From TV Guide, Georgia (Atlanta) Edition
NOTE: It's not indicated if Chs. 8, 15, 18, and 30 have in-school programs, so I'll start with the first program listed for each.
WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)
6:10 Science And Industry
6:40 Town And Country
6:45 Farm News, Weather
6:50 Rise 'n' Shine
7 AM Today
9 AM Today In Georgia ("Today Over Georgia" looks at the state from the air.)
9:30 Monday News Conference
10 AM Snap Judgment (Alan Alda, Estelle Parsons)
10:25 NBC News (Nancy Dickerson)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality (Hugh O'Brian, Betsy Palmer, Nipsey Russell; on film: Pearl Bailey)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Kaye Ballard, Wally Cox, Gypsy Rose Lee, Rose Marie, Greg Morris, Jan Murray, Charley Weaver, Gig Young, Paul Lynde)
12 N News (Hal Suit)
12:30 Movie: "The Children's Hour" (Part 1 of 2, concludes Tuesday 12:30 PM)
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say! (Richard Deacon and Herb Rudley of "The Mothers-In-Law")
4 PM Match Game (Lauren Bacall, Patrick O'Neal)
4:25 News (Don McClellan)
4:30 Popeye Club
5 PM Perry Mason
6 PM National News
6:25 Paul Harvey
6:30 Georgia News
7 PM Huntley-Brinkley Report
7:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
8 PM Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In (guests: Victor Borge, the Banana Splits)
9 PM Movie: "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"
11 PM Newsroom (Dick Horner)
11:30 Tonight Show (from Hollywood: Phyllis Diller, Bob Crane, Darren McGavin, John Byner)
WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)
7 AM Today
9 AM Girl Talk (attorney Barbara Scott and actress Joyce Gordon)
9:30 Science
10 AM Snap Judgment
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1 PM Bulletin
1:30 Let's Make A Deal (countdown six weeks to the move to ABC)
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4 PM Match Game
4:25 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
4:30 Merv Griffin (Art Linkletter, Chita Rivera, Peggy Cass, the 1910 Fruit Gum Company, comedians Joey Villa and Irwin Corey)
6 PM News, Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
8 PM Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In
9 PM NBC Movie: "El Cid" (Part 1, concludes Tue 9 PM)
11 PM News (Gray/Fischer)
11:30 Tonight Show
WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)
6 AM Sunrise Semester (English Literature: the sonnets of John Donne, part 2)
6:30 Answers, Anyone?
7 AM News, Weather
7:05 CBS News (Joseph Benti)
7:30 Editorial
7:35 Mr. Pix (Dave Michaels)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Art Linkletter's House Party (guest: Anita Bryant; this is the last show under the "House Party" title (delay from Friday))
9:25 News (Eleanor Knight)
9:30 Don Barber (local talk show; he later did the "Dialing For Dollars" segments on Ch. 11's 3:30 "Prize Movie")
10 AM The Lucy Show (guest: Pat Harrington)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 News (Don Bridges)
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 Mike Douglas (co-host Cliff Robertson; the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, Soupy Sales, singer Jeannie Brittan)
5:30 Gilligan's Island
6 PM I Love Lucy
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Panorama News (Jim Axel)
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 Here's Lucy
9 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
9:30 Family Affair (guest: Kaye Stevens)
10 PM Carol Burnett (guests: Ella Fitzgerald, Sid Caesar)
11 PM Panorama News (Jim Axel)
11:30 Norm Van Brocklin (highlights of Falcons-Bears)
11:45 Movie: "Grounds For Marriage"
WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta
WDCO Ch. 15 (WMUM Ch. 29) Cochran
WCLP (WNGH) Ch. 18 Chatsworth
WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (NET)
4:30 Sound Of Youth
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Kindergarten
6 PM Time For John
6:15 Friendly Giant
6:30 The Export Business (export payments and profits)
7 PM Negro People (yes, you could say it then, the program looks at civil-rights progress since Brown v. Board of Education)
7:30 World We Live In (men and machines studying weather movements, cloud formations, and attempts to make rain)
8 PM (8) (15) (18) Young Musicians (pianist Jeffrey Hollander performs Saint-Saens' Allegro Appassionatto and Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 3)
(30) Discovery At The Zoo (topic: bats)
8:30 (8) (15) (18) High And Wild (Oregon stagecoach routes of the early 1900s)
(30) Film (the story of diamonds)
9 PM NET Journal (inside New York's Spanish Harlem)
10 PM Speaking Freely (Edwin Newman interviews Thanat Khoman, Thailand's Minister of Foreign Affairs; topics include U.S. obligations to other SEATO nations)
sign off 11 PM
WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)
7:40 News
7:45 Upward Look
8 AM Jack LaLanne
8:30 Music
9 AM Funtime
10 AM Encore Theatre
10:30 Dick Cavett (guest: child psychologist Haim Ginott)
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Funny You Should Ask (Jack Carter, Stu Gilliam, Arte Johnson)
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Bob Brandy
5:30 News (Gil Norwood)
6 PM ABC News (Frank Reynolds)
6:30 Hazel
7 PM Movie: "Parrish"
9:30 Peyton Place (delay from 8:30 PM)
10 PM Big Valley
11 PM News (Bill McAfee)
11:30 Joey Bishop (Art Linkletter, Peggy Lee, Roy Clark, Grady Tate and the Turtles)
WQXI (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)
7 AM Morning Funnies
7:30 Clubhouse Eleven (Tubby and Lester meet Walt Disney characters--it was the 60th anniversary of the first Mickey Mouse cartoon, "Steamboat Willie")
9 AM Romper Room
10 AM Leave It To Beaver
10:30 Dick Cavett
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Atlanta: Now (Marie LeDoux discusses her system of "phonics," a way to teach children to read.)
