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Retro: North Georgia Monday, October 10, 1977

From TV Guide, North Georgia Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

6 AM Christopher Closeup
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today (Tom Brokaw; guest: Secretary of
Transportation Brock Adams)
9 AM Hollywood Squares (Ed Asner, Billy Crystal,
George Gobel, Tom Kennedy, Jim Nabors,
Joan Rivers, Barbara Rhoades, Isabel Sanford,
Paul Lynde, week-behind)
9:30 To Say The Least (debut, week-behind, guests:
Robert Fuller, Jamie Farr, Lee Meriwether, Rita
Moreno; Tom Kennedy hosts)
10 AM Sanford And Son
10:30 Today In Georgia (a week of shows devoted to sex)
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Knockout (Arte Johnson hosts)
12 N News
12:30 Newlywed Game
1 PM Liars Club (Abby Dalton, Nipsey Russell, Dody Goodman,
Larry Hovis; Allen Ludden hosts)
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM The Rookies
5 PM Odd Couple (the twosome becomes a threesome as Murray
the cop moves in)
5:30 Mary Tyler Moore
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
7:30 All-Star Anything Goes (contestants include Tom Poston,
Liz Torres, Martin Mull, Elayne Boosler, Billy Crystal)
8 PM Laugh-In (Robin Williams made very brief appearances as
a regular on this revival; guest is Bea Arthur, with cameos
by Henry Fonda, Roger Moore, Ilie Nastase, Rodney Allen
Rippy, and Seals & Crofts)
9 PM NBC Movie: "Killer On Board"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (Steve Allen subs for Johnny; guests are
musicologist Ken Fisk and actress Pam Grier)
1 AM Tomorrow (Georgia state senator Julian Bond is guest)
2 AM News

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

6:25 Romper Room
6:55 News For Little People
7 AM Today
9 AM 700 Club
10 AM Sanford And Son
10:30 Hollywood Squares (Victor Borge, Sandy Duncan,
Barbara Eden, Robert Fuller, George Gobel, Rose Marie,
Leslie Uggams, Anson Williams, Paul Lynde)
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Knockout
12 N Adam-12
12:30 Midday Live
1 PM Gong Show
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Cartoons
5:25 News For Little People
5:30 Batman
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Partridge Family
7:30 Muppet Show
8 PM Laugh-In
9 PM NBC Movie: "Killer On Board"
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6:30 Sunrise Semester: "Discipline In The Classroom"
7 AM CBS News (Hughes Rudd/Lesley Stahl)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue (Gray Panthers leader Maggie Kuhn discusses
the portrayal of senior citizens on television.)
10 AM Cross-Wits (Dr. Joyce Brothers, Bob Barker, Jan Murray,
Gunilla Hutton)
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 PM All In The Family
3:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
4 PM Bewitched
4:30 Mike Douglas (from Las Vegas: Rich Little, Ben
Vereen, Ann Miller, singer Paul ("Heaven On The
7th Floor") Nicholas, comedian Dave Barry, hotel
executive Henri Lewin)
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7:30 Wild Wild World Of Animals
8 PM Young Dan'l Boone (which I keep thinking had been
canceled the week before)
9 PM Betty White
9:30 Country Music Association Awards (Johnny Cash hosts,
live)
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 CBS Movie: "Unwed Father"
1:05 Ironside
2:05 News

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

In-school programs until

3 PM Americana
3:30 Villa Alegre
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Sesame Street
6:30 With It
7 PM That Touch Of Spice (topic: using
leftovers)
7:30 Atlanta Week In Review
8 PM Vince Dooley (the UGA coach reviews the
Georgia-Ole Miss game; this was the only
losing season Dooley ever had at Georgia,
going 5-6 after losing most of his 1976 SEC
championship team)
9 PM American Short Story (Flannery O'Connor's
"The Displaced Person"; John Houseman appears
in this)
10 PM Who's Minding The Store? (how the Georgia Office
of Consumer Affairs protects the consumer)
10:30 Mozart On The Fortepiano
11 PM David Susskind (a discussion of the state of the
theater, with Anthony Perkins, critic Clive Barnes,
and producer Hal Prince)

