Retro: Denver/Casper/Cheyenne/Rapid City Sat, July 4, 1987

[Bluenoser]

25 years ago on the Fourth, from TV Guide-Northern Colorado edition

KWGN 2-Ind Denver
5:00 Man from Atlantis
5:50 Perspectives
6:00 Gilligan's Island
6:30 Cisco Kid
7:00 World Tomorrow
7:30 Jimmy Swaggart
8:30 Gunsmoke (bw)
9:00 Movie "Tarzan and the Amazons" (bw)
10:30 Bob Newhart
11:00 Sanford & Son
11:30 What a Country!
noon What's Happening Now!!
12:30 Gilligan's Island
1:00 Leave It to Beaver (bw)
1:30 Movie "1776"
4:00 Black Sheep Squadron
5:00 Star Trek
6:00 Bob Newhart
6:30 American Association Baseball: Iowa-Denver
9:30 News
10:00 Saturday Night
10:30 Movie "Cheyenne Autumn"
1:30 'Allo! 'Allo!
2:00 Movie "The Final Eye"
4:00 Bonanza

KTWO 2-NBC Casper
6:00 Kissyfur
6:30 Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
7:00 Wimbledon women's final
noon Baseball Pre-Game
12:15 Baseball: Texas-NY Yankees (alt game: St. Louis-Atlanta)
3:00 This Week in Baseball
3:30 Light Moments in Sports
4:00 Fishing the West
4:30 NBC Nightly News
5:00 Report to Wyoming
5:30 News
6:00 Entertainment This Week
7:00 227 (finale)
7:30 Me & Mrs. C (finale)
8:00 Golden Girls
8:30 Amen
9:00 Hunter
10:00 News
10:35 Saturday Night Live (a 1986 rerun with host Sigourney Weaver, singer Buster Poindexter, and playwright Christopher Durang)
12:05 sign-off

KTVS 3-Sterling/KGWN 5-Cheyenne/KSTF 10-Scottsbluff (CBS/NBC)
6:00 Berenstain Bears
6:30 Wildfire
7:00 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
8:00 Pee-wee's Playhouse
8:30 Teen Wolf
9:00 Dungeons & Dragons
9:30 Land of the Lost
10:00 Galaxy High School
10:30 CBS StoryBreak
11:00 Rodeo Sports Page
11:30 Three's Company
noon Born in America (Eric Heiden hosts a look at bicycle racing in the US)
1:00 CBS Sports Saturday: Old Timers Baseball Classic (taped June 29 at RFK Stadium in Washington; this 5-inning game features baseball legends including Harmon Killebrew, Joe DiMaggio, Rocky Colavito, Bob Feller, Whitey Ford, Mike Epstein, Brooks Robinson, and Hank Aaron)
2:30 Canadian Open golf
4:00 Siskel & Ebert & the Movies
4:30 (3/10) CBS Evening News
4:30 (5) Town Talk
5:00 Solid Gold
6:00 227 (finale)
6:30 Me & Mrs. C (finale)
7:00 Space (pt 1)
9:00 West 57th
10:00 News
10:30 Miami Vice (1-day delay)
11:30 Movie "Foxes"
1:30 sign-off

KOTA 3-Rapid City/KDUH 4-Scottsbluff/KSGW 12-Sheridan, Gillette/KHSD 11-Lead (ABC)
6:00 Wuzzles
6:30 Care Bears Family
7:00 Flintstone Kids
8:00 Real Ghostbusters
8:30 Pound Puppies
9:00 Bugs Bunny & Tweety
9:30 Ewoks
10:00 ABC Weekend Special "Henry Hamilton, Graduate Ghost" (conclusion)
10:30 Health Show
11:00 American Bandstand (guest Jody Watley)
11:30 America's Top 10
noon US Farm Report
12:30 Joy of Gardening
1:00 Bicycling: Beverly Hills Invitational
2:00 ABC Wide World of Sports: NASCAR Firecracker 400/Bislett International Meet track & field
4:00 Heroes: Made in the USA
4:30 ABC World News Saturday
5:00 Music City USA
5:30 Hee Haw
6:30 Wheel of Fortune
7:00 Star-Spangled Celebration (hosted by Oprah and Robert Urich and done in association with ABC/PBS's Project Literacy; guests include Ben Vereen, Peter Allen, the Rockettes, Loretta Lynn, Yakov Smirnoff, Peter Pit, Alabama, Tony Bennett, Atlantic Starr, Dwight Yoakum, Chubby Checker, Suzanne Somers, Jennifer Holliday, Bernadette Peters, and the Jets; taped yesterday in St. Louis)
10:00 News
10:15 ABC News
10:30 Movie "Planet of the Apes"
12:30 Hawaii Five-O
1:30 News
1:35 ABC News
1:50 sign-off

