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Retro: Wisconsin - Saturday, September 17, 1983

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Sources: Wisconsin State Journal (Masison), Green Bay Post-Gazette

M - Movie
P - Premiere
SP - Season Premiere
R - Replay, usually for 10:00 local news

Part I: The Big Three Networks

ABC
5 WFRV Green Bay / 9 WAOW Wausau / 12 WISN Milwaukee / 19 WXOW La Crosse / 27 WKOW Madison
NOTES: Channels 9, 19 and 27 broadcasted simultaneously. ABC premiered its Satuday Morning schedule the previous Saturday, with the premiere indicators (P and SP) beside them as such.

5:00 (12) Emergency!
6:00 (12) Joy of Gardening
6:30 (5) Gentle Ben / (9, 19, 27) New Zoo Revue / (12) Children's Theater
7:00 (5, 9, 12, 19, 27) Best of Scooby-Doo (reruns of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! and possibly also The Scooby-Doo Show)
7:25 (5, 9, 12, 19, 27) Menudo on ABC
7:30 (5, 9, 12, 19, 27) Monchichis (P)/Little Rascals/Richie Rich (Monchichis replaces Pac-Man in this package)
8:30 (5, 9, 12, 19, 27) Pac-Man/Rubik, the Amazing Cube (P)
9:25 (5, 9, 12, 19, 29) Menudo on ABC
9:30 (5, 9, 12, 19, 29) The Littles
10:00 (5, 9, 12, 19, 29) Scooby-Doo/(Petey) Puppy Hour (SP)
10:55 Schoolhouse Rock!
11:00 (5, 9, 12, 19, 29) ABC Weekend Special: "The Hanuted Mansion Mystery" (Part 2 of 2)
11:30 (5, 12) American Bandstand - Guests: Scott Baio, Amy Holland / (9, 19, 27) Starcade
NOON (9, 19, 27) Agriculture Today
12:30 (5) M: "A Doll's House" / (12) M: "Kronos" / (9, 19, 27) Austin City Limits Encore
1:00 (9, 19, 27) Quest for Adventure
1:30 (9, 19, 27) America's Problems and Challenges
2:00 (5, 9, 12, 19, 29) ABC SportsBeat
2:30 (5, 9, 12, 19, 29) NCAA Football - Ohio State vs. Oklahoma
6:00 (5) Solid Gold / (9, 19, 27) News / (12) Hee Haw
6:30 (9, 19, 27) I Love Lucy)
7:00 (5, 9, 12, 19, 27) Love Boat Fall Season Premiere - Capt. Stubing hosts this extravaganza previewing ABC's new season aboard the Pacific Princess with nearly 60 ABC stars.
8:00 (5, 9, 12, 19, 27) Love Boat: "Venetian Love Song/Down for the Count/Arrividerci, Gopher/The Arrangement" (2 hours; Oct. 2, 1982; previous season's premiere)
10:00 (5, 9, 12, 19, 27) News
10:30 (5) M: "A Doll's House" / (9, 19, 27) Solid Gold / (12) M: "The Defection of Simas Kudirka"
11:30 (9, 19, 27) Rockford Files
MIDNIGHT (5) News (R)
12:30 (9, 19, 27) News (R) / (12) M: "Plaza Suite"
1:00 (9, 19, 27) ABC Weekend News

CBS
2 WBAY Green Bay / 3 WISC Madison / 6 WITI Milwaukee / 7 WSAU Wausau / 8 WKBT La Crosse

