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Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Monday, September 17, 1973

From TV Guide, North Georgia Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

5:50 Town And Country
5:55 Farm Show
6 AM Christopher Closeup
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today (Harvey Cox, author of "The
Seduction Of The Spirit," talks about
new trends in religion.)
9 AM Today In Georgia
9:30 Monday News Conference
10 AM Dinah's Place (Yul Brynner hosts a wine and
cheese party and talks about selecting vintages.)
10:30 Baffle (guests: Jo Anne Worley and Vincent Price;
host: Dick Enberg)
11 AM Wizard Of Odds (Alex Trebek's first U.S. game show)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Charo, John Davidson, Nanette
Fabray, Florence Henderson, Rich Little, Kent McCord,
Vincent Price, Charley Weaver, and Paul Lynde)
12 N News
12:30 Merv Griffin (columnist Jack Anderson, Peter Fonda,
Karen Valentine, Adela Rogers St. Johns)
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Truth Or Consequences
5 PM Mod Squad
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News (John Chancellor)
7:30 Let's Make A Deal
8 PM Lotsa Luck
8:30 Diana (Diana Rigg's short-lived sitcom)
9 PM NBC Movie: "Play Misty For Me"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (David Steinberg subs for
Johnny)
NOTE: Tom Snyder's "Tomorrow" will debut following
"The Tonight Show" on Oct. 15.

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today
9 AM Phil Donahue (Billie Jean King speaks out on the
treatment of women athletes by professional
sports organizations.)
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Baffle
11 AM Wizard Of Odds
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman, R.I.P.)
1 PM Merry-Go-Round
1:30 Three On A Match
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
5:30 Bewitched
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Let's Make A Deal
8 PM Lotsa Luck
8:30 Diana
9 PM NBC Movie: "Play Misty For Me"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

5:30 Camera Three (the middle years of Franz
Liszt, delay from Sun 11 AM)
6 AM Summer Semester: "Practical English for
Hispanic-Americans"
6:30 Captain Kangaroo (day-behind)
7:30 Atlanta A.M.
8 AM CBS News (Hughes Rudd/Sally Quinn, a
disastrous pairing that ranks with Harry
Reasoner and Barbara Walters three years
later)
9 AM Phil Donahue (ESP with mentalist Peter Hurkos--
guess Kreskin wasn't available :)
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 $10,000 Pyramid
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Secret Storm
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '73 (Nanette Fabray, Richard
Dawson, Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers,
Bobby Van--doesn't give the sixth panelist
and is running two days behind on CBS because
of the Watergate hearings)
4 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
4:30 Bewitched
5 PM The Bold Ones ("The Doctors" with E.G. Marshall;
other elements are "The Lawyers" with Burl Ives,
"The Senator" with Hal Holbrook, "The Protectors"
with Leslie Nielsen, "Sarge" with George Kennedy)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM News
7:30 TV5 Reports
8 PM Gunsmoke
9 PM Here's Lucy (guest: O.J. Simpson)
9:30 The New Dick Van Dyke Show (Dick Preston has
abandoned his Phoenix talk show and is acting
on an L.A.-based soap.)
10 PM Medical Center
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Doctor, You've Got To Be Kidding!"

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

In-school programming until

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Insight (religious program with Father
Ellwood Keiser (sp?))
7:30 Forum: "Mental Health And The Community"
8 PM Music From Ambler (Beverly Sills performs at
the Temple University Music Festival in
Ambler, PA)
9:30 Atlanta Week In Review
10 PM Movie: "Summer Interlude" (directed by
Ingmar Bergman)
sign off 11:30 PM

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

6:30 Country Music
7 AM News
7:30 Kid Power (delay from Sun 10 AM)
8 AM New Zoo Revue
8:30 Funtime
9:30 Virginian
11 AM I Love Lucy
11:30 Brady Bunch
12 N Password (Sandy Duncan and Peter Lawford)
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 The Girl In My Life
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Love, American Style
4:30 Green Acres
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM News (Ch. 9 was touting new anchor Gene
Randall, who I think went to NBC later on.)
6:30 ABC News (Howard K. Smith/Harry Reasoner)
7 PM Beverly Hillbillies
7:30 The Lucy Show
8 PM The Rookies
9 PM NFL Football: Jets-Packers (season premiere)
12 M News (time approximate)

