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Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Saturday, October 20, 1973

From TV Guide, North Georgia Edition:

WORLD SERIES: Game 6 may be necessary and
would air at 3:45 on Chs. 2, 3, and 41.

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

7 AM Jetsons
7:30 Popeye
9 AM Addams Family (animated)
9:30 Emergency +4
10 AM Butch Cassidy And The Sundance
Kids (animated)
10:30 Star Trek (animated)
11 AM Sigmund And The Sea Monsters
11:30 Pink Panther
12 N News
12:30 Community Dialogue
1 PM This Week In Pro Football
2 PM TBA
5 PM High Chaparral
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (Tom Brokaw)
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Great Northfield,
Minnesota Raid"
11 PM News
11:30 NHL Hockey: Flames-Canadiens
(taped)
2 AM News (time approximate)
2:05 Movie: "Information Received"
sign off 3:45 AM

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

6:30 Agricultural Science In Action
7 AM This Week In Pro Football
8 AM Lidsville
8:30 Inch High Private Eye
9 AM Addams Family (animated)
9:30 Emergency +4
10 AM Butch Cassidy And The Sundance
Kids (animated)
10:30 Star Trek (animated)
11 AM Sigmund And The Sea Monsters
11:30 Pink Panther
12 N Jetsons
12:30 Go!
1 PM Countdown To Destiny
1:30 The Explorers
2 PM Movie: TBA
4:30 Arthur Smith
5 PM Jimmy Dean
5:30 Lawrence Welk
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Great Northfield,
Minnesota Raid"
11 PM Bobby Goldsboro
11:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
sign off 1 AM

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6:10 Video College
6:40 Farm Digest
6:45 Box 5 R.F.D.
7:15 Tree Talks
7:30 4-H Club
8 AM Flintstones
8:30 Bailey's Comets
9 AM New Scooby-Doo Movies: an
animated Cass Elliot in "The
Haunted Candy Factory"
10 AM My Favorite Martians (animated)
10:30 Jeannie (animated)
11 AM Vision On
11:30 Josie And The Pussycats
12 N Everything's Archie
12:30 What's The Energy Crisis All About?
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival: "Tjorven,
Batsman And Moses" (Sweden, '65)
2 PM Family Classics Theater: "Robinson
Crusoe"
3 PM Soul Train
4 PM Movie: "John Goldfarb, Please Come
Home"
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Dan Rather)
7 PM National Geographic
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 M*A*S*H
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Sink The Bismarck!"
sign off 1:45 AM

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

7 PM Discovery
7:30 Fun And Games
8 PM Story Of A Test Pilot
8:30 Towards The Year 2000
9 PM Wilburn Brothers
9:30 Norman Corwin Presents
10 PM Movie: "Hollywood Musicals
Of The '30s"
12 M Dance Theatre Of Harlem
1 AM Bill Cosby On Prejudice
sign off 1:30 AM

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

6:30 Science In Action (don't know if
this is also on Ch. 3)
7 AM Bob Brandy
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Yogi's Gang
9 AM Super Friends
10 AM Lassie's Rescue Rangers
10:30 Goober And The Ghost Chasers
11 AM Brady Kids
11:30 Mission: Magic
12 N American Bandstand
12:30 College Football Preview
12:45 NCAA Football: Tennessee-Alabama
4 PM TBA
5 PM Boxing: Rudi Lubbers vs. Muhammad Ali
(heavyweights, 12 rounds)
6:30 Reasoner Report
7 PM Tarzan
8 PM Partridge Family
8:30 Six Million Dollar Man (PREMIERE)
10 PM Griff (a flop for Lorne Greene)
11 PM Movie: "Mad Monster Party"
12:35 Movie: "The Mummy's Tomb"
2 AM ABC News
sign off 2:15 AM

WQXI (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

6:30 Adventures In Living
7 AM Ebony Beat Journal
7:30 Romper Room
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Yogi's Gang
9 AM Super Friends
10 AM Lassie's Rescue Rangers
10:30 Goober And The Ghost Chasers
11 AM Brady Kids
11:30 Mission: Magic
12 N News
12:30 College Football Preview
12:45 NCAA Football: Tennessee-Alabama
4 PM Daniel Boone (time approximate)
5 PM Boxing
6:30 News
7 PM Pro News Response
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM Partridge Family
8:30 Six Million Dollar Man
10 PM Griff
11 PM News
11:40 ABC News (Bill Beutel)
11:55 Movie: "Walk On The Wild Side"
1:45 Movie: "It's Alive"
3 AM News
sign off after news

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

7:30 Uncle Hank
8 AM Flintstones
8:30 Bailey's Comets
9 AM New Scooby-Doo Movies
10 AM Vision On
10:30 Jeannie
11 AM Speed Buggy
11:30 Josie And The Pussycats
12 N Everything's Archie
12:30 Soul Train
1:30 Roller Derby
2:30 NBA Basketball: Hawks-Suns
5 PM Chattanooga Wrestling (time
approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Treasure Hunt
7:30 That Girl
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 M*A*S*H
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM Movie: "To Catch A Thief"
sign off 12:30 AM

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/ABC)

7 AM Navy Film
7:30 Georgia TV Monitor
8 AM Flintstones
8:30 Bailey's Comets
9 AM New Scooby-Doo Movies
10 AM My Favorite Martians
10:30 Jeannie
11 AM Speed Buggy
11:30 Josie And The Pussycats
12 N Everything's Archie
12:30 College Football Preview
12:45 NCAA Football: Tennessee-Alabama
4 PM The Persuaders (time approximate)
5 PM Calucci's Dept.
5:30 Roll Out!
6 PM Porter Wagoner
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 M*A*S*H
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM Oral Roberts Harvest Festival
11 PM News
11:20 Movie: "House Of Strangers"
sign off 1:10 AM