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

6:25 New Tomorrow
6:30 PTL Club (guests: the Blackwood Brothers Quartet)
7:30 Funtime
8 AM Good Morning America (David Hartman, joined in progress)
9 AM Donahue (from Pittsburgh: Dr. Lendon Smith)
10 AM Room 222
10:30 Edge Of Night (delay from 4 PM)
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N The Better Sex (Bill Anderson and Sarah Purcell host)
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM $20,000 Pyramid (Soupy Sales is a scheduled guest)
2:30 One Life To Live
3:15 General Hospital
4 PM Leave It To Beaver
4:30 Brady Bunch
5 PM My Three Sons
5:30 Andy Griffith
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News (Harry Reasoner/Barbara Walters)
7 PM Last Of The Wild
7:30 Joe Morrison (highlights of UT-Chattanooga vs.
Western Carolina)
8 PM San Pedro Beach Bums
9 PM NFL Football: (Los Angeles) Rams-Bears
12 M News (time approximate)
12:30 Pop Goes The Country (Barbara Mandrell, Don
Williams, Terry Bradshaw--yes, that Terry Bradshaw)
1 AM Nashville On The Road (Jim Ed Brown, Helen Cornelius,
Wendy Holcombe)
1:30 Ironside

WXIA 11 Alive Atlanta (ABC)

6:30 Not For Women Only (politics and power and how they
affect male-female relations in Washington; guest: Myra
MacPherson, author of "The Power Lovers")
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM $20,000 Pyramid (George Maharis, Adrienne Barbeau,
week-behind)
9:30 The Better Sex
10 AM Joker's Wild
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 Hollywood Connection (Milton Berle, Zsa Zsa Gabor,
Dr. Joyce Brothers, Anson Williams, Nipsey Russell,
Pat Carroll; Jim Lange hosts)
2:30 One Life To Live
3:15 General Hospital
4 PM Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
5 PM Emergency One!
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Concentration
7:30 To Tell The Truth (Bill Cullen, Kitty Carlisle, John
Newcombe, Pat Collins)
8 PM San Pedro Beach Bums
9 PM NFL Football: Rams-Bears
12 M News (time approximate)
12:30 College Football '77 (delay from Sun 12:30 PM)
1 AM The Protectors (Robert Vaughn)

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

5:55 Farm Report
6 AM Sunrise Semester
6:30 Morning Show
8 AM CBS News
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Here's Lucy
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
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 PM All In The Family
3:30 Match Game '77 (Richard Dawson, Patti
Deutsch, Elaine Joyce, Dick Martin, Charles
Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers)
4 PM Tattletales (Barry and Lenore Gordon, Peter
Isacksen and Kimberly Brent, Mickey Rooney
and Jan Chamberlin)
4:30 Merv Griffin (Mort Sahl, Hans Conried, comedian
Ed Bluestone, Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, society
columnist Rubin Carson)
5:55 Weather
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM The Rookies
8 PM Young Dan'l Boone
9 PM Betty White
9:30 Country Music Association Awards
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 CBS Movie: "Unwed Father"

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS)

6:20 News
6:30 Close-Up
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Let's Talk It Over
9:30 Donahue (Phyllis Chesler, author of "Women,
Money And Power")
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM News
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 '77
4 PM Gilligan's Island
4:30 Gunsmoke
5:30 Adam-12
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Brady Bunch
7:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
8 PM Young Dan'l Boone
9 PM Betty White
9:30 Country Music Association Awards
11 PM News (time approximate)
11:30 CBS Movie: "Unwed Father"

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

In-school programs until

3 PM French Chef
3:30 Parent Effectiveness
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
7 PM By-Line (Atlanta journalist Celestine Sibley
discusses her book of reminiscences, "Small
Blessings")
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Age Of Uncertainty ("The Colonial Idea" examines
the history of imperialism.)
9 PM American Short Story
10 PM Bluegrass Jam
10:30 Down Home Music (this particular program is devoted
to gospel music)
11 PM Dick Cavett (debut on PBS, guests: Sophia Loren and
Marcello Mastroianni)
sign off 11:30 PM

