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Retro: North Georgia Saturday, June 1, 1974

From TV Guide, North Georgia Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

7 AM Jetsons (delay from 12 N)
7:30 Popeye
9 AM Emergency +4
9:30 Inch High Private Eye
10 AM Sigmund And The Sea Monsters
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Star Trek (animated)
11:30 Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kids
12 N News
12:30 Sights And Sounds Of Soul
1 PM Tarzan (Ethel Merman plays the leader of a
religious cult imperiled by saboteurs and
jungle warriors.)
2 PM Baseball Pre-Game Show
2:15 Baseball: Dodgers-Cubs (rain game: Astros-Mets)
5 PM Perry Mason (time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (Tom Brokaw)
7 PM Hee Haw (guests: Charley Pride, Susan Raye, and
Ronnie Milsap)
8 PM Emergency! (Dick Enberg has a part as a TV host,
but watch for Jo Anne Worley as a psychiatrist's
patient who relieves her tensions by screaming.)
9 PM Movie: "Death Dance At Madelia"
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "I'd Rather Be Rich"
1:30 News
1:35 Movie: "The Longest Hundred Miles"

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

7:30 Agricultural Science In Action
8 AM Lidsville
8:30 Addams Family (animated)
9 AM Emergency +4
9:30 Inch High Private Eye
10 AM Sigmund And The Sea Monsters
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Star Trek (animated)
11:30 Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kids
12 N Jetsons
12:30 Go! (a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter unit in action
in and around New York harbor: the rescue of men
trapped in a fire and aiding a man stricken by appendicitis)
1 PM Countdown To Destiny
1:30 Greatest Sports Legends (Stan Musial)
2 PM Baseball Pre-Game Show
2:15 Baseball (same as Ch. 2)
5 PM Addams Family (the sitcom, time approximate)
5:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
6 PM Jimmy Dean
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "Climb An Angry Mountain"
11 PM Bobby Goldsboro (guests: Vicki Lawrence and Bobby Russell)
11:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (Billy Preston, Al Wilson, Brownsville
Station)

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6:10 Video College
6:40 Farm Digest
6:45 Box 5 R.F.D.
7:15 Tree Talks
7:30 4-H Club
8 AM Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch!
8:30 Sabrina The Teenage Witch
9 AM New Scooby Doo Movies (the animated Three Stooges in
"The Ghost Of The Red Baron")
10 AM My Favorite Martians (animated)
10:30 Jeannie (animated)
11 AM Vision On
11:30 Josie And The Pussycats
12 N Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival ("Friends For Life," about the
friendship between a lynx and a forest ranger, '71 from
Russia)
2 PM World Of Survival
2:30 Dusty's Trail
3 PM Soul Train (Tyrone Davis, Hugh Masekela, Black Ivory)
4 PM UFO
5 PM Golf: Kemper Open (third round from Charlotte)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Dan Rather)
7 PM National Geographic ("Dr. Leakey And The Dawn Of Man,"
from '66, about anthropologist Louis Leakey's 40-year
search for the ancestors of man)
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 M*A*S*H
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM Carol Burnett (guests: Eydie Gorme and Paul Sand)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Who Killed The Mysterious Mr. Foster?"
1:30 Speakeasy (Frank Zappa, record producer Richard Perry,
former record company executive Clive Davis offer insights
into the music business.)

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

7 PM TBA
7:30 Fun And Games
8 PM Discovery (first of a two-part visit to Sweden)
8:30 Lenox Quartet: Haydn's Opus 20
9 PM Wilburn Brothers (guests: Sam and Kirk McGee, two of
country music's pioneers)
9:30 Our Street
10 PM Movie: "The Hatchet Man" (an early role for Edward G.
Robinson, from '32)
11:30 David Susskind

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

6:30 Science In Action
7 AM Bob Brandy
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Yogi's Gang
9 AM Super Friends
10 AM Lassie's Rescue Rangers
10:30 Goober And The Ghost Chasers
11 AM Brady Kids
11:30 Mission: Magic!
12 N ABC Saturday Superstar Movie: "That Girl
In Wonderland," with Marlo Thomas as the
voice of an animated Ann Marie
1 PM American Bandstand (the DeFranco Family,
Sam Neely)
2 PM Mull's Singing Convention
3 PM Know Your Bible
3:30 Movie: "Curse Of The Voodoo"
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (Mason-Dixon 500 NASCAR
race from Dover, DE; the International Pro Track
and Field Championships)
6:30 Reasoner Report
7 PM Death Valley Days
7:30 Political Talk (Democratic candidate, name not given)
8 PM Partridge Family
8:30 ABC Movie: "Live Again, Die Again"
10 PM Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law
11 PM Movie: "Die! Die! My Darling"
12:30 ABC News (anchor not given, possibly from one of the
o&os)

