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Retro: Boston/Manchester/Providence Sat, July 13, 1974

from TV Guide-Eastern New England edition

WGBH 2-PBS Boston
1:30pm Wall Street Week
2:00 Resolution of Mossie Wax
3:30 French Chef
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Electric Company
5:30 Catch 44
6:00 Book Beat
6:30 Elliot Norton Reviews
7:00 Compass Weekly
8:00 Pioneers in Modern Painting (Cezanne is this week's topic)
8:45 Erica
9:00 Hollywood Television Theatre (from 1971: Irish actor Jack MacGowran does a monolgue drawn from the works of Samuel Beckett...from the Mojave Desert!)
10:00 David Susskind "Singles Sing the Blues"

WFSB 3-CBS Hartford
6:30 Agriculture, USA
7:00 Arthur & Company
8:00 Doing/Being
9:00 Movie "The Exterminator" (starring an animated Don Adams)
10:00 My Favorite Martians
10:30 Jeannie
11:00 Vision On
11:30 Captain Bob
noon What's Congress All About? (Roger Mudd hosts a young people's guide to the House of Representatives; also, NJ Democratic Rep. Peter Rodino (House Judiciary Comm. chair))
12:30 Fat Albert
1:00 CBS Children's Film Festival "The Magnificent 6-1/2" (a Brit take on Our Gang)
2:00 Civilisation "The Light of Experience" (17th-century man's interest in scientific investigations)
3:00 Big Valley
4:00 Soul Train (guests Sly & the Family Stone, and the Trammps)
5:00 Perry Mason (bw)
5:55 What's Happening Update
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Agronsky & Co.
7:30 What's Happening
8:00 All in the Family
8:30 M*A*S*H
9:00 Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10:00 Barnaby Jones
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Escape to Mindanao"
1:15 Speakeasy (guests Emerson, Lake & Palmer; and Jim Stafford)

WBZ 4-NBC Boston
6:00 Man in Space
6:30 Insight
7:00 For Kids Only (Newton Rec Dept. summer program participants discuss "The Conservative Side" with Mass Conservative Party director Jack Molesworth; also appearing: Longfellow Racket Club teaching pro Bill Drake)
7:30 Inch High Private Eye
8:00 Lidsville
8:30 Addams Family (animated)
9:00 Emergency Plus 4
9:30 Something Else (Bob Glover takes the kids to Haymarket Sq)
10:00 Sigmund
10:30 Pink Panther
11:00 Star Trek (animated)
11:30 News
noon Jetsons
12:30 Go! (visiting the Tulsa State Fair)
1:00 Butch Cassidy
1:30 Minutemen Soccer Highlights (the Boston Minutemen played in the NASL 1974-76)
2:00 Baseball: California-Red Sox, live from Fenway (Ken Coleman/Johnny Pesky; NBC's Game of the Week got pitched to TV38)
4:30 Greatest Sports Legends (Paul Hornung, football's "Golden Boy")
5:00 Untamed World
5:30 Animal World
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Starring the Editors (guest editor C. Edward Holland joins regulars David Brickman, Ken Thompson, and Edwin D. Canham)
7:30 Bobby Goldsboro (guest Vicki Carr)
8:00 Emergency!
9:00 Movie "The Apartment"
11:30 News
mid. Tonight Show (guests Shelly Winters, Joan Rivers, and MacLean Stevenson; 10 didn't clear the weekend Carson)
1:30 Movie "Horse Feathers" (bw)

WCVB 5-ABC Boston
5:00 Good Morning! cont'd
6:00 Across the Fence
6:30 America
7:00 Opportunity Line
7:30 Fantasy Funhouse
8:00 Bugs Bunny
8:30 Yogi's Gang
9:00 Super Friends
10:00 Lassie's Rescue Rangers
10:30 Goober
11:00 Brady Kids
11:30 News
noon Candlepin Bowling
1:30 Women's Pro Tennis: Billie Jean King/Chris Evert v Francoise Durr/Betty Stove)
2:30 Movie "Son of Dracula" (bw)
4:00 It Pays to Be Ignorant
4:30 British Open golf (the 103rd annual from Lancashire's Royal Lytham & Annes GC)
6:30 Reasoner Report
7:00 News
7:30 Third World
8:00 Briefing Session guest with Asst Commissioner for Mental Health and Droug Rehab Dr. Matthew Dumont; Partridge Family punted to 56)
8:30 Movie "Cry Panic"
10:00 Owen Marshall
11:00 News
11:15 ABC News
11:30 Movie "House of Frankenstein" (bw)
1:00 Movie "House of Dracula" (bw)
2:20 East Side, West Side (bw)
3:20 5 All Night
3:30 Alfred Hitchcock (bw)
4:00 Third World (rerun from 7:30)
4:30 Good Morning! (guests Don Ameche and James Higgins, clips from Kurt Weil's Three Penny Opera, and Dr. Timothy Johnson answers viewers' medical questions)

