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First federal observance of Martin Luther King Day, from his home city. All MLK-related programming highlighted in bold.
Source: Atlanta Journal & Constitution via newspapers.com
2 WSB (ABC)
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America - Scheduled: Dexter King; Pia Zadora; James Garner (Part 1 of 2); Rep. Bill Nelson (D-FL); selling stocks.
9:00 Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak
9:30 Perfect Match
10:00 Tic-Tac-Dough
10:30 The Joker's Wild
11:00 Love Connection
11:30 Martin Luther King Jr.: The Man and His Day (locally pre-empting The New Love, American Style)
NOON Action 2 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 Alice
5:00 New Newlywed Game
5:30 M*A*S*H
6:00 Action 2 News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Entertainment Tonight - Featured interview: Jim Henson, on the Muppets' 30th anniversary. (TV special honoring that occasion aired the following night on CBS.)
8:00 Hardcastle and McCormick: "The Yankee Clipper" (Oct. 7, 1985)
9:00 ABC Monday Night Movie: "Prince of Bel-Air" (Premiere) - Mark Harmon, Kirstie Alley, Robert Vaughn, Deborah Harmon (no relation to Mark). (Unrelated to the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.)
11:00 Action 2 News
11:30 Benson
MIDNIGHT Nightline
12:30 Movie: "Murder on the Midnight Express" (1975 episode of the anthology series Thriller) - Judy Geeson, Charles Gray, James Smillie.
2:00 Action 2 News (R)
5 WAGA (CBS)
6:00 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News - Scheduled: In tribute to Martin Luther King: Rev. Jesse Jackson, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Paul Winfield, NAACP President Benjamin Hooks, and Eleanor Holmes Norton.
9:00 Donahue - Topic: Career women's fears about financial crisis; Guest: Gloria Steinem.
10:00 18th Annual Martin Luther King Ecumenical Services - from MLK's Ebenezer Baptist Church; namesake Nonviolent Peace Prize presented from Coretta Scott King to South African Bishop Desmond Tutu; Prominent attendees: Vice-President Bush, HUD Secretary Samuel J. Pierce, Sens. Edward Kennedy and Bob Dole, Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, Georgia Gov. Joe Frank Harris. (pre-empting normal daytime schedule)
NOON TV5 Eyewitness News
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Jeopardy!
4:30 Break the Bank
5:00 Divorce Court
5:30 Jeffersons
6:00 TV5 Eyewitness News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime
8:00 Scarecrow and Mrs. King: "We're Off the See the Wizard" (Sept. 30, 1985)
9:00 Kate & Allie: "Chip's Divorce"
9:30 Newhart: "Larry's Dead, Long Live Larry"
10:00 Cagney & Lacey: "DWI"
11:00 TV5 Eyewitness News
11:30 Maude
MIDNIGHT Soap
12:30 Ironside
1:30 TV5 Eyewitness News (R)
2:00 CBS Nightwatch
8 WGTV (PBS)
7:45 AM Weather
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Instructional Programming
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Jeff's Collie
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
7:00 The Lawmakers
8:00 WonderWorks: "Booker" - LeVar Burton (as Booker T. Washington), Shelley Duvall, Shavar Ross.
9:00 American Playhouse: "Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket" (Season Premiere)
10:30 Monty Python's Flying Circus
11:00 Nightly Business Report
11 WXIA (NBC)
6:00 NBC News at Sunrise
6:30 Today (in Atlanta) With Hal (Suit) and Guy (Sharpe) and Andrea (Nissen)
7:00 Today - Scheduled: Super Bowl XX Preview (carried by NBC); Stevie Wonder (Part 2 of 2; host of that night's all-star MLK special); Coretta Scott King and children; Ice dancers Torvill & Dean.
9:00 Hour Magazine - Scheduled: Joan Fontaine; corrective surgery for adult scoliosis; psychologist Irene Kassorla discusses divorce.
