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Retro: North Georgia Tuesday, March 28, 1978

By request, from TV Guide, North Georgia Edition

NOTE: President Carter's trip to South America and
Africa may delay or pre-empt regular programming.

WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)

6 AM Pattern For Living
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today (Amy and Irving Wallace discuss "The Two,"
their biography of Eng and Chang Bunker; Tom Brokaw
and Jane Pauley host)
9 AM Hollywood Squares (Milton Berle, Diana Canova, Diahann
Carroll, Tom Dreesen, Jack Jones, Anthony Newley, Stiller
and Meara, Jimmie Walker, Paul Lynde, week-behind from
10:30 AM)
9:30 To Say The Least (Peter Isacksen, Arte Johnson, Ruta Lee,
Jo Ann Pflug, week-behind from noon)
10 AM Sanford And Son
10:30 Today In Georgia (guest: Rep. Larry McDonald)
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Knockout (Arte Johnson's only game-show hosting job)
12 N News
12:30 Newlywed Game
1 PM Liars Club (Dody Goodman, Alan Sues, James Hampton,
Larry Hovis--Allen Ludden hosts)
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM The Rookies
5 PM Odd Couple
5:30 Mary Tyler Moore
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
7:30 Wild Kingdom
8 PM NBC Movie: "The Cops And Robin" (Ernest Borgnine
in something that sounds like "Holmes And Yoyo"
played straight)
10 PM NBC Reports: "Spying For Uncle Sam" (real-life spies
who sometimes risk their sense of morality and self-
respect)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (Suzanne Pleshette, Raquel Welch, Bob
and Ray, Erma Bombeck)
1 AM Tomorrow (Garson Kanin and his wife Ruth Gordon)
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 Sanford And Son
10:30 Hollywood Squares ("Doublemint twins" Cyb and Tricia
Barnstable (of NBC's sitcom "Quark"), Betty Buckley,
Rodney Dangerfield, David Doyle, Dennis Dugan, George
Gobel, Isabel Sanford, Marcia Wallace, Paul Lynde)
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Knockout
12 N Adam-12
12:30 Midday Live
1 PM For Richer, For Poorer
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Bugs Bunny, Three Stooges, Little Rascals
5:25 News For Little People
5:30 Batman (Burgess Meredith as the Penguin)
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Partridge Family
7:30 Family Feud
8 PM NBC Movie: "The Cops And Robin"
10 PM NBC Reports
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6:30 Sunrise Semester: "Physics And Society"
7 AM CBS News (Lesley Stahl/Richard Threlkeld)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue (Anita Bryant and husband Bob Greene
give their views on prayer in public schools)
10 AM Cross-Wits (Betty White, Nipsey Russell, Stubby
Kaye, Conny Van Dyke)
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 All In The Family
4 PM Bewitched
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-hostess Joyce DeWitt, Sergio Franchi,
singer Mary O'Hara, Geoffrey Holder, a Simon Says expert)
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7:30 Price Is Right
8 PM Americans (profiles of extraordinary people, nothing else given)
9 PM All In The Family (one-hour special in which Archie and Edith are
arguing because he wants to buy his favorite bar)
10 PM CBS: On The Air (highlights of past Tuesday shows: the Garry
Moore and Phil Silvers shows, "Dobie Gillis," "Suspense," "Danger,"
"Daktari," "M*A*S*H," "One Day At A Time," Edward R. Murrow
taking on Sen. Joseph McCarthy on "See It Now")
11 PM News
11:30 Columbo
1:05 Kojak
2:15 Marcus Welby, M.D.
3:15 News

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

In-school programming until

3 PM Modern Supervisory Techniques
3:30 French Chef
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Sesame Street
6:30 Over Easy (guest: Sen. Thomas Eagleton)
7 PM Yoga For Health
7:30 Turnabout ("How To Survive Your Job")
8 PM National Geographic: "The Incredible Machine"
(the human body)
9 PM Rudolf Serkin: Master Musician
10 PM Spoleto U.S.A. (highlights of the 1977 Spoleto
Festival in Charleston, SC)
11 PM Anna Karenina (Part 8)
sign off 12 M

WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)

6:25 Good Morning Chattanooga
6:30 PTL Club
7:30 Funtime
8 AM Good Morning America (joined in progress)
9 AM Donahue (guest: Ben Vereen)
10 AM Room 222
10:30 Edge Of Night (delay from 4 PM)
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N $20,000 Pyramid (Tony Randall, Anita Gillette)
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM New Mickey Mouse Club
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM My Three Sons
5:30 Andy Griffith
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News (Harry Reasoner/Barbara Walters)
7 PM Emergency One!
8 PM Happy Days
8:30 Laverne & Shirley
9 PM Three's Company
9:30 Soap
10 PM Having Babies
11 PM News
11:30 ABC Movie: "Quiller: Night Of The Father"