5:30 (6) Lassie
6:00 (2, 3, 6) Captain Kangaroo / (8) Underdog
6:30 (7) Dudley Do-Right / (8) Tennessee Tuxedo
7:00 (2, 3, 6, 7, 8) Biskits (P)
7:30 (2, 3, 6, 7, 8) Saturday Supercade (P)
8:30 (2, 3, 6, 7, 8) Dungeons & Dragons (P)
9:00 (2, 3, 6, 7, 8) The Dukes (P) (Cartoon version of The Dukes of Hazzard)
9:30 (2, 3, 6, 7, 8) Charlie Brown and Snoopy
10:30 (2, 3, 7, 8) Bugs Bunny/Road Runner / (6) Albert and Friends (local Milwaukee kids' show; not be confused with Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids)
11:00 (2, 3, 6, 7, 8) NCAA Today
11:30 (2, 3, 6, 7, 8) NCAA Football - Indiana vs. Kentucky
3:00 (2) M: "Lords of Flatbush" / (3, 7, 8) CBS Sports Saturday / (6) Young People's Special: "The Boy Who Couldn't Lose"
3:30 (6) Sports Goofy
4:00 (6) Drag Racing
4:30 (2) Hungry Eyes
5:00 (3) For the Record / (6) Headliners / (7) Greatest Sports Legends / (8) At the Movies
5:30 (2, 3, 6, 7, 8) CBS Evening News
6:00 (2, 7) News / (3) Hee Haw / (6) Austin City Limits Encore / (8) Star Search
6:30 (2) Barney Miller / (6) Lorne Greene's New Wilderness / (7) M*A*S*H
7:00 (2, 3, 6, 7, 8) Walt Disney: "Baseball Fever" - Animated salute to America's favorite pastime.
8:00 (2, 3, 6, 7, 8) CBS Saturday Night Movies: "Senior Trip"
10:00 (2, 3, 6, 7, 8) News
10:30 (2) M: "Winning" / (3) Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries / (6) M: "A Man, a Woman and a Bank" / (7) M: "Five East Pieces" / (8) Barney Miller
11:00 (8) M: "Ask Any Girl"
11:30 (3) M: "Paris Underground"
12:30 (2, 7) Evening at the Improv / (6) Rock 'n' Roll Tonite
1:00 (8) Evening at the Improv
1:15 (3) At the Movies
1:30 (2) News (R)

NBC
4 WTMJ Milwaukee / 11 WLUK Green Bay / 12 WEAO Rhineland (Wausau) / 13 WEAU Eau Claire (La Crosse) / 15 WMTV Madison

5:00 (4) News
6:00 (11) Cartoons / (13) Bullwinkle
6:30 (4) Agriculture USA / (12) Children's Theater / (13) Jetsons
7:00 (4, 11, 12, 13, 15) Flintstone Funnies (SP)
7:30 (4, 11, 12, 13, 15) Shirt Tales (SP)
7:57 (4, 11, 12, 13, 15) One to Grow On - Debut of NBC's new counterpart to ABC's "Schoolhouse Rock!" and CBS's "In the News".
8:00 (4, 11, 12, 13, 15) Smurfs (SP)
9:27 (4, 11, 12, 13, 15) One to Grow On
9:30 (4, 11, 12, 13, 15) Alvin and the Chipmunks (P)
9:57 (4, 11, 12, 13, 15) One to Grow On
10:00 Mister T
10:30 (4) Video Music Machine / (11, 12, 13) Amazing Spider-Man/Incredible Hulk / (15) Bugs Bunny and Friends
11:00 (15) 700 Club
11:27 (11, 12, 13) One to Grow On
11:30 (4) Ebony/Jet Celebrity Showcase / (11) Cartoons / (12, 13) Thundarr the Barbarian (SP)
NOON (4) America's Top 10 / (11) Nashville Swing / (12) 700 Club / (13) Gilligan's Island / (15) The Choice Is Yours
12:30 (4) Idea Shop / (11) US Farm Report / (13) Capitol Closeup / (15) Outdoors Calling
1:00 (4, 11, 12, 13, 15) MLB Baseball - Detroit Tigers vs. Boston Red Sox
4:00 (4) Wild, Wild World of Animals / (11) Six Million Dollar Man / (12) Nicolet College Forum / (13) Nashville On the Road / (15) Lorne Greene's New Wilderness
4:30 (4) Bart Starr / (12) On Camera / (13) All in the Family / (15) NFL Week in Review
5:00 (4) At the Movies / (11) News / (12) Miss America: Who Will She Be? / (13) Taxi / (15) Lawrence Welk
5:30 (4 , 11, 12, 13) NBC Nightly News
6:00 (4, 15) News / (11, 12, 13) Hee Haw
6:30 (4) Fight Back! With David Horowitz / (15) PM Magazine: Special Edition
7:00 (4, 11, 12, 13, 15) Diff'rent Strokes: "The Roomates" (R)
7:30 (4, 11, 12, 13, 15) Silver Spoons: "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" (R)
8:00 (4, 11, 12, 13, 15) TV's Censored Bloopers (R)
9:00 (4, 11, 12, 13, 15) Miss America Pageant - Host: Gary Collins; Winner: Vanessa Williams (NY), who made history as the first black Miss America, as well as the first to resign her crown.
11:00 (4, 11, 12, 13, 15) News
11:30 (4, 11, 12, 13, 15) Saturday Night Live - Host: Lily Tomlin, who appears as alter ego Purvis Hawkins as the musical guest. (Jan. 22, 1983)
1:00 (4) FM-TV / (11) Friday Night Videos / (12) Laugh Trax / M: "Cheyenne Kid"
 
