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In loving memory of Sesame Street actors Will Lee who died on that day, and Bob McGrath who has just died today.
Sources: New York Times, Daily News, Newsday
Episode titles coutesy of tvtango.com.
2 WCBS
6:00 Daybreak
6:30 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Match Game (R)
9:30 The Joker's Wild
10:00 New $25,000 Pyramid - Guests: Florence Henderson, Tom Reilly
10:30 Child's Play
11:00 The Price is Right
NOON World of People
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Tattletales - Couples: George Gradow & Barbi Benton, Charles Nelson Reilly & Julie Harris, Sam Wiseman & Constance McCashin
4:30 CBS Afternoon Playhouse (forerunner to CBS Schoolbreak Special): "The Shooting" - Lance Kerwin, Gavin Muir, Wil Wheaton
5:30 Channel 2 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Muppet Show - Guest: Lou Rawls
8:00 Bring 'em Back Alive: "The Best of Enemies"
9:00 CBS Special: "Johnny Cash: A Merry Memphis Christmas" - Guests: June Carter Cash, Rosanne Cash, Eddie Rabbitt, Crystal Gayle, The Mighty Clouds of Joy
10:00 CBS Special: "Andy Williams' Early New England Christmas" - Guests: Dorothy Hamil, Aileen Quinn (title role of the 1982 film "Annie"), Dick Van Patten, James Galway; from the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, VT
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:30 Quincy
11:40 McMillan & Wife
2:00 CBS News Nightwatch
4 WNBC
6:00 Today in New York
6:30 Early Today
7:00 Today
9:00 Donahue - Topic: Nurses and Drug Abuse
10:00 Diff'rent Strokes
10:30 Wheel of Fortune (Vanna White's first permanent episode the following Monday)
11:00 Texas
NOON The Doctors
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Fantasy
4:00 NBC Special Treat: "Hot Hero Sandwich" - Robert Guillaume, Marlo Thomas, Barbara Walters, and Bruce Jenner recall Christmas memories, both bitter and sweet.
5:00 News 4 Live at Five - Guests: Barry White, Lainie Kazan, Bruce Dern, Martin Sheen
6:00 News 4 New York
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 Father Murphy: "John Michael Murphy - R.I.P."
9:00 Gavilan: "A Drop in the Ocean"
10:00 St. Elsewhere: "Legionnaires" (Part 1 of 2)
11:00 News 4 New York
11:30 Tonight Show - Guests: James Stewart, Garry Shandling, Stephanie Reich
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman - Guest: Myron Cohen
1:30 NBC News Overnight
2:30 Romance Theater
3:00 Mary Tyler Moore
5 WNEW
6:00 New Zoo Revue
6:30 Popeye
7:00 World's Greatest Cartoon Show
8:30 Flintstones
9:00 I Love Lucy
9:30 Dr. Ruth
10:00 Tom Cottle: Up Close - Guest: Erik Estrada
10:30 Hour Magazine - Featured: Phyllis Diller; how to make a great party
11:30 My Three Sons
NOON Waltons
1:00 Midday
2:10 Popeye and Friends
3:00 World's Greatest Cartoon Show
4:30 What's Happening!!
5:00 Six Million Dollar Man
6:00 Three's Company
6:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 All in the Family
8:00 PM Magazine
8:30 Carol Burnett
9:00 Merv Griffin - Guests: Kal Rudman, Johnny Mathis, Deniece Williams
10:00 10 O'Clock News
11:00 M*A*S*H
11:30 Starsky & Hutch
12:30 Mission: Impossible
1:30 Hogan's Heroes
2:00 Movie: "The Court Martial of Billy Miller" (1955) - Gary Cooper, Charles Bickford, Ralph Bellamy, Rod Steiger, Elizabeth Montgomery (film debut), Darren McGavin, Jack Lord, Peter Graves
7 WABC
6:00 ABC News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Richard Simmons
9:30 So You Think You Got Troubles?! - Jay Johnson and Bob (his dummy from Soap)
10:00 Good Morning New York
11:00 Love Boat
NOON Family Feud
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Edge of Night
4:30 People's Court
5:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Here's Richard (Simmons)
8:00 Happy Days: "There's No Business Like No Business" - A new shopping mall threatens to put Cunningham Hardware out of business. Erin Moran, then starring in the spin-off Joannie Loves Chachi, makes a guest appearance.
