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Retro: Atlanta Saturday, October 24, 1981

From TV Guide, Atlanta Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 (ABC)

6:30 Big Blue Marble
7 AM Animals, Animals, Animals (octopuses off Vancouver
Island, delay from Sun 11:30 AM)
7:30 ABC Weekend Special ("The Ghost Of Thomas Kempe,"
conclusion, week-behind from 12 N)
8 AM Superfriends
8:30 Heathcliff And Marmaduke
9 AM Fonz And The Happy Days Gang
9:30 Laverne & Shirley (animated)
10 AM Richie Rich, Scooby And Scrappy Doo
11 AM Goldie Gold And Action Jack
11:30 Timeout (local kids' show, topic is how to stage fight scenes)
12 N News
12:30 NCAA Football: Teams TBA
4 PM World Series: Yankees-Dodgers (Game 4, Dodgers won the Series,
4 games to 2, time approximate)
7 PM Hee Haw (Big Bird, Sonny James, Billy "Crash" Craddock, time approximate)
8 PM Maggie (debut of a sitcom based on the life and columns of Erma Bombeck)
8:30 Making A Living (formerly "It's A Living")
9 PM Love Boat (passengers include Brian Kerwin, Christopher Norris (a female,
from "Trapper John, M.D." in case you've forgotten), Flip Wilson, Michael
Zaslow (Roger Thorpe on "Guiding Light"), Joan Van Ark, Marla Gibbs)
10 PM Fantasy Island (visitors: Carol Lynley, Bart Braverman)
11 PM News
11:30 Solid Gold (Rick Springfield, Nicolette Larson, Carl Carlton, Conway Twitty,
Freddie Cannon and the Belmonts; Andy Gibb and Marilyn McCoo host)
12:30 Portrait Of A Legend
1 AM NFL Review And Preview
2 AM ABC News (Tom Jarriel)

WAGA Ch. 5 (CBS)

6:30 Doctor Snuggles
7 AM 4-H Showcase
7:30 30 Minutes (Daytop Village in Millbrook, NY, which treats teens with
antisocial behavioral problems, week-behind from 1:30 PM)
8 AM Kidsworld
8:30 Trollkins
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Popeye And Olive
11:30 The New Fat Albert Show (delay from 1 PM)
12 N News
12:30 Bewitched
1 PM Movie: "Sidewinder One"
3 PM Thrillseekers
3:30 The Body Human: Ken Howard spells out "The Facts For Boys,"
on male puberty
4 PM The Body Human: Mike Farrell discusses "Becoming A Man" with
two Sarasota, FL boys who talk about their sexual feelings and
experiences
4:30 CBS Sports Saturday (IFBB Mr. Universe bodybuilding competition;
Mickey Mantle's post-baseball career)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM Dance Fever (musical guest: Rick Springfield)
7:30 Wild Kingdom
8 PM Walt Disney ("A Disney Halloween" features "The Legend Of
Sleepy Hollow," with Bing Crosby as narrator (from '49); and
scenes from "Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs," "Sleeping
Beauty," and "Lonesome Ghosts.")
9 PM CBS Movie: "Dark Night Of The Scarecrow"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "A Study In Terror"
1 AM Benny Hill
1:30 Ironside
2:30 News

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

5:30 Soccer Made In Germany
6:30 Behind The News
7 PM All Creatures Great And Small
8 PM Movie: "Irish Eyes Are Smiling" (Dick Haymes as
Irish composer Ernest R. Ball, from '44)
9:30 Next Set (rock and jazz group Sneezz)
10 PM David Susskind (topic: middle-aged singles)

WGN Ch. 9 Chicago (Ind.)
Listed Eastern Time

7 AM Cartoons
7:30 Buyer's Forum
7:45 Three Score/Community Calendar
8 AM U.S. Farm Report
8:30 World Tomorrow (Garner Ted Armstrong)
9 AM Rex Humbard
9:30 Mary Jane, Smack And Speed (program about
drug abuse)
10 AM Charlando (en espanol)
10:30 Abbott And Costello
11 AM Superman
11:30 Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
12:30 Movie: "War Of The Wildcats"
2:30 Movie: "Buck Privates" (arguably Abbott and Costello's
best)
4 PM America's Top 10
4:30 Soul Train
5:30 New You Asked For It (Rich Little)
6 PM Welcome Back, Kotter
6:30 Muppet Show
7 PM Barney Miller
7:30 Laverne & Shirley & Company
8 PM Movie: "Dirty Money"
10 PM Independent Network News
10:30 News
11 PM Solid Gold
12 M Movie: "North To Alaska"
2:15 News
2:45 Movie: "13 Rue Madeleine"
4:40 TBA

WXIA 11 Alive (NBC)

