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Retro: Boston - Saturday, April 23, 1977

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Primary source: Boston Globe

2 WGBH (PBS)
8:00 Villa Alegre
8:30 Mister Rogers
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Once Upon a Classic
10:30 Zoom
11:00 Infinity Factory
11:30 Rebop
NOON Carrascolendas
12:30 Agronsky at Large
1:00 Tennis: United Bank Classic semifinals
5:00 Infinity Factory
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Vision On
6:30 Zoom
7:00 Six American Families - The Kennedys of Alburquerque
8:00 Classic Theater Preview
8:30 Classic Theater: "Trelawny of the Wells"
10:30 In Search of America
11:00 Soundstage

4 WBZ (NBC)
6:00 International Zone
6:30 Carrascolendas
7:00 Something Else
7:30 For Kids Only
8:00 Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Pink Panther Laugh-and-a-Half Hour-and-a-Half Show
10:00 Speed Buggy
10:30 Monster Squad
11:00 Space Ghost
11:30 Eyewitness News
NOON Land of the Lost
12:30 Kids From C.A.P.E.R.
1:00 Wild Kingdom
1:30 Ara Parseghian's Sports
5:00 Last of the Wild
5:30 Wild Kingdom
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 NBC Nightly News - John Hart
7:00 $25,000 Pyramid - Bill Cullen
7:30 $100,000 Name That Tune - Tom Kennedy
8:00 NBC Saturday Night at the Movies: "Against a Crooked Sky" (1975) - Richard Boone, Stewart Petersen, Jewel Blanch
10:00 NBC Special: "Highlights of the 1976 Miss World Pagaent" - Hosts: Chuck Woolery, Jo Ann Pflug (Woolery's then-wife)
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Satuday Night Live - Host: Eric Idle; Musical guests: Alan Price, Neil Innes
1:00 Movie: "Tomb of Ligeia" (1965) - Vincent Price, Elizabeth Shepherd

5 WCVB (ABC)
6:00 A Better Way
6:30 Hardy Boys (animated)
7:00 Jabberwocky (local children's show, not to be confused with ABC's Jabberjaw)
7:30 Animals, Animals, Animals
8:00 Leave It to Beaver
8:30 Kid's World
9:00 Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Show
10:25 Schoolhouse Rock!
10:30 Krofft Supershow
11:30 Superfriends
11:55 Schoolhouse Rock!
NOON Candlepin Bowling (After all, it's Boston)
1:00 Candlepin Superbowl
1:30 Tarzan
2:30 Lone Ranger
3:00 Wanted: Dead or Alive
3:30 ABC Pro Bowlers Tour: Firestone Tournament of Campions, from Akron, OH
5:00 ABC's Wide World of Sports: Wood Memorial, from Aquaduct Racetrack, Queens (one of the horses was that year's Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew); New York vs. Chicago Intercity Golden Gloves Boxing Championship, from Madison Square Garden
6:30 NewsCenter 5
7:00 The Baxters
7:30 A Question of Bias
8:00 ABC Special: "Paul Lynde Comedy Hour" - Guests: Cloris Leachman, Tony Randall, LeVar Burton, K.C. and the Sunshine Band
9:00 Starsky & Hutch
10:00 Dog and Cat
11:00 NewsCenter 5
11:30 Movie: "Undercurrent" (1946) - Katherine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum

7 WNAC (CBS)
NOTE: Conflicting listings for the 7:00 and 7:30 AM slots in different papers listing WNAC.
6:30 School Law Trends
6:50 Reflections
7:00 Hudson Brothers or Way Out Games
7:30 Way Out Games or Far Out Space Nuts
8:00 Sylvester & Tweety
8:30 Clue Club
9:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
10:00 Tarzan (animated)
10:30 Batman
11:00 Shazam/Isis Hour
NOON Razzmatazz
1:00 Hee Haw - Guests: George Gobel, Billie Jo Spears
2:00 Candlepin Champs
3:00 Evans & Novak: "A Perspective on President Carter"
4:00 Jerry Visits (1971-73, hosted by Los Angeles news anchor Jerry Dunphy)
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular: World Full Contact Karate Championship, from Las Vegas; Superbowl of Motocross, from Los Angeles Coliseum; CBS Invitational Tennis Championships, from Virginia Beach; "The Human Fly" standing on top of a jet airplane in flight, from Mojave, CA
6:00 Newsroom 7
6:30 CBS Evening News - Bob Schieffer
7:00 Lawrence Welk: "Songs of Springtime and Love"
8:00 Mary Tyler Moore
8:30 Bob Newhart
9:00 All in the Family
9:30 All's Fair
10:00 Carol Burnett - Guest: Sammy Davis Jr.
11:00 Newsroom 7
11:30 Movie: "Teacher's Pet" (1958) - Clark Gable, Doris Day

