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Retro: Atlanta prime time (affiliates only) September 10-16, 1977

B

bpatrick

Again, to compare with Birmingham, which
was in a post from the Northern Alabama
edition of TV Guide for the same week.
These are from the Atlanta Constitution;
time frame is 7 PM-1 AM (ET).

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

WSB Ch. 2 (NBC)

7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Bionic Woman (just moved from
ABC to NBC)
9 PM Movie: "Dirty Harry" (I think
this is a network movie)
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live

WAGA Ch. 5 (CBS)

7 PM TV5 Reports
7:30 Family Theater: "Cajun Cousins"
8 PM State Fair America (special from
various state fairs, with Roy Clark,
Steven Ford, Gabe Kaplan, Mel Tillis,
Jimmie Walker, Alan King, Robert Klein,
and Lynn Anderson)
10 PM Miss America Pageant (on CBS this year--
Bert Parks and Phyllis George co-host)
12 M News (time approximate)
12:30 Andy Williams

WXIA Ch. 11 (ABC)

7 PM Space: 1999
8 PM Best Of Welcome Back, Kotter
9 PM Washington: Behind Closed Doors
(Part 5)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Bravados"

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11

Channel 2:

7 PM Wonderful World Of Disney
9 PM Emmy Awards
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 Movie: "Billion Dollar Brain"
(this might have been NBC's
late-night Sunday movie)

Channel 5:

7 PM 60 Minutes (time approximate
after U.S. Open Tennis)
8 PM Fashionata
8:30 Love Affair
9 PM CBS Movie: "Cahill, U.S. Marshal"
11 PM News
11:30 CBS News
11:45 Movie: "The Great Northfield,
Minnesota Raid"

Channel 11:

7 PM Hardy Boys
8 PM Six Million Dollar Man
9 PM Washington: Behind Closed Doors
(Part 6)
11 PM News
11:30 Toma
12:30 Newsmakers

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12

Channel 2:

7 PM NBC News
7:30 All-Star Anything Goes
8 PM Little House On The Prairie
9 PM Billy Graham Crusade
10 PM Musical World Of Julie Andrews
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show

Channel 5:

7 PM CBS News
7:30 Match Game PM
8 PM Young Dan'l Boone
9 PM Betty White
9:30 Maude
10 PM Rafferty
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Babe"

Channel 11:

7 PM Concentration
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM Lucan
9 PM NCAA Football: UCLA
at Houston
12 M News (time approximate)
12:30 College Football '77

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13

Channel 2:

7 PM NBC News
7:30 Wild Kingdom
8 PM Richard Pryor
9 PM NBC Movie: "Sex And The
Married Woman"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show

Channel 5:

7 PM CBS News
7:30 Price Is Right
8 PM CBS Sports Special: Night
Of Champions (Jose Torres
vs. Danny "Little Red" Lopez,
15 rounds for the WBC featherweight
championship. Lopez retained the title,
but I don't know how.)
11 PM News
11:30 Kojak
(doesn't say what follows)

Channel 11:

7 PM Concentration
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM Happy Days
9 PM Three's Company
9:30 Soap
10 PM Family
11 PM News
11:30 Fernwood 2 Night
12 M Movie (title not given)

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

Channel 2:

7 PM NBC News
7:30 Name That Tune
8 PM Night With The Heavyweights:
four bouts featuring contenders
for Muhammad Ali's title: Ken
Norton vs. Lorenzo Zamora, Jimmy
Young vs. Jody Ballard, Ron Lyle
vs. Stan Ward, Larry Holmes vs.
Howard Smith
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show

Channel 5:

7 PM CBS News
7:30 Cross-Wits
8 PM CBS Movie: "Spider-Man"
9:30 CBS Movie: "Relentless"
11 PM News
11:30 Hawaii Five-O
12:40 Movie (title not given)

Channel 11:

7 PM Concentration
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM Eight Is Enough
9 PM Charlie's Angels
11 PM News
11:30 Fernwood 2 Night
12 M Starsky & Hutch

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

Channel 2:

7 PM NBC News
7:30 $25,000 Pyramid
8 PM CHiPs
9 PM 3rd Annual Rock Music Awards
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 Tonight Show (listing also shows
Tom Snyder's Tomorrow Show--did
Carson not want to do the Tonight
Show, thinking the awards show
might run over?)

