It's About TV: What's on TV? Wednesday, April 27, 1977

April 24, 2017

What's on TV? Wednesday, April 27, 1977

This week offers some interesting program choices - so interesting, in fact, that there's a little something to say about all of our stations. The area covered includes both Atlanta and Chattanooga, Tennessee, and it should have a little something for everyone. Have a look and enjoy!

*WSB, Channel 2 (NBC)* *Morning*
*06:00a*	Film (Navy)
*06:30a*	*Arthur Smith*
*07:00a*	*Today*
*09:00a*	*The Hollywood Squares* (Steve Martin, George Gobel, Paul Lynde, Robert Fuller, Rose Marie, Roddy McDowall, Mac Davis, Stefanie Powers, Lynda Day George)
*09:30a*	*Name that Tune*
*10:00a*	*Sanford and Son*
*10:30a*	*Today in Georgia*
*11:00a*	*Wheel of Fortune*
*11:30a*	*Shoot for the Stars* (guests Tony Randall, Vicki Lawrence)
*Afternoon*
*12:00p*	News (local)
*12:30p*	*Divorce Court*
*01:00p*	*Liar’s Club* (Betty White, Will Gear, Rue McClanahan, Larry Hovis)
*01:30p*	*Days of Our Lives*
*02:30p*	*The Doctors*
*03:00p*	*Another World*
*04:00p*	*Doris Day*
*04:30p*	*The Odd Couple*
*05:00p*	*The FBI*
*Evening*
*06:00p*	News (local)
*07:00p*	*NBC Nightly News* (John Chancellor and David Brinkley)
*07:30p*	*The $100,000 Name That Tune*
*08:00p*	Movie – “Marooned”
*10:00p*	To Be Announced
*11:00p*	News (local)
*11:30p*	*The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson* (guests Helen Reddy, Dr. Paul Ehrlich, David Sayh)
*01:00a*	*Tomorrow* (guest Paul Harvey)
*02:00a*	News (local)

The 8:00 p.m. movie "Marooned" is a local broadcast, preempting the regular NBC primetime schedule, which includes Grizzly Adams - I don't know why that wouldn't have been more popular down south. They also preempt The Gong Show - what's wrong with this channel?

*WRCB, Channel 3 (Chattanooga) (NBC)* *Morning*
*06:25a*	*Romper Room*
*06:55a*	*News for Little People*
*07:00a*	*Today*
*09:00a*	*The 700 Club*
*10:00a*	*Sanford and Son*
*10:30a*	*The Hollywood Squares* (Rich Little, Paul Lynde, Rose Marie, Roddy McDowell, MacKenzie Phillips, LeVar Burton, Darleen Carr, George Gobel, Gabriel Kaplan)
*11:00a*	*Wheel of Fortune*
*11:30a*	*Shoot for the Stars* (Tony Randall, Vicki Lawrence)
*Afternoon*
*12:00p*	*Bewitched*
*12:30p*	*Midday Live*
*01:00p*	*The Gong Show*
*01:30p*	*Days of Our Lives*
*02:30p*	*The Doctors*
*03:00p*	*Another World*
*04:00p*	*The Archies*
*04:30p*	*The Three Stooges/The Little Rascals* BW
*05:25p*	*News for Little People*
*05:30p*	*Batman*
*Evening*
*06:00p*	News (local)
*06:30p*	*NBC Nightly News* (John Chancellor and David Brinkley)
*07:00p*	*The Liar’s Club*
*07:30p*	*The Partridge Family*
*08:00p*	*The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams*
*09:00p*	Movie – “The Savage Bees” (special)
*11:00p*	News (local)
*11:30p*	*The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson* (guests Helen Reddy, Dr. Paul Ehrlich, David Sayh)
*01:00a*	*Tomorrow* (guest Paul Harvey)

As I mentioned on Saturday, Paul Harvey's appearance on Tomorrow is part of Tom Snyder's week in Chicago. I remember when shows used to do this kind of thing more often, but it only works if your guests are part of the fabric of the city you're visiting. Outside of New York and Hollywood, Chicago has perhaps the greatest television heritage of any city in America.

