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Retro: North Georgia Saturday, January 28, 1978

By request, from TV Guide, North Georgia Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

7 AM Big Blue Marble
7:30 Bugs Bunny (not the CBS version)
8 AM C.B. Bears
9 AM Space Sentinels
9:30 Super Witch
10 AM Bang-Shang Lalapalooza
10:30 I Am The Greatest: The Adventures Of
Muhammad Ali
11 AM Thunder
11:30 Super 2 Show
12 N News
12:30 Dialogue
1 PM Tarzan
2 PM Movie: "House Of Cards"
4 PM SEC Basketball: Alabama-Auburn
6 PM News (time approximate)
6:30 Saturday Extra
7 PM Hee Haw (Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Alan King)
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM NBC Movie: "Stranger In The House"
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (host Robert Klein; musical
guest Bonnie Raitt)
1 AM News
1:05 Movie: "Charlie Bubbles"

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

7:30 Agricultural Science In Action
8 AM C.B. Bears
9 AM Three Stooges
9:25 News For Little People
9:30 Super Witch
10 AM Bang-Shang Lalapalooza
10:30 I Am The Greatest: The Adventures Of
Muhammad Ali
11 AM Thunder
11:30 Super Vee (a look at Super Vee auto races--
the cars have Volkswagen engines)
12 N National Kids Quiz (Michael Landon asks eight
multiple-choice questions of an audience of
kids, whose answers are then compared with
a nationwide survey of 650,000 kids in grades
four through nine--sample question: what would
you do if you felt your parents were picking on you
but letting your brother or sister get away with everything?)
1 PM Countdown To Destiny
1:30 Georgia Championship Wrestling
2:30 Golf: Mike Douglas NFL Players Association Classic
4 PM SEC Basketball: Alabama-Auburn
6 PM Lawrence Welk (songs saluting the 50th anniversary of talking
pictures, time approximate)
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM NBC Movie: "Stranger In The House"
11 PM Marty Robbins' Spotlight
11:30 Saturday Night Live

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6 AM Sunrise Semester: "Physics And Society"
6:30 Box 5
7 AM Tree Talks
7:30 4-H Hour
8 AM Three Robonic Stooges
8:30 Hot Fudge
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Batman/Tarzan Hour
11:30 Secrets Of Isis
12 N News
12:30 Kidsworld (an interview with Ron Palillo of
"Welcome Back, Kotter," a Missouri boy's
pet deer, Massachusetts kids learning to sail)
1 PM What's New, Mr. Magoo?
1:30 Soul Train (Bill Withers, Odyssey)
2:30 Golf: Mike Douglas NFL Players Association Classic
4 PM Golf: Andy Williams San Diego Open (third round)
5 PM CBS Sports Spectacular (Hollywood Stunt Competition)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM New Orleans Saints And Sinners (Pat Robertson speaks
at a New Orleans rally.)
8 PM Bob Newhart
8:30 Tony Randall
9 PM The Jeffersons
9:30 Maude
10 PM Kojak
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Mrs. Sundance" (Elizabeth Montgomery in a
1974 TV-movie)
1:30 Name Of The Game
3 AM News

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

5 PM Women's Golf: Colgate Triple Crown (third round)
7 PM Yoga For Health
7:30 Bill Cosby (his 1969-71 series, guest is Don Knotts)
8 PM Once Upon A Classic: "What Katy Did," Part 3
8:30 Sneak Preview (the NBC TV-movie "Midway")
9 PM Pro Soccer
10 PM Nancy Wilson (the singer performs at Adventureland
in Des Moines)
11 PM Movie: "Lord Of The Flies"
sign off 12:30 AM

