Source: The Nashua Telegraph via Google News Archive.
Listings ran from 5:30AM to 4AM.
02 - WGBH (PBS) Boston
8:00 It's Everybody's Business
9:00 Instructional programming
2:30 Over Easy
3:00 Opera Theater
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Sesame Street
6:30 The Electric Company
7:00 Zoom
7:30 Life Around Us "The Sun Watchers" (exciting footage of sun's surface and photosphere taken from observatories is featured in this look at the history of man's understanding of the sun)
8:00 The Pallisers
9:00 Opera Theater ('The World of Victor Herbert' is saluted, including music from 'Naughty Marietta', 'The Red Mill', 'Eileen', 'Sweethearts' and 'The Fortune Teller')
10:00 News
10:30 Campaign '78: The Senate Race
11:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
12:00 Dick Cavett (Joe Venuti, considered to have been the first jazz violinist)
04 - WBZ (NBC) Boston
6:15 World Around the Revolution
6:45 Daily Almanac
7:00 Today (news at 7:25/8:25)
9:00 TBA
9:30 For Richer, for Poorer
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
12:00 News
12:30 Woman '78
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 Mike Douglas
5:30 News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Evening Magazine
8:00 Little House on the Prairie "As Long As We're Together" (part 1 of 2)
9:00 The Critical List (premiere, part 1 of 2)
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (George Carlin hosts, with Joel Grey, Joe Garagiola, Joan Rivers and Travis & Shook)
1:00 Tomorrow with Tom Snyder (Muhammad Ali will discuss his attempt to recapture the heavyweight boxing title)
2:00 News
05 - WCVB (ABC) Boston
6:00 News
7:00 Good Morning America (news at 7:25/8:25)
9:00 Good Day!
10:30 $25.000 Pyramid
11:00 Happy Days
11:30 Donahue
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 Concentration
4:30 Family Feud
5:00 The Gong Show
5:30 Carol Burnett and Friends
6:00 News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 $100.000 Name That Tune
8:00 Welcome Back, Kotter "The Drop-Ins" (season premiere)
9:00 Monday Night Football: Denver Broncos vs. Minnesota Vikings
11:45 News
12:15 Screening Room "Maya Deren Retrospective" (some unusual footage from the great film pioneer, described and orchestrated by Teiji and Cherel Ito)
1:45 Nightshift
2:15 News
2:25 Aquí
07 - WNAC (CBS) Boston
6:10 Farm and Market Report
6:20 Summer Semester
6:50 Las Noticias de Hoy
7:00 CBS Morning News (news at 7:25)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Dinah!
10:30 Price is Right
11:30 Love of Life
11:55 CBS News
12:00 Dating Game
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Young and the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 Merv Griffin
4:30 Streets of San Francisco
5:30 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Candlepins for Cash
7:30 Newlywed Game
8:00 1978 Emmy Hopefuls
8:30 Good Times
9:00 M*A*S*H
9:30 One Day at a Time
10:00 Lou Grant
11:00 News
11:30 CBS Late Movie: "I Want to Keep My Baby" (1976)
1:15 McMillan and Wife "The Game of Survival"
2:45 Newsmakers
3:15 News
3:45 Greater Bostonians
09 - WMUR (ABC) Manchester
6:00 PTL Club
7:00 Uncle Gus
8:00 Good Morning America
9:00 PTL Club
10:00 Western Theater
11:00 Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12:00 $20.000 Pyramid
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 Dark Shadows
5:00 TBA
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Flipper
7:30 The Adventurer "The Good Book"
8:00 Welcome Back, Kotter "The Drop-Ins"
9:00 Monday Night Football: Denver Broncos vs. Minnesota Vikings
11:45 News
11 - WENH (PBS) Durham
3PM French Chef
