From TV Guide, North Georgia Edition:
WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)
6 AM Navy Film
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today (Anne Baxter talks about her autobiography, "Intermission")
9 AM Celebrity Sweepstakes (Joyce Bulifant, James Farentino, Norman Fell,
Michele Lee, Alan Sues, Carol Wayne, week-behind from 10:30 AM)
9:30 The Fun Factory (delay from 12 N)
10 AM Sanford And Son
10:30 Today In Georgia
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Wayland and Madame, Lesley Ann Warren, Dick
Van Dyke, George Gobel, Florence Henderson, Rose Marie, Tim Matheson,
Kurt Russell, Paul Lynde)
12 N News
12:30 Lorenzo And Henrietta Music (Lorenzo is best remembered as Carlton Your
' Doorman on "Rhoda" and for doing Garfeld's thoughts in that series of animated
shows; he is not remembered for this show which lasted all of five weeks. Today's
guest is Dave Garroway.)
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Doris Day
4:30 Odd Couple (one of my favorite episodes: a parody of "A Christmas Carol" with
Oscar as Scrooge being tormented by Felix as the various ghosts)
5 PM The FBI
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
7:30 Name That Tune (the year the show began the $100,000 mystery tune for Golden
Medley winners to try to identify)
8 PM Movie: "Five Desperate Women"
9:30 The Quest (Kurt Russell and Tim Matheson on the hunt for a sister who was captured
eight years earlier by the Cheyenne, debut)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (Michael Landon, Bruce Jenner)
1 AM Tomorrow (Macdonald Carey discusses soap operas.)
2 AM News
WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)
6:25 Romper Room
6:55 News For Little People
7 AM Today
9 AM 700 Club
10 AM Sanford And Son
10:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes (Alan Sues, Loretta Swit, Shelley Winters,
Jack Albertson, David Huddleston, Carol Wayne)
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News
12:30 Gong Show
12:55 NBC News (anchor not given, probably Edwin Newman)
1 PM Truth Or Consequences
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Mickey Mouse Club
5 PM Little Rascals
5:25 News For Little People
5:30 Bewitched
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Adam-12
7:30 Partridge Family (guest: Ray Bolger as Shirley's septuagenarian father
who wants to join the act)
8 PM NBC Movie: "The Million Dollar Rip-Off" (Freddie Prinze in his dramatic
debut)
9:30 The Quest (debut)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow
WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)
6:30 Sunrise Semester: "Communication, The Invisible Environment"
7 AM CBS News (Bruce Morton/Hughes Rudd)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue (the disco scene is the topic; a dance lesson is included)
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 Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM All In The Family
3:30 Bewitched (George Washington (Will Geer) is zapped into the
twentieth century, part 1 of 2)
4 PM Mike Douglas (co-host Wayne Rogers; John Wayne, Joanne Woodward,
the Preservation Hall Jazz Band)
5:30 Adam-12
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7:30 $128,000 Question (debut of the short-lived revival of "The $64,000 Question"
with Mike Darow as host; Alex Trebek will replace him for the 1977-78 season--
on the new show, $64,000 winners return for a season-ending playoff for an
an additional $64,000)
8 PM Good Times (I think this was John Amos's last season; IIRC, James Evans took
a job and Mississippi and was killed in an accident. John Amos had gotten disgusted
with Jimmie Walker's increasing role; he felt the show had degenerated from a believable
look at an African-American family to a farce that gave Walker a chance to yell his patented
"Dy-no-mite!".)
8:30 Adam-12 (Ch. 5's programmers obviously realized that CBS's "Ball Four" was a stinker and
pre-empted it.)
