost
11:30—The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show
12 pm—The Get Along Gang
12:30—College Football
Washington at Arizona State. (Live)
4:00—The Race for Number One: College Football Report
College football scores and highlights from around the country and a look at next week’s major contests.
4:30—The High Chaparral
5:30—KREM 2 News
6:00—Three’s Company
6:30—The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams
7:30—Bosom Buddies
8:00—Airwolf
“Eagles.” Hawke protects the life of a test pilot (Nancy Everhard) who has vowed to reveal a serious defect in a new aircraft.
9:00—The CBS Saturday Night Movies: “Risky Business”
(1983) Tom Cruise, Rebecca DeMornay. A high school senior, sheltered in an affluent Chicago suburb, decides to experiment with the wilder side of life.
11:00—KREM 2 News
11:30—MOVIE: “Daddy Long Legs”
(1955) Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron. When a wealthy playboy decides to send a French orphan girl to college, he doesn’t anticipate that a thing like love might interfere.
4—KXLY (ABC)
6:15 am—Sunday School of the Air
6:30—Gilligan’s Island
7:00—Scooby’s Mystery Funhouse
7:30—The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour
8:30—The Ewoks and Droids Adventure Hour
9:30—The Super Powers Team: Galactic Gurardians
10:00—The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
10:30—The Littles
11:00—ABC Weekend Special
“Pippi Longstocking.” Based on Astrid Lindgren’s tale of a little girl (Carrie Heim) who experiences many adventures. (Part 2 of 2)
11:30—Gilligan’s Island
12 pm—College Football
Regional coverage of Alabama at Louisiana State or Baylor at Arkansas. (Live)
4:00—Wide World of Sports
Olympic gold-medalists Scott Johnson and Tim Daggett compete in the 23rd World Gymnastics Championships, taped in Montreal. Competitors from 41 countries, including Japan and the Soviet Union, are scheduled to take part.
5:00—The Mouse on the Mayflower
Animated. A brave rodent stows away on the famous vessel bound for the New World.
6:00—Taxi
“Louie Sees the Light.” The night before an operation, Louie promises to turn over a new leaf when he fears he may die.
6:30—The People’s Court
7:00—Hart to Hart
“Murder Between Friends.” The Harts are determined to clear two close friends who are suspected of murder.
8:00—Hollywood Beat
“Baby Blues.” McCarren and Rado help and AWOL Marine locate his pregnant girlfriend.
9:00—North and South
Huntoon and Bent stop in a New Orleans bordello; Virgilia’s husband Grady joins John Brown’s raiders at Harper’s Ferry; political fractions prepare for the Presidential election of 1860. Stars Elizabeth Taylor and Johnny Cash. (Part 5 of 6)
11:00—News 4
11:30—FTV
Guest: Toni Basil.
12 am—Puttin’ on the Hits
Lip-synched renditions of “The Bird” by The Time, The Marcels’ “Blue Moon,” Kenny Rogers’ “This Woman” and Madonna’s “Into the Groove.”
12:30—ABC News
6—KHQ (NBC)
6 am—U.S. Farm Report
6:30—The Muppet Show
7:00—Snorks
7:30—Disney’s Adventures of the Gummi Bears
8:00—The Smurfs
9:30—It’s Punky Brewster
10:00—Alvin and the Chipmunks
10:30—Kidd Video
11:00—Mr. T
11:30—Kidsworld
12 pm—PBA Fall Tour
1:30—NBC Sportsworld
The final event in the IndyCar World Series—the CART Miami Indy Challenge—is shown. Taped earlier today at Tamiami Park in Miami.
3:30—The John Birch Society
4:00—Star Games
5:00—Q-6 News
5:30—NBC News
6:00—MOVIE: “The Legend of Custer.”
(1968) Wayne Maunder, Slim Pickens. The military career of the colorful American colonel leads to his famous Last Stand.
8:00—Gimme a Break!
