Chicago TV Flashback - July 1-2, 1988

WBBM channel 2 TV schedule for Friday, July 1, 1988

Morning

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5a - CBS News Nightwatch cont'd (1 hour)

6a - Business This Morning

6:30a - CBS Early Morning News with Faith Daniels and Charles Osgood

7a - CBS News This Morning with Kathleen Sullivan and Harry Smith (2 hours)

9a - The $25,000 Pyramid (Finale)

9:30a - Card Sharks

10a - The Price is Right (1 hour; 16th season finale)

11a - Photoplay

11:30a - Young and the Restless (1 hour)

Afternoon

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12:30p - Bold and the Beautiful

1p - As the World Turns (1 hour)

2p - Guiding Light (1 hour)

3p - Love Connection

3:30p - Superior Court

4p - The People's Court

4:30p - First Edition

5p - Channel 2 News at 5 (1 hour)

Evening

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6p - CBS Evening News with Dan Rather

6:30p - Entertainment Tonight

7p - Beauty and the Beast (1 hour)

8p - CBS Friday Night Movie: Camille (2 hours)

10p - Channel 2: The 10 O'Clock News

10:30p - CBS Late Movie: Death of a Soldier (2 hours)

12:30a - Channel 2: The 10 O'Clock News (Rebroadcast)

Early Saturday, July 2, 1988

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1a - Entertainment Tonight

1:30a - Fan Club

2a - The Late Show: The Best of the Safecrackers (2 hours)

4a - The Late Show: Ode to a Dying Love (2 hours)

After 15 years of being on daytime television on both CBS and ABC as The $10,000 Pyramid and The $20,000 Pyramid respectively, The $25,000 Pyramid signs off for the last time. Everyone from Rob Reiner, Judy Carne, Frank Gifford, Anson Williams, Robert Mandan, Michael J. Fox, and a giant parade of celebrities leading the contestants to winning a fortune in cash by guessing 6 subjects in 60 seconds or less. The most notable moment was Billy Crystal went up the pyramid in a record-setting time of 24 seconds on December 2, 1977. A record that still stands to this very day. The $100,000 Pyramid still be seen in syndication until the September 2, 1988 finale. Staring Monday, July 4th, the 2nd incarnation of Family Feud with Ray Combs as the new host takes over Pyramid's time slot.

The Price is Right ends its 16th year on daytime television by testing out its computerized on-screen chyron graphics. This practice would be used full-time in 1996 during its final few months of the show's 24th year.

My Life - July 16, 2026

Hey y'all, what's going on?

It's been a month since my last post, but I'm just happy the World Cup circus coming to an end this weekend and the USMNT got themselves eliminated by Belgium 4-1. Why? It's because a felonious president made FIFA overturn the suspension of one of its players. That, right there, is corruption, and that's what happens when you interfere in FIFA's business to overturn a suspension or a penalty.

As I'm writing this entry, it's been a year since leaving Bluesky and ended 19 years of being on social media. No matter which social media platform you're on, you see a lot of people who are toxic, ignorant, racist, and controlling. I'm referring those who are fans of politics, wrestling, and sports where they cyberbully others and get rewarded by the them, the aggressors, by mocking those with a disability, or those who are struggling with mental health. And the screenshots I uploaded to this blog one year ago goes to show you that social media platform owners, like Bluesky, tolerate these things and letting these events happen.

If I were to give the summer season on a scale of 1 to 10, I'd give it a -30. Too many severe storms, prolonged heat waves, meteorologists on television breaking their promises and lie to the viewers saying that the extreme heat warning or the air quality alert extends until midnight the next day to grab ahold of their ego.

Guess I'll end here...

My Life - June 19, 2026

Hey y'all, what's going on?

It's been a little over a month since my last entry, but he had some severe weather and tornadoes rolled through south of me last week where it hit Streator, Illinois with not one, but 2 tornadoes. In all, some 19 tornadoes were confirmed and some of them were wedge tornadoes. And there were some that touched down in Indiana. Thankfully, all we had that day was rain, some wind and a few flashes of lightning. Yesterday, Chicago escaped that severe weather when it was a moderate 4 risk south of I-80, because we had rain for that afternoon and that was that.

I catch some of the highlights of the Obama Presidential Center for both days and the opening festivities and speeches from both Michelle and Barack Obama were awe-inspiring. Three other ex-presidents and their first ladies were there as well, including George W. Bush. I didn't even care for the World Cup tournament, because just like the UFC, it's too political driven for and it's too political driven for this country. If the United states Men's team choke in the knockout round, I would be very happy for that team to choke.

