I may have posted these already, but with tomorrow
being May 17, why not? From TV Guide, North Georgia
Edition:
WSB Ch. 2 (NBC)
7 AM Nature's Window
7:30 Go!
8 AM Big Blue Marble
8:30 Come Along 2
9 AM Emergency Plus 4
9:30 Run, Joe, Run
10 AM Land Of The Lost
10:30 Sigmund And The Sea
Monsters
11 AM Pink Panther
11:30 Star Trek (animated)
12 N News
12:30 Dialogue
1 PM Tarzan (Ron Ely)
2 PM Baseball: Reds at Expos
5 PM Tennis: Family Circle Cup
Semifinals (time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (Tom Brokaw)
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Great Escape"
(Part 1, part 2 airs Monday)
11 PM News
11:30 Sammy & Company (no SNL yet)
1 AM Movie: "Sword Of Lancelot"
3:20 News
WAGA Ch. 5 (CBS)
6:15 Video College
6:45 Box 5 RFD
7:15 Tree Talks
7:30 4-H Club
8 AM My Favorite Martians (animated)
8:30 Speed Buggy
9 AM Jeannie (animated)
9:30 Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
10 AM Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
10:30 Shazam!
11 AM Valley Of The Dinosaurs
11:30 Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle
Show
12 N Harlem Globetrotters (live action)
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival: "A
Member Of The Family," from England
2 PM Life Around Us
2:30 World Of Survival
3 PM Soul Train (Elton John is guest, and IIRC,
he was the first white guest on the show.)
4 PM The Bold Ones
5 PM The Preakness (this would be CBS's last
telecast of the race--ABC would have it
the next year)
6 PM News (time approximate)
6:30 CBS News (Dan Rather)
7 PM The Big Battles
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 The Jeffersons
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore (Walter Cronkite's
famous appearance, when Ted asks
if he has trouble pronouncing certain
words.)
9:30 Backstage In Hollywood (pre-empts
Bob Newhart)
10 PM Miss U.S.A. Pageant
12 M News (time approximate)
12:30 Movie: "Battle Of The Bulge" (to 3:30)
WGTV Ch. 8 (PBS)
7 PM Fun And Games
7:30 Feeling Good
8 PM Art: The Future (last of five programs
on Georgia artists)
8:30 Great Adventure (not the 1963 CBS
historical anthology but a trip from
El Paso to Panama)
9:30 Kup's Show (Irv Kupcinet's show was
a Saturday-night fixture on Ch. 8
as far back as the early '70s.)
10:45 How I Play Golf, By Bobby Jones (the
legendary Georgia golfer made these
shorts in the 1930s)
11 PM Movie: "Peck's Bad Boy" (from 1934,
with Jackie "Uncle Fester" Coogan--
in the late '50s CBS would have a sitcom,
"Peck's Bad Girl")
11:45 Charlie Chaplin: "The Rink," from 1916
sign off 12:30 AM
WXIA Ch. 11 (ABC)
6:30 Adventures In Living
7 AM Ebony Beat Journal
7:30 Korg: 70,000 B.C. (don't know what's
going on here, since it's also listed at
its recommended time of Sunday 10:30 AM)
8 AM Yogi's Gang
8:30 Bugs Bunny
9 AM Hong Kong Phooey
9:30 Adventures Of Gilligan (animated)
10 AM Devlin
10:30 Lassie's Rescue Rangers
11 AM Super Friends
12 N These Are The Days
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Movie: "The Love War"
3:30 Alan King Tennis Classic (semifinals)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (Indy 500 time
trials, and two Wide World staples:
wrist wrestling from Petaluma, CA,
and Acapulco cliff diving)
6:30 News
7 PM National Geographic
8 PM Pilot: "Where's The Fire?"
8:30 ABC Movie: "Duel In The Sun"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "None But The Brave"
1:30 ABC News (John Drury, of WLS Chicago)
WTCG (WPCH) Ch. 17 (Ind.)