10:00 Family Ties
10:30 Search for Tomorrow
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Scrabble
NOON Noonday
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 Dallas
5:00 Three's Company
5:30 11 Alive News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Wheel of Fortune
8:00 TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes - Victims: Gordon Thomson (from Dynasty), David Copperfield.
9:00 An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr. - Host: Stevie Wonder (see reply for celebrity guest roster)
11:00 11 Alive News
11:30 Tonight Show: Best of Carson - (Jan. 9, 1985) Guests: Alan King, Elya Baskin; Musical guest: Liona Boyd.
12:30 Late Night With David Letterman - (Sept. 24, 1984) Guests: Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Marv Albert, Jerry Seinfeld (stand-up routine).
1:30 11 Alive News (R)
2:00 Maverick
3:00 The Fugitive
17 WTBS (Superstation)
6:00 CNN News
6:30 Funtime
7:35 Flintstones
8:05 I Dream of Jeannie
8:35 Bewitched
9:05 Hazel
9:35 I Love Lucy
10:05 Movie: "War of the Robots" (1978) Antonio Sabato, Malisa Longo, Jack Stuart.
12:05 Perry Mason
1:05 NBA Basketball - New York Knicks vs. Philadelphia 76ers
3:30 NBA Basketball - Los Angeles Lakers vs. Chicago Bulls
6:05 Down to Eart
6:35 Safe at Home
7:05 Mary Tyler Moore
7:35 Sanford and Son
8:05 Movie: "Firecreek" (1968) - James Stewart, Henry Fonda.
10:15 Movie: "The Crimson Pirate" (1952) - Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok.
12:25 Movie: "Delta County, U.S.A." (1977) - Peter Donat, Jeff Conaway, Robert Hays.
2:25 Movie: "Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet" (1940) - Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Otto Kruger, Donald Crisp.
30 WPBA (PBS secondary)
6:00 Body Electric
6:30 America: The Second Century
7:00 Faces of Culture
7:30 To Life!
7:45 AM Weather
8:00 Farm Day
8:15 Instructional Programming
8:30 Reading Rainbow
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Mister Rogers
10:30 3-2-1 Contact
11:00 Reading Rainbow
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 A Day to Remember: "August 28, 1963"
1:00 Martin Luther King: The Dream and the Drum - Hosts: Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis.
2:00 Tribulations - Baton Rouge Community Chorus sings a musical tribute to MLK.
3:00 TBA
3:30 3-2-1 Contact
4:00 Secret City
4:30 Mister Rogers
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 More Magic Methods in Oil (Painting)
6:30 Joy of Painting
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
8:00 Martin Luther King Jr.: The Man
9:00 American Playhouse (see Ch. 8 @ 9:00 PM)
10:30 Tribulations (R)
11:30 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour (R)
36 WATL (Ind.)
6:00 Success 'n Life
6:30 Plastic Man
7:00 Tranzar
7:30 Robotech
8:00 Top Cat
8:30 Josie and the Pussycats
9:00 Jim and Tammy
10:00 Richard Roberts
11:00 700 Club
NOON The Saint
1:00 Movie: "To All My Friends on Shore" (1972) - Bill Cosby, Gloria Foster.
2:30 Flying Nun
3:00 Rocky and Friends
3:30 Captain Harlock
4:00 Robotech
4:30 Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
5:00 Voltron (x2)
6:00 Gimme a Break!
6:30 Carter Country
7:00 Hawaii Five-O
8:00 Dynasty
9:00 Movie: "Up Periscope" (1959) - James Garner, Edmond O'Brien.
11:00 Carson's Comedy Classics
11:30 Comedy Tonight
MIDNIGHT Jim and Tammy
46 WGNX (Ind.)
6:00 Jimmy Swaggart
6:30 Superfriends
7:00 GoBots
7:30 M.A.S.K.
