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Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Monday, June 19, 1978

NOTE: Some parenthetical comments will duplicate those for
the Kentucky listings I posted for the same date. But since
not everyone reads every posting, I'm including them again.

SOURCE: TV Guide, North Georgia (Atlanta) Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

6 AM Christopher Closeup
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today (Tom Brokaw; guests Steve Allen and
Jayne Meadows)
9 AM Card Sharks
9:30 Sanford And Son
10 AM Today In Georgia (William Holden and Lee Grant
talk about "Damien Omen II")
10:30 Hollywood Squares (who's in the secret square:
Eileen Brennan, Sid Caesar, Dom DeLuise, Louise
Fletcher, Fernando Lamas, Marsha Mason, Vic
Tayback, Abe Vigoda, or Paul Lynde?)
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N News
12:30 Liars Club (a find for collectors: David Letterman is
a panelist, along with Betty White, Dick Gautier,
and Larry Hovis)
1 PM Doris Day
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Mod Squad
5 PM Newlywed Game
5:30 Mary Tyler Moore
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News (Chancellor/Brinkley)
7:30 All-Star Anything Goes (the singing DeFranco Family
against the Brady Bunch)
8 PM Little House On The Prairie
9 PM NBC Movie: "Just A Little Inconvenience" (based on the
story of actor James Stacy, a multiple amputee, who
plays the amputee in this TV-movie)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (Steve Martin subs for Johnny; Bernadette
Peters is a guest)
1 AM Tomorrow (Washington journalists Lester Kinsolving and
Sarah McClendon)
2 AM News

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

6:25 New Zoo Revue
6:55 News For Little People
7 AM Today
9 AM 700 Club
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N Sanford And Son
12:30 Midday Live
1 PM For Richer, For Poorer (short-lived replacement
for "Somerset")
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Bugs Bunny/Little Rascals/Three Stooges
4:55 News For Little People
5 PM Odd Couple
5:30 Adam-12
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Newlywed Game
7:30 Muppet Show
8 PM Little House On The Prairie
9 PM NBC Movie: "Just A Little Inconvenience"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6:30 Summer Semester: "Alternative Futures"
7 AM CBS News (Lesley Stahl/Richard Threlkeld)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue (topic: shyness)
10 AM Cross-Wits (guests Rhonda Bates, James
Hampton, Robert Reed, Suzanne Somers)
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 All In The Family
4 PM Bewitched
4:30 Mike Douglas (in Hollywood: co-host Tony
Randall, Doc Severinsen, Charlie Callas,
Lee Meriwether, singer Freda Payne, and
Rosalynn Carter's sister Allathea Wall)
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7:30 Wild Wild World Of Animals
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 Good Times
9 PM M*A*S*H ("Comrades In Arms" Part 1: Hawkeye
and Hot Lips find themselves trapped in an abandoned
hut, under enemy fire, and begin to patch up their
differences.)
9:30 One Day At A Time
10 PM Lou Grant
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Babe" (Susan Clark as Babe Didrikson
Zaharias; real-life husband Alex Karras as Babe's
husband George Zaharias)
1:40 Ironside
2:40 News

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

TV Guide says Chs. 8, 15, and 18 broadcast instructional
programs throughout the day. Given the time of year, I
doubt this.

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Sesame Street
6:30 Over Easy
7 PM Yoga For Health
7:30 Atlanta Week In Review
8 PM Bluegrass Bluegrass
9 PM Rosenberg-Sobell Case Revisited (Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of espionage
and executed in 1953; accomplice Morton Sobell
got 30 years.)
10:30 Sneak Previews
11 PM Movie: "The Most Dangerous Game" (sounds like
a TV-movie, but it was made in 1932)
sign off 12:30 AM

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

6:25 Good Morning Chattanooga
6:30 PTL Club
7:30 Funtime
8 AM Good Morning America (joined in progress, David
Hartman hosts; guests Helen Hayes, Jack Lemmon
and his wife Felicia Farr)
9 AM Donahue (topic: the ERA, opponent Phyllis Schlafly
discusses the prospects for its ratification--it failed)
10 AM Beverly Hillbillies
10:30 Edge Of Night
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N $20,000 Pyramid (guests Loretta Swit and Peter Bonerz)
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM New Mickey Mouse Club
4:30 Emergency One!
5:30 Superman
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News (Reasoner/Walters)
7 PM Joker's Wild
7:30 Let's Go To The Races
8 PM Baseball: Yankees-Red Sox is the scheduled game
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 Soap
12:05 Police Story
1:15 Ironside

WXIA Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

6:30 Not For Women Only (Part 1 of 5 on the search for
a cancer cure)
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM $20,000 Pyramid (guests Sandy Duncan, Nipsey Russell)
9:30 Gambit (I mentioned on the Kentucky thread that sister station
WLKY/32 Alive was also carrying reruns of the CBS game show--
it was revived on NBC in 1980 as "Las Vegas Gambit".)
10 AM To Tell The Truth (Kitty Carlisle, Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen,
Dick Schaap)
10:30 Edge Of Night
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Gunsmoke
5 PM Medical Center
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Joker's Wild
7:30 Concentration (playing out its syndicated
run; will be replaced by "Tic Tac Dough"
in the fall)
8 PM Baseball: Yankees-Red Sox is the scheduled game
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 America 2Night
12 M Soap
12:35 Police Story

