Source: TV Guide Northern New England edition
2 – WLBZ Bangor (NBC)
4 – WBZ Boston (NBC)
5 – WABI Bangor (CBS)
(5) – WHDH Boston (CBS)
6 – WCSH Portland (NBC)
7 – WEMT Bangor (ABC)
(7) – WNAC Boston (ABC)
8 – WMTW Poland Springs (ABC)
9 – WMUR Manchester NH (ABC)
10 – WCBB Augusta (Educational)
11 – WENH Durham NH (Educational)
12 – WMEB Orono (Educational)
13 – WGAN Portland (CBS)
6:00a
(5) Sunrise Semester – Studies in Style (spoken and written language)
6:15a
4 Sign On Seminar
6:25a
(7) Farm and Market Report
6:30a
(5) Farming – Joe Kelly (color)
(7) Understanding Our World
6:35a
6 First Radio Parish Church
6:40a
2-6 U.S. Agriculture
6:45a
2-6 Farm Market Report
4 Daily Almanac – Jack Chase, Don Kent
(5) We Believe – religion (color)
6:55a
13 Wonderful World – cartoon
7:00
2-4-6 Today – scheduled guests: Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey; actress Helen Hayes; and world heavyweight champion Cassius Clay (local news, weather at 7:25, 8:25)
(5) A.M. Show – Jack Hynes (color)
(7) Major Mudd – cartoons
7:05a
13 News (color)
7:15a
8 Farm and Home (color)
7:20a
5 Open Door
7:25a
5 Farm Reporter
7:30a
5 News (color)
8 Where the Action Is – music; performers: Ian Whitcomb, Lesley Evans, and Paul Revere and the Raiders (delayed from 4:30p)
13 Cisco Kid (color)
7:55a
5 Weather – Jack Hambleton
8:00a
5-(5)-13 Captain Kangaroo
7 Movie “The Barefoot Contessa” 1954
8 Forest Rangers (color)
8:05a
12 School Bulletin Board
8:10a
12 Parlons Francais I
8:25a
10-12 School Bulletin Board
8:30a
(7) Linus the Lionhearted
8 Popeye – cartoons
8:45a
8 Your Breakfast Serial
9:00a
2 Woman’s Hour – Julia Brake
4 Contact! – Bob Kennedy
5 Jack LaLanne – exercise
(5) Romper Room (color)
6 Weekdays on Six
(7) Gypsy Rose Lee (color)
8 9O’Clock Land – children
10-12 Science – grade 5
13 Three Stooges
9:15a
13 The King and Odie – cartoons
9:20a
11 Franklin to Frost – poetry
9:25a
10-12 Phonics – instruction
9:30a
2 Dialing for Dollars – game
5 Almanac – Mike Dolley
(5) Classroom Five – education (color)
6 Ann Sothern
(7) Girl Talk – panel
9 Clyde Joy – music
13 Dick Van Dyke (delayed from 11:30a)
9:40a
12 Children of Other Lands
9:55a
8 News
10:00a
2-4-6 Reach for the Stars – game (color)
5-(5)-13 Candid Camera
7 Al and Aileen – variety
(7) Tell Me, Dr. Brothers (color)
9 – Where the Action Is (same episode as channel 8 @ 7:30a, delayed from 4:30p)
10-11-12 Music Theater
10:25a
2-4-6 NBC News – Sander Vanocur (color)
10-12 Science – grade 4
10:30a
2-4-6 Concentration (color)
5-(5)-13 The Beverly Hillbillies
(7) General Hospital (delayed from 3p)
8-9 Dark Shadows (delayed from 4p)
11 Book Parade – children
10:45a
11-12 Science – grade 6
11:00a
2-4-6 Pat Boone (color)
5-(5) Andy Griffith
7-(7)-8-9 Supermarket Sweep
13 Mike Douglas; co-host: Sergio Franchi; guests: The Temptations, Frederick Hartt on restoration of art in Florence, Italy (60 min)
11:10a
10-12 History – Maine
11:30a
2-4-6 Hollywood Squares (color)
5-(5) Dick Van Dyke
7-(7)-8-9 Dating Game
12 Creative English Teaching
12:00p
2-6 Jeopardy (color)
4 News – Jack Chase, Shelby Scott
5-(5)-13 Love of Life
7-(7)-8-9 Donna Reed
11 Supervisory Psychology
12:15p
4 Interview – Terry Carter
12:25p
4 Weather – Don Kent