WXIA Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

6:30 Adventures In Living
7 AM Ebony Beat Journal
7:30 Romper Room
8 AM Bugs Bunny
8:30 Yogi's Gang
9 AM Super Friends
10 AM Lassie's Rescue Rangers
10:30 Goober And The Ghost Chasers
11 AM Brady Kids
11:30 Mission: Magic!
12 N News
12:30 In Session (Poco, Kenny Rankin)
1 PM American Bandstand
2 PM Movie: "Crash Dive"
4 PM Lost In Space
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 News
7 PM Reasoner Report
7:30 What's Happening (first in a series of monthly
specials; guests are track star Wyomia Tyus of
Griffin, GA, and singing group Dawns Early Light)
8 PM Partridge Family
8:30 ABC Movie: "Live Again, Die Again"
10 PM Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law
11 PM News
11:40 Movie: "Station Six--Sahara"
1:40 ABC News
1:55 Movie: "The Lonely Man"
3 AM News

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

7:30 Gentle Ben
8 AM Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch!
8:30 Sabrina, The Teenage Witch
9 AM New Scooby Doo Movies
10 AM My Favorite Martians
10:30 Jeannie
11 AM Speed Buggy
11:30 Josie And The Pussycats
12 N Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM Soul Train (Kool and the Gang, Al Wilson,
the Natural Four)
3 PM Roller Games
4 PM Wrestling (from the studio)
5 PM Golf: Kemper Open (third round)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Treasure Hunt
7:30 That Girl (guests: Milton Berle and Danny Thomas)
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 M*A*S*H
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM Movie: "We're No Angels"
12:40 Speakeasy

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/ABC)

7 AM Navy Film
7:30 Georgia TV Monitor
8 AM Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch!
8:30 Sabrina The Teenage Witch
9 AM New Scooby Doo Movies
10 AM My Favorite Martians
10:30 Jeannie
11 AM Speed Buggy
11:30 Josie And The Pussycats
12 N Pebbles And Bamm Bamm
12:30 Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids
1 PM CBS Children's Film Festival
2 PM Ebony Speaks
2:30 Limits Of Man (how athletes prepare for competition,
with tennis star Stan Smith and track stars Jim Ryun
and Marty Liquori)
3 PM Dirty Sally (delay from Fri 8 PM)
3:30 Good Times (delay from Fri 8:30 PM)
4 PM CBS Golf Championship (Lanny Wadkins, Gay Brewer,
and Sam Snead)
5 PM Golf: Kemper Open (third round)
6 PM Porter Wagoner (guest: Kenny Seratt)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Lawrence Welk (salute to Nat King Cole)
8 PM All In The Family
8:30 M*A*S*H
9 PM Mary Tyler Moore
9:30 Bob Newhart
10 PM Carol Burnett
11 PM News
11:20 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (Mike Oldfield, David
Essex, the Electric Light Orchestra, Bloodstone,
Manfred Mann)

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

8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11 AM Sesame Street
12 N Electric Company
12:30 Sesame Street
1:30 Electric Company
2 PM Zoom
2:30 Sound Of Youth
3 PM Fashion Focus
3:30 America Be Fit
3:45 Living Better
4 PM Lilias, Yoga And You
4:30 Book Beat
5 PM French Chef
5:30 Cookin' Cajun (Justin Wilson, I gar-on-tee!)
6 PM Garden Show
6:30 Humanist Alternative
7 PM Firing Line
8 PM Wall Street Week
8:30 Hollywood Television Theatre: "The Sty Of The
Black Pig," about a poor black family in Chicago
at the start of the civil rights movement
10 PM The Chrome-Plated Nightmare (what's wrong with
automobiles: author/host John Jerome calls them
"an ecological, economic and engineering disaster")
sign off 11 PM

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

7 AM Popeye
7:30 Cartoon Carnival
8 AM Spiderman
8:30 Speed Racer
9 AM Roller Game
11 AM Movie: "The Little Kidnappers"
1 PM Movie: "Spooks Run Wild" (the East Side Kids,
Bela Lugosi, from '41)
2:30 Movie: "It's A Great Feeling"
4:30 Party!
5 PM Tales Of Wells Fargo
5:30 Fishin' Hole
6 PM Georgia Championship Wrestling
7 PM All South Wrestling
8 PM Baseball: Braves-Expos
10:30 Del Reeves (time approximate)
11 PM Twilight Zone
11:30 Open Up (Neal Boortz)
1 AM Group Therapy With Dr. Irene Kassorla
1:30 Movie: "The Dawn Patrol"

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)

