from TV Guide-Western Illinois edition
WTTW and WTVP were in pledge periods, times subject to change
ABC stations may interrupt late-morning/early-afternoon programs for D-II or D-III college football playoff coverage
WBBM 2-CBS Chicago late-night listings only
4:05am Movie "Terror on the 40th Floor"
4:45 Take It from Here
KTVO 3-ABC Kirksville/Ottumwa
7:00 Best of Scooby-Doo
7:30 Little Rascals/Richie Rich
8:00 Monchhichis
8:30 Pac-Man
9:00 Rubik the Amazing Cube
9:30 Littles
10:00 Puppy's Further Adventures
10:30 New Scooby & Scrappy-Doo
11:00 Weekend Special "The Secret World of Og" (pt 1)
11:30 American Bandstand (guests Dave Davies, and the Mary Jane Girls)
12:30 Music Magazine
1:00 US Farm Report
1:30 Showcase 3
2:00 Sportsbeat (looks at Atlanta Hawk Mike Glenn's work with deaf children)
2:30 College Football Today
2:50 College Football: Alabama-Auburn
6:00 Solid Gold (guests Irene Cara, Bonnie Tyler, Huey Lewis & the News, Lee Greenwood, and Jennifer Holiday; plus McCartney and Jackson's video "Say Say Say")
7:00 T.J. Hooker
8:00 Love Boat
9:00 Fantasy Island
10:00 ABC News
10:15 News
10:30 Solid Gold Christmas (Marilyn McCoo and the Solid Gold Dancers count down the top 40 Christmas songs with help from Barry Manilow, Roberta Flack, Laura Braningan, Crystal Gayle, the Chipmunks, Donna Summer, the Oak Ridge Boys, and Marie Osmond)
12:30 Movie "Machine Gun McCain"
WHBF 4-CBS Quad Cities
6:30 Better Way
7:00 Biskitts
7:30 Saturday Supercade
8:30 Dungeons & Dragons
9:00 Plasticman
9:30 Charlie Brown & Snoopy
10:00 Benji, Zax & the Alien Prince
10:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
11:00 NCAA Today
11:30 College Football: Florida State-Florida
3:00 College Basketball: Indiana-Kentucky
5:00 Jeffersons
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 Tale of the Christmas Toys
7:00 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (celebrating 45 years on the air this year)
8:00 Movie "Quarterback Princess"
10:00 News
10:30 Switch
11:30 Harry O
12:30 This is Your Life
WOC 6-NBC Quad Cities
7:00 Flintstone Funnies
7:30 Shirt Tales
8:00 Smurfs
9:30 Alvin & the Chipmunks
10:00 Mr. T
10:30 Amazing Spider-Man & the Incredible Hulk
11:30 Thundarr
noon Muppet Show
12:30 Wild Kingdom
1:00 College Basketball: UCLA-Notre Dame
3:00 SportsWorld: Women's World Invitational Gymnastics Classic/International Pro Ski Challenge Race/Men's World Open Pocket Billiards Championships final
4:30 College Basketball Preview (Al McGuire previews the 83-84 season)
5:00 Newscope
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Solid Gold (same guests as on 3)
6:30 College Basketball: Amana-Hawkeye Classic consolation game, if Iowa is in it (otherwise 6 will run regular programs)
8:30 College Basketball: Amana-Hawkeye Classic championship game, same proviso as above
10:00 News
10:30 Saturday Night Live (hosts the Smothers Brothers/music by Big Country)
mid. Star Search
1:00 News
KHQA 7-CBS Quincy
6:00 Captain Kangaroo
7:00 Biskitts
7:30 Saturday Supercade
8:30 Dungeons & Dragons
9:00 Plasticman
9:30 Charlie Brown & Snoopy
10:00 Benji, Zax & the Alien Prince
10:30 US Farm Report
11:00 NCAA Today
11:30 College Football: Florida State-Florida
3:00 College Basketball: Indiana-Kentucky
5:00 News
5:15 Face the Tri-States
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 Hee Haw (guests Michael Murphey, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Chet Atkins, and Earl Klugh)
7:00 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
8:00 Movie "Quarterback Princess"
10:00 News
10:30 That (Good Ole) Nashville Music (guests Sonny James, Shelly West, and Jack Greene)
11:00 Star Search (guests Danny Thomas and Charlene Tilton)
mid. America's Top 10
