Melbourne Cup Day, 1964. It is 1978 before ATV0 obtains the rights to live coverage of the Melbourne Cup, but as far back as 1964 the station was showing an active interest in horse racing with five hours of coverage leading up to the big race.
Source: TV Week, 31 October 1964
| MELBOURNE | ||||
| ABV2 | HSV7 | GTV9 | ATV0 | |
| 6AM | ||||
| 7AM | 7am Melbourne Cup Preview. Pre-recorded interviews with owners, trainers and jockeys. | |||
| 8AM | ||||
| 9AM | 9am Melbourne Cup Preview. Live from Flemington. Philip Gibbs, Bert Bryant, John Russell, Joyce Turner | |||
| 10AM | ||||
| 11AM | 11.30am News 11.35 Room For One More |
11.30am News. Tom Jones 11.33 Lock Up |
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| 12PM | 12pm The Beachcomber 12.30 Movie: The Story Of Seabiscuit. 1949 [IMDB] |
12pm The Danny Thomas Show 12.30 Movie: The Magic Carpet. 1951 [IMDB] |
12pm Close | |
| 1PM | 1.30pm Comedy Playhouse: Our Man In Moscow | |||
| 2PM | 2pm Movie: Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp. 1943 [IMDB] | 2.05 Hawaiian Eye | 2pm It Could Be You 2.30 Take The Hint |
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| 3PM | 3pm Time For Terry. Terry O’Neill, Brian Naylor, Ian Turpie, Jocelyn Terry | 3pm 77 Sunset Strip | 3pm Documentary: Heritage in Chesapeak 3.30 Romper Room. Miss Susan |
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| 4PM | 4.05 Living With The Motor Car 4.45 Kindergarten Playtime |
4pm Video Village. Danny Webb, Elizabeth Harris, Chris Christensen 4.30 Rin Tin Tin |
4pm The Deputy 4.30 The Bugs Bunny Show |
4pm Rescue 8 4.30 The Children’s Show. Nancy Cato, Michael Boddy |
| 5PM | 5pm Storybook | 5pm The Happy Show | 5pm The Tarax Show | 5.30 Broken Arrow |
| 6PM | 6.05 Sky King 6.30 Bootsie And Snudge |
6pm Melbourne Cup Film 6.05 Cannonball 6.30 News. Geoff Raymond |
6pm Melbourne Cup Film 6.05 Komedy Korner 6.25 Jimmy Hannan’s Top Pop Of The Day 6.30 Television City News. Eric Pearce |
6pm Congo Bill 6.15 News. Brian Wright, John Royle, Philip Gibbs, R R Walker |
| 7PM | 7pm News, Newsreel, Weather 7.30 Love That Show |
7pm The Beverly Hillbillies 7.30 Homicide |
7pm Sing Along With Mitch | 7pm Go!! |
| 8PM | 8.20 This Week In Britain 8.25 Export Action 8.30 Sports Cavalcade |
8.30 Crisis | 8pm Dick Van Dyke Show 8.30 The Nurses |
8pm The Greatest Show On Earth |
| 9PM | 9pm Lively Arts 9.30 World Film Playhouse |
9.30 Melbourne Cup Film 9.40 Movie: The Devil Doll. 1936 [IMDB] |
9.30 In Melbourne Tonight. Graham Kennedy | 9pm In Close Up. R R Walker 9.30 Breaking Point |
| 10PM | 10pm News 10.10 Melbourne Cup Film 10.20 Dialogue 10.40 Kipps |
10.45 Television City News | 10.30 Millionaire | |
| 11PM | 11.10 Close | 11.15 Answer Please. Geoff Raymond 11.45 Late News |
11pm Zane Grey Theatre 11.30 Epilogue 11.35 Close |
11pm News. Barry McQueen 11.05 Close |
| 12AM | 12am Close | |||
| 1AM | ||||
| 2AM | ||||
| 3AM | ||||
| 4AM | ||||
| 5AM | ||||
| REGIONALS | |||||
| Ballarat ABRV3 Bendigo ABEV1 Gippsland ABLV4 Shepparton ABGV3 |
AMV4 Albury |
BTV6 Ballarat |
GMV6 Shepparton |
BCV8 Bendigo |
GLV10 Gippsland |
| 1.30pm Comedy Playhouse: Our Man In Moscow 2pm Movie: Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp. 1943 [IMDB] 4.05 Living With The Motor Car 4.45 Kindergarten Playtime 5pm Storybook 6.05 Sky King 6.30 Bootsie And Snudge 6.55 Regional News 7pm News, Newsreel, Weather 7.30 Love That Show 8.20 This Week In Britain 8.25 Export Action 8.30 Sports Cavalcade 9pm Lively Arts 9.30 World Film Playhouse 10pm News 10.10 Melbourne Cup Film 10.20 Dialogue 10.40 Kipps 11.10 Close |
4.55pm Cohns Cobbers Teleclub 6pm Waterfront 6.30 Room For One More 7pm ABC News 7.15 Local News 7.25 Almanac 7.30 The Saint 8.30 Breaking Point 9.30 Coronation Street 10pm News 10.10 Mike Hammer 10.35 Close |
12pm It Could Be You 12.25 Shopping Guide. Val Oldfield 12.35 Jane Wyman Theatre 1pm Tuesday Magazine. Val Oldfield 2pm Sing Along With Mitch 3pm Movie 4.30 Cartoon Carnival 5pm BTV Juniors 6pm Leave It To Beaver 6.30 News (HSV7) 6.54 Local News. Arthur Scuffins 7pm The Farmer’s Daughter 7.30 Rawhide 8.30 East Side West Side 9.30 The Richard Boone Show 10.30 Late News. Arthur Scuffins 10.45 Epilogue 10.50 Close |
5pm GMV Juniors 5.35 The Mickey Mouse Club 6pm The Bill Dana Show 6.30 News (HSV7) 6.55 Shopping Guide 7pm The Beverly Hillbillies 7.30 The Red Skelton Show 8.30 The Fugitive 9.25 Grain Guard 9.40 Desilu Playhouse 10.35 News, Weather 10.50 Epilogue 11pm Close |
5pm Cobbers Teleclub. Peter Thomas, Sylvia Walker 5.20 The Mickey Mouse Club 6pm Captain Gallant 6.25 Camera Corner 6.30 News, Newsreel 7pm The Farmer’s Daughter 7.30 Bonanza 8.30 Burke’s Law 9.30 Sound Of Music. Bobby Limb 10.20 Late News, Newsreel 10.35 Medic 11pm Close |
5.15pm Gippsland Teleclub. Includes The Mickey Mouse Club 6.22 Almanac Newsreel 6.25 Gippsland News. Pat Hegarty 6.30 News (GTV9) 6.58 Stock Report 7pm McHale’s Navy 7.30 Homicide 8.20 London News 8.30 The Villains 9.25 Gippsland News 9.30 In Melbourne Tonight 10.45 News (GTV9) 11pm Epilogue 11.05 Close |