7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11 AM Sesame Street
12 N Electric Company
12:30 Sesame Street
1:30 Electric Company
2 PM Zoom
2:30 Electric Company
3 PM Hodgepodge Lodge
3:30 Erica
3:45 Theonie
4 PM French Chef
4:30 Woman
5 PM Bill Moyers' Journal
6 PM Six Spectacular Hours (don't know what this is,
may be connected with a pledge drive)
6:30 Interfusions
7 PM Menominee (don't know about this one either)
8 PM Cinema Showcase
8:30 War And Peace (Part 7)
10 PM The Chrome-Plated Nightmare
11 PM The Gloucestermen (the fisherman of Gloucester, MA)

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

8 AM Lidsville
8:30 Addams Family (animated)
9 AM Emergency +4
9:30 Inch High Private Eye
10 AM Sigmund And The Sea Monsters
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Star Trek (animated)
11:30 Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kids
12 N Jetsons
12:30 Go!
1 PM Wrestling (from the studio)
2 PM Baseball Pre-Game Show
2:15 Baseball (same as Ch. 2)
5 PM Untamed World (time approximate)
5:30 Greatest Sports Legends
6 PM American Angler
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "Climb An Angry Mountain"
11 PM Police Surgeon
11:30 Saturday Tonight Show (Don Rickles, Richard
Crenna, Elke Sommer)

WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)

10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11 AM Sesame Street
12 N Electric Company
12:30 Sesame Street
1:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
2 PM Zoom
2:30 Hodgepodge Lodge
3 PM Fashion Focus
3:30 America Be Fit
3:45 Living Better
4 PM Lilias, Yoga And You
4:30 Book Beat
5 PM Washington Debates
6 PM Garden Show
6:30 Men And Ideas
7 PM Cinema Showcase
7:30 The People's Business
sign off after this

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

7 AM Huck And Yogi
7:30 Mighty Mouse
8 AM Porky Pig
8:30 Bozo's Big Top
9 AM Deputy Dawg
9:30 Batman (Liberace as Evil Fingers, two episodes)
10:30 Lone Ranger
11 AM Jungle Jim
11:30 Circus Boy
12 N Mr. Magoo
12:30 Mayberry R.F.D.
1 PM News Spectrum
2 PM Call Of The West
2:30 Trails West
3 PM Rawhide
4 PM Lone Ranger
4:30 My Friend Flicka
5 PM Time Tunnel
6 PM Cowtown Rodeo
7 PM Mayberry R.F.D.
7:30 Circus! (England's "Circus of the Strong Man"
with Samson and Delilah performing feats of
strength; the juggling Los Erminios)
8 PM Untamed World
8:30 Audubon Wildlife Theatre
9 PM Oral Roberts
9:30 The Lesson
10 PM George And Diane Ivey
10:30 New Directions
11 PM Waters Family
sign off after this

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

12 N Willie Murphy
12:30 Jim And Tammy
1 PM Daffy Duck
1:30 Little Rascals
2 PM Gigantor
2:30 A Visit With Mrs. G (wonder if this is Gertrude
Berg, aka Molly Goldberg?)
3 PM Indianapolis 500 Festival Parade (taped)
4 PM American Outdoorsman
4:30 Roller Game Of The Week
5:30 Untamed World
6 PM Church Service
6:30 Jimmy Swaggart
7 PM Peter Gunn
7:30 Robin Hood
8 PM Lassie
8:30 Three Stooges
9 PM Hollywood Guest Shot
9:30 Hunter (the 1950s series with Barry Nelson, who
was also the first to play James Bond--in the "Climax!"
production of "Casino Royale" in 1954)
10 PM Movie: "Days Of Glory" (Gregory Peck's film debut, from
'44; also watch for Alan Reed, aka Fred Flintstone)
11:30 Star Performance
 
bpatrick said:
WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)
12:30 Go! (a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter unit in action
in and around New York harbor: the rescue of men
trapped in a fire and aiding a man stricken by appendicitis
)

I take it they were two separate incidents -- would be interesting to see a man having appendicitis while in a burning home.

bpatrick said:
WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)
6 PM Six Spectacular Hours (don't know what this is,
may be connected with a pledge drive)

Or maybe an auction?

bpatrick said:
7 PM Menominee (don't know about this one either)

Other than it's a city and county in Michigan, I haven't a clue, either.
 
bpatrick said:
From TV Guide, North Georgia Edition:


WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)

10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11 AM Sesame Street
12 N Electric Company
12:30 Sesame Street
1:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
2 PM Zoom
2:30 Hodgepodge Lodge
3 PM Fashion Focus
3:30 America Be Fit
3:45 Living Better
4 PM Lilias, Yoga And You
4:30 Book Beat
5 PM Washington Debates
6 PM Garden Show
6:30 Men And Ideas
7 PM Cinema Showcase
7:30 The People's Business
sign off after this

Did WTCI, Ch. 45 really sign off at 8 pm on Saturdays back in 1974?
 
