Source: The Boston GlobeRETRO BOSTON/PROVIDENCE/NEW HAMPSHIRE TV- SUMMER 1983Friday August 5, 1983WGBH-TV 2 (PBS) 6:15am- Test Pattern 6:45am- Sign-on/AM Weather 7am- Sesame Street 8am- Reading Rainbow 8:30- Sesame Street 9:30- Electric Company 10AM- Mister Rogers10:30- Reading Rainbow11am- This Old House11:30- Footsteps 12pm- Sesame Street 1pm- Masterpiece Theatre2pm- Maggie 2:30- Magic of Oil Painting 3pm- French Chef 3:30- Over Easy 4pm- Sesame Street 5pm- Mister Rogers 5:30- Electric Company 6pm- Sesame Street 7pm- Doctor Who 7:30- Wild World of Animals 8pm- Washington Week in Review8:30- Wall Street Week9pm- A Town Like Alice10PM- The Ten O’Clock News- (with Christopher Lydon) 10:30- MacNeil Lehrer Report 11PM- Business Report 11:30- Sign-Off WBZ-TV 4 (NBC) 7AM- Today 9AM-Hour Magazine 10AM- Diff’rent Strokes 10:30- Sale of The Century 11AM- Wheel Of Fortune 11:30- Dream House 12pm- Eyewitness News (with John Henning) 12:30- People Are Talking 1:30pm- Days of Our Lives 2:30- Card Sharks3pm- Hawaii Five-O 4pm- People's Court 4:30- Match Game 5pm- Family Feud 5:30- Live on 4 6pm- Eyewitness News- (with Jack Williams, Liz Walker, Bruce Schweglor, Bob Lobel) 7pm- NBC News 7:30- Evening Magazine 8pm- Matthew Star9pm- Knight Rider10pm- Doing Time (local) 11PM- Eyewitness News 11:30- Tonight Show with Johnny Carson12:30am- Friday Night Videos2am- NBC News Overnight3am- Eyewitness News3:30- People Are Talking4:30- NBC News OvernightWCVB-TV 5 (ABC) 7AM- Good Morning America 9AM- Good Day Live! 10AM- Donahue 11AM- Tom Cottle- Up Close 11:30- Newlywed Game 12pm- NewsCenter 5- (with Jack Hynes and Anne McGrath) 12:30- Ryan's Hope 1PM- All My Children 2pm- One Life To Live 3pm- General Hospital 4pm- The Waltons 5pm- Rhoda 5:30- All in the Family 6pm- NewsCenter 5- (with Chet Curtis, Natalie Jacobson, Dick Albert and Don Gillis) 7pm- ABC News 7:30- Chronicle 8pm- Benson8:30- Too Good to Be True9pm- Feel The Heat10pm- ABC News Closeup-11pm- NewsCenter 5 11:30- PGA Championship12am- ABC News Nightline1am- Movie- Van Nuys Blvd (1979)2:50- News3:10- Night Shift3:50- Safari To Adventure4:20- Five All Night4:30- Good Day Live!WNEV-TV 7 (CBS) 7AM- CBS Morning News 9AM- Soap World 9:30- You Asked for It 10AM- The New $25,000 Pyramid 10:30- Child's Play 11AM- The Price is Right 12PM- Newse7en 12:30- The Young and The Restless 1:30- As The World Turns 2:30- Capitol 3pm- Guiding Light 4pm- Look! 6PM- Newse7en- (with Tom Ellis, Robin Young, Harvey Leonard and John Dennis) 7PM- CBS News 7:30- Entertainment Tonight 8pm- Dukes of Hazzard9pm- Dallas10pm- Falcon Crest11PM- News 11:30pm- Hart to Hart 12:40am- Movie- $5.20 Hour Dream 2am- CBS News Nightwatch38 WSBK Storer 5 AM NANNY AND THE PROFESSOR 5:30 BILKO 6 AM BATMAN 6:30 ROMPER ROOM 7 AM BUGS BUNNY 7:30 SCOOBY DOO 8 AM PORKY PIG 8:30 F TROOP9 AM 20 MINUTE WORKOUT 9:30 DAYTIME 10:30 MARCUS WELBY MD 11:30 INN NEWS 12 NOON MOVIE- Gang War (1956) 1:30 NANNY AND THE PROFESSOR2 PM BEVERLY HILLBILLIES2:30 ANDY GRIFFITH3 PM POPEYE 4 PM PORKY PIG 4:30 SCOOBY DOO5 PM CHARLIE’S ANGELS 6 PM M*A*S*H6:30 JEFFERSONS 7 PM M*A*S*H 7:30 BARNEY MILLER 8 PM JOSIE8:30 BASEBALL- Boston Red Sox @ Kansas City Royals11 PM M*A*S*H 11:30 MOVIE- The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938) 1:30 INN NEWS 2 AM MOVIE- Dark Alibi (1946) 4 AM VEGAS 56 WLVI Gannett 6 AM CNN HEADLINE NEWS 7 AM BOZO 7:30 BATTLE OF THE PLANETS 8 AM BUGS BUNNY 8:30 TOM AND JERRY9 AM WOODY WOODPECKER 9:30 GREAT SPACE COASTER10 AM POINT OF VIEW10:30 NEW ENGLAND TODAY 11 AM TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT (ABC)11:30 LOVING (ABC) 12 NOON EDDIE’S FATHER 12:30 I LOVE LUCY1 PM LOST IN SPACE 2 PM THE MONKEES2:30 BANANA SPLITS 3 PM THE FLINTSTONES3:30 HECKLE AND JECKLE/POPEYE 4 PM WOODY WOODPECKER 4:30 TOM AND JERRY5 PM WELCOME BACK KOTTER 5:30 GOOD TIMES 6 PM STAR TREK 7 PM THREE'S COMPANY 7:30 SANFORD AND SON 8 PM 8 OCLOCK MOVIE – The Great Riviera Bank Robbery (1979)10 PM NEWS 11 PM MARY HARTMAN, MARY HARTMAN 11:30 SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE 12:30 CHILDREN BETWEEN LIFE AND 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WATCH5 PM ON TV44 WGBX (PBS) WGBH Educational Foundation5 PM SIGN-ON/FRENCH CHEF5:30 MAGGIE6 PM OPEN MIND6:30 BUSINESS REPORT7 PM READING RAINBOW7:30 MACNEIL/LEHRER REPORT8 PM SAY BROTHER8:30 PRESENTE9 PM BLUEGRASS RAMBLE9:30 BLUEGRASS RAMBLE10 PM EVENING AT POPS11 PM SIGN-OFFPROVIDENCE6 WLNE- CBS- New Bedford/Providence 7am- CBS Morning News 9am- Movie- Bus Riley’s Back in Town (1965) 11am- The Price is Right 12pm- Tattletales 12:30- Young and the Restless 1:30- As The World Turns 2:30- Capitol 3pm- Guiding Light 4pm- Movie- Ensign Pulver (1964) 6pm- Action News 6:30- CBS News 7pm- The Muppets 7:30- The Muppets8pm- This Week in Baseball8:30- Baseball- Boston Red Sox @ Kansas City Royals (from WSBK 38 Boston)11pm- Action News 11:30- Movie- Hawk the Slayer (1981)1:45- Tom Cottle2:15- All Night at the Bijou3:15- Sign-Off10 WJAR- NBC- Providence 7am- Today 9am- Donahue 10am- People’s Court10:30- Sale of the Century11am- Wheel Of Fortune11:30- Dream House12pm- NewsWatch 10 12:30- Search 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