MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1961
EVENING
5:00
9 The Three Musketeers
11 Movie (The Call of the Wild, 1935 adaptation of the Jack London novel, starring Clark Gable and Loretta Young)
5:30
6 Quick Draw McGraw
9 Man and the Challenge
6:00
6 News (Bruce Marsh)
9 Focus (Rick Hart)
6:15
6 Father Knows Best
9 Sports College (Percival)
6:30
9/11 News
6:45
6 News
7:00
6 Seven-O-One (interviews)
9 Wagon Train
11 The People’s Choice
7:30
6/11 Don Messer’s Jubilee (music)
8:00
6/11 The Danny Thomas Show (CBC ran this episode one hour before CBS did)
9 Movie (Tell It to the Judge, 1949 comedy, with Rosalind Russell and Robert Cummings)
8:30
6/11 Jack Kane (The annual Liberty Magazine Awards to Canadian TV personalities are presented tonight)
9:00
6/11 My Sister Eileen (CBS Wednesdays)
9:30
6/11 Festival ’61 (“Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime,” an adaptation of an Oscar Wilde short story)
9 The Rifleman (ABC Tuesdays)
10:00
9 Wanted – Dead or Alive (CBS Wednesdays)
10:30
6/11 Inquiry (panel)
9 News
11:00
6/11 News
9 Better Late (Rick Campbell)
11:15
6 Viewpoint (news analysis)
11:20
6 News
11:30
6 Movie (The Cruel Sea, 1953 British drama, with Jack Hawkins)
11 Movie (Lost Horizon, 1937 Frank Capra classic drama, with Ronald Colman and Jane Wyatt)
11:45
9 Glencannon
TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1961
EVENING
5:00
9 African Patrol (“Ghost Country”)
11 Movie (repeat of this morning’s 9:30 movie, Double Indemnity, interrupted for news headlines at 6:30)
5:30
6 Wonders of the Sea
9 The Sea Hawk (“The Silent One”)
6:00
6 News (Bruce Marsh)
9 Focus (Rick Hart)
6:15
6 Club 6 (Mike Darrow)
9 Barris Beat (interview)
6:30
9 News
6:45
6 News
7:00
6 Seven-O-One (interview)
9 Huckleberry Hound
7:30
6 Director’s Choice
9 The Real McCoys (ABC Thursdays)
11 The Rifleman (ABC Tuesdays)
8:00
6/11 The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (NBC Sundays)
9 Movie (The Secret of Convict Lake, 1951 drama, with Glenn Ford, Gene Tierney and Ethel Barrymore)
9:00
6/11 Front Page Challenge (news correspondent Philip Deane is tonight’s guest panellist)
9:30
6/11 The Red Skelton Show (This week’s show is actually a shortened edition of The Ed Sullivan Show, as Sullivan subbed for the ailing Skelton from CBS Studio 50 in New York, and his own show was pre-empted for the George Gershwin tribute special on Sunday night. Guests include Bobby Rydell. A CBC simulcast from CBS.)
9 Route 66 (“Play it Glissando” with guest Anne Francis; CBS Fridays)
10:00
6/11 Close-Up
10:30
6/11 Q for Quest (Andrew Allan hosts Canadian poet James Reaney in his one-man masque “An Evening Without James Reaney”)
9 News
11:00
6/11 News
9 Better Late (Rick Campbell)
11:15
6 Viewpoint
11:20
6 News
11:30
6 Trackdown (“The Pueblo Kid,” with guest Michael Landon)
11 Movie (today’s second repeat of Double Indemnity)
11:45
9 Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1961
EVENING
5:00
9 The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
11 Movie (The Atomic Kid, 1945 drama, starring Mickey Rooney)
5:30
6 Huckleberry Hound
9 The Adventures of Robin Hood
6:00
6 News (Bruce Marsh)
9 Focus (Rick Hart)
6:15
6 Sea Hunt
9 Sports College (Percival)
6:30
9/11 News
6:45
6 News
7:00
6 Seven-O-One (guests are Maclean’s magazine editor Blair Fraser and educator Arthur Pigott)
9 Theater (“Heroes Never Grow Up”)
11 The Rebel (ABC Sundays)
7:30
6 Nation’s Business
9 The Andy Griffith Show (CBS Mondays)
11 Holiday Ranch (Cliff McKay)
7:45
6 Countrytime (Harold Dodds and George Atkins agricultural report)
8:00
6/11 My Three Sons (ABC Thursdays)
9 77 Sunset Strip (ABC Fridays)
8:30
6/11 First Person (“The Shadow in the Rose Garden,” with Diana Maddox)
9:00
6/11 Perry Como’s Kraft Music Hall (guests are Gwen Verdon, George Gobel and Paul Anka. CBC simulcast with NBC, but not in colour.)
