(source: St. Louis Globe Democrat TV Digest)
KTVI-TV Channel 2 (ABC)
Tuesday March 3rd, 1964
7:10am Sign on
7:15am Mahalia Sings
7:20am Farm Report; News
7:30am En France
8:00am Great Voices
8:30am Tree House Cartoon
9:00am King and Odie
9:15am Romper Room
10:00am The Price is Right
10:30am The Object Is
11:00am Seven Keys
11:30am Father Knows Best
12:00pm Hawaiian Eye
1:00pm Tennessee Ernie
1:30pm Day in Court
1:55pm Mid-Day Report (Alex Drier)
2:00pm General Hospital
2:30pm Queen for A Day
3:00pm Trailmaster
4:00pm Adventures in Paradise
5:00pm News, Weather
5:15pm ABC News Report
5:30pm Dick Powell’s Zane Grey Theater
6:00pm The Rifleman
6:30pm Combat (Saunders’ squad trapped with British unit in “What Are the Bugles Blowin’ For?”)
7:30pm McHale’s Navy (McHale plots to get prisoner-of-war Fuji’s toothache treated by a Navy dentist in “Novocain Mutiny”)
8:00pm The Greatest Show on Earth [color] (Red Buttons as side-show barker who joins circus as an advance man in “Last of the Strongmen”)
9:00pm The Fugitive (Police pursue Kimble and sister Veronica over the High Sierras in “Angels Travel on Lonely Roads”; Eileen Heckart)
10:00pm News, Weather
10:15pm The Steve Allen Show
11:45pm Peter Gunn
12:15am News; Mahalia Sings
12:30am Sign off
KMOX-TV Channel 4 (CBS)
Tuesday March 3rd, 1964
5:10am Sign on
5:15am Prayer; News
5:30am Sunrise Semester
6:00am Town & Country
6:30am P.S. 4
7:00am Morning Scene
7:40am World of Mr. Zoom
8:00am Captain Kangaroo
9:00am CBS Morning News
9:30am I Love Lucy
10:00am The McCoys
10:30am Pete and Gladys
11:00am Love of Life
11:25am CBS News-Robert Trout
11:30am Search for Tomorrow
11:45am The Guiding Light
12:00pm News, Weather
12:05pm My Little Margie
12:30pm As the World Turns
1:00pm Password
1:30pm House Party
2:00pm To Tell The Truth
2:25pm CBS News-Douglas Edwards
2:30pm The Edge of Night
3:00pm The Secret Storm
3:30pm Movie: “Unfinished Business” (1941) w/ Irene Dunne, Preston Foster
5:00pm Popeye Cartoon
5:30pm CBS Evening News (Walter Cronkite)
6:00pm The Big News (news, weather, sports)
6:30pm Eye on St. Louis
7:00pm Red Skelton Hour (Hedda Hopper and Poncie Ponce are guests)
8:00pm Petticoat Junction (Bea Benaderet stars in comedy)
8:30pm The Jack Benny Program (Jack’s bad taste in furnishings brings a beautiful blonde into his life; Joan Staley featured)
9:00pm Garry Moore Show (Guests Dorothy Provine, Norm Crosby and Randy Hall)
10:00pm The Big News (news, weather, sports)
10:30pm The Late Show: “Parson of Panamint” (1941) w/ Philip Terry, Ellen Drew
12:05am The Late Late Show: “Abbott & Costello in Hollywood” (1945) w/ Bud Abbott, Lou Costello
followed by news and then sign off
KSD-TV Channel 5 (NBC)
Tuesday March 3rd, 1964
6:25am Sign on
6:30am Focus-Your World
7:00am Today Show
9:00am Say When
9:25am NBC News-Edwin Newman
9:30am The Merv Griffin Show [color]
10:00am Concentration
10:30am Missing Links [color]
11:00am First Impression [color]
11:30am Truth or Consequences [color]
11:55am NBC News-Ray Scherer
12:00pm News, Weather
12:05pm Charlotte Peters
1:00pm Let’s Make a Deal [color]
1:25pm NBC News-Floyd Kalber
1:30pm The Doctors
2:00pm The Loretta Young Show
2:30pm You Don’t Say [color]
3:00pm Match Game
3:25pm NBC News-Sander Vanocur
3:30pm Make Room for Daddy
4:00pm Corky the Clown (long-running local kids show from late 1950s to about 1980 hosted by Clif St. James)
4:30pm Maverick
5:30pm The Huntley-Brinkley Report (Chet Huntley, David Brinkley) (listed in the Globe as “Huntley Brinkley News”.)
6:00pm KSD-TV Six O’Clock Report (news, weather, sports)
6:30pm Mr. Novak (Substitute teacher [Barbara Barrie] panics in her first class in “How Does Your Garden Grow?”)
