from TV Guide-Bristol/Kingsport/Johnson City edition
WSJK 2-PBS Sneedville
8:00 GED
9:00 Human Developement & Learning
10:00 Focus on Society
11:00 Understanding Human Behavior
noon Professional Growth
12:30 Hometime
1:00 Frugal Gourmet
1:30 Victory Garden
2:00 Justin Wilson's Louisiana Cookin'
2:30 Collectors
3:00 MotorWeek '88
3:30 New Southern Cooking with Nathalie Dupree
4:00 Infinite Voyage "Unseen Worlds" (first aired in 1987)
5:00 National Geographic
6:00 Wild America
6:30 Innovation "Picture Perfect" (look at HDTV)
7:00 DeGrassi Junior High
7:30 Ramona
8:00 Upstairs, Downstairs
9:00 Lawrence Welk
10:00 Doctor Who "The Gunfighters" (bw/William Hartnell as the Doc)
11:30 Benny Hill
mid. sign-off
WYFF 4-NBC Greenville
5:00 Headline News
6:00 Agriculture in Action
6:30 Kissyfur
7:00 Chipmunks
7:30 Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers
8:30 Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
9:00 Smurfs
10:00 ALF
11:00 Wrestling (no fed listed)
noon College Football: Georgia Tech-Virginia
3:00 USA Today
4:00 1988 Summer Olympics
7:00 News
7:30 1988 Summer Olympics
mid. News
12:30 1988 Summer Olympics
2:30 Headline News
WCYB 5-NBC Bristol
7:00 Rural Tenneva
7:30 Uncle Waldo
8:00 Kissyfur
8:30 Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
9:00 Smurfs
10:00 ALF
11:00 Chipmunks
11:30 Completely Mental Misdaventures of Ed Grimley
noon 2 Hip 4 TV
1:00 Baseball Pre-Game
1:15 Baseball: Yankees-Boston (alt game: San Francisco-Houston)
4:00 1988 Summer Olympics
7:00 News
7:30 1988 Summer Olympics
mid. News
12:30 1988 Summer Olympics
2:30 sign-off
WATE 6-ABC Knoxville
6:00 Poor Man's Fishin'
6:30 Better Way
7:00 BJ/Lobo
8:00 Beany & Cecil
8:30 New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
9:30 Slimer! & the Real Ghostbusters
10:30 Pup Named Scooby-Doo
11:00 Bugs Bunny & Tweety
noon Infomercial (Natural Weight Loss)
12:30 College Football: LSU-Tennessee
3:30 College Football: Miami-Michigan
7:00 Andy Griffith (bw/guest star Don Rickles plays a peddler)
7:30 Diff'rent Strokes
8:00 California Girls (profiling Californian career women including neurosurgeons, Olympic athletes, US military pilots, surfers, actresses, models, and choreographers)
9:00 Movie "California Girls" (a Jersey mechanic and his dream girl on the West Coast)
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (colorized)
1:30 ABC News
1:45 sign-off
WBIR 10-NBC Knoxville
6:00 In Touch
6:30 Dukes of Hazzard
7:30 Variety Showcase
8:00 Kissyfur
8:30 Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
9:00 Smurfs
10:00 ALF
11:00 Chipmunks
11:30 Completely Mental Adventures of Ed Grimley
noon 2 Hip 4 TV
1:00 Baseball Pre-Game
1:15 Baseball: Yankees-Boston (alt game: San Francisco-Houston)
4:00 1988 Summer Olympics
7:00 News
7:30 1988 Summer Olympics
mid. News
12:30 1988 Summer Olympics
2:30 Home Shopping Overnight Service
WJHL 11-CBS Johnson City
7:00 Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin
7:30 Kidsongs
8:00 Adventures of Raggedy Ann & Andy (premiere)
8:30 Superman (premiere)
9:00 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
10:00 Pee-wee's Playhouse
10:30 Garfield & Friends (premiere)
11:00 Hey, Vern, It's Ernest! (premiere)
11:30 Flip! (premiere)
noon Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures
12:30 CBS StoryBreak
1:00 POWW Wrestling
2:00 Southern Conference Today
2:30 College Football: Florida State-Clemson
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Hee Haw (co-host Barbara Mandrell/guests Exile, Dan Seals, and Hillbilly Jim)
8:00 Jackie Gleason: The Great One (hosts John Candy, Art Carney, Jane Curtin, Teri Garr, and John Larroquette recall the career of the TV legend)
10:00 West 57th
11:00 News
11:30 Benny Hill (that's right...both the Tri-Cities PBS and CBS stations ran Benny at 11:30)
mid. Magnum, PI
1:00 sign-off
WLOS 13-ABC Knoxville
5:55 Farm Bureau Report
6:00 Wonder Woman
7:00 Kidsongs
7:30 Our Gang (bw)
8:00 Beany & Cecil
8:30 New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
9:30 Slimer! & the Real Ghostbusters
10:30 Pup Named Scooby-Doo
11:00 WWF Wrestling
noon College Football: Notre Dame-Michigan State
3:30 College Football: Miami-Michigan
7:00 News
7:30 Jeopardy!
