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Retro: Boston/Manchester, Tuesday, April 28, 1981

from The Telegraph
President Reagan's address could delay network schedules by 30 minutes after 9pm

2 WGBH PBS Boston
8.45 AM Weather
9.00 Modern Supervisory Techniques
9.30 Jackson Junior High
9.45 Adventures of the Mind
10.00 Art Media
10.15 Gather 'Round
10.30 Mathematical Relationships
10.45 Bread and Butterflies
11.00 Walsh's Animals
11.30 Energy: What's in Store?
11.50 Parlez-Moi
12.00 Sesame Street
1.00 Thinkabout
1.15 Inside-Out
1.30 Many Worlds of Nature
1.45 Ripples
2.00 Images and Things
2.20 At Your Fingertips
2.30 Sesame Street
3.30 Villa Alegre
4.00 Sesame Street
5.00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5.30 The Electric Company
6.00 Beansprouts "What Can You Show Me?"
6.30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
7.00 Doctor Who "The Seeds of Doom"
7.30 Wild, Wild World of Animals "The Amazing Kangaroo"
8.00 Nova "Life on a Silken Thread"
9.00 Mystery! "Sergeant Cribb: Something Old, Something News"
10.00 News
10.30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
11.00 Dick Cavett (guest Baroness de Rothschild; part 2 of 2)
11.30 The Kitchen "Don Taverner"

4 WBZ NBC Boston
5.00 People Are Talking (repeat)
5.30 Morning Stretch
6.00 News
7.00 Today (report on mail-order brides; local news at 7.25/8.25)
9.00 Hour Magazine (tips on protecting homes; interview with Buddy Ebsen)
10.00 Las Vegas Gambit
10.30 Blockbusters
11.00 Wheel of Fortune
11.30 Password Plus
12.00 News
12.30 People Are Talking
1.00 Days of Our Lives
2.00 Another World
3.00 Texas
4.00 John Davidson
5.00 Match Game
5.30 Live on 4
6.00 News
7.00 NBC Nightly News
7.30 Evening Magazine (a visit to Bedford High School; a 110-year-old evangelist; travelling to the Bahamas)
8.00 Moneysense (Sharon King)
8.30 Coming Together (Tanya Hart)
9.00 Hill Street Blues "Up in Arms"
10.00 Nero Wolfe "Blue Ribbon Hostage"
11.00 News
11.30 Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (guest Carl Sagan)
12.30 Tomorrow with Tom Snyder (guests Hodding Carter III and Garland Jeffreys)
2.00 News
2.05 Mike Douglas
3.05 Nosotros
4.04 Community Auditions (Dave Maynard)
4.33 Moneysense (repeat)

5 WCVB ABC Boston
5.00 The Lone Ranger
5.25 Wanted: Dead or Alive
5.55 Morning Glory
6.00 News (news for the deaf airs at 6.25/6.50)
7.00 Good Morning America (local news at 7.25/8.25)
9.00 Good Day! (John Willis/Eileen Prose/Brian Christie)
10.30 Donahue
11.30 The World of People (Sara Edwards was one of the hosts of this show before moving to Boston to present Evening Magazine on WBZ)
12.00 News
12.30 Ryan's Hope
1.00 All My Children
2.00 One Life to Live
3.00 General Hospital
4.00 Rhoda
4.30 Family Feud (network version; delayed from noon)
5.00 Lucy Show
5.30 All in the Family
6.00 News
7.00 ABC World News Tonight
7.30 The Muppets (guest Loretta Swit)
8.00 Happy Days "Dreams Can Come True"
8.30 Laverne and Shirley "The Road to Burbank"
9.00 Three's Company "Room at the Bottom"
9.30 Too Close for Comfort "A Friend in Need"
10.00 Hart to Hart "The Murder of Jonathan Hart"
11.00 News
11.30 ABC News Nightline
12.00 Movie "One Summer Love"
2.10 Five All Night Live (Matt Siegel)
3.50 News
4.00 New Heaven/New Earth (a celebration of Easter with the Greek Orthodox Church)
4.30 Good Day! (repeat)

7 WNAC CBS Boston
6.15 Farm and Market Report
6.20 Senior Circuit
6.50 Noticiero 7
7.00 Morning with Charles Kuralt (local news airs at 7.25)
8.00 Captain Kangaroo
9.00 The Jeffersons (one-day delay)
9.30 Alice (one-day delay)
10.00 Weekday!
11.00 Price is Right
12.00 News
12.30 Search for Tomorrow
1.00 Young and the Restless
2.00 As the World Turns
3.00 Guiding Light
4.00 Movie "The Battle of the Villa Fiorita"
6.00 News
7.00 CBS Evening News
7.30 Family Feud (syndicated version)
8.00 It's Magic, Charlie Brown
8.30 Puff, the Magic Dragon (animated)
9.00 Movie "We're Fighting Back" (premiere)
11.00 News
11.30 Columbo "Swan Song"
1.45 News

