Sources: "The TV Schedule Book" by Castleman and Podrazik; "The Enyclopedia of Prime Time Television" by Brooks and Marsh. Times are Eastern; new shows in CAPS.
MONDAY-FRIDAY ABC 10:30 The Price Is Right
11 AM Get The Message
11:30 Missing Links
12 N Father Knows Best
12:30 Hello, Peapickers (new name for "The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show")
1 PM (Local)
2:30 Day In Court
2:55 ABC News (Marlene Sanders)
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 THE YOUNG MARRIEDS
4 PM Trailmaster ("Wagon Train" reruns)
5 PM (Local)
6 PM Ron Cochran And The News (ABC's newscast is still 15 minutes, so affiliates have a choice of six feeds, the last at 7:15;
the rest of the time is local.)
CBS 8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM (Local)
10 AM CBS Morning News With Mike Wallace
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Andy Griffith Show
11:30 Real McCoys
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News (Robert Trout)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Sunrise Semester (I have a feeling that most affiliates are taping this for airing the following morning before 8 AM; in my
neck of the woods WFMY has "Best Of Groucho" and WTVD has Peggy Mann's local women's show.)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Jack Benny Daytime Show (reruns)
5 PM (Local)
6:30/
7 PM CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite or local (depending on which feed the station takes)
NBC 6:30 Education Exchange
7 AM Today
9 AM (Local)
10 AM Make Room For Daddy
10:30 WHAT'S THIS SONG? (Wink--then known as Win--Martindale hosts his first game show, where two celebrity-contestant teams
earn points by identifying song titles then singing the first two lines. The idea will be revived in syndication in 1968 as "Win
With The Stars" with Allen Ludden.)
10:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
11 AM Concentration
11:30 Jeopardy!
12 N Say When!
12:30 Truth Or Consequences
12:55 NBC News (Ray Scherer)
1 PM (Local)
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
1:55 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
2 PM Loretta Young Theater
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4 PM Match Game
4:25 NBC News (Nancy Dickerson)
4:30 (Local)
6:30/
7 PM Huntley-Brinkley Report or local (depending on which feed the station takes)
SATURDAY ABC 9:30 BUFFALO BILL JR. (first network airing of a '50s Western)
10 AM SHENANIGANS (Stubby Kaye hosts a kids' game similar to "Video Village"--both shows were created and produced by
Merrill Heatter and Bob Quigley.)
10:30 ANNIE OAKLEY (first network airing of another '50s Western)
11 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
11:30 Beany And Cecil
12 N Bugs Bunny Show
12:30 HOPPITY HOOPER
1 PM Magic Land Of Allakazam
1:30 American Bandstand
2:30 (Local)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 (Local)
7:30 The Outer Limits
8:30 Lawrence Welk Show
9:30 Hollywood Palace
10:30 (Local)
CBS 8 AM MISTER MAYOR (Bob Keeshan may have hoped this would replace "Captain Kangaroo" since he owned it outright, but kids
and parent groups preferred the Captain and he would return to this slot in '65.)
9 AM The Alvin Show
9:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
10 AM Quick Draw McGraw
10:30 Mighty Mouse Playhouse
11 AM Linus The Lionhearted (talk about mixing entertainment and advertising--all the characters appear on boxes of the sponsor,
Post cereals)
11:30 The Jetsons
12 N Sky King
12:30 My Friend Flicka
1 PM I Love Lucy
1:30 CBS Saturday News (Martin Agronsky)
2 PM (Local)
4 PM NFL COUNTDOWN TO KICKOFF
5 PM (Local)
7:30 Jackie Gleason Show (the Great One begins airing his show from Miami)
8:30 GILLIGAN'S ISLAND
9 PM MR. BROADWAY (a really dumb idea--Craig Stevens as a crusading PR agent)
10 PM Gunsmoke
11 PM (Local)
NBC 9:30 Hector Heathcote Show
10 AM UNDERDOG
10:30 Fireball XL-5
11 AM Dennis The Menace (reruns)
11:30 Fury
12 N Exploring
1 PM NBC Sports Special
1:30 NCAA PREVIEW
1:45 NCAA Football
4:45 NCAA SCOREBOARD (time approximate)
5 PM (Local)
6 PM NBC Saturday News (Sander Vanocur)
6:15 (Local)
7:30 FLIPPER
8 PM FAMOUS ADVENTURES OF MR. MAGOO (the success of "Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol" led to this series in which the nearsighted
curmudgeon plays various literary characters)
8:30 KENTUCKY JONES (Dennis Weaver is rancher Kenneth Y. Jones (K.Y.=Kentucky, get it?), with an adopted Chinese-born son and
a ranch hand played by Harry Morgan.)
