source: Boston Globe
RETRO BOSTON TV- Monday April 16, 1973
CHANNEL LINEUP
2 WGBH-TV (PBS) Boston
4 WBZ-TV (NBC) Boston
5 WCVB-TV (ABC) Boston
6 WTEV-TV (ABC) 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 (CBS) Providence
27 WSMW-TV (Ind.) Worcester
38 WSBK-TV (Ind.) Boston
44 WGBX-TV (PBS) Boston
56 WKBG-TV (Ind.) Boston
MORNING
5:42
7- Farm and Market Report
5:47
7- Reflections
5:52
7- News, weather
6:00
7- Sunrise Semester
6:15
4- Sign-on Seminar
6:25
5- Morning Glory
10- TV Classroom
6:30
5- N.E Consumer
6- Jack LaLanne
7- News, Weather
12- Sunrise Semester
6:45
4- Eyewitness News Daily Almanac
5- Opportunity Line
6- News, Weather
6:55
7- Las Noticias De Hoy (spanish-speaking news for WNAC)
7:00
4-10- Today Show
5- News, weather
6- Flintstones
7-12- CBS News
7:30
5-6- Leave it To Beaver
7- Major Mudd
8:00
5- Pixanne
6- Flying Nun
7-12- Captain Kangaroo
8:30
5- Jabberwocky
6- Community (Bob Bassett)
11- Film Special
9:00
4- Jeopardy!
5-6- Romper Room
7- Paul Benzaquin
10- Not For Women Only
11- Word Workers Inc.
12- Dialing for Dollars
9:15
11- All About You
9:30
4- Who, What or Where Game
5- Medical Call
6- Paul Dixon Show
10- Comley in the Morning
11- American Heritage
12- Direct Question
9:55
4- News (was it from NBC News or Local News?)
10:00
2- Sesame Street
4-10- Dinah's Place
5- Arnold Zenker Show
6- Dick Van Dyke Show
7-12- Joker's Wild
9- Movie- Wild Geese Calling (1941)
11- Cover To Cover
10:20
11- Playground
10:30
4-10- Baffle
6- Andy Griffith
7-12- $10,000 Pyramid
56- Galloping Gourmet
10:40
11- Tree House
11:00
4-6- Baseball- Boston Red Sox .vs. Detroit Tigers from Fenway Park (Tigers won 9-7)
5- Love, American Style
7-12- Gambit
10- Sale of The Century
11- Electric Company
56- Newstalk
11:30
5- Living Easy
7-12- Love of Live
9- Bewitched
10- Hollywood Squares
11- Developmental Reading
38- Jack LaLanne
56- New Zoo Revue
11:55
7-12- CBS News
AFTERNOON
12:00
5-7-12- News, Weather
9- Password
10- Jeopardy!
11- Sesame Street
27- Lenten Mass
38- Tom Larson
56- Underdog
12:30
5-9- Split Second
7-12- Search for Tomorrow
10- Who, What or Where Game
56- Movie- Chicken Every Sunday (1949)
1:00
5-9- All My Children
7- Truth or Consequences
10- Mike Douglas
11- Word Workers, Inc.
