GEORGIA EDITION TV GUIDE - September 15, 1969

Atlanta:
2 - WSB (NBC)
5 - WAGA (CBS)
11 - WQXI (ABC)
17 - WJRJ (Ind.)
30 - WETV (NET)
36 - WATL (Ind.)

Athens/Atlanta:
8 - WGTV (NET)

Macon:
13 - WMAZ (CBS, ABC)
41 - WCWB (NBC)

Cochran:
15 - WDCO (NET)

Chatsworth
18 - WCLP (NET)

Chattanooga, Tenn.
3 - WRCB (NBC)
9 - WTVC (ABC)
12 - WDEF (CBS)

Monday, Sept. 15, 1969:
6 AM
5 - Black Heritage

6:20
2 - Town & Country
12 - Focus

6:25
2 - Farm News

6:30
2 - Government Story
5 - Answers, Anyone?
13 - Cartoon Club

6:55
12 - Dilly Dally

7 AM
2-3-41 - Today Show
5-12-13 - CBS News
11 - Dudley Do-Right

7:30
11 - Tubby & Lester

7:45
9 - Upward Look

8 AM
5-13 - Captain Kangaroo
9 - Jack LaLanne
12 - Regional Report

8:30
9 - Dennis The Menace
12 - Romper Room

9 AM
2 - Today In Georgia
3 - Steve Allen
5 - Mr. Pix
9 - Funtime
11 - Romper Room
12 - Captain Kangaroo
13 - General Hospital
41 - Film

9:30
2 - News Meeting
5 - Gomer Pyle, USMC
13 - Bewitched

10 AM
2-3-41 - It Takes Two
5-12-13 - Lucille Ball
9 - Movie: "The Desert Song" (1953)
11 - The Real McCoys

10:25
2-3-41 - NBC News

10:30
2-3-41 - Concentration
5-12-13 - Beverly Hillbillies
11 - My Favorite Martian

11 AM
2-3-41 - Personality
5-12-13 - Andy Griffith
11 - He Said, She Said
36 - Jack LaLanne

11:30
2-3-41 - The Hollywood Squares
5-12-13 - Love Of Life
9 - That Girl
11 -Galloping Gourmet
36 - Tempo Atlanta

12 Noon
2-5-12 - News
3-17-41 - Jeopardy!
9-11 - Bewitched
13 - Where The Heart Is
36 - Cartoon Club

12:20
12 - Paul Harvey

12:25
12-13 - CBS News

12:30
2 - Mike Douglas
3-41 - Eye Guess
5-12-13 - Search For Tomorrow
9 - News
11 - That Girl
17 - Movie: "The Bridge Of San Luis Rey" (1944)

12:55
3-41 - NBC News

1 PM
3 - Bulletin
5 - Divorce Court
9-11 - Dream House
12 - Queen For A Day
13 - Almanac
36 - You're Putting Me On
41 - Judi Wood

1:15
13 - Date With Del

1:20
3 - Fashions In Sewing

1:30
3-41 - You're Putting Me On
5-12-13 - As The World Turns
9-11 - Let's Make A Deal
36 - Movie: "Imitation Of Life" (1934)

2 PM
2-3-41 - Days Of Our Lives
5-12-13 - Love Is A Many Splendored Thing
9-11 - Newlywed Game

2:30
2-3-41 - The Doctors
5-12-13 - Guiding Light
9-11 - Dating Game
17 - Jack Benny

3 PM
2-3-41 - Another World
5-12-13 - Secret Storm
9-11 - General Hospital
17 - Adventure Theater
36 - Rocket Robin Hood

3:30
2-3-41 - You Don't Say!
5-12-13 - Edge Of Night
9-11 - One Life To Live
17 - King & Odie
36 - Marine Boy

4 PM
2-3-41 - Match Game
5 - Movie: "Grounds For Divorce" (1950)
9-11-13 - Dark Shadows
12 - Gomer Pyle, USMC
17 - Rocky & His Friends
36 - Speed Racer

4:25
2 - Newsbrief
3-41 - NBC News

4:30
2 - Truth Or Consequences
3 - Movie: "Francis In The Haunted House" (1956)
8-15-18-30 - What's New?
9 - Jeff's Collie
11 - Daktari
12-13 - Gilligan's Island
17 - Yogi Bear
36 - Officer Don's Clubhouse
41 - Dating Game

5 PM
2-12 - Perry Mason
8-15-18-30 - Children's Television Workshop
9 - Bob Brandy
13 - Big Valley
17 - Little Rascals
41 - Flintstones