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

7 AM Science In Action
7:30 Animals, Animals, Animals (the International Crane Foundation
in Wisconsin, set up to help that endangered species, delay
from Sun 11:30 AM)
8 AM Superfriends
9 AM Scooby's Laff-A-Lympics
11 AM Krofft Supershow
12 N ABC Weekend Special: "The Amazing Cosmic Awareness Of
Duffy Moon"
1 PM American Bandstand (guests: the Sylvers, 30 minutes today only)
1:30 College Basketball: St. Louis-Georgia Tech
3:30 Pro Bowlers Tour (Quaker State Open from Grand Prairie, TX, time
approximate--WFAA always played this up, since they carried it
in the Dallas/Ft. Worth market)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (WBC light-heavyweight championship: Alfredo
Escalera puts his title up against Alexis Arguello, 15 rounds from
Bayamon, Puerto Rico)
6:30 ABC News (Sylvia Chase/Tom Jarriel)
7 PM In Search Of... (speculation that Anastasia, youngest daughter of
Czar Nicholas II, survived the 1918 slaughter of the czar and his
family)
7:30 People And Things
8 PM What's Happening!!
8:30 Operation Petticoat
9 PM Love Boat (passengers: Vernee Watson, Scatman Crothers, Vicki
Lawrence, Dick Van Patten, Maureen McCormick, Bobby Sherman)
10 PM Fantasy Island (debut, with guests Bert Convy, Diana Canova, Georgia
Engel, and Robert Clary)
11 PM ABC News (Sylvia Chase/Tom Jarriel)
11:15 Star Trek
12:15 Movie: "Horror House"

WXIA 11 Alive Atlanta (ABC)

6 AM College Today
6:30 Adventures In Living
7 AM Ebony Journal
7:30 Animals, Animals, Animals (same as Ch. 9)
8 AM Superfriends
9 AM Scooby's Laff-A-Lympics
11 AM Krofft Supershow
12 N George Of The Jungle
12:30 Our Show (local kids' show)
1 PM American Bandstand
1:30 Movie: "Villa Rides"
3:45 Changing Times
4 PM World Of Survival (how Britain's roe deer defend
themselves)
4:30 Championship Fishing (Virgil Ward)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 News
7 PM Space: 1999
8 PM What's Happening!!
8:30 Operation Petticoat
9 PM Love Boat
10 PM Fantasy Island
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Geronimo"
2 AM ABC News

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

7 AM Bullwinkle
7:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
8 AM Three Robonic Stooges
8:30 Speed Buggy
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Batman/Tarzan Hour
11:30 Secrets Of Isis
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Space Academy
1 PM Cliffwood Avenue Kids
1:30 Soul Train (the Brothers Johnson, Foster Sylver)
2:30 Bonnie Lou And Buster
3 PM Wrestling
4 PM Golf: Andy Williams San Diego Open (third round)
5 PM CBS Sports Spectacular
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Gong Show
7:30 Talk Of The Town
8 PM Bob Newhart
8:30 Tony Randall
9 PM The Jeffersons
9:30 Maude
10 PM Kojak
11 PM Movie: "Dorian Gray"

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS)

7 AM Georgia Farm Monitor
7:30 Scrunch
8 AM Three Robonic Stooges
8:30 Speed Buggy
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Batman/Tarzan Hour
11:30 Secrets Of Isis
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Space Academy
1 PM What's New, Mr. Magoo?
1:30 Razzmatazz (a report on a young girl's efforts
to play on her high-school soccer team)
2 PM Ebony Speaks
2:30 Southern Sportsman
3 PM Imprint
3:30 Rat Patrol
4 PM Golf: Andy Williams San Diego Open (third round)
5 PM CBS Sports Spectacular
6 PM Porter Wagoner (Grandpa Jones, Cotton Cordell)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Lawrence Welk
8 PM Bob Newhart
8:30 Tony Randall
9 PM The Jeffersons
9:30 Maude
10 PM Kojak
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Where The Spies Are"

