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Retro: Toronto/Southern Ontario Sat, Dec 17, 1983

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 Spider-Man/Incredible Hulk
12:30 Thundarr the Barbarian
1:00 Buffalo: Up Close
1:30 Solid Gold Christmas Special (top 40 Christmas tunes)
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 (listed as 1 hr; I always thought this was 30 min?)
11:00 Forest Rangers
11:30 My Three Sons
noon Oceans Alive
12:30 This Week in Ontario
1:00 Showbiz
1:30 Your Wealth
2:00 Wrestling
3:00 World Cup Skiing: women's downhill from 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 NHL: Washington-Toronto
11:00 CBC News/Provincial Affairs/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 Roday
12:30 NFL: NY Giants-Washington
3:30 College 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 (the singer is joined by 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 (highlighting his 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 NHL: Washington-Toronto
11:00 CBC News/Provincial Affairs/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 Eicheid
11:00 Lottario draw
11:05 Global News
11:30 Sportsline
mid. Movie "The Red Tent"
2:30 Movie "Kid Millions"

CJOH 6-CTV Deseronto
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 (CTV's details were not listed)
4:00 NFL: Cincinnati-Minnesota
7:00 Romeo & Juliet on Ice
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 (segments on Genesis, Ring Chamber, Clarence Clemons, Spoons, Chaz Jankel, and David Bowie)
12:30 Movie "Damien: Omen II"
2:44 Movie "The Long Riders" (featuring 4 sets of brother actors: James & Stacy Keach (who also co-produced the film with Tim Zinnemann, James' son Kalen was also in the film); David, Keith & Robert Carradine (and an uncredited appearance by Robert's daughter Ever); Dennis & Randy Quaid; and Chrstopher & Nicholas Guest)

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 & Scrappy-Doo/ABC Schoolhouse Rock
noon Secret World of Og (conclusion)
12:30 Challenge
1:00 Real to Reel
1:30 College Football: NCAA I-AA championship, Southern Illinois 43-Western Carolina 7 (at Charleston SC)
4:00 Bills Highlights
5:00 ABC Wide World of Sports: WBA bantamweight title bout: champ Jeff Chandler v Oscar Muniz/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 (guest Michele Lee)
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
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 NHL: Washington-Toronto
11:00 CBC News/Provincial Affairs/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 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 College Basketball: Memphis State-UCLA
1:00 Movie "The Lost Man"

CFTO 9-CTV Toronto
6:00 Cartoon Playhouse
7:00 Uncle Bobby
7:30 Professor Kitzel
8:00 Romper Room
8:30 Storytime
9:00 Let's Go!
9:30 Funtown
10:30 Flintstones
11:00 TBA
noon Children Running Out of Time
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 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 NHL: Washington-Toronto
11:00 CBC News/Provincial Affairs/News
11:45 New Music
12:45 Movie "The Jazz Singer"

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 College 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: Ophthamology
6:00 Adventure Outdoors
6:30 Circle Square
7:00 Dale Harney (Magic Palace)
7:30 Zig Zag
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
4:00 Bonspiel '84
5:00 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 (Grapes is a native of Kingston)
3:00 World Cup Skiing
4:00 CBC SportsWeekend
6:00 Life
6:30 Community Journal
7:00 Tommy Hunter
8:00 NHL: Washington-Toronto
11:00 CBC News/Provincial Affairs/News
11:45 Movie "Bittersweet Love"
1:45 Movie "It Started in 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 NHL: Washington-Toronto
11:00 CBC News/Provincial Affairs/News
11:35 This Week in Ontario
mid. Movie "Fail Safe"

CKCO 13-CTV Kitchener
6:00 University of the Air
6:30 Joys of Collecting
7:00 Willy & Floyd
7:30 Tree House
8:00 Oopsy the Clown
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 (based on the popular Coke ad starring Mean Joe Greene; IMDB has more info at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0257199/)
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/Rascals/Richie Rich
9:30 Pac-Man/Rubik the Amazing Cube/Menudo
10:30 Littles
11:00 Puppy/Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/ABC Schoolhouse Rock
noon Secret World of Og (conclusion)
12:30 Coca-Cola Adult-Child Tourney bowling
1:30 College Football: NCAA I-AA Championship
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 & 8:55 Weather Radio
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"/"Star Reporter"/"A Little Bird Told Me"/"Mystery Squadron" pt 5
5:30 Newton's Apple
6:00 Masterpiece Theatre
7:00 Inside Albany
7:30 Agronsky & Company
8:00 Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau (studying dolphins in Gibraltar and 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
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"
10:05 Conversations (religion in cinema and in reality, with The Robe art director Lyle Wheeler and ex-evangelist/writer/broadcaster Charles Templeton)
10:30 Movie "I'd Climb the Highest Mountain"
mid. Conversations
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
9:30 Candy
10:00 Ulysse 31
10:30 La vallee secrete
11:00 Les heros du samedi
11:30 La semaine Parlementaire a Ottawa
12:30 NFL: NY Giants-Washington
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 Wall Street Journal Report
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: Tennessee 30-Maryland 23, at Orlando
11:00 Movie "Heaven Can Wait"
1:00 Movie "File of Thelma Jordan"

CFMT 47-Ind/Ethnic Toronto
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 (47 IDed as MTV)
2:00 Movie "Daleks: Invasion Earth" (Doctor Who film from 1966)
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"
4:00 Movie "The Moonraker" (not the Bond flick, this was set in 1650s England)

CITY 57-Ind Toronto
6:30 Seneca Telecollege
7:00 Rocket Robin Hood (1 hr)
8:00 Alpen Journal
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
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 Peter Yates)
6:30 20 Minute Workout
7:00 CHUM 30
8:00 Stereovision (with Black Sabbath, Mugsy, and Hateful Snake)
8:30 Enterprise
10:00 CityPulse Tonight
10:30 New Music
11:30 Wild Rider (Matt Dillon narrates a look at thrill rides across the US)
mid. Don't Knock the Rock (with Jerry Lee Lewis, the Animals, Gene Vincent and Little Richard)
1:00 CityLimits (live all-night videos, with future Much VJ Christopher Ward)
 
Listings for the paynets...

First Choice
6:00 Movie "Six Weeks"
8:00 Movie "Mystery of the Million Dollar Hockey Puck"
9:30 A Cosmic Christmas
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" (Ralph Waite wore multiple hats: star, writer, producer, and director on this film)
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"
 
mysticnitekatt said:
Bluenoser said:
from Toronto Globe & Mail

WGRZ 2-NBC Buffalo
11:30 Movie "Miracle on 34th Street"

Buffalo didn't clear SNL?

That being said, was the college basketball game on WROC syndicated or NBC's? As it was a game involving UCLA, maybe the game was airing on the network instead of SNL that week.
 
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