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2 WGBH PBS Boston
9:00 The Growing Years
9:30 Explorations in Shakespeare
10:00 Storybook
10:15 Whatcha Gonna Do?
10:30 Gather 'Round
10:45 World of BJ Vibes
11:00 The Electric Company
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Math Relationships
12:45 All About You
1:00 Trade-Offs
1:20 Matter of Fiction
1:40 Truly American
2:00 19th Century Literature
2:30 Dick Cavett
3:00 The Club
3:30 Over Easy
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 The Electric Company
6:00 Sesame Street
7:00 Doctor Who "Pyramids of Mars" (part 3)
7:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals "The Red Ape"
8:00 The Shakespeare Plays "Julius Caesar"
11:00 News
11:30 The Club
12:00 sign-off
4 WBZ NBC Boston
6:00 Urban Lab
6:30 News
7:00 Today (local news at 7:25/8:25)
9:00 Another World (AW was dumped by 'BZ in 1982, airing on a couple of indies)
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 All-Star Secrets
11:00 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
12:00 News
12:30 Woman '79
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Everyday
4:00 Mike Douglas
5:30 First 4 News
6:00 News (Jack Williams/Tony Pepper)
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Evening Magazine
8:00 Supertrain "And a Cup of Kindness Too"
9:00 NBC Novels for Television "From Here to Eternity" (part 1 of 3)
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (guests Charlton Heston and Bob Anderson)
1:00 Tomorrow with Tom Snyder (Washington Post reporter Bob Meyers discusses his book "Like Normal People"; new luxury model electric cars and automobiles that run on substances other than electricity or gas)
2:00 News
followed by sign-off
5 WCVB ABC Boston
5:00 Good Day! (continued)
6:00 News (WCVB pioneered the hour-long morning news during the 1970s, it expanded to 90 minutes in 1982 and to 2 hours in 1994)
7:00 Good Morning America (local news at 7:25/8:25)
9:00 Good Day!
10:30 Donahue
11:30 Happy Days
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 Concentration
4:30 ABC Afterschool Special "Make-Believe Marriage" (preempts Family Feud and The Gong Show)
5:30 Carol Burnett and Friends
6:00 News (IIRC, Tom Ellis joined Chet Curtis and Natalie Jacobson)
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Big Money
8:00 Eight is Enough "The Kid Who Came to Dinner"
9:00 Charlie's Angels "Angel in a Box"
10:00 Vega$ "Demand and Supply"
11:00 News
11:30 Police Woman "Shoefly"
12:37 Mannix "Climb a Deadly Mountain"
1:45 News
1:55 Movie "Under Ten Flags"
3:50 Five All Night
4:00 Five on Five (Chet Curtis)
4:30 Good Day!
7 WNAC CBS Boston
5:40 Greater Bostonians
5:45 Farm and Market Report
5:50 Sunrise Semester
6:20 Peoplescope
6:50 Las Noticias de Hoy
7:00 Wednesday Morning (local news at 7:25)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Dinah!
10:30 Price is Right
11:30 Love of Life
11:55 CBS News
12:00 Young and the Restless
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Dating Game
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 Merv Griffin
4:30 Streets of San Francisco
5:30 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Candlepins for Cash
7:30 Newlywed Game
8:00 Edward the King "A Hundred Thousand Welcomes"
9:00 M*A*S*H
9:30 One Day at a Time "The Dental Hygenist"
10:00 Dolly and Carol in Nashville (Dolly Parton and Carol Burnett perform together from the Grand Ole Opry House)
11:00 News
11:30 The Rockford Files "The Reincarnation of Angie"
12:40 Kojak "I Could Kill My Wife's Lawyer"
1:50 Asian Focus
2:05 News
2:35 Greater Bostonians
followed by sign-off
9 WMUR ABC Manchester
6:00 PTL Club
7:00 Uncle Gus
8:00 Good Morning America
9:00 PTL Club
10:00 Donahue
11:00 Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12:00 $20.000 Pyramid
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 The Edge of Night
4:30 ABC Afterschool Special "Make-Believe Marriage" (preempts Bonanza)
5:30 Gilligan's Island (normally aired at 4:30pm but it was bumped because of the ABC special)
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Courtship of Eddie's Father "Who Wants to Sail Down the Amazon Anyway?"
