Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Saturday, June 13, 1970

[bpatrick]

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 Flintstones
12 N Tarzan
1 PM All American College Show (host: Gordon MacRae;
singers Diana Finn (University of Cincinnati), the
Melas II (Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC); the
Cruisers (various California colleges))
1:30 Something Else (John Byner hosts; from an Arizona
dude ranch: B.J. Thomas, the Turtles, David Houston)
2 PM Baseball Pre-Game Show
2:15 Baseball: Red Sox-Twins
5 PM Perry Mason (time approximate)
6 PM News (John Pruitt)
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Death Valley Days
7:30 Andy Williams (Andy spotlights members of his production
company on this last show until fall; guest Mike Mazurki
joins the Flying Silvermans (producers Allan Blye and Chris Bearde,
and choreographer Jaime Rogers); also: the Walking Suitcase
(writer Ray Reese), General Custer (writer Joe Seiter), and the
cookie-mooching bear (Janos Prohaska))
8:30 Adam-12
9 PM Movie: "Ironside" (the 1967 pilot)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Warpath"
1:25 Movie: "Conquered City"

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 Flintstones
12 N Jambo (two unlikely jungle companions:
Herman the hippo and Lisa the elephant)
12:30 Underdog
1 PM The New Breed
2 PM Baseball Pre-Game Show
2:15 Baseball: Braves-Mets (pre-empted on Ch. 2
due to blackout rules)
5 PM Bill Anderson (time approximate)
5:30 Country Carnival
6 PM Wilburn Brothers
6:30 Huntley/Brinkley Report
7 PM Porter Wagoner
7:30 Andy Williams
8:30 Adam-12
9 PM NBC Movie: "In Enemy Country"
11:15 TBA
11:30 Saturday Tonight Show

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6:50 Farm News
6:55 Box 5 RFD
7:25 Metro Forestry
7:30 4-H Club
8 AM Jetsons
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9:30 Mr. Pix
10:30 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
11 AM Archie Comedy Hour
12 N Monkees
12:30 Perils Of Penelope Pitstop
1 PM New Adventures Of Superman
1:30 Jonny Quest
2 PM Dastardly And Muttley In Their Flying
Machines (delay from 9:30 AM)
2:30 Movies: "In Fast Company," "Abbott And
Costello Meet The Keystone Kops," "Big
Leaguer"
6:30 News (Emmanuel Hall)
7 PM Xernona Clayton
7:30 Jackie Gleason (romantic quarrels result in a
faceoff between Ralph and Ed on one side,
Alice and Trixie on the other)
8:30 My Three Sons
9 PM Green Acres
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Miss Georgia Pageant
11:30 News (time approximate)
12 M Movie: "Strangers When We Meet"

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

7 PM You Asked For It (an elderly woman dives into
a tank of flaming water, X-ray movies include
a couple kissing, red harvester ants, the film set
of a western town)
7:30 Southern Vermont Arts Festival (members of the Lake
George Quartet perform "Arias From Famous Operas"
at Manchester, VT)
8:30 Speaking Freely (psychologist-educator Kenneth Clark
discusses ghetto problems in New York and Newark)
9:30 (8) Movie: "Rembrandt"
(15) (18) off the air
11 PM (8) Stardate

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

7:25 Upward Look
7:30 Science In Action
8 AM Adventures Of Gulliver
8:30 Smokey Bear
9 AM Cattanooga Cats
10 AM Hot Wheels
10:30 Hardy Boys (animated)
11 AM Sky Hawks
11:30 George Of The Jungle
12 N Singing Convention
1 PM Know Your Bible
1:30 Hazel
2 PM Movie: "The Harder They Fall" (Humphrey
Bogart's last film, from '56; he died the
following year)
4 PM Star Time
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (live coverage of the
24 Hours of LeMans; continues Sunday at 3:30 PM;
U.S. Open preview)
6:30 That Good Ole Nashville Music (Porter Wagoner, Stu
Phillips, Norma Jean (Dolly Parton hadn't joined Porter yet),
Mel Tillis)
7 PM Buck Owens (Wynn Stewart, Merle Haggard, Faron Young,
Eddie Fugan)
7:30 Let's Make A Deal
8 PM Newlywed Game
8:30 Lawrence Welk (Spanish melodies)
9:30 Jimmy Durante Presents The Lennon Sisters Hour (guests:
Jerry Lewis and Jack Jones)
10:30 Engelbert Humperdinck (Gina Lollobrigida, Kaye Ballard, Lou
Rawls, Roger Whittaker, delay from Wed 10 PM--this show
would soon have the in-pattern time of Sat 9:30 PM)
11:30 ABC News
11:45 Movie: "The Couch" (about a man who always phones the
LA Homicide Squad before he commits a murder)

