# How can I search for past TV listings? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 4, 2018, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-search-for-past-tv-listings/822405 "2018-10-04T03:23:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-search-for-past-tv-listings/822405/1 "2018-10-04T03:23:42Z")
Specifically, I’m trying to find a show my daughter was watching on the Disney Channel this past Saturday night (she doesn’t know what it was). I found one site with past listings that has several channels (even including lesser names like OWN), but no Disney. Zap2it has “yesterday” listings, but won’t go back further than that. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-search-for-past-tv-listings/822405/2 "2018-10-04T03:43:22Z")
If I google “Disney Channel Schedule”, the first hit I get is > **[Schedule - Disney Channel](https://www.disneychannel.ca/schedule/)** …with calendar buttons extending back a week. Sat 9/29 comes up fine for me, if you can’t see it for some reason, let me know and I’ll transcribe it, or tell me the time. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-search-for-past-tv-listings/822405/3 "2018-10-04T03:53:19Z")
Have you searched [the TVDB](https://www.thetvdb.com)? ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-search-for-past-tv-listings/822405/4 "2018-10-04T05:32:14Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > If I google “Disney Channel Schedule”, the first hit I get is > [Schedule - Disney Channel](https://www.disneychannel.ca/schedule/) > …with calendar buttons extending back a week. > Sat 9/29 comes up fine for me, if you can’t see it for some reason, let me know and I’ll transcribe it, or tell me the time. That would be perfect…except I think it’s for the Canadian version? I checked to see if it matches up with the listings for what’s on tonight in the U.S. (which are available many places) and it does not. > [@DPRK](#): > > Have you searched [the TVDB](https://www.thetvdb.com)? I tried that just now, and didn’t see any listings. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-search-for-past-tv-listings/822405/5 "2018-10-04T05:36:56Z")
Can she tell you anything about the show? Somebody here might be able to figure it out if you can give us more detail. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-search-for-past-tv-listings/822405/6 "2018-10-04T05:51:55Z")
Yea, we need clues. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-search-for-past-tv-listings/822405/7 "2018-10-04T05:52:16Z")
Try this, I think this is the U.S. one. Click on the arrow top right below Day-Week, and there’s a calendar, you can select prior dates. [https://www.disneyabcpress.com/disneychannel/calendar/](https://www.disneyabcpress.com/disneychannel/calendar/) The other thought I have is that if it’s not a movie, they probably have a similar schedule on the same day each week. Maybe you can figure it out from next Saturday’s listings. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-search-for-past-tv-listings/822405/8 "2018-10-04T06:17:02Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > I tried that just now, and didn’t see any listings. Sorry; I mixed that up with [trakt.tv](http://trakt.tv). I see a massive listing of shows from last week; do you know anything about it beyond the fact that it was on the Disney Channel? ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-search-for-past-tv-listings/822405/9 "2018-10-04T13:04:34Z")
I checked again and the listings on the [trakt.tv](http://trakt.tv) app do not match those in \*\*Riemann[/n]'s link, so I don’t know what may be missing. Presumably the network’s own site is authoritative. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-search-for-past-tv-listings/822405/10 "2018-10-04T14:25:47Z")
Maybe I was wrong to assume it was the Disney Channel. I know at one point she was watching that Bunk’d show, but the one I am looking for features a slightly Latina-looking girl of about 13 or 14 years old who is trying to start a girls basketball team, and challenges a boy from the team to a game of one-on-one. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-search-for-past-tv-listings/822405/11 "2018-10-04T15:39:07Z")
Is it Raven’s Home? That show has a character named Tess who’s “slightly Latina-looking” and plays basketball. > **[Tess O'Malley](https://ravenshome.fandom.com/wiki/Tess_O%27Malley)** > > Tess O'Malley is a main character on Raven's Home for the first 4 seasons. She is Nia's best friend who lives across the hall from their apartment. She is portrayed by Sky Katz. Tess is described as a tough, cool, streetwise rapping urban tomboy. She... ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-search-for-past-tv-listings/822405/12 "2018-10-04T19:40:39Z")
Makes sense, but none of the episode descriptions seem to fit, unless that was just a minor scene maybe? Thanks for your help! ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-search-for-past-tv-listings/822405/13 "2018-10-04T19:57:36Z")
Hey **SlackerInc** , what did you think of [**puddleglum** ’s suggestion of the show _Andi Mack_](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21248036&postcount=75), particularly [the scene shown in the second photo here](https://www.instyle.com/news/sofia-wylie-justin-bieber-zendaya)? If that’s it we can go back to the [other thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21248036#post21248036) to continue the discussion. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2018, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-search-for-past-tv-listings/822405/14 "2018-10-05T02:04:42Z")
It was indeed “Andi Mack”, as BigT discovered, although against a different boy than in that photo. Thanks again, everyone!