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Retro: St. Louis, Mo.-Saturday October 15, 1983

Mr. Mike

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Here now is a Saturday schedule from back in the day. As with my previous postings, it contains not only the local stations, but also superstations WGN in Chicago and WTBS in Atlanta. Also, I was able to come up with movie umbrella titles, having only to make an educated guess in a couple of instances. I also had to come up with the weekend news anchor teams by either memory or checking out the web. So, without further adieu, here it is.

St. Louis, Missouri TV Schedule—Saturday October 15th, 1983
(source: St. Louis Post Dispatch Television supplement)

KTVI-TV Channel 2 (ABC)
Saturday 10/15/1983
6:25am Sign on
6:30am World of Ideas
7:00am Scooby Doo-Menudo
7:30am Monchichis/Little Rascals/Richie Rich
8:30am Pac-Man/Rubik Cube/Menudo
9:30am The Littles
10:00am Puppy/Scooby Doo/Schoolhouse Rock
11:00am World Series Unsung Heroes
11:30am World Series: Baltimore Orioles vs. Philadelphia Phillies, Game 4 (The Orioles won 5-4 and, the next day, the series 4 games to 1)
2:30pm NCAA Football
6:00pm Channel 2 News Weekend Report (Donn Johnson, Al Ruschel, Bryan Busby-weather, Greg Gizinski-sports)
6:30pm PM Magazine: Special Edition
7:00pm T.J. Hooker
8:00pm The Love Boat
9:00pm Fantasy Island
10:00pm Channel 2 News Weekend Report (Donn Johnson, Al Ruschel, Bryan Busby-weather, Greg Gizinski-sports)
10:30pm M*A*S*H
11:00pm Saturday Super Movie: “White Lightning” (1973) w/ Burt Reynolds, Jennifer Billingsley
1:30am ABC News Weekend Report
1:45am Channel 2 News Weekend Report (repeat)
2:15am World of Ideas
2:45am A Thought for Today
2:50am Sign off

KMOX-TV Channel 4 (CBS)
Saturday 10/15/1983
4:55am Sign on
5:00am Eye on St. Louis
5:30am Kidsworld
6:00am Captain Kangaroo
7:00am The Biskitts
7:30am Saturday Supercade
8:30am Dungeons and Dragons
9:00am The Dukes
9:30am Charlie Brown and Snoopy
10:00am Benji, Zax and the Alien Prince
10:30am D.B.’s Delight
11:00am NCAA Today
11:30am NCAA Football
3:00pm Horse Racing: from Belmont Park in Elmont, NY
4:00pm Sports Attic
5:00pm Channel 4 Newsmakers
5:30pm CBS Evening News
6:00pm Saturday Newsroom Report (Betsy Bruce, Tim Van Gelder-sports)
6:30pm Dance Fever
7:00pm Cutter to Houston
8:00pm CBS Saturday Night Movie: “Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer” (1983, TVM) w/ George Segal, Shelley Hack
10:00pm Newsroom Update at 10:00 (Betsy Bruce, Tim Van Gelder-sports)
10:30pm Hot Hit Video
11:30pm More Real People
12:00am The Bijou Picture Show: “Hunters of the Reef” (1978) w/ Michael Parks, Mary Louise Weller
2:00am The Bijou Picture Show: “Doctor’s Secrets” (1975) w/ George Peppard, Talla Shire
4:30am The Bijou Picture Show: “Mulligan’s Stew” (1977) w/ Lawrence Pressman, Alex Karras (until 6:00am)

KSDK-TV Channel 5 (NBC)
Saturday 10/15/1983
6:25am Sign on
6:30am Children’s Theatre
7:00am The Flintstone Funnies
7:30am The Shirt Tales
8:00am The Smurfs
9:30am Alvin and the Chipmunks
10:00am Mr. T
10:30am Amazing Spider-Man/Incredible Hulk
11:30am Thundarr
12:00pm That Teen Show
12:30pm America’s Top Ten
1:00pm Entertainment This Week
2:00pm Medical Center
3:00pm Bonanza
4:00pm This Week In Baseball
4:30pm Telequiz
5:00pm Briefing Session
5:30pm NBC Nightly News
6:00pm Channel 5 Eyewitness News Weekend Report (Chris Condon, Stan Stovall, John Fuller-weather, Art Holliday-sports)
6:30pm Taking Advantage
7:00pm Diff’rent Strokes
7:30pm Silver Spoons
8:00pm The Rousters
9:00pm The Yellow Rose
10:00pm Channel 5 Eyewitness News Update (Chris Condon, Stan Stovall, John Fuller-weather, Art Holliday-sports)
10:30pm Saturday Night Live
12:00am Entertainment This Week
1:00am That Teen Show
1:30am America’s Top Ten
2:00am Briefing Session
2:30am Sign off

