source: The Boston GlobeRETRO BOSTON/PROVIDENCE TV- Saturday December 16, 1978BOSTONWGBH-TV 2 (PBS)11am- An American Story12pm- A Place of Dreams1pm- Washington Week in Review1:30- Wall Street Week2pm- Elliot Norton2:30- Chanukah3pm- Mundo Real4pm- Nobel Prize 5:30- Freestyle6pm- Rebop6:30- Soccer Made in Germany7:30- Sesame Street Christmas8:30- Sleeping Beauty (live from London, put on by the Royal Ballet)11:30- Sign-OffWBZ-TV 4 (NBC)6am- International Zone6:30- Carrascolendas7am- Vegetable Soup II7:30- For Kids Only8am- Galaxy Goof-Ups8:30- Fantastic Four9am- Godzilla Super 9010:30- Daffy Duck11am- Get off your Block11:30- Eyewitness News12pm- Fabulous Funnies12:30- Bay City Rollers1pm- Magic Movie Machine1:30- Movie- GI Blues (1960)3:30- This Is The NFL4pm- NFL Football- Pittsburgh Steelers @ Denver Broncos7pm- Gong Show7:30- Hollywood Squares8pm- NBA Basketball- Boston Celtics @ Washington Bullets10pm- Weekend11pm- Eyewitness News11:30- Saturday Night Live1am- Rock Concert2:30- Sign-OffWCVB-TV 5 (ABC)6am- A Better Way6:30- Discovery7am- Captain Kangaroo7:30- Barbapapa8am- Scooby’s All-Stars9:30- Superfriends11am- Fangface11:30- Magic of Mark Wilson12pm- Candlepin Bowling1pm- Candlepin Superbowl1:30- NCAA Football- Pioneer Bowl4:30- The Protectors5pm- Wide World of Sports6:30- NewsCenter 57pm- This Week7:30- Third World8pm- Merry Christmas…With Love9pm- Love Boat10pm- Fantasy Island11pm- NewsCenter 511:30- Movie- The Brothers Karamazov (1958)WNAC-TV 7 (CBS)6:30- School Discipline7am- Peoplescope7:30- Newsmakers8am- Popeye9am- Bugs Bunny10:30- Tarzan/Super Seven 12pm- Space Academy12:30- NFL Football- Chicago Bears @ Washington Redskins4pm- CBS Sports Spectacular6pm- Newsroom 76:30- CBS News7pm- Lawrence Welk8pm- How the Grinch Stole Christmas8:30- The Tiny Tree9pm- World Premiere- Who’ll Save Our Children11pm- Newsroom 711:30- Movie- Under Capricorn (1949)WXNE-TV 25 (Ind.)7am- Courageous Cat7:30- Puppet Tree Gang8am- Quick Draw McGraw8:30- Wacky Races9am- Penelope Pitstop9:30- Dastardly and Muttley10am- Jackson 510:30- Josie and the Pussycats11am- Superman11:30- Movie- Showdown at Boot Hill (1958) 1pm- Garden State Bowl Football Game 4pm- Big Valley5pm- High Chapparal6pm- Get Smart6:30- Movie- Hans Christian Anderson (1952)8pm- A Christmas Lyric 9pm- 700 Club10:30- The Lesson11pm- Journey to Adventure11:30- Watchworks12am- Sign-OffWSMW-TV 27 (Ind.) 8am- Simple Gifts8:30- Agricultural USA9am- Vegetable Soup9:30- Magic Movie Machine10am- Storybook Lady10:30- Mundo Real11am- Space: 199912pm- Wrestling1pm- The FBI2pm- Cavalcade of Boxing3pm- Cartoon Classics4pm- Dick Tracy4:30- Movie- City in Darkness (1939)6pm- Movie- Little Giant (1946)7pm- College Hockey- Boston College @ New Hampshire (long before Hockey East coverage on NESN)8pm- Hee Haw Honeys8:30- That Nashville