Retro: Atlanta Sunday, October 3, 1982

[bpatrick]

By request, from the Atlanta Constitution. Schedules run 6 AM-1 AM.

WSB Ch. 2 (ABC)

6 AM Herald Of Truth
6:30 Light Unto My Path
7 AM Catholic Mass
7:30 Harvester Church
8 AM Gospel Singing Jubilee
9 AM Oral Roberts
9:30 Rex Humbard
10 AM In Touch (Charles Stanley)
11 AM Peachtree Presbyterian Church
12 N News
12:30 Vince Dooley: UGA Football
1 PM This Week With David Brinkley
2 PM Dialogue
2:30 That Nashville Music
3 PM Baseball (I don't have anything on this)
5:30 Family Feud (time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 Sunday News Conference
7 PM Believe It Or Not!
8 PM Matt Houston
9 PM ABC Movie: "Smokey And The Bandit II"
11 PM News
11:30 Entertainment This Week
12:30 Movie (don't have the title)

WAGA Ch. 5 (CBS)

6 AM Sunrise Semester
6:30 Ebenezer Baptist Church
7 AM Kenneth Copeland
8 AM Grace Methodist Church
9 AM CBS News Sunday Morning
10:30 The Jeffersons
11 AM Weekend Magazine (rerun of Sat 7 PM show)
12 N Here's Richard
12:30 Face The Nation
1 PM Georgians Speak
1:30 Movie: "Great Catherine"
3:30 TBA (the NFL was on strike)
7 PM 60 Minutes
8 PM Archie Bunker's Place
8:30 Gloria
9 PM The Jeffersons
9:30 One Day At A Time
10 PM Trapper John, M.D.
11 PM News
11:30 CBS News
11:45 College Football: UGA at Mississippi State (taped)

WGTV Ch. 8 (PBS)

11 AM Matinee At The Bijou
12:30 Atlanta Week In Review
1 PM Washington Week In Review
1:30 Wall Street Week
2 PM Camping
2:30 Needlepoint
3 PM Theology
3:30 Basic Banjo
4 PM Signing
4:30 Gospel Workshop
5 PM Tony Brown's Journal
5:30 Postscript
6 PM Firing Line
7 PM All Creatures Great & Small
8 PM Nova
9 PM Masterpiece Theatre
10 PM Opus
11 PM David Susskind
sign off 12 midnight

WXIA Ch. 11 (NBC)

6 AM Mothers-In-Law
6:30 W.V. Grant
7 AM Wheat Street Baptist Church
7:30 Fountain Of Life
8 AM Day Of Discovery
8:30 Chapel Hour
9 AM Robert Schuller
10 AM Ernest Angley
11 AM Roswell Street Baptist Church
12 N Leeman Bennett: Falcons Football
12:30 NFL '82
1 PM TBA
4 PM Greatest Sports Legends
4:30 Bill Curry: Georgia Tech Football
5 PM Gunsmoke
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Voyagers!
8 PM Bob Hope Special
9 PM Tonight Show Anniversary
11 PM News
11:30 Rockford Files
12:30 Camera 11

WTBS Ch. 17 (Ind.)

6 AM News
7:05 James Robison
7:35 It Is Written
8:05 Cartoons
9:05 Lost In Space
10:05 Lighter Side Of The News
10:35 Movie: "Gunfight At The O.K. Corral"
1:05 Movie: "The Tiger Makes Out"
3:05 Last Of The Wild
3:35 This Week In Baseball
4:05 Baseball: Braves at Padres
7:05 Best Of Championship Wrestling (time
approximate)
8 PM Nashville Alive
9 PM Week In Review
10 PM News
11 PM Jerry Falwell
12 M Open Up

WPBA Ch. 30 (PBS)

8 AM Sesame Street (4 episodes)
12 N Electric Company
12:30 Health Issues
1 PM Focus On Society
1:30 Business
2 PM Human Behavior
2:30 American Government
3 PM American Story
3:30 Workshop
4 PM Washington Week In Review
4:30 Wall Street Week
5 PM Firing Line
6 PM American Dreamers
7 PM The Lawmakers
7:30 Galaxy (wonder if this is The Hitchhiker's
Guide To The Galaxy?)
8 PM Great Performances
9 PM Masterpiece Theatre
10 PM Movie: "Dead Of Night"
11:45 Cinema Showcase
sign off 12:45 AM

WATL Ch. 36 (Ind.)

