Victoria, Wednesday 5 June 1968
from TV Week
ABC
10.10-10.35 Play School
12.45 English by Television “Connie and the Burglars”
1.00 News
1.05-1.10 This Week in Britain
3.20 The Flowerpot Men “Garden Forks”
3.35 Play School
4.00 Adventure Island
4.30 Animal Parade
4.45 The Magic Boomerang “A Visit from Grandma”
5.10 Lens on Lilliput
5.20 Doctor Who “The Underwater Menace” (pt 1)
5.50 Donna Reed “The Boys in 309”
6.15 F Troop “From Karate with Love”
6.40 Bellbird
6.55 (Melbourne) This Week in Britain/(regionals) Regional News
7.00 News/Newsreel/Weather
7.30 This Day Tonight
8.00 Not in Front of the Children “The Word” (A)
8.28 News in Brief
8.30 Wednesday Theatre Ballet “The Best of the Bolshoi” (pt 1, filmed during their US tour)
9.30 Survey
10.10 News/Weather
10.20 Esther Waters “London Pride” (AO)
11.05 close
ATV0 Melbourne
10.00 Magic Circle Club
10.30 The Little People
10.55 Interlude
11.00 Morning Magazine
noon Yarra Glen races
5.00 Three Stooges
5.30 Blind Date
6.00 News/Sport/Weather
6.30 Gilligan’s Island
6.55 Waltons TV Windfall
7.00 Bewitched “Tabatha’s Cranky Spell”
7.30 Bonanza “Maestro Hoss”
8.30 Garrison’s Gorillas “The Big Lie”
9.30 Starlight Theatre “Thunder in the Sun”
12.05 Late News
12.35 close
HSV7 Melbourne
9.55 Romper Room
10.25 Charity Corner
10.30 Morning Movie “Father’s Dilemma”
11.50 Herald-Sun News
noon Get Smart
12.30 Motel
1.00 Casebook
1.30 Beauty & the Beast
2.30 People in Conflict
3.00 Marriage Confidential
3.30 Citizen James “Sit Down”
4.00 Mickey Mouse Club
4.30 Peter’s Fun Fair
5.00 Happy Club “Young Entertainer”
5.05 Wackiest Ship in the Army “Liberty was a Lady”
6.00 Green Acres “An Old-Fashioned Christmas”
6.30 News/Sports Report/Weather
7.00 Coles $6000 Question
7.30 Something Special: June Bronhill Show (guests Nancye Hayes, the Kuban Cossacks, and Ian Turpie)
8.30 Movie of the Week “Top Secret Affair”
10.30 Late News
10.50 A Man Called Shenandoah “Muted Fifes, Muffled Drums” (A)
11.20 close
GTV9 Melbourne
6.30 Marvel Superheroes
7.00 Today
9.00 77 Sunset Strip “Collector’s Item” (A)
