Source: Boston Globe
RETRO BOSTON TV- CHRISTMAS EVE 1983
Saturday December 24, 1983
CHANNEL LINEUP
2 WGBH-TV (PBS) Boston
4 WBZ-TV (NBC) Boston
5 WCVB-TV (ABC) Boston
6 WLNE-TV (CBS) Providence/New Bedford
7 WNEV-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
50 WNDS-TV (Ind.) Derry, NH
56 WLVI-TV (Ind.) Boston
68 WQTV-TV (Ind.) Boston
MORNING
7:00
4- Mister Magoo
5- Herculoids
6-7- Captain Kangaroo
9- Groovy Goolies
10- Kidsworld
25- Force Five
38- Exchange
50- Movie- Craps in the World (1965)
56- De Todo Un Poco
7:30
4- Cool McCool
5- Shazzan
10- Thundarr
12- Children’s Theater
25- Star Blazers
38- It’s Your Business
56- Cambridge U.S.A
8:00
2- Sesame Street
4- Flintstone Funnies
5-9-12- Scooby Doo
6-7- The Biskitts
10- G.I Joe
25- Children’s Theater
38- Editor’s Desk
56- Rex Humbard
68- Movie- The Boy Who Caught a Crook
8:30
4-10- The Shirt Tales
5-9-12- The Monchhichis
6-7- Over Easy
25- High School Quiz Show
38- That Teen Show
56- Oral Roberts
9:00
2- Over Easy
4-10- Smurfs
11- Vietnam: A Television History
25- Movie- Chip off The Old Block (1944)
38- Ask The Manager
50- Movie- Secret of the Incas
56- Jimmy Swaggart
9:30
2- Over Easy
5-9-12- Pac-Man
6-7- Dungeons & Dragons
38- Three Stooges
68- Miller Billiards
10:00
2- Over Easy
6-7- Plasticman
11- Community Christmas
56- News
68- Wrestling
10:30
2- Over Easy
4-10- Alvin and the Chipmunks
5-9-12- The Littles
6-7 Charlie Brown
25- Sports Legends
38- Movie- Time Travelers (1976)
11:00
2- Over Easy
4-10- Mr. T
5-9-12- Puppy Named Scooby-Doo?
11- Paddington Bear
25-56- Wrestling
50- Cartoons
68- Soul Train
11:30
2- Tony Brown’s Journal
4-10- Amazing Spiderman
6- The Muppets
7- Bugs Bunny
AFTERNOON
12:00
2- The Lawmakers
5- Candlepin Bowling
9- ABC Weekend Special
11- European Journal
12- Pop n’ Rocker
25- Wrestling
38- Movie- Song of Norway (1970)
50- Just Kidding Around
56- Movie- The Stranger (1972)
68- Movie- War Hint (1968)
12:30
2- Faces of Medicine
4- Thundarr
9- American Bandstand
10- America’s Top Ten
11- Working Woman
12- Big Valley
1:00
2- Nature of Things
4- The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas
5- Candlepin Doubles
6-7- College Basketball- Boston College @ Maryland
10- Dance Fever
11- Boys Town Choir
25- Rawhide
50- Movie- Let’s Dance (1950)
1:30
4- New Wilderness
5- Soap
9- Wrestling
10- Happy Das Again
11- Decorative Painting
12- Movie- Airport ’77 (1977)
56- Starcade
68- Movie- Paths of Glory (1967)
2:00
2- Nova
4- In Search of
5- The Waltons
10- Mom, Wolfman, Me
11- Kids Sing Christmas
25- Lone Ranger
56- Movie- Harvey (1951)
2:30
4- At The Movies
9- USGA Champions
25- Lone Ranger
3:00
2- Nature
4- Kodak All-American- Salute to College Football players
5- Rhoda
6-7- College Football- Sun Bowl- Alabama .vs. Southern Methodist (from El Paso, TX) (Alabama won 28-7)
9- Wild Kingdom
11- American Christmas
25- The Rifleman
38- Julie Andrews Special
50- Movie
68- The Avengers
3:30
4- NFL ’83
5- All In The Family
9- The Muppets
12- Movie- The Concorde: Airport ’79 (1979)
25- The Rifleman
4:00
2- Magic of Oil Painting
4- NFL Football- AFC Wild Card Game- Denver Broncos @ Seattle Seahawks (from the Old Kingdome- Seahawks won 31-7)
5- Movie- Mame (1974)
9- Christmas Music Show
10- Movie- Great Expectations (1975)
11- What Child is This?
