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02 WGBH PBS Boston
8:45 AM Weather
9:00 Vegetable Soup
9:30 Images and Things
9:50 Write On
10:00 Thinkabout
10:15 Africa File
10:45 Ripples
11:00 The Electric Company
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Ecology: You and Your Environment
12:50 Matter of Fiction
1:10 Truly American
1:30 Ecology: You and Your Environment
1:50 Write On
2:00 Nutrition
2:30 Sesame Street
3:30 Villa Alegre
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 The Electric Company
6:00 Zoom
6:30 Doctor Who "Robot" (part 3)
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals "Animals of the Polar Desert"
8:00 This Old House
8:30 Victory Garden (Bob Thompson explains how to plant beans, corn and other vegetables in containers)
9:00 Back Wards to Back Streets (some of the disasters of community mental health care as well as some exceptional programs that provide care for discharged mental patients in the US are examined)
10:00 News
11:00 Sports Nightly (hosted by Upton Bell and Brian Leary)
11:30 An Evening of Championship Skating 1979
followed by sign-off
04 WBZ NBC Boston
5:00 Sharon King
6:00 Morning Stretch
6:30 Almanac
7:00 Today (local news at :25)
9:00 Play the Percentages
9:30 Chain Reaction
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
12:00 News
12:30 Sharon King
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Another World
4:00 Mike Douglas
5:00 Match Game
5:30 News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Evening Magazine (Robin Young and Barry Nolan hosts; interviews with entrepreneur Ron Smith and the family of Katy Mills, a baby who survived a brush with death)
8:00 Real People (reports on goat, turtle and bathtub races, a man who collects Tarzan memorabilia and a toilet trained cat)
9:00 Diff'rent Strokes
10:00 Quincy
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (guests Barbara Mandrell, Cloris Leachman and Gay Talese)
1:00 Tomorrow with Tom Snyder (guests Scatman Crothers and author Dr. Michael McGill)
2:00 News
2:05 Movie "Cyborg 2087"
3:30 Movie "The Killing"
05 WCVB ABC Boston
5:00 Good Day! (continued)
6:00 News
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Good Day!
10:30 Donahue
11:30 Family Feud
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 Face the Music
5:00 Carol Burnett and Friends
5:30 All in the Family
6:00 News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Big Money
8:00 Perry Como's Bahama Holiday (guests Toni Tennille and Loretta Swit)
9:00 Movie "Murder Can Hurt You"
11:00 News
11:30 Nightline
11:50 The Love Boat
1:00 Baretta
2:10 Five All Night Live (Matt Siegel)
3:50 News
4:00 Five on Five (Chet Curtis)
4:30 Good Day!
07 WNAC CBS Boston
5:50 Greater Bostonians
5:55 Farm and Market Report
6:00 At Noon
6:30 Senior Circuit
6:50 Las Noticias de Hoy
7:00 CBS Morning News (news at :25)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Dinah and Friends
10:00 The Jeffersons
10:30 Tic Tac Dough
11:00 Price is Right
12:00 At Noon
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Young and the Restless
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Joker's Wild
4:30 Kung Fu
5:30 Welcome Back, Kotter
6:00 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Newlywed Game
8:00 Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over (animated special)
8:30 Carlton Your Doorman (animated special)
9:00 Movie "The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank"
11:00 News
11:30 Black Sheep Squadron
12:40 CBS Late Movie "Easy Come, Easy Go"
2:20 News
2:50 Nightscene (David Brudnoy)
3:50 Greater Bostonians
followed by sign-off
09 WMUR ABC Manchester
6:00 PTL Club
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 PTL Club
10:00 Donahue
11:00 Laverne and Shirley
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 Gilligan's Island
5:00 Bonanza
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Room 222 "If It's Not Here, Where Is It?"
