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Retro: Chicago, Saturday, May 18, 1985

from Chicago Tribune

2 WBBM CBS
5:00 Bill Cosby
5:30 Morning Stretch
6:00 Daybreak
6:30 Kidsworld
7:00 Biskitts
7:30 Get Along Gang
8:00 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
8:30 Dungeons & Dragons
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
10:00 CBS Storybreak
10:30 Pryor's Place
11:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
11:30 Saturday Supercade
12:30 Pole Position
1:00 Golf: Colonial National Invitation (round 3)
2:30 NBA Playoffs: Boston at Philadelphia
5:00 Channel 2: The People
5:30 CBS Evening News
6:00 News
6:30 Dance Fever
7:00 Cover-Up
8:00 Airwolf
9:00 Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
10:00 News
10:30 Movie "The Ghost of Flight 401"
12:35 Common Ground
2:35 Movie "The Molly Maguires"

5 WMAQ NBC

6:30 Baseball Bunch
7:00 Snorks
7:30 Pink Panther & Sons
8:00 Smurfs
9:30 Alvin & the Chipmunks
10:00 Kidd Video
10:30 Mr. T
11:00 Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends
11:30 The Incredible Hulk
12:00 A Hard Road to Glory (Arthur Ashe hosts a special that traces the history of the black athlete in America)
2:00 Baseball Pregame
2:15 Baseball: Chicago Cubs at Atlanta
5:00 News
5:30 NBC Nightly News
6:00 Fight Back! with David Horowitz
6:30 The Apollo: One More Time
7:00 Diff'rent Strokes
7:30 Gimme a Break!
8:00 Hunter (repeat of the pilot episode)
10:00 News
10:30 Saturday Night Live
12:00 Hawk
1:00 New York Hot Tracks
2:00 Movie "Notorious"

7 WLS ABC
7:00 Superfriends
8:00 Mighty Orbots
8:30 Turbo Teen
9:00 Rubik the Amazing Cube
9:30 New Scooby-Doo Mysteries
10:00 Scary Scooby Funnies
10:30 The Littles
11:00 ABC Weekend Special
11:30 American Bandstand
12:30 Rock in Chicago!
1:30 19th Annual Greek-American Parade
2:30 That's Hollywood
3:00 ABC Wide World of Sports (UCLA Track & Field Meet; the $100,000 Black-Eyed Susan race; Preakness pre-race reports)
4:00 Horse Racing: Preakness Stakes
5:00 News
5:30 ABC World News Saturday
6:00 Hollywood Closeup
6:30 25 Years: The Rock of Chicago
7:00 TJ Hooker
8:00 The Love Boat
10:00 News
10:30 ABC News
10:45 Movie "Summer Lovers"
12:50 Movie "Murder, My Sweet"
3:10 Record Guide
4:10 Reflections

9 WGN Ind
5:00 Abbott & Costello
5:30 Zane Grey Theater
6:00 Cartoons
6:15 Buyers Forum
6:30 Three Score/Community Calendar
6:45 Cartoons
7:00 US Farm Report
7:30 The World Tomorrow
8:00 Garner Ted Armstrong
8:30 Issues Unlimited
9:00 Charlando
9:30 People to People
10:00 Wild Kingdom
10:30 Kung Fu
11:30 Movie "Geronimo"
1:30 Movie "Abbott & Costello Go to Mars"
3:00 America's Top Ten
3:30 Soul Train
4:30 Welcome Back, Kotter
5:00 Little House on the Prairie
6:00 Puttin' on the Hits
6:30 At the Movies
7:00 Movie "The Long Chase"
9:00 News
9:30 INN News
10:00 The Twilight Zone
10:30 Movie "The Caine Mutiny"
1:00 Tales from the Darkside
1:30 Wall Street Journal Report
2:00 INN News
2:30 Movie "Springfield Rifle"
4:30 Movietone News

11 WTTW PBS

7:00 Burns & Allen
7:30 Woodwright's Shop
8:00 Sporting Life
8:30 MotorWeek
9:00 Last Chance Garage
9:30 Rod & Reel
10:00 Headline News
12:00 Nature
1:00 Spaceflight
2:00 Nova
3:00 Sporting Life
3:30 Magic of Oil Painting
4:00 Victory Garden
4:30 Justin Wilson's Louisiana Cookin'
5:00 This Old House
5:30 Frugal Gourmet
6:00 Sneak Previews
6:30 McLaughlin Group
7:00 Movie "A Man for All Seasons"
9:00 Alfred Hitchcock Hour
10:00 Image Union
10:30 Kup's Show
11:30 Movie "The Go-Between"
1:30 David Susskind