WTEV 6-ABC New Bedford
6:30 Farmer's Corner
7:00 Samson
7:30 Felix the Cat
8:00 Bugs Bunny
8:30 Yogi's Gang
9:00 Super Friends
10:00 Lassie's Rescue Rangers
10:30 Goober
11:00 Brady Kids
11:30 Mission: Magic!
noon Movie "Robin Hoodnik"
1:00 American Bandstand (guests The Main Ingredient)
2:00 Baseball: picking up the Sox game from ch 4
4:30 British Open golf
6:30 Reasoner Report
7:00 Hee Haw (guests Tennessee Ernie Ford, Jody Miller, and Tommy Overstreet)
8:00 Partridge Family
8:30 Movie "Cry Panic"
10:00 Owen Marshall
11:00 News
11:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (guests Ike & Tina Turner, Redbone, and Michael Stanley)
1:00 News
1:15 Daniel Boone

WNAC 7-CBS Boston
6:30 Summer Semester "The American Presidency: The Man and the Office"
7:00 Cartoon Capers
8:00 Help! It's the Hair Bear Bunch
8:30 Sabrina the Teenage Witch
9:00 Movie "The Exterminator"
10:00 My Favorite Martians
10:30 Jeannie
11:00 Speed Buggy
11:30 Josie & the Pussycats
noon What's Congress All About?
12:30 Fat Albert
1:00 CBS Children's Film Festival "The Magnificent 6-1/2"
2:00 In Session (guests Kris Kristofferson and Bill Nash)
2:30 Movie "Doctor Blood's Coffin" (bw)
4:00 What's My Line? (x2)
5:00 Gunsmoke
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Lawrence Welk (international songs; Providence saw Welk Sunday at 5 on ch 6)
8:00 All in the Family
8:30 M*A*S*H
9:00 Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10:00 Barnaby Jones
11:00 News
11:30 Name of the Game
1:00 Speakeasy
2:00 Paul Benzaquin

WTNH 8-ABC New Haven
7:00 Davey & Goliath
7:15 A New Day
7:30 I Dream of Jeannie
8:00 Bugs Bunny
8:30 Yogi's Gang
9:00 Super Friends
10:00 Lassie's Rescue Rangers
10:30 Goober
11:00 Brady Kids
11:30 Mission: Magic!
noon Movie "Robin Hoodnik"
1:00 American Bandstand
2:00 Make It Real
2:30 Dragnet
3:00 Movie "The Bandit of Zhobe"
4:30 British Open golf
6:30 Reasoner Report
7:00 News
7:30 Lawrence Welk (same theme as ch 7)
8:30 Movie "Cry Panic"
10:00 Owen Marshall
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Pawnbroker" (bw)
1:30 ABC News

WMUR 9-ABC Manchester
8:00 Bugs Bunny
8:30 Yogi's Gang
9:00 Super Friends
10:00 Lassie's Rescue Rangers
10:30 Goober
11:00 Brady Kids
11:30 Mission: Magic!
noon Movie "Robin Hoodnik"
1:00 American Bandstand
2:00 Movie "Sierra Sue" (bw)
3:00 Westerners
3:30 TBA
4:30 British Open golf
6:30 Reasoner Report
7:00 Miss New England World Beauty Pageant (taped May 29 in Worcester)
8:30 Movie "Cry Panic"
10:00 Owen Marshall
11:00 ABC News
11:15 Movie "Whispering Smith in Scotland Yard" (bw)

WJAR 10-NBC Providence
7:00 Lassie (bw/x2)
8:00 Lidsville
8:30 Addams Family (animated)
9:00 Emergency Plus 4
9:30 Inch High Private Eye
10:00 Sigmund
10:30 Pink Panther
11:00 Star Trek (animated)
11:30 Butch Cassidy
noon Movie "Crack in the World" (bw)
1:30 Thrillseekers (archer Bob Markworth dons a blindfold and aims at a human target/pilot Mira Slovak shows off hydroplane racing)
2:00 Baseball Pre-Game
2:15 Baseball: Texas-Milwaukee (Curt Gowdy/Tony Kubek; NBC's alt game is Oakland-Yankees)
5:00 Wild Kingdom
5:30 Bewitched
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 New Treasure Hunt
7:30 Untamed World
8:00 Emergency!
9:00 Movie "The Apartment"
11:30 News
mid. Movie "Desk Set"
1:30 Speakeasy

