Retro: Hartford-New Haven, Christmas Eve 1990

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Source: TV Guide

Channels
2 WCBS New York City CBS
3 WFSB Hartford CBS
4 WNBC New York City NBC
5 WNYW New York City Fox
7 WABC New York City ABC
8 WTNH New Haven ABC
9 WWOR Secaucus NJ IND (also includes programs carried by EMI Service)
11 WPIX New York City IND
13 WNET New York City PBS
18 WHCT Hartford IND
20 WTXX Waterbury IND
22 WWLP Springfield MA NBC
24 WEDH Hartford PBS
26 WTWS New London IND
30 WVIT New Britain NBC
38 WSBK Boston IND
40 WGGB Springfield MA ABC
57 WGBY Springfield MA PBS
61 WTIC Hartford Fox
65 WEDY New Haven PBS

Christmas Eve 1990 - Monday

5AM
4 First Business
5 Movietone News BW
7 To Be Announced
11 Medical Center
13 Christmas at Pops
John Williams leads the orchestra in a holiday celebration with Ed Asner, soprano Barbara Hendricks, the American Boychoir.
26 Your Show of Shows BW
30 Success-N-Life
38 One Day at a Time

5:25
7 Morning Stretch

5:30
3 This Morning's Business
4 NBC News-Faith Daniels
5 Faith 20
8 Make it Real
26 Big Valley
38 Morning Stretch

5:55
7 News

6AM
2 This Morning's Business
3 CBS News-Corderi/Osgood
4 News
5 I Love Lucy BW
7 ABC News-Mike Schneider
8 40 ABC/Local News
90 Commercial Program
11 Broadcast: New York
Governor Cuomo discusses plans for 1991.
13 Learn to Read
18 Shepherd's Chapel
20 Super Mario Bros.
22 NBC News
30 First Business
38 The Mask
61 Morning Stretch

6:30
2 CBS News
3 7 22 News
5 Personalities
9 Video Power
[Commercial programming may air.]
11 New Adventures of He-Man
13 All About TV
20 Video Power
26 Tennessee Tuxedo
30 NBC/Local News
38 Thundercats
61 Bullwinkle

6:45
24 57 65 A.M. Weather

7AM
2 3 This Morning
Scheduled: Maureen McGovern performs.
4 22 30 Today
Scheduled: Director Francis Ford Coppola.
5 Good Day New York
7 8 40 Good Morning America
Scheduled: Actor Perry King.
9 61 Jetsons
[Commercial programming may air on ch 9.]
11 G.I. Joe
13 Sesame Street
18 Commercial Programs
20 Merrie Melodies
24 65 Homestretch
26 Inch High, Private Eye
38 Alvin & The Chipmunks
57 Today's Special'

7:30
9 Merrie Melodies
[Children's Room may air here.]
11 Police Academy
20 38 Muppet Babies
24 65 Sesame Street
26 Heathcliff
57 Reading Rainbow
61 Alvin & The Chipmunks

8AM
9 Bugs, Daffy & Friends
[Children's Room may air here.]
11 Muppet Babies
13 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
20 Dennis the Menace
26 Young Samson
38 Inspector Gadget
57 Wind in the Willows
61 Flintstones

8:30
9 Mighty Mouse & Friends
[Today's Monitor may air here.]
11 Wake, Rattle & Roll
13 Sesame Street
20 Real Ghostbusters
24 57 65 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
26 Space Kidettes
38 Heathcliff
61 Woody Woodpecker

9AM
2 Trump Card
3 Geraldo
Scheduled: The troops in Saudi Arabia send holiday messages to their families at home.
4 Preview
5 I Love Lucy BW
7 40 Regis & Kathie Lee
Scheduled: Charlton Heston.
8 Phil Donahue
Scheduled: Holiday-party recipes.
9 Bugs Bunny's Buddies
[One Norway Street may air here.] What was One Norway Street?
11 Best Talk
18 Church Service-Catholic
20 Mighty Mouse & Friends
22 Highway to Heaven
24 57 65 Sesame Street
26 Ben Casey BW
30 Joan Rivers
Scheduled: Rue McClanahan.
38 Santa Claus is Comin' to Town
61 Movie
'Willy McBean and His Magic Machine.' (1965) Time-travel adventure.

