WGN channel 9 TV schedule for Wednesday, August 5, 1987 & Early Thursday, August 6, 1987

Morning
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5a - Laverne & Shirley
5:30a - Faith 20
6a - The Muppet Show
6:30a - M.A.S.K
7a - Bozo Show (90 minutes)
8:30a - Heathcliff
9a - Incredible Hulk (60 minutes)
10a - Waltons (60 minutes)
11a - Little House on the Prairie (60 minutes)

Afternoon
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Noon - Newscope (60 minutes)
1p - Rhoda
1:30p - Phyllis
2p - Welcome Back, Kotter!
2:30p - Bugs Bunny & Friends
3p - Ghostbusters
3:30p - Smurfs' Adventures
4p - G.I. Joe
4:30p - Transformers
5p - Good Times
5:30p - The Jeffersons

Evening
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6p - Benson
6:30p - Baseball: Chicago Cubs at Pittsburgh live (3 hours)
9:30p - Nine O'Clock News
10p - INN News: Morton Dean
10:30p - Tales from the Darkside
11p - Twilight Zone
11:30p - WGN Presents: Sheena (2 hours)

Early Thursday, August 6, 1987
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1:30a - Laverne & Shirley
2a - Laverne & Shirley
2:30a - INN News: Morton Dean (10p re-broadcast)
3a - The Late Movie: The Adventures of Frontier Fremont (1 hour, 50 minutes)
4:50a - Five Minutes to Live By

This is what the schedule was like for those of you are from Chicago and the surrounding suburbs. Hope you like it.

This is an awesome topic.

Whenever I see a sitcom in syndication and I'm feeling nostalgic, I always think what it would've been like to see only one primetime episode a week...

Call me crazy, but I've had fantasies, if you will, of re-creating a Saturday morning lineup from my early childhood... I'd basically find some episodes of my favorite shows at the time then throw them together with random commercials / "fillers" in between.

Am I crazy? O_o

I have Saturday lineups from the 60s, 70s and 80s. You'll get to see those as time marches on. :)

Was WGN's programming different for Chicago viewers than it was for cable subscribers?

Wow I was 6 years old at the time. This seems to be either Spring or Summer....could also be Fall, but the Cubs were playing, so it had to be Spring or Summer, lol. I was probably about to or just finishing kindergarden. Channel 9 was one of my favorite channels as a kid, along with WPWR 50 (Now UPN) and Fox32. I remember when Channel 50 would let kids call in during after school times (when the cartoons played, 2:30pm-5pm) and you could when toys and games. I remember calling a few times without asking my parents permission (the annoucer told us to ask first). Never got anything though.

Yodamite, not really. I have an Aunt and Uncle who regularly watch our local channel 9(WGN) news from Mississippi.