Retro: Boston - Friday, May 21 and Saturday, May 22, 1982

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Part I
Friday, May 21, 1982

Source: Boston Globe via newspapers.com

2 WGBH (PBS)
6:45 AM Weather
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Electric Company
8:30 Mister Rogers
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Villa Alegre
10:30 Electric Company
11:00 Vegetable Soup
11:30 Electric Company
NOON Sesame Street
1:00 Nova
2:00 Dick Cavett
2:30 Fast Forward
3:00 French Chef
3:30 Over Easy
4:00 Sesame Street (13th Season Finale; not sure which other slots this episode also aired in)
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Sesame Street
7:00 Doctor Who
7:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
8:00 Washingto Week in Review
8:30 Wall $treet Week
9:00 Masterpiece Theatre: "Love in a Cold Climate" - Episode 8 of 8: "In Love and War"
10:00 Ten O'Clock News
10:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
11:00 Channel 2 Film Classics: "His Girl Friday" (1940) - Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart; D: Howard Hawks

4 WBZ (NBC)
6:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 Today
9:00 Hour Magazine
10:00 John Davidson
11:00 Texas
NOON Eyewitness News
12:30 People Are Talking
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 CHiPs Patrol
4:00 Hawaii Five-O
5:00 Match Game
5:30 Live on 4
6:00 Eyewitness News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Evening Magazine
8:00 NBC Friday Night at the Movies: "Movie Movie" (1978) - George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Barbara Harris, Red Buttons, Barry Bostwick, Ann Reinking, Art Carney, Eli Wallach, George Burns (uncredited; introductory segments only); D: Stanley Donen
10:00 McClain's Law: "The Sign of the Beast: Part 1" (Jan 22, 1982)
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Tonight Show - Guests: Sylvester Stallone (promoting "Rocky III", released a week from then), Steve Martin
12:30 SCTV Network - Guest: Carl Perkins
2:00 Eyewitness News (R)
2:30 Encore News
3:00 America's Top 10
3:30 Movie: "The Girl Rush" (1955) - Rosalind Russell, Fernando Lamas, Eddie Albert, Gloria DeHaven; D: Robert Pirosh

5 WCVB (ABC)
6:00 NewsCenter 5
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Good Day!
10:30 Donahue
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 Here's Lucy
5:30 All in the Family
6:00 NewsCenter 5
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Chronicle
8:00 Benson: "The Lobbyist" (Dec 11, 1981)
8:30 Maggie: "Maggie the Poet" (Series Finale; written by Erma Bombeck, creator and executive producer of the series)
9:00 ABC Friday Night Movie: "Dreams Don't Die" (Premiere) - Ike Eisenmann, Trini Alvarado, Israel Juarbe, Paul Winfield, James Broderick (died Nov 1 that year); D: Roger Young
11:00 NewsCenter 5
11:30 Nightline
MIDNIGHT Fridays - Guest: Peter Fonda; Musical guests: King Crimson (Dec 4, 1981)
1:30 Five All Night Live
3:00 Portrait of a Legend
3:30 NewsCenter 5 (R)
4:00 Good Day! (R)

7 WNAC (CBS; last day under this callsign and ownership by RKO General)
6:00 Summer Semester
6:30 Captain Kangaroo
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Weekday!
10:00 One Day at a Time
10:30 Alice
11:00 Price is Right
NOON News 7
12:30 Young and Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Streets of San Francisco
5:00 You Asked for It
5:30 Family Feud
6:00 News 7
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 NBA Eastern Conference Finals - Boston Celtics vs. Philadelphia 76ers (Game aired live in Boston and Philadelphia, but was tape-delayed everyhere else.)
10:00 WNAC Special: "Celebrating the Family" - Farewell celebration of WNAC, held by manager Pat Servodidio. The station's parent company, RKO General, was forced to surrender WNAC's license for financial misconduct. It was sold to New England Television (NETV).
11:00 News 7
11:30 Nurse: "Impressions" (Series Finale; originally intended to air at 10)
12:30 News 7 (R)
1:00 WNAC's final sign-off with spiritual message and National Anthem.
CBS Primetime shows pre-empted by NBA game:
8:00 Dukes of Hazzard: "Goodbye, General Lee" (Dec 4, 1981)
9:00 Dallas: "The Big Shut Down" (Nov 13, (1981)

