source: The Boston Globe
RETRO BOSTON TV- THANKSGIVING 1970
Thursday November 26, 1970
CHANNEL LINEUP
2 WGBH-TV (NET) Boston
4 WBZ-TV (NBC) Boston
5 WHDH-TV (CBS) Boston
6 WTEV-TV (ABC) New Bedford/Providence
7 WNAC-TV (ABC) Boston
9 WMUR-TV (ABC) Manchester, NH
10 WJAR-TV (NBC) Providence
11 WENH-TV (NET) Durham, NH
12 WPRI-TV (CBS) Providence
27 WSMW-TV (Ind.) Worcester
38 WSBK-TV (Ind.) Boston
44 WGBX-TV (NET) Boston
56 WKBG-TV (Ind.) Boston
MORNING
6:00
5- Sunrise Semester
6:10
7- Farm and Market Report
6:15
4- Sign-on Seminar
7- Understanding Our World
6:25
10- TV Classroom
12- Faith for Today
6:30
5- N.E Farmer
6:45
4- Daily Almanac
5- We Believe
6-7- News
6:55
10- News
12- Jobs are Waiting
7:00
4-10- Today Show
5-12- CBS News (John Hart)
6- Bozo Show
7- Major Mudd
8:00
5-12- Captain Kangaroo
6- Community
8:30
6- Jack LaLanne Show
10- Movie- March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934)
8:45
6- News
9:00
4- Macy's Pre-Parade
5- Romper Room
6- Funtime
7- Virginia Graham Show
10- David Frost Show
12- Thanksgiving Parade Jubilee
9:30
5- Bless This House
6- Romper Room
7- Ed Miller, Speak Out
10:00
2- Sesame Street
4-10- Macy's Thanksgiving Parade
5- Thanksgiving Parade Jubilee
6- The Movie Game
10:30
6- Mike Douglas Show
7- Galloping Gourmet
9- Western Theater
10:55
38- News
11:00
7- Bewitched
9- Smokey Bear
38- Wild Cargo
11:15
56- At Your Service
11:30
6-7-9- That Girl
38- Jack LaLanne Show
56- Captain Boston
11:50
38- Fashions in Sewing
AFTERNOON
12:00
2- Misterogers' Neighborhood
4-10- NFL Football- Oakland Raiders @ Detroit Lions
5-12- A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court
6-9- Bewitched
7- Candid Camera
38- Movie- The Babe Ruth Story (1948)
12:30
4- Mike Douglas Show
6-7-9- A World Apart
1:00
6-7-9- All My Children
11- Music Makers of the Blue Ridge
56- Movie- Gulliver's Travels (1939)
1:30
5-12- As The World Turns
6-7-9- Let's Make A Deal
2:00
5-12- Love is a Many Splendored Thing
6-9- Newlywed Game
7- Special- The Daydreamer
11- John Phillip Souza- The March King
38- Rawhide
2:30
5-12- Guiding Light
6-7-9- The Dating Game
56- Beat The Clock
3:00
2- Circuit Analysis
4-10- Mouse on the Mayflower
5-12- NFL Today
6-9- General Hospital
11- The Advocates
27- Kids Korner
38- MGM Cartoons
56- Kimba
3:30
5-12- NFL Football- Green Bay Packers @ Dallas Cowboys
6-9- One Life to Live
27- Bozo's Big Top
38- Porky Pig
56- Bob Glover Show
4:00
2-11-44- Sesame Street
4- Mr. Magoo--Paul Revere
6-9- Dark Shadows
7- Movie- Rings around the World (1966)
10- Another World- Somerset
38- Banana Splits
56- Speed Racer
4:30
4- David Frost Show
6- Flipper
9- Magoo in Sherwood Forest
10- I Love Lucy
27- Tarzan
38- Addams Family
56- The Flintstones
5:00
2-11-44- Misterogers' Neighborhood
6- Gilligan's Island
10- Big Valley
38- Flipper
56- Lost in Space
5:30
2-11-44- Hodgepodge Lodge
6-27- News
38- Munsters
EVENING
6:00
2-44- What's New
4-7-10- News, weather
6- Daniel Boone
9- ABC News
11- Making Things Grow: Indoor Topiary
38- The Flying Nun
56- Batman
6:30
2-44- Making Things Grow- "The Succlent"
4- Movie- Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
5- Local News
7- ABC News
9- News, Weather
10- NBC Nightly News
11- Careers in Oceanogoraphy
12- News
27- Movie- That I May See
38- Daktari
56- Gilligan's Island
7:00
2-11- Louis Lyons, news
5- What's My Line
6- Get Smart
7- Dick Van Dyke Show
9- Rat Patrol
10- To Tell The Truth
12- Truth or Consequences
