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Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Tuesday, October 1, 1974

From TV Guide, North Georgia Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

6 AM Pattern For Living
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today (author Dee Brown discusses "The
Westerners," about the opening of the
American West)
9 AM Today In Georgia
10 AM Name That Tune (Dennis James hosts the
daytime version; Tom Kennedy, the syndicated
access-time version.)
10:30 Winning Streak
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Hollywood Squares (George Gobel, Jack Cassidy,
Adrienne Barbeau, Pearl Bailey, Rich Little, Rose
Marie, Charley Weaver, Paul Lynde)
12 N News
12:30 Merv Griffin (Rev. Billy Graham, writer Anita Loos,
Hermione Gingold)
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 How To Survive A Marriage
4 PM Big Valley
5 PM Mod Squad
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News (John Chancellor)
7:30 Wild Kingdom
8 PM Adam-12
8:30 NBC Movie: "The Disappearance Of Flight 412"
10 PM Police Story
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (Johnny's 12th anniversary, a
clipfest)
1 AM Tomorrow (Marvin Bates, who recreates radio
broadcasts of baseball games through sound effects)
2 AM News

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today
9 AM Phil Donahue (guest: magician-escape artist Randi)
10 AM Name That Tune
10:30 Winning Streak
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News
12:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes (Pat McCormick, Joyce Haber,
Jack Cassidy, Carol Wayne, Barbi Benton, Joey Bishop)
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1 PM Jackpot!
1:30 Jeopardy!
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 How To Survive A Marriage
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
5:30 Bewitched
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (John Chancellor)
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Hollywood Squares (Eva Gabor, Ernest Borgnine,
George Gobel, Totie Fields, John Davidson, Sandy
Duncan, Rich Little, Charley Weaver, Paul Lynde)
8 PM Adam-12
8:30 NBC Movie: "The Disappearance Of Flight 412"
10 PM Police Story
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

5:30 University Of Michigan
6 AM Sunrise Semester: "The Meaning Of Death"
6:30 Captain Kangaroo (day-behind)
7:30 Atlanta A.M.
8 AM CBS News (Hughes Rudd)
9 AM Phil Donahue (Priscilla Presley shows fall and
holiday fashions.)
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Gambit
11 AM Now You See It (the original, with Jack Narz)
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM What's My Line? (panel: Dr. Joyce Brothers, Gene
Rayburn, Arlene Francis, Soupy Sales)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '74 (Betty White, Richard Dawson, Charles
Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers)
4 PM Bewitched
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-hostess: former championship skier
Jill Kinmont; guests: James Michener, Gregory Peck,
Roger Moore, Beau Bridges)
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7:30 Ozzie's Girls
8 PM Good Times
8:30 M*A*S*H
9 PM Hawaii Five-O
10 PM Barnaby Jones
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Money Trap"

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

In-school programs until

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Brother Buzz
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Zoom
7:30 Forum
8 PM America (Alistair Cooke talks about 17th-
century settlements in the South.)
8:30 5 String Breakdown: Basic Banjo
9 PM That Uncertain Paradise (the transformation
of Micronesia in the 20th century)
9:30 Woman
10 PM Performance (Baltimore's Ars Antiqua performs
medieval and baroque music.)
10:30 UGA Highlights: South Carolina-Georgia, with
coach Vince Dooley
sign off 11:30 PM

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

7 AM Stoneman Family
7:30 News
8 AM New Zoo Revue
8:30 Funtime
9:30 Movie: "The Wild Season"
11:30 Brady Bunch
12 N Password (Patty Duke Astin and John Astin
vs. Ed and Nancy Asner)
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 $10,000 Pyramid (Soupy Sales, Anita Gillette)
4:30 Lassie
5 PM Beverly Hillbillies
5:30 The Lucy Show (guest: Ethel Merman)
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News (Howard K. Smith/Harry Reasoner)
7 PM Raymond Burr (Ironside)
8 PM Happy Days
8:30 ABC Movie: "The Stranger Within" (Barbara Eden
in a dramatic role)
10 PM Marcus Welby, M.D.
11 PM News
11:30 Wide World Mystery: "Hard Day At Blue Nose" (the
murder of a young woman at a dude ranch, with
John and Patty Duke Astin)

