For my 50th post, I submit this schedule from the early weeks of the 1984-85 fall season.
Sources: St. Louis Post Dispatch TV supplement, St. Louis Globe Democrat TV Digest and TV Guide- St. Louis edition.
(cc)= closed captioned
(r)= repeat
KTVI-TV Channel 2 (ABC)
6:40am Sign on
6:45am World of Ideas
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 ABC Sunday Afternoon Baseball (TVG listed New York Mets vs. Chicago Cubs)
3:30pm Fish
4:00pm Mission: Impossible
5:00pm Channel 2 News Weekend Report (Donn Johnson/Al Ruschel)
5:30pm Turnabout (Bonita Cornute)
6:00pm Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
7:00pm Hardcastle & McCormick
8:00pm NFL Football: Denver Broncos at Cleveland Browns
11:00pm Channel 2 News Weekend Report (Donn Johnson/Al Ruschel)
11:30pm Barney Miller
12:00am Sunday Super Movie: “The Pink Panther Strikes Again” (1976) w/ Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom
2:15am ABC News Weekend Report (Brit Hume)
2:30am Channel 2 News Weekend Report (Donn Johnson/Al Ruschel)
3:00am Turnabout (Bonita Cornute)
3:30am Sign off
KMOX-TV Channel 4 (CBS)
5:00am The Bijou Picture Show cont’d
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
10:30am At the Movies with Gene Siskel & Roger Ebert
11:00am Cardinal Line
11:30am The NFL Today
12:00pm NFL Football: St. Louis Cardinals at Indianapolis Colts
3:00pm NFL Football: Philadelphia Eagles at Dallas Cowboys
(preempts CBS Evening News at 5:00 and Sunday Newsroom Report at 5:30pm)
6:00pm 60 Minutes (season premiere)
7:00pm E.R. (series premiere; no relation to the NBC medical drama of the same name)
8:00pm CBS Sunday Night Movies: “Some Kind of Hero” (1982) w/ Richard Pryor, Margot Kidder
10:00pm CBS Sunday Night News (Charles Osgood)
10:15pm Sunday Newsroom Report (Betsey Bruce)
10:35pm Cardinal Line
11:30pm Barnaby Jones
12:30am More Real People
1:00am CBS News Nightwatch (until 5:00am)
KSDK-TV Channel 5 (NBC)
5:55am Sign on
6:00am Gospel Jubilee
6:30am The Lester Family
7:00am Jimmy Swaggart
8:00am Kenneth Copeland
9:00am The World Tomorrow
9:30am Marilyn Hickey
10:00am Metro Journal
11:00am It’s Your Business
11:30am Taking Advantage
12:00pm Behind the Scene
1:00pm Love Connection
1:30pm This Week in Baseball
2:00pm Greatest Sports Legends
2:30pm NFL ‘84
3:00pm NFL Football: Houston Oilers at San Diego Chargers
6:00pm Silver Spoons (season premeire)
6:30pm Punky Brewster (series premeiere)
7:00pm Knight Rider (r)
8:00pm Miami Vice (two-hour series premeire)
10:00pm Channel 5 Eyewitness News Update (Chris Condon/John Fuller/Art Holliday)
10:30pm George Michael Sports Machine
11:00pm Entertainment This Week
12:00am It’s Your Business
12:30am Metro Journal
1:30am Channel 5 Eyewitness News Update (repeat)
2:00am Sign off
KETC-TV Channel 9 (PBS)
7:25am Sign on
7:30am Earth, Sea and Sky
8:00am Earth, Sea and Sky
8:30am Sesame Street (r) (cc)
9:30am The Electric Company (r)
10:00am Up and Coming
10:30am Illinois Press
11:00am Tony Brown’s Journal
11:30am The McLaughlin Group
12:00pm Washington Week in Review
12:30pm Wall Street Week: “Crisis for Banking Stocks”