WQXI (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

7 AM Adventures In Living
7:30 Captain Scarlett
8 AM Adventures Of Gulliver
8:30 Smokey Bear
9 AM Cattanooga Cats
10 AM Hot Wheels
10:30 Hardy Boys
11 AM Sky Hawks
11:30 George Of The Jungle
12 N Get It Together (Vic Dana, Little Anthony
and the Imperials, the Ides of March)
12:30 American Bandstand (Melanie, a tie-dyeing
demonstration)
1:30 Movie: "Black Friday"
3 PM Rifleman
3:30 Wide World Of Sports (the Indianapolis 500,
which aired on tape the previous Saturday but
was pre-empted on Ch. 11 for a golf tournament,
as will be the case today)
5 PM Golf: Western Open (third round)
6 PM Bewitched (delay from Thu 8:30 PM, don't know
what caused the pre-emption since Ch. 11 normally
aired the show in pattern)
6:30 Movie: "Rhubarb" (watch for William Frawley in this
classic '51 comedy about a cat who inherits a baseball
team)
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Jimmy Durante Presents The Lennon Sisters Hour
10:30 Atlanta Wrestling
11:30 Movie: "The Astounding She-Monster"
1 AM Marshal Dillon

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

7:45 Uncle Hank
8 AM Jetsons
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9:30 Dastardly And Muttley In Their Flying Machines
10 AM Wacky Races
10:30 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
11 AM Archie Comedy Hour
12 N Monkees
12:30 Perils Of Penelope Pitstop
1 PM New Adventures Of Superman
1:30 Jonny Quest
2 PM Pokey And Gumby
2:30 Combat!
3:30 Movie: "Tarzan's Fight For Life" (not his but that
of a jungle resident; Gordon Scott stars, from '58)
5 PM Chattanooga Wrestling
6 PM Tri-State Report (Mort Lloyd)
6:30 CBS News (Roger Mudd)
7 PM Something Else
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 My Three Sons
9 PM Green Acres
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Mannix
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Rumble On The Docks"

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 And Muttley In Their Flying Machines
10 AM Wacky Races
10:30 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
11 AM Archie Comedy Hour
12 N Monkees
12:30 Perils Of Penelope Pitstop
1 PM New Adventures Of Superman
1:30 Jonny Quest
2 PM Movies: "Adventures Of Captain Fabian" and
"Beginning Of The End"
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (same as Ch. 9)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Porter Wagoner
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Miss Georgia Pageant
11:30 News (time approximate)
11:45 Movie: "The Outcast"

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

9 AM Agriculture U.S.A.
9:30 Movie: "Rhythm On The River"
11:30 My Little Margie
12 N Roll-Off (bowling)
1 PM Now Explosion
5 PM Skippy The Bush Kangaroo
5:30 Batman
6 PM Lassie (the Jon Provost episodes)
6:30 Flipper
7 PM Addams Family
7:30 Let's Make A Deal (pre-empted on Ch. 11)
8 PM Newlywed Game (pre-empted on Ch. 11)
8:30 Rosey Grier
9 PM Now Explosion (to 3 AM)

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

WATL Ch. 36 Atlanta (Ind.)

9 AM Roller Derby
10 AM Movie: "Outpost In Morocco"
12 N Western Movie (title(s) not given)
3 PM Movie: TBA
5 PM Cisco Kid
5:30 Judy Lynn (country music)
6 PM Outer Limits
7 PM Twilight Zone
8 PM One Step Beyond
8:30 Felony Squad
9 PM Hugh Hefner
10 PM Movie: TBA

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 Flintstones
12 N Jambo
12:30 Underdog
1 PM Macon Wrestling
2 PM Baseball Pre-Game Show
2:15 Baseball: Braves-Mets
5 PM Golf: Western Open (third round, time
approximate)
6 PM Film
6:30 Bill Anderson
7 PM Huntley-Brinkley Report
7:30 Andy Williams
8:30 Adam-12
9 PM NBC Movie: "In Enemy Country"
11:15 Roller Derby

WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (NET)
off air on Saturday

1:30 ABC News

 

[azumanga]

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)
11:15 Roller Derby

WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (NET)
off air on Saturday

1:30 ABC News

Shouldn't "ABC News" be WCWB's?

