What Was On TV When
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Canadian viewers:
For a look at what was on TV in the Great White North when "Rugrats" started in the US in 1991 and in Canada in 1994, click here. |
(Above: Rugrats and other shows scheduled for August 11, 1991, from the New York Times "Television" magazine; image from microfilm. © 1991 New York Times Company.)
And now, here's a look at the shows, channels and events that lit up the
screens the week Rugrats first went on the air in August 1991.
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(Above: 1991 Ad from Sound Advice, |
Ratings
The top 10 TV shows for the week ending 8/4/1991, according to Nielsen:
1. Roseanne, ABC Among other notable shows:
13. Full House (ABC) And now, the bottom 10 shows for that week. Remember these?
75. Verdict (CBS) |
Above: Fox network ad for Parker Lewis Can't Lose, from
the Western Illinois edition of the 8/10/1991 issue of TV Guide.
The second season opener of Parker Lewis was on the same day as the
start of Rugrats on Nickelodeon (this was at a time when Fox started
most of their new shows in August, rather than September or October).
Also, Melanie Chartoff was a busy actress on TV at the time -- in addition
to being the voice of Didi on Rugrats, she was also school principal
Ms. Musso on Parker Lewis. And if you wanted to catch her on both
shows that night, no problem -- Parker Lewis was on at 7:30PM ET,
while the repeat of the Rugrats' debut was at 8:30PM ET. In case you're
wondering -- on that night's episode, the students and their parents participate
in a toaster-building contest.
© 1991 Fox Broadcasting Company; TV Guide provided
by TV Guide
Specialists.
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Nickelodeon in 1991Here is Nickelodeon's schedule for the week of August 10, 1991; all times ET. * indicates a special showing; beginning 8/18/1991; all 3 Nicktoons would only have one showing each a week, on Sunday mornings. Normally, what's seen on Nick-At-Nite Saturday nights would also be seen Sunday nights. Left: Examples of some of the original programming that appeared on Nickelodeon in 1991 -- Make The Grade, Kids' Court and Family Double Dare. All of these shows were taped at Nickelodeon Studios at Universal Studios Florida (now Universal Orlando). Universal Studios Florida opened in 1989, while Nick Studios opened a year later, in 1990. (From a sign that introduced visitors to Nick Studios, sold on eBay; ©1990 Viacom.) |
| Saturday | Sunday | Weekdays | |
| 6AM | Lassie | ||
| 6:30AM | Littl' Bits | Kidsworld | |
| 7AM | Eureeka's Castle | Mr. Wizard's World | |
| 7:30AM | Kid's Court | Yogi Bear | |
| 8AM | Cound Duckula | Inspector Gadget | |
| 8:30AM | Heathcliff | ||
| 9AM | Inspector Gadget | Cartoon Kablooey | Lassie |
| 9:30AM | Inspector Gadget | Maya The Bee | |
| 10AM | Yogi Bear | Doug | Eureeka's Castle |
| 10:30AM | Rugrats | ||
| 11AM | Out Of Control | Ren & Stimpy |
The Elephant Show (Sharon, Lois & Bram) |
| 11:30AM | SK8TV | Salute Your Shorts | Fred Penner's Place |
| 12 Noon |
Dennis The Menace (1960's sitcom) |
Wild & Crazy Kids | David The Gnome |
| 12:30PM | Clarissa Explains It All | The Little Koala | |
| 1PM | Lassie | Fifteen | Noozles |
| 1:30PM | Flipper | Welcome Freshmen | Maya The Bee |
| 2PM |
Special Delivery: "Manxmouse" |
Special Delivery: "Adventures Of Tom Sawyer" |
Littl' Bits |
| 2:30PM | Lassie | ||
| 3PM |
Special Delivery: "Drawing A Blank" |
Flipper | |
| 3:30PM |
Special Delivery: "The Tin Soldier" |
Special Delivery: "Pardon Me For Living" |