KCNC 4-NBC Denver
5:30 Wall Street Journal Report
6:00 Kissyfur
6:30 Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
7:00 Wimbledon women's final
noon Baseball Pre-Game
12:15 Baseball: Texas-NY Yankees (alt game: St. Louis-Atlanta)
3:00 Little House on the Prairie
4:00 Love Boat
5:00 News
6:00 NBC Nightly News
6:30 Zappolo One on One
7:00 227 (finale)
7:30 Mr & Mrs. C (finale)
8:00 Golden Girls
8:30 Amen
9:00 Hunter
10:00 News
10:35 Saturday Night Live
12:05 We Love Lucy
2:05 Dancin' to the Hits
2:40 Movie "The Lucifer Complex"
4:20 TBA
4:30 Kung Fu

KRMA 6-PBS Denver
7:00 Personal Time Management
7:30 Business File
9:00 Teaching Students with Special Needs
10:00 Understanding Time & Space
11:00 Story of English
noon MotorWeek
12:30 Victory Garden
1:00 Joy of Painting
1:30 Bodywatch
2:00 GED
3:00 German Professional Soccer
4:00 Great Chefs of the West
4:30 Collectors (premiere)
5:00 Upstairs, Downstairs
6:00 Agronsky & Company
6:30 Pioneers of Aviation
7:00 Evening at Pops (Johnny Cash joins the Boston Pops on the banks of the Charles)
8:30 Mystery! "Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime: The Crackler"
9:30 A Capitol Fourth-1987 (from the Capitol lawn in DC with guests Roberta Flack, Marvin Hamlisch, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Jon Vickers, and the National Symphony Orchestra)
11:00 Sneak Previews
11:30 Monty Python's Flying Circus
mid. Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler
12:05 sign-off

KMGH 7-CBS Denver
5:50 Good Morning
6:00 Berenstain Bears
6:30 Wildfire
7:00 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
8:00 Pee-wee's Playhouse
8:30 Teen Wolf
9:00 Dungeons & Dragons
9:30 Land of the Lost
10:00 Galaxy High School
10:30 CBS StoryBreak
11:00 Wrestling
noon Gunsmoke
1:00 CBS Sports Saturday
2:30 Canadian Open golf
4:00 Sports Pros & Cons "Is baseball still our national pastime?" (debated by Beano Cook and Bob Costas)
4:30 CBS Evening News
5:00 News
6:00 Entertinment This Week
7:00 Space (pt 1)
9:00 West 57th
10:00 News
10:35 Taxi
11:05 Solid Gold (guests Little Richard, Chicago, Billy Vera & the Beaters, Kool & the Gang, and Anne Murray; interview with David Lee Roth)
12:05 Hot Tracks
1:05 Movie "Ghoulies"
3:05 sign-off

KEVN 7-Rapid City/KIVV 5-Lead, Deadwood (NBC)
6:00 Kissyfur
6:30 Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
7:00 Wimbledon women's final
noon Baseball Pre-Game
12:15 Baseball: Texas-NY Yankees (alt game: St. Louis-Atlanta)
3:00 This Week in Baseball
3:30 Rodeo Sports Page
4:00 Greatest Sports Legends
4:30 NBC Nightly News
5:00 Siskel & Ebert & the Movies
5:30 Lorne Greene's New Wilderness
6:00 Star Trek
7:00 227 (finale)
7:30 Mr & Mrs. C (finale)
8:00 Golden Girls
8:30 Amen
9:00 Hunter
10:00 News
10:30 Saturday Night Live
12:05 sign-off

