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Retro: North Georgia Saturday, March 23, 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 NCAA Basketball: national semifinal game between
the East and West regional champions, from Greensboro, NC
3 PM NCAA Basketball: national semifinal game between
the Mideast and Midwest regional champions, from Greensboro, NC (time
approximate)
NOTE: N.C. State won the national championship, 76-64, over Marquette. This
was not the game where Jim Valvano came running out on the court; that was in
1983.
5 PM Golf: Sea Pines Heritage Classic from Hilton Head Island, SC (third round, time
approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News (Tom Brokaw)
7 PM Hee Haw (guests: Hugh Hefner--yes, the same, and Lester Flatt, Ch. 2 carries
pnly the first 30 minutes tonight)
7:30 NHL Hockey: Atlanta Flames-Boston Bruins
10 PM Billy Graham Crusade (third and final broadcast from St. Louis, time approximate)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Tin Star"
1:30 News
1:35 Movie: "The Pharaoh's Woman"

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 Countdown To Destiny
1 PM NCAA Basketball (see Ch. 2)
3 PM NCAA Basketball (time approximate, see Ch. 2)
5 PM Golf: Sea Pines Heritage Classic (third round, time approximate)
6 PM Jimmy Dean
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Emergency!
9 PM NBC Movie: "Remember When" (the story of a World War II-era
Connecticut family with four sons in combat)
11 PM Bobby Goldsboro (soul singer Bobby Womack is the guest)
11:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

5:45 Video College
6:15 Box 5 R.F.D.
6:45 Tree Talks
7 AM Mulligan Stew
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 (Josie and the Pussycats in
"The Haunted Showboat")
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 NIT Basketball: semifinal game from Madison Square Garden
3 PM NIT Basketball: semifinal game from Madison Square Garden
(time approximate)
NOTE: Purdue won the tournament by defeating Utah, 87-81.
5 PM Soul Train (Bobby Bland, Ashford and Simpson, Barbara Jean
English)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Dan Rather)
7 PM National Geographic: "The Great Mojave Desert"
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: John Byner, actress Francine Beers)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Rapture" (no, don't think Harold Camping--this is about
an American sculptor in Rome who falls in love with a strange,
elusive woman, from '49)

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

7 PM Course Of Our Time
7:30 Rock Music
8 PM Discovery (Chicago's financial and industrial centers)
8:30 The Warehouse (I think this is more rock music)
9 PM Wilburn Brothers
9:30 Story Of A Congressman (the re-election campaign of Rep.
Jim Corman of California's 22nd district, focusing on the time,
tension, and money involved)
10 PM Movie: "I Am A Fugitive" (classic 1932 tale of an innocent man's
escape from a Georgia chain gang, with Paul Muni)
11:30 Uncle Sam Requests The Pleasure Of... (status report on the all-
volunteer army)
12:30 Child Of The Universe

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: "Tabitha And
Adam And The Clown Family" (the "Bewitched"
kids in animated form)
1 PM American Bandstand (the Moments, Vicki Lawrence)
2 PM Mull's Singing Convention
3 PM Know Your Bible
3:30 Pro Bowlers Tour (Miller High Life Open, from Milwaukee)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (International Pro Skiing Championships,
Duke Kahanamoku Big Wave Surfing Classic, World Target-Diving
Championship)
6:30 Reasoner Report
7 PM Tarzan
8 PM Partridge Family
8:30 ABC Suspense Movie: "Double Indemnity" (made-for-TV remake
of the 1944 classic)
10 PM Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law (watch for a pre-"Three's Company"
John Ritter in this one; I think he was playing Rev. Fordwick on "The
Waltons" around this time)
11 PM Movie: "Picture Mommy Dead"
12:30 Movie: "Jason And The Argonauts"
2 AM ABC News (anchor not given; ABC may have been using anchors from
the o&os by this time)

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 Green Acres
1 PM American Bandstand
2 PM Movie: "The Beautiful Blonde From Bashful Bend"
3:15 Movie: "Duffy Of San Quentin"
4:30 Outdoors
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 News
7 PM Reasoner Report
7:30 Action Line
8 PM Partridge Family
8:30 ABC Suspense Movie: "Double Indemnity"
10 PM Owen Marshall, Counselor At Law
11 PM News
11:40 ABC News
11:55 Movie: "Under The Yum Yum Tree"
1:45 Movie: "The Revenge Of Frankenstein"
3 AM News