7:30 World Tomorrow
8 AM E.J. Daniels
8:30 W.V. Grant
9 AM Movie: "Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster"
11 AM St. Luke's Episcopal Church
12 N At The Movies
12:30 Movie: "Thief"
2 PM Movie: "The Legend Of Valentino"
4 PM Movie: "Flatbed Annie And Sweetiepie"
6 PM Lorne Greene's New Wilderness
6:30 Auburn Football
7 PM Tennessee Football
8 PM Florida Football
9 PM Baretta
10 PM Evening At The Improv
11 PM Sports Wrap-Up
sign off 11:30 PM

WANX Ch. 46 (Ind.)

6 AM From The Editor's Desk
6:30 Atlanta Forum
7 AM Harvester Hour
8 AM Jerry Falwell
9 AM In Touch
10 AM Flipper
10:30 Movie: "Journey Into Fear"
12 N Grizzly Adams
1 PM Movie: "Flipper"
3 PM Rawhide
4 PM Movie: "This Land Is Mine"
6 PM Those Amazing Animals
7 PM Presbyterian Church
7:30 Ben Haden
8 PM The King Is Coming
8:30 Christ Is The Answer
9 PM Jimmy Swaggart
10 PM How Can I Live?
10:30 Jack Van Impe
11 PM Sound Of The Spirit
11:30 Wall Street Journal Report
12 M Rifleman
12:30 News (INN, I believe)
sign off 1 AM

 

[bhayes1016]

This was the last day of the baseball season, and I *think* NBC had a baseball game also, since there was no football.

 

[Braves2005]

How come since there was a NFL strike in 1982 that the Falcons football coach possibly talking about the strike and NFL '82 were still on the air?

 

[tvradiofan]

This was the last day of the baseball season, and I *think* NBC had a baseball game also, since there was no football.

Don't know if NBC carried a baseball game on that Sunday, although I think they did for other weeks during the early part of the NFL strike(as theyalso did in 1987)
For the record, ABC had the rights in those days to any lastday of the baseball season contests where a division title was on the line(as well as any Monday tiebreaker games).
The game on Oct. 3, 1982, involved the Milwaukee Brewers and Baltimore Orioles, who, by good fortune, just happened to be tied for first place and playing each other on the last day.
The Brewers won the game 10-2, with the team of Keith Jackson, Bob Uecker and Howard Cosell announcing.

 

[BigDave]

All through the 1980s I watched the Auburn,Tennessee and Florida football shows on Sunday night on WATL

 

[dxtrfn]

Although this is not in the listings, I believe this was the night when the first all night network newscast CBS News Nightwatch debuted and according to past listings on the forum WAGA aired the show.

 

[nbafan89]

This was the last day of the baseball season, and I *think* NBC had a baseball game also, since there was no football.

Don't know if NBC carried a baseball game on that Sunday, although I think they did for other weeks during the early part of the NFL strike(as theyalso did in 1987)
For the record, ABC had the rights in those days to any lastday of the baseball season contests where a division title was on the line(as well as any Monday tiebreaker games).
The game on Oct. 3, 1982, involved the Milwaukee Brewers and Baltimore Orioles, who, by good fortune, just happened to be tied for first place and playing each other on the last day.
The Brewers won the game 10-2, with the team of Keith Jackson, Bob Uecker and Howard Cosell announcing.

and the alternate was the dodgers at the giants with joe morgan's famous HR knocking the dodgers out the platyoffs

 

[johnnya2k6]

WAGA Ch. 5 (CBS)

3:30 TBA (the NFL was on strike)

The "TBA" was an NCAA Division III football game: Wittenberg vs. Baldwin-Wallace (who won 16-14).

Giving them something to do, CBS sent Pat Summerall and John Madden to call the game (with Pat O'Brien on the sidelines).

Meanwhile, NBC filled their temporary NFL-less void by giving us the CFL, even deploying Dick Enberg and Don Criqui north of the border to some games. This was the first time we saw Canadian football on U.S. network television (then and now, it has always been on cable here).

 

[Ccook55]

7:30 Galaxy (wonder if this is The Hitchhiker's
Guide To The Galaxy?)

Yes, it was. This is the second chapter (or "Fit," as Douglas Adams called it, taking a nod from Lewis Carroll).

 

[SteveRichards]

Although this is not in the listings, I believe this was the night when the first all night network newscast CBS News Nightwatch debuted and according to past listings on the forum WAGA aired the show.

"The CBS Early Morning News" would have also premiered the next morning, replacing "Sunrise Semester" on those CBS affiliates that still carried it. That would mean that WAGA's 6AM airing of "Sunrise Semester" would have been the last show of the series.

 

[RyanHoward]

How come since there was a NFL strike in 1982 that the Falcons football coach possibly talking about the strike and NFL '82 were still on the air?

The Falcons would have hosted the San Diego Chargers that day, and aired as the NBC early game on Ch. 11. Ch. 5's CBS game at 4 pm would have been the New York Giants at Dallas Cowboys.