From TV Guide, Georgia (Atlanta) Edition:
WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)
7 AM Astroboy
7:30 Kimba, The White Lion
8 AM Popeye Club
9 AM Here Comes The Grump
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM H.R. Pufnstuf
10:30 Banana Splits
11:30 Jambo (Chara the giraffe and a scientist join
forces to nab a poacher.)
12 N Tarzan
1 PM Steve Allen
1:55 Sports Film
2 PM AFL Football: Jets-Oilers
5 PM Perry Mason (time approximate)
6 PM Newsroom (John Pruitt)
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Death Valley Days
7:30 The Littlest Angel (a "Hallmark Hall Of Fame" production
with Johnny (then spelled Johnnie) Whitaker in the title
role (his name is Michael), Fred Gwynne as his guardian
angel Patience, and E.G. Marshall as God)
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Hallelujah Trail"
12 M News
12:30 Movie: "Just For You"
2:35 Movie: "Love From A Stranger"
WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)
8 AM Heckle And Jeckle
9 AM Here Comes The Grump
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM H.R. Pufnstuf
10:30 Banana Splits
11:30 Jambo
12 N Flintstones
12:30 Underdog
1 PM Stoneman Family
1:30 One Step Beyond
2 PM AFL Football: Jets-Oilers
5 PM Bill Anderson (time approximate)
5:30 Lester Flatt
6 PM Kitty Wells
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Porter Wagoner (guest: Carl Smith)
7:30 The Littlest Angel
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Hallelujah Trail"
12 M Saturday Tonight Show
WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)
6:25 Sacred Heart
6:40 Living Word
6:55 Farm News, Weather
7 AM Box 5 RFD
7:30 4-H Hour
8 AM Jetsons
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9:30 Mr. Pix (Dave Michaels)
10:30 Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
11 AM Archie Comedy Hour
12 N Monkees
12:30 Wacky Races
1 PM New Adventures Of Superman (animated)
1:30 Jonny Quest
2 PM Dastardly & Muttley In Their Flying Machines
(delay from 9:30 AM)
2:30 High-Q (St. Joseph Academy meets the winner of
last week's match between R.L. Osborne and Avondale.)
3 PM Dobie Gillis
3:30 Commercial Film (aka an infomercial)
3:45 NFL Pre-Game Show
4 PM NFL Football: Bears-49ers
7 PM I Love Lucy (time approximate)
7:30 Jackie Gleason (in Sun Valley, a Ralph lookalike is passing
bad checks, so Ralph cooks up a ruse to catch him--Gleason
plays both Ralph and the impostor)
8:30 Ann-Margret ("From Hollywood With Love," with Dean Martin,
Lucille Ball, and the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band)
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Mannix
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Carmen Jones" (watch for Harry Belafonte and Pearl
Bailey, from '54)
WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta
WDCO Ch. 15 (WMUM Ch. 29) Cochran
WCLP (WNGH) Ch. 18 Chatsworth (NET)
7:30 You Asked For It (Betty and Benny Fox dance on a slender pole
high in the air, remote Florida swamp areas are stocked with wild
turkey, host Jack Smith visits Hawaii to learn the story of sugar,
Richard Smith (no relation to Jack, I presume) attempts to leap
over nine horses using a springboard)
8 PM On Being Black (first of ten dramas on the African-American experience;
tonight, "Wine In The Wilderness," about a meeting between an arrogant
artist and a hardened, uneducated girl)
9 PM Speaking Freely (guest: Sen. Eugene McCarthy)
10 PM Movie: "Tom Brown's Schooldays"
WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)
7 AM Science In Action
7:30 Dudley Do-Right (delay from Sun 9:30 AM)
8 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
8:30 Smokey Bear