8:30 Laverne & Shirley: "Of Mice and Men" - Laverne's boyfriend (not Carmine) loses his self-confidence.
9:00 Three's Company: "The Brunch"
9:30 9 to 5: "Hard Sell"
10:00 Hart to Hart: "One Hart Too Many"
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Nightline
MIDNIGHT The Last Word - Phil Donahue, Greg Jackson
1:00 Movie: "Ben-Hur" (Part 1 of 2) (1959 Best Picture) - Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffin, Martha Scott, Cathy O'Donnell, Sam Jaffe
9 WOR
6:00 Joe Franklin
7:00 Jimmy Swaggart
7:30 Jim Bakker
8:30 New York Report
9:00 Straight Talk
10:00 Romper Room
11:00 Tic-Tac-Dough
11:30 In Search Of...
NOON News at Noon
1:00 Movie: "Woman in Hiding" (1950) - Ida Lupino, Stephen McNally, Howard Duff
3:00 Bonanza
4:00 Soap World
4:30 Movie: "Machine Gun Kelly" (1958) - Charles Bronson (title role), Susan Cabot, Morey Amsterdam
6:00 Buck Rogers
7:00 Soap
7:30 Benny Hill
8:00 Apple Polishers (local public affairs)
8:30 Knicks Basketball - at Chicago Bulls
11:00 Madame's Place
11:30 Racing From Yonkers
MIDNIGHT The Other Angel - Shirley Boone (wife of Pat Boone, mother of Debby Boone, daughter of Red Foley)
12:30 You Asked For It - Rich Little
1:00 Women in Crisis - Gary Collins, Carol Lawrence
2:00 Joe Franklin
11 WPIX
6:00 I Dream of Jeannie
6:30 Magilla Gorilla
7:00 Tom & Jerry
7:30 Pink Panther
8:00 MGM Cartoon Festival
8:30 Great Space Coaster
9:00 Flipper
9:30 Gentle Ben
10:00 Herman Badillo's Urban Journal
11:00 Odd Couple
11:30 Entertainment Tonight
NOON Good Times
12:30 Independent Network News
1:00 700 Club
2:00 Magic Garden
2:30 Krofft Super Stars
3:00 Tom & Jerry
4:00 Scooby-Doo
4:30 Pink Panther
5:00 Little House on the Prairie
6:00 Happy Days Again
6:30 Barney Miller
7:00 Jeffersons
7:30 Action News
8:00 Movie: "Exo-Man" (1977) - Dan Ackroyd, Anne Schedeen, Jose Ferrer, Jack Colvin, Harry Morgan
10:00 Independent Network News
10:30 Metropolitan Report
11:00 Sandord and Son
11:30 Best of Saturday Night
12:30 Star Trek
1:30 Independent Network News (R)
2:00 Entertainment Tonight
13 WNET
6:30 Contemporary Health Issues
7:00 New Jersey Nightly News (R)
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 Electric Company
8:30 Mister Rogers
9:00 Pledge Break
9:05 Sesame Street - As noted above, Will Lee who played the beloved Mr. Hooper, died that day of a heart attack at age 74.
