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Retro: North Georgia Monday, December 22, 1975

From TV Guide, North Georgia Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

6 AM Christopher Closeup (Family counselor Eda LeShan
contends that a middle-age identity crisis can be
a good thing, in her book "The Wonderful Crisis Of
Middle Age.")
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today (Betty Furness explains why people donate money
to charities.)
9 AM Not For Women Only (Part 1 of 5 on paths to self-discovery:
parapsychologists Hans Holzer and Martin Eban discuss
reincarnation.)
9:30 Today In Georgia
10 AM Celebrity Sweepstakes (Wolfman Jack, Sally Struthers, Kelly
Lange, Dick Martin and his wife Dolly)
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 Let's Make A Deal
8 PM NBC Movie: "Scrooge" (the 1970 version with Albert Finney
and Alec Guinness)
10 PM NBC News Special: "Giving And Getting--The Charity Business"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (John Davidson subs for Johnny; Robert Goulet,
Barbara Eden, Norm Crosby, Doug Henning)
1 AM Tomorrow (topic: the UN)
2 AM 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 Wild Kingdom
8 PM NBC Movie: "Scrooge"
10 PM NBC News Special
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6 AM Sunrise Semester: "Anthropology Of The Middle
East And North Africa"
6:30 Camera Three (an acting technique called "the corporals,"
based on yoga and gymnastics, delay from Sun 11 AM)
7 AM CBS News (Hughes Rudd)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Phil Donahue (changing attitudes about such issues as
euthanasia and abortion)
10 AM Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Match Game '75 (Gary Burghoff, Joyce Bulifant, Pat Crowley,
Richard Dawson, Brett Somers, Charles Nelson Reilly (day-behind
from 3:30 PM)
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM All In The Family (Archie and Meathead's first meeting)
3:30 Robert Young, Family Doctor ("Marcus Welby, M.D." reruns)
4:30 Mike Douglas (from Opryland: co-host Mel Tillis; Waylon Jennings,
Jessi Colter, Diana Trask, Roger Miller, Flip Wilson, Jamie Farr,
stock-car racers Bobby Allison and Darrell Waltrip, Prof. Irwin Corey)
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7:30 Tell The Mayor
8 PM Rhoda
8:30 Phyllis
9 PM All In The Family (Gloria has her baby)
9:30 Maude
10 PM Medical Center
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "A Great American Tragedy" (timely for today, as
George Kennedy plays an aerospace engineer suffering personally
and economically from being laid off)
1 AM News

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)
Although TV Guide says the five PBS stations (8, 15, 18, 30, 45) schedule
in-school programming, I rather doubt it this week with Christmas vacation.

4 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Sesame Street
6:30 Withit
7 PM Lilias, Yoga And You
7:30 Fantasy In Mime (performed by Marcel Marceau's protege, Israeli
mime Juki Arkin)
8 PM The Nutcracker (performed by Ballet West, accompanied by the
Utah Symphony)
9:30 Forum (rehabilitation for the handicapped is the topic)
10 PM David Susskind (gypsies discuss their lifestyle and image, to 12)

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

7 AM Good Morning America
8:30 Funtime
9 AM Phil Donahue (from Atlanta: F. Lee Bailey discusses the Patty
Hearst case)
10 AM The Lucy Show
10:30 Bonanza
11:30 Happy Days
12 N Showoffs (Vicki Lawrence, Greg Morris, Tina Cole, Robert Urich)
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 and Mitzi McCall,
Conny Van Dyke)
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 Mobile One
9 PM Liberty Bowl: USC-Texas A&M
12 M News (time approximate)