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

7:30 Mulligan Stew
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 (animated)
10:30 Jeannie (animated)
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 NIT Basketball (see Ch. 5)
3 PM NIT Basketball (time approximate, see Ch. 5)
5 PM Wrestling (from the studio, time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Treasure Hunt
7:30 That Girl
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: "Funny Face" (Fred Astaire, Audrey Hepburn)

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS/ABC)

7 AM Mulligan Stew
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 (animated)
10:30 Jeannie (animated)
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 NIT Basketball (see Ch. 5)
3 PM NIT Basketball (time approximate, see Ch. 5)
5 PM Ebony Speaks (time approximate)
5:30 Good Times (delay from Fri 8:30 PM)
6 PM Porter Wagoner (guests: Ronnie Blackwell, Dave Kirby)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Lawrence Welk (contemporary sounds)
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 (Martha Reeves, Larry Raspberry,
Leo Kottke)

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 Erica
5:15 Theonie
5:30 A Pinch Of Soul (soul-food cooking)
6 PM Garden Show
6:30 Country Music Spectacular
7 PM Firing Line
8 PM Wall Street Week
8:30 Movie: "Grand Illusion" (1937 antiwar film set in a World
War I POW camp)
10:30 Uncle Sam Requests The Pleasure Of...

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

7 AM Popeye
7:30 Cartoon Carnival
8 AM Spiderman
8:30 Speed Racer
9 AM Ultra Man
9:30 Three Stooges
10 AM Abbott And Costello
10:30 Flipper
11 AM Roller Game Of The Week
1 PM Movie: "Curly Top" (Shirley Temple)
2:30 Movie: "Caught In The Draft" (Bob Hope)
4 PM This Week In The NBA
4:30 Party
5 PM All South Wrestling
6 PM Georgia Championship Wrestling (these two shows
came out of the 1972 promotion war which began
with the death of Ray Gunkel, whose wife then signed
most of the NWA wrestlers away to her own All South
Wrestling)
7 PM Rat Patrol
7:30 Baseball: Braves-Orioles (preseason game from Miami)
10 PM Jim Ed Brown (time approximate)
10:30 Billy Walker
11 PM Twilight Zone
11:30 Open Up (Reps. Andrew Young and John Davis are guests)
1 AM Group Therapy With Dr. Irene Kassorla
1:30 Movie: "King Of The Underworld" (Bogart, from '38--he's not
yet a star but you can sense it coming)

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 American Tennis Tournament (no details given)
6 PM Interfusion (time approximate)
7 PM The Advocates
8 PM Zoom
8:30 Movie: "Grand Illusion"
10:30 Uncle Sam Requests The Pleasure Of...

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! (NBC hockey analyst Ted Lindsay explains
the game and how best to choose a stick, shoot,
and play goal.)
1 PM NCAA Basketball Tournament (see Ch. 2)
3 PM NCAA Basketball Tournament (time approximate, see
Ch. 2)
5 PM Golf: Sea Pines Heritage Classic (third round, time approximate)
6 PM Bobby Goldsboro
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Movie: "Marnie"
10:30 That Girl
11 PM Police Surgeon
11:30 Saturday Tonight Show (Florence Henderson, Candice Bergen,
"comedian Steve Martin")

WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)
off air on Saturday

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 (Cesar Romero as the Joker)
10 AM Superman
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 ("Death Valley Days" reruns)
2:30 Trails West (more "Death Valley Days" reruns)
3 PM American Horse And Horseman (includes footage of
the 1938 race between War Admiral and Seabiscuit)
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!
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

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

12 N Modern Almanac
12:30 Gigantor
1 PM Daffy Duck
1:30 Faith For Today
2 PM Norman Vincent Peale
2:30 Scope
3 PM Three Stooges
3:30 Fred Bear's World Of Adventure
4 PM Quest For Adventure
4:30 Roller Game Of The Week
5:30 Untamed World
6 PM Invisible Man (the '50s version)
6:30 Jimmy Swaggart
7 PM Peter Gunn
7:30 Lassie
8 PM Movie: "The Bride Came C.O.D."
10 PM Movie: "The Conspirators" (from '44--no Bogart,
but Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet are here)
11:30 Star Performance
 
bpatrick said:
From TV Guide, North Georgia Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

