From TV Guide, Atlanta Edition:
WSB Ch. 2 (ABC)
5 AM CNN Headline News/
Local News
6 AM Lone Ranger (live action)
6:30 Bugs Bunny (Ch. 2 had the post-'48
Warner Brothers cartoons not carried
on a network.)
7 AM Big Blue Marble
7:30 ABC Weekend Special
8 AM Superfriends
8:30 Pac-Man/Little Rascals (animated)/
Richie Rich
9:30 Pac-Man
10 AM Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy (Petey
the Puppy, first introduced on a 1978
Weekend Special, "The Puppy Who Wanted
A Boy.")
11 AM Bugs Bunny
11:30 Timeout (profile of Herschel Walker)
12 N News
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Tarzan (Ron Ely)
2:30 Movie: "The Boston Strangler"
5 PM Wide World Of Sports: WBA bantamweight
championship: Jeff Chandler (champ) vs.
Jose "Gaby" Canizales, from Atlantic City
6:30 News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM T.J. Hooker
9 PM Love Boat
10 PM Fantasy Island
11 PM News
11:30 Solid Gold
12:30 America's Top 10
1 AM Laugh Trax
2 AM CNN Headline News/Local News (to 6 AM)
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 News
12:30 Good Times
1 PM College Basketball: DePaul at
UAB
3 PM Golf: Phoenix Open (Third round,
time approximate)
4 PM CBS Sports Saturday: WBA junior-
middleweight championship: Davey
Moore (champ) vs. Gary Guiden, from
Atlantic City (both this fight and the
one on ABC are live)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM Weekend Magazine (a profile of Mike
Wallace is one of the stories)
8 PM Bring 'Em Back Alive
9 PM CBS Movie: "Phantom Of The Opera"
(new made-for-TV version with Jane
Seymour and Maximilian Schell)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Masters Of Kung Fu"
1:30 News
WGTV Ch. 8 (PBS)
1:30 Victory Garden
2 PM This Old House
2:30 Magic Of Creative Oil Painting
3 PM Quilting
3:30 TBA
5 PM Supersoccer
6 PM Six-Gun Heroes: "Springtime In
The Rockies," with Gene Autry
7 PM Austin City Limits
8 PM Movie: "The Boy Friend"
9:30 Father, Dear Father
10 PM Mystery!: "Sergeant Cribb"
11 PM Matinee At The Bijou: "Africa Screams,"
with Abbott and Costello; the conclusion
of the 1944 serial "Zorro's Black Whip"
sign off 12:30 AM
WXIA Ch. 11 (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 (the biggest Saturday-morning
hit of the decade)
10:30 Gary Coleman (animated)
11 AM Incredible Hulk And Amazing Spider-
Man (animated)
12 N Star Trek (the original)
1 PM College Basketball: Vanderbilt at
Tennessee
3 PM College Basketball: Louisville at
Virginia (time approximate)
5 PM Millrose Games (time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (Jessica Savitch)
7 PM At The Movies
7:30 Jack Anderson Confidential
8 PM Bob Hope's All-Star Super Bowl
Party
9 PM Mama's Family
9:30 Taxi
10 PM The Family Tree
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (Rick Moranis
and Dave Thomas of SCTV are hosts)
1 AM Star Trek
2 AM Movie: "Charro!" (with Elvis Presley)
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: "The Horseman"
12:35 Movie: "The Night Of The Generals"
3:35 Movie: "The Phantom Of The Opera"
(perhaps trying to steal CBS's thunder,
Ted Turner has the famous 1943 version
with Claude Rains)
5:35 Motorweek Illustrated
6:05 Wrestling
8:05 Movie: "They Came To Cordura"
10:35 News
11:35 Tush! (as in Bill Tush)
12:35 Movie: "Pride Of The Marines"
3:10 Movie: "The Brain"
WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 (PBS)
3:30 Powerhouse
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 National Geographic: "Rain Forest"
9 PM Great Performances: "Das Rheingold"
11:30 David Susskind
sign off 12:30 AM
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 Al McGuire On Sports
1 PM College Basketball: Georgia
Tech at North Carolina
3 PM Soul Train (time approximate)
4 PM 36 Jukebox Video
5 PM Madame's Place (Wayland Flowers'
raunchy puppet)
6 PM Kung Fu
7 PM Movie: "Superdragon"
9 PM College Basketball: Kentucky at
Georgia
11 PM Movie: "The Last Shot You Hear"
(time approximate)
12:45 College Basketball: Old Dominion
at South Florida (taped)
sign off following the game
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 was out
of Dallas, but am not sure)
10 AM Movie: "Abbott And Costello Meet
The Keystone Kops"
11:30 Movie: "The Last Gangster" (Edward
G. Robinson)
1 PM Movie: "Return To Boggy Creek"
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: "Night People"
10 PM Russia: Land Without God
11 PM Jesus Alive
11:30 Memories With Lawrence Welk
12:30 Independent Network News
sign off 1 AM
WSB Ch. 2 (ABC)
5 AM CNN Headline News/
Local News
6 AM Lone Ranger (live action)
6:30 Bugs Bunny (Ch. 2 had the post-'48
Warner Brothers cartoons not carried
on a network.)
