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RETRO BOSTON TV- CHRISTMAS 1980

Source: Boston Globe

RETRO BOSTON TV- CHRISTMAS 1980

Thursday December 25, 1980

CHANNEL LINEUP
2 WGBH-TV (PBS) Boston
4 WBZ-TV (NBC) Boston
5 WCVB-TV (ABC) Boston
6 WLNE-TV (CBS) New Bedford/Providence
7 WNAC-TV (CBS) Boston
9 WMUR-TV (ABC) Manchester, NH
10 WJAR-TV (NBC) Providence
11 WENH-TV (PBS) Durham, NH
12 WPRI-TV (ABC) Providence
25 WXNE-TV (Ind.) Boston
27 WSMW-TV (Ind.) Worcester
38 WSBK-TV (Ind.) Boston
44 WGBX-TV (PBS) Boston
56 WLVI-TV (Ind.) Boston
68 WQTV-TV (Ind.) Boston

MORNING
6:30
4- 4 Today (from 6am)
5- NewsCenter 5 Eyeopener (from 6am)
6- Ask The Doctor
10- Impacto
12- Partridge Family
25- Giggleanort Hotel
27- Famous Storybook Lady
38- Romper Room

6:50
7- Noticiero 7

7:00
4-10- Today
5-9-12- Good Morning America
6- Fred Flintstone
7- Morning with Charles Kuralt
25- Quick Draw McGraw
27- Medic
38- Batman
56- Tom and Jerry

7:30
6- Gilligan’s Island
25- Force Five
27- Big Money
38- Scooby Doo
56- Flintstones

8:00
6-7- Captain Kangaroo
25- Josie and the Pussycats
27- Movie- March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934)
38- Porky Pig/Bugs Bunny
56- Gilligan’s Island

8:30
25- Funworld
38- Cartoon Festival
56- Fred Flintstone

9:00
4- Hour Magazine
5- Good Day
6- Gilligan’s Island
7- Christmas Mass
9- PTL Club
10- Donahue
12- John Davidson
25- Lassie
38- Don Lane
56- New Zoo Revue

9:30
6- One Day at A Time
25- Leave it To Beaver
56- Bozo’s Big Top

10:00
4-10- Christmas at Washington Cathedral
6- Christmas Mass (Bishop Cronin)
7- Christmas at the Crystal Cathedral
25- 700 Club
27- PTL Club
38- Tom Larson
56- Movie- White Christmas (1954)

10:30
5- Donahue
6- Alice
12- Family Feud

10:50
38- News

11:00
4-10- Wheel of Fortune
6-7- The Price is Right
9-12- Pastreka
38- Maude

11:30
4- Password Plus
5- Pastreka: Mass of the Shepherds
10- Mary Tyler Moore
25- Definition
38- Richard Simmons

11:35
25- News

11:45
25- Be Fit, Be Happy

AFTERNOON
12:00
4-6-7-10-12- News
9- Family Feud
25- Movie- Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)
27-Mass
38- Movie- Holiday (1938)
56- Movie- Scrooge (1970)

12:30
4- People are Talking
5-9-12- Ryan’s Hope
6-7- NBA Basketball- Boston Celtics @ New York Knicks
10- The Doctors
27- Pop Goes The Country

1:00
4-10- Days of Our Lives
5-9-12- All My Children
27- Christmas Mass From the Vatican (Pope John II)

2:00
4-10- Another World
5-9-12- One Life To Live
25- Movie- Oliver Twist and the Artful Dodger
38- Movie- Holiday Inn (1942)
56- Yogi Bear

2:30
2- Sesame Street
27- Fiesta Bowl Parade
56- Casper

3:00
4-10- Texas
5-9-12- General Hospital
6-7- College Football- Blue-Gray Football Game
11- Your Time
56- Mighty Mouse
68- Christmas Child

3:30
2- Villa Allegre
11- Over Easy
25- Starblazers
56- Woody Woodpecker
68- Sing Noel

4:00
2-11- Sesame Street
4- John Davidson
5- World of People
9- Edge of Night
10-56- Tom and Jerry
12- Merv Griffin
25- Force Five
27- Christmas World
38- Movie- The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze (1963)
56- Movie- The Little Princess (1939)