9:30
2 Quiz Kids Challenge
4 Let's Make a Deal
5 I Love Lucy BW
9 Silver Spoons
11 The Jeffersons
13 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
18 Commercial Program
20 Wake, Rattle & Roll

10AM
2 3 Family Feud
4 Classic Concentration
5 People's Court
7 8 40 Sally Jessy Raphael
Scheduled: Audrey Hepburn.
9 9 Broadcast Plaza
11 Medical Center
13 Sesame Street
18 Success-N-Life
20 CHiPs
22 30 Let's Make a Deal
24 65 Movie
Pierre Sauvage's 'Weapons of the Spirit' (1989) visits a French village that was a haven for thousands of Jews from 1941 to 1945. Bill Moyers introduces the film.
26 Movie
'The Life of Jesus Christ.' (1984) Jesus: Claude Brooks. Joseph: William Murray.
38 Little Drummer Boy
57 Shining Time Station (60mins)
The week before Christmas, the adults bicker over who will play Santa's helper.

10:30
2 3 Wheel of Fortune (daytime w/ Bob Goen)
4 To Tell the Truth
5 The Judge
22 30 Classic Concentration
38 Beverly Hillbillies

11AM
2 3 The Price is Right
4 Marsha Warfield
5 Divorce Court
7 8 40 Home
Scheduled: Christmas music.
11 Trapper John M.D.
13 Learn to Read
18 Commercial Program
20 The Judge
22 30 To Tell the Truth
38 Dick Van Dyke BW
57 Reading Rainbow
61 Perry Mason BW

11:30
4 Generations
5 Love Connection
13 French in Action
20 The Judge
22 Marsha Warfield
30 Quiz Kids Challenge
38 Odd Couple
57 Sesame Street

Noon
2 3 8 22 40 News
4 Santa Barbara
5 Three's a Crowd
7 61 Match Game
Scheduled: Rip Taylor, Marcia Wallace.
11 Fantasy Island
13 Movie
'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.' (1972) Star-studded version of the Lewis Carroll classic. Alice: Fiona Fullerton.
18 Home Shopping Club
20 Mama's Family
24 65 Masterpiece Theatre
'Glory Enough for All,' about the discovery of insulin as a treatment for diabetes. Part 1 of two.
26 Movie
'Gaily, Gaily.' (1969) The urban misadventures of a naive rural youth (Beau Bridges) determined to become a writer in 1910 Chicago.
30 Marsha Warfield
38 Trapper John M.D.

12:30
2 3 Young & The Restless
5 Graham Kerr
7 8 40 Loving
20 Odd Couple
22 30 Generations
57 Stradivarius on Stage
61 Love Connection

1PM
4 22 30 Days of Our Lives
5 All in the Family
7 8 40 All My Children
9 Bonanza
11 Good Times
20 I Dream of Jeannie
38 The Jeffersons
61 Trump Card

1:30
2 3 Bold & the Beautiful
5 20 Bewitched
11 Brady Bunch
24 65 Mark Russell's Comedy Special
38 One Day at a Time
61 The Challengers

1:40
13 Film

2PM
2 3 As the World Turns
4 22 30 Another World
5 Pretty Piggies
7 8 40 One Life to Live
9 Cagney & Lacey
['Laredo' may air here.]
11 Flintstones
13 Amahl & The Night visitors
This 1978 version of Gian Carlo Menotti's 1951 opera tells the story of a widow and her disabled son, Amahl, who offers lodging to the Three Kings on their way to visit the Christ Child. This encounter poses a problem for Amahl: how can he match the Kings' tribute when all he has to offer is his crutch? Mother: Teresa Staras. Amahl: Robert Sapolsky.
20 Webster
24 65 Taste of Louisiana
26 Little House on the Prairie
The Ingalls family is short on cash but long on ingenuity in celebrating a first Christmas at Plum Creek.
38 Tennessee Tuxedo
57 Musical Kids
61 Commercial Program

