REQUEST: CHRISTMAS EVE 1977!

[blackgold]

Anybody with TV schedules from Christmas Eve 1977-anywhere in the world?

 

[Mike Stroud]

Man, you're seven months early. What's the rush? An Xmas in July party or something? Just curious.

 

[BD Sullivan]

All the NBC affiliates were carrying an NFL doubleheader: Colts vs. Raiders in the 1:00 game (which went into double OT) and Steelers vs. Broncos in the 4:00 clash.

 

[Corky Marlowe]

Colts vs. Raiders in the 1:00 game

"The autumn wind...Is a pirate."

 

[MCarney]

I can get you one for Boston. It may take me a while to post it - I'll have it up by the end of the weekend.

 

[McCorryKL]

Here you go. Maritime provinces, Canada.

CKCW Channel 2 Moncton, Channel 8 Charlottetown / CJCB Channel 4 Sydney / CJCH Channel 5 Halifax /
CKLT Channel 9 Saint John (CTV)
8:00 Funtown
9:00 Spiderman
9:30 ATV Funtime
10:30 Let's Go!
11:00 George
11:30 How Christmas Returns to Shaleen
12:30 Harrigan
1:00 Tree House
1:30 NFL Football - Baltimore @ Oakland
4:30 NFL Football - Pittsburgh @ Denver
7:30 News
8:00 Bionic Woman - "Sister Jaime"
9:00 Billy Graham Crusade
10:00 Movie - Misty (1961; David Ladd, Arthur O'Connell, Pam Smith)
12:00 CTV News
12:20 ATV News
12:30 George Hamilton IV
1:00 Movie - Young Pioneers' Christmas (1976; Linda Purl, Robert Hays, Roger Kurn)

CBHT Channel 3 Halifax / CBIT Channel 5 Sydney / CBCT Channel 13 Charlottetown (CBC)
9:30 Sesame Street
10:30 Parade
11:30 Peanuts and Popcorn
1:00 Movie - A Christmas Carol (1938; Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Leo G. Carroll)
2:30 Dofasco's Christmas
3:00 CBC Saturday Sports
5:00 Curling Classic
6:00 Space: 1999 - "The Infernal Machine"
7:00 CBC News
7:30 Christmas Special
8:00 Muppet Show
8:30 On Our Own
9:00 Once Upon an Evening With Shari Lewis
10:00 Dostoevsky
11:00 CBC News
11:15 News
11:35 Vatican Christmas

CJBR Channel 3 Rimouski, Quebec (SRC)
10:00 Heidi
10:30 Wickie
11:00 La Maison de personne
11:30 Joe le fugitif
12:00 Es-tu d'Accord?
12:30 Declic
1:00 Heros du Samedi
2:00 Football Americain - Demi-finale
5:00 Sportheque
6:00 Bagatelle
7:00 A Communiquer
7:30 Telejournal
7:35 Ici, ailleurs
8:00 La Femme Bionique
9:00 La Veillee de Noel
10:30 Scenario
11:00 Chorale
11:30 Telejournal
12:00 Concert
1:00 Messe de minuit
2:00 Cinema - L'Arbre de Noel (1969; William Holden, Virna Lisi, Mario Feliciani)

CHSJ (CBAT) Channel 4 Saint John / Channel 6 Newcastle / Channel 7 Moncton (CBC)
8:00 Circle Square
8:30 Coming Up Rosie
9:00 Mr. Dressup
9:30 Miss Ann
10:30 Flipper
11:00 Life and Times of Grizzly Adams
12:00 On the Go
12:30 What's New?
1:00 Nativity Parade
1:30 Custard Pie
2:00 Canadian Express
3:00 CBC Saturday Sports
5:00 Curling Classic
6:00 Space: 1999 - "The Infernal Machine"
7:00 Cosmic Christmas
7:30 Bob Hope
8:30 Christmas Special
9:00 Once Upon an Evening With Shari Lewis
10:00 Dostoevsky
11:00 CBC News
11:15 News
11:35 Vatican Christmas