5 Weather – Jack Hambleton
(5)-13 CBS News – Joseph Benti (color)
12:30p
2-6 Eye Guess (color)
4 Mike Douglas – co-host: Don Rickles (90 min)
5-(5)-13 Search for Tomorrow
7-(7)-8-9 Father Knows Best
12:45p
5-(5)-13 The Guiding Light
12 Parlons Francais I
12:55p
2-6 NBC News – Edwin Newman (color)
1:00p
2 Merv Griffith – guests: singer-actress Patricia Marand, comedian Murray Roman, Betty Walker, Art Linkletter (55 min)
5-13 Girl Talk – guests: acress Sally Ann Howes, actress Lila Burkeman and columnist Maggi Daly
(5) PDQ – game (color)
6 Dialing for Dollars
7-(7)-8-9 Ben Casey
10-12 Phonics – Instruction
11 Our New Hampshire
1:20p
11-12 Science – grade 6
1:30p
5-(5)-13 As the World Turns
6 Let’s Make a Deal (color)
1:45p
10-12 Sing, Children, Sing
11 Listen and Say
1:55p
4-6 NBC News – Nancy Dickerson (color)
2:00p
2-4-6 Days of Our Lives (color)
5-(5)-13 Password – celebrities: Ross Martin and Betty White (color)
7-8-9 Newlywed Game
(7) Movie “Her 12 Men” 1954
11 Franklin to Frost – poetry
2:05p
10-12 Children of Other Lands
2:25p
12 Humanities – education
2:30p
2-4-6 The Doctors (color)
5-(5)-13 House Party – guests: Abigail “Dear Abby” Van Buren and Jimmie Rogers (color)
7-8-9 Dream Girl – contest
2:55p
7-9 ABC News – Marlene Sanders
8 Dr.’s House Call
3:00p
2-4-6 Another World (color)
5-(5)-13 To Tell the Truth
7-8-9 General Hospital
11 Supervisory Psychology
3:25p
5-(5) CBS News – Douglas Edwards (color)
(7)-13 News
3:30p
2-4-6 You Don’t Say! – guests: Susan Oliver and Wink Martindale (color)
5-(5)-13 The Edge of Night
7-8-9 The Nurses
(7) 77 Sunset Strip
4:00p
2-4-6 The Match Game – guests: Alan Alda and Phyllis Newman (color)
5-(5)-13 The Secret Storm
7 Dark Shadows
8 Movie “Passage to Marseille” 1944
9 Uncle Gus – cartoons
10-12 Sets and Systems
11 Art in Teaching
4:25p
2-4-6 NBC News – Floyd Kalber (color)
4:30p
2 Mickey Mouse Club
4 Leave it to Beaver
5 Bozo the Clown
(5) Bozo the Clown (color)
6 Merv Griffin – guests: Dick Gregory, UPI White House correspondent Merriman Smith, singers Genevive and Karen Morrow (60 min)
7 Where the Action Is
(7) Dennis the Menace
10-12 Parlons Francais
13 Movie “Blondie’s Big Moment” 1947
4:45p
9 Movie “The Noose Hangs High” 1948
12 The Friendly Giant
5:00p
2 Timmy and Lassie
4 Merv Griffin
5 Maverick
7 Dr.’s House Call
(7) Super Heroes, Superman
10-12 Misteroger’s Neighborhood
5:05p
7 News, Weather, Sports
5:15p
8 News, Weather, Sports
5:30p
2 Highway Patrol
(5) Lawman
6 Superman
7-8 ABC News – Peter Jennings; beginning today, this network newscast expands to a half-hour format and also switches to color; ABC correspondent Howard K. Smith will appear daily as the news analysis (color)
10-11-12 What’s New – children
5:45p
(7) News – John Henning
6:00p
2-5-6-13 News, Weather, Sports
(5) News, Weather, Sports (color)
7 Movie “The Silver Whip” 1953
(7) ABC News – Peter Jennings (no notation of color)
8 Movie “Eyes in the Night” 1942
10-12 Where Do We Go? – program gives high school students a look at apprentice training programs available in Maine
11 Weather – New Hampshire
6:10p
11 Classical Music
6:15p
9 ABC News – Peter Jennings (no notation of color; only listed for 15 minutes)
6:30p
2-6 NBC News – Chet Huntley, David Brinkley (color)