12:30 News
WQAD 8-ABC Quad Cities
5:30 Real to Reel
6:00 Romper Room & Friends
6:30 Great Space Coaster
7:00 Best of Scooby-Doo
7:30 Little Rascals/Richie Rich
8:00 Monchhichis
8:30 Pac-Man
9:00 Rubik the Amazing Cube
9:30 Littles
10:00 Puppy's Further Adventures
10:30 New Scooby & Scrappy-Doo
11:00 Weekend Special "The Secret World of Og" (pt 1)
11:30 American Bandstand
12:30 America's Top 10
1:00 Flying High (local Junior Achievement students produced and directed this variety special)
1:30 Like It Is
2:00 Sportsbeat
2:30 College Football Today
2:50 College Football: Alabama-Auburn
6:00 Heisman Trophy Award
7:00 Lincoln-Douglas Debates (a re-enactment of the famous 1858 slavery debates during a Senate election campaign; Lincoln is played by play writer Stanley Wiklinski, with Fred Torstrup playing Douglas)
8:00 Love Boat
9:00 Fantasy Island
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "Framed"
12:30 Austin City Limits Encore
1:00 Movie "Escape from New York"
3:00 ABC News
3:15 News
3:45 CNN Headline News
WGN 9-Ind Chicago
5:00 Morning Stretch
5:30 Dennis the Menace (bw)
6:00 Cartoons
6:15 Buyer's Forum
6:30 Three Score/Community Calendar
6:45 Cartoons
7:00 US Farm Report
7:30 World Tomorrow with Herbert W. Armstrong
8:00 Rex Humbard
8:30 Issues Unlimited
9:00 Charlando
9:30 Incredible Hulk
10:30 Kung Fu
11:30 Movie "The Optimists"
1:30 Movie "Mexican Hayride" (bw)
3:00 America's Top 10
3:30 Soul Train
4:30 Good Times
5:00 Welcome Back, Kotter
5:30 Little House on the Prairie
6:30 At the Movies
7:00 Odd Couple
7:30 College Basketball: Illinois State-DePaul
9:30 News
10:00 NBA: Chicago-Dallas (same-day tape)
12:30 Solid Gold
1:30 INN News
2:00 From the Editor's Desk
2:30 Movie "The Great Missouri Raid"
4:30 Dennis the Menace (bw)
WGEM 10-NBC Quincy
7:00 Flintstone Funnies
7:30 Shirt Tales
8:00 Smurfs
9:30 Alvin & the Chipmunks
10:00 Mr. T
10:30 Amazing Spider-Man & the Incredible Hulk
11:30 Thundarr
noon By the Way
12:30 Lorne Greene's New Wilderness
1:00 College Basketball: UCLA-Notre Dame
3:00 Sportsworld
4:30 College Basketball Preview
5:00 Taking Advantage
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 News
6:30 Dance Fever (music from Finis Henderson/judges Mary Crosby, Stuart Damon, and Ronnie Schell)
7:00 Diff'rent Strokes
7:30 Silver Spoons (guest stars Menudo)
8:00 Manimal (new day)
9:00 Big John (pilot)
10:00 News
10:30 Saturday Night Live
mid. Wrestling
1:00 News
WTTW 11-PBS Chicago
7:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 3-2-1 Contact
9:00 Movie "Eleanor and Franklin" (pt 1, this 1976 TV movie won 11 Emmys)
11:00 GED
noon New Tech Times
12:30 Newton's Apple
1:00 Chicago's Secret Wilderness
1:55 Nature
2:55 Nova "Captives of Care" (a 1981 Aussie docudrama of a 1973 protest by severely disabled persons (who play themselves) concerning conditions in their institution)
4:00 Magic of Oil Painting
4:35 New This Old House
5:10 Dinner at Julia's
5:45 Sneak Previews
6:20 Wild America
7:00 Movie "A Man for All Seasons"
9:25 Alfred Hitchcock (bw)
10:00 Image Union
10:30 Kup's Show
11:35 David Susskind
KIIN 12-PBS Iowa City
7:00 GED
7:30 Untamed World
8:00 Guitar with Frederick Noad
8:30 Images in Watercolor
9:00 Wine What Pleasure
9:30 New This Old House
10:00 Housewarming with Charlie Wing
10:30 World of Cooking
11:00 Teaching Writing: A Process Approach
11:30 Hablemos Espanol
noon MotorWeek
12:30 Personal Finance
1:30 Microwave Cookery
2:00 Computer Programme
2:30 Magic of Decorative Painting
3:00 Needle & Eye
3:30 Wok Thru China
4:00 Antiques & Americana
4:30 Dinner at Julia's
5:00 Matinee at the Bijou
6:30 Touchstone
7:00 Bix Beiderbecke Jazz Festival
7:30 Agronsky & Company
8:00 Movie "Silent Running"
