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Retro: Boston/Providence/Manchester, Tuesday, Feb 11, 1986

from Boston Globe's TV Week supplement
The paper didn't list WQTV (ch. 68): the station struggled in the ratings and faced severe financial problems at that time; some months later, it was sold to the Christian Science Monitor.

2 WGBH PBS Boston
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10:00 Educational programs
11:15 Educational Computing
12:00 Sesame Street
1:00 Educational programs
2:30 Joy of Painting
3:00 French Chef
3:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 3-2-1 Contact
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
7:00 Doctor Who
7:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
8:00 Nova
9:00 Frontline (life in Russia)
10:00 News
10:30 Nightly Business Report
11:00 Gold Lust

4 WBZ NBC Boston
5:30 The Muppets
6:00 NBC News at Sunrise
6:30 News
7:00 Today
9:00 Hour Magazine
10:00 Santa Barbara
11:00 Sale of the Century
11:30 Scrabble
12:00 News
12:30 People Are Talking
1:30 Love Connection
2:00 Days of Our Lives
3:00 Wheel of Fortune (NBC daytime; delayed from 11am)
3:30 $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime
4:00 Hawaii Five-O
5:00 People's Court
5:30 News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Evening Magazine
8:00 The A-Team
9:00 Riptide
10:00 Remington Steele
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman
1:30 News

5 WCVB ABC Boston
5:00 Chronicle
5:30 News
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Donahue
10:00 Good Day!
11:00 Divorce Court
11:30 Ryan's Hope
12:00 News
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Dynasty
5:00 Too Close for Comfort
5:30 All in the Family
6:00 News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Chronicle
8:00 Who's the Boss?
8:30 Growing Pains
9:00 Moonlighting
10:00 Spenser: For Hire
11:00 News
11:30 ABC News Nightline
12:00 Sally Jessy Raphael
12:30 Divorce Court
1:00 News
1:30 Movie "The Three Musketeers"

6 WLNE CBS New Bedford
6:00 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Movie "Looking for Mr. Goodbar"
11:00 Price is Right
12:00 Divorce Court
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Movie "The Maltese Falcon"
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 People's Court
7:30 Love Connection
8:00 Melba
8:30 Charlie & Company
9:00 Movie "Vital Signs"
11:00 News
11:30 Simon & Simon
12:40 Movie "The Five of Me"

7 WNEV CBS Boston
6:00 Morning Stretch
6:30 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Family Feud
9:30 Let's Make a Deal
10:00 $25,000 Pyramid
10:30 Morning Live
11:00 Price is Right
12:00 News
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Jeopardy!
4:30 Match Game
5:00 Newlywed Game
5:30 Wheel of Fortune
6:00 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
8:00 Melba
8:30 Charlie & Company
9:00 Movie "Vital Signs"
11:00 News
11:30 Entertainment Tonight
12:00 Simon & Simon
1:10 Movie "The Good Guys and the Bad Guys"

9 WMUR ABC Manchester
6:00 Jimmy Swaggart
6:30 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Jim & Tammy
10:00 The Partridge Family
10:30 The Flying Nun
11:00 Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak
11:30 New Love, American Style
12:00 Ryan's Hope
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Knots Landing
5:00 Hart to Hart
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Tic Tac Dough
7:30 Benson
8:00 Who's the Boss?
8:30 Growing Pains
9:00 Moonlighting
10:00 Spenser: For Hire
11:00 News
11:30 ABC News Nightline
12:00 Eye on Hollywood
12:30 News
1:00 This Week in Country Music
1:30 Record Guide

10 WJAR NBC Providence
6:00 NBC News at Sunrise
6:30 News
7:00 Today
9:00 Donahue
10:00 Sally Jessy Raphael
10:30 Sale of the Century
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Scrabble
12:00 News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 Hour Magazine
5:00 Perfect Match
5:30 Newlywed Game
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 PM Magazine
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
8:00 The A-Team
9:00 Riptide
10:00 Remington Steele
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman
1:30 News