10:00 Gather 'Round
10:15 Music and Me
10:30 Who Cares, I Care
10:45 Self Incorporated
11:00 Bioscope
11:15 North America
11:30 19th Century Literary Biography
NOON This Old House
12:30 The New Americans
1:00 All About You
1:15 Under the Blue Umbrella
1:30 Community of Living Things
1:45 Readit
2:00 Inside/Out
2:15 Parlez-Moi
2:30 Write On
2:45 By the People
3:00 A Different Understanding
3:30 Over Easy
4:00 Pledge Break
4:05 Sesame Street
5:05 Pledge Break
5:15 Mister Rogers
5:45 Pledge Break
5:55 3-2-1 Contact
6:25 Pledge Break
6:30 New Jersey Nightly News
7:00 Nightly Business Report
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 Nova: "Whale Watch"
9:00 Pledge Break
9:05 Mystery!: "Melissa" (Part 2 of 3)
10:05 Pledge Break
10:15 Making M*A*S*H - Host: Mary Tyler Moore
11:45 Pledge Break
MIDNIGHT Bogart - Host: Joseph Campenella
21 WLIW (PBS secondary) - Garden City, Long Island
6:45 AM Weather
7:00 Lilias, Yoga and You
7:30 Over Easy
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Common Cents
9:15 Storybound
9:30 Science Alliance
9:45 Zoo, Zoo, Zoo
10:00 On the Level
10:15 Letter People
10:30 Electric Company
11:00 3-2-1 Contact
11:30 Thinkabout
11:45 All About You
NOON Inside/Out
12:15 Best of Cover to Cover
12:30 Bioscope
12:45 Vegetable Soup II
1:00 Tell Me What You See
1:15 Under the Blue Umbrella
1:30 Getting to Know Me
2:00 Read All About It
2:15 Picture Book Park
2:30 Let's All Sing
2:45 Discovering
3:00 Lilias, Yoga and You
3:30 Vegetable Soup
4:00 Mister Rogers
4:30 Electric Company
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 3-2-1 Contact
6:30 Portraits in Pastels
7:00 North to the Top of the World
8:00 Nature: "Animal Behavior"
9:00 In Concert at the Met - Featured: Leontyne Price, Marilyn Horne, James Levine
11:30 Movie: "Champagne Waltz" (1937) - Gladys Swarthout, Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie, Fritz Leiber
Sources: New York Times, Daily News, Newsday
Episode titles coutesy of tvtango.com.
2 WCBS
6:00 Daybreak
6:30 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Match Game (R)
9:30 The Joker's Wild
10:00 New $25,000 Pyramid - Guests: Florence Henderson, Tom Reilly
10:30 Child's Play
11:00 The Price is Right
NOON World of People
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Tattletales - Couples: George Gradow & Barbi Benton, Charles Nelson Reilly & Julie Harris, Sam Wiseman & Constance McCashin
4:30 CBS Afternoon Playhouse (forerunner to CBS Schoolbreak Special): "The Shooting" - Lance Kerwin, Gavin Muir, Wil Wheaton
5:30 Channel 2 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Muppet Show - Guest: Lou Rawls
8:00 Bring 'em Back Alive: "The Best of Enemies"
9:00 CBS Special: "Johnny Cash: A Merry Memphis Christmas" - Guests: June Carter Cash, Rosanne Cash, Eddie Rabbitt, Crystal Gayle, The Mighty Clouds of Joy
10:00 CBS Special: "Andy Williams' Early New England Christmas" - Guests: Dorothy Hamil, Aileen Quinn (title role of the 1982 film "Annie"), Dick Van Patten, James Galway; from the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, VT
11:00 Channel 2 News
11:30 Quincy
11:40 McMillan & Wife
2:00 CBS News Nightwatch
4 WNBC
6:00 Today in New York
6:30 Early Today
7:00 Today
9:00 Donahue - Topic: Nurses and Drug Abuse
10:00 Diff'rent Strokes
10:30 Wheel of Fortune (Vanna White's first permanent episode the following Monday)
11:00 Texas
NOON The Doctors
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Fantasy
4:00 NBC Special Treat: "Hot Hero Sandwich" - Robert Guillaume, Marlo Thomas, Barbara Walters, and Bruce Jenner recall Christmas memories, both bitter and sweet.
