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Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Fri., Nov. 7, 1969

From TV Guide, Georgia (Atlanta) Edition

NOTE: It's not indicated if Chs. 8, 15, 18, and 30 had in-school programs, so I'll start with the first listed program in each case.

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

6:20 Town And Country
6:25 Farm News
6:30 To Live Again
7 AM Today (from Washington: Sen. Margaret Chase Smith (R-Maine) and a feature on Amnesty International)
9 AM Today In Georgia
10 AM It Takes Two (Gary Lewis and Lori Saunders and spouses; dates Jo Anne Worley and Roger Perry)
10:25 NBC News (Nancy Dickerson)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century (Jack Kelly, aka Bart Maverick, was hosting at the time.)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Nanette Fabray, Gail Fisher, Joe Flynn, Jan Murray, Dennis Weaver, Wally Cox, Rose Marie, Charley Weaver, Paul Lynde)
12 N News (Hal Suit)
12:30 Mike Douglas (co-hostess Shirley Jones; Sen. Howard Baker (R-Tennessee)
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
]3:30 Bright Promise
4 PM Letters To Laugh-In (Nanette Fabray, Jaye P. Morgan, Mickey Rooney, Alan Sues)
4:30 Truth Or Consequences
5 PM Perry Mason
6 PM Newsroom (Hal Suit/David Sisson)
7 PM Huntley-Brinkley Report
7:30 High Chaparral
8:30 Name Of The Game
10 PM Bracken's World
11 PM Newsroom (Dick Horner)
11:30 Tonight Show (in Hollywood: Eva Gabor, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy)
1 AM Movie: "The Dark At The Top Of The Stairs"

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Steve Allen (George Jessel, Sandy Baron, Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, Playmate Connie Kreski, ex-Dodgers star Don Newcombe)
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Name Droppers (Bill Bixby, Ruth Buzzi, Carl Reiner)
12:55 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
1 PM Bulletin
1:20 Fashions In Sewing
1:30 You're Putting Me On (Tiny Tim, Marty Allen, Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen, Phyllis Diller, Brenda Vaccaro)
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Bright Promise
4 PM Letters To Laugh-In
4:30 Movie: "Flesh And Fury"
6 PM News (Mort Lloyd)
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 High Chaparral
8:30 Name Of The Game
10 PM Bracken's World
11 PM News (Morris/Fischer)
11:30 Tonight Show

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6 AM Sunrise Semester: "Geology"
6:30 This Is Your Town
7 AM CBS News (Joseph Benti)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Mr. Pix (Dave Michaels)
9:30 Gomer Pyle, USMC (day-behind from 4 PM)
10 AM The Lucy Show (guest: Joan Blondell)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N News (Moore/Gardner)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Divorce Court
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Movie: "The Little Hut"
6 PM News (Jim Axel/either Ray or Chuck Moore)
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM I Love Lucy
7:30 Get Smart
8 PM The Good Guys
8:30 Hogan's Heroes
9 PM CBS Movie: "How To Stuff A Wild Bikini" (Frankie and Annette, from '65)
11 PM Panorama (Axel/Bridges)
11:30 Movie: "Sweet Bird Of Youth" (Merv airs Sunday 11:45 PM)

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta
WDCO Ch. 15 (WMUM Ch. 29) Cochran
WCLP (WNGH) Ch. 18 Chatsworth (NET)

4:30 What's New
5 PM Pocketful Of Fun ("Sesame Street" debuts here Mon., Nov. 10)
5:30 Once Upon A Day
6 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6:30 Innovations
7 PM Coach Lawson (part 2 on "The Fundamentals of Golf")
7:30 American West (Jack Smith discovers marine fossils in the deserts of Southern California; they date back to when a prehistoric ocean covered the area.)
8 PM NET Festival ("The Seekers: The Heretics," about a group of medieval English religious dissenters sent to die in the wilderness because they have been branded as heretics.)
9:30 My Song Is Black (Part 1 of 4 on the history of African-Americans in song and dance)
10 PM Headlines (David Keen, chair of Young Americans for Freedom, discusses the conservative attack on the student left.)
sign off 10:30 PM

