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Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Saturday, January 24, 1976

From TV Guide, North Georgia Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

7 AM Nature's Window
7:30 GO-USA (delay from 12:30 PM)
8 AM Big Blue Marble
8:30 Come Along 2
9 AM Waldo Kitty
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Land Of The Lost
10:30 Run, Joe, Run
11 AM Return To The Planet Of The Apes
11:30 Westwind
12 N News
12:30 Meet'n Place (local music show)
1 PM Tarzan (guest star Ethel Merman)
2 PM SEC Basketball: Tennessee-Ole Miss
4 PM College Basketball: UCLA-Notre Dame (time
approximate)
6 PM News (time approximate)
6:30 Saturday Extra (local)
7 PM Hee Haw (the Statler Brothers, Cal--not Carl--
Smith, Lawanda Lindsey, disc jockey Frank Baker)
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "The New Centurions"
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night (Live) (guest hosts Peter Cook and
Dudley Moore)
1 AM Movie: "Gunpoint"
2:50 News

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

7 AM Agricultural Science In Action
7:30 GO-USA
8 AM Flintstones
8:25 News For Little People
8:30 Josie And The Pussycats
9 AM Waldo Kitty
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Land Of The Lost
10:30 Run, Joe, Run
11 AM Return To The Planet Of The Apes
11:30 Westwind
12 N Jetsons
12:30 Countdown To Destiny
1 PM Georgia Championship Wrestling
2 PM SEC Basketball: Tennessee-Ole Miss
4 PM College Basketball: UCLA-Notre Dame (time
approximate)
6 PM Arthur Smith (time approximate)
6:30 That Good Ole Nashville Music (Johnny Rodriguez,
Larry Gatlin, Johnny Gimble)
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "The New Centurions"
11 PM Treasure Hunt (Geoff Edwards)
11:30 700 Club (Ch. 3 did not carry "SNL" for its first
year or so.)

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6:15 Video College
6:45 Box 5 RFD
7:15 Tree Talks
7:30 4-H Club
8 AM Pebbles And Bamm-Bamm
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9:30 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
10 AM Shazam!/Isis Hour
11 AM Far Out Space Nuts
11:30 Bewitched
12 N News
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival ("On Snowhite,"
'72 from Czechoslovakia, about a group of
kids who spend a summer putting on a play
that's their version of the classic tale.)
2 PM Call It Macaroni
2:30 World Of Survival
3 PM Soul Train (the Jackson 5 do "Forever Came Today"
and "All I Do Is Think Of You"; Michael solos on
"Just A Little Bit Of You")
4 PM Outdoors With Julius Boros
4:30 Challenge Of The Sexes (diving: Micki King vs. Ken
Sitzberger; bowling: Paula Sperber vs. Carmen Salvino)
5 PM CBS Sports Spectacular (European Figure Skating Championships,
Women's World Cup Skiing Championships)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Dan Rather)
7 PM The World At War
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 Doc
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM Carol Burnett (guests: the Jackson 5 and circus clown
Emmett Kelly)
11 PM News
11:30 Golden Globe Awards (Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme host, live)
1 AM Movie: "Murderers' Row"

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

6 PM Images Of Aging
7 PM Washington Week In Review
7:30 Wall Street Week
8 PM Hollywood Television Theatre (Cara Williams in "The Ashes Of
Mrs. Reasoner" (nothing to do here with Harry), about a woman
who, en route to scatter her late husband's ashes, brings back
his spirit--Herb Edelman plays the husband)
9:30 Walk A Country Mile (the poverty-stricken people of the Ramapo
Mountains in northeastern New Jersey)
10 PM Soundstage (Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge)
11 PM Movie: "Say It With Songs" (Al Jolson, from '29, to 1:30 AM)

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

7 AM Bob Brandy
8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Tom And Jerry/Grape Ape
9:30 Lost Saucer
10 AM New Adventures Of Gilligan
10:30 Groovie Goolies
11 AM Speed Buggy
11:30 Oddball Couple (animated knockoff of "The Odd Couple"
with a neat cat, Spiffy (voice of Frank Nelson) and a
sloppy dog, Fleabag (voice of Paul Winchell))
12 N Mull's Singing Convention
1 PM Know Your Bible
1:30 Big Valley
2:30 UT-Chattanooga Basketball Highlights (coach Ron Shumate)
3 PM Pro Bowlers Tour (finals of the Denver Open)
4:30 Wide World Of Sports (George Foreman vs. Ron Lyle, 12 rounds,
live from Las Vegas)
6 PM Golf: Bing Crosby Pro-Am (third round)
7 PM Candid Camera (Joey Faye as a pretzel-factory manager confronting
a labor arbitrator in a hotel suite; a girl refuses $1000 for a mutt she found)
7:30 Kaleidoscope 9
8 PM Almost Anything Goes (return of the summer 1975 hit; Charlie Jones and
Lynn Shackelford report the action, while Regis Philbin is the field reporter)
9 PM S.W.A.T.
11 PM March Of Dimes Telerama (local, but with Richard Anderson of "The Six Million
Dollar Man" and Elizabeth Baur and Don Galloway of "Ironside" participating--
to 5 PM Sunday)