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

1:30 Stitch-A-Long
2 PM Garden Spot
2:30 Guppies To Groupers
3 PM By-Line: Fleming/Siddons (don't know who they are)
3:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
4 PM Consultation (medicine)
4:30 Cinema Showcase: Arthur Knight
5 PM Movie: "Murder" (early Alfred Hitchcock talkie, from '30)
7 PM Black Perspective On The News
7:30 Lowell Thomas Remembers (a reception in New York in 1929
for Hugo Eckener, commander of the Graf Zeppelin)
8 PM Microbes And Men (against considerable opposition, Louis Pasteur
works to develop a rabies vaccine)
9 PM Treasures Of Tutankhamun
9:30 World Of Franklin & Jefferson
10 PM Soundstage (Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings in a sort of
Guess Who reunion.)
sign off 11 PM

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

5:40 World At Large
6:10 Discovery (an Apollo command module and a simulated moon
flight; this must be from the 1962-71 ABC series)
6:40 News
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8 AM Ultra Man
8:30 Partridge Family
9 AM Star Trek
10 AM Movie: "All Quiet On The Western Front" (TCM had this one
yesterday.)
12 N Movie: "Abbott And Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde"
(Boris Karloff also stars, from '53)
1:30 College Basketball: St. Louis-Georgia Tech
3:30 Movie: "The Pearl Of Death" (Sherlock Holmes flick with
Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, from '44, time approximate)
5 PM Last Of The Wild (efforts to study and preserve arctic animals)
5:30 Bill Dance Outdoors
6 PM Georgia Championship Wrestling
8 PM That Nashville Music (Jerry Reed, Boots Randolph)
8:30 Nashville On The Road (guest: Dottsy--I met this San Antonio-
based singer once and I'm still convinced she was either drunk
or on drugs)
9 PM Porter Wagoner (guest: David Wills)
9:30 Buck Owens (guest: Roy Clark, somehow appropriate)
10 PM Pop Goes The Country (La Costa, Del Reeves, the Geezinslaws)
10:30 Music Place
11 PM Let's Make A Deal
11:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
1 AM Dark Shadows (x2)
2 AM Movie: "Killers Three" (watch for Dick Clark as a villain in this
one, filmed in Randolph County, NC, in 1969)
4 AM Movie: "Last Train From Bombay"

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)

4:30 Book Beat (Peter Ustinov discusses his autobiography "Dear Me.")
5 PM Women's Golf: Colgate Triple Crown (third round)
7 PM Black Perspective On The News
7:30 Anywhat (a visit to the Alpine-style village of Helen, GA; a collection
of toy soldiers made of lead)
8 PM Great Performances (Sally Kellerman plays "Verna: USO Girl.")
9:30 The Advocates (debated: should public institutions grant minorities
preferential treatment in hiring and admissions?)
10:30 Soundstage (same as Chs. 15, 18)
11:30 Atlanta Jazz Scene
12 M Cinema Showcase: Erich Segal
sign off 12:30 AM

WATL Ch. 36 Atlanta (Ind.)

12:30 Pro Bowlers Tour: Showboat Invitational from Las Vegas (pre-empted
on Ch. 11, delay from 3:30 PM)
2 PM NHL Hockey: Sabres-Penguins (joined in progress)
4 PM Boxing (time approximate, no details given)
5 PM Wrestling
6 PM Southern Sportsman
6:30 Fishing With Roland Martin
7 PM Auto Racing: International Race Of Champions (round two, from
Riverside, CA)
8 PM Classic Country (co-hosts: Marty Robbins and Ernest Tubb)
9 PM R.F.D. Hollywood
9:30 Trinity Cathedral
10 PM PTL Club
12 M Movies: TBA

