source: Boston Globe
RETRO BOSTON TV- Monday April 16, 1979
CHANNEL LINEUP
2 WGBH-TV (PBS) Boston
4 WBZ-TV (NBC) Boston
5 WCVB-TV (ABC) Boston
6 WTEV-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./CBS) Boston
44 WGBX-TV (PBS) Boston
56 WLVI-TV (Ind./NBC) Boston
68 WQTV-TV (Ind.) Boston
MORNING
8:00
4-10- Today (from 7am)
5-12- Good Morning America
6-7- Captain Kangaroo
9- Good Morning America
38- Three Stooges
56- Gilligan's Island
8:30
25- Lassie
27- Directors Playhouse
38- Romper Room
56- Flintstone & Friends
9:00
4- The Doctors
5- Good Day!
6- Family Affair
7- Dinah!
9- PTL Club
10- Donahue
12- Mike Douglas
25- Big Valley
27- Maude
38- Tom Larson
56- New Zoo Revue
68- USTV News
9:30
4- Hollywood Squares
6- Match Game '79
27- Cooking with Bernard
56- Bozo's Big Top
10:00
4- Bumblebunkers
6- All in the Family
9- Donahue
10- Card Sharks
25- Movie- Our Very Own (1950)
27- PTL Club
38- Ironside
56- De Todo Un Poco
10:30
4-10- All-Star Secrets
5- Donahue
6-7- The Price is Right
12- $20,000 Pyramid
56- New England Today
11:00
2- Electric Company
4-10- High Rollers
9-12- Laverne and Shirley
38- Baseball- Boston Red Sox .vs. Cleveland Indians from Fenway Park (Indians won 4-3)
56- That Girl
11:30
2- Sesame Street
4-10- Wheel of Fortune
5- Laverne and Shirley
6-7- Love of Life
9-12- Family Feud
56- Lucy Show
11:55
7- Boston Marathon (They're off an Running in Hopkinton)
AFTERNOON
12:00
4-5-10-12- News
6- The Young and the Restless
9- $20,000 Pyramid
25- Doris Day
27- Daily Mass
56- Password Plus (from NBC)
12:10
7- Young and The Restless (Joined in Progress)
12:30
4- Woman '79
5-9-12- Ryan's Hope
6- Search For Tomorrow
7- Merv Griffin
10-56 Hollywood Squares
25- McHale's Navy
27- Movie- Hell in Korea (1956)
1:00
5-9-12- All My Children
6- Adam-12
10- Days of Our Lives
25- Pete and Gladys
56- Partridge Family
1:30
4- Days of Our Lives
6-7- As The World Turns
25- Room 222
56- Banana Splits
2:00
5-9-12- One Life To Live
7- Boston Marathon- Down to the Wire in the Pru
10- The Doctors
25- Ozzie and Harriet
38- Andy Griffith
56- Yogi Bear
2:30
2- Dick Cavett
4-10- Another World
6-7- Guiding Light
25- Father Knows Best
27- Hal Roach Presents
38- Green Acres
56- Casper The Ghost
3:00
2- The Club
5-9-12- General Hospital
11- Nova
25- Superman
27- Bugs Bunny/Porky Pig
38- Beverly Hillbillies
56- Mighty Mouse
3:30
2- Over Easy
6-38- M*A*S*H
7- Tic Tac Dough
25- Spiderman
56- Woody Woodpecker
4:00
2-11- Sesame Street
4- Mike Douglas
5- Concentration
6- Bullwinkle
7- Dating Game
9- Edge of Night
10- Bewitched
12- Merv Griffin
25- Krofft Superstars
27- The FBI
38- All in The Family
56- Tom and Jerry
4:30
5- Family Feud (this normally aired at 11:30 on ABC, but WCVB chose to air this on a day basis)
6- The Munsters
7- Streets of San Francisco
9- Gilligan's Island
10- Carol Burnett and Friends
25- Leave it to Beaver
38- Emergency One
56- Flintstones
5:00
2-11- Mister Rogers
5- Gong Show
6- Wait Till Father Goes Home
9- Bonanza
10- Mary Tyler Moore Show
25- Gomer Pyle
27- Superman
44- Hodgepodge Lodge
56- Brady Bunch
68- City Lights
5:30
2- Electric Company
4- First 4 News
5- Carol Burnett & Friends
6- Dick Van Dyke
7-68- News
10- Odd Couple
11- Over Easy
12- Gong Show
25- Rat Patrol
27- UFO
38- Hogan's Heroes
44- Villa Allegre
EVENING
6:00
2- Sesame Street
4-5-6-9-10-11-12- News
25- Get Smart
38- My Three Sons
44- Studio One
56- Make Me Lauigh
68- Success
6:30
6-7- CBS News
9-12- ABC News
10- NBC News
11- Every Penny County
25- Bionic Woman
27- Candid Camera
38- Adam-12
