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Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Thu., Nov. 8, 1956

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From TV Guide, Georgia (Atlanta) Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

7 AM Today (Dave Garroway)
9 AM Today In Georgia
9:30 Movie: "The Fighter"
11 AM Home (Arlene Francis, guest Yvonne De Carlo)
12 N News
12:15 Tic Tac Dough (joined in progress)
12:30 It Could Be You
1 PM Movie: "Appointment In Berlin"
2:30 Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
3 PM Matinee Theater (during World War II a woman from the British war department and a French contact get Englishmen out of occupied France, COLOR)
4 PM Queen For A Day
4:45 Modern Romances
5 PM I Married Joan
5:30 My Little Margie
6 PM Clubhouse Gang (with Laurel and Hardy shorts)
6:30 Football (Bobby Dodd, legendary Georgia Tech coach)
6:45 News, Weather
7 PM Lone Ranger (ABC, delay from 7:30 PM, pre-empted on Ch. 11)
7:30 Dinah Shore
7:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
8 PM Groucho Marx (You Bet Your Life)
8:30 Dragnet
9 PM The People's Choice
9:30 The Ford Show Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford (guest: Carol Channing)
10 PM Lux Video Theatre (an abbreviated made-for-TV version of the 1938 Bette Davis movie "Jezebel," COLOR)
11 PM Newsroom
11:30 Tonight (Steve Allen)

WRGP (WRCB) Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC/ABC)

7 AM Today
9 AM My Hero (Bob Cummings' first sitcom, from '52)
9:30 Willy (June Havoc's only sitcom, from '54)
10 AM Ding Dong School
10:30 NBC Bandstand (Bert Parks hosts; guest: singer Dick Haymes) (The Bill Cullen version of "The Price Is Right" would debut here Nov. 26.)
11 AM Home
12 N Mid-Day
1 PM Laugh And Live
2 PM Movie: TBA
2:30 Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
3 PM Matinee Theater (COLOR)
4 PM Queen For A Day
4:45 Wrangler Round-Up
5:15 Western Movie
6:30 Code 3
7 PM Amos 'n' Andy
7:30 Gene Wardell (local music show)
7:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
8 PM Groucho Marx
8:30 Dragnet
9 PM Golden Playhouse
9:30 The Ford Show Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford
10 PM Lux Video Theatre (COLOR)
11 PM Cross Current
11:05 Stage 3

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

7 AM Good Morning! (Will Rogers Jr. hosts; Clarence Randall discusses his book "Over My Shoulder"; singer Chris Connors)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Romper Room
9:40 News
9:45 Valiant Lady (delay from 12 N)
10 AM Garry Moore (Garry and gang celebrate National Apple Week.)
10:30 Arthur Godfrey
11 AM Blue Flame (cooking)
11:30 Strike It Rich
12 N News
12:15 Love Of Life
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Woman's World
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Garry Moore (Rudy Vallee, comic Earl Hall, piano/bass fiddle duo Martha Davis and spouse; this could be the last half-hour of the previous Friday's 90-minute show; "Our Miss Brooks" aired here the rest of the week)
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM Big Payoff
3:30 Bob Crosby
4 PM Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM Western Movie
6 PM TBA
6:15 Frank Leahy Football Forecasts
6:30 News, Weather, Sports
6:45 Douglas Edwards With The News
7 PM Amos 'n' Andy
7:30 Sgt. Preston Of The Yukon
8 PM Bob Cummings (his most successful show, as fashion photographer Bob Collins, syndicated as "Love That Bob!")
8:30 Climax! (Lee Marvin as a charter-plane pilot who plots to steal the proceeds from a Tangier casino by faking a plane crash)
9:30 Playhouse 90 (Red Skelton as a vaudeville comedian who finds his greatest success in silent movies)
11 PM News, Weather
11:05 Les Paul And Mary Ford
11:10 Charles Boyer

WROM Ch. 9 Rome (WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga) (Ind.)

6 PM Movie: "Tioga Kid"
7 PM Movie: "Thundertown"
8 PM Uncovered (these appear to be episodes of "Saber Of London" with Donald Gray)
8:30 Mystery Theater
9 PM Movie: "Docks Of New Orleans" (Roland Winters as Charlie Chan, from '48)

WLWA (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

8:35 Farm Reports
8:40 Thoughts For Today
8:50 Cartoon Carnival
10 AM Coronation Of His Excellency, Bishop Francis E. Hyland
11:30 Movie: "Don Ricardo Returns"
12:30 News
12:45 Movie: "Gentlemen With Guns"
2 PM Surprise Party
3 PM Afternoon Film Festival: "The Net" ('53, from England) (the developer of a new jet aircraft runs into a net of foreign intrigue before the plane ever gets off the ground)
4:30 Miss Boo
5 PM Mickey Mouse Club (a Japanese dancing school, acrobatic balancing act the Atomics, "Adventure In Dairyland: The Runaway Tractor," cartoon "Put Put Troubles")
6 PM Wild Bill Hickok
6:30 Sheena, Queen Of The Jungle
7 PM Assignment Atlanta
7:15 John Daly And The News
7:30 Dateline Europe (an adventure show, not a news program)
8 PM Circus Time (Paul Winchell)
8:30 Rocket Review (variety show to unveil the 1957 Oldsmobiles; John Daly and Bill Hayes host; performers: the Chordettes, soprano Bonnie Murray, singer Greta Gray, Archie Bleyer and his orchestra; interestingly, the Chordettes and Bleyer were fired by Arthur Godfrey)
9 PM Wire Service
10 PM Ozark Jubilee
11 PM News, Weather
11:15 Movie: "Bridge Of San Luis Rey"