7:30pm Stump the Stars
8:00pm The Richard Boone Show (“Vote No on 11”; drama of impoverished crane involved in a slum clearance controversy) (repeat)
9:00pm NBC Special [color]: “Our Man in Washington” has David Brinkley viewing nation’s capital and its most important citizens
10:00pm KSD-TV Ten O’Clock Report (news, weather, sports)
10:15pm Tonight with Johnny Carson [color]
12:00am News
12:05am Bowery Boys Movie: “Fighting Fools” (1949) w/ the Bowery Boys
1:15am Weather Report
followed by sign off
KETC-TV Channel 9 (Educational)
Tuesday March 3rd, 1964
8:05am Sign on
8:10am School programs begin
11:00am Parlons Francais
3:00pm Parlons Francais
6:00pm Far Easter Arts (Topic: “Drama and Reality”)
6:30pm Basic Reading, Writing
7:00pm What’s New?
7:30pm Science Reporter
8:00pm Science Fair Preview
8:30pm Illinois U. Symphony (Prof. Bernard Goodman conducts)
9:00pm About People (Subject: “The Newcomers”)
9:30pm Marketing on Move: “Is the Industrial Market Different?”
10:00pm Sign off
KPLR-TV Channel 11 (Independent)
Tuesday March 3rd, 1964
11:55am Sign on
12:00pm Newsreels
12:15pm Modern Almanac
12:30pm Cartoons and Comics
1:00pm Movie: “Outcasts of the City” (1958) w/ Robert Hutton, Osa Massen (repeat of Monday late movie)
2:15pm Movie: “Cluny Brown” (1946) w/ Jennifer Jones, Charles Boyer (repeat of Monday night movie)
4:00pm The Three Stooges
5:00pm Mickey Mouse Club
5:30pm Woody Woodpecker
6:00pm Funny Company
6:15pm Rocky and Friends
6:30pm Amos n’ Andy
7:00pm People are Funny
7:30pm Best of Groucho
8:00pm Thriller hosted by Boris Karloff
9:00pm Movie: “A Message to Garcia” (1936) w/ Wallace Beery, John Boles, Barbara Stanwyck
11:00pm Movie: “That’s the Spirit” (1945) w/ Jack Oakie, Gene Lockhart, Peggy Ann Garner, Buster Keaton
12:25am Sign off (approximate)
KTVI-TV Channel 2 (ABC)
Tuesday March 3rd, 1964
7:10am Sign on
7:15am Mahalia Sings
7:20am Farm Report; News
7:30am En France
8:00am Great Voices
8:30am Tree House Cartoon
9:00am King and Odie
9:15am Romper Room
10:00am The Price is Right
10:30am The Object Is
11:00am Seven Keys
11:30am Father Knows Best
12:00pm Hawaiian Eye
1:00pm Tennessee Ernie
1:30pm Day in Court
1:55pm Mid-Day Report (Alex Drier)
2:00pm General Hospital
2:30pm Queen for A Day
3:00pm Trailmaster
4:00pm Adventures in Paradise
5:00pm News, Weather
5:15pm ABC News Report
5:30pm Dick Powell’s Zane Grey Theater
6:00pm The Rifleman
6:30pm Combat (Saunders’ squad trapped with British unit in “What Are the Bugles Blowin’ For?”)