25 WXNE
6:00 US-AM
7:00 Fred Flintstone and Friends
7:30 Force Five
8:00 Little Rascals and Friends
9:00 Flipper
9:30 Leave It to Beaver
10:00 700 Club
11:30 Another Life
NOON Life of Riley
12:30 McHale's Navy
1:00 Get Smart
1:30 Superman
2:00 Spider-Man
2:30 Fred Flintstone and Friends
3:00 Force Five
3:30 Star Blazers
4:00 Little Rascals
4:30 Pink Panther
5:00 Incredible Hulk
6:00 Little House on the Prairie
7:00 Carol Burnett and Friends
7:30 People's Court
8:00 Buck Rogers: "The Plot to Kill a City: Parts 1 and 2"
10:00 700 Club
11:30 Thin Man
MIDNIGHT Rat Patrol

38 WSBK
6:30 Romper Room
7:00 F-Troop
7:30 Scooby-Doo
8:00 Porky Pig and Friends
8:30 Cartoon Festival
9:00 Charlie Rose
9:30 Daytime
10:20 News
10:30 Andy Griffith
11:00 Beverly Hillbillies
11:30 Bewitched
NOON Adam-12
12:30 INN News
1:00 Marcus Welby
2:00 Movie: "The Crowded Sky" (1960) - Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., John Kerr, Anne Francis, Keenan Wynn, Troy Donahue; D: Joseph Pevney
4:00 Three Stooges
4:30 What's Happening!!
5:00 Odd Couple
5:30 Dick Van Dyke
6:00 Jeffersons
6:30 Bob Newhart
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 Barney Miller
8:00 Movie: "Carrie" (1976) - Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, Betty Buckley, John Travolta; D: Brian De Palma
10:00 Hogan's Heroes
10:30 INN News
11:00 Twilight Zone
11:30 Movie: "The Mysterians" (1957; English-dubbed Japanese) - Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Takashi Shimura; D: Ishiro Honda

44 WGBX (PBS secondary)
5:00 (PM) Checking it Out
5:30 Villa Alegre
6:00 New Voice
6:30 French Chef
7:00 Open Mind
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 Creativity With Bill Moyers
8:30 Dick Cavett
9:00 Say Brother
9:30 Special
10:00 American Playhouse: "Oppenheimer" (Part 2 of 7)
11:00 Captioned ABC News

56 WLVI
7:00 Bugs Bunny
7:30 Tom & Jerry
8:00 Great Space Coaster
8:30 Flintstones
9:00 Hot Fudge Show
9:30 Bozo
10:00 De Todo un Poco (A Little Bit of Everything)
10:30 New England Today
NOON Couples
12:30 Mary Tyler Moore
1:00 Courtship of Eddie's Father
1:30 Banana Splits
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 (x2)
6:00 Happy Days Again
6:30 Laverne & Shirley & Company
7:00 Good Times
7:30 Welcome Back, Kotter
8:00 Movie: "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957 Best Picture) - William Holden, Alec Guinness (Best Actor), Jack Hawkins; D: David Lean (Best Director)
11:00 Saturday Night
MIDNIGHT Evening at the Improv

 

[RandTV]

Part II
Saturday, May 22, 1982

2 WGBH (PBS)
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Over Easy (x5)
11:30 Channel 2 Film Classics: "His Girl Friday" (see Part I under 11:00 PM)
1:00 New Perceptions: "Television in the Developing World"
2:00 Nova: "City Spaces, Human Places"
3:00 Fast Forward
3:30 Quilting
4:00 Portraits in Pastels
4:30 Julia Child
5:00 Frugal Gourmet
5:30 Victory Garden
6:00 Checking It Out
6:30 Elliot Norton
7:00 Lights! Camera! Annie!: "The Making of a Major Hollywood Musical" (the soon-to-be released Annie film starring Aileen Quinn as the title role.
8:00 Paper Chase
9:00 Horowitz in London: A Royal Concert - From the Royal Festival Hall in London, Vladimir Horowitz performs his first European concert in 30 years.
11:00 Numero Uno
11:30 David Susskind

