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Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Monday, May 25, 1959

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From TV Guide, Georgia (Atlanta) Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

6:30 Continental Classroom: "Discovery of Fission"
7 AM Today (Carol Burnett, New York City judge
John M. Murtaugh, sports car driver and journalist
Denise McCluggage; Dave Garroway hosts)
9 AM Today In Georgia
9:30 Bozo The Clown
10 AM Dough Re Mi
10:30 Treasure Hunt
11 AM Price Is Right
11:30 Concentration
12 N News, Weather
12:15 Tic Tac Dough (joined in progress)
12:30 Movie: "The Cockeyed Miracle"
2 PM Queen For A Day
2:30 Haggis Baggis (COLOR)
3 PM Young Dr. Malone
3:30 From These Roots
4 PM Truth Or Consequences (COLOR)
4:30 County Fair (Bert Parks)
5 PM Popeye Club
6 PM Superman
6:30 News
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Death Valley Days
7:30 Buckskin
8 PM Restless Gun
8:30 Tales Of Wells Fargo
9 PM Peter Gunn
9:30 Goodyear Theater (Jeanne Crain as a tuberculosis
patient whose condition gradually improves under
a caring doctor.)
10 PM Arthur Murray (guests: Milton Berle, Red Buttons,
Gene Barry, COLOR)
10:30 It Could Happen To You (safe driving)
11 PM News
11:15 Movie: "Arsene Lupin" (John and Lionel Barrymore
in a jewel caper from '32)

WRGP (WRCB) Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

6:30 Continental Classroom
7 AM Today
9 AM Cartoons
10 AM Dough Re Mi
10:30 Treasure Hunt
11 AM Price Is Right
11:30 Concentration
12 N Tic Tac Dough
12:30 It Could Be You
1 PM I Married Joan
1:30 Susie (Ann Sothern)
2 PM Queen For A Day
2:30 Haggis Baggis (COLOR)
3 PM Young Dr. Malone
3:30 From These Roots
4 PM Truth Or Consequences (COLOR)
4:30 County Fair
5 PM Movie: "Twilight On The Trail" (Hopalong
Cassidy)
6 PM Flatt And Scruggs
6:30 News
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Boots And Saddles
7:30 State Trooper
8 PM Restless Gun
8:30 Tales Of Wells Fargo
9 PM Peter Gunn
9:30 Goodyear Theater
10 PM Arthur Murray (COLOR)
10:30 Amos 'n' Andy
11 PM News
11:15 Jack Paar (guests: actress Joyce Jameson
and frequent guest Genevieve)

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6:45 Ronnie Reports (don't know who this is)
6:55 Daily Word
7 AM Statesmen Quartet
7:15 Mann About The House
8:15 Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Movie: "The Woman From Tangier"
10:30 Sam Levenson (Walt Kelly, creator of the comic strip
"Pogo," is Sam's guest)
11 AM I Love Lucy
11:30 Top Dollar (this was the stopgap replacement for the
rigged "Dotto," with Jack Narz moving over to this show
as host)
12 N Love Of Life
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Medic
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Boston Blackie
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party (writer Gladys Workman is guest)
3 PM Big Payoff
3:30 Verdict Is Yours
4 PM Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM Movie: "Zanzibar"
6:30 Science Fiction Theater
7 PM News, Weather
7:15 Douglas Edwards With The News
7:30 Name That Tune
8 PM The Texan
8:30 Father Knows Best
9 PM Danny Thomas
9:30 DuPont Show Of The Month: "Billy Budd"
with Don Murray and Jason Robards Jr.
11 PM News
11:15 Movie: "The Bandits Of Corsica"

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

8:45 Kiddie Music
9 AM Popeye
10 AM Romper Room
11 AM Willis Brothers (country music)
12 N George Hamilton IV (guest: singer Mary Klick)
12:30 Pantomime Quiz (players include Carol Burnett and
Gretchen Wyler)
1 PM Music Bingo ("Jeopardy!" announcer Johnny Gilbert
emceed this one.)
1:30 Comedy Highlights
2 PM Day In Court (a man is charged with forging a friend's
will)
2:30 Gale Storm
3 PM Beat The Clock
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4 PM American Bandstand (guest: singer-comedian Lou Monte)
5:30 Mickey Mouse Club
6 PM Bob Brandy
6:55 Weather
7 PM Jeff's Collie
7:30 Mull's Singing Convention
8:30 Man Behind The Badge
9 PM Voice Of Firestone (a concert from the University of Akron's
Memorial Hall with opera singers Rise Stevens, Heidi Krall,
Jerome Hines, and Brian Sullivan)
9:30 Top Pro Golf (Roberto DiVicenzo vs. Frank Stranahan)
10:30 Dial 999
11 PM Movie: "King's Rhapsody"

WLW-A (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

7:20 News, Weather
7:30 Thoughts For Today
7:45 Cartoon Musicale
8:30 School Days
9 AM Romper Room
9:30 Skipper Ray (Ray McCay)
10:30 My Little Margie
11 AM Movie: "Guest Wife"
12 N George Hamilton IV
12:30 Pantomime Quiz
1 PM Music Bingo
1:30 Our Miss Brooks
2 PM Day In Court
2:30 Gale Storm
3 PM Beat The Clock
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4 PM American Bandstand
5:30 Mickey Mouse Club
6 PM Three Stooges
6:30 Jeff's Collie
7 PM New York Confidential
7:30 Tales Of The Texas Rangers
8 PM Polka-Go-Round
8:30 Bold Journey
9 PM Voice Of Firestone
9:30 Top Pro Golf
10:30 Official Detective
11 PM News
11:15 Jack Paar (pre-empted on Ch. 2)

