From TV Guide, Kentucky Edition:
WAVE Ch. 3 Louisville (NBC)
7 AM Farming With Jack Crowner
7:30 Gospel Singing Caravan
8:30 Dixie Singin'
9 AM The Story
9:30 This Is The Answer
10 AM This Is The Life
10:30 Indiana University Forum
11 AM American Negro (sorry for the political incorrectness
but this was 1965: topic is job discrimination and the
need for changes in American labor laws)
11:30 Continental Comment
12 N Frontiers Of Faith (seventh of nine programs on the
"Prophetic Voices of the Bible" focuses on Job)
12:30 Mr. Wizard
1 PM Movie: "Last Train From Bombay"
2:30 Big Picture
3 PM Sing Ye, Praise Ye
3:30 International Showtime (the Fairyland Circus of Denmark,
with magician Roger Barbat, bicycle acrobat Agnes Galler,
the Moreno horses, clowns Seki and Son, delay from Fri
7:30 PM)
4:30 Golf: Greater Greensboro Open (final round, COLOR)
6 PM Meet The Press (time approximate, COLOR)
6:30 Profiles In Courage (Grover Cleveland faces opposition from
veterans because he's opposed to any legislation which would
unjustly benefit them--Carroll O'Connor plays Cleveland)
7:30 Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color: "Kilroy," conclusion (COLOR)
8:30 Branded
9 PM Bonanza (COLOR)
10 PM The Rogues
11 PM News, Weather, Sports (COLOR)
11:30 Medic
WLW-T Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)
8:30 Church By The Road (COLOR)
9 AM Cadle Tabernacle (COLOR)
9:30 Children's Gospel Hour
10 AM Frontiers Of Faith (same as Ch. 3)
10:30 University Of Cincinnati Horizons (COLOR)
11 AM Big Picture
11:30 World Front (COLOR)
12 N City Manager (COLOR)
12:15 Community Corner (COLOR)
12:30 TV Bowl (bowling: John Chupek vs. Tom Dickinson)
1:30 Great Moments In Music
1:45 Sunday News Digest
2 PM Movie: TBA
3 PM Bob Braun's Bandstand (COLOR)
3:30 It's Academic (COLOR)
4 PM TBA
4:30 Golf: Greater Greensboro Open (final round, COLOR)
6 PM Meet The Press (time approximate, COLOR)
6:30 Profiles In Courage
7:30 Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color (COLOR)
8:30 Branded
9 PM Bonanza (COLOR)
10 PM The Rogues
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Rex Humbard
WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)
7 AM This Is The Life
7:30 Jewish Hour
8 AM Gospel Singing Caravan
9 AM Dixie Singin'
9:30 TV Gospel Time (the Barrett Sisters and
the Blind Boys of Mississippi)
10 AM Call The Doctor
11 AM Insight
11:30 Yancy Derringer
12 N Movie: "Enchanted Island"
1:30 Bill Anderson
2 PM Communism (educational on what it's all about)
2:15 Great Moments In Music
2:30 CBS Sports Spectacular: World Professional Trampoline
Championships, the Indianapolis Preview Governors Cup
auto race
4 PM CBS Golf Classic: Tony Lema and Bobby Nichols vs. Bruce
Devlin and Bob Charles in the final 18 holes of a 36-hole
championship match (taped)
5:30 Amateur Hour ("Cavalcade of Amateurs," conclusion of a
two-part retrospective of major acts which have appeared
going back to radio; today it's the TV era and the debut
performances of Pat Boone, Ann-Margret, James Shigeta,
Jerry Vale, and Joey Dee and the Starlighters; also: clips
of a benefit show with former Vice President Alben Barkley,
Sens. Estes Kefauver and Joseph McCarthy, and Speaker of
the House Sam Rayburn performing)
6 PM Twentieth Century (Walter Cronkite narrates a profile of violin
great Isaac Stern)
6:30 Impact
7 PM Lassie
7:30 My Favorite Martian
8 PM Ed Sullivan (Vince Edwards, Alan King, Abbe Lane, George Kirby,
English pop singer Cilla Black, French singer Jean Paul Vignon,
English comic Arthur Hayes, African instrumental and dance ensemble
Djoliba)
9 PM For The People (what kept William Shatner from doing the "Star Trek"
pilot)
10 PM Candid Camera (a floral arrangement on a restaurant table "consumes"
food; children get an unexpectedly large helping of gum from a vending
machine; a service counter in a London shop collapses every time a
customer rings the bell for service)
10:30 What's My Line?
