Retro:Pittsburgh, Thursday, March 17, 1988

[classictvfan]

From The Pittsburgh Press(Note:I did not list
PBS Affiliates WQED Channel 13 and WQEX
Channel 16 or Religious Independents WPCB
Channel 40 or WNEU Channel 63)

(Listings run from 7 AM to 3 AM)

KDKA Channel 2(CBS)
7:00 CBS This Morning
9:00 Hour Magazine
10:00 Blackout
10:30 Card Sharks
11:00 Price Is Right
12:00 News
12:30 Young And The Restless
1:30 Bold And The Beautiful
2:00 Pittsburgh 2Day
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Will Shriner
5:00 Oprah Winfrey
6:00 News
7:00 CBS News
7:30 Evening Magazine
8:00 Movie-The Jericho Mile(Made For TV, 1979) (Preempts 48 Hours and Simon And Simon on CBS)
10:00 Knots Landing
11:00 News
11:30 NCAA Tournament:First Round Game
2:00 CBS News Nightwatch

WTAE Channel 4(ABC)
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Donahue
10:00 Pittsburgh's Talking
11:00 Who's The Boss?
11:30 Home
12:00 News
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life To Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 M*A*S*H
4:30 WKRP In Cincinnati
5:00 Cheers
5:30 M*A*S*H
6:00 News
7:00 ABC News
7:30 Win, Lose Or Draw
8:00 Probe
9:00 Hotel
10:00 Buck James
11:00 News
11:30 Cheers
12:00 Nightline
12:30 Sally Jessy Raphael
1:00 Hollywood Squares
1:30 High Rollers

WPXI Channel 11(NBC)
7:00 Today
9:00 Geraldo
10:00 Divorce Court
10:30 Sale Of The Century
11:00 Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Win, Lose Or Draw
12:00 News
12:30 Scrabble
1:00 Days Of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 People's Court
4:30 The Judge
5:00 Wheel Of Fortune
5:30 First Edition
6:00 News
6:30 NBC News
7:00 Jeopardy!
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
8:00 Cosby Show
8:30 A Different World
9:00 Cheers
9:30 Night Court
10:00 L.A. Law
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight(Johnny Carson)
12:30 Late Night With David Letterman
1:30 Taxi
2:00 Superior Court
2:30 $100,000 Pyramid
3:00 News

WPTT Channel 22(Indepedent)
7:00 He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
7:30 She-Ra:Princess Of Power
8:00 Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Ghostbusters
9:00 Adventures Of The Galaxy Rangers
9:30 Jimmy Swaggart
10:00 McHale's Navy
10:30 I Love Lucy
11:00 Get Smart
11:30 Munsters
12:00 Partridge Family
12:30 Movie-My Wild Irish Rose(1947)
2:30 Spiral Zone
3:00 Heathcliff
3:30 Jem
4:00 Beverly Hills Teens
4:30 Bravestarr
5:00 Dating Game
5:30 Newlywed Game
6:00 Happy Days
6:30 All In The Family
7:00 Star Trek
8:00 Movie-The Quiet Man(1952)
10:00 Pink Panther
10:30 Forgotten Children Of The '80s(Report)
11:30 Movie-Irish Eyes Are Smiling(1944)

WPGH Channel 53(Independent)
7:00 G.I. Joe
7:30 Smurfs' Adventures
8:00 Scooby Doo
8:30 My Little Pony 'N' Friends
9:00 Flintstones
9:30 Zoobilee Zoo
10:00 700 Club
11:00 Archie Bunker's Place
11:30 My Three Sons
12:00 Mork And Mindy
12:30 Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
1:00 Beverly Hillbillies
1:30 Bewitched
2:00 I Dream Of Jeannie
2:30 Adventures Of Teddy Ruxpin
3:00 Tom And Jerry
3:30 Real Ghostbusters
4:00 Dennis The Menace
4:30 Ducktales
5:00 Double Dare
5:30 Brady Bunch
6:00 Family Ties
6:30 Facts Of Life
7:00 Family Ties
7:30 Too Close For Comfort
8:00 Movie-Darby O'Gill And The Little People(1959)
10:00 Bob Newhart
10:30 I.N.N. News
11:00 Love Connection
11:30 Trapper John, M.D.
12:30 SCTV Network
1:00 Bizarre

