March 16, 2026

What's on TV? Tuesday, March 16, 1965



I've mentioned this before, I'm sure, but in all the talk about "must-see TV" over the years, I think we sometimes lose sight of the outstanding Tuesday night schedule that ABC had in the mid-60s. It's diminished somewhere here by the sitcom The Tycoon, which didn't do well in the ratings, but the show it replaced, My Three Sons (which wound up on CBS) was part of a lineup that included Combat!, McHale's Navy, Peyton Place, and The Fugitive. All iconic series, wouldn't you agree? And you can find them in this week's Northern California edition.
 
-2- KTVU (SAN FRANCISCO-OAKLAND) (IND.)
 
Morning
 
    9:50
RELIGION TODAY—Protestant
 
  10:00
NEWS—Walt Harris
 
  10:30
JACK LA LANNE—Exercise
 
  11:00
ROMPER ROOM—Children
 
Afternoon
 
  12:00
JACK BENNY—Comedy
 
  12:30
TV HOUR OF STARS—Drama
 
    1:30
I WANT TO KNOW—Mel Venter
 
    2:00
MOVIE—Comedy
“Sitting Pretty” (1948)
 
    3:25
NEWS
 
    3:30
CAPTAIN SATELLITE—Children
 
    4:30
MICKEY MOUSE CLUB
 
    5:00
LLOYD THAXTON—Variety
Guest: Wayne Newton
 
Evening
 
    6:00
ROCKY AND HIS FRIENDS
 
    6:30
SCIENCE IN ACTION   COLOR 
 
    7:00
TRUE ADVENTURE   COLOR 
 
    7:30
WONDERFUL WORLD—Travel   COLOR 
 
    8:00
BOLD JOURNEY—Travel
 
    8:30
STORY OF A POLICEMAN
 
    9:00
DESILU PLAYHOUSE—Drama
 
  10:00
NEWS—Helmso, Jacobs
 
  10:20
FEATURE REPORT—Mann
 
  10:30
BEST OF GROUCHO—Quiz
 
  11:00
MOVIE—Adventure   COLOR 
“Bhowani Junction” (1956)
 
    1:05
STAR PERFORMANCE—Drama
 
 
 
-3- KCRA (SACRAMENTO) (NBC)
 
Morning
 
    5:55
FARM NEWS
 
    6:00
RHYME AND REASON
 
    7:00
TODAY
Guests: Joan Baez, Josef Von Sternberg
 
    9:00
MAKE ROOM FOR DADDY—Comedy
 
    9:30
WHAT’S THIS SONG   COLOR 
Celebrities: Della Reese, Ed Ames
 
    9:55
NEWS
 
  10:00
CONCENTRATION
 
  10:30
JEOPARDY   COLOR 
 
  11:00
SAY WHEN   COLOR 
 
  11:30
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES—Game   COLOR 
 
  11:55
NEWS
 
Afternoon
 
  12:00
NEWS
 
  12:25
NEWS
 
  12:30
LEAVE IT TO BEAVER—Comedy
 
    1:00
DOCTORS—Serial
 
    1:30
ANOTHER WORLD
 
    2:00
YOU DON’T SAY!—Game   COLOR 
Celebrities: Roger Smith, Connie Hines
 
    2:30
MOVIE—Drama
“The Wayward Bus” (1957) N. Cal. TV Debut
 
    4:00
MOVIE—Science Fiction   COLOR 
“Assignment—Outer Space” (1958) N. Cal. TV Debut
 
    5:45
NEWS
 
Evening
 
    6:00
NEWS—Chet Huntley, David Brinkley
 
    6:30
NEWS
 
    7:00
AMERICA!—Travel   COLOR 
 
    7:30
MR. NOVAK—Drama
 
    8:30
HULLABALOO—Music   COLOR 
Host: Jack Jones. Guests: Soupy Sales, Roosevelt Grier, Sylvie Vartan, Mary Wells, the Serendipity Singers, Little Anthony and the Imperials, the Detergents, Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames
 
