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Retro: Macon, GA - Friday, October 29, 1971 and Saturday, November 11, 1972

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These were the days of the motorcycle accidents that claimed the lives of Allman Brothers Band members Duane Allman (lead guitar) and Berry Oakley (bass) respectively, withing three blocks of each other in Macon.

Source: Macon Telegraph

Friday, October 29, 1971

9 WTVM (ABC) Columbus, GA (The closest full-time ABC affiliate for Macon, for it didn't have its own until 1982 when WGXA 24 signed on.)

6:55 Morning Devotional
7:00 First News (featuring Paul Harvey at 7:25 and 7:55)
8:00 Captain Kangaroo (pre-empted by Columbus CBS affiliate WRBL 3 for their local Rozell Show)
9:00 Small World
9:30 Cartoon Time
9:50 Fashions in Sewing
10:00 Mike Douglas
11:00 Password - Guests: Carol Burnett, Dick Martin
11:30 That Girl
NOON Bewitched
12:30 Panorama News
1:00 All My Children
1:30 Let's Make a Deal
2:00 Newlywed Game
2:30 Dating Game
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 One Life to Live
4:00 Love, American Style
4:30 I Dream of Jeannie
5:00 High Chaparral
6:00 News Hour (incorporating ABC Evening News)
6:30 ABC Evening News
7:00 Truth or Consequences
7:30 Nanny and the Professor
8:00 Brady Bunch
8:30 Partridge Family
9:00 Room 222
9:30 Odd Couple
10:00 Love, American Style
11:00 News
11:30 Movie: "Let's Make Love" (1960) - Marilyn Monroe (her last musical film, and second to last film altogether to "The Mistfits"), Yves Montand (first English-speaking role), Tony Randall; cameos by Milton Berle, Bing Crosby and Gene Kelly



13 WMAZ (CBS/ABC secondary)
6:30 Cartoon Club
7:00 CBS Morning News
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 General Hospital (ABC)
9:30 Bewitched (ABC)
10:00 Lucy Show
10:30 Topper
11:00 My Little Margie
11:30 Donna Reed
NOON Where the Heart Is
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Almanac
1:15 Date With Del
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Love is a Many Splendored Thing
2:30 Guiding Light
3:00 Secret Storm
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Gomer Pyle
4:30 Gillgan's Island
5:00 Daniel Boone
6:00 WMAZ News
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 Truth or Consequences
7:30 Judd, for the Defense (1967-69 ABC legal drama; second half hour pre-empts CBS's The Chicago Teddy Bears)
8:30 O'Hara
9:30 New CBS Friday Night Movies: "Murder Once Removed" (Premiere, hence the 'New') - John Forstyhe, Barbara Bain, Richard Kiley
11:00 WMAZ News
11:30 Merv Griffin

15 WDCO (PBS) Cochran
4:30 Electric Company (wrapping up its premiere week)
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Mister Rogers
6:30 What's News
7:00 Insight
7:30 Black Journal
8:00 World Press Review
8:45 David Littlejohn - Critic at Large
9:00 Folk Guitar
9:30 UN Day Concert - Pablo Casals conducting the Casals Festival Orchestra

41 WCWB (NBC)
7:00 Today
9:00 Romper Room
10:00 Dinah's Place - Featured: Guest Johnny Whitaker helping Dinah make Halloween cake and decortations, Shelly Schooler, director of condumer affairs from Tootsie Roll Industries and child safety advocate, giviving trick-or-treating advice
10:30 Concentration
11:00 Sale of the Century
11:30 Hollywood Squares - Panel: Wally Cox, Rose Marie, Frank Gorshin, Juliet Mills, Paul Lynde, James Brolin, Charley Weaver, Laraine Day, Vincent Price
NOON Jeopardy!
12:30 Who, What or Where Game
12:55 NBC Midday News
1:00 Women's World
1:30 Three On a Match
2:00 Days of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
3:30 Bright Promise
4:00 Somerset
4:30 Movie: "The Phantom of the Opera" (1962) - Herbet Lom, Heather Sears
7:00 Munsters
7:30 Dragnet
8:00 NBC Special: "Walt Disney World: Grand Opening" - Celebrity Guests: Bob Hope, Julie Andrews, Glen Campbell, Buddy Hackett, Jonathan Winters, The Kids Next Door (singing group), Roy O. Disney (Walt's brother, who died two months later)
9:30 The Funny Side (sketch comedy series) - Host: Gene Kelly; Guest: Alan King
10:00 NFL Game of the Week
11:00 TV 41 News (?) (unable to pinpoint exact newscast title from that date)
11:30 Tonight Show - Guest host: Joan Rivers; Guests: William Peter Blatty, Sandy Baron; Performers: Hines, Hines & Dad
 
