DECEMBER NIGHTS 1961-65

FRIDAYS, DECEMBER 1961

ABC
7:30 The Steve Allen Show - comedy-variety
8:30 Top Cat - cartoon
9:00 Hawaiian Eye - private eye
10:00 Naked City - police

CBS
7:30 The Alvin Show - cartoon
8:00 Father Knows Best - sitcom (reruns)
8:30 Checkmate - private eye
9:30 Mrs. G. Goes to College - sitcom
10:00 The United States Steel Hour - drama anthology / Armstrong Circle Theater - drama anthology

NBC
7:30 Wagon Train - western
8:30 The Joey Bishop Show - sitcom
9:00 Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall - music-variety
10:00 Bob Newhart Show - comedy-variety
10:30 David Brinkley's Journal - documentary

FRIDAYS, DECEMBER 1962

ABC
7:30 Winston Churchill-The Valiant Years - documentary (new time)(reruns)
8:00 Father Knows Best - sitcom (new time)(reruns)
8:30 The Flintstones - cartoon
9:00 I'm Dickens...He's Fenster - sitcom
9:30 77 Sunset Strip - private eye
10:30 Local

CBS
7:30 Rawhide - western
8:30 Route 66 - road drama
9:30 Fair Exchange - sitcom
10:30 Eyewitness - news analysis

NBC
7:30 International Showtime - variety
8:30 Sing Along with Mitch - music
9:30 Don't Call Me Charlie! - military sitcom
10:00 The Jack Paar Program - talk/variety

TUESDAYS, DECEMBER 1963

ABC
7:30 Combat! - war drama
8:30 McHale's Navy - military sitcom
9:00 The Greatest Show on Earth - circus drama
10:00 The Fugitive - chase drama

CBS
7:30 Marshal Dillon - western (reruns of Gunsmoke)
8:00 The Red Skelton Hour - comedy-variety
9:00 Petticoat Junction - sitcom
9:30 The Jack Benny Program - comedy-variety
10:00 The Garry moore Show - comedy-variety

NBC
7:30 Mr. Novak - high school drama
8:30 Redigo - drama
9:00 The Richard Boone Show - drama anthology
10:00 Bell Telephone Hour - music anthology / The Andy Williams Show - music-variety

TUESDAYS, DECEMBER 1964

ABC
7:30 Combat! - war drama
8:30 McHale's Navy - military sitcom
9:00 The Tycoon - sitcom
9:30 Peyton Place - soap drama
10:00 The Fugitive - chase drama

CBS
7:30 Local
8:00 The Joey Bishop Show - sitcom (new time)
8:30 The Red Skelton Hour - comedy-variety
9:30 Petticoat Junction - sitcom
10:00 The Doctors and the Nurses - medical drama

NBC
7:30 Mr. Novak - high school drama
8:30 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - spy
9:30 That Was the Week That Was - satire
10:00 Bell Telephone Hour - music anthology / NBC News Specials - news/documetary

SATURDAYS, DECEMBER 1965

ABC
7:30 Shindig! - pop music
8:00 The King Family - music
8:30 The Lawrence Welk Show - music
9:30 Hollywood Palace - variety
10:30 ABC Scope - documentary

CBS
7:30 Jackie Gleason and His American Scene Magazine - comedy-variety
8:30 Secret Agent - spy (return; new time)
9:30 The Loner - western
10:00 Gunsmoke - western

NBC
7:30 Flipper - drama
8:00 I Dream of Jeannie - fantasy sitcom
8:30 Get Smart - spy sitcom
9:00 Saturday Night at the Movies - films