7 AM Big Blue Marble
7:30 ABC Weekend Special
8 AM Superfriends
8:30 Pac-Man/Little Rascals (animated)/
Richie Rich
9:30 Pac-Man
10 AM Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy (Petey
the Puppy, first introduced on a 1978
Weekend Special, "The Puppy Who Wanted
A Boy.")
11 AM Bugs Bunny
11:30 Timeout (profile of Herschel Walker)
12 N News
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Tarzan (Ron Ely)
2:30 Movie: "The Boston Strangler"
5 PM Wide World Of Sports: WBA bantamweight
championship: Jeff Chandler (champ) vs.
Jose "Gaby" Canizales, from Atlantic City
6:30 News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM T.J. Hooker
9 PM Love Boat
10 PM Fantasy Island
11 PM News
11:30 Solid Gold
12:30 America's Top 10
1 AM Laugh Trax
2 AM CNN Headline News/Local News (to 6 AM)
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 News
12:30 Good Times
1 PM College Basketball: DePaul at
UAB
3 PM Golf: Phoenix Open (Third round,
time approximate)
4 PM CBS Sports Saturday: WBA junior-
middleweight championship: Davey
Moore (champ) vs. Gary Guiden, from
Atlantic City (both this fight and the
one on ABC are live)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM Weekend Magazine (a profile of Mike
Wallace is one of the stories)
8 PM Bring 'Em Back Alive
9 PM CBS Movie: "Phantom Of The Opera"
(new made-for-TV version with Jane
Seymour and Maximilian Schell)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Masters Of Kung Fu"
1:30 News
WGTV Ch. 8 (PBS)
1:30 Victory Garden
2 PM This Old House
2:30 Magic Of Creative Oil Painting
3 PM Quilting
3:30 TBA
5 PM Supersoccer
6 PM Six-Gun Heroes: "Springtime In
The Rockies," with Gene Autry
7 PM Austin City Limits
8 PM Movie: "The Boy Friend"
9:30 Father, Dear Father
10 PM Mystery!: "Sergeant Cribb"
11 PM Matinee At The Bijou: "Africa Screams,"
with Abbott and Costello; the conclusion
of the 1944 serial "Zorro's Black Whip"
sign off 12:30 AM
WXIA Ch. 11 (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 (the biggest Saturday-morning
hit of the decade)
10:30 Gary Coleman (animated)
11 AM Incredible Hulk And Amazing Spider-
Man (animated)
12 N Star Trek (the original)
1 PM College Basketball: Vanderbilt at
Tennessee
3 PM College Basketball: Louisville at
Virginia (time approximate)
5 PM Millrose Games (time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (Jessica Savitch)
7 PM At The Movies
7:30 Jack Anderson Confidential
8 PM Bob Hope's All-Star Super Bowl
Party
9 PM Mama's Family
9:30 Taxi
10 PM The Family Tree
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (Rick Moranis
and Dave Thomas of SCTV are hosts)
1 AM Star Trek
2 AM Movie: "Charro!" (with Elvis Presley)
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: "The Horseman"
12:35 Movie: "The Night Of The Generals"
3:35 Movie: "The Phantom Of The Opera"
(perhaps trying to steal CBS's thunder,
Ted Turner has the famous 1943 version
with Claude Rains)
5:35 Motorweek Illustrated
6:05 Wrestling
8:05 Movie: "They Came To Cordura"
10:35 News
11:35 Tush! (as in Bill Tush)
12:35 Movie: "Pride Of The Marines"
3:10 Movie: "The Brain"
WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 (PBS)
3:30 Powerhouse
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 National Geographic: "Rain Forest"
9 PM Great Performances: "Das Rheingold"
11:30 David Susskind
sign off 12:30 AM
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 Al McGuire On Sports
1 PM College Basketball: Georgia
Tech at North Carolina
3 PM Soul Train (time approximate)
4 PM 36 Jukebox Video
5 PM Madame's Place (Wayland Flowers'
raunchy puppet)
6 PM Kung Fu
7 PM Movie: "Superdragon"
9 PM College Basketball: Kentucky at
Georgia
11 PM Movie: "The Last Shot You Hear"
(time approximate)
12:45 College Basketball: Old Dominion
at South Florida (taped)
sign off following the game
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 was out
of Dallas, but am not sure)
10 AM Movie: "Abbott And Costello Meet
The Keystone Kops"
11:30 Movie: "The Last Gangster" (Edward
G. Robinson)
1 PM Movie: "Return To Boggy Creek"
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: "Night People"
10 PM Russia: Land Without God
11 PM Jesus Alive
11:30 Memories With Lawrence Welk
12:30 Independent Network News
sign off 1 AM