Channel 5:

7 PM CBS News
7:30 Muppet Show
8 PM Waltons
9 PM Hawaii Five-O
10 PM Barnaby Jones
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Cold Sweat"

Channel 11:

7 PM Concentration
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM Welcome Back, Kotter
9 PM Barney Miller
9:30 Carter Country
10 PM Redd Foxx
11 PM News
11:30 Fernwood 2 Night
12 M Police Story

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

Channel 2:

7 PM NBC News
7:30 Gong Show
8 PM Sanford Arms
8:30 Chico And The Man
9 PM Rockford Files
10 PM Quincy
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show

Channel 5:

7 PM CBS News
7:30 New Truth Or Consequences
(Bob Hilton replaces Bob
Barker)
8 PM Wonder Woman
9 PM CBS Movie: "Logan's Run"
11 PM News
11:30 Second City Television
12 M Movie: "Execution Of
Private Slovik"

Channel 11:

7 PM Concentration
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM The Making Of Star Wars
9 PM ABC Movie: "Curse Of The
Black Widow"
11 PM News
11:30 Fernwood 2 Night (2 episodes)
12:30 Baretta
 
ohstuskaterpunk is right...the business at hand, comparing Atlanta to Birmingham...the Birmingham channels are 6 (ABC), 13 (NBC), and 42 (CBS).

> SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
>
> WSB Ch. 2 (NBC)
>
> 7 PM Hee Haw
> 8 PM Bionic Woman (just moved from
> ABC to NBC)
> 9 PM Movie: "Dirty Harry" (I think
> this is a network movie

8 pm
"4", 9, 13, 15, 31 Movie--Crime Drama
Clint Eastwood in the first of 3 "Dirty Harry" movies (1971, repeat, 2 hr)
[NBC plans an announcement warning that the movie may not to suitable for all family members. Movie starts the 16th season of "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies".]

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
>
> Channel 2:

> 11:30 Movie: "Billion Dollar Brain"
> (this might have been NBC's
> late-night Sunday movie)

10.30
9, 13, 15 Movie--Adventure
Michael Caine starred in "Billion Dollar Brain" (1967). Also featured Karl Malden of "The Streets of San Francisco" and Ed Begley. (2 hr)

> MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
>
> Channel 2:

> 9 PM Billy Graham Crusade
> 10 PM Musical World Of Julie Andrews

8 pm
"4", 9, 13, 15, 31 Movie--Drama
LeVar Burton in a 1977 world premiere called "Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid" (2 hr)

> Channel 5:

> 11:30 CBS Movie: "Babe"

10.30
19, 33, 40, 42 Movie--Drama
Susan Clark starred in "Babe", a 1975 TV-movie (2 hr)

> Channel 11:

> 12:30 College Football '77

11.30
"2" College Football '77--Bill Flemming
Return:
[Series normally aired on Sundays at 12 pm Eastern/11 am Central on ABC Sports during the fall months]

> TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
>
> Channel 2:
>
> 7 PM NBC News
> 7:30 Wild Kingdom
> 8 PM Richard Pryor
> 9 PM NBC Movie: "Sex And The
> Married Woman"
> 11 PM News
> 11:30 Tonight Show
>
> Channel 5:

> 11:30 Kojak
> (doesn't say what follows)

10.30
19, 33, 40, 42 Kojak--Crime Drama
11.40
19, 33, 40, 42 Toma--Crime Drama

> Channel 11:

> 8 PM Happy Days
> 9 PM Three's Company
> 9:30 Soap
> 10 PM Family
> 11 PM News
> 11:30 Fernwood 2 Night
> 12 M Movie (title not given)

ABC Late Night Mystery Movie aired at 10.30 pm Central on 4, 48, 11 pm on "2", and 12 am on 6. It was called "Christine", a 1974 Canadian TV movie. Lasted for 2 hr.

The Central/Mountain feed ABC provided for its affiliates located in the Central and Mountain time zones: "Family" at 8.30 pm, followed by "Soap" at 9.30 pm. Nashville's "2" followed this feed. Columbus Miss' 4 followed the same schedule as listed above for Ch. 11 in Atlanta. 6 aired "Three's Company" and "Soap" on Saturdays. I find it weird that 48 aired "Three's Company" but pre-empted "Soap".

> WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14

> Channel 5:
>
> 7 PM CBS News
> 7:30 Cross-Wits
> 8 PM CBS Movie: "Spider-Man"
> 9:30 CBS Movie: "Relentless"
> 11 PM News
> 11:30 Hawaii Five-O
> 12:40 Movie (title not given)

10.40
19, 33, 40, 42 Hawaii Five-0--Drama

11.50
19, 33, 40, 42 Movie--Drama
E.G. Marshall in the 1973 TV-movie "Money to Burn" (1 hr 35 min)

> Channel 11:

> 11:30 Fernwood 2 Night
> 12 M Starsky & Hutch

"Mystery of the Week" aired at 11.40 pm Central on 4, 48, 12.10 am on "2", and 1.10 on 6. The movie was called "If It's a man, Hang Up".

> THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15
>
> Channel 2:

> 11:30 Tonight Show (listing also shows
> Tom Snyder's Tomorrow Show--did
> Carson not want to do the Tonight
> Show, thinking the awards show
> might run over?)

"Tonight Show" aired shortly after 10.30 pm on "4", 9, 15, 31 and 11.30 pm on 13. "Tomorrow" followed.

> Channel 11:

> 11:30 Fernwood 2 Night
> 12 M Police Story

"Police Story" aired at 10.30 pm on 4, 48, 11 pm on "2", and 12 am on 6. A 90-min special called "Late, Great 1968" followed 70 min later.

> FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

Late night on NBC: "Tonight" at 10.30 pm on "4", 9, 15, 31 and 11.30 pm on 13, followed by "The Midnight Special".

Channel 11:

> 11:30 Second City Television
> 12 M Movie: "Execution Of
> Private Slovik"

10.30
19, 33, 40, 42 MASH
11.05
19, 33, 40, 42 Kojak--Crime Drama

> Channel 11:

> 11:30 Fernwood 2 Night (2 episodes)
> 12:30 Baretta

"Baretta" aired at 10.30 pm Central on 4, 48, 11 pm on "2", and 12 am on 6.
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Two prime-time boxing cards on network TV in one week...something unthinkable today.

> Channel 5:
>
> 7 PM CBS News
> 7:30 Price Is Right
> 8 PM CBS Sports Special: Night
> Of Champions (Jose Torres
> vs. Danny "Little Red" Lopez,
> 15 rounds for the WBC featherweight
> championship. Lopez retained the title,
> but I don't know how.)
> 11 PM News
> 11:30 Kojak
> (doesn't say what follows)

> Channel 2:
>
> 7 PM NBC News
> 7:30 Name That Tune
> 8 PM Night With The Heavyweights:
> four bouts featuring contenders
> for Muhammad Ali's title: Ken
> Norton vs. Lorenzo Zamora, Jimmy
> Young vs. Jody Ballard, Ron Lyle
> vs. Stan Ward, Larry Holmes vs.
> Howard Smith
> 11 PM News
> 11:30 Tonight Show
 
>ABC's late-night programming was delayed on Ch. 11
by 30 minutes, so the 12:40 (ET)/11:40 (CT) program
would have started at 1:10 AM. Since the Atlanta
Constitution didn't show listings past 1 AM, that's
why I'm in the dark (no pun intended) about some of
ABC's late-night schedule. The Tonight/Tomorrow
confusion on Thursday, on my part, is due to the
fact that the Constitution has the Tonight Show listed
at 11:30, but right under it, at 12, it says Tomorrow,
which aired in Atlanta at 1 AM.

And in answer to the comment about two nights of
boxing, remember that boxing was hot after the '76
Olympics, the ones that gave us Sugar Ray Leonard,
Leon and Michael Spinks, and Howard Davis. The
networks' weekend sports anthologies seemed to have
a fight every week in 1976 and '77.