4 WBZ (NBC)
5:00 People Are Talking
5:30 Working Together
6:00 International Zone
6:30 Carrascolendas
7:00 For Kids Only
7:30 Cool McCool
8:00 Flintstone Comedy Show
8:30 Smurfs
9:30 Kid Super Power Hour
10:30 Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (no Ask NBC News segment)
11:00 Space Stars
NOON Daffy (Duck)/Speedy (Gonzalez) Show
12:30 Bullwinkle (no Ask NBC News segment)
1:00 Super Kids
1:30 We're Movin'
2:00 Movie: "The Guns of Navarone" (1961) - Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn; D: J. Lee Thompson
5:00 Computers Are People Too
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 NBC Nightly News - Jessica Savitch
7:00 Solid Gold - Special Classics epsiode with performances from previous episodes; Guests: The Allman Brothers Band, Chuck Berry, Harry Chapin (died the previous year), Dr. Hook, Leo Sayer, Neil Sedaka, The Four Tops, Olivia Newton-John (singing with co-host Andy Gibb, their 1980 hit "Rest Your Love on Me")
8:00 Coming Together - Local public affairs program, pre-empting Harper Valley PTA episode "Stella Della" (Feb 20, 1982).
8:30 One of the Boys: "Too Much to Lose" (Feb 20, 1982)
9:00 Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters - Guest: Tom Jones, R. C. Bannon
10:00 NBC Special: "I've Had it Up to Here" - Comedy-variety hosted by Steve Allen; Guests: Bill Bixby, Bill Daily, Bill Dana, Louis Nye, Tom Poston
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (Season Finale) - Host: Olivia Newton-John; The Saturday Night Live Band billed as the musical guests
1:00 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
2:30 Movie: "Darling Lili" (1970) - Julie Andrews, Rock Hudson; D: Blake Edwards

5 WCVB (ABC)
5:30 Chronicle
6:00 Car Care Central
6:30 Captain Bob
7:00 Fonz & the Happy Days Gang
7:30 Heathcliff & Marmaduke
8:00 Superfriends; Schoolhouse Rock!
8:30 Thundarr/Goldie Gold & Action Jack
9:30 Laverne & Shirley in the Army
10:00 Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo and Scrappy Too!; Schoolhouse Rock!
11:00 Kidsworld
11:30 Baseball Bunch
NOON Candlepin Bowling
1:00 Candlepin Superbowl
1:30 Sports Afield
2:00 Greatest Sports Legends: "Johnny Bench"
2:30 Sugar Ray Leonard's Golden Gloves
3:30 ABC Pro Bowlers Tour - AC Delco Classic (Gable House Bowl, Torrance, CA)
5:00 ABC's Wide World of Sports - 1) Hawaii Masters Surfing; 2) World Short-Track Speedskating Championships (Moncton, NB, Canada) 3) WBC World Lightweight Championship: Dwight Braxton vs. Lotte Mwale (Atlantic City) (Depending on the length of the latter event, normal programming may have been delayed or pre-empted.
6:30 NewsCenter 5
7:00 Lawrence Welk - Theme: Big Band Memories (Nov 14, 1981)
8:00 Love Boat: "The Horse Lover/Secretary to the Stars/Gopher and Isaac Buy a Horse/The Village People Ride Again" (Nov 22, 1980) (See under the post "Los Angeles - November 22, 1980" for guest stars.)
9:30 Fantasy Island: "The Love Doctor/The Pleasure Palace/Possessed" (Nov 22, 1980)
11:00 NewsCenter 5
11:30 Campaign '82: Decision in Springfield
MIDNIGHT Movie: "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946) - Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn, Leon Ames, Audrey Totter; D: Tay Garnett
3:00 ABC Weekend News
3:15 Movie: "Kismet" (1942; renamed "Oriental Dream" in 1955) - Marlene Dietrich, Ronald Colman; D: William Dieterle

Pre-empted ABC Saturday morning programs:

ABC Weekend Special: "The Joke's on Mr. Little"
American Bandstand - Guests: Richard "Dimples" Fields, The Dregs

7 WNEV (CBS: first day under this callsign and ownerhsip by NETV)
6:00 Summer Semester
6:30 Senior Circuit
7:00 Weekday!
8:00 Popeye & Olive Comedy Show
8:30 Tarzan/Lone Ranger/Zorro Adventure Hour
9:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
11:00 Fat Albert
11:30 Blackstar
NOON Trollkins
12:30 Tom & Jerry Comedy Show
1:00 Kwicky Koala
(In the News aired at every :26 and :56, except at 10:26.)
1:30 30 Minutes
2:00 Movie: "She Wore a Yellow Ribbion" (1949) - John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr.; D: John Ford
4:00 Outdoor Life
4:30 CBS Sports Saturday - WBC Lightweight Championship - Alexis Arguello vs. Andy Ganigan (Las Vegas)
6:00 NEWSE7EN
6:30 Urban Update
7:00 You Asked For It
7:30 Dance Fever
8:00 Walt Disney: "Smoke" (1970; Part 1 of 2) - Ron Howard, Earl Holliman, Jacqueline Scott, Andy Devine; D: Vincent McEveety
9:00 CBS Satuday Night Movies: "Time After Time" (1979) - Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Mary Steenburgen; D: Nicholas Meyer
11:00 NEWSE7EN
11:30 Movie: "That Touch of Mink" (1962) - Cary Grant, Doris Day, Gig Young, Audrey Meadows; D: Delbert Mann
2:00 Movie: "Apartment for Peggy" (1948) - Jeanne Crain, William Holden, Edmund Gwenn; D: George Seaton
3:30 NEWSE7EN (R)