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

7:45 Upward Look
8 AM Jack LaLanne
8:30 Dennis The Menace
9 AM Funtime
10 AM Movie: "Safari"
11:30 That Girl (day-behind from 12:30 PM)
12 N Bewitched
12:30 News (Hogue/Martin)
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Jeff's Collie
5 PM Bob Brandy
5:30 News (Gil Norwood)
6 PM ABC News (Frank Reynolds/Howard K. Smith)
6:30 Real McCoys
7 PM I Love Lucy (the Orson Welles episode)
7:30 Movie: "The List Of Adrian Messenger"
9:30 Let's Make A Deal (delay from 7:30 PM)
10 PM Jimmy Durante Presents The Lennon Sisters Hour (Fess Parker, John Byner, Hines, Hines & Dad)
11 PM News (Bill McAfee)
11:30 Joey Bishop

WQXI (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

7 AM Bullwinkle (delay from Sun 11 AM)
7:30 Tubby And Lester
9 AM Romper Room
10 AM Real McCoys
10:30 My Favorite Martian
11 AM He Said! She Said! (the show that would become "Tattletales" in 1974)
11:30 Galloping Gourmet
12 N Bewitched
12:30 That Girl (guests: Ruth Buzzi, Rich Little)
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Daktari
5:30 News (Bob Neal/Art Collier--many of you may know Neal as a sportscaster, but he anchored Ch. 11's newscast for three years, until 1972 when Virgil Dominic and Ron Becker became co-anchors and Neal went back to sports)
6 PM Dick Van Dyke
6:30 Hazel
7 PM What's My Line? (Arlene Francis, Welsh actor Gawn Grainger, Phyllis Newman, Soupy Sales)
7:30 Movie: "The Savage" (watch for a pre-"Gunsmoke" Milburn Stone, from '52)
9:30 Brady Bunch (delay from 8 PM)
10 PM Jimmy Durante Presents The Lennon Sisters Hour
11 PM News (Paul Reynolds/Linda Faye Carson)
11:30 Movie: "I Passed For White" (an African-American girl tries to cross the color line; watch for James Franciscus, from '60)
1:10 Rifleman

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

6:25 Focus (educational)
6:55 Farm Report
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Regional Report
8:30 Romper Room
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N News (Alan Jones)
12:20 Paul Harvey
12:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Queen For A Day
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Perry Mason
5:55 Paul Harvey
6 PM News (Buddine/Wick)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Strange Paradise
7:30 Get Smart
8 PM The Good Guys
8:30 Hogan's Heroes
9 PM CBS Movie: "How To Stuff A Wild Bikini"
11 PM News (Don Wick)
11:30 Movie: "Detective Story" (Merv airs Sun 11:30 PM)

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/ABC)

6:30 Cartoon Club
6:55 News
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM General Hospital
9:30 Bewitched (a delay of approximately a week, since this is a Halloween-themed show)
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Where The Heart Is
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Almanac
1:15 Date With Del
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM Secret Storm
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Big Valley
6 PM Pulse
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Wagon Train (watch for "Batgirl" Yvonne Craig in a 90-minute episode from 1963-64)
9 PM CBS Movie: "How To Stuff A Wild Bikini"
11 PM 11th Hour Report
11:30 Merv Griffin (from Las Vegas)

WJRJ (WPCH) Ch. 17 Atlanta (Ind.)

12 N Jeopardy! (pre-empted on Ch. 2)
12:30 Movie: "Sullivan's Travels" (a Hollywood director researches a movie about poverty by experiencing it firsthand, from '41)
2:30 Jack Benny
3 PM Here's Barbara (Barbara Coleman of WMAL (now WJLA) Washington, DC)
3:30 King And Odie
4 PM Rocky And His Friends
4:30 Yogi Bear
5 PM Little Rascals
5:30 Batman
6 PM Flintstones
6:30 McHale's Navy
7 PM Munsters (Harvey Korman appears in this episode.)
7:30 My Little Margie
8 PM Donna Reed
8:30 Tales Of Wells Fargo
9 PM Della Reese (Tony Randall, Marty Allen)
10 PM Untouchables
11 PM Alfred Hitchcock Presents
11:30 Movie: "Union Pacific"

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (NET)

5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 What's New
6 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6:30 Innovations
7 PM Big Picture
7:30 Film
8 PM Invitation To Art (literature of the 19th-century Romantic movement, including works by Delacroix, John Ruskin, and William Thackeray)
8:30 Recital Hall (pianist Joann Freeman performs Sonata in D by Baldassare Galuppi, and Sonata in E Flat by Beethoven)
9 PM NET Playhouse ("IHeimskringel or the Stoned Angels" compares the Vikings to the savage nature of modern humanity, with electronic effects to give it a mosaic feel--don't ask me what the point is.)
sign off 10:30 PM

WATL Ch. 36 Atlanta (Ind.)