6 AM College Today
6:30 Adventures In Living
7 AM Ebony Journal
7:30 Flintstones Comedy Hour
8:30 Smurfs
9:30 Kid Super Power Hour With Shazam
10:30 Space Stars
11:30 Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends
12 N Star Trek
1 PM Fishing With Orlando Wilson
1:30 The Devil And Daniel Mouse (animated)
2 PM Movie: "Kelly's Heroes"
5 PM Look At Us (newsmagazine)
5:30 In Search Of...
6 PM News
6:30 11 Alive Newsmakers
7 PM Let's Go To The Races
7:30 Leeman Bennett (preview of Giants-Falcons)
8 PM Barbara Mandrell (Terri Gibbs, John Schneider)
9 PM Nashville Palace (debut, with guest host Roy Clark;
Tanya Tucker, Jerry Reed, comedian Grady Nutt,
Woody Herman and his band, Miss America 1982
Elizabeth Ward)
10 PM Fitz And Bones (the Smothers Brothers as TV reporters
who seem to invite trouble, debut)
11 PM News
11:30 Bob And Ray & Jane, Laraine and Gilda (and Willie Nelson,
rerun of a special with the original female "SNL" regulars;
skits include an interview with a man 11 inches tall and an
expert on dragons)
1 AM America's Top 10
1:30 Star Trek
2:30 Outer Limits

WTBS (WPCH) Ch. 17 (Ind.)

5:30 Rat Patrol
6 AM World At Large
6:05 It's Your Business
6:35 Infinity Factory
7:05 Vegetable Soup
7:35 Romper Room
8:05 Partridge Family
8:35 Movie: "Tank Force!"
10:05 Movie: "East Of Eden"
12:35 Movie: "Crash Dive"
3:05 Movie: "'Til We Meet Again"
5 PM College Scoreboard
5:05 Untouchables
6:05 Georgia Championship Wrestling
7 PM College Scoreboard
7:05 Wrestling continues
8:05 Nashville Alive! (Porter Wagoner, live from Nashville)
9:05 Football Saturday
10:05 News
11:05 Movie: "The Howards Of Virginia"
1:35 Movie: "Pride Of The Marines"
4:05 Movie: "Top Banana" (Phil Silvers as a comedian based
on Milton Berle; this would have worked better if it had
been filmed in a Hollywood studio instead of bringing cameras
into a Broadway theater. Watch for Rose Marie in this one.)

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 (PBS)

3 PM World Chess Championships
3:30 Righteous Apples
4 PM Crisco Kid (not "Cisco Kid"; I have a feeling this is a cooking show)
4:30 Emory Today
5 PM Postscript
5:30 Take 30
6 PM Sneak Previews ("Raiders Of The Lost Ark," "Superman II," "Stripes,"
"Endless Love")
6:30 Photo Show (choosing film)
7 PM Once Upon A Classic ("Leatherstocking Tales," Part 3)
7:30 TV30 Auction (day three of the station's fundraiser)
11:30 Soundstage (Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes)

WATL Ch. 36 (Ind.)

7:30 Southeastern Football Preview
8 AM American Educational TV
9 AM Jim Bakker
10 AM Prophecy In The News
10:30 Dynamic Living
11 AM Ernest Angley
12 N Window On Wall Street
12:30 Financial Inquiry
1 PM Money Talks
1:30 Computerworld
2 PM This Week On Wall Street
2:30 American Forum
3 PM America's Black Forum
3:30 Wally George
4 PM Country Serenade
4:30 That Nashville Music
5 PM Baretta
6 PM Starsky & Hutch
7 PM Kojak
8 PM Harvester Network
10:30 Atlanta (religion)

WANX (WGCL) Ch. 46 (Ind.)

6:30 Public Policy Forum
7:30 Showers Of Blessings
8 AM The Lesson
8:30 Car Care Central
9 AM American Trail
9:30 We're Movin' (newsmagazine)
10 AM Movie: "The Lion Hunters" (Johnny Sheffield
as Bomba the Jungle Boy)
11:30 Movie: "Showdown At Boot Hill"
1 PM Movie: "Taras Bulba"
3 PM Rifleman
3:30 Rifleman
4 PM Big Valley
5 PM Daniel Boone
6 PM Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (this week
it's Nancy Drew)
7 PM Battlestar Galactica
8 PM Dolly (guests: Pure Prairie League)
8:30 Nashville On The Road
9 PM Pop Goes The Country (Tom T. Hall welcomes
Janie Fricke and Steve Wariner)
9:30 Backstage At The Grand Ole Opry
10 PM Sha Na Na (Lloyd Price sings "Personality" and
"Stagger Lee")
10:30 Tonight On Peachtree
11 PM Jesus Alive
11:30 Movie: "Dangerous Mission"
 
Do you happen to have an Atlanta weekday schedule from the fall of 1980? I can't seem to find one anywhere on the web.
 
