Source: Boston Globe
Boston/Providence/New Hampshire TV- CHRISTMAS 1978
Monday December 25, 1978
CHANNEL LINEUP
2 WGBH-TV (PBS) Boston
4 WBZ-TV (NBC) Boston
5 WCVB-TV (ABC) Boston
6 WTEV-TV (CBS) New Bedford-Providence
7 WNAC-TV (CBS) Boston
9 WMUR-TV (ABC) Manchester, NH
10 WJAR-TV (NBC) Providence
11 WENH-TV (PBS) Durham, NH
12 WPRI-TV (ABC) Providence
25 WXNE-TV (Ind.) Boston
27 WSMW-TV (Ind.) Worcester-Boston
38 WSBK-TV (Ind.) Boston
44 WGBX-TV (PBS) Boston
56 WLVI-TV (Ind.) Boston
MORNING
8:00
6-7- Captain Kangaroo
9- Good Morning America
25- Leave it to Beaver
38- Three Stooges
56- Gilligan's Island
8:30
25- Lassie
38- Romper Room
56- Flintstones and Friends
9:00
4- Celebrations
5- Good Day
6-7- Christmas Mass
9- PTL Club
10- Donahue
12- Dinah
25- Big Valley
27- Director's Playhouse
38- Tom Larson
56- New Zoo Revue
9:30
6- Match Game '78
27- Cooking with Bernard
56- Bozo's Big Top
10:00
4-10- Christmas Service at Washington Cathedral
6- All in the Family
7- Journey to Jesus
9- Donahue
12- $20,000 Pyramid
25- 700 Club
27- PTL Club
38- Ironside
56- De Todo Un Poco
10:30
5- Donahue
6-7- Price is Right
12- Liar's Club
56- New England Today
11:00
2- Boys Town Choir
4-10- High Rollers
9- A Christmas Child
12- Happy Days
38- Marcus Welby M.D
56- Not for Women only
11:30
2- Sesame Street
4-10- Wheel of Fortune
5- Ancient Art of Christmas
6-7- Love of Life
9-12- Family Feud
25- Ross Bagley Show
56- Lucy Show
AFTERNOON
12:00
4-5-12- News
6- Young and The Restless
7- Davey and Goliath
9- $20,000 Pyramid
10-56- America Alive!
27- Daily Mass
38- Movie- Alice in Wonderland (1933)
12:30
2- A New England Christmas
4- Woman '78
5-9-12- Ryan's Hope
6-7- Search for Tomorrow
25- McHale's Navy
27- Movie- The Holly and the Ivy (1953)
1:00
2- Piccadilly Circus
5-9-12- All My Children
6-7 College Football- Peach Bowl- Purdue .vs. Georgia Tech (from Atlanta)
10- Hollywood Squares
25- Father Knows Best
56- Partridge Family
1:30
4-10- Days of Our Lives
25- Room 222
38- Movie- David Copperfield (1970)
56- Banana Splits
2:00
5-9-12- One Life to Live
25- Ozzie and Harriet
56- Yogi Bear
2:30
2- Over Easy
4-10- The Doctors
25- Rocket Robinhood
27- Bugs Bunny/Porky Pig
56- Casper the Ghost
3:00
2- Dick Cavett Show
4- Everyday
5-9-12- General Hospital
10- Bewitched
11- Julia Child and Company
25- Superman
56- Mighty Mouse
3:30
2- The Club
4-10- Fiesta Bowl Football- UCLA .vs. Arkansas (from Tempe, AZ)
11- Over Easy
25- Spiderman/Superheroes
27-38- Lone Ranger
56- Woody Woodpecker
4:00
2-11- Sesame Street
5- Movie- A Christmas Carol (1938)
6-7- NBA Basketball- Philadelphia 76ers @ New York Knicks
9- Edge of Night
12- Merv Griffin
27- Billy Graham
38- All in the Family
56- Tom Jerry
4:30
9- Gilligans Island
25- Special- Oliver Twist and the Artful Dodger
38- The Three Musketeers
56- Flintstones
5:00
2-11- Mister Rogers
9- Bonanza
27- Superman
44- Hodgepodge Lodge
56- Battle of the Planets
5:30
2- Electric Company
5- Carol Burnett Show
11- Sing We Noel
12- Gong Show
27- Space 1999
44- Villa Alegre
56- Brady Bunch
EVENING
6:00
2- Sesame Street
5-6-7-9-12- News
11- Economically Speaking
25- Get Smart
38- Movie- Doctor Doolittle (1967)
44- Lillias, Yoga and You
56- Six Million Dollar Man
6:30
4- News
6-7- CBS news