10:00 Jacques Cousteau (the explorer heads down to Florida's St. John's River to examine the manatee)
11:00 Kup's Show (guests VP George H.W. Bush and John Kenneth Galbraith)
WRAU 19-ABC Peoria
6:30 Better Way
7:00 Best of Scooby-Doo
7:30 Little Rascals/Richie Rich
8:00 Monchhichis
8:30 Pac-Man
9:00 Rubik the Amazing Cube
9:30 Littles
10:00 Puppy's Further Adventures
10:30 New Scooby & Scrappy-Doo
11:00 Weekend Special "The Secret World of Og" (pt 1)
11:30 American Bandstand
12:30 That Teen Show (look at adoption with guest Fr. Robert Vitillo of Peoria's Catholic Family & Community Services)
1:00 IHSA Class A Girls' High School Volleyball Championship (taped November 12th in Springfield)
2:30 College Football Today
2:50 College Football: Alabama-Auburn
6:00 Heisman Trophy Award
7:00 T.J. Hooker
8:00 Love Boat
9:00 Fantasy Island
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "The Internecine Project"
12:55 700 Club
1:55 ABC News
WICS 20-NBC Springfield
6:30 US Farm Report
7:00 Flintstone Funnies
7:30 Shirt Tales
8:00 Smurfs
9:30 Alvin & the Chipmunks
10:00 Mr. T
10:30 Amazing Spider-Man & the Incredible Hulk
11:30 Bullwinkle
noon Saturday on 20
12:30 Healthbeat
1:00 College Basketball: UCLA-Notre Dame
3:00 Sportsworld
4:30 College Basketball Preview
5:00 Capitol Conference
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Hee Haw (same guests as 7)
7:00 Diff'rent Strokes
7:30 Silver Spoons
8:00 Manimal
9:00 Big John (pilot)
10:00 News
10:30 Saturday Night Live
mid. At the Movies
WEEK 25-NBC Peoria
7:00 Uncle Waldo's Cartoons
7:30 Shirt Tales
8:00 Smurfs
9:30 Alvin & the Chipmunks
10:00 Mr. T
10:30 Santa & the Three Bears
11:30 Great Santa Claus Caper (Raggedy Ann and Andy)
noon US Farm Report
12:30 This Week in Country Music
1:00 College Basketball: UCLA-Notre Dame
3:00 Wild Kingdom
3:30 Stress Test
4:00 Taking Advantage
4:30 On & Off Country
5:00 Dance Fever
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 News
6:30 At the Movies
7:00 Diff'rent Strokes
7:30 Silver Spoons
8:00 Manimal
9:00 Big John (pilot)
10:00 News
10:30 Saturday Night Live
mid. Being with John F. Kennedy (reviewing the JFK Presidency)
WMBD 31-CBS Peoria
6:00 Captain Kangaroo
7:00 Biskitts
7:30 Saturday Supercade
8:30 Dungeons & Dragons
9:00 Plasticman
9:30 Charlie Brown & Snoopy
10:00 Benji, Zax & the Alien Prince
10:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
11:00 NCAA Today
11:30 College Football: Florida State-Florida
3:00 College Basketball: Indiana-Kentucky
5:00 TV Topic
5:30 News
6:00 Hee Haw (same guests as 7)
7:00 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
8:00 Movie "Quarterback Princess"
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes"
WFLD 32-Ind Chicago
6:00 Newstalk
6:30 Chicago '83
7:00 Our People
7:30 Six Million Dollar Man
8:30 Movie "It Conquered the World" (bw)
10:00 Movie "It Came from Outer Space" (bw)
noon Movie "Tiger's Claw"
2:00 Movie "Demon Seed"
4:00 Baretta
5:00 Star Trek
6:00 Fame
7:00 Entertainment This Week
8:00 Star Search
9:00 How the West was Won
10:00 Benny Hill
10:30 Starsky & Hutch
11:30 In Our Defense
mid. Movie "A Stolen Life" (bw)
2:00 Movie "That Certain Feeling"
WBLN 43-Ind Bloomington
11:30 Krofft Supershow
noon New Zoo Revue
12:30 CNN Headline News
1:00 Black Buffalo's Pow Wow
1:30 Fury (bw)
2:00 Movie "Ambush at Cimarron Pass" (bw)
3:30 Moody Science Series
4:00 ITF World Junior Tennis Championship
6:00 Star Search (Thomas/Tilton)
7:00 Movie "The Optimists"
9:00 Combat! (bw)
10:00 Movie "How Green was My Valley" (bw)
mid. CNN Headline News
WTVP 47-PBS Peoria
9:00 Sesame Street
10:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11:25 Christmas is... (did many PBS stations run this syndied Lutheran special?)
