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Retro: Atlanta - Monday, October 3, 1988

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RandTV

Guest
Source: Atlanta Journal and Constitution via newspapers.com

Here's the broadcast schedule from Turner's home city they day launched TNT (Turner Network Television)

2 WSB (ABC)
6:00 ABC World News This Morning
6:30 Action News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 Geraldo - Topic: Battered women who kill.
10:00 The Judge
10:30 Divorce Court
11:00 Superior Court
11:30 Family Medical Center
NOON Action News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Oprah Winfrey - Guest: Joan Collins
5:00 Action News
5:30 People's Court
6:00 Action News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Entertainment Tonight - Featured: Footage from "Imagine: John Lennon" film documentary.
8:00 ABC News Special: "America's Kids: Why They Flunk" - Host: Barbara Walters
9:00 Monday Night Football - Dallas Cowboys vs. New Orleans Saints
MIDNIGHT Action News
12:30 Nightline
1:00 Love Connection
1:30 New Newlywed Game
2:00 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Joan Rivers, Jm J. Bullock, Shadoe Stevens, Thom Bierdz, Steve Garvey, John Mulrooney, Anthony Newly, Richard Simmons, Jimmie Walker
2:30 Think & Grow Rich
3:00 CNN News

5 WAGA (CBS)
5:30 Body by Jake
6:00 Sweethearts
6:30 Business This Morning
7:00 CBS This Morning
9:00 Live With Regis & Kathie Lee - Featured: Sandy Duncan, Jimmie Walker, autumn fashions for plus-sized women, prosthetics specialist and amputees
10:00 Donahue - Topic: A woman uses her mind to heal herself of cancer.
11:00 The Price is Right
NOON Eyewitness News
12:30 Young and the Restless
1:30 Bold and the Beautiful
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Sally Jessy Raphael - Featured: Brothers and sisters of celebrities.
4:30 A Current Affair
5:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Family Feud
7:30 Win, Lose or Draw
8:00 Newhart - "Reading, Writing, and Rating Points" (Oct. 12, 1987)
8:30 The Cavanaughs - "Gimme Shelter"
9:00 CBS Monday Movie: "Unholy Matrimony" (Premiere) - Patrick Duffy, Charles Durning
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Newhart
MIDNIGHT Magnum, P.I.
1:00 Morton Downey Jr.
2:00 Eyewitness News (R)
2:30 CBS Nightwatch
5:30 Body by Jake (Series Premiere)

8 WGTV (PBS)
6:00 GED
6:30 Georgia Sunrise
6:45 AM Weather
7:00 Sesame Street
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
8:30 Mister Rogers
9:00 Instructional Programming
3:00 Madeleine Cooks
3:30 Paint With Pittard
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers
5:30 Timmy & Lassie
6:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
7:00 Nightly Business Report
7:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
8:00 Will Rogers' USA - James Whitmore as Will Rogers; commentary provided by Will Rogers Jr.
9:00 Campaign: The Prime-Time President - Bill Moyers
10:30 Canada: True North: "The Immigrants"
11:30 Nova: "Beyond the Knife: Pioneers of Surgery" (Part 4 of 4)

11 WXIA (NBC)
5:30 Morning Stretch
6:00 NBC News at Sunrise
6:30 11 Alive Today
7:00 Today
9:00 Jeopardy! (Possibly the previous day's episode, thus being the previous Friday)
9:30 Wipeout
10:00 Group One Medical
10:30 Classic Concentration
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Win, Lose or Draw - Teams: Holly Gagnier & Dorothy Lyman vs. Mike Connors & Brad Garrett
NOON Noonday
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Santa Barbara
4:00 On Trial
4:30 Jeopardy!
5:00 Cosby Show
5:30 11 Alive News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 USA Today
7:30 Wheel of Fortune
8:00 ALF (Season Premiere): "Stop in the Name of Love"
8:30 The Hogan Family (Season Premiere): "Animal House"
9:00 NBC Monday Night at the Movies: "The People Across the Lake" (Premeire) - Valerie Harper, Gerald McRaney
11:00 11 Alive News
11:30 Tonight Show: Best of Carson - (Oct. 21, 1987) Guests: Helen Shaver, Calvin Trillin; Performers: Earl Klugh, George Benson
12:30 Late Night With David Letterman - Guests: Martina Navratilova, Edward Wooward, Allan Harvey
1:30 11 Alive News (R)
2:00 Guns of Will Sonnett
2:30 Later With Bob Costas - Guest: Morton Downey Jr.
3:00 Love Boat
4:00 Maverick
5:00 Topper


