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Retro: Boston/Manchester, Thursday, October 21, 1993

from The Sun (Lowell, MA)
Listings ran from 5AM until 2AM.

02 WGBH PBS Boston
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Shining Time Station
8:30 Barney and Friends
9:00 Lamb Chop's Play-Along
9:30 Mister Rogers
10:00 Instructional programming
12:00 Sesame Street
1:00 Reading Rainbow
1:30 Mister Rogers
2:00 Barney and Friends
2:30 Lamb Chop's Play-Along
3:00 Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
3:30 Square One TV
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
5:30 Square One TV
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
7:00 Thursday Group
7:30 Are You Being Served?
8:00 This Old House
8:30 Say Brother
9:00 Mystery!
10:00 Yes, Prime Minister
11:00 Are You Being Served?
11:30 Charlie Rose

04 WBZ NBC Boston
5:30 News
7:00 Today (filmmaker Robert Altman; World Series update; Neiman Marcus department stores)
9:00 Bertice Berry
10:00 Vicki!
11:00 Montel Williams
12:00 News
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Ricki Lake
3:00 Les Brown
4:00 Maury Povich
5:00 American Journal
5:30 News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Entertainment Tonight (interview with Bob Newhart)
8:00 Mad About You "The Man Who Said Hello"
8:30 Wings "I Love Brian"
9:00 Seinfeld "The Cheever Letters"
9:30 Frasier "Call Me Irresponsible"
10:00 L.A. Law "How Much is That Bentley in the Window?"
11:00 News
11:35 Tonight Show with Jay Leno (guests Rod Stewart and actress Jeanne Tripplehorn)
12:35 Late Night with Conan O'Brien (guests Twiggy and actor David Faustino)
1:35 News
2:10 Entertainment Tonight

05 WCVB ABC Boston
5:30 News
7:00 Good Morning America (Kermit the Frog; on the set of Matlock; Jack Hanna)
9:00 Home
10:00 Jerry Springer
11:00 Sally
12:00 News
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Donahue
5:00 Oprah Winfrey
6:00 News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Chronicle
8:00 Matlock "The Fortune"
10:00 Primetime Live (a rare birth defect in which babies are born without eyes)
11:00 News
11:35 Nightline
12:05 Nighttalk with Jane Whitney
1:05 Rush Limbaugh
1:35 News
2:10 Chronicle

07 WHDH CBS Boston
6:00 This Morning's Business
6:30 CBS Morning News
7:00 CBS This Morning (guest Pat O'Brien)
9:00 Regis and Kathie Lee
10:00 Joan Rivers
11:00 Price is Right
12:00 News
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 Bold and the Beautiful
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Inside Edition
4:30 Hard Copy
5:00 Rescue 911
5:30 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Jeopardy!
8:00 World Series: Toronto Blue Jays vs. Philadelphia Phillies
11:00 News
11:35 Late Show with David Letterman (guests Bob Newhart and band Guru)
12:35 Night Court
1:05 Jenny Jones

09 WMUR ABC Manchester
5:30 ABC World News Tonight
6:00 News
7:00 Good Morning News
9:00 Geraldo
10:00 Sally
11:00 Maury Povich
12:00 News
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 In the Heat of the Night
5:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Entertainment Tonight
7:30 Hard Copy
8:00 Matlock "The Fortune"
10:00 Primetime Live
11:00 News
11:35 Nightline
12:05 Rush Limbaugh
12:35 Paid programming
1:05 Entertainment Tonight
1:35 Jerry Springer

10 WJAR NBC Providence
5:00 NBC Nightside
5:30 NBC News at Sunrise
6:00 News
7:00 Today
9:00 Regis and Kathie Lee
10:00 Vicki!
11:00 John and Leeza
12:00 News
12:30 Caesars Challenge
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Maury Povich
4:00 Oprah Winfrey
5:00 Golden Girls
5:30 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Hard Copy
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
8:00 Mad About You "The Man Who Said Hello"
8:30 Wings "I Love Brian"
9:00 Seinfeld "The Cheever Letters"
9:30 Frasier "Call Me Irresponsible"
10:00 L.A. Law "How Much is That Bentley in the Window?"
11:00 News
11:35 Tonight Show with Jay Leno
12:35 Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1:35 Later with Bob Costas (guest Matthew Broderick)
2:05 News

