From TV Guide, Georgia (Atlanta) Edition:
WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)
7 AM Today (guest: poet Louis Untermeyer)
9 AM Today In Georgia (guest: Michael Landon)
9:30 People Are Funny
10 AM Say When!
10:25 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
10:30 Play Your Hunch (guest: singer Kitty Kallen, COLOR)
11 AM Concentration
11:30 Missing Links (Kitty Carlisle, Sam Levenson, Nipsey Russell;
Ed McMahon hosts, but he will be replaced by Dick Clark when
the show moves to ABC in March 1964)
12 N News (Ray Moore)
12:15 Movie: "One Night In Lisbon" (Fred MacMurray, from '41)
2 PM People Will Talk (would evolve into "Celebrity Game" and then
"Hollywood Squares," COLOR)
2:25 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Loretta Young
3:30 You Don't Say! (Suzy Parker, Lee Marvin, COLOR)
4 PM Match Game (Abe Burrows, Dorothy Collins)
4:25 NBC News (Sander Vanocur)
4:30 Popeye Club
5:30 Yogi Bear
6 PM Newsroom (Ray Moore)
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Death Valley Days
7:30 NBC Movie: "Love Is A Many Splendored Thing" (COLOR)
9:30 Art Linkletter (panel: Rod Serling, Jayne Meadows, Carl Reiner)
10 PM Checkmate
11 PM Newsroom (John Palmer)
11:30 Tonight Show (Lorne Greene, Sheldon Leonard, singer Sylvia Syms,
COLOR)
WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)
7 AM Today
9 AM Today With Morris
9:30 Cartoon Time
10 AM Say When!
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Play Your Hunch (COLOR)
11 AM Concentration
11:30 Missing Links (COLOR)
12 N Your First Impression (Ross Martin, Elena Verdugo,
Dennis James, COLOR)
12:30 Truth Or Consequences
12:55 NBC News (Ray Scherer)
1 PM Best Of Groucho
1:30 WRCB Bulletin
2 PM People Will Talk (COLOR)
2:25 NBC News
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Loretta Young
3:30 You Don't Say! (COLOR)
4 PM Match Game
4:25 NBC News
4:30 Make Room For Daddy
5 PM Sugarfoot
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM The Pioneers (selected "Death Valley Days" reruns)
7:30 NBC Movie: "Love Is A Many Splendored Thing" (COLOR)
9:30 Sword Of Freedom
10 PM The Loyal Opposition (Ray Scherer examines the GOP leadership
as it prepares for the 1964 elections.)
10:30 Big Story
11 PM Bulletin (John Gray)
11:30 Tonight Show (COLOR)
WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)
6:30 Plays Of Shakespeare
7 AM News, Farm News
7:20 Cartoon Clubhouse
7:45 King And Odie
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM B'wana Don In Jungle-La
9:30 Jack LaLanne
10 AM Movie: "Geraldine" (watch for Jim Backus in this '54 musical--
don't ask me if he sings)
11:30 Pete And Gladys
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 News (Ed Blair)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Best Of Groucho
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password (Carol Channing, Robert Reed)
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party (sociologist Reuben Hill discusses
family finances)
3 PM To Tell The Truth (Joan Fontaine, Dana Andrews, Jan Murray,
Phyllis Newman)
3:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Dooley & Co.
5 PM Sea Hunt
5:30 Highway Patrol
6 PM Panorama News
6:30 Amos 'n' Andy
7 PM Phil Silvers (Sgt. Bilko, guest: Dick Van Dyke as a recruit so good
at hitting targets with rocks that Bilko wants to sell him to the
New York Yankees)
7:30 To Tell The Truth (Sally Ann Howes, Barry Nelson, Kitty Carlisle,
Tom Poston)
8 PM I've Got A Secret
8:30 Vacation Playhouse ("Come A-runnin," about a rural doctor whose
first patient--a woman about to have a baby--prefers a midwife)
9 PM Comedy Hour Specials (Jack Benny welcomes Danny Thomas, Raymond
Burr, the McGuire Sisters, and the Marquis Chimps)
10 PM Password (Carol Burnett, Tony Perkins)
10:30 Film Feature (a report on the United Way)
11 PM Panorama News
11:30 Movie: "Magic Town"
WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (NET)
6:30 What's New
7 PM Growing South
7:30 Portrait Of Mexico
8 PM Scott's Last Journey (Capt. Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated 1910
journey to the Antarctic)
9 PM Musicale (Louise Chambers sings selections from Schumann and Schubert.)
9:30 We, The Mentally Ill (patients at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, DC
present a drama on mental illness.)