8:00 California Girls
9:00 Movie "California Girls"
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Paradise Alley"
1:30 Infomercial (Sunglasses)
2:00 A-Team
3:00 News
3:30 sign-off
WKPT 19-ABC Kingsport
5:00 Hit Video USA
5:55 Farm Digest
6:00 Omni Presents
6:30 Town Crier
7:00 Transformers
7:30 Johnny Majors (Tennessee football)
8:00 Beany & Cecil
8:30 New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
9:30 Slimer! & the Real Ghostbusters
10:30 Pup Named Scooby-Doo
11:00 Bugs Bunny & Tweety
noon America's Top 10
12:30 College Football: LSU-Tennessee
3:30 College Football: Miami-Michigan
7:00 Star Trek: The Next Generation
8:00 California Girls
9:00 Movie "California Girls"
11:00 1968-Year to Remember (looking back at the year's news events)
mid. Movie "Nadia"
2:00 ABC News
2:15 Hit Video USA (19 ran this 7 nights a week in overnight)
WTVK 26-CBS Knoxville
6:20 Farm Digest
6:30 Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater
7:00 Riders of the Silver Screen (bw)
8:30 Superman (premiere)
9:00 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
10:00 Pee-wee's Playhouse
10:30 Garfield & Friends (premiere)
11:00 College Football: Wingate v Carson-Newman
2:00 Ken Sparks (Carson-Newman football, highlights of the preceding game)
2:30 College Football: Florida State-Clemson
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 She's the Sheriff
7:30 Mama's Family
8:00 Jackie Gleason: The Great One
10:00 West 57th
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Countdown to Looking Glass"
1:30 It's a Living
2:00 sign-off
WETO 39-Fox Greeneville
6:00 Bullwinkle
7:30 Visionaries
8:00 Movie "The Outlaw" (colorized)
10:00 Riders of the Silver Screen (bw)
11:30 Infomercial (Can You Beat Baldness?)
