Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Sunday, October 14, 1962

[bpatrick]

From TV Guide, Georgia Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

8 AM Wally Fowler (gospel music)
9 AM Florida Boys (more of the same)
9:30 Cartoons
10:30 Big Picture
11 AM Church Service
12 N America Wants To Know
12:30 Football Review (with Furman Bisher,
sports editor of the Atlanta Journal)
1 PM Georgia Tech Football: highlights of
Tennessee vs. Tech
2 PM Movie: "Road To Morocco" (Bob Hope
and Bing Crosby)
3:30 Movie: "My Friend Flicka" (the 1943
movie that inspired the series)
5:30 This Week With John Palmer (who later
went to NBC)
6 PM Meet The Press (COLOR) (Gov. Pat Brown
of California, then running against Richard
Nixon--the outcome prompted Nixon to
sulk, "You won't have Nixon to kick around
anymore.")
6:30 McKeever And The Colonel
7 PM Ensign O'Toole
7:30 Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color:
"The Silver Fox and Sam Davenport" (COLOR)
8:30 Car 54, Where Are You?
9 PM Bonanza (COLOR)
10 PM Dinah Shore Special (COLOR)
11 PM News, Weather
11:15 Movie: "Rebecca"
sign off 1:30 AM

WRGP (WRCB) Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

8:30 Living Word
8:45 Christopher Program
9 AM Herald Of Truth
9:30 Faith For Today
10 AM Movie: "El Paso"
12 N Stage 7
12:30 Jaycee Question
1 PM News
1:05 Movies-"Fort Massacre" and second
feature TBA
4:25 News
4:30 This Is NBC News
5 PM Update
5:30 Campaign And The Candidates
6 PM Meet The Press (COLOR)
6:30 McKeever And The Colonel
7 PM Ensign O'Toole
7:30 Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color
(COLOR)
8:30 Car 54, Where Are You?
9 PM Bonanza (COLOR)
10 PM Dinah Shore Special (COLOR)
11 PM Cameo Theater

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

7:45 Sacred Heart
8 AM This Is The Life
8:30 Camera Three
9 AM Oral Roberts
9:30 Faith For Today
10 AM Lamp Unto My Feet
10:30 Look Up And Live
11 AM Church Service
12 N Georgia Football: highlights of
Georgia vs. Clemson
1 PM NFL Football: Redskins-St. Louis
(now Arizona) Cardinals
4 PM Man And The Challenge (time approximate)
4:30 Twentieth Century (on the Battle of Monte
Cassino--same show airs at 6 on Chs. 12, 13)
5 PM LeFevres (gospel music)
5:30 Movie: "The Vanquished"
6:55 Weather
7 PM Lassie
7:30 Dennis The Menace
8 PM Ed Sullivan
9 PM Real McCoys
9:30 GE True (Jack Webb hosts)
10 PM Candid Camera
10:30 What's My Line?
11 PM News, Weather
11:15 Suspicion
sign off 12:15 AM

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (NET)
off air on Sunday

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

8 AM Revival Hour
8:30 Gospel Caravan
9:30 Christopher Program
9:45 Social Security In Action
10 AM Movie: "Shine On, Harvest Moon"
12 N Funtime
12:30 Oral Roberts
1 PM Know Your Bible
1:30 Adlai Stevenson Reports
2 PM League Of Women Voters
2:30 AFL Football: New York Titans (now Jets)
at Houston Oilers (now Tennessee Titans)
5:15 All-Pro Scoreboard (time approximate)
5:30 King Of Diamonds (Broderick Crawford's
unsuccessful followup to "Highway Patrol")
6 PM Miami Undercover
6:30 Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years
7 PM Father Knows Best
7:30 Jetsons (COLOR)
8 PM ABC Movie: "The Horse Soldiers" (COLOR)
10 PM Voice Of Firestone
10:30 Howard K. Smith
11 PM Medic
sign off 11:30 PM

WAII (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

8 AM Sunday Morning Sing
8:55 Church News (wrestling announcer Ed Capral
reports happenings in Atlanta-area churches)
9 AM Cadle Tabernacle
9:30 Church Service
10:15 Light Time
10:30 Cartoons
12 N House Detective (real estate)
1 PM TBA
1:30 Gospel Favorites With Warren Roberts
2:30 AFL Football: New York Titans-Houston Oilers
5:15 All-Pro Scoreboard (time approximate)
5:30 Scoreboard
6 PM Star Performance
6:30 Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years
7 PM Father Knows Best
7:30 Jetsons (COLOR)
8 PM ABC Movie: "The Horse Soldiers" (COLOR)
10 PM Voice Of Firestone
10:30 Howard K. Smith
11 PM News, Weather
11:15 Movie: "Frontier Gal"

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

9 AM Children's Gospel Hour
9:30 Big Picture
10 AM Lamp Unto My Feet
10:30 Look Up And Live
11 AM Camera Three
11:30 Washington Report (replaced "Face
The Nation" for a couple of years)
12 N This Is The Life
12:30 Industry On Parade
12:45 Pro Football Kickoff (Tom Brookshier
hosts)
1 PM NFL Football: Redskins-Cardinals
3:30 Movie: "The Forest Rangers" (not to be
confused with the syndicated series)
(time approximate)
5 PM Point Of View
5:30 GE College Bowl (University of California-
Berkeley vs. Lafayette College of Easton, PA)
6 PM Twentieth Century
6:30 Password (guests are Mitch "Sing Along" Miller
and Carol Burnett)
7 PM Lassie
7:30 Dennis The Menace
8 PM Ed Sullivan
9 PM Real McCoys
9:30 GE True
10 PM Candid Camera
10:30 What's My Line?
11 PM CBS News (Eric Sevareid)
11:15 Movie: "The Emperor Waltz"

