from Toronto Globe & Mail
WGRZ 2-NBC Buffalo
6:00 PTL Club
7:00 Romper Room
7:30 One of a Kind
8:00 Flintstone Funnies
8:30 Shirt Tales
9:00 Smurfs
10:30 Alvin & the Chipmunks
11:00 Mr. T
11:30 Amazing Spiderman/Incredible Hulk
12:30 Thundarr the Barbarian
1:00 Buffalo: Up Close
1:30 Solid Gold Christmas Special (counting down the top 40 Christmas songs)
3:30 NFL '83
4:00 NFL: Cincinnati-Minnesota
7:00 Taking Advantage
7:30 NHL: Buffalo-Hartford
10:00 Yellow Rose
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Miracle on 34th Street"
1:30 Buck Rogers
1:50 Movietone News
2:00 Movie "Girl Crazy"
3:40 Movie "The American Game"
CKVR 3-CBC Barrie
6:00 Oceans Alive
6:30 Hilarious House of Frightenstein
7:30 Circle Square
8:00 Third Story
8:30 Harrigan
9:00 Hilarious House of Frightenstein
10:00 Kidsworld
10:30 TBA
11:00 Forest Rangers
11:30 My Three Sons
noon Oceans Alive
12:30 This Week in Ontario (IIRC produced by CBLT)
1:00 Showbiz
1:30 Your Wealth
2:00 Wrestling
3:00 World Cup Skiing (women's action, taped December 12 in Sestiere, Italy)
4:00 CBC SportsWeekend: Agribition Rodeo/Canadian Superstars
6:00 Reach for the Top
6:30 Ski Base
7:00 Jennifer Slept Here
7:30 Happy Days
8:00 Hockey Night in Canada: Washington-Toronto
11:00 The National
11:15 Provincial Affairs
11:20 News
11:40 Movie "The Miracle Worker"
1:45 Cartoons
2:00 Our Miss Brooks
2:30 Twilight Zone
3:00 December Bride
3:30 Millionaire
4:00 Movie "Secret File Hollywood"
WIVB 4-CBS Buffalo
6:30 It's Academic
7:00 US Farm Report
7:30 King Kong
8:00 Biskits
8:30 Saturday Supercade
9:30 Dungeons & Dragons
10:00 Plasticman
10:30 Charlie Brown & Snoopy
11:00 Beat the Champ
noon NFL Today
12:30 NFL: NY Giants-Washington
3:30 NCAA Basketball: Louisville-NC State
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Dance Fever
7:30 America's Top 10
8:00 John Schneider's Christmas Holiday (from Sun Valley with guests Debbie Allen, Bruce Jenner, and Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers)
9:00 Movie "Rocky II"
11:30 News
mid. Alice
12:30 Charlie's Angels
1:30 Kung Fu
CBLT 5-CBC Toronto
8:00 Country Canada
8:30 Sergeant Preston
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Movie "You'll Find Out"
noon Maja the Bee
12:30 Spread Your Wings
1:00 A Very Special Person: Ken Taylor (profiling the legendary Canadian diplomat's accomplishments as Canadian Consul-General in NYC)
1:30 Reach for the Top
2:00 Star Trek
3:00 World Cup Skiing
4:00 CBC SportsWeekend
6:00 CBC News: Saturday Report
6:30 This Week in Parliament
7:00 Barney Miller
7:30 Fame Game
8:00 HNIC: Washington-Toronto
11:00 The National
11:15 Provincial Affairs
11:20 News
mid. Professionals
1:00 Rock 'n' Roll Video
CKGN-Global: 6 Paris/22 Uxbridge
6:00 Seneca Telecollege
7:00 Wizard of Oz
7:30 Hammy Hamster
8:00 Hercules
8:30 World Tomorrow
9:00 Smurfs
10:30 Alvin & the Chipmunks
11:00 100 Huntley Street
noon Pac-Man
12:30 NFL: NY Giants-Washington
3:30 He-Man & the Masters of the Universe
4:00 Smurfs
5:00 Wonder Woman
6:00 Global News
6:30 Everybody's Business
7:00 Diff'rent Strokes
7:30 Chico & the Man
8:00 Somewhere a Child
9:00 Love Boat
10:00 Eischeid
11:00 Lottario
11:05 Global News
11:30 Sportsline
mid. Movie "The Red Tent"
2:30 Movie "Kid Millions"
CJOH 6-CTV Ottawa (actually the Deseronto relay, which served Kingston)
6:00 University of the Air
6:30 Storytime
7:00 Tree House
7:30 Cartoon Party
8:00 Rocket Robin Hood
8:30 Kidsworld
9:00 Let's Go!