9-12- ABC News
11- Over Easy
25- Movie- Peggy (1950)
27- Candid Caera
44- Trains, Track, Trestles
7:00
2- Zoom
4- NBC News
5- ABC News
6- Joker's Wild
7- Candlepins for Cash
9- Jack Van Impe
10- News
11- MacNeil/Lehrer Report
12- Newlywed Game
27- $25,000 Pyramid
44- French Chef
56- Mary Tyler Moore
7:30
2- Once upon A Classic- "Secret Garden" (PART 3)
4- This Side of Eden
5- Name That Tune
6- The Muppets
7- Kwanza '78
10- $1.98 Beauty Contest
11- Silent Night
12- Crosswits
27- Abbott and Costello
44- MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00
2- Evening at Symphony
4-10- Little House on the Prairie
5-9- Fast Lane Blues
6-7- White Shadow
11- Christmas Snows
12- Christmas Special
25- Jack Van Impe
27- Movie- March of the Wooden Soldiers
44- Rush
56- Movie- Captain Newman M.D. (1963)
8:30
11- A Christmas Celebration
38- Movie- Going my Way (1944)
9:00
4-10- NBC Movie- Sunshine Christmas (1977)
5-9-12- ABC Movie- Green Eyes
6-7- M*A*S*H
11- Here to Make Music
25- 700 Club
44- The Prisoner
9:30
2- Wonder Anew
6-7- One Day at A Time
27- Catholic Connection
10:00
6-7- Lou Grant
11- A Gift to Last
27- Music of Christmas
44- Elizabethan Christmas
10:30
2- MacNeil/Lehrer Report
25- Life in the Spirit
27- Inside Worcester
44- Dick Cavett Show
56- World at War
11:00
2- The Club (Both WGBH and WGBX would sign-off at 11:30pm)
4-5-6-7-9-10-12- News
25- Gomer Pyle
27- The Joy of Christmas
38- Hogan's Heroes
44- In Search of America
56- Monty Python
11:30
4-10- Tonight Show (John Davidson is host all week)
5-9-12- Police Story
6-7- Rockford Files
25- Dragnet
27- Movie- Make Me An Offer (1955)
38- The Honeymooners
56- Love, American Style
12:30
6-7 Movie- Spiral Staircase (1946)
1:00
4-10- Tomorrow
Boston/Providence/New Hampshire TV- CHRISTMAS 1978
Monday December 25, 1978
CHANNEL LINEUP
2 WGBH-TV (PBS) Boston
4 WBZ-TV (NBC) Boston
5 WCVB-TV (ABC) Boston
6 WTEV-TV (CBS) New Bedford-Providence
7 WNAC-TV (CBS) Boston
9 WMUR-TV (ABC) Manchester, NH
10 WJAR-TV (NBC) Providence
11 WENH-TV (PBS) Durham, NH
12 WPRI-TV (ABC) Providence
25 WXNE-TV (Ind.) Boston
27 WSMW-TV (Ind.) Worcester-Boston
38 WSBK-TV (Ind.) Boston
44 WGBX-TV (PBS) Boston
56 WLVI-TV (Ind.) Boston
MORNING
8:00
6-7- Captain Kangaroo
9- Good Morning America
25- Leave it to Beaver
38- Three Stooges
56- Gilligan's Island
8:30
25- Lassie
38- Romper Room
56- Flintstones and Friends
9:00
4- Celebrations
5- Good Day
6-7- Christmas Mass
9- PTL Club
10- Donahue
12- Dinah
25- Big Valley
27- Director's Playhouse
38- Tom Larson
56- New Zoo Revue
9:30
6- Match Game '78
27- Cooking with Bernard
56- Bozo's Big Top
10:00
4-10- Christmas Service at Washington Cathedral
6- All in the Family
7- Journey to Jesus
9- Donahue
12- $20,000 Pyramid
25- 700 Club
27- PTL Club
38- Ironside
56- De Todo Un Poco
10:30
5- Donahue
6-7- Price is Right
12- Liar's Club
56- New England Today
11:00
2- Boys Town Choir
4-10- High Rollers
9- A Christmas Child
12- Happy Days
38- Marcus Welby M.D
56- Not for Women only
11:30
2- Sesame Street
4-10- Wheel of Fortune
5- Ancient Art of Christmas
6-7- Love of Life
9-12- Family Feud
25- Ross Bagley Show
56- Lucy Show
AFTERNOON
12:00
4-5-12- News
6- Young and The Restless
7- Davey and Goliath
9- $20,000 Pyramid
10-56- America Alive!
