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Retro: North Georgia Saturday, March 25, 1978

From TV Guide, North Georgia Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

7 AM Big Blue Marble
7:30 I Am The Greatest: The Adventures
Of Muhammad Ali
8 AM Hong Kong Phooey
8:30 Go Go Globetrotters
10:30 Pink Panther
11 AM Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
11:30 Super 2 Show
12 N News
12:30 Dialogue (a profile of Lt. Henry O. Flipper
of Thomasville, GA, the first African-American
graduate of West Point; court-martialed in 1881,
he had full military honors restored to him in 1976)
1 PM Tarzan
2 PM NCAA Basketball Tournament: National semifinals
(Kentucky beat Duke, 94-88, in the championship
game on Monday, March 27.)
6 PM News (time approximate)
6:30 Saturday Extra
7 PM Hee Haw (the Statler Brothers, singer Linda Hargrove,
TV personality Paul Bearer)
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM Emergency!
11 PM News
11:30 Saturday Night Live (host Christopher Lee, Meat Loaf,
Richard Belzer)
1 AM News
1:05 Movie: "Psycho"

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

7:30 Agricultural Science In Action
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 Countdown To Destiny
1 PM Georgia Championship Wrestling
2 PM NCAA Basketball Tournament: national semifinals
6 PM Lawrence Welk (Easter songs, time approximate)
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM Emergency!
11 PM News
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 Adventure Hour
11:30 Secrets Of Isis
12 N News
12:30 Kidsworld
1 PM What's New, Mr. Magoo?
1:30 CBS Youth Invitational: Frisbee (six young people
compete in a frisbee match; also, two dogs trained
to catch frisbees in flight)
2 PM Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids (delay from noon)
2:30 Space Academy (delay from 12:30 PM)
3 PM Soul Train (Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr.; Stargard)
4 PM Golf: Sea Pines Heritage Classic (third round)
5 PM CBS Sports Spectacular (World Cup Skiing Finals, the
Gulfstream Handicap horse race, a figure-skating exhibition
from Strasbourg, France)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News (Bob Schieffer)
7 PM Sha Na Na (guest: Jim Stafford)
7:30 Tell The Mayor
8 PM Bob Newhart
8:30 Tony Randall
9 PM The Jeffersons
9:30 Maude
10 PM Kojak
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "A Severed Head"
1:30 Name Of The Game
3 AM News

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

6:30 Que Pasa, U.S.A.?
7 PM Yoga For Health
7:30 Bill Cosby (as basketball coach Chet
Kincaid; guest: Wally Cox)
8 PM Once Upon A Classic ("Lorna Doone,"
Part 4)
8:30 Confucius (his teachings and the lifestyles
of modern followers)
9 PM Appalachia Sounding (one Appalachian family
from 1776 to the mid-20th century)
10 PM Fiddlin' Around (bluegrass, two shows)
11 PM Movie: "The Silence" (not the Richard Thomas
TV-movie about the West Point cadet "silenced"
for allegedly cheating on an exam, but an Ingmar
Bergman film about two estranged sisters)

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

7 AM Science In Action
7:30 Animals, Animals, Animals (a visit with a tropical-
fish expert, delay from Sun 11:30 AM)
8 AM Superfriends
9 AM Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics
11 AM Krofft Supershow
12 N ABC Weekend Special: "Dear Lovey Hart: I Am
Desperate" (expands to one hour today)
1 PM American Bandstand (guests: Raydio, half-hour
today only)
1:30 Nashville On The Road (guest: Jerry Reed)
2 PM Pop! Goes The Country (guest: Mel Tillis)
2:30 Beverly Hillbillies
3 PM Easter Is! (animated special)
3:30 Pro Bowlers Tour (Miller High Life Open, from
Milwaukee)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports (boxing: Earnie Shavers
vs. Larry Holmes, 12 rounds, live from Las Vegas),
World Downhill Skiing Championship)
6:30 ABC News (Sylvia Chase/Tom Jarriel)
7 PM In Search Of... (subject: reincarnation)
7:30 People And Issues (the ERA)
8 PM Celebrity Concerts (a solo performance by singer
Nana Mouskouri)
9 PM Love Boat (passengers: Michele Lee, David Groh,
Diahann Carroll, Jim Nabors)
10 PM Fantasy Island (guests: Gary Burghoff, Vera Miles,
Stuart Whitman; Burghoff's character wants to be
a baseball superstar, prompting appearances by
Tommy Lasorda, Steve Garvey, Fred Lynn, George Brett,
Ken Brett, and Ellis Valentine)
11 PM ABC News (Chase/Jarriel)
11:15 Star Trek
12:15 Movie: "Assignment Terror"

