from TV Guide-Maine edition
WLBZ 2-NBC Bangor
6:30 News
6:40 First Radio Parish Church
6:45 News
7:00 Today (author Debora Phillips discusses coping with the breakup of a relationship)
9:00 America Alive!
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 Jeopardy!
11:00 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
noon News
12:30 Phil Donahue (psychology prof Bernard I. Murphy discusses psychological and sexual aspects of love; something unusual happened this week on 2 and 6-Thursday's show, which dealt with sexual harassment, aired at 12:10 with a local follow-up at 1:10)
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 Hollywood Squares
4:30 Six Million Dollar Man
5:30 Dating Game
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Newlywed Game
7:30 My Three Sons
8:00 Little House on the Prairie
9:00 Movie "Secrets of Three Hungry Wives"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show (Beverly Sills subs for Johnny and welcomes Shecky Greene and Eydie Gorme)
CHSJ 4-CBC Saint John (listed ET, CHSJ was dropped from the edition sometime in the early 80s)
6:30 100 Huntley Street
8:00 Ed Allen Time
8:30 Film
9:00 Camera 12
9:30 Mr. Dressup
10:00 Sesame Street
11:00 Merv Griffin
11:55 News
12:05 Match Game
12:30 Family Feud
1:00 Stan Kann
1:30 Cartoon Fun
2:00 CFL: Ottawa-Hamilton
5:00 News
5:30 Gong Show
6:00 Hawaii Five-O (season premiere)
7:00 WKRP in Cincinnati
7:30 M*A*S*H (pt 1 of the hour-long show on CBS 1 hr later)
8:00 CBC NewsMagazine
8:30 TBA
9:30 CMA Awards (Johnny Cash hosts the 12th annual ceremony, live from Nashville)
11:00 The National
11:25 News
11:40 Canada After Dark (guests Al Waxman, and the Travellers)
WABI 5-CBS Bangor
6:30 Not for Women Only (phobias, pt 1)
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Good Day! (networked live from WCVB Boston; guests Nicholas Von Hoffman, Marie-Claude Wrenn, Dr. Elaine Carroll, and Dr. Ann Bajart)
10:00 All in the Family
10:30 Price is Right
11:30 Love of Life
11:55 CBS News
noon Young & the Restless
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Liars Club
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 M*A*S*H
4:00 Match Game
4:30 Mike Douglas (Mike's first show from his new Hollywood base with co-host Jimmy Stewart and guests Burt Reynolds, Carol Burnett, Chad Everett, LA Mayor Thomas Bradley, and Anne Murray)
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 To Tell the Truth
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8:00 WKRP in Cincinnati
8:30 M*A*S*H
9:30 CMA Awards
11:00 News
11:30 Rockford Files
12:40 Movie "Unwed Father"
WCSH 6-NBC Portland
6:00 Kidsworld
6:35 News
6:40 First Radio Parish Church
6:45 News
7:00 Today
9:00 America Alive!
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 Jeopardy!
11:00 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
noon News
12:30 Phil Donahue
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 Brady Bunch
4:30 Emergency One!