ohstuskaterpunk is right...the business at hand, comparing
> Atlanta to Birmingham...the Birmingham channels are 6 (ABC),
> 13 (NBC), and 42 (CBS).
>
> > SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
> >
> > WSB Ch. 2 (NBC)
> >
> > 7 PM Hee Haw
> > 8 PM Bionic Woman (just moved from
> > ABC to NBC)
> > 9 PM Movie: "Dirty Harry" (I think
> > this is a network movie
>
> 8 pm
> "4", 9, 13, 15, 31 Movie--Crime Drama
> Clint Eastwood in the first of 3 "Dirty Harry" movies (1971,
> repeat, 2 hr)
> [NBC plans an announcement warning that the movie may not to
> suitable for all family members. Movie starts the 16th
> season of "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies".]
>
> SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
> >
> > Channel 2:
>
> > 11:30 Movie: "Billion Dollar Brain"
> > (this might have been NBC's
> > late-night Sunday movie)
>
> 10.30
> 9, 13, 15 Movie--Adventure
> Michael Caine starred in "Billion Dollar Brain" (1967). Also
> featured Karl Malden of "The Streets of San Francisco" and
> Ed Begley. (2 hr)
>
> > MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
> >
> > Channel 2:
>
> > 9 PM Billy Graham Crusade
> > 10 PM Musical World Of Julie Andrews
>
> 8 pm
> "4", 9, 13, 15, 31 Movie--Drama
> LeVar Burton in a 1977 world premiere called "Billy:
> Portrait of a Street Kid" (2 hr)
>
> > Channel 5:
>
> > 11:30 CBS Movie: "Babe"
>
> 10.30
> 19, 33, 40, 42 Movie--Drama
> Susan Clark starred in "Babe", a 1975 TV-movie (2 hr)
>
> > Channel 11:
>
> > 12:30 College Football '77
>
> 11.30
> "2" College Football '77--Bill Flemming
> Return:
> [Series normally aired on Sundays at 12 pm Eastern/11 am
> Central on ABC Sports during the fall months]
>
> > TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
> >
> > Channel 2:
> >
> > 7 PM NBC News
> > 7:30 Wild Kingdom
> > 8 PM Richard Pryor
> > 9 PM NBC Movie: "Sex And The
> > Married Woman"
> > 11 PM News
> > 11:30 Tonight Show
> >
> > Channel 5:
>
> > 11:30 Kojak
> > (doesn't say what follows)
>
> 10.30
> 19, 33, 40, 42 Kojak--Crime Drama
> 11.40
> 19, 33, 40, 42 Toma--Crime Drama
>
> > Channel 11:
>
> > 8 PM Happy Days
> > 9 PM Three's Company
> > 9:30 Soap
> > 10 PM Family
> > 11 PM News
> > 11:30 Fernwood 2 Night
> > 12 M Movie (title not given)
>
> ABC Late Night Mystery Movie aired at 10.30 pm Central on 4,
> 48, 11 pm on "2", and 12 am on 6. It was called
> "Christine", a 1974 Canadian TV movie. Lasted for 2 hr.
>
> The Central/Mountain feed ABC provided for its affiliates
> located in the Central and Mountain time zones: "Family" at
> 8.30 pm, followed by "Soap" at 9.30 pm. Nashville's "2"
> followed this feed. Columbus Miss' 4 followed the same
> schedule as listed above for Ch. 11 in Atlanta. 6 aired
> "Three's Company" and "Soap" on Saturdays. I find it weird
> that 48 aired "Three's Company" but pre-empted "Soap".
>
> > WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
>
> > Channel 5:
> >
> > 7 PM CBS News
> > 7:30 Cross-Wits
> > 8 PM CBS Movie: "Spider-Man"
> > 9:30 CBS Movie: "Relentless"
> > 11 PM News
> > 11:30 Hawaii Five-O
> > 12:40 Movie (title not given)
>
> 10.40
> 19, 33, 40, 42 Hawaii Five-0--Drama
>
> 11.50
> 19, 33, 40, 42 Movie--Drama
> E.G. Marshall in the 1973 TV-movie "Money to Burn" (1 hr 35
> min)
>
> > Channel 11:
>
> > 11:30 Fernwood 2 Night
> > 12 M Starsky & Hutch
>
> "Mystery of the Week" aired at 11.40 pm Central on 4, 48,
> 12.10 am on "2", and 1.10 on 6. The movie was called "If
> It's a man, Hang Up".
>
> > THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15
> >
> > Channel 2:
>
> > 11:30 Tonight Show (listing also shows
> > Tom Snyder's Tomorrow Show--did
> > Carson not want to do the Tonight
> > Show, thinking the awards show
> > might run over?)
>
> "Tonight Show" aired shortly after 10.30 pm on "4", 9, 15,
> 31 and 11.30 pm on 13. "Tomorrow" followed.
>
> > Channel 11:
>
> > 11:30 Fernwood 2 Night
> > 12 M Police Story
>
> "Police Story" aired at 10.30 pm on 4, 48, 11 pm on "2", and
> 12 am on 6. A 90-min special called "Late, Great 1968"
> followed 70 min later.
>
> > FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
>
> Late night on NBC: "Tonight" at 10.30 pm on "4", 9, 15, 31
> and 11.30 pm on 13, followed by "The Midnight Special".
>
> Channel 11:
>
> > 11:30 Second City Television
> > 12 M Movie: "Execution Of
> > Private Slovik"
>
> 10.30
> 19, 33, 40, 42 MASH
> 11.05
> 19, 33, 40, 42 Kojak--Crime Drama
>
> > Channel 11:
>
> > 11:30 Fernwood 2 Night (2 episodes)
> > 12:30 Baretta
>
> "Baretta" aired at 10.30 pm Central on 4, 48, 11 pm on "2",
> and 12 am on 6.
>
 
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