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Source: Philadelphia Inquier via newspapers.com
3 KYW (NBC)
5:40 Thought for Today
5:45 Farm and Market Report
5:50 Eyewitness News
5:55 Seminar at Dawn
6:25 Space Age Astronomy
6:55 What's Doing
7:00 Today (Local news at 7:25 and 8:25)
9:00 Bachelor Father
9:30 Dobie Gillis
10:00 Truth or Consequences
10:30 What's This Song? - Wink Martindale's first national game show, though credited as "Win" Martindale (short for Winston). - Guests: Mel Torme, Steve Dunne
10:55 NBC News Morning Report
11:00 Concentration
11:30 Jeopardy!
NOON Eyewitness News at Noon - One anchor was Tom Snyder, who part of the migration from Cleveland.
12:30 Mike Douglas - Third show from Philadelphia since moving from Cleveland, along with the KYW callsign; Co-host: Vic Damone; Guests: Gene Krupa, Morgana King, Skip Young, Evelyn Lincoln (President Kennedy's personal secretary-turned-biographer)
2:00 Moment of Truth - Soap opera imported from CBC
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
3:30 You Don't Say - Guests: Lorne Greene, Juliet Prowse
4:00 Match Game - Guests: Phyllis Newman, Rod Serling
4:25 NBC News Afternoon Report
4:30 Merv Griffin (no guest info)
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7:00 Assignment Under Water
7:30 Virginian: "Two Men Named Laredo (Jan 6, 1965) - Guest star: Fabian
9:00 NBC Wednesday Night at the Movies: "Torpedo Run" (1958) - Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Tonight Show - Guests: Eve Arden, Peter Lawford, Jackie Vernon; Performer: Ethel Ennis
1:00 Theater 3
2:00 FBI's Most Wanted
2:05 Concept
2:35 Eyewitness News
2:40 Thought for Today
6 WFIL (ABC)
6:35 Headline News
6:45 RFD Six
7:00 TV High School of the Air
7:30 Buckaroo 500
7:45 Happy the Clown
8:30 Romper Room
9:15 Features for Women
9:25 News and Weather
9:30 Excercise With Gloria
10:00 Donna Reed
10:30 Father Knows Best
11:00 Rebus Game (ABC's answer to NBC's Concentration) - Jack Linkletter (Art's son)
11:30 The Price is Right (Moved to ABC from NBC Sept 9, 1963. Final episode of the Cullen version two days later.)
NOON Television Kitchen
12:30 I'll Bet - Jack Narz
12:55 NBC Day Report (pre-empted by KYW for The Mike Douglas Show)
1:00 Summer in the City (year before the Lovin' Spoonful song)
1:55 Afternoon News
2:00 Where the Action Is - Created by Dick Clark, and hosted by Linda Scott and Steve Alaimo
2:30 A Time for Us
2:55 News With the Woman's Touch
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 The Young Marrieds
4:00 Popeye Theater - Sally Starr
5:30 Peter Potamus*
6:00 Maverick
7:00 Newsmakers
7:15 Peter Jennings and the News
7:30 Ozzie and Harriet: "The Trunk" (Feb 3, 1965)
8:00 Patty Duke: "Hi, Society" (Dec 23, 1964)
8:30 Shindig! - Host: Jimmy O'Neill; Guets: Bobby Sherman, James Brown, the Kinks, Glen Campbell Billy Preston, Booker T & the MG's, the Shindogs, Jean Paul Vignon, Kathy Kersh, Cathie Taylor, the Blossoms, the Eligibles
9:30 Burke's Law: "Who Killed the Man on the White Horse?" (Feb 17, 1965)
10:30 Peter Gunn
11:00 Newsmakers
11:20 The Big Movie: "The Mirror Has Two Faces" (1958; French) - Michele Morgan, Bourvil, Ivan Desny
1:15 Hollywood's Best: "Inivisible Stripes" (1939) - George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, William Holden, Jane Bryan, Flora Robson
*Each weekday had a different cartoon character show as follows: Monday - Yogi Bear; Tuesday - Woody Woodpecker; Wednesday - Peter Potamus (as listed above); Thursday - Huckleberry Hound; Friday - Magilla Gorilla
10 WCAU (CBS)
5:35 Give Us This Day