Looney Tunes |
| 4PM | You Can't Do That On Television | Heathcliff | |
| 4:30PM | Make The Grade | Yogi Bear | |
| 5PM | Family Double Dare | Mork & Mindy | |
| 5:30PM | Salute Your Shorts | Fifteen | Hey Dude |
| 6PM | Wild & Crazy Kids | ||
| 6:30PM | Welcome Freshman | Clarissa Explains It All | Get The Picture |
| 7PM | Inspector Gadget | ||
| 7:30PM | Looney Tunes | ||
| 8PM | Looney Tunes | Doug* | Mork & Mindy |
| 8:30PM | Bewitched | Rugrats* | Bewitched |
| 9PM | Donna Reed | Ren & Stimpy* | Get Smart |
| 9:30PM | Mister Ed | Dragnet (' 67 - ' 70) | |
| 10PM | My Three Sons | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | |
| 10:30PM | The Patty Duke Show | Green Acres | |
| 11PM | Dobie Gillis |
Hi Honey, I'm Home (repeat of latest ABC episode) |
The Best of Saturday Night Live |
| 11:30PM | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Mister Ed | |
| 12 Mid | Bewitched | Looney Tunes | |
| 12:30AM | Green Acres | Dobie Gillis | |
| 1AM | The Best Of Saturday Night Live | The Patty Duke Show | |
| 1:30AM | America 2 Night (Fernwood 2 Night) | My Three Sons | |
| 2AM | Dragnet (' 67 - ' 70) | Infomercials |
Donna Reed (except Wednesday: Infomercial) |
| 2:30AM | Donna Reed |
America 2 Night (Fernwood 2 Night) |
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| 3AM | Mister Ed | Mork & Mindy | |
| 3:30AM | My Three Sons | Get Smart | |
| 4AM | The Patty Duke Show | Dragnet (' 67 - ' 70) | |
| 4:30AM | Dobie Gillis | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | |
| 5AM | America 2 Night (Fernwood 2 Night) | Mister Ed | |
| 5:30AM | Dragnet (' 67 - ' 70) | Dobie Gillis | |
In January 1990, the FCC passed a law requiring cable systems to black out programming, mainly newer shows, on out-of-market stations. This rule is called the Syndication Exclusivity rule, or "Syndex". In addition to affecting stations from nearby markets, it also affected satellite-delivered "superstations"; the most popular ones were (W)TBS from Atlanta, WGN from Chicago and (W)WOR from New York. TBS already buys only older programming, so there was no problem. As for WGN and WOR, they face being blacked out by the cable systems; this means shows like Perfect Strangers, Arsenio Hall, or even Neighbours, would be replaced on the local level with local programming, infomercials, reminder text, or even a black screen. To remedy this, the national distributors of WGN and WOR (not the stations themselves, though WGN would take over the national signal later) provided a special version for their stations' viewers outside of the Chicago (WGN) and New York (WOR) markets. A lot of purists at the time (me included) thought that they were being too cheap in their selection of programming, but in the days before TV Land, the national versions were, more or less, TV heaven -- at the time, WOR's schedule was peppered mainly with rarely-seen sitcoms, dramas and films, most of these from the backstock of Universal, WOR's owner at the time; while at WGN, they also relied on classic TV shows as fillers, though a real treat to some were Republic B-movies that were seen some evenings and late-nights.
Here are some examples of WOR & WGN's schedules the week of 8/11/1991:
Here are both the New York and national WOR schedules for the week of 8/11/1991.
The national version was discontinued at the end of 1996; it was not replaced
with the local version (unless you had a big C-Band dish, where another
distributor offered the local version until 1999, when they replaced it with
Pax TV). All times ET.
