1960s TV listings...1960s television schedules

Melbourne, Australia TV listings for the same date....25 December 1965

Source: Scans of "The Age"

Australian-produced programming (excluding newscasts) are in BOLD:

GTV-9:
4:30PM - We Wish You a Happy Christmas (choir music)
5:00PM - Film (Heidi, 1937)
6:15PM - News (with Eric Pearce)
6:30PM - Thoughts on Christmas Day (with Eric Pearce)
7:00PM - Cinderella (Adelaide-produced pantomime special)
8:00PM - The Queen's Christmas Message
8:05PM - Hennesey (episode title: "Christmas Tree")
8:30PM - "The Red Skelton Hour"
9:30PM - Film (I'd Climb the Highest Mountain, 1951)
11:00PM - News (with Bob Walters)
11:30PM - Epilogue
11:40PM - Close

HSV-7:
3:00PM - Film (That Certain Age, 1938)
4:40PM - "Rin Tin Tin" (episode title: "Rin Tin Tin and the Christmas Story")
5:05PM - Tennessee Ernie Ford's Story of Christmas
6:00PM - "Fun Fair" (children's programme)
6:30PM - News, Sport, Weather
7:00PM - "The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo"
7:30PM - The Queen's Message
7:35PM - Perry Mason (episode title: "The Case of the Frustrated Folksinger")
8:35PM - Film (Rhapsody in Blue, 1945)
10:30PM - Film (Raffles, 1939)
11:40PM - Late News (with David Johnston)
11:55PM - Close

ABV-2:
11:00PM - "Divine Service"
12:00PM - Close
2:00PM - Film (The Gentle Sex, 1943)
3:30PM - Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol
4:20PM - "Tweed Valley"
4:30PM - "Operation Overhang"
5:00PM - Shari Lewis Special Christmas Programme
5:20PM - UPA Cartoon ("The Twelve Days of Christmas)
5:25PM - "Festival of Carols"
5:55PM - "The Fialka Company"
6:30PM - A Charlie Brown Christmas
6:55PM - Weather, Announcements
7:00PM - News, Weather
7:12PM - "The Danny Kaye Show"
8:00PM - The Queen's Christmas Message
8:07PM - Film (A Weekend with Lulu, 1961)
9:30PM - "The Messiah" (with the Adelaide Philhamonic Choir)
10:40PM - The Queen's Christmas Message
10:45PM - Close

ATV-0:
3:00PM - "Light Time"
3:15PM - "London Line"
3:30PM - "Jazz USA"
4:00PM - "The Buccaneers" (episode title: "Return of Calico Jack")
4:30PM - Citizen Solider" (episode title: "Ma Horner")
5:00PM - "Maverick" (episode title: "A Bullet for the Teacher")
6:00PM - Film (Galloping Thunder, 1945)
6:55PM - News (with John Royle)
7:00PM - "The Patty Duke Show" (episode title: "What's Cooking, Cousin")
7:30PM - "The Ed Sullivan Show"
8:25PM - The Queen's Christmas Message
8:30PM - Gunsmoke (episode title: "Thursday's Child")
9:30PM - Film (It's Not Cricket, 1949)

Damn it, ATV-0 didn't bother to show ANY local programming....



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TV listings for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....same date, 25 December 1965.


Source: Reading Eagle

I probably made some mistakes while typing this out.


KYW-TV (Channel 3):
5:50AM - "Thought for Today"
5:55AM - News
6:00AM - "This Land of Ours"
6:30AM - "Through Children's Eyes"
7:00AM - "Sunny & Snoopy"
8:00AM - "Pete's Gang"
9:00AM - "Bertie the Bunyip"
9:30AM - "Atom Ant"
10:00AM - "Secret Squirrel"
10:30AM - "Underdog"
11:00AM - "Top Cat"
11:30AM - "Fury"
12:00PM - "First Look"
12:30PM - "Exploring"
1:00PM - Christmas Service
2:00PM - Local Christmas Special
3:00PM - Christmas Film Festival
7:00PM - Scherer-McNeil Report
7:30PM - "Flipper"
8:00PM -"I Dream of Jeannie"
8:30PM - "Get Smart"
9:00PM - Saturday Night at the Movies
11:15PM - News
11:30PM - "The Merv Griffin Show"
1:00AM - Movie 3
2:00AM - News
2:20AM - "Thought for Today"