8:00 Heathcliff
8:30 Muppet Show
9:00 Daniel Boone
10:00 Barnaby Jones
11:00 Mini-Series: "Rich Man, Poor Man: Book I" (Part 6 of 12)
NOON INDAY News
12:30 What's Hot, What's Not
1:00 Gilligan's Island
1:30 Partridge Family
2:00 Great Space Coaster
2:30 Jetsons
3:00 Scooby-Doo
3:30 She-Ra
4:00 He-Man
4:30 Transformers
5:00 G.I. Joe
5:30 ThunderCats
6:00 What's Happening Now!!
6:30 Too Close for Comfort
7:00 Diff'rent Strokes
7:30 Barney Miller
8:00 Hart to Hart
9:00 Return to Eden
11:00 Honeymooners
11:30 Comedy Break
MIDNIGHT Barnaby Jones
1:00 INN News
1:30 What's Happening Now!!
2:00 Movie: "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" (1957) - Tony Randall, Jayne Mansfield, Groucho Marx, Betsy Drake, Joan Blondell, Barbara Eden, Mickey Hargitay (Jayne Mansfield's husband, 1958-64).
69 WVEU (Ind./VideoMusic Channel)
6:00 AM Beat
7:00 Ninety and Nine Club
8:00 Richard Roberts
9:00 Good Housekeeping: A Better Way
9:30 LoveSongs
10:00 Music Videos
10:30 Loving (pre-empted by WSB)
11:00 Vintage Videos
NOON Country Music U.S.A.
1:30 Beat of the City
3:00 Rockpile: Hard Rock Videos
4:00 Metalworks (Heavy Metal)
4:30 Today's Music
6:00 Merv Griffin
7:00 SCTV
7:30 The Beachcombers
8:00 The Protectors
8:30 Route 66
9:30 Death Valley Days
10:00 The Deputy
10:30 Southern Stock Car Racing
11:00 Action Makers
11:30 Remington Steele
12:40 Movie: "The Class of Miss MacMichael" (1978) - Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Michael Murphy, Rosalind Cash.
Source: Atlanta Journal & Constitution via newspapers.com
2 WSB (ABC)
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America - Scheduled: Dexter King; Pia Zadora; James Garner (Part 1 of 2); Rep. Bill Nelson (D-FL); selling stocks.
9:00 Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak
9:30 Perfect Match
10:00 Tic-Tac-Dough
10:30 The Joker's Wild
11:00 Love Connection
11:30 Martin Luther King Jr.: The Man and His Day (locally pre-empting The New Love, American Style)
NOON Action 2 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 Alice
5:00 New Newlywed Game
5:30 M*A*S*H
6:00 Action 2 News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Entertainment Tonight - Featured interview: Jim Henson, on the Muppets' 30th anniversary. (TV special honoring that occasion aired the following night on CBS.)
8:00 Hardcastle and McCormick: "The Yankee Clipper" (Oct. 7, 1985)
9:00 ABC Monday Night Movie: "Prince of Bel-Air" (Premiere) - Mark Harmon, Kirstie Alley, Robert Vaughn, Deborah Harmon (no relation to Mark). (Unrelated to the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.)
11:00 Action 2 News
11:30 Benson
MIDNIGHT Nightline
12:30 Movie: "Murder on the Midnight Express" (1975 episode of the anthology series Thriller) - Judy Geeson, Charles Gray, James Smillie.
2:00 Action 2 News (R)
5 WAGA (CBS)
6:00 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News - Scheduled: In tribute to Martin Luther King: Rev. Jesse Jackson, Howard E. Rollins Jr., Paul Winfield, NAACP President Benjamin Hooks, and Eleanor Holmes Norton.
9:00 Donahue - Topic: Career women's fears about financial crisis; Guest: Gloria Steinem.
