from TV Guide-New England edition
WGBH 2-Edu Boston
5pm Ruth Anne's Camp "The Littlest Stowaway"
6:00 Magic Doorways
6:15 Americans at Work
6:30 News (William Pierce)
6:45 Background (David McCord)
7:00 Discovery (Mary Lela Grimes)
7:30 French (for beginners)
8:00 Progressive Norway
8:30 Great Plays in Rehearsal "The Misanthrope"
9:30 Christmas Painting
10:00 News (William Pierce)
WBZ 4-NBC Boston
6:00 Dateline: UN
6:30 Sign-On Seminar "Selected Prose and Poetry" (by Ralph Waldo Emerson)
6:45 Daily Almanac
6:55 Weather (Don Kent)
7:00 Today (News/Weather at 7:25/8:25)
9:00 Today at Home (Adams)
9:30 Truth or Consequences
10:00 Festival of Seven Lessons & Carols (live from National Cathedral, Washington)
11:00 Price is Right (c)
11:30 Concentration
noon News (Jack Chase)
12:10 Weather (Bob Copeland)
12:15 Big Brother (Bob Emery)
1:00 Movie "Duck Soup"
2:30 Movie "Stowaway"
4:00 House on High Street
4:30 Split Personality
5:00 Movie "Christmas in Connecticut"
6:45 News (Arch Macdonald)
6:55 Weather (Don Kent)
7:00 Death Valley Days
7:30 People are Funny
8:00 Troubleshooters "Swing Shift"
8:30 Night of Christmas (c/live special with entertainment and holiday greetings from performers)
9:30 M Squad "The Ivy League Bank Robbers"
10:00 Sports Highlights of 1959 (Don Dunphy and Win Elliot look back at the year in sports)
10:30 Christmas Night at Temple Square (Mormon Tabernacle Choir)
11:00 News/Weather
11:15 Movies "The Sainted Sisters"/"Special Agent"
WHDH 5-ABC/CBS/NBC Boston
7:00 Cartoons
7:30 Captain Bob
8:30 Ding Dong School
9:00 Romper Room (c)
9:45 Chris Evans
10:00 News (c)
10:15 We Believe (c)
10:30 Morning Playhouse
11:00 Story of the Pope (Bishop Fulton J. Sheen profiles Pope Pius XII)
noon Restless Gun
12:30 Farm & Home (c)
1:00 Music Bingo
1:30 Susie "Old Dog, New Tricks"
2:00 Day in Court
2:30 Gale Storm
3:00 Beat the Clock
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4:00 American Bandstand
5:00 Bozo the Clown
5:30 Rin Tin Tin "The Christmas Story"
6:00 Dateline Boston (c/Jim Britt welcomes the Low Madrigal group)
6:30 Life of Riley "Riley Takes Out Insurance"
7:00 NBC News
7:15 News/Sports (c)
7:25 Weather (c/Lorning)
7:30 Walt Disney ""Alice in Wonderland" (edited version)
8:30 Man from Blackhawk "The Legacy"
9:00 77 Sunset Strip "The Juke-Box Caper"
10:00 Detectives "Masquerade"
10:30 Black Saddle "Client: Neal Adams"
11:00 News/Weather
11:15 Jack Paar
WCSH 6-NBC Portland
5:50 Farm Report (Jake Brofee)
6:00 Film "A Star Shall Rise"
6:30 Year's Review
7:00 Today (News/Weather at 7:25/8:25)
9:00 Film "Our Lady of Fatima"
9:30 Space Age Science (Whitten)
10:00 Festival of Seven Lessons & Carols
11:00 Price is Right (c)
11:30 Concentration
noon Truth or Consequences
12:30 It Could Be You (c)
1:00 Film Feature "World's Greatest Mother"
2:00 Queen for a Day
2:30 Thin Man
3:00 Young Dr. Malone
3:30 From These Roots
4:00 House on High Street
4:30 Split Personality
5:00 Popeye
5:30 Robin Hood
6:00 Huckleberry Hound
6:30 News/Sports/Weather
6:45 NBC News
7:00 Shotgun Slade
7:30 People are Funny
8:00 Troubleshooters "Swing Shift"
8:30 Night of Christmas (c)
9:30 M Squad "The Ivy League Bank Robbers"
10:00 Sports Highlights of 1959
10:30 Christmas Night on Temple Square
11:00 News/Weather
11:15 Jack Paar
WNAC 7-CBS Boston
7:00 Laurel & Hardy
8:15 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Morning Star Time
10:00 My Little Margie
10:30 TBA
11:00 I Love Lucy
11:30 December Bride
noon Love of Life
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 Louise Morgan
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 For Better or Worse
2:30 House Party
3:00 Millionaire
3:30 Verdict is Yours
4:00 Catholic Mass (Cardinal Richard Cushing officiates, live from Boston's Catholic TV Center; spikes the 4-4:30 soaps and Amos 'n' Andy)
5:00 Movie "That's the Spirit"
