ABC (Chs. 9, 11) starts its new season tonight; NBC (Chs. 2, 3) has
one new show and one season premiere. From TV Guide, Georgia
(Atlanta) Edition:
WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)
8 AM Wally Fowler (gospel music)
9 AM Cartoon Cavalcade
9:30 Movie: "Heidi" (Shirley Temple, from '37)
11 AM Church Service
12 N Probe (Dr. Albert Burke talks about America's progress in the
race for space and asks where we are going on earth.)
12:30 Football Review (not sure if this is the University of Georgia)
1 PM Baseball: Giants-Pirates (Bob Wolff and Joe Garagiola report)
3:30 Georgia Tech Football (highlights of Florida-Georgia Tech with coach
Bobby Dodd, COLOR, time approximate)
4:30 Keyhole (Jack Douglas takes a tour of the Los Angeles sheriff's academy,
COLOR)
5 PM Story Of An Artist (sculptor Ed Kienholz)
5:30 This Week (causes of accidents are discussed by members of Northwestern
University's Traffic Institute and the American Bar Association; Fred Briggs
has late news)
6 PM Meet The Press (Gov. Nelson Rockefeller is guest; he may be asked about
his 1964 presidential aspirations--NOTE: when JFK went to Dallas, Barry Goldwater
was already the front-runner for the GOP nomination, COLOR)
6:30 TBA
7 PM Ensign O'Toole (last show; ABC will rerun it as a midseason replacement in 1964)
7:30 Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color ("Davy Crockett Goes To Congress," second
program in the Crockett trilogy, COLOR)
8:30 Grindl (Imogene Coca as a Jill-of-all-trades who works out of a temporary employment
agency; on this debut episode, her employer's husband (Telly Savalas) has disappeared
and Grindl is suspicious because of his concern over a locked basement.)
9 PM Bonanza (COLOR)
10 PM DuPont Show Of The Week (season premiere: "The Last Hangman," about a group of
British soldiers who hanged participants in the Irish Rebellion; the soldiers' Irish counterparts
swore revenge and now only one of the British soldiers is still alive, COLOR)
11 PM News, Weather
11:15 Movie: "The Plainsman" (not to be confused with "Law Of The Plainsman," this is the tale
of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane, from '37)
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 Movies: "Seven Were Saved" and "Special Agent" (George Reeves co-stars in
the second feature, from '49)
12 N Showcase Of Stars
12:30 Jaycee Question
1 PM Baseball: Giants-Pirates
3:30 TBA
4 PM Movie: "Menace In The Night"
5:30 Bullwinkle (COLOR)
6 PM Meet The Press (COLOR)
6:30 The Deputy
7 PM Ensign O'Toole
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: "Tripoli"
WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)
7:45 Sacred Heart
8 AM This Is The Life
8:30 The Way
9 AM Oral Roberts
9:30 Faith For Today
10 AM TV Gospel Time (unique for its time in that all the gospel
singers were African-American)
10:30 Look Up And Live (how the Tartars captured and imprisoned
Polish Jews during the 1648 Polish Peasant Revolt)
11 AM Church Service
12 N Camera Three (excerpts from the diary of the late harpsichordist
Wanda Landowska, an expert on the music of Bach, delay from 11 AM)
12:30 Men Of Destiny
1 PM NFL Football: Giants-(Baltimore) Colts
4 PM TBA
4:30 Twentieth Century (the career of Al Smith, four-time governor of New York
and unsuccessful candidate for President in 1928, same show airs at 6 PM
on Chs. 12, 13)
5 PM The LeFevres (gospel music)
5:30 Movie: "Ghost Diver"
6:55 Weather (Alan Smith)
7 PM Lassie
7:30 Dennis The Menace
8 PM Ed Sullivan (from Toronto: Wayne and Shuster, Connie Francis, Xavier
Cugat and Abbe Lane, Jack Carter, opera singer Jan Peerce, comedy
singers Les Jerolas, bagpipe band the Highlanders; Ed introduces members
of the Toronto Maple Leafs)
9 PM Real McCoys
9:30 G.E. True (Werner Klemperer in "Heydrich," second of two parts; Heydrich
is dead and the Nazis are conducting a terrifying manhunt for the two assassins.
Jack Webb narrates.)
10 PM Candid Camera (Dorothy Lamour drives away in a car that splits in half; messengers
are sent to an address which consists of a door frame--and no house.)
10:30 What's My Line?