10:00 18th Annual Martin Luther King Ecumenical Services - from MLK's Ebenezer Baptist Church; namesake Nonviolent Peace Prize presented from Coretta Scott King to South African Bishop Desmond Tutu; Prominent attendees: Vice-President Bush, HUD Secretary Samuel J. Pierce, Sens. Edward Kennedy and Bob Dole, Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, Georgia Gov. Joe Frank Harris. (pre-empting normal daytime schedule)
NOON TV5 Eyewitness News
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Jeopardy!
4:30 Break the Bank
5:00 Divorce Court
5:30 Jeffersons
6:00 TV5 Eyewitness News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime
8:00 Scarecrow and Mrs. King: "We're Off the See the Wizard" (Sept. 30, 1985)
9:00 Kate & Allie: "Chip's Divorce"
9:30 Newhart: "Larry's Dead, Long Live Larry"
10:00 Cagney & Lacey: "DWI"
11:00 TV5 Eyewitness News
11:30 Maude
MIDNIGHT Soap
12:30 Ironside
1:30 TV5 Eyewitness News (R)
2:00 CBS Nightwatch
8 WGTV (PBS)
7:45 AM Weather
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Instructional Programming
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Jeff's Collie
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
7:00 The Lawmakers
8:00 WonderWorks: "Booker" - LeVar Burton (as Booker T. Washington), Shelley Duvall, Shavar Ross.
9:00 American Playhouse: "Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket" (Season Premiere)
10:30 Monty Python's Flying Circus
11:00 Nightly Business Report
11 WXIA (NBC)
6:00 NBC News at Sunrise
6:30 Today (in Atlanta) With Hal (Suit) and Guy (Sharpe) and Andrea (Nissen)
7:00 Today - Scheduled: Super Bowl XX Preview (carried by NBC); Stevie Wonder (Part 2 of 2; host of that night's all-star MLK special); Coretta Scott King and children; Ice dancers Torvill & Dean.
9:00 Hour Magazine - Scheduled: Joan Fontaine; corrective surgery for adult scoliosis; psychologist Irene Kassorla discusses divorce.
10:00 Family Ties
10:30 Search for Tomorrow
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Scrabble
NOON Noonday
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 Dallas
5:00 Three's Company
5:30 11 Alive News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Wheel of Fortune
8:00 TV's Bloopers and Practical Jokes - Victims: Gordon Thomson (from Dynasty), David Copperfield.
9:00 An All-Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr. - Host: Stevie Wonder (see reply for celebrity guest roster)
11:00 11 Alive News
11:30 Tonight Show: Best of Carson - (Jan. 9, 1985) Guests: Alan King, Elya Baskin; Musical guest: Liona Boyd.
12:30 Late Night With David Letterman - (Sept. 24, 1984) Guests: Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Marv Albert, Jerry Seinfeld (stand-up routine).
1:30 11 Alive News (R)
2:00 Maverick
3:00 The Fugitive
17 WTBS (Superstation)
6:00 CNN News
6:30 Funtime
7:35 Flintstones
8:05 I Dream of Jeannie
8:35 Bewitched
9:05 Hazel
9:35 I Love Lucy
10:05 Movie: "War of the Robots" (1978) Antonio Sabato, Malisa Longo, Jack Stuart.
12:05 Perry Mason
1:05 NBA Basketball - New York Knicks vs. Philadelphia 76ers
3:30 NBA Basketball - Los Angeles Lakers vs. Chicago Bulls
6:05 Down to Eart
6:35 Safe at Home
7:05 Mary Tyler Moore
7:35 Sanford and Son
8:05 Movie: "Firecreek" (1968) - James Stewart, Henry Fonda.
10:15 Movie: "The Crimson Pirate" (1952) - Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok.
12:25 Movie: "Delta County, U.S.A." (1977) - Peter Donat, Jeff Conaway, Robert Hays.
2:25 Movie: "Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet" (1940) - Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Otto Kruger, Donald Crisp.
30 WPBA (PBS secondary)
6:00 Body Electric
6:30 America: The Second Century
7:00 Faces of Culture
7:30 To Life!
