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Retro: North Georgia Thursday, December 25, 1975

From TV Guide, North Georgia Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

6 AM American Story Classics (Mark Twain's
"The Million Pound Bank Note")
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today
9 AM Not For Women Only (Part 4 of 5 on self-
discovery; transcendental meditation is
the topic with guest Jerry Jarvis, U.S. director
of the TM movement)
9:30 Christmas With The Busbees (Gov. and Mrs. George
Busbee with the Atlanta Boys Choir, the Revelations,
the Cathedral Bell Ringers, Seva Day (Miss Georgia),
singer Sherry Holiday, taped at the Governor's Mansion)
10 AM Christmas At Washington Cathedral (NBC was carrying the
service at the time.)
11 AM Celebrity Sweepstakes (Flip Wilson plays for the American
Cancer Society; Pat Boone plays for the Boy Scouts of America.)
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Richard Dimitri, Robert Goulet, Rod McKuen,
Phyllis Diller)
12 N News
12:30 Big Valley
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Mod Squad
5 PM Lawrence Welk (his Christmas show, pre-empts "The FBI")
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News (John Chancellor)
7:30 Let's Make A Deal
8 PM Grady (spinoff from "Sanford And Son")
8:30 The Cop And The Kid
9 PM Ellery Queen (Jim Hutton)
10 PM Medical Story
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (John Davidson subs for Johnny; Sam Levenson,
the Captain & Tennille)
1 AM Tomorrow (topic: U.S. railroads and their history, includes a train
ride from Raritan to Bay Head, NJ)
2 AM News

WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)

6:25 New Zoo Revue
6:55 News For Little People
7 AM Today
9 AM 700 Club
10 AM Christmas At Washington Cathedral
11 AM Celebrity Sweepstakes
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N America: The Young Experience (an 11-year-old slave
and his parents are auctioned off to three different masters)
12:30 Magnificent Marble Machine (Arte Johnson, Leslie Uggams,
Anson Williams, Adrienne Barbeau)
12:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
1 PM Somerset
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM The FBI
4:55 News For Little People
5 PM Mickey Mouse Club
5:30 I Dream Of Jeannie
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Hollywood Squares (Phyllis Diller, Demond Wilson, Wayne
Rogers, George Gobel, Anthony Newley, Suzanne Pleshette,
Rose Marie)
8 PM America: The Young Experience (Hans Christian Andersen's
"The Little Match Girl" is updated to the 1970s.)
8:30 American Life Styles (the birthplace and retirement home of
Woodrow Wilson)
9 PM Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass
10 PM Medical Story
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

CBS pre-empts "Sunrise Semester" today.

6:30 University Of Michigan
7 AM CBS News (Hughes Rudd)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Phil Donahue
10 AM Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Match Game '75 (Pat Crowley, Gary Burghoff, Joyce
Bulifant, Charles Nelson Reilly, Richard Dawson, Brett
Somers, day-behind from 3:30 PM)
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM All In The Family
3:30 Robert Young, Family Doctor ("Marcus Welby, M.D." reruns)
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-host Johnny Cash; his band, the Tennessee
Three, June Carter and the Carter Family, Carl Perkins, country
singer Jack Ruth)
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7:30 Price Is Right
8 PM Waltons
9 PM Hawaii Five-O
10 PM Barnaby Jones
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Great Expectations" (yes, the Dickens classic)
1:50 News

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

4 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Sesame Street
6:30 Gettin' Over
7 PM Yoga For Health
7:30 Movie: "A Christmas Carol" (the classic 1951 version with
Alastair Sim as Scrooge)
9 PM Hollywood Television Theatre: "The Lady's Not For Burning"
(a 15th-century soldier tries to get himself hanged for a murder
he didn't commit; an alchemist's daughter is about to be burned
at the stake for practicing witchcraft; Richard Chamberlain stars)
10:45 Film (one man's silent ascent on a mountain)
sign off 11 PM

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

7 AM Good Morning America
8:30 Funtime
9 AM Phil Donahue (from Atlanta: Playgirl magazine editor Marin Scott
Milam)
10 AM The City That Forgot About Christmas (Sebastian Cabot and Louis
Nye provide voices in this animated tale of a stranger who brings
Christmas spirit to a loveless city.)
10:30 Christmas Is
11 AM Christmas On Historic Hill (the Candlelight Choir Service from Trinity
Church, Newport, RI, with members of the congregation in colonial
attire and music from the 17th and 18th centuries, taped Dec. 21--
pre-empts "Bonanza" and "Happy Days" on Ch. 9; "Rhyme And Reason"
and local news on Ch. 11)
12 N Showoffs (Vicki Lawrence, Greg Morris, Tina Cole, Robert Urich)
12:30 All My Children
1 PM Ryan's Hope
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM $10,000 Pyramid (Larry Linville, Anita Gillette)
2:30 Rhyme And Reason (Pat Harrington, Charlie Brill and Mitzi McCall,
Conny Van Dyke)
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Edge Of Night
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Ironside
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News (Harry Reasoner)
7 PM Concentration
7:30 Family Affair
8 PM Barney Miller
8:30 Candid Camera (a high-school football team practices with ballet
lessons, a phony phone works for everyone but the secretary who
ordered it installed, Buster Keaton loses his toupee in an all-night
diner's soup du jour, pre-empts "On The Rocks")
9 PM Streets Of San Francisco
10 PM Harry O
11 PM News
11:30 Mannix
12:30 Longstreet