5:30
9-11-41 - News
17 - Batman
36 - Superman

6 PM
2-3-5-9-12 - News
8-15-18-30 - Misterogers
11 - Dick Van Dyke
13 - Pulse
17 - Flintstones
36 - Lost In Space
41 - Laredo

6:30
3 - NBC News
5-12-13 - CBS News
8-15-18-30 - Law Enforcement Training
9 - Real McCoys
17 - McHale's Navy

7 PM
2-41 - NBC News
3-13 - Truth Or Consequences
5-9 - I Love Lucy
8-15-18 - Georgialand
11 - What's My Line?
12 - Strange Paradise
17 - Munsters
30 - Astronomy For You
36 - Patty Duke

7:30
2-3-41 - My World...And Welcome To It
5-12-13 - Gunsmoke
8-15-18 - Folk Guitar
9 - Movie: "Agents For H.A.R.M." (1966)
11 - Avengers
17 - My Little Margie
30 - Your Public Servants
36 - Beat The Clock

8 PM
2-3-41 - Laugh-In
8-15-18 - East Side/West Side
17 - Donna Reed
30 - World Press
36 - Candid Camera

8:30
5-12-13 - Lucille Ball
11 - Guns Of Will Sonnett
17 - Wells Fargo
36 - Game Game

9 PM
2 - Movie: "Fluffy" (1965)
3-36-41 - Movie: "Nobody's Perfect" (1966)
5-12-13 - Mayberry R.F.D.
8-15-18-30 - NET Journal
11 - Outcasts
17 - Della Reese

9:30
5-12-13 - Family Affair
9 - Guns Of Will Sonnett

10 PM
5-12-13 - Football Special
8-15-18 - Musical Artists
9-11 - Dick Cavett
17 - Untouchables

10:30
8-15-18 - Film

11 PM
2-3-5-9-11-12-13 - News
17 - Alfred Hitchcock
36 - Twilight Zone
41 - Middle Georgia Golf

11:30
2-3-41 - Johnny Carson
5-12-13 - Merv Griffin
9-36 - Joey Bishop
11 - Movie: "The Kid From Left Field" (1953)
17 - Movie: "The Rose Bowl Story" (1952)

Hey Ccook55, do you have TV listings from Local TV guides from Georgia (from the time period of 1970-1973) and North Georgia from the time period of 1973-1974?
If you do, just let me know, and I'd love to see some posted!

Here are the listings!

2 - WSB Atlanta (NBC)
3 - WRCB Chattanooga (NBC)
5 - WAGA Atlanta (CBS)
8 - WGTV Athens (PBS)
9 - WTVC Chattanooga (ABC)
11 - WXIA Atlanta (ABC)
12 - WDEF Chattanooga (CBS)
13 - WMAZ Macon (CBS)
15 - WDCO Cochran (PBS)
17 - WTCG Atlanta (Ind)
18 - WCLP Chatsworth (PBS)
30 - WETV Atlanta (PBS)
36 - WATL Atlanta (Ind, went off the air in 1971)
41 - WCWB Macon (NBC)
45 - WTCI Chattanooga (PBS)
46 - WHAE Atlanta (Ind)
61 - WRIP Chattanooga (Ind)

I can check our downtown library. They have--or had--bunches of TV Guide back issues. I'll check to see if they have 'em.

Meantime, here's what was on two days earlier, Sept. 13 - the day Scooby-Doo made his television debut:

6:25
5 - Sacred Heart

6:40
5 - Living Word

6:55
5 - Farm News, Weather

7 AM
2 - Astroboy
5 - RFD-5
9 - Science In Action
11 - Adventures In Living
13 - Georgialand

7:30
5 - 4-H Hour
9 - Dudley Do-Right
11 - Mr. Magoo
13 - Georgia Farm Monitor

8 AM
2 - Popeye Club
3-41 - Heckle And Jeckle
5-12-13 - Jetsons
9-11 - Casper Cartoon Show

8:30
5-12-13 - Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
9-11 - Smokey Bear

9 AM
2-3-41 - Here Comes The Grump
9-11 - Cattanooga Cats

9:30
2-3-41 - Pink Panther
5 - Mr. Pix
12-13 - Dastardly & Muttley (premiere)

10 AM
2-3-41 - H.R. Pufnstuf
9-11 - Hot Wheels
12-13 - Perils Of Penelope Pitstop (premiere)
36 - Movie: "You Can't Run Away From It" (1956, musical)

