Democratic Convention-related coverage may pre-empt
regular programming (ABC has a special at 9:30 PM). Some
of you may recall the violence between protestors and Chicago
police.
From TV Guide, Georgia Edition:
WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)
7 AM Mighty Hercules (animated)
7:30 Flash Gordon (this appears to be the Buster Crabbe
serial)
8 AM Hopalong Cassidy
8:30 Funtime (not to be confused with the show with the
same name on WTVC)
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Super President
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Movie: "Wild Men Of Kurdistan"
12:30 Samson And Goliath (NBC, delay from 10:30 AM)
1 PM Birdman And The Galaxy Trio (NBC, delay from 11 AM)
1:30 Mister Ed
2 PM Baseball: Tigers-Yankees or Indians-Senators (the
Senators are now the Texas Rangers)
5 PM Laramie (time approximate)
6 PM Let's Go To The Races
6:30 Newsroom (Tom Wassell)
7 PM I Dream Of Jeannie (delay from Tue 7:30)
7:30 The Saint (Roger Moore)
8:30 Get Smart (guest: Don Rickles)
9 PM NBC Movie: "CinderFella" (Jerry Lewis)
10:55 Political Talk: Hubert Humphrey
11 PM News
11:20 Movie: "Requiem For A Heavyweight" (Anthony Quinn
in the role of the washed-up fighter that made Jack
Palance famous after it originally aired on "Playhouse 90"
in 1956)
1:20 Movie: "The Man With Two Faces"
WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)
8 AM Lone Ranger
8:30 Cisco Kid
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Super President
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Samson And Goliath
11 AM Birdman And The Galaxy Trio
11:30 Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show
12 N Cool McCool
12:30 Film Feature
1 PM Roy Rogers
2 PM Baseball (same as Ch. 2)
5 PM Wilburn Brothers (guest: Kenny Price, later
of "Hee Haw," time approximate)
5:30 Flatt And Scruggs
6 PM Arthur Smith
6:30 Stoneman Family
7 PM Porter Wagoner (guests: Lonzo and Oscar)
7:30 The Saint
8:30 Get Smart
9 PM NBC Movie: "CinderFella"
10:55 Political Talk: Hubert Humphrey
11 PM Rifleman
11:30 Saturday Tonight Show (guests: Tony Bennett,
Phyllis Diller, Carl Reiner, playwright Edward Albee,
harpist Corky Hale)
WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)
6:25 Farm Digest
6:30 Across The Fence
7 AM 4-H Hour
7:30 Mr. Magoo
8 AM Mr. Pix (pre-empts the Saturday edition of
"Captain Kangaroo")
9 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
9:30 Herculoids
10 AM Shazzan!
10:30 Space Ghost
11 AM Moby Dick And The Mighty Mightor
11:30 Superman/Aquaman Hour Of Adventure
12:30 Jonny Quest
1 PM Lone Ranger (animated)
1:30 Falcon Faces
2 PM NFL Exhibition: Falcons-Jets (taped Friday
night in Birmingham, AL)
5 PM Lost In Space (delay from Wed 7:30)
6 PM Panorama (local news)
6:30 Green Acres (delay from Wed 9 PM)
7 PM TBA
7:30 The Prisoner (Patrick McGoohan)
8:30 The Paris Collections (fall fashion preview)
9:30 NFL Exhibition: Packers-Cowboys (a replay
of the '67 "Ice Bowl," without the ice, perhaps?)
