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Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Thursday, December 6, 1962

From TV Guide, Georgia Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

6 AM Continental Classroom:
"Atomic Age Physics"
6:30 Continental Classroom:
"American Government"
(COLOR)
7 AM Today (Billy Graham is a guest)
9 AM Today In Georgia (Brenda Lee
is a guest--she got her start
on Freddie Miller's "Stars Of
Tomorrow" on Ch. 11.)
9:30 Leave It To The Girls
10 AM Say When!
10:25 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
10:30 Play Your Hunch (COLOR)
11 AM Price Is Right (COLOR)
11:30 Concentration
12 N News, Editorial
12:20 Movie: "The Mayor Of 44th Street"
2 PM Merv Griffin (COLOR)
2:55 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
3 PM Loretta Young
3:30 Young Dr. Malone
4 PM Make Room For Daddy
4:30 Rocky And His Friends
4:45 Popeye Club
6 PM Huckleberry Hound
6:30 News
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Ripcord
7:30 Dragnet
8 PM Story Of An Artist
8:30 Dr. Kildare
9:30 Hallmark Hall Of Fame: "Cyrano
de Bergerac" (COLOR)
11 PM Newsroom
11:30 Tonight Show

WRGP (WRCB) Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

6:30 Continental Classroom:
"American Government" (COLOR)
7 AM Today
9 AM Today With Morris
9:30 Fit For Living
10 AM Say When!
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Play Your Hunch (COLOR)
11 AM Price Is Right (COLOR)
11:30 Concentration
12 N Your First Impression (COLOR)
12:30 Truth Or Consequences
12:55 NBC News (Ray Scherer)
1 PM WRGP Bulletin
1:30 Best Of Groucho
2 PM Merv Griffin (COLOR)
2:55 NBC News
3 PM Loretta Young
3:30 Young Dr. Malone
4 PM Make Room For Daddy
4:30 Here's Hollywood
4:55 NBC News (Sander Vanocur)
5 PM Princess Redfeather
5:25 Broken Arrow
5:55 Bat Masterson
6:25 News
6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Mr. Lucky
7:30 Wide Country
8:30 Dr. Kildare
9:30 Hallmark Hall Of Fame: "Cyrano
de Bergerac" (COLOR)
11 PM News
11:15 Tonight Show (COLOR)

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

5:55 Daily Word
6 AM College Of The Air
6:30 In My Opinion
7 AM News, Editorial
7:20 Cartoons
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM B'wana Don
9:30 Jack LaLanne
10 AM Movie: "Rockabilly Baby"
11:30 Pete And Gladys
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News (Harry Reasoner)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Best Of Groucho
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM Millionaire (today's millionaire is
a refugee who wants to visit
an orphan in Europe)
3:30 To Tell The Truth
3:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM Sea Hunt
5:30 Highway Patrol
6 PM Panorama News
6:30 Amos 'n' Andy
7 PM Biography (Knute Rockne is the
subject)
7:30 Mister Ed
8 PM Perry Mason
9 PM The Nurses
10 PM Alfred Hitchcock Hour
11 PM Panorama News
11:30 Movie: "Northwest Outpost" (a
musical from the '40s, which means
Nelson Eddy as a Mountie)

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (NET)

6:30 American Economy
7 PM Growing South
7:30 Age Of Kings (Acts 1-3 of Shakespeare's
"Henry VI, Part 2")
8:45 University News
9 PM Georgia-Georgia Tech Football
Game Highlights
10 PM In My Opinion
sign off 10:30 PM

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

8:30 Jack LaLanne
9 AM Funtime
9:30 Romper Room
10:15 Upward Look
10:30 Morning Show
10:45 News
11 AM Jane Wyman
11:30 Yours For A Song
12 N Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
12:30 Father Knows Best
1 PM Man From Cochise
1:30 Chattanooga Schools
2 PM Day In Court
2:25 ABC News (Alex Dreier)
2:30 Seven Keys
3 PM Queen For A Day
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4 PM American Bandstand
4:30 Discovery '62
4:55 American Newsstand
5 PM Bob Brandy
6 PM ABC News (Ron Cochran)
6:15 News
6:30 Sea Hunt
7 PM Hong Kong
8 PM Donna Reed
8:30 Leave It To Beaver
9 PM My Three Sons
9:30 McHale's Navy
10 PM Alcoa Premiere
11 PM ABC News (Bill Shadel)
11:10 Movie: "Guest Wife"

WAII (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

7:50 Thoughts For Today
7:55 Farm News, Weather
8 AM School Days
8:30 Movie: TBA
10 AM Calendar (Harry Reasoner,
pre-empted on Ch. 5)
10:30 I Love Lucy (also pre-empted
on 5)
11 AM Jane Wyman
11:30 Yours For A Song (host Bert
Parks was an Atlanta native,
real name Bert Jacobson)
12 N Tennessee Ernie Ford Show
12:30 Father Knows Best
1 PM Snooky Lanson
1:55 News Watch
2 PM Day In Court
2:25 ABC News
2:30 Seven Keys
3 PM Queen For A Day
3:30 Who Do You Trust?
4 PM American Bandstand
4:30 Discovery '62
4:55 American Newsstand
5 PM Mickey Mouse Club
5:30 Sir Lancelot
6 PM Decoy
6:30 ABC News
6:45 Eyes Of Atlanta (what WAII's
call letters meant)
7 PM CBS News (Walter Cronkite,
pre-empted on 5)
7:15 News Watch
7:30 Ozzie And Harriet (a rerun from
the show's first Christmas, 1952,
as David and Ricky earn money
for Christmas)
8 PM Donna Reed
8:30 Leave It To Beaver
9 PM My Three Sons
9:30 McHale's Navy
10 PM Alcoa Premiere
11 PM Night Watch
11:25 Movie: TBA

