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Retro: Maine, Mon., March 15, 1982

From TV Guide, Maine Edition:

NOTE: If Ch. 4's schedule looks a little strange, the station is in New Brunswick (ET +1 hour) and TV Guide converted the airtimes from Atlantic to Eastern.

WLBZ Ch. 2 Bangor (NBC)

6:30 First Radio Parish Church
6:35 News
7 AM Today (guest is Sheena Easton)
9 AM Donahue (doctors respond to medical issues raised on previous shows)
10 AM Regis Philbin (Betty White, tax expert Gary Iskowitz)
10:30 Blockbusters
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Battlestars (Dody Goodman, Didi Conn, John Roarke, Jenilee Harrison, Stuart Damon, Rip Taylor)
12 N Password Plus (Edie McClurg, Gene Rayburn)
12:30 The Doctors
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM Another World
3 PM Texas
4 PM Movie: "Blondie Takes A Vacation"
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (John Chancellor)
7 PM M*A*S*H
7:30 Muppet Show (guest: Gene Kelly)
8 PM Little House On The Prairie
9 PM American Movie Awards (Angie Dickinson and Roger Moore host; nominees for Best Film: "Arthur," "The Four Seasons," "On Golden Pond," "Raiders Of The Lost Ark, and "Reds")
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 Tonight Show (Bob Hope, Marsha Mason, Nell Carter, octogenarian actress Merie Earle)
12:30 Late Night With David Letterman (documentarian Jon Alpert)

CHSJ Ch. 4 St. John, New Brunswick (CBC)

6:30 100 Huntley Street (religious)
8 AM Let's Shape Up (exercises)
8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 Mr. Dressup
10 AM Mid-Day
10:30 Thirty Minutes Live
11 AM Price Is Right
12 N John Davidson
1 PM Edge Of Night
1:30 Take 30
2 PM Wok With Yan
2:30 Coronation Street
3 PM Ark On The Move (how man relates to animals includes the bare-faced ibis and the sacred lemur on an island off the coast of Madagascar)
3:30 Spiderman
4 PM Happy Days
4:30 News
5:30 Family Feud
6 PM Knots Landing
7 PM Hangin' In (sitcom about an afterschool hangout for teenagers, which was syndicated in the U.S. around 1986, IIRC)
7:30 Private Benjamin
8 PM M*A*S*H
8:30 WKRP In Cincinnati
9 PM CBC News (Knowlton Nash; Peter Mansbridge anchored the weekend newscasts)
9:20 Journal
10 PM News
10:30 SCTV


WABI Ch. 5 Bangor (CBS)

5:55 Open Door
6 AM Health Field
6:30 Leave It To The Women
7 AM CBS News (Bill Kurtis joins Diane Sawyer as co-anchor.)
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
9:30 Hot Fudge
10 AM One Day At A Time
10:30 Alice
11 AM Price Is Right
12 N Richard Simmons
12:30 Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Search For Tomorrow (moves to NBC March 29 and "Capitol" takes over this slot)
3 PM Guiding Light
4 PM Tattletales (Dick and Dolly Martin, Dan Rowan and Joanna Young, Army and Selma Archerd)
4:30 People's Court
5 PM Merv Griffin (Dick and Jerry Van Dyke)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Dan Rather)
7 PM Family Feud
7:30 American Catholic
8 PM Mr. Merlin
8:30 Private Benjamin
9 PM M*A*S*H
9:30 Eunice (Carol Burnett's character and the Higgins family are chronicled from 1955 to 1978 in this comedy-drama with Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Ken Berry, and Betty White.)
11 PM News
11:30 Quincy
12:40 Columbo

WCSH Ch. 6 Portland (NBC)

