Source: The Free Lance-Star - Fredricksburg, VA
Washington, DC Stations
WRC-4 (NBC)
AM
6:00 – Health Matters
6:30 – NBC News
6:45 – News
7:00 – Today
9:00 – Love Connection
9:30 – Super Password
10:00 – Family Ties
10:30 – Sale of the Century
11:00 – Wheel of Fortune
11:30 – Scrabble
PM
12:00 – Here’s Lucy
12:30 – Search for Tomorrow
1:00 – Days of Our Lives
2:00 – Another World
3:00 – Santa Barbara
4:00 – Hart to Hart
5:00 – News
6:00 – News
7:00 – NBC News
7:30 – Newlywed Game
8:00 – Cosby Show
8:30 – Family Ties
9:00 – Cheers
9:30 – Night Court
10:00 – Hill Street Blues
11:00 – News
11:30 – Tonight
AM
12:30 – Late Night with David Letterman
1:30 – The Price is Right (Syndicated)
WTTG-5 (Ind.)
AM
6:00 – Popeye
6:30 – Inspector Gadget
7:00 – Great Space Coaster
7:30 – Jayce & The Warriors
8:00 – Fat Albert
8:30 – Flintstones
9:00 – I Love Lucy
9:30 – Andy Griffith
10:00 – I Dream of Jeannie
10:30 – Bewitched
11:00 – Love Boat
PM
12:00 – Panorama
1:00 – Movie: “The Glass Slipper”
3:00 – Thundercats
3:30 – She-Ra
4:00 – He-Man
4:30 – G.I. Joe
5:00 – One Day at a Time
5:30 – Alice
6:00 – Gimme a Break!
6:30 – Too Close for Comfort
7:00 – Three’s Company
7:30 – M*A*S*H
8:00 – Movie: “All the Rivers Run”
10:00 – News
11:00 – WKRP in Cincinnati
11:30 – Kojak
AM
12:30 – The Saint
1:30 – Mission: Impossible
WJLA-7 (ABC)
AM
6:00 – ABC News
7:00 – Good Morning America
9:00 – People’s Court
9:30 – Headline Chasers
10:00 – Let’s Make a Deal
10:30 – Bruce Forsyth (Hot Streak)
11:00 – New Love, American Style
11:30 – Ryan’s Hope
PM
12:00 – News
12:30 – Loving
1:00 – All My Children
2:00 – One Life to Live
3:00 – General Hospital
4:00 - $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime
4:30 – Sale of the Century
5:00 – News
6:00 – News
6:30 – ABC News
7:00 – Jeopardy!
7:30 – Entertainment Tonight
8:00 – Movie: “Diner”
10:00 – 20/20
11:00 – News
11:30 – Nightline
AM
12:00 – Entertainment Tonight
12:30 – Movie: “Badlands”
WDVM-9 (CBS – would become WUSA on 7/4/86)
AM
5:00 – CBS News Nightwatch (Cont)
6:00 – CBS Early Morning News
6:30 – News
7:00 – CBS Morning News
9:00 – Donahue
10:00 – Carol Randolph
10:30 – Sally Jesse Raphael
11:00 – The Price is Right
PM
12:00 – News
12:30 – Young and the Restless
1:30 – As the World Turns
2:30 – Capitol
3:00 – Guiding Light
4:00 – Hour Magazine
5:00 – News
6:00 – News
7:00 – CBS News
7:30 – Wheel of Fortune
8:00 – Magnum P.I.
9:00 – Simon & Simon
10:00 – Knots Landing
11:00 – News
11:30 – Divorce Court
AM
12:00 – Night Heat
1:15 – Movie: “The Blade Master”
2:30 – CBS News Nightwatch
WDCA-20 (Ind.)
AM
5:30 – Jim and Tammy (Faye Bakker)
6:30 – Kid’s Break
7:00 – Tranzor
7:30 – Voltron
8:00 – Heathcliff
8:30 – Bugs Bunny and Friends
9:00 – Gilligan’s Island
9:30 – W.O.W!
