Sunday 18 March 1962 — NEW SOUTH WALES

The opening night of NSW’s third regional television station, WIN4, serving Wollongong and the Illawarra district.

The station is the foundation of what is now the WIN television network across Australia.

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Source: TV Week, 17 March 1962

SYDNEY
  ABN2 ATN7 TCN9
6AM
7AM
8AM
9AM
10AM
11AM
12PM
1PM 1pm Laurel And Hardy
1.30 Eddie Cantor Comedy Theatre
1pm Top Pro Gold
2PM 2.15pm Program For Deaf Children
2.30 Movie: William Comes To Town [IMDB]
2pm Movie: Mama Runs Wild. 1937 [IMDB] 2pm World Of Sport. Ron Casey, Ken Howard
3PM 3pm People’s Choice
3.30 Religious Program: Christian Television Association
3pm Harrigan And Son
3.30 Peter Loves Mary
4PM 4pm Celebrity Recital: Gina Bachauer
4.45 Longitude Zero
4pm Topper
4.30 Burns And Allen
4pm I Challenge The Minister. Reverend Alan Walker
4.30 Ed Wynn Show
5PM 5.15 Special: Davey And Goliath — The Silver Mine
5.30 Sunday Serial
5pm The Mickey Rooney Show
5.30 The Bugs Bunny Show
5pm Angel
5.30 Tell The Truth. George Foster, Al Thomas, Jacqueline Kott, Pamela Paige, Howard Craven
6PM 6pm Adventure With Hans Haas
6.25 This May Interest You
6.30 Paul Of Tarsus
6pm Frontier Circus 6pm News, Newsreel
6.30 Disneyland
7PM  7pm ABC News, Weekend Magazine
7.30 Mystery Of Edwin Drood
7pm News, Newsreel
7.30 Anzac
7.30 Lawman
8PM  8pm Movie: Thieves’ Carnival [IMDB] 8pm Revue ’62 8pm Movie: The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit. 1956 [IMDB]
9PM  9.35 Spotlight 9pm The Defenders
10PM  10.05 Music Room
10.35 Religion
10pm Four Just Men
10.30 Reflections. Bishop Goodwin Hudson
10.35 Close
10.10 Meet The Press
10.40 Summer Science School
11PM  11.05 Close
12AM  12.10am Close
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4AM 
5AM 

 

REGIONALS
NBN3
Newcastle
WIN4
Wollongong
CBN8
Orange
3pm Wild Bill Hickok
3.30 Focus
4pm Palladium Spectacular
5pm Tab Hunter Show
5.30 Steve Donovan
6pm Gildersleeve
6.30 News. Murray Finlay
7pm The Phil Silvers Show
7.30 Movie: A Slight Case Of Murder. 1938 [IMDB]
9pm George Sanders Mystery Theatre
9.30 Mystery Theatre
10pm Halls Of Ivy
10.30 Evening Meditation
10.35 Close
6pm News, Newsreel, Weather. Includes opening message from WIN4 general manager Robert Lord
6.30 High Adventure
7.30 Movie: Destination Tokyo. 1944 [IMDB]
9.30 Playboys’ Penthouse
10.30 Interlude
10.35 Close
5.30pm Religious Film
6.15 Abbott And Costello
6.45 News, Weather
7pm Leave It To Beaver
7.30 Rescue 8
8pm The Flintstones
8.30 Air Power
9pm Movie
10.15 Playhouse 15
10.30 Close

 

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