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RETRO BOSTON TV- PATRIOTS DAY 1980

source: Boston Globe

RETRO BOSTON TV- PATRIOTS DAY 1980

Monday April 21, 1980

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.) Boston
44 WGBX-TV (PBS) Boston
56 WLVI-TV (Ind.) Boston
68 WQTV-TV (Ind.) Boston

MORNING

7:00
4-10- Today
5-9-12- Good Morning America
6- Bullwinkle
7- Monday Morning
25- 700 Club
38- Three Stooges
56- Tom and Jerry
68- PTL Club

7:30
6- Dudley Do-Right
56- Flintstones

8:00
6-7- Captain Kangaroo
38- Star Blazers
56- Gilligan's Island

8:30
25- Fun World
27- Abbott and Costello
38- Bugs Bunny/Porky Pig
56- Woody Woodpecker

9:00
2- Earth and Man
4- Play the Percentages
5- Good Day!
6- One Day At A Time
7- Dinah and Friends
9- PTL Club
10- Donahue
12- Mike Douglas
25- Lassie
27- Abbott and Costello
38- Tom Larson
56- New Zoo Revue
68- News

9:30
4- Chain Reaction
6- Match Game
25- Leave it to Beaver
27- Cooking with Bernard
68- Bozo's Big Top

10:00
4-10- Card Sharks
6-7- The Jeffersons
9- Donahue
25- Movie- Trade Winds (1936)
27- PTL Club
38- Ironside
56- De Todo Un Poco

10:30
4-10- Hollywood Squares
5- Donahue
6- Celebrity Whew!
7- Tic Tac Dough
12- $20,000 Pyramid
56- New England Today

11:00
2- Electric Company
4-10- High Rollers
6-38- Baseball- Chicago White Sox @ Boston Red Sox- (Red Sox won 9-8)
7- The Price is Right
9-12- Laverne and Shirley
56- Family Affair

11:30
2-11- Sesame Street
4- Pre-Marathon Special
5-9-12- Family Feud
10- Wheel of Fortune
56- That Girl

11:50
4-7- Marathon '80- Live coverage of the Marathon from Hopkinton
25- News

AFTERNOON
12:00
5-10-12- News
9- $20,000 Pyramid
25- Gomer Pyle
27- Mass
56- Lucy Show

12:25
4- News

12:30
2- Over Easy
4- Sharon King
5-9-12- Ryan's Hope
7- Search for Tomorrow
10- Mary Tyler Moore
25- McHale's Navy
27- Movie- Stage Struck (1957)
56- Password Plus (from NBC)

1:00
2- Dick Cavett
5-9-12- All My Children
7- Young and The Restless
10- Days of Our Lives
25- Life of Riles
56- Partridge Family

1:30
2- Austin City Limits
4- Days of our Lives
6- Adam-12
25- Room 222
56- Banana Splits

1:45
38- Three Stooges

2:00
5-9-12- One Life To Live
6- As The World Turns
7- Marathon '80- The Finish of the Boston Marathon
10- The Doctors
25- Bullwinkle
38- Chico and the Man
56- Yogi Bear

2:30
2- Sesame Street
4-10- Another World
25- Rocket Robinhood
27- Medic
38- Andy Griffith
56- Casper, the Friendly Ghost

3:00
5-9-12- General Hospital
6-7- Guiding Light
25- Spiderman
27- Thje FBI
38- Beverly Hillbillies
56- Mighty Mouse

3:30
2- Villa Alegre
25- Krofft Superstars
38- I Dream of Jeannie
56- Woody Woodpecker
68- Gone but Not Forgotten

4:00
2-11- Sesame Street
4- Mike DOuglas
5- Rhoda
6- Movie- These Thousand Hills (1959)
7- Joker's Wild
9- Edge of Night
10-56- Tom and Jerry
12- Merv Griffin
25- Superman
27- Chico and the Man
38- Bewitched
68- Movie- Street Scene (1931)

4:30
5- Face the Music
7- Kung Fu
9- Gilligan's Island
10- Brady Bunch
25- Movie- The Royal African Rifles (1953)
27- Porky Pig
38- Bewitched
56- Flintstones

5:00
2- Mister Rogers
4- Match Game
5- Carol Burnett and Friends
9- Bonanza
10- Mary Tyler Moore
11- Mister Rogers
27- Bugs Bunny
38- Emergency!
44- Rebop
56- Brady Bunch

5:30
2- Electric Company
4- News
5- All in the Family
7- Welcome Back Kotter
10- Happy Days Again
11- Over Easy
12- M*A*S*H
27- Abbott and Costello
44- Villa Allegre
56- Brady Bunch

EVENING
6:00
2- Zoom
4-5-6-7-9-10-11-12- News
25- Get Smart
27- Gong Show
38- M*A*S*H
44- French Chef
56- Happy Days Again
68- Boston...Live!