10:00 – 700 Club
11:30 – Eye on Washington
PM
12:00 – Movie: “Not with My Wife, You Don’t”
2:00 – Wonder Woman
3:00 – Voltron
3:30 – M.A.S.K
4:00 – Challenge of the GoBots
4:30 – Transformers
5:00 – Diff’rent Strokes
5:30 – What’s Happening!!
6:00 – Jeffersons X2
7:00 – Jeffersons
7:30 – NBA Basketball: Washinton Bullets vs NJ Nets
10:00 – Starsky and Hutch
11:00 – Benny Hill
11:30 – Alfred Hitchcock
AM
12:00 – Alfred Hitchcock
12:30 – Jim and Tammy
1:30 – Jimmy Swaggart
2:00 – Independent News
2:30 – Gene Scott
WETA-26 (PBS)
AM
7:30 – Body Electric
8:00 – MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
9:00 – Sesame Street
10:00 – Sesame Street
11:00 – Mister Rogers
11:30 – 3-2-1 Contact
PM
12:00 – New Literacy
12:30 – Business File
1:00 – Pride of Place, Building the American Dream
2:00 – Open Mind
2:30 - Presents
3:00 – Mister Rogers
3:30 – Reading Rainbow
4:00 – Sesame Street
5:00 – Sesame Street
6:00 – 3-2-1 Contact
6:30 – Nightly Business Report
7:00 – MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
8:00 – Capitol Journal
8:30 – Profile of Nature
9:00 – Mystery! “Charters & Caldicott”
10:00 – Heritage Conversation with Bill Moyers
11:00 – Golden Years of Television
WHMM-32 (PBS, now WHUT)
AM
9:00 – Jagaerobics
9:30 – Secret City
10:00 – Today’s Special
10:30 – 3-2-1 Contact
11:00 – Mister Rogers
11:30 – Black Forum
PM
12:00 – MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
1:00 – Evening Exchange
2:00 – Firing Line
3:00 – This Old House
3:30 – Joy of Painting
4:00 – Star Performance: Peter Gunn
5:00 – I Spy
6:00 – MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
7:00 – Evening Exchange
8:00 – Profile in Greatness Martin Luther King, Jr: Amazing Grace
10:00 – Nova
11:00 – Star Performance: Peter Gunn
AM
12:00 – Nightly Business Report
WNVT-53 (Ind. Edu./Fairfax, VA, now broadcasts on DTV-30)
PM
3:00 – Earth Science for Teachers
3:30 – Body Electric
4:00 – Movie: “My Man Godfrey”
5:30 – Phantom Creeps
6:00 – We’re Cooking Now
6:30 – World of Animals
7:00 – Gourmet Cooking
7:30 – Capitol Events
8:00 – World War 2: GI Diary
8:30 – Modern Maturity
9:00 – Doctor’s on Call
9:30 – Parlez-vous Yupik?
Richmond, VA Stations
WTVR-6 (CBS)
5:00 – CBS News Nightwatch
6:00 – CBS Early Morning News
7:00 – CBS Morning News
9:00 – Perfect Match
9:30 – Let’s Make a Deal
10:00 – $25,000 Pyramid
10:30 – Card Sharks
11:00 – The Price is Right
PM
12:00 – Richmond Today
12:30 – Young and the Restless
1:30 – As the World Turns
2:30 – Capitol
3:00 – Guiding Light
4:00 – Divorce Court
4:30 – Love Connection
5:00 – Benson
5:30 – People’s Court
6:00 – News
6:30 – CBS News
7:00 – News
7:30 – Newlywed Game
8:00 – Magnum P.I.
9:00 – Simon & Simon
10:00 – Knots Landing
11:00 – News
11:30 – Night Heat
12:30 – Movie: “The Phoenix”
2:00 – CBS News Nightwatch
WXEX-8 (ABC, now WRIC)
AM
6:00 – Jimmy Swaggart
6:30 – ABC News
7:00 – Good Morning America
9:00 – Love Boat
10:00 – Hawaii Five-0
11:00 – Bruce Forsyth (Hot Streak)
11:30 – New Love, American Style
PM
12:00 – Ryan’s Hope
12:30 – Loving
1:00 – All My Children
2:00 – One Life to Live
3:00 – General Hospital
4:00 – Dallas
5:00 – Gimme a Break!
