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Retro: Atlanta Saturday, September 15, 1973

From TV Guide, North Georgia Edition. This issue
is significant to me because it was the first one
I bought as a student at UGA (although I'd been
buying them on trips to Atlanta and Athens as
far back as 1969).

WSB Ch. 2 (NBC)

7 AM Jetsons
7:30 Popeye
9 AM Addams Family (animated)
9:30 Emergency +4
10 AM Butch Cassidy And The Sundance
Kids (animated)
10:30 Star Trek (animated)
11 AM Sigmund And The Sea Monsters
11:30 Pink Panther
12 N News
12:30 Sights And Sounds Of Soul
1 PM This Week In Pro Football
2 PM Baseball Pre-Game Show
2:15 Baseball: Pirates-Cardinals
5 PM Hee Haw (this is a one-time-only,
due to special programming at 7)
(time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (Tom Brokaw)
7 PM Democratic Telethon: "America
Goes Public"
11 PM News
11:30 Democratic Telethon continues
2 AM News
2:05 Movie: "Thunder In The Sun"

WAGA Ch. 5 (CBS)

6:10 Video College
6:40 Farm Digest
6:45 Box 5 R.F.D.
7:15 Tree Talks
7:30 4-H Club
8 AM Flintstones
8:30 Bailey's Comets
9 AM New Scooby-Doo Movies
10 AM My Favorite Martians (animated)
10:30 Jeannie (animated)
11 AM Vision On
11:30 Josie And The Pussycats In
Outer Space
12 N Everything's Archie
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival:
"Lucy And The Miracles" (Czechoslovakia,
1970)
2 PM World Of Survival
2:30 Soul Train
3:30 Life Around Us
4 PM Movie: "Seven Seas To Calais"
(this pre-empted CBS's coverage of the
Belmont Cup, in which Secretariat and
Riva Ridge competed)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Dan Rather)
7 PM National Geographic
8 PM All In The Family (fourth-season premiere)
8:30 M*A*S*H (begins its second season in this
new time slot and becomes not only a hit
but part of possibly the first example of
"must-see TV")
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore (fourth-season opener)
9:30 Bob Newhart (second-season opener)
10 PM Carol Burnett (seventh-season opener with
traditional opening guest Jim Nabors)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte"

WGTV Ch. 8 (PBS)

7 PM Neraidas Of Greece
7:30 Fun And Games
8 PM Story Of A Boxer
8:30 Towards The Year 2000 (like CBS's
"The 21st Century," it would be interesting
to see what they correctly predicted)
9 PM Country Hayride
10 PM Movie: "Top Hat"
11:30 Jazz Set
12 M Playhouse New York: The 1940s
sign off 1:30 AM

WQXI (WXIA) Ch. 11 (ABC)

6:30 Adventures In Living
7 AM Ebony Beat Journal
7:30 Funky Phantom
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Yogi's Gang
9 AM Super Friends
10 AM Lassie's Rescue Rangers (animated)
10:30 Goober And The Ghost Chasers
11 AM Brady Kids
11:30 Mission: Magic
12 N News
12:30 Ebony Affair
1 PM Action 1973 (sporadic attempt to revive
"Where The Action Is")
2 PM Wide World Of Sports
3:30 College Football Preview
3:45 College Football: Penn State-Stanford
7 PM News (time approximate)
7:30 To Tell The Truth
8 PM Partridge Family (fourth-season opener)
8:30 ABC Movie: "Irma La Douce"
11:15 News
11:55 ABC News (this is not a typo, Ch. 11
did 40 minutes of news at 11 PM at
the time)
12:10 Movie: "To Trap A Spy" (pilot for "The
Man From U.N.C.L.E.")
1:40 Movie: "I Walked With A Zombie"
3:10 News

WTCG (WPCH) Ch. 17 (Ind.)

7 AM Popeye
7:30 Cartoon Carnival
8 AM Spiderman
8:30 Speed Racer
9 AM Ultra Man
9:30 Three Stooges
10 AM Abbott And Costello
10:30 Flipper
11 AM Roller Game Of The Week
1 PM Movie: "Henry Aldrich, Editor"
2:30 Movie: "Where There's Life"
4 PM Lassie
4:30 NFL Highlights
5 PM Georgia Wrestling
6 PM All South Wrestling
7 PM Baseball: Braves-Reds
9:30 That Good Ole Nashville Music
(time approximate)
10 PM Wilburn Brothers
10:30 Porter Wagoner
11 PM Outdoor Outlines
11:30 Open Up
1 AM Movie: "Murder Without Crime"

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 (PBS)

5:10 The Making Of "Silent Running"
6 PM Across The Universe
6:10 Showdown At O.K. Corral
7 PM Teeth Are Good Things To Have
7:15 Patrick (has nothing to do with me)
7:30 Mr. Shepard And Mr. Milne
8 PM 6344
8:30 Condensed Cream Of Beatles
8:45 Secrets
9 PM The Boarded Window
9:15 Frank Film
9:30 A Journey
9:45 Invasion
10 PM Comic Book
10:30 Tup Tup
10:40 The Maggot
10:45 One Friday
10:55 More
11 PM Greater Expectations
11:15 Clever Village
11:25 Astralis
11:30 Young Goodman Brown
12 M Atlanta Film Festival Awards
(this whole evening has been
devoted to the entries)
1 AM The Age Of Ballyhoo (time approximate)
sign off 2:30 AM

WHAE (WGCL) Ch. 46 (Ind.)

7 AM Mr. Piper
7:30 Fury
8 AM Heckle And Jeckle
8:30 Astronut
9 AM Deputy Dawg
9:30 Mighty Mouse
10 AM Hardy Boys (animated)
10:30 Circus Boy (launched the career of
Micky Dolenz, then known as
Mickey Braddock)
11 AM Jungle Jim
11:30 Journey To The Center Of The
Earth (animated)
12 N Time Tunnel
1 PM Cowtown Rodeo
2 PM Call Of The West (syndicated title
for a package of "Death Valley Days"
reruns, along with "The Pioneers" and
"Trails West")
2:30 Trails West
3 PM The Dakotas (I didn't know this short-
lived 1963 ABC Western would be picked
up by anybody)
4 PM Lone Ranger
4:30 My Friend Flicka
5 PM Batman (2 episodes)
6 PM Dennis The Menace
6:30 Mayberry R.F.D.
7 PM Honeymooners
7:30 Rawhide
8:30 TBA
9:30 The Lesson
10 PM George And Diane Ivey
10:30 New Directions
11 PM Waters Family
sign off after this
 
bpatrick said:
WGTV Ch. 8 (PBS)

8:30 Towards The Year 2000 (like CBS's
"The 21st Century," it would be interesting
to see what they correctly predicted)

Canadians knew this series as "Here Come the Seventies" -- this series, produced for CTV, was about things and events that would exist during the course of that decade. Apparently, for syndication outside the US, they decided to give themselves a little more room on the timeline.
 
They could have given themselves until doomsday
and it wouldn't have mattered; the show wasn't
that big of a hit in the U.S. When it came to
syndicated documentaries, U.S. viewers tended
to prefer the nature shows: "Wild Kingdom," "Wild
Wild World Of Animals," "World Of Survival," etc.

Slightly off-topic but the mention of "World Of Survival"
reminded me that for a time in 1980-81 John Forsythe had
four projects at once: narrating this show, playing Blake
Carrington on "Dynasty," doing the voice of Charlie Townsend
on "Charlie's Angels," and doing commercials for Michelob.
The man must have written the book on time management.
 
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