1961–62 United States network television schedule (daytime)

The 1961–62 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday daytime hours from September 1961 to August 1962.

Talk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white, reruns of prime-time programming are orange, game shows are pink, soap operas are chartreuse, news programs are gold and all others are light blue. New series are highlighted in bold.

Monday-Friday

		6:00 am	6:30 am	7:00 am	7:30 am	8:00 am	8:30 am	9:00 am	9:30 am	10:00 am	10:30 am	11:00 am	11:30 am	noon	12:30 pm	1:00 pm	1:30 pm	2:00 pm	2:30 pm	3:00 pm	3:30 pm	4:00 pm	4:30 pm	5:00 pm	5:30 pm	6:00 pm	6:30 pm
ABC	Fall	local										The Texan reruns	Love that Bob reruns (to 12/1)	Camouflage	Make a Face	Day in Court	local	Number Please	Seven Keys	Queen for a Day	Who Do You Trust?	4:00 pm: American Bandstand 4:50 pm: American Newsstand		local		ABC Evening Report 6:15: local	local
	December												Yours for a Song (from 12/4)
	Winter															local		Day in Court
	Spring											The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show			Window Shopping	The Texan reruns (to 5/11)	local
	May															local
	Summer														Jane Wyman Presents reruns
CBS	Fall	local				Captain Kangaroo		local		Calendar	I Love Lucy reruns	Video Village	11:30 am: Your Surprise Package (to 2/23) & 11:55 am: CBS Newsbreak with Rose Marie Scott	Love of Life	12:30 pm: Search for Tomorrow 12:45 pm: The Guiding Light	local	As the World Turns	Password	Art Linkletter's House Party	The Millionaire reruns	3:30 pm: The Verdict is Yours 3:55 pm: CBS Newsbreak with Rose Marie Scott	4:00 pm: The Brighter Day 4:15 pm: The Secret Storm	The Edge of Night	local
	February												11:30 am: The Clear Horizon & 11:55 am: CBS Newsbreak with Rose Marie Scott
	June											The Verdict is Yours	11:30 am: The Brighter Day & 11:55 am: CBS Newsbreak with Rose Marie Scott								3:30 pm: To Tell the Truth 3:55 pm: CBS Newsbreak with Rose Marie Scott	The Secret Storm
NBC	Fall	Continental Classroom		Today				local		Say When!!	Play Your Hunch COLOR	The Price Is Right COLOR	Concentration	Truth or Consequences COLOR	12:30 pm: It Could Be You COLOR 12:55 pm: NBC News	local		The Jan Murray Show (Charge Account) COLOR	The Loretta Young Theater reruns	Young Doctor Malone	From These Roots	Make Room for Daddy reruns	4:30 pm: Here's Hollywood 4:55 pm: NBC News	5:00 pm: Kukla, Fran and Ollie 5:05 pm: local	local
	Winter													Your First Impression COLOR	12:30 pm: Truth or Consequences COLOR 12:55 pm: NBC News						Our Five Daughters
	Spring																							local

Saturday

	6:00 am	6:30 am	7:00 am	7:30 am	8:00 am	8:30 am	9:00 am	9:30 am	10:00 am	10:30 am	11:00 am	11:30 am	noon	12:30 pm	1:00 pm	1:30 pm	2:00 pm	2:30 pm	3:00 pm	3:30 pm	4:00 pm	4:30 pm	5:00 pm	5:30 pm
ABC	local										On Your Mark	Magic Ranch	local
CBS	local						Captain Kangaroo		Video Village Junior	Mighty Mouse Playhouse	The Magic Land of Allakazam	The Roy Rogers Show reruns	Sky King reruns	My Friend Flicka reruns	local
NBC	local							Pip the Piper	The Shari Lewis Show	King Leonardo and His Short Subjects	Fury reruns	Make Room for Daddy reruns	Update	Watch Mr. Wizard	local

Sunday

		6:00 am	6:30 am	7:00 am	7:30 am	8:00 am	8:30 am	9:00 am	9:30 am	10:00 am	10:30 am	11:00 am	11:30 am	noon	12:30 pm	1:00 pm	1:30 pm	2:00 pm	2:30 pm	3:00 pm	3:30 pm	4:00 pm	4:30 pm	5:00 pm	5:30 pm	6:00 pm	6:30 pm
ABC	Fall	local															Issues and Answers	AFL on ABC and/or local programming									Maverick partial reruns (continued into Primetime)
	Winter																	ABC Sports and/or local programming
CBS	Fall	local								Lamp Unto My Feet	Look Up and Live	Camera Three	Face the Nation	Pro Football Kickoff 12:15: local	NFL on CBS and/or local										Ted Mack's Amateur Hour	local	Mister Ed
	Winter													CBS Sports and/or local
NBC	Fall	local						Frontiers of Faith	local						Meet the Press	NBC Sports and/or local
	Winter								local							Meet the Press	NBC Sports and/or local

See also

• 1961-62 United States network television schedule (prime-time)
• 1961-62 United States network television schedule (late night)

Sources

• Castleman & Podrazik, The TV Schedule Book, McGraw-Hill Paperbacks, 1984
• Hyatt, The Encyclopedia Of Daytime Television, Billboard Books, 1997
• TV schedules, NEW YORK TIMES, September 1961-September 1962 (microfilm)