WXIA Ch. 11 Atlanta (ABC)

6:30 Ebony Beat Journal
7 AM Good Morning America
8 AM A.M. Atlanta
9 AM Movie: "Miracle On 34th Street" (pre-empts "Concentration")
11 AM Christmas On Historic Hill
12 N Showoffs
12:30 All My Children
1 PM Ryan's Hope
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
2 PM $10,000 Pyramid
2:30 Edge Of Night
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 One Life To Live
4 PM Dinah! (George Segal, Lucille Ball, John Byner, the World's
Greatest Jazz Band, Dinah's cue-card man Bob Hatton)
5:30 News
6 PM ABC News
6:30 Merv Griffin (Dolly Parton, Kenny Rankin, Martin Mull)
8 PM Oral Roberts' Christmas Is Love (Jerry Lewis, gospel singer
Andrae Crouch, Sigmund the Sea Monster, and H.R. Pufnstuf,
pre-empts "Barney Miller" and "On The Rocks")
9 PM Streets Of San Francisco
10 PM Harry O
11 PM News
11:30 Mannix
12:30 Longstreet

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

6:25 Farm Report
6:30 Travel Film
7 AM Morning Show
8 AM CBS News
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N News
12:25 Paul Harvey
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM That Girl
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM All In The Family
3:30 NBA: Kings-Suns (pre-empts "Match Game '75,"
"Tattletales," Merv Griffin, and Paul Harvey)
6 PM News (time approximate)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Gunsmoke
8 PM Waltons
9 PM Hawaii Five-O
10 PM Barnaby Jones
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Great Expectations"

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS)

6:50 News
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Navy Christmas (a party for the children of Navy
personnel, who see their fathers overseas on film)
9:30 General Hospital
10 AM Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Christmas Music (the Medical Center Nurses Choir)
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM All In The Family
3:30 NBA: Kings-Suns (pre-empts "Match Game '75," "Tattletales,"
"Ironside," and "To Tell The Truth")
6 PM News (time approximate)
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Let's Make A Deal
8 PM Waltons
9 PM Hawaii Five-O
10 PM Gunsmoke (pre-empts "Barnaby Jones")
11 PM News
11:30 CBS Movie: "Great Expectations"

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

4 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Carrascolendas
6:30 Music Of Christmas
7 PM Second Look (holiday music from the choir of
the Atlanta School for the Deaf and a trio from
the Cave Springs School for the Deaf)
7:30 Ivanhoe
8 PM Christmas With The Busbees (same as Ch. 2
earlier today)
8:30 Disneyland Christmas Candlelight Caroling Ceremony
9 PM Hometown Saturday Night (re-enactment of a circa-1900
band concert with the new Jack Daniel's Original Silver
Cornet Band)
10 PM Christmas At Pops (the Boston Pops and the Tanglewood
Festival Chorus)
sign off 11 PM

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

5:40 News
6 AM Tennessee Tuxedo
6:30 Romper Room
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8 AM Leave It To Beaver
8:30 Hazel
9 AM I Love Lucy (guest: Bob Hope)
9:30 Andy Griffith
10 AM Movie: "Holiday Inn"
12 N Love, American Style (features an early
appearance by Victoria Principal)
12:30 The Lucy Show
1 PM Movie: "Christmas In Connecticut"
3 PM Mickey Mouse Club
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Gilligan's Island
4:30 I Love Lucy (guest: Orson Welles)
5 PM Partridge Family
5:30 Beverly Hillbillies
6 PM That Girl
6:30 Andy Griffith
7 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8 PM NBA: Hawks-Bullets
10 PM TBA
11 PM Love, American Style (Donna Douglas plays--
what else?--a farmer's daughter)
11:30 Movie: "Mother Is A Freshman"
1:10 NBA: Hawks-Bullets (replay)
3:25 Movie: "Christmas In Connecticut"
5:25 My Little Margie

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)

4 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Carrascolendas
6:30 Gettin' Over
7 PM Taking Better Pictures
7:30 Woman (Lourdes Vasquez and Elidas Rodriquez
discuss the Puerto Rican Women's Federation.)
8 PM No--Honestly
8:30 Sounds Of Christmas (music by soprano Leona
Gordon, the Jimmy Joyce Singers, and the Glendale, CA,
Symphony Orchestra)
9 PM Hollywood Television Theatre
10:45 Film
11 PM Joyce Chen's China (the Boston restaurateur tells about
her 1972 trip to China, part 1 of 2)
sign off 11:30 PM

