From TV Guide, Georgia (Atlanta) Edition:
WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)
7 AM Talking With A Giant (guest: David Frost,
delay from 12:30)
7:30 Popeye
9 AM Jetsons
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Underdog
10:30 The Barkleys
11 AM Sealab 2020
11:30 Runaround
12 N Call Of The West (selected "Death Valley Days"
reruns)
12:30 Community Dialogue
1 PM Tarzan
2 PM Movie: "Island Of The Blue Dolphins"
4 PM Then Came Bronson
5 PM High Chaparral
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (Garrick Utley)
7 PM Hee Haw (Ray Stevens, Arlene Harden, Dizzy Dean--
who does (what else?) "Wabash Cannonball")
8 PM NHL Hockey: Atlanta Flames-Montreal Canadiens
10:30 Lester Maddox, U.S.A. (time approximate, guests are
ventriloquist act Geraldine and Ricky, singer Nick Zane,
the Lester Maddox All Americans, the Marietta Chorale,
the John Head orchestra, and a "Life With Lester" segment)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Court Jester" (Danny Kaye)
1:30 News
1:35 Movie: "The Restless Years" (no, this is not some prelude
to "The Young And The Restless")
WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)
8 AM Houndcats
8:30 Roman Holidays
9 AM Jetsons
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Underdog
10:30 The Barkleys
11 AM Sealab 2020
11:30 Runaround
12 N Around The World In 80 Days
12:30 Talking With A Giant (guest: Dr. Margaret Mead)
1 PM Countdown To Destiny
1:30 Bill Anderson (guest: Ferlin Husky)
2 PM Wilburn Brothers (Justin Tubb (Ernest Tubb's son)
and the Cates Sisters)
2:30 Porter Wagoner (guests: the Bald Knobbers)
3 PM This Week In Pro Football
4 PM East-West Shrine Game
7 PM Hee Haw (time approximate)
8 PM Orange Bowl Parade (Joe Garagiola and Anita Bryant
host from Miami)
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Mouse On The Moon"
11 PM Movie: "Viking Women And The Sea Serpent"
12:15 Movie: "War Of The Colossal Beast"
WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)
6:15 Video College
6:45 Box 5 RFD
7:15 Metro Forestry
7:30 4-H Club
8 PM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
9 AM Amazing Chan And The Chan Clan
9:30 New Scooby Doo Movies: an animated Don Knotts
in "Guess Who's Knott Coming To Dinner"--he's a
detective investigating strange goings-on
10:30 Josie And The Pussycats In Outer Space
11 AM Flintstones Comedy Hour
12 N Archie's TV Funnies
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Sun Bowl: North Carolina-Texas Tech
4 PM This Week In Pro Football (time approximate)
5 PM I Spy
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Roger Mudd)
7 PM UFO
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Bridget Loves Bernie
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart (this one's interesting--Bob has to
calm a group of travelers terrified of planes; in
real life he's afraid to fly)
10 PM Carol Burnett (Steve Lawrence joins Carol and Harvey
in a spoof of Humphrey Bogart's "The Petrified Forest";
also Paul Sand, who in 1974 would have a short-lived sitcom,
"Paul Sand In Friends And Lovers".)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Gypsy"
2:10 Movie: "Sanctuary"
WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)
7 PM Masterpiece Theatre: "The Moonstone" (Part 3)
8 PM Men In Crisis (Nikita Khrushchev vs. Imre Nagy in the
short-lived Hungarian revolt of 1956)
8:30 Science In Action
9 PM Country Hayride (guest: Peggy Little)
10 PM Movie: "The Hunchback Of Notre Dame" (Lon Chaney
in this silent version from 1922)
12:30 Playhouse New York ("A Nice Place To Visit" satirizes a
trip to New York; "Present Tense" dramatizes tensions
within a professor's family)
WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)
6:30 Science In Action
7 AM Bullwinkle (delay from Sun 11 AM)
7:30 Make A Wish (delay from Sun 11:30 AM)