5:50 News
6 AM Morning Stretch
6:30 First Radio Parish Church
6:35 News
7 AM Today
9 AM Days Of Our Lives
10 AM Match Game
10:30 Blockbusters
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Battlestars
12 N News
12:30 Donahue (Chicago teacher Marva Collins, whose inner-city private school was praised on "60 Minutes")
1:30 The Doctors
2 PM Another World
3 PM Texas
4 PM Gilligan's Island
4:30 Bewitched (Bert Convy as Paul Revere, stuck in the 20th century)
5 PM The New You Asked For It (chopsticks used as weapons; sharks in Australian waters; Rich Little hosts)
5:30 Entertainment Tonight
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Muppet Show (guest: Rich Little)
7:30 All In The Family
8 PM Little House On The Prairie
9 PM American Movie Awards
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Late Night With David Letterman
1:30 Entertainment Tonight
2 AM News

WVII Ch. 7 Bangor (ABC)

6 AM Jim Bakker
7 AM Good Morning America (first of five with Jimmy Stewart)
9 AM Great Space Coaster
9:30 Super Pay Cards
10 AM The Bold Ones
11 AM Love Boat
12 N Family Feud
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 Carol Burnett And Friends (guest: Steve Lawrence)
5 PM Mike Douglas (co-host Pat Boone; Mary Wells)
6 PM News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7 PM Rockford Files
8 PM That's Incredible! (a cerebral-palsy victim who's on his high-school football and wrestling teams; a dog that saved its human family from a fire; a Frenchman who eats a bicycle; a woman who uses two men as water skis; a laser-gun demonstration; a 9-year-old female weightlifter)
9 PM ABC Movie: "The Enforcer" (Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry, from '76)
11 PM News
11:30 Nightline
12 M ABC Movie: "The White Dawn"

WAGM Ch. 8 Presque Isle (ABC/CBS/NBC)

6 AM Jim Bakker
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Richard Simmons
9:30 Captain Kangaroo
10 AM One Day At A Time
10:30 Alice
11 AM Price Is Right
12 N Password Plus
12:30 Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Search For Tomorrow
3 PM Guiding Light
4 PM Tattletales
4:30 Mary Tyler Moore
5 PM Merv Griffin (same as Ch. 5)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Family Feud
7:30 American Catholic
8 PM Little House On The Prairie
9 PM M*A*S*H
9:30 Eunice
11 PM News
11:30 Quincy
12:40 Columbo

WMTW Ch. 8 Poland Spring (ABC)

5:45 Jim Bakker
6:45 News
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Movie: "Shalako" (Part 1 of 2)
10:30 Family Feud
11 AM Love Boat
12 N Tic Tac Dough
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Here's Lucy (guest: Chuck Connors)
5 PM Odd Couple
5:30 Hogan's Heroes
6 PM News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7 PM Joker's Wild
7:30 Laverne & Shirley & Company
8 PM That's Incredible!
9 PM ABC Movie: "The Enforcer"
11 PM News
11:30 Nightline
12 M ABC Movie: "The White Dawn"

WCBB Ch. 10 Augusta, ME (PBS)

6:45 A.M. Weather
7 AM Nightly Business Report
7:30 Over Easy (Janet Gaynor, whose career goes back at least to the 1927 film "Wings")
8 AM TBA
8:30 Victory Garden
9 AM Dick Cavett (conclusion of a 1978 interview with Lowell Thomas)
9:30 So You Think You Know Maine?
10 AM In-school programs
11:30 Electric Company
12 N Sesame Street
1 PM In-school programs
2:30 Matinee At The Bijou
4 PM Sesame Street
5:10 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:45 Electric Company (I think this was pledge week, hence some odd scheduling.)
6:15 3-2-1 Contact
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Dick Cavett (Gwen Verdon and the American Dance Machine)
8 PM Great Performances ("Brideshead Revisited," Part 9)
9 PM Bernstein/Beethoven (Leonard Bernstein leads the Vienna Philharmonic in Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A Major, an 1812 work that Franz Liszt characterized as "the apotheosis of rhythm." Bernstein also talks about Beethoven's daily life.)
10 PM Movie: "The Last Hurrah"
12:15 Jack Benny (Ch. 10 ran a lot of Benny's and Burns and Allen's shows.)

