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Retro: Boston/Manchester/Providence Sat, Feb 23, 1991

from TV Guide-Boston edition

Not listed: WMFP 62-shopping Lawrence, and WHSH 66-HSN/Children's/Religious Marlborough
NHPTV (ch 11) was in pledge period, air times subject to change
WHLL 27's schedule subject to change as things weren't 100% definite at press time


2 WGBH-PBS Boston
4 WBZ-NBC Boston
5 WCVB-ABC Boston
6 WLNE-CBS Providence
7 WHDH-CBS Boston
9 WMUR-ABC Manchester
10 WJAR-NBC Providence
11 WENH-PBS Durham
12 WPRI-ABC Providence
25 WFXT-Fox Boston
27 WHLL-Ind Worcester
38 WSBK-Ind Boston
44 WGBX-PBS Boston
50 WNDS-Ind Derry
56 WLVI-Ind Boston
64 WNAC-Fox Providence
68 WQTV-Ind Boston
PIX WPIX-Ind New York
WOR WOR-Ind New York (EMI feed?)

Morning
5:00
4 Love Boat
5 Good Day!
9 Movie "Wholly Moses!"
12 ANC News
27-PIX Movie cont'd
38 Andy Griffith (bw)
56 Friday the 13th
68 Daily Bible Lesson (Espanol)
WOR Home Shopping Spree

5:30
7 Travel Travel
27 27 West
38 One Day at a Time
68 Daily Bible Lesson
PIX Benson

6:00
4 Weekend Travel Update
5 Jabberwocky
7 Mary Tyler Moore
25-27-WOR Infomercials
38 Maude
56 Point of View
68 Children's Room

6:30
4 Vid Kids
5 Captain Bob
6-38 Infomercial
7 Little Rascals (bw)
10 Buddies
12 Kontakt
27 TBA
56 De Todo un Poco
68 Children's Room
PIX Larry Jones

7:00
2-11 Sesame Street
4 Highway to Heaven
5 Little Rosey
6 Movie "The Candidate"
7 Dink the Little Dinosaur
9-64-PIX Infomercials
10 Kid 'n Play
12 Real Ghostbusters
25 What a Dummy
27 27 West
44 Yan Can Cook
56 Bozo
68 Children's Room
WOR World Tomorrow

7:30
5 Likely Story
7 CBS StoryBreak
9 ABC Weekend Special "Ralph S. Mouse" (pt 1)
10 Widget
12 Police Academy (animated)
25 Captain Planet
27-WOR Infomercials
38 It's Your Business
44 Ciao Italia
50 Superboy
56 Bullwinkle
64 Mighty Mouse
68 Children's Room

8:00
2 Sesame Street
4-10 Camp Candy
5-9-12 Winnie the Pooh
7 Jim Henson's Muppet Babies
11 Reading Rainbow
25-64 Peter Pan & the Pirates
27 Room 222
38 Wall Street Journal Report
44 Cooking with Kurma
50 Infomercial
56 Crazy Cartoons
68 Children's Room

8:30
4-10 Super Mario Bros.
5-9-12 Wizard of Oz
11 Reading Rainbow
25-64 Bobby's World
27 Infomercials
38 Ask the Manager
44 Taste of Louisiana
50 Super Force
56 Tom & Jerry
68 Good Green Earth

9:00
2 Sesame Street
5-9-12 Slimer! & the Real Ghostbusters
6 Movie "Dog Day Afternoon"
7 Garfield & Friends
11 Portrait of a Family
25-64 Tom & Jerry Kids
38 Movie "Mysterious Mr. Moto" (bw)
44 Today's Gourmet
50 Infomercial
56 GI Joe
68 Monitor Forum
PIX WCW Wrestling

9:30
4-10 Gravedale High
25-64 Killer Tomatoes
44 Frugal Gourmet
50 My Secret Identity
56 Dragon Warrior

10:00
2 Kids Ask About War
4 Kid 'n Play
5-9-12 Beetlejuice
7 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
10 Captain Planet
11 Raising Kids
25-64 Piggsburg Pigs
27 WWF Wrestling
44 Julia Child & More Company
50 Infomercial
56 Tall Tales & Legends
68 Inner City Beat
PIX Soul Train

