From TV Guide, Georgia Edition:
WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)
7 AM Spade And Hoe
7:30 Life Of Jesus
8:30 Davey And Goliath
8:45 Our Gang
9:15 Dick Tracy cartoons
10 AM Shari Lewis (COLOR)
10:30 King Leonardo (COLOR)
11 AM Fury
11:30 Lone Ranger
12 N True Story
12:30 Detective's Diary (reruns of
"Saber Of London"--I always
found it strange to see two
drama series back to back at
this time on Saturdays)
1 PM Superman
1:30 Baseball: Giants-Cardinals
4:30 Movie: "Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout"
(time approximate)
6 PM Speedway International
6:30 News, Weather
6:45 Eyewitness (not the CBS Friday-night
series, nor "Eyewitness News," which
both Chs. 11 and 5 used much later)
7 PM Highway Patrol
7:30 Bonanza (COLOR) (it would move to
Sundays at 9 in the fall and begin working
its way to number one)
8:30 The Tall Man
9 PM The Deputy
9:30 The Nation's Future: "How Free Should The
Press Be?" (I'd understand if any NBC stations
with secondary ABC affiliations chose Lawrence
Welk and boxing from 9 to 11 EDT.)
10:30 Movie: "Hello, Frisco, Hello"
WRGP (WRCB) Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)
7:30 Movie: "Southward Ho"
8:30 Social Security In Action
8:45 Davey And Goliath
9 AM Invisible Man
9:30 Pip The Piper (COLOR)
10 AM Shari Lewis (COLOR)
10:30 King Leonardo (COLOR)
11 AM University Of Tennessee Extension
Service
11:15 Health Council
11:30 Lone Ranger
12 N True Story
12:30 Detective's Diary
1 PM Championship Bowling
2 PM Movie: "Under Suspicion"
3 PM Cimarron City
4 PM Riverboat
5 PM Overland Trail
6 PM Chattanooga Wrestling
7:30 Bonanza (COLOR)
8:30 The Tall Man
9 PM The Deputy
9:30 The Nation's Future
10:30 Movie: "Peril In The Night"
12 M Movie: "The Invisible Man's Revenge"
WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)
7:30 Cartoons
8 AM 4-H Hour
8:30 Hopalong Cassidy
9 AM Bugs Bunny (the ABC shows wouldn't
begin airing on Saturday mornings until
the spring of 1962)
9:30 Captain Kangaroo
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11 AM Magic Land Of Allakazam
11:30 Roy Rogers
12 N Sky King
12:30 Cartoons
1:25 Baseball: Dodgers-Reds (Dizzy Dean and
Pee Wee Reese call the game)
4:30 Wrestling From Buffalo (time approximate)
5:30 Californians
6 PM Grand Ole Opry
6:30 Twentieth Century (delay from Sunday 6:30)
7 PM Perry Mason (oddly, the same episode the
rest of the country will see at 7:30)
8 PM Man And The Challenge
8:30 Checkmate
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10 PM Gunsmoke (will expand to an hour in the fall)
10:30 Tightrope! (a pre-Mannix Mike Connors)
11 PM Movie: "The Story Of GI Joe"
WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (NET)
off air on Saturday
WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)
12 N Popeye
12:15 Light Time
12:30 Contrails
1 PM Better Agriculture
1:30 Boots And Saddles
2 PM Hawkeye
2:30 Ramar Of The Jungle
3 PM Movie: "The Wyoming Bandit"
4 PM House Detective (real-estate listings,
seen Sundays on Ch. 11 at the time)
5 PM Chicago Wrestling
6 PM Mull's Singing Convention
7 PM Death Valley Days
7:30 Inner Sanctum
8 PM Lawrence Welk (Welk and the fights
aired live at 9 and 10 PM EDT, respectively,
and this area was on EST, not changing
until 1967.)
9 PM Boxing: Yama Bahama vs. Joe Gonzalez,
middleweights, 10 rounds, from Madison
Square Garden
9:45 Make That Spare (time approximate)
10 PM Roaring 20's (aired at 7:30 EDT)
11 PM Indiana Jazz Festival (second of three
broadcasts from Evansville)
WLW-A (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)
7 AM Farm Fare
7:30 Country Style, U.S.A.
