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Today’s TV: Thursday 15 June 1995
from the NZ Listener

TV One
6.00am BBC World
6.00 The World Today (Continued)
7.00 BBC World News
7.05 Timewatch
7.55 Te Karere (Rpt)
8.05 eTV
8.05 Statistics: Against All Odds (Rpt, G)
8.35 Agri Tech 2000 (Rpt, G)
9.05 The Body in Question (G)
10.00 Infomercial (G)
11.00 The Flying Doctors (Rpt, G)
Noon The Midday Movie: Baby Snatcher (1992) (Rpt, AO)
1.55 The Cosby Show (Rpt, G)
2.25 Are You Being Served? (Rpt, PGR)
3.00 Chatterbox (Rpt, G)
3.20 Posey Narkers (Rpt, G)
3.30 The Greedysaurus Gang (Rpt, G)
3.40 White Fang (G)
4.10 Emmerdale (G)
4.45 Te Karere
4.55 Strike It Lucky (Rpt, G)
5.30 Wheel of Fortune
6.00 One Network News
7.00 Holmes
7.30 Blue Heelers
8.30 Assignment
9.30 Chef! (Double episode) (PGR)
10.45 Sportsnight
11.15 One Network News: Late Edition
11.25 The Best of Smith & Jones (Rpt, AO)
12.00am Embassy (Rpt, PGR)
1.00 BBC World
1.00 BBC Newshour
2.00 BBC World News
2.15 World Business Report
2.25 Spain on a Plate
3.00 BBC World Headlines
3.05 Timewatch
4.00 BBC World News
4.25 Time Out
5.00 The World Today (Continues to 7am)

TV2
6.10am Wonder World! (Rpt, G)
6.35 Beany and Cecil (G)
7.05 Samurai Pizza Cats (Rpt, G)
7.35 Wacky Races (Rpt, G)
8.00 Shining Time Station (Rpt, G)
8.40 Sesame Street (G)
9.40 Chatterbox (Rpt, G)
10.00 Shortland Street (Rpt, PGR)
10.30 Santa Barbara
11.30 The Susan Powter Show (G)
Noon The Young and the Restless
1.00 Days of Our Lives (PGR)
2.00 Ricki Lake (AO)
2.55 The Bold and the Beautiful
3.25 Son of a Gunn (G)
4.00 Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs (G)
4.30 Rugrats (G)
5.00 The Beverly Hillbillies (Rpt, G)
5.30 Neighbours (G)
6.00 Home and Away (G)
6.30 The Simpsons (Rpt, G)
7.00 Shortland Street (PGR)
7.30 Grace Under Fire (PGR)
8.00 Roseanne (PGR)
8.30 Chicago Hope (PGR)
9.30 Due South (AO)
10.30 Newsnight
11.05 Civil Wars (PGR)
12.00am Going to Extremes (PGR)
1.00 Infomercial (G)
2.00 Turning Point (Rpt, PGR)
2.55 Max Out (Rpt, G)
3.15 Neighbours (Rpt, G)
4.00 Face the Music (Rpt, G)
4.25 Ricki Lake (Rpt, PGR)
5.15 Paradise Beach (Rpt, G)
5.40 M-A-S-H (Rpt, G) (Continues to 6.10am)

TV3
6.30am The Muppet Show (G)
7.00 You and Me (G)
7.25 The Wild West Cowboys of Moo Mesea (G)
7.55 My Three Sons (G)
8.25 That Girl (G)
8.55 Infomercial (G)
9.25 The Andy Griffith Show (G)
9.55 Treasures Parent Time (G)
10.00 You and Me (G)
10.25 Infomercial
11.00 Yan Can Cook (G)
11.30 What’s Cooking? (G)
Noon The Gordon Elliott Show
1.00 Sally Jessy Raphael (AO)
2.00 NZ Give Us a Clue (G)
2.30 General Hospital (PGR)
3.30 The Love Boat (G)
4.30 Get Smart (G)
5.00 The Oprah Winfrey Show
6.00 3 National News
7.00 Hogan’s Heroes (G)
7.30 Beverly Hills 90210 (Two-part special) (PGR/AO)
9.30 NYPD Blue (AO)
10.30 Nightline
11.05 3 Motorsport 95
11.35 Monsters (AO)
12.00am World News Tonight
12.30 Dan August (AO)
1.35 Home Shopping (Continues to 6.30am)

