Source: TV Guide, Western Illinois Edition
Quad Cities
4 WHBF (CBS)
6 WOC (NBC) (now KWQC)
8 WQAD (ABC)
24 WQPT (PBS)
Springfield
20 WICS (NBC) (now an ABC affiliate)
Peoria
19 WRAU (ABC) (now WHOI and LMA'd by WEEK)
25 WEEK (NBC)
31 WMBD (CBS)
47 WTVP (PBS)
Bloomington
43 WBLN (Ind.) (now WYZZ, a Fox affiliate, and LMA'd by WMBD)
Quincy
7 KHQA (CBS)
10 WGEM (NBC)*
Kirksville-Ottumwa
3 KTVO (ABC)
*WGEM carried some ABC daytime shows on weekdays, but was not listed as a secondary ABC affiliate.
MORNING
5:00 8 CNN Headline news
5:55 8 Inspirations
6:00 8 U.S. Farm Report
20 Consultation
6:15 7 Sacred Heart
10 Contempo
6:30 6-7 This Is the Life
8 Church Service (Catholic)
10 Weekend Magazine
20 World Tomorrow
31 Mass for Shut-Ins
7:00 3 Robert Schuller
4-7-20 Jimmy Swaggart
6 Children's Theatre
8 Gospel Sing
10 Mass for Shut-Ins
19 Consultation
25 Kenneth Copeland
31 Captain Kangaroo
7:30 6 Good Fishing with Babe Winkelman
8 Dialogue
10 Viewpoint
19 Jimmy Swaggart
43 Rejoice in the Lord
8:00 3 Jimmy Swaggart
4-31 CBS News Sunday Morning
6-10-25 French Open (I seem to recall that although 10 was scheduled to carry this, they ended up running their normal block of
paid religious shows instead, but I could be thinking of a different year)
7 Rex Humbard
8 Day of Discovery
20 Kenneth Copeland
8:30 7-8 World Tomorrow
19 Chapel Vision
43 Changed Lives
9:00 3-7 Oral Roberts
8 Dimension 8
19 American Catholic
20 Faith for Today
43 D. James Kennedy
9:30 3 Larry Jones
4 Oral Roberts
7 Day of Discovery
8 Sport Goofy
19 Faith for Today
20 Movie: "Just an Old Sweet Song" (1976)
31 Jerry Falwell
10:00 3-43 World Tomorrow
4 Gospel Temple Presents
7 James Whittington
8 Rocky and Friends
19 Day of Discovery
10:30 3 W.V. Grant Jr.
4 Robert Schuller
7 It Is Written with George Vandeman
8 Jetsons
19 This Week with David Brinkley
31 Music City U.S.A.
43 Road to Los Angeles
11:00 3 Jerry Falwell
6-10-25 French Open Continues
7 Face the Nation
8 Wrestling
20 News
31 Pop! Goes the Country
11:30 4 Face the Nation
7 Great American Outdoors
19 Viewpoint
20 Just Say No
31 More Real People
43 Wall Street Journal Report
AFTERNOON
12:00 3 Lowell Lundstrom
4-7-31 CBS Sports Sunday (if there is a 6th game in the NBA Championship Series, the Westchester Golf Classic airs here, followed
by the basketball game)
