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Retro: Boston/Providence/Hartford, Wednesday, November 18, 1981

Source: The Day via Google News Archive

WGBH 2 - PBS Boston
9:15 AM Weather
9:30 In-school programming
11:30 In-school programming
2:30 Movie: TBA
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 The Electric Company
6:00 French Chef
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 Doctor Who
7:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
8:00 Survival
"Secrets of the African Baobab". Africa's great baobab, the tree called "a carrot planted upside down", is the subject of this extraordinary portrait filmed in Kenya, and narrated by Orson Welles.
9:00 World
"Return to Poland". Marian Marzynski, a Polish Jew, returns to his homeland to recount the story of his survival during the Nazi occupation, and to look at the situation in Poland today.
10:00 News
10:30 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
11:00 Movie: "His Girl Friday" (1940)
12:30 sign-off

WFSB 3 - CBS Hartford
6:00 Various programming
6:30 Hot Fudge
7:00 News
7:30 CBS News Morning
9:00 Richard Simmons
9:30 Leave it to the Women
10:00 One Day at a Time
10:30 Alice
11:00 Maude
11:30 All in the Family
12:00 News
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Search for Tomorrow
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Laverne and Shirley
4:30 The Jeffersons
5:00 Barney Miller
5:30 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 PM Magazine
8:00 Mr. Merlin
Zac uses Merlin's ancient alchemy notes on a chemistry quiz at school, and thereby jeopardizes the secret of Max's identity.
8:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
Johnny comes into quite a bit of money and good buddy Venus becomes his investment counselor.
9:00 Nurse
Kathleen Widdoes guest stars as an excellent, efficient but arrogant gynecologist whose manner intimidates many of the nurses at Grant Memorial and whose strong personality clashes with that of Mary Benjamin.
10:00 Shannon (premiere)
It's a full schedule for Shannon as he tries to cope with Johnny's adjustment to a new environment and comes to the aid of his father-in-law.
11:00 News
11:35 Hawaii Five-O
12:35 Adam-12
1:05 Charlie Rose
1:35 News
1:40 Moment of Meditation
1:45 sign-off

WBZ 4 - NBC Boston
6:00 News
7:00 Today
9:00 Hour Magazine
10:00 Las Vegas Gambit
10:30 Blockbusters
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Battlestars
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 Muppet Show
5:30 Live on 4
6:00 News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 NBA Basketball (preempts most of the evening's programs)
Boston Celtics vs. Houston Rockets.
10:00 Quincy
Quincy and his vacation travelling companion, Dr. Janet Carlisle, continue to fight a mysterious epidemic that has taken four lives and stricken several more abroad a luxury cruise ship.
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
Guests: Elizabeth Tashjian, Mel Tillis.
12:30 Hawaii Five-O
1:35 News
2:05 Editorial
2:07 Solid Gold
3:07 Movie: "Grizzly and the Treasure" (1974)

WCVB 5 - ABC Boston

5:55 Morning Glory
6:00 News (news for the deaf at 6:20/6:50)
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Good Day!
10:30 Donahue
11:30 Richard Simmons
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 The Waltons
5:00 Adventures of Lucy
5:30 All in the Family
6:00 News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Big Money
8:00 The Greatest American Hero
A dying eccentric billionaire who possesses astonishing knowledge about the secrets of Ralph's super suit sets Hinkley and Maxwell on an explosive chase through Las Vegas to halt the destruction of his only legitimate will.
9:00 Fall Guy
A bewildered Colt finds himself locked inside a jail cell and enmeshed in deadly international intrigue after Howie takes on a "simple" case for them, loses the suspect and they both fly to Honolulu to recover the man and Big Jack's $50.000 bond. (part 1 of 2)
10:00 Dynasty
The courtroom is stunned when the verdict is delivered in Blake Carrington's trial, Alexis seeks sweet revenge on Blake when she moves into the art studio on Carrington grounds, and darkness clouds the Carrington empire's future as Blake struggles to hold his assets and family together.
11:00 News
11:30 Nightline
12:00 The Love Boat
Julie is stunned when her parents announce that they're getting a divorce; and a 13-year old tomboy meets a boy and experiences the initial joy of love.
1:10 Five All Night
2:50 News
3:00 Safari to Adventure
3:30 Wanted: Dead or Alive

