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Retro: Boston/Providence/Manchester/Portland Fri, Dec 25, 1959

from TV Guide-New England edition

2 WGBH-Edu Boston
4 WBZ-NBC Boston
5 WNAC-ABC/CBS/NBC Boston
6 WCSH-NBC Portland
7 WNAC-CBS Boston
8 WMTW-ABC Poland Spring
9 WMUR-ABC Manchester
10 WJAR-ABC/NBC Providence
12 WPRO-CBS Providence
13 WGAN-CBS Portland

Morning
5:50
6 Farm Report (Jake Brofee)

6:00
4 Dateline: UN
6 A Star Shall Rise

6:30
4 Sign-On Seminar "Selected Prose & Poetry" (Zulli)
5-10 TBA
6 Year's Review

6:45
4 Daily Almanac

6:55
4 Weather (Don Kent)

7:00
4-6-10 Today
5 Cartoons
7 Laurel & Hardy
12 Popeye

7:15
12 Storytime (Beth Chollar)

7:25
4-6-10 News/Weather

7:30
4-6-10 Today
5 Captain Bob

7:45
12 Romper Room

8:00
13 News

8:15
7-12-13 Captain Kangaroo

8:25
4-6-10 News/Weather

8:30
4-6-10 Today
5 Ding Dong School

8:45
8 Teddy Bear Cartoons

9:00
4 Today at Home (Adams)
5 Romper Room (c)
6 Our Lady of Fatima
7 Morning Star Time
10 Movie "Always in My Heart"
12 Movie: TBA
13 Concept of Mathematics

9:30
4 Truth or Consequences
6 Space Age Science (Whitten)
13 Morning Beat

9:45
4 Chris Evans

10:00
4-6 Festival of Seven Lessons & Carols (live from National Cathedral, Washington DC)
5 News (c)
7 My Little Margie
8 Ding Dong School
9 Cartoons

10:15
5 We Believe (c)

10:30
5 Morning Playhouse
8 Movie: TBA
10 World Around Us (Warren)
12 News/Interviews
13 On the Go

10:50
9 Movie: TBA (was a Western, according to listings)

11:00
4-6-10 Price is Right (c)
5 Story of the Pope (Bishop Fulton J. Sheen on the life of Pius XII, pre-empts Stu Erwin and Burns & Allen)
7-12-13 I Love Lucy

11:30
4-6-10 Concentration
7-12-13 December Bride

11:50
9 News (Gus Bernier)

Afternoon
noon
4 News (Jack Chase)
5-8-9 Restless Gun
6-10 Truth or Consequences
7-12-13 Love of Life

12:10
4 Weather (Bob Copeland)

12:15
4 Big Brother (Bob Emery)

12:30
5 Farm & Home (c)
6-10 It Could Be You (c)
7-12-13 Search for Tomorrow
8 Love That Bob!
9 Liberace

12:45
7-12-13 Guiding Light

1:00
4 Movie "Duck Soup"
5-8-9 Music Bingo
6 World's Greatest Mother
7 Louise Morgan
10 Movie "The Yearling"
12 Medic "Death is a Red Balloon"
13 Way of Life

1:30
5 Susie "Old Dog, New Tricks"
7-12-13 As the World Turns
8 Christmas Story
9 American Legend

2:00
5-8-9 Day in Court
6 Queen for a Day
7-13 For Better or Worse
12 Life of Riley "Test for Gillis"

2:30
4 Movie "Stowaway"
5-8-9 Gale Storm
6-10 Thin Man
7-12-13 House Party

3:00
5-8-9 Beat the Clock
6-10 Young Dr. Malone
7-12-13 Millionaire

3:30
5-8-9 Who Do You Trust?
6-10 From These Roots
7-12-13 Verdict is Yours

4:00
4-6-10 House on High Street
5-9 American Bandstand
7-8 Christmas Day Mass (live from Boston's Catholic TV Center)
12-13 Brighter Day

