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Retro: North Georgia Saturday, September 9, 1978

From TV Guide, North Georgia Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

7 AM Big Blue Marble
7:30 Land Of The Lost
8 AM Yogi's Space Race
9:30 Godzilla Power Hour
10:30 Fantastic Four
11 AM Krofft Superstar Hour
12 N News
12:30 Dialogue
1 PM Tarzan
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball (teams TBA)
5 PM Lawrence Welk (songs saluting worldwide vacation spots,
time approximate)
6 PM News
6:30 Saturday Extra
7 PM Hee Haw (Dennis Weaver, Susan Raye)
8 PM US Against The World II (Gabe Kaplan, Ed McMahon and Ted Knight host
an imitation "Battle Of The Network Stars"; for the US: Gary Burghoff, Dick
Clark, Erik Estrada, Melissa Gilbert, Dan Haggerty, Cloris Leachman, Kristy
McNichol, Jimmie Walker; for the "World": LeVar Burton, Britt Ekland, Fionnula
Flanagan, Rich Little, Dudley Moore, Victoria Principal, William Shatner, Bo Svenson)
10 PM Miss America Pageant (Miss Virginia, Kylene Barker, was the winner--she is considered
to be Miss America 1979)
12 M News (time approximate)
12:30 Saturday Night Live (guest host: Michael Palin; musical guest: Eugene Record)
2 AM This Is The NFL
2:30 NFL Game Of The Week
3 AM News
3:05 Movie: "Diary Of A Madman"

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

7:30 Agricultural Science
8 AM Yogi's Space Race
9:30 Godzilla Power Hour
10:30 Fantastic Four
11 AM Cliffwood Avenue Kids
11:30 Wrestling
12:30 Countdown To Destiny
1 PM Wrestling (one or both of these shows is Georgia Championship
Wrestling)
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball (teams TBA)
5 PM The Racers (time approximate)
5:30 Basic Black
6 PM Lawrence Welk
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM US Against The World, II
10 PM Miss America Pageant
12 M News (time approximate)
12:30 Saturday Night Live

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6 AM Summer Semester: "U.S. Foreign Policy"
6:30 Box 5
7 AM Tree Talks
7:30 4-H Hour
8 AM All New Popeye Hour
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12 N News
12:30 U.S. Open Tennis (joined in progress)
7 PM Sha Na Na (time approximate)
7:30 91 Percent Solution (man-on-the-street interviews examine
people's attitudes toward charity, particularly the United Way)
8 PM The Paper Chase (debut, regular time is Tue 8 PM)
9 PM CBS Movie: "Magnum Force"
11:25 News
11:55 Movie: "That Man From Rio"
2:25 Name Of The Game
3:55 News

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

6:30 Economically Speaking
7 PM Yoga For Health
7:30 Big Blue Marble
8 PM Wonderful World Of Country Music (Leroy Van Dyke welcomes
Freddy Fender and Jan Freeman)
8:30 Traveler
9 PM A Good Dissonance Like A Man (biography of composer Charles Ives)
10 PM Movie: "The Magician" (not Bill Bixby, but Max von Sydow, made in
Sweden in 1958)
11:40 Films
12 M Movie: "Wild River"
sign off 1:45 AM

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

7 AM Ag Science In Action
7:30 Animals, Animals, Animals (the International Crane Foundation in
Wisconsin; an animated feature on the crowned crane, delay from
Sun 11:30 AM)
8 AM Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
8:30 Fangface
9 AM Challenge Of The Superfriends
10 AM Scooby's All-Stars
11:30 All-New Pink Panther Show
12 N ABC Weekend Special: "The Seven Wishes Of Joanna Peabody"
(Butterfly McQueen as a fairy godmother who grants wishes to
a Harlem girl played by Star-Shemah. Watch for Garrett Morris as well.)
12:30 American Bandstand (Frankie Valli, the dance-contest winners)
1:30 Hollywood Teen
2 PM Last Of The Wild
2:30 Movie: "The Great Northfield, Minnesota, Raid"
4:30 Wide World Of Sports (Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Floyd Mayweather, welterweights,
10 rounds, from Providence; preview of Friday's Ali-Leon Spinks heavyweight-
title match; World Cycling Championships)
6 PM NCAA Football: UCLA-Washington
9 PM Love Boat (passengers: Vernee Watson, Scatman Crothers, Vicki Lawrence,
Dick Van Patten, time approximate)
10 PM Face To Face
11 PM News
11:15 ABC News (Sylvia Chase/Tom Jarriel)
11:30 Star Trek
12:30 Movie: "Creature With The Blue Hand"