*WAGA, Channel 5 (CBS)* *Morning*
*06:30a*	*Sunrise Semester (Teaching the Learning Disabled)*
*07:00a*	*CBS Morning News with Bruce Morton and Hughes Rudd*
*08:00a*	*Captain Kangaroo* (guest Peggy Cass)
*09:00a*	*Phil Donahue*
*10:00a*	*Double Dare*
*10:30a*	*The Price is Right*
*11:30a*	*Love of Life*
*11:55a*	*CBS News* (Douglas Edwards)
*Afternoon*
*12:00p*	News (local)
*12:30p*	*Search for Tomorrow*
*01:00p*	*The Young and the Restless*
*01:30p*	*As the World Turns*
*02:30p*	*The Guiding Light*
*03:00p*	*All in the Family*
*03:30p*	*Bewitched*
*04:00p*	*Adam-12*
*04:30p*	*Mike Douglas* (co-host Tamara Dobson, guests Darilyn Dobson, Sterling Hayden, Victoria Fyodorova, Kenny Nolan)
*Evening*
*06:00p*	News (local)
*07:00p*	*CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite*
*07:30p*	*Cross-Wits* (Jonathan Harris, Alice Ghostley, Gregory Sierra, Sally Ann Howes)
*08:00p*	*Good Times*
*08:30p*	*Loves Me, Loves Me Not*
*09:00p*	*CBS Wednesday Night Movies –* “El Condor”
*11:00p*	News (local)
*11:30p*	*CBS Late Movie* – “The Keegans”
*01:05a*	News (local)

The CBS Late Movie feature is "The Keegans," a movie about a professional football player who's a suspect in a murder case. Yeah, like anybody's going to believe that could happen.

*WGTV, Channel 8 (PBS)* *Afternoon*
*03:00p*	*Through All Time*
*03:30p*	*Studio See*
*04:00p*	*Sesame Street*
*05:00p*	*Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood*
*05:30p*	*Sesame Street*
*Evening*
*06:30p*	*Zoom*
*07:00p*	*Classic Theatre Preview*
*07:30p*	*Folk Guitar with Laura Weber*
*08:00p*	*Nova*
*09:00p*	*Theater in America –* “The Prince of Homburg”
*11:00p*	Movie – “The Outlaw” BW

I might have thought WGTV would have more on today - perhaps the daytime schedule was filled with classroom programming.

*WTVC, Channel 9 (Chattanooga) (ABC)* *Morning*
*06:55a*	*Funtime*
*07:25a*	*New Tomorrow*
*07:30a*	*Good Morning America*
*09:00a*	*Phil Donahue* (guest B.B. King)
*10:00a*	*Room 222*
*10:30a*	*The Edge of Night*
*11:00a*	*Happy Days*
*11:30a*	*Family Feud*
*Afternoon*
*12:00p*	*Second Chance*
*12:30p*	*Ryan’s Hope*
*01:00p*	*All My Children*
*02:00p*	*The $20,000 Pyramid* (Dick Cavett, Adrienne Barbeau)
*02:30p*	*One Life to Live*
*03:15p*	*General Hospital*
*04:00p*	*Leave it to Beaver* BW
*04:30p*	*The Beverly Hillbillies* BW
*05:00p*	*The Brady Bunch*
*05:30p*	*Andy Griffith* BW
*Evening*
*06:00p*	News (local)
*06:30p*	*ABC Evening News with Harry Reasoner and Barbara Walters*
*07:00p*	*My Three Sons*
*07:30p*	*Family Affair*
*08:00p*	*The Bionic Woman*
*09:00p*	*Baretta*
*10:00p*	*Charlie’s Angels*
*11:00p*	News (local)
*11:30p*	*The Rookies*
*12:40a*	*Mystery of the Week –* “The Two Deaths of Sean Dolittle”

I was pretty shaken when I saw the title of the Mystery of the Week movie until I remembered that Dr. Dolittle's first name is John, not Sean. Just a case of mistaken identity - whew.

