From TV Guide, Georgia (Atlanta) Edition:
WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)
8 AM Wally Fowler (gospel music)
9 AM Florida Boys (more gospel music)
9:30 Cartoons
10:30 Big Picture
11 AM Church Service
12 N NFL Highlights (Jim Leaming)
12:30 Football Review (Atlanta Journal sports editor
Furman Bisher)
1 PM Georgia Tech Football (highlights of Tech-Tulane)
2 PM Movie: "Return Of The Frontiersman"
3:30 Movie: "Tarzan, The Ape Man" (Johnny Weissmuller's
debut as Tarzan, also watch for Neil Hamilton, Commissioner
Gordon on "Batman," from '32)
5:30 This Week With John Palmer (a corn mill built in Cobb County
in 1850; Palmer went on to some success at NBC)
6 PM Meet The Press (the candidates for the junior Senate seat
from Massachusetts, one of whom was Ted Kennedy, COLOR)
6:30 McKeever And The Colonel
7 PM Ensign O'Toole
7:30 Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color: "Sammy, The Way-Out
Seal," part 1 of 2 (COLOR)
8:30 Car 54, Where Are You?
9 PM Bonanza (COLOR)
10 PM The River Nile (James Mason is our guide on a trip down the world's
longest river, COLOR)
11 PM Newsroom (Don Stewart, not the same one who played Mike Bauer
for several years on "Guiding Light")
11:15 Movie: "Rebel Without A Cause" (along with Brando's "The Wild One,"
this 1955 James Dean classic probably scared a lot of adults about
the behavior of young people)
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: "A Woman's Devotion"
12 N Stage 7
12:30 Jaycee Question
1 PM Local News
1:05 Movies: "The Dalton Girls" and "Captain China"
4:25 Local News
4:30 This Is NBC News (report on a French referendum that
the president be elected by direct popular vote; Ray
Scherer hosts)
5 PM Campaign And The Candidates (the California gubernatorial
race between Pat Brown and Richard Nixon--the one in which,
after his loss, Nixon said, "You won't have Nixon to kick around
anymore." Yeah, right.)
5:30 Bullwinkle (COLOR)
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 The River Nile (COLOR)
11 PM Cameo Theater
WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)
7:45 Sacred Heart
8 AM This Is The Life
8:30 Camera Three (the Bill Evans jazz trio, delay from 11 AM)
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 Man And The Challenge
12:30 Washington Report (unsuccessful replacement for "Face
The Nation," which would return to stay in the fall of '63)
1 PM Georgia Football (highlights of Georgia-Kentucky)
2 PM NFL Football: Packers-(Baltimore) Colts
4:20 Football Scoreboard (time approximate)
4:30 Twentieth Century (the early years of the late UN Secretary-
General Dag Hammarskjold, says it's the same program that
airs in pattern on CBS at 6)
5 PM LeFevres (gospel music)
5:30 Movie: "The King And Four Queens"
6:55 Weather (Alan Smith)
7 PM Lassie
7:30 Dennis The Menace
8 PM Ed Sullivan (Steve Allen, Ed's onetime competitor; Louis Prima,
Gia Malone, and Sam Butera and the Witnesses; Jackie Mason
(the "finger" incident was two years later); Sergio Franchi;
singer-dancer Noelle Adam; sound-impressionist Luco Navarro)
9 PM Real McCoys
9:30 GE True (Jack Webb hosts)
10 PM Candid Camera (people react to wrong-way automatic doors,
children sell sour lemonade to passers-by, a kangaroo is left
in a service station)
10:30 What's My Line? (Peter Ustinov joins Arlene, Dorothy, and Bennett)
11 PM News, Weather
11:15 Suspicion
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: "Air Force"
12 N Funtime
12:30 Oral Roberts
1 PM Know Your Bible
1:30 Politics '62 (Bill Shadel looks at Congressional
races in the Midwest.)
2 PM Directions '63 (Bill Shadel is still on the job,
showing how Christianity is used to fight Communism--
no disrespect intended for either Shadel or the program,
but it is noteworthy he is on two ABC News-produced
programs airing back-to-back.)
2:30 Adlai Stevenson Reports
3 PM League Of Women Voters
3:30 AFL Football: (Dallas) Texans-Houston Oilers (ironically, the
Dallas Texans became the Kansas City Chiefs, while a new
team called the Texans was established in Houston when the
Oilers became the Tennessee Titans)
6:15 All Pro Scoreboard (time approximate)
6:30 Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years
7 PM Father Knows Best
7:30 The Jetsons (COLOR)
8 PM ABC Movie: "I Bury The Living"
10 PM Voice Of Firestone (virtual "Firestone" regular Brian Sullivan,
Mary Curtis-Verona of the Metropolitan Opera, nightclub
singer Lisa Kirk, Arthur Fiedler conducting)
10:30 Howard K. Smith
11 PM Medic (the possible after-effects of an H-bomb attack)
WAII (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)
8 AM Sunday Morning Sing
8:55 Church News (Ed Capral, better known as the longtime voice
of Atlanta wrestling)
9 AM Cadle Tabernacle (I think this is a carryover from 11's having
been a "WLW" station, since WLWT Cincinnati carried this
for years.)