9 AM Cattanooga Cats
10 AM Hot Wheels
10:30 Hardy Boys (animated)
11 AM Sky Hawks
11:30 Adventures Of Gulliver
12 N Singing Convention
1 PM College Football Pre-Game Show
1:15 NCAA Football: Texas-Arkansas (Southwest Conference
championship game)
4:30 1969 USGA Highlights (U.S. Open, U.S. Women's Open,
Men's Amateur, and Walker Cup championships, time approximate)
5 PM Boxing: George Foreman vs. an unnamed opponent, 6 rounds; Sonny
Liston vs. Leotis Martin, 12 rounds, both from Las Vegas (this is all on
"Wide World Of Sports")
6:30 That Good Ole Nashville Music
7 PM Brady Bunch (delay from Fri 8 PM)
7:30 Dating Game (guest: Kathy Garver from "Family Affair")
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk (composer Rudolf Friml appears to celebrate his
90th birthday)
9:30 Hollywood Palace (Anthony Newley hosts a program of his own music,
with Jo Anne Worley, Dyan Cannon (making her singing and dancing debut),
Lulu, Lola Falana, model Marissa Berenson)
10:30 Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (delay from Fri 8:30 PM)
11 PM ABC News (anchor not given)
11:15 Movie: "Fame Is The Name Of The Game" (NBC's first really successful
made-for-TV movie from 1966 (there had been a few tries in '64) and the
pilot for the series "Name Of The Game")
WQXI (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)
7 AM Adventures In Living
7:30 Discovery (from Chicago's Brookfield Zoo: reptiles, unusual mammals (spiny
anteater, kangaroos, delay from Sun 11:30 AM)
8 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
8:30 Smokey Bear
9 AM Cattanooga Cats
10 AM Hot Wheels
10:30 Hardy Boys (animated)
11 AM Sky Hawks
11:30 Adventures Of Gulliver
12 N Fantastic Voyage
12:30 Joe Namath (Barbara McNair, 1969 Heisman Trophy winner Steve Owens
(halfback, University of Oklahoma) and runner-up Mike Phipps (quarterback,
Purdue)
1 PM College Football Pre-Game Show
1:15 NCAA Football: Texas-Arkansas
4:30 Outdoors (time approximate)
5 PM Boxing (see Ch. 9)
6:30 Movie: "Hey There, It's Yogi Bear"
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Hollywood Palace
10:30 Atlanta Wrestling
11:30 Movie: "The Wolf Man" (Lon Chaney Jr., from '41)
1 AM Rifleman
1:30 ABC News
WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)
7:45 Uncle Hank
8 AM Toys For Tots
10:30 Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
11 AM Archie Comedy Hour
12 N This Week In Pro Football
1 PM New Adventures Of Superman (animated)
1:30 Jonny Quest
2 PM Roller Derby
3 PM Chattanooga Wrestling
3:45 NFL Pre-Game Show
4 PM NFL Football: Bears-49ers
7 PM Skippy The Bush Kangaroo (time approximate)
7:30 Billy Graham Southern California Crusade
8:30 Ann-Margret
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Miss Showgirl International 1969 (Clint Walker hosts
from Las Vegas)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "By The Light Of The Silvery Moon"
WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/ABC)
7 AM Georgialand
7:30 Georgia TV Monitor
8 AM Jetsons
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9:30 Dastardly & Muttley In Their Flying Machines
10 AM Perils Of Penelope Pitstop
10:30 Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
11 AM Archie Comedy Hour
12 N Monkees
12:30 Wacky Races
1 PM College Football Pre-Game Show
1:15 NCAA Football: Texas-Arkansas
4 PM NFL Football: Bears-49ers (will be joined in progress
at the conclusion of the Texas-Arkansas game)
7 PM Porter Wagoner (time approximate)
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Billy Graham Southern California Crusade
11 PM News
11:15 Movie: "The Revolt Of Mamie Stover"
WJRJ (WPCH) Ch. 17 Atlanta (Ind.)
