Source: Boston Globe
RETRO BOSTON TV- NEW YEARS EVE 1965
Friday December 31, 1965
BOSTON
WGBH-TV 2 (NET)
5:30pm- Sign-on/What’s New
6pm- Youth Forum
6:30- Louis Lyons, news
6:45- Backgrounds
7pm- Neil MacNeil
7:15- Soviet Press This Week
7:30- Pathfinders
8pm- The Observing Eye
8:30- Master of Santiago
9:45- Congress of Strings 1962
10:30- Elliott Norton Reviews
11pm- Sign-Off
WBZ-TV 4 (NBC)
6:15- Operation Alphabet
6:45- Eyewitness News Daily Almanac
7am- The Today Show
9am- Contact with Bob Kennedy (Kennedy was a radio personality on WBZ Radio)
10am- Fractured Phrases
10:30- Concentration
11am- Morning Star
11:30- Paradise Bay
12pm- Eyewitness News (anchored by Jack Chase, Shelby Scott and Don Kent)
12:30- Mike Douglas Show
2pm- Days of Our Lives
2:30- The Doctors
3pm- Another World
3:30- You Don’t Say
4pm- The Match Game
4:30- Football- East/West Shrine Game- from San Francisco
7:30- Intertel- “Man For Others”
8:30- Orange Bowl Parade
9:30- Mr. Roberts
10pm- Man from U.N.C.L.E
11pm- Eyewitness News
11:30- Merv Griffin Show
1:00- News Report
1:15- Movie- Abbott and Costello meets Frankenstein (1948)
2:38am- Sign-Off
WHDH-TV 5 (CBS)
6am- Sunrise Semester
6:30- For Your Information
7am- Weather Report
7:05- CBS News, Mike Wallace
7:30- Captain Bob
8am- Captain Kangaroo
9am- Romper Room
9:30- For Women
9:45- We Believe
10am- I Love Lucy
10:30- The McCoys
11am- Andy of Mayberry
11:30- Dick Van Dyke Show
12pm- Love of Life
12:30- Search for Tomorrow
12:45- Guiding Light
1pm- P.D.Q
1:30- As The World Turns
2pm- Password
2:30- House Party
3pm- To Tell The Truth
3:25- CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
3:30- Edge of Night
4pm- Secret Storm
4:30- Joe Kelly’s Almanac
5pm- Bozo the Clown
6pm- Dateline Boston
6:25- WHDH-TV News
7pm- CBS News with Walter Cronkite
7:30- Wild, Wild West
8:30- Hogan’s Heroes
9pm- Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C
9:30- The Smothers Brothers Show
10pm- Trials of O’Brien
11pm- WHDH-TV News
11:30- The Tonight Show (with Johnny Carson)
1am- News Report
1:10- Highway Patrol
1:40- Sign-Off
WNAC-TV 7 (ABC)
6:30- Understanding our World
7am- Three Stooges/Major Mudd
9am- Donna Reed Show
9:30- Girl Talk
10am- The Nurses
10:30- One Step Beyond
11am- Supermarket Sweep
11:30- The Dating Game
12pm- Hawaiian Eye
1pm- Ben Casey
2pm- College Football- Gator Bowl from Jacksonville, FL- Georgia Tech .vs. Texas Tech- (Georgia Tech won 31-21)
5pm- Dennis The Menace
5:30- Three Stooges
6pm- News, Weather
6:15- ABC News (Peter Jennings)
6:30- The Rifleman
7pm- Littlest Hobo
7:30- The Flintstones
8pm- Tammy
8:30- Addams Family
9pm- Honey West
9:30- Farmer’s Daughter
10pm- Movie- My Cousin Rachel (1952)
11:30- Guy Lombardo Show
1am- Sign-Off
WIHS-TV 38 (Ind./NBC) (now WSBK UPN 38)
10:30- Ecumenical Council Discussion
12pm- Jeopardy! (NBC)
12:30- Let’s Play Post Office (NBC)
12:55- NBC News
1pm- Favorite Story
1:30- Let’s Make A Deal (NBC)
2pm- Film Feature
3pm- Movie- You Said a Mouthful (1932)
4:30- Children’s Hour
5:15- Ann Sothern Show
5:45- News (Victor Best)
6pm- Lloyd Thaxton Show
7pm- Movie- Heart of the North (1938)
8:30- Roller Skating
10pm- News (with John Parke)
10:15- Movie- Big Sleep (1946)
12:09- Sign-Off
PROVIDENCE/NEW BEDFORD
WTEV-TV 6 (ABC)
6:45- News (Truman Taylor)
7am- B’wana Don
7:30- Funtime
8am- Abbott and Costello
8:30- Cartoon Time
8:45- News (Truman Taylor)
9am- Woman,(Athena Parker)
9:30- Community (Bob Bassett)
9:58- News (Truman Taylor)
10am- Where The Action is
10:30- Never Too Young
11am- Supermarket Sweep
11:30- Dating Game
12pm- Donna Reed Show
12:30- Father Knows Best
1pm- Ben Casey
2pm- College Football- Gator Bowl from Jacksonville, FL- Georgia Tech .vs. Texas Tech- (Georgia Tech won 31-21)
5pm- Lloyd Thaxton Show
6pm- ABC News (Peter Jennings)
6:15- News
6:30- Soupy Sales
7pm- The Rifleman
7:30- The Flintstones
8pm- Tammy
8:30- Addams Family
9pm- Honey West
9:30- Farmer’s Daughter
10pm- Jimmy Dean Show
11pm- News
11:30- Guy Lombardo Show
1am- Sign-Off
WJAR-TV 10 (NBC)
6:30- TV Classroom
7am- The Today Show
9am- Leave It To Beaver
9:30- World Around Us
10am- Fractured Phrases
10:30- Concentration
11am- Morning Star
11:30- Paradise Bay
12pm- Jeopardy!