 

[bpatrick]

It should be Ch. 11's. Somehow I managed to hit a wrong key
that moved the listing down and didn't realize it. WCWB (WMGT)
was and is an NBC affiliate, and although it carried some of ABC's
Sunday-morning kids' shows around this time I've never known it
to carry an ABC newscast. Sorry for the goof.

 

[Mike Stroud]

bp, I noticed that you designated the NBC newscasts as Huntley-Brinkley Report. A year or so ago on another post, some others and I determined that, sometime during the middle of 1969, NBC had pulled Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, each of whom rotated weeks on Saturdays anchoring solo, in favor of Frank McGee (Sander Vanocur sub), and using the title NBC Saturday (Night) News. I am sure that was the correct title, instead of HBR by this point. I imagine that you got confused by the fact that TVG used the generic "News" for all newscasts, whether network or local, until about 1971 or so (viewers had to look for "Cronkite" or "Huntley/Brinkley," for instance, to determine a national newscast).

Incidentally, this was about six weeks before Huntley's retirement, which necessitated the re-formatting of the broadcast into NBC Nightly News, the title by which it is still known today; the broadcast at that time expanded to Sunday evenings, a full seven-day week. Brinkley, McGee, and John Chancellor rotated in a continuation of the dual-anchor format for a year beginning in August. Afterward, Chancellor became sole anchor, Brinkley stepped away to do three-minute commentaries several times a week, and McGee moved to the Today Show.

 

[bpatrick]

Right at the time NBC made the changeover to "NBC Nightly News"
TV Guide began listing the network newscasts as "ABC News," "CBS
News," and "NBC News." Although I feel confident that it was ABC's
late-Saturday-night newscast, what's listed as "News" on Chs. 9 and
11 could have been local; more likely on 9, given the 11:30 time period.
But I'm convinced that on this night ABC News aired at 11:30 PM on 9
and 1:30 AM on 11.

I have noticed in Castleman and Podrazik's "The TV Schedule Book" that
NBC's Saturday newscast is titled "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" from January
1969 to Huntley's retirement; Brooks and Marsh say the same thing. According
to Brooks and Marsh, following Huntley's retirement Brinkley, Chancellor, and
McGee rotated as anchors seven nights a week under the "NBC Nightly News"
title, with Garrick Utley taking over the Saturday and Sunday slots in 1971, and
that's when I first recall the "NBC Saturday (or Sunday) News" title.

But the listing for June 13, 1970, shows "NEWS--Huntley/Brinkley" at 6:30 on
Chs. 2 and 3, and 7 PM on Ch. 41. That's all I had to go on. If I'm mistaken,
my bad.

 

[Mike Stroud]

Right at the time NBC made the changeover to "NBC Nightly News"
TV Guide began listing the network newscasts as "ABC News," "CBS
News," and "NBC News." Although I feel confident that it was ABC's
late-Saturday-night newscast, what's listed as "News" on Chs. 9 and
11 could have been local; more likely on 9, given the 11:30 time period.
But I'm convinced that on this night ABC News aired at 11:30 PM on 9
and 1:30 AM on 11.

I have noticed in Castleman and Podrazik's "The TV Schedule Book" that
NBC's Saturday newscast is titled "The Huntley-Brinkley Report" from January
1969 to Huntley's retirement; Brooks and Marsh say the same thing. According
to Brooks and Marsh, following Huntley's retirement Brinkley, Chancellor, and
McGee rotated as anchors seven nights a week under the "NBC Nightly News"
title, with Garrick Utley taking over the Saturday and Sunday slots in 1971, and
that's when I first recall the "NBC Saturday (or Sunday) News" title.

But the listing for June 13, 1970, shows "NEWS--Huntley/Brinkley" at 6:30 on
Chs. 2 and 3, and 7 PM on Ch. 41. That's all I had to go on. If I'm mistaken,
my bad.

Looks like I'm the one who's mistaken, bp. The evidence is pretty solid, although it is odd to have the HBR title with other newsmen at the desk. But, then again, NBC was probably trying to trade on a well-known name, and likely didn't want viewers to think that the Saturday newscast was a different kind of program than on weeknights. Case closed.