8 AM H.R. Pufnstuf
8:30 Jackson Five
9 AM The Osmonds
9:30 ABC Saturday Superstar Movie: "Oliver Twist
And The Artful Dodger" (conclusion)
10:30 Brady Kids
11 AM Bewitched
11:30 Kid Power
12 N Singing Convention
1 PM Know Your Bible
1:30 American Bandstand (guest: Rick Springfield)
2 PM Movie: TBA
4 PM Gator Bowl: Colorado-Auburn
7 PM High Chaparral (time approximate)
8 PM The Year The Walls Came Down (ABC News correspondents
review the year, particularly overseas: the winding down of
the Vietnam war, the SALT talks and nuclear disarmament,
China's emerging foreign policy)
9 PM Streets Of San Francisco
10 PM The Sixth Sense (last show of the series)
11 PM Movie: "The Lady And The Monster"
12:30 ABC News (Sam Donaldson)
WQXI (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)
6:30 Adventures In Living
7 AM Romper Room
7:30 Funky Phantom (delay from 12 N)
8 AM H.R. Pufnstuf
8:30 Jackson Five
9 AM The Osmonds
9:30 ABC Saturday Superstar Movie
10:30 Brady Kids
11 AM Bewitched
11:30 Kid Power
12 N News
12:30 Lidsville
1 PM Monkees
1:30 American Bandstand
2 PM Movie: "War Of The Wildcats" (John Wayne)
4 PM Gator Bowl
7 PM News (time approximate)
7:30 This Is Your Life (Chad Everett is surprised by
his wife, actress Shelby Grant; producer William
Orr; and actress Ursula Theiss)
8 PM The Year The Walls Came Down
9 PM Streets Of San Francisco
10 PM The Sixth Sense
11 PM News
11:30 ABC News
11:45 Movie: "Laura" (Gene Tierney, from '46--forget the
disastrous 1968 made-for-TV remake with Lee Radziwill,
Jackie Onassis' sister)
1:30 Movie: "Godzilla vs. The Thing"
3 AM News
WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)
7:30 Uncle Hank
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
9 AM Amazing Chan And The Chan Clan
9:30 New Scooby Doo Movies
10:30 Josie And The Pussycats In Outer Space
11 AM Flintstones Comedy Hour
12 N Soul Train (Tyrone Davis, Lynn Collins, special
guest Elgin Baylor)
1 PM Sun Bowl: North Carolina-Texas Tech
4 PM NFL Game Of The Week (time approximate)
4:30 Untamed World
5 PM Wrestling (from the studio)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Lassie
7:30 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl: Tennessee-LSU
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Mudlark"
WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/ABC)
7 AM Navy Film
7:30 Georgia TV Monitor
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
9 AM Amazing Chan And The Chan Clan
9:30 New Scooby Doo Movies
10:30 Josie And The Pussycats In Outer Space
11 AM Flintstones Comedy Hour
12 N Archie's TV Funnies
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Sun Bowl: North Carolina-Texas Tech
4 PM Movie: "The Americano" (time approximate)
6 PM Porter Wagoner
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Lawrence Welk (he did his New Year's Eve show
as a special, late Sunday night, that year--it
aired at 10:30 on Ch. 13, 11:30 on Ch. 2, and
12 M on Ch. 9)
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Bridget Loves Bernie
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM News
11:20 Movie: "Wilson" (an overlooked gem of a biography
of Woodrow Wilson, from '44)
WDCO Ch. 15 (WMUM Ch. 29) Cochran/
WCLP (WNGH) Ch. 18 Chatsworth (PBS)
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11 AM Sesame Street
12 N Electric Company
12:30 Sesame Street
1:30 Electric Company
2 PM Zoom
2:30 Electric Company
3 PM off the air
5 PM Tennis: Sunshine Cup Between Nations,
an event for teens known as the "Junior
Davis Cup"
7:30 Speaking Freely (lawyer-author Henry Caudill
talks about conditions in Appalachia--his '60s
book "Night Comes To The Cumberlands" may
have influenced LBJ and Lady Bird to make
Appalachia a cause)
8:30 Playhouse New York
10 PM Sleeping Beauty (Rudolf Nureyev stars as Prince
Florimund)
WTCG (WPCH) Ch. 17 Atlanta (Ind.)
