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Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Saturday, September 9, 1972

From TV Guide, Georgia (Atlanta) Edition:

Today is the day the networks begin their new Saturday-
morning lineups; not all are in place, as ABC has Olympics
coverage from 10:30-12. Also, Ch. 11 will delay "Funky
Phantom" a week from noon to 7:30 AM (it has local news
at noon, the first station I remember doing noon news on
weekends). I will mention the ones that are debuting today.

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

7 AM Astroboy
7:30 Kimba, The White Lion
8 AM Popeye Club
9 AM Pink Panther
9:30 Houndcats (DEBUT, a cat-and-dog detective team)
10 AM Roman Holidays (DEBUT, "All In The Family" set in
ancient Rome and one of two Hanna-Barbera shows
to copy CBS's number-one hit; the other being "Wait
Till Your Father Gets Home," which debuts on Ch. 5
Tuesday at 7:30.)
10:30 The Barkleys (DEBUT, a family of middle-class dogs)
11 AM Sealab 2020 (DEBUT, ecology is the theme of these
underwater adventures--Ross Martin provides one of
the voices)
11:30 Runaround (DEBUT, game show hosted by Paul Winchell
and Jerry Mahoney)
12 N Sports Action Pro-File (Billie Jean King is "pro-filed")
12:30 Sights And Sounds Of Soul (Joe Frazier is interviewed)
1 PM Tarzan
2 PM Baseball Pre-Game Show
2:15 Baseball: either Red Sox-Indians or Cardinals-Mets
5 PM World Series Of Golf (goes just two days, time approximate)
6:30 News (John Pruitt, not yet Ch. 2's co-main anchor)
7 PM Hee Haw (guests: Waylon Jennings and Jessi ("I'm Not Lisa")
Colter)
8 PM Three Cheers For The Redskins (profile of George Allen and
how he took his team to the '72 Super Bowl--BTW, this is
the year the Dolphins will complete modern pro football's
only perfect season)
9 PM Make Mine Red, White And Blue (musical salute to America--
sounds like Lawrence Welk, but this one has Fred Astaire,
the 5th Dimension, Michele Lee, and Bob Crane)
10 PM Miss America Pageant
12 M News (time approximate)
12:30 Movie: "Temple Of A Thousand Lights"
2:30 News
2:35 Movie: "Five Golden Hours"

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

8 AM Underdog
8:30 Jetsons
9 AM Pink Panther
9:30 Houndcats
10 AM Roman Holidays
10:30 The Barkleys
11 AM Sealab 2020
11:30 Runaround
12 N Around The World In 80 Days (DEBUT, Jules
Verne's classic story also tries to teach
geography)
12:30 Talking With A Giant (DEBUT, retooled "Take
A Giant Step" with more discussion--today,
the subject is sexual roles with sex-education
expert Mary Calderone)
1 PM Countdown To Destiny
1:30 Wilburn Brothers
2 PM Baseball Pre-Game Show
2:15 Baseball (see Ch. 2)
5 PM World Series Of Golf (time approximate)
6:30 NBC News (Garrick Utley)
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Three Cheers For The Redskins
9 PM Make Mine Red, White And Blue
10 PM Miss America Pageant
12 M Movie: "The Demon Planet" (time approximate)

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6 AM Video College
6:30 Box 5 RFD
7 AM Metro Forestry
7:30 4-H Club
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
9 AM Amazing Chan And The Chan Clan (DEBUT, sort
of an animated Charlie Chan, only this Chan
has 10 kids)
9:30 Scooby Doo
10:30 Josie And The Pussycats
11 AM Flintstones Comedy Hour
12 N Archie's TV Funnies
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids (DEBUT, arguably
the best Saturday-morning show of the '70s, with
Bill Cosby introducing animated tales of his boyhood
buddies in Philadelphia)
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival ("Stowaway In The Sky,"
Part 1 of 2, France, 1960)
2 PM Wally's Workshop
2:30 Soul Train
3:30 TBA
4 PM Movie: "East Of Eden"
6 PM News (Ken Roberts, not the announcer for "Love Of
Life" and "Secret Storm" but one of the first African-
American local anchors)
6:30 CBS News (Roger Mudd)
7 PM National Geographic (a trip down Idaho's Salmon River)
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Mary Tyler Moore (will move to 9 PM next week as "Bridget
Loves Bernie" takes over the slot)
9 PM The New Dick Van Dyke Show (will move to Sun 9 PM next
week as, ironically, Mary Tyler Moore takes over this slot)
9:30 Arnie (last show; Bob Newhart debuts here next week)
10 PM Mission: Impossible
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Tender Is The Night"
2:15 Wagon Train (the 90-minute episodes)

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

7 PM Jean Shepherd's America (a trip in a trailer home)
7:30 Forsyte Saga (Chapter 25)
8:30 Safari (visits to the Black Hills of South Dakota and
Yosemite Park)
9:30 Hollywood Television Theatre: "Young Marrieds At
Play" (an evening between two couples is wrecked--
sounds a bit like "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?")
sign off 10:30 PM