WFIL-TV (Channel 6):
6:55AM - "The Christian Answer"
7:00AM - "Assignment Children"
7:30AM - "International Zone"
8:00AM - Board of Education Choir
8:30AM - Chief Halftown
9:00AM - Atlantic City Choir
9:30AM - "Hoppity Hooper"
10:00AM - "Shenanigans"
10:30AM - "The Beatles"
11:00AM - "Casper Cartoon Show"
11:30AM - "Porky Pig"
12:00PM - "Bugs Bunny"
12:30PM - "Gadabout Gaddis"
1:00PM - "Weekend Report"
1:15PM - "Cartoon Carnival"
1:30PM - "American Bandstand"
2:30PM - "Holiday Theater"
4:30PM - North-South Football
7:00PM - "The Westerners"
7:30PM - Bridgehampton 500 Race
8:00PM - "The King Family"
8:30PM - "The Lawrence Welk Show"
9:30PM - "Hollywood Palace"
10:30PM - "The Twilight Zone"
11:00PM - "Weekend Report"
11:15PM - "The Big Movie"
1:20AM - News

WCAU-TV (Channel 10)
6:20AM - "Give Us this Day"
6:25AM - News
6:30AM - "Television Seminar"
7:00AM - "Pixanne"
7:30AM - "Tennessee Tuxedo"
8:00AM - "Captain Kangaroo"
9:00AM - "Cartoon Corners"
10:00AM - "Mighty Mouse Playhouse"
10:30AM - "Linus the Lionhearted"
11:00AM - "Tom & Jerry"
11:30AM - "Quick Draw McGraw"
12:00PM - "Sky King"
12:30PM - "The Adventures of Lassie"
1:00PM - "My Friend Flicka"
1:30PM - "CBS Saturday News"
2:00PM - "The Discophonic Scene"
3:00PM - "CBS Gold Classic"
4:00PM - "Blue and Gray Football"
6:30PM - Columbus Boychoir
6:45PM - TV10 Evening Report
7:00PM - "Sea Hunt"
7:30PM - "American Scene Magazine"
8:30PM - "Secret Agent"
9:30PM - "The Loner"
10:00PM - "Gunsmoke"
11:00PM - "11 O'Clock Report"
11:25PM - "The Late Show"
2:45AM - Late, Late News
2:50AM - "Give Us This Day"

I presume the "local" series on the schedule are probably lost, given the era they aired in.



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An American schedule, for 1 November 1962 prime-time, taken from Reading, Pennsylvania newspaper "Reading Eagle", which seems to have used short-hand a lot:

WRCV-TV (Channel 3)
6:20PM - "FBI Most Wanted Photos"
6:25PM - Sports
6:30PM - News
6:40PM - Weatherman
6:45PM - "Huntley Brinkley"
7:00PM - "Ripcord"
7:30PM - "Wide Country"
8:30PM - "Dr. Kildare"
9:30PM - "Hazel"
10:00PM - "The Andy Williams Show"
11:00PM - News
11:10PM - Weatherman
11:15PM - "Political Talk"
11:?0PM - "Tonight" (short-hand for "The Tonight Show"?)
1:00AM - "Jim Bowie"

WFIL-TV (Channel 6)
6:25PM - "Clutch Cargo"
6:30PM - "Waterfront"
7:00PM - News
7:10PM - Weather
7:15PM - Political (I'm not American, so I am not sure what show this would be)
7:20PM - News
7:30PM - "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"
8:00PM - "The Donna Reed Show"
8:30PM - "Leave it to Beaver"
9:00PM - "My Three Sons"
9:30PM - "McHale's Navy"
10:00PM - "Premiere"
11:00PM - Political
11:05PM - News
11:15PM - Weather

WCAU-TV (Channel 10)
7:00PM - "7 O'Clock Report"
7:15PM - News
7:30PM - "Mister Ed"
8:00PM - "Perry Mason"
9:00PM - "The Nurses"
10:00PM - "Alfred Hitchcock Hour"
11:00PM - "11 O'Clock Report"
11:15PM - "The Late Show"
12:50PM - "Late, Late Show"
2:25PM - News
2:30PM - "Give Us This Day"

