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Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Thursday, July 12, 1973

From TV Guide, North Georgia Edition:

NOTE: Watergate hearings were scheduled for this day and
would pre-empt regular programming on whichever network
had them that day (I think it was the following Monday that
Alexander Butterfield disclosed the existence of the White House
taping system). PBS stations may air them on tape this evening.

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

6:20 Town And Country
6:25 Farm News
6:30 Understanding Money
7 AM Today
9 AM Today In Georgia
10 AM Dinah's Place (Dr. Roy Menninger of the Menninger Clinic
discusses mental health.)
10:30 Baffle (Nanette Fabray, Marty Allen)
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Marty Allen, Patty Duke (Astin), John
Davidson, Nanette Fabray, Harvey Korman, Karen Valentine,
Robert Vaughn, Charley Weaver, 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
8 PM Helen Reddy (Gladys Knight and the Pips, Mac
Davis, the Eagles, Cheech and Chong)
9 PM Ironside
10 PM Dean Martin (William Conrad, Nancy Sinatra)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (the Pointer Sisters are guests)

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

6:30 Music For All America (not to be confused with the
1976-77 "Music Hall America")
7 AM Today
9 AM Phil Donahue
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Baffle
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
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: "Strictly Dishonorable"
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Parent Game
8 PM Helen Reddy
9 PM Ironside
10 PM Dean Martin
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6 AM Summer Semester: "Practical English For
Hispanic Americans"
6:30 University Of Michigan
7 AM CBS News (John Hart)
7:30 Atlanta A.M.
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Phil Donahue (Action for Children's Television
members Judy Chalfen and Mark Gerzon discuss
television's effect on children.)
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 $10,000 Pyramid
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 Weather
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Secret Storm (delay from 4 PM)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 It's Your Bet
4 PM The Virginian
5:30 I Love Lucy
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Roger Mudd, while Walter Cronkite
takes his annual summer leave)
7 PM News
7:30 Price Is Right
8 PM The Waltons
9 PM Movie: "Operation: Cobra" (1971 film with David
Janssen as a treasury agent; I assume this is the
pilot for "O'Hara, United States Treasury")
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Damn Yankees"

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Course Of Our Times (the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin,
1922-1953)
7:30 University News
7:45 Living Better
8 PM Playhouse New York Biography (the 1930 film "Abraham
Lincoln" with Walter Houston as Honest Abe)
9:30 Homewood (Doc and Merle Watson, the Dillards--better known
as the Darlings on "The Andy Griffith Show")
10:30 Buck Rogers (serial, probably the one with Buster Crabbe)

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
11:30 Brady Bunch
12 N Password
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 The Girl In My Life
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 (Smith/Reasoner)
7 PM Big Valley
8 PM Mod Squad
9 PM Kung Fu
10 PM Streets Of San Francisco
11 PM News
11:30 Dick Cavett (Nicol Williamson, then starring in
a revival of "Uncle Vanya"; Margaret and Elizabeth
Rogow (who?))

WQXI (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

7 AM Good Morning Atlanta
7:30 Cartoon Club
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 (day-behind from 4 PM)
11 AM One Life To Live (day-behind from 3:30 PM)
11:30 Brady Bunch
12 N News
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 The Girl In My Life
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Movie: "Guns Of The Timberland"
5 PM Bonanza
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM What's My Line? (Soupy Sales, Joanna Barnes,
film critic Leonard Harris, Arlene Francis)
7:30 To Tell The Truth (Kitty Carlisle, Peggy Cass,
Bill Cullen, Gene Rayburn)
8 PM Mod Squad
9 PM Kung Fu
10 PM Streets Of San Francisco
11 PM News
11:40 Untouchables
12:40 F Troop
1:10 News

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

6:25 Summer Semester
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 $10,000 Pyramid
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12 N News
12:20 Paul Harvey
12:25 News finishes up, I assume
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Beat The Clock
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '73 (Bert Convy, Richard Dawson,
Brett Somers (Klugman), Jaye P. Morgan (pre-
"Gong Show"), Charles Nelson Reilly, Betty White)
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Merv Griffin
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Hogan's Heroes
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM The Waltons
9 PM CBS Movie: "The Guru"
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Damn Yankees"

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 $10,000 Pyramid
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Young And The Restless
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 Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '73
4 PM Secret Storm
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 Sat 8 PM)
8 PM The Persuaders (Tony Curtis, Roger Moore)
9 PM CBS Movie: "The Guru"
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Damn Yankees"

