Source: TV Guide, Western WA Edition
CHANNELS
Seattle
4 KOMO (ABC)
5 KING (NBC)
7 KIRO (CBS)
9 KCTS (PBS)
Tacoma
11 KSTW (Ind)
13 KCPQ (Ind)
62 KTPS (PBS)
Bellingham
12 KVOS (CBS/IND)
Victoria BC
6 CHEK (CTV)
Vancouver BC
2 CBUT (CBC)
8 BCTV (CTV)
21 CKVU (Ind)
Cable
ART ARTS
ESN ESPN
HBO Home Box Office
SHO Showtime
TBS WTBS Atlanta
USA Network
8PM
2 Fifth Estate
Scheduled: an examination of the extent to which martial law affects Poles, and a report on impurities discovered in Regina's drinking water. Eric Malling, Bob McKeown and Hana Gartner report.
5 Father Murphy
After accidentally killing a man in self-defense, Murphy (Merlin Olsen) must deal with his own grief, Garrett's taunting henchmen, and the hatred of the man's 12-year-old son (Christian Hoff). Moses: Moses Gunn. Garrett: Burr DeBenning.
6 8 New Wilderness
A visit to Alaska to study the power of the grizzly bear, including a look at its power, speed and temperament. [Joined in progress after baseball]
7 Bring 'Em Back Alive
A mysterious count needs a jungle cat, which pits Buck (Bruce Boxleitner) against a big0game hunter whose methods he despises; while at the Raffles Hotel, another breed of cat is busy burglarizing the guests. Ali: Clyde Kusatsu. Gloria: Cindy Morgan. Delaney: Sean McClory. VonTurgo: John Zee.
9 Hard Choices
Examining questions concerning death and dying; the rights of the terminally ill, the issues of truth-telling and of discontinuing heroic life-preserving efforts.
11 Movie: "12 Angry Men"
(1957) A juror (Henry Fonda) tries to persuade 11 others to reexamine their guilty verdict in a murder trial. Brilliant on all counts. Lee J. Cobb, E.G. Marshall, Ed Begley, Jack Klugman, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam.
12 Movie: "The Big Sleep"
(1946) Humphrey Bogart is gumshoe Philip Marlowe, mixed up with blackmail, murder and Lauren Bacall in this complex Raymond
Chandler whodunit. Martha Vickers.
13 Movie: "The Breaking Point"
(1950) Struggling to stay in business, a skipper (John Garfield) becomes involved with smugglers.
62 National Geographic
Observing Canada's annual "Polar Bear Alert" in the Manitoba town of Churchill.
ESN SportsCenter
HBO Movie: "Islands in the Stream"
(1977, PG) George C. Scott displays grace under pressure in Hemingway's probing study of love and loneliness.
SHO Movie: "Halloween II"
(1981, R) More savage killings on the Eve of All Saints. Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence.
USA NHL Hockey
New York Islanders at Vancouver Canucks. Last year's Stanley Cup finalists open the 1982-83 season.
8:15
4 Movie: "The Boys from Brazil"
(1978) Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier play antagonists in Ira Levin's best seller about a sadistic doctor's plot to create a Fourth Reich. James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen. [Time approximate after baseball.]
8:30
6 8 News
8:35
TBS All in The Family
9PM
2 Three's Company
Jack (John Ritter) concocts a plan to regain the favor of an attractive Southern belle he insulted on a date. Arabella: Gwen Humble. Bernice: Jacque Lynn Colton.
5 21 Movie: "Hard Country"
(1981) A complacent factory worker in a small Texas town finds his relationship with his girl strained by her desire for a better life. Jan-Michael Vincent, Kim Basinger, Michael Parks.
6 Movie: "Orca"
(1977) Some imaginative photographic effects highlight this tale of a killer whale terrorizing a Newfoundland fishing village. Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling.
7 Movie
"Bare Essence" concludes as Tyger (Genie Francis, also on the cover) tries to cope with company espionage, internecine rivalries and ambivalent feelings toward her boss (Bruce Boxleitner). A 1982 TV-movie.
8 Movie
A "Washington Mistress" subordinates her life to her politically ambitious lover's career and social responsibilities. A 1982 TV-movie. Lucie Arnaz, Richard Jordan, Charles Levin.
9 62 Mystery!
ART Precious Blood
ESN College Football
Notre Dame at Michigan State, taped October 2.
9:05
TBS Movie
"The D.I." (1957) A semidocumentary look at Marine boot-camp trainees, with Jack Webb as a tough drill sergeant.
