From TV Guide, Kentucky Edition:
Chs. 5, 9, 12, 18, 27 listed Eastern Time
Chs. 3, 7, 11, 14, 50 listed Central Time
WAVE Ch. 3 Louisville (NBC)
7 AM Today On The Farm (Eddy Arnold hosts,
guests are Homer and Jethro)
7:30 News
7:35 Adventures In Africa
7:45 Light Time
8 AM Cartoon Carnival
8:30 Roy Rogers
9 AM Shari Lewis (c)
9:30 King Leonardo (c)
10 AM Fury
10:30 Lone Ranger
11 AM Matty's Funday Funnies (ABC, not sure if this
is delayed from Friday night but I think it is)
11:30 Liberty Bowl Preview
12 N Liberty Bowl: Oregon (playing for this year's BCS championship)
vs. Penn State, from Philadelphia--Lindsey Nelson and Frankie
Albert report (c)
3 PM Coast Guard Academy (time approximate)
3:30 Bowling Stars
4 PM Kentucky Afield
4:30 Saturday Prom (Merv Griffin welcomes Tony Bennett, Dodie ("Tan
Shoes And Pink Shoelaces") Stevens, Maurice Williams and the
Zodiacs)
5 PM Donna Reed (ABC, delay from Thu 7 PM)
5:30 Youth Speaks
6 PM Tomorrow's Champions (amateur boxing)
6:25 News
6:30 Bonanza (c)
7:30 Leave It To Beaver (ABC)
8 PM Dick Powell (again, I believe these are his "Four Star Playhouse"
episodes--"Zane Grey Theater" was still on the air, and "The Dick
Powell Show" wouldn't debut until fall 1961)
8:30 The Nation's Future (topic: Should federal aid to education include
teachers' salaries? Eisenhower's HEW secretary, Arthur Flemming,
says no--it would give the federal government too much control
over local school districts; Sen. Joseph Clark (Democrat from Pennsylvania)
says federal aid does not necessarily imply federal control.)
9 PM The Nation's Future (local followup)
9:30 Lawrence Welk (ABC, delay from 8 PM)
10 PM The Rifleman (ABC, delay from Tue 7 PM)
10:30 Lawman (ABC, delay from Sun 7:30)
11 PM Closeup! (the classic documentary "Yanki, No!" about anti-American
sentiment in Latin America, ABC, don't know how much of a delay)
12 M Movie: "The Fighting Seabees"
1:40 News
WLW-T Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)
7 AM Today On The Farm
7:30 Western Movie
8:30 Mr. Hop (c)
9:30 Signal Three
10 AM Shari Lewis (c)
10:30 King Leonardo (c)
11 AM Fury
11:30 Lone Ranger
12 N True Story
12:30 Liberty Bowl Preview
12:45 Liberty Bowl: Oregon-Penn State (c)
3:30 Captain Gallant (time approximate, delay from
5 PM)
4 PM People Are Funny (time approximate, delay
from Sun 6:30)
4:30 Bowling Stars
5:30 Wrestling From Dayton
6:30 Midwestern Hayride (c)
7:30 Bonanza (c)
8:30 Tall Man
9 PM The Deputy (Henry Fonda)
9:30 The Nation's Future
10 PM Probe
10:30 Blue Angels
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Movie: "Once Upon A Honeymoon"
WTVW Ch. 7 Evansville (ABC)
9 AM Elementary German
10 AM Jaycees Present
10:30 Children's Film Festival (not the CBS program,
which debuted in 1967)
11:30 Junior Auction
12 N Soupy Sales
12:30 Junior Boxing (wrestler Rip Hawk hosted this show,
IIRC)
1 PM Movie: "Life With Henry" (Jackie Cooper plays
Henry Aldrich)
2:30 Pages For All Ages
3 PM Movie: "Wagonmaster" (this '50 Western sounds
like a warmup for "Wagon Train," with Ward Bond
in the title role)
4:30 Campy's Corner (Roy Campanella talks sports)
5 PM All-Star Golf (Billy Casper vs. Bob Rosburg--Jimmy
Demaret reports)
6 PM Assignment Underwater
6:30 Roaring 20's
7:30 Leave It To Beaver
8 PM Lawrence Welk (trumpeter Norman Bailey's daughter
Janice is guest on this Christmas show)
9 PM Boxing: Luis Rodriguez vs. Emile Griffith, welterweights,
10 rounds, from Madison Square Garden (Griffith would
alienate a lot of boxing fans in 1962 with his merciless--
ultimately fatal--beating of Benny "Kid" Paret)
9:45 Make That Spare (challenger: Billy Golembiewski, time
approximate, from Paramus, NJ)
10 PM Coronado 9
10:30 Wrestling From Evansville
12 M Grand Ole Opry
12:30 Movie: "The Falcon Strikes Back"
WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (ABC)
7 AM Jewish Hour
7:15 Joe Emerson (gospel music)
7:30 Herald Of Truth
8 AM Industry On Parade
8:15 Navy Story
8:45 F.O.P. Quiz (I wonder if this is "Play It Safe"?)
