ABC presents the first Australian television adaptations of Shakespeare, with Hamlet broadcast on ABN2, Sydney, and Antony And Cleopatra on ABV2, Melbourne, at the same time.
Hamlet is produced live from the ABN2 studios in Gore Hill, Sydney.
Source: TV Times, 13 June 1959
ABN2 | ATN7 | TCN9 | |
6AM | |||
7AM | 7.01am News, Weather 7.03 Cartoons 7.10 Ray Taylor 7.40 Crusader Rabbit 7.45 News, Weather |
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8AM | 8.03 Ray Taylor 8.45 Autumn Affair |
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9AM | 9am Music | ||
10AM | 10am Test Pattern, Music 10.30 Demonstration Film |
10am Hi Fi Music | |
11AM | 11am Test Pattern, Music | 11.45 News, Weather 11.55 A Woman’s View. Carolyn Bernsten |
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12PM | 12pm Movie: Tovarich. [IMDB] | 12pm Movie: June Bride [IMDB] | |
1PM | 1pm Close | 1.30 Gas Cooking With Claire Davis | 1.30 Lunch With Doreen |
2PM | 2pm Test Pattern, Music 2.30 For Schools: Australians At Work 2.50 Test Pattern, Music |
2pm Your Home. Del Cartwright 2.30 Dr Christian |
2pm The Lucky Show. George Foster |
3PM | 3pm Close | 3pm Panorama 3.30 Melody WIth Milton |
3pm Wednesday Matinee: Plugged Nickel [IMDB] 3.30 Home And Beauty. Elaine White |
4PM | 4pm Liberace 4.30 Ballet de France 4.45 Andy Pandy |
4pm Boston Blackie 4.30 Captain Fortune Presents |
4pm Racket Squad 4.30 Kieran’s Kaleidoscope 4.45 Art And The Kids |
5PM | 5pm Children’s TV Club | 5pm Steve Donovan Western Marshal 5.25 Crusader Rabbit 5.30 Teen Time |
5pm Rin Tin Tin 5.30 Desmond And The Channel 9-Pins |
6PM | 6pm The Lone Ranger 6.30 I Married Joan |
6pm Superman 6.30 Blondie 6.56 News, Weather |
6pm The Mickey Mouse Club 6.30 Huckleberry Hound 6.45 News, Weather |
7PM | 7pm ABC News 7.15 Newsreel, Weather 7.30 Wells Fargo |
7pm Gray Ghost 7.30 M Squad |
7pm Buffalo Bill Junior 7.30 Sheriff Of Cochise |
8PM | 8pm The Phil Silvers Show 8.30 Special: Hamlet. William Job, James Lynch, Graham Webb, Frank Taylor, Henry Gilbert, Charles McCallum, Owen Weingott, Georgie Sterling, John Fegan, James Elliott, Lou Vernon, Gordon Glenwright [IMDB] |
8pm Wyatt Earp 8.30 Bold Venture |
8pm The Thin Man 8.30 Movie: Not Wanted [IMDB] |
9PM | 9pm Movie: We Are Not Alone [IMDB] | ||
10PM | 10.40 News, Newsreel | 10.30 Person To Person. Bob Sanders | 10pm Big Town 10.30 Eric Baume’s Viewpoint |
11PM | 11.05 Close | 11pm News, Weather 11.15 Cue For Music 11.40 Close |
11pm Navy Log 11.30 Tomorrow’s Programs, Close |
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