7 AM Popeye
7:30 Cartoon Carnival
8 AM Spiderman
8:30 Ultraman
9 AM Little Rascals
9:30 Speed Racer
10 AM Batman
10:30 Flintstones
11 AM Roller Game
1 PM Sea Hunt
1:30 NFL Highlights
2 PM Georgia Championship Wrestling
3 PM All South Wrestling
4 PM East-West Shrine Game
7 PM Pro Skiing: The Lange Cup (time approximate)
7:30 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl: Tennessee-LSU
11 PM One Step Beyond
11:30 Harper, Etc. (talk show with Atlanta radio personality
Skinny Bobby Harper)
1 AM Movie: "From Hell It Came"
WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)
off air on Saturday
WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)
8 AM Houndcats
8:30 Roman Holidays
9 AM Jetsons
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Underdog
10:30 The Barkleys
11 AM Sealab 2020
11:30 Runaround
12 N Around The World In 80 Days
12:30 Talking With A Giant
1 PM Wrestling (from the studio)
2 PM Roller Derby
3 PM Movie: "Freud"
4:30 Rollin' (Kenny Rogers and the First Edition
in concert)
5 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music (Porter Wagoner,
Dolly Parton, Ray Pillow)
5:30 Bill Anderson (Jacky Ward, Leona Williams)
6 PM Arthur Smith
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Movie: "Return From The Past"
9:30 Movie: "Subterfuge" (Gene Barry and Joan Collins star)
11 PM Western Star Theater (more selected "Death Valley Days"
reruns)
WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)
off air on Saturday
WHAE (WGCL) Ch. 46 Atlanta (Ind.)
3:30 Time For Timothy
4 PM Fury
4:30 Earth Lab (Chet Huntley discusses broadcast and print
journalism)
5:30 My Friend Flicka
6 PM Championship Bowling
7 PM Hunting And Fishing
7:30 The Monroes
8:30 Of Lands And Seas
9:30 The Lesson
10 PM 700 Club (to 12)
WRIP (WDSI) Ch. 61 Chattanooga (Ind.)
11 AM Cartoon Carnival
12 N Movie: "Pride Of The Marines" (John Garfield
plays Al Schmid, a Marine almost totally blinded
by a Japanese grenade at Guadalcanal)
1:35 Movie: "Public Enemy" (Jimmy Cagney became
a star in this '31 classic)
3:15 Cartoon Carnival
4 PM Wrestling (doesn't say where from)
5 PM Modern TV Playhouse
5:30 Rollin'
6 PM Movie: "One Foot In Heaven"
8 PM Movie: "Pride Of The Marines"
10 PM Movie: "Public Enemy"
11:30 Movie: "Oil For The Lamps Of China"
WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)
7 AM Talking With A Giant (guest: David Frost,
delay from 12:30)
7:30 Popeye
9 AM Jetsons
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Underdog
10:30 The Barkleys
11 AM Sealab 2020
11:30 Runaround
12 N Call Of The West (selected "Death Valley Days"
reruns)
12:30 Community Dialogue
1 PM Tarzan
2 PM Movie: "Island Of The Blue Dolphins"
4 PM Then Came Bronson
5 PM High Chaparral
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (Garrick Utley)
7 PM Hee Haw (Ray Stevens, Arlene Harden, Dizzy Dean--
who does (what else?) "Wabash Cannonball")
8 PM NHL Hockey: Atlanta Flames-Montreal Canadiens
10:30 Lester Maddox, U.S.A. (time approximate, guests are
ventriloquist act Geraldine and Ricky, singer Nick Zane,
the Lester Maddox All Americans, the Marietta Chorale,
the John Head orchestra, and a "Life With Lester" segment)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Court Jester" (Danny Kaye)
1:30 News
1:35 Movie: "The Restless Years" (no, this is not some prelude
to "The Young And The Restless")
WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)
8 AM Houndcats
8:30 Roman Holidays
9 AM Jetsons
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Underdog
10:30 The Barkleys
11 AM Sealab 2020
11:30 Runaround
12 N Around The World In 80 Days
12:30 Talking With A Giant (guest: Dr. Margaret Mead)
1 PM Countdown To Destiny
1:30 Bill Anderson (guest: Ferlin Husky)
2 PM Wilburn Brothers (Justin Tubb (Ernest Tubb's son)
and the Cates Sisters)
2:30 Porter Wagoner (guests: the Bald Knobbers)
3 PM This Week In Pro Football
4 PM East-West Shrine Game
7 PM Hee Haw (time approximate)
8 PM Orange Bowl Parade (Joe Garagiola and Anita Bryant
host from Miami)
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Mouse On The Moon"