1:00pm Supersoccer
2:00pm Firing Line: “The Election: A View from New York”
3:00pm Evening at Pops (r)
4:00pm Masterpiece Theatre: “To Serve Them All My Days” (Part 13 of 13) (r) (cc)
5:00pm Moneymakers
5:30pm Adam Smith’s Money World
6:00pm Austin City Limits: “Don Williams West Texas Songwriters Special”
7:00pm Castle (r)
8:00pm Making of Mankind (cc)
9:00pm Masterpiece Theatre: “Private Schulz” (Part 1 of 6) (r) (cc)
10:00pm Sneak Previews
10:30pm Doctor Who: “Four to Doomsday”
11:30pm Sign off
KPLR-TV Channel 11 (Independent)
5:00am Think About Tomorrow
5:30am Cleophus Robinson
6:00am Jerry Falwell
7:00am Tom and Jerry
7:30am Bugs Bunny & Friends
8:00am Popeye
8:30am The Jackson Five
9:00am Tarzan
10:00am Charlie’s Angels
11:00am Wrestling at the Chase
12:00pm Sunday Movie One: “City of Fear” (1980) w/ David Janssen
2:30pm Sunday Movie Two: “Bad Ronald” (1974) w/ Kim Hunter, Scott Jacoby
4:00pm Sunday Movie Three: “Houseboat” (1958) w/ Cary Grant, Sophia Loren
6:00pm Super Movie: “Lions for Breakfast” (1979) w/ Jan Rubes, Jim Henshaw
8:00pm Hee Haw
9:00pm Too Close for Comfort
9:30pm NewsWatch (Dave Eckert/Dennis Edwards)
10:00pm Think about Tomorrow
10:30pm Rex Humbard
11:00pm The World Tomorrow
11:30pm Public Affairs
12:00am World Vision
1:00am Fame
2:00am The Last Picture Show: “Western Union” (1941) w/ Robert Young, Dean Jagger
3:55am Sign off
KNLC-TV Channel 24 (Religious)
6:00am News
6:30am Movie: “Texas Wildcats” (1939) w/ Tim McCoy
7:30am Movie: “Romance on the Range” (1942) w/ Roy Rogers, George “Gabby” Hayes
8:30am James Robison
9:00am Special
9:30am Making Loneliness Your Friend
10:00am Robert Tilton
10:30am Off air (?)
12:00pm Little House
12:30pm Flying House
1:00pm Dennis the Menace
1:30pm Circle Square
2:00pm Rainbow Country
2:30pm This is the Life
3:00pm Weekend Gardener
3:30pm Christians in Action
4:00pm Special
5:00pm Dr. Estep
5:30pm Glory of God
6:00pm Insight
6:30pm The 700 Club
8:00pm Good News
8:30pm Day of Discovery
9:00pm In Touch
9:30pm Larry Rice
10:00pm Lester Sumrall Teaching
11:00pm Word of Grace
12:00am Worship Service
12:30am Late Night Soap
1:00am Sound Effects
1:30am Movie: “Breakthrough”
2:30am Movie: “Rough Riders’ Roundup” (1939) w/ Roy Rogers, Lynne Roberts
3:30am Heavensent
4:00am Another Life
4:30am Interacting with Mid-American Issues and Answers
KDNL-TV Channel 30 (Independent)
Sunday 9/16/1984
5:00am CNN Headline News
6:30am MDTV
7:00am Robert Schuller
7:30am W.V. Grant
8:00am Jimmy Swaggart
9:00am Day of Discovery
9:30am Whitey Herzog
10:00am Wrestling
11:00am Sunday Cinema I: “Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell” (1969) w/ Gina Lollobrigida, Telly Savalas
1:30pm Sunday Cinema II: “The Wild Bunch” (1969) w/ William Holden
4:00pm Sunday Cinema III: “The Last Word” (1979) w/ Richard Harris, Karen Black
6:00pm Star Trek
7:00pm Lorne Greene’s New Wilderness
7:30pm Wild Kingdom
8:00pm MTV Video Awards
10:00pm This Week in Country Music
10:30pm Christian Children’s Fund
11:00pm Auto Racing: “Mello Yello 300” (from Charlotte, N.C.)
12:00am Sign off
WGN-TV Channel 9 (Independent) Chicago, Illinois
5:00am Sea Hunt
5:30am Abbott & Costello
6:00am Superman
6:30am Three Score- Community Calendar
6:45am What’s Nu
7:00am D. James Kennedy
7:30am Robert Schuller
8:00am Sunday Mass
8:30am Heritage of Faith
9:00am The Cisco Kid
9:30am The Lone Ranger
10:00am Rawhide
11:00am The Wild, Wild West
12:00pm One Step Beyond
12:30pm The Twilight Zone
1:00pm The Lead-Off Man
1:15pm Baseball: New York Mets at Chicago Cubs
4:30pm Weekend Theater: “Springfield Rifle” (1952) w/ Gary Cooper, Phyllis Thaxter
6:30pm Taking Advantage
7:00pm Wall Street Journal Report
7:30pm In Search Of…
8:00pm People to People
8:30pm The Odd Couple
9:00pm The Nine O’Clock News (Rick Rosenthal/Bob Jordan/Jim Ramsey/Sid Garcia)
10:00pm The Twilight Zone
10:30pm Lou Grant
11:30pm WGN Presents: “Across the Pacific” (1942) w/ Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor
1:30am Siskel & Evert at the Movies
2:00am Independent Network News
2:30am Sea Hunt
3:00am Zane Grey Theater
3:30am The Late Movie: “Kid Dynamite” (1943) w/ the East Side Kids, Pamela Blake (until 5:00am)
WTBS-TV Channel 17 (Independent) Atlanta, Georgia
5:00am CNN Headline News
6:00am The World Tomorrow
6:30am It Is Written
7:00am Cartoons
7:35am Starcade
8:05am Leave it to Beaver
8:35am Andy Griffith
9:05am Good News
9:35am Superstation Matinee: “A Man Called Horse” (1970)
12:05pm Wild, Wild World of Animals
12:35pm This Week in Baseball
1:05pm Baseball: San Francisco Giants vs. Atlanta Braves
4:05pm The High Chapparal
5:05pm Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau
6:05pm Wrestling
7:05pm TBS Sunday Night Movie: “Tall in the Saddle” (1944) w/John Wayne, Ella Raines
9:00pm Sports Page
9:35pm Day of Discovery
10:05pm Jerry Falwell
11:05pm Open Up
12:05am TBS Theater Late Night: “The Petrified Forest” (1936) w/ Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis
1:50am TBS Theater Late Night: “Footlight Parade” (1933) w/ James Cagney, Joan Blondell
4:00am It’s Your Business
4:30am Jimmy Swaggart
Sources: St. Louis Post Dispatch TV supplement, St. Louis Globe Democrat TV Digest and TV Guide- St. Louis edition.
(cc)= closed captioned
(r)= repeat
KTVI-TV Channel 2 (ABC)
6:40am Sign on
6:45am World of Ideas
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 ABC Sunday Afternoon Baseball (TVG listed New York Mets vs. Chicago Cubs)
3:30pm Fish
4:00pm Mission: Impossible
5:00pm Channel 2 News Weekend Report (Donn Johnson/Al Ruschel)
5:30pm Turnabout (Bonita Cornute)
6:00pm Ripley’s Believe It or Not!
7:00pm Hardcastle & McCormick
8:00pm NFL Football: Denver Broncos at Cleveland Browns
11:00pm Channel 2 News Weekend Report (Donn Johnson/Al Ruschel)
11:30pm Barney Miller
12:00am Sunday Super Movie: “The Pink Panther Strikes Again” (1976) w/ Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom
2:15am ABC News Weekend Report (Brit Hume)
2:30am Channel 2 News Weekend Report (Donn Johnson/Al Ruschel)
3:00am Turnabout (Bonita Cornute)
3:30am Sign off
KMOX-TV Channel 4 (CBS)
5:00am The Bijou Picture Show cont’d
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
10:30am At the Movies with Gene Siskel & Roger Ebert
11:00am Cardinal Line
11:30am The NFL Today
12:00pm NFL Football: St. Louis Cardinals at Indianapolis Colts
3:00pm NFL Football: Philadelphia Eagles at Dallas Cowboys
(preempts CBS Evening News at 5:00 and Sunday Newsroom Report at 5:30pm)
6:00pm 60 Minutes (season premiere)
7:00pm E.R. (series premiere; no relation to the NBC medical drama of the same name)
8:00pm CBS Sunday Night Movies: “Some Kind of Hero” (1982) w/ Richard Pryor, Margot Kidder
10:00pm CBS Sunday Night News (Charles Osgood)
10:15pm Sunday Newsroom Report (Betsey Bruce)
10:35pm Cardinal Line
11:30pm Barnaby Jones
12:30am More Real People
1:00am CBS News Nightwatch (until 5:00am)
KSDK-TV Channel 5 (NBC)
5:55am Sign on
6:00am Gospel Jubilee
6:30am The Lester Family
7:00am Jimmy Swaggart
8:00am Kenneth Copeland
9:00am The World Tomorrow
9:30am Marilyn Hickey
10:00am Metro Journal
11:00am It’s Your Business
11:30am Taking Advantage
12:00pm Behind the Scene
1:00pm Love Connection
1:30pm This Week in Baseball
2:00pm Greatest Sports Legends
2:30pm NFL ‘84
3:00pm NFL Football: Houston Oilers at San Diego Chargers
6:00pm Silver Spoons (season premeire)
6:30pm Punky Brewster (series premeiere)
7:00pm Knight Rider (r)
8:00pm Miami Vice (two-hour series premeire)
10:00pm Channel 5 Eyewitness News Update (Chris Condon/John Fuller/Art Holliday)
10:30pm George Michael Sports Machine
11:00pm Entertainment This Week
12:00am It’s Your Business
12:30am Metro Journal
1:30am Channel 5 Eyewitness News Update (repeat)
2:00am Sign off
KETC-TV Channel 9 (PBS)
7:25am Sign on
7:30am Earth, Sea and Sky
8:00am Earth, Sea and Sky
8:30am Sesame Street (r) (cc)
9:30am The Electric Company (r)
10:00am Up and Coming
10:30am Illinois Press
11:00am Tony Brown’s Journal
11:30am The McLaughlin Group
12:00pm Washington Week in Review
12:30pm Wall Street Week: “Crisis for Banking Stocks”
1:00pm Supersoccer
2:00pm Firing Line: “The Election: A View from New York”
3:00pm Evening at Pops (r)
4:00pm Masterpiece Theatre: “To Serve Them All My Days” (Part 13 of 13) (r) (cc)
5:00pm Moneymakers
5:30pm Adam Smith’s Money World
6:00pm Austin City Limits: “Don Williams West Texas Songwriters Special”
7:00pm Castle (r)
8:00pm Making of Mankind (cc)
9:00pm Masterpiece Theatre: “Private Schulz” (Part 1 of 6) (r) (cc)
10:00pm Sneak Previews
10:30pm Doctor Who: “Four to Doomsday”
11:30pm Sign off
KPLR-TV Channel 11 (Independent)
5:00am Think About Tomorrow
5:30am Cleophus Robinson
6:00am Jerry Falwell
7:00am Tom and Jerry
7:30am Bugs Bunny & Friends
8:00am Popeye
8:30am The Jackson Five
9:00am Tarzan
10:00am Charlie’s Angels
11:00am Wrestling at the Chase
12:00pm Sunday Movie One: “City of Fear” (1980) w/ David Janssen
2:30pm Sunday Movie Two: “Bad Ronald” (1974) w/ Kim Hunter, Scott Jacoby
4:00pm Sunday Movie Three: “Houseboat” (1958) w/ Cary Grant, Sophia Loren
6:00pm Super Movie: “Lions for Breakfast” (1979) w/ Jan Rubes, Jim Henshaw
8:00pm Hee Haw
9:00pm Too Close for Comfort
9:30pm NewsWatch (Dave Eckert/Dennis Edwards)
10:00pm Think about Tomorrow
10:30pm Rex Humbard
11:00pm The World Tomorrow
11:30pm Public Affairs
12:00am World Vision
1:00am Fame
2:00am The Last Picture Show: “Western Union” (1941) w/ Robert Young, Dean Jagger
3:55am Sign off
KNLC-TV Channel 24 (Religious)
6:00am News
6:30am Movie: “Texas Wildcats” (1939) w/ Tim McCoy
7:30am Movie: “Romance on the Range” (1942) w/ Roy Rogers, George “Gabby” Hayes
8:30am James Robison
9:00am Special
9:30am Making Loneliness Your Friend
10:00am Robert Tilton
10:30am Off air (?)