Music 9pm- Porter Wagoner9:30- Pop Goes the Country10pm- Nashville on the Road10:30- Soul Train11:30- sign-offWSBK-TV 38 (Ind.)9am- Villa Allegre9:30- Carrascolendas10am- Hot Fudge10:30- Green Acres11am- Beverly Hillbillies11:30- The Rifleman12pm- Lone Ranger1pm- NHL Hockey- Boston Bruins .vs. New York Rangers from Boston Garden3:45- Bruins Wrap-Up4pm- Movie- Buried Alive (1940)6pm- My Three Sons6:30- CBS News 7pm- Dick Van Dyke7:30- Chico and the Man8pm- Movie- Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)11pm- Avi Nelson11:30- American Image Awards12:30- Athletes/ListenWGBX-TV 44 (PBS)5pm- Consumer Survival Kit5:30- Forest Spirits6pm- Say Brother7pm- Rush8pm- Forsyte Saga9pm- American Short Story10pm- News Night National10:30- Book Beat11pm- Sign-offWLVI-TV 56 (Ind.)8am- Music and Word 8:30- Jimmy Swaggart9am- Oral Roberts9:30- Old Time Gospel Hour 10:30- De Todo Un Poco 11am- Wrestling12pm- Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers Hour1pm- Movie- Donovan’s Brain (1953)2:30- Movie- Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959)4pm- Movie- Horizontal Lieutenant (1962) 6pm- Six Million Dollar Man7pm- Mary Tyler Moore Show8pm- Movie- Act One (1963)10pm- Hot City11pm- Juke Box11:30- Movie- Curse of the Faceless Man (1958)12:37- Sign-offPROVIDENCEWTEV-TV 6 (CBS)6am- Learning Disabilities6:30- Farmer's Corner7am- Leave it to Beaver7:30- Bullwinkle8am- Popeye9am- Bugs Bunny10:30- Tarzan/Super Seven 12pm- Space Academy12:30- NFL Football- Chicago Bears @ Washington Redskins4pm- CBS Sports Spectacular6pm- Truman Taylor6:30- CBS News7pm- Hee Haw8pm- How the Grinch Stole Christmas8:30- The Tiny Tree9pm- World Premiere- Who’ll Save Our Children11pm- NewsScope 611:30- Soul Train12:30- Rock ConcertWJAR-TV 10 (NBC)7am- Magic Movie Machine7:30- Marianne’s Funbunch8am- Galaxy Goof-Ups8:30- Fantastic Four9am- Godzilla Super 9010:30- Daffy Duck11am- Yogi’s Space Race12pm- NFL Game of the Week12:30- Tarzan Movie2pm- Movie- Francis of Assisi (1961)4pm- NFL Football- Pittsburgh Steelers @ Denver Broncos7pm- NewsWatch 107:30- Gong Show8pm- CHiPs9pm- Lifeline10pm- Weekend11pm- NewsWatch 1011:30- Saturday Night Live1am- Soap Factory2am- Sign-offWPRI-TV 12 (ABC)7am- Pink Panther7:30- Allamaze8am- Scooby’s All-Stars9:30- Superfriends11am- Fangface11:30- Partridge Family12pm- Wrestling1pm- Partridge Family1:30- NCAA Football- Pioneer Bowl4:30- Gong Show5pm- Wide World of Sports6:30- NewsCenter 127pm- Lawrence Welk8pm- Jackie Gleason Show9pm- Love Boat10pm- Fantasy Island11pm- NewsCenter 1211:30- Movie- Dark City (1950)
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RETRO BOSTON/PROVIDENCE TV- Saturday December 16, 1978
- Thread starter highwayman128