5:30 – Three’s Company
6:00 – News
6:30 – ABC News
7:00 – Wheel of Fortune
7:30 – Jeopardy!
8:00 – Movie: “Diner”
10:00 – 20/20
11:00 – News
11:30 – Nightline
AM
12:00 – Charlie’s Angels
1:00 – Headline Chasers
WWBT-12 (NBC)
AM
6:00 – NBC News
6:30 – News
7:00 – Today
9:00 – Donahue
10:00 – Family Ties
10:30 – Sale of the Century
11:00 – Wheel of Fortune
11:30 – Santa Barbara
PM
12:30 – Search for Tomorrow
1:00 – Days of Our Lives
2:00 – Another World
3:00 – Hour Magazine
4:00 – WKRP In Cincinnati
4:30 – Jeffersons
5:00 - $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime
5:30 – Dating Game
6:00 – News
6:30 – NBC News
7:00 – M*A*S*H
7:30 – Entertainment Tonight
8:00 – Cosby Show
8:30 – Family Ties
9:00 – Cheers
9:30 – Night Court
10:00 – Hill Street Blues
11:00 – News
11:30 – Tonight
AM
12:30 – Late Night with David Letterman
WCVE-23 (PBS)
AM
8:00 – Farm day
8:15 – AM Weather
8:30 – Sesame Street
9:30 – Mister Rogers
10:00 – Sesame Street
11:00 – Mister Rogers
11:30 – 3-2-1 Contact
PM
12:00 – Sesame Street
1:00 – Firing Line
2:00 – Shakespeare Hour
3:00 – Frugal Gourmet
3:30 – 3-2-1 Contact
4:00 – Sesame Street
5:00 – Mister Rogers
5:30 – 3-2-1 Contact
6:00 – Body Electric
6:30 – Nightly Business Report
7:00 – MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
8:00 – Battle of the Brains
8:30 – Wild America
9:00 – Mystery! Charters & Caldicott
10:00 – Heritage Conversation with Bill Moyers
11:00 – Nightly Business Report
Baltimore Stations (only 2 listed in the grid)
WJZ-13 (ABC, now CBS)
AM
5:00 – Movie: “Down to Their Last Yacht” (Cont. from 4:15 AM)
5:15 – Muppet Show
6:00 – Morning Stretch
6:30 – News
7:00 – Good Morning America
9:00 – People are Talking
10:00 – Hour Magazine
11:00 – Perfect Match
11:30 – New Love, American Style
PM
12:00 – News
12:30 – Loving
1:00 – All My Children
2:00 – One Life to Live
3:00 – General Hospital
4:00 – Hawaii Five-0
5:00 – Diff’rent Strokes
5:30 – Taxi
6:00 – News
7:00 – ABC News
7:30 – Evening Magazine
8:00 – Movie: “Diner”
10:00 – 20/20
11:00 – News
11:30 – Entertainment Tonight
AM
12:00 – Nightline
12:30 – Movie: “Exo-Man”
2:15 – News
2:45 – Movie: “The Falcon in Mexico”
4:00 – Movie: “The Runaway Bride”
WBFF-45 (Ind., now Fox)
AM
5:00 – Petticoat Junction
5:30 – News
6:00 – Jimmy Swaggart
6:30 – Voltron
7:00 – Inspector Gadget
7:30 – Transformers
8:00 – Challenge of the GoBots
8:30 – Fat Albert
9:00 – Ernest Angley
10:00 – 700 Club
11:30 – Hogan’s Heroes
PM
12:00 – Big Valley
1:00 – Movie: “The World of Henry Orient”
3:00 – Scooby-Doo
3:30 – She-Ra
4:00 – He-Man
4:30 – Thundercats
5:00 – G.I. Joe
5:30 – Brady Bunch
6:00 – Star Trek
7:00 – Mork and Mindy
7:30 – All in the Family
8:00 – Movie: “Torn Curtain”
10:00 – Trapper John, MD
11:00 – Too Close for Comfort
11:30 – Tonight (from WMAR?)
12:30 – Independent News
1:00 – Movie: “I Want to Live!”
