The VFL Grand Final is not permitted to be broadcast live in Victoria until 1977, but Melbourne’s four TV channels all provide varying amounts of coverage before and after the big game. ATV0, the newest channel keen to assert its presence, presents over two hours of previews, including a repeat of the previous night’s Sports Angle program, plus a film featuring the league’s Brownlow Medal winner for the year, Gordon Collis from the Carlton Football Club.
The Grand Final match, Collingwood versus Melbourne played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, was won by Melbourne and would be the team’s last Grand Final win until 2021.
Source: TV Times, 16 September 1964
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| 7AM | 7am Test Pattern 7.30 Zoorama |
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| 8AM | 8am Kevin Dennis New Faces. Frank Wilson, Frank Sheldon, Geoff Brooks, John Pacini | |||
| 9AM | 9am The Bugs Bunny Show 9.30 My Friend Flicka |
9am Test Pattern | ||
| 10AM | 10.30am Test Pattern | 10am Telestory: They’re A Weird Mob 10.30 Telestory: The Sundowners |
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| 11AM | 11am The Aquanauts | |||
| 12PM | 12pm Hopalong Cassidy | 12.15pm Football: VFL Grand Final. Preview. Philip Gibbs, Ted Whitten 12.45 Philip Gibbs Sports Angle: Grand Final Preview (Rpt) |
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| 1PM | 1.15pm Sportsview 1.17 Soccer: UK Match Of The Day 1.45 The Many Moods Of Skiing |
1.15pm Test Pattern 1.45 What’s Your Problem? |
1pm Football: VFL Grand Final. Interviews 1.30 The Country And Western Hour |
1.15 Football: VFL Grand Final. Interviews 1.45 Special: Brownlow Medal 1964 |
| 2PM | 2.25 Diving: World Professional Indoor Championships | 2pm National Top 40. Ron Brady 2.30 Movie: Mexican Hayride. 1948 [IMDB] |
2.30 Your Hit Parade | 2pm Football: VFL Grand Final. Preview. Philip Gibbs, Ted Whitten 2.30 Sporting Service. Includes quarterly score updates from the VFL Grand Final |
| 3PM | 3pm Football: VFA. Preliminary Final. Live from Port Melbourne Football Ground 3.35 The 1963 United States Grand Prix |
3.45 Cartoon Time | 3pm Waterfront 3.30 The Bowery Boys |
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| 4PM | 4.20 Football: VFA (cont’d) | 4pm Movie: The Thunder Cloud [IMDB] | 4.30 Movie: The Bold Frontiersman [IMDB] | 4.30 Movie: Zamba. 1949 [IMDB] |
| 5PM | 5pm Sporting Round-Up 5.30 Cartoon Time. Includes King Leonardo And His Short Subjects |
5.10 Cartoon Time 5.25 News Headlines 5.30 Peter’s Fun Fair |
5.30 Sports Review. Bob Walters, Wayne Kirby, Alex Barr | 5.30 News, Sports Report. Barry McQueen, Philip Gibbs |
| 6PM | 6pm Jazz Meets Folk 6.30 The Rag Trade |
6pm Football: VFL Grand Final. Highlights | 6pm Football: VFL Grand Final. Highlights | 6pm Ivanhoe 6.30 Broken Arrow |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News 7.15 Sports Review. Dick Mason, Joe Brown 7.30 The Charlie Drake Show |
7.30 Football Inquest. Michael Williamson | 7.30 Bobby Limb’s Sound Of Music | 7pm Fractured Flickers 7.30 Special: Changing Matilda |
| 8PM | 8pm Football Roundup. Dick Mason 8.30 Four Corners |
8pm Movie: To Hell And Back. 1955 [IMDB] | 8.30 Movie: The Grapes Of Wrath. 1940 [IMDB] | 8.30 Special: Mina |
| 9PM | 9.15 Movie: The Ladykillers. 1956 [IMDB] | 9.50 News | 9pm Goal To Goal. Philip Gibbs, Ted Whitten. Includes VFL Grand Final Highlights | |
| 10PM | 10.50 Close | 10pm Destry | 10.15 The Norman Banks Program. Norman Banks, Patrick Tennison | 10pm The Ray Taylor Show |
| 11PM | 11pm Fighting Words. Danny Webb 11.45 Late News Headlines 11.50 Close |
11.15 News. Bob Walters 11.30 Epilogue 11.40 Close |
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| Ballarat ABRV3 Bendigo ABEV1 Gippsland ABLV4 Shepparton ABGV3 |
AMV4 Albury |
BTV6 Ballarat |
GMV6 Shepparton |
BCV8 Bendigo |
GLV10 Gippsland |
| 10.30am Test Pattern 1.15pm Sportsview 1.17 Soccer: UK Match Of The Day 1.45 The Many Moods Of Skiing 2.25 Diving: World Professional Indoor Championships 3pm Football: VFA. Preliminary Final. Live from Port Melbourne Football Ground 3.35 The 1963 United States Grand Prix 4.20 Football: VFA (cont’d) 5pm Sporting Round-Up 5.30 Cartoon Time. Includes King Leonardo And His Short Subjects 6pm Jazz Meets Folk 6.30 The Rag Trade 7pm ABC News 7.15 Sports Review. Dick Mason, Joe Brown 7.30 The Charlie Drake Show 8pm Football Roundup. Dick Mason 8.30 Four Corners 9.15 Movie: The Ladykillers. 1956 [IMDB] 10.50 Close |
5pm Guestward Ho! 5.30 Bandstand. Brian Henderson 6.25 Sports Magazine 6.40 Sporting Results 7pm ABC News (ABV2) 7.15 Almanac 7.19 Sweet And Hot 7.30 McHale’s Navy 8pm Movie: A Kid For Two Farthings [IMDB] 9.30 Football Inquest. Ross Sellars 10pm Ringside With The Rasslers 10.30 Close |
5pm Our Miss Brooks 5.30 Teentime. Trevor Gleeson 6pm Football: VFL Grand Final. Highlights (HSV7) 6.50 Sporting Roundup 7pm The Hathaways 7.30 Sunnyside Up. Bill Collins 8.30 Stagecoach West 9.30 The Gallant Men 10.30 Have Gun Will Travel 11pm Late News, Weather 11.15 Epilogue; Close |
5pm Huckleberry Hound 5.25 Robin Hood 5.50 Sing Sing Sing. Johnny O’Keefe 6.40 News, Weather 7pm Hollywood And The Stars 7.25 Sports Results 7.30 Rawhide 8.20 Movie: Black Hand. 1950 [IMDB] 10.10 Ford Football Forum. Brian Smith 10.40 Coronation Street 11.10 News, Weather; Epilogue; Close |
5pm Cartoon Fiesta 5.30 Lawman 6pm Bandstand 6.55 News Headlines 7pm The Bugs Bunny Show 7.30 Combat 8.20 Motoring Review 8.30 Dick Powell Theatre 9.20 Robert Taylor’s Detectives 10.10 Football: VFL Grand Final. Highlights 11.10 News Headlines 11.15 Ringside With The Rasslers 11.45 Close |
5pm Bandstand 5.50 Export Action 6pm Football: VFL Grand Final. Highlights (GTV9) 7.30 Sunnyside Up 8.25 Almanac Newsreel 8.30 Movie: The Rains Came. 1939 [IMDB] 10.10 Football Inquest. Graeme Eddy 10.40 The Odd Man 11.40 Epilogue; Close |