44- Circuit Analysis
56- I Love Lucy
7:30
2- Kukla, Fran and Ollie
5-12- Family Affair
6-7-9- College Football- Houston @ Florida State
10- Flip Wilson Show
11- N.H Covered Bridges
38- The Movie Game
44- American Government
56- King Family Thanksgiving Special
8:00
2-11-44- Washington Week in Review
5-12- Movie- Oklahoma (1955)
27- Upbeat
38- NHL Hockey- Boston Bruins .vs. Chicago Black Hawks
8:30
2-11- N.E.T Playhouse
4-10- Festival at Ford's
27- Don Reeves Show
44- Our Vanishing Wilderness
56- Felony Squad
9:00
27- Woolner Brothers
44- Catch 44
56- Movie- 'Till The End of Time (1946)
9:30
4- Nancy
10- Alfred Hitchcock
27- Football: NCAA Highlights
44- The Reporters
10:00
2- Soul: Herbie Hancock (sign-off time for WGBH, 11pm)
4-10- Dean Martin Show
11-44- The News Tonight (sign-off time for WENH and WGBX, 11:30pm)
27- Newshour
10:30
6-7-9- Four Out Front- The Greatest Football Players of the Last Decade"
10:45
38- Movie- Canyon Passage (1946)
11:00
4-5-6-7-9-10-12- News
27- Movie- Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935) (sign-off time for WSMW, 12:38am)
56- One Step Beyond
11:30
4-10- Tonight Show
5- Merv Griffin Show
6-9- Dick Cavett Show (sign-off time for WMUR and WJAR, 1am)
7- Movie- Daddy Long Legs (1955)
12- Movie- The Naked Brigade (1965) (sign-off time for WPRI, 1:11am)
56- Movie- The Bigamist (1953)
12:15
38- The Ski Scene
12:45
38- News (sign-off time for WSBK, 1am)
1:00
4-6- News
5- Movie- Black Archer (1959) (sign-off time for WHDH, 2:15am)
7- Dick Cavett Show
56- At Your Service
1:05
4- Movie- The Mad Doctor (1941) (sign-off time for WBZ, 2:35am)
1:15
6- Movie- Pittsburgh (1942) (sign-off time for WTEV, 2:46am)
2:30
7- News (sign-off time for WNAC, 2:45am)
RETRO BOSTON TV- THANKSGIVING 1970
Thursday November 26, 1970
CHANNEL LINEUP
2 WGBH-TV (NET) Boston
4 WBZ-TV (NBC) Boston
5 WHDH-TV (CBS) Boston
6 WTEV-TV (ABC) New Bedford/Providence
7 WNAC-TV (ABC) Boston
9 WMUR-TV (ABC) Manchester, NH
10 WJAR-TV (NBC) Providence
11 WENH-TV (NET) Durham, NH
12 WPRI-TV (CBS) Providence
27 WSMW-TV (Ind.) Worcester
38 WSBK-TV (Ind.) Boston
44 WGBX-TV (NET) Boston
56 WKBG-TV (Ind.) Boston
MORNING
6:00
5- Sunrise Semester
6:10
7- Farm and Market Report
6:15
4- Sign-on Seminar
7- Understanding Our World
6:25
10- TV Classroom
12- Faith for Today
6:30
5- N.E Farmer
6:45
4- Daily Almanac
5- We Believe
6-7- News
6:55
10- News
12- Jobs are Waiting
7:00
4-10- Today Show
5-12- CBS News (John Hart)
6- Bozo Show
7- Major Mudd
8:00
5-12- Captain Kangaroo
6- Community
8:30
6- Jack LaLanne Show
10- Movie- March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934)
8:45
6- News
9:00
4- Macy's Pre-Parade
5- Romper Room
6- Funtime
7- Virginia Graham Show
10- David Frost Show
12- Thanksgiving Parade Jubilee
9:30
5- Bless This House
6- Romper Room
7- Ed Miller, Speak Out
10:00
2- Sesame Street
4-10- Macy's Thanksgiving Parade
5- Thanksgiving Parade Jubilee
6- The Movie Game
10:30
6- Mike Douglas Show
7- Galloping Gourmet
9- Western Theater
10:55
38- News
11:00
7- Bewitched
9- Smokey Bear
38- Wild Cargo
11:15
56- At Your Service
11:30
6-7-9- That Girl
38- Jack LaLanne Show
56- Captain Boston
11:50
38- Fashions in Sewing
AFTERNOON
12:00
2- Misterogers' Neighborhood
4-10- NFL Football- Oakland Raiders @ Detroit Lions
5-12- A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court
6-9- Bewitched
7- Candid Camera
38- Movie- The Babe Ruth Story (1948)
12:30