12:30- Let’s Play Post Office
1pm- Talk of The Town
1:30- Let’s Make A Deal
2pm- Days of Our Lives
2:30- The Doctors
3pm- Another World
3:30- You Don’t Say
4pm- The Match Game
4:30- Football- East/West Shrine Game- from San Francisco
7:30- Movie- Killers of Kilmanjaro (1959)
9:30- Mr. Roberts
10pm- Man From U.N.C.L.E
11pm- News
11:15- The Tonight Show
1am- Sign-Off
WPRO-TV 12 (CBS)
6:30- Sunrise Semester
7am- Three Stooges, Little Rascals, Popeye
7:45- King and Odie
8am- Captain Kangaroo
9am- Romper Room
9:30- Dialing for Dollars
10:30- Mike Douglas Show
11:30- Dick Van Dyke Show
12pm- Love of Life
12:30- Search for Tomorrow
1pm- Girl Talk
1:30- As The World Turns
2pm- Password
2:30- House Party
3pm- To Tell The Truth
3:25- CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
3:30- Edge of Night
4pm- Stingray-Supercar
4:30- Magilla Gorilla
5pm- Sea Hunt and Tales of the Vikings
6pm- Newsbeat
6:30- CBS News
7pm- Governor Chafee and Congressman John Fogarty
7:30- Wild, Wild West
8:30- Hogan’s Heroes
9pm- Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C
9:30- The Smothers Brothers Show
10pm- Trials of O’Brien
11pm- News
11:20- Movie- Holiday Inn (1942)
12:50- Sign-Off
RETRO BOSTON TV- NEW YEARS EVE 1965
Friday December 31, 1965
BOSTON
WGBH-TV 2 (NET)
5:30pm- Sign-on/What’s New
6pm- Youth Forum
6:30- Louis Lyons, news
6:45- Backgrounds
7pm- Neil MacNeil
7:15- Soviet Press This Week
7:30- Pathfinders
8pm- The Observing Eye
8:30- Master of Santiago
9:45- Congress of Strings 1962
10:30- Elliott Norton Reviews
11pm- Sign-Off
WBZ-TV 4 (NBC)
6:15- Operation Alphabet
6:45- Eyewitness News Daily Almanac
7am- The Today Show
9am- Contact with Bob Kennedy (Kennedy was a radio personality on WBZ Radio)
10am- Fractured Phrases
10:30- Concentration
11am- Morning Star
11:30- Paradise Bay
12pm- Eyewitness News (anchored by Jack Chase, Shelby Scott and Don Kent)
12:30- Mike Douglas Show
2pm- Days of Our Lives
2:30- The Doctors
3pm- Another World
3:30- You Don’t Say
4pm- The Match Game
4:30- Football- East/West Shrine Game- from San Francisco
7:30- Intertel- “Man For Others”
8:30- Orange Bowl Parade
9:30- Mr. Roberts
10pm- Man from U.N.C.L.E
11pm- Eyewitness News
11:30- Merv Griffin Show
1:00- News Report
1:15- Movie- Abbott and Costello meets Frankenstein (1948)
2:38am- Sign-Off
WHDH-TV 5 (CBS)
6am- Sunrise Semester
6:30- For Your Information
7am- Weather Report
7:05- CBS News, Mike Wallace
7:30- Captain Bob
8am- Captain Kangaroo
9am- Romper Room
9:30- For Women
9:45- We Believe
10am- I Love Lucy
10:30- The McCoys
11am- Andy of Mayberry
11:30- Dick Van Dyke Show
12pm- Love of Life
12:30- Search for Tomorrow
12:45- Guiding Light
1pm- P.D.Q
1:30- As The World Turns
2pm- Password
2:30- House Party
3pm- To Tell The Truth
3:25- CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
3:30- Edge of Night
4pm- Secret Storm
4:30- Joe Kelly’s Almanac
5pm- Bozo the Clown
6pm- Dateline Boston
6:25- WHDH-TV News
7pm- CBS News with Walter Cronkite
7:30- Wild, Wild West
8:30- Hogan’s Heroes
9pm- Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C
9:30- The Smothers Brothers Show
10pm- Trials of O’Brien
11pm- WHDH-TV News
11:30- The Tonight Show (with Johnny Carson)
1am- News Report
1:10- Highway Patrol
1:40- Sign-Off
WNAC-TV 7 (ABC)