    9:30
THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS—Satire   COLOR 
 
  10:00
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR   COLOR 
Host: Burl Ives. Guests: Patti Page, Red Nichols and the Five Pennies, Rosalind Elias, William Walker, Womenfolk, Matt Mattox
 
  11:00
NEWS
 
  11:30
JOHNNY CARSON   COLOR 
 
    1:00
NEWS
 
 
 
-4- KRON (SAN FRANCISCO-OAKLAND) (NBC)
 
Morning
 
    5:55
FARM NEWS
 
    6:00
PROFILE—San Diego State
 
    6:30
OUR WORLD—Education
 
    7:00
TODAY
Guests: Joan Baez, Josef Von Sternberg
 
    9:00
MAKE ROOM FOR DADDY—Comedy
 
    9:30
WHAT’S THIS SONG   COLOR 
Celebrities: Della Reese, Ed Ames
 
    9:55
NEWS
 
  10:00
CONCENTRATION
 
  10:30
JEOPARDY   COLOR 
 
  11:00
SAY WHEN   COLOR 
 
  11:30
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES—Game   COLOR 
 
  11:55
NEWS
 
Afternoon
 
  12:00
LET’S MAKE A DEAL—Game   COLOR 
 
  12:25
NEWS
 
  12:30
MOMENT OF TRUTH—Serial
 
    1:00
DOCTORS—Serial
 
    1:30
ANOTHER WORLD
 
    2:00
YOU DON’T SAY!—Game   COLOR 
Celebrities: Roger Smith, Connie Hines
 
    2:30
MATCH GAME
Celebrities: Orson Bean, Anita Louise. Host: Gene Rayburn
 
    2:55
NEWS
 
    3:00
LARAMIE—Western
 
    4:00
WHIRLYBIRDS—Adventure
 
    4:30
MAYOR ART—Children
 
    5:30
BACHELOR FATHER—Comedy
 
Evening
 
    6:00
NEWS—Chet Huntley, David Brinkley
 
    6:30
NEWS
 
    6:55
NEWS
 
    7:00
ENSIGN O’TOOLE—Comedy
 
    7:30
MR. NOVAK—Drama
 
    8:30
HULLABALOO—Music   COLOR 
Host: Jack Jones. Guests: Soupy Sales, Roosevelt Grier, Sylvie Vartan, Mary Wells, the Serendipity Singers, Little Anthony and the Imperials, the Detergents, Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames
 
    9:30
THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS—Satire   COLOR 
 
  10:00
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR   COLOR 
Host: Burl Ives. Guests: Patti Page, Red Nichols and the Five Pennies, Rosalind Elias, William Walker, Womenfolk, Matt Mattox
 
  11:00
NEWS
 
  11:30
JOHNNY CARSON   COLOR 
 
    1:00
NEWS
 
    1:30
MOVIE—Drama
“My Girl Tisa” (1948)
 
 
 
-5- KPIX (SAN FRANCISCO-OAKLAND) (CBS)
 
Morning
 
    5:55
SUNRISE SEMESTER
Tragic Dramas of Greece and Rome: “Oedipus at Colonus”
 
    6:25
SOCIOLOGY—Lessons
 
    6:55
KPIX EDITORIAL
 
    7:00
JACK’S PLACE—Children
 
    8:00
CAPTAIN KANGAROO
 
    9:00
NEWS—Mike Wallace
 
    9:30
I LOVE LUCY—Comedy
 
  10:00
ANDY GRIFFITH
 
  10:30
McCOYS—Comedy
 
  11:00
LOVE OF LIFE
 
  11:25
NEWS
 
  11:30
SEARCH FOR TOMORROW—Serial
 
  11:45
GUIDING LIGHT
 
Afternoon
 
  12:00
NEWS
 
  12:30
AS THE WORLD TURNS—Serial
 
    1:00
PASSWORD—Game
Celebrities: Douglas Fairbanks, Sally Ann Howes
 
    1:30
HOUSE PARTY
Guests: Shelley Winters, Sarah Vaughan
 
    2:00
TO TELL THE TRUTH
Panelists: Vivian Vance, Barry Nelson, Gretchen Wyler, Dick Shawn
 