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"Captain Kangaroo" on an ABC station in half-hour form in 1978. Were they syndicating past episodes at that time?Peter J. Wiggins said:WCVB-TV 5 (ABC)7am- Captain Kangaroo7:30- Barbapapa
WCVB-TV 5 (ABC)7am- Captain Bob7:30- BarbapapaI got confused it supposed to be Captain Bob, not Captain Kangaroo, my mistake
Here is a cleaned up version of the schedule:
source: The Boston Globe
RETRO BOSTON/PROVIDENCE TV- Saturday December 16, 1978
BOSTON
WGBH-TV 2 (PBS)
11am- An American Story
12pm- A Place of Dreams
1pm- Washington Week in Review
1:30- Wall Street Week
2pm- Elliot Norton
2:30- Chanukah
3pm- Mundo Real
4pm- Nobel Prize
5:30- Freestyle
6pm- Rebop
6:30- Soccer Made in Germany
7:30- Sesame Street Christmas
8:30- Sleeping Beauty (live from London, put on by the Royal Ballet)
11:30- Sign-Off
WBZ-TV 4 (NBC)
6am- International Zone
6:30- Carrascolendas
7am- Vegetable Soup II
7:30- For Kids Only
8am- Galaxy Goof-Ups
8:30- Fantastic Four
9am- Godzilla Super 90
10:30- Daffy Duck
11am- Get off your Block
11:30- Eyewitness News
12pm- Fabulous Funnies
12:30- Bay City Rollers
1pm- Magic Movie Machine
1:30- Movie- GI Blues (1960)
3:30- This Is The NFL
4pm- NFL Football- Pittsburgh Steelers @ Denver Broncos
7pm- Gong Show
7:30- Hollywood Squares
8pm- NBA Basketball- Boston Celtics @ Washington Bullets
10pm- Weekend
11pm- Eyewitness News
11:30- Saturday Night Live
1am- Rock Concert
2:30- Sign-Off
WCVB-TV 5 (ABC)
6am- A Better Way
6:30- Discovery
7am- Captain Bob
7:30- Barbapapa
8am- Scooby’s All-Stars
9:30- Superfriends
11am- Fangface
11:30- Magic of Mark Wilson
12pm- Candlepin Bowling
1pm- Candlepin Superbowl
1:30- NCAA Football- Pioneer Bowl
4:30- The Protectors
5pm- Wide World of Sports
6:30- NewsCenter 5
7pm- This Week
7:30- Third World
8pm- Merry Christmas…With Love
9pm- Love Boat
10pm- Fantasy Island
11pm- NewsCenter 5
11:30- Movie- The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
WNAC-TV 7 (CBS)
6:30- School Discipline
7am- Peoplescope
7:30- Newsmakers
8am- Popeye
9am- Bugs Bunny
10:30- Tarzan/Super Seven
12pm- Space Academy
12:30- NFL Football- Chicago Bears @ Washington Redskins
4pm- CBS Sports Spectacular
6pm- Newsroom 7
6:30- CBS News
7pm- Lawrence Welk
8pm- How the Grinch Stole Christmas
8:30- The Tiny Tree
9pm- World Premiere- Who’ll Save Our Children
11pm- Newsroom 7
11:30- Movie- Under Capricorn (1949)
WXNE-TV 25 (Ind.)
7am- Courageous Cat
7:30- Puppet Tree Gang
8am- Quick Draw McGraw
8:30- Wacky Races
9am- Penelope Pitstop
9:30- Dastardly and Muttley
10am- Jackson 5
10:30- Josie and the Pussycats
11am- Superman
11:30- Movie- Showdown at Boot Hill (1958)
1pm- Garden State Bowl Football Game
4pm- Big Valley
5pm- High Chapparal
6pm- Get Smart
6:30- Movie- Hans Christian Anderson (1952)
8pm- A Christmas Lyric
9pm- 700 Club
10:30- The Lesson
11pm- Journey to Adventure1
1:30- Watchworks
12am- Sign-Off
WSMW-TV 27 (Ind.)
