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Retro: Meriden, CT, Monday, October 19, 1981

from Record-Journal

2 WCBS CBS New York
6:10 News
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7:00 Wake Up with the Captain
7:30 Morning with Charles Kuralt
9:00 The Lives We Live
9:30 Leave It to the Women
10:00 One Day at a Time (r)
10:30 Alice (r)
11:00 Price is Right
12:00 The World of People
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Search for Tomorrow
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Up to the Minute
4:30 Joker's Wild
5:00 Barnaby Jones
6:00 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 2 on the Town
8:00 Private Benjamin
8:30 The Two of Us
9:00 Valley of the Dolls (part 1)
11:00 News
11:30 Quincy, ME
12:40 Harry O
1:50 Movie "The Prisoner of Zenda"
3:50 The Lives We Live (r)

3 WFSB CBS Hartford
6:00 Stacy on Film
6:30 Hot Fudge
7:00 News
7:30 Morning with Charles Kuralt
9:00 Richard Simmons
9:30 Leave It to the Women
10:00 One Day at a Time (r)
10:30 Alice (r)
11:00 Maude
11:30 All in the Family
12:00 News
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Search for Tomorrow
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Laverne & Shirley and Company
4:30 The Jeffersons
5:00 Barney Miller
5:30 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 PM Magazine
8:00 Private Benjamin
8:30 The Two of Us
9:00 Valley of the Dolls (part 1)
11:00 News
11:35 Hawaii Five-O
12:35 Adam-12
1:05 Charlie Rose
1:35 News

4 WNBC NBC New York
5:55 Carrascolendas
6:25 Health Field
6:55 News
7:00 Today
9:00 Donahue
10:00 Las Vegas Gambit
10:30 Blockbusters
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Password Plus
12:00 Card Sharks
12:30 The Doctors
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Texas
4:00 Here's Lucy
4:30 Mary Tyler Moore
5:00 News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 Little House on the Prairie
9:00 Movie "More American Graffiti"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Tomorrow
2:00 Mary Tyler Moore
2:30 The Millionaire

5 WNEW Ind New York
5:30 Underdog
6:00 New Zoo Revue
6:30 Battle of the Planets
7:00 Porky Pig & Friends
7:30 Great Space Coaster
8:00 Woody Woodpecker
8:30 Bugs Bunny
9:00 Brady Bunch
9:30 My Three Sons
10:00 The Waltons
11:00 Hour Magazine
12:00 Midday
1:20 News
1:30 Super Pay Cards
2:00 Get Smart
2:30 Addams Family
3:00 Woody Woodpecker & Friends
4:00 The Flintstones
4:30 Little Rascals
5:00 Gilligan's Island
5:30 What's Happening!!
6:00 Charlie's Angels
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 World Series: Past & Present
8:00 PM Magazine
8:30 Merv Griffin
10:00 News
11:00 Kojak
12:30 Hogan's Heroes
1:00 Rat Patrol
1:30 Love, American Style
2:00 Best of Midday
3:25 Off the Set

7 WABC ABC New York
6:00 News
6:25 Listen & Learn
6:55 News
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Richard Simmons
9:30 Good Morning New York
10:30 People's Court
11:00 The Love Boat (r)
12:00 Family Feud
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 The Edge of Night
4:30 Movie "Playmates"
6:00 News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Day of Disaster
8:00 That's Incredible!
9:00 NFL: Chicago at Detroit
11:45 News
12:15 ABC News Nightline
12:45 Movie "Guns of Diablo"
2:15 News

8 WTNH ABC New Haven
6:00 High School Bowl
6:30 Good Morning Connecticut
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Donahue
10:00 People's Court
10:30 The Love Boat (r)
11:30 Family Feud
12:00 News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Merv Griffin
5:00 Happy Days Again
5:30 M*A*S*H
6:00 News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 That's Incredible!
9:00 NFL: Chicago at Detroit
11:45 News
12:15 ABC News Nightline
12:45 Six Million Dollar Man

9 WOR Ind New York
5:05 News
5:30 Morning Stretch
6:00 Joe Franklin
7:00 Jimmy Swaggart
7:30 Jim Bakker
8:30 Meet the Mayors
9:00 Romper Room
10:00 Straight Talk
11:00 John Davidson
12:00 News
1:00 Let's Make a Deal
1:30 Pitfall
2:00 Tic Tac Dough
2:30 Bullseye
3:00 Bonanza
4:00 Movie "Follow That Dream"
6:00 Treasure Hunt
6:30 Match Game
7:00 You Asked for It
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
8:00 Leonard Bernstein Conducts
9:00 Movie "The Night Digger"
11:00 Benny Hill
11:30 Maude
12:00 Movie "A Place for Lovers"
2:00 Joe Franklin
3:00 Movie "No Way Out"

