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An unprecedented event comes to Saturday Morning TV: "The Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue", simultaneously airing all traditional networks as well as countless cable networks warning of the dangers of drugs.
Source: Washington Post via proquest.com; Baltimore Sun via newspapers.com
4 WRC (NBC)
5:00 Love Connection
5:30 Father Knows Best
6:00 Donna Reed
6:30 Hazel
7:00 Wild Bill Hickock
7:30 Three Stories Tall
8:00 Kissyfur
8:30 Camp Candy
9:00 Captain N
9:30 Karate Kid
10:00 Smurfs
10:30 Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (cropping off the second half of Smurfs)
11:00 Chipmunks
11:30 Saved by the Bell
NOON ALF-tales
12:30 ALF: The Animated Series
1:00 Homefinders Guide
1:30 Wealth Without Risk
2:00 Golf - Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf, Third Round (Barton Creek Country Club, Austin, TX)
4:00 Saturday Sports Showcase - The Greatest Fights Ever: Ali vs. Foreman - "The Rumble in the Jungle"; October 30, 1974 in Kinshasa, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
6:00 News 4
6:30 NBC Nightly News - Garrick Utley
7:00 Earth Day 1990: A Guide to Saving the Planet (In honor of the 20th anniversary of the first Earth Day the following day.)
8:00 227: "Nightmare on 227"
8:30 13 East: "Hallelujah"
9:00 Golden Girls: "Dancing in the Dark" (Nov 4, 1989)
9:30 Empty Nest: "On the Interpretation of Dreams" (Oct 21, 1989)
10:00 Carol (Burnett) & Company: "In-Laws Should Be Out-Lawed"
10:30 Down Home: "Missed Popularity"
11:00 News 4
11:30 Saturday Night Live - Host: Alec Baldwin; Musical guests: The B-52's
1:00 It's Showtime at the Apollo
2:00 Night Music
3:00 News 4 (R)
5 WTTG (Fox)
6:00 CNN Headline News (x2)
7:00 Comedy Hour
8:00 Paid Programming
8:30 Bewitched
9:00 The Ropers
9:30 Three's a Crowd
10:00 Batman
10:30 Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (pre-empting the second episode of Batman)
11:00 WWF Sunperstars of Wrestling
NOON WWF Wrestling Challenge
1:00 Movie: "Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School" (Oct 16, 1988) - Voices of Don Messick, Casey Kasem, Frank Welker
3:00 Movie: "Amityville III: The Demon" (1983) - Tony Roberts, Tess Harper, Robert Joy, Candy Clark (aka "Amityville 3-D")
5:00 Fall Guy
6:00 M*A*S*H
6:30 Off the Record
7:00 M*A*S*H (x2)
8:00 Cops - Los Angeles County Sheriff's Dept.
8:30 Totally Hidden Video
9:00 In Living Color: "Do-It-Yourself Milli Vanilli Kit" (reference to their lip-synching scandal) / "Arsenio Hall and Marion Barry" (references to Barry's recent drug bust) / "Rap Choir" / "Sugar Ray Leonard Transition" / "Star Trek: The Wrath of (Louis) Farrakhan" / "Ridin' Miss Daisy"
9:30 Tracey Ullman: "The Hormonal Conversion" / "Who Is He?" / "Face the Music"
10:00 10 O'Clock News
11:00 Comic Strip Live
MIDNIGHT Pump It Up
1:00 WWF Superstars of Wrestling
2:00 Movie: "Tenspeed and Brown Show" (1980) - Ben Vereen, Jeff Goldbum
7 WJLA (ABC)
6:30 Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
7:30 Remote Control
8:00 A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
8:30 Disney's Gummi Bears/Winnie the Pooh Hour (six years prior to Disney's acquistion of ABC)
9:30 Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters
10:30 Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (pre-empting Beetlejuice cartoon series)
11:00 Bugs Bunny & Tweety
NOON Pick Up the Beat
12:30 Paid Programming
1:00 Movie: "April Morning" (1988) - Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Urich
3:00 ABC Pro Bowlers Tour - Great Hartford Open (Windsor Locks, CT; halfway between Hartford and Springfield, MA)
4:30 ABC's Wide World of Sports - 1) Profile of Nadia Comaneci; 2) Horse racing: Wood Memorial (Aquaduct Race Track, Ozone Park, NY); 3) Bike racing; Paris-Roubaix Race (France)
6:00 News 7
6:30 ABC World News Saturday - Carole Simpson
7:00 Jeopardy!