10:30
2-3-41 - Banana Splits
5-12-13 - Scooby-Doo (premiere)
9-11 - Hardy Boys

11 AM
5-12-13 - Archie Comedy Hour (premiere)
9-11 - Sky Hawks

11:30
2-3-41 - Jambo
9-11 - New Adventures Of Gulliver

12 Noon
2 - Movie: "Lad: A Dog" (1962, drama)
3 - Flintstones
5-12-13 - Monkees
9 - Singing Convention
11 - Fantastic Voyage
36 - Steel Pier Swings
41 - Film

12:30
3 - Underdog
5-12-13 - Wacky Races
11 - Captain Scarlett & The Mysterons

1 PM
3 - Lester Flatt
5-12-13 - New Adventures Of Superman
9 - Know Your Bible
11 - Joe Foss
36 - Movie: "Last Of The Comanches" (1953, western)
41 - Wrestling

1:30
3 - Bill Anderson
5-12-13 - Jonny Quest
9-11 - It's Happening

1:55
2 - Film

2 PM
2 - Steve Allen
3 - Kitty Wells
5 - Dastardly & Muttley (premiere; tape-delayed)
9 - Insight
11 - Bill Anderson
12 - Car & Track
13 - Happening
17 - Upbeat
41 - Film

2:30
3 - Joe Foss
5 - Dobie Gillis (TV Guide had Penelope Pitstop listed but WAGA slotted in Dobie Gillis late)
9 - Encore Theater
11 - Wilburn Brothers
12 - Combat!
13 - Movie: "No Way Out" (1950, drama)
41 - Middle Georgia Golf

3 PM
3 - To be announced
5 - NFL Football: Atlanta vs. Green Bay, from Canton, Ohio (live)
9 - Movie: "Night Creatures" (1962, melodrama)
11 - Porter Wagoner
17 - Agriculture USA
36 - Movie: "You Can't Run Away From It" (1956, musical)
41 - Kitty Wells

3:15
3 - Rapid Reading

3:30
2 - Adam-12 (tape-delayed)
9 - Fishing
11 - Movie: "Ramar And The Savage Challenges" (1959, adventure)
12 - Wrestling
17 - Movie: To be announced
41 - Film

4 PM
2-3-41 - Baseball Pre-Game
13 - Jacques Cousteau (special): "The Legend of Lake Titicaca"

4:15
2-3-41 - Baseball: Cincinnati at San Francisco (live)

4:30
9 - Encore Theater
12 - AAU Track Meet

5 PM
9-13 - Wide World Of Sports
11 - Film
17 - Young Samson
36 - Country Carnival

5:30
11 - Wrestling
12 - NFL Action
17 - Batman
36 - Judy Lynn

6 PM
5-12 - News
17 - Skippy
36 - Star Trek

6:30
2-3 - NBC News
5 - Good Guys (tape-delayed)
9 - Avengers (tape-delayed)
11 - Movie: "Black Gold" (1947, western)
12-13-17 - CBS News
41 - Bill Anderson

7 PM
2 - News
3 - Porter Wagoner
5 - Beverly Hillbillies (tape-delayed)
12 - Skippy
13 - Porter Wagoner
17 - Munsters
36 - One Step Beyond
41 - NBC News (tape-delayed)

7:30
2 - Death Valley Days
3-41 - Adam-12
5-12-13 - Jackie Gleason
8-15-18 - You Asked For It
9-36 - Dating Game
17 - My Little Margie

8 PM
2-3-41 - Get Smart (moves to CBS Sept. 26)
8-15-18 - Great Music
9-36 - Newlywed Game
17 - Donna Reed

8:30
2-3-41 - Movie: "To Kill A Mockingbird" (1962, drama)
5-12 - My Three Sons
9-11-13 - Lawrence Welk
36 - Honeymooners

9 PM
5-12 - Hogan's Heroes
8-15-18 - Speaking Freely
17 - Western Star Theater 36 - Hugh Hefner

9:30
5-12 - Petticoat Junction
9-11-13 - College Football: Air Force at SMU (live)
17 - Roller Derby

10 PM
5-12 - Mannix
8-15-18 - Theatre I
36 - Movie: "Hitch-hike" (1962, drama)

10:30
17 - Country Music Holiday

11 PM
5-12 - News
17 - Alfred Hitchcock

11:15
2 - News
3 - To be announced
12 - Movie: "Shadow On The Window" (1957, drama)
41 - Film

11:30
3--41 - Johnny Carson
5 - Movie: "Six Bridges To Cross" (1955, drama)
17 - Movie: "Kiss Of Death" (1947, drama)

11:45
2 - Movie: "Forever My Love" (1962, drama)

12:30
9-13 - News
11 - Movie: "Curse Of The Voodoo" (1965, melodrama)

12:45
9 - Encore Theater
13 - Movie: "Chase A Crooked Shadow" (1958, mystery)

2 AM
11 - News

Today Atlanta is a top 10 market. But even in 1969, it was the biggest city in the South with such poor TV choices. It had three network VHF stations, a VHF NET affiliate and two UHF independent stations. 36 only signs on at 11am and it takes till 12:30pm for 17 to start its day.