9 PM All In The Family (season premiere, with Archie attracted to a coffee-shop server played
by Janis Paige, first of two parts)
10 PM Marcus Welby, M.D. (pre-empts "The Blue Knight"
11 PM News
11:30 Columbo
1 AM 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 Zoom
7 PM Yoga For Health
7:30 It's A Small World (life in Kenai, Alaska)
8 PM Georgia Forum
9 PM Theater In America ("Forget-Me-Not Lane," about a middle-aged
professor given to thoughts of sex and his youth in World War II
England)
11 PM Movie: "Sabotage" (1937 Hitchcock film made in England, not to
be confused with his 1942 American-made "Saboteur")
sign off 12:30 AM
WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)
6:50 New Tomorrow
7 AM Funtime
7:30 Bozo's Big Top
8 AM Good Morning America (joined in progress)
9 AM Donahue (the Jacksons discuss the entertainment industry)
10 AM Big Valley
11 AM Edge Of Night (delay from 4 PM)
11:30 Happy Days
12 N Hot Seat (Jim Peck-hosted short-lived game show in which couples
find out how much they know about each other through a "galvanic
skin response" machine)
12:30 All My Children
1 PM Ryan's Hope
1:30 Family Feud
2 PM $20,000 Pyramid (Vicki Lawrence, Rick Hurst)
2:30 One Life To Live
3:15 General Hospital
4 PM Leave It To Beaver
4:30 Beverly Hillbillies
5 PM Brady Bunch
5:30 Andy Griffith
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News (Harry Reasoner--Barbara Walters becomes co-anchor
on Oct. 4)
7 PM My Three Sons
7:30 Family Affair (David Ladd--Alan's son and Cheryl's husband--as a Peace
Corps volunteer who has Cissy about ready to join)
8 PM Bionic Woman (season premiere)
9 PM Baretta (season premiere)
10 PM Charlie's Angels (debut)
11 PM News
11:30 The Rookies (Jim Nabors as one of two brothers out to murder
a country singer they believe killed their sister.)
12:40 Mystery Of The Week: "The Next Voice You Hear" stars Bradford
Dillman as a blind jazz pianist who suddenly recognizes the voice
of the man who blinded him and killed his wife (didn't the same
thing happen to Longstreet?).)
WXIA 11 Alive Atlanta (ABC)
6:30 Not For Women Only
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Dinah! (Redd Foxx, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Jessica Walter, LaWanda Page, pop
group Janice)
10:30 $20,000 Pyramid (Tony Randall, Lee Meriwether, week-behind from 2 PM)
11 AM Edge Of Night
11:30 Happy Days
12 N News
12:30 All My Children
1 PM Ryan's Hope
1:30 Merv Griffin (David Steinberg, Doug Kershaw, astrologer Joyce Jillson,
singer Gianni Russo)
2:30 One Life To Live
3:15 General Hospital
4 PM Bonanza
5 PM Emergency One!
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Concentration
7:30 To Tell The Truth (Joe Garagiola, Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen, Kitty Carlisle--
a year from this date Garagiola would be hosting the show)
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM Baretta
10 PM Charlie's Angels
11 PM News
11:30 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
12 M The Rookies (delay from 11:30 PM)
sign off 1:10 AM
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 Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
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 PM All In The Family
3:30 Match Game '76 (Richard Dawson, Fannie Flagg, Dick Gautier, Charles
Nelson Reilly, Della Reese, Brett Somers)
4 PM Tattletales (Marjoe Gortner and Lynnda Kimball, Mark Shera and Barbara
Deutsch, Jimmie Walker and Edy Roberts)
4:30 Merv Griffin (Mary Kay Place, Barry Bostwick, a then-unknown Billy Crystal,
Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods, Richard Hatch (the "Battlestar Galactica"
actor, not the "Survivor" winner)
5:55 Paul Harvey
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Gunsmoke
8 PM Good Times
8:30 Ball Four (debut: Jim Bouton plays baseball pitcher Jim Barton in an adaptation
of his book--Barton's even writing a book about his team, the Washington Americans)
9 PM All In The Family
10 PM The Blue Knight (season premiere)
11 PM News
11:30 Columbo
sign off 1 AM
WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS)
6:50 News
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Let's Talk It Over
9:30 Donahue (Thelma Waylor, associate professor of nutrition at
Long Island University, describes her course in weight control.)