1 PM Agriculture U.S.A.
1:30 Movie: "College Swing" (watch for a bevy of classic comedians:
George Burns and Gracie Allen, Bob Hope, Martha Raye, Jackie
Gleason, Ben Blue, and Edward Everett Horton, from '38)
3:30 Upbeat (Gene Pitney, the Classics IV, Billy Joe Royal, Lesley Gore,
Mitch Ryder)
4:30 Samson And Goliath
5 PM Little Rascals
5:30 Batman
6 PM Skippy The Bush Kangaroo
6:30 TBA (CBS News normally aired here, pre-empted on Ch. 5)
7 PM The Night Before Christmas (animated; the Norman Luboff
Choir provides narration and music)
7:30 My Little Margie
8 PM Donna Reed (watch for Stephen Talbot, aka Gilbert Bates on
"Leave It To Beaver")
8:30 Tales Of Wells Fargo
9 PM Western Star Theatre
9:30 Roller Derby
10:30 Country Music Holiday
11 PM M Squad
11:30 Movie: "Hudson's Bay"
WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (NET)
off air on Saturday
WATL Ch. 36 Atlanta (Ind.)
10 AM Movie: "We Were Strangers"
12 N Music Connection
1 PM Movie: "The Nevadan" (watch for Frank Faylen, aka
Herbert T. Gillis, from '50)
3 PM Movie: "We Were Strangers"
5 PM Country Carnival
5:30 Judy Lynn
6 PM Star Trek
7 PM Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (ABC, pre-empted on Ch. 11,
delay from Fri 8:30 PM)
7:30 Dating Game (pre-empted on Ch. 11)
8 PM Newlywed Game (pre-empted on Ch. 11)
8:30 Let's Make A Deal (ABC, pre-empted on Ch. 11, delay from
Fri 7:30 PM)
9 PM Hugh Hefner (Michael Caine, Mort Sahl, Meredith MacRae,
the Clara Ward Singers)
10 PM Movie: "Operation Idiot"
WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)
8 AM Heckle And Jeckle
9 AM Here Comes The Grump
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM H.R. Pufnstuf
10:30 Banana Splits
11:30 Jambo
12 N This Week In Pro Football
1 PM Macon Wrestling
2 PM AFL Football: Jets-Oilers
5 PM Film (time approximate)
5:30 National Geographic (a profile of Siberia, CBS, pre-empted
on Ch. 13, delay from Tue 7:30 PM)
6:30 Bill Anderson
7 PM Huntley-Brinkley Report
7:30 The Littlest Angel
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Hallelujah Trail"
12 M Saturday Tonight Show
WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)
7 AM Astroboy
7:30 Kimba, The White Lion
8 AM Popeye Club
9 AM Here Comes The Grump
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM H.R. Pufnstuf
10:30 Banana Splits
11:30 Jambo (Chara the giraffe and a scientist join
forces to nab a poacher.)
12 N Tarzan
1 PM Steve Allen
1:55 Sports Film
2 PM AFL Football: Jets-Oilers
5 PM Perry Mason (time approximate)
6 PM Newsroom (John Pruitt)
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Death Valley Days
7:30 The Littlest Angel (a "Hallmark Hall Of Fame" production
with Johnny (then spelled Johnnie) Whitaker in the title
role (his name is Michael), Fred Gwynne as his guardian
angel Patience, and E.G. Marshall as God)
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Hallelujah Trail"
12 M News
12:30 Movie: "Just For You"
2:35 Movie: "Love From A Stranger"
WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)
8 AM Heckle And Jeckle
9 AM Here Comes The Grump
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM H.R. Pufnstuf
10:30 Banana Splits
11:30 Jambo
12 N Flintstones
12:30 Underdog
1 PM Stoneman Family
1:30 One Step Beyond
2 PM AFL Football: Jets-Oilers
5 PM Bill Anderson (time approximate)
5:30 Lester Flatt
6 PM Kitty Wells
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Porter Wagoner (guest: Carl Smith)
7:30 The Littlest Angel
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Hallelujah Trail"
12 M Saturday Tonight Show
WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)
6:25 Sacred Heart
6:40 Living Word
6:55 Farm News, Weather
7 AM Box 5 RFD
7:30 4-H Hour
8 AM Jetsons
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9:30 Mr. Pix (Dave Michaels)
10:30 Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
11 AM Archie Comedy Hour
12 N Monkees
12:30 Wacky Races
1 PM New Adventures Of Superman (animated)
1:30 Jonny Quest
2 PM Dastardly & Muttley In Their Flying Machines
(delay from 9:30 AM)
2:30 High-Q (St. Joseph Academy meets the winner of
last week's match between R.L. Osborne and Avondale.)
