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Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Thursday, August 6, 1981

From TV Guide, Atlanta Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (ABC)

5:30 University Of Michigan
6 AM Bugs Bunny
6:30 News
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Family Feud (Richard Dawson)
9:30 Edge Of Night
10 AM Match Game
10:30 Joker's Wild (Jack Barry)
11 AM Three's Company (2 episodes)
12 N News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM The Rookies
5 PM Fish (Abe Vigoda)
5:30 M*A*S*H
6 PM News
7 PM ABC News (Frank Reynolds/Peter Jennings/
Max Robinson)
7:30 Family Feud
8 PM Mork & Mindy
8:30 Barney Miller (2 episodes)
9:30 Taxi
10 PM 20/20 (report on a simulation involving a tanker
turned into a bomb by terrorists and aimed at
lower Manhattan)
11 PM News
11:30 Nightline
12 M Charlie's Angels
1:10 Hank Thompson (country music)
1:40 News

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

5:25 Romper Room
5:55 700 Club
6:55 News For Little People
7 AM Today (Tom Brokaw; guests Jack Gilford
and Robert Alda--Alan's dad)
9 AM Richard Simmons
9:30 Odd Couple
10 AM Las Vegas Gambit (Wink Martindale)
10:30 Blockbusters (Bill Cullen)
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune (Chuck Woolery and Susan
Stafford--Pat Sajak would take over as host
in December; Vanna White as hostess in 1982)
11:30 Password Plus (Audrey Landers, Fred Grandy--
host Tom Kennedy; IIRC, Allen Ludden died in June)
12 N News
12:30 The Doctors
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM Another World
3 PM Texas (P&G, cashing in on the "Dallas" craze, transported
"AW" character Iris Carrington to Houston--didn't work)
4 PM Bugs And Friends
4:55 News For Little People
5 PM Kung Fu
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (John Chancellor)
7 PM M*A*S*H
7:30 PM Magazine
8 PM NBC Magazine With David Brinkley (profile of Charles Schulz,
stories on mechanical bulls and prison marriages)
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Secret War Of Jackie's Girls" (think "Charlie's
Angels" as top-secret helicopter pilots in World War II)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Tomorrow Coast-To-Coast (Tom Snyder--guests: the Marshall
Tucker Band)

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6 AM Summer Semester: "The Italian-Americans" (focus on family life)
6:30 Bewitched
7 AM CBS News (Charles Kuralt)
8 AM Richard Simmons
8:30 Charlie Rose (topic: phobias)
9 AM Donahue
10 AM Magazine (reports on women who divorced retired military men
and lost pension benefits, women who decide to have children
late in life, the California wine boom, a gym for toddlers run by
fitness expert Suzy Prudden)
11 AM Price Is Right
12 N News
12:30 Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Search For Tomorrow (a scheduling move which probably helped
kill this venerable soap)
3 PM Guiding Light
4 PM John Davidson (guests: Rupert Holmes, Lorne Greene, "General
Hospital"'s Jacklyn Zeman, "comic Jay Leno"--interesting how
little-known he was at the time)
5 PM Barney Miller
5:30 Bewitched
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News (Dan Rather)
7:30 PM Magazine
8 PM CBS Reports (about the razing of a low-income Detroit neighborhood
called Poletown so GM can build a new plant)
9 PM Magnum, P.I.
10 PM Knots Landing
11 PM News
11:30 Maude
12 M CBS Reports ("The War Machine," about how the Pentagon spends
defense dollars--Part 4 of "The Defense Of The United States")
1 AM The Jeffersons
1:30 Hec Ramsey
3:35 News

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Studio See
6:30 Yoga And Meditation (I never understood why Ch. 8 was so
partial to yoga shows--they must have run Richard Hittelman's
"Yoga For Health" two dozen times.)
7 PM Thieves Of Time (people who dig up Arizona Indian artifacts to
keep or sell)
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Voyage Of Charles Darwin (Part 1 of 7)
9 PM Sneak Previews
9:30 Only The Ball Was White (the Negro League--sorry, I have
to use the term--that flourished in the 1920s, '30s, and '40s
until Jackie Robinson broke the major-league color barrier)
10 PM Soccer Made In Germany
11 PM Movie: "Orchestra Wives" (watch for Jackie Gleason in a small
part)

