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Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Friday, November 2, 1962

From TV Guide, Georgia (Atlanta) Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

6 AM Continental Classroom: "Atomic Age Physics"
6:30 Continental Classroom: "American Government"
(COLOR)
7 AM Today: On film: California gubernatorial candidates
Richard Nixon and Pat Brown
9 AM Today In Georgia
10 AM Say When! (COLOR)
10:25 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
10:30 Play Your Hunch (Who's teaching Johnny to draw? Gene
Rayburn is interim host between Merv Griffin and Robert
Q. Lewis. COLOR)
11 AM Price Is Right (COLOR)
11:30 Concentration
12 N News (Ray Moore, later at WAGA)
12:15 Movie: "Banjo On My Knee"
2 PM Merv Griffin (guests include Eileen Rodgers--who? COLOR)
2:55 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
3 PM Loretta Young (Loretta plays widow Penny Blodgett, who is
talked into running for mayor by corrupt politicians.)
3:30 Young Dr. Malone
4 PM Make Room For Daddy
4:30 Rocky And His Friends
4:45 Popeye Club
6 PM Supercar
6:30 News, Weather
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Brave Stallion (syndicated title for "Fury")
7:30 International Showtime (Don Ameche, with help from Susie
the Elephant, introduces magician Manuel Del Toro and the
Balinese Rhapsody (Vienna Ice Revue), and acts from the
Circus Moreno, Denmark, and the Lorry Theater, Denmark)
8:30 Sing Along With Mitch (guest: pianist Leonid Hambro, COLOR)
9:30 Don't Call Me Charlie!
10 PM Jack Paar (guests: George Burns; Peter, Paul and Mary; the cast
of "Beyond The Fringe," COLOR)
11 PM Newsroom (John Palmer, later at NBC)
11:30 Tonight Show (Johnny Carson is now host and Ch. 2 is finally
carrying it, COLOR)
1 AM Movie: "I Was A Communist For The FBI"

WRGP (WRCB) Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

6 AM Adult Reading
6:30 Continental Classroom: "American Government" (COLOR)
7 AM Today
9 AM Today With Morris
9:30 Local Classroom
10 AM Say When! (COLOR)
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Play Your Hunch (COLOR)
11 AM Price Is Right (COLOR)
11:30 Concentration
12 N Your First Impression (Paul Winchell, Jim and Henny Backus,
COLOR)
12:30 Truth Or Consequences
12:55 NBC News (Ray Scherer)
1 PM WRGP Bulletin
1:30 Best Of Groucho
2 PM Merv Griffin (COLOR)
2:55 NBC News
3 PM Loretta Young
3:30 Young Dr. Malone
4 PM Make Room For Daddy
4:30 Here's Hollywood (Helen O'Connell interviews Efrem Zimbalist Jr.)
4:55 NBC News (Sander Vanocur)
5 PM Cartoons
5:25 Brave Stallion
5:55 Bat Masterson
6:25 News, Weather
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Blue Angels
7:30 International Showtime
8:30 Sing Along With Mitch (COLOR)
9:30 Don't Call Me Charlie!
10 PM Jack Paar (COLOR)
11 PM News, Weather
11:15 Tonight Show (COLOR)

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6:10 Daily Word
6:15 College Of The Air
6:45 This Is Your Town
7 AM News, Editorial
7:20 Cartoons
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM B'wana Don
9:30 Jack LaLanne
10 AM Movie: "Three Faces West"
11:30 Pete And Gladys
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News (Harry Reasoner)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Best Of Groucho
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Ann Sothern (the Katy O'Connor episodes)
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party (guest: Adela Rogers
St. John)
3 PM Millionaire (the check goes to old prospector Andrew
Cooley, who shuts down his worked-out mine and heads
for Las Vegas)
3:30 To Tell The Truth (Joan Fontaine, Phyllis Newman, Barry Nelson,
Abe Burrows)
3:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM Sea Hunt
5:30 Highway Patrol
6 PM Panorama News
6:30 Amos 'n' Andy
7 PM Rawhide (says it's the same episode airing at 7:30 on Chs. 12, 13)
8 PM Third Man
8:30 Route 66
9:30 Fair Exchange (an experiment that didn't work: an hour-long sitcom--
Judy Carne made her U.S. debut on this show)
10:30 Eyewitness
11 PM Panorama News
11:30 Movie: "Kronos"