17 WTBS (cable superstation)
6:00 CNN Headline News
6:30 Scooby-Doo
7:00 Tom & Jerry's Funhouse
8:05 Beverly Hillbillies
8:35 Bewitched
9:05 Little House on the Prairie
10:05 Movie: "The Rules of Marriage" (1982) - Elizabeth Montgomery, Elliott Gould
12:05 Perry Mason
1:05 All in the Family (x4)
3:05 Tom & Jerry's Funhouse
3:35 Flintstones (x2)
4:35 Brady Bunch
5:05 Munsters
5:35 One Day at a Time
6:05 Laverne & Shirley
6:35 Andy Griffith
7:05 9 to 5
7:35 Sanford & Son
8:05 Movie: "King of the Olympics: The Lives and Loves of Avery Brundage" (Part 1 of 2) (Premiere) - David Selby, Renee Soutendijk (The 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul ended the previous day. Atlanta would be awarded the 1996 Summer Olympics two years later.)
10:05 Movie: "The Longest Yard" (1974) - Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Michael Conrad
12:35 National Geographic - Host: Tom Chapin
2:35 Hardcastle & McCormick
3:35 Gunsmoke
4:30 All in the Family
5:00 Green Acres
5:30 Gomer Pyle

30 WPBA (PBS secondary)
6:00 Body Electric
6:30 Contemporary Health Issues
7:00 America: The Second Century
7:30 To Life!
8:00 Square One TV
8:30 Instructional Programming
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Instructional Programming
3:00 3-2-1 Contact
3:30 Mister Rogers
4:00 Captain Kangaroo
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Square One TV
6:00 Layman's Lawyer
6:30 Inside Washington
7:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
8:00 The Africans - Episode 4 of 9: "Tools of Exploitation"
9:00 Campaign: The Prime-Time President - Bill Moyers
10:30 The Real World
11:30 Bill Moyers' World of Ideas
MIDNIGHT MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour (R)

36 WATL (Fox)
6:00 Succuess-N-Life
7:00 Bugs Bunny
7:30 Woody Woodpecker
8:00 My Little Pony
8:30 I Dream of Jeannie
9:00 Heritage Ministries
10:00 Richard Roberts
11:00 700 Club
NOON Hawaii Five-O
1:00 Mannix
2:00 Wonderful World of Disney
3:00 Dennis the Menace
3:30 Woody Woodpecker
4:00 Alvin & the Chipmunks
4:30 DuckTales
5:00 Double Dare
5:30 Finders Keepers
6:00 Family Ties
6:30 Gimme a Break!
7:00 Family Ties
7:30 Cheers
8:00 T. J. Hooker
9:00 Movie: "Terror Train" (1980) - Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Johnson, Hart Bochner
11:00 Cheers
11:30 Carter Country
MIDNIGHT The Late Show - Host: Ross Shafer; Guests: Shannon Tweed, Douchan Gersi (series canceled Oct. 28)
1:00 It's Showtime at the Apollo

46 WGNX
6:00 Study in the Word
6:30 Jetsons
7:00 G.I. Joe
7:30 Jem
8:00 Bravestarr
8:30 Gumby
9:00 Incredible Hulk
10:00 Movie: "Skyjacked" (1972) - Charlton Heston, James Brolin, Yvette Mimieux, Susan Dey, Rosey Grier, Mariette Hartley, Walter Pidgeon, Leslie Uggams
NOON Quincy
1:00 That's Incredible!
1:30 McHale's Navy
2:00 Snorks
2:30 Filmation's Ghostbusters
3:00 Real Ghostbusters
3:30 C.O.P.S.
4:00 Yogi Bear
4:30 Fun House
5:00 Diff'rent Strokes
5:30 Happy Days
6:00 Facts of Life
6:30 Too Close for Comfort
7:00 Simon & Simon
8:00 Movie: "Weird Science" (1985) - Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Kelly LaBrock, Bill Paxton, Robert Downey Jr.
10:00 Best of Saturday Night - Host: Buck Henry
11:00 Twilight Zone
11:30 Barney Miller
MIDNIGHT Soap
12:30 Night Gallery
1:00 USA Tonight!
1:30 That's Incredible!
2:00 Movie: "Big Rose: Double Trouble" (1974) - Shelley Winters, Barry Primus
4:30 Rawhide
5:00 Tenspeed & Brownshoe

69 WVEU
6:00 Gospel Music
6:30 Fellowship of Faith
7:00 Community
7:30 Teddy Ruxpin
8:00 Saber Rider
8:30 Dinosaucers
9:00 Success-N-Life
10:00 90 & 9 Club
11:00 Growing Pains
11:30 Hangin' In
NOON Family
1:00 Hour Magazine - Featured: Valerie Harper, Alan King, near-death experiences, mother/daughter fashions, baldness
2:00 I Spy
3:00 Wanted: Dead or Alive
3:30 Lingo
4:00 Card Sharks (pre-empted by WAGA)
4:30 Care Bears
5:00 Spider-Man
5:30 Beverly Hills Teens
6:00 Gidget
6:30 New Dating Game
7:00 Mod Squad
8:00 Combat
9:00 Streets of San Francisco
10:00 Deep South Wrestling
11:00 New Liar's Club
11:30 Hunter
12:40 Movie: "Classified Love" (1986) - Michael McKean, Stephanie Faracy, Dinah Manoff
2:00 Improv Tonite
2:30 SETV
3:00 Hit Video USA
 
Atlanta was one of those markets that didn't clear the daytime CBS Family Feud (WVEU did from its debut to three weeks out then suddenly dropped it) but did the syndicated nighttime show.
 
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