2:30
5 Real Ghostbusters
11 Heathclif
20 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe
24 65 Amish Cooking from Quilt Country
38 Underdog
57 Joy of Painting
61 Peter Pan & The Pirates

3PM
2 3 Guiding Light
4 Joan Rivers
See 9am, WVIT.
5 Dennis the Menace
7 8 40 General Hospital
9 Hawaii Five-O
11 38 61 Gummi Bears
13 Shining Time Station
See 10am, WGBY.
20 G.I. Joe
22 30 Santa Barbara
24 65 Yan Can Cook
26 Charlie's Angels
57 Reading Rainbow

3:30
5 Alvin & The Chipmunks
11 38 61 DuckTales
20 Police Academy
24 65 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
57 Square One Television

4PM
2 Geraldo
See 9am, ch 3.
3 7 Oprah Winfrey
4 Phil Donahue
5 20 Tiny Toon Adventures
8 Regis & Kathie Lee
See 9am, ch 7. (Wow...preempting a live show to 4PM?)
9 Hunter
Hunter (Fred Dryer) investigates the disappearance of a friend's mail-order bride. [Run for Your Life may air here.]
11 38 61 Rescue Rangers
13 Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
Big Bird, aided by his Muppet and human friends, tries to solve the mystery of how rotund Santa Claus fits in skinny chimneys.
22 Family Feud (syndicated)
24 65 Reading Rainbow
A visit to the San Diego Zoo. Also: Lily Tomlin narrates a book about a goat who's a picky eater. Reviewed: 'Mrs. Pig's Bulk Buy,' by Mary Rayner.
26 Streets of San Francisco
A collection of rare coins is about to fall prey to a clever thief.
30 Personalities
40 Phil Donahue
See 9am, WTNH.
57 3-2-1 Contact
Temperature is the theme.

4:30
5 Peter Pan & The Pirates
11 38 61 Tale Spin
20 Merrie Melodies
22 Tic Tac Dough
24 65 Square One Television
A music video set at a futuristic bar.
30 Golden Girls
The girls serve Christmas dinners at Rose's church to the homeless and poor, including the suddenly homeless and poor Stan (Herbert Edelman).
57 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

5PM
2 3 4 7 8 News
5 Diff'rent Strokes
Clips from early episodes are featured as the Drummonds spend Christmas reminiscing about humorous occasions and incidents. Part 1 of two.
9 227
Mary decides to invite her landlord Julian (Paul Winfield) to her Christmas Eve bash in hopes of livening things up. [It Takes a Thief may air here.]
11 61 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
13 Christmas at Pops
See 5am.
18 Bionic Woman
A crook films Jaime (Lindsay Wagner) in action, and threatens to expose her bionic powers unless she aids his bank heist.
20 ALF
ALF gets displaced when Trevor (John La Motta) moves in with the Tanners after the Ochmoneks break up.
22 Cheers
On Christmas Eve, Sam (Ted Danson) desperately searches for a gift for Rebecca, while Norm's Santa buddies gather to get trashed.
24 65 Sesame Street
26 T.J. Hooker
Hooker (William Shatner) trails a sniper who's targeting police cars-and planning to attack the precinct.
30 Golden Girls
The girls' plans to join their families for the holiday are upset by a series of bizarre events. Beatrice Arthur.
38 Punky Brewster
40 People's Court
57 Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
See 4pm, WNET.