5:40 Early Morning News
5:45 Summer Semester
6:15 University of Pennsylvania Seminar
6:45 Bill Bennett
7:00 WCAU Morning Report
7:05 CBS Morning News - Mike Wallace
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Pixanne
9:30 Jack Benny Daytime Show
10:00 I Love Lucy
10:30 McCoys
11:00 Andy of Mayberry (so titled to distinguish from The Andy Griffith Show which was still in its network run
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
NOON Love of Life
12:25 CBS Midday News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 TV 10 Around Town
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Password - Guests: Amanda Blake, Eddie Albert
2:30 House Party
3:00 To Tell the Truth - Panel: Peggy Cass, Tom Poston, Gretchen Wyler, Robert Q. Lewis
3:25 CBS Afternoon News
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Secret Storm
4:30 Leave It to Beaver
5:00 Early Show: "Drums of Tahiti" (1954) - Dennis O'Keefe, Patricia Medina, Francis L. Sullivan
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 TV 10 Big News
7:30 Mister Ed: "My Horse, the Mailman" (Apr 28, 1965)
8:00 My Living Doll: "The Mannequin/A Paris Original" (Mar 3, 1965)
8:30 Beverly Hillbillies: "Double Naught Jethro" (Mar 3, 1965)
9:00 Dick Van Dyke: "Never Bathe on Saturday" (Mar 31, 1965)
9:30 Our Private World - The first prime-time spin-off of a daytime soap (As the World Turns).
10:00 Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour: "Lucy Goes to Sun Valley" (Apr 14, 1958)
11:00 Eleven O'Clock Report
11:25 Late Show: "Battle Flame" (1959) - Scott Brady, Elaine Edwards, Robert Blake
2:25 Late Late News
2:30 Give Us This Day
12 WHYY (NET) Wilmington, Delaware
5:30 (PM) Friendly Giant
5:45 Sing Hi, Sing Lo
6:00 What's New?
6:30 Observing Eye
7:00 Writers of Today
7:30 Channel 12 News Magazine
8:00 Spectrum: "TV in Samoa"
8:30 French Chef - Julia Child
9:00 At Issue
10:00 A Woman of No Importance (Oscar Wilde) - Starring Athene Seyler, "the Grande Dame of the London Stage".
11:25 Delaware Tonight
29 WIBF (signed on May 16 of that year)
4:00 (PM) Trailmaster
5:00 Fun Club
6:00 Silent Service
6:30 U.S. Marshal
7:00 News With Taylor Grant and Alan Scott
7:30 Twi-Night Double Feature - 1) "None Shall Escape" (1944) - Alexander Knox, Marsha Hunt, Henry Travers; 2) "The Desparadoes" (1943) - Randolph Scott, Glenn Ford, Claire Trevor, Evelyn Keyes, Edgar Buchanan
10:30 ABC Scope (pre-empted by WFIL)
11:00 Taylor Grant and the News
11:15 ABC's Nightlife - Les Crane (pre-empted by WFIL)
48 WKBS (inaugural broadcast day)
11:55 Inaugural Sign-On
NOON Dickory Doc
1:00 Delaware Valley Playhouse: "Centennial Summer" (1946) - Jeanne Crain, Cornel Wilde, Walter Brennan, Dorothy Gish; Director: Otto Preminger
3:00 Topper
3:30 Captain Philadelphia
5:30 Newsbeat 48
6:00 Mickey Mouse Club
6:30 Superman
7:00 Great 48 Movie: "Beachhead" (1954) - Tony Curtis, Frank Lovejoy, Mary Murphy
8:30 This Colorful World
9:00 Sports at Nine - Roller Derby
10:00 Newsbeat 48
10:15 48 Star Movie: "Nightmare" (1956) - Edward G. Robinson, Kevin McCarthy, Connie Russell
3 KYW (NBC)
5:40 Thought for Today
5:45 Farm and Market Report
5:50 Eyewitness News
5:55 Seminar at Dawn
6:25 Space Age Astronomy
6:55 What's Doing
7:00 Today (Local news at 7:25 and 8:25)
9:00 Bachelor Father
9:30 Dobie Gillis
10:00 Truth or Consequences
10:30 What's This Song? - Wink Martindale's first national game show, though credited as "Win" Martindale (short for Winston). - Guests: Mel Torme, Steve Dunne
10:55 NBC News Morning Report
11:00 Concentration
11:30 Jeopardy!