Sky Sport
6.00am ESPN Direct - Chilean Rodeo
7.00 Motorsport
ISMA Exxon Supreme
8.00 ISKA Karate
9.00 City Jam
9.30 ESPN Fitness Pros
10.00 Sportscenter
10.30 International Sportscenter
11.00 Golf
US Open preview
Noon NBA Basketball
Live at the finals
1.00 Sky Sport - Rugby League
Winfield Cup
2.30 Sprite NBL Basketball Highlights
3.30 AFL Highlights
4.30 Motorsport
Dodge Pro Series
4.55 NHL International Weekly
5.45 Ski '95
6.15 Motoworld
6.45 NBA Basketball
NBA finals, game four
8.30 Grand Prix Sailing
9.00 World of Rugby
9.30 Boxing Heavyweight Explosion
11.00 ESPN Direct - Golf
US Open preview
12.00am NBA Basketball
NBA finals, game four
2.30 Golf (Continues to 7am)
US Open, round one - live

HBO
Noon Deadly (1990) (RP13)
1.45 Fatal Deception: Mrs Lee Harvey Oswald (1993) (GY)
3.15 One Cup of Coffee (1991) (GY)
aka “Pastime”
4.45 The Sword in the Stone (1963) (G)
6.05 Box Office America
6.30 Toys (1992) (GY)
8.30 What’s Love Got to Do with It? (1993) (RP13)
10.25 Under Suspicion (1992) (GA)
12.05am Late Night (R18)
12.35 London Kills Me (1991) (R16)
2.20 Closedown

CNN
6.00am World Business Today
7.00 BBC 6pm News
7.30 OJ Special
9.00 World Business Today Update
9.30 World Sport
10.00 The World Today
10.30 Showbiz Today
11.30 Moneyline
Noon Prime News
12.30 Crossfire
1.00 Larry King Live
2.30 Live OJ Special
3.30 Showbiz Today
5.30 Moneyline
7.00 BBC 6pm News (Rpt)
7.30 Larry King
8.30 TVNZ News
9.30 Crossfire
10.00 Business Show
11.30 World Sport
12.30am Business Asia
1.00 Larry King
1.30 OJ Special
2.45 World Sport
3.30 Business Asia (Continues to 6am)

Orange
6.00am The Juice Music Television (Continued)
10.00 Mother’s Day
10.30 Parents’ Survival Guide
11.00 Jones & Jury
11.30 Alice
Noon Coronation Street
12.30 Three’s Company
1.00 NBA Basketball
NBA finals, game four - live
3.30 The Russ Abbot Show
4.00 Rolonda
5.00 Cartoon Classics
6.00 The Love Connection
6.30 Brookside
7.00 Real Stories of the Highway Patrol
7.30 I Witness Video
8.30 Medics
9.30 Miracles and Other Wonders
10.30 Night Court
11.00 SCTV Network
11.30 The Juice Music Television (Continues to 10am)

Discovery/Trackside
6.00am World Class Cuisine
7.00 Biba’s Italian Cuisine
7.30 Caprial’s Cafe
8.00 Invention
8.30 Next Step
9.00 A World Away
10.00 Magical Worlds
10.30 Kokoro
11.00 Pacific Origins
11.30 Trackside Channel
7.00pm Biba’s Italian Cuisine
7.30 Caprial’s Cafe
8.00 Invention
8.30 Next Step
9.00 A World Away
10.00 Frontiers of Flight
11.00 Wings of the Luftwaffe
12.00am From Monkeys to Apes
12.30 Naturewatch
1.00 In Care of Nature
1.30 Wild Sanctuaries
2.00 Frontiers of Flight
3.00 Wings of the Luftwaffe
4.00 From Monkeys to Apes
4.30 Naturewatch
5.00 In Care of Nature
5.30 Wild Sanctuaries (Continues to 6am)