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

8 AM Gospel Song Time
8:30 Singing In Dixie
9 AM Sego Brothers (more gospel music)
9:30 Movie: "Big Money"
11 AM Mabel White Baptist Church
12 N Rescue 8
12:30 Bobby Lee Smith (some kind of local
music show)
12:45 Pro Football Kickoff
1 PM NFL Football: Redskins-Cardinals
4 PM This Is The Answer (time approximate)
4:30 Oral Roberts
5 PM Amateur Hour (from the Seattle World's Fair)
5:30 GE College Bowl
6 PM Twentieth Century
6:30 News Special
7 PM Lassie
7:30 Dennis The Menace
8 PM Ed Sullivan
9 PM Real McCoys
9:30 GE True
10 PM Candid Camera
10:30 What's My Line?
11 PM CBS News
11:15 Local News, Weather
11:30 Movie: "Here Come The WAVES"

 

[oldiesfan6479]

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)
4:30 Twentieth Century (on the Battle of Monte
Cassino--same show airs at 6 on Chs. 12, 13)

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)
6 PM Twentieth Century

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/NBC/ABC)
6 PM Twentieth Century

OK, how did WAGA do it? It should be a week behind. Even if they
somehow purloined the EDT/CDT feed, that wouldn't come down until
5 EST.

In previous WAGA discussions circa 1962, it was noted that they did
get a special feed of Perry Mason to record during closed-circuit time
earlier in the week, so it could air Saturday at 7 (same night) ahead
of the regular feed at 7:30.

Did they get the same courtesy for 20th Century? Whereas Mason was
a prime time sponsored drama, Century was a fringe time documentary
(and perhaps sustaining as well).

 

[mleach]

From TV Guide, Georgia Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

8:30 Car 54, Where Are You?

WRGP (WRCB) Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

8:30 Car 54, Where Are You?

As funny as it was weren't there a number of southern TV markets back then who refused to air "Car 54..Where Are You"? Not so much as the show being "bad" or whatever but moreso it was the amount of ethnic humor on Car 54. I mean really just how many people in 1962 Carolina & Georgia really knew what a bar mitzvah is? Atlanta yes but the other cities and towns..maybe not.

It was more/less the same with Milton Berle in the 50s. I can recall reading in one of my trivia books that claimed that Milton just couldn't do well in the ratings in either Atlanta and Charlotte back then mainly because the Jewish humor was something many locals in those two cities just didn't understand.

 

[Stanislav]

From TV Guide, Georgia Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

8:30 Car 54, Where Are You?

WRGP (WRCB) Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

8:30 Car 54, Where Are You?

As funny as it was weren't there a number of southern TV markets back then who refused to air "Car 54..Where Are You"? Not so much as the show being "bad" or whatever but moreso it was the amount of ethnic humor on Car 54. I mean really just how many people in 1962 Carolina & Georgia really knew what a bar mitzvah is? Atlanta yes but the other cities and towns..maybe not.

It was more/less the same with Milton Berle in the 50s. I can recall reading in one of my trivia books that claimed that Milton just couldn't do well in the ratings in either Atlanta and Charlotte back then mainly because the Jewish humor was something many locals in those two cities just didn't understand.

In other words, the Borscht Belt didn't translate well in the Bible Belt. <s>

 

[bpatrick]

I lived in Raleigh in those days and watched Car 54,
Where Are You? on Sunday nights until WRAL switched
from NBC to ABC (which had just happened about two
months before these listings). IIRC, every other NBC
affiliate in North Carolina carried the show.

WAGA may have been allowed to pre-tape The Twentieth
Century, as it did Perry Mason and Rawhide. But the show
was not sustaining; it was sponsored by Prudential.

 

[mleach]

In other words, the Borscht Belt didn't translate well in the Bible Belt. <s>

And chances are they wouldn't "get" Bea Pons ( Lucille Toody on Car 54 ) either or at least what she did 17 years later after Car 54 had ended..

In 1979 as a "joke" Bea did the combo soft core porno/graphic horror flick "Mother's Day". How bad was this movie? In one scene Bea's son was raping a woman while screaming "oohh oohh..DO YOU MIND..DO YOU MIND?" while Bea who is right there watching the whole thing says "...go for it Gunther !! " even though the same son was called "Ike" in the movie. Bea Pons kept calling him Gunther !!! Ah It was quite clear there wasn't a script to this mess.

"Mother's Day" didn't do well at first at the box office but once Car 54 became a hit on Nick@Nite in the late 80's and more and more people were asking "whatever became of Bea Pons ?", well as a result plans were to re-release "Mother's Day". That spooked Nick@Nite, enought to move Car 54 to HA !! The Comedy Network which later became of course Comedy Central.

 

[bpatrick]

While I don't recall any pre-emptions of "Car 54,
Where Are You?" in my part of the South, places
like Birmingham may have been a different story.
But Berle did incredibly poorly in the South; in
Charlotte, his rating was less than 2 while "Death
Valley Days" recorded ratings (not shares) in the 50s.
And in Atlanta, I know Bishop Sheen on WAGA used
to beat Berle on WSB head-to-head, and by 1955 Berle
was getting it from both sides (as he was nationally),
with Phil Silvers on WAGA and Cheyenne and Wyatt
Earp on Ch. 11.

One of Berle's former writers once said the Jewish humor
had a lot to do with Uncle Miltie's failure to crack the South;
he'd use words like "hamentashen" (a kind of cake) that went
over the heads of most Southerners. And the creator of "Car
54," Nat Hiken, was also Jewish and the creator of Phil Silvers'
Bilko show. Yet that show did well in the South in first-run and
in reruns--maybe it was the emphasis on Bilko's cons rather than
Silvers' Jewishness.