11 WPIX Ind New York
5:00 Best of Groucho
5:30 Biography
6:00 Carrascolendas
6:30 Hot Fudge
7:00 Popeye
7:30 Tom & Jerry
8:00 Cartoons
8:30 Hector Heathcote & Friends
9:00 The Munsters
9:30 Mike Douglas
10:30 Focus: New Jersey
11:00 New Jersey: Hispanic Perspective
11:30 The Odd Couple
12:00 INN News
12:30 Another Life
1:00 700 Club
2:00 Magic Garden
2:30 Heckle & Jeckle
3:00 Magilla Gorilla
3:30 Krofft Superstars
4:00 Tom & Jerry
4:30 Scooby-Doo
5:00 Good Times
5:30/6:00 Happy Days Again
6:30 Barney Miller
7:00 Laverne & Shirley and Company
7:30 News
8:00 Movie "Kotch"
10:00 INN News
10:30 News
11:00 The Jeffersons
11:30 Saturday Night
12:30 Solid Gold
1:30 INN News (r)
2:00 Movie "CC & Company"
4:00 Abbott & Costello
4:30 Hazel

13 WNET PBS Newark
6:30 Inside Albany (r)
7:00 Enterprise
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report (r)
8:00 Cosmos
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Educational programming
11:30 The Electric Company
12:00 Over Easy
12:30 High Feather
1:00 Educational programming
3:00 Fast Forward
3:30 The Victory Garden
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (r)
5:30 The Electric Company (r)
6:00 Dick Cavett (guest Stanley Elkin)
6:30 News
7:00 Nightly Business Report
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 Great Performances "La Clemenza di Tito"
10:30 Hundertwasser's Rainy Day
11:00 Dick Cavett (guest Sissy Spacek)
11:30 The Duchess of Duke Street

18 WHCT Ind Hartford
4pm Family Focus
5:00 Domata
5:30 Dr. Scott on Hebrews
7:00 Festival of Faith
10:00 Dr. Scott on Hebrews
12:00 Living Faith
2:00 Dr. Gene Scott

20 WATR NBC Waterbury
6:30 New Zoo Revue
7:00 Today
9:00 Celebration of the Eucharist
9:30 That Girl
10:00 Las Vegas Gambit
10:30 Blockbusters
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Password Plus
12:00 Card Sharks
12:30 The Doctors
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Texas
4:00 Jim Bakker
5:00 People Are Talking
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Super Pay Cards
7:30 Sha Na Na
8:00 Little House on the Prairie
9:00 Movie "More American Graffiti"
11:00 Nostalgia Theater
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Tomorrow

22 WWLP NBC Springfield
5:00 Star Trek
6:00 Jim Bakker
7:00 Today
9:00 Donahue
10:00 22 Alive
10:30 Blockbusters
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Password Plus
12:00 Card Sharks
12:30 The Doctors
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Texas
4:00 Bugs Bunny & Friends
4:30 Bewitched
5:00 Happy Days Again
5:30 Entertainment Tonight
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 News
7:30 M*A*S*H
8:00 Little House on the Prairie
9:00 Movie "More American Graffiti"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Benny Hill
1:00 Entertainment Tonight (r)
1:30 Laurel & Hardy
2:00 Star Trek
3:00 Bionic Woman
4:00 News

24 WEDH PBS Hartford
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Educational programming
12:00 Masterpiece Theatre
1:00 Educational programming
1:30 This Old House
2:00 The Forsyte Saga
3:00 From Jumpstreet (r)
3:30 Villa Alegre
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (r)
5:30 The Electric Company (r)
6:00 Biology
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 Nancy Savin/The Arts
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 Great Performances "La Clemenza di Tito"
10:30 Connecticut Primetime

30 WVIT NBC New Britain
6:00 Health Field
6:30 Connecticut Newsmakers
7:00 Today
9:00 I Love Lucy
9:30 I Dream of Jeannie
10:00 Las Vegas Gambit
10:30 Blockbusters
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Password Plus
12:00 Card Sharks
12:30 The Doctors
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Texas
4:00 Movie "Billion Dollar Hobo"
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Entertainment Tonight
7:30 Omni
8:00 Little House on the Prairie
9:00 Movie "More American Graffiti"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Tomorrow