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 (a fencing demonstration, a tour of
the Fernbank Science Center, the Vagabond
Marionettes)
1 PM American Bandstand
1:30 The Lettermen
2 PM Easter Is!
2:30 Auto Racing (Atlanta 500, taped highlights)
3:30 Two Wheels--Alive! (motorcycle racing)
4 PM World Of Survival
4:30 Championship Fishing
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 News
7 PM Space: 1999
8 PM Oral Roberts Easter Special (guest: Vikki Carr)
9 PM Love Boat
10 PM Fantasy Island
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "Demetrius And The Gladiators"
1:30 ABC News

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

6:50 Farm Digest
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 Adventure 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 (guests: Lonnie Jordan, Brass
Construction)
2:30 Bonnie Lou And Buster
3 PM Wrestling
4 PM Golf: Sea Pines Heritage Classic (third round)
5 PM CBS Sports Spectacular
6 PM News
6:30 Gunsmoke
7:30 Sha Na Na (guest: Bobby Vee)
8 PM Bob Newhart
8:30 Tony Randall
9 PM The Jeffersons
9:30 Maude
10 PM Kojak
11 PM Wrestling
12 M Movie: "She Demons"

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS)

7 AM Georgia Farm Monitor
7:30 Scrunch (kids' show)
8 AM Three Robonic Stooges
8:30 Speed Buggy
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Batman/Tarzan Adventure 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 CBS Youth Invitational: Frisbee
2 PM Ebony Speaks
2:30 Southern Sportsman
3 PM Imprint
3:30 Film
4 PM Golf: Sea Pines Heritage Classic (third round)
5 PM CBS Sports Spectacular
6 PM Porter Wagoner (guest: Bob Luman)
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: "The Great Caruso"

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

1:30 Stitch-A-Long
2 PM Garden Spot
2:30 Bees And Honey
3 PM By-Line: Morton Sosna
3:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
4 PM Consultation (medical advice)
4:30 Cinema Showcase: Marilyn Hassett
5 PM Movie: "The Private Life Of Don Juan"
(Douglas Fairbanks Sr.'s final film, from '34)
7 PM Black Perspective On The News
7:30 Lowell Thomas Remembers (highlights of 1947
include the Army Air Corps becoming the U.S.
Air Force)
8 PM Royal Heritage (the early part of the reign of
Queen Victoria)
9 PM James Michener's World (a tour of Spain)
10 PM Soundstage (B.B. King performs)
sign off 11 PM

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

5:40 World At Large
6:10 Discovery (the story of the Cherokee Nation in
the early 1600s)
6:40 News
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8 AM Ultra Man
8:30 Partridge Family
9 AM Star Trek
10 AM Movie: "The Benny Goodman Story" (Steve
Allen plays the clarinetist credited with the
invention of swing music.)
12:30 Movie: "Lost In Alaska" (Abbott and Costello)
2 PM Movie: "It Happens Every Thursday" (Loretta
Young and John Forsythe, from '53)
3:30 Movie: "Sherlock Holmes And The Secret Weapon"
(moves the characters into World War II; Basil
Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, from '42)
5 PM Fishin' Hole
5:30 Bill Dance Outdoors
6 PM Georgia Championship Wrestling
8 PM NBA Basketball: Hawks-Bullets
10 PM Pop Goes The Country (time approximate)
10:30 Music Place (guest: Louise Mandrell)
11 PM Let's Make A Deal (reruns of the '70s syndicated version)
11:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (Chuck Berry, Peter Allen,
the Babys, Elayne Boosler, the Village Idiots)
1 AM NBA Basketball: Hawks-Bullets (taped replay)
3 AM Dark Shadows (time approximate)
3:30 Dark Shadows
4 AM The Avengers

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)

5 PM Washington Week In Review
5:30 Wall Street Week
6 PM Studio See
6:30 Book Beat (mystery writer Ed McBain talks about
"Goldilocks," a mystery set in a Florida town)
7 PM Black Perspective On The News
7:30 Anywhat (the Atlanta Virtuosi, a chamber-music
section of the Atlanta Symphony)
8 PM Monster Concert (20 pianists on 10 grand pianos)
8:30 Great Performances (Verdi's "Requiem Mass," with the
La Scala Orchestra and soloists Leontyne Price, Luciano
Pavarotti, Florenza Cossotto, and Nicolai Ghiaurov)
10 PM Soundstage
11 PM Austin City Limits
12 M Cinema Showcase: Christopher Lee

WATL Ch. 36 Atlanta (Ind.)

