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Retro: Washington, D.C. - Monday, November 14, 1988

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Washington-based sitcom "Murphy Brown" premieres this night on CBS.

Part I: Commercial stations

4 WRC (NBC)

5:30 Fantasy Island (half-hour edit)
6:00 NBC News at Sunrise
6:30 News 4
7:00 Today - Scheduled: Jonathan Winters (Part 1 of 2), George Burns (Part 1 of 2), Ralph Macchio ("Distant Thunder").
9:00 Group One Medical
9:30 Family Medical
10:00 Sale of the Century - Salute to True Romance, Week 2
10:30 Classic Concentration
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Win, Lose or Draw - Vicki Lawrence; Guests: Linda Dano & Sandy Ferguson vs. Michael Corbett & Doug Davidson.
NOON Super Password - Guests: Dionne Warwick, Jamie Farr.
12:30 Scrabble
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 Superior Court
4:30 People's Court
5:00 Live at 5
6:00 News 4
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 ALF
8:30 Hogan Family
9:00 NBC Monday Night a the Movies: "Too Good to Be True" (Premiere) - Loni Anderson, Julie Harris, Larry Drake, Patrick Duffy.
11:00 News 4
11:30 Tonight Show - Guest host: Jay Leno; Guests: Joan Collins, John Byner.
12:30 Late Night With David Letterman - Guests: Victoria Principal, John Malkovich, 10,000 Maniacs (performing).
1:30 Later With Bob Costas - Guest: Frank Gifford.
2:00 News 4 (R)
2:30 Love Connection
3:00 Gong Show
3:30 Newlywed Game

5 WTTG (Fox)
5:00 Body by Jake
5:30 Morning Stretch
6:00 SilverHawks
6:30 Popeye
7:00 Flintstones
7:30 Dennis the Menace
8:00 Woody Woodpecker
8:30 My Little Pony
9:00 I Love Lucy
9:30 Alice
10:00 Bewitched
10:30 I Dream of Jeannie
11:00 Love Boat
NOON Hour Magazine
1:00 Archie Bunker's Place
1:30 One Day at a Time
2:00 Leave It to Beaver
2:30 Tom & Jerry
3:00 Real Ghostbusters
3:30 Double Dare
4:00 Alvin and the Chipmunks
4:30 DuckTales
5:00 Silver Spoons
5:30 Gimme a Break!
6:00 Family Ties
6:30 Three's Company
7:00 Cosby Show
7:30 Current Affair
8:00 Redskins Playbook
8:30 Current Affair
9:00 Cousteau Odyssey
10:00 10 O'Clock News
11:00 City Under Siege
11:30 M*A*S*H
MIDNIGHT Hill Street Blues
1:00 Kojak
2:00 The Saint
3:00 Self-Improvement

7 WJLA (ABC)
5:30 Business This Morning
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America - Scheduled: Loni Anderson, Richard Simmons, health spa facilities.
9:00 Geraldo
10:00 Sally Jessy Raphael
11:00 The Judge
11:30 News 7
NOON Home
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Magnum, P.I.
5:00 News 7
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Jeopardy!
7:30 Entertainment Tonight - Featured: A report on John F. Kennedy's relationships with Hollywood celebrities.
8:00 ABC Special: Kenny Rogers Classic Weekend - Guests: Kris Kristofferson, the Smothers Brothers, James Caan, Gladys Knight, Lorenzo Lamas, Byron Allen.
9:00 Monday Night Football: Buffalo Bills vs. Miami Dolphins
MIDNIGHT News 7
12:30 Nightline
1:00 On Trial
1:30 Sweethearts
2:00 Movie: "Gentle Sinners" (1983) - Chris Earle, Ed McNamara, Jackie Burroughs, Doreen Brownstone

9 WUSA (CBS)
5:30 Wall Street Journal Report
6:00 Eyewitness News (WUSA dropped "CBS Morning News" March 28 that year)
7:00 CBS This Morning - Schedules: Candice Bergen (on the premiere of "Murphy Brown" that night), Shirley Chisolm, JFK retrospective (par 1 of 7), the "sandwich" generation.
9:00 Donahue
10:00 Live With Regis & Kathie Lee - From EPCOT Center, Walt Disney World; Guests: Robert Goulet, Barbara Eden, Jessica McClure (Texas baby trapped 58 hours in her backyard well the year before) and her parents.
11:00 The Price is Right
NOON Eyewitness News
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 Bold and the Beautiful
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Oprah Winfrey - Topic: Marrying for money.
5:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 USA Today (Appropriate enough to air on this station, since USA Today and WUSA were coprorate siblings by Gannett.)
7:30 Wheel of Fortune
8:00 Newhart
8:30 Coming of Age
9:00 Murphy Brown (series premiere)
9:30 Designing Women (season premiere)
10:00 People Magazine on TV - Host: Jane Wallace; Featured: Angela Lansbury, Oprah Winfrey, Prince Charles, Richard Burton's diaries, "sloth lady of the Amazon".
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Divorce Court
MIDNIGHT Hunter
1:00 Movie: "The Violation of Sarah David" (1981) - Patty Duke Astin, Ned Beatty, James Sloyan
2:30 CBS Nightwatch