25- Movie- Million Dollar Baby (1941)
38- Movie- Come To The Stable (1949)
56- Movie- Glenn Miller Story (1954)
68- Movie- Kung Fu Conspiracy
4:30
2- World of Cooking
5:00
2- Dinner at Julia’s
11- Doctor Who
44- Washington Week in Review
50- Solid Gold
5:30
2- Victory Garden
12- Christmas Special
44- Wall Street Week
68- Pop n’ Rocker
EVENING
6:00
2- All New This Old House
5- All in The Family
6-7-10- News
9- People Who Can
12- Visitation
25- Buck Rogers
38- Movie- We’re No Angels (1955)
44- Vietnam: A Television History
50- Pop n’ Rocker
56- Dance Fever
68- Music City USA
6:30
2- Presente
5-12- News
6-7- CBS News
9- Week in Country Music
10- NBC News
11- Housewarming
50- Music Magazine
56- America’s Top Ten
68- Pop! Goes the Country
7:00
2- Ireland: A TV History
4-10- Solid Gold
5- Christ Church
6- Fame
7- Young Editors
9-68- Hee Haw
11- N.H Journal
12- Lawrence Welk
25- Battlestar Galactica
44- American Interests
50- Salute
56- Hardy Boys Mysteries
7:30
7- Urban Update
11- Agronsky and Company
44- Sing-It Yourself Messiah
8:00
4-10- Diff’rent Strokes
5-9-12- T.J Hooker
6-7- Cutler to Houston
11- Alfred Hitchcock
25- Movie- It’s A Wonderful Life (1947)
38- Movie- Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
50- Movie- Islands in the Stream (1977)
56- Movie- Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
68- Kojak
8:15
2- Making of Mankind
8:30
4-10- Silver Spoons
11- N.H Crossroads
9:00
4-10- Manimal
5-9-12- Love Boat
6-7- Movie- The Children Nobody Wanted (1981)
11- Nature
68- Cannon
9:15
2- Christmas with Luciano Pavarotti
9:30
44- American Christmas
10:00
4-10- The Yellow Rose
5-9-12- Fantasy Island
11- The Christmas Songs (Sign-off time for WENH, 11pm)
50-56- News
68- Barnaby Jones
10:15
2- Vietnam
10:30
44- Christmas Snows (sign-off for WGBX 11:30pm)
50- That Teen Show
11:00
4-5-6-7-9-10-12- News
25- Movie- East Side of Heaven (1939) (sign-off for WXNE, 12:28am)
50- Solid Gold
56- Music Magazine
68- Perry Mason (sign-off for WQTV, midnight)
11:30
4-10- Christmas- Rome 1983- (with Pope John Paul II- AKA- Midnight Mass)
5- Movie- A Christmas Carol (1938)
6-7- Let The Desert Be Joyful
9- Christmas Music Show
12- Movie- A Man For All Seasons (1966) (sign-off time for WPRI, 1:30am)
11:45
2- Christmas at Kennedy Center with Leontyne Price (sign-off for WGBH, 12:45am)
12:00
6-7- Christmas Service- (from Lovely Lane Methodist Church in Baltimore)
38- Midnight Mass from St. Patrick’s Cathedral from New York
50- Happy Days Again
56- Rock TV (sign-off for WLVI, 1am or 1:30am)
12:30
50- News (sign-off for WNDS, 1am)
12:50
5- Sing We Noel/Mormon Symphony & Chorus
1:00
6- Laugh In
7- Movie- Christian the Lion (1976) (sign-off for WNEV, 2:29am)
1:!0
4- Solid Gold
1:30
9- America’s Top Ten
10- Star Search
2:00
6- I Love Lucy
9- Nashville Music
2:10
4- Movie- The Flying Deuces (1939)
2:30
9- ABC News (sign-off time for WMUR, 3am)
10- Rockford Files- (sign-off time for WJAR, 3:30am)
2:40
6- Movie- Topkapi (1964) (sign-off time for WLNE, 4:40am)
2:50
5- Carols of Christmas
3:20
5- Handel’s Messiah/US Naval Academy Choir
3:30
4- Movie- Voyage to the Edge of the World (1977)
<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by highwayman128 on 12/19/05 03:31 AM.</FONT></P>