3:30 Over Easy
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 The Electric Company
6:00 Economically Speaking (hosted by Dr. Marina Whitman)
6:30 Over Easy (Joseph Cotten and Patricia Medina discuss their 17-year marriage and getting older; financial advisor Robert Kinsman on long distance bus travel; regular eye check-ups)
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 News
8:00 Once Upon a Classic "The Battle of Billy's Pond" (two boys attempt to stop a detergent factory from polluting)
9:00 Opera Theater (same as ch. 2)
10:00 The Pallisers
25 - WXNE (Ind) Boston
6:00 Ross Bagley
7:00 Linus the Lionhearted
7:30 Rocket Robinhood
8:00 Leave It to Beaver
8:30 Lassie
9:00 Big Valley
10:00 700 Club
11:30 Ross Bagley
12:30 McHale's Navy
1:00 Father Knows Best
1:30 Room 222
2:00 Ozzie and Harriet
2:30 Good Time Gang Cartoons
3:00 Superman
3:30 Spiderman and Superheroes
4:30 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
5:30 Doris Day
6:00 Get Smart "Shipment to Beirut"
6:30 Movie: "Lassie the Voyager"
8:30 Gomer Pyle "Hit and Write"
9:00 700 Club
10:30 Life in the Spirit
11:30 Dragnet "Homicide"
27 - WSMW (Ind) Worcester
9:00 Directors Playhous
9:30 Cooking with Bernard
10:00 PTL Club
12:00 Daily Mass
12:30 Movie: "Trade Winds" (1938)
2:30 Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig
3:30 The Lone Ranger
4:00 Superman
5:00 The FBI
5:30 Space: 1999
6:30 Candid Camera
7:00 $25.000 Pyramid
7:30 Abbott and Costello "Las Vegas"
8:00 Movie: "Dam Busters" (1955)
10:00 News
10:30 Inside Worcester
11:00 Love Experts
11:30 Movie: "The Happiest Days of Your Life" (1950)
1:00 News
38 - WSBK (Ind) Boston
7:00 Superheroes
7:30 The Archies
8:00 The Three Stooges
8:30 Abbott and Costello
9:00 Tom Larson
9:50 News
10:00 All in the Family
10:30 M*A*S*H
11:00 Marcus Welby, M.D.
12:00 Movie: "Five Fingers" (1952)
1:55 Spirit of Independence
2:00 Romper Room
2:30 Mickey Mouse Club
3:00 Popeye
3:30 Heckle and Jeckle/Deputy Dawg
4:00 Porky Pig and Friends
4:30 Land of the Giants
5:30 Hogan's Heroes
6:00 My Three Sons "The First Marriage"
6:30 Adam-12 "Team Work"
7:00 The Odd Couple "Good, Bad Boy"
7:30 Chico and the Man "Pilot Episode"
8:00 Joker's Wild
8:30 Liars' Club
9:00 Movie: "Autumn Leaves" (1956)
11:00 Hogan's Heroes "Anchors Aweigh, Men of Stalag 13"
11:30 Ironside "Hey, Buddy Can You Spare a Life" (part 2)
44 - WGBX (PBS) Boston
5PM Hodgepodge Lodge
5:30 Villa Alegre
6:00 Lilias, Yoga and You
6:30 It's Everybody's Business
7:00 Lowell Thomas Remembers "1944" (Rome captured intact; Allied armes land in France; MacArthur invades Central Phillippines)
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 Club 44 (repeat of September 9's program)
10:00 News
10:30 Dick Cavett (James West, a former narcotics agent from Detroit; part 2 of 2)
11:00 ABC World News Tonight (CC)
56 - WLVI (Ind) Cambridge
7:00 Tom and Jerry
7:30 The Flintstones
8:00 Gilligan's Island
8:30 Fred Flintstone and Friends
9:00 New Zoo Revue
9:30 Bozo's Big Top
10:00 That Girl
10:30 High Hopes
11:00 Not for Women Only
11:30 New England Today
12:00 America Alive!
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 Flintstones
5:30 Brady Bunch
6:00 Six Million Dollar Man "Danny's Inferno"
7:00 Mary Tyler Moore "Happy Birthday, Lou!"
7:30 Mary Tyler Moore "WJM Tries Harder"
8:00 Movie: "Divorce His" (1972)
9:30 Movie: "Divorce Hers" (1972)
11:00 Monty Python's Flying Circus (a panel game with a purpose, a school prize giving, the Sensible party and the Silly party are in a neck-and-neck race)
11:30 Love, American Style "Love and the Sex Survey"
Listings ran from 5:30AM to 4AM.
