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Retro: Vancouver/Victoria Fri, June 27, 1986

from TV Guide-Western British Columbia edition
(This edition was somewhat unique with some local columns (no doubt to keep up with local competitor TV Week), and a US-style primetime grid)

CBUT 2-CBC Vancouver
7:30 Muppet Show
8:00 Movie "Jane Eyre" (bw)
10:00 Fred Penner's Place
10:15 Friendly Giant
10:30 Mr. Dressup
11:00 Sesame Street
noon All My Children
1:00 Midday
2:00 Trapper John, MD
3:00 Canadian Open Golf (same-day)
5:00 Video Hits
5:30 Three's Company
6:00 News
7:00 Country West
7:30 Golden Girls
8:00 Murder, She Wrote
9:00 Return to Eden
10:00 The National
10:20 The Journal
11:00 News
11:30 Good Rockin' Tonite (Stu Jeffries, better known these days as a country guy on CMT Canada, interviews A-ha, announces winners of the Anne Murray trivia contest, and presents videos from Genesis, The Fixx, David Foster & Olivia Newton-John, and Meatloaf)
12:30 Movie "It's Love I'm After" (bw)

KOMO 4-ABC Seattle
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America (celebrating the 50th anniversary of the release of the book form of Gone with the Wind); also guest An Wang)
9:00 Merv Griffin (guests Raquel Welch and Michael Nouri; also a discussion of back pain)
10:00 Fame, Fortune & Romance (series finale, Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous returns Monday)
10:30 New Love American Style
11:00 Ryan's Hope
11:30 Loving
noon All My Children
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Northwest Afternoon (topic: improving sexual relations)
4:00 Sale of the Century
4:30 $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime
5:00 News
6:00 ABC World News Tonight
6:30 News
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Jeopardy!
8:00 Webster
8:30 Mr. Belvedere
9:00 Mr. Sunshine
9:30 The Arena (pilot)
10:00 Love Boat
11:00 News
11:30 ABC News Nightline
mid. Avengers (bw)
1:00 Headline Chasers
1:30 Noel Edmonds (guests Phil Collins, Laraine Newman, Paul McCartney, and Jeffrey Osborne)
2:30 News

KING 5-NBC Seattle
6:00 NBC News at Sunrise
6:30 News
7:00 Today (guests Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines)
9:00 Good Company (topic: summer-party tips)
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Scrabble
11:00 Super Password
11:30 Sally Jessy Raphael (Nedra Volz is a guest, as Sally discusses how to stay active in advancing years, with special emphasis on seniors)
noon Days of Our Lives
1:00 Another World
2:00 Santa Barbara
3:00 Knots Landing
4:00 Phil Donahue
5:00 News
6:00 NBC Nightly News
6:30 Top Story
7:00 Entertainment Tonight
7:30 $100,000 Pyramid
8:00 America Talks Back (NBC execs and stars answers questions gathered by local affiliates; in the hotseat: NBC chairman Grant Tinker, NBC News prez Lawrence K. Grossman, NBC entertainment head Brandon Tartikoff, Dennis Franz, Tempestt Bledsoe, Marla Gibbs, Deidre Hall, Philip Michael Thomas, and Betty White)
9:00 Miami Vice (Jan Hammer, who composed the show's soundtrack, has a cameo playing at a wedding)
10:00 Stingray
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show (guests David Letterman and Julio Iglesias)
12:30 Friday Night Videos (counting down the best 15 videos ever with vids from Prince, Dire Straits, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Whitney Houston, and the Police)
2:00 News
2:30 Movie "Mahogany"
4:30 Here's Lucy

