Chicago TV Flashback - July 29-30, 1988

WLS channel 7 TV schedule for Friday, July 29, 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 Home

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 - Perfect Strangers

7:30p - Full House

8p - Mr. Belvedere

8:30p - I Married Dora (Finale from January 8th)

9p - 20/20 (1 hour)

10p - Eyewitness News at 10

10:30p - Nightline with Ted Koppel

11p - Late Night Movie: Roustabout (2 hrs, 5 min)

Early Saturday, July 30, 1988

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1:05a - Eyewitness News at 10 (Rebroadcast)

1:35a - Late Night Movie: Sing and Like It (1 hr, 35 min)

I Married Dora became one of the most infamous finales in television history, where in the final scene at the airport, Peter Farrell (Daniel Hugh Kelly) said goodbye to Dora (Elizabeth Pena) and his two children. He was supposed to board the plane, but he returned to the airport with these final lines by him and Dora.

Peter: It's been cancelled...

Dora: The flight?

Peter: No, our series!

With laughter from the audience at their expense, the fourth wall was broken as the cast waved goodbye while the camera zooms out. I Married Dora ended on January 8th after just 4 months.

2 Drugs Are Aid to Heart - November 1987

The success of two drugs in preventing and treating heart attacks were announced in November. Dr. Basil Rifkind, a researched at the Lipid Research Clinics of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute in Bethesda, MD, said November 11, that the drug gemfibrozil changed the type of blood in ways that reduced coronary ehart diseases. He said the drug lowered cholesterol only sighted but its significance was in raising the level of low-density lipoproteins ("good cholesterol") and lowering the level of low-density lipoproteins ("bad cholesterol"). The health community, however, had viewed such a drug only as a last resort if diet, exercise, and weight loss failed to achieve desired cholesterol levels. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced, November 12, that it had cleared Genentech Inc. to begin marketing TPA, or tissue plasminogen activator, a genetically engineered blood clot disorder, that would be used to treat heart attack patients. It had been found effective in dissolving blood clots and reducing the incidence of congestive heart failure after an attack. Causing bleeding was its most serious side effect.

Chicago TV Flashback - October 2-3, 1989

WFLD channel 32 TV schedule for Monday, October 2, 1989

Morning

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6a - ThunderCats

6:30a - Denver, the Last Dinosaur

7a - The Flintstones

7:30a - Dennis the Menace

8a - Alvin and the Chipmunks

8:30a - Maxie's World

9a - Gilligan's Island

9:30a - Too Close for Comfort

10a - Donahue (1 hour)

11a - Sally Jessy Raphael Show (1 hour)

Afternoon

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Noon - Jackpot!

12:30p - Talkabout

1p - Last Word

1:30p - I Love Lucy

2p - I Dream of Jeannie

2:30p - Woody Woodpecker Show

3p - Real Ghostbusters

3:30p - Jim Henson's Muppet Babies

4p - Super Mario Bros. Super Show

4:30p - Small Wonder

5p - Family Ties

5:30p - Mr. Belvedere

Evening

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6p - The Cosby Show

6:30p - A Current Affair

7p - 21 Jump Street (1 hour)

8p - Alien Nation (1 hour)

9p - Fox 32 News at 9 (1 hour)

10p - M*A*S*H

10:30p - Comedy Express

11p - Three's Company

11:30p - Star Trek (1 hour)

12:30a - Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Early Tuesday, October 3, 1989

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1a - Latenight 32 Movie: Blondie Goes Latin (1 hr, 30 min)

2:30a - Latenight 32 Movie: Blondie Brings Up Baby (1 hr, 25 min)

Bulgarian Premier Resigns - November 1990