12- I Dream of Jeannie
38- Not For Women Only
1:15
11- Cover to Cover
1:30
2- Electric Company
4- Three on a Match
5-6-9- Let's Make A Deal
7-12- As The World Turns
38- Tennessee Tuxedo
1:35
11- Developmental Reading
2:00
4-10- Days of Our Lives
5-6-9- Newlywed Game
7-12- Guiding Light
11- Places in the News
38- Bugs Bunny and Friends
2:20
11- Playground
2:30
4-10- Doctors
5-6-9- Dating Game
7-12- Edge of Night
38- Mr. Magoo and Friends
56- Kimba
2:40
11- Tree House
3:00
2- US History
4-10- Another World
5-6-9- General Hospital
7-12- New Price is Right
11- Our Street
27- Movie- Greed in the Sun (1963) (Part 1)
38- Porky Pig and Friends
56- Speed Racer
3:30
2-11- Maggie and the Beautiful Machine
4-10- Return to Peyton Place
5-6-9- One Life to Live
7-12- Hollywood's Talking
38- F Troop
44- Carrascolendas
56- Batman
4:00
2-11-44- Sesame Street
4-10- Somerset
5- Big Valley
6- Love, American Style
7-12- Secret Storm
9- Jeff's Collie
38- Three Stooges
56- Lost in Space
4:30
4- Mike Douglas
6- The Saint
7-12- Merv Griffin
9- Uncle Gus
10- Movie- Escape from Zahrain (1962)
27- Bozo Presents
5:00
2-11-44- Mister Rogers Neighborhood
5- Perry Mason
27- Superman
38- Beverly Hillbillies
56- Flintstones
5:30
2-11-44- Electric Company
6- Hogan's Heroes
9- Timmy and Lassie
27- Gomer Pyle, USMC
38- Andy Griffith
56- Gilligan's Island
EVENING
6:00
2-11-44- Hodgepodge Lodge
4-5-6-7-9-10-12- News, weather (WBZ: Eyewitness News, WCVB: News 5, WTEV: NewsScope 6, WNAC: New England Tonight, WMUR: The News, WJAR: NewsWatch 10 and WPRI, On the Scene News)
27- Petticoat Junction
38- Wild, Wild West
56- Get Smart
6:30
2-44- Thirty Minutes with
5-6-9- ABC News
7-12- CBS News
11- Earthkeeping
27- Movie- Sea of Lost Ships (1954)
56- Star Trek
7:00
2- Lyons/McCormack: The Way it Was (WGBH News)
4-10- NBC News
5- To Tell The Truth
6- Parent Game
7-12- What's My Line
9- Movie- Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)
11- The State We're In
38- Hogan's Heroes
44- Man and His Motives
7:30
2-44- Where is the War on VD?
4- Starring the Editors
5- Five on Sports
6- The Adventurer
7- Let's Make A Deal
10- To Tell The Truth
11- A Coming of Age
12- Beat The Clock
38- I Dream of Jeannie
56- Dragnet
8:00
2-11- Special of the Week- "What You Don't Know Can Kill You" (health care situation in America)
4-10- Laugh-In
5-6- James Paul McCartney
7-12- Gunsmoke
27- Special- "Worcester Parks and Recreation Department
38- Beat the Clock
44- Antiques
56- It Takes a Thief
8:30
27- Thriller, Boris Karloff
38- Stump the Stars
44- Maggie and the Beautiful Machine
9:00
4-10- Movie- Judith (1966)
5-6-9- Movie- Red Line 7000 (1965)
7-12- Here's Lucy
38- The Saint
44- Catch 44
56- Movie- Blue Anger (1959)
9:30
2- Santos Making in Puerto Rico
7-12- Doris Day Show
11- Book Beat
27- Twilight Zone
44- Where in the War on VD
10:00
2- Changing Music
7-12- Bill Cosby Show