7 PM Hee Haw (guests: Hugh Hefner--yes, the same, and Lester Flatt, Ch. 2 carries
only the first 30 minutes tonight)
7:30 NHL Hockey: Atlanta Flames-Boston Bruins

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

5 PM Soul Train (Bobby Bland, Ashford and Simpson, Barbara Jean
English)

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

7:30 Rock Music
8:30 The Warehouse (I think this is more rock music)
9 PM Wilburn Brothers
10 PM Movie: "I Am A Fugitive" (classic 1932 tale of an innocent man's
escape from a Georgia chain gang, with Paul Muni)

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

7 AM Bob Brandy

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

7:30 Baseball: Braves-Orioles (preseason game from Miami)
11:30 Open Up (Reps. Andrew Young and John Davis are guests)

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

12:30 Go! (NBC hockey analyst Ted Lindsay explains
the game and how best to choose a stick, shoot,
and play goal.)

Yessiree, bp, I'm back after my winter hibernation. And I've got some of my famous questions, comments, and snide remarks to serve up here:

WSB, 7-approx. 10 p.m.: What, I say (apologies to Foghorn Leghorn), what in the tarnation is goin' on here? Part of Hee Haw cancelled in order to broadcast one of them dern Yankee hockey games? Why, this is worse than Appomattox Court House and General Sherman put together!!! Put on your swords, boys, and let's run them blue coats with them skates and funny sticks back up to Dee-troit, Toe-ronty, and Baws-ten where they belong!!! (In fact, the unreconstructed Rebs got their wish in 1980, when the Flames went to a more hospitable abode of Calgary, Alberta--and more recently, when the expansion Thrashers also split for Winnipeg)

WAGA, 5 p.m.: Bobby Bland is best known to blues fans like me as Bobby "Blue" Bland, a gravelly-voiced veteran of the so-called "Chitlin Circuit" known for his trademark snort (maybe Don Cornelius got him to do a demonstration of it).

WGTV, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.: Who said PBS was stuffy and highbrow during the 1970s? It sure doesn't look like it with this sked, with rock and country music that could probably be easily heard on the radio of that time. Arts and culture indeed.

10 p.m.: Boy, I bet Georgia state legislators really loved the choice of film here. Sounds kind of like UGA biting the hand that feeds it.

WTVC, 7 a.m.: Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Brandy one of those old afternoon kiddie hosts who got demoted to Saturday mornings in the 1970s after the FCC ruling forbidding hosts to push products on-air? It sure seems like it, and there were a bunch of others like him all over the country by '74.

WTCG, 7:30 p.m.: To youngsters out there reading this, here's some history for ya. Back in the day, there was no inter-league play during the regular season. National League teams played only their kind in a circuit, and likewise for the American League. It was only during Spring Training and the World Series (and, of course, the All-Star Game, but that really doesn't count) that teams got to mix and mingle. I wish things would go back to the good old days, but given the success of some of the "rivalries" that have emerged, MLB isn't going to let that go.

The voices behind the mike were certainly those of Milo Hamilton (who stayed with the Braves until 1975 when the owners fired him for making adverse comments about the team on-air) and Ernie Johnson, Sr., who went back to the team's days in Boston as a player. By this point, even though Ted Turner hadn't got on the satellite, he had cable systems throughout Georgia, South Carolina, and Alabama carrying WTCG, so he was raking in a fortune. And of course, all the suspense surrounding Hank Aaron's chase of home run #715 boosted ratings.

11:30 p.m.: I think this was the show that launched the career of Atlanta talk radio king Neal Boortz, if I'm not mistaken. Another case of Ted Turner thinking outside the box, having a Saturday-night, open-ended talkfest.

WCWB, 12:30 p.m.: Ah, a hockey demonstration. Just the thing a young boy growing up in Middle Georgia needs to become famous (see WSB comment above)--!!!!
 
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