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "Hong Kong" (watch for Marvin Miller, aka Michael Anthony,
in this one from '52, three years before "The Millionaire"--Ronald
Reagan has the lead role, however)
WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)
9 AM Cartoon Comics
9:30 Sunrise Semester: "Tragic Dramas of Greece and Rome"
(I'll take that for $1000, Alex ;D)
10 AM Lamp Unto My Feet
10:30 Look Up And Live
11 AM Music And The Spoken Word
11:30 Cartoon Comics
12:15 Social Security In Action
12:30 Face The Nation
1 PM Songs Of Faith
1:30 Lure Of The Library
2 PM The St. Louis Cardinals: The Look Of A Champion
(speculates on whether the 1964 World Series champions
can repeat--they couldn't; the Dodgers beat the Twins
4 games to 3)
2:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
4 PM CBS Golf Classic
5:30 Amateur Hour
6 PM Twentieth Century
6:30 World War I (Woodrow Wilson faces opposition to his Fourteen
Points at Versailles; in particular, Georges Clemenceau of France
and David Lloyd George of Great Britain feel it doesn't do enough
to punish Germany and its allies)
7 PM Lassie
7:30 My Favorite Martian
8 PM Ed Sullivan
9 PM For The People
10 PM Candid Camera
10:30 What's My Line?
11 PM News, Weather
11:20 Cara Williams (delay from Wed 9:30 PM)
11:50 Movie: "They Made Her A Spy"
WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)
7:30 Forward In Faith
8 AM Praise Hour
8:30 Beany And Cecil (delay from 10:30 AM)
9 AM Bullwinkle (delay from 11 AM, COLOR)
9:30 Discovery '65 (Frank Buxton and Virginia Gibson
tour the ABC facilities in New York to explain
how television works, delay from 11:30 AM)
10 AM Skipper Ryle
12 N ABC Scope (delay from Wed 10:30 PM)
12:30 Communism (relations between Moscow and Peking
(Beijing))
1 PM Directions '65 (a program about theories surrounding
death and resurrection)
1:30 Issues And Answers (an unusual change of pace:
Howard K. Smith and Marlene Sanders interview
Maurice Chevalier)
2 PM NBA Playoff: Celtics vs. either the 76ers or the Cincinnati
Royals in Game 1 of the Eastern Division championship
(Celtics ultimately beat the Lakers, 4 games to 1, to win
it all)
4 PM American Sportsman (one of the most controversial shows
in this program's checkered history: Robert Stack shoots
and kills an elderly rogue elephant that was minding its own
business, COLOR)
5 PM Science All-Stars (guest: Dr. William McCorkle, director of
the Army Missiles Command at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, AL;
presenting their projects: Gary Samaby (a homemade rocket),
Mark Barker (a computer that solves puzzles), Joanne Selle (a
heredity study with two generations of mice). Host Don Morrow
has often said he wishes this show were still on the air; he apparently
never heard the stories I did of parents nagging their underachieving
Bart Simpsons to be more like these kids.)
5:30 Movie: "Tyrant Of Lydia Against The Son Of Hercules"
7:30 The General (biography of Gen. Douglas MacArthur on the first anniversary
of his death; Van Heflin narrates)
8:30 Broadside (change the gender of "McHale's Navy" and you have this sitcom
about a group of WAVEs headed by Kathleen (as she then preferred to be
called) Nolan; Edward Andrews, one of my favorite character actors, is her
commanding officer)
9 PM ABC Movie: "War Hunt"
10:40 News, Weather, Sports
11:10 Movie: "Trauma"
WLEX Ch. 18 Lexington (NBC/CBS)
11:30 Championship Bowling (Carmen Salvino vs. Rod Winger in a
finals match)
12:30 Mr. Wizard
1 PM Virgil Q. Wacks (I believe this thing aired at some point on every
station in eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, simply by moving its
origination point)
1:30 Western Movie: TBA
2:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
4 PM CBS Golf Classic
5:30 Christian Hour
6 PM Twentieth Century
6:30 World War I
7 PM Lassie
7:30 Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color (COLOR)
8:30 Munsters (CBS, delay from Thu 7:30 PM)
9 PM Bonanza (COLOR)
10 PM The Rogues
11 PM News, Weather, Sports (COLOR)
11:20 Branded (don't know how much of a delay but watch
for Macdonald Carey, soon to start "Days Of Our Lives";
and, in a rare acting role, Robert Q. Lewis)
11:50 Movie: "The Green Buddha"
WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (ABC/CBS)
7 AM Children's Gospel Hour
7:30 Gospel Singing Caravan
8;30 Gospel Jubilee
9:30 God Is The Answer
10:30 Beany And Cecil
11 AM Bullwinkle (in-pattern, but Ch. 27 does not air
it in color)
11:30 Discovery '65 (Jules Bergman joins Frank and "Ginny"
in a plane to explain the theory and practice of flight.)
