Retro: Atlanta Wednesday, October 23, 1985

[bpatrick]

By request, from the Atlanta Constitution:

WSB Ch. 2 (ABC)

6 AM Local/ABC News
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Catch Phrase
9:30 Love Connection
10 AM Tic Tac Dough
10:30 Joker's Wild
11 AM Newlywed Game
11:30 People's Court
12 N News
12:30 Ryan's Hope (aired on the network
at noon, but Ch. 2 kept it here even
after Loving took over the slot--Ch. 2
didn't start carrying Loving until Ryan's
Hope was canceled in 1989)
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM America (short-lived talk show--I
think Sarah Purcell, McLean Stevenson,
and Stuart Damon were the hosts)
5 PM M*A*S*H (2 episodes)
6 PM News
7 PM ABC News
7:30 Entertainment Tonight
8 PM World Series: Kansas City at St. Louis
(Game 4) (KC won the series, 4-3)
11:30 News (time approximate)
12 M Benson
12:30 Nightline
1 AM Grand Tour
2 AM Ethiopia (sounds like a World Vision
International special)
3 AM CNN Headline News (all night)

WAGA Ch. 5 (CBS)

6 AM CBS Early Morning News
7 AM CBS Morning News
9 AM Donahue
10 AM Sally Jessy Raphael
10:30 $25,000 Pyramid (delay from 10 AM,
pre-empts Press Your Luck)
11 AM Price Is Right
12 N News
12:30 Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3 PM Guiding Light
4 PM Jeopardy!
4:30 Break The Bank (the last version, hosted
first by Gene Rayburn, then Joe Farago)
5 PM Divorce Court
5:30 The Jeffersons
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News
7:30 Atlanta 7:30
8 PM Stir Crazy
9 PM Charlie & Company
9:30 George Burns Comedy Week
10 PM The Equalizer
11 PM News
11:30 Barney Miller
12 M Maude
12:30 Ironside
1:30 News
2 AM CBS News Nightwatch (to 6)

WGTV Ch. 8 (PBS)

7:45 A.M. Weather
8 AM Sesame Street
9 AM Educational Programming
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Timmy And Lassie (the Jon Provost
episodes)
6 PM MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
7 PM Nightly Business Report
7:30 Wild Wild World Of Animals
8 PM Survival
9 PM Penn & Teller
9:30 Neon Trash
11 PM Football (may have been the Vince
Dooley show)
sign off 11:30 PM

WXIA Ch. 11 (NBC)

6 AM NBC News At Sunrise
6:30 Today With Hal (Suit) and Guy
(Sharpe) (Suit was anchor on
Ch. 2 in the '60s, Sharpe was
Ch. 5's weathercaster in the '70s.
I know Sharpe has passed away,
but I don't know about Suit.)
7 AM Today
9 AM Hour Magazine
10 AM Your Number's Up (one of the few
game shows with an African-American
host, Atlanta native Nipsey Russell)
10:30 Search For Tomorrow (delay from 12:30)
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Scrabble
12 N Noonday
1 PM Days Of Our Lives
2 PM Another World
3 PM Santa Barbara
4 PM Dallas
5 PM Headline Chasers
5:30 News
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News
7:30 Wheel Of Fortune
8 PM Highway To Heaven
9 PM Hell Town
10 PM St. Elsewhere
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
12:30 Late Night With David Letterman
1:30 News
2 AM Movie: "Going Home"
4 AM The Waltons
5 AM Rhoda
5:30 Morning Stretch

WTBS Ch. 17 (Ind.)

6 AM CNN Headline News
6:30 TBS Funtime
7:35 Flintstones
8:05 I Dream Of Jeannie
8:35 Bewitched
9:05 Hazel
9:35 I Love Lucy
10:05 Movie: "Dogpound Shuffle"
12:05 Perry Mason
1:05 Movie: "Secret Of The Incas"
3:05 Bugs Bunny And Friends
4:05 Flintstones
4:35 Brady Bunch
5:05 Leave It To Beaver
5:35 Beverly Hillbillies
6:05 Andy Griffith
6:35 Carol Burnett And Friends
7:05 Mary Tyler Moore
7:35 Sanford And Son
8:05 Movie: "Harper Valley PTA"
10:05 Movie: "J.W. Coop"
12:30 Movie: "Kiss Me Deadly"
2:40 Movie: "Tokyo Joe"
4:30 Get Smart
5 AM Bob Newhart
5:30 Beverly Hillbillies