9:30 Church Service
10:15 Light Time
10:30 Cartoons
11:30 International Zone
11:45 Builders' Showcase
12 N House Detective (houses for sale in the Atlanta area)
1 PM Film Feature
1:30 Gospel Favorites (says "Roberts," so I think this is Warren
Roberts, who did this same kind of program on Ch. 46 in
the '70s and '80s)
2:30 Movie: "North To Klondike" (not to be confused with "North
To Alaska," which came in 1960--eighteen years after this
one with Broderick Crawford)
3:30 AFL Football: Texans-Oilers
6:15 All Pro Scoreboard (time approximate)
6:30 Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years
7 PM Father Knows Best
7:30 The Jetsons (COLOR)
8 PM ABC Movie: "I Bury The Living"
10 PM Voice Of Firestone
10:30 Howard K. Smith
11 PM News, Weather
11:15 Movie: "Because Of Him"
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 This Is The Life
12 N Movie: "Thrill Of A Romance"
1:45 Pro Football Kickoff (Tom Brookshier looks at the
Washington Redskins.)
2 PM NFL Football: Packers-Colts
4:30 Mantovani (time approximate)
5 PM Point Of View
5:30 GE College Bowl (Brooklyn College vs. the University
of Detroit)
6 PM Twentieth Century
6:30 Password (Jane Powell, Red Buttons)
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: "Rachel And The Stranger"
WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/NBC/ABC)
8 AM Gospel Song Time
8:30 Singing In Dixie
9:30 Movie: "The Black Tent"
11 AM Mabel White Baptist Church
12 N Rescue 8
12:30 Washington Report
1 PM Oral Roberts
1:30 Bobby Lee Smith (music)
1:45 Pro Football Kickoff
2 PM NFL Football: Packers-Colts
5 PM Ted Mack's Amateur Hour (eight semifinal winners
compete for a $2000 scholarship)
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: "Beau Geste" (Gary Cooper in one of
his most famous roles.)
WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)
8 AM Wally Fowler (gospel music)
9 AM Florida Boys (more gospel music)
9:30 Cartoons
10:30 Big Picture
11 AM Church Service
12 N NFL Highlights (Jim Leaming)
12:30 Football Review (Atlanta Journal sports editor
Furman Bisher)
1 PM Georgia Tech Football (highlights of Tech-Tulane)
2 PM Movie: "Return Of The Frontiersman"
3:30 Movie: "Tarzan, The Ape Man" (Johnny Weissmuller's
debut as Tarzan, also watch for Neil Hamilton, Commissioner
Gordon on "Batman," from '32)
5:30 This Week With John Palmer (a corn mill built in Cobb County
in 1850; Palmer went on to some success at NBC)
6 PM Meet The Press (the candidates for the junior Senate seat
from Massachusetts, one of whom was Ted Kennedy, COLOR)
6:30 McKeever And The Colonel
7 PM Ensign O'Toole
7:30 Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color: "Sammy, The Way-Out
Seal," part 1 of 2 (COLOR)
8:30 Car 54, Where Are You?
9 PM Bonanza (COLOR)
10 PM The River Nile (James Mason is our guide on a trip down the world's
longest river, COLOR)
11 PM Newsroom (Don Stewart, not the same one who played Mike Bauer
for several years on "Guiding Light")
11:15 Movie: "Rebel Without A Cause" (along with Brando's "The Wild One,"
this 1955 James Dean classic probably scared a lot of adults about
the behavior of young people)
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: "A Woman's Devotion"
12 N Stage 7
12:30 Jaycee Question
1 PM Local News
1:05 Movies: "The Dalton Girls" and "Captain China"
4:25 Local News
4:30 This Is NBC News (report on a French referendum that
the president be elected by direct popular vote; Ray
Scherer hosts)
5 PM Campaign And The Candidates (the California gubernatorial
race between Pat Brown and Richard Nixon--the one in which,
after his loss, Nixon said, "You won't have Nixon to kick around
anymore." Yeah, right.)