12 N ABC Scope
12:30 Communism
1 PM The Story
1:30 Issues And Answers
2 PM NBA Playoff (see Ch. 12)
4 PM American Sportsman (same as Ch. 12 but not in color)
5 PM Science All-Stars
5:30 Movie: "Hell's Horizon"
7 PM Broadside
7:30 My Favorite Martian
8 PM Ed Sullivan
9 PM ABC Movie: "War Hunt"
10:40 News, Weather, Sports
11 PM Movie: "Customs Agent"
WLKY Ch. 32 Louisville (ABC)
12 N Hour Of St. Francis (looking at a North Carolina schedule
from roughly the same era, I was surprised to learn that
WTVD also carried this)
12:30 Pastor's Study
1 PM Directions '65
1:30 Issues And Answers
2 PM NBA Playoff (see Ch. 12)
4 PM American Sportsman (same as Ch. 12 but not in color)
5 PM Science All-Stars
5:30 Discovery '65 (same as Ch. 12)
6 PM News (local)
6:15 TBA
6:30 Man And The Challenge
7 PM Peter Gunn
7:30 The General
8:30 Broadside
9 PM ABC Movie: "War Hunt"
10:40 News (possibly ABC, anchor not given)
10:55 Great Moments In Music
WAVE Ch. 3 Louisville (NBC)
7 AM Farming With Jack Crowner
7:30 Gospel Singing Caravan
8:30 Dixie Singin'
9 AM The Story
9:30 This Is The Answer
10 AM This Is The Life
10:30 Indiana University Forum
11 AM American Negro (sorry for the political incorrectness
but this was 1965: topic is job discrimination and the
need for changes in American labor laws)
11:30 Continental Comment
12 N Frontiers Of Faith (seventh of nine programs on the
"Prophetic Voices of the Bible" focuses on Job)
12:30 Mr. Wizard
1 PM Movie: "Last Train From Bombay"
2:30 Big Picture
3 PM Sing Ye, Praise Ye
3:30 International Showtime (the Fairyland Circus of Denmark,
with magician Roger Barbat, bicycle acrobat Agnes Galler,
the Moreno horses, clowns Seki and Son, delay from Fri
7:30 PM)
4:30 Golf: Greater Greensboro Open (final round, COLOR)
6 PM Meet The Press (time approximate, COLOR)
6:30 Profiles In Courage (Grover Cleveland faces opposition from
veterans because he's opposed to any legislation which would
unjustly benefit them--Carroll O'Connor plays Cleveland)
7:30 Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color: "Kilroy," conclusion (COLOR)
8:30 Branded
9 PM Bonanza (COLOR)
10 PM The Rogues
11 PM News, Weather, Sports (COLOR)
11:30 Medic
WLW-T Ch. 5 Cincinnati (NBC)
8:30 Church By The Road (COLOR)
9 AM Cadle Tabernacle (COLOR)
9:30 Children's Gospel Hour
10 AM Frontiers Of Faith (same as Ch. 3)
10:30 University Of Cincinnati Horizons (COLOR)
11 AM Big Picture
11:30 World Front (COLOR)
12 N City Manager (COLOR)
12:15 Community Corner (COLOR)
12:30 TV Bowl (bowling: John Chupek vs. Tom Dickinson)
1:30 Great Moments In Music
1:45 Sunday News Digest
2 PM Movie: TBA
3 PM Bob Braun's Bandstand (COLOR)
3:30 It's Academic (COLOR)
4 PM TBA
4:30 Golf: Greater Greensboro Open (final round, COLOR)
6 PM Meet The Press (time approximate, COLOR)
6:30 Profiles In Courage
7:30 Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color (COLOR)
8:30 Branded
9 PM Bonanza (COLOR)
10 PM The Rogues
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Rex Humbard