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

6:30 Science In Action
7 AM Bullwinkle (delay from Sun 11 AM)
7:30 Make A Wish (delay from Sun 11:30 AM)
8 AM H.R. Pufnstuf
8:30 Jackson Five
9 AM The Osmonds (DEBUT, the brothers--in animated
form--travel the world)
9:30 ABC Saturday Superstar Movie (DEBUT, a preview
of "The Brady Kids," which debuts next Saturday
at 10:30 AM)
10:30 Summer Olympics (from Munich: finals of the men's
high jump, 1500 meters, 5000 meters, marathon,
400- and 1600-meter relays; women's discus throw
and 400- and 1600-meter relays)
12 N Singing Convention
1 PM Know Your Bible
1:30 American Bandstand (the Staple Singers do "I'll
Take You There")
2 PM TBA
2:30 Auto Race: the Hoosier Hundred, the world's richest
dirt-track race
4 PM Olympic Games (boxing finals in all events, time approximate)
5 PM College Football: Tennessee-Georgia Tech
8 PM Olympic Games (boxing highlights, track and field, Greco-Roman
wrestling finals, time approximate)
10 PM Star Time
11 PM Movie: "Chamber Of Horrors"
12:30 ABC News (Sam Donaldson)

WQXI (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

7 AM Romper Room
7:30 Adventures In Living
8 AM H.R. Pufnstuf
8:30 Jackson Five
9 AM The Osmonds
9:30 ABC Saturday Superstar Movie
10:30 Olympic Games
12 N News (Jim Rogers)
12:30 Lidsville
1 PM The Monkees (begins ABC reruns with Vito
Scotti as a mad scientist)
1:30 American Bandstand
2 PM TBA
2:30 Auto Race: Hoosier Hundred
4 PM Olympic Games (time approximate)
5 PM NCAA Football: Tennessee-Georgia Tech
8 PM Olympic Games (time approximate)
10 PM Lawrence Welk (his last show of the 1971-72
season and his last on Ch. 11; the theme is
vacation mood music--tomorrow he starts his
new season at a new home in Atlanta: Ch. 2)
11 PM News
11:30 ABC News
11:45 Movie: "White Feather"
1:15 Movie: "Invisible Invaders"
2:30 News

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

7:55 Uncle Hank
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
9 AM Amazing Chan And The Chan Clan
9:30 Scooby Doo
10:30 Josie And The Pussycats
11 AM Flintstones Comedy Hour
12 N Archie's TV Funnies
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM Roller Derby
3 PM Wrestling (from the studio)
4 PM U.S. Open Tennis: women's finals and men's
semifinals
6 PM News (Red Brown)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Lassie
7:30 It Was A Short Summer, Charlie Brown
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 Mary Tyler Moore
9 PM The New Dick Van Dyke Show
9:30 Arnie
10 PM Mission: Impossible
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Bravados"

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/ABC)

7 AM Navy Film
7:30 Georgia TV Monitor
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
9 AM Amazing Chan And The Chan Clan
9:30 Scooby Doo
10:30 Josie And The Pussycats
11 AM Flintstones Comedy Hour
12 N Archie's TV Funnies
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM Movie: "Trouble In The Glen"
3:15 Movie: "Laughing Anne"
4:30 Outdoor Outlines
5 PM NCAA Football: Tennessee-Georgia Tech
8 PM Lawrence Welk (time approximate, season premiere
on the beach at Waikiki-the Music Makers actually
went there)
9 PM The New Dick Van Dyke Show
9:30 Arnie
10 PM Oral Roberts In London
11 PM News
11:20 Movie: "Laura" (please don't compare this 1944 classic
to Lee Radziwill's disastrous performance in a 1968
ABC made-for-TV remake)

WDCO Ch. 15 (WMUM Ch. 29) 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 Mr. Smith And Other Nonsense (William J.
Smith, former poetry consultant to the
Library of Congress, reads children's poems
illustrated with animation.)
2:30 Electric Company
sign off 3 PM

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

7 AM Popeye
7:30 Cartoon Carnival
8 AM Spiderman
8:30 Ultraman
9 AM Little Rascals
9:30 Speed Racer
10 AM Batman
10:30 Flintstones
11 AM Roller Game Of The Week: Eastern Warriors
vs. Western Renegades
1 PM Movie: "The Spy In Black"
3 PM Movie: "Song Of Scheherazade"
5 PM The Prisoner
6 PM Wrestling (don't know if this is GCW or All-South)
7 PM Boxing From The Forum (Raul Soriano vs. Armando
Muniz, welterweights, 10 rounds)
8 PM Naked City
9 PM Movie: "Kiss Of Fire"
11 PM Movie: "Two Lost Worlds" (this 1950 Australian film
was an early job for James Arness)