*WXIA, Channel 11 (ABC)* *Morning*
*06:30a*	*Not for Women Only*
*07:00a*	*Good Morning America*
*09:00a*	*Merv Griffin* (guests Paul Anka, Kelly Monteith, Fred Travalena, Deniece Williams, Ken Edwards)
*10:30a*	*The Edge of Night*
*11:00a*	*Happy Days*
*11:30a*	*Family Feud*
*Afternoon*
*12:00p*	News (local)
*12:30p*	*Ryan’s Hope*
*01:00p*	*All My Children*
*02:00p*	*The $20,000 Pyramid* (Dick Cavett, Adrienne Barbeau)
*02:30p*	*One Life to Live*
*03:15p*	*General Hospital*
*04:00p*	*Bonanza*
*05:00p*	*Emergency One!*
*Evening*
*06:00p*	News (local)
*06:30p*	*ABC Evening News with Harry Reasoner and Barbara Walters*
*07:00p*	*Concentration*
*07:30p*	*To Tell the Truth* (Hugh Downs, Peggy Cass, Bill Cullen, Kitty Carlisle)
*08:00p*	*The Bionic Woman*
*09:00p*	*Baretta*
*10:00p*	*Charlie’s Angels*
*11:00p*	News (local)
*11:30p*	*Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman*
*12:00a*	*The Rookies*
*01:10a*	*The Protectors*

The Protectors was a Gerry Anderson live-action series, as opposed to his better-known Supermarionation efforts. It stars Robert Vaughn, who my many accounts was pretty difficult to work with in this British series. The Man From U.N.C.L.E. it ain't.

*WDEF, Channel 12 (Chattanooga) (CBS)* *Morning*
*05:55a*	*Farm Report*
*06:30a*	*Morning Show*
*08:00a*	*CBS Morning News with Bruce Morton and Hughes Rudd*
*09:00a*	*Captain Kangaroo* (guest Peggy Cass)
*10:00a*	*Double Dare*
*10:30a*	*The Price is Right*
*11:30a*	*Love of Life*
*11:55a*	*CBS News* (Douglas Edwards)
*Afternoon*
*12:00p*	News (local)
*12:30p*	*Search for Tomorrow*
*01:00p*	*The Young and the Restless*
*01:30p*	*As the World Turns*
*02:30p*	*The Guiding Light*
*03:00p*	*All in the Family*
*03:30p*	*Match Game ’77* (Richard Dawson, Charles Nelson Reilly, Patti Deutsch, Arlene Francis, Nipsey Russell, Brett Somers)
*04:00p*	*Tattletales* (Charles Nelson Reilly and Elizabeth Allen, Gary Mule Deer and Debra Winger, Alan Hamel and Suzanne Somers)
*04:30p*	*Merv Griffin* (guest Charles Nelson Reilly, young opera artists)
*05:55p*	*Paul Harvey*
*Evening*
*06:00p*	News (local)
*06:30p*	*CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite*
*07:00p*	*Gunsmoke*
*08:00p*	*Good Times*
*08:30p*	*Loves Me, Loves Me Not*
*09:00p*	*CBS Wednesday Night Movies –* “El Condor”
*11:00p*	News (local)
*11:30p*	*CBS Late Movie* – “The Keegans”

I don't think I've ever seen this before - starting at 3:30 p.m., there are three consecutive shows featuring Charles Nelson Reilly. Talk about being everywhere!

*WTCG, Channel 17 (Ind.)* *Morning*
*05:35a*	*World at Large*
*06:10a*	News (local)
*06:30a*	*Romper Room*
*07:00a*	*The Three Stooges and the Little Rascals* BW
*08:00a*	*Lassie*
*08:30a*	*Leave it to Beaver* BW
*09:00a*	*Hazel*
*09:30a*	*The Lucy Show*
*10:00a*	Movie – “Sitting Pretty” BW
*Afternoon*
*12:00p*	*Perry Mason* BW
*01:00p*	Movie – “23 Paces to Baker Street”
*03:00p*	*The Flintstones*
*03:30p*	*The Archies*
*04:00p*	*The New Mickey Mouse Club*
*04:30p*	*Gilligan’s Island*
*05:00p*	*Family Affair*
*Evening*
*06:00p*	*The Beverly Hillbillies*
*06:30p*	*Andy Griffith* BW
*07:00p*	*Gomer Pyle, USMC*
*07:30p*	*Hogan’s Heroes*
*08:00p*	*Night Gallery*
*08:30p*	*Night Gallery*
*09:00p*	Movie – “The Killers”
*11:00p*	*All That Glitters*
*11:30p*	Movie – “Master of the World”
*01:25a*	Movie – “Rogue River”
*03:00a*	News (local)
*03:30a*	Movie – “Shack Out on 101” BW