    2:25
NEWS
 
    2:30
EDGE OF NIGHT
 
    3:00
SECRET STORM
 
    3:30
MIKE DOUGLAS—Variety
Co-host: Pat O’Brien. Guests: George Jessel, Roger Williams, Lon Masterson
 
    4:30
MOVIE—Comedy
“The Monte Carlo Story” (1957)
 
Evening
 
    6:00
NEWS
 
    6:30
NEWS—Walter Cronkite
 
    7:00
77 SUNSET STRIP—Mystery
 
    8:00
JOEY BISHOP—Comedy
 
    8:30
RED SKELTON
Guest: Paul Anka
 
    9:30
PETTICOAT JUNCTION—Comedy
 
  10:00
DOCTORS/NURSES
 
  11:00
NEWS
 
  11:15
SPORTS—Frank Dill
 
  11:20
MOVIE—Drama
“The Enemy General” (1960) Bay Area TV Debut
 
    1:00
MOVIE—Drama
“Exclusive” (1937) Bay Area TV Debut
 
 
 
-6- KVIE (SACRAMENTO) (EDUC.)
 
Afternoon
 
    5:30
TIME FOR MUSIC
 
    5:45
FRIENDLY GIANT—Children
 
Evening
 
    6:00
WHAT’S NEW—Children
 
    6:30
STOCK MARKET REPORT
 
    6:35
MUSICAL PORTRAITS
 
    7:00
TO BE ANNOUNCED
 
    7:30
CHESS—Koltanowski
 
    8:00
SCIENCE REPORTER
 
    8:30
FRENCH CHEF—Cooking
Paté feuilletée, puff pastry
 
    9:00
CHALLENGES—Panel
 
  10:00
OPEN MIND—Discussion
Guest: Alfred A. Knopf
 
 
 
-7- KGO (SAN FRANCISCO-OAKLAND) (ABC)
 
Morning
 
    6:00
CHANNEL FOR LEARNING
 
    6:30
DIXIE SINGIN’—Music
 
    7:00
MARSHAL ‘J’—Children
 
    8:00
BAT MASTERSON—Western
 
    8:30
COUNT MARCO—Women
 
    9:00
GIRL TALK—Panel
Panelists: Ann Miller, Jeff Donnell, Betty Bruce
 
    9:30
MOVIE—Drama
“Three Comrades” (1938)
 
  11:20
NEWS—Bob Dunn
 
  11:30
PRICE IS RIGHT
Celebrity: Tom Poston
 
Afternoon
 
  12:00
DONNA REED—Comedy
 
  12:30
FATHER KNOWS BEST
 
    1:00
ERNIE FORD—Variety
Guests: Hank and Dean, Dick Noel
 
    1:30
ON THE SCENE—Dick Stewart
 
    2:00
FLAME IN THE WIND
 
    2:30
DAY IN COURT
 
    2:55
NEWS
 
    3:00
GENERAL HOSPITAL
 
    3:30
YOUNG MARRIEDS
 
    4:00
TRAILMASTER
 
    5:00
MOVIE—Melodrama
“The Wolf Man” (1941)
 
Evening
 
    6:30
LEAVE IT TO BEAVER—Comedy
 
    6:55
NEWS
 
    7:00
NEWS
 
    7:15
NEWS—Peter Jennings
 
    7:30
COMBAT!—Drama
 
    8:30
McHALE’S NAVY
 
    9:00
TYCOON—Comedy
 
    9:30
PEYTON PLACE
 
  10:00
FUGITIVE—Drama
 
  11:00
NEWS
 
  11:15
NIGHTLIFE—Variety
Guest host: Pat Boone
 
    1:00
MOVIE—Triple Feature
1. “Man in the Dark” (1953)
2. “Hell On Devil’s Island” (1957)
3. “It Takes a Thief” (English; 1959)
 