7:30 The Muppets (guest Danny Kaye)
8:00 Eight is Enough "The Kid Who Came to Dinner"
9:00 Charlie's Angels "Angel in a Box"
10:00 Vega$ "Demand and Supply"
11:00 News
11:30 Police Woman "Shoefly"
12:37 Mannix "Climb a Deadly Mountain"
1:45 News
followed by sign-off
11 WENH PBS Durham
8:30 Nutrition
9:00 Elementary Language Arts
9:15 19th Century Literature
9:45 World of BJ Vibes
10:00 Ripples
10:15 Whatcha Gonna Do?
10:30 Elementary Language Arts
10:45 Primary Science
11:00 The Electric Company
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Let's All Sing
12:45 Cover to Cover
1:00 Trade-Offs
1:20 Matter of Fiction
1:40 Truly American
2:00 Potpourri
2:30 Nutrition
3:00 Modern Supervisory Techniques
3:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Over Easy
6:00 News
6:30 The Growing Years "The Preschool Experience"
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Dick Cavett (guests Twyla Tharp and Dance Company; part 1 of 2)
8:00 The Shakespeare Plays "Julius Caesar"
11:00 sign-off
25 WXNE Ind Boston
6:00 Ross Bagley
7:00 700 Club
8:30 Lassie
9:00 Big Valley
10:00 Movie "Anastasia"
12:00 Doris Day
12:30 McHale's Navy
1:00 Pete and Gladys
1:30 Room 222
2:00 Ozzie and Harriet
2:30 Father Knows Best
3:00 Superman
3:30 Spider-Man
4:00 Krofft Superstars
4:30 Leave It to Beaver
5:00 Gomer Pyle
5:30 Rat Patrol
6:00 Get Smart "The Mysterious Dr. T"
6:30 Bionic Woman "Beyond the Call"
7:30 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea "The Peacemaker"
8:30 Gomer Pyle "Goodbye Camp Henderson, Hello Sgt. Carter"
9:00 700 Club
10:30 The Rock
11:00 Dragnet "Homicide: The Student"
11:30 Life of Riley
followed by sign-off
27 WSMW Ind Worcester
8:30 Screen Directors Playhouse
9:00 Love Experts
9:30 Cooking with Bernard
10:00 PTL Club
12:00 Daily Mass
12:30 Movie "John Goldfarb, Please Come Home"
2:30 Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig
4:00 The FBI
5:00 Superman
5:30 Space: 1999
6:30 Candid Camera
7:00 $25.000 Pyramid
7:30 College Basketball: Assumption vs. Hartford
9:30 Abbott and Costello "Police Rookies"
10:00 News
10:30 Big Money
11:00 Love Experts
11:30 Movie "Island in the Sun"
1:00 News
followed by sign-off
38 WSBK Ind Boston
7:00 Superheroes
7:30 Porky Pig and Bugs Bunny
8:00 The Three Stooges
8:30 Romper Room
9:00 Tom Larson
9:50 News
10:00 Ironside
11:00 Marcus Welby, MD
12:00 Movie "I'd Climb the Highest Mountain"
2:00 Andy Griffith
2:30 Green Acres
3:00 Beverly Hillbillies
3:30 M*A*S*H (preempted by WNAC)
4:00 All in the Family (also preempted by WNAC)
4:30 Emergency One!
5:30 Hogan's Heroes
6:00 My Three Sons "Guest in the House"
6:30 Adam-12 "The Radical"
7:00 The Odd Couple "Does Your Mother Know You're Out, Rigoletto?"
