Extra: Wednesday 26 June 1985
from the NZ Listener
TV One
11.30am Play School
11.55 You and Your Child (Rpt)
Noon News
12.02 The Young and the Restless
12.55 See Here
1.05 Beauty and the Beast
1.35 Days of Our Lives
2.30 You and Your Child (Rpt)
2.35 Play School (Rpt)
3.00 Postman Pat
3.15 Chic Chat (Rpt)
3.45 After School, including:
3.45 Discovering Unesco
3.52 The Adventures of Black Beauty
4.20 Lucky Luke
4.55 The Wish of the Curtain (Part 4) (Final)
5.30 It’s Academic
6.00 Diff’rent Strokes (Rpt)
6.30 News
Includes Top Half (Auckland), Today Tonight (Wellington), The Mainland Touch (Christchurch) and The South Tonight (Dunedin)
7.25 Telethon Report
7.30 Remington Steele
8.30 Roche
9.30 Cheers
10.00 25 Years of Television: Perry Mason
11.00 News
11.05 Closedown
TV2
2.30pm Prisoner
3.25 General Hospital
3.55 Fantasy Island
4.45 I Dream of Jeannie (Rpt)
5.15 RTR New Releases
5.45 News
5.50 Te Karere
6.00 The Young Doctors
6.30 The Sullivans
7.30 The Living Planet
8.30 Magnum PI
9.30 Eye Witness News
10.00 The Price (Part 4)
11.00 Mannix
12.00am Closedown
YouTube: Sony Trinitron
@OnAir TV One (now TVNZ 1) closed down at 11.05pm on the evening of Wednesday 26 June 1985 after a five-minute spot for the late news, which was read by Geoff Bryan. Nowadays, Geoff is the co-host of the Magic Breakfast show with Mark Leishman and can be heard on Magic Talk as a newsreader during the Ryan Bridge Drive Show.
In those days, TV One used to originate programmes from the Avalon Television Studios in Wellington and a typical day’s transmission would conclude with a five-minute late news and weather summary. It was read by the on-duty continuity announcer and there was no autocue at the time; the announcer had to read the news and the weather forecast straight from paper.
Before the late news (at 11pm), an episode of television’s most successful and longest running courtroom series, “Perry Mason” (starring Raymond Burr), was broadcast on TV One at 10pm that evening as part of New Zealand television’s 25th anniversary celebrations.
You can watch TV One’s final commercial break for the evening of Wednesday 26 June 1985, followed by the first few minutes of Geoff Bryan with the late news.