Here's my first posting of an old TV schedule from back in the day, this one from my home market. Some of the info I compiled for this list came by memory. This comes from the 1983-84 fall season. For purposes of this posting, the listings include two cable superstations, WGN Chicago and WTBS Atlanta. So here it is.
(source: St. Louis Post Dispatch Television supplement)
KTVI-TV Channel 2 (ABC)
6:35am Sign on/ A Thought for Today
6:45am Directions
7:15am God’s Musical World
7:45am Message of the Rabbi
8:00am Sacred Heart
8:15am Sunday Mass
9:00am Oral Roberts
9:30am Robert Schuller
10:30am This Week with David Brinkley
11:30am Face to Face
12:00pm Perception
12:30pm Expression
1:00pm Mary Tyler Moore
1:30pm Movie: “The Valachi Papers” (1972) w/Charles Bronson, Lino Ventura
4:00pm Mission Impossible
5:00pm Channel 2 News Weekend Report (Donn Johnson, Al Ruschel, Bryan Busby-weather, Greg Gizinski-sports)
5:30pm Turnabout (public affairs program hosted by Bonita Cornute)
6:00pm Ripley’s Believe It Or Not
7:00pm Hardcastle and McCormick
8:00pm The ABC Sunday Night Movie: “The Making of A Male Model” (1983, TVM) w/Joan Collins, Jon-Eric Hexum
10:00pm Channel 2 News Weekend Report (Donn Johnson, Al Ruschel, Bryan Busby-weather, Greg Gizinski-sports)
10:30pm Barney Miller
11:00pm Sunday Super Movie: “Shampoo” (1975) w/ Warren Beatty, Julie Christy, Goldie Hawn
1:30am ABC News Weekend Report
1:45am Channel 2 News Weekend Report (repeat)
2:15am Turnabout (repeat)
2:45am A Thought for Today
2:50am Sign off
KMOX-TV Channel 4 (CBS)
5:55am Sign on
6:00am The People Speak
7:30am Eye on St. Louis
8:00am CBS News Sunday Morning
9:30am Face The Nation
10:00am Confluence
11:00am Cardinal Gridiron
11:30am Sports Attic
12:00pm Four Upfront Movie: “Senior Year” (1974) w/Gary Frank, Glynis O’Connor
1:25pm Four Upfront Movie: “Savage” (1972) w/Barbara Bain, Martin Landau
2:30pm The NFL Today
3:00pm NFL Football: Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. Dallas Cowboys (preempts CBS Evening News at 5:00pm and Sunday Newsroom Report at 5:30pm)
6:00pm 60 Minutes
7:00pm Alice
7:30pm One Day at a Time
8:00pm The Jeffersons
8:30pm Goodnight, Beantown
9:00pm Trapper John, M.D.
10:00pm CBS Sunday Night News (Charles Osgood)
10:15pm Sunday Newsroom Report (Betsy Bruce)
10:30pm Sports Wrap-Up
10:45pm NFL Weekly Magazine
11:30pm The Sunday Late Show: “Death Follows the Psycho” (1973) w/Lorne Greene, Ben Murphy
1:00am CBS News Nightwatch (until 5:00am)
KSDK-TV Channel 5 (NBC)
5:55am Sign on
6:00am Gospel Singing Jubilee
6:30am The Lester Family
7:00am Jimmy Swaggart
8:00am Kenneth Copeland
9:00am Jerry Savelle
9:30am Marilyn Hickey
10:00am Metro Journal
11:00am Meet the Press
11:30am Black Forum
12:00pm Telequiz
12:30pm Young People’s Special: “Rosie”
1:00pm KSDK-TV Special” “Little Boy of Summer”
1:30pm Greatest Sports Legends
2:00pm This Week in Baseball
2:30pm NFL ‘83
3:00pm NFL Football: Kansas City Chiefs vs. Los Angeles Raiders
3:29pm Baseball: NLCS Game 5: Philadelphia Phillies vs. Los Angeles Dodgers (not played due to Phillies wining NLCS 3-1)
(preempts Channel 5 Eyewitness News Weekend Report at 5:00 and NBC Nightly News at 5:30pm)
