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by **aviolante** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 9:07 am

Hey guys, hopefully someone can help with this. I'm trying to figure out the original air times (I know it varies by location) for the G1 series for "new" episodes. I say "new" because according to my TV Guide from 1985 there were episodes that aired at 3PM (WGN) and then again at 4PM on another channel.

I remember Transformers would air re-runs alot so my question is does anyone have any idea which time slot was the "new" episode and which was the re-run? Sadly the TV Guide doesn't have episode names just says TRANSFORMERS.

News Credits: 1 · by **sto_vo_kor_2000** » Sat Aug 27, 2016 1:45 pm

aviolante wrote:Hey guys, hopefully someone can help with this. I'm trying to figure out the original air times (I know it varies by location) for the G1 series for "new" episodes. I say "new" because according to my TV Guide from 1985 there were episodes that aired at 3PM (WGN) and then again at 4PM on another channel.

I remember Transformers would air re-runs alot so my question is does anyone have any idea which time slot was the "new" episode and which was the re-run? Sadly the TV Guide doesn't have episode names just says TRANSFORMERS.

like you said, every localization will be different.

i never heard of the show running on 2 networks at the same time in any market

in nyc,season 2, they sometimes ran a early a.m."before school" episode and then a after school episode, with those timeslots it was in the afternoon they ran new episodes

by season 3, they only ran the series in the am

by **Sheba** » Tue Sep 06, 2016 5:22 pm

aviolante wrote:Hey guys, hopefully someone can help with this. I'm trying to figure out the original air times (I know it varies by location) for the G1 series for "new" episodes. I say "new" because according to my TV Guide from 1985 there were episodes that aired at 3PM (WGN) and then again at 4PM on another channel.

I remember Transformers would air re-runs alot so my question is does anyone have any idea which time slot was the "new" episode and which was the re-run? Sadly the TV Guide doesn't have episode names just says TRANSFORMERS.

In my locale, there were two stations (KVOS Bellingham and KSTW Seattle), both independent rather than network-affiliated at the time, which both ran Transformers on weekday afternoons at 3pm (both) for season 2 and 3. New episodes would show up as they appeared, and they'd loop back into repeats after new episodes.

Prior to that, while both channels showed the miniseries on a weekday afternoon 3 days in a row, subsequently KVOS showed Season 1 (after the miniseries) on Saturday Mornings.

Oddly, and I don't know if anyone else noticed, after Season 3 appeared, the repeats of Season 2 would have the opening visuals of Season 2, but with Season 3's musical/vocal score, which I thought more fitting. The Season 2 ending theme remained the same as it was from the beginning, however. Season 1 theme never altered at all.

News Credits: 1 · by **Ratbat** » Mon Jan 23, 2017 4:23 pm

WDBD (Fox 40) was Jackson, Mississippi's sole Transformers (Generation One) affiliate in the '80s. That station's Transformers show times (all Central Time) are listed below.

Season 1
December 1984-September 1985
Sunday
8:30 am

Season 2
September 1985-September 1986
Monday-Friday
3 pm

Season 3
September 1986-September 1987
Monday-Friday
7:30 am

Season 4
September 1987-January 1988?
Monday-Friday
6:30 am

"Season 5"
September 1988-January 1989?
Sunday
8:30 am