source: Boston Globe
Boston/Providence TV- Monday March 20, 1972
Boston
WGBH-TV 2 (PBS)/WGBX-TV 44 (PBS)
9am- Sign-on/Parlons Francais I
9:15- World of Science
9:30- Ripples
9:45- Physics Demonstration
10am- Sesame Street
11am- What We Are?
11:30- Que Duon?
12pm- Word Workers Inc.
12:15- Stepping Into Melody
12:30- High School Film
1pm- Mathemagic
1:15- What Can I Tell About You?
1:30- Electric Company
2pm- Places in the News
2:15- What's my Thing
2:30- Intergenerosity Relations
3pm- Man and His Motives (2), Columbus Revisited (44)
3:30- Maggie and the Beautiful Machine (2/44)
4pm- Sesame Street (2/44)
5pm- Mister Rogers (2/44)
5:30- Electric Company (2/44)
6pm- Hodgepodge Lodge (2/44)
6:30- French Chef (2/44)
7pm- News with Louis Lyons (2), Computer Science (44)
7:30- Reporters (2), Hathayoge (44)
8pm- Special of The Week "What Did you Do in School Today? (2), Soul! (44)
9pm- Time Cheap (44)
10pm- Forsythe Saga (2), Martin Agronsky, News (44)
11pm- Janaki (2), Sign-Off (44)
11:15- Sign-Off (2)
WBZ-TV 4 (NBC)
6:15- Sign-On Seminar
6:45- Eyewitness News Daily Almanac
7am- The Today Show- (with local inserts at 7:25, 7:55, 8:25 and 8:55)
9am- For Women Today
10am- Dinah's Place
10:30- Concentration
11am- Sale of the Century
11:30- Hollywood Squares
12pm- Eyewitness News (with Jack Chase, Shelby Scott and Don Kent)
12:30- David Frost
2pm- Days of our Lives
2:30- Doctors
3pm- Another World
3:30- Bright Promise
4pm- Somerset
4:30- Mike Douglas
6pm- Eyewitness News (with Tom Ellis)
7pm- NBC Nightly News
7:30- You Asked For It
8pm- Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
9pm- Movie- Banacek (1972) (World Premiere)
11pm- Eyewitness News
11:30- Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (substitute host: Dom DeLuise)
1am- Eyewitness News
1:05- Movie- Best of The Blues (1939)
2:37am- Sign-Off
WCVB-TV 5 (ABC)- (The new channel 5, replacing WHDH-TV, the day before on March 19th)
7am- WCVB News
7:30- Jabberwocky
8am- Romper Room
8:30- Pluratime
9am- Medical Call
9:30- Big Valley
10:30- From A to Zenker
11:30- WCVB News
12pm- Password
12:30- Split Second (Premire of a Game Show with Tom Kennedy)
1pm- All My Children
1:30- Let's Make A Deal
2pm- Newlywed Game
2:30- Dating Game
3pm- General Hospital
3:30- One Life To Live
4pm- Disvovery- "Fast Freight to Nashville
4:30- Love, American Style
5pm- Perry Mason
6pm- WCVB News
6:30- ABC News
7pm- To Tell The Truth
7:30- Preview Special- (A look at WCVB-TV Programming and Personalities)
8pm- Monday Night Special- "Unsinkable Sea Otter"
9pm- Movie- The Caper of the Golden Bulls (1967)
11pm- WCVB News
11:30- Dick Cavett Show
1am- Medical Call
1:30- Sign-Off
WNAC-TV 7 (CBS)
5:30- Farm and Market Report
5:35- Understanding Our World
6am- Sunrise Semester
6:25- News
6:30- Sunrise Semester
7am- Major Mudd
8am- Captain Kangaroo
9am- Paul Benzaquin
10am- Lucy Show
10:30- My Three Sons
11am- Family Affair
11:30- Love of Life
12pm- News
12:30- Search for Tomorrow
1pm- News?