WLNE 6 - CBS New Bedford
6:00 Various programming
7:00 Wake Up with the Captain
7:30 CBS News Morning
9:00 Guiding Light
10:00 One Day at a Time
10:30 Alice
11:00 Price is Right
12:00 News
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Search for Tomorrow
3:00 Movie: "Harry and Tonto" (1974)
5:00 Muppet Show
5:30 Entertainment Tonight
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Muppet Show
Guest: Gene Kelly.
7:30 You Asked For It
8:00 Mr. Merlin
8:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
9:00 Nurse
10:00 Shannon (premiere)
11:00 News
11:30 Benny Hill Show
12:00 CBS Late Movie
WKRP in Cincinnati: "Tornado". A tornado hits Cincinnati and only Jennifer, an expert at mouth to mouth resescitation, is able to cope.
12:30 Movie: "Blume in Love" (1973) George Segal, Susan Anspach.
Two romantic triangles collide when a man seeks to recapture his ex-wife's affections.
2:50 News
3:20 Community Calendar
3:35 Thoughts to Live By

WNAC 7 - CBS Boston
6:10 Reflection
6:15 Farm and Market Report
6:20 Sunrise Semester
6:50 Noticiero 7
7:00 Wake Up with the Captain
7:30 CBS News Morning
9:00 Up to the Minute
9:30 Alice
10:00 Weekday
11:00 Price is Right
12:00 News
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Search for Tomorrow
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Streets of San Francisco
5:00 You Asked For It
5:30 Family Feud
6:00 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
"Dukes of Hazzard" superstar John Schneider tells how his biggest concern is how he is perceived by teenage fans.
8:00 Mr. Merlin
8:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
9:00 Nurse
10:00 Shannon (premiere)
11:00 News
11:30 CBS Late Movie
WKRP in Cincinnati: "Never Leave Me, Lucille". Herb separates from his wife Lucille, and drives the station crazy with his swinging bachelor act.
12:00 Movie: "The Great Bank Hoax" (1979) Richard Basehart, Ned Beatty.
A bank president and his treasurer stage a mock robbery to cover up an embarrasing embezzlement crime.
2:00 News
2:30 Lift Every Voice
3:00 Reflections

WTNH 8 - ABC New Haven
6:15 Community Calendar
6:30 News
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Donahue
10:00 People's Court
10:30 The Love Boat
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 Merv Griffin Show
5:00 Happy Days Again
5:30 M*A*S*H
6:00 News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 The Greatest American Hero
9:00 Fall Guy
10:00 Dynasty
11:00 News
11:30 Nightline
12:00 Carol Burnett and Friends
12:30 Six Million Dollar Man
1:30 sign-off

WOR 9 - New York (Independent)
6:00 Joe Franklin
7:00 Jimmy Swaggart
7:30 Jim Bakker
8:30 Various programming
9:00 Romper Room
10:00 Straight Talk
11:00 John Davidson
12:00 News
1:00 Let's Make a Deal
1:30 Pitfall
2:00 Treasure Hunt
2:30 Match Game
3:00 Bonanza
4:00 Movie: "Day of the Triffids" (1962)
6:00 Tic Tac Dough
6:30 Bullseye
7:00 You Asked For It
Features are Swiss children who are circus stars, a dollhouse that costs more than a castle; Academy Award winning birds, a shark attack victim.
7:30 Entertainment Tonight (same as ch. 7)
8:00 Crisis in the Horn of Africa
9:00 Christian Children's Fund
10:00 Apple Polishers
10:30 NBA Basketball
Golden State Warriors vs. New Jersey Nets.
1:00 The Outer Limits
2:00 Joe Franklin
3:00 Movie: "Doctor at Large" (1957)