“Sam’s Little Girl.” Nell takes care of seven-year-old Pamela (Ebonie Smith) when Samantha shirks her responsibility as a Big Sister to date a handsome new neighbor.
8:30—The Facts of Life
“Come Back to the Truck Stop, Natalie Green, Natalie Green.” In hopes of writing the great American novel, Natalie journeys to a hole-in-the-wall truck stop where she encounters entertainer Charo and involves her friends in an unsual musical-fantasy.
9:00—The Golden Girls
“Break-In.” Terrified by a burglary, the girls explore means to protect themselves, including a dog, an alarm system, Mace and a gun.
9:30—227
Mary writes to the President to complain about the potholes in the streets around her neighborhood.
10:00—Hunter
“Rape & Revenge.” Hunter continues to search for ways to nab the foreign diplomat who raped McCall. Richard Yniguez and Bruce Davison guest star. (Part 2 of 2)
11:00—Q-6 News
11:30—Saturday Night Live
(Season Premiere) Host Madonna is joined by new repertory members including Randy Quaid, Anthony Michael Hall, Nora Dunn and Danitra Vance.
1 am—The Waltons
7—KSPS (PBS)
7 am—Profiles of Nature
7:30—Spoonful of Lovin’
8:00—Nursing Care of the Adult Surgical Patient
8:30—American Story
9:00—American Story
9:30—Project Universe
10:00—Project Universe
10:30—Focus on Society
11:00—Focus on Society
11:30—In Our Own Image
12 pm—In Our Own Image
12:30—Woodwright’s Shop
The versatile colonial hutch table.
1:00—Saving Energy
Generating electricity using the sun or waste products.
1:30—The Magic Brush of Gary Jenkins
2:00—Lap Quilting
Making the quilter’s tote.
2:30—The Joy of Painting
3:00—Business File
3:30—Business File
4:00—Computer Chronicles
4:30—Motorweek
5:00—Austin City Limits
Waylon Jennings sings “Honky Tonk Heroes” and “Luckenbach, Texas.” Billy Joe Shaver performs “Ride Me Down Easy” and “I’m Just an Old Chunk of Coal.”
6:00—Nature of Things
Featured: water quality in the Great Lakes.
7:00—All Creatures Great and Small
“Brink of Disaster.” Even in September 1939, war seems remote compared to an outbreak of disease. (Part 23 of 28)
8:00—Saturday Night Cinema: “Threads”
(1984) Reece Dinsdale, Karen Meagher. Two families in northern England experience the horrors and consequences of global nuclear war for years after the world’s superpowers clash over the Middle East.
10:00—Doctor Who
“Enlightenment.” The Tardis materializes on what appears to be an Edwardian racing yacht competing in an interstellar race, with total knowledge going to the victor.
11:40—Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler
22—KSKN (Independent)
7:30 am—Inside NASCAR
8:00—Telephone Auction
9:00—College Football
Mississippi at Notre Dame. (Live)
12 pm—Greatest Spots Legends
12:30—Terrahawks
1:00—MOVIE: “An Unmarried Woman”
(1978) Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates. A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.
3:00—Tarzan
“Tarzan and the Leopard on the Loose.” A trading-post worker plans to make some quick cash by stealing Jai's pet leopard.
4:00—The Outer Limits
“The Man Who Was Never Born.” An astronaut accidentally passes through a time warp and finds the Earth of 2148 barren and populated by grotesque humanoids.
5:00—The Incredible Hulk
“Never Give a Trucker an Even Break.” A highway duel develops between a girl truck driver and a pair of hijackers.
6:00—Starsky & Hutch
“Photo Finish.” Starsky’s photographer girlfriend becomes the hunted when her timely photograph becomes key evidence against a killer.
7:00—Hollywood Closeup
Scheduled: Gene Hackman interview; a history of kissing in the movies; previews of the ABC miniseries “North and South” and the CBS movie “Stone Pillow.”