6:00pm First Camera
6:59pm Baseball: ALCS Game 5: Baltimore Orioles vs. Chicago White Sox (not played due to Orioles winning ALCS 3-1)
7:00pm Knight Rider
8:00pm NBC Sunday Night at the Movies: “Bustin’ Loose” (1981)
10:00pm Channel 5 Eyewitness News Update (Rick Endlund, Joe Petrovich-weather, Art Holliday-sports)
10:40pm Rawhide
11:40pm Bonanza
12:40am It’s Your Business
1:10am Metro Journal
2:10am Sign off
KETC-TV Channel 9 (PBS)
7:55am Sign on
8:00am Introducing Biology
8:30am Introducing Biology
9:00am Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
9:30am Don’t Look Now
10:30am Whitey Herzog
11:00am Supersoccer
12:00pm Washington Week in Review
12:30pm Wall Street Week with Louis Rukyser
1:00pm Inside Business Today: “Ted Turner—How He Did It”
1:30pm European Journal: German Tricentennial
2:00pm Firing Line
3:00pm Tony Brown’s Journal
3:30pm Illinois Press
4:00pm Masterpiece Theatre: “Pictures”
5:00pm Sesame Street
6:00pm Tom Rush at Symphony Hall: A New Year (from Symphony Hall in Boston)
7:00pm Nature: “Forest in the Sea”
8:00pm The German Americans: 300 Years in the New Land
9:00pm Masterpiece Theatre: “Pictures”
10:00pm Sneak Previews
10:30pm Doctor Who: “State of Decay”
11:30pm Sign off
WGN-TV Channel 9 (Independent)-Chicago, Illinois
5:00am The Late Movie cont’d
5:25am Sign-On
5:30am Dennis the Menace
6:00am Gerry Faust
6:30am Day of Discovery
7:00am Three Score-Community Calendar
7:15am What’s Nu?
7:30am Robert Schuller
8:00am Sunday Mass
8:30am Heritage of Faith
9:00am Tarzan
10:00am Rawhide
11:00am The Cisco Kid
11:30am The Lone Ranger
12:00pm Mystery Theater: “Charlie Chan in Shanghai” (1935) w/Warner Oland, Keye Luke
1:30pm Sunday Matinee: “Operation Mad Ball” (1957) w/Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs
3:30pm Family Classics with Frazier Thomas: “Treasure Island” (1934) w/Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore
5:30pm Little House on the Prairie
6:30pm Olympic Hall of Fame Special
7:30pm Taking Advantage
8:00pm In Search Of…: “Immortal Sharks”
8:30pm People to People
9:00pm The Nine O’Clock News (Robert Jordan, Larry Roderick, Jim Ramsey-weather, Sid Garcia-sports)
10:00pm The Twilight Zone
10:30pm Lou Grant
11:30pm WGN Television Presents: “Boomerang” (1947) w/Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Arthur Kennedy, Lee J. Cobb
1:30am Siskel & Ebert at the Movies
2:00am Independent Network News
2:30am Fight Back! With David Horowitz
3:00am Dennis The Menace
3:30am The Late Movie: “Spy Chasers” (1955) w/Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, and the Bowery Boys
KPLR-TV Channel 11 (Independent)
5:25am Sign on
5:30am Newswatch
6:00am Think About Tomorrow
6:30am Cleophus Robinson
7:00am Jerry Falwell
8:00am Woody Woodpecker
8:30am Tom and Jerry
9:00am Tarzan
10:00am Charlie’s Angels
11:00am Wrestling at the Chase
12:00pm Sunday Movie One: “Skyjacked” (1972) w/Charlton Heston, James Brolin
1:50pm Sunday Movie Two: “Ring of Fire” (1961) w/David Janssen, Joyce Taylor
3:35pm Sunday Movie Three: “Valley of the Dolls” (1967) w/Susan Hayward, Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke
6:00pm Super Movie of the Week: “Flipper” (1960) w/Chuck Connors, Luke Halpin
8:00pm Charlie’s Angels
9:00pm Newswatch (Dave Eckert, Dennis Edwards)
9:30pm Think About Tomorrow
10:00pm Rex Humbard
10:30pm The World Tomorrow
11:00pm Phone Power (local public affairs program)
12:00am This is Your Life
12:30am Music Magazine
1:00am Gavin & Lott
1:30am Night Owl Theater: “The Iron Major” (1943) w/Pat O’Brien, Robert Ryan, Ruth Warrick
3:30am The Last Picture Show: “A Girl in Every Port” (1952) w/Groucho Marx, Marie Wilson, William Bendix (until 5:00am)
WTBS-TV Channel 17 (Independent)-Atlanta, Georgia
5:00am News
5:15am Week in Review
5:30am News
6:00am The World Tomorrow
6:30am It Is Written
7:00am Cartoons
8:00am Leave It To Beaver
8:30am The Andy Griffith Show
9:00am The Best of Good News
9:30am Superstation Matinee: “Tobruk” (1967) w/Rock Hudson, George Peppard
11:45am MOVIE: “Madame X” (1966) w/Lana Turner, John Forsythe
2:00pm MOVIE: “Imitation of Life” (1960) w/Lana Turner, Sandra Dee, John Gavin, Juanita Moore
4:30pm The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau: “Flight of the Penguins”
5:30pm Nice People
6:00pm World Championship Wrestling
7:00pm America’s Music Tracks
8:00pm Week in Review
9:00pm TBS Evening News
9:30pm Sports Page
10:00pm Jerry Falwell
11:00pm Open Up
12:00am TBS Theater Late Night: “La Dolce Vita” (1961) w/Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg
3:45am Winners
4:15am World At Large
4:30am It’s Your Business
KNLC-TV Channel 24 (Religious Independent)
6:55am Sign on
7:00am News
7:30am Movie: “Under California Stars” (1948) w/Roy Rogers
8:30am Movie: “The Texas Kid” (1944) w/Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Shirley Patterson
9:30am Experience the Joy of Sharing
10:00am Robert Tilton
12:00pm Joy Junction
1:00pm Circle Square
1:30pm Movie: “Carson City Kid” (1940) w/Roy Rogers, Dale Evans
2:30pm This is the Life
3:00pm Athletes in Action
3:30pm Christians In Action
4:00pm The LaHayes
4:30pm Black Music
5:00pm Dr. Estep
5:30pm Glory of God
6:00pm Good News
6:30pm Wildlife Cinema: “Comorants of Argentina”
7:00pm Focus on the Family
7:30pm That’s My Son
8:00pm Focus on the Family
8:30pm Science Special: “The Age of the Earth”
9:00pm In Touch
10:00pm Courageous Franciscans and the World They Conquered
10:30pm Ernest Angley
11:30pm Guidelines for Community Living
12:00am Midnight Soap Opera
12:30am Rin Tin Tin
1:00am Sign off
KDNL-TV Channel 30 (Independent)
5:55am Sign on
6:00am CNN Headline News
7:00am Robert Schuller
7:30am W.V. Grant
8:00am Jimmy Swaggart
9:00am Day of Discovery
9:30am NFL Review
10:00am Wrestling
11:00am Star Trek
12:00pm Sunday Cinema I: “El Cid” (1961) w/Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren
4:00pm Sunday Cinema II: “The Great Houdinis” (1976) w/Paul Michael Glaser, Sally Struthers, Peter Cushing
6:00pm Pop ‘N’ Rocker
6:30pm Starcade
7:00pm How the West Was Won
8:00pm Memories with Lawrence Welk
9:00pm Nashville on the Road
9:30pm Pop! Goes the Country Club
10:00pm This Week In Country Music
10:30pm Carter Country
11:00pm KDNL Capital City Report
11:30pm Community Views
12:00am Sign off (?)