KUSA 9-ABC Denver
5:00 Headline News
6:00 Wuzzles
6:30 Care Bears Family
7:00 Flintstone Kids
8:00 Real Ghostbusters
8:30 Pound Puppies
9:00 Bugs Bunny & Tweety
9:30 Ewoks
10:00 ABC Weekend Special
10:30 Kids are People Too
11:00 American Bandstand
11:30 Dance Fever
noon Young Universe
12:30 TBA
1:00 Colonial Cup International Steeplechase
1:30 Thunderboat Regatta hydroplane race
2:00 ABC Wide World of Sports
4:00 Small Wonder
4:30 ABC World News Saturday
5:00 News
6:00 Ones Who Win (showing off the award-winning (Station of the Year) work of KUSA camera operators)
6:30 Wheel of Fortune
7:00 Star-Spangled Celebration
10:00 News
10:35 M*A*S*H
11:05 WKRP in Cincinnati
11:35 Movie "The Jackpot" (bw)
1:15 ABC News
1:30 News
2:05 Movie "Sabata"
4:10 Headline News

KBHE 9-Rapid City/KPSD 13-Faith, Eagle Butte (PBS) (SDPB)
6:30 Moneymakers VI
7:00 Earth Explained
8:00 Intro to Technical & Business Communication
9:00 Principles of Human Communication
10:00 Family Matters
10:30 MotorWeek
11:00 Frugal Gourmet
11:30 Victory Garden
noon Market to Market
12:30 Midwest Market Analysis
1:00 Computer Chronicles
1:30 From a Country Garden
2:00 Joy of Painting
2:30 Lap Quilting with Georgia Bonesteel
3:00 French Chef
3:30 This Old House
4:00 We're Cooking Now
4:30 Job-a-Thon 2
5:00 Doctor Who
6:30 Fairly Secret Army
7:00 Evening at Pops
8:30 A Capitol Fourth-1987
10:00 Mystery! (same program as ch 6)
11:00 Austin City Limits (Johnny Cash and the Carter Family celebrate 30 years of collaboration)
mid. Statue of Liberty
1:00 sign-off
 
KFNR 11-Rawlins/KFNB 20-Casper (ABC)
5:00 Get Along Gang
5:30 New Zoo Revue
6:00 Wuzzles
6:30 Care Bears Family
7:00 Flintstone Kids
8:00 Real Ghostbusters
8:30 Pound Puppies
9:00 Bugs Bunny & Tweety
9:30 Ewoks
10:00 ABC Weekend Special
10:30 Health Show
11:00 American Bandstand
11:30 Weight Control Systems (infomercial)
noon Pro Basketball
12:30 Lorne Greene's New Wilderness
1:00 America (the Serendipity Singers, travelling from St. Louis to New Orleans on a paddleboat, are joined by Charley Pride)
2:00 ABC Wide World of Sports
4:00 Consumer Discount Auctions
4:30 ABC World News Saturday
5:00 Siskel & Ebert & the Movies
5:30 At the Movies
6:00 Father Murphy
7:00 Star-Spangled Celebration
10:00 Runaway with the Rich & Famous
10:30 ABC News
10:45 Late Show (guest host Scott Valentine/music by Wire; through the week, it aired at 11)
11:45 Movie "Firestarter"
1:45 INN News (11/20 showed INN in late-night)
2:15 MTV Video Countdown
3:15 Dancin' to the Hits
3:45 Dream Girl USA
4:15 Dance Fever (15 min)
4:30 Hollywood Close-Up

