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Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Thursday, October 29, 1981

From TV Guide, Atlanta Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (ABC)

6 AM University Of Michigan
6:30 News
7 AM Good Morning America (David Hartman)
9 AM Family Feud (delay from noon)
9:30 Edge Of Night (delay from 4 PM)
10 AM Match Game
10:30 Joker's Wild
11 AM Love Boat (passengers: Betty Garrett, Norman Fell,
Dody Goodman, James Coco, Melissa Gilbert, Jimmy Baio)
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 What's Happening!!
4:30 Carter Country
5 PM Happy Days Again
5:30 M*A*S*H
6 PM News
7 PM ABC News (Frank Reynolds/Peter Jennings/Max Robinson)
7:30 Entertainment Tonight (profile of Kenny Rogers--interestingly,
Ch. 2 still has the ABC News/ET combo from 7-8)
8 PM Mork & Mindy (Mork has a baby--Jonathan Winters joins the
cast as the baby)
8:30 Best Of The West (I still think this Western satire is an overlooked
gem.)
9 PM Barney Miller
9:30 Taxi
10 PM 20/20
11 PM News
11:30 Nightline (Ted Koppel)
12 M Vega$
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; guest: actress Amanda
Plummer)
9 AM Richard Simmons
9:30 Odd Couple
10 AM Las Vegas Gambit
10:30 Blockbusters
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune (Chuck Woolery is in his final
weeks as host. He will leave in late December over
a salary dispute with Merv, and Pat Sajak will become
the new host.)
11:30 Battlestars (first week of a "Hollywood Squares"-type game,
hosted by Alex Trebek--celebrities: Dick Van Patten, Joan
Van Ark, Nell Carter, Betty White)
12 N News
12:30 The Doctors
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM Another World
3 PM Texas
4 PM Bugs And Friends
4:55 News For Little People
5 PM Good Times
5:30 Laverne & Shirley & Company
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (John Chancellor in his final months as anchor)
7 PM M*A*S*H
7:30 PM Magazine (profile of Crystal Gayle, a program to prevent
teen-age drunken driving)
8 PM Harper Valley
8:30 Lewis & Clark (Gabe Kaplan as a New York-born owner of
a saloon in Luckenbach, TX; Guich Koock (pronounced "geech
cook") is the manager)
9 PM Diff'rent Strokes
9:30 Gimme A Break!
10 PM Hill Street Blues (moves to the timeslot it will occupy for the
next six years)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (guest: Angie Dickinson)
12:30 Tomorrow Coast-To-Coast (guest: Lynda Carter)

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6 AM Sunrise Semester
6:30 Bewitched
7 AM Charlie Rose
7:30 CBS News (Charles Kuralt/Diane Sawyer)
9 AM Donahue
10 AM Richard Simmons
10:30 Alice
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 (final months on CBS)
3 PM Guiding Light
4 PM Charlie's Angels
5 PM The Jeffersons
5:30 Good Times
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News (Dan Rather)
7:30 PM Magazine (same as Ch. 3)
8 PM Magnum, P.I.
9 PM CBS Movie: "Blazing Saddles"
11 PM News
11:30 Barney Miller
12 M Quincy (week-behind)
1:10 News
1:40 The Saint (week-behind)

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 Studio See
6:30 Yoga And Meditation
7 PM University News
7:15 WGTV Short Subjects
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Sneak Previews (reviews of "Chariots Of Fire,"
"Raggedy Man," "Southern Comfort, "...All The
Marbles")
8:30 Righteous Apples
9 PM Ben Wattenberg At Large (topic: medical advances
in heart disease, cancer, schizophrenia)
9:30 Atlanta In Person
10 PM Soccer Made In Germany
11 PM Movie: "Irish Eyes Are Smiling"
sign off 12:30 AM