9:30 Cartoon Party
10 AM Rocky And His Friends (not sure how much delay)
10:30 Three Stooges
11 AM Learn To Draw (Jon Gnagy)
11:15 Cartoons
11:30 Laffhouse Gang (Lee Fogel)
12 N TV Dance Party
3 PM Movie: "The Flame"
5 PM All-Star Wrestling
6 PM Cannonball
6:30 Outdoor Rambler
7 PM Union Pacific
7:30 Roaring 20's
8:30 Leave It To Beaver
9 PM Lawrence Welk
10 PM Take A Good Look (Ernie Kovacs, delay
from Thu 10:30)
10:30 Flight
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:20 Movie: "Holiday" (this has Katharine Hepburn
and Cary Grant, and is not to be confused
with "Holiday Inn")
WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)
8 AM Cartoon Circus
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Magic Land Of Allakazam
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11 AM Popeye
11:30 CBS News (Robert Trout, the first half-hour
network newscast)
12 N Songs Of Faith
12:30 Christmas Carols (the choruses of Eastern and
Valley High Schools are guests)
12:45 Bluebonnet Bowl: Alabama-Texas, from Houston
(Tom Harmon and Johnny Lujack report)
3:30 NFL Football: Packers-Los Angeles Rams (Bob Kelley
and Gil Stratton report, time approximate)
6:15 Cartoon Circus (time approximate)
6:30 Perry Mason
7:30 Sea Hunt
8 PM College Basketball: Kentucky-Temple
9:45 Inside Sports (time approximate)
10 PM Ozzie And Harriet (ABC, delay from Wed 7:30)
10:30 News (Hugh Smith, later of WTVT Tampa)
10:40 Weather (Milton Metz, longtime WHAS personality)
10:45 Sports
11 PM Play Of The Week (Larry Blyden and Oscar Homolka
in "A Very Special Baby"--the 34-year-old son of
a self-made millionaire)
WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (CBS)
9 AM Skipper Ryle
10 AM Captain Kangaroo
11 AM Magic Land Of Allakazam
11:30 Mighty Mouse
12 N Sky King
12:30 Background (documentary)
1 PM African Patrol
1:30 Film Feature
1:45 Bluebonnet Bowl: Alabama-Texas
4:30 NFL Football: Packers-Rams (time approximate)
7:30 Perry Mason
8:30 Checkmate
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10 PM Gunsmoke
10:30 This Man Dawson
11 PM News, Weather
11:15 Movie: "So Proudly We Hail" (This '43 story of
nurses working at the front during WWII earned
critical praise for George Reeves--producer Mark
Sandrich told him he had big plans for him--but
Reeves was drafted and Sandrich died while Reeves
was in the Army. Years later, while playing Superman,
Reeves once told Jack Larson, "If Mark Sandrich had
lived, I wouldn't be wearing this monkey suit.")
WFIE Ch. 14 Evansville (NBC)
7 AM Today On The Farm
7:30 Indiana University
8 AM Adventures In Africa
8:15 Cartoon Carnival
8:30 Ding Dong School
9 AM Shari Lewis (c)
9:30 King Leonardo (c)
10 AM Fury
10:30 Lone Ranger
11 AM True Story
11:30 Liberty Bowl Preview
11:45 Liberty Bowl: Oregon-Penn State
3 PM Community Jamboree (time approximate)
3:15 Americans At Work
3:30 Bowling Stars
4 PM Captain Gallant
4:30 Saturday Prom
5 PM Item (local)
6 PM Science Fiction Theater
6:30 Bonanza (c)
7:30 Tall Man
8 PM The Deputy
8:30 The Nation's Future
9 PM TBA
9:30 Sea Hunt
10 PM R.C.M.P.
10:30 News (Jack McLean)
10:40 Sports (Jack McLean)
10:45 Movie: "The Outcast" (John Derek and Jim
Davis star in this Western.)