38 WSBK Ind Boston
6:30 Romper Room
7:00 Batman
7:30 Scooby-Doo
8:00 Bugs Bunny & Friends
8:30 Cartoons
9:00 Nanny & the Professor
9:30 Daytime
10:20 News
10:30 Leave It to the Women
11:00 Our Miss Brooks
11:30 INN News
12:00 Movie "From the Terrace"
2:30 Beverly Hillbillies
3:00 Bewitched
3:30 Adam-12
4:00 Emergency!
5:00 Carter Country
5:30/6:00 The Jeffersons
6:30 Bob Newhart
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 Barney Miller
8:00 Movie "A Girl Named Sooner"
10:00 INN News
10:30 The Odd Couple
11:00 Bob Newhart
11:30 Movie "The House on 92nd Street"

40 WGGB ABC Springfield
6:30 Lassie
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 People's Court
9:30 The Edge of Night (r)
10:00 Richard Simmons
10:30 Andy Griffith
11:00 The Love Boat (r)
12:00 Family Feud
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 The Waltons
5:00 Carol Burnett & Friends
5:30 News
6:00 The Rockford Files
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 You Asked for It
8:00 That's Incredible!
9:00 NFL: Chicago at Detroit
11:45 News
12:15 ABC News Nightline

41 WXTV SIN Paterson
8:00 Agencia SOSSA
8:30 El Chapulin Colorado
9:00 El Chavo
9:30 Concurso de la TV
10:00 Muchacha Italiana Viene a Casarse
11:30 Hoy Mismo
1:00 Mundo Latino
2:00 Nueva York Ahora
2:30 Espejisimo
3:00 Pecado Capital
4:00 Emilia
5:00 Hogar, Dulce Hogar
5:30 Quiereme Siempre
6:00 Reporter 41
6:30 Noticiero Nacional SIN
7:00 El Hogar Que Yo Robe
7:30 Rosa de Lejos
8:30 Chespirito
9:30 El Idolo
10:00 Noche a Noche
10:30 24 Horas
11:15 Reporter 41
11:30 Cine "Los Años Verdes"
1:30 Chespirito (r)
2:30 Hogar, Dulce Hogar (r)
3:00 Muchacha Italiana Viene a Casarse (r)

56 WLVI Ind Cambridge
6:30 Hot Fudge
7:00 Popeye
7:30 The Flintstones
8:00 Gilligan's Island
8:30 Great Space Coaster
9:00 Woody Woodpecker
9:30 Banana Splits
10:00 De Todo Un Poco
10:30 New England Today
11:00 The Love Boat (ABC; it entered syndication in September 1983)
12:00 That Girl
12:30 Partridge Family
1:00 New Zoo Revue
1:30 Bozo
2:00 Yogi Bear
2:30 Casper
3:00 Mighty Mouse
3:30 Woody Woodpecker
4:00 Tom & Jerry
4:30 The Flintstones
5:00/5:30 Brady Bunch
6:00 Happy Days Again
6:30 Laverne & Shirley and Company
7:00 Welcome Back, Kotter
7:30 Good Times
8:00 Movie "The Long Goodbye"
10:00/10:30 Mary Tyler Moore
11:00 Saturday Night
12:00 Flash Gordon

57 WGBY PBS Springfield
9:15 AM Weather
9:30 Educational programming
10:30 The Electric Company
11:00 Freestyle
11:30 The Advocates in Brief
12:00 Sesame Street
1:00 Educational programming
2:30 Maggie & the Beautiful Machine
3:00 From Jumpstreet (r)
3:30 Villa Alegre
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (r)
5:30 The Electric Company (r)
6:00 Humanities Through the Arts
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 Over Easy
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8:00 Great Performances "La Clemenza di Tito"
10:30 Hundertwasser's Rainy Day
11:00 Dick Cavett
11:30 Captioned ABC News
 
Channel 3 (CBS) of Hartford didn't air "The Price Is Right"? I thought they had only done that in the days of "Hour Magazine" a couple of years later? As these listings show, Dr, Gene Scott and his people were operating channel 18 of Hartford. Channel 20 of Waterbury was still a secondary NBC affiliate for a few more months. The following stations had yet to sign on:

WHPX-TV (ION) channel 26 of New London [As WTWS-TV (IND) in September 1986]
WCTX-TV (MY) channel 59 of New Haven [As WTVU-TV (WB), later WBNE-TV, in 1995]
WTIC-TV (FOX) channel 61 of Hartford [September 17, 1984]

It looks like news was almost unheard of before 6:30 AM or between 4 to 6 PM! :eek:
 
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