First of two days of Bicentennial coverage. From
TV Guide, North Georgia Edition:
WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)
7 AM Popeye
7:30 Go-USA
8 AM Big Blue Marble
8:30 Hang 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 Wimbledon: Women's Singles Final
2 PM Baseball: Phillies-Pirates
5 PM Wimbledon: Men's Singles Final
(Time approximate)
6:30 News
7 PM Hee Haw
7:30 Salute 2 America Parade Preview
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM Inventing Of America
11 PM News
11:30 Weekend
1 AM News
1:05 Movie: "Escape From Zahrain"
WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)
7 AM Agricultural Science In Action
7:30 Go-USA
8 AM Little Rascals
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 Countdown To Destiny
12:30 Wimbledon: Women's Singles Final
2 PM Baseball: Phillies-Pirates
5 PM Wimbledon: Men's Singles Final
(Time approximate)
6:30 That Good Ole Nashville Music
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM We The People (local music and drama
celebrating the Bicentennial)
9 PM Inventing Of America
11 PM Treasure Hunt
11:30 Weekend
WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)
6:15 Video College
6:45 Box 5
7:15 Tree Talks
7:30 4-H Club
8 AM Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
9:30 Scooby-Doo
10 AM Shazam!/Isis
11 AM Space Nuts
11:30 Bewitched
12 N News
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival:
"Where's Johnny?" (1974, from England)
2 PM TBA
2:30 World Of Survival
3 PM Soul Train
4 PM Thrillseekers
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Dan Rather)
7 PM Great American Music Celebration (with
Lorne Greene, Dionne Warwick, and
Harve Presnell)
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 Doc
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM Dinah And Her New Best Friends
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Tyrant" (something about
ancient Rome)
WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)
6 PM Auto Test '76
7 PM Evening At Symphony
8 PM Georgia Internationale (ethnic groups
in Georgia)
8:30 Inner Tennis
9 PM Goodbye America (reenacts a 1776
Parliamentary debate that might have
granted American independence and
ended the fighting)
10:30 In Performance At Wolf Trap
WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)
7 AM Bob Brandy
8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Tom And Jerry/Grape Ape
9:30 Adventures Of Gilligan (animated)
10 AM Super Friends
11 AM Speed Buggy
11:30 Oddball Couple
12 N Lost Saucer
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Movie: "The Best Of Enemies"
3:30 Freedom Is
4 PM Nashville On The Road
4:30 Pop! Goes The Country
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Candid Camera
7 PM ABC News (Ted Koppel)
7:30 We The People (this one is about
black heritage)
8 PM ABC Movie: "Huckleberry Finn"
(with Ron Howard)
9:30 ABC Movie: "The Man Without
A Country"
11 PM ABC News
11:15 Movie: "The Cape Canaveral Monsters"
WXIA Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)
6:30 Adventures In Living
7 AM Ebony Beat Journal
7:30 Make A Wish
8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Tom And Jerry/Grape Ape
9:30 Adventures Of Gilligan
10 AM Super Friends
11 AM Speed Buggy
11:30 Oddball Couple
12 N Lost Saucer
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Formby's Antique Furniture
Workshop
2 PM Movie: "The Black Orchid"
3:30 NFL Championship Games
4 PM Champions (sports)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 News
7 PM Great American Celebration (12-hour
show with Ed McMahon, Jackie Cooper,
Mike Douglas, Roger Miller, Steve Allen,
Lynn Anderson, and others--news interrupts
at 11 PM)
WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)
7 AM Bullwinkle
7:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
8 AM Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
9:30 Scooby-Doo
10 AM Shazam!/Isis
11 AM Space Nuts
11:30 Ghost Busters (not
related to the movie "Ghostbusters")
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
3 PM Porter Wagoner
3:30 Wrestling
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM America (may be Alistair Cooke's show)
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 Doc
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM Freedom Celebration
11 PM Moment Of Truth (religion)
11:30 Movie: "Anything Goes"
WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS)
7 AM Across The Fence
7:30 Georgia Farm Monitor
8 AM Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
9:30 Scrunch
10 AM Shazam!/Isis
11 AM 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 Ebony Speaks
2:30 Rat Patrol
3 PM Imprint
3:30 Sportsman's Friend
4 PM Testament Of Freedom
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
6 PM Porter Wagoner
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Lawrence Welk (his Bicentennial show,
the highest rating he ever got)
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 Doc
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM Dinah And Her New Best Friends
11 PM News
11:20 Movie: "Battleground"
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 Crockett's Victory Garden
1 PM Vegetable Soup
1:30 Legacy America
2 PM Sound Of Youth
2:30 Guppies To Groupers
3 PM Byline
3:30 Ilona's Palette
4 PM Garden Show
4:30 Cinema Showcase: Arthur Hill
5 PM Movie: "American Empire"
6:30 Firing Line
7:30 Evening At Symphony
9 PM Goodbye America
10:30 In Performace At Wolf Trap
WTCG (WPCH) Ch. 17 Atlanta (Ind.)