9 NHL Hockey (New York Rangers at Toronto Maple Leafs; Bill and Foster Hewitt comment, probably for the first time on a non-CBC television station)
10:00
6/11 Winston Churchill – The Valiant Years (ABC Sundays)
10:20
9 Sports (Jim Coleman)
10:30
6/11 Explorations (discussion of Canadian labor relations)
9 News
11:00
6/11 News
9 Better Late (Rick Campbell)
11:15
6 Viewpoint
11:20
6 News
11:30
6 Movie (A Woman’s Vengeance, 1948 drama, with Charles Boyer and Ann Blyth)
11 Movie (The Rains Came, 1939 drama, with Myrna Loy and Tyrone Power)
11:45
9 Meet McGraw
THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1961
EVENING
5:00
9 Science Fiction Theater
11 Movie (The Third Man, 1949 classic noir, starring Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Trevor Howard and Alida Valli)
5:30
6 Roy Rogers
9 Tombstone Territory
6:00
6 News (Bruce Marsh)
9 Focus (Rick Hart)
6:15
6 Cannonball
9 Barris Beat (interview)
6:30
9/11 News
6:45
6 News
7:00
6 Seven-O-One (interview)
9 The Best of The Post
11 Wanted – Dead or Alive (CBS Wednesdays)
7:30
6 Bachelor Father (NBC Thursdays)
9/11 Lock Up (curiously, the very same episode runs on both CFTO and CHCH-TV)
8:00
6/11 Live a Borrowed Life (CBC-produced panel quiz show)
9 Movie (Five Against the House, 1955 melodrama, with Guy Madison and Kim Novak)
8:30
6/11 Klondike (NBC Mondays)
9:00
6 Background
11 Hockey (St. Catharines Teepees at Hamilton Red Wings; Norm Marshall comments)
9:30
6 The Ford Show Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford (Cliff Arquette guests as Charley Weaver; CBC simulcast from NBC, but not in colour)
