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Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Monday, January 1, 1968

From TV Guide, Georgia (Atlanta) Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

6:15 Film: "View Of The Sky," which traces changing views
of the universe from Ptolemy to Einstein
6:45 Film: space highlights of 1967
7 AM Today (preview of 1968: Barbara Walters on fashions,
Judith Crist on film and theater production trends, Joe
Garagiola on sports, Pauline Frederick on the UN)
9 AM Today In Georgia
9:30 Happy New Year From Dr. Jacob Bronowski (Senior Fellow
at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences in California)
10 AM Snap Judgment (Henry Morgan, Pat Carroll)
10:25 NBC News (Nancy Dickerson)
10:30 Orange Bowl Parade (rerun of Saturday night's telecast,
with hosts Raymond Burr and Anita Bryant)
11:30 Tournament Of Roses Parade (Lorne Greene and Betty White
host for NBC)
1:45 Sugar Bowl: Wyoming-LSU (LSU won, 20-13)
4:45 Rose Bowl: Indiana-USC (time approximate, USC won, 14-3)
7:45 Orange Bowl: Tennessee-Oklahoma (time approximate, OU won,
26-24)
11 PM Newsroom (Bert Roselle, time approximate)
11:30 Tonight Show

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Girl Talk (actresses Ina Balin, Eileen Herlie (not to be confused
with Eileen Heckart), and Anne Francine (not to be confused
with Anne Francis))
9:30 Cisco Kid
10 AM Snap Judgment
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Orange Bowl Parade
11:30 Tournament Of Roses Parade
1:45 Sugar Bowl
4:45 Rose Bowl (time approximate)
7:45 Orange Bowl (time approximate)
11 PM Bulletin (Gray/Fischer, time approximate)
11:30 Tonight Show

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6:30 Answers, Anyone?
7 AM News, Weather
7:05 CBS News (Joseph Benti)
7:30 Editorial
7:35 Mr. Pix
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Don Barber (singer Andy Russell, Atlanta USO president
Glenda Fischer)
9:30 Dick Van Dyke (day-behind from 11:30 AM)
10 AM Rose Parade Preview (Mike Douglas and Bess Myerson host)
10:30 Cotton Bowl Parade (Jack Linkletter and Marilyn Van Derbur host)
11:30 Tournament Of Roses Parade (Mike Douglas and Bess Myerson host)
1:45 Cotton Bowl: Alabama-Texas A&M (A&M won, 20-16)
5 PM Mike Douglas (James Darren, Milt Kamen, trumpeter Jonah Jones, TV
critic Harriet Van Horne, time approximate)
6 PM Truth Or Consequences
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Panorama News (Paul Shields)
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 The Lucy Show (Vivian Vance visits a bedridden Lucy--who has a
broken leg--and the two recall their misadventures, mostly from
the 1962-63 season)
9 PM Andy Griffith
9:30 Family Affair
10 PM Carol Burnett (Lynn Redgrave, Mike Douglas)
11 PM Panorama News (Jim Axel)
11:30 Movie: "Full Of Life"

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/WCLP (WNGH) Ch. 18 Chatsworth (NET)

4:30 Sound Of Youth
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Kindergarten
6 PM Stepping Into Rhythm
6:15 Friendly Giant
6:30 (8) En France/(18) What's New
7 PM Growing South
7:30 NET Journal: "Profile Of A Peace Parade"--a 1966 demonstration
in New York to mark the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima,
in which antiwar activists were the main participants
8:30 Playing The Guitar (Frederick Noad)
9 PM Eastern Wisdom (Eastern and Western ideas about man and nature,
and the issue of whether humans are nature's conquerors or collaborators)
9:30 The Toy That Grew Up (William S. Hart in a 1914 Western, "On The Night Stage")
sign off 10:25 PM

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

7:10 News
7:15 Upward Look
7:30 Jack LaLanne
8 AM Donna Reed (week-behind from 10:30 AM)
8:30 Physical Education
9 AM Funtime
10 AM Mike Douglas (co-host Ricardo Montalban; HEW Secretary John W. Gardner,
Sergio Franchi)
11 AM Temptation (the Art James version, not to be confused with the failed remake
of "Sale Of The Century")
11:25 ABC News (Marlene Sanders)
11:30 How's Your Mother-In-Law? (defending the mothers-in-law: Richard Dawson,
Richard Deacon, Harvey Lembeck)
12 N Bewitched (daytime reruns begin today and will run until July 1973)
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM The Fugitive
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 The Baby Game (debut of a game show in which married couples try to predict
how children will behave in pre-filmed situations; Richard Hayes hosts and the
show is canceled in July)
2:55 Children's Doctor
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Dark Shadows
4 PM Dating Game
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Bob Brandy
5:30 ABC News (Bob Young)
6 PM News (Gil Norwood)
6:30 Laredo
7:30 Movie: "Black Gold"
9:30 Peyton Place
10 PM Big Valley (guest: Russell Johnson, aka the Professor on
"Gilligan's Island")
11 PM News (Bill McAfee)
11:30 Joey Bishop (singer Gilbert Price, comic-musician Pete Barbutti)