Horizon Pacific Television (ATV, Coast to Coast, Capital City & Southern)
9.00am Home Shopping
3.00pm BBC World News
3.30 QED
4.00 BBC News Day
5.30 Marketplace (G)
With Tania Anderson (ATV), Rae McGill (Coast to Coast), Pauline Gillespie (Capital City) or Neil Collins (Southern)
6.00 BBC News Day (G)
6.30 Paleoworld
7.00 News at Seven
With Trish Allen (ATV), Elle Hughes (Coast to Coast), Grant Walker (Capital City) or Hilary Muir Clark (Southern)
7.30 DB Draught Outdoor Journal
8.00 BBC World News
8.25 Stopwatch
8.30 Clipper Club Boating World
9.00 Sportsworld
Except ATV: The Club Rugby Show
9.30 Brute Force (AO)
10.30 World Business
11.00 Closedown

CTV (Christchurch/Canterbury)
4.00pm LV Martin Home Shopping Hour (G)
5.00 Susan Sells (G)
6.00 George Balani at Six (G)
7.00 Jimmy’s (G)
7.30 CTV’s World: Tonight (G)
8.30 Oderings Homes & Gardens (G)
9.00 Hopkins on Thursday (G)
10.00 Susan Sells
10.45 CTV’s World: Tonight (G)
11.45 Closedown

CRY TV (Christchurch/Canterbury)
11.00am Green Zone (Rpt)
1.00pm Talkback with Christian (Rpt)
4.00 Green Zone
6.00 Yellow Zone
9.00 CD Red Zone
12.00am Closedown

Bays TV (Nelson)
7.00pm Bays-Watch
7.30 The George Balani Show (G)
8.30 Jimmy’s (PGR)
9.00 Nelson Club Rugby (G)
10.00 Full Time (G)
11.00 Bays-Watch

MAX TV (Auckland)
4.00pm The Beat
Includes McDonald’s Most Wanted and The Bluebird Word
6.00 The Serious Fun Show
7.30 From the Kerb Up
8.00 MAX News
9.00 The Primo Pulse
11.00 MAX Trax
12.00am Closedown

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Is that Beverly Hills 902010 shifted on TV3 that year with an two-hour special?

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Nope. Beverly Hills 90210 made the jump from TVNZ to TV3 (now Three) in 1994.

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I bet it did well on 3 than TVNZ

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And it was shown on TV4 when it launched in 1997.

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Thanks for letting me know that the library has archives of old Listener magazines. I found them today at my Tauranga library, and checked out some from 1989. Was great to see the TV listings for each day, to see if I could remember some of those very days when I was 6.

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Today’s TV: Thursday 18 June 1981
from the NZ Listener

TV One
10.35am Play School
11.00 The New Ed Allen Show
11.30 Yoga with Sandra Riddle
11.35 The Bob Newhart Show (Rpt)
Noon News
12.02 The Young and the Restless
12.30 See Here
12.35 Beauty and the Beast
1.00 Here’s Lucy (Rpt)
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.25 Play School (Rpt)
2.50 The Learning Tree (Final)
3.00 Sesame Street
4.00 After School, including:
4.05 Jason of Star Command
4.30 Adventure Games
4.45 Video Dispatch
5.05 W-3
5.30 Wildtrack
6.00 WKRP in Cincinnati
6.30 News
7.00 Coronation Street
7.30 Regional Programmes
Top Half (Auckland)
Today Tonight (Wellington)
The Mainland Touch (Christchurch)
7.30 South (Dunedin)
8.00 Golden Soak (Part 3)
9.00 Stand and Deliver
9.30 Law and Order (Part 3)
11.05 News
11.10 Closedown

TV2
2.30pm For Maddie with Love
3.00 The Guinness Game
3.25 General Hospital
3.50 Dig This (Rpt)
4.05 The Love Boat (Rpt)
5.00 That’s Country (Rpt)
6.00 News at Six
6.30 CHiPs
7.30 Happy Days
8.00 Charlie’s Angels
9.00 Shelley
9.30 Eye Witness
10.00 News at Ten
10.30 Bloomers
11.00 Petrocelli
11.55 Closedown

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Today’s TV: Friday 21 June 1974
from the NZ Listener