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

6:20 News
6:30 Faith 20
7 AM Top O' The Morning
7:30 Bullwinkle
8 AM Bozo Show
9:30 Bewitched
10 AM Movie: "Three Men In White"
12 N Donahue (live)
1 PM Prisoner: Cell Block H
1:30 Independent Network News
2 PM Dick Van Dyke
2:30 Andy Griffith
3 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
3:30 Scooby Doo
4 PM Popeye
4:30 Bugs Bunny And Friends
5 PM Scooby Doo
5:30 Pink Panther
6 PM Welcome Back, Kotter
6:30 Muppet Show
7 PM Barney Miller
7:30 Laverne & Shirley & Company
8 PM Movie: "Mayday At 40,000 Feet!"
10 PM Independent Network News
10:30 News
11 PM Barney Miller
11:30 Saturday Night (SNL, cut down to an hour)
12:30 Movie: "Hombre"
2:45 News
3:15 Movie: "The Day The Hot Line Got Hot"
5:10 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 (from Salt Lake City: the pros and
cons of the draft, with James Fellows, author
of "National Defense")
10 AM Hour Magazine (guests: Jessica Savitch, Gregory
Harrison, Lynn Shahan, author of "Living Alone
& Liking It")
11 AM Love Boat
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 To Tell The Truth (Robin Ward hosts)
4:30 Happy Days Again
5 PM Wonder Woman
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Entertainment Tonight
7:30 Muppet Show (guest: Leslie Uggams)
8 PM Mork & Mindy
8:30 Best Of The West
9 PM Barney Miller
9:30 Taxi
10 PM 20/20
11 PM News
11:30 Nightline
12 M Vega$
1:10 News

WXIA Ch. 11 Atlanta (NBC)

6 AM Morning Stretch
6:30 News
7 AM Today
9 AM Hour Magazine (topics: mothers who do not
have custody of their children, how to adapt
a home for the handicapped)
10 AM Here's Lucy
10:30 Rhoda
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Battlestars
12 N News
12:30 The Doctors
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM Another World
3 PM Texas
4 PM Little House On The Prairie
5 PM Laverne & Shirley & Company
5:30 News
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News
7:30 The New You Asked For It (an exact replica
of Sherlock Holmes' sitting room; an alligator
hunt in Brazil; a London fish surgeon--Rich
Little hosts)
8 PM Harper Valley
8:30 Lewis & Clark
9 PM Diff'rent Strokes
9:30 Gimme A Break!
10 PM Hill Street Blues
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Welcome Back, Kotter
1 AM Tomorrow Coast-To-Coast (half-hour delay)

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

6:20 Farm Report
6:30 Morning Show
8 AM Wake Up With The Captain (new name for
"Captain Kangaroo")
8:30 CBS News
10 AM One Day At A Time
10:30 Alice
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 I Dream Of Jeannie
4:30 The Waltons
5:30 Sanford And Son
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Tic Tac Dough
7:30 Barney Miller
8 PM Magnum, P.I.
9 PM CBS Movie: "Blazing Saddles"
11 PM News
11:30 Quincy
12:40 The Saint

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS)

5:45 Story Of Jesus
5:50 Little Rascals
6:20 Let's Talk It Over (probably a rerun of
the previous day's show)
6:50 News
7 AM Wake Up With The Captain
7:30 CBS News
9 AM Donahue
10 AM Let's Talk It Over
10:30 Alice
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 Tom And Jerry And Friends
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Happy Days Again
5:30 M*A*S*H
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Good Times
7:30 Laverne & Shirley & Company
8 PM Magnum, P.I.
9 PM CBS Movie: "Blazing Saddles"
11 PM News
11:30 Quincy
12:40 The Saint

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

7:45 A.M. Weather
8 AM In-school programs
3:30 Through The Polka Dot Door
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Studio See
6:30 Over Easy (guest: Bobby Short)
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Nightly Business Report
8 PM Georgia Forum
9 PM By-Line (Gay Courter, author of the novel
"The Midwife")
9:30 Power Switch
10 PM Sneak Previews
10:30 Coming Up Next ("Jane," a story by Somerset
Maugham)
11 PM Dick Cavett (guest: Leslie Caron)
11:30 Captioned ABC News
sign off 12 M

