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TV Time Capsule

For October 2025

Each month, Central Illinois' On-Line Broadcast Museum will update views of TV station listings as they appear in either the local publication of TV Guide or regional newspapers. The examples will include the TV station's published listings from central Illinois TV stations with explanations of any points of interest in those listings.

The Week of September 18-24, 1965

(Saturday-Friday)

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TV Guide from September 18-24, 1965. This edition is part of the Doug Quick Collection

This month's TV Time Capsule marks the return of the feature page after a summer hiatus. If you're not familiar with what appeared last year, let me describe what you'll see each month from now through May of 2026.

I've usually featured some pages directly from historical issues of TV Guide, beginning in 1953 and continuing through the 1980s. All of the featured magazines are from my private collection of TV Guides (the central Illinois editions) that my grandparents collected from the 1950s and early 1960s. After that, I made a conscious effort to keep the collection growing, collecting them from my home or even from my great-grandparents.

Those 1950s issues I grew up learning to read, and I almost memorized their content. There was a time when, if you mentioned a year, a date, and a time period, I could have told you what programs aired and on which channels they would have been seen. I've since lost most of that ability. But I had more "available memory" at that time.

In the coming months, I'll feature more from TV Guides, newspaper listings, and even a one-of-a-kind item: a complete day-long program log from a local TV station from 1958.

Below, you'll find all the TV listings from the Central Illinois Edition of TV Guide. What I've tried to do is find a sample of at least one of the shows listed on that page just above the video. In many cases, I found the EXACT SAME SHOW that was listed and seen on that day!

Click on each set of pages below to see a full-size view. This page is best viewed on a full-screen device, such as a laptop, tablet, or desktop computer.

Some browsers will not show videos, so click on "Watch video on YouTube"

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"Fury" aired during the 1950s on NBC and continued in reruns on Saturday morning even into the 1960s. Here is "Fury" from 1956. It stars Bobby Diamond as Joey, the adopted son of Jim, played by Peter Graves ("Mission Impossible" and many other shows).

(YouTube)

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"Flipper" aired on NBC from September 19, 1964, through September 2, 1967. The show starred Luke Halpin as Sandy and Tommy Nordin as Bud. Their father was Brian Kelly, as Porter Ricks, the Chief Ranger at Coral Key Park, in Florida.

(Youtube)

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This video is the first segment of "The Hollywood Palace" as aired on the very date and time shown in the listings above. (YouTube)

This episode of "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" is the same episode that aired on September 19, 1964, and was listed in this edition of TV Guide.

(YouTube)

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Daytime TV at the time consisted of game shows, daytime dramas, and reruns of off-network shows. Here's "I'll Bet," an NBC color day line game show that Jack Narz hosted.

I'm not sure if this "Miss Jean" is the same one that WTVP had, but it could be. The YouTube poster said, "This is how I grew up in Central Illinois." This show was a franchise, with each station airing it, having its own host, and producing it independently of all the other stations.

(YouTube)

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This is the same "Andy Williams Show" that was broadcast on September 20, 1965, featuring guest Judy Garland.

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This is the open/close to "Run for your Life" as broadcast on NBC from 1965- 1968.

(YouTube)

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Here is a 1964 example of how "Art Linkletter's House Party" looked even in 1965. This long-running daytime show began on CBS Radio in 1944 and continued on television from 1952 to 1969.

(YouTube)

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This is the opening and close of "The Virginian" as broadcast on Wednesday evenings at 6:30 pm on NBC.

(YouTube)

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This edition of "The Danny Kaye Show" is the same one that aired on September 22, 1965, which featured the guest stars Richard Crenna and Herman's Hermits. It also co-starred Harvey Korman.
(YouTube)

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This is what I believe to be the pilot episode of "OK Crackerby," which aired on September 23, 1965, on ABC.

(YouTube)

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This series was not part of the NBC lineup, even though it aired on NBC affiliates WICS, WCHU, and WICD. It was formerly an ABC series, but was syndicated the following year and purchased by the stations mentioned, which inserted local paid commercials in prime time to increase the stations' income. It was a common practice at the time, but it is now all but eliminated.

(YouTube)

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This video is part of the "Honey West" DVD package, and includes promos, customized promos, and such with Anne Francis, star of "Honey West.' This is what stars of TV shows had to go through to help promote their series.
(YouTube)

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