noon World of Cooking
12:30 New This Old House
1:00 Housewarming with Charlie Wing
1:30 Woodwright's Shop
2:00 Contemporary Health Issues
3:00 Understanding Human Behavior
4:00 Working Women
4:35 Powerhouse
5:10 Reading Rainbow
5:50 Sneak Previews
6:20 New Tech Times
7:00 From Star Wars to Jedi (behind the scenes of what was then the Star Wars trilogy)
8:30 Doctor Who (20th anniversary special as Doc Peter Davison runs into predecessors Richard Hurndall, Patrick Troughton, John Pertwee, and Tom Baker)
10:30 Grandstand '83 (Heart of Illinois Fair grandstand show highlights; performers include Janie Fricke, T.G. Sheppard, and Michael Murphey)
WTBS-Ind Atlanta listings CT
5:00 CNN News
6:05 Between the Lines
6:35 Romper Room & Friends
7:05 Starcade
7:35 Movie "Revenge of the Gladiators"
9:35 Movie "Torn Curtains" (Hitchcock's 50th film)
noon Movie "The War of the Worlds"
1:50 Movie "The Americano"
3:30 High Chapparal (College Scoreboard at 4)
4:35 Motorweek Illustrated
5:05 College Scoreboard
5:10 Wrestling
6:00 College Scoreboard
6:05 Wrestling
6:55 College Football Pre-Game
7:05 College Football: Air Force-San Diego State
10:20 Finite World
10:50 Night Tracks (to 5am CT)
WTTW and WTVP were in pledge periods, times subject to change
ABC stations may interrupt late-morning/early-afternoon programs for D-II or D-III college football playoff coverage
WBBM 2-CBS Chicago late-night listings only
4:05am Movie "Terror on the 40th Floor"
4:45 Take It from Here
KTVO 3-ABC Kirksville/Ottumwa
7:00 Best of Scooby-Doo
7:30 Little Rascals/Richie Rich
8:00 Monchhichis
8:30 Pac-Man
9:00 Rubik the Amazing Cube
9:30 Littles
10:00 Puppy's Further Adventures
10:30 New Scooby & Scrappy-Doo
11:00 Weekend Special "The Secret World of Og" (pt 1)
11:30 American Bandstand (guests Dave Davies, and the Mary Jane Girls)
12:30 Music Magazine
1:00 US Farm Report
1:30 Showcase 3
2:00 Sportsbeat (looks at Atlanta Hawk Mike Glenn's work with deaf children)
2:30 College Football Today
2:50 College Football: Alabama-Auburn
6:00 Solid Gold (guests Irene Cara, Bonnie Tyler, Huey Lewis & the News, Lee Greenwood, and Jennifer Holiday; plus McCartney and Jackson's video "Say Say Say")
7:00 T.J. Hooker
8:00 Love Boat
9:00 Fantasy Island
10:00 ABC News
10:15 News
10:30 Solid Gold Christmas (Marilyn McCoo and the Solid Gold Dancers count down the top 40 Christmas songs with help from Barry Manilow, Roberta Flack, Laura Braningan, Crystal Gayle, the Chipmunks, Donna Summer, the Oak Ridge Boys, and Marie Osmond)
12:30 Movie "Machine Gun McCain"
WHBF 4-CBS Quad Cities
6:30 Better Way
7:00 Biskitts
7:30 Saturday Supercade
8:30 Dungeons & Dragons
9:00 Plasticman
9:30 Charlie Brown & Snoopy
10:00 Benji, Zax & the Alien Prince
10:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
11:00 NCAA Today
11:30 College Football: Florida State-Florida
3:00 College Basketball: Indiana-Kentucky
5:00 Jeffersons
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 Tale of the Christmas Toys
7:00 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (celebrating 45 years on the air this year)
8:00 Movie "Quarterback Princess"
10:00 News
10:30 Switch
11:30 Harry O
12:30 This is Your Life
WOC 6-NBC Quad Cities
7:00 Flintstone Funnies
7:30 Shirt Tales
8:00 Smurfs
9:30 Alvin & the Chipmunks
10:00 Mr. T
10:30 Amazing Spider-Man & the Incredible Hulk
11:30 Thundarr
noon Muppet Show
