Because one of us has to start the Christmas posts ;D *dodging rotten tomatoes ** 
from TV Guide-New England edition
WGBH 2-Edu Boston
5pm Ruth Anne's Camp "The Littlest Angel"
6:00 Magic Doorways
6;15 Americans at Work
6:30 News
6:45 Background
7:00 Discovery
7:30 French
8:00 Progressive Norway
8:30 Great Plays in Rehearsal "The Misanthrope"
9:30 Christmas Painting
10:00 News
WBZ 4-NBC Boston
6:00 Dateline: UN
6:30 Sign-On Seminar "Selected Prose and Poetry"
6:45 Daily Almanac
6:55 Weather
7:00 Today (News/Weather at 7:25/8:25)
9:00 Today at Home
9:30 Truth or Consequences
10:00 A Festival of Seven Lessons & Carols (live from National Cathedral in Washington)
11:00 Price is Right (c)
11:30 Concentration
noon News
12:10 Weather
12:15 Big Brother
1:00 Movie "Duck Soup"
2:30 Movie "Stowaway"
4:00 House on High Street
4:30 Split Personality
5:00 Movie "Christmas in Connecticut"
6:45 News
6:55 Weather
7:00 Death Valley Days
7:30 People are Funny (in one segment, Linkletter tries out American humor on a guard in Berlin)
8:00 Troubleshooters "Swing Shift"
8:30 Night of Christmas (c)
9:30 M Squad "The Ivy League Bank Robbers"
10:00 Sports Highlights of 1959 (Don Dunphy and Win Elliot looks back at the year's sports stories)
10:30 Christmas Night at Temple Square (featuring the Mormon Tabernacle Choir)
11:00 News/Weather
11:15 Movies "The Sainted Sisters"/"Special Agent"
WHDH 5-ABC/CBS/NBC Boston
7:00 Cartoons
7:30 Captain Bob
8:30 Ding Dong School
9:00 Romper Room (c)
9:45 Chris Evans
10:00 News (c)
10:15 We Believe (c)
10:30 Morning Playhouse
11:00 Story of the Pope (Bishop Fulton J. Sheen profiles Pius XII)
noon Restless Gun
12:30 Farm & Home (c)
1:00 Music Bingo
1:30 Susie "Old Dog, New Tricks"
2:00 Day in Court
2:30 Gale Storm
3:00 Beat the Clock
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4:00 American Bandstand
5:00 Bozo the Clown
5:30 Rin Tin Tin "The Christmas Story"
6:00 Dateline Boston (c/madrigals with the Low Madrigaol group)
6:30 Life of Riley "Riley Takes Out Insurance"
7:00 NBC News
7:15 News/Sports (c)
7:25 Weather (c)
7:30 Walt Disney "Alice in Wonderland" (edited version of the Disney animated classic)
8:30 Man from Blackhawk "The Legacy"
9:00 77 Sunset Strip "The Juke-Box Caper"
10:00 Detectives "Masquerade"
10:30 Black Saddle "Client: Neal Adams"
11:00 News/Weather
11:15 Jack Paar
WCSH 6-NBC Portland
5:50 Farm Report
6:00 Film Feature "A Star Shall Rise"
6:30 Year's Review
7:00 Today (News/Weather at 7:25/8:25)
9:00 Movie "Our Lady of Fatima"
9:30 Space Age Science
10:00 A Festival of Seven Lessons & Carols
11:00 Price is Right (c)
11:30 Concentration
noon Truth or Consequences
12:30 It Could Be You (c)
1:00 Film Feature "World's Greatest Mother"
2:00 Queen for a Day
2:30 Thin Man
3:00 Young Dr. Malone
3:30 From These Roots
4:00 House on High Street
4:30 Split Personality
5:00 Popeye
5:30 Robin Hood
6:00 Huckleberry Hound
6:30 News/Sports/Weather
6:45 NBC News
7:00 Shotgun Slade
7:30 People are Funny
8:00 Troubleshooters "Swing Shift"
8:30 Night of Christmas (c)
9:30 M Squad "The Ivy League Bank Robbers"
10:00 Sports Highlights of 1959
10:30 Christmas Night on Temple Square
11:00 News/Weather
11:15 Jack Paar
WNAC 7-CBS Boston
7:00 Laurel & Hardy
8:15 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Morning Star Time
10:00 My Little Margie
10:30 TBA
11:00 I Love Lucy
11:30 December Bride
noon Love of Life
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 Louise Morgan (topic: Can you raise children by the book? There was an article in that week's TVG on the subject as well)
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 For Better or Worse
2:30 House Party
3:00 Millionaire
3:30 Verdict is Yours
4:00 Catholic Mass (live from Boston's Catholic TV Center, presided by Cardinal Richard Cushing)