WXIA Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

6:30 Good Morning Atlanta
7 AM Rise And Shine
8 AM Green Acres
8:30 Our Miss Brooks
9 AM Hazel
9:30 Dick Van Dyke
10 AM Password (day-behind, Bert and Anne Convy vs.
Ed and Nancy Asner)
10:30 $10,000 Pyramid (day-behind)
11 AM One Life To Live (day-behind)
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 Truth Or Consequences
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Movie: "Take Her, She's Mine"
5:30 Dealer's Choice (some of you in New York
may have watched this in primetime; host:
Jack Clark, hostess: Jane Nelson, who I still
think was hotter than Vanna)
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Concentration
7:30 Hollywood Squares (John Davidson, Florence
Henderson, Rich Little, Rose Marie, Suzanne
Pleshette, Carl Reiner, Charley Weaver, Paul
Lynde)
8 PM Happy Days
8:30 ABC Movie: "The Stranger Within"
10 PM Marcus Welby, M.D.
11 PM News
11:30 Bonanza
12:30 Wide World Special: "Paramount Presents..."
(Gloria Swanson, Jack Benny, and Burt Lancaster
host a clipfest of Paramount films, had apparently
aired the previous Friday, since "Wide World" wasn't
seen on Monday during football season.)
2 AM News

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

6:25 Farm Report
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7 AM Morning Show
8 AM CBS News
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Gambit
11 AM Now You See It
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N News
12:25 Paul Harvey
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM That Girl
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Price Is Right
3:30 Match Game '74
4 PM Tattletales
4:30 Merv Griffin (Jackie Vernon, Richard Dawson,
Anson Williams, comedienne Susan Tolsky)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Mod Squad
8 PM Good Times
8:30 M*A*S*H
9 PM Hawaii Five-O
10 PM Barnaby Jones
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Savage" (Martin Landau as an
investigative reporter, Barbara Bain is also
in this.)

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/ABC)

6:50 Story Of Jesus
6:55 Robins Profile/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 Gambit
11 AM Now You See It
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 '74
4 PM Tattletales
4:30 Bonanza
5:30 To Tell The Truth (Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen,
Alan Alda, Barbara Howar)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Treasure Hunt
8 PM Good Times
8:30 M*A*S*H
9 PM Hawaii Five-O
10 PM Barnaby Jones
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Savage"

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

In-school programs until

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Villa Alegre
6 PM Electric Company
6:30 Zoom
7 PM Antiques
7:30 By-Line
8 PM America
8:30 Evening At Symphony (Seiji Ozawa and
the Boston Symphony Orchestra)
9:30 Woman
10 PM What To Do Till The Wrecker Comes (preventive
at-home maintenace for the car)
10:30 Burglar-Proofing
sign off 11 PM

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

5:40 News
6 AM Wilburn Brothers (guests: Jeanne Pruett and
Ronny Robbins--don't know who he is, but she
sings her one hit: "Satin Sheets")
6:30 New Zoo Revue
7 AM Romper Room
7:30 Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8:30 Mister Ed
9 AM Flipper
9:30 Andy Griffith
10 AM Movie: "Each Dawn I Die" (good Cagney prison picture)
12 N The Lucy Show
12:30 Beat The Clock (guest: William Shatner)
1 PM Movie: "Love Letters"
3 PM Speed Racer
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Gilligan's Island
4:30 Leave It To Beaver
5 PM I Love Lucy
5:30 Beverly Hillbillies (Charlie Ruggles as Mrs. Drysdale's father)
6 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
6:30 That Girl
7 PM Hogan's Heroes
7:30 Andy Griffith (guest William Schallert)
8 PM Father Knows Best (guest Richard Crenna)
8:30 The Lucy Show (guest Pat Harrington Jr.)
9 PM Movie: "A Girl In Every Port" (Groucho Marx, William Bendix)
10:45 Hilarious House Of Frightenstein
11 PM The Saint
12 M Movie: "Johnny Allegro"
1:30 Movie: "Love Letters"
3:45 News
4:05 Movie: "Because Of You"