WGN Ch. 9 Chicago (Ind.)
Listed Eastern Time

6:30 Faith 20
7 AM Top O' The Morning
7:30 Bullwinkle
8 AM Bozo Show
9:30 Bewitched
10 AM Hollywood Squares
10:30 $50,000 Pyramid
11 AM Hour Magazine
12 N Donahue (live)
1 PM Prisoner: Cell Block H
1:30 Movie: "Lucky Jordan"
3:30 Circus (Bert Parks)
4 PM Scooby Doo
4:30 Yogi Bear
5 PM My Three Sons
5:30 Dick Van Dyke
6 PM Chico And The Man
6:30 Hogan's Heroes
7 PM Andy Griffith
7:30 Carol Burnett And Friends
8 PM Movie: "Jamaica Run"
10 PM News
11 PM Twilight Zone
11:30 Odd Couple
12 M Movie: "Rio Grande"
2:05 News
2:35 Mike Douglas
3:35 Movie: "The Crusades"
5:35 TBA

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

6 AM Study In The Word With Jimmy Swaggart
6:30 Great Space Coaster
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Donahue (topic: adopting special-needs children)
10 AM Hour Magazine (legislation against child molesting;
lupus disease; Franco Zeffirelli and actor Martin
Hewitt)
11 AM Three's Company (2 episodes)
12 N Family Feud
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 To Tell The Truth (panel: Soupy Sales, Marcia
Rodd, John Wade, Carole Shelley--host: Robin Ward)
5 PM Barnaby Jones
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Family Feud
7:30 Happy Days Again
8 PM Mork & Mindy
8:30 Barney Miller (2 episodes)
9:30 Taxi
10 PM 20/20
11 PM News
11:30 Nightline
12 M Charlie's Angels
1:10 News

WXIA 11 Alive Atlanta (NBC)

6 AM Country Music Time
6:30 News
7 AM Today
9 AM Las Vegas Gambit
9:30 Blockbusters
10 AM Hour Magazine (a pub in Chicago owned and
operated by women; how to save on prescription
drugs)
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Password Plus
12 N News
12:30 The Doctors
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM Another World
3 PM Texas
4 PM Gunsmoke
5 PM Rhoda
5:30 News
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News
7:30 Tic Tac Dough (Wink Martindale)
8 PM NBC Magazine With David Brinkley
9 PM Movie: "I Will, I Will...For Now"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 News
1 AM Tomorrow Coast-To-Coast

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

6:20 Farm Report
6:30 Morning Show
8 AM CBS News
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Magazine
11 AM Price Is Right
12 N News
12:30 Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Search For Tomorrow
3 PM Guiding Light
4 PM Grizzly Adams
5 PM The Rookies
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Tic Tac Dough
7:30 All In The Family
8 PM CBS Reports
9 PM Magnum, P.I.
10 PM Knots Landing
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Reports
12:30 Hec Ramsey

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS)

5:45 Story Of Jesus
5:50 Little Rascals
6:20 Let's Talk It Over
6:50 News
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue
10 AM Magazine
11 AM Price Is Right
12 N News
12:15 Date With Del
12:30 Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Search For Tomorrow
3 PM Guiding Light
4 PM Little Rascals
4:30 I Love Lucy
5 PM Grizzly Adams
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Beverly Hillbillies
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8 PM CBS Reports
9 PM Magnum, P.I.
10 PM Knots Landing
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Reports
12:30 Hec Ramsey

WDCO Ch. 15 (WMUM Ch. 29) Cochran/
WCLP (WNGH) Ch. 18 Chatsworth (PBS)

3:30 Over Easy
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Studio See
6:30 Over Easy
7 PM U.S. Chronicle ("Fishing Troubled Waters,"
about commercial shrimp fishing on the Texas
Gulf Coast)
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Georgia Forum
9 PM Sneak Previews
9:30 By-Line
10 PM Southbound (a Tennessee fiddling contest is
featured)
10:30 Living The Life We Sing About (the Cross Family,
a Kentucky gospel group)
11 PM Dick Cavett (guest: neurologist Oliver Sacks)


WTBS (WPCH) Ch. 17 Atlanta (Ind.)

5:45 World At Large
6:05 Hollywood Report
7:05 Fun Time
8:05 Lassie
8:35 My Three Sons
9:05 Family Affair
9:35 I Dream Of Jeannie
10:05 Movie: "For Love Of Ivy"
12:05 Freeman Reports
1:05 Movie: "Convicted"
3:05 Fun Time
3:35 Flintstones
4:05 Addams Family
4:35 Hazel
5:05 Ozzie And Harriet
5:35 Beverly Hillbillies
6:05 Father Knows Best
6:35 That Girl
7:05 All In The Family
7:35 Get Smart
8:05 Movie: "Barefoot In The Park"
10:20 News
11:20 Night Gallery
11:50 Movie: "Smoky"
2 AM Movie: "Dodge City"
4:10 Movie: "Two Guys From Texas"

