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Wednesday 25 December 1968 - MELBOURNE

Christmas Day 1968, and among the usual Christmas fare are direct telecasts from the Apollo space ship, and Christmas greetings from Australian troops in Vietnam.

Source: TV Week, 28 December 1968

  ABV2 HSV7 GTV9 ATV0  
6AM          
7AM 7am News
7.15 Apollo Project
Direct satellite telecast from the Apollo space ship, transmitting pictures of the moon
7.35 Apollo Project
The history of the project and plans to land three American astronauts on the moon by 1970
 
8AM  
9AM 9am Zig And Zag
9.30 Rin Tin Tin

9.25 Apollo Project
Second direct transmission of pictures of the moon

9.30 Close

 
10AM

10am Jungle Jim
10.30 Texas Rangers

 
11AM 11am Divine Service: Christmas Day

11am Circus Boy
11.30 Casey Jones
11.56 News

11.15am Christmas messages from the troops in Vietnam  
12PM 12pm Close 12pm Movie: Blossoms In The Dust. 1941 [IMDB]

12pm Movie: Top O' The Morning. 1949 [IMDB]

 
1PM 1.35 Movie: A Day At The Races. 1937[IMDB] 1.30 Movie: The Little Kidnappers. 1954 [IMDB]  
2PM 2.15 Christmas Messages from the troops in Vietnam 2.30pm The Drummer  
3PM

3pm Jenny's Christmas
3.30 Driftwood
3.45 Funny Things Happen Down Under

3.30 Christmas messages from the troops in Vietnam 3pm Going My Way 3pm Movie: Dog Of Flanders [IMDB]  
4PM 4.40 The Magnificent Mountain

4pm Zig And Zag
4.30 Greenacres
4.55 The Virginian

4pm Christmas Wonderland
4.30 Movie: Jungle Book

4.30 BYU Christmas  
5PM 5.30 Aladdin And His Wonderful Lamp 5.30 Junior Blind Date  
6PM

6.10 The Monkees
6.30 News
Geoff Raymond, David Johnston

6pm Christmas Is A Time
Eric Pearce
6.30 News
Eric Pearce, Kevin Sanders

6pm News
Barry McQueen. Includes Queen's Christmas Message
6.30 The Flintstones

 
7PM

7pm News
7.15 Her Majesty The Queen's Christmas Message
7.30 Titipu

7pm Coles $6000 Question
7.30 Jackie Gleason Show

7pm Christmas messages from the troops in Vietnam
7.30 Alice In Wonderland

7pm Bewitched
7.30 Bonanza

 
8PM 8.45 In All Directions 8.30 Movie: A Song To Remember. 1945 [IMDB] 8.30 Movie: An Affair To Remember. 1957 [IMDB] 8.30 Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In  
9PM 9.30 House By The Stable 9.30 Say It With Music. 
Barry Crocker
 
10PM

10.05 The World About Us
10.45 Her Majesty The Queen's Christmas Message
10.50 Close

10.30 Late News
10.45 Sammy Davis Meets The British

10.30 News
Eric Pearce
10.30 Christmas messages from the troops in Vietnam  
11PM   11.45 Close

11pm Christmas messages from the troops in Vietnam
11.30 Epilogue
11.35 Close

11.45 News
Includes Queen's Christmas Message
 
12AM   12.15am Close  
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