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

5:50 World At Large
6 AM CNN News
7:05 Fun Time
8:05 I Dream Of Jeannie
8:35 My Three Sons
9:05 Movie: "Back Street"
11:05 Movie: "For Love Or Money"
1:05 Movie: "The Lives Of Jenny Dolan"
3:05 Fun Time
3:35 Flintstones
4:05 Munsters
4:35 Leave It To Beaver
5:05 Brady Bunch
5:35 Beverly Hillbillies
6:05 Andy Griffith
6:35 Gomer Pyle, USMC
7:05 Carol Burnett And Friends
7:35 Sanford And Son
8:05 Movie: "The McConnell Story"
10:15 News
11:05 All In The Family
11:35 Movie: "The Cossacks"
2:05 Movie: "Night Creatures"
3:45 Movie: "Gigot" (sometimes-underrated Jackie
Gleason film about a Parisian mute and the
little girl--daughter of a prostitute--he befriends)

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)

7:45 A.M. Weather
8 AM In-school programs
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 In-school programs
2 PM Electric Company
2:30 In-school programs
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Studio See
6:30 Righteous Apples
7 PM Dick Cavett (guests: the Modern Jazz Quartet)
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Georgia Forum
9 PM John Callaway Interviews (guest: Dr. Jonas Salk)
10 PM Soundstage (guests: Southside Johnny and the
Asbury Jukes)
11 PM Dick Cavett (guest: Leslie Caron)
11:30 Captioned ABC News
sign off 12 M

WATL Ch. 36 Atlanta (Ind.)

7 AM Jim Bakker
8 AM Study In The Word With Jimmy Swaggart
8:30 Rev. Alton Newton
9 AM Health Field (Dr. Frank Field)
9:30 Super Pay Cards (Art James, host of the original
'60s version, hosts this one as well.)
10 AM Financial News
4 PM Financial News Wrap-Up
5 PM Baretta
6 PM Starsky & Hutch
7 PM Kojak
8 PM Merv Griffin (Carol Burnett, tenor Giuseppe di Stefano,
fashion designer Bill Tice)
9 PM Financial News Final
10 PM Jim Bakker
11 PM Saturday Night (Karen Black is hostess; musical guest
is John Prine)
sign off 12 M

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

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 Password Plus (guests: Fred Travalena,
Marcia Wallace)
12:30 The Doctors
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM Another World
3 PM Texas
4 PM Battlestars
4:30 Daniel Boone
5:30 Dark Shadows
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Family Feud
7:30 Tic Tac Dough
8 PM Harper Valley
8:30 Lewis & Clark
9 PM Diff'rent Strokes
9:30 Gimme A Break!
10 PM Hill Street Blues
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Tomorrow Coast-To-Coast

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

6 AM US AM
7 AM Tom And Jerry
7:30 Porky & Popeye
8:30 Great Space Coaster
9 AM Wake Up With The Captain (pre-empted
on Ch. 5)
9:30 Up To The Minute (CBS, pre-empted on
Ch. 5, delay from 4 PM)
10 AM 700 Club
11:30 Another Life (soap with a Christian solution)
12 N People's Court
12:30 Make Room For Daddy
1 PM Independent Network News
1:30 Dick Van Dyke
2 PM Mister Ed
2:30 Krofft Superstars
3 PM Popeye And Friends
4 PM Tom And Jerry/Woody Woodpecker
5 PM Scooby Doo
5:30 Muppet Show (guest Liza Minnelli)
6 PM Incredible Hulk
7 PM Pink Panther
7:30 Muppet Show (guest Mac Davis)
8 PM Movie: "Citizen Kane"
10 PM 700 Club
11 PM Independent Network News
11:30 Movie: "The Lady Wants Mink"
 
still on 2....46 has sister program The Insider at 7pm....but Entertainment Tonight stays on 2 for almost 30 years
 
Wright County Guy said:
What was the daytime "Up To the Minute"? The only references I can find refer to the current overnight CBS newscast.

It was a short-lived weekday news magazine, with each edition anchored by a 60 Minutes reporter.
 
bpatrick said:
From TV Guide, Atlanta Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (ABC)
5 PM Happy Days Again

WXIA Ch. 11 Atlanta (NBC)
5 PM Laverne & Shirley & Company

Very interesting that these two shows, one a spinoff of the other, faced off against each other. I always was fascinated by the different titles once the shows hit syndication..
 
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