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Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Wednesday, January 3, 1968

In answer to a request for the regular daytime schedules, from
TV Guide, Georgia (Atlanta) Edition.

NOTE: TV Guide doesn't say if Chs. 8 and 18 had in-school programs,
so I'll start with the first listed program for each channel.

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

6:10 Big Picture
6:40 Town And Country
6:45 Farm News, Weather
6:50 Rise 'n' Shine
7 AM Today (Elsa Lanchester; Hal Painter, author of a book about
the custody battle for his son; Donald Lunetta, curator of
a Denver planetarium, who talks about a new ultrasensitive
telescope; NBC correspondents Kenneth Bernstein (Moscow),
Jack Paxton (Vietnam), Alvin Rosenfeld (Israel), and Garrick
Utley (Berlin))
9 AM Today In Georgia
10 AM Snap Judgment (Henry Morgan, Pat Carroll)
10:25 NBC News (Nancy Dickerson)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality (Totie Fields, Barry Nelson, Nipsey Russell)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Kaye Ballard, John Gary, Ruta Lee, Jan Murray,
William Shatner, Jackie Vernon)
12 N News (Hal Suit)
12:30 Movie: "A Blueprint For Murder"
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say! (Steve Allen and his wife Jayne Meadows)
4 PM Match Game (Henry Morgan, Dina Merrill)
4:25 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
4:30 Popeye Club
5:30 Mister Ed
6 PM News (Ray Moore, Dick Horner)
7 PM Huntley-Brinkley Report
7:30 Virginian
9 PM Kraft Music Hall (Simon and Garfunkel, Nancy Wilson,
Victor Borge)
10 PM Run For Your Life
11 PM Newsroom (Bert Roselle)
11:30 Tonight Show

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Girl Talk (Hermione Gingold, actress Lynn Bari, Richard
Rodgers' wife Dorothy)
9:30 Cisco Kid
10 AM Snap Judgment
10:25 NBC News
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Personality
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Eye Guess
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1 PM WRCB Bulletin
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4 PM Match Game
4:25 NBC News
4:30 Mister Ed
5 PM Merv Griffin (Richard Nixon, David Susskind,
Selma Diamond)
6 PM News, Weather, Sports
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Virginian
9 PM Kraft Music Hall
10 PM Run For Your Life
11 PM Bulletin (Gray/Fischer)
11:30 Tonight Show

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6 AM Sunrise Semester: "Psychological Novel"
6:30 Coach Lawson
7 AM News, Weather
7:05 CBS News (Joseph Benti)
7:30 Editorial
7:35 Mr. Pix
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Don Barber
9:30 Dick Van Dyke (day-behind from 11:30 AM)
10 AM Candid Camera (Allen Funt plays the jealous husband
of Vivian Vance, to the confusion of an onlooker)
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Secret Storm (probably a day-behind from 4 PM)
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 News (local)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Divorce Court
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party (guest: Sebastian Cabot)
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Gilligan's Island
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-hosts: singers Earl Wrightson and Lois Hunt;
Judith Crist, Barbara Parkins of "Peyton Place," Peter Cook and
Dudley Moore)
6 PM Truth Or Consequences
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM Panorama News (Paul Shields)
7:30 Movie: "Teahouse Of The August Moon"
9:30 He & She (another overlooked gem, with Richard Benjamin and
Paula Prentiss, and--best of all--Jack Cassidy as Jetman, creation
of Benjamin's character Dick Hollister; this show was rerun in 1970
to better ratings than it got the first time around)
10 PM Jonathan Winters (the Smothers Brothers, Barbara McNair, the
Strawberry Alarm Clock)
11 PM Panorama News (Jim Axel)
11:30 Movie: "Samson Against The Sheik"

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/WCLP (WNGH) Ch. 18 Chatsworth (NET)

4 PM Fact And Fancy
4:30 Foreign Languages
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Kindergarten
6 PM Aunt Lollipop
6:15 Friendly Giant
6:30 (8) Business Roundtable/(18) What's New
7 PM Growing South
7:30 Coach Lawson
8 PM Spectrum (how British doctors and dentists apply hypnosis)
8:30 Biography (Mike Wallace describes the life of John Barrymore)
9 PM News In Perspective (review of 1967)
10 PM Power Of The Dollar (why American management is effective
in international business and finance)