KETC-TV Channel 9 (PBS)
Saturday 10/15/1983
7:55am Sign on
8:00am Making It Count
8:30am Making It Count
9:00am Earth, Sea and Sky
9:30am Earth, Sea and Sky
10:00am Sesame Street
11:00am Kathy’s Kitchen
11:30am Gourmet Cooking
12:00pm World of Cooking: “France: An Alpine Menu”
12:30pm Magic of Floral Painting: “Chrysanthemums”
1:00pm Housewarming with Charlie Wang: “The Frame and the Envelope of the House”
1:30pm Woodwright’s Shop: “Woodwright at Sea”
2:00pm Nova: “Signs of the Apes, Songs of the Whales”
3:00pm Nature: “Forest in the Sea”
4:00pm American Story: “Declaring Independence”
4:30pm American Story: “Colonials and Redcoats”
5:00pm Matinee at the Bijou
6:30pm This Old House
7:00pm Dinner at Julia’s: “The Salmon Show”
7:30pm Cinema Showcase
8:00pm Jacksonville and All That Jazz
10:00pm Sneak Previews
10:30pm Cinema Classics: “Dark Victory” (1939) w/ Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart
12:30am Sign off

WGN-TV Channel 9 (Independent)-Chicago, Illinois
Saturday 10/15/1983
5:00am Sign on
5:05am Sergeant Bilko/ The Phil Silvers Show
5:30am Dennis the Menace
6:00am Cartoons
6:15am Buyer’s Forum
6:30am Three Score-Community Calendar
6:45am Cartoons
7:00am U.S. Farm Report
7:30am The World Tomorrow
8:00am Rex Humbard
8:30am Issues Unlimited
9:00am Charlando (Spanish language public affairs program)
9:30am The Incredible Hulk
10:30am Kung Fu
11:30am Saturday Matinee: “Chief Crazy Horse” (1955) w/ Victor Mature, Suzan Ball, Ray Danton
1:30pm Weekend Matinee: “Pardon My Sarong” (1942) with Abbott & Costello, Robert Paige, Virginia Bruce, Lionel Atwill, William Demarest
3:00pm America’s Top Ten
3:30pm Soul Train
4:30pm Good Times
5:00pm Welcome Back, Kotter
5:30pm Little House on the Prairie
6:30pm Solid Gold
7:00pm Saturday Night Movie: “California Split” (1974) w/ George Segal, Elliott Gould, Jeff Goldblum
9:00pm The Nine O’Clock News (Robert Jordan, Larry Roderick, Jim Ramsey-weather, Sid Garcia-sports)
10:00pm The Twilight Zone
10:30pm WGN Television Presents: “Hellfighters” (1969) w/ John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton, Vera Miles
1:00am Gerry Faust
2:00am Solid Gold
3:00am INN News
3:30am From the Editor’s Desk
4:00am The Late Movie: “The Web” (1947) w/ Edmond O’Brien, Vincent Price, Ella Raines, William Bendix (until 6:00am)

KPLR-TV Channel 11 (Independent)
Saturday 10/15/1983
5:25am Sign on
5:30am U.S. Farm Report
6:00am Newswatch
6:30am The Lone Ranger
7:00am Superman
7:30am Gilligan’s Island
8:00am Matinee Movie: “Annie Oakley” (1935) w/ Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Melvyn Douglas, Andy Clyde
10:00am Tarzan Theatre: “Tarzan’s Desert Mystery” (1943) w/ Johnny Weissmuller, Nancy Kelly
11:30am Saturday Movie One: “The Creature Walks Among Us” (1956) w/ Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason
1:00pm Saturday Movie Two: “Ma and Pa Kettle at Home” (1954) w/ Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Alan Mowbray, Mary Wickes, Brett Halsey
2:45pm Saturday Movie Three: “The Time Machine” (1960) w/ Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, Alan Young, Sebastian Cabot
5:00pm Solid Gold
6:00pm Fame
7:00pm Hee Haw
8:00pm Star Search
9:00pm That Good Ole Nashville Music
9:30pm Newswatch (Dave Eckert, Dennis Edwards)
10:00pm WKRP in Cincinnati
10:30pm Saturday Night Shocker: “Latitude Zero” (1970) w/ Joseph Cotton, Cesar Romero, Patricia Medina, Richard Jaeckel
12:00am The Three Stooges (A tradition on Saturday nights since about 1977 and begun anew last year)
2:00am The Last Picture Show: “Khartoum” (1966) w/ Charlton Heston, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Richard Johnson, Sir Ralph Richardson
4:30am Sign off

