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Retro: Atlanta/Chattanooga, Thursday, November 13, 1986

from Rome News-Tribune

2 WSB ABC Atlanta
5:00 CNN Headline News
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
6:15 News
6:30 ABC World News This Morning
6:45 News
7:00 Good Morning America (guest Christopher Reeve; report on "pray TV"; part 4 of 5)
9:00 Oprah Winfrey
10:00 The Judge
10:30 Superior Court
11:00 Fame, Fortune and Romance
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12:00 News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 People's Court
4:30 Newlywed Game
5:00/5:30 M*A*S*H
6:00 News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Entertainment Tonight (interview with Harry Anderson)
8:00 Our World (highlights from May-July 1943; including a report on the Detroit race riots)
9:00 The Colbys "Deceptions"
10:00 20/20 (a special division of the NYPD that kelps keep runaways off the street)
11:00 News
11:30 Benson
12:00 Nightline
12:30 True Confessions
1:00 Love Connection
1:30 Card Sharks
2:00 Please Help Me Live
3:00 CNN Headline News

3 WRCB NBC Chattanooga
6:00 Today's Business
6:30 NBC News at Sunrise
7:00 Today (guest author Christina Oxenberg; report on crime in America)
9:00 Good Times
9:30 Laverne and Shirley
10:00 Family Ties
10:30 Sale of the Century
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Scrabble
12:00 Super Password
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Bugs Bunny and Friends
3:30 Dennis the Menace
4:00 Diff'rent Strokes
4:30 Bewitched
5:00 Three's Company
5:30 The Jeffersons
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Jeopardy!
8:00 Cosby Show "Vanessa's Rich"
8:30 Family Ties "Mrs. Wrong" (part 2 of 2)
9:00 Cheers "Young Dr. Weinstein"
9:30 Night Court "Dan's Operation" (part 2 of 2)
10:00 Hill Street Blues "Say Uncle"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (guest the Amazing Randi)
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman (guests Teri Garr and Joseph Heller)
1:30 sign-off

5 WAGA CBS Atlanta
5:00 CBS News Nightwatch
6:00 PM Magazine
6:30 CBS Morning News
7:00 Today's Business
7:30 News
8:00 Hour Magazine (guest Joan Fontaine)
9:00 Donahue (inside an AIDS ward)
10:00 Sally
10:30 Card Sharks
11:00 Price is Right
12:00 News
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Magnum, PI
5:00 Divorce Court
5:30 The Jeffersons
6:00 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 $1.000.000 Chance of a Lifetime
8:00 Simon and Simon "Like Father, Like Son"
9:00 Knots Landing "Over the Edge"
10:00 Kay O'Brien "Dollars and Sense"
11:00 News
11:30 The Jeffersons
12:00 Maude
12:30 Fantasy Island
1:30 News
2:00 CBS News Nightwatch

7 WCIQ PBS Mt. Cheaha Listed EST
8:30 Farm Day
8:45 AM Weather
9:00 Educational programming
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Reading Rainbow
6:00 Backpain
6:30 Business of Management
7:00 Nightly Business Report
7:30 For the Record
8:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
9:00 Industry in Alabama
9:30 Sneak Previews
10:00 Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth
11:00 Capitol Journal
11:30 Tony Brown's Journal
12:00 sign-off

GPTV-PBS 8 WGTV Athens/18 WCLP Chatsworth
6:00 Personal Time Management
6:30 Georgia Sunrise
6:45 AM Weather
7:00 Captain Kangaroo
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:00 Educational programming
3:00 Polka Dot Door
3:30 3-2-1 Contact
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Jeff's Collie
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
7:00 Nightly Business Report
7:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
8:00 Nature
9:00 Mystery! "Brat Farrar" (part 1 of 3)
10:00 Georgia Moneyline
10:30 Sneak Previews
11:00 Comedy Tonight (from San Francisco)
11:30 College Football in Georgia
12:00 sign-off

9 WTVC ABC Chattanooga
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Hour Magazine
10:00 700 Club
11:00 Donahue
12:00 Weekday
12:30 Loving
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Dukes of Hazzard
5:00 Divorce Court
5:30 $1.000.000 Chance of a Lifetime
6:00 News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 The Facts of Life
8:00 Our World
9:00 The Colbys "Deceptions"
10:00 20/20
11:00 News
11:30 Nightline
12:00 Richard Roberts
1:00 sign-off

11 WXIA NBC Atlanta
5:00 Topper
5:30 Morning Stretch
6:00 NBC News at Sunrise
6:30 Today with Hal and Guy
7:00 Today
9:00 Family Ties
9:30 Three's Company
10:00 Dating Game
10:30 Search for Tomorrow
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Scrabble
12:00 Noonday
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 Dallas
5:00 Jeopardy!
5:30 News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Wheel of Fortune
8:00 Cosby Show "Vanessa's Rich"
8:30 Family Ties "Mrs. Wrong" (part 2 of 2)
9:00 Cheers "Young Dr. Weinstein"
9:30 Night Court "Dan's Operation" (part 2 of 2)
10:00 Hill Street Blues "Say Uncle"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
12:30 Late Night with David Letterman
1:30 News
2:00 Maverick
3:00 The Fugitive
4:00 Laverne and Shirley
4:30 More Real People