Those are the prime-time schedules. Here are the daytime schedules for the following day, which includes network, syndicated and local programming:
WRCV-TV (Channel 3)
5:45AM - "Thought for Today"
5:50AM - News
5:55AM - "Newsroom"
6:00AM - "Continental Classroom"
7:00AM - "Today"
9:00AM - "Zoo Stories"
9:25AM - News
9:30AM - "Exercise with Gloria"
9:55AM - "Gateway to Glamour"
10:00AM - "Say When"
10:25AM - News
10:30AM - "Play Your Hunch"
11:00AM - "The Price is Right"
11:30AM - "Cencentration"
12:00PM - "Your First Impression"
12:30PM - "Truth or Consequences"
12:55PM - News
1:00PM - "Best of Groucho"
1:30PM - "The Ann Sothern Show"
2:00PM - "The Merv Griffin Show"
2:55PM - News
3:00PM - "The Loretta Young Show"
3:30PM - "Young Doctor Malone"
4:00PM - "Make Room for Daddy"
4:30PM - "Here's Hollywood"
4:55PM - News
5:00PM - "5 O'Clock Show"

WFIL-TV (Channel 6)
6:45PM - "R.F.D. 6"
7:00PM - News
7:15PM - "Breakfast Time"
7:45PM - "Rocky & His Friends"
8:00PM - "Breakfast Time"
8:30PM - "Happy"
9:45PM - News
9:50PM - "Features for Women"
10:00PM - "University of the Air"
10:45PM - "Schoolhouse"
11:00PM - "The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show"
11:30PM - "Yours for a Song"
12:00PM - "Jane Wyman" (not sure what this is short-hand for)
12:30PM - "Camouflage"
12:55PM - News
1:00PM - "Rex Morgan" (not sure what this is short-hand for)
1:30PM - "Who Do You Trust?"
2:00PM - "Day in Court" (I'm confused. IMDb says this debuted 1963)
2:30PM - "Seven Keys"
3:00PM - "Queen for a Day"
3:30PM - "Bandstand"
4:30PM - "Discovery"
4:55PM - News
5:00PM - Cartoons
5:30PM - "Popeye"

WCAU-TV (Channel 10)
5:50AM - "Give us this Day"
5:55AM - News
6:00AM - "College of the Air"
6:30AM - "TV Seminar"
7:00AM - "Bill Bennett" (not sure what this is short-hand for)
7:30AM - News
7:45AM - "Pixanne"
8:00AM - "Captain Kangaroo"
9:00AM - "The Gene London Show"
9:55AM - News
10:00AM - "Calender"
10:30AM - "I Love Lucy"
11:00AM - "The McCoys"
11:30AM - "Pete & Gladys"
12:00PM - "Love of Life"
12:25PM - News
12:30PM - "Search for Tomorrow"
12:45PM - "Guiding Light"
1:00PM - News
1:05PM - "The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show"
1:30PM - "As the World Turns"
2:00PM - "Password"
2:30PM - "Art Linkletter" (not sure which of his series...can an expert help in these matters)
3:00PM - "The Millionaire"
3:30PM - "To Tell the Truth"
3:55PM - News
4:00PM - "Secret Storm"
4:30PM - "The Edge of Night"
5:00PM - "The Life of Riley"
5:30PM - "Early Show”


Does anyone enjoy these old TV schedules? Should I post more?

Melbourne Australia TV schedules, for 1 November 1962:
Australian-produced programs in BOLD
GTV-9
10:00AM - Test Pattern
11:20AM - "Family Doctor"
11:30AM - "I Led Three Lives"
12:00PM - "The Jane Wyman Theatre"
12:30PM - Film: "The Small Voice" (1949)
2:00PM - "Say When"
2:30PM - "Concentration"
3:00PM - "It Could be You"
3:30PM - "Take the Hint"
4:00PM - "Sea Hunt"
4:30PM - "Superman"
5:00PM - "Tarax Show"
6:00PM - "Komedy Korner" (featuring "Hilarious Hundreds")
6:30PM - News
7:00PM - "Calvin and the Colonel"
7:30PM - "Laramie"
8:30PM - "The New Breed"
9:30PM - "In Melbourne Tonight"
10:45PM - News
11:00PM - "Wyatt Earp"
11:30PM - "Epilogue"
11:35PM - Station close

HSV-7
11:55AM - "First Edition" (news)
12:00PM - Film: "She Wouldn't Say Yes" (1945)
1:30PM - "Video Village"
2:00PM - "Best of Groucho"
2:30PM - "Make Mine Music"
3:00PM - "The Brothers"
3:30PM - "Young Dr. Malone"
3:55PM - "Studio Talk"
4:00PM - "Flash Gordon"
4:30PM - "Rin Tin Tin"
4:55PM - "The Happy Show"
6:00PM - "Cartoon Carnival" (featuring "Huckleberry Hound" and "The Invisible Monster")
6:30PM - News, Weather
7:00PM - "The Real McCoys"
7:30PM - "Follow the Sun"
8:30PM - "87th Precinct"
9:30PM - "Daly at Night
10:30PM - "Sports Parade"
11:00PM - Station close

