• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

Retro: North Georgia Wednesday, August 30, 1978

From TV Guide, North Georgia Edition:

WSB Ch. 2 (NBC)

6 AM Navy Film
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today (Tom Brokaw)
9 AM Card Sharks (delay from 10 AM)
9:30 Odd Couple
10 AM Today In Georgia
10:30 Hollywood Squares (Loni Anderson, Rhonda Bates,
Big Bird and Oscar, John Byner, Charlie Callas, George
Gobel, Harvey Korman, Mel Tillis, Abigail Van Buren)
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N News
12:30 Liars Club (Betty White, William Conrad, Dick Gautier,
Larry Hovis)
1 PM Doris Day
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Mod Squad
5 PM Newlywed Game
5:30 Mary Tyler Moore
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
7:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
8 PM NBC Movie: "The Day Of The Dolphin"
10 PM Billy Graham Toronto Crusade (second of three programs)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (Tom Snyder, Suzanne Pleshette, Kelly Garrett,
Dr. Paul Ehrlich)
1 AM Tomorrow (guest: Theodore White, who had just written his
memoir)
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 Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N America Alive! (Jack Linkletter)
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, Little Rascals, Three Stooges
4:55 News For Little People
5 PM Odd Couple
5:30 Adam-12
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Newlywed Game
7:30 $100,000 Name That Tune
8 PM NBC Movie: "The Day Of The Dolphin"
10 PM Police Woman
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow

WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)

6:30 Summer Semester: "Alternative Futures" (programs
to help underdeveloped nations)
7 AM CBS News (Lesley Stahl/Richard Threlkeld)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue (Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge)
10 AM Cross-Wits (Jo Anne Worley, Peter Haskell, Susan
Strasberg, Jonathan Harris)
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 Denise Alexander; Broadway
dancer Ann Reinking, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Eddie Rabbitt,
singer Georgia Holt (Cher's mother)--this is Mike's third-to-
last show from Philadelphia before moving to Los Angeles)
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7:30 Wild Wild World Of Animals
8 PM Pilot: "The Funny World Of Fred And Bunni" (pilot for a variety
show starring Fred Travalena and featuring animated segments)
9 PM CBS Movie: "The Amazing Howard Hughes" (Part 2 of 2)
11 PM News
11:30 U.S. Open Tennis (recap of the day's matches)
11:45 Hawaii Five-O
12:55 CBS Movie: "The Last Escape"
2:45 Ironside
3:45 News

WGTV Ch. 8 Athens/Atlanta (PBS)

In-school programs until

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Sesame Street
6:30 Over Easy (guest: actor Fritz Feld)
7 PM Yoga For Health
7:30 The Goodies (British sitcom)
8 PM Otto: Zoo Gorilla (a playful 400-pound gorilla at Chicago's
Lincoln Park Zoo)
9 PM Great Performances (Zoe Caldwell as Sarah Bernhardt)
10:30 Wilder Wilder (four short religious plays written by Thornton
Wilder early in his career)
11 PM Movie: "Seven Cities Of Gold"

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--Linda Lavin
is a scheduled guest)
9 AM Donahue (Wayne Newton on a show from Stockton, CA)
10 AM Beverly Hillbillies
10:30 Edge Of Night (delay from 4 PM)
11 AM Happy Days
11:30 Family Feud
12 N $20,000 Pyramid (Elaine Joyce, John Schuck)
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 Emergency One!
5:30 Superman
6 PM News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7 PM Billy Graham Toronto Crusade (second of three programs)
8 PM Eight Is Enough
9 PM Charlie's Angels
10 PM Starsky & Hutch
11 PM News
11:30 Police Story
12:40 Legend Of The Black Hand (Part 4 of 5)

WXIA 11 Alive Atlanta (ABC)

6:30 Not For Women Only ("The Problems and Pleasures of
Job Reentry," Part 3 of 5)
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM $20,000 Pyramid (Loretta Swit, Geoff Edwards, week-behind
from 12 N)
9:30 Gambit
10 AM To Tell The Truth (Peggy Cass, Soupy Sales, Kitty Carlisle,
Bill Cullen)
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 Medical Center
6 PM News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7 PM Joker's Wild
7:30 Concentration
8 PM Eight Is Enough
9 PM Charlie's Angels
10 PM Starsky & Hutch
11 PM News
11:30 Police Story
12:40 Legend Of The Black Hand (Part 4 of 5)

WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

5:55 Farm Report
6 AM Summer Semester
6:30 Morning Show
8 AM CBS News
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Tic Tac Dough (failed network version that had station
execs who had bought the syndicated version for fall
in a panic--the syndicated show lasted eight years)
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 '77 (Patty Duke Astin, Bob Barker, Richard
Deacon, Fannie Flagg, Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers)
4:30 Merv Griffin (Nick Nolte, actress Barbara Carrera, songwriters
Adolph Green and Betty Comden, Skip Stephenson, actor-singer
Ken Marshall)
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM The Rookies
8 PM Pilot: "The Funny World Of Fred And Bunni"
9 PM CBS Movie: "The Amazing Howard Hughes" (Part 2 of 2)
11 PM News
11:30 U.S. Open Tennis
11:45 Hawaii Five-O
12:55 CBS Movie: "The Last Escape"

WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS)

5:50 Gilligan's Island
6:20 Ebony Speaks
6:50 News
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue (John T. Malloy, author of "The Women's Dress
For Success Book")
10 AM Let's Talk It Over
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
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3:30 All In The Family
4 PM Little Rascals
4:30 Gunsmoke
5:30 Adam-12
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Brady Bunch
7:30 Match Game PM (Fannie Flagg, Polly Holliday, Dick
Martin, Richard Dawson)
8 PM Pilot: "The Funny World Of Fred And Bunni"
9 PM CBS Movie: "The Amazing Howard Hughes" (Part 2 of 2)
11 PM News
11:30 U.S. Open Tennis
11:45 Hawaii Five-O
12:55 CBS Movie: "The Last Escape"

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

In-school programs until

4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Over Easy
7 PM Taylor's People (Nick Taylor interviews Atlanta
author-columnist Celestine Sibley)
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Georgia Forum
9 PM Great Performances
10:30 Wilder Wilder
11 PM Dick Cavett (second of two with drama critic Kenneth
Tynan)
sign off 11:30 PM

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

6:10 News
6:30 Romper Room
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8 AM Lassie
8:30 The Lucy Show (Roberta Sherwood and son Robert Lanning
move into Viv's old apartment and plan to turn it into a
rehearsal hall.)
9 AM Perry Mason
10 AM Movie: "He Walked By Night"
11:55 News
12 N High Hopes (Canadian soap that flopped in the U.S.)
12:30 Movie: "The Siege At Red River"
2:25 News
2:30 I Love Lucy
3 PM New Mickey Mouse Club
3:30 The Archies
4 PM Munsters
4:30 The Monkees
5 PM Hazel
5:30 Family Affair
6 PM That Girl
6:30 Green Acres
7 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
7:30 Baseball: Cubs-Braves
10 PM Untouchables (time approximate)
11 PM Let's Make A Deal
11:30 Movie: "Cancel My Reservation" (Bob Hope and
Eva Marie Saint are caught up in an Arizona murder
mystery, from '72)
1:30 Baseball: Cubs-Braves (replay)
4 AM News (time approximate)
4:20 Maverick
5:20 World At Large

WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)

9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
10:30 Electric Company
11 AM Over Easy
11:30 Cinema Showcase: Bronte Woodard
12 N off the air
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Crockett's Victory Garden
6:30 Over Easy
7 PM Dick Cavett (Part 1 of 2 with Kenneth Tynan)
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Bill Moyers' Journal: International Report (the
struggles of Jamaica to become self-sufficient)
9 PM Cinema Showcase (Bronte Woodard, who wrote
the screenplay for "Grease")
9:30 Belle Of Amherst (Julie Harris as Emily Dickinson)
11 PM Dick Cavett
11:30 Captioned ABC News

WATL Ch. 36 Atlanta (Ind.)

9 AM Jack Rehburg (religion)
9:30 Truth For Today
10 AM Hope Of Israel
10:30 Mushegan Family (gospel music)
11 AM PTL Club
1 PM For Richer, For Poorer (pre-empted on Ch. 2)
1:30 Screen Director's Playhouse
2 PM Spotlight (Don Kennedy interviews Elizabeth
Schlapp, biographer of Roy Acuff)
2:30 Travel Film
3 PM Bozo's Big Top
3:30 Kids Show
5 PM Match Game '77 (pre-empted on Ch. 5, delay
from 4 PM)
5:30 Entertainment Page (Lang Elliott and Wanda Dell,
producers of Tim Conway's movie "The Prize Fighter,"
talk with Jim Morrison--no, not that Jim Morrison)
6:30 (Larry) Munson On Sports
7 PM Dinah! (Jane Wyatt, Peter Strauss, Don Meredith,
Barbara Bach)
8:30 Spotlight (Marty Simmons, co-producer of "National
Lampoon's Animal House")
9 PM Wrestling (IIRC, this was Lars Anderson's World League
Wrestling)
10 PM PTL Club
12 M Something Special At Midnight (religion)

WCWB (WMGT) Ch. 41 Macon (NBC)