7:30 Mama's Family
8:00 Sunset Beat (2-hour Pilot)
10:00 AFI Life Achievement Award - Recipient: David Lean (died April 16 the following year)
11:00 News 7
11:30 Byron Allen
12:30 Smash Hits
1:00 Remote Control
1:30 Red Hot & Cool
2:00 ABC Weekend News
2:15 Movie: "Nowhere to Hide" (1977) - Lee Van Cleef, Tony Musante
9 WUSA (CBS)
6:00 Dungeons & Dragons
6:30 Peppermint Place
7:00 Adventures of Raggedy Ann & Andy
7:30 CBS Storybreak - Bob Keeshan (aka "Captain Kangaroo")
8:00 Dink, the Little Dinosaur
8:30 California Raisins
9:00 Muppet Babies
10:00 Pee-wee's Playhouse
10:30 Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (pre-empting Garfield and Friends, along with the following special)
11:00 The One & Only Teen Awards (WUSA exclusive)
11:30 In Our Lives
NOON America's Top 10
12:30 The Other Side of Victory
1:00 MLB Baseball - Montreal Expos (now Washington Nationals) vs. New York Mets (CBS's second week of MLB broadcasting, which lasted until the 1993 World Series)
4:00 Golf - Kmart Greater Greensboro (NC) PGA Open, Third Round (Forest Oaks Country Club)
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 CBS Evening News - Bob Schieffer
7:00 Inside Washington
7:30 Wheel of Fortune
8:00 Paradise: "All the Pretty Little Horses" (Oct 14, 1989)
9:00 Tour of Duty: "Doc Hock" (Sep 30, 1989)
10:00 Saturday Night With Connie Chung - Featured: On the road with a typical Japanese tour group visiting the U.S.; the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle craze and its origins; laundromats as the new singles' scene; pop band NRBQ.
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Divorce Court
MIDNIGHT Star Search
1:00 Crime Stoppers 800
1:30 Siskel & Ebert - Reviews: "Crazy People", "Impulse", "In the Spirit", "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover"
2:00 Hawaii Five-O
20 WCDA (Ind.)
5:30 USA Tonight
6:00 Paid Programming
7:00 Minority Business Report
7:30 Abbott & Costello
8:00 Movie: "Blondie" (1938) - Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake (Debut of the Blondie film series, based on the comic strip.)
9:30 College Mad House
10:00 Wrestling - NWA Worldwide
11:00 American Gladiators
NOON Soul Train - Guests: Regina Belle, Timmy Gatling
1:00 Movie: "Some Kind of Wonderful" (1987) - Eric Stoltz, Lea Thompson, Mary Stuart Masterson
3:00 Big Valley
4:00 Dukes of Hazzard
5:00 Growing Pains
5:30 Superboy
6:00 Star Trek: The Next Generation
7:00 Night Court
7:30 Cheers
8:00 Movie: "China Girl" (1987) - Richard Panebianco, Sari Chang, James Russo, David Caruso
10:00 War of the Worlds: "Video Messiah"
11:00 Arsenio Hall - Guests: Beau Bridges, James Earl Jones; Musical guest: Patti LaBelle (Jan 10, 1990)
MIDNIGHT Freddy's Nightmares
1:00 Monsters
1:30 Dance Connection
2:00 Paid Programming
3:00 Home Shopping Spree
26 WETA (PBS)
7:00 Sesame Street (x2)
9:00 Wild America
9:30 Bookmark
10:00 Wall $treet Week
10:30 Washington Week in Review
11:00 Metro Week
11:30 American Interests
NOON Adam Smith's Money World
12:30 European Journal
1:00 Tony Brown's Journal
1:30 Firing Line
2:00 Motorweek
2:30 Victory Garden
3:00 Nature: "Serpents" (snakes)
4:00 Justin Wilson
4:30 Nathalie Dupree
5:00 Frugal Gourmet
5:30 Around Town
6:00 Sneak Previews Goes Video - Reviews: "Turner & Hooch" (1989), "Bagdad Cafe" (1987), "Rio Bravo" (1959)
6:30 Hometime
7:00 New Yankee Workshop
7:30 This Old House
8:00 Living Planet: A Portrait of The Earth (in honor of Earth Day)
9:00 Soldiers
10:00 Where to and Back: "Welcome to Vienna"
MIDNIGHT Masterpiece Theatre: "The Dressmaker"
1:00 LateNight America With Dennis Wholey - Scheduled: debate on drug legalization; Rush Limbaugh; director Jerry Skolimowski; authors Taylor Branch and Jacqueline Castine
32 WHMM (PBS sec.; based at Howard University)
9:00 Adam Smith's Money World
9:30 Computer Chronicles
10:00 Business File
10:30 French in Action
11:00 Motorweek
11:30 Focus on Watercolor
NOON Art of William Alexander
12:30 Art of Buck Paulson
1:00 Calligraphy is Fun
1:30 Yan Can Cook
2:00 Ciao Italia
2:30 Nathalie Dupree
3:00 Stringalong
3:30 Art Underfoot
4:00 Hometime
4:30 This Old House
5:00 Nova: "Decoding the Book of Life"