10:30
2 3-2-1 Contact Extra "Bottom of the Barrel" (looks at oil)
4-10 Alvin & the Chipmunks
5-9-12 New Kids on the Block (wonder how popular this show was in Boston?)
11 Editors
25-64 Fun House
38 Infomercial
50 New Lassie

11:00
2 Nature
4 Rap Around
5-9-12 Bugs Bunny & Tweety
6-50-56 Infomercials
7 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures
10 Saved by the Bell
11 South Africa Now
25-64 WWF Wrestling
27 WCW Wrestling
38 Three Stooges (bw)
44 Movie "Steamboat Bill, Jr." (bw)
68 Money & You
PIX Star Search
WOR Superman

11:30
4-10 Guys Next Door (guest star Little Richard)
6 Golf Show
7 Pee-wee's Playhouse
11 Tony Brown's Journal
50 Movie "Gray Lady Down"

Afternoon
noon
2 Naturescene
4 Saturday Videos (hosts Kid 'n Play/videos from Warrant and Poison)
5 Candlepin Bowling: Gary Carrington v Joe Ashline
6-7 Women's Basketball: Tennessee-Texas
9-12 Little Rosey
10 Family Ties
11 European Journal
25 WWF Wrestling
27 TBA
38 Movie "Grand Theft Auto" (Ron Howard both directed and starred)
56 Movie "Heat"
64 Movie "Happie Caulder"
68 Movie "Oliver Twist" (bw)
PIX Happy Days
WOR Switch

12:10
44 Film Shorts "The Paleface" (bw)

12:30
2 Joy of Painting
4-10 NBA Inside Stuff
9 Billy Packer's College Basketball
11 New Hampshire Journal
12 Infomercial
27 Headline News
44 World of Survival
PIX Movie "The Drowning Pool"

1:00
2 Lap Quilting
4 Saved by the Bell
5-12 Chrysler Cup Golf
9 High School Basketball: NHIAA Class L girls' championship, from Pinikerton Academy in Derry
10 TBA
11 Frugal Gourmet Marathon
25 American Gladiators
27 Land of the Giants
44 GED
WOR Run for Your Life

1:30
2 Hometime
4 Dracula (may as well say it, most of you are thinking it...a show that really sucks :D)
10-50 Infomercial

2:00
2 Ciao Italia
4 Highway to Heaven
6-7 College Basketball: UConn-Georgetown
10-27 College Basketball: Oklahoma-Kansas
25 Movie "Number One with a Bullet"
38 Movie "Cannonball!"
44 Discovering Psychology
50 Gimme a Break!
56 Movie "Armed Response"
64 Wonderful World of DIsney
WOR Airwolf

2:30
2 Oriental Rugs
50 Infomercial
68 Good Green Earth
PIX Movie "Bonnie and Clyde"

3:00
2 Amish Cooking
4 Infomercial
5-9-12 Bowling: Flagship City Open
44 Voices & Visions
50 Bob Newhart
68 Wonderful World of Disney
WOR Movie "Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?"

3:30
2 Yan Can Cook
4 Golf Show
11 Doctor Who

4:00
2 Julia Child & More Company
4-10 McDonald's American Cup Gymnastics
6-7 Los Angeles Open Golf
25 Movie "Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love"
27 Crazy Like a Fox
38 Movie "Dog Day Afternoon"
44 Western Tradition
50 Magnum, PI
56 Movie "Nowhere to Hide"
64 American Gladiators
68 Wonderful World of Disney

4:30
2 Victory Garden
5-9-12 ABC Wide World of Sports: World Challenge of Champions figure skating

5:00
2 Frugal Gourmet
27 Crazy Like a Fox
44 French in Action
50 Simon & Simon
64 New Dragnet
68 Star Trek
PIX Movie "Bullitt"
WOR Knight Rider