8 This Week with David Brinkley
19 Here's Lucy
20 Rap Around
24 G.E.D.
43 Movie: "Body and Soul" (1981)
12:30 3 Good Fishing with Babe Winkelman
19 Bowling
20 Miniature Golf
1:00 3 American Sportsman
6 Movie: "The Frozen Dead" (English; 1967)
8-10 Baseball: Chicago Cubs at St. Louis
20 Commercial Film (I guess an early infomercial)
24 Matinee at the Bijou
25 Wild Kingdom
1:30 3-19 USFL Football: Either New Orleans at New Jersey or Los Angeles at Oklahoma
20 Golden Link
25 Weekend
2:00 20 On Borrowed Time
25 Stars with David Steinberg
43 Movie: "Marco" (1973)
2:30 4-7-31 Golf: The Westchester Classic
24 Nova
47 Tony Brown's Journal
3:00 6-20 NBC Sportsworld (Middleweight boxing and the European Cup soccer championship)
25 Frank Sinatra
47 Washington Week in Review
3:30 8 Laverne & Shirley
10 NBC Sportsworld (joined in progress)
24 Square Foot Gardening
47 Wall $treet Week
4:00 8 Greats of the Game
24 Great Chefs of San Francisco
43 From the Editor's Desk
47 McLaughlin Group
4:30 8 Cancer Prevention Test
43 Newsmaker 43
47 Lawmakers
5:00 3 Town & Country Forum
4-7 CBS Evening News (Morton Dean)
6 Wild Kingdom
8 ABC World News Tonight Sunday (Sam Donaldson)
10 News
19 All in the Family
20 Too Close for Comfort
24 David Susskind
25 Taking Advantage
31 TV Topic
43 America's Top 10
47 Nova
5:30 3-19 ABC World News Tonight Sunday (Sam Donaldson)
4 This Is Your Life
6-10-20-25 NBC Nightly News (John Palmer)
7 Wild Kingdom
8 Round Table
31 Healthbeat
43 Star Search
EVENING
6:00 3-8-19 ABC Movie: "The Bad News Bears Go to Japan" (1978)
4-7-31 60 Minutes
6-10-20 Father Murphy
24-47 Do-It-Yourself Show (different episodes)
25 Lifeline to a Dying World
6:30 24 Motorweek
43 Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
47 Victory Garden
7:00 4-7-31 AfterMASH
6-10-20-25 Knight Rider
24-47 Living Wild
7:30 4-7-31 Four Seasons
43 Grace Worship Hour (43 was owned at this time by the Grace Presbyterian Church, and this is presumably their church service)
8:00 3-8-19 Hardcastle and McCormick
4-7-31 Jeffersons (Sister Sledge guest stars)
6-10-20-25 NBC Sunday Night at the Movies: "Joe Dancer" (Made for TV; 1981)
24-47 Masterpiece Theatre: "The Good Soldier"
8:30 4-7-31 Alice
43 In Touch
9:00 3-8-19 Olympic Trials (Boxing)
4-7-31 Trapper John, M.D.
9:30 43 Day of Discovery
10:00 3 ABC News Weekend Report (Tom Jarriel)
4-6-7-8-10-19-20-25-31 News
24 Six-Gun Heroes (BW): "The Sombrero Kid" (1942)
43 Jerry Falwell
47 Centestage
10:15 3 News
4-31 CBS Sunday Night News (Charles Osgood)
10:30 3 That Nashville Music
4 At Issue
6 Movie: "The Killer Elite" (1975)
7 This Week in Country Music
8 Eureka Stockade (Conclusion of the 2-part mini-series)
10 Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
19 Big Valley
20 Movie: "Murder Can Hurt You" (Made for TV; 1980)
25 Entertainment This Week
31 Rockford Files
47 Prize Winners
11:00 3 Jim Bakker
7 Jack Van Impe
43 700 Club
11:30 7 CBS Sunday Night News (Charles Osgood)
10 Olympiad
19 Hogan's Heroes
25 Solid Gold (Guests: K.C., Rick Springfield, and LaToya Jackson)
31 Face the Nation
11:45 7 Face the Tri-States
12:00 7 Star Search
19 Viewpoint
31 With This Ring
12:30 8 Music City U.S.A.