WQXI (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

6:30 Good Morning Atlanta
7 AM World Tomorrow (Garner Ted Armstrong)
7:30 Rise And Shine
8:30 Courtship Of Eddie's Father
9 AM Hazel
9:30 Dick Van Dyke
10 AM Password (day-behind: Dick Gautier and
Vicki Lawrence)
10:30 Love, American Style (day-behind with Dick
Gautier in one of the spots)
11 AM One Life To Live
11:30 Brady Bunch
12 N News
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 The Girl In My Life
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Movie: "Half Angel"
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM What's My Line?
7:30 Norm Van Brocklin (the then-coach of the
Falcons reviews Saturday's Falcons-Saints
game with Ch. 11 sports director Bob Neal)
8 PM The Rookies
9 PM NFL Football: Jets-Packers
12 M News (time approximate)
12:40 Untouchables
1:40 News

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

6:25 Summer Semester: "The Immigrant In American
Life"
6:55 Farm Report
7 AM Morning Show
8 AM CBS News
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 $10,000 Pyramid
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Beat The Clock (guest: Anita Gillette;
host: Gene Wood)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '73
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Merv Griffin (Polly Bergen, Jacqueline Susann,
Ms. magazine editor Patricia Carbine, Adela
Rogers St. Johns)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hogan's Heroes
7:30 To Tell The Truth (Gene Rayburn, Kitty Carlisle,
Bill Cullen, Peggy Cass)
8 PM Gunsmoke
9 PM Here's Lucy
9:30 The New Dick Van Dyke Show
10 PM Medical Center
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Doctor, You've Got To Be Kidding!"

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/ABC)

6:50 News
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Let's Talk It Over
9:30 General Hospital
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 $10,000 Pyramid
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Almanac
1:15 Date With Del
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '73
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Bonanza (listed in black-and-white but I
thought it was in color from its 1959 debut)
5:30 To Tell The Truth (Orson Bean, Kitty Carlisle,
Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Let's Make A Deal
8 PM Gunsmoke
9 PM Here's Lucy
9:30 The New Dick Van Dyke Show
10 PM Medical Center
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Doctor, You've Got To Be Kidding!"

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

In-school programs until

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Consultation
7:30 Interface
8 PM Music From Ambler
9:30 Book Beat (Sam Levenson discusses "In One
Era And Out The Other," a humorous comparison
of the '30s and the '70s.)
10 PM Homewood (pianist Bill Evans and vibraphonist
Gary Burton play jazz with their respective groups)
sign off 11 PM

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

6:30 Buck Owens (guests: the Tucson Boys Chorus)
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8:30 Romper Room
9 AM New Zoo Revue
9:30 Donna Reed
10 AM Mike Douglas (co-host: Dick Shawn; guests:
Trini Lopez; Dougal and Lyn Robertson, authors
of "Survive The Savage Sea"; impressionist
Daphne Davis--NOTE: before this season is out,
Mike will begin a long run at 4:30 on Ch. 5)
11:30 Living Easy With Dr. Joyce Brothers
12 N Mister Ed
12:30 The Lucy Show
1 PM Movie: "Scandal, Inc."
3 PM Jeff's Collie
3:30 Munsters
4 PM Flintstones (with all the talk about "The Andy
Griffith Show"'s 50th anniversary, everybody
seems to be overlooking the fact that Fred and
company will turn 50 on Sept. 30, 2010)
4:30 Leave It To Beaver
5 PM Andy Griffith (guest: Don Rickles as peddler
Newton Monroe)
5:30 Beverly Hillbillies
6 PM Lucy Show
6:30 Father Knows Best
7 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
7:30 Andy Griffith (this episode about Andy's dealing
with Opie's poor math grades has been said to
be a precursor of the color years--Andy is a
foul-tempered, humorless sort in this episode)
8 PM Star Trek
9 PM Movie: "White Heat" (TCM had this Cagney classic
on its "The Essentials" Saturday night--I never get
tired of it.)
11:20 Movie: "Midnight"
1:20 Movie: "Scandal, Inc."