9:30 Swiss Family Robinson
10:00 Forest Rangers
10:30 Willy & Floyd
11:00 Popeye
11:30 Flintstones
noon Spiderman
12:30 Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn
1:00 Wrestling
2:00 CTV Wide World of Sports: details not listed
4:00 NFL: Cincinnati-Minnesota
7:00 Romeo & Juliet on Icew (starring Dorothy Hamill, Brian Pockar, and Toller Cranston)
8:00 Movie "The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story"
10:00 Yellow Rose
11:00 CTV National News
11:20 News
11:30 New Music (interviews with Genesis, Ring Chamber, Clarence Clemons, Spoons, Chaz Jankel, and David Bowie)
12:30 Movie "Damien: Omen II"
2:44 Movie "The Long Riders"
WKBW 7-ABC Buffalo
6:00 A Better Way
6:30 Agriculture USA
7:00 Wildlife Adventure
7:30 Children's Theatre
8:00 Beetle Bailey & Friends
8:30 Woody Woodpecker
9:30 Pac-Man/Rubik the Amazing Cube/Menudo
10:30 Littles
11:00 Puppy/Scooby-Doo/ABC Schoolhouse Rock
noon ABC Weekend Special "The Secret World of Og" (conclusion)
12:30 Challenge
1:00 Real to Reel
1:30 Pioneer Bowl: from Charleston SC, Southern Illinois pounds Western Carolina 43-7 for the NCAA I-AA title
4:30 Buffalo Bills Highlights
5:00 ABC Wide World of Sports: Jeff Chandler defends his WBA bantamweight crown vs Oscar Munis, live from Atlantic City; World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships
6:30 News
7:00 Buffalo Tonight
7:30 Urban Focus
8:00 T.J. Hooker
9:00 Love Boat
10:00 Perry Como's Christmas in New York (the crooner is joined by Michele Lee as they take in the sights and sounds of the season in the Big Apple)
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Pink Panther"
1:45 Challenge
2:15 ABC News
CKNX 8-CBC Wingham
8:00 100 Huntley Street
9:00 Sign of the Times
9:30 Circle Square
10:00 Third Story
10:30 Snelgrove Snail
11:00 Charlie Brown & Snoopy
11:30 Oceans Alive
noon Wrestling
1:00 Inside Track
1:30 Reach for the Top (not sure where CKNX's source was)
2:00 World Alive
2:30 Wild Animals
3:00 World Cup Skiing
4:00 CBC SportsWeekend
6:00 News
6:30 Tommy Hunter
7:30 Jeffersons
8:00 HNIC: Washington-Toronto
11:00 The National
11:15 Provincial Affairs
11:20 News
11:45 New Music
12:45 Night Gallery
WROC 8-NBC Rochester
6:55 A Better Way
7:25 Krofft Superstars
8:00 Flintstone Funnies
8:30 Shirt Tales
9:00 Smurfs
10:30 Alvin & the Chipmunks
11:00 Mr. T
11:30 Starcade
noon That Teen Show
12:30 Health Beat Magazine
1:00 Taking Advantage
1:30 Family
2:30 Buffalo Bills Highlights
3:00 NFL Week in Review
3:30 NFL '83
4:00 NFL: Cincinnati-Minnesota
7:00 Entertainment This Week
8:00 Children Running Out of Time (World Vision telethon)
11:00 News
11:30 NCAA Basketball: Memphis State-UCLA
1:00 Movie "The Lost Man"
CFTO 9-CTV Toronto
7:00 Uncle Bobby
7:30 Professor Kitzel
8:00 Romper Room
8:30 Storytime
9:00 Let's Go!
9:30 Funtown (so CFTO ran 90 min from Winterpeg
)
10:30 Flintstones
11:00 TBA
noon Children Running Out of Town
1:00 Swiss Family Robinson
1:30 Red Fisher
2:00 CTV Wide World of Sports
4:00 NFL: Cincinnati-Minnesota
7:00 Romeo & Juliet on Ice
8:00 Perry Como's Christmas in New York
9:00 Movie "Rocky II"
11:30 CTV National News
11:50 News
12:15 Movie "Mom, the Wolfman and Me"
2:15 Movie "The Violent Men"
4:15 Movie "Trapped"
CFPL 10-CBC London
8:30 Audubon Wildlife Theatre
9:00 NFB Presents
9:30 Just Down the Street
10:00 Amateur Naturalist
10:30 Going Great
11:00 Magic Palace
11:30 Zig Zag
noon Nuggets
12:30 Reach for the Top
1:00 This Week in Ontario
1:30 Fame Game
2:00 Labatt's Original Six Hockey Heroes: Chicago v Montreal
3:00 World Cup Skiing
4:00 CBC SportsWeekend
6:00 News
6:30 Family Ties
7:00 Simon & Simon
8:00 HNIC: Washington-Toronto
11:00 The National
11:15 Provincial Affairs
11:20 News
11:45 New Music
12:45 Movie "The Jazz Singer" (the Neil Diamond version from 1980)
WHEC 10-CBS Rochester
6:00 Kidsworld
6:30 Porky Pig & Friends
7:30 Woody Woodpecker & Friends
8:30 Bugs Bunny & Friends
9:30 Dungeons & Dragons
10:00 Plasticman
10:30 Charlie Brown & Snoopy
11:00 Benji, Zax & the Alien Prince
11:30 Greatest Sports Legends