10 PM Family Recreation
WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)
8:30 Jack LaLanne
9 AM Funtime
10:15 Upward Look
10:30 Morning Show
11 AM Price Is Right (moved from NBC to ABC)
11:30 Seven Keys
12 N Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (guest: Andy Williams)
12:30 Father Knows Best
1 PM General Hospital (moves to 3 PM Dec. 30)
1:30 Adventures In Paradise
2:30 Day In Court (a bookstore proprietor is charged with arson)
2:55 ABC News (Lisa Howard)
3 PM Queen For A Day
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4 PM Trailmaster
5 PM Bob Brandy
6 PM Cheyenne
7 PM ABC News (Ron Cochran)
7:15 News, Weather
7:30 Outer Limits (debut: Cliff Robertson in "The Galaxy Being,"
about a radio engineer who has invented a 3-D TV receiver)
8:30 Wagon Train (the one season it aired for 90 minutes begins
tonight, COLOR)
10 PM Breaking Point (debut of ABC's answer to NBC's "The Eleventh Hour";
the main characters on both shows are psychiatrists)
11 PM ABC News (Murphy Martin)
11:10 The Outlaws
WAII (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)
7:50 Thoughts For Today
7:55 Farm News, Weather
8 AM School Days
8:30 Movie: "Moonlight In Havana"
10 AM CBS News (Mike Wallace, pre-empted on Ch. 5)
10:30 I Love Lucy (pre-empted on Ch. 5)
11 AM Price Is Right
11:30 Seven Keys
12 N Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
12:30 Father Knows Best
1 PM General Hospital
1:30 Snooky Lanson (the former "Your Hit Parade" singer has
his own local show)
2:30 Day In Court
3 PM Queen For Day
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4 PM Trailmaster
5 PM Billy Johnson
5:30 Maverick
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite; incredible as it seems today,
Ch. 5 did not carry Cronkite; even though he ran behind
Huntley-Brinkley in the ratings, he was still ahead of ABC's
Ron Cochran. At the time CBS would not put a bureau in
Atlanta because Ch. 5 pre-empted Cronkite; it could have
put one in Dallas but it wound up in New Orleans. Dan Rather
headed up the bureau, and it was basically his idea to lay on
extra personnel for JFK's visit to Texas in November.)
7 PM News Watch (Bill McCain)
7:30 The Outer Limits
8:30 Wagon Train (COLOR)
10 PM Breaking Point
11 PM Night Watch (Bill McCain)
11:15 ABC News (Murphy Martin)
11:25 Sports (Paul Daugherty)
11:30 Movie: "River Lady" (Yvonne DeCarlo, from '48)
WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)
7:25 Daily Word
7:30 Country Show
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Woman's Whirl
9:30 Circus Boy
10 AM CBS News
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Real McCoys
11:30 Pete And Gladys
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News (Harry Reasoner)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Lunch 'n Fun
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Hawaiian Eye
5:30 Yogi Bear
6 PM Early News (Steve Conrad)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Amos 'n' Andy
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM I've Got A Secret
8:30 Vacation Playhouse
9 PM Comedy Hour Specials
10 PM Password
10:30 Yancy Derringer
11 PM News, Weather
11:15 Movie: "The French Line"
WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/NBC/ABC)
6:30 Cartoon Carnival
7 AM Highway Patrol
7:30 Lone Ranger
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Variety Theater ("Trapmates" with Hugh Beaumont;
"Deadly Doubt" with John Bryant)
10 AM CBS News
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Real McCoys
11:30 Pete And Gladys
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News
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 To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Doris Martin
5 PM Cartoons
5:30 Hootenanny (from the University of Virginia: the Chad
Mitchell Trio, Bud and Travis, Jo Mapes and Josh White Jr.,
ABC, delay from Sat 8:30 PM)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM State Trooper
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM I've Got A Secret
8:30 Vacation Playhouse
9 PM Comedy Hour Specials
10 PM Thriller
11 PM News, Weather
11:30 Movie: "Too Many Crooks"
WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)