 
 
-7- KRCR (REDDING) (ABC, NBC)
 
Morning
 
    8:00
TODAY
Guests: Joan Baez, Josef Von Sternberg
Picked up in progress
 
    9:00
MAKE ROOM FOR DADDY—Comedy
 
    9:30
WHAT’S THIS SONG   COLOR 
Celebrities: Della Reese, Ed Ames
 
    9:55
NEWS
 
  10:00
CONCENTRATION
 
  10:30
JEOPARDY   COLOR 
 
  11:00
SAY WHEN   COLOR 
 
  11:30
PRICE IS RIGHT
Celebrity: Tom Poston
 
Afternoon
 
  12:30
FATHER KNOWS BEST
 
    1:00
ERNIE FORD—Variety
Guests: Hank and Dean, Dick Noel
 
    1:30
ANOTHER WORLD
 
    2:00
FLAME IN THE WIND
 
    2:30
DAY IN COURT
 
    2:55
NEWS
 
    3:00
GENERAL HOSPITAL
 
    3:30
YOUNG MARRIEDS
 
    4:00
TRAILMASTER
 
    5:00
BUGS BUNNY—Cartoons
 
    5:30
PORKY PIG—Cartoons
 
Evening
 
    6:00
NEWS
 
    6:30
NEWS
 
    7:00
PATTY DUKE—Comedy
 
    7:30
COMBAT!—Drama
 
    8:30
McHALE’S NAVY
 
    9:00
FUGITIVE—Drama
 
  10:00
DETECTIVES—Police
 
  11:00
NEWS
 
  11:15
JOHNNY CARSON   COLOR 
 
 
 
-8- KSBW (SALINAS) (CBS, NBC)
 
Morning
 
    7:00
TODAY
Guests: Joan Baez, Josef Von Sternberg
 
    9:00
JACK LA LANNE—Exercise
 
    9:30
WHAT’S THIS SONG   COLOR 
Celebrities: Della Reese, Ed Ames
 
    9:55
NEWS
 
  10:00
CONCENTRATION
 
  10:30
JEOPARDY   COLOR 
 
  11:00
LOVE OF LIFE
 
  11:25
NEWS
 
  11:30
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES—Game   COLOR 
 
  11:55
NEWS
 
Afternoon
 
  12:00
LET’S MAKE A DEAL—Game   COLOR 
 
  12:25
NEWS
 
  12:30
AS THE WORLD TURNS—Serial
 
    1:00
PASSWORD—Game
Celebrities: Douglas Fairbanks, Sally Ann Howes
 
    1:30
HOUSE PARTY
Guests: Shelley Winters, Sarah Vaughan
 
    2:00
TO TELL THE TRUTH
Panelists: Vivian Vance, Barry Nelson, Gretchen Wyler, Dick Shawn
 
    2:25
NEWS
 
    2:30
EDGE OF NIGHT
 
    3:00
SECRET STORM
 
    3:30
MOVIE—Mystery
“Uncle Harry” (1945)
 
    5:30
SUPERMAN—Adventure
 
Evening
 
    6:00
NEWS
 
    6:30
NEWS—Walter Cronkite
 
    7:00
FLIPPER—Drama
 
    7:30
BEVERLY HILLBILLIES
 
    8:00
DICK VAN DYKE—Comedy
 
    8:30
RED SKELTON
Guest: Paul Anka
 
    9:30
PETTICOAT JUNCTION—Comedy
 
  10:00
LIEUTENANT—Drama
 
  11:00
NEWS
 
  11:15
JOHNNY CARSON   COLOR 
 
 
 
-9- KQED (SAN FRANCISCO-OAKLAND) (EDUC)
 
