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Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Wednesday, January 3, 1973

From TV Guide, Georgia (Atlanta) Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

6:15 Town And Country
6:20 Farm News
6:25 Navy Film (the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean)
6:55 Earl Nightingale
7 AM Today (discussion of rape victims and the law, pianist
Gary Griffin)
9 AM Today In Georgia (Ray Geiger, editor of the "Farmer's
Almanac," Rev. Bill Self)
9:55 Earl Nightingale
10 AM Dinah's Place (Eileen Ford, of the Ford Modeling Agency)
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Elizabeth Allen, Harvey Korman, Michele
Lee, James MacArthur, Rose Marie, Vincent Price, Demond Wilson)
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 Adam-12 (week-behind from 8 PM)
8 PM Movie: "Texas Across The River" (Rat Packers
Dean Martin and Joey Bishop star, from '66)
10 PM Search
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (Billy Wilder, Jack Lemmon)
1 AM Earl Nightingale
1:05 News

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Mayberry R.F.D.
9:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Concentration
11 AM Sale Of The Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What Or Where
12:55 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
1 PM Merry-Go-Round
1:20 Lucille Rivers
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: "Postman's Knock"
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 UFO
8:30 Madigan
10 PM Search
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6 AM Sunrise Semester: "20th-Century American Art"
6:30 Emory University
7 AM CBS News (John Hart)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Phil Donahue (psychologists Nathan Azrin and Richard
Foxx discuss toilet-training two-year-olds)
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM It's Your Bet
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
3:30 Secret Storm
4 PM Virginian
5:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7 PM News
7:30 Hollywood Squares (Raymond Burr, Buddy Hackett,
Florence Henderson, Carl Reiner, Paul Lynde)
8 PM Sonny And Cher Comedy Hour (guest: Jean Stapleton;
in one sketch Jean is Julie Andrews and Cher is Carol
Burnett)
9 PM Medical Center
10 PM Cannon
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Cry Of The Hunted" (from '53: watch for William
Conrad, at the time playing Matt Dillon on radio; also watch
for Polly Bergen)

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 Sesame Street
7 PM Zoom
7:30 Why! (topics: "Olympic Politics" and "Religious Freedom In America")
8 PM Apart From The Crowd (people who have chucked their 9-5 jobs for
some other undertaking: a truck driver turned farmer, an ad executive
turned furniture finisher, a computer programmer turned gardener,
a physician turned auto mechanic)
8:30 Playhouse New York ("A Nice Place To Visit" satirizes New York circa
1970; "Present Tense" dramatizes a professor's strained family relationship)
10 PM People, Places And Things (true story of a 15-year-old who runs away
from home)
sign off 11 PM

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

7 AM Country Music
7:30 New Zoo Revue
8 AM Funtime
9 AM News
9:30 Virginian
11 AM Not For Women Only
11:30 Bewitched
12 N Password (Carol Burnett, Burt Reynolds)
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Love, American Style (Karen Valentine, Davy Jones,
Monte Markham, Diane Keaton)
4:30 ABC Afterschool Special ("William," an introduction
to Shakespeare for kids--"Green Acres" airs today
at 5:30 instead of 4:30, and "Ponderosa" ("Bonanza"
reruns at 5) is pre-empted)
5:30 Green Acres
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News (Howard K. Smith/Harry Reasoner)
7 PM Virginian
8:30 Royal Variety Performance (Rowan and Martin host a
benefit for the British Olympic team, taped in May at
the London Palladium; performing are the Osmonds,
Lily Tomlin, Des O'Connor, Roger Moore, and Liza Minnelli)
10 PM Alan King (a satirical look at 1972 with Larry Storch, Jerry
Stiller and Anne Meara, Johnny Brown, Nancy Dussault, and
Rona Barrett)
11 PM News
11:30 ABC News--At Ease (Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner
take a more serious lookback at '72, with correspondents
Frank Reynolds, Jim McKay, George Watson, Howard Tuckner,
and John Rolfson)

WQXI (WXIA) Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

7 AM Cartoons
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 (a "Barefoot In The Park" episode,
week-behind from 4 PM)
11 AM Password (Carol Burnett, Burt Reynolds, day-behind from 12 N)
11:30 Bewitched
12 N News
12:20 Lucille Rivers
12:30 Split Second
1 PM All My Children
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 Movie: "Hot Rods To Hell"
5 PM Ponderosa
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM What's My Line? (Linda Cristal, Anita Gillette,
Allen Ludden, Soupy Sales)
7:30 To Tell The Truth (Kitty Carlisle, Peggy Cass,
Bill Cullen, Gene Rayburn)
8 PM Paul Lynde
8:30 Royal Variety Performance
10 PM Alan King
11 PM News
11:40 Movie: "Return From The Sea"
1 AM News