7 AM Today (guest: poet Louis Untermeyer)
9 AM Today In Georgia (guest: Michael Landon)
9:30 People Are Funny
10 AM Say When!
10:25 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
10:30 Play Your Hunch (guest: singer Kitty Kallen, COLOR)
11 AM Concentration
11:30 Missing Links (Kitty Carlisle, Sam Levenson, Nipsey Russell;
Ed McMahon hosts, but he will be replaced by Dick Clark when
the show moves to ABC in March 1964)
12 N News (Ray Moore)
12:15 Movie: "One Night In Lisbon" (Fred MacMurray, from '41)
2 PM People Will Talk (would evolve into "Celebrity Game" and then
"Hollywood Squares," COLOR)
2:25 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Loretta Young
3:30 You Don't Say! (Suzy Parker, Lee Marvin, COLOR)
4 PM Match Game (Abe Burrows, Dorothy Collins)
4:25 NBC News (Sander Vanocur)
4:30 Popeye Club
5:30 Yogi Bear
6 PM Newsroom (Ray Moore)
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Death Valley Days
7:30 NBC Movie: "Love Is A Many Splendored Thing" (COLOR)
9:30 Art Linkletter (panel: Rod Serling, Jayne Meadows, Carl Reiner)
10 PM Checkmate
11 PM Newsroom (John Palmer)
11:30 Tonight Show (Lorne Greene, Sheldon Leonard, singer Sylvia Syms,
COLOR)
WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)
7 AM Today
9 AM Today With Morris
9:30 Cartoon Time
10 AM Say When!
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Play Your Hunch (COLOR)
11 AM Concentration
11:30 Missing Links (COLOR)
12 N Your First Impression (Ross Martin, Elena Verdugo,
Dennis James, COLOR)
12:30 Truth Or Consequences
12:55 NBC News (Ray Scherer)
1 PM Best Of Groucho
1:30 WRCB Bulletin
2 PM People Will Talk (COLOR)
2:25 NBC News
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Loretta Young
3:30 You Don't Say! (COLOR)
4 PM Match Game
4:25 NBC News
4:30 Make Room For Daddy
5 PM Sugarfoot
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM The Pioneers (selected "Death Valley Days" reruns)
7:30 NBC Movie: "Love Is A Many Splendored Thing" (COLOR)
9:30 Sword Of Freedom
10 PM The Loyal Opposition (Ray Scherer examines the GOP leadership
as it prepares for the 1964 elections.)
10:30 Big Story
11 PM Bulletin (John Gray)
11:30 Tonight Show (COLOR)
WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)
6:30 Plays Of Shakespeare
7 AM News, Farm News
7:20 Cartoon Clubhouse
7:45 King And Odie
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM B'wana Don In Jungle-La
9:30 Jack LaLanne
10 AM Movie: "Geraldine" (watch for Jim Backus in this '54 musical--
don't ask me if he sings)
11:30 Pete And Gladys
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 News (Ed Blair)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Best Of Groucho
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password (Carol Channing, Robert Reed)
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party (sociologist Reuben Hill discusses
family finances)
3 PM To Tell The Truth (Joan Fontaine, Dana Andrews, Jan Murray,
Phyllis Newman)
3:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Dooley & Co.
5 PM Sea Hunt
5:30 Highway Patrol
6 PM Panorama News
6:30 Amos 'n' Andy
7 PM Phil Silvers (Sgt. Bilko, guest: Dick Van Dyke as a recruit so good
at hitting targets with rocks that Bilko wants to sell him to the
New York Yankees)
7:30 To Tell The Truth (Sally Ann Howes, Barry Nelson, Kitty Carlisle,
Tom Poston)
8 PM I've Got A Secret
8:30 Vacation Playhouse ("Come A-runnin," about a rural doctor whose
first patient--a woman about to have a baby--prefers a midwife)
9 PM Comedy Hour Specials (Jack Benny welcomes Danny Thomas, Raymond
Burr, the McGuire Sisters, and the Marquis Chimps)
10 PM Password (Carol Burnett, Tony Perkins)
10:30 Film Feature (a report on the United Way)
11 PM Panorama News
11:30 Movie: "Magic Town"
WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (NET)
6:30 What's New
7 PM Growing South
7:30 Portrait Of Mexico
8 PM Scott's Last Journey (Capt. Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated 1910
journey to the Antarctic)
9 PM Musicale (Louise Chambers sings selections from Schumann and Schubert.)
9:30 We, The Mentally Ill (patients at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, DC
present a drama on mental illness.)