11 PM News, Weather
11:20 Hong Kong
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 Light Unto My Path
11 AM Cartoons
11:30 Discovery '63 (Frank Buxton and Virginia Gibson show
how the earth's atmosphere distorts our view of the stars.)
12 N Movie: "Born For Trouble"
1 PM Know Your Bible
1:30 Oral Roberts
2 PM This Is The Answer
2:30 Issues And Answers (Howard K. Smith interviews Secretary of
State Dean Rusk; scheduled topics include the U.S. position in
South Vietnam and the current state of U.S.-USSR relations.)
3 PM League Of Women Voters
3:30 AFL Football: Bills-Raiders
6:30 Rescue 8 (time approximate)
7 PM Sea Hunt
7:30 Travels Of Jaimie McPheeters (Kurt Russell first made his mark in
this series about a boy and his dad traveling from Kentucky to
California during the 1849 gold rush days. Debut)
8:30 Arrest And Trial (not exactly "Law And Order," but a prototype:
the first 45 minutes are devoted to the arrest (Ben Gazzara is the cop);
the second 45 to the trial (Chuck Connors is the defense attorney).
Problem: unlike "L&O," one of the two men has to be wrong. Debut)
10 PM 100 Grand (ill-fated attempt to revive the big-money quiz shows; an "expert"
in a category can win $100,000 by defeating five professionals in the category,
then successfully answering five questions sent in by viewers--Jack Clark ("Dealer's
Choice," "Cross-Wits") is host, but the show is so complicated and boring that it
is canceled after the Sept. 29 broadcast. Debut)
10:30 ABC News Reports (Bob Young reports on the major news story of the week.)
11 PM Five Fingers
WAII (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)
8 AM Goss Brothers (gospel music)
8:30 News, Weather
8:35 Choir Of The Week
8:55 Church News (reported by Ch. 11's wrestling announcer, Ed Capral)
9 AM Cadle Tabernacle
9:30 Church Service
10:15 Light Time
10:30 This Week In History
11 AM Cartoons
11:30 Discovery '63
12 N House Detective (real-estate listings)
1 PM Movie: "My Gal Loves Music"
2 PM Issues And Answers
2:30 Gospel Favorites
3 PM Analysis (Jack Williams)
3:30 AFL Football: Bills-Raiders
6:30 Maverick (time approximate)
7:25 Weather (Eleanor Knight, first of many Atlanta "weathergirls")
7:30 Travels Of Jaimie McPheeters
8:30 Arrest And Trial
10 PM 100 Grand
10:30 Peachtree Pulpit
11 PM News, Weather
11:20 Movie: "Mexican Hayride" (Abbott and Costello, from' 48)
WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)
9 AM Children's Gospel Hour
9:30 Homestead U.S.A.
10 AM Lamp Unto My Feet (Rector James Kennedy of New York's
Protestant Episcopal Church spent the summer preaching
short sermons to passers-by. Excerpts from some of these
sermons are presented today.)
10:30 Look Up And Live
11 AM Camera Three
11:30 This Is The Life
12 N Big Picture
12:30 Cartoons
12:45 Pro Football Kickoff (pre-game show hosted by Kyle Rote)
1 PM NFL Football: Giants-(Baltimore) Colts
4 PM Movie: "Bomba And The Hidden City" (time approximate)
5 PM Point Of View
5:30 Peter Gunn
6 PM Twentieth Century
6:30 Mister Ed
7 PM Lassie
7:30 Dennis The Menace
8 PM Ed Sullivan
9 PM Real McCoys
9:30 G.E. True
10 PM Candid Camera
10:30 What's My Line?
11 PM CBS News (Harry Reasoner)
11:15 Movie: "Experiment Perilous"
WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/NBC/ABC)
8 AM Gospel Song Time
8:30 Singing In Dixie
9:30 Oral Roberts
10 AM Lamp Unto My Feet
10:30 Look Up And Live
11 AM Mabel White Baptist Church
12 N This Is The Life
12:30 Stan Carey (music)
12:45 Pro Football Kickoff
1 PM NFL Football: Giants-(Baltimore) Colts
4 PM Gridiron Report (time approximate)
4:30 Face The Nation (Sen. J. William Fulbright (D-AR) is guest.)
5 PM Big Picture
5:30 Amateur Hour (guests, all from Ohio: the Ivy Five, singers, Ohio
State University; the Seven Saints, Dixieland band, Marion, OH)
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 G.E. True
10 PM Candid Camera
10:30 What's My Line?