11 WENH PBS Durham
6:30 Homestretch
7:00 Body Electric
7:30 Stretching for Life
7:45 AM Weather
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Instructional programming
12:00 Barney and Friends
12:30 Lamb Chop's Play-Along
1:00 Instructional programming
3:00 The Chinese
3:30 Square One TV
4:00 Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
4:30 Mister Rogers
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
7:00 Nightly Business Report
7:30 This Old House
8:00 Nova "Secrets of the Psychics"
9:00 The Breast Care Test (Jane Pauley, Erma Bombeck, Dr. Susan Love and breast cancer survivors discuss self-exams and mammograms)
10:00 Darling Buds of May
11:00 War Stories
12:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour

12 WPRI ABC Providence
5:30 ABC World News This Morning
6:00 News
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Montel Williams
10:00 Les Brown
11:00 Bertice Berry
12:00 News
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Inside Edition
4:30 American Journal
5:00 News
5:30 A Current Affair
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Jeopardy!
8:00 Movie "All the Right Moves"
10:00 Primetime Live
11:00 News
11:35 Nightline
12:05 Cheers
12:35 Money Making Secrets
1:05 Geraldo

25 WFXT FOX Boston
6:00 Paid programming
6:30 Kenneth Copeland
7:00 Xuxa
7:30 Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
8:00 Merrie Melodies
8:30 New Adventures of Captain Planet
9:00 Gilligan's Island
9:30 Catholic Mass
10:00 Family Matters
10:30 227
11:00 Paid programming
12:00 In the Heat of the Night "Moseley's Lot"
1:00 People's Court
1:30 Out of This World
2:00 Bugs Bunny and Friends
2:30 Popeye
3:00 Tom and Jerry
3:30 Tom and Jerry Kids
4:00 Tiny Toon Adventures
4:30 Animaniacs
5:00 Batman
5:30 Family Matters
6:00 Roseanne
6:30 The Wonder Years
7:00 Married... with Children
8:00 The Simpsons "Rosebud"
8:30 Sinbad Show "Strictly Business"
9:00 In Living Color
9:30 Herman's Head "Jaybo and Weesie"
10:00 News
10:30 Cops
11:00 Chevy Chase
12:00 Designing Women
1:00 Paid programming

27 WUNI Univision Worcester
6:00 El Tesoro del Saber
6:30 Raring to Read
7:00 Fatima
7:30 Experience the Power
8:00 Target Training
8:30 Dura Lon
9:00 Robert Tilton
10:00 Shop at Home
11:00 Gomer Pyle
12:00 700 Club
1:00 Llevatelo
2:00 De Frente al Sol
3:00 Alcanzar Una Estrella
4:00 Cristina
5:00 Noticias y Mas
6:00 Ingles Sin Fronteras
6:30 Noticiero Univision
7:00 Dos Mujeres, Un Camino
8:00 Valentina
9:00 La Loba Herida
10:00 Lente Loco
10:30 Bienvenidos
11:00 Noticiero Univision
11:30 American English
12:00 Invisions
12:30 Food Dehydrator
1:00 Movie "The Angry Red Planet"

38 WSBK Ind Boston
5:00 Morning Stretch
5:30 Jackson Five
6:30 Woody Woodpecker
7:00 Small Wonder
7:30 Garfield and Friends
8:00 Duck Tales
8:30 Bots Master
9:00 Family Ties
9:30 The Odd Couple
10:00 No Excuses
10:30 Andy Griffith
11:00 Family Feud
12:00 The Jeffersons
12:30 Beverly Hillbillies
1:00 Wavelength
1:30 Hogan Family
2:00 George of the Jungle
2:30 Woody Woodpecker
3:00 Tale Spin
3:30 Darkwing Duck
4:00 Goof Troop
4:30 Bonkers
5:00 Punky Brewster
5:30 Saved by the Bell
6:00 M*A*S*H
6:30 Coach
7:00 Cheers
7:30 Murphy Brown
8:00 Movie "High Plains Drifter"
10:00 M*A*S*H
10:30 Empty Nest
11:00 Cheers
11:30 Real Stories of the Highway Patrol
12:00 Hogan's Heroes
1:00 Paid programming
2:00 Movie "Fire Over England"

44 WGBX PBS Boston
6:45 AM Weather
7:00 Body Electric
7:30 Hooked on Aerobics
8:00 Frugal Gourmet
8:30 Ciao Italia
9:00 Classic Spanish Cooking
9:30 Cooking in America
10:00 Victory Garden
10:30 American Vacations
11:00 Your Organic Garden
11:30 Joy of Painting
12:00 Frugal Gourmet
12:30 Ciao Italia!
1:00 Live from Lincoln Center
3:00 Masterpiece Theatre
4:00 Nature
5:00 Wild America
5:30 Sesame Street
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
8:00 The Prize: The Epic Quest
9:00 The Stuff of Dreams
10:00 Thursday Group
10:30 One on One
11:00 Nightly Business Report
11:30 Today's Japan
12:00 Star Hustler