9:30
2 Too Close for Comfort
9:35
SHO Making of Poltergeist
A look at the technology behind the special effects used in this film produced by Steven Spielberg.
9:55
13 News
10PM
2 CBC News
9 NOVA
To solve "The Great Violin Mystery" of how 17th and 18th-century Italian craftsmen made instruments that are still known for remarkably superior sounds, Wisconsin physicist William Fry tries to duplicate the work of Stradivari, the Amatis and the Guarneris.
11 News
12 M*A*S*H
Potter asks the near-impossible of his surgeons; be nice to Frank while Margaret is in Tokyo. Hawkeye: Alan Alda.
13 Saturday Night
Guest: Desi Arnaz (host) and Desi Arnaz Jr. in a show featuring an "I Love Lucy" spoof.
62 League of Women Voters Congressional Debates
National security and defense spending are the topics of a debate taped Oct 5th. Participants include Sens. John Tower (R-Texas) and Sam Nunn (D-GA).
ART Visit with Robert Altman
HBO Movie: "Body Heat"
(1981, R) Writer-director Lawrence Kasdan's torrid tale of passion and murder. William Hurt, Kathleen Turner.
SHO Stolen Love
10:15
ART Charterhouse of Parma
10:20
2 Journal
10:30
12 News
SHO Movie: "Nijinsky"
(1980, R) George de la Pena portrays the legendary ballet star (1890-1950), from the heights of fame to the depths of madness. Alan Bates.
USA Sports Probe
10:45
4 News
11PM
2 CBC News-Knowlton Nash
5 7 News
6 8 CTV News-Kirck/Robertson
9 U.S. Chronicle
Cameras follow an 11-year-old South Korean orphan as he adjusts to his adoptive family, new school, and new American friends in Minneapolis.
11 Soap
Both Jessica and Corinne threaten to kill Peter because of his infidelity; Jodie has a date with a girl.
12 Two Ronnies
Sketches about a reunion between school friends; an improvised news program; and a restaurant's very strong wine.
13 Movie: "Catch Me A Spy"
(1971) Tongue-in-cheek espionage thriller with Kirk Douglas as a Romanian agent smuggling Russian documents. Marlene Jobert, Trevor Howard.
21 Movie: "Death of a Gunfighter"
(1969) A tough marshal (Richard Widmark) vs. community leaders. Lena Horne, John Saxon.
USA NHL Hockey
Taped: New York Islanders at Vancouver Canucks.
11:05
2 News
11:15
ART Great Poets, Great Writers
11:20
6 8 News
TBS Movie: "Amazing Dr. G"
(1965) It's heroes vs. an Oriental master-mind in this spoof of the James Bond genre. Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia.
11:30
2 Barney Miller
A monk reports the disappearance of a novice; and Dietrich readies himself for mugging duty-in drag.
4 Nightline
5 Tonight Show
Scheduled: the Smothers Brothers, Jon Voight.
7 Close Up
9 Adolescent Rites
An autobiographical re-examination of filmmaker Phyllis Chinland's thirteenth year.
11 Madame's Place
Madame helps her new neighbor , former bag lady Cora Flarp (Monica Ganas), readjust to society.
12 Movie: "Hey, I'm Alive"
(1975) Factual film about two plane-crash victims (Edward Asner, Sally Struthers) who survived 49 days of Yukon winter. Milton Seizer.
ESN SportsCenter
11:45
7 Quincy
A man recuperating from a plane crash dies after receiving blood from his business partner.
12am
2 Movie BW: "Palmy Days"
(1931) Eddie Cantor tangles with gangsters and fortunetellers in a merry melange of gags and musical numbers. Charlotte Greenwood.
4 Fantasy Island
Visitors: Larry Linville, Joan Prather, Elissa Leeds, Don Porter.
11 700 Club
HBO Movie: "Tattoo"
(1981, R) Bruce Dern type-cast this time as a psychotic tattoo artist obsessed with a model (Maud Adams). Halsey: Leonard Frey.
12:05
6 Webster!-Public Affairs
8 Movie: "Five on The Black Hand Side"
(1973) Broadly played domestic tale about a middle-class Los Angeles black family. Mrs. Brooks: Clarice Taylor. Brooks: Leonard Jackson. Ruby: Virginia Capers.
12:10
9 Evening Edition
12:30
5 Late Night with David Letterman
Scheduled guest: comedian George Miller.
ESN Future Sport
12:40
SHO Movie: "Mommie Dearest"
(1981) Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford in Christina Crawford's vituperative memoir about her Hollywood upbringing. Adult Christina: Diana Scarwid.