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)

In-school programs until

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Villa Alegre
6 PM Electric Company
6:30 Love Tennis
7 PM International Cookbook
7:30 Interfusions
8 PM Civilisation: "The Frozen World" (the
Dark Ages)
9 PM Firing Line
10 PM Caught In The Act (guest Martin Mull)
10:30 People In Jazz (composer-arranger H.B. Barnum)
11 PM Captioned ABC News
sign off 11:30 PM

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Not For Women Only
9:30 New Zoo Revue
10 AM Name That Tune
10:30 Winning Streak
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jackpot!
12:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Anne Johnson (local women's show)
1:30 Jeopardy!
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 How To Survive A Marriage
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Untamed World
5 PM Virginian
6:30 NBC News
7 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
7:30 Marshal Dillon
8 PM Adam-12
8:30 NBC Movie: "The Disappearance Of Flight 412"
10 PM Police Story
11 PM Rifleman
11:30 Tonight Show

WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)

In-school programs until

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Villa Alegre
6 PM Electric Company
6:30 Earth Lab
7:30 Zee Cooking School (cooking lessons for kids)
8 PM America
8:30 Evening At Symphony
9:30 Woman
10 PM Love Tennis
10:30 Burglar-Proofing
sign off 11 PM

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

7 AM Bozo's Big Top
7:30 News
8 AM Dennis The Menace
8:30 Real McCoys
9 AM Movie: "Invitation"
10:45 News
11 AM Lone Ranger
11:30 Mayberry R.F.D.
12 N 700 Club
1:30 It's A New Day
2 PM Bozo's Big Top
2:30 Porky Pig
3 PM Jeff's Collie
3:30 Dr. Kildare
4:30 To Tell The Truth (would return to Ch. 11
in 1976)
5 PM Real McCoys
5:30 Room 222
6 PM Movie: "The Narrow Margin"
8 PM 700 Club
9:30 Clear And Free
10 PM Warren Roberts (gospel music)
11 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
11:30 Honeymooners
sign off 12 M

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

4:30 Little Rascals
5 PM TV Bingo
6 PM Coffee Break
6:05 Gigantor
6:30 Cartoons And Comedies
7 PM Peter Gunn
7:30 Ringgold Highlights (high-school football;
the school is in Ringgold, GA)
8:30 Hunter (from the '50s, the first of three
shows with this title)
9 PM Praise The Lord
10 PM Midnight Meditation
10:05 Energy And All That
10:30 Cartoons And Comedies
11 PM Hollywood Guest Shot
11:30 Star And Story
sign off 12 M
 
WTCG - Channel 17 (Ind.)

6:00 AM - Wilburn Brothers (Jeanne Pruett and Ronny Robbins - don't know who he is)

Ronny Robbins is the son of Marty Robbins who didn't quite follow in the footsteps of his dad Marty in that Ronny recorded several songs (I don't recall Ronny recording an album) and charted with a few of them but they weren't hits.
 
Interesting that most of the syndicated comedy programs back then are still going strong today
"Bewitched" "Andy" "Beverly Hillbillies" "Lucy"..........who would have thought.......35 years later?
 
bpatrick said:
WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

12 N Password (Patty Duke Astin and John Astin
vs. Ed and Nancy Asner)

WXIA Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

10 AM Password (day-behind, Bert and Anne Convy vs.
Ed and Nancy Asner)

Was this the ill-fated "Password All-Stars" tournament format? If so, Atlanta viewers would probably know who won at 10 AM just by looking at channel 9's description at 12 Noon.
 