Morning
 
    8:00
CLASSROOM—Education
Mathematics, geography, Spanish, music, French
 
Afternoon
 
    1:10
CLASSROOM—Education
Mathematics, French, Spanish
 
    4:30
GREAT DECISIONS—1965
 
    5:00
WHAT’S NEW—Children
 
    5:30
TIME FOR MUSIC
 
    5:45
FRIENDLY GIANT—Children
 
Evening
 
    6:00
WHAT’S NEW—Children
 
    6:30
PORTRAIT IN MUSIC
 
    7:00
TO BE ANNOUNCED
 
    7:30
CHESS—Koltanowski
 
    8:00
CONCERT—San Francisco
 
    9:00
OPEN END—David Susskind
Guest: Abba Eban
 
 
 
10 KXTV (SACRAMENTO) (CBS)
 
Morning
 
    6:20
FOCUS ON FARMING
 
    6:30
SUNRISE SEMESTER
Tragic Dramas of Greece and Rome: “Oedipus at Colonus”
 
    7:00
DIVER DAN—Cartoons
 
    8:00
CAPTAIN KANGAROO
 
    9:00
NEWS—Mike Wallace
 
    9:30
I LOVE LUCY—Comedy
 
  10:00
ANDY GRIFFITH
 
  10:30
McCOYS—Comedy
 
  11:00
LOVE OF LIFE
 
  11:25
NEWS
 
  11:30
SEARCH FOR TOMORROW—Serial
 
  11:45
GUIDING LIGHT
 
Afternoon
 
  12:00
NEWS
 
  12:30
AS THE WORLD TURNS—Serial
 
    1:00
PASSWORD—Game
Celebrities: Douglas Fairbanks, Sally Ann Howes
 
    1:30
HOUSE PARTY
Guests: Shelley Winters, Sarah Vaughan
 
    2:00
TO TELL THE TRUTH
Panelists: Vivian Vance, Barry Nelson, Gretchen Wyler, Dick Shawn
 
    2:25
NEWS
 
    2:30
EDGE OF NIGHT
 
    3:00
SECRET STORM
 
    3:30
DOBIE GILLIS—Comedy
 
    4:00
MIKE DOUGLAS—Variety
Co-host: Pat O’Brien. Guests: George Jessel, Roger Williams, Lon Masterson
 
    5:30
LLOYD THAXTON—Variety
Guest: Jerry Butler
 
Evening
 
    6:30
NEWS—Walter Cronkite
 
    7:00
NEWS
 
    7:30
LAWMAN—Western
 
    8:00
JOEY BISHOP—Comedy
 
    8:30
RED SKELTON
Guest: Paul Anka
 
    9:30
PETTICOAT JUNCTION—Comedy
 
  10:00
DOCTORS/NURSES
 
  11:00
NEWS
 
  11:15
MOVIE—Western
“Dallas” (1950)
 
 
 
11 KNTV (SAN JOSE) (ABC)
 
Morning
 
    8:00
CONTINENTAL CLASSROOM
American Government: “The People’s Choice”
 
    8:30
GOSPEL SINGING—Music
 
    9:00
HOCUS POCUS—Children
 
  10:00
GIRL TALK—Panel
Panelists: Anita Loos, Selena Royale, Lilia Skala
 
  10:30
ADVENTURES IN PARADISE
 
  11:30
PRICE IS RIGHT
Celebrity: Tom Poston
 
Afternoon
 
  12:30
FATHER KNOWS BEST
 
    1:00
ERNIE FORD—Variety
Guests: Hank and Dean, Dick Noel
 
    1:30
AFTERNOON—Jess and Lu
 
    2:00
FLAME IN THE WIND
 
    2:30
DAY IN COURT
 
    2:55
NEWS
 
    3:00
GENERAL HOSPITAL
 
    3:30
YOUNG MARRIEDS
 
    4:00
TRAILMASTER
 
    5:00
LEAVE IT TO BEAVER—Comedy
 
    5:30
RIFLEMAN—Western
 
Evening
 
    6:00
NEWS
 
    6:30
NAKED CITY—Drama
 
    7:30
COMBAT!—Drama
 
    8:30
McHALE’S NAVY
 
    9:00
TYCOON—Comedy
 
    9:30
PEYTON PLACE
 
  10:00
FUGITIVE—Drama
 
  11:00
NEWS
 
  11:30
MOVIE—Adventure
“The Hell Fire Club” (English; 1960)
 