1:30- As The World Turns
1:30- As The World Turns
2pm- Love is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30- Guiding Light
3pm-The Secret Storm
3:30- The Edge of Night
4pm- Amateur's Guide to Love
4:30- Merv Griffin
6pm- New England Tonight
6:30- CBS News
7pm- What's My Line
7:30- Let's Make A Deal
8pm- Gunsmoke
9pm- Here's Lucy
9:30- Doris Day Show
10pm- Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour
11pm- New England Tonight
11:30- Movie- You've Got to Be Kidding (1967)
1am- News
1:05- Sign-Off
WSMW-TV 27 (Ind.)
12pm- Movie- Who Stole The Body (1962)
1:30- Today's Woman
2pm- Bold Journey
2:30- Ed Allen
3pm- Today's Woman
3:25- Consumer Wants To Know
3:30- Racing from Suffolk Downs
4pm- Bugs Bunny- Road Runner
4:30- Bozo's Big Top
5pm- Popeye
5:30- Lassie
6pm- Petticoat Junction
6:30- Movie- Brigham Young (1940)
8:30- Movie- No Place for Jennifer (1949)
10pm- Channel 27 News Hour (25 minutes)
10:25- Consumer Wants To Know
10:30- Mantrap
11pm- Sign-Off
WSBK-TV 38 (Ind./NBC)
11:20- Jack LaLanne
11:50- Fashions in Sewing
12pm- Jeopardy! (NBC)
12:30- Who, What, When or Where (NBC)
1pm- What Every Woman Wants To Know
1:30- Three on a Match (NBC)
2pm- Tom Larson
3pm- Porky Pig and Friends
3:30- Magilla Gorilla and Peter Potamus
4pm- Bugs Bunny and Road Runner
4:30- Three Stooges
4:50- Sportsclub
4:55- Three Stooges
5:30- Munsters
6pm- I Dream of Jeannie
6:30- McHale's Navy
7pm- Hogan's Heroes
7:30- I Dream of Jeannie
8pm- Daniel Boone
9pm- Phil Donahue Show
10pm- Of Lands and Seas
11pm- Movie- Mission to Paradise (1945)
12:30- Sign-Off
WKBG-TV 56 (Ind.)
11:15- News
11:30- New Zoo Revue
12pm- Kimbo
12:30- Underdog
1pm- Galloping Gourmet
1:30- Movie- Scandal (1963)
3pm- Kimbo
3:30- Yogi Bear
4pm- Flintstones
4:30- Speed Racer
5pm- Lost in Space
6pm- Flinstones
6:30- Gilligan's Island
7pm- I Love Lucy
7:30- Dragnet
8pm- Mvoie- The Black Rose (1950)
10pm- It Takes A Thief
11pm- One Step Beyond
11:30- Movie- Mind Benders (1963)
1:09am- Sign-Off
Coming soon... The Battle of the Independents in Boston, you see what i mean.
Providence
WTEV-TV 6 (ABC)
6:30- Jack LaLanne
6:45- News Scope 6
7am- F Troop
7:30- Leave it to Beaver
8am- Flying Nun
8:30- Community (Bob Bassett)
9am- Romper Room
9:30- Movie Game
10am- Truth or Consequences
10:30- Gilligan's Island
11am- Rhythms in Song
11:30- Bewitched
12pm- Password
12:30- Split Second (Premiere)
1pm- All My Children
1:30- Let's Make A Deal
2pm- Newlywed Game
2:30- Dating Game
3pm- General Hospital
3:30- One Life To Live
4pm- Love, American Style
4:30- Flintstones
5pm- Get Smart
5:30- News Scope 6 (anchored by Truman Taylor)
6pm- ABC News
6:30- Primus
7pm- Hogan's Heroes
7:30- Dr. Simon Locke
8pm- Monday Night Special- "Unsinkable Sea Otter"
9pm- Movie- The Caper of the Golden Bulls (1967)
11pm- News Scope 6
11:30- Dick Cavett Show
1am- News Scope 6
WJAR-TV 10 (NBC)
6:25- TV Classroom
7am- Today Show
9am- David Frost Show
10am- Dinah's Place
10:30- Concentration
11am- Sale of the Century
11:30- Hollywood Squares
12pm- Jeopardy!