| Sunday | Weekdays | Saturday | ||||||
| New Yorkers saw... | The rest of us saw... | New Yorkers saw... | The rest of us saw... | New Yorkers saw... | The rest of us saw... | |||
| 6:30AM | Hispanic Horizons | Mighty Mouse | Infomercials | Infomercials | ||||
| 7AM | Point Of View | The Jetsons | ||||||
| 7:30AM | Sunday Mass | Merrie Melodies | Children's Room | |||||
| 8AM | Silver Spoons | Bugs Bunny & Daffy Duck | ||||||
| 8:30AM | Bugs Bunny & Daffy Duck | Infomercials | Video Power | Today's Monitor | ||||
| 9AM | Superman (1950's TV series) | |||||||
| 9:30AM | Widget | |||||||
| 10AM | Steampipe Alley | Silver Spoons | ||||||
| 10:30AM | It's A Living | |||||||
| 11AM | My Secret Identity | Infomercials | 9 Broadcast Plaza | Golf Show | Infomercials | |||
| 11:30AM | The Munsters Today | Dracula | ||||||
| 12 Noon | Out Of This World | Cinemattractions | News | Superboy | Switch | |||
| 12:30PM | The New Lassie | Outdoor Trails | Super Force | |||||
| 1PM |
Movie: "Perry Mason -- The Case of the Lady in the Lake" |
Bonanza | Superman (1950's TV series) | |||||
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| 2PM | Magnum PI* | New Adam 12 | It Takes A Thief | |||||
| 2:30PM | New Dragnet | |||||||
| 3PM |
Movie: "Portrait Of A Hit Man" |
Movie: The Man On The Eiffel Tower" |
Hawaii Five-O* | Airwolf | ||||
| 3:30PM | ||||||||
| 4PM | Hart To Hart* |
They Came From Outer Space |
Run For Your Life | |||||
| 4:30PM | ||||||||
| 5PM | Knight Rider | Neighbours* | Ironside* | Knight Rider | ||||
| 5:30PM | 227* | |||||||
| 6PM | The A-Team | The Cosby Show | Elvis Presley's Graceland | The A-Team | ||||
| 6:30PM | Who's The Boss? | |||||||
| 7PM | Movie: "Summer of '42" | Kate And Allie | Baseball: NY Mets vs. Pittsburgh Pirates | |||||
| 7:30PM | Perfect Strangers | Comedy Wheel** | ||||||
| 8PM | Various (see below)* | Quincy*/# | ||||||
| 8:30PM | ||||||||
| 9PM |
Party Machine with Nia Peeples |
It Takes A Thief | Kojak*/# | |||||
| 9:30PM | ||||||||
| 10PM | News | News | News | |||||
| 10:30PM | Taxi | Newsworthy | ||||||
| 11PM | Arsenio Hall | Infomercials | Amen | Switch | Howard Stern | |||
| 11:30PM | Arsenio Hall | |||||||
| 12 Mid |
Infomercials / Home Shopping (to 6:30AM in New York, 7:30AM elsewhere) |
It Takes A Thief | Spotlight Cafe | |||||
| 12:30AM |
Party Machine with Nia Peeples |
Infomercials (to 6:30AM) |
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| 1AM | Johnny B. On The Loose | Comedy Tonight | ||||||
| 1:30AM | Joe Franklin | |||||||
| 2AM |
Infomercials / Home
Shopping (Weekdays: to 6:30AM in New York, 7:30AM elsewhere; Friday: to 11AM in New York, Noon elsewhere) |
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Primetime In New York:
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
| 8PM | Dangerous Women | Kiner's Korner | Dangerous Women |
Movie: The Return of Frank Cannon |
Movie: The Return of Marcus Welby, MD |
| 9PM | National Geographic | (8:30) Baseball | Shades of LA |
* -- Pre-empted on both versions for Mets Baseball; 8/12 vs. Chicago Cubs at 2PM, followed by "Kiner's Korner" at around 5PM; and 8/13 vs. St.Louis Cardinals (starting with Kiner's Korner at 8PM). On 8/12 at 5:30PM, 227 is seen in New York, while the rest of the nation gets Bachelor Father. On 8/13, news is seen at 11:30PM on both versions; in New York, this is followed by Arsenio, Party Machine and Johnny B., with no Joe Franklin; elsewhere, the normal schedule is seen, with Twilight Zone replacing Joe Franklin at 1:30AM.
** -- Comedy Wheel featured sitcoms that lasted on network TV for only a season or less, never before reran on cable or syndication. Unlike a true "wheel", which shows a different series each day, Comedy Wheel shows one series everyday, then moves on to the next series after the run is finished.
# -- Pre-empted for movies; see "Primetime In New York".
Here is the national WGN schedule for the week of 8/11/1991.