6:30 Superman "The Jolly Roger"
7:00 White Hunter "Deadfall"
7:30 Rawhide "Incident of the Calico Gun"
8:30 Hotel de Paree "Sundance and the Bare-Knuckled Fighters"
9:00 Desilu Playhouse "Christmas Surprise Package" (Lucy presents 16 members of her Desilu Workshop Theater: Jerry Antes, Bob Barran, Majel Barrett, Janice Carroll, Carole Cook, Georgine Darcy, Dick Kallman, Marilynn Lovell, Fran Martin, Gary Menteer, Johnny O'Neill, Bob Osborne, Roger Perry, Howie Storm, Mark Tobin, and Bob Trevis; cheering them on along with Lucy and Desi: Hugh O'Brien, Ann Sothern, George Murphy, Rory Calhoun, Spring Byington, John Bromfield, William Demarest, Hedda Hopper, Vivian Vance, William Frawley, and Lassie)
10:00 Twilight Zone "What You Need"
10:30 Person to Person (Charles Collingwood travels to France to interview Jean-Pierre Aumont, Marisa Pavan, and Paris restauranteur Claude Tarreil)
11:00 News/Weather (Dave Rodman)
11:15 Movies "Good Sam"/"City of Chance"
WMTW 8-ABC Poland Spring
8:45 Teddy Bear Cartoons
10:00 Ding Dong School
10:30 Movie: TBA
noon Restless Gun
12:30 Love That Bob!
1:00 Music Bingo
1:30 Christmas Story
2:00 Day in Court
2:30 Gale Storm
3:00 Beat the Clock
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4:00 Catholic Mass (ch 8 spikes Clark for Christ, relaying the service from ch 7)
5:00 TBA
5:30 Rin Tin Tin "The Christmas Story"
6:00 Movie "The Emperor's Nightingale"
7:20 News/Weather
7:30 Walt Disney "Alice in Wonderland"
8:30 Man from Blackhawk "The Legacy"
9:00 77 Sunset Strip "The Jukje-Box Caper"
10:00 Detectives "Masquerade"
10:30 Black Saddle "Client: Neal Adams"
11:00 News/Weather
11:10 Movie "Good News"
WMUR 9-ABC Manchester
10:00 Cartoons
10:50 Movie: TBA (Western)
11:50 News (Gus Bernier)
noon Restless Gun
12:30 Liberace
1:00 Music Bingo
1:30 American Legend
2:00 Day in Court
2:30 Gale Storm
3:00 Beat the Clock
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4:00 American Bandstand
5:00 Popeye
6:00 Jet Jackson
6:30 News/Weather
6:45 Movie "Wyoming"
8:30 Movie "Love, Honor and Goodbye"
10:00 Congressional Investigator "Psycho Quacks"
10:30 Black Saddle "Client: Neal Adams"
11:00 Sports (Gus Bernier)
11:15 Movie "The Cheaters"
WJAR 10-ABC/NBC Providence
6:30 TBA
7:00 Today (News/Weather at 7:25/8:25)
9:00 Movie "Always in My Heart"
10:30 World Around Us (Warren)
11:00 Price is Right (c)
11:30 Concentration
noon Truth or Consequences
12:30 It Could Be You (c)
1:00 Movie "The Yearling"
2:30 Thin Man
3:00 Young Dr. Malone
3:30 From These Roots
4:00 House on High Street
4:30 Split Personality
5:00 Movie "Lost Angel"
6:30 News/Weather
6:45 NBC News
7:00 Annie Oakley "Annie and the Chinese Puzzle"
7:30 TBA
8:00 Troubleshooters "Swing Shift"
8:30 Night of Christmas (c)
9:30 M Squad "The Ivy League Bank Robbers"
10:00 Sports Highlights of 1959
10:30 Christmas Night at Temple Square
11:00 News/Weather
11:15 Movie "Captain January"
WPRO 12-CBS Providence
7:00 Popeye
7:15 Storytime (Beth Chollar)
7:45 Romper Room
8:15 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Movie: TBA
10:30 News/Interviews
11:00 I Love Lucy
11:30 December Bride
noon Love of Life
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 Medic "Death is a Red Balloon"
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Life of Riley "Test for Gillis"
2:30 House Party
3:00 Millionaire
3:30 Verdict is Yours
4:00 Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge of Night
5:00 Roy Rogers "Mountain Pirates"
5:30 Salty Brine's Shack
6:30 News/Sports/Weather
6:45 CBS News
7:00 Flight "Red China Rescue"
7:30 Rawhide "Incident of the Calico Gun"
8:30 Hotel de Paree "Sundance and the Bare-Knuckled Fighters"
9:00 Desilu Playhouse "Christmas Surprise Package"
10:00 Twilight Zone "What You Need"
10:30 Person to Person
11:00 News/Weather
11:15 Jack Paar
1:00 Mike Wallace (guest Sammy Davis Jr.)