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

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Armchair U.S.A. (tour of Los Angeles)
7:30 University News
7:45 Living Better
8 PM Playhouse New York Biography
9:30 Just Jazz (tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon)
10 PM International Performance (a musical salute
to the palace at Versailles, with music from
the era of Louis XIV, mostly the 17th century)

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

7 AM Little Rascals
8:30 Banana Splits
9 AM New Zoo Revue
9:30 Romper Room
10 AM Cartoon Carnival
10:30 Donna Reed
11 AM Living Easy With Dr. Joyce Brothers
11:30 Mike Douglas (co-host David Steinberg; Billy DeWolfe,
B.J. Thomas, entomologist Alice Gray, a discussion of
the book "Sybil" with author Flora Schreiber and Sybil's
psychiatrist Cornelia Wilbur)
1 PM Movie: "My Brother Jonathan"
3 PM Cartoons
3:30 Banana Splits
4 PM Leave It To Beaver
4:30 Flipper
5 PM Andy Griffith (Michael J. Pollard as Barney's cousin Virgil--
BTW, Michael J. Fox adopted his name from Pollard, one
of his favorite actors)
5:30 Beverly Hillbillies (Dash Riprock dates Miss Jane, to Elly May's
chagrin.)
6 PM Wild Wild West
7 PM Rifleman
7:30 Andy Griffith
8 PM CFL Football (teams not given)
10:30 Run For Your Life (time approximate)
11:30 Movie: "Among The Living"
12:45 Movie: "My Brother Jonathan"

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Course Of Our Times (the founding of the
Common Market)
6:30 How Do Your Children Grow? (second of two
on the relationship between alcoholism and
family life)
7 PM Firing Line (abortion on demand: attorney Harriet
Pilpel (for), author John Noonan (against))
8 PM Playhouse New York Biography
9:30 Just Jazz
10 PM International Performance

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Romper Room
9:30 Not For Women Only (Part 4 on ways to beat inflation;
guest is consumer affairs expert Lilly Bruck)
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Baffle
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 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 Real McCoys
5 PM Felony Squad
5:30 Wanted: Dead Or Alive
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Rifleman
7:30 Bill Anderson (guest: Barbara Mandrell)
8 PM Helen Reddy
9 PM Ironside
10 PM Dean Martin
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show

WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)

5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Hodgepodge Lodge
7:30 Project 360 (unemployed people air their problems
to a panel of job counselors)
8 PM Playhouse New York Biography
9:30 Just Jazz
sign off 10 PM

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

11 AM Fury
11:30 Cartoon Carnival
12 N 700 Club
2 PM Jim And Tammy
3 PM Deputy Dawg
3:30 Mighty Mouse
4 PM Lone Ranger
4:30 Superman
5 PM Batman (Frank Gorshin as the Riddler, x2)
6 PM Dennis The Menace
6:30 Mayberry R.F.D.
7 PM Honeymooners
7:30 TBA
8 PM 700 Club
10 PM Teach-In
11 PM Rawhide

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

3 PM Gigantor
3:30 Cartoons
4 PM Underdog
4:30 Star Performance
5 PM Tell It And Sell It
6 PM Movie: "Hannah Lee" (watch for the stars of this
1953 Western: Macdonald Carey, better known as
Dr. Tom Horton on "Days Of Our Lives"; and Joanne Dru,
Peter Marshall's ("Hollywood Squares") sister)
8 PM Movie: "Two Dollar Bettor"
10 PM Movie: "Kid Monk Baroni" (Leonard Nimoy is in this mix of
boxing, street gangs, and religious reform from '52)
11:30 Movie: "Run For The Hills"
 
"Music for All America", shown on WRCB-3 Chattanooga during that summer of '73, was a syndicated Southern gospel show featuring the Blue Ridge Quartet, and was taped at WSPA-7 Spartanburg, SC, where the quartet were based back then; they broke up in the mid-'80s after the passing of one of its members.
 
bpatrick said:
WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

9 PM Movie: "Operation: Cobra" (1971 film with David
Janssen as a treasury agent; I assume this is the
pilot for "O'Hara, United States Treasury")

Your assumption is correct, bp. That was O'Hara's pilot, one that launched a one-season effort in 1971-72 by Jack Webb to translate his Dragnet approach into a federal agency, since WB (and Quinn Martin) locked him out of doing the FBI, which would have been the logical end of the governmental trail (all manner of speculation, of course, has been made about what Webb would have done had he stayed at WB and not run 77 Sunset Strip into the ground). O'Hara was notable as being Webb's first hourlong show and one the few he didn't do for NBC.
 
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