WXIA Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

6:30 Green Acres
7 AM Good Morning America
8 AM A.M. Atlanta
9 AM Concentration
9:30 Movie: "Period Of Adjustment" (Part 1 of 2)
11 AM Rhyme And Reason (Pat Harrington, Jamie Farr, Shari
Lewis, Lois Nettleton, Jimmie Walker, 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)
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dinah! (Chris Evert, Anthony Newley, Don Meredith,
comic Mike Neun, authors Burt and Jane Boyer ("World
Class"))
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Merv Griffin (guest host Mort Sahl; Sen. John Tunney,
Frankie Laine, Richard Dimitri)
7:30 Mobile One (same episode as Ch. 9; ABC affiliates in NFL
cities were allowed to carry the show a half-hour earlier)
8:30 Falcon Replay (highlights of Falcons-Packers)
9 PM Liberty Bowl: USC-Texas A&M
12 M News (time approximate)
12:30 Mission: Impossible

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 News
12:25 Paul Harvey
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM That Girl
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM All In The Family
3:30 Match Game '75 (Pat Crowley, Gary Burghoff, Joyce
Bulifant, Charles Nelson Reilly, Richard Dawson, Brett Somers)
4 PM Tattletales (Theresa Merritt and Ben Hines, Gavin MacLeod and
Patti Steele, Charlie Brill and Mitzi McCall)
4:30 Merv Griffin (Anne Murray, Sam Levenson, Dody Goodman, Arthur
Murray dance studios president Harold Plummer and two of his
instructors--Terri and Dick Raymond)
5:55 Paul Harvey
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Gunsmoke
8 PM Rhoda
8:30 Phyllis
9 PM All In The Family
9:30 Maude
10 PM Medical Center
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "A Great American Tragedy"

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS)

6:50 News
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Let's Talk It Over (topic: Al-Anon)
9:30 General Hospital
10 AM Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Almanac
1:15 Date With Del
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM All In The Family
3:30 Match Game '75
4 PM Tattletales
4:30 Ironside
5:30 To Tell The Truth (Bill Cullen, Peggy Cass, Gene
Rayburn, Kitty Carlisle)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Let's Make A Deal
8 PM Rhoda
8:30 Phyllis
9 PM All In The Family
9:30 Maude
10 PM Medical Center
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "A Great American Tragedy"

WDCO Ch. 15 (WMUM Ch. 29) Cochran/
WCLP (WNGH) Ch. 18 Chatsworth (PBS)
Again, not sure about in-school programs.

4 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Villa Alegre
6:30 Gettin' Over
7 PM Lilias, Yoga And You
7:30 Byline
8 PM The Nutcracker
9:30 Woman (author Susan Braudy discusses her
divorce and readjustment to single life)
10 PM The Onedin Line
sign off 11 PM

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

6 AM Buck Owens (guest: singer Kay Adams)
6:30 Romper Room
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8 AM Leave It To Beaver
8:30 Hazel
9 AM I Love Lucy (the Ricardos and Mertzes are
trapped in a Swiss avalanche)
9:30 Andy Griffith
10 AM Movie: "Home In Indiana"
12 N Love, American Style
12:30 The Lucy Show (guests: Mel Torme, John Bubbles,
Paul Winchell)
1 PM Movie: "The Forbidden Street"
3 PM Mickey Mouse Club
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Gilligan's Island
4:30 I Love Lucy (Lucy calls Little Ricky from Rome on
his birthday)
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 Perry Mason
9 PM Movie: "Somewhere In The Night"
11 PM Love, American Style
11:30 Movie: "The Mask Of Diijon"
1 AM Movie: "The Forbidden Street"
2:55 News
3:15 Open Up
4:45 My Little Margie

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)
Again, not sure about in-school programs.

4 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Villa Alegre
6:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
7 PM Medicine At Emory (topic: dentistry)
7:30 Black Atlanta Today (historic places such as Martin
Luther King Jr.'s birthplace; the site of Atlanta's
first black radio station, which was also the nation's)
8 PM Playback (the rock group Tangent performs)
8:30 Consumer Survival Kit
9 PM Berlioz' Requiem ("Grand Messe des Morts" is performed
by the Music For Youth Symphony Orchestra and Concert
Wind Ensemble, University of Wisconsin and Milton College)
10:30 The Romantic Rebellion (Kenneth Clark discusses Rodin)
11 PM Captioned ABC News
sign off 11:30 PM

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Phil Donahue (Dr. Thomas Gordon discusses his book "Parent
Effectiveness Training.")
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 Animal World
5 PM Star Trek
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
7:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
8 PM NBC Movie: "Scrooge"
10 PM NBC News Special
11 PM Rifleman
11:30 Tonight Show

WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)
Again, not sure about in-school programs.

3:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
4 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Youth In Trouble
7 PM Playing Bridge With The Experts
7:30 Evening Edition With Martin Agronsky
8 PM The Nutcracker
9:30 Realidades (the Ballet Folklorico Mexicano de
Graciela Tapia)
10 PM Christmas Music (the Hixson First Baptist Church
choir)
10:30 Black On Black

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

9:30 Underdog
10 AM New Zoo Revue
10:30 Life In The Spirit
11 AM Pattern For Living
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 (John Astin as the Riddler)
4:30 Superman
5 PM Brady Bunch
5:30 Room 222
6 PM Salvation Army Christmas Service
6:30 New Year's Promise (Davey and Goliath make
resolutions for the upcoming year.)
7 PM Brady Bunch
7:30 Courtship Of Eddie's Father
8 PM 700 Club
9:30 Life In The Spirit
10 PM Acts 29
10:30 Good News
11 PM Laurel And Hardy ("Best Of Groucho" takes over
this timeslot Jan. 5.)
11:30 Honeymooners
sign off 12 M

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

3:55 Dr. J. Harold Smith
4 PM Underdog
4:30 Letters To Santa Claus
5 PM Tell It And Sell It
6 PM New Zoo Revue
6:30 Sid Hughes Gospel Hour
7:30 Grace Cathedral
8:30 TBA
9 PM Sid Hughes Gospel Hour
10 PM Roller Derby
11 PM Dr. J. Harold Smith
sign off 11:05 PM
 
bp, I can tell you for sure school was out by then, as I grew up in an adjoining state in and around that time--the practice in Alabama was generally to let out on the Friday before Xmas. I'm pretty sure Georgia and Tennessee did the same, so neither GPB, WETV, nor WTCI had in-school programming, and they signed on for the day at the time their listings began. AFAIK, special holiday daytime programming didn't begin until sometime in the late Seventies, a few years later, and that probably varied from place to place. The stations would have been on "weekend mode," running a limited schedule and staff during the holidays until school went back into session. Wonder if the dayshift control room crew would have gotten unemployment, or just placed on furlough? In much of the country except for the largest stations (e.g., WNET, WGBH, WTTW), this would have happened during summer vacation, too.

Any ex-PBS station staffers able to fill us in on this?
 
Wow my memory is fading....I had always thought that "Magnificent Marble Machine" was on at 12 noon during the whole run; but with two NBC affiliates showing it at 12:30, I was wrong. AND of course being @ 12:30, it was shortened to 25 minutes.

I wonder what the staff did with that pinball machine..... :)

cd
 
I had a feeling school might be out but wasn't sure.

As for "Magnificent Marble Machine," I think the reason
for the 12:30 slot was temporary. NBC had just canceled
a show called "Three For The Money," hosted by Dick Enberg,
and a new show called "Take My Advice," with hostess Kelly
Lange, wasn't scheduled to debut until January. With the
Peacock Network experimenting with an hour-long "Wheel Of
Fortune," "High Rollers" was temporarily moved from 11 AM to
noon, and "Magnificent Marble Machine" from noon to 12:30.

According to Castleman and Podrazik's "The TV Schedule Book,"
NBC's 10 AM-1 PM (ET) lineup in the winter of 1976 was:

10 AM Celebrity Sweepstakes
10:30 High Rollers (new time)
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N Magnificent Marble Machine
12:30 Take My Advice
12:55 NBC News

So no, your memory is not playing tricks on you.
 
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