4:30
5- Carol Burnett
9- New Candid Camera
10- Brady Bunch
25- Wonder Woman
56- Flintstones

5:00
2-11- Mr. Rogers
4- Match Game
5- Rhoda
9- Petticoat Junction
10- Happy Days Again
27- Long Road Home
56- Brady Bunch

5:30
2- Electric Company
4- Live on 4
5- All in the Family
9- Tic Tac Dough
10- Carol Burnett
11- Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
12- M*A*S*H
25- Let’s Make A Deal
27- Music America
56- Brady Bunch

EVENING
6:00
2- Studio See
4-5-6-7-9-10-12- News
25- Face The Music
38- Movie- David Copperfield (1970)
56- Movie- The Brass Bottle (1964)
68- Tis the Season

6:30
2- Over Easy
6- CBS News
9-12- ABC News
10- NBC News
11- This Old House
25- Candlepins for Cash
27- Merry Christmas, No News is Good News

7:00
2-11- Dr. Who
4- NBC News
5- ABC News
6-10- News
7- CBS News
9- Joker’s Wild
12- Tic Tac Dough
25- Rockford Files

7:30
2-6 Wild, Wild World of Animals
4- Insight
5- Good Day Christmas Party
7- Family Feud
9- Name That Tune
10- PM Magazine
11- Dick Cavett
12- Burke Family Christmas

8:00
2- This Old House
4- Games People Play
5-9-12- Sant a Claus is Comin’ To Town
6-7- The Waltons
10- Solid Gold
11- Garden Show
25- Bonanza
38- Movie- A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1968)
56- Movie- Christmas in Connecticut (1945)

8:30
2- Tom Cottle
11- Movie- The Bishop’s Wife (1948)

9:00
2- Say Brother
4-10- Dick Clark’s Good Old Days
5-9-12- Movie- An American Christmas Carol (1979)
6-7- Magnum P.I
25- 700 Club

10:00
2- Joan Baez- Christmas at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris
6-7- Knots Landing
38- Local News
56- Christmas and All That Jazz

10:30
11- MacNeil/Lehrer Repoort- (sign-off time for WENH, 11pm)
25- Paul and Mona
38- Hollywood Squares

11:00
2- To Say I Am
4-5-6-7-9-10-12- News
25- Jackie Gleason
38- Odd Couple
56- Wayne & Shuster

11:30
2- Dick Cavett (sign-off time for WGBH, midnight)
4-10- Best of Carson
5-9- ABC News Nightline
6- Benny Hill
7- Jeffersons
12- M*A*S*H
25- Movie- Bundle of Joy (1950) (sign-off time for WXNE, 1:08am)
38- Movie- Say one For Me (1959) (sign-off time for WSBK, 1:30am)
56- Groucho (sign-off time for WLVI, 12:30am)

11:50
5-9- Charlie’s Angels

12:00
6- Movie- The Dain Curse (1978)
7- News
12- ABC News Nightline

12:20
12- Charlie’s Angels (sign-off time for WPRI, 1:30am)

12:30
4-10- Tomorrow
27- Movie- The Christmas Tree (1969) (sign-off time for WSMW, 2:20am)

1:00
5-9- Police Woman (sign-off time for WENH, 2:10am)

2:00
4-10- News (sign-off time for WJAR, 2:30am)

2:05
4- Movie- Windom’s Way (1958)
7- Nightscene (sign-off time for WNAC, 3:05am)

2:10
5- Movie- Guest Wife (1945)

2:20
6- News

2:50
6- Community Calendar

3:50
5- News

4:00
4- Coming Together
5- Good Day!
 
No programming on 44 that day. Did 44 have any programming over the holiday in 1980?

The reason why there was no programming on 44 because I found something in the Newsbank and there was this article from the Boston Globe on September 26, 1980 and it said that WGBX went off the air from November to December because they are working on their transmitter in Needham. I have a listing from November 25, 1980 which was on the site and it said no programming on 44 due to transmitter work. So that is why WGBX was off the air from November 1980 to December 1980
 
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