BTW, if anyone can point out any thing that I may have missed (i.e. whether KDNL-TV signed off at midnight on Sundays), I'd greatly appreciate a reply. Thank you.
(source: St. Louis Post Dispatch Television supplement)
KTVI-TV Channel 2 (ABC)
6:35am Sign on/ A Thought for Today
6:45am Directions
7:15am God’s Musical World
7:45am Message of the Rabbi
8:00am Sacred Heart
8:15am Sunday Mass
9:00am Oral Roberts
9:30am Robert Schuller
10:30am This Week with David Brinkley
11:30am Face to Face
12:00pm Perception
12:30pm Expression
1:00pm Mary Tyler Moore
1:30pm Movie: “The Valachi Papers” (1972) w/Charles Bronson, Lino Ventura
4:00pm Mission Impossible
5:00pm Channel 2 News Weekend Report (Donn Johnson, Al Ruschel, Bryan Busby-weather, Greg Gizinski-sports)
5:30pm Turnabout (public affairs program hosted by Bonita Cornute)
6:00pm Ripley’s Believe It Or Not
7:00pm Hardcastle and McCormick
8:00pm The ABC Sunday Night Movie: “The Making of A Male Model” (1983, TVM) w/Joan Collins, Jon-Eric Hexum
10:00pm Channel 2 News Weekend Report (Donn Johnson, Al Ruschel, Bryan Busby-weather, Greg Gizinski-sports)
10:30pm Barney Miller
11:00pm Sunday Super Movie: “Shampoo” (1975) w/ Warren Beatty, Julie Christy, Goldie Hawn
1:30am ABC News Weekend Report
1:45am Channel 2 News Weekend Report (repeat)
2:15am Turnabout (repeat)
2:45am A Thought for Today
2:50am Sign off
KMOX-TV Channel 4 (CBS)
5:55am Sign on
6:00am The People Speak
7:30am Eye on St. Louis
8:00am CBS News Sunday Morning
9:30am Face The Nation
10:00am Confluence
11:00am Cardinal Gridiron
11:30am Sports Attic
12:00pm Four Upfront Movie: “Senior Year” (1974) w/Gary Frank, Glynis O’Connor
1:25pm Four Upfront Movie: “Savage” (1972) w/Barbara Bain, Martin Landau
2:30pm The NFL Today
3:00pm NFL Football: Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. Dallas Cowboys (preempts CBS Evening News at 5:00pm and Sunday Newsroom Report at 5:30pm)
6:00pm 60 Minutes
7:00pm Alice
7:30pm One Day at a Time
8:00pm The Jeffersons
8:30pm Goodnight, Beantown
9:00pm Trapper John, M.D.
10:00pm CBS Sunday Night News (Charles Osgood)
10:15pm Sunday Newsroom Report (Betsy Bruce)
10:30pm Sports Wrap-Up
10:45pm NFL Weekly Magazine
11:30pm The Sunday Late Show: “Death Follows the Psycho” (1973) w/Lorne Greene, Ben Murphy
1:00am CBS News Nightwatch (until 5:00am)
KSDK-TV Channel 5 (NBC)
5:55am Sign on
6:00am Gospel Singing Jubilee
6:30am The Lester Family
7:00am Jimmy Swaggart
8:00am Kenneth Copeland
9:00am Jerry Savelle
9:30am Marilyn Hickey
10:00am Metro Journal
11:00am Meet the Press
11:30am Black Forum
12:00pm Telequiz
12:30pm Young People’s Special: “Rosie”
1:00pm KSDK-TV Special” “Little Boy of Summer”
1:30pm Greatest Sports Legends
2:00pm This Week in Baseball
2:30pm NFL ‘83
3:00pm NFL Football: Kansas City Chiefs vs. Los Angeles Raiders
3:29pm Baseball: NLCS Game 5: Philadelphia Phillies vs. Los Angeles Dodgers (not played due to Phillies wining NLCS 3-1)
(preempts Channel 5 Eyewitness News Weekend Report at 5:00 and NBC Nightly News at 5:30pm)
6:00pm First Camera
6:59pm Baseball: ALCS Game 5: Baltimore Orioles vs. Chicago White Sox (not played due to Orioles winning ALCS 3-1)