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

8 AM CBS News (Richard Hottelet)
8:15 Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Bozo The Clown
9:30 Party Line (Drue Smith)
9:45 Our Gang
10 AM On The Go (Jack Linkletter visits the Reis-
Davis clinic for retarded children in Los Angeles)
10:30 Sam Levenson
11 AM I Love Lucy
11:30 Top Dollar
12 N Love Of Life
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Lunch 'n' Fun
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Jimmy Dean (guests: Brazilian singers Natalicio and
Antenor Lima)
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM Big Payoff
3:30 Verdict Is Yours
4 PM Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM Movie: "A Southern Yankee"
6:30 News
6:45 Douglas Edwards With The News
7 PM How To Marry A Millionaire (a break for Barbara Eden)
7:30 Name That Tune
8 PM The Texan
8:30 Father Knows Best
9 PM Danny Thomas
9:30 DuPont Show Of The Month
11 PM News
11:25 Divorce Hearing (not to be confused with "Divorce
Court")
11:55 Sen. Estes Kefauver (who was from Tennessee)

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

7:55 News, Weather
8 AM CBS News
8:15 Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Little Rascals
9:15 Our Daily Bread
9:30 Burns And Allen
10 AM Science Fiction Theater
10:30 Sam Levenson
11 AM I Love Lucy
11:30 Top Dollar
12 N Love Of Life
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 Country Carnival
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM Big Payoff
3:30 Verdict Is Yours
4 PM Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM Jack And Jolly (kids' show)
5:40 World In Picture
5:50 Sports, Weather
6 PM I Led Three Lives
6:30 News
6:45 Douglas Edwards With The News
7 PM U.S. Marshal
7:30 Name That Tune
8 PM The Texan
8:30 Tales Of Wells Fargo (in-pattern time but
an episode airing on delay)
9 PM Danny Thomas
9:30 DuPont Show Of The Month
11 PM News
11:15 Movie: "Sitting Pretty"
 
WSB ch 2---

12:15pm---Tic Tac Dough, joined in progress?!?!?!? Wow!

cd
 
My reaction, too, and I've known that for years. Still, it's better
than the treatment "Jeopardy!" got from Channel 2 when NBC carried
it at noon; it wasn't carried at all and was usually either handed off
to Channel 17 or pre-empted altogether in Atlanta.
 
Not wanting to stray OT, but I thought it was amazing that the original "Jeopardy!" at the 12 noon EST slot cleared as many affiliates as it did---or if not, that it lasted as long as it did in that slot, when many stations want to put news there.

Miami's WCKT 7 (then NBC) ran their news at 12:30, maybe because of J!, but a couple of my favorite game shows suffered ("Eye Guess" & "Who What or Where Game"). There was nobody to pick them up until about 1973 on indie ch 6, so we had to watch the fuzzy West Palm Beach station.

But a game show "in progress"....!!!

cd
 
"Haggis Baggis" involved a 5x5 board with five categories
and five letters under each category name; each letter
was the first letter in the correct answer. Contestants
took turns picking squares, with a correct answer revealing
part of a celebrity's face. First player to identify the face
could take "haggis" (relatively-expensive prizes) or "baggis"
(less-expensive prizes); the other player could win the same
prize package by correctly guessing which one the winner took.
Jack Linkletter hosted a primetime version of this show, while
Fred Robbins and Dennis James, successively, hosted the daytime
show.

Back to "Jeopardy!" WESH Daytona Beach/Orlando also used to
pre-empt "Who, What Or Where" in favor of news at 12:30 and in
order to run "Jeopardy!" at 12.
 
Wiki sez that there is one episode of "Haggis Baggis" floating amongst collectors. I like to collect classic game shows, but I never gave thought to get a copy of this. Sounds like fun.

cd
 
Oh man, just remembered....

There was once a time, when networks in the daytime took a station break, even halfway thru a 30-minute show. I'm wondering if WSB joined the network right at that point, daily. But still, you'd usually have the announcer say "Welcome BACK to [name of show]," so the viewer would still say, "huh?"

cd
 
Charles1 said:
I've seen an episode of Haggis Baggis with Dennis James on YouTube. You might want to check it out.
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By all means! Thanx! The whole episode?
 
cd637299 said:
Oh man, just remembered....

There was once a time, when networks in the daytime took a station break, even halfway thru a 30-minute show. I'm wondering if WSB joined the network right at that point, daily. But still, you'd usually have the announcer say "Welcome BACK to [name of show]," so the viewer would still say, "huh?"

cd
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Yes, back in those days, to account for odd instances like that, such NBC shows had a station break right in the middle.
 
After the soaps began expanding from 15 to 30 minutes, CBS
had a similar policy: a 40-second break about halfway through
for the affiliate to sell a 30-second spot and identify itself; when
the network came back up the announcer would say something like,
"And now, part 2 of (fill in the title)."
 
After the soaps began expanding from 15 to 30 minutes, CBS had a similar policy: a 40-second break about halfway through for the affiliate to sell a 30-second spot and identify itself; when the network came back up the announcer would say something like, "And now, part 2 of (fill in the title)."
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The shows were live then. Gives 40 sec. for the cast & crew to regroup, etc. ;)
 
trusty said:
After the soaps began expanding from 15 to 30 minutes, CBS had a similar policy: a 40-second break about halfway through for the affiliate to sell a 30-second spot and identify itself; when the network came back up the announcer would say something like, "And now, part 2 of (fill in the title)."
Click to expand...

The shows were live then. Gives 40 sec. for the cast & crew to regroup, etc. ;)
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Ya know, that's true, even the game shows.....I didn't give thought to that.

cd
 
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