Chicago TV Flashback - July 13-14, 1988

WLS channel 7 TV schedule for Wednesday, July 13, 1988

Morning

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5:30a - 20 Minute Workout

6a - ABC News This Morning (1 hour)

7a - Good Morning America (2 hours)

9a - Oprah Winfrey Show (1 hour)

10a - Growing Pains

10:30a - Home

11a - Ryan's Hope

11:30a - Loving

Afternoon

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Noon - All My Children (1 hour)

1p - One Life to Live (1 hour)

2p - General Hospital (1 hour)

3p - Win, Lose or Draw

3:30p - Jeopardy!

4p - Eyewitness News at 4 (1 hour)

5p - Eyewitness News at 5

5:30p - World News Tonight with Peter Jennings

Evening

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6p - Eyewitness News at 6

6:30p - Wheel of Fortune

7p - Growing Pains

7:30p - Head of the Class

8p - Hooperman

8:30p - Slap Maxwell Story

9p - Spenser: For Hire (1 hour)

10p - Eyewitness News at 10

10:30p - Nightline with Ted Koppel

11p - Late Night Movie: Deadly Eyes (2 hours)

Early Thursday, July 14, 1988

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1a - Eyewitness News at 10 (Rebroadcast)

1:30a - Late Night Movie: Bunker Bean (1 hr, 30 min)

3a - Late Night Movie: Maid's Night Out (1 hr, 30 min)

4:30a - Oprah Winfrey Show (1 hour)

Chicago TV Flashback - September 16-17, 1983

WBBM channel 2 TV schedule for Friday, September 16, 1983

Morning

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5a - Hour Magazine (1 hour)

6a - Daybreak with Judi Moen

6:30a - CBS Morning News with Bill Kurtis & Diane Sawyer (2 hrs, 30 min)

9a - Donahue (1 hour)

10a - The New $25,000 Pyramid

10:30a - Child's Play (Finale)

11a - Tattletales

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

Afternoon

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12:30p - As the World Turns (1 hour)

1:30p - Capitol

2p - Guiding Light (1 hour)

3p - The Price is Right (1 hour)

4p - Barnaby Jones (1 hour)

5p - Channel 2 News at 5

5:30p - CBS Evening News with Dan Rather

Evening

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6p - Channel 2 News at 6 (1 hour)

7p - Dukes of Hazzard (1 hour)

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

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

10:30p - Goodbye to M*A*S*H

11p - Where Are They Now?

11:30p - CBS Late Movie: Sky Riders (2 hrs, 15 min)

Early Saturday, September 17, 1983

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1:45a - The Late Show: The Blue Knight (1 hr, 30 min)

3:15a - Common Ground (2 hrs, 15 min)

After only a year on CBS, Child's Play ended its run hosted by Bill Cullen and this was his last show he hosted for CBS. The opening featured all the kids who were on Child's Play from the past year were in attendance with their siblings and parents. The final 2 players in the finale were Pam who won $11,000 from the Turnabout bonus game a day earlier and her new challenger, Patricia. Patricia became the last ever champion as Pam leaves with $11,000.

Before the final Turnabout bonus game is played, a small tribute to Bill Cullen was profiled from the video interviews. On this final week of Child's Play, the kids for the bonus round were Debbie from California, Ronald from California, Sascha from New York, Juile Ann from California, and Cathy from New York. Patricia ended the show with a bang as she was the last person to win $5,000 with 11 seconds left and the kids on the panel shares $7,600 between them.

In the closing moments, Bill Cullen thanked the parents who let their kids be a part of Child's Play, including the staff who made it possible and the credits rolled as the kids who were on Child's Play were seen on camera one last time. 

The following Monday, September 19th, CBS debuts a new show Press Your Luck with Peter Tomarken who hosted Hit Man from January to April of 1983.