12:30 News (time approximate)
1 AM Movie: "My Man And I"
WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (NET)
8 PM Boston Symphony
9 PM Theater I: "The Geetas Box"
sign off 10 PM
WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)
7 AM Georgialand
7:30 Beatles (delay from noon, not in color)
8 AM Milton The Monster (delay from Sun 9:30 AM, not in color)
8:30 Three Stooges
9 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
9:30 Fantastic Four
10 AM Spider-Man
10:30 Journey To The Center Of The Earth
11 AM King Kong
11:30 George Of The Jungle
12 N Singing Convention
1 PM Know Your Bible
1:30 Happening '68 (guest: Jonathan Harris of "Lost In Space,"
teen gossip with Sue Cameron, music by Paul Revere and
the Raiders)
2 PM Movie: "The Mummy's Ghost"
3:30 Cameo Theatre
4:30 Hawkeye
5 PM Little League World Series (championship game, taped
earlier that day)
6:30 Seaspray
7 PM Rat Patrol (delay from Mon 8:30)
7:30 Dating Game (Thelma Comacho, lead singer of the First
Edition, seeks a date)
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk (the Mardi Gras)
9:30 Pre-Convention Report (Howard K. Smith and Frank
Reynolds, debaters William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal)
10:30 Felony Squad (delay from Mon 9 PM)
11 PM ABC News (Keith McBee)
11:15 Movie: "The Jazz Singer" (Danny Thomas' 1953 version)
WQXI (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)
7:30 Adventures In Living
8:30 Captain Scarlett And The Mystrons
9 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
9:30 Fantastic Four
10 AM Spider-Man
10:30 Journey To The Center Of The Earth
11 AM King Kong
11:30 George Of The Jungle
12 N Beatles
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Happening '68
2 PM Movie: "The Life Of Jack London"
3:30 Wide World Of Sports (here's where Ch. 11
aired it on delay until the fall of '68; they're
showing the USAC National Indianapolis-Car
Championship Race from Springfield, IL)
5 PM Wilburn Brothers (guest: Charley Pride)
5:30 Porter Wagoner (guest: Jimmy Dean)
6 PM Stoneman Family
6:30 Live Atlanta Wrestling (would no longer be
live when it moved to 10:30 PM that fall)
7:30 Bill Anderson
8 PM Lester Maddox And The Election Paradox
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Pre-Convention Special
10:30 All-American College Show (although syndicated,
this seems to have been a favorite of ABC affiliates
filling the 10:30-11 slot handed back to them when
ABC dropped "ABC Scope"--host: Dennis James, guest
presenter: George Kennedy, judges: June Lockhart,
Lee Majors, Robert Clary--NOTE: this is where the
Carpenters got their break)
11 PM News
11:15 Joe Pyne (topics: black-market drugs and left-wing
organizations)
12:45 Movie: "The Beast With 1,000,000 Eyes"
2:15 ABC News
WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
9:30 Herculoids
10 AM Shazzan!
10:30 Space Ghost
11 AM Moby Dick And The Mighty Mightor
11:30 Superman/Aquaman Hour Of Adventure
12:30 Jonny Quest
1 PM Lone Ranger (animated)
1:30 Road Runner
2 PM Championship Bowling
2:30 Car And Track
3 PM Movie: "First Spaceship On Venus"
4:30 Chattanooga Wrestling
5:30 Combat!
6:30 CBS News (Roger Mudd)
7 PM Abbott And Costello
7:30 The Prisoner
8:30 The Paris Collections
9:30 NFL Exhibition: Packers-Cowboys
12:30 Movie: "Confess, Dr. Corda" (time approximate)
WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/ABC)
7 AM Georgialand
7:30 Georgia TV Monitor
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
9:30 Herculoids
10 AM Shazzan!
10:30 Space Ghost
11 AM Moby Dick And The Mighty Mightor
11:30 Superman/Aquaman Hour Of Adventure
12:30 Jonny Quest
1 PM Lone Ranger (animated)
1:30 Road Runner
2 PM Bugs Bunny (ABC, delay from Sun 10:30 AM)
2:30 Happening '68 (guests: the American Breed ("Bend
Me, Shape Me") and Sajid Khan of "Maya")
3 PM Greatest Show On Earth
4 PM Across The Seven Seas
4:30 Big Picture
5 PM Bonnie Lou And Buster
5:30 Science Fiction Theater
6 PM Let's Go To The Races
6:30 CBS News
7 PM TBA
7:30 The Prisoner
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 NFL Exhibition: Packers-Cowboys
12:30 News (time approximate)
12:45 Robins Report (Warner Robins AFB)
12:50 Hollywood Palace (host Don Knotts; guests
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Nancy Ames, Met soprano
Mary Costa, country guitarist Glenn Ash, rock group
Merry-Go-Round, magician Ralph Adams, ABC, delay
from some prior week at 9:30)
WDCO Ch. 15 (WMUM Ch. 29) Cochran/
WCLP (WNGH) Ch. 18 Chatsworth (NET)
8 PM Boston Symphony
9 PM Theater I ("The Geetas Box")
sign off 10 PM
WJRJ (pre-Turner, now WPCH) Ch. 17 Atlanta (Ind.)
4 PM Agriculture U.S.A.
4:30 Village Square (variety show)
5 PM America Sings
5:30 Speedway International
6 PM Roller Derby
7 PM CBS News (pre-empted on Ch. 5)
7:30 Dating Game (pre-empted on Ch. 11)
8 PM Newlywed Game (ditto)
8:30 Movie: "Father Was A Fullback"
10:30 Adventure Theatre
11 PM Alfred Hitchcock Presents
sign off 11:30 PM
WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (NET)
off air on Saturday
regular programming (ABC has a special at 9:30 PM). Some
of you may recall the violence between protestors and Chicago
police.