12:50
13 INN News
12:55
7 McMillan & Wife
Someone's out to kill Sally (Susan Saint James) and the composer who dedicated a song to her. Rock Hudson. Buzz: Keir Dullea.
1AM
11 News
ESN Boxing
Robert Blake vs. Carlos Santana in a scheduled 10-round junior-welterweight bout.
1:05
21 Bob Newhart
TBS Movie: "The Oklahoma Kid"
(1939) James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart in a tale of a man bent on revenging the murder of his father and brother. Rosemary Lane.
1:10
4 News
1:30
5 NBC News Overnight-Ellerbee/Dobyns
12 Alfred Hitchcock
1:35
6 Movie: "The Laughing Policeman" (1973) Walter Matthau and Bruce Dern play San Francisco detectives hunting for a mass murderer. Filmed on location. Larrimore: Lou Gossett. Camerero: Albert Paulsen.
1:50
HBO Movie: "The Nesting"
(1981, R) A Gothic novelist (Robin Groves) finds plenty of material at a Victorian mansion.
2AM
USA Movie: "What The Peeper Saw"
(1973) Psychodrama about a boy trying to drive his stepmother insane. Mark Lester, Britt Ekland.
2:05
8 Emergency!
2:30
5 Movie: "Death Wish"
(1974) Charles Bronson wages a one-man war on muggers in this melodrama about a Manhattan architect who turns vigilante after his wife is killed and his daughter raped. Filmed on location by director Michael Winner.
7 12 News
2:50
SHO Laff-A-Thon
TBS World at Large
3AM
7 Close Up
TBS CNN News
3:15
7 CBS News Nightwatch-Dow/Glenn/Jeter
3:20
SHO Movie: "Halloween II"
3:30
ESN Sportsforum
3:35
HBO Movie: "Looker"
(1981, PG) Someone is killing off models-all patients of a plastic surgeon (Albert Finney). James Coburn, Susan Dey.
4AM
ESN SportsCenter
USA Alive & Well!
Segments on indoor painting, hanging-plant baskets, aerobics.
4:05
TBS Funtime
4:30
5 Marshal Dillon BW
4:35
TBS I Dream of Jeannie
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CHANNELS
Seattle
4 KOMO (ABC)
5 KING (NBC)
7 KIRO (CBS)
9 KCTS (PBS)
Tacoma
11 KSTW (Ind)
13 KCPQ (Ind)
62 KTPS (PBS)
Bellingham
12 KVOS (CBS/IND)
Victoria BC
6 CHEK (CTV)
Vancouver BC
2 CBUT (CBC)
8 BCTV (CTV)
21 CKVU (Ind)
Cable
ART ARTS
ESN ESPN
HBO Home Box Office
SHO Showtime
TBS WTBS Atlanta
USA Network
8PM
2 Fifth Estate
Scheduled: an examination of the extent to which martial law affects Poles, and a report on impurities discovered in Regina's drinking water. Eric Malling, Bob McKeown and Hana Gartner report.
5 Father Murphy
After accidentally killing a man in self-defense, Murphy (Merlin Olsen) must deal with his own grief, Garrett's taunting henchmen, and the hatred of the man's 12-year-old son (Christian Hoff). Moses: Moses Gunn. Garrett: Burr DeBenning.
6 8 New Wilderness
A visit to Alaska to study the power of the grizzly bear, including a look at its power, speed and temperament. [Joined in progress after baseball]
7 Bring 'Em Back Alive
A mysterious count needs a jungle cat, which pits Buck (Bruce Boxleitner) against a big0game hunter whose methods he despises; while at the Raffles Hotel, another breed of cat is busy burglarizing the guests. Ali: Clyde Kusatsu. Gloria: Cindy Morgan. Delaney: Sean McClory. VonTurgo: John Zee.
9 Hard Choices
Examining questions concerning death and dying; the rights of the terminally ill, the issues of truth-telling and of discontinuing heroic life-preserving efforts.
11 Movie: "12 Angry Men"
(1957) A juror (Henry Fonda) tries to persuade 11 others to reexamine their guilty verdict in a murder trial. Brilliant on all counts. Lee J. Cobb, E.G. Marshall, Ed Begley, Jack Klugman, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam.
12 Movie: "The Big Sleep"
(1946) Humphrey Bogart is gumshoe Philip Marlowe, mixed up with blackmail, murder and Lauren Bacall in this complex Raymond
Chandler whodunit. Martha Vickers.