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

6:55 Daily Word
7 AM College Of The Air
7:30 Country Show
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Woman's Whirl
9:20 Morning Stretch
9:30 Modern Mathematics
10 AM Calendar
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Real McCoys
11:30 Pete And Gladys
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Lunch 'n Fun
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM Millionaire
3:30 To Tell The Truth
3:55 CBS News
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM Movie: "Journey Into Fear"
6:25 Sounding Board
6:30 News
6:45 CBS News
7 PM Grand Ole Opry
7:30 Mister Ed
8 PM Perry Mason
9 PM The Nurses
10 PM Alfred Hitchcock Hour
11 PM News
11:15 Movie: "She Wore A Yellow
Ribbon"

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

6:30 College Of The Air
7 AM Cartoons
7:30 Almanac Newsreel
7:35 Hymn Time
7:45 Your Bible
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Strictly For Women
10 AM Calendar
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Real McCoys
11:30 Pete And Gladys
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Almanac
1:15 Date With Del
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM Millionaire
3:30 To Tell The Truth
3:55 CBS News
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Edge Of Night
5 PM Cartoons
5:25 Topsy-Turvy Theater
5:30 Tombstone Territory
6 PM News
6:45 CBS News
7 PM Sea Hunt
7:30 Mister Ed
8 PM Perry Mason
9 PM The Nurses
10 PM Alfred Hitchcock Hour
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Glass Key"
 
That was my 5th birthday..I almost certainly would have watched, If I were in Atlanta, Rocky and Friends, Popeye and Huckleberry Hound on Channel 2..

Another note:The Knute Rockne special on WAGA-5 sounds exactly like the one that aired on WJW-TV 8 in Cleveland just a couple weeks earlier, on Tuesday, November 27. 1962, which makes sense because both were Storer Stations. They probably bought the series in a syndicated package deal..
 
Ordinarily, I'd say my family would have been tuned to ABC that night, as we always watched Ozzie and Harriet, Donna Reed, etc, but I see Perry Mason, my father's favorite, was also on CBS. I thought Perry always came on on Saturday night. Am I having a senior moment? Also, I'd say TV was slim pickins in Macon with only one station on the air. Or was cable already a big deal there, bringing in Atlanta and Columbus stations. Or, did most people invest in huge antennas to get ATL?
 
fortmill said:
...but I see Perry Mason, my father's favorite, was also on CBS. I thought Perry always came on
on Saturday night. Am I having a senior moment?

Pick up a copy of Brooks & Marsh and relieve all those nagging moments.
Caution: may be habit-forming for classic TV geeks. ;D

Perry Mason held down the Saturday 7:30/6:30 slot for its first five seasons.

Starting with the 62-63 season, each of the last four seasons moved, either a
little or a lot:

Thursday 8:00/7:00
Thursday 9:00/8:00
Thursday 8:00/7:00
Sunday 9:00/8:00
 
oldiesfan6479 said:
Perry Mason held down the Saturday 7:30/6:30 slot for its first five seasons.

Starting with the 62-63 season, each of the last four seasons moved, either a
little or a lot:

Thursday 8:00/7:00
Thursday 9:00/8:00
Thursday 8:00/7:00
Sunday 9:00/8:00

It seemed that Perry Mason essentially lived and died by Jackie Gleason. When the lawyer show debuted in 1957, Mr. Gleason had just exited his Saturday night time slot after five years (a period including his lone 1955-56 "Classic 39" season). But after CBS persuaded "The Great One" to return to his Saturday night berth, in what in its first four years (1962-66) was known as Jackie Gleason and His American Scene Magazine - this, after Perry Mason hit the Top 10 in 1961-62 - that was the beginning of the end for Perry, Della, Burger and company.
 
Correct. In 1962 Gleason got the Saturday 7:30 slot
on CBS, and Mason moved to Thursday. The last season
of Mason (1965-66) shaped up as a rematch of Mason vs.
"Bonanza," which had run unsuccessfully on Saturdays
against Mason (1959-61). But "Bonanza" was number one
in 1965, and head-to-head on Sundays at 9 it was no contest.
 
bpatrick said:
Correct. In 1962 Gleason got the Saturday 7:30 slot on CBS, and Mason moved to Thursday. The last season of Mason (1965-66) shaped up as a rematch of Mason vs. "Bonanza," which had run unsuccessfully on Saturdays against Mason (1959-61). But "Bonanza" was number one in 1965, and head-to-head on Sundays at 9 it was no contest.

Indeed, from Bonanza's moving to Sundays at 9/8 in 1961, they left a lot of dead (ratings) victims on CBS in its wake - a short list including not only Mason, but also the last season of The Real McCoys, The Judy Garland Show, For the People (a legal drama starring future Star Trek captain William Shatner), and Garry Moore's 1966 comeback attempt. It took The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, in 1967, to make a dent in the Sunday 9/8 time slot.
 
Right. The problems began in the 1961-62 season.
"GE Theater" with Ronald Reagan became "GE True"
with Jack Webb in the fall of 1962; Jack Benny moved
to Tuesdays in the fall of 1962. The casualty list from
1962 on:

1962-63 The Real McCoys/GE True
1963-64 Judy Garland/Made In America/The
Celebrity Game (resurfaced on Thursdays
at midseason the following year)
1964-65 My Living Doll/Joey Bishop/For The People
1965-66 Perry Mason
fall 1966 Garry Moore

Yet "Bonanza" outlasted the Smothers Brothers (and
not just because of ratings), holding down the timeslot
until 1972. Then NBC put it on Tuesdays against "Maude,"
and it ended in January 1973, although I have a feeling it
would have ended anyway due to Dan Blocker's death in
the summer of '72.
 
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