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 Almanac
1:15 Date With Del
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM All In The Family
3:30 Match Game '76
4 PM Gilligan's Island
4:30 Gunsmoke
5:30 Adam-12
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Hollywood Squares (Big Bird, John Byner, Anthony Newley,
Phyllis Diller, Jim Nabors, Florence Henderson, Isabel Sanford,
George Gobel)
8 PM Good Times
8:30 Ball Four
9 PM All In The Family
10 PM The Blue Knight
11 PM News
11:30 Columbo
sign off 1 AM
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 College Today
7 PM Over Easy (guests: Rudy Vallee, Gertrude Ward and the Clara Ward
Singers, debut)
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Georgia Forum
9 PM Theater In America (see Ch. 8)
sign off 11 PM
WTCG (WPCH) Ch. 17 Atlanta (Ind.)
5:15 World At Large
6:10 News
6:30 Romper Room
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8 AM Howdy Doody (unsuccessful attempt to revive the classic
kids' show)
8:30 Lassie
9 AM Hazel
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 AM Movie: "The Fighting O'Flynn" (this 1948 adventure with Douglas
Fairbanks Jr. co-stars Helena Carter--wonder if there's a connection
to Helena Bonham Carter)
11:55 News
12 N Love, American Style (Eve Arden, Louis Nye, Robert Q. Lewis)
12:30 Movie: "The Searching Wind" (Robert Young as an American diplomat
whose career spans the two world wars, from '46)
2:25 News
2:30 Mickey Mouse Club
3 PM Flintstones
3:30 Munsters
4 PM Monkees
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Partridge Family
5:30 Family Affair (guest: Joan Blondell)
6 PM Beverly Hillbillies
6:30 Andy Griffith
7 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8 PM SEC Football Preview
8:30 Baseball: Braves-Astros
11 PM Love, American Style (Michael Burns, Irene Ryan, Susan
Sennett, Lou Jacobi, time approximate)
11:30 Movie: "Joy Of Living" (this one from '38 had an actress named
Jean Dixon, not to be confused with the clairvoyant Jeane Dixon)
1:25 Baseball: Braves-Astros (replay)
3:55 News (time approximate)
4:15 The Outlaws
WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Infinity Factory
11 AM In-school programs
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Human Relations
7 PM Crockett's Victory Garden
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Cinema Showcase (Robert Altman discusses "Buffalo Bill and the
Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson")
8:30 Black Atlanta Today
9 PM Kennedy-Nixon Debates (highlights and analysis from the four 1960
"Great Debates" which are credited with winning JFK the White House,
if only because of his more telegenic appearance)
11 PM Anyone For Tennyson? (George Plimpton and the First Poetry Quartet
recite "Limericks, Epigrams, and Occasional Verse.")
11:30 Captioned ABC News
sign off 12 M
WATL Ch. 36 Atlanta (Ind.)
5 PM Entertainment Page
6 PM Prize Line
6:30 Entertainment Page
7 PM Total Information Television (John Fornaro, Vice Consul of Italy;
Hilary Jones of the Bahamas Tourist Council)
8 PM Person-To-Person Television (this is not Edward R. Murrow's "Person
To Person")
9 PM Total Information Television
10 PM Person-To-Person Television
11 PM Prize Line
11:30 PTL Club
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 Celebrity Sweepstakes
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N The Fun Factory
12:30 Gong Show
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Noon Over Middle Georgia
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Lassie
5 PM Emergency One!
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Bewitched
7:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
8 PM NBC Movie: "The Million Dollar Ripoff"
9:30 The Quest
11 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
11:30 Tonight Show
WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)
In-school programs until
3:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Villa Alegre
7 PM Discover Indonesia
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Nova (the discovery of the structure of DNA)
9 PM Theater In America (see Ch. 8)
sign off 11 PM
WHAE (WGCL) Ch. 46 Atlanta (Ind.)