7:45 Cartoons
9 AM Cowboy Town
9:30 Jet Jackson
10 AM Rocky Jones, Space Ranger
10:30 Comedy Time
11 AM Three Stooges
12:30 Ramar Of The Jungle
1 PM Movie: "Army Surgeon"
2:20 Movie: "Bachelor Mother" ("Bachelor
Father" was headed to ABC and Ch.
11 in the fall, BTW)
3:40 Movie: "The Return Of Wildfire"
(anything to do with a 1975 song?)
5 PM Robin Hood
5:30 Sgt. Preston Of The Yukon
6 PM Live Atlanta Wrestling
7:30 Leave It To Beaver (8:30 EDT)
8 PM Lawrence Welk
9 PM Boxing
9:45 Make That Spare (time approximate)
10 PM Roaring 20's
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:10 Movie: "The Bells Of St. Mary's"
WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)
9:30 Captain Kangaroo
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11 AM Magic Land Of Allakazam
11:30 Roy Rogers
12 N Sky King
12:30 CBS News (Robert Trout) (the
first half-hour network newscast)
1 PM Cartoons
1:25 Baseball: Dodgers-Reds
4:30 26 Men (time approximate)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports: National AAU
Track And Field Championships (pre-
empted on Ch. 9)
7 PM TBA
7:30 Perry Mason
8:30 Checkmate
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10 PM Gunsmoke
10:30 Movie: "Assignment In Brittany"
WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/NBC/ABC)
7:30 Kit Carson
8 AM Superman
8:30 Davey And Goliath
9 AM Pinocchio
9:30 Captain Kangaroo
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11 AM Magic Land Of Allakazam
11:30 Cisco Kid
12 N Sky King
12:30 CBS News
1 PM Riders Of The Purple Sage
1:10 Retrospect
1:25 Baseball: Dodgers-Reds
4:30 Macon Wrestling (time approximate)
5:30 Playhouse (nothing else given)
6 PM Peter Gunn (delay from Monday 10:30)
6:30 The Law And Mr. Jones (delay from
Friday 10:30)
7 PM Robert Taylor's Detectives (delay
from Friday 10 PM)
(all three of these shows were on ABC)
7:30 Perry Mason
8:30 Checkmate
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10 PM Gunsmoke
10:30 Manhunt
11 PM Lawrence Welk
12 M Screen Directors' Playhouse
WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)
7 AM Spade And Hoe
7:30 Life Of Jesus
8:30 Davey And Goliath
8:45 Our Gang
9:15 Dick Tracy cartoons
10 AM Shari Lewis (COLOR)
10:30 King Leonardo (COLOR)
11 AM Fury
11:30 Lone Ranger
12 N True Story
12:30 Detective's Diary (reruns of
"Saber Of London"--I always
found it strange to see two
drama series back to back at
this time on Saturdays)
1 PM Superman
1:30 Baseball: Giants-Cardinals
4:30 Movie: "Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout"
(time approximate)
6 PM Speedway International
6:30 News, Weather
6:45 Eyewitness (not the CBS Friday-night
series, nor "Eyewitness News," which
both Chs. 11 and 5 used much later)
7 PM Highway Patrol
7:30 Bonanza (COLOR) (it would move to
Sundays at 9 in the fall and begin working
its way to number one)
8:30 The Tall Man
9 PM The Deputy
9:30 The Nation's Future: "How Free Should The
Press Be?" (I'd understand if any NBC stations
with secondary ABC affiliations chose Lawrence
Welk and boxing from 9 to 11 EDT.)