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5:30
3 8 22 40 News
5 Mr. Belvedere
In an unusual show of sensitivity, Wesley resurrects a ghost from Belvedere's past as a Christmas present.
9 ALF
Willie (Max Wright) and ALF get lost searching for a Christmas-tree farm after an artifical tree fails to imbue the family with holiday spirit.
[It Takes a Thief, already in progress, may air here.]
11 61 Charles in Charge
WPIX - Charles (Scott Baio) and the Powells plan to spend an idyllic Christmas in the mountains, but the holiday doesn't turn out as planned.
WTIC - The Powells overhear Charles, Student of the Year, talking to a reporter (Barbara Rhoades) and conclude that he's leaving them.
20 ALF
ALF stars in his own silent movie as 'The Sheik' and 'The Little Scamp,' who has a hairy adventure with Keystone Kop Willie.
30 Cheers
A man walks into the bar, orders a gin and bitters, makes a pass at Carla, then lets slip he's a secret agent. Eric Finch: Ellis Rabb.
38 Small Wonder

6pm
2 3 4 7 8 22 30 40 News
5 Golden Girls
See 5pm, WVIT.
9 20 Cosby Show
Cliff takes Rudy and her playmates out for an elegant lunch, while Clair spends the day with her sister (Yvette Erwin) and friends.
11 21 Jump Street (odd choice for 6pm on WPIX?)
Penhall offers his heart-and his hand in marriage-to a Salvadoran refugee (Kamala Lopez), while investigating a priest (Kristoffer Tabori) suspected of selling Salvadoran babies.
13 New Jersey News
18 Rockford Files
Rockford is implicated in blackmail by a second-string pro quarterback (Rob Reiner).
24 65 Wild America
The history and inhabitants of America's wildlife refuges.
26 Knight Rider
A young dancer ingests a poison meant for Michael (David Hasselhoff), who races the clock to find the only man with a clue to the antidote.
38 Family Ties
57 MacNeil, Lehrer NewsHour
61 Preview (short-lived magazine...not sure who hosted it)
Scheduled: the film 'Bingo' (Cindy Williams).

6:30
2 3 CBS News
5 Night Court
Snow ruins holiday plans and forces those in the courtroom to fuel a makeshift furnace with their belongings.
7 8 40 ABC News-Peter Jennings
9 Who's the Boss?
Angela discovers that Tony is moonlighting to finance his father's apartment, but she also learns that his father's been dead for a year.
13 24 65 Nightly Business Report
Guest commentator: Jurek Martin.
20 Hogan Family
Dave and Burt dress as a camel for Homecoming, and Burt (Steve Witting) causes a fall that lands them both in the hospital.
22 30 NBC News-Tom Brokaw
38 ALF
61 Love Connection

7PM
2 Hard Copy
A segment on an elderly couple who decided to elope.
3 Inside Edition
Scheduled topic: BB-gun safety.
4 NBC News-Tom Brokaw
5 News
7 Jeopardy!
8 22 Wheel of Fortune
9 Perfect Strangers
Larry is crestfallen when a blizzard closes the airport and strands the guys in Chicago on Christmas Eve. [Alternate programming may air.]
11 GrowinG Pains
Mike (Kirk Cameron) hurts more than his pride when he takes a nasty fall off a dirt bike that he promised his parents he wouldn't go near.
13 24 65 MacNeil, Lehrer NewsHour
18 Baretta
A youthful pickpocket is murdered in cold blood at an airline terminal.
20 Cosby Show
Clair lands a spot on a Sunday-morning TV show, but soon finds that debating history with pompous eggheads isn't her cup of tea.
26 The A-Team
Face's plans to leave the Team are put on hold when the Team is asked to rescue a newswoman from a paranoid mob chief. Face: Dirk Benedict.
30 40 A Current Affair
38 Cheers
57 Nightly Business Report
61 Star Trek: The Next Generation
A Romulan defector (James Sloyan) seeking refuge on the Enterprise warns Picard that a major offensive to regain the Neutral Zone will be launched in 48 hours.