3:15 – Movie: “The World of Henry Orient”
Washington, DC Stations
WRC-4 (NBC)
AM
6:00 – Health Matters
6:30 – NBC News
6:45 – News
7:00 – Today
9:00 – Love Connection
9:30 – Super Password
10:00 – Family Ties
10:30 – Sale of the Century
11:00 – Wheel of Fortune
11:30 – Scrabble
PM
12:00 – Here’s Lucy
12:30 – Search for Tomorrow
1:00 – Days of Our Lives
2:00 – Another World
3:00 – Santa Barbara
4:00 – Hart to Hart
5:00 – News
6:00 – News
7:00 – NBC News
7:30 – Newlywed Game
8:00 – Cosby Show
8:30 – Family Ties
9:00 – Cheers
9:30 – Night Court
10:00 – Hill Street Blues
11:00 – News
11:30 – Tonight
AM
12:30 – Late Night with David Letterman
1:30 – The Price is Right (Syndicated)
WTTG-5 (Ind.)
AM
6:00 – Popeye
6:30 – Inspector Gadget
7:00 – Great Space Coaster
7:30 – Jayce & The Warriors
8:00 – Fat Albert
8:30 – Flintstones
9:00 – I Love Lucy
9:30 – Andy Griffith
10:00 – I Dream of Jeannie
10:30 – Bewitched
11:00 – Love Boat
PM
12:00 – Panorama
1:00 – Movie: “The Glass Slipper”
3:00 – Thundercats
3:30 – She-Ra
4:00 – He-Man
4:30 – G.I. Joe
5:00 – One Day at a Time
5:30 – Alice
6:00 – Gimme a Break!
6:30 – Too Close for Comfort
7:00 – Three’s Company
7:30 – M*A*S*H
8:00 – Movie: “All the Rivers Run”
10:00 – News
11:00 – WKRP in Cincinnati
11:30 – Kojak
AM
12:30 – The Saint
1:30 – Mission: Impossible
WJLA-7 (ABC)
AM
6:00 – ABC News
7:00 – Good Morning America
9:00 – People’s Court
9:30 – Headline Chasers
10:00 – Let’s Make a Deal
10:30 – Bruce Forsyth (Hot Streak)
11:00 – New Love, American Style
11:30 – Ryan’s Hope
PM
12:00 – News
12:30 – Loving
1:00 – All My Children
2:00 – One Life to Live
3:00 – General Hospital
4:00 - $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime
4:30 – Sale of the Century
5:00 – News
6:00 – News
6:30 – ABC News
7:00 – Jeopardy!
7:30 – Entertainment Tonight
8:00 – Movie: “Diner”
10:00 – 20/20
11:00 – News
11:30 – Nightline
AM
12:00 – Entertainment Tonight
12:30 – Movie: “Badlands”
WDVM-9 (CBS – would become WUSA on 7/4/86)
AM
5:00 – CBS News Nightwatch (Cont)
6:00 – CBS Early Morning News
6:30 – News
7:00 – CBS Morning News
9:00 – Donahue
10:00 – Carol Randolph
10:30 – Sally Jesse Raphael
11:00 – The Price is Right
PM
12:00 – News
12:30 – Young and the Restless
1:30 – As the World Turns
2:30 – Capitol
3:00 – Guiding Light
4:00 – Hour Magazine
5:00 – News
6:00 – News
7:00 – CBS News
7:30 – Wheel of Fortune
8:00 – Magnum P.I.
9:00 – Simon & Simon
10:00 – Knots Landing
11:00 – News
11:30 – Divorce Court
AM
12:00 – Night Heat
1:15 – Movie: “The Blade Master”
2:30 – CBS News Nightwatch
WDCA-20 (Ind.)
AM
5:30 – Jim and Tammy (Faye Bakker)
6:30 – Kid’s Break
7:00 – Tranzor
7:30 – Voltron
8:00 – Heathcliff
8:30 – Bugs Bunny and Friends
9:00 – Gilligan’s Island
9:30 – W.O.W!