27- Daily Mass
38- Movie- Alice in Wonderland (1933)
12:30
2- A New England Christmas
4- Woman '78
5-9-12- Ryan's Hope
6-7- Search for Tomorrow
25- McHale's Navy
27- Movie- The Holly and the Ivy (1953)
1:00
2- Piccadilly Circus
5-9-12- All My Children
6-7 College Football- Peach Bowl- Purdue .vs. Georgia Tech (from Atlanta)
10- Hollywood Squares
25- Father Knows Best
56- Partridge Family
1:30
4-10- Days of Our Lives
25- Room 222
38- Movie- David Copperfield (1970)
56- Banana Splits
2:00
5-9-12- One Life to Live
25- Ozzie and Harriet
56- Yogi Bear
2:30
2- Over Easy
4-10- The Doctors
25- Rocket Robinhood
27- Bugs Bunny/Porky Pig
56- Casper the Ghost
3:00
2- Dick Cavett Show
4- Everyday
5-9-12- General Hospital
10- Bewitched
11- Julia Child and Company
25- Superman
56- Mighty Mouse
3:30
2- The Club
4-10- Fiesta Bowl Football- UCLA .vs. Arkansas (from Tempe, AZ)
11- Over Easy
25- Spiderman/Superheroes
27-38- Lone Ranger
56- Woody Woodpecker
4:00
2-11- Sesame Street
5- Movie- A Christmas Carol (1938)
6-7- NBA Basketball- Philadelphia 76ers @ New York Knicks
9- Edge of Night
12- Merv Griffin
27- Billy Graham
38- All in the Family
56- Tom Jerry
4:30
9- Gilligans Island
25- Special- Oliver Twist and the Artful Dodger
38- The Three Musketeers
56- Flintstones
5:00
2-11- Mister Rogers
9- Bonanza
27- Superman
44- Hodgepodge Lodge
56- Battle of the Planets
5:30
2- Electric Company
5- Carol Burnett Show
11- Sing We Noel
12- Gong Show
27- Space 1999
44- Villa Alegre
56- Brady Bunch
EVENING
6:00
2- Sesame Street
5-6-7-9-12- News
11- Economically Speaking
25- Get Smart
38- Movie- Doctor Doolittle (1967)
44- Lillias, Yoga and You
56- Six Million Dollar Man
6:30
4- News
6-7- CBS news
9-12- ABC News
11- Over Easy
25- Movie- Peggy (1950)
27- Candid Caera
44- Trains, Track, Trestles
7:00
2- Zoom
4- NBC News
5- ABC News
6- Joker's Wild
7- Candlepins for Cash
9- Jack Van Impe
10- News
11- MacNeil/Lehrer Report
12- Newlywed Game
27- $25,000 Pyramid
44- French Chef
56- Mary Tyler Moore
7:30
2- Once upon A Classic- "Secret Garden" (PART 3)
4- This Side of Eden
5- Name That Tune
6- The Muppets
7- Kwanza '78
10- $1.98 Beauty Contest
11- Silent Night
12- Crosswits
27- Abbott and Costello
44- MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00
2- Evening at Symphony
4-10- Little House on the Prairie
5-9- Fast Lane Blues
6-7- White Shadow
11- Christmas Snows
12- Christmas Special
25- Jack Van Impe
27- Movie- March of the Wooden Soldiers
44- Rush
56- Movie- Captain Newman M.D. (1963)
8:30
11- A Christmas Celebration
38- Movie- Going my Way (1944)
9:00
4-10- NBC Movie- Sunshine Christmas (1977)
5-9-12- ABC Movie- Green Eyes
6-7- M*A*S*H
11- Here to Make Music
25- 700 Club
44- The Prisoner
9:30
2- Wonder Anew
6-7- One Day at A Time
27- Catholic Connection
10:00
6-7- Lou Grant
11- A Gift to Last
27- Music of Christmas
44- Elizabethan Christmas
10:30
2- MacNeil/Lehrer Report
25- Life in the Spirit
27- Inside Worcester
44- Dick Cavett Show
56- World at War
11:00
2- The Club (Both WGBH and WGBX would sign-off at 11:30pm)
4-5-6-7-9-10-12- News
25- Gomer Pyle
27- The Joy of Christmas
38- Hogan's Heroes
44- In Search of America
56- Monty Python
11:30
4-10- Tonight Show (John Davidson is host all week)
5-9-12- Police Story
6-7- Rockford Files
25- Dragnet
27- Movie- Make Me An Offer (1955)
38- The Honeymooners
56- Love, American Style
12:30
6-7 Movie- Spiral Staircase (1946)
1:00
4-10- Tomorrow