50 WNDS Ind Derry
7:00 This Morning's Business
7:30 Captain Planet and the Planeteers
8:00 Xuxa
8:30 I Love Lucy
9:00 Perry Mason
10:00 Barnaby Jones
11:00 Cagney and Lacey "Favors"
12:00 St. Elsewhere "Entrapment"
1:00 Jenny Jones
2:00 Kate and Allie
2:30 Bewitched
3:00 CHiPs "Weed Wars"
4:00 Highway to Heaven
5:00 Love Connection
6:00 Star Trek: The Next Generation
7:00 Rescue 911
7:30 The Wonder Years
8:00 Movie "Chariots of Fire"
11:00 People's Court
12:00 Arsenio Hall (guests Johnny Gill and Everette Harp)

56 WLVI Ind Cambridge
6:00 Widget
6:30 Mr. Bogus
7:00 Conan the Adventurer
7:30 Dennis the Menace
8:00 Inspector Gadget
8:30 SWAT Kats: The Radical Network
9:00 The Flintstones
9:30 Adventures of T-Rex
10:00 Hallo Spencer
10:30 Bewitched
11:00 Yogi and Friends
11:30 Dear John
12:00 Love Connection
12:30 Best of Love Connection
1:00 Head of the Class
1:30 Perfect Strangers
2:00 Brady Bunch
2:30 Stunt Dawgs
3:00 Yogi and Friends
3:30 Mr. Bogus
4:00 Pink Panther
4:30 Conan the Adventurer
5:00 Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
5:30 Growing Pains
6:00 Full House
6:30 Who's the Boss?
7:00 Star Trek: The Next Generation
8:00 Movie "Troop Beverly Hills"
10:00 News
11:00 Star Trek
12:00 Arsenio Hall (same as ch. 50)

60 WGOT Ind Merrimack
7:00 AgDay
7:30 Mr. Bogus
8:00 SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron
8:30 Children's Room
9:00 Hawaii Five-O
10:00 Joan Rivers
11:00 Bertice Berry
12:00 Movie "Kansas Pacific"
2:00 Hogan's Heroes
2:30 Family Matters
3:00 Children's Room
3:30 Mr. Bogus
4:00 Bertice Berry
5:00 Joan Rivers
6:00 Family Matters
6:30 Morton Downey Jr.
7:00 Cops
7:30 A Current Affair
8:00 Movie "A Time to Live"
10:00 News
10:30 A Current Affair
11:00 Morton Downey Jr.
11:30 News

68 WQTV Ind Boston
6:30 Daily Bible Lesson
7:00 Children's Room
8:00 Make Room for Daddy
9:00 Gunsmoke
10:00 Movie "The Missing Are Deadly"
11:30 The Twilight Zone
12:00 Cannon
1:00 Movie "Last Holiday"
3:00 Make Room for Daddy
4:00 Gunsmoke
5:00 Cannon "Blood Money"
6:00 Barnaby Jones
7:00 Streets of San Francisco
8:00 Movie "Above Us the Waves"
10:00 Combat "The Prisoner"
11:00 The Twilight Zone
12:00 Shop at Home
 
A minor note: WHDH didn't have a 5pm newscast because New England Television lost a lot of money during the regional recession of the early 1990s. In 1994, almost one year after Ed Ansin took over the station, that newscast was reintroduced, then anchored by Kim Carrigan (now at WRKO-AM).
 
I see WBZ didn't air any NBC daytime programming except for Days of our Lives. Their lineup was full of nothing but talk shows.
 
I see WBZ didn't air any NBC daytime programming except for Days of our Lives. Their lineup was full of nothing but talk shows.

Yeah, for years they preempted most of the NBC daytime schedule and even Another World. Now, as a CBS O&O, they can't do that anymore!
 
Yeah, for years they preempted most of the NBC daytime schedule and even Another World. Now, as a CBS O&O, they can't do that anymore!

I remember in the mid-90s I think it was, my grandparents got WBZ on C-Band satellite as part of a distant network package. I remember being surprised at how much they pre-empted. Not too long after, WHDH replaced WBZ for the NBC affiliate and then they did carry all the NBC shows.
 
A lot of Independent stations in this market at this time. I think 'Coach' had just entered syndication this season. The NBC Thursday lineup was adjusting to the end of 'Cheers' the prior season.
 
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