noon NFL Today
12:30 NFL: NY Giants-Washington
3:30 NCAA Basketball: Louisville-NC State
6:00 News
6:30 Star Trek
7:30 Muppet Show
8:00 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
9:00 Movie "Rocky II"
11:30 News
mid. Battlestar Galactica
1:00 Movie "Shadow of Fear"
2:30 Black Music Magazine
CHCH 11-Ind Hamilton
5:00 Eyesat: Ophthalmology
6:00 Adventure Outdoors
6:30 Circle Square
7:00 Dale Harney (Magic Palace, from CFAC Calgary)
8:00 Harrigan
8:30 Snelgrove Snail
9:00 Greek Panorama
10:00 Hispanovision
10:30 Ready, Set, Grow
11:00 Creative Hands
11:30 Mohawk Presents: Counterpoint
noon Ski West
12:30 Outdoors Unlimited
1:00 Maple Leaf Wrestling
2:00 OUAA Basketball: Naismith Tournament consolation game (at Waterloo)
4:00 Bonspiel '84 (curling)
5:00 Labatt's Original Six Hockey Heroes: Detroit v Montreal
6:00 News
6:30 Ein Prosit
7:00 Entertainment This Week
8:00 T.J. Hooker
9:00 Movie "Saturn 3"
11:00 News
11:30 Just Jazz
mid. Movie "Adventures of the Queen"
2:00 Movie "Betrayal"
CKWS 11-CBC Kingston
9:00 Circle Square
9:30 Amateur Naturalist
10:00 Harrigan
10:30 Oceans Alive
11:00 100 Huntley Street
noon Third Story
12:30 Going Great
1:00 20 Minute Workout
1:30 Jack Webster
2:00 This Week in Ontario
2:30 Don Cherry's Grapevine (produced by future Dragon/Shark Kevin O'Leary's production company)
3:00 World Cup Skiing
4:00 CBC SportsWeekend
6:00 Life
6:30 Community Journal
7:00 Tommy Hunter
8:00 HNIC: Washington-Toronto
11:00 The National
11:15 Provincial Affairs
11:20 News
11:45 Movie "Bittersweet Love"
1:45 Movie "It Started at Naples"
CHEX 12-CBC Peterborough
8:30 Snelgrove Snail
9:00 Circle Square
9:30 Old Time Gospel Hour
10:30 Harrigan
11:00 Rocket Robin Hood
11:30 Christmas is for Kids
noon Spiderman
12:30 Sportsbeat
1:00 Travel Show
1:30 Durham Magazine
2:00 Red Fisher
2:30 Weekend
3:00 World Cup Skiing
4:00 CBC SportsWeekend
6:00 A-Team
7:00 Tommy Hunter
8:00 HNIC: Washington-Toronto
11:00 The National
11:15 Provincial Affairs
11:20 News
11:35 This Week in Ontario
mid. Movie "Fail Safe"
CKCO 13-CTV Kitchener
6:30 Joys of Collecting
7:00 Willy & Floyd
7:30 Tree House
8:00 Oopsy the Clown (I've also seen it listed as Oopsy Daisy)
8:30 Storytime
9:00 Let's Go!
9:30 Swiss Family Robinson
10:00 Wild Refuge
10:30 Travel '83
11:00 Open Roads
11:30 Red Fisher
noon Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
1:00 Battlestar Galactica
2:00 CTV Wide World of Sports
4:00 NFL: Cincinnati-Minnesota
7:00 Romeo & Juliet on Ice
8:00 The Steeler & the Pittsburgh Kid (no description listed, what's the story on this? ???)
9:00 Movie "Rocky II"
11:30 CTV National News
11:50 News
12:30 Movie "GI Blues"
2:30 Movie "Shadow of the Hawk"
4:30 In Search of...
WOKR 13-ABC Rochester
7:00 Breath of Life
7:30 Best of Scooby-Doo
8:00 Happy Days
8:30 Monchhichi/Little Rascals/Richie Rich
9:30 Pac-Man/Rubik the Amazing Cube/Menudo
10:30 Littles
11:00 Puppy/Scooby-Doo/ABC Schoolhouse Rock
noon ABC Weekend Special "The Secret World of Og" (conclusion)
12:30 Coca-Cola Adult-Child Tourney (bowling)
1:30 Pioneer Bowl
4:30 More Real People
5:00 ABC Wide World of Sports
6:30 News
7:00 Lawrence Welk
8:00 T.J. Hooker
9:00 Love Boat
10:00 Perry Como's Christmas in New York
11:00 News
11:30 ABC News
11:45 Movie "Four for Texas"
WNED 17-PBS Buffalo
7:55 Weather Radio (and at 8:55)
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Woodwright's Shop
10:30 All-New This Old House
11:00 Housewarming with Charlie Wing
11:30 Dinner at Julia's
noon Magic of Oil Painting
12:30 Victory Garden
1:00 Antiques & Americana
1:30 Signing with Cindy
2:00 Nova
3:00 Nature
4:00 Matinee at the Bijou: I'd Give My Life (film)/Star Reporter (short)/A Little Bird Told Me (cartoon)/Mystery Squadron (serial-pt 5)
5:30 Newton's Apple
6:00 Masterpiece Theatre
7:00 Inside Albany
7:30 Agronsky & Company
8:00 Jacques Cousteau (studying dolphins in the Straits of Gibraltar and in Mauritania)
9:00 Cosmos
10:00 Movie "The Gathering"
mid. Weather Radio
CICA 19-TVO Toronto
8:30 Polka Dot Door
9:00 Cucumber