7:30
2 3 Entertainment Tonight
Scheduled: Debra Winger.
4 Memories...Then and Now
A program with a holiday theme includes segments on popular Christmas songs; celebrities dressed as Santa Claus.
5 A Current Affair
7 Wheel of Fortune
8 22 Jeopardy!
9 Who's the Boss?
Tony sells his only Tony Micelli baseball card for quick cash to buy Angela (Judith Light) an expensive gift.
11 Hogan Family
20 M*A*S*H
Writing to his sister, Father Mulcahy laments that he can't offer temporal comfort. William Christopher.
30 Hard Copy
A segment on an elderly couple who decided to elope.
38 M*A*S*H
40 Cosby Show
See 6pm, WWOR.
57 Wild America
Part 1 of two. Host Marty Stouffer tries to domesticate a pair of fishers, rare cat-sized members of the weasel family.

8PM
2 3 Evening Shade
Harlan's home movie of Wood's state-championship-winning catch shows he was out of bounds, causing 'Clutch' (Burt Reynolds) to lose his grip on the legend.
4 22 30 Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
After chaperoning Ashley (Tatyana M. Ali) to her violin lesson, Will (Will Smith) becomes instrumental in urging the youngster to march to the beat of a different drummer.
5 Movie
'Scrooge.' (1951) The finest screen version of Dickens' classic about London's meanest miser (Alastair Sim). A sterling cast. Kathleen Harrison.
[Colorized.] (I presume this was the one hosted by Patrick Macnee, which I have from a 1989 KING-TV Seattle broadcast...)
7 8 40 MacGyver
MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) tries to get a teenage friend (Mayim Bialik) to admit she has a drinking problem that's already led to her involvement in a string of burglaries. Jackson Davies, Linden Ashby.
9 National Geographic
This history of the railroad industry explores the many uses of trains, from transporting troops during WWII to delivering lettuce from California to New York.
[Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law may air.]
11 Hollywood Christmas Parade
13 57 Wonderworks
Movie: 'The Silver Chair,' the third journey into C.S. Lewis's 'The Chronicles of Narnia.' Part 1 of two. [Story concludes tomorrow.]
18 Movie
'The Life of Jesus Christ.' (1984) Claude Brooks.
20 Child Called Jesus
Conclusion. Unaware that Joseph has been injured, Mary and the child flee to Palestine, where Sefir (Pierre Clementi) catches up with them. Meanwhile, Jesus (Matteo Bellina) continues to forsee events from his adult life.
24 65 Three Flags Over Everest
Robert Redford narrates this chronicle of the 'Mount Everest International Peace Climb 1990,' in which mountaineers from the U.S., USR and China set out to reach the Himalayan peak. Led by Jim Whittaker, the first American to scale Everest (in 1963), the expedition was six years in the planning.
26 Movie BW
'Christmas in Connecticut.' (1945) The problems of an undomesticated writer (Barbara Stanwyck) who has to seem the home-loving type and house a sailor (Dennis Morgan) for Christmas.
38 Movie
'The Greatest Story Ever Told.' (1965) Director George Stevens' ambitious, reverent film about the life of Jesus (Max von Sydow).
61 Movie
'Dumbo.' (1941) An Oscar-winning score elevates this Disney classic about a pint-sized pachyderm with very big ears but very little self-confidence.

8:30
2 3 Major Dad
Failing to enlist Mac's attention, Casey (Chelsea Hertford) makes herself over into something that commands it-a miniature Marine.
4 22 30 A Very Retail Christmas
A satirical Yuletide fantasy in which an evil toymaker (Ed O'Neill) conspires to recruit Santa's elves, portrayed by puppets. Produced by ALF co-creator Paul Fusco.