02 - WGBH (PBS) Boston
8:00 It's Everybody's Business
9:00 Instructional programming
2:30 Over Easy
3:00 Opera Theater
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Sesame Street
6:30 The Electric Company
7:00 Zoom
7:30 Life Around Us "The Sun Watchers" (exciting footage of sun's surface and photosphere taken from observatories is featured in this look at the history of man's understanding of the sun)
8:00 The Pallisers
9:00 Opera Theater ('The World of Victor Herbert' is saluted, including music from 'Naughty Marietta', 'The Red Mill', 'Eileen', 'Sweethearts' and 'The Fortune Teller')
10:00 News
10:30 Campaign '78: The Senate Race
11:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
12:00 Dick Cavett (Joe Venuti, considered to have been the first jazz violinist)
04 - WBZ (NBC) Boston
6:15 World Around the Revolution
6:45 Daily Almanac
7:00 Today (news at 7:25/8:25)
9:00 TBA
9:30 For Richer, for Poorer
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
12:00 News
12:30 Woman '78
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 Mike Douglas
5:30 News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Evening Magazine
8:00 Little House on the Prairie "As Long As We're Together" (part 1 of 2)
9:00 The Critical List (premiere, part 1 of 2)
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (George Carlin hosts, with Joel Grey, Joe Garagiola, Joan Rivers and Travis & Shook)
1:00 Tomorrow with Tom Snyder (Muhammad Ali will discuss his attempt to recapture the heavyweight boxing title)
2:00 News
05 - WCVB (ABC) Boston
6:00 News
7:00 Good Morning America (news at 7:25/8:25)
9:00 Good Day!
10:30 $25.000 Pyramid
11:00 Happy Days
11:30 Donahue
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 Concentration
4:30 Family Feud
5:00 The Gong Show
5:30 Carol Burnett and Friends
6:00 News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 $100.000 Name That Tune
8:00 Welcome Back, Kotter "The Drop-Ins" (season premiere)
9:00 Monday Night Football: Denver Broncos vs. Minnesota Vikings
11:45 News
12:15 Screening Room "Maya Deren Retrospective" (some unusual footage from the great film pioneer, described and orchestrated by Teiji and Cherel Ito)
1:45 Nightshift
2:15 News
2:25 Aquí
07 - WNAC (CBS) Boston
6:10 Farm and Market Report
6:20 Summer Semester
6:50 Las Noticias de Hoy
7:00 CBS Morning News (news at 7:25)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Dinah!
10:30 Price is Right
11:30 Love of Life
11:55 CBS News
12:00 Dating Game
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Young and the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 Merv Griffin
4:30 Streets of San Francisco
5:30 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Candlepins for Cash
7:30 Newlywed Game
8:00 1978 Emmy Hopefuls
8:30 Good Times
9:00 M*A*S*H
9:30 One Day at a Time
10:00 Lou Grant
11:00 News
11:30 CBS Late Movie: "I Want to Keep My Baby" (1976)
1:15 McMillan and Wife "The Game of Survival"
2:45 Newsmakers
3:15 News
3:45 Greater Bostonians
09 - WMUR (ABC) Manchester
6:00 PTL Club
7:00 Uncle Gus
8:00 Good Morning America
9:00 PTL Club
10:00 Western Theater
11:00 Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12:00 $20.000 Pyramid
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 Dark Shadows
5:00 TBA
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Flipper
7:30 The Adventurer "The Good Book"
8:00 Welcome Back, Kotter "The Drop-Ins"
9:00 Monday Night Football: Denver Broncos vs. Minnesota Vikings
11:45 News
11 - WENH (PBS) Durham
3PM French Chef
3:30 Over Easy