CHEK 6-CTV Victoria
5:30 Jimmy Swaggart
6:00 Romper Room & Friends
6:30 Canada AM
9:00 McGowan
9:30 Amazing World of Kreskin
10:00 Joys of Collecting
10:30 Body Moves
11:00 Young & the Restless
noon News
1:00 Another World
2:00 Lifetime (physical benefits of humor, guest Bob Quinn, and discussing the Colin Thatcher (Saskatchewan politician accused-and later convicted-of doing his wife in) murder case)
3:00 Mixed Company
4:00 News
4:30 CFL: Montreal-Ottawa (normally...Waltons at 4, Tic Tac Dough at 5, News at 5:30 (local) and 6 (CHAN), CTV shows at 7)
7:30 Bizarre
8:00 Twilight Zone "Her Pilgrim Soul" (directed by Wes Craven)/"I of Newton"
9:00 Cheers
9:30 Night Court
10:00 Stingray
11:00 CTV National News
11:20 News
12:05 Movie "Flatbed Annie and Sweetiepie: Lady Truckers"
2:05 Little House on the Prairie (90 min)
3:35 Waltons

KIRO 7-CBS Seattle
5:00 CBS News Nightwatch
6:00 Morning Stretch
6:30 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News (guests Janet Jones, Barbara Bosson, and Hugh Hefner)
9:00 $25,000 Pyramid
9:30 Let's Make a Deal
10:00 Price is Right
11:00 Young & the Restless
noon News
1:00 As the World Turns
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 Matt Houston
4:00 People's Court
4:30 News
6:00 CBS Evening News
6:30 News
7:00 Newlywed Game
7:30 Price is Right
8:00 Twilight Zone "Her Pilgrim Soul"/"I of Newton"
9:00 Movie "Continental Divide"
11:00 News
11:30 All in the Family
mid. Movie "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter"
2:45 News

BCTV 8-CTV Vancouver (calls CHAN)
5:30 Jimmy Swaggart
6:00 Romper Room & Friends
6:30 Canada AM
9:00 McGowan
9:30 Amazing World of Kreskin
10:00 Joys of Collecting
10:30 What's Cooking
11:00 Guess What
11:30 Definition
noon News
1:00 Another World
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Lifetime (see CHEK 6, 2pm)
4:00 News
4:30 CFL: Montreal-Ottawa (normal sked...Hart to Hart at 4, Wheel of Fortune at 5, WKRP at 5:30, News at 6, Entertainment Tonight at 7)
7:30 Bizarre
8:00 Knight Rider
9:00 Miami Vice (Jan Hammer cameo)
10:00 Ripley's Believe It or Not!
11:00 CTV National News
11:20 News
12:05 Movie "The Aliens are Coming"
2:05 Movie "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich"

KCTS 9-PBS Seattle
5:45 AM Weather
6:00 Hooked on Aerobics
6:30 Secret City
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Polka Dot Door
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Reading Rainbow
10:30 3-2-1 Contact
11:00 Six-Gun Heroes (bw)
noon Racetrack (bw/no details listed, but KCTS was planning to give a Viewer Discretion message)
2:00 Matinee at the Bijou
3:30 We're Cooking Now
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Nightly Business Report
6:00 MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour
7:00 Wild, Wild World of Animals (kangaroos)
7:30 World of Survival (looks at ostriches)
7:55 Evening Edition
8:00 Washington Week in Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9:00 Normandy to Berlin: A War Remembered (a repeat from 1985, showing color footage from George Stevens on the final stages of WWII)
10:00 Movie "Cisco Pike" (Kris Kristofferson's acting debut)
11:30 MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour
12:30 Evening Edition

KSTW 11-Ind Tacoma
5:00 Movie "Thunder Alley" cont'd
6:30 Superfriends
7:00 Jetsons
7:30 RoboTech
8:00 Scooby-Doo
8:30 Tom & Jerry
9:00 Great Space Coaster
9:30 Brady Bunch
10:00 Mork & Mindy
10:30 Laverne & Shirley
11:00 Private Benjamin
11:30 Divorce Court
noon Barnaby Jones
1:00 Movie "The Gunfight in Black Horse Canyon"
3:00 Challenge of the GoBots
3:30 MASK
4:00 Transformers
4:30 Bewitched
5:00 Love Boat
6:00 Bosom Buddies
6:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
7:00 Bob Newhart
7:30 Barney Miller
8:00 Movie "The Five Pennies"
10:00 News
11:00 Star Trek
mid. Movie "Invasion from Inner Earth"
2:00 Movie "Terror Beneath the Sea"
4:00 Movie "The Wild Racers"

