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Retro: Atlanta primetime Monday-Friday, August 8-12, 1977 (Part 1)

By request, from the Atlanta Constitution. Schedules run
from 7 PM. I'll post these in two parts.

MONDAY, AUGUST 8

WSB Ch. 2 (NBC)

7 PM NBC News
7:30 In Search Of...
8 PM Little House On The Prairie
9 PM Movie: "The Family Way" (don't know if local
or NBC, given Ch. 2's predilection for pre-empting
NBC)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (David Brenner is guest host)
1 AM Tomorrow
2 AM News

WAGA Ch. 5 (CBS)

7 PM CBS News
7:30 Match Game PM
8 PM The Jeffersons
8:30 Szysznyk
9 PM Maude
9:30 All's Fair
10 PM Sonny And Cher
11 PM News
11:30 Kojak
12:40 CBS Movie: "Poor Devil"
2:15 Ironside

WGTV Ch. 8 (PBS)

7 PM Guppies To Groupers
7:30 Atlanta Week In Review
8 PM Great Performances: "The
Mound Builders"
9:30 Sam Nunn
10 PM Carnivore
11 PM Movie: "Easy Virtue" (Hitchcock film
from 1927)
sign off 12:30 AM

WXIA Ch. 11 (ABC)

7 PM Concentration
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM Hands Across The Water (local documentary
about the Friendship Force exchange between
Atlanta and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England)
8:30 Baseball: Teams TBA
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 Fernwood 2Night
12 M Streets Of San Francisco
don't have what follows, if anything

WTCG Ch. 17 (Ind.)

7 PM That Girl
7:30 Dragnet
8 PM Let's Go To The Races
8:30 Tom Brookshier's Special Inning With
Babe Ruth (filmed in the house where
Ruth grew up, with Joe Earley as the Babe)
9 PM Pee Wee Reese World Series (final game, taped
earlier that day)
10:30 Paul Hornung
11 PM Dark Shadows
11:30 Movie: "Brother Rat"
1:20 Movie: "Dangerous"
3:10 Movie: "The Good Die Young"

WETV Ch. 30 (PBS)

7 PM By-Line
7:30 Robert MacNeil Report
8 PM Carnivore
9 PM Atlanta Board Of Education
10 PM Grand Prix Tennis
sign off 1 AM, at least

WATL Ch. 36 (Ind.)

7 PM Classic Country
8 PM Sports With Art Collier
9 PM Ludlow Porch (talk show)
10 PM PTL Club
sign off 12 Mid.

WANX Ch. 46 (Ind./CBN)

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 RFD
12 M News
sign off 12:15 AM

TUESDAY, AUGUST 9

WSB: 7 PM NBC News
7:30 Wild Kingdom
8 PM Baa Baa Black Sheep
9 PM Police Woman
10 PM Police Story
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow
2 AM News (Ch. 2 signs off after the news, BTW)

WAGA: 7 PM CBS News
7:30 Price Is Right
8 PM Jack Benny (CBS was running four episodes
of Benny's show from the early '60s that month)
8:30 Phyllis
9 PM M*A*S*H
9:30 One Day At A Time
10 PM Kojak
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "The Wings Of Eagles"
Ironside follows the movie.

WGTV: 7 PM Paint Along
7:30 Irish Rovers (remember their song, "The Unicorn"?)
8 PM In Performance At Wolf Trap
9 PM The Goodies
9:30 Movie: "Sherlock Holmes And The Scarlet Claw"
11 PM Movie: "The Great Guy"
sign off 12:30 AM

WXIA: 7 PM Jack Van Impe Los Angeles Crusade
8 PM Happy Days
8:30 Laverne & Shirley
9 PM ABC Movie: "Griffin And Phoenix: A Love
Story"
11 PM News
11:30 Fernwood 2Night
12 M ABC Movie: "Fool's Paradise"

WTCG: 7 PM That Girl
7:30 Dragnet
8 PM Star Trek
9 PM Movie: "Treasure Of San Gennaro"
11 PM Dark Shadows
11:30 Movie: "John Loves Mary"
1:30 Movie: "Wagonmaster" (ironically, Ward
Bond stars in this forerunner to Wagon Train)

WETV: 7 PM Latin Atlanta
7:30 Robert MacNeil Report
8 PM Cinema Showcase
8:30 Consumer Survival Kit
9 PM Shades Of Greene
10 PM Nova
11 PM Something Personal
11:30 Captioned ABC News
sign off 12 M

WATL: 7 PM Classic Country
8 PM Stay And See Georgia
9 PM Ludlow Porch
10 PM PTL Club
sign off 12 M

WANX: 7 PM Big Valley
8 PM 700 Club
9:30 Practical Christian Living
10 PM Hi Doug
10:30 Dwight Thompson
11 PM Best Of Groucho
11:30 Mayberry RFD
12 M News
sign off 12:15 AM

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10

WSB: 7 PM NBC News
7:30 Name That Tune
8 PM Life & Times Of Grizzly Adams
9 PM CPO Sharkey (Don Rickles' most
successful series)
9:30 The Kallikaks
10 PM Kingston: Confidential (Raymond
Burr's one failure)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow
2 AM News

WAGA: 7 PM CBS News
7:30 Cross-Wits
8 PM Good Times
8:30 Busting Loose
9 PM CBS Movie: "Dillinger"
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Lieutenant Schuster's
Wife"
1:05 Ironside

WGTV: 7 PM Canines
7:30 Lady Camille
8 PM Nova
9 PM Opera Theatre: "Trouble In Tahiti"
10 PM At The Top
11 PM Movie: "Easy Virtue"
sign off 12:30 AM

WXIA: 7 PM Concentration
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM Eight Is Enough
9 PM Charlie's Angels
10 PM Baretta
11 PM News
11:30 Fernwood 2Night
12 M The Rookies

WTCG: 7 PM That Girl
7:30 Dragnet
8 PM Night Gallery
9 PM Baseball: Braves at Padres (doubleheader)
2:30 Movie: "A Girl, A Guy And A Gob" (Lucille Ball
is in this one, time approximate)

WETV: 7 PM Crockett's Victory Garden
7:30 Robert MacNeil Report
8 PM Georgia Forum
9 PM In Performance At Wolf Trap
10 PM Anywhat
10:30 Wodehouse Playhouse
11 PM Anyone For Tennyson?
11:30 Captioned ABC News
sign off 12 M.

WATL: 7 PM Classic Country
8 PM Sports With Art Collier
9 PM Ludlow Porch
10 PM PTL Club
sign off 12 M.

WANX: 7 PM Big Valley
8 PM 700 Club
9:30 The Rock
10 PM Crisis Living
10:30 Gerald Derstine
11 PM Best Of Groucho
11:30 Mayberry RFD
12 M News
sign off 12:15 AM

Part 2 follows.
 
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