12:30- Who, What, When or Where Game
1pm- Watch Your Child -- The Me Too Show
1:30- Talk Back
2pm- Days of our Lives
2:30- Doctors
3pm- Another World
3:30- Bright Promise
4pm- Somerset
4:30- I Love Lucy
5pm- Wild, Wild West
6pm- News (what did WJAR call their newscast and what was their lineup back in 1972?)
7pm- NBC News
7:30- To Tell The Truth
8pm- Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
9pm- Movie- Banacek (1972) (World Premiere)
11pm- News
11:30- Tonight Show with Johnny Carson Show (substitute host: Dom DeLuise)
1am- News
WPRI-TV 12 (CBS)
6:30- Sunrise Semester
7am- CBS News
8am- Captain Kangaroo
9am- Dialing for Dollars
9:30- Direct Question
10am- Lucy Show
10:30- My Three Sons
11am- Family Affair
11:30- Love of Life
12pm- News
12:30- Search for Tomorrow
1pm- Phil Donahue Show
1:30- As The World Turns
2pm- Love is a Many Splendored Thing
2:30- Guiding Light
3pm- Secret Storm
3:30- The Edge of Night
4pm- Deputy
4:30- Merv Griffin
6pm- News (anchored by Walter Cryan/what did WPRI call their newcast and what was their lineup back in 1972)
6:30- CBS News
7pm- What's My Line?
7:30- I Dream of Jeannie
8pm- Gunsmoke
9pm- Here's Lucy
9:30- Doris Day Show
10pm- Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour
11pm- News
11:30- Late Movie- You've Got to Be Kidding (1967)
1am- Sign-Off
Boston/Providence TV- Monday March 20, 1972
Boston
WGBH-TV 2 (PBS)/WGBX-TV 44 (PBS)
9am- Sign-on/Parlons Francais I
9:15- World of Science
9:30- Ripples
9:45- Physics Demonstration
10am- Sesame Street
11am- What We Are?
11:30- Que Duon?
12pm- Word Workers Inc.
12:15- Stepping Into Melody
12:30- High School Film
1pm- Mathemagic
1:15- What Can I Tell About You?
1:30- Electric Company
2pm- Places in the News
2:15- What's my Thing
2:30- Intergenerosity Relations
3pm- Man and His Motives (2), Columbus Revisited (44)
3:30- Maggie and the Beautiful Machine (2/44)
4pm- Sesame Street (2/44)
5pm- Mister Rogers (2/44)
5:30- Electric Company (2/44)
6pm- Hodgepodge Lodge (2/44)
6:30- French Chef (2/44)
7pm- News with Louis Lyons (2), Computer Science (44)
7:30- Reporters (2), Hathayoge (44)
8pm- Special of The Week "What Did you Do in School Today? (2), Soul! (44)
9pm- Time Cheap (44)
10pm- Forsythe Saga (2), Martin Agronsky, News (44)
11pm- Janaki (2), Sign-Off (44)
11:15- Sign-Off (2)
WBZ-TV 4 (NBC)
6:15- Sign-On Seminar
6:45- Eyewitness News Daily Almanac
7am- The Today Show- (with local inserts at 7:25, 7:55, 8:25 and 8:55)
9am- For Women Today
10am- Dinah's Place
10:30- Concentration
11am- Sale of the Century
11:30- Hollywood Squares
12pm- Eyewitness News (with Jack Chase, Shelby Scott and Don Kent)
12:30- David Frost
2pm- Days of our Lives
2:30- Doctors
3pm- Another World
3:30- Bright Promise
4pm- Somerset
4:30- Mike Douglas
6pm- Eyewitness News (with Tom Ellis)
7pm- NBC Nightly News
7:30- You Asked For It
8pm- Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
9pm- Movie- Banacek (1972) (World Premiere)
