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Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Thursday, January 25, 1973

From TV Guide, Georgia (Atlanta) Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

6:15 Town And Country
6:20 Farm News
6:25 Silent Heritage: "Northern Plains"
6:55 Earl Nightingale
7 AM Today (Frank McGee/Barbara Walters)
9 AM Today In Georgia (Andy Griffith is a guest--one
of his earliest television appearances was on
Dick Van Dyke's show on Ch. 11 in the '50s,
where he did "What It Was, Was Football".)
9:55 Earl Nightingale
10 AM Dinah's Place (guest: Lyle Waggoner)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century (Joe Garagiola)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Marty Allen, John Davidson,
Arthur Godfrey, Michael Landon, Rose Marie,
Denise Nicholas, Karen Valentine, Wally Cox,
Paul Lynde)
12 N News
12:30 Merv Griffin
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Truth Or Consequences
5 PM Perry Mason
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News (John Chancellor)
7:30 Truth Or Consequences (Ch. 2 ran different
shows each night at 7:30, so this wasn't on
twice a day.)
8 PM Flip Wilson (guests: Ed Sullivan, Sammy Davis Jr.,
Marilyn Michaels)
9 PM Ironside
10 PM Dean Martin (guests: Joey Bishop and Petula Clark)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Earl Nightingale
1:05 News

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Phil Donahue
9:50 Lucille Rivers (sewing)
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
1 PM Merry-Go-Round
1:30 Three On A Match
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Movie: "Because You're Mine"
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Parent Game
8 PM Flip Wilson
9 PM Ironside
10 PM Dean Martin
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6:30 University Of Michigan
7 AM CBS News (John Hart)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Phil Donahue (guest: Ann Miller)
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM It's Your Bet
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
3:30 Secret Storm
4 PM The Virginian
5:30 I Love Lucy
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM News
7:30 Price Is Right (Dennis James)
8 PM The Waltons
9 PM CBS Movie: "The Hallelujah Trail"
11:40 News
12:10 CBS Movie: "Murder Once Removed"

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

In-school programs until

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM TV High School
7:30 University News
7:45 Living Better ("Clothing For Pre-School Children")
8 PM The Advocates (Should money earmarked for road
construction go to mass-transit projects instead?)
9 PM An American Family (the Louds)
10 PM Lawmakers (Georgia legislature's activities today--
this has long been a place for UGA broadcast journalism students
to get reporting experience.)
sign off 11 PM

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

7 AM Country Music
7:30 New Zoo Revue
8 AM Funtime
9 AM News
9:30 The Virginian
11 AM I Love Lucy (the Hedda Hopper episode)
11:30 Bewitched
12 N Password (Elizabeth Montgomery, Bert Convy)
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Love, American Style
4:30 Green Acres
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News (Howard K. Smith/Harry Reasoner)
7 PM National Geographic (topic: insects)
8 PM Mod Squad (Fernando Lamas and Jim Backus play
the suspects in the death of a steelworker pushed
12 stories on a construction project.)
9 PM Kung Fu
10 PM Streets Of San Francisco
11 PM News
11:30 Dick Cavett (Orson Welles makes his third appearance
and gets off a great line about his early success: "I
began as a star and I've been working my way down
ever since.")

WQXI (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

7 AM Cartoons
8:30 My Favorite Martian
9 AM Hazel
9:30 Dick Van Dyke
10 AM Courtship Of Eddie's Father
10:30 Love, American Style (week-behind)
11 AM Password (day-behind)
11:30 Bewitched
12 N News
12:20 Lucille Rivers
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Movie: "Period Of Adjustment"
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM What's My Line? (Arlene Francis, June Lockhart,
Henry Morgan, Soupy Sales)
7:30 To Tell The Truth (Orson Bean, Kitty Carlisle,
Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen)
8 PM Mod Squad
9 PM Kung Fu
10 PM Streets Of San Francisco
11 PM News
11:40 Movie: "Return Of The Gunfighter"
1 AM News

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

6:55 Farm Report
7 AM CBS News
7:30 Morning Show
8:30 Romper Room
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N News
12:20 Paul Harvey
12:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Beat The Clock (Gene Wood; guest John
Forsythe)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
3:30 Secret Storm
4 PM Vin Scully (guest: Nanette Fabray)
4:30 Merv Griffin (Joan Fontaine narrates a fashion
show with the daughters of Dean Martin,
Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Ricardo Montalban)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Dragnet (with Harry Morgan)
7:30 To Tell The Truth (Kitty Carlisle, Bill Cullen,
Hugh Downs, Anne Meara)
8 PM The Waltons
9 PM CBS Movie: "The Hallelujah Trail"
11:40 News
12:10 CBS Movie: "Murder Once Removed"

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/ABC)

6:50 News
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Let's Talk It Over
9:30 General Hospital
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Where The Heart Is (will be replaced on March 26
by "The Young And The Restless")
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Almanac
1:15 Date With Del
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
3:30 Secret Storm
4 PM Vin Scully
4:30 Bonanza
5:30 To Tell The Truth (Kitty Carlisle, Peggy Cass,
Bill Cullen, Gene Rayburn)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Partridge Family (ABC, delay from Fri 8:30)
8 PM UFO
9 PM CBS Movie: "The Hallelujah Trail"
11:40 News
12:10 CBS Movie: "Murder Once Removed"

