Retro: Atlanta Saturday, July 18, 1970

[bpatrick]

From the Atlanta Constitution. Schedules
run from 8 AM.

WSB Ch. 2 (NBC)

8 AM Popeye Club
9 AM Here Comes The Grump
9:30 Pink Panther
10 AM H.R. Pufnstuf
10:30 Banana Splits
11:30 Flintstones
12 N Tarzan
1 PM All-American College Show
1:30 Something Else
2 PM Baseball Pre-Game: Computer
match between the 1942 St. Louis
Cardinals and the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers
2:15 Baseball: Minnesota at Baltimore
5 PM Perry Mason (time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report (Chet Huntley
would retire in August.)
7 PM Death Valley Days
7:30 Ray Stevens
8:30 Adam-12
9 PM Movie: "If A Man Answers"
(NBC's movie is "The Spy With A Cold Nose"
--TV Guide, North Carolina edition)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: title not given

WAGA Ch. 5 (CBS)

8 AM Jetsons
8:30 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
9:30 Mr. Pix (Dave Michaels, later anchor
on WXIA and CNN)
10:30 Scooby-Doo
11 AM Archie Comedy Hour
12 N Monkees
12:30 Perils Of Penelope Pitstop
1 PM Superman (animated)
1:30 Jonny Quest
2 PM Dastardly And Muttley In Their
Flying Machines
2:30 Amateur Hour
3 PM Movie: "Abbott And Costello Meet
Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde"
4:30 Movie: "Captain Lightfoot"
6:30 News
7 PM Art Linkletter
7:30 Jackie Gleason
8:30 My Three Sons
9 PM Green Acres
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 PM Mannix
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "PT-109"

WGTV Ch. 8 (NET)

7 PM You Asked For It
7:30 Speaking Freely
8:30 Movie: "County Chairman"
10 PM Stardate
sign off 11 PM

WQXI Ch. 11 (ABC)

8 AM Adventures Of Gulliver
8:30 Smokey Bear
9 AM Cattanooga Cats
10 AM Hot Wheels
10:30 Hardy Boys
11 AM Sky Hawks
11:30 George Of The Jungle
12 N Get It Together
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Movie: "Werewolf Of London"
3 PM Flying Nun (delay from Friday 7:30)
3:30 F Troop
4 PM My Favorite Martian
4:30 To Tell The Truth
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 Movie: "Guerrilla In The Philippines"
8:30 Lawrence Welk
9:30 Engelbert Humperdinck
10:30 Atlanta Wrestling
11:30 Movie: "Night Stars Goddess Of
Electra"

WJRJ Ch. 17 (Ind.) (soon to be WTCG)

8 AM Cartoon Carnival
9:30 Movie: "The Secret Of Convict Lake"
11:30 McHale's Navy
12 N Laredo
1 PM Now Explosion
5 PM Skippy The Bush Kangaroo
5:30 Batman
6 PM Lassie
6:30 Mr. Ed
7 PM Munsters
7:30 Let's Make A Deal
8 PM Newlywed Game
(the two game shows are pre-empted on Ch. 11)
8:30 Rosey Grier
9 PM Now Explosion

WETV Ch. 30 (NET)

off air on Saturday

WATL Ch. 36 (Ind.)

10 AM Movie: "High Sierra"
12 N Music Connection
6 PM Outer Limits
7 PM Movie: "White Feather"
9 PM Playboy After Dark
10 PM Movie: "The Easy Life"

 

[rugrats1]

>
> WSB Ch. 2 (NBC)
>
> 2 PM Baseball Pre-Game: Computer
> match between the 1942 St. Louis
> Cardinals and the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers

This was the 4th opening game of NBC's search of the greatest baseball team between 1920 and 1970. The 1942 Cards won over the 1955 Dodgers, 3 to 2. The 1942 Cards lost to the 1927 New York Yankees (6 to 4) in the 2nd Semifinal Game; the '27 Yanks went on to beat the 1961 Yanks in the Fianl Championship, 5 to 3.

This is all documented in the 1975 book "The People's Almanac" (pages 1131 to 1135), available at better libraries and used bookstores.

 

[ClearThinker]

> 9 PM Playboy After Dark

Huh? In Georgia? 1970? And it wasn't even that dark at 9 o'clock in July. This is a most intriguing entry.

 

[bpatrick]

> > 9 PM Playboy After Dark
>
> Huh? In Georgia? 1970? And it wasn't even that dark at 9
> o'clock in July. This is a most intriguing entry.
>
My thoughts exactly on a Georgia station carrying the show.
It was a syndicated show, so the time slot has nothing to do
with the title.