SOURCE: BOSTON GLOBE
RETRO BOSTON TV- Tuesday April 5, 1983
CHANNEL LINEUP
2 WGBH-TV (PBS) Boston
4 WBZ-TV (NBC) Boston
5 WCVB-TV (ABC) Boston
6 WLNE-TV (CBS) New Bedford/Providence
7 WNEV-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.) Boston
38 WSBK-TV (Ind.) Boston
44 WGBX-TV (PBS) Boston
56 WLVI-TV (Ind.) Boston
68 WQTV-TV (Ind.) Boston
MORNING
7:00am
2- Sesame Street
4-10- Today Show
5-9-12- Good Morning America
6-7- CBS Morning News
25- Pink Panther
27- Jim Bakker
38- Batman
56- Bugs Bunny
7:30
25- Gilligan's Island
38- Heckle and Jeckle
56- Tom and Jerry
8:00
2- Mister Rogers
25- Little Rascals
27- The Waltons
38- Porky Pig and Friends
56- Great Space Coaster
8:15
11- A.M Weather
8:30
2-11 Sesame Street
25- Force Five
38- F-Troop
56- The Flintstones
68- Christopher Closeup
9:00
4- Hour Magazine
5- Good Day!
6- Tom Cottle
7- Soap World
9-10- Donahue
12- The Waltons
25- Leave it To Beaver
27- Elder Americans
38- F-Troop
56- Bozo
68- Jim Bakker
9:30
2- Electric Company
6- I Love Lucy
7- You Asked For It
11- Educational Programming
25- Leave it To Beaver
27- Jimmy Swaggart
38- Daytime
56- Power of View
10:00
2- Educational Programming
4- The Facts of Life
5- Donahue
6-7- The New $25,000 Pyramid
9-10- Donahue
12- Big Valley
25- 700 Club
27- Vicki Jamison
56- New England Today
68- Market Opening
10:30
4-10- Sale of the Century
6-7- Child's Play
9- That Girl
38- Marcus Welby, M.D
56- News
68- Stock Update
11:00
4-10- Wheel of Fortune
5- Tom Cottle
6-7- The Price is Right
9-12-56- The Love Boat
27- Jim Bakker
68- NYSE Most Active
11:30
4-10- Dream House
5- Richard Simmons
25- Laurel and Hardy
38- INN News
68- Commodities
AFTERNOON
12:00
2-11- Sesame Street
4-5-7-10-12- News
6- Tattletales
9- Family Feud
25- Movie- The Great Moment (1944)
27- Daily Mass
38- Movie- The Last Wagon (1956)
56- Merv Griffin
68- NYSE Most Active
12:30
4- People are Talking
5-9-12- Ryan's Hope
6-7- The Young and The Restless
10- Search for Tomorrow
27- INN News
68- Business News
1:00
2-11- Educational Programming
5-9-12- All My Children
10- Days of Our Lives
27- Movie- Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)
56- Lost In Space
68- Commodities
1:30
4- Days of Our Lives
6- This Week in Baseball
7- As The World Turns
25- Little Rascals
68- Commodities
2:00
5-9-12- One Life to Live
6-38- Baseball- Toronto Blue Jays @ Boston Red Sox (opening game of the 1983 season for the Red Sox-- Blue Jays won 7-1, and this was Carl Yastremski's final year with the Red Sox)
10- Another World
25- Flipper
56- Casper
68- NYSE Most Active
2:30
2- Magic of Oil Painting
4- Lie Detector
7- Capitol
11- Beyond Blindness
25- Spider-Woman
27- Nashville Music
56- Mighty Mouse
68- Stock Prices
3:00
2- French Chef
4- Hawaii Five-O
5-9-12- General Hospital
7- Guiding Light
10- Fantasy
25- Starblazers
27- Merv Griffin
56- Bugs Bunny
68- Business Update
3:30
2- French Chef
11- Lillas, Yoga and You
25- Force Five
56- Woody Woodpecker
68- Stock Prices
4:00
2-11 Sesame Street
4- People's Court
5- The Waltons
7- Look!