4-9 News, Weather (the rest of the week lists ch. 9 news as 6:45p)
5-(5)-13 CBS News – Walter Cronkite (color)
(7) Mister Ed
10-11 News – Louis Lyons
12 Smart Sewing
6:45p
10-11 Backgrounds of the News
7:00p
2 The Rebel
4 NBC News – Chet Huntley, David Brinkley (color)
5 The Rifleman
(5) Channel 5 Reports – Gov. John A. Volpe discusses “The Next Four Years” (color)
6 Movie “Column South” 1953
(7) Have Gun – Will Travel
9 Robin Hood
10 Trio – essays
11 U.S. History
12 Circus – documentary
13 Captain America (color)
7:30p
2-4 The Monkees “Case of the Missing Monkee” (color)
5-(5)-13 Gilligan’s Island “Court-Martial” (color)
7-(7)-8-9 Iron Horse “The Pembrooke Blood” (color)
10-12 Leotyne Price – a profile of the Met soprano
11 Art in Teaching
8:00p
2-4 I Dream of Jeannie “The Greatest Invention in the World” (color)
5-(5)-13 Mr. Terrific (debut) – Stanley Beamish, the weakling proprietor of a Washington gas station, is also a top-secret super agent (color)
10 French Chef – Turban of Sole is prepared
11-12 French Chef – French thousand-leaf pastry is prepared
8:30p
2-4-6 Captain Nice (debut) – High above Bigtown, U.S.A., a caped superhero in a baggy costume flies in search of evildoers (color)
5-(5)-13 Lucille Ball – Vivian Vance returns to visit Lucy (color)
7-(7)-8-9 Rat Patrol “The One That Got Away Raid” (color)
10-11-12 Museum Open House – Perry T. Rathbone, director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, talks about his favorite works of art
9:00p
2-4-6 The Road West “Reap the Whirlwind” (color)
5-(5)-13 Andy Griffith “Dinner at Eight” (color)
7-(7)-8-9 Felony Squad “The Deadly Partner” (color)
10-11-12 N.E.T. Journal – do the poor pay more and get less? This report shows how America’s poor have been exploited by unscrupulous businessmen and trapped by the vicious circle of exorbitant credit payments
9:30p
5-(5)-13 Family Affair “That Was the Dinner that Wasn’t” (color)
7-(7)-8-9 Peyton Place – Steven saves Peyton’s life; Constance clears out Allison’s room (color)
10:00p
2-4-6 Run For Your Life “Flight From Tirana” part 1 (color)
5-(5)-13 To Tell the Truth (color)
7-8-9 The Big Valley “Image of Yesterday” (color)
(7) Movie “Take One False Step” 1949
10 Family Dynamics – sociology
11 Spectrum – science
12 Science Review – how a small business can produce and sell the unused inventions of large corporations
10:30p
5-(5)-13 I’ve Got a Secret – scheduled guest: Met baritone Robert Merrill; panelists: Henry Morgan, Bess Myerson, Bill Cullen and Betsy Palmer (color)
10-11 Marketing on the Move – “The Common Market: Cost verses Opportunity”
11:00p
2-4-5-6-7-8-13 News, Weather, Sports
(5) News, Weather, Sports (color)
(7) News – John Henning
9 News, Weather – Ron Ripley
11:10p
(7) Sports – Bob Gallagher
11:15p
6 To Be Announced
7 Movie “Wind Across the Everglades” 1958
(7) Movie – continued from 10p
9 Movie “Witness to Murder” 1954
11:20p
13 Movie “Chicago Calling” 1951
11:25p
4 News – Duke Wade
8 Dr.’s House Calls
11:30p
2-4-6 Tonight – singer Pat Boone begins a week as guest host for vacationing Johnny Carson (color)
(5) News – Hyams, Goodrich (color)
8 Movie “Espionage Agent” 1939
12:00a
(5) Cheyenne
(7) Movie “Wind Across the Everglades”
1:00a
