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Retro: North Georgia Friday, December 26, 1975

From TV Guide, North Georgia Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

6 AM Herald Of Truth
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today (the show originates from Ohio)
9 AM Not For Women Only (guest is Jerry Jarvis, U.S. director
of the transcendental meditation movement)
9:30 Today In Georgia
10 AM Celebrity Sweepstakes (Wolfman Jack, Sally Struthers, Kelly
Lange, Dick and Dolly Martin)
10:30 Wheel Of Fortune (the brief period when it aired for an hour)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Richard Dimitri, Robert Goulet, Rod McKuen,
Phyllis Diller, Florence Henderson, Demond Wilson)
12 N News
12:30 Big Valley
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Mod Squad
5 PM The FBI
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News (John Chancellor)
7:30 Bobby Vinton (Adrienne Barbeau, Charlie Callas, a cameo by
Arte Johnson)
8 PM Doug Henning: The World Of Magic (Bill Cosby hosts; guests:
Orson Welles, Julie Newmar, singer Lori Lieberman, Japanese
magician Shimada)
9 PM Rockford Files
10 PM Police Story
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (John Davidson subs for Johnny; Juliet Prowse)
1 AM Midnight Special (Charlie Rich, Dolly Parton, Leo Sayer, Alan
Price, Roy Wood's Wizzard, a salute to Emerson, Lake & Palmer,
and featured hit "Surf City" by Jan and Dean)
2:30 News

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

6:25 New Zoo Revue
6:55 News For Little People
7 AM Today
9 AM 700 Club
10 AM Celebrity Sweepstakes
10:30 Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News
12:30 Magnificent Marble Machine (Arte Johnson, Leslie
Uggams, Anson Williams, Adrienne Barbeau)
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1 PM Somerset
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM The FBI
4:55 News For Little People
5 PM Mickey Mouse Club
5:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Name That Tune
8 PM Doug Henning: The World Of Magic
9 PM Rockford Files
10 PM Police Story
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Midnight Special

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6 AM Sunrise Semester: "Anthropology Of The Middle East
And North Africa"
6:30 International Zone
7 AM CBS News (Hughes Rudd)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo (guest: Alan Arkin)
9 AM Phil Donahue
10 AM Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12 N Sun Bowl: Pitt vs. Kansas (Pitt won, 33-19)
3 PM Fiesta Bowl: Nebraska-Arizona State (time approximate,
Arizona State won, 17-14)
6 PM News (time approximate)
7 PM CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7:30 Treasure Hunt
8 PM Great Migration: Year Of The Wildebeeste
9 PM GE Theater: "In This House Of Brede" (Diana Rigg as an
English widow who forsakes a successful business career
to become a nun.)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Count Dracula" (Christopher Lee, from '70)
1 AM Movie: "The Violent Ones"
3 AM News

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)
Not likely any of the PBS stations are carrying in-school programming
today so I'll start with the first listed program.

4 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Sesame Street
6:30 Withit
7 PM Lilias, Yoga And You
7:30 Country Music Spectacular
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM Georgia Bicentennial Band Competition (Atlanta-area high schools
competing include Jonesboro, Southwest DeKalb, Towers, Hardaway,
South Cobb, Norcross, and Kendrick.)
10 PM Masterpiece Theatre ("Notorious Woman," Part 6)
11 PM Movie: "Broken Blossoms" (D.W. Griffith-directed 1919 silent with
Lillian Gish)
sign off 12:30 AM

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

7 AM Good Morning America
8:30 Funtime
9 AM Phil Donahue (from Atlanta: Abigail Van Buren answers questions
from the audience)
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Bonanza
11:30 Happy Days
12 N Showoffs (Vicki Lawrence, Greg Morris, Tina Cole, Robert Urich,
last show; "Let's Make A Deal" moves here Monday)
12:30 All My Children
1 PM Ryan's Hope
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM $10,000 Pyramid (Larry Linville, Anita Gillette)
2:30 Rhyme And Reason (Pat Harrington, Charlie Brill, Mitzi McCall,
Conny Van Dyke; moves to 1:30 PM Monday and Regis Philbin's
short-lived game "The Neighbors" debuts here)
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Ironside
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News (Harry Reasoner)
7 PM Concentration
7:30 Family Affair
8 PM Space: 1999
9 PM ABC Movie: "Death Be Not Proud" (John Gunther's 1949 memoir
of the last months of his son's life; Arthur Hill is Gunther, Robby
Benson is his son Johnny.)
11 PM News
11:30 Wide World Special: "The Second Monty Python Show"