11-44- Martin Agronsky
27- News
38- Suspense Theater
10:30
2- Lenox Quartet
11-44- How Do Your Children Grow?- (Sign-Off Times for WGBH, WENH and WGBX, 11pm)
27- Mantrap (sign-off time for WSMW- 11:30pm)
11:00
4-5-6-7-9-10-12- News
38- Movie- The Destructors (1968) (sign-off time for WSBK, 12:37am)
56- Movie- Chicken Every Sunday (1949) (sign-off time for WKBG, 12:34am)
11:30
4-10- Tonight Show
5-6-9- Dick Cavett Show
7-12- Movie- Kid Rodelo (1966) (sign-off times for WNAC and WPRI, 1am)
1:00
4-5-6-10- News (sign-off times for WTEV and WJAR, 1:05am)
1:05
4- Movie- The Fleet's In (1942) (sign-off time for WBZ, 2:38am)
5- Medical Call (sign-off time for WCVB, 1:35am)
RETRO BOSTON TV- Monday April 16, 1973
CHANNEL LINEUP
2 WGBH-TV (PBS) Boston
4 WBZ-TV (NBC) Boston
5 WCVB-TV (ABC) Boston
6 WTEV-TV (ABC) 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 (CBS) Providence
27 WSMW-TV (Ind.) Worcester
38 WSBK-TV (Ind.) Boston
44 WGBX-TV (PBS) Boston
56 WKBG-TV (Ind.) Boston
MORNING
5:42
7- Farm and Market Report
5:47
7- Reflections
5:52
7- News, weather
6:00
7- Sunrise Semester
6:15
4- Sign-on Seminar
6:25
5- Morning Glory
10- TV Classroom
6:30
5- N.E Consumer
6- Jack LaLanne
7- News, Weather
12- Sunrise Semester
6:45
4- Eyewitness News Daily Almanac
5- Opportunity Line
6- News, Weather
6:55
7- Las Noticias De Hoy (spanish-speaking news for WNAC)
7:00
4-10- Today Show
5- News, weather
6- Flintstones
7-12- CBS News
7:30
5-6- Leave it To Beaver
7- Major Mudd
8:00
5- Pixanne
6- Flying Nun
7-12- Captain Kangaroo
8:30
5- Jabberwocky
6- Community (Bob Bassett)
11- Film Special
9:00
4- Jeopardy!
5-6- Romper Room
7- Paul Benzaquin
10- Not For Women Only
11- Word Workers Inc.
12- Dialing for Dollars
9:15
11- All About You
9:30
4- Who, What or Where Game
5- Medical Call
6- Paul Dixon Show
10- Comley in the Morning
11- American Heritage
12- Direct Question
9:55
4- News (was it from NBC News or Local News?)
10:00
2- Sesame Street
4-10- Dinah's Place
5- Arnold Zenker Show
6- Dick Van Dyke Show
7-12- Joker's Wild
9- Movie- Wild Geese Calling (1941)
11- Cover To Cover
10:20
11- Playground
10:30
4-10- Baffle
6- Andy Griffith
7-12- $10,000 Pyramid
56- Galloping Gourmet
10:40
11- Tree House
11:00
4-6- Baseball- Boston Red Sox .vs. Detroit Tigers from Fenway Park (Tigers won 9-7)
5- Love, American Style
7-12- Gambit
10- Sale of The Century
11- Electric Company
56- Newstalk
11:30
5- Living Easy
7-12- Love of Live
9- Bewitched
10- Hollywood Squares
11- Developmental Reading
38- Jack LaLanne
56- New Zoo Revue
11:55
7-12- CBS News
AFTERNOON
12:00
5-7-12- News, Weather
9- Password
10- Jeopardy!
11- Sesame Street
27- Lenten Mass
38- Tom Larson
56- Underdog
12:30
5-9- Split Second
7-12- Search for Tomorrow
10- Who, What or Where Game
56- Movie- Chicken Every Sunday (1949)
1:00
5-9- All My Children
7- Truth or Consequences
10- Mike Douglas
11- Word Workers, Inc.
