Inside the Guide: May 4-10 1985 Part 1: Sunday night!

It's time to go inside the Guide once again as we travel back 40 years to the edition dated (and covering) May 4-May 10, 1985. On the cover is personal favorite Phoebe Cates, then appearing in Lace II and a first-ballot member if we ever made an Eighties Trinity of Movie Brunettes:

ABC has what promises to be a WACKY hour of television. Interesting to me: The blurb in the listings mentions Milton Berle and Mary Cadorette, yet neither are in this display ad:

Opposing Life's Most Embarrassing Moments on NBC is this interesting-looking episode of Knight Rider:

On premium cable, TV Guide celebrates the debut of 1984's Police Academy, which is on both HBO and Showtime. That sort of thing happened more often than you might think back in the days before almost all studios locked into certain outlets.

Here's an intriguing close-up/ad combo. This NBC movie was the prelude to the full-fledged revival of the series in Fall 1985:

Here's a look at Lace II:

We'll be back tomorrow with more!