For many years, WVIA was available on cable systems beyond the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre TV market (including Cablevision in Fairfield County, Connecticut and Nassau County, New York). In part, this was due to its unorthodox programming—in the 1980s, it carried on Saturday and Sunday mornings sitcom reruns such as "Leave it to Beaver", and "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "The Honeymooners" on weekday afternoons, and on Saturday nights ran science-fiction series such as "" which ran on WVIA from 1984 to 1994, "The Twilight Zone", "The Outer Limits", "Doctor Who", plus "Lost in Space" on Saturday mornings. Later, the station aired "The Waltons" at 4:30 and 5 p.m. and "All in the Family" at 6 p.m. from 1989 to 1991. From 1991 until 2009, WVIA aired "Little House on the Prairie" from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.