9:30 Media & Methods of the Artist
10:00 Down to Earth
10:30 Championship Bridge
11:00 Pins & Needles
11:30 Half-a-Handy Hour
noon Computer Academy
12:30 Academy with Jack Livesley: On Computers
1:00 Silk Bandit
1:30 Just What I Need (implications of Ontario's Bill 82, which states that all exceptional kids have the right to an education suiting their needs and abilities)
2:00 Understanding Human Behavior
2:30 Fields of Endless Day (Canadian black history)
3:30 Three Families
4:30 Kidsbeat
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Polka Dot Door
6:30 Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
7:00 Doctor Who "Warrior's Gate" (pt 1)
7:30 Questors
8:00 Movie "A Man Called Peter" (the story of Scottish clergyman Peter Marshall, Chaplain to the US Senate)
10:05 Conversations (Elwy Yost discusses religion in cinema and in reality with Charles Templeton and The Robe art director Lyle Wheeler)
10:30 Movie "Climb the Highest Mountain"
mid. Conversations (r)
12:30 Movie Show
CBLFT 25-SRC Toronto
7:25 Samedi-Jeunes
7:30 Calimero
7:45 Grisu le petit dragon
8:00 Nils Holgersson
8:30 Passe-Partout
9:00 Remi (this anime has been swapped back and forth between SRC and Tele-Quebec/Radio-Quebec over the years; the theme was sung by Rene Simard)
9:30 Candy
10:00 Ulysse 31 (Ulysses 31)
10:30 La vallee secrete
11:00 Les heros du samedi (youth sports; CBC had a short-lived anglo version of the show, Saturday's Heroes, in the late 60s)
11:30 La semaine Parlementaire a Ottawa
12:30 NFL: NY Giants-Washington (using CBS footage with SRC's own announcers)
3:30 D'hier a demain
4:00 Bagatelle
5:00 La course autour du monde
6:00 Le Telejournal
6:05 Impacts
7:00 Le monde merveilleux de Disney (Wonderful World of Disney)
8:00 Cinema "Le jouet"
10:30 Le Telejournal
10:50 Nouvelles du sport
11:05 La politique federale
11:15 Cinema "La route semee d'etoiles"
1:30 Cinema "L'avare"
WUTV 29-Ind Buffalo
7:00 700 Club
8:30 People with People
9:00 Dimensions
9:30 In League with You
10:00 Perceptions
10:30 It's Your Business
11:00 TBA
11:30 Wild Kingdom
noon Wrestling
1:00 Movie "The Cape Town Affair"
3:00 Movie "The Foxes of Harrow"
5:00 Movie "Theatre of Blood"
7:00 Fame
8:00 Florida Citrus Bowl: at Orlando, Tennessee 30-Maryland 23 (now called the Capital One Bowl)
11:00 Movie "Heaven Can Wait"
1:00 Movie "File of Thelma Jordan"
CFMT 47-Ind/Ethnic Toronto (IDed as MTV on-air)
5:30 Portugal Today
6:30 Alpen Journal
7:00 Armenian Heritage
7:30 Filipinesca
8:00 Jimmy Swaggart
9:00 PTL Club
10:00 Faith That Lives
10:30 Asian Talkies
noon Ukrainian Magazine
1:00 Signs of the Times
1:30 MTV Rockline
2:00 Movie "Daleks: Invasion Earth" (Doctor Who, with Peter Cushing as the Doc)
4:00 World Soccer
6:00 Movie "Dear Brigitte"
8:00 Black World
9:00 German Carousel
10:00 Dutch Magazine
11:00 Spanish Magazine
mid. Italian Movie
2:00 Movie "Passionate Stranger" (aka A Novel Affair)
4:00 Movie "The Moonraker"
CITY 57-Ind Toronto
6:30 Seneca Telecollege
7:00 Rocket Robin Hood (1 hr)
8:00 Alpen Journal (you read that right, both CITY and MTV 47 ran this)
8:30 Veronica
9:30 Sabor Latino
10:00 Greek Festival
10:30 Rocket Robin Hood (1 hr)
11:30 Waterville Gang
noon Ski Base (CKVR and CITY were sister stations at the time)
12:30 George
1:00 Portraits of Power
1:30 Half-a-Handy Hour
2:00 20 Minute Workout
2:30 Chairman of the Board
3:00 Amazing Kreskin
3:30 Peter Appleyard
4:00 Music Circle
4:30 Home Cookin'
5:00 Solid Gold
6:00 CityLights (guest: producer/director Peter Yates)
6:30 20 Minute Workout
7:00 CHUM 30
8:00 Stereovision (videos from Black Sabbath, Mugsy, and Hateful Snake)
8:30 Enterprise (lawyer Eddie Greenspan on "Do you know your rights?")
10:00 CityPulse Tonight
10:30 New Music
11:30 Wild Rider (Matt Dillon hosts this program which puts America's most spectacular rides to music)
mid. Don't Knock the Rock (featuring Jerry Lee Lewis, the Animals, Gene Vincent, and Little Richard)
1:00 CityLimits (all-night music videos, with future MuchMusic VJ Christopher Ward)
Over on the paynets...