5:30
2 New Yankee Workshop
64 Superboy

Evening
6:00
2 This Old House
4-5-6-9-10-12 News
7 Urban Update
11 Red Dwarf
25 Hunter
27 Fight Back!
44 Movie "The Wages of Fear" (bw)
50 Kate & Allie
56 Mama's Family
64 Harry & the Hendersons
68 Star Trek: The Next Generation
WOR A-Team

6:30
2 La Plaza
4-10 NBC Nightly News
5-9-12 ABC World News Saturday
6 CBS Evening News
7 News
27 Headline News
38 Odd Couple
50 Kate & Allie
56 Mama's Family
64 Super Force (guest stars Doctor Dre, Yo! Mail Man, and Brian Perry)

6:40
11 Red Dwarf

7:00
2 MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour (were many PBS stations airing MacNeil-Lehrer on the weekend then?)
4 21 Jump Street
5-64-PIX Star Trek: The Next Generation
6-25 A Current Affair Extra
7 Our Times
9 Big Break
10 Entertainment Tonight
12 Wheel of Fortune
27 Infomercial
38 New Dragnet
50 Cagney & Lacey
56 On Scene: Emergency Response
68 Eldridge on Sports
WOR Newsworthy

7:20
11 Red Dwarf

7:30
12 Jeopardy!
27 Kid Beat
38 New Adam-12
56 Green Watch
WOR TBA

8:00
2 Miracle Planet "The Home Planet" (finale)
4-10 Amen (It's Hammer Time as MC Hammer plays a dual role as a Reverend and himself)
5-9-12 Young Riders
6-7 Uncle Buck (all rise for Judge Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)
11 Red Dwarf
25-64 Totally Hidden Video
27 Movie "No Place to Hide"
38 Hockey Week
50 We Love Lucy (Lucie Arnaz presents 3 edited episodes of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, with guest stars Milton Berle, Danny Thomas, and Tallulah Bankhead)
56 Movie "The Killing Fields"
68 Money & You
PIX Movie "About Last Night"
WOR College Basketball: Notre Dame-St. John's

8:10
44 Film Shorts "The Blacksmith" (bw)

8:30
4-10 Amen
6-7 Lenny
25-64 Get a Life
38 NHL: Bruins at St. Louis
44 Evening of Championship Skating 1990

8:40
11 Red Dwarf (viewer poll determines this episode)

9:00
2 Great Railway Journeys
4-10 Golden Girls
5-9-12 Movie "Raw Deal"
6 Movie "K-9"
7 Movie "Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun"
25-64 Cops (Jersey City, NJ)
68 Inner City Beat

9:20
11 Red Dwarf (viewer poll episode)

9:30
4-10 Empty Nest
25-64 Cops (Broward Co, FL from 1989)
44 Championship Ballroom Dancing 1991

10:00
2-11 Movie "2001: A Space Odyssey"
4-10 Carol & Company
25 Comic Strip: Late Night (features George Wallace, John Mendoza, Jeff Stilson, and Mark Weiner)
27 TBA
50 Saturday Night (host Madeline Kahn, music from Carly Simon)
64 Arsenio Hall (guest Kirstie Alley)
68 Affairs of State
PIX-WOR News

10:30
4-10 Dear John
27 Headline News
WOR USA Music

11:00
4-5-6-7-9-10-12-56 News
25 Pump It Up! (music from 3rd Bass and KMD)
27 It's Showtime at the Apollo (with Chubb Rock and Surface)
38 Sportsbeat
44 Lonesome Pine (guests Uptown Rhythm Kings)
50 Friday the 13th
64 Comic Strip: Late Night (see 25, 10pm for talent)
68 One Norway Street This Week
PIX Odd Couple
WOR Howard Stern

11:30
4-10 Saturday Night Live (host Alec Baldwin, music from Whitney Houston)
5 Video Challenge
6 Memories...Then & Now
9 Infomercial
12 Cheers
56 Weekend Scoreboard
PIX Movie "Arsenic and Old Lace" (colorized)

11:35
7 Perry Mason (bw)

Late Night
midnight
5 Memories...Then & Now
6 Pump It Up!
9 Entertainment Tonight
12 Dracula
25 American Gladiators
27 Space: 1999
38 Movie "Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell"
44 Austin City Limits
50-56 Arsenio Hall (see 64, 10pm for details)
64 Infoemrcial
WOR Spotlight Cafe