6:45 News
7 AM Bozo's Big Top
7:30 Rin Tin Tin
8 AM Mighty Mouse
8:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
9 AM Cartoon Festival
9:30 Dennis The Menace
10 AM Mister Ed
10:30 The Rock
11 AM Charisma
11:30 700 Club
1 PM Dr. Kildare (Dick Sargent as an intern injured in a
holiday automobile accident)
2 PM Lone Ranger
2:30 Huck And Yogi
3 PM Porky Pig
3:30 Popeye
4 PM Superman
4:30 Batman (Michael Rennie as the Sandman and Julie Newmar
as the Catwoman)
5 PM Brady Bunch
5:30 McHale's Navy
6 PM Dick Van Dyke
6:30 Rifleman
7 PM Big Valley
8 PM 700 Club
9:30 The Rock
10 PM Vep Ellis At Harvest Temple
10:30 Gerald Derstine Shares
11 PM Best Of Groucho
11:30 Mayberry R.F.D.
12 M News
WRIP (WDSI) Ch. 61 Chattanooga (Ind.)
3:55 Dr. J. Harold Smith
4 PM Uncle Waldo
4:30 Gigantor
5 PM Three Stooges
5:30 Jack Hatcher (local variety show)
6 PM Rin Tin Tin
6:30 Lassie
7 PM Cartoon Carnival
8 PM Champions (the AAU National Junior Olympics in Memphis:
gymnastics, track and field, synchronize swimming, trampoline,
diving and swimming; profiles of long jumper Kathy McMillian
and marathon runner Frank Shorter)
9 PM American Angler
9:30 Three Stooges
10 PM Music City
10:30 Galloping Gourmet
11 PM Dr. J. Harold Smith
sign off 11:05 PM
WSB Ch. 2 Atlanta (NBC)
6 AM Navy Film
6:30 Arthur Smith
7 AM Today (Anne Baxter talks about her autobiography, "Intermission")
9 AM Celebrity Sweepstakes (Joyce Bulifant, James Farentino, Norman Fell,
Michele Lee, Alan Sues, Carol Wayne, week-behind from 10:30 AM)
9:30 The Fun Factory (delay from 12 N)
10 AM Sanford And Son
10:30 Today In Georgia
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Hollywood Squares (Wayland and Madame, Lesley Ann Warren, Dick
Van Dyke, George Gobel, Florence Henderson, Rose Marie, Tim Matheson,
Kurt Russell, Paul Lynde)
12 N News
12:30 Lorenzo And Henrietta Music (Lorenzo is best remembered as Carlton Your
' Doorman on "Rhoda" and for doing Garfeld's thoughts in that series of animated
shows; he is not remembered for this show which lasted all of five weeks. Today's
guest is Dave Garroway.)
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Doris Day
4:30 Odd Couple (one of my favorite episodes: a parody of "A Christmas Carol" with
Oscar as Scrooge being tormented by Felix as the various ghosts)
5 PM The FBI
6 PM News
7 PM NBC News (John Chancellor/David Brinkley)
7:30 Name That Tune (the year the show began the $100,000 mystery tune for Golden
Medley winners to try to identify)
8 PM Movie: "Five Desperate Women"
9:30 The Quest (Kurt Russell and Tim Matheson on the hunt for a sister who was captured
eight years earlier by the Cheyenne, debut)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show (Michael Landon, Bruce Jenner)
1 AM Tomorrow (Macdonald Carey discusses soap operas.)
2 AM News
WRCB Ch. 3 Chattanooga (NBC)
6:25 Romper Room
6:55 News For Little People
7 AM Today
9 AM 700 Club
10 AM Sanford And Son
10:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes (Alan Sues, Loretta Swit, Shelley Winters,
Jack Albertson, David Huddleston, Carol Wayne)
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N News
12:30 Gong Show
12:55 NBC News (anchor not given, probably Edwin Newman)
1 PM Truth Or Consequences
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Mickey Mouse Club
5 PM Little Rascals
5:25 News For Little People
5:30 Bewitched
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Adam-12
7:30 Partridge Family (guest: Ray Bolger as Shirley's septuagenarian father
who wants to join the act)
8 PM NBC Movie: "The Million Dollar Rip-Off" (Freddie Prinze in his dramatic
debut)
9:30 The Quest (debut)
11 PM News
11:30 Tonight Show
1 AM Tomorrow
WAGA Ch. 5 Atlanta (CBS)
6:30 Sunrise Semester: "Communication, The Invisible Environment"
7 AM CBS News (Bruce Morton/Hughes Rudd)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Donahue (the disco scene is the topic; a dance lesson is included)
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 Young And The Restless
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM All In The Family
3:30 Bewitched (George Washington (Will Geer) is zapped into the
twentieth century, part 1 of 2)
4 PM Mike Douglas (co-host Wayne Rogers; John Wayne, Joanne Woodward,
the Preservation Hall Jazz Band)
5:30 Adam-12
6 PM News
7 PM CBS News (Walter Cronkite)
7:30 $128,000 Question (debut of the short-lived revival of "The $64,000 Question"
with Mike Darow as host; Alex Trebek will replace him for the 1977-78 season--
on the new show, $64,000 winners return for a season-ending playoff for an
an additional $64,000)
8 PM Good Times (I think this was John Amos's last season; IIRC, James Evans took
a job and Mississippi and was killed in an accident. John Amos had gotten disgusted
with Jimmie Walker's increasing role; he felt the show had degenerated from a believable
look at an African-American family to a farce that gave Walker a chance to yell his patented
"Dy-no-mite!".)