10 PM Family Recreation
WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)
8:30 Jack LaLanne
9 AM Funtime
10:15 Upward Look
10:30 Morning Show
11 AM Price Is Right (moved from NBC to ABC)
11:30 Seven Keys
12 N Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (guest: Andy Williams)
12:30 Father Knows Best
1 PM General Hospital (moves to 3 PM Dec. 30)
1:30 Adventures In Paradise
2:30 Day In Court (a bookstore proprietor is charged with arson)
2:55 ABC News (Lisa Howard)
3 PM Queen For A Day
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4 PM Trailmaster
5 PM Bob Brandy
6 PM Cheyenne
7 PM ABC News (Ron Cochran)
7:15 News, Weather
7:30 Outer Limits (debut: Cliff Robertson in "The Galaxy Being,"
about a radio engineer who has invented a 3-D TV receiver)
8:30 Wagon Train (the one season it aired for 90 minutes begins
tonight, COLOR)
10 PM Breaking Point (debut of ABC's answer to NBC's "The Eleventh Hour";
the main characters on both shows are psychiatrists)
11 PM ABC News (Murphy Martin)
11:10 The Outlaws
WAII (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)
7:50 Thoughts For Today
7:55 Farm News, Weather
8 AM School Days
8:30 Movie: "Moonlight In Havana"
10 AM CBS News (Mike Wallace, pre-empted on Ch. 5)
10:30 I Love Lucy (pre-empted on Ch. 5)
11 AM Price Is Right
11:30 Seven Keys
12 N Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
12:30 Father Knows Best
1 PM General Hospital
1:30 Snooky Lanson (the former "Your Hit Parade" singer has
his own local show)
2:30 Day In Court
3 PM Queen For Day
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4 PM Trailmaster
5 PM Billy Johnson
5:30 Maverick
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite; incredible as it seems today,
Ch. 5 did not carry Cronkite; even though he ran behind
Huntley-Brinkley in the ratings, he was still ahead of ABC's
Ron Cochran. At the time CBS would not put a bureau in
Atlanta because Ch. 5 pre-empted Cronkite; it could have
put one in Dallas but it wound up in New Orleans. Dan Rather
headed up the bureau, and it was basically his idea to lay on
extra personnel for JFK's visit to Texas in November.)
7 PM News Watch (Bill McCain)
7:30 The Outer Limits
8:30 Wagon Train (COLOR)
10 PM Breaking Point
11 PM Night Watch (Bill McCain)
11:15 ABC News (Murphy Martin)
11:25 Sports (Paul Daugherty)
11:30 Movie: "River Lady" (Yvonne DeCarlo, from '48)
WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)
7:25 Daily Word
7:30 Country Show
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Woman's Whirl
9:30 Circus Boy
10 AM CBS News
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Real McCoys
11:30 Pete And Gladys
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News (Harry Reasoner)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Lunch 'n Fun
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Hawaiian Eye
5:30 Yogi Bear
6 PM Early News (Steve Conrad)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Amos 'n' Andy
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM I've Got A Secret
8:30 Vacation Playhouse
9 PM Comedy Hour Specials
10 PM Password
10:30 Yancy Derringer
11 PM News, Weather
11:15 Movie: "The French Line"
WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/NBC/ABC)
6:30 Cartoon Carnival
7 AM Highway Patrol
7:30 Lone Ranger
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Variety Theater ("Trapmates" with Hugh Beaumont;
"Deadly Doubt" with John Bryant)
10 AM CBS News
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Real McCoys
11:30 Pete And Gladys
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News
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 To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Doris Martin
5 PM Cartoons
5:30 Hootenanny (from the University of Virginia: the Chad
Mitchell Trio, Bud and Travis, Jo Mapes and Josh White Jr.,
ABC, delay from Sat 8:30 PM)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM State Trooper
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM I've Got A Secret
8:30 Vacation Playhouse
9 PM Comedy Hour Specials
10 PM Thriller
11 PM News, Weather
11:30 Movie: "Too Many Crooks"