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)

In-school programs until

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Erica (crafts, not Erica Kane)
6:15 Theonie (cooking)
6:30 Know Your Antiques
7 PM Making Things Grow
7:30 Book Beat
8 PM Homewood (see Chs. 15 and 18)
9 PM It's Your City (taped coverage of today's
meeting of the Atlanta Board of Aldermen)
sign off 11 PM

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Not For Women Only
9:30 Joanne Carson's VIPs (I think she was Johnny's
second wife--she had her own talk show.)
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Baffle
11 AM Wizard Of Odds
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Mantrap
1:30 Three On A Match
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4 PM Somerset
4:30 New Zoo Revue
5 PM My Favorite Martian
5:30 Wanted: Dead Or Alive
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
7:30 That Girl
8 PM Lotsa Luck
8:30 Diana
9 PM NBC Movie: "Play Misty For Me"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show

WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)

In-school programming until

5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Hodgepodge Lodge
7:30 Erica
7:45 Theonie
8 PM Music From Ambler
9:30 Book Beat
sign off 10 PM

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

11 AM Fury
11:30 Cartoon Carnival
12 N 700 Club
2 PM Mr. Magoo
2:30 Bozo
3 PM Deputy Dawg
3:30 Mighty Mouse
4 PM Lone Ranger
4:30 Superman
5 PM Batman
5:30 Batman
6 PM Dennis The Menace
6:30 Mayberry R.F.D.
7 PM Honeymooners
7:30 TBA
8 PM Glen Haven Baptist Church
8:30 700 Club
10:30 Good News
11 PM Rawhide
sign off 12 M

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

3 PM Underdog
3:30 Bugs Bunny
4 PM Gigantor
4:30 Our Gang Comedies
5 PM Three Stooges
5:30 Porky Pig
6 PM Foghorn Leghorn
6:30 Underdog
7 PM Our Gang Comedies
7:30 Bugs Bunny
8 PM Gigantor
8:30 Three Stooges
9 PM Rocky And His Friends
9:30 Our Gang Comedies
10 PM Movie: "Along Came Jones" (slow-talkin'
Jones, slow-walkin' Jones :) Gary Cooper
plays that song lyric to perfection)
11:30 Four Star Theatre
sign off 12 M
 
WSB Mon Let's Make A Deal
Tue Wild Kingdom
Wed Adam-12 (week delay, Ch. 2 showed movies
Wednesdays 8-10)
Thu Wild Wild World Of Animals
Fri The Girl With Something Extra (week delay,
Ch. 2 showed Lawrence Welk Fridays 8:30-9:30)
Sat Hee Haw (7-8)


WAGA Mon TV5 Reports
Tue Hollywood Squares
Wed The New Dating Game
Thu Price Is Right
Fri Dusty's Trail
Sat National Geographic (7-8)

WXIA Mon Norm Van Brocklin
Tue-Sat To Tell The Truth
 
I should add that on Sundays at 7, Ch. 2 had "Secrets
Of The Deep" unless NBC had a football doubleheader,
in which case local news aired at that time. Ch. 5 had
local news; Ch. 11, Jimmy Dean's syndicated show.

Prime time on Sundays was 7:30-10:30 on all the networks,
so at 10:30 Ch. 2 had locally-produced news specials, Ch. 5
had "Police Surgeon," and Ch. 11 had its late local news,
followed by "Mission: Impossible" at 11.

Also, Saturdays at 7, Ch. 5 had the National Geographic
specials; Ch. 11 had "The Reasoner Report" unless college
football pre-empted it at its in-pattern time of 6:30, in which
case 11 would have local news at 7 (normal time was 6:30).
 
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