4 Movie “Svengali” 1931
2 – WLBZ Bangor (NBC)
4 – WBZ Boston (NBC)
5 – WABI Bangor (CBS)
(5) – WHDH Boston (CBS)
6 – WCSH Portland (NBC)
7 – WEMT Bangor (ABC)
(7) – WNAC Boston (ABC)
8 – WMTW Poland Springs (ABC)
9 – WMUR Manchester NH (ABC)
10 – WCBB Augusta (Educational)
11 – WENH Durham NH (Educational)
12 – WMEB Orono (Educational)
13 – WGAN Portland (CBS)
6:00a
(5) Sunrise Semester – Studies in Style (spoken and written language)
6:15a
4 Sign On Seminar
6:25a
(7) Farm and Market Report
6:30a
(5) Farming – Joe Kelly (color)
(7) Understanding Our World
6:35a
6 First Radio Parish Church
6:40a
2-6 U.S. Agriculture
6:45a
2-6 Farm Market Report
4 Daily Almanac – Jack Chase, Don Kent
(5) We Believe – religion (color)
6:55a
13 Wonderful World – cartoon
7:00
2-4-6 Today – scheduled guests: Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey; actress Helen Hayes; and world heavyweight champion Cassius Clay (local news, weather at 7:25, 8:25)
(5) A.M. Show – Jack Hynes (color)
(7) Major Mudd – cartoons
7:05a
13 News (color)
7:15a
8 Farm and Home (color)
7:20a
5 Open Door
7:25a
5 Farm Reporter
7:30a
5 News (color)
8 Where the Action Is – music; performers: Ian Whitcomb, Lesley Evans, and Paul Revere and the Raiders (delayed from 4:30p)
13 Cisco Kid (color)
7:55a
5 Weather – Jack Hambleton
8:00a
5-(5)-13 Captain Kangaroo
7 Movie “The Barefoot Contessa” 1954
8 Forest Rangers (color)
8:05a
12 School Bulletin Board
8:10a
12 Parlons Francais I
8:25a
10-12 School Bulletin Board
8:30a
(7) Linus the Lionhearted
8 Popeye – cartoons
8:45a
8 Your Breakfast Serial
9:00a
2 Woman’s Hour – Julia Brake
4 Contact! – Bob Kennedy
5 Jack LaLanne – exercise
(5) Romper Room (color)
6 Weekdays on Six
(7) Gypsy Rose Lee (color)
8 9O’Clock Land – children
10-12 Science – grade 5
13 Three Stooges
9:15a
13 The King and Odie – cartoons
9:20a
11 Franklin to Frost – poetry
9:25a
10-12 Phonics – instruction
9:30a
2 Dialing for Dollars – game
5 Almanac – Mike Dolley
(5) Classroom Five – education (color)
6 Ann Sothern
(7) Girl Talk – panel
9 Clyde Joy – music
13 Dick Van Dyke (delayed from 11:30a)
9:40a
12 Children of Other Lands
9:55a
8 News
10:00a
2-4-6 Reach for the Stars – game (color)
5-(5)-13 Candid Camera
7 Al and Aileen – variety
(7) Tell Me, Dr. Brothers (color)
9 – Where the Action Is (same episode as channel 8 @ 7:30a, delayed from 4:30p)
10-11-12 Music Theater
10:25a
2-4-6 NBC News – Sander Vanocur (color)
10-12 Science – grade 4
10:30a
2-4-6 Concentration (color)
5-(5)-13 The Beverly Hillbillies
(7) General Hospital (delayed from 3p)
8-9 Dark Shadows (delayed from 4p)
11 Book Parade – children
10:45a
11-12 Science – grade 6
11:00a
2-4-6 Pat Boone (color)
5-(5) Andy Griffith
7-(7)-8-9 Supermarket Sweep
13 Mike Douglas; co-host: Sergio Franchi; guests: The Temptations, Frederick Hartt on restoration of art in Florence, Italy (60 min)
11:10a
10-12 History – Maine
11:30a
2-4-6 Hollywood Squares (color)
5-(5) Dick Van Dyke
7-(7)-8-9 Dating Game
12 Creative English Teaching
12:00p
2-6 Jeopardy (color)
4 News – Jack Chase, Shelby Scott
5-(5)-13 Love of Life
7-(7)-8-9 Donna Reed
11 Supervisory Psychology
12:15p
4 Interview – Terry Carter
12:25p
4 Weather – Don Kent
5 Weather – Jack Hambleton
