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Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Saturday, December 14, 1968

From TV Guide, Georgia (Atlanta) Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

7 AM Green Dragon Theater
8:30 Funtime
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Top Cat
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Banana Splits
11:30 Super President (delay from 12:30 PM)
12 N Movie: "The Adventurer Of Tortuga"
1:55 Sports Film
2 PM Movie: "The Stranger" (Orson Welles directed
and stars, from '46)
3:55 Sports Film
4 PM Steve Allen (George Jessel, Ferrante and Teicher,
comedian Lou Holtz (no relation to the football coach),
singer Joi Lansing)
5:30 GE College Bowl (Duke vs. Oberlin College, delay from
4 PM)
6 PM All-American College Show (guest presenter: David Janssen;
judges: Wally Cox, Barrie Chase, and Mel Torme; talent:
trumpeter Ricky James Baptist (California State), singer Ingrid
Montague (University of California), the Talismen (MacMurray
College), and Carmon's Group (University of Cincinnati))
6:30 Newsroom (Tom Wassell)
7 PM Adam-12 (delay from 7:30 PM)
7:30 Death Valley Days
8 PM Get Smart
8:30 Ghost And Mrs. Muir
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Glory Guys"
11:15 News
11:35 Movie: "A Time To Love And A Time To Die"
2 AM Movie: "Contraband Spain" (watch for "Robin Hood" Richard
Greene in this 1958 film from England)

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

8 AM Roy Rogers
9 AM Super 6
9:30 Top Cat
10 AM Flintstones
10:30 Banana Splits
11:30 Underdog
12 N Birdman And The Galaxy Trio
12:30 Super President
1 PM Sports Film
1:30 Bill Anderson
2 PM Arthur Smith
2:30 Wilburn Brothers
3 PM Flatt And Scruggs
3:30 Stoneman Family
4 PM Wills Family
4:30 AFL Football: Chiefs-Broncos
7 PM Porter Wagoner (guest: Jeannie C. Riley, time
approximate)
7:30 Grand Ole Opry (guest: Ernest Tubb; regulars:
Snooky Lanson, Mel Tillis, Martha Carson, Tommy
Jackson and the Square Dancers)
8 PM Get Smart
8:30 Ghost And Mrs. Muir
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Glory Guys"
11:15 Film
11:30 Saturday Tonight Show

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6:25 Sacred Heart
6:40 Living Word
7 AM Across The Fence
7:30 4-H Hour
8 AM Go-Go Gophers
8:30 Mr. Pix (Dave Michaels)
9:30 Wacky Races
10 AM The Archie Show
10:30 Batman/Superman Hour
11:30 Herculoids
12 N Shazzan!
12:30 Jonny Quest
1 PM Moby Dick And The Mighty Mightor
1:30 Great Music
1:45 NFL Pre-Game Show
2 PM NFL Football: Browns-Cardinals
5 PM Daktari (time approximate, delay from Wed 7:30 PM)
6 PM Panorama News (Psenka, don't know who this is)
6:30 The Good Guys (Bob Denver, Herb Edelman, delay from
Wed 8:30 PM)
7 PM Beverly Hillbillies (delay from Wed 9 PM)
7:30 Jackie Gleason (Ralph takes a job as a sidewalk Santa
when he thinks Alice is pregnant.)
8:30 My Three Sons
9 PM Hogan's Heroes
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Mannix
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Julie" (Doris Day, from '56)

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta
WDCO Ch. 15 (WMUM Ch. 29) Cochran
WCLP (WNGH) Ch. 18 Chatsworth (NET)

8 PM Pittsburgh Symphony (William Steinberg conducts the
overture to "Euryanthe" by Carl Maria von Weber, and
Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 in A Major)
9 PM Theatre I (Gene Barry plays an attorney who tells the
police he had been seeing a recently-murdered woman
while his wife was in a mental hospital.)
sign off 10 PM

