From the Boston Globe
BOSTON TV- January 6, 1977
WGBH-TV 2 (PBS) WGBH Educational Foundation
9:00am- Sign-on/Educational Programming
11:00am- Electric Company
11:30am- Sesame Street
12:30pm- Educational Programming
2:30pm- Eliot Norton
3:00pm- Five Red Herrings
4:00pm- Sesame Street
5:00pm- Mister Rogers
5:30pm- Sesame Street
6:30pm- Electric Company
7:00pm- Zoom (Captioned)
7:30pm- Rebop
8:00pm- Five Red Herrings
9:00pm- Tell Me Anything it was Done
10:00pm- The Ten O’Clock News (with Christopher Lydon)
10:30pm- MacNeil/Lehrer Report
11:00pm- The Forsythe Saga
12:00am- Sign-off (David Ives with the mission statement, William Pierce doing the script for the sign-off)
WBZ-TV 4 (NBC) Westinghouse
6 :15 SIGN ON SEMINAR
6:45 EYEWITNESS NEWS DAILY ALMINAC
7AM TODAY
9AM CROSS WITS
9:30 LOVERS AND FRIENDS
10 AM SANFORD AND SON
10:30 HOLLYWOOD SQUARES
11am WHEEL OF FORTUNE
11:30- SHOOT FOR THE STARS
12pm- Eyewitness News (with Jack Chase)
12:30 WOMEN 77
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30- The Doctors
3 PM ANOTHER WORLD
4 PM MIKE DOUGLAS (Guest Host- Rex Reed)
5:30 FIRST NEWS
6pm- Eyewitness News (who was WBZ’s News Lineup back in 1977)
7pm- NBC News
7:30 25,000 DOLLAR PYRAMID (with Bill Cullen) (Guests: Jo Anne Worley and Soupy Sales)
8 PM NBC THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE- Call of The Wild (1977)
10 PM BEST SELLERS
11pm- Eyewitness News
11:30- Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
1am- Tomorrow - Tom Snyder
2am- Eyewitness News
2:30 SIGN OFF
WCVB-TV 5 (ABC) Boston Broadcasters
6 AM AUDIO NEWS
7 AM CAPTAIN BOB
7:30 Good Morning America (Preempted the first 30 minutes)
9AM- Good Day
10:30 DON HO
11 AM EDGE OF NIGHT
11:30 HAPPY DAYS
12PM- Newscenter 5 MIDDAY- (with Jack Hynes)
12:30- RYAN'S HOPE
1pm- ALL MY CHILDREN
1:30 FAMILY FEUD
2 PM 20,000 DOLLAR PYRAMID (host: Dick Clark) (Guests: Peggy Cass and Nipsey Russell)
2:30 One Life to Live
3:15 General Hospital
4 PM BIG VALLEY
5 PM FBI
6pm- Newscenter 5 at 6- with (with Chet Curtis, Natalie
Jacobson, Bob Copeland and Don Gillis)
7 PM ABC News
7:30- House Calls
8pm- Welcome Back, Kotter
8:30- What’s Happening
9pm- Barney Miller
9:30- Tony Randall Show
10pm- Streets of San Francisco
11pm- Newscenter 5 at 11
11:30- Thursday Night Special- “Playboy Bunny of the Year
1:00am- NewsCenter 5
1:30am- Screening Room
3:00am- NewsCenter 5
3:10am- Westerners
3:40am- 5 All Night
4::00am- AQUI
4:30am- Good Day!
WNAC-TV 7 (CBS)
6:15am- Sign-on/Farm and Market Report
6:20am- The Elder American
6:50am- Los Noticias De Hoy- (Spanish speaking news for
WNAC)
7am- CBS Morning News
8am- Captain Kangaroo
9am- Dinah Shore
10:30am- The Price is Right
11:30- Love of Life
12 Noon Newsroom 7
12:30- Search for Tomorrow
1pm- The Young and the Restless
1:30- As The World Turns
2:30- Guiding Light
3pm- All in the Family (R)
3:30- Match Game ‘77 (guests: Edward Asner, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Mary Ann Mobley, Richard Dawson, Patti Deutsch)
4pm- MERV GRIFFIN
5:30- Candlepins For Cash (host: Bob Gamere)
6pm- Newsroom 7 (who was the News lineup for Ch. 7 back in 1977
7pm- CBS NEWS
7:30- Gong Show
8pm- The Waltons
9pm- Hawaii Five-O
10pm- Barnaby Jones
11pm- Newsroom 7
11:30- Kojak
12:30- Movie- Necromancy (1977)
2am- Asian Focus
2:15- Newsroom 7
2:30- Greater Bostonians
2:35- Reflections
2:40- Sign-Off
WGBX-TV 44 (PBS) WGBH Educational Foundation
4pm- Sesame Street
5pm- Electric Company
5:30- Hodgepodge Lodge
6pm- Zoom
6:30- Once Upon a Classic
7pm- Captioned Zoom
7:30- Club 44
8pm- African File
8:30- Black Experience
9pm- Lord of the Flies
10:30- Murderer
11pm- Captioned ABC News
11:30- Sign-Off
(For WGBX, the last program that ended, and the upcoming program that was coming up back then, they would show a “44” slide and there was music playing in the background, Interesting, but why would they do that back in the 70’s?)
