ABC’s current affairs program Four Corners makes its first appearance, and on TCN9 in the afternoon, the game show that started the Reg Grundy empire, Wheel Of Fortune.
TV At 60: Four Corners [2021]
Source: TV Week, 19 August 1961
| ABN2 | ATN7 | TCN9 | |
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| 9AM | |||
| 10AM | 10am Test Pattern, Music | 10am Brian Howard’s Sportsview 10.30 Focus On Sport |
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| 11AM | 11.30 Doorway To Knowledge | ||
| 12PM | 12pm Close | 12.30pm Handy Andy | |
| 1PM | 1pm Test Pattern, Music 1.30 The Ann Sothern Show |
1pm Soldiers Of Fortune 1.30 Men Into Space |
1pm Wheel Of Fortune. Reg Grundy |
| 2PM | 2pm Sportsview | 2pm Captain Fortune’s Saturday Party | 2pm Movie: Somewhere In Camp [IMDB] |
| 3PM | 3.30 Wrestling From Chicago | ||
| 4PM | 4.30 Saturday Serial 4.45 Joe The Gadget Man |
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| 5PM | 5pm Race Round-Up 5.30 Cartoon Time |
5pm Movie: Santa Fe Saddlemates. 1945 [IMDB] | 5pm Bandstand. Brian Henderson |
| 6PM | 6pm Six O’Clock Rock | 6pm The Three Stooges 6.15 The Rifleman 6.40 News, Weather. Kevin Sanders |
6pm News, Sport, Racing Review 6.30 Tic Tac Dough. Chuck Faulkner |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News, Weather 7.18 Today’s Sport 7.30 The Donna Reed Show 7.55 This Week In Britain |
7pm Whiplash 7.30 The VW Show. Horrie Dargie |
7pm My Sister Eileen 7.30 The Cheyenne Show |
| 8PM | 8pm Manhunt 8.25 Who? 8.30 Four Corners PREMIERE Michael Charlton |
8.30 Adventures In Paradise | 8.30 The Islanders |
| 9PM | 9.15 Movie: Banana Ridge. 1942 [IMDB] | 9.30 Sing Along With Mitch | 9.30 The Graham Kennedy Channel Nine Show |
| 10PM | 10.45 Close | 10.30 Jane Wyman Theatre | 10.30 Movie: Hangmen Also Die [IMDB] |
| 11PM | 11pm Reflections 11.05 Close |
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| 12AM | 12am Close | ||
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