Source: Schenectady Gazette via Google News Archive.
Listings ran from 7AM to 1AM.
WKTV 2 - NBC Utica
7:00 Today
9:00 Donahue
Guest: Jane Fonda.
10:00 Romper Room
10:30 Blockbusters
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Battlestars
12:00 Password Plus
12:30 The Doctors
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Texas
4:00 Here's Lucy
4:30 Christmas Choirs
Adirondack Central High.
5:00 Happy Days Again
5:30 M*A*S*H
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Laverne and Shirley and Company
7:30 M*A*S*H
8:00 Little House on the Prairie
The entire Ingalls family, trapped inside the house by a sudden snowstorm, spend Christmas Eve reminiscing about past Christmases.
9:00 All the Way Home
Sally Field and William Hurt star in a live production of Tad Mosel's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about a Tennessee family's struggle to cope with the death of a beloved father.
11:00 News
11:30 Best of Carson
Guests: Fred Astaire, Steve Landesburg, Al Hirt, Richard Mitchell.
12:30 sign-off
WNEW 5 - New York (Independent)
7:00 Porky Pig and Friends
7:30 Great Space Coaster
8:00 Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Bugs Bunny
9:00 Brady Bunch
9:30 My Three Sons
10:00 Waltons
11:00 Hour Magazine
Gary Collins and Dr. Eleanor Hamilton explore ways to teach children about sex; Pat Mitchell updates premature infant care; a woman tells how she went from welfare to wealthy in 10 years.
12:00 Midday
1:20 News
1:30 Against the Wind
"The Flogging Parson". Dinny O'Byrne, a likeable rebel, befriends Mary and Jonathan and urges them to conform to the system. (part 4)
2:30 The Addams Family
3:00 Woody Woodpecker and Friends
4:00 The Flinstones
4:30 Little Rascals
5:00 Gilligan's Island
5:30 What's Happening!!
6:00 Charlie's Angels
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 All in the Family
8:00 PM Magazine
An 11-story Christmas tree in Florida; surfing on snow in Michigan, Maria Shriver looks at set designing; New York Attorney Joy Jones explains what rights you have when you buy a product.
8:30 Carol Burnett and Friends
9:00 Merv Griffin Show
"The Hit Makers". Guests: Kal Rudman, John Schneider, Roseanne Cash, Robbie Dupree.
10:00 News
11:00 M*A*S*H
11:30 Kojak
12:30 Hogan's Heroes
1:00 Super Pay Cards
WRGB 6 - CBS Schenectady
7:00 Wake Up with the Captain
7:30 CBS Morning with Charles Kuralt
9:00 People's Court
9:30 Up to the Minute
10:00 One Day at a Time
10:30 Alice
11:00 Price is Right
12:00 News
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Search for Tomorrow
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Hour Magazine
5:00 The Muppets
5:30 Good Times
6:00 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 Private Benjamin
Judy and Captain Lewis are stranded in the middle of a broiling desert when their jeep breaks down.
8:30 The Two of Us
A wily old colleague of Brentwood's with a prison record charms his way into Nan's household.
9:00 M*A*S*H
The staff hosts a Christmas party for Korean orphans in the mess tent and tends a seriously wounded soldier in the operating room.
9:30 House Calls
Conrad learns a hospital inspector is about to pay a surprise visit, panics, and puts the entire staff on emergency night duty.
10:00 Lou Grant
Billie goes on the road on the press bus to cover a hot-shot politician.
11:00 News
11:30 Quincy
Quincy returns to the office the morning after performing a late-night autopsy to find the body and all evidence of his work has dissapeared.
12:40 Banacek
2:10 sign-off
WOR 9 - New York (Independent)
7:00 Jimmy Swaggart
7:30 Jim Bakker
8:30 Meet the Mayors
9:00 Straight Talk
10:00 Romper Room
11:00 John Davidson
Guests: Charo, Susan Saint James, Sandy Duncan.