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

5:15 World At Large
6:30 Romper Room
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8 AM Lassie
8:30 Leave It To Beaver
9 AM The Lucy Show (guests: Mel Torme and song-and-
dance man John Bubbles)
9:30 Love, American Style
10 AM Movie: "Barbary Coast" (nothing to do with the
short-lived 1975 ABC series, this one's from '35,
with Edward G. Robinson)
11:55 News
12 N Hazel
12:30 Movie: "Vigil In The Night"
2:25 News
2:30 I Love Lucy (the Hollywood-bound travelers spend
the night outside Cincinnati and very close to a railroad)
3 PM Flintstones
3:30 The Archies
4 PM New Mickey Mouse Club
4:30 The Monkees (guest: Stan Freberg)
5 PM Gilligan's Island
5:30 Partridge Family
6 PM Andy Griffith
6:30 My Three Sons
7 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8 PM Last Of The Wild
8:30 Falcon Highlights (the Falcons-49ers game)
9 PM Movie: "Sylvia"
11:30 Movie: "Golden Boy" ('39 classic about a kid
torn between boxing and music; William Holden
became a star as a result)
1:30 Movie: "Front Page Woman"
3:20 News
3:40 Movie: "Paradise Alley" (not the Stallone film
about wrestling but a '62 film about slum-dwellers
who are convinced they are starring in a movie)

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)

9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM In-school programs
1 PM Big Blue Marble
1:30 In-school programs
2 PM Electric Company
2:30 In-school programs
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 As We See It
7 PM By-Line
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM In Pursuit Of Liberty (history of the idea of
freedom of the press)
9 PM Atlanta Board Of Education
10 PM Age Of Uncertainty
11 PM Dick Cavett
11:30 Eleventh Year (the prison experiences of former
convict Robert La Pierre)
sign off 12 M

WATL Ch. 36 Atlanta (Ind.)

1 PM PTL Club
2 PM Living Word
2:30 Spotlight (Charles Hix, author of "Looking Good")
3 PM Kids Show With Otis (whoever he is)
4 PM Bozo's Big Top
4:30 Kids Show With Otis
5 PM Three Musketeers (serial)
5:30 Entertainment Page
6 PM Monday Night Quarterback
7 PM Classic Country (hosts are Marty Robbins and
Ernest Tubb)
8 PM Auburn Highlights (Auburn-N.C. State)
9 PM Taped highlights: Michigan-Michigan State
10 PM PTL Club

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

6 AM PTL Club
7 AM Today
9 AM PTL Club continues
10 AM Sanford And Son
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Knockout
12 N To Say The Least
12:30 Chico And The Man
1 PM News
1:15 Noon Over Middle Georgia
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Gong Show
4:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
5 PM The Archies
5:30 Flintstones
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Partridge Family
7:30 Hollywood Squares (Bernadette Peters,
David Birney, Demond Wilson, Isabel Sanford,
Susan George, Wayland Flowers and Madame,
Earl Holliman, George Gobel, Paul Lynde)
8 PM Laugh-In
9 PM NBC Movie: "Killer On Board"
11 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
11:30 Tonight Show

WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)

8:40 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:10 In-school programs
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Carrascolendas
11 AM Once Upon A Classic
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 In-school programs
3 PM Studio See
3:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 As We See It
7 PM Point Of View
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Age Of Uncertainty
9 PM American Short Story
10 PM Houses Don't Burn Down, They Burn Up!
10:30 God Of Our Fathers (what the Founding Fathers
thought about the existence of God)
sign off 11 PM

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

5:40 News
6 AM Ross Bagley
7 AM Mighty Mouse
7:30 Heckle And Jeckle
8 AM Deputy Dawg
8:30 Batman (Malachi Throne as Falseface)
9 AM Flipper
9:30 Life Of Riley (Bendix version)
10 AM 700 Club
11:30 Life In The Spirit
12 N This Is The Life
12:30 McHale's Navy
1 PM Mister Ed
1:30 Dennis The Menace
2 PM Huck And Yogi
2:30 Popeye And Porky Hour
3:30 Fred Flintstone & Friends
4 PM Josie And The Brady Kids
4:30 Star Trek/Super Heroes
5 PM Jackson 5 & Friends
5:30 Brady Bunch
6 PM Dick Van Dyke
6:30 Bilko
7 PM Bonanza
8 PM Big Valley
9 PM 700 Club
10:30 Life In The Spirit
11 PM Charisma
11:30 Doug Dickey (highlights of Pittsburgh-Florida)
12 M Best Of Groucho
12:30 News