11pm- Eyewitness News
11:30- Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (substitute host: Dom DeLuise)
1am- Eyewitness News
1:05- Movie- Best of The Blues (1939)
2:37am- Sign-Off
WCVB-TV 5 (ABC)- (The new channel 5, replacing WHDH-TV, the day before on March 19th)
7am- WCVB News
7:30- Jabberwocky
8am- Romper Room
8:30- Pluratime
9am- Medical Call
9:30- Big Valley
10:30- From A to Zenker
11:30- WCVB News
12pm- Password
12:30- Split Second (Premire of a Game Show with Tom Kennedy)
1pm- All My Children
1:30- Let's Make A Deal
2pm- Newlywed Game
2:30- Dating Game
3pm- General Hospital
3:30- One Life To Live
4pm- Disvovery- "Fast Freight to Nashville
4:30- Love, American Style
5pm- Perry Mason
6pm- WCVB News
6:30- ABC News
7pm- To Tell The Truth
7:30- Preview Special- (A look at WCVB-TV Programming and Personalities)
8pm- Monday Night Special- "Unsinkable Sea Otter"
9pm- Movie- The Caper of the Golden Bulls (1967)
11pm- WCVB News
11:30- Dick Cavett Show
1am- Medical Call
1:30- Sign-Off
WNAC-TV 7 (CBS)
5:30- Farm and Market Report
5:35- Understanding Our World
6am- Sunrise Semester
6:25- News
6:30- Sunrise Semester
7am- Major Mudd
8am- Captain Kangaroo
9am- Paul Benzaquin
10am- Lucy Show
10:30- My Three Sons
11am- Family Affair
11:30- Love of Life
12pm- News
12:30- Search for Tomorrow
1pm- News?
1:30- As The World Turns
1:30- As The World Turns
2pm- Love is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30- Guiding Light
3pm-The Secret Storm
3:30- The Edge of Night
4pm- Amateur's Guide to Love
4:30- Merv Griffin
6pm- New England Tonight
6:30- CBS News
7pm- What's My Line
7:30- Let's Make A Deal
8pm- Gunsmoke
9pm- Here's Lucy
9:30- Doris Day Show
10pm- Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour
11pm- New England Tonight
11:30- Movie- You've Got to Be Kidding (1967)
1am- News
1:05- Sign-Off
WSMW-TV 27 (Ind.)
12pm- Movie- Who Stole The Body (1962)
1:30- Today's Woman
2pm- Bold Journey
2:30- Ed Allen
3pm- Today's Woman
3:25- Consumer Wants To Know
3:30- Racing from Suffolk Downs
4pm- Bugs Bunny- Road Runner
4:30- Bozo's Big Top
5pm- Popeye
5:30- Lassie
6pm- Petticoat Junction
6:30- Movie- Brigham Young (1940)
8:30- Movie- No Place for Jennifer (1949)
10pm- Channel 27 News Hour (25 minutes)
10:25- Consumer Wants To Know
10:30- Mantrap
11pm- Sign-Off
WSBK-TV 38 (Ind./NBC)
11:20- Jack LaLanne
11:50- Fashions in Sewing
12pm- Jeopardy! (NBC)
12:30- Who, What, When or Where (NBC)
1pm- What Every Woman Wants To Know
1:30- Three on a Match (NBC)
2pm- Tom Larson
3pm- Porky Pig and Friends
3:30- Magilla Gorilla and Peter Potamus
4pm- Bugs Bunny and Road Runner
4:30- Three Stooges
4:50- Sportsclub
4:55- Three Stooges
5:30- Munsters
6pm- I Dream of Jeannie
6:30- McHale's Navy
7pm- Hogan's Heroes
7:30- I Dream of Jeannie
8pm- Daniel Boone
9pm- Phil Donahue Show
10pm- Of Lands and Seas
11pm- Movie- Mission to Paradise (1945)
12:30- Sign-Off
WKBG-TV 56 (Ind.)
