First day’s transmission for ABC’s Brisbane station ABQ2. BTQ7 opened the previous day.
TV At 60: TV comes to Brisbane [2019]
Source: The Courier Mail, Brisbane, 2 November 1959
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| 5PM | 5pm Cottee’s Happy Hour. Lester Foxcroft, Nancy Knudsen | 5pm Sir Lancelot 5.30 Channel Niners. Jim Iliffe |
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| 6PM | 6pm The Mickey Mouse Club 6.45 News, Weather. Brian Cahill |
6pm Crusader Rabbit 6.05 Steven Donovan 6.30 News, Weather 6.45 Cartoon Theatre |
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| 7PM | 7pm Official Opening ABQ2 7.20 Greeting From The BBC 7.25 ABC News. Ron Brady 7.38 Weather 7.43 Presentation Announcement 7.45 The Phil Silvers Show |
7pm Noughts And Crosses 7.30 Last Of The Mohicans |
7pm Steve Canyon 7.30 Burns And Allen |
| 8PM | 8.10 Centenary Visitor 8.40 Wells Fargo |
8pm Restless Gun 8.30 I Love Lucy |
8pm Maverick |
| 9PM | 9.05 Growing Up With Guba 9.35 Boyd QC |
9pm Whitehall Play House 9.30 Trackdown |
9pm Dragnet 9.30 Harbour Command |
| 10PM | 10.05 Nocturne 10.25 Portraits Of Power 10.55 Unveiling of the ABC Plaque |
10pm Sailor Of Fortune | 10pm Startime |
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