5:40 World At Large
6:10 Wally's Workshop (Wally Bruner shows
how to make a psychedelic light box)
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 At The Zoo
11:30 American Bicentennial Grand Parade
(Johnny Cash is grand marshal, from
Washington, DC)
1:30 Movie: "The Story Of Dr. Wassell"
(time approximate)
4 PM Baseball: Braves-Giants
6:30 Georgia Wrestling (time approximate)
8:30 Nashville On The Road
9 PM Porter Wagoner
9:30 Buck Owens
10 PM Pop! Goes The Country
10:30 Music Place
11 PM Jim Ed Brown
11:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
1 AM Baseball: Braves-Giants replay
3:30 Movie: "Attack Of The Mayan Mummy"
(time approximate)
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
off air 12:30-5 PM
5 PM Olympiad
6 PM Playback
6:30 Black Atlanta Today
7 PM Black Perspective On The News
7:30 Burglar-Proofing
8 PM Mark Of Jazz
8:30 Mark Russell
9 PM Goodbye America
10:30 In Performance At Wolf Trap
WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)
7:30 Animal World
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 Wrestling
12:30 Wimbledon: Women's Singles
Final
2 PM Baseball: Phillies-Pirates
5 PM Wimbledon: Men's Singles Final
(Time approximate)
6:30 NBC News (Tom Brokaw)
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM Inventing Of America
11 PM Nashville On The Road
11:30 Weekend
WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)
10 AM Sesame Street
11 AM Electric Company
11:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
12 N Zoom
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1 PM College For Canines
1:30 Big Blue Marble
2 PM Word On Words
2:30 Guppies To Groupers
3 PM Byline
3:30 Ilona's Palette
4 PM Health Care Perspective
4:30 Cinema Showcase: Arthur Hill
5 PM Sign News 45
5:30 Plants, Gardens, Etc.
6 PM Question Of Life (preview of Viking I
landing on Mars)
6:30 Firing Line
7:30 Evening At Symphony
9 PM Goodbye America
10:30 Lowell Thomas Remembers
WHAE (WGCL) Ch. 46 Atlanta (Ind.)
7 AM Cartoon Festival
7:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
8 AM Deputy Dawg
8:30 Mighty Mouse
9 AM Porky Pig
9:30 Laurel And Hardy ("Beau Hunks,"
from 1931)
10 AM Dennis The Menace
10:30 Jetsons (don't think this is the
NBC telecast delayed)
11 AM Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore)
11:30 Bill Dance Outdoors
12 N Mr. Chips
12:30 NFL Action '76
1 PM Audubon Wildlife Theater
1:30 Movie: "Storm Fear"
3:30 Movie: "Trooper Hook"
5 PM Fisherman
5:30 World Team Tennis: Pittsburgh,
New York, Cleveland, Boston
6:30 Movie: "Crash Of Silence"
8:30 Grand Ole Gospel Time
9 PM Warren Roberts (gospel music)
10 PM The Lesson
10:30 Public Policy Forums
11:30 Midnight Meditation
WRIP (WDSI) Ch. 61 Chattanooga (Ind.)