8:30 Adam-12 (Ch. 5's programmers obviously realized that CBS's "Ball Four" was a stinker and
pre-empted it.)
9 PM All In The Family (season premiere, with Archie attracted to a coffee-shop server played
by Janis Paige, first of two parts)
10 PM Marcus Welby, M.D. (pre-empts "The Blue Knight"
11 PM News
11:30 Columbo
1 AM 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 Zoom
7 PM Yoga For Health
7:30 It's A Small World (life in Kenai, Alaska)
8 PM Georgia Forum
9 PM Theater In America ("Forget-Me-Not Lane," about a middle-aged
professor given to thoughts of sex and his youth in World War II
England)
11 PM Movie: "Sabotage" (1937 Hitchcock film made in England, not to
be confused with his 1942 American-made "Saboteur")
sign off 12:30 AM
WTVC Ch. 9 Chattanooga (ABC)
6:50 New Tomorrow
7 AM Funtime
7:30 Bozo's Big Top
8 AM Good Morning America (joined in progress)
9 AM Donahue (the Jacksons discuss the entertainment industry)
10 AM Big Valley
11 AM Edge Of Night (delay from 4 PM)
11:30 Happy Days
12 N Hot Seat (Jim Peck-hosted short-lived game show in which couples
find out how much they know about each other through a "galvanic
skin response" machine)
12:30 All My Children
1 PM Ryan's Hope
1:30 Family Feud
2 PM $20,000 Pyramid (Vicki Lawrence, Rick Hurst)
2:30 One Life To Live
3:15 General Hospital
4 PM Leave It To Beaver
4:30 Beverly Hillbillies
5 PM Brady Bunch
5:30 Andy Griffith
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News (Harry Reasoner--Barbara Walters becomes co-anchor
on Oct. 4)
7 PM My Three Sons
7:30 Family Affair (David Ladd--Alan's son and Cheryl's husband--as a Peace
Corps volunteer who has Cissy about ready to join)
8 PM Bionic Woman (season premiere)
9 PM Baretta (season premiere)
10 PM Charlie's Angels (debut)
11 PM News
11:30 The Rookies (Jim Nabors as one of two brothers out to murder
a country singer they believe killed their sister.)
12:40 Mystery Of The Week: "The Next Voice You Hear" stars Bradford
Dillman as a blind jazz pianist who suddenly recognizes the voice
of the man who blinded him and killed his wife (didn't the same
thing happen to Longstreet?).)