10:30 Movie: "Hello, Frisco, Hello"
WRGP (WRCB) Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)
7:30 Movie: "Southward Ho"
8:30 Social Security In Action
8:45 Davey And Goliath
9 AM Invisible Man
9:30 Pip The Piper (COLOR)
10 AM Shari Lewis (COLOR)
10:30 King Leonardo (COLOR)
11 AM University Of Tennessee Extension
Service
11:15 Health Council
11:30 Lone Ranger
12 N True Story
12:30 Detective's Diary
1 PM Championship Bowling
2 PM Movie: "Under Suspicion"
3 PM Cimarron City
4 PM Riverboat
5 PM Overland Trail
6 PM Chattanooga Wrestling
7:30 Bonanza (COLOR)
8:30 The Tall Man
9 PM The Deputy
9:30 The Nation's Future
10:30 Movie: "Peril In The Night"
12 M Movie: "The Invisible Man's Revenge"
WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)
7:30 Cartoons
8 AM 4-H Hour
8:30 Hopalong Cassidy
9 AM Bugs Bunny (the ABC shows wouldn't
begin airing on Saturday mornings until
the spring of 1962)
9:30 Captain Kangaroo
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11 AM Magic Land Of Allakazam
11:30 Roy Rogers
12 N Sky King
12:30 Cartoons
1:25 Baseball: Dodgers-Reds (Dizzy Dean and
Pee Wee Reese call the game)
4:30 Wrestling From Buffalo (time approximate)
5:30 Californians
6 PM Grand Ole Opry
6:30 Twentieth Century (delay from Sunday 6:30)
7 PM Perry Mason (oddly, the same episode the
rest of the country will see at 7:30)
8 PM Man And The Challenge
8:30 Checkmate
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10 PM Gunsmoke (will expand to an hour in the fall)
10:30 Tightrope! (a pre-Mannix Mike Connors)
11 PM Movie: "The Story Of GI Joe"
WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (NET)
off air on Saturday
WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)
12 N Popeye
12:15 Light Time
12:30 Contrails
1 PM Better Agriculture
1:30 Boots And Saddles
2 PM Hawkeye
2:30 Ramar Of The Jungle
3 PM Movie: "The Wyoming Bandit"
4 PM House Detective (real-estate listings,
seen Sundays on Ch. 11 at the time)
5 PM Chicago Wrestling
6 PM Mull's Singing Convention
7 PM Death Valley Days
7:30 Inner Sanctum
8 PM Lawrence Welk (Welk and the fights
aired live at 9 and 10 PM EDT, respectively,
and this area was on EST, not changing
until 1967.)
9 PM Boxing: Yama Bahama vs. Joe Gonzalez,
middleweights, 10 rounds, from Madison
Square Garden
9:45 Make That Spare (time approximate)
10 PM Roaring 20's (aired at 7:30 EDT)
11 PM Indiana Jazz Festival (second of three
broadcasts from Evansville)
WLW-A (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)
7 AM Farm Fare
7:30 Country Style, U.S.A.
7:45 Cartoons
9 AM Cowboy Town
9:30 Jet Jackson
10 AM Rocky Jones, Space Ranger
10:30 Comedy Time
11 AM Three Stooges
12:30 Ramar Of The Jungle
1 PM Movie: "Army Surgeon"
2:20 Movie: "Bachelor Mother" ("Bachelor
Father" was headed to ABC and Ch.
11 in the fall, BTW)
3:40 Movie: "The Return Of Wildfire"
(anything to do with a 1975 song?)
5 PM Robin Hood
5:30 Sgt. Preston Of The Yukon
6 PM Live Atlanta Wrestling
7:30 Leave It To Beaver (8:30 EDT)
8 PM Lawrence Welk
9 PM Boxing
9:45 Make That Spare (time approximate)
10 PM Roaring 20's
11 PM News, Sports, Weather
11:10 Movie: "The Bells Of St. Mary's"
WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)
9:30 Captain Kangaroo
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11 AM Magic Land Of Allakazam
11:30 Roy Rogers
12 N Sky King
12:30 CBS News (Robert Trout) (the
first half-hour network newscast)
1 PM Cartoons
1:25 Baseball: Dodgers-Reds
4:30 26 Men (time approximate)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports: National AAU
Track And Field Championships (pre-
empted on Ch. 9)
7 PM TBA
7:30 Perry Mason
8:30 Checkmate
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10 PM Gunsmoke
10:30 Movie: "Assignment In Brittany"
WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/NBC/ABC)
7:30 Kit Carson
8 AM Superman
8:30 Davey And Goliath
9 AM Pinocchio
9:30 Captain Kangaroo
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11 AM Magic Land Of Allakazam
11:30 Cisco Kid
12 N Sky King
12:30 CBS News
1 PM Riders Of The Purple Sage
1:10 Retrospect
1:25 Baseball: Dodgers-Reds
4:30 Macon Wrestling (time approximate)
5:30 Playhouse (nothing else given)
6 PM Peter Gunn (delay from Monday 10:30)
6:30 The Law And Mr. Jones (delay from
Friday 10:30)
7 PM Robert Taylor's Detectives (delay
from Friday 10 PM)
(all three of these shows were on ABC)
7:30 Perry Mason
8:30 Checkmate
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10 PM Gunsmoke
10:30 Manhunt
11 PM Lawrence Welk
12 M Screen Directors' Playhouse