Saturday, November 11, 1972

9 WTVM (ABC) Columbus, GA

7:30 Southern Scene
8:00 H. R. Pufnstuf
8:30 Jackson 5ive
9:00 Osmonds
9:30 ABC Superstar Movie: "Lassie and the Spirit of Thunder Mountain" (pilot for Lassie's Rescue Rangers)
10:30 Brady Kids
11:00 Bewitched
11:30 Kid Power
NOON Funky Phantom
12:30 NCAA Football: Fort Valley State vs. Fisk
4:00 NCAA Football: LSU vs. Alabama
6:30 Porter Wagoner
7:00 Lawrence Welk: "The Great Gershwin"
8:00 Kung Fu
9:00 Streets of San Francisco
10:00 Sixth Sense
11:00 Movie: "Ten Tall Men" (1951) - Burt Lancaster, Gilbert Roland
1:15 ABC News

13 WMAZ (CBS/ABC secondary)
7:00 Navy Film
7:30 Georgia TV Monitor
8:00 Bugs Bunny
8:30 Sabrina the Teenage Witch
9:00 Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan
9:30 New Scooby-Doo Movies - Guest characters: Laurel & Hardy
10:30 Josie and the Pussycats
11:00 Flintstone Comedy Hour
NOON Archie's TV Funnies
12:30 NCAA Football (see ch. 9 WTVM)
4:00 NCAA Football (see ch. 9 WTVM)
6:30 CBS Evening News - Roger Mudd
7:00 Lawrence Welk (see ch. 9 WTVM)
8:00 All in the Family
8:30 Bridget Loves Bernie
9:00 Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10:00 Mission: Impossible
11:00 WMAZ News
11:30 Movie: "PT 109" (1963) - Cliff Robertson (chosen by JFK himself to portray him), James Gregory, Ty Hardin, Robert Culp

15 WDCO (PBS) Cochran
8:30 Mister Rogers
9:00 Sesame Street
10:00 Electric Company
10:30 Mister Rogers
11:00 Sesame Street
NOON Electric Company
12:30 Sesame Street
1:30 Electric Company
2:00 Zoom
2:30 Electric Company
3:00 --off the air--
7:00 Consultation
7:30 Speaking Freely
8:30 Playhouse New York: "Home" - John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson
10:00 Movie: "The Beloved Rogue" (1927) - John Barrymore

41 WCWB (NBC)
8:00 Underdog
8:30 Jetsons
9:00 Pink Panther
9:30 Houndcats
10:00 Roman Holidays (Ancient Roman counterpart to the Flintstones and Jetsons)
10:30 Barkleys
11:00 Sealab 2020
11:30 Runaround - Paul Winchell
NOON Around the World in Eighty Days (animated, produced in Australia)
12:30 Talking With a Giant
1:00 Wrestling
2:00 Roller Derby
3:00 Movie: "Island of the Lost" (1967) - Richard Greene, Luke Halpin, Irene Tsu
5:00 That Good Ole Nashville Music
5:30 Bill Anderson
6:00 Arthur Smith
6:30 NBC Nightly News - Garrick Utley
7:00 Hee Haw - Guests: Buddy Alan, Jeannie Seely
8:00 Emergency!
9:00 NBC Saturday Night at the Movies: "Giant" (Part 1 of 2) (1956) - Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean
11:15 Football Scoreboard
11:45 Saturday Tonight Show (from Sept. 14, 1971) - Guests: Dr. Erwin Maxwell Stillman, Dr. David Reuben, Nancy Grigor; Performer: Lana Cantrell
 
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