6:30- Understanding our World
7am- Three Stooges/Major Mudd
9am- Donna Reed Show
9:30- Girl Talk
10am- The Nurses
10:30- One Step Beyond
11am- Supermarket Sweep
11:30- The Dating Game
12pm- Hawaiian Eye
1pm- Ben Casey
2pm- College Football- Gator Bowl from Jacksonville, FL- Georgia Tech .vs. Texas Tech- (Georgia Tech won 31-21)
5pm- Dennis The Menace
5:30- Three Stooges
6pm- News, Weather
6:15- ABC News (Peter Jennings)
6:30- The Rifleman
7pm- Littlest Hobo
7:30- The Flintstones
8pm- Tammy
8:30- Addams Family
9pm- Honey West
9:30- Farmer’s Daughter
10pm- Movie- My Cousin Rachel (1952)
11:30- Guy Lombardo Show
1am- Sign-Off
WIHS-TV 38 (Ind./NBC) (now WSBK UPN 38)
10:30- Ecumenical Council Discussion
12pm- Jeopardy! (NBC)
12:30- Let’s Play Post Office (NBC)
12:55- NBC News
1pm- Favorite Story
1:30- Let’s Make A Deal (NBC)
2pm- Film Feature
3pm- Movie- You Said a Mouthful (1932)
4:30- Children’s Hour
5:15- Ann Sothern Show
5:45- News (Victor Best)
6pm- Lloyd Thaxton Show
7pm- Movie- Heart of the North (1938)
8:30- Roller Skating
10pm- News (with John Parke)
10:15- Movie- Big Sleep (1946)
12:09- Sign-Off
PROVIDENCE/NEW BEDFORD
WTEV-TV 6 (ABC)
6:45- News (Truman Taylor)
7am- B’wana Don
7:30- Funtime
8am- Abbott and Costello
8:30- Cartoon Time
8:45- News (Truman Taylor)
9am- Woman,(Athena Parker)
9:30- Community (Bob Bassett)
9:58- News (Truman Taylor)
10am- Where The Action is
10:30- Never Too Young
11am- Supermarket Sweep
11:30- Dating Game
12pm- Donna Reed Show
12:30- Father Knows Best
1pm- Ben Casey
2pm- College Football- Gator Bowl from Jacksonville, FL- Georgia Tech .vs. Texas Tech- (Georgia Tech won 31-21)
5pm- Lloyd Thaxton Show
6pm- ABC News (Peter Jennings)
6:15- News
6:30- Soupy Sales
7pm- The Rifleman
7:30- The Flintstones
8pm- Tammy
8:30- Addams Family
9pm- Honey West
9:30- Farmer’s Daughter
10pm- Jimmy Dean Show
11pm- News
11:30- Guy Lombardo Show
1am- Sign-Off
WJAR-TV 10 (NBC)
6:30- TV Classroom
7am- The Today Show
9am- Leave It To Beaver
9:30- World Around Us
10am- Fractured Phrases
10:30- Concentration
11am- Morning Star
11:30- Paradise Bay
12pm- Jeopardy!
12:30- Let’s Play Post Office
1pm- Talk of The Town
1:30- Let’s Make A Deal
2pm- Days of Our Lives
2:30- The Doctors
3pm- Another World
3:30- You Don’t Say
4pm- The Match Game
4:30- Football- East/West Shrine Game- from San Francisco
7:30- Movie- Killers of Kilmanjaro (1959)
9:30- Mr. Roberts
10pm- Man From U.N.C.L.E
11pm- News
11:15- The Tonight Show
1am- Sign-Off
WPRO-TV 12 (CBS)
6:30- Sunrise Semester
7am- Three Stooges, Little Rascals, Popeye
7:45- King and Odie
8am- Captain Kangaroo
9am- Romper Room
9:30- Dialing for Dollars
10:30- Mike Douglas Show
11:30- Dick Van Dyke Show
12pm- Love of Life
12:30- Search for Tomorrow
1pm- Girl Talk
1:30- As The World Turns
2pm- Password
2:30- House Party
3pm- To Tell The Truth
3:25- CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
3:30- Edge of Night
4pm- Stingray-Supercar
4:30- Magilla Gorilla
5pm- Sea Hunt and Tales of the Vikings
6pm- Newsbeat
6:30- CBS News
7pm- Governor Chafee and Congressman John Fogarty
7:30- Wild, Wild West
8:30- Hogan’s Heroes
9pm- Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C
9:30- The Smothers Brothers Show
10pm- Trials of O’Brien
11pm- News
11:20- Movie- Holiday Inn (1942)
12:50- Sign-Off