12:30 Pro Bowlers Tour (Rolaids Open from St. Louis, week-
behind)
2 PM NHL Hockey: Capitals-Canadiens (joined in progress)
4 PM Boxing (time approximate, no information given)
5 PM Wrestling (no information given)
6 PM Southern Sportsman
6:30 Fishing With Roland Martin
7 PM Classic Country
8:30 Hal Roach Studio Presents
9 PM Easter Message (Sunday was Easter Sunday)
9:30 Trinity Cathedral
10 PM PTL Club
12 M Lost Jungle (serial)
12:30 Movie: "Murder" (early Hitchcock talkie, from '30)

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

7:30 I Am The Greatest: The Adventures Of Muhammad
Ali
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
1 PM Wrestling (from the studio)
2 PM NCAA Basketball: National semifinals
6 PM Hollywood Squares (Ed Asner, Sandy Duncan, George
Gobel, Joanna Pettet, Ken Stabler, Tony Martin and
Cyd Charisse, Marcia Wallace, Paul Lynde, time approximate)
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Hee Haw (Billy Carter, Barbara Mandrell, Larry Mahan)
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM Emergency!
11 PM Wolfman Jack (Johnny Rivers, Abba, the Shirelles)
11:30 Saturday Night Live

WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)

10 AM Once Upon A Classic
10:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11 AM Sesame Strreet
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 Pro Soccer
3:30 Speaking Of Pets
4 PM Guten Tag Wie Geht (German lessons)
4:30 Sign News 45
5 PM Consumer Survival Kit
5:30 Turnabout
6 PM Studio See
6:30 Que Pasa, U.S.A.?
7 PM Black Perspective On The News
7:30 Music For Easter
8 PM Royal Heritage: "Edward VII And The House
Of Windsor"
9 PM James Michener's World
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 (Rudy Vallee as Lord Ffogg)
11 AM Jetsons
11:30 Movie: "Five Came Back" (watch for Lucille
Ball in this quasi-"Lost" from '39: a plane crashes,
but is repaired enough to get five people out of the
jungle: the pilot, co-pilot, and what three passengers?)
1:30 Two Wheels--Alive!
2 PM Movie: "The El Paso Kid"
3 PM Bonanza
4 PM Lancer
5 PM Big Valley
6 PM Resurrection Of Today
6:30 Resurrection Of Christ
7 PM The King's Business
7:30 The Burning Bush
8 PM Rex Humbard
9 PM Charles Sanford (religion)
10 PM The Lesson
10:30 700 Club
11:30 The King Is Coming
12 M Two Wheels--Alive!

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

9:30 Jonny Quest
10 AM Movie: TBA
12 N Movie: TBA
1:30 Movie: TBA
2:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
4 PM Moon Man Connection
5 PM Jubilee (Rev. J. Lloyd Edwards)
6 PM Journey To Adventure
6:30 Cartoons
6:55 Dr. J. Harold Smith
7 PM Studio One (this is not the classic '50s
CBS drama series)
7:30 Rev. Leroy Jenkins
8 PM Jerry Falwell
9 PM Ernest Angley
10 PM Tennis: WCT-Caesars Palace Challenge:
Dick Stockton (not the sportscaster) vs.
Ken Rosewall
11 PM Miracles Today
 
bpatrick said:
WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)
7 PM Hee Haw (the Statler Brothers, singer Linda Hargrove,
TV personality Paul Bearer)

The listings referred to "Dr. Paul Bearer", who was the host of "Creature Feature" on WTOG in Tampa Bay. WTOG also carried "Hee Haw" from the late-1970s into the 1980s; it was commonplace for personalities from Hee Haw's affiliates to make special appearances on the show, usually during the "cornfield" segment.
 
azumanga said:
bpatrick said:
WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)
7 PM Hee Haw (the Statler Brothers, singer Linda Hargrove,
TV personality Paul Bearer)

The listings referred to "Dr. Paul Bearer", who was the host of "Creature Feature" on WTOG in Tampa Bay. WTOG also carried "Hee Haw" from the late-1970s into the 1980s; it was commonplace for personalities from Hee Haw's affiliates to make special appearances on the show, usually during the "cornfield" segment.
...the WTOG Paul Bearer (real name Dick Bennick Sr.) is not to be confused with the WWF manager Paul Bearer (real name Bill Moody), the latter of which was also working in the Tampa area during this period under the name Percy Pringle III. The WWF Paul Bearer character didn't appear until Moody was hired by Vince McMahon Jr. in 1990...
 
Right. Bennick hosted a dance-party show on WGHP which followed
"American Bandstand" on Saturday afternoons before heading for the
Bay Area and his long stint as "Dr. Paul Bearer" on WTOG, which I remember
when I lived there. By 1978, though, I was living in Dallas and didn't know
that "Hee Haw" had moved from Ch. 10 to Ch. 44 in Tampa/St. Pete.
 
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