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Retro: Atlanta Saturday, August 26, 1978

From TV Guide, North Georgia Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 (NBC)

7 AM Big Blue Marble
7:30 I Am The Greatest: The Adventures
Of Muhammad Ali
8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Go Go Globetrotters
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
11:30 Super 2 Show
12 N News
12:30 Dialogue
1 PM Tarzan (Ron Ely)
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Angels-Red Sox or Cubs-Reds
5 PM The FBI (time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 Saturday Extra
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM NFL Preseason Game: Los Angeles Rams
at Oakland Raiders
12 M News (time approximate)
12:30 Saturday Night Live (host Norman Lear,
musical guest Boz Scaggs, cameos by
Bea Arthur, Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton,
and Sherman Hemsley)
2 AM News
2:05 Movie: "Oedipus The King"
sign off 4:05 AM

WAGA Ch. 5 (CBS)

6 AM Summer Semester: U.S. Foreign Policy
6:30 Box 5
7 AM Tree Talks
7:30 4-H Hour
8 AM Three Robonic Stooges
8:30 Hot Fudge
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Batman/Tarzan Hour
11:30 Isis
12 N News
12:30 Kidsworld
1 PM What's New, Mr. Magoo?
1:30 CBS Children's Film Festival: "Geronimo
Jones" (1970, U.S.) (This is the last show
of an 11-year run; it will be replaced by
the youth-oriented newsmagazine "30 Minutes.")
2 PM Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
2:30 Soul Train
3:30 In Search Of...
4 PM TBA
4:30 CBS Sports Spectacular: Highlights of Leon Spinks'
upset win over Muhammad Ali in February, preparations
for the September 15 rematch (which Ali won)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM Sha Na Na
7:30 Tell The Mayor
8 PM Oral Roberts (from the Grand Ole Opry, with guests
Mel Tillis and Minnie Pearl)
9 PM CBS Movie: "Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Impatient Heart"
1:30 Name Of The Game
3 AM News
sign off after the news

WGTV Ch. 8 (PBS)

6 PM Poldark II (Part 12)
7 PM Yoga For Health
7:30 Bill Cosby (as coach Chet Kincaid)
8 PM Wonderful World Of Country Music
8:30 Northwest Traveler (an expedition to
Spitsbergen, 400 miles north of Norway
in the Arctic Ocean)
9 PM The She-Wolf And The Caterpillar (about
a horse race in Siena, Italy, that dates
back to the 14th century)
10 PM Movie: "Rashomon"
11:30 Movie: "The Seven Year Itch"
sign off 1:15 AM

WXIA Ch. 11 (ABC)

6 AM College Today
6:30 Adventures In Living
7 AM Ebony Journal
7:30 Animals, Animals, Animals
8 AM Dynomutt
8:30 Superfriends
9:30 Scooby's Laff-A-Lympics
11:30 Krofft Supershow
12:30 American Bandstand (guests are
Evelyn "Champagne" King and
Snail)
1:30 Hollywood Teen
2 PM Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
3 PM The Racers
3:30 Golf: Colgate Hall Of Fame Classic
(Third round)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (World Swimming
and Diving Championships)
6:30 News
7 PM Hot City (disco show)
8 PM College Football Preview
9 PM Love Boat
10 PM Fantasy Island
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Last Hunt"
1:30 ABC News (Sylvia Chase/Tom Jarriel)
sign off 1:45 AM

WTCG (WPCH) Ch. 17 (Ind.)