5:00 Movie "That's the Spirit"
6:30 Superman "The Jolly Roger"
7:00 White Hunter "Deadfall"
7:30 Rawhide "Incident of the Calico Gun"
8:30 Hotel de Paree "Sundance and the Bare-Kunckled Fighters"
9:00 Desilu Playhouse Christmas Suprise Package (featuring Jerry Antes, Bob Barran, Majel Barrett, Janice Carroll, Carole Cook, Georgine Darcy, Dick Kallman, Marilynn Lovell, Fran Martin, Gary Menteer, Johnny O'Neill, Bob Osborne, Roger Perry, Howie Storm, Mark Tobin, and Bob Trevis; cheering them on are Lucy, Desi, Hugh O'Brian, Ann Sothern, George Murphy, Rory Calhoun, Spring Byington, John Bromfield, William Demarest, Hedda Hopper, Vivian Vance, William Frawley, and Lassie)
10:00 Twilight Zone "What You Need"
10:30 Person to Person (Charles Collingwood in Paris with Jean-Pierre Aumont, his wife Marisa Pavan, and restaurant honcho Clause Terrail)
11:00 News/Weather
11:15 Movies "Good Sam"/"City of Chance"
WMTW 8-ABC Poland Spring
8:45 Teddy Bear Cartoons
10:00 Ding Dong School
10:30 Movie: TBA
noon Restless Run
12:30 Love That Bob!
1:00 Music Bingo
1:30 Christmas Story
2:00 Day in Court
2:30 Gale Storm
3:00 Beat the Clock
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4:00 Catholic Mass (pick-up from WNAC; WMTW usually ran Bandstand here)
5:00 TBA
5:30 Rin Tin Tin "The Christmas Story"
6:00 Movie "The Emperor's Nightingale" (this 1951 Czech film features Jiri Trnka's puppets)
7:20 News/Weather
7:30 Walt Disney "Alice in Wonderland"
8:30 Man from Blackhawk "The Legacy"
9:00 77 Sunset Strip "The Juke-Box Caper"
10:00 Detectives "Masquerade"
10:30 Black Saddle "Client: Neal Adams"
11:00 News/Weather
11:10 Movie "Good News"
WMUR 9-ABC Manchester
10:00 Cartoons
10:50 Movie: TBA (listed as Western)
11:50 News
noon Restless Gun
12:30 Liberace
1:00 Music Bingo
1:30 American Legend
2:00 Day in Court
2:30 Gale Storm
3:00 Beat the Clock
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4:00 American Bandstand
5:00 Popeye
6:30 News/Sports/Weather
6:45 Movie "Wyoming"
8:30 Movie "Love, Honor and Goodbye"
10:00 Congressional Investigator "Psycho Quacks"
10:30 Black Saddle "Client: Neal Adams"
11:00 Sports
11:15 Movie "The Cheaters"
WJAR 10-ABC/NBC Providence
6:30 TBA
7:00 Today (News/Weather at 7:25/8:25)
9:00 Movie "Always in My Heart"
10:30 World Around Us
11:00 Price is Right (c)
11:30 Concentration
noon Truth or Consequences
12:30 It Could Be You (c)
1:00 Movie "The Yearling"
2:30 Thin Man
3:00 Young Dr. Malone
3:30 From These Roots
4:00 House on High Street
4:30 Split Personality
5:00 Movie "Lost Angel"
6:30 News/Weather
6:45 NBC News
7:00 Annie Oakley "Annie and the Chinese Puzzle"
7:30 TBA
8:00 Troubleshooters "Swing Shift"
8:30 Night of Christmas (c)
9:30 M Squad "The Ivy League Bank Robbers"
10:00 Sports Highlights of 1959
10:30 Christmas Night on Temple Square
11:00 News/Weather
11:15 Movie "Captain January"
WPRO 12-CBS Providence
7:00 Popeye
7:15 Storytime
7:45 Romper Room
8:15 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Movie: TBA
10:30 News/Interviews
11:00 I Love Lucy
11:30 December Bride
noon Love of Life
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 Medic "Death is a Red Balloon"
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Life of Riley "Test for Gillis"
2:30 House Party
3:00 Millionaire
3:30 Verdict is Yours
4:00 Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge of Night
5:00 Roy Rogers "Mountain Pirates"
5:30 Salty Brine's Shack
6:30 News/Sports/Weather
6:45 CBS News
7:00 Flight "Red China Rescue"
7:30 Rawhide "Incident of the Calico Gun"
8:30 Hotel de Paree "Sundance and the Bare-Knuckled Fighters"
9:00 Desilu Playhouse Christmas Surprise Package
10:00 Twilight Zone "What You Need"
10:30 Person to Person
11:00 News/Weather
11:15 Jack Paar
1:00 Mike Wallace (guest Sammy Davis Jr.)