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

5:55 Farm Report
6 AM Summer Semester
6:30 Morning Show
8 AM CBS News
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Pass The Buck (I mentioned this one on the
Kentucky thread: Bill Cullen hosts a show in
which several contestants take turns naming
objects in a category; a wrong answer--or
no answer--exiles a player to the "bullpen".
Last player standing wins.)
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 All In The Family
4 PM Match Game '78 (panel: Richard Dawson,
Fannie Flagg, Richard Paul, Charles Nelson
Reilly, Barbara Rhoades, Brett Somers)
4:30 Merv Griffin (on Rodeo Drive, or thereabouts,
with Toni Tennille, Loretta Swit, Edie Adams,
Samantha Eggar, Juliet Mills, Zsa Zsa Gabor,
and Mrs. Robert Stack)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Mod Squad
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 Good Times
9 PM M*A*S*H
9:30 One Day At A Time
10 PM Lou Grant
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Babe"

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS)

5:50 Close-Up (rerun from Sun 6 PM)
6:20 Gilligan's Island
6:50 News
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Let's Talk It Over
9:30 Donahue (Gerald and Diane Green discuss
their court battle with the state of Massachusetts
over which leukemia treatment is best for their
2-year-old son.)
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM News
1:15 Date With Del
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 All In The Family
4 PM Little Rascals
4:30 Gunsmoke
5:30 Adam-12
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Brady Bunch
7:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 Good Times
9 PM M*A*S*H
9:30 One Day At A Time
10 PM Lou Grant
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Babe"

WDCO Ch. 15 (WMUM Ch. 29) Cochran/
WCLP (WNGH) Ch. 18 Chatsworth (PBS)

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Over Easy
7 PM By-Line
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Energy
9 PM Evening At Pops (the 1977 Fourth of July
program, featuring the "1812 Overture")
10:30 Anyone For Tennyson?
11 PM Dick Cavett (guest: Rev. William Sloane Coffin)
sign off 11:30 PM

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

5:50 World At Large
6:30 Romper Room
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8 AM Lassie
8:30 The Lucy Show (guest Joan Crawford)
9 AM Perry Mason
10 AM Movie: "An Act Of Murder"
11:55 News
12 N High Hopes (Canadian soap that had a
short run in the U.S.)
12:30 Movie: "Bengal Brigade"
2:25 News
2:30 I Love Lucy
3 PM New Mickey Mouse Club
3:30 The Archies
4 PM Addams Family
4:30 Monkees
5 PM Hazel
5:30 Family Affair
6 PM That Girl
6:30 Green Acres
7 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
7:30 Get Smart
8 PM Last Of The Wild
8:30 Issue Of Life (debate on whether religious
issues should be taught in public schools)
9 PM Movie: "The Big Gamble"
11 PM Let's Make A Deal
11:30 Movie: "The Brigand"
1:30 Movie: "East Of Sumatra"
3:10 News
3:30 Open Up

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)

9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10:30 Electric Company
11 AM Over Easy
11:30 French Chef
12 N off the air
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Over Easy
7 PM Dick Cavett (guests Brian de Palma
and Martin Scorsese)
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Consumer Survival Kit
8:30 Old Friends, New Friends (Helen Hayes
discusses her work with orphans)
9 PM Movie: "The Horse's Mouth"
10:30 One Man's Alaska
11 PM Dick Cavett (same as Chs. 15 and 18)
11:30 Captioned ABC News
sign off 12 M

WATL Ch. 36 Atlanta (Ind.)

9 AM Jack Rehburg (religion)
9:30 Mona Maples (more religion)
10 AM Rev. George Presents
11 AM PTL Club
1 PM For Richer, For Poorer
1:30 Hal Roach Studio Presents
2 PM Solid Rock (religion)
3 PM Bozo's Big Top
3:30 Kids Show
5 PM Gong Show
5:30 Entertainment Page
6:30 Sports (Art Collier, Ch. 11 sports
director in the early '70s)
7 PM Dinah! (guests Lucille Ball, Gary Morton,
Lucie Arnaz, Robert Osborne, and from
Six Flags Over Texas, Anson Williams)
8:30 Spotlight
9 PM Hal Roach Studio Presents
10 PM PTL Club
sign off 12 M

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

6 AM PTL Club
7 AM Today
9 AM PTL Club continues
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N Sanford And Son
12:30 Gong Show
1 PM News
1:15 Noon Over Middle Georgia
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM For Richer, For Poorer
4:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
5 PM The Archies
5:30 Flintstones
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Alias Smith And Jones
8 PM Little House On The Prairie
9 PM NBC Movie: "Just A Little Inconvenience"
11 PM Alfred Hitchcock Presents
11:30 Tonight Show

WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)

3:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Over Easy
7 PM Point Of View
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Consumer Survival Kit
8:30 Turnabout (women who have returned to
school, gotten jobs, or taken up volunteer
work)
9 PM Public Policy Forums (roundtable on tax reform)
10 PM Impact: Stone Age Man
10:30 Calendar Of Flowers
sign off 11 PM

WANX (WGCL) Ch. 46 Atlanta (Ind.)