"Password All-Stars" didn't start until Nov. 18. This
does appear to have been some sort of celebrity-couple
competition (I'm not sure if it was a tournament); as it
turned out, John and Patty Duke Astin were on most of the
week (three days), but on Friday's show on Ch. 9 (Monday,
Oct. 7 on Ch. 11) the couples were Orson and Carolyn Bean
vs. Dionne Warwick and Bill Elliott, neither of whom had faced
the Astins. I don't have a TV Guide for the next week so I
don't know if this competition continued.
 
Neither Chattanooga or Atlanta's CBS stations cleared Young & The Restless in 1974.

By the 1975-76 season, Y & R was the 3rd highest rated soap, so I wonder when WDEF and WAGA started carrying the show.
 
Y&R began airing on WAGA in the summer of 1976; I
think WDEF began soon afterward, no later than 1978.

Access shows:

WSB Mon, Fri Let's Make A Deal
Tue Wild Kingdom
Wed Name That Tune
Thu The New Candid Camera
Sat Hee Haw
Sun News at both 7 and 10:30

WAGA Mon TV5 Reports/Tell The Mayor
Tue Ozzie's Girls
Wed Wild Wild World Of Animals
Thu Price Is Right
Fri Treasure Hunt
Sat The World At War
Sun News (7 PM)/Police Surgeon (10:30)

WXIA Mon Norm Van Brocklin (Falcons highlights)
Tue, Thu Hollywood Squares
Wed Help Thy Neighbor
Fri Masquerade Party
Sat Reasoner Report (7 PM)/Action Line (7:30)
Sun National Geographic (7-8)

WRCB Mon Wild Wild World Of Animals
Tue, Thu Hollywood Squares
Wed Price Is Right
Fri Name That Tune
Sat Hee Haw
Sun Wild Kingdom (7 PM)/Police Surgeon (10:30)

WTVC Mon-Fri Ironside reruns
Sat John Swafford (gospel music, 7-8)
Sun Movie (6-8)

WDEF Mon-Fri Mod Squad reruns
Sat The Fugitive
Sun News (7 PM)/Clayton Star Time (Knoxville-based
country-music show at 10:30)

WMAZ Mon, Thu Let's Make A Deal
Tue Treasure Hunt
Wed Hollywood Squares
Fri Price Is Right
Sat Lawrence Welk
Sun Rat Patrol (7 PM)/Close Up (local, 10:30)

WCWB Mon-Fri Marshal Dillon
Sat Hee Haw
Sun Wild Kingdom (7 PM)/Movie (10:30)
 
bpatrick said:
WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)
10 AM Name That Tune (Dennis James hosts thedaytime version; Tom Kennedy, the syndicated
access-time version.)

Meanwhile, Mr. James hosted the syndicated access-time version of The Price Is Right - the daytime version of which was hosted by Bob Barker who was also still presiding over the syndicated Truth or Consequences (as aired at 2:30 P.M. on WAGA and at 7 P.M. on both WMAZ and WRCB) at this time.
 
"T or C" aired on WXIA, not WAGA (they had "Edge Of Night"
at 2:30). Barker quit "T or C" when "Price" expanded to an
hour; his agent felt he would be overexposed being on 90 minutes
a day in most markets. Then in 1977 he took over nighttime "Price"
from Dennis James.

BTW, James once said he was quite unhappy with the cosmetic
changes the mad programmer Lin Bolen imposed on him--longer
hair and sideburns, wide-lapel jackets, wide ties, etc. He said
he would wince when he looked at himself. It's also my understanding
that Ms. Bolen wanted her emcees to play certain roles: Alex Trebek
was supposed to be a brooding, slightly-threatening type; Chuck Woolery,
a country boy; Geoff Edwards, a playboy type with his permed hair and
leisure suits; Jim McKrell, a nice guy with a hint of the mischievous--he
was told never to wear any but plaid sports jackets.

Makes me wonder what she would have done to Drew Carey. :)
 
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