ABV-2 (non-commercial station)
11:15AM - "For Schools" (not sure which country this came from)
11:35AM - Station close
2:00PM - "Rogue Herries"
2:30PM - "For Schools"
2:50PM - Station close
4:45PM - "Kindergarten Playtime" (not sure which country this came from)
5:00PM - "Thursday Party"
6:00PM - "Range Rider"
6:30PM - "Adventures of the Seahawk"
7:00PM - News, Newsreel, Weather
7:30PM - "Country Call"
7:50PM - "To Market"
8:00PM - "Deadline Midnight"
8:55PM - "Export Action"
9:00PM - "Old-Time Ballroom"
9:30PM - "University of the Air"
10:00PM - News
10:10PM - "No Hiding Place"
11:05PM - Station close




Here is one for 1 November 1962, for station GMV-6, which served the Shepparton area in Victoria Australia (the station no longer exists, having merged with three other stations to form a new larger station). Since this was a "country" (regional) area, the programming hours were limited and there was only a single commercial station. Australian-produced series in BOLD
5:30PM - "GMV Juniors" (though it consisted of imported segments, with a host linking them along with some local segments. Not that different to those "local" kids shows on American stations of the era)
6:00PM - "Scarlet Pimpernel"
6:30PM - News, Weather
6:50PM - "Huckleberry Hound"
7:00PM - "Father Knows Best"
7:30PM - "Rescue Eight"
8:00PM - "Follow the Sun"
9:00PM - "Ben Casey"
10:00PM - Mews
Sign-off




They should release more films and TV shows on DVD and Blu-ray

That Art Linkletter show was "House Party" or "Art Linkletter's House Party", a CBS daytime fixture from 1952-1969.

Thank you for the information. My knowledge on 1960s TV is very incomplete.


They should release more films and TV shows on DVD and Blu-ray

14 August 1963 in Melbourne Australia. As you can see the schedules are dominated by US series.

HSV-7
11:55AM - "First Edition" (news)
12:00PM - Film: Dancing Co-Ed (1939)
1:30PM - Make a Wish (1962)
2:00PM - "Video Village" (Australian version not on IMDb)
2:30PM - The Price Is Right (1963)
3:00PM - Film: Shep Comes Home (1948)
4:05PM - "Under the Big Top"
4:50PM - "The Happy Show"
6:00PM - News
6:30PM - Swallow's Juniors (1957)
7:00PM - Coles $6000 Question (1960)
7:30PM - Hazel (1961)
8:00PM - Film: Thrill of a Romance (1945)
10:00PM - The Roaring 20's (1960)
11:00PM - News
11:05PM - Close

GTV-9
9:30AM- Test Pattern
11:30AM - "Almanac"
11:35AM - Big Town (1950)
12:00PM - Make Room for Daddy (1953)
12:30PM - Film: Make Believe Ballroom (1949)
1:52PM - "Beauty Book"
2:00PM - It Could Be You (1961)
2:30PM - Take the Hint (1962)
3:00PM - Say When (1962)
3:30PM - "Concentration" (Australian version not on IMDb)
4:00PM - Sea Hunt (1958)
4:30PM - The Cisco Kid (1950)
5:00PM - The Tarax Show (1957)
6:00PM - "Komedy Korner"
6:30PM - News (including "Professor Browne's Study")
7:00PM - Dennis the Menace (1959)
7:30PM - Wide Country (1962)
8:30PM - Ben Casey (1961)
9:30PM - In Melbourne Tonight (1957)
10:45PM - "Kevin Sanders Reports"
11:00PM - Lock Up (1959)
11:30PM - "Epilogue"
11:35PM - Close

ABV-2 (non-commercial)
10:30AM - Test Pattern
11:15AM - "For Schools"
11:35AM - Test Pattern
2:00PM - "Woman's World"
2:30PM - "For Schools"
2:50PM - Test Pattern
4:45PM - Andy Pandy (1950)
5:00PM - "Wonderbox"
6:00PM - Oh, Those Bells (1962)
6:30PM = Sir Francis Drake (1961)
7:00PM - News
7:15PM - Newsreel
7;27PM - Weather
7;30PM - The Rag Trade (1961)
8:00PM - "People"
8:30PM - Ballet
9:00PM - Vacancy in Vaughn Street (1963)
9:30PM - Film: The Home-Made Car (1963)
10:00PM - News
10:10PM - Town Meeting of the World (1963)
11:15PM - Close

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