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)
off air on Saturday

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

8 AM Underdog
8:30 Jetsons
9 AM Pink Panther
9:30 Houndcats
10 AM Roman Holidays
10:30 The Barkleys
11 AM Sealab 2020
11:30 Runaround
12 N Around The World In 80 Days
12:30 Talking With A Giant
1 PM Wrestling (from the studio)
2 PM Baseball Pre-Game Show
2:15 Baseball (see Ch. 2)
5 PM World Series Of Golf (time approximate)
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Three Cheers For The Redskins
9 PM Make Mine Red, White And Blue
10 PM Miss America Pageant
12 M Football Scoreboard (time approximate)
12:30 Saturday Tonight Show (guests: Dionne Warwick,
Karen Valentine, John McGiver, John Phillip Law)

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

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

3:30 Time For Timothy
4 PM Fury
4:30 Earth Lab
5:30 My Friend Flicka
6 PM Championship Bowling
7 PM Hunting And Fishing (bow-and-arrow elephant
hunt in the eastern Congo)
7:30 The Monroes
8:30 Of Lands And Seas
9:30 Tomorrow's Lesson
10 PM 700 Club (to 12)

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

3:30 Cartoons/Three Stooges
6 PM Movie: "The Thing" (the film that first made
James Arness famous)
8 PM Movie: "Angel Face"
10 PM Movie: "Frisco Kid" (James Cagney)
11:30 Movie: "Across The Pacific"
 
I was never a MISSION IMPOSSIBLE fan (CBS 10PM). Oh happy day, the night CAROL BURNETTE took over that time slot. Finally something entertaining to watch.

Her shows are looking better and better with each passing year. Someday variety shows like hers will make a comeback. They were almost as abundant in the 70's as reality shows are today.
 
It should also be noted, since you mentioned Carol Burnett, that the 1972-73 season of The Carol Burnett Show - its sixth - was the first to owned totally by her outright. (The first five seasons of The Carol Burnett Show were and are co-owned by her and producer/packager Bob Banner, per the terms of her ten-year CBS contract signed in 1962 and running through '72. The original production companies for TCBS were Burngood Inc. and Bob Banner Associates; this and the next three seasons were produced by Punkin Inc.; and the last two seasons [1976-78] were by Whacko Inc. The rights issues relating to those first five seasons are why the earliest sketches as seen on the half-hour syndicated Carol Burnett and Friends came from the 1972-73 season - and from my memory, its being first made available to local TV stations in 1977-78 explains why the final season which saw Dick Van Dyke as an unsuccessful replacement for Harvey Korman was not included in the package.)

As for Mission: Impossible - I think it is generally agreed on amongst most M:I fans that the show officially "jumped the shark" once Martin Landau and Barbara Bain left the show, and Paramount Television all but usurped show creator Bruce Geller (and, by 1970, effectively forced him out).
 
bpatrick said:
WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

11:30 Runaround (DEBUT, game show hosted by Paul Winchell
and Jerry Mahoney)

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

11:30 Runaround

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

11:30 Runaround
...FWIW, the special guest on the first "Runaround" was Danny Bonaduce...
 
I guess he was running around the set like an idiot. WOW, 30 minutes of total insanity. Who should we get for the debut show? How about the wacky and talented Danny Bonaduce?
 
"10 AM Roman Holidays (DEBUT, "All In The Family" set in
ancient Rome and one of two Hanna-Barbera shows
to copy CBS's number-one hit; the other being "Wait
Till Your Father Gets Home," which debuts on Ch. 5
Tuesday at 7:30.)
10:30 The Barkleys (DEBUT, a family of middle-class dogs)"

Actually it was "The Barkleys" that was the "All in the Family" ripoff. "Roman Holidays" was done in the manner of "The Flintstones" as a matter of changing a setting----in this case, Ancient Rome, with sundial watches & Roman numerals everywhere.

cd
 
gregg75 said:
I guess he was running around the set like an idiot. WOW, 30 minutes of total insanity. Who should we get for the debut show? How about the wacky and talented Danny Bonaduce?
...hey, lay off Bonaduce. There are dozens of people I'd switch away from on television in order to look at what Danny's doing...
 
cd637299 said:
"10 AM Roman Holidays (DEBUT, "All In The Family" set in
ancient Rome and one of two Hanna-Barbera shows
to copy CBS's number-one hit; the other being "Wait
Till Your Father Gets Home," which debuts on Ch. 5
Tuesday at 7:30.)
10:30 The Barkleys (DEBUT, a family of middle-class dogs)"

Actually it was "The Barkleys" that was the "All in the Family" ripoff. "Roman Holidays" was done in the manner of "The Flintstones" as a matter of changing a setting----in this case, Ancient Rome, with sundial watches & Roman numerals everywhere.

cd

I believe you're right. I was thinking about a time when I was a senior in high school in Birmingham, where "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home" wasn't aired; I'd been to Athens, GA and seen "Wait Till...", which aired on a station from Greenville, SC on cable just before "All In The Family," mentioned it to some friends, and they thought I was talking about "Roman Holidays." The main character on "The Barkleys" was named Arnie Barkley, an obvious play on Archie Bunker. Thanks for the correction.
 
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