9 The Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp (ABC Tuesdays)
10:00
6 Peter Gunn (ABC Mondays)
9 The Rebel (ABC Sundays)
10:15
11 Hockey Talk
10:30
6 The Toronto File (Ed McGibbon; a repeat of this afternoon’s 4:00 episode)
9 News
11 Think of a Number (quiz)
11:00
6/11 News
9 Better Late (Rick Campbell)
11:15
6 Viewpoint
11:20
6 News
11:30
6 Movie (Boy Meets Girl, 1938 comedy, starring James Cagney and Pat O’Brien)
11 Movie (Down These Dark Streets, 1954 mystery, with Broderick Crawford)
11:45
9 The Mike Wallace Interview (this week’s guest is Sammy Davis, Jr.)
FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1961
As this was the date of the Inauguration of John F. Kennedy as President of the United States, there were a few deviations from the usual weekday schedule on CBLT and CHCH-TV. Other than the listings below, the daytime schedules followed the patterns seen in the Monday through Thursday listings above:
MORNING
9:30
11 Movie (The Teckman Mystery, 1955 British mystery, with Margaret Leighton)
AFTERNOON
12:30
6 Movie (Wicked Woman, 1953 drama, with Beverly Michaels)
1:00
11 Movie (Alias John Preston, 1955 British drama, with Alexander Knox)
2:00
9 Movie (Whirlpool, 1950 drama, starring Gene Tierney and Jose Ferrer)
2:30
6/11 Inauguration Day (CBC-produced taped highlight special of President Kennedy’s inauguration, most likely edited together from CBS’ live coverage that morning)
4:00
6 Cartoon Capers
4:30
6 Junior Roundup
EVENING
5:00
9 Jungle Boy
11 Movie (Pink String and Sealing Wax, 1950 British drama, with Mervyn Johns and Googie Withers)
5:30
6 Fury (NBC Saturday mornings)
9 Men Into Space
6:00
6 News (Bruce Marsh)
9 Focus (Rick Hart)
6:15
6 The Phil Silvers Show
6:30
9/11 News
6:45
6 News
7:00
6 Seven-O-One (interview)
9 To Be Announced
11 Guestward Ho! (ABC Saturdays)
7:30
6 Sports Huddle
9 Leave It To Beaver (ABC Saturdays)
11 The Real McCoys (ABC Thursdays)
8:00
6/11 Country Hoedown
9 The Jim Backus Show
8:30
6/11 Perry Mason (CBS Saturdays)
9 The Brothers Brannigan
9:00
9 Two Faces West
9:30
6/11 Danger Man (CBS would not begin running this series until April)
9 Country Style (guest this week is singer Barbara Franklin)
10:00
6/11 Have Gun, Will Travel (CBS Saturdays)
10:30
6 On The Scene (Al Boliska and Rex Loring visit Canadian Olympic athlete Ernestine Russell at the Toronto Central YMCA)
9 News
11 Peter Gunn (ABC Mondays)
11:00
6/11 News
9 Better Late (Rick Campbell)
11:15
6 Viewpoint
11:20
6 News
11:30
6 Gunsmoke (CBS Saturdays)
11:35
11 Movie (Bengazi, 1955 melodrama, with Richard Conte)
12:00
6 Toronto Wrestling
9 Movie (Three Stripes in the Sun, 1955 drama, with Aldo Ray and Dick York)
EVENING
5:00
9 The Three Musketeers
11 Movie (The Call of the Wild, 1935 adaptation of the Jack London novel, starring Clark Gable and Loretta Young)
5:30
6 Quick Draw McGraw
9 Man and the Challenge
6:00
6 News (Bruce Marsh)
9 Focus (Rick Hart)
6:15
6 Father Knows Best
9 Sports College (Percival)
6:30
9/11 News
6:45
6 News
7:00
6 Seven-O-One (interviews)
9 Wagon Train
11 The People’s Choice
7:30
6/11 Don Messer’s Jubilee (music)
8:00
6/11 The Danny Thomas Show (CBC ran this episode one hour before CBS did)
9 Movie (Tell It to the Judge, 1949 comedy, with Rosalind Russell and Robert Cummings)
8:30
6/11 Jack Kane (The annual Liberty Magazine Awards to Canadian TV personalities are presented tonight)
9:00
6/11 My Sister Eileen (CBS Wednesdays)
9:30
6/11 Festival ’61 (“Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime,” an adaptation of an Oscar Wilde short story)
9 The Rifleman (ABC Tuesdays)
10:00
9 Wanted – Dead or Alive (CBS Wednesdays)
10:30
6/11 Inquiry (panel)
9 News
11:00
6/11 News
9 Better Late (Rick Campbell)
11:15
6 Viewpoint (news analysis)
11:20
6 News
11:30
6 Movie (The Cruel Sea, 1953 British drama, with Jack Hawkins)
11 Movie (Lost Horizon, 1937 Frank Capra classic drama, with Ronald Colman and Jane Wyatt)
11:45
9 Glencannon
TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1961
EVENING
5:00
9 African Patrol (“Ghost Country”)
11 Movie (repeat of this morning’s 9:30 movie, Double Indemnity, interrupted for news headlines at 6:30)
5:30
6 Wonders of the Sea
9 The Sea Hawk (“The Silent One”)
6:00
6 News (Bruce Marsh)
9 Focus (Rick Hart)
6:15
6 Club 6 (Mike Darrow)
9 Barris Beat (interview)
6:30
9 News
6:45
6 News
7:00
6 Seven-O-One (interview)
9 Huckleberry Hound
7:30
6 Director’s Choice
9 The Real McCoys (ABC Thursdays)
11 The Rifleman (ABC Tuesdays)
8:00
6/11 The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (NBC Sundays)
9 Movie (The Secret of Convict Lake, 1951 drama, with Glenn Ford, Gene Tierney and Ethel Barrymore)
9:00
6/11 Front Page Challenge (news correspondent Philip Deane is tonight’s guest panellist)
9:30
6/11 The Red Skelton Show (This week’s show is actually a shortened edition of The Ed Sullivan Show, as Sullivan subbed for the ailing Skelton from CBS Studio 50 in New York, and his own show was pre-empted for the George Gershwin tribute special on Sunday night. Guests include Bobby Rydell. A CBC simulcast from CBS.)