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

6:25 Sunrise 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 Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N News
12:20 Paul Harvey
12:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
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 Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
3:30 Secret Storm
4 PM Family Affair
4:30 Merv Griffin (Mac Davis, Corbett Monica)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Dragnet
7:30 To Tell The Truth (same as Ch. 11)
8 PM Sonny And Cher Comedy Hour
9 PM Medical Center
10 PM Cannon
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Cry Of The Hunted"

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 Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
12 N Where The Heart Is
12:25 CBS News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Alamanac
1:15 Date With Del
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Guiding Light
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
3:30 Secret Storm
4 PM Family Affair
4:30 Ponderosa
5:30 To Tell The Truth (Orson Bean, Kitty Carlisle,
Bill Cullen, Anita Gillette)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Hollywood Squares (Godfrey Cambridge, Eva Gabor,
Martin Milner, Burt Reynolds, Dinah Shore, Karen
Valentine, Paul Lynde)
8 PM Sonny And Cher Comedy Hour
9 PM Medical Center
10 PM Cannon
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Cry Of The Hunted"

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

8:30 What's New
9 AM Electric Company
9:30 In-school programs
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM TBA
7:30 Why!
8 PM Georgians Speak
8:30 Firing Line (Anthony Burgess discusses "A Clockwork
Orange" and young people in general.)
9:30 Decision: The Conflicts Of Harry S Truman (he discusses
his stand on civil rights, including the desegregation of
the armed forces in 1948)
10 PM Kitty Hawk To Paris (the first 24 years of aviation, from
the Wright Brothers (1903) to Charles Lindbergh (1927))
sign off 11 PM

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

7 AM Little Rascals
8 AM Banana Splits
8:30 Flintstones
9 AM New Zoo Revue
9:30 Romper Room
10 AM Cartoon Carnival
10:30 Jack LaLanne
11 AM Topper
11:30 Mike Douglas
1 PM Movie: "Kiss Me Deadly"
3 PM Timmy And Lassie
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Leave It To Beaver
4:30 Petticoat Junction
5 PM Andy Griffith
5:30 Beverly Hillbillies
6 PM Wild Wild West
7 PM Rifleman
7:30 Banacek (NBC, week-behind, pre-empted on Ch. 2)
9 PM NBA Basketball: Hawks-Bucks
11 PM Twilight Zone (time approximate)
11:30 Movie: "Take One False Step"
1:30 Movie: "Kiss Me Deadly"

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)

10 AM Sesame Street
10:30 In-school programming
2:30 Electric Company
3 PM In-school programming
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Film
6:30 Firing Line (same as Chs. 15, 18)
7:30 Cinema Showcase (guest: Robert Redford, discussing
"The Candidate" and "Jeremiah Johnson")
8 PM Apart From The Crowd
8:30 Playhouse New York
10 PM Soul! (Al Green performs his hits)
11 PM Black Viewpoints
sign off 11:30 PM

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Romper Room
9:30 Not For Women Only
10 AM Dinah's Place
10:30 Concentration
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 News
1:10 Woman'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 Movie: "A Gathering Of Eagles"
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Real McCoys
7:30 Felony Squad
8 PM Adam-12
8:30 Madigan
10 PM Search
11 PM Western Star Theater
11:30 Tonight Show

WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)

8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9 AM In-school programs
10 AM Sesame Street
11 AM Electric Company
11:30 In-school programs
4:30 Art For Everyone
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Sesame Street
7 PM Hodgepodge Lodge
7:30 Playing The Guitar (Frederick Noad)
8 PM Apart From The Crowd
8:30 Playhouse New York
sign off 10 PM

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

3:30 This Is The Life
4 PM Insight
4:30 Fury
5 PM Mr. Piper
5:30 Dennis The Menace
6 PM Jim And Tammy
7 PM Of Lands And Seas (Kentucky's Bluegrass region)
8 PM Kathryn Kuhlman
8:30 Pattern For Living
9 PM 700 Club
10 PM 700 Club
sign off 11 PM

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

10 AM Modern TV Playhouse
10:30 Prayer And Praise
12 N Movie: "Hell's Kitchen" (watch for Ronald Reagan,
from '39)
1:35 Movie: "Inspector General" (Danny Kaye, from '49)
3:15 Cartoon Carnival
4 PM Movie: "Dodge City"
6 PM Movie: "Destination Tokyo"
8 PM Movie: "Hell's Kitchen"
10 PM Movie: "Inspector General"
11:30 Movie: "Dodge City"
sign off 1:15 AM
 
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