From the way I see it, Trump, Vance and his assclown administration failed in getting the job done, failed in upholding the constitution, failed to protect us from enemies abroad, and failed to live up to their promises.

Guess I'll end here...

Chicago TV Flashback - May 8, 1975

WLS channel 7 TV schedule for Thursday, May 8, 1975

Morning

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6:30a - Perspectives

6:55a - Earl Nightingale

7a - AM America (2 hours)

9a - Steve Edwards' AM Chicago (1 hr, 30 min)

10:30a - Blankety Blanks

11a - Password

11:30a - Split Second

Afternoon

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Noon - All My Children

12:30p - Let's Make a Deal

1p - The $10,000 Pyramid

1:30p - Big Showdown

2p - General Hospital

2:30p - One Life to Live

3p - Money Maze

3:30p - The 3:30 Movie: The Cardinal (1 hr, 30 min; Part 1)

5p - Eyewitness News at 5

5:30p - ABC Evening News with Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner

Evening

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6p - Eyewitness News at 6 (1 hour)

7p - Barney Miller

7:30p - Karen

8p - Streets of San Francisco (1 hour)

9p - Harry O (1 hour)

10p - Eyewitness News at 10

10:30p - Wide World Special (1 hr, 30 min)

Midnight - Late Night Movie: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1 hr, 45 min)

It was a wild and crazy game of Split Second where 4-time champion Marvin Shinkman trying to win any car on his 5th and last day against Shari Jensen and Valiant Stahl. The first 2 rounds ran smoothly until the Countdown Round where Valiant needed only 3 answers to become the new champion, Shari needs 4 to win, and Marvin must answer all 5 to join the elite list of players who retire undefeated after 5 days. Without a shadow of a doubt, Marvin nail down the final 2 answers that deals with months before October 10th. The studio audience at Hollywood's ABC Television Center erupted when he won his 5th and final game. As far as the question goes, the answers were February 10th (8 months), April 10th (6 months) and July 10th (3 months).

Shari Jensen won $265 and a Broyhill sofa, Valiant was one answer away from the championship, but he gets $330 and a Lear Jet car stereo along with the Gillette Max Hatter hair dryer and flatware by Washington Forge. On Split Second, if a player wins 5 times, get to pick any of the 5 cars after choosing the wrong one for the past 4 days. Marvin Shinkman has officially joined the elite list of undefeated champions, since its March 20, 1972 inception, to retire undefeated after 5 shows has won $1,570 cash, along with the $1,430 in prizes for any Singleton answer he got, the $3,000 jackpot and the 1975 Pontiac Le Mans Safari station wagon for a grad total of $12,268. He wanted to take the Grand Prix, but Tom Kennedy, jokingly said he'd "bet a million dollars." Three new players will be ushered in to close out this awesome week.

Chicago TV Flashback - May 6-7, 1978

WLS channel 7 TV schedule for Saturday, May 6, 1978

Morning

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7a - The All-New Super Friends Hour (1 hour)

8a - Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics (2 hours)

10a - Krofft Supershow (1 hour)

11a - ABC Weekend Special

11:30a - American Bandstand (1 hour)

Afternoon

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12:30p - Black on Black

1p - Feminine Franchise

1:30p - ABC Sports Golf: Third round of the Byron Nelson Classic (1 hr, 30 min)

3p - Wide World of Sports (1 hour)

4p - ABC Sports Horse Racing: The 104th Running of the Kentucky Derby (1 hour)

5p - Wide World of Sports

5:30p - ABC Saturday News

Evening

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6p - Eyewitness Chicago

6:30p - Hollywood Squares

7p - Mel & Susan Together

7:30p - Operation Petticoat (2nd-to-last show of the 1st season)

8p - The Love Boat (1 hour)

9p - Fantasy Island (1 hour)

10p - Eyewitness News at 10

10:15p - ABC Saturday News

10:30p - Saturday Night Movie: The Andromeda Strain (2 hrs, 40 min)

Early Sunday, May 7, 1978

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1:10a - Late Night Movie: The Night Walker (1 hr, 50 min)

Affirmed wins the 104th running of the Kentucky Derby followed by Alydar came in 2nd and Believe It finishes 3rd.

