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Boston-based Cheers premieres
Primary source: Boston Globe
(P) - (Series) Premiere
(SP) - Season Premiere
2 WGBH (PBS)
6:45 AM Weather
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Electric Company
8:30 Mister Rogers
9:00 Educational Programming (to 3:00 PM)
3:00 French Chef
3:30 Over Easy
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Sesame Street
7:00 Doctor Who
8:00 Sneak Previews - Neal Gabler, Jeffrey Lyons
8:30 Victory Garden - Bob Thomson (produced by WGBH)
9:00 US Chronicle
9:30 Say Brother
10:00 Ten O'Clock News
10:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
11:00 Nightly Business Report
4 WBZ (NBC)
5:00 People Are Talking
5:30 Morning Stretch
6:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 Today
9:00 Hour Magazine
10:00 Diff'rent Strokes
10:30 Wheel of Fortune (Susan Stafford's final episode was on October 22)
11:00 Match Game (rerun)
11:30 Card Sharks (rerun)
NOON Eyewitness News
12:30 People Are Talking
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Hawaii Five-O
4:00 People's Court
4:30 More Real People
5:00 Family Feud
5:30 Live on 4
6:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Evening Magazine
8:00 Fame (SP)
9:00 Cheers (P)
9:30 Taxi (SP; after four seasons on ABC, it moved to NBC for its final season)
10:00 Hill Street Blues (SP)
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Tonight Show - Guest host: George Carlin; Guests: Bob Hope, Joan Embrey; Performer: Leslie Uggams
12:30 Late Night With David Letterman - Guests: Steve Landesberg, Clement Freud (Sigmund's grandson; aunt Anna Freud died nine days later)
1:30 NBC News Overnight
5 WCVB (ABC)
6:00 NewsCenter 5
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Good Day!
10:00 Donahue
11:00 Tom Cottle: Up Close
11:30 Richard Simmons
NOON NewsCenter 5
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Waltons
5:00 Rhoda
5:30 All in the Family
6:00 NewsCenter 5
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Chronicle
8:00 Joannie Loves Chaci (SP; special appearance by Henry "Fonzie" Winkler)
8:30 Star of the Family (P)
9:00 Too Close for Comfort (SP, 1 hour; Muriel goes into labor, Monroe transports her to the hospital on his motorcyle down the treacherous San Francisco hills, baby Andrew Rush is born!)
10:00 20/20
11:00 NewsCenter 5
11:30 Nightline
MIDNIGHT Vega$
1:10 Romance Theatre
1:40 Five All Night Live
7 WVEN (CBS)
6:30 Captain Kangaroo (second to final weekday episode after 28 years; it moves to Saturdays, and on some CBS stations, Sundays too, returning to the hour format)
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Weekday!
10:00 New $25,000 Pyramid - Guests: Denise Miller, Jay Johnson
10:30 Child's Play - Bill Cullen
11:00 The Price is Right
NOON NEWSE7EN
12:30 Young and Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Movie: "Sex and the Single Girl" (1964, Comedy) - Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall, Mel Merrer
6:00 NEWSE7EN
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
8:00 Magnum, P.I. (SP, 2 hours)
10:00 Knots Landing (SP)
11:00 NEWSE7EN
11:30 Quincy
12:40 McCloud
25 WNXE
6:00 Jimmy Swaggart
7:00 Pink Panther
7:30 Josie & the Pussycats
8:00 Force Five
8:30 Sport Billy
9:00 Leave It to Beaver
9:30 McHale's Navy
10:00 700 Club
11:30 Movie: "Calcutta" (1947, Crime Drama) - Alan Ladd, Gail Russell, William Bendix
1:30 Get Smart
2:00 Spider-Woman (aired Tu-Th, alternating with Spider-Man on M-W-F up until the following week when Spider-Man aired every weekday)
2:30 Force Five
3:00 Star Blazers
3:30 Pink Panther
4:00 Little House on the Prairie
5:00 Eight is Enough
6:00 CHiPs Patrol
7:00 Mork & Mindy
7:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
8:00 Mission: Impossible
9:00 Rockford Files
10:00 700 Club
11:30 Movie: "The Prizefighter and the Lady" (1933, Comedy/Crime/Romance) - Myrna Loy, Max Baer, Primo Carnera, Jack Dempsey
27 WSMW - Worcester
6:00 Kids' Stuff
6:30 Jim Bakker
7:30 Bugs Bunny & Friends
8:00 Waltons
9:00 Big Money
9:30 Jimmy Swaggart
10:00 Super Pay Cards (x 2)
11:00 Jim Bakker
NOON Daily Mass
12:30 News
1:00 Movie: "Joe" (1970, Drama) - Peter Boyle, Dennis Patrick, Susan Sarandon (film debut)
3:00 Welcome Back, Kotter
3:30 Merv Griffin (no guest info)
4:30 Edge of Night (carried from ABC)
5:00 Let's Make a Deal (unsure of which version)
5:30 Pop! Goes the Country
6:00 Nashville On the Road
6:30 News
38 WSBK
6:30 Romper Room
7:00 Batman (cartoon?)
