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Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Monday, October 23, 1961

From TV Guide, Georgia (Atlanta) Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

6 AM Continental Classroom: "Modern Algebra" (COLOR)
6:30 Continental Classroom: "American Government"
(Edward R. Murrow discusses the United States
Information Agency's part in the ideological struggle
between East and West, COLOR)
7 AM Today (John Chancellor)
9 AM Today In Georgia
9:45 Debbie Drake (exercises)
10 AM Say When!
10:30 Play Your Hunch (COLOR)
11 AM Price Is Right (COLOR)
11:30 Concentration
12 N News, Weather
12:15 Movie: "Nob Hill"
2 PM Jan Murray (Charge Account) (COLOR)
2:30 Loretta Young
3 PM Young Dr. Malone
3:30 From These Roots
4 PM Make Room For Daddy
4:30 Kukla And Ollie (day-behind from 5 PM)
4:35 Dick Tracy (animated, with Everett Sloane as the
voice of Dick Tracy and Mel Blanc as his dimwitted
assistants)
4:45 Rocky And His Friends
5 PM Popeye Club
6 PM Yogi Bear
6:30 News, Weather
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Death Valley Days
7:30 Joey Bishop (delay from Wed 8:30)
8 PM National Velvet
8:30 Price Is Right (COLOR)
9 PM 87th Precinct
10 PM Thriller (Boris Karloff)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:25 Movie: "Johnny Eager"

WRGP (WRCB) Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

6 AM Adult Reading
6:30 Continental Classroom: "American Government"
(COLOR)
7 AM Today
9 AM Classroom
9:30 Debbie Drake
9:45 News (Fischer)
10 AM Say When!
10:30 Play Your Hunch (COLOR)
11 AM Price Is Right (COLOR)
11:30 Concentration
12 N Truth Or Consequences
12:30 It Could Be You (COLOR)
12:55 NBC News (Ray Scherer)
1 PM Topper
1:30 Life Of Riley (guest: Zsa Zsa Gabor)
2 PM Jan Murray (COLOR)
2:30 Loretta Young
3 PM Young Dr. Malone
3:30 From These Roots
4 PM Make Room For Daddy
4:30 Here's Hollywood (guest: actor John Gavin)
4:55 NBC News (Sander Vanocur, a hot property at the
time as he was a favorite of JFK)
5 PM Kukla And Ollie
5:05 Alex And Elmer (I'm wondering if this is ventriloquist
Alex Houston, who used to appear on some of the
syndicated country-music shows.)
5:50 Mr. Magoo
5:55 Wyatt Earp
6:25 News, Weather
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Trackdown
7:30 Shannon
8 PM National Velvet
8:30 Price Is Right (COLOR)
9 PM 87th Precinct
10 PM Thriller
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:15 Jack Paar (guests: Hans Conried and novelist Morris
L. West, author of "The Devil's Advocate," COLOR)

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6:30 College Of The Air: "New Biology" (the reproduction of
cells)
7 AM Video College
7:30 News, Cartoons
8 AM Captain Kangaroo (Skitch Henderson appears all week
to talk about the different kinds of percussion instruments.)
9 AM Jack LaLanne
9:30 Movie: "Tycoon" (Part 1, no relation to the 1964-65 Walter
Brennan sitcom, but John Wayne as an engineer building
a railroad tunnel through the Andes, from '47)
11 AM Divorce Court
12 N Love Of Life
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Life Of Riley
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Susie (Ann Sothern)
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party (fashion designer Don Loper
presents some of his creations)
3 PM Millionaire
3:30 Verdict Is Yours
3:55 CBS News (Charles Collingwood)
4 PM Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM Riverboat
6 PM Panorama News
6:45 Douglas Edwards With The News
7 PM Peter Gunn
7:30 To Tell The Truth (Jayne Meadows and Johnny Carson
join Kitty Carlisle and Tom Poston.)
8 PM Divorce Court
9 PM Danny Thomas (guest: Harry James)
9:30 Andy Griffith
10 PM Hennesey
10:30 I've Got A Secret (guest: Joan Crawford)
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:25 Movie: "Blood On The Sun"

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (NET)

6:30 Streamlined Reading
7 PM Growing South
7:30 Delinquency (the influence of the home in creating
a criminal offender)
8 PM Call To A Nation (the system of socialized medicine
in England)
9:30 Insurance (insurance programs for families in three
income brackets)
10 PM Nuclear Age (how radiation is used to diagnose and
treat disease)
10:30 WGTV Special (details not given)