WAII (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

8 AM Cartoon Carnival
9 AM Ed Allen Time
9:30 Dateline Atlanta (country singer Jimmy Wakely and his son and
daughter, predictions for 1968)
10 AM Dating Game (delay from 4 PM)
10:30 Donna Reed
11 AM Temptation
11:25 ABC News
11:30 How's Your Mother-In-Law?
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM The Fugitive
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 The Baby Game
2:55 Children's Doctor
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Dark Shadows
4 PM Marshal Dillon
4:30 Wanted: Dead Or Alive
5 PM News (Bill Conover)
5:30 ABC News
6 PM Merv Griffin (Anthony Newley, Samantha Eggar, Richard
Attenborough, Dusty Springfield, Stanley Myron Handelman,
comedian Lou Holtz (not to be confused with the football coach))
7:30 Movie: "Sky Above Heaven"
9:30 Peyton Place
10 PM Big Valley
11 PM News (Bill Conover/Art Collier)
11:30 Joey Bishop

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

7:05 CBS News
7:30 Movie: "The Gambler From Natchez" (this is a one-shot, giving
the "Morning Show" crew a day off)
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Rose Parade Preview
10:30 Cotton Bowl Parade
11:30 Tournament Of Roses Parade
1:45 Cotton Bowl
5 PM Super Time (kids' show, time approximate)
5:30 Combat!
6:30 CBS News
7 PM News (Schoocraft/Wick)
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 The Lucy Show
9 PM Andy Griffith
9:30 Family Affair
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM News, Sports (Ray White)
11:30 Movie: "The 30-Foot Bride Of Candy Rock" (Lou Costello,
without Bud Abbott (they'd split in 1956), in this 1959
comedy which was probably his last film since he died that
year--watch, too, for Dorothy Provine and Gale Gordon)

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/ABC)

6:30 Cartoon Club
7 AM News, Weather
7:05 CBS News
7:30 Leave It To Beaver
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Almanac (special time today only)
9:15 Date With Del (special time today only)
9:30 Everybody's Talking (week-behind, as the show ended Dec.
29; guests: Pat Carroll, Milt Kamen, and Leonard Nimoy)
10 AM Rose Parade Preview
10:30 Cotton Bowl Parade
11:30 Tournament Of Roses Parade
1:45 Cotton Bowl
5 PM Rawhide (time approximate)
6 PM News, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Have Gun, Will Travel
7:30 Gunsmoke
8:30 The Lucy Show
9 PM Andy Griffith
9:30 Family Affair
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM 11th Hour Report
11:30 Joey Bishop

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

4 PM Movie: "This Is My Love"
5:40 News, Sports, Weather
6 PM Adventure Theatre
6:30 Flintstones
7 PM Alfred Hitchcock Hour
8 PM Movie: "The Bold And The Brave" (1956 film set in
World War II, not some idea for a Bill Bell soap)
10 PM Checkmate
11 PM Alfred Hitchcock Presents
11:30 News, Weather
11:35 The Good Life (religious)
 
bpatrick said:
1:45 Sugar Bowl: Wyoming-LSU (LSU won, 20-13)
4:45 Rose Bowl: Indiana-USC (time approximate, USC won, 14-3)
7:45 Orange Bowl: Tennessee-Oklahoma (time approximate, OU won,26-24)

Imagine getting three college football games (particularly major bowl games) on network TV completed betweeb the hours of 1:45 P.M. and 10:45 P.M. and then having a 15-minute bowl wrap-up show (which isn't showing on this schedule) from 10:45 P.M. to 11:00 P.M. but it was done back then.
 
I think this was the first day that all new shows were in color as ABC's Everybody's Talking the last new black and white show left the air the previous Friday.
 
I believe you're right; "Everybody's Talking" was the last new
black-and-white show and AFAIK, that means daytime and
primetime. As I noted, WMAZ was carrying the show on a
one-week delay; "Bewitched" reruns took over "Talking"'s
in-pattern time of 12 N (ET) on Monday, January 1.

However, that wasn't the last of "Everybody's Talking"; CBS
revived the show in March 1973 as "Hollywood's Talking"
(Geoff Edwards' first game show) but it was even less successful
than the original; "Match Game '73" replaced it in July and became
a monster hit.
 
"10:30 Orange Bowl Parade (rerun of Saturday night's telecast,
with hosts Raymond Burr and Anita Bryant)"

Odd combination - being what we know now of Burr's sexual preferences ::)
 
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