NZBC TV (AKTV2, WNTV1, CHTV3, DNTV2)
2.00pm News and Weather (Colour)
2.05 Love on a Roof Top (Colour) (Rpt)
2.30 Transtel Sports Magazine
2.44 The Big Valley (Colour)
3.34 Sesame Street
4.31 George (Colour)
4.55 Happy and Lucky
5.06 Lidsville (Colour) (Rpt)
5.28 The Daily Fable (Colour)
5.33 News (Colour)
5.35 Story Theatre (Colour)
5.58 Sykes (Colour)
6.28 One of Seven
6.45 Gardening
AKTV2: Gardening
WNTV1: In Your Garden
CHTV3: In Your Garden
DNTV2: Greenfingers
7.00 Network News
7.20 Regional Weather and News
AKTV2: Look North
WNTV1: Newsview
CHTV3: The South Tonight
DNTV2: The South Tonight
7.40 Wildlife Safari to the Argentine (Colour)
8.05 Search (Colour)
8.53 Newsbrief (Colour)
8.55 World Scene (Colour)
9.15 Billboard
9.25 Movie: Take the Money and Run (1969) (Colour)
10.47 Late News and Weather (Colour)
Followed by Closedown

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Extra: Wednesday 8 May 1974
from the NZ Listener

NZBC TV (AKTV2, WNTV1, CHTV3, DNTV2)
2.00pm News and Weather (Colour)
2.05 Movie: Simba (1955)
3.42 The Brian Keith Show (Colour)
4.08 Transtel Sports Maazine
4.23 What’s My Line?
4.45 Manfred (Colour)
4.55 Devil of the Deep
5.04 Make a Wish (Colour)
5.27 The Daily Fable (Colour)
5.32 News (Colour)
5.36 I am Joe’s Stomach (Colour)
6.05 The Partridge Family (Colour)
6.32 Sporting Life (Colour)
7.00 Network News
7.22 Regional Weather and News
AKTV2: Look North
WNTV1: Newsview
CHTV3: The South Tonight
DNTV2: The South Tonight
7.47 Wild, Wild World of Animals (Colour) (Final)
8.16 A Family at War (Colour)
9.15 Newsbrief (Colour)
9.17 Inquiry (Colour)
9.45 Buck House (Final)
10.14 Late News and Weather (Colour)
Followed by Closedown

At 9.45pm on the evening of Wednesday 8 May 1974, the last in the first series of “Buck House” (New Zealand’s first sitcom) was broadcast on NZBC TV. It chronicled the misadventures of the various university students who end up in a dilapidated Wellington flat.

In the final episode - “Escorts Unlimited Ltd”, by Ian Mune - Joe Donovan’s (played by Tony Barry, who went on to star in the film “Goodbye Pork Pie”) plans for making a mint out of an escort service were sharply modified when Jo Carr (Jacqui Dunn) brought a friend home for coffee.

Keep an eye out for a fast-talking, afro-headed Paul Holmes as Reg Willis and Myra de Groot (later to play the role of Eileen Clarke in the Australian soap “Neighbours”) as Mrs Platt. You can watch the final episode of “Buck House” through NZ On Screen (click the link above).

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Interesting to see Aussie actor Tony Barry in that. Myra de Groot had certainly been all over the place, she had also been in US sitcoms like Bewitched before going to NZ and then Australia.

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Today’s TV: Friday 22 June 1990
from the NZ Listener

TV One
6.30am Massey University, including:
6.30 Massey University News
6.34 39.106 Writing “Meaning”
6.53 34.103 Critical Thinking (Part 2)
7.15 43.624 Quality Assurance
7.30 One World of Sport: International Cricket
England v New Zealand - second test, day one, highlights
8.30 The Goodies (Rpt, G)
8.55 The Paul Daniels Magic Show (Rpt)
9.40 The Munsters (B&W) (Rpt, G)
10.05 The Adventures of Damian the Cat
10.15 Play School (Rpt, G)
10.40 Make Music Fun (G)
10.45 Chucklehounds (Rpt, G)
10.55 Doctor Snuggles (Rpt)
11.00 The Onedin Line (Rpt, PGR)
11.55 Te Karere Headlines
Noon One Network News
12.15 Film on One: Torn Between Two Lovers (1979) (Rpt, PGR)
1.55 The Lotus Eaters (Rpt, PGR)
2.50 Knots Landing
3.50 Mr Belvedere (G)
4.20 Oasis (G)
4.50 Emmerdale Farm (G)
5.20 North and South Island Programmes
NORTH: 5.20 Te Karere
5.30 WKRP in Cincinnati (Rpt, G)
SOUTH: 5.20 Bugs Bunny
5.35 Te Karere
5.45 The Mainland Touch (Christchurch) or The South Tonight (Dunedin)
6.00 One Network News
6.30 Holmes
7.00 Sale of the Century
7.30 Coronation Street
8.00 A Question of Sport
8.30 Casualty (AO)
9.30 One World of Sport: Sports Week
10.00 One Network News
10.30 One World of Sport: Sports Special
Includes international cricket (England v NZ - second test, day two), World Cup football and rugby league
1.30am Closedown