KBDI 12-PBS Broomfield
10:00 Teletunes
noon NASA at Work
12:30 Rod & Reel
1:00 MotorWeek
1:30 Mechanical Universe
2:00 Computer Chronicles
2:30 Money Trends
3:00 This Old House
3:30 Collectors (premiere)
4:00 From a Country Garden
4:30 Justin Wilson's Louisiana Cookin': Outdoors
5:00 Dialogue (debating whether decisions re: euthanasia should be left to the indvidual family)
5:30 European Journal
6:00 Washington Week in Review
6:30 McLaughlin Group
7:00 Bodywatch "Stifle That Sneeze" (dealing with allergies)
7:30 Country Express (videos by Sawyer Brown, Ricky Skaggs, Ronnie Milsap, the Oak Ridge Boys, and Marie Osmond)
8:00 Austin City Limits (guests Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Freddie Powers, and Whitey Shafer)
9:00 Amateur Wrestling: US vs USSR (taped April 1 in Iowa City)
11:00 Alive from Off Center "Personal History of the American Theatre" (performed by its writer Spalding Grey), followed at 11:30 by David Byrne's "Once in a Lifetime"
mid. Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler
12:05 sign-off

KTNE 13-PBS Alliance (Nebraska ETV)
7:00 Market to Market
7:30 Rod & Reel
8:00 Wind Surfing
8:30 Victory Garden
9:00 MotorWeek
9:30 GED
10:00 Business of Management
11:00 Intro to College Composition
noon Focus on Society
1:00 Adapting the Past, Building the Future
2:00 Innovation
2:30 Computer Chronicles
3:00 Magic of Oil Painting
3:30 Collectibles, Inc.
4:00 Seward Fourth of July Parade
6:00 Newton's Apple
6:30 Sneak Previews
7:00 Evening at Pops
8:30 Moyers: In Search of the Constitution (a look at if the Constitution has withstood the test of time looks at issues the Founding Fathers wouldn't have thought possible then: privacy issues around drug tests, and the power of Congress to declare nuclear war)
9:30 A Capitol Fourth-1987
11:00 Movie "Christmas in July" (bw)
12:10 Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler
12:15 sign-off

KGWC 14-CBS Casper
6:00 Berenstain Bears
6:30 Wildfire
7:00 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
8:00 Pee-wee's Playhouse
8:30 Teen Wolf
9:00 Dungeons & Dragons
9:30 Land of the Lost
10:00 Galaxy High School
10:30 CBS StoryBreak
11:00 Rodeo Sports Page
11:30 Barney Miller
noon Triathlon (no details listed)
1:00 CBS Sports Saturday
2:30 Canadian Open golf
4:00 Wild Kingdom
4:30 Fame
5:30 Solid Gold
6:30 Wheel of Fortune
7:00 Space (pt 1)
9:00 West 57th
10:00 News
10:15 Movie "World War III" (pt 1)
12:15 sign-off

KPLO 15-CBS Rapid City (part of the KELO-Land network from KELO Sioux Falls)
5:00 Agriculture USA
5:30 Bullwinkle
6:00 Berenstain Bears
6:30 Wildfire
7:00 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
8:00 Pee-wee's Playhouse
8:30 Teen Wolf
9:00 Dungeons & Dragons
9:30 Land of the Lost
10:00 Galaxy High School
10:30 CBS StoryBreak
11:00 News
11:30 US Farm Report
noon America
1:00 CBS Sports Saturday
2:30 Canadian Open golf
4:00 Greatest Sports Legends
4:30 CBS Evening News
5:00 News
5:30 Barney Miller
6:00 Space (pt 1)
8:00 West 57th
9:00 News
9:30 Hee Haw
10:30 MTV Video Countdown
11:30 Movie "Moonshine County Express"
1:30 News
2:00 sign-off

KDVR 31-Fox Denver
5:00 El Show de Johnny Canales
6:00 Defenders of the Earth (x4)
8:00 Rifleman (bw)
8:30 My Friend Liberty
9:00 Rawhide (bw)
10:00 Have Gun-Will Travel (bw)
10:30 Lone Ranger (bw)
11:00 Tarzan
noon Wonder Woman
1:00 Bionic Woman
2:00 Incredible Hulk
3:00 White Shadow
4:00 Gimme a Break!
4:30 Facts of Life
5:00 New Gidget
5:30 Mama's Family
6:00 9 to 5 (Hee Haw's Gailard Sartain plays a new office manager)
6:30 Too Close for Comfort
7:00 Movie "Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!"
9:00 Wrestling
10:00 Bizarre
10:30 Movie "Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed"
12:30 Laurel & Hardy
2:00 Movie "The Flight of the Phoenix"
4:30 Have Gun-Will Travel (bw)

[onairb]

The '227' episode may have been a rerun of the season finale, but it was not the series finale; the show lasted from 1985-1990.

