From TV Guide, Atlanta Edition:
WSB Ch. 2 (ABC)
5 AM CNN Headline News/Local News
6 AM Lone Ranger
6:30 Bugs Bunny (not to be confused with "The
Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show")
7 AM Big Blue Marble
7:30 ABC Weekend Special: "The Haunted Mansion
Mystery" (conclusion, week-behind from 12 N)
8 AM Superfriends
8:30 Pac-Man, Little Rascals, Richie Rich
9:30 Pac-Man
10 AM Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy
11 AM Bugs Bunny
11:30 Timeout (local kids' show)
12 N News
12:30 American Bandstand (Wall of Voodoo, Juice Newton)
1:30 Tarzan
2:30 Movie: "Planet Of The Apes"
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (start of the show's 23rd year:
the Harlem Globetrotters in New York, Men's World Cup
downhill skiing from Kitzbuhel, Austria)
6:30 News
7 PM Hee Haw (Charley Pride, the Family Brown, the Million
Dollar Band, Butch Baker)
8 PM T.J. Hooker
9 PM Love Boat (passengers: James Noble, Theresa Merritt,
Raymond St. Jacques, Brian Mitchell, Telma Hopkins,
Alan Young, Holland Taylor, Adam West)
10 PM Fantasy Island (Susan Lucci plays a soap actress who
thinks the villainess she plays on television is taking over
her life; also: Anson Williams, David Cassidy)
11 PM News
11:30 United Cerebral Palsy Telethon (to 6 PM Sun)
WAGA Ch. 5 (CBS)
7 AM Morning At Emory
7:30 Kidsworld
8 AM Latin Atlanta
8:30 Pandamonium
9 AM Gilligan's Planet
9:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
11:30 Meatballs & Spaghetti
12 N NFL Today
12:30 NFC Championship (Redskins 51, Rams 7, Skins beat Miami in
Super Bowl XVII, 27-17)
4 PM CBS Sports Saturday (boxing: Pinklon Thomas vs. Gerrie Coetzee,
live from Atlantic City; Women's World Cup skiing from Megeve, France)
5 PM College Basketball: West Virginia-Rutgers
7 PM Weekend Magazine (antique auctions in Atlanta; part 2 of 3 on Canadian
skiing; folk artist Howard Fenster; previews of "Gandhi" and "Sophie's
Choice," time approximate)
8 PM Bring 'Em Back Alive
9 PM CBS Movie: "Uncommon Valor"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Ten Tigers From Kwantung"
1:30 News
WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta
WDCO Ch. 15 (WMUM Ch. 29 ) Cochran
WCLP (WNGH) Ch. 18 Chatsworth (PBS)
1:30 Victory Garden
2 PM This Old House
2:30 Magic Of Creative Oil Painting
3 PM Quilting
3:30 TBA
4 PM Guitar With Frederick Noad
4:30 TBA
5 PM Supersoccer
6 PM Six-Gun Heroes (Roy Rogers in "Roll On, Texas
Moon," from '46)
7 PM Austin City Limits (season premiere: Mickey Gilley
and T.G. Sheppard)
8 PM Movie: "George Washington Slept Here" (Jack Benny,
from '42)
9:30 Father, Dear Father
10 PM Mystery! (Sgt. Cribb)
11 PM Matinee At The Bijou ("Dark Mountain," from '44; Chapter
7 of "Zorro's Black Whip" from '44; "Kings Of Sport," a
'40 short)
sign off 12:30 AM
WXIA 11 Alive (NBC)
5 AM Gunsmoke
6 AM College Today
6:30 Adventures In Living
7 AM Laverne & Shirley & Company
7:30 George Of The Jungle
8 AM Flintstone Funnies
8:30 Shirt Tales
9 AM Smurfs
10:30 Gary Coleman (animated)
11 AM Incredible Hulk And Amazing Spider-Man
12 N Star Trek
1 PM Gunsmoke
2 PM College Basketball: Notre Dame-Maryland
4 PM PGA Golf: Bob Hope Desert Classic (fourth round--
it was the only tournament with five rounds, time
approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (Jessica Savitch)
7 PM At The Movies (previewed: "Gandhi," "Moonlighting"
(don't think there's a connection to the series),
"Veronika Voss")
7:30 Jack Anderson Confidential
8 PM Diff'rent Strokes
8:30 Silver Spoons
9 PM Mama's Family (debut)
9:30 Taxi (new day)
10 PM The Family Tree (debut of a six-part series about two
divorcees whose marriage plans are disrupted by the
woman's handicapped child)
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (Lily Tomlin hosts and is also musical
guest; also, mime Bill Irwin)
1 AM Star Trek
2 AM Movie: "The Beast Must Die"
3:30 Outer Limits
4:30 Gunsmoke
WTBS (WPCH) Ch. 17 (Ind.)