6:00 Secret City
6:30 Long Ago and Far Away
7:00 OWL/TV
7:30 Degrassi High
8:00 Reporter's Roundtable
8:30 Howard News Vision
9:00 Pro & Con: Right to Die
9:30 Moviegoing Family
10:00 Saturday Night Sing
11:00 LateNight America With Dennis Wholey
50 WFTY (Ind.)
6:30 Paid Programming
8:00 Bible Way
8:30 Paid Programming
9:00 Ernest Angley
10:00 Wrestling - USWA Main Event
11:00 Paid Programming
1:00 World Roller Federation
2:00 Lost in Space
3:00 At the Movies - Reviews: "Cadillac Man", "Ford Fairlane"
3:30 Runaway With the Rich and Famous
4:00 Paid Programming
4:30 Mister Ed
5:00 Charles in Charge
5:30 My Secret Identity
6:00 KPOV-TV
6:30 Teen Talk
7:00 Cathy Huges
7:30 Paid Programming
8:00 Columbo
10:00 Crazy Like a Fox
11:00 Tales from the Darkside
11:30 Maryland Racing
MIDNIGHT Movie: "Pray for the Wildcats" (1974) - Andy Griffith, William Shatner, Robert Reed, Marjoe Gortner, Angie Dickinson
2:00 Move: "Mountain Charlie" (1982) - Dick Robinson, Rick Guinn, Lynne Seus
Cartoon characters who appeared in "Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue" -
Smurfs: Papa Smurf, Brainy Smurf, Hefty Smurf
ALF
Garfield
Chipmunks: Alvin, Simon, Theodore
Winnie the Pooh
Tigger
Muppet Babies: Kermit, Miss Piggy, Gonzo
Slimer (The Real Ghostbusters)
Looney Tunes: Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck
DuckTales: Huey, Duey, Louie
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Michelangelo (Donatello, Leonardo and Raphael did not appear.)
Source: Washington Post via proquest.com; Baltimore Sun via newspapers.com
4 WRC (NBC)
5:00 Love Connection
5:30 Father Knows Best
6:00 Donna Reed
6:30 Hazel
7:00 Wild Bill Hickock
7:30 Three Stories Tall
8:00 Kissyfur
8:30 Camp Candy
9:00 Captain N
9:30 Karate Kid
10:00 Smurfs
10:30 Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (cropping off the second half of Smurfs)
11:00 Chipmunks
11:30 Saved by the Bell
NOON ALF-tales
12:30 ALF: The Animated Series
1:00 Homefinders Guide
1:30 Wealth Without Risk
2:00 Golf - Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf, Third Round (Barton Creek Country Club, Austin, TX)
4:00 Saturday Sports Showcase - The Greatest Fights Ever: Ali vs. Foreman - "The Rumble in the Jungle"; October 30, 1974 in Kinshasa, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo)
6:00 News 4
6:30 NBC Nightly News - Garrick Utley
7:00 Earth Day 1990: A Guide to Saving the Planet (In honor of the 20th anniversary of the first Earth Day the following day.)
8:00 227: "Nightmare on 227"
8:30 13 East: "Hallelujah"
9:00 Golden Girls: "Dancing in the Dark" (Nov 4, 1989)
9:30 Empty Nest: "On the Interpretation of Dreams" (Oct 21, 1989)
10:00 Carol (Burnett) & Company: "In-Laws Should Be Out-Lawed"
10:30 Down Home: "Missed Popularity"
11:00 News 4
11:30 Saturday Night Live - Host: Alec Baldwin; Musical guests: The B-52's
1:00 It's Showtime at the Apollo
2:00 Night Music
3:00 News 4 (R)
5 WTTG (Fox)
6:00 CNN Headline News (x2)
7:00 Comedy Hour
8:00 Paid Programming
8:30 Bewitched
9:00 The Ropers
9:30 Three's a Crowd
10:00 Batman
10:30 Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (pre-empting the second episode of Batman)
11:00 WWF Sunperstars of Wrestling
NOON WWF Wrestling Challenge
1:00 Movie: "Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School" (Oct 16, 1988) - Voices of Don Messick, Casey Kasem, Frank Welker
3:00 Movie: "Amityville III: The Demon" (1983) - Tony Roberts, Tess Harper, Robert Joy, Candy Clark (aka "Amityville 3-D")
5:00 Fall Guy
6:00 M*A*S*H
6:30 Off the Record
7:00 M*A*S*H (x2)
8:00 Cops - Los Angeles County Sheriff's Dept.
