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Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Sunday, August 9, 1964

From TV Guide, Georgia Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

8 AM Singing In Dixie
9 AM Cartoon Cavalcade
10:30 Mighty Hercules (COLOR)
11 AM Church Service
12 N Movie: "Susannah Of The
Mounties" (Shirley Temple)
1:30 Zoorama (anyone know if
Bob Dale was hosting the show
then?)
2 PM Movie: "The McConnell Story"
(COLOR) (Capt. Joseph McConnell,
Jr. was America's first jet ace, in
Korea.)
4 PM Golf: Western Open (Final round)
5 PM And There Be Dragons (time approximate)
Produced by WGTV/8 Athens, it focuses
on the problems a woman fears her first-
born will face.
5:30 Probe (Dr. Albert E. Burke)
6 PM Meet The Press (COLOR) Guest is Sen.
Mike Mansfield, Democrat of Montana,
who was being mentioned as a Democratic
nominee for Vice President (Hubert Humphrey
got the nod.)
6:30 Newsroom
7 PM Bill Dana
7:30 Walt Disney's Wonderful Workd Of Color
(COLOR)
8:30 Grindl (Imogene Coca as a poor man's Hazel--
didn't make anyone forget her work with Sid
Caesar.)
9 PM Bonanza (COLOR)
10 PM DuPont Show Of The Week (COLOR)
11 PM News, Weather
11:20 Movie: "Onionhead" (Andy Griffith in a
movie similar to "No Time For Sergeants,"
only this time he's in the Coast Guard.)
sign off 1:15 AM

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

8 AM Living Word
8:15 Christopher Program
8:30 Gospel Time (this may be a rarity for
the time, TV Gospel Time, with all-black
choirs)
9 AM Herald Of Truth
9:30 It Is Written
10 AM Movie: "Gun Brothers"
11:30 Trails West
12 N Arthur Smith
12:30 Jaycee Question
1 PM Mr. Magoo
1:20 Local News
1:30 Baseball: Dodgers at Milwaukee Braves
4 PM Heaven's Jubilee (time approximate)
5 PM Sunday With Frank Blair (he visits Verdun
as part of the 50th anniversary of World
War I. Oddly, CBS was running a series
about WWI at 6:30 and no CBS affiliate
in this edition carried it.)
6 PM Meet The Press (COLOR)
6:30 Mirror 3
7 PM Bill Dana
7:30 Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color
(COLOR)
8:30 Grindl
9 PM Bonanza (COLOR)
10 PM DuPont Show Of The Week (COLOR)
11 PM Movie: "Appointment For Love"
sign off 12 Midnight

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

7 AM Sacred Heart
7:15 Living Word
7:30 TV Gospel Time
8 AM Gospel Caravan With The
LeFevres
9 AM Oral Roberts
9:30 Faith For Today
10 AM This Is The Life
10:30 Look Up And Live
11 AM Church Service
12 N Camera Three (delay from 11 AM)
12:30 Face The Nation (Sen. Eugene McCarthy,
another potential Democratic vice presidential
candidate, is guest. His showing in the early
1968 primaries may have been Lyndon Johnson's
reason not to seek another term.)
1 PM Amateur Hour (delay from 5:30)
1:30 CBS Sports Spectacular (figure-eight stock-car
racing from Louisville, delay from 5 PM)
2 PM Movie: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (James
Cagney's in this one, believe it or not!)
4 PM Beachcomber (don't think this is the Canadian show)
4:30 Twentieth Century (show that will air at 6 on Chs.
12 and 13)
5 PM Movie: "Stagecoach"
6:55 News, Weather
7 PM Lassie
7:30 My Favorite Martian
8 PM Ed Sullivan (the girls from "Petticoat Junction"
do a Beatles satire--the Ladybugs. Topo Gigio
is also on hand.)
9 PM Celebrity Game (the show that evolved into
"Hollywood Squares")
9:30 Brenner
10 PM Candid Camera (Woody Allen dictates a private
love letter to a public stenographer.)
10:30 What's My Line? (guest panelist is movie director
Joseph Mankiewicz)
11 PM News, Weather
11:20 Movie: "Jezebel" (a 1938 Bette Davis classic that
got overshadowed by "Gone With The Wind")
sign off 1:15 AM