7:45 AM Weather
8:00 Farm Day
8:15 Instructional Programming
8:30 Reading Rainbow
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Mister Rogers
10:30 3-2-1 Contact
11:00 Reading Rainbow
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 A Day to Remember: "August 28, 1963"
1:00 Martin Luther King: The Dream and the Drum - Hosts: Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis.
2:00 Tribulations - Baton Rouge Community Chorus sings a musical tribute to MLK.
3:00 TBA
3:30 3-2-1 Contact
4:00 Secret City
4:30 Mister Rogers
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 More Magic Methods in Oil (Painting)
6:30 Joy of Painting
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
8:00 Martin Luther King Jr.: The Man
9:00 American Playhouse (see Ch. 8 @ 9:00 PM)
10:30 Tribulations (R)
11:30 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour (R)
36 WATL (Ind.)
6:00 Success 'n Life
6:30 Plastic Man
7:00 Tranzar
7:30 Robotech
8:00 Top Cat
8:30 Josie and the Pussycats
9:00 Jim and Tammy
10:00 Richard Roberts
11:00 700 Club
NOON The Saint
1:00 Movie: "To All My Friends on Shore" (1972) - Bill Cosby, Gloria Foster.
2:30 Flying Nun
3:00 Rocky and Friends
3:30 Captain Harlock
4:00 Robotech
4:30 Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
5:00 Voltron (x2)
6:00 Gimme a Break!
6:30 Carter Country
7:00 Hawaii Five-O
8:00 Dynasty
9:00 Movie: "Up Periscope" (1959) - James Garner, Edmond O'Brien.
11:00 Carson's Comedy Classics
11:30 Comedy Tonight
MIDNIGHT Jim and Tammy
46 WGNX (Ind.)
6:00 Jimmy Swaggart
6:30 Superfriends
7:00 GoBots
7:30 M.A.S.K.
8:00 Heathcliff
8:30 Muppet Show
9:00 Daniel Boone
10:00 Barnaby Jones
11:00 Mini-Series: "Rich Man, Poor Man: Book I" (Part 6 of 12)
NOON INDAY News
12:30 What's Hot, What's Not
1:00 Gilligan's Island
1:30 Partridge Family
2:00 Great Space Coaster
2:30 Jetsons
3:00 Scooby-Doo
3:30 She-Ra
4:00 He-Man
4:30 Transformers
5:00 G.I. Joe
5:30 ThunderCats
6:00 What's Happening Now!!
6:30 Too Close for Comfort
7:00 Diff'rent Strokes
7:30 Barney Miller
8:00 Hart to Hart
9:00 Return to Eden
11:00 Honeymooners
11:30 Comedy Break
MIDNIGHT Barnaby Jones
1:00 INN News
1:30 What's Happening Now!!
2:00 Movie: "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" (1957) - Tony Randall, Jayne Mansfield, Groucho Marx, Betsy Drake, Joan Blondell, Barbara Eden, Mickey Hargitay (Jayne Mansfield's husband, 1958-64).
69 WVEU (Ind./VideoMusic Channel)
6:00 AM Beat
7:00 Ninety and Nine Club
8:00 Richard Roberts
9:00 Good Housekeeping: A Better Way
9:30 LoveSongs
10:00 Music Videos
10:30 Loving (pre-empted by WSB)
11:00 Vintage Videos
NOON Country Music U.S.A.
1:30 Beat of the City
3:00 Rockpile: Hard Rock Videos
4:00 Metalworks (Heavy Metal)
4:30 Today's Music
6:00 Merv Griffin
7:00 SCTV
7:30 The Beachcombers
8:00 The Protectors
8:30 Route 66
9:30 Death Valley Days
10:00 The Deputy
10:30 Southern Stock Car Racing
11:00 Action Makers
11:30 Remington Steele
12:40 Movie: "The Class of Miss MacMichael" (1978) - Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Michael Murphy, Rosalind Cash.