5:30 Dating Game
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Andy Griffith (bw)
7:30 Newlywed Game
8:00 Little House on the Prairie
9:00 Movie "Secrets of Three Hungry Wives"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 Tomorrow (KNBC's Kelly Lange guest hosts)
WVII 7-ABC Bangor (WVII was between its versions of the WKBW and traditional Circle 7 logos, using a logo similar to WJLA DC later in the decade, with a slightly shorter crossbar)
6:00 PTL Club
7:00 Good Morning America (guests Kenny Rogers and Britt Eklund)
9:00 Morning Cinema
9:30 Odd Couple
10:00 PTL Club
11:00 High Hopes
11:30 Family Feud
noon $20,000 Pyramid
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Edge of Night
4:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
5:00 Fred Flintstone & Friends
5:30 Gilligan's Island
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Carol Burnett & Friends (guest William Conrad)
7:30 Gong Show (judges Carl Ballantine, Dorothy Lamour, and Jamie Farr)
8:00 Welcome Back, Kotter
8:30 NFL: Cincinnati-Miami (30 min earlier to counterprogram the CMAs)
11:30 Sports Challenge (WVII didn't have a late newscast, choosing to counterprogram NewsCenter 2 and Telejournal News with syndied programs: others were Hee Haw Honeys (Tues), Comedy Shop (Wed), Cheap Show (Thurs, fitting show for Bangor's El Cheapo network station), and Soap Factory Disco (Fri))
WMTW 8-ABC Poland Spring
6:00 PTL Club
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Good Day! (live from WCVB)
10:00 Everyday
11:00 Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
noon $20,000 Pyramid
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Krofft Superstars
4:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
5:00 Get Smart
5:30 News
6:00 ABC World News Tonight
6:30 Mary Tyler Moore
7:00 Tic Tac Dough
7:30 Joker's Wild
8:00 Welcome Back, Kotter
8:30 NFL: Cincinnati-Miami
11:30 News
mid. Notre Dame Football: highlights of the Irish's game v Michigan State
WAGM 8-CBS/NBC/ABC Presque Isle (WAGM and WABI were sister stations until 1984, sharing many of the same syndied programs)
* Network programs from CBS unless otherwide indicated
5:00 Call for Potato Pickers (WAGM's broadcast area on both sides of the St. John River is prime potato country)
7:00 Today (NBC)
9:00 Captain Kangaroo
10:00 All in the Family
10:30 PTL Club
11:30 Love of Life
11:55 CBS News
noon Young & the Restless
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Not for Women Only (pain, pt 1)
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 M*A*S*H
4:00 Match Game
4:30 Mike Douglas (as ch 5)
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 To Tell the Truth
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8:00 Little House on the Prairie (NBC)
9:00 TBA
9:30 CMA Awards
11:00 News
11:30 Rockford Files
12:40 Movie "Unwed Father"
WCBB 10-PBS Augusta
Instructional Programs to 3pm
3pm Child's Right to Read
3:30 Teaching Children with Special Needs
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Over Easy (guest Mitch Miller)
6:30 Villa Alegre
7:00 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
7:30 Movie "Boy's Town" (bw)
9:30 Seven Dirty Words "The CIA Case Officer"
10:10 Time of the Jackals (re-enactment of the December 1975 terrorist attack on OPEC HQ in Vienna)
11:00 Dick Cavett (guest James Mason)
11:30 Captioned ABC News
WENH 11-PBS Durham
Instructional Programs in AM
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Instructional Programs
1:30 Vegetable Soup
2:00 Instructional Programs
3:00 Julia Child & Company
3:30 Over Easy (Mitch Miller)
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Economically Speaking
6:30 Over Easy (Vivian Vance)
7:00 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
7:30 New Hampshire News
8:00 Long Search (tribal religions)
9:00 Visions "Charlie Smith and the Fritter Tree" (season premiere)
10:30 Film-Makers (premiere)
MPBN (PBS): WMEB 12-Orono, WMEM 10-Presque Isle, WMED 13-Calais, WMEG 26-Biddeford
Instructional Programs in AM
11:00 Electric Company
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Instructional Programs
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Zoom
6:30 Over Easy (Vivian Vance)
7:00 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
7:30 Woods & Waters
8:00 Evening at Symphony (season premiere)
9:00 Visions "Charlie Smith and the Fritter Tree" (season premiere)
10:30 Economically Speaking
11:00 Dick Cavett (James Mason)
11:30 Captioned ABC News
WGAN 13-CBS Portland
6:00 Maine Weather
6:30 Insight
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Mike Douglas (as ch 5/8, minus Anne Murray)
10:00 Dinah! (guests Robert Fuller, Jan Murray, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hal Needham, and Elvis Peacock)
11:00 All in the Family
11:30 Love of Life
11:55 CBS News
noon Young & the Restless
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 House Call
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 Match Game
4:00 Little Rascals (bw)
4:30 Merv Griffin (guest host Joey Bishop welcomes Fernando Lamas, Adrienne Barbeau, Abigail Van Buren, Harry Blackstone Jr., and Foxy)
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Cross-Wits
7:30 Carol Burnett & Friends (guest Jack Gifford)
8:00 WKRP in Cincinnati
8:30 M*A*S*H
9:30 CMA Awards
11:00 News
11:30 Rockford Files
12:40 Movie "Unwed Father"
WLBZ 2-NBC Bangor
6:30 News
6:40 First Radio Parish Church
6:45 News
7:00 Today (author Debora Phillips discusses coping with the breakup of a relationship)
9:00 America Alive!