7:30—Tales from the Darkside
“The Devil’s Advocate.” A radio talk show host (Jerry Stiller) has reason to worry when he receives a string of eerie phone calls.
8:00—MOVIE: “Alien Contamination”
(1981) Ian McCullock, Louise Marleau. An astronaut responsible for transporting deadly bacterial eggs from Mars plots to take over earth.
10:00—Wrestling
11:00—America’s Top Ten
11:30—Dance Fever
Judges: Jacklyn Zeman, John Mutuszak, Pamela Stanley. Performance by Adrian Zmed.
12 am—TV 2000
Videos by Phantom, Rocker & Slick; Sting; Jane Wiedlin; Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin; Glenn Frey. Interview with David Lee Roth. Rock artists turned movie stars.
28—KAYU (Independent)
7 am—He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
7:30—Super Saturday
8:00—Wrestling
9:00—Homescan
9:30—College Football
Ohio State at Northwestern. (Live)
12:30 pm—Night Gallery
1:00—MOVIE: “The Male Animal”
(1942) Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland. A college professor fights censorship and an amorous football player who's after his wife.
3:00—MOVIE: “The Sword and the Sorcerer.”
(1982) Lee Horsley, Kathleen Beller. A mercenary with a three-bladed sword rediscovers his royal heritage dangerous future when he is recruited to help a princess foil the designs of a brutal tyrant and a powerful sorcerer in conquering a land.
5:00—College Football
Oregon State at Stanford.
8:00—MOVIE: “Yellow Sky”
(1948) Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter. Two men battle over a woman and a quantity of gold.
10:00—MOVIE: “The Last Bride of Salem”
(1974) Bradford Dillman, Lois Nettleton. A young woman battles supernatural forces that are threatening to possess her family.
11:30—Hee Haw
Guests: Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Ben and Butch McCain, J.T. Jackson.
2—KREM (CBS)
6 am—Tom and Jerry
7:00—Bugs Bunny and Friends
7:30—Disney’s Wuzzles
8:00—Jim Henson’s Muppet Babies
9:00—Hulk Hogan’s Rock ‘n Wrestling
10:00—CBS Storybreak
10:30—Dungeons & Dragons
11:00—Land of the Lost
11:30—The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show
12 pm—The Get Along Gang
12:30—College Football
Washington at Arizona State. (Live)
4:00—The Race for Number One: College Football Report
College football scores and highlights from around the country and a look at next week’s major contests.
4:30—The High Chaparral
5:30—KREM 2 News
6:00—Three’s Company
6:30—The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams
7:30—Bosom Buddies
8:00—Airwolf
“Eagles.” Hawke protects the life of a test pilot (Nancy Everhard) who has vowed to reveal a serious defect in a new aircraft.
9:00—The CBS Saturday Night Movies: “Risky Business”
(1983) Tom Cruise, Rebecca DeMornay. A high school senior, sheltered in an affluent Chicago suburb, decides to experiment with the wilder side of life.
11:00—KREM 2 News
11:30—MOVIE: “Daddy Long Legs”
(1955) Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron. When a wealthy playboy decides to send a French orphan girl to college, he doesn’t anticipate that a thing like love might interfere.
4—KXLY (ABC)
6:15 am—Sunday School of the Air
6:30—Gilligan’s Island
7:00—Scooby’s Mystery Funhouse
7:30—The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour
8:30—The Ewoks and Droids Adventure Hour
9:30—The Super Powers Team: Galactic Gurardians
10:00—The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
10:30—The Littles
11:00—ABC Weekend Special
“Pippi Longstocking.” Based on Astrid Lindgren’s tale of a little girl (Carrie Heim) who experiences many adventures. (Part 2 of 2)
11:30—Gilligan’s Island
12 pm—College Football
Regional coverage of Alabama at Louisiana State or Baylor at Arkansas. (Live)
4:00—Wide World of Sports
Olympic gold-medalists Scott Johnson and Tim Daggett compete in the 23rd World Gymnastics Championships, taped in Montreal. Competitors from 41 countries, including Japan and the Soviet Union, are scheduled to take part.