1:20 News
1:30 Funny You Should Ask
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Movie: "Do You Know This Voice?"
5:15 Dark Shadows
5:45 News
6 PM Merv Griffin (Gore Vidal, Peter Fonda, choreographer Agnes de Mille, comedy writer Jack Douglas and his wife Reiko)
7:20 News (Will Sinclair--the reason for the short newscasts is that, at the time, Ch. 11 was calling its newscasts "Instant News"; in the fall of 1969 it would adopt the "Eyewitness News" format)
7:30 Avengers
8:30 Peyton Place
9 PM Outcasts
10 PM Big Valley
11 PM News (Will Sinclair/Art Collier)
11:30 Joey Bishop
WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)
6:30 Sunrise Semester (Philosophy: Kierkegaard and the absolute paradox--and don't anybody ask me what this is)
7 AM Paul Harvey
7:05 CBS News
7:30 Morning Show
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Mike Douglas (co-host Trini Lopez; singer Marilyn Maye, comedian London Lee)
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N News (Hoyt Cameron; oddly, Ch. 12's local newscasts are not in color)
12:20 Paul Harvey
12:25 CBS News (Joseph Benti)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Love Of Life
1:25 Community Calendar (also not in color)
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 The Linkletter Show (Art adopts a new format, adding son Jack and daughter Diane; guest is Eva Gabor)
4:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Perry Mason
6 PM News (Buddine/Wick)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Wanted: Dead Or Alive
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 Here's Lucy
9 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
9:30 Family Affair
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM News (Don Wick)
11:30 Movie: "Villa"
WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/ABC)
6:30 Cartoon Club
7 AM News, Weather
7:05 CBS News
7:30 Dennis The Menace
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM General Hospital
9:30 Bewitched
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N Love Of Life
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 The Linkletter Show
4:25 CBS News
4:30 Dark Shadows
5 PM Laramie
6 PM News, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Have Gun, Will Travel
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 Here's Lucy
9 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
9:30 Family Affair
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM 11th Hour Report
11:30 Joey Bishop
WJRJ (WPCH) Ch. 17 Atlanta (Ind.)
12 N Jeopardy! (pre-empted on Ch. 2)
12:30 Eye Guess (pre-empted on Ch. 2)
12:55 NBC News (pre-empted on Ch. 2)
1 PM Dream House (pre-empted on Ch. 11--Ch. 11 would pick it up Dec. 30, the same day "Let's Make A Deal" would move to ABC)
1:30 Let's Make A Deal (pre-empted on Ch. 2--Atlanta would finally get this show on the proper channel when it moved to ABC)
2 PM Movie: "Mister 880"
4 PM One Life To Live (pre-empted on Ch. 11, which would be airing it by the summer of 1969)
4:30 Batman
5 PM Little Rascals
5:30 Yogi Bear
6 PM Flintstones
6:30 McHale's Navy
7 PM Burke's Law
8 PM Jack Benny
8:30 Donald O'Connor (Rod Serling, Barrie Chase, comedian Jack De Leon, singers Lynn Kellogg and C.C. Jones)
10 PM Run For Your Life
11 PM Movie: "The Immortal Sergeant"
sign off 12:30 AM
NOTE: It's not indicated if Chs. 8, 15, 18, and 30 have in-school programs, so I'll start with the first program listed for each.
WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)
6:10 Science And Industry
6:40 Town And Country
6:45 Farm News, Weather
6:50 Rise 'n' Shine
7 AM Today
9 AM Today In Georgia ("Today Over Georgia" looks at the state from the air.)
9:30 Monday News Conference
10 AM Snap Judgment (Alan Alda, Estelle Parsons)
10:25 NBC News (Nancy Dickerson)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality (Hugh O'Brian, Betsy Palmer, Nipsey Russell; on film: Pearl Bailey)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Kaye Ballard, Wally Cox, Gypsy Rose Lee, Rose Marie, Greg Morris, Jan Murray, Charley Weaver, Gig Young, Paul Lynde)
12 N News (Hal Suit)
12:30 Movie: "The Children's Hour" (Part 1 of 2, concludes Tuesday 12:30 PM)
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say! (Richard Deacon and Herb Rudley of "The Mothers-In-Law")
4 PM Match Game (Lauren Bacall, Patrick O'Neal)
4:25 News (Don McClellan)
4:30 Popeye Club
5 PM Perry Mason
6 PM National News
6:25 Paul Harvey
6:30 Georgia News
7 PM Huntley-Brinkley Report
7:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
8 PM Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In (guests: Victor Borge, the Banana Splits)
9 PM Movie: "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"
11 PM Newsroom (Dick Horner)
11:30 Tonight Show (from Hollywood: Phyllis Diller, Bob Crane, Darren McGavin, John Byner)
WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)
7 AM Today
9 AM Girl Talk (attorney Barbara Scott and actress Joyce Gordon)
9:30 Science
10 AM Snap Judgment
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1 PM Bulletin
1:30 Let's Make A Deal (countdown six weeks to the move to ABC)
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4 PM Match Game
4:25 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
4:30 Merv Griffin (Art Linkletter, Chita Rivera, Peggy Cass, the 1910 Fruit Gum Company, comedians Joey Villa and Irwin Corey)
6 PM News, Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
8 PM Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In
9 PM NBC Movie: "El Cid" (Part 1, concludes Tue 9 PM)
11 PM News (Gray/Fischer)
11:30 Tonight Show
WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)
6 AM Sunrise Semester (English Literature: the sonnets of John Donne, part 2)
6:30 Answers, Anyone?
7 AM News, Weather
7:05 CBS News (Joseph Benti)
7:30 Editorial
7:35 Mr. Pix (Dave Michaels)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Art Linkletter's House Party (guest: Anita Bryant; this is the last show under the "House Party" title (delay from Friday))
9:25 News (Eleanor Knight)
9:30 Don Barber (local talk show; he later did the "Dialing For Dollars" segments on Ch. 11's 3:30 "Prize Movie")
10 AM The Lucy Show (guest: Pat Harrington)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 News (Don Bridges)
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 Mike Douglas (co-host Cliff Robertson; the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, Soupy Sales, singer Jeannie Brittan)
5:30 Gilligan's Island
6 PM I Love Lucy
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Panorama News (Jim Axel)
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 Here's Lucy
9 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
9:30 Family Affair (guest: Kaye Stevens)
10 PM Carol Burnett (guests: Ella Fitzgerald, Sid Caesar)
11 PM Panorama News (Jim Axel)
11:30 Norm Van Brocklin (highlights of Falcons-Bears)
11:45 Movie: "Grounds For Marriage"
WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta
WDCO Ch. 15 (WMUM Ch. 29) Cochran
WCLP (WNGH) Ch. 18 Chatsworth
WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (NET)
4:30 Sound Of Youth
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Kindergarten
6 PM Time For John
6:15 Friendly Giant
6:30 The Export Business (export payments and profits)
7 PM Negro People (yes, you could say it then, the program looks at civil-rights progress since Brown v. Board of Education)
7:30 World We Live In (men and machines studying weather movements, cloud formations, and attempts to make rain)
8 PM (8) (15) (18) Young Musicians (pianist Jeffrey Hollander performs Saint-Saens' Allegro Appassionatto and Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 3)
(30) Discovery At The Zoo (topic: bats)
8:30 (8) (15) (18) High And Wild (Oregon stagecoach routes of the early 1900s)
(30) Film (the story of diamonds)
9 PM NET Journal (inside New York's Spanish Harlem)
10 PM Speaking Freely (Edwin Newman interviews Thanat Khoman, Thailand's Minister of Foreign Affairs; topics include U.S. obligations to other SEATO nations)
sign off 11 PM
WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)
7:40 News
7:45 Upward Look
8 AM Jack LaLanne
8:30 Music
9 AM Funtime
10 AM Encore Theatre
10:30 Dick Cavett (guest: child psychologist Haim Ginott)
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM Dream House
1:30 Funny You Should Ask (Jack Carter, Stu Gilliam, Arte Johnson)
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dark Shadows
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Bob Brandy
5:30 News (Gil Norwood)
6 PM ABC News (Frank Reynolds)
6:30 Hazel
7 PM Movie: "Parrish"
9:30 Peyton Place (delay from 8:30 PM)
10 PM Big Valley
11 PM News (Bill McAfee)
11:30 Joey Bishop (Art Linkletter, Peggy Lee, Roy Clark, Grady Tate and the Turtles)
WQXI (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)
7 AM Morning Funnies
7:30 Clubhouse Eleven (Tubby and Lester meet Walt Disney characters--it was the 60th anniversary of the first Mickey Mouse cartoon, "Steamboat Willie")
9 AM Romper Room
10 AM Leave It To Beaver
10:30 Dick Cavett
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Atlanta: Now (Marie LeDoux discusses her system of "phonics," a way to teach children to read.)
