Source: Seattle Times microfilm
CHANNELS
2 CBUT Vancouver CBC
4 KOMO Seattle ABC
5 KING Seattle NBC
7 KIRO Seattle CBS
9 KCTS Seattle PBS
11 KSTW Tacoma IND
13 KCPQ Tacoma Fox
22 KTZZ Seattle IND
28 KTPS Tacoma PBS
8/17/92
7am
2 CBC Morning News
4 Good Morning America
Charles Gibson in Houston. Bush administration retrospective; William Shatner.
5 Today
Republican National Convention coverage; trials and tribulations of President Bush; Republican abortion platform.
7 This Morning
At the Houston Astrodome. Political roundtable; Republican division over abortion rights.
9 Sesame Street
11 Widget
13 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
22 J.E.N. (from 6:30)
7:30
11 Tom & Jerry
13 Muppet Babies
22 Paid Programming
28 Work it Out
8AM
9 Captain Kangaroo
11 James Bond Jr.
13 Peter Pan
28 Sesame Street
8:30
9 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11 Woody Woodpecker
13 Flintstones
9am
2 What on Earth
4 Regis & Kathie Lee
Sylvester Stallone; Celine Dion; Ed McMahon; father/son make-over.
5 Days of Our Lives
7 Geraldo
Scheduled topic: Interracial dating.
9 Sesame Street
11 Little House on the Prairie
13 The New Family Feud
22 700 Club
28 Sit and Be Fit
9:30
2 Urban Peasant
28 Japanese
10am
2 Fred Penner's Place
4 Home
School wardrobe essentials; children and drugs; setting a collegian's budget; children's videos. Co-host: Steve Edwards.
5 Jenny Jones
Passions as catharsis; obnoxious neighbors.
7 The Price is Right
9 Shining Time Station
11 Golden Girls
13 Candid Camera
22 Success-N-Life
28 Welcome to My Studio
10:30
2 Mr. Dressup
9 Barney & Friends
11 Love Connection
13 Mr. Belvedere
28 Art/Alexander
11am
2 Sesame Street
5 Doctor Dean
Right-to-die advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian and a man whose wife died by the "suicide machine."
7 Young and the Restless
9 Lamb Chop's Play Along
11 People's Court
13 Bonanza
"The Boss."
22 Casey Treat
28 3-2-1 Contact
11:30
4 Loving
5 Classic Concentration
9 Zoobilee Zoo
11 People's Court
22 Paid Program
28 Reading Rainbow
12PM
2 4 All My Children
5 7 News
9 Long Ago and Far Away
Friends help Toad save his house. Part 2 of 2.
11 The A-Team
13 Matlock
"The Nurse."
22 Travel (?)
28 Sesame Street
12:30
5 Closer Look-Faith Daniels
"Gilligan's Island" reunion.
9 1992 Summer Music Games
North American finalists compete in the Drum-Corps International World Championship at Camp Randall in Madison, WI.
22 The Bold and the Beautiful (actually aired for a while, but for most of 1987-95 it wasn't)
1PM
2 Midday
4 One Life to Live
5 Another World
7 As the World Turns
11 Movie
"Spiker." [1985] Patrick Houser, Michael Parks. U.S college athletes try out for the men's Olympic volleyball team under a tough coach.
13 Movie
"Easy Come, Easy Go." [1967] Elvis Presley, Dodie Marshall. A singing Navy frogman spots sunken treasure and returns later with help to retrieve it.
22 Joan Rivers
Scheduled topic: sisters who look alike.
28 Travels
2PM
2 Coronation Street
4 General Hospital
5 Santa Barbara
7 Guiding Light
22 Movie
"H-Bomb." [1976] Chris Mitchum, Olivia Hussey. Bangkok gangsters and a Cambodian general try to steal a U.S. nuclear missile.
28 Fame, Glory and Women
2:30
2 Alice
9 Sesame Street
3PM
2 The Raccoons
4 Northwest Afternoon
Million-dollar lottery winners tell how their lives changed.
5 Maury Povich
Hospital breast-feeding mix-up results in lawsuits; sexual abuse.
7 Sally Jessy Raphael
Women embarrassed by their mothers.