9 PM NBC Saturday Night At The Movies
11 PM (Local)
SUNDAY ABC 10:30 PORKY PIG SHOW
11 AM Bullwinkle Show
11:30 Discovery '64
12 N (Local)
1 PM Directions '65
1:30 Issues And Answers
2 PM (Local)
3:30 AFL Football
6:15 All Pro Scoreboard (time approximate)
6:30 (Local)
7:30 Wagon Train
8:30 BROADSIDE (a female "McHale's Navy" with Kathy--now calling herself Kathleen--Nolan in the McHale role; watch for a great
character actor, Edward Andrews, as a Binghamton-like officer)
9 PM ABC Sunday Night Movie
11 PM (Local)
CBS 9:30 Sunrise Semester (again, I have the feeling affiliates are taping for airing the following weekend)
10 AM Lamp Unto My Feet
10:30 Look Up And Live
11 AM Camera Three
11:30 (Local)
12:30 Face The Nation
1 PM (Local)
1:45 THE NFL TODAY
2 PM NFL Football
4:45 NFL REPORT (time approximate)
5 PM Sunday With Jack Benny (reruns)
5:30 Original Amateur Hour
6 PM The Twentieth Century
6:30 Mister Ed
7 PM Lassie
7:30 My Favorite Martian
8 PM Ed Sullivan Show
9 PM MY LIVING DOLL (Bob Cummings is an Air Force psychiatrist assigned to program a humanlike female robot named Rhoda (Julie
Newmar) to be the perfect woman--completely subservient to men. Viewers didn't want to go there any more
than they would today.)
9:30 Joey Bishop Show (with the move from NBC to CBS, the episodes are now filmed in black and white)
10 PM Candid Camera
10:30 What's My Line?
11 PM CBS News (Harry Reasoner)
11:15 (Local)
NBC 12:30 Watch Mr. Wizard
1 PM (Local)
1:30 Frontiers Of Faith
2 PM (Local)
4 PM Sunday
5 PM Wild Kingdom
5:30 GE College Bowl
6 PM Meet The Press
6:30 PROFILES IN COURAGE (with the assassination of JFK still fresh this series about historical figures who displayed remarkable
courage, based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, seemed like a viable entry, but it lasted only one season)
7:30 Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color
8:30 Bill Dana Show
9 PM Bonanza
10 PM THE ROGUES (a classy comedy-drama about two families of thieves and con artists, united by marriage, who fleece the
deserving--mainly the wealthy; Gig Young, David Niven, Charles Boyer, and Robert Coote play various members of the families
in different countries)
11 PM (Local)
MONDAY-FRIDAY ABC 10:30 The Price Is Right
11 AM Get The Message
11:30 Missing Links
12 N Father Knows Best
12:30 Hello, Peapickers (new name for "The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show")
1 PM (Local)
2:30 Day In Court
2:55 ABC News (Marlene Sanders)
3 PM General Hospital
3:30 THE YOUNG MARRIEDS
4 PM Trailmaster ("Wagon Train" reruns)
5 PM (Local)
6 PM Ron Cochran And The News (ABC's newscast is still 15 minutes, so affiliates have a choice of six feeds, the last at 7:15;
the rest of the time is local.)
CBS 8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM (Local)
10 AM CBS Morning News With Mike Wallace
10:30 I Love Lucy
11 AM Andy Griffith Show
11:30 Real McCoys
12 N Love Of Life
12:25 CBS News (Robert Trout)
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1 PM Sunrise Semester (I have a feeling that most affiliates are taping this for airing the following morning before 8 AM; in my
neck of the woods WFMY has "Best Of Groucho" and WTVD has Peggy Mann's local women's show.)
1:30 As The World Turns
2 PM Password
2:30 Art Linkletter's House Party
3 PM To Tell The Truth
3:25 CBS News (Douglas Edwards)
3:30 Edge Of Night
4 PM Secret Storm
4:30 Jack Benny Daytime Show (reruns)
5 PM (Local)
6:30/
7 PM CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite or local (depending on which feed the station takes)
NBC 6:30 Education Exchange
7 AM Today
9 AM (Local)
10 AM Make Room For Daddy
10:30 WHAT'S THIS SONG? (Wink--then known as Win--Martindale hosts his first game show, where two celebrity-contestant teams
earn points by identifying song titles then singing the first two lines. The idea will be revived in syndication in 1968 as "Win
With The Stars" with Allen Ludden.)
10:55 NBC News (Edwin Newman)
11 AM Concentration
11:30 Jeopardy!
12 N Say When!
12:30 Truth Or Consequences
12:55 NBC News (Ray Scherer)
1 PM (Local)
1:30 Let's Make A Deal
1:55 NBC News (Floyd Kalber)
2 PM Loretta Young Theater
2:30 The Doctors
3 PM Another World
3:30 You Don't Say!
4 PM Match Game
4:25 NBC News (Nancy Dickerson)
4:30 (Local)
6:30/
7 PM Huntley-Brinkley Report or local (depending on which feed the station takes)
SATURDAY ABC 9:30 BUFFALO BILL JR. (first network airing of a '50s Western)
10 AM SHENANIGANS (Stubby Kaye hosts a kids' game similar to "Video Village"--both shows were created and produced by
Merrill Heatter and Bob Quigley.)