5:00—The Mouse on the Mayflower
Animated. A brave rodent stows away on the famous vessel bound for the New World.
6:00—Taxi
“Louie Sees the Light.” The night before an operation, Louie promises to turn over a new leaf when he fears he may die.
6:30—The People’s Court
7:00—Hart to Hart
“Murder Between Friends.” The Harts are determined to clear two close friends who are suspected of murder.
8:00—Hollywood Beat
“Baby Blues.” McCarren and Rado help and AWOL Marine locate his pregnant girlfriend.
9:00—North and South
Huntoon and Bent stop in a New Orleans bordello; Virgilia’s husband Grady joins John Brown’s raiders at Harper’s Ferry; political fractions prepare for the Presidential election of 1860. Stars Elizabeth Taylor and Johnny Cash. (Part 5 of 6)
11:00—News 4
11:30—FTV
Guest: Toni Basil.
12 am—Puttin’ on the Hits
Lip-synched renditions of “The Bird” by The Time, The Marcels’ “Blue Moon,” Kenny Rogers’ “This Woman” and Madonna’s “Into the Groove.”
12:30—ABC News
6—KHQ (NBC)
6 am—U.S. Farm Report
6:30—The Muppet Show
7:00—Snorks
7:30—Disney’s Adventures of the Gummi Bears
8:00—The Smurfs
9:30—It’s Punky Brewster
10:00—Alvin and the Chipmunks
10:30—Kidd Video
11:00—Mr. T
11:30—Kidsworld
12 pm—PBA Fall Tour
1:30—NBC Sportsworld
The final event in the IndyCar World Series—the CART Miami Indy Challenge—is shown. Taped earlier today at Tamiami Park in Miami.
3:30—The John Birch Society
4:00—Star Games
5:00—Q-6 News
5:30—NBC News
6:00—MOVIE: “The Legend of Custer.”
(1968) Wayne Maunder, Slim Pickens. The military career of the colorful American colonel leads to his famous Last Stand.
8:00—Gimme a Break!
“Sam’s Little Girl.” Nell takes care of seven-year-old Pamela (Ebonie Smith) when Samantha shirks her responsibility as a Big Sister to date a handsome new neighbor.
8:30—The Facts of Life
“Come Back to the Truck Stop, Natalie Green, Natalie Green.” In hopes of writing the great American novel, Natalie journeys to a hole-in-the-wall truck stop where she encounters entertainer Charo and involves her friends in an unsual musical-fantasy.
9:00—The Golden Girls
“Break-In.” Terrified by a burglary, the girls explore means to protect themselves, including a dog, an alarm system, Mace and a gun.
9:30—227
Mary writes to the President to complain about the potholes in the streets around her neighborhood.
10:00—Hunter
“Rape & Revenge.” Hunter continues to search for ways to nab the foreign diplomat who raped McCall. Richard Yniguez and Bruce Davison guest star. (Part 2 of 2)
11:00—Q-6 News
11:30—Saturday Night Live
(Season Premiere) Host Madonna is joined by new repertory members including Randy Quaid, Anthony Michael Hall, Nora Dunn and Danitra Vance.
1 am—The Waltons
7—KSPS (PBS)
7 am—Profiles of Nature
7:30—Spoonful of Lovin’
8:00—Nursing Care of the Adult Surgical Patient
8:30—American Story
9:00—American Story
9:30—Project Universe
10:00—Project Universe
10:30—Focus on Society
11:00—Focus on Society
11:30—In Our Own Image
12 pm—In Our Own Image
12:30—Woodwright’s Shop
The versatile colonial hutch table.
1:00—Saving Energy
Generating electricity using the sun or waste products.
1:30—The Magic Brush of Gary Jenkins
2:00—Lap Quilting
Making the quilter’s tote.