10.00 Nature Walkabout
10.30 Playroom
11.00 Here’s Humphrey
11.30 Many Loves of Dobie Gillis “Three Million Coins in the Fountain”
noon Days of Our Lives
12.30 Channel 9 Theatre Matinee “That Wonderful Urge”
2.00 Tommy Hanlon
2.30 Everybody’s Talking
3.00 Divorce Court
3.30 The Unloved
4.00 Bugs Bunny
4.30 Superman
5.00 Phantaman
5.30 Addams Family “Gomez the Cat Burglar”
6.00 Bachelor Father “The Rescue of Rufus”
6.30 Television City News/Newsreel/Weather
7.00 Tommy Hanlon
7.30 Hunter “War Hawks”
8.27 VFL Computer Football Forecast
8.30 Ironside “Message from Beyond” (A)
9.30 In Melbourne Tonight (guests Liz Harris, Frankie Davidson, and the Wesley Three)
10.45 Television City News
11.15 Thriller “Parasite Mansion” (AO)
12.15 Epilogue (by Rev. Bruce Williams)
12.20 close
AMV4 Albury
12.30 Women’s News
12.40 Relax with Roma
12.45 Marriage Game
1.05 Recipe of the Week
1.10 Knitting Competition
1.15 Movie Matinee “Without Reservation”
2.45 Cooking with Zelda
3.00 Painting & Home Decorating
3.10 Knitting Competition
3.15 Beauty & the Beast
4.00 Tommy Hanlon
4.25 Cohns Cobbers
4.30 Batfink
4.55 Cohns Cobbers Teleclub
5.05 Flintstones
5.30 Cohns Cobbers
5.35 MacKenzie’s Raiders
6.00 Andy Griffith
6.25 District News
6.30 News/Weather
7.00 Skippy
7.30 Bonanza “Joe Cartwright, Detective” (A)
8.30 Wednesday Night Movie “Knock on Any Door” (A)
10.20 District News
10.30 Keep Fit with Debbie Drake
10.45 close
BTV6 Ballarat
11.30 Here’s Humphrey
noon Beauty & the Beast
12.30 Everybody’s Talking
1.00 Tommy Hanlon
1.25 Hilton Competition
1.30 Sewing Hints
1.35 How Does Your Garden Grow?
1.50 Beauty Box
2.00 People in Conflict
2.30 Movie Matinee “Margin for Error”
3.45 Focus on France
4.00 Cartoon Carnival
4.30 Flash Gordon “Sky Jackers”
5.00 BTV Juniors
5.30 Batman
6.00 Family Affair
6.30 BTV-HSV News
6.55 Western Victorian News
7.00 Get Smart “Maxwell Smart alias Jimmy Ballantine”
7.30 Hunter (A)
8.30 Adult Theatre Club “The Young Savages” (A)
10.15 Seven Days “It’s a Better Job Than Yours Mate”
11.15 News/Weather
11.25 Epilogue/close
GMV6 Shepparton
noon Romper Room
12.25 Willey’s Story Time
12.30 Everybody’s Talking
1.00 Tommy Hanlon
1.30 Wednesday Afternoon Movie “Baghdad”
3.00 Marriage Confidential
3.30 Marriage Game
4.00 Here’s Humphrey
4.25 Mickey Mouse
4.50 GMV Juniors
5.20 Kit Carson
5.40 Cartoons
6.00 Marine Boy “Flim Flam of the High Seas”
6.25 Local & District News
6.30 News/Weather
7.00 Skippy “Tara” (pt 1)
7.30 Lucy Show “Lucy Gets Mooney Fired”
8.00 My Name’s McGooley-What’s Yours?
8.30 Premier Theatre “Forever and a Day”
10.30 News/Weather
11.10 Epilogue (Presbyterian)
11.15 close
BCV8 Bendigo
noon The Detectives “Short Way Home” (A)
12.25 Tommy Hanlon
12.55 News Headlines
1.00 Motel
1.25 Farmer’s Daughter “Ney, Ney, A Thousand Times Ney”
2.00 Cooking Better Electrically
2.15 Community Billboard
2.20 Movietime “Illegal Entry” (A)
3.50 Here’s Humphrey
4.15 Cartoon Carousel
4.35 Captain Scarlet
5.00 Addams Family “Lurch’s Little Helper”
5.25 Littlest Hobo “Honored Guest”
5.50 News
5.55 McHale’s Navy “Dear Diary”
6.20 Local News
6.30 News/Weather
7.00 Mothers-in-Law “I Thought He’d Never Leave”
7.30 Hunter (A)
8.25 Doctor’s House Call
8.30 Wednesday Theatre “The Organiser” (A)
10.45 The Detectives (A)
11.35 News/Weather
11.45 Epilogue
11.50 close
GLV10 Gippsland
noon Yarra Glen races
4.55 Ansett-ANA Junior Flying Club
5.00 Mickey Mouse Club
5.25 Magic Moments in Sport
5.30 Phantom Agents
6.00 The Second Hundred Years “Right of Way”
6.25 Gippsland News
6.30 National News
7.00 Dick Van Dyke
7.30 Hunter (A)
8.30 The Fugitive “Passage to Helena” (A)
9.25 Gippsland News
9.30 In Melbourne Tonight
10.45 News
11.15 Epilogue
11.20 close