6:40 News
7 AM Three Stooges
7:30 Little Rascals
8 AM Ultra Man
8:30 Family Classics: animated version
of "Alice In Wonderland"
9 AM Spiderman
9:30 Flintstones
10 AM Abbott And Costello
10:30 Rat Patrol
11 AM Championship Wrestling (don't
know if this is the IWA)
12 N Roller Game Of The Week
1 PM Movie: "The Royal African Rifles"
2:30 Movie: "The Mark Of Zorro"
4:30 Fishin' Hole
5 PM Party
5:30 Georgia Championship Wrestling
7:30 Baseball: Braves at Phillies
10 PM Pop! Goes The Country (time
approximate)
10:30 Jim Ed Brown
11 PM Bobby Goldsboro (Al Wilson, who
recently passed away, sings "Show
And Tell," and teams with Bobby to
sing "The Snake.")
11:30 Open Up (Neal Boortz)
1 AM Baseball: Braves-Phillies (replay)
3:30 Movie: "The Secret War Of Harry
Frigg" (time approximate)
5:40 The Saint
WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 (PBS)
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Zee Cooking School
11 AM Carrascolendas
11:30 Zoom
12 N Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
12:30 Villa Alegre
1 PM Sesame Street
2 PM Electric Company
2:30 Zee Cooking School
sign off 3 PM
WHAE (WGCL) Ch. 46 (Ind.)
7 AM Mighty Mouse
7:30 Porky Pig
8 AM Dennis The Menace
8:30 Batman
9 AM Laurel And Hardy
10 AM Cisco Kid
10:30 Lone Ranger
11 AM Fury
11:30 Pioneers (selected Death Valley
Days reruns)
12 N Audubon Wildlife Theater
12:30 Outdoors With Ken Callaway
1 PM American Angler
1:30 Movie: "The Divided Heart"
3:30 Movie: "Desert Attack"
5:30 Laramie
6:30 Movie: "In Which We Serve"
8:30 Warren Roberts (gospel music)
9:30 The Lesson
10 PM Clear And Free
10:30 Spring Street, U.S.A.
sign off 11 PM
Question for someone who's been around Atlanta
television longer than I have: Why do Atlanta
viewers seem to have a desire for movies in
early-Saturday-evening slots? I remember back
in 1969 and 1970 Ch. 11 had the "Saturday 6:30
Movie," here we see a 6:30 movie on Ch. 46, and
in the '90s (maybe in the '00s) Ch. 36 had one at
6 PM.
being May 17, why not? From TV Guide, North Georgia
Edition:
WSB Ch. 2 (NBC)
7 AM Nature's Window
7:30 Go!
8 AM Big Blue Marble
8:30 Come Along 2
9 AM Emergency Plus 4
9:30 Run, Joe, Run
10 AM Land Of The Lost
10:30 Sigmund And The Sea
Monsters
11 AM Pink Panther
11:30 Star Trek (animated)
12 N News
12:30 Dialogue
1 PM Tarzan (Ron Ely)
2 PM Baseball: Reds at Expos
5 PM Tennis: Family Circle Cup
Semifinals (time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (Tom Brokaw)
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "The Great Escape"
(Part 1, part 2 airs Monday)
11 PM News
11:30 Sammy & Company (no SNL yet)
1 AM Movie: "Sword Of Lancelot"
3:20 News
WAGA Ch. 5 (CBS)
6:15 Video College
6:45 Box 5 RFD
7:15 Tree Talks
7:30 4-H Club
8 AM My Favorite Martians (animated)
8:30 Speed Buggy
9 AM Jeannie (animated)
9:30 Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
10 AM Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
10:30 Shazam!
11 AM Valley Of The Dinosaurs
11:30 Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle
Show
12 N Harlem Globetrotters (live action)
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival: "A
Member Of The Family," from England
2 PM Life Around Us
2:30 World Of Survival
3 PM Soul Train (Elton John is guest, and IIRC,
he was the first white guest on the show.)
4 PM The Bold Ones
5 PM The Preakness (this would be CBS's last
telecast of the race--ABC would have it
the next year)
6 PM News (time approximate)
6:30 CBS News (Dan Rather)
7 PM The Big Battles
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 The Jeffersons
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore (Walter Cronkite's
famous appearance, when Ted asks
if he has trouble pronouncing certain
words.)
