Source: TV Guide, St Louis Edition
-St. Louis-
2 KTVI (ABC) (now Fox)
4 KMOX (CBS) (now KMOV)
5 KSDK (NBC)
9 KETC (PBS)
11 KPLR (Ind.) (now CW)
30 KDNL (Ind.) (now ABC)
Ch. 9 schedules instructional programs throughout the day.
Morning
5:00
4 Give Us This Day
11 Health Field
5:05
4 News
5:20
4 Country Way
5:30
4 People Speak
5 Early Today (Bryant Gumbel/Jane Pauley/Willard Scott)
11 News
30 CNN Headline News
5:55
2 Thought for Today
6:00
2 Romper Room & Friends
4 Edge of Day (Barry Schapiro)
5 AG Day
11 Great Space Coaster
6:15
9 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
6:30
2 ABC World News This Morning (Steve Bell/Kathleen Sullivan)
4 CBS Early Morning News (Bill Kurtis/Diane Sawyer)
5 Richard Simmons
11 Lone Ranger (BW)
30 Morning Stretch
6:45
9 A.M. Weather
7:00
2 Good Morning America (David Hartman)
4 CBS Morning News (Bill Kurtis/Diane Sawyer)
5 Today (Bryant Gumbel/Jane Pauley)
9 Lilias, Yoga and You
11 Bugs Bunny & Friends
30 Casper and Friends
7:30
9 Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
11 Popeye
30 Super Adventures
8:00
9 Sesame Street
11 Heckle & Jeckle
30 Jim Bakker
8:30
11 Woody Woodpecker
9:00
2 Phil Donahue
4 New $25,000 Pyramid
5 Facts of Life
9 Electric Company
11 Joker’s Wild
30 700 Club
9:30
4 Child’s Play
5 Sale of the Century
11 All in the Family
10:00
2 Love Boat
4 Price Is Right
5 Wheel of Fortune
11 Movie (BW): “Two Women” (Italian; 1960)
10:30
5 Hit Man
30 Jimmy Swaggart
11:00
2 Family Feud (“All My Children” vs. “General Hospital”)
4 Young and the Restless
5 Just Men!
30 I Love Lucy (BW)
11:30
2 Ryan’s Hope
5 Midday AM
9 Sesame Street
30 Madame’s Place
Afternoon
12:00
2 All My Children
4 Tattletales (official network time for this show was 3 PM; CBS may have offered a same-day feed here…I know they did for “Body Language” after “Tattletales” was canceled. At this point, I'm pretty sure all the CBS O&Os were running the 3:00 show at noon or 11 AM local time.)