1:20 News
1:30 Funny You Should Ask
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Movie: "Do You Know This Voice?"
5:15 Dark Shadows
5:45 News
6 PM Merv Griffin (Gore Vidal, Peter Fonda, choreographer Agnes de Mille, comedy writer Jack Douglas and his wife Reiko)
7:20 News (Will Sinclair--the reason for the short newscasts is that, at the time, Ch. 11 was calling its newscasts "Instant News"; in the fall of 1969 it would adopt the "Eyewitness News" format)
7:30 Avengers
8:30 Peyton Place
9 PM Outcasts
10 PM Big Valley
11 PM News (Will Sinclair/Art Collier)
11:30 Joey Bishop
WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)
6:30 Sunrise Semester (Philosophy: Kierkegaard and the absolute paradox--and don't anybody ask me what this is)
7 AM Paul Harvey
7:05 CBS News
7:30 Morning Show
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Mike Douglas (co-host Trini Lopez; singer Marilyn Maye, comedian London Lee)
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N News (Hoyt Cameron; oddly, Ch. 12's local newscasts are not in color)
12:20 Paul Harvey
12:25 CBS News (Joseph Benti)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Love Of Life
1:25 Community Calendar (also not in color)
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 The Linkletter Show (Art adopts a new format, adding son Jack and daughter Diane; guest is Eva Gabor)
4:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Perry Mason
6 PM News (Buddine/Wick)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Wanted: Dead Or Alive
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 Here's Lucy
9 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
9:30 Family Affair
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM News (Don Wick)
11:30 Movie: "Villa"
WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/ABC)
6:30 Cartoon Club
7 AM News, Weather
7:05 CBS News
7:30 Dennis The Menace
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM General Hospital
9:30 Bewitched
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N Love Of Life
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 The Linkletter Show
4:25 CBS News
4:30 Dark Shadows
5 PM Laramie
6 PM News, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Have Gun, Will Travel
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 Here's Lucy
9 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
9:30 Family Affair
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM 11th Hour Report
11:30 Joey Bishop
WJRJ (WPCH) Ch. 17 Atlanta (Ind.)
12 N Jeopardy! (pre-empted on Ch. 2)
12:30 Eye Guess (pre-empted on Ch. 2)
12:55 NBC News (pre-empted on Ch. 2)
1 PM Dream House (pre-empted on Ch. 11--Ch. 11 would pick it up Dec. 30, the same day "Let's Make A Deal" would move to ABC)
1:30 Let's Make A Deal (pre-empted on Ch. 2--Atlanta would finally get this show on the proper channel when it moved to ABC)
2 PM Movie: "Mister 880"
4 PM One Life To Live (pre-empted on Ch. 11, which would be airing it by the summer of 1969)
4:30 Batman
5 PM Little Rascals
5:30 Yogi Bear
6 PM Flintstones
6:30 McHale's Navy
7 PM Burke's Law
8 PM Jack Benny
8:30 Donald O'Connor (Rod Serling, Barrie Chase, comedian Jack De Leon, singers Lynn Kellogg and C.C. Jones)
10 PM Run For Your Life
11 PM Movie: "The Immortal Sergeant"
sign off 12:30 AM