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Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga/Macon Wednesday, November 3, 1976

From TV Guide, North Georgia Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

6 AM Navy Film
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today (analysis of the Presidential
election--Carter beat Ford--with
Tom Brokaw, Jane Pauley, Floyd Kalber)
9 AM Hollywood Squares (week-behind delay from
10:30 AM: Vic Braden, Charlie Callas, Earl
Holliman, Rose Marie, Bernadette Peters,
McLean Stevenson, Karen Valentine, Anson
Williams, Paul Lynde)
9:30 50 Grand Slam (delay from noon: short-lived
attempt to mount a "$64,000 Question"-style
show, complete with isolation booths--Tom
Kennedy hosts)
10 AM Sanford And Son
10:30 Today In Georgia
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Stumpers (Lin Bolen tried to update the look of
NBC's games. On her own, this is what she came
up with: an old-fashioned "Password"-style game and
a traditional host, Allen Ludden. Guests: Don Galloway
and Rick Hurst)
12 N News
12:30 Divorce Court
1 PM Liars Club
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Doris Day
4:30 Odd Couple
5 PM The FBI
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley
7:30 Name That Tune (this was the year Golden Medley
winners entered an isolation booth in an attempt
to name the $100,000 mystery tune)
8 PM Movie: "The African Queen"
10 PM The Quest (Tim Matheson and Kurt Russell in yet
another failed attempt to revive the Western)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (guest Alan King)
1 AM Tomorrow (guests Tony Martin and Cyd Charisse)
2 AM News

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

6:25 Romper Room
6:55 News For Little People
7 AM Today
9 AM 700 Club
10 AM Sanford And Son
10:30 Hollywood Squares (Hermione Baddeley, Mike Farrell,
Phyllis George, Janet Leigh, Rich Little, Connie Stevens,
Wayland and Madame, George Gobel, Paul Lynde)
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Stumpers
12 N News
12:30 The FBI
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Mickey Mouse Club (the original)
5 PM Little Rascals
5:25 News For Little People
5:30 Bewitched
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Adam-12
7:30 Partridge Family (Howard Cosell guests as
the family fights the senseless killing of whales.)
8 PM Name That Tune
8:30 NBC Movie: "Stalk The Wild Child"
10 PM The Quest
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6:30 Sunrise Semester: "Communication: The
Invisible Environment"
7 AM CBS News (Bruce Morton/Hughes Rudd)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo (Bill Anderson guests in
a show from Opryland.)
9 AM Phil Donahue (topic: female sexuality)
10 AM Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM All In The Family
3:30 Bewitched
4 PM Mike Douglas (co-host: Anthony Newley;
guests: Louis Armstrong and Pearl Bailey in
clips from past shows--this week was Mike's
15th year on the air and he was airing lots
of clipfests)
5:30 Adam-12
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7:30 $128,000 Question (the "real" revival of "The
$64,000 Question"--same rules, contestants
in the isolation booth, a season-ending playoff
for another $64,000--but no Hal March; Mike
Darrow hosts this season; Alex Trebek, the next,
and neither can generate big ratings)
8 PM CBS Movie: "Juggernaut"
10 PM Campaign '76: analysis of national and state races,
anchored by Walter Cronkite
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "The Last Survivors"
1 AM News

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

In-school programs until

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Sesame Street
6:30 Zoom
7 PM Yoga For Health
7:30 It's A Small World (tour of the Channel Islands
off the California coast)
8 PM Live From Lincoln Center: Beverly Sills in "The
Barber Of Seville"
11 PM Movie: "Sherlock Holmes And The Secret Weapon"
(brings Holmes and Watson into World War II)
sign off 12:10 AM

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

6:50 New Tomorrow
7 AM Funtime
7:30 Bozo's Big Top
8 AM Good Morning America (David Hartman, joined in progress)
9 AM Phil Donahue (conclusion of a discussion of rape,
with Susan Brownmiller (author of "Against Our Will")
and Eldridge Cleaver, who in "Soul On Ice" admitted
he had committed a rape)
10 AM Big Valley
11 AM Edge Of Night (delay from 4 PM)
11:30 Happy Days
12 N Don Ho
12:30 All My Children
1 PM Ryan's Hope
1:30 Family Feud
2 PM $20,000 Pyramid (Phyllis George, David Groh)
2:30 One Life To Live
3:15 General Hospital
4 PM Leave It To Beaver
4:30 Beverly Hillbillies
5 PM Brady Bunch
5:30 Andy Griffith
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News (Harry Reasoner/Barbara Walters)
7 PM My Three Sons
7:30 Family Affair
8 PM Bionic Woman (guest: John Houseman)
9 PM Baretta
10 PM Charlie's Angels
11 PM News
11:30 The Rookies
12:40 Mystery Of The Week: "Violence In Blue"

WXIA 11 Alive Atlanta (ABC)