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS/ABC)

7 AM Good Morning!
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Our Miss Brooks (delay from 2 PM)
9:30 Stu Erwin
10 AM Garry Moore
10:30 Arthur Godfrey
11:30 Strike It Rich
12 N Civil Defense
12:15 Love Of Life
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Jalopy Races
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Party Line
2:15 Valiant Lady
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM Big Payoff
3:30 Luther Show
4 PM Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM Mickey Mouse Club
6 PM News, Weather
6:30 Wild Bill Hickok
7 PM Studio 57
7:30 I Led Three Lives
8 PM Bob Cummings
8:30 Climax!
9:30 Playhouse 90
11 PM News, Weather
11:15 Movie: TBA

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

6:55 News
7 AM Good Morning!
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Little Rascals
9:30 Big Picture
10 AM Garry Moore
10:30 Herb Johnson And Friends
11 AM Hayloft Jamboree
11:30 Strike It Rich
12 N Art Linkletter's House Party (carried for only 15 minutes)
12:15 Love Of Life
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM CBS News (Charles Collingwood)
1:10 Stand Up And Be Counted
1:30 Hayloft Jamboree
2 PM Our Miss Brooks
2:30 Carrie Williams' Kitchen
3 PM Big Payoff
3:30 Bob Crosby
4 PM Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM Judye Green (local singer)
5:30 Little Rascals
5:45 Rosary
6 PM Spangels (puppet show)
6:15 Frank Leahy Football Forecast
6:30 News, Weather, Sports
6:45 Douglas Edwards With The News
7 PM Uncle Ned
7:30 Jim Bowie (ABC, delay from Fri 8 PM)
8 PM Dr. Christian
8:30 Climax!
9:30 Playhouse 90
11 PM News, Weather
11:15 Texas Wrestling
 
segregation

In these days and prior, I have yet to see local programing that judging from its title was blatantly segregationist. I wonder if any was programmed, either on network affiliates or independent stations





From TV Guide, Georgia (Atlanta) Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

7 AM Today (Dave Garroway)
9 AM Today In Georgia
9:30 Movie: "The Fighter"
11 AM Home (Arlene Francis, guest Yvonne De Carlo)
12 N News
12:15 Tic Tac Dough (joined in progress)
12:30 It Could Be You
1 PM Movie: "Appointment In Berlin"
2:30 Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
3 PM Matinee Theater (during World War II a woman from the British war department and a French contact get Englishmen out of occupied France, COLOR)
4 PM Queen For A Day
4:45 Modern Romances
5 PM I Married Joan
5:30 My Little Margie
6 PM Clubhouse Gang (with Laurel and Hardy shorts)
6:30 Football (Bobby Dodd, legendary Georgia Tech coach)
6:45 News, Weather
7 PM Lone Ranger (ABC, delay from 7:30 PM, pre-empted on Ch. 11)
7:30 Dinah Shore
7:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
8 PM Groucho Marx (You Bet Your Life)
8:30 Dragnet
9 PM The People's Choice
9:30 The Ford Show Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford (guest: Carol Channing)
10 PM Lux Video Theatre (an abbreviated made-for-TV version of the 1938 Bette Davis movie "Jezebel," COLOR)
11 PM Newsroom
11:30 Tonight (Steve Allen)

WRGP (WRCB) Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC/ABC)

7 AM Today
9 AM My Hero (Bob Cummings' first sitcom, from '52)
9:30 Willy (June Havoc's only sitcom, from '54)
10 AM Ding Dong School
10:30 NBC Bandstand (Bert Parks hosts; guest: singer Dick Haymes) (The Bill Cullen version of "The Price Is Right" would debut here Nov. 26.)
11 AM Home
12 N Mid-Day
1 PM Laugh And Live
2 PM Movie: TBA
2:30 Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
3 PM Matinee Theater (COLOR)
4 PM Queen For A Day
4:45 Wrangler Round-Up
5:15 Western Movie
6:30 Code 3
7 PM Amos 'n' Andy
7:30 Gene Wardell (local music show)
7:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
8 PM Groucho Marx
8:30 Dragnet
9 PM Golden Playhouse
9:30 The Ford Show Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford
10 PM Lux Video Theatre (COLOR)
11 PM Cross Current
11:05 Stage 3

