Now we know that this special was funded by an outside company and not PBS and because of that PBS has no record of it.

Now I found out from IMDb.com and other sites that it aired on 2/14/86. I bought a TV Guide. It’s the Long iIsland Metro edition. It covers NYC (the number 1 media market in the world). At the time, the NYC area had FIVE PBS stations (No joke). I can vouch for this because I lived in Northern NJ at the time (Bergen County just one hour away from New York.) The PBS Stations we’re:

WNET Channel 13
WLIW Channel 21
WNYE Channel 25 (Now a non commercial independent station. No longer affiliated with PBS.)
The future WPXN Channel 31 (Now an ION station)
The future WNJN Channel 50

Here’s the listings and there is no special. Maybe it aired somewhere else. Maybe someone has this.

Here’s more:

Here’s some images from the Miami Herald from 1986. The PBS stations for Miami area are WPBT & WXEL. Channel 2 for WPBT and channel 42 for WXEL. The guide however doesn’t identify the stations by name and as a matter of fact, WXEL isn’t listed at all.