WGAN 13-CBS Portland
8:00 News
8:15 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Concept of Mathematics
9:30 Morning Beat
10:30 On the Go
11:00 I Love Lucy
11:30 December Bride
noon Love of Life
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 Way of Life
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 For Better or Worse
2:30 House Party
3:00 Millionaire
3:30 Verdict is Yours
4:00 Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge of Night
5:00 Comedy Time
5:30 White Hunter "Sister, Mr. Spouse"
6:00 Frontier Doctor "Cattle Drive"
6:30 News/Sports/Weather
6:45 CBS News
7:00 Counterspy
7:30 Rawhide "Incident of the Calico Gun"
8:30 Hotel de Paree "Sundance and the Bare-Knuckled Fighters"
9:00 Desilu Playhouse "Christmas Surprise Package"
10:00 Twilight Zone "What You Need"
10:30 Person to Person
11:00 News/Weather
11:15 Movie "Miracle on 34th Street"
WGBH 2-Edu Boston
5pm Ruth Anne's Camp "The Littlest Stowaway"
6:00 Magic Doorways
6:15 Americans at Work
6:30 News (William Pierce)
6:45 Background (David McCord)
7:00 Discovery (Mary Lela Grimes)
7:30 French (for beginners)
8:00 Progressive Norway
8:30 Great Plays in Rehearsal "The Misanthrope"
9:30 Christmas Painting
10:00 News (William Pierce)
WBZ 4-NBC Boston
6:00 Dateline: UN
6:30 Sign-On Seminar "Selected Prose and Poetry" (by Ralph Waldo Emerson)
6:45 Daily Almanac
6:55 Weather (Don Kent)
7:00 Today (News/Weather at 7:25/8:25)
9:00 Today at Home (Adams)
9:30 Truth or Consequences
10:00 Festival of Seven Lessons & Carols (live from National Cathedral, Washington)
11:00 Price is Right (c)
11:30 Concentration
noon News (Jack Chase)
12:10 Weather (Bob Copeland)
12:15 Big Brother (Bob Emery)
1:00 Movie "Duck Soup"
2:30 Movie "Stowaway"
4:00 House on High Street
4:30 Split Personality
5:00 Movie "Christmas in Connecticut"
6:45 News (Arch Macdonald)
6:55 Weather (Don Kent)
7:00 Death Valley Days
7:30 People are Funny
8:00 Troubleshooters "Swing Shift"
8:30 Night of Christmas (c/live special with entertainment and holiday greetings from performers)
9:30 M Squad "The Ivy League Bank Robbers"
10:00 Sports Highlights of 1959 (Don Dunphy and Win Elliot look back at the year in sports)
10:30 Christmas Night at Temple Square (Mormon Tabernacle Choir)
11:00 News/Weather
11:15 Movies "The Sainted Sisters"/"Special Agent"
WHDH 5-ABC/CBS/NBC Boston
7:00 Cartoons
7:30 Captain Bob
8:30 Ding Dong School
9:00 Romper Room (c)
9:45 Chris Evans
10:00 News (c)
10:15 We Believe (c)
10:30 Morning Playhouse
11:00 Story of the Pope (Bishop Fulton J. Sheen profiles Pope Pius XII)
noon Restless Gun
12:30 Farm & Home (c)
1:00 Music Bingo
1:30 Susie "Old Dog, New Tricks"
2:00 Day in Court
2:30 Gale Storm
3:00 Beat the Clock
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4:00 American Bandstand
5:00 Bozo the Clown
5:30 Rin Tin Tin "The Christmas Story"
6:00 Dateline Boston (c/Jim Britt welcomes the Low Madrigal group)