3 PM Dobie Gillis
3:30 Commercial Film (aka an infomercial)
3:45 NFL Pre-Game Show
4 PM NFL Football: Bears-49ers
7 PM I Love Lucy (time approximate)
7:30 Jackie Gleason (in Sun Valley, a Ralph lookalike is passing
bad checks, so Ralph cooks up a ruse to catch him--Gleason
plays both Ralph and the impostor)
8:30 Ann-Margret ("From Hollywood With Love," with Dean Martin,
Lucille Ball, and the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band)
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Mannix
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Carmen Jones" (watch for Harry Belafonte and Pearl
Bailey, from '54)
WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta
WDCO Ch. 15 (WMUM Ch. 29) Cochran
WCLP (WNGH) Ch. 18 Chatsworth (NET)
7:30 You Asked For It (Betty and Benny Fox dance on a slender pole
high in the air, remote Florida swamp areas are stocked with wild
turkey, host Jack Smith visits Hawaii to learn the story of sugar,
Richard Smith (no relation to Jack, I presume) attempts to leap
over nine horses using a springboard)
8 PM On Being Black (first of ten dramas on the African-American experience;
tonight, "Wine In The Wilderness," about a meeting between an arrogant
artist and a hardened, uneducated girl)
9 PM Speaking Freely (guest: Sen. Eugene McCarthy)
10 PM Movie: "Tom Brown's Schooldays"
WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)
7 AM Science In Action
7:30 Dudley Do-Right (delay from Sun 9:30 AM)
8 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
8:30 Smokey Bear
9 AM Cattanooga Cats
10 AM Hot Wheels
10:30 Hardy Boys (animated)
11 AM Sky Hawks
11:30 Adventures Of Gulliver
12 N Singing Convention
1 PM College Football Pre-Game Show
1:15 NCAA Football: Texas-Arkansas (Southwest Conference
championship game)
4:30 1969 USGA Highlights (U.S. Open, U.S. Women's Open,
Men's Amateur, and Walker Cup championships, time approximate)
5 PM Boxing: George Foreman vs. an unnamed opponent, 6 rounds; Sonny
Liston vs. Leotis Martin, 12 rounds, both from Las Vegas (this is all on
"Wide World Of Sports")
6:30 That Good Ole Nashville Music
7 PM Brady Bunch (delay from Fri 8 PM)
7:30 Dating Game (guest: Kathy Garver from "Family Affair")
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk (composer Rudolf Friml appears to celebrate his
90th birthday)
9:30 Hollywood Palace (Anthony Newley hosts a program of his own music,
with Jo Anne Worley, Dyan Cannon (making her singing and dancing debut),
Lulu, Lola Falana, model Marissa Berenson)
10:30 Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (delay from Fri 8:30 PM)
11 PM ABC News (anchor not given)
11:15 Movie: "Fame Is The Name Of The Game" (NBC's first really successful
made-for-TV movie from 1966 (there had been a few tries in '64) and the
pilot for the series "Name Of The Game")
WQXI (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)
7 AM Adventures In Living
7:30 Discovery (from Chicago's Brookfield Zoo: reptiles, unusual mammals (spiny
anteater, kangaroos, delay from Sun 11:30 AM)
8 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
8:30 Smokey Bear
9 AM Cattanooga Cats
10 AM Hot Wheels
10:30 Hardy Boys (animated)
11 AM Sky Hawks
11:30 Adventures Of Gulliver
12 N Fantastic Voyage
12:30 Joe Namath (Barbara McNair, 1969 Heisman Trophy winner Steve Owens
(halfback, University of Oklahoma) and runner-up Mike Phipps (quarterback,
Purdue)
1 PM College Football Pre-Game Show
1:15 NCAA Football: Texas-Arkansas
4:30 Outdoors (time approximate)
5 PM Boxing (see Ch. 9)
6:30 Movie: "Hey There, It's Yogi Bear"
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Hollywood Palace