WLEX Ch. 18 Lexington (NBC/ABC)
9:30 Walter Strong (religion)
10 AM Shari Lewis (c)
10:30 King Leonardo (c)
11 AM Fury
11:30 Lone Ranger
12 N True Story
12:30 Liberty Bowl Preview
12:45 Liberty Bowl: Oregon-Penn State (c)
4:30 Film Feature (time approximate)
5 PM Western Movie
6 PM The Groucho Show (delay from Thu 10 PM)
6:30 Riverboat (delay from Mon 7:30)
7:30 Bonanza (c)
8:30 Tall Man
9 PM Lawrence Welk
10 PM Boxing: Rodriguez-Griffith
10:45 Make That Spare (time approximate)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Movie: "FBI Girl"
WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (ABC/CBS)
9 AM Skipper Ryle
10 AM Captain Kangaroo
11 AM Roy Rogers
11:30 Mighty Mouse
12 N Tobacco News And Views
12:15 Conservation Club
12:30 Waterfront
1 PM Nick Clooney
1:45 Bluebonnet Bowl: Alabama-Texas
4:30 Wrestling (time approximate)
5 PM African Patrol
5:30 U.K. Television Workshop (U.K., of course,
means University of Kentucky, not a
British import)
5:45 Sports
6 PM Roaring 20's
7 PM Life With Father
7:30 Perry Mason
8:30 Stagecoach West (delay from Tue 9 PM)
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10 PM Gunsmoke
10:30 Pony Express
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Movie: "Who Done It?" (Benny Hill stars in this
'56 comedy from England)
WEHT Ch. 50 (Ch. 25) Evansville (CBS)
8 AM Travelog 50
8:30 Santa Showcase
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Magic Land Of Allakazam
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11 AM Sky King
11:30 Jeff's Collie
12 N Big Rascals
12:45 Bluebonnet Bowl: Alabama-Texas
3:30 NFL Football: Packers-Rams (time approximate)
6 PM Mr. District Attorney (time approximate)
6:30 Perry Mason
7:30 Checkmate
8:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
9 PM Gunsmoke
9:30 Grand Jury
10 PM Brothers Brannagan
10:30 Movie: TBA
Chs. 5, 9, 12, 18, 27 listed Eastern Time
Chs. 3, 7, 11, 14, 50 listed Central Time
WAVE Ch. 3 Louisville (NBC)
7 AM Today On The Farm (Eddy Arnold hosts,
guests are Homer and Jethro)
7:30 News
7:35 Adventures In Africa
7:45 Light Time
8 AM Cartoon Carnival
8:30 Roy Rogers
9 AM Shari Lewis (c)
9:30 King Leonardo (c)
10 AM Fury
10:30 Lone Ranger
11 AM Matty's Funday Funnies (ABC, not sure if this
is delayed from Friday night but I think it is)
11:30 Liberty Bowl Preview
12 N Liberty Bowl: Oregon (playing for this year's BCS championship)
vs. Penn State, from Philadelphia--Lindsey Nelson and Frankie
Albert report (c)
3 PM Coast Guard Academy (time approximate)
3:30 Bowling Stars
4 PM Kentucky Afield
4:30 Saturday Prom (Merv Griffin welcomes Tony Bennett, Dodie ("Tan
Shoes And Pink Shoelaces") Stevens, Maurice Williams and the
Zodiacs)
5 PM Donna Reed (ABC, delay from Thu 7 PM)
5:30 Youth Speaks
6 PM Tomorrow's Champions (amateur boxing)
6:25 News
6:30 Bonanza (c)
7:30 Leave It To Beaver (ABC)
8 PM Dick Powell (again, I believe these are his "Four Star Playhouse"
episodes--"Zane Grey Theater" was still on the air, and "The Dick
Powell Show" wouldn't debut until fall 1961)
8:30 The Nation's Future (topic: Should federal aid to education include
teachers' salaries? Eisenhower's HEW secretary, Arthur Flemming,
says no--it would give the federal government too much control
over local school districts; Sen. Joseph Clark (Democrat from Pennsylvania)
says federal aid does not necessarily imply federal control.)