6:30 Life of Riley "Riley Takes Out Insurance"
7:00 NBC News
7:15 News/Sports (c)
7:25 Weather (c/Lorning)
7:30 Walt Disney ""Alice in Wonderland" (edited version)
8:30 Man from Blackhawk "The Legacy"
9:00 77 Sunset Strip "The Juke-Box Caper"
10:00 Detectives "Masquerade"
10:30 Black Saddle "Client: Neal Adams"
11:00 News/Weather
11:15 Jack Paar
WCSH 6-NBC Portland
5:50 Farm Report (Jake Brofee)
6:00 Film "A Star Shall Rise"
6:30 Year's Review
7:00 Today (News/Weather at 7:25/8:25)
9:00 Film "Our Lady of Fatima"
9:30 Space Age Science (Whitten)
10:00 Festival of Seven Lessons & Carols
11:00 Price is Right (c)
11:30 Concentration
noon Truth or Consequences
12:30 It Could Be You (c)
1:00 Film Feature "World's Greatest Mother"
2:00 Queen for a Day
2:30 Thin Man
3:00 Young Dr. Malone
3:30 From These Roots
4:00 House on High Street
4:30 Split Personality
5:00 Popeye
5:30 Robin Hood
6:00 Huckleberry Hound
6:30 News/Sports/Weather
6:45 NBC News
7:00 Shotgun Slade
7:30 People are Funny
8:00 Troubleshooters "Swing Shift"
8:30 Night of Christmas (c)
9:30 M Squad "The Ivy League Bank Robbers"
10:00 Sports Highlights of 1959
10:30 Christmas Night on Temple Square
11:00 News/Weather
11:15 Jack Paar
WNAC 7-CBS Boston
7:00 Laurel & Hardy
8:15 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Morning Star Time
10:00 My Little Margie
10:30 TBA
11:00 I Love Lucy
11:30 December Bride
noon Love of Life
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 Louise Morgan
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 For Better or Worse
2:30 House Party
3:00 Millionaire
3:30 Verdict is Yours
4:00 Catholic Mass (Cardinal Richard Cushing officiates, live from Boston's Catholic TV Center; spikes the 4-4:30 soaps and Amos 'n' Andy)
5:00 Movie "That's the Spirit"
6:30 Superman "The Jolly Roger"
7:00 White Hunter "Deadfall"
7:30 Rawhide "Incident of the Calico Gun"
8:30 Hotel de Paree "Sundance and the Bare-Knuckled Fighters"
9:00 Desilu Playhouse "Christmas Surprise Package" (Lucy presents 16 members of her Desilu Workshop Theater: Jerry Antes, Bob Barran, Majel Barrett, Janice Carroll, Carole Cook, Georgine Darcy, Dick Kallman, Marilynn Lovell, Fran Martin, Gary Menteer, Johnny O'Neill, Bob Osborne, Roger Perry, Howie Storm, Mark Tobin, and Bob Trevis; cheering them on along with Lucy and Desi: Hugh O'Brien, Ann Sothern, George Murphy, Rory Calhoun, Spring Byington, John Bromfield, William Demarest, Hedda Hopper, Vivian Vance, William Frawley, and Lassie)
10:00 Twilight Zone "What You Need"
10:30 Person to Person (Charles Collingwood travels to France to interview Jean-Pierre Aumont, Marisa Pavan, and Paris restauranteur Claude Tarreil)
11:00 News/Weather (Dave Rodman)
11:15 Movies "Good Sam"/"City of Chance"
WMTW 8-ABC Poland Spring
8:45 Teddy Bear Cartoons
10:00 Ding Dong School
10:30 Movie: TBA
noon Restless Gun
12:30 Love That Bob!