None of the big stations stay on all night. WSB-TV 2, perhaps the leading TV station in the South, simply runs Carson at 11:30 and signs off when his show ends. And the other stations either run a movie or Merv Griffin or Joey Bishop and then it's lights out. By this time in NYC and LA, at least one station was staying on all night and others were staying on till 2 or 3am.

Of course, when Ted Turner got control of Channel 17, he turned into a 24 hour superstation, as WTBS, in the very early days of cable TV. But I'd guess that would take another ten years.

I also notice the ABC affiliate in Chattanooga doesn't take ABC's early evening line up. They run their own movie at 7:30, then they run The Guns of Will Sonnett with Walter Brennan an hour late, then they join ABC at 10pm for Dick Cavett. (I didn't remember Cavett had a prime time hour, unless this was a special.)

Nope, Dick Cavett's show was a weekly variety show. It also aired Friday at 10; Sept. 19 was its finale.

Atlanta, by the way, is the #8 television market.

Gregg. said:

I also notice the ABC affiliate in Chattanooga doesn't take ABC's early evening line up. They run their own movie at 7:30, then they run The Guns of Will Sonnett with Walter Brennan an hour late, then they join ABC at 10pm for Dick Cavett. (I didn't remember Cavett had a prime time hour, unless this was a special.)

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Ccook55 said:

Nope, Dick Cavett's show was a weekly variety show. It also aired Friday at 10; Sept. 19 was its finale.

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...Cavett's ABC prime time run was actually three nights a week at 10:00 E/P, Monday-Tuesday-Thursday IIRC, and it was a trial run of his talk show. The Cavett prime time variety show was a limited-run hour on CBS in August and September 1975, the talk show having been cancelled by ABC that January...

During the final week on ABC, Cavett's show aired Monday, Tuesday and Friday night. ABC ran a movie that Wednesday and It Takes A Thief Thursday. And the synopsis showed it was a chat show, yet the little genre notation after the show name reads "variety." Odd.

Actually, Ch. 9 did carry ABC News at 6 at that time; they did so, in fact, until September 1972, when its local "Eyewitness News" moved from 5:30 to 6, with Smith and Reasoner moving to 6:30. Why that wasn't indicated in those TV Guide listings I don't know. Ch. 11 didn't pick up ABC News until Dec. 20, 1971, airing it at 6 until September 1972, when "Pro News" took over the 6 PM slot and Smith and Reasoner moved to 6:30.

^ Correct on channel 9 carrying ABC News at 6. I missed the Smith/Reynolds notation as the listing simply read "News."

Ccook55 said:

During the final week on ABC, Cavett's show aired Monday, Tuesday and Friday night. ABC ran a movie that Wednesday and It Takes A Thief Thursday. And the synopsis showed it was a chat show, yet the little genre notation after the show name reads "variety." Odd.

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Not really; almost all shows of that ilk(Cavett, Carson, Steve Allen, etc., all the way to today) have had elements of variety shows mixed in with chitchat. FWIW, the Brooks and Marsh 'Complete Directory with a Very Long Title' TV reference book lists this version of Cavett's show as 'Talk/Variety'; his 1975 summer show on CBS as 'variety'(that one didn't have interviews, but did have Cavett telling a lot more jokes, doing comedy sketches, and even singing), and his 1986 ABC show as 'Talk/Discussion'(because it was nothing but talk, more like Tom Snyder's shows).

Ccook55 said:

^ Correct on channel 9 carrying ABC News at 6. I missed the Smith/Reynolds notation as the listing simply read "News."

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An honest mistake on your part; TV Guide did not begin listing network newscasts by network ("ABC News," "CBS News," "NBC News") until August 1970, when NBC's "Huntley-Brinkley Report" became "NBC Nightly News" on Huntley's retirement. Because the pre-1970 listings simply say "News," it sometimes confuses me when I post daytime listings from the '60s; if the anchor isn't given, I'm sometimes not sure if the station is doing local or network news (for example, in the five-minute block on CBS following "Love Of Life").

After The Match Game at 4:25 while most all other NBC affiliates had the network news capsule, WSB ran a local news capsule branded as "NeWSBrief."