11 PM Movie: "Viking Women And The Sea Serpent"
12:15 Movie: "War Of The Colossal Beast"
WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)
6:15 Video College
6:45 Box 5 RFD
7:15 Metro Forestry
7:30 4-H Club
8 PM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
9 AM Amazing Chan And The Chan Clan
9:30 New Scooby Doo Movies: an animated Don Knotts
in "Guess Who's Knott Coming To Dinner"--he's a
detective investigating strange goings-on
10:30 Josie And The Pussycats In Outer Space
11 AM Flintstones Comedy Hour
12 N Archie's TV Funnies
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Sun Bowl: North Carolina-Texas Tech
4 PM This Week In Pro Football (time approximate)
5 PM I Spy
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Roger Mudd)
7 PM UFO
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Bridget Loves Bernie
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart (this one's interesting--Bob has to
calm a group of travelers terrified of planes; in
real life he's afraid to fly)
10 PM Carol Burnett (Steve Lawrence joins Carol and Harvey
in a spoof of Humphrey Bogart's "The Petrified Forest";
also Paul Sand, who in 1974 would have a short-lived sitcom,
"Paul Sand In Friends And Lovers".)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Gypsy"
2:10 Movie: "Sanctuary"
WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)
7 PM Masterpiece Theatre: "The Moonstone" (Part 3)
8 PM Men In Crisis (Nikita Khrushchev vs. Imre Nagy in the
short-lived Hungarian revolt of 1956)
8:30 Science In Action
9 PM Country Hayride (guest: Peggy Little)
10 PM Movie: "The Hunchback Of Notre Dame" (Lon Chaney
in this silent version from 1922)
12:30 Playhouse New York ("A Nice Place To Visit" satirizes a
trip to New York; "Present Tense" dramatizes tensions
within a professor's family)
WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)
6:30 Science In Action
7 AM Bullwinkle (delay from Sun 11 AM)
7:30 Make A Wish (delay from Sun 11:30 AM)
8 AM H.R. Pufnstuf
8:30 Jackson Five
9 AM The Osmonds
9:30 ABC Saturday Superstar Movie: "Oliver Twist
And The Artful Dodger" (conclusion)
10:30 Brady Kids
11 AM Bewitched
11:30 Kid Power
12 N Singing Convention
1 PM Know Your Bible
1:30 American Bandstand (guest: Rick Springfield)
2 PM Movie: TBA
4 PM Gator Bowl: Colorado-Auburn
7 PM High Chaparral (time approximate)
8 PM The Year The Walls Came Down (ABC News correspondents
review the year, particularly overseas: the winding down of
the Vietnam war, the SALT talks and nuclear disarmament,
China's emerging foreign policy)
9 PM Streets Of San Francisco
10 PM The Sixth Sense (last show of the series)
11 PM Movie: "The Lady And The Monster"
12:30 ABC News (Sam Donaldson)
WQXI (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)
6:30 Adventures In Living
7 AM Romper Room
7:30 Funky Phantom (delay from 12 N)
8 AM H.R. Pufnstuf
8:30 Jackson Five
9 AM The Osmonds
9:30 ABC Saturday Superstar Movie
10:30 Brady Kids
11 AM Bewitched
11:30 Kid Power
12 N News
12:30 Lidsville
1 PM Monkees
1:30 American Bandstand
2 PM Movie: "War Of The Wildcats" (John Wayne)
4 PM Gator Bowl
7 PM News (time approximate)
7:30 This Is Your Life (Chad Everett is surprised by
his wife, actress Shelby Grant; producer William
Orr; and actress Ursula Theiss)
8 PM The Year The Walls Came Down
9 PM Streets Of San Francisco
10 PM The Sixth Sense
11 PM News
11:30 ABC News
11:45 Movie: "Laura" (Gene Tierney, from '46--forget the
disastrous 1968 made-for-TV remake with Lee Radziwill,
Jackie Onassis' sister)
1:30 Movie: "Godzilla vs. The Thing"
3 AM News
WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)
7:30 Uncle Hank
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
9 AM Amazing Chan And The Chan Clan
9:30 New Scooby Doo Movies
10:30 Josie And The Pussycats In Outer Space
11 AM Flintstones Comedy Hour
12 N Soul Train (Tyrone Davis, Lynn Collins, special
guest Elgin Baylor)
1 PM Sun Bowl: North Carolina-Texas Tech
4 PM NFL Game Of The Week (time approximate)
4:30 Untamed World