10:00 – 700 Club
11:30 – Eye on Washington
PM
12:00 – Movie: “Not with My Wife, You Don’t”
2:00 – Wonder Woman
3:00 – Voltron
3:30 – M.A.S.K
4:00 – Challenge of the GoBots
4:30 – Transformers
5:00 – Diff’rent Strokes
5:30 – What’s Happening!!
6:00 – Jeffersons X2
7:00 – Jeffersons
7:30 – NBA Basketball: Washinton Bullets vs NJ Nets
10:00 – Starsky and Hutch
11:00 – Benny Hill
11:30 – Alfred Hitchcock
AM
12:00 – Alfred Hitchcock
12:30 – Jim and Tammy
1:30 – Jimmy Swaggart
2:00 – Independent News
2:30 – Gene Scott
WETA-26 (PBS)
AM
7:30 – Body Electric
8:00 – MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
9:00 – Sesame Street
10:00 – Sesame Street
11:00 – Mister Rogers
11:30 – 3-2-1 Contact
PM
12:00 – New Literacy
12:30 – Business File
1:00 – Pride of Place, Building the American Dream
2:00 – Open Mind
2:30 - Presents
3:00 – Mister Rogers
3:30 – Reading Rainbow
4:00 – Sesame Street
5:00 – Sesame Street
6:00 – 3-2-1 Contact
6:30 – Nightly Business Report
7:00 – MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
8:00 – Capitol Journal
8:30 – Profile of Nature
9:00 – Mystery! “Charters & Caldicott”
10:00 – Heritage Conversation with Bill Moyers
11:00 – Golden Years of Television
WHMM-32 (PBS, now WHUT)
AM
9:00 – Jagaerobics
9:30 – Secret City
10:00 – Today’s Special
10:30 – 3-2-1 Contact
11:00 – Mister Rogers
11:30 – Black Forum
PM
12:00 – MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
1:00 – Evening Exchange
2:00 – Firing Line
3:00 – This Old House
3:30 – Joy of Painting
4:00 – Star Performance: Peter Gunn
5:00 – I Spy
6:00 – MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
7:00 – Evening Exchange
8:00 – Profile in Greatness Martin Luther King, Jr: Amazing Grace
10:00 – Nova
11:00 – Star Performance: Peter Gunn
AM
12:00 – Nightly Business Report
WNVT-53 (Ind. Edu./Fairfax, VA, now broadcasts on DTV-30)
PM
3:00 – Earth Science for Teachers
3:30 – Body Electric
4:00 – Movie: “My Man Godfrey”
5:30 – Phantom Creeps
6:00 – We’re Cooking Now
6:30 – World of Animals
7:00 – Gourmet Cooking
7:30 – Capitol Events
8:00 – World War 2: GI Diary
8:30 – Modern Maturity
9:00 – Doctor’s on Call
9:30 – Parlez-vous Yupik?
Richmond, VA Stations
WTVR-6 (CBS)
5:00 – CBS News Nightwatch
6:00 – CBS Early Morning News
7:00 – CBS Morning News
9:00 – Perfect Match
9:30 – Let’s Make a Deal
10:00 – $25,000 Pyramid
10:30 – Card Sharks
11:00 – The Price is Right
PM
12:00 – Richmond Today
12:30 – Young and the Restless
1:30 – As the World Turns
2:30 – Capitol
3:00 – Guiding Light
4:00 – Divorce Court
4:30 – Love Connection
5:00 – Benson
5:30 – People’s Court
6:00 – News
6:30 – CBS News
7:00 – News
7:30 – Newlywed Game
8:00 – Magnum P.I.
9:00 – Simon & Simon
10:00 – Knots Landing
11:00 – News
11:30 – Night Heat
12:30 – Movie: “The Phoenix”
2:00 – CBS News Nightwatch
WXEX-8 (ABC, now WRIC)
AM
6:00 – Jimmy Swaggart
6:30 – ABC News
7:00 – Good Morning America
9:00 – Love Boat
10:00 – Hawaii Five-0
11:00 – Bruce Forsyth (Hot Streak)
11:30 – New Love, American Style
PM
12:00 – Ryan’s Hope
12:30 – Loving
1:00 – All My Children
2:00 – One Life to Live
3:00 – General Hospital
4:00 – Dallas
5:00 – Gimme a Break!