 
 
12 KHSL (CHICO) (CBS)
 
Morning
 
    7:30
SOCIAL SECURITY IN ACTION
 
    7:45
AMERICANS AT WORK
 
    8:00
CAPTAIN KANGAROO
 
    9:00
NEWS—Mike Wallace
 
    9:30
I LOVE LUCY—Comedy
 
  10:00
ANDY GRIFFITH
 
  10:30
McCOYS—Comedy
 
  11:00
LOVE OF LIFE
 
  11:25
NEWS
 
  11:30
SEARCH FOR TOMORROW—Serial
 
  11:45
GUIDING LIGHT
 
Afternoon
 
  12:00
OUR MISS BROOKS—Comedy
 
  12:30
AS THE WORLD TURNS—Serial
 
    1:00
PASSWORD—Game
Celebrities: Douglas Fairbanks, Sally Ann Howes
 
    1:30
HOUSE PARTY
Guests: Shelley Winters, Sarah Vaughan
 
    2:00
TO TELL THE TRUTH
Panelists: Vivian Vance, Barry Nelson, Gretchen Wyler, Dick Shawn
 
    2:25
NEWS
 
    2:30
EDGE OF NIGHT
 
    3:00
SECRET STORM
 
    3:30
JACK BENNY—Comedy
 
    4:00
MOVIE—Double Feature
1. “Going My Way” (1944), conclusion.
2. “The Great McGinty” (1940) Part I
 
    5:30
HAVE GUN—WILL TRAVEL
 
Evening
 
    6:00
NEWS
 
    6:30
NEWS—Walter Cronkite
 
    7:00
CALL MR. D.—Mystery
 
    7:30
MARSHAL DILLON—Western
 
    8:00
JOEY BISHOP—Comedy
 
    8:30
RED SKELTON
Guest: Paul Anka
 
    9:30
PETTICOAT JUNCTION—Comedy
 
  10:00
DOCTORS/NURSES
 
  11:00
NEWS
 
  11:25
MOVIE—Drama
“Adam Had Four Sons” (1941)
 
 
 
13 KOVR (SACRAMENTO) (ABC)
 
Morning
 
    6:50
NEWS
 
    6:55
RANCH AND GARDEN WORLD
 
    7:00
CARTOONLAND—Children
 
    8:15
KING AND ODIE
 
    8:30
MOVIE—Drama
“The Pearl” (1948) N. Cal. TV Debut
 
  10:00
FATHER KNOWS BEST—Comedy
 
  10:30
DONNA REED—Comedy
 
  11:00
ERNIE FORD—Variety
Guest: Jay Bedsworth
 
  11:30
PRICE IS RIGHT
Celebrity: Tom Poston
 
Afternoon
 
  12:00
NEWS
 
  12:20
HELEN BALE—Interviews
 
  12:30
MOVIE—Drama
“Chicago Confidential” (1957) N. Cal. TV Debut
 
    2:00
FLAME IN THE WIND
 
    2:30
DAY IN COURT
 
    2:55
NEWS
 
    3:00
GENERAL HOSPITAL
 
    3:30
YOUNG MARRIEDS
 
    4:00
TRAILMASTER
 
    5:00
MICKEY MOUSE CLUB
 
    5:30
CAP’N DELTA—Children
 
Evening
 
    6:00
YOGI BEAR—Cartoons
 
    6:30
WELLS FARGO—Western
 
    7:00
HAVE GUN—WILL TRAVEL
 
    7:30
COMBAT!—Drama
 
    8:30
McHALE’S NAVY
 
    9:00
TYCOON—Comedy
 
    9:30
PEYTON PLACE
 
  10:00
FUGITIVE—Drama
 
  11:00
NEWS
 
  11:30
NIGHTLIFE—Variety
Guest host: Pat Boone
 
    1:00
NEWS

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