6 AM PTL Club
7 AM Today
9 AM PTL Club continues
10 AM Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11 AM High Rollers
11:30 Wheel Of Fortune
12 N America Alive!
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 (NBC offered two feeds, at 1
and 4 PM)
4:30 New Mickey Mouse Club
5 PM The Archies
5:30 Flintstones
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Wild Wild West
8 PM NBC Movie: "The Day Of The Dolphin"
10 PM Police Woman
11 PM Alfred Hitchcock Presents
11:30 Tonight Show

WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)

3 PM Lilias, Yoga And You
3:30 GED Math IV
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM GED Math IV
6:30 Over Easy
7 PM Daniel Foster, M.D. (medical advice)
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Otto: Zoo Gorilla
9 PM Great Performances
10:30 Focus On Education

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

5:45 News
6 AM Ross Bagley (gospel music)
7 AM New Zoo Revue
7:30 Popeye And Friends
8:30 Movie: "The Foreman Went To France"
10 AM 700 Club
11:30 The Rock (religion)
12 N Ross Bagley
12:30 Big Valley
1:30 Best Of Groucho
2 PM Heckle And Jeckle
2:30 Fred Flintstone & Friends
3 PM Popeye And Friends
4 PM Tom And Jerry
5 PM Spider-Man
6 PM Brady Bunch
6:30 Courtship Of Eddie's Father
7 PM Streets Of San Francisco
8 PM Bonanza
9 PM 700 Club
10:30 The Rock
11 PM Sgt. Bilko (Phil Silvers)
11:30 Life Of Riley
12 M News

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

10 AM Jetsons
10:30 Mission: Magic
11 AM PTL Club
12 N Movie: TBA
1:30 Mike Douglas (co-host Ben Vereen; Phyllis Newman,
Elia Kazan, comedian Kip Addotta, fashion designer
Jacques Bellini, dance team Hines and Hines)
3 PM The Archies
3:30 Bozo's Big Top
4 PM Pat's Story Time
4:30 PTL Club
6:30 Tell It And Sell It
7:30 Space Kiddettes
8 PM Rev. Leonard Repass
8:30 Film
9 PM Unity Church Of God
10 PM Quest For Adventure
10:30 Rev. Woody Martin
11 PM PTL Club
 
bpatrick said:
WDEF Ch. 12 Chattanooga (CBS)

10 AM Tic Tac Dough (failed network version that had station
execs who had bought the syndicated version for fall
in a panic--the syndicated show lasted eight years)

No doubt a contestant named Thom McKee helped made them relax.

bpatrick said:
4 PM Match Game '77 (Patty Duke Astin, Bob Barker, Richard
Deacon, Fannie Flagg, Charles Nelson Reilly, Brett Somers)

Shouldn't this be "Match Game 78", or were these reruns of "77"?

bpatrick said:
WTCG (WPCH) Ch. 17 Atlanta (Ind.)

12 N High Hopes (Canadian soap that flopped in the U.S.)

Canadians didn't care for it either -- this CBC soap, co-produced by an American company and set ant an American college, lasted only several weeks on the CBC.

More here:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077024/
 
As for the "America Alive" flop on NBC daytime, this was a vehicle for Art Linkletter's son Jack, who, strangely enough, failed as a co-host to his father's attempted comeback on the Peacock channel eight years earlier, on "Life with Linkletter." This was a "flexible" show, where affiliates could air the full hour, as WCWB Macon did, or only the first half hour, as WRCB Chattanooga did. Or affils could decide for neither, like WSB Atlanta, which opted to continue its venerable tradition of pre-empting the network from Noon to 1:30 for fans of Allen Ludden and Doris Day. A good family name can only take you so far, as Jack found out at the end of the year, when NBC decided to flush its "new ideas" down the toilet and pull up its soaps a half-hour and bring on classic games like the Password Plus revival--WSB may have given 30 Rock an idea with Liar's Club.
 
Oddly, Jack Linkletter never really had a successful career on television;
I suppose "Hootenanny" (April 1963-September 1964) was his most successful
show, and that came to an end for several reasons: (1) folkies like Bob Dylan, Joan
Baez, the Kingston Trio, and Peter, Paul and Mary would not do the show after Pete
Seeger refused to sign a loyalty oath ("blacklisting" remained in force on this show;
the Weavers were also banned); (2) as a result, viewers were bombarded with the
New Christy Minstrels and the Chad Mitchell Trio ad nauseum; (3) the British Invasion
basically killed the folk craze.

But Jack's list of flops include "Haggis Baggis," "On The Go," and "The Rebus Game,"
in addition to "Life With Linkletter" and "America Alive!". He spent a year on "House
Party" with his dad and sister Diane, but Fred Silverman was itching to get that show
off the CBS daytime lineup, moving it from 2:30 to 4 PM (ET) and putting "Guiding Light"
in the 2:30 slot; "House Party," by then retitled "The Linkletter Show," ended in 1969.
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom