Retro: St. Louis- Thanksgiving Day 1984

[Mr. Mike]

Thursday 11/22/1984 Thanksgiving

Compiled from the following 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)
5:50am Sign on
5:55am A Thought for Today
6:00am Romper Room
6:30am ABC News This Morning (cc)
7:00am Good Morning America
9:00am The Waltons
10:00am Trivia Trap
10:30am Family Feud
11:00am Ryan’s Hope
11:30am Loving
12:00pm All My Children
1:00pm One Life to Live
2:00pm General Hospital
3:00pm Alice
3:30pm The Jeffersons
4:00pm Three’s Company
4:30pm Barney Miller
5:00pm Channel 2 News Five O’Clock Report (Don Marsh/Kathryn Keefer/Ron Yaros/Zip Rzeppa)
5:30pm ABC World News Tonight (Peter Jennings)
6:00pm Channel 2 News Six O’Clock Report (Larry Conners/Ron Yaros/Zip Rzeppa)
6:30pm PM Magazine
Irina Rubenstein, a 14-year-old rhythmic gymnast; male calendar models.
7:00pm ABC Movie Special “Arthur” (1981)
9:00pm 20/20
The problems divorced fathers sometimes face in trying to visit their children. Also: a report on mail-order promotions that, says producer Abby Rockmore, “could be too good to be true”. (cc)
10:00pm Channel 2 News Ten O’Clock Report (Larry Conners/Ron Yaros/Zip Rzeppa)
10:30pm M*A*S*H
Hawkeye turns sleuth to solve a rash of robberies for which he is the prime suspect.
11:00pm ABC News Nightline
11:30pm Eye on Hollywood
12:00am Mission: Impossible
1:00am Channel 2 News Ten O'Clock Report (repeat)
1:30am Documentary
2:00am A Thought for Today
2:05am Sign off

KMOX-TV Channel 4 (CBS)
5:00am Give Us This Day
5:05am Good Morning Headlines
5:20am Country Way
5:30am CBS Early Morning News
6:00am CBS Morning News
8:00am CBS All-American Thanksgiving Day Parade
Larry Hagman and Linda Gray co-anchor highlights from today’s holiday parades in New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, Toronto and Hawaii.
11:00am The NFL Today
11:30am NFL Football: Green Bay Packers at Detroit Lions
3:00pm CBS Special: Beauty and the Beast
A young woman saves her father’s life by agreeing to move into the castle of a repulsive creature who is actually a cursed prince. (animated) (r)
4:00pm KMOX-TV Special Movie “My Side of the Mountain” (1969)
6:00pm CBS Evening News
6:30pm Family Feud
7:00pm Magnum P.I. (r)
8:00pm Simon & Simon
9:00pm Knots Landing (cc)
10:00pm Newsroom Tonight (Julius Hunter/Steve Schiff)
10:30pm CBS Late Night: Newhart (r)
11:05pm CBS Late Night Movie “Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper” (1981, made for TV)
1:00am CBS News Nightwatch (until 5:00am)

KSDK-TV Channel 5 (NBC)
5:25am Sign on
5:30am NBC News at Sunrise
6:00am Today
New York’s Thanksgiving Day Festivities
8:00am Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
Bryant Gumbel, Stepfanie Kramer, and Pat Sajak host this year’s telecast of the annual New York City spectacle that marks the opening of the Christmas season.
11:00am Super Password
11:30am Jeopardy!
12:00pm Channel 5 Eyewitness News at Noon
12:30pm Days of Our Lives
1:30pm Another World
2:30pm NFL ‘84
3:00pm NFL Football: New England Patriots vs. Dallas Cowboys
6:00pm Channel 5 Eyewitness News at 6:00 (Karen Foss/Dick Ford/Bob Richards/Mike Bush)
6:30pm Wheel of Fortune
7:00pm The Cosby Show
7:30pm Family Ties
8:00pm Cheers
8:30pm Night Court
9:00pm Hill Street Blues
10:00pm Channel 5 Eyewitness News Update (Karen Foss/Dick Ford/Bob Richards/Mike Bush)
10:30pm The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
Carson’s joined by Michael Talbot (“Miami Vice”), David Steinberg and nonagenarian Ethel Nixon.
11:30pm Entertainment Tonight
Featured: Barry Gibb
12:00am Late Night with David Letterman
Featured: Rob Reiner and sled-dog races. (r)
1:00am Channel 5 Eyewitness News Update (repeat)
1:30am Sign off

KETC-TV Channel 9 (PBS)
6:10am Sign on
6:15am New Literacy: An Introduction to Computers
6:45am AM Weather
7:00am Lilas, Yoga and You
7:30am Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
8:00am Sesame Street (cc)
9:00am The Electric Company (r)
9:30am 3-2-1 Contact (r)(cc)
10:00am Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
10:30am 3-2-1 Contact (r)(cc)
11:00am The Letter People
11:30am Sesame Street (cc)
12:30pm Motorweek
1:00pm Sneak Previews
1:30pm The Frugal Gourmet
2:00pm Latenight America
Scheduled: veteran comedian Soupy Sales; Destry Jarvis, vice president of the National Parks and Conversation Association. (r)
3:00pm Sesame Street (cc)
4:00pm Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood
4:30pm The Electric Company (r)
5:00pm Sesame Street (cc)
6:00pm MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour
7:00pm St. Louis Skyline
Featured: “Kings and Queens of Soup Tureens”, an exhibit at the St. Louis Art Museum; Frontier Folklife Festival; and the Bookmark Society.
7:30pm To Catch a Cloud
The problems of acid rain and the need for research are explored.
8:00pm Mystery! “Rumpole of the Bailey”
Rumpole‘s hopes of winning a fraud case and clearing his personal debts are threatened by Judge Bullingham. (cc)
9:00pm Great Depression “Germany: From Weimar to Hitler”
10:00pm Nightly Business Report
10:30pm Leave it to Beaver
11:00pm Latenight America (repeat of earlier airing)
11:55pm Sign off

KPLR-TV Channel 11 (Independent)
5:00am Last Picture Show cont'd
5:25am Sign on
5:30am Muppets
6:00am 20 Minute Workout
6:30am The Pink Panther
7:00am Popeye
7:30am Bugs Bunny and Friends
8:00am Tom and Jerry
8:30am Great Space Coaster
9:00am Laverne and Shirley
9:30am Let’s Make a Deal
10:00am The Joker’s Wild
10:30am Tic Tac Dough
11:00am Harry O
12:00pm Anything for Money
12:30pm The 12:30 Movie “The Smurfs and The Magic Flute” (1983, animated) (TV Guide listed this as running 2 hours)
2:00pm KPLR-TV Special: Mouse on the Mayflower (animated)
A brave rodent stows away on the famous vessel bound for the New World.
3:00pm Woody Woodpecker
3:30pm Scooby Doo
4:00pm Voltron, Defender of the Universe
4:30pm He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
5:00pm Little House on the Prairie
6:00pm The Dukes of Hazzard
7:00pm Super Movie “Clash of the Titans” (1981)
9:00pm The $100,000 Name That Tune
9:30pm NewsWatch (Don Clark/Bill Rees/Christine Buck/Jon Sloane)
10:00pm WKRP in Cincinnati
Mr. Carlson comes up with a Thanksgiving promotional gimmick that involves a helicopter and live turkeys.
10:30pm The Love Boat
11:30pm The Big Movie “The McKenzie Break” (1970)
1:35am Night Owl Theater “Sky Heist” (1975, made for TV)
3:35am The Last Picture Show “Up Front” (1951) (until 5:30am) (TV Guide listed this as airing at 3:05am)

WCEE-TV Channel 13 (Independent) Mount Vernon, Illinois
5:50am Sign on
5:55am Daybreak
6:00am CNN Headline News
6:30am AgDay
7:00am Superfriends
7:30am The Flintstones
8:00am He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
8:30am 20 Minute Workout
9:00am Family
10:00am Jim Bakker
11:00am Jimmy Swaggart
11:30am Guilty or Innocent
12:00pm Barnaby Jones
1:00pm The 700 Club
2:00pm Merv Griffin
A salute to Broadway with Hinton Battle (“The Tap Dance Kid”), Laurie Beechman (“Cats”).
3:00pm Scooby Doo
3:30pm He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
4:00pm Bewitched
4:30pm I Dream of Jeannie
5:00pm Little House on the Prairie
6:00pm Dallas
7:00pm Movie “The King and I” (1956, part 2) (conclusion of film, part 1 had aired the day before)
8:30pm At the Movies with Siskel and Ebert
9:00pm C13 News Tonight
9:30pm INN News (Pat Harper/Brad Holbrook)
10:00pm The Love Boat
11:00pm Dallas
12:00pm C13 News Tonight (repeat)
12:30pm Mike White: Football
1:00am Sign off

KNLC-TV Channel 24 (Religious independent)
5:00am Help for Runaways and Their Families
5:30am Judge Roy Bean
6:00am Early Morning Music
6:30am Exercise with Dick Hathaway
7:00am Mr. Mustache
7:30am Kid’s Jamboree
8:00am Villa Alegre
8:30am Shape-Up
9:00am Richard Roberts
10:00am The Cold and the Forgotten
10:30am Sound Effects
11:00am Wildlife Cinema
11:30pm This is the Life
12:00pm Movie “Days of Jesse James” (1939)
1:00pm The Tallman
1:30pm Fisher Family
2:00pm Circle Square
2:30pm Rin Tin Tin
3:00pm Vegetable Soup
3:30pm Dennis the Menace
4:00pm Cartoons
4:30pm Danny Thomas
5:00pm Fury
5:30pm My Little Margie
6:00pm Telethon
7:00pm Coming Alive in ‘85
8:00pm Larry & Penny Rice
9:00pm The Lester Family
10:00pm Telethon
12:30am Movie “In God We Trust” (1980)
1:30am Telethon
3:30am Larry & Penny Rice
4:30am The Lester Family

KDNL-TV Channel 30 (Independent)
5:00am CNN Headline News
5:30am Morning Stretch
6:00am CNN Headline News
6:30am I Love Lucy
7:00am Bewitched
7:30am I Dream of Jeannie
8:00am Munsters
8:30am Little Rascals and Friends
9:00am The 700 Club
Scheduled: a Thanksgiving celebration.
10:00am Jim Bakker
11:00am Jimmy Swaggart
11:30am KDNL Movie Special “Star Maidens” (1978)
2:00pm Star Trek
3:00pm Buck Rogers
4:00pm Battlestar Galatica
6:00pm Star Trek Memories
Leonard Nimoy talks about Mr. Spock and other characters in the series, shows film clips from his favorite episodes and discusses the “Star Trek” movies.
7:00pm KDNL-TV Special: America Remembers John F. Kennedy
The aspirations, successes and failures of the 35th president are recalled through archival film footage and recently taped interviews with friends and colleagues.
9:00pm Barbara Mandrell Thanksgiving Special
The Air Force Choir and the Statler Brothers join Barbara Mandrell in this Thanksgiving variety show.
10:00pm Sanford and Son
10:30pm Combat!
A new addition to the squad turns out to be both a welcher and a shirker.
11:30pm Starsky and Hutch
12:30am All Night at the Movies “The Ambushers” (1967)
2:30am All Night at the Movies “The Deadly Affair” (1967)
4:30am Cardiosat-RNSAT

WGN-TV Channel 9 (Independent) Chicago, Illinois
5:00am Circus
5:30am Faith 20
6:00am Chicago’s First Report
6:30am Muppets
7:00am Bozo
8:30am The Beverly Hillbillies
9:00am The Waltons
10:00am The Big Valley
11:00am Family
12:00pm WGN Midday News (Steve Sanders/Tom Skilling)
1:00pm Rhoda
1:30pm Andy Griffith
2:00pm I Dream of Jeannie
2:30pm Bugs Bunny
3:00pm Superfriends
3:30pm Scooby Doo
4:00pm Heathcliff
4:30pm Good Times
5:00pm One Day at a Time
5:30pm Carol Burnett and Friends (guests: Ruth Buzzi, Richard Crenna)
6:00pm Barney Miller
Barney and his men arrest a man who stabbed his brother-in-law over a piece of turkey and three escaped mental patients who are causing a disturbance at an automat.
6:30pm Benson
7:00pm WGN Thursday Night Movie “Meet Me In St. Louis” (1944)
9:30pm The Nine O’Clock News (John Drury/Denise Cannon/Tom Skilling/Bob Hilton)
10:30pm The Love Boat (Channel 11 and Channel 9 Chicago aired different episodes)
11:30pm WGN Presents “The Chase” (1966)
2:00pm INN News (Pat Harper/Brad Holbrook)
2:30am The Late Movie “Marriage on the Rocks” (1965)
4:30am Cartoons

WTBS-TV Channel 17 (Independent) Atlanta, Georgia
5:00am CNN Headline News
5:30am Funtime
6:35am I Dream of Jeannie
7:05am Bewitched
7:35am I Love Lucy
8:05am Superstation Morning Movie “The Ghost and Mr. Chicken” (1966)
10:05am The Catlins (daytime serial set in Atlanta and produced by WTBS)
10:35am All in the Family
11:05am Perry Mason
12:05pm Superstation Matinee “The Amazing Spider-Man” (1978, made for TV)
2:05pm Superstation Movie Presentation “The Man Called Flintstone” (1966, animated)
4:05pm Superstation Movie Presentation “Jack and the Beanstalk” (1952)
6:05pm Gomer Pyle
6:35pm Andy Griffith
7:05pm Superstation Movie Presentation “The Bells of St. Mary’s” (1945)
10:05pm Superstation Movie Presentation “The Christmas Tree” (1969)
12:05am TBS Theater Late Night “Young Winston” (1972)
2:40am TBS Theater Late Night “D.O.A” (1949)
4:30am Jimmy Swaggart

 

[mleach]

KNLC-TV Channel 24 (Religious independent)

12:30am Movie “In God We Trust” (1980)

A religious station airing "In God We Tru$T", a movie where GOD was played by Richard Pryor and with the great and infamous ( debatable ) Andy Kaufman playing the role of a TV preacher and wasn't actor Marty Feldman who despite playing a monk in this movie, I believe in real life was actually an athiest.

"In God We Tru$T" was actually a funny movie BUT to see this among the listings of a religious station? Odd ! ! This would be somewhat like Pat Robertson's old CBN Cable airing movies even if they were edited such as "Midnight Cowboy" or "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice".

 

[Stanislav]

KNLC-TV Channel 24 (Religious independent)

12:30am Movie “In God We Trust” (1980)

A religious station airing "In God We Tru$T", a movie where GOD was played by Richard Pryor and with the great and infamous ( debatable ) Andy Kaufman playing the role of a TV preacher and wasn't actor Marty Feldman who despite playing a monk in this movie, I believe in real life was actually an athiest.

"In God We Tru$T" was actually a funny movie BUT to see this among the listings of a religious station? Odd ! ! This would be somewhat like Pat Robertson's old CBN Cable airing movies even if they were edited such as "Midnight Cowboy" or "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice".

