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Retro: Boston/Manchester/Providence Mon, May 2, 1983

from TV Guide-Boston edition

WGBH 2-PBS Boston
6:45 AM Weather
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 Electric Company
10:00 Instructional Programs
noon Sesame Street
1:00 Instructional Programs
3:00 French Chef
3:30 Over Easy
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Sesame Street
7:00 Doctor Who
7:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
8:00 Frontline "After the Crash" (the crash being a 1982 727 crash in New Orleans that killed 153)
9:00 Shakespeare Plays "Richard III"
1:00 sign-off

WBZ 4-NBC Boston
5:30 Morning Stretch
6:00 News
7:00 Today
9:00 Hour Magazine
10:00 Facts of Life
10:30 Sale of the Century
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Dream House
noon News
12:30 People are Talking
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Lie Detector
3:00 Hawaii Five-O
4:00 People's Court
4:30 Match Game
5:00 Family Feud
5:30 News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Evening Magazine
8:00 Love, Sidney
8:30 Family Ties
9:00 Movie "V" (conclusion)
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman
1:30 NBC News Overnight
2:30 News
3:00 America's Top 10
3:30 People are Talking
4:30 NBC News Overnight

WCVB 5-ABC Boston
5:25 Morning Glory
5:30 News
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Good Day!
10:00 Phil Donahue
11:00 Tom Cottle: Up Close
11:30 Newlywed Game
noon News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Waltons
5:00 Soap
5:30 All in the Family
6:00 News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Chronicle
8:00 That's Incredible!
9:00 Movie "Legs"
11:00 News
11:30 Nightline
12:30 Profile
1:00 Movie "Murder is a One-Act Play"
2:30 Safari to Adventure
3:00 Wanted-Dead or Alive (bw)
3:30 News
4:00 Good Day!

WLNE 6-CBS New Bedford
5:00 CBS News Nightwatch
6:00 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 79 Park Avenue (pt 1, WLNE ran movies in the morning)
11:00 Price is Right
noon Tattletales
12:30 Young & the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Movie "The Bridges at Toko-Ri"
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Muppet Show (back-to-back)
8:00 Archie Bunker's Place
8:30 Foot in the Door (finale)
9:00 M*A*S*H
9:30 One Day at a Time
10:00 Cagney & Lacey
11:00 News
11:30 Benny Hill
mid. Trapper John, MD
1:10 Columbo
2:30 Tom Cottle: Up Close
3:00 CBS News Nightwatch

WNEV 7-CBS Boston
5:00 CBS News Nightwatch
5:30 News
6:00 CBS Early Morning News
6:30 News
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Soap World
9:30 You Asked for It
10:00 $25,000 Pyramid
10:30 Child's Play
11:00 Price is Right
noon News
12:30 Young & the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Look
6:00 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
8:00 Archie Bunker's Place
8:30 Foot in the Door (finale)
9:00 M*A*S*H
9:30 One Day at a Time
10:00 Cagney & Lacey
11:00 News
11:30 Trapper John, MD
12:40 Columbo
2:00 CBS News Nightwatch

WMUR 9-ABC Manchester
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
6:15 Jimmy Swaggart
6:45 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Phil Donahue
10:00 Richard Simmons
10:30 That Girl
11:00 Love Boat
noon Family Feud (the start of 2 weeks reuniting classic TV stars, with Brady Bunch squaring off against Petticoat Junction)
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Edge of Night
4:30 Hour Magazine
5:30 People's Court
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Joker's Wild
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8:00 That's Incredible!
9:00 Movie "Legs"
11:00 News
11:30 Nightline
12:30 Profile
1:00 sign-off

WOR 9-Ind New York
5:05 News
5:30 Morning Stretch
6:00 Joe Franklin
7:00 Jimmy Swaggart
7:30 Jim Bakker
8:30 Meet the Mayors
9:00 Straight Talk
10:00 Romper Room & Friends
11:00 CNN Headline News
11:30 You Asked for It
noon News
1:00 Movie "In the Good Old Summertime"
3:00 Ironside
4:00 In Search of...
4:30 Movie "The Sand Pebbles" (pt 1)
6:00 BJ & the Bear
7:00 Soap
7:30 Baseball: the Mets host Houston
10:30 Road to Los Angeles
11:30 Hawaii Five-O
12:30 Lie Detector
1:00 Psychic Phenomena
2:00 Joe Franklin
3:00 Let the Children Live Telethon