A double-feature of Night Gallery followed by The Killers makes for a pretty good night's entertainment if you ask me.

*WETV, Channel 30 (PBS)* *Morning*
*09:00a*	*Sesame Street*
*10:00a*	*The Electric Company*
*10:30a*	*Infinity Factory*
*Afternoon*
*01:00p*	*Big Blue Marble*
*04:00p*	*Sesame Street*
*05:00p*	*Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood*
*05:30p*	*The Electric Company*
*Evening*
*06:00p*	*Zoom*
*06:30p*	*Villa Alegre*
*07:00p*	*DeKalb Cancer Society*
*07:30p*	*The MacNeil/Lehrer Report*
*08:00p*	*Georgia Forums*
*09:00p*	*The Pallisers*
*10:00p*	*Anywhat*
*10:30p*	*World in Action*
*11:00p*	*Anyone for Tennyson?*
*11:30p*	*Captioned ABC Evening News*

That captioned ABC news was a PBS feature for many years beginning in 1973 and running for a decade, until real-time captioning became a reality.

*WATL, Channel 36 (Ind.)* *Afternoon*
*05:00p*	*Entertainment Page*
*05:30p*	*Entertainment Page*
*Evening*
*06:30p*	*Lovers and Friends*
*07:00p*	Movie – “The Two Kennedys”
*09:30p*	*Reflections*
*10:00p*	*The PTL Club*

Following the 7:00 p.m. movie, Channel 36 opens their phone lines for questions and comments from viewers regarding "The Two Kennedys," a European documentary on the assassinations of Jack and Bobby. I suspect that movie traffics heavily on conspiracy theories.

*WTCI, Channel 45 (Chattanooga) (PBS)* *Morning*
*08:30a*	*Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood*
*11:30a*	*Sesame Street*
*Afternoon*
*01:30p*	*The Electric Company*
*03:30p*	*Lilias, Yoga and You*
*04:00p*	*Sesame Street*
*05:00p*	*Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood*
*Evening*
*06:00p*	*Zoom*
*06:30p*	*Overmountain People*
*07:00p*	*Food Stamps*
*07:30p*	*The MacNeil/Lehrer Report*
*08:00p*	*Nova*
*09:00p*	*Theater in America –* “The Prince of Homburg”

I've seen Lilas, Yoga and You in these TV Guide listings for years - it began on Cincinnati's PBS station in 1970 and continued nationally until 1999, during which time 500 episodes were produced.

*WHAE, Channel 46 (Ind.)* *Morning*
*06:45a*	News (local)
*07:00a*	*Cartoon Festival*
*07:30a*	*The Lone Ranger*
*08:00a*	*Mighty Mouse*
*08:30a*	*Deputy Dawg*
*09:00a*	*Heckle and Jeckle*
*09:30a*	*Dennis the Menace* BW
*10:00a*	*Mister Ed* BW
*10:30a*	*The Rock*
*11:00a*	*Charisma*
*11:30a*	*The 700 Club*
*Afternoon*
*01:00p*	*Wagon Train* BW
*02:00p*	*Magilla Gorilla*
*02:30p*	*Huck and Yogi*
*03:00p*	*Popeye and Porky Pig*
*04:00p*	*Superman*
*04:30p*	*Batman*
*05:00p*	*The Brady Bunch*
*05:30p*	*McHale’s Navy*
*Evening*
*06:30p*	*The Rifleman* BW
*07:00p*	*The Big Valley*
*08:00p*	*The 700 Club*
*09:30p*	*The Rock*
*10:00p*	*Acts 29*
*10:30p*	*Gerald Derstine Shares*
*11:00p*	*The Best of Groucho* BW
*11:30p*	*Mayberry R.F.D.*
*12:00a*	News (local)

Classic television nearly from beginning to end, with religious programming in prime time. What an odd combination, although it does tend to reinforce my belief in vintage TV as a near-religious experience.