CBAFT Channel 11 Moncton (SRC)
10:00 Heidi
10:30 Wickie
11:00 La Maison de personne
11:30 Joe le fugitif
12:00 Es-tu d'Accord?
12:30 Declic
1:00 Heros du Samedi
2:00 Football Americain - Demi-finale
5:00 Sportheque
6:00 Bagatelle
7:00 Genies en Herbe
7:30 Telejournal
7:35 Ici, ailleurs
8:00 La Femme Bionique
9:00 La Veillee de Noel
10:30 Scenario
11:00 Chorale
11:30 Telejournal
12:00 Concert
1:00 Messe de minuit
2:00 Cinema - L'Arbre de Noel (1969; William Holden, Virna Lisi, Mario Feliciani)

WLBZ Channel 2 Bangor (NBC)
8:30 Bugs Bunny
9:00 CB Bears
10:00 Space Sentinels
10:30 Superwitch
11:00 Shang Bang Lalapalooza Show
11:30 I am the Greatest
12:00 Super-Horse Starring Thunder
12:30 Search and Rescue
1:00 NFL '77
1:30 NFL Football - Baltimore @ Oakland
4:30 NFL Football - Pittsburgh @ Denver
7:30 NBC News
8:00 Christmas in Northern New England
9:00 Bionic Woman - "Sister Jaime"
10:00 Movie - In Search of Noah's Ark (1976; Brad Crandell, Vern Adix)
12:00 News
12:30 Sounds of Christmas Eve
1:00 Christmas in Rome

WVII Channel 7 Bangor (ABC)
8:00 Tennessee Tuxedo
8:30 Valley of the Dinosaurs
9:00 Super-Friends
10:00 Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics
12:00 Krofft Supershow
1:00 ABC Weekend Specials - "My Dear Uncle Sherlock"
1:30 American Bandstand
2:30 Movie - Miracle On 34th Street (1947; Edmund Gwenn, John Payne, Maureen O'Hara)
4:30 Christmas Child
5:00 Animal World
5:30 Green Acres
6:00 Wide World of Sports
7:30 Newport Full Gospel Church
8:00 Odd Couple
8:30 King of Kensington
9:00 Billy Graham Crusade
10:00 Starsky and Hutch - "Little Girl Lost"
11:00 Love Boat
12:00 Stacey's Country Jamboree

WAGM Channel 8 Presque Isle (CBS, NBC, ABC)
9:00 Skatebirds
10:00 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
11:30 Batman/Tarzan
12:30 Space Academy - "The Survivors of Zalon"
1:00 Isis
1:30 Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
2:00 Children's Film Festival - "Miguel's Navidad"
2:30 Razzamatazz
3:00 Marlo and the Magic Movie Machine
4:00 Nashville On the Road
4:30 Christmas is
5:00 Pop! Goes the Country
5:30 Here Comes Santa Claus
6:00 Wide World of Sports
7:30 CBS News
8:00 Lawrence Welk
9:00 Billy Graham Crusade
10:00 Starsky and Hutch - "Little Girl Lost"
11:00 Kojak - "I Could Kill My Wife's Lawyer"
12:00 News
12:15 Sacred Heart
12:30 Sounds of Christmas Eve
1:00 Midnight Mass

WMEM Channel 10 Presque Isle / WMED Channel 13 Calais (PBS)
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Christmastime With Mister Rogers
7:00 Electric Company
7:30 State Wide
8:00 Wall $treet Week
8:30 Agronsky and Company
9:00 Studio Concert
9:30 Christmas Celebration
10:00 Christmas at Pops
11:00 Evening at Symphony
12:00 Shivaree

 

[DToTheJ]

WVII Channel 7 Bangor (ABC)
5:30 Green Acres
8:00 Odd Couple

I'm assuming these were holiday-themed episodes?

 

[skippercollector]

Do you remember what day of the week this was?

