Retro: St. Joseph/Kansas City, Saturday, May 11, 1985

from St. Joseph News-Press via Google News Archive
Listings start at 7AM and go until 2AM.

02 KQTV (ABC) St. Joseph
7:00 Superfriends: Legendary Super Powers Show
8:00 Mighty Orbots
8:30 Turbo Teen
9:00 Rubik, the Amazing Cube
9:30 Scooby-Doo Mysteries
10:00 Scary Scooby Funnies
10:30 The Littles
11:00 ABC Weekend Special "Mayday! Mayday!" (part 1 of 2)
11:30 American Bandstand (guests Klique and Peter Brown)
12:30 Wrestling
1:30 Sportsman's Friend
2:00 Tennis: Tournament of Champions (semifinals from West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, NY)
4:00 ABC Wide World of Sports (Indianapolis 500 time trials pole position qualifying; Invitational Diving Championships from Fort Lauderdale, FL)
5:00 ABC World News Saturday
5:30 Union Mill Opry
6:00 Hee Haw (with Dottie West, Hoyt Axton and Cotton Ivy)
7:00 The Love Boat
8:00 Movie "Letting Go" (premiere)
10:00 News
10:30 Solid Gold (Rick Dees and Lisa Hartman host, with Dan Hartman, Kim Carnes, New Edition, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Eddie Rabbitt, an interview with Kenny Rogers and magician David Copperfield)
11:30 Star Search (guests Michael J. Fox and Jennifer O'Neill)
12:30 Tales from the Darkside

04 WDAF (NBC) Kansas City
7:00 Snorks
7:30 Pink Panther and Sons
8:00 Smurfs
9:30 Alvin and the Chipmunks
10:00 Kidd Video
10:30 Mr. T
11:00 Baseball Bunch
11:30 This Week in Baseball
12:00 Baseball: Detroit Tigers vs. Chicago White Sox
3:00 Baseball: New York Yankees vs. Kansas City Royals
6:00 Hee Haw (same as ch. 2)
7:00 Diff'rent Strokes
7:30 Smurfic Games (animated)
8:00 Gimme a Break! "Julie's Birthday"
8:30 Under One Roof (series finale)
9:00 Hunter "Fire Man"
10:00 News
10:30 Saturday Night's Main Event
12:00 Star Search (guests Isabel Sanford and Christopher Atkins)

05 KCTV (CBS) Kansas City
7:00 Biskitts
7:30 Get Along Gang
8:00 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
8:30 Dungeons and Dragons
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:00 CBS Storybreak "The Double Disappearance of Walter Fosbek" (animated)
10:30 Pryor's Place
11:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
11:30 Movie "Visit to a Small Planet"
1:00 PGA Golf: Byron Nelson Classic (third round from Irving, TX)
2:30 NBA Basketball: Denver Nuggets vs. Los Angeles Lakers
5:00 At the Movies (Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel review 'Code of Silence', 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun', 'Rustler's Rhapsody' and 'Gotcha')
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 News
6:30 Let's Go to the Races
7:00 Cover Up
8:00 Airwolf
9:00 Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "The Prize"
1:00 This Week in Country Music (performances by Oak Ridge Boys, Janie Fricke and Mel McDaniel)
1:30 Christian Children's Fund

09 KMBC (ABC) Kansas City
7:00 Superfriends: Legendary Super Powers Show
8:00 Mighty Orbots
8:30 Turbo Teen
9:00 Rubik, the Amazing Cube
9:30 Scooby-Doo Mysteries
10:00 Scary Scooby Funnies
10:30 The Littles
11:00 That Funny Fat Kid
11:30 American Bandstand
12:30 Movie "Irma La Douce"
3:30 Good Fishing with Babe Winkelman
4:00 ABC Wide World of Sports
5:00 Too Close for Comfort
5:30 ABC World News Saturday
6:00 News
6:30 Nine on Kansas City
7:00 The Love Boat
8:00 Movie "Letting Go" (premiere)
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "The Carey Treatment"
12:30 Africa: Continent in Crisis

11 KTWU (PBS) Topeka
8:00 Contemporary Health Issues
9:00 Sneak Previews
9:30 This Old House
10:00 Motorweek
10:30 Do It Yourself Show
11:00 Educational Computing Profile
11:30 Victory Garden
12:00 Sesame Street
1:00 High School Wrestling: Kansas State Championships
3:30 High School Baseball: Diamond Classic Tournament
5:30 Matinee at the Bijou ('King of the Cowboys', a 1945 cartoon and the final chapter of 'Lost City of the Jungle')
7:00 Great Performances "Live from Lincoln Center: Great Russian Theatre Music" (Zubin Mehta conducts the New York Philharmonic)
9:00 Movie "Chautauqua Girl"
11:00 David Susskind

