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!
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!