11 Swans
13 DuckTales
28 Painting
3:30
2 Taxi
9 Reading Rainbow
11 Tom & Jerry
13 Chip 'N Dale
28 Art/Alexander
4PM
2 WKRP in Cincinnati
4 Love Connection (how can this be true? Separate stations, different owners, etc. airing the same show in the same market?)
5 Oprah Winfrey
Topic: extraordinary rescues.
7 Donahue
Scheduled topic: men who don't pay child support.
9 Square One Television
11 Merrie Melodies
13 Tale Spin
22 Marjorie Clapprood (what was this?)
28 Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
4:30
2 Addams Family
4 Family Feud
9 Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
11 Tiny Toon Adventures
13 Darkwing Duck
28 Lamb Chop's Play-Along
5PM
2 Video Hits
4 5 7 News
9 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11 Saved By The Bell
13 Beetlejuice
22 Paid Program
28 Reading Rainbow
5:30
2 Golden Girls
9 Nightly Business Report
11 Who's the Boss?
13 Perfect Strangers
22 I Love Lucy
28 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6PM
2 News
4 ABC News
5 NBC News
7 CBS News
9 MacNeil, Lehrer NewsHour
11 Growing Pains
13 Gilligan's Island
22 Bob Newhart
28 European Journal
6:30
4 7 Republican National Convention
Opening ceremonies; speeches by President Reagan and HUD secretary Jack Kemp. Peter Jennings, David Brinkley (4), Dan Rather (7).
5 News
11 Night Court
13 Hard Copy
22 Paid Program
28 Woodcarving with Rick Butz
Carving a decorative loon decoy.
7PM
2 Newsmagazine
5 9 Republican National Convention
Opening ceremonies; speeches by President Reagan and HUD Secretary Jack Kemp. Tom Brokaw (5), Robert MacNeil, Jim Lehrer (9).
11 Cheers
13 Inside Edition
New biography of Sen. Edward Kennedy.
22 The Judge
28 Nightly Business Report
7:30
2 Ear to the Ground
Skydiggers.
11 Golden Girls
13 A Current Affair
22 The Judge
28 Emmerdale
8PM
2 Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Will doesn't like his mother's new boyfriend. Guest: Raven-Symone.
4 The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
In 1916 London, Indy [Sean Patrick Flanery] falls for a suffragette [Elizabeth Hurley].
5 Evening
Cirque du Soleil debut; Quebec City; maple farm in Quebec.
7 Evening Shade
Taylor sells Newton memorabilia to buy a car.
(9 keeps going with RNC until 11PM)
11 Movie
"Lawman." [1971] Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan. A marshal seeks justice in another marshal's town, run by a corrupt rancher.
13 Movie
"Bonnie and Clyde: The True Story." [1992] Tracey Needham, Dana Ashberook, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow meet as teens and become gangster lovers in Depression-era Texas.
22 Joan Rivers
See 1PM.
28 Masterpiece Theatre
"Summer's Lease: Villa to Let." An absentee landlord intrigues a vacationing Briton. With John Gielgud, Susan Fleetwood. Part 1 of 4.
8:30
2 Road Movies
5 Entertainment Tonight
Tom Selleck.
7 Major Dad
Polly writes a distressing article on the Marines.
9PM
2 Northwood
Shoplifting to pay off drug debt, Karin is arrested; George and Marlene discover Debbie's trick.
4 FBI: The Untold Stories
A controversial Denver radio personality's murder.
5 Fresh Prince of Bel Air
See 8PM, CBUT.
7 Murphy Brown
Murphy rebels against her contract's appearance clause.
22 Perry Mason
A sailor too poor to pay legal fees makes out a will with bequests of $300,000. Guests: Sean McClory, Liam Sullivan.
28 Our Vanishing Forests
The current debate over U.S. forests brings up a history of the Forest Service and its policy. Host: writer N. Scott Momaday.
9:30
2 Wonder Years
4 Missing/Reward
Woman thought drowned found murdered; arson/murder; jukeboxes.
5 Blossom
Blossom flashes back as she pens a letter to her mom.
7 Cosby Show
Cliff and a friend compete fiercely in outdoor bowling.
10PM
2 National-Journal
4 Wheel of Fortune
5 The Powers that Be
Sophie's emergence [Robin Bartlett] clouds Bill's [John Forsythe] presidential hopes.