11 WENH PBS Durham
7:30 Farm Day
7:45 AM Weather
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:30 Educational programs
12:00 Sesame Street
1:00 Educational programs
2:30 Shakespeare Hour
3:30 Secret City
4:00 3-2-1 Contact
4:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
7:00 Nightly Business Report
7:30 Newton's Apple
8:00 Nova
9:00 Frontline
10:00 Fawlty Towers
10:30 Mind Your Language
11:00 Yes, Minister

12 WPRI ABC Providence
5:30 Morning Stretch
6:00 News
6:15 ABC World News This Morning
6:30 News
6:45 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Merv Griffin
10:00 Headline Chasers
10:30 Break the Bank
11:00 New Love, American Style
11:30 Ryan's Hope
12:00 News
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 WKRP in Cincinnati
4:30 Barney Miller
5:00 M*A*S*H
5:30 Taxi
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Jeopardy!
8:00 Who's the Boss?
8:30 Growing Pains
9:00 Moonlighting
10:00 Spenser: For Hire
11:00 News
11:30 M*A*S*H
12:00 ABC News Nightline
12:30 Trapper John, MD

21 WNHT Ind Concord
6:30 News
7:00 Ask Washington
8:00 20-Minute Workout
8:30 News
9:00 Good Housekeeping
9:30 Here's Lucy
10:00 Movie "Breakout"
12:00 20-Minute Workout
12:30 News
1:00 Fantasy Island
2:00 Medical Center
3:00 Charlie's Angels
3:30 Gilligan's Island
4:00 Merv Griffin
5:30 News
6:00 Perfect Match
6:30 Barney Miller
7:00 Donahue
8:00 Dynasty
9:00 Vega$
10:00 News
10:30 Sally Jessy Raphael
11:00 Comedy Tonight
11:30 Best of Jackie Gleason

25 WXNE Ind Boston
6:30 Jimmy Swaggart
7:00 The Pink Panther
7:30 Captain Harlock
8:00 Alvin & the Chipmunks
8:30 Good Housekeeping
9:00 Eight is Enough
10:00 700 Club
11:30 Catholic Mass
12:00 Leave It to Beaver
12:30 McHale's Navy
1:00 CHiPs
2:00 Gilligan's Island
2:30 Superfriends
3:00 Popeye & Friends
3:30 Robotech
4:00/4:30 The Jetsons
5:00 Little House on the Prairie
6:00 Diff'rent Strokes
6:30 Gimme a Break!
7:00 Diff'rent Strokes
7:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
8:00 East of Eden (2 of 3)
11:00 Comedy Tonight
11:30 700 Club

27 WHLL Ind Worcester
7:00 Jim & Tammy
8:00 Richard Roberts
9:00 Jimmy Swaggart
9:30 News
10:00 Movie "Violent Sunday"
12:00 Dynasty
1:00 Movie "The Kingfisher Caper"
3:00 Heathcliff
3:30 Super Adventures
4:00 Dennis the Menace
4:30 Father Knows Best
5:00 Little House on the Prairie
6:00 People's Court
6:30 Love Connection
7:00 Movie "Three Hundred Miles for Stephanie"
9:00 Movie "The Last Song"
11:00 One Step Beyond
11:30 Movie "Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate"

36 WSBE PBS Providence
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Educational programs
10:30 Challenge Unknown
11:00 Educational programs
12:00 Short Story Showcase
12:30 Educational programs
1:30 Reading Rainbow
2:00 Dimensions in Science
2:30 Business File
3:00/3:30 The Growing Years
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 3-2-1 Contact
6:00 Ivanhoe
6:30 Dialogue
7:00 Nightly Business Report
7:30 David Weiss
8:00 Nova
9:00 Frontline
10:00 DuPont-Columbia Awards in Broadcast Journalism
11:30 Nightly Business Report