12:20
2 Marge & Walter

12:30
5 Big Break
11 Sherlock Holmes (bw)
12 Emergency Response
64 Friday the 13th
WOR Infomercials

12:35
7 Entertainment Tonight

12:55
11 Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler

1:00
4 Siskel & Ebert
6 Dog Racing
9 America's Top 10 (interviews with Timmy T. and Keith Sweat)
10 Big Break
12 Byron Allen
25 Night Flight (profile of Lou Reed, clips from The Terror of Tiny Town)
27 Space: 1999
50-56 Party Machine with Nia Peeples (guest Big Daddy Kane)
68 Combat! (bw)

1:30
4 Byron Allen (guests Sherman Helmsley)
5 Movie "The Comancheros"
6 Infomercial
9 Siskel & Ebert
64 Movie "A Woman Rebels" (bw)
PIX Emma: Queen of the South Seas

1:35
7 News

2:00
6 Reunion
9 News
12 ABC News
27 Movie "The Rebel"
38 Movie "All Quiet on the Western Front"
56 Friday the 13th
68 12 O'Clock High (bw)

2:10
7 Movie "Lace II"

2:30
4 Infomercial
9 Movie "The Woman in Red"

3:00
4 Reunion
56 Movie "Ghost Story"

3:30
4 War Chronicles

3:40
5 ABC News

3:55
5 Too Close for Comfort

4:00
4 Hawaii Five-O
7 Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous
27 Movie "Waterloo Road" (bw)
68 Streets of San Francisco

4:25
5 Too Close for Comfort

4:30
9 Headline News
38 Beverly Hillbillies

4:55
5 Headline News
 
Over on the RSNs...

NESN
5:00 This Week on Pit Road
5:30 This Week in NASCAR
6:30 Winner's Circle
7:00 Raynham Report
8:00 Scuba World
8:30 Divers Down
9:00 Fishing the West
9:30 College Cheerleading Finals
10:30 High School Cheerleading Finals
11:30 Candlepin Bowling
12:30 Bruins Weekly
1:00 College Hockey USA
1:30 World Pro Mogul Skiing
2:00 College Basketball: Missouri-Iowa State
4:00 College Basketball: Virginia-NC State
6:00 College Basketball: Oregon State-UCLA
8:00 College Basketball: Boston College-Providence
10:00 College Basketball: Villanova-Seton Hall (same day tape)
mid. College Basketball: Arkansas-Texas A&M (same day tape)
2:00 College Basketball: Washington State-Washington (same day tape)
4:00 College Basketball: Oregon-USC (you guessed it, same day tape)

SportsChannel New England
9:00 AWA Wrestling
10:00 IMSA Grand Prix Hour
11:00 Sportscasters Hall of Fame
noon College Basketball: Drake-Wichita State
2:00 UWF Wrestling
3:00 Ledyard Farms Horse Trials
4:00 College Basketball: St. Louis-Marquette
6:00 Rockingham Report
6:30 Horse Racing from Aqueduct
7:00 Rinkside
7:30 NHL: Buffalo-Hartford
10:30 Sports Nightly
11:00 College Basketball: Loyola Marymount-Santa Clara
 
Interesting how WLNE blew off CBS childrens' programming in favor of R-rated movies. ::)
 
Bluenoser said:
midnight
WOR Spotlight Cafe

Local show that followed Howard Stern's first weekend late-night show, hosted by comedian Mario Cantone, who I believe is making a living on Broadway, these days...

By the way, what did WPIX air at 6 AM? Or was it a special hourlong episode of "Benson"?
 
DToTheJ said:
Bluenoser said:
midnight
WOR Spotlight Cafe

Local show that followed Howard Stern's first weekend late-night show, hosted by comedian Mario Cantone, who I believe is making a living on Broadway, these days...

By the way, what did WPIX air at 6 AM? Or was it a special hourlong episode of "Benson"?

WPIX aired World Tomorrow at 6am.
 
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