12:30 Wild Kingdom
1:00 College Basketball: UCLA-Notre Dame
3:00 SportsWorld: Women's World Invitational Gymnastics Classic/International Pro Ski Challenge Race/Men's World Open Pocket Billiards Championships final
4:30 College Basketball Preview (Al McGuire previews the 83-84 season)
5:00 Newscope
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Solid Gold (same guests as on 3)
6:30 College Basketball: Amana-Hawkeye Classic consolation game, if Iowa is in it (otherwise 6 will run regular programs)
8:30 College Basketball: Amana-Hawkeye Classic championship game, same proviso as above
10:00 News
10:30 Saturday Night Live (hosts the Smothers Brothers/music by Big Country)
mid. Star Search
1:00 News
KHQA 7-CBS Quincy
6:00 Captain Kangaroo
7:00 Biskitts
7:30 Saturday Supercade
8:30 Dungeons & Dragons
9:00 Plasticman
9:30 Charlie Brown & Snoopy
10:00 Benji, Zax & the Alien Prince
10:30 US Farm Report
11:00 NCAA Today
11:30 College Football: Florida State-Florida
3:00 College Basketball: Indiana-Kentucky
5:00 News
5:15 Face the Tri-States
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 Hee Haw (guests Michael Murphey, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Chet Atkins, and Earl Klugh)
7:00 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
8:00 Movie "Quarterback Princess"
10:00 News
10:30 That (Good Ole) Nashville Music (guests Sonny James, Shelly West, and Jack Greene)
11:00 Star Search (guests Danny Thomas and Charlene Tilton)
mid. America's Top 10
12:30 News
WQAD 8-ABC Quad Cities
5:30 Real to Reel
6:00 Romper Room & Friends
6:30 Great Space Coaster
7:00 Best of Scooby-Doo
7:30 Little Rascals/Richie Rich
8:00 Monchhichis
8:30 Pac-Man
9:00 Rubik the Amazing Cube
9:30 Littles
10:00 Puppy's Further Adventures
10:30 New Scooby & Scrappy-Doo
11:00 Weekend Special "The Secret World of Og" (pt 1)
11:30 American Bandstand
12:30 America's Top 10
1:00 Flying High (local Junior Achievement students produced and directed this variety special)
1:30 Like It Is
2:00 Sportsbeat
2:30 College Football Today
2:50 College Football: Alabama-Auburn
6:00 Heisman Trophy Award
7:00 Lincoln-Douglas Debates (a re-enactment of the famous 1858 slavery debates during a Senate election campaign; Lincoln is played by play writer Stanley Wiklinski, with Fred Torstrup playing Douglas)
8:00 Love Boat
9:00 Fantasy Island
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "Framed"
12:30 Austin City Limits Encore
1:00 Movie "Escape from New York"
3:00 ABC News
3:15 News
3:45 CNN Headline News
WGN 9-Ind Chicago
5:00 Morning Stretch
5:30 Dennis the Menace (bw)
6:00 Cartoons
6:15 Buyer's Forum
6:30 Three Score/Community Calendar
6:45 Cartoons
7:00 US Farm Report
7:30 World Tomorrow with Herbert W. Armstrong
8:00 Rex Humbard
8:30 Issues Unlimited
9:00 Charlando
9:30 Incredible Hulk
10:30 Kung Fu
11:30 Movie "The Optimists"
1:30 Movie "Mexican Hayride" (bw)
3:00 America's Top 10
3:30 Soul Train
4:30 Good Times
5:00 Welcome Back, Kotter
5:30 Little House on the Prairie
6:30 At the Movies
7:00 Odd Couple
7:30 College Basketball: Illinois State-DePaul
9:30 News
10:00 NBA: Chicago-Dallas (same-day tape)
12:30 Solid Gold
1:30 INN News
2:00 From the Editor's Desk
2:30 Movie "The Great Missouri Raid"
4:30 Dennis the Menace (bw)
WGEM 10-NBC Quincy
7:00 Flintstone Funnies
7:30 Shirt Tales
8:00 Smurfs
9:30 Alvin & the Chipmunks
10:00 Mr. T