12 WDEF CBS Chattanooga
5:00 CBS News Nightwatch
6:00 CBS Morning News
6:30 Morning Show
8:00 CBS Morning News
10:00 $25.000 Pyramid
10:30 Card Sharks
11:00 Price is Right
12:00 News
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 The Judge
4:30 Love Connection
5:00 Superior Court
5:30 People's Court
6:00 News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Hollywood Squares
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
8:00 Simon and Simon "Like Father, Like Son"
9:00 Knots Landing "Over the Edge"
10:00 Kay O'Brien "Dollars and Sense"
11:00 News
11:30 Night Heat
12:40 Movie "Fish Hawk"
2:00 CBS News Nightwatch

17 WTBS Ind Atlanta
5:00 Beverly Hillbillies
5:30 Andy Griffith
6:00 CNN Headline News
6:30 Tom and Jerry and Friends
8:05 I Dream of Jeannie
8:35 Bewitched
9:05 Down to Earth
9:35 I Love Lucy
10:05 Movie "Born Beautiful"
12:05 Perry Mason
1:05 Movie "Scared Straight! Another Story"
3:05 Tom and Jerry and Friends
4:05 Scooby-Doo
4:35 The Flintstones
5:05 Gilligan's Island
5:35 TBA
6:05 Andy Griffith
6:35 Safe at Home
7:05 Sanford and Son
7:35 The Honeymooners
8:05 Portrait of America: Minnesota
9:05 World of Audubon
10:05 Goodwill Games Opening Ceremonies
12:05 Movie "God is My Co-Pilot"
2:00 Movie "Kitten with a Whip"
3:50 World at Large
4:00 Lucy Show
4:30 Get Smart

30 WETV PBS Atlanta
6:00 Body Electric
6:30 America: The Second Century
7:00 American Goverment Survey
7:30 To Life! Yoga with Priscilla Patrick
7:45 AM Weather
8:00 Farm Day
8:15 Educational programming
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Educational programming
2:00 Zoo Lab
2:30 Classics of World Literature
3:00 Secret City
3:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:00 Captain Kangaroo
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 3-2-1 Contact
6:00 Faces of Japan
6:30 Take 30
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
8:00 Living Planet: A Portrait of the Earth
9:00 Mystery! "Brat Farrar" (part 1 of 3)
10:00 Story of English
11:00 Adam Smith's Money World
11:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour
12:30 sign-off

36 WATL Fox Atlanta
6:00 Centurions
6:30 Bugs Bunny
7:00 Defenders of the Earth
7:30 Bugs Bunny
8:00 My Little Pony and Friends
8:30 Zoobilee Zoo
9:00 Jim and Tammy
10:00 Richard Roberts
11:00 700 Club
12:00 Cross-Wits
12:30 Movie "The Most Dangerous Match"
2:00 My Favorite Martian
2:30 Abbott and Costello
3:00 Dennis the Menace
3:30 Bugs Bunny
4:00 Defenders of the Earth
4:30 Bugs Bunny
5:00 Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers
5:30 Silverhawks
6:00 Rambo
6:30/7:00 Gimme a Break!
7:30 Taxi
8:00 Hawaii Five-O
9:00 Movie "Southern Comfort"
11:00 Late Show with Joan Rivers (guest Anita Baker)
12:00 Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1:00 The Saint
2:00 sign-off

46 WGNX Ind Atlanta
5:00 Cisco Kid
5:30 The Muppets
6:00 Jimmy Swaggart
6:30 Pink Panther and Friends
7:00 She-Ra: Princess of Power
7:30 M.A.S.K.
8:00 Heathcliff
8:30 Tom and Jerry
9:00 Daniel Boone
10:00 Falcon Crest
11:00 Big Valley
12:00 Rawhide
1:00 The Rifleman
1:30 Partridge Family
2:00 Tom and Jerry
2:30 The Jetsons
3:00 Ghostbusters
3:30 Smurfs' Adventures
4:00 He-Man and Masters of the Universe
4:30 Transformers
5:00 G.I. Joe
5:30 Thundercats
6:00 What's Happening!!
6:30 Diff'rent Strokes
7:00 The Facts of Life
7:30 Too Close for Comfort
8:00 Quincy, ME
9:00 Movie "The Man Kno Knew Too Much"
11:30 The Twilight Zone
12:00 Boris Karloff Presents Thriller
1:00 Independent Network News
1:30 Puttin' on the Hits
2:00 Movie "El Greco"
4:00/4:30 Here's Lucy
 
I like how WSB chose to keep Ryan's Hope at 12:30, never putting Loving there until after Ryan's Hope was cancelled as the replacement. They carried Loving in the show's early years but dropped it somewhere along the way.
 
Bugs Bunny got four separate timeslots on WATL? Either their scheduler was clueless or they were having real trouble competing with the cartoons on WGNX. Or both.
 
Bugs Bunny got four separate timeslots on WATL? Either their scheduler was clueless or they were having real trouble competing with the cartoons on WGNX. Or both.

I wonder if the Bugs/Defenders/Bugs blocks in the morning and afternoon were identical or if different episodes were used in order to get kids into the WATL habit before and after school. Qualitywise, the block absolutely mopped the floor with the infantile Smurfs/He-Men/Transformers competition on WGNX, which would have posed a serious threat of permanent brain rot to anyone over 2 who might have tuned in.
 
Our World was a genuinely good show that was doomed for being programmed against The Cosby Show. The syndicated show The Judge was more like a soap opera as opposed to a real courtroom show, but I remember liking it. Surprised this hasn't been played on one of the diginets.
 
I wonder if the Bugs/Defenders/Bugs blocks in the morning and afternoon were identical or if different episodes were used in order to get kids into the WATL habit before and after school.

I didn't even notice that they ran Defenders of the Earth twice. Thanks for pointing it out!
 
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