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (NET)

6:30 American Economy (the Federal Reserve System is the topic)
7 PM Growing South
7:30 Open Road (travelogue, what else?)
8 PM TV Reader's Digest (aired on ABC in the mid-'50s)
8:30 UN Review (John MacVane, who, IIRC, was on ABC)
8:45 Traffic Court (documentary)
9 PM Alcoholic Hospital (movements toward public acceptance of
alcoholism as a disease)
9:30 Movie: "General Della Revere"
sign off 11:40 PM

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

9 AM Funtime
9:30 Romper Room
10:15 Upward Look
10:30 Morning Show (Jim Johnson)
10:45 News (Jim Johnson)
11 AM Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
11:30 Yours For A Song
12 N Jane Wyman (Peter Mark Richman as a murder suspect
who escapes from the sheriff)
12:30 Camouflage
12:55 ABC News (Alex Dreier)
1 PM Man From Cochise
1:30 Chattanooga Schools
2 PM Day In Court (a jilted suitor tries to recover a necklace)
2:30 Seven Keys
3 PM Queen For A Day
3:30 Who Do You Trust? (Woody Woodbury)
4 PM American Bandstand (guest: Chubby Checker)
4:30 Discovery '62 (Frank Buxton and Virginia Gibson visit a
small Mexican town.)
4:55 American Newsstand
5 PM Bob Brandy
6 PM ABC News (Ron Cochran)
6:15 News, Weather
6:25 Political Talk: Bill Brock, Republican candidate for Congress
and one of the party's rising stars in the '70s, speaks.
6:30 Maverick (the classic "Gunsmoke" parody, "Gunshy," with Bret
facing off against marshal Mort Dooley)
7:30 The Gallant Men
8:30 Flintstones (COLOR)
9 PM I'm Dickens, He's Fenster
9:30 77 Sunset Strip
10:30 The Rebel
11 PM ABC News (Bill Shadel)
11:10 Five Fingers (David Hedison, pre-"Voyage To The Bottom Of
The Sea")

WAII (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

7:20 Thoughts For Today
7:25 Farm News, Weather
7:30 School Days
8 AM Robin Hood
8:30 Billy Johnson
9 AM My Little Margie
9:30 Snooky Lanson
11 AM Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
11:30 Yours For A Song
12 N Jane Wyman
12:30 Camouflage
12:55 ABC News
1 PM Star Performance
1:30 Burns And Allen
2 PM Day In Court
2:30 Seven Keys
3 PM Queen For A Day
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4 PM American Bandstand
4:30 Discovery '62
4:55 American Newsstand
5 PM Mickey Mouse Club
5:30 Movie: TBA
7 PM Newswatch
7:15 ABC News
7:30 The Gallant Men
8:30 Flintstones (COLOR)
9 PM I'm Dickens, He's Fenster
9:30 77 Sunset Strip
10:30 Weekend (sports show)
11 PM Nightwatch
11:25 Movie: "Death Of A Salesman"

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

6:55 Daily Word
7 AM College Of The Air
7:30 Country Show
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Woman's Whirl
9:20 Morning Stretch (not Joanie Greggains)
9:30 Time For Music (for classrooms)
9:55 Tips And Tricks
10 AM Calendar (Harry Reasoner)
10:30 I Love Lucy (a Connecticut episode with Mary
Jane Croft as Betty Ramsey, Lucy's opponent
in a flower-growing contest)
11 AM Real McCoys
11:30 Pete And Gladys
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Lunch 'n Fun
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password (Sam Levenson, Kitty Carlisle)
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM Millionaire
3:30 To Tell The Truth
3:55 CBS News
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM Movie: "Wagon Master"
6:25 Sounding Board
6:30 News, Weather
6:45 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Huckleberry Hound
7:30 Rawhide
8:30 Route 66
9:30 Fair Exchange
10:30 Eyewitness
11 PM News, Weather
11:15 Movie: "Suspicion" (Cary Grant, from '41, no connection
AFAIK to the 1957-58 NBC series of the same name, and
definitely not to Elvis soundalike Terry Stafford's one hit)

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/NBC/ABC)