WJAR 10 - NBC Providence
6:30 Various programming
7:00 Today
9:00 Donahue
10:00 People's Court
10:30 Blockbusters
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Battlestars
12:00 News
12:30 Doctors
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Texas
4:00 Tom and Jerry
4:30 Brady Bunch
5:00 Welcome Back, Kotter
5:30 Happy Days Again
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 PM Magazine
7:30 Richard Simmons
8:00 Real People
Bikini-clad prize fighters, a visit with Canadian hockey players who also are priests, a profile of 65-year old disco singer Beulah Kershaw, and a South Dakota sculptor who is blasting a mountain away in a tribute to the great Sioux Chief Crazy Horse.
9:00 Facts of Life
Blair has some growing up to do when she learns that her glamourous mother's impending surgery isn't for cosmetic reasons, but rather a biopsy for breast cancer.
9:30 Love, Sidney
Sidney gets a surprise when he returns home one night to find his apartment being robbed and discovers that the burglar is none other than a woman who was the homecoming queen of his high school class of 30 years ago.
10:00 Quincy
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
12:30 Tomorrow with Tom Snyder
2:00 News
2:30 sign-off

WPIX 11 - New York (Independent)
6:00 Aprenda Inglés
6:30 Hot Fudge
7:00 Popeye
7:30 Tom and Jerry
8:00 Cartoons
8:30 Hector Heathcote and Friends
9:00 The Munsters
9:30 Jewish Dimension
10:00 New York, New York
10:30 Mike Douglas
11:30 The Odd Couple
12:00 Independent Network News
12:30 Another Life
1:00 700 Club
2:00 Magic Garden
2:30 Heckle and Jeckle
3:00 Magilla Gorilla
3:30 Krofft Superstars
4:00 Tom and Jerry
4:30 Scooby Doo
5:00 Good Times
5:30 Happy Days Again
6:30 Barney Miller
7:00 Laverne and Shirley
7:30 News
8:00 Movie: "Audrey Rose" (1977)
10:30 Independent Network News
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night
Host: Charles Grodin. Guest: Paul Simon.
12:30 Star Trek
"The Omega Glory".
1:30 Independent Network News
2:00 Movie: "Seven Little Foys" (1955)

WPRI 12 - ABC Providence
6:30 Morning Stretch
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 The Love Boat
10:00 Family Feud
10:30 Joker's Wild
11:00 Hour Magazine
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 Merv Griffin Show
5:30 M*A*S*H
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Tic Tac Dough
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 The Greatest American Hero
9:00 Fall Guy
10:00 Dynasty
11:00 News
11:30 Nightline
12:00 The Love Boat
1:10 Big Valley
2:10 sign-off

WTBS 17 - Atlanta (Independent)
5:40 World at Large
6:00 CNN Headline News
7:05 Fun Time
8:05 I Dream of Jeannie
8:35 My Three Sons
9:05 Movie: "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" (1953)
11:05 Movie: "Once More, My Darling" (1949)
1:05 Movie: "Guns of the Timberland" (1960)
3:05 Fun Time
3:35 The Flinstones
4:05 The Munsters
4:35 Leave it the Beaver
5:05 Brady Bunch
5:35 Beverly Hillbillies
6:05 Andy Griffith Show
6:35 Gomer Pyle
7:05 Carol Burnett and Friends
Guests: Steve Lawrence, Tim Conway.
7:35 Sanford and Son
8:05 Movie: "Coogan's Bluff" (1968)
10:05 News
11:05 All in the Family
11:35 Movie: "Hostile Guns" (1967)
1:35 Movie: "Houston Story" (1956)
3:05 Movie: "I Am a Fugitive" (1932)