12:00 News
1:00 Let's Make a Deal
1:30 Pitfall
2:00 Treasure Hunt
2:30 Match Game
3:00 Bonanza
4:00 Movie: "Nicholas and Alexandra" (1971) Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman. (part 1)
6:00 Tic Tac Dough
6:30 Bullseye
7:00 You Asked for It
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
Peter O'Toole discusses his role in "My Favorite Year".
8:00 Morecambe and Wise
9:00 Movie: "Pat and Mike" (1952) Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn.
A New York City sports promoter turns an ex-physical instruction teacher into the queen of the athletic world.
11:00 Maude
11:30 Morecambe and Wise
12:00 Movie: "Hudson's Bay" (1940) Paul Muni, Gene Tierney.
WTEN 10 - ABC Albany
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Donahue
"Pension Rights". Guests: Karen Ferguson, director of the Pension Rights Center in Washington, D.C., Nancy Abell, Ex-Partners of Servicemen for Equality.
10:00 Richard Simmons
10:30 The Edge of Night
11:00 The Love Boat
12:00 News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Wonder Woman
5:00 Laverne and Shirley and Company
5:30 M*A*S*H
6:00 News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 PM Magazine (same as ch. 5, plus Peter Graves tells how to choose ski boots and poles)
8:00 ABC News Closeup
"Rain of Terror". Bill Redeker reports on the results of a three-month investigation into the alleged use of biochemical warfare, in the form of "Yellow Rain", by the Soviet Union in Southeast Asia.
9:00 NFL Football
Oakland Raiders vs. San Diego Chargers.
11:45 News
12:15 Nightline
12:45 NCAA Bowl Preview
A look at this year's upcoming bowl games, featuring an analysis of the talents and strengths of the teams in contention, is presented.
WPIX 11 - New York (Independent)
7:00 Popeye
7:30 Tom and Jerry
8:00 Cartoons
8:30 Hector Heathcote
9:00 The Munsters
9:30 New Jersey: Hispanic Perspective
10:00 Focus: New Jersey
10:30 Mike Douglas
Co-host: Norm Crosby. Guests: Roger Whittaker, Lou Jacobi, Reba McEntire, Michael Marlin.
11:30 Another Life
12:00 Candid Camera
12:30 Independent Network News
1:00 700 Club
2:00 Magic Garden
2:30 Heckle and Jeckle
3:00 Magilla Gorilla
3:30 Krofft Superstars
4:00 Tom and Jerry
4:30 Scooby Doo
5:00 Good Times
6:00 Happy Days Again
6:30 Laverne and Shirley and Company
7:00 Barney Miller
7:30 News
8:00 Movie: "Miracle on 34th Street" (1947) Maureen O'Hara, John Payne.
An old man named Kris Kringle is hired by Macy's to play Santa Claus in the Thanksgiving Day parade.
10:00 Independent Network News
10:30 News
11:00 The Honeymooners
11:30 Saturday Night
12:30 Solid Gold
WNYT 13 - NBC Albany
7:00 Today
9:00 Merv Griffin Show
Guests: Ricky Schroder, Reba McEntire, Joyce Jillson, Jack Carter.
10:00 Regis Philbin
10:30 Blockbusters
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Battlestars
12:00 Password Plus
12:30 The Doctors
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Texas
4:00 All in the Family
4:30 The Jeffersons
5:00 Barney Miller
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Entertainment Tonight
7:30 Treasure Hunt
8:00 Little House on the Prairie
9:00 All the Way Home
11:00 News
11:30 Best of Carson
12:30 Tomorrow with Tom Snyder
Guests: singer Loretta Lynn, actress Shelley Duvall, comedian Pat Paulsen, sports announcer Phil Rizzuto.
2:00 sign-off
WMHT 17 - PBS Schenectady
7:00 Nightly Business Report
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Mister Rogers
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Once Upon a Classic
"A Tale of Two Cities". Lucie Manette learns that her father who has been missing for almost 20 years is alive and living in Paris. (part 1)
10:30 Making Things Grow
11:00 American Short Story
12:00 Bach Christmas Oratorio
Bach's traditional Christmas Oratorio is performed by choirs, chamber orchestras and various soloists from the Cathedral of Regensburg, West Germany.