9 Route 66 (“Play it Glissando” with guest Anne Francis; CBS Fridays)
10:00
6/11 Close-Up
10:30
6/11 Q for Quest (Andrew Allan hosts Canadian poet James Reaney in his one-man masque “An Evening Without James Reaney”)
9 News
11:00
6/11 News
9 Better Late (Rick Campbell)
11:15
6 Viewpoint
11:20
6 News
11:30
6 Trackdown (“The Pueblo Kid,” with guest Michael Landon)
11 Movie (today’s second repeat of Double Indemnity)
11:45
9 Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1961
EVENING
5:00
9 The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
11 Movie (The Atomic Kid, 1945 drama, starring Mickey Rooney)
5:30
6 Huckleberry Hound
9 The Adventures of Robin Hood
6:00
6 News (Bruce Marsh)
9 Focus (Rick Hart)
6:15
6 Sea Hunt
9 Sports College (Percival)
6:30
9/11 News
6:45
6 News
7:00
6 Seven-O-One (guests are Maclean’s magazine editor Blair Fraser and educator Arthur Pigott)
9 Theater (“Heroes Never Grow Up”)
11 The Rebel (ABC Sundays)
7:30
6 Nation’s Business
9 The Andy Griffith Show (CBS Mondays)
11 Holiday Ranch (Cliff McKay)
7:45
6 Countrytime (Harold Dodds and George Atkins agricultural report)
8:00
6/11 My Three Sons (ABC Thursdays)
9 77 Sunset Strip (ABC Fridays)
8:30
6/11 First Person (“The Shadow in the Rose Garden,” with Diana Maddox)
9:00
6/11 Perry Como’s Kraft Music Hall (guests are Gwen Verdon, George Gobel and Paul Anka. CBC simulcast with NBC, but not in colour.)
9 NHL Hockey (New York Rangers at Toronto Maple Leafs; Bill and Foster Hewitt comment, probably for the first time on a non-CBC television station)
10:00
6/11 Winston Churchill – The Valiant Years (ABC Sundays)
10:20
9 Sports (Jim Coleman)
10:30
6/11 Explorations (discussion of Canadian labor relations)
9 News
11:00
6/11 News
9 Better Late (Rick Campbell)
11:15
6 Viewpoint
11:20
6 News
11:30
6 Movie (A Woman’s Vengeance, 1948 drama, with Charles Boyer and Ann Blyth)
11 Movie (The Rains Came, 1939 drama, with Myrna Loy and Tyrone Power)
11:45
9 Meet McGraw
THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1961
EVENING
5:00
9 Science Fiction Theater
11 Movie (The Third Man, 1949 classic noir, starring Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Trevor Howard and Alida Valli)
5:30
6 Roy Rogers
9 Tombstone Territory
6:00
6 News (Bruce Marsh)
9 Focus (Rick Hart)
6:15
6 Cannonball
9 Barris Beat (interview)
6:30
9/11 News
6:45
6 News
7:00
6 Seven-O-One (interview)
9 The Best of The Post
11 Wanted – Dead or Alive (CBS Wednesdays)
7:30
6 Bachelor Father (NBC Thursdays)
9/11 Lock Up (curiously, the very same episode runs on both CFTO and CHCH-TV)
8:00
6/11 Live a Borrowed Life (CBC-produced panel quiz show)
9 Movie (Five Against the House, 1955 melodrama, with Guy Madison and Kim Novak)
8:30
6/11 Klondike (NBC Mondays)
9:00
6 Background
11 Hockey (St. Catharines Teepees at Hamilton Red Wings; Norm Marshall comments)