noon This Week in Baseball
12:30 Infomercial (Easy Way to Lose Weight)
1:00 Movie "Blood Suckers"
3:00 Movie "Semi-Tough"
5:00 WWF Wrestling
6:00 MTV Video Music Awards (Arsenio Hall hosts the 5th annual awards, taped September 7th in LA; performers/presenters include Rod Stewart, Cher, INXS, Depeche Mode, Crowded House, Aerosmith, Jody Watley, the Fat Boys, Cyndi Lauper, Belinda Carlisle, Teri Garr, Eric Roberts, and Paul Reiser)
8:00 Reporters (report on the Teamsters...Jimmy Hoffa is mentioned, as well as alleged links to organized crime)
9:00 Beyond Tomorrow (personal flying saucers/Swedish nuclear-waste storage/a drug that may inhibit alcoholism/a land vehicle that drives itself/racing tires for street cars/piano teaching innovations)
10:00 Wrestling (fed not listed)
11:00 Making Gorillas in the Mist (behind-the-scenes of the movie's filming)
11:30 Movie "The Black Torment"
1:30 sign-off
WKCH 43-Fox Knoxville
6:00 Comic Strip (whole week in one shot)
8:30 Visionaries
9:00 Slime Time
9:30 Treasure Mall
10:00 Videmart Home Shopping
11:00 WWF Wrestling
noon Movie "Francis Joins the Wacs" (bw)
2:00 Movie "Casanova's Big Night"
3:30 Honeymooners (bw)
4:00 Battlestar Galactica
5:00 Infomercial (Easy Way to Lose Weight)
5:30 Charles in Charge
6:00 Star Trek: The Next Generation
7:00 Friday the 13th: The Series
8:00 Reporters
9:00 Beyond Tomorrow
10:00 Hawaii Five-O
11:00 Movie "The Skull"
1:00 sign-off
Blue Ridge Public Television (PBS): WSBN 47-Norton/WMSY 52-Marion
8:30 Body Electric
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10:30 Reading Rainbow
11:00 Canada: True North "The Relationship" (looks at Canada-US Relations)
noon One Village in China (pt 1, looking at the new roles of Chinese women)
1:00 Frugal Gourmet
1:30 Victory Garden
2:00 Justin Wilson's Louisiana Cookin'
2:30 Collectors
3:00 MotorWeek '88
3:30 Madeleine Cooks
4:00 Mystery! "Cover Her Face" (pt 3/Adam Dalgliesh, produced by Anglia Television in eastern England)
5:00 Cookin' Cheap
5:30 Pizza Gourmet
6:00 Ramona (premiere, this was a 10-part series, with Sarah Polley in the title role)
6:30 Louis Rukeyser's 1988 Election Guide
7:30 Modern Maturity
8:00 Lawrence Welk
9:00 Wild America
9:30 Sea Turtles' Last Dance (looks at their declining population)
10:00 Alive from Off Center (La La La Human Steps/Montreal Danse)
10:30 Video Rock
11:00 sign-off
WSJK 2-PBS Sneedville
8:00 GED
9:00 Human Developement & Learning
10:00 Focus on Society
11:00 Understanding Human Behavior
noon Professional Growth
12:30 Hometime
1:00 Frugal Gourmet
1:30 Victory Garden
2:00 Justin Wilson's Louisiana Cookin'
2:30 Collectors
3:00 MotorWeek '88
3:30 New Southern Cooking with Nathalie Dupree
4:00 Infinite Voyage "Unseen Worlds" (first aired in 1987)
5:00 National Geographic
6:00 Wild America
6:30 Innovation "Picture Perfect" (look at HDTV)
7:00 DeGrassi Junior High
7:30 Ramona
8:00 Upstairs, Downstairs
9:00 Lawrence Welk
10:00 Doctor Who "The Gunfighters" (bw/William Hartnell as the Doc)
11:30 Benny Hill
mid. sign-off
WYFF 4-NBC Greenville
5:00 Headline News
6:00 Agriculture in Action
6:30 Kissyfur
7:00 Chipmunks
7:30 Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers
8:30 Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
9:00 Smurfs
10:00 ALF
11:00 Wrestling (no fed listed)
noon College Football: Georgia Tech-Virginia
3:00 USA Today
4:00 1988 Summer Olympics
7:00 News
7:30 1988 Summer Olympics
mid. News
12:30 1988 Summer Olympics
2:30 Headline News
WCYB 5-NBC Bristol
7:00 Rural Tenneva
7:30 Uncle Waldo
8:00 Kissyfur
8:30 Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
9:00 Smurfs
10:00 ALF
11:00 Chipmunks
11:30 Completely Mental Misdaventures of Ed Grimley
noon 2 Hip 4 TV
1:00 Baseball Pre-Game
1:15 Baseball: Yankees-Boston (alt game: San Francisco-Houston)
4:00 1988 Summer Olympics
7:00 News
7:30 1988 Summer Olympics
mid. News
12:30 1988 Summer Olympics
2:30 sign-off
WATE 6-ABC Knoxville
6:00 Poor Man's Fishin'
6:30 Better Way
7:00 BJ/Lobo
8:00 Beany & Cecil
8:30 New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
9:30 Slimer! & the Real Ghostbusters
10:30 Pup Named Scooby-Doo