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | |
| 6AM | One Day At The Time | The World Tomorrow | One Day At A Time | One Day At A Time | The World Tomorrow | One Day At A Time | Trapper John, MD |
| 6:30AM | Faith 20 | ||||||
| 7AM | Oral Roberts | Robert Tilton | Larry Jones | ||||
| 7:30AM | Robert Schuller | The World Tomorrow | |||||
| 8AM |
Chicago's Very Own (:15) What's Nu? |
Banana Splits | US Farm Report | ||||
| 8:30AM | Heritage Of Faith | The Bozo Show | People To People | ||||
| 9AM | Mass For Shut-Ins | Charlando | |||||
| 9:30AM | Anglers In Action | Chip n' Dale's Rescue Rangers | Cooky's Cartoon Club | Chip n' Dale's Rescue Rangers | Chip n' Dale's Rescue Rangers | M.A.S.K. | The Heart Of Chicago |
| 10AM | Star Search | Trapper John MD | Minority Business Report | ||||
| 10:30AM | Infomercial | ||||||
| 11AM |
Movie: Gunfight At Comanche Creek |
The Joan Rivers Show | WCW Wrestling | ||||
| 11:30AM | |||||||
| 12 Noon | Geraldo | Soul Train | |||||
| 12:30PM | |||||||
| 1PM | This Week In Baseball | News | 21 Jump Street | ||||
| 1:30PM |
Baseball: White Sox vs. Baltimore Orioles |
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| 2PM |
Baseball: Cubs vs. New York Mets |
The Dick Van Dyke Show |
Baseball: Cubs vs. Montreal Expos |
Baseball: Cubs vs. Montreal Expos |
The Dick Van Dyke Show |
Baseball: Cubs vs. Philadelphia Phillies |
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| 2:30PM | Gidget | Gidget | |||||
| 3PM | One Day At A Time |
Baseball: Cubs vs. Philadelphia Phillies |
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| 3:30PM | Leave It To Beaver | ||||||
| 4PM | The Flintstones | ||||||
| 4:30PM | Charlie's Angels | DuckTales | |||||
| 5PM | Chip n' Dale's Rescue Rangers | ||||||
| 5:30PM |
Movie: Last Crooked Mile |
M.A.S.K. | Twilight Zone | ||||
| 6PM | The Andy Griffith Show | Super Force | |||||
| 6:30PM | I Dream Of Jeannie | Hangin' In | |||||
| 7PM |
Movie: Voodoo Man |
Night Court | $100,000 Fortune Hunt | ||||
| 7:30PM | The Andy Griffith Show |
Baseball: White Sox vs. Detroit Tigers |
Baseball: White Sox vs. NY Yankees |
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| 8PM |
Movie: California Firebrand |
Baseball: Cubs vs. Montreal Expos |
The Elvis Files | ||||
| 8:30PM |
Movie: Murder In The Music Hall |
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| 9PM |
Movie: Buckaroo, Sheriff of Texas |
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| 9:30PM | |||||||
| 10PM | News | News | News | ||||
| 10:30PM |
Instant Replay (10:45) |
News | |||||
| 11PM | Monsters | Twilight Zone | News | Twilight Zone | |||
| 11:30PM | Riker | Magnum PI |
Movie: Redwood Forest Trail |
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| 12 Mid | |||||||
| 12:30AM |
Movie: The Healers |
Movie: The Kidnapping Of The President |
Movie: Scarecrow |
Movie: Blonde Bandit |
Movie: Affairs of Geraldine |
Movie: Ghost Story |
Movie: Bordertown Trail |
| 1AM | |||||||
| 1:30AM |
Movie: Girl In Room 13 |
Movie: Pardon My Stripes |
Twilight Zone | ||||
| 2AM | Super Force | ||||||
| 2:30AM | Tales From The Darkside | Infomercials | Monsters | ||||
| 3AM | Trapper John MD | The Facts Of Life | Infomercial | ||||
| 3:30AM | Soap | Runaway With The Rich & Famous | |||||
| 4PM |
Movie: Where The Buffalo Roam |
Movie: A Covenant With Death |
Movie: Eddie Macon's Run |
Movie: Flight At Midnight |
The Elvis Files |
Movie: Good Times |
Movie: Rich & Famous |
| 4:30AM | |||||||
| 5AM |
Movie: Slippy McGee |
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| 5:30AM | |||||||
For comparison, here's what Chicagolanders saw on WGN the week of 8/11/1991. Chicago is in the Central Time Zone, but for convenience, I adjusted the times for Eastern Time.