9 PM The Nation's Future (local followup)
9:30 Lawrence Welk (ABC, delay from 8 PM)
10 PM The Rifleman (ABC, delay from Tue 7 PM)
10:30 Lawman (ABC, delay from Sun 7:30)
11 PM Closeup! (the classic documentary "Yanki, No!" about anti-American
sentiment in Latin America, ABC, don't know how much of a delay)
12 M Movie: "The Fighting Seabees"
1:40 News
WLW-T Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)
7 AM Today On The Farm
7:30 Western Movie
8:30 Mr. Hop (c)
9:30 Signal Three
10 AM Shari Lewis (c)
10:30 King Leonardo (c)
11 AM Fury
11:30 Lone Ranger
12 N True Story
12:30 Liberty Bowl Preview
12:45 Liberty Bowl: Oregon-Penn State (c)
3:30 Captain Gallant (time approximate, delay from
5 PM)
4 PM People Are Funny (time approximate, delay
from Sun 6:30)
4:30 Bowling Stars
5:30 Wrestling From Dayton
6:30 Midwestern Hayride (c)
7:30 Bonanza (c)
8:30 Tall Man
9 PM The Deputy (Henry Fonda)
9:30 The Nation's Future
10 PM Probe
10:30 Blue Angels
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Movie: "Once Upon A Honeymoon"
WTVW Ch. 7 Evansville (ABC)
9 AM Elementary German
10 AM Jaycees Present
10:30 Children's Film Festival (not the CBS program,
which debuted in 1967)
11:30 Junior Auction
12 N Soupy Sales
12:30 Junior Boxing (wrestler Rip Hawk hosted this show,
IIRC)
1 PM Movie: "Life With Henry" (Jackie Cooper plays
Henry Aldrich)
2:30 Pages For All Ages
3 PM Movie: "Wagonmaster" (this '50 Western sounds
like a warmup for "Wagon Train," with Ward Bond
in the title role)
4:30 Campy's Corner (Roy Campanella talks sports)
5 PM All-Star Golf (Billy Casper vs. Bob Rosburg--Jimmy
Demaret reports)
6 PM Assignment Underwater
6:30 Roaring 20's
7:30 Leave It To Beaver
8 PM Lawrence Welk (trumpeter Norman Bailey's daughter
Janice is guest on this Christmas show)
9 PM Boxing: Luis Rodriguez vs. Emile Griffith, welterweights,
10 rounds, from Madison Square Garden (Griffith would
alienate a lot of boxing fans in 1962 with his merciless--
ultimately fatal--beating of Benny "Kid" Paret)
9:45 Make That Spare (challenger: Billy Golembiewski, time
approximate, from Paramus, NJ)
10 PM Coronado 9
10:30 Wrestling From Evansville
12 M Grand Ole Opry
12:30 Movie: "The Falcon Strikes Back"
WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (ABC)
7 AM Jewish Hour
7:15 Joe Emerson (gospel music)
7:30 Herald Of Truth
8 AM Industry On Parade
8:15 Navy Story
8:45 F.O.P. Quiz (I wonder if this is "Play It Safe"?)
9:30 Cartoon Party
10 AM Rocky And His Friends (not sure how much delay)
10:30 Three Stooges
11 AM Learn To Draw (Jon Gnagy)
11:15 Cartoons
11:30 Laffhouse Gang (Lee Fogel)
12 N TV Dance Party
3 PM Movie: "The Flame"
5 PM All-Star Wrestling
6 PM Cannonball
6:30 Outdoor Rambler
7 PM Union Pacific
7:30 Roaring 20's
8:30 Leave It To Beaver
9 PM Lawrence Welk
10 PM Take A Good Look (Ernie Kovacs, delay
from Thu 10:30)
10:30 Flight
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:20 Movie: "Holiday" (this has Katharine Hepburn
and Cary Grant, and is not to be confused
with "Holiday Inn")
WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)
8 AM Cartoon Circus
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Magic Land Of Allakazam
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11 AM Popeye
11:30 CBS News (Robert Trout, the first half-hour
network newscast)
12 N Songs Of Faith
12:30 Christmas Carols (the choruses of Eastern and
Valley High Schools are guests)
12:45 Bluebonnet Bowl: Alabama-Texas, from Houston
(Tom Harmon and Johnny Lujack report)
3:30 NFL Football: Packers-Los Angeles Rams (Bob Kelley
and Gil Stratton report, time approximate)
6:15 Cartoon Circus (time approximate)
6:30 Perry Mason
7:30 Sea Hunt
8 PM College Basketball: Kentucky-Temple
9:45 Inside Sports (time approximate)
10 PM Ozzie And Harriet (ABC, delay from Wed 7:30)
10:30 News (Hugh Smith, later of WTVT Tampa)
10:40 Weather (Milton Metz, longtime WHAS personality)
10:45 Sports
11 PM Play Of The Week (Larry Blyden and Oscar Homolka
in "A Very Special Baby"--the 34-year-old son of
a self-made millionaire)
WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (CBS)
9 AM Skipper Ryle
10 AM Captain Kangaroo
11 AM Magic Land Of Allakazam
11:30 Mighty Mouse
12 N Sky King
12:30 Background (documentary)
1 PM African Patrol
1:30 Film Feature
1:45 Bluebonnet Bowl: Alabama-Texas
4:30 NFL Football: Packers-Rams (time approximate)
7:30 Perry Mason
8:30 Checkmate
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10 PM Gunsmoke
10:30 This Man Dawson
11 PM News, Weather
11:15 Movie: "So Proudly We Hail" (This '43 story of
nurses working at the front during WWII earned
critical praise for George Reeves--producer Mark
Sandrich told him he had big plans for him--but
Reeves was drafted and Sandrich died while Reeves
was in the Army. Years later, while playing Superman,
Reeves once told Jack Larson, "If Mark Sandrich had
lived, I wouldn't be wearing this monkey suit.")