WGAN 13-CBS Portland (the station's TVG ads billed their 1619' tower in Raymond ME as the world's tallest...which it was until KFVS Cape Girardeau erected theirs the following year)
8:00 News
8:15 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Concept of Mathematics
9:30 Morning Beat
10:30 On the Go
11:00 I Love Lucy
11:30 December Bride
noon Love of Life
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 Way of Life
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 From Better or Worse
2:30 House Party
3:00 Millionaire
3:30 Verdict is Yours
4:00 Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge of Night
5:00 Comedy Time
5:30 White Hunter "Sister, Mr. Spouse"
6:00 Frontier Doctor "Cattle Drive"
6:30 News/Sports/Weather
6:45 CBS News
7:00 Counterspy
7:30 Rawhide "Incident of the Calico Gun"
8:30 Hotel de Paree "Sundance and the Bare-Knuckled Fighters"
9:00 Desilu Playhouse Christmas Surprise Package
10:00 Twilight Zone "What You Need"
10:30 Person to Person
11:00 News/Weather
11:15 Movie "Miracle on 34th Street"
from TV Guide-New England edition
WGBH 2-Edu Boston
5pm Ruth Anne's Camp "The Littlest Angel"
6:00 Magic Doorways
6;15 Americans at Work
6:30 News
6:45 Background
7:00 Discovery
7:30 French
8:00 Progressive Norway
8:30 Great Plays in Rehearsal "The Misanthrope"
9:30 Christmas Painting
10:00 News
WBZ 4-NBC Boston
6:00 Dateline: UN
6:30 Sign-On Seminar "Selected Prose and Poetry"
6:45 Daily Almanac
6:55 Weather
7:00 Today (News/Weather at 7:25/8:25)
9:00 Today at Home
9:30 Truth or Consequences
10:00 A Festival of Seven Lessons & Carols (live from National Cathedral in Washington)
11:00 Price is Right (c)
11:30 Concentration
noon News
12:10 Weather
12:15 Big Brother
1:00 Movie "Duck Soup"
2:30 Movie "Stowaway"
4:00 House on High Street
4:30 Split Personality
5:00 Movie "Christmas in Connecticut"
6:45 News
6:55 Weather
7:00 Death Valley Days
7:30 People are Funny (in one segment, Linkletter tries out American humor on a guard in Berlin)
8:00 Troubleshooters "Swing Shift"
8:30 Night of Christmas (c)
9:30 M Squad "The Ivy League Bank Robbers"
10:00 Sports Highlights of 1959 (Don Dunphy and Win Elliot looks back at the year's sports stories)
10:30 Christmas Night at Temple Square (featuring the Mormon Tabernacle Choir)
11:00 News/Weather
11:15 Movies "The Sainted Sisters"/"Special Agent"
WHDH 5-ABC/CBS/NBC Boston
7:00 Cartoons
7:30 Captain Bob
8:30 Ding Dong School
9:00 Romper Room (c)
9:45 Chris Evans
10:00 News (c)
10:15 We Believe (c)
10:30 Morning Playhouse
11:00 Story of the Pope (Bishop Fulton J. Sheen profiles Pius XII)
noon Restless Gun
12:30 Farm & Home (c)
1:00 Music Bingo
1:30 Susie "Old Dog, New Tricks"
2:00 Day in Court
2:30 Gale Storm
3:00 Beat the Clock
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4:00 American Bandstand
5:00 Bozo the Clown
5:30 Rin Tin Tin "The Christmas Story"