4- Mike Douglas Show
6-7-9- A World Apart
1:00
6-7-9- All My Children
11- Music Makers of the Blue Ridge
56- Movie- Gulliver's Travels (1939)
1:30
5-12- As The World Turns
6-7-9- Let's Make A Deal
2:00
5-12- Love is a Many Splendored Thing
6-9- Newlywed Game
7- Special- The Daydreamer
11- John Phillip Souza- The March King
38- Rawhide
2:30
5-12- Guiding Light
6-7-9- The Dating Game
56- Beat The Clock
3:00
2- Circuit Analysis
4-10- Mouse on the Mayflower
5-12- NFL Today
6-9- General Hospital
11- The Advocates
27- Kids Korner
38- MGM Cartoons
56- Kimba
3:30
5-12- NFL Football- Green Bay Packers @ Dallas Cowboys
6-9- One Life to Live
27- Bozo's Big Top
38- Porky Pig
56- Bob Glover Show
4:00
2-11-44- Sesame Street
4- Mr. Magoo--Paul Revere
6-9- Dark Shadows
7- Movie- Rings around the World (1966)
10- Another World- Somerset
38- Banana Splits
56- Speed Racer
4:30
4- David Frost Show
6- Flipper
9- Magoo in Sherwood Forest
10- I Love Lucy
27- Tarzan
38- Addams Family
56- The Flintstones
5:00
2-11-44- Misterogers' Neighborhood
6- Gilligan's Island
10- Big Valley
38- Flipper
56- Lost in Space
5:30
2-11-44- Hodgepodge Lodge
6-27- News
38- Munsters
EVENING
6:00
2-44- What's New
4-7-10- News, weather
6- Daniel Boone
9- ABC News
11- Making Things Grow: Indoor Topiary
38- The Flying Nun
56- Batman
6:30
2-44- Making Things Grow- "The Succlent"
4- Movie- Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
5- Local News
7- ABC News
9- News, Weather
10- NBC Nightly News
11- Careers in Oceanogoraphy
12- News
27- Movie- That I May See
38- Daktari
56- Gilligan's Island
7:00
2-11- Louis Lyons, news
5- What's My Line
6- Get Smart
7- Dick Van Dyke Show
9- Rat Patrol
10- To Tell The Truth
12- Truth or Consequences
44- Circuit Analysis
56- I Love Lucy
7:30
2- Kukla, Fran and Ollie
5-12- Family Affair
6-7-9- College Football- Houston @ Florida State
10- Flip Wilson Show
11- N.H Covered Bridges
38- The Movie Game
44- American Government
56- King Family Thanksgiving Special
8:00
2-11-44- Washington Week in Review
5-12- Movie- Oklahoma (1955)
27- Upbeat
38- NHL Hockey- Boston Bruins .vs. Chicago Black Hawks
8:30
2-11- N.E.T Playhouse
4-10- Festival at Ford's
27- Don Reeves Show
44- Our Vanishing Wilderness
56- Felony Squad
9:00
27- Woolner Brothers
44- Catch 44
56- Movie- 'Till The End of Time (1946)
9:30
4- Nancy
10- Alfred Hitchcock
27- Football: NCAA Highlights
44- The Reporters
10:00
2- Soul: Herbie Hancock (sign-off time for WGBH, 11pm)
4-10- Dean Martin Show
11-44- The News Tonight (sign-off time for WENH and WGBX, 11:30pm)
27- Newshour
10:30
6-7-9- Four Out Front- The Greatest Football Players of the Last Decade"
10:45
38- Movie- Canyon Passage (1946)
11:00
4-5-6-7-9-10-12- News
27- Movie- Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935) (sign-off time for WSMW, 12:38am)
56- One Step Beyond
11:30
4-10- Tonight Show
5- Merv Griffin Show
6-9- Dick Cavett Show (sign-off time for WMUR and WJAR, 1am)
7- Movie- Daddy Long Legs (1955)
12- Movie- The Naked Brigade (1965) (sign-off time for WPRI, 1:11am)
56- Movie- The Bigamist (1953)
12:15
38- The Ski Scene
12:45
38- News (sign-off time for WSBK, 1am)
1:00
4-6- News
5- Movie- Black Archer (1959) (sign-off time for WHDH, 2:15am)
7- Dick Cavett Show
56- At Your Service
1:05
4- Movie- The Mad Doctor (1941) (sign-off time for WBZ, 2:35am)
1:15
6- Movie- Pittsburgh (1942) (sign-off time for WTEV, 2:46am)
2:30
7- News (sign-off time for WNAC, 2:45am)