3:00 Dick Cavett
3:30 Over Easy
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Doctor Who
6:00 Flexible Reading
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 Dick Cavett
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 John Callaway Interviews
Charles Addams demonstrates how he draws his "New Yorker" cartoons and gives a tour of his memento-filled apartment.
9:00 Great Performances
11:00 ABC World News Tonight (CC)
11:30 Matters of Opinion
12:00 sign-off
WSBK 38 - Boston (Independent)
7:00 Batman
7:30 Scooby Doo
8:00 Bugs Bunny and Friends
8:30 Cartoons
9:00 Leave it to the Women
9:30 Daytime
10:20 News
10:30 Marcus Welby, M.D.
11:30 Independent Network News
12:00 Movie: "The Stripper" (1963) Joanne Woodward, Richard Beymer.
2:00 Andy Griffith Show
2:30 Beverly Hillbillies
3:00 Bewitched
3:30 Adam-12
4:00 Emergency
5:00 Carter Country
5:30 Young People's Special
"My Special World". The world of TV is seen through the eyes of a child star.
6:00 Mr. Krueger's Christmas
A lonely widower finds happiness through the love of a little girl on Christmas Eve.
6:30 Movie: "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" (1964) John Call, Leonard Hicks.
A group of Martians try to capture the spirit of Christmas for their young ones by kidnapping Santa and two Earth children.
8:00 Movie: "Jesus Christ, Superstar" (1973) Ted Neeley, Yvonne Elliman.
The last seven days in the life of Jesus are musically recreated against the backdrop of contemporary Israel.
10:00 Independent Network News
10:30 Movie: "Pepe" (1961) Cantinflas, Dan Dailey,
A director, his horse and the horse's friend make a successful movie.
1:30 sign-off
Listings ran from 7AM to 1AM.
WKTV 2 - NBC Utica
7:00 Today
9:00 Donahue
Guest: Jane Fonda.
10:00 Romper Room
10:30 Blockbusters
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Battlestars
12:00 Password Plus
12:30 The Doctors
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Texas
4:00 Here's Lucy
4:30 Christmas Choirs
Adirondack Central High.
5:00 Happy Days Again
5:30 M*A*S*H
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Laverne and Shirley and Company
7:30 M*A*S*H
8:00 Little House on the Prairie
The entire Ingalls family, trapped inside the house by a sudden snowstorm, spend Christmas Eve reminiscing about past Christmases.
9:00 All the Way Home
Sally Field and William Hurt star in a live production of Tad Mosel's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about a Tennessee family's struggle to cope with the death of a beloved father.
11:00 News
11:30 Best of Carson
Guests: Fred Astaire, Steve Landesburg, Al Hirt, Richard Mitchell.
12:30 sign-off
WNEW 5 - New York (Independent)
7:00 Porky Pig and Friends
7:30 Great Space Coaster
8:00 Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Bugs Bunny
9:00 Brady Bunch
9:30 My Three Sons
10:00 Waltons
11:00 Hour Magazine
Gary Collins and Dr. Eleanor Hamilton explore ways to teach children about sex; Pat Mitchell updates premature infant care; a woman tells how she went from welfare to wealthy in 10 years.
12:00 Midday
1:20 News
1:30 Against the Wind
"The Flogging Parson". Dinny O'Byrne, a likeable rebel, befriends Mary and Jonathan and urges them to conform to the system. (part 4)
2:30 The Addams Family
3:00 Woody Woodpecker and Friends
4:00 The Flinstones
4:30 Little Rascals
5:00 Gilligan's Island
5:30 What's Happening!!
