Retro: Boston/Springfield, MA/Providence/Connecticut - Bicentennial Day, July 4, 1976

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NOTES: Movie listings will be detailed in the reply following this schedule. Also, the newtworks and their affiliates' Bicentennial coverage programs "Great American Birthday Party" (ABC), "In Celebration of Us" (CBS), and "The Glorious Fourth" (NBC) may be broadcast nonconsecutively. You can also check for program details in the Philadelphia schedule from that day.

2 WGBH (PBS) Boston
3 WFSB (CBS) Hartford
4 WBZ (NBC) Boston
5 WCVB (ABC) Boston
6 WTEV (ABC) New Bedford, MA (serving Providence)
7 WNAC (CBS) Boston
8 WTNH (ABC) New Haven
10 WJAR (NBC) Providence
12 WPRI (CBS) Providence
18 WHCT (Christian Ind.) Hartford
20 WATR (NBC) Waterbury, CT
22 WWLP (NBC) Springfield
24 WEDH (PBS) Hartford
27 WSMW (Ind.) Worcester
30 WHNB (NBC) New Britain, CT
36 WSBE (PBS) New Bedford
38 WSBK (Ind.) Boston
40 WHYN (ABC) Springfield
44 WGBX (PBS secondary) Boston
56 WLVI (Ind.) Boston
57 WGBY (PBS) Springfield

6:00 AM
3, 4, 10 - Great Amerian Celebration
5 - Christophers
7 - Lamp Unto My Feet

6:30 AM
5 - Bible Answers
7 - Look Up and Live

6:45 AM
6 - Farmer's Corner

7:00 AM
2 - Patchwork Family
3 - Barrio
4 - Living Word
5 - Make a Wish
7 - Bicentennial Mass
8 - This Is the Life
10 - Freedom Is
12 - Jerry Falwell
22 - Lucy Show
30 - Ring Around the World

7:15 AM
4 - Davey & Goliath
6 - Jetsons

7:30 AM
4 - Show of Faith
5 - Davey & Goliah
8 - Worship for Shut-Ins
10 - The Week Starts Here
22 - Vegetable Soup
30 - Let Us Celebrate
40 - Jerry Falwell

7:45 AM
6 - Protestant Service

8:00 AM
3, 7, 12 - In Celebration of Us
4, 10, 20, 22, 30 - The Glorious Fourth
5 - Captain Bob
8 - Celebration of the Eucharist
27 - Day of Discovery
38 - Spirit of Independence
56 - Rex Humbard
57 - Sesame Street (x4)

8:15 AM
6 - Faith of Our Fathers (Jewish Service)

8:30 AM
5 - Jabberwocky
8 - Insight
27 - Jerry Falwell
38 - Porky Pig

8:45 AM
6 - Mass

9:00 AM
5 - New Heaven, New Earth
8 - A New Day
38 - Bugs Bunny
40 - Sacred Heart
56 - Robert Schuller

9:30 AM
5 - Aqui
6 - Bullwinkle
8 - Captain Noah
38 - Popeye
40 - Insight

10:00 AM
5 - Sunday Open House
6 - Community Auditions
8 - Hot Fudge Show
22, 30 - Mass
27 - It Is Written
40 - Latino
56 - Batman

10:30 AM
6, 8 - Groovie Goolies
27 - LeRoy Jenkins
38 - Mr. Magoo
56 - Movie

10:45 AM
30 - Jewish Life

11:00 AM
5, 6, 8, 40 - Great American Birthday Party
27 - Rex Humbard
38 - Jetsons

11:30 AM
6 - Make a Wish
30 - Adelante
38 - Superman

12:00 PM
4, 10, 20, 22, 30 - Meet the Press
5, 8, 40 - Issues and Answers
6 - Portuguese Around Us
27 - Bowling
38 - Movie

12:30 PM
5 - Good Morning
6 - We the People
8 - Dialogue: "A Toast to Our Bicentennial"

1:00 PM
4, 10, 20, 22, 30 - The Glorious Fourth
6 - Issues and Answers
8 - Eighth Day
18 - Voice of Faith
27 - Day of Discovery
56 - Movie

1:30 PM
5, 6, 8, 40 - Great American Birthday Party
27 - Jimmy Swaggart

2:00 PM
18 - Day of Discovery
27 - Movie
57 - Bill Moyers' Journal

2:30 PM
5 - Boston Legacy
6, 22, 38 - Red Sox Baseball: at Milwaukee Brewers
8 - WTNH Special: "Connecticut Bicentennial"
18 - Robert Schuller
40 - Wild, Wild West

3:00 PM
5 - Good Morning, Freedom
57 - Dance for Camera

3:30 PM
5 - Movie
18 - PTL Club
24, 57 - America, America, America

4:00 PM
2 - Goodbye, America
27, 56 - Movie

4:30 PM
8, 40 - World Invitational Tennis

5:00 PM
6 - World Iniviational Tennis (Joined in Progress)
24, 57 - Goodbye America