6:30
2- Doctor Who
6- CBS News
9-12 ABC News
10- NBC News
11- Cong. Jim Siegelman
25- Best of Jackie Gleason
27- Candid Camera
38- Bob Newhart
44- Over Easy
56- Good Times

7:00
2-11- MacNeil/Lehrer Report
4- NBC News
5- ABC News
6- News
7- CBS News
9- To Be Announced
10- PM Magazine
12- Newlywed Game
25- Rockford Files
27- Kojak
38- M*A*S*H
44- DIck Cavett
56- Sanford and Son

7:30
2- Wild, Wild World of Animals
4- Evening Magazine
5- Park Street Under
6- $1.98 Beauty Show
7- Newlywed Game
9- Wild Kingdom
10- Tic Tac Dough
11- Dick Cavett
12- Cross-Wits
38- Odd Couple
44- MacNeil/Lehrer Report
56- Benny Hill

8:00
2-11 James Michener's World
4-10- Little House on the Prairie
5-9-12- That's Incredible
6-7- WKRP in Cincinnati
25- Bonanza
27- Billy Graham Documentary
38- Stanley Cup Hockey Playoffs- Game 4 of the 1980 Adams Finals- Boston Bruins @ New York Islanders (Bruins win 4-3 in overtime)
44- OPnce Upon A Classic
56- Movie- The Scalphunters (1968)

8:30
6-7- Stockard Channing Show

9:00
2-11- American Short Story- "The Blue Hotel"
4-10- Mvoie- The Great Cash Giveaway (1980)
5-9- Movie- Waikiki (1980)
6-7- M*A*S*H
12- Steve and Eydie
25- 700 Club
27- Princess
44- Advocates in Brief

9:30
6-7- Flo
27- Catholic Connection
44- The Americans

10:00
2-11- The Boston Marathon 1980
6-7- Lou Grant
12-56- Billy Graham
27- News
44- Dick Cavett

10:30
25- Rock Church Proclaims
27- Inside Worcester
38- Boston Bruins Wrap-Up
44- MacNeil/Lehrer Report

11:00
2- Sports Nightly
4-5-6-7-9-10-11-12- News
27- Fernwood Tonight
38- Maude
44- Captioned ABC news (both WENH and WGBX signed-off at 11:30pm)
56- Prisoner: Cell Block H

11:30
2- That's It In Sports- (WGBH would sign-off at midnight)
4-10- Tonight Show
5-9- ABC News Nightline
6-7- Harry O
12- M*A*S*H
25- Big Valley
27- Movie- Lady of Burlesque (1943)
38- Dave Allen at Large
56- Best of Groucho

12:00
12- ABC News
38- Phil Silvers

12:20
5-9-12- Police Woman

12:30
38- Our Miss Brooks

12:40
6-7- McCloud

1:00
4-10- Tomorrow

1:30
27- News

1:35
5- Nightshift
9- News

2:00
4-10- News
 
I thought that WBZ-4 began it's annual live wire-to-wire broadcasts of the Boston Marathon in 1980. I remember watching it, and if my memory serves me correct, Tony Pepper and Roger Twibell were co-hosts.

Maybe WBZ's decision to do live wire-to-wire coverage in 1980 was a last-minute decision (maybe on a few days' notice, but I'm surprised that the Boston Globe's TV listings weren't updated to reflect the extended coverage). I think WBZ's first TV news copter went into service in the early Spring of 1980, which would have allowed it to both shoot footage from over the course, and to relay microwave signals from a truck travelling with the lead runner back to the station.
 
classictvfan said:
What exactly is Patriot's Day?
A Massachusetts state holiday, marking the battles of Lexington and Concord, Paul Revere's ride ... you know, the beginnings of the American Revolution.
 
DoctorBear said:
classictvfan said:
What exactly is Patriot's Day?
A Massachusetts state holiday, marking the battles of Lexington and Concord, Paul Revere's ride ... you know, the beginnings of the American Revolution.

It's a holiday which is celebrated in just two states - Massachusetts and Maine, the latter which used to be the larger part of Massachusetts. (I can't believe that Mass. once bordered Canada at one time!)
 
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