5 AM Mission: Impossible
6 AM CNN News
7:05 Between The Lines
7:35 Vegetable Soup
8:05 Romper Room And Friends
8:35 That Girl
9:05 Fall Of Eagles
10:05 Movie: "Dial 'M' For Murder"
12:35 Movie: "Lord Jim"
4:05 Movie: "The Strangers In 7A" (Andy Griffith and
Ida Lupino in a '72 made-for-TV movie about an
apartment-building superintendent and his wife
who are being held hostage by bank robbers.)
5:35 Motorweek Illustrated
6:05 Wrestling (Georgia)
7:45 College Basketball: Arkansas-Houston (I think this
was still the Southwest Conference.)
10:05 Japan Bowl (a matchup of U.S. East and West all-stars
in Yokohama, time approximate)
1:05 News (time approximate)
1:35 Movie: "Innocent Bystanders"
3:45 Rat Patrol
4:15 Mission: Impossible
WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 (PBS)
3:30 Powerhouse (show for teens)
4 PM Latin Atlanta
4:30 Computer Programme
5 PM Victory Garden
5:30 Take 30
6 PM This Old House
6:30 Inside Business Today
7 PM Sneak Previews
7:30 Agronsky & Company
8 PM Great Performances (the taping of Wagner's
"Ring" trilogy in Germany)
9 PM Jackie & Roy (scat singers--and married couple--
Jackie Cain and Roy Kral)
10 PM Time To Live With Leo Buscaglia
11 PM David Susskind (Ed Koch, Russell Baker, and Eli
Wallach talk about growing up in the Depression.)
sign off 12 M
WATL Ch. 36 (Ind.)
8 AM Ernest Angley
9 AM Jim Bakker
10 AM Prophecy In The News
10:30 Financial Inquiry
11 AM Economic Review
11:30 Today's Black Woman
12 N 36 Jukebox Video
12:30 ACC Basketball: North Carolina State-Wake Forest
2:30 Soul Train (time approximate)
3:30 36 Jukebox Video
4:30 ACC Basketball: Duke-North Carolina
6:30 Al McGuire OnSports (time approximate)
7 PM Movie: "Kung Fu Daredevils"
9 PM SEC Basketball: Georgia-Auburn
11 PM Movie: "The Apple" (time approximate)
12:45 Freeze Frame (rock music)
WANX (WGCL) Ch. 46 (Ind.)
6:30 Atlanta Forum
7 AM The Lesson
7:30 Christ The Answer: Assembly Of God
Tabernacle
8 AM Children's Classics
9 AM Wrestling (I'm thinking this is World Class, since
Ch. 46 had a sister station in Dallas, KXTX)
10 AM Movie: "Abbott And Costello Go To Mars"
11:30 Movie: "Good News"
1 PM Movie: "The Snows Of Kilimanjaro"
3 PM Bonanza
4 PM Big Valley
5 PM Daniel Boone
6 PM Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries
7 PM Battlestar Galactica
8 PM Movie: "Something Wild"
10 PM The Difference (Jerry Falwell tours and promotes
Liberty Baptist College in Lynchburg, VA.)