WXIA Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

6:30 College Today
7 AM Good Morning America
8 AM A.M. Atlanta
9 AM Concentration
9:30 Movie: "The Cheaters"
11 AM Rhyme And Reason (day-behind)
11:30 News
12 N Showoffs
12:30 All My Children
1 PM Ryan's Hope
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM $10,000 Pyramid
2:30 Edge Of Night (day-behind; Ch. 11 will move this to
11 AM in order to carry "The Neighbors")
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dinah! (Zsa Zsa Gabor, Karen Valentine, Frankie Laine,
Abigail Van Buren, Guy Lombardo, journalist Helen Thomas
(author of "Dateline: White House"))
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Merv Griffin
7:30 Hollywood Squares (Mel Brooks, Rose Marie, Ray Milland,
Suzanne Pleshette, Charles Nelson Reilly, Ginger Rogers,
Wally Cox, Charley Weaver, Paul Lynde)
8 PM Movie: "The Cardinal" (Tom Tryon as a Boston priest who
rises to prominence in his church but is torn by his past,
from '63)
11:30 News
12 M Wide World Special: "The Second Monty Python Show"
(half-hour delay)

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

6:25 Farm Report
6:30 Sunrise Semester
7 AM Morning Show
8 AM CBS News
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Sun Bowl
3 PM Fiesta Bowl (time approximate)
6 PM News (time approximate)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Gunsmoke
8 PM Great Migration: Year Of The Wildebeeste
9 PM GE Theater: "In This House Of Brede"
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "10 Rillington Place" (dramatization of
London's Christie-Evans murder case of the '40s,
from '71)

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS)

6:50 News
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Let's Talk It Over
9:30 General Hospital
10 AM Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Sun Bowl
3 PM Fiesta Bowl (time approximate)
6 PM News (time approximate)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Price Is Right
8 PM Great Migration: Year Of The Wildebeeste
9 PM GE Theater: "In This House Of Brede"
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "10 Rillington Place"

WDCO Ch. 15 (WMUM Ch. 29) Cochran/
WCLP (WNGH) Ch. 18 Chatsworth (PBS)

4 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Villa Alegre
6:30 Consultation (medicine)
7 PM Aviation Weather
7:30 Black Perspective On The News
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM Masterpiece Theatre (same as Ch. 8)
10 PM David Susskind (dwarfs; five popular college professors)
sign off 11:30 PM

WTCG (WPCH) Ch. 17 Atlanta (Ind.)

5:40 News
6 AM Tennessee Tuxedo
6:30 Romper Room
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8 AM Leave It To Beaver
8:30 Hazel
9 AM I Love Lucy
9:30 Andy Griffith
10 AM Movie: "Green Light"
12 N Love, American Style
12:30 The Lucy Show (guest Sheldon Leonard as a producer
shooting a robbery scene at Mooney's bank--only Lucy
thinks Leonard is really a crook)
1 PM Movie: "Janie" (World War II-era comedy about a teenage
girl who's thrilled when the Army sets up a camp near her
hometown--Joyce Reynolds, who played Ann Sheridan's
kid sister Madge in "George Washington Slept Here" (with
Jack Benny), plays Janie)
3 PM Mickey Mouse Club
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Gilligan's Island
4:30 I Love Lucy
5 PM Partridge Family
5:30 Beverly Hillbillies
6 PM That Girl
6:30 Andy Griffith
7 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8 PM NBA Basketball: Hawks-Cavaliers
10 PM Movie: "Beast From Haunted Cave" (time approximate)
11:30 James Brown's Future Shock (my roommate used to give
me a hard time because I never missed this show--he
hated r&b, I love it)
12:30 NBA Basketball: Hawks-Cavaliers (replay)
2:45 News
3:05 Movie: "Hell's Five Hours"
4:35 Movie: "Janie"