 

[Maine-i-ac]

WVII Channel 7 Bangor (ABC)
5:30 Green Acres
8:00 Odd Couple

I'm assuming these were holiday-themed episodes?

Knowing WVII, probably......for the 4th of July. ;D

 

[ixnay]

Colts vs. Raiders in the 1:00 game

"The autumn wind...Is a pirate."

That game ended with "Ghost to the Post" (Stabler hitting Casper early in the 6th quarter). It was the Colts' last playoff game (and last winning season) as representatives of Baltimore. By the start of the 1984 season, both franchises had relocated.

ixnay

 

[gbranch]

Do you remember what day of the week this was?

Judging by the schedule of morning cartoons, American Bandstand, and NFL games, I would guess Saturday.

 

[BD Sullivan]

Colts vs. Raiders in the 1:00 game

"The autumn wind...Is a pirate."

That game ended with "Ghost to the Post" (Stabler hitting Casper early in the 6th quarter). It was the Colts' last playoff game (and last winning season) as representatives of Baltimore. By the start of the 1984 season, both franchises had relocated.

ixnay

Casper's catch to get the Raiders into position for the game-tying field goal was a classic, perfectly placed by Stabler with Casper basically looking backwards over his head for the ball.

Yes, it was definitely a Saturday; the first Sunday Christmas since 1966.

 

[blackgold]

Yes, that was also the day that PBS aired "Christmas Around The World," featuring Christmas celebrations from around the world via satellite.

 

[skippercollector]

Since network schedules didn't change by the hour in 1977, I am assuming that the fall schedule for Saturday night in 1977 was still basically intact for the three networks. This is from a TV book I own:

ABC
8 p.m. Fish
8:30 p.m. Operation Petticoat
9 p.m. Starsky and Hutch
10 p.m. Love Boat

CBS
8 p.m. Bob Newhart Show
8:30 p.m. We've Got Each Other
9 p.m. The Jeffersons
9:30 p.m. The Tony Randall Show
10 p.m. The Carol Burnett Show

NBC
8 p.m. Bionic Woman
9 p.m. NBC Saturday Night Movie

Usually one of the networks aired the Christmas Mass from Rome later that evening.
Believe it or not, I found a photo from Christmas Eve 1977 and scanned it for your viewing pleasure. It took me all of 30 seconds to locate the picture in an album. It's me on the left (I was 16) with my two younger sisters. I doubt the TV was on, which is why I am drawing a blank as to what might have aired that night.

http://twitpic.com/cx8lwg



She has old hard copy photos? (GASP). And she's able to locate them easily? (DOUBLE GASP). And the photos aren't digitized on her phone? (SHOCKING!) Families were actually pleasant to each other and smiled? (THE HORROR!)

 

[Tim L]

Someone several years ago put up the entire Christmas Eve 1977 6PM Newscast of WJKW-TV 8, Cleveland. The video is actually an hour, beginning with the conclusion of "Lawrence Welk", through public affairs program "Public Square" Includes all commercials and promos, including several special Christmas Greeting promos..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtgSBAZWnbU

For reference, here is Channel 8's Schedule for that evening

5 Lawrence Welk
6 News
6:30 Public Square
7 Hee Haw
8 Bob Newhart
8:30 We've Got Each Other
9 Jeffersons
9:30 Tony Randall
10 Kojak (Carol Burnett had moved to Sunday Nights at 10 December 11, 1977)

11 News
11:30 Christmas Special from a United Methodist Church in San Francisco

1 Movie-Silent Night, Lonely Night (1969)
3 Movie-Come To the Stable (1949)

Source:Cleveland Plain Dealer Archives (Cleveland Public Library)

 

[McCorryKL]

WVII Channel 7 Bangor (ABC)
5:30 Green Acres
8:00 Odd Couple

I'm assuming these were holiday-themed episodes?

They could have been. No episode synopses were printed.

And yes, Christmas Eve in 1977 was on a Saturday. I remember it well.