38 WSBK Ind Boston
6:00 20-Minute Workout
6:30 Tranzor
7:00 Voltron: Defender of the Universe
7:30 He-Man & Masters of the Universe
8:00 Challenge of the GoBots
8:30 Scooby-Doo
9:00 Fat Albert
9:30 Tuesday Journal
10:00 Movie "Pushover"
12:00 Dick Van Dyke
12:30 Andy Griffith
1:00 Phil Silvers
1:30 20-Minute Workout
2:00 Tranzor
2:30 Voltron: Defender of the Universe
3:00 Jayce & the Wheeled Warriors
3:30 Challenge of the GoBots
4:00 He-Man & Masters of the Universe
4:30 She-Ra: Princess of Power
5:00 Beverly Hillbillies
5:30 The Jeffersons
6:00 Hart to Hart
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 Barney Miller
8:00 The Odd Couple
8:30 NHL: Boston at Chicago
11:00 The Odd Couple
11:30 Hogan's Heroes
12:00 Comedy Break
12:30 Maude
1:00 Break the Bank

44 WGBX PBS Boston
5pm Black Forum
5:30 Sesame Street
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 Computer Chronicles
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
8:30 Yes Ma'am
9:30 Preventing Nuclear War
10:00 News
10:30 Lord Mountbatten

50 WNDS Ind Derry
8:00 700 Club
9:30 Jimmy Swaggart
10:00 Richard Roberts
11:00 The Odd Couple
11:30 Rhoda
12:00 Mary Tyler Moore
12:30 I Love Lucy
1:00 Petticoat Junction
1:30 Family Affair
2:00 Gomer Pyle, USMC
2:30 My Three Sons
3:00 He-Man & Masters of the Universe
3:30 She-Ra: Princess of Power
4:00 Challenge of the GoBots
4:30 Bewitched
5:00 Happy Days Again
5:30 Laverne & Shirley
6:00 Taxi
6:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
7:00 All in the Family
7:30 College Basketball (teams not listed)
9:30 The Odd Couple
10:00 Hogan's Heroes
10:30 Best of Saturday Night
11:00 The Untouchables

56 WLVI Ind Cambridge
6:30 Bozo
7:00 M.A.S.K.
7:30 Heathcliff
8:00 Bugs Bunny & Woody
8:30 Tom & Jerry
9:00 Mighty Mouse
9:30 Great Space Coaster
10:00 News
11:00 INDAY News
11:30 All About Us
12:00 FTV
12:30 Bewitched
1:00 Popeye
1:30 Casper
2:00 The Flintstones
2:30 Tom & Jerry
3:00 Inspector Gadget
3:30 G.I. Joe
4:00 Transformers
4:30 ThunderCats
5:00/5:30 Brady Bunch
6:00 Three's Company
6:30 Laverne & Shirley
7:00 Benson
7:30 Taxi
8:00 Movie "Casablanca"
10:00 News
10:30 NBA: Boston at Sacramento

64 WSTG Ind Providence
6:30 Superfriends
7:00 M.A.S.K.
7:30 Challenge of the GoBots
8:00 Scooby-Doo
8:30 Inspector Gadget
9:00 700 Club
10:00 Richard Roberts
11:00 Dick Van Dyke
11:30 INDAY News
12:00 All About Us
12:30 It's a Great Life
1:00 What's Hot! What's Not?
1:30 I Love Lucy
2:00 The Jetsons
2:30 Jayce & the Wheeled Warriors
3:00 He-Man & Masters of the Universe
3:30 ThunderCats
4:00 Transformers
4:30 G.I. Joe
5:00 She-Ra: Princess of Power
5:30 The Flying Nun
6:00 Beverly Hillbillies
6:30 Andy Griffith
7:00 Hawaii Five-O
8:00 Movie "In This House of Brede"
10:00 News
10:30 Bob Newhart
11:00 The Twilight Zone
11:30 Wild, Wild West
12:30 Bizarre
1:00 Comedy Tonight
 
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