9 WMUR ABC Manchester
6.55 American Trail
7.00 Good Morning America
9.00 Jim Bakker
10.00 Donahue
11.00 The Love Boat
12.00 Family Feud
12.30 Ryan's Hope
1.00 All My Children
2.00 One Life to Live
3.00 General Hospital
4.00 The Edge of Night
4.30 Candid Camera
5.00 Petticoat Junction
5.30 Tic Tac Dough
6.00 News
6.30 ABC World News Tonight
7.00 Joker's Wild
7.30 Room 222 "Teacher's Dropping Out"
8.00 Happy Days "Dreams Can Come True"
8.30 Laverne and Shirley "The Road to Burbank"
9.00 Three's Company "Room at the Bottom"
9.30 Too Close for Comfort "A Friend in Need"
10.00 Hart to Hart "The Murder of Jonathan Hart"
11.00 News
11.30 ABC News Nightline
12.00 Movie "One Summer Love"

11 WENH PBS Durham
3pm The Growing Years
3.30 Over Easy
4.00 Sesame Street
5.00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5.30 Beansprouts
6.00 News
6.30 Doctor Who "The Hand of Fear" (part 4)
7.00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7.30 Dick Cavett (see 2, 11pm)
8.00 Nova "Life on a Silken Thread"
9.00 Soundstage "An Evening with Dionne Warwick" (from Chicago's Park West Theater)
10.00 To the Manor Born
10.30 From Jumpstreet "Rhythm and Blues" (Oscar Brown Jr. traces the evolution of rhythm and blues and its impact on contemporary American music)

25 WXNE Ind Boston
6.15 News
6.30 Gigglesnort Hotel
7.00 Star Blazers
7.30 Force Five
8.00 Josie and the Pussycats
8.30 Camp Wilderness
9.00 Lassie
9.30 Leave It to Beaver
10.00 700 Club
11.30 Gomer Pyle
12.00 Jackie Gleason
12.30 McHale's Navy
1.00 Face the Music
1.30 Bullseye
2.00 Spiderwoman
2.30 Krofft Superstars
3.00 Force Five
3.30 Star Blazers
4.00 Superman
4.30 Get Smart
5.00 Wonder Woman
6.00 Battlestar Galactica
7.00 Candlepins for Cash
7.30 Tic Tac Dough
8.00 The Rockford Files
9.00 700 Club "Dollars and Sense" (guest monetary consultant John Exter)
10.30 Mainstream (hosted by Chris Clausen: the voice artist?; I remember he voiced 25's sign-offs before moving to WNEV/WHDH)
11.00 Movie "I Met My Love Again"

38 WSBK Ind Boston
6.30 Romper Room
7.00 Batman
7.30 Scooby-Doo
8.00 Bugs Bunny and Friends
8.30 Cartoons
9.00 Richard Simmons
9.30 Maude
10.00 Tom Larson
10.50 News
11.00 Ironside
12.00 Movie "The Great Man"
2.00 Hollywood Squares
2.30 Chico and the Man
3.00 Ghost and Mrs. Muir
3.30 I Dream of Jeannie
4.00 Bewitched
4.30 One Day at a Time
5.00 Starsky and Hutch
6.00 Hogan's Heroes
6.30 Bob Newhart
7.00 M*A*S*H
7.30 Barney Miller (a Stanley Cup playoff game could preempt regular programming)
8.00 American Lifestyle "Knute Rockne"
8.30 Baseball: Boston Red Sox vs. Texas Rangers
11.15 Independent Network News
11.45 Movie "Guns of Darkness"

44 WGBX PBS Boston
5pm Rebop
5.30 Villa Alegre
6.00 French Chef "Pot Au Feu"
6.30 Over Easy "Friends at Any Age" (guest Molly Picon)
7.00 Dick Cavett
7.30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8.00 Elliot Norton "Peter Pan"
8.30 Open Mind
9.00 La Plaza
9.30 Presente "El Trovador" (Antonio Baez, native of Puerto Rico, is shown in Milwaukee continuing the communal Puerto Rican tradition of the wandering poet)
10.00 Tomorrow Came Much Later (Bertha Lautman, a survivor of three years in Nazi death camps, returns to the site of her torment with a group of 19 high school students)
11.00 Captioned ABC News

56 WLVI Ind Boston
7.00 Popeye
7.30 The Flintstones
8.00 Great Space Coaster
8.30 Fred Flintstone and Friends
9.00 New Zoo Revue
9.30 Bozo's Big Top
10.00 Point of View
10.30 New England Today
11.00 The Love Boat (preempted by WCVB)
12.00 To Tell the Truth
12.30 $50.000 Pyramid
1.00 Partridge Family
1.30 Banana Splits
2.00 Yogi Bear
2.30 Casper
3.00 Bugs Bunny
3.30 Woody Woodpecker
4.00 Tom and Jerry
4.30 The Flintstones
5.00/5.30 Brady Bunch
6.00 Happy Days Again
6.30 Good Times
7.00 Sanford and Son
7.30 Sha Na Na (guest Dick Clark)
8.00 Movie "The Bridge on the River Kwai"
11.00 Benny Hill
11.30 Best of Groucho
 
Nero Wolfe still in its original run and Too Close for Comfort still on network TV before moving to first run syndication. Interesting schedule!
 
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