12:00pm Little House
12:30pm Flying House
1:00pm Dennis the Menace
1:30pm Circle Square
2:00pm Rainbow Country
2:30pm This is the Life
3:00pm Weekend Gardener
3:30pm Christians in Action
4:00pm Special
5:00pm Dr. Estep
5:30pm Glory of God
6:00pm Insight
6:30pm The 700 Club
8:00pm Good News
8:30pm Day of Discovery
9:00pm In Touch
9:30pm Larry Rice
10:00pm Lester Sumrall Teaching
11:00pm Word of Grace
12:00am Worship Service
12:30am Late Night Soap
1:00am Sound Effects
1:30am Movie: “Breakthrough”
2:30am Movie: “Rough Riders’ Roundup” (1939) w/ Roy Rogers, Lynne Roberts
3:30am Heavensent
4:00am Another Life
4:30am Interacting with Mid-American Issues and Answers
KDNL-TV Channel 30 (Independent)
Sunday 9/16/1984
5:00am CNN Headline News
6:30am MDTV
7:00am Robert Schuller
7:30am W.V. Grant
8:00am Jimmy Swaggart
9:00am Day of Discovery
9:30am Whitey Herzog
10:00am Wrestling
11:00am Sunday Cinema I: “Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell” (1969) w/ Gina Lollobrigida, Telly Savalas
1:30pm Sunday Cinema II: “The Wild Bunch” (1969) w/ William Holden
4:00pm Sunday Cinema III: “The Last Word” (1979) w/ Richard Harris, Karen Black
6:00pm Star Trek
7:00pm Lorne Greene’s New Wilderness
7:30pm Wild Kingdom
8:00pm MTV Video Awards
10:00pm This Week in Country Music
10:30pm Christian Children’s Fund
11:00pm Auto Racing: “Mello Yello 300” (from Charlotte, N.C.)
12:00am Sign off
WGN-TV Channel 9 (Independent) Chicago, Illinois
5:00am Sea Hunt
5:30am Abbott & Costello
6:00am Superman
6:30am Three Score- Community Calendar
6:45am What’s Nu
7:00am D. James Kennedy
7:30am Robert Schuller
8:00am Sunday Mass
8:30am Heritage of Faith
9:00am The Cisco Kid
9:30am The Lone Ranger
10:00am Rawhide
11:00am The Wild, Wild West
12:00pm One Step Beyond
12:30pm The Twilight Zone
1:00pm The Lead-Off Man
1:15pm Baseball: New York Mets at Chicago Cubs
4:30pm Weekend Theater: “Springfield Rifle” (1952) w/ Gary Cooper, Phyllis Thaxter
6:30pm Taking Advantage
7:00pm Wall Street Journal Report
7:30pm In Search Of…
8:00pm People to People
8:30pm The Odd Couple
9:00pm The Nine O’Clock News (Rick Rosenthal/Bob Jordan/Jim Ramsey/Sid Garcia)
10:00pm The Twilight Zone
10:30pm Lou Grant
11:30pm WGN Presents: “Across the Pacific” (1942) w/ Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor
1:30am Siskel & Evert at the Movies
2:00am Independent Network News
2:30am Sea Hunt
3:00am Zane Grey Theater
3:30am The Late Movie: “Kid Dynamite” (1943) w/ the East Side Kids, Pamela Blake (until 5:00am)
WTBS-TV Channel 17 (Independent) Atlanta, Georgia
5:00am CNN Headline News
6:00am The World Tomorrow
6:30am It Is Written
7:00am Cartoons
7:35am Starcade
8:05am Leave it to Beaver
8:35am Andy Griffith
9:05am Good News
9:35am Superstation Matinee: “A Man Called Horse” (1970)
12:05pm Wild, Wild World of Animals
12:35pm This Week in Baseball
1:05pm Baseball: San Francisco Giants vs. Atlanta Braves
4:05pm The High Chapparal
5:05pm Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau
6:05pm Wrestling
7:05pm TBS Sunday Night Movie: “Tall in the Saddle” (1944) w/John Wayne, Ella Raines
9:00pm Sports Page
9:35pm Day of Discovery
10:05pm Jerry Falwell
11:05pm Open Up
12:05am TBS Theater Late Night: “The Petrified Forest” (1936) w/ Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis
1:50am TBS Theater Late Night: “Footlight Parade” (1933) w/ James Cagney, Joan Blondell
4:00am It’s Your Business
4:30am Jimmy Swaggart