7 Simon & Simon
A woman [Lisa Eilbacher in a dual role] seeks Rick and A.J.'s help when she dreams her missing twin sister is in mortal danger.
11 22 News
13 Star Trek: The Next Generation
A Romulan warship thwarts attempts to rescue Geordi, stranded on a planet swept by electrical storms.
28 Nightly Business Report
10:30
22 Mike Siegel
28 Emmerdale
11PM
2 4 5 7 News
9 Convention Night in Review
Paul Duke summarizes the day's events at the Republican Convention.
11 Married...with Children
13 Studs
22 Movie
"Go Toward the Light." [1988] Linda Hamilton. A construction worker and his wife learn that one of their three hemophilic sons has AIDS.
28 Off the Air
11:30/35
4 Nightline
5 The Tonight Show
Singer Shirley Horn; comedian Wayne Cotter; Ted Wass.
7 Sweating Bullets
9 Yes, Minister
Jim Hacker decides something must be done to protect privacy.
11 Hunter
Robberies besiege a dry-cleaning chain that could be laundering money. Guest: Don Rickles.
13 Arsenio Hall
Group Rozalla; Amanda Donohoe.
11:40
2 Newhart
12AM/05
4 Now it Can Be Told
Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
9 MacNeil, Lehrer NewsHour
12:10
2 Welcome Back, Kotter
12:30/35
4 NightTalk
Former Klan members who embrace tolerance.
5 Late Night with David Letterman
Robin Williams; Theresa Russell; Ronnie Milsap.
7 Simon & Simon
11 Bedroom (?)
13 Hill Street Blues
12:40
2 Movie
"Klondike Annie." [1936] Mae West. Frisco Doll flees to Alaska, charms a boat captain and poses as a missionary. Directed by Raoul Walsh.
1AM
9 Today's Japan
11 Dennis Miller
22 Movie
"The Storm Rider." [1957] Scott Brady, Mala Powers. Smaller ranchers hire a gunman to lead them against the big ranchers.
P.S. As you could tell, this was the worst TV lineup I've ever seen on KTZZ. Too many paid programs and religion, as well as C and D-grade movies and *very* barter sitcoms and daytime shows. By the WB days, this got a LOT better.
-crainbebo
CHANNELS
2 CBUT Vancouver CBC
4 KOMO Seattle ABC
5 KING Seattle NBC
7 KIRO Seattle CBS
9 KCTS Seattle PBS
11 KSTW Tacoma IND
13 KCPQ Tacoma Fox
22 KTZZ Seattle IND
28 KTPS Tacoma PBS
8/17/92
7am
2 CBC Morning News
4 Good Morning America
Charles Gibson in Houston. Bush administration retrospective; William Shatner.
5 Today
Republican National Convention coverage; trials and tribulations of President Bush; Republican abortion platform.
7 This Morning
At the Houston Astrodome. Political roundtable; Republican division over abortion rights.
9 Sesame Street
11 Widget
13 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
22 J.E.N. (from 6:30)
7:30
11 Tom & Jerry
13 Muppet Babies
22 Paid Programming
28 Work it Out
8AM
9 Captain Kangaroo
11 James Bond Jr.
13 Peter Pan
28 Sesame Street
8:30
9 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11 Woody Woodpecker
13 Flintstones
9am
2 What on Earth
4 Regis & Kathie Lee
Sylvester Stallone; Celine Dion; Ed McMahon; father/son make-over.
5 Days of Our Lives
7 Geraldo
Scheduled topic: Interracial dating.
9 Sesame Street
11 Little House on the Prairie
13 The New Family Feud
22 700 Club
28 Sit and Be Fit
9:30
2 Urban Peasant
28 Japanese
10am
2 Fred Penner's Place
4 Home
School wardrobe essentials; children and drugs; setting a collegian's budget; children's videos. Co-host: Steve Edwards.
5 Jenny Jones
Passions as catharsis; obnoxious neighbors.
7 The Price is Right
9 Shining Time Station
11 Golden Girls
13 Candid Camera
22 Success-N-Life
28 Welcome to My Studio
10:30
2 Mr. Dressup
9 Barney & Friends
11 Love Connection
13 Mr. Belvedere
28 Art/Alexander
11am
2 Sesame Street
5 Doctor Dean
Right-to-die advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian and a man whose wife died by the "suicide machine."