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

7 AM Good Morning! (Will Rogers Jr. hosts; Clarence Randall discusses his book "Over My Shoulder"; singer Chris Connors)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Romper Room
9:40 News
9:45 Valiant Lady (delay from 12 N)
10 AM Garry Moore (Garry and gang celebrate National Apple Week.)
10:30 Arthur Godfrey
11 AM Blue Flame (cooking)
11:30 Strike It Rich
12 N News
12:15 Love Of Life
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Woman's World
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Garry Moore (Rudy Vallee, comic Earl Hall, piano/bass fiddle duo Martha Davis and spouse; this could be the last half-hour of the previous Friday's 90-minute show; "Our Miss Brooks" aired here the rest of the week)
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM Big Payoff
3:30 Bob Crosby
4 PM Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM Western Movie
6 PM TBA
6:15 Frank Leahy Football Forecasts
6:30 News, Weather, Sports
6:45 Douglas Edwards With The News
7 PM Amos 'n' Andy
7:30 Sgt. Preston Of The Yukon
8 PM Bob Cummings (his most successful show, as fashion photographer Bob Collins, syndicated as "Love That Bob!")
8:30 Climax! (Lee Marvin as a charter-plane pilot who plots to steal the proceeds from a Tangier casino by faking a plane crash)
9:30 Playhouse 90 (Red Skelton as a vaudeville comedian who finds his greatest success in silent movies)
11 PM News, Weather
11:05 Les Paul And Mary Ford
11:10 Charles Boyer

WROM Ch. 9 Rome (WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga) (Ind.)

6 PM Movie: "Tioga Kid"
7 PM Movie: "Thundertown"
8 PM Uncovered (these appear to be episodes of "Saber Of London" with Donald Gray)
8:30 Mystery Theater
9 PM Movie: "Docks Of New Orleans" (Roland Winters as Charlie Chan, from '48)

WLWA (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

8:35 Farm Reports
8:40 Thoughts For Today
8:50 Cartoon Carnival
10 AM Coronation Of His Excellency, Bishop Francis E. Hyland
11:30 Movie: "Don Ricardo Returns"
12:30 News
12:45 Movie: "Gentlemen With Guns"
2 PM Surprise Party
3 PM Afternoon Film Festival: "The Net" ('53, from England) (the developer of a new jet aircraft runs into a net of foreign intrigue before the plane ever gets off the ground)
4:30 Miss Boo
5 PM Mickey Mouse Club (a Japanese dancing school, acrobatic balancing act the Atomics, "Adventure In Dairyland: The Runaway Tractor," cartoon "Put Put Troubles")
6 PM Wild Bill Hickok
6:30 Sheena, Queen Of The Jungle
7 PM Assignment Atlanta
7:15 John Daly And The News
7:30 Dateline Europe (an adventure show, not a news program)
8 PM Circus Time (Paul Winchell)
8:30 Rocket Review (variety show to unveil the 1957 Oldsmobiles; John Daly and Bill Hayes host; performers: the Chordettes, soprano Bonnie Murray, singer Greta Gray, Archie Bleyer and his orchestra; interestingly, the Chordettes and Bleyer were fired by Arthur Godfrey)
9 PM Wire Service
10 PM Ozark Jubilee
11 PM News, Weather
11:15 Movie: "Bridge Of San Luis Rey"

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS/ABC)

7 AM Good Morning!
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Our Miss Brooks (delay from 2 PM)
9:30 Stu Erwin
10 AM Garry Moore
10:30 Arthur Godfrey
11:30 Strike It Rich
12 N Civil Defense
12:15 Love Of Life
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Jalopy Races
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Party Line
2:15 Valiant Lady
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM Big Payoff
3:30 Luther Show
4 PM Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM Mickey Mouse Club
6 PM News, Weather
6:30 Wild Bill Hickok
7 PM Studio 57
7:30 I Led Three Lives
8 PM Bob Cummings
8:30 Climax!
9:30 Playhouse 90
11 PM News, Weather
11:15 Movie: TBA

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

6:55 News
7 AM Good Morning!
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Little Rascals
9:30 Big Picture
10 AM Garry Moore
10:30 Herb Johnson And Friends
11 AM Hayloft Jamboree
11:30 Strike It Rich
12 N Art Linkletter's House Party (carried for only 15 minutes)
12:15 Love Of Life
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM CBS News (Charles Collingwood)
1:10 Stand Up And Be Counted
1:30 Hayloft Jamboree
2 PM Our Miss Brooks
2:30 Carrie Williams' Kitchen
3 PM Big Payoff
3:30 Bob Crosby
4 PM Brighter Day
4:15 Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM Judye Green (local singer)
5:30 Little Rascals
5:45 Rosary
6 PM Spangels (puppet show)
6:15 Frank Leahy Football Forecast
6:30 News, Weather, Sports
6:45 Douglas Edwards With The News
7 PM Uncle Ned
7:30 Jim Bowie (ABC, delay from Fri 8 PM)
8 PM Dr. Christian
8:30 Climax!
9:30 Playhouse 90
11 PM News, Weather
11:15 Texas Wrestling
 
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