8am- Simple Gifts
8:30- Agricultural USA
9am- Vegetable Soup
9:30- Magic Movie Machine
10am- Storybook Lady
10:30- Mundo Real
11am- Space: 1999
12pm- Wrestling
1pm- The FBI
2pm- Cavalcade of Boxing
3pm- Cartoon Classics
4pm- Dick Tracy
4:30- Movie- City in Darkness (1939)
6pm- Movie- Little Giant (1946)
7pm- College Hockey- Boston College @ New Hampshire (long before Hockey East coverage on NESN)
8pm- Hee Haw Honeys
8:30- That Nashville Music
9pm- Porter Wagoner
9:30- Pop Goes the Country
10pm- Nashville on the Road
10:30- Soul Train
11:30- sign-off
WSBK-TV 38 (Ind.)
9am- Villa Allegre
9:30- Carrascolendas
10am- Hot Fudge
10:30- Green Acres
11am- Beverly Hillbillies
11:30- The Rifleman
12pm- Lone Ranger
1pm- NHL Hockey- Boston Bruins .vs. New York Rangers from Boston Garden
3:45- Bruins Wrap-Up
4pm- Movie- Buried Alive (1940)
6pm- My Three Sons
6:30- CBS News
7pm- Dick Van Dyke
7:30- Chico and the Man
8pm- Movie- Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)
11pm- Avi Nelson
11:30- American Image Awards
12:30- Athletes/Listen
WGBX-TV 44 (PBS)
5pm- Consumer Survival Kit
5:30- Forest Spirits
6pm- Say Brother
7pm- Rush
8pm- Forsyte Saga
9pm- American Short Story
10pm- News Night National
10:30- Book Beat
11pm- Sign-off
WLVI-TV 56 (Ind.)
8am- Music and Word
8:30- Jimmy Swaggart
9am- Oral Roberts
9:30- Old Time Gospel Hour
10:30- De Todo Un Poco
11am- Wrestling
12pm- Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers Hour
1pm- Movie- Donovan’s Brain (1953)
2:30- Movie- Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959)
4pm- Movie- Horizontal Lieutenant (1962)
6pm- Six Million Dollar Man
7pm- Mary Tyler Moore Show
8pm- Movie- Act One (1963)
10pm- Hot City
11pm- Juke Box
11:30- Movie- Curse of the Faceless Man (1958)
12:37- Sign-off
PROVIDENCE
WTEV-TV 6 (CBS)
6am- Learning Disabilities
6:30- Farmer's Corner
7am- Leave it to Beaver
7:30- Bullwinkle
8am- Popeye
9am- Bugs Bunny
10:30- Tarzan/Super Seven
12pm- Space Academy
12:30- NFL Football- Chicago Bears @ Washington Redskins
4pm- CBS Sports Spectacular
6pm- Truman Taylor
6:30- CBS News
7pm- Hee Haw
8pm- How the Grinch Stole Christmas
8:30- The Tiny Tree
9pm- World Premiere- Who’ll Save Our Children
11pm- NewsScope 6
11:30- Soul Train
12:30- Rock Concert
WJAR-TV 10 (NBC)
7am- Magic Movie Machine
7:30- Marianne’s Funbunch
8am- Galaxy Goof-Ups
8:30- Fantastic Four
9am- Godzilla Super 90
10:30- Daffy Duck
11am- Yogi’s Space Race
12pm- NFL Game of the Week
12:30- Tarzan Movie
2pm- Movie- Francis of Assisi (1961)
4pm- NFL Football- Pittsburgh Steelers @ Denver Broncos
7pm- NewsWatch 10
7:30- Gong Show
8pm- CHiPs
9pm- Lifeline
10pm- Weekend
11pm- NewsWatch 10
11:30- Saturday Night Live
1am- Soap Factory
2am- Sign-off
WPRI-TV 12 (ABC)
7am- Pink Panther
7:30- Allamaze
8am- Scooby’s All-Stars
9:30- Superfriends
11am- Fangface
11:30- Partridge Family
12pm- Wrestling
1pm- Partridge Family
1:30- NCAA Football- Pioneer Bowl
4:30- Gong Show
5pm- Wide World of Sports
6:30- NewsCenter 12
7pm- Lawrence Welk
8pm- Jackie Gleason Show
9pm- Love Boat
10pm- Fantasy Island
11pm- NewsCenter 12
11:30- Movie- Dark City (1950)