6:00 Dateline Boston (c/madrigals with the Low Madrigaol group)
6:30 Life of Riley "Riley Takes Out Insurance"
7:00 NBC News
7:15 News/Sports (c)
7:25 Weather (c)
7:30 Walt Disney "Alice in Wonderland" (edited version of the Disney animated classic)
8:30 Man from Blackhawk "The Legacy"
9:00 77 Sunset Strip "The Juke-Box Caper"
10:00 Detectives "Masquerade"
10:30 Black Saddle "Client: Neal Adams"
11:00 News/Weather
11:15 Jack Paar
WCSH 6-NBC Portland
5:50 Farm Report
6:00 Film Feature "A Star Shall Rise"
6:30 Year's Review
7:00 Today (News/Weather at 7:25/8:25)
9:00 Movie "Our Lady of Fatima"
9:30 Space Age Science
10:00 A Festival of Seven Lessons & Carols
11:00 Price is Right (c)
11:30 Concentration
noon Truth or Consequences
12:30 It Could Be You (c)
1:00 Film Feature "World's Greatest Mother"
2:00 Queen for a Day
2:30 Thin Man
3:00 Young Dr. Malone
3:30 From These Roots
4:00 House on High Street
4:30 Split Personality
5:00 Popeye
5:30 Robin Hood
6:00 Huckleberry Hound
6:30 News/Sports/Weather
6:45 NBC News
7:00 Shotgun Slade
7:30 People are Funny
8:00 Troubleshooters "Swing Shift"
8:30 Night of Christmas (c)
9:30 M Squad "The Ivy League Bank Robbers"
10:00 Sports Highlights of 1959
10:30 Christmas Night on Temple Square
11:00 News/Weather
11:15 Jack Paar
WNAC 7-CBS Boston
7:00 Laurel & Hardy
8:15 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Morning Star Time
10:00 My Little Margie
10:30 TBA
11:00 I Love Lucy
11:30 December Bride
noon Love of Life
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 Louise Morgan (topic: Can you raise children by the book? There was an article in that week's TVG on the subject as well)
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 For Better or Worse
2:30 House Party
3:00 Millionaire
3:30 Verdict is Yours
4:00 Catholic Mass (live from Boston's Catholic TV Center, presided by Cardinal Richard Cushing)
5:00 Movie "That's the Spirit"
6:30 Superman "The Jolly Roger"
7:00 White Hunter "Deadfall"
7:30 Rawhide "Incident of the Calico Gun"
8:30 Hotel de Paree "Sundance and the Bare-Kunckled Fighters"
9:00 Desilu Playhouse Christmas Suprise Package (featuring Jerry Antes, Bob Barran, Majel Barrett, Janice Carroll, Carole Cook, Georgine Darcy, Dick Kallman, Marilynn Lovell, Fran Martin, Gary Menteer, Johnny O'Neill, Bob Osborne, Roger Perry, Howie Storm, Mark Tobin, and Bob Trevis; cheering them on are Lucy, Desi, Hugh O'Brian, Ann Sothern, George Murphy, Rory Calhoun, Spring Byington, John Bromfield, William Demarest, Hedda Hopper, Vivian Vance, William Frawley, and Lassie)
10:00 Twilight Zone "What You Need"
10:30 Person to Person (Charles Collingwood in Paris with Jean-Pierre Aumont, his wife Marisa Pavan, and restaurant honcho Clause Terrail)
11:00 News/Weather
11:15 Movies "Good Sam"/"City of Chance"
WMTW 8-ABC Poland Spring
8:45 Teddy Bear Cartoons
10:00 Ding Dong School
10:30 Movie: TBA
noon Restless Run
12:30 Love That Bob!