NOON Eyewitness News at Noon - One anchor was Tom Snyder, who part of the migration from Cleveland.
12:30 Mike Douglas - Third show from Philadelphia since moving from Cleveland, along with the KYW callsign; Co-host: Vic Damone; Guests: Gene Krupa, Morgana King, Skip Young, Evelyn Lincoln (President Kennedy's personal secretary-turned-biographer)
2:00 Moment of Truth - Soap opera imported from CBC
2:30 The Doctors
3:00 Another World
3:30 You Don't Say - Guests: Lorne Greene, Juliet Prowse
4:00 Match Game - Guests: Phyllis Newman, Rod Serling
4:25 NBC News Afternoon Report
4:30 Merv Griffin (no guest info)
6:00 Eyewitness News
6:30 Huntley-Brinkley Report
7:00 Assignment Under Water
7:30 Virginian: "Two Men Named Laredo (Jan 6, 1965) - Guest star: Fabian
9:00 NBC Wednesday Night at the Movies: "Torpedo Run" (1958) - Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine
11:00 Eyewitness News
11:30 Tonight Show - Guests: Eve Arden, Peter Lawford, Jackie Vernon; Performer: Ethel Ennis
1:00 Theater 3
2:00 FBI's Most Wanted
2:05 Concept
2:35 Eyewitness News
2:40 Thought for Today
6 WFIL (ABC)
6:35 Headline News
6:45 RFD Six
7:00 TV High School of the Air
7:30 Buckaroo 500
7:45 Happy the Clown
8:30 Romper Room
9:15 Features for Women
9:25 News and Weather
9:30 Excercise With Gloria
10:00 Donna Reed
10:30 Father Knows Best
11:00 Rebus Game (ABC's answer to NBC's Concentration) - Jack Linkletter (Art's son)
11:30 The Price is Right (Moved to ABC from NBC Sept 9, 1963. Final episode of the Cullen version two days later.)
NOON Television Kitchen
12:30 I'll Bet - Jack Narz
12:55 NBC Day Report (pre-empted by KYW for The Mike Douglas Show)
1:00 Summer in the City (year before the Lovin' Spoonful song)
1:55 Afternoon News
2:00 Where the Action Is - Created by Dick Clark, and hosted by Linda Scott and Steve Alaimo
2:30 A Time for Us
2:55 News With the Woman's Touch
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 The Young Marrieds
4:00 Popeye Theater - Sally Starr
5:30 Peter Potamus*
6:00 Maverick
7:00 Newsmakers
7:15 Peter Jennings and the News
7:30 Ozzie and Harriet: "The Trunk" (Feb 3, 1965)
8:00 Patty Duke: "Hi, Society" (Dec 23, 1964)
8:30 Shindig! - Host: Jimmy O'Neill; Guets: Bobby Sherman, James Brown, the Kinks, Glen Campbell Billy Preston, Booker T & the MG's, the Shindogs, Jean Paul Vignon, Kathy Kersh, Cathie Taylor, the Blossoms, the Eligibles
9:30 Burke's Law: "Who Killed the Man on the White Horse?" (Feb 17, 1965)
10:30 Peter Gunn
11:00 Newsmakers
11:20 The Big Movie: "The Mirror Has Two Faces" (1958; French) - Michele Morgan, Bourvil, Ivan Desny
1:15 Hollywood's Best: "Inivisible Stripes" (1939) - George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, William Holden, Jane Bryan, Flora Robson
*Each weekday had a different cartoon character show as follows: Monday - Yogi Bear; Tuesday - Woody Woodpecker; Wednesday - Peter Potamus (as listed above); Thursday - Huckleberry Hound; Friday - Magilla Gorilla
10 WCAU (CBS)
5:35 Give Us This Day