5 News
11 Hogan’s Heroes
30 Movie: “Just a Little Inconvenience” (Made for TV; 1977)
12:30
4 As the World Turns
5 Days of Our Lives
9 Victory Garden
11 Movie: “The Rounders” (1965)
1:00
2 One Life to Live
1:30
4 Capitol
5 Another World
2:00
2 General Hospital
4 Guiding Light
9 Over Easy
30 Mighty Mouse & Friends
2:30
5 You Asked for It
9 Lilias, Yoga and You
11 Popeye
30 Top Cat
3:00
2 Waltons
4 Rockford Files
5 Hour Magazine (Guest: Martin Sheen)
9 Sesame Street
11 Bugs Bunny & Friends
30 Superfriends
3:30
11 Woody Woodpecker
30 Flintstones
4:00
2 Jeffersons
4 Barnaby Jones
5 Rhoda
9 Mister Rogers’ Neigborhood
11 Scooby-Doo
30 Eight Is Enough
4:30
2 Barney Miller
5 WKRP in Cincinnati
9 Electric Company
11 Tom and Jerry
5:00
2-4-5 News
9 Sesame Street
11 Charlie’s Angels
30 Good Times
5:30
2 ABC World News Tonight (Frank Reynolds)
4 CBS Evening News (Dan Rather)
5 NBC Nightly News (Tom Brokaw/Roger Mudd)
30 What’s Happening!!
Evening
6:00
2-4-5 News
9 3-2-1 Contact
11 Little House on the Prairie
30 Happy Days Again
6:30
2 PM Magazine
4 Family Feud
5 Entertainment Tonight
9 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
30 Mork & Mindy
7:00
2 That’s Incredible
4 Square Pegs
5 Little House: A New Beginning
9 Frontline
11 Movie: “Lawrence of Arabia,” Part 1 (1962)
30 Preview Subscription Television (KDNL would revert to a regular prime-time broadcast schedule within a month or two)
7:30
4 Filthy Rich
8:00
2 ABC Theatre: “Who Will Love My Children?” (1983)
4 M*A*S*H (two weeks away from the finale)
5 TV Censored Bloopers
9 Great Performances
8:30
4 Newhart
9:00
4 Cagney & Lacey
5 Candid Camera 35th Anniversary
11 Lie Detector
9:30
9 Ellis Island
11 News
10:00
2-4-5 News
9 Nightly Business Report
11 Soap
10:30
2 M*A*S*H
4 Trapper John, M.D.
5 Best of Carson (Guests: Joe Namath, Stephanie Grappelli, Joan Embery, Dr. Landon Smith)
9 Leave It to Beaver (BW)
11 People’s Court
11:00
2 ABC News Nightline (Ted Koppel) (delay from 10:30 PM)
9 Dick Van Dyke (BW)
11 Movie: “Exodus,” Part 1 (1960)
11:25
9 PBS Latenight (Dennis Wholey)
11:30
2 Last Word (Gregory Jackson) (delay from 11 PM)
5 Late Night with David Letterman (Guest: Lorne Michaels)
11:40
4 Columbo
Early Tuesday
12:30
2 Mission: Impossible
5 NBC News Overnight (Linda Ellerbee/Bill Schechner)
1:00
4 CBS News Nightwatch
1:10
11 Movie: “Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion” (Italian; 1970)
1:30
2 Edge of Night (delay from 3 PM)
5 Medical Center
2:00
2 News
2:10
30 Movie: “Just a Little Inconvenience” (Made of TV; 1977)
2:30
2 Face to Face
5 News
3:00
2 Thought for Today
4 CBS News Nightwatch Continues
3:10
11 Movie (BW): “Tarzan’s Hidden Jungle” (1955)
4:10
30 Rifleman (BW)
4:30
11 Continuous Weather
4:35
30 Flipper
-St. Louis-
2 KTVI (ABC) (now Fox)
4 KMOX (CBS) (now KMOV)
5 KSDK (NBC)
9 KETC (PBS)
11 KPLR (Ind.) (now CW)
30 KDNL (Ind.) (now ABC)
Ch. 9 schedules instructional programs throughout the day.
Morning
5:00
4 Give Us This Day
11 Health Field
5:05
4 News
5:20
4 Country Way
5:30
4 People Speak
5 Early Today (Bryant Gumbel/Jane Pauley/Willard Scott)
11 News
30 CNN Headline News
5:55
2 Thought for Today
6:00
2 Romper Room & Friends
4 Edge of Day (Barry Schapiro)
5 AG Day
11 Great Space Coaster
6:15
9 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
6:30
2 ABC World News This Morning (Steve Bell/Kathleen Sullivan)
4 CBS Early Morning News (Bill Kurtis/Diane Sawyer)
5 Richard Simmons
11 Lone Ranger (BW)
30 Morning Stretch
6:45
9 A.M. Weather
7:00
2 Good Morning America (David Hartman)
4 CBS Morning News (Bill Kurtis/Diane Sawyer)
5 Today (Bryant Gumbel/Jane Pauley)
9 Lilias, Yoga and You
11 Bugs Bunny & Friends
30 Casper and Friends
7:30
9 Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
11 Popeye
30 Super Adventures
8:00
9 Sesame Street
11 Heckle & Jeckle
30 Jim Bakker
8:30
11 Woody Woodpecker
9:00
2 Phil Donahue
4 New $25,000 Pyramid
5 Facts of Life
9 Electric Company
11 Joker’s Wild
30 700 Club
9:30
4 Child’s Play
5 Sale of the Century
11 All in the Family
10:00
2 Love Boat
4 Price Is Right
5 Wheel of Fortune
11 Movie (BW): “Two Women” (Italian; 1960)
10:30
5 Hit Man
30 Jimmy Swaggart
11:00
2 Family Feud (“All My Children” vs. “General Hospital”)
4 Young and the Restless
5 Just Men!
30 I Love Lucy (BW)
11:30
2 Ryan’s Hope
5 Midday AM
9 Sesame Street
30 Madame’s Place
Afternoon
12:00
2 All My Children
4 Tattletales (official network time for this show was 3 PM; CBS may have offered a same-day feed here…I know they did for “Body Language” after “Tattletales” was canceled. At this point, I'm pretty sure all the CBS O&Os were running the 3:00 show at noon or 11 AM local time.)