WENH Ch. 11 Durham, NH (PBS)

8:15 A.M. Weather
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9 AM In-school programs
12 N Sesame Street
1 PM In-school programs
3 PM It's Everybody's Business
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Training Dogs The Woodhouse Way
6 PM Ben Wattenberg At Large (the baby boom's impact on the economy and housing)
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Lights! Camera! Annie! (the making of the film "Annie," adapted from the Broadway hit)
8:35 That's A Plenty (Conrad Janis and the Beverly Hills Unlisted Jazz Band)
10:05 Great Performances
11:05 Portrait Of Grandpa Doc (an artist pays tribute to the grandfather (played by Melvyn Douglas) who encouraged his ambitions)

WMEB Ch. 12 Orono/WMEG Ch. 26 Biddeford, ME (PBS)

8:15 A.M. Weather
8:30 Focus On Society
9 AM Humanities Through The Arts
9:30 Why In The World
10 AM In-school programs
2:30 America: The Second Century
3 PM Contemporary Health Issues
3:30 Over Easy (Sandler and Young perform.)
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 3-2-1 Contact
6 PM America: The Second Century
6:30 Understanding Human Behavior
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:35 Festival Preview (pledge week)
8 PM Great Performances
9:10 Bernstein/Beethoven
10:15 Portrait Of Grandpa Doc
10:55 Dick Cavett (Gwen Verdon and the American Dance Machine)
11:30 Captioned ABC News

WGAN (WGME) Ch. 13 Portland (CBS)

6 AM Maine Weather
6:30 Captain Kangaroo
7 AM CBS News
9 AM Richard Simmons
9:30 Bullseye
10 AM One Day At A Time
10:30 Alice
11 AM Price Is Right
12 N People's Court
12:30 Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Search For Tomorrow
3 PM Guiding Light
4 PM Little House On The Prairie
5 PM Merv Griffin (same as Ch. 5)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM M*A*S*H
7:30 Happy Days Again
8 PM Mr. Merlin
8:30 American Catholic
9 PM M*A*S*H
9:30 Eunice
11 PM News
11:30 Quincy
12:40 Columbo

WSBK Ch. 38 Boston (Ind.)

6:30 Romper Room And Friends
7 AM F Troop
7:30 Scooby Doo
8 AM Porky Pig/Bugs Bunny
8:30 Cartoon Festival
9 AM Leave It To The Women
9:30 Daytime (local)
10:20 News
10:30 Marcus Welby, M.D.
11:30 INN News
12 N Movie: "Holiday"
2 PM Andy Griffith
2:30 Beverly Hillbillies
3 PM Goodbye, Carnival Girl
3:30 Adam-12
4 PM Emergency!
5 PM Carter Country
5:30 The Jeffersons
6 PM The Jeffersons
6:30 Bob Newhart
7 PM M*A*S*H
7:30 Barney Miller
8 PM Sexual Shakedown (program about sexual harassment in the workplace)
9:30 Sexual Harassment In Boston (local discussion of the sexual harassment in Boston workplaces)
10:30 INN News
11 PM Twilight Zone
11:30 Movie: "Lady In Question"

WLVI Ch. 56 Boston (Ind.)

7 AM Bugs Bunny
7:30 Tom And Jerry
8 AM Great Space Coaster
8:30 Flintstones
9 AM Hot Fudge
9:30 Bozo's Big Top
10 AM De Todo un Poco
10:30 New England Today
11 AM Love Boat (pre-empted on WCVB/5)
12 N Mary Tyler Moore
12:30 I Love Lucy
1 PM Courtship Of Eddie's Father
1:30 Banana Splits
2 PM Yogi Bear
2:30 Casper
3 PM Mighty Mouse
3:30 Woody Woodpecker
4 PM Tom And Jerry
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Brady Bunch
5:30 Brady Bunch
6 PM Happy Days Again
6:30 Laverne & Shirley & Company
7 PM Good Times
7:30 Welcome Back, Kotter (interesting that WCVB was skittish about this show when it debuted in 1975, in the middle of the Boston school-busing crisis)
8 PM Movie: "The Train"
11 PM Saturday Night (Live)
12 M Buck Rogers In The 25th Century
 
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