9-27- The Edge of Night
10- Happy Days Again
12- Merv Griffin
38- Superfriends
56- Tom and Jerry
56- Most Active Stock
4:30
4- Match Game
6- Sha Na Na
9- Hour Magazine
10- Three's Company
25- Gilligan's Island
27- News
38- Eight Is Enoguh
56- The Flinstones
68- FNN Wrap-Up
5:00
2-11 Mister Rogers
4- Family Feud
5- Soap
6- Psychic Confessions
10- More Real People
12- M*A*S*H
25- Eight is Enough
38- Charlie's Angels
44- French Chef
56- The Brady Bunch
5:30
2- 3-2-1 Contact
4- Live on 4
5- All in the Family
9-10 People's Court
11- Oceanus
12- Barney Miller
44- Why in the World
56- The Brady Bunch
EVENING
6:00
2- Sesame Street
4-5-6-7-9-10-12- News
11- Oceanus
25- Buck Rogers
38- M*A*S*H
44- Personal Finance
56- Happy Days Again
6:30
6- CBS News
9-12- ABC News
10- NBC News
11- Doctor Who
44- Business Report
7:00
2- Doctor Who
4- NBC News
5- ABC News
6- The Muppets
7- CBS News
9- Joker's Wild
10- P.M Magazine
11- Business Report
12- Tic Tac Dough
25- WKRP in Cincinnati
38- M*A*S*H
44- Business Report
56- Three's Company
7:30
2- Wild World of Animals
4- NBA Basketball- Boston Celtics @ Atlanta Hawks- (Celtics won 117-95)
5- Chronicle
6- You Asked for It
7-10- Entertainment Tonight
9- Tic Tac Dough
11-44- MacNeil/Lehrer Report
12- Family Feud
25- WKRP in Cincinnati
38- NHL Hockey- Game 1 of the 1983 Adams Division First Round- Quebec Nordiques @ Boston Bruins (Bruins won 4-3 in overtime)
56- Three's Company
8:00
2-11- Nova
5-9- Happy Days
6-7- Ace Crawford, Private Eye
10- The A-Team
12- Robert Schuller Special
25- For the Love of a Child
44- People and Organization
56- Movie- Rancho Deluxe (1975)
8:30
5-9-12- Laverne & Shirley
6-7- Gun Shy
44- The Second Century
9:00
2-11- American Playhouse
5-9-12- Three's Company
6-7- MOVIE- Return from the Man from U.N.C.L.E (1983)
10- Remington Steele
25- The World's Most Fabulous Resource
44- Making it Count
9:30
5-9-12- Ryan's Four
44- Religious Quest
10:00
2-56- News
4-10- St. Elsewhere (joined in progress on Ch.4)
11- The Brazilian Connection
25- 700 Club
38- Carter Country
44- Life on Earth- (sign-off for WGBX, 11pm)
10:30
2- MacNeil/Lehrer Report
38- INN News
11:00
2- Nightly Business Report- (sign-off for WGBH, 11:30pm)
4-5-6-7-9-10-12- News
11- Dick Cavett (sign-off for WENH, 11:30pm)
25- Pink Panther
38- Twilight Zone
56- Mary Hartman
11:30
4-10- Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (guest:Charles Nelson Reilly)
5-9-12- ABC News Nightline
6- Benny Hill
7- Quincy
25- The Rockford Files
38- Movie- The FBI Story (1959) (sign-off for WSBK, 1:49am)
56- Saturday Night
12:00
5- All in the Family
6- Quincy
9-12- The Last Word
12:30
4-10- David Letterman
5- The Last Word
25- Rat Patrol (sign-off for WXNE, 1:30am)
56- News, (sign-off for WLVI, 1:00am)
12:40
7- McMillan and Wife
1:00
12- News- (sign-off for WPRI, 1:30am)
1:10
6- McMillan and Wife
1:30
4-10- NBC News Overnight
5- Movie: Dr. Kildare, Strange Case (1940)
2:00
7- CBS News Nightwatch
2:30
4-10- News- (sign-off for WJAR, 2:30am)
6- CBS News Nightwatch
3:00
4- Coming Together
5- New Heaven
RETRO BOSTON TV- Tuesday April 5, 1983
CHANNEL LINEUP
2 WGBH-TV (PBS) Boston
4 WBZ-TV (NBC) Boston
5 WCVB-TV (ABC) Boston
6 WLNE-TV (CBS) New Bedford/Providence
7 WNEV-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.) Boston
38 WSBK-TV (Ind.) Boston
44 WGBX-TV (PBS) Boston
56 WLVI-TV (Ind.) Boston
68 WQTV-TV (Ind.) Boston
MORNING
7:00am
2- Sesame Street
4-10- Today Show
5-9-12- Good Morning America
6-7- CBS Morning News
25- Pink Panther
27- Jim Bakker
38- Batman
56- Bugs Bunny
7:30
25- Gilligan's Island
38- Heckle and Jeckle
56- Tom and Jerry
8:00
2- Mister Rogers
25- Little Rascals
27- The Waltons
38- Porky Pig and Friends
56- Great Space Coaster
8:15
11- A.M Weather
8:30
2-11 Sesame Street
25- Force Five
38- F-Troop
56- The Flintstones
68- Christopher Closeup
9:00
4- Hour Magazine
5- Good Day!