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

7:30 Christopher Program
7:45 Social Security In Action
8 AM Revival Hour
8:30 Gospel Caravan
9:30 Oral Roberts
10 AM Light Unto My Path
11 AM Stage 9
11:30 Cartoon Carnival
1 PM Discovery '64 (first of two shows
from Moscow)
1:30 Issues And Answers (unlike the other
two, the guest here is a Republican:
Dean Burch, chair of the Republican
National Committee)
2 PM Showtime
2:30 Movie: "Frankenstein--1970" (remember
when 1970 was in the future?)
4 PM Adventures In Paradise
5 PM Sea Hunt
5:30 Bold Venture (Humphrey Bogart and Lauren
Bacall starred in the radio version of this show.)
6 PM Man And The Challenge
6:30 Hennesey
7 PM Tombstone Territory
7:30 Empire (COLOR)
8:30 Arrest And Trial
10 PM Movie: "The Dam Busters"
sign off 11:55 PM

WAII (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

8 AM Bob Poole's Gospel Favorites
(I watched this on many a Sunday
morning on WTVD/11 Durham while
getting ready for Sunday school.)
9 AM Choir Of The Week
9:30 Church Service
10:30 This Week In History
11 AM Cartoon Carnival
12 N House Detective (real-estate listings)
1 PM Discovery '64
1:30 Issues And Answers
2 PM Our Changing Community
2:30 The Story
3 PM Stars Of Tomorrow (new-talent show with
Atlanta's answer to Ted Mack, Freddie Miller--
yes, the same guy who worked with Gordon
Solie on Georgia Championship Wrestling. Quite
a few contestants went on to national exposure:
James Brown, Brenda Lee, Jerry Reed, Tommy Roe,
Joe South. One who flunked was my cousin, Jerry
Marlow, who made one record in Nashville which
bombed. End of musical career.)
3:30 Maverick
4:30 Wide World Of Sports (delay from Saturday 5 PM,
Frontier Days rodeo from Cheyenne, WY, is featured)
6 PM Movie: "Seven Were Saved"
7:25 Weather
7:30 Empire (COLOR)
8:30 Arrest And Trial
10 PM Robert Taylor's Detectives
10:30 In My Opinion
11 PM News, Weather
11:20 Movie: "Getting Gertie's Garter"
sign off 12:45 AM

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

8 AM Singing In Dixie
9 AM Children's Gospel Hour
9:30 Summer Semester: "Introduction
To Space Science"
10 AM Lamp Unto My Feet
10:30 Look Up And Live
11 AM Camera Three
11:30 This Is The Life
12 N Pete Smith Comedies
12:15 Baseball: Orioles-Yankees
3 PM Wire Service (time approximate)
4 PM Western Open
5 PM CBS Sports Spectacular (conclusion of
a soccer match between Dukla Prague
and either West Germany or Poland)
5:30 Point Of View
6 PM Twentieth Century
6:30 Mister Ed
7 PM Lassie
7:30 My Favorite Martian
8 PM Ed Sullivan
9 PM Celebrity Game
9:30 Brenner
10 PM Candid Camera
10:30 What's My Line?
11 PM CBS News (Harry Reasoner)
11:15 Movie: "And Now Tomorrow"
sign off 12:40 AM

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/NBC/ABC)

7:30 TV Gospel Time
8 AM This Is The Life
8:30 Singing In Dixie
9:30 Oral Roberts
10 AM Lamp Unto My Feet
10:30 Famous Playhouse
11 AM Church Service
12 N Ronnie Thompson (local music show)
12:15 Baseball: Orioles-Yankees
3:30 Battle Line (time approximate)
4 PM Face The Nation
4:30 Fashion Show
5 PM CBS Sports Spectacular
5:30 Amateur Hour
6 PM Twentieth Century
6:30 My Three Sons (delay from Thursday 8:30)
7 PM Lassie
7:30 My Favorite Martian
8 PM Ed Sullivan
9 PM Celebrity Game
9:30 Brenner
10 PM Candid Camera
10:30 What's My Line?
11 PM CBS News
11:15 Local News, Weather
11:30 Movie: "New Faces"
sign off 1:10 AM
 
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