(5)-13 CBS News – Joseph Benti (color)
12:30p
2-6 Eye Guess (color)
4 Mike Douglas – co-host: Don Rickles (90 min)
5-(5)-13 Search for Tomorrow
7-(7)-8-9 Father Knows Best
12:45p
5-(5)-13 The Guiding Light
12 Parlons Francais I
12:55p
2-6 NBC News – Edwin Newman (color)
1:00p
2 Merv Griffith – guests: singer-actress Patricia Marand, comedian Murray Roman, Betty Walker, Art Linkletter (55 min)
5-13 Girl Talk – guests: acress Sally Ann Howes, actress Lila Burkeman and columnist Maggi Daly
(5) PDQ – game (color)
6 Dialing for Dollars
7-(7)-8-9 Ben Casey
10-12 Phonics – Instruction
11 Our New Hampshire
1:20p
11-12 Science – grade 6
1:30p
5-(5)-13 As the World Turns
6 Let’s Make a Deal (color)
1:45p
10-12 Sing, Children, Sing
11 Listen and Say
1:55p
4-6 NBC News – Nancy Dickerson (color)
2:00p
2-4-6 Days of Our Lives (color)
5-(5)-13 Password – celebrities: Ross Martin and Betty White (color)
7-8-9 Newlywed Game
(7) Movie “Her 12 Men” 1954
11 Franklin to Frost – poetry
2:05p
10-12 Children of Other Lands
2:25p
12 Humanities – education
2:30p
2-4-6 The Doctors (color)
5-(5)-13 House Party – guests: Abigail “Dear Abby” Van Buren and Jimmie Rogers (color)
7-8-9 Dream Girl – contest
2:55p
7-9 ABC News – Marlene Sanders
8 Dr.’s House Call
3:00p
2-4-6 Another World (color)
5-(5)-13 To Tell the Truth
7-8-9 General Hospital
11 Supervisory Psychology
3:25p
5-(5) CBS News – Douglas Edwards (color)
(7)-13 News
3:30p
2-4-6 You Don’t Say! – guests: Susan Oliver and Wink Martindale (color)
5-(5)-13 The Edge of Night
7-8-9 The Nurses
(7) 77 Sunset Strip
4:00p
2-4-6 The Match Game – guests: Alan Alda and Phyllis Newman (color)
5-(5)-13 The Secret Storm
7 Dark Shadows
8 Movie “Passage to Marseille” 1944
9 Uncle Gus – cartoons
10-12 Sets and Systems
11 Art in Teaching
4:25p
2-4-6 NBC News – Floyd Kalber (color)
4:30p
2 Mickey Mouse Club
4 Leave it to Beaver
5 Bozo the Clown
(5) Bozo the Clown (color)
6 Merv Griffin – guests: Dick Gregory, UPI White House correspondent Merriman Smith, singers Genevive and Karen Morrow (60 min)
7 Where the Action Is
(7) Dennis the Menace
10-12 Parlons Francais
13 Movie “Blondie’s Big Moment” 1947
4:45p
9 Movie “The Noose Hangs High” 1948
12 The Friendly Giant
5:00p
2 Timmy and Lassie
4 Merv Griffin
5 Maverick
7 Dr.’s House Call
(7) Super Heroes, Superman
10-12 Misteroger’s Neighborhood
5:05p
7 News, Weather, Sports
5:15p
8 News, Weather, Sports
5:30p
2 Highway Patrol
(5) Lawman
6 Superman
7-8 ABC News – Peter Jennings; beginning today, this network newscast expands to a half-hour format and also switches to color; ABC correspondent Howard K. Smith will appear daily as the news analysis (color)
10-11-12 What’s New – children
5:45p
(7) News – John Henning
6:00p
2-5-6-13 News, Weather, Sports
(5) News, Weather, Sports (color)
7 Movie “The Silver Whip” 1953
(7) ABC News – Peter Jennings (no notation of color)
8 Movie “Eyes in the Night” 1942
10-12 Where Do We Go? – program gives high school students a look at apprentice training programs available in Maine
11 Weather – New Hampshire
6:10p
11 Classical Music
6:15p
9 ABC News – Peter Jennings (no notation of color; only listed for 15 minutes)
6:30p
2-6 NBC News – Chet Huntley, David Brinkley (color)