7:00pm Knight Rider
8:00pm NBC Sunday Night at the Movies: “Bustin’ Loose” (1981)
10:00pm Channel 5 Eyewitness News Update (Rick Endlund, Joe Petrovich-weather, Art Holliday-sports)
10:40pm Rawhide
11:40pm Bonanza
12:40am It’s Your Business
1:10am Metro Journal
2:10am Sign off
KETC-TV Channel 9 (PBS)
7:55am Sign on
8:00am Introducing Biology
8:30am Introducing Biology
9:00am Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
9:30am Don’t Look Now
10:30am Whitey Herzog
11:00am Supersoccer
12:00pm Washington Week in Review
12:30pm Wall Street Week with Louis Rukyser
1:00pm Inside Business Today: “Ted Turner—How He Did It”
1:30pm European Journal: German Tricentennial
2:00pm Firing Line
3:00pm Tony Brown’s Journal
3:30pm Illinois Press
4:00pm Masterpiece Theatre: “Pictures”
5:00pm Sesame Street
6:00pm Tom Rush at Symphony Hall: A New Year (from Symphony Hall in Boston)
7:00pm Nature: “Forest in the Sea”
8:00pm The German Americans: 300 Years in the New Land
9:00pm Masterpiece Theatre: “Pictures”
10:00pm Sneak Previews
10:30pm Doctor Who: “State of Decay”
11:30pm Sign off
WGN-TV Channel 9 (Independent)-Chicago, Illinois
5:00am The Late Movie cont’d
5:25am Sign-On
5:30am Dennis the Menace
6:00am Gerry Faust
6:30am Day of Discovery
7:00am Three Score-Community Calendar
7:15am What’s Nu?
7:30am Robert Schuller
8:00am Sunday Mass
8:30am Heritage of Faith
9:00am Tarzan
10:00am Rawhide
11:00am The Cisco Kid
11:30am The Lone Ranger
12:00pm Mystery Theater: “Charlie Chan in Shanghai” (1935) w/Warner Oland, Keye Luke
1:30pm Sunday Matinee: “Operation Mad Ball” (1957) w/Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs
3:30pm Family Classics with Frazier Thomas: “Treasure Island” (1934) w/Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore
5:30pm Little House on the Prairie
6:30pm Olympic Hall of Fame Special
7:30pm Taking Advantage
8:00pm In Search Of…: “Immortal Sharks”
8:30pm People to People
9:00pm The Nine O’Clock News (Robert Jordan, Larry Roderick, Jim Ramsey-weather, Sid Garcia-sports)
10:00pm The Twilight Zone
10:30pm Lou Grant
11:30pm WGN Television Presents: “Boomerang” (1947) w/Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Arthur Kennedy, Lee J. Cobb
1:30am Siskel & Ebert at the Movies
2:00am Independent Network News
2:30am Fight Back! With David Horowitz
3:00am Dennis The Menace
3:30am The Late Movie: “Spy Chasers” (1955) w/Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, and the Bowery Boys
KPLR-TV Channel 11 (Independent)
5:25am Sign on
5:30am Newswatch
6:00am Think About Tomorrow
6:30am Cleophus Robinson
7:00am Jerry Falwell
8:00am Woody Woodpecker
8:30am Tom and Jerry
9:00am Tarzan
10:00am Charlie’s Angels
11:00am Wrestling at the Chase
12:00pm Sunday Movie One: “Skyjacked” (1972) w/Charlton Heston, James Brolin
1:50pm Sunday Movie Two: “Ring of Fire” (1961) w/David Janssen, Joyce Taylor
3:35pm Sunday Movie Three: “Valley of the Dolls” (1967) w/Susan Hayward, Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke
6:00pm Super Movie of the Week: “Flipper” (1960) w/Chuck Connors, Luke Halpin
8:00pm Charlie’s Angels
9:00pm Newswatch (Dave Eckert, Dennis Edwards)
9:30pm Think About Tomorrow