7:30 The Muppets (guest Arlo Guthrie)
8:00 Perry Como's Bahama Holiday
9:00 Movie "Murder Can Hurt You"
11:00 News
11:30 Nightline
11:50 The Love Boat
1:00 Baretta
2:10 News
followed by sign-off
11 WENH PBS Durham
8:15 AM Weather
8:30 Colorblind Freedom
9:00 Potpourri
9:25 When You Grow Up
9:40 Environmental Studies
10:00 Looks at Books
10:15 Ripples
10:30 American Scrapbook
10:45 About Animals
11:00 The Electric Company
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Our New Hampshire
12:50 Matter of Fiction
1:10 Truly American
1:30 The Brothers Grimm
1:45 American Scrapbook
2:00 Finding Our Way
2:15 Read All About It
2:30 Colorblind Freedom
3:00 Human Relations and Motivations
3:30 Hands
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Over Easy
6:00 News
6:30 Ben Wattenberg's 1980 "Power Shift: The Soviet Arms Build-Up"
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Dick Cavett (guests Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo)
8:00 Great Performances "Dance in America: Beyond the Mainstream"
9:00 Back Wards to Back Streets
10:00 Local Follow-Up "Back Wards to Back Streets"
11:00 News
followed by sign-off
25 WXNE Ind Boston
6:00 Ross Bagley
7:00 700 Club
8:30 Cartoons
9:00 Lassie
9:30 Leave It to Beaver
10:00 Movie "Raw Wind in Eden"
11:50 News
12:00 Gomer Pyle
12:30 McHale's Navy
1:00 Life of Riley
1:30 Room 222
2:00 Bullwinkle
2:30 Rocket Robin Hood
3:00 Spider-Man
3:30 Krofft Superstars
4:00 Superman
4:30 Movie "Red Stallion in the Rockies"
6:00 Get Smart
6:30 Jackie Gleason
7:00 Jim Rockford "The Gearjammer" (part 2)
8:00 Bonanza
9:00 700 Club
11:00 The Rock
11:30 Big Valley
12:30 sign-off
27 WSMW Ind Worcester
8:30 Abbott and Costello (x2)
9:30 Cooking with Bernard
10:00 PTL Club
12:00 Daily Mass
12:30 Movie "Not With My Wife, You Don't"
2:30 Medic
3:00 The FBI
4:00 Chico and the Man
4:30 Porky Pig and Friends
5:00 Bugs Bunny and Friends
5:30 Abbott and Costello
6:00 The Gong Show
6:30 Candid Camera
7:00 Kojak
8:00 Movie "The Shooting"
9:55 Wall Street Journal Business Report
10:00 News
10:30 Big Money
11:00 Fernwood 2night (guests Bud Prize and reverend Chung Hee)
11:30 Movie "How Sweet It Is!"
1:30 News
followed by sign-off
38 WSBK Ind Boston
6:30 Romper Room
7:00 The Three Stooges
8:00 Star Blazers
8:30 Porky Pig and Bugs Bunny
9:00 Tom Larson
10:00 Ironside
11:00 Laverne and Shirley (preempted by WCVB)
11:30 Chico and the Man
12:00 $20.000 Pyramid (preempted by WCVB)
12:30 Andy Griffith
1:00 Movie "Elephant Walk"
3:00 Beverly Hillbillies
3:30 I Dream of Jeannie
4:00 Bewitched (x2)
5:00 Emergency One!
6:00 M*A*S*H
6:30 Bob Newhart
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 Baseball: Boston Red Sox vs. Toronto Blue Jays
10:15 The Odd Couple
10:45 The Three Stooges
11:00 Maude
11:30 Dave Allen
12:00 Sergeant Bilko "The Big Scandal"
12:30 Our Miss Brooks "Hobby Show"
1:00 Movie "Charlie Chan and the Red Dragon"
2:30 Movie "Hi-Jackers"
followed by sign-off
44 WGBX PBS Boston
5pm Rebop
5:30 Villa Alegre
6:00 French Chef "Hamburger Dinner"
6:30 Over Easy (guest Ellen Burstyn"
7:00 Dick Cavett (see 11, 7:30pm)
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 Soccer
9:00 La Plaza "Lo Que Hace al Amor" (part 2)
9:30 European Television Service
10:00 Dick Cavett (repeat of 7pm)
10:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
11:00 ABC World News Tonight (CC)
11:30 sign-off
56 WLVI Ind Cambridge
7:00 Tom and Jerry
7:30 The Flintstones
8:00 Gilligan's Island
8:30 Woody Woodpecker
9:00 New Zoo Revue
9:30 Bozo's Big Top
10:00 People Power
10:30 New England Today
11:00 Family Affair
11:30 That Girl
12:00 Lucy Show
12:30 Password Plus
1:00 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 Brady Bunch (x2)
6:00 Happy Days Again
6:30 Good Times
7:00 Sanford and Son
7:30 Benny Hill
8:00 Movie "The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing"
10:30 Love, American Style "Love and the Good Samaritan"
11:00 Prisoner: Cell Block H