11 PM CBS News
11:15 Local News, Weather
11:30 Movie: "Kiss The Boys Goodbye"
one new show and one season premiere. From TV Guide, Georgia
(Atlanta) Edition:
WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)
8 AM Wally Fowler (gospel music)
9 AM Cartoon Cavalcade
9:30 Movie: "Heidi" (Shirley Temple, from '37)
11 AM Church Service
12 N Probe (Dr. Albert Burke talks about America's progress in the
race for space and asks where we are going on earth.)
12:30 Football Review (not sure if this is the University of Georgia)
1 PM Baseball: Giants-Pirates (Bob Wolff and Joe Garagiola report)
3:30 Georgia Tech Football (highlights of Florida-Georgia Tech with coach
Bobby Dodd, COLOR, time approximate)
4:30 Keyhole (Jack Douglas takes a tour of the Los Angeles sheriff's academy,
COLOR)
5 PM Story Of An Artist (sculptor Ed Kienholz)
5:30 This Week (causes of accidents are discussed by members of Northwestern
University's Traffic Institute and the American Bar Association; Fred Briggs
has late news)
6 PM Meet The Press (Gov. Nelson Rockefeller is guest; he may be asked about
his 1964 presidential aspirations--NOTE: when JFK went to Dallas, Barry Goldwater
was already the front-runner for the GOP nomination, COLOR)
6:30 TBA
7 PM Ensign O'Toole (last show; ABC will rerun it as a midseason replacement in 1964)
7:30 Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color ("Davy Crockett Goes To Congress," second
program in the Crockett trilogy, COLOR)
8:30 Grindl (Imogene Coca as a Jill-of-all-trades who works out of a temporary employment
agency; on this debut episode, her employer's husband (Telly Savalas) has disappeared
and Grindl is suspicious because of his concern over a locked basement.)
9 PM Bonanza (COLOR)
10 PM DuPont Show Of The Week (season premiere: "The Last Hangman," about a group of
British soldiers who hanged participants in the Irish Rebellion; the soldiers' Irish counterparts
swore revenge and now only one of the British soldiers is still alive, COLOR)
11 PM News, Weather
11:15 Movie: "The Plainsman" (not to be confused with "Law Of The Plainsman," this is the tale
of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane, from '37)
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 Movies: "Seven Were Saved" and "Special Agent" (George Reeves co-stars in
the second feature, from '49)
12 N Showcase Of Stars
12:30 Jaycee Question
1 PM Baseball: Giants-Pirates
3:30 TBA
4 PM Movie: "Menace In The Night"
5:30 Bullwinkle (COLOR)
6 PM Meet The Press (COLOR)
6:30 The Deputy
7 PM Ensign O'Toole
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: "Tripoli"
WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)
7:45 Sacred Heart
8 AM This Is The Life
8:30 The Way
9 AM Oral Roberts
9:30 Faith For Today
10 AM TV Gospel Time (unique for its time in that all the gospel
singers were African-American)
10:30 Look Up And Live (how the Tartars captured and imprisoned
Polish Jews during the 1648 Polish Peasant Revolt)
11 AM Church Service
12 N Camera Three (excerpts from the diary of the late harpsichordist
Wanda Landowska, an expert on the music of Bach, delay from 11 AM)
12:30 Men Of Destiny
1 PM NFL Football: Giants-(Baltimore) Colts
4 PM TBA
4:30 Twentieth Century (the career of Al Smith, four-time governor of New York
and unsuccessful candidate for President in 1928, same show airs at 6 PM
on Chs. 12, 13)
5 PM The LeFevres (gospel music)
5:30 Movie: "Ghost Diver"
6:55 Weather (Alan Smith)
7 PM Lassie
7:30 Dennis The Menace
8 PM Ed Sullivan (from Toronto: Wayne and Shuster, Connie Francis, Xavier
Cugat and Abbe Lane, Jack Carter, opera singer Jan Peerce, comedy
singers Les Jerolas, bagpipe band the Highlanders; Ed introduces members
of the Toronto Maple Leafs)
9 PM Real McCoys
9:30 G.E. True (Werner Klemperer in "Heydrich," second of two parts; Heydrich
is dead and the Nazis are conducting a terrifying manhunt for the two assassins.
Jack Webb narrates.)
10 PM Candid Camera (Dorothy Lamour drives away in a car that splits in half; messengers
are sent to an address which consists of a door frame--and no house.)
10:30 What's My Line?