I'd be willing to bet that this was actually some non-commercial religiously-oriented film with the same title, but when whoever compiled the details for the listings plugged it into some database or other, the 1980 commercial farce came up, hence the spurious release year. Note that the title is spelled without the dollar sign.

 

[mleach]

KNLC-TV Channel 24 (Religious independent)

12:30am Movie “In God We Trust” (1980)

A religious station airing "In God We Tru$T", a movie where GOD was played by Richard Pryor and with the great and infamous ( debatable ) Andy Kaufman playing the role of a TV preacher and wasn't actor Marty Feldman who despite playing a monk in this movie, I believe in real life was actually an athiest.

"In God We Tru$T" was actually a funny movie BUT to see this among the listings of a religious station? Odd ! ! This would be somewhat like Pat Robertson's old CBN Cable airing movies even if they were edited such as "Midnight Cowboy" or "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice".

I'd be willing to bet that this was actually some non-commercial religiously-oriented film with the same title, but when whoever compiled the details for the listings plugged it into some database or other, the 1980 commercial farce came up, hence the spurious release year. Note that the title is spelled without the dollar sign.

Actually the Marty Feldman movie was spelled without the dollar sign in listings for HBO and Showtime at the time too, like the 1971 movie "$" with Warren Beatty and Goldie Hawn as that movie was spelled "Dollars" in many of listings.

Went to IMDB and even though there were a number of movies over the years called "In God We Trust", prior to these listings only two had that title. The 1980 movie here and one made way back in 1913. Oh course on the other hand like Wikipedia, IMDB isn't always right either

 

[Davros2006]

Steve Sanders and Tom Skilling are still at WGN today. Both are still on the midday news, and Skilling still does the weather on the News at Nine.

 

[azumanga]

KNLC-TV Channel 24 (Religious independent)

12:30am Movie “In God We Trust” (1980)

A religious station airing "In God We Tru$T", a movie where GOD was played by Richard Pryor... was actually a funny movie BUT to see this among the listings of a religious station? Odd ! !

Actually, maybe it was another film, as the film is only scheduled for 60 minutes, and the original running time was 97 minutes:

KNLC-TV Channel 24 (Religious independent)
12:30am Movie “In God We Trust” (1980)
1:30am Telethon

 

[Mr. Mike]

KNLC-TV Channel 24 (Religious independent)

12:30am Movie “In God We Trust” (1980)

A religious station airing "In God We Tru$T", a movie where GOD was played by Richard Pryor... was actually a funny movie BUT to see this among the listings of a religious station? Odd ! !

Actually, maybe it was another film, as the film is only scheduled for 60 minutes, and the original running time was 97 minutes:

KNLC-TV Channel 24 (Religious independent)
12:30am Movie “In God We Trust” (1980)
1:30am Telethon

The TV supplement of the Post Dispatch listed the film in question as starring Andy Kaufman and Marty Feldman. I don't know if there was another film made with that title besides the two versions (1913 and 1980) already mentioned. One thing to keep in mind is that with regard to movies, Channel 24 usually showed contemporary films made by religious organizations, B-westerns and public domain films. So a possible explination is that the version of "In God We Trust" that was on Channel 24 was a film made by a religious organization.

Unfortunately, the local edition of TV Guide at that time didn't carry the listings of KNLC during its early days. And it wouldn't be until the time between early 1985 and mid-1986 that Channel 24 would be listed in TV Guide. Exactly when TV Guide started carrying KNLC is unclear, as far as I know.

 

[classictvfan]

Do you have St. Louis listings for Christmas Day, 1984?

 

[DToTheJ]

KPLR-TV Channel 11 (Independent)
10:00pm WKRP in Cincinnati
Mr. Carlson comes up with a Thanksgiving promotional gimmick that involves a helicopter and live turkeys.

;D

 

[Mr. Mike]

Do you have St. Louis listings for Christmas Day, 1984?

I don't have them at this time, so it might be a little while before I can find and posting listings from that day.