[Bluenoser]

The '227' episode may have been a rerun of the season finale, but it was not the series finale; the show lasted from 1985-1990.

I wondered about that myself...in the case of both 227 and Me & Mrs. C, the note underneath read "last show of the series"...

[johnnya2k6]

KMGH 7-CBS Denver
11:00 Wrestling

KDVR 31-Fox Denver
9:00 Wrestling

I'm guessing KMGH's was AWA, while KDVR had WWF.

[joebtsflk1]

And don't forget the Kelo-land affiliate in Rapid City, where CBS prime-time ends at 9 PM

Back to Mountain time tape-delay in modern times:  One would think that satellite time would be cheap enough now that networks could establish a Mountain feed.   Aren't some state-wide PBS nets using satellite to feed their repeater stations?

[DToTheJ]

KFNR 11-Rawlins/KFNB 20-Casper (ABC)
1:45 INN News (11/20 showed INN in late-night)

Which didn't make sense since they were affiliated with ABC... Was this a contract-honoring thing where 11/20 recently picked up the ABC affiliation and was obligated to burn off remaining telecasts at night?

[onairb]

The '227' episode may have been a rerun of the season finale, but it was not the series finale; the show lasted from 1985-1990.

I wondered about that myself...in the case of both 227 and Me & Mrs. C, the note underneath read "last show of the series"...

It was the last episode of 'Me and Mrs C', so probably just a simple typo/production error inadvertantly put that note under 'Amen'(I don't recall NBC cancelling, but then 'uncancelling' that show.)

[ShawnHill1]

I noticed that both KWGN and KMGH each had listings for Gunsmoke; 2 had the half-hour eps (AKA the "Marshal Dillon" syndie titles), and 7 had the commonly-shown hour-long shows.

It's not too rare to see two different stations in the same market having syndication rights to the same series; there was a few markets where two stations (in the pre-duolopy days) shared the rights to M*A*S*H, as an example.

[Ultimajock]

KMGH 7-CBS Denver
11:00 Wrestling

KDVR 31-Fox Denver
9:00 Wrestling

I'm guessing KMGH's was AWA, while KDVR had WWF.

...well, http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=188577.0 shows a wrestling program on KWGN/2 at 11:00 AM Saturdays in April 1980, when the AWA was the only game in town. By 1987, the WWF had actively dislodged the AWA (and, in other markets, NWA affiliate promotions) from their long-time slots, leading the AWA to take weaker slots on weaker stations. I don't know if a WWF program was ever on KWGN, but I would suspect that KMGH/7 airing a wrestling program on Saturday morning the week after CBS ended its reruns of Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling cartoon show would indicate that the KMGH show was WWF, and the program on the weaker signal of KDVR was the AWA's All-Star Wrestling...

[azumanga]

I noticed that both KWGN and KMGH each had listings for Gunsmoke; 2 had the half-hour eps (AKA the "Marshal Dillon" syndie titles), and 7 had the commonly-shown hour-long shows.

It's not too rare to see two different stations in the same market having syndication rights to the same series; there was a few markets where two stations (in the pre-duolopy days) shared the rights to M*A*S*H, as an example.

Though in this case, "Gunsmoke" was divided into three packages -- the half-hour B&W's (as "Marshal Dillon"), the hour B&Ws, and the hour color episodes. the "Marshal Dillon" and the color Gunsmokes were the most-common-syndicated episodes, with the hour B&W episodes generally unseen until they appeared on The Family Channel and, later, Encore Westerns.