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Thursday 23 September 1965

By 1965, the schedule in London began to take on a more familiar feel, with viewers seeing schools programmes during the day and Crossroads at 4.20.

7.00 Criss Cross Quiz
A game of noughts and crosses, featuring questions from 98 different categories, with each right answer paying £20. One of ITV's earliest game shows, Criss Cross Quiz started in 1957 and continued for 10 years.

7.30 The Eartha Kitt Show
"The most exciting woman in the world", as TV Times billed her, "sings the songs which have made her famous, in the manner she has made her own".

8.00 87th Precinct
US crime drama starring Robert Lansing, Gregory Walcott and Gena Rowlands, based on the novels by Ed McBain. This episode would have been three or four years old.

8.55 News from ITN
Including a special report from the Liberal Party Assembly.

9.15 This Week
The long-running current affairs programme began life in 1956 and continued through to 1992, although it was known as TV Eye for some of its life.

9.45 Film: His Excellency
A 1952 British film about an ex-docker who is appointed governor of a Mediterranean island.

10.40 What The Papers Say
The review of the week’s press launched in 1956. It ran until 1981, when it moved to Channel 4, before moving once again to BBC Two in 1989. It is still on the air now, and is still made by Granada.

10.55 Film: His Excellency
Continues.

11.33 News Headlines

11.35 Liberal Party Assembly

11.43 New Churches and Closedown

Eartha Kitt

7:30: Singer Eartha Kitt performs for ITV viewers
Desmond Wilcox

9.15: Desmond Wilcox is one of This Week's reporters

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