1:00 Music Bingo
1:30 Christmas Story
2:00 Day in Court
2:30 Gale Storm
3:00 Beat the Clock
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4:00 Catholic Mass (pick-up from WNAC; WMTW usually ran Bandstand here)
5:00 TBA
5:30 Rin Tin Tin "The Christmas Story"
6:00 Movie "The Emperor's Nightingale" (this 1951 Czech film features Jiri Trnka's puppets)
7:20 News/Weather
7:30 Walt Disney "Alice in Wonderland"
8:30 Man from Blackhawk "The Legacy"
9:00 77 Sunset Strip "The Juke-Box Caper"
10:00 Detectives "Masquerade"
10:30 Black Saddle "Client: Neal Adams"
11:00 News/Weather
11:10 Movie "Good News"
WMUR 9-ABC Manchester
10:00 Cartoons
10:50 Movie: TBA (listed as Western)
11:50 News
noon Restless Gun
12:30 Liberace
1:00 Music Bingo
1:30 American Legend
2:00 Day in Court
2:30 Gale Storm
3:00 Beat the Clock
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4:00 American Bandstand
5:00 Popeye
6:30 News/Sports/Weather
6:45 Movie "Wyoming"
8:30 Movie "Love, Honor and Goodbye"
10:00 Congressional Investigator "Psycho Quacks"
10:30 Black Saddle "Client: Neal Adams"
11:00 Sports
11:15 Movie "The Cheaters"
WJAR 10-ABC/NBC Providence
6:30 TBA
7:00 Today (News/Weather at 7:25/8:25)
9:00 Movie "Always in My Heart"
10:30 World Around Us
11:00 Price is Right (c)
11:30 Concentration
noon Truth or Consequences
12:30 It Could Be You (c)
1:00 Movie "The Yearling"
2:30 Thin Man
3:00 Young Dr. Malone
3:30 From These Roots
4:00 House on High Street
4:30 Split Personality
5:00 Movie "Lost Angel"
6:30 News/Weather
6:45 NBC News
7:00 Annie Oakley "Annie and the Chinese Puzzle"
7:30 TBA
8:00 Troubleshooters "Swing Shift"
8:30 Night of Christmas (c)
9:30 M Squad "The Ivy League Bank Robbers"
10:00 Sports Highlights of 1959
10:30 Christmas Night on Temple Square
11:00 News/Weather
11:15 Movie "Captain January"
WPRO 12-CBS Providence
7:00 Popeye
7:15 Storytime
7:45 Romper Room
8:15 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Movie: TBA
10:30 News/Interviews
11:00 I Love Lucy
11:30 December Bride
noon Love of Life
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 Medic "Death is a Red Balloon"
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Life of Riley "Test for Gillis"
2:30 House Party
3:00 Millionaire
3:30 Verdict is Yours
4:00 Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge of Night
5:00 Roy Rogers "Mountain Pirates"
5:30 Salty Brine's Shack
6:30 News/Sports/Weather
6:45 CBS News
7:00 Flight "Red China Rescue"
7:30 Rawhide "Incident of the Calico Gun"
8:30 Hotel de Paree "Sundance and the Bare-Knuckled Fighters"
9:00 Desilu Playhouse Christmas Surprise Package
10:00 Twilight Zone "What You Need"
10:30 Person to Person
11:00 News/Weather
11:15 Jack Paar
1:00 Mike Wallace (guest Sammy Davis Jr.)
WGAN 13-CBS Portland (the station's TVG ads billed their 1619' tower in Raymond ME as the world's tallest...which it was until KFVS Cape Girardeau erected theirs the following year)
8:00 News
8:15 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Concept of Mathematics
9:30 Morning Beat
10:30 On the Go
11:00 I Love Lucy
11:30 December Bride
noon Love of Life
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 Way of Life
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 From Better or Worse
2:30 House Party
3:00 Millionaire
3:30 Verdict is Yours
4:00 Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge of Night
5:00 Comedy Time
5:30 White Hunter "Sister, Mr. Spouse"
6:00 Frontier Doctor "Cattle Drive"
6:30 News/Sports/Weather
6:45 CBS News
7:00 Counterspy
7:30 Rawhide "Incident of the Calico Gun"
8:30 Hotel de Paree "Sundance and the Bare-Knuckled Fighters"
9:00 Desilu Playhouse Christmas Surprise Package
10:00 Twilight Zone "What You Need"
10:30 Person to Person
11:00 News/Weather
11:15 Movie "Miracle on 34th Street"