I'll give you Wednesday, September 10, 1980, sign on-6 PM,
again from TV Guide, North Georgia Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 (ABC)

6 AM Christopher Closeup
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Family Feud (delay from noon)
9:30 Edge Of Night (delay from 4 PM)
10 AM Mike Douglas (this day the co-hostess was Suzanne
Somers; Danny Thomas, Sheree North, Arlo Guthrie)
11 AM Love Boat (passengers: Polly Bergen, Steve Allen,
Sandy Duncan)
12 N News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Bionic Woman
5 PM Happy Days Again
5:30 M*A*S*H

WAGA Ch. 5 (CBS)

6:30 Summer Semester: "Reading For Parent
And Child"
7 AM Morning With Bob Schieffer
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue
10 AM Cross-Wits (Soupy Sales, Jo Ann Pflug,
Polly Holliday, Tom Kennedy)
10:30 Alice
11 AM Price Is Right
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
2 PM As The World Turns
3 PM Guiding Light
4 PM Good Times
4:30 John Davidson (co-host Robert Guillaume; Art
Linkletter, Ronnie Milsap, Morgan Fairchild)

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

In-school programs until

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Villa Alegre

WGN Ch. 9 Chicago (Ind.)
Listed Eastern Time

6:55 Top O' The Morning
7:25 News
7:30 Thunderbirds
8 AM Ray Rayner
9 AM Bozo Show
10 AM Movie: "Somebody Loves Me"
12 N Donahue (live)
1 PM Mike Douglas
2:30 Your New Day (Vidal Sassoon)
3 PM Cartoons
3:30 Fred Flintstone And Friends
4 PM Bugs Bunny & Friends
4:30 Scooby Doo
5:30 I Dream Of Jeannie

WXIA 11 Alive (NBC)

5:15 PTL Club
6:15 Country Music Time
6:45 Today With Hal (Suit) And Guy (Sharpe)
7 AM Today (guest is the new Miss America)
9 AM Wheel Of Fortune (delay from 11 AM)
9:30 Password Plus (Robert Donner, Marcia Wallace,
day-behind from 11:30 AM)
10 AM David Letterman
11 AM Hour Magazine (Andy Gibb, tooth bonding, how
people choose their mates)
12 N News
12:30 The Doctors
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM Another World
3 PM Texas
4 PM Star Trek
5 PM Jim Rockford, Private Investigator ("Rockford Files")

WTBS (WPCH) Ch. 17 (Ind.)

6:10 World At Large
6:30 Family Affair
7 AM Funtime
8 AM I Love Lucy
8:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
9 AM Hazel
9:30 Green Acres
10 AM Movie: "Off Limits"
12 N Freeman Reports
1 PM Movie: "Flight To Tangier"
2:50 Funtime
3:30 Space Giants
4 PM Flintstones
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM My Three Sons
5:30 Beverly Hillbillies

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 (PBS)

8:15 A. M. Weather
8:30 In-school programs
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company

WATL Ch. 36 (Ind.)

7 AM PTL Club
9 AM Prophecy In The News
9:30 Wanted: Dead Or Alive
10 AM Body Buddies
10:30 Religion
11 AM PTL Club
1 PM Feed Your Faith
1:30 Health Field (Dr. Frank Field)
2 PM Travel Log
2:30 New Zoo Revue
3 PM Bullwinkle
3:30 Rocky And His Friends
3:45 Underdog
4 PM Space Kidettes
4:30 Beatles And Cool McCool
5 PM Robin Hood
5:30 One Day At A Time (CBS, pre-empted on Ch. 5,
delay from 4 PM)

WANX (WGCL) Ch. 46 (Ind.)

6 AM News
6:30 Huck & Yogi
7 AM Porky & Popeye
8 AM Mighty Mouse
8:30 Mr. Ed
9 AM Big Valley
10 AM 700 Club
11:30 The Rock
12 N McHale's Navy
12:30 Dick Van Dyke
1 PM Make Room For Daddy
1:30 Petticoat Junction
2 PM Fred Flintstone And Friends
2:30 Popeye & Friends
3:30 Tom & Jerry
4:30 Scooby Doo
5 PM Emergency!
 
bpatrick said:
WXIA 11 Alive (NBC)

11:30 Bob And Ray & Jane, Laraine and Gilda (and Willie Nelson,
rerun of a special with the original female "SNL" regulars;
skits include an interview with a man 11 inches tall and an
expert on dragons)

And the most memorable skit from this special, at least IMHO, was a rendition of Rod Stewart's "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" by Bob, Ray, Jane, Gilda and Laraine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KxlCqOB0bk
 
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