World Championship Wrestling: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

This was the main wrestling program for Crockett Promotions on WTBS. For most of 1985 and 1986 the show was taped on Saturday mornings at the TBS studios on Techwood Drive in Atlanta. It traditionally aired at 6:05 PM ET, but occasionally aired at other similar timeslots.

The program had it's origins back to the early 1970s when the NWA Georgia territory wrestling promotion began airing its Atlanta show on the broadcast channel WTCG channel 17. Georgia Championship Wrestling was a ratings juggernaut when WTCG became WTBS and went national as the nation's first "superstation" on cable television.

In 1982, the promotion changed the name of the program to World Championship Wrestling, and it kept that name until the end of the GCW era, then through the WWF era, and on into the Crockett era on TBS.

Series details

• Title: World Championship Wrestling
• Format: Sports
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 1984-07-14
• Final broadcast date listed: 1989-07-08
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: TBS
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 120 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 10405

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1984: premiered 1984-07-14; final listed air date 1984-07-14.
• Season 1985: premiered 1985-11-02; final listed air date 1985-12-28.
• Season 1986: premiered 1986-01-04; final listed air date 1986-12-27.
• Season 1987: premiered 1987-01-03; final listed air date 1987-12-26.
• Season 1988: premiered 1988-01-02; final listed air date 1988-12-31.
• Season 1989: premiered 1989-01-07; final listed air date 1989-07-08.

Source and licence

Adapted from World Championship Wrestling on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.