5 News
11 Hogan’s Heroes
30 Movie: “Just a Little Inconvenience” (Made for TV; 1977)
12:30
4 As the World Turns
5 Days of Our Lives
9 Victory Garden
11 Movie: “The Rounders” (1965)
1:00
2 One Life to Live
1:30
4 Capitol
5 Another World
2:00
2 General Hospital
4 Guiding Light
9 Over Easy
30 Mighty Mouse & Friends
2:30
5 You Asked for It
9 Lilias, Yoga and You
11 Popeye
30 Top Cat
3:00
2 Waltons
4 Rockford Files
5 Hour Magazine (Guest: Martin Sheen)
9 Sesame Street
11 Bugs Bunny & Friends
30 Superfriends
3:30
11 Woody Woodpecker
30 Flintstones
4:00
2 Jeffersons
4 Barnaby Jones
5 Rhoda
9 Mister Rogers’ Neigborhood
11 Scooby-Doo
30 Eight Is Enough
4:30
2 Barney Miller
5 WKRP in Cincinnati
9 Electric Company
11 Tom and Jerry
5:00
2-4-5 News
9 Sesame Street
11 Charlie’s Angels
30 Good Times
5:30
2 ABC World News Tonight (Frank Reynolds)
4 CBS Evening News (Dan Rather)
5 NBC Nightly News (Tom Brokaw/Roger Mudd)
30 What’s Happening!!
Evening
6:00
2-4-5 News
9 3-2-1 Contact
11 Little House on the Prairie
30 Happy Days Again
6:30
2 PM Magazine
4 Family Feud
5 Entertainment Tonight
9 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
30 Mork & Mindy
7:00
2 That’s Incredible
4 Square Pegs
5 Little House: A New Beginning
9 Frontline
11 Movie: “Lawrence of Arabia,” Part 1 (1962)
30 Preview Subscription Television (KDNL would revert to a regular prime-time broadcast schedule within a month or two)
7:30
4 Filthy Rich
8:00
2 ABC Theatre: “Who Will Love My Children?” (1983)
4 M*A*S*H (two weeks away from the finale)
5 TV Censored Bloopers
9 Great Performances
8:30
4 Newhart
9:00
4 Cagney & Lacey
5 Candid Camera 35th Anniversary
11 Lie Detector
9:30
9 Ellis Island
11 News
10:00
2-4-5 News
9 Nightly Business Report
11 Soap
10:30
2 M*A*S*H
4 Trapper John, M.D.
5 Best of Carson (Guests: Joe Namath, Stephanie Grappelli, Joan Embery, Dr. Landon Smith)
9 Leave It to Beaver (BW)
11 People’s Court
11:00
2 ABC News Nightline (Ted Koppel) (delay from 10:30 PM)
9 Dick Van Dyke (BW)
11 Movie: “Exodus,” Part 1 (1960)
11:25
9 PBS Latenight (Dennis Wholey)
11:30
2 Last Word (Gregory Jackson) (delay from 11 PM)
5 Late Night with David Letterman (Guest: Lorne Michaels)
11:40
4 Columbo
Early Tuesday
12:30
2 Mission: Impossible
5 NBC News Overnight (Linda Ellerbee/Bill Schechner)
1:00
4 CBS News Nightwatch
1:10
11 Movie: “Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion” (Italian; 1970)
1:30
2 Edge of Night (delay from 3 PM)
5 Medical Center
2:00
2 News
2:10
30 Movie: “Just a Little Inconvenience” (Made of TV; 1977)
2:30
2 Face to Face
5 News
3:00
2 Thought for Today
4 CBS News Nightwatch Continues
3:10
11 Movie (BW): “Tarzan’s Hidden Jungle” (1955)
4:10
30 Rifleman (BW)
4:30
11 Continuous Weather
4:35
30 Flipper
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