10:30 Amazing Spider-Man & the Incredible Hulk
11:30 Thundarr
noon By the Way
12:30 Lorne Greene's New Wilderness
1:00 College Basketball: UCLA-Notre Dame
3:00 Sportsworld
4:30 College Basketball Preview
5:00 Taking Advantage
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 News
6:30 Dance Fever (music from Finis Henderson/judges Mary Crosby, Stuart Damon, and Ronnie Schell)
7:00 Diff'rent Strokes
7:30 Silver Spoons (guest stars Menudo)
8:00 Manimal (new day)
9:00 Big John (pilot)
10:00 News
10:30 Saturday Night Live
mid. Wrestling
1:00 News
WTTW 11-PBS Chicago
7:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 3-2-1 Contact
9:00 Movie "Eleanor and Franklin" (pt 1, this 1976 TV movie won 11 Emmys)
11:00 GED
noon New Tech Times
12:30 Newton's Apple
1:00 Chicago's Secret Wilderness
1:55 Nature
2:55 Nova "Captives of Care" (a 1981 Aussie docudrama of a 1973 protest by severely disabled persons (who play themselves) concerning conditions in their institution)
4:00 Magic of Oil Painting
4:35 New This Old House
5:10 Dinner at Julia's
5:45 Sneak Previews
6:20 Wild America
7:00 Movie "A Man for All Seasons"
9:25 Alfred Hitchcock (bw)
10:00 Image Union
10:30 Kup's Show
11:35 David Susskind
KIIN 12-PBS Iowa City
7:00 GED
7:30 Untamed World
8:00 Guitar with Frederick Noad
8:30 Images in Watercolor
9:00 Wine What Pleasure
9:30 New This Old House
10:00 Housewarming with Charlie Wing
10:30 World of Cooking
11:00 Teaching Writing: A Process Approach
11:30 Hablemos Espanol
noon MotorWeek
12:30 Personal Finance
1:30 Microwave Cookery
2:00 Computer Programme
2:30 Magic of Decorative Painting
3:00 Needle & Eye
3:30 Wok Thru China
4:00 Antiques & Americana
4:30 Dinner at Julia's
5:00 Matinee at the Bijou
6:30 Touchstone
7:00 Bix Beiderbecke Jazz Festival
7:30 Agronsky & Company
8:00 Movie "Silent Running"
10:00 Jacques Cousteau (the explorer heads down to Florida's St. John's River to examine the manatee)
11:00 Kup's Show (guests VP George H.W. Bush and John Kenneth Galbraith)
WRAU 19-ABC Peoria
6:30 Better Way
7:00 Best of Scooby-Doo
7:30 Little Rascals/Richie Rich
8:00 Monchhichis
8:30 Pac-Man
9:00 Rubik the Amazing Cube
9:30 Littles
10:00 Puppy's Further Adventures
10:30 New Scooby & Scrappy-Doo
11:00 Weekend Special "The Secret World of Og" (pt 1)
11:30 American Bandstand
12:30 That Teen Show (look at adoption with guest Fr. Robert Vitillo of Peoria's Catholic Family & Community Services)
1:00 IHSA Class A Girls' High School Volleyball Championship (taped November 12th in Springfield)
2:30 College Football Today
2:50 College Football: Alabama-Auburn
6:00 Heisman Trophy Award
7:00 T.J. Hooker
8:00 Love Boat
9:00 Fantasy Island
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "The Internecine Project"
12:55 700 Club
1:55 ABC News
WICS 20-NBC Springfield
6:30 US Farm Report
7:00 Flintstone Funnies
7:30 Shirt Tales
8:00 Smurfs
9:30 Alvin & the Chipmunks
10:00 Mr. T
10:30 Amazing Spider-Man & the Incredible Hulk
11:30 Bullwinkle
noon Saturday on 20
12:30 Healthbeat
1:00 College Basketball: UCLA-Notre Dame
3:00 Sportsworld
4:30 College Basketball Preview
5:00 Capitol Conference
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Hee Haw (same guests as 7)
7:00 Diff'rent Strokes
7:30 Silver Spoons
8:00 Manimal
9:00 Big John (pilot)
10:00 News
10:30 Saturday Night Live
mid. At the Movies
WEEK 25-NBC Peoria
7:00 Uncle Waldo's Cartoons