12 N Three Stooges
1 PM Brannon Brothers Amateur Hour
(Ted Mack was still living--maybe
he should have sued over the name,
except that he died of cancer on July 12)
2 PM Three Stooges
2:30 This Is Baseball
3 PM Music City
3:30 American Angler
4 PM Happy Place
4:30 Cartoons And Comedies
5 PM James Franciscus' Water World
5:30 Wrestling
6:30 Champions (sports)
7:30 Bill Dance Outdoors
8 PM Jerry Falwell
9 PM Ernest Angley
10 PM Liberty Faith Temple (I assume this
is not connected to Liberty University)
10:30 Quest For Adventure
11 PM Dr. J. Harold Smith
TV Guide, North Georgia Edition:
WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)
7 AM Popeye
7:30 Go-USA
8 AM Big Blue Marble
8:30 Hang 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 Wimbledon: Women's Singles Final
2 PM Baseball: Phillies-Pirates
5 PM Wimbledon: Men's Singles Final
(Time approximate)
6:30 News
7 PM Hee Haw
7:30 Salute 2 America Parade Preview
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM Inventing Of America
11 PM News
11:30 Weekend
1 AM News
1:05 Movie: "Escape From Zahrain"
WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)
7 AM Agricultural Science In Action
7:30 Go-USA
8 AM Little Rascals
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 Countdown To Destiny
12:30 Wimbledon: Women's Singles Final
2 PM Baseball: Phillies-Pirates
5 PM Wimbledon: Men's Singles Final
(Time approximate)
6:30 That Good Ole Nashville Music
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM We The People (local music and drama
celebrating the Bicentennial)
9 PM Inventing Of America
11 PM Treasure Hunt
11:30 Weekend
WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)
6:15 Video College
6:45 Box 5
7:15 Tree Talks
7:30 4-H Club
8 AM Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
9:30 Scooby-Doo
10 AM Shazam!/Isis
11 AM Space Nuts
11:30 Bewitched
12 N News
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival:
"Where's Johnny?" (1974, from England)
2 PM TBA
2:30 World Of Survival
3 PM Soul Train
4 PM Thrillseekers
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Dan Rather)
7 PM Great American Music Celebration (with
Lorne Greene, Dionne Warwick, and
Harve Presnell)
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 Doc
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM Dinah And Her New Best Friends
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Tyrant" (something about
ancient Rome)
WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)
6 PM Auto Test '76
7 PM Evening At Symphony
8 PM Georgia Internationale (ethnic groups
in Georgia)
8:30 Inner Tennis
9 PM Goodbye America (reenacts a 1776
Parliamentary debate that might have
granted American independence and
ended the fighting)
10:30 In Performance At Wolf Trap
WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)
7 AM Bob Brandy
8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Tom And Jerry/Grape Ape
9:30 Adventures Of Gilligan (animated)
10 AM Super Friends
11 AM Speed Buggy
11:30 Oddball Couple
12 N Lost Saucer
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Movie: "The Best Of Enemies"
3:30 Freedom Is
4 PM Nashville On The Road
4:30 Pop! Goes The Country
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Candid Camera
7 PM ABC News (Ted Koppel)
7:30 We The People (this one is about
black heritage)
8 PM ABC Movie: "Huckleberry Finn"
(with Ron Howard)
9:30 ABC Movie: "The Man Without
A Country"
11 PM ABC News
11:15 Movie: "The Cape Canaveral Monsters"
WXIA Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)
6:30 Adventures In Living
7 AM Ebony Beat Journal
7:30 Make A Wish
8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Tom And Jerry/Grape Ape
9:30 Adventures Of Gilligan
10 AM Super Friends
11 AM Speed Buggy
11:30 Oddball Couple
12 N Lost Saucer
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Formby's Antique Furniture
Workshop
2 PM Movie: "The Black Orchid"
3:30 NFL Championship Games
4 PM Champions (sports)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 News
7 PM Great American Celebration (12-hour
show with Ed McMahon, Jackie Cooper,
Mike Douglas, Roger Miller, Steve Allen,
Lynn Anderson, and others--news interrupts
at 11 PM)
WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)
7 AM Bullwinkle
7:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
8 AM Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
9:30 Scooby-Doo
10 AM Shazam!/Isis
11 AM Space Nuts
11:30 Ghost Busters (not
related to the movie "Ghostbusters")
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
3 PM Porter Wagoner
3:30 Wrestling
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM America (may be Alistair Cooke's show)
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 Doc
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM Freedom Celebration
11 PM Moment Of Truth (religion)
11:30 Movie: "Anything Goes"
WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS)
7 AM Across The Fence
7:30 Georgia Farm Monitor
8 AM Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
9:30 Scrunch
10 AM Shazam!/Isis
11 AM 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 Ebony Speaks
2:30 Rat Patrol
3 PM Imprint
3:30 Sportsman's Friend
4 PM Testament Of Freedom
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
6 PM Porter Wagoner
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Lawrence Welk (his Bicentennial show,
the highest rating he ever got)
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 Doc
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM Dinah And Her New Best Friends
11 PM News
11:20 Movie: "Battleground"
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 Crockett's Victory Garden
1 PM Vegetable Soup
1:30 Legacy America
2 PM Sound Of Youth
2:30 Guppies To Groupers
3 PM Byline
3:30 Ilona's Palette
4 PM Garden Show
4:30 Cinema Showcase: Arthur Hill
5 PM Movie: "American Empire"
6:30 Firing Line
7:30 Evening At Symphony
9 PM Goodbye America
10:30 In Performace At Wolf Trap
WTCG (WPCH) Ch. 17 Atlanta (Ind.)