5:30 PM
2 - Dance for Camera
18 - Teach In
27 - Last of the Wild
36 - Crockett's Victory Garden
44 - Black Perspective

6:00 PM
2 - Say Brother
3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 22, 30 - News
7 - Destination America
8 - Concentration
20 - Treehouse Club
27 - Wild Kingdom
36 - Four Pieces for Broadcast
40 - Room 222
44 - Woman
56 - Star Trek

6:30 PM
2 - Maggie's Physical Fitness
3, 12 - CBS Evening News
4, 10, 20, 22, 30 - NBC Nightly News
5 - Let's Make a Deal
6 - WTEV Special: "Remember the Ladies" - Featuring Betty Ford, Nancy Kissinger, Kitty Dukakis, and Joan Kennedy.
8 - News
18 - This Is the Life
24 - Crockett's Victory Garden
27 - Bowling
36, 44 - World Press
57 - Mundo Real (Real World)

7:00 PM
2, 24, 36 - Nova
3, 7, 12 - In Celebration of Us
4, 10, 20, 22, 30 - Happy Birthday, America
5, 6, 8, 40 - The American Idea: The Glory Road West
18 - Gospel Jubilee
38 - Movie
44 - French Chef
56 - Steve Allen Laugh-Back

7:30 PM
27 - Animal World
44, 57 - Lowell Thomas Remembers

8:00 PM
2, 24, 57 - Evening at Pops
5, 6, 8, 40 - ABC Sunday Night Movie
18 - Faith for Today
27 - Honeymooners
36 - Les Architectes du Nouveau Monde (The Architects of the New World)
44 - Bill Moyers' Journal
56 - Movie

8:30 PM
4, 10, 20, 22, 30 - Bob Hope Bicentennial Special
18 - Jimmy Swaggart
27 - Racing from Suffolk Downs

9:00 PM
2, 24, 36, 57 - Masterpiece Theatre
27 - Jacob Brothers Quartet
38 - Red, White and Wow
44 - Speaking Freely

9:30 PM
27 - PTL Club

10:00 PM
2, 36, 57 - The Olympiad
4, 10, 20, 22, 30 - NBC News Wrap-Up
5, 6, 8, 40 - ABC News Goes to the Great American Birthday Party
18 - Living Faith
24 - A Look at Lincoln
38 - Ask the Magager
44 - Echoes Bright and Clear
56 - Lou Gordon

10:30 PM
38 - The Drum

10:50 PM
24 - Eagle

11:00 PM
2 - Video and Television Review
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12, 22, 40 - News
18, 20 - PTL Club
38 - Medix

11:30 PM
3, 7, 12 - In Celebration of Us
4 - Mod Squad
5, 10, 30, 40 - Movies (different titles for each channel; see movie guide)
6 - David Susskind
8 - The Saint
38 - Worship for Shut-Ins
56 - Point of View

11:40 PM
22 - Star Trek

12:00 AM
3 - Name of the Game
7, 12 - Movies

12:30 AM
4 - Movie
8 - ABC News

 

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Movie Listings

10:30 AM
56 - "The Adventures of Mark Twain" (1944) - Frederic March, Alexis Smith

12:00 PM
38 - "Ghost Catchers" (1944) - Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine

1:00 PM
56 - "The Music Man" (1962) - Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Hermione Gingold, Paul Ford, Ronnie Howard

2:00 PM
27 - "The Wild Blue Yonder" (1951) - Wendell Corey, Vera Ralston, Forrest Tucker, Phil Harris, Walter Brennan

3:30 PM
5 - "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1944) - Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Tom Drake, Marjorie Main

4:00 PM
27 - "Captain January" (1936) - Shirley Temple, Guy Kibbee, Slim Summerville, Buddy Ebsen
56 - "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" (1936) - Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander

7:00 PM
38 - "Night and the City" (1950) - Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe, Francis L. Sullivan, Herbert Lom

8:00 PM
5, 6, 8, 40 - ABC Sunday Night Movie: "The New Land" (1972, Swedish) - Liv Ullman, Max von Sydow
56 - "Sherlock Holmes in Washington" (1943) - Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce

11:30 PM
5 - "Alexander's Ragtime Band" (1938) - Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Ethel Merman, Jack Haley
10 - "Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation" (1962) - James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Fabian
30 - "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (1942) - James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf
40 - "The Seven Little Foys" (1955) - Bob Hope, Milly Vitale, George Tobias

12:00 AM
7 - "Cotter" (1973) - Don Murray, Carol Lynley, Rip Torn
12 - "Frontier Hellcat" (original title "Among Vultures") (1964, German) - Stewart Granger, Elke Sommer, Pierre Brice

12:30 AM
4 - "The Phantom of the Opera" (1962) - Herbert Lom, Heather Sears, Edward de Souza, Michael Gough