5:00 News 4 Live at Five - Guests: Barry White, Lainie Kazan, Bruce Dern, Martin Sheen
6:00 News 4 New York
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 Father Murphy: "John Michael Murphy - R.I.P."
9:00 Gavilan: "A Drop in the Ocean"
10:00 St. Elsewhere: "Legionnaires" (Part 1 of 2)
11:00 News 4 New York
11:30 Tonight Show - Guests: James Stewart, Garry Shandling, Stephanie Reich
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman - Guest: Myron Cohen
1:30 NBC News Overnight
2:30 Romance Theater
3:00 Mary Tyler Moore
5 WNEW
6:00 New Zoo Revue
6:30 Popeye
7:00 World's Greatest Cartoon Show
8:30 Flintstones
9:00 I Love Lucy
9:30 Dr. Ruth
10:00 Tom Cottle: Up Close - Guest: Erik Estrada
10:30 Hour Magazine - Featured: Phyllis Diller; how to make a great party
11:30 My Three Sons
NOON Waltons
1:00 Midday
2:10 Popeye and Friends
3:00 World's Greatest Cartoon Show
4:30 What's Happening!!
5:00 Six Million Dollar Man
6:00 Three's Company
6:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 All in the Family
8:00 PM Magazine
8:30 Carol Burnett
9:00 Merv Griffin - Guests: Kal Rudman, Johnny Mathis, Deniece Williams
10:00 10 O'Clock News
11:00 M*A*S*H
11:30 Starsky & Hutch
12:30 Mission: Impossible
1:30 Hogan's Heroes
2:00 Movie: "The Court Martial of Billy Miller" (1955) - Gary Cooper, Charles Bickford, Ralph Bellamy, Rod Steiger, Elizabeth Montgomery (film debut), Darren McGavin, Jack Lord, Peter Graves
7 WABC
6:00 ABC News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Richard Simmons
9:30 So You Think You Got Troubles?! - Jay Johnson and Bob (his dummy from Soap)
10:00 Good Morning New York
11:00 Love Boat
NOON Family Feud
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Edge of Night
4:30 People's Court
5:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Here's Richard (Simmons)
8:00 Happy Days: "There's No Business Like No Business" - A new shopping mall threatens to put Cunningham Hardware out of business. Erin Moran, then starring in the spin-off Joannie Loves Chachi, makes a guest appearance.
8:30 Laverne & Shirley: "Of Mice and Men" - Laverne's boyfriend (not Carmine) loses his self-confidence.
9:00 Three's Company: "The Brunch"
9:30 9 to 5: "Hard Sell"
10:00 Hart to Hart: "One Hart Too Many"
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Nightline
MIDNIGHT The Last Word - Phil Donahue, Greg Jackson
1:00 Movie: "Ben-Hur" (Part 1 of 2) (1959 Best Picture) - Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffin, Martha Scott, Cathy O'Donnell, Sam Jaffe
9 WOR
6:00 Joe Franklin
7:00 Jimmy Swaggart
7:30 Jim Bakker
8:30 New York Report
9:00 Straight Talk
10:00 Romper Room
11:00 Tic-Tac-Dough
11:30 In Search Of...