WXIA Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

6:30 Adventures In Living
7 AM Ebony Beat Journal
7:30 Make A Wish (delay from 11:30 AM Sunday)
8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape
9:30 The Lost Saucer
10 AM New Adventures Of Gilligan
10:30 Groovie Goolies
11 AM Speed Buggy
11:30 Oddball Couple
12 N Uncle Croc's Block
12:30 American Bandstand (the Hues Corporation,
Keller and Webb, comedian Larry Beezer)
1:30 Formby's Antique Furniture Workshop (Homer Formby)
2 PM Movie: "Valdez Is Coming"
3:30 Champions (Japan vs. U.S. in women's volleyball; world
motorcycle speedway championships; women's singles
in the Gold Skate Classic; John Smith's world-record
quarter-mile run)
4:30 Wide World Of Sports
6 PM Golf: Bing Crosby Pro-Am (third round)
7 PM Space: 1999
8 PM Almost Anything Goes
9 PM S.W.A.T.
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "First To Fight"
1:30 ABC News (anchor not given)

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

7 AM Bullwinkle
7:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
8 AM Pebbles And Bamm-Bamm
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9:30 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
10 AM Shazam!/Isis Hour
11 AM Far Out Space Nuts
11:30 Ghost Busters
12 N Valley Of The Dinosaurs
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM Soul Train (the Dells, Bloodstone)
3 PM Billy Walker's Country Carnival (Faron Young,
Charley Pride, Mary Taylor)
3:30 Wilburn Brothers (Connie Smith, Freddie North)
4 PM Porter Wagoner (guest: Chris Christian)
4:30 That Girl
5 PM Wrestling (from the studio)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Mod Squad
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 Doc
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM Moment Of Truth (religious)
11:30 Golden Globe Awards

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS)

7 AM Navy Film
7:30 Georgia TV Monitor
8 AM Pebbles And Bamm-Bamm
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9:30 Scrunch Bunch
10 AM Shazam!/Isis Hour
11 AM Far Out Space Nuts
11:30 Ghost Busters
12 N Valley Of The Dinosaurs
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM Movie: TBA
4 PM Ebony Speaks
4:30 Challenge Of The Sexes
5 PM CBS Sports Spectacular
6 PM Porter Wagoner (guest: Wendy Holcombe)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Lawrence Welk (the second of his two Bicentennial
shows, the highest-rated shows he ever did)
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 Doc
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM News
11:20 Movie: "The Money Jungle"

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

8 AM Sesame Street
9 AM Electric Company
9:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10 AM Sesame Street
11 AM Electric Company
11:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
12 N Zoom
12:30 Ourstory (a young Abraham Lincoln helps
an acting company)
1 PM Books In A Bind
1:30 Dance To The Music
2 PM Sound Of Youth
2:30 Guppies To Groupers
3 PM Byline: Mills Lane IV
3:30 Ilona's Palette
4 PM Garden Show
4:30 Cinema Showcase: Robert Wise
5 PM Black American Sun
5:30 Country Music Festival
6 PM Artists In Oklahoma
6:30 Wall Street Week
7 PM Firing Line (guest: Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, who told
Dan Quayle, "You're no Jack Kennedy.")
8 PM Dance In America (the Joffrey Ballet)
9 PM Monster Concert (two grand pianos and 20 pianists)
9:30 International Animation Festival
10 PM David Susskind
sign off 11:30 PM

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

6:40 News
7 AM Hilarious House Of Frightenstein
7:30 Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8 AM Ultra Man
8:30 Speed Racer
9 AM Lost In Space
10 AM Addams Family
10:30 Munsters
11 AM Hazel
11:30 Partridge Family
12 N Roller Game Of The Week
1 PM Movie: "Blue Skies" (Bing Crosby and
Fred Astaire, who teamed in "Holiday Inn,"
join forces again in this '46 musical.)
3 PM Movie: "Mexican Hayride" (Abbott and Costello)
4:30 Abbott And Costello
5 PM Rifleman
5:30 Wanted: Dead Or Alive
6 PM Georgia Championship Wrestling
7 PM Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling (from Raleigh)
8 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music (Barbara Mandrell,
Billy Walker, Johnny Gimble)
8:30 Nashville On The Road (Wendy Holcombe, Little David
Wilkins)
9 PM Porter Wagoner (guests: Russ and Becky Jeffers)
9:30 Buck Owens
10 PM Pop! Goes The Country (Barbara Fairchild and Marty
Robbins)
10:30 Music Place (guest: Linda K. Lance)
11 PM Jim Ed Brown
11:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (David Essex (he sings
"Rock On"), Kansas)
1 AM Movie: "The Human Duplicators" (Hugh Beaumont appears
in this one, made after "Leave It To Beaver"--1964)
2:45 Movie: "Blue Skies"
4:25 Movie: "Congo Crossing"