11:15- News
11:30- New Zoo Revue
12pm- Kimbo
12:30- Underdog
1pm- Galloping Gourmet
1:30- Movie- Scandal (1963)
3pm- Kimbo
3:30- Yogi Bear
4pm- Flintstones
4:30- Speed Racer
5pm- Lost in Space
6pm- Flinstones
6:30- Gilligan's Island
7pm- I Love Lucy
7:30- Dragnet
8pm- Mvoie- The Black Rose (1950)
10pm- It Takes A Thief
11pm- One Step Beyond
11:30- Movie- Mind Benders (1963)
1:09am- Sign-Off
Coming soon... The Battle of the Independents in Boston, you see what i mean.
Providence
WTEV-TV 6 (ABC)
6:30- Jack LaLanne
6:45- News Scope 6
7am- F Troop
7:30- Leave it to Beaver
8am- Flying Nun
8:30- Community (Bob Bassett)
9am- Romper Room
9:30- Movie Game
10am- Truth or Consequences
10:30- Gilligan's Island
11am- Rhythms in Song
11:30- Bewitched
12pm- Password
12:30- Split Second (Premiere)
1pm- All My Children
1:30- Let's Make A Deal
2pm- Newlywed Game
2:30- Dating Game
3pm- General Hospital
3:30- One Life To Live
4pm- Love, American Style
4:30- Flintstones
5pm- Get Smart
5:30- News Scope 6 (anchored by Truman Taylor)
6pm- ABC News
6:30- Primus
7pm- Hogan's Heroes
7:30- Dr. Simon Locke
8pm- Monday Night Special- "Unsinkable Sea Otter"
9pm- Movie- The Caper of the Golden Bulls (1967)
11pm- News Scope 6
11:30- Dick Cavett Show
1am- News Scope 6
WJAR-TV 10 (NBC)
6:25- TV Classroom
7am- Today Show
9am- David Frost Show
10am- Dinah's Place
10:30- Concentration
11am- Sale of the Century
11:30- Hollywood Squares
12pm- Jeopardy!
12:30- Who, What, When or Where Game
1pm- Watch Your Child -- The Me Too Show
1:30- Talk Back
2pm- Days of our Lives
2:30- Doctors
3pm- Another World
3:30- Bright Promise
4pm- Somerset
4:30- I Love Lucy
5pm- Wild, Wild West
6pm- News (what did WJAR call their newscast and what was their lineup back in 1972?)
7pm- NBC News
7:30- To Tell The Truth
8pm- Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
9pm- Movie- Banacek (1972) (World Premiere)
11pm- News
11:30- Tonight Show with Johnny Carson Show (substitute host: Dom DeLuise)
1am- News
WPRI-TV 12 (CBS)
6:30- Sunrise Semester
7am- CBS News
8am- Captain Kangaroo
9am- Dialing for Dollars
9:30- Direct Question
10am- Lucy Show
10:30- My Three Sons
11am- Family Affair
11:30- Love of Life
12pm- News
12:30- Search for Tomorrow
1pm- Phil Donahue Show
1:30- As The World Turns
2pm- Love is a Many Splendored Thing
2:30- Guiding Light
3pm- Secret Storm
3:30- The Edge of Night
4pm- Deputy
4:30- Merv Griffin
6pm- News (anchored by Walter Cryan/what did WPRI call their newcast and what was their lineup back in 1972)
6:30- CBS News
7pm- What's My Line?
7:30- I Dream of Jeannie
8pm- Gunsmoke
9pm- Here's Lucy
9:30- Doris Day Show
10pm- Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour
11pm- News
11:30- Late Movie- You've Got to Be Kidding (1967)
1am- Sign-Off