5:45 News
6 AM Ross Bagley
7 AM Mighty Mouse
7:30 Heckle And Jeckle
8 AM Deputy Dawg
8:30 Josie & The Brady Kids
9 AM Dennis The Menace
9:30 Life Of Riley (William Bendix)
10 AM 700 Club
11:30 Life In The Spirit
12 N This Is The Life
12:30 Big Valley
1:30 New Zoo Revue
2 PM Huck And Yogi
2:30 Popeye/Porky Pig
3:30 Fred Flintstone & Friends
4 PM Superman
4:30 Star Trek (animated)
5 PM Jackson 5 (animated)
5:30 Batman
6 PM Brady Bunch
6:30 Courtship Of Eddie's Father
7 PM Bonanza
8 PM Bilko
8:30 Dick Van Dyke
9 PM 700 Club
10:30 Life In The Spirit
11 PM Charisma
11:30 Rifleman
12 M Best Of Groucho
12:30 News

WRIP (WDSI) Ch. 61 Chattanooga (Ind.)

10:30 Around The World In 80 Days (animated)
11 AM Jim Nabors (guests Minnie Pearl, Bert Convy,
Elayne Boosler)
12 N Movie: "Doomed To Die"
1:30 Mike Douglas (from Nashville: co-host Bobby
Goldsboro, guests Billy Carter, Patrick Duffy,
Jeannie C. Riley)
3 PM The Archies
3:30 Bozo's Big Top
4 PM Dudley Do-Right
4:30 PTL Club
6:30 Rev. Max Silvers
7 PM Unity Church Of God
8 PM Ernest Angley
9 PM Sid Hughes Gospel Hour
10 PM DeLawder Family Singers
10:30 Rev. Woody Martin
11 PM PTL Club
sign off 1 AM
 
WATL Ch. 36 Atlanta (Ind.)

5 PM Gong Show

Was this the NBC version picked up from WSB or the weekly syndicated nighttime version?
 
spb said:
WATL Ch. 36 Atlanta (Ind.)

5 PM Gong Show

Was this the NBC version picked up from WSB or the weekly syndicated nighttime version?

According to what we know, Gong was about a month away from cancellation on NBC due to Chuck Barris snubbing the Peacock channel's demands for him to clean up his act. I would say that this was a WSB reject; from what I recall, the syndie Gong mainly aired on weekends or in Prime Time Access--and the latter would have been on network affils, not indies like WATL.
 
WTCG Summer lineup

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

5:50 World At Large
6:30 Romper Room
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8 AM Lassie
8:30 The Lucy Show (guest Joan Crawford)
9 AM Perry Mason
10 AM Movie: "An Act Of Murder"
11:55 News
12 N High Hopes (Canadian soap that had a
short run in the U.S.)
12:30 Movie: "Bengal Brigade"
2:25 News
2:30 I Love Lucy
3 PM New Mickey Mouse Club
3:30 The Archies
4 PM Addams Family
4:30 Monkees
5 PM Hazel
5:30 Family Affair
6 PM That Girl
6:30 Green Acres
7 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
7:30 Get Smart
8 PM Last Of The Wild
8:30 Issue Of Life (debate on whether religious
issues should be taught in public schools)
9 PM Movie: "The Big Gamble"
11 PM Let's Make A Deal
11:30 Movie: "The Brigand"
1:30 Movie: "East Of Sumatra"
3:10 News
3:30 Open Up

Does anyone know when WTCG-17's summer lineup went into effect and what 17 had weekdays before the summer lineup in 1978?. I would like to see any May 1978 WTCG 17 sched with the weekday lineup , or a lineup from September 1978 of WTCG 17.
 
First, The Gong Show on Ch. 36 is the NBC version;
ironically, WSB carried the syndicated version Fridays at 7:30.

Second, here is Ch. 17's lineup for Monday, May 20, 1978; I'm
assuming the summer schedule went into effect around the first
of June.

5:30 World At Large
6:30 Romper Room
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8 AM Lassie
8:30 The Lucy Show
9 AM Jim Nabors
10 AM Movie: "No Highway In The Sky"
11:55 News
12 N High Hopes
12:30 Movie: "The Macomber Affair"
2:25 News
2:30 I Love Lucy
3 PM New Mickey Mouse Club
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Addams Family
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
5:30 Family Affair
6 PM Andy Griffith
6:30 My Three Sons
7 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8 PM Last Of The Wild
8:30 Wanted: Dead Or Alive
9 PM Movie: "Wild In The Country"
11:30 Movie: "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"
1:30 Movie: "Drums Across The River"
3:10 News
3:30 Open Up
 
Thanks for the WTCG sched from May 1978. Jim Nabors' ill-fated variety show was also on WGN ,before Chicago's Very own Channel 9 hit the satellite on Halloween 1978.
 
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