6- Tom Cottle
7- Soap World
9-10- Donahue
12- The Waltons
25- Leave it To Beaver
27- Elder Americans
38- F-Troop
56- Bozo
68- Jim Bakker
9:30
2- Electric Company
6- I Love Lucy
7- You Asked For It
11- Educational Programming
25- Leave it To Beaver
27- Jimmy Swaggart
38- Daytime
56- Power of View
10:00
2- Educational Programming
4- The Facts of Life
5- Donahue
6-7- The New $25,000 Pyramid
9-10- Donahue
12- Big Valley
25- 700 Club
27- Vicki Jamison
56- New England Today
68- Market Opening
10:30
4-10- Sale of the Century
6-7- Child's Play
9- That Girl
38- Marcus Welby, M.D
56- News
68- Stock Update
11:00
4-10- Wheel of Fortune
5- Tom Cottle
6-7- The Price is Right
9-12-56- The Love Boat
27- Jim Bakker
68- NYSE Most Active
11:30
4-10- Dream House
5- Richard Simmons
25- Laurel and Hardy
38- INN News
68- Commodities
AFTERNOON
12:00
2-11- Sesame Street
4-5-7-10-12- News
6- Tattletales
9- Family Feud
25- Movie- The Great Moment (1944)
27- Daily Mass
38- Movie- The Last Wagon (1956)
56- Merv Griffin
68- NYSE Most Active
12:30
4- People are Talking
5-9-12- Ryan's Hope
6-7- The Young and The Restless
10- Search for Tomorrow
27- INN News
68- Business News
1:00
2-11- Educational Programming
5-9-12- All My Children
10- Days of Our Lives
27- Movie- Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)
56- Lost In Space
68- Commodities
1:30
4- Days of Our Lives
6- This Week in Baseball
7- As The World Turns
25- Little Rascals
68- Commodities
2:00
5-9-12- One Life to Live
6-38- Baseball- Toronto Blue Jays @ Boston Red Sox (opening game of the 1983 season for the Red Sox-- Blue Jays won 7-1, and this was Carl Yastremski's final year with the Red Sox)
10- Another World
25- Flipper
56- Casper
68- NYSE Most Active
2:30
2- Magic of Oil Painting
4- Lie Detector
7- Capitol
11- Beyond Blindness
25- Spider-Woman
27- Nashville Music
56- Mighty Mouse
68- Stock Prices
3:00
2- French Chef
4- Hawaii Five-O
5-9-12- General Hospital
7- Guiding Light
10- Fantasy
25- Starblazers
27- Merv Griffin
56- Bugs Bunny
68- Business Update
3:30
2- French Chef
11- Lillas, Yoga and You
25- Force Five
56- Woody Woodpecker
68- Stock Prices
4:00
2-11 Sesame Street
4- People's Court
5- The Waltons
7- Look!