12- I Dream of Jeannie
38- Not For Women Only
1:15
11- Cover to Cover
1:30
2- Electric Company
4- Three on a Match
5-6-9- Let's Make A Deal
7-12- As The World Turns
38- Tennessee Tuxedo
1:35
11- Developmental Reading
2:00
4-10- Days of Our Lives
5-6-9- Newlywed Game
7-12- Guiding Light
11- Places in the News
38- Bugs Bunny and Friends
2:20
11- Playground
2:30
4-10- Doctors
5-6-9- Dating Game
7-12- Edge of Night
38- Mr. Magoo and Friends
56- Kimba
2:40
11- Tree House
3:00
2- US History
4-10- Another World
5-6-9- General Hospital
7-12- New Price is Right
11- Our Street
27- Movie- Greed in the Sun (1963) (Part 1)
38- Porky Pig and Friends
56- Speed Racer
3:30
2-11- Maggie and the Beautiful Machine
4-10- Return to Peyton Place
5-6-9- One Life to Live
7-12- Hollywood's Talking
38- F Troop
44- Carrascolendas
56- Batman
4:00
2-11-44- Sesame Street
4-10- Somerset
5- Big Valley
6- Love, American Style
7-12- Secret Storm
9- Jeff's Collie
38- Three Stooges
56- Lost in Space
4:30
4- Mike Douglas
6- The Saint
7-12- Merv Griffin
9- Uncle Gus
10- Movie- Escape from Zahrain (1962)
27- Bozo Presents
5:00
2-11-44- Mister Rogers Neighborhood
5- Perry Mason
27- Superman
38- Beverly Hillbillies
56- Flintstones
5:30
2-11-44- Electric Company
6- Hogan's Heroes
9- Timmy and Lassie
27- Gomer Pyle, USMC
38- Andy Griffith
56- Gilligan's Island
EVENING
6:00
2-11-44- Hodgepodge Lodge
4-5-6-7-9-10-12- News, weather (WBZ: Eyewitness News, WCVB: News 5, WTEV: NewsScope 6, WNAC: New England Tonight, WMUR: The News, WJAR: NewsWatch 10 and WPRI, On the Scene News)
27- Petticoat Junction
38- Wild, Wild West
56- Get Smart
6:30
2-44- Thirty Minutes with
5-6-9- ABC News
7-12- CBS News
11- Earthkeeping
27- Movie- Sea of Lost Ships (1954)
56- Star Trek
7:00
2- Lyons/McCormack: The Way it Was (WGBH News)
4-10- NBC News
5- To Tell The Truth
6- Parent Game
7-12- What's My Line
9- Movie- Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)
11- The State We're In
38- Hogan's Heroes
44- Man and His Motives
7:30
2-44- Where is the War on VD?
4- Starring the Editors
5- Five on Sports
6- The Adventurer
7- Let's Make A Deal
10- To Tell The Truth
11- A Coming of Age
12- Beat The Clock
38- I Dream of Jeannie
56- Dragnet
8:00
2-11- Special of the Week- "What You Don't Know Can Kill You" (health care situation in America)
4-10- Laugh-In
5-6- James Paul McCartney
7-12- Gunsmoke
27- Special- "Worcester Parks and Recreation Department
38- Beat the Clock
44- Antiques
56- It Takes a Thief
8:30
27- Thriller, Boris Karloff
38- Stump the Stars
44- Maggie and the Beautiful Machine
9:00
4-10- Movie- Judith (1966)
5-6-9- Movie- Red Line 7000 (1965)
7-12- Here's Lucy
38- The Saint
44- Catch 44
56- Movie- Blue Anger (1959)
9:30
2- Santos Making in Puerto Rico
7-12- Doris Day Show
11- Book Beat
27- Twilight Zone
44- Where in the War on VD
10:00
2- Changing Music
7-12- Bill Cosby Show
11-44- Martin Agronsky
27- News
38- Suspense Theater
10:30
2- Lenox Quartet
11-44- How Do Your Children Grow?- (Sign-Off Times for WGBH, WENH and WGBX, 11pm)
27- Mantrap (sign-off time for WSMW- 11:30pm)
11:00
4-5-6-7-9-10-12- News
38- Movie- The Destructors (1968) (sign-off time for WSBK, 12:37am)
56- Movie- Chicken Every Sunday (1949) (sign-off time for WKBG, 12:34am)
11:30
4-10- Tonight Show
5-6-9- Dick Cavett Show
7-12- Movie- Kid Rodelo (1966) (sign-off times for WNAC and WPRI, 1am)
1:00
4-5-6-10- News (sign-off times for WTEV and WJAR, 1:05am)
1:05
4- Movie- The Fleet's In (1942) (sign-off time for WBZ, 2:38am)
5- Medical Call (sign-off time for WCVB, 1:35am)