WPBA Ch. 30 (PBS)

6 AM Body Electric
6:30 Body Buddies
7 AM Focus On Society
7:45 A.M. Weather
8:15 Educational Programming
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Educational Programming
3 PM Secret City
3:30 3-2-1 Contact
4 PM Timmy And Lassie
4:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5 PM Sesame Street
6 PM Government Survey
6:30 American Story
7 PM MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
8 PM All American Music
9 PM Penn & Teller
9:30 Neon Trash
11 PM European Journal
11:30 Latenight America
sign off 12:30 AM

WATL Ch. 36 (Ind.)

6 AM Success N Life
6:30 Top Cat
7 AM Captain Harlock
7:30 Robotech
8 AM Plasticman
8:30 Rocky And His Friends
9 AM Jim Bakker
10 AM Richard Roberts
11 AM The Saint
12 N Donna Reed
12:30 Dennis The Menace
1 PM Dobie Gillis
1:30 My Favorite Martian
2 PM The Monkees
2:30 Fat Albert
3 PM Thunder Sub
3:30 Captain Harlock
4 PM Rose Petal Place
4:30 Tranzor
5 PM Voltron
5:30 Jayce (I think this was called
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors--
help me out, '80s kids)
6 PM Gimme A Break!
6:30 Bosom Buddies
7 PM Hawaii Five-O
8 PM Dynasty
9 PM Movie: "The Laughing Policeman"
11 PM Carson's Comedy Classics
11:30 Helen Keller
12 M Jim Bakker
sign off 1 AM

WGNX (WGCL) Ch. 46 (Ind.)

6 AM Muppet Show
6:30 Heathcliff
7 AM Go-Bots
7:30 M.A.S.K.
8 AM Superfriends
8:30 Inspector Gadget
9 AM Great Space Coaster
9:30 Study In The Word With
Jimmy Swaggart
10 AM 700 Club
11:30 Mork And Mindy
12 N INDAY News
12:30 All About Us
1 PM A Great Life
1:30 What's Hot!
2 PM Partridge Family (don't know
if live-action or animated)
2:30 Jetsons
3 PM Scooby Doo
3:30 She-Ra
4 PM He-Man And The Masters Of
The Universe
4:30 Transformers
5 PM G.I. Joe
5:30 ThunderCats
6 PM What's Happening!!
6:30 Too Close For Comfort
7 PM Diff'rent Strokes
7:30 WKRP In Cincinnati
8 PM Hart To Hart
9 PM Movie: "A Wedding On Walton's
Mountain"
11 PM Comedy Break
11:30 Honeymooners
12 M Barnaby Jones
1 AM News
1:30 Make Room For Daddy
2 AM Gilligan's Island
2:30 Here's Lucy
3 AM Rawhide
4 AM Barnaby Jones
5 AM Cisco Kid
5:30 Classic Country

WVEU (WUPA) Ch. 69 (Ind.)

6 AM A.M. Beat
7 AM 90 & 9 Club
8 AM Richard Roberts
9 AM A Better Way
9:30 Love Songs
10 AM Top 40 Music
10:30 Loving (pre-empted on Ch. 2
at 12:30)
11 AM Three's A Crowd (not the notorious
game show, but the Three's Company
followup, pre-empted on Ch. 2)
11:30 All-Star Blitz (pre-empted on Ch. 2)
12 N Country Music U.S.A.
1 PM Beat Of The City
2 PM Atlanta's Top 50
3 PM Rockpile: Hard Rock Videos
4 PM Metalworks
5 PM Today's Music
6 PM Merv Griffin
7 PM Country Music U.S.A.
8 PM Movie Music
8:30 Soul Atlanta
9:30 Top 40 Hits
10:30 Greatest Sports Legends
11 PM Bill Curry: Georgia Tech Football
11:30 T.J. Hooker (pre-empted on Ch. 5)
12:40 CBS Movie (I don't have the title,
but it's pre-empted on Ch. 5)
sign off after the movie

 

[azumanga]

WXIA Ch. 11 (NBC)

10:30 Search For Tomorrow (delay from 12:30)

Locally pre-empted "Sale of the Century".

WGNX (WGCL) Ch. 46 (Ind.)