WXIA 11 Alive Atlanta (ABC)
6:30 Not For Women Only
7 AM Good Morning America
9 AM Dinah! (Redd Foxx, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Jessica Walter, LaWanda Page, pop
group Janice)
10:30 $20,000 Pyramid (Tony Randall, Lee Meriwether, week-behind from 2 PM)
11 AM Edge Of Night
11:30 Happy Days
12 N News
12:30 All My Children
1 PM Ryan's Hope
1:30 Merv Griffin (David Steinberg, Doug Kershaw, astrologer Joyce Jillson,
singer Gianni Russo)
2:30 One Life To Live
3:15 General Hospital
4 PM Bonanza
5 PM Emergency One!
6 PM News
6:30 ABC News
7 PM Concentration
7:30 To Tell The Truth (Joe Garagiola, Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen, Kitty Carlisle--
a year from this date Garagiola would be hosting the show)
8 PM Bionic Woman
9 PM Baretta
10 PM Charlie's Angels
11 PM News
11:30 Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
12 M The Rookies (delay from 11:30 PM)
sign off 1:10 AM
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 Price Is Right
11 AM Gambit
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 PM All In The Family
3:30 Match Game '76 (Richard Dawson, Fannie Flagg, Dick Gautier, Charles
Nelson Reilly, Della Reese, Brett Somers)
4 PM Tattletales (Marjoe Gortner and Lynnda Kimball, Mark Shera and Barbara
Deutsch, Jimmie Walker and Edy Roberts)
4:30 Merv Griffin (Mary Kay Place, Barry Bostwick, a then-unknown Billy Crystal,
Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods, Richard Hatch (the "Battlestar Galactica"
actor, not the "Survivor" winner)
5:55 Paul Harvey
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Gunsmoke
8 PM Good Times
8:30 Ball Four (debut: Jim Bouton plays baseball pitcher Jim Barton in an adaptation
of his book--Barton's even writing a book about his team, the Washington Americans)
9 PM All In The Family
10 PM The Blue Knight (season premiere)
11 PM News
11:30 Columbo
sign off 1 AM
WMAZ Ch. 13 Macon (CBS)
6:50 News
7 AM CBS News
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Let's Talk It Over
9:30 Donahue (Thelma Waylor, associate professor of nutrition at
Long Island University, describes her course in weight control.)
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 Almanac
1:15 Date With Del
1:30 As The World Turns
2:30 Guiding Light
3 PM All In The Family
3:30 Match Game '76
4 PM Gilligan's Island
4:30 Gunsmoke
5:30 Adam-12
6 PM News
6:30 CBS News
7 PM Truth Or Consequences
7:30 Hollywood Squares (Big Bird, John Byner, Anthony Newley,
Phyllis Diller, Jim Nabors, Florence Henderson, Isabel Sanford,
George Gobel)
8 PM Good Times
8:30 Ball Four
9 PM All In The Family
10 PM The Blue Knight
11 PM News
11:30 Columbo
sign off 1 AM
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 College Today
7 PM Over Easy (guests: Rudy Vallee, Gertrude Ward and the Clara Ward
Singers, debut)
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Georgia Forum
9 PM Theater In America (see Ch. 8)
sign off 11 PM
WTCG (WPCH) Ch. 17 Atlanta (Ind.)
5:15 World At Large
6:10 News
6:30 Romper Room
7 AM Three Stooges/Little Rascals
8 AM Howdy Doody (unsuccessful attempt to revive the classic
kids' show)
8:30 Lassie
9 AM Hazel
9:30 Petticoat Junction
10 AM Movie: "The Fighting O'Flynn" (this 1948 adventure with Douglas
Fairbanks Jr. co-stars Helena Carter--wonder if there's a connection
to Helena Bonham Carter)
11:55 News
12 N Love, American Style (Eve Arden, Louis Nye, Robert Q. Lewis)
12:30 Movie: "The Searching Wind" (Robert Young as an American diplomat
whose career spans the two world wars, from '46)
2:25 News
2:30 Mickey Mouse Club
3 PM Flintstones
3:30 Munsters
4 PM Monkees
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5 PM Partridge Family
5:30 Family Affair (guest: Joan Blondell)
6 PM Beverly Hillbillies
6:30 Andy Griffith
7 PM Gomer Pyle, USMC
7:30 Hogan's Heroes
8 PM SEC Football Preview
8:30 Baseball: Braves-Astros
11 PM Love, American Style (Michael Burns, Irene Ryan, Susan
Sennett, Lou Jacobi, time approximate)
11:30 Movie: "Joy Of Living" (this one from '38 had an actress named
Jean Dixon, not to be confused with the clairvoyant Jeane Dixon)
1:25 Baseball: Braves-Astros (replay)
3:55 News (time approximate)
4:15 The Outlaws
WETV (WPBA) Ch. 30 Atlanta (PBS)
9 AM Sesame Street
10 AM Electric Company
10:30 Infinity Factory
11 AM In-school programs
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Human Relations
7 PM Crockett's Victory Garden
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Cinema Showcase (Robert Altman discusses "Buffalo Bill and the
Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson")
8:30 Black Atlanta Today
9 PM Kennedy-Nixon Debates (highlights and analysis from the four 1960
"Great Debates" which are credited with winning JFK the White House,
if only because of his more telegenic appearance)
11 PM Anyone For Tennyson? (George Plimpton and the First Poetry Quartet
recite "Limericks, Epigrams, and Occasional Verse.")