Channel 2
6.15am Teletext in Vision
6.30 The Muppet Show Command Performances (Rpt, G)
7.00 Breakfast News
7.05 The All-New Popeye Show (Rpt)
7.30 Breakfast News
7.35 Fonz and the Happy Days Gang
8.00 Breakfast News
8.05 The Smurfs
8.30 Breakfast News
8.35 The Merrie Melodies Show (Rpt, G)
9.00 Bouli
9.05 Sesame Street (Rpt)
10.05 The River (Final) (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 Webster
2.25 After 2, including:
2.26 Play School (Rpt)
2.50 Fireman Sam (G)
3.00 Moschops
3.10 Poddington Peas (G)
3.15 Wowser (G)
3.45 3.45 Live!, including:
3.50 Centurions
4.20 RTR New Releases
5.00 Batman (Rpt, G)
5.30 Blind Date
6.00 Happy Days (Rpt, G)
6.30 Neighbours
7.30 Richmond Hill (G)
8.30 Beyond 2000 (G)
9.30 Married… with Children (PGR)
10.00 Doctor, Doctor (PGR)
10.30 Newsbreak
10.35 Unsolved Mysteries
11.35 Blue Thunder (AO)
12.40am Closedown

TV3
Noon Midday Matinee: Chubasco (1968)
2.00 The Bold and the Beautiful (PGR)
2.30 Another World (PGR)
3.20 Thomas the Tank Engine (Rpt, G)
3.30 Mickey Mouse Club (Rpt, G)
4.00 Police Academy (Rpt, G)
4.30 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Rpt, G)
5.00 Home and Away (G)
5.30 The Oprah Winfrey Show (G)
6.30 3 National News
7.00 Family Feud
7.30 The Greatest American Hero (G)
8.30 Airwolf (AO)
9.30 The Main Event
10.30 Nightline
11.00 Late Movie: Gas (1981)
1.00am Closedown

Sky News/CNN
6.00am Newsday
7.00 CNN International Hour
8.00 Newsday
8.30 BBC News
9.00 Early Prime
9.30 BBC 9pm News
10.00 The World Today
11.00 Moneyline
11.30 Crossfire
Noon Prime News
1.00 Larry King Live
2.00 CNN Evening News
3.00 Moneyline
3.30 CNN Sports Tonight
4.00 Newsnight
5.00 Showbiz Today
5.30 Newsnight Update
6.30 Sports Latenight
7.00 News Overnight
7.45 CNN Newsroom
8.00 Larry King Overnight
9.00 Crossfire
9.30 Earlybird News
10.00 Daybreak
10.30 Business Morning
11.00 Daybreak
11.30 Business Day
12.00am Daybreak
1.00 CNN Morning News
2.00 World Day
3.00 Daywatch
4.00 Newshour
5.00 Sonya Live in LA (Continues to 6am)

Sky Sport
6.55am Football
FIFA World Cup 1990 - England v Egypt, live
9.00 Closedown
Noon Bodies in Motion
12.25 Cory Everson’s Body Shaping
1.00 Football
FIFA World Cup 1990 - Belgium v Spain, South Korea v Uruguay, England v Egypt, Republic of Ireland v Holland
5.00 Rugby Weekend
6.00 Cricket
England v New Zealand - second test, day one, highlights
6.30 Football
FIFA World Cup 1990 - Belgium v Spain, South Korea v Uruguay, England v Egypt, Republic of Ireland v Holland
9.30 Rugby League
The Winfield Cup, live
11.15 Cricket
England v New Zealand - second test, day two, live
5.00am Closedown (Time approximate)

Sky Movies
Noon Ask Dr Ruth (GY)
12.30 Loving (G)
1.00 The Beachcombers (G)
1.30 Wild World of Animals (G)
2.00 Soft Beds, Hard Battles (1975) (R16)
4.00 Target (1985) (GA)
6.00 Oh God! You Devil (1984) (GY)
8.00 That Was Then, This Is Now (1985) (R16)
10.00 Nightflyers (1987) (GY)
11.33 Closedown