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

8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11 AM Sesame Street
12 N Electric Company
12:30 Sesame Street
1:30 Electric Company
2 PM Zoom
2:30 Electric Company
3 PM Fashion Focus
3:30 America Be Fit
3:45 Living Better
4 PM Lilias, Yoga And You
4:30 Book Beat
5 PM Erica
5:15 Theonie
5:30 Soul Food
6 PM Garden Show
6:30 Who Is Man?
7 PM Firing Line
8 PM Wall Street Week
8:30 Hospital (documentary)
10 PM The Mystery Of Nefertiti
sign off 11 PM

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

7 AM Popeye
7:30 Cartoon Carnival
8 AM Spiderman
8:30 Speed Racer
9 AM Ultra Man
9:30 Three Stooges
10 AM Abbott And Costello
10:30 Flipper
11 AM Roller Game Of The Week
1 PM Movie: "The Flame Of New Orleans"
2:30 NBA Basketball: Hawks-Suns
5 PM Lassie (time approximate)
5:30 NFL Highlights
6 PM Georgia Championship Wrestling
7 PM All South Wrestling
8 PM That Good Ole Nashville Music
8:30 Wilburn Brothers
9 PM Porter Wagoner
9:30 Buck Owens
10 PM Bill Anderson
10:30 Billy Walker's Country Carnival
11 PM Outdoors
11:30 Open Up (Neal Boortz)
1 AM Movie: "Buy Me That Town"
sign off 2:30 AM

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)

7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11 AM Sesame Street
12 N Electric Company
12:30 Sesame Street
1:30 Electric Company
2 PM Zoom
2:30 Electric Company
3 PM Busy Knitter
3:30 You!
4 PM Chan-Ese Way
4:30 Humanist Alternative
5 PM Book Beat
5:30 Woman
6 PM One Of A Kind
6:30 TBA
7 PM The Advocates
8 PM One Of A Kind
8:30 Dance Theatre Of Harlem
9:30 Bill Cosby On Prejudice
10 PM The Mystery Of Nefertiti
11 PM Birth And Death Of A Star
(one in the heavens, not in
Hollywood)
sign off 11:30 PM

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

8 AM Lidsville
8:30 Inch High Private Eye
9 AM Addams Family (animated)
9:30 Emergency +4
10 AM Butch Cassidy And The Sundance
Kids (animated)
10:30 Star Trek (animated)
11 AM Sigmund And The Sea Monsters
11:30 Pink Panther
12 N Jetsons
12:30 Go!
1 PM Wrestling
2 PM TBA
5 PM Arthur Smith
5:30 That Good Ole Nashville Music
6 PM NFL Highlights
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Great Northfield,
Minnesota Raid"
11 PM Police Surgeon
11:30 Saturday Tonight Show
sign off 1 AM

WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)

off air on Saturday

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

7 AM Mr. Piper
7:30 Fury
8 AM Heckle And Jeckle
8:30 Astronut
9 AM Deputy Dawg
9:30 Mighty Mouse
10 AM Hardy Boys (animated)
10:30 Circus Boy
11 AM Jungle Jim
11:30 Journey To The Center Of
The Earth
12 N Time Tunnel
1 PM Cowtown Rodeo
2 PM Call Of The West (Death Valley
Days selected reruns)
2:30 Trails West (more of the same)
3 PM The Dakotas
4 PM Lone Ranger
4:30 My Friend Flicka
5 PM Batman (2 episodes)
6 PM Dennis The Menace
6:30 Mayberry R.F.D.
7 PM Honeymooners
7:30 Rawhide
8:30 TBA
9 PM Audubon Wildlife Theatre
9:30 The Lesson
10 PM George And Diane Ivey
10:30 New Directions
11 PM Waters Family
sign off after this

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

12 N Movie: "Flamingo Road"
2 PM Gigantor
2:30 Our Gang Comedies
3 PM Jimmy Swaggart
3:30 Wrestling (don't know from where)
4:30 Roller Derby
5:30 Three Stooges
6 PM Rocky And His Friends
6:30 Underdog
7 PM Lassie
7:30 Untamed World
8 PM Movie: "The Fighting 69th"
10 PM Movie: "Flamingo Road"
11:30 Four Star Theatre
sign off 12 M
 
This was the night of the "Saturday Night Massacre" (President Nixon's firing of Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox, followed by resignations of Attorney General Eliot Richardson and Deputy AG William B. Ruckelshaus. News reports on the Cox firing and subsequent resignations interrupted Saturday night prime-time programming).
 
...more accurately, Nixon ordered Richardson to fire Cox, and Richardson resigned rather than doing so; then Nixon ordered Ruckelshaus to fire Cox, and Ruckelshaus refused and resigned as well. Finally, Nixon ordered Solicitor General (elevated to Acting Attorney General by the resignations) Robert Bork to fire Cox, which Bork finally did...
 
ABC got a lot of flack for not carrying any coverage
of the "Saturday Night Massacre" as well--shows the
state of that network's news operation in those days.
 
I remember coming home from a Halloween party (a little early, yes) and finding out about the SNM. That was when a lot of people really realized that Watergate could actually end Nixon's presidency.

Also, "The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid" was one of the best made-for-TV movies EVER! Robert Duvall as Jesse James, Cliff Robertson as Cole Younger...awesome.

Finally, I didn't realize Neal Boortz had been working in Atlanta that long.
 
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