Part II: Independents

18 WVTV - Milwaukee

8:30 New Zoo Revue
9:00 Lost in Space
10:00 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
11:00 Wonder Woman
NOON Comedy Greats
12:30 This Week in Baseball
1:00 Rifleman
1:30 Wild Kingdom
2:00 White Shadow
3:00 Battlestar Galactica
4:00 Buck Rogers
5:00 Solid Gold
6:00 Brewers Baseball - at Baltimore Orioles
9:00 Dance Fever
9:30 Pop! Goes the Country
10:00 All in the Family
10:30 Three's Company
11:00 That Nashville Music
11:30 Twilight Zone
MIDNIGHT 700 Club
1:00 The Lesson
1:30 Newswatch 18

24 WCGV - Milwaukee
7:30 Sewing With Nancy
8:00 Movie: "The Well" (1951) - Richard Rober, Maidie Norman
10:00 Southwest Gridiron Journals
10:30 Dave McClain
11:00 Greatest Sports Legends
11:30 Superchargers
NOON Wild, Wild West
1:00 Movie: "Bud and Lou" (1978) - Harvey Korman (as Bud Abbott), Buddy Hackett (as Lou Costello)
3:00 (OFF THE AIR)

26 WLRE - Green Bay
10:00 Bewitched
10:30 Gilligan's Island
11:00 America's Top 10
11:30 Music Magazine
NOON Movie: "Adventures of Pinocchio" (1972) - Animated (Originally in Italian, dubbed in English in 1978.)
1:30 Movie: "Topper Returns" (1941) - Roland Young, Joan Blondell, Dennis O'Keefe
2:45 Movie: "The Dark" (1978) - William Devane, Cathy Lee Crosby
4:30 Here's Lucy
5:00 This Week in Baseball
5:30 Welcome Back, Kotter
6:00 Brewers Baseball (see ch. 18 WVTV)
9:00 Incredible Hulk
10:00 Wrestling
11:00 NFL Weekly Magazine
11:30 NFL Week in Review
MIDNIGHT Night Life
2:00 Best of Saturday Night
3:30 Here's Lucy
4:00 This Week in Baseball
4:30 Prime of Your Life

30 WVCY - Milwaukee (Christian)
8:00 Green Bean Bus
8:30 Black Buffalo
9:00 Adventure Club
9:30 Kids' Jamboree
10:00 Treehous Club
10:30 Grean Bean Bus
11:00 That's Inkidable
11:30 Satuday Special
NOON (Either off the air or the Saturday Special ran until 5:00 PM.)
5:00 Black Buffalo
5:30 Human Dimension
6:00 Guidelines for Family Living
6:30 Pattern for Living
7:00 Dave Breese Reports
7:30 Think Life
8:00 Movie: "Who Love His Appearing" (1979)
10:00 The Athletes
 
The Dukes cartoon (9 AM, CBS) didn't premiere on this date. It debuted February 5, 1983 as a midseason show after they dropped two shows and expanded Bugs Bunny/Road Runner.
 
The Dukes cartoon (9 AM, CBS) didn't premiere on this date. It debuted February 5, 1983 as a midseason show after they dropped two shows and expanded Bugs Bunny/Road Runner.
My bad.
 
No sweat. The canceled shows were Speed Buggy and the Daffy & Speedy/Sylvester & Tweety Show.
 
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