7:30 Shirt Tales
8:00 Smurfs
9:30 Alvin & the Chipmunks
10:00 Mr. T
10:30 Santa & the Three Bears
11:30 Great Santa Claus Caper (Raggedy Ann and Andy)
noon US Farm Report
12:30 This Week in Country Music
1:00 College Basketball: UCLA-Notre Dame
3:00 Wild Kingdom
3:30 Stress Test
4:00 Taking Advantage
4:30 On & Off Country
5:00 Dance Fever
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 News
6:30 At the Movies
7:00 Diff'rent Strokes
7:30 Silver Spoons
8:00 Manimal
9:00 Big John (pilot)
10:00 News
10:30 Saturday Night Live
mid. Being with John F. Kennedy (reviewing the JFK Presidency)
WMBD 31-CBS Peoria
6:00 Captain Kangaroo
7:00 Biskitts
7:30 Saturday Supercade
8:30 Dungeons & Dragons
9:00 Plasticman
9:30 Charlie Brown & Snoopy
10:00 Benji, Zax & the Alien Prince
10:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
11:00 NCAA Today
11:30 College Football: Florida State-Florida
3:00 College Basketball: Indiana-Kentucky
5:00 TV Topic
5:30 News
6:00 Hee Haw (same guests as 7)
7:00 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
8:00 Movie "Quarterback Princess"
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes"
WFLD 32-Ind Chicago
6:00 Newstalk
6:30 Chicago '83
7:00 Our People
7:30 Six Million Dollar Man
8:30 Movie "It Conquered the World" (bw)
10:00 Movie "It Came from Outer Space" (bw)
noon Movie "Tiger's Claw"
2:00 Movie "Demon Seed"
4:00 Baretta
5:00 Star Trek
6:00 Fame
7:00 Entertainment This Week
8:00 Star Search
9:00 How the West was Won
10:00 Benny Hill
10:30 Starsky & Hutch
11:30 In Our Defense
mid. Movie "A Stolen Life" (bw)
2:00 Movie "That Certain Feeling"
WBLN 43-Ind Bloomington
11:30 Krofft Supershow
noon New Zoo Revue
12:30 CNN Headline News
1:00 Black Buffalo's Pow Wow
1:30 Fury (bw)
2:00 Movie "Ambush at Cimarron Pass" (bw)
3:30 Moody Science Series
4:00 ITF World Junior Tennis Championship
6:00 Star Search (Thomas/Tilton)
7:00 Movie "The Optimists"
9:00 Combat! (bw)
10:00 Movie "How Green was My Valley" (bw)
mid. CNN Headline News
WTVP 47-PBS Peoria
9:00 Sesame Street
10:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11:25 Christmas is... (did many PBS stations run this syndied Lutheran special?)
noon World of Cooking
12:30 New This Old House
1:00 Housewarming with Charlie Wing
1:30 Woodwright's Shop
2:00 Contemporary Health Issues
3:00 Understanding Human Behavior
4:00 Working Women
4:35 Powerhouse
5:10 Reading Rainbow
5:50 Sneak Previews
6:20 New Tech Times
7:00 From Star Wars to Jedi (behind the scenes of what was then the Star Wars trilogy)
8:30 Doctor Who (20th anniversary special as Doc Peter Davison runs into predecessors Richard Hurndall, Patrick Troughton, John Pertwee, and Tom Baker)
10:30 Grandstand '83 (Heart of Illinois Fair grandstand show highlights; performers include Janie Fricke, T.G. Sheppard, and Michael Murphey)
WTBS-Ind Atlanta listings CT
5:00 CNN News
6:05 Between the Lines
6:35 Romper Room & Friends
7:05 Starcade
7:35 Movie "Revenge of the Gladiators"
9:35 Movie "Torn Curtains" (Hitchcock's 50th film)
noon Movie "The War of the Worlds"
1:50 Movie "The Americano"
3:30 High Chapparal (College Scoreboard at 4)
4:35 Motorweek Illustrated
5:05 College Scoreboard
5:10 Wrestling
6:00 College Scoreboard
6:05 Wrestling
6:55 College Football Pre-Game
7:05 College Football: Air Force-San Diego State
10:20 Finite World
10:50 Night Tracks (to 5am CT)