10-20 News
19 ABC News Weekend Report (Tom Jarriel)
25 Jim Bakker
1:00 6 News
7 CBS News Nightwatch (till 5:00)
8 Dialogue
1:30 8 ABC News Weekend Report (Tom Jarriel)
1:45 8 News
2:15 8 CNN Headline News
Quad Cities
4 WHBF (CBS)
6 WOC (NBC) (now KWQC)
8 WQAD (ABC)
24 WQPT (PBS)
Springfield
20 WICS (NBC) (now an ABC affiliate)
Peoria
19 WRAU (ABC) (now WHOI and LMA'd by WEEK)
25 WEEK (NBC)
31 WMBD (CBS)
47 WTVP (PBS)
Bloomington
43 WBLN (Ind.) (now WYZZ, a Fox affiliate, and LMA'd by WMBD)
Quincy
7 KHQA (CBS)
10 WGEM (NBC)*
Kirksville-Ottumwa
3 KTVO (ABC)
*WGEM carried some ABC daytime shows on weekdays, but was not listed as a secondary ABC affiliate.
MORNING
5:00 8 CNN Headline news
5:55 8 Inspirations
6:00 8 U.S. Farm Report
20 Consultation
6:15 7 Sacred Heart
10 Contempo
6:30 6-7 This Is the Life
8 Church Service (Catholic)
10 Weekend Magazine
20 World Tomorrow
31 Mass for Shut-Ins
7:00 3 Robert Schuller
4-7-20 Jimmy Swaggart
6 Children's Theatre
8 Gospel Sing
10 Mass for Shut-Ins
19 Consultation
25 Kenneth Copeland
31 Captain Kangaroo
7:30 6 Good Fishing with Babe Winkelman
8 Dialogue
10 Viewpoint
19 Jimmy Swaggart
43 Rejoice in the Lord
8:00 3 Jimmy Swaggart
4-31 CBS News Sunday Morning
6-10-25 French Open (I seem to recall that although 10 was scheduled to carry this, they ended up running their normal block of
paid religious shows instead, but I could be thinking of a different year)
7 Rex Humbard
8 Day of Discovery
20 Kenneth Copeland
8:30 7-8 World Tomorrow
19 Chapel Vision
43 Changed Lives
9:00 3-7 Oral Roberts
8 Dimension 8
19 American Catholic
20 Faith for Today
43 D. James Kennedy
9:30 3 Larry Jones
4 Oral Roberts
7 Day of Discovery
8 Sport Goofy
19 Faith for Today
20 Movie: "Just an Old Sweet Song" (1976)
31 Jerry Falwell
10:00 3-43 World Tomorrow
4 Gospel Temple Presents
7 James Whittington
8 Rocky and Friends
19 Day of Discovery
10:30 3 W.V. Grant Jr.
4 Robert Schuller
7 It Is Written with George Vandeman
8 Jetsons
19 This Week with David Brinkley
31 Music City U.S.A.
43 Road to Los Angeles
11:00 3 Jerry Falwell
6-10-25 French Open Continues
7 Face the Nation
8 Wrestling
20 News
31 Pop! Goes the Country
11:30 4 Face the Nation
7 Great American Outdoors
19 Viewpoint
20 Just Say No
31 More Real People
43 Wall Street Journal Report
AFTERNOON
12:00 3 Lowell Lundstrom
4-7-31 CBS Sports Sunday (if there is a 6th game in the NBA Championship Series, the Westchester Golf Classic airs here, followed
by the basketball game)