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)

4 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Villa Alegre
6:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
7 PM Aviation Weather
7:30 Black Perspective On The News
8 PM Consumer Survival Kit
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM Masterpiece Theatre (same as Ch. 8)
10 PM Christmas At Pops (Arthur Fiedler leads the Boston
Pops, accompanied by the Tanglewood Festival Chorus)
11 PM Captioned ABC News
sign off 11:30 PM

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Phil Donahue (Bob Woodward discusses the book "All The
President's Men" and the movie that was in production at
the time.)
10 AM Celebrity Sweepstakes
10:30 Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N High Rollers
12:30 Magnificent Marble Machine
12:55 NBC News
1 PM News
1:05 Noon Over Middle Georgia
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Death Valley Days
5 PM Star Trek
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
7:30 Bobby Vinton (Loretta Swit; cameo by Ruth Buzzi)
8 PM Doug Henning: The World Of Magic
9 PM Rockford Files
10 PM Police Story
11 PM Rifleman
11:30 Tonight Show

WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)

3:30 Big Blue Marble
4 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Vegetable Soup
6:30 Gettin' Over
7 PM Aviation Weather
7:30 Evening Edition With Martin Agronsky
8 PM Washington Week In Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9 PM Masterpiece Theatre (same as Ch. 8)
10 PM University Of Tennessee-Chattanooga Journal
10:30 Playing Bridge With The Experts
sign off 11 PM

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

10 AM New Zoo Revue
10:30 The Bible With Pat Robertson
11 AM Kathryn Kuhlman
11:30 700 Club
1 PM Real McCoys
1:30 Dennis The Menace
2 PM Lone Ranger
2:30 Huck And Yogi
3 PM Porky Pig
3:30 Popeye
4 PM Batman (Julie Newmar as the Catwoman)
4:30 Superman (the one where he becomes radioactive
after destroying a nuclear pile--it ends with possibly
the worst piece of dialogue in the show's history: lightning
rids Superman of the radioactivity, and as Clark Kent he checks
a plane on which Lois is riding and finds no traces of radioactivity.
Since Clark and Superman (naturally) were away at the same time,
Lois says, "I wonder" (about Clark and Superman). Clark: It's no
wonder you wonder. You're a pretty won-der-ful girl!)
5 PM Brady Bunch
5:30 Room 222
6 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
6:30 Dick Van Dyke
7 PM Brady Bunch
7:30 Courtship Of Eddie's Father
8 PM 700 Club
9:30 The Bible With Pat Robertson
10 PM Jimmy Swaggart
10:30 Studio A
11 PM Movie: "Sons Of The Desert" (how not to fool your wife: Stan
and Ollie sneak off to Hawaii for their lodge's get-together without
telling their wives)
12 M Nancy Harmon

WRIP (WDSI) Ch. 61 Chattanooga (Ind.)

3:55 Dr. J. Harold Smith
4 PM Underdog
4:30 Letters To Santa Claus (why now?)
5 PM Tell It And Sell It
6 PM New Zoo Revue
6:30 Three Stooges
7 PM Bugs Bunny And Friends
7:25 Dr. J. Harold Smith
7:30 Galloping Gourmet
8 PM American Outdoorsman
8:30 Outdoors With Ken Callaway
9 PM Movie: TBA
11 PM Dr. J. Harold Smith
sign off 11:05 PM
 
bpatrick said:
WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

8 PM Great Migration: Year Of The Wildebeeste


WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

8 PM Great Migration: Year Of The Wildebeeste


WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS)

8 PM Great Migration: Year Of The Wildebeeste
...perhaps this was a National Geographic Special?...
 
Ultimajock said:
bpatrick said:
WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

8 PM Great Migration: Year Of The Wildebeeste


WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

8 PM Great Migration: Year Of The Wildebeeste


WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS)

8 PM Great Migration: Year Of The Wildebeeste
...perhaps this was a National Geographic Special?...

At the time, the NatGeo specials were already on ABC, and was in the process of moving to PBS.
 
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