*WRIP, Channel 61 (Chattanooga) (Ind.)* *Afternoon*
*02:50p*	*Dr. J. Harold Smith*
*02:55p*	*Hercules*
*03:00p*	*Word of God School*
*03:30p*	*Bozo’s Big Top*
*04:00p*	*Uncle Waldo*
*04:30p*	*Mike Douglas* (co-host Roy Clark, guests Buddy Greco, Bruce Dern, Jan Miner, Honey [Mrs. Lenny] Bruce)
*Evening*
*06:00p*	*Quest for Adventure*
*06:30p*	*Lassie*
*07:00p*	*Daytime/Nighttime*
*08:00p*	*Peter Marshall* (guests Rita Moreno, Ron Palillo, Jack Knight, Bill Saluga)
*09:30p*	Movie – “Cheer, Boys, Cheer” BW
*11:00p*	*Dr. J. Harold Smith*

I've known about Peter Marshall's variety/talk show, but it seems as if I always forget about it until I'm reminded by seeing it again. I'd even forgotten about it between the time I saw it in this issue and when I got down here to type about it. TV

7 comments:

UnknownApril 24, 2017 at 11:34 AM
More or less in order:

- This was one of NBC's back-up-the-truck periods; Grizzly Adams had only just started a few weeks before. Soon enough, it became one of NBC's few even mildly successful shows; perhaps if you check out other nights, you might find Grizzly delayed to some other day.

- The Keegans was a pilot that CBS ran in prime time about a year before; the intent was to do a kind of contemporary Irish Waltons - or something like that. The murder plot was a convention of the time.
My Irish family watched this on its first airing; Dad, the character actor buff, recognized the family matriarch as Joan Leslie, a popular ingenue of the postwar period. In my turn, I recognized the family patriarch as Tom Clancy - not the novelist, but the eldest of the singing Clancy Brothers.
This was Tom Clancy's Hollywood period; he brought his Irish to just about every cop show that was on back then (and goodness knows there were a bunch of those).

- The Two Deaths Of Sean Dolittle was part of ABC's attempt to do taped late-night dramas on very low budgets.
I looked this up on IMDb; most of the production crew came from what was left from Dark Shadows, a few years before (the show dates to '75).

- That Night Gallery "double-header" is the half-hour syndicated version, which even Gallery devotees will tell you was one of the great editing botches of TV history; the long stories were hacked out, the short stories were distended with doubled-up scenes, etc. This is a case where you have to get the DVDs, which are the only place you can find the stories done properly.
As for "The Killers" - Is this the 1946 version with Burt Lancaster, or the 1964 version with John Cassevetes?
It makes a difference, believe me.
The '64 version is the one where Ronald Reagan plays a really nasty gangster who roughs up Angie Dickinson in one scene; this was just at the point where he gave up acting and went into politics full-time.
Actually, the really interesting movie is "Shack Out On 101", which Channel 17 is throwing away at 3:30 am.
Lee Marvin is SLOB.
You really have to see this for yourself ...

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AnonymousApril 24, 2017 at 2:04 PM
Not too long after that (within a couple of years?), WSB and WXIA swapped affiliations, and to this day, WSB is ABC and WXIA is NBC.

In the mid nineties, WAGA switched from CBS to Fox, and CBS wound-up on what is now WGCL Channel 46.
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jabartlettApril 25, 2017 at 4:59 PM
I had to go and look it up: "One Life to Live" and "General Hospital" ran 45 minutes each from July 1976 to January 1978, when both of them went to a full hour. I am not sure I noticed this at the time, as I was an "As the World Turns" man back then.
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