11 AM Jack LaLanne
11:30 Tempo Atlanta
12 N Where The Heart Is (pre-empted on Ch. 5)
12:25 CBS News (pre-empted on Ch. 5)
12:30 Name Droppers (pre-empted on Ch. 2)
12:55 NBC News (pre-empted on Ch. 2)
1 PM Girl Talk (Betsy Palmer has replaced Virginia Graham as hostess.)
1:30 Movie: "Saturday's Millions" (from '33 but a lot like today--a football hero lets success go to his head)
3 PM Rocket Robin Hood
3:30 Marine Boy
4 PM Speed Racer
4:30 Officer Don's Clubhouse
5:30 Superman
6 PM Lost In Space
7 PM Patty Duke
7:30 Beat The Clock (Jack Narz)
8 PM Candid Camera
8:30 Game Game
9 PM Movie: "Goodbye Again"
11 PM Twilight Zone
11:30 Joey Bishop (pre-empted on Ch. 11)

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Film
9:30 Dating Game
10 AM It Takes Two
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Name Droppers
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Judi Wood
1:30 You're Putting Me On
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Bright Promise
4 PM Letters To Laugh-In
4:30 Cartoons
5 PM Flintstones
5:30 News, Sports
6 PM 87th Precinct
7 PM Huntley-Brinkley Report
7:30 High Chaparral
8:30 Name Of The Game
10 PM Bracken's World
11 PM Film
11:30 Tonight Show
 
Ch. 11 began showing "To Tell The Truth" in January 1970 and for a time had it six days a week in order to catch up (the syndicated show began on September 8, 1969, the same day original host Bud Collyer died, BTW). Except for a period from 1974-76, it ran in access time (7:30 PM) from 1971-78; prior to that it had been on in the late afternoon (4 PM, with "Dark Shadows" moving to 5 PM).

When that version of "TTTT" ceased production, 11 Alive came up with an even bigger winner at 7:30: "Tic Tac Dough," at least from 1978-1980. WSB put first "Family Feud" (1980-81) and "Entertainment Tonight" (1981-present) at 7:30 and has dominated that timeslot ever since.
 
WSB put first "Family Feud" (1980-81) and "Entertainment Tonight" (1981-present) at 7:30 and has dominated that timeslot ever since.
And what's quite interesting: WSB is one of the very few stations that has carried ET from day one (parent company Cox used to have a hand in producing the show, which explains it)!

BTW, I'm thinking WXIA would later pick up Feud; dunno if they had Joker's Wild as well. Searching through '80s Atlanta TV listings would confirm this.
 
ET started in 1981, and Ch. 2 has carried it from day one. WXIA did pick
up Feud; I think it was after the failure of F. Lee Bailey's "Lie Detector" in
1983. 11 Alive also had "Joker's Wild" from 1977-80 at least; Ch. 2 eventually
picked it up and added it to its morning lineup after Mike Douglas's show ended.
11 Alive also had another Barry and Enright show, "Play the Percentages," which
had a short run in 1980, but passed on "Bullseye," which started in the fall of 1980
and was on Ch. 46.
 
ET started in 1981, and Ch. 2 has carried it from day one. WXIA did pick
up Feud; I think it was after the failure of F. Lee Bailey's "Lie Detector" in
1983. 11 Alive also had "Joker's Wild" from 1977-80 at least; Ch. 2 eventually
picked it up and added it to its morning lineup after Mike Douglas's show ended.
11 Alive also had another Barry and Enright show, "Play the Percentages," which
had a short run in 1980, but passed on "Bullseye," which started in the fall of 1980
and was on Ch. 46.
 
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