9PM
2 3 Murphy Brown
From last season: Murphy is the 'Most Likely to Be Embarrassed' when her high-school journalism teacher opens the Murphy Brown School of Broadcasting.
4 22 30 Movie
'Christmas Eve.' (1986) Loretta Young plays a kindly, dying matriarch who tries to arrange a reunion with grandchildren she hasn't seen in 16 years. Arthur Hill, Ron Leibman.
7 8 40 Movie
'Roots: The Gift.' (1988) Miniseries spinoff recasting Louis Gossett Jr. and LeVar Burton as Fiddler and Kunta Kinte, helping escaped slaves in the Yule of 1775. Avery Brooks, Kate Mulgrew, Michael Learned. Filmed in Nashville.
9 National Geographic
Scenes from a five-day transatlantic voyage aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2 launches 'The Superliners: Twilight of an Era,' a homage to the great passenger ships of this century. [Switch may air here.]
24 65 U.S. Coast Guard Band Christmas Concert
Holiday classics are performed.

9:30
2 3 Designing Women
Anthony's 30th birthday may be one he'll never forget-Charlene's enlisted a private detective to find the long-lost father Anthony never knew.

10PM
2 3 Trials of Rosie O'Neill
After a client's mother puts a hex on her, Rosie (Sharon Gless) is cursed with a seemingly unwinnable case and a personal life that seems jinxed as well. John Calvin, Gregory 'Mars' Martin.
5 9 11 26 61 News
13 Missa Luba
The Muungano National Choir of Kenya performs the music and dance of an African religious ceremony.
18 Commercial Program (2hrs)
20 M*A*S*H
Potter asks the near-impossible of his surgeons: be nice to Frank while Margaret is in Tokyo.
24 65 Bucknell Candlelight Christmas
The Rooke Chapel Choir, handbell choir and the Commonwealth Brass Ensemble perform traditional and sacred music at the University's Rooke Chapel in a 1987 concert.
57 Kennywood Memories
A look at the history and charm of Kennywood Park, a Pitrtsburgh amuseument park foundeed in 1898 and known for its wooden roller coasters.

10:30
20 Kate & Allie
Conclusion. A terrified Allie can't decide whether to accept Bob's marriage proposal.
26 Christmas with the Stars
Celebrating the holidays with Cesar Romero, Fred Travalena, and singers Lou Rawls, Jose Feliciano and Maureen McGovern.
61 Preview

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11PM
2 3 4 7 8 22 30 40 57 News
5 M*A*S*H
A disjointed Christmas in Korea.
9 Amen
Church members try to finish a Christmas pageant that could end up on TV, but snow dampens the festive mood. [50 Years Ago Today may air here.]
11 Cheers
When Norm's new client (Anne Schedeen) seems to be coming on to him, the reluctant accountant is goaded into action by the boys.
13 Carols for Christmas
England's Royal College of Music Chamber Choir performs 'Silent Night,' 'Hark, the Herald Angels Sing,' 'Deck the Halls.'
20 The Jeffersons
George (Sherman Hemsley) must deliver the eulogy for an employee everyone hated.
61 Arsenio Hall
Scheduled: actor Kirk Cameron and Patricia Wettig; singer Mariah Carey.

11:30
2 America Tonight
3 Night Court
See 6:30p, WNYW.
4 22 30 Christmas with Friends
From 1984: 'The Tonight Show' crew's Christmas celebration, with Johnny Carson playing Santa Claus, Ed McMahon reading 'Twas the Night Before Christmas.'
5 Personalities
7 8 Nightline
9 Arsenio Hall
See 11pm, WTIC. [Comedy Tonight may air, followed by Bachelor Father.]
11 Honeymooners BW
Ralph tries a hair-raising concoction on his boss.
20 26 Carols of Christmas
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir performs at Salt Lake City's Mormon Tabernacle. Songs include 'O Come, O Come, Emmanuel,' 'Silent Night,' 'O Holy Night.'
24 65 Christmas at Boys Town
The Boys Town Choir is seen in a presentation of a program of Christmas music.
38 Newhart
40 M*A*S*H
Frank (Larry Linville) steals a rare Colt .45 and lets Radar take the rap. Radar: Gary Burghoff.
57 Nature
'A Wolf in the Fold' studies the relationship between sheep and sheepdogs.