6:30 Not For Women Only (Bette Davis discusses
her work with the United Fund)
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Dinah! (Phyllis George, Lynda Carter, actors James
Carroll Jordan and Richard Jordan, Linda Lavin)
NOTE: 11 Alive normally aired "Dinah!" for 90 minutes but
today she's on for an hour. See the next listing.
10 AM Rona Barrett (guests: Carol Burnett, Valerie Harper,
Sally Struthers, Nancy Walker) (11 Alive normally
aired "$20,000 Pyramid" on a week-behind at 10:30,
so I assume this had aired on ABC 1:30-2:30 the
previous Wednesday.)
11 AM Edge Of Night
11:30 Happy Days
12 N News
12:30 All My Children
1 PM Ryan's Hope
1:30 Merv Griffin (from Puerto Vallarta: Gene Hackman,
Candice Bergen, Richard Widmark--pre-empts "Family
Feud" and forces a delay of "Pyramid")
2:30 One Life To Live
3:15 General Hospital
4 PM Bonanza
5 PM Emergency One!
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Concentration
7:30 To Tell The Truth (Soupy Sales, Peggy Cass, Bill
Cullen, Kitty Carlisle)
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM Baretta
10 PM Charlie's Angels
11 PM News
11:30 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (guest: Gore Vidal)
12 M The Rookies (half-hour delay)
1:10 The Protectors (11 Alive pre-empts "Mystery Of
The Week")

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

5:55 Farm Report
6 AM Sunrise Semester
6:30 Morning Show
8 AM CBS News
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM All In The Family
3:30 Match Game '76 (Richard Dawson, Roz Kelly,
Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers, Jimmie
Walker, Betty White)
4 PM Tattletales (Peter and Joan Graves, Dan Rowan
and Joanna Young, Rick and Lenore Lohman)
4:30 Merv Griffin (from Las Vegas: Liberace, Jimmie
Walker, Korean singing group the Little Angels,
the Argentinian Gauchos dancers, impressionist
Babe Pier)
5:55 Paul Harvey
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Gunsmoke (guest: Pernell Roberts)
8 PM CBS Movie: "Juggernaut"
10 PM Campaign '76
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "The Last Survivors"

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS)

6:50 News
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Let's Talk It Over
9:30 Phil Donahue (guest: Gloria Steinem--stations
could carry Phil for 30 minutes then, as Ch. 13 did)
10 AM Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
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
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM All In The Family
3:30 Match Game '76
4 PM Gilligan's Island
4:30 Gunsmoke
5:30 Adam-12
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 America: The Young Experience (dramatization
of the voyage of the Mayflower)
8 PM CBS Movie: "Juggernaut"
10 PM Campaign '76
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "The Last Survivors"

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 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 College Today
7 PM Anyone For Tennyson? ("An Invitation
To Romance," 20 love poems)
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Georgia Forum
9 PM Live From Lincoln Center (one-hour delay)
sign off 12 M

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

5:40 World At Large
6:10 News
6:30 Romper Room
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8 AM Howdy Doody (short-lived revival, Buffalo
Bob Smith and all)
8:30 Lassie
9 AM Hazel
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 AM Movie: "The Mask Of Dimitrios" (I wonder how
many movies Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet
made together? This was one.)
11:55 News
12 N Love, American Style
12:30 Movie: "Expresso Bongo" (Cliff Richard is in this
'59 English comedy.)
2:25 News
2:30 Mickey Mouse Club
3 PM Flintstones
3:30 Munsters
4 PM Monkees
4:30 Gilligan's Island (the Wellingtons, who sang the theme
song, appear as rock group the Mosquitoes)
5 PM Family Affair
5:30 Partridge Family
6 PM Beverly Hillbillies
6:30 Andy Griffith
7 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8 PM Mission: Impossible
9 PM Movie: "The Comancheros"
11 PM Dark Shadows
11:30 Movie: "Whiplash"
1:20 Movie: "Expresso Bongo"
3:30 News
3:50 Movie: "Destry Rides Again" (and see what
the boys in the back room will have)

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)

9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Infinity Factory
11 AM In-school programs
1 PM Big Blue Marble
1:30 In-school programs
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Human Relations And School
Discipline
7 PM Crockett's Victory Garden
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Live From Lincoln Center
11 PM Anyone For Tennyson? (Henry Fonda
joins in a presentation of 14 poems on
"The American Dream".)
11:30 Captioned ABC News
sign off 12 M

WATL Ch. 36 Atlanta (Ind.)