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

7 AM Georgialand
7:30 George Of The Jungle (delay from 12 N, although today
it is on ABC at approximately 3:30 PM)
8 AM Beatles (delay from Sun 9:30 AM)
8:30 Three Stooges
9 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
9:30 Adventures Of Gulliver
10 AM Spider-Man
10:30 Fantastic Voyage
11 AM Journey To The Center Of The Earth
11:30 Fantastic Four
12 N NCAA Pre-Game Show
12:15 Liberty Bowl: Ole Miss vs. Virginia Tech (Ole Miss won, 34-17)
3:15 1968 Golf Highlights (time approximate)
3:30 Seaspray
4 PM Singing Convention
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (boxing: world middleweight champ Nino
Benvenuti vs. Don Fullmer, 15 rounds, from San Remo, Italy)
6:30 Avengers (Linda Thorson has replaced Diana Rigg, delay from
Mon 7:30 PM)
7:30 Dating Game (guest: Lucie Arnaz)
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk (the Music Makers get into a holiday mood)
9:30 Hollywood Palace (host: Jimmy Durante; Ethel Merman, Sugar
Ray Robinson, Bill Dana, Vikki Carr, singer-dancer Leland Palmer,
the comedy team of Hendra and Ullett, the Iriston Horsemen
from the Moscow State Circus)
10:30 The Road To Gettysburg (delay from Mon 9 PM, pre-empts
"The Outcasts")
11:30 Movie: "John Paul Jones" (Robert Stack, from '59)
1:45 ABC News (Keith McBee)

WQXI (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

7 AM Adventures In Living
7:30 Clubhouse Eleven
9 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
9:30 Adventures Of Gulliver
10 AM Captain Scarlett And The Mystrons
10:30 Fantastic Voyage
11 AM Journey To The Center Of The Earth
11:30 Fantastic Four
12 N NCAA Pre-Game Show
12:15 Liberty Bowl: Ole Miss-Virginia Tech
3:15 1968 Golf Highlights (time approximate)
3:30 George Of The Jungle
4 PM American Bandstand
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Movie: "Wheel Of Fortune" (a basketball player is
murdered and a political bigwig wants it ruled a
suicide; John Wayne stars, from '41)
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Hollywood Palace
10:30 Atlanta Wrestling
11:30 Joe Pyne (correspondent Elaine Shepard discusses
Vietnam; prostitution)
1 AM Atlanta: Now
1:50 ABC News

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

8 AM Go-Go Gophers
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9:30 Wacky Races
10 AM The Archie Show
10:30 Batman/Superman Hour
11:30 Herculoids
12 N Shazzan!
12:30 Jonny Quest
1 PM Moby Dick And The Mighty Mightor
1:30 Pokey And Gumby
1:45 NFL Pre-Game Show
2 PM NFL Football: Browns-Cardinals
5 PM Chattanooga Wrestling (time approximate)
6 PM Car And Track
6:30 CBS News (Roger Mudd)
7 PM Stan Hitchcock (country music)
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 My Three Sons
9 PM Hogan's Heroes
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Mannix
11 PM Movie: "The Snorkel"

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/ABC)

7 AM Georgialand
7:30 Georgia TV Monitor
8 AM Go-Go Gophers
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9:30 Wacky Races
10 AM The Archie Show
10:30 Batman/Superman Hour
11:30 Herculoids
12 N Shazzan!
12:30 Jonny Quest
1 PM Moby Dick And The Mighty Mightor
1:30 TBA
1:45 NFL Pre-Game Show
2 PM NFL Football: Browns-Cardinals
5 PM Bonnie Lou And Buster
5:30 Guns Of Will Sonnett (ABC, delay from Fri 9:30 PM)
6 PM Let's Go To The Races
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Grand Ole Opry
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Mannix
11 PM News
11:15 Robins Report
11:20 Hollywood Palace (Sammy Davis Jr. speaks in cadence to
a drum beat; guests: Carmen McRae, Lola Falana, Jo Anne
Worley, Jack Carter, the Ike and Tina Turner Revue, and Sammy's
discovery, singer-pianist Bobby Doyle, delay of at least a week
from 9:30 PM)

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

2 PM Movie: TBA
3:30 Roller Derby
4:30 AFL Football: Chiefs-Broncos (pre-empted on Ch. 2, which also
had the habit of pre-empting the second game of Sunday doubleheaders,
a practice which continued until 1973)
7:30 Tommy Nobis (Falcons highlights, time approximate)
8 PM Gadabout Gaddis
8:30 Inside Outdoors
9 PM Target: The Corruptors
10 PM Alfred Hitchcock Hour
11 PM Movie: "The Eve Of St. Mark"

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (NET)
off air on Saturday
 
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