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

8 AM Susie
8:30 Voice Of Faith
9 AM Funtime
9:30 Romper Room
10:30 It's A Good Day
11 AM The Texan
11:30 Love That Bob!
12 N Camouflage
12:30 Make A Face (Bob Clayton)
1 PM Day In Court (a woman is charged with attempting
to murder her husband)
1:25 ABC News (Joe Slattery subs for Alex Dreier)
1:30 Art Tele-Class
2 PM Number Please (Bud Collyer hosts a "Wheel Of Fortune"-
type game)
2:30 Seven Keys
3 PM Queen For A Day
3:30 Who Do You Trust? (Johnny Carson has just begun his
last year as host.)
4 PM American Bandstand
4:50 American Newsstand
5 PM Bob Brandy
6 PM News, Weather
6:30 Jeff's Collie
7 PM Flatt And Scruggs
7:30 Cheyenne
8:30 Rifleman
9 PM Surfside 6
10 PM Ben Casey (guests: George C. Scott and his wife
Colleen Dewhurst)
11 PM ABC News (anchor not given)
11:15 Man From Cochise

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

7 AM School Days
7:30 Billy Johnson (kids' show)
9 AM Movie: "All By Myself" (don't think Eric Carmen, this
is from '43)
11 AM The Texan
11:30 Love That Bob!
12 N Camouflage
12:30 Make A Face
1 PM Day In Court
1:25 ABC News
1:30 Burns And Allen
2 PM Number Please
2:30 Seven Keys
3 PM Queen For A Day
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4 PM American Bandstand
4:50 American Newsstand
5 PM Tombstone Territory
5:30 Movie: "Men Of Texas"
7 PM News, Weather, Sports
7:15 ABC News (anchor not given, this is the
period of "musical anchors" between John
Daly and Ron Cochran--note: it's interesting
to me that Ch. 11 carries this newscast and
Ch. 9 does not; in a few years it will be the
other way around)
7:30 Cheyenne
8:30 Rifleman
9 PM Surfside 6
10 PM Ben Casey
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Jack Paar (pre-empted on Ch. 2, not in color)

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

6:55 Daily Word
7 AM College Of The Air
7:30 R.F.D. 12
7:45 Bozo The Clown
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Parlons Francais
9:30 Woman's Whirl
10 AM Calendar (Harry Reasoner)
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Video Village (Monty Hall)
11:30 Your Surprise Package (George Fenneman, who
was much better as Groucho's announcer-sidekick)
11:55 CBS News (Harry Reasoner)
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 Password (Bennett Cerf, Jayne Meadows)
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM Millionaire
3:30 Verdict Is Yours
3:55 CBS News
4 PM Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM Movie: "Calcutta" (don't think Lawrence Welk,
this is from '47)
6:25 Sounding Board
6:30 News, Weather
6:45 Douglas Edwards With The News
7 PM Mantovani (music for the Welk/Liberace crowd)
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM Pete And Gladys (Harry Morgan's "December Bride"
character, Pete Porter, was spun off into this show;
Cara Williams is his Lucy-like wife)
8:30 Window On Main Street (Robert Young's one failure--
he's a small-town newspaper columnist who writes
about his fellow citizens)
9 PM Danny Thomas
9:30 Andy Griffith
10 PM Hennesey
10:30 I've Got A Secret
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:15 Movie: "The Affairs Of Susan"

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

6:30 Continental Classroom (NBC, COLOR)
7 AM College Of The Air
7:30 Almanac Newsreel
7:35 Hymn Time
7:45 Your Bible
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Action (Doris Martin, who later did "Let's
Talk It Over")
10 AM Calendar
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Video Village
11:30 Your Surprise Package
11:55 CBS News
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 Password
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM Millionaire
3:30 Verdict Is Yours
3:55 CBS News
4 PM Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night (interesting that Ch. 13, with a
secondary ABC affiliation and no ABC affiliate
in Macon until the early '80s, did not carry the
show after it changed networks)
5 PM Rescue 8
5:30 Whirlybirds
6 PM Highway Patrol
6:30 News, Weather
6:45 Douglas Edwards With The News
7 PM Brothers Brannagan
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM Pete And Gladys
8:30 Window On Main Street
9 PM Danny Thomas
9:30 Andy Griffith
10 PM Hennesey
10:30 I've Got A Secret
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:30 Adventures In Paradise (ABC, delay from Sun 10 PM)
 
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