13 Movie: "The Breaking Point"
(1950) Struggling to stay in business, a skipper (John Garfield) becomes involved with smugglers.
62 National Geographic
Observing Canada's annual "Polar Bear Alert" in the Manitoba town of Churchill.
ESN SportsCenter
HBO Movie: "Islands in the Stream"
(1977, PG) George C. Scott displays grace under pressure in Hemingway's probing study of love and loneliness.
SHO Movie: "Halloween II"
(1981, R) More savage killings on the Eve of All Saints. Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence.
USA NHL Hockey
New York Islanders at Vancouver Canucks. Last year's Stanley Cup finalists open the 1982-83 season.
8:15
4 Movie: "The Boys from Brazil"
(1978) Gregory Peck and Laurence Olivier play antagonists in Ira Levin's best seller about a sadistic doctor's plot to create a Fourth Reich. James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen. [Time approximate after baseball.]
8:30
6 8 News
8:35
TBS All in The Family
9PM
2 Three's Company
Jack (John Ritter) concocts a plan to regain the favor of an attractive Southern belle he insulted on a date. Arabella: Gwen Humble. Bernice: Jacque Lynn Colton.
5 21 Movie: "Hard Country"
(1981) A complacent factory worker in a small Texas town finds his relationship with his girl strained by her desire for a better life. Jan-Michael Vincent, Kim Basinger, Michael Parks.
6 Movie: "Orca"
(1977) Some imaginative photographic effects highlight this tale of a killer whale terrorizing a Newfoundland fishing village. Richard Harris, Charlotte Rampling.
7 Movie
"Bare Essence" concludes as Tyger (Genie Francis, also on the cover) tries to cope with company espionage, internecine rivalries and ambivalent feelings toward her boss (Bruce Boxleitner). A 1982 TV-movie.
8 Movie
A "Washington Mistress" subordinates her life to her politically ambitious lover's career and social responsibilities. A 1982 TV-movie. Lucie Arnaz, Richard Jordan, Charles Levin.
9 62 Mystery!
ART Precious Blood
ESN College Football
Notre Dame at Michigan State, taped October 2.
9:05
TBS Movie
"The D.I." (1957) A semidocumentary look at Marine boot-camp trainees, with Jack Webb as a tough drill sergeant.
9:30
2 Too Close for Comfort
9:35
SHO Making of Poltergeist
A look at the technology behind the special effects used in this film produced by Steven Spielberg.
9:55
13 News
10PM
2 CBC News
9 NOVA
To solve "The Great Violin Mystery" of how 17th and 18th-century Italian craftsmen made instruments that are still known for remarkably superior sounds, Wisconsin physicist William Fry tries to duplicate the work of Stradivari, the Amatis and the Guarneris.
11 News
12 M*A*S*H
Potter asks the near-impossible of his surgeons; be nice to Frank while Margaret is in Tokyo. Hawkeye: Alan Alda.
13 Saturday Night
Guest: Desi Arnaz (host) and Desi Arnaz Jr. in a show featuring an "I Love Lucy" spoof.
62 League of Women Voters Congressional Debates
National security and defense spending are the topics of a debate taped Oct 5th. Participants include Sens. John Tower (R-Texas) and Sam Nunn (D-GA).
ART Visit with Robert Altman
HBO Movie: "Body Heat"
(1981, R) Writer-director Lawrence Kasdan's torrid tale of passion and murder. William Hurt, Kathleen Turner.
SHO Stolen Love
10:15
ART Charterhouse of Parma
10:20
2 Journal
10:30
12 News
SHO Movie: "Nijinsky"
(1980, R) George de la Pena portrays the legendary ballet star (1890-1950), from the heights of fame to the depths of madness. Alan Bates.
USA Sports Probe
10:45
4 News
11PM
2 CBC News-Knowlton Nash
5 7 News
6 8 CTV News-Kirck/Robertson
9 U.S. Chronicle
Cameras follow an 11-year-old South Korean orphan as he adjusts to his adoptive family, new school, and new American friends in Minneapolis.
11 Soap
Both Jessica and Corinne threaten to kill Peter because of his infidelity; Jodie has a date with a girl.
12 Two Ronnies
Sketches about a reunion between school friends; an improvised news program; and a restaurant's very strong wine.
13 Movie: "Catch Me A Spy"
(1971) Tongue-in-cheek espionage thriller with Kirk Douglas as a Romanian agent smuggling Russian documents. Marlene Jobert, Trevor Howard.