KVOS 12-Ind Bellingham
6:00 Jim & Tammy
7:00 Kids Club
8:00 Scooby-Doo
8:30 Kids Club
9:00 Phil Donahue
10:00 Movie "Seven Faces of Dr. Lao"
noon Perry Mason (bw)
1:00 Divorce Court
1:30 New Card Sharks
2:00 Price is Right
3:00 Kids Club
3:30 He-Man & the Masters of the Universe
4:00 Transformers
4:30 Flintstones
5:00 Andy Griffith (bw)
5:30 Too Close for Comfort
6:00 Star Trek
7:00 $100,000 Pyramid
7:30 Newlywed Game
8:00 Movie "Shoot Out"
10:00 Quincy
11:00 Carson's Comedy Classics (Chuckie Revere/Dr. Dilly/Floyd R. Turbo)
11:30 Wrestling
12:30 Movie "Soldier Blue"
2:30 Headline News

KCPQ 13-Ind Tacoma
5:30 Headline News
6:00 Casey Treat
6:30 20 Minute Workout
7:00 700 Club
8:30 Break the Bank
9:00 Family Ties
9:30 Sale of the Century (NBC)
10:00 Bonanza
11:00 Dating Game
11:30 Love Connection
noon Hour Magazine (guests Harvey Korman and Susan White-Bowden)
1:00 Lou Grant
2:00 Big Valley
3:00 Trapper John, MD
4:00 Here Come the Brides
5:00 Quincy
6:00 Benson
6:30 Carson's Comedy Classics (Carnac makes an appearance, along with guests Bob Hope, Sid Ceasar, and Imogene Coca)
7:00 Cousteau Odyssey "Time Bomb at Fifty Fathoms" (salvage of 900 drums of toxic chemical compounds in the Mediterranean near the Italian coast)
8:00 Movie "City Beneath the Sea"
10:00 Spearfield's Daughter (conclusion)
mid. Tales from the Darkside
12:30 Fridays
1:30 Headline News

CKVU 21-Ind Vancouver
6:00 Size Small
6:30 It's a New Day
7:30 100 Huntley Street
8:30 It Figures
9:00 700 Club
10:00 Wheel of Fortune
10:30 Galloping Gourmet
11:00 New You
11:30 News
noon Days of Our Lives
1:00 One Life to Live
2:00 On the Air
3:00 Mad Dash
3:30 Price is Right
4:30 News
6:00 Vancouver Live
7:00 Jackpot
7:30 Jeopardy!
8:00 Irish Rovers (guest Tom T. Hall)
8:30 Mr. Belvedere
9:00 Men Without Hats
10:00 Love Boat
11:00 SportsPage
11:30 News
mid. Movie "Something Big"
1:30 Laverne & Shirley

CBUFT 26-SRC Vancouver
11:00 Tape-Tambour
11:30 Capitaine Caverne (Captain Caveman)
noon Premiere edition
12:05 Fariboles
12:30 Avis de recherche
1:00 Reflets d'un pays (docs from SRC stations across Canada)
2:00 Gaston Phebus
3:00 Connaisance du milieu
3:30 Heidi
4:00 Fraggle Rock
4:30 Escapade
5:00 Le Grand Raid/Cap-Terre de feu
6:00 Ce soir
6:30 Rencontres
7:00 Voyage grandeur nature
7:30 CFL: Montreal-Ottawa (same-day)
10:00 Le Telejournal
10:25 Le Point
10:40 Cinema "Saigon, l'annee du chat"

Cathay International TV (Cantonese)
noon Fortune Teller
12:45 Women Today
1:30 Families
2:20 off-air
6:00 430 Space Shuttle
6:30 Women Today/Word a Day
7:15 News
7:40 Hong Kong '86
8:00 Feud That Never Was
8:45 Enjoy Yourself Tonight
9:40 The Possessed
10:25 Word a Day/News