6:00 Charlie's Angels
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 All in the Family
8:00 PM Magazine
An 11-story Christmas tree in Florida; surfing on snow in Michigan, Maria Shriver looks at set designing; New York Attorney Joy Jones explains what rights you have when you buy a product.
8:30 Carol Burnett and Friends
9:00 Merv Griffin Show
"The Hit Makers". Guests: Kal Rudman, John Schneider, Roseanne Cash, Robbie Dupree.
10:00 News
11:00 M*A*S*H
11:30 Kojak
12:30 Hogan's Heroes
1:00 Super Pay Cards
WRGB 6 - CBS Schenectady
7:00 Wake Up with the Captain
7:30 CBS Morning with Charles Kuralt
9:00 People's Court
9:30 Up to the Minute
10:00 One Day at a Time
10:30 Alice
11:00 Price is Right
12:00 News
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Search for Tomorrow
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Hour Magazine
5:00 The Muppets
5:30 Good Times
6:00 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 Private Benjamin
Judy and Captain Lewis are stranded in the middle of a broiling desert when their jeep breaks down.
8:30 The Two of Us
A wily old colleague of Brentwood's with a prison record charms his way into Nan's household.
9:00 M*A*S*H
The staff hosts a Christmas party for Korean orphans in the mess tent and tends a seriously wounded soldier in the operating room.
9:30 House Calls
Conrad learns a hospital inspector is about to pay a surprise visit, panics, and puts the entire staff on emergency night duty.
10:00 Lou Grant
Billie goes on the road on the press bus to cover a hot-shot politician.
11:00 News
11:30 Quincy
Quincy returns to the office the morning after performing a late-night autopsy to find the body and all evidence of his work has dissapeared.
12:40 Banacek
2:10 sign-off
WOR 9 - New York (Independent)
7:00 Jimmy Swaggart
7:30 Jim Bakker
8:30 Meet the Mayors
9:00 Straight Talk
10:00 Romper Room
11:00 John Davidson
Guests: Charo, Susan Saint James, Sandy Duncan.
12:00 News
1:00 Let's Make a Deal
1:30 Pitfall
2:00 Treasure Hunt
2:30 Match Game
3:00 Bonanza
4:00 Movie: "Nicholas and Alexandra" (1971) Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman. (part 1)
6:00 Tic Tac Dough
6:30 Bullseye
7:00 You Asked for It
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
Peter O'Toole discusses his role in "My Favorite Year".
8:00 Morecambe and Wise
9:00 Movie: "Pat and Mike" (1952) Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn.
A New York City sports promoter turns an ex-physical instruction teacher into the queen of the athletic world.
11:00 Maude
11:30 Morecambe and Wise
12:00 Movie: "Hudson's Bay" (1940) Paul Muni, Gene Tierney.
WTEN 10 - ABC Albany
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Donahue
"Pension Rights". Guests: Karen Ferguson, director of the Pension Rights Center in Washington, D.C., Nancy Abell, Ex-Partners of Servicemen for Equality.
10:00 Richard Simmons
10:30 The Edge of Night
11:00 The Love Boat
12:00 News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Wonder Woman
5:00 Laverne and Shirley and Company
5:30 M*A*S*H
6:00 News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 PM Magazine (same as ch. 5, plus Peter Graves tells how to choose ski boots and poles)
8:00 ABC News Closeup
"Rain of Terror". Bill Redeker reports on the results of a three-month investigation into the alleged use of biochemical warfare, in the form of "Yellow Rain", by the Soviet Union in Southeast Asia.
9:00 NFL Football
Oakland Raiders vs. San Diego Chargers.
11:45 News
12:15 Nightline
12:45 NCAA Bowl Preview
A look at this year's upcoming bowl games, featuring an analysis of the talents and strengths of the teams in contention, is presented.
WPIX 11 - New York (Independent)
7:00 Popeye
7:30 Tom and Jerry
8:00 Cartoons
8:30 Hector Heathcote
9:00 The Munsters
9:30 New Jersey: Hispanic Perspective
10:00 Focus: New Jersey
10:30 Mike Douglas
Co-host: Norm Crosby. Guests: Roger Whittaker, Lou Jacobi, Reba McEntire, Michael Marlin.