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

8:30 What's New
9 AM Electric Company
9:30 In-school programs
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM TV High School
7:30 University News
7:45 Living Better
8 PM The Advocates
9 PM An American Family
10 PM Lawmakers
sign off 11 PM

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

7 AM Little Rascals
8 AM Flintstones
8:30 Banana Splits
9 AM New Zoo Revue
9:30 Romper Room
10 AM Cartoon Carnival
10:30 Jack LaLanne (R.I.P.)
11 AM Topper
11:30 Mike Douglas
1 PM Movie: "The Spanish Gardener"
3 PM Timmy And Lassie
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Leave It To Beaver
4:30 Petticoat Junction (Merlin Olsen plays a
mountain man looking for a wife.)
5 PM Andy Griffith
5:30 Beverly Hillbillies (Wally Cox as birdwatcher
Caspar Biddle)
6 PM Wild Wild West
7 PM Rifleman
7:30 Andy Griffith (Andy's jealous of Ellie's friendship
with Mayberry's new doctor.)
8 PM Movie: "Town Without Pity" (I remember Gene Pitney's
recording of the title song better than I do the movie--
watch for Frank Sutton in this one.)
10 PM Run For Your Life
11 PM Twilight Zone
11:30 Movie: "Canon City" (I've mentioned this one a couple
of times: the true story of the escape of 12 prisoners
from Colorado State Penitentiary in December 1947.)
1:05 Movie: "The Spanish Gardener"

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)

10 AM Sesame Street
11 AM In-school programs
2:30 Electric Company
3 PM In-school programs
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Nine To Get Ready (agencies that can help
the parents of a newborn baby)
6:30 Maggie And The Beautiful Machine (exercises
for women in the last weeks of pregnancy,
and how to breathe during delivery)
7 PM Championship Bridge
7:30 Folk Guitar (Laura Weber)
8 PM The Advocates
9 PM An American Family
10 PM World Press
10:30 Thirty Minutes With...
sign off 11 PM

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Romper Room
9:30 Not For Women Only
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News
1 PM News
1:10 Women's World
1:30 Three On A Match
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 Return To Peyton Place
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Movie: "The Sword Of Ali Baba"
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Real McCoys
7:30 Parent Game
8 PM Flip Wilson
9 PM Ironside
10 PM Dean Martin
11 PM Western Star Theater
11:30 Tonight Show

WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)

8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9 AM In-school programs
11 AM Electric Company
11:30 In-school programs
4:30 Stepping Out
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Aesthetic Venture
7:30 Income Tax Assistance
8 PM The Advocates
9 PM An American Family
10 PM English 1110K

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

3:30 This Is The Life (by coincidence, this seems to tie
with tonight's episode of "Mod Squad": a steelworker
is consumed by a fear of death)
4 PM Insight (shades of Vince Edwards' 1970 "Matt Lincoln"--
Ed Asner plays a man who runs a hotline for troubled teens)
4:30 Fury
5 PM Davey And Goliath
5:30 Dennis The Menace
6 PM Jim And Tammy
7 PM Of Lands And Seas
8 PM Teach-In
9 PM 700 Club
sign off 11 PM

WRIP (WDSI) Ch. 61 Chattanooga (Ind.)

10 AM Modern TV Playhouse
10:30 Prayer And Praise
12 N Movie: "Flying Down To Rio" (Fred and Ginger)
1:35 Movie: "Double Dynamite" (Groucho once said,
"The title had nothing to do with the story."
He was referring to Jane Russell, who caused
quite a stir in the '40s and '50s as what she later
described herself: "a full-figured gal"--
to put it delicately. Frank Sinatra, in one of his
more forgettable performances (his career was
in decline when this movie was made in '51), also
appears.)
3:15 Cartoon Carnival
4 PM Movie: "The Las Vegas Story"
6 PM Western Theatre
6:30 Modern TV Playhouse
7 PM John Swafford (gospel music, would later have stints
on Ch. 9, then Ch. 3)
8 PM Movie: "Flying Down To Rio"
10 PM Movie: "Double Dynamite"
11:30 Movie: "The Las Vegas Story"
sign off 1:10 AM

NOTE: The following changes occur on March 26:

CBS 10:30 AM $10,000 Pyramid replaces Price Is Right
11:30 AM Love Of Life is cut to 25 minutes; CBS News
follows at 11:55
12 N The Young And The Restless replaces Where
The Heart Is (Ch. 13 only; 5 and 12 won't add
it before 1976 and then at 1 PM)
3 PM Price Is Right replaces Love Is A Many Splendored
Thing
3:30 Hollywood's Talking debuts (Ch. 5 moves It's Your Bet
to this time)
4 PM Secret Storm returns to its old timeslot (Ch. 5 airs it
at 1 PM), replacing Vin Scully (CBS should have known
that he'd have his hands full doing Dodgers games in the
summer)

NBC 10:30 AM Baffle replaces Concentration (Wizard Of Odds, with Alex
Trebek, won't replace Sale Of The Century at 11 AM until
July.)

ABC will not make changes until July: reruns of The Brady Bunch replace Bewitched
at 11:30 AM; The Girl In My Life replaces The Dating Game at 2:30 PM.
 
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