10:30 ANNIE OAKLEY (first network airing of another '50s Western)
11 AM New Casper Cartoon Show
11:30 Beany And Cecil
12 N Bugs Bunny Show
12:30 HOPPITY HOOPER
1 PM Magic Land Of Allakazam
1:30 American Bandstand
2:30 (Local)
5 PM Wide World Of Sports
6:30 (Local)
7:30 The Outer Limits
8:30 Lawrence Welk Show
9:30 Hollywood Palace
10:30 (Local)
CBS 8 AM MISTER MAYOR (Bob Keeshan may have hoped this would replace "Captain Kangaroo" since he owned it outright, but kids
and parent groups preferred the Captain and he would return to this slot in '65.)
9 AM The Alvin Show
9:30 Tennessee Tuxedo
10 AM Quick Draw McGraw
10:30 Mighty Mouse Playhouse
11 AM Linus The Lionhearted (talk about mixing entertainment and advertising--all the characters appear on boxes of the sponsor,
Post cereals)
11:30 The Jetsons
12 N Sky King
12:30 My Friend Flicka
1 PM I Love Lucy
1:30 CBS Saturday News (Martin Agronsky)
2 PM (Local)
4 PM NFL COUNTDOWN TO KICKOFF
5 PM (Local)
7:30 Jackie Gleason Show (the Great One begins airing his show from Miami)
8:30 GILLIGAN'S ISLAND
9 PM MR. BROADWAY (a really dumb idea--Craig Stevens as a crusading PR agent)
10 PM Gunsmoke
11 PM (Local)
NBC 9:30 Hector Heathcote Show
10 AM UNDERDOG
10:30 Fireball XL-5
11 AM Dennis The Menace (reruns)
11:30 Fury
12 N Exploring
1 PM NBC Sports Special
1:30 NCAA PREVIEW
1:45 NCAA Football
4:45 NCAA SCOREBOARD (time approximate)
5 PM (Local)
6 PM NBC Saturday News (Sander Vanocur)
6:15 (Local)
7:30 FLIPPER
8 PM FAMOUS ADVENTURES OF MR. MAGOO (the success of "Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol" led to this series in which the nearsighted
curmudgeon plays various literary characters)
8:30 KENTUCKY JONES (Dennis Weaver is rancher Kenneth Y. Jones (K.Y.=Kentucky, get it?), with an adopted Chinese-born son and
a ranch hand played by Harry Morgan.)
9 PM NBC Saturday Night At The Movies
11 PM (Local)
SUNDAY ABC 10:30 PORKY PIG SHOW
11 AM Bullwinkle Show
11:30 Discovery '64
12 N (Local)
1 PM Directions '65
1:30 Issues And Answers
2 PM (Local)
3:30 AFL Football
6:15 All Pro Scoreboard (time approximate)
6:30 (Local)
7:30 Wagon Train
8:30 BROADSIDE (a female "McHale's Navy" with Kathy--now calling herself Kathleen--Nolan in the McHale role; watch for a great
character actor, Edward Andrews, as a Binghamton-like officer)
9 PM ABC Sunday Night Movie
11 PM (Local)
CBS 9:30 Sunrise Semester (again, I have the feeling affiliates are taping for airing the following weekend)
10 AM Lamp Unto My Feet
10:30 Look Up And Live
11 AM Camera Three
11:30 (Local)
12:30 Face The Nation
1 PM (Local)
1:45 THE NFL TODAY
2 PM NFL Football
4:45 NFL REPORT (time approximate)
5 PM Sunday With Jack Benny (reruns)
5:30 Original Amateur Hour
6 PM The Twentieth Century
6:30 Mister Ed
7 PM Lassie
7:30 My Favorite Martian
8 PM Ed Sullivan Show
9 PM MY LIVING DOLL (Bob Cummings is an Air Force psychiatrist assigned to program a humanlike female robot named Rhoda (Julie
Newmar) to be the perfect woman--completely subservient to men. Viewers didn't want to go there any more
than they would today.)
9:30 Joey Bishop Show (with the move from NBC to CBS, the episodes are now filmed in black and white)
10 PM Candid Camera
10:30 What's My Line?
11 PM CBS News (Harry Reasoner)
11:15 (Local)
NBC 12:30 Watch Mr. Wizard
1 PM (Local)
1:30 Frontiers Of Faith
2 PM (Local)
4 PM Sunday
5 PM Wild Kingdom
5:30 GE College Bowl
6 PM Meet The Press
6:30 PROFILES IN COURAGE (with the assassination of JFK still fresh this series about historical figures who displayed remarkable
courage, based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, seemed like a viable entry, but it lasted only one season)
7:30 Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color
8:30 Bill Dana Show
9 PM Bonanza
10 PM THE ROGUES (a classy comedy-drama about two families of thieves and con artists, united by marriage, who fleece the
deserving--mainly the wealthy; Gig Young, David Niven, Charles Boyer, and Robert Coote play various members of the families
in different countries)
11 PM (Local)