First Choice
6:00 Movie "Six Weeks"
8:00 Movie "Mystery of the Million Dollar Hockey Puck"
9:30 A Cosmic Christmas (three aliens head for Earth to look for the star of Bethlehem)
10:00 Shari Ulrich: Talk Around Town
11:30 Movie "It Came from Hollywood"
1:00 Earth Odyssey
2:00 Movie "First Monday in October"
4:00 Movie "Headin' for Broadway"
5:30 BC: A Special Christmas
6:00 Movie "Six Pack"
8:00 Movie "Six Weeks"
10:00 Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip
11:30 Movie "Night of the Juggler"
1:30 Movie "Scandale"
3:30 Movie "Running Scared"
Superchannel
6:00 Superchannel for Superkids
9:00 Movie "Threshold"
11:00 Movie "On the Nickel" (starring, and written/produced/directed by Ralph Waite)
1:00 Movie "Chariots of Fire"
3:00 Movie "Honky Tonk Freeway"
5:00 Cleo Laine in Concert
6:00 Movie "Six Weeks"
8:00 Movie "Threshold"
10:00 Movie "Porky's"
11:30 Movie "Bilitis"
1:00 Movie "Laura"
2:30 Movie "All in Good Taste"
4:00 Movie "Suzanne"
WGRZ 2-NBC Buffalo
6:00 PTL Club
7:00 Romper Room
7:30 One of a Kind
8:00 Flintstone Funnies
8:30 Shirt Tales
9:00 Smurfs
10:30 Alvin & the Chipmunks
11:00 Mr. T
11:30 Amazing Spiderman/Incredible Hulk
12:30 Thundarr the Barbarian
1:00 Buffalo: Up Close
1:30 Solid Gold Christmas Special (counting down the top 40 Christmas songs)
3:30 NFL '83
4:00 NFL: Cincinnati-Minnesota
7:00 Taking Advantage
7:30 NHL: Buffalo-Hartford
10:00 Yellow Rose
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Miracle on 34th Street"
1:30 Buck Rogers
1:50 Movietone News
2:00 Movie "Girl Crazy"
3:40 Movie "The American Game"
CKVR 3-CBC Barrie
6:00 Oceans Alive
6:30 Hilarious House of Frightenstein
7:30 Circle Square
8:00 Third Story
8:30 Harrigan
9:00 Hilarious House of Frightenstein
10:00 Kidsworld
10:30 TBA
11:00 Forest Rangers
11:30 My Three Sons
noon Oceans Alive
12:30 This Week in Ontario (IIRC produced by CBLT)
1:00 Showbiz
1:30 Your Wealth
2:00 Wrestling
3:00 World Cup Skiing (women's action, taped December 12 in Sestiere, Italy)
4:00 CBC SportsWeekend: Agribition Rodeo/Canadian Superstars
6:00 Reach for the Top
6:30 Ski Base
7:00 Jennifer Slept Here
7:30 Happy Days
8:00 Hockey Night in Canada: Washington-Toronto
11:00 The National
11:15 Provincial Affairs
11:20 News
11:40 Movie "The Miracle Worker"
1:45 Cartoons
2:00 Our Miss Brooks
2:30 Twilight Zone
3:00 December Bride
3:30 Millionaire
4:00 Movie "Secret File Hollywood"
WIVB 4-CBS Buffalo
6:30 It's Academic
7:00 US Farm Report
7:30 King Kong
8:00 Biskits
8:30 Saturday Supercade
9:30 Dungeons & Dragons
10:00 Plasticman
10:30 Charlie Brown & Snoopy
11:00 Beat the Champ
noon NFL Today
12:30 NFL: NY Giants-Washington
3:30 NCAA Basketball: Louisville-NC State
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Dance Fever
7:30 America's Top 10
8:00 John Schneider's Christmas Holiday (from Sun Valley with guests Debbie Allen, Bruce Jenner, and Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers)
9:00 Movie "Rocky II"
11:30 News
mid. Alice
12:30 Charlie's Angels
1:30 Kung Fu
CBLT 5-CBC Toronto
8:00 Country Canada
8:30 Sergeant Preston
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Movie "You'll Find Out"
noon Maja the Bee
12:30 Spread Your Wings
1:00 A Very Special Person: Ken Taylor (profiling the legendary Canadian diplomat's accomplishments as Canadian Consul-General in NYC)
1:30 Reach for the Top
2:00 Star Trek
3:00 World Cup Skiing
4:00 CBC SportsWeekend
6:00 CBC News: Saturday Report
6:30 This Week in Parliament
7:00 Barney Miller
7:30 Fame Game
8:00 HNIC: Washington-Toronto
11:00 The National
11:15 Provincial Affairs
11:20 News
mid. Professionals
1:00 Rock 'n' Roll Video
CKGN-Global: 6 Paris/22 Uxbridge
6:00 Seneca Telecollege
7:00 Wizard of Oz
7:30 Hammy Hamster
8:00 Hercules
8:30 World Tomorrow
9:00 Smurfs
10:30 Alvin & the Chipmunks
11:00 100 Huntley Street
noon Pac-Man
12:30 NFL: NY Giants-Washington
3:30 He-Man & the Masters of the Universe
4:00 Smurfs
5:00 Wonder Woman
6:00 Global News
6:30 Everybody's Business
7:00 Diff'rent Strokes
7:30 Chico & the Man
8:00 Somewhere a Child
9:00 Love Boat
10:00 Eischeid
11:00 Lottario
11:05 Global News
11:30 Sportsline
mid. Movie "The Red Tent"
2:30 Movie "Kid Millions"
CJOH 6-CTV Ottawa (actually the Deseronto relay, which served Kingston)
6:00 University of the Air
6:30 Storytime
7:00 Tree House
7:30 Cartoon Party
8:00 Rocket Robin Hood
8:30 Kidsworld
9:00 Let's Go!