NOON News at Noon
1:00 Movie: "Woman in Hiding" (1950) - Ida Lupino, Stephen McNally, Howard Duff
3:00 Bonanza
4:00 Soap World
4:30 Movie: "Machine Gun Kelly" (1958) - Charles Bronson (title role), Susan Cabot, Morey Amsterdam
6:00 Buck Rogers
7:00 Soap
7:30 Benny Hill
8:00 Apple Polishers (local public affairs)
8:30 Knicks Basketball - at Chicago Bulls
11:00 Madame's Place
11:30 Racing From Yonkers
MIDNIGHT The Other Angel - Shirley Boone (wife of Pat Boone, mother of Debby Boone, daughter of Red Foley)
12:30 You Asked For It - Rich Little
1:00 Women in Crisis - Gary Collins, Carol Lawrence
2:00 Joe Franklin
11 WPIX
6:00 I Dream of Jeannie
6:30 Magilla Gorilla
7:00 Tom & Jerry
7:30 Pink Panther
8:00 MGM Cartoon Festival
8:30 Great Space Coaster
9:00 Flipper
9:30 Gentle Ben
10:00 Herman Badillo's Urban Journal
11:00 Odd Couple
11:30 Entertainment Tonight
NOON Good Times
12:30 Independent Network News
1:00 700 Club
2:00 Magic Garden
2:30 Krofft Super Stars
3:00 Tom & Jerry
4:00 Scooby-Doo
4:30 Pink Panther
5:00 Little House on the Prairie
6:00 Happy Days Again
6:30 Barney Miller
7:00 Jeffersons
7:30 Action News
8:00 Movie: "Exo-Man" (1977) - Dan Ackroyd, Anne Schedeen, Jose Ferrer, Jack Colvin, Harry Morgan
10:00 Independent Network News
10:30 Metropolitan Report
11:00 Sandord and Son
11:30 Best of Saturday Night
12:30 Star Trek
1:30 Independent Network News (R)
2:00 Entertainment Tonight
13 WNET
6:30 Contemporary Health Issues
7:00 New Jersey Nightly News (R)
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 Electric Company
8:30 Mister Rogers
9:00 Pledge Break
9:05 Sesame Street - As noted above, Will Lee who played the beloved Mr. Hooper, died that day of a heart attack at age 74.
10:00 Gather 'Round
10:15 Music and Me
10:30 Who Cares, I Care
10:45 Self Incorporated
11:00 Bioscope
11:15 North America
11:30 19th Century Literary Biography
NOON This Old House
12:30 The New Americans
1:00 All About You
1:15 Under the Blue Umbrella
1:30 Community of Living Things
1:45 Readit
2:00 Inside/Out
2:15 Parlez-Moi
2:30 Write On
2:45 By the People
3:00 A Different Understanding
3:30 Over Easy
4:00 Pledge Break
4:05 Sesame Street
5:05 Pledge Break
5:15 Mister Rogers
5:45 Pledge Break
5:55 3-2-1 Contact
6:25 Pledge Break
6:30 New Jersey Nightly News
7:00 Nightly Business Report
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 Nova: "Whale Watch"
9:00 Pledge Break
9:05 Mystery!: "Melissa" (Part 2 of 3)
10:05 Pledge Break
10:15 Making M*A*S*H - Host: Mary Tyler Moore
11:45 Pledge Break
MIDNIGHT Bogart - Host: Joseph Campenella
21 WLIW (PBS secondary) - Garden City, Long Island
6:45 AM Weather
7:00 Lilias, Yoga and You
7:30 Over Easy
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Common Cents
9:15 Storybound
9:30 Science Alliance
9:45 Zoo, Zoo, Zoo
10:00 On the Level
10:15 Letter People
10:30 Electric Company
11:00 3-2-1 Contact
11:30 Thinkabout
11:45 All About You
NOON Inside/Out
12:15 Best of Cover to Cover
12:30 Bioscope
12:45 Vegetable Soup II
1:00 Tell Me What You See
1:15 Under the Blue Umbrella
1:30 Getting to Know Me
2:00 Read All About It
2:15 Picture Book Park
2:30 Let's All Sing
2:45 Discovering
3:00 Lilias, Yoga and You
3:30 Vegetable Soup
4:00 Mister Rogers
4:30 Electric Company
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 3-2-1 Contact
6:30 Portraits in Pastels
7:00 North to the Top of the World
8:00 Nature: "Animal Behavior"
9:00 In Concert at the Met - Featured: Leontyne Price, Marilyn Horne, James Levine
11:30 Movie: "Champagne Waltz" (1937) - Gladys Swarthout, Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie, Fritz Leiber