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Retro: Boston and Manchester, Wednesday, October 1, 1980

Source: Nashua Telegraph

WGBH 2 - PBS Boston
8:45 AM Weather
9:00 The Growing Years
9:30 Write On
9:40 At Your Fingertips
10:00 Thinkabout
10:15 A Visit to...
10:30 The Electric Company
11:00 People You'd Like to Know
11:10 Nutrition
11:30 A Child's Right to Read
12:00 Sesame Street
1:00 At Your Fingertips
1:10 Write On
1:15 All About You
1:30 Faces of Man
2:00 On the Level
2:15 Primary Science
2:20 People You'd Like to Know
2:30 Sesame Street
3:30 Villa Alegre
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 The Electric Company
6:00 3-2-1 Contact
6:30 Mister Rogers
7:00 Doctor Who: "Talons of Weng Chiang" (part 2)
7:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
8:00 Nuclear Nightmares: Wars that Must Never Happened
Peter Ustinov imagines the unthinkable with four frightening and visually explicit scenarios of nuclear holocaust culminating in a fallout shelter where, in the aftermath of each calamity, he reveals how it happened.
9:30 They Write the Songs
Songwriter Yip Harburg sings hit melodies from "The Wizard of Oz" and others and discusses such diverse stage personalities as Judy Garland and the Marx Brothers.
10:00 News
10:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
11:00 Dick Cavett
Guest: Richard Burton (part 3 of 4)
11:30 Nuclear Nightmares: Wars that Must Never Happened
1:00 sign-off

WBZ 4 - NBC Boston

5:00 Sharon King
5:30 Morning Stretch
6:00 News
7:00 Today
9:00 Hour Magazine
10:00 Mike Douglas
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Password Plus
12:00 News
12:30 Sharon King
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Texas
4:00 John Davidson
5:00 Match Game
5:30 News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Evening Magazine
The programme is headed to Hanover, New Hampshire to visit Dartmouth professor John Rassias; and meets the First Lady, her social secretary and staff.
8:00 Real People
Featured: monks who are also volunteer firemen; a couple who keep alligators, skunks and wolves in their home; an unusual Beverly Hills health food restaurant.
9:00 Movie: "Eyes of Laura Mars" (1978) Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones.
A chic photographer, renowned for shooting rather bizarre scenes, begins having psychic visions of her friends being murdered.
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
Guest host: David Brenner. Guests: Mike Connors, James Burke and Pat Boone.
12:30 Tomorrow with Tom Snyder
Guest: author Studs Turkel.
2:00 News
2:05 Solid Gold
3:05 Movie: "Night Caller from Outer Space" (1965) John Saxon, Patricia Haines.

WCVB 5 - ABC Boston
6:00 News (news for the deaf airs twice: at 6:25 and 6:50)
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Good Day!
10:30 Donahue
11:30 Vidal Sassoon's Your New Day
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 Rhoda
4:30 Carol Burnett and Friends
5:00 The World of People
5:30 All in the Family
6:00 News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Big Money
8:00 Charlie's Angels
The Angels travel to a ski resort to prevent the planned kidnapping of a top presidential aide.
10:00 Ali... A Living Legend (preempts Vega$)
Narrated by Gil Noble, this special is presented at a time when Muhammad Ali prepares to enter the ring to win an unprecedented fourth heavyweight crown.
11:00 News
11:30 Nightline
11:50 The Love Boat
"Ship of Ghouls". Vincent Price, Jan Blondell, Barbara Anderson, Charles Aiken.
1:00 Police Woman
Pepper and Crowley pose as international jewel fences to break a gang of jewel thieves.
2:10 Five All Night
3:50 News
4:00 Aquí: "Cuba" (part 2) Presented by Jorge Quiroga.
4:30 Good Day!