7:30 NHL Hockey: Boston Bruins vs. New York Rangers
10:30 American Lifestyle "Helen Keller"
11:00 Hogan's Heroes "The Top Secret Top Coat"
11:30 The Rifleman "Conflict"
12:00 The Rifleman "Death Never Rides Alone"
12:30 sign-off
44 WGBX PBS Boston
5pm Hodgepodge Lodge
5:30 Villa Alegre
6:00 Studio See (youngsters make a TV program, ride in a hot air balloon and visit a basement aquarium big enough for scubadiving)
6:30 The Growing Years
7:00 Consumer Survival Kit "Cholesterol, Life Insurance, Displaced Homemakers"
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 Soccer
9:00 La Plaza "Cuba and the Reunification of the Cuban Family"
10:00 News
10:30 Dick Cavett (guests Vera Stravinsky and Christopher Isherwood"
11:00 Captioned ABC News
11:30 sign-off
56 WLVI Ind Cambridge
7:00 Tom and Jerry
7:30 The Flintstones
8:00 Gilligan's Island
8:30 Fred Flintstone and Friends
9:00 New Zoo Revue
9:30 Bozo's Big Top
10:00 People Power
10:30 New England Today
11:00 That Girl
11:30 Lucy Show
12:00 All-New Jeopardy! (preempted by WBZ)
12:30 Password Plus
1:00 The Partridge Family
1:30 Banana Splits
2:00 Yogi Bear
2:30 Casper
3:00 Mighty Mouse
3:30 Woody Woodpecker
4:00 Tom and Jerry
4:30 The Flintstones
5:00 Battle of the Planets
5:30 Brady Bunch
6:00 Six Million Dollar Man "The Lost Island" (part 2)
7:00 Mary Tyler Moore "The 45-Year-Old Old Man"
7:30 Mary Tyler Moore "The Birds, And Um, Bees"
8:00 Movie "The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three"
10:00 The World at War "Home Front"
10:30 The World at War "Britain At War"
11:00 Make Me Laugh
11:30 Love, American Style "Love and the Man Next Door"
12:00 sign-off
2 WGBH PBS Boston
9:00 The Growing Years
9:30 Explorations in Shakespeare
10:00 Storybook
10:15 Whatcha Gonna Do?
10:30 Gather 'Round
10:45 World of BJ Vibes
11:00 The Electric Company
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Math Relationships
12:45 All About You
1:00 Trade-Offs
1:20 Matter of Fiction
1:40 Truly American
2:00 19th Century Literature
2:30 Dick Cavett
3:00 The Club
3:30 Over Easy
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 The Electric Company
6:00 Sesame Street
7:00 Doctor Who "Pyramids of Mars" (part 3)
7:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals "The Red Ape"
8:00 The Shakespeare Plays "Julius Caesar"
11:00 News
11:30 The Club
12:00 sign-off
4 WBZ NBC Boston
6:00 Urban Lab
6:30 News
7:00 Today (local news at 7:25/8:25)
9:00 Another World (AW was dumped by 'BZ in 1982, airing on a couple of indies)
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 All-Star Secrets
11:00 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
12:00 News
12:30 Woman '79
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Everyday
4:00 Mike Douglas
5:30 First 4 News
6:00 News (Jack Williams/Tony Pepper)
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Evening Magazine
8:00 Supertrain "And a Cup of Kindness Too"
9:00 NBC Novels for Television "From Here to Eternity" (part 1 of 3)
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (guests Charlton Heston and Bob Anderson)
1:00 Tomorrow with Tom Snyder (Washington Post reporter Bob Meyers discusses his book "Like Normal People"; new luxury model electric cars and automobiles that run on substances other than electricity or gas)
2:00 News
followed by sign-off
5 WCVB ABC Boston
5:00 Good Day! (continued)
6:00 News (WCVB pioneered the hour-long morning news during the 1970s, it expanded to 90 minutes in 1982 and to 2 hours in 1994)
7:00 Good Morning America (local news at 7:25/8:25)
9:00 Good Day!
