Thursday 28 February 1991
from the NZ Listener
TV One
11.45am Teletext in Vision
Noon Hard Copy
12.30 Film on One: The Rain People (1969)
2.30 Matinee on One: The Stranger (1946)
4.15 The Mary Tyler Moore Show (Rpt, G)
4.45 Emmerdale (G)
5.15 Te Karere
5.25 Dad’s Army (Rpt, G)
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Holmes
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 Coronation Street (G)
8.00 The Bill
8.30 Foreign Correspondent
9.35 Waiting for God (PGR)
10.10 One Network News
10.40 Chelworth (PGR)
11.50 Life Without George (Rpt, AO)
12.25am Closedown
Channel 2
6.15am Teletext in Vision
6.30 The Hallo Spencer Show (Rpt, G)
7.00 Woody Woodpecker (Final) (G)
7.30 Heathcliff (G)
8.00 ITN World News
8.25 The Ewoks (Rpt, G)
8.55 Bugs Bunny and Friends (Rpt)
9.05 Sesame Street (Rpt, G)
10.05 Real Food of China (Rpt, G)
10.40 Aerobics Oz Style (G)
11.05 Santa Barbara
Noon The Young and the Restless
1.00 Days of Our Lives
2.00 Newhart
2.30 After 2, including:
2.33 Play School (Rpt)
3.00 Casper and His Friends (G)
3.30 Defenders of the Earth
4.00 Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers (G)
4.30 ALF (Rpt, G)
5.00 Charles in Charge (Rpt, G)
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 Perfect Strangers (Rpt, G)
6.30 Blind Date
7.00 Neighbours (G)
7.30 Totally Hidden Video (G)
8.00 Who’s the Boss?
8.30 China Beach
9.30 Magnum, PI (Rpt, PGR)
10.30 Capital City (PGR)
11.30 Adam-12 (PGR)
12.05am Closedown
TV3
Noon Trial by Jury (PGR)
12.30 NBC Nightly News
1.30 Another World (PGR)
2.30 The Oprah Winfrey Show (G)
3.30 Dennis the Menace (Rpt, G)
4.00 The Mickey Mouse Club (Rpt, G)
4.30 Police Academy (Rpt, G)
5.00 He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (G)
5.30 Home and Away (G)
6.00 3 National News
7.00 Hey Dad…! (G)
7.30 E Street (Series premiere)
9.30 GP (AO)
10.30 Nightline
11.00 Late Movie: Beyond Therapy (1987)
1.00am Closedown
Sky Movies
Noon Doctor in Clover (1967)
2.00 The Last of the Knucklemen (R16)
4.00 The Hayley Mills Storybook
6.00 For Love Alone (1985) (GA)
8.00 Doin’ Time (1985) (R16)
9.50 The Untouchables (1987) (RP16)
12.00am Jacknife (1989) (GA)
1.43 Closedown
E Street made its New Zealand television debut on TV3 (now Three) at 7.30pm on the evening of Thursday 28 February 1991, beginning with a feature-length pilot (first seen on Australia’s Network Ten two years earlier). By mid-year, the show was dropped and replaced with The Ralston Group (with Bill Ralston), followed at 8pm by the British sitcom Shelley.
In 1992, however, E Street was soon picked up by TVNZ and screened on Channel 2 (now TVNZ 2) on Fridays at 7.30pm but moved to five afternoons a week on TV One (now TVNZ 1) at around 2.30pm just several months later. Unlike Australia and Britain, the show was not hugely popular with New Zealand audiences (I think).
Back on 3, the Australian medical drama GP was shown at 9.30pm on Thursday nights during the early part of 1991. Several years later, TVNZ picked it up.