RETRO BOSTON TV- CHRISTMAS EVE 1983
Saturday December 24, 1983
CHANNEL LINEUP
2 WGBH-TV (PBS) Boston
4 WBZ-TV (NBC) Boston
5 WCVB-TV (ABC) Boston
6 WLNE-TV (CBS) Providence/New Bedford
7 WNEV-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
50 WNDS-TV (Ind.) Derry, NH
56 WLVI-TV (Ind.) Boston
68 WQTV-TV (Ind.) Boston
MORNING
7:00
4- Mister Magoo
5- Herculoids
6-7- Captain Kangaroo
9- Groovy Goolies
10- Kidsworld
25- Force Five
38- Exchange
50- Movie- Craps in the World (1965)
56- De Todo Un Poco
7:30
4- Cool McCool
5- Shazzan
10- Thundarr
12- Children’s Theater
25- Star Blazers
38- It’s Your Business
56- Cambridge U.S.A
8:00
2- Sesame Street
4- Flintstone Funnies
5-9-12- Scooby Doo
6-7- The Biskitts
10- G.I Joe
25- Children’s Theater
38- Editor’s Desk
56- Rex Humbard
68- Movie- The Boy Who Caught a Crook
8:30
4-10- The Shirt Tales
5-9-12- The Monchhichis
6-7- Over Easy
25- High School Quiz Show
38- That Teen Show
56- Oral Roberts
9:00
2- Over Easy
4-10- Smurfs
11- Vietnam: A Television History
25- Movie- Chip off The Old Block (1944)
38- Ask The Manager
50- Movie- Secret of the Incas
56- Jimmy Swaggart
9:30
2- Over Easy
5-9-12- Pac-Man
6-7- Dungeons & Dragons
38- Three Stooges
68- Miller Billiards
10:00
2- Over Easy
6-7- Plasticman
11- Community Christmas
56- News
68- Wrestling
10:30
2- Over Easy
4-10- Alvin and the Chipmunks
5-9-12- The Littles
6-7 Charlie Brown
25- Sports Legends
38- Movie- Time Travelers (1976)
11:00
2- Over Easy
4-10- Mr. T
5-9-12- Puppy Named Scooby-Doo?
11- Paddington Bear
25-56- Wrestling
50- Cartoons
68- Soul Train
11:30
2- Tony Brown’s Journal
4-10- Amazing Spiderman
6- The Muppets
7- Bugs Bunny
AFTERNOON
12:00
2- The Lawmakers
5- Candlepin Bowling
9- ABC Weekend Special
11- European Journal
12- Pop n’ Rocker
25- Wrestling
38- Movie- Song of Norway (1970)
50- Just Kidding Around
56- Movie- The Stranger (1972)
68- Movie- War Hint (1968)
12:30
2- Faces of Medicine
4- Thundarr
9- American Bandstand
10- America’s Top Ten
11- Working Woman
12- Big Valley
1:00
2- Nature of Things
4- The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas
5- Candlepin Doubles
6-7- College Basketball- Boston College @ Maryland
10- Dance Fever
11- Boys Town Choir
25- Rawhide
50- Movie- Let’s Dance (1950)
1:30
4- New Wilderness
5- Soap
9- Wrestling
10- Happy Das Again
11- Decorative Painting
12- Movie- Airport ’77 (1977)
56- Starcade
68- Movie- Paths of Glory (1967)
2:00
2- Nova
4- In Search of
5- The Waltons
10- Mom, Wolfman, Me
11- Kids Sing Christmas
25- Lone Ranger
56- Movie- Harvey (1951)
2:30
4- At The Movies
9- USGA Champions
25- Lone Ranger
3:00
2- Nature
4- Kodak All-American- Salute to College Football players
5- Rhoda
6-7- College Football- Sun Bowl- Alabama .vs. Southern Methodist (from El Paso, TX) (Alabama won 28-7)
9- Wild Kingdom
11- American Christmas
25- The Rifleman
38- Julie Andrews Special
50- Movie
68- The Avengers
3:30
4- NFL ’83
5- All In The Family
9- The Muppets
12- Movie- The Concorde: Airport ’79 (1979)
25- The Rifleman
4:00
2- Magic of Oil Painting
4- NFL Football- AFC Wild Card Game- Denver Broncos @ Seattle Seahawks (from the Old Kingdome- Seahawks won 31-7)
5- Movie- Mame (1974)
9- Christmas Music Show
10- Movie- Great Expectations (1975)
11- What Child is This?