12AM
2 3 Christmas Mass-Episcopal
Rev. John C. Sanders celebrates a Christmas Eve service at Atlanta's Episcopal Cathedral of St. Philip, which includes a sermon by Bishop Frank K. Allan. (Live)
4 22 30 Mass at St. Peter's
Pope John Paul II celebrates Christmas Eve midnight Mass at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican.
5 Pilgrim Church Christmas
Christmas services from Pilgrim Baptist Church in Brooklyn. (Live)
7 8 Light for the World
Christmas Eve services from churches in Decatur, Ill., and East Berlin.
11 Midnight Mass
John Cardinal O'Connor is the celebrant at New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral. John Michael Caprio leads the choir and orchestra, with Donald Dumler at the organ, in 'O Holy Night,' 'The Shepherd's Pipe Carol,' 'For unto Us a Child is Born.'
13 A Musical Offering From the Vatican
18 Home Shopping Club
20 61 Commercial Program
26 Honeymooners BW
38 St. Elsewhere
40 Nightline

12:30
9 Twilight Zone
[Commercial programs may air.]
20 My Talk Show
Dr. Joyce Brothers surveys the effects of the hat crisis on Derby.
26 Your Show of Shows BW
40 Singing Christmas Tree
61 Dr. Gene Scott

1am
2 Movie
'With This Ring.' (1978) TV-movie centering on three engaged couples and their prenuptial problems. Betty White, John Forsythe.
3 Instant Recall
7 Movie
'Young Pioneers.' (1976) TV-movie detailing the joys and hardships of a couple trying to become homesteaders in the rugged Dakota Territory of the 1870s. Linda Purl.
8 Barnaby Jones
9 Joe Franklin
13 Great Performances
Beatrix Potter's 'The Tailor of Gloucester,' about a seamster (Ian Holm) pressed to make a coat for the mayor's wedding.
20 Krush Rap
26 Movie BW
'Escape from Red Rock.' (1958) Teens and a bandit gang in Apache territory. Brian Donlevy. [After the movie: 'Soup to Nuts.']
38 Movie
'The Life of Jesus Christ.' (1984) Claude Brooks.

1:30
3 News
4 Christmas in New York
Included: behind the scenes at Radio City Music Hall's Christmas program; interviews with Santas around the city.
11 News
40 Light for the World
See 12am, WABC.

2AM
3 Moment of Meditation
4 News
5 McCreary Report
8 Movie
'Young Pioneers' Christmas.' (1976) TV-movie following the joys and hardships of a young couple (Roger Kern, Linda Purl) homesteading in 1870s Dakota Territory.
9 Commercial Programs
13 MacNeil, Lehrer NewsHour

2:30
4 Family Feud
11 Movie BW
'I'll Be Seeing You.' (1944) Love blossoms between a shellshocked GI (Joseph Cotten) and a convict (Ginger Rogers) on Christmas furlough. Shirley Temple.

3AM
4 Tic Tac Dough
5 McCloud
7 Movie
'A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story.' (1977) Blythe Danner and Edward Herrmann star in this TV-movie that emphasizes personal drama over baseball action. [Start and running times approximate.]
9 Home Shopping Spree
13 Christmas at King's
26 Movie BW
'Someone to Remember.' (1943) A kindly old woman presumes a college freshman to be her own grandson. Mabel Paige. [After the movie: 'Mermaids on Parade.']
38 Movie
'Flying High.' (1978) Pilot film for the TV series about three airline stewardess trainees. Kathryn Witt.

3:10
2 Mvie
'A Time for Love.' (1972) Two interconnected made-for-TV stories about opposites meeting on love's common ground. John Davidson, Jack Cassidy.

3:30
4 Joker's Wild

4AM
4 Instant Recall
11 Fantasy Island (half-hour)
13 Carmina Burana

4:30
4 Hazel
5 I Love Lucy BW
11 Trapper John M.D.