5:30 – Three’s Company
6:00 – News
6:30 – ABC News
7:00 – Wheel of Fortune
7:30 – Jeopardy!
8:00 – Movie: “Diner”
10:00 – 20/20
11:00 – News
11:30 – Nightline
AM
12:00 – Charlie’s Angels
1:00 – Headline Chasers
WWBT-12 (NBC)
AM
6:00 – NBC News
6:30 – News
7:00 – Today
9:00 – Donahue
10:00 – Family Ties
10:30 – Sale of the Century
11:00 – Wheel of Fortune
11:30 – Santa Barbara
PM
12:30 – Search for Tomorrow
1:00 – Days of Our Lives
2:00 – Another World
3:00 – Hour Magazine
4:00 – WKRP In Cincinnati
4:30 – Jeffersons
5:00 - $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime
5:30 – Dating Game
6:00 – News
6:30 – NBC News
7:00 – M*A*S*H
7:30 – Entertainment Tonight
8:00 – Cosby Show
8:30 – Family Ties
9:00 – Cheers
9:30 – Night Court
10:00 – Hill Street Blues
11:00 – News
11:30 – Tonight
AM
12:30 – Late Night with David Letterman
WCVE-23 (PBS)
AM
8:00 – Farm day
8:15 – AM Weather
8:30 – Sesame Street
9:30 – Mister Rogers
10:00 – Sesame Street
11:00 – Mister Rogers
11:30 – 3-2-1 Contact
PM
12:00 – Sesame Street
1:00 – Firing Line
2:00 – Shakespeare Hour
3:00 – Frugal Gourmet
3:30 – 3-2-1 Contact
4:00 – Sesame Street
5:00 – Mister Rogers
5:30 – 3-2-1 Contact
6:00 – Body Electric
6:30 – Nightly Business Report
7:00 – MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
8:00 – Battle of the Brains
8:30 – Wild America
9:00 – Mystery! Charters & Caldicott
10:00 – Heritage Conversation with Bill Moyers
11:00 – Nightly Business Report
Baltimore Stations (only 2 listed in the grid)
WJZ-13 (ABC, now CBS)
AM
5:00 – Movie: “Down to Their Last Yacht” (Cont. from 4:15 AM)
5:15 – Muppet Show
6:00 – Morning Stretch
6:30 – News
7:00 – Good Morning America
9:00 – People are Talking
10:00 – Hour Magazine
11:00 – Perfect Match
11:30 – New Love, American Style
PM
12:00 – News
12:30 – Loving
1:00 – All My Children
2:00 – One Life to Live
3:00 – General Hospital
4:00 – Hawaii Five-0
5:00 – Diff’rent Strokes
5:30 – Taxi
6:00 – News
7:00 – ABC News
7:30 – Evening Magazine
8:00 – Movie: “Diner”
10:00 – 20/20
11:00 – News
11:30 – Entertainment Tonight
AM
12:00 – Nightline
12:30 – Movie: “Exo-Man”
2:15 – News
2:45 – Movie: “The Falcon in Mexico”
4:00 – Movie: “The Runaway Bride”
WBFF-45 (Ind., now Fox)
AM
5:00 – Petticoat Junction
5:30 – News
6:00 – Jimmy Swaggart
6:30 – Voltron
7:00 – Inspector Gadget
7:30 – Transformers
8:00 – Challenge of the GoBots
8:30 – Fat Albert
9:00 – Ernest Angley
10:00 – 700 Club
11:30 – Hogan’s Heroes
PM
12:00 – Big Valley
1:00 – Movie: “The World of Henry Orient”
3:00 – Scooby-Doo
3:30 – She-Ra
4:00 – He-Man
4:30 – Thundercats
5:00 – G.I. Joe
5:30 – Brady Bunch
6:00 – Star Trek
7:00 – Mork and Mindy
7:30 – All in the Family
8:00 – Movie: “Torn Curtain”
10:00 – Trapper John, MD
11:00 – Too Close for Comfort
11:30 – Tonight (from WMAR?)
12:30 – Independent News
1:00 – Movie: “I Want to Live!”
3:15 – Movie: “The World of Henry Orient”