7 Young and the Restless
9 Lamb Chop's Play Along
11 People's Court
13 Bonanza
"The Boss."
22 Casey Treat
28 3-2-1 Contact
11:30
4 Loving
5 Classic Concentration
9 Zoobilee Zoo
11 People's Court
22 Paid Program
28 Reading Rainbow
12PM
2 4 All My Children
5 7 News
9 Long Ago and Far Away
Friends help Toad save his house. Part 2 of 2.
11 The A-Team
13 Matlock
"The Nurse."
22 Travel (?)
28 Sesame Street
12:30
5 Closer Look-Faith Daniels
"Gilligan's Island" reunion.
9 1992 Summer Music Games
North American finalists compete in the Drum-Corps International World Championship at Camp Randall in Madison, WI.
22 The Bold and the Beautiful (actually aired for a while, but for most of 1987-95 it wasn't)
1PM
2 Midday
4 One Life to Live
5 Another World
7 As the World Turns
11 Movie
"Spiker." [1985] Patrick Houser, Michael Parks. U.S college athletes try out for the men's Olympic volleyball team under a tough coach.
13 Movie
"Easy Come, Easy Go." [1967] Elvis Presley, Dodie Marshall. A singing Navy frogman spots sunken treasure and returns later with help to retrieve it.
22 Joan Rivers
Scheduled topic: sisters who look alike.
28 Travels
2PM
2 Coronation Street
4 General Hospital
5 Santa Barbara
7 Guiding Light
22 Movie
"H-Bomb." [1976] Chris Mitchum, Olivia Hussey. Bangkok gangsters and a Cambodian general try to steal a U.S. nuclear missile.
28 Fame, Glory and Women
2:30
2 Alice
9 Sesame Street
3PM
2 The Raccoons
4 Northwest Afternoon
Million-dollar lottery winners tell how their lives changed.
5 Maury Povich
Hospital breast-feeding mix-up results in lawsuits; sexual abuse.
7 Sally Jessy Raphael
Women embarrassed by their mothers.
11 Swans
13 DuckTales
28 Painting
3:30
2 Taxi
9 Reading Rainbow
11 Tom & Jerry
13 Chip 'N Dale
28 Art/Alexander
4PM
2 WKRP in Cincinnati
4 Love Connection (how can this be true? Separate stations, different owners, etc. airing the same show in the same market?)
5 Oprah Winfrey
Topic: extraordinary rescues.
7 Donahue
Scheduled topic: men who don't pay child support.
9 Square One Television
11 Merrie Melodies
13 Tale Spin
22 Marjorie Clapprood (what was this?)
28 Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
4:30
2 Addams Family
4 Family Feud
9 Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
11 Tiny Toon Adventures
13 Darkwing Duck
28 Lamb Chop's Play-Along
5PM
2 Video Hits
4 5 7 News
9 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11 Saved By The Bell
13 Beetlejuice
22 Paid Program
28 Reading Rainbow
5:30
2 Golden Girls
9 Nightly Business Report
11 Who's the Boss?
13 Perfect Strangers
22 I Love Lucy
28 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6PM
2 News
4 ABC News
5 NBC News
7 CBS News
9 MacNeil, Lehrer NewsHour
11 Growing Pains
13 Gilligan's Island
22 Bob Newhart
28 European Journal
6:30
4 7 Republican National Convention
Opening ceremonies; speeches by President Reagan and HUD secretary Jack Kemp. Peter Jennings, David Brinkley (4), Dan Rather (7).
5 News
11 Night Court
13 Hard Copy
22 Paid Program
28 Woodcarving with Rick Butz
Carving a decorative loon decoy.
7PM
2 Newsmagazine
5 9 Republican National Convention
Opening ceremonies; speeches by President Reagan and HUD Secretary Jack Kemp. Tom Brokaw (5), Robert MacNeil, Jim Lehrer (9).
11 Cheers
13 Inside Edition
New biography of Sen. Edward Kennedy.
22 The Judge
28 Nightly Business Report
7:30
2 Ear to the Ground
Skydiggers.
11 Golden Girls
13 A Current Affair
22 The Judge
28 Emmerdale
8PM
2 Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Will doesn't like his mother's new boyfriend. Guest: Raven-Symone.