21 Movie: "Death of a Gunfighter"
(1969) A tough marshal (Richard Widmark) vs. community leaders. Lena Horne, John Saxon.
USA NHL Hockey
Taped: New York Islanders at Vancouver Canucks.
11:05
2 News
11:15
ART Great Poets, Great Writers
11:20
6 8 News
TBS Movie: "Amazing Dr. G"
(1965) It's heroes vs. an Oriental master-mind in this spoof of the James Bond genre. Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia.
11:30
2 Barney Miller
A monk reports the disappearance of a novice; and Dietrich readies himself for mugging duty-in drag.
4 Nightline
5 Tonight Show
Scheduled: the Smothers Brothers, Jon Voight.
7 Close Up
9 Adolescent Rites
An autobiographical re-examination of filmmaker Phyllis Chinland's thirteenth year.
11 Madame's Place
Madame helps her new neighbor , former bag lady Cora Flarp (Monica Ganas), readjust to society.
12 Movie: "Hey, I'm Alive"
(1975) Factual film about two plane-crash victims (Edward Asner, Sally Struthers) who survived 49 days of Yukon winter. Milton Seizer.
ESN SportsCenter
11:45
7 Quincy
A man recuperating from a plane crash dies after receiving blood from his business partner.
12am
2 Movie BW: "Palmy Days"
(1931) Eddie Cantor tangles with gangsters and fortunetellers in a merry melange of gags and musical numbers. Charlotte Greenwood.
4 Fantasy Island
Visitors: Larry Linville, Joan Prather, Elissa Leeds, Don Porter.
11 700 Club
HBO Movie: "Tattoo"
(1981, R) Bruce Dern type-cast this time as a psychotic tattoo artist obsessed with a model (Maud Adams). Halsey: Leonard Frey.
12:05
6 Webster!-Public Affairs
8 Movie: "Five on The Black Hand Side"
(1973) Broadly played domestic tale about a middle-class Los Angeles black family. Mrs. Brooks: Clarice Taylor. Brooks: Leonard Jackson. Ruby: Virginia Capers.
12:10
9 Evening Edition
12:30
5 Late Night with David Letterman
Scheduled guest: comedian George Miller.
ESN Future Sport
12:40
SHO Movie: "Mommie Dearest"
(1981) Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford in Christina Crawford's vituperative memoir about her Hollywood upbringing. Adult Christina: Diana Scarwid.
12:50
13 INN News
12:55
7 McMillan & Wife
Someone's out to kill Sally (Susan Saint James) and the composer who dedicated a song to her. Rock Hudson. Buzz: Keir Dullea.
1AM
11 News
ESN Boxing
Robert Blake vs. Carlos Santana in a scheduled 10-round junior-welterweight bout.
1:05
21 Bob Newhart
TBS Movie: "The Oklahoma Kid"
(1939) James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart in a tale of a man bent on revenging the murder of his father and brother. Rosemary Lane.
1:10
4 News
1:30
5 NBC News Overnight-Ellerbee/Dobyns
12 Alfred Hitchcock
1:35
6 Movie: "The Laughing Policeman" (1973) Walter Matthau and Bruce Dern play San Francisco detectives hunting for a mass murderer. Filmed on location. Larrimore: Lou Gossett. Camerero: Albert Paulsen.
1:50
HBO Movie: "The Nesting"
(1981, R) A Gothic novelist (Robin Groves) finds plenty of material at a Victorian mansion.
2AM
USA Movie: "What The Peeper Saw"
(1973) Psychodrama about a boy trying to drive his stepmother insane. Mark Lester, Britt Ekland.
2:05
8 Emergency!
2:30
5 Movie: "Death Wish"
(1974) Charles Bronson wages a one-man war on muggers in this melodrama about a Manhattan architect who turns vigilante after his wife is killed and his daughter raped. Filmed on location by director Michael Winner.
7 12 News
2:50
SHO Laff-A-Thon
TBS World at Large
3AM
7 Close Up
TBS CNN News
3:15
7 CBS News Nightwatch-Dow/Glenn/Jeter
3:20
SHO Movie: "Halloween II"
3:30
ESN Sportsforum
3:35
HBO Movie: "Looker"
(1981, PG) Someone is killing off models-all patients of a plastic surgeon (Albert Finney). James Coburn, Susan Dey.
4AM
ESN SportsCenter
USA Alive & Well!
Segments on indoor painting, hanging-plant baskets, aerobics.
4:05
TBS Funtime
4:30
5 Marshal Dillon BW
4:35
TBS I Dream of Jeannie
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