12 N INDAY News
12:30 All About Us
1 PM A Great Life
1:30 What's Hot!

These shows were part of Tribune's ill-fated afternoon block, called "Inday", which featured a national newscast (produced by WPIX's "Independent Network News), followed by three talk / magazine programs.

Don't think Inday lasted the season. Also, what's funny was that in some markets, Inday was on a station different from the one that carries INN's nighttime newscast -- in Tampa Bay, WFTS ch.28 carried "Inday", with WTOG ch.44 carrying INN's nighttime news.

2 PM Partridge Family (don't know
if live-action or animated)

Very likely the live-action original -- I dont think "2200 AD" was ever syndicated separately (though it was part of the syndicated "Fred Flintstone and Friends" anthology).

 

[bpatrick]

Two other network daytime game shows that were
pre-empted in Atlanta: "Super Password" (noon, NBC)
and "Body Language" (4 PM, CBS).

 

[classictvfan]

Originally posted by bpatrick:
5:30 Jayce (I think this was called
Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors--
help me out, '80s kids)

That was the show's title.


One more question:could you show weekend listings from Sunday October 20 & Saturday
October 26 1985?

 

[bpatrick]

I don't have the listings for October 20; my Sunday
listings are from October 27. I'm going to be out of
town for a few days but will get them when I get the
opportunity. I do have the October 26 listings:

WSB Ch. 2 (ABC)

6 AM Lone Ranger
6:30 Bugs Bunny
7 AM The Littles
7:30 ABC Weekend Special
8 AM Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes
Comedy Hour (became The Bugs
Bunny and Tweety Show in 1986)
9 AM Ewoks & Droids Hour
10 AM Super Powers (anybody know what
this is?)
10:30 Bugs Bunny
11 AM Timeout (local kids' show)
11:30 Inside America This Week
12 N ACC Football: Virginia at Wake Forest
3:30 NCAA Football: West Virginia at
Penn State (time approximate)
7 PM Solid Gold (time approximate)
8 PM World Series: St. Louis at Kansas City
(Game 6)
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 Dance Fever
12 M Mad Movies
12:30 Solid Gold
1:30 America's Top Ten
2 AM CNN Headline News (all night)

WAGA Ch. 5 (CBS)

7:30 Morning At Emory
8 AM Latin Atlanta
8:30 Wuzzles
9 AM Muppets, Babies And Monsters
10 AM Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling
11 AM CBS Storybreak
11:30 Dungeons And Dragons
12 N Delvecchio
1 PM NBA Basketball: Philadelphia 76ers
at New York Knicks
3:30 College Football: Ohio State at
Minnesota (time approximate)
7 PM Atlanta This Week (time approximate)
7:30 Small Wonder
8 PM Stone Mountain (local special)
9 PM CBS Movie: "Children Of The Night"
11 PM News
11:30 City Of Angels
12:30 Ironside
sign off 1:30 AM

WGTV Ch. 8 (PBS)

7:30 Sesame Street (2 episodes)
9:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10 AM Masterpiece Theatre
11:30 Health Matters
12 N Wall $treet Week
12:30 Life Around Us
1 PM Nature
2 PM Rod And Reel
2:30 Frugal Gourmet
3 PM Painting (don't know what this is)
3:30 Woodwright's Shop
4 PM This Old House
4:30 TBA
5 PM Doctor Who
5:30 Newton's Apple
6 PM Health Matters
6:30 Sneak Previews
7 PM Austin City Limits
8 PM Rush (don't know what it is, but
I don't think it's Limbaugh)
9 PM Butterflies
9:30 The Tripods
10 PM Doctor Who (3 episodes)
sign off 11:30 PM

WXIA Ch. 11 (NBC)

6 AM Camera 11
6:30 Lorne Greene's Last Of The Wild
7 AM Kids Incorporated
7:30 Terrahawks
8 AM Snorks
8:30 Gummi Bears
9 AM Smurfs
10:30 Punky Brewster (animated)
11 AM Alvin And The Chipmunks
11:30 Kidd Video
12 N Wrestling (possibly the WWF,
nothing is given)
1 PM Wild Kingdom
1:30 The Waltons
2:30 Star Games
3:30 Movie: "Every Man Needs One"
5 PM Rockford Files
6 PM News
7 PM Wheel Of Fortune
7:30 The Making Of...
8 PM Gimme A Break!
8:30 Facts Of Life
9 PM Golden Girls
9:30 227
10 PM Hunter
11 PM News
11:30 David Letterman Special
1 AM Outer Limits
2 AM News
2:30 Love Songs
3 AM Record Guide
3:30 Movie: "Snatched" (to 6)

WTBS Ch. 17 (Ind.)