Chicago TV Flashback - May 29, 1975

WSNS channel 44 TV schedule for Thursday, May 29, 1975

Morning

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10:30a - 700 Club (1 hr, 30 min)

Afternoon

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Noon - Mundo Hispano (1 hour)

1p - Not for Women Only

1:30p - It's Your Bet

2p - Adventures of Robin Hood

2:30p - Prince Planet

3p - Popeye with Steve Hart

3:30p - Iron Man

4p - Spider-Man

4:30p - The Adventures of Superman

5p - The Adventures of Superman

5:30p - Leave It to Beaver

Evening

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6p - Get Smart

6:30p - Gomer Pyle, USMC

7p - Movie: You Were Meant for Me (2 hours)

9p - Big Valley (1 hour)

10p - Peter Gunn

10:30p - International Detective

11p - 700 Club (1 hr, 30 min)

Chicago TV Flashback - May 17-18, 1986

WMAQ channel 5 TV schedule for Saturday, May 17, 1986

Morning

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6a - Hickory Hideout

6:30a - New Zoo Revue

7a - Snorks

7:30a - Adventures of the Gummi Bears

8a - Smurfs (1 hr, 30 min)

9:30a - Punky Brewster

10a - Alvin and the Chipmunks

10:30a - Kidd Video

11a - Mister T

11:30a - Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends

Afternoon

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Noon - NBC Sports Baseball: Kansas City Royals v. White Sox at Comsikey Park (3 hours)

3p - NBC Sports Baseball: New York Mets v. Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium or St. Louis Cardinals v. Atlanta Braves at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium (3 hours)

Evening

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6p - Warner

6:30p - Fight Back! with David Horowitz

7p - Gimme a Break!

7:30p - Facts of Life

8p - Golden Girls

8:30p - 227

9p - Remington Steele (1 hour)

10p - Channel 5 News at 10

10:30p - Saturday Night Live (1 hr, 30 min)

Midnight - Entertainment This Week (1 hour)

Early Sunday, May 18, 1986

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1a - Movie 5: Indiscretion of an American Wife (1 hr, 30 min)

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Chicago TV Flashback - August 30-31, 1990

WGN channel 9 TV schedule for Thursday, August 30, 1990

Morning

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5a - Soap

5:30a - Faith 20

6a - Fantasy Island (1 hour)

7a - The Bozo Show (1 hour)

8a - Bugs Bunny and Friends (Finale)

8:30a - Leave It to Beaver

9a - Dukes of Hazzard (1 hour)

10a - Geraldo (1 hour)

11a - WGN Midday News (1 hour)

Afternoon

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Noon - White Sox Pre-Game

12:15p - Baseball: White Sox v. Minnesota Twins at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome (3 hrs, 15 min)

3:30p - DuckTales

4p - Chip 'n Dale's Rescue Rangers

4:30p - Fun House

5p - The Jeffersons

5:30p - WKRP in Cincinnati

Evening

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6p - Andy Griffith Show

6:30p - Benson

7p - Baseball: Cincinnati Reds v. Cubs at Wrigley Field (3 hours)

10p - Nine O'Clock News

10:30p - Magnum, P.I. (1 hour)

11:30p - WGN Presents: Crooks and Coronets (2 hours)

Early Friday, August 31, 1990

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1:30a - Tales from the Darkside

2a - Commercial Programs (1 hour)

3a - The Late Movie: Mary, Mary (2 hrs, 30 min)

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The official winning numbers in the Illinois State Lottery's Daily Game and Pick 4 were 8-2-1 and 8-1-9-5

Bugs Bunny and Friends ends its successful run as a daytime cartoon show on channel 9. Smurfs' Adventures replaces Bugs Bunny and Friends to close out the month of August.

Bush Sets New Goals For Space Program - July 1989

In an address in Washington, D.C., July 20, commemorating the 20th anniversary of the landing of 2 U.S. astronauts on the moon, Pres. George Bush called for a new national commitment in space. Saying he wanted to establish the United States as "the pre-eminent spacefaring nation," Bush advocated an orbiting space station, a manned base on the moon, and a manned mission to Mars. It was estimated that these ventures would cost several hundred billion dollars.

Bush Bars Import of Assault Rifles - March 1989

In the wake of the killing of 5 California schoolchildren in January, opposition of assault rifles continued to grow. The California Senate, March 9, and the Assembly, March 13, passed differing versionsof a bill barring the sale, possession, or manufacture of semiautomatic assault weapons. In a reversal of policy, the Bush administration March 14, banned imports of semiautomatic assault rifles indefinetly. Law enforcement officials said that such weapons were preferred by drug dealers. The Soviet AK-47 and the Israeli Uzi were 2 well-known makes affected by the ban. U.S.-manufactured weapons of that type were not affected by the ban.