13 WIBW (CBS) Topeka
7:00 Biskitts
7:30 Get Along Gang
8:00 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:00 CBS Storybreak "The Double Disappearance of Walter Fosbek" (animated)
10:30 Pryor's Place
11:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
11:30 Whizzo's Saturday Circus
12:00 News
12:30 Pole Position
1:00 PGA Golf: Byron Nelson Classic (third round)
2:30 NBA Basketball: Denver Nuggets vs. Los Angeles Lakers
5:00 In Your Own Backyard
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 This Week in Country Music (see ch. 5, 1AM)
6:30 Search for Health
7:00 Cover Up
8:00 Airwolf
9:00 Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
10:00 News
10:30 Solid Gold (Rick Dees and Marie Osmond host, with Dan Seals, LRB, Sheena Easton, Beach Boys, Jack Wagner, Glen Campbell and Commodores)
11:30 Puttin' on the Hits
12:00 Nashville Music
12:30 Entertainment This Week

19 KCPT (PBS) Kansas City
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Pet Action Line
10:30 Motorweek
11:00 Rod and Reel
11:30 Do It Yourself Show
12:00 Frugal Gourmet
12:30 This Old House
1:00 Square Foot Gardening
1:30 Victory Garden
2:00 Nova (a look at the ways cosmetic and reconstructive surgery aid the victims of accidental trauma, disease and congenital defects)
3:00 Normandy to Berlin: A War Remembered (this conmemoration of VE Day's 40th anniversary consists of color footage shot by Hollywood director George Stevens during 1944-45 and features observers' recollections of major events)
4:00 New Tech Times
4:30 The Sporting Life (a profile of women's professional basketball player Nancy Lieberman, silver medal winner at the 1976 Olympics)
5:00 Wild America (after studying the grizzly, naturalist Marty Stouffer adopts a cub from a zoo, part 1 of 2)
5:30 Sneak Previews (Neal Gabler and Jeffrey Lyons review 'Rustlers' Rhapsody and present their Golden Turkey Awards)
6:00 Kansas City Illustrated
7:00 Nature of Things
8:00 Great Performances "Taking My Turn"
10:00 Monty Python's Flying Circus
10:30 Austin City Limits (Rodney Crowell, John Prine, Guy Clark, Billy Joe Shaver, Bill Caswell and Keith Sykes present the strong writing talents which have made them part of an emerging new breed of songwriters)

27 KSNT (NBC) Topeka
7:00 Snorks
7:30 Pink Panther and Sons
8:00 Smurfs
9:30 Alvin and the Chipmunks
10:00 Kidd Video
10:30 Tom and Jerry
11:00 Muppets
11:30 This Week in Baseball
12:00 Baseball: Detroit Tigers vs. Chicago White Sox
3:00 Baseball: New York Yankees vs. Kansas City Royals
6:00 Hee Haw (same as chs. 2 and 4)
7:00 Diff'rent Strokes
7:30 Smurfic Games (animated)
8:00 Gimme a Break! "Julie's Birthday"
8:30 Under One Roof (series finale)
9:00 Hunter "Fire Man"
10:00 News
10:30 Saturday Night's Main Event
12:00 Movie "Where Eagles Dare"

41 KSHB (Ind) Kansas City
7:00 Popeye
8:00 Pink Panther
9:00 Bugs Bunny
9:30 Kids Incorporated
10:00 Fame
11:00 Solid Gold
12:00 Buck Rogers
1:00 Battlestar Galactica
2:00 Starsky and Hutch
3:00 Emergency
4:00 Wild, Wild West
5:00 Solid Gold (see ch. 13, 10:30PM for details)
6:00 Star Trek
7:00 Black Sheep Squadron
8:00 Movie "The Long Riders"
10:00 Benny Hill
10:30 Movie "Them"
12:30 Puttin' on the Hits
1:00 Essence
1:30 Start of Something New

Regarding the Lakers-Nuggets game: I looked it up, and as I suspected, that was part of the West finals (Game 1, actually), back during the era when the whole season was usually done by Memorial Day or thereabouts.

Star Search, Hee Haw, Hunter, Mike Hammer, Airwolf, the Tigers in a nationally televised game!

Man, this was a great day to be watching TV!

No listing for channel 62?

Out of market paper, he posted what was in that paper. Augmentation is welcome if you have a source.

The Royals won the World Series in 1985. I'm sure Royals broadcasts became a big deal as the season went on.

Wasn't the Yankees-Royals game delayed by rain? if so, then the NBC stations carried the Pirates-Dodgers game until play started in KC.

As far as Solid Gold, it was likely bumped in some markets if it was an NBC station by the Pirates-Dodgers game as it went 12 innings, and lasted 3 hours and 49 minutes.

umfan said:

Out of market paper, he posted what was in that paper. Augmentation is welcome if you have a source.

The Royals won the World Series in 1985. I'm sure Royals broadcasts became a big deal as the season went on.

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St. Joseph at this time was basically a sub-market of KC (with separate ABC but had the rest of KC's stations; today, I think they only get PBS and TBN from KC)

It looks like KQTV and WIBW aired different episodes of Solid Gold at the same time.

Also, Saturday Night's Main Event was programming from the then-WWF that aired instead of SNL repeats.

I used to watch Saturday Night's Main Event a lot back then. But there was one time when SNME and American Gladiators were on at the same time. SNME on WYFF/4 Greenville at 11:30 and AG on WLOS/13 Asheville at midnight. I went with AG, because i wasn't a big fan of the WWF at that time.