WTBS-TV Channel 17 (Independent)-Atlanta, Georgia
Saturday 10/15/1983
5:00am CNN Headline News
6:00am Between the Lines
6:30am Romper Room
7:00am Starcade
7:30am TBS Western Theatre: “This Savage Land” (1968) w/Barry Sullivan, Glenn Corbett
9:30am Superstation Matinee: “Tripoli” (1950) w/ Maureen O’Hara, John Payne
11:30am TBS Theatre: “Legend of the Lost” (1957) w/ John Wayne, Sophia Loren
1:45pm Movie: “The Black Whip” (1956) w/ Hugh Marlowe, Colleen Gray
3:30pm The High Chaparral
4:30pm Motorweek Illustrated
5:15pm Georgia Championship Wrestling
7:00pm NCAA Football: Baylor vs. Texas A&M
10:15pm A Finite World: “China”
10:45pm Night Tracks
11:50pm Night Tracks
12:00am Night Tracks
1:00am Night Tracks
2:00am Night Tracks
3:00am Night Tracks (until 5:00am)

KNLC-TV Channel 24 (Religious Independent)
Saturday 10/15/1983
6:55am Sign on
7:00am Vegetable Soup
7:30am Superbook
8:00am Rin Tin Tin
8:30am Circle Square
9:00am Fury
9:30am Cartoon Festival
10:00am Bill Cosby (1969-72 TV show)
10:30am Pirate Adventures
11:00am Rainbow Country
11:30am Carroscolendas
12:00pm Puppet Tree Gang
12:30pm Movie: “Under Western Stars” (1938) w/ Roy Rogers
1:30pm George Burns and Gracie Allen
2:00pm Meet with Dale Evans
2:15pm Zorro
2:30pm Inside Track
3:00pm Up and Coming
3:30pm Geographical Special
4:00pm Shape-Up
4:30pm Athletes
5:00pm Movie: “High Point”
6:30pm Movie: “Intolerance” (1916) [silent] w/ Lillian Gish, Robert Harron
9:00pm Jack Van Impe
9:30pm Lester Sumrall
10:00pm Larry Rice
10:30pm Zola Levitt
11:00pm Insight
11:30pm News
12:00am Sign off

KDNL-TV Channel 30 (Independent)
Saturday 10/15/1983
5:00am TBA
5:30am CNN Headline News
6:00am KDNL Capital City Report
6:30am Time Out
7:00am Wall Street Journal Report
7:30am Wild Kingdom
8:00am Mizzou Football ‘83
8:30am Whitey Herzog
9:00am Community Views
9:30am Spectrum
10:00am The Big Valley
11:00am Star Trek
12:00pm Saturday Cinema I: “Tammy and the Doctor” (1963) w/ Sandra Dee, Peter Fonda
2:00pm Saturday Cinema II: “Hard Way to Die” (1981) w/ Billy Chong, Carl Scott
4:00pm Soul Train
5:00pm Battlestar Galactica
6:00pm Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
7:00pm Switch
8:00pm Saturday Night Movie: “Falling in Love Again” (1980) w/ Elliott Gould, Susannah York, Michelle Pfieffer
10:00pm Wrestling
11:00pm Roller Derby
12:00am KDNL Late Movie: “Hard Way to Die” (1981) w/ Billy Chong, Carl Scott (repeat showing of 2:00pm movie)
2:00am KDNL Late Movie: “Tammy and the Doctor” (1963) w/ Sandra Dee, Peter Fonda (repeat showing of noon movie)
4:00am KDNL Late Movie: “A Town Called Hell” (1972) w/ Robert Shaw, Telly Savalas, Stella Stevens, Martin Landau (until 6:00am)

As always feel free to comment on anything that I might have missed. ;)
 
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