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Retro: Atlanta Thursday, August 31, 1978

Due to some confusion I'm listing the August 31
and September 1 Atlanta schedules on separate
threads. From TV Guide, North Georgia Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 (NBC)

6 AM University Of Michigan
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today
9 AM Card Sharks
9:30 Odd Couple
10 AM Today In Georgia
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N News
12:30 Liars Club
1 PM Doris Day
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors (the soap, not the new
show coming to Ch. 2 this fall)
3 PM Another World
4 PM Mod Squad
5 PM Newlywed Game
5:30 Mary Tyler Moore
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News (John Chancellor/
David Brinkley)
7:30 $25,000 Pyramid
8 PM Billy Graham Toronto Crusade
9 PM Movie: "The Collector"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow
2 AM News

WAGA Ch. 5 (CBS)

6:30 Summer Semester: U.S. Foreign Policy
7 AM CBS News (Lesley Stahl/Richard Threlkeld)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue
10 AM Cross-Wits
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 All In The Family
4 PM Bewitched
4:30 Mike Douglas
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7:30 Muppet Show
8 PM The Waltons (John-Boy's return
from New York for a visit)
10 PM Barnaby Jones
11 PM News
11:30 U.S. Open Tennis Highlights
11:45 M*A*S*H
12:20 CBS Movie: "Halls Of Anger"
2:20 Ironside
3:20 News

WGTV Ch. 8 (PBS)

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Sesame Street
6:30 Over Easy
7 PM University News
7:15 Shoplifting Is A Steal
7:30 Last Of The Mohicans
8 PM Over Easy
8:30 Damien (biography of Father Damien,
who worked in the leper colony on Molokai)
10 PM Anna Karenina (Part 4)
11 PM Movie: "Rashomon"
sign off 12:30 AM

WXIA Ch. 11 (ABC)

6:30 Not For Women Only
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM $20,000 Pyramid
9:30 Gambit
10 AM To Tell The Truth
10:30 Edge Of Night
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
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 Gunsmoke
5 PM Medical Center
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Joker's Wild
7:30 Concentration
8 PM Welcome Back, Kotter
8:30 What's Happening!!
9 PM Barney Miller
9:30 Soap (the season's highlights)
11 PM News
11:30 Starsky & Hutch
12:40 Legend Of The Black Hand
(Conclusion)
sign off 1:50 AM

WTCG (WPCH) Ch. 17 (Ind.)

6:10 News
6:30 Romper Room
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8 AM Lassie
8:30 The Lucy Show
9 AM Perry Mason
10 AM Movie: "The Man I Love"
11:55 News
12 N High Hopes
12:30 Movie: "Sergeant X Of The Foreign
Legion"
2:25 News
2:30 I Love Lucy
3 PM New Mickey Mouse Club
3:30 The Archies
4 PM Munsters
4:30 Monkees
5 PM Hazel
5:30 Family Affair
6 PM That Girl
6:30 Green Acres
7 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
7:30 Get Smart
8 PM Calloway's Climb
9 PM Movie: "The Great Man's Whiskers"
(the story of why Abraham Lincoln
grew a beard)
11 PM Let's Make A Deal
11:30 Movie: "Hell Bent For Leather"
1:15 Movie: "Kelly And Me"
3:10 News
3:30 Movie: "Money, Women And Guns"
5:20 World At Large

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 (PBS)

9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10:30 Electric Company
11 AM Over Easy
11:30 Anywhat
sign off 12 N
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Economically Speaking
6:30 Over Easy
7 PM Dick Cavett
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Once Upon A Classic: "What
Katy Did" (Part 2)
8:30 Lowell Thomas Remembers
9 PM National Geographic: "The Great
Whales"
10 PM Poldark II (Conclusion)
11 PM Dick Cavett
11:30 Captioned ABC News
sign off 12 M

WATL Ch. 36 (Ind.)

9 AM Jack Rehburg
9:30 Dwight Thompson
10 AM Chapel Hill (something about a church,
not the home of the Tar Heels)
10:30 Harvester Church
11 AM PTL Club
1 PM For Richer, For Poorer
1:30 Tammy Faye
2 PM Spotlight
2:30 Travel Film
3 PM Bozo's Big Top
3:30 Kids Show
5 PM Match Game '78
5:30 Entertainment Page
6:30 (Larry) Munson On Sports
7 PM Dinah!
8:30 Spotlight
9 PM Wrestling (probably World League)
10 PM PTL Club
12 M Something Special At Midnight

WANX (WGCL) Ch. 46 Atlanta (Ind.)

5:45 News
6 AM Ross Bagley
7 AM New Zoo Revue
7:30 Popeye And Friends
8:30 Movie: "Highly Dangerous"
10 AM 700 Club
11:30 Manna
12 N Ross Bagley
12:30 Big Valley
1:30 Best Of Groucho
2 PM Heckle And Jeckle
2:30 Fred Flintstone & Friends
3 PM Popeye And Friends
4 PM Tom And Jerry
5 PM Spider-Man
6 PM Brady Bunch
6:30 Courtship Of Eddie's Father
7 PM Streets Of San Francisco
8 PM Bonanza
9 PM 700 Club
10:30 Manna
11 PM Sgt. Bilko (Dick Van dyke plays
a baseball prospect Bilko would
just love to get into the majors)
11:30 Life Of Riley (I feel sure these are
the Bendix episodes)
12 M News
 
"11:30 Life Of Riley (I feel sure these are
the Bendix episodes)"


No doubt - where I lived (LA) , the Bendix "Riley" ran for years off-and-on in afternoon or late night reruns - though I don't remember seeing it past the early 70s. There were 217 episodes of this version filmed from 1953 to 1958 - on film, I'm sure. I had never even heard of the Gleason version until I read about it on these boards.

I don't think there were many episodes of the Gleason version - all very early 50s - and likely possibly kinescoped.
 
Gleason filmed 26 episodes in the 1949-50 season,
but they failed to generate much interest at the time;
his Riley was a lot closer to Ralph Kramden than the
Riley people were used to on the radio (played by
Bendix). It wasn't until the late '70s, when Gleason had
become acknowledged as one of the medium's true legends,
that his "Riley" episodes came out of mothballs; Channel 46
in Atlanta ran them at 6 PM on Saturdays in 1978, and I have
seen them on TVLand, although not in the past couple of years
or so.
 
bpatrick said:
Gleason filmed 26 episodes in the 1949-50 season,
but they failed to generate much interest at the time;
his Riley was a lot closer to Ralph Kramden than the
Riley people were used to on the radio (played by
Bendix). It wasn't until the late '70s, when Gleason had
become acknowledged as one of the medium's true legends,
that his "Riley" episodes came out of mothballs; Channel 46
in Atlanta ran them at 6 PM on Saturdays in 1978, and I have
seen them on TVLand, although not in the past couple of years
or so.

By the late 70s, I had moved to the Bay Area - I'm quite sure the Gleason episodes never made it here. Too bad - I'd like to see some of them....or some of the Bendix shows for that matter. I remember really liking them as a young kid - already in daily reruns.

It's too bad Classic TV networks can't get into acquiring and showing forgotten shows like these - instead of the same endless cycle of Jeannies, Andy Griffiths, Sanfords, etc.
 
I don't think the Gleason "Riley"s had a
large syndication; as I said, there were
only 26 of them. But if you ever do get
to see them, you'll find Gleason's Riley
to be somewhat more realistic than Bendix's.
I like to say that you can almost see Ralph
Kramden taking shape inside Gleason's head.

Maybe someone will get smart and release
them on DVD.
 
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