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

1 PM Faith For Miracles
2 PM Movie: TBA
3:30 Bozo's Big Top
4 PM Dudley Do-Right
4:30 Mike Douglas
6 PM Jack Archer (local sports show)
7 PM Unity Church Of God
8 PM Ernest Angley
9 PM Sid Hughes Gospel Hour
10 PM Rev. Wayne Parks
10:30 Dr. E.J. Daniels
11 PM Faith For Miracles
 
What gets me & sticks out the most is the different Donahue episodes. What'd they do? Send out different ones for affiliates to cherry-pick from? Can't possibly be any kind of delay, could it?

Cheers & 73 ;D
 
Satellite delivery of syndicated shows didn't become common
until the early '80s; at this point, no doubt, Donahue's syndicator
(Tribune or Multimedia, I'm not sure which in '77) would have sent a
master tape to stations in the ten largest markets (except Chicago, where
the show aired live at 11 AM CT); they would make a
dub, then send the tape to the next station on the list given them.
The smaller the market, the more time between the taping of the show and its airing.
You would notice the same thing for Mike Douglas if the details of that day's show
on Ch. 61 had been printed.
 
bpatrick said:
Donahue's syndicator
(Tribune or Multimedia, I'm not sure which in '77)...

I believe Multimedia was always Donahue's syndicator, except from 1967 into the early-1970s, when Avco Broadcasting distributed it.
 
azumanga said:
bpatrick said:
Donahue's syndicator
(Tribune or Multimedia, I'm not sure which in '77)...

I believe Multimedia was always Donahue's syndicator, except from 1967 into the early-1970s, when Avco Broadcasting distributed it.

Multimedia did indeed take over syndication from Avco in 1976, at which point the show's title was shortened from "The Phil Donahue Show" to "Donahue" (which is why you'll see "Phil Donahue" in my early-'70s retros and "Donahue" in my later-'70s-and-
beyond ones). WMAZ was owned by Multimedia but I don't know if they got "Donahue" episodes any sooner than either WAGA or WTVC.
BTW, WAGA was one of the first non-Avco stations to pick up Donahue (in 1970) and it changed the face of morning television in Atlanta for years; WSB was forced to move "Today In Georgia" out of its longtime 9 AM slot and didn't find another successful show for that time until moving to ABC and acquiring "Family Feud." WXIA, as usual, tried everything but the kitchen sink; actually, 11 Alive's most successful attempt to compete against Phil was possibly the "Hazel"/Dick Van Dyke combination from 1972 to late 1974.
 
bpatrick said:
BTW, WAGA was one of the first non-Avco stations to pick up Donahue (in 1970) and it changed the face of morning television in Atlanta for years; WSB was forced to move "Today In Georgia" out of its longtime 9 AM slot and didn't find another successful show for that time until moving to ABC and acquiring "Family Feud." WXIA, as usual, tried everything but the kitchen sink; actually, 11 Alive's most successful attempt to compete against Phil was possibly the "Hazel"/Dick Van Dyke combination from 1972 to late 1974.

Preceding WAGA in that respect was New York's WPIX Channel 11, in late fall 1969; they aired TPDS late at night, and on that station it only lasted until early spring 1970 (apparently way behind WNEW Channel 5's 11:30 Movie and WOR Channel 9's The Late Movie amongst the independents). Next in New York to air Mr. Donahue's show was WNBC Channel 4, in 1971-72; but it wasn't until 1976 when WOR picked up the program that it began to take off in the Big Apple (which led, in 1977, to WNBC getting the show back for the next two decades). I myself am curious to see which was the very first non-Avco station to air the series.

By the time Multimedia took over syndication, Donahue had been taping in Chicago for two years, and his prior "home" base, Dayton's WLWD Channel 2, had become WDTN.
 
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