11:30 Captioned ABC News
sign off 12 M
WATL Ch. 36 Atlanta (Ind.)
5 PM Entertainment Page
6 PM Prize Line
6:30 Entertainment Page
7 PM Total Information Television (John Fornaro, Vice Consul of Italy;
Hilary Jones of the Bahamas Tourist Council)
8 PM Person-To-Person Television (this is not Edward R. Murrow's "Person
To Person")
9 PM Total Information Television
10 PM Person-To-Person Television
11 PM Prize Line
11:30 PTL Club
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 Celebrity Sweepstakes
11 AM Wheel Of Fortune
11:30 Hollywood Squares
12 N The Fun Factory
12:30 Gong Show
12:55 NBC News
1 PM Noon Over Middle Georgia
1:30 Days Of Our Lives
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
4 PM Somerset
4:30 Lassie
5 PM Emergency One!
6 PM News
6:30 NBC News
7 PM Bewitched
7:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
8 PM NBC Movie: "The Million Dollar Ripoff"
9:30 The Quest
11 PM I Dream Of Jeannie
11:30 Tonight Show
WTCI Ch. 45 Chattanooga (PBS)
In-school programs until
3:30 Lilias, Yoga And You
4 PM Sesame Street
5 PM Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Electric Company
6 PM Zoom
6:30 Villa Alegre
7 PM Discover Indonesia
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer Report
8 PM Nova (the discovery of the structure of DNA)
9 PM Theater In America (see Ch. 8)
sign off 11 PM
WHAE (WGCL) Ch. 46 Atlanta (Ind.)
6:45 News
7 AM Bozo's Big Top
7:30 Rin Tin Tin
8 AM Mighty Mouse
8:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
9 AM Cartoon Festival
9:30 Dennis The Menace
10 AM Mister Ed
10:30 The Rock
11 AM Charisma
11:30 700 Club
1 PM Dr. Kildare (Dick Sargent as an intern injured in a
holiday automobile accident)
2 PM Lone Ranger
2:30 Huck And Yogi
3 PM Porky Pig
3:30 Popeye
4 PM Superman
4:30 Batman (Michael Rennie as the Sandman and Julie Newmar
as the Catwoman)
5 PM Brady Bunch
5:30 McHale's Navy
6 PM Dick Van Dyke
6:30 Rifleman
7 PM Big Valley
8 PM 700 Club
9:30 The Rock
10 PM Vep Ellis At Harvest Temple
10:30 Gerald Derstine Shares
11 PM Best Of Groucho
11:30 Mayberry R.F.D.
12 M News
WRIP (WDSI) Ch. 61 Chattanooga (Ind.)
3:55 Dr. J. Harold Smith
4 PM Uncle Waldo
4:30 Gigantor
5 PM Three Stooges
5:30 Jack Hatcher (local variety show)
6 PM Rin Tin Tin
6:30 Lassie
7 PM Cartoon Carnival
8 PM Champions (the AAU National Junior Olympics in Memphis:
gymnastics, track and field, synchronize swimming, trampoline,
diving and swimming; profiles of long jumper Kathy McMillian
and marathon runner Frank Shorter)
9 PM American Angler
9:30 Three Stooges
10 PM Music City
10:30 Galloping Gourmet
11 PM Dr. J. Harold Smith
sign off 11:05 PM