9:30 Backstage In Hollywood (pre-empts
Bob Newhart)
10 PM Miss U.S.A. Pageant
12 M News (time approximate)
12:30 Movie: "Battle Of The Bulge" (to 3:30)
WGTV Ch. 8 (PBS)
7 PM Fun And Games
7:30 Feeling Good
8 PM Art: The Future (last of five programs
on Georgia artists)
8:30 Great Adventure (not the 1963 CBS
historical anthology but a trip from
El Paso to Panama)
9:30 Kup's Show (Irv Kupcinet's show was
a Saturday-night fixture on Ch. 8
as far back as the early '70s.)
10:45 How I Play Golf, By Bobby Jones (the
legendary Georgia golfer made these
shorts in the 1930s)
11 PM Movie: "Peck's Bad Boy" (from 1934,
with Jackie "Uncle Fester" Coogan--
in the late '50s CBS would have a sitcom,
"Peck's Bad Girl")
11:45 Charlie Chaplin: "The Rink," from 1916
sign off 12:30 AM
WXIA Ch. 11 (ABC)
6:30 Adventures In Living
7 AM Ebony Beat Journal
7:30 Korg: 70,000 B.C. (don't know what's
going on here, since it's also listed at
its recommended time of Sunday 10:30 AM)
8 AM Yogi's Gang
8:30 Bugs Bunny
9 AM Hong Kong Phooey
9:30 Adventures Of Gilligan (animated)
10 AM Devlin
10:30 Lassie's Rescue Rangers
11 AM Super Friends
12 N These Are The Days
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Movie: "The Love War"
3:30 Alan King Tennis Classic (semifinals)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (Indy 500 time
trials, and two Wide World staples:
wrist wrestling from Petaluma, CA,
and Acapulco cliff diving)
6:30 News
7 PM National Geographic
8 PM Pilot: "Where's The Fire?"
8:30 ABC Movie: "Duel In The Sun"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "None But The Brave"
1:30 ABC News (John Drury, of WLS Chicago)
WTCG (WPCH) Ch. 17 (Ind.)
6:40 News
7 AM Three Stooges
7:30 Little Rascals
8 AM Ultra Man
8:30 Family Classics: animated version
of "Alice In Wonderland"
9 AM Spiderman
9:30 Flintstones
10 AM Abbott And Costello
10:30 Rat Patrol
11 AM Championship Wrestling (don't
know if this is the IWA)
12 N Roller Game Of The Week
1 PM Movie: "The Royal African Rifles"
2:30 Movie: "The Mark Of Zorro"
4:30 Fishin' Hole
5 PM Party
5:30 Georgia Championship Wrestling
7:30 Baseball: Braves at Phillies
10 PM Pop! Goes The Country (time
approximate)
10:30 Jim Ed Brown
11 PM Bobby Goldsboro (Al Wilson, who
recently passed away, sings "Show
And Tell," and teams with Bobby to
sing "The Snake.")
11:30 Open Up (Neal Boortz)
1 AM Baseball: Braves-Phillies (replay)
3:30 Movie: "The Secret War Of Harry
Frigg" (time approximate)
5:40 The Saint
WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 (PBS)
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Zee Cooking School
11 AM Carrascolendas
11:30 Zoom
12 N Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
12:30 Villa Alegre
1 PM Sesame Street
2 PM Electric Company
2:30 Zee Cooking School
sign off 3 PM
WHAE (WGCL) Ch. 46 (Ind.)
7 AM Mighty Mouse
7:30 Porky Pig
8 AM Dennis The Menace
8:30 Batman
9 AM Laurel And Hardy
10 AM Cisco Kid
10:30 Lone Ranger
11 AM Fury
11:30 Pioneers (selected Death Valley
Days reruns)
12 N Audubon Wildlife Theater
12:30 Outdoors With Ken Callaway
1 PM American Angler
1:30 Movie: "The Divided Heart"
3:30 Movie: "Desert Attack"
5:30 Laramie
6:30 Movie: "In Which We Serve"
8:30 Warren Roberts (gospel music)
9:30 The Lesson
10 PM Clear And Free
10:30 Spring Street, U.S.A.
sign off 11 PM
Question for someone who's been around Atlanta
television longer than I have: Why do Atlanta
viewers seem to have a desire for movies in
early-Saturday-evening slots? I remember back
in 1969 and 1970 Ch. 11 had the "Saturday 6:30
Movie," here we see a 6:30 movie on Ch. 46, and
in the '90s (maybe in the '00s) Ch. 36 had one at
6 PM.