9:30 Swiss Family Robinson
10:00 Forest Rangers
10:30 Willy & Floyd
11:00 Popeye
11:30 Flintstones
noon Spiderman
12:30 Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn
1:00 Wrestling
2:00 CTV Wide World of Sports: details not listed
4:00 NFL: Cincinnati-Minnesota
7:00 Romeo & Juliet on Icew (starring Dorothy Hamill, Brian Pockar, and Toller Cranston)
8:00 Movie "The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story"
10:00 Yellow Rose
11:00 CTV National News
11:20 News
11:30 New Music (interviews with Genesis, Ring Chamber, Clarence Clemons, Spoons, Chaz Jankel, and David Bowie)
12:30 Movie "Damien: Omen II"
2:44 Movie "The Long Riders"
WKBW 7-ABC Buffalo
6:00 A Better Way
6:30 Agriculture USA
7:00 Wildlife Adventure
7:30 Children's Theatre
8:00 Beetle Bailey & Friends
8:30 Woody Woodpecker
9:30 Pac-Man/Rubik the Amazing Cube/Menudo
10:30 Littles
11:00 Puppy/Scooby-Doo/ABC Schoolhouse Rock
noon ABC Weekend Special "The Secret World of Og" (conclusion)
12:30 Challenge
1:00 Real to Reel
1:30 Pioneer Bowl: from Charleston SC, Southern Illinois pounds Western Carolina 43-7 for the NCAA I-AA title
4:30 Buffalo Bills Highlights
5:00 ABC Wide World of Sports: Jeff Chandler defends his WBA bantamweight crown vs Oscar Munis, live from Atlantic City; World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships
6:30 News
7:00 Buffalo Tonight
7:30 Urban Focus
8:00 T.J. Hooker
9:00 Love Boat
10:00 Perry Como's Christmas in New York (the crooner is joined by Michele Lee as they take in the sights and sounds of the season in the Big Apple)
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Pink Panther"
1:45 Challenge
2:15 ABC News
CKNX 8-CBC Wingham
8:00 100 Huntley Street
9:00 Sign of the Times
9:30 Circle Square
10:00 Third Story
10:30 Snelgrove Snail
11:00 Charlie Brown & Snoopy
11:30 Oceans Alive
noon Wrestling
1:00 Inside Track
1:30 Reach for the Top (not sure where CKNX's source was)
2:00 World Alive
2:30 Wild Animals
3:00 World Cup Skiing
4:00 CBC SportsWeekend
6:00 News
6:30 Tommy Hunter
7:30 Jeffersons
8:00 HNIC: Washington-Toronto
11:00 The National
11:15 Provincial Affairs
11:20 News
11:45 New Music
12:45 Night Gallery
WROC 8-NBC Rochester
6:55 A Better Way
7:25 Krofft Superstars
8:00 Flintstone Funnies
8:30 Shirt Tales
9:00 Smurfs
10:30 Alvin & the Chipmunks
11:00 Mr. T
11:30 Starcade
noon That Teen Show
12:30 Health Beat Magazine
1:00 Taking Advantage
1:30 Family
2:30 Buffalo Bills Highlights
3:00 NFL Week in Review
3:30 NFL '83
4:00 NFL: Cincinnati-Minnesota
7:00 Entertainment This Week
8:00 Children Running Out of Time (World Vision telethon)
11:00 News
11:30 NCAA Basketball: Memphis State-UCLA
1:00 Movie "The Lost Man"
CFTO 9-CTV Toronto
7:00 Uncle Bobby
7:30 Professor Kitzel
8:00 Romper Room
8:30 Storytime
9:00 Let's Go!
9:30 Funtown (so CFTO ran 90 min from Winterpeg
)10:30 Flintstones
11:00 TBA
noon Children Running Out of Town
1:00 Swiss Family Robinson
1:30 Red Fisher
2:00 CTV Wide World of Sports
4:00 NFL: Cincinnati-Minnesota
7:00 Romeo & Juliet on Ice
8:00 Perry Como's Christmas in New York
9:00 Movie "Rocky II"
11:30 CTV National News
11:50 News
12:15 Movie "Mom, the Wolfman and Me"
2:15 Movie "The Violent Men"
4:15 Movie "Trapped"
CFPL 10-CBC London
8:30 Audubon Wildlife Theatre
9:00 NFB Presents
9:30 Just Down the Street
10:00 Amateur Naturalist
10:30 Going Great
11:00 Magic Palace
11:30 Zig Zag
noon Nuggets
12:30 Reach for the Top
1:00 This Week in Ontario
1:30 Fame Game
2:00 Labatt's Original Six Hockey Heroes: Chicago v Montreal
3:00 World Cup Skiing
4:00 CBC SportsWeekend
6:00 News
6:30 Family Ties
7:00 Simon & Simon
8:00 HNIC: Washington-Toronto
11:00 The National
11:15 Provincial Affairs
11:20 News
11:45 New Music
12:45 Movie "The Jazz Singer" (the Neil Diamond version from 1980)
WHEC 10-CBS Rochester
6:00 Kidsworld
6:30 Porky Pig & Friends
7:30 Woody Woodpecker & Friends
8:30 Bugs Bunny & Friends
9:30 Dungeons & Dragons
10:00 Plasticman
10:30 Charlie Brown & Snoopy
11:00 Benji, Zax & the Alien Prince
11:30 Greatest Sports Legends
noon NFL Today
12:30 NFL: NY Giants-Washington
3:30 NCAA Basketball: Louisville-NC State
6:00 News
6:30 Star Trek
7:30 Muppet Show
8:00 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
9:00 Movie "Rocky II"
11:30 News
mid. Battlestar Galactica
1:00 Movie "Shadow of Fear"
2:30 Black Music Magazine
CHCH 11-Ind Hamilton