20 WYCC PBS
7am Villa Alegre
7:30 Reading Rainbow
8:00/8:30 GED
9:00 Needlecraft
9:30 Victory Garden
10:00/10:30 Signing with Cindy
11:00 Zarabanda
11:30 German
12:00/12:30 Russia: Its People & Culture
1:00 Conversational Italian
1:30/2:00 Greek: People & Culture
2:30 Antiques: Understanding Art
3pm sign-off

26 WCIU Ind/Ethnic

7:00 CmeSat
8:00 Cinema Cinema
9:00 Sangeeta Presents
10:00 Ernest Angley
11:00 Alabare
12:00 Club del Niño
12:30 La Hora de la Decision
1:00 Chinese Spotlight
3:00 Voice of Assyrians
4:00 Beautiful Korea
5:00 Polonia Today
5:30 Outdoor Sportsman
6:00 Yugoslav-American Show
6:30 Jerry Falwell
7:30 Rock of Ages
8:30 Way of Deliverance
9:00 Peter Popoff
9:30 W.V. Grant
10:00 Rex Humbard
10:30 World Tomorrow
11:00 Women in Crisis
12:00 Jerry Falwell
1:00 Voice of God's World

32 WFLD Ind
6:00 Our People/Los Hispanos
6:30 Newstalk
7:00 Chicago '85
7:30 Our People/Los Hispanos
8:00 Romper Room
8:30 Babe Winkelman's Good Fishing
9:00 Recreation Network: Beach Special
9:30 Solid Gold
10:30 WWF Wrestling
11:30 Movie "Return of the Dragon"
1:30 Movie "Frankenstein"
3:30 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
4:30 Star Trek
5:30 Too Close for Comfort
6:00 Fame
7:00 Solid Gold
8:00 Movie "Executive Suite"
10:00 Movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"
12:00 Movie "What's New, Pussycat?"

38 WCFC Ind
5:00 Signs of the Times
5:30 Our World
6:00 Adventures in Learning
6:30 Lift Jesus Higher
7:00 Secret Place
7:30 Kid's Jamboree
8:00 Toddler's Friends
8:30 Davey & Goliath
9:00 KPTL
9:30 Joy Junction
10:00 Bible Bowl
10:30 Circle Square
11:00 Athletes in Action
11:30 Sound Effects
12:00 Solo Act
12:30 Weekend Gardener
1:00 Greek Program
2:00 Un Nuevo Amanecer
4:00 Vida Abundante
4:30 Cristo Viene
5:00 Love Special
6:00 Changing Lives Telethon
12:00 Paul Yonggi Cho
12:30 Athletes in Action
1:00 Time of Deliverance
1:30 In the Word
2:00 Saturday Nite Sing
3:00 Dr. D. James Kennedy
4:00 Abundant Living
4:30 Gary Greenwald

60 WBBS/WPWR Ind
5:30 Robin Hood
6:00 Lassie
6:30 The Invisible Man
7:00 Blondie
7:30 Starcade
8:00 Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries
9:00 Seeing Stars
9:30 Movie "Mean Streets of Kung Fu"
11:30 Movie "The Silencers"
1:30 Movie "Mean Johnny Barrows"
3:00 Movie "The Jayhawkers"
5:00/6:00 Wrestling
7:00 Menudo
7:30 Imagen
8:00 Mundo Music
8:30 Desde Hollywood
9:00 Escenario Mexico
10:00 Grandes Encuentros: Boxeo
11:00 Cine "La Coralillo"
12:30 Cine "El Compañero de Tennessee"
2:30 Movie "Brief Encounter"
4:15 Movie "The Cape Canaveral Monsters"

66 WGBO Ind

9:00 It's Your Business
9:30 Lorne Greene's New Wilderness
10:00 Bethel Apostolic Church
11:00 Daniel Boone
12:00 Movie "The Reluctant Heroes"
3:00 Movie "The Forgotten Man"
4:30 Movie "If Tomorrow Comes"
6:00 Gunsmoke
7:00 Ethiopia: The Nightmare Continues
8:00 Dream of Success
8:30 Gomer Pyle
9:00 Perry Mason
10:00 Hit City
10:30 Movie "The Day Came to Earth"
 
Normally they would, but that was NBC's Game Of The Week that day. I was more curious about the Sox not being on Channel 32.

The game (at Comiskey Park vs Texas, who won 7-2) was a night game, so it wouldn't have been blacked out. It probably aired on Sportsvision, by then combined with ONTV on WSNS Channel 44, as well as on cable. ONTV shut down on July 1 of that year.
 
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