8 This Week with David Brinkley
19 Here's Lucy
20 Rap Around
24 G.E.D.
43 Movie: "Body and Soul" (1981)
12:30 3 Good Fishing with Babe Winkelman
19 Bowling
20 Miniature Golf
1:00 3 American Sportsman
6 Movie: "The Frozen Dead" (English; 1967)
8-10 Baseball: Chicago Cubs at St. Louis
20 Commercial Film (I guess an early infomercial)
24 Matinee at the Bijou
25 Wild Kingdom
1:30 3-19 USFL Football: Either New Orleans at New Jersey or Los Angeles at Oklahoma
20 Golden Link
25 Weekend
2:00 20 On Borrowed Time
25 Stars with David Steinberg
43 Movie: "Marco" (1973)
2:30 4-7-31 Golf: The Westchester Classic
24 Nova
47 Tony Brown's Journal
3:00 6-20 NBC Sportsworld (Middleweight boxing and the European Cup soccer championship)
25 Frank Sinatra
47 Washington Week in Review
3:30 8 Laverne & Shirley
10 NBC Sportsworld (joined in progress)
24 Square Foot Gardening
47 Wall $treet Week
4:00 8 Greats of the Game
24 Great Chefs of San Francisco
43 From the Editor's Desk
47 McLaughlin Group
4:30 8 Cancer Prevention Test
43 Newsmaker 43
47 Lawmakers
5:00 3 Town & Country Forum
4-7 CBS Evening News (Morton Dean)
6 Wild Kingdom
8 ABC World News Tonight Sunday (Sam Donaldson)
10 News
19 All in the Family
20 Too Close for Comfort
24 David Susskind
25 Taking Advantage
31 TV Topic
43 America's Top 10
47 Nova
5:30 3-19 ABC World News Tonight Sunday (Sam Donaldson)
4 This Is Your Life
6-10-20-25 NBC Nightly News (John Palmer)
7 Wild Kingdom
8 Round Table
31 Healthbeat
43 Star Search
EVENING
6:00 3-8-19 ABC Movie: "The Bad News Bears Go to Japan" (1978)
4-7-31 60 Minutes
6-10-20 Father Murphy
24-47 Do-It-Yourself Show (different episodes)
25 Lifeline to a Dying World
6:30 24 Motorweek
43 Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
47 Victory Garden
7:00 4-7-31 AfterMASH
6-10-20-25 Knight Rider
24-47 Living Wild
7:30 4-7-31 Four Seasons
43 Grace Worship Hour (43 was owned at this time by the Grace Presbyterian Church, and this is presumably their church service)
8:00 3-8-19 Hardcastle and McCormick
4-7-31 Jeffersons (Sister Sledge guest stars)
6-10-20-25 NBC Sunday Night at the Movies: "Joe Dancer" (Made for TV; 1981)
24-47 Masterpiece Theatre: "The Good Soldier"
8:30 4-7-31 Alice
43 In Touch
9:00 3-8-19 Olympic Trials (Boxing)
4-7-31 Trapper John, M.D.
9:30 43 Day of Discovery
10:00 3 ABC News Weekend Report (Tom Jarriel)
4-6-7-8-10-19-20-25-31 News
24 Six-Gun Heroes (BW): "The Sombrero Kid" (1942)
43 Jerry Falwell
47 Centestage
10:15 3 News
4-31 CBS Sunday Night News (Charles Osgood)
10:30 3 That Nashville Music
4 At Issue
6 Movie: "The Killer Elite" (1975)
7 This Week in Country Music
8 Eureka Stockade (Conclusion of the 2-part mini-series)
10 Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous
19 Big Valley
20 Movie: "Murder Can Hurt You" (Made for TV; 1980)
25 Entertainment This Week
31 Rockford Files
47 Prize Winners
11:00 3 Jim Bakker
7 Jack Van Impe
43 700 Club
11:30 7 CBS Sunday Night News (Charles Osgood)
10 Olympiad
19 Hogan's Heroes
25 Solid Gold (Guests: K.C., Rick Springfield, and LaToya Jackson)
31 Face the Nation
11:45 7 Face the Tri-States
12:00 7 Star Search
19 Viewpoint
31 With This Ring
12:30 8 Music City U.S.A.
10-20 News
19 ABC News Weekend Report (Tom Jarriel)
25 Jim Bakker
1:00 6 News
7 CBS News Nightwatch (till 5:00)
8 Dialogue
1:30 8 ABC News Weekend Report (Tom Jarriel)
1:45 8 News
2:15 8 CNN Headline News