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | |
| 6AM | One Day At The Time | The World Tomorrow | One Day At A Time | One Day At A Time | The World Tomorrow | One Day At A Time | Trapper John, MD |
| 6:30AM | Faith 20 | ||||||
| 7AM | Oral Roberts | Fantasy Island | Larry Jones | ||||
| 7:30AM | Robert Schuller | The World Tomorrow | |||||
| 8AM |
Chicago's Very Own (:15) What's Nu? |
Wake, Rattle & Roll | US Farm Report | ||||
| 8:30AM | Heritage Of Faith | The Bozo Show | People To People | ||||
| 9AM | Mass For Shut-Ins | Charlando | |||||
| 9:30AM | Anglers In Action | Chip n' Dale's Rescue Rangers | Cooky's Cartoon Club | Chip n' Dale's Rescue Rangers | Chip n' Dale's Rescue Rangers | Tale Spin | The Heart Of Chicago |
| 10AM | Star Search | Trapper John MD | Minority Business Report | ||||
| 10:30AM | Infomercial | ||||||
| 11AM |
Movie: Gunfight At Comanche Creek |
The Joan Rivers Show | WCW Wrestling | ||||
| 11:30AM | |||||||
| 12 Noon | Geraldo | Soul Train | |||||
| 12:30PM | |||||||
| 1PM | This Week In Baseball | News | 21 Jump Street | ||||
| 1:30PM |
Baseball: White Sox vs. Baltimore Orioles |
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| 2PM |
Baseball: Cubs vs. New York Mets |
The Dick Van Dyke Show |
Baseball: Cubs vs. Montreal Expos |
Baseball: Cubs vs. Montreal Expos |
The Dick Van Dyke Show |
Baseball: Cubs vs. Philadelphia Phillies |
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| 2:30PM | The Jeffersons | The Jeffersons | |||||
| 3PM | One Day At A Time |
Baseball: Cubs vs. Philadelphia Phillies |
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| 3:30PM | Leave It To Beaver | ||||||
| 4PM | Gummi Bears | ||||||
| 4:30PM | Charlie's Angels | DuckTales | |||||
| 5PM | Chip n' Dale's Rescue Rangers | ||||||
| 5:30PM |
Movie: Micki & Maude |
Tale Spin | Twilight Zone | ||||
| 6PM | The Andy Griffith Show | Super Force | |||||
| 6:30PM | WKRP in Cincinnati | ||||||
| 7PM | Night Court | $100,000 Fortune Hunt | |||||
| 7:30PM | The Andy Griffith Show |
Baseball: White Sox vs. Detroit Tigers |
Baseball: White Sox vs. NY Yankees |
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| 8PM |
Movie: Madame Sousatzka |
Movie: Purple Rain |
Baseball: Cubs vs. Montreal Expos |
The Elvis Files | |||
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| 9PM | |||||||
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| 10PM | News | News | News | ||||
| 10:30PM |
Instant Replay (10:45) |
News | |||||
| 11PM | Monsters | Twilight Zone | News | Twilight Zone | |||
| 11:30PM | St. Elsewhere | Magnum PI |
Movie: Man Against The Mob |
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| 12:30AM |
Movie: The Healers |
Movie: The Kidnapping Of The President |
Movie: Scarecrow |
Movie: Madame Sousatzka |
Movie: Saturn 3 |
Movie: Ghost Story |
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| 1:30AM | Twilight Zone | ||||||
| 2AM | Super Force | ||||||
| 2:30AM | Tales From The Darkside | Infomercials | Monsters | ||||
| 3AM | Trapper John MD | The Facts Of Life | Infomercial | ||||
| 3:30AM | Soap | Runaway With The Rich & Famous | |||||
| 4PM |
Movie: Where The Buffalo Roam |
Movie: A Covenant With Death |
Movie: Eddie Macon's Run |
Movie: ??? |
The Elvis Files |
Movie: Good Times |
Movie: Rich & Famous |
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At the time, all three of the big three -- ABC, NBC and CBS -- offered Saturday morning cartoons in their line-up. Fox was just getting their feet wet, while Nickelodeon had less-than-stellar repeats of shows such as Inspector Gadget and Yogi Bear.