5:40 World At Large
6:10 Wally's Workshop (Wally Bruner shows
how to make a psychedelic light box)
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 At The Zoo
11:30 American Bicentennial Grand Parade
(Johnny Cash is grand marshal, from
Washington, DC)
1:30 Movie: "The Story Of Dr. Wassell"
(time approximate)
4 PM Baseball: Braves-Giants
6:30 Georgia Wrestling (time approximate)
8:30 Nashville On The Road
9 PM Porter Wagoner
9:30 Buck Owens
10 PM Pop! Goes The Country
10:30 Music Place
11 PM Jim Ed Brown
11:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
1 AM Baseball: Braves-Giants replay
3:30 Movie: "Attack Of The Mayan Mummy"
(time approximate)
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
off air 12:30-5 PM
5 PM Olympiad
6 PM Playback
6:30 Black Atlanta Today
7 PM Black Perspective On The News
7:30 Burglar-Proofing
8 PM Mark Of Jazz
8:30 Mark Russell
9 PM Goodbye America
10:30 In Performance At Wolf Trap
WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)
7:30 Animal World
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 Wrestling
12:30 Wimbledon: Women's Singles
Final
2 PM Baseball: Phillies-Pirates
5 PM Wimbledon: Men's Singles Final
(Time approximate)
6:30 NBC News (Tom Brokaw)
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM Inventing Of America
11 PM Nashville On The Road
11:30 Weekend
WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)
10 AM Sesame Street
11 AM Electric Company
11:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
12 N Zoom
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1 PM College For Canines
1:30 Big Blue Marble
2 PM Word On Words
2:30 Guppies To Groupers
3 PM Byline
3:30 Ilona's Palette
4 PM Health Care Perspective
4:30 Cinema Showcase: Arthur Hill
5 PM Sign News 45
5:30 Plants, Gardens, Etc.
6 PM Question Of Life (preview of Viking I
landing on Mars)
6:30 Firing Line
7:30 Evening At Symphony
9 PM Goodbye America
10:30 Lowell Thomas Remembers
WHAE (WGCL) Ch. 46 Atlanta (Ind.)
7 AM Cartoon Festival
7:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
8 AM Deputy Dawg
8:30 Mighty Mouse
9 AM Porky Pig
9:30 Laurel And Hardy ("Beau Hunks,"
from 1931)
10 AM Dennis The Menace
10:30 Jetsons (don't think this is the
NBC telecast delayed)
11 AM Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore)
11:30 Bill Dance Outdoors
12 N Mr. Chips
12:30 NFL Action '76
1 PM Audubon Wildlife Theater
1:30 Movie: "Storm Fear"
3:30 Movie: "Trooper Hook"
5 PM Fisherman
5:30 World Team Tennis: Pittsburgh,
New York, Cleveland, Boston
6:30 Movie: "Crash Of Silence"
8:30 Grand Ole Gospel Time
9 PM Warren Roberts (gospel music)
10 PM The Lesson
10:30 Public Policy Forums
11:30 Midnight Meditation
WRIP (WDSI) Ch. 61 Chattanooga (Ind.)
12 N Three Stooges
1 PM Brannon Brothers Amateur Hour
(Ted Mack was still living--maybe
he should have sued over the name,
except that he died of cancer on July 12)
2 PM Three Stooges
2:30 This Is Baseball
3 PM Music City
3:30 American Angler
4 PM Happy Place
4:30 Cartoons And Comedies
5 PM James Franciscus' Water World
5:30 Wrestling
6:30 Champions (sports)
7:30 Bill Dance Outdoors
8 PM Jerry Falwell
9 PM Ernest Angley
10 PM Liberty Faith Temple (I assume this
is not connected to Liberty University)
10:30 Quest For Adventure
11 PM Dr. J. Harold Smith