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

7:30 Cliffwood Avenue Kids
8 AM C.B. Bears
9 AM Space Sentinels
9:30 Super Witch
10 AM Bang-Shang Lalapalooza
10:30 I Am The Greatest: The Adventures Of
Muhammad Ali
11 AM Thunder
11:30 Search And Rescue
12 N National Kids' Quiz
1 PM Wrestling
2 PM Making A Difference (ideas on revitalizing Macon)
2:30 On Campus
3 PM Soul Train (the Sylvers, Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs)
4 PM SEC Basketball: Alabama-Auburn
6 PM Hollywood Squares (Ray Charles, Charo, George Carlin,
Gabe Kaplan, Hal Linden, Rose Marie, Bernadette Peters,
Paul Lynde, time approximate)
6:30 NBC News (anchor not given)
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM NBC Movie: "Stranger In The House"
11 PM Wolfman Jack
11:30 Saturday Night Live

WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)

10 AM Once Upon A Classic: "What Katy Did," Part 4
10:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11 AM Sesame Street
12 N Big Blue Marble
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1 PM Hodgepodge Lodge
1:30 Stitch-A-Long
2 PM Garden Show
2:30 Guppies To Groupers
3 PM By-Line: Fleming/Siddons
3:30 Speaking Of Pets
4 PM Guten Tag Wie Geht
4:30 Sign News 45
5 PM Women's Golf: Colgate Triple Crown (third round)
7 PM Black Perspective On The News
7:30 Lowell Thomas Remembers
8 PM Royal Heritage (royal treasures dating back to medieval
times are the subject of this nine-part series; tonight,
from William the Conqueror to Richard III (1066-1485))
9 PM Treasures Of Tutankhamun
10 PM Soundstage
sign off 11 PM

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

7 AM Valley Of The Dinosaurs
7:30 Huck And Yogi
8 AM Heckle And Jeckle
8:30 Mighty Mouse
9 AM Dudley Do-Right
9:30 Jonny Quest
10 AM Superman
10:30 Batman (Cliff Robertson as Shame)
11 AM Jetsons
11:30 Movie: "Crash Of Silence"
1:30 Rifleman
2 PM Movie: "Clearing The Range" (Hoot Gibson,
from '31)
3 PM Bonanza
4 PM Lancer
5 PM Big Valley
6 PM Movie: "The Golden Salamander"
8 PM Rex Humbard
9 PM Jack Van Impe Crusade (from Buffalo)
10 PM The Lesson
10:30 700 Club
11:30 Gospel Showcase
12 M Journey To Adventure

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

2 PM Journey To Adventure
2:30 Movie: "Roamin' Wild"
4 PM Cartoons
4:30 Lidsville
5 PM Movie: TBA
6:30 CATCO/Junior Achievers
7 PM Studio One (this is definitely not the classic
1950s CBS anthology series)
7:30 Sportscope
8 PM Jerry Falwell
9 PM Grace Cathedral
10 PM Awakening Sounds
11 PM Movie: "Seance On A Wet Afternoon"
12:30 Movie: "Git Along Little Dogies" (Gene Autry, from '37)
2 AM Movie: "The 39 Steps" (Hitchcock's first big triumph, from '35)
 
Regarding the hockey game between Buffalo and Pittsburgh aired on this date in 1978:

In the 1977/78 season, the NHL and Hughes Sports Network partnered on a deal for syndicated NHL games including the playoffs and the Stanley Cup Finals.

There were Monday night and Saturday afternoon games. The Saturday games, although starting at 1:15 P.M. EST (with pre-game at 1 EST), were offered either in a full three-hour version or a two-hour version that would be joined in progress at 2 EST.

It is my understanding that most of the stations carrying this package picked-up the games in progress at 2 EST. WSBK-38 in Boston was the only station in a city outside of stations in the two cities whose local teams were involved to pick-up every game of the Saturday package in full.

Can I assume that WATL-36 also carried games of the then-Atlanta Flames that season, or did WTCG-17 carry them?? In most cases, stations in NHL cities that picked up the NHL/Hughes package in the late 1970's were also the flagship stations for their local team's broadcasts.
 
I should have read the January 29th, 1978 North George listings before replying to the listings regarding the NHL game on WATL-36 that day. :-[

I think there was only one other city where the late 1970's NHL/Hughes Sports Network telecasts were not on the same station as the local NHL team's broadcasts, and that was New York.