Here are the Saturday morning schedules for ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox. All times
ET; some shows may have been delayed or pre-empted in your area at the
time.
| ABC | NBC | CBS | Fox | |
| 8AM | Winnie The Pooh | Camp Candy | Muppet Babies | Peter Pan & The Pirates |
| 8:30AM | The Wizard Of Oz |
Captain N and the Adventures of Super Mario Bros. |
Bobby's World | |
| 9AM |
Slimer! And The Real Ghostbusters |
Garfield And Friends | Tom & Jerry Kids | |
| 9:30AM |
Rick Moranis in Gravedale High |
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| 10AM | Beetlejuice | Kid N' Play |
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles |
Piggsburg Pigs! |
| 10:30AM |
A Pup Named Scooby Doo |
The Chipmunks Go to The Movies |
Attack Of The Killer Tomatoes | |
| 11AM |
The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show |
Saved By The Bell |
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures |
(Local Programming) |
| 11:30AM |
The Adventures of Raggedy Ann & Andy* |
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| 12 Noon | Little Rosey |
Saturday Videos (ran only a half-hour on some stations) |
Dink, The Little Dinosaur | |
| 12:30PM | New Kids On The Block | CBS Storybreak |
* -- Raggedy Ann & Andy was originally seen on on CBS from 1988 to 1990, but starting 7/27/1991, reruns were brought in as a permanent (until the end of August) replacement for Pee Wee's Playhouse (see below).
... Trump Card? Multi-millionaire Donald Trump's ambitious game show, Trump Card, is in its final days of syndication after being cancelled earlier in the year, due to poor ratings. At this point, many stations either dropped the show, placed it in late night, or used it as schedule filler, often showing 2 back-to-back shows at irregular times.
... The Challengers? Also in its last weeks is this game show hosted by Dick Clark, which is based on the latest current events (not to mention an early 1970s game show, The Who What or Where Game).
... The Joker's Wild? This new version, hosted by Pat Finn, was also at the end of its syndication rope; by this time, not many stations carried it, with some stations scheduling it in late-night.
... Classic Concentration, Alex Trebek's last non-Jeopardy game show (and later, NBC's last daytime game show)?
... the last days of the daytime Wheel Of Fortune on NBC, after 16 years (and a brief stint on CBS)? Bob Goen was the last daytime host, with Vanna White turning the letters for two men.
... what happened to Pee Wee? Paul Reubens, the man well-known as "Pee Wee Herman", was arrested in Sarasota, FL for, shall we say, "overstaying his welcome" at an adult bookstore in Sarasota, FL. As a result, Pee Wee's Playhouse, already cancelled by CBS, but originally on the schedule until fall, was taken off the air immediately. (7/26/1991)
... when an issue of TV Guide was only 79 cents?
... when TV Guide, and many local papers, started publishing "VCR Plus" codes?
... when ESPN carried business programming on weekday mornings?
... when most regional sports channels were on only in the evenings?
... when wrestling started to be more for show than for sport on TV?
... when repeats of Hanna-Barbera cartoons were seen on USA Network's Cartoon Express?
... Hanna-Barbera's weekday morning program, Wake, Rattle and Roll?
... when the first "N" in "TNN" stood for "Nashville"?
... when, for 4 hours a day on weekdays, USA carried repeats of game shows like The $25,000 Pyramid, Hollywood Squares (with John Davidson as host), and, of course, Press Your Luck?
... The $100,000 Pyramid, hosted by John Davidson?
... when the current version of The Price Is Right turned 19 years old?
.. when TNT carried "The Good Stuff", such as classic Popeye and Bugs Bunny cartoons, NFL football, classic MGM films, and rarely-seen MGM series like Daktari and The Courtship of Eddie's Father?