11:30 Best of Groucho
followed by sign-off
02 WGBH PBS Boston
8:45 AM Weather
9:00 Vegetable Soup
9:30 Images and Things
9:50 Write On
10:00 Thinkabout
10:15 Africa File
10:45 Ripples
11:00 The Electric Company
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Ecology: You and Your Environment
12:50 Matter of Fiction
1:10 Truly American
1:30 Ecology: You and Your Environment
1:50 Write On
2:00 Nutrition
2:30 Sesame Street
3:30 Villa Alegre
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 The Electric Company
6:00 Zoom
6:30 Doctor Who "Robot" (part 3)
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals "Animals of the Polar Desert"
8:00 This Old House
8:30 Victory Garden (Bob Thompson explains how to plant beans, corn and other vegetables in containers)
9:00 Back Wards to Back Streets (some of the disasters of community mental health care as well as some exceptional programs that provide care for discharged mental patients in the US are examined)
10:00 News
11:00 Sports Nightly (hosted by Upton Bell and Brian Leary)
11:30 An Evening of Championship Skating 1979
followed by sign-off
04 WBZ NBC Boston
5:00 Sharon King
6:00 Morning Stretch
6:30 Almanac
7:00 Today (local news at :25)
9:00 Play the Percentages
9:30 Chain Reaction
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
12:00 News
12:30 Sharon King
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Another World
4:00 Mike Douglas
5:00 Match Game
5:30 News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Evening Magazine (Robin Young and Barry Nolan hosts; interviews with entrepreneur Ron Smith and the family of Katy Mills, a baby who survived a brush with death)
8:00 Real People (reports on goat, turtle and bathtub races, a man who collects Tarzan memorabilia and a toilet trained cat)
9:00 Diff'rent Strokes
10:00 Quincy
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (guests Barbara Mandrell, Cloris Leachman and Gay Talese)
1:00 Tomorrow with Tom Snyder (guests Scatman Crothers and author Dr. Michael McGill)
2:00 News
2:05 Movie "Cyborg 2087"
3:30 Movie "The Killing"
05 WCVB ABC Boston
5:00 Good Day! (continued)
6:00 News
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Good Day!
10:30 Donahue
11:30 Family Feud
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 Face the Music
5:00 Carol Burnett and Friends
5:30 All in the Family
6:00 News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Big Money
8:00 Perry Como's Bahama Holiday (guests Toni Tennille and Loretta Swit)
9:00 Movie "Murder Can Hurt You"
11:00 News
11:30 Nightline
11:50 The Love Boat
1:00 Baretta
2:10 Five All Night Live (Matt Siegel)
3:50 News
4:00 Five on Five (Chet Curtis)
4:30 Good Day!
07 WNAC CBS Boston
5:50 Greater Bostonians
5:55 Farm and Market Report
6:00 At Noon
6:30 Senior Circuit
6:50 Las Noticias de Hoy
7:00 CBS Morning News (news at :25)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Dinah and Friends
10:00 The Jeffersons
10:30 Tic Tac Dough
11:00 Price is Right
12:00 At Noon
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Young and the Restless
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Joker's Wild
4:30 Kung Fu
5:30 Welcome Back, Kotter
6:00 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Newlywed Game
8:00 Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over (animated special)
8:30 Carlton Your Doorman (animated special)
9:00 Movie "The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank"
11:00 News
11:30 Black Sheep Squadron
12:40 CBS Late Movie "Easy Come, Easy Go"
2:20 News
2:50 Nightscene (David Brudnoy)
3:50 Greater Bostonians
followed by sign-off
09 WMUR ABC Manchester
6:00 PTL Club
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 PTL Club
10:00 Donahue
11:00 Laverne and Shirley
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 Gilligan's Island
5:00 Bonanza
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Room 222 "If It's Not Here, Where Is It?"
