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THE HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN TELEVISION

CLASSIC TV GUIDES

Friday 27 April 1962 - VICTORIA
MELBOURNE AND [REGIONALS]

Official launch for Ballarat television station BTV6 - the fourth regional commercial station in Victoria

Source: TV Week, 23 April 1962

  ABV2 HSV7 GTV9  
6AM        
7AM  
8AM  
9AM  
10AM 10am Test Pattern, Music  
11AM 11.45 Fun With Food  
12PM 12pm Movie: Thirteen Hours By Air. 1936 [IMDB]  
1PM 1.30pm First Edition News
1.35 Interpol Calling
1.30 Loretta Young Show  
2PM

2pm Mainly For Women
Corinne Kerby
2.30 For Schools: Science And Life
2.50 For Schools: Chez Les Dupre

2pm Say When
2.30 Lady For A Day

2pm Burns And Allan
2.30 Markham

 
3PM 3.05 Test Pattern, Music 3pm Armchair Theatre: Macbeth. 1948 [IMDB]

3pm It Could Be You
Tommy Hanlon Jnr
3.30 Concentration

 
4PM 4.45 Kindergarten Playtime 4.15 Box Of Tricks

4pm Roy Rogers
4.30 Cisco Kid

 
5PM 5pm The Peep Peep Show
Includes The Shari Lewis Show
5pm The Happy Show 5pm The Tarax Show  
6PM

6pm You Asked For It
6.30 Biggles

6pm Robin Hood
6.30 News 

Geoff Raymond

6pm Komedy Korner: The Three Stooges
6.30 News, Newsreel, Weather
Eric Pearce, Jack Little

 
7PM

7pm News
7.30 Focus On Football

7pm The Nelsons
7.30 Sunnyside Up

7pm Danny Thomas Show
7.30 In Melbourne Tonight

 
8PM

8pm No Hiding Place
8.45 Dan Farson In Australia

8.30 Academy Theatre: A Woman's Face. 1941 [IMDB] 8.30 Films Of The Fifties: I'll Get By. 1950 [IMDB]  
9PM

9pm The Magic Of Music
9.30 Any Questions?

 
10PM

10pm International Scene
10.15 The Nature Of Things
10.30 News, Newsreel
10.55 Close

10.30 Daly At Night

10pm Four Just Men
10.30 Shotgun Slade

 
11PM  

11.30 Late News Headlines
11.35 Close

11pm Television City News
11.15 Epilogue
11.20 Close

 
12AM      
1AM  
2AM  
3AM  
4AM  
5AM  
REGIONALS
  BTV6
Ballarat
GMV6
Shepparton
BCV8
Bendigo
GLV10
Gippsland
 

7pm Commence Transmission
7.01 This Is BTV Channel 6.  Documentary showing the development of Channel 6 since the station site was selected
7.15 Official Opening of BTV Channel 6.  Introduced by Cr. Alan Pittard, Chairman of BTV Channel 6
7.30 BP Super Show
8.30 The Grey Nurse Said Nothing
10pm Movie: The African Queen. 1951
[IMDB]
11.30 Close

2pm Test Pattern
5.30 GMV Juniors
Nancy Cato
6pm The Lone Ranger
6.30 Let's Talk About Farming
6.40 News, Weather
7pm Phil Silvers
7.30 Assignment Foreign Legion
8pm Mobil-Limb Show
8.30 Friday Night Movie: Picture Of Dorian Gray. 1945
[IMDB]
10.20 News, Weather
10.30 Epilogue
10.35 Close
5.30pm Cobbers' Teleclub
John Crook
6pm Robin Hood
6.30 News, Newsreel, Weather
Ron Alderton
7pm Phil Silvers
7.30 Assignment Foreign Legion
8pm Mobil-Limb Show
8.30 Hong Kong
9.30 Naked City
10pm News
10.10 Epilogue
10.15 Close
5.55pm Program Summary
6pm Crusader Rabbit
6.15 Tales Of The Texas Rangers
6.45 News, Weather
7pm Air Power
7.30 Bert Newton Channel Nine Show
8.30 Roaring 20's
9.30 Movie: A Bill Of Divorcement. 1932
[IMDB]
10.40 News, Weather, Epilogue
10.45 Close

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Source: TV WEEK, 26 April 1962