Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Tuesday, October 27, 1981

[bpatrick]

From TV Guide, Atlanta Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (ABC)

6 AM Pattern For Living
6:30 News
7 AM Good Morning America (David Hartman)
9 AM Family Feud
9:30 Edge Of Night
10 AM Match Game
10:30 Joker's Wild
11 AM Love Boat
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 (Reynolds/Jennings/
Robinson)
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
8 PM Happy Days
8:30 Laverne & Shirley
9 PM Three's Company
9:30 Too Close For Comfort
10 PM Hart To Hart
11 PM News
11:30 Nightline (Ted Koppel)
12 M Fantasy Island
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)
9 AM Richard Simmons
9:30 Odd Couple
10 AM Las Vegas Gambit
10:30 Blockbusters (Bill Cullen, although
Bill Rafferty hosted a later version)
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Battlestars (Alex Trebek hosts this
"Hollywood Squares" lookalike)
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)
7 PM M*A*S*H
7:30 PM Magazine
8 PM NBC Movie: "The Brady Girls
Get Married"
10 PM Marriage Is Alive And Well
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Tomorrow Coast-To-Coast

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6 AM Sunrise Semester: topic not given
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
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
8 PM Bugs Bunny's Howl-Oween Special
8:30 Fat Albert Halloween Special
9 PM The Jeffersons
9:30 Barney Miller
10 PM Election Returns: Atlanta city run-off
elections
11:30 Barney Miller
12 M Alice
12:35 McCloud
2:40 News

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 Big Blue Marble
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Cosmos
9 PM Odyssey (the excavation of the
ancient Roman baths in--where
else?--Bath, England)
10 PM Backyard Gardener
11 PM Matinee At The Bijou (feature:
"Gung Ho," from 1943)
sign off 12 M

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: "Madison Avenue" (filmed
in 1962, roughly the era when
"Mad Men" takes place)
12 N Donahue
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: "Airport 1975"
10 PM Independent Network News
10:30 News
11 PM Barney Miller
11:30 Saturday Night (edited SNL episodes)
12:30 Movie: "The Hustler"
3:15 News
3:45 Movie: "Blonde Dynamite"
5 AM 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
10 AM Hour Magazine
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)
4:30 Happy Days Again
5 PM Wonder Woman
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Entertainment Tonight
7:30 Muppet Show
8 PM Happy Days
8:30 Laverne & Shirley
9 PM Three's Company
9:30 Too Close For Comfort
10 PM Hart To Hart
11 PM News
11:30 Nightline
12 M Fantasy Island
1:10 News

WXIA Ch. 11 Atlanta (NBC)

6 AM Morning Stretch
6:30 News
7 AM Today
9 AM Hour Magazine
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 11 Alive Newsroom Early Edition
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News
7:30 New You Asked For It (Rich Little)
8 PM Movie: "The Hawaiians" (I suspect
11 Alive pre-empted NBC all evening
to cut in with local election returns.)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Welcome Back, Kotter
1 AM Tomorrow Coast-To-Coast

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

6:20 Farm Report
6:30 Morning Show
8 AM Wake Up (With The Captain)
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 Body Human: "Facts For Girls"
5 PM The Body Human: "Becoming A Woman"
5:30 Sanford And Son
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Tic Tac Dough
7:30 Barney Miller
8 PM Bugs Bunny's Howl-Oween Special
8:30 Fat Albert Halloween Special
9 PM CBS Movie: "Sunburn" (Farrah Fawcett
stars)
11 PM News
11:30 Alice
12:05 McCloud

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS)

5:45 Story Of Jesus
5:50 Little Rascals
6:20 Let's Talk It Over
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 The Body Human: "Facts For Girls"
5 PM The Body Human: "Becoming A Woman"
5:30 M*A*S*H
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Good Times
7:30 Laverne & Shirley & Company
8 PM Bugs Bunny's Howl-Oween Special
8:30 Fat Albert Halloween Special
9 PM CBS Movie: "Sunburn"
11 PM News
11:30 Alice
12:05 McCloud

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
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer Report
7:30 Nightly Business Report
8 PM Cosmos
9 PM Odyssey
10 PM Duchess Of Duke Street (Part 7)
11 PM Bill Curry: Georgia Tech Football
11:30 Captioned ABC News
sign off 12 M

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

5:10 Rat Patrol
5:40 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: "The Lady Takes A Flyer"
11:05 Movie: "See How They Run" (from 1964,
one of the first made-for-TV movies)
1:05 Movie: "Johnny O'Clock"
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 Sins Of Rachel Cade"
10:35 News
11:05 All In The Family
11:35 Movie: "Satan's Harvest"
1:30 Movie: "Thunder Over The Plains"
3:20 Movie: "Sherlock Holmes And The
Voice Of Terror"
4:35 Mission: Impossible