20 WDCA
6:00 Jimmy Swaggart
6:30 Gumby
7:00 Scooby-Doo
7:30 G.I. Joe
8:00 Jem
8:30 Snorks
9:00 Richard Roberts
10:00 700 Club
11:00 Success-N-Life
NOON Movie: "For Love or Money" (1963) - Kirk Douglas, Mitzi Gaynor, Gig Young, Thelma Ritter
2:00 New Gidget
2:30 Yogi Bear
3:00 Smurfs
3:30 Jetsons
4:00 Fun House
4:30 C.O.P.S.
5:00 Brady Bunch
5:30 Webster
6:00 Facts of Life
6:30 Cheers
7:00 Night Court
7:30 Cheers
8:00 Movie: "A Nightmare on Elm Street" (1984; the one that started it all) - Robert Englund (as Freddy Krueger), John Saxon, Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp (film debut).
10:00 National Geographic on Assignment
11:00 Dating Game
11:30 Relatively Speaking - John Byner
MIDNIGHT Friday the 13th: the Series
1:00 Bonanza
2:00 Home Shopping Network Overnight Service (to 6:00 AM)

50 WFTY
6:30 20 Minute Workout
7:00 Teleshop
8:00 Success-N-Life
9:00 James Robison
9:30 Fletcher Brothers
10:00 Changing Lifestyles
11:00 Growing Pains (pre-empted by Ch. 7 WJLA)
11:30 Home (pre-empted by Ch. 7 WJLA)
NOON 20 Minute Workout
12:30 Crook & Chase
1:00 Movie: "Web of Evidence" (UK title: "Beyond This Place) (1959) - Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Emlyn Williams, Bernard Lee.
3:00 Rich Man, Poor Man: Book I (Episode 1 of 9)
4:30 20 Minute Workout
5:00 New Liar's Club - Eric Boardman
5:30 Hollywood Squares (first show of second week at Club Med Paradise Island, Bahamas) - Panel: Jm J. Bullock (center square), Shadoe Stevens, David Brenner, Phyllis Diller, Kim Fields, Samantha Fox & Chip Mayer (sharing a square), Gloria Loring, Greg Louganis, Wil Shriner.
6:00 Wrestling: World Class Championship
7:00 Untouchables
8:00 Columbo
10:00 Morton Downey Jr.
11:00 Government Grants
11:30 Night Gallery
MIDNIGHT Movie: "The Brave One" (1956) - Michel Ray, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., Elsa Cardenas
 
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Part II: PBS stations

22 WMPT Annapolis (Maryland Public Television*)

6:15 Economics USA
6:45 AM Weather
7:00 From Socrates to Sartre
7:30 Captain Kangaroo
8:00 Sesame Street (20th season premiere)
9:00 Mister Rogers
9:30 Book, Look & Listen
9:45 More Books from Cover to Cover - John Robbins
10:00 The Song Bag - Tony Saletan
10:15 Read All About It
10:30 Write Channel
10:45 Math Works - John Robbins
11:00 Counterplot; Here & There
11:30 The American Experience
12:30 Understanding Taxes
12:45 America Past
1:00 Maryland; Book, Look & Listen
1:30 Musical Encounter
2:00 American Scrapbook
2:15 Music & Me
2:30 We're Cooking Now
3:00 Frugal Gourmet
3:30 Mister Rogers
4:00 Sesame Street (20th season premiere)
5:00 Square One TV
5:30 The Power of Choice
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
7:00 Nightly Business Report
7:30 Dr. (Dean) Edell's Medical Journal
8:00 Outdoors Maryland
9:00 Survival: "The Parenthood Game"
10:00 Camp David - A historical comprehensive look at the presidential Maryland retreat.
11:00 Bill Moyers' World of Ideas
11:30 Ask Dr. Science
12:30 France TV Magazine

*Maryland Public Television also consists of the following stations:

28 WCPB Salisbury
31 WWPB Hagerstown
36 WGPT Oakland
62 WFPB Frederick
67 WMPB Baltimore

26 WETA

NOTE: Normal start times during childrens' blocks altered by pledge breaks.

7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour (previous Friday)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
8:35 Mister Rogers
9:15 Sesame Street
10:20 Sesame Street
11:30 Zoobilee Zoo
NOON French in Action (x2)
1:00 Great Chefs of the West
1:30 Southern Cooking
2:00 Frugal Gourmet
2:30 Make Yourself at Home
3:00 Sesame Street
4:05 Sesame Street
5:15 Square One TV
5:50 3-2-1 Contact
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
8:00 Traffic Jam!: A WETA Town Meeting
9:30 Trying Times
10:00 Discover: The World of Science
11:00 World of Ideas
11:30 EastEnders

32 WHMM (secondary PBS to WETA; from Howard University)
9:00 Nightly Business Report (previous Friday)
9:30 Jobman Caravan
10:00 Adam Smith's Money World
10:30 Living With Animals
11:00 New Literacy
11:30 Focus on Society
NOON American Adventure
12:30 World of Ideas
1:00 Evening Exchange (previous Friday)
2:00 Firing Line
2:30 American Art Forum
3:00 MotorWeek
3:30 This Old House
4:00 Yan Can Cook
4:30 KnowZone
5:00 Square One TV
5:30 3-2-1 Contact
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
7:00 Evening Exchange
8:00 Healthy People
8:30 Power of Choice
9:00 Survival (see WMPT)
10:00 Camp David (see WMPT)
11:00 World of Ideas
11:30 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour (R)
12:30 Nightly Business Report (R)
 
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