11 PM Jesus Alive
11:30 Memories With Lawrence Welk (a musical tour of
Italy, from '66)
12:30 Independent Network News (Jeff Kamen)
sign off 1 AM
WSB Ch. 2 (ABC)
5 AM CNN Headline News/Local News
6 AM Lone Ranger
6:30 Bugs Bunny (not to be confused with "The
Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show")
7 AM Big Blue Marble
7:30 ABC Weekend Special: "The Haunted Mansion
Mystery" (conclusion, week-behind from 12 N)
8 AM Superfriends
8:30 Pac-Man, Little Rascals, Richie Rich
9:30 Pac-Man
10 AM Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy
11 AM Bugs Bunny
11:30 Timeout (local kids' show)
12 N News
12:30 American Bandstand (Wall of Voodoo, Juice Newton)
1:30 Tarzan
2:30 Movie: "Planet Of The Apes"
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (start of the show's 23rd year:
the Harlem Globetrotters in New York, Men's World Cup
downhill skiing from Kitzbuhel, Austria)
6:30 News
7 PM Hee Haw (Charley Pride, the Family Brown, the Million
Dollar Band, Butch Baker)
8 PM T.J. Hooker
9 PM Love Boat (passengers: James Noble, Theresa Merritt,
Raymond St. Jacques, Brian Mitchell, Telma Hopkins,
Alan Young, Holland Taylor, Adam West)
10 PM Fantasy Island (Susan Lucci plays a soap actress who
thinks the villainess she plays on television is taking over
her life; also: Anson Williams, David Cassidy)
11 PM News
11:30 United Cerebral Palsy Telethon (to 6 PM Sun)
WAGA Ch. 5 (CBS)
7 AM Morning At Emory
7:30 Kidsworld
8 AM Latin Atlanta
8:30 Pandamonium
9 AM Gilligan's Planet
9:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
11:30 Meatballs & Spaghetti
12 N NFL Today
12:30 NFC Championship (Redskins 51, Rams 7, Skins beat Miami in
Super Bowl XVII, 27-17)
4 PM CBS Sports Saturday (boxing: Pinklon Thomas vs. Gerrie Coetzee,
live from Atlantic City; Women's World Cup skiing from Megeve, France)
5 PM College Basketball: West Virginia-Rutgers
7 PM Weekend Magazine (antique auctions in Atlanta; part 2 of 3 on Canadian
skiing; folk artist Howard Fenster; previews of "Gandhi" and "Sophie's
Choice," time approximate)
8 PM Bring 'Em Back Alive
9 PM CBS Movie: "Uncommon Valor"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Ten Tigers From Kwantung"
1:30 News
WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta
WDCO Ch. 15 (WMUM Ch. 29 ) Cochran
WCLP (WNGH) Ch. 18 Chatsworth (PBS)
1:30 Victory Garden
2 PM This Old House
2:30 Magic Of Creative Oil Painting
3 PM Quilting
3:30 TBA
4 PM Guitar With Frederick Noad
4:30 TBA
5 PM Supersoccer
6 PM Six-Gun Heroes (Roy Rogers in "Roll On, Texas
Moon," from '46)
7 PM Austin City Limits (season premiere: Mickey Gilley
and T.G. Sheppard)
8 PM Movie: "George Washington Slept Here" (Jack Benny,
from '42)
9:30 Father, Dear Father
10 PM Mystery! (Sgt. Cribb)
11 PM Matinee At The Bijou ("Dark Mountain," from '44; Chapter
7 of "Zorro's Black Whip" from '44; "Kings Of Sport," a
'40 short)
sign off 12:30 AM
WXIA 11 Alive (NBC)
5 AM Gunsmoke
6 AM College Today
6:30 Adventures In Living
7 AM Laverne & Shirley & Company
7:30 George Of The Jungle
8 AM Flintstone Funnies
8:30 Shirt Tales
9 AM Smurfs
10:30 Gary Coleman (animated)
11 AM Incredible Hulk And Amazing Spider-Man
12 N Star Trek
1 PM Gunsmoke
2 PM College Basketball: Notre Dame-Maryland
4 PM PGA Golf: Bob Hope Desert Classic (fourth round--
it was the only tournament with five rounds, time
approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (Jessica Savitch)
7 PM At The Movies (previewed: "Gandhi," "Moonlighting"
(don't think there's a connection to the series),
"Veronika Voss")
7:30 Jack Anderson Confidential
8 PM Diff'rent Strokes
8:30 Silver Spoons
9 PM Mama's Family (debut)
9:30 Taxi (new day)
10 PM The Family Tree (debut of a six-part series about two
divorcees whose marriage plans are disrupted by the
woman's handicapped child)
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (Lily Tomlin hosts and is also musical
guest; also, mime Bill Irwin)
1 AM Star Trek
2 AM Movie: "The Beast Must Die"
3:30 Outer Limits
4:30 Gunsmoke
WTBS (WPCH) Ch. 17 (Ind.)