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)

8 AM Sesame Street
9 AM Electric Company
9:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10 AM Sesame Street
11 AM Electric Company
11:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
12 N Zoom
12:30 Ourstory
1 PM Sesame Street
2 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
2:30 Electric Company
3 PM Flower Show
3:30 Legacy
4 PM Fore!
4:30 Woman (medical journalist Rose Kushner discusses
the state of breast-cancer treatment in America)
5 PM Playback (music)
5:30 Say Brother
6 PM Black Perspective On The News
6:30 Black Atlanta Today
7 PM Firing Line
8 PM Anyone For Tennyson?
8:30 Hocking Valley Bluegrass (the Eagle Mountain Boys,
from Charleston, WV)
9 PM Piccadilly Circus (Dave Allen presents a one-man show.)
10 PM String Around Your Finger (community calendar)
10:10 Movie: "One Hour With You" (Jeanette MacDonald, but
with Maurice Chevalier instead of Nelson Eddy, from '32)
11:40 Cinema Showcase: Lilli Palmer

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

8 AM Emergency +4
8:30 Josie And The Pussycats
9 AM Waldo Kitty
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM Land Of The Lost
10:30 Run, Joe, Run
11 AM Return To The Planet Of The Apes
11:30 Westwind
12 N Jetsons
12:30 GO-USA
1 PM Wrestling (from the studio)
2 PM SEC Basketball: Tennessee-Ole Miss
4 PM College Basketball: UCLA-Notre Dame
(time approximate)
6 PM Wayne Tyler (local, music, time approximate)
6:30 NBC News (Tom Brokaw)
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "The New Centurions"
11 PM Nashville On The Road (guest: Moe Bandy)
11:30 Saturday Night (Live)

WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)

10 AM Sesame Street
11 AM Electric Company
11:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
12 N Your Federal Income Tax
12:30 Ourstory
1 PM Vegetable Soup
1:30 Gettin' Over
2 PM Word On Words
2:30 Guppies To Groupers
3 PM Byline: Mills Lane IV
3:30 Ilona's Palette
4 PM Garden Show
4:30 Cinema Showcase: Robert Wise
5 PM Sign News 45
5:30 Play Bridge With The Experts
6 PM WTCI-VAC (discussion)
6:30 UT-Chattanooga Journal
7 PM Firing Line
8 PM Anyone For Tennyson?
8:30 Hocking Valley Bluegrass
9 PM Piccadilly Circus
10 PM Soundstage
sign off 11 PM

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

7 AM Mighty Mouse
7:30 Porky Pig
8 AM Bozo's Big Top
8:30 Mr. Magoo
9 AM Jeff's Collie
9:30 Laurel And Hardy
10 AM Dennis The Menace
10:30 Fury
11 AM Lone Ranger
11:30 Bill Dance Outdoors
12 N Wally's Workshop
12:30 Dr. Kildare
1:30 Movie: "Call It A Day"
3:15 Changing Times
3:30 Movie: "Desperate" (an early role for Raymond
Burr as a gangster chasing a truck driver--sounds
a bit like "Duel," from '47)
4:55 Art Instruction
5 PM Fisherman
5:30 Film (a visit to Antarctica)
6:30 Movie: "Run Silent, Run Deep"
8:30 Grand Old Gospel Time
9 PM Warren Roberts (the Heritage Singers and the
Gospel Brass are guests)
10 PM The Lesson
10:30 Better World (guest: former heavyweight champ
Jersey Joe Walcott)
11 PM Washington Debates For The '70s

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

3 PM Movie: TBA
5 PM Movie: TBA
7 PM Roller Derby
8 PM Jerry Falwell
9 PM Grace Cathedral
10 PM Liberty Faith Temple
10:30 Quest For Adventure
11 PM Dr. J. Harold Smith
sign off 11:05 PM
 
I see PBS 30 in Atlanta has a lot more going on than PBS 8 Atlanta at this time.
Is that because TV 30 is older or better funded? Today they are like twin sisters
and quite equal.
 
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