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 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
8:30 Fangface
9 AM Challenge Of The Superfriends
10 AM Scooby's All-Stars
11:30 All-New Pink Panther Show
12 N George Of The Jungle
12:30 American Bandstand
1:30 Billy Smart's Circus (an English circus where the performers
are children)
2:30 Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
3:30 The Adventurer (I think this is the Gene Barry show, produced
in 1972)
4 PM The Racers
4:30 Wide World Of Sports
6 PM NCAA Football: UCLA-Washington
9 PM Love Boat (time approximate)
10 PM Newfangled Wandering Minstrel Show (Olivia Newton-John and
jazz singer Georgie Fame as star-crossed lovers who join a group
of wandering minstrels in New York)
11 PM News
11:30 Movie: "The Out-Of-Towners"
1:30 ABC News

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

6:55 Farm Report
7 AM Bullwinkle
7:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
8 AM All-New Popeye Hour
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12 N Wrestling (from the studio, I presume)
1 PM U.S. Open Tennis (joined in progress)
7 PM Gong Show (time approximate)
7:30 Sha Na Na (guest: Frank Gorshin)
8 PM The Paper Chase
9 PM CBS Movie: "Magnum Force"
11:25 Movie: "Escapade In Japan" (watch for Jon Provost in this one
from '57)
1:15 Movie: "Tread Softly, Stranger" (watch for Richard Dawson's first
wife, Diana Dors, England's answer to Marilyn Monroe and Jayne
Mansfield, from '58)
3 AM News
3:30 Movie: "Quicksand"

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS)

7 AM Georgia Farm Monitor
7:30 Scrunch (local kids' show)
8 AM All-New Popeye Hour
9 AM Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
10:30 Tarzan And The Super 7
12 N Ebony Speaks
12:30 U.S. Open Tennis (joined in progress)
7 PM Lawrence Welk (time approximate)
8 PM The Paper Chase
9 PM CBS Movie: "Magnum Force"
11:25 News
11:55 SEC Football Preview (Bear Bryant (Alabama) and Johnny Majors
(Tennessee) talk about the upcoming season; Pepper Rodgers
(Georgia Tech) talks about the ACC's upcoming season.)
12:55 Movie: "The Pink Panther"

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

1:30 Magic Method Of Oil Painting
2 PM Garden Show
2:30 Viewpoint On Nutrition
3 PM By-Line: Stephen Birmingham
3:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
4 PM Your Weekly Weaver
4:30 Cinema Showcase: Jeff Conaway
5 PM Movie: "Rain" (1932 classic with Joan Crawford as Miss Sadie Thompson,
and Walter Huston as the reformer who wishes to save her "lost soul")
7 PM Black Perspective On The News
7:30 Lowell Thomas Remembers (the career of Cordell Hull, Secretary of State
from 1933 to 1944)
8 PM The Pallisers (Part 6)
9 PM A Good Dissonance Like A Man
10 PM Movie: "The Magician"
11:40 Films
sign off 12 M

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

5:40 World At Large
6:10 Discovery (harness horses)
6:40 News
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8 AM Ultra Man
8:30 Partridge Family (William Windom (R.I.P.) plays a
Colonel Sanders-type owner of a chain of fried-
chicken restaurants.)
9 AM Star Trek
10 AM Movie: "The Member Of The Wedding"
12 N Movie: "Grand Slam"
2:30 Movie: "Off Limits" (Bob Hope and Mickey Rooney as a
couple of bumbling MPs, from '53)
4:30 This Week In Baseball
5 PM All-American Futurity (at the time, the world's richest
horse race, with a total purse of $1,280,000, winner's
share: $437,500--for two-year-old quarter horses, from
Ruidoso Downs, NM, and taped Labor Day)
6 PM Georgia Championship Wrestling
8 PM Hee Haw Honeys (guest: Roy Clark)
8:30 Marty Robbins' Spotlight (Porter Wagoner helps salute Carl Perkins)
9 PM Dolly (guests: the Fifth Dimension)
9:30 That Nashville Music (Bobby Bare, Reba McEntire, Roy Head, Johnny Gimble)
10 PM Pop! Goes The Country (Billy "Crash" Craddock, Karen Wheeler)
10:30 Nashville On The Road (guests: Dave and Sugar)
11 PM Let's Make A Deal
11:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert (Kansas, Phoebe Snow, Player (with Ronn Moss,
better known as Ridge Forrester on "The Bold And The Beautiful"), comics
Tony Delia, Murray Langston, and Bill Kirchenbauer (best-known for "Just The
Ten Of Us"))
1 AM Juke Box (Twiggy)
1:30 Movie: "Ghost In The Invisible Bikini" (a couple of well-known horror and suspense
figures, Boris Karloff and Basil Rathbone, visit a haunted house; they probably
steal the show from Tommy Kirk, Deborah Walley, and Nancy Sinatra, from '66)
3:20 Movie: "Taggart"
5:20 World At Large