11:30 Another Life
12:00 Candid Camera
12:30 Independent Network News
1:00 700 Club
2:00 Magic Garden
2:30 Heckle and Jeckle
3:00 Magilla Gorilla
3:30 Krofft Superstars
4:00 Tom and Jerry
4:30 Scooby Doo
5:00 Good Times
6:00 Happy Days Again
6:30 Laverne and Shirley and Company
7:00 Barney Miller
7:30 News
8:00 Movie: "Miracle on 34th Street" (1947) Maureen O'Hara, John Payne.
An old man named Kris Kringle is hired by Macy's to play Santa Claus in the Thanksgiving Day parade.
10:00 Independent Network News
10:30 News
11:00 The Honeymooners
11:30 Saturday Night
12:30 Solid Gold
WNYT 13 - NBC Albany
7:00 Today
9:00 Merv Griffin Show
Guests: Ricky Schroder, Reba McEntire, Joyce Jillson, Jack Carter.
10:00 Regis Philbin
10:30 Blockbusters
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Battlestars
12:00 Password Plus
12:30 The Doctors
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Texas
4:00 All in the Family
4:30 The Jeffersons
5:00 Barney Miller
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Entertainment Tonight
7:30 Treasure Hunt
8:00 Little House on the Prairie
9:00 All the Way Home
11:00 News
11:30 Best of Carson
12:30 Tomorrow with Tom Snyder
Guests: singer Loretta Lynn, actress Shelley Duvall, comedian Pat Paulsen, sports announcer Phil Rizzuto.
2:00 sign-off
WMHT 17 - PBS Schenectady
7:00 Nightly Business Report
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Mister Rogers
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Once Upon a Classic
"A Tale of Two Cities". Lucie Manette learns that her father who has been missing for almost 20 years is alive and living in Paris. (part 1)
10:30 Making Things Grow
11:00 American Short Story
12:00 Bach Christmas Oratorio
Bach's traditional Christmas Oratorio is performed by choirs, chamber orchestras and various soloists from the Cathedral of Regensburg, West Germany.
3:00 Dick Cavett
3:30 Over Easy
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Doctor Who
6:00 Flexible Reading
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 Dick Cavett
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 John Callaway Interviews
Charles Addams demonstrates how he draws his "New Yorker" cartoons and gives a tour of his memento-filled apartment.
9:00 Great Performances
11:00 ABC World News Tonight (CC)
11:30 Matters of Opinion
12:00 sign-off
WSBK 38 - Boston (Independent)
7:00 Batman
7:30 Scooby Doo
8:00 Bugs Bunny and Friends
8:30 Cartoons
9:00 Leave it to the Women
9:30 Daytime
10:20 News
10:30 Marcus Welby, M.D.
11:30 Independent Network News
12:00 Movie: "The Stripper" (1963) Joanne Woodward, Richard Beymer.
2:00 Andy Griffith Show
2:30 Beverly Hillbillies
3:00 Bewitched
3:30 Adam-12
4:00 Emergency
5:00 Carter Country
5:30 Young People's Special
"My Special World". The world of TV is seen through the eyes of a child star.
6:00 Mr. Krueger's Christmas
A lonely widower finds happiness through the love of a little girl on Christmas Eve.
6:30 Movie: "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians" (1964) John Call, Leonard Hicks.
A group of Martians try to capture the spirit of Christmas for their young ones by kidnapping Santa and two Earth children.
8:00 Movie: "Jesus Christ, Superstar" (1973) Ted Neeley, Yvonne Elliman.
The last seven days in the life of Jesus are musically recreated against the backdrop of contemporary Israel.
10:00 Independent Network News
10:30 Movie: "Pepe" (1961) Cantinflas, Dan Dailey,
A director, his horse and the horse's friend make a successful movie.
1:30 sign-off