25- Movie- Million Dollar Baby (1941)
38- Movie- Come To The Stable (1949)
56- Movie- Glenn Miller Story (1954)
68- Movie- Kung Fu Conspiracy
4:30
2- World of Cooking
5:00
2- Dinner at Julia’s
11- Doctor Who
44- Washington Week in Review
50- Solid Gold
5:30
2- Victory Garden
12- Christmas Special
44- Wall Street Week
68- Pop n’ Rocker
EVENING
6:00
2- All New This Old House
5- All in The Family
6-7-10- News
9- People Who Can
12- Visitation
25- Buck Rogers
38- Movie- We’re No Angels (1955)
44- Vietnam: A Television History
50- Pop n’ Rocker
56- Dance Fever
68- Music City USA
6:30
2- Presente
5-12- News
6-7- CBS News
9- Week in Country Music
10- NBC News
11- Housewarming
50- Music Magazine
56- America’s Top Ten
68- Pop! Goes the Country
7:00
2- Ireland: A TV History
4-10- Solid Gold
5- Christ Church
6- Fame
7- Young Editors
9-68- Hee Haw
11- N.H Journal
12- Lawrence Welk
25- Battlestar Galactica
44- American Interests
50- Salute
56- Hardy Boys Mysteries
7:30
7- Urban Update
11- Agronsky and Company
44- Sing-It Yourself Messiah
8:00
4-10- Diff’rent Strokes
5-9-12- T.J Hooker
6-7- Cutler to Houston
11- Alfred Hitchcock
25- Movie- It’s A Wonderful Life (1947)
38- Movie- Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
50- Movie- Islands in the Stream (1977)
56- Movie- Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
68- Kojak
8:15
2- Making of Mankind
8:30
4-10- Silver Spoons
11- N.H Crossroads
9:00
4-10- Manimal
5-9-12- Love Boat
6-7- Movie- The Children Nobody Wanted (1981)
11- Nature
68- Cannon
9:15
2- Christmas with Luciano Pavarotti
9:30
44- American Christmas
10:00
4-10- The Yellow Rose
5-9-12- Fantasy Island
11- The Christmas Songs (Sign-off time for WENH, 11pm)
50-56- News
68- Barnaby Jones
10:15
2- Vietnam
10:30
44- Christmas Snows (sign-off for WGBX 11:30pm)
50- That Teen Show
11:00
4-5-6-7-9-10-12- News
25- Movie- East Side of Heaven (1939) (sign-off for WXNE, 12:28am)
50- Solid Gold
56- Music Magazine
68- Perry Mason (sign-off for WQTV, midnight)
11:30
4-10- Christmas- Rome 1983- (with Pope John Paul II- AKA- Midnight Mass)
5- Movie- A Christmas Carol (1938)
6-7- Let The Desert Be Joyful
9- Christmas Music Show
12- Movie- A Man For All Seasons (1966) (sign-off time for WPRI, 1:30am)
11:45
2- Christmas at Kennedy Center with Leontyne Price (sign-off for WGBH, 12:45am)
12:00
6-7- Christmas Service- (from Lovely Lane Methodist Church in Baltimore)
38- Midnight Mass from St. Patrick’s Cathedral from New York
50- Happy Days Again
56- Rock TV (sign-off for WLVI, 1am or 1:30am)
12:30
50- News (sign-off for WNDS, 1am)
12:50
5- Sing We Noel/Mormon Symphony & Chorus
1:00
6- Laugh In
7- Movie- Christian the Lion (1976) (sign-off for WNEV, 2:29am)
1:!0
4- Solid Gold
1:30
9- America’s Top Ten
10- Star Search
2:00
6- I Love Lucy
9- Nashville Music
2:10
4- Movie- The Flying Deuces (1939)
2:30
9- ABC News (sign-off time for WMUR, 3am)
10- Rockford Files- (sign-off time for WJAR, 3:30am)
2:40
6- Movie- Topkapi (1964) (sign-off time for WLNE, 4:40am)
2:50
5- Carols of Christmas
3:20
5- Handel’s Messiah/US Naval Academy Choir
3:30
4- Movie- Voyage to the Edge of the World (1977)
<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by highwayman128 on 12/19/05 03:31 AM.</FONT></P>