WJAR 10-NBC Providence
6:00 Real to Reel
6:30 NBC News at Sunrise (I'm guessing the title on this, the Today team did this too)
7:00 Today
9:00 Phil Donahue
10:00 Richard Simmons
10:30 Sale of the Century
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Dream House
noon News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Fantasy
4:00 Happy Days Again
4:30 Three's Company
5:00 Welcome Back, Kotter
5:30 People's Court
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 PM Magazine
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
8:00 Love, Sidney
8:30 Family Ties
9:00 Movie "V" (conclusion)
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman
1:30 NBC News Overnight
2:30 News/sign-off

WENH 11-PBS Durham
8:15 AM Weather
8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 Instructional Programs
noon Sesame Street
1:00 Instructional Programs
2:30 National Press Club
3:30 Lilias, Yoga & You
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 America: The Second Century
6:30 Doctor Who
7:00 Nightly Business Report
7:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
8:00 All Creatures Great & Small
9:00 Frontline "After the Crash"
10:00 Inside Story
10:30 Freedom to Speak
11:00 Dick Cavett
11:30 sign-off

WPIX 11-Ind New York
6:00 Carrascolendas
6:30 Mr Magoo
7:00 Tom & Jerry
7:30 Pink Panther
8:00 Superfriends
8:30 Tom & Jerry & Friends
9:00 Great Space Coaster
9:30 Flipper
10:00 New Jersey Now
10:30 Focus: New Jersey
11:00 Candid Camera
11:30 Odd Couple
noon Rhoda
12:30 INN News (did many stations run the afternoon INN?)
1:00 700 Club
2:00 Magic Garden
2:30 Krofft Superstars
3:00 Tom & Jerry & Friends
3:30 Scooby-Doo
4:00 Pink Panther
4:30 Happy Days Again
5:00 Little House on the Prairie
6:00 Jeffersons
6:30 Barney Miller
7:00 Alice
7:30 News
8:00 Blood Feud (conclusion, this was a miniseries on the battle between Jimmy Hoffa and Robert Kennedy)
10:00 INN News
10:30 News
11:00 Odd Couple
11:30 Saturday Night
12:30 Star Trek
1:30 INN News
2:00 Movie "Rivals"
4:00 Candid Camera
4:30 Abbott & Costello (bw)

WPRI 12-ABC Providence
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
6:15 Morning Stretch
6:45 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Waltons
10:00 Big Valley
11:00 Love Boat
noon News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Merv Griffin
5:00 M*A*S*H
5:30 Barney Miller
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Tic Tac Dough
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 That's Incredible!
9:00 Movie "Legs"
11:00 News
11:30 Nightline
12:30 Profile
1:00 News/sign-off

WXNE 25-Ind Boston
6:00 Jimmy Swaggart
6:30 Underdog
7:00 Pink Panther
7:30 Gilligan's Island
8:00 Little Rascals (bw)
8:30 Force Five
9:00 Leave It to Beaver (bw, back-to-back)
10:00 700 Club
11:30 Laurel & Hardy (bw)
noon Movie "Winter Carnival" (bw)
1:30 Little Rascals (bw)
2:00 Flipper
2:30 Spiderman
3:00 Force Five
3:30 Superfriends
4:00 Gilligan's Island (bw)
4:30 Mork & Mindy
5:00 Eight is Enough
6:00 CHiPs Patrol
7:00 WKRP in Cincinnati (back-to-back)
8:00 Movie "Battlestar Galactica"
10:30 700 Club
11:30 Rockford Files
12:30 Rat Patrol
1:00 sign-off

WSMW 27-Ind/Preview STV Worcester
6:00 New Zoo Revue
6:30 ABC World News This Morning (ABC)
7:00 Jim Bakker
8:00 Waltons
9:00 Inside Worcester
9:30 Jimmy Swaggart
10:00 Vicki Jamison
11:00 Jim Bakker
noon Catholic Mass
12:30 INN News
1:00 Movie "Gangbusters"
2:30 Austin City Limits
3:00 Merv Griffin
4:00 Edge of Night (ABC)
4:30 News
5:00 Preview programs (see separate listing)