38 WSBK (Ind.)
10:00 Villa Alegre
10:30 Carrascolendas
11:00 Hot Fudge Show
11:30 Wildlife Theater
NOON Soul Train - Guests: Teddy Pendergrass, Double Exposure
1:00 American Bandstand (pre-empted by WCVB): Guests: The Sylvers, Cerrone
2:00 Red Sox Baseball: at Toronto Blue Jays (their inaugural season, along with the Seattle Mariners)
5:00 Red Sox Wrap-up
5:30 Wildlife Theater
6:00 Hogan's Heroes
6:30 Dick Van Dyke
7:00 Odd Couple
7:30 King of Kensington
8:00 Music Hall America
9:00 Movie: "Noose for a Lady" (1953) - Dennis Price, Rona Anderson, Ronald Howard (son of Leslie Howard; no relation to Ron Howard)
11:00 The Racers
MIDNIGHT Viewpoint on Nutrition
12:30 Human Dimension

44 WGBX (secondary PBS)
12:30 PM Agronsky at Large
1:00 Washington Week in Review
1:30 Wall $treet Week
2:00 American Short Story
3:00 In Search of America
3:30 Mister Rogers
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Nova
6:00 Book Beat
6:30 Erica
6:45 Theonie
7:00 Black Perspective
7:30 Play Bridge
8:00 Consumer Survival Kit
8:30 M.D.: "Obesity"
9:00 Movie: "Double Suicide" (1969) (Japanese)

56 WLVI (Ind.)
8:30 Oral Roberts
9:00 Old Time Gospel Hour - Jerry Falwell
10:00 Music and the Spoken Word
10:30 People Power
11:00 Wrestling
NOON Outer Limits
1:00 Movie: "The Screaming Skull" (1958) - John Hudson, Peggy Webber, Russ Conway
2:30 Movie: "The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake" (1959) - Eduard Franz, Valerie French, Grant Richards, Henry Daniel
4:00 Movie: "Nobody's Perfect" (1968) - Doug McClure, Nancy Kwan, James Whitmore
6:00 Brady Bunch
6:30 Partridge Family
7:00 Star Trek
8:00 Movie: "Ten Little Indians" (1965) - Hugh O'Brien, Shirley Eaton, Fabian, Stanley Holloway
10:00 Movie: "Invasion of the Saucer Men" (1957) - Steven Terrell, Gloria Castillo, Frank Gorshin
 
As I recall it, Way Out Games was moved to 8 AM Sundays at that time, so WNAC would have had that at 7 here and Far Out Space Nuts following. Going off memory here and it's a mite shaky sometimes. I'll dig in deeper and research it.

I do recall soon after that Bugs Bunny-Road Runner got expanded to 90 minutes, which caused some jostling of the lineup on CBS.
 
As I recall it, Way Out Games was moved to 8 AM Sundays at that time, so WNAC would have had that at 7 here and Far Out Space Nuts following. Going off memory here and it's a mite shaky sometimes. I'll dig in deeper and research it.

I do recall soon after that Bugs Bunny-Road Runner got expanded to 90 minutes, which caused some jostling of the lineup on CBS.
Would you know the exact date of that shift?
 
Following up, I am (as usual) incorrect. Bugs Bunny-Road Runner expanded to 90 minutes on January 28, 1978 as listings I uncovered from elsewhere (via Google News Archive) showed it was still an hour in the Fall of 1977. Skatebirds tanked, so CBS split off The Robonic Stooges from that show into its own time period (renamed The Three Robonic Stooges), brought Speed Buggy back and expanded Bugs to an extra thirty minutes.
 
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