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Today’s TV: Saturday 23 June 1979
from the NZ Listener

TV One
Noon News
12.05 Top of the Morning
12.15 Saturday Matinee: 633 Squadron (1964) (Rpt)
1.55 This Week in Britain
2.00 Sport on One
Includes tennis and tobogganing
5.00 Wings (Rpt)
6.00 Ready to Roll
6.30 News
7.00 The Muppet Show
7.30 Paddy’s Market
8.00 The British Academy Awards
10.20 News
10.30 Saturday Night at the Movies: Prisoner in the Middle (1974)
12.00am News and Weather
12.05 Closedown

South Pacific Television (SPTV)
Noon Search for Tomorrow
1.05 The Sullivans
1.55 Alice
2.25 Saturday Matinee: Wild and Wooly (1978)
4.00 Doctor Who
4.30 The Tarzan Season (Movie): Tarzan and the She Devil (1953) (B&W)
6.00 Weekend Edition News
6.28 Weather
6.30 Little House on the Prairie
7.30 Mind Your Language
8.00 Going Straight
8.35 Dawson and Friends (Final)
9.35 Weekend Edition News
9.45 Saturday Late Show (Movie): Caravan to Vaccares (1974)
11.35 Within These Walls (Final)
12.35am Weather Outlook and Goodnight Kiwi/Closedown

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Today’s TV: Tuesday 23 June 1987
from the NZ Listener

TV One
10.45am Teletext in Vision (Unlisted)
11.00 The New Ed Allen Show (Rpt)
11.20 Kohanga Reo
11.30 Robin and Rosie of Cockleshell Bay
11.40 Rainbow (Rpt)
Noon Midday News
12.10 The Young and the Restless
1.05 Days of Our Lives
2.05 Doctor in Charge (Rpt)
2.35 Prisoner
3.30 Green Acres (Rpt)
4.00 German Scene (Rpt)
4.15 Emmerdale Farm
4.45 Bewitched (Rpt)
5.15 Dr Kildare (Rpt)
5.45 Te Karere
6.00 M-A-S-H (Rpt)
6.30 Network News
Includes Top Half (Auckland), Today Tonight (Wellington), The Mainland Touch (Christchurch) and The South Tonight (Dunedin)
7.30 Ever Decreasing Circles
8.00 Simon and Simon
9.00 The Tuesday Documentary: Flex Appeal Down Under
10.00 Hill Street Blues
11.00 Wimbledon 1987 (Starting tonight)
12.00am Closedown

TV2
11.45am Teletext in Vision (Unlisted)
Noon Magnum PI (Rpt)
12.55 The Pallisers (Rpt)
1.55 Crown Court (Rpt)
2.25 Tales of the Wizard of Oz
2.30 Play School
2.55 Sesame Street
3.55 After School, including:
3.58 Emu’s World
4.28 The Flintstone Frolics (Rpt)
5.00 The All-Electric Amusement Arcade (Final)
5.30 Dr Who (Rpt)
6.00 Sons and Daughters
6.30 Highway to Heaven
7.30 EastEnders
8.00 Money-Go-Round
8.30 The Golden Girls
9.00 Hollywood Wives (Part 3)
10.00 EyeWitness
Includes news update, current affairs and “Worldwatch”
11.00 Mannix (Starting tonight)
12.05am Closedown

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Weird to see EastEnders was on TV2, I thought it always a TV One programme, plus what is a result for first Wimbledon coverage

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EastEnders initially screened on TV One (now TVNZ 1) in a double episode format on Fridays at 7.30pm since August 1985 (I think). Over the summer of 1985/86, the soap screened five nights a week at 7pm (I think) in order to catch up with the UK.

Less than a year later, it moved to single episodes on Mondays and Tuesdays in the same timeslot.

In 1987, EastEnders moved to TV2 (now TVNZ 2) and a third episode on Wednesdays was added.

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By 1990 it was back on TV One

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During 1989/90, EastEnders switched channels and aired in different timeslots until mid-May 1990 when it was scheduled in a Sunday lunchtime slot (12 noon) on TV2 or Channel 2 as it was called in those days (now TVNZ 2), with a ‘double episode’ format.