WSBK 38-Ind Boston
6:30 Romper Room & Friends
7:00 Batman
7:30 Porky Pig/Bugs Bunny
8:30 F Troop (bw)
9:00 20 Minute Workout
9:30 Daytime
10:30 Marcus Welby, MD
11:30 INN News
noon Movie "You Belong to Me" (bw)
2:00 Beverly Hillbillies (bw)
2:30 Andy Griffith (bw)
3:00 Heckle & Jeckle
3:30 Porky Pig/Bugs Bunny
4:00 Scooby-Doo
5:00 Charlie's Angels
6:00 M*A*S*H
6:30 Jeffersons
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 Barney Miller
8:00 Movie "New York, New York"
11:00 INN News (which normally airs 30 min earlier)
11:30 Twilight Zone (bw)
mid. Movie "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter"
2:00 sign-off

WGBX 44-PBS Boston
5pm French Chef
5:30 Maggie & the Beautiful Machine
6:00 Here's to Your Health
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 America: The Second Century
7:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
8:00 American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors
9:00 People & Organizations
9:30 Exploring Languages
10:00 News
10:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
11:00 Nightly Business Report
11:30 sign-off

WLVI 56-Ind Boston
7:00 Bugs Bunny
7:30 Tom & Jerry
8:00 Great Space Coaster
8:30 Flintstones
9:00 Bozo's Big Top
9:30 De Todo un Poco
10:00 New England Today
10:30 CNN Headline News
11:00 Love Boat (ABC)
noon Merv Griffin
1:00 Mary Tyler Moore
1:30 I Love Lucy (bw)
2:00 Casper
2:30 Mighty Mouse
3:00 Bugs Bunny
3:30 Woody Woodpecker
4:00 Tom & Jerry
4:30 Flintstones
5:00 Brady Bunch (back-to-back)
6:00 Happy Days Again
6:30 Laverne & Shirley & Company
7:00 Three's Company (back-to-back)
8:00 Blood Feud (pt 1; WJAR had the rights to this in Providence, they aired it the previous Sat/Sun at 2pm)
10:00 CNN Headline News
11:00 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
11:30 Saturday Night (host Steve Martin; guests Lily Tomlin, and the Kinks)
12:30 CNN Headline News

WQTV 68-Ind/Preview STV Boston
A note in that week's TVG informs Star TV subscribers that they would receive Preview on WQTV until their decoders were converted
8:30 Insight
9:00 Jim Bakker
10:00 FNN
5:00 Preview programs (see below)

Preview (STV programs on 27/68)
Programs air until 1am only on 68
5pm Movie "Shipwreck"
7:00 Movie "Time Bandits"
9:00 Movie "A Little Sex"
11:00 Movie "SOB"
1:00 Movie "Atlantic City"
2:45 Movie "Blow Out"
4:30 Movie "Galaxy of Terror"
 
Bluenoser said:
WGBH 2-PBS Boston

8:00 Frontline "After the Crash" (the crash being a 1982 727 crash in New Orleans that killed 153)

A flight that lasted all of 29 seconds. Took off from NOIA with strong t-storms in the area; got hit by a massive microburst (windshear), never got more than 150 feet off the ground, and crashed into some homes. It was this crash, and a very similar crash in Dallas 3 years later (Delta Flight 191) that led to the development and deployment of the on-board airborne wind shear detection and alert system in all commercial planes.

Frontline had premiered in January, and was anchored by Jessica Savitch -- some say it was her finest work. Sadly, she would be dead less than 6 months after this broadcast.

Bluenoser said:
WPIX 11-Ind New York

8:00 Blood Feud (conclusion, this was a miniseries on the battle between Jimmy Hoffa and Robert Kennedy)

I remember watching part of this! Quite an interesting cast, with Robert Blake as Hoffa and Cotter Smith as RFK. (Smith became a busy, if not well-known actor; his only regular TV role was on the short-lived 1990-91 series Equal Justice.) Playing Bobby in this movie was one of his first roles. Also, Forrest Tucker as LBJ and Ernest Borgnine as J. Edgar Hoover. (!!) I don't recall enough about the movie to know if we should chuckle at those last two cast members/roles, but I do remember thinking Blake played a pretty decent Hoffa.
 
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