8:30 Totally Hidden Video
9:00 In Living Color: "Do-It-Yourself Milli Vanilli Kit" (reference to their lip-synching scandal) / "Arsenio Hall and Marion Barry" (references to Barry's recent drug bust) / "Rap Choir" / "Sugar Ray Leonard Transition" / "Star Trek: The Wrath of (Louis) Farrakhan" / "Ridin' Miss Daisy"
9:30 Tracey Ullman: "The Hormonal Conversion" / "Who Is He?" / "Face the Music"
10:00 10 O'Clock News
11:00 Comic Strip Live
MIDNIGHT Pump It Up
1:00 WWF Superstars of Wrestling
2:00 Movie: "Tenspeed and Brown Show" (1980) - Ben Vereen, Jeff Goldbum
7 WJLA (ABC)
6:30 Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
7:30 Remote Control
8:00 A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
8:30 Disney's Gummi Bears/Winnie the Pooh Hour (six years prior to Disney's acquistion of ABC)
9:30 Slimer! and the Real Ghostbusters
10:30 Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (pre-empting Beetlejuice cartoon series)
11:00 Bugs Bunny & Tweety
NOON Pick Up the Beat
12:30 Paid Programming
1:00 Movie: "April Morning" (1988) - Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Urich
3:00 ABC Pro Bowlers Tour - Great Hartford Open (Windsor Locks, CT; halfway between Hartford and Springfield, MA)
4:30 ABC's Wide World of Sports - 1) Profile of Nadia Comaneci; 2) Horse racing: Wood Memorial (Aquaduct Race Track, Ozone Park, NY); 3) Bike racing; Paris-Roubaix Race (France)
6:00 News 7
6:30 ABC World News Saturday - Carole Simpson
7:00 Jeopardy!
7:30 Mama's Family
8:00 Sunset Beat (2-hour Pilot)
10:00 AFI Life Achievement Award - Recipient: David Lean (died April 16 the following year)
11:00 News 7
11:30 Byron Allen
12:30 Smash Hits
1:00 Remote Control
1:30 Red Hot & Cool
2:00 ABC Weekend News
2:15 Movie: "Nowhere to Hide" (1977) - Lee Van Cleef, Tony Musante
9 WUSA (CBS)
6:00 Dungeons & Dragons
6:30 Peppermint Place
7:00 Adventures of Raggedy Ann & Andy
7:30 CBS Storybreak - Bob Keeshan (aka "Captain Kangaroo")
8:00 Dink, the Little Dinosaur
8:30 California Raisins
9:00 Muppet Babies
10:00 Pee-wee's Playhouse
10:30 Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (pre-empting Garfield and Friends, along with the following special)
11:00 The One & Only Teen Awards (WUSA exclusive)
11:30 In Our Lives
NOON America's Top 10
12:30 The Other Side of Victory
1:00 MLB Baseball - Montreal Expos (now Washington Nationals) vs. New York Mets (CBS's second week of MLB broadcasting, which lasted until the 1993 World Series)
4:00 Golf - Kmart Greater Greensboro (NC) PGA Open, Third Round (Forest Oaks Country Club)
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 CBS Evening News - Bob Schieffer
7:00 Inside Washington
7:30 Wheel of Fortune
8:00 Paradise: "All the Pretty Little Horses" (Oct 14, 1989)
9:00 Tour of Duty: "Doc Hock" (Sep 30, 1989)
10:00 Saturday Night With Connie Chung - Featured: On the road with a typical Japanese tour group visiting the U.S.; the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle craze and its origins; laundromats as the new singles' scene; pop band NRBQ.
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Divorce Court
MIDNIGHT Star Search
1:00 Crime Stoppers 800
1:30 Siskel & Ebert - Reviews: "Crazy People", "Impulse", "In the Spirit", "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover"
2:00 Hawaii Five-O
20 WCDA (Ind.)
5:30 USA Tonight
6:00 Paid Programming
7:00 Minority Business Report
7:30 Abbott & Costello
8:00 Movie: "Blondie" (1938) - Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake (Debut of the Blondie film series, based on the comic strip.)