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 The Electric Company
6:00 Economically Speaking (hosted by Dr. Marina Whitman)
6:30 Over Easy (Joseph Cotten and Patricia Medina discuss their 17-year marriage and getting older; financial advisor Robert Kinsman on long distance bus travel; regular eye check-ups)
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 News
8:00 Once Upon a Classic "The Battle of Billy's Pond" (two boys attempt to stop a detergent factory from polluting)
9:00 Opera Theater (same as ch. 2)
10:00 The Pallisers
25 - WXNE (Ind) Boston
6:00 Ross Bagley
7:00 Linus the Lionhearted
7:30 Rocket Robinhood
8:00 Leave It to Beaver
8:30 Lassie
9:00 Big Valley
10:00 700 Club
11:30 Ross Bagley
12:30 McHale's Navy
1:00 Father Knows Best
1:30 Room 222
2:00 Ozzie and Harriet
2:30 Good Time Gang Cartoons
3:00 Superman
3:30 Spiderman and Superheroes
4:30 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
5:30 Doris Day
6:00 Get Smart "Shipment to Beirut"
6:30 Movie: "Lassie the Voyager"
8:30 Gomer Pyle "Hit and Write"
9:00 700 Club
10:30 Life in the Spirit
11:30 Dragnet "Homicide"
27 - WSMW (Ind) Worcester
9:00 Directors Playhous
9:30 Cooking with Bernard
10:00 PTL Club
12:00 Daily Mass
12:30 Movie: "Trade Winds" (1938)
2:30 Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig
3:30 The Lone Ranger
4:00 Superman
5:00 The FBI
5:30 Space: 1999
6:30 Candid Camera
7:00 $25.000 Pyramid
7:30 Abbott and Costello "Las Vegas"
8:00 Movie: "Dam Busters" (1955)
10:00 News
10:30 Inside Worcester
11:00 Love Experts
11:30 Movie: "The Happiest Days of Your Life" (1950)
1:00 News
38 - WSBK (Ind) Boston
7:00 Superheroes
7:30 The Archies
8:00 The Three Stooges
8:30 Abbott and Costello
9:00 Tom Larson
9:50 News
10:00 All in the Family
10:30 M*A*S*H
11:00 Marcus Welby, M.D.
12:00 Movie: "Five Fingers" (1952)
1:55 Spirit of Independence
2:00 Romper Room
2:30 Mickey Mouse Club
3:00 Popeye
3:30 Heckle and Jeckle/Deputy Dawg
4:00 Porky Pig and Friends
4:30 Land of the Giants
5:30 Hogan's Heroes
6:00 My Three Sons "The First Marriage"
6:30 Adam-12 "Team Work"
7:00 The Odd Couple "Good, Bad Boy"
7:30 Chico and the Man "Pilot Episode"
8:00 Joker's Wild
8:30 Liars' Club
9:00 Movie: "Autumn Leaves" (1956)
11:00 Hogan's Heroes "Anchors Aweigh, Men of Stalag 13"
11:30 Ironside "Hey, Buddy Can You Spare a Life" (part 2)
44 - WGBX (PBS) Boston
5PM Hodgepodge Lodge
5:30 Villa Alegre
6:00 Lilias, Yoga and You
6:30 It's Everybody's Business
7:00 Lowell Thomas Remembers "1944" (Rome captured intact; Allied armes land in France; MacArthur invades Central Phillippines)
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 Club 44 (repeat of September 9's program)
10:00 News
10:30 Dick Cavett (James West, a former narcotics agent from Detroit; part 2 of 2)
11:00 ABC World News Tonight (CC)
56 - WLVI (Ind) Cambridge
7:00 Tom and Jerry
7:30 The Flintstones
8:00 Gilligan's Island
8:30 Fred Flintstone and Friends
9:00 New Zoo Revue
9:30 Bozo's Big Top
10:00 That Girl
10:30 High Hopes
11:00 Not for Women Only
11:30 New England Today
12:00 America Alive!
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 Flintstones
5:30 Brady Bunch
6:00 Six Million Dollar Man "Danny's Inferno"
7:00 Mary Tyler Moore "Happy Birthday, Lou!"
7:30 Mary Tyler Moore "WJM Tries Harder"
8:00 Movie: "Divorce His" (1972)
9:30 Movie: "Divorce Hers" (1972)
11:00 Monty Python's Flying Circus (a panel game with a purpose, a school prize giving, the Sensible party and the Silly party are in a neck-and-neck race)
11:30 Love, American Style "Love and the Sex Survey"