7:30pm McHale’s Navy (McHale plots to get prisoner-of-war Fuji’s toothache treated by a Navy dentist in “Novocain Mutiny”)
8:00pm The Greatest Show on Earth [color] (Red Buttons as side-show barker who joins circus as an advance man in “Last of the Strongmen”)
9:00pm The Fugitive (Police pursue Kimble and sister Veronica over the High Sierras in “Angels Travel on Lonely Roads”; Eileen Heckart)
10:00pm News, Weather
10:15pm The Steve Allen Show
11:45pm Peter Gunn
12:15am News; Mahalia Sings
12:30am Sign off
KMOX-TV Channel 4 (CBS)
Tuesday March 3rd, 1964
5:10am Sign on
5:15am Prayer; News
5:30am Sunrise Semester
6:00am Town & Country
6:30am P.S. 4
7:00am Morning Scene
7:40am World of Mr. Zoom
8:00am Captain Kangaroo
9:00am CBS Morning News
9:30am I Love Lucy
10:00am The McCoys
10:30am Pete and Gladys
11:00am Love of Life
11:25am CBS News-Robert Trout
11:30am Search for Tomorrow
11:45am The Guiding Light
12:00pm News, Weather
12:05pm My Little Margie
12:30pm As the World Turns
1:00pm Password
1:30pm House Party
2:00pm To Tell The Truth
2:25pm CBS News-Douglas Edwards
2:30pm The Edge of Night
3:00pm The Secret Storm
3:30pm Movie: “Unfinished Business” (1941) w/ Irene Dunne, Preston Foster
5:00pm Popeye Cartoon
5:30pm CBS Evening News (Walter Cronkite)
6:00pm The Big News (news, weather, sports)
6:30pm Eye on St. Louis
7:00pm Red Skelton Hour (Hedda Hopper and Poncie Ponce are guests)
8:00pm Petticoat Junction (Bea Benaderet stars in comedy)
8:30pm The Jack Benny Program (Jack’s bad taste in furnishings brings a beautiful blonde into his life; Joan Staley featured)
9:00pm Garry Moore Show (Guests Dorothy Provine, Norm Crosby and Randy Hall)
10:00pm The Big News (news, weather, sports)
10:30pm The Late Show: “Parson of Panamint” (1941) w/ Philip Terry, Ellen Drew
12:05am The Late Late Show: “Abbott & Costello in Hollywood” (1945) w/ Bud Abbott, Lou Costello
followed by news and then sign off
KSD-TV Channel 5 (NBC)
Tuesday March 3rd, 1964
6:25am Sign on
6:30am Focus-Your World
7:00am Today Show
9:00am Say When
9:25am NBC News-Edwin Newman
9:30am The Merv Griffin Show [color]
10:00am Concentration
10:30am Missing Links [color]
11:00am First Impression [color]
11:30am Truth or Consequences [color]
11:55am NBC News-Ray Scherer
12:00pm News, Weather
12:05pm Charlotte Peters
1:00pm Let’s Make a Deal [color]
1:25pm NBC News-Floyd Kalber
1:30pm The Doctors
2:00pm The Loretta Young Show
2:30pm You Don’t Say [color]
3:00pm Match Game
3:25pm NBC News-Sander Vanocur
3:30pm Make Room for Daddy
4:00pm Corky the Clown (long-running local kids show from late 1950s to about 1980 hosted by Clif St. James)
4:30pm Maverick
5:30pm The Huntley-Brinkley Report (Chet Huntley, David Brinkley) (listed in the Globe as “Huntley Brinkley News”.)
6:00pm KSD-TV Six O’Clock Report (news, weather, sports)
6:30pm Mr. Novak (Substitute teacher [Barbara Barrie] panics in her first class in “How Does Your Garden Grow?”)
7:30pm Stump the Stars
8:00pm The Richard Boone Show (“Vote No on 11”; drama of impoverished crane involved in a slum clearance controversy) (repeat)
9:00pm NBC Special [color]: “Our Man in Washington” has David Brinkley viewing nation’s capital and its most important citizens
10:00pm KSD-TV Ten O’Clock Report (news, weather, sports)
10:15pm Tonight with Johnny Carson [color]
12:00am News
12:05am Bowery Boys Movie: “Fighting Fools” (1949) w/ the Bowery Boys
1:15am Weather Report
followed by sign off
KETC-TV Channel 9 (Educational)
Tuesday March 3rd, 1964
8:05am Sign on
8:10am School programs begin
11:00am Parlons Francais
3:00pm Parlons Francais
6:00pm Far Easter Arts (Topic: “Drama and Reality”)
6:30pm Basic Reading, Writing
7:00pm What’s New?
7:30pm Science Reporter
8:00pm Science Fair Preview
8:30pm Illinois U. Symphony (Prof. Bernard Goodman conducts)
9:00pm About People (Subject: “The Newcomers”)
9:30pm Marketing on Move: “Is the Industrial Market Different?”
10:00pm Sign off
KPLR-TV Channel 11 (Independent)
Tuesday March 3rd, 1964
11:55am Sign on
12:00pm Newsreels
12:15pm Modern Almanac
12:30pm Cartoons and Comics
1:00pm Movie: “Outcasts of the City” (1958) w/ Robert Hutton, Osa Massen (repeat of Monday late movie)
2:15pm Movie: “Cluny Brown” (1946) w/ Jennifer Jones, Charles Boyer (repeat of Monday night movie)
4:00pm The Three Stooges
5:00pm Mickey Mouse Club
5:30pm Woody Woodpecker
6:00pm Funny Company
6:15pm Rocky and Friends
6:30pm Amos n’ Andy
7:00pm People are Funny
7:30pm Best of Groucho
8:00pm Thriller hosted by Boris Karloff
9:00pm Movie: “A Message to Garcia” (1936) w/ Wallace Beery, John Boles, Barbara Stanwyck
11:00pm Movie: “That’s the Spirit” (1945) w/ Jack Oakie, Gene Lockhart, Peggy Ann Garner, Buster Keaton
12:25am Sign off (approximate)