25 WXNE
6:00 News
6:30 Health Field
7:00 Josie and the Pussycats
7:30 Fantastic Four
8:00 Around the World in Eighty Days
8:30 Space Kidettes
9:00 Wild Kingdom
9:30 American Trail
10:00 Movie: "Safari Drums" (1953) - Johnny Sheffield, Douglas Kennedy; D: Ford Beebe
NOON Virginian
1:30 Rifleman
2:00 Bonanza
3:00 Big Valley
4:00 High Chaparral
5:00 Grizzly Adams
6:00 Battlestar Galactica
7:00 Wonder Woman
8:00 Movie: "Ride the Pink Horse" (1947) - Robert Montgomery (also the director), Wanda Hendrix, Andrea King
10:00 Sonny & Cher
11:00 Movie: "Victory" (1947) - Frederic March, Cedric Hardwicke, Betty Field; D: John Cromwell

38 WSBK
7:00 Viewpoint on Nutrition
7:30 From the Editor's Desk
8:30 More Real People
9:00 Mr. Moon's Magic Circus
9:30 It's Your Business
10:00 TBA
10:30 Movie: "Dig That Uranium" (1956) - The Bowery Boys, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer; D: Edward Bernds
NOON Movie: "Gorgo" (1961) - Bill Travers, William Sylvester, Vincent Winter; D: Eugene Lourie
1:30 This Week in Baseball
2:00 Red Sox Baseball - hosting Oakland Athletics
5:05 Three Stooges
5:30 Hogan's Heroes
6:00 Jeffersons
6:30 Bob Newhart
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 Fish (Barney Miller spin-off)
8:00 Movie: "Breakheart Pass" (1975) - Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna; D: Tom Gries
10:00 Exchange - Topic: Alcoholism
10:30 INN News
11:00 Nightoons
11:30 Sgt. Bilko
MIDNIGHT WCT Tennis

44 WGBX (PBS secondary)
5:00 (PM) Washington Week in Review
5:30 Wall $treet Week
6:00 Matinee at the Bijou - 1) "The Big Show" (1936) - Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette; 2) Cartoon from 1935; 3) Shirley Temple short; 4) Part 2 of "The Phantom Empire" (1935) - Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette
7:30 Once Upon a Classic: "Black Island (Part 2 of 2)
8:00 Soccer Made in Germany
9:00 Now Is the Time
10:00 Jazz at the Mainenance Shop - Featured: Barney Kessel, Herb Ellis, Charlie Byrd

56 WLVI
8:00 Music and the Spoken Word
8:30 Rex Humbard
9:00 Oral Roberts
9:30 Jimmy Swaggart
10:30 De Todo un Poco
11:00 New England Today
11:30 Sha Na Na
NOON Wrestling
1:00 Movie: "Godzilla vs. Hedora (the Smog Monster)" (1972; English-dubbed)
2:30 Movie: "War of the Monsters" (aka "Gamera vs. Barugon") (1966; English-dubbed)
4:00 Movie: "The Shakiest Gun in the West" (1968) - Don Knotts, Barbara Rhoads, Jackie Coogan; D: Alan Rafkin
6:00 Star Trek
7:00 Benny Hill (x2)
8:00 Movie: "To Have and Have Not" (1944) - Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan; D: Howard Hawks
10:00 Movie: "Key Largo" (1948) - Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor; D: John Huston

68 WQTV
8:00 26 Men
8:30 Judge Roy Bean
9:00 Movie: "Smokey Smith" (1935) - Bob Steele, George 'Gabby' Hayes; D: Robert N. Bradbury
10:00 Dennis O'Keefe
10:30 Peter Gunn
11:00 Soul Train - Guests: War, O'Brien
NOON Medic
12:30 Star Performance

 

[CTListener]

In Saturday's listings, Channel 7 should be WNEV, not WVEN. Did the Globe really get this wrong?

 

[RandTV]

In Saturday's listings, Channel 7 should be WNEV, not WVEN. Did the Globe really get this wrong?

No, I got it wrong. My extreme bad! Thanks for pointing that out. Just fixed that in time before the hour was up!