Baltic Crackdown Turns Violent - January 1991

Lithuanians and Latvians were killed as Soviet troops moved forcefully against the 2 Baltic republics. The Soviet defense ministry said, January 7, that it would send thousands of troops to 7 republics to seize draft dodgers and enforce conscription. Pres. Vytautas Landsbergis of Lithuania said the Kremlin was "looking for bloodshed," January 7, and on January 8, the Latvian parliament condemned the troop move as an "invasion" of the Baltic republics. Pres. Mikhail Gorbachev told Lithuania, January 10, that it must accepted Soviet central authority. In Lithuania on January 10, supporters of the Moscow government went on strike. Hundreds of unarmed supporters of independence surrounded communication facilities in Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, January 13. Soviet paratroopers fired on the people, some of whom were crushed by tanks. Fifteen people were killed and 140 were injured. Boris Yeltsin, president of the Russian Federation, and the 3 Baltic republics signed a mutual-security agreement, January 13, binding all the signatories to defend any that were attacked by the Kremlin. Yeltsin denounced the killings in Lithuania, and on January 14, called on Russian troops to refuse to shoot civilians. Gorbachev, January 14, said he had not given the order to attack the demonstrators. The Supreme Soviet, January 14, confirmed Finance Minister Valentin Pavlov as the new premier (his predecessor, Nikolai Ryzhkov, had fallen ill), and on January 15, confirmed Aleksandr Bessmertnykh as the new foreign minister. In Vilnius, January 16, as many as 500,000 people attended a funeral for 9 of those killed 3 days earlier. In Moscow, January 20, 100,000 to 300,000 people demonstrated against the crackdown in the Baltics. Just hours later, in Riga, the capital of Latvia, Soviet para-military troops stormed a government building; 4 Latvians were killed.

Chicago TV Flashback - December 31, 1981

 WFLD channel 32 TV schedule for Thursday, December 31, 1981

Morning

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6a - Newstalk with Wanda Wells

6:30a - Hot Fudge

7a - Woody Woodpecker

7:30a - The Flintstones

8a - Battle of the Planets

8:30a - Popeye

9a - Richard Simmons Show

9:30a - The People's Court

10a - John Davidson Show (1 hour)

11a - Newstalk with Wanda Wells

11:30a - Spider-Man

Afternoon

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Noon - Underdog

12:30p - Great Space Coaster

1p - I Love Lucy

1:30p - Partridge Family

2p - Courtship of Eddie's Father

2:30p - Casper

3p - Mighty Mouse

3:30p - The Flintstones

4p - Tom and Jerry

4:30p - Brady Bunch

5p - Wonder Woman (1 hour)

Evening

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6p - Happy Days Again

6:30p - PM Magazine

7p - College Football Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl: #19 UCLA Bruins v. #16 Michigan Wolverines at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas (3 hours)

10p - M*A*S*H

10:30p - Benny Hill Show

11p - All in the Family

11:30p - Three Stooges

Midnight - Keyfax Nite-Owl Service (6 hours)

The #16-ranked Michigan Volverines def. the #19-ranked UCLA Bruins 33-14 to win the 1981 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl.

February 11, 2025

Hey y'all, what's going on?

It's been a few months since my last entry, so what's been going on with me since my last life post? I didn't celebrate Christmas, but I manage to buy some cool stuff days after the holiday. Then, I watched the last AEW Rampage of the series where the brawl in the end was really something, but destroying some of the stuff on Rampage kinda reminds me of the Rhyme and Reason set got trashed on the final episode on July 9, 1976.

I'm really happy that AEW Rampage got axed after 3 years, because it went downhill when CM Punk made his first AEW appearance everyone fell for and got suckered for that. Also, I cleaned house of every single political profile off of my Bluesky profile, because I've been saying this time and time again that nobody wanna waste their time with politics and the BS they see on the news. It can kill one's mental health and wellbeing, and that's the truth. I joined that site 7 months ago to make it my own safe place and nothing else.

I bought a few more 90s music CDs by Alanis Morrisette, Ace of Base and The Party to add on to my 90s playlist. Feels good to listen to that kind of music from that decade, doesn't it? Anyhow, the NFL circus ended the other night and my congrats to the Eagles on winning their 2nd ever Super Bowl. As an ex-NFL fan, I just wanna say that the Chiefs lost, and I'm glad that they did, because that's karma on Harrison Butker's bigoted remarks he made at the graduation last year relating to abortion. Oh, and that "extension" he got to stay on the team was really too good to be true.

Always be yourself, always be you 💚