11 PM News, Weather
11:20 Hong Kong
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 Light Unto My Path
11 AM Cartoons
11:30 Discovery '63 (Frank Buxton and Virginia Gibson show
how the earth's atmosphere distorts our view of the stars.)
12 N Movie: "Born For Trouble"
1 PM Know Your Bible
1:30 Oral Roberts
2 PM This Is The Answer
2:30 Issues And Answers (Howard K. Smith interviews Secretary of
State Dean Rusk; scheduled topics include the U.S. position in
South Vietnam and the current state of U.S.-USSR relations.)
3 PM League Of Women Voters
3:30 AFL Football: Bills-Raiders
6:30 Rescue 8 (time approximate)
7 PM Sea Hunt
7:30 Travels Of Jaimie McPheeters (Kurt Russell first made his mark in
this series about a boy and his dad traveling from Kentucky to
California during the 1849 gold rush days. Debut)
8:30 Arrest And Trial (not exactly "Law And Order," but a prototype:
the first 45 minutes are devoted to the arrest (Ben Gazzara is the cop);
the second 45 to the trial (Chuck Connors is the defense attorney).
Problem: unlike "L&O," one of the two men has to be wrong. Debut)
10 PM 100 Grand (ill-fated attempt to revive the big-money quiz shows; an "expert"
in a category can win $100,000 by defeating five professionals in the category,
then successfully answering five questions sent in by viewers--Jack Clark ("Dealer's
Choice," "Cross-Wits") is host, but the show is so complicated and boring that it
is canceled after the Sept. 29 broadcast. Debut)
10:30 ABC News Reports (Bob Young reports on the major news story of the week.)
11 PM Five Fingers
WAII (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)
8 AM Goss Brothers (gospel music)
8:30 News, Weather
8:35 Choir Of The Week
8:55 Church News (reported by Ch. 11's wrestling announcer, Ed Capral)
9 AM Cadle Tabernacle
9:30 Church Service
10:15 Light Time
10:30 This Week In History
11 AM Cartoons
11:30 Discovery '63
12 N House Detective (real-estate listings)
1 PM Movie: "My Gal Loves Music"
2 PM Issues And Answers
2:30 Gospel Favorites
3 PM Analysis (Jack Williams)
3:30 AFL Football: Bills-Raiders
6:30 Maverick (time approximate)
7:25 Weather (Eleanor Knight, first of many Atlanta "weathergirls")
7:30 Travels Of Jaimie McPheeters
8:30 Arrest And Trial
10 PM 100 Grand
10:30 Peachtree Pulpit
11 PM News, Weather
11:20 Movie: "Mexican Hayride" (Abbott and Costello, from' 48)
WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)
9 AM Children's Gospel Hour
9:30 Homestead U.S.A.
10 AM Lamp Unto My Feet (Rector James Kennedy of New York's
Protestant Episcopal Church spent the summer preaching
short sermons to passers-by. Excerpts from some of these
sermons are presented today.)
10:30 Look Up And Live
11 AM Camera Three
11:30 This Is The Life
12 N Big Picture
12:30 Cartoons
12:45 Pro Football Kickoff (pre-game show hosted by Kyle Rote)
1 PM NFL Football: Giants-(Baltimore) Colts
4 PM Movie: "Bomba And The Hidden City" (time approximate)
5 PM Point Of View
5:30 Peter Gunn
6 PM Twentieth Century
6:30 Mister Ed
7 PM Lassie
7:30 Dennis The Menace
8 PM Ed Sullivan
9 PM Real McCoys
9:30 G.E. True
10 PM Candid Camera
10:30 What's My Line?
11 PM CBS News (Harry Reasoner)
11:15 Movie: "Experiment Perilous"
WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/NBC/ABC)
8 AM Gospel Song Time
8:30 Singing In Dixie
9:30 Oral Roberts
10 AM Lamp Unto My Feet
10:30 Look Up And Live
11 AM Mabel White Baptist Church
12 N This Is The Life
12:30 Stan Carey (music)
12:45 Pro Football Kickoff
1 PM NFL Football: Giants-(Baltimore) Colts
4 PM Gridiron Report (time approximate)
4:30 Face The Nation (Sen. J. William Fulbright (D-AR) is guest.)
5 PM Big Picture
5:30 Amateur Hour (guests, all from Ohio: the Ivy Five, singers, Ohio
State University; the Seven Saints, Dixieland band, Marion, OH)
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 G.E. True
10 PM Candid Camera
10:30 What's My Line?
11 PM CBS News
11:15 Local News, Weather
11:30 Movie: "Kiss The Boys Goodbye"