WOR-9 was flagship for the Rangers and Islanders'; but WPIX-11 carried the NHL/Hughes Sports telecasts.
 
These network affiliates prrempted quite a bit of Satruday and Sunday cartoons. NBC affiliate WSB TV Atlanta preempted the Noon hour which this week was a Quiz SHow special. Channel 3 Chattanooga preempted the 9 AM show Space Sentinals for Three Stooges. 5 WAGA preempted Fat Albert at Noon, Space Academy at 1230, and Children's Film Festival at 130 in favor of news, Kidsworld, and Soul Train. They also preempted the Sunday Morning hour of reruns including Ghostbusters and Waco. 9 WTVC Chattanooga ran the entire Saturday Morning Cartoon lineup but ran Animals Animals Saturday instead of Sunday and preempted the other hour of Sunday Morning cartoons. 11 WXIA was preempting Weekend Special and like Channel 9, 11 Atlanta was not running the same hour of Sunday Morning Cartoons. 12 WDEF Chattanooga as a CBS affiliate was in WAGA's League. They preempted What's New Mr Magoo and Children's Film Festival. They also preempted the same Sunday Morning Cartoons as Channel 5 Atlanta did. 13 WMAZ Macon also preempted Children's Film Festival and Sunday Morning cartoons. Channel 41 Macon did run the entire NBC lineup Saturday mornings. NBC though had no Sunday cartoons to speak of.

The CBS Sunday morning cartoon reruns were preempted by 75 % of CBS affiliates while most ABC affiliates did clear Sunday Mornings. But here in Atlanta if you wanted SUnday Morning network cartoons you were out of luck. No affiliate in the area ran them. In most areas for ABC at least you could find an ABC affiliate in a neighboring market with cable that did run the lineup if yours did not in most cases. Surprised that WATL did not pick this stuff up.
 
bpatrick said:
WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

8:30 Sneak Preview (the NBC TV-movie "Midway")
...is that how TV Guide described the program? I know this was the first season of PBS distribution of Sneak Previews from WTTW/11 Chicago, and that Midway had actually been a theatrical film released by Universal in June 1976, when the show was still local to WTTW and titled Coming Soon...to a theater near you. I know NBC aired a specially-constructed TV version of Midway that Universal had provided them, which was over half an hour longer than the theatrical cut and took two nights to run in prime time. Given all of these facts, I suspect this was actually an edition of Sneak Previews on which Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert reran and/or updated their critiques of the theatrical cut of Midway from a June 1976 edition of Coming Soon....
 
NBC had just acquired the Archie characters, who had been on CBS nearly a decade, and launched "The Archie-Sabrina Hour" in the fall of '77. The decision was made months later to split the show in two, with "Bang Shang Lalapalooza" featuring Archie and pals, and "Super Witch" with Sabrina. NBC'sother Filmation-produced cartoon, "Space Sentinels," had just had its title changed from "The Young Sentinels." At the close of one episode I remember seeing, the trailer for the next episode had the word "Young" blanked out; they didn't have time for the announcer to re-record the blurb. "On the next episode of 'The (no audio) Sentinels'...."
 
The TV Guide listing for "Sneak Previews" is just as I put it.

NBC was about to make a massive overhaul of its Saturday-
morning lineup; starting Feb. 4 it would look like this:

7:30 I Am The Greatest
8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Go Go Globetrotters
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
11:30 Space Sentinels
12 N Land Of The Lost
12:30 Thunder

CBS had made several changes that very Saturday (Jan. 28):

8 AM Three Robonic Stooges (separate from "Skatebirds")
8:30 Speed Buggy (returns)
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Batman/Tarzan Hour
11:30 Secrets Of Isis (new time)
12 N Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
12:30 Space Academy (new time)
1 PM What's New, Mr. Magoo?
1:30 CBS Children's Film Festival

All of this was in response to ABC's dominance of Saturday morning at the time.
 
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