4 The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
In 1916 London, Indy [Sean Patrick Flanery] falls for a suffragette [Elizabeth Hurley].
5 Evening
Cirque du Soleil debut; Quebec City; maple farm in Quebec.
7 Evening Shade
Taylor sells Newton memorabilia to buy a car.
(9 keeps going with RNC until 11PM)
11 Movie
"Lawman." [1971] Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan. A marshal seeks justice in another marshal's town, run by a corrupt rancher.
13 Movie
"Bonnie and Clyde: The True Story." [1992] Tracey Needham, Dana Ashberook, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow meet as teens and become gangster lovers in Depression-era Texas.
22 Joan Rivers
See 1PM.
28 Masterpiece Theatre
"Summer's Lease: Villa to Let." An absentee landlord intrigues a vacationing Briton. With John Gielgud, Susan Fleetwood. Part 1 of 4.
8:30
2 Road Movies
5 Entertainment Tonight
Tom Selleck.
7 Major Dad
Polly writes a distressing article on the Marines.
9PM
2 Northwood
Shoplifting to pay off drug debt, Karin is arrested; George and Marlene discover Debbie's trick.
4 FBI: The Untold Stories
A controversial Denver radio personality's murder.
5 Fresh Prince of Bel Air
See 8PM, CBUT.
7 Murphy Brown
Murphy rebels against her contract's appearance clause.
22 Perry Mason
A sailor too poor to pay legal fees makes out a will with bequests of $300,000. Guests: Sean McClory, Liam Sullivan.
28 Our Vanishing Forests
The current debate over U.S. forests brings up a history of the Forest Service and its policy. Host: writer N. Scott Momaday.
9:30
2 Wonder Years
4 Missing/Reward
Woman thought drowned found murdered; arson/murder; jukeboxes.
5 Blossom
Blossom flashes back as she pens a letter to her mom.
7 Cosby Show
Cliff and a friend compete fiercely in outdoor bowling.
10PM
2 National-Journal
4 Wheel of Fortune
5 The Powers that Be
Sophie's emergence [Robin Bartlett] clouds Bill's [John Forsythe] presidential hopes.
7 Simon & Simon
A woman [Lisa Eilbacher in a dual role] seeks Rick and A.J.'s help when she dreams her missing twin sister is in mortal danger.
11 22 News
13 Star Trek: The Next Generation
A Romulan warship thwarts attempts to rescue Geordi, stranded on a planet swept by electrical storms.
28 Nightly Business Report
10:30
22 Mike Siegel
28 Emmerdale
11PM
2 4 5 7 News
9 Convention Night in Review
Paul Duke summarizes the day's events at the Republican Convention.
11 Married...with Children
13 Studs
22 Movie
"Go Toward the Light." [1988] Linda Hamilton. A construction worker and his wife learn that one of their three hemophilic sons has AIDS.
28 Off the Air
11:30/35
4 Nightline
5 The Tonight Show
Singer Shirley Horn; comedian Wayne Cotter; Ted Wass.
7 Sweating Bullets
9 Yes, Minister
Jim Hacker decides something must be done to protect privacy.
11 Hunter
Robberies besiege a dry-cleaning chain that could be laundering money. Guest: Don Rickles.
13 Arsenio Hall
Group Rozalla; Amanda Donohoe.
11:40
2 Newhart
12AM/05
4 Now it Can Be Told
Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
9 MacNeil, Lehrer NewsHour
12:10
2 Welcome Back, Kotter
12:30/35
4 NightTalk
Former Klan members who embrace tolerance.
5 Late Night with David Letterman
Robin Williams; Theresa Russell; Ronnie Milsap.
7 Simon & Simon
11 Bedroom (?)
13 Hill Street Blues
12:40
2 Movie
"Klondike Annie." [1936] Mae West. Frisco Doll flees to Alaska, charms a boat captain and poses as a missionary. Directed by Raoul Walsh.
1AM
9 Today's Japan
11 Dennis Miller
22 Movie
"The Storm Rider." [1957] Scott Brady, Mala Powers. Smaller ranchers hire a gunman to lead them against the big ranchers.
P.S. As you could tell, this was the worst TV lineup I've ever seen on KTZZ. Too many paid programs and religion, as well as C and D-grade movies and *very* barter sitcoms and daytime shows. By the WB days, this got a LOT better.
-crainbebo