10:30 Atlanta Wrestling
11:30 Movie: "The Wolf Man" (Lon Chaney Jr., from '41)
1 AM Rifleman
1:30 ABC News
WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)
7:45 Uncle Hank
8 AM Toys For Tots
10:30 Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
11 AM Archie Comedy Hour
12 N This Week In Pro Football
1 PM New Adventures Of Superman (animated)
1:30 Jonny Quest
2 PM Roller Derby
3 PM Chattanooga Wrestling
3:45 NFL Pre-Game Show
4 PM NFL Football: Bears-49ers
7 PM Skippy The Bush Kangaroo (time approximate)
7:30 Billy Graham Southern California Crusade
8:30 Ann-Margret
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Miss Showgirl International 1969 (Clint Walker hosts
from Las Vegas)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "By The Light Of The Silvery Moon"
WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/ABC)
7 AM Georgialand
7:30 Georgia TV Monitor
8 AM Jetsons
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9:30 Dastardly & Muttley In Their Flying Machines
10 AM Perils Of Penelope Pitstop
10:30 Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
11 AM Archie Comedy Hour
12 N Monkees
12:30 Wacky Races
1 PM College Football Pre-Game Show
1:15 NCAA Football: Texas-Arkansas
4 PM NFL Football: Bears-49ers (will be joined in progress
at the conclusion of the Texas-Arkansas game)
7 PM Porter Wagoner (time approximate)
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Billy Graham Southern California Crusade
11 PM News
11:15 Movie: "The Revolt Of Mamie Stover"
WJRJ (WPCH) Ch. 17 Atlanta (Ind.)
1 PM Agriculture U.S.A.
1:30 Movie: "College Swing" (watch for a bevy of classic comedians:
George Burns and Gracie Allen, Bob Hope, Martha Raye, Jackie
Gleason, Ben Blue, and Edward Everett Horton, from '38)
3:30 Upbeat (Gene Pitney, the Classics IV, Billy Joe Royal, Lesley Gore,
Mitch Ryder)
4:30 Samson And Goliath
5 PM Little Rascals
5:30 Batman
6 PM Skippy The Bush Kangaroo
6:30 TBA (CBS News normally aired here, pre-empted on Ch. 5)
7 PM The Night Before Christmas (animated; the Norman Luboff
Choir provides narration and music)
7:30 My Little Margie
8 PM Donna Reed (watch for Stephen Talbot, aka Gilbert Bates on
"Leave It To Beaver")
8:30 Tales Of Wells Fargo
9 PM Western Star Theatre
9:30 Roller Derby
10:30 Country Music Holiday
11 PM M Squad
11:30 Movie: "Hudson's Bay"
WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (NET)
off air on Saturday
WATL Ch. 36 Atlanta (Ind.)
10 AM Movie: "We Were Strangers"
12 N Music Connection
1 PM Movie: "The Nevadan" (watch for Frank Faylen, aka
Herbert T. Gillis, from '50)
3 PM Movie: "We Were Strangers"
5 PM Country Carnival
5:30 Judy Lynn
6 PM Star Trek
7 PM Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (ABC, pre-empted on Ch. 11,
delay from Fri 8:30 PM)
7:30 Dating Game (pre-empted on Ch. 11)
8 PM Newlywed Game (pre-empted on Ch. 11)
8:30 Let's Make A Deal (ABC, pre-empted on Ch. 11, delay from
Fri 7:30 PM)
9 PM Hugh Hefner (Michael Caine, Mort Sahl, Meredith MacRae,
the Clara Ward Singers)
10 PM Movie: "Operation Idiot"
WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)
8 AM Heckle And Jeckle
9 AM Here Comes The Grump
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM H.R. Pufnstuf
10:30 Banana Splits
11:30 Jambo
12 N This Week In Pro Football
1 PM Macon Wrestling
2 PM AFL Football: Jets-Oilers
5 PM Film (time approximate)
5:30 National Geographic (a profile of Siberia, CBS, pre-empted
on Ch. 13, delay from Tue 7:30 PM)
6:30 Bill Anderson
7 PM Huntley-Brinkley Report
7:30 The Littlest Angel
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Hallelujah Trail"
12 M Saturday Tonight Show