From TV Guide, Georgia Edition:
WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)
7 AM Mighty Hercules (animated)
7:30 Flash Gordon (this appears to be the Buster Crabbe
serial)
8 AM Hopalong Cassidy
8:30 Funtime (not to be confused with the show with the
same name on WTVC)
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Super President
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Movie: "Wild Men Of Kurdistan"
12:30 Samson And Goliath (NBC, delay from 10:30 AM)
1 PM Birdman And The Galaxy Trio (NBC, delay from 11 AM)
1:30 Mister Ed
2 PM Baseball: Tigers-Yankees or Indians-Senators (the
Senators are now the Texas Rangers)
5 PM Laramie (time approximate)
6 PM Let's Go To The Races
6:30 Newsroom (Tom Wassell)
7 PM I Dream Of Jeannie (delay from Tue 7:30)
7:30 The Saint (Roger Moore)
8:30 Get Smart (guest: Don Rickles)
9 PM NBC Movie: "CinderFella" (Jerry Lewis)
10:55 Political Talk: Hubert Humphrey
11 PM News
11:20 Movie: "Requiem For A Heavyweight" (Anthony Quinn
in the role of the washed-up fighter that made Jack
Palance famous after it originally aired on "Playhouse 90"
in 1956)
1:20 Movie: "The Man With Two Faces"
WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)
8 AM Lone Ranger
8:30 Cisco Kid
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Super President
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Samson And Goliath
11 AM Birdman And The Galaxy Trio
11:30 Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show
12 N Cool McCool
12:30 Film Feature
1 PM Roy Rogers
2 PM Baseball (same as Ch. 2)
5 PM Wilburn Brothers (guest: Kenny Price, later
of "Hee Haw," time approximate)
5:30 Flatt And Scruggs
6 PM Arthur Smith
6:30 Stoneman Family
7 PM Porter Wagoner (guests: Lonzo and Oscar)
7:30 The Saint
8:30 Get Smart
9 PM NBC Movie: "CinderFella"
10:55 Political Talk: Hubert Humphrey
11 PM Rifleman
11:30 Saturday Tonight Show (guests: Tony Bennett,
Phyllis Diller, Carl Reiner, playwright Edward Albee,
harpist Corky Hale)
WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)
6:25 Farm Digest
6:30 Across The Fence
7 AM 4-H Hour
7:30 Mr. Magoo
8 AM Mr. Pix (pre-empts the Saturday edition of
"Captain Kangaroo")
9 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
9:30 Herculoids
10 AM Shazzan!
10:30 Space Ghost
11 AM Moby Dick And The Mighty Mightor
11:30 Superman/Aquaman Hour Of Adventure
12:30 Jonny Quest
1 PM Lone Ranger (animated)
1:30 Falcon Faces
2 PM NFL Exhibition: Falcons-Jets (taped Friday
night in Birmingham, AL)
5 PM Lost In Space (delay from Wed 7:30)
6 PM Panorama (local news)
6:30 Green Acres (delay from Wed 9 PM)
7 PM TBA
7:30 The Prisoner (Patrick McGoohan)
8:30 The Paris Collections (fall fashion preview)
9:30 NFL Exhibition: Packers-Cowboys (a replay
of the '67 "Ice Bowl," without the ice, perhaps?)