WNAC 7 - CBS Boston
6:10 Greater Bostonians
6:15 Farm and Market Report
6:20 Sunrise Semester
6:50 Noticiero 7
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 The Jeffersons
9:30 Alice
10:00 Weekday!
11:00 Price is Right
12:00 News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Young and the Restless
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Movie: "Summer of '42" (1971) Jennifer O'Neill, Gary Grimes.
6:00 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 Movie: "Corvette Summer" (1978, part 1) Mark Hamill, Annie Potts.
A high school student embarks on a search for the stolen Corvette that he and his friends had lovingly customized.
9:00 Movie: "Fugitive Family" (1980) Richard Crenna, Diane Baker.
A government witness against a syndicate boss and his family take new identities and go into hiding in an effort to escape the mobster's vengeance.
11:00 News
11:30 Campaign Countdown
Walter Cronkite and various correspondents report on the candidates, issues, the electorate and the changing political system.
12:00 CBS Late Movie: "Mitchell" (1977) Joe Don Baker, Martin Balsam.
An incorruptible detective attempts to stop the criminal activities of two powerful, previously untouchable businessmen.
2:20 Greater Bostonians

WMUR 9 - ABC Manchester
6:00 PTL Club
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 PTL Club
10:00 Donahue
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 The Edge of Night
4:30 Candid Camera
5:00 Petticoat Junction
5:30 Tic Tac Dough
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Joker's Wild
7:30 The Muppets
8:00 Charlie's Angels
10:00 Vega$
Bea, a choreographer and four chorus girls are held hostage in a hotel penthouse by a trio of vicious ex-cons.
11:00 News
11:50 The Love Boat
1:00 Police Woman
2:10 News
2:20 sign-off

WENH 11 - PBS Durham
8:15 AM Weather
8:30 Short Story Theatre
9:00 Poetry Alive
9:15 Vegetable Soup
9:45 Magic Pages
10:00 Bread and Butterflies
10:15 Write Channel
10:30 American Scrapbook
10:45 Mathways
11:00 Safe and Sound
11:15 Poetry Alive
11:30 Franco File
12:00 Sesame Street
1:00 Mathways
1:15 All About You
1:30 Inside Out
1:45 Looks at Books
2:00 Our New Hampshire
2:15 Primary Science
2:30 Short Story Theatre
3:00 Modern Supervisory Techniques
3:30 Over Easy
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 3-2-1 Contact
6:00 News
6:30 Young Children with Special Needs
7:00 Doctor Who: "The Robot of Death" (part 3)
7:30 Dick Cavett
Guest: Richard Burton (part 3 of 4)
8:00 Nuclear Nightmares: Wars that Must Never Happened
9:30 They Write the Songs
Songwriter Yip Harburg sings hit melodies from "The Wizard of Oz" and others and discusses such diverse stage personalities as Judy Garland and the Marx Brothers.
10:00 Antiques
10:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
11:00 News
11:30 sign-off

WXNE 25 - Boston (Independent)
6:00 Health Field
6:30 Cartoons
7:00 Quick Draw McGraw
7:30 Bugaloos
8:00 Josie and the Pussycats
8:30 Funworld
9:00 Lassie
9:30 Leave it to Beaver
10:00 700 Club
11:30 News
11:45 Cartoons
12:00 Get Smart!
12:30 McHale's Navy
1:00 Gomer Pyle
1:30 Rocky and Bullwinkle
2:00 Underdog
2:30 Spiderman -Spiderwoman
3:00 Land of the Lost
3:30 Star Blazers
4:30 Wonder Woman
5:30 Let's Make a Deal
6:00 Face the Music
6:30 Candlepins for Cash
7:00 The Rockford Files
Rockford trails a young beauty in the hopes that she will lead to the recovery of $1.000.000.
8:00 Bonanza
9:00 700 Club
10:30 It's Your Life
11:00 JG: 143
11:30 Movie: "Happy Go Lovely" (1951) Vera Ellen, David Niven.
A producer believing a chorine is a millionaire's girlfriend casts her in his leading role.
1:30 sign-off

