From TV Guide, Southeast Texas Edition:
KPRC Ch. 2 Houston (NBC)
6:30 RFD-TV
7 AM Today Is Saturday
8 AM Happy Time
8:30 Pip The Piper (COLOR)
9 AM Shari Lewis (COLOR)
9:30 King Leonardo (COLOR)
10 AM Fury
10:30 Make Room For Daddy
11 AM Mr. Wizard
11:30 Sergeant Preston Of The Yukon
12 N Championship Bowling
1 PM Topper
1:30 People's Choice
2 PM Superman
2:30 Movie: "Andy Hardy's Double Life"
4 PM Rough Riders
4:30 State Trooper
5 PM Divorce Court
6 PM Tombstone Territory
6:30 Tales Of Wells Fargo (COLOR)
7:30 The Tall Man
8 PM NBC Movie: "The Frogmen"
10 PM News
10:10 Sports
10:15 Movie: "The Eddie Cantor Story" (Keefe Brasselle
thought this movie made him a star; he's really
pretty forgettable.)
KJAC Ch. 4 Port Arthur (NBC)
7:30 Travelog
8 AM Fun Club
9 AM Shari Lewis (COLOR)
9:30 King Leonardo (COLOR)
10 AM Fury
10:30 Make Room For Daddy
11 AM Mr. Wizard
11:30 My Little Margie
12 N Baseball: White Sox-Indians (Bob Wolff
and Joe Garagiola report, so this is NBC's
game)
3 PM Championship Bridge (time approximate)
3:30 Movie: "Desperate"
5 PM Wrestling (from Port Arthur)
6 PM NBC News (Sander Vanocur)
6:15 News
6:30 Tales Of Wells Fargo (COLOR)
7:30 The Tall Man
8 PM NBC Movie: "The Frogmen"
10 PM News And Weather
10:15 Movie: "Law Of The Badlands"
KFDM Ch. 6 Beaumont (CBS)
7:30 Farm And Ranch
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Alvin Show
9:30 Mighty Mouse
10 AM Magic Land Of Allakazam
10:30 Roy Rogers
11 AM Sky King
11:30 CBS News (Roger Mudd)
11:45 Famous Playhouse
12:15 Baseball: Milwaukee Braves-Cubs
(Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee Reese report,
so this is CBS's game)
3 PM Jim Thomas Outdoors (time approximate)
3:30 Movies: "They Knew What They Wanted" and
"No Place To Go"
6 PM Dragnet (Ben Alexander is Jack Webb's partner--
the Harry Morgan episodes didn't start until 1967)
6:30 Perry Mason
7:30 The Defenders
8:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
9 PM Gunsmoke
10 PM News And Weather
10:15 Movie: "The Thing"
KPLC Ch. 7 Lake Charles, LA (NBC/ABC/CBS)
8 AM Deputy Dawg
8:30 Pip The Piper (COLOR)
9 AM Shari Lewis (COLOR)
9:30 King Leonardo (COLOR)
10 AM Fury
10:30 Make Room For Daddy
11 AM Mr. Wizard
11:30 Jeff's Collie
12 N Baseball: White Sox-Indians
3 PM Best Of Groucho (time approximate)
3:30 Big Picture
4 PM Susie (Ann Sothern)
4:30 Kit Carson
5 PM NBC News
5:15 Texas Rasslin' (from Dallas, main event:
Danny Savich vs. Ray Gunkel)
6:15 Church Service
6:30 Tales Of Wells Fargo (COLOR)
7:30 The Tall Man
8 PM NBC Movie: "The Frogmen"
10 PM Weather And News
10:10 Untouchables (ABC, delay from Thu 9 PM)
11:10 Movie: "Tulsa"
KUHT Ch. 8 Houston (NET)
off air on Saturday
KTRE Ch. 9 Lufkin (NBC/CBS/ABC)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Shari Lewis (COLOR)
9:30 King Leonardo (COLOR)
10 AM Fury
10:30 Make Room For Daddy
11 AM Mr. Wizard
11:30 Racket Squad
12 N Social Security In Action
12:15 Baseball: Braves-Cubs
3 PM Racket Squad (time approximate)
3:30 Code Three
4 PM Popeye Theater
5 PM Father Knows Best (delay from Mon 7:30)
5:30 Mister Ed (delay from Sun 5:30)
6 PM Leave It To Beaver (delay from 7:30)
6:30 Tales Of Wells Fargo (COLOR)
7:30 The Tall Man
8 PM Lawrence Welk (Welk begins his eighth year
on ABC)
9 PM Boxing: Ted Wright, welterweight, vs. Denny
Moyer, middleweight, 10 rounds, from Madison
Square Garden (taped, aired live at 10 PM EDT)
9:45 Morris Frank (sports, time approximate)
10 PM News
10:10 Robert Taylor's Detectives (delay from Fri 7:30)
11:10 Death Valley Days
KHOU Ch. 11 Houston (CBS)
7:30 This Week In Galveston (KHOU actually started as
a Galveston station and, as Dan Rather has recalled,
was trying to play down the Galveston connection
in the early '60s--so explain this program, somebody.)