... when TNT presented the Pan-American Games from Havana, Cuba?
... when The [Fox] Family Channel "Accentuated The Positive" with shows such as Batman, Bonanza, Wagon Train, Rin Tin Tin -- K-9 Cop, Bordertown, The Flying Nun, Beauty And The Beast, and of course, The 700 Club?
... when you would find repeats of Hogan's Heroes, The Brady Bunch, Andy Griffith, The Jeffersons, Mary Tyler Moore and All In The Family... on TBS?
... TBS's weekend music video block, Night Tracks?
... when Lifetime carried medical programming for medical personnel all day Sundays?
... when MTV, who recently celebrated its 10th anniversary, really meant "Music Television"?
... MTV's small non-music line-up, including Just Say Julie, Remote Control, 1/2-hour Comedy Hour, and of course, Liquid Television (where Beavis & Butthead got its start)?
... the two "Julie Browns" on MTV?
... Xuxa on Univision? This Brasilian female children's show host was a huge success in Latin America. In 1993, she tried to break into the anglophone market in the US & Canada with her own syndicated series (seen in Canada on YTV), but by fall 1994, due to poor ratings of her anglophone show, she disappeared from the US & Canada altogether.
... the last days of Romper Room in the US (with repeats from the 1981-82 season)?
... Captain Kangaroo on PBS?
... Zoobilee Zoo?
... when Roseanne, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Howie Mandel and Kid 'N Play all had their own Saturday morning cartoon series?
... when NBC carried Saturday morning cartoons?
... Super Mario Bros., the animated series on NBC, in syndication, and even on Univision?
... wrestler Captain Lou Albano as one of the Mario Bros. in the live-action bits (in the syndicated version only)?
... The Arsenio Hall Show, and its short-lived spinoff, Party Machine with Nia Peeples?
... The Ron Reagan Show?
... The Joan Rivers Show?
... The Byron Allen Show?
... The Phil Donahue Show?
... Geraldo?
... when "Galloping Gourmet" Graham Kerr made a comeback on television (on in the fall of 1990, he was off again a year later)?
... 1990s revivals of Dragnet, Adam-12 and The Munsters?
... the last days of new episodes of Hee Haw?
... when David Letterman followed Johnny Carson latenights on NBC?
... CBS's Crimetime After Prime-Time line-up?
... ABC's Into The Night, with Rick Dees?
... A Current Affair and Hard Copy?
... Family Feud with Ray Combs?
... ABC's The Home Show?
... two historical series, Instant Recall and Memories, Then And Now?
... sports bloopers on Roggin's Heroes?
... music videos and more on Night Flight?
... Superboy?
... Friday The 13th, the TV series?
... Cosby vs. Simpsons on Thursday nights?
... new sitcoms in syndication, such as Out Of This World, My Secret Identity, and What A Dummy?
... when Urkel, that klutzy nerd from Family Matters, had his own doll?
... when Dennis Miller, Phil Hartman, Jon Lovitz, Kevin Nealon, Victoria Jackson, Dana Carvey and Mike Myers were regulars on Saturday Night Live?
... a Disney animated series based on Gummi Bears?
... Sunday late-night infomercials on Nick-At-Nite and TBS?
... "commercial programs" for items such as Deal-A-Meal, Soloflex and Blueblocker Sunglasses, not to mention a myriad of real-estate and get-rich-quick scams?
... infomercials disguised as award shows, just to sell you "greatest hits" records?
... another Didi on television, "Didi Seven"?
Listing Sources:
1991 Nickelodeon & US Saturday Morning schedules, plus "Do You Remember": TV Guide (Western Illinois edition), 8/10/1991
WGN & WOR national schedules, plus "Do You Remember": St. Petersburg Times "TV Dial", 8/11/1991
WOR local schedule: New York Times "Television", 8/11/1991
WGN local schedule: Chicago Tribune "TV Week", 8/11/1991
1991 YTV and Canadian schedules: TV Guide (Hamilton & Region edition), 8/10/1991
TV Guides provided by TV Guide Specialists.
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