44- The Growing Years
56- I Love Lucy
68- Melting Pot
7:00
2- Dr. Who
4- NBC News
5- ABC News
6- Joker's Wild
7- Candlepins For Cash
9- Courtship of Eddie's Father
10- Tic Tac Dough
11- MacNeil/Lehrer Report
12- Newlywed Game
27- $25,000 Pyramid
38- Odd Couple
44- There's No Place
56- Mary Tyler Moore
7:30
2- Wild World of Animals
4- Evening Magazine
5- Name That Tune
6- The Muppets
7- Newlywed Game
9- Bonkers
10- $1.98 Beauty Show
11- Dick Cavett
12- Crosswits
25- Gomer Pyle
27- Abbott and Costello
38- Bruins Stanley Cup Hockey- Game 1 of the Adams Semifinals- Pittsburgh Penguins @ Boston Bruins- (Bruins won 6-2)
44- MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00
2-11- The Americans
4-10- Little House on The Prairie
5-9- Salvage 1
6-7- National Collegiate Cheerleading Championships
11- The Americans
12-25- Jack Van Impe
27- Movie- The Fireball (1950)
44- The Advocates
56- Movie- From the Terrace (1960)
9:00
2- Nova
4-10- Movie- Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
5-9-12- How The West Was Won
11- Previn & The Pittsburgh
25- 700 Club
9:30
6-7- M*A*S*H
27- Catholic Connection
10:00
2-11- Boston Marathon (Recap of the race run earlier today) (WENH would sign-off at 11pm)
27- News
44- Frankie and Johnny
10:30
25- Life in the Spirit
27- Inside Worcester
38- Stanley Cup Wrap-Up
44- Dick Cavett Show
11:00
2- The Club
4-5-6-7-9-10-12- News
25- Dragnet
27- Maude
38- The Honeymooners
44- Captioned ABC News (both WGBH and WGBX would sign-off at 11:30pm)
56- Benny Hill
11:30
4-10- Tonight Show (Martin Mull, guest host)
5-9-12- Movie- Lawrence of Arabia (Part 1) (1962)
6-7- Rockford Files
25- Life of Riley
27- Movie- The Castle (1968)
38- The Rifleman
56- Love American Style
12:30
6-7- McMillan and Wife
1:00
4-10- Tomorrow
RETRO BOSTON TV- Monday April 16, 1979
CHANNEL LINEUP
2 WGBH-TV (PBS) Boston
4 WBZ-TV (NBC) Boston
5 WCVB-TV (ABC) Boston
6 WTEV-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./CBS) Boston
44 WGBX-TV (PBS) Boston
56 WLVI-TV (Ind./NBC) Boston
68 WQTV-TV (Ind.) Boston
MORNING
8:00
4-10- Today (from 7am)
5-12- Good Morning America
6-7- Captain Kangaroo
9- Good Morning America
38- Three Stooges
56- Gilligan's Island
8:30
25- Lassie
27- Directors Playhouse
38- Romper Room
56- Flintstone & Friends
9:00
4- The Doctors
5- Good Day!
6- Family Affair
7- Dinah!
9- PTL Club
10- Donahue
12- Mike Douglas
25- Big Valley
27- Maude
38- Tom Larson
56- New Zoo Revue
68- USTV News
9:30
4- Hollywood Squares
6- Match Game '79
27- Cooking with Bernard
56- Bozo's Big Top
10:00
4- Bumblebunkers
6- All in the Family
9- Donahue
10- Card Sharks
25- Movie- Our Very Own (1950)
27- PTL Club
38- Ironside
56- De Todo Un Poco
10:30
4-10- All-Star Secrets
5- Donahue
6-7- The Price is Right
12- $20,000 Pyramid
56- New England Today
11:00
2- Electric Company
4-10- High Rollers
9-12- Laverne and Shirley
38- Baseball- Boston Red Sox .vs. Cleveland Indians from Fenway Park (Indians won 4-3)
56- That Girl
11:30
2- Sesame Street
4-10- Wheel of Fortune
5- Laverne and Shirley
6-7- Love of Life
9-12- Family Feud
56- Lucy Show
11:55
7- Boston Marathon (They're off an Running in Hopkinton)
AFTERNOON
12:00
4-5-10-12- News
6- The Young and the Restless
9- $20,000 Pyramid
25- Doris Day
27- Daily Mass
56- Password Plus (from NBC)
12:10
7- Young and The Restless (Joined in Progress)
12:30
4- Woman '79
5-9-12- Ryan's Hope
6- Search For Tomorrow
7- Merv Griffin
10-56 Hollywood Squares
25- McHale's Navy
27- Movie- Hell in Korea (1956)
1:00
5-9-12- All My Children