7:45 Cartoon Carnival
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Alvin Show
9:30 Mighty Mouse
10 AM Magic Land Of Allakazam
10:30 Roy Rogers
11 AM Sky King
11:30 Goals For Americans
12 N Big Picture
12:30 Movie: "In Caliente"
2 PM Al Bell (local variety show)
3 PM Movie: "Mister 880"
4:30 Jim Thomas Outdoors
5 PM Sports Digest (Chris Schenkel)
5:30 Mister Ed
6 PM Death Valley Days
6:30 Perry Mason
7:30 The Defenders
8:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
9 PM Gunsmoke
10 PM News
10:10 Movie: "The Far Horizons"
12 M Movie: "Doctor X"
1:15 News (Ron Stone, later big on Ch. 2,
anchors along with Al Bell)
KBMT Ch. 12 Beaumont (ABC)
9 AM This Is The Answer (religious program produced
by the Southern Baptist Convention)
9:30 Movie: "Tripoli"
11 AM Cartoons
11:30 Big Picture
12 N Bugs Bunny (interesting that ABC could do daytime
programming on a clock-time schedule--why can't
or won't anyone do that now?)
12:30 Movies: "California Mail," "Force Of Arms," and "Moon
Over Miami"
5 PM Man And The Challenge
5:30 Men Into Space
6 PM Beany And Cecil
6:30 Calvin And The Colonel (an animated "Amos 'n' Andy,"
with the same creators and radio voices--Freeman
Gosden and Charles Correll--only here Andy and the
Kingfish are a bear and a fox. Good attempt to eliminate
racial stereotyping, but I don't think the public was buying--
the show lasted only one season and has never been rerun.)
7 PM Room For One More
7:30 Leave It To Beaver (this block 7-9 ET/6-8 CT begins to sound
like a forerunner of "TGIF")
8 PM Lawrence Welk
9 PM Boxing
9:45 Saturday Sports Final (Merle Harmon, time approximate)
10 PM News, Weather, Sports
10:15 Movie: "Androcles And The Lion" (Alan Young stars in this)
KTRK Ch. 13 Houston (ABC)
7 AM Farm Journal
7:30 Cartoons
8 AM Movie: "Come On Danger"
9:15 Popeye And His Pals
10 AM Kitirikville (the title, in part, is KTRK sounded phonetically)
11 AM Sheena, Queen Of The Jungle
11:30 Gulf Coast Jamboree
12 N Bugs Bunny
12:30 Movies: "The Warriors" and "Africa Adventure"
3:30 Larry Kane (yes, the one whose show was syndicated a
few years later)
5:30 Beany And Cecil
6 PM Victory At Sea
6:30 Calvin And The Colonel
7 PM Room For One More
7:30 Leave It To Beaver
8 PM Lawrence Welk
9 PM Boxing
9:45 Morris Frank (time approximate)
10 PM News And Weather
10:15 Maverick (delay from Sun 5:30--tomorrow will be its
last episode on ABC: the "Bonanza" satire "Three Queens
Full")
11:15 Movie: "Cruel Swamp"
KPRC Ch. 2 Houston (NBC)
6:30 RFD-TV
7 AM Today Is Saturday
8 AM Happy Time
8:30 Pip The Piper (COLOR)
9 AM Shari Lewis (COLOR)
9:30 King Leonardo (COLOR)
10 AM Fury
10:30 Make Room For Daddy
11 AM Mr. Wizard
11:30 Sergeant Preston Of The Yukon
12 N Championship Bowling
1 PM Topper
1:30 People's Choice
2 PM Superman
2:30 Movie: "Andy Hardy's Double Life"
4 PM Rough Riders
4:30 State Trooper
5 PM Divorce Court
6 PM Tombstone Territory
6:30 Tales Of Wells Fargo (COLOR)
7:30 The Tall Man
8 PM NBC Movie: "The Frogmen"
10 PM News
10:10 Sports
10:15 Movie: "The Eddie Cantor Story" (Keefe Brasselle
thought this movie made him a star; he's really
pretty forgettable.)