7:30 The Muppets (guest Arlo Guthrie)
8:00 Perry Como's Bahama Holiday
9:00 Movie "Murder Can Hurt You"
11:00 News
11:30 Nightline
11:50 The Love Boat
1:00 Baretta
2:10 News
followed by sign-off
11 WENH PBS Durham
8:15 AM Weather
8:30 Colorblind Freedom
9:00 Potpourri
9:25 When You Grow Up
9:40 Environmental Studies
10:00 Looks at Books
10:15 Ripples
10:30 American Scrapbook
10:45 About Animals
11:00 The Electric Company
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Our New Hampshire
12:50 Matter of Fiction
1:10 Truly American
1:30 The Brothers Grimm
1:45 American Scrapbook
2:00 Finding Our Way
2:15 Read All About It
2:30 Colorblind Freedom
3:00 Human Relations and Motivations
3:30 Hands
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Over Easy
6:00 News
6:30 Ben Wattenberg's 1980 "Power Shift: The Soviet Arms Build-Up"
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Dick Cavett (guests Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo)
8:00 Great Performances "Dance in America: Beyond the Mainstream"
9:00 Back Wards to Back Streets
10:00 Local Follow-Up "Back Wards to Back Streets"
11:00 News
followed by sign-off
25 WXNE Ind Boston
6:00 Ross Bagley
7:00 700 Club
8:30 Cartoons
9:00 Lassie
9:30 Leave It to Beaver
10:00 Movie "Raw Wind in Eden"
11:50 News
12:00 Gomer Pyle
12:30 McHale's Navy
1:00 Life of Riley
1:30 Room 222
2:00 Bullwinkle
2:30 Rocket Robin Hood
3:00 Spider-Man
3:30 Krofft Superstars
4:00 Superman
4:30 Movie "Red Stallion in the Rockies"
6:00 Get Smart
6:30 Jackie Gleason
7:00 Jim Rockford "The Gearjammer" (part 2)
8:00 Bonanza
9:00 700 Club
11:00 The Rock
11:30 Big Valley
12:30 sign-off
27 WSMW Ind Worcester
8:30 Abbott and Costello (x2)
9:30 Cooking with Bernard
10:00 PTL Club
12:00 Daily Mass
12:30 Movie "Not With My Wife, You Don't"
2:30 Medic
3:00 The FBI
4:00 Chico and the Man
4:30 Porky Pig and Friends
5:00 Bugs Bunny and Friends
5:30 Abbott and Costello
6:00 The Gong Show
6:30 Candid Camera
7:00 Kojak
8:00 Movie "The Shooting"
9:55 Wall Street Journal Business Report
10:00 News
10:30 Big Money
11:00 Fernwood 2night (guests Bud Prize and reverend Chung Hee)
11:30 Movie "How Sweet It Is!"
1:30 News
followed by sign-off
38 WSBK Ind Boston
6:30 Romper Room
7:00 The Three Stooges
8:00 Star Blazers
8:30 Porky Pig and Bugs Bunny
9:00 Tom Larson
10:00 Ironside
11:00 Laverne and Shirley (preempted by WCVB)
11:30 Chico and the Man
12:00 $20.000 Pyramid (preempted by WCVB)
12:30 Andy Griffith
1:00 Movie "Elephant Walk"
3:00 Beverly Hillbillies
3:30 I Dream of Jeannie
4:00 Bewitched (x2)
5:00 Emergency One!
6:00 M*A*S*H
6:30 Bob Newhart
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 Baseball: Boston Red Sox vs. Toronto Blue Jays
10:15 The Odd Couple
10:45 The Three Stooges
11:00 Maude
11:30 Dave Allen
12:00 Sergeant Bilko "The Big Scandal"
12:30 Our Miss Brooks "Hobby Show"
1:00 Movie "Charlie Chan and the Red Dragon"
2:30 Movie "Hi-Jackers"
followed by sign-off
44 WGBX PBS Boston
5pm Rebop
5:30 Villa Alegre
6:00 French Chef "Hamburger Dinner"
6:30 Over Easy (guest Ellen Burstyn"
7:00 Dick Cavett (see 11, 7:30pm)
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 Soccer
9:00 La Plaza "Lo Que Hace al Amor" (part 2)
9:30 European Television Service
10:00 Dick Cavett (repeat of 7pm)
10:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
11:00 ABC World News Tonight (CC)
11:30 sign-off
56 WLVI Ind Cambridge
7:00 Tom and Jerry
7:30 The Flintstones
8:00 Gilligan's Island
8:30 Woody Woodpecker
9:00 New Zoo Revue
9:30 Bozo's Big Top
10:00 People Power
10:30 New England Today
11:00 Family Affair
11:30 That Girl
12:00 Lucy Show
12:30 Password Plus
1:00 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 Brady Bunch (x2)
6:00 Happy Days Again
6:30 Good Times
7:00 Sanford and Son
7:30 Benny Hill
8:00 Movie "The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing"
10:30 Love, American Style "Love and the Good Samaritan"
11:00 Prisoner: Cell Block H
11:30 Best of Groucho
followed by sign-off