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Today’s TV: Thursday 24 June 1982
from the NZ Listener

TV One
6.45am Football: FIFA World Cup 1982
New Zealand v Brazil, live. Followed by Peru v Scotland, Belgium v Hungary and Scotland v the Soviet Union
9.45 Closedown
10.30 Play School
10.55 You and Your Child
11.00 Good Morning!
Noon News
12.02 The Young and the Restless
1.00 See Here
1.05 Beauty and the Beast
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.25 You and Your Child (Rpt)
2.30 Play School (Rpt)
2.55 Sesame Street
3.55 After School, including:
3.55 Scooby and Scrappy-Doo
4.15 3-2-1 Contact
4.30 It’s Magic
4.35 Video Dispatch
4.50 Kupu
4.55 W-3
5.25 Huntingtower
6.00 Science Express
6.30 News
Includes Nationwide and regional programmes: Top Half (Auckland), Today Tonight (Wellington), The Mainland Touch (Christchurch) and The South Tonight (Dunedin)
7.30 Coronation Street
8.00 The Gaffer
8.30 Contact: Pride and Joy
9.00 To Serve Them All My Days
10.00 Dynasty
11.00 News
11.05 Closedown

TV2
2.30pm Dallas (Rpt)
3.20 General Hospital
4.00 The Waltons (Rpt)
5.00 Happy Days (Rpt)
5.30 The Young Doctors
6.00 News
6.10 Dig This
6.30 CHiPs
7.30 Best of the West
8.00 Hart to Hart
9.00 Eye Witness News
9.45 Football: FIFA World Cup 1982
New Zealand v Brazil, Argentina v El Salvador and Italy v Cameroon
10.45 The Sweeney (Rpt)
11.45 Make Me Laugh
12.05am Closedown

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Extra: Wednesday 7 July 1980
from the NZ Listener

TV One
11.35am Play School
Noon News
12.02 The Young and the Restless
12.30 See Here
12.40 Beauty and the Beast
1.05 The Rag Trade (Rpt)
1.30 Days of Our Lives
2.25 Fun Factory, followed by Sesame Street
3.30 Once Upon a Time
3.45 Whisper of Glocken
4.00 The New Mickey Mouse Club
4.25 Tracy *80
4.55 Good Times
5.25 Sapphire and Steel
6.00 Happy Days (Final)
6.30 News
7.00 Coronation Street
7.30 Regional Programmes
Top Half (Auckland)
Today Tonight (Wellington)
The Mainland Touch (Christchurch)
7.30 South (Dunedin)
8.00 Motor Show
8.30 McPhail and Gadsby on… (Starting tonight)
9.30 Sporting Life
11.00 News
11.05 Closedown

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2.30pm Crown Court (Rpt)
2.55 The Cedar Tree
3.20 Country Calendar (Rpt)
3.35 Dinah!
4.30 A Good Age
4.55 How Green Was My Valley (Rpt)
5.55 News
6.00 The Wednesday Special: Roy Clark Special 1979
7.00 Body Shop
7.30 Mork & Mindy
8.00 The Sullivans
9.00 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Part 2)
10.00 News at Ten
10.30 Police Woman (Final)
11.20 Come Back Mrs Noah (Part 3)
11.50 Closedown

@OnAir Recorded before an audience at the Christchurch Town Hall, “McPhail and Gadsby” premiered on TV One (now TVNZ 1) at 8.30pm on the evening of Wednesday 7 July 1980.

Starring David McPhail and Jon Gadsby (from “A Week of It”), “McPhail and Gadsby” began life as a seven-part series that looked at some of the things that made life worthwhile - religion, sex, medicine, money, crime, death and war. Each programme in that series contained sketches and songs related to the topic of the week.

Within the next year, the single subject version of the “McPhail and Gadsby” brand was replaced with a political satire version that ran until 1987. During its seven-year run, it won “Best Entertainment Programme” at the 1983 and 1985 Feltex Awards and was nominated for “Best Entertainment Programme” at the 1986 National Mutual Gofta Awards.

The first instalment of “McPhail and Gadsby” plunged into religion as the object of satire, and the result spawned death threats and annoyed letters to the editor. You can watch it through NZ On Screen by clicking its link below.

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Both of them must dressed them of an angel so cutely, and that cracks me up.