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Retro: Atlanta Monday, September 5, 1977

Labor Day schedules from TV Guide, North Georgia
Edition. Might be worth a comparison to San Antonio,
which I've posted elsewhere on this board.

WSB Ch. 2 (NBC)

6 AM Christopher Closeup
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today
9 AM Hollywood Squares
9:30 Shoot For The Stars
10 AM Sanford And Son
10:30 Today In Georgia
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 It's Anybody's Guess
12 N News
12:30 Newlywed Game
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 (Chancellor/Brinkley)
7:30 All-Star Anything Goes (premiere)
8 PM Laugh-In (new version, with Robin
Williams in the cast)
9 PM Movie: "100 Rifles"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (David Brenner subs
for Johnny)
1 AM Tomorrow
2 AM News

WAGA Ch. 5 (CBS)

6 AM Jerry Lewis Telethon continues
(from 9 PM Sunday)
6:30 PM News
7 PM CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7:30 Match Game PM
8 PM CBS Galaxy (preview of CBS's fall
lineup)
9 PM The Fitzpatricks (premiere, regular
time will be Tuesday 8 PM)
10 PM Rafferty (Patrick McGoohan as a
doctor in what I believe is the only
series he did in the U.S.)
11 PM News
11:30 World Series Of Golf (final round,
taped from 4 PM)
1:30 Ironside
2:30 News

WGTV Ch. 8 (PBS)

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Sesame Street
6:30 With It
7 PM That Touch Of Spice (cooking show)
7:30 Atlanta Week In Review
8 PM Love Girl And The Innocent (dramatization
of one of Solzhenitsyn's works about the
Gulag prison camp)
10 PM In Pursuit Of Liberty
11 PM Movie: "White Zombie"
sign off 12:30 AM

WXIA Ch. 11 (ABC)

6:30 Not For Women Only
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Merv Griffin
10:30 Edge Of Night
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM Hollywood Connection
2:30 One Life To Live
3:15 General Hospital
4 PM Voyage To The Bottom Of
The Sea
5 PM Emergency One!
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Concentration
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM Pilot: "McNamara's Band" (Part 2)
about a group of Americans carrying
on a mission in World War II Norway--
similar to "Hogan's Heroes" but the
Americans are not POWs
8:30 Baseball: Regional coverage of Yankees-
Indians, Rangers-Twins, or Dodgers-Padres
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 Fernwood 2 Night
12 M Streets Of San Francisco
sign off 1:10 AM

WTCG (WPCH) Ch. 17 (Ind.)

5:30 World At Large
6:30 Romper Room
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8 AM Lassie
8:30 Leave It To Beaver
9 AM The Lucy Show
9:30 Love, American Style
10 AM Movie: "Wyoming Mail"
12 N Hazel
12:30 Movie: "The Ambassador's Daughter"
2:30 I Love Lucy
3 PM Flintstones
3:30 The Archies
4 PM New Mickey Mouse Club
4:30 Monkees
5 PM Gilligan's Island
5:30 Partridge Family
6 PM Andy Griffith
6:30 My Three Sons
7 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8 PM Let's Go To The Races
8:30 NFL Preseason Game: Falcons-Chiefs
(at the time the Falcons had taken the
games away from Ch. 11 due to Steve
Somers' badmouthing the team)
11:30 Movie: "Decision At Sundown" (time
approximate)
1:10 Movie: "Never Say Goodbye"
3 AM Movie: "Bullwhip"
4:40 The Avengers

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 (PBS)

9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Once Upon A Classic
11 AM Forsyte Saga (conclusion)
sign off 12 N
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Villa Alegre
7 PM By-Line
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Atlanta Press Club Roast
9 PM Mozart In Seattle
10 PM In Pursuit Of Liberty
11 PM Inner Tennis
11:30 Edison: The Old Man
sign off 12 M

WATL Ch. 36 (Ind.)

5 PM Movie: TBA
7 PM Classic Country
8 PM TBA
9 PM Ludlow Porch (telephone trivia game)
10 PM PTL Club
sign off 12 M

WANX (WGCL) Ch. 46 (Ind.)

6:45 News
7 AM Tennessee Tuxedo
7:30 Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore or John Hart)
8 AM Mighty Mouse
8:30 Deputy Dawg
9 AM Heckle And Jeckle
9:30 Dennis The Menace (Jay North)
10 AM 700 Club
11:30 Life In The Spirit
12 N This Is The Life
12:30 Mister Ed
1 PM Wagon Train
2 PM Summer Fun (cartoons)
2:30 Huck And Yogi
3 PM Popeye And Porky Hour (on sister station
KXTX/39 Dallas this was the Popeye And
Bugs Hour)
4 PM Superman (George Reeves)
4:30 Batman (Adam West)
5 PM Please Don't Eat The Daisies
5:30 McHale's Navy
6 PM F Troop
6:30 Rifleman
7 PM Big Valley
8 PM 700 Club
9:30 Life In The Spirit
10 PM Living Faith
10:30 Good News
11 PM Best Of Groucho
11:30 Mayberry R.F.D.
12 M News and sign off
 
bpatrick said:
WTCG (WPCH) Ch. 17 (Ind.)

8:30 NFL Preseason Game: Falcons-Chiefs
(at the time the Falcons had taken the
games away from Ch. 11 due to Steve
Somers' badmouthing the team)

One consequence was that it gave the Falcons nationwide exposure on a superstation, albeit briefly.
 
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