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (Ind.)

4 PM By-Line: Scott Berg
4:30 Lowell Thomas Remembers
5 PM James Michener's World ("Israel: A Search For Faith" looks at the development
of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam there)
6 PM Studio See
6:30 Wall Street Week
7 PM Black Perspective On The News
7:30 Washington Week In Review
8 PM Great Performances: William Saroyan's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, "The Time
Of Your Life"
10 PM Great Performances: "Trailblazers Of Modern Dance" (Martha Graham and Isadora
Duncan)
11 PM A Good Dissonance Like A Man
sign off 12 M

WATL Ch. 36 Atlanta (Ind.)

11 AM Jerry Falwell
12 N Tammy Faye
12:30 Wrestling
1:30 Television Monitor
2 PM Don Storms (music)
3 PM Soap Factory Disco
3:30 The Name Of The Game Is Golf
4 PM Boxing
5 PM Wrestling
6 PM Movie: "Things To Come" (from 1936: H.G. Wells' vision of
society in 2036)
8 PM Classic Country
9 PM Insight
9:30 Moment Of Truth (Rev. Garland Faw)
10 PM PTL Club
12 M Movie: "They Made Me A Criminal"

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

7:30 Land Of The Lost
8 AM Yogi's Space Race
9:30 Godzilla Power Hour
10:30 Fantastic Four
11 AM Krofft Superstar Hour
12 N Fabulous Funnies
12:30 Baggy Pants And The Nitwits
1 PM Wrestling (from the studio)
2 PM Baseball Warm-Up
2:15 Baseball: Teams TBA
5 PM Soul Train (guests: the Emotions, time approximate)
6 PM Wild Kingdom
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Hee Haw
8 PM US Against The World, II
10 PM Miss America Pageant
12 M Wolfman Jack (time approximate)
12:30 Saturday Night Live

WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)

10 AM Once Upon A Classic: "What Katy Did" (Part 3)
10:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11 AM Sesame Street
12 N Guten Tag Wie Geht
12:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
1 PM Big Blue Marble
1:30 Magic Method Of Oil Painting
2 PM Garden Show
2:30 Pro Soccer
3:30 Word On Words
4 PM Facts Of Life (health show, not the sitcom)
4:30 Sign News 45
5 PM James Michener's World
6 PM Studio See
6:30 Economically Speaking
7 PM Black Perspective On The News
7:30 Lowell Thomas Remembers
8 PM Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival 1977
8:30 Fields On Fields (W.C. Fields' grandson Ronald shows and
discusses "The Golf Specialist," from 1930)
9 PM A Good Dissonance Like A Man
10 PM Great Performances: "Trailblazers Of Modern Dance"
sign off 11 PM

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

7 AM Wacky Races
7:30 Jackson 5
8 AM Perils Of Penelope Pitstop
8:30 Josie And The Pussycats
9 AM Devlin
9:30 Space Kidettes
10 AM Superman
10:30 Batman
11 AM Star Trek (animated)
11:30 Flipper
12 N Lone Ranger
12:30 Lone Ranger
1 PM Rifleman
1:30 Rifleman
2 PM Movie: "The Golden Stallion" (Roy Rogers, from '49)
3 PM Bonanza
4 PM Lancer
5 PM Big Valley
6 PM Life Of Riley (the Gleason episodes)
6:30 Dick Van Dyke
7 PM Countdown To A Miracle
8 PM Ross Bagley
9 PM Morris Cerullo
10 PM Faith That Lives
10:30 700 Club
12 M What A Fellowship Hour