[DToTheJ]

WPXI Channel 11(NBC)
5:00 Wheel Of Fortune
5:30 First Edition
6:00 News
6:30 NBC News
7:00 Jeopardy!
7:30 Entertainment Tonight

Wow... One of the few examples of a station carrying "Jeopardy!" in the "prime access" hour and "Wheel" in a different timeslot. You'd be hard-pressed to find stations with that preference today!

Oh, and the Pittsburgh indies really know how to get into the holiday spirit with their movie selections, don't they?

[FreddyE1977]

From The Pittsburgh Press(Note:I did not list
PBS Affiliates WQED Channel 13 and WQEX
Channel 16 or Religious Independents WPCB
Channel 40 or WNEU Channel 63)


WTAE Channel 4(ABC)

4:00 M*A*S*H
4:30 WKRP In Cincinnati
5:00 Cheers
5:30 M*A*S*H




WPTT Channel 22(Indepedent)

3:30 Jem


WPGH Channel 53(Independent)

2:30 Adventures Of Teddy Ruxpin

ahh....that late afternoon sitcom block on WTAE.  Always used to enjoy it.
Wish they would go back to that as opposed to the endless stream of judge
shows and trailer-talk.

Jem?  As I recall, she was truly outrageous.  Truly, truly, truly outrageous.
(I don't remember why exactly...)

WNEU-63 would have just signed on around that time.  Their schedule consisted of
infomercials, public domain cartoons, and a mix of very old and foreign films.  They
went dark a couple of years before the digital switch (was all home shopping at the
time) and so far as I know they did not file to make the transition.

And how soon they forget Teddy Ruxpin! At the time you could not get away from
him.  Our family still likes to laugh about the impassioned Christmas sermon given by
our then-Pastor using poor Teddy as the whipping boy for all of the evils of Materialism
that surround the Christmas season.  ("CHRISTMAS is NOT a TALKING BEAR!!!!!)

[BobbyNBC10]

Did WPXI-TV ever air Classic Concentration?. I saw Sale of The Century at 10:30 on 11. I know Sale aired @ 10 am ET/9am CT and PT on NBC, but did WPXI-TV carry Sale on a tape delay?.

[71dude]

ahh....that late afternoon sitcom block on WTAE.  Always used to enjoy it.
Wish they would go back to that as opposed to the endless stream of judge
shows and trailer-talk

Ditto. And I wish the independent stations would go back to being independent.

[DToTheJ]

Jem?  As I recall, she was truly outrageous.  Truly, truly, truly outrageous.
(I don't remember why exactly...)

Then in the 90's, you had "The Anna Nicole Smith Show" on E!, whose theme song instructed viewers that Smith was "so outrageous." I wonder if she was ever sued by Jem for infringement. 

[Rollo-Smokes]

Jem?  As I recall, she was truly outrageous.  Truly, truly, truly outrageous.
(I don't remember why exactly...)

Then in the 90's, you had "The Anna Nicole Smith Show" on E!, whose theme song instructed viewers that Smith was "so outrageous." I wonder if she was ever sued by Jem for infringement. 

Anna Nicole was such a Misfit, she would've fit right in with Jem & the Holograms' rival group!

[Stanislav]

Jem?  As I recall, she was truly outrageous.  Truly, truly, truly outrageous.
(I don't remember why exactly...)

Then in the 90's, you had "The Anna Nicole Smith Show" on E!, whose theme song instructed viewers that Smith was "so outrageous." I wonder if she was ever sued by Jem for infringement. 

Anna Nicole was such a Misfit, she would've fit right in with Jem & the Holograms' rival group!

I think Anna Nicole's life was even more of a "cartoon" than Jem's.....