7:30 Scooby-Doo
8:00 Porky Pig & Friends
8:30 Cartoon Festival
9:00 F Troop
9:30 Daytime
10:30 Women's Page
11:00 Adam-12
11:30 News
NOON Marcus Welby
1:00 Movie: "Three Guns for Texas" (compiled from the first three episodes of the Laredo series from 1965)
3:00 Emergency!
4:00 Bewitched
4:30 Odd Couple
5:00 Charlie's Angels
6:00 M*A*S*H
6:30 Jeffersons
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 Barney Miller
8:00 Movie: "A Night to Remember" (1958, Docudrama on the Titanic) - Kenneth More
10:30 News
11:00 Madame's Place
11:30 Twilight Zone
MIDNIGHT Movie: "Against All Flags" (1952, Action/Adventure) - Errol Flynn, Maureen O'Hara, Anthony Quinn
44 WGBX (sister station to WGBH)
5:00 PM Dick Cavett
5:30 French Chef
6:00 3-2-1 Contact
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 Making it Count
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 The Making of the Contemporary Mind
8:30 American Story
9:00 Human Behavior
9:30 Systems Performance
10:00 Great Performances: "Guests of the Nation" - Frank Converse, Estelle Parsons
11:00 Captioned ABC News
56 WLVI
6:30 Bozo
7:00 Bugs Bunny
7:30 Tom & Jerry
8:00 Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Flintstones
9:00 Great Space Coaster
9:30 Banana Splits
10:00 Cambridge USA
10:30 New England Today
NOON Couples
12:30 Mary Tyler Moore
1:00 Lost in Space
2:00 Yogi Bear
2:30 Casper
3:00 Mighty Mouse
3:30 Woody Woodpecker
4:00 Tom & Jerry
4:30 Flintstones
5:00 Brady Bunch
5:30 Good Times
6:00 Happy Days Again
6:30 Laverne & Shirley & Company
7:00 Three's Company
7:30 Sanford and Son
8:00 Movie: "Tobruk" (1967, War Drama) - Rock Hudson, George Peppard
10:00 Mary Tyler Moore (x 2)
11:00 Benny Hill
11:30 Best of Saturday Night
Primary source: Boston Globe
(P) - (Series) Premiere
(SP) - Season Premiere
2 WGBH (PBS)
6:45 AM Weather
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Electric Company
8:30 Mister Rogers
9:00 Educational Programming (to 3:00 PM)
3:00 French Chef
3:30 Over Easy
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Sesame Street
7:00 Doctor Who
8:00 Sneak Previews - Neal Gabler, Jeffrey Lyons
8:30 Victory Garden - Bob Thomson (produced by WGBH)
9:00 US Chronicle
9:30 Say Brother
10:00 Ten O'Clock News
10:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
11:00 Nightly Business Report
4 WBZ (NBC)
5:00 People Are Talking
5:30 Morning Stretch
6:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 Today
9:00 Hour Magazine
10:00 Diff'rent Strokes
10:30 Wheel of Fortune (Susan Stafford's final episode was on October 22)
11:00 Match Game (rerun)
11:30 Card Sharks (rerun)
NOON Eyewitness News
12:30 People Are Talking
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Hawaii Five-O
4:00 People's Court
4:30 More Real People
5:00 Family Feud
5:30 Live on 4
6:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Evening Magazine
8:00 Fame (SP)
9:00 Cheers (P)
9:30 Taxi (SP; after four seasons on ABC, it moved to NBC for its final season)
10:00 Hill Street Blues (SP)
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Tonight Show - Guest host: George Carlin; Guests: Bob Hope, Joan Embrey; Performer: Leslie Uggams
12:30 Late Night With David Letterman - Guests: Steve Landesberg, Clement Freud (Sigmund's grandson; aunt Anna Freud died nine days later)
1:30 NBC News Overnight
5 WCVB (ABC)
6:00 NewsCenter 5
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Good Day!
10:00 Donahue
11:00 Tom Cottle: Up Close
11:30 Richard Simmons
NOON NewsCenter 5
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Waltons
5:00 Rhoda
5:30 All in the Family
6:00 NewsCenter 5
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Chronicle
8:00 Joannie Loves Chaci (SP; special appearance by Henry "Fonzie" Winkler)
8:30 Star of the Family (P)
9:00 Too Close for Comfort (SP, 1 hour; Muriel goes into labor, Monroe transports her to the hospital on his motorcyle down the treacherous San Francisco hills, baby Andrew Rush is born!)