WXIA 11 Alive Atlanta (ABC)

6:30 Not For Women Only (part 2 of 5 on computers:
"Games and Bills")
7 AM Good Morning America (Mummenschanz; David Hartman
hosts)
9 AM $20,000 Pyramid (Peter Isacksen, Penny Peyser, week-behind)
9:30 Gambit (11 Alive was one of a few stations that ran selected
reruns of this show, as did sister station WLKY 32 Alive in Louisville)
10 AM Joker's Wild
10:30 Edge Of Night
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N News
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1 PM All My Children
2 PM One Life To Live
3 PM General Hospital
4 PM Gunsmoke
5 PM Emergency One!
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Concentration (Jack Narz)
7:30 To Tell The Truth (Peggy Cass, Barry Nelson,
Kitty Carlisle, Bill Cullen; Joe Garagiola hosts)
8 PM Happy Days
8:30 Laverne & Shirley
9 PM Three's Company
9:30 Soap
10 PM Having Babies
11 PM News
11:30 Forever Fernwood
12 M ABC Movie: "Quiller: Night Of The Father"

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

5:55 Farm Report
6 AM Sunrise Semester
6:30 Morning Show
8 AM CBS News
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Tattletales (Gavin and Patti MacLeod, Greg
Mullavey and Meredith MacRae, Gene and
Helen Rayburn)
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N News
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 All In The Family
4 PM Match Game '78 (Richard Dawson, David Doyle,
Eva Gabor, Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers,
Betty White)
4:30 Merv Griffin (Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Fred Astaire,
movie producer Ross Hunter, Deney ("Dance Fever")
Teerio, dancer Patsy Folkerson)
5:55 Weather
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Gunsmoke
8 PM Sam (he's a police dog)
8:30 Shields & Yarnell
9 PM All In The Family
10 PM CBS: On The Air
11 PM News
11:30 Columbo
1:05 Kojak

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS)

6:20 News
6:30 Let's Talk It Over (rerun of the previous
day's show)
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Let's Talk It Over (subject: the March of Dimes)
9:30 Donahue (obstacles faced by college applicants and
their families)
10:30 Price Is Right
11:30 Love Of Life
11:55 CBS News
12 N Young And The Restless
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1 PM News
1:15 Date With Del (upcoming events at Six Flags Over
Georgia)
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 All In The Family
4 PM Gilligan's Island
4:30 Gunsmoke
5:30 Adam-12
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Brady Bunch
7:30 Muppet Show (guest: Cleo Laine)
8 PM Sam
8:30 Shields & Yarnell
9 PM All In The Family
10 PM CBS: On The Air
11 PM News
11:30 Columbo
1:05 Kojak

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

In-school programs until

3 PM Modern Supervisory Techniques
3:30 French Chef
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Over Easy
7 PM Wild Wild World Of Animals
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM National Geographic
9 PM Rudolf Serkin: Master Musician
10 PM Spoleto U.S.A.
11 PM Dick Cavett (former narcotics agent
James West)

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

5:10 Wanted: Dead Or Alive
5:40 World At Large
6:10 News
6:30 Romper Room
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8 AM Lassie
8:30 The Lucy Show (Ann Sothern appears as
the Countess)
9 AM Jim Nabors (Carol Burnett, Erma Bombeck,
Jim Stafford)
10 AM Movie: "The Price Of Fear"
11:55 News
12 N Hazel
12:30 Movie: "Flood Tide" (watch for Joanna Moore,
Peggy on "The Andy Griffith Show")
2:25 News
2:30 I Love Lucy (the Orson Welles episode)
3 PM New Mickey Mouse Club
3:30 Flintstones
4 PM Addams Family
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
5:30 Family Affair
6 PM Andy Griffith (a color episode in which Barney
returns for his high-school reunion)
6:30 My Three Sons
7 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8 PM The World At War (the atomic bomb and the
surrender of Japan)
9 PM Movie: "The Savage Innocents"
11:30 Movie: "The Spoilers"
1:15 Movie: "China Gate" (Gene Barry stars)
3:15 News
3:35 Open Up

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)

9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM In-school programs
10:30 Infinity Factory
11 AM In-school programs
2 PM Electric Company
2:30 In-school programs
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Over Easy
7 PM Que Pasa, U.S.A.?
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Cinema Showcase (Oscar predictions)
8:30 Consumer Survival Kit
9 PM Meeting Of Minds (capital punishment, slavery,
and revolution are discussed by actors playing
the Marquis de Sade, Dowager Empress Tz'u Hsi,
jurist Cesare Beccaria, and Frederick Douglass; Steve
Allen moderates)
10 PM Nova
11 PM Dick Cavett
11:30 Captioned ABC News

WATL Ch. 36 Atlanta (Ind.)