5 PM Entertainment Page
6 PM Prize Line
6:30 Entertainment Page
7 PM Total Information Television ("Hee Haw"'s
Don Harron is guest.)
8 PM Person-To-Person Television
9 PM Total Information Television
10 PM Person-To-Person Television
11 PM Prize Line
11:30 PTL Club

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

6 AM PTL Club
7 AM Today
9 AM PTL Club continues
10 AM Sanford And Son
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Stumpers
12 N 50 Grand Slam
12:30 Gong Show ("Chucky Baby" Barris)
12:55 NBC News (no anchor given)
1 PM Noon Over Middle Georgia
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Lassie
5 PM Emergency One!
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Bewitched
7:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
8 PM The Practice (Danny Thomas as a Groucho-
like doctor--I still think this is an overlooked gem)
8:30 NBC Movie: "Stalk The Wild Child"
10 PM The Quest
11 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
11:30 Tonight Show

WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)

8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9 AM In-school programs
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 In-school programs
1:30 Electric Company
2 PM In-school programs
3:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Villa Alegre
7 PM Travelogue (Eastern Asia)
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Live From Lincoln Center
sign off 11 PM

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

6:30 News/Health News
6:45 Jeanne Palmer (financial news)
7 AM Bozo's Big Top
7:30 Rin Tin Tin
8 AM Mighty Mouse
8:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
9 AM Cartoon Festival
9:30 Dennis The Menace (worth avoiding--Gale
Gordon is playing Mr. Wilson)
10 AM Mister Ed
10:30 The Rock
11 AM Charisma
11:30 700 Club
1 PM Dr. Kildare
2 PM Lone Ranger
2:30 Huck And Yogi
3 PM Porky Pig
3:30 Popeye
4 PM Superman
4:30 Batman (Vincent Price as Egghead)
5 PM Brady Bunch
5:30 McHale's Navy
6 PM Dick Van Dyke
6:30 Rifleman
7 PM Big Valley
8 PM 700 Club
9:30 The Rock
10 PM Vep Ellis At Harvest Temple
10:30 Gerald Derstine Shares
11 PM Best Of Groucho
11:30 Thrillmaker Sports
12 M News/Health News

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

3:55 Dr. J. Harold Smith
4 PM Uncle Waldo
4:30 Mike Douglas
6 PM Rin Tin Tin
6:30 Lassie
7 PM Animal World
7:30 Sammy And Company (Sammy Davis Jr.'s
talk show inspired SCTV's "Sammy Maudlin
Show" sketches.)
9 PM Hixson High School Football Highlights
10 PM Music City
10:30 Galloping Gourmet
11 PM Dr. J. Harold Smith
sign off 11:05 PM
 
7 PM WSB Mon-Fri NBC News
Sat Hee Haw (to 8)

WAGA Mon-Fri CBS News
Sat Music Hall America (to 8)

WXIA Mon-Fri Concentration
Sat Space: 1999 (to 8)

7:30 WSB Mon Let's Make A Deal
Tue Wild Kingdom
Wed Name That Tune
Thu $25,000 Pyramid
Fri Bobby Vinton

WAGA Mon Confrontation, alternating with TV5 Reports
Tue Price Is Right
Wed $128,000 Question
Thu Andy Williams
Fri Muppet Show

WXIA Mon-Fri To Tell The Truth

On Sundays the networks had the 7-8 slot; WSB had Disney; WAGA, 60 Minutes;
WXIA, Bill Cosby's short-lived variety show.
 
Easy to see why WTCG 17 was going so strong at this time......re-run afternoons everybody could enjoy. And they were all just 30 minutes. No marathons or 2 episodes in a row back then.
 
bpatrick said:
From TV Guide, North Georgia Edition:

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

6:50 New Tomorrow
7 AM Funtime
7:30 Bozo's Big Top
8 AM Good Morning America (David Hartman, joined in progress)
9 AM Phil Donahue (conclusion of a discussion of rape,
with Susan Brownmiller (author of "Against Our Will")
and Eldridge Cleaver, who in "Soul On Ice" admitted
he had committed a rape)
10 AM Big Valley
11 AM Edge Of Night (delay from 4 PM)
11:30 Happy Days
12 N Don Ho
12:30 All My Children
1 PM Ryan's Hope
1:30 Family Feud
2 PM $20,000 Pyramid (Phyllis George, David Groh)
2:30 One Life To Live
3:15 General Hospital
4 PM Leave It To Beaver
4:30 Beverly Hillbillies
5 PM Brady Bunch
5:30 Andy Griffith
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News (Harry Reasoner/Barbara Walters)
7 PM My Three Sons
7:30 Family Affair
8 PM Bionic Woman (guest: John Houseman)
9 PM Baretta
10 PM Charlie's Angels
11 PM News
11:30 The Rookies
12:40 Mystery Of The Week: "Violence In Blue"

Regarding WTVC, I might add that their news operation was known at the time, coincidentally, as Action News and that the 6pm and 11pm newscasts were anchored by Bob Johnson, Don Welch and Darrell Patterson. Johnson, who was the primary weeknight anchor, and Welch, who did weather forecasts around that time, have retired while sportscaster Darrell Patterson is still at Channel 9 holding down the sports fort every weeknight.

And by the way, I was in Chattanooga a few months back during the summer and watched Channel 9's 11pm newscast and got to see Darrell in action. As to how I learned about WTVC's anchor lineup in '76, I learned about it from some clips dating to November of 1976 that I came across on YouTube.

As a matter of fact, if one types in "wtvc 1976" in the search box on YouTube's website, you can find video of an almost complete newscast from around that time. I might add that wtih the advent of YouTube, anything's possible. ;)
 
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