KJAC Ch. 4 Port Arthur (NBC)
7:30 Travelog
8 AM Fun Club
9 AM Shari Lewis (COLOR)
9:30 King Leonardo (COLOR)
10 AM Fury
10:30 Make Room For Daddy
11 AM Mr. Wizard
11:30 My Little Margie
12 N Baseball: White Sox-Indians (Bob Wolff
and Joe Garagiola report, so this is NBC's
game)
3 PM Championship Bridge (time approximate)
3:30 Movie: "Desperate"
5 PM Wrestling (from Port Arthur)
6 PM NBC News (Sander Vanocur)
6:15 News
6:30 Tales Of Wells Fargo (COLOR)
7:30 The Tall Man
8 PM NBC Movie: "The Frogmen"
10 PM News And Weather
10:15 Movie: "Law Of The Badlands"
KFDM Ch. 6 Beaumont (CBS)
7:30 Farm And Ranch
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Alvin Show
9:30 Mighty Mouse
10 AM Magic Land Of Allakazam
10:30 Roy Rogers
11 AM Sky King
11:30 CBS News (Roger Mudd)
11:45 Famous Playhouse
12:15 Baseball: Milwaukee Braves-Cubs
(Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee Reese report,
so this is CBS's game)
3 PM Jim Thomas Outdoors (time approximate)
3:30 Movies: "They Knew What They Wanted" and
"No Place To Go"
6 PM Dragnet (Ben Alexander is Jack Webb's partner--
the Harry Morgan episodes didn't start until 1967)
6:30 Perry Mason
7:30 The Defenders
8:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
9 PM Gunsmoke
10 PM News And Weather
10:15 Movie: "The Thing"
KPLC Ch. 7 Lake Charles, LA (NBC/ABC/CBS)
8 AM Deputy Dawg
8:30 Pip The Piper (COLOR)
9 AM Shari Lewis (COLOR)
9:30 King Leonardo (COLOR)
10 AM Fury
10:30 Make Room For Daddy
11 AM Mr. Wizard
11:30 Jeff's Collie
12 N Baseball: White Sox-Indians
3 PM Best Of Groucho (time approximate)
3:30 Big Picture
4 PM Susie (Ann Sothern)
4:30 Kit Carson
5 PM NBC News
5:15 Texas Rasslin' (from Dallas, main event:
Danny Savich vs. Ray Gunkel)
6:15 Church Service
6:30 Tales Of Wells Fargo (COLOR)
7:30 The Tall Man
8 PM NBC Movie: "The Frogmen"
10 PM Weather And News
10:10 Untouchables (ABC, delay from Thu 9 PM)
11:10 Movie: "Tulsa"
KUHT Ch. 8 Houston (NET)
off air on Saturday
KTRE Ch. 9 Lufkin (NBC/CBS/ABC)
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Shari Lewis (COLOR)
9:30 King Leonardo (COLOR)
10 AM Fury
10:30 Make Room For Daddy
11 AM Mr. Wizard
11:30 Racket Squad
12 N Social Security In Action
12:15 Baseball: Braves-Cubs
3 PM Racket Squad (time approximate)
3:30 Code Three
4 PM Popeye Theater
5 PM Father Knows Best (delay from Mon 7:30)
5:30 Mister Ed (delay from Sun 5:30)
6 PM Leave It To Beaver (delay from 7:30)
6:30 Tales Of Wells Fargo (COLOR)
7:30 The Tall Man
8 PM Lawrence Welk (Welk begins his eighth year
on ABC)
9 PM Boxing: Ted Wright, welterweight, vs. Denny
Moyer, middleweight, 10 rounds, from Madison
Square Garden (taped, aired live at 10 PM EDT)
9:45 Morris Frank (sports, time approximate)
10 PM News
10:10 Robert Taylor's Detectives (delay from Fri 7:30)
11:10 Death Valley Days
KHOU Ch. 11 Houston (CBS)
7:30 This Week In Galveston (KHOU actually started as
a Galveston station and, as Dan Rather has recalled,
was trying to play down the Galveston connection
in the early '60s--so explain this program, somebody.)