9:30 College Mad House
10:00 Wrestling - NWA Worldwide
11:00 American Gladiators
NOON Soul Train - Guests: Regina Belle, Timmy Gatling
1:00 Movie: "Some Kind of Wonderful" (1987) - Eric Stoltz, Lea Thompson, Mary Stuart Masterson
3:00 Big Valley
4:00 Dukes of Hazzard
5:00 Growing Pains
5:30 Superboy
6:00 Star Trek: The Next Generation
7:00 Night Court
7:30 Cheers
8:00 Movie: "China Girl" (1987) - Richard Panebianco, Sari Chang, James Russo, David Caruso
10:00 War of the Worlds: "Video Messiah"
11:00 Arsenio Hall - Guests: Beau Bridges, James Earl Jones; Musical guest: Patti LaBelle (Jan 10, 1990)
MIDNIGHT Freddy's Nightmares
1:00 Monsters
1:30 Dance Connection
2:00 Paid Programming
3:00 Home Shopping Spree
26 WETA (PBS)
7:00 Sesame Street (x2)
9:00 Wild America
9:30 Bookmark
10:00 Wall $treet Week
10:30 Washington Week in Review
11:00 Metro Week
11:30 American Interests
NOON Adam Smith's Money World
12:30 European Journal
1:00 Tony Brown's Journal
1:30 Firing Line
2:00 Motorweek
2:30 Victory Garden
3:00 Nature: "Serpents" (snakes)
4:00 Justin Wilson
4:30 Nathalie Dupree
5:00 Frugal Gourmet
5:30 Around Town
6:00 Sneak Previews Goes Video - Reviews: "Turner & Hooch" (1989), "Bagdad Cafe" (1987), "Rio Bravo" (1959)
6:30 Hometime
7:00 New Yankee Workshop
7:30 This Old House
8:00 Living Planet: A Portrait of The Earth (in honor of Earth Day)
9:00 Soldiers
10:00 Where to and Back: "Welcome to Vienna"
MIDNIGHT Masterpiece Theatre: "The Dressmaker"
1:00 LateNight America With Dennis Wholey - Scheduled: debate on drug legalization; Rush Limbaugh; director Jerry Skolimowski; authors Taylor Branch and Jacqueline Castine
32 WHMM (PBS sec.; based at Howard University)
9:00 Adam Smith's Money World
9:30 Computer Chronicles
10:00 Business File
10:30 French in Action
11:00 Motorweek
11:30 Focus on Watercolor
NOON Art of William Alexander
12:30 Art of Buck Paulson
1:00 Calligraphy is Fun
1:30 Yan Can Cook
2:00 Ciao Italia
2:30 Nathalie Dupree
3:00 Stringalong
3:30 Art Underfoot
4:00 Hometime
4:30 This Old House
5:00 Nova: "Decoding the Book of Life"
6:00 Secret City
6:30 Long Ago and Far Away
7:00 OWL/TV
7:30 Degrassi High
8:00 Reporter's Roundtable
8:30 Howard News Vision
9:00 Pro & Con: Right to Die
9:30 Moviegoing Family
10:00 Saturday Night Sing
11:00 LateNight America With Dennis Wholey
50 WFTY (Ind.)
6:30 Paid Programming
8:00 Bible Way
8:30 Paid Programming
9:00 Ernest Angley
10:00 Wrestling - USWA Main Event
11:00 Paid Programming
1:00 World Roller Federation
2:00 Lost in Space
3:00 At the Movies - Reviews: "Cadillac Man", "Ford Fairlane"
3:30 Runaway With the Rich and Famous
4:00 Paid Programming
4:30 Mister Ed
5:00 Charles in Charge
5:30 My Secret Identity
6:00 KPOV-TV
6:30 Teen Talk
7:00 Cathy Huges
7:30 Paid Programming
8:00 Columbo
10:00 Crazy Like a Fox
11:00 Tales from the Darkside
11:30 Maryland Racing
MIDNIGHT Movie: "Pray for the Wildcats" (1974) - Andy Griffith, William Shatner, Robert Reed, Marjoe Gortner, Angie Dickinson
2:00 Move: "Mountain Charlie" (1982) - Dick Robinson, Rick Guinn, Lynne Seus
Cartoon characters who appeared in "Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue" -
Smurfs: Papa Smurf, Brainy Smurf, Hefty Smurf
ALF
Garfield
Chipmunks: Alvin, Simon, Theodore
Winnie the Pooh
Tigger
Muppet Babies: Kermit, Miss Piggy, Gonzo
Slimer (The Real Ghostbusters)
Looney Tunes: Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck
DuckTales: Huey, Duey, Louie
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Michelangelo (Donatello, Leonardo and Raphael did not appear.)