2:30—The Joy of Painting
3:00—Business File
3:30—Business File
4:00—Computer Chronicles
4:30—Motorweek
5:00—Austin City Limits
Waylon Jennings sings “Honky Tonk Heroes” and “Luckenbach, Texas.” Billy Joe Shaver performs “Ride Me Down Easy” and “I’m Just an Old Chunk of Coal.”
6:00—Nature of Things
Featured: water quality in the Great Lakes.
7:00—All Creatures Great and Small
“Brink of Disaster.” Even in September 1939, war seems remote compared to an outbreak of disease. (Part 23 of 28)
8:00—Saturday Night Cinema: “Threads”
(1984) Reece Dinsdale, Karen Meagher. Two families in northern England experience the horrors and consequences of global nuclear war for years after the world’s superpowers clash over the Middle East.
10:00—Doctor Who
“Enlightenment.” The Tardis materializes on what appears to be an Edwardian racing yacht competing in an interstellar race, with total knowledge going to the victor.
11:40—Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler
22—KSKN (Independent)
7:30 am—Inside NASCAR
8:00—Telephone Auction
9:00—College Football
Mississippi at Notre Dame. (Live)
12 pm—Greatest Spots Legends
12:30—Terrahawks
1:00—MOVIE: “An Unmarried Woman”
(1978) Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates. A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.
3:00—Tarzan
“Tarzan and the Leopard on the Loose.” A trading-post worker plans to make some quick cash by stealing Jai's pet leopard.
4:00—The Outer Limits
“The Man Who Was Never Born.” An astronaut accidentally passes through a time warp and finds the Earth of 2148 barren and populated by grotesque humanoids.
5:00—The Incredible Hulk
“Never Give a Trucker an Even Break.” A highway duel develops between a girl truck driver and a pair of hijackers.
6:00—Starsky & Hutch
“Photo Finish.” Starsky’s photographer girlfriend becomes the hunted when her timely photograph becomes key evidence against a killer.
7:00—Hollywood Closeup
Scheduled: Gene Hackman interview; a history of kissing in the movies; previews of the ABC miniseries “North and South” and the CBS movie “Stone Pillow.”
7:30—Tales from the Darkside
“The Devil’s Advocate.” A radio talk show host (Jerry Stiller) has reason to worry when he receives a string of eerie phone calls.
8:00—MOVIE: “Alien Contamination”
(1981) Ian McCullock, Louise Marleau. An astronaut responsible for transporting deadly bacterial eggs from Mars plots to take over earth.
10:00—Wrestling
11:00—America’s Top Ten
11:30—Dance Fever
Judges: Jacklyn Zeman, John Mutuszak, Pamela Stanley. Performance by Adrian Zmed.
12 am—TV 2000
Videos by Phantom, Rocker & Slick; Sting; Jane Wiedlin; Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin; Glenn Frey. Interview with David Lee Roth. Rock artists turned movie stars.
28—KAYU (Independent)
7 am—He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
7:30—Super Saturday
8:00—Wrestling
9:00—Homescan
9:30—College Football
Ohio State at Northwestern. (Live)
12:30 pm—Night Gallery
1:00—MOVIE: “The Male Animal”
(1942) Henry Fonda, Olivia de Havilland. A college professor fights censorship and an amorous football player who's after his wife.
3:00—MOVIE: “The Sword and the Sorcerer.”
(1982) Lee Horsley, Kathleen Beller. A mercenary with a three-bladed sword rediscovers his royal heritage dangerous future when he is recruited to help a princess foil the designs of a brutal tyrant and a powerful sorcerer in conquering a land.
5:00—College Football
Oregon State at Stanford.
8:00—MOVIE: “Yellow Sky”
(1948) Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter. Two men battle over a woman and a quantity of gold.
10:00—MOVIE: “The Last Bride of Salem”
(1974) Bradford Dillman, Lois Nettleton. A young woman battles supernatural forces that are threatening to possess her family.
11:30—Hee Haw
Guests: Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Ben and Butch McCain, J.T. Jackson.