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

7 AM Today
9 AM Phil Donahue (Gloria Steinem and Australian feminist
Elizabeth Reid discuss the International Women's Year
world conference.)
10 AM Christmas At Washington Cathedral
11 AM Celebrity Sweepstakes
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N High Rollers
12:30 Magnificent Marble Machine
12:55 NBC News
1 PM News
1:05 Noon Over Middle Georgia
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Vegetable Soup
5 PM Star Trek
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
7:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
8 PM Grady
8:30 The Cop And The Kid
9 PM Ellery Queen
10 PM Medical Story
11 PM Rifleman
11:30 Tonight Show

WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)

3:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
4 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Vegetable Soup
6:30 Gettin' Over
7 PM Christmas Music (the Hixson First Baptist
Church choir)
7:30 Evening Edition With Martin Agronsky
8 PM Romantic Rebellion (Kenneth Clark explains how
French painter Edgar Degas used ballet and horse
racing "to achieve an idea of perfect form.")
8:30 Music Of Christmas (the Mormon Youth Symphony
and Chorus)
9 PM Hollywood Television Theatre
10:45 Film
sign off 11 PM

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

9:30 The Savior (a dramatization of the birth and boyhood
of Christ)
11 AM Woman's Place
11:30 700 Club
1 PM Norman Vincent Peale
1:30 Dennis The Menace
2 PM Lone Ranger
2:30 Huck And Yogi
3 PM Porky Pig
3:30 Popeye
4 PM Batman (Cesar Romero as the Joker)
4:30 Superman
5 PM Brady Bunch
5:30 Room 222
6 PM The City That Forgot About Christmas
6:30 Dick Van Dyke
7 PM Christmas Story (a Salvation Army Christmas service)
7:30 New Year's Promise (Davey and Goliath make New Year's
resolutions.)
8 PM 700 Club
9:30 Manna
10 PM Evangelical Communications Research
11 PM Laurel And Hardy
11:30 Honeymooners
sign off 12 M

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

3:55 Dr. J. Harold Smith
4 PM Underdog
4:30 Letters To Santa Claus (why now?)
5 PM Tell It And Sell It
6 PM New Zoo Revue
6:30 Three Stooges
7 PM Bugs Bunny And Friends
7:25 Dr. J. Harold Smith
7:30 Galloping Gourmet
8 PM TV Auction
9 PM Movie: TBA
11 PM Dr. J. Harold Smith
sign off 11:05 PM
 
bpatrick said:
WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

10 AM The City That Forgot About Christmas (Sebastian Cabot and Louis
Nye provide voices in this animated tale of a stranger who brings
Christmas spirit to a loveless city.)
10:30 Christmas Is

As mentioned in this thread, "Christmas Is" was...

bpatrick said:
a boy named Benji is magically taken
to the first Christmas--with the voices of Hans Conried,
Richard Susceno, Don Messick, and Coleen Collins

Both these specials were produced by Lutheran Television, and, after the former was produced, was generally seen together. "The City That Forgot About Christmas" also had a long life, seen into the 1980s on both secular and Christian stations.
 
bp, thanks, old pal. I was running out of steam on my retro marathon and was waiting to see if you would cover Xmas 1975 before I posted one from the Nashville edition for that date. Happy holidays to ya!

Two things: wonder if WSB preserved the Governor's Christmas special that morning in their archives, which are housed at UGA in Athens, and wonder why WAGA didn't clear the CBS NBA game? Must've figured that no one in the ATL was interested in any team but the Hawks, that would be my guess. ABC and NBC were just running their regular skeds in the afternoon, with no special holiday shows, so competition wouldn't figure into it.
 
Why don't you post the Nashville listings anyway? I, for one,
would like to see them.

I don't know if Channel 2 preserved the Busbees' Christmas special,
but I do know that Channel 5, as a rule, did not carry CBS's NBA coverage,
then or later. When WATL/36 came back on the air in 1976 it became Atlanta's
NBA station (Channel 17, of course, carried the Hawks but that was their own
crew doing the games and not CBS's).

Although the Hawks have been in Atlanta since moving from St. Louis in the
late '60s I don't know how much of a draw they've been, either live or on television.
I do recall, when I was in high school, that Channel 2 carried them for a year or two,
then Channel 11 had them for a couple of years (they were on that night in December
1970 when Lester Maddox walked off "The Dick Cavett Show") before finally moving to 17.
(It always fascinated me that when 11 had the Hawks, the games were carried in Greenville/
Spartanburg/Asheville, Charlotte, and Greensboro/Winston-Salem/High Point but not in
Birmingham.)

Hockey has never been a draw; both the Flames and Thrashers moved to other cities.
I remember in 1972, when the Flames began play, Channel 2 carried their games, but not
for long--neither did 2 care about carrying Sunday-afternoon NHL games when they moved
from CBS to NBC. You will, however, find the NBA on 2 this Sunday, and 11 carries NBC's
NHL coverage.

Probably more than you wanted to know, but once you get past baseball and football, sports
are not the biggest television draw in Atlanta.

Anyway, happy holidays to you and your family too!
 
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