source: The Boston Globe
RETRO BOSTON/PROVIDENCE TV- Saturday December 16, 1978
BOSTON
WGBH-TV 2 (PBS)
11am- An American Story
12pm- A Place of Dreams
1pm- Washington Week in Review
1:30- Wall Street Week
2pm- Elliot Norton
2:30- Chanukah
3pm- Mundo Real
4pm- Nobel Prize
5:30- Freestyle
6pm- Rebop
6:30- Soccer Made in Germany
7:30- Sesame Street Christmas
8:30- Sleeping Beauty (live from London, put on by the Royal Ballet)
11:30- Sign-Off
WBZ-TV 4 (NBC)
6am- International Zone
6:30- Carrascolendas
7am- Vegetable Soup II
7:30- For Kids Only
8am- Galaxy Goof-Ups
8:30- Fantastic Four
9am- Godzilla Super 90
10:30- Daffy Duck
11am- Get off your Block
11:30- Eyewitness News
12pm- Fabulous Funnies
12:30- Bay City Rollers
1pm- Magic Movie Machine
1:30- Movie- GI Blues (1960)
3:30- This Is The NFL
4pm- NFL Football- Pittsburgh Steelers @ Denver Broncos
7pm- Gong Show
7:30- Hollywood Squares
8pm- NBA Basketball- Boston Celtics @ Washington Bullets
10pm- Weekend
11pm- Eyewitness News
11:30- Saturday Night Live
1am- Rock Concert
2:30- Sign-Off
WCVB-TV 5 (ABC)
6am- A Better Way
6:30- Discovery
7am- Captain Bob
7:30- Barbapapa
8am- Scooby’s All-Stars
9:30- Superfriends
11am- Fangface
11:30- Magic of Mark Wilson
12pm- Candlepin Bowling
1pm- Candlepin Superbowl
1:30- NCAA Football- Pioneer Bowl
4:30- The Protectors
5pm- Wide World of Sports
6:30- NewsCenter 5
7pm- This Week
7:30- Third World
8pm- Merry Christmas…With Love
9pm- Love Boat
10pm- Fantasy Island
11pm- NewsCenter 5
11:30- Movie- The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
WNAC-TV 7 (CBS)
6:30- School Discipline
7am- Peoplescope
7:30- Newsmakers
8am- Popeye
9am- Bugs Bunny
10:30- Tarzan/Super Seven
12pm- Space Academy
12:30- NFL Football- Chicago Bears @ Washington Redskins
4pm- CBS Sports Spectacular
6pm- Newsroom 7
6:30- CBS News
7pm- Lawrence Welk
8pm- How the Grinch Stole Christmas
8:30- The Tiny Tree
9pm- World Premiere- Who’ll Save Our Children
11pm- Newsroom 7
11:30- Movie- Under Capricorn (1949)
WXNE-TV 25 (Ind.)
7am- Courageous Cat
7:30- Puppet Tree Gang
8am- Quick Draw McGraw
8:30- Wacky Races
9am- Penelope Pitstop
9:30- Dastardly and Muttley
10am- Jackson 5
10:30- Josie and the Pussycats
11am- Superman
11:30- Movie- Showdown at Boot Hill (1958)
1pm- Garden State Bowl Football Game
4pm- Big Valley
5pm- High Chapparal
6pm- Get Smart
6:30- Movie- Hans Christian Anderson (1952)
8pm- A Christmas Lyric
9pm- 700 Club
10:30- The Lesson
11pm- Journey to Adventure1
1:30- Watchworks
12am- Sign-Off
WSMW-TV 27 (Ind.)
8am- Simple Gifts
8:30- Agricultural USA
9am- Vegetable Soup
9:30- Magic Movie Machine
10am- Storybook Lady
10:30- Mundo Real
11am- Space: 1999
12pm- Wrestling
1pm- The FBI
2pm- Cavalcade of Boxing
3pm- Cartoon Classics
4pm- Dick Tracy
4:30- Movie- City in Darkness (1939)
6pm- Movie- Little Giant (1946)
7pm- College Hockey- Boston College @ New Hampshire (long before Hockey East coverage on NESN)
8pm- Hee Haw Honeys
8:30- That Nashville Music
9pm- Porter Wagoner
9:30- Pop Goes the Country
10pm- Nashville on the Road
10:30- Soul Train
11:30- sign-off
WSBK-TV 38 (Ind.)