WSMW 27 - Worcester (Independent)
6:30 Jim Bakker
7:30 Various programming
8:00 Movie: "Rabbit, Run" (1970)
10:00 Super Pay Cards
10:30 Various programming
11:00 Jim Bakker
12:00 Daily Mass
12:30 Movie: "North to Alaska" (1960)
2:30 Mike Douglas
3:30 Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig
4:00 Wonder Woman
5:00 Let's Make a Deal
5:30 The Waltons
6:30 News
7:00 In Concert
8:00 Movie: "Force of One" (1979)
9:30 Movie: "Star Trek" (1979)
11:45 Movie: "Under the Doctor"
1:15 News
1:30 sign-off

WVIT 30 - NBC New Britain
5:54 Morning Prayer
5:55 Today's Woman
6:00 Health Field
6:30 Various programming
7:00 Today
9:00 I Love Lucy
9:30 I Dream of Jeannie
10:00 Las Vegas Gambit
10:30 Blockbusters
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Battlestars
12:00 News
12:30 Doctors
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Texas
4:00 Movie: "Chinese Web"
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Entertainment Tonight
7:30 Benny Hill Show
8:00 Real People
9:00 Facts of Life
9:30 Love, Sidney
10:00 Quincy
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
12:30 Tomorrow with Tom Snyder
2:00 sign-off

WSBK 38 - Boston (Independent)
6:30 Romper Room
7:00 Batman
7:30 Scooby Doo
8:00 Porky Pig and Bugs Bunny
8:30 Cartoon Festival
9:00 Nanny and the Professor
9:30 Daytime
10:20 News
10:30 Leave it to the Women
11:00 Our Miss Brooks
11:30 Independent Network News
12:00 Movie: "Love Letters" (1945)
2:00 Andy Griffith Show
2:30 Beverly Hillbillies
3:00 Bewitched
3:30 Adam-12
4:00 Emergency One
5:00 Carter Country
5:30 The Jeffersons
6:30 Bob Newhart
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 Barney Miller
8:00 Movie: "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969)
10:30 Independent Network News
11:00 Barney Miller
11:30 Movie: "Touch of Evil" (1958)
1:30 sign-off

WEDN 53 - PBS Norwich
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 In-school programming
12:00 Various programming
12:30 In-school programming
2:00 Dick Cavett
2:30 Various programming
3:30 Villa Alegre
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 The Electric Company
8:00 Survival (same as ch. 2)
9:00 World (same as ch. 2)
10:00 Connecticut Primetime
10:30 Milepost
This tapestry of West Texas, woven to capture the texture of history and the spirit of the people, revolves around the drilling of an oil well and a centennial celebration in Abilene.
11:00 Dick Cavett
11:30 sign-off

WLVI 56 - Cambridge (Independent)
6:30 Hot Fudge
7:00 Popeye
7:30 The Flinstones
8:00 Gilligan's Island
8:30 Great Space Coaster
9:00 Woody Woodpecker
9:30 Banana Splits
10:00 Various programming
10:30 New England Today
11:00 The Love Boat
12:00 That Girl
12:30 Partridge Family
1:00 New Zoo Revue
1:30 Bozo
2:00 Yogi Bear
2:30 Casper
3:00 Mighty House
3:30 Woody Woodpecker
4:00 Tom and Jerry
4:30 The Flinstones
5:00 Brady Bunch
6:00 Happy Days Again
6:30 Laverne and Shirley
7:00 Welcome Back, Kotter
7:30 Good Times
8:00 Movie: "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" (1967)
11:00 Saturday Night
Guests: Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, The Kinks.
12:00 Flash Gordon
12:30 sign-off
 
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WLNE 6 - CBS New Bedford
5:30 Entertainment Tonight

WNAC 7 - CBS Boston
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
"Dukes of Hazzard" superstar John Schneider tells how his biggest concern is how he is perceived by teenage fans.

The Nov. 18, 1981 edition of ET also had a story from Ron Hendren regarding the emerging home video scene, which someone uploaded onto YouTube (it was taped from KTXL Stockton/Sacramento): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPQu__8hZ1Y
 
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