4-9 News, Weather (the rest of the week lists ch. 9 news as 6:45p)
5-(5)-13 CBS News – Walter Cronkite (color)
(7) Mister Ed
10-11 News – Louis Lyons
12 Smart Sewing
6:45p
10-11 Backgrounds of the News
7:00p
2 The Rebel
4 NBC News – Chet Huntley, David Brinkley (color)
5 The Rifleman
(5) Channel 5 Reports – Gov. John A. Volpe discusses “The Next Four Years” (color)
6 Movie “Column South” 1953
(7) Have Gun – Will Travel
9 Robin Hood
10 Trio – essays
11 U.S. History
12 Circus – documentary
13 Captain America (color)
7:30p
2-4 The Monkees “Case of the Missing Monkee” (color)
5-(5)-13 Gilligan’s Island “Court-Martial” (color)
7-(7)-8-9 Iron Horse “The Pembrooke Blood” (color)
10-12 Leotyne Price – a profile of the Met soprano
11 Art in Teaching
8:00p
2-4 I Dream of Jeannie “The Greatest Invention in the World” (color)
5-(5)-13 Mr. Terrific (debut) – Stanley Beamish, the weakling proprietor of a Washington gas station, is also a top-secret super agent (color)
10 French Chef – Turban of Sole is prepared
11-12 French Chef – French thousand-leaf pastry is prepared
8:30p
2-4-6 Captain Nice (debut) – High above Bigtown, U.S.A., a caped superhero in a baggy costume flies in search of evildoers (color)
5-(5)-13 Lucille Ball – Vivian Vance returns to visit Lucy (color)
7-(7)-8-9 Rat Patrol “The One That Got Away Raid” (color)
10-11-12 Museum Open House – Perry T. Rathbone, director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, talks about his favorite works of art
9:00p
2-4-6 The Road West “Reap the Whirlwind” (color)
5-(5)-13 Andy Griffith “Dinner at Eight” (color)
7-(7)-8-9 Felony Squad “The Deadly Partner” (color)
10-11-12 N.E.T. Journal – do the poor pay more and get less? This report shows how America’s poor have been exploited by unscrupulous businessmen and trapped by the vicious circle of exorbitant credit payments
9:30p
5-(5)-13 Family Affair “That Was the Dinner that Wasn’t” (color)
7-(7)-8-9 Peyton Place – Steven saves Peyton’s life; Constance clears out Allison’s room (color)
10:00p
2-4-6 Run For Your Life “Flight From Tirana” part 1 (color)
5-(5)-13 To Tell the Truth (color)
7-8-9 The Big Valley “Image of Yesterday” (color)
(7) Movie “Take One False Step” 1949
10 Family Dynamics – sociology
11 Spectrum – science
12 Science Review – how a small business can produce and sell the unused inventions of large corporations
10:30p
5-(5)-13 I’ve Got a Secret – scheduled guest: Met baritone Robert Merrill; panelists: Henry Morgan, Bess Myerson, Bill Cullen and Betsy Palmer (color)
10-11 Marketing on the Move – “The Common Market: Cost verses Opportunity”
11:00p
2-4-5-6-7-8-13 News, Weather, Sports
(5) News, Weather, Sports (color)
(7) News – John Henning
9 News, Weather – Ron Ripley
11:10p
(7) Sports – Bob Gallagher
11:15p
6 To Be Announced
7 Movie “Wind Across the Everglades” 1958
(7) Movie – continued from 10p
9 Movie “Witness to Murder” 1954
11:20p
13 Movie “Chicago Calling” 1951
11:25p
4 News – Duke Wade
8 Dr.’s House Calls
11:30p
2-4-6 Tonight – singer Pat Boone begins a week as guest host for vacationing Johnny Carson (color)
(5) News – Hyams, Goodrich (color)
8 Movie “Espionage Agent” 1939
12:00a
(5) Cheyenne
(7) Movie “Wind Across the Everglades”
1:00a
4 Movie “Svengali” 1931