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

7:10 News
7:15 Upward Look
7:30 Jack LaLanne
8 AM Donna Reed (delay of at least a week, from 10:30 AM)
8:30 Physical Education
9 AM Funtime
10 AM Mike Douglas (George Jessel, the Clancy Brothers and
Tommy Makem, designer Mr. Blackwell)
11 AM Temptation
11:25 ABC News (Marlene Sanders)
11:30 How's Your Mother-In-Law? (Richard Dawson, Richard
Deacon, Harvey Lembeck)
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM The Fugitive
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Baby Game
2:55 Children's Doctor
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Dark Shadows
4 PM Dating Game
4:30 Flintstones
5 PM Bob Brandy
5:30 ABC News (Bob Young)
6 PM News (Gil Norwood)
6:30 Laredo
7:30 Mr. Dickens Of London (Sir Michael Redgrave as the
ghost of Charles Dickens, encountered in his home by
a tour guide played by Juliet Mills)
8:30 The Second Hundred Years
9 PM ABC Movie: "Roustabout" (Elvis Presley, from '64)
11 PM News (Bill McAfee)
11:30 Joey Bishop (Chuck Connors; Diana Dors, the former
Mrs. Richard Dawson and the subject of Paul Anka's
hit "Diana")

WAII (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

8 AM Cartoon Carnival
9 AM Ed Allen Time
9:30 Dateline Atlanta
10 AM Dating Game (delay of at least a day, from 4 PM)
10:30 Donna Reed
11 AM Temptation
11:25 ABC News
11:30 How's Your Mother-In-Law?
12 N Bewitched
12:30 Treasure Isle
1 PM The Fugitive
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Baby Game
2:55 Children's Doctor
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Dark Shadows
4 PM Marshal Dillon
4:30 Wanted: Dead Or Alive
5 PM News (Bill Conover)
5:30 ABC News
6 PM Merv Griffin (James Coburn, Pia Lindstrom, Totie
Fields, comedians the Pickle Brothers, singer Martin
Yarborough, society columnist Doris Lilly)
7:30 Mr. Dickens Of London
8:30 The Second Hundred Years
9 PM ABC Movie: "Roustabout"
11 PM News (Bill Conover/Art Collier)
11:30 Joey Bishop

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

6:35 Sunrise Semester
7:05 CBS News
7:30 Morning Show
8:30 School Program
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Candid Camera
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 News, Weather
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Lunch 'n Fun
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 What's New? (women's program, not the
NET kids' show)
4:35 Super Time
5:30 Combat!
6:30 CBS News
7 PM News (Schoolcraft/Wick)
7:30 Lost In Space
8:30 Beverly Hillbillies
9 PM Green Acres
9:30 He & She
10 PM Jonathan Winters
11 PM News, Sports (Ray White)
11:30 Movie: "The Day The Earth Froze" (Marvin Miller,
of "The Millionaire" fame, stars in this one from '64)

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/ABC)

6:30 Cartoon Club
7 AM News, Weather
7:05 CBS News
7:30 Leave It To Beaver
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM General Hospital
9:30 Everybody's Talking (week-behind, as this is the show's
last week; panelists are Pat Carroll, Milt Kamen, and
Leonard Nimoy)
10 AM Candid Camera
10:30 Beverly Hillbillies
11 AM Andy Griffith
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News (Joseph Benti)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Almanac
1:15 Date With Del
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Dark Shadows
5 PM Rawhide
6 PM News, Sports
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Mission: Impossible (delay from Sun 10 PM)
8 PM Branded
8:30 Beverly Hillbillies
9 PM Green Acres
9:30 He & She
10 PM Jonathan Winters
11 PM 11th Hour Report
11:30 Joey Bishop

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

4 PM Movie: "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers"
5:40 News, Sports, Weather
6 PM Adventure Theatre
6:30 Flintstones
7 PM Robert Taylor's Detectives
8 PM Movie: "Panhandle" (being a Western, the title must
refer to either the Texas or Oklahoma panhandle)
10 PM Richard Boone (an innovative 1963-64 NBC series; Boone
employed a repertory cast that performed a new play each
week, but the show was buried by "Petticoat Junction" and
Jack Benny)
11 PM Alfred Hitchcock Presents
11:30 News, Weather
11:35 The Good Life (religious program, with John Powers)
sign off 12:45 AM
 
bpatrick said:
11:30 Joey Bishop (Chuck Connors; Diana Dors, the former
Mrs. Richard Dawson and the subject of Paul Anka's
hit "Diana")

I always thought that Anka based that song on a babysitter that he had a crush on.
 
You and I have heard two different versions of the origins of
the song, then. But Anka may have laid that to rest in a 2005
NPR interview when he said it was based on a girl at his church
that he hardly knew.
 
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