WCPO Ch. 9 Cincinnati (CBS)
7 AM This Is The Life
7:30 Jewish Hour
8 AM Gospel Singing Caravan
9 AM Dixie Singin'
9:30 TV Gospel Time (the Barrett Sisters and
the Blind Boys of Mississippi)
10 AM Call The Doctor
11 AM Insight
11:30 Yancy Derringer
12 N Movie: "Enchanted Island"
1:30 Bill Anderson
2 PM Communism (educational on what it's all about)
2:15 Great Moments In Music
2:30 CBS Sports Spectacular: World Professional Trampoline
Championships, the Indianapolis Preview Governors Cup
auto race
4 PM CBS Golf Classic: Tony Lema and Bobby Nichols vs. Bruce
Devlin and Bob Charles in the final 18 holes of a 36-hole
championship match (taped)
5:30 Amateur Hour ("Cavalcade of Amateurs," conclusion of a
two-part retrospective of major acts which have appeared
going back to radio; today it's the TV era and the debut
performances of Pat Boone, Ann-Margret, James Shigeta,
Jerry Vale, and Joey Dee and the Starlighters; also: clips
of a benefit show with former Vice President Alben Barkley,
Sens. Estes Kefauver and Joseph McCarthy, and Speaker of
the House Sam Rayburn performing)
6 PM Twentieth Century (Walter Cronkite narrates a profile of violin
great Isaac Stern)
6:30 Impact
7 PM Lassie
7:30 My Favorite Martian
8 PM Ed Sullivan (Vince Edwards, Alan King, Abbe Lane, George Kirby,
English pop singer Cilla Black, French singer Jean Paul Vignon,
English comic Arthur Hayes, African instrumental and dance ensemble
Djoliba)
9 PM For The People (what kept William Shatner from doing the "Star Trek"
pilot)
10 PM Candid Camera (a floral arrangement on a restaurant table "consumes"
food; children get an unexpectedly large helping of gum from a vending
machine; a service counter in a London shop collapses every time a
customer rings the bell for service)
10:30 What's My Line?
11 PM News, Weather, Sports
11:30 Movie: "Hong Kong" (watch for Marvin Miller, aka Michael Anthony,
in this one from '52, three years before "The Millionaire"--Ronald
Reagan has the lead role, however)
WHAS Ch. 11 Louisville (CBS)
9 AM Cartoon Comics
9:30 Sunrise Semester: "Tragic Dramas of Greece and Rome"
(I'll take that for $1000, Alex ;D)
10 AM Lamp Unto My Feet
10:30 Look Up And Live
11 AM Music And The Spoken Word
11:30 Cartoon Comics
12:15 Social Security In Action
12:30 Face The Nation
1 PM Songs Of Faith
1:30 Lure Of The Library
2 PM The St. Louis Cardinals: The Look Of A Champion
(speculates on whether the 1964 World Series champions
can repeat--they couldn't; the Dodgers beat the Twins
4 games to 3)
2:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
4 PM CBS Golf Classic
5:30 Amateur Hour
6 PM Twentieth Century
6:30 World War I (Woodrow Wilson faces opposition to his Fourteen
Points at Versailles; in particular, Georges Clemenceau of France
and David Lloyd George of Great Britain feel it doesn't do enough
to punish Germany and its allies)
7 PM Lassie
7:30 My Favorite Martian
8 PM Ed Sullivan
9 PM For The People
10 PM Candid Camera
10:30 What's My Line?