1:00 Music Bingo
1:30 Christmas Story
2:00 Day in Court
2:30 Gale Storm
3:00 Beat the Clock
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4:00 Catholic Mass (ch 8 spikes Clark for Christ, relaying the service from ch 7)
5:00 TBA
5:30 Rin Tin Tin "The Christmas Story"
6:00 Movie "The Emperor's Nightingale"
7:20 News/Weather
7:30 Walt Disney "Alice in Wonderland"
8:30 Man from Blackhawk "The Legacy"
9:00 77 Sunset Strip "The Jukje-Box Caper"
10:00 Detectives "Masquerade"
10:30 Black Saddle "Client: Neal Adams"
11:00 News/Weather
11:10 Movie "Good News"
WMUR 9-ABC Manchester
10:00 Cartoons
10:50 Movie: TBA (Western)
11:50 News (Gus Bernier)
noon Restless Gun
12:30 Liberace
1:00 Music Bingo
1:30 American Legend
2:00 Day in Court
2:30 Gale Storm
3:00 Beat the Clock
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4:00 American Bandstand
5:00 Popeye
6:00 Jet Jackson
6:30 News/Weather
6:45 Movie "Wyoming"
8:30 Movie "Love, Honor and Goodbye"
10:00 Congressional Investigator "Psycho Quacks"
10:30 Black Saddle "Client: Neal Adams"
11:00 Sports (Gus Bernier)
11:15 Movie "The Cheaters"
WJAR 10-ABC/NBC Providence
6:30 TBA
7:00 Today (News/Weather at 7:25/8:25)
9:00 Movie "Always in My Heart"
10:30 World Around Us (Warren)
11:00 Price is Right (c)
11:30 Concentration
noon Truth or Consequences
12:30 It Could Be You (c)
1:00 Movie "The Yearling"
2:30 Thin Man
3:00 Young Dr. Malone
3:30 From These Roots
4:00 House on High Street
4:30 Split Personality
5:00 Movie "Lost Angel"
6:30 News/Weather
6:45 NBC News
7:00 Annie Oakley "Annie and the Chinese Puzzle"
7:30 TBA
8:00 Troubleshooters "Swing Shift"
8:30 Night of Christmas (c)
9:30 M Squad "The Ivy League Bank Robbers"
10:00 Sports Highlights of 1959
10:30 Christmas Night at Temple Square
11:00 News/Weather
11:15 Movie "Captain January"
WPRO 12-CBS Providence
7:00 Popeye
7:15 Storytime (Beth Chollar)
7:45 Romper Room
8:15 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Movie: TBA
10:30 News/Interviews
11:00 I Love Lucy
11:30 December Bride
noon Love of Life
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 Medic "Death is a Red Balloon"
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Life of Riley "Test for Gillis"
2:30 House Party
3:00 Millionaire
3:30 Verdict is Yours
4:00 Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge of Night
5:00 Roy Rogers "Mountain Pirates"
5:30 Salty Brine's Shack
6:30 News/Sports/Weather
6:45 CBS News
7:00 Flight "Red China Rescue"
7:30 Rawhide "Incident of the Calico Gun"
8:30 Hotel de Paree "Sundance and the Bare-Knuckled Fighters"
9:00 Desilu Playhouse "Christmas Surprise Package"
10:00 Twilight Zone "What You Need"
10:30 Person to Person
11:00 News/Weather
11:15 Jack Paar
1:00 Mike Wallace (guest Sammy Davis Jr.)
WGAN 13-CBS Portland
8:00 News
8:15 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Concept of Mathematics
9:30 Morning Beat
10:30 On the Go
11:00 I Love Lucy
11:30 December Bride
noon Love of Life
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 Way of Life
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 For Better or Worse
2:30 House Party
3:00 Millionaire
3:30 Verdict is Yours
4:00 Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge of Night
5:00 Comedy Time
5:30 White Hunter "Sister, Mr. Spouse"
6:00 Frontier Doctor "Cattle Drive"
6:30 News/Sports/Weather
6:45 CBS News
7:00 Counterspy
7:30 Rawhide "Incident of the Calico Gun"
8:30 Hotel de Paree "Sundance and the Bare-Knuckled Fighters"
9:00 Desilu Playhouse "Christmas Surprise Package"
10:00 Twilight Zone "What You Need"
10:30 Person to Person
11:00 News/Weather
11:15 Movie "Miracle on 34th Street"