9:30
6 The Ford Show Starring Tennessee Ernie Ford (Cliff Arquette guests as Charley Weaver; CBC simulcast from NBC, but not in colour)
9 The Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp (ABC Tuesdays)
10:00
6 Peter Gunn (ABC Mondays)
9 The Rebel (ABC Sundays)
10:15
11 Hockey Talk
10:30
6 The Toronto File (Ed McGibbon; a repeat of this afternoon’s 4:00 episode)
9 News
11 Think of a Number (quiz)
11:00
6/11 News
9 Better Late (Rick Campbell)
11:15
6 Viewpoint
11:20
6 News
11:30
6 Movie (Boy Meets Girl, 1938 comedy, starring James Cagney and Pat O’Brien)
11 Movie (Down These Dark Streets, 1954 mystery, with Broderick Crawford)
11:45
9 The Mike Wallace Interview (this week’s guest is Sammy Davis, Jr.)
FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1961
As this was the date of the Inauguration of John F. Kennedy as President of the United States, there were a few deviations from the usual weekday schedule on CBLT and CHCH-TV. Other than the listings below, the daytime schedules followed the patterns seen in the Monday through Thursday listings above:
MORNING
9:30
11 Movie (The Teckman Mystery, 1955 British mystery, with Margaret Leighton)
AFTERNOON
12:30
6 Movie (Wicked Woman, 1953 drama, with Beverly Michaels)
1:00
11 Movie (Alias John Preston, 1955 British drama, with Alexander Knox)
2:00
9 Movie (Whirlpool, 1950 drama, starring Gene Tierney and Jose Ferrer)
2:30
6/11 Inauguration Day (CBC-produced taped highlight special of President Kennedy’s inauguration, most likely edited together from CBS’ live coverage that morning)
4:00
6 Cartoon Capers
4:30
6 Junior Roundup
EVENING
5:00
9 Jungle Boy
11 Movie (Pink String and Sealing Wax, 1950 British drama, with Mervyn Johns and Googie Withers)
5:30
6 Fury (NBC Saturday mornings)
9 Men Into Space
6:00
6 News (Bruce Marsh)
9 Focus (Rick Hart)
6:15
6 The Phil Silvers Show
6:30
9/11 News
6:45
6 News
7:00
6 Seven-O-One (interview)
9 To Be Announced
11 Guestward Ho! (ABC Saturdays)
7:30
6 Sports Huddle
9 Leave It To Beaver (ABC Saturdays)
11 The Real McCoys (ABC Thursdays)
8:00
6/11 Country Hoedown
9 The Jim Backus Show
8:30
6/11 Perry Mason (CBS Saturdays)
9 The Brothers Brannigan
9:00
9 Two Faces West
9:30
6/11 Danger Man (CBS would not begin running this series until April)
9 Country Style (guest this week is singer Barbara Franklin)
10:00
6/11 Have Gun, Will Travel (CBS Saturdays)
10:30
6 On The Scene (Al Boliska and Rex Loring visit Canadian Olympic athlete Ernestine Russell at the Toronto Central YMCA)
9 News
11 Peter Gunn (ABC Mondays)
11:00
6/11 News
9 Better Late (Rick Campbell)
11:15
6 Viewpoint
11:20
6 News
11:30
6 Gunsmoke (CBS Saturdays)
11:35
11 Movie (Bengazi, 1955 melodrama, with Richard Conte)
12:00
6 Toronto Wrestling
9 Movie (Three Stripes in the Sun, 1955 drama, with Aldo Ray and Dick York)