5 PM Wrestling (from the studio)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Lassie
7:30 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl: Tennessee-LSU
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Mudlark"
WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/ABC)
7 AM Navy Film
7:30 Georgia TV Monitor
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
9 AM Amazing Chan And The Chan Clan
9:30 New Scooby Doo Movies
10:30 Josie And The Pussycats In Outer Space
11 AM Flintstones Comedy Hour
12 N Archie's TV Funnies
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM Sun Bowl: North Carolina-Texas Tech
4 PM Movie: "The Americano" (time approximate)
6 PM Porter Wagoner
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Lawrence Welk (he did his New Year's Eve show
as a special, late Sunday night, that year--it
aired at 10:30 on Ch. 13, 11:30 on Ch. 2, and
12 M on Ch. 9)
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Bridget Loves Bernie
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM News
11:20 Movie: "Wilson" (an overlooked gem of a biography
of Woodrow Wilson, from '44)
WDCO Ch. 15 (WMUM Ch. 29) Cochran/
WCLP (WNGH) Ch. 18 Chatsworth (PBS)
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11 AM Sesame Street
12 N Electric Company
12:30 Sesame Street
1:30 Electric Company
2 PM Zoom
2:30 Electric Company
3 PM off the air
5 PM Tennis: Sunshine Cup Between Nations,
an event for teens known as the "Junior
Davis Cup"
7:30 Speaking Freely (lawyer-author Henry Caudill
talks about conditions in Appalachia--his '60s
book "Night Comes To The Cumberlands" may
have influenced LBJ and Lady Bird to make
Appalachia a cause)
8:30 Playhouse New York
10 PM Sleeping Beauty (Rudolf Nureyev stars as Prince
Florimund)
WTCG (WPCH) Ch. 17 Atlanta (Ind.)
7 AM Popeye
7:30 Cartoon Carnival
8 AM Spiderman
8:30 Ultraman
9 AM Little Rascals
9:30 Speed Racer
10 AM Batman
10:30 Flintstones
11 AM Roller Game
1 PM Sea Hunt
1:30 NFL Highlights
2 PM Georgia Championship Wrestling
3 PM All South Wrestling
4 PM East-West Shrine Game
7 PM Pro Skiing: The Lange Cup (time approximate)
7:30 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl: Tennessee-LSU
11 PM One Step Beyond
11:30 Harper, Etc. (talk show with Atlanta radio personality
Skinny Bobby Harper)
1 AM Movie: "From Hell It Came"
WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)
off air on Saturday
WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)
8 AM Houndcats
8:30 Roman Holidays
9 AM Jetsons
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Underdog
10:30 The Barkleys
11 AM Sealab 2020
11:30 Runaround
12 N Around The World In 80 Days
12:30 Talking With A Giant
1 PM Wrestling (from the studio)
2 PM Roller Derby
3 PM Movie: "Freud"
4:30 Rollin' (Kenny Rogers and the First Edition
in concert)
5 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music (Porter Wagoner,
Dolly Parton, Ray Pillow)
5:30 Bill Anderson (Jacky Ward, Leona Williams)
6 PM Arthur Smith
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Movie: "Return From The Past"
9:30 Movie: "Subterfuge" (Gene Barry and Joan Collins star)
11 PM Western Star Theater (more selected "Death Valley Days"
reruns)
WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)
off air on Saturday
WHAE (WGCL) Ch. 46 Atlanta (Ind.)
3:30 Time For Timothy
4 PM Fury
4:30 Earth Lab (Chet Huntley discusses broadcast and print
journalism)
5:30 My Friend Flicka
6 PM Championship Bowling
7 PM Hunting And Fishing
7:30 The Monroes
8:30 Of Lands And Seas
9:30 The Lesson
10 PM 700 Club (to 12)
WRIP (WDSI) Ch. 61 Chattanooga (Ind.)
11 AM Cartoon Carnival
12 N Movie: "Pride Of The Marines" (John Garfield
plays Al Schmid, a Marine almost totally blinded
by a Japanese grenade at Guadalcanal)
1:35 Movie: "Public Enemy" (Jimmy Cagney became
a star in this '31 classic)
3:15 Cartoon Carnival
4 PM Wrestling (doesn't say where from)
5 PM Modern TV Playhouse
5:30 Rollin'
6 PM Movie: "One Foot In Heaven"
8 PM Movie: "Pride Of The Marines"
10 PM Movie: "Public Enemy"
11:30 Movie: "Oil For The Lamps Of China"