7:45 Cartoon Carnival
8 AM Captain Kangaroo
9 AM Alvin Show
9:30 Mighty Mouse
10 AM Magic Land Of Allakazam
10:30 Roy Rogers
11 AM Sky King
11:30 Goals For Americans
12 N Big Picture
12:30 Movie: "In Caliente"
2 PM Al Bell (local variety show)
3 PM Movie: "Mister 880"
4:30 Jim Thomas Outdoors
5 PM Sports Digest (Chris Schenkel)
5:30 Mister Ed
6 PM Death Valley Days
6:30 Perry Mason
7:30 The Defenders
8:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
9 PM Gunsmoke
10 PM News
10:10 Movie: "The Far Horizons"
12 M Movie: "Doctor X"
1:15 News (Ron Stone, later big on Ch. 2,
anchors along with Al Bell)
KBMT Ch. 12 Beaumont (ABC)
9 AM This Is The Answer (religious program produced
by the Southern Baptist Convention)
9:30 Movie: "Tripoli"
11 AM Cartoons
11:30 Big Picture
12 N Bugs Bunny (interesting that ABC could do daytime
programming on a clock-time schedule--why can't
or won't anyone do that now?)
12:30 Movies: "California Mail," "Force Of Arms," and "Moon
Over Miami"
5 PM Man And The Challenge
5:30 Men Into Space
6 PM Beany And Cecil
6:30 Calvin And The Colonel (an animated "Amos 'n' Andy,"
with the same creators and radio voices--Freeman
Gosden and Charles Correll--only here Andy and the
Kingfish are a bear and a fox. Good attempt to eliminate
racial stereotyping, but I don't think the public was buying--
the show lasted only one season and has never been rerun.)
7 PM Room For One More
7:30 Leave It To Beaver (this block 7-9 ET/6-8 CT begins to sound
like a forerunner of "TGIF")
8 PM Lawrence Welk
9 PM Boxing
9:45 Saturday Sports Final (Merle Harmon, time approximate)
10 PM News, Weather, Sports
10:15 Movie: "Androcles And The Lion" (Alan Young stars in this)
KTRK Ch. 13 Houston (ABC)
7 AM Farm Journal
7:30 Cartoons
8 AM Movie: "Come On Danger"
9:15 Popeye And His Pals
10 AM Kitirikville (the title, in part, is KTRK sounded phonetically)
11 AM Sheena, Queen Of The Jungle
11:30 Gulf Coast Jamboree
12 N Bugs Bunny
12:30 Movies: "The Warriors" and "Africa Adventure"
3:30 Larry Kane (yes, the one whose show was syndicated a
few years later)
5:30 Beany And Cecil
6 PM Victory At Sea
6:30 Calvin And The Colonel
7 PM Room For One More
7:30 Leave It To Beaver
8 PM Lawrence Welk
9 PM Boxing
9:45 Morris Frank (time approximate)
10 PM News And Weather
10:15 Maverick (delay from Sun 5:30--tomorrow will be its
last episode on ABC: the "Bonanza" satire "Three Queens
Full")
11:15 Movie: "Cruel Swamp"
;D