BOSTON TV- January 6, 1977
WGBH-TV 2 (PBS) WGBH Educational Foundation
9:00am- Sign-on/Educational Programming
11:00am- Electric Company
11:30am- Sesame Street
12:30pm- Educational Programming
2:30pm- Eliot Norton
3:00pm- Five Red Herrings
4:00pm- Sesame Street
5:00pm- Mister Rogers
5:30pm- Sesame Street
6:30pm- Electric Company
7:00pm- Zoom (Captioned)
7:30pm- Rebop
8:00pm- Five Red Herrings
9:00pm- Tell Me Anything it was Done
10:00pm- The Ten O’Clock News (with Christopher Lydon)
10:30pm- MacNeil/Lehrer Report
11:00pm- The Forsythe Saga
12:00am- Sign-off (David Ives with the mission statement, William Pierce doing the script for the sign-off)
WBZ-TV 4 (NBC) Westinghouse
6 :15 SIGN ON SEMINAR
6:45 EYEWITNESS NEWS DAILY ALMINAC
7AM TODAY
9AM CROSS WITS
9:30 LOVERS AND FRIENDS
10 AM SANFORD AND SON
10:30 HOLLYWOOD SQUARES
11am WHEEL OF FORTUNE
11:30- SHOOT FOR THE STARS
12pm- Eyewitness News (with Jack Chase)
12:30 WOMEN 77
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30- The Doctors
3 PM ANOTHER WORLD
4 PM MIKE DOUGLAS (Guest Host- Rex Reed)
5:30 FIRST NEWS
6pm- Eyewitness News (who was WBZ’s News Lineup back in 1977)
7pm- NBC News
7:30 25,000 DOLLAR PYRAMID (with Bill Cullen) (Guests: Jo Anne Worley and Soupy Sales)
8 PM NBC THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE- Call of The Wild (1977)
10 PM BEST SELLERS
11pm- Eyewitness News
11:30- Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
1am- Tomorrow - Tom Snyder
2am- Eyewitness News
2:30 SIGN OFF
WCVB-TV 5 (ABC) Boston Broadcasters
6 AM AUDIO NEWS
7 AM CAPTAIN BOB
7:30 Good Morning America (Preempted the first 30 minutes)
9AM- Good Day
10:30 DON HO
11 AM EDGE OF NIGHT
11:30 HAPPY DAYS
12PM- Newscenter 5 MIDDAY- (with Jack Hynes)
12:30- RYAN'S HOPE
1pm- ALL MY CHILDREN
1:30 FAMILY FEUD
2 PM 20,000 DOLLAR PYRAMID (host: Dick Clark) (Guests: Peggy Cass and Nipsey Russell)
2:30 One Life to Live
3:15 General Hospital
4 PM BIG VALLEY
5 PM FBI
6pm- Newscenter 5 at 6- with (with Chet Curtis, Natalie
Jacobson, Bob Copeland and Don Gillis)
7 PM ABC News
7:30- House Calls
8pm- Welcome Back, Kotter
8:30- What’s Happening
9pm- Barney Miller
9:30- Tony Randall Show
10pm- Streets of San Francisco
11pm- Newscenter 5 at 11
11:30- Thursday Night Special- “Playboy Bunny of the Year
1:00am- NewsCenter 5
1:30am- Screening Room
3:00am- NewsCenter 5
3:10am- Westerners
3:40am- 5 All Night
4::00am- AQUI
4:30am- Good Day!
WNAC-TV 7 (CBS)
6:15am- Sign-on/Farm and Market Report
6:20am- The Elder American
6:50am- Los Noticias De Hoy- (Spanish speaking news for
WNAC)
7am- CBS Morning News
8am- Captain Kangaroo
9am- Dinah Shore
10:30am- The Price is Right
11:30- Love of Life
12 Noon Newsroom 7
12:30- Search for Tomorrow
1pm- The Young and the Restless
1:30- As The World Turns
2:30- Guiding Light
3pm- All in the Family (R)
3:30- Match Game ‘77 (guests: Edward Asner, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly, Mary Ann Mobley, Richard Dawson, Patti Deutsch)
4pm- MERV GRIFFIN
5:30- Candlepins For Cash (host: Bob Gamere)
6pm- Newsroom 7 (who was the News lineup for Ch. 7 back in 1977
7pm- CBS NEWS
7:30- Gong Show
8pm- The Waltons
9pm- Hawaii Five-O
10pm- Barnaby Jones
11pm- Newsroom 7
11:30- Kojak
12:30- Movie- Necromancy (1977)
2am- Asian Focus
2:15- Newsroom 7
2:30- Greater Bostonians
2:35- Reflections
2:40- Sign-Off
WGBX-TV 44 (PBS) WGBH Educational Foundation
4pm- Sesame Street
5pm- Electric Company
5:30- Hodgepodge Lodge
6pm- Zoom
6:30- Once Upon a Classic
7pm- Captioned Zoom
7:30- Club 44
8pm- African File
8:30- Black Experience
9pm- Lord of the Flies
10:30- Murderer
11pm- Captioned ABC News
11:30- Sign-Off
(For WGBX, the last program that ended, and the upcoming program that was coming up back then, they would show a “44” slide and there was music playing in the background, Interesting, but why would they do that back in the 70’s?)