5:30 Bullwinkle (COLOR)
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 The River Nile (COLOR)
11 PM Cameo Theater
WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)
7:45 Sacred Heart
8 AM This Is The Life
8:30 Camera Three (the Bill Evans jazz trio, delay from 11 AM)
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 Man And The Challenge
12:30 Washington Report (unsuccessful replacement for "Face
The Nation," which would return to stay in the fall of '63)
1 PM Georgia Football (highlights of Georgia-Kentucky)
2 PM NFL Football: Packers-(Baltimore) Colts
4:20 Football Scoreboard (time approximate)
4:30 Twentieth Century (the early years of the late UN Secretary-
General Dag Hammarskjold, says it's the same program that
airs in pattern on CBS at 6)
5 PM LeFevres (gospel music)
5:30 Movie: "The King And Four Queens"
6:55 Weather (Alan Smith)
7 PM Lassie
7:30 Dennis The Menace
8 PM Ed Sullivan (Steve Allen, Ed's onetime competitor; Louis Prima,
Gia Malone, and Sam Butera and the Witnesses; Jackie Mason
(the "finger" incident was two years later); Sergio Franchi;
singer-dancer Noelle Adam; sound-impressionist Luco Navarro)
9 PM Real McCoys
9:30 GE True (Jack Webb hosts)
10 PM Candid Camera (people react to wrong-way automatic doors,
children sell sour lemonade to passers-by, a kangaroo is left
in a service station)
10:30 What's My Line? (Peter Ustinov joins Arlene, Dorothy, and Bennett)
11 PM News, Weather
11:15 Suspicion
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: "Air Force"
12 N Funtime
12:30 Oral Roberts
1 PM Know Your Bible
1:30 Politics '62 (Bill Shadel looks at Congressional
races in the Midwest.)
2 PM Directions '63 (Bill Shadel is still on the job,
showing how Christianity is used to fight Communism--
no disrespect intended for either Shadel or the program,
but it is noteworthy he is on two ABC News-produced
programs airing back-to-back.)
2:30 Adlai Stevenson Reports
3 PM League Of Women Voters
3:30 AFL Football: (Dallas) Texans-Houston Oilers (ironically, the
Dallas Texans became the Kansas City Chiefs, while a new
team called the Texans was established in Houston when the
Oilers became the Tennessee Titans)
6:15 All Pro Scoreboard (time approximate)
6:30 Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years
7 PM Father Knows Best
7:30 The Jetsons (COLOR)
8 PM ABC Movie: "I Bury The Living"
10 PM Voice Of Firestone (virtual "Firestone" regular Brian Sullivan,
Mary Curtis-Verona of the Metropolitan Opera, nightclub
singer Lisa Kirk, Arthur Fiedler conducting)
10:30 Howard K. Smith
11 PM Medic (the possible after-effects of an H-bomb attack)
WAII (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)
8 AM Sunday Morning Sing
8:55 Church News (Ed Capral, better known as the longtime voice
of Atlanta wrestling)
9 AM Cadle Tabernacle (I think this is a carryover from 11's having
been a "WLW" station, since WLWT Cincinnati carried this
for years.)
9:30 Church Service
10:15 Light Time
10:30 Cartoons
11:30 International Zone
11:45 Builders' Showcase
12 N House Detective (houses for sale in the Atlanta area)
1 PM Film Feature
1:30 Gospel Favorites (says "Roberts," so I think this is Warren
Roberts, who did this same kind of program on Ch. 46 in
the '70s and '80s)
2:30 Movie: "North To Klondike" (not to be confused with "North
To Alaska," which came in 1960--eighteen years after this
one with Broderick Crawford)
3:30 AFL Football: Texans-Oilers
6:15 All Pro Scoreboard (time approximate)
6:30 Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years
7 PM Father Knows Best
7:30 The Jetsons (COLOR)
8 PM ABC Movie: "I Bury The Living"
10 PM Voice Of Firestone
10:30 Howard K. Smith
11 PM News, Weather
11:15 Movie: "Because Of Him"
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 This Is The Life
12 N Movie: "Thrill Of A Romance"
1:45 Pro Football Kickoff (Tom Brookshier looks at the
Washington Redskins.)
2 PM NFL Football: Packers-Colts
4:30 Mantovani (time approximate)
5 PM Point Of View
5:30 GE College Bowl (Brooklyn College vs. the University
of Detroit)
6 PM Twentieth Century
6:30 Password (Jane Powell, Red Buttons)
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: "Rachel And The Stranger"
WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/NBC/ABC)
8 AM Gospel Song Time
8:30 Singing In Dixie
9:30 Movie: "The Black Tent"
11 AM Mabel White Baptist Church
12 N Rescue 8
12:30 Washington Report
1 PM Oral Roberts
1:30 Bobby Lee Smith (music)
1:45 Pro Football Kickoff
2 PM NFL Football: Packers-Colts
5 PM Ted Mack's Amateur Hour (eight semifinal winners
compete for a $2000 scholarship)
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: "Beau Geste" (Gary Cooper in one of
his most famous roles.)