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)

7:45 A.M. Weather
8 AM Villa Alegre
8:30 Vegetable Soup
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10:30 Electric Company
11 AM Studio See
11:30 Electric Company
12 N Sesame Street
1 PM Villa Alegre
1:30 Vic Braden's Tennis For The Future
2 PM Mystery! ("The Racing Game," three stories
by Dick Francis)
3 PM Firing Line (former Undersecretary of State
George Ball discusses U.S. foreign policy)
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Studio See
6:30 Over Easy
7 PM Dick Cavett (John and Mackenzie Phillips;
Dr. Mark Gold)
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Georgia Forum
9 PM Evening At Pops
10 PM Austin City Limits (fiddler Alvin Crow, singer
Marcia Ball)
11 PM Dick Cavett (same as Chs. 15, 18)
11:30 Captioned ABC News

WATL Ch. 36 Atlanta (Ind.)

7 AM Jim Bakker
8 AM Study In The Word With Jimmy Swaggart
8:30 Peter Gunn
9 AM Wanted: Dead Or Alive
9:30 Robin Hood
10 AM Film
11 AM Jim Bakker
12 N Movie: "Flying Deuces" (Laurel and Hardy)
1:30 Health Field
2 PM Special Interest Playhouse
2:30 New Zoo Revue
3 PM The Archies
3:30 Movie: "The Southerner"
5:30 One Day At A Time (aired on CBS at 4 PM)
6 PM Wanted: Dead Or Alive
6:30 Peter Gunn
7 PM subscription TV

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

6 AM Jim Bakker
7 AM Today
9 AM Jim Bakker
10 AM Las Vegas Gambit
10:30 Blockbusters
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Noon Over Middle Georgia
11:50 News
12 N Card Sharks (Jim Perry)
12:30 The Doctors
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM Another World
3 PM Texas
4 PM Let's Make A Deal
4:30 Twilight Zone
5 PM TBA
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Family Feud
7:30 To Tell The Truth (panel: Soupy Sales,
Carole Shelley, Rex Reed, Kitty Carlisle)
8 PM NBC Magazine With David Brinkley
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Secret War Of Jackie's
Girls"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Tomorrow Coast-To-Coast

WANX (WGCL) Ch. 46 Atlanta (Ind.)

6 AM U.S. A.M.
7 AM Tom And Jerry
7:30 Porky And Popeye
8:30 Great Space Coaster
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM 700 Club
11:30 To Tell The Truth
12 N Another Life (soap with a Christian solution
to the characters' problems)
12:30 $50,000 Pyramid
1 PM Face The Music (Ron Ely)
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Mister Ed
2:30 Fred Flintstone And Friends
3 PM Popeye And Friends
4 PM Tom And Jerry/Woody Woodpecker
5 PM Scooby Doo
5:30 Krofft Superstars
6 PM Wonder Woman
7 PM Bullseye (Jim Lange)
7:30 Sha Na Na (guest Del Shannon sings "Runaway")
8 PM Barnaby Jones
9 PM Another Life
9:30 700 Club
11 PM Independent Network News
11:30 Best Of Jackie Gleason (guest Larry Storch)
12 M Honeymooners
 
bpatrick said:
WATL Ch. 36 Atlanta (Ind.)

7 PM subscription TV

What service did WATL have? I knew Atlanta had "VEU", which was on WVEU later on, but what did WATL carry? Also, did TVG have separate listings for the service at the time?
 
I had left Georgia by that time so I don't know which STV
service Ch. 36 carried. TV Guide did not post the listings,
at least at that point, but I would have included them if
they had been in that issue.
 
Surprised that WGN ran the Squares & Pyramid in the morning or anytime for that matter. They were never big on the syndicated game shows with very few exceptions (e.g. Millionaire and Liar's Club, and I'm not even 100% sure about that last one). I had no idea they ever carried those other two.
 
WOR-Tv had The Joker's Wild, Tic Tac Dough, Play The Percentages, Face The Music, Bullseye, Treasure Hunt, Match Game, Let's Make A Deal, The Newlywed Game, The Dating Game, $ale Of The Century and Family Feud among others in the 1970's and 80's.
 
Yeah, WGN thrughout has never really been huge on syndicated game shows other than carrying Millionaire since 2003 after a year on WBBM 2. The only other ones they really had were the Pyramid-Squares hour that year, 70S Liars Club for a while and in the early 70s they had the syndicated What's My Line and Beat The Clock.
 
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