10:00 20/20
11:00 NewsCenter 5
11:30 Nightline
MIDNIGHT Vega$
1:10 Romance Theatre
1:40 Five All Night Live
7 WVEN (CBS)
6:30 Captain Kangaroo (second to final weekday episode after 28 years; it moves to Saturdays, and on some CBS stations, Sundays too, returning to the hour format)
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Weekday!
10:00 New $25,000 Pyramid - Guests: Denise Miller, Jay Johnson
10:30 Child's Play - Bill Cullen
11:00 The Price is Right
NOON NEWSE7EN
12:30 Young and Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Movie: "Sex and the Single Girl" (1964, Comedy) - Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood, Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall, Mel Merrer
6:00 NEWSE7EN
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
8:00 Magnum, P.I. (SP, 2 hours)
10:00 Knots Landing (SP)
11:00 NEWSE7EN
11:30 Quincy
12:40 McCloud
25 WNXE
6:00 Jimmy Swaggart
7:00 Pink Panther
7:30 Josie & the Pussycats
8:00 Force Five
8:30 Sport Billy
9:00 Leave It to Beaver
9:30 McHale's Navy
10:00 700 Club
11:30 Movie: "Calcutta" (1947, Crime Drama) - Alan Ladd, Gail Russell, William Bendix
1:30 Get Smart
2:00 Spider-Woman (aired Tu-Th, alternating with Spider-Man on M-W-F up until the following week when Spider-Man aired every weekday)
2:30 Force Five
3:00 Star Blazers
3:30 Pink Panther
4:00 Little House on the Prairie
5:00 Eight is Enough
6:00 CHiPs Patrol
7:00 Mork & Mindy
7:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
8:00 Mission: Impossible
9:00 Rockford Files
10:00 700 Club
11:30 Movie: "The Prizefighter and the Lady" (1933, Comedy/Crime/Romance) - Myrna Loy, Max Baer, Primo Carnera, Jack Dempsey
27 WSMW - Worcester
6:00 Kids' Stuff
6:30 Jim Bakker
7:30 Bugs Bunny & Friends
8:00 Waltons
9:00 Big Money
9:30 Jimmy Swaggart
10:00 Super Pay Cards (x 2)
11:00 Jim Bakker
NOON Daily Mass
12:30 News
1:00 Movie: "Joe" (1970, Drama) - Peter Boyle, Dennis Patrick, Susan Sarandon (film debut)
3:00 Welcome Back, Kotter
3:30 Merv Griffin (no guest info)
4:30 Edge of Night (carried from ABC)
5:00 Let's Make a Deal (unsure of which version)
5:30 Pop! Goes the Country
6:00 Nashville On the Road
6:30 News
38 WSBK
6:30 Romper Room
7:00 Batman (cartoon?)
7:30 Scooby-Doo
8:00 Porky Pig & Friends
8:30 Cartoon Festival
9:00 F Troop
9:30 Daytime
10:30 Women's Page
11:00 Adam-12
11:30 News
NOON Marcus Welby
1:00 Movie: "Three Guns for Texas" (compiled from the first three episodes of the Laredo series from 1965)
3:00 Emergency!
4:00 Bewitched
4:30 Odd Couple
5:00 Charlie's Angels
6:00 M*A*S*H
6:30 Jeffersons
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 Barney Miller
8:00 Movie: "A Night to Remember" (1958, Docudrama on the Titanic) - Kenneth More
10:30 News
11:00 Madame's Place
11:30 Twilight Zone
MIDNIGHT Movie: "Against All Flags" (1952, Action/Adventure) - Errol Flynn, Maureen O'Hara, Anthony Quinn
44 WGBX (sister station to WGBH)
5:00 PM Dick Cavett
5:30 French Chef
6:00 3-2-1 Contact
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 Making it Count
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 The Making of the Contemporary Mind
8:30 American Story
9:00 Human Behavior
9:30 Systems Performance
10:00 Great Performances: "Guests of the Nation" - Frank Converse, Estelle Parsons
11:00 Captioned ABC News
56 WLVI
6:30 Bozo
7:00 Bugs Bunny
7:30 Tom & Jerry
8:00 Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Flintstones
9:00 Great Space Coaster
9:30 Banana Splits
10:00 Cambridge USA
10:30 New England Today
NOON Couples
12:30 Mary Tyler Moore
1:00 Lost in Space
2:00 Yogi Bear
2:30 Casper
3:00 Mighty Mouse
3:30 Woody Woodpecker
4:00 Tom & Jerry
4:30 Flintstones
5:00 Brady Bunch
5:30 Good Times
6:00 Happy Days Again
6:30 Laverne & Shirley & Company
7:00 Three's Company
7:30 Sanford and Son
8:00 Movie: "Tobruk" (1967, War Drama) - Rock Hudson, George Peppard
10:00 Mary Tyler Moore (x 2)
11:00 Benny Hill
11:30 Best of Saturday Night