9-27- The Edge of Night
10- Happy Days Again
12- Merv Griffin
38- Superfriends
56- Tom and Jerry
56- Most Active Stock
4:30
4- Match Game
6- Sha Na Na
9- Hour Magazine
10- Three's Company
25- Gilligan's Island
27- News
38- Eight Is Enoguh
56- The Flinstones
68- FNN Wrap-Up
5:00
2-11 Mister Rogers
4- Family Feud
5- Soap
6- Psychic Confessions
10- More Real People
12- M*A*S*H
25- Eight is Enough
38- Charlie's Angels
44- French Chef
56- The Brady Bunch
5:30
2- 3-2-1 Contact
4- Live on 4
5- All in the Family
9-10 People's Court
11- Oceanus
12- Barney Miller
44- Why in the World
56- The Brady Bunch
EVENING
6:00
2- Sesame Street
4-5-6-7-9-10-12- News
11- Oceanus
25- Buck Rogers
38- M*A*S*H
44- Personal Finance
56- Happy Days Again
6:30
6- CBS News
9-12- ABC News
10- NBC News
11- Doctor Who
44- Business Report
7:00
2- Doctor Who
4- NBC News
5- ABC News
6- The Muppets
7- CBS News
9- Joker's Wild
10- P.M Magazine
11- Business Report
12- Tic Tac Dough
25- WKRP in Cincinnati
38- M*A*S*H
44- Business Report
56- Three's Company
7:30
2- Wild World of Animals
4- NBA Basketball- Boston Celtics @ Atlanta Hawks- (Celtics won 117-95)
5- Chronicle
6- You Asked for It
7-10- Entertainment Tonight
9- Tic Tac Dough
11-44- MacNeil/Lehrer Report
12- Family Feud
25- WKRP in Cincinnati
38- NHL Hockey- Game 1 of the 1983 Adams Division First Round- Quebec Nordiques @ Boston Bruins (Bruins won 4-3 in overtime)
56- Three's Company
8:00
2-11- Nova
5-9- Happy Days
6-7- Ace Crawford, Private Eye
10- The A-Team
12- Robert Schuller Special
25- For the Love of a Child
44- People and Organization
56- Movie- Rancho Deluxe (1975)
8:30
5-9-12- Laverne & Shirley
6-7- Gun Shy
44- The Second Century
9:00
2-11- American Playhouse
5-9-12- Three's Company
6-7- MOVIE- Return from the Man from U.N.C.L.E (1983)
10- Remington Steele
25- The World's Most Fabulous Resource
44- Making it Count
9:30
5-9-12- Ryan's Four
44- Religious Quest
10:00
2-56- News
4-10- St. Elsewhere (joined in progress on Ch.4)
11- The Brazilian Connection
25- 700 Club
38- Carter Country
44- Life on Earth- (sign-off for WGBX, 11pm)
10:30
2- MacNeil/Lehrer Report
38- INN News
11:00
2- Nightly Business Report- (sign-off for WGBH, 11:30pm)
4-5-6-7-9-10-12- News
11- Dick Cavett (sign-off for WENH, 11:30pm)
25- Pink Panther
38- Twilight Zone
56- Mary Hartman
11:30
4-10- Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (guest:Charles Nelson Reilly)
5-9-12- ABC News Nightline
6- Benny Hill
7- Quincy
25- The Rockford Files
38- Movie- The FBI Story (1959) (sign-off for WSBK, 1:49am)
56- Saturday Night
12:00
5- All in the Family
6- Quincy
9-12- The Last Word
12:30
4-10- David Letterman
5- The Last Word
25- Rat Patrol (sign-off for WXNE, 1:30am)
56- News, (sign-off for WLVI, 1:00am)
12:40
7- McMillan and Wife
1:00
12- News- (sign-off for WPRI, 1:30am)
1:10
6- McMillan and Wife
1:30
4-10- NBC News Overnight
5- Movie: Dr. Kildare, Strange Case (1940)
2:00
7- CBS News Nightwatch
2:30
4-10- News- (sign-off for WJAR, 2:30am)
6- CBS News Nightwatch
3:00
4- Coming Together
5- New Heaven
