TONIGHT’S
PROGRAMMING.

18:00:00 — The county test begins under the opening theme. Thirty-one seconds of picture are missing. Walter resumes on the same word. The studio clock is now thirty-one seconds behind the wall clock. He thanks the county for another successful test. See the test order.

Marian gives temperatures for Briar Glen, Saint Orin, and Lower Mercy. None appears on the current county map. Briar Glen is forecast to reach 68 degrees at a depth of 400 feet. Marian apologizes for the map’s poor printing.

This listing is not an error in the reconstruction. The title, season, and episode number appear in the recovered 1987 switcher log. The series belongs to a later decade. No episode tape was present in the station. The county’s continuity test had begun pulling programs from future broadcast days into the open return channel. Staff logged the incoming picture as a routine syndicated feed. Read the engineering note.

The arrows on Marian’s map point upward. A bright circle passes beneath the streets. “Clear skies below the valley,” she says. The exterior camera shows a moon with the same markings as the circle on her map.

The county asks residents to switch on one light per household. The tower receives 2,713 acknowledgments. Blackridge has fewer than a thousand houses. No one asks who supplied the remaining signals.

A wide shot of an empty anchor desk. The teleprompter scrolls residents’ names, followed by the word PRESENT. Several names appear twice. At 11:11, the camera turns toward a window the studio does not have.