Retro: Boston - Sunday, January 9, 1972

[RandTV]

Sources: Boston Globe and Boston Herald

2 WGBH (PBS)
PM
3:30 30 Minutes With...
4:00 Great American Dream Machine
5:00 The Advocates
6:00 On Being Black
7:00 Zoom (debut of this PBS children's show, based at WGBH)
7:30 French Chef (also based at WGBH)
8:00 Firing Line
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre (same thing from WGBH) - "Anne Boleyn", Part 1 of 6

4 WBZ (NBC)
AM
6:45 Living Word
7:00 Mr. Magoo
7:30 Boomtown
9:00 For Kids Only
9:30 International Zone
10:00 Insight
10:30 A Show of Faith
11:00 Community Auditions (talent show)
11:30 Eyewitness News
PM
12:00 Call of the West
12:30 Wild Kingdom
1:00 NCAA Football: American Bowl - North vs. South All-Stars, from Tampa, FL
4:00 NCAA Basketball: Marquette vs. South Carolina
6:00 Meet the Press
6:30 NBC Nightly News - Garrick Utley
7:00 Norman Corwin Presents: "Letter From an Only Child"
7:30 Wonderful World of Disney: "Mountain Born"
8:30 Jimmy Stewart Show
9:00 Bonanza
10:00 Bold Ones
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Sunday Tonight Show (repeats were seen on weekends from 1965-75)
AM
1:00 Death Valley Days

5 WHDH (CBS) (went off the air March 18, and replaced by WCVB the day after)
AM
6:30 Across the Fence
7:00 Sacred Heart
7:15 Christopher Closeup
7:45 Turning Point
8:00 CBS News Special: Year-end Review of Religious News
9:00 This is the Life
9:30 Builder's Showcase
10:00 CBS Children's Film Festival
11:00 Camera Three
PM
12:00 Midday News
12:30 Maverick
1:30 Stanley Cup '71 (Highlights with Montreal vs. Chicago)
2:00 NHL Hockey: Montreal vs. Chicago
4:30 Hockey's Top Stars
4:40 Glen Campbell Hour (10 minute truncation)
5:30 WHDH-TV News
6:00 60 Minutes - Mike Wallace, Morley Safer
7:00 Primus
7:30 CBS Sunday Night Movies: "Stay Away, Joe" (1968, Comedy/Western) - Elvis Presley, Joan Blondell, Burgess Meredith, Katy Jurado
9:30 Cade's County
10:30 This is Your Life - Guest: Ethel Merman
11:00 WHDH-TV News
11:30 CBS News
11:45 Merv Griffin

7 WNAC (ABC)
AM
6:30 Rex Humbard
7:30 Christopher Closeup
8:00 Directions
8:30 Religion at Issue
9:15 Sunday Mass
10:00 Paul Benzaquin Playback
11:00 Lift Every Voice
11:30 Make a Wish
PM
12:00 Movie: "That Certain Feeling" (1956, Comedy) - Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint, George Sanders
3:30 Issues and Answers
4:00 Newsmakers
4:30 American Sportsman
5:30 New England Tonight (news)
6:00 Movie: "P.J." (1968, Mystery) - George Peppard, Raymond Burr
8:00 The FBI
9:00 ABC Sunday Night Movie: (Premiere, Western) - George Peppard, Pernell Roberts
11:00 New England Tonight
11:30 Movie: "The Plot to Assassinate Hitler"/German title: "Der 20. Juli" (1955, Documentary, German)
AM
1:30 Religion at Issue
2:15 ABC News

38 WSBK (Ind.)
AM
8:00 With This Ring
8:15 Worship for Shut-Ins
8:45 Herald of Truth
9:15 Sunday Mass
10:00 Banana Splits
10:30 Sea Hunt
11:00 Massachusetts Council of Rabbis
11:30 American Religious Town Meeting
PM
12:00 Roller Derby
1:00 Bruins Highlights
1:30 ABA Basketball: Utah Stars vs. Indiana Pacers (ABA merged with the NBA in 1976)
3:30 Wagon Train
5:00 Daktari
6:00 Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
7:00 The Golddiggers
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8:00 Movie: "Vogues of 1938" (1937, Musical/Comedy) - Warner Baxter, Joan Bennett
10:00 Victory at Sea
10:30 The Drum
11:00 Viewpoint on Nutrition

44 WGBX (sister station to WGBH)
Same schedule as WGBH with the following exceptions:

PM
5:00 Love Tennis
5:30 Dilemmas of Power
6:30 Cours of Our Times
10:45 Citic-at-Large

56 WKBG (Ind.)
AM
7:30 Words and Music
8:00 Day of Discovery
8:30 Kathryn Kuhlman
9:00 Kimba
9:30 Huckleberry Hound
10:00 Underdog
10:30 Yogi Bear
11:00 Speed Racer
11:30 Flintstones
PM
12:00 Outer Limits
1:00 Movie: "An Affair to Remember" (1957, Romance) - Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr
3:00 Movie: "The Thing (from Another World)" (1951, Science Fiction/Horror) - Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, James Arness
4:30 Movie: "Cheaper by the Dozen" (1950, Comedy) - Clifton Webb, Myrna Loy
6:00 Star Trek
7:00 Avengers
8:00 Movie: "Operation Pacific" (1951, War Drama) - Johh Wayne, Patricia Neal
10:30 One-on-One
11:00 Point of View

 

[RandTV]

This article explains how the original WHDH was not merely a callsign change to WCVB.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHDH-TV_(1957-1972)

 

[RandTV]

The title for Masterpiece Theatre should've been "The Six Wives of Henry VIII", one part for each wife.
I also forgot to put the title for the ABC Sunday Night Movie (Ch. 7 at 9:00), which was "The Bravos".

 

[installLSC]

9:15 Sunday Mass
10:00 Banana Splits
10:30 Sea Hunt
11:00 Massachusetts Council of Rabbis

What is with kid's programming being randomly aired in the middle of religious shows in the 1970s? I saw it in an Indianapolis TV listing in 1977 and now this.

1:30 ABA Basketball: Utah Stars vs. Indiana Pacers

Here's an odd one. From some quick searching the ABA had no network contract in 1972 (CBS did air some postseason and All-Star games) so this must be syndicated. But Boston had no ABA team, and of course the established NBA Celtics would have hogged all the attention anyway. I don't understand WSBK's thinking.

 

[RandTV]

What is with kid's programming being randomly aired in the middle of religious shows in the 1970s? I saw it in an Indianapolis TV listing in 1977 and now this.

Here's an odd one. From some quick searching the ABA had no network contract in 1972 (CBS did air some postseason and All-Star games) so this must be syndicated. But Boston had no ABA team, and of course the established NBA Celtics would have hogged all the attention anyway. I don't understand WSBK's thinking.

Your questions are just as good as mine. I never knew about the ABA's lack of a network contract. What I've put down is from what's in the Boston Globe, as mentioned as my source.

 

[onairb2014]

Your questions are just as good as mine. I never knew about the ABA's lack of a network contract. What I've put down is from what's in the Boston Globe, as mentioned as my source.

The NHL likewise had no network contract later in the '70s, but had a syndicated package of Saturday games that aired in markets both with and without a team in the league.

 

[TexasTom]

This article explains how the original WHDH was not merely a callsign change to WCVB.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHDH-TV_(1957-1972)

There was a book written about it, called The Hundred Million Dollar Lunch, written by Sterling Quinlan. It was published in 1974 and has been out of print for a long time. I do remember reading it a number of years ago.