10:00pm Rex Humbard
10:30pm The World Tomorrow
11:00pm Phone Power (local public affairs program)
12:00am This is Your Life
12:30am Music Magazine
1:00am Gavin & Lott
1:30am Night Owl Theater: “The Iron Major” (1943) w/Pat O’Brien, Robert Ryan, Ruth Warrick
3:30am The Last Picture Show: “A Girl in Every Port” (1952) w/Groucho Marx, Marie Wilson, William Bendix (until 5:00am)
WTBS-TV Channel 17 (Independent)-Atlanta, Georgia
5:00am News
5:15am Week in Review
5:30am News
6:00am The World Tomorrow
6:30am It Is Written
7:00am Cartoons
8:00am Leave It To Beaver
8:30am The Andy Griffith Show
9:00am The Best of Good News
9:30am Superstation Matinee: “Tobruk” (1967) w/Rock Hudson, George Peppard
11:45am MOVIE: “Madame X” (1966) w/Lana Turner, John Forsythe
2:00pm MOVIE: “Imitation of Life” (1960) w/Lana Turner, Sandra Dee, John Gavin, Juanita Moore
4:30pm The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau: “Flight of the Penguins”
5:30pm Nice People
6:00pm World Championship Wrestling
7:00pm America’s Music Tracks
8:00pm Week in Review
9:00pm TBS Evening News
9:30pm Sports Page
10:00pm Jerry Falwell
11:00pm Open Up
12:00am TBS Theater Late Night: “La Dolce Vita” (1961) w/Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg
3:45am Winners
4:15am World At Large
4:30am It’s Your Business
KNLC-TV Channel 24 (Religious Independent)
6:55am Sign on
7:00am News
7:30am Movie: “Under California Stars” (1948) w/Roy Rogers
8:30am Movie: “The Texas Kid” (1944) w/Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Hatton, Shirley Patterson
9:30am Experience the Joy of Sharing
10:00am Robert Tilton
12:00pm Joy Junction
1:00pm Circle Square
1:30pm Movie: “Carson City Kid” (1940) w/Roy Rogers, Dale Evans
2:30pm This is the Life
3:00pm Athletes in Action
3:30pm Christians In Action
4:00pm The LaHayes
4:30pm Black Music
5:00pm Dr. Estep
5:30pm Glory of God
6:00pm Good News
6:30pm Wildlife Cinema: “Comorants of Argentina”
7:00pm Focus on the Family
7:30pm That’s My Son
8:00pm Focus on the Family
8:30pm Science Special: “The Age of the Earth”
9:00pm In Touch
10:00pm Courageous Franciscans and the World They Conquered
10:30pm Ernest Angley
11:30pm Guidelines for Community Living
12:00am Midnight Soap Opera
12:30am Rin Tin Tin
1:00am Sign off
KDNL-TV Channel 30 (Independent)
5:55am Sign on
6:00am CNN Headline News
7:00am Robert Schuller
7:30am W.V. Grant
8:00am Jimmy Swaggart
9:00am Day of Discovery
9:30am NFL Review
10:00am Wrestling
11:00am Star Trek
12:00pm Sunday Cinema I: “El Cid” (1961) w/Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren
4:00pm Sunday Cinema II: “The Great Houdinis” (1976) w/Paul Michael Glaser, Sally Struthers, Peter Cushing
6:00pm Pop ‘N’ Rocker
6:30pm Starcade
7:00pm How the West Was Won
8:00pm Memories with Lawrence Welk
9:00pm Nashville on the Road
9:30pm Pop! Goes the Country Club
10:00pm This Week In Country Music
10:30pm Carter Country
11:00pm KDNL Capital City Report
11:30pm Community Views
12:00am Sign off (?)
BTW, if anyone can point out any thing that I may have missed (i.e. whether KDNL-TV signed off at midnight on Sundays), I'd greatly appreciate a reply. Thank you.