5:40 Early Morning News
5:45 Summer Semester
6:15 University of Pennsylvania Seminar
6:45 Bill Bennett
7:00 WCAU Morning Report
7:05 CBS Morning News - Mike Wallace
8:00 Captain Kangaroo
9:00 Pixanne
9:30 Jack Benny Daytime Show
10:00 I Love Lucy
10:30 McCoys
11:00 Andy of Mayberry (so titled to distinguish from The Andy Griffith Show which was still in its network run
11:30 Dick Van Dyke
NOON Love of Life
12:25 CBS Midday News
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
12:45 Guiding Light
1:00 TV 10 Around Town
1:30 As the World Turns
2:00 Password - Guests: Amanda Blake, Eddie Albert
2:30 House Party
3:00 To Tell the Truth - Panel: Peggy Cass, Tom Poston, Gretchen Wyler, Robert Q. Lewis
3:25 CBS Afternoon News
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Secret Storm
4:30 Leave It to Beaver
5:00 Early Show: "Drums of Tahiti" (1954) - Dennis O'Keefe, Patricia Medina, Francis L. Sullivan
6:30 CBS Evening News
7:00 TV 10 Big News
7:30 Mister Ed: "My Horse, the Mailman" (Apr 28, 1965)
8:00 My Living Doll: "The Mannequin/A Paris Original" (Mar 3, 1965)
8:30 Beverly Hillbillies: "Double Naught Jethro" (Mar 3, 1965)
9:00 Dick Van Dyke: "Never Bathe on Saturday" (Mar 31, 1965)
9:30 Our Private World - The first prime-time spin-off of a daytime soap (As the World Turns).
10:00 Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour: "Lucy Goes to Sun Valley" (Apr 14, 1958)
11:00 Eleven O'Clock Report
11:25 Late Show: "Battle Flame" (1959) - Scott Brady, Elaine Edwards, Robert Blake
2:25 Late Late News
2:30 Give Us This Day
12 WHYY (NET) Wilmington, Delaware
5:30 (PM) Friendly Giant
5:45 Sing Hi, Sing Lo
6:00 What's New?
6:30 Observing Eye
7:00 Writers of Today
7:30 Channel 12 News Magazine
8:00 Spectrum: "TV in Samoa"
8:30 French Chef - Julia Child
9:00 At Issue
10:00 A Woman of No Importance (Oscar Wilde) - Starring Athene Seyler, "the Grande Dame of the London Stage".
11:25 Delaware Tonight
29 WIBF (signed on May 16 of that year)
4:00 (PM) Trailmaster
5:00 Fun Club
6:00 Silent Service
6:30 U.S. Marshal
7:00 News With Taylor Grant and Alan Scott
7:30 Twi-Night Double Feature - 1) "None Shall Escape" (1944) - Alexander Knox, Marsha Hunt, Henry Travers; 2) "The Desparadoes" (1943) - Randolph Scott, Glenn Ford, Claire Trevor, Evelyn Keyes, Edgar Buchanan
10:30 ABC Scope (pre-empted by WFIL)
11:00 Taylor Grant and the News
11:15 ABC's Nightlife - Les Crane (pre-empted by WFIL)
48 WKBS (inaugural broadcast day)
11:55 Inaugural Sign-On
NOON Dickory Doc
1:00 Delaware Valley Playhouse: "Centennial Summer" (1946) - Jeanne Crain, Cornel Wilde, Walter Brennan, Dorothy Gish; Director: Otto Preminger
3:00 Topper
3:30 Captain Philadelphia
5:30 Newsbeat 48
6:00 Mickey Mouse Club
6:30 Superman
7:00 Great 48 Movie: "Beachhead" (1954) - Tony Curtis, Frank Lovejoy, Mary Murphy
8:30 This Colorful World
9:00 Sports at Nine - Roller Derby
10:00 Newsbeat 48
10:15 48 Star Movie: "Nightmare" (1956) - Edward G. Robinson, Kevin McCarthy, Connie Russell