Knowledge Network (cable)
9:00 Polka Dot Door
9:30 Upgrading for Electricians
10:00 Search for Solutions
10:20 Eureka!
10:30 Caller's Choice
11:00 Clinical Studies in Nursing
noon Calculus II
12:30 New Literacy
1:30 Introducing Biology
2:00 Growing Years
2:30 AC Circuits
3:00 Microprocessors
3:30 Caller's Choice
4:00 Polka Dot Door
4:30 Rainbow/Musti/Paddington
4:55 Willo the Wisp
5:00 Search for Solutions
5:20 Eureka!
5:30 Heavy Duty Mechanics
6:00 World at War: WW II
7:00 Kidnapped
7:30 MotorWeek
8:00 Living Body
8:30 Where There's Life
9:00 Photographic Vision
9:30 Perspectives
10:00 Realities
11:00 Expo 86 Info (several Vancouver area cablecos also had a dedicated Expo info channel during Expo)

Multicultural Channel
cable in Maple Ridge/Mission (ch 19), New Westminster (21), North & West Vancouver (17), Surrey/Langley (21), Vancouver (21)
6pm Panorama Italiano
8:00 Scandinavian Journey

Community Channels
Vancouver 10/Burnaby 10/Richmond 10
9:00 Inside Alzheimer's Disease
10:00 Flicks
10:30 West End Cable
11:00 Mild to Wild
11:30 West Side Profile
noon Cable Connection
1:00 Metro Magazine
1:30 Pressure Point
2:00 Burke Mountain Labor Festival
3:00 Vancouver East Cable
4:00 West End Edition
5:00 Law Talk
5:30 Toronto-The Liveable City (given the events on the weekend, some might dispute that :D)
6:00 On the Record
7:00 Books in Print
7:30 Vancouver '86
8:00 Tonight on Ten
8:30 Deaf Program
9:00 Hello in There
9:30 Volunteer Grandparents
10:00 Tonight on Ten
10:30 On the Fly
11:00 Soundproof
1:00 Fringe

Delta 10
4:30pm Delta Cable Sports
6:30 Deltafit
7:00 Ball Hockey: Ladner-Coquitlam
8:30 Motorsport People
9:00 Performance Night
9:30 Street Talk
10:00 Expo '86
10:30 Vancouver '86

North Shore 10
6pm Evelyn Ward Children's Dance Revue
9:00 Expo Update
9:30 Vancouver '86
10:00 Investment Scene
10:30 That Dog & Cat Show
11:00 Soundproof

Victoria 11 (Victoria had 3 cablecos fighting it out: Rogers, Royal Oak, and Shaw; today, Shaw is the last one standing)
4pm Victoria Magazine
5:00 MLA Report
5:30 Tuesday at Nine
6:30 TBA
7:00 Arts Calendar
7:30 Beacon Hill-A People's Park
8:30 Victoria Magazine
9:00 Sovereign's Representative
10:00 Vancouver '86
10:30 Drugs, Alcohol, Violence & Today's Youth

Western 10
6:30pm All About Pets
7:00 Music Concert
8:00 Fighting the Fear
8:30 Update/Surrey Municipal Council

White Rock 10
no scheduled programs
 
Bluenoser said:
KCPQ 13-Ind Tacoma
9:00 Family Ties
9:30 Sale of the Century (NBC)

I believe "Family Ties" was a daytime NBC offering, as well.
 
DToTheJ said:
Bluenoser said:
KCPQ 13-Ind Tacoma
9:00 Family Ties
9:30 Sale of the Century (NBC)

I believe "Family Ties" was a daytime NBC offering, as well.

Yes, Family Ties was on NBC's daytime schedule until the end of December, 1986. The series officially
entered syndication in the fall of 1987(and I believe aired on KSTW in the Seattle-Tacoma market).
 
Inadvertently left out Fraser Cable's community listings...

3:00 Person to Person
4:00 Jazz Fest '86
4:30 Dogwood Days Parade
5:00 Lion & Lamb Music Show
6:00 simulcast of Vancouver programs
 
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