12:30 Gong Show (Jaye P. Morgan, Pat Paulsen, Arte
Johnson, pre-empted on Ch. 2)
1 PM For Richer, For Poorer (pre-empted on Ch. 2)
1:30 PTL Club
2:30 Hal Roach Studio Presents
3 PM Bozo's Big Top
3:30 Kids Show
5 PM Entertainment Page
6 PM Sports With Art Collier
7 PM Dinah! (Shirley MacLaine, Jane Wyman, Robert
Conrad, Cheryl Tiegs, movie director Herbert Ross,
teen-age actor Jeb Adams, Robert Osborne)
8:30 Spotlight (Atlanta Journal sports editor Furman
Bisher talks about his book "The Masters")
9 PM WCT Tennis: Caesars Palace Championship--Dick
Stockton vs. Ken Rosewall)
10 PM PTL Club
12 M The Lost Jungle (movie serial)
12:20 Movie: "The Stranger" (Orson Welles)

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

6 AM PTL Club
7 AM Today
9 AM PTL Club continues
10 AM Sanford And Son
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Knockout
12 N To Say The Least (Arte Johnson, Peter
Marshall, Lee Meriwether, Jo Anne Worley)
12:30 Gong Show
1 PM News
1:15 Noon Over Middle Georgia
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM For Richer, For Poorer
4:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
5 PM The Archies
5:30 Flintstones
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Alias Smith And Jones
8 PM NBC Movie: "The Cops And Robin"
10 PM NBC Reports
11 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
11:30 Tonight Show

WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)

8:40 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:10 In-school programs
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Infinity Factory
11 AM In-school programs
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 In-school programs
3:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Over Easy
7 PM Every Tuesday (newsmagazine)
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM National Geographic
9 PM Rudolf Serkin: Master Musician
10 PM Spoleto U.S.A.
sign off 11 PM

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

5:45 News
6 AM Ross Bagley (gospel music)
7 AM Mighty Mouse
7:30 Heckle And Jeckle
8 AM Deputy Dawg
8:30 Batman (Eartha Kitt plays the Catwoman)
9 AM Flipper
9:30 Life Of Riley (I'm sure these are the William
Bendix episodes, since Jackie Gleason made
only 26)
10 AM 700 Club
11:30 Practical Christian Living
12 N Acts 29
12:30 Big Valley
1:30 New Zoo Revue
2 PM Huck And Yogi
2:30 Popeye And Porky Pig
3:30 Fred Flintstone & Friends
4 PM Brady Kids
4:30 Superman (animated)
5 PM Perils Of Penelope Pitstop
5:30 Spiderman
6 PM Brady Bunch
6:30 Brady Bunch
7 PM Bonanza
8 PM Sgt. Bilko
8:30 Dick Van Dyke
9 PM 700 Club
10:30 Practical Christian Living
11 PM Holiday In Melodyland
11:30 Rifleman
12 M Best Of Groucho
12:30 News

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

11:30 Valley Of The Dinosaurs
12 N Movie: TBA
1:30 Around The World In 80 Days (animated)
2 PM Movie: "The Goose Steps Out" (a professor
who looks like Hitler is sneaked into Germany
by the British to get a new secret weapon)
3:30 Bozo's Big Top
4 PM Lidsville
4:30 Mike Douglas (co-hostess Kristy McNichol,
Lou Jacobi, Lynn Redgrave, Shirley Hemphill,
Dennis Dugan, singer Kacey Cisyk, skier Billy
Kidd in the Poconos, a trampoline artist)
6 PM Jim Nabors (Chita Rivera, actress Lisa Mordente,
comedian George Miller)
7 PM Quest For Adventure
7:30 Word Of God School
8:30 United Christian Church
9:30 Film
10 PM Miracles Today
10:30 The Solid Rock (religious)
 
bpatrick said:
9:30 Life Of Riley (I'm sure these are the William
Bendix episodes, since Jackie Gleason made
only 26)

It was indeed the William Bendix episodes. When we got cable in Birmingham in late '78 or early '79, Channel 46 was still showing "Life of Riley".
 
bpatrick said:
WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)
6:30 PTL Club
7:30 Funtime
8 AM Good Morning America (joined in progress)

Now that's an oddly-scheduled group!

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)
8 PM Sam (he's a police dog)

Does he eat purple flowers? ::)
 
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