RyanHoward said:
bpatrick said:
From TV Guide, North Georgia Edition:


WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)

10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11 AM Sesame Street
12 N Electric Company
12:30 Sesame Street
1:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
2 PM Zoom
2:30 Hodgepodge Lodge
3 PM Fashion Focus
3:30 America Be Fit
3:45 Living Better
4 PM Lilias, Yoga And You
4:30 Book Beat
5 PM Washington Debates
6 PM Garden Show
6:30 Men And Ideas
7 PM Cinema Showcase
7:30 The People's Business
sign off after this

Did WTCI, Ch. 45 really sign off at 8 pm on Saturdays back in 1974?

Sure they did. That was not uncommon whatsoever anywhere in the country prior to the late 1970s. As I have stated before on earlier posts, the primary concern of public TV back then was to serve children, with both in-school programming and the beloved afternoon shows (seen on Saturdays at midday in this listing). Adult programming was sort of a bonus thrown in (at least that's how politicians saw it), and since the targeted audience (despite the claims of stations to serve "all the public") for those shows was upper-middle-class, white, and usually aged 30 or over, it made no sense to run a full schedule on Saturday nights when many of them would not be home to watch, due to being out to eat, see plays or movies, or so on. This was especially the case in smaller markets like Chattanooga; WTCI was run then by the Tennessee Board of Education and was thus reliant primarily on state allocations, unlike today, meaning they had a fairly fixed amount to work with. Fund drives and corporate giving were not a major factor on the local level in 1974 (and would not be until the early 1980s or so).

Take a close look at some PBS skeds posted from the late 1960s and early 1970s, and you will see that quite a number of stations didn't even bother signing on at all on Saturdays back then, frequently due to limited funds. Instead, small-market stations would often run only a limited six-hour or so sked on Sunday, beginning at about 4 or 5 p.m., when most viewers were likely to be at home. WTCI's 10-hour sked on Saturday was actually quite generous when this is taken into account.
 
Mike Stroud said:
Take a close look at some PBS skeds posted from the late 1960s and early 1970s, and you will see that quite a number of stations didn't even bother signing on at all on Saturdays back then, frequently due to limited funds. Instead, small-market stations would often run only a limited six-hour or so sked on Sunday, beginning at about 4 or 5 p.m., when most viewers were likely to be at home. WTCI's 10-hour sked on Saturday was actually quite generous when this is taken into account.

Though it was not until around this time when WTCI began weekend broadcasts.

For PBS stations in general -- while many stations were having some sort of seven-day, year round schedule, some still did not. In the case of WUSF in Tampa, the station was not only off the air on weekends, it did not broadcast on days when the University of South Florida was not in session -- this included the summer, when WUSF would practically "mothball" its transmitter and studios from June to August or September. It was not until around 1975 or so when WUSF would adopt a year-round, seven day schedule.
 
azumanga said:
For PBS stations in general -- while many stations were having some sort of seven-day, year round schedule, some still did not. In the case of WUSF in Tampa, the station was not only off the air on weekends, it did not broadcast on days when the University of South Florida was not in session -- this included the summer, when WUSF would practically "mothball" its transmitter and studios from June to August or September. It was not until around 1975 or so when WUSF would adopt a year-round, seven day schedule.

That may sound odd at first reading until you realize that WUSF wasn't the only PBS outlet in that market. Like many large markets, Tampa-St. Petersburg had, at least on paper, competing pub TV stations. WEDU, on VHF unlike WUSF, was the primary station, meaning it carried the most watched programs in all likelihood, especially Sesame Street and Mister Rogers. According to Wikipedia, WUSF's bailiwick is more in the line of educational and "how-to" shows, past and present. So it probably wasn't much noticed by viewers when the station shut down for the summer and weekends--most of its programming up to the mid-70s was probably in-school.

Scenarios like this probably occurred in places like Boston (WGBH/WGBX), New York (WNET/WNYC), and L.A. (several outlets).
 
azumanga said:
bpatrick said:
WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)
12:30 Go! (a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter unit in action
in and around New York harbor: the rescue of men
trapped in a fire and aiding a man stricken by appendicitis
)

I take it they were two separate incidents -- would be interesting to see a man having appendicitis while in a burning home.

bpatrick said:
WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)
6 PM Six Spectacular Hours (don't know what this is,
may be connected with a pledge drive)

Or maybe an auction?

bpatrick said:
7 PM Menominee (don't know about this one either)

Other than it's a city and county in Michigan, I haven't a clue, either.

The incidents shown on "Go!" were separate. As for your other responses they make
perfect sense to me.
 
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