9am- Villa Allegre
9:30- Carrascolendas
10am- Hot Fudge
10:30- Green Acres
11am- Beverly Hillbillies
11:30- The Rifleman
12pm- Lone Ranger
1pm- NHL Hockey- Boston Bruins .vs. New York Rangers from Boston Garden
3:45- Bruins Wrap-Up
4pm- Movie- Buried Alive (1940)
6pm- My Three Sons
6:30- CBS News
7pm- Dick Van Dyke
7:30- Chico and the Man
8pm- Movie- Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)
11pm- Avi Nelson
11:30- American Image Awards
12:30- Athletes/Listen
WGBX-TV 44 (PBS)
5pm- Consumer Survival Kit
5:30- Forest Spirits
6pm- Say Brother
7pm- Rush
8pm- Forsyte Saga
9pm- American Short Story
10pm- News Night National
10:30- Book Beat
11pm- Sign-off
WLVI-TV 56 (Ind.)
8am- Music and Word
8:30- Jimmy Swaggart
9am- Oral Roberts
9:30- Old Time Gospel Hour
10:30- De Todo Un Poco
11am- Wrestling
12pm- Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers Hour
1pm- Movie- Donovan’s Brain (1953)
2:30- Movie- Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959)
4pm- Movie- Horizontal Lieutenant (1962)
6pm- Six Million Dollar Man
7pm- Mary Tyler Moore Show
8pm- Movie- Act One (1963)
10pm- Hot City
11pm- Juke Box
11:30- Movie- Curse of the Faceless Man (1958)
12:37- Sign-off
PROVIDENCE
WTEV-TV 6 (CBS)
6am- Learning Disabilities
6:30- Farmer's Corner
7am- Leave it to Beaver
7:30- Bullwinkle
8am- Popeye
9am- Bugs Bunny
10:30- Tarzan/Super Seven
12pm- Space Academy
12:30- NFL Football- Chicago Bears @ Washington Redskins
4pm- CBS Sports Spectacular
6pm- Truman Taylor
6:30- CBS News
7pm- Hee Haw
8pm- How the Grinch Stole Christmas
8:30- The Tiny Tree
9pm- World Premiere- Who’ll Save Our Children
11pm- NewsScope 6
11:30- Soul Train
12:30- Rock Concert
WJAR-TV 10 (NBC)
7am- Magic Movie Machine
7:30- Marianne’s Funbunch
8am- Galaxy Goof-Ups
8:30- Fantastic Four
9am- Godzilla Super 90
10:30- Daffy Duck
11am- Yogi’s Space Race
12pm- NFL Game of the Week
12:30- Tarzan Movie
2pm- Movie- Francis of Assisi (1961)
4pm- NFL Football- Pittsburgh Steelers @ Denver Broncos
7pm- NewsWatch 10
7:30- Gong Show
8pm- CHiPs
9pm- Lifeline
10pm- Weekend
11pm- NewsWatch 10
11:30- Saturday Night Live
1am- Soap Factory
2am- Sign-off
WPRI-TV 12 (ABC)
7am- Pink Panther
7:30- Allamaze
8am- Scooby’s All-Stars
9:30- Superfriends
11am- Fangface
11:30- Partridge Family
12pm- Wrestling
1pm- Partridge Family
1:30- NCAA Football- Pioneer Bowl
4:30- Gong Show
5pm- Wide World of Sports
6:30- NewsCenter 12
7pm- Lawrence Welk
8pm- Jackie Gleason Show
9pm- Love Boat
10pm- Fantasy Island
11pm- NewsCenter 12
11:30- Movie- Dark City (1950)
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