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 Jeopardy!
11:00 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
noon News
12:30 Phil Donahue (psychology prof Bernard I. Murphy discusses psychological and sexual aspects of love; something unusual happened this week on 2 and 6-Thursday's show, which dealt with sexual harassment, aired at 12:10 with a local follow-up at 1:10)
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 Hollywood Squares
4:30 Six Million Dollar Man
5:30 Dating Game
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Newlywed Game
7:30 My Three Sons
8:00 Little House on the Prairie
9:00 Movie "Secrets of Three Hungry Wives"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show (Beverly Sills subs for Johnny and welcomes Shecky Greene and Eydie Gorme)
CHSJ 4-CBC Saint John (listed ET, CHSJ was dropped from the edition sometime in the early 80s)
6:30 100 Huntley Street
8:00 Ed Allen Time
8:30 Film
9:00 Camera 12
9:30 Mr. Dressup
10:00 Sesame Street
11:00 Merv Griffin
11:55 News
12:05 Match Game
12:30 Family Feud
1:00 Stan Kann
1:30 Cartoon Fun
2:00 CFL: Ottawa-Hamilton
5:00 News
5:30 Gong Show
6:00 Hawaii Five-O (season premiere)
7:00 WKRP in Cincinnati
7:30 M*A*S*H (pt 1 of the hour-long show on CBS 1 hr later)
8:00 CBC NewsMagazine
8:30 TBA
9:30 CMA Awards (Johnny Cash hosts the 12th annual ceremony, live from Nashville)
11:00 The National
11:25 News
11:40 Canada After Dark (guests Al Waxman, and the Travellers)
WABI 5-CBS Bangor
6:30 Not for Women Only (phobias, pt 1)
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Good Day! (networked live from WCVB Boston; guests Nicholas Von Hoffman, Marie-Claude Wrenn, Dr. Elaine Carroll, and Dr. Ann Bajart)
10:00 All in the Family
10:30 Price is Right
11:30 Love of Life
11:55 CBS News
noon Young & the Restless
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Liars Club
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 M*A*S*H
4:00 Match Game
4:30 Mike Douglas (Mike's first show from his new Hollywood base with co-host Jimmy Stewart and guests Burt Reynolds, Carol Burnett, Chad Everett, LA Mayor Thomas Bradley, and Anne Murray)
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 To Tell the Truth
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8:00 WKRP in Cincinnati
8:30 M*A*S*H
9:30 CMA Awards
11:00 News
11:30 Rockford Files
12:40 Movie "Unwed Father"
WCSH 6-NBC Portland
6:00 Kidsworld
6:35 News
6:40 First Radio Parish Church
6:45 News
7:00 Today
9:00 America Alive!
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 Jeopardy!
11:00 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
noon News
12:30 Phil Donahue
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3:00 Another World
4:00 Brady Bunch
4:30 Emergency One!
