Tuesday, November 18, 2025

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.

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