5:00 Eyesat: Ophthalmology
6:00 Adventure Outdoors
6:30 Circle Square
7:00 Dale Harney (Magic Palace, from CFAC Calgary)
8:00 Harrigan
8:30 Snelgrove Snail
9:00 Greek Panorama
10:00 Hispanovision
10:30 Ready, Set, Grow
11:00 Creative Hands
11:30 Mohawk Presents: Counterpoint
noon Ski West
12:30 Outdoors Unlimited
1:00 Maple Leaf Wrestling
2:00 OUAA Basketball: Naismith Tournament consolation game (at Waterloo)
4:00 Bonspiel '84 (curling)
5:00 Labatt's Original Six Hockey Heroes: Detroit v Montreal
6:00 News
6:30 Ein Prosit
7:00 Entertainment This Week
8:00 T.J. Hooker
9:00 Movie "Saturn 3"
11:00 News
11:30 Just Jazz
mid. Movie "Adventures of the Queen"
2:00 Movie "Betrayal"
CKWS 11-CBC Kingston
9:00 Circle Square
9:30 Amateur Naturalist
10:00 Harrigan
10:30 Oceans Alive
11:00 100 Huntley Street
noon Third Story
12:30 Going Great
1:00 20 Minute Workout
1:30 Jack Webster
2:00 This Week in Ontario
2:30 Don Cherry's Grapevine (produced by future Dragon/Shark Kevin O'Leary's production company)
3:00 World Cup Skiing
4:00 CBC SportsWeekend
6:00 Life
6:30 Community Journal
7:00 Tommy Hunter
8:00 HNIC: Washington-Toronto
11:00 The National
11:15 Provincial Affairs
11:20 News
11:45 Movie "Bittersweet Love"
1:45 Movie "It Started at Naples"
CHEX 12-CBC Peterborough
8:30 Snelgrove Snail
9:00 Circle Square
9:30 Old Time Gospel Hour
10:30 Harrigan
11:00 Rocket Robin Hood
11:30 Christmas is for Kids
noon Spiderman
12:30 Sportsbeat
1:00 Travel Show
1:30 Durham Magazine
2:00 Red Fisher
2:30 Weekend
3:00 World Cup Skiing
4:00 CBC SportsWeekend
6:00 A-Team
7:00 Tommy Hunter
8:00 HNIC: Washington-Toronto
11:00 The National
11:15 Provincial Affairs
11:20 News
11:35 This Week in Ontario
mid. Movie "Fail Safe"
CKCO 13-CTV Kitchener
6:30 Joys of Collecting
7:00 Willy & Floyd
7:30 Tree House
8:00 Oopsy the Clown (I've also seen it listed as Oopsy Daisy)
8:30 Storytime
9:00 Let's Go!
9:30 Swiss Family Robinson
10:00 Wild Refuge
10:30 Travel '83
11:00 Open Roads
11:30 Red Fisher
noon Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
1:00 Battlestar Galactica
2:00 CTV Wide World of Sports
4:00 NFL: Cincinnati-Minnesota
7:00 Romeo & Juliet on Ice
8:00 The Steeler & the Pittsburgh Kid (no description listed, what's the story on this? ???)
9:00 Movie "Rocky II"
11:30 CTV National News
11:50 News
12:30 Movie "GI Blues"
2:30 Movie "Shadow of the Hawk"
4:30 In Search of...
WOKR 13-ABC Rochester
7:00 Breath of Life
7:30 Best of Scooby-Doo
8:00 Happy Days
8:30 Monchhichi/Little Rascals/Richie Rich
9:30 Pac-Man/Rubik the Amazing Cube/Menudo
10:30 Littles
11:00 Puppy/Scooby-Doo/ABC Schoolhouse Rock
noon ABC Weekend Special "The Secret World of Og" (conclusion)
12:30 Coca-Cola Adult-Child Tourney (bowling)
1:30 Pioneer Bowl
4:30 More Real People
5:00 ABC Wide World of Sports
6:30 News
7:00 Lawrence Welk
8:00 T.J. Hooker
9:00 Love Boat
10:00 Perry Como's Christmas in New York
11:00 News
11:30 ABC News
11:45 Movie "Four for Texas"
WNED 17-PBS Buffalo
7:55 Weather Radio (and at 8:55)
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Woodwright's Shop
10:30 All-New This Old House
11:00 Housewarming with Charlie Wing
11:30 Dinner at Julia's
noon Magic of Oil Painting
12:30 Victory Garden
1:00 Antiques & Americana
1:30 Signing with Cindy
2:00 Nova
3:00 Nature
4:00 Matinee at the Bijou: I'd Give My Life (film)/Star Reporter (short)/A Little Bird Told Me (cartoon)/Mystery Squadron (serial-pt 5)
5:30 Newton's Apple
6:00 Masterpiece Theatre
7:00 Inside Albany
7:30 Agronsky & Company
8:00 Jacques Cousteau (studying dolphins in the Straits of Gibraltar and in Mauritania)
9:00 Cosmos
10:00 Movie "The Gathering"
mid. Weather Radio
CICA 19-TVO Toronto
8:30 Polka Dot Door
9:00 Cucumber
9:30 Media & Methods of the Artist
10:00 Down to Earth
10:30 Championship Bridge
11:00 Pins & Needles
11:30 Half-a-Handy Hour
noon Computer Academy
12:30 Academy with Jack Livesley: On Computers
1:00 Silk Bandit
1:30 Just What I Need (implications of Ontario's Bill 82, which states that all exceptional kids have the right to an education suiting their needs and abilities)
2:00 Understanding Human Behavior
2:30 Fields of Endless Day (Canadian black history)
3:30 Three Families
4:30 Kidsbeat
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Polka Dot Door
6:30 Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
7:00 Doctor Who "Warrior's Gate" (pt 1)