11:00 Bugs Bunny & Tweety
noon Infomercial (Natural Weight Loss)
12:30 College Football: LSU-Tennessee
3:30 College Football: Miami-Michigan
7:00 Andy Griffith (bw/guest star Don Rickles plays a peddler)
7:30 Diff'rent Strokes
8:00 California Girls (profiling Californian career women including neurosurgeons, Olympic athletes, US military pilots, surfers, actresses, models, and choreographers)
9:00 Movie "California Girls" (a Jersey mechanic and his dream girl on the West Coast)
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (colorized)
1:30 ABC News
1:45 sign-off
WBIR 10-NBC Knoxville
6:00 In Touch
6:30 Dukes of Hazzard
7:30 Variety Showcase
8:00 Kissyfur
8:30 Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
9:00 Smurfs
10:00 ALF
11:00 Chipmunks
11:30 Completely Mental Adventures of Ed Grimley
noon 2 Hip 4 TV
1:00 Baseball Pre-Game
1:15 Baseball: Yankees-Boston (alt game: San Francisco-Houston)
4:00 1988 Summer Olympics
7:00 News
7:30 1988 Summer Olympics
mid. News
12:30 1988 Summer Olympics
2:30 Home Shopping Overnight Service
WJHL 11-CBS Johnson City
7:00 Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin
7:30 Kidsongs
8:00 Adventures of Raggedy Ann & Andy (premiere)
8:30 Superman (premiere)
9:00 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
10:00 Pee-wee's Playhouse
10:30 Garfield & Friends (premiere)
11:00 Hey, Vern, It's Ernest! (premiere)
11:30 Flip! (premiere)
noon Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures
12:30 CBS StoryBreak
1:00 POWW Wrestling
2:00 Southern Conference Today
2:30 College Football: Florida State-Clemson
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Hee Haw (co-host Barbara Mandrell/guests Exile, Dan Seals, and Hillbilly Jim)
8:00 Jackie Gleason: The Great One (hosts John Candy, Art Carney, Jane Curtin, Teri Garr, and John Larroquette recall the career of the TV legend)
10:00 West 57th
11:00 News
11:30 Benny Hill (that's right...both the Tri-Cities PBS and CBS stations ran Benny at 11:30)
mid. Magnum, PI
1:00 sign-off
WLOS 13-ABC Knoxville
5:55 Farm Bureau Report
6:00 Wonder Woman
7:00 Kidsongs
7:30 Our Gang (bw)
8:00 Beany & Cecil
8:30 New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
9:30 Slimer! & the Real Ghostbusters
10:30 Pup Named Scooby-Doo
11:00 WWF Wrestling
noon College Football: Notre Dame-Michigan State
3:30 College Football: Miami-Michigan
7:00 News
7:30 Jeopardy!
8:00 California Girls
9:00 Movie "California Girls"
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Paradise Alley"
1:30 Infomercial (Sunglasses)
2:00 A-Team
3:00 News
3:30 sign-off
WKPT 19-ABC Kingsport
5:00 Hit Video USA
5:55 Farm Digest
6:00 Omni Presents
6:30 Town Crier
7:00 Transformers
7:30 Johnny Majors (Tennessee football)
8:00 Beany & Cecil
8:30 New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
9:30 Slimer! & the Real Ghostbusters
10:30 Pup Named Scooby-Doo
11:00 Bugs Bunny & Tweety
noon America's Top 10
12:30 College Football: LSU-Tennessee
3:30 College Football: Miami-Michigan
7:00 Star Trek: The Next Generation
8:00 California Girls
9:00 Movie "California Girls"
11:00 1968-Year to Remember (looking back at the year's news events)
mid. Movie "Nadia"
2:00 ABC News
2:15 Hit Video USA (19 ran this 7 nights a week in overnight)
WTVK 26-CBS Knoxville
6:20 Farm Digest
6:30 Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater
7:00 Riders of the Silver Screen (bw)
8:30 Superman (premiere)
9:00 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
10:00 Pee-wee's Playhouse
10:30 Garfield & Friends (premiere)
11:00 College Football: Wingate v Carson-Newman
2:00 Ken Sparks (Carson-Newman football, highlights of the preceding game)
2:30 College Football: Florida State-Clemson
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 She's the Sheriff
7:30 Mama's Family
8:00 Jackie Gleason: The Great One
10:00 West 57th
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Countdown to Looking Glass"
1:30 It's a Living
2:00 sign-off
WETO 39-Fox Greeneville
6:00 Bullwinkle
7:30 Visionaries
8:00 Movie "The Outlaw" (colorized)
10:00 Riders of the Silver Screen (bw)
11:30 Infomercial (Can You Beat Baldness?)