10:30 Donahue
11:30 Happy Days
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 Concentration
4:30 ABC Afterschool Special "Make-Believe Marriage" (preempts Family Feud and The Gong Show)
5:30 Carol Burnett and Friends
6:00 News (IIRC, Tom Ellis joined Chet Curtis and Natalie Jacobson)
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Big Money
8:00 Eight is Enough "The Kid Who Came to Dinner"
9:00 Charlie's Angels "Angel in a Box"
10:00 Vega$ "Demand and Supply"
11:00 News
11:30 Police Woman "Shoefly"
12:37 Mannix "Climb a Deadly Mountain"
1:45 News
1:55 Movie "Under Ten Flags"
3:50 Five All Night
4:00 Five on Five (Chet Curtis)
4:30 Good Day!
7 WNAC CBS Boston
5:40 Greater Bostonians
5:45 Farm and Market Report
5:50 Sunrise Semester
6:20 Peoplescope
6:50 Las Noticias de Hoy
7:00 Wednesday Morning (local news at 7:25)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Dinah!
10:30 Price is Right
11:30 Love of Life
11:55 CBS News
12:00 Young and the Restless
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Dating Game
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 Merv Griffin
4:30 Streets of San Francisco
5:30 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Candlepins for Cash
7:30 Newlywed Game
8:00 Edward the King "A Hundred Thousand Welcomes"
9:00 M*A*S*H
9:30 One Day at a Time "The Dental Hygenist"
10:00 Dolly and Carol in Nashville (Dolly Parton and Carol Burnett perform together from the Grand Ole Opry House)
11:00 News
11:30 The Rockford Files "The Reincarnation of Angie"
12:40 Kojak "I Could Kill My Wife's Lawyer"
1:50 Asian Focus
2:05 News
2:35 Greater Bostonians
followed by sign-off
9 WMUR ABC Manchester
6:00 PTL Club
7:00 Uncle Gus
8:00 Good Morning America
9:00 PTL Club
10:00 Donahue
11:00 Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12:00 $20.000 Pyramid
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 The Edge of Night
4:30 ABC Afterschool Special "Make-Believe Marriage" (preempts Bonanza)
5:30 Gilligan's Island (normally aired at 4:30pm but it was bumped because of the ABC special)
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Courtship of Eddie's Father "Who Wants to Sail Down the Amazon Anyway?"
7:30 The Muppets (guest Danny Kaye)
8:00 Eight is Enough "The Kid Who Came to Dinner"
9:00 Charlie's Angels "Angel in a Box"
10:00 Vega$ "Demand and Supply"
11:00 News
11:30 Police Woman "Shoefly"
12:37 Mannix "Climb a Deadly Mountain"
1:45 News
followed by sign-off
11 WENH PBS Durham
8:30 Nutrition
9:00 Elementary Language Arts
9:15 19th Century Literature
9:45 World of BJ Vibes
10:00 Ripples
10:15 Whatcha Gonna Do?