5:30 Dating Game
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Andy Griffith (bw)
7:30 Newlywed Game
8:00 Little House on the Prairie
9:00 Movie "Secrets of Three Hungry Wives"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
1:00 Tomorrow (KNBC's Kelly Lange guest hosts)
WVII 7-ABC Bangor (WVII was between its versions of the WKBW and traditional Circle 7 logos, using a logo similar to WJLA DC later in the decade, with a slightly shorter crossbar)
6:00 PTL Club
7:00 Good Morning America (guests Kenny Rogers and Britt Eklund)
9:00 Morning Cinema
9:30 Odd Couple
10:00 PTL Club
11:00 High Hopes
11:30 Family Feud
noon $20,000 Pyramid
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Edge of Night
4:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
5:00 Fred Flintstone & Friends
5:30 Gilligan's Island
6:00 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Carol Burnett & Friends (guest William Conrad)
7:30 Gong Show (judges Carl Ballantine, Dorothy Lamour, and Jamie Farr)
8:00 Welcome Back, Kotter
8:30 NFL: Cincinnati-Miami (30 min earlier to counterprogram the CMAs)
11:30 Sports Challenge (WVII didn't have a late newscast, choosing to counterprogram NewsCenter 2 and Telejournal News with syndied programs: others were Hee Haw Honeys (Tues), Comedy Shop (Wed), Cheap Show (Thurs, fitting show for Bangor's El Cheapo network station), and Soap Factory Disco (Fri))
WMTW 8-ABC Poland Spring
6:00 PTL Club
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Good Day! (live from WCVB)
10:00 Everyday
11:00 Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
noon $20,000 Pyramid
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Krofft Superstars
4:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC
5:00 Get Smart
5:30 News
6:00 ABC World News Tonight
6:30 Mary Tyler Moore
7:00 Tic Tac Dough
7:30 Joker's Wild
8:00 Welcome Back, Kotter
8:30 NFL: Cincinnati-Miami
11:30 News
mid. Notre Dame Football: highlights of the Irish's game v Michigan State
WAGM 8-CBS/NBC/ABC Presque Isle (WAGM and WABI were sister stations until 1984, sharing many of the same syndied programs)
* Network programs from CBS unless otherwide indicated
5:00 Call for Potato Pickers (WAGM's broadcast area on both sides of the St. John River is prime potato country)
7:00 Today (NBC)
9:00 Captain Kangaroo
10:00 All in the Family
10:30 PTL Club
11:30 Love of Life
11:55 CBS News
noon Young & the Restless
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Not for Women Only (pain, pt 1)
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 M*A*S*H
4:00 Match Game
4:30 Mike Douglas (as ch 5)
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 To Tell the Truth
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8:00 Little House on the Prairie (NBC)
9:00 TBA
9:30 CMA Awards
11:00 News
11:30 Rockford Files
12:40 Movie "Unwed Father"
WCBB 10-PBS Augusta
Instructional Programs to 3pm
3pm Child's Right to Read
3:30 Teaching Children with Special Needs
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Over Easy (guest Mitch Miller)
6:30 Villa Alegre
7:00 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
7:30 Movie "Boy's Town" (bw)
9:30 Seven Dirty Words "The CIA Case Officer"
10:10 Time of the Jackals (re-enactment of the December 1975 terrorist attack on OPEC HQ in Vienna)
11:00 Dick Cavett (guest James Mason)
11:30 Captioned ABC News
WENH 11-PBS Durham
Instructional Programs in AM
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Instructional Programs
1:30 Vegetable Soup
2:00 Instructional Programs
3:00 Julia Child & Company
3:30 Over Easy (Mitch Miller)
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Economically Speaking
6:30 Over Easy (Vivian Vance)
7:00 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
7:30 New Hampshire News
8:00 Long Search (tribal religions)
9:00 Visions "Charlie Smith and the Fritter Tree" (season premiere)
10:30 Film-Makers (premiere)
MPBN (PBS): WMEB 12-Orono, WMEM 10-Presque Isle, WMED 13-Calais, WMEG 26-Biddeford
Instructional Programs in AM
11:00 Electric Company
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Instructional Programs
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6:00 Zoom
6:30 Over Easy (Vivian Vance)
7:00 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
7:30 Woods & Waters
8:00 Evening at Symphony (season premiere)
9:00 Visions "Charlie Smith and the Fritter Tree" (season premiere)
10:30 Economically Speaking
11:00 Dick Cavett (James Mason)
11:30 Captioned ABC News
WGAN 13-CBS Portland
6:00 Maine Weather
6:30 Insight
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Mike Douglas (as ch 5/8, minus Anne Murray)
10:00 Dinah! (guests Robert Fuller, Jan Murray, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hal Needham, and Elvis Peacock)
11:00 All in the Family
11:30 Love of Life
11:55 CBS News
noon Young & the Restless
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 House Call
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 Match Game
4:00 Little Rascals (bw)
4:30 Merv Griffin (guest host Joey Bishop welcomes Fernando Lamas, Adrienne Barbeau, Abigail Van Buren, Harry Blackstone Jr., and Foxy)
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Cross-Wits
7:30 Carol Burnett & Friends (guest Jack Gifford)
8:00 WKRP in Cincinnati
8:30 M*A*S*H
9:30 CMA Awards
11:00 News
11:30 Rockford Files
12:40 Movie "Unwed Father"