5 AM Mission: Impossible
6 AM CNN News
7:05 Between The Lines
7:35 Vegetable Soup
8:05 Romper Room And Friends
8:35 That Girl
9:05 Fall Of Eagles
10:05 Movie: "Dial 'M' For Murder"
12:35 Movie: "Lord Jim"
4:05 Movie: "The Strangers In 7A" (Andy Griffith and
Ida Lupino in a '72 made-for-TV movie about an
apartment-building superintendent and his wife
who are being held hostage by bank robbers.)
5:35 Motorweek Illustrated
6:05 Wrestling (Georgia)
7:45 College Basketball: Arkansas-Houston (I think this
was still the Southwest Conference.)
10:05 Japan Bowl (a matchup of U.S. East and West all-stars
in Yokohama, time approximate)
1:05 News (time approximate)
1:35 Movie: "Innocent Bystanders"
3:45 Rat Patrol
4:15 Mission: Impossible
WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 (PBS)
3:30 Powerhouse (show for teens)
4 PM Latin Atlanta
4:30 Computer Programme
5 PM Victory Garden
5:30 Take 30
6 PM This Old House
6:30 Inside Business Today
7 PM Sneak Previews
7:30 Agronsky & Company
8 PM Great Performances (the taping of Wagner's
"Ring" trilogy in Germany)
9 PM Jackie & Roy (scat singers--and married couple--
Jackie Cain and Roy Kral)
10 PM Time To Live With Leo Buscaglia
11 PM David Susskind (Ed Koch, Russell Baker, and Eli
Wallach talk about growing up in the Depression.)
sign off 12 M
WATL Ch. 36 (Ind.)
8 AM Ernest Angley
9 AM Jim Bakker
10 AM Prophecy In The News
10:30 Financial Inquiry
11 AM Economic Review
11:30 Today's Black Woman
12 N 36 Jukebox Video
12:30 ACC Basketball: North Carolina State-Wake Forest
2:30 Soul Train (time approximate)
3:30 36 Jukebox Video
4:30 ACC Basketball: Duke-North Carolina
6:30 Al McGuire OnSports (time approximate)
7 PM Movie: "Kung Fu Daredevils"
9 PM SEC Basketball: Georgia-Auburn
11 PM Movie: "The Apple" (time approximate)
12:45 Freeze Frame (rock music)
WANX (WGCL) Ch. 46 (Ind.)
6:30 Atlanta Forum
7 AM The Lesson
7:30 Christ The Answer: Assembly Of God
Tabernacle
8 AM Children's Classics
9 AM Wrestling (I'm thinking this is World Class, since
Ch. 46 had a sister station in Dallas, KXTX)
10 AM Movie: "Abbott And Costello Go To Mars"
11:30 Movie: "Good News"
1 PM Movie: "The Snows Of Kilimanjaro"
3 PM Bonanza
4 PM Big Valley
5 PM Daniel Boone
6 PM Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries
7 PM Battlestar Galactica
8 PM Movie: "Something Wild"
10 PM The Difference (Jerry Falwell tours and promotes
Liberty Baptist College in Lynchburg, VA.)
11 PM Jesus Alive
11:30 Memories With Lawrence Welk (a musical tour of
Italy, from '66)
12:30 Independent Network News (Jeff Kamen)
sign off 1 AM