10:30 Elementary Language Arts
10:45 Primary Science
11:00 The Electric Company
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Let's All Sing
12:45 Cover to Cover
1:00 Trade-Offs
1:20 Matter of Fiction
1:40 Truly American
2:00 Potpourri
2:30 Nutrition
3:00 Modern Supervisory Techniques
3:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Over Easy
6:00 News
6:30 The Growing Years "The Preschool Experience"
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Dick Cavett (guests Twyla Tharp and Dance Company; part 1 of 2)
8:00 The Shakespeare Plays "Julius Caesar"
11:00 sign-off
25 WXNE Ind Boston
6:00 Ross Bagley
7:00 700 Club
8:30 Lassie
9:00 Big Valley
10:00 Movie "Anastasia"
12:00 Doris Day
12:30 McHale's Navy
1:00 Pete and Gladys
1:30 Room 222
2:00 Ozzie and Harriet
2:30 Father Knows Best
3:00 Superman
3:30 Spider-Man
4:00 Krofft Superstars
4:30 Leave It to Beaver
5:00 Gomer Pyle
5:30 Rat Patrol
6:00 Get Smart "The Mysterious Dr. T"
6:30 Bionic Woman "Beyond the Call"
7:30 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea "The Peacemaker"
8:30 Gomer Pyle "Goodbye Camp Henderson, Hello Sgt. Carter"
9:00 700 Club
10:30 The Rock
11:00 Dragnet "Homicide: The Student"
11:30 Life of Riley
followed by sign-off
27 WSMW Ind Worcester
8:30 Screen Directors Playhouse
9:00 Love Experts
9:30 Cooking with Bernard
10:00 PTL Club
12:00 Daily Mass
12:30 Movie "John Goldfarb, Please Come Home"
2:30 Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig
4:00 The FBI
5:00 Superman
5:30 Space: 1999
6:30 Candid Camera
7:00 $25.000 Pyramid
7:30 College Basketball: Assumption vs. Hartford
9:30 Abbott and Costello "Police Rookies"
10:00 News
10:30 Big Money
11:00 Love Experts
11:30 Movie "Island in the Sun"
1:00 News
followed by sign-off
38 WSBK Ind Boston
7:00 Superheroes
7:30 Porky Pig and Bugs Bunny
8:00 The Three Stooges
8:30 Romper Room
9:00 Tom Larson
9:50 News
10:00 Ironside
11:00 Marcus Welby, MD
12:00 Movie "I'd Climb the Highest Mountain"
2:00 Andy Griffith
2:30 Green Acres
3:00 Beverly Hillbillies
3:30 M*A*S*H (preempted by WNAC)
4:00 All in the Family (also preempted by WNAC)
4:30 Emergency One!
5:30 Hogan's Heroes
6:00 My Three Sons "Guest in the House"
6:30 Adam-12 "The Radical"
7:00 The Odd Couple "Does Your Mother Know You're Out, Rigoletto?"
7:30 NHL Hockey: Boston Bruins vs. New York Rangers
10:30 American Lifestyle "Helen Keller"
11:00 Hogan's Heroes "The Top Secret Top Coat"
11:30 The Rifleman "Conflict"
12:00 The Rifleman "Death Never Rides Alone"
12:30 sign-off
44 WGBX PBS Boston
5pm Hodgepodge Lodge
5:30 Villa Alegre
6:00 Studio See (youngsters make a TV program, ride in a hot air balloon and visit a basement aquarium big enough for scubadiving)
6:30 The Growing Years
7:00 Consumer Survival Kit "Cholesterol, Life Insurance, Displaced Homemakers"
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 Soccer
9:00 La Plaza "Cuba and the Reunification of the Cuban Family"
10:00 News
10:30 Dick Cavett (guests Vera Stravinsky and Christopher Isherwood"
11:00 Captioned ABC News
11:30 sign-off
56 WLVI Ind Cambridge
7:00 Tom and Jerry
7:30 The Flintstones
8:00 Gilligan's Island
8:30 Fred Flintstone and Friends
9:00 New Zoo Revue
9:30 Bozo's Big Top
10:00 People Power
10:30 New England Today
11:00 That Girl
11:30 Lucy Show
12:00 All-New Jeopardy! (preempted by WBZ)
12:30 Password Plus
1:00 The Partridge Family
1:30 Banana Splits
2:00 Yogi Bear
2:30 Casper
3:00 Mighty Mouse
3:30 Woody Woodpecker
4:00 Tom and Jerry
4:30 The Flintstones
5:00 Battle of the Planets
5:30 Brady Bunch
6:00 Six Million Dollar Man "The Lost Island" (part 2)
7:00 Mary Tyler Moore "The 45-Year-Old Old Man"
7:30 Mary Tyler Moore "The Birds, And Um, Bees"
8:00 Movie "The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three"
10:00 The World at War "Home Front"
10:30 The World at War "Britain At War"
11:00 Make Me Laugh
11:30 Love, American Style "Love and the Man Next Door"
12:00 sign-off