6:10 Discovery
6:40 News
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8 AM Ultra Man
8:30 Partridge Family
9 AM Star Trek
10 AM Movie: "The Last Hurrah"
12:30 Movie: "Love In A Goldfish Bowl"
2:30 Movie: "Wild Is The Wind"
5 PM This Week In Baseball
5:30 Long Beach Grand Prix
6 PM Wrestling (Georgia Championship Wrestling)
8 PM That Nashville Music
8:30 Nashville On The Road
9 PM Porter Wagoner
9:30 Buck Owens
10 PM Pop Goes The Country
10:30 Music Place
11 PM California Jam 2 (taped in March, with Bob
Welch, Santana, and Foreigner)
12 M Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (David Letterman
is a guest)
1:30 Movie: "Beach Casanova"
3:30 Movie: "Moon Fire"

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 (PBS)

4:30 Help Yourself
5 PM By-Line: Stephen Birmingham
5:30 Lowell Thomas Remembers
6 PM Studio See
6:30 Wall Street Week
7 PM Black Perspective On The News
7:30 Washington Week In Review
8 PM From The Grand Ole Opry
11 PM WETV Membership Pledge Drive
11:15 Steambath
sign off 12:45 AM

WATL Ch. 36 (Ind.)

12 N Tammy Faye
12:30 Wrestling (I think this was World Class
Championship Wrestling)
1:30 Television Monitor (a/k/a Georgia Farm
Monitor)
2 PM Don Storms (music)
3 PM Soap Factory Disco
3:30 The Name Of The Game Is Golf
4 PM Boxing (nothing given)
5 PM Wrestling
6 PM Gino Washington (variety show)
6:30 Movie: TBA
8 PM Classic Country
9 PM Free Chapel Congregational Holiness
Church
9:30 Moment Of Truth (religious program)
10 PM PTL Club
12 M Movie: "Doomed To Die"
sign off 1:30 AM

WANX (WGCL) Ch. 46 (Ind.)

7 AM Wacky Races
7:30 Jackson 5
8 AM Perils Of Penelope Pitstop
8:30 Josie And The Pussycats
9 AM Devlin
9:30 Space Kidettes
10 AM Superman (George Reeves)
10:30 Batman (Adam West)
11 AM Star Trek (animated)
11:30 Flipper
12 N Lone Ranger (2 episodes)
1 PM Rifleman (2 episodes)
2 PM Movie: "Iron Mountain Trail"
3 PM Bonanza
4 PM Lancer
5 PM Big Valley
6 PM Life Of Riley (Gleason version)
6:30 Dick Van dyke
7 PM Countdown To A Miracle
8 PM Ross Bagley
9 PM Jack Van Impe Crusade
10 PM The Lesson
10:30 700 Club
11:30 Holiday In Melodyland
sign off 12 Midnight
 
Buddy Hayes said:
The wrestling on WATL wasn't World Class; it wasn't nationally syndicated until 1982.

...perhaps that assumption was made because WATL was where Joe Pedecino had his Saturday night wrestling block and he produced and co-hosted "Pro Wrestling This Week" with Gordon Solie not very long after this; Pedecino went on to pick up the remnants of WCCW, renaming it the Global Wrestling Federation, in the early '90s...
 
bpatrick said:
From TV Guide, North Georgia Edition:

WATL Ch. 36 (Ind.)

3 PM Soap Factory Disco

Soap Factory also aired on Baltimore's WBFF-TV 45 as well.

I barely remember the show itself but I DO remember when a number of TV preachers went after that show and DEMAND it be taken off the air because they felt the dancing the people did on that show was "..people having sex with their clothes on !!". Oddly these same people never did attack other similar shows like Soul Train and Dance Fever ( American Bandstand I can somewhat see..the fear of Dick Clark and his lawyers ) but they did attack Soap Factory Disco. Go figure !!!
 
Thank you for these memories... I can remember watching most of the shows on CBS Channel 5. Waga was very kid friendly all thru my years of growing up. Lots of great cartoons. This was also about to be the saddest time of my life, because in less than a month from Aug 26 1978 I would lose my mom..I was 13 and it was hard. But once again thanks for taking me back to a very simple time in my life.. It was fun.
 
Buddy Hayes said:
The wrestling on WATL wasn't World Class; it wasn't nationally syndicated until 1982.
My mistake. That show came out of Dallas, IIRC. The show on
Channel 36 was World League Wrestling, a very minor-league outfit
started by Lars Anderson and featuring some of the Georgia wrestlers
from the days when it was on Channel 11 and Ed Capral was the announcer.
I've forgotten now but Capral may have been the announcer on this show.
 
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