12:30 News (time approximate)
1 AM Movie: "My Man And I"
WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (NET)
8 PM Boston Symphony
9 PM Theater I: "The Geetas Box"
sign off 10 PM
WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)
7 AM Georgialand
7:30 Beatles (delay from noon, not in color)
8 AM Milton The Monster (delay from Sun 9:30 AM, not in color)
8:30 Three Stooges
9 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
9:30 Fantastic Four
10 AM Spider-Man
10:30 Journey To The Center Of The Earth
11 AM King Kong
11:30 George Of The Jungle
12 N Singing Convention
1 PM Know Your Bible
1:30 Happening '68 (guest: Jonathan Harris of "Lost In Space,"
teen gossip with Sue Cameron, music by Paul Revere and
the Raiders)
2 PM Movie: "The Mummy's Ghost"
3:30 Cameo Theatre
4:30 Hawkeye
5 PM Little League World Series (championship game, taped
earlier that day)
6:30 Seaspray
7 PM Rat Patrol (delay from Mon 8:30)
7:30 Dating Game (Thelma Comacho, lead singer of the First
Edition, seeks a date)
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk (the Mardi Gras)
9:30 Pre-Convention Report (Howard K. Smith and Frank
Reynolds, debaters William F. Buckley Jr. and Gore Vidal)
10:30 Felony Squad (delay from Mon 9 PM)
11 PM ABC News (Keith McBee)
11:15 Movie: "The Jazz Singer" (Danny Thomas' 1953 version)
WQXI (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)
7:30 Adventures In Living
8:30 Captain Scarlett And The Mystrons
9 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
9:30 Fantastic Four
10 AM Spider-Man
10:30 Journey To The Center Of The Earth
11 AM King Kong
11:30 George Of The Jungle
12 N Beatles
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Happening '68
2 PM Movie: "The Life Of Jack London"
3:30 Wide World Of Sports (here's where Ch. 11
aired it on delay until the fall of '68; they're
showing the USAC National Indianapolis-Car
Championship Race from Springfield, IL)
5 PM Wilburn Brothers (guest: Charley Pride)
5:30 Porter Wagoner (guest: Jimmy Dean)
6 PM Stoneman Family
6:30 Live Atlanta Wrestling (would no longer be
live when it moved to 10:30 PM that fall)
7:30 Bill Anderson
8 PM Lester Maddox And The Election Paradox
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Pre-Convention Special
10:30 All-American College Show (although syndicated,
this seems to have been a favorite of ABC affiliates
filling the 10:30-11 slot handed back to them when
ABC dropped "ABC Scope"--host: Dennis James, guest
presenter: George Kennedy, judges: June Lockhart,
Lee Majors, Robert Clary--NOTE: this is where the
Carpenters got their break)
11 PM News
11:15 Joe Pyne (topics: black-market drugs and left-wing
organizations)
12:45 Movie: "The Beast With 1,000,000 Eyes"
2:15 ABC News
WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
9:30 Herculoids
10 AM Shazzan!
10:30 Space Ghost
11 AM Moby Dick And The Mighty Mightor
11:30 Superman/Aquaman Hour Of Adventure
12:30 Jonny Quest
1 PM Lone Ranger (animated)
1:30 Road Runner
2 PM Championship Bowling
2:30 Car And Track
3 PM Movie: "First Spaceship On Venus"
4:30 Chattanooga Wrestling
5:30 Combat!
6:30 CBS News (Roger Mudd)
7 PM Abbott And Costello
7:30 The Prisoner
8:30 The Paris Collections
9:30 NFL Exhibition: Packers-Cowboys
12:30 Movie: "Confess, Dr. Corda" (time approximate)
WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/ABC)
7 AM Georgialand
7:30 Georgia TV Monitor
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles
9:30 Herculoids
10 AM Shazzan!
10:30 Space Ghost
11 AM Moby Dick And The Mighty Mightor
11:30 Superman/Aquaman Hour Of Adventure
12:30 Jonny Quest
1 PM Lone Ranger (animated)
1:30 Road Runner
2 PM Bugs Bunny (ABC, delay from Sun 10:30 AM)
2:30 Happening '68 (guests: the American Breed ("Bend
Me, Shape Me") and Sajid Khan of "Maya")
3 PM Greatest Show On Earth
4 PM Across The Seven Seas
4:30 Big Picture
5 PM Bonnie Lou And Buster
5:30 Science Fiction Theater
6 PM Let's Go To The Races
6:30 CBS News
7 PM TBA
7:30 The Prisoner
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 NFL Exhibition: Packers-Cowboys
12:30 News (time approximate)
12:45 Robins Report (Warner Robins AFB)
12:50 Hollywood Palace (host Don Knotts; guests
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Nancy Ames, Met soprano
Mary Costa, country guitarist Glenn Ash, rock group
Merry-Go-Round, magician Ralph Adams, ABC, delay
from some prior week at 9:30)
WDCO Ch. 15 (WMUM Ch. 29) Cochran/
WCLP (WNGH) Ch. 18 Chatsworth (NET)
8 PM Boston Symphony
9 PM Theater I ("The Geetas Box")
sign off 10 PM
WJRJ (pre-Turner, now WPCH) Ch. 17 Atlanta (Ind.)
4 PM Agriculture U.S.A.
4:30 Village Square (variety show)
5 PM America Sings
5:30 Speedway International
6 PM Roller Derby
7 PM CBS News (pre-empted on Ch. 5)
7:30 Dating Game (pre-empted on Ch. 11)
8 PM Newlywed Game (ditto)
8:30 Movie: "Father Was A Fullback"
10:30 Adventure Theatre
11 PM Alfred Hitchcock Presents
sign off 11:30 PM
WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (NET)
off air on Saturday