6- Adam-12
10- Days of Our Lives
25- Pete and Gladys
56- Partridge Family
1:30
4- Days of Our Lives
6-7- As The World Turns
25- Room 222
56- Banana Splits
2:00
5-9-12- One Life To Live
7- Boston Marathon- Down to the Wire in the Pru
10- The Doctors
25- Ozzie and Harriet
38- Andy Griffith
56- Yogi Bear
2:30
2- Dick Cavett
4-10- Another World
6-7- Guiding Light
25- Father Knows Best
27- Hal Roach Presents
38- Green Acres
56- Casper The Ghost
3:00
2- The Club
5-9-12- General Hospital
11- Nova
25- Superman
27- Bugs Bunny/Porky Pig
38- Beverly Hillbillies
56- Mighty Mouse
3:30
2- Over Easy
6-38- M*A*S*H
7- Tic Tac Dough
25- Spiderman
56- Woody Woodpecker
4:00
2-11- Sesame Street
4- Mike Douglas
5- Concentration
6- Bullwinkle
7- Dating Game
9- Edge of Night
10- Bewitched
12- Merv Griffin
25- Krofft Superstars
27- The FBI
38- All in The Family
56- Tom and Jerry
4:30
5- Family Feud (this normally aired at 11:30 on ABC, but WCVB chose to air this on a day basis)
6- The Munsters
7- Streets of San Francisco
9- Gilligan's Island
10- Carol Burnett and Friends
25- Leave it to Beaver
38- Emergency One
56- Flintstones
5:00
2-11- Mister Rogers
5- Gong Show
6- Wait Till Father Goes Home
9- Bonanza
10- Mary Tyler Moore Show
25- Gomer Pyle
27- Superman
44- Hodgepodge Lodge
56- Brady Bunch
68- City Lights
5:30
2- Electric Company
4- First 4 News
5- Carol Burnett & Friends
6- Dick Van Dyke
7-68- News
10- Odd Couple
11- Over Easy
12- Gong Show
25- Rat Patrol
27- UFO
38- Hogan's Heroes
44- Villa Allegre
EVENING
6:00
2- Sesame Street
4-5-6-9-10-11-12- News
25- Get Smart
38- My Three Sons
44- Studio One
56- Make Me Lauigh
68- Success
6:30
6-7- CBS News
9-12- ABC News
10- NBC News
11- Every Penny County
25- Bionic Woman
27- Candid Camera
38- Adam-12
44- The Growing Years
56- I Love Lucy
68- Melting Pot
7:00
2- Dr. Who
4- NBC News
5- ABC News
6- Joker's Wild
7- Candlepins For Cash
9- Courtship of Eddie's Father
10- Tic Tac Dough
11- MacNeil/Lehrer Report
12- Newlywed Game
27- $25,000 Pyramid
38- Odd Couple
44- There's No Place
56- Mary Tyler Moore
7:30
2- Wild World of Animals
4- Evening Magazine
5- Name That Tune
6- The Muppets
7- Newlywed Game
9- Bonkers
10- $1.98 Beauty Show
11- Dick Cavett
12- Crosswits
25- Gomer Pyle
27- Abbott and Costello
38- Bruins Stanley Cup Hockey- Game 1 of the Adams Semifinals- Pittsburgh Penguins @ Boston Bruins- (Bruins won 6-2)
44- MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00
2-11- The Americans
4-10- Little House on The Prairie
5-9- Salvage 1
6-7- National Collegiate Cheerleading Championships
11- The Americans
12-25- Jack Van Impe
27- Movie- The Fireball (1950)
44- The Advocates
56- Movie- From the Terrace (1960)
9:00
2- Nova
4-10- Movie- Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
5-9-12- How The West Was Won
11- Previn & The Pittsburgh
25- 700 Club
9:30
6-7- M*A*S*H
27- Catholic Connection
10:00
2-11- Boston Marathon (Recap of the race run earlier today) (WENH would sign-off at 11pm)
27- News
44- Frankie and Johnny
10:30
25- Life in the Spirit
27- Inside Worcester
38- Stanley Cup Wrap-Up
44- Dick Cavett Show
11:00
2- The Club
4-5-6-7-9-10-12- News
25- Dragnet
27- Maude
38- The Honeymooners
44- Captioned ABC News (both WGBH and WGBX would sign-off at 11:30pm)
56- Benny Hill
11:30
4-10- Tonight Show (Martin Mull, guest host)
5-9-12- Movie- Lawrence of Arabia (Part 1) (1962)
6-7- Rockford Files
25- Life of Riley
27- Movie- The Castle (1968)
38- The Rifleman
56- Love American Style
12:30
6-7- McMillan and Wife
1:00
4-10- Tomorrow