Melbourne Cup Day 1958, but it would still be another 20 years before live coverage of the great race would be allowed into Melbourne.

Source: Listener In TV, 1 November 1958

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1PM		1pm Home Show
2PM		2pm Australia Wide 2.30 At Your Request. Charles Skase
3PM	3.30pm Woman’s World	3pm The Gadget Man 3.30 The 3.30 Drama
4PM	4pm Kindergarten Playtime 4.15 Close	4pm News Magazine 4.15 Everywoman’s Theatre 4.45 Our Miss Brooks
5PM	5pm Children’s TV Club 5.45 On Safari	5.15 Young Seven 5.30 Racing: 1958 Melbourne Cup Replay 5.35 Young Seven	5.15pm The Happy Show. Happy Hammond, Ron Blaskett, Gerry Gee, Margot Sheridan
6PM	6.15 Life Of Riley 6.45 ABC News, Weather	6.05 Mickey Mouse Club 6.53 News, Weather	6.15 Looney Tunes 6.36 News, Weather. Includes Professor Browne’s Study
7PM	7pm Long John Silver 7.25 Country Party Talk 7.30 The Bob Cummings Show	7pm Art And The Kids 7.15 Oxford Show 7.30 Sailor Of Fortune	7pm The Cisco Kid 7.30 Burns And Allen
8PM	8pm Screenplay	8pm Father Knows Best 8.30 Perry Mason	8pm Behind Closed Doors 8.30 Highway Patrol
9PM	9.30 Sports Page. Includes Melbourne Cup replay	9.30 Navy Log	9.30 In Melbourne Tonight. Graham Kennedy, Panda, Hal Todd, Bob Horsfall, Joff Ellen. Followed by News, Epilogue, Close
10PM	10pm Newsreel 10.10 See It Now 10.40 Close	10pm The Late Show. Bert Newton
11PM		11pm Close
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