7:30 Questors
8:00 Movie "A Man Called Peter" (the story of Scottish clergyman Peter Marshall, Chaplain to the US Senate)
10:05 Conversations (Elwy Yost discusses religion in cinema and in reality with Charles Templeton and The Robe art director Lyle Wheeler)
10:30 Movie "Climb the Highest Mountain"
mid. Conversations (r)
12:30 Movie Show
CBLFT 25-SRC Toronto
7:25 Samedi-Jeunes
7:30 Calimero
7:45 Grisu le petit dragon
8:00 Nils Holgersson
8:30 Passe-Partout
9:00 Remi (this anime has been swapped back and forth between SRC and Tele-Quebec/Radio-Quebec over the years; the theme was sung by Rene Simard)
9:30 Candy
10:00 Ulysse 31 (Ulysses 31)
10:30 La vallee secrete
11:00 Les heros du samedi (youth sports; CBC had a short-lived anglo version of the show, Saturday's Heroes, in the late 60s)
11:30 La semaine Parlementaire a Ottawa
12:30 NFL: NY Giants-Washington (using CBS footage with SRC's own announcers)
3:30 D'hier a demain
4:00 Bagatelle
5:00 La course autour du monde
6:00 Le Telejournal
6:05 Impacts
7:00 Le monde merveilleux de Disney (Wonderful World of Disney)
8:00 Cinema "Le jouet"
10:30 Le Telejournal
10:50 Nouvelles du sport
11:05 La politique federale
11:15 Cinema "La route semee d'etoiles"
1:30 Cinema "L'avare"
WUTV 29-Ind Buffalo
7:00 700 Club
8:30 People with People
9:00 Dimensions
9:30 In League with You
10:00 Perceptions
10:30 It's Your Business
11:00 TBA
11:30 Wild Kingdom
noon Wrestling
1:00 Movie "The Cape Town Affair"
3:00 Movie "The Foxes of Harrow"
5:00 Movie "Theatre of Blood"
7:00 Fame
8:00 Florida Citrus Bowl: at Orlando, Tennessee 30-Maryland 23 (now called the Capital One Bowl)
11:00 Movie "Heaven Can Wait"
1:00 Movie "File of Thelma Jordan"
CFMT 47-Ind/Ethnic Toronto (IDed as MTV on-air)
5:30 Portugal Today
6:30 Alpen Journal
7:00 Armenian Heritage
7:30 Filipinesca
8:00 Jimmy Swaggart
9:00 PTL Club
10:00 Faith That Lives
10:30 Asian Talkies
noon Ukrainian Magazine
1:00 Signs of the Times
1:30 MTV Rockline
2:00 Movie "Daleks: Invasion Earth" (Doctor Who, with Peter Cushing as the Doc)
4:00 World Soccer
6:00 Movie "Dear Brigitte"
8:00 Black World
9:00 German Carousel
10:00 Dutch Magazine
11:00 Spanish Magazine
mid. Italian Movie
2:00 Movie "Passionate Stranger" (aka A Novel Affair)
4:00 Movie "The Moonraker"
CITY 57-Ind Toronto
6:30 Seneca Telecollege
7:00 Rocket Robin Hood (1 hr)
8:00 Alpen Journal (you read that right, both CITY and MTV 47 ran this)
8:30 Veronica
9:30 Sabor Latino
10:00 Greek Festival
10:30 Rocket Robin Hood (1 hr)
11:30 Waterville Gang
noon Ski Base (CKVR and CITY were sister stations at the time)
12:30 George
1:00 Portraits of Power
1:30 Half-a-Handy Hour
2:00 20 Minute Workout
2:30 Chairman of the Board
3:00 Amazing Kreskin
3:30 Peter Appleyard
4:00 Music Circle
4:30 Home Cookin'
5:00 Solid Gold
6:00 CityLights (guest: producer/director Peter Yates)
6:30 20 Minute Workout
7:00 CHUM 30
8:00 Stereovision (videos from Black Sabbath, Mugsy, and Hateful Snake)
8:30 Enterprise (lawyer Eddie Greenspan on "Do you know your rights?")
10:00 CityPulse Tonight
10:30 New Music
11:30 Wild Rider (Matt Dillon hosts this program which puts America's most spectacular rides to music)
mid. Don't Knock the Rock (featuring Jerry Lee Lewis, the Animals, Gene Vincent, and Little Richard)
1:00 CityLimits (all-night music videos, with future MuchMusic VJ Christopher Ward)
Over on the paynets...
First Choice
6:00 Movie "Six Weeks"
8:00 Movie "Mystery of the Million Dollar Hockey Puck"
9:30 A Cosmic Christmas (three aliens head for Earth to look for the star of Bethlehem)
10:00 Shari Ulrich: Talk Around Town
11:30 Movie "It Came from Hollywood"
1:00 Earth Odyssey
2:00 Movie "First Monday in October"
4:00 Movie "Headin' for Broadway"
5:30 BC: A Special Christmas
6:00 Movie "Six Pack"
8:00 Movie "Six Weeks"
10:00 Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip
11:30 Movie "Night of the Juggler"
1:30 Movie "Scandale"
3:30 Movie "Running Scared"
Superchannel
6:00 Superchannel for Superkids
9:00 Movie "Threshold"
11:00 Movie "On the Nickel" (starring, and written/produced/directed by Ralph Waite)
1:00 Movie "Chariots of Fire"
3:00 Movie "Honky Tonk Freeway"
5:00 Cleo Laine in Concert
6:00 Movie "Six Weeks"
8:00 Movie "Threshold"
10:00 Movie "Porky's"
11:30 Movie "Bilitis"
1:00 Movie "Laura"
2:30 Movie "All in Good Taste"
4:00 Movie "Suzanne"