WFIE Ch. 14 Evansville (NBC)
7 AM Today On The Farm
7:30 Indiana University
8 AM Adventures In Africa
8:15 Cartoon Carnival
8:30 Ding Dong School
9 AM Shari Lewis (c)
9:30 King Leonardo (c)
10 AM Fury
10:30 Lone Ranger
11 AM True Story
11:30 Liberty Bowl Preview
11:45 Liberty Bowl: Oregon-Penn State
3 PM Community Jamboree (time approximate)
3:15 Americans At Work
3:30 Bowling Stars
4 PM Captain Gallant
4:30 Saturday Prom
5 PM Item (local)
6 PM Science Fiction Theater
6:30 Bonanza (c)
7:30 Tall Man
8 PM The Deputy
8:30 The Nation's Future
9 PM TBA
9:30 Sea Hunt
10 PM R.C.M.P.
10:30 News (Jack McLean)
10:40 Sports (Jack McLean)
10:45 Movie: "The Outcast" (John Derek and Jim
Davis star in this Western.)
WLEX Ch. 18 Lexington (NBC/ABC)
9:30 Walter Strong (religion)
10 AM Shari Lewis (c)
10:30 King Leonardo (c)
11 AM Fury
11:30 Lone Ranger
12 N True Story
12:30 Liberty Bowl Preview
12:45 Liberty Bowl: Oregon-Penn State (c)
4:30 Film Feature (time approximate)
5 PM Western Movie
6 PM The Groucho Show (delay from Thu 10 PM)
6:30 Riverboat (delay from Mon 7:30)
7:30 Bonanza (c)
8:30 Tall Man
9 PM Lawrence Welk
10 PM Boxing: Rodriguez-Griffith
10:45 Make That Spare (time approximate)
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Movie: "FBI Girl"
WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (ABC/CBS)
9 AM Skipper Ryle
10 AM Captain Kangaroo
11 AM Roy Rogers
11:30 Mighty Mouse
12 N Tobacco News And Views
12:15 Conservation Club
12:30 Waterfront
1 PM Nick Clooney
1:45 Bluebonnet Bowl: Alabama-Texas
4:30 Wrestling (time approximate)
5 PM African Patrol
5:30 U.K. Television Workshop (U.K., of course,
means University of Kentucky, not a
British import)
5:45 Sports
6 PM Roaring 20's
7 PM Life With Father
7:30 Perry Mason
8:30 Stagecoach West (delay from Tue 9 PM)
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10 PM Gunsmoke
10:30 Pony Express
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:15 Movie: "Who Done It?" (Benny Hill stars in this
'56 comedy from England)
WEHT Ch. 50 (Ch. 25) Evansville (CBS)
8 AM Travelog 50
8:30 Santa Showcase
9 AM Captain Kangaroo
10 AM Magic Land Of Allakazam
10:30 Mighty Mouse
11 AM Sky King
11:30 Jeff's Collie
12 N Big Rascals
12:45 Bluebonnet Bowl: Alabama-Texas
3:30 NFL Football: Packers-Rams (time approximate)
6 PM Mr. District Attorney (time approximate)
6:30 Perry Mason
7:30 Checkmate
8:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
9 PM Gunsmoke
9:30 Grand Jury
10 PM Brothers Brannagan
10:30 Movie: TBA