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 Food Preserving
7 PM Dick Cavett
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Cinema Showcase (Peter Falk
discusses his comedy about
women's wrestling, "All The
Marbles.")
8:30 Coming Up Next... (Lewis Grizzard
is one of several local columnists
reading their own works. He was a
bit like Jeff Foxworthy.)
9 PM Nova
10 PM Odyssey
11 PM Dick Cavett
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
9:30 Super Pay Cards
10 AM Financial News
4 PM Financial News Wrap Up
5 PM Baretta
6 PM Starsky & Hutch
7 PM Kojak
8 PM Merv Griffin (since this is four days
before Halloween, it's appropriate
that one of the guests is Orson Welles,
perpetrator of the "War Of The Worlds"
hoax on radio)
9 PM Financial News Final
10 PM Jim Bakker
11 PM Saturday Night (how's that for program flow?)
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
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 NBC Movie: "The Brady Girls
Get Married"
10 PM Marriage Is Alive And Well
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Tomorrow Coast-To-Coast

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

6 AM US A.M.
7 AM Tom And Jerry
7:30 Porky & Popeye
8:30 Great Space Coaster
9 AM Wake Up (With The Captain) (shades
of things to come--Ch. 46 airing a
CBS program)
9:30 Up To The Minute (another one--aired
on the network at 4 PM)
10 AM 700 Club
11:30 Another Life (on this soap, the
characters solve their problems through
the Christian solution)
12 N People's Court (Judge Wapner, still the best
IMHO)
12:30 Make Room For Daddy
1 PM INN 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
6 PM Incredible Hulk
7 PM Pink Panther
7:30 Muppet Show
8 PM Tic Tac Dough
8:30 Bullseye
9 PM Barnaby Jones
10 PM 700 Club
11 PM INN News
11:30 Gerry Faust: Notre Dame Football
12 M Notre Dame Football: edited replay
of USC-Notre Dame
sign off 2 AM

 

[DToTheJ]

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)
8 PM Bugs Bunny's Howl-Oween Special

Pardon me if I'm a little too technical, but... shouldn't this be titled, "Bugs Bunny's Hop-o-ween Special"?

 

[Markd]

I wonder what WRIP 61 Chattanooga's schedule was like at this point. If you can find it I would like to see it.

Thanks

 

[bpatrick]

The Bugs Bunny title makes sense, I suppose,
but the title with "Howl-Oween" is what CBS's
ad says.

For some reason the Atlanta edition dropped
Ch. 61, then picked it up again at some later
date; it's in issues from the '90s, by which time
it was WDSI, a Fox affiliate. I will, however,
give you Ch. 61's schedule for Tuesday, August
31, 1982, from the Knoxville-Chattanooga edition:

6 AM Morning Stretch
6:30 Rick Igou (talk)
9:30 Jack LaLanne
10 AM 700 Club
11:30 Jimmy Swaggart (this is probably
Study In The Word)
12 N Make Room For Daddy
12:30 My Little Margie
1 PM Movie: "A Hatful Of Rain"
3 PM Gigantor
3:30 Dudley Do-Right
4 PM McHale's Navy
4:30 Best Of Jackie Gleason
5 PM Kojak
6 PM Star Trek
7 PM Buck Rogers In The 25th Century
8 PM Movie: "But Not For Me"
10 PM INN News
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 PM Mission: Impossible
12 M Words Of Life

Don't know that this will answer your question,
but you can see that Ch. 61 has started to move
away from its mostly-religious format by this time.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)
8 AM Wake Up (With The Captain)
8:30 CBS News

I'm guessing WDEF-TV did their own one-hour delay here, as it would likely
be simpler than getting Telco to switch them to the special Central zone feed
via WBBM-TV Chicago for early morning, then getting their line switched back
to the regular NYC origination for "daytime" at 10 ET...unless they also had a
a microwave link from WLAC-TV Nashville.

WANX (WGCL) Ch. 46 Atlanta (Ind.)
9 AM Wake Up (With The Captain) (shades
of things to come--Ch. 46 airing a
CBS program)
9:30 Up To The Minute (another one--aired
on the network at 4 PM)

So, how can Up To The Minute be up to the minute...if it's a day behind? <wink>

 

[bpatrick]

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)
8 AM Wake Up (With The Captain)
8:30 CBS News

I'm guessing WDEF-TV did their own one-hour delay here, as it would likely
be simpler than getting Telco to switch them to the special Central zone feed
via WBBM-TV Chicago for early morning, then getting their line switched back
to the regular NYC origination for "daytime" at 10 ET...unless they also had a
a microwave link from WLAC-TV Nashville.

I'm not sure. Then-sister station WNCT Greenville/New Bern/
Washington, NC, did the same thing (it carried the Captain at
9 AM for years because its local "Carolina Today" ran until 8 AM,
followed by the CBS Morning News). WRBL Columbus, GA, would
have been another in this situation, since it covers two time zones.
But I have no idea whether any of these stations tapped into Chicago
or tape-delayed the feed themselves.

WANX (WGCL) Ch. 46 Atlanta (Ind.)
9 AM Wake Up (With The Captain) (shades
of things to come--Ch. 46 airing a
CBS program)
9:30 Up To The Minute (another one--aired
on the network at 4 PM)

So, how can Up To The Minute be up to the minute...if it's a day behind? <wink>