WPRI 12-CBS Providence
7:00 Summer Semester (same as ch 7)
7:30 Help! It's the Hair Bear Bunch
8:00 I Dream of Jeannie
8:30 Sabrina the Teenage Witch
9:00 Movie "The Exterminator"
10:00 My Favorite Martians
10:30 Jeannie
11:00 Speed Buggy
11:30 Josie & the Pussycats
noon What's Congress All About?
12:30 Fat Albert
1:00 Wrestling
2:00 Roller Game
3:00 NFL Action '74 "Conquest and Character" (recalling the '73 Raiders season)
3:30 Movie "Palm Beach Weekend"
5:00 Starlost
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 World at War "Remember" (veterans assess WWII)
8:00 All in the Family
8:30 M*A*S*H
9:00 Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10:00 Barnaby Jones
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "Portrait of a Mobster" (bw)

WSMW 27-Ind Worcester
3pm Music for All America
3:30 That Good Ole Nashville Music (guests Freddie Hart, Linda Kay Lance, and Little Jimmy Dickens)
4:00 Country Carnival (guests the Willis Brothers)
4:30 Wrestling
5:30 Wally's Workshop
6:00 Lassie
6:30 Movie "The Three Musketeers" (bw)
8:00 Race of the Week
8:30 NFL Action '74 "Papa Bear" (profile of legendary Chicago owner George Halas)
9:00 Boxing from the Olympic
10:00 Roller Game

WSBE 36-PBS Providence
no scheduled programming

WSBK 38-Ind Boston
10:55 News
11:00 Celebrity Bowling: Donald O'Connor/Jo Anne Worley v Frankie Laine/Rosemary Clooney
11:30 Wrestling
12:30 Right On!
1:00 Soul Train (guests the O'Jays, and the Ramsey Lewis Trio)
2:00 Baseball Pre-Game
2:15 Baseball: Texas-Milwaukee (alt game: Oakland-Yankees)
5:00 Beat the Clock (guest Bob Denver)
5:30 Lassie
6:00 Century Cinema "Panic in the City"
8:00 Movie "Year 2889"
10:00 Movie "Creatures of Destruction"
11:30 Viewpoint on Nutrition
mid. Faith for Today

WGBX 44-PBS Boston
4pm simulcast with WGBH
8:00 Films of the Gatsby Era "Flesh and the Devil" (bw)
10:00 Masterpiece Theatre (first of a 4-week series profiling real-life figures in Edwardian England, profiling David Lloyd George-played by Anthony Hopkins)

WEDN 53-PBS Norwich
10:00 Electric Company
10:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11:00 Sesame Street
noon Electric Company
12:30 Sesame Street
1:30 Electric Company
2:00 Zoom
2:30 Electric Company
3:00 Speaking Freely
4:00 Hollywood Television Theatre
5:00 Resolution of Mossie Wax
6:30 Silent Comedy Film Festival
7:30 Evening at Pops (Series return, concert rich in Americana)
8:30 Family Theatre "The Pathfinder" (pt 2)
9:30 Music of the People
10:00 David Susskind "Divorced and Abandoned-POWs Who Came Home to Nothing"

WLVI 56-Ind Boston
8:30 Music & the Spoken Word
9:00 Day of Discovery "Parables That Tell Secrets" (pt 3)
9:30 Kathryn Kuhlman
10:00 Roller Game
11:00 Wrestling
noon Movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (bw)
2:00 Movie "The Third Day"
4:00 Movie "The Brides of Fu Manchu"
6:00 It Takes a Thief
7:00 Untouchables (bw)
8:00 Partridge Family
8:30 People Power
9:00 Movie "You'll Never Get Rich" (bw)
11:00 Movie "Royal Wedding"
 
Bluenoser said:
WSMW 27-Ind Worcester

4:30 Wrestling
10:00 Roller Game


WSBK 38-Ind Boston
11:30 Wrestling


WLVI 56-Ind Boston
10:00 Roller Game
11:00 Wrestling
...interesting that Roller Game of the Week would be on two stations in the same market, even if twelve hours apart in time slot (or was Worcester considered a separate market from Boston at the time?). And were any of these wrestling packages *not* WWWF?...
 
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