4:15
12-13 Secret Storm

4:30
4-6-10 Split Personality
12-13 Edge of Night

5:00
2 Ruth Anne's Camp "The Littlest Angel"
4 Movie "Christmas in Connecticut"
5 Bozo the Clown
6-9 Popeye
7 Movie "That's the Spirit"
10 Movie "Lost Angel"
12 Roy Rogers "Mountain Pirates"
13 Comedy Time

5:30
5-8 Rin Tin Tin "The Christmas Story"
6 Robin Hood
12 Salty Brine's Shack
13 White Hunter "Sister, Mr. Spouse"

Evening
6:00
2 Magic Doorways
5 Dateline Boston (c/the Low Madrigal group performs; host Jim Britt)
6 Huckleberry Hound
8 Movie "The Emperor's Nightingale"
13 Frontier Doctor "Cattle Drive"

6:15
2 Americans at Work

6:30
2 News (William Pierce)
5 Life of Riley "Riley Takes Out Insurance"
6-9-12-13 News/Sports/Weather
7 Superman "The Jolly Roger"
10 News/Weather

6:45
2 Background (David McCord)
4 News (Arch Macdonald)
6-10 NBC News
9 Movie "Wyoming"
12-13 CBS News

6:55
4 Weather (Don Kent)

7:00
2 Discovery (Mary Lela Grimes)
4 Death Valley Days
5 NBC News
6 Shotgun Slade
7 White Hunter "Deadfall"
10 Annie Oakley "Annie and the Chinese Puzzle"
12 Flight "Red China Rescue"
13 Counterspy

7:15
5 News/Sports (c)

7:20
8 News/Weather

7:25
5 Weather (c/Loring)

7:30
2 French
4-6 People are Funny
5-8 Walt Disney "Alice in Wonderland" (edited version)
7-12-13 Rawhide "Incident of the Calico Gun"
10 TBA

8:00
2 Progressive Norway
4-6-10 Troubleshooters "Swing Shift"

8:30
2 Great Plays in Rehearsal (Moliere's The Misanthrope)
4-6-10 Night of Christmas (c/entertainment and holiday greetings from performers...which TVG didn't list :D)
5-8 Man from Blackhawk "The Legacy"
7-12-13 Hotel de Paree "Sundance and the Bare-Knuckled Fighters"
9 Movie "Love, Honor and Goodbye"

9:00
5-8 77 Sunset Strip "The Juke-Box Caper"
7-12-13 Desilu Playhouse "Christmas Surprise Package" (16 stars of tomorrow, including future Mrs. Gene Roddenberry Majel Barrett, perform before Lucy, Desi and a host of stars)

9:30
2 Christmas Painting
4-6-10 M Squad "The Ivy League Bank Robbers"

10:00
2 News (William Pierce)
4-6-10 Sports Highlights of 1959 (Don Dunphy and Win Elliot look back at the year's sports highlights)
5-8 Detectives "Masquerade"
7-12-13 Twilight Zone "What You Need"
9 Congressional Investigator "Psycho Quacks"

10:30
4-6-10 Christmas Night on Temple Square (Mormon Tabernacle Choir)
5-8-9 Black Saddle "Client: Neal Adams"
7-12-13 Person to Person (Jean-Pierre Aumont, wife Marisa Pavan, and restauranteur Claude Terail are interviewed in Paris)

11:00
4-5-6-7-8-10-12-13 News/Weather
9 Sports (Gus Bernier)

11:10
8 Movie "Good News"

11:15
4 Movies "The Sainted Sisters"/"Special Agent"
5-6-12 Jack Paar
7 Movies "Good Sam"/"City of Chance"
9 Movie "The Cheaters"
10 Movie "Captain January"
13 Movie "Miracle on 34th Street"

Late Night
1:00
12 Mike Wallace (guest Sammy Davis Jr.)
 
Bluenoser said:
7-8 Christmas Day Mass (live from Boston's Catholic TV Center)

WHDH (formerly WNAC, then later WNEV) still airs the Christmas Day Mass every year on Christmas Day to this day. It makes sense because it's only once a year, and I'm not sure how many people are actually watching it. But it is amazing that there is one low-key annual TV special that still continues. Some things never change.
 
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