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

9:30 American Angler
10 AM Movie: TBA
12 N NFL Great Teams, Great Years
1 PM Jim Hill (music)
1:30 Moon Man Connection (disco)
2:30 Soap Factory Disco
3 PM Rev. Clay Evans
4 PM Rev. Leroy Jenkins
4:30 Prayertime
5:30 Rev. David Jones
6 PM PTL Club
8 PM Jerry Falwell
9 PM Ernest Angley
10 PM Awakening Sound
11 PM Rev. Woody Martin
11:30 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
 
bpatrick said:
WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)
12 N News
12:30 U.S. Open Tennis (joined in progress)

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)
12 N Wrestling (from the studio, I presume)
1 PM U.S. Open Tennis (joined in progress)

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS)
12 N Ebony Speaks
12:30 U.S. Open Tennis (joined in progress)

Was tennis unpopular in the south? All these stations would rather show news, public affairs or wrestling first.
 
bpatrick said:
11 WXIA (ABC)
7:30 Animals, Animals, Animals (same as Ch. 9)
8 AM Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
8:30 Fangface
9 AM Challenge Of The Superfriends
10 AM Scooby's All-Stars
11:30 All-New Pink Panther Show
12 N George Of The Jungle
12:30 American Bandstand

That 12 Noon George Of The Jungle was syndicated and not part of ABC programming - Why would WXIA preempt Weekend Special for George Of The Jungle?

ONE IRONIC THING!!! From 1994 to 1995 for several months ABC ran George Of The Jungle as part of their Saturday Morning lineup. This was one occasion when a syndicated show ran on a network nationally. Back in the late 70's and Early 80's, NBC ran several shows nationally on their network that were concurrently in Syndication; Johnny Quest, Jetsons, and Bullwinkle come to mind. CBS ran Land Of The Lost reruns in 1985 while theyw ere in syndication as well.

The post 48 Looney Toons and Merrie Melodies cartoons, though ran on the ABC, then the CBS network, and again on ABC with a special arrangement. About 30 Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Road Runner episodes would be taken out of syndication and offered on the network. Then a year or two later, 30 more would be taken out of syndication and the other 30 would be put back in syndication. So technically a local independent station could not run a Bugs Bunny episode currently running on ABC; though some local stations would unknowingly do it anyway being they would keep all the episodes in their film libraries.

Today few stations have film libraries anymore anyway.
 
"Weekend Special" had apparently not done very well in Atlanta during
its first season, when it aired in pattern (the newscasts on Chs. 2 and 5
were always hard to beat), and I suppose 11 Alive's management
thought "George Of The Jungle" might appeal to adults as well as kids.
("Weekend Special," BTW, aired Sundays at 2:30, switching to Saturdays
at 1:30 after football season).

As for tennis, I would assume Chs. 5 and 13 were not going to give up
their public-service obligation (and moneymaker on 5), and 12 was not
going to give up what was no doubt one of its highest-rated shows (especially
if there was a live card in Chattanooga that week). 5 was never much on tennis
or golf; the Masters and the U.S. Open tennis tournament were about it. Ch. 2 was
no better with NBC's sports coverage; the Bob Hope tournament was about
it for golf, and Wimbledon was about it as far as tennis went (maybe the French
Open; I don't recall if NBC was carrying it then). It stuck in NBC's craw that from
January to September, 2 would never carry NBC sports programming on Sundays, when
it aired movies and Lawrence Welk instead. (One plus that came out of NBC's switch
to 11 Alive was that "Sportsworld" and all the rest of NBC's sports schedule finally aired
in Atlanta.) 11 Alive as an ABC affiliate was the most sports-oriented, carrying all of
ABC's sports programming except the "Pro Bowlers Tour."

OTOH, 12 and 13 were and still are inclined to carry all of CBS's sports programs.
 
I watched Georgia Championship Wrestling on WRCB Channel 3 in Chattanooga from Northern Cherokee County Georgia in 1978-1981. My Dad had a tv antenna on a rotor hooked up in the top of a very tall tree ;D
 
azumanga said:
bpatrick said:
WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)
12 N News
12:30 U.S. Open Tennis (joined in progress)

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)
12 N Wrestling (from the studio, I presume)
1 PM U.S. Open Tennis (joined in progress)

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS)
12 N Ebony Speaks
12:30 U.S. Open Tennis (joined in progress)

Was tennis unpopular in the south? All these stations would rather show news, public affairs or wrestling first.

1970s Pro Wrestling was a hell of a lot more interesting than Tennis
 
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