WSBK 38 - Boston (Independent)
6:30 Romper Room
7:00 Batman
7:30 Scooby Doo
8:00 Porky Pig and Bugs Bunny
8:30 Cartoons
9:00 Don Lane
10:00 Tom Larson
10:50 News
11:00 Maude
11:30 Richard Simmons
12:00 Movie: "Synanon" (1965) Edmond O'Brien, Chuck Connors.
2:00 You Bet Your Life
2:30 Nanny and the Professor
3:00 The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
3:30 I Dream of Jeannie
4:00 Bewitched
4:30 One Day at a Time
5:00 Starsky and Hutch
6:00 What's Happening!!
"The Sunday Father"
6:30 The Bob Newhart Show
Bob takes two of his therapy groups to a rustic retreat for a marathon session.
7:00 M*A*S*H
As soon as Frank is in charge, Hawkeye skips camp, runs a blockade to find Trapper and welcomes a new surgeon. (part 2)
7:30 Barney Miller
8:00 Movie: "The Brotherhood of the Bell" (1970) Glenn Ford, Rosemary Forsyth.
In its overly ambitious drive for success, a secret fraternity deals harshly with those who would stand in their way.
10:00 News
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 Morecambe and Wise
Little Ern is taught the facts of life; Eric shops for a wig.
11:30 Movie: "Russian Roulette" (1975) George Segal, Denholm Elliott.
A Royal Canadian Mountie tries to head off an assassination plot against Russian Premier Kosygin while he's visiting Canada.
1:30 Ironside
A "solid citizen" tries to escape to the world of hippies with disastrous results.
2:30 sign-off

WGBX 44 - PBS Boston (listed from 5PM, did this channel broadcast only a few hours a day?)
5:00 Vegetable Soup
5:30 Villa Alegre
6:00 French Chef
6:30 Over Easy
Guests: Esther Peterson, special assistant to the president on consumer affairs; Dr. Heinz Beisdorf, professor of economics and consumer affairs at Cornell.
7:00 Dick Cavett
7:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
8:00 Footsteps
"First Signs of April". Divorced parents learn that a child requires attention beyond that which meets just her physical needs.
8:30 Feelings
"Divorce". Three children with divorced parents join Dr. Lee Salk to explore the subject through their personal experiences.
9:00 A Conversation with Howard Thurman
Dr. Landrum Bolling talks to Thurman about his philosophy, his theology, his boyhood, educaction and professional career.
10:00 Government As It Is
"The Executive Branch". Jack Anderson takes a pragmatic look at the personalities and political crisis which have made the American presidency and the executive branch what they are today.
11:00 ABC World News Tonight (CC)
11:30 sign-off

WLVI 56 - Boston (Independent)
7:00 Tom and Jerry
7:30 The Flinstones
8:00 Gilligan's Island
8:30 Fred Flinstone and Friends
9:00 New Zoo Revue
9:30 Bozo's Big Top
10:00 People Power
10:30 New England Today
12:00 To Tell the Truth
12:30 Courtship of Eddie's Father
1:00 Partridge Family
1:30 Banana Splits
2:00 Yogi Bear
2:30 Casper
3:00 Mighty Mouse
3:30 Woody Woodpecker
4:00 Tom and Jerry
4:30 The Flinstones
5:00 Brady Bunch
6:00 Happy Days Again
Richie, Potsie and Ralph auction off their personal belongings to raise money for an Easter vacation.
6:30 Good Times
J.J. tries to lend a helping hand when Michael experiences his first great romance.
7:00 Sanford and Son
Fred accidentally breaks Lamont's porcelain and glass collection.
7:30 Benny Hill Show
8:00 Movie: "The Birds" (1963) Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor.
Based on the story by Daphne du Maurier. A California town is attacked by huge flocks of birds.
10:30 Love, American Style
"Love and the Footlight Fianceé". Dexter has a problem with Monica.
11:00 Wayne and Shuster
"Citizen Wayne"
11:30 Best of Groucho
 
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