noon This Week in Baseball
12:30 Infomercial (Easy Way to Lose Weight)
1:00 Movie "Blood Suckers"
3:00 Movie "Semi-Tough"
5:00 WWF Wrestling
6:00 MTV Video Music Awards (Arsenio Hall hosts the 5th annual awards, taped September 7th in LA; performers/presenters include Rod Stewart, Cher, INXS, Depeche Mode, Crowded House, Aerosmith, Jody Watley, the Fat Boys, Cyndi Lauper, Belinda Carlisle, Teri Garr, Eric Roberts, and Paul Reiser)
8:00 Reporters (report on the Teamsters...Jimmy Hoffa is mentioned, as well as alleged links to organized crime)
9:00 Beyond Tomorrow (personal flying saucers/Swedish nuclear-waste storage/a drug that may inhibit alcoholism/a land vehicle that drives itself/racing tires for street cars/piano teaching innovations)
10:00 Wrestling (fed not listed)
11:00 Making Gorillas in the Mist (behind-the-scenes of the movie's filming)
11:30 Movie "The Black Torment"
1:30 sign-off
WKCH 43-Fox Knoxville
6:00 Comic Strip (whole week in one shot)
8:30 Visionaries
9:00 Slime Time
9:30 Treasure Mall
10:00 Videmart Home Shopping
11:00 WWF Wrestling
noon Movie "Francis Joins the Wacs" (bw)
2:00 Movie "Casanova's Big Night"
3:30 Honeymooners (bw)
4:00 Battlestar Galactica
5:00 Infomercial (Easy Way to Lose Weight)
5:30 Charles in Charge
6:00 Star Trek: The Next Generation
7:00 Friday the 13th: The Series
8:00 Reporters
9:00 Beyond Tomorrow
10:00 Hawaii Five-O
11:00 Movie "The Skull"
1:00 sign-off
Blue Ridge Public Television (PBS): WSBN 47-Norton/WMSY 52-Marion
8:30 Body Electric
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10:30 Reading Rainbow
11:00 Canada: True North "The Relationship" (looks at Canada-US Relations)
noon One Village in China (pt 1, looking at the new roles of Chinese women)
1:00 Frugal Gourmet
1:30 Victory Garden
2:00 Justin Wilson's Louisiana Cookin'
2:30 Collectors
3:00 MotorWeek '88
3:30 Madeleine Cooks
4:00 Mystery! "Cover Her Face" (pt 3/Adam Dalgliesh, produced by Anglia Television in eastern England)
5:00 Cookin' Cheap
5:30 Pizza Gourmet
6:00 Ramona (premiere, this was a 10-part series, with Sarah Polley in the title role)
6:30 Louis Rukeyser's 1988 Election Guide
7:30 Modern Maturity
8:00 Lawrence Welk
9:00 Wild America
9:30 Sea Turtles' Last Dance (looks at their declining population)
10:00 Alive from Off Center (La La La Human Steps/Montreal Danse)
10:30 Video Rock
11:00 sign-off
...didn't notice that when I proofread it, must have had Knoxville on the brain when I typed that ;D