6 AM CNN News
6:30 Between The Lines
7 AM Saturday Funnies
7:35 Get Smart
8:05 High Chaparral
9:05 WCW Wrestling
10:05 Movie: "Town Tamer"
12 N SEC Football: Kentucky at
Georgia
3:35 Cimarron Strip (time approximate)
5:05 Fishing With Orlando Wilson
5:35 Motorweek
6:05 WCW Wrestling
8 PM College Football: California at
UCLA
11:15 Night Tracks (time approximate,
runs all night)

WPBA Ch. 30 (PBS)

7:30 Health Issues
8 AM Six Gun Heroes
9 AM The Brain
10 AM Nova
11 AM Focus On Society
11:30 American Story
12 N Government Survey
12:30 Growing Years
1 PM College Football: Pennsylvania
at Yale
4 PM Woodwright's Shop (time approximate)
4:30 Motorweek
5 PM Victory Garden
5:30 Gourmet Cooking
6 PM This Old House
6:30 Take 30
7 PM Sneak Previews
7:30 Agronsky & Co.
8 PM Great Performances
9:30 Leon's Case
10 PM Free Show Tonight
11 PM David Susskind
12 M Dad's Army
sign off 12:30 AM

WATL Ch. 36 (Ind.)

6 AM Top Cat
6:30 Josie And The Pussycats
7 AM Superheroes
7:30 Bullwinkle
8 AM Jim Bakker
9 AM Breakfast Club
10 AM David Paul
10:30 Movie: "Call To Danger"
12 N Movie: "Joyride"
2 PM Movie: "The Oregon Trail"
4 PM Movie: "21 Hours At Munich"
6 PM Bosom Buddies
6:30 It's A Living
7 PM Street Hawk
8 PM Wrestling (from different
promotions)
12 M Movie: "Night Of Terror"
sign off 1:30 AM

WGNX (WGCL) Ch. 46 (Ind.)

6 AM U.S. Farm Report
6:30 Christian (I think Viewpoint, not sure)
7 AM World Tomorrow
7:30 Rifleman
8 AM Atlanta Forum
9 AM Jerry Falwell
10 AM Jimmy Swaggart
11 AM Wrestling
12 N S.W.A.T.
1 PM Pound Puppies
2 PM Star Fairies
3 PM Movie: "The Phantom Tollbooth"
5 PM Soul Train
6 PM Fame
7 PM Star Trek
8 PM Dempsey And Makepeace
9 PM Movie: "Horror Of Death"
11 PM Tales From The Darkside
11:30 Movie: "Dragonwyck"
1:30 At The Movies
2 AM Movie: "The Nickel Ride"
4 AM Bonanza
what's on 5-6 AM is not listed

WVEU (WUPA) Ch. 69 (Ind.)

6 AM Wall Street Journal Report
6:30 Kid's Videos
7 AM Music
7:30 Barbara King
8 AM Cartoons
8:30 E.J. Daniels
9 AM Reverend Ike
9:30 Soul Gospel
10 AM Kid's Videos
10:30 NFL Week In Review
11 AM Incredible World Of Speed
And Beauty
11:30 In Search Of...
12 N Atlanta Hawks Preview
1 PM Boxing: Arguello vs. Jefferson
3 PM Ethiopia Aid Telethon (this is not
long after Live Aid)
9 PM NBA Basketball: Atlanta Hawks
at Milwaukee Bucks
11:30 Telethon continues (time approximate)
sign off 2:30 AM

 

[highwayman128]

WSB Ch. 2 (ABC)
8 PM World Series: St. Louis at Kansas City
(Game 6)

That series-- Game 6 will go down as a great game, the Cardinals were leading 1-0 in the bottom of the Ninth when Jorge Orta was incorrectly called safe by Don Denkinger when Todd Worrell, the Cardinals pitcher and also TV replays showed that he was out by not that much. The Royals would go on to tie and win Game 6 and win Game 7 over their Missouri rivals, the Cardinals 11-0 (the score of game 7), The Cardinals were never the same in Game 7.