6:30 College Of The Air
7 AM Cartoons
7:30 Almanac Newsreel
7:35 Hymn Time
7:45 Your Bible
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Dr. Joyce Brothers
9:15 Debbie Drake (exercises)
9:30 These Are Your Schools
10 AM Calendar
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Real McCoys
11:30 Pete And Gladys
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Almanac
1:15 Date With Del
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM Millionaire
3:30 To Tell The Truth
3:55 CBS News
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM Huckleberry Hound
5:30 Tombstone Territory
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:45 CBS News
7 PM Broken Arrow
7:30 Rawhide
8:30 Route 66
9:30 Ben Casey (ABC, delay from Mon 10 PM)
10:30 Eyewitness
11 PM News, Weather
11:30 Naked City (ABC, delay from Wed 10 PM)
12:30 Mike Hammer (Darren McGavin, probably best known
for his role as the father in "A Christmas Story")
 
WDEF - Chattanooga - 12 (CBS)

10:30 AM I Love Lucy (a Connecticut episode with Mary Jane Croft as Betty Ramsey, Lucy's opponent in a flower-growing contest)

This is the episode where Lucy takes a ride on the riding lawn mower and rides through the whole countryside and roads in Connecticut and where she mows down Betty's tulips and then Lucy puts in wax tulips in their place.
 
bpatrick said:
WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)
7:30 International Showtime (Don Ameche, with help from Susie
the Elephant, introduces magician Manuel Del Toro and the
Balinese Rhapsody (Vienna Ice Revue), and acts from the
Circus Moreno, Denmark, and the Lorry Theater, Denmark)

Was this show shot on B&W film (35mm or 16mm)? I only vaguely remember it.
I don't think I ever watched it, I just remember that KVOA-TV Tucson never ran it
on Friday evening, but instead delayed it (1 DB or 8 DB?) to Saturday afternoon.


WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (NET)
8:30 UN Review (John MacVane, who, IIRC, was on ABC)

And perhaps NBC at one time also, based on an interview in Jeff Kisseloff's book
The Box. But definitely UN-centric. In discussing the selecting of an anchor
for the Camel News Caravan:

"We had John McVane, who had a show out of the United Nations, but if Christ was
coming down the Jersey Turnpike, he would lead with a story out of East Gambia."

"It's either him or Swayze."
 
That "I Love Lucy" episode was, I believe, the last half-hour one.

As for John MacVane, he was an NBC radio correspondent; perhaps
his biggest story was the liberation of Paris from the Nazis in 1944.
He had moved to ABC by 1950; Brooks and Marsh mention one program
he did for ABC, the UN-centered "United Or Not," in 1951 and 1952.

The remark that MacVane would report something from Gambia if Christ
came back to Earth reminds me of Chevy Chase's dig at John Chancellor
on "Saturday Night Live" in 1975. For weeks, Chancellor--a foreign-policy
freak--had reported nightly on the deteriorating condition of Francisco Franco.
For weeks after Franco's death, Chase opened every "Weekend Update" segment
with "Franco...still dead tonight."
 
Just curious--was Channel 11's "Newswatch" local newscast anchored at that time by future NBC and CBS talk show star Tom Snyder? Seems to me that one night on his CBS "Late Late Show" he mentioned working for WAII and its predecessor WLWA early in the 1960s, before moving to Los Angeles in 1963...
 
I'm not sure if Snyder was anchoring Channel 11's newscast
on that precise date, but he did anchor it during that era.
Another name you might know, Tom Brokaw, anchored Channel
2's newscasts in the mid-'60s; he left Atlanta when WSB couldn't
match what KNBC was willing to pay him.
 
bpatrick said:
That "I Love Lucy" episode was, I believe, the last half-hour one.

Next-to-the-last.....the final half-hour saw Lucy accidentally destroying the new statue in the town square on the eve of its dedication, then "replacing" it by posing as the statue for the ceremony.
 
bpatrick said:
WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

2 PM Merv Griffin (guests include Eileen Rodgers--who? COLOR)
...Eileen Rodgers was once a big band singer (mainly for Charlie Spivak), and later a Broadway star (it's possible that she was in a production of either Tenderloin or Anything Goes at the time of this broadcast)...
 
Stanislav said:
bpatrick said:
That "I Love Lucy" episode was, I believe, the last half-hour one.

Next-to-the-last.....the final half-hour saw Lucy accidentally destroying the new statue in the town square on the eve of its dedication, then "replacing" it by posing as the statue for the ceremony.

Right. My mistake.
 
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