11 PM News, Weather
11:20 Cara Williams (delay from Wed 9:30 PM)
11:50 Movie: "They Made Her A Spy"
WKRC Ch. 12 Cincinnati (ABC)
7:30 Forward In Faith
8 AM Praise Hour
8:30 Beany And Cecil (delay from 10:30 AM)
9 AM Bullwinkle (delay from 11 AM, COLOR)
9:30 Discovery '65 (Frank Buxton and Virginia Gibson
tour the ABC facilities in New York to explain
how television works, delay from 11:30 AM)
10 AM Skipper Ryle
12 N ABC Scope (delay from Wed 10:30 PM)
12:30 Communism (relations between Moscow and Peking
(Beijing))
1 PM Directions '65 (a program about theories surrounding
death and resurrection)
1:30 Issues And Answers (an unusual change of pace:
Howard K. Smith and Marlene Sanders interview
Maurice Chevalier)
2 PM NBA Playoff: Celtics vs. either the 76ers or the Cincinnati
Royals in Game 1 of the Eastern Division championship
(Celtics ultimately beat the Lakers, 4 games to 1, to win
it all)
4 PM American Sportsman (one of the most controversial shows
in this program's checkered history: Robert Stack shoots
and kills an elderly rogue elephant that was minding its own
business, COLOR)
5 PM Science All-Stars (guest: Dr. William McCorkle, director of
the Army Missiles Command at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, AL;
presenting their projects: Gary Samaby (a homemade rocket),
Mark Barker (a computer that solves puzzles), Joanne Selle (a
heredity study with two generations of mice). Host Don Morrow
has often said he wishes this show were still on the air; he apparently
never heard the stories I did of parents nagging their underachieving
Bart Simpsons to be more like these kids.)
5:30 Movie: "Tyrant Of Lydia Against The Son Of Hercules"
7:30 The General (biography of Gen. Douglas MacArthur on the first anniversary
of his death; Van Heflin narrates)
8:30 Broadside (change the gender of "McHale's Navy" and you have this sitcom
about a group of WAVEs headed by Kathleen (as she then preferred to be
called) Nolan; Edward Andrews, one of my favorite character actors, is her
commanding officer)
9 PM ABC Movie: "War Hunt"
10:40 News, Weather, Sports
11:10 Movie: "Trauma"
WLEX Ch. 18 Lexington (NBC/CBS)
11:30 Championship Bowling (Carmen Salvino vs. Rod Winger in a
finals match)
12:30 Mr. Wizard
1 PM Virgil Q. Wacks (I believe this thing aired at some point on every
station in eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, simply by moving its
origination point)
1:30 Western Movie: TBA
2:30 CBS Sports Spectacular
4 PM CBS Golf Classic
5:30 Christian Hour
6 PM Twentieth Century
6:30 World War I
7 PM Lassie
7:30 Walt Disney's Wonderful World Of Color (COLOR)
8:30 Munsters (CBS, delay from Thu 7:30 PM)
9 PM Bonanza (COLOR)
10 PM The Rogues
11 PM News, Weather, Sports (COLOR)
11:20 Branded (don't know how much of a delay but watch
for Macdonald Carey, soon to start "Days Of Our Lives";
and, in a rare acting role, Robert Q. Lewis)
11:50 Movie: "The Green Buddha"
WKYT Ch. 27 Lexington (ABC/CBS)
7 AM Children's Gospel Hour
7:30 Gospel Singing Caravan
8;30 Gospel Jubilee
9:30 God Is The Answer
10:30 Beany And Cecil
11 AM Bullwinkle (in-pattern, but Ch. 27 does not air
it in color)
11:30 Discovery '65 (Jules Bergman joins Frank and "Ginny"
in a plane to explain the theory and practice of flight.)
12 N ABC Scope
12:30 Communism
1 PM The Story
1:30 Issues And Answers
2 PM NBA Playoff (see Ch. 12)
4 PM American Sportsman (same as Ch. 12 but not in color)
5 PM Science All-Stars
5:30 Movie: "Hell's Horizon"
7 PM Broadside
7:30 My Favorite Martian
8 PM Ed Sullivan
9 PM ABC Movie: "War Hunt"
10:40 News, Weather, Sports
11 PM Movie: "Customs Agent"
WLKY Ch. 32 Louisville (ABC)
12 N Hour Of St. Francis (looking at a North Carolina schedule
from roughly the same era, I was surprised to learn that
WTVD also carried this)
12:30 Pastor's Study
1 PM Directions '65
1:30 Issues And Answers
2 PM NBA Playoff (see Ch. 12)
4 PM American Sportsman (same as Ch. 12 but not in color)
5 PM Science All-Stars
5:30